I was flabbergasted at how large that overhead number really is (emphasis mine). “HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: More Employees Than Students at Stanford: Give Each Student a Concierge!
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This Has Bothered Me For A While: NO, Patrick H. Wood, “Housing Is Not a Right”
The actual LtE title: Patrick H. Wood: Affordable housing should be a right, not a privilege Sometimes I hang onto things far too long. Like I’ve said in the past, when GraniteGrok first opened up, there were FAR fewer “things” to write about as the pace of such things were: Much slower than they are … Read more
Breaking News – NH GOP Keynote Speaker: President Donald Trump
NHGOP Announces Annual Meeting Keynote Speaker FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 23, 2023 CONTACT: Maya Harvey maya@nhrsc.com Concord, NH – New Hampshire Republican State Committee announces former President Donald J. Trump as Keynote Speaker at 2023 Annual Meeting on Saturday, January 28. Chairman Stephen Stepanek stated: “We are excited to welcome President Trump back to … Read more
A Notable Quote? A “Go Woke, Go Broke”? Blogline of the Day? Or a Lack of Cultural Awareness? Or All Wrapped Into One?
Background: “As previously covered by RedState, M&M’s marketing team decided to take the beloved characters and begin changing up how they act and behave.”
Skip’s Sauntering Snippets – Installment #20 – National Debt
On Jan 19, the US reached it’s national debt ceiling (once again). All you hear from the Democrats (and some Republicans) is that we have to raise it to borrow more money to “protect the full faith and credit of the United States” in paying our bills. And ONLY once, in 2011, was something done … Read more
“[Teachers] Want Their Activism in the Classroom. They Aren’t Even Hiding It.”
RedState has a post entitled “A Group of Pennsylvania Teachers Prove It Was Always About Indoctrination, Not Education” (reformatted, emphasis mine): Public schools have become a minefield. Sending your kids to one is a gamble as winding up in the wrong classroom could put them into the clutches of an activist posing as a teacher, … Read more
Palate Cleanser: What a Difference That 36 Years Can Make
Whoever thought we’d end up this way? And I’ll add that the World Economic Forum /Davos people that believe they have the right to tell the rest of us how to live is that they are going to make bugs for us to eat dirt cheap. The only constant in any of this is while … Read more
Another Democrat Bill Placing an Unfunded Mandate on School Districts – Food
Oh, Skip, you’re such a meany – how can you take food out of the mouths of babes in school yards! You want them to go hungry and starve while in school? They can’t learn that way? You know, there was a recent piece on WMUR’s news that Police need more Constitutional training when at … Read more
“New Revenue Stream”; So What’s The Difference Between Democrat Lou D’Allesandro and Newly Minted Republican Senator Tim Lang?
“Reject expanded casino and video lottery gambling as a means to balance the budget or increase spending” That’s from the Republican Party Platform. Guess NH State Senator Tim Lang, in his exuberance of being more than a State Rep, decided to “exercise his muscles” and forgot that Republicans are supposed to be known for a … Read more
Data Point: Warming “Pause” is now 100 months. Only a 0.134 C degree per decade
The cold weather on both sides of the Atlantic last month seems to have had its effect on temperature, which fell sharply compared with November, lengthening the New Pause to 8 years 4 months, as measured by the satellites designed, built and operated by Dr Roy Spencer and Dr John Christy at the University of … Read more
Notable Quote – It’s Unfortunate That “Spontaneous Order” Isn’t Better Recognized
The first peculiarity of a spontaneous order is that by using its ordering forces (the regularity of the conduct of its members) we can achieve an order of a much more complex set of facts than we could ever by deliberate arrangement, but that, while availing ourselves of this possibility of inducing an order of … Read more
So, Treehugger finally said the Quiet Part Out Loud – Only the Left is Correct on the Issues
Continuing with my “unstacking” of stuff. Note how the framing is stacked against one side of this argument. And no, this isn’t another Lloyd post:
And We’re Back Here Again because Republicans and NH Gov Chris Sununu Refuse to Honor the NH Constitution: “Period Poverty”
Yes, it’s back. And I thank NH State Rep Jess Edwards for stepping into the fray with his attempt with HB129-FN-LOCAL (and for NH State Rep Judy Aron that attempted to fix the wrong last session) that attempts to “cure” the Unconstitutional Act that became law back in 2019 as it violated Article 28-A. I’m … Read more
Treehugger – Yep, I’m Unstacking Stuff. Treehugger Was against Stoves before They Were against Stoves.
I have to admit, again, that I do spend quite a bit of time over at Treehugger “mining” for fodder. Sometimes, too much time because then I can’t decide what to bring back here and there are a lot of times, on a lot of their posts, my comments go in all kinds of directions.
Treehugger: At Least Lloyd Taught Me a New Word – CAVE
Sometimes I spend too much time on Treehugger. Well, after all, it’s sometimes a great place to sharpen my arguments against authoritarianism, eco-socialism, and neo-aristocrats that decided that their Enviro-Nirvana MUST be achieved regardless of what you and I think about their end point and ESPECIALLY how they want to drag us to it. And yes, … Read more
Teachers: I’m Here to Coach You on Your LGBT Sexuality and We Won’t Tell Mom or Dad and More! – Stack of Stuff #37
Once again, a round up of what teachers and school administrators are doing to your children and ACTIVELY going “shhhh – it’s our secret!”. As always, some reformatting and emphasis mine Parents Sue Hilliard School District over Indoctrination and LGBTQ ‘I’m Here’ Badges The removal of staff-worn LGBTQ badges is being demanded by a number of parents … Read more
Right to Know – How Did Hudson Use Their COVID Money?
A Right to Know put in by a Hudson Resident asking what most of us should be doing more of: WHAT did you use that boatloads of COVID money on? Perfectly executed. In chronological order: From: Terry Stewart <yrrets@aol.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2023, 8:54 AM To: Gary Gasdia <ggasdia@sau81.org> Subject: [PROBABLE SPAM] Right to … Read more
Grok Endorsements for NHGOP Chair, Vice-Chair, Treasurer, Regional Vice Chair …
It’s getting close to the NH GOP Annual Meeting. This has not gone unnoticed by GraniteGrok. Per our usual practice in races that grab our interest, the authors at GraniteGrok all had the opportunity to vote for various positions.
Skip’s Sauntering Snippets #19 – HB101, NH State Rep Mike Moffet, Primaries, and Operation Chaos
It’s been a while, but it’s time to start in on some quick thoughts again. Today, it’s about HB101 – the bill submitted by NH State Rep (and Grokster) Mike Moffet and voting in Party Primaries.
Quick Thought – What’s the Ramifications of Building Less/Owning Less?
Yep, Treehugger time again. This time, Lloyd asks the “hoisted on his own architecture petard” question (reformatted, emphasis mine): Can Architects Survive in a World Where We Have to Build Less? The key to green building is to use less stuff. In a recent post on the subject, I quoted engineer Scott Brookes’ answer when asked how … Read more