6 June 2014 - Granite Grok

June 6, 2014

D-Day Rememberance: “It’s just that he makes it so hard to do so.”

From the Corner: Brix, France — Some of the veterans attending the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings here in France have fascinating stories.  Take George Ciampa, the most vibrant and spry 89-year-old I have ever met. In 1944, he landed in Normandy as a soldier assigned to the 84th Graves Registration Unit. “I spent the …

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Cultural Appropriation: Er, who WOULD you ask for permission?

Seriously,  this Political Correctness on campuses is just getting well past “Stuck on Stupid”.  Does anyone study any serious subjects anymore?  Or is this stuff just the end result of the intersection of the Self-Esteem Trophy movement in our educational system with the Cultural Marxist (aka, Political Correctness) – just a huge puddle of precious …

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GrokBite: Guess that “Republicans bad” meme is now history

Steve’s post about California State Government making its foray into college aged kids bedroom via CA SB 967 (State Sen. Kevin de Leon (D-Los Angeles), would mandate that college students obtain “an affirmative, unambiguous, and conscious decision by each participant to engage in mutually agreed-upon sexual activity.”): And one need only look at the source …

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Common Core: so, how good is math versus “old” math?

To Progress: usually to a new way of doing things that can be faster, higher quality, less expensive, and more useful.  I am of the age where memorizing addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division tables was the norm.  Over and over and over again, I remember sitting at the kitchen table with Mom flipping the cards.  …

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Continued Ways of Malaise

When Liberals attempt to make hay out of today’s Labor Report, you should nudge them to look at all the data, not just the parts that soothe their cognitive dissonance about this economy and the disaster that is the Obama administration’s mishandling of it. And, after all, data must always be put into context and …

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Is The ‘Live Free or Die’ Gimmick The Worst Thing To Happen To New Hampshire?

Speaking of Gimmicks that are bad for New Hampshire, how about ‘Change We can Believe in,’ or ‘if you like your plan you can keep you plan,”  hmmm-Kay?  I would have even gone with a long list of Democrats first, including Jeanne Shaheen; but uber-lefty Sharon Chabot (@nhdogmom) seems to think that the more well …

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High-Capacity Magazine Bans – No Hinderance to Mass Shooters

When the only people with weapons are the bad guys, at that point, what difference does a high capacity magazine ban make?  None. AWR Hawkins On June 4, the Los Angeles Times reported that Elliot Rodger fired more than 50 rounds of ammunition while killing three people with a gun, even though he was only …

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This Presidential Diversion will Kill People

Attempting to distract the American people from the Benghazi, VA and other scandals, President Obama committed another major blunder instead of the media coup he desired.  The illegally executed, ill-considered trade for Sgt. Bergdahl aids the enemy and will cost Americans and many others their freedom and/or their lives. According to the military Sgt. Bergdahl was …

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White House Bergdahl Spin is Just More B.S.

Yesterday’s White House Bergdahl spin is just more B.S. The Obama administration told senators it didn’t notify Congress about the pending swap of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl for five Taliban officials because of intelligence the Taliban might kill him if the deal was made public. Courtesy of NRO… Allahpundit noticed problem number one, from the New …

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