Skip, Author at Granite Grok

Campaign soapboxes for Obama?

September 26, 2018May 4, 2012 Skip

(H/T: NetRightDaily)

GrokTV Special Interview: Rep. John Hikel for NH Senate – Question 2 – Biggest impact you have have had on legislation as a House Rep

September 26, 2018May 4, 2012 Skip

If you, as a candidate, are running on a record, it’s nice to know what that record is. It’s also nice to know what the candidate believes his impact has been. So, I asked John what he thought his biggest impact had been amongst all of the bills submitted by all the House Reps: Previous … Read more

Question with respect to the proposed state constitution educational amendment

November 17, 2024May 3, 2012 Skip

Damn. There is one hell of a row going on at the excellent RLCNH email discussion list over the proposed state constitutional amendment regarding education—CACR12—which, one way or another, will put the responsibility

It's about educating the next generation, not expanding government....

for implementing and funding a “state system” of education in the hands of the state legislature, not the towns (where it has traditionally and historically resided).

More importantly, the battle is heating up amongst the best, smartest, and most activist political players in the state, i.e. the movement conservatives, the libertarians, the Tea Partiers, the Constitutionalists, the libertarian-conservatives, and others.

Some are….

GrokTV Special Interview: Rep. John Hikel for NH Senate – Question 1 – Has it been everything you thought in the House? glad you put the time in? Best part of being a Rep.?

September 26, 2018May 3, 2012 Skip

GraniteGrok has known NH State Rep John Hikel for a couple of years now an have interviewed him on a number of occasions. This time, it is a little bit different as he has decided to “up the ante” – last night at St. Anselm’s Institute of Politics, we had the chance to interview NH … Read more

Poor Occupiers – can’t you reach out and help them?

September 26, 2018May 3, 2012 Skip

Yesterday was May 1 – otherwise known as one of the most wonderful political days of the year (if you are a Socialist or Communist). It was also supposed to be the same for the OWSers – Occupy Wall Street movement participants as yesterday was supposed to be the Spring of the 99%, the day that the US was supposed to be in the throes of a General Strike when NO one was to work, shop, learn, or play. Just demonstrate for the “rights” of the 99% against the evil 1%.

Didn’t work out quite that way:

Can you have some compassion for these confused ones?

THESE on the other hand:

Ah – the power of the Conservative New Media – turning their own tools against them.

September 26, 2018May 3, 2012 Skip

Last night, I put this post up concerning the Occupiers bust of a May Day “general strike”; where there were a number of reports of violence (given their tacit acceptance among them of the “perpetually angry Anarchist” mobsters who respect, well, not many. In that post was this tubba of a ‘tude with a snare drum who thought it would be absolutely dandy to use a small female cop’s head as a drumstick:

Like many, this OWSer is a coward – running away. Problem for him is that his face was prominently displayed at the beginning of the clip. Nice to see that with the extra “push” of kindred and like minded sites like the ‘Grok, the misogynist was caught (yeah, remember, these Occupiers are all about creating / mandating such a wonderful new world they had to have a special “rape free” tent down at Zuccotti Park in NYC). From Hot Air comes the news that Dim-witted Drummer Dude is going to have a special Date:

President Obama – a Bin Laden lesson: real heros don’t like the limelight

September 26, 2018May 3, 2012 Skip

Real heros don’t like to be called “hero”. They look at what they’ve done with the attitude of “just doing my job” and sometimes have a hard time even accepting thanks for their actions for which many of us are thankful. After all, they reason, we signed up to do what we do – we simply do what we said we’d do. Even still, I will often thank a veteran for their service (or a family member who has (or had) someone in our Armed Forces as well) – it is deserved. Yet, when people thank me for the service of the Eldest and the Youngest, I feel embarrassed to a degree in that I have done nothing – they are the ones that risked themselves for us all.

President Obama, that is a lesson you have not yet learned – to put away the “I” and “Me” and “My” words:

Instead, you should have been overusing the words “those heros” or “our heros” and give credit where credit was REALLY due – but you didn’t. You have taken credit, major credit, for making the decision and for the success of the raid that ended up with OBL dead. Well, thanks for saying “Go” – but that should have been viewed as just part of your job, too. You risked nothing, except a political standing. The SEALS and the air crews – they risked it all for their nation and for meting out justice to one who justice was delayed for far too long.

Sometimes, the Left’s “stretching” of words just snaps…

September 26, 2018May 3, 2012 Skip

Instapundit: He’s a “white Hispanic” – never heard of it before Zimmerman either. But she – how DARE we white dudes disagree with a womyn American Indian minority. Only the Left will bend the meaning of Political Correctness in amazing ways so as to save a “favored” identity group (not so ignore the attempted cloaking … Read more

BE BREITBART: DoIT Right To Know Request : Outbound Internet traffic summarizations – Update 2

November 17, 2024May 1, 2012 Skip

Well, I would say that the response we had when Ms. Gretchen Hamel (Administrator!) emailed Letter arrived could be described amongst us “Techi Groksters” was a “really, you expect us to believe that this is difficult?”. After all, amongst us, we have a handful of degrees and upwards of 75 years of technical experience and several of us are the corporate experts in our areas for our respective companies. So, we’re asking the main technical guy of the State of NH – is this really that difficult?

Good evening, Commissioner,

Upon reading the rather sparse Letter from Ms. Hamel (April 27) concerning our Right To Know request concerning the website traffic Summarizations, we became technically puzzled. It is our hope that you would be able to address our concern and lack of understanding of the difficulty implied by Ms. Hamel’s Letter.

Our response to that is below, as well attached to this Letter in both WORD and OpenOffice formats.

Regard

– Skip

Skip Murphy for Steve Mac Donald and Ed Naile.

*****

April 30, 2012

To:

Stanley “Bill” Rogers, Commissioner, Department of Information Technology / CIO, State of New Hampshire

Re: April 30, 2012 Request for Records Pursuant to RSA 91-A – delay of response.

Dear Commissioner Rogers,

We are in receipt of the letter by Ms. Gretchen Hamel, Administrator of April 27, informing us that it was impossible to transfer the Internet URL Summarization records that we, as citizens of the State of New Hampshire, believe that we should have access to, especially under the aegis of RSA 91-A (the State’s Right To Know (“RTK”) law). From a technical standpoint, we are extremely puzzled over two issues:

First, we included DES Commissioner Burack as a courtesy on this RTK simply as our first RTK dealt specifically with one of his employees abusing the Internet access afforded by your network and we requested those Summarization records specifically in that case. We accept the fact that in a case pertaining a single employee, we understand that these could be labeled as “responsive but exempt”.

Secondly, our latest RTK concerned these Summarization records are in toto, thus not tied to any given employee or subgroup of employees and therefore, would fall into that category of “responsive but non-exempt”.

But more to point of fact, we are puzzled as to the “additional time is needed” in delivering records that taxpayer monies have already paid for and whose existence has already been confirmed by the State.. As a technical person (although we do recognize that you are, by dint of your title, a Political Appointee, and thus mired in politics which most engineers tolerate but abhor), you must realize that we understand how such records are obtainable in short order.

Obama’s Medicare Cuts – a down slope with a speed bump for the elderly

September 26, 2018April 30, 2012 Skip

“MY speeds go up to $500 Billion over 10 years!“ (H/T: Mac)

Humor: Compare and Contrast – cats vs dogs

September 26, 2018April 30, 2012 Skip

I just need a laugh – this worked:

“Why some single women prefer cats to a boyfriend!”

#1. Cats don’t leaver the toilet seat up.
#2. Cats don’t leave whiskers in the sink.
#3. Cats don’t need to shave in order to look good laying about.
#4. Cats provide soothing moral support without needing to offer advice.
#5. Cats never neglect their grooming, nor comment on yours.
#6. Cats never hog the covers or snore.
#7. Cats never borrow your pantyhose to go snowmobiling.

On the other hand:

“Why Some Men Have a Dog And No Wife”

1. The later you are, the more excited your dogs are to see you.
2. Dogs don’t notice if you call them by another dog’s’ name.
3. Dogs like it if you leave a lot of things on the floor, especially food.
4. A dog’s parents never visit.
5. Dogs agree that you have to raise your voice to get your point across.
6. Dogs find you amusing when you’re drunk.
7. Dogs like to go hunting and fishing.
8. A dog will not wake you up at night to ask, “If I died, would you get another dog?”
9. If a dog has babies, you can put an ad in the paper and give them away.
10. A dog will let you put a studded collar on it without calling you a pervert.
11. If a dog smells another dog on you, they don’t get mad, they just think it’s interesting.
12. A dog never asks you an impossible question, such as: “Does this flea collar make me look fat?
13. Dogs love it when you drive with their window open.
14. Dogs think it’s perfectly normal to check out the butts of passing females on the street.

And last but not least:

15. If a dog leaves, it won’t take half of your stuff.

To test this theory: ?Lock your wife and your dog in the garage for an hour.