Skip, Author at Granite Grok

Transgender – more pushback from Tennessee with no biological boys on girls teams

January 1, 2020 Skip

Just as a bill is being put into the NH House hopper that would prevent biological boys compete on biological girls teams, so is this bill from Tennessee. And has a whale of a penalty if some government official allows it to happen (reformatted, emphasis mine): Proposed bill would prevent transgender females from competing in … Read more

Gilford – Take our money for a Transfer Station THEN make recycling mandatory? Part 2

January 1, 2020 Skip

I did my initial rant here. Did you know that our new Recycling Center is now going to have a firing range (supposed to be for law enforcement but why stop there – if the taxpayers are paying for the facility, why not the rest of us?), and a boat storage area (probably for the … Read more

“Lawmakers Fatal Conceit on Recycling Should Be Trashed”

January 1, 2020December 31, 2019 Skip

My hamlet has just decided to force mandatory recycling on everyone in town (and they didn’t have to. They could have just said that IF you are going to recycle, here’s where what stuff goes where.

Notable Quote – F.A. Hayek

December 31, 2019 Skip

The whole conception of man, already endowed with a mind capable of conceiving civilization, set out to create that civilization as it was already preformed in his mind, is fundamentally false. Man does not simply impose upon nature a preformed mental pattern. His mind is itself a pattern constantly changing as a result of his … Read more

Tales from the Selectboard – “sure, ve haff der Power to make you verk for free fer der Recyling Center”

December 31, 2019 Skip

So last night was the Selectboard’s Public Meeting on the Recycling Center / Transfer Station: Rules, Regulations, and Fines. And what fine Fines they are! Here’s the paperwork / package that was prepped for the meeting. Again, to set the stage, twice the Selectboard put in warrants for the money to build out this place: … Read more

I wonder how the suckers that contributed to “Stand with Corey” feel right about now?

December 31, 2019 Skip

His Twitter announcement can be seen here. What a freaking waste of time since he said he was going to run; right up to the water’s edge and then refused to go. The harm has now been done to Bolduc and O’Brien as their funding froze up. Messner seems to be self-funding so the specter … Read more

Coal? How DARE you!

December 31, 2019 Skip

How apropos! (H/T: Powerline)

Mayor Pete doesn’t think NH has enough of a drug problem! …

December 31, 2019 Skip

This is unbelievable: Mayor Pete Buttigieg Wants to Decriminalize ‘Meth, Coke, Ecstasy,’ Not Just Pot.

Rest In Peace: Ken Gorrell

December 31, 2019 Skip

Word came from a variety of sources that one of the earliest contributors to GraniteGrok, Ken Gorrell, has perished in a fire at his home in Northfield: NORTHFIELD — A local man found in the fire-ravaged wreckage of his garage-turned-hobby-shop did not die as a result of the blaze, according to authorities. Firefighters were called … Read more

Steve’s right so I’ll just leave this here for day dreaming…

December 30, 2019 Skip

That would be this from Steve: We’ve no reason to believe their run of bad luck will stop nor the predictions that make it possible. The byproduct of decades worth of socialist sympathizers (and actual socialists) pushing socialist solutions to advance socialism in the name of saving the planet (but not from socialism). Which is … Read more

Palate Cleanser: I’ve only had a couple of days where deer have hit me…

December 30, 2019 Skip

..but never a unicorn? That driver (heh!) out to be thanking their lucky stars that Unicorns explode into foamy colored bits instead of a carcass coming through your windshield. Oh wait – what’s the penalty for killing a Unicorn out of season?? You know those Govt hunting regulations, right? Is there even a season for … Read more

No, I just expect that the tools I buy will actually work!

December 30, 2019December 30, 2019 Skip

This is in response to DCE’s post over at Weekend Pundit:

I can get behind this idea. If Trump wants to lock in the votes from some of the cold weather states all he needs to do is do for gas cans what he’s doing for dishwashers.

Data Point – “For every 100 girls / women…”

December 30, 2019 Skip

It has now been a couple of decades that girls have been “boosted” in all areas of life. Yes, there were problems, especially in schools and athletics (e.g., Title IX, which Progressives are now trying to evicerate via their latest pet project, “Transgenderism” in which biological boys are being applauded in their Transjacking of girls … Read more

Notable Quote – Rod Liddle

December 30, 2019 Skip

OK, boomers — wassup? I’ll tell you wassup. This was the decade you got left behind. *** [C]is is short for cisgender and refers to someone whose current gender is the same as the one they were “assigned” at birth. Yes, I know — scientifically that means everyone. It’s all there in the chromosomes. It … Read more

Finally, some sanity – HB 1251 (prohibiting biological boys from biological girls teams)

December 30, 2019December 29, 2019 Skip

2+2 = 4 —

“This bill prohibits public schools from permitting a male student to participate in a student sport designated for females.”

Data Point – Paul Krugman said if Trump was elected, stock market would crash forever. Oopsies!

December 29, 2019 Skip

It Was a Very Trumpian 2019: Global Stock Markets Gained $17 Trillion in Value This Year …Well, shockingly, all those predictions were completely and utterly wrong: Global stock markets have been on a torrid run in 2019, adding more than $17 trillion in total value, according to Deutsche Bank calculations. The value of global equities … Read more

What to do: Gilford School Board Stonewalls a Right-to-Know Demand – The Result (with a whimper)

December 29, 2019December 28, 2019 Skip

2+2 = 5 I never did get a response back from Superindent Beitler…But I DID get a response at the next School Board Policy Committee meeting! Government coercing speech and thought over gender dysphoria – the Gilford School Board example. It all started with this: and just like that, it ended with this: C. Names/Pronouns … Read more

What to do: Gilford School Board Stonewalls a Right-to-Know Demand

December 28, 2019December 28, 2019 Skip

2+2 = 5:

“…it is about the SAU, as a subdivision of the State of NH, assuming a Power to grant Rights to someone as well the Power to obviate the First Amendment Rights of anyone who happens to be on SAU property”

What to do: Gilford School Board Stonewalls a Right-to-Know Demand – Part 2

December 28, 2019December 28, 2019 Skip

I know, I know, – late again to finish this saga of how the Gilford School Board finally figured out they were blowing smoke with their notion that they had the Power to grant a new Right upon a person suffering from gender dysphoria that then placed legal obligations upon others: The first Right to … Read more

Notable Quote – John Dickinson

December 27, 2019 Skip

We cannot be happy, without being free…we cannot be free, without being secure in our property…we cannot be secure in our property, if, without our consent, others may, as by right, take it away. [Mankind’s] welfare…can be found in liberty only, and therefore her sacred cause ought to be espoused by every man on every … Read more