Skip, Author at Granite Grok

Of course it’s not a Right but the Concord Monitor wants you to think so.

November 11, 2019 Skip

“Of course not – next question” The question that Pravada on the Merrimack asked was this: Question of the week: Do you believe health care is a basic human right? No – it’s a mere entitlement in which some politicians decide that a bunch of taxpayers have to pay the bill for others and in … Read more

Lizzie Warren: proving “Taxation is Theft”

November 11, 2019November 11, 2019 Skip

Both US Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Bernie Sanders (Socialist – Vermont) are really proving the phrase, Taxation is Theft, to be very true. High-income taxes and then taking away your Private Property with a second round of taxation (e.g., wealth taxes) to fund almost anything the two of them can think of.

Why is it that Democrats all want to “change” us? Why can’t they just leave us alone?

November 11, 2019November 10, 2019 Skip

We’ve heard this before: “We are five days from fundamentally transforming America“. Yeah, then President-elect Obama. And now, Comrade Sanders is now making it quite clear that he hates America as well – and our values.

He’s teaching him that Socialism is all about socialism

November 10, 2019 Skip

NO, not on the part of the kids who “earned” their candy. Rather, it’s about all those in charge teaching them: You own NOTHING – it’s only what the Government allows you to keep You didn’t “collect that” (via “Warrenism”). The Govt will give your candy to those kids who couldn’t bother to get out … Read more

So what HAVE the Democrats accomplished in the US House? Cluelessness ensues

November 10, 2019 Skip

“…even said the Democrat Party has disappointed them over the last three years.” Just blowin’ in the wind, I guess. I noticed that a number of them were, of course, wearing Berni-bro shirts. I really have to wonder if any of these collegiate nit-wits are even playing checkers, much less chess. While it should be … Read more

We will change you and it will be to benefit us!

November 10, 2019 Skip

SHOT: NY Times: Refugees Needed to Fill ‘Void of Cultural Diversity’ in White Towns More refugees must be resettled across the United States to fill a “void of cultural diversity” in towns that are made up of a majority of white Americans, a New York Times report states. As President Trump is set to lower refugee admissions … Read more

Keysnian vs Marxism vs Austrian Economics

Do I really have to explain this to you?

November 9, 2019 Skip

OK, which do YOU believe is correct – and why. Show all work. You have 60 minutes. No cheating (I’ll be watching). (H/T: Powerline)

And you wonder why Evangelicals WILL vote for Trump?

November 9, 2019 Skip

Remember, the Left has already made it QUITE clear that they don’t care what we think or what we believe. It doesn’t matter, for instance, that the Constitutions (both NH and US) have parts to them that protect our Right to Freedom of Expression, the Right to Free Speech, and the Right of Conscious. Yet, … Read more

Sorta like Obamacare: have to buy it and then you can’t use it…

November 8, 2019November 8, 2019 Skip

(H/T: Powerline)

“Rampant disrespect for the oath of office has become the norm”

November 8, 2019 Skip

Unfortunately, it still is. No, not because anything has changed between now and 10/30 when I ran across this post over at American Thinker with that title. No, it goes back MUCH further than that. However, a couple of ‘graphs from that post sets a stage for this one (reformatted, emphasis mine): Unless a winning … Read more

Sure it’s all free! The only small, little cost is that dinky liberty thingy. But everything else will be free.

November 8, 2019November 8, 2019 Skip

Just like any Hobbesian state, Socialism will give you everything it believes you should have for free… …except your soul. But the Socialist Democrats, who are naming one thing after another that they will give you for free, are COUNTING on the fact that the most valuable thing will just be taken from you – … Read more

The Insular View of a Political Urbanite

November 27, 2020November 7, 2019 Skip

The insular view of a political urbanite is the picture above while having no knowledge of the picture below. That wide emptiness. A lack of awareness of its form which gives rise to the uninformed ignorance of what it is without realizing that people live there!

Are You for Israel or Palestine?

November 6, 2019 Skip

Were you aware the Democrats are very pro-Palestine? Are you aware three of the leading Democratic presidential candidates recently endorsed a new policy? They want to cut U.S. military aid to Israel. Their position is our aid should be conditional on Israel embracing Pro-Palestinian policies.

Regarding Reporter Amy Robach admitting ABC spiked the Jeffrey Epstein story…

November 6, 2019November 6, 2019 Skip

And the MSM wonders why more and more people know they can’t trust them? Remember when the entire media had a panic attack over Trumps comments on the Access Hollywood tape? While this was going on, those same people knew that Epstein was raping children… and then decided to cover it up.#EpsteinCoverup — Carpe Donktum???? … Read more

Greta Thunberg Can’t Seem to Get a “Carbonless” Ride Home….

November 6, 2019 Skip

Greta Thunberg is the 16-year-old Swedish girl that the Left has deemed “our modern Joan of Arc” on Global Warming. No, really – without recognizing the irony that the real Joan was burnt at the stake.

Breaking: Laconia election results coming in:

November 5, 2019November 5, 2019 Skip

Mayoral: Former NH State Senator and Laconia City Counselor Andrew Hosmer (D) has beaten former NH State Rep Peter Spanos (R): 1767 to 1478. Hosmer won 4 wards to 1. Yeah, I know that local elections are “non-partisan” – it’s a farce to say otherwise. Ought to get rid of that silliness. Continuing on: City … Read more

Ten Media Truths for Conservative/Republican Legislators

November 5, 2019November 5, 2019 Skip

Even as some elections are happening today, this old advice holds true for newly elected Republicans. And it will hold just as true come the next set of primary elections and the general. In fact, they’ll always be true. And for those of you that supported them?

Wait! Wait! What’s the deal – they’re renewable, right?

November 5, 2019November 5, 2019 Skip

Germany’s Giant Windmills Are Wildly Unpopular. It’s getting harder to get permission to erect the turbine towers. Local regulations are getting stricter. Bavaria decided back in 2014 that the distance between a wind turbine and the nearest housing must be 10 times the height of the mast, which, given the density of dwellings, makes it … Read more

Data Point – Visualization of how the Right To Keep and Bear Arms has returned to its Constitutional origins

November 5, 2019 Skip

As of today, Oklahoma is the 16th state that doesn't require a permit for concealed carry. A look at how concealed carry laws have changed since 1986: pic.twitter.com/WjNjPrRO4V — Rob Romano (@2Aupdates) November 1, 2019 (H/T: The Truth About Guns)

Notable Quote – Jordan Peterson

November 5, 2019 Skip

“Even more problematic is the insistence logically stemming from this presumption of social corruption that all individual problems, no matter how rare, must be solved by cultural restructuring, no matter how radical. Our society faces the increasing call to deconstruct its stabilizing traditions to include smaller and smaller numbers of people who do not or … Read more