Sometimes I get a little pat on the back from one of the “managerial Elite” over at Treehugger. I’m generally the guy that is orthogonal to most of the folks there. Like Bruce Currie is here but with one big exception – I don’t disparage the information that is brought up and I don’t call them names.
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Quick Thought – Steve is Right! – We ‘Should’ do it for Them
Steve’s post on “ICE Scores Huge Win in the People’s Republic of Maskachusetts” caught my eye with this gem. “Don’t worry, A**achusetts Democrats are still going to fight this in the lower court. No price is too high (for you to pay) to ensure that there is no price too high for you to pay.”
Teacher’s Unions Are Making a Profound Mistake: Are Any Republicans Going To Take Advantage of it?
I realize that this has been on my stack since mid-last-month and schools are already starting to open for the year but thanks to Teachers Unions parents aren’t all that happy with this new redefinition of education. Are any Republicans going to take advantage of that?
Data Point – What is not sustainable WON’T continue. How long can THIS go on?
The federal government set records for the amount of money it spent and the size of the deficit it ran up in the first ten months of fiscal 2020 (October through July), according to data released today in the Monthly Treasury Statement.
Notable Quote – But Socialism HAS been tried….
Over the past hundred years, there have been more than two dozen attempts to build a socialist society. It has been tried in the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, Albania, Poland, Vietnam, Bulgaria, Romania, Czechoslovakia, North Korea, Hungary, China, East Germany, Cuba, Tanzania, Benin, Laos, Algeria, South Yemen, Somalia, the Congo, Ethiopia, Cambodia, Mozambique, Angola, Nicaragua and … Read more
The History of the ‘Left’s Religion’ “Leads only to Shortages, Despotism, and Murder”
The Left says of the Right, “You fools, it is demonstrable that dinosaurs lived one hundred million years ago, I can prove it to you, how can you say the earth was created in 4000 BCE?”
Here’s Why You Can’t Find Disinfectant Wipes at the Stores
Can’t find disinfectant wipes at the stores it is because they are going to be in short supply until 2021 or so. It’s our own version of the Soviet Union “scramble to buy stuff” (except this isn’t a product of Government planning, just tremendous consumer demand).
Trump Rally – Manchester Airport – “Exclusive” Grok Video – Donald Trump Speaks!
More video exclusive to GraniteGrok (becasue John Irish shot it for us) we have President Trump beginning his address to the crowd assembled outside a hanger at MHT (the designation for the Manchester airport).
Promoted from the Comments – “Ah, yes. The return of the “Five Year Plans””
OldNHMan decided to just about write a standalone post in the comments under my post on how central planning of an economy is FAR worse than millions of people making decentralized decisions on their own.
No, Not Everyone THINKS this is Something to be Proud of…
This is a sign of an over-active ego – of someone that believes they are God’s new savior to the masses. How COULD the great unwashed ever live their lives without ME? Or my benevolent ministrations on their behalf?
Screwing Around with the Free Market is Never Good Long Term
Getting the Government to mandate pricing may seem like a good thing in the present or short term but it crimps future activity later. Like this:
Trump Rally – Manchester Airport – Exclusive Grok Video
As most of you know, President Trump flew to Manchester, NH after the RNC convention this past Friday. John Irish – who owns and runs Analog:db (see his biz card at the bottom of the post) – offered to cover the Airport Rally for GraniteGrok.
To stop this nonsense takes only one action – the courage to say “No”
WHY should someone be guilty of something that happened 75 years ago (or further back into antiquity)? Were they there to actually participate in what (in this instance) the “Woke” Left – in the persons of Black Lives Matter or in the persons of Social Justice Warriors – now considers sinful?
Notable Quote- information, information, information
It is because a modern economy is so complex that nobody can know all the facts that it could not effectively be guided by a central plan but must be conducted on the basis of decentralization of decisions.
Who is Taking the Beijing Bribes?…NH Governor Chris Sununu?
I’m asking more questions than I have answers for, but now that we have your attention, I have to admit that *I* don’t have actual proof. That said, another website that many of you may know well and respect (a daily read for me), Conservative Treehouse (The Last Refuge) has “something.”
The Destruction is the Distraction
We are now seeing the results of a plan that was two years and more in planning. You may have read stories in the 2018 election of how George Soros (yes, that enemy of our country), had poured a lot of money into political races for Attorneys General and District Attorneys.
“Here’s How Your Children Are Getting Indoctrinated by Leftist Ideology.” – Another version
As stories like my previous post and this one keep coming out, one has to be thinking: What the heck is the School Board members thinking? Where is their oversight over what is being taught?
Data Point – We Locked Down the Entire Country Because of 50 Counties???
Every death is a tragedy for family and friends but you don’t make policy on anecdotes and you shouldn’t make policy for an entire country just based on the WuFlu deaths in the worst 50 counties (with 3,121 counties in the US). From the Heritage Data Visualization:
Go ahead, Jan Schmidt – EXPLAIN how GraniteGrok hates women after endorsing one for NH Governor
So how is Nashua Alderman and NH State Rep Jan Schmidt (D-BernieBro) prevaricate that GraniteGrok “still” hates women now that we endorsed Karen Testerman for NH Governor?
Notable Quote – It’s always the “well, the right people haven’t implemented it” excuse
Yet while socialists distance themselves from contemporary and historical examples of socialism, they usually struggle to explain what exactly they would do differently. Socialists tend to escape into abstraction, and talk of lofty aspirations rather than tangible institutional characteristics. -Kristian Niemietz ( Socialism: The Failed Idea That Never Dies) That’s all we keep hearing – … Read more