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I used to watch The View once in awhile…well, until Rosie came on board and spouted her many over-the-top, completely implausible theories and became more and more obnoxious by the minute. Read about possible Rosie replacements for the much-coveted empty spot on The View here. Are people that starved for entertainment that they actually enjoy … Read more
. Next time you feel bad for those poor state employees toiling away at their difficult jobs with little to no thanks or appreciation from the public, take heart in knowing that they will at least be getting a fairly decent raise. 10% in two years. . "Oh but Doug, the poor workers … Read more
You go girl! It seems Rep. Hodes may have met his match in a 16-year old’s insistence on answering her question: "So you favor a woman’s right to kill her unborn child?" Read the story first, click here, and then let’s talk about things, ok? So, did Hodes answer the yes or no question with … Read more
NH DOT officials checking internal compliance & performance. . This week the judges here at GraniteGrok have decided to award our prestigious "Dope of the Week Award" to a pair of richly deserving recipients– both former NH DOT commisars commisioners. On the state DOT workers dumping hazardous materials on job sites and state … Read more
Today’s Concord Monitor provides an update on the hazardous waste dumping by state workers scandal as noted in this prior posting… MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Current and former commissioners of the state Department of Transportation say culture is the underlying cause behind years of illegal dumping of hazardous waste. . [snip] . …interim … Read more
Following up on my earlier post about having local government implement energy (money) saving practices that reduce global-warming inducing emissions, I wanted to further expand on the point about the Carbon Coalition’s admonishment to the private sector. On Tuesday, they posted a piece on their blog that stated Holding our local businesses and corporations … Read more
Sharky: I’m gonna pull the chain on you, pal. And you wanna know why? ‘Cause you’re f*cking up my city. ‘Cause you’re walking all over people like you own them. And you wanna know the worst part? You’re from out of state I’ve been trying to step around this story, at first thinking it … Read more
Yeah, I decided I’m the dope of the week having contracted SSS (Sudden Stupid Syndrome) as we call it here at the ‘Grok. While I try to save, save, save things, after writing a long post electing Roy Buckley, State Democratic Party Chair for the Dope, I somehow got rushed…maybe because I’m one of those quintessential multi-tasker people?…previewed my … Read more
Just how low is the Manchester Union Leader willing to go in its monomaniacal quest to browbeat Senate Republicans into supporting that putrid excuse for a constitutional amendment known as CACR 19? As low as you can go, judging by the Union Leader’s June 19th editorial page, which features an op-ed by none other than … Read more
The story about the Plainfiled, NH couple holed up on their property doesn’t look like it’s going to remedy itself anytime soon. When one listens to what the Browns are saying, why are the Federal agents doing things like shutting off power and the Internet? Why are they apparently shooting at people on the property? I still … Read more
Windmills on Gunstock? Why not? . In a June 19th post, the CarbonCoalition blog writes Holding our local businesses and corporations accountable for their greenhouse gas emissions is a necessary step in combating global warming I would add that local governments should be held to this same standard. As a matter of fact, doing so … Read more
Being a denizen of the Blogosphere is both exciting and depressing. On the one hand, to have a world of news, knowledge and thought bouncing about the entire country and globe between all men & women great and small brings a new perspective on events to the common folks. The downside, however, is that you find … Read more
Col. David Crockett . Several days back, I posted a piece about the Federal government giving out $40 coupons (my tax dollars!) to people in order to purchase digital-to analog converters for their TV sets rendered useless by the government-mandated switch to digital broadcast television. . It is apparent that our government is on an unrelenting … Read more
THE UNION LEADER TAX HIKE In its lead editorial in the Sunday News of June 17, 2007, the Manchester Union Leader continued to pillory certain Republicans for acting like, well, Republicans by opposing the misbegotten constitutional amendment crafted by ersatz Republican Mike Whalley’s crack team of legal experts. They say that politics makes strange bedfellows. … Read more
Our friend former NH Sen Rob Boyce (Oh, the good ‘ole days…) submits the following in response to an op-ed in Sunday’s Union Leader. Judging by it and Ed’s post below this one, the Union Leader (to which I am and have been a subscriber for roughly 19 years) take on the failure (thankfully) of the … Read more
As Skip reported in this post, on Thursday, the Lakes Region of NH played host to the 18th annual Freedom Ride sponsored by the Northeast Network POW/MIA. Here is a YouTube of the many hundreds of bikes and bikers, along with other supporters as they arrived at Heskey Park in Meredith, NH for the enhanced … Read more
Yikes! Yikes! Yikes! WARNING: SOME OF THIS MAY NOT BE APPROPRIATE FOR WORK OR FAMILY VIEWING!!! These various stories, click here, here, here and here, remind me of a personal experience I had several years ago while substitute teaching at Kearsarge Regional High School, Sutton, NH. Bill O’Reilly made the following comment on Fox News on June … Read more
Please first check out my original post here on June 7, Where’s the Danger with Civil Unions and some comments you may find interesting. Hmmm…I sent this letter to the editor at the Monitor yesterday: Naïve people just keep proving many of us “Right!” I love being “called out” on things. Several letters to the editor … Read more
What’s this prove? click here to read the entire article on whether or not homosexuals are "born that way." You guessed it; there is still no consensus among scientists. In fact, if you don’t want to read the entire article, although I encourage you to as it’s fasinating, here’s the conclusion made by Simon LaVay when … Read more
[B]efore I close, to say one word. I have read, and I have been questioned since I’ve been here about certain demonstrations against my coming. And I would like to say just one thing, and to those who demonstrate so. I wonder if they have ever asked themselves that if they should have the … Read more