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Gilford – Take our money for a Transfer Station THEN make recycling mandatory? Now a vote for Monarchical diktat

January 2, 2020 Skip

Sigh, this feels like its going to be a bit of a slog. While some may be saying “Skip, just do it – find the bags, find the time, wash everything, take more time to sort…just do it. Stop rocking the boat”. They don’t realize that is isn’t necessarily that I’m against doing all that, … Read more

Two Months After Bailing on NH Julian Castro Has Ended Presidential Run

January 2, 2020 Steve MacDonald

Two months ago, Julian Castro pulled the plug on the First in the Nation New Hampshire Primary. He closed offices, pulled out his staff, and let the locals loose. Today he’s calling it quits.

Well, Here We Are 2020, (Now What?)

January 2, 2020

We are headed, not only into the new year but into a new decade. Some are calling it the kickoff to the Roaring Twenties redux. Let’s hope not. Voters are facing some incredibly important decisions. Absolutely everything is on the line. Heads up, it is time to defend your values and principles before it is too late.

A Bleg – Would you consider becoming a GraniteGrok YouTube channel subscriber?

January 2, 2020 Skip

Yes, we have such a channel and as you can see above, quite a number of videos. Not as many subscribers, though. We’d like to change that ratio if at all possible. In fact, we’d like to get to 1,000. Would you consider becoming one? It’s rather easy: Go to YouTube.com Search for “GraniteGrok” Click … Read more

Socialism Couldn’t Save the Glaciers Even if They Needed Saving (But it Will Ruin America)

January 2, 2020 Steve MacDonald

One of my favorite stories from 2019 came out of Glacier National Park. The “government’s official position” per the experts in Montana was that by 2020 the park would be glacier free. When it became apparent that it was a lie, they quietly changed signs and displays.

This election is about western civilization.

Happy It’s An Election Year?

January 2, 2020January 2, 2020 Steve MacDonald

Happy New Year; are you happy it’s an election year? The Democrats have saddled themselves with an impeachment. Saddled fits because of its extremely partisan nature. It was from inception born of hate and lies. The Democrat primary debates, sans American flags, are still going on. Their audience is the most limited in history.

But didn’t Epstein hang himself??

January 1, 2020 Skip

(H/T: Powerline)

Marines land in Iraq to defend US Embassay

Iraq: Donald Trump Calls Sending Marines to protect the US Embassy the Anti-Benghazi

January 1, 2020 Steve MacDonald

Iran stretched its muscles into Iraq recently which lead to violence around the US Embassy. A deliberate effort to harm Americans and push us out of the country. Donald Trump has labeled his response “the Anti-Benghazi.”

Transgender – more pushback from Tennessee with no biological boys on girls teams

January 1, 2020 Skip

Just as a bill is being put into the NH House hopper that would prevent biological boys compete on biological girls teams, so is this bill from Tennessee. And has a whale of a penalty if some government official allows it to happen (reformatted, emphasis mine): Proposed bill would prevent transgender females from competing in … Read more

FIRE Gives UNH Green Light for Free Speech (Again) Despite Social Media Policy

December 29, 2022January 1, 2020 Steve MacDonald

When it comes to Campus free speech, Dartmouth is the dog in the Granite State. Josiah Bartlett reported last month that New Hampshire’s Ivy League College got a Red Light for creepy community spying and reporting. UNH, on the other hand, got a Green Light, and I’m still not sure why?

Show me Your Friends and I’ll Show You Your Future

January 1, 2020

There’s an old saying, “Show me your friends and I’ll show you your future.” There is wide reporting that China has millions of people in prisons/concentration camps. Yet, it had the gall to use its state-controlled media this week to attack America’s commitment to its Second Amendment.

Gilford – Take our money for a Transfer Station THEN make recycling mandatory? Part 2

January 1, 2020 Skip

I did my initial rant here. Did you know that our new Recycling Center is now going to have a firing range (supposed to be for law enforcement but why stop there – if the taxpayers are paying for the facility, why not the rest of us?), and a boat storage area (probably for the … Read more

Medical Examiner Says Norovirus from Puritan Backroom Contributed to One Death

January 1, 2020 Steve MacDonald

Democrat Congressman Chris Pappas’ family restaurant has officially been identified as the source of a Norovirus outbreak that made 18 people sick and contributed to the death of one person.

Welcome to 2020 – A Quick Look Forward and a Quick Look Back

January 1, 2020 Steve MacDonald

Another decade in the can, depending on how you define decades and cans. The year 2020 lay before us. But before we leave it behind 2019 was a great year for GraniteGrok. Our best yet.

“Lawmakers Fatal Conceit on Recycling Should Be Trashed”

January 1, 2020December 31, 2019 Skip

My hamlet has just decided to force mandatory recycling on everyone in town (and they didn’t have to. They could have just said that IF you are going to recycle, here’s where what stuff goes where.

Notable Quote – F.A. Hayek

December 31, 2019 Skip

The whole conception of man, already endowed with a mind capable of conceiving civilization, set out to create that civilization as it was already preformed in his mind, is fundamentally false. Man does not simply impose upon nature a preformed mental pattern. His mind is itself a pattern constantly changing as a result of his … Read more

Biden (In NH) Says He’d Pick a Republican Running Mate – Did He Forget He Put Two NH Sen. On That List?

December 31, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Team Biden needs to stick to the same puppeteers. When they switch them up, he gets confused and says things. Like, when Biden said that he’d consider a Republican running mate. He’s in New Hampshire. Two of the four women he said he is considering for VP are Democrat US Senators from New Hampshire.

Franklin Pierce Senior Craig Telfer is Outsports “Female” Athlete of the Year

December 31, 2019December 31, 2019 Steve MacDonald

If you missed our earlier reporting on Craig Telfer, he won the NCAA Women’s Div II 400m hurdles. A B-team male athlete who, as a transwoman, beats the other girls with room to spare.

Census Data Shows Another New Hampshire Win over the Rest of Northeast

December 31, 2019 Steve MacDonald

In a mini tweetstorm, AFP-NH Executive director Greg Moore shared a raft of news regarding the Granite State. Most of it, good. We’re ‘growing’ by attracting people to come live and work here.

Tales from the Selectboard – “sure, ve haff der Power to make you verk for free fer der Recyling Center”

December 31, 2019 Skip

So last night was the Selectboard’s Public Meeting on the Recycling Center / Transfer Station: Rules, Regulations, and Fines. And what fine Fines they are! Here’s the paperwork / package that was prepped for the meeting. Again, to set the stage, twice the Selectboard put in warrants for the money to build out this place: … Read more