18 April 2014 - Granite Grok

April 18, 2014

“Rausch said, “but a reasonable limit on the use of the technology we have today to keep us safer.”

Higher RANK number is safer: Fatalities Rate per Failure to Obey 100 Million Vehicles (Traffic Signals + Drunk Careless Total State Miles Traveled Seat Belts) Driving Tickets Driving Score Rank Vermont 6 5 28 8 1 48 51 Utah 14 12 1 20 23 70 50 New Hampshire 3 27 25 11 5 71 49 …

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Hey wait! The Onion can’t steal my Obama “Determined Weakness” meme!

Update: Arrgghh, Steve posted this up yesterday.  But it still makes sense for you to read it again! OK, I’ll let them borrow it:  FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States. Putting the nation on alert against what it has described as a “highly credible terrorist threat,” the …

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Data Points – an amalgam

Been real busy so playing catch up.  Here’s a few unconnected, disjoint factoids: Census says!  86.5 million workers are supporting 148 non-workers. Enough people riding in the wagon for you, Zandra Rice-Hawkins, Jeanne Shaheen, and President Obama? The average price for a kilowatthour (KWH) of electricity hit a March record of 13.5 cents, according data released …

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Everytown USA Bloomberg Launch is Blowing Up In His Face

“There is nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot”—Samuel Adams Michael Bloomberg launched his Everytown USA for Gun Safety site this week. Most understood this as a retooling of the anti-gun, anti-second Amendment advocacy and a retooling and remarketing the same old tired anti-gun message. Seizing an opportunity the Nation’s PRO-GUN, PRO-2ND contingent all over …

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Breaking News: NH State Senator Bob Odell is Retiring

Alternate headline.  Bob Odell – “My work here is done.” After trashing New Hampshire by guaranteeing a future broad-based tax to pay for his embrace of Medicaid expansion (see also ObamaCare), too-long term State Senator Bob Odell has reportedly announced his retirement— days after JP Marzullo announced he would challenge Odell in a primary. (Happy …

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SB 120 Update – They Need Another Workgroup Session Before They Try To Deny You Your Rights

Thursday the New Hampshire House held a workgroup session on Senate Bill 120 – an effort to institutionalize political speech within the ruling class.  Read this if that concept or this bill is new to you–or even if it is not. The result of that was a decision to hold another session next week. ( …

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“But We Have To Do Something” Lobby Passes Bill That Will Do Nothing…

The “But We Have To Do Something” Lobby has successfully ushered a hand-held cell phone ban through the New Hampshire legislature, sort of.  The NH Senate voted to pass the legislation with an amendment that will send it back to the House before it can make its way to the governor; who will have to …

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GrokTALK! April 12th, 2014 with Andrew Hemingway – Candidate for Governor of NH

Andrew Hemingway joins us to talk about his campaign for governor of New Hampshire. We touch on some issues important to the state and before he joins us — his new primary opponent, Walter Havenstein–with some filler about money and speech. Listen to Segment Four Listen or Download this segment here Here Listen to the …

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