Skip, Author at Granite Grok

With All This Talk About Gaza …

August 6, 2025October 14, 2023 Skip

It has been a week full of news about Iran’s Islamist Jew-hating-proxy Hamas’s massacring innocents within Israel. Acts of terrorism on the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War when the Arab countries of Jordan and Egypt attacked it. Streaming out of the Gaza Strip (between Israel to the east and north, Egypt to the … Read more

Time for Me to Get Back to Holding Government Responsible Again …

October 14, 2023 Skip

We used to use the phrase “Bring Big Flashlights” when we first started, but like many things, there were lots of “Shiny Objects” that captured my attention over the years. And after my latest DCYF-induced hiatus of several months, I am starting to rev back up again.

Since We’re Spending so Much in Ukraine, How about a Little Russian Military 101…

October 13, 2023 Skip

Back in Jr. High and High School, I was a WWII military nerd. Anything to do with the militaries involved in the war (pretty much everyone), I read. In fact, I read every book in the Campello library (part of Brockton, MA, where I grew up) and then started in on the main library downtown.

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They Put Themselves into This Situation. It is Not My Mistake Nor My Job to Help Them

October 13, 2023 Skip

We start with a “blast from the past. My screaming match (several years ago) with former Laconia Daily Sun reporter Mike Kitsch over “financial compassion” while I was on my Hamlet’s budget committee. A reprise about our “chat” in a very public parking lot of the Mills Falls hotel that sets up the rest of the post.

Housing Costs vs Renting

October 13, 2023 Skip

It’s simple. Supply vs Demand, with the Government artificially manipulating the marketplace because it controls the third leg of the housing marketplace – interest rates.

First, We Caught Public Schools Indoctrinating Our Children, And Now …

October 13, 2023 Skip

Public schools have been indoctrinating our children, and it is our tax dollars that are making this possible. Our own money is being used by those who hate us against us and our children. You know that. You know about the library problem. But did you know this?

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Make The Hamas Induced Palestinian Rubble BOUNCE

October 12, 2023October 12, 2023 Skip

They have been under attack by the surrounding Arab countries since the 1948 creation of the State of Israel, but Jews have been under attack for centuries as a people. Most notably under the Third Reich with Adolph Hitler’s genocide of them (the Holocaust).

Did NH House Minority Leader Matt Wilhelm Let The ‘Domicile’ Cat Out of the Bag?

October 12, 2023 Skip

Every Sunday, the UL’s Landrigan does a “State House Dome” wrap-up. As I scanned through the column, the word “domicile” caught my eye. No, Landrigan didn’t use it extemporarily on his own; he was quoting Dem Minority Leader Matt Wilhelm’s own words.

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From The Annals of Public Education In Democrat Owned Cities

October 12, 2023 Skip

The takeaway here isn’t that “it’s for the kids.” We hear that every time a school budget comes up or another teacher union contract comes due. It is that IT is for the Union. Period. Full Stop.

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“A Rose by Any Other Name Is Still a Rose” Still Means: “It’s Still a Baby!”

October 11, 2023 Skip

It seems that all the Pro-Abortion Activists (mostly Democrats but let’s not forget former NH GOP Chair and RNC Committeeman Steve Duprey in giving money to Planned Parenthood contra the NH GOP Platform) are bound and determined to make us all use “FETUS!!!!” when talking about a woman’s pregnancy. Sidenote: and that would be any … Read more

Can You Tell Which Marketplace Has the Most Interference from Government?

October 11, 2023 Skip

When the government meddles, things get messed up. The market – whichever it is – no longer works correctly, nor can it – and as you can see in the chart below, it is you that pays the price, typically in two directions.

To Be Held Accountable

October 11, 2023 Skip

One thing I have learned over these past 17 years here at GraniteGrok is that there is a descending value placed on professionals being held responsible.

If American Society Hadn’t Grown Soft, We Wouldn’t Have This Problem

October 10, 2023 Skip

The traditional American view of people as Individuals REQUIRES swift justice. Instead, the Progressives see not individual criminals but Society as a whole being an entire group – which deserves to be punished.

The Science is Never Settled

October 9, 2023 Skip

“…The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works — whether it helps families find jobs at a decent wage, care they can afford, a retirement that is dignified…” – President Obama, Inauguration (2009)