November 2016 - Granite Grok

November 2016

Rep. Frank Edelblut to Receive Americans for Prosperity 2016 Tom Thomson Conservative of the Year Award

For Immediate Release – November 30, 2016 Contact: Greg Moore (603) 303-9297   Rep. Frank Edelblut to Receive Americans for Prosperity 2016 Tom Thomson Conservative of the Year Award at Christmas Party December 9th MANCHESTER – Americans for Prosperity – New Hampshire (AFP-NH) today announced that State Representative Frank Edelblut will receive the organization’s coveted …

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Yeah, I don’t know what this means either – academic stupidity

This is what happens when you let your kids grow up to be cowboys gender study academicians – they write a lot of run-on sentences that mean pretty much nothing: Gender as multiplicity: Desire, displacement, difference and dispersion Stephen Linstead, University of York, UK, and Alison Pullen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. Abstract This article argues …

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OPEC’s delusional dilemma

All things come to an end – and it’s looking like it is now OPEC’s time: Shot: “The reality is that only Saudi Arabia and perhaps the U.A.E. and Kuwait are prepared to make any cuts, and those will be modest and short-lived,” said Bob McNally, founder of consultant Rapidan Group in Washington. “At best, …

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And this NH “political” story absolutely misses the REAL point entirely

Let us first contemplate this from Ian Underwood (emphasis mine) – which was (in part): But I urge the committee to consider a couple of deeper, less obvious consequences, not just of passing a bill like this, but of even bringing it up for consideration. The first is that a bill like this undermines respect for the …

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Chicago Taxes Plastic Grocery Bags to Save the ‘Environment’ (wink-wink)

Chicago recently instituted a new $0.07 per bag tax on plastic grocery/store bags. No price is too high to save the environment, right? What if the “environment” is the city budget? Roughly 70% of that green-tax will go directly to the city to plug holes in the municipal budget. The stealth tax does not quite …

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Chuck Morse – “our voting crap don’t stink” (parapharsed)

Republican State Senator Chuck Morse is irritated.  My, my, the person who blessed implementing Obamacare’s Medicaid Expansion here in NH allowing grown able-bodied men to sponge off the rest of us, is upset.  And he doesn’t like it at all.  Piqued?  Surely.  Angered?  I just wish I was there with camera in hand to catch …

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