You don’t hear about New Jersey as much as you would think. It’s pretty much an extension of New York and is similarly aligned as a solid Blue state. On Saturday night, New Jersey was anything but quiet, and most of the 80,000 people gathered to rally around the former and soon-to-be President Donald Trump, created a sea of red as far as the cameras could see.

It was a fantastic spectacle and should send shivers of fear up the spine of every Democrat. Joe Biden is using every tool in his bag, some of them unconstitutional, to dampen the impact of Donald Trump, but even keeping him gagged and confined to a New York courtroom for three weeks only heightened the MAGA enthusiasm in the Garden State. Even when he breaks the rules, Biden is a failure, and the momentum is building for a November landslide of Reaganesque proportions.

Fresh off a tense week in court where Alvin Bragg used Stormy Daniels to embarrass the former President but has yet to define the charge against Trump. Judge Merchan has stomped on the Constitution with the restrictions imposed on Trump and the irrelevant testimony he has allowed for the sole purpose of disparaging Trump. He has fined Trump for talking publicly about the trial while allowing Michael Cohen to speak openly on TikTok while wearing a sweatshirt showing Trump behind bars. This trial should be shot down as a mistrial, or a hung jury will acquit Trump, but Merchan has built the appeal. Trump defied all gag orders on Saturday night and spoke freely about the case.

He also had a field day criticizing every aspect of the Biden Presidency, and Joe has given Trump plenty of material. New York Giants great Lawrence Taylor appeared and declared he is no longer a Democrat and is now a member of the MAGA Trump team. Trump pledged to redraw the electoral map in 2024 and would turn states like New Jersey, Wisconsin, and Michigan Red. Every state is in play for Trump, and he deserves every one of them.

Someone else was in attendance and maybe a harbinger of a coming announcement. Greg Burgham is a businessman, Governor of North Dakota, and on the shortlist for Trump’s Vice President choice. Burgham made little impact on his run for President this year, but he has shown that after dropping out of the race, he is a solid middle-of-the-road Republican and a perfect complement to Trump. Trump openly attacked every Republican in the primary field except Burgham, who has been a solid Trump supporter since 2016. That loyalty is paying dividends and has been promised a prominent role in the Trump Administration. He may have parlayed his support into the number two slot and a shot at the big desk in 2028.

As much as Biden gaslights America trying to convince them how great things are, Americans are not sniffing the gas. People understand reality and know the country was in a better place under Trump than Biden. Biden has damaged this country beyond belief and done more to destroy Democracy than Trump could ever conceive. Biden will lose in November, and he should. The American people will never trust a future election if he pulls off a miracle and secures reelection. Those 81 million voters he enjoyed in 2020 will sit this one out.

 

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It is highly likely that the Senate Judiciary Committee will vote on two critical bills, HB 396 and HB 1607, tomorrow. Read on for more information on the bills and how you can help.

HB 396: State Definition of Biological Sex

HB 396 is needed to clarify that nothing in New Hampshire law prevents public facilities from differentiating between the biological sexes in athletic competitions, prisons, locker rooms, restrooms, or places of intimate privacy.

Rather than focusing on a single area such as sports, HB 396, by acknowledging that “any person or organization, public or private,” can make a common-sense classification based on biological sex, provides the most expansive framework to address the ongoing harm to vulnerable women and girls and has the greatest success of becoming law in New Hampshire.

We urge you to contact the committee and ask them to vote Ought To Pass on the bill as is with no amendments. 

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HB 1607: Relative to Expanded Save Haven Protections

Last month, there was a public hearing in the Senate on HB 1607, relative to expanded safe haven protections. Now, the Senate has a critical opportunity to position New Hampshire as the leader in infant protections among our New England neighbors.

Earlier this year, the most important part of the bill was removed on the House floor: Section 5 would have ensured parents surrendering a baby would not have to fear prosecution as a result of their surrender. It is critical and necessary to include this exclusionary provision in the expansion of safe haven law to accomplish the law’s goal which is to save lives, NOT catch criminals or deter parents from doing the right thing for their child.

The Senate must re-insert the Section 5 exclusionary provisions of the bill to prioritize the lives of vulnerable infants and ensure parents are not discouraged from using this safe and secure means to surrender their unwanted child.

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The Biden administration’s assault on farmers now includes an openly racist and sexist dimension: allocating $25 billion in federal disaster relief funds to stricken farmers based solely on race and gender. The USDA has dispensed funds using this social justice criterion, employing skin color and gender preference above merit or need in yet another regulatory overreach by the Biden-Harris team. Typical of POTUS Biden’s pattern of defiance against established legal principles, the policy is blatantly unconstitutional and openly discriminates against white farmers.

USDA Discrimination Against White Farmers

The US Department of Agriculture is not empowered by Congress or the US Constitution to allocate taxpayer funds based exclusively on race, yet the nonprofit Southeastern Legal Foundation (SLF) alleges in a recent lawsuit on behalf of white farmers from Texas that it is doing precisely that. Joe Biden has defied a US Supreme Court determination that he cannot “forgive” student loan debt. He used the SEC to impose costly environmental reporting requirements on publicly traded companies, and manipulated EPA regulations to dominate the US car manufacturing industry. The common theme is one of bypassing the Constitution in order to implement social justice ideology.

The challenged USDA regulations favor farmers of color and the female gender over white farmers (of the male kind) for disaster relief. SLF Executive Director Kimberly Hermann alleges that such discriminatory classifications are not authorized by any power granted to USDA by the US Congress:

“The Biden Administration consistently crosses the line by mobilizing executive agencies to do Congress’s job. Once again, it has gone too far. Not only is USDA plainly violating the Constitution, but it is also acting without so much as a whisper from Congress. If Congress wanted USDA to carry out its emergency relief programs in such a drastic way, it would have done so clearly and in express terms. Congress’s silence is deafening.”

Classifying people by their race as a condition of receiving government benefits is … racist. It violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and other federal laws. In its landmark 6-2 ruling in 2023 stating that Harvard unconstitutionally discriminated against Asian Americans, the US Supreme Court Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard stated this clearly:

“Eliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it. And the Equal Protection Clause, we have accordingly held, applies ‘without regard to any differences of race, of color, or of nationality’ – it is ‘universal in [its] application.’ Yick Wo, 118 U. S., at 369. For ‘[t]he guarantee of equal protection cannot mean one thing when applied to one individual and something else when applied to a person of another color.’ Regents of Univ. of Cal. v. Bakke, 438 U. S. 265, 289–290 (1978) (opinion of Powell, J.). ‘If both are not accorded the same protection, then it is not equal.’ Id., at 290.”

Violating the Constitution… Again and Again

The male-plaintiff white farmers in the current case, Strickland, et al. v. United States Department of Agriculture, claim they are not being afforded equal treatment for disaster relief based solely on their race or gender. In its April 5, 2024, Brief in Support of a Motion for a Preliminary Injunction barring USDA from discriminating against them, legal counsel assert that USDA has unconstitutionally exceeded its authority:

“The Constitution promises equal treatment to all Americans regardless of their race or sex. It also promises the separation of powers. USDA broke both promises through the disaster and pandemic relief programs challenged here. Since 2020, Congress has appropriated nearly $25 billion to USDA in emergency disaster and pandemic relief to aid farmers. And while Congress never instructed USDA to allocate those funds based on race or sex, that is exactly what USDA did. Through the eight disaster relief programs challenged here, USDA gives more money to some farmers based on those characteristics alone.

“The agricultural sector is of vast economic significance. That makes USDA’s decision to implement race and sex preferences a major question that only Congress can address. When elected officials make this divisive choice, they rightly expect that they will have to answer to the American people. Yet Congress never mentioned race or sex in the relevant disaster relief appropriations. USDA also acted arbitrarily and capriciously by failing to explain its shift to a novel ‘progressive factoring’ system that reduces relief to those who suffer the most losses.”

“Unblemished by Success”

The brief asserts that race-based classifications are presumptively unconstitutional and that this has been made clear to the USDA by Congress. Nevertheless, the brief claims, the USDA continues to employ race-based definitions of “socially disadvantaged” farmers in its regulations, “even though its record of defending its race- and sex-based definitions is “unblemished by success.”

Using race-only criteria permits the transfer of government money to a very wealthy, retired black farmer in preference to a poor white family with young children. This is hardly equitable.

In The Quest for Cosmic Justice, Thomas Sowell explained that efforts to achieve “equity” in the form of equality of outcome in lieu of equality of opportunity inevitably create yet greater inequities. The USDA program also favors “underserved” farmers, including “beginning farmers.” The suit does not claim this classification violates racial prohibitions. Still, it is clearly inequitable – why should newbie farmers, often more likely to make errors as they learn the agricultural ropes, be preferentially compensated for losses over intergenerational farm families? The more the government discriminates using cosmic social “justice” categorizations, the more it undermines both equality and equity.

Marxist Chairman Joe Biden?

The Strickland Brief observes that Sowell’s caution is displayed by the USDA disaster relief policies under POTUS Biden:

“On January 20, 2021, President Biden declared it to be the policy of his administration that the federal government would pursue a ‘comprehensive approach to advancing equity for all’ through ‘an ambitious whole-of-government equity agenda.’ Executive Order 13985, Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government, 86 Fed. Reg. 7009 (Jan. 25, 2021). President Biden doubled down on this order on February 16, 2023, pledging to ‘continuously embed equity into all aspects of Federal decision-making,’ by requiring agencies to ensure ‘equitable outcomes.’ Executive Order 14091, Further Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government, 88 Fed. Reg. 10825 (Feb. 22, 2023); but see Rollerson v. Brazos River Harbor Navigation Dist., 6 F.4th 633, 648 (5th Cir. 2021) (Ho, J., concurring in part and concurring in the judgment) (explaining that the difference between equity and equality is ‘the difference between color blindness and critical race theory’). In furtherance of this whole-of-government approach, Thomas Vilsack, Secretary of USDA, proclaimed that he ‘emphatically agreed’ with the President’s orders. U.S. Dep’t of Agric., Equity Action Plan 2023 Update, 2 (2024), https://perma.cc/PQH3-4B3W. And, at his direction, USDA ‘embraced the Administration’s equity agenda’ and is ‘[c]entering equity in everything [it] do[es].’”

Redistributing wealth through government to achieve equal outcomes is Marxist; doing so using race-only categorizations is boldly unconstitutional. Yet this is precisely what the Biden-Harris administration continues to do through regulatory agencies, in defiance of oaths of office and a 2023 Supreme Court ruling. While claiming Donald Trump and his followers are the greatest threat to the nation, Joe Biden persistently flouts clear laws – and farmers often take the short end of the Biden stick. As SFL observes, “Agriculture is a tough enough livelihood without the added hurdle of discrimination. … Natural disasters don’t discriminate. Neither should USDA.”

 

John Klar is an Attorney, farmer, and author. Mostly farmer… And Regular Contributor to GraniteGrok and VermontGrok.

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Mr Town Manager, Mr Chairman,

In response to the highlighted issue, it seems appropriate to establish a code of conduct for members of the town council at the next organizational meeting following the March 2025 election.

It is highly concerning that the town manager pursued a frivolous complaint against former councilwoman Deb Paul but refused to hold Councilman Farrell accountable. Farrell has accosted citizens multiple times outside public meetings.

Related: Complaint Against Town Councilor Dismissed by His Buddies on the Town Council

This is a repeat of an incident with citizen Richard Bielinski that also occurred during John Farrell’s tenure. Captain Breen from the police department witnessed the incident and reportedly advised Councilman Farrell, “You may not want to do that.”

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At some point, this becomes citizen intimidation. We already have Town employees who laugh about how often we are sued. Let’s not allow a runaway councilman to give us yet one more opportunity to be held liable for something as a community, seeing as it is my tax dollars that pay when these things rise to the level of legal action.

Mr. Town Manager, Mr. Chairman, We’d like to know what steps you are taking to reign in runaway Councilman Farrell, who apparently thinks he can treat citizens however he’d like.

I request a constructive response within five days. Mr Chairman, I would note as a final point that the School Board draws lessons in governance from how you run Public Meetings.

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In an article I wrote last September entitled “Judge Arthur Brennan sentenced Father Gordon MacRae to Die in Prison,” I aimed a spotlight at the glaring injustice of the 1994 prosecution of Father Gordon MacRae. Also in these pages, Fr. George David Byers wrote “A Code of Silence in the U.S. Catholic Church: Affidavits.”

It aimed another spotlight at a Church hierarchy morally paralyzed by litigation. A full and transparent view of justice now requires unveiling a related story in the background of the troubling case against Father Gordon MacRae. It’s a story, as the Rev. Richard John Neuhaus once described in the pages of First Things magazine (June/July 2009), “of a Church and a justice system that seem indifferent to justice.”

This account begins in tragedy. Shortly after noon on Friday, May 11, 1979, Peter Linsley, 35, and Jane Linsley, 28, both of Concord, New Hampshire, walked unannounced through the open door of the rectory at Saint Rose of Lima Catholic Church in Littleton, NH, a town of (then) about 5,400 in the north of that state. A year earlier, in May 1978, Peter Linsley was discharged from the state psychiatric hospital on the grounds of the New Hampshire State Prison in Concord. He had been declared no longer a danger to himself or others. He previously entered a plea of innocent by reason of insanity to a charge of aggravated assault on a police officer in July 1977.

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As the Linsleys barged into the Littleton church rectory in May 1979, two parishioners, Mrs. Patricia Lyons and her son, Michael, had been working inside. The home invaders brandished a pair of .357-caliber Magnum revolvers and declared themselves to be “King and Queen of the Church” sent there by God to “cleanse the temple.” They demanded to see the parish priest.

The priest assigned at Saint Rose of Lima Parish at the time was the Rev. Stephen Scruton. As the drama unfolded in his parish rectory that day, Fr. Scruton was aboard a plane somewhere over the Atlantic headed for a vacation in Ireland. With her son held at gunpoint, Mrs. Lyons telephoned Rev. Joseph Sands in the nearby town of Lancaster, about 15 miles away. At gunpoint, she asked the priest to come immediately. A half-hour later, Father Sands became the Linsleys’ third hostage.

After the arrival of Father Sands, the couple ordered Mrs. Lyons to retrieve a dog left in their car, but once outside, she ran for help. Meanwhile, the priest convinced her son, Mike, to escape by jumping from a second-floor window, reportedly telling him, “If you want to get out alive, get out quickly.” Father Joe Sands thus made himself the sole hostage.

Mrs. Lyons went right to the police. Within a half hour, a State Police SWAT team surrounded the parish house and established a telephone link with the Linsleys. The tape-recorded negotiations went on for the next five hours, ending at 5:22 PM when four shots were fired inside the rectory. Peter Linsley murdered Father Joe Sands, then shot and killed Jane Linsley, and then, finally, turned his gun on himself.

At the time in 1979, sitting New Hampshire Governor, the late Honorable Hugh Gallen was a native of Littleton and a friend of Father Stephen Scruton, whose vacation was cut short as he was quickly returned to a parish mired in tragedy. According to a priest who had once lived in that rectory with Father Scruton, Governor Gallen took command of the scene and ordered the five hours of taped negotiations between the Linsleys and police negotiators to be sealed. The tapes never became public.

That priest, the late Rev. Maurice Rochefort, was a friend of both Father Joe Sands and Father Gordon MacRae, who, in 1979, was still three years away from priesthood ordination. Father Rochefort reportedly once told MacRae that the Littleton rectory and its parish priest were not random targets. He said that the gunman sought revenge against Father Stephen Scruton specifically for some unknown previous encounter at the church. That has long been rumored among priests of the Diocese of Manchester who knew Scruton, but none would respond to inquiries about Father Scruton or this incident.

A few years ago, Father MacRae wrote a haunting and deeply sad article entitled “Dark Night of a Priestly Soul.” It was about a priest he knew in his Diocese who in 2002 tragically took his own life after an accusation surfaced against him from 1972. That accusation was also alleged to have occurred at St. Rose of Lima Parish in Littleton. The accuser in that case also accused another priest, Fr. Stephen Scruton.

During the five years before the tragedy that took the life of Father Joe Sands, Gordon MacRae had been a seminary student with the New York Province of the Capuchin Order. After completing the one-year Capuchin novitiate in 1974, MacRae was assigned to Saint Anthony Friary in Hudson, NH, from where he attended nearby Saint Anselm College. He graduated with degrees in philosophy and psychology, with honors, in 1978. During the summer of 1978, the young seminarian sought the counsel of fellow Capuchin and mentor, Father Benedict Groeschel, as he discerned leaving the Capuchins to pursue graduate studies in theology toward diocesan priesthood.

It was an amiable transition. For the next four years (1978 to 1982), seminarian Gordon MacRae studied at St. Mary Seminary & University in Baltimore, Maryland, where he earned simultaneous graduate degrees in divinity and pastoral counseling and a Pontifical degree in theology. For the next four summers, MacRae worked in a three-year internship as a counselor with the Baltimore County Police Crisis Intervention Unit.

A year after the tragic murder of Father Sands, in June of 1980, Father Stephen Scruton was transferred from Littleton to Saint John Parish in Hudson, NH on the state’s southern border. Because seminarian Gordon MacRae had lived in that community as a Capuchin, he requested to be ordained at Saint John Church on June 5, 1982. He was the only candidate for priesthood ordination for the Diocese of Manchester that year. It was there, in late May and early June of 1982 that he first met Father Stephen Scruton.

During his first year of priesthood, Father MacRae was assigned to a deeply troubled parish where four nuns teaching in the parish school had an open and bitterly fought lawsuit against MacRae’s bishop and diocese. It was a situation that Father MacRae inherited, but had no connection to. His first assignment was in a parish deeply divided by this lawsuit and its state-wide publicity.

For an occasional day off, he would drive to Hudson where he had developed many friendships during his years as a Capuchin. On a few occasions, he also visited the three priests at Saint John Parish in Hudson where he was ordained.

During one of those visits in 1983, a Hudson parish secretary pulled Father MacRae aside and told him of a troubling incident in the rectory. She said that she suspected that Father Scruton’s assistant, Father Mark Fleming, had been sexually abusing an 11-year-old boy in this rectory. She told Father MacRae that she saw nothing specific but that her instinct on this was very strong. She said she tried to discuss this with Father Scruton, the pastor, but he brushed it aside and told her not to mention it to anyone else. Father MacRae reportedly told her that if she saw anything at all that caused her to make such a conclusion, she was obligated to report it to police. Other than that conversation, Father MacRae had no connection whatsoever to that case.

Soon after, in 1983, Father Stephen Scruton reported to officials in the Diocese of Manchester that he walked in on and witnessed his associate, Father Mark Fleming, in a sexual incident with a minor boy from the parish. A report was made by the Diocese to state officials as required by New Hampshire law, and the state launched an investigation.

Nothing of this became public until two decades later when the Diocese of Manchester released its priests’ personnel files in an unprecedented agreement with the State Attorney General’s Office. It was revealed only twenty years after the 1983 investigation by the state that Father Mark Fleming had abused three boys, all brothers. No criminal charges were filed, but Fleming was removed from ministry and placed at a psychiatric treatment center in St. Louis. In a 2003 article, the Nashua (NH) Telegraph reported on this story (Albert McKeon, “Priest Turned in another, then was also caught,” March 6, 2003).

In 1984, a year after the Hudson case involving Fathers Scruton and Fleming, Father Stephen Scruton was arrested for lewd conduct and indecent exposure at a highway rest area near Londonderry, NH. According to news accounts, those charges were dropped when he agreed to a plea deal for a misdemeanor charge of criminal trespass. Scruton was placed on leave of absence for six months, then assigned to a small parish in Bennington, NH to replace a priest on sick leave. Upon that priest’s return, he complained to Diocesan officials that Father Scruton embezzled parish funds. The priest threatened civil litigation, and Scruton was placed on leave again. During this period, he was arrested a second time for lewd conduct and indecent exposure at a highway rest area in Massachusetts. Those charges were never fully processed.

In June of 1985, Father Stephen Scruton was assigned as pastor of Saint Bernard Parish in Keene, NH where Father Gordon MacRae had already served as associate pastor for the preceding two years. I have updated this story in an article at this site entitled, “Truth in Justice: Was the Wrong Catholic Priest Sent to Prison?” This document is well worth the time to understand the nightmarish conditions faced by MacRae in these years of priesthood.

Father Stephen Scruton was arrested once again for lewd conduct and indecent exposure at a highway rest area near Keene. His arrest occurred on the afternoon of Easter Sunday in 1987. In police reports, Father Scruton cited the stresses of Holy Week as the cause for his behavior. He pled guilty to the charge in Keene District Court.

To Father MacRae’s shock, Scruton was not immediately removed from the parish by Diocese of Manchester officials. In fact, MacRae heard nothing from anyone connected to his Diocese throughout Scruton’s arrest and the subsequent news accounts. Father Scruton granted an interview with a Keene Sentinel reporter to tell of how his arrest was an “opportunity” to educate the public about sexual addiction. It was then that Father MacRae picked up the phone and called Church officials to demand Scruton’s removal from the parish. Scruton was sent to a treatment facility in Golden Valley, MN, but not before a local bank official called Father MacRae to report Scruton’s embezzlement of $20,000 in parish funds.

Six years later, in 1994, Father Gordon MacRae faced criminal charges and simultaneous civil lawsuits brought by three brothers, Thomas, Jonathan, and David Grover, alleging abuses from sometime between 1978 and 1983. Dorothy Rabinowitz wrote masterfully about the details of MacRae’s trial, the charges brought by these brothers, and other related claims in “The Wall Street Journal on the Case of Fr. Gordon MacRae.”

Jonathan and David Grover, the first of the Grover brothers to make accusations, claimed to have been repeatedly assaulted in Saint Bernard Rectory in Keene and in other places by both Father Gordon MacRae and Father Stephen Scruton, acting both separately and simultaneously. Both brothers had claimed that these assaults first occurred when they were twelve years old.

An immediate and never-explained problem was that Father MacRae was never inside the Keene rectory until June 1983, when Jonathan Grover was 14 years old and David Grover was just two weeks shy of turning 18. Father Scruton was never inside that rectory until June 1985, when these brothers were 16 and 20, respectively. However, Father Scruton refused to answer any questions put by Father MacRae’s defense before trial and fled the state when an attempt was made to subpoena him.

As these facts emerged pre-trial, the investigating police detective, James F. McLaughlin, did nothing. He recorded no interviews, left no evidence to determine who said what to whom and when. At one point, he gave the Grover brothers a copy of Father MacRae’s resume so they could get their dates straight. Then he simply eliminated Father Stephen Scruton from all future reports in the case as though his name had never come up.

The progression of this story from this point on is utterly shocking. It was documented by me in “Truth in Justice,” linked above.

After the onslaught of mediated settlements, many deceased priests of the Diocese of Manchester were accused and could do nothing, of course, to defend themselves or their names. Nearly 30 years after his tragic murder in the Littleton rectory, Father Joseph Sands was posthumously accused.

In 2008, former FBI Special Agent investigator James Abbott began a three-year investigation of this story. He located former priest Stephen Scruton living in Massachusetts. Agent Abbott placed a telephone call to the number at that address. When he asked for Stephen Scruton, a male voice was heard in the background: “Steve, this is your chance to help Gordon.” When Scruton took the phone, he was highly agitated and nervous. He agreed to be interviewed by the former FBI agent, and they set a date for the interview one week later. When investigator Abbott showed up for the interview, Scruton refused to open the door, saying only that he had consulted with someone in the diocese and now declines to answer any questions. Two weeks later, Stephen Scruton suffered a catastrophic fall on the stairs of a Boston lawyer’s office. He never regained consciousness and died just days later. He took the truth with him.

Former FBI agent James Abbott concluded his report on this investigation: “In my three-year investigation of this matter, I found no evidence that Gordon J. MacRae committed these crimes or any crimes.”

Republished with the Author’s Permission.

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On April 23, in Rye, New Hampshire, there was a presentation by the New England Fishermen’s Stewardship Association (NEFSA) on the impacts Offshore Wind (OSW) will have in the Gulf of Maine.

Two million acres were identified by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) for over a thousand Offshore Wind Turbines. They are scheduled to begin sight planning and construction in October 2024. The event, sponsored by Sea Bee Honey, was attended by approximately 80 people at the Rye Congregational Church. Fishermen, boaters, the general public, and others came to hear about what’s coming off the NH coast starting this October. The five NH gubernatorial candidates, many representatives, and senators were invited, but only one candidate showed up to listen. In attendance of the officials invited were Chuck Morse, NH state representatives Jason Gerhard, Kelley Potenza, and Deb Hobson.

I encourage everyone to listen and share this 1 hour 45 minute presentation. Once they start developing off our shores, we have absolutely no idea the cause and effects it will have and it may be too late to stop the damage.

The first part of the presentation was by Jerry Leeman, CEO of NEFSA. Mr. Leeman focused on the planned OSW impact on the fisheries and fishermen in the Gulf of Maine. Particularly our ocean food supply. If they destroy local fishing, our food will come by plane/ship. It makes zero sense why anyone thinks getting our food from China or Japan will save CO2 is a mystery. And those countries have zero protections for the ocean ecosystem and will cost much more for products to market. And it’s not “green.”

George Stover, NEFSA consultant with 42 years in the power industry, presented a detailed explanation of “The Language of Electricity” and the hows and whys of the electrical grid in New England.

John Borden, a fisherman from Portsmouth, NH, discussed how offshore wind in the Gulf of Maine would challenge an industry that is already stressed and heavily government-restricted.

The offshore wind projects have brought little jobs and power and unprecedented harm to ocean mammals. There have been ten dead mammals where they are surveying for OSW expansion off NJ, NY, and the MA coast. The list below are over 40 dead mammals from January to May 1 2024. These are the mammals we know about. There are no studies of the effects on mammals, microorganisms, and the problem or poisons to which these giant turbines have been linked. New England is known for its seafood; be sad if it all comes from another country halfway around the world.

Call write your state reps and senators and help stop this before it’s too late…

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SB574, as amended, passed the House of Representatives 352-7. This important legislation allows children to have equal access to both their fit, willing, and able parents after separation or divorce.

Passing SB574 protects the Constitutional and God-given rights of parents and the rights of children to be parented.

Representative Lorie Ball-Salem (Rock. 25) could not have said it better, “This amendment continues to provide the exact same protection to victims of domestic violence, abuse, and neglect and does not prevent parents from creating a parenting plan that works for them. I implore my esteemed colleagues in the House to show our constituents that we have heard their pleas.”

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This legislation, current state law under RSA461-A Parental Rights and Responsibilities as well as numerous other state laws, addresses the stakeholders concerns regarding domestic violence, abuse and neglect. The court has the obligation to uphold the laws that have been legislated.

Amendment 2024-1853h, states:
Parental Rights and Responsibilities; Statement of Purpose. Amend RSA 461-A:2, I(a) to read as follows:
(a) Support [frequent and continuing contact] approximately equal parenting time
between each child and both parents.
3 Determination of Parental Rights and Responsibilities; Best Interest. Amend RSA 461-A:6, I-
a to read as follows:
I-a. If the court concludes that [frequent and continuing contact] approximately equal
parenting time between each child and both parents is not in the best interest of the child, the
court shall make findings supporting its order.
4 Effective Date. This act shall take effect January 1, 2025.

We commend representative Lisa Post (Hills. 4) and the numerous co-sponsors for bringing this important legislation forward.

Representing the people and bi-partisan support got this passed in the House overwhelmingly on two separate occasions this session. HB185 passed 202-172, and SB574, with amendment 1853h, passed 352-7.

We would be remiss if we did not acknowledge previous efforts on this same issue. We recognize previous and current members of the New Hampshire Legislature, the Honorable Betty Gay of Salem, the Honorable and Commissioner of Education – Frank Edelblut (Hills. 38) -HB1118 (2016), Chairman of Children and Family Law Committee – Representative Mark Pearson (Rock. 34) HB 236 (2017), Representative Jim Kofalt (Hills. 4) HB1382 (2022), Representative JD Bernardy (Rock. 36) for recognizing the state of the family court and bringing investigation forward in HR14 and the years of dedication Representative David Bickford (Straf. 3) has committed to reforming outdated laws to better protect New Hampshire children and families.

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(Cue the music)

The ciiiiircle, the circle of Mondays…

Please remember, I’m down to Monday & Friday.  Last week’s Friday Edition.

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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Very happy to have his autographed picture.  Though, alas, not personalized to me.

 

 

 

 

Delicious mockery!

 

 

 

 

Control the information flow, control what people believe.

 

 

 

 

Remember, they are MISSIONARIES.  They are TRUE BELIEVERS.

 

 

Say WHAT now?  My WHAT for sale?????  And the fact that there needs to be a law to protect them???????

 

 

 

 

 

Ridicule.  Beautiful.

 

 

Where is Greek steel?  Where is the defiance worthy of Leonidas?

 

 

 

 

No wonder they killed him.  (Did I type that out loud?  Note: I’m not suicidal or depressed.)

 

 

 

Get the gallows ready, IMHO.

 

 

 

 

 

This was very recent.  Despite all the evidence these are sham trials, despite all the evidence coming out of Georgia that there were “shenanigans”, this woman bitterly clings (see what I did there) to the belief that the election was completely fair.  You simply cannot reason with these people.

I want to say this is the same woman who told me, years ago, that Gruesome Newsom was being groomed for the Presidency.  Not sure, but that photo seems to ring a memory bell.

 

 

Now in the open.

 

 

 

 

 

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PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA

 

 

Not safe.  Not effective.  Keep saying HELL NO!

 

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Some posts ago I had a picture of some workmen removing a statue of Thomas Jefferson.

 

 

 

 

Ashley’s diary is real.  Confirmed.  And yet… his supporters are knowingly dismissing, or even accommodating, this simply because Orange Man Bad.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

At this point I think it’s safe to wonder about ANY disease outbreak these days.

 

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Link section (some mine, some from my Jarhead friend):

 

Main computer not working.  Will have to do on Friday, so expect a good amount of links.

 

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Pick of the post:

 

 

Might be a repeat, but so what?  Here, and in another chronologically-distinct letter, she’s denied any physical relationship with Trump.  These two things alone, in a just and sane world, should be enough to have the case dismissed with prejudice.  Related:

 

 

 

 

 

Analysis of the above yields:

 

 

And I love the acting in this scene.  The tone and tremor of the man speaking about the Rule of Law makes you really believe it.

A Man for All Seasons – The Devil Speech (youtube.com)

 

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Palate Cleansers:

 

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I recently visited the Home Depot nursery to pick up a catnip plant because I want to be “the source” to neighborhood cats that regularly visit.  Please talk to your cats about catnip before someone else does, but let’s now talk about POT as it relates to senate dynamics.

A little birdie told me that Commander Sharon is very displeased at Daryl Abbas for voting OTP on a pot bill (HB1633) in the judiciary committee, perhaps as much as I am at her for moving HB 1002 OTP.

He is a cat person, as is Sharon. Still, he’s been disobedient (like a kid or family pet) because he joined the enemy camp committee members on a pot bill, thus swinging the committee recommendation their way.  Since Sharon is a veteran, one might consider calling such disobedience by its military name insubordination.

An attorney practicing just south of the border, he’s certainly not stupid, and it might be worth exploring who his donors are and which ones might benefit from the pot bill.  He also holds no leadership positions(committee chair or vice chair), which I surmise is by choice as being a lawyer is his day job as breadwinner to a young family, which must occupy most of his time.  Fair enough.  If you’re not in a chain of command, there’s no demoting to be done.

As Senator Gray personally informed me that Donna Soucy chooses the committee assignments of the enemy camp troops, Sharon chooses them for “our side.”  Next year, in HER senate, will she expel Abbas from Judiciary for his insubordination?

Hold that thought while we visit “the other side of the wall” for a moment.

Speaker Sherman recently removed Rep Leah Cushman for administering oaths, something she was well within the confines of what’s ok to do.  Also, think back to 2022 when Rep Weyler was accused of saying that a certain heavily promoted item was “full of little creatures and 5G transmitters” instead of “safe and effective.”  He was removed from his chairmanship of the Joint Fiscal Committee at the behest of the Damn Emperor and replaced with establishment RINO Karen Umberger, who was not reelected in 2022.

As a fellow Londonderry-bred member of Concord’s elite, one might expect Sharon to be like the Speaker as she is his presumptive senate counterpart next year.  Senate Judiciary currently has three members from red districts, which means that they don’t have to toil to fight for every vote in order to stay in office.  That also means that they can commit abominations against all of NH, in committee or in the chamber, such as supporting the RTK Tax, with impunity, but pot is seemingly a sacred cow in senate leadership.  Yeah, Senator Murphy has voted for it before, but he’s not on Sharon’s committee.  If Abbas is expelled from that committee, which “Sharon loyalist” will be his replacement?

No matter what happens to pot or to Daryl Abbas’s senatorial future, his cats are certainly welcome to cross the Merrimack River for some catnip here in another state-line district. Meow.

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I want you to take a close look at this. It combines elements of the platforms/policies of the Democrat Party and the Republican Party. And tell me what parts of this new “third-way” you disagree with:

Okay … I LIED. It is a page from Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism that shows the program of fascism, in its country of birth, at the time it was ruled by one of the progenitors of fascism … BENITO MUSSOLINI.

Fascism is simply the Italian … more specifically, Giovanni Gentile and Benito Mussolini and others … manifestation of “socialism” or collectivism … that system of government which I previously described, in my post explaining that the campus-“protesters” are more akin to Nazis than Marxists, as follows:

a system of governance where there is a ruling class and the rest of society is coercively structured to serve the ruling class under the guise of serving “the common good,” “the State,” “social justice,” “equity,” blah, blah, blah.

All of the “isms” employ censorship. What really makes the modern Left in America akin to fascists is all of the other things it has in common with Gentile/Mussolini fascism. And I am not saying that the entire Italian-fascist program is bad … for example, what’s wrong with repealing titles of nobility; albeit I support that for a very different reason than the Italian-fascists.

One of the differences between fascism and Marxism, that makes the modern Left in America more akin to fascists than to other “isms,” is that fascists believed that government control of the means of production was a better way to manifest socialism than abolishing private ownership.

Excellent thread on this from Tom Elliot that I am reposting:

Memo to my friends in the media covering Italy's elections:

Italian fascism — and especially Mussolini — were not "right wing," but rather another statist/collectivist ideology that was worshipped among left-wing intellectuals of the day.

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) September 26, 2022

 

 

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Seven days, one comment each day. Your vote decides the winner!

Here are your ‘contestants.’

Post: Jeb’s Senate Commenter: CT Patriot “In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”- Martin Luther King, Jr. We are continually betrayed by the Republicans we elect. Post: The Proverbial Picture Worth A Thousand Words Commenter: NHnative Ed I want you to answer this question, which I’ve asked you many times: What the hell do you want the voters to do out here? I don’t know one regular reader here that doesn’t get what the Uniparty is all about. We’re all dedicated voters and workerbees.. we go into the polls and pick from what is usually a list of crappy Republicans. What else can we do? Most of us knew Chris Ager would be a deadbeat water carrier- just as he’s been. We did what we could and no one listened- as usual. They installed their puppet, just as we knew they would. He’s delivered us nothing but more puppets to pick from, just as we knew he’d do. Do you want us to waste a vote going third party and grow the nutcases from that group? Do you want us to waste a vote writing in a candidate? Are we supposed to accept that we’re bitter clingers and just give up? or move to Florida? I mean what choices are there really? You of all people know how corrupt the state is and that a whole lot of our real power to change all this has been stripped from us- but yet this audience keeps on soldiering onward. This audience here are not the Bitter Clingers.. that is the WMUR crowd. Ed you need to spend your time directing people instead of beating them over the head with names. We need to root the corruption out of NH, give us a plan to do this. I think we’ve got an organizational issue on the right in NH. The RINOs need to be identified- loudly, and gone- replaced by MAGA supporters. Because, given that Trump won here AGAIN, that is clearly who the majority of the actual voters on the right want and support. But yet Concord is packed with clowns. Post: Inventing Human Rights To Erase Religious Freedom Commenter: Jay Eshelman Article 7 of the Vermont Constitution is the fly in the ointment. Why it hasn’t been challenged in Federal Court is a curiosity. But clearly, Article 7, in the Vermont Constitution, usurps the rights of individuals enumerated in the U. S. Constitution. Nowhere in our founding document is a State authorized to mandate “… that the community hath an indubitable, unalienable, and indefeasible right, to reform or alter government, in such manner as shall be, by that community, judged most conducive to the public weal.” The 5th Amendment states that: “No person shall … be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.” The 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution specifically states that: “No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” On the other hand, Benjamin Franklin warned of the impending lawlessness of ‘the People’ (i.e., the ‘community’) when he opined that: “… this Constitution, with all its Faults, if they are such… is likely to be well administred for a Course of Years and can only end in Despotism as other Forms have done before it, when the People shall become so corrupted as to need Despotic Government, being incapable of any other.” Yes, “Vermonters, you are being governed by law-breaking ideologues.” Unfortunately, “… world depression and local food shortages” are the least of our worries. Post: Another Local School District Asked to Explain Its Anti-Semitism Commenter: Beth Is this an SNL skit or a Babylon Bee post? “This mistake involved a spring concert where someone approved the theme “From the River to the Sea.” You were quoted in the Seacoast Online article saying it “was mistakenly chosen as the theme for Hampton Academy’s upcoming spring concert.”” For sure someone should submit it to Not the Bee. Post: An unholy alliance: Leftism and Islamism Commenter: NITZAKHON If I might, I’d like to dig a level (or two) deeper on why these two seemingly-opposed ideologies are attracted to each other. BOTH Islam and Communism… * Ruthless authoritarian systems * Value the Collective over the Individual * Have America as target #1 * Have any competing religion – for as I’ve been saying for years, Communism is a religion – as enemies Now, what will be entertaining to watch is what happens if they succeed in bringing down America (and more broadly, the West)? Just how quickly will they turn on the other? And in a battle between atheistic Communism (not placing any value on human life) and religious-jihad Islam (ditto), with no more moral limits on WMD use, who would win? Two great books on this: Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam And the American Left United in Hate: The Left’s Romance with Tyranny and Terror Post: Trump Trials Falling Like A House of Cards Commenter: Bs M We have been seeing all these kinds of fluff headlines for the last seven years. Remember that giant red wave, that was actually a dried up puddle in the desert? If things were sane and normal, these headlines would all be true, but the entire world is now run by insane criminals. The stories always end the way they want them to, reality and facts be damned. Don’t get to excited. If by some miracle this doesn’t take Trump out of play, they absolutely will JFK him. The only way this does not happen, is if Trump has been part of their team all along. Sometimes I wonder, especially with the crazy decisions Trump makes at times. Yes I am voting for Trump, but the man’s decision making process, stumps the hell out me more than I like to admit. Mike Johnson being the most recent. And Kevin McCarthy just prior to that. Trump also still thinks the poison shots, were manna from heaven. Post: The Cultural Issues Tainting the Libertarian Movement Commenter: Not Quite Human The problem with libertarianism is that it ignores the tendencies of human nature and essential science. We as a society will always be as bad as we can get away with, particularly if our culture does not value those virtues that are necessary to a functional society. They are “for” liberty, but ignore that mankind as a whole tends to be “for” slavery–to himself and to others. And half of them would find themselves in chains to others just as soon as they got the “liberty” they seem to want, begging for shackles because they are NOT fit for liberty and someone said there was garlic and free housing in Egypt. The real problem of society is not “you’re not the boss of me”; the real problem is “at what point is bossing warranted?” Because eventually, everything we do and are is connected to others, and stopping someone dragging others down around them is a greater aid to general liberty than simply pronouncing the Satanic mantra, “‘Do what thou wilt’ shall be the whole of the law” and then washing your hands of your neighbors.

This poll will run until 8 pm tomorrow evening.

Pick one Commenter as This Weeks Winner

• CT Patriot
• NHNative
• Jay Eshelman
• Beth
• NITZAKHON
• Bs M
• Not Quite Human

Vote

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Most American cities and towns are proud of their Open-Air or Farmer’s Markets. They block off city blocks, bring in local vendors and food tents with ethnic offerings and music, and organize these events as community gatherings and social events.

They are a melting pot of humanity, with young and older people from every background mingling and sharing a piece of Americana. New York, specifically Queens, has its unique twist on the open-air market, and the residents are enraged that law enforcement cannot stop this Big Apple event. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez has little, if anything, to say about this social event. Open-air brothels are the focal point of some Queens neighborhoods.

I will call Congresswoman Cortez, Sandy, as I refuse to use her preferred three-letter label. I will concede that Sandy has no direct impact on local happenings in her district, but she must speak out when her district is running amuck. Sandy prevented Amazon from building a distribution center in Queens that would have brought thousands of good-paying jobs because she did not understand tax breaks versus taxpayer loans. Sandy is an ignorant loudmouth who has done nothing for her home district. She will have primary competition in this year’s election and may have to return to shaking drinks.

The area of Corona in Queens has become overrun with illegal migrants who are doing whatever they can to make money to live. The streets are littered with clothes, household appliances, sneakers, and toys for sale. They are also the home of the largest open-air brothel in New York. Seven days a week, morning, noon, and night, young girls and older women display themselves on the city sidewalks, soliciting customers to pay them for sexual activity. Signs are on the buildings promoting the offerings of these prostitutes, and grammar school children are employed to hand out flyers and business cards promoting specific hookers.

Because of the police shortage, the court overloads, and the Liberal DA’s unwillingness to charge and prosecute sex trade offenses makes all of the activity possible. These DAs overlook the truth that many of these females are here against their will, part of a sex trafficking operation component of the illegal migration. With the girls and their Johns openly operating, the streets are not safe for law-abiding New Yorkers. This kind of local activity puts progress in Progressive for people in Congress like Sandy. She is not impacted by activity that would be a crime in every other corner of America because she lives safely in a gated D.C. community. Sandy and her Squad members are in office to destroy America. They despise America, its history, and the capitalism that made America a superpower and leader of innovation.

Whether it is Cortez in New York, Omar in Minnesota, or Tlaib in Michigan, their home districts have suffered during their terms. As people are waking up to what has happened in the last decade, you can sense a return to normalcy and a threat to the Democrat stranglehold these Leftist Reps have enjoyed. It is time to save America and reinvigorate our patriotism. Retiring Biden/ Harris will be included in this effort.

 

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This author recently wrote about the nature of capitalism in contradiction to its opposing ideology— communism. We echoed Javier Milei’s view that capitalism’s self-correcting mechanisms are not failures. This is akin to being on a bandstand in a jazz band. There are no failures if you approach the unfolding of events as part of the process.

A failure is only a failure if the group treats it as such. If a jazz band improvises off of a misplayed note, then it becomes part of the performance. Similarly, If a company’s investments losing value and causing price rebalancing across the market is considered simply a natural process in the markets, which it is, then all of the accessories to considering such an event a failure are unnecessary.

These accessories are typically government interventions and media hysteria promoting such interventions. None of this is necessary. The government and media can still exist and play a role in markets without such non-capitalistic socialist and communist-styled interventions. Contrary to socialist orthodoxy, all societal participants and jobs could exist and even be improved under the capitalist model.

This past week, a Tesla factory was raided by supposed anti-capitalists. A growing movement on the political left decries capitalism. They often protest that capitalism leads to all sorts of nefarious things and does nothing good. These people have believed wrongly that capitalism is a failing system and that what is necessary is to tear down the capitalist economy. This is simply silly.

What humans call capitalism is a natural and universal process. We use words in the English language like market, economy, and capital to describe features of human interaction. Such interactions are necessary in a society. They happen in all human societies. These interactioms help people to create prosperity and abundance for themselves and for their communities.

No human can live alone. We are not meant to live solo. Everyone who has tried has lost their life. Humans are meant to live in communities and interact with each other to help each other share the responsibilities, duties, and activities that are essential for human life. The exchange of complex, sophisticated goods and services that occur between humans requires the devices we call markets, prices, and capital.

We would not be able to build airplanes, computers, clothes, or other complex products without this system of interactions that we call capitalism. It doesn’t matter what this system of interactions is called. All of these products, which many take for granted, require intense specialization of labor and activity.

For example, a car requires steel to be mined, refined, and finished into a product. Similar multistage complex processes must occur with multiple different types of plastics, electronics, textiles, and other materials. None of this can be possible in any system other than the one we describe by the word capitalism.

Thus, saying that capitalism must be torn down and destroyed is like saying we must tear down and destroy a natural human function— like walking or communicating through speech, or farming. Imagine if farming was decried as a negative human process in the same way that the political left is propagandizing against capitalism. How stupid would that be?

This is why the arguments to destroy and overhaul capitalism are silly at best and ultimately stupidly idiotic.

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I have been saying I need to get involved, but I hate leaving the house and have said when an event is local, I will attempt to go. Moms for America had an event at Harley Jacks in Ossipee, and I did not get the gumption to go.

Then in a Wolfboro group I had talked about my efforts to at least act locally and then was told a US Senate Candidate would be down the road at Indian Mound Golf Course’s restaurant, The River’s Edge Grille & Tavern. I was called out and had to standby my word. Can’t get much closer. How could I not say “Yes”?

Holly Novelesky, who is running for Congress in New Hampshire’s 1st Congressional District, was the guest speaker. She is dynamic and a very good speaker. She runs a business and has been in the Steel industry along with being a Nurse and she served our country as a US Army reservist. She is as strict as Trump when it comes to immigration, being a nurse, of course she wants to work to fix the many issues in the Medical Industry, and is very energy conscious and understands that you can not just turn off coal and go alternative.

She understands we need to work on transitioning to alternate green energy solutions. She believes all illegal immigrants should be deported but does not advocate actively looking for them. Her attitude is when anyone commits a crime, if they are here illegally, meaning if they did not go through the Lawful process of immigrating here, then they should be immediately deported.

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Now I consider myself a Hippie Conservative with a twinge of liberalism, so I asked her, “What about those illegals who have been here working and actually contributing to society where they live, is there any way we could work with those good people caught in a bad place?” She said she believed in the two-tier system we have always had, and that would create a third tier, which would mean all the immigrants who have already gone through the process, and the ones in the legal process now, would unfairly be held back while those who broke the law to come here would go to the front of the line, and that is wrong. I could not argue that point.

She was asked about what she could do to look into the issues of the legal system in NH where we have issues from the top down where people who are not actually trained in Law Enforcement are overseeing our State police, Sheriffs, and local departments. She said her position does not give her much pull in local with NH issues.

She was then asked about congressional investigations into Law enforcement issues in states and why she could not work to have a panel of some sort investigate it? She had not thought about it that way, and that she would look into the issues.

Now, I Wish I had thought about the major case involving child welfare at the NH Youth Detention Center. If ever something needed federal attention, that is it.

I asked her about her Energy Independence plan and whether it would include drilling in Anwar (The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge), and she admitted she was not familiar with details about drilling there and would need to research further. I should have pushed her since Trump has said he would start up again as soon as he gets back in office, and how she did not know with all the news around about it over the last couple of decades? At least I planted the seed.

I spoke about her Clean Energy policy and how alternative green energy is not proven, especially in climates like New Hampshire’s, and her thoughts on Nuclear Power, which I believe is our best solution at this point in time. She said she should have included nuclear when she spoke about her Energy Independence policy and that alternative energy methods should work in concert with nuclear and coal as we work to transition to green energy in the future.

I didn’t like her answers on ANWAR or her Green Energy Plan, but those, in my humble opinion, are not enough to withhold my vote. I can vote for her “Without Holding My Nose,” and that is my litmus test on being able to vote for someone. https://www.holliefornewhampshire.com/

 

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Antifa was founded in the 1930s to attract National Socialists to their Marxist cause. The Former were attracting people away from their movement—which has very similar worldviews—and the Marxists wanted a monopoly on unhinged, violent street thuggery. Socialists do, after all, think they should own everything.

Someone has to own it; it just can’t be you.

For obvious reasons, these details are left out of the 21st-century Anifa brochures (saving space for all the color photos of them setting  Portland ablaze). Pretty. Fire. Hee Hee.

Any affectations to the contrary are nonsense. They don’t care about gays, or blacks, or women’s health care, or being trans, or justice of any kind. They are focused on using those things to divide people so that they are unable or unwilling to join hands against the Democrat party. A party that hates it when other people have guns. The party of “you didn’t build that.”

Antifa are the left’s modern-day red shirts (in black block). They are engaged in street actions. They are, for all intents and purposes, a militia. But, laws regulating militias never mention Antifa. They talk about patriot groups or anti-government groups and use that as an excuse for other agendas. Vermont passed anti-militia legislation as part of a zoning dispute. Portland, where you can’t swing a dead cat without hitting an Antifa member, has legislation prohibiting or limiting citizen ‘militias.’

 

SECTION 1. (1) A person or group of persons is subject to an action described in subsection (2) or (3) of this section for engaging in paramilitary activity if the person or group
of persons knowingly, while acting as part of a private paramilitary organization or on behalf
of or in furtherance of any objective of a private paramilitary organization:
(a) While armed with a deadly weapon, publicly patrols or drills;
(b) While armed with a dangerous or deadly weapon:
(A) Publicly engages in techniques capable of causing physical injury or death;
(B) Substantially disrupts governmental operations or a government proceeding;
(C) Assumes, exercises or asserts, without legal authorization, the functions, powers or
duties of:
(i) A law enforcement officer, including any sheriff, police officer, marshal or other peace
officer; or
(ii) Any local, city, county, state or federal official; or
(D) Interferes with another person and thereby:
(i) Prevents the other person, or attempts to prevent the other person, from engaging
in conduct in which the other person has a legal right to engage; or
(ii) Causes the other person, or attempts to cause the other person, to engage in conduct
from which the other person has a legal right to abstain; or
(c) Trains to engage in any activity described in paragraphs (a) or (b) of this subsection.

 

No state allows paramilitary militias – not exactly -but what, in the context of the Oregon bill, is something Antifa does not or has not done? They are, by design, a trained, organized, violent faction, but all we ever hear is how they are involved in some violent act or about how they seized a police station or courthouse or tried to do that.

It might be a good question for candidates who support additional layers of law to address “groups,” especially if they invoke January 6th. The only armed individuals were government “employees.” If that is the framework or motivation for new legislation to address unrest, you’d better be prepared to explain how you’ve gotten buy-in from ‘constituents’ in BLM or Antifa, both of whom are more likely to run afoul of the law was the intention that it be equally applied.

 

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66 Billion to Illegal Immigrants & Just 3 Billion to Our Homeless Veterans …

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Kelly Ayotte is no conservative … unless you define “conservative” as spending the first five years of your Senate term being a mini-me John McCain and the last as a mini-me Jeannie Shaeenie. Morse is no conservative either … he voted to enshrine Obamacare into State law and staunchly supported COVID-tyranny.

More importantly, running as a “conservative” is not the way to win statewide office in New Hampshire for the foreseeable future. Hell, even the supposedly “conservative” CD-1 looks like it is going to belong to Chris Pappas for as long as he wants it. So why should the NHGOP primary be about which candidate is the most conservative … given that real conservatism is anathema to a majority of New Hampshire voters?

Let’s look at the 2022 CD-1 primary and general election. Karoline Leavitt received approximately 25,000 votes in the primary, while Mowers and Gail Huff Brown … who presumably were viewed as less conservative than Leavitt … combined for approximately 33,000. Prescott and Baxter combined for approximately 15,000.

Pappas won the general election by a landslide … 167,000 to 142,000. The “conservative” in CD-2, Burns, fared even worse. He was blown out by 36,000 votes. So, I ask again, why are Ayotte and Morse … who aren’t even conservatives … making the primary about who is the conservative? Makes no sense.

Sun-King Chris Sununu did NOT repeatedly win elections because the majority of voters believed he was a real conservative. He won precisely because the voters believed, quite correctly, that he was NOT a real conservative. I am aware that Sununu used the term “conservative” to describe himself, but his positions … abortion-on-demand, “diversity-is-our-strength,” boys participating in girls’ school sports, COVID-tyranny, etc., etc., etc. … were anything but real conservativism.

Unfortunately, bitter-clingers this is what New Hampshire has become … a place where only a pseudo-Republican like a Chris Sununu or a Larry Hogan or a Charlie Baker can win a major office like Governor or Congress.

What probably would best position Ayotte and Morse for the general election is to just drop the conservative-schtick.

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For years, I have always tried to give the libertarian movement the benefit of the doubt. I know there are different factions/degrees in the movement that may be more left or right leaning than others that claim to invoke or promote various concepts of voluntary, individual liberty.

I am not an expert on this school of thought, nor do I have any status or prestigious credentials about libertarianism to offer. What I can offer is my own observation and keen sense of identification.

Economically, I think the movement is spot on with many issues such as auditing the Fed, getting rid of income and other unnecessary taxes on both the Fed and state level, opposition to big central banks, concern over the revolving door (back and forth between multinational corporations/lobbyists and political positions), statist/coercive policies on any level and more.

In terms of civil liberties, they are great with a majority of issues such as defending due process, opposing unequal treatment of the law, opposing aggressive foreign policy, supporting vocalized protests against abuse of state and local power, calling out the weaponization and militarization of our federal administrative agencies, opposing the media propaganda, promoting voluntary associations and assembly, and the list goes on.

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In principle, the elements of voluntary association, non-aggression, localized representation, grassroots initiatives, free markets, regional banks, and decentralized currency all embody a set of concepts that sound pro-liberty, Constitutional, and likely are. 3

However, culturally, there seem to be some flaws. Unless, of course, there are various movements infiltrating some apparatus sectors of the libertarian movement. Either way, and most prevalently with LGBT activism, the legalization of drugs and legalization of prostitution ideas do not reflect the moral order of God’s natural law. This is not to say all libertarians support this. However, the umbrella of libertarianism seems to include anyone and anything that “does not harm anyone” and is “voluntary,” tolerating the pseudo-intelligentsia woke ideology that crept in behind the original movement closely associated with Ron Paul.
Where is the line drawn, though? Can anyone assert to be a libertarian because they don’t want to go to war, want local governments to have more control and privatization of the economy as much as possible?

What about staunch pro-choice, LGBT, prostitution, and drug rights? Can they be libertarian if they invoke one of these progressive issues while simultaneously declaring they are anti-vaccine, want less government all around (not a bad idea on its own), etc?

The libertarian movement should continue to be inclusive (in a non-woke manner) and promote the voluntary, non-aggression, anti-regime change ideals many sincerely promote in various ways and through a multitude of mediums. However, the party needs to adopt or become more vocal on some moral positions that are in alignment with Judeo Christian framework we were founded on (if they have already, then I refute this statement).

The concept of individual liberty is necessary, but only if it does not violate the natural rights of others. LGBT activism, hard drugs such as fentanyl and opioids, and the pouring in of hard drugs and rampant prostitution have all done spiritual damage to our youth despite this concept of “individual liberty.” Though the government has also abused the war on drugs and can use these issues as a false cover to become Orwellian, the issues should not be ignored. These issues should devolve to the states if not explicitly stated in the US Constitution. The laws of nature imply a moral order, not just rogue forms of individual liberty. This is a spiritual issue more than anything. Sometimes a consensual decision leads to spiritual death and depravity and our country should also protect these people in bondage or victims to un-Godly decisions, as well as our children.

Even if heavy-handed government policies are not enforced, at the minimum, God’s law should be promoted in the libertarian apparatus, especially with the way drugs and sexual perversion are polluting young people’s minds and cognitive development, not in a way that evangelizes but in a way that upholds the natural moral order. If we promote these values organically and work to engineer these ideas and promote the liberating power of the God of the Holy Bible, perhaps the next generation, less government would be necessary to promote and protect public health and order.

To those who already confront this and call this out thank you. This is more of an external view.

 

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Urban pandemonium and rampant crime are transforming many American cities into seemingly third-world metropolises. Aggravating this roiling mayhem is a flagrant open-border policy that is flooding US cities with undocumented foreigners in street camps and homeless shelters.

Alarming increases in reported cases of measles, tuberculosis, polio, and leprosy are all just additional symptoms of these chaotic times. Yet “vaccine hesitancy” from so-called “disinformation” is being widely blamed for these outbreaks by government and media outlets.

Applying the rubric of COVID-19 response to illegals carrying diseases is simple enough – social distancing, masking, contact tracing, and vaccination have long been the tools to combat measles, tuberculosis, and polio as well as coronaviruses. Hundreds of thousands of foreigners from nations with inferior safeguards against contagious illnesses have overrun US borders both north and south, evading traditional protections. Establishment media and government agencies poo-poo concerns that open borders risk resurrecting diseases once thought conquered in America, instead scorning detractors as racist nativists or vax-deniers. “Real science” (and common sense) suggests that untracked and un-vaccinated immigrants may be bringing not just fentanyl and weapons into the country but deadly pathogens as well.

Disease and Misinformation Outbreaks

The widespread media spin is that measles and TB are rising because of dangerous domestic sources:  vaccine-hesitant US citizens. Common sense and science were jettisoned under the fear-mongering COVID-19 mRNA roll-out, along with liberties protecting free speech, free travel, and freedom of assembly. Americans were told a slew of unscientific lies about COVID-19 and novel vaccines by a government peddling Big Pharma products. This seeded a distrust not just of novel mRNA shots but of all vaccines, all around the world.

The jabs were not 100% safe and effective: They did not prevent infection, symptoms, or transmission. They caused myocarditis and other adverse health problems, and they were unnecessary for healthy minors despite being pressed upon them. None of this led to an increase in trust of either Big Pharma or the government.

It doesn’t help that the children of American citizens are required to be vaccinated against measles to attend New York City public schools in which illegals enroll their unvaccinated kids under an exemption. Meanwhile, vaccine proponents push to eliminate religious and philosophical exemptions for future vaccines, claiming “misinformation” is behind parental hesitancy. This will likely encourage even more parents to keep their young children home to protect them from both potentially infected foreigners and dubious medical “science.”

Outbreaks of varying diseases in Chicago, New York, and Florida all exhibit a similar pattern of government and media bias and misinformation.

Chicago’s Measles Outbreak

Measles is highly contagious, but it was reportedly eliminated from the US in 2000. In order to seed outbreaks, it must therefore be imported, find an unvaccinated population, and spread. Tens of thousands of unmonitored illegal migrants flocking over the Rio Grande are a natural vector for transmission, which is precisely what occurred in Chicago. However, the Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH) claimed that unvaccinated illegals are the victims, not the cause. “We have no reason to believe that new arrivals are bringing infections to Chicago,” CDPH public information coordinator Jacob Martin told Newsweek. But if the disease isn’t being brough in by unvaccinated migrants, where is it coming from?

“In this case, we believe the opposite, as the first measles infection identified in Chicago was not found in the new arrivals population, and 17 different states in the U.S. are currently experiences an emergent measles outbreak of some kind due to reduced vaccination rates,” Martin continued. “Measles is already here in the United States, but he migrant population on the whole is under-vaccinated compared to the traditional Chicago population and is therefore at higher risk of infection.”

This unscientific conclusion ignores real science. How can the CDPH possibly know how many cases are transmitted by an enormous influx of untracked, unvaccinated migrants traveling from nations where measles is more common? How can it conclude that the 17 other states are not similarly exposed – or that outbreaks are attributable to “reduced vaccination rates”? There must be a host to infect the unvaccinated. Similarly, the CDC reported that “most of the recent importations involved unvaccinated Americans who got infected in the Middle East and Africa and brought measles back to the U.S.” How can the CDC accurately trace ghost migrants who avoid monitoring?

If not the cause of importation, there is no dispute that unvaccinated immigrants are a key demographic for spread: Per the CDC’s report, more than half of 2024’s cases come from the Chicago outbreak, largely from people living in migrant shelters. Dr. Janette Nesheiwat, a doctor in NYC, told Fox News that the outbreaks in Chicago were predictable. “To be honest, I’m not surprised,” she said. “We have open borders with all sorts of people coming in from countries from all over the world bringing in various illnesses, viruses, disease and bacterial infections.”

Medical science confirms this logic. Open borders bypass overseas and US-entry screening, eliminate tracking, and make therapy and treatment difficult. Yet headlines proclaim that it is unvaccinated, misinformed Americans who are the threat. Such claims create a vicious cycle of yet more distrust of politicized government misinformation, increasing vaccination reticence.

New York City’s Tuberculosis

A recent tuberculosis outbreak in New York City appears to be similarly connected to illegals. In the Big Apple, the TB rate is 6.1 cases per 100,000 – more than double the national rate. According NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Commissioner Ashwin Vasan, “close to nine out of 10 (88%) of these TB cases are people born outside the United States.”

A 2019 study titled “The impact of migration on tuberculosis in the United States” concluded:

“Due to greater exposure to Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection before migration, migrants moving to low-incidence settings can experience substantially higher tuberculosis (TB) rates than the native-born population.

“….TB among non-US-born individuals now represents the majority of new TB cases. ….As TB disease can develop many years after infection, migrants exposed to high rates of tuberculous infection in their country of origin face elevated risks of future active disease after US arrival compared with US-born individuals ….with 53% of TB cases in non-US-born individuals coming from the top five countries (Mexico, the Philippines, India, Viet Nam and China), and 22% from Mexico alone.

“For the five countries of origin that represent the majority of non-US-born TB cases (Mexico, the Philippines, India, Viet Nam and China), their contributions to US TB epidemiology reflect large resident populations as well as elevated TB exposure for these individuals before arrival.”

Florida’s Leprosy Surge

The government’s disinformation campaign protecting illegals was repeated in Florida, where leprosy has been steadily rising and may be endemic, though experts do not know. Traditional risk factors include armadillo exposure and “having recently lived in leprosy-endemic countries.” Armadillos have been ruled out as a cause of Florida’s leprosy surge, yet the CDC issued a statement that seems to reach unsupportable conclusions:

“Florida, USA, has witnessed an increased incidence of leprosy cases lacking traditional risk factors. Those trends, in addition to decreasing diagnoses in foreign-born persons, contribute to rising evidence that leprosy has become endemic in the southeastern United States.

“The number of international migrants in North America increased from 27.6 million persons in 1990 to 58.7 million in 2020, so a link to migration may account for the increase in incidence of leprosy in historically nonendemic areas. Further, reports from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that, although the incidence of leprosy has been increasing, the rates of new diagnoses in persons born outside of the United States has been declining since 2002 (Appendix Figure).”

The CDC emphasized that “Contact tracing is critical to identifying sources and reducing transmission.” Illegals are not traced or effectively treated. The referenced appendix figure is titled “Case Report of Leprosy in Central Florida, USA, 2022,” but only includes data through 2010 – hardly a very good measure of current immigration conditions, let alone a sound premise for reaching conclusions that immigrants cannot be a cause of spread.

Politicizing disease outbreaks against Americans to justify yet more dangerous illegal immigration ensures greater vaccine hesitancy. One needn’t hold a doctorate to see that “real science” is being doctored.

 

 

John Klar is an Attorney, farmer, and author. Mostly farmer… And Regular Contributor to GraniteGrok and VermontGrok.

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I just saw a story about Candidates for Governor, and Shaun Fife was not mentioned, so I searched DuckDuckGo and Google and got a few results. He needs to get out there in the media. Between Morse and Ayotte, I will be writing in “None of the Above” again.

My litmus test is being able to actually support someone enough to vote “without holding my nose.”

Well, I just searched FreeSpoke and Noticed Shaun Fife is under “The Maji Party.” I Like what I have read about Shaun so far, but I am not too sure about the Maji Party, and I will not be alone.

“The Idea for MAJI came from the failed election of 2020.”

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“We are gathering Anons and other citizens of the electorate to put GOD FIRST.”

I did not know if “Anons” were actually short for QAnons, and now I know it is; I looked it up. Early on, I followed QAnon. I actually jokingly used a Star Trek reference “I am Q”, until it went off the tracks. And then that guy in Horns at the Capital on January 6th certainly finished taking it right off the rails into the bushes!

I believe in what Shaun Fife is saying as a platform, and hopefully, the Anon connection can be overlooked by independents. That depends on how many independents have any signs of TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome).

I can overlook the Anon connection because I know the Majority of those people are not wearing horns, as I did not when I first followed QAnon. But those unhappy Republicans against RINOs, conservative Democrats, if there are any left, and conservative “Undeclared” voters may be chased away by the Anon connection.

Either way, Shaun Fife needs to get out there more and push his agenda, which I do believe is worth supporting and could, at this point, even pass my smell test.

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I hate throwing a vote away, but I can no longer vote anti-democrat without actually supporting the candidate.

It feels good to vote for people you believe in. As a young libertarian voting for the first time, I believed in John Anderson, then again for Ross Perot. Then, I voted Democrat in the Primary for Tom Laughlin (Billy Jack), but he did not make it past the primary, so back to Ross Perot.

Then, when Clinton started stealing sportsmen’s money and redirecting government organizations to Animal Rights, I became anti-Democrat and voted that way in every election until this year’s primary.

If Shaun Fife does not get out there in the media and push his Working Man’s Agenda without name recognition, he will not stand a chance. If he stays on the tracks, I will be able to vote for him or write him in if I have to.

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