Skip, Author at Granite Grok

Union Leader is breathless in announcing it is no longer a conservative paper

December 6, 2019 Skip

Norm just took the Union Leader to task: But more importantly, the Union Leader is dying, or some would say it is already dead, based on how they actually fill their news “hole,” that is the portion of the paper supposedly devoted to real news and not ads. The Union Leader was once thought of as … Read more

Your dramatic pause reached its expiration point a while ago…get on with it

December 6, 2019 Skip

If. If. If. If… Dear Corey, Look, you and I have known each other for a long, long time. I still appreciate what you did for GraniteGrok when we were just starting out when you were the Exec. Dir. for AFP/NH – you always looked out for us at your events and always made it … Read more

Palate Cleanser: Yep, this is me….

December 6, 2019December 6, 2019 Skip

Go ahead – make fun of me. I always end up at Frame 3 no matter how hard I try (which lately, isn’t all that hard). It’s a plot, I say, to frustrate me for all eternity. OK, someone make a home priced robot for this – please? Anyone? Save my pride (or at least … Read more

Data Point: Job data soars – last quarter revised upward as well.

December 6, 2019 Skip

It is going to be really hard for the Democrats to run against the Trump campaign if they are limited to actual data: U.S. Jobs Report Breaks Expectations, Unemployment at 50-Year Low The U.S. Labor Department’s jobs report released on Friday showed accelerated hiring and unemployment at a 50-year low. Employers added 266,000 jobs for … Read more

Trump vs. Swamp – Being a Civil Servant is Not an Entitlement

December 5, 2019 Skip

Washington Post: ‘Impeachment will make the president hellbent on the destruction of the civil service.’ WaPo complained that Trump was on his usual tear on people. My response? Big deal.

Hate Thanksgiving: what else would you expect from two generations being taught to hate America?

December 5, 2019December 5, 2019 Skip

It is almost a week after Thanksgiving but these kinds of notions and mindsets didn’t arise from nothingness. If they weren’t handed down by their parents (rather doubtful, especially at a “Christian” college, methinks), it’s by our educational system that has taught this self-loathing of one’s own country.

DISQUS Doodlings: nothing says “Eco-Socialist” like taking away Property that isn’t yours

December 5, 2019December 5, 2019 Skip

Yep, it’s TreeHugger time again – the place where environmentalism meets socialism. The thing there is that while they approach most everything from an enviro standpoint, the socialism part isn’t even scab deep – there’s hardly anything to yank to prove that these folks are Watermelons (a layer of green on the outside but LOTS … Read more

Steve, Steve! I know who Jennifer Horn should “fix” next: Joe Walsh!

December 5, 2019 Skip

I immediately thought of whom when I saw this from your post: At best, she’s a moderate Democrat, which that party desperately needs. I heard a rumor that Joe Biden was going places. And they’re pretending he’s a moderate. Jen pretends to be Republican. Maybe she can get a job running “Republicans for creepy Joe … Read more

Data Point – “…to Arm the Marine Corps – Yet Again!”

December 4, 2019 Skip

Americans Bought Enough Guns on Black Friday to Arm the Marine Corps – Yet Again! According to the FBI, over 200,000 background check requests associated with the purchase of a firearm were submitted to the agency on Black Friday, marking the second highest gun sales day ever. The previous record was set on the day … Read more

And this is a FEATURE of Socialism, not a bug

December 4, 2019 Skip

There is an old Soviet joke: “We make like we’re working – they make like they’re paying us”. Translation: the Pilgrim story I put up every Thanksgiving where Governor Bradford determined that the Socialist model (which allowed for able bodied slackers to have a slice of the reward without totally taking part in the responsibility) … Read more

DISQUS Doodlings – Treehugger thinks Joe Biden is a NeoConservative? Hahahahahaha!

December 4, 2019 Skip

I AM going to try to make a valiant attempt to get caught up now that TMEW’s case of shingles is now over and she’s back to her normal self (and effectively kept me from writing for most of 3 months). Didn’t stop me from READING – just not enough sustained and continued time to … Read more

DISQUS Doodlings – suggestion for “Cyberbullying Bill to Protect Public Officials (HB 1159)”

December 4, 2019December 4, 2019 Skip

That was Steve’s post here talking about what NH State Reps Francesca Diggs, Janice Schmidt, Debra Altschiller, Sherry Frost, Nancy Murphy, and Wendy Thomas (the bill sponsors) are pushing on preventing “cyberbullying against public officials.”

Breaking News: Kamala Harris out of the Democrat Primary

December 3, 2019 Skip

From high flier to dust bin-er in a couple short months. Former CA AG Harris rose like a trans Icarus and then couldn’t keep her yap shut and not say crazy stuff. From being a one time Top Three to a “I coulda been a contenda!” loopy. Even if she doesn’t go too much further, … Read more

I’m not all that convinced that this is true

December 1, 2019 Skip

The Gateway Pundit is owned and run by Jim Hoft. Haven’t seen him for a few years but he’s a good guy. There are some that like to take shots at GP’s reporting and I do have to admit that it does get a bit over the top on some of its reporting. This, however, … Read more

Data Point – So, how high does it have to go so that “the rich will pay their fair share”?

November 30, 2019November 30, 2019 Skip

That’s all we hear from the Democrats – the rich don’t pay their fair share. The rich don’t pay their fair share. The rich don’t pay their fair share. Shampoo, rinse, repeat ad nauseum.

Blogline of the Day – “…and the only evidence was a sack of bones…”

November 30, 2019November 30, 2019 Skip

Recently Pardoned Turkey Found Dead After Claiming To Have Dirt On Hillary Clinton. (H/T: Instapundit) Bonus:

Palate Cleanser: I admit – I could not pass this test…

November 30, 2019 Skip

Is it that they’ve plain run out of names and have to plunder all of fantasy? Heh! Wait until they start using the larger Science Fiction universe… I got a few (it’s been a long time since I actually sat down to read a book rather than perusing blogsites) but I’ll be honest – if I … Read more

This statistic should have Democrats yanking out their hair

November 29, 2019 Skip

It was a lot of Democrats in the “Blue Wall” state that crossed over and voted for Trump in 2016. Not so much in 2018 BUT! It seems that what happened for Trump then MAY be starting to rise up again in 2020.

Yet Another Example of Public Schools Telling Parents, “screw you!”

November 29, 2019 Skip

Any time you hear about “social justice” in schools, yank children out of there any way possible – “Social Justice” is nothing more than Leftist indoctrination of your precious ones.

B.b.b.b.b.but those stories on transgender women don’t mention this part at all!

November 29, 2019 Skip

For all of the trans sports stories that are here above the high school level, you never hear about the bathroom / locker room issue (except for that one of NH based Planet Fitness that threw out the Normal woman who complained about the man who said he identified with being a woman – but … Read more