The Sherm is gone….long live…who? A new endorsement by GraniteGrok!

 Charlie Sherman has been a fixture in NH radio over at WGIR for a number of years (after his famous blowup with WMUR).  He has now departed to be the E.D. at New Horizons; his chair and mic are now sitting in a vacuum.  From NH Journal: Charlie Sherman’s radio show on Manchester’s WGIR was … Read more

PCOTD (Political Cartoon of The Day) 5-11-11

    Cartoonist: Mike Shelton   It seemed appropriate to take this in a slightly different direction.  So most of the future content posted as the Picture of the day will be more political in nature.  Introducing the PCOTD.  Political cartoon of the day. (With a side of commentary, optional.) Sharing is encouraged. "I think … Read more

Hillary Clinton Edited Out Of ‘Iconic’ Photo

Cats!

(First a Note: This is not the picture in question. It’s better)

That’s the Yahoo! News headline. Hillary Edited Out of Iconic Photo.   Though I’m not particularly concerned about that.  I’m more interested in the media narrative about a staged photo.  The word iconic keeps popping up as an adjective to describe this "piece of…history." 

Well, Iconic is defined by dictionary dot com as…

-Adj,

1.  relating to, resembling, or having the character of an icon.

2.  (of memorial sculptures, esp those depicting athletes of ancient Greece) having a fixed conventional style.

OK. Not much to work with there. How about Icon then?

— n
1. Also: ikon  a representation of Christ, the Virgin Mary, or a saint, esp one painted in oil on a wooden panel, depicted in a traditional Byzantine style and venerated in the Eastern Church
2. an image, picture, representation, etc
3. a person or thing regarded as a symbol of a belief, nation, community, or cultural movement
4. a person regarded as a sex symbol or as a symbol of the latest fashion trends
5. a pictorial representation of a facility available on a computer system, that enables the facility to be activated by means of a screen cursor rather than by a textual instruction

Which of these five do you think the media is shooting for?

Given the direction of public education, I think we will have to amalgamate these into a common perception.  Something that fits the modern, western, collective unconscious, or in this case the media narrative about the current administration.  Iconic implies a historical moment of great importance destined to define our nation and it’s leaders (so -depicted) for generations to come.  Think- Sputnik moment!

Well lets work with that.

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The Shrill Kathy Spins the Polls

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“There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.” – British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, (1804-1881)

 In yet another boring and putrid diatribe about the “out of touch” Republicans, Kathy Sullivan is predicting a widespread  ousting of Republicans in Concord in 2012.  In the Union Leader’s Another View Opposite Editorial, the Shrill Kathy declares, “Granite Staters already regret voting Republican last November”.  Relying on a  May 3 UNH Survey Center Poll, the Shrill Kathy asserts, “The results show New Hampshire residents, or at least those providing this snapshot, rejecting the hard-right turn taken by Republicans since the 2010 election…” Wow! that’s pretty grim. Or is it really?

 But unlike the Shrill Kathy, I provided a link above that enables the reader to actually look at the actual data. And what Andrew Smith of the UNH Survey Center says about the data is, “Lynch remains popular in the state, growing concern about the direction of the state.”  That is significantly different from what the Shill Kathy’s interpretation tells us. Factually, the narrative states that 54% of New Hampshire adults feel the state is heading in the right direction, 39% think the state is seriously off on the wrong track, and 7% don’t know.  This Legislature and Senate is four and a half months into the term. Granite-Staters, nearly always express concern about legislative initiatives, but they are also fair-minded people and a lot less partisan that the Shrill Kathy would have us believe.

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Angry Shrew? Or Unjustly Treated Mother?

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“Ah, yes, divorce … From the Latin word meaning to rip out a man’s genitals through his wallet.” -Robin Williams

 An acrimonious divorce where children are involved nearly always devolves into a test of wills between the litigants, who were once husband and wife. Statistically, the woman in such cases prevail a majority of time.  And of those times where the court battle is disposed of in family court, the acrimony has often risen to a level where it simply isn’t sufficient for one party to prevail over the other. There must be some form of scorched earth brought to bear.

 In many cases, a prevailing parent, will seek child support orders and awards that financially disadvantage the losing spouse. Allegations will often follow questioning the suitability or fitness of a parent. Invariably, it isn’t enough to simply prevail on the point of law. One must simply crush the other, financially and emotionally, alienating the children by building a wall between the non-custodial parent and the minor children. An extreme environment of discomfort and stress is built around visitation exercises, many simply give up, emotionally exhausted over their children’s animosity toward them. The custodial spouse later charges inattentiveness for lack of consistency in the visitation schedule. This is probably one of the most ugliest facets of life anybody could be forced to endure. The family courts, charged with mediating these issues, often makes them far worse.

 Today, the Union Leader‘s Nancy West treats us to the sordid tale of Cheryl Ann Maher, a mother seeking to regain custody of her minor children. The father, Dr. Eric Lee Knight presently has physical custody. Following a visit with the minor children, Ms. Maher was to return the children no later than 5:00 PM on March 13, in keeping with the parenting plan. She did not. She spirited them off, instead to a hotel in Salem, telling the UL her, “Ex-husband withheld medicine from one of the twin daughters for cold-like symptoms and fails to provide adequate services for the twins’ autism.”

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Peter Kucmas for NH House of Representatives

Serving Lyndeborough, Mont Vernon, New Boston, Temple, and Wilton    Dear Voters, Why vote on May 17th 2011? Because your vote truly matters… My name is Peter Kucmas (Kuchmasch). On May 17th, 2011, I humbly ask you to please cast your vote for me in the special election for State Representative in District 4 for … Read more

Data Points – If the Economy could vote, Obama’s a gonner

  Today, I learned that The last quarter’s GDP growth was an anemic 1.8% growth rate is signaling that things are not what the trillions spent should be signifying.  In fact, it pretty much sucks and there is no way that this low level of growth is going help out on the unemployment rate any … Read more

“Jobs at a decent wage”? Well, it’s a govt job – Obama would approve

The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works — whether it helps families find jobs at a decent wage, care they can afford, a retirement that is dignified."            – President Barack Obama, Inauguration, 1/20/09  When I came across this, I just shook my … Read more

THE LIBERAL CHARITABLE TEMPLATE

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“If I ever get real rich, I hope I’m not real mean to poor people, like I am now”– Deep Thoughts with Jack Handey

In the context of budget debates, we can always count on liberals to wage class warfare. When austerity draws its uncomfortable bead on health and human services line items, school budgets, public sector unions, and the arts, liberals form up the fight line to speak of epic meanness. They caterwaul and accuse Republicans of starving the children, or killing the old people or taking away food stamps from the poor.

Those evil, heartless rich Republicans! they just keep getting richer and the poor just keep getting poorer! Republicans Are People Too — Mean, Selfish, Greedy People! How many times have we grown tired of hearing that? The sad fact is that all too many people buy into these sham assertions.

“Republicans.”  They are the straw man in public debate that liberals love to point their prune-picking, pablum-puking, American-hating, boney little fingers at, as the source of all thing miserable.

Class warfare Liberals gloss over the fact that uber-wealthy liberals vastly outnumber wealthy conservatives. Andrew Gelman, Professor of statistics and political science at Columbia University asserts that, “The average income of the 100 million or so Republicans is LOWER than that of the 150 million or so Democrats,” in Rich state, poor state, red state, blue state. American Conservative households statistically earn 6% less than Liberal American households.

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GrokTALK! – Podcast page for 05/07/11

Podcast – week of 05/07/11 GrokTALK! Streaming Live! from GraniteGrok To play (or "stream") a clip now, just click on it.  To download it to your PC, right click on it and tell the process where to save the file for you. When we are live – join in at either GrokTALK@GraniteGrok.com or call us … Read more

GrokTalk! Saturday May 7th , 2011

GrokTalk!Live Streaming local and National News with opinion you could only get from GraniteGrok.

EMail: GrokTALK@GraniteGrok.com     Call us!  603-524-7478

This week…

NH State Senator Gary Lambert. On today’s program Senator Lambert will will talk to Skip about his position on RGGI and why he is against repeal. Campaign site, State Senator page

Chuck McGhee – from Resident power.  Resident power (A GrokTALK! Sponsor) is a new company trying to take advantage of the deregulated electricity market to bring cheaper power to New Hampshire’s homes and businesses.

Dr. Cooper -Liberty Harbor Academy (pending confirmation): Liberty Harbor Academy is a new and different concept of high school designed for the student who the traditional academic model does not fit.

Ann Marie Banfield – Working with experts in education from across the country, she offers valuable insight into problems and successes in education.

A Grokster or two?  You never know who might call in. Hey! You could call in. Join us.

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