Skip, Author at Granite Grok

So, Tim McGough Has Circled ‘Round Now That He’s a New NH House Rep – A Website in Chinese? Some ‘Splaining to Do in Your Future?

December 27, 2022December 27, 2022 Skip

Yeah, this is the guy, I’m told, that was making the claim on the campaign trail that he was going to be the new Vice-Chair of the NH House Commerce Committee. Keith Ammon is not amused (heh!). But that’s just an aside. A tipster sent me some information that I just can’t make heads or … Read more

A Tutorial: How to Create a Right To Know to Hold Your Government Accountable – A Quick Practicum and Example

December 27, 2022 Skip

So in the previous posts, I have been explaining the first parts of what NH’s RSA 91-A, the Right To Know Law, covers – definitions, who or what it can be “pointed” to, and what kind of meetings it covers. However, all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy and I’m going to … Read more

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A Tutorial: How to Create a Right To Know to Hold Your Government Accountable – Part 4

December 26, 2022 Skip

In Part 3, we talked about the definitions of what’s important when trying to work within the RSA 91-A strictures – WHO can you demand something from, WHAT can you demand, and “Body this and Body that”. Not in tremendous detail but enough to get started with. Now, we start to get in on “Meetings” … Read more

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Palate Cleanser – The Left Has Little Sense of Humor for Their Theology Being Confronted – Especially This One

December 26, 2022 Skip

I thought this is hilarious – but it also makes a great point: Yes, being a pre-teen and teenager is hard and can be VERY hard. Yet, more and more evidence is coming in that “going trans” isn’t from an internal mental illness that needs to be carefully taken into account but from those suffering … Read more

Promoted from the Comments – a Grab Bag. And More Moderating

December 26, 2022 Skip

I really like reading comments from you readers – witty, smart, and on point. I have to admit and apologize that I kinda fell down on reading and moderating the last couple of months, though. We had a volunteer that took over moderation for a number of months for me so I could write more, … Read more

Promoted from the Comments – The UniParty Collusion at the Top over SCOTUS?

December 25, 2022 Skip

Over at Ed’s “And Yet They Claim They’re NOT The Reason There Was No Red Wave …“, Commenter James “Vito” Lanese had a longish comment that caught my eye that I thought was worthwhile to promote to the ‘Grok Front page to cast a bit more light on it: Before the election on the tube, … Read more

Promoted from the Comments and Blogline of the Day – Finally, a “Supremicist” That the Right Can Use

December 25, 2022 Skip

A TWOFER! From Amil’s post “We No Longer Have a Country“, Commenter Jamie nails who really is the “invader” against our traditional and Normal American Society (emphasis mine): If the Democrats weren’t anti-Constitutional enough, now we have the “Woke Supremacists“. A most SPLENDID new category in my estimation! There is just SO much future usage … Read more

Data Point – Cameras vs Smartphones

December 24, 2022 Skip

Unless you are a serious amateur or professional, you are using your smartphone to take photos or videos. I decided that for most GraniteGrok work, I decided to get a high end smartphone instead of a new prosumer video camera.

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Second Amendment Happy Ending of the Day – Three Go In, Only Two Go Out. They Assumed Wrongly

December 23, 2022 Skip

Americans have been buying more than a million firearms a year for the last few years. Latest estimates of firearms is over 400 million arms in our population. So that’s a lot of homes that could conceivably house a weapon that could be used to defend its inhabitants. And these three miscreants decided to play … Read more

Notable Quote – On the Left, It Is Always about the Revenge

December 23, 2022 Skip

Emhasis mine: Since the French Revolution, leftwing politics, as distinct from the liberal sort, have been essentially about revenge, including in Great Britain with the founding of the Labour Party in 1900, an event recently characterized by the Daily Telegraph as an act of vengeance. Then, leftist vengeance meant class vengeance. While it remains so … Read more

Disqus Doodlings – A Full on Assault and Defense of Capitalism vs a “Guided Economy”

December 22, 2022 Skip

Yep, I have a few of these to catch up on. What started as an observation by TreeHugger author Lloyd Alter that Germans were “gamifying” the use of less energy (“Germans Are Competing With Each Other to Save Energy“), my first thought was “oh, competing to see who could have a worse standard of living … Read more

Palate Cleanser – I Used to Have to Do This Back in the Day

December 22, 2022 Skip

Yes, a blast from my past. I was playing with these things when it was common to have to do this: Standardization? Sure – but only to a point. Frankly, I hated printer cables. Period. And serial cables were often on my “oh, crap” list especially when Device A HAD to connect to Device B … Read more

Blogline of the Day – And I’ll Add To This That The Uniparty, Once Again, Can’t Do Their Basic Job of “Regular Order”

December 22, 2022 Skip

SLEEP TIGHT TONIGHT, FOLKS, YOUR CONGRESS IS ON THE JOB: Illegal immigrants are flooding across the border, China is kicking our butt around the world, the government faces a $31 trillion debt and today Congress is working getting rid of gendered pronouns from the U.S. Code. “Regular Order” is passing the appropriation/spending bills on a department by … Read more

A Maine School Counselor ‘Transitioned’ a 13-Yo W/Out Parental Knowledge and More! – Stack of Stuff #34

July 16, 2024December 22, 2022 Skip

I am having a private conversation with a mental health specialist who declared that part of their practice deals in this issue (we do not see eye to eye). I sent that person this story and am awaiting the response. I, however, believe that this makes the case, along with the hundreds of other “news … Read more

A Tutorial: How to Create a Right To Know to Hold Your Government Accountable – Part 3

December 21, 2022 Skip

Having dealt with the Purpose of an RSA 91-A demand and showing its Constitutionality, this post bringing up Definitions. As I said in Part 2: Next installment will talk about Definitions. While it may seem mundane and you might think “I’ll wait until Skip gets to the “meat of RSA 91-A”, Definitions MATTER. And they … Read more

A Tutorial: How to Create a Right To Know to Hold Your Government Accountable – Part 2

December 20, 2022 Skip

Part 1 is here. This second installment (and afterwards for a while – it’s looking like merely two posts is not going to do this topic justice) is to talk about the salient points of the text of RSA 91-A. That is, the DOs, the DON’Ts, and the GOTCHAs. Later, I’ll talk about strategy and … Read more

Don Surber’s Point #2: Normal Parents Reaction to Teachers’ Sexuality

December 19, 2022 Skip

Part 1 was the reveal by Don Surber, while letting the info drop that I’d been looking for some time (where did the policy on “Transgender and Non-conforming” originate?). But as I said at the end of that post, Surber also made another observation I think is important, one that I think all Normal people … Read more

A Tutorial: How to Create a Right To Know to Hold Your Government Accountable – Part 1

December 20, 2022December 19, 2022 Skip

People have asked if I would create a post or two on how to craft an RSA 91-A demand. This is also known here in NH as a Right To Know, and it is specific to all government agencies (and often, non-governmental bodies that receive tax monies but only in some cases).

Palate Cleanser – So, You Want To Clue Your Boyfriend for Gifts?

December 19, 2022 Skip

After all, sometimes guys just don’t know what or worse – know how to ask. Especially if they are one of those 8 pm Christmas Eve “Lord help me once again” shoppers as the fear in his eyes is palpable. Have mercy upon his soul – or shake his procrastination butt into motion. Here’s an … Read more

As If “Renewable Energy” Isn’t Already Blowing Itself Up?

December 19, 2022 Skip

Heh! Reader Bruce sent this in. Not exactly as showy as the Bridges or the Buildings but I find it ironic that while we are hearing calls for “More! More!”, they are taking them down. For what reason, I don’t know: they stopped working, too expensive to maintain, putting up new ones? Who know – … Read more