Skip, Author at Granite Grok

Data Point – US Already the Leading Nation, by a Factor of 5, in Reducing CO2 Emissions

July 2, 2022July 2, 2022 Skip

So why all the sackcloth and ashes by the Left for the simple decision by the Supreme Court that the EPA doesn’t currently have the Power to kill off our fossil fuel industry? THAT is supposed to only be done by our elected representatives and not by a bunch of ideologically crazed Obama retread Greenie … Read more

Anyone Else See The Discrimination In This Headline: “Arizona County Had The Largest white, Black, Hispanic Growth”

July 3, 2022July 2, 2022 Skip

The Laconia Daily Sun uses wire services for content in their newspaper and that, in part, could explain the cut-and-paste demographic discrimination so rudely displayed. But local entities have the ability to edit what they want in these supplied articles.

Well, It Only Took 15 Years But I’m Finally Right About The National Debt – A Spiral Is About To Happen?

July 2, 2022July 2, 2022 Skip

When a nation’s citizens and its leaders decide that money is no object, money will have no value. For YEARS, while on my town’s Budget Committee, that which cannot be sustained, won’t. Stop taking the “free money” and start being self-sufficient – priorities will sharpen and the “strings attached syndrome” will go away (in which “free” becomes “we will pay MORE over the years for taking the free money than what the free money was worth”.

Blogline(s) Of the Day: About Fish Food and Someone Who Has the Religious IQ of Fish Food

July 2, 2022 Skip

SHOT: Americans ‘Trust the Media Now Like They Trust Gas Station Sushi’ Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) sounded off about the U.S. Capitol Police’s arrest of a group of staffers from CBS’s “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” for allegedly trespassing in the Capitol. Kennedy said the incident looked like “another example of a bunch of … Read more

“How To Annoy Progressives: Ask Them Questions”

July 2, 2022 Skip

DCE, the proprietor of Weekend Pundit, has given GraniteGrok permanent permission to use any post I want if it tickles my fancy. This one certainly did that so here it is as it has some GREAT questions to ask your poor delusional Progressive friends (yes, it does happen!).

Friday Open Thread – Should Government Boss Society around or Should It Be Society Dictating to Government?

July 1, 2022 Skip

Indeed: Abortion – really a case of Federalism sending Powers back to the States School Vouchers – really a case of Religious Liberty and telling States they can’t discriminate against non-secular schools Guns – really a case of Individual Liberty / Constitution MEANS what is written (“shall not be infringed”) Prayer – again, Religious Freedom … Read more

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Notable Quote – See, SCOTUS Was Right in Its Beatdown on the EPA and CO2 Emissions!

July 1, 2022July 1, 2022 Skip

I found this back on April 1 but it is no April Fool’s Day joke – it is serious stuff and shows that yesterday’s SCOTUS decision (on which I’ll have more to say later) was correct as we on the Right have been watching the rise of The Administrative State.

GrokGauntlet Update: We have our first “We decline the opportunity”

June 30, 2022 Skip

We conducted our first GrokGauntlet last Thursday and that was with Don Bolduc who is running for the NH GOP nomination for US Senate. Tonite, we will be running Julian Acciard through our grill session in his road in seeking the nod from the NH GOP to be the next NH Governor. We have a … Read more

Breaking: EPA’s Own “Emanations and Penumbras” Emissions Got Shut Down by a Higher Power – SCOTUS

June 30, 2022June 30, 2022 Skip

Big news and AS BIG as the earlier three Biggie Decisions (abortion, Second Amendment, religious liberty). This has HUGE ramifications for unelected, unaccountable, and unassailable faceless bureaucrats that believe that THEY are the lawmakers in our Republic.

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Monday Memes – Is Feeling a Bit Under the Weather…

June 27, 2022 Skip

Nitzakhon sent me a quick note to say that he’s been under the weather for a bit. He’s hoping to resume next week. He apologizes to all those that look forward to Monday Memes! Steve Here: Figured I drop a few on the page to hold you over.

So, NH State Rep Brodie Deshaies (R-Wolfboro)? Why Aren’t You Telling the Entire Truth during Your Re-Election Stumping?

June 28, 2022June 27, 2022 Skip

Presenting yourself as something you’re not isn’t exactly being transparent, or so it seems to me. There do seem to be a bunch of Republican-sponsored or favored bills. I think that the word “schoolie” (one who supports Government schools only because they support Government monopolies) applies in your case. It would be “interesting” to see … Read more

Sometimes, It’s Just Too Easy to Demonstrate That What Democrats Accuse Us of Doing, They’ve Already Done

June 27, 2022June 27, 2022 Skip

Democrats have been “election deniers” for quite some time. Doesn’t anyone else remember back in the 80s? Or 90s? Plenty of Democrats refused to accept the results of Presidential elections back then.

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A Resurgence of the Revolutionary War Black Robed Regiment? It’s about the Values

June 26, 2022 Skip

It is a sobering realization: Then one afternoon, while working on a sermon, his heart sunk. In the background, he’d been listening to a rerun of “The Andy Griffith Show,” enjoying the characters’ expressions of traditional values. Then, a new show came on, one focused on crime, with coarse language, and values very unlike his … Read more

Crassness? I Think This Is Called “Stepping on Your Opponent’s Speech.” Nice, Maya of the Chuck Morse Campaign

June 28, 2022June 26, 2022 Skip

First, it was the current Communications Director of the NH GOP. Now it is the former one: Maya Harvey. Like many of the NH GOP staffers, she jumped ship (like Joe Sweeney) in their efforts to grab the brass ring (as I have been putting it for YEARS) in riding a Federal campaign into The … Read more

The intellectual orthagonal “plane” – the Constrained (Conservative) vs Unconstrained (Progressive/Socialist) Outlooks. Never the Twain Shall Meet

June 26, 2022 Skip

The conflicting visions he describes in the book are the constrained or tragic view of human nature and the unconstrained or utopian view. People with a more constrained view of the human condition see mankind as hopelessly flawed. They see inherent limits to human betterment. We might want to end war or poverty or racism, … Read more

Gunstock Area Commission: Finally, the Elephant in the Room Is Addressed

June 25, 2022 Skip

And I just loved the way that Commissioner Gary Kiedaisch tried to project that he’s both a victim while being an accuser. I’ll return to this in a bit. First, the videos from the meeting. They are edited for time and issue and if anyone wants the entire meeting, I can provide that as well. … Read more

Night of Rage

June 25, 2022June 25, 2022 Skip

Well, we were promised more “mostly peaceful” protests if SCOTUS dared overturn Roe vs Wade. They did and fulfilling their promise “Jane’s Revenge”, a radical group of a radical movement called for “If Row can’t be safe neither can you”. Sure enough, all those mostly peaceful protestors (aka terrorists) turned out, clashed with police in … Read more

Belknap County Republican Committee – Keynote Speaker: JR Hoell vs DCYF

June 26, 2022June 25, 2022 Skip

A couple of weeks ago was the monthly meeting of the BCRC where former NH State Representative (and has filed to run again) JR Hoell was the main speaker of the night. His topic was his run-in with DCYF that, apparently, wanted to take his children away from him and his wife simply because he … Read more

Friday Open Thread: IT’S SCOTUS!!!!

June 24, 2022 Skip

Sorry, but with the facts that the Supreme Court of the United States continues to restore our Second Amendment Rights in the case of NY (that said NY’s “may issue” permitting for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is unconstitutional. Of COURSE? Think of the insanity of having to ask Daddy Government for permission … Read more

Quick Thought: Roe vs Wade Overturned

June 24, 2022 Skip

I’m trying to get caughtup at SCOTUSblog which has huge draw when the Supreme Court’s opinions and decisions are revealed. Steve has the Breaking News – good that SCOTUS redid a bad decision as the Constitution never enumerated that abortion was to be within a Power of the Federal Government to oversee.