8 December 2014 - Granite Grok

December 8, 2014

Wink wink nudge nudge…

So what if the whole Jassper kerfuffle was just a head fake? What if the NH GOP RINO plan all along was to throw conservatives under the bus at the opening bell, disenfranchise them for the session and try to neutralize their expected opposition to McAyotte in 2016? And, on the home front,  riddle me this. …

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US Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA) loses – GOP now has 9 more Senators.

Congressman Bill Cassidy (R-LA) won the Louisiana US Senate run-off against 3 term US Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA), 54 – 47.  This was not unexpected as she failed to get 50% of her State’s primary election (with Republicans Cassidy and Manes splitting the vote).  The conventional wisdom was that even as she won 48% of …

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WARNING to SENATOR KELLY AYOTTE! Signing onto Obama’s Workforce Agenda?

WARNING to SENATOR KELLY AYOTTE:  Obama is redesigning public ed from Liberal Arts to Workforce development. Marc Tucker tried this during the Clinton years, but Republicans were smart enough to reject it back then.  Tucker laid it out here in his letter to Hillary Clinton: The Common Core Standards are PART of this agenda. Competency …

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NOW it is Christmas time: Home Free – “Angels We Have Heard On High”

I love a capella music so one of my favorite TV shows (yes, a “network” show) is The Sing-Off where a number of a capella groups (a mix of high school, street corner, college, semi-pro, pro) compete for the top prize.  One of my favorites was Home Free (as well as Pentatonic whose songs I …

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Well of COURSE Progressive Kathy Sullivan wants more centralization of Govt functions!

To be honest, from just an engineer’s view, I used to think the same way – small State, duplication of effort, higher costs, inefficiencies;  do we need three levels of Govt? Sidenote: with the Regional Planning Commissions, we actually have 4 levels but that’s for another post If the goal is just in having the most …

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