Skip, Author at Granite Grok

Data Point – Are the Anti-gunners convincing hearts and minds? Hahahahahaha!

December 28, 2020 Skip

Yes, the normal disclaimer is that these are only background checks and not actual guns sales; sometimes a single check can cover a sale of multiple firearms. Still, that rise is pretty assume and we can thank the entire Left for doing so with their tacit approval of all of the riots around the country. … Read more

moochers electing looters to steal from producers

Notable Quote – Prof. Walter Williams: Socialism is EVIL

December 28, 2020 Skip

Emphasis mine: This is why socialism is evil. It employs evil means, confiscation and intimidation, to accomplish what are often seen as noble goals — namely, helping one’s fellow man. Helping one’s fellow man in need by reaching into one’s own pockets to do so is laudable and praiseworthy. Helping one’s fellow man through coercion … Read more

Palate Cleanser – I could have used this for the last storm: Flamethrower!

December 28, 2020December 28, 2020 Skip

One guy in Kentucky has what seems to have a good one with the cavalier attitude to use it – Cousin Eddie from National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation:

Whereupon Maryland Gov Larry Hogan sounded like Bruce

December 28, 2020December 27, 2020 Skip

This Republican elected official shows TOTALLY that he has no idea what his State’s or the US Constitution really is for. This is a bit old (from just before Thanksgiving) but forgive me – I have a few hundred open tabs at anyone time…

Facebook Doodlings: “Which Step Do You Think We Are On?”

December 27, 2020 Skip

Not one of my “doodlings” this time, but I can tell you that the FB post with the following graphic certainly showed a lot of, well, the nuttiness, ranting, and partisan snipping that goes on in a closed FB group that has “Politics” as part of its name.

Prager U – The 1619 Project is Just Another lame Attempt to Rewrite American History.

December 26, 2020 Skip

I haven’t written a lot about the 1619 Project sponsored by the NYT (writer(s)). The plan was to be as an emphasis to what the Black Lives Matter movement has been (wrongly) preaching. That America has been racist, is racist, and will ALWAYS be racist.

Palate Cleanser – Where the Identity Obsessed Will Throw a Nutty.

December 26, 2020 Skip

Progressives and their Identity Group Political Totem pole adherents won’t get it – they have little to no sense of humor. They’ll just take offense while the rest of us smirk a bit – at them.

Friday Open Thread (on Saturday) – Make of it as you wish!

December 26, 2020 Skip

Having family over for Christmas (take THAT Fauci, Brix, and Sununu), I was otherwise “distracted”. So, feel free to make sport of me.

Data Point – Well, When You Sell a Lousy Product That No One Trusts….

December 26, 2020 Skip

I know some sensitive readers will say it is wrong to celebrate people losing their livelihoods, but I think, like a restaurant that makes its customers sick with bad food, the media deserves this.

I could agree to this! Er, maybe

December 26, 2020December 26, 2020 Skip

From Weekend Pundit:

Quote: “When I saw this my first thought was “Why?” However, my second thought was “Why not?”

Dr. Birx – You Have to Obey Me on Staying Isolated but I Don’t Have to Listen to Myself

December 26, 2020December 26, 2020 Skip

That would Dr. Deborah Birx who has been on President Trump’s WuFlu team. You know, statistics, masks, and “STAY AWAY FROM EVERYONE!!!” missives. Showing up on TV all the time, acting like an old style school marm lecturing us all that we must all give up our lives to save our lives. Sure, and to … Read more

SDGANH – December 2020 Newsletter

December 26, 2020 Skip

Giving voters a voice by empowering elected school district officials to reclaim control over budgets and curriculum. — Upcoming SDGA events — How to Make a Right to Know Request The President of Right to Know NH, David Saad, will conduct a webinar for the SDGA on how to make an effective Right to … Read more

Christmas – “For to us a child is born…and he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.”

December 25, 2020 Skip

Luke 2:11-14 For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host … Read more

A Merry Christmas to the Groksters and our Readers – and solemn, too

December 24, 2020 Skip

Indeed – the reason for the Season. Tomorrow we celebrate the birth of God’s Son – Jesus Christ. He who was foretold: (Jeremiah 23:5-6) The days are coming,’ declares the LORD, ‘when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, a King who will reign wisely and do what is just and right in … Read more

Christmas Cheer – How Great Thou Art

December 24, 2020 Skip

By request of commenter OldManNH:

Notable Quote – Operation Gaslight-to-the-End?

December 24, 2020December 24, 2020 Skip

Their tactics…our response? Reformatted, emphasis mine: …This event was complicated. Among other things, it highlighted how differently the police may respond to one group and not another. Antifa and BLM were allowed to destroy huge swaths of many cities across America, rioting with impunity using firearms, bats, bricks, fireworks, Molotov cocktails, fists, and just about anything you … Read more

And You Thought I’ve Been Kidding Saying Schools Think Your Kids Are Theirs? Take a Read

December 24, 2020December 24, 2020 Skip

As I have said countless times, Government schools truly believe that your kids really aren’t yours – the kids, ALL kids, belong to them. I’ve heard teachers say it. I’ve heard administrators say it. Sometimes by nuance and sometimes straight out (a “gaffe” as it is called).

Palate Cleanser – and what would Christmas be without Glitter Bomb 3.0!

December 24, 2020December 24, 2020 Skip

Ah yes, the ode to Porch Pirates everywhere – please leave us alone or you’ll look like a clown and smell like a skunk. Plus, we get to see and hear it all.

“In his own self-interest”; Capitalism encourages altruism

December 24, 2020 Skip

It may be the most common criticism of free enterprise, the economic system that has produced more wealth spread across by far the widest portion of people in all of human history: It’s all based on selfishness and greed.

At a Loss for Words: “Judge Won’t Try Black Man in Courtroom With White Portraits”

December 23, 2020 Skip

I think everyone should be treated equally – until they show that they shouldn’t be. On an individual basis – YOU make me decide whether to treat you as an equal or as someone less than your posterior.