The Left invented the term fake news to target alternative media, and then Donald Trump stole it and beat them with it mercilessly. Next up was deep fakes, “news” like video or similar that was so fake you needed corporate media or Big Tech to find the truth.
Praising with Faint Damnation?
We’ve all heard the phrase damning with faint praise, which is the use of insincere or half-hearted praise to indicate that someone doesn’t deserve praise at all. The idea is, if you’re supposed to be praising someone, to do such a lousy job that you leave the listener asking: Is that the best you can … Read more
Colebrook School District (SAU7) – Time To Cough Up Your District’s Card Catalog
Time got away from me – Life, elections, illnesses, and other and sundry reasons as to why I didn’t keep up on this. However, it’s time to restart this project and Colebrook needs to be prodded. Like with a number of other Districts, SAU7 Superintendent decided that to satisfy my RTK from October was to … Read more
New York State Dems Ban Natural Gas in New Construction (Heat, Stoves, All of It!)
In one of the finest examples of backward thinking Progressivism, the fuel responsible more than anything in the past two decades for lowering American emissions (if you still think that’s a thing we should do) was just banned by NY Democrats.
Transgenderism Is Biological Blackface
We find ourselves today living in a post-George Floyd world of Wokeism where talk of equity, environmentalism, and social governance (ESG) have replaced accusations of microaggressions and discussions about the extent to which White privilege exists, if at all. We want to thank Vindaloo Bugaboo for this Op-Ed. Please submit yours to Editor@GraniteGrok.com. And while there … Read more
Redux: “Conservatives Believe That The Best Form of Welfare Is A Job. Govt Thinks Otherwise.”
It was true back in 2011, and it is still true today. Conservatives believe in the honor and dignity in work. Progressive don’t believe in a hand-up and are willing to supply a hammock forever.
Bud Light “Stand” at Crowded Red Sox Game Has No Customers
BUD’s stock price is still hanging in there. On March 31st, it was at $66.73, and Friday morning, it was set to open at $65.90 (closed Friday at 64.83). It’s been like that for weeks. Every time it gets near $63.00 per share, there’s a buying spree, and it pops back up, though not to the price before the Muvalney nonsense went wide.
If You Live In New Hampton, Please Support Fran Wendelboe for School Board
On March 14, 2023, Jen Larochelle from Hebron wrote a Letter To The Editor to convince residents in the Newfound Area (Danbury, Alexandria, New Hampton, Bridgewater, Bristol, Hebron, and Groton) / SAU4 School District to vote for Michael Delaney of New Hampton over Fran Wendelboe (who was the incumbent).
BREAKING: U.S. Supreme Court Finds “Right To An Adequate National Defense” … Biden To Send Troops To Ukraine
In a unanimous decision earlier today the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the general welfare clause … Article 1, Section 8 … of the constitution guarantees an adequate national defense. The Supreme Court added that, while “in the first instance it is up to Congress to define the parameters of an adequate national defense, the … Read more
Biden Has Done So Much Harm, Which Is The Worst
I was recently asked to participate in a one-question poll by the GOP House Leadership Team, which is actually the Kevin McCarthy Campaign Committee. The question asked to identify my number one issue from the following list:
Let’s Play Who’s The Racist Bastard
Eric Adams is the mayor of New York City. He is pretty typical of big city mayors. He is a leftist. He is black, his city is struggling, and he does a lot of what American politicians these days do a lot of; blame other people for their problems.
If You Want a Dirty Justice, The Wise Latina Failed to Recuse Herself and Then Ruled in Her Publisher’s Favor
Justice Sonia Sotomayor, an Obama appointee, has made most of her accumulating wealth from book deals with Random House or its subsidiaries. A sum of 3.6 million dollars over eleven years if the reporting is accurate. So, why didn’t she recuse herself in Aaron Greenspan v. Random House?
How Many Retailers Closing Will It Take To Admit Failure
Nordstrom announced on Wednesday that they would close their two stores in San Francisco after 35 years of serving the fashion needs and wants of the Bay Area. There have been twenty significant retailers that have closed up shop in San Francisco since
They Took the “Queen” Out of “Drag Queen Story Hour” (Are They Hiding “Her” in a Closet?)
You might ask yourself, why would a parent want to put their kids near drag queens? The better question is, why do drag queens want to be near kids? And if it is all so ordinary and okay, why did they drop the word “queen” from Drag Queen Story hour?
Another Soros Backed Prosecutor Resigns
St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kimberly M. Gardner is the latest pro-crime Soros-backed prosecutor to be driven from office “after visiting judge John Torbitzky ordered seven out of 10 claims filed against her by Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey to move forward.”
NH Executive Council Hearing: Anne Edwards Nomination for Superior Court Judge Part 1
An Executive Council (EC) seems to be a strictly NH “thing.” It is part of the Executive Branch and approves all contracts that are brought forward to them. The EC also has the duty to approve any nominations for senior posts within the Executive put forward by the Governor as well as those for judgeships.
Paid Leave Offered to Government Employees to Attend “Eco-Anxiety” and “Climate Grief” Training
If you were looking for a line item example of wasted taxpayer dollars, we’ve got a winner. The US Fish and Wildlife Service, part of the US Department of the Interior, offers employees paid time off for counseling to address the climate cult equivalent of PTSD.
So Kids, What Did We Learn From This Week’s House Session (05/04/23)?
We learned that Senate and House Democrats are fixated on supplying menstrual products in every public bathroom at public expense—this time, they want it provided in state and county correctional facilities at taxpayer expense with SB209. A similar bill, HB421, has already passed in the House, which is now awaiting its fate in the Senate.
How Is It the Secretary of DHS Cannot Come Up With a Definition of a Secure Border?
Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS), last weekend defined a secure border on an NBC interview show this way, “… It is maximizing the resources we have available to us, to deliver the most effective results…”
Is it Time for California To Make Indecent Exposure Legal?
A Transgender student has been removed from Martin Luther King High School in Riverside, California, after showing more than the content of his character in the girl’s locker room.