Skip, Author at Granite Grok

Friday Open Thread on Saturday – Is losing your sense of scheduling another symptom of having WuFlu?

January 2, 2021 Skip

Seems to be mine – did it last week and again this week. So once again, it’s your turn! With Christmas and New Year’s in the rearview mirror but could be a YUGE celebration / riot in DC next Tuesday and Jeanne Shaheen is calling us all traitors and seditionists, what’s on your minds?

Blogline of the Day: What, has she been talking with Jan Schmidt?

January 3, 2021January 2, 2021 Skip

It was Democrat NH State Rep Jan Schmidt who declared that “All murders are not the same“. But this from Elizabeth Banks takes the Irony Cake.

Palate Cleanser: Giving a Whole New Meaning to Want to Homeschool!

January 2, 2021 Skip

I’m supposing that I’m going to have to get one of these in a few years for the Grandson. I’m also expecting that he’d be looking for it to go BOOM! to boot.

One Prediction for 2021: The Transpronounpolice Are Gonna Make 2021 Crappier Than Ever.

January 2, 2021 Skip

I dunno about you but I am getting tired of folks with whom I disagree politically demanding that I submit to their “speech morality.” Any burden to be “nice” is to be carried by me but defined by those opposed to my morality and politics (and they can change that morality on a whim).

Something Pretty and Wonderful With Which to Start off 2021

January 1, 2021 Skip

Sometimes, we just need to put the politics away for a few minutes and watch what God’s Nature has for us to behold in wonderment:

Really Jeanne Shaheen – using a Constitutional mechanism is bordering “sedition or treason”???

January 1, 2021January 1, 2021 Skip

You’re either off your rocker, following in Dementia Joe’s thoughtprints, or your “kindly Grandma” mask just dropped like a slug of depleted uranium. Seriously, Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) decides to join with US Rep Mo Brook in invoking the Congressional Power (and responsibility) to challenge the Electoral College results and you cry “TREASON! SEDITION!” – … Read more

Yeah, we’re fitting into this situation

December 31, 2020December 31, 2020 Skip

A battle between USPS and UPS as to which one has TMEW’s birthday present. Ball’s in the USPS court. She’s gotten the run around all day – supposed to arrive today by 5pm. Nope, by 8pm. Nope, not on the regular truck as it was already full (WHAT? It’s after Christmas – are they THAT … Read more

Newspaper Clipping from Oct 13, 1975 give us a plan

December 31, 2020December 31, 2020 Skip

Frankly, I can’t think of any other things to add to the following list. It’s cheaper (albeit, much longer timewise) than an outright takeover and it allows, small “nudges” to corrupt and then collapse from within.

The Gilford School Board Turned the Whole System Upside Down For a single Trans Student. UPDATE: Who Just Moved out of Town

December 31, 2020 Skip

UPDATE and BUMPED from Sept 6, 2019: The two parents that decided that their first-grader was no longer he but she and proceeded to turn the school system into a hot mess so they could be pleasantly pleased heaping their personal wokeness on everyone else have vamoosed out of town. Good riddance.

Shame on You, Party Democrats

October 24, 2024December 31, 2020 Skip

For 3 long weeks, the Lakes Region has been immersed in an ugly controversy based on accusations of alleged deliberate bigoted inclinations, speech, and activity by Rep. Dawn Johnson. Many are adamant this is a humanitarian issue, not political. Based on the observations below, I strongly disagree.

NH Gov Sununu is Shame-Blaming Protesters About Guns? What About That Meeting He Called That “Never Existed”?

December 31, 2020December 31, 2020 Skip

Chris Sununu is playing it up. Making himself a victim of protesters with guns (keep reading, I’ll tell you about him and guns in a couple of minutes). It’s the same Democrat technique that draws attention away from what someone is doing to blame others for something more often, made up.

“How To Raise Weak Children During Lockdowns”

December 30, 2020December 30, 2020 Skip

I’m beginning to like this guy, J.P.Sears – you’ll be seeing more of him. Caution if at work – the “B” word starts showing up in the last 1/3 of the video.

AOC May Get “Gerrymanded” Out of Her Congressional Seat?

December 30, 2020 Skip

This is pretty funny. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was already passed over (er, snubbed) for a high visibility seat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee and this write up in the NY Post alludes to what may be happening to her next .

Facebook Doodlings: Math is a Harsh Mistress

December 30, 2020December 30, 2020 Skip

Math is a harsh mistress because it doesn’t lie. Eeither everything “adds up”, squares the circle, balances the equation (put in your own phrase here) or it doesn’t work. What can be outside of that is peoples’ perceptions.

Notable Quote – Prof. Larry Arnn

December 30, 2020December 30, 2020 Skip

This is a long excerpt from the latest Hillsdale College offering, Imprimis. Are we heading headlong into a dystopian future with respect to American Freedom and Liberty? Here, Larry Arnn uses both a passage from Orwell’s 1984 and a snippet of a Ronald Reagan speech as a contrasting points: ****** “Already we are breaking down … Read more

Quick Thought: If only JHo had had Principles to lose…

December 30, 2020December 30, 2020 Skip

SHOT: Jennifer Horn: GOP has lost its compass CHASER: Her lack of Principles has circled back around her. Good riddance. She’s always been a political and financial opportunist. Both were on full display when she stabbed the TEA Party movement and Jack Kimball in the back (and then climbed over his back to succeed … Read more

Realistic Santa expectations requests FI

And before we get to New Years – expectations?

December 29, 2020 Skip

My question is, WHY is it an unrealistic expectation that our Governments would do what our country was founded upon? After all:

Data Point – What Mayor de Blasio’s Wuflu Diktats Have Wrought

December 29, 2020 Skip

Abstracted from “New York City chain stores shutter as lockdowns kill businesses and New Yorkers flee“: Big brand stores have closed their doors in New York City after months of coronavirus lockdowns.

Action Civics: “Action civics is the application of Alinsky-style political organizing tactics to school children.”

December 29, 2020 Skip

I had never heard of the term “action civics” before I saw this post over at Powerline. Now, we see yet another word / idea being bastardized for use by the Left. I know what “direct action” is – the idea by Leftist groups that getting physical (e.g., Antifa, creating mobs, harassment, et al) is … Read more

Notable Quote – Prof Walter Williams: “if it will save just one life…”

December 29, 2020December 29, 2020 Skip

How many times have we heard that “if it will save just one human life, it’s worth it” or that “human life is priceless”? Both are nonsense statements. If either statement were true, we’d see lower speed limits, bans on auto racing and fewer airplanes in the sky. We can always be safer than we … Read more