Skip, Author at Granite Grok

Skip’s Sauntering Snippets – Twitter (and NH Democrat Party Chair Ray Buckley)

February 10, 2023February 9, 2023 Skip

I’ll go find his tweets but now that the DNC has made their final ruling, Ray Buckley will forever be known as the Chair that lost the First In the Nation Primary for NH Democrats. Go Ray! And his immutable characteristics didn’t help at all – with the Democrats idiotic obsession that someone is no … Read more

Beyond The SoundBite Lecture Series – Vivek Ramaswamy Part 1

February 10, 2023February 9, 2023 Skip

Last night, GraniteGrok was invited to #5 in the Beyond The Soundbite Lecture Series (sponsored by the NH Leadership PAC and RNC Chairman Chris Ager). I was happy to see fellow Groksters Rick Olsen, Beth and Steven Scaer, Don Ewing , Ken Ewing, Tom Murray along with Ray Cardello (and meeting him in person for … Read more

Blogline of the Day – And It Is Your Government That Is the Oppressor. How Can It Not Be?

February 8, 2023 Skip

I was looking through our archives for mentions of the Frankfurt School, and Antonio Gramsci for my “Disney’s REALLY gone Woke” post, and this popped up from 2016. While not directly in line, it does approach in a similar fashion because it REQUIRES Government to carry out the action.

My Decision to Get Rid of Disney+ Was a Great One: Disney is Openly Telling Children That America Was Founded on Slavery

February 8, 2023 Skip

The Frankfurt School and Antonio Gramsci are still relatively unknown by the vast majority of Americans yet they are the ones that are the answer to “How did we get here?” (and here, too; additional stuff here, here, here, here, and here).

Biden’s SOTU – I bet NH State Reps Mike Bordes, Travis O’Hara, and Doug Trottier and NH State Senators Tim Lang and Howard Pearl were CHEERING at This!

February 8, 2023 Skip

Since we decided that the ‘Grok was going to return to Twitter, I had been looking forward to tweeting out during President Asterisk’s (ahem, Biden) State of the Union speech. Unfortunately, my main laptop’s browsers were throwing errors so I missed doing my mission (firewall issues, I think). But one piece of fecal matter that … Read more

Blogline of the Day: SERIOUSLY?? Equating NH Gov. Chris Sununu to Goldwater? Oh, OK…

February 7, 2023 Skip

From one Republican to another at a Republican event – and Larry Hogan (rumored to have looked in a mirror and said to his image “YOU could be President!“): “I didn’t know you were going to have Lockdown Larry when I bought a ticket to RINOfest. Good job finding the ONLY Republican governor in the … Read more

NHGOP EBoard RNC Committeeman Replacement – That Didn’t Go Well…

February 8, 2023February 7, 2023 Skip

Very interesting, what a little birdie whispered in my ear… True to his word, newly chosen NH GOP Chair Chris Ager did what he said he would do – get a vote as to his replacement (he’s not going to hold both the Chair and RNC Committeeman positions – setting an example that should be … Read more

Data Point – Fertility, Land Use, and Car Seats

February 7, 2023 Skip

Like almost all developed nations, America’s fertility rate has gone below “replacement” which is 2.1 births/woman (and NO, it’s not “birthing people” or “people who give birth” or “people with uteruses”). Lots of theories have been put forward with one example being all of the manmade chemicals interfering with hormonal processes. Another is that as … Read more

Beyond the Soundbites Lecture Series #5: February 8, 2023 with Vivek Ramaswamy

February 6, 2023 Skip

BUMPED from Jan 19th, 2023:

“The Revival of American Identity – ESG and the Threat to American Democracy” with Vivek Ramaswamy

Fox News contributor Vivek Ramaswamy will discuss his thoughts on Wokeness in corporate America as outlined in his New York Times Bestselling Book “Woke, Inc.”

Tribunes For Debate Realistic Composition

So Charles Everett Decided to Make the Inference that US Marine Lt. Col. Mike Moffett (Ret.) Is a Nazi? So I Let Him Know That…

February 6, 2023 Skip

…his email has now been posted up on GraniteGrok. as it wasn’t clear that it had been posted already (I left a voice mail for Mike asking him as we generally put up hate mail sent in so our readers can chortle over it and make sport of them.

About GraniteGrok Not Being Allowed into the NH GOP Annual Meeting Two Weeks Ago…

February 7, 2023February 6, 2023 Skip

Well, I thought that the posts I put up over the past few days made some points and let our readership why they didn’t see any live reporting from the NHGOP annual meeting or afterward. I figured that was that – that event was over. Then I got a surprise call.

Health care nurses doctors walking away Original Photo by Luis Melendez on Unsplash

Promoted from the Comments – “Do You Feel Safe at Home?”

February 5, 2023February 4, 2023 Skip

Commenter Mike Remski left a humorous comment on my “I’m Agreeing With NH Senator Cindy Rosenwald (D-Nashua)?? Why, Yes I Am” post concerning personal privacy vs the State trying to hoover up data on Moms that had just given birth. Had nothing directly to do with the post’s topic – except for “other questions” that … Read more

Data Point – When Citizens Believe that GOVERNMENT Is Their Largest Problem…

February 4, 2023 Skip

The thought that immediately came to mind was “When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty.” Yet, here we are where The People are starting to believe that Government is the largest problem in their lives. In a new survey conducted in January, Americans said … Read more

And US Journalists Wonder Why the Public Is Ignoring Them?

February 4, 2023 Skip

Instapundit had these tweets from Michael Shellenberger (not in his Twitter feed anymore) on information from Pew Research on how US Journalists see their jobs vs. how the Public see how they SHOULD be doing it.

Treehugger – After Being Insulted, I Ask THE Important Question!

February 4, 2023 Skip

Again, from the same post from TH: Are British Conservatives Really Committed to Climate Action? Note the nuance of the structure of the post title – can we TRUST Conservatives? Do they really accept Climate Change – and are willing to use Government (in this case, the new and then quickly former Prime Minister Liz … Read more

Treehugger – What’s Faster? Fracking or Weatherizing Every Building in the Country?

February 4, 2023 Skip

While Treehugger is still alive, barely, it isn’t the harder hitting / deeper posts of the past. Thus, I’m spending far less time there and I’m just going to put up the last comment threads from some of the posts I thought were worth keeping. This set is both timeless, in the past, and kinda … Read more

Adding Florida Would Mean More Than Half of US States Hew to This Restriction on Government

February 3, 2023 Skip

Passing this legislation in Florida would mean that over half the US states hew to the second amendment’s restriction on government. As in, “the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”

Hahahahahaha – Paypal Lays Off 2,000 workers (7% of their workforce) – Blames Economy.

February 3, 2023 Skip

Instead of themselves. We’ve written in the past that Paypal, because of our writing, restricted the use of our own money for six months. We could look at it, and run reports against account activity, but no money could be added in at all (either by you folks, our sponsors, or even ourselves) or expended. … Read more

Once Again, Congressional Progressives Show THEY Believe Govt Owns You AND Your Company

February 3, 2023 Skip

You can call it “The hubris of high office”, the “Insolence of a long-term office holder”, or “Progressives on Parade”. Or all three at once but these two short paragraphs show that these folks have no interest in governing, they believe that you are ruled by them. And they have no problem in letting you … Read more

I’m Agreeing With NH Senator Cindy Rosenwald (D-Nashua)?? Why, Yes I Am

February 3, 2023February 3, 2023 Skip

Again, if you believe that our Constitution is our most foundational Law (and our Social Contract – see what I did there SJWs?), this is actually needed. Landrigan has the story.