18 September 2014 - Granite Grok

September 18, 2014

Billionaire Paul Allen spends 100s of thousands to take your guns away – but he can buy a military tank???

Why is it that many of these anti-Freedom / anti-Constitutional moneybags think that what is good for we all is irrelevant for them?  That which they would prevent us from doing or having has nothing to do with their ability TO do or TO have?  That according to Peter Allen, co-founder of Microsoft and mega-billionaire, I …

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And the Los Angeles School Board provides a great example for the tweet Steve found

The decision comes less than three weeks after KPCC published two-year-old internal emails that raised questions about whether Superintendent John Deasy’s meetings and discussions with Apple and textbook publisher Pearson influenced the school district’s historic $500 million technology contract. And that tweet would be this one: As the state has increasingly infringed on our privacy, it has increasingly …

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For Obama, A Successful Terrorism Strategy Is….

[su_quote cite=”Jonah Goldberg”]For Obama, a successful counterterrorism strategy is one that simply saves him from having to talk about terrorism. That’s the approach that led to the rise of Islamic State. As for the “success” in Yemen, on Monday the Wall Street Journal reported: “Scores of al-Qaeda militants have moved into Yemen’s capital Sanaa in …

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Notable Quote – Jonah Goldberg – War! Huh!

[su_quote cite=”Jonah Goldberg”]The administration has struggled with the W-word. The President had to try several times to articulate a coherent position, working through terms like “degrade,” “destroy,” “manage,” etc. The secretary of state insisted that “war” wasn’t just the wrong term (he preferred “counterterrorism operation”), but it was wrong even to analogize this new military …

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Why Are They Hiding?

Citizens for a Strong New Hampshire has a new Web Site up called, Why Are They Hiding.   If offers some introspection into the backgrounds on four New Hampshire Democrats (Jeanne Shaheen, Maggie Hassan, Carol-Shea Porter, and Ann Kuster), who continue to hide from the public.  Check it out…

AFL-CIO Lists NH Democrats Who Support The Wage Cartel

Artificially defining the value of labor makes Democrats feel good.  Not because they forced someone to pay more than that hour of labor is worth, though I suspect they enjoy the feeling of power such arbitrary expressions of authority represent.  They feel good because they know it will grow the size of government. The Unions …

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Palate Cleanser: How Stupid Must You Be?

Three individuals in Darlington County, South Carolina, simultaneously filed insurance claims, with the same company, for benefits as a result of being relived of all four limbs. From ‘Lowering the Bar‘ This particular case was prosecuted in Darlington County (near the city of Florence). Because the three men named were prosecuted together in the same …

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Aint That the Truth!

  As the state has increasingly infringed on our privacy, it has increasingly shielded it's activities from public scrutiny. — Mark Newgent (@MarkNewgent) September 18, 2014

GrokSHOT! Personal Responsibility vs. The State

  We need to have George Lambert on GrokTALK!  more often.  Just listen to this GrokSHOT!, in which you will grasp the simplicity of the argument for personal responsibility in New Hampshire relative to the role of government…in less than two minutes. 100 Seconds   Please Like, Link and Share!