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Wednesday • April 30 • 2025

Vol.XVII • No.XVIII

Manchester, N.H.

MONDAY MEMES

Granite Grok - Mon, 2023-05-01 19:30 +0000

They’re flying so thick and fast it is amazing.  Take heart – there will be a Meme Overflow and almost certainly a Friday Meme Overflow-Overflow.  Last week’s Overflow-Overflow.

Remember, ridicule and mockery are effective weapons:

  1. Ridicule cannot easily be fought
  2. Ridicule makes the enemy angry, and angry people make mistakes
  3. For those in the “squishy middle” a Thought Splinter (and Part II and Part III and Part IV) can often be hidden inside humor.

Now, let the mockery and mayhem begin.

 

*** Warning, a few possibly off-color ones, in case tender eyes are about ***

 

 

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Is it even legal?

 

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Andy Ngo: The far-left’s goal is to normalize political violence against conservatives

 

 

Remember that Antifa truly believes they are angels and “doing good” – we all know where good intentions lead:

Slip-Sliding Towards Hell with a Good Conscience – Granite Grok

Do not also forget Huxley’s statement about how to gin up enthusiasm for a cause – the prospect of being able to be bad while feeling good:

 

(Link to AZQuotes per their policy.)

 

And this:

 

 

I fear these are prophetic words…

 

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And Man Created A.I. in His Own Image: Why Elon Musk is Worried About Artificial Intelligence

 

 

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Pick of the post:

 

 

Yes.

 

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Palate Cleansers:

 

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The Skip & Tom Weight Challenge – Week 8

Granite Grok - Mon, 2023-05-01 18:00 +0000

Not a great week for me – it was bound to happen as I kinda fell off the wagon. Didn’t help either that Grokster Mike came up and we went out to dinner at our favorite Mexican restaurant here in the Lakes Region – El Jimador.  So much for moderation! But, still over halfway there (instead of the almost 80% of last week).

Tom is keeping it going!

And the tale of the chart:

 

 

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The ConVal Education Funding Lawsuit … Attorney General Johnny-Woke Tells The Court: The State Is Only A Little Bit Pregnant

Granite Grok - Mon, 2023-05-01 16:30 +0000

According to Attorney General Johnny-Woke, courts can AND SHOULD determine whether “the State” is “fully funding” an “adequate education,” as long as they don’t try to determine how much it costs to “fully fund” an “adequate education.” I kid you not … from New Hampshire Business Review:

Attorney General Formella’s team is not seeking to justify the state’s contribution to funding public schools. Instead, they primarily mount their defense on two propositions, one that relies on the separation of powers and the other that restricts the cost of an adequate education to the factors enumerated in statute.

First, the state asserts that the court “lacks jurisdiction to award any relief to Plaintiffs other than a simple declaration that the State is, or is not, complying with its constitutional duties.” Instead, the means of meeting the state’s constitutional duties is vested in the Legislature, which “possesses the exclusive discretion to determine what programs and what levels of funding are necessary and appropriate.”

“This case,” the state’s brief reads, “presents one or more non-justiciable political questions due to a lack of judicially discoverable and manageable standards, the impossibility of deciding the issues without making policy determinations of a kind clearly reserved to nonjudicial discretion.”

Attorney-General Johnny-Woke’s position is that it is possible to be just a “little pregnant.”  The problem is that once you accept the premise that “the State” has a “constitutional duty” … more specifically

The State does not contest the underlying law applicable to the issues in this case. Under our education funding jurisprudence, Part II, Article 83 of the State Constitution “imposes a duty on the State to provide a constitutionally adequate education to every educable child in the public schools in New Hampshire and to guarantee adequate funding.” Claremont School Dist. v. Governor, 138 N.H. 183, 184 (1993). To comply with that duty the State must “define an adequate education, determine the cost, fund it with constitutional taxes, and ensure its delivery through accountability.” Londonderry Sch. Dist. v. State, 154 N.H. 153, 155-56 (2006) (quotation omitted).

you are PREGNANT. That is, you have accepted the premise that the Court has the FINAL SAY on the definition of an adequate education, how to determine the cost, how to fund it, and what “accountability” looks like.

All of the Claremont “duties” are “non-justiciable political questions.” To name but a few examples, whether to have a single statewide definition of an “adequate education” versus letting school districts create their own definitions, whether to use “adequacy” or some other measure as the aspirational standard, whether to utilize pervasive and meaningful school-choice as the means to “deliver” an “adequate education” are ALL “non-justiciable political questions.”

 

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Special Committee on the Family Division of the N.H. Circuit Court

Granite Grok - Mon, 2023-05-01 15:38 +0000

Good morning everyone, This is a reminder that tomorrow, May 2, 2023, the Special Committee on the Family Division of the Circuit Court will be meeting from 9:30am to 12:00pm at the House LOB, Room 206-208 , that you may be interested in attending.

Please Submit Group communications or Press Releases to editor@granitegrok.com.
Submission is not a guarantee of publication.

For additional information, please see today’s article (“New panel to probe charges against family courts”) published in the New Hampshire Union Leader, and available online at:
  • https://www.unionleader.com/news/politics/state/new-panel-to-probe-charges-against-family-courts/article_c915ef61-4c07-5e5b-882e-2cc34109eb38.html
A PDF copy is also attached. If you would like to attend in person, here is a link for directions:
  • https://goo.gl/maps/zJn5GJigLCuJhBoRA
A list of the members is available at:
  • https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/house/committees/committeedetails.aspx?id=1638
Here is a link to the event, that you can add to your calendar:
  • https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/house/schedule/eventDetails.aspx?event=1385&et=2

Again, I encourage all of you to “pass the word,” and let everyone else who might be interested know about the upcoming meetings of the Special Committee , such as by posting on social media, etc. Additional upcoming meetings are also scheduled for May 9th, 16th, and 23rd.

Thanks,

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According to The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention “Vaccines” Do NOT Need to Control or Prevent Disease

Granite Grok - Mon, 2023-05-01 15:00 +0000

Remember when everyone who was anyone said the COVID-19 “vaccines” would prevent infection and spread? We needed them to return to normal, which – as it turns out meant making excuses for why they didn’t do that. And they have run out of excuses.

While the approved narrative on The Jab continues to include the words “prevents severe disease, hospitalization or death,” (another lie) outside forces continue to press the CDC to admit the error of their ways.  Any error in any way.

The agency’s response? Redefine what a vaccine is or does. Nothing. Vaccines don’t have to do anything to get EUA approval.

 

Vaccines don’t have to prevent infection or transmission to be cleared in the United States, the country’s top regulatory agency said in a new document.

“It is important to note that FDA’s authorization and licensure standards for vaccines do not require demonstration of the prevention of infection or transmission,” Dr. Peter Marks, a top official at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), said in the document.

 

Is this a bad time to point out that the CDC’s full and proper name is The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention?

Is it, not a good time to remind everyone that Section 564 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetics Act only allows the issuing of an emergency use authorization if four criteria were met, one of which was that “There is no adequate, approved, and available alternative. Among other reasons, an alternative may be considered unavailable if there are insufficient supplies of the approved alternative to fully meet the emergent need or if the agent is or may become resistant to approved and available alternative products.”

If “vaccines” don’t need to prevent infection or transmission, neither the CDC nor the FDA can issue another EUA ever because there will always be innumerable alternatives that do nothing to prevent infection or transmission.

One ironic example; the Public Health Industrial Complex has insisted for years that neither Hydroxychloroquine nor Ivermectin is effective in preventing the transmission or spread of COVID. We know that’s not true but were COVID to start today, assuming their expert opinion was unchanged, they could not issue a legal EUA because we already have treatments that are ineffective against COVID so Section 564 prohibits emergency use authorization.

And then we have the more obvious problem. If flu vaccines don’t need to prevent infection or spread why does anyone need them, given that public health watchdogs already changed the definition of informed consent to lie, hide, obfuscate, redirect, and blamestorm?

The only things the CDC is trying to prevent are interruptions in kickback operations for green-lighting injections they reserve the power to mandate whose only benefit is kickbacks to “experts” working at the CDC.

 

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The GOP Either Does Not Know How To Win Or Does Not Want To Win

Granite Grok - Mon, 2023-05-01 13:30 +0000

The GOP, by and large, refuses to accept that elections since 2016 are NOT a battle of ideas. They are trapped in the past … we will release “white paper” after “white paper” defending the free market! so-and-so has a new talk radio show where he can preach the free market to the choir each and every day! Etc., etc., etc..

The Communists aka the Democrats … unlike the GOP … are living in the real world. Consider the following:

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Breaking: American Legion Cancels Drag Shows After Vets ‘Drag’ Sweeney Post Leadership to the Rhetorical Woodshed

Granite Grok - Mon, 2023-05-01 12:30 +0000

On Saturday, April 29th, we shared news about a local American Legion post that had scheduled a Drag Queen event on July 8th. As of this morning, two days later, that event and any future Drag shows the Sweeney Post leadership had planned have been canceled.

If you missed the original story, “The American Legion Henry J Sweeney Post #2 in Manchester, NH, has a surprise for Veterans and family members of all ages. They are the location for “the newest show in New Hampshire drag entertainment!

Available for all ages.

I was contacted by at least one Veteran who is a member of Sweeney Post #2. We had an in-person chat not long after that, and he named a few names. Liberals in leadership whom he believed (probably) couldn’t help themselves. We’ll refrain from sharing names for the moment, but they know who they are, as do the Veterans who called them after we published the story.

Those Vets expressed their concern about the decision to host drag queen shows at their American Legion Henry J Sweeney Post #2 in Manchester, NH, and it seems to have made an impression. The original post went up at 8 am Saturday. By 8 am Monday, I was told they had backed off not just the July 8th show but any plans for additional Drag Queen events.

On the bright side, the “newest show in New Hampshire Drag Entertainment” title is up for grabs.

Surprise!

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Quick Thought: This is a SPLENDID Idea – Flipping the Left’s Linguistic Handcuffs

Granite Grok - Mon, 2023-05-01 12:00 +0000

In a post that dealt more with Musk’s talking about a Swedish story about Transgender transitioning doesn’t lower the risk of suicide and that child sexual-organ mutilation is wrong, there was this:

“[By the way], I regard cisgender as a slur,” he added.

I agree – wholeheartedly. I can deal with being called “straight” just fine but technically, I’m a heterosexual (and it’s binary relationship of male or female and not Heinz gazillions).  However, the LGBT lobby (as opposed to the gun lobby) has gone all out to make heterosexuality and heteronormative to be slurs. Oh DARE you ancients and conservatives reject our new words that set the stage that “trans” is the word of most importance (even as its percentage in the general population is <1%). How DARE you take away our ability to control the language in order to control our mindset.

So they couldn’t just leave us well enough alone and created “cisgender” and use it incessantly in order to drive it in our language patterns.

Like “assault weapon”, it is a made-up political term simply to forward a sexual-political agenda. They are calling us names.

Time to tell them, every time we see or hear it, “shove it”.

I’ve had enough of this nonsense and so should you. Otherwise, the Left (of which the LGBT Lobby) will continue to 1984 us right out of our Freedom. Orwell’s book made it clear that it could happen and the Left knows and is taking advantage of it.

 

(H/T: Breitbart Politics)

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Justice Samuel Alito: We Are under Attack, And Nobody Is Fighting To Protect Us.

Granite Grok - Mon, 2023-05-01 10:30 +0000

United States Supreme Court Justice gave a remarkable interview to the Wall Street Journal. Among other things, he said that he “had a pretty good idea” who leaked the draft abortion-decision, but didn’t have the level of proof needed to name names. Clearly, he believes that the leaker was one or more of the “liberals”:

“It was a part of an effort to prevent the Dobbs draft . . . from becoming the decision of the court. And that’s how it was used for those six weeks by people on the outside — as part of the campaign to try to intimidate the court.”

Alito also called out … as best a sitting Justice can … the Bar for not defending the Supreme Court from the obviously planned and coordinated attacks by the Left:

“We are being hammered daily and I think quite unfairly in a lot of instances. And nobody, practically nobody, is defending us. The idea has always been that judges are not supposed to respond to criticisms, but if the courts are being unfairly attacked, the organized bar will come to their defense,” Alito said, adding, “If anything, they’ve participated to some degree in these attacks.”

Bar organizations, at this point, are every bit as controlled by the Left as practically all our other institutions. The GOP needs to step into the breach to defend the last bastion of constitutional government … the United States Supreme Court (Biden is well on his way to packing the lower courts with the jurisprudential equivalent of Mao’s Red Guard).

Yet the GOP is AWOL on this issue as it is on the other issues that really matter … grooming, DEI, “gender affirming care” for children, the border. Instead, the Uni-Party-GOP is all about Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine and taxes, taxes, taxes.

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The Top 8 Free Online Home Value Estimators of 2023

Granite Grok - Mon, 2023-05-01 10:00 +0000

With certain markets expected to decline in 2023, many people are curious to know …


By HomeLight Homes

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