Skip, Author at Granite Grok

Data Point – Compare and Contrast

March 5, 2021 Skip

SHOT: Steve’s post on the Golden Globe ratings crash: The annual event lost 60% of its viewers compared to last year. It was down to 5.4 million viewers CHASER: Ratings for Donald Trump’s address at CPAC: In contrast, this report: “31 million viewers for Donald Trump’s CPAC speech. And that was just online.” (H/T: Instapundit)

Notable Quote – So you think the State is really that SMAHT? Versus the Markets?

March 4, 2021March 4, 2021 Skip

The premise of superior foresightedness in the State, and the premise of the harmlessness of imposing its will coercively, is as we have noted in orthodox economics about a century old.

Summing Up Democrat Proclamations vs Democrat Actions

March 3, 2021March 3, 2021 Skip

Most of us know about the USS Enterprise and the Starfleet that built her. Yes, a television show several times over with movies as well. But Starfleet, and the Enterprise’s mission, besides “To go where no man has gone before” has always been about the BEST of humanity; peace, understanding, helpfulness, and the like.

Another “Native American” Decides to Push His Tribe Into Obscurity for “Honor’s” Sake

March 2, 2021 Skip

I just bought two containers of Aunt Jemima syrup yesterday at Walmart. No, not that “rebranded out of fear of the PC Cancel crybabies” Pearl Milling Company version.

Data Point – Contrast and Compare.

March 2, 2021 Skip

Is Franklin ‘Mayor’ Olivia Zink, Using That Office to Shill for Her Progressive Left-Wing Action Group?

March 1, 2021 Skip

Is Franklin, NH mayor, Olivia Zink, using that office to shill for her progressive left-wing action group? Karen Testerman has some observations about the electioneering of Mayor Zink, who is also the Executive Director of Open Democracy here in NH.

Hudson NH Thinks That Blindly Sending Out School District Ballots Is a Swift Idea?

February 28, 2021 Skip

I am just agape at what another Loyal Reader just sent me. Apparently, the School District in Hudson has decided to blithely just mail out their ballots to everyone in town.

Wow, Former Us Senator Kelly Ayotte Really Won When She Lost, Didn’t She? Talk About “Cashing Out”!

March 1, 2021February 28, 2021 Skip

Way back when, even though we had backed Ovide Lamontagne in the US Senate Primary, Kelly Ayotte was the winner and then went on to win the US Senate race over Democrat Paul Hodes in the General election. We even thanked her for her efforts after her first year in office – and that was pretty much the last time THAT happened. Why?

Which Republicans Didn’t Vote to Save a Baby Born Alive (After a Botched Abortion)?

February 27, 2021 Skip

As I tell everyone, one of our Standards of Measure is the Conservative Planks from the NH GOP Platform, like, “We believe that life is sacred, from conception to natural death and that we cannot diminish the value of one category of human life without diminishing the value of all human life.”

How Did Speech-Chilling HB1159’s Democrat Sponsors Vote This Past Week?

February 27, 2021 Skip

Last year we told you about HB1159 which we labeled “Shut the ‘Grok Down” bill. That was because it was meant to shut down the ‘Grok (per the admission of the bill’s sponsor). Without rehashing all of the sordid details, it wanted to create a new protected class of citizens made up of solely elected representatives for the crimes of “Cyberstalking, Cyberdoxxing, and Cyberbullying.”

Student Suspended From Education Program for Saying, ‘a Man Is a Man, a Woman Is a Woman’

February 27, 2021 Skip

Way back in 2007, soon after we had opened our doors here at GraniteGrok, I wrote a post titled “The Academy – its dirty laundry keeps spilling out; University of Delaware – degrees in indoctrination?” …And it has turned into a problem.

Quick Thought – a PERFECT display of “Inclusive” – but only on Democrat terms

February 27, 2021 Skip

SHOT: Rush Limbaugh dies, FL Gov Ron DeSantis order flags to half-staff on day of interment …Limbaugh, a longtime resident of Palm Beach, Florida, passed away at 70 on Wednesday from lung cancer, and will be buried in the state. DeSantis announced Friday during a news conference that “once the date of interment for Rush … Read more

Friday Open Thread – So, what’s new in boring politics?

February 26, 2021 Skip

Let’s see: NH Democrats lock themselves out of their own House (tee-hee!), the “Fight for $15” got a Parliamentarian’s death, NH Repubs work to save babies that Dems would rather see die, NH Dems also find out they can’t remote in to work, US Dems act like Commies in trying to silence speech they don’t … Read more

Academic Gibberish – Ten Years Ago Would Anyone Have Even Understood This?

February 26, 2021 Skip

The radical Sex Obsessed Left thinks this is the way that all of us need to think and are working hard to “make it so, Number One.” To me what follows is just another set of gobbledegook that we all are supposed to just know innately as if it was normal. NORMAL?

Data Point – Biden Becomes President, Gas Prices Soar

February 26, 2021February 26, 2021 Skip

UPDATE: My friend from my previous employment just sent this: “We’re coming up on 30 days of a Biden presidency. Gas is already up 80 cents a gallon. Just saying..

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Why is it that Progressives like high gas prices? Oh yeah, they hate our freedom to travel. And to get to work. And to punish us with higher prices for everything – hoping that we then turn to Government to “solve” the problem they’ve caused. Big chuckles all-around within the Democrat circles over that.

Who Wants President Biden to Cancel Rent and Mortgage Payments?

February 25, 2021 Skip

My email address has been traveled about so much that I get all kinds of emails from Democrat, Progressive, and Socialist groups. This one is from another Taker’s Political Party which believes that what is not theirs IS theirs – as in, “taking” of your private property for their priorities.

Health Freedom NH – Bills to watch on Monday, March 1st

February 25, 2021February 25, 2021 Skip

Note: at Tuesday night’s reboot of our GrokMeetup series, I met a couple of ladies that said they were part of Health Freedom NH and wanted to get the word out on some bills that they wanted to bring to peoples’ attention.

It’s About Freaking Time Republicans Stood up in the Culture War

February 25, 2021 Skip

It’s about freaking time the Republicans stood up in the Culture War brought to us by the Left. And on this issue, they have prevented a “Governor Northam moment” (here and here) by NH Democrats (the anti-baby Party).

Imagine Speaker Donald Trump Sitting Behind Biden as He Stumbles Through the State of the Union Address.

February 23, 2021 Skip

Imagine how much fun it would be to see Speaker of the House Donald Trump sitting behind Biden as he stumbles through the State of the Union address?

Bill Would Grant Biological Fathers Veto Power Over Abortion

February 22, 2021 Skip

I’m betting that newly elected NH State Rep Edward “Ned” Gordon(R) (currently the Chair of the Judiciary Committee; who knows if it will become “former” after tomorrow’s Leadership meeting) would be in favor of this given that he threw in with the Democrats in voting against every Pro-Life bill and aborted them all.