Skip, Author at Granite Grok

Quick Thought – Wait! Wait! Why isn’t the NH ACLU accusing NH DHHS of being transphobic????

April 17, 2020 Skip

I just noticed this – and why did it take so long? First, thought, every day we get an update as to the COVID-19 epidemic that seemingly is only affecting the southeast corner of the State in any kind of real numbers: Pretty much without that sectioned off geography, we’d be having no crisis at … Read more

FB Doodlings: So the Governor’s staff ain’t enthused about what I wrote, eh?

April 17, 2020 Skip

So let me spell it out, again: Compact: an agreement or covenant between two or more parties. And from my post (“Governor Sununu: “No state shall, without the consent of Congress, … enter into any agreement or compact with another state”..“): That would be from the US Constitution, Article I, Sec 10 (paragraph 3) that … Read more

How times have changed at your local financial institution

April 17, 2020 Skip

First, the appropriate attire: And then in making a request for a withdrawal: How life has changed in just a month…and probably with nary a ho-hum response from the teller. In fact, the teller might be hitting the Panic Button if the patrons AREN’T wearing such accessories. Wonder how that might change in a year’s … Read more

Notable Quote – George Will, Prof. Don Boudreaux

April 17, 2020 Skip

[Welfare] states presuppose economic dynamism sufficient to generate investments, job creation, corporate profits, and individuals’ incomes from which come tax revenues needed to fund entitlements. But welfare states produce in citizens an entitlement mentality and a low pain threshold. That mentality inflames appetites for more entitlements, broadly construed to include all government benefits and protections … Read more

Press Release: 2020 NH Primary Voters Found It Easy to Vote, Confident Vote Was Counted Accurately

April 15, 2020 Skip

Hmm, this seems to throw a curve ball at the NH Democrats that say that voting is too hard for New Hampshire voters so we should change our ways and be like all the others with early voting (how’d that work out for those voting for candidates that dropped out but were still on the … Read more

Governor Sununu: “No state shall, without the consent of Congress, … enter into any agreement or compact with another state”..

April 14, 2020 Skip

That would be from the US Constitution, Article I, Sec 10 (paragraph 3) that he may be ignoring. No state shall enter into any treaty, alliance, or confederation; grant letters of marque and reprisal; coin money; emit bills of credit; make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts; pass any … Read more

We Are At War To Be ‘We The People’ Again

April 14, 2020 Skip

The Democrats (D’s) want President Donald Trump out of the White House. Every other consideration, even mass starvation or death, seems irrelevant to them. They simply do not care. That’s what the ‘D’ really stands for… DEATH.

A comment on “Social Distancing” from another viewpoint

April 14, 2020 Skip

Once again, what used to be a BAD thing is now a GOOD thing?? How times have changed. Staying in your own house without coming out used to get a “welfare check” by the Police. Now you can get arrested for just going to the nearby park. It’s almost like they’re trying to make introverts … Read more

A Republican’s Republican for the Sake of the Republican Party gets a bit snooty about GraniteGrok. Or me. Which ever.

April 14, 2020 Skip

It seems that a lot of people never bother to read the first sentence of my bio that appears under every post I write: “Co-founder of GraniteGrok, my concern is around Individual Liberty and Freedom (and how Government is taking that away from us)“. I recently wrote “NH Governor could learn from South Dakota’s Governor: … Read more

Another example of teachers despising parents – who “owns” the children?

April 13, 2020 Skip

According to this from The Daily Signal, parents don’t but teachers do. Imagine that, parents are legally responsible for their children while they are minors but the teachers wish to continue splitting up the relationship between those children and their parents.

Nanny State rides again thanks to NH State Rep Skip Cleaver

April 13, 2020 Skip

Another one of these “Safety & Security vs Freedom” issues and we generally know where Democrats fall on that phrase (although the result might be a bit surprising). I’ve had two quotes going on in the deep recesses of my mind since seeing the piece at the Laconia Daily Sun concerning, once again, making motorcyclists … Read more

Travis R Morin (writer for The Hippo and Union Leader) calls me a racist for not much of a reason

April 13, 2020April 13, 2020 Skip

Gotta love these journalists that think that being “woke” is more important than being, well, a journalist. Who look at a cartoon and have no clue what the real point of it is. Instead, they go on a rant and prove to us that “Journalism – not!” is a true meme.

Either this is the humor or the sarcasm part of our Lockdown – Part 1

April 13, 2020 Skip

And there is always more to the story…in this case, a joke comes to mind that a number of SJW / feminists won’t especially like (because stereotype says they like cats more than dogs): Go ahead, put both your wife and your dog into the trunk of your car. Return in two hours and open … Read more

Another view of NH DHHS COVID-19 data FI

NH COVID-19 Data – “Community-based transmission continues to increase in the State…”. Er, not so much

April 12, 2020 Skip

Got an email to go look at a FB page (emphasis mine): Created by Rep. William Marsh, MD – “Every one of the recent DHHS daily updates says “Community-based transmission continues to increase in the State…” Well, I was not convinced their data supported that statement.

Seriously, is that Crony Capitalism crash of “Cash for Clunkers” returning? Ford wants it!

April 12, 2020 Skip

Oy vey is mir! It was crapitalistic back during the Great Recession and it will be just as bad if President Trump does something similar. The result last time with the first Cash for Clunkers?

An Online Seminar: School Choice for School Boards

April 13, 2020April 12, 2020 Skip

The School District Governance Association is proud to announce An Online Seminar: School Choice for School Boards The discussion will start with an overviepw of how schools and districts are handling remote learning across New Hampshire. After that, we will focus on your responsibilities and powers as school board members with regard to school choice … Read more

A proposal for “unlocking” New Hampshire (which had better be done pretty dang fast).

April 12, 2020 Skip

What’s in our faces: 1) death by pandemic or 2) economic death by Government fiat in trying to deal with the first? I’ve been staring at the Chinese Flu map of NH for days now and watch how slowly most of NH is getting shaded from white to something else close to it except for … Read more

And so it begins: “COVID-19 Released Convict” arrested for robbery

April 11, 2020 Skip

Yep, all over the country we’ve been seeing story after story of “SAVE THE PRISONERS! We can’t allow them get to get sick” by bleeding heart liberals who have no problem in having these people released into Society. The rest of are going “NO! They’re there for a reason and that’s to keep the rest … Read more

COVID-19: a synthesis? A possible trial: MASSIVE red blood cell transfusions for some ill patients

April 11, 2020April 10, 2020 Skip

Synthesis: noun, plural syn·the·ses [sin-thuh-seez] . the combining of the constituent elements of separate material or abstract entities into a single or unified entity (opposed to analysis,) the separating of any material or abstract entity into its constituent elements. a complex whole formed by combining [disparate data elements]. If nothing else, I spend most of my day reading a LOT … Read more

DISQUS Doodlings – The eco-socialism mask drops from Treehugger

April 10, 2020 Skip

It’s where I go to see what the other side is doing and how they think. In this case, Lloyd (head writer, it seems) let it all out – his image on his post “Are the rich responsible for climate change?” is right above you.