Skip, Author at Granite Grok

Blogline of the Day – Things are not always what you see on TV

June 27, 2020 Skip

BUT THE OTHER 70% HAVE BEEN BULLIED INTO KEEPING THEIR MOUTHS SHUT: Just 30% Say Black Lives Matter More Than All Lives. Mostly, I think, because the “tolerant” Left doesn’t tolerate ANY dissent to any issue that gives them more Power. Make no mistake – if Black Lives Mattered, they throw Planned Parenthood out of their … Read more

Notable Quote – ITXU DÍAZ

June 27, 2020June 27, 2020 Skip

To be a conservative is to wake up every morning to a new insult. It makes life more fun. I never know exactly what I am until I open up Twitter every morning. I can be a reactionary vermin, an ignorant caveman, an ultra-Catholic primate, or a neoliberal scorpion.

Appeasement, “tail between your legs”, and begging is JUST the look for Democrat Mayor Frey

June 27, 2020June 27, 2020 Skip

Jacob Frey is the Mayor of Minneapolis. The city that decided to go for Mogadishu (Somalia) Gold right after one of his officers allegedly killed George Floyd by kneeling on his neck. He’s starting to make Prince “locked in Meghan’s testicle lockbox” Harry look surprisingly manly.

Quick Thought – I blame the NH School Board Association of NH for SAU 16 Sup. Ryan’s attitude

June 27, 2020 Skip

So, on full display for EVERYONE, is the now general attitude by Government officials – in this case, an employee – towards Citizens. In this case, a very HAUGHTY ‘tude by Superintendent David Ryan of SAU16 in response to Ann Marie’s Right to Know demand via RSA 91-a: NH RSA 91-A requires public organizations to … Read more

Superintendent David Ryan refuses to answer questions about Social Emotion Learning / DESSA software

August 13, 2021June 27, 2020 Skip

So, Grokster Ann Marie put in a lengthy RSA 91-A Right to Know demand to SAU 16’s Superintendent, David Ryan concerning the use of Social Emotional Learning and/or social media spying software. Here are the non-response responses (thus far) -Skip:

Data Point – Young Liberals DO want to transform America

June 27, 2020 Skip

This is what three generations of “Hate America” New Leftists have wrought by taking over our Culture and Education systems. Emphasis mine, reformatted: Kaufmann polled American liberals to gauge their willingness “to jettison the country’s cultural identity.” … He consciously removed conservatives and centrists to focus only on self-described liberals. He presented them with 16 “outlandish” statements … Read more

Notable Quote – Prof. Don Boudreaux

June 27, 2020 Skip

Emphasis mine: Industrial policy is the replacement of price-guided resource-allocation patterns with commands issued by politicians and their hirelings. But as Hayek points out, it is impossible for politicians and their hirelings to possess any of the “knowledge of the particular circumstances of time and place” that must be known if the resulting use of … Read more

OK, now we have the last RSA 91-A Right To Know demand of the day – Same Day Voter Registration – Part 2

June 27, 2020June 27, 2020 Skip

Or, this could be just an update to the original post that is now not going up live until 1:30pm today (heh!) I did get an update from Danielle LaFond concerning my same day registration RTK this morning: —— Original Message —— From: “Danielle Lafond” <dlafond@gilfordnh.org> To: “Skip Murphy” <skip@granitegrok.com> Sent: 6/26/2020 9:40:58 AM Subject: … Read more

I guess Joe Biden going for the #Maskhole and Karen voting blocks

June 26, 2020June 26, 2020 Skip

Not even Sununu has done this yet here in NH (although its not like the Democrats in Nashua have had any problem in assuming the role of the Mask Coercers): Joe Biden: I Will Force Americans to Wear Masks in Public Former Vice President Joe Biden said Thursday that he would compel Americans to wear … Read more

Looks like US Senator Tom Cotton is getting ready for 2024: “Joe Biden will bring anarchy to your town”

June 26, 2020June 26, 2020 Skip

Sen. Tom Cotton can’t be all that open about it but he is setting the stage for what one of his “things” will be; Law and Order. It doesn’t hurt that he’s throwing shade at “Basement Joe” who is trying to run away from his background as a Democrat Law and Order guy much earlier in his career.

OK, now we have the last RSA 91-A Right To Know demand of the day – Same Day Voter Registration

June 26, 2020 Skip

I keep wondering why our little hamlet keeps getting larger then I think same-day registrations. So, I just delivered yet another RSA 91-A RTK to my Town Clerk/Town Tax Collector:

Jean Stimmell asks the right question but slants it the wrong way

June 26, 2020June 26, 2020 Skip

There is no doubt that the Concord Monitor swings Left- even more so since it decided that it would eliminate comments “from the Conservative rabble” who would often make that Progressive Narrative twist rapidly in the wind. Without such competition, the Left has gone Lefter. This example of that, penned by Jean Stimmell, has been … Read more

RSA 91:a Right to Know demand – relative to obeying State Statute on SB2 Budget Committees

June 26, 2020June 26, 2020 Skip

Yep, yet another RSA 91-A-athon from your’s truly on topics and issues I know best. I’ve been putting them off for a while; it’s been a longish past year with TMEW suffering from a 4-month bout with Shingles and then a total knee replacement this past March.

So Selfish Socialist Andru Volinsky believes Gov. Sununu is responsible for high Property Taxes?

June 25, 2020 Skip

I guess you could call this “No-Fault Civics”. You would think that someone who is seeking the highest elected office in NH would understand the idea that local Property Taxes are the result of spending at the local levels that are confirmed NOT by any Governor but by the local taxpayers.

DESSA, Social Sentinel – RSA 91-A Right To Know demand – student and personal data

June 29, 2020June 25, 2020 Skip

Let me set the stage: Public schools are Government schools – a near-monopoly in the K-12 education space and one can see, by the actions of Selfish Socialist (and bigot) Andru Volinsky, Government and its supporters on the Left (like teachers unions) aren’t about to give that up without a fight.

And now we’re back to the Scott Dunn Monument to Economic Illiteracy (otherwise known as the Gilford Recycling Center)

June 25, 2020 Skip

I’ve been speaking and writing in opposition to the redoing of the town dump. $1.4 million dollars to create the Gilford Recycling Center, at a time when the recycling marketplace was drying up faster than our lawns this summer.

If Rev. John Gregory-Davis doesn’t like it, start your own company and pay higher wages

June 25, 2020 Skip

Rev. John Gregory-Davis has an Op-Ed in the Concord Monitor that is a lot of talk and very little self-responsibility. A typical Leftist wrapping himself up “in the cloth.” Is anyone ELSE getting tired of Progressives that yammer about “wealth inequality” but have no skin in the game themselves?

Notable Quote – An illusion of Black Dependency on White Largess

June 25, 2020 Skip

The narrative that white people “hold the power” conveys a wrongheaded notion of white superiority and creates an illusion of black dependency on white largess. This false assignment of responsibility, while coming from an authentic desire to produce change, can create a new kind of mental enslavement. Glenn Loury, a Brown University economist, exposed this … Read more

Government Stimulus checks lead to Rash of Overdoses in New Hampshire, Vermont

June 24, 2020 Skip

What did anyone THINK was going to happen when you give druggies unexpected money? I don’t think this is the economy that needed to be “stimulated” (emphasis mine, reformatted):

Issues through the lens of F.A. Hayek’ economics philosophies

June 24, 2020June 24, 2020 Skip

I am a fan of Cafe Hayek where economics deal with the issues of the day from the Individual being in control (instead of The State) of one’s own personal economy; I’ve been putting up Notable Quotes from the site for years (so this should not be a secret for long term ‘Grok readers). Have … Read more