9 January 2014 - Granite Grok

January 9, 2014

GrokTV: Belknap County Republican meeting – Christopher Boothby, candidate for NH Executive Council, District 1

“He was for it before he was against it” The second Republican vying to be the Republican nominee to the seat formerly held by the late Ray Burton is former Belknap County Commissioner Chris Boothby.  Along with Joe Kenney, he was there to present his case to the members present: Oh yeah, not happening.  While …

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Belknap County Republican Meeting – ya hear things, sometimes

or Republican Unity – er, not so much? Certainly when a number of politically minded folks get together, they talk.  And talk, and talk some more.  And sometimes, in talking, they forget that they are in a public setting and forget that others are around.  As Grokster Don has observed in the past: Forty people …

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GrokTV: Belknap County Republican meeting – Joe Kenney, candidate for NH Executive Council, District 1

Heh!  The major topic of the nite turned out to be “private vs public” – and it was “interesting”.  However, the monthly raison d’etre, as always, is the speakers.  My raison d’etre, on those monthly meetings that I attend (and yes, I have missed a few in a row now;  that phrase “You have made …

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Polar Vortex Could Be A Sign Of Global Cooling -Leading Scientist Predicts Equivalent of Maunder Minimum

The “Maunder minimum” is a fancy-pants sciency phrase for a little ice age.  A little ice age is a long period of weird weather where it mostly just gets colder for longer over a series of consecutive decades.  These events are predicated on oscillations of total solar radiance, and solar or sunspot activity, which can …

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Notable Quote: Theodore Dalrymple – ‘Civilization’

“The word Civilization itself rarely appears in academic texts or in journalism without the use of ironical quotation marks, as if civilization were a mythical creature like the Loch Ness monster of the Abominable Snow man, and to believe in it were a sign of philosophical naivete.  Brutal episodes, as are all too frequent in …

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HB 1573-FN ‘Making Planning Boards More Responsive To The People’…

Mark your calendar.  On January 16th at 1PM (LOB 301) there will be a hearing on HB 1573-FN – a bill that would require all municipal planning boards to be elected—and therefore directly responsible to voters and taxpayers.  That’s an idea I could get behind–making all planning boards responsive to the voice of the people. …

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If You Have No Clue How To Fix It – Just Try And Hide It

After five years of saying you fixed it, followed by ObamaCare–which will just make employment matters worse, this might send a message that you can’t fix it and should be replaced. Typically, the Unemployment Insurance program lasts for 26 weeks of unemployment with an additional 13 weeks during recessions.  Most of the cost is purveyed …

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