Well, my friends, I hate to break the news. After carefully studying the latest Twitter materials, I realized we no longer have a country. Yes, that is what I said. Why? In large part because:
Taliban Joe’s ‘Legacy’ Grows – Women in Afghanistan Banned from University, Secondary Education, Gov. Jobs …
The religious fascists in the Taliban have taken a break from shining all the weapons Joe left in Afghanistan to do what we said they’d do. Be the Taliban.
A New Use for the Last Four Words of the Bill of Rights
What Happened This Year (2022)? When I scan the horizon, I am not looking for particulars. I am always trying to look behind the scenes. And since I don’t have a viewer to take me there, I rely on guessing what’s going on.
Consumer Affairs.com Says, NH Has the Best Roads in America (How’d Your State Do?)
New Hampshire’s been rated number one for a lot of things. Public Safety, Quality of Life, Average Income, Low Crime, even (whatever I’ve forgotten), but roads?
Happy Shwanzaa!
Hijacking an existing holiday to get some adherents for your new one is as old as time. And if you’ve no idea the exact date of the thing you are celebrating, then it makes sense to piggyback away. Eases the conversion process.
Last Minute Christmas Gift: How About a Drone with a Flamethrower?
You likely can’t get one in time for the big day, or maybe you can (did you?), but think of all the sleep the anti-gun lefties will lose thinking about how to regulate them. Common sense flamethrower-drone laws. Moms for…something.
Justifying a $1.7 Trillion Omnibus
We can expect someone like Chris Pappas, who has a rubber spine and weak knees, to vote online with his Progressive party, but the second sin is to remain unaccountable for what he did and tout his actions to the people of New Hampshire like he has our backs.
Kids ‘Could Be On Santa’s “Naughty List” If They Don’t Get the COVID-19 Vaccine and Mask Up’
In a mad race to be more despotic and manipulative than Australia or New Zealand, Canada has used ‘Mrs. Clause’ to get kids masked and Jabbed.
Data Point – Cameras vs Smartphones
Unless you are a serious amateur or professional, you are using your smartphone to take photos or videos. I decided that for most GraniteGrok work, I decided to get a high end smartphone instead of a new prosumer video camera.
Hide and Seek
No wonder Freedom of Information laws have had to be created in the past decade or so. So many elected officials have been hiding so many underhanded dealings that once could be expected to be uncovered by real reporters. Sadly, they are now few and far between. They used to keep those officials thinking about … Read more
Democrats, Primaries, and Identity Politics
In a Concord Monitor Op-Ed published on July 5, 2021, I explained why the Democrats were likely to eschew New Hampshire’s First in the Nation (FITN) Primary due to identity politics.
It was an easy prediction.
Classrooms in Crisis Because of Restorative Justice?
Classrooms are out of control in some of our schools in New Hampshire. So what happened? Why are so many parents in school districts like Keene (SAU29) talking about the lack of discipline in the schools? Some of these parents are asking why the restrooms are locked? Why can’t students use the restroom in their … Read more
Second Amendment Happy Ending of the Day – Three Go In, Only Two Go Out. They Assumed Wrongly
Americans have been buying more than a million firearms a year for the last few years. Latest estimates of firearms is over 400 million arms in our population. So that’s a lot of homes that could conceivably house a weapon that could be used to defend its inhabitants. And these three miscreants decided to play … Read more
It Is Not Our War, and Zelensky Is Not Churchill
What we all witnessed in Washington was bizarre. None of it good, nor in the interest of this nation or its people. The day began with yet another boondoggle being foisted upon the taxpayers of this country.
The Left’s Green-Energy Agenda Leads to Record Coal Use in 2022
How often have we said it? Whatever the Political Left claims, the opposite is always the truth. From Women’s rights to Crime Prevention to Poverty to Lowering Health Care Costs. The end result is always the opposite, and that includes CO2 emissions.
Karoline Leavitt for NH-CD1 in 2024
It took a while for people to realize that Karoline Leavitt was mature enough to send her to Washington to represent New Hampshire’s First Congressional District. She was a young unknown, and though she worked hard to garner support, she did not get ample coverage from the media.
New Hampshire University Soccer Star Bombito set for Bright Future
While New Hampshire may be lacking in major professional sports teams, there’s no shortage of stars rising through the college ranks. Over at New Hampshire University, one of the standout soccer players right now is Moise Bombito.
Notable Quote – On the Left, It Is Always about the Revenge
Emhasis mine: Since the French Revolution, leftwing politics, as distinct from the liberal sort, have been essentially about revenge, including in Great Britain with the founding of the Labour Party in 1900, an event recently characterized by the Daily Telegraph as an act of vengeance. Then, leftist vengeance meant class vengeance. While it remains so … Read more
People Who Think They Are God, & Those Who Know They Are Not
I have to confess I stole that title from Tucker Carlson. Tucker is one of my favorite news people because he is fearless. He has no allegiance to the Right or Left, and if his reporting upsets either or both, so be it.
Disqus Doodlings – A Full on Assault and Defense of Capitalism vs a “Guided Economy”
Yep, I have a few of these to catch up on. What started as an observation by TreeHugger author Lloyd Alter that Germans were “gamifying” the use of less energy (“Germans Are Competing With Each Other to Save Energy“), my first thought was “oh, competing to see who could have a worse standard of living … Read more