26 December 2014 - Granite Grok

December 26, 2014

Imagine if she hadn’t had an Equalizer (and forethought)?

Stupid is as stupid does.  22 year old dead stupid (reformatted, emphasis mine): A woman in Memphis, Tennessee, answered a knock at her door at around 6:20 p.m. on Tuesday. When she opened the door, she found herself in a potential life-and-death situation.  The suspect, identified as 22-year-old Nico Carlisle, reportedly forced his way into the …

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DCE nails the illogical outcome of the “trophy for everyone” child raising

When you’ve only been a precious little snowflake your entire life, at which every turn someone is patting your head, rewarding you for basically not much more than living, a mindset occurs that can drive the rest of us to the (WARNING: EMOTIONAL TRIGGER ALERT!) point of strangling these dear waifs that have no clue …

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Milton Friedman: “You can only aim at Equality by taking things from others”

And on its face, how can taking things from others be recognized as “equality” for them?  “A society that aims for Equality before Liberty will end up with neither Equality or Liberty.  A society that aims first for Liberty will not end up with Equality but will end up with a closer approach to Equality …

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Notable Quote – Stacy McCain

 Yet as Friedrich Hayek showed, social justice is a mirage — the utopia toward which radical egalitarian ideologues claim to be leading us does not exist, and can never exist, simply because human society requires social order and all social orders involve hierarchy. Once you realize that “equality” is a false goal, you realize that what progressives are …

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“Accountability” Has A Shelf-Life In Carroll County

Ed Comeau has his eye on the Country delegation in Carroll County, and its commissioners.  Skip recently explored Ed’s Right To Know suit and the refusal of two Carroll County Commissioners to be seated if they are not protected from Right to Know Lawsuits. Democrat Denny Miller, and Republican David Babson, are seeking a taxpayer …

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Notable Quote – Frederic Bastiat

The most urgent necessity is, not that the State should teach, but that it allow education.  All monopolies are detestable, but the worst of all is the monopoly of education. -Frederic Bastiat, French philosopher