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Oops, I Missed Our GrokBirthday!

Too quick, too quickly, and too much going on.  I knew that it was coming up and then missed it. Our first post was on May 9th, 2006.  Thus, we are now in our seventeenth year. I never thought it would go on this long!

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“Only Family and Close Friends” – Looks Like We Were Right not To Believe the Obama’s

I got the date wrong, but it looks like we were right about the rest of it. Obama’s promise to downsize his massive 60th birthday superspreader event was “change” in which we could not (should not!) believe.

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Obama’s Announce Super-Spreader Birthday Event Cut Backs But is This Change We Can Believe In?

The optics of Obama’s 500-guest super spreader Birthday event have apparently penetrated the tone-deaf Dems just moments before it begins, and there’s been a change. But is it one we can believe in?

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Happy Birthday to Weekend Pundit!

Weekend Pundit was one of the first blogs to link to us when GraniteGrok’s doors opened to the InterTubes in 2006.  And now, it has achieved what few have – the age of majority (heh!):

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Nine Years Ago Today I Published My First Post for GraniteGrok.com

Nine years ago today, on February 20th, 2010, I published my first post at GraniteGrok.com. It was about Dan Itse’s bill to create a House committee whose purpose would be to consider the constitutionality of things. Government things. Later that same week I would write about taxes, commuter rail, Carol Shea-Porter, Paul Hodes, and Jeanne … Read more

Mason NH’s Barbara DeVore Revokes Sen. Avard’s Invitation to Town’s 250th Celebration

On February 26th, 2018 the town of Mason, New Hampshire invited State Senator Kevin Avard to participate in their 250th anniversary. The attached invitation, signed by Martha Ward, for the Town of Mason, indicates the event will be held on August 25th, 2018.

“We invite you to join us on August 25th for a day of celebrating the founding of our town.”

Sen. Avard accepted and confirmed his appearance and then again in June. But when his office called last week to finalize the details of his participation things got ugly.

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Happy Birthday!

Today is my daughter’s 10th Birthday.  She shares the day with Roger Clemons, Louis Armstrong, The Queen Mother Elizabeth, Anti-Semite Helen Thomas, Redskins Running Back John Riggins, Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman… …and someone else of note—I can’t seem to remember who though.

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