Skip, Author at Granite Grok

Finally, the Laconia Daily Sun wades into the Laconia Superintendent Steve Tucker SNAFU – a Petition Drive.

May 22, 2022 Skip

I’ve been waiting for Pravda on Lake Winnipesaukee to start delving into the goings-on in the Laconia School District (SAU 30) for a while. Finally, with things coming to a boil they did (reformatted, emphasis mine): Petition asking for superintendent’s ouster signed by parents at Pleasant Street School LACONIA — As of Wednesday, 119 parents … Read more

The Left and the LGBTQRS- Militants Aren’t Happy with Bill Maher Anymore.

May 22, 2022May 22, 2022 Skip

Wow, just wow. A couple of weeks ago, I brought up that we may have hit “Peak Trans” over the Lia Thomas swimming fiasco. Normal people are now seeing what part of the movement is about – for all of The Handmaid’s Tale red robes and white hats schtick, girls and women are losing their … Read more

So, NH Gov. Sununu, Once Again, Is Talking Out of Both Sides of His Mouth: Local Control, Parental Bill of Rights, Masks

May 22, 2022May 21, 2022 Skip

Yeah, sure thing, Baby Huey. Once again, you’ve taken an issue important to your (now shrinking) Republican base and tossed it into the trash can. And again, it’s over what PARENTS believe is best for their children. Nice to see that you’re showing us that you’re “Bigger” than they are – and using the rubric … Read more

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Transgender Indoctrination of KINDERGARTENERS by Teachers is NOT a figment of our crazed White Cis Imagination

May 22, 2022May 21, 2022 Skip

Is this, Moms and Dad, why you allow the Government to educate your precious little one that isn’t all that far removed from successful potty training? That are just starting to dress themselves and follow directions?

That Infamous NSBA Letter That Branded Parents as Domestic Terrorists Originated in Nashua, NH?

May 21, 2022 Skip

Surfing the net yesterday, I came across this title at Hot Air: Report confirms White House had advance knowledge of the NSBA’s ‘domestic terrorism’ letter and promised ‘we have your back’. The infamous Letter from the NSBA. The one that publicly declared that Parents are Domestic Terrorists. Steve wrote, when this came out in October, 2021:

Grayscale Photo of People at Market by Danilo Ugaddan Pexels Free to use

Notable Quote – Consumers Determine the Marketplace

May 20, 2022 Skip

Socialists and Democrats (but I repeat myself) always lambast Big Business as the Evil component of capitalism. They forget: On the market of a capitalistic society the common man is the sovereign consumer whose buying or abstention from buying ultimately determines what should be produced and in what quantity and quality. Those shops and plants … Read more

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“Misgendering” – a Politically Created Word to Force a Political Agenda?

May 20, 2022 Skip

I’ve held on to this for a while, so let me start off by saying that I agree with Matt Margolis: Rachel Levine Says ‘Misgendering’ Trans People Is ‘Mean-Spirited’—It’s Not . Levine is the transgender US Assistant Secretary of Health and the affirmative action four-star admiral in the US Public Health Service Commissioned Corp.

So, [Republican? Snicker!] Gov. Chris Sununu Told Us All That He Is Anti-parents and All in for the Teacher’s Unions.

May 20, 2022May 20, 2022 Skip

I AM ONE OF THOSE PARENTS THAT THE SCHOOL WON’T TELL ME WHAT THE TRANSGENDER STATUS OF MY LEGAL SON IS (“So How Did It Feel, Gilford School Board, to Watch Your Principal Lie to Me in Public Because of Your Policy JBAB?“)! And Sununu wants to keep it that way!

Gunstock: What Was Foretold Is Now Reality: Guida Retiring, Nominates Lang as Handpicked “Political Son.” Nailed It!

May 20, 2022May 19, 2022 Skip

WMUR: State Sen. Giuda announces retirement, endorses Rep. Lang as replacement Not 10 minutes after he got booted from the Committee of Conference where his bill to redo Gunstock went down in flames as Chuck Morse shoved him out of the way. Now, I can’t take total credit for this prophecy made back on April … Read more

Palate Cleanser – This Is Why I Won’t Allow Myself to Own a Chainsaw

May 19, 2022 Skip

And some of these folks are “professionals”! At first, I didn’t think I’d be interested in it but figured I’d take a peek at the video. The more I watched, I felt like one of those folks that DVR NASCAR races and speed through the race looking only for crashes. ‘Cept with this, there were … Read more

So has NH State Senator Bob Guida just killed his own bill in the Committee of Conference?

May 19, 2022 Skip

UPDATE! HB1397 has been killed. Success Leaders: NH State Rep/Belknap County Delegation Chair Mike Sylvia, NH State Rep and House Majority Leader Jason Osborne, GAC Commissioner Dave Strang, and NH State Rep Norm Silber, Diane Pauer and Speaker Sherm Packard. UPDATE 2: It looks like Guida got a bit of comeupence like Kimberly Rice did on … Read more

So, NH State Rep Kimberly Rice Hates Parents and the Parental Rights Bill that Empowers Them Over School Boards.

May 19, 2022 Skip

UPDATE! The Senate Parental Bill of Rights has been accepted by the Committee of Conference. There are a couple of line differences between the House and Senate so there will be a vote next Thursday. Then Gov. Sununu has to sign it. YAY! NH State Rep Kimberly Rice was “demoted” from Chair and Majority Leader … Read more

Data Point – For All the Talk That Trump Is Now Fading, He’s Got a Great Candidate-Picking Track Record

May 19, 2022May 18, 2022 Skip

I wish I had this kind of track record. Reformatted, emphasis mine: EXCLUSIVE: President Trump’s Endorsements Matter – Last Night 23-2-1 (TBD-Oz) – Overall 81 Wins, 3 Losses, 1 TBD (Oz) President Trump’s endorsements are golden. After last night, President Trump’s results to date are 81-3-1 (Oz). Last night was another huge win for Americans … Read more

So McDonald’s Thinks It Can Force “Ordering Compliance”? The Follow Up – Part 2

May 18, 2022 Skip

So my first post, “So McDonald’s Thinks It Can Force “Ordering Compliance”?“, told the tale of poor customer service at the Laconia McDonalds (“You WILL use our ordering kiosk – Oh, the sausage burrito isn’t on it…”) and then attempting to get in contact with a responsible adult (“So McDonald’s Thinks It Can Force “Ordering … Read more

Quick Thought – Laconia School District Superintendent Steve Tucker – such a MAHVALOUS Staff Manager, He is!

May 16, 2022 Skip

Ayup, we’ve been blogging a bit about his skills with people – Steve Tucker, the Curriculum Director reject from the Gilford School District is now, as word has come to me, 3-0 on managing and encouraging his School Principals working at Laconia’s Elementary Schools. Three for three… …he encouraged them to quit. Leave. Vamoose. So … Read more

Data Point – SpaceX Is about to Disrupt the Airline Industry

May 16, 2022 Skip

I should read it more often but I haven’t just yet. This post from there is from February and the numbers that will tilt to make SpaceX a more efficient, more cost-effective, and MUCH faster transport mechanisms have only continued to get better from it. What Brian Wang is postulating is that SpaceX’s StarShip, along … Read more

So McDonald’s Thinks It Can Force “Ordering Compliance”? The Follow Up – Part 1

May 16, 2022 Skip

Although I finished my previous post concerning the bad Customer Service experience we had, as well as emailing its contents to the two entities whose dreary jobs must be in handling complaints, late last night, I kinda figured that some kind of contact would be made by now. After all, one (that would be me) … Read more

So McDonald’s Thinks It Can Force “Ordering Compliance”?

May 16, 2022 Skip

Last week, the Grandson had to have a tooth removed (lower front as his permanent tooth had erupted behind that baby tooth) and a couple of cavities filled. TMEW promised him that later on that day, we’d take him to McDonald’s. Well, that didn’t happen as he, like many kids his age, bit his lower … Read more

Announcement: GilfordGrok is now LakesRegionGrok!

May 16, 2022 Skip

When Doug and I started GraniteGrok, things were fine and dandy as we were blogging about State and National level issues (for the most part). Then we discovered that wasn’t holding water any more as we found, under the rubric of “What’s happening in our town is happening in yours”, we took a look backwards and saw that we were doing more Gilford politics than not. Figuring that folks might not like that emphasis, we started our first “MicroGrok” (even as we didn’t think of it in that fashion) in starting GilfordGrok. We now announce that it is growing up: LakesRegionGrok.

School Board Assoc. “Bails” on Transgender Policy – Abandons Districts Facing Lawsuits from Parents

May 16, 2022 Skip

The New Hampshire School Board Association has bailed on its policy JBABA, the transgender guidance proposed to NH districts a few years back, leaving districts facing lawsuits in the lurch. That would be SAU16 (Exeter), SAU37 (Manchester), and SAU73 (Gilford).