12 February 2016 - Granite Grok

February 12, 2016

NH Primary – Final Results

Care of Rich Girard… Girard at Large | One hundred thousand six hundred thirty nine.  That’s how many votes Donald J. Trump officially received in Tuesday’s primary.  The vote tally gave Trump thirty five point six percent of the record two hundred eighty two thousand eight hundred four votes cast in the Republican Primary.  Ohio Governor …

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Palate Cleanser – Lego Robot paper airplane maker and launcher

Just cool: “Sacek was hired by Elevation Digital Media in collaboration with Arrow Electronics to design and build this autonomous paper airplane factory, which is controlled by multiple Lego Mindstorms intelligent bricks, and quite a bit of custom code. It’s not the first Lego paper airplane machine we’ve seen, but Sacek’s design looks far more …

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Notable Quote – Seton Motley

The old politician saw is: “The most dangerous place for you in Washington – is between (fill in name of pol) and a camera.” We’ll coin a government saw: “The most dangerous place for you anywhere on the planet – is government between you and the free market.” Any and every tax, law and regulation …

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Newspaper comment – NH citizens already looking at the Republican Primary for Governor

Well, a number of Republicans in the NH House decided to join the Democrat Party in enlarging State Government, put more people (especially formerly independent single working males) on the public dole, and are making the rest of us pay for it – Steve has the Republican list of those that decided that the Party …

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How Many House Democrats Wanted to Ban Guns in New Hampshire?

Democrat Katherine Rogers wrote a bill to require anyone in possession of a firearm within NH to have liability insurance that does not exist in any state for each and every weapon. This is a gun ban bill, plain and simple. It came out of legislative committee inexpedient to legislate by a vote of 20-1. …

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Gov. Hassan Hints At How Your Government Should Work

Most of us won’t be surprised by any of this, but in a press release dated February 10th, 2016, Governor Maggie Hassan–who wants to be the next US Senator from New Hampshire–demonstrated how she thinks government in Washington should work.