Skip, Author at Granite Grok

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Notable Quote – “We Refuse to Care about Stupid Democrat Obsessions.”

July 22, 2022 Skip

Years ago, when the Left was really starting to ramp up their Mob Social Justice outlook (and its concurrent Cancel Culture),Erik Erickson famously said: “You will be MADE to care” The tide is turning the other way and will accelerate if this advice is followed (emphasis mine): We don’t care about climate change. It’s a … Read more

Friday Open Thread – It’s Hot, It’s Humid and I Can’t Wait for February!

July 22, 2022 Skip

I hate this time – so far, spring was very cool and the first half of July was fine. Now, we’re paying the piper here in NH and the summer weather has me literally hot under the collar. That’s not even counting the political shenanigans going on locally or nationally! So, how many of you … Read more

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Challenge Accepted – Challenge Won. Ethics Complaint Was Filed with the Laconia Daily Sun

July 23, 2022July 22, 2022 Skip

Per usual, running behind. So, to catch up on this, a quick recap from yesterday: As I said here, I stopped in at the Laconia Daily Sun after the Gunstock Area Commission to file an ethics complaint against Jon Decker after his behavior at the GAC meeting. Since no one answered my knocking at the door, having … Read more

Gary Kiedaisch - Gunstock Area Commission

Belknap County, The GAC, Saul Alinsky, And Sununu Shoots His Mouth off without Total and Factual Details …

July 21, 2022July 21, 2022 Skip

Boy, did I call this right last night! I said during the Public Comment session of the Gunstock Area Commission (GAC) meeting last night that the resignations of the Gunstock Mountain Resort Sr. Management, as well as the narcissistic (IMHO) Commissioner Gary Kiedaish, was the culmination of a massive Saul Alinsky-style political stunt and disinformation campaign.

Notable Quote – Contra the Left that LOVES Communism, The Freedom It Promises Always Results in Slavery

July 21, 2022 Skip

Communism failed and is bound to fail for at least two reasons: one, that to enforce equality, its principal objective, it is necessary to create a coercive apparatus that demands privileges and thereby negates equality; and two, that ethnic and territorial loyalties, when in conflict with class allegiances, everywhere and at all times overwhelm them, … Read more

Oh Yes, Jon Decker of the Laconia Daily Sun, I WILL be putting in an Ethics Complaint against you!

July 21, 2022July 21, 2022 Skip

As I said here, I stopped in at the Laconia Daily Sun after the Gunstock Area Commission to file an ethics complaint against Jon Decker after his behavior at the GAC meeting.

BREAKING: Daily Sun Cub Reporter Jon Decker turns Political Activist Vibrating with Anger. In other news, Gunstock Mountain Resort Sr. Management All Quit As Does “All Alone” Commissioner Gary Kiedaisch

July 21, 2022July 20, 2022 Skip

I did expect to see fireworks tonite at the Gunstock Area Commission; I did but not the way that I thought was going to happen. And yes, I thought this would happen (Kiedaisch and Sr. Mgt). More on that later as I have ALL of it on video that I need to process it. Summary: … Read more

Daniel Richard: NH Supreme Court, you got it wrong. Files for Reconsideration

July 20, 2022 Skip

And, after chatting with him a bit ago, is willing to take this to Federal court. I have to laugh because his Motion is the first one that I’ve seen or heard of that can actually use the Claremont “cherish” decision in a positive way. From the top part of the Motion: Now comes the … Read more

Citizens For Belknap - there I fixed it for ya!

A Letter to Editor (Laconia Daily Sun): A Response to Mike Kitch (7/12/22) Where He Tries to Drag NH State Rep Gregg Hough but Suffers a Faceplant.

July 20, 2022 Skip

Well, since Michael Kitch is seemingly starting a media barrage against the Conservative NH State Reps in the Belknap County Delegation (he has another LtE today and so does his ideological brother, sr. advisor to the Citizens for Belknap, I figured I should go to that battleground and correct the former Sun reporter. So I … Read more

Palate Cleanser – When She Says “I Don’t Care”, Now You Know What She Means!

July 20, 2022 Skip

Yes, a play on that old joke that men will never know what a woman wants. And if you are offended by that joke (having been married for over 40 years, it’s a truism), you can complain directly to me (as I won’t care). I ask TMEW all the time “where do you want to … Read more

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Well, Well – The Spectre of Responsibility Has Finally Returned? Or Rebellion Against The Loss of Free Sex?

July 20, 2022 Skip

OK, this is a couple of weeks old as this came out after SCOTUS decided that the Federal Government had no part in abortion… Sidenote: isn’t this what the anti-life aficionados have been weeping over for months? For Government to get out of the relationship between pregnant women and their doctors? They should be THANKING … Read more

Yeah, This Used EV Car Woe Will Help the EV Transition, Won’t It?

July 20, 2022July 20, 2022 Skip

I’ve heard about the long charge times. I’ve seen videos of Electric Vehicles queuing up for public chargers – only to wait for hours to be able to spend even more hours actually charging (if Level 1 or Level 2).

An Explanation to Our Readers on Press Releases

July 19, 2022 Skip

Both Steve and I get TONS of press releases every day. We generally sign up for a bunch of politico email distribution lists simply to be able to keep our thumb on the pulse of what politicians, their staff, and advocacy groups want us to know about or take action on.

Data Point: I Wonder If WMUR Has the Wherewithal to Understand Why?

July 19, 2022 Skip

Yeah, I know, rhetorical question because up to now, the answer is a big “NO!”. I’m not even sure that they care that they turn off a large percentage of their potential viewers who have watched them go Leftward these past few years. From the Washington Examiner, this pull quote says it all: …Bias in … Read more

MAKE IT HURT! RE: DC Overwhelmed by Bussed in “Migrants”

July 19, 2022 Skip

The news is starting to bubble out that what was first derided as a mere Red State (Texas) political stunt is now turning into more than a nuisance. As Steve’s post, A Feel Good Story to End (Or Start!) Your Day – DC Overwhelmed by Bussed in “Migrants” points out, that pain is now being transferred, in part, from the border states back to its origin- Washington DC.

WMUR Closeup: George Hansel and Bob Burns

July 19, 2022 Skip

As I was writing my previous post about the Good Guy with a gun stopping a bad guy going beserk, I was watching yesterday’s WMUR CLOSEUP show. I was going to leave this in that post but I was getting way long again so I decided to split it. Adam Sexton had George Hansel on … Read more

Another “Good Guy with a Gun Kills a Bad Guy Committing Murder”

July 18, 2022 Skip

Once again, it’s a gun-free zone that someone decided was easy pickings in making himself a Celebrity in the eyes of Moms Demand Action and Everytown. Stories say that while he did kill 3 people and wounded 2 others, the shooter had a long gun and several loaded magazines with him as he entered the … Read more

Belknap County Republican Committee – Candidates for NH State Senate: Dave DeVoy, John Plummer. And Kevin jerks Tim Lang’s choke collar HARD

July 18, 2022July 18, 2022 Skip

Interesting meeting this past Wednesday, as I previously wrote. Right now, it’s all about the EXTREMIST and DECEITFUL “Citizens for Belknap”Political Action Committee (“PAC”). More on CoB PAC in a moment, but there IS a tie-in for this race so give me a few minutes, please.

Data Point – Which Nation Has the Most Homicides per Guns Owned? It Isn’t the US!

July 18, 2022 Skip

For all we hear about gun violence, not enough of us on the Right will correct people like Zandra Rice-Hawkins by calling it for what it is: gun CRIME. We also don’t push back that 2/3rds of the deaths from guns are suicides – they are SUICIDES and not violence. When you account for that, … Read more

Quick Thought – This Is Correct; They Are Trying to Break Us

July 18, 2022 Skip

From Liberal Logic 101: Progressives, on the other hand, not only wish to crush that spirit but continue the process of forcing a dependency upon Government that started in the early 1900s. They believe they are entitled to Rule. Oh, not them personally (well, many of them) but knowing that the facade would be sufficient … Read more