3 June 2016 - Granite Grok

June 3, 2016

Biden Thought Balloons

  “And he says he knows sports.  There’s no way this basketball is ‘fine’”. “I wonder if I toss it just right, will his giant ears catch the ball.” “Squeeze. Squeeze. I like to squeeze. Oh… squeeze.” “I have no idea what he’s saying.” “I knew I should have run. Dammit. If he could do …

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Bill O’Brien – Leadership Calls Expensive Special Session of the NH House

From former NH House Speaker Bill O’Brien c/o Facebook Today, the Senate President and House Speaker called us into a special legislative session to be held on Thursday, June 16. This special session, which will result in an additional cost of thousands of taxpayer dollars to reimburse legislators and for staff time, is being held …

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A Bigger Crisis for NH Democrats than the ‘Opioid Crisis’?

There’s something New Hampshire Democrats value more than the “Heroin epidemic?” Yes, abortion! Oh, and this, For all the bluster from politicians attempting to outbid each other on the opioid issue, it is telling that Democrats would walk away from the issue the instant it required asking state retirees to chip in for their health …

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Notable Quote – Thomas Leonard

For progressives, a legal minimum wage had the useful property of sorting the unfit, who would lose their jobs, from the deserving workers, who would retain their jobs.  Royal Meeker, a Princeton economist who served as Woodrow Wilson’s U.S. Commissioner of Labor, opposed a proposal to subsidize the wages of poor workers for this reason. …

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Various and Sundry – Hassan Veto, Rockingham Park, Wrongful Death…

Skip, Mike, Ed, and Steve discuss…Gov. Hassan’s veto of a bill to make the pistol revolver license optional, the demise of Rockingham Park in Salem and why it is probably a good thing, Trump’s on-again-off-again debate with Bernie Sanders, Venezuela (and why Bernie won’t talk about it), and a drunk driver who committed vehicular manslaughter …

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Absurdity under the Law….this is what happens when “equality” trumps Freedom

My gosh, how the Law is an *ss: Scott Magee of Louisiana has sued McDonald’s, saying that its policy at some outlets of keeping a late-night drive-through window open after regular restaurant doors are locked violates the Americans with Disabilities Act by unlawfully excluding blind persons who cannot operate a vehicle. [Sun-Times/WMAQ, Chicago] Words fail …

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