Court Settlements in Nashua are done in bad faith and are unreasonable. They are a ploy to ring up legal bills and produce no records. A settlement is not an admission of guilt, so settling results in no real improvement in the process. (In Nashua, winning in Court has resulted in no real improvement, either.)

My first mediation, designed to settle, started with an abatement appeal. The mediation, ordered by the State Tribunal, is based on State Tax Codes and Statutes. The City failed to comply, offered no review of the valuations, provided no documentation, and provided no expert to justify the value. My attorney stated it was the worst mediation he had ever been involved in. Of course, we left the door open to continue negotiating with the city; the City never responded.

In the second year of the appeal process, I represented myself by filing a second separate appeal. The city refused to come to the table for the ordered mediation. Attorney Bolton claimed the two appeals were inextricably linked and that I could not represent myself, stating an attorney must be present. The tribunal disagreed and ruled that each appeal is treated as a separate case. The City refused to mediate.

During my Right-to-Know lawsuit for assessing records months prior to the Trial, the City offered a settlement permitting me to inspect the property record cards I sought. The offer was poorly written and required clarification. What did the City want in return for inspecting the records? The City did not respond.

In a pro se case, the City disclosed to the Court that a settlement with requested records was offered. The City’s offer was delivered five minutes before the Trial began. I refused the settlement. This was an ambush with nothing in writing, and I was looking for answers as to why Nashua’s records are so scrambled. I won the case, and the City has now appealed the ruling to the Supreme Court. The City had no intention of providing the records.

In another Right-to-Know case, a court hearing was scheduled that my attorney was certain we would win. My attorney encouraged me to let him write a stipulation to settle this outside of Court. Of course, the Court was pleased with this solution. I spent $22,000 working with the Attorney on this case and never received the records. Attorney Bolton refused to provide clear answers to the request and employed his typical “ring up the legal bill and stall” strategy.

In a recent hearing on a Right-to-Know lawsuit involving the Nashua Performing Arts Center, an attorney representing the Corporations formed by the City to accept money from a Federal New Markets Tax Credit program to pay for the construction disclosed in Court that he had tried to settle the case, acknowledged that the bylaws for the company were not written in compliance with the Right-to-Know law and offered to rewrite the bylaws. He claimed that my failure to settle was unreasonable.

In Nashua, settlements appear to be public matters, not confidential matters. Court rules dictate as Attorneys are out to look like negotiators working for the greater good. Nothing could be further from the truth. Nashua is a game of dirty tricks. Mayor Donchess has no interest in fairness, transparency, or equity. History speaks. All Nashua Right-to-Know cases belong before the Court.

A Lack of Transparency is a symptom of Dishonesty.

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Recently after purchasing bananas at the DW Highway Shaw’s in Merrimack, NH, I noticed a Disney label attached to the Dole sticker. The sticker sparked a curiosity to do some research. Business enterprises offering good prices, quality, and service cannot overcome the harm that joining “woke corporate America” will do.

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Giving the credibility of your marketing expertise to a woke, degenerative anti-family cause joins the name of “Shaw’s” to a perverted mindset that targets the minds and hearts of innocent children for profit.

Good public relations will not be gained by Shaw’s joining hands with the same satanic roots of moral decline that dominate our nation’s capitol that only owe their immunity from law to the illegal power they possess. There is not a large enough blanket of deception, even with Mickey Mouse’s picture on it, to contain the morally degenerate nature that Disney has become. This is a sample of the moral pollution aimed at the minds of your children:

“Little Demon” is a recent Disney cartoon show that openly MOCKS Jesus Christ while EXALTING two main characters: Satan and the Antichrist. Absolutely sick. But it gets worse.

The Antichrist is a 13-year-old middle schooler, Chrissy (a profane wordplay on Christ). This is designed to draw young viewers. Chrissy is the child of a sexual union between Satan and Chrissy’s mother.

When Satan wants to claim her, all kinds of dark but supposedly “humorous” plot twists occur to pull in impressionable young viewers.

These include demons loudly demanding to have sex with corpses (chanting four letter words) and desiring to eat the brains of babies.” Does Shaw’s advocate such a cruel attack on our children’s minds?

Even with Mickey Mouse on your side, a large majority of your customers will not appreciate the potential harm to their children. Americans still believe the key pillar of Western Civilization is the God-ordained family and place the protection of their children as first priority. Please consider this quote from The American Family Associations, STAND magazine, how the “woke culture” is losing in the Corporate world: “Corporations such as Disney, Yahoo and Google announced company-wide layoffs in late 2022 and early 2023.” Check out afa.net.

 

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Well, I almost lost all the weight I had gained last week. Helpful but I’m still “less there” than what I was two weeks ago. All I can say is that it’s now a new week so time to improve.

Tom is telling me that while he’s moderated his intake, he’s also weight lifting on a regular basis.  Good on him (and I’m going to try to keep on his good side) but by building up his musculature, he’s losing inches but trading in for heavier muscles.

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And the tale of the tape:

 

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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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She’s so Woke

 

 

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PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA

 

‘Horrible Idea’: First Vaccine for Birth Control Now in Clinical Trials • Children’s Health Defense (childrenshealthdefense.org)

Turning the immune system against the reproductive organs.  Related:

 

 

So… becoming infertile is not sterilization?  Who knew?

 

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Time for another My Tree in Israel recipe.

 

 

Incredible – albeit not cheap – olive oil.  I also got one grape vine through them and have already had one bottle of wine.  Good stuff.

In full disclosure, one of the founders is a friend of mine, but I receive no compensation for these posts.  It’s just helping a friend’s business…

 

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Pick of the post:

Reminds me of this (italics replaced by underlining, bolding added):

If Palpatine and Jar Jar won, the Leftards should welcome honest audits and recounts, the better to take another victory lap, while rubbing the Right’s noses in the Left’s inevitable march to the throne room of power. People who’ve actually scored a touchdown don’t bitch about re-watching the video that proves it. It’s that simple. You can run the tape back and forth, and if the feet are inbounds, and the ball is in control, it’s a touchdown time after time after time. So when one team’s coaches, and half the fans in the stadium, boo and catcall the replay, and start agitating loudly to ignore it and just call the touchdown without looking at that pesky video replay, you know they didn’t score, and you know they know they didn’t score, so all their histrionics and hissyfits beforehand and afterwards is just them being pissed that they lost, refusing to admit it, even to themselves, and terror at having their noses rubbed in you seeing it with your own lying eyes, on a 50′ tall jumbotron, in front of millions of eyewitnesses.

 

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Palate Cleansers:

 

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New Hampshire is home to $932.5 billion in Pandora Papers hidden accounts: Trusts, LLCs, and Non-Profits. The amount is staggering. The state is also home to a very serious opioid crisis, drug trafficking, arms trafficking, family court corruption, and close to 1000 suits of child sex abuse at the Sununu Youth Detention Center as well as several criminal indictments against state employees for child abuse.

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The state Attorney General’s office has kept a list of corrupt police officers who the state has protected despite being involved in horrific crimes. Freedom of Information Act requests are routinely stonewalled, ignored. The office of Public Integrity at the AG’s office is a joke — the last person in charge, Geoffrey Ward, deleted files of corrupt police officers before graduating to become a federal prosecutor.

The issues all go back decades but the same names and agencies come up again and again. It’s a comically small club of players — many who have received rewards for their services to children but who may have actually been complicit in aiding, abetting and covering up horrific abuse of those children.

Is it possible that the king pin in this corruption is actually a former Monsignor who has managed to orchestrate a global insurance racket?

One address in particular might hold the answers to New Hampshire’s Pandora Papers, Money Laundering, Child Trafficking, Medicaid Fraud, Insurance Fraud. It holds offices tied to the Department of Health and Human Services, The Catholic Church, the Department of Defense, even the CIA.

10 Ferry Street, Concord New Hampshire. Registered address for Virtus LLC, Maximus Inc, Children’s Trust Fund, Dataminr, Quest Diagnostics, Dyncorp among others.

What do we know about these companies?

1. Virtus LLC was founded in 1999 by since defrocked Monsignor Edward Arsenault who went to jail in 2014 after pleading guilty to defrauding the Diocese of Manchester, a dead priest’s estate and a Catholic Hospital (Catholic Medical Center where he was in charge of increasing profits for the hospital). Virtus LLC is the education wing “Protecting God’s Children” under the Catholic Risk Retention Management group which was founded in Burlington Vermont in August 1987. Curiously, it was set up shortly before NH DCYF worker Sylvia Gale’s fabricated rumors about Father Gordon MacRae which she shared with a known corrupt police officer James F McLaughlin.

 

According to Sylvia Gale’s letter, the information was passed to her by an unnamed employee of New Hampshire Catholic Social Services who claimed that she had been told this information by her employer, Monsignor John Quinn, on condition that she would be fired if she ever divulged it.

 

Sylvia Gale died in 2020. NH DCYF has since been exposed for decades of cover-ups of horrific child sex abuse at the Youth Detention Center, which have resulted in multiple arrests for historic sex abuse at the YDC. The State has suddenly found “millions” of documents that had mysteriously gone missing all these decades.

Sylvia Gale’s claims led to the prosecution of Father Gordon MacRae and a trial in which his accusers were reportedly trained to cry by a therapist sitting at the back of a courtroom. Nevertheless, the trial provided the perfect excuse for a “Compliance Officer” (Edward Arsenault who had an accounting background) and what AG Phil McLaughlin termed “Creative Solutions” to go after priest sex abuse at the Diocese. As millions were pouring out in fast settlement agreements, Arsenault was assuring parishioners that insurance would cover it and the Diocese wouldn’t have to pay.

Edward Arsenault clocked up hundreds of thousands in expenses from 1999–2009 (allegedly for computers, cell phones, lunches, trips, expenses for his under age lover and meetings with journalists) and grew a multi-national insurance industry at the same time.

Meanwhile Sylvia Gale was accused of conflicts of interest regarding her activities with NH DCYF and “non-profits” with which she was involved. She appealed in 1999 and various members of NH DHHS approved her appeal. The same year NH DCYF received a letter from US DHHS Office of Inspector General complaining of accounting and lackadaisical oversight of contractors. Kathleen Kerr was legal counsel for NH DCYF at the time. Virtus LLC opened a few months after Sylvia Gale’s appeal.

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DHHS review of procedures for child support

Virtus LLC has dozens and dozens of companies tied to it all over the world. It appears to have grown from being just the education wing of Catholic Risk Retention Management to a massive multi-national insurance enterprise tied to Virtus Holdings. It is listed in the Pandora Papers.

VIRTUS Brochure

In January 2014, there was a share change in the Catholic Risk Retention Management documentation. A couple of weeks later, Edward Arsenault’s crimes were published. He shook hands with assistant AG Jane Young (now US Attorney for NH) on his way to prison, where he managed to somehow purchase a luxury condominium in Florida while incarcerated.

And when he was released, he had a new name: Edward Bolognini, which he claims is because he got married, but Chat GPT (which could well be inaccurate) states it was his mother’s maiden name. Chat GPT also states he stole $500,000 from the Diocese of Manchester, not $300,000, and that he was engaged in money laundering.

Why would the Assistant Attorney General shake his hand unless she was in on it too? And I believe she was. In fact, I believe that the financial rewards that Edward Arsenault created for members of the NH Bar, law firms, and judiciary essentially made many of them indebted to him. You only have to look at the number of companies and properties the local law firms in New Hampshire own or are tied to, to realize that something is not right, and it all stems from the time when Edward Arsenault was COO of the Diocese of Manchester.

This may explain how his restitution was paid off while he was away, why he was transferred to a jail instead of prison and why he was then released on home confinement. Financial fraud of that magnitude, whether $300k or $500K is significant. Shaking someone’s hand who had defrauded a place of worship, a dead priest’s estate, and a hospital is not something I could ever imagine anyone doing unless they were somehow complicit in the racket and had benefited from it. The handshake seemed more of a nod-nod-wink-wink than anything else.

2. Maximus Inc is also registered at 10 Ferry Street, Concord, New Hampshire. The company contracts with Catholic Charities in some states (Tennessee, for example). It is highly likely that Maximus and Virtus and Catholic Risk Retention Management are, in fact, all intertwined. Maximus got its first no-bid contract with New Hampshire in 2004 for Medicaid. There have been numerous cases of Medicaid fraud in New Hampshire since then.

On the board of Maximus is Kathleen Kerr who was legal counsel for New Hampshire’s DCYF when she received a letter from US DHHS OIG informing her of accounting laxity and shady deals for contracts with DCYF in 1999.

According to her bio on Maximus, Kathleen Kerr worked for NH DCYF for 12 years before joining the company. That same year in 1999, Sylvia Gale of NH DCYF appealed a conflict of interest ruling. She won the appeal — who agreed with her? Members of the DHHS — in other words, people who were working with Kathleen Kerr and presumably had something to gain from Maximus contracts and potentially Catholic Risk Retention Management insurance claims. Maximus Inc is also in the Pandora Papers with hundreds of companies all over the world. It keeps getting new contracts with New Hampshire that go up by the millions with no questions asked.

3. Children’s Trust Fund — The Diocese of Manchester refers families to the Children’s Trust Fund where Lauren Noether from the AG’s office during the time of the Diocese of Manchester claims and settlements) works. It would appear that Children’s Trust Fund is also intertwined with Virtus and Maximus. It was founded in 1986 and is a quasi Government run organization that collects data on children and families although somehow when it really matters and children under state care go missing that data just disappears.

In fact for all the money that is thrown at children’s services in New Hampshire since Sylvia Gale, Edward Arsenault and Kathleen Kerr’s 1990s involvment — as Anna Carrigan in Anna Carrigan v New Hampshire pointed out — precious little seems to reach the intended recipients who are bullied, raped, abused, starved, drugged — all under state care with records deleted or lost by DCYF, YDC and the AG’s office. Not only did the State dismiss Anna Carrigan’s suit but she faced retaliation for blowing the whistle.

4. Dataminr — is essentially a spy/data software that was promoted by Beacon Global Technologies and the CIA. What does it have to do with Maximus? Quite a lot. Maximus gets contracts with the state for Medicaid, Veterans services, and Title IV, among other things. It’s collecting social security numbers, private information on health, and many other intimate details. Dataminr is a companion to that, feeding that information to DoD and CIA, I believe, but neither Maximus nor Dataminr would want the general public to piece that together.

5. Quest Diagnostics — a medical lab. If you read the Maximus CAT reporting, you can see that children get referred to in treatment under Maximus. There is an incentive to remove children from their parents and put them under state care and then for state care to refer them to Maximus services which can then provide treatment including opioids etc etc. Literally turning them into drug-addicted lab rats while the state’s agencies use their suffering to put their hands out for more federal grants — the only thing that seems to matter to the NHCADSV (working with DCYF and AG’s Office) and Maximus in fact.

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6. Dyncorp — Department of Defense. Dyncorp was known for child sex trafficking.

Rep. Cynthia Mckinney grilled Donald Rumsfeld about the Department of Defense and child trafficking in 2005 or so.

New Hampshire, Guardian Ad Litem Kathleen Sternenberg’s daughter, became chief of staff for Donaldg Rumsfeld, according to her wedding announcement.

Kathleen Sternenberg goes to Niagara Falls with family court judge Julie Introcaso who orders Kathleen Sternenberg to be paid using Apple Pay. Niagara Falls is a known center for trafficking children.

Kathleen Sternenberg is known for creating fake reasons to remove children from their parents in divorce proceedings. Former AG Michael Delaney stepped in as counsel for Judge Julie Introcaso and arranged for no jail time for her felony of whiting out judicial documents and failures to mention her conflicts of interest with Kathleen Sternenberg. Delaney’s wife, Caroline Delaney, is the leal counsel for CASA NH and legal counsel for the Department of Revenue. They have a stated financial interest in CASA NH which recognized Sylvia Gale for her services towards children. Delaney helped set up the Children’s Advocacy Centers. He also happened to be AG when the FRM Ponzi scheme got exposed. His office and the Banking Department were found at fault in the report.

10 Ferry Street was reported to the Boston FBI in 2016 by Audra Toop for suspected child trafficking.

However, instead of following Audra’s lead, she was then kidnapped and held hostage with no proper access to legal representation for over four years until she was eventually released with no proper explanation. Before that she had emailed various people at the NH DOJ’s office and called only to get a complete run around and reaching numbers on business cards for people not associated with the business card….for example she tried to reach head of the criminal division, Richard Head, but instead reached someone completely different. It made her start to wonder whether the NH DOJ was in fact a call center for three letter agencies running a racket with fake business titles for those involved. It’s far from professional for the head of the criminal division unit to provide numbers on a business card that lead to someone completely different and yet that is what happened. Moonlighting also appears to be common practice in Concord among public employees.

When Edward Arsenault was released from jail, he joined a new non-profit called “ReServe” and he set up new companies in Florida.

It begs the question as to whether Edward Arsenault ever was who he claimed he was: A Catholic Priest, or if he was, in fact, a con artist from the start — a fraudulent accountant who infiltrated the Catholic Church and realized there was an opportunity for a global insurance scam to be had that would make him and several members of the New Hampshire Bar and Judiciary rich. I believe the latter, and I believe this is why there is so much secrecy in New Hampshire judicial matters and why former AG Michael Delaney stepped in to negotiate a plea deal for a judge’s felony. Corruption of the NH Judiciary seems to be the rule, not the exception, with several judges being forced to resign over the years for fraud or unlawful influence.

I believe that there is a core issue behind corruption in the Family & Criminal Courts: The little discussed and carefully disguised financial incentive to coerce children, bully them, lie to them and remove them from their parents, to put them into state care or under state control and to turn them into drug addicts and lab rats. The state has failed appallingly in its handling of children, and there is zero accountability because of the profits for those involved in the “Kids for Cash” type racket.

You don’t have to look very far to realize that David Vicinanzo and Gordon MacDonald, who worked with Edward Arsenault to settle hundreds of claims for the diocese, were also getting rich off this. And in the other direction, you find Chuck Douglas III, who’d been NH Supreme Court Chief Justice and knew the club, also filing dozens of claims with little to no evidence. He spoke very kindly of Arsenault when he was arrested — he would. He got rich off the association. In the 1999 Washington Post Article “A Splitting Headache,” reference is made to the club-like atmosphere in New Hampshire’s courts. There’s also a reference to financial fraud.

It seems that between Edward Arsenault and members of the NH Bar, they bought the media as well: Boston Globe, NH Press Association, WMUR (whose reporter Amy Coveno is on the board of CASA NH) and the Concord Monitor (on whose board was Amanda Grady Sexton of NHCADSV which works hand in glove with NH DCYF, the AG’s office, David Vicinanzo, Gordon MacDonald, Shaheen & Gordon and NHPD).

AnnMarie Timmons, an erstwhile reporter for the Concord Monitor, demanded to meet Father Gordon MacRae, but he declined. She then, according to him, wrote a handwritten letter to him saying “If you won’t meet with me, I will write about the four men you raped and the record will reflect that you don’t deny it!”. She allegedly called the prison demanding that Father Gordon be put in restraints and forced to meet her but went silent after the Wall Street Journal articles regarding his case came out in 2005.

Soon after, she took mental health leave from the Concord Monitor, blaming her mental illness on her coverage of the clergy abuse claims. She went on to marry former assistant AG Will Delker who was the principal prosecutor in the Diocese/AG report working with Edward Arsenault to obtain (forge?) Bishop MCormack’s signature on a waiver of rights for all priests named in the claims. Delker is now an NH Superior Court Judge overseeing the Youth Detention Center cases. He was named in the article: “Judge: Laurie List Lawsuits Are Being Improperly Sealed.”

While Will Delker was overseeing the AG’s investigation of the Diocese, he was assisted in the AG’s office by Jim Rosenberg (who later joined Shaheen & Gordon) who appears to have gone looking for “victims” to trigger the tsunami of “creative solution” claims. Brian Harlow I understand was the first one. Brian is part of the NHCADSV.

Despite crucifying accused priests and stripping them of their rights in 2002, Jim Rosenberg defended a Concord Middle School teacher/principal: Matt McGonagle who in 2006 was sentenced to a term of 16 months for the serial rape of a 14-year-old student. Rosenberg defended the deal:

Attorney Jim Rosenberg of Concord, representing McGonagle, also asked the court to accept the plea agreement. He recalled at the time the offenses occurred, McGonagle was recently divorced and living alone. “It was a difficult time for him,” he said. Rosenberg said that McGonagle became “a surrogate member of the victim’s family household” and became friends with the girl inside and outside of school. “The appropriate boundaries were blurred,” he said. Rosenberg called the offenses “an isolated case,” which has not been followed by allegations of misconduct since.

Jim Rosenberg also represented Andrew Thomson in the trial of NH v Owen Labrie — Thomson was a state witness who was reportedly tampered with by Michael Delaney representing St Paul’s School and effectively Thomson’s mother, Lucy Hodder, on the school’s board of trustees. Thomson had sent the State Complainant Chessy Prout an invitation to a “lap dance” and “secret snuggle” in full knowledge that she was underage. Rosenberg claimed Thomson did nothing wrong. The prosecutor admitted to the judge that she knew a deal had been made for him — which she later retracted when the records became unsealed.

Jim Rosenberg was best man to Will Delker’s and AnnMarie Timmon’s wedding. In 2012-2014 another attorney who is with Shaheen & Gordona and also apparently part of the club, Cathy Green, simultaneously represented Father Gordon MacRae for his failed habeas corpus appeal and Edward Arsenault for his plea and pre-arranged sentence. She failed to let Father Gordon MacRae know of the conflict of interests.

Father Gordon MacRae has been denied justice for 28 years while Edward Arsenault and members of the New Hampshire Judiciary and Bar and their friends have gotten away with extortion rackets, cover-ups of child abuse and worse.

Mike Gill, a Mortgage Broker and anti-corruption activist who lost a defamation suit against three prominent New Hampshire businessmen (tied to Catholic Charities and whose “Primary Bank” is in Bedford, New Hampshire, where Edward Arsenault was a priest for years) for putting up billboards calling them drug traffickers, had an attorney: Alex Walker.

According to Mike Gill, Alex Walker had another client: The Diocese of Manchester. According to Mike Gill, Walker’s only job was to protect the financial secrecy of the Diocese’s dealings. Walker is now CEO of Catholic Medical Center which was fined $3.8 million by the US Government for kick-back schemes. Curiously, it was Edward Arsenault’s pal Chuck Douglas who stepped in to represent the whistleblower for his reward.

Mike Gill has been somewhat vindicated in his accusations since the Pandora Papers probe started in 2021 — one of the plaintiffs in the defamation suit against him– Andrew H Crews — abruptly stepped down from Autofair (named in the Pandora Papers and Paradise Papers) in December 2021. The company was sold out of state to an address in West Palm Beach, Florida. He and the company were sued in Massachusetts for failure to pay employees (even though he received several hundred thousand in PPP loan money). He was on the board of directors of Primary Bank New Hampshire and on the Board of Granite One Health and the Children’s Advocacy Centers. He was also President of the New Hampshire Lottery, for which Chuck Douglas’s current wife, Deborah Douglas, is Chair. His name seems to have disappeared altogether.

Coincidentally, Bedford is not only Edward Arsenault’s former stomping ground, home to the head office of Primary Bank and Autofair but it is also where there was a huge fentanyl bust about which former US Attorney Scott Murray fumbled when asked why the local police weren’t involved in the investigation. If you couple his answers to inquiring journalists with Ex NFL player Jeff Hatch’s admission that he was part of a drug smuggling operation but sworn to secrecy while he worked at the State’s “Granite Recovery Center,” the pieces of the puzzle seem to fit together in a very disturbing way.

Justice Broderick has been assigned to adjudicate the payouts to victims of the Youth Detention Center abuse. Broderick denied Father Gordon MacRae’s appeal in 1996, but when he got wind that the Wall Street Journal was going to do a story on Father Gordon MacRae, he reportedly got his son (in jail for hitting his father apparently) to ask his cellmate to see how much Gordon MacRae was going to say to the Wall Street journal about being framed and the people involved. Edward Arsenault had promised to give Gordon MacRae’s case files to David Vicinanzo (attorney at Nixon Peabody who repped the Diocese) for an appeal but that apparently never happened — or if it did, it wasn’t in David Vicinanzo’s financial or political interest to help a priest who’d been framed by a corrupt police officer and a child services worker.

David Vicinanzo is now one of the attorneys representing the victims of child abuse at the Youth Detention Center.

Children had been put there by officials who had a financial interest in removing kids from their families and in protecting corrupt public officials and state employees who abused them. David Vicinanzo knows this because he was part of the Diocese of Manchester racket with Edward Arsenault, which was all tied up with children’s services. He claims to seek reform regarding confidentiality laws, but will he go as far as to seek prosecution from the puppeteers, his friends, who allowed all of this to go on? Or will he continue to protect the cozy and incestuous merry-go-round of a club because doing the right thing would cause the swampy house of dirty cards to collapse?

Gordon MacDonald, Vicinanzo’s former colleague at Nixon Peabody, dismissed the child abuse at YDC blaming “victim negligence” when he was Attorney General while he also protected a list of corrupt police officers from becoming public. One of those officers was James F McLaughlin — the officer who took Sylvia Gale of DCYF’s rumor and ran with it. Gordon MacDonald referred plaintiffs of YDC abuse to the NHCADSV, who work with the DCYF but have not criticized them for the abuse at the YDC. Jane Young provided Nancy West of InDepth News with a lame answer as to why the AG’s office was referring victims of YDC abuse to the NHCADSV.

Gordon MacDonald is now the Supreme Court Chief Justice for New Hampshire. He was endorsed by Brian Harlow (on the board of directors for the NHCADSV):

Brian Harlow, of Concord, offered perhaps the most surprising words of support. A victim of clergy sex abuse, Harlow said at the hearing he met MacDonald when MacDonald represented the Diocese of Manchester. MacDonald, he said, helped him take “immeasurable steps toward healing.”

Is it possible that Edward Arsenault is, in fact, the head of the so-called “Cartel”? Is he an FBI informant with the same kind of protection awarded Jeffrey Epstein? He has his finger in every pie not only in New Hampshire but all the way to the Vatican — finances, insurance, Medicaid, education, childcare, and healthcare. Snippets from his resume indicate the far reach of his tentacles:

President and CEO — Saint Luke Institute — Silver Spring, MD — 2009 to Present — Silver Spring, MD http://www.sli.org 2009 — present St. Luke’s Centre — Manchester, England, UK http://www.stlukescentre.org.uk

• Opened regional office in Louisville, KY focusing on outpatient and psycho-educational services for the regional Catholic community.
• Established a regional presence in Johannesburg, South Africa at the request of the Roman Catholic bishops’ conference. The initial focus of this office has been needs assessment, issue orientation and psycho-educational programs.

• Retained financial experts for the development of operating and capital budgets. Upon implementation, this has resulted in increased gross revenues by 35% and decreased operating expenses by 20% in 2nd and 3rd year of tenure as President & CEO.

Chief Operating Officer/Chief Compliance Officer — Diocese of Manchester — Manchester, NH 2000 to 2009 — Served as Chief Operating Officer and Compliance Officer for the Bishop of Manchester.

Chairman of the Board Catholic Medical Center Manchester, NH — 1998 to 2009

Catholic Medical Center Healthcare System

• Collaborated with the President & CEO of Catholic Medical Center in retaining, training and supporting a community hospital board if directors. Responsible for the chairmanship of key board committees, including Executive Compensation, Nominating, Governance, Ethics and participation in the Executive and Finance Committees.

Chairman — Board of Directors — The National Catholic Risk Retention Group — Lisle, IL — 1999 to 2007

Served as Chairman of Board of Directors during a period of significant growth for a captive insurance company owned by and operated for the benefit of 67 Roman Catholic dioceses and religious institutes in the United States.

• Served as principal spokesperson for the governing board of directors of the risk retention group, including all shareholder relations, partnerships with other insurers and reinsurers as well as state and federal regulators

Edward Arsenault appears to have started up a new non-profit in Tampa, Florida for mental health. Ghislaine Maxwell — who was arrested in New Hampshire and represented by Shaheen & Gordon, who also represented the plaintiffs against Mike Gill — is in a low-security prison in Tampa as well. This may be a pure coincidence.

Lyn Forester de Rothschild, a close friend of Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein’s (and the Clintons), stepped down from Rothschild Holdings shortly after Ghislaine Maxwell’s arrest in New Hampshire, where Shaheen & Gordon represented her. Lyn Forester de Rothchild has now reappeared on the scene — at the Vatican. I would not be remotely surprised if Edward Arsenault were involved as well.

What’s really going on at 10 Ferry Street, Concord New Hampshire and why do New Hampshire officials and agencies avoid accountability? Follow the money.

When I contacted Anna Carrigan after reading her suit against the State, she replied with the following:

I am interested that you have identified key NH players that myself and others doing work in NH find troubling (but we are definitely in the minority on), and I am comfortable saying that AG MacDonald and Amanda Grady Sexton and NHCADSV are two specific people who I think are doing things to directly or indirectly hurt child protection victims in this state, abd that our crazy family and criminal court system is completely dysfunctional and supports that in happening, along with a local media that purposely helps keep the public blind to things happening behind the scenes. I am a government social worker whistle-blower, one of several, who faced retaliation by the State of NH for speaking up about the truth of NH’s child protection system and is suing them, so I’ve seen and know about a lot of stuff that goes on that I feel like most people would have a hard time even conceiving is true.

 

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Democrats everywhere have a list of things. Once elected, appointed, or hired into the bureaucracy, the job is to check the boxes even if they make no sense or contradict the stated policy goal. And none of them make any sense, and all of them contradict the advertised outcome.

The actual objective is always the opposite of the stated objective.

One example we’ve visited on these pages from time to time is so-called single-use plastics. The Left’s political theater is great fun, but their science is all backward, and this has come to a head in Canada, where the nation banned single-use plastics (bags, straws, etc.) at the end of 2022. Cities like Portsmouth, New Hampshire, are constantly looking for a way to do this locally, so we’ve covered the subject at length.

Up there in the Great White North, environmentalists who likely lobbied for the Canadian law are sounding an alarm we’ve rung for years. You can’t just replace single-use plastics with single-use paper. Why? A bigger carbon footprint: and single-use paper is worse for the environment. But there’s nowhere else to go.

 

• To make exponentially more pulp for paper and paperboard products, you’ll need to cut more timber.
• Fewer trees impact CO2 absorption and oxygen generation.
• “The Netherlands-based and UN-backed Institute for Water Education says it can take anywhere from two to 13 liters (3.4Gal) of water to make a standard piece of paper.”
• “When paper, or any organic material, ends up in our landfill and decomposes, methane is released, which is so much worse for the environment.”

 

Issues we’ve noted on these pages in the past include,

 

• Plastics and styrene have much lower front and back-end carbon footprints (if that matters to you).
• They are easier to recycle, and recycling them has a lower carbon footprint.
• Non-recycled waste stream costs are lower than for paper or paperboard replacements.
• They weigh about 80% less than paper substitutes. – (Why would that matter? Shipping and transportation “carbon costs” are higher. The amount of carbon emitted to move them from A to B to C.).

 

And,

 

 Making paper and cardboard is almost certainly the third-largest industrial use of energy on the planet. By contrast, plastic is light, durable and its manufacture is generally not particularly energy-intensive – at least by comparison to paper.

 

Recycling itself has been called a bad idea that contradicts the stated goals.

 

It’s been documented and reported for close to two decades. Look it up. The energy wasted to clean recyclables before you ‘recycle them?’ The energy needed to recycle into a reusable form for glass, cardboard, paper, and metal is carbon intensive. Trucks, facilities, power, people, and process all consume more energy than just burying the stuff in the ground. Which is where it came from, if not in that form.

 

All that plastic pouring into the oceans in Asia is a product of the movement (and offshoring recycling) itself, whose virtue signal has led activists and policymakers to reach back into the past for a more energy intense, environmentally unfriendly alternative. Paper. But paper isn’t better for the environment.

Banning single-use plastic is a stupid idea, but it is one of those checkboxes I mentioned. Environmental science doesn’t matter. Nor does the cost. A mad, broad move to paper will not just make the packaging cost more (and the stuff in it), it will impact the timber market and everything that relies on it, passed down to consumers. The economics will force you to have and do less, and that’s where Canada is headed.

We could thank them for the lesson, but Libs don’t learn lessons like that because the actual objective is always the opposite of the stated objective. If you need another example, take an honest look at wind, solar, EVs, and net zero.

 

Exit Question: Shouldn’t these new containers bear a warning label”? “This product created more CO2 to make than plastic, will require more CO2 to recycle than plastic, and will release significant amounts of methane if composted or placed in the waste stream.”

 

HT | CTV News

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On March 24, 1984, my Marine Corps infantry company took off on a night training mission in South Korea. Tragically, the CH-53 helicopter behind mine lost altitude and slammed into a mountaintop. Thirty-three Marines died. Memories endure of helping carry bodies down that mountain.

At a memorial service, our battalion commander spoke to the tragedy and said the many lost lives had special meaning. “They died for their country,” said LtCol Jack Kelly.

They also died for South Korea—casualties in a conflict first precipitated by North Korean Communist aggression in 1950. Thirty-six thousand Americans were killed there from 1950-53. In southeast Asia over 58,000 Americans died countering similar Communist aggression. Their names are engraved on a shiny black granite memorial in Washington D.C.

But the American death toll in these Asian conflicts pales next to the millions of civilian victims of Communism. We should never forget the Cambodian genocide or the Vietnamese boat people. Imagine facing a Communist regime so horrific that you’d take your chances on the high seas with storms, sharks, and pirates on flimsy crafts just to probably die and drown on your own terms.

And estimates of the number of victims of the Communist Chinese revolution range from 40-70 million souls—lost not only in battle but to starvation, persecution, prison labor, and mass execution. (All this before they gave us the COVID virus.)

According to researcher R.J. Rummel, an incomprehensible 62 million civilians were murdered by Communist authorities in the former Soviet Union between 1917 and 1987. Four million Ukrainians were purposely starved to death just from 1932-33.

Communism is a political and economic ideology that positions itself in opposition to liberal democracy and capitalism. Atheist and ostensibly classless, it calls for state ownership of means of production and generally forbids ownership of private property.

Inspired by the writings of Karl Marx, Communism has long had an intellectual appeal to leftist statists, an attraction at odds with the reality that Communism doesn’t work (except for party leaders) and can’t be maintained without a vast police state with little individual freedom.

Although the Soviet empire finally imploded in 1991, proponents of its deadly Marxist dogma still survive on college campuses and in leftist enclaves like Concord. And ponder that current Russian dictator Vladimir Putin once headed the KGB—the Soviet secret police.

Communism is the mortal enemy of western liberal democracy, where freedom and wealth creation create such a stark contrast with Marxist failures. Consider Cuba, North Korea, Venezuela, et al.

Indeed, Communist China today represents an existential threat to American interests, values, and way of life.

So why does Concord now have a new historical marker—a plaque—honoring the memory of a felonious local traitor?

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn was an avowed Communist who spent time in prison after being convicted of advocating for the overthrow of our American government. She died in 1964, in Moscow, of all places, where she was given a state funeral in Red Square by sworn American enemies. “Progressives” who railed against statues of Robert E Lee—and even some of our founders—are in high dudgeon as they sing the praises of Flynn. Just let that sink in.

Pressed by these misguided leftist activists, local decision-makers are guilty of a colossal misjudgment vis-à-vis the marker. So now what?

 

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The contest was about to start, and the two coin bank prizes were on display. One coin bank was the coolest ever. It was a mechanical Rooster that when presented with a coin, would reach down with its beak, pick up the coin and deposit it into a nest-like bank.

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The other coin bank prize was an ugly pink ceramic piggy bank. Excitement was in the air. Which team would win the Rooster coin bank and use it for the whole school year?

The 1964 Long Island first-grade class was divided into boys and girls {back then, this was not an issue}, and each team chose a champion. The little boy won, and as his team cheered, he went to claim the prize. When the teacher offered the little boy the coveted rooster coin bank, he shook his head. As his team stared in disbelief, he chose the ugly pink piggy bank. It turns out the boys in the class just assumed their champion would represent them, and now they were stuck with the ugly pink piggybank booby prize.

In 2016 Chris Sununu, with the help of his family name and reputation, won a tight Republican primary and the governorship. With a Sununu in the corner office, New Hampshire Republicans breathed easier. After all, his brother and father had been solid Republicans. Pro-life, anti-tax, and always practiced Reagan’s first commandment of (say no ill about another Republican). The young Sununu seemed to be following suit. There was some background noise that he was pro-choice, but Sununu kept a low profile on the issue. In 2018 he won a close reelection contest, and without his vetoes over a majority NH Democrat House and Senate, New Hampshire would have become Massachusetts.

Then things changed, and an entitled arrogance emerged. Publicly Bad-mouthing other Republicans who disagreed with him. He even resorted to profanity, calling former President Trump F—ing crazy in front of a group of 100 progressive Washington DC Democrats {including Congressman Adam Schiff}. When redistricting came to New Hampshire, the Governor initially supported a map that tilted one district in favor of Republicans. Suddenly he did an about-face, describing the new districts as having a bad odor and killing the bill with a veto threat. Effectively throwing 200 Republican representatives and 12 NH State Senators under the bus.

In 2021 Governor Sununu signed a State Budget bill that had attached to it one of the most permissive abortion laws in the country. Only after 24 weeks was the procedure not allowed. Finally protecting viable intrauterine babies. From that moment on Sununu has tried to sabotage the bill. Recently supporting the removal of any penalties for performing the post-24-week baby-killing procedure. Knowing full well if a law has no teeth, there is no law.

In 2022 Governor Sununu was the odds-on favorite to flip a NH US Senate seat to the Republicans but instead, he froze the field and when he finally decided against the run it was too late to recruit a competitive candidate. The vulnerable Democrat US Senator raised 40 million dollars and flooded NH with propaganda, defining all Republican candidates as extremists. Yet, despite the concerted opposition, 2 weeks before the 2022 election the polls showed the Republican candidates were doing well and Sununu publicly took credit, implying the candidates were on his coattails. When once again the tide shifted, Sununu turned on his fellow Republicans, labeling them as extremists, adding fuel to the Democrat propaganda narrative. When the election was over NH Republicans had lost all the Federal races, most of its NH House majority, and self-serving Governor Sununu won reelection.

America desperately needs a promise-keeping President who is not formed by or is motivated by the political process that perverts the will of the electorate. The country received a taste of this when Donald J Trump was President. His accomplishments dwarf all recent presidents except perhaps Ronald Reagan. Despite his well-documented personal flaws; the fundamental reason why he was successful was because he was a true outsider who could not be bought and tried to hold the corrupt swamp of Washington DC accountable.

There is one candidate who is a true outsider, not tainted by the political swamp, and his name is Vivek Ramaswamy.

Ramaswamy is articulate with well-thought-out positions, which he does not hide. He may not win the nomination but his presence in any debate will force all the candidates to sharpen their message or go home. Perhaps one of the politicians {think Governors DeSantis and Haley} will rise above political rhetoric and speak to America’s real needs, and mean it. Or perhaps President Trump might re-invigorate his game by reacting to the real possibility of being upstaged by a young powerful version of himself.

In-depth vetting of the Republican Presidential candidates is imperative, and Vivek’s presence will ensure it happens. If not, America could end up like the 1st grade Long Island boys’ team. Wondering how their champion {think Chris Sununu} could turn his back on those who gave him the opportunity to lead. Saddling all of them with an ugly Pink Piggy Bank booby prize

Because in this case, it is not just an ugly pink piggy bank that is at stake. The next Presidential election is for the soul of America, and everything we hold dear is the prize.

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A trip to the salon can be a luxurious and pampering experience, with a wide range of services available to help you look and feel your best. From haircuts and color treatments to facials and manicures, numerous salon services cater to a variety of beauty needs.

However, with so many options available, it can be overwhelming to navigate the world of salon services. That’s why this comprehensive guide will explore the different types of salon services, including hair, nail, and skincare treatments. We’ll also delve into some of the popular trends and techniques used in modern salons, as well as tips on how to choose the right salon and service for your needs. Whether you’re a seasoned salon-goer or a first-time visitor, this guide will help you better understand the world of salon services and how to make the most of your next visit.

 

How Do I Start A Small Salon Business

Careful planning and attention to detail are essential when starting a small salon business, but the rewards can be both exciting and fulfilling. By taking the time to develop a solid business plan, secure financing, choose the right location, and hire skilled staff, you can set your salon up for success and build a loyal client base. With the right approach and dedication to excellence, starting a salon business can be a lucrative and enjoyable career choice. Here are some key steps to consider when starting a small salon business:

 

1. Develop a business plan that outlines your vision, target market, services, pricing, and marketing strategies.
2. Secure financing, whether through personal savings, loans, or investors.
3. Choose a location that is accessible and visible, with plenty of foot traffic and parking.
4. Obtain the necessary licenses and permits to operate your salon, including a cosmetology license, business license, and tax ID number.
5. Invest in quality equipment, products, and furnishings that meet industry standards and fit your budget.
6. Hire and train skilled staff members who are knowledgeable and passionate about the beauty industry.
7. Develop a strong online presence and marketing strategy to attract and retain clients, including social media, online directories, and promotions.
8. Build a loyal client base by providing high-quality services, excellent customer service, and encouraging referrals.
9. Stay up-to-date on industry trends, regulations, and best practices to ensure the success and growth of your salon business.

 

Is Owning A Salon Profitable?

Owning a salon can be profitable, but it depends on several factors, including location, pricing, services offered, and marketing strategies. A successful salon owner must have a solid business plan, be able to manage finances effectively and provide high-quality services that attract and retain clients. In addition, a salon owner must stay up-to-date on industry trends, invest in quality equipment and products, and provide excellent customer service to build a loyal clientele.

 

How Do Salons Attract Clients?

Salons can attract clients through a variety of marketing strategies, including:

 

1. Developing a strong online presence through a website, social media, and online directories.
2. Offering promotions and discounts to new and existing clients.
3. Providing excellent customer service and encouraging referrals.
4. Hosting events, such as product launches or charity fundraisers.
5. Creating a comfortable and welcoming atmosphere that encourages repeat business.
6. Providing high-quality services that meet the needs and preferences of clients.

 

What Services Do Most Spas Offer?

Spas typically offer a wide range of services that cater to a variety of beauty and wellness needs. Some common services include:

 

1. Facials and skincare treatments
2. Massages, including Swedish, deep tissue, and hot stone
3. Body treatments, such as scrubs and wraps
4. Hair removal, including waxing and threading
5. Nail services, such as manicures and pedicures
6. Wellness services, such as acupuncture and aromatherapy
7. Medical spa services, such as Botox injections and laser hair removal.

 

A List of the Top Sought-After Spa Treatments?

The most in-demand spa treatments typically consist of:

Massages: Massages are a popular way to relax and relieve tension in the body. There are various types of massages available, including Swedish, deep tissue, and hot stone.

Facials: Facials are a popular way to improve the health and appearance of the skin. They typically involve cleansing, exfoliating, and moisturizing the skin, and can target specific concerns such as acne or aging.

Manicures and pedicures: Manicures and pedicures are popular nail services that help to keep hands and feet looking and feeling healthy. They typically involve trimming and shaping the nails, buffing the cuticles, and applying polish.

 

Is A Tanning Salon A Good Investment?

A tanning salon can be a good investment if it is located in a high-traffic area with a target market that is interested in tanning services. However, owning a tanning salon also requires a significant investment in equipment and maintenance, as well as a solid understanding of the industry and the risks involved. In addition, tanning salons must comply with strict regulations regarding the use of tanning beds and the risks of UV exposure.

 

How Much Money Does The Tanning Industry Make A Year?

The tanning industry is a multi-billion dollar industry, with the exact revenue varying depending on the region and market. According to IBISWorld, a market research firm, the tanning industry in the United States generated approximately $2.6 billion in revenue in 2021. However, it’s worth noting that the industry has faced some challenges in recent years due to health concerns related to UV exposure and the rise of sunless tanning alternatives. As a result, some tanning salons have shifted their focus to offering spray tans and other non-UV services to meet consumer demand and stay competitive. While the tanning industry continues to adapt to changing consumer preferences, entrepreneurs might consider exploring other opportunities in the personal services space, such as the personal security services sector, which offers a range of services to help individuals and businesses protect themselves and their assets.

 

Conclusion

The world of salon services is vast and diverse, with a wide range of treatments and techniques available to help clients look and feel their best. Whether you’re interested in hair styling, nail care, skin care, or makeup, there is a salon service that can meet your needs and preferences. By exploring the different types of salon services and finding the ones that resonate with you, you can elevate your style and boost your confidence. And for those interested in starting their own salon business, there are many opportunities to tap into this thriving industry and create a successful and fulfilling career. Ultimately, the key to success in the salon industry is providing high-quality services, building strong client relationships, and staying current with the latest trends and techniques.

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After Tuesday evening’s School Board meeting, I have been thinking about many of the issues discussed.  I have been contacted by many concerned citizens in the city.  Citizens are very concerned with the direction this district is heading and those that are at the helm.

I raised some of these concerns at Tuesday’s meeting and have also done so in the past.  Back when Superintendent Tucker was under investigation, I felt that things were being swept under the table and that things have been done that were inappropriate; I voiced these concerns.  We have a Chair that talks the talk but does not walk the walk.  The Chair is to appoint a board member or members with board consensus to committees – this has been the standard practice for all the years I have been on the Board (6 years) and well before that also talking with past Board members.

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Let’s break this down so all can see it since none of you stood for what was right at the Board meeting. With the WHS Principal, we did not know about policy CFA and no Board member was part of the creation process. Then with the Elm St Principal committee, the Chair asked for volunteers.  We had a Board discussion and then came to a consensus on who should be on that committee. The same process was also done for the PSS and LHS Principal committees.

For the Diversity Task Force, which is a Superintendent committee, this was discussed under the “Chair Report”. Anderson asked for volunteers, and Heather wanted to be on it,  we had a Board discussion and then ended up with a consensus; the same process as the Principal committees. So 4 out of 5 committees had the same process EXCEPT for this last one of the LMS Principal committee (our 6th committee). There was NO final Board discussion or consensus around it. That was very HYPOCRITICAL of all you say we aren’t consistent.

Policy BBAB is very clear stating that committees must have consensus with all of the Board members on them and NOT simply Board level committees. The Superintendent is not in charge of the Board – the Chair is. What went down Tuesday night was a very clear disregard for policy and past practice. I’m really not sure what Chair Anderson’s motive is, but it goes against everything a School Board stands for and her submissive behavior is hurting the Board!!!

The Chair at Tuesday night’s meeting was arrogant and dismissive of the past practices,  demonstrating a lack of honesty transparency, and disrespect to the board and its policies.  I feel like the trust and integrity of what she said she wanted to bring back to this Board was just lip service.  I have no faith or trust in her position as Chair to be honest, fair, and transparent to Board members or the citizens of Laconia.

I now question the search committees.  Many of these committee members are newer staff members.  Why is this the case?  Why are not more seasoned/tenured staff members being asked to sit on these committees?  If I am mistaken on this issue, please supply me with the list of each staff member on these committees and their date of hire.  I am also concerned that we have a consultant – not even a staff member on one or two of these committees.  How and why are these people on these committees?  I don’t believe that is the role of a consultant and this was not what was portrayed to the Board when these consultants were hired, something I did not agree with.

I have heard through the community that the three administration positions have already been pre-determined as being Mr. Tucker’s choices. They are as follows:

• Chris Ennis for LMS Principal
• Aaron Jones for LMS A. Principal
• Aaron Hayward for District Curriculum Director.

The fact that community members are concerned with the idea that this may be the case and that the committees are just formalities really concerns me and the citizens of Laconia; it should concern every other Board member.  We as a Board speak of honesty, transparency, and fair processes and I believe this may not be the case.  When Mr. Tucker asked that we extend the LHS interim principal for one more year, I called Mr. Tucker and Mr. Hayward out that this is the plan so that Mr. Hayward could complete his School Board seat and then become the next Principal of the High school.

We had a great process and experience in choosing our new Principal for LHS and Mr. Hayward was a candidate but was not chosen for several reasons.  I again voice my concerns that Mr. Hayward is in the running for an administrator position.  Is this Mr. Tucker’s way of paying him back for helping cover up issues from his investigation?  Is this the quid-pro-quo that I mentioned in a Letter to the Editor of the Laconia Daily Sun a few months back?

I also am concerned that grants are not in place and that many of you approved a budget without necessary corrections being done (without solid answers on grant expiration dates).  Corrections and information should have been given before the budget was approved.

We have a student population that cannot read, write, do math or science. The school district is 70% DEFICIENT in all areas (this is the average) – some areas are much worse!  We are Administrative top heavy. Superintendent Tucker says we are improving – how can anyone say that with a 70% DEFICIENT in reading, math, and science be a good school district?  How is a top-heavy Administrative District helping our children?  We need more hands-on staff not more hands-off staff!

Let’s not forget the ALL STAFF training Mr. Tucker did just before CRT teachings were banned in the schools.  I have attached the slide shows for a reminder.  He believes that telling kids to lie to their parents is good.  He believes in sexualizing our children with Gender Bread figures.  Don’t forget the issues with bullying in the district.  There are many complaints as I hear from parents all the time – the children are the ones suffering.  Parents get nowhere and either give up with no idea where to go or pull their children from the District as the District isn’t listening.

Now let’s talk about the timeline for the Department of labor appeal.  On the invoice dated 2/14/23, on January 5, 2023, the law firm McLane Middleton reviewed the decision from the Dept. of Labor.  We had our Board meeting on January 10, 2023.  We had twenty days to file an appeal with the courts – Mr. Tucker and the Chair should have informed the Board at that meeting of what was going on as ULTIMATELY, THE BOARD HAS AUTHORITY – not Superintendent Tucker.  How come he or the Chair did not do this?  And how come we were never informed of the Department of Labor hearing, to begin with?  Why was that not told to us?  At that point and time, we were no longer involved and we as the Board should have known what was happening.

All these issues on their own are easy to ignore, push aside, overlook, or chalk up to a mistake.  Now look at all of these events in toto, issues that have happened over the last two or so years:  This district is a mess.  We are losing good staff.

I ask you to think of what the common denominator is – it is Superintendent Tucker.  We as a Board need to be taking a very close look at all of these events and issues as a whole.  Can we really trust Superintendent Tucker to do what is right for the District?  Have we seen an improvement in the efficiency of our children’s education?   I say no.

As a Board, we should be at the helm of this District and we are not.  We are being deceived and manipulated by Superintendent Tucker and allowing him to do what he wants and by his agenda.  This agenda is not what is best for our community, our district, or the children.

I love this community.  I love this State and the people who live here.  I believe in God, Country, and Family.  I believe in honesty, integrity, and calling a spade a spade.  I have voiced all of these concerns and many others over the last couple of years.  We need to hold a higher standard for those that are overseeing children’s education.

If I am wrong on the issue with the chosen three administrators, then great, but I don’t believe I am.  Now that it has been called out – will one or all of the chosen candidates be changed to prove me wrong Will one or two be changed to prove me wrong, maybe?

The words of citizens of Laconia are saying they are not happy.  They see what is happening behind the scenes and they know what happened at the Middle School when Superintendent Tucker quickly ended the meeting because he did not like being called out.  This is a fact I have heard from citizens in the same depiction of the event.  My biggest concern is that Mr. Hayward will get a position in this District.  This will be the reward for helping Superintendent Tucker out of his self-made difficulties.  Mr. Hayward is not a good choice for any position we may have in our District.  He is rude, disrespectful, and degrading to women – see past Coard meetings for verification.

You may not agree with me on any one of these concerns or all that is fine.  These concerns need to be looked at – they need to be considered.  Our #1 job is giving our city’s children the best education possible and we are not and that starts at the top – not at the bottom.
Dawn Johnson
Laconia School Board, Ward 4

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The Biden-regime has been relentlessly imprisoning its political opponents … supposedly for the “J6 insurrection” (hoax) … but in reality to intimidate its political opponents from engaging in free speech AND to set the stage for indicting and imprisoning (pretrial detention) Trump. It’s happening AND it will be tacitly supported by many of the supposed “conservatives” who have been incessantly telling us that we have to “move on” (notable that these “conservatives” use the same language as the Left) from Trump … yeah, eyes on you, Sun-King Sununu … in order to “save” the GOP.

The Seditious Conspiracy case against the Proud Boys was crucial to the Gov’s pursuit of Donald Trump.

With the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys behind them, there is only one target left. Donald Trump and everyone around him.

It’s going to get really ugly folks.
Pray for America. pic.twitter.com/3Ces3sQMVj

— Joseph D. McBride, Esq. (@McBrideLawNYC) May 5, 2023

They’re going to charge Donald Trump with seditious conspiracy too. That’s why the Democrats aren’t worried about Biden running again. Their plot is in motion. Too many on the right are in denial about this. https://t.co/NVWpjjWP7k

— Buck Sexton (@BuckSexton) May 5, 2023

As bad as you think a Trump indictment, arrest will be, I told Jesse today how it can be much worse.

And I’m so grateful for his coverage when so many on the “Right” are ignoring this travesty https://t.co/BuQHNYtQpy

— Julie Kelly (@julie_kelly2) May 4, 2023

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Joe Sweeney is supposedly one of the NHGOP’s “leaders,” “young-guns,” “the future of the Party” etc., etc., etc., … he’s much, much, much smarter than those boomer-GOP’rs … he knows how to win in New Hampshire … OR so he would like you to believe. Actually, Joe is simply regurgitating the failed, losing mantra of the Establishment GOP … stay away from the “social issues”; focus on the fiscal issues, blah, blah, blah.

Joe thinks he’s anti-communist. He does NOT want to honor dead Communists. But Joe is apparently unaware that his “good friend” Rosemarie Rung … Cackling-Rosie … is a Communist:

Cackling-Rosie wants to disarm law-abiding Americans. That’s what Communists do, Joe, they disarm the opposition:

Cackling Rosie thinks children should be raised by the State, not their parents. That’s what Communists believe ,Joe. For example, Lenin said something along the lines of … give me four years to teach your children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Needless to say, Cackling-Rosie’s stance on guns and parental rights is just the tip of the Communist-iceberg. And she’s also just a really, really horrible person. For example, she has implied that Melissa Blasek is a biological male:

And, OF COURSE, she retweets the obligatory “Republicans are Nazis”:

Considering Cackling-Commie-Rosie your “good friend,” Joe, makes you a DISGRACE.

And if the future of the NHGOP is people like Low-T Joe Sweeney and Ross Berry and D.J. Bettencourt … then the NHGOP has NO FUTURE.

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“Spank’em when they’re wrong but thank’em when they do right.”  So yes, I have to be nice to NH Governor Chris Sununu (on a preliminary basis – the NH House hasn’t voted on SB272 yet but has passed the Senate) on this news:

Gov. Chris Sununu this week came closer to embracing controversial parental rights legislation, saying he’s “generally in favor” of a bill that faces a showdown vote soon in the House of Representatives.

“I give the (state) Senate a lot of credit, they listened, they heard a lot of the advocacy, there were concerns, they have made sure their bill addresses a lot of that. I am generally in favor of it in its current form,” Sununu said on Monday.

However, while he may be indicating that he’s willing to pick up his pen and put his John Hancock on SB272, what about the House Republicans that have consistently voted against such bills but have made it clear during election seasons that they are BIG coattail riders of his?

“This is a better bill; it has legal standing and is on firmer ground,” said Sununu, who is considering a presidential run in 2024.
“I strongly believe conceptually in a parental bill of rights.”

And why the switch in his stance?  I think the reason why is obvious, given his running around the nation to get his face in front of every network camera he can in advance of a possible 2024 Presidential run:

While some confirmed and potential GOP White House rivals cite parental rights as a pivotal national issue, Sununu said he is looking at it solely through the lens of whether the change is right for New Hampshire.

I’m not convinced about that last bit. First, all this is doing is consolidating into one place the Rights that the Supreme Court has already confirmed. I think it is finally registering that, along with all of the other Left-leaning actions he’s done here in NH (the “smack’em” bit), those aren’t helping him. Pivoting from last year’s stance is part of an effort for him to gain the traction that, thus far, he’s failed to get.

I know he and his cohort are looking at the polls going “what else do I have to do to start getting some recognition???”. He’s not learning the very public lesson that Vivek Ramaswamy is demonstrating as Vivek is doing the same running around – and running circles around Sununu in campaigning around NH like a speed demon where Sununu is Governor. While Sununu is still talking both sides of the mouth, Vivek is saying the the stuff about the critical Culture War that IS the battlefield of the upcoming election and it now beating him in the polls at 5% to 1%. Both Youngkin (who won his Governorship on the Culture War but not running for Prez) and DeSantis (who got a larger margin of victory by fighting Wokeness but odds are his IS running for Prez) are other examples that are already showing Sununu he’s loosing out.

Back to “His Ardent State Rep Supports Do That Keep Voting Against Parental Rights?” bit in the title.  Sununu’s pivot is going to put them into a bit of a bind (IF the behind the scenes arm twisting by Sununu is absent this time around) – vote like they have in the past? Will the latter continue to put Government over Parents, contra the NH GOP Platform?

We believe that the liberty of parents to direct the upbringing, healthcare, education, and wellbeing of their children is a fundamental right. Decisions in regards to the upbringing, healthcare, education, and wellbeing of children should be the free choice of parents, acting on the children’s behalf, unimpeded by intrusive government regulation and control.

We do have history to the contrary.  Last Year, Steve did a deep dive on those Republicans that either voted against HB1431 or “took a walk” (meaning the voted against it by not voting at all. The “took a walk” means that they either weren’t present or were outside the Hall of Reps when the vote was taken).

This Year on HB10 (the House version of Parental Rights), the following Republicans voted against it. The first two (from Belknap County) each gathered thousands of Union based PAC money via Brodie DeShaies:

• Mike Bordes (R-Laconia)
• Travis O’Hara (R-Belmont)

Add to those two, other Parent haters:

• Mark Proulx (R-Manchester)
• Dan Wolf (RINO – Newbury. In fact, THE RINO of the NH House – why does he run as a Republican???

The current Republican majority is only 4 seats. You can do the math to figure out how just 1,2, or 3 votes will do to Parents – and continue to put Government/Teachers unions over Parents?

The dilemma for them, especially in the case of Bordes who has made it VERY clear that he’s buddy-buddy with Sununu. Will these folks, especially Bordes and O’Hara pivot their votes to Yay to stay in Sununu’s good graces? Or are they will be part of a continuing subterfuge to torpedo Parents again?

 

(H/T: Union Leader)

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First, I am merely an “enlightened amateur”.  Please vet & check on your own.  Caveat emptor.  Consider these to be priming the pump for your own investigations.  I know this is a long post; I am attempting to put out a lot of information as a resource.  Read or skip sections depending on your interests.

Second, I fear spicy time is very close, but even a month of food, water, etc., puts you well ahead of most of the sheeple.  IMHO, set your minimum sights on a three-month period.

Third, two things will be critical for having the best chance of making it through:

1. Mentality: first and foremost in survival is having a flexible mentality and cultivating the ability to adapt. Vanity has no place in survival.
2. Develop a meatspace network of people that are likeminded: cultivate your community ties and build alliances with neighbors (note: don’t babble about the Jab or globalists or depopulation, or start pointing political fingers when doing this)… and remember, the first rule of PREP CLUB is that there is no prep club.

And please follow both me, Nitzakhon, on Gab… as well as my blog host Granite Grok and also on Telegram Tommy Robinson Official plus his Urban Scoop site.  And don’t forget posts sometimes get cloned on American Reveille as well, which is a good site to check out in general.

FYI, here’s a link to the last Survival Sunday SITREP (from a week ago; missed this Thursday from having no time).

 

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The US is collapsing…More evidence our government does not care about American citizens.

 

 

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Top of the fold:

All these illegals coming in.

Shared post – Incoming Disease — Serious Diseases… (locals.com)

Gonna be bad.

 

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Oddments – random thoughts on prepping:

None this week.  Got to buy more seeds and more fertilizer.  Not for this year, but in anticipation of a scorched-earth situation next year.

 

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Prepper Site URLS:

Most have daily articles; revisit daily.  Please recommend others in the comments.

Ask a Prepper, how to prepare, survive and thrive, latest news

Mother Earth News

The Organic Prepper Home – The Organic Prepper

SurvivalBlog.com – The Daily Web Log for Prepared Individuals Living in Uncertain Times.

SHTF Blog – Modern Survival

Survival World – Everything You Need To Know to Survive

Homestead Survival Site – How to Live Off The Grid in Comfort and Style

Urban Survival Site | How to Survive a Disaster in the City

Mind4Survival – Survival and Preparedness

Gray Wolf survival

Sustainable Living (sustainablelivingideas.com)

The Classic Survivalist – Surviving in a Modern World

Primal Survivor – Practical and sensible prepping advice

Em Off-grid – We & Our Off The Grid Life – Em OffGrid

Resource for Practical, Daily Prepping Skills for SHTF & Survival (geekprepper.com)

And three aggregate sites listing their top favorite sites & links too:

TOP 50 SURVIVAL & PREPPER BLOGS

The 50 Best Survival Blogs

Prepper Website – Preparedness • Survival • Alternative News

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Specific, one-up articles:

Throw It Out! – Ask a Prepper

I found a few cans of fruit salad that were actually bulging.  Then again, I don’t like the stuff, and neither does anyone else.  So why did I buy it??

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Related to Spicy Time:

 

Learn 10 Advanced Bushcraft & Survival Skills!

 

 

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How to Find Water in the Wilderness | The Art of Manliness

Critical!  Related:

How Long Can You Store Water Before It Becomes Unsafe To Drink? – Ask a Prepper

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10 Military Stealth Survival Skills!

 

 

Other escape / evade videos (links only):

How to escape from pursuers in the woods (an evasion skill-building game) – YouTube

Which Materials can hide you from THERMAL DEVICES? – YouTube

Thermal Camouflage Part 1: Setting the Stage – YouTube

Avoiding detection from your enemies. Mountain Recce (visible, IR, Thermal) – YouTube

INFANTRYMAN’S GUIDE: Individual camouflage techniques & field discipline – YouTube

How Army Snipers Create Camouflage Ghillie Suits For Combat | Boot Camp | Insider Business – YouTube

Camo Face Paint – How to Apply Correctly – YouTube

I’m strictly amateur hour, but I’ve taught my kids that the human eye looks for OUTLINE, CONTRAST, and MOVEMENT.

 

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20 Wilderness Survival Tips!

 

 

More videos (links only).

20 Bushcraft Tips: Heavy Rain & Wet Weather Conditions – YouTube

10 Bushcraft Axe Skills in 10 Minutes – YouTube

Learn 10 Beginner Bushcraft & Survival Skills! – YouTube

Learn 10 Advanced Bushcraft & Survival Skills! – YouTube

Make Fire Even in the Wettest Weather WITHOUT a Match! Friction FIRE! – YouTube

10 More Military Wilderness Survival Skills in 10 Minutes! Vol. 3 – YouTube

How to Make A Survival Bow | 1 Hour Build – YouTube

Question: Is it worth creating a separate Bushcraft section?

 

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Short of years and untold wealth, you cannot possibly be fully prepared for everything (I have to keep reminding myself of that).  But even some preparations, ideally at least 90 days of food, water / water purification, etc., puts you head and shoulders in front of the vast majority of the sheeple who will be in jaw-gaping astonishment when the SHTF.  The only relevant questions are:

1. When does it start?
2. How bad will it get?
3. How long will it last?
4. What will the aftermath look like?

 

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I have a FORAGING group on Gab.  I will check 2-3 times a week to see if people have asked to join.

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Foraging: One-up articles

4 Ways to Eat Maple Seeds – wikiHow

Young maple leaves are also edible from what I read.

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10 Types Of Seaweed And How To Eat Them (tastingtable.com)

I like sea lettuce.  And kelp’s also good as an addition to compost for the iodine.  More:

Edible Seaweed: 8 Edible Seaweeds to Cook With (finedininglovers.com)

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Foraging (permanent feature):

Foraging (practicalselfreliance.com)

Wild Harvests (arcadianabe.blogspot.com)

Southern Appalachian Herbs

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Books (permanent feature):

Feasting Free on Wild Edibles (old but good)

The Lost Ways (much more than just foraging)

The Forager’s Guide to Wild Foods

THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO EDIBLE WILD PLANTS FOR BEGINNERS

 

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Shortages (broadly):

Inflation causes deflation. Wait – what?

I’ve seen things.  Deflated things.  And sometimes it’s really subtle in terms of the decrease – but it’s there.

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Biden’s America: Guy Who Works 30 Hours A Week Sees Big Shortage Of Penicillin

Wait until the power goes out at the hospital.

 

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Gardening, Food Storage, Animals, Food Preservation, Health, and Related:

How to Plant Date Seeds (with Pictures) – wikiHow

If you live in a climate that works.

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15+ Wild Edibles You Should Can This Spring – Ask a Prepper

Combines with foraging (see above).

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Rapid-fire on having multiple different kinds of animals – chickens and more:

Raising Farm Animals Together: What Works And What Doesn’t! – Family Farm Livestock

Interactions with other animals | Chicken Wiki | Fandom

Keeping Chickens & Ducks Together (chickenkeepingsecrets.com)

Compatible Livestock: Which Animals Go Together? (backyardhomesteadhq.com)

What Are the Best Animals to Keep With Chickens? – Know Your Chickens

Farming Other Animals with Free-Range Chickens – dummies

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Links on old-time food storage (permanent feature):

Thanks to the Canning and Preserving group on Gab, I now have these links:

Preserving foods by drying | How to dry foods safely (uada.edu)

USDA-Complete-Guide-to-Home-Canning-2015-revision.pdf (healthycanning.com)

Canning | SDSU Extension (sdstate.edu)

Food Preservation– Canning | Consumer Food Safety | Washington State University (wsu.edu)

Canning Timer & Checklist App | OSU Extension Catalog | Oregon State University

National Center for Home Food Preservation (uga.edu)

Canning Recipes | Ball® Mason Jars (ballmasonjars.com)

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Topical Books (also permanent):

Charcuterie: The Craft of Salting, Smoking & Curing

Salumi: The Craft of Italian Dry Curing

A Guide to Canning, Freezing, Curing & Smoking Meat, Fish & Game

The Prepper’s Canning Guide

Pickled Pantry

Fermented Vegetables

Hydroponics and Greenhouse Gardening: 3-in-1 Gardening Book to Grow Vegetables, Herbs, and Fruit All-Year-Round

Hydroponics for Beginners: The Complete Guide to Hydroponic Gardening, Designing and Building Inexpensive DIY Hydroponic Systems…

The Aquaponics Guidebook: Combining Aquaculture and Hydroponics Combining Aquaculture and Hydroponics

 

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Self-defense (broad)

 

Kent Hovind – Gun Control Genocide (Mirrored)

 

 

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Doubling Your Pistol’s Effective Range – Mason Dixon Survivalist Association (wordpress.com)

On braces.

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ATF At Your Door? NEVER Do This Or You’ll Regret It…

 

 

And two related videos, links only:

The BIGGEST Legal Trap For Gun Owners EVER?! – YouTube

Carry Concealed? Know THIS Rule (The 21-Foot Rule/Reactionary Gap) – YouTube

 

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Hunting & Fishing:

The Best Place to Set Up For Turkey Hunting | Pyramyd Air Blog

I had a friend who was an enormous turkey hunter.  Said the birds were enormously shrewd.

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Do you know when you have a “BITE”? (Fishing Tips for Beginners)

 

 

Also:

How To “Feel” Fish When They Strike – YouTube

This is always my problem.  I take my kids deep-sea fishing and, routinely, think I feel nibbling, try to set, nothing gets hooked… but my bait is gone.

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HOW TO BUILD NATURAL GROUND BLINDS FOR HUNTING!

 

Also:

Why You Should Hunt From a Ground Blind – Deer Hunting – YouTube

Bushcraft Deer Hunting Blind (Quick And Simple) – YouTube

And I remember reading that you hit the jackpot with a deer, but lots of people will be going for deer.  So:

 

5 Survival Traps and Snares that WORK! – Primitive Traps

 

 

Also (link only):

BEST Primitive Meat Gathering Trap – YouTube

 

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Concluding thoughts if I’m moved to comment:

From the host of my former blog home prior to here, Liberty’s Torch, comes this proposal.

A Proposed Federal Law: “Any sitting legislator, whether at the federal, state, or local level, who is found by a jury of private citizens to have voted for an infringement or abridgement of a Constitutionally guaranteed right shall be hanged by the neck until dead.”

I’m in!

 

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Things They Want To Learn

 

 

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Palate cleansers:

 

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There’s good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.

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Please check out my MEMES collections; last one here.  Mockery, ridicule, and the wrapping of uncomfortable truths inside humor can penetrate the cognitive shields of normies far more effectively – IMHO – than dry facts and figures.

 

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Do you believe that masturbation should be taught to students in public schools? Please see below- May is masturbation month, according to Planned Parenthood.  They’d like schools to teach your kids to masturbate so they can “relieve stress.”

Here is a reminder from The Rainbow Room that May is masturbation month.

 

 

The Rainbow Room is a Planned Parenthood LGBTW+ youth club for kids and adults ages 12-21.

 

 

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Some call Joe Biden weak, particularly in terms of his foreign policy. He has been as vacillating and indecisive a person who always opts to run away from problems and questions rather than take a stand and solve them. Many believe Joe Biden’s cognitive decline damages America.

Please note that there is a good measure or parody in this piece – enjoy

Now, these are all perceptions. In the interest of fairness, we should go with facts. A good case that clearly refutes these allegations about Biden is the way he is handling the Ukraine crisis.

President Trump calls Joe Biden “Sleepy Joe.” There is a good reason for that. Joe always seems to be asleep, whether in his office, during a meeting, or just in his basement.

A little background of Putin’s aggression. Putin, a murderer, and former KGB colonel, rose through the ranks of that dreaded organization and got away with his stunts and his suddenly newfound role that abides by the United Nations Security Council guidelines for settling disputes.

This duplicitous lowlife is the same person who presided over the killing of tens of thousands in Chechnya. Then, he sent his army into the independent nation of Georgia, occupying and basically annexing two provinces of that nation. What happened, Colonel Putin? Now, with America at its weakest point, he intends to swallow Ukraine, and before Biden leaves office, the Old Soviet Union is back.

Then we have China which may well devour the rest of the Far East, including Taiwan. This could very well be a plan by globalists. Do you really think an Alzheimer’s patient at the helm can stop either the KGB thug or President XI of China? Not to mention, the Chinese own him and his son, along with dozens of current US governors and politicians.

The minute Biden was informed of the Russians’ invasion of Ukraine, he came up from his basement and yelled, “That damned Putin. I’ll learn him a lesson.” His entourage became really alarmed. Even the tough Secret Service guys looked at each other with visible apprehension.

“Yeah, I’ll learn that son-of-o-bitch a lesson he won’t ever forget,” he then screamed, “Ouch. That god damned wheel. I think it broke my toe.”

Two Secret Service guys rushed forward, and each grabbed the fuming and cursing man’s arms and gently put him on his lazy chair.

“Where’s Kamala? Where’s my Vice President? Where is she when I need her? I bet someplace giving a speech, with that hyena laugh and getting her damned foot in her mouth and saddling me with the chore of taking it out for her.

Damned, do I need a helper like her? Like I need this darned broken toe, I do.”

“Mr. President, here is the Vice President,” a Secret Service man hands Biden a phone. He was a bit groggy and sounded very agitated when he was awakened. He yelled at our man, “Don’t you know this is my nap time? Couldn’t you have the decency of waiting until I woke up? Just another lousy hour?”

“Hey Kamala, get your ass over here, on the double. Hear me? On the double,” screams the still highly agitated Chief Executive as he throws the handphone in the sand trap next to the putter.

By this time, a couple of medical people, headed by a doctor, arrived and got busy taking his shoe off to immediately minister to the victimized toe.

“Ouch, damn it. Easy taking the sock off,” the injured president yells at the nurse, who was a bit rough in doing his job.

“Yes, sir. Sorry sir,” sheepishly apologizes the offending nurse, holding his breath as he keeps on trying to remove the sweaty sock that seemed determined to continue cradling the Chief’s foot. The clinging sock reminded the nurse of some of the Leader’s adoring public who love him so much that they never want to be separated from him.

“Sir, it’s your pinkie.”

“What?” Yells the chief.

“Your small toe, sir. Not broken. It is a bit swollen. Do you want me to give it a shot of painkiller, sir?

“No. Save that damned shot, triple the dose, and give it to Kamala if she ever shows up. He is the big pain I need to get rid of, understand?”

“Yes sir,” replies the doctor grinning.

Suddenly two helicopters materialize overhead. One was a medivac, just in case the Chief needed hospital care. The other copter disgorged the still groggy Vice President.

“Where the hell are you, Kamala, when I need you?”

“You know darned well where I am at this time of the day, just as I know where you are. To each his own. Me, giving speeches, you are taking a nap.”

“Crap, Kamala, get serious. We are in deep doo-doo again.”

“What do you mean, ‘again,’ never knew we were out?”

“Get serious, Kamala, I said. This is serious. That damned Vladimir is at it again.”

“Who’s Vladimir, BB (Big Boss)?”

“How many damned Vladimirs do you know?”

“Come to think of it, none.”

“Well think. Think hard.”

“Okay, Joe, but give me time. To think, I need time.”

“Yeah, you always say give me time to think. Is that why they call you ‘crazy Kamala’?”

“Well, people call you all kinds of names too, Joe. “Let’s go Brandon” cracks me up. But, I admit it. I am not the sharpest knife in the drawer and I am not all that dumb either. But, help me out. Give me a hint. Who is this damned Vladimir who has gotten you so agitated?”

“Putin. Putin, that’s who.”

“Well, why didn’t you say so? You mean the Russkie guy? Is his first name Vladimir? What is he up to now?”

“He has sent Russian forces into the Ukraine this time.”

“Did you say the Arabian Peninsula? No, no, we can’t have that. You want me to call Admiral Johnson, at Okinawa, next door to the Arabian Peninsula, to take on the damned Russkies and expel them?”

“Kam, Kam. Don’t want you do any damned thing. Just stick around and give the impression, public consumption you know, that we are right on the job together dealing with this crisis. The press is already here. Just look pensive and grit your teeth from time to time. But, Kam; be careful. Don’t overdo it gritting your teeth. You might drop your dentures. Just do what I told you, I’ll do the rest. Okay?”

“Yes, Joe. Whatever you say.”

“Get that damned Putin on the phone,” yells the President at one of his dozens of hangers-on.

A half dozen suits scurry like rats that have seen a big cat to do what the Boss wanted done.

“Here you are, Mr. President,” a beefy guy hands him a secure phone line saying, “President Putin is on the line.”

“Hello, Vladimir, this is Joe.”

“Da” a belligerent-sounding voice assaults the President’s ear.

“I mean, this is President Biden calling.”

“Da?”

“No, it is not dad, it is Joe Biden.”

“Da?”

“God damn it, it is not dad, it is President of the United States of America. Your dad wouldn’t be calling you on this secured line, would he? So, stop fooling around and talk sense.”

The President hears some loud chuckles and a bunch of garbled talks that he surmised to be Russian, then “Yes, President Putin hears you. He wants to know what you want. He is in the midst of stalking a tiger that he wishes to trap personally. He is not in the mood for any lengthy conversation. Can you call tomorrow?”

“Tomorrow? Okay, tell him to pull his goons out of Ukraine by the time I call back tomorrow, Okay?”

Big laughter hits the President’s ear, so harshly that he forgets the pain of his little pinkie.

Foaming profusely at the mouth, he suffered one of his dementia attacks and seemed to be debating about something. Should he slam the phone on Kamala’s head standing next to him? That’s what he really seemed he wanted to do-just by the way he was looking at Kamala’s head. But the television cameras were already rolling and the nation was glued to radios and televisions to see what the Commander in Chief was going to do about this naked aggression of the Russians.

So, he reached a compromise and flung the phone into a puddle ten yards to his left.

Tomorrow came none too soon for the President with Putin luxuriating in his tiger-hunting lodge on the phone.

“Hello, Vladimir. I hope I am not messing up your tiger hunting. Hope you did get the cat, the way you wanted it. But, I want you to do what I want also.”

“Da?”

“Get your military out of Ukraine. You and I are buddies. We work together trying to keep the big bosses happy. You know what I mean? So, why start something like this? I mean, why in the hell you want to take over the darned place? It’s a basket case and you know it. Why, why, why?”

The Chief was stuttering again.

“See, I charitable. Vee like help basket case. We helped Georgia not long ago, nyet? Vee try help Afghanistan. No goodofsky people. No vant our help. Vee leave. You also trying help them, they kick your behind for thank you, da?

“Hey Vladimir, don’t shit me, da? Get the hell out of Ukraine or else…”

“You make me do things in my pants, fearing,” followed by roaring laughter that sounded like the bark of a Husky with a bad case of laryngitis.

“Hey, not funny. I mean it. Get the hell out or costs to pay.”

“Vaat costs? Vanting to know. Vaat costs? Give me indication. I may change my mind if costs heavy.” Again, a big laugh.

“Okay, no, no violence. I am a man of peace. I am not going to order our military to shove your boys into the isthmus. Sanctions. Sanctions are my trump cards. I will use them against you. I have already started them…”

“Da, tell me vaatyou already doing. How you like my English? Ha? You speak no Russian. I speak English, ha ha ha.”

“No, I don’t speak Russian and I don’t intend to learn it. But, I want to learn you a lesson. I have already started the sanctions.”

“Vaat?”

“I have issued an executive order limiting the White House staff from eating Russian Caviar and Vodka with their daily dinner to only four days a week. If that doesn’t persuade you, I will completely ban the Caviar from the White House.”

“Nyet. That is no big. Vee sell Caviar to others. Vaat other sanctions you thinking, big-sanction President?”

“Well, there are a number of Russian restaurants in Washington. I personally patronize them from time to time. I will talk with the mayor and see if we can close three of them for failing to comply with our required sanitary standards.”

“You close three Russian restaurants, da?” You must convince mayor to so doing? No problem. Vee close all McDonald grease spoons in all of Russia. I no have talk to any mayor doing this.” A huge roar of laughter.

“I told you Vladimir. These are for starters. I have ordered my staff to draw a list of other sanctions. They already have. We are going to sanction your cronies. The speaker of your parliament, your vice prime minister, and four others. Their assets will be frozen and they will not be permitted to travel to this country.”

“No problem Presidente! For every person you make black list, vee do two or maybe more. Ukraine is Russia. Vee stay. Da? God judge the Bolsheviks. Giving Ukraine back to Mother Russia.”

“Listen Vladimir. Don’t give me historical justifications for your adventurism. I am not interested in the past. Let’s deal with the present. I am also getting our NATO allies to impose sanctions. How’s that?”

“First. No call me Vladimir. I am Mr. Putin and Mr. President. Your NATO allies live on my energy giving them. They sanction Russia, they freeze and the factory stops. Da? Goodbye. Have more important work. Must go hunt tigers.”

“The goddamn sonofabith.” Joe fumes.

“Who?” asks Kamala.

“My uncle Fudge, Kamala. That’s who.”

 

Postscript.

The Russians indeed started their tit-for-tat game of sanctions. For one, they blacklisted Senator Linsey Graham. When the Senator was informed of it, he mused, I guess that ruins my spring vacation in Siberia.

When Ronald Reagan, the no-nonsense candidate, replaced the indecisive illusionary Carter, the mullahs released the Americans.

America needs Trump back now. We don’t have any leaders to challenge these mass murderers. Two more years of Biden will result in an Armageddon.

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As promised, here is the second tranche of videos from the NH Executive Council that will vote to accept or deny NH Governor Chris Sununu’s nominee for a Superior Court Judgeship, Anne Edwards who has spent decade-plus working in the NH Attorney General’s office in the Elections Division. So here are a few more. Again, thanks to Chau Kelley for providing them to GraniteGrok!:

Linda Brown:



 

Julie Smith:

 

Heather Mullins:

 

NH State Rep Kelly Potenza:

 

And then supporters:

 

Dick Tracy

 

NH Attorney General John Formella:

 

Supporter #3:

 

There will be a third tranche posted soon…

 

 

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Those unreliable COVID-19 home test kits have been available for a while, and I know people who swear by them, but most folks swear at them or have sworn never to use one. That last bit might not be a bad idea. The FDA just issued a recall on over a half million of the things.

 

More than a half million home COVID-19 tests from Roche and SD Biosensor should be thrown out immediately, the Food and Drug Administration is warning, citing “significant concerns” over bacteria that could infect users of the tests.

The FDA says the recalled “Pilot COVID-19 At-Home Tests” can be identified by lot numbers listed on this page. 500,000 were distributed to CVS and 16,000 to Amazon. …

“SD Biosensor Inc., the manufacturer of the Pilot COVID-19 At-Home Test, informed Roche that this issue was identified during routine quality assurance testing. Potentially harmful bacteria were found in the liquid buffer solution,” Roche said in a statement.

 

What bacteria? According to CBS News, “Enterococcus, Enterobacter, Klebsiella, and Serratia, which can lead to potentially dangerous infections, especially in people with compromised immune systems.”

I did a bit of searching for buffer solutions. There are more than a few stories instructing people not to drink them or put them in their eyes, but I can’t recall hearing about those before today. We heard about the guy from Arizona (March 2020) who died after taking fish tank cleaner (it had chloroquine in it), though not so much how he and his wife (she had some, too) were both Democrats that voted for Hillary.

Remember horse paste? That was huge, and not just because the FDA lied about it on Twitter. And we heard a lot about Misoprostol, a common veterinary ulcer medication that could induce an abortion if your state decided to prohibit them. But the FDA never found time to tell us that (ironically) it was also horse medicine with a people dose, just like Ivermectin.

COVID-19 antigen test buffer solution consumption seems not to have risen to that level. Stories did not go wide because they might have scared people away from the system-crashing, panic-inducing tests. So, is this one of those turning-over-a-leaf moments? CBS News has a story about a COVID-19 test recall. Did they have to ask permission before they ran it?

And if it matters, or the news can be trusted, no illnesses have yet been attributed to the recalled tests. These are, of course, the same people who still insist the COVID-19 injections are safe and effective, even though Pfizer and the FDA knew that was a lie before they rolled them out.

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His Excellency just signed into law a bill that requires public schools to ‘provide instruction in cursive writing’ and ‘provide instruction of the multiplication tables’ by the end of fifth grade.

Let’s ignore for the moment the size of the loopholes in this bill. For example, a school that sets aside ten minutes per year for instruction in each of these subjects has met its legal obligation. And even if a school just ignores the RSA, there are no penalties for non-compliance.

What I find really interesting is that those same schools are already required to provide instruction in reading and math, starting much earlier.  Yet, fewer than half the kids in the schools are learning those things.

How will this be any different?

Think about how things would change if schools were required not to teach various subjects but to make sure that kids learn them.

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We are approaching the deadline for our debt ceiling. This deadline is a moving date. Janet Yellen estimates the checkbook balance will be red on or about June 1. Experts and Yellen is not in that group, think June 8 is more realistic.

When that happens, certain parts of the government, like defense, Medicare, and Social Security, will be funded, but non-essentials and our debt payments will stop. The United States Government will be broke and in default.

Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy has the checkbook on his desk. He has leverage at this point over Biden and the Democrats, and he has to hold onto that leverage and not bend a knee to the Left. It is our only Ace in the stacked deck that is the Washington Swamp. We have to get spending concessions from the Democrats as a part of the process, or we never will. If we fold and extend the Debt Ceiling, the Democrats will never negotiate on spending limits.

Joe Biden met with Kevin McCarthy months ago and said he would negotiate with Republicans on a realistic budget. He lied. What a surprise. Not only has he not negotiated, but he has refused to speak with McCarthy, and Biden has used the media to do his speaking. Every opportunity he gets, Biden claims the MAGA Republicans are holding the country hostage. Even his mouthpiece, Karine Jean-Pierre, uses the MAGA catchphrase whenever possible, though she includes all House Republicans under the MAGA umbrella. It gets old for us, but it plays well with liberals watching CNN or MSNBC.

It is against their DNA for Democrats to discuss spending cuts, but any sane person knows we cannot stay on this spending trajectory. Joe Biden erroneously said today there is no connection between the budget and the debt ceiling. That comment shows how little Biden knows of economics. There is a direct correlation. If you keep spending and do not grow the economy, the national debt increases and we are back to square one. How could the President say something so bizarre? He then announced a press conference this afternoon, which his staff had to pull back immediately. It was a bad day for Joe, but aren’t they all?

Kevin McCarthy and the Republicans passed a budget resolution through the House capping future spending increases at 1%. It is a plan that funds existing commitments but limits runaway spending. It is a smart approach, but Chuck Schumer says the Bill will never see the Senate floor. That is how the Democrats negotiate. It is a sad abuse of power. Biden wants the debt ceiling covered, and then he will talk about spending. Sorry, Joe. You have burned your credibility. If you get your debt ceiling, you will never sit and negotiate.

McCarthy has to hold his cards, even if it pushes us over the edge when the debt ceiling expires. My money is on Red. I believe that Blue will blink, and we will extend our ceiling, but with constraints. Constraints are something this government needs like a toddler needs training wheels.

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