Skip, Author at Granite Grok

The Daily ‘Grok – it still is rather amusing…Hi DSCC!

March 29, 2021 Skip

Hi guys, glad to see you again! Oh, did I just say something unPC by using ‘guys’ instead of the now demanded ‘folks’? Too bad for you who have to read us – just smarten up, willya? I briefly noted before (“Sometimes We Get Surprising Things Back From the Daily ‘Grok Eblasts“) that the Democrat … Read more

Data Point – OECD Total Tax Revenue by Member Countries

March 29, 2021 Skip

All we hear about today from the Left (like AOC, The Squad, Pelosi, Schumer, Bernie, and Bruce) is that companies/corporations don’t pay “their fair share.”

I Don’t Like Where This “Warrantless Searches” is Going.

March 29, 2021March 29, 2021 Skip

Steve had a post a couple of weeks ago called “NH Senators Shaheen and Hassan Vote to Protect “Warrantless” Online Surveillance” where he called out Democrat US Senators (NH Socialists) Jeanne Shaheen and Maggie “The Red” Hassan.

What the Proposed Trump 2021 Budget Cuts

Notable Quote – Why NOT hold politicians personally accountable for their decisions about the rest of us?

March 29, 2021March 29, 2021 Skip

Prof. Don Boudreaux brings up an EXCELLENT idea / point about the miserable outcomes that may well come from really bad policies – can we hold Bernie (the socialist with three houses and millions made from his best selling books?) personally accountable? Reformatted, emphasis mine: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) wants to punitively tax certain firms … Read more

Notable Quote – Liberties and Freedom are about “The One”

March 28, 2021 Skip

An essential feature of a liberal government is the protection of minorities, and of the rights of minorities against plunder by the majority. The ultimate of minorities is one person. And so the ultimate of liberalism … is the protection of each person against the plunder of one or more other persons. -F.A. “Baldy” Harper … Read more

It’s About Freaking Time: Court Rules “Individuals Can’t Be Coerced to Use ‘Preferred Pronouns'”

March 29, 2021March 28, 2021 Skip

This is a topic like Critical Race Theory except its for the gender-confused. Its aim is the same. Establish and enforce coerced speech rules with violations to punish people as “haters and discriminators.”

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Data Point – Homeschooling Has Now Hit Over 11%; Teachers Unions Hardest Hit

March 28, 2021 Skip

(evergreen headline alluded to above). Reformatted, emphasis mine). Data Says Homeschooling Is Skyrocketing …The pandemic, school closures nationwide, and some parents seeing the racialized and sexualized classroom curricula have changed this statistic significantly…By fall, 11.1% of households with school-age children reported homeschooling (Sept. 30-Oct. 12). A clarification was added to the school enrollment question to … Read more

I Think I’ll Just Leave This Little Thought Here, Just by Itself.

March 28, 2021 Skip

Yup, the people who do this kind of action are often too dumb to put lines between the dots they drop. Two months later, the message is that while they fear us, we aren’t supposed to fear them at all. Like criminals on the street or break into our homes.

Promoted From the Comments – Really! Why Is One Allowed and the Other Is Not, NH Gov. Chris Sununu?

March 27, 2021 Skip

Interesting comment left by Commenter Absee on last night’s Friday Open Thread (Now we know who leads this Country): “Yesterday, 3/25/21, Gov. Sununu made it very clear that out-of-state students are not eligible for Covid-19 vaccine and they must return to their home state to get vaccinated.”

The Truth Hurts and Spoils the Critical Race Theory Narrative

March 27, 2021 Skip

The problem isn’t the number of guns in the US (estimated now at around 400 million) but the culture of those that have them. Culture counts and a culture that doesn’t value life has chart results like this. If you need any more proof, look at the stats in Chicago after almost every weekend.

President Imposes a 60 Day Renewable Immigration Ban

You Want Better For A Country? Fix Your Government First

March 27, 2021March 27, 2021 Skip

People’s personal conditions, in large part, depend on the governance model that represents them. Ideally, it doesn’t try to “reimagine” or “remake” them, gives them the widest of latitudes to solve their own problems, is (relatively) free from corruption, and acts as a neutral umpire (as opposed to being subjected and joined with Crony Capitalism).

Given the Choice, Government Will Choose What is Best for Government

March 27, 2021 Skip

Politicians always want to be seen as “doing something” for you in order to “buy” your vote. And the electorate has been conditioned to believe that Government MUST be in the loop of life, else we’d all DIE!

Data Point – Why is it that the Left is ONLY increasing here in the US?

March 27, 2021March 26, 2021 Skip

And that curve has only drifted downward since about 2016. People have seen what the Left’s “intentions” have churned out for “results” over the years – they are tired of getting punched out by the Left who seemingly puts other issues and people not of their own country being treated better than the Citizens of … Read more

Friday Open Thread – Now we know who leads this Country

March 26, 2021 Skip

Dementia Joe on full display during his first solo presser yesterday afternoon. Stumbling, mumbling, cross-purpose words, losing his train of thought, and can’t even read his own crib notes? This is the leader of the Free World? China, Russia, and Iran are rubbing their hands in glee! All from an almost 80 year old man … Read more

Data Point – Faces of Mass Murderers

March 25, 2021March 25, 2021 Skip

We hear a lot lately in the political world that Whites are THE source of domestic terrorism and by reclassifying of the grocery shooter, Al Aliwi Alissa (the refugee from Syria) as White, they continue the Narrative. Problem is, as you can see above, the actual 2019 Data above blows up the Narrative. And so … Read more