While Wall Street decided to throw itself into the gutter, Main Street is doing very well, thank you very much, and is very much looking forward to good time thanks to Trump’s changing Government’s view of capitalism and making it easier to do business by getting Government out of the way and letting people keep more of their own money.  Results are starting to show up (reformatted, abstracted, emphasis mine):

Main Street continues to flourish under the Trump administration. The National Federation of Independent Business reports that optimism is at a 45-year high among America’s small businesses. The “Small Business Optimism Index” — a monthly gauge of sentiment among the owners — has broken the record for the measurement, established 45 years ago.

• 41 percent of the members reported they expect the economy to improve
• 33% say it’s an ideal time to expand
• another 33% report an increase in job openings
• 31 percent reported “higher worker compensation” for their employees.

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This is interesting, and not just because the ruling came out of a court in California. The state charged a baker with breaking the law because they refused to make a cake for a same-sex couple. The court has denied the State’s motion for preliminary injunction in favor of the baker, Cathy Miller.

There’s a good deal of detail to consume, and while most court rulings are a challenge, this one is actually compelling.

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Back on January 2nd, 2018 we set a goal of improving from number nine on our list of Media sites in New Hampshire to number seven. We did that, and a little bit more.

As of this morning, February 13th, 2018 GraniteGrok.com has moved up to number 5 on our list in Alexa site rankings (National 6-month average).

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It wouldn’t be the first time that someone is crying “Wolf” over…..wait for it…..CLIMATE CHANGE!  Now, I have NO problem in city officials in trying to head off problems – it’s what humans do as being the almost the most adaptable species on the planet (er, cockroaches perhaps a tad more?) and certainly the species that can make the environment adapt to us (emphasis mine):

“Because that’s so important to Portsmouth we wanted to follow up on that to see what we could do to better understand it and to start preparing for it,” Britz said. “The idea isn’t to scare people, it’s not to get people worried about it, it’s to get them prepared.”

That would be city planner Peter Britz. Nice to not scare people – and in the same article, decides to do exactly that:

City planning staff has estimated that Portsmouth will see sea water rise 2 feet by 2050 and 6 feet by 2100, Britz said.

Right – that would be 0.75″ per year for the next 32 years.  Scary numbers, eh?  Being that I can’t help myself, I decided to bring up a couple numbers of my own:

Methinks Peter Britz needs to go back to 3rd grade for a remedial class in simple arithmetic.

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That would be in conjunction with “white”. Here’s the headline over at the SentinelSource (online presence of the Keene Sentinel, who we are currently beating in Alexa ratings):

Two Virginia residents countersue white nationalist with Keene ties

And that would be about Christopher Cantwell.  Now, I could care less about him; what is more important is what the Sentinel wrote.  It always was “white supremacist” when talking about the KKK and that ilk.  I’ve read that phrase for years and decades as that IS their main ideology – the white race should be primary.  Yeah, up yours with all that.

However, since Trump took office 

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Tim Matheson seems to be bemoaning the fact that Animal House couldn’t get made today, while embracing the mindset that would prevent Animal House from getting made today.

That would be Otter – the “debonair” worldly frat boy seducing one gal / woman after another. Who knew that his blacken eye in the movie would give rise to such Cognitive Dissonance in real life today?

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Long before Donald Trump ran into Adam Schiff, he outclassed another phony, a so-called comedian, posing as a rapper. Trump agreed to sit through an interview with the fake rapper. It did not go well for the guy who thought punking Trump would be easy.

If you look at the clip, it took Donald Trump about 20 seconds to counter-punk the fake rapper.

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I guess that NH Rep Sean Morrison never learned about the Theory of Holes. Steve first mentioned him in his post on voting for HB628, Paid Family Leave, HB628, whereby he believes that Government has the right to crowd out the Private Sector’s offerings (in this case, insurance policies aGAIN). The financials are such, just like Medicaid Expansion, that to keep that “promise”, monies will end up coming from the General Fund instead of this “pay as you go” fiasco in the making.

I then decided to do my post, “…for a RINO of the Week” and methodically went through what his voting record ratings are and asked a number of very pointed questions about the program, political philosophy, and what happens when it all goes south.  Well, back on Steve’s post, he decided to double down (emphasis mine):

Indeed. I am not a slave to anyone.

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Some illegal immigrant “children” have done the job Congress doesn’t want to do. They’ve arrived at a bipartisan solution to the DACA problem.

If Congress doesn’t make a deal to allow them to stay, the Velez sisters will exercise their “choice” to leave the country.

This is the illegal immigrant minor equivalent of you can’t fire me I quit.

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Last Friday, February 9, 2018, I stopped by State Archives on Fruit St. in Concord to check out a name or two of the over 6,500 out-of-state voters from our 2016 NH General Election. That would be the one a US Senator lost by 1,017 votes.

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Spring is coming, followed by another summer, a time when it will probably be the hottest…it has been all year. And with that “heat” the hyperbolic declarations on Mann-Made warming–which is not to be confused with the Mann-Made cooling, bitter cold, and snow.

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