Skip, Author at Granite Grok

HCRC 3rd Annual Machinegun Shoot – Grok Interview with Rich Girard

July 20, 2021 Skip

Rich Girard is everywhere nowadays – and he has a good reason to be. A former Manchester City Alderman, former Manchester School Board member, he’s running to be the Republican nominee to run for Manchester Mayor and display the Socialist Joyce Craig. Sidenote: remember, a few years ago, the Question of the Day to Democrats … Read more

Contrary to the Wailing of the Left, Reducing Taxes Will Help All New Hampshire’s Citizens

July 20, 2021 Skip

Judging by the reaction of New Hampshire’s left, the recently passed business tax deductions and Interest and Dividends (I&D) tax phaseout by the Republican-controlled legislature is an act in class warfare. But this is nothing new.

Governor Sununu’s Diversity Council

July 20, 2021 Skip

Ten members of Governor Sununu’s diversity council quit because the Governor signed anti-discrimination legislation. So members of the diversity council, which is supposed to fight against discrimination, quit because of a law that prohibits discrimination.

HCRC 3rd Annual Machinegun Shoot – Grok MicroInterview with Christopher Maidment

July 20, 2021 Skip

One of the first faces I saw after I drove into the Londonderry Fish & Game Club for the Hillsborough County Republican Committee was Christopher Maidment.

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Notable Quote – Limiting Restrictions on Liberty is always a “Public Good”

July 20, 2021 Skip

The restrictions on ‘natural liberty’ surely constitute ‘public bads’, from which it follows that their removal would be equivalent to the production of ‘public goods’. And surely these ‘public goods’ would increase the utility of persons in the community more than the sometimes piddling adjustments that are suggested for correcting minor market distortions. Smith would … Read more

HCRC 3rd Annual Machinegun Shoot – Keynote Speaker: US Senator Tom Cotton

July 19, 2021July 19, 2021 Skip

While the machineguns were the real main event of the day at the Hillsborough County Republican Committee at the Londonderry Fish & Game Club, Chris Ager had the opportunity to bring US Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) in to meet the attendees, shoot a little, and also give a short address as well.

Schools Exist For the Education of Children – Not to Provide Iron-Clad Jobs for Teachers…

July 20, 2021July 19, 2021 Skip

“Schools exist for the education of children. Schools do not exist to provide iron-clad jobs for teachers, billions of dollars in union dues for teachers unions, monopolies for educational bureaucracies, a guaranteed market for teachers college degrees or a captive audience for indoctrinators.”

HCRC 3rd Annual Machine Gun Shoot – MicroInterview with General Don Bolduc (Special Forces, ret.)

July 20, 2021July 19, 2021 Skip

This past Saturday, GraniteGrok was one of only two Media entities allowed onto the grounds of the Londonderry Fish and Game Club in Litchfield, NH. The reason was that the Hillsborough (NH) County Republican Committee was having its 3rd Annual Machine Gun Shoot.

How Else Does One Explain the Multi-Generational Poverty in the Democrat-Controlled Cities?

July 18, 2021 Skip

Culture can often be everything. One absorbs the culture in which they grow up and once they pass into adulthood, absorb that culture as well. For most of us, though, it is that culture in which we came of age – elementary, high school, college – the culture in which one is stewing counts the most.

Democrats Destroy Everything – Public Education Edition

July 18, 2021 Skip

Let me repeat that title to let it sink in that in many Democrat-controlled cities, the Government-monopoly schools suck. And you can’t just blame it on the students (reformatted, emphasis mine):

I Bet 99.9% Don’t Know This Law: “No Teacher Shall Advocate Communism as a Political Doctrine..”

July 16, 2021 Skip

While NOT quite the same as “overthrow by force” isn’t what the Left, especially the NEA, the AFT, and the teachers who have signed up to teach doctrine that would overthrow our Republic be subject to this?

Simply Delicious Bakery – Yes! And for the Next Twist in the Plot…

July 17, 2021July 16, 2021 Skip

Sununu’s mountain of Emergency Orders treated adults as wards of the State. Children or subjects work for me as well. One of his peasants was the Simply Delicious Bakery in Bedford. GraniteGrok has obtained some of the legal documents related to that case.

Friday Open Thread – So, what’s on your mind?

July 16, 2021 Skip

Once again, we’ve made it through another week – plus or minus on YOUR scorecard. Me? Just happy to not be horizontal and approaching room temperature. So, as always, have at it and have fun doing it!

“A government big enough to give you everything you want, is a government big enough to take away everything that you have.” Again

July 24, 2021July 15, 2021 Skip

That was President Gerry Ford back in 1974; the quote’s attribution goes back much earlier. The Bigger the Government, the smaller the Citizen. We on the Right understand that and understand that completely. The further that the Power of Control is removed from Citizens geographically, our Rights suffer. Why? They can ignore us. They can do what … Read more

Karoline Leavitt – Exploring a run to be the Republican nominee for NH’s First Congressional District campaign

July 15, 2021 Skip

Last night was the monthly meeting for the Belknap County Republican Committee and with most political meetings, there was a Keynote Speaker. Her name was Karoline Leavitt and originally comes from New Hampshire. After high school, she went to St. Anselm’s in Manchester when she decided that Politics was going to be her future. After … Read more

Historical Palate Cleanser – Blast from the Past: Our former Blogroll – Part 1

July 15, 2021 Skip

Time changes, Time marches on…you know the drill. Nothing remains the same because Time hates the Status Quo. With Time comes changes and changes have certainly happened in the blogosphere since we opened in 2006.

Does Anyone Know an Intersectional SJW Queer Feminist Identitarian “Whisperer” Who Can Translate This Word Salad?

July 15, 2021 Skip

Egads – can ANYONE tell me what she thinks she’s telling the Normal people? I’m quite sure that her kindred spirits may understand this nonsensical babbling with words that aren’t heard on small-town Main Street but who else could follow what she’s saying?

“Schools Teaching Fifth Grade and up Must Maintain a Condom Availability Program”…?

July 15, 2021 Skip

The Educational Professionals have been perverting our little ones for years. I generally don’t post stuff up like this because of my Rule #1 but in this case, it’s time to PROTECT our kids.

The Deficit Is At $28.3 Trillion and the Bidenistas Want to Spend Another $3.4 Trillion…

July 15, 2021July 15, 2021 Skip

I have been saying that the Federal Government spending (and deficit) have been unsustainable for about a decade – and have been pretty much ignored. Now that the deficit is at $28.3 Trillion.

Ayn Rand - consequences of ignoring reality

Progressives deny that ACTUAL Reality exist – some sorta “Social Construct”. They won’t face it but will force the rest of us to do so.

July 14, 2021 Skip

I’m lifting this almost completely from DCE at Weekend Pundit from a post in which he put up a video from Bill Whittle and Alfonso Rich talking about reality and that Progressives constantly ignore it. It’s almost as if they are in their own world (even if it takes a century for the bad stuff … Read more