Old Joke: What do you call the doctor who was last in their class? “Doctor.” That works for lawyers, too – both of them were losers, in our minds. It was the State’s case to lose – and it did! The defense lawyer won only because the prosecutor lost.
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Friday Open Thread – The Day is Done!
Conversation starter: So, what did you learn outside of GraniteGrok this week? As always, talk about what you want to or need to!
Data Point – the US Has Spent More This Year Than Any Other Time in History
The federal government spent a record $6,551,872,000,000 in fiscal 2020, which was an increase of $2,044,283,520,000—or 45.4 percent—from the previous record of $4,507,588,480,000 in constant September 2020 dollars that it spent last year.
Palate Cleanser – More Tales From My Just Finished Jury Duty
Here’s something I forgot to mention in my earlier post about serving on the jury. A liberal lady who kept hectoring everyone who didn’t hold her view that the defendant was innocent, said,
Notable Quote – An unelected US Parliament?
As government has grown bigger in size, scope, and pretensions, it has become more attentive to small factions that do not claim to represent the will of the majority. The most that each faction claims is that a majority would favor what the faction favors if the majority were thinking clearly. Or that it knows … Read more
BlogWord of the Day – Toobinning
When I first read Lyin Dog Faced Pony Soldier’s Ruling-Class Media-Scold Suspended For “Giving Himself a Hand” During a Zoom Meeting and saw the graphic, I did burst out laughing (thankfully during a break – the Judge in charge turned out to be a tyrant and probably would have torched me for not paying attention).
2020 Second Presidential Debate – Follow us on GAB
As I did with the Vice-Presidential debate, I’m moving from Twitter to Gab – you can follow me and any other Grokster that chimes in – to cover the Third Second Presidential Debate between President Trump and Dementia / Gropey Joe. Starts at 9pm EST (remember, we’ve had a long time Page on Gab but … Read more
A Personal Note: Wanna Know How Much More Insurance Makes Healthcare Cost?
OK, an important bucket list item is now out of the bucket – I did my civic duty, fulfilled my civic responsibility, by serving on a jury this week. The case ended yesterday – and it left a bitter taste in my mouth. But that’s not the purpose of this post.
When Military R&D Projects Find Their Way Into the Private Commercial Sphere
I’ve never understood, or accepted, why “Government” needs to take the lead in any kind of R&D work with one notable exception: the Constitutional mandate that one of the Federal Government’s mandates is the defense of the country.
Lions and Tigers and…crap, I Got a Bear Around Here
Ah, a function of living in rural NH next to LOTS of conservation land. I guess the little cub we saw a few years ago has grown up. A lot! Really, crap. Bear scat. Didn’t notice it until this morning when I had to go retrieve the bag of trash I spotted in the woods last night.
Notable Quote – You Can’t Understand a Person if Your Only Lens Is Critical Race Theory
If you only see people as part of a particular kind of crowd, you can never get to know them as a person. Critical Race Theory has nothing to do with Individuals – it is only about how to move power, using the guise of race, from one set of people to another.
When That Vaccine Registry Comes up Against NH’s Constitutional Right To Privacy (Art. 2-B) Are We Going To Hear a Big Boom!?
At times, I really do wonder how often those that we elect to be our representatives or those that are hired as our employees in the State of NH actually pay attention to the NH Constitution. Oh, wait! I have the answer:
And This is a Problem…..Why?
I did have to chuckle a bit with that old saw “Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time”. And given the stories that came out concerning his utter lack for other people, especially the women who live and work in the Hollywood / movie industry, it would be just desserts (reformatted, emphasis mine):
Laissez-Faire, Laissez-Passer Does Not Mean: Let the Evils Last. On the Contrary
Since Bruce Currie is always prattling on that Socialism/Communism/Govt control is far better than giving people the freedom to do innovate as they would like:
Data Point – Mental Illness by self-declared political affiliation
I thought that this was quite interesting. I have never seen anything like this ever presented in this fashion. Mental Illness graphed by self-declared political affiliation.
Imagine if All of Our Sons (and Daughters) Lived Out Their Lives This Way
It must be nice to have been taxpayer-supported these last 47 years on the Government dime, eh Joe? But I guess it wasn’t enough. And now we end up with the “Biden Values for America”?
Another Progressive Angry That a Conservatarian Listened To Her Talk – Gracie Gato: Stalker!!!! Part 2
Heh! Reports are coming back that said Progressive is unhappy that said Conservatarian is using her words in order to comment on them. Free Speech much? Naw, she’s the California version of NH State Rep Jan Schmidt – you know, the Bernie-Bro that hates the idea that ANYONE disagrees with her monoculture foreign political philosophy … Read more
Facebook Doodlings – That’s Not How It Works, That’s Not How Any of That Works. Especially Socialism
This is fairly quick – a comment left on our FB page in response to Rick Notkin’s post “Take Close Look at ‘Socialized’ Medicine and See if That’s What You Want.” She has NO idea what she’s talking about.
Transgender Mob Willing To Trash Free Speech (for All) if It Silences Their Opponents
The same old story. We on the Right want the Left to talk, talk, talk, and talk even more. The Left demands our SILENCE! And that just got reinforced by a person from my hamlet with a message.