11 August 2016 - Granite Grok

August 11, 2016

‘Balsams Boondoggle’ balloons to $40 million in taxpayer-backed funding

On Friday it was reported by New England Ski Industry that the amount of taxpayer-backed funding now being requested by Les Otten for the Balsams’ “renovation” is $40 million rather than the original $28 million. This on the heels of a report that Otten hasn’t even requested the proper permits to even begin working on …

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Voter Fraud lives! Oh wait, it’s dead….really dead…so fraud fraud lives!

Emphasis mine, reformatted: New York Democrat Relies On Dead Voters To Get Ballot Access Vote fraud exists. No one knows to what extent it exists because there is no government agency actually looking at it. When ever a state does look at it the potential for fraud is enormous. For instance, in 2014 North Carolina …

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VA blows more money on unused TVs

“The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works — whether it helps families find jobs at a decent wage, care they can afford, a retirement that is dignified.” – President Obama, Inauguration (2009) Well, since Steve beat me to the VA malfeasance on …

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Notable Quote – Joe Rogan

“The whole point of the law is you can’t let some tyrannical dictator decide who can and can’t armed. Because at the end of the day, what we really have to worry about as much as crime, is we have to worry about the government turning into a crime (sic).” “An armed militia is in the …

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Notable Quote – Felix Morley

Kinda hard, this time, to separate the “run up” from the quote that Dr. Boudreaux picks out so I’ve included it as well as the observation by Broudreaux himself (emphasis mine): …is from page 168 of the 1981 Liberty Fund edition of Felix Morley‘s 1959 volume, Freedom and Federalism; here, Morley is discussing Franklin Roosevelt’s preposterous …

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A father tells his newborn daugher about a vanishing virtue: Honor

“But some men displayed honor until the moment of their death.” As we have written before, the Left has been waging war on ALL traditional values that America used to stand for over decades.  Frankly, we are now reaping that sullen tornado now in Society.  However, there are still some of us that are bitter …

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