21 May 2016 - Granite Grok

May 21, 2016

May 21st, 2016 Podcast

We welcome Dr. Michael Brown to the program to talk about LGBT politics, the Transgender bathroom edict, and the course of cultural politics in the waning days of the Obama years. Before that, guest host Aaron Day, and backup guest host/guest Dan Hynes, talk upcoming November races, Aaron’s third-party US Senate bid, and Dan’s run …

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Notable Quote – Deidra McCloskey

Of course, if one raises wages artificially, by union or by statute, unemployment will result. The argument one hears from, say, Paul Krugman – that raising wages is good for the company because workers will work harder as a result – seems implausible, considering that the company in such a case would already have raised …

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Not content with turning birds into Icarus, Ivanpah decided to cook itself

How often do you hear about a solar energy plant self-immolating?  Yup, the same Obama boondoggle with our tax money that we’ve been writing about for years (bird burning, environment killing, proving solar energy isn’t free, bankrupt) decided to show us all that it could set itself on fire and kill off 2/3rds of itself: …

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Data Point – haven’t we been down this debt road before?

Credit-Card Debt Nears $1 Trillion as Banks Push Plastic. That sum would come close to the all-time peak of $1.02 trillion set in July 2008, just before the financial crisis intensified, and could signal an easing of frugal habits ingrained by the recession. The boom has been driven by steady economic conditions and an improving …

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Pics from my Inbox

We’ll start with the funniest one. I know, not PC and my cisgender white-ish privilege is showing.  But, sorry, actually, scratch that,  no I’m not. If you’re offended, grow a pair like this guy did and deal with it.  To my culture, my generation, and my crew that I grew up with this **** is …

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Hey, what’s the over/under that the NH Legislature would do this to UNH?

Finally, a state legislature decides enough of this out of control political correctness / cultural Marxism that is spiraling out of control thanks to the 60 radicals that decided to use universities as their own cultural “Easy Bake Oven” (emphasis mine): TENNESSEE GENERAL ASSEMBLY 1, UT OFFICE OF DIVERSITY 0. Here’s an email that went …

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