Skip, Author at Granite Grok

Skip’s Sauntering Snippets – The Ma’am Edition

March 25, 2023 Skip

Really? Using the word “ma’am” is now verboten simply because I’m oppressing you because you’re not ready to accept that we all age with the passage of time? That you can even get upset by our perception of you EVEN AS we’re trying to be nice, show manners, and be polite? Gosh, I remember … Read more

Skip’s Sauntering Snippets – the Ronnie Abbot Edition

March 25, 2023March 25, 2023 Skip

At my post “If You Live In Belknap County (NH), You are Looking At A 35% Rise In Your County Taxes. Blame Belknap Delegation Chair Harry Bean!“, my intent to bring a Big Flashlight that the Belknap County Delegation (made up of all the NH State Reps in the County, majority are Republicans) was about … Read more

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NH House Republicans Have a Splendid Vehicle to Maintain Discipline – They Just Won’t Use It

March 25, 2023 Skip

Again, some unsolicited advice that I wrote on Nov. 12, 2016: “If the NH Republican Party wants to win, and win Consistently, act like you believe in the Platform. Speak like you do and at each and every turn. ”

Like a Boomerang, The Exasperation Keeps Coming Back – Federal Govt Debt Ceiling Games

March 24, 2023 Skip

This is a freakingly great concept! If you can’t spend for everything, try PRIORITIZING the spending.

The Public School Library Card Catalog Project is Back – This Time, Hinsdale School District / SAU 92

March 24, 2023 Skip

Things have happened since the last demand for a school district’s card catalog – all local. That Gunstock thing. The primary and general elections. And now we’ve got the Belknap Delegation Budget screwup. But it is time to get back to that card catalog.

Liberal Comedian Bill Maher Red-Pills The #Woke Revolution

March 23, 2023 Skip

Bill Maher pulls no punches when it comes to wokesters and their equivalent ideas to the new Communist Man – that they can remake Man in their own image.

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First School Boards Throw Out Freedom of Speech, Now Schumer Believes There’s No More Freedom of the Press?

March 23, 2023 Skip

How authoritarian and totalitarian are our Government institutions becoming? Very, I’m sad to report. We have school boards under the rubric that “we MUST support marginalized groups (generally LGB and T)!”

So Now We See A New Socialist Govt Doing Usual Gun Grab. Wonder Why Democrats Want Our Guns, too?

March 22, 2023 Skip

And now we get to watch this happening again in real-time (reformatted, emphasis mine):

Brazil’s Socialist President Orders Nationwide Gun Grab After Surge in Sales

Teacher’s Goal Is To Confuse “Her” Children About Gender and MORE! – Stack of Stuff #40

March 22, 2023 Skip

Yep, another helping of teachers/staff/School Districts acting as full-blown ideological missionaries for Gender Dysphoria mental illness and Critical Race Theory (you are only what your skin shows, not how you think). The first story up is a tale about the endgame of both tactics – chaos, and confusion.

Update on the RTK Requesting Legislative Emails for Members of the Belknap County Delegation

March 21, 2023 Skip

The RSA 91:A demand for the legislative emails for all members of Belknap County went out Sunday (two days ago), and I got the notification of their receipt from James Cianci, the NH House Legal Counsel, yesterday.

Breaking: So NOW Belknap Delegation Chair Harry Bean Calls For Another Meeting – but Fairly Authoritarian & Rigid Rules, Wouldn’t You Agree?

March 21, 2023March 21, 2023 Skip

Update: another little birdie has said “Harry didn’t write that email – he doesn’t write that well. Somebody ghostwrote it for him” and has suspicions.”. Either way, the above title still stands as his signature is on it. And he was just a bad boy in another way, too!

The Skip & Tom Weight Challenge – Week 2

March 20, 2023 Skip

And the wheels are still in “starting to move” mode this second week. I lost a little bit less than last week and Tom lost a bit more (The Good Lord Above help me if he really starts to get a streak going!). Last Week:

If You Live In Belknap County (NH), You are Looking At A 35% Rise In Your County Taxes. Blame Belknap Delegation Chair Harry Bean!

March 20, 2023 Skip

You need to contact Belknap County Delegation Chair Harry Bean: Email: froggytouttaint@aol.com Phone: (603) 455-2993. He’s responsible for this. In NH, the various Counties, all County budgets start with the Commissioners. Here in Belknap, I’m betting that they didn’t just throw the kitchen sink into their budget, they put your street’s entire collection of kitchen … Read more

Belknap County Delegation – Showing a Loophole in RSA 91-A that Government Officials or Staff Can Exploit?

March 20, 2023March 19, 2023 Skip

A great example of what I am getting at here was my email sent to NH Speaker of the House Sherm Packard and NH House Majority Leader Jason Osborne concerning a Right To Know for Belknap County Legislative emails: —— Original Message —— From “Skip” <Skip@granitegrok.com> To “Sherman Packard” <Sherman.Packard@leg.state.nh.us>; “Jason Osborne” <Jason@osborne4nh.com>; Jason.Osborne@leg.state.nh.us Date … Read more

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Belknap County Delegation – A Right To Know to Sherm Packard and Jason Osborne (NH Speaker of the House & NH House Majority Leader)

March 19, 2023 Skip

Trust – such an ephemeral thing. Now, I did include Speaker Packard on a previous email concerning a Right To Know. Didn’t hear back. So I’m making it more explicit in now both of the Republican Leaders are now responsible for Following The Law act accordingly. After all, they can instruct the proper IT people … Read more

So About The Belknap County Delegation Supporting Sheriff Bill Wright’s HB357 (4 year terms)…

March 18, 2023 Skip

Interesting and the phrase from my previous post kept coming back: “It’s Not a Flattering One”. To recap from the Daily Sun article (emphasis mine): “We serve at the will of the sheriff. He doesn’t have to explain anything to us. We got discharge letters served to us by a deputy, which I guess is … Read more

Thad Riley Is Unique among Current NHGOP E-Board Members: He Helped a Democrat Get Elected over a Republican

March 18, 2023 Skip

And he looked so nice, too, bless his heart! Yes, Thad Riley, the failed candidate for NH Governor and current NH GOP E-Board member (Assistant Secretary), has accomplished a feat unlike all the other members – he got a Democrat, elected over the Republican.

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Fixing America’s Status In the World: How Joe Biden Is Perceived in Other Countries.

March 18, 2023 Skip

Remember his claim that with Trump gone, he was going to reestablish America’s standing in the world?

Yeah, this from Australia shows us how well that’s going…

Did Members of The Belknap County Delegation Get Paid for Attending Illegal (Not Publicly Noticed) Meetings?

March 18, 2023 Skip

Yep, another Right To Know. Yep, another “thing” with the Belknap County Delegation, and now it’s about our taxes paid out over admitted illegal Budget Review meetings. The County told us this themselves:

And Another Guy Disses Chris Sununu for Prez – Correct Observations and He Doesn’t Even Live Here!

March 18, 2023 Skip

Heh! Fredocon*, indeed! Emphasis mine: “…Then there is Chris Sununu, scion of the family that brought us Justice Souter. He’s been a terrific governor of New Hampshire if you define “terrific” as capitulating to everything the left wants.”