Smart Girl Politics – The Podcast

Last Thursday I was a guest/co-host on WSMN 1590,  Smart Girl Politics Radio with Susan Olsen.  We spoke about GrokWatch, some of what we’ve investigated so far, and what the goals are for this project.  We also discussed some bureaucratic objections to photo ID laws for voting and my objections to their objection.   If … Read more

Morse Code – It’s A Double Dip In Oyster River

James Morse - Bnagor Daily News Seth Koenig Photo credit“Sometimes, life throws you some curves.”  That was the response “retiring” Portland Maine School District Superintendent Dr. James Morse gave to the press and the public after announcing that he had taken a job as the Superintendent of the Oyster River Cooperative district in New Hampshire.

“Sometimes, life throws you some curves.”

But we can read the stitches.  One of those stitches indicates that Mr. Morse was one of 15 applicants for the job.  (Applicant: A person who applies, as for a job.) So how much of a curve ball is it when you announce you are “retiring” (after 32 years in the public education industrial complex), and then get a job for which you applied?

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Blogosphere Line of the Day!

Once again, NJ Governor Chris Christie (R-NJ) has exceeded expections.  Since his campaign (and subsequent elevation to Governor), his YouTubes have become Internet sensations.  Now I’m betting that as a surrogate for Mitt Romney, he will continue to keep Obama “in the dark room”; “This is a guy who literally is walking around in a … Read more

Press Release – NH Legal Rights Foundation Opposes Supreme Court Nomination of Jim Bassett

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Tim Condon, (813) 251-2626 May 21, 2012 New Hampshire Legal Rights Foundation Opposes Supreme Court Nomination of Jim Bassett  CONCORD – The New Hampshire Legal Rights Foundation (NHLRF) Monday released the following statement opposing the nomination of Attorney James P. Bassett to the New Hampshire Supreme Court. The Executive Council is … Read more

I agree with Glenn about Facebook

On a post concerning the platform that has just created 6 new Billionaires and about a 1,000 new Millionaires, Facebook, I agree with Sidebar: I dryly note that Zuckerberg comes from the same learned institution as the 1/32 Indian / recipe plaigerizer / Scott Brown wannbe  Elizabeth Warren.  I’m wondering what she thinks about all … Read more

Modern ‘Episcopal’ Family

Shield_of_the_US_Episcopal_Church.svgNew Hampshire Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson is retiring.  His successor was chosen from these three candidates.

William W. Rich, senior associate rector for Christian Formation at Trinity Episcopal Church in Boston; A Homosexual man married to a man.

Penelope Maud Bridges, rector of St. Francis Episcopal Church in Great Falls, Va.:A divorced woman.

Rev. A. Robert Hirschfeld, 50, of Grace Church in Amherst (MA): A Heterosexual man.

Not your Fathers Episcopal Church anymore is it?  Not even when they choose the heterosexual guy.

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You KNOW what my first thought was when I saw this photo:

Thought: so, when do we see a reporter climbing INTO a pot to mock Obama’s EATING of a dog?  If this Seattle based reporter wants to much to make fun of an old, old story of Romney’s Seamus the dog, let’s see her, in the vaunted spirit of bipartisanship that I keep hearing from Democrats … Read more

Concord Monitor Takes a Stand – When It’s A Republican

We’ve been reporting the theft of services by an SEIU Union Chapter VP and NH DES employee Richard de Seve for months as we struggle with the Department of Environmental Services and the State’s IT department, and their resistance to part with data, in response to our Right to Know Requests about state employees using … Read more

By the ways, we’ve become an Amazon Affiliate.

A new feature on GraniteGrok is that we’ve just become an affiliate of Amazon. That means that if you normally shop at Amazon and you go there by using the widget that’s now on our Right Sidebar (or below in this post) AND buy something, the ‘Grok gets a bit of a reward for directing … Read more

Notable Quote – Don Boudreaux on H.L. Mencken

Public policies are determined and laws are made by small minorities playing upon the fears and imbecilities of the mob – sometimes minorities of intelligent and honest men, but usually minorities of rogues. – H.L Mencken No better summary of modern government has ever been penned. – Prof. Don Boudreaux, economics (H/T: Cafe Hayek)

Martha Fuller Clark Running for NH Senate District 21

Happy news that Amanda Merrill is not running again for the New Hampshire Senate.  In her stead, former Merrill clone–or perhaps I have that reversed–Martha Fuller “brush” Clark, will run to fill the seat.  Merrill and Clarke are both EMILY’s list support alums.  They are hewed from the same bit of socialist flotsam, with Clark … Read more

Trayvon, Hurricanes, And Faux Pow Wow Chow

Democrats can't seem to hit anythingIf you’ve recovered from the underwhelming Facebook IPO, perhaps you are ready for this?

Trayvon was beating George Zimmerma badly before the man finally shot him in self-defense.  There is no doubt about that.

So here’s an observation for the anti-second amendment clowns who are always insisting that lawfully armed citizens run away from any conflict (the same folks who hung Zimmerman out to dry on day one).   It’s not so easy to run away when your attacker is straddling you and pounding the crap out of you.

 

Next Up, the Global Warming denier deniers took another kick to the green chestnuts this week.  Looks like more frequent and severe hurricanes were not in store for US coastlines due to the all-powerful invisible sky god known as Global warming; and we may have Al Gore to thank for that. (I guess it’s not just snow he can summon with his very presence.)

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Will people of Faith stand up to defend that Faith?

The beginning of this extremely well done video lays out the call to Catholics to help protect their faith and their values:

In generations past, the Church has always been able to count on the faithful to stand up and protect her sacred rights and duties. This generation of Catholics must do the same.

Now I am an evangelical Protestant, not Catholic, so there are theological points on which we will never agree upon.  That said, I believe that there is a message here for Bible believing Christians who take their faith seriously and personally (i.e., not a “back row Baptist” or a “country club Christian”) as well as to Catholics.  I do believe that Obama, as with many Progressives, see a personal faith as being a hindrance to implementing Bigger Government -they realize that in order to have fealty to government, there must be no nothing “above” Government.

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