Skip, Author at Granite Grok

With 100% probability, Leftists will always show their two-facedness

September 26, 2018June 25, 2018 Skip

Can you guess which ones are those packing? Methinks the suit jackets and haircuts are the “tells”:

Over and over again, this blog has chronicled how Leftists / Progressives / Democrats / Socialists preach one thing and then turn around and say something / do something else when they don’t think anyone is listening or watching. It never fails in that the rest of us catch them not living up to their own stated rule book: truthfulness, tolerance, no money in politics, and belief in the Constitution. Sure thing, pals.

Like uber-teenaged brat David Hoggs, high school drama student turned Progressive Darling for advocating the removal of law abiding citizens’ Second Amendment Rights (even as he ignores the immense failures of several layers of Government in his high school’s tragedy in keeping the murderer under lock and key on multiple occasions). A sharp eyed observer found him getting ready to flog his book surrounded by:

Charles Krauthammer – nailing it one more time

September 26, 2018June 25, 2018 Skip

Translation: a Democrat that won’t tell you the truth. (H/T: Powerline)

It always amazes me how fast

September 26, 2018June 23, 2018 Skip

From Steve’s post:

Kevin Landrigan also reports some appreciative praise from Ray Buckley.

“I wish Jeanie well. Only someone who has served as state party chair can appreciate the challenges and sacrifices one makes to do the job,” Buckley said.

It is utterly amazing to me how fast someone can become Mother Teresa-like from just being the Devil Incarnate when a Republican resigns. It seems that the Democrats start to pine for those who have left a Republican position or the political stage (e.g., both Bushes, Romney, even Nixon (to a degree)) and hold them up as “models” to be followed because the latest Republican resident of a given position has now assumed the hateful form with horns, tail, and a pitchfork demeanor. Or that guy with the funny mustache as is now being bandied about because the Democrats love using little children as political pawns.

Add another log to the fire that is “Get Money Out of Politics” Group Silent After PAC Commits 23 Million to One Dem Senator”

September 26, 2018June 22, 2018 Skip

Yeah, Democrats are all about getting money out of politics – until they aren’t. From billionaire Tom Steyer in Steve’s post to this one:

All In: Mike Bloomberg To Dump $80 Million To Try To Buy The House For Democrats

Michael R. Bloomberg, the billionaire former mayor of New York City, has decided to throw his political clout and personal fortune behind the Democratic campaign to take control of the House of Representatives this year, directing aides to spend tens of millions of dollars in an effort to expel Republicans from power.

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Data Point – Border Crisis responsibility

September 26, 2018June 22, 2018 Skip

It looks like a lot of voters believe like me:

POLL: Most Voters Blame Parents, Not U.S. Government, For Border Crisis

When families are arrested and separated after attempting to enter the United States illegally, 54% of Likely U.S. Voters say the parents are more to blame for breaking the law. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that only 35% believe the federal government is more to blame for enforcing the law. Eleven percent (11%) are not sure.

and this:

Quick Thought – No One Has Died Yet Because of This

September 26, 2018June 22, 2018 Skip

Just like a lot of things that Progressives predicted would come true with horrifying consequences (like Constitutional Carry here in NH where we were told by Progressives and the Coven of Police Chiefs not wanting to see civilians being able to exercise their full Second Amendment Rights), this hasn’t happened either.

Net Neutrality.

Supreme Court ruling on State Sales Taxes – It Hits Home. Badly

September 26, 2018June 22, 2018 Skip

Some new and nice things will soon be happening to GraniteGrok, chief amongst them being a new site with better security, newer features for authors to better get our message to you, better ways for readers to get feedback to us – lots of things to look forward to including items not in cyberspace (but more on that later). One thing that may not be coming soon, maybe not even at all, is a result of what Steve wrote about: SCOTUS Upholds South Dakota’s Right to Tax Online Sales From Retailers Outside the State.

RRftSotRP – I get stuff. Third lesson: “if only the opposition would just go away or agree with us”

September 26, 2018June 20, 2018 Skip

Not a freaking clue:

Wow – just wow. RRftSotRP (Republican Republican for the Sake of the Rebin big steaming piles on this one. The writer is obviously upset in that there is not total agreement with NH GOP Party anointed candidates. The overriding message is exemplified by this:

(courtesy of uber-Progressive Joe Wernig)

Er, no, I’m not. Not that from the writer. Nor should you.

NH House of Representatives – No Shows

September 26, 2018June 20, 2018 Skip

I’ve been asked on a number of occasions to run for the NH House of Representatives and have turned them down because of work responsibilities. There was just no way to be able to keep my job AND do the job of a NH Rep correctly and fully. Plus, for full disclosure, when I ran for elective office in my hamlet, I promised the TEMW that I’d never run for higher office (and even though I tried my hardest ever this year, when I asked to be let out of my promise, the response was “the look” – yes, I was doomed from the start.

Sadly, a lot of these folks, mostly Republicans at the top of the Chart of No-Show Shame, should have been doomed as well as certainly the voters that spent their previous Votes on them got hoodwinked:

“The politicization of everything”

September 26, 2018June 20, 2018 Skip

Bill Bunker, a conservative commentor over at the Concord Monitor (yes, there are a few!) actually had an Op-Ed piece published by said paper by the name above (reformatted, emphasis mine):

…Politics spills into every aspect of our society, including sports, entertainment, faith, education and even corporate America. No aspect of our lives is immune from toxic political sewage spewing from those with an agenda, ideology and thirst for power. What brings fans together at a sporting event is the game. Uniting behind our favorite team, we find common ground and sameness. We can be of a different race, economic class, gender, politics or faith, and we meet on common ground. Politics has eroded and is ruining that tiny bit of unity.

Athletes and media outlets like ESPN abuse their powerful celebrity pulpit, destroying what little common unity many of us have left. Subtle suggestions of our supposed racism and sexism in Super Bowl ads is a prime example of politics permeating the institution of sports and pitting one fan against the other.

My comment is after the jump and wouldn’t you know it, two sad examples of injecting Progressive politics showed up today:

Fathers Day – I knew I forgot something

September 26, 2018June 18, 2018 Skip

This: So if you are a Feminist, let us know how this is wrong.

University of Toronto psychology Professor Jordan Peterson – “Dangerous People Are Teaching Your Kids.”

September 26, 2018June 17, 2018 Skip

In many cases, the post-Modernist (deconstruct everything and then just leave it on the nihilist floor they built) / post-Enlightenment reasoning / post-Judeo-Christian ethos / post-Western Liberalism (the TRUE meaning of Liberalism and not the bastardization that American Socialists / Progressives claimed for themselves a la how homosexuals claimed “gay” for themselves) are indeed out to get rid of Western Civilization…

Data Point – I bet Democrats are steamed over this!

September 26, 2018June 17, 2018 Skip

So, Donald Trump is more popular than The LightBringer in their respective Parties at the same time in their Presidential term? (H/T: Daily Mail)

Our own Miss Susan gives entitled Hahvad kids an #IOPening

September 26, 2018June 17, 2018 Skip

These Harvard kids got the lesson of their life in the Heartland

…Nearly all of them agreed that they didn’t know what life was like outside the coastal cities and states. Only one student, Henna Hundal, 20, had grown up in a rural environment — an almond farm in Turlock, Calif., — while Kessler, a computer-science major, was the only member of the class who had ever fired a gun. The students ranged in age from 19 to 21, with an equal number of girls and boys and a wide variety of ethnic backgrounds. The majority of them hailed from cities and suburbs in blue states along the East and West coasts. One was from Wales.

They admitted they had been fed a steady diet of stereotypes about small towns and their folk: “backwards,” “no longer useful,” “un- or under-educated,” “angry and filled with a trace of bigotry” were all phrases that came up.

…Two weeks later in Londonderry, NH, the students visited a gun range at [the Londonderry]Fish and Game Club and saw something else they didn’t expect — 40 women of all ages, shapes and colors pointing pistols at a target.

I wish I could have been there.

Data Point – Remember that Paris Accord that was never a treaty or an agreement?

September 26, 2018June 17, 2018 Skip

Trump rightfully tossed it onto the ash heap of Obama’s “Arc of History” – it rightfully belongs there because it had no worth. Obama, like many other actions he took during his Presidency, only wanted to be seen as doing something rather than actually doing something and the Paris Accord belongs in it. What worth is there when only a President signs an “agreement”? Nothing – the next President can do exactly what Trump did. Obama was lazy – relying on Executive Orders and bureaucratic rulemaking which meant it could be done away with a flourish of a pen.

Why are Fathers important?

September 26, 2018June 17, 2018 Skip

Let me add to Mike’s “Happy Fathers Day” with this from Instapundit (reformatted, emphasis mine):

VIRGINIA ALLEN: The Importance of Dads in an Increasingly Fatherless America.

There is a “father absence crisis in America,” according to National Fatherhood Initiative, and the results are sobering. Studies have found that children raised without a father are:

At a higher risk of having behavioral problems.

Four times more likely to live in poverty.

More likely to be incarcerated in their lifetime.

When CHAD can demonstrate they know more about REAL gun safety…

September 26, 2018June 15, 2018 Skip

Until then, shut the bleep up and stop being Nannies that are unneeded, unwanted, and “presenting” (they use that word a lot, those medical people) a snotty (and snotty) sense of moral superiority to we “bitter clingers” of you know whats. You know far more about medical issues than I do and I listen. Don’t assume … Read more

Quick Thought: it sounds so fine and so high-falutin’ don’t it?

September 26, 2018June 15, 2018 Skip

“Everyone has a right to live in a country not dominated by the systemic racist practices of government and other powerful institutions, structures, institutional interlocks, and matrices,” Willem Cerf of Manchester said in remarks distributed by the campaign. Scratching my head here – I think Cerf just called almost EVERYONE in the country else a … Read more

BlogQuestion of the Day – Coverup? How big is the cabal and what will the consequences be?

September 26, 2018June 15, 2018 Skip

https://twitter.com/SohrabAhmari/status/1007279078989127680 Why aren’t more people going bananas over this? Shouldn’t this be a bipartisan deal, where the bureaucrats are trying to influence (or, worse, alter) the outcome of an election? Which is worse, our OWN government trying to do so or “Russians”? How are Progressives going to square this circle given that this is now … Read more

It’s what the Left does – normalize what used to be taboo to accept their even worse

September 26, 2018June 15, 2018 Skip

Comparisons, comparisons. First, go back and read this. Remember, the media ‘fessed up to “normalizing” homosexuality.

Now this: Bernie Sanders Says Liberals Are Turning the “Radical” into the “Mainstream.”

And now this: Drag queen superheroes show — ‘Super Drags’ — coming to Netflix: ‘They’re going to save the world’

So, normalizing Socialism and Communism. Now add to that which used to be considered to be depraved behavior – and we Normals aren’t to say a thing or be labeled RACISTs or HOMOPHOBES, or DEPLORABLES or IRREDEEMABLES (did I forget the word BIGOT! ?). Stigma – a word that has had its meaning pretty much neutered. Depravity is in, church going and traditionally moral people out. Fun-cations (complements of unemployment – trust me, it ain’t) in, hard work out. Responsibility is out, blaming others is in. America bashing in, pro-America out; you get the picture (and I keep coming back to this over and over because it does seem that the America I grew up in is being deliberately and methodically destroyed.

So when all what used to be praised and held to be of value, what happens?