Skip, Author at Granite Grok

Personal Endorsement – Dawn Johnson for Laconia Mayor

October 24, 2024October 28, 2021 Skip

I’ve known Dawn for a few years now – extremely hard working, stands on principles, and is tired of the same old, same old that oft goes on here in NH. She’s not obligated in any way to the “good ole’ boys” networks and sees the calcification of Laconia politics – and hates it. So, … Read more

Data Point – The Graph That Shatters Critical Race Theory

October 27, 2021 Skip

The question goes to the heart of the faith which has animated liberal thought toward race since long before it was formalized in the New York Times’ 1619 Project and Critical Race Theory—a belief not just that America has sins, or was imperfect, but that America was and is uniquely sinful and worse than everyone else.

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From Time to Time We Help Out the GOP (a Bit) – Victoria Sullivan Who Should Be the Next Manchester Mayor

October 27, 2021 Skip

Commercial created by the NH GOP – we’re putting it up for free because I think it’s newsworthy.

Hate Mail from Maureen Grossman – ” You Are a Selfish, Insensitive, Righteous Woman.”

October 27, 2021October 27, 2021 Skip

I think that Maureen Grossman meant “self-righteous woman”, otherwise she defeated her purpose.

Notable Quote – Socialism: Nothing More than a Faculty Lounge Idea?

October 27, 2021October 27, 2021 Skip

Socialism has never and nowhere been at first a working-class movement. It is by no means an obvious remedy for the obvious evil which the interests of that class will necessarily demand.

Simple, President Asterisk – Go Ask a School Board

October 26, 2021October 25, 2021 Skip

They’re MASTERS of just sitting there, half-heartedly listening to concerned Parents and voters – and then ignoring them. All you have to do is watch a few videos, Joe, and even you can get the idea – especially since you are having problems.”

Notable Quote – Social Justice mob deciding? Or you for yourself?

October 25, 2021 Skip

It might indeed be said that the main difference between the order of society at which classical liberalism aimed and the sort of society into which it is now being transformed is that the former was governed by principles of just individual conduct while the new society is to satisfy the demands for ‘social justice’

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So, You Thought This “Takeover of the States by Contract” is Something New? I learned Something

October 24, 2021 Skip

Courtesy of Dan Richard (the man about the Remonstrance – which is STILL working its way through the court system). He did some digging and research and from 1933, the time of the Great Depression and FDR’s attempt to “prime the US Economy pump” (in which people actually DID have to prime their hand-driven mechanical parts, especially in rural areas) and came up with this (emphasis mine):

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Palate Cleanser: Even Halloween Pumpkins are “Saying it!”

October 24, 2021October 24, 2021 Skip

Well, it IS almost that time of the year – one of the biggest commercial “holidays” of the year – Halloween.

But speaking of trying to integrate the celebration with the hottest call and answer in many football stadium – and in Europe of all places; I present:

Senator Tom Cotton – bill to stop School Board from usurping Parental Authority

October 22, 2021 Skip

You may have the bill, Senator, but I’ve got the lawsuit. Actually met Senator Cotton at the Hillsborough County Republican Committee Machinegun Shoot back in July (above, video here). And a tipster alerted me to fact that he was putting in such a bill so I called his DC office. His receptionist, Austin, was kind … Read more

Friday Open Thread – Got Education on my Mind

October 22, 2021 Skip

I’ve got education on my mind, or rather, the education that isn’t because it seems that a lot of School Board members (who used to be Elected Representatives that were accountable to voters have turned into, in many cases, Edu-Despots).

A Local Example of the National Disgrace That School Boards Have Become – Parts 3, 4, & 5

October 22, 2021 Skip

School Board members generally hate Parents and voters and besides SAU16 in Exeter where Superintendent David Ryan has captured the Board members there, the Merrimack Valley School District School Board ranks high (perhaps Londonderry and Hanover are ahead but there is certainly lots of competition for this dubious title here in NH).

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I am Now Officially a Senior Citizen

October 22, 2021 Skip

Yep, today is the day that I am eligible, after decades of paying for it, for Medicaid (I took early Social Security when my job was off-shored).

The Cognitive Dissonance Over The Vax

October 21, 2021 Skip

For a country that killed an entire generation in the womb but tells Adults to wear a mask or get vaccinated to “save lives” , your words are a joke and embarrassment.

Seelye Longnecker MVSD School Board Chair

A Local Example of the National Disgrace That School Boards Have Become Part 2

October 20, 2021 Skip

As a refresher, the first clip below is the two gentlemen at the meeting held by the Loudon NH State Reps to diagnose the root problem we are seeing all over the nation – that parents and voters go unheard.

Quick Thought: I Would Have Just Fired Them If It Was My Company

October 20, 2021 Skip

You are paid to work and not do the “Tyranny of the Micro-Minority” faux outrage with me! Is it just me or are others of you getting really sick of these people demanding you pay attention to THEM all the time? Just shut up and do your jobs – you know, like the rest of us have to.

Promoted from the Comments – Communists Do Forget about That “Scarcity” Thing, Don’t They?

October 20, 2021 Skip

There’s a good reason why the study of Economics is oft called the “science of scarcity” – resources are limited, and we don’t live in a Star Trek universe where a replicator can just create anything we want at any time (by working the energy to create mass (objects)).

A Local Example of the National Disgrace That School Boards Have Become

October 20, 2021 Skip

Monday, I was (pretty much ) gone all day after 11:30 am and have been trying to play catch up ever since. My LAST meeting was at the Loudon (NH) Fire Station.

Notable Quote – Capitalism Hasn’t Been “Unfettered” for Decades; Perhaps We Should Try It?

October 19, 2021October 18, 2021 Skip

Once capitalism is seen as a profit-and-loss system, with everyone at the mercy of the sovereign consumer’s whims as he balances one marginal desire against another, the incidence of anticapitalistic criticism must shift.

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