Skip, Author at Granite Grok

Friday Open Thread – Compared to those just passed, this has been a “quiet” week

March 19, 2021 Skip

But compared to most, things are still zooming in DC and Concord. One is trying to screw us down and the other to turn responsibility back to us. Trillions spent in once place and millions in another. And a Governor ready to unleash Critical Race Theory (Are you White? You’re a RAACIST!!) upon us all. … Read more

Palate Cleanser – And they all go tumbling down – dominoes!

March 19, 2021March 19, 2021 Skip

It’s part of “what amuses me” time again. Twenty-five hours of work dismantled in just under two minutes. It just flows….. (H/T (believe it or not): Union Leader)

Steve Duprey Endorses Biden and NH Senate Republicans STILL Willing to Take his Money

March 19, 2021 Skip

Indeedy do! No shame, no guilt – money, Money, MUUNEEYY! Doesn’t matter for what. It doesn’t matter how much (ok, I’m stretching it – it counts for a LOT!), or from whom. And in this case, the whom doesn’t seem to matter at all.

Palate Cleanser – Facebook: is it really a mental hospital

March 19, 2021March 18, 2021 Skip

And that’s all there is! FB = One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest… (H/T: Jerry)

IRS Delays US Tax Deadline to May 17….WHAT? The IRS has That Power?

March 19, 2021March 18, 2021 Skip

This would be two years in a row the government has extended tax day. Last year was because the WuFlu made life so difficult. People couldn’t do the forms and gather their data because of…..what? The stress of being home and not having the time?

Prof. Thomas Sowell on Uncommon Knowledge (2018) – Income Inequality

March 18, 2021 Skip

“Socialism is a great idea. That doesn’t mean that it is a great reality (16:09)” – And The evidence doesn’t match up to the ideology.

“15 of the Most Insane Liberal Beliefs” (abridged)

March 18, 2021March 18, 2021 Skip

From John Hawkins (THE MAN OF LISTS!) / RightWingNews: Liberals and conservatives have always disagreed about the issues, but it seems like the gap between us has grown as wide as the Grand Canyon in the last few years. You have to think that even Democrats from a couple of decades ago would be shocked … Read more

Data Point – NH Unemployment

March 18, 2021 Skip

New Hampshire’s preliminary seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for February 2021 was 3.3%, New Hampshire Employment Security reported Tuesday. It represented a decrease of 0.3 percentage points from the January rate, which remained at 3.6% after revision.

SB138 is an Ill Worded “Price-Gouging” Bill …That Gives the Governor Even More Emergency Powers.

March 17, 2021 Skip

Before we get the mess that is SB138 and Jeb Bradley and all the other NitWits in Senate who are “supporting it” let’s look at this from the NH Constitution:

Another Conservative Site De-Platformed by Big Tech

March 17, 2021 Skip

Yet Another popular website on the right receives notice as “The relentless de-platforming of conservatives in general and of the David Horowitz Freedom Center specifically, continues.”

Promoted From the Comments- The Left Has Ruined Formerly Trusted Institutions

March 17, 2021March 17, 2021 Skip

The Left has ruined formerly trusted institutions and where there is no Trust, there is no Society. From Steve’s post “WashPo – By the Way, That Story We Wrote About Trump Was a Lie“, Commenter Bryan W wrote:

RNC video Power Screen grab Tyranny has many forms

Restaurant Owner Says Enough of This Public Health Tyranny

March 17, 2021 Skip

File this under “who made unelected health bureaucrats our rulers” coupled with a power-mad Governor that likes to disregard his own edicts.

Palate Cleanser: When is “Colonization” NOT colonization?

March 17, 2021March 16, 2021 Skip

All this crap going on today is because of race and racism – and mostly provoked by race-baiters, especially those that have turned it into a lucrative cottage industry. But like almost anything else, either racism or climate change is the root of almost everything wrong. And lately, it is becoming centered on Whites.

So, Who Was Driving the SUVs back then and building CO2 emitters?

March 16, 2021 Skip

The Left keeps claiming SCIENCE! when it suits them but going silent when the SCIENCE! throws them a curve (reformatted, emphasis mine): Million-Year-Old Plants Show Greenland Was Once Ice-Free Jars of dirt taken from a Cold War-era military caper and lost in a freezer for decades could hold crucial new information about climate change and … Read more

Notable Quote – Socialist and Statists always believe that more choices “hurt & confuse” you

March 16, 2021 Skip

From the “Beneficent Paternalism” Department – you “children” aren’t up to being able to make intelligent decisions when faced with too many choices.

Hey, Governor Sununu – Your Former Supreme Court Justice says HB544 is Constitutionally Sound!

March 16, 2021 Skip

” The law is settled that when the government chooses to pursue policy objectives it may compel its employees to speak in support of those objectives as a condition of their employment. See Garcetti v. Ceballos, 547 U.S. 410, 421 (2006)”

I Guess Chris Sununu Want’s This to Happen in NH School Systems – “If He Doesn’t Disavow His Whiteness, He Won’t Graduate”

March 15, 2021 Skip

You have a biracial high school senior that has to take a mandatory class (“Sociology of Change”) that is built around Critical Race Theory. He is told that if he doesn’t disavow his Whiteness, he won’t graduate. Governor Sununu, do you want this version of Mao’s Cultural Revolution sweeping through our schools?

Since It Is Obvious That NH Gov Chris Sununu Doesn’t Know What Critical Race Theory Is, Let Me Make It Simple for Him: He’s a Raaacist!!!

March 15, 2021 Skip

Since NH Governor Chris Sununu decided that he is going to veto HB544 – which stops the training of and use of Critical Race Theory in the public sector, it is clear that he has NO idea what it is. So, Chris, welcome to being a RAACIST!!! Think I’m kidding?

US Carbon Dioxide Emissions per Capita 1949-2020

Data Point – What Other Developed or Developing Country Has Done This Well?

March 15, 2021 Skip

So again I ask, why do we need to be in the Paris Accord whose only real purpose is to suck “climate reparations” from US Citizens? It’s really a non-enforceable agreement as the world points its finger at the US and says “pay up”!

Notable Quote – Minimum Wage is RAAACIST (said by a Black man)

March 15, 2021March 15, 2021 Skip

The minimum wage law is very cleverly misnamed. The real minimum wage is zero – and that is what many inexperienced and low-skilled people receive as a result of legislation that makes it illegal to pay them what they are currently worth to an employer.