This week we delve into rotten wife-beating cops, congressional war pigs, and other things wrong with Big Gov. On the other side of the equation, private charity efforts in Manchester include the Piscataquag River Park clean up this Saturday, also the Pine Tree Riot event in Goffstown, and if YOU are looking for a small way to make a difference in Manchester, go pick up litter around your house!

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EFAs are NOT going to get anti-white racism or grooming out of public schools (or private schools for that matter). Imposter-Republicans like Ross Berry use EFAs as an excuse to NOT DO ANYTHING MEANINGFUL about the anti-white racism … DEI, CRT, etc., etc., etc., … and grooming pervasive in New Hampshire schools.

Berry and his ilk care more about pushing their libertarian Koch-bot ideology than actually helping parents. Maybe that’s why the NHGOP continues to LOSE election after election after election.

EFAs are NEVER going to replace public schools. That is a libertarian pipe dream. Below is an example of anti-white racism and grooming being pushed in the Nashua Public Schools, and Berry’s response is to use that example to push his pipe dream. How about helping the children whose minds are AT THIS VERY MOMENT being poisoned? Oh no … can’t do that … much more important to be one of the libertarian, Koch-bot cool-kids. What a disgrace.

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One of the foundations of progressive politics is putting government first. Build it, fund it, defend it. The corollary, well known worldwide, is that sooner or later, you run out of other people’s money, to which I’ll add, but that doesn’t stop the “beatings.”

They always try to feed the politicians and bureaucrats first to keep the machine that runs everyone else well-oiled. Everyone else is on their own, including their union buddies in the FD and PD.

There is never enough government, and running out of money is a feature, not a bug (idioms, metaphors, …). All those essential programs or services they promise you the Republicans will take away if you elected them; that’s a projection. The Dems system ensures those services will get cut because there can never be enough money.

Uniparty Republicans are eager to help at the national level, but let’s focus on the Democrat destruction of cities. It’s one of the few things they are good at and something we can guarantee, given enough time. No hyperbole is needed. You can look for yourselves, but we’re not recommending it. You’ll get mugged, killed, or have your car stolen (maybe all of that), burdens to which we can now add this. Biden’s orchestrated invasion has made all of that worse, and the burden has begun to whittle away at essential services.

Democratic Denver Mayor Mike Johnston announced the cuts on Wednesday, celebrating the move as a way to avoid “the worst-case budget cut scenarios.” The “Newcomer Program Strategy” is a nearly $90 million budget plan that funds aid and sheltering for illegal immigrants through the rest of 2024, Fox 31 reported. To pay for the illegal immigrant plan, the Democrat-run city will cut police spending by $8.4 million and fire department spending by $2.5 million, while the Sheriff’s Department will be hit with a 2.2% reduction.

We’re cutting public safety, and we’re excited about this transition from protecting you to protecting people who are technically felons.

“After more than a year of facing this crisis together, Denver finally has a sustainable plan for treating our newcomers with dignity while avoiding the worst cuts to city services,” Johnston said. “So many times we were told that we couldn’t be compassionate while still being fiscally responsible. Today is proof that our hardest challenges are still solvable, and that together we are the ones who will solve them.”

I hate to sound like a broken record (no, I don’t), but you could save 10 million by sending them all home. Someone should suggest that. And not just in Denver. Massachusetts, the sanctuary across my State’s southern border, has a similar problem (like New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and the rest). And it’s an amusing matter, at least to me. For all the pissing and moaning about being overwhelmed when it was Governor Abbot and DeSantis bussing or flying “migrants” to Democrat sanctuary cities, Biden’s been doing it, and they’re all, let’s come together and help these new arrivals.

Hang on to that sentiment. You might have to come together to help put out fires.

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Greetings, Good Senators. April 18 was a sad day for transparency in NH and I am asking you to reject the Judiciary Committee’s recommendation and even consider saying “thank you, Mr President, I rise to oppose the recommendation and urge this body to vote ITL.”

This is a link to an ongoing local story that I am asking ALL of you to familiarize yourselves with.

Investigative journalists, in the authentic sense, are a dying breed in NH, and we must rely on private citizen truth seekers like Laurie Ortolano, who took to the mic at the April 9 committee hearing. Would you believe that not one committee member had even one question for her?  Yup, see for yourselves in the video, and one member even packed up and left the room, KNOWING that she was the star witness. As an attorney, he obviously knew that it was his opportunity to cross-examine her!  But back to Laurie Ortolano. You all ought to know that she has invested countless hours and countless dollars only to have city hall repeatedly heap abuse on her.  She has had to resort to litigation multiple times, both as Attorney Lehmann’s client and as a pro se plaintiff.  Don’t give the stewards of government records any more weapons to use against the public, please!

Voting in HB 1002 is VOTING FOR A NEW TAX, plain and simple, and I’m guessing that most of you took the Grover Norquist Pledge against that.  Don’t be fooled into thinking that RTK seekers are, by default, the inconvenient nuisance problem.  If you do, you’re no better than the opposition implying to Tim Lang that parents are, by default, enemies of their kids. (in opposition to his bill). And BTW, Tim Lang is an enemy of transparency.  You can see for yourselves on the committee hearing sign-in sheet, which I can show you a picture of if desired.

The Judiciary Committee joined the WRONG side of history on April 18, and the membership has an opportunity to change their minds. I hope some of you can convince them(and Tim Lang) to “come about” and perhaps recruit three votes from across the aisle. Watters is potentially one of those three, as I’m told that he can be negotiated with. Maybe that’s true with two more. Please explore that possibility.

Please do NOT contribute to creating another RTK obstacle for Granite Staters, especially with the second-largest city in disarray.

Sincerely,
Julie Smith

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To all those who are sending in memes, thank you!  Many, many good ones!  Please do share this post, and if you share an individual meme, consider mentioning you saw it on the Grok!

Speaking of, from this week, Monday Edition and Wednesday Edition.  Also check out my latest Israel-focused meme & commentary post if this is a subject of interest to you, coming out late Saturday.

 

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

 

 

While I agree with the blue curve, not sure the genders line up on this.

 

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Do not every forget – they hate you, and at their core really do want to put you against the wall and shoot you.

 

 

Back in my teens I took a class with my dad at a place that taught home building the old fashioned way in the morning, and then in the afternoon we’d go out and apply what we learned to several houses actually under construction.  One of those houses was, specifically, designed without any electrical power hookups.  Back then, my father and I laughed and wondered how long the owners would last before they got an electrician in.  Now… I wish I had the land and the money to build such a house.  No electronics, not affected by power outages or EMP.

Debbie Georgatos | Sam Faddis – China is Deadly Serious–Are You Prepared? (americacanwetalk.org)

Remember our good and dear friend Klaus and his warning.

 

 

 

A complete trust in Big Brother.

 

 

Don’t forget the cricket or mealworm powder!  To wit – and watch out for this:

 

 

Don’t forget that Democrats voted AGAINST mandatory labeling about this.

 

 

Why, it’s almost as though TPTB want China to succeed, and The West to fail.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Apparently these appeared on the same day.

 

 

 

 

See the excellent book Supreme Court Gun Cases.

 

 

 

 

Say whaaaaaat?

 

 

 

 

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PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA

 

 

Who the living F died and made this MFer dictator?

Fight digital ID.  Or you’re done.  Related:

Canadian municipality now requires a QR code (thecountersignal.com)

Scan a QR code to leave your town.  And, per the mayor, it’s legal:

Despite concerns, Antonin Valiquette, the mayor of Îles-de-la-Madeleine, says that the QR code and driver’s license requirements are legal and that his biggest concern now is fighting “disinformation”.

“Combating disinformation among the citizens for whom the members of the municipal council and I work is what is important,” Valiquette said.

Remember:

THE ROAD TO TYRANNY, SLAVERY, AND GENOCIDE IS PAVED WITH PHRASES LIKE “THAT CAN’T HAPPEN HERE” AND “OH THAT’S NOT POSSIBLE” AND “YOU’RE OVERREACTING”.

 

 

Related:

Nolte: Report Says 13 Banks Helped Feds Spy on Trump Supporters (breitbart.com)

 

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The Libs who would do this are safe.  No brains to eat.

 

 

 

My question is this: Who ordered the flags that they’re waving?

 

 

 

 

Be the guy looking up.

 

 

 

 

To everyone still in denial, schedule a booster and take choline supplements for a month beforehand.

 

 

 

Fear is the Mind Killer… – Granite Grok

 

 

 

Kermit, if you figure it out please let me know.

 

 

 

 

Or worse.

 

 

Not just that.  The system will never end itself voluntarily and will fight tooth and nail any attempt to fix it.

 

 

Rule 1: Never trust the government.

Rule 2: See Rule 1.

 

 

 

 

Not quite an apples to apples comparison, but good.

 

 

 

 

 

 

And yet, despite the above and many other things, people will vote for The Potato because Orange Man Bad.

 

 

 

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

 

Biden’s New Title IX Rule Guarantees The End Of Parents’ Rights (thefederalist.com)

Title IX was intended to ensure women are treated fairly and have educational opportunities, not to pave the way for males claiming an alternative “gender identity” to access women’s scholarships and spaces. It also wasn’t supposed to be used to curtail protected speech by punishing students and teachers for using biologically false pronouns.

That’s right: When Biden’s Title IX rule takes effect on Aug. 1, using the “wrong” (e.g., biologically accurate) pronouns will be considered “sex-based harassment” and a federal civil rights violation worthy of investigation and discipline.

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Under the new rule, if a middle school student feels that his teacher has not hidden his “gender fluid” identity sufficiently from his parents, the district could treat it as a Title IX violation. The school district’s Title IX coordinator would investigate to avoid facing a federal investigation or losing federal funding.

Uh oh.

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Macron, in key speech, warns that Europe ‘is mortal’ – Insider Paper

Is this a warning, a prediction, or a goal?  Related, at least to me:

Bayou Renaissance Man: More about our fragile global Internet

Bayou Renaissance Man: About that critical infrastructure…

The US, indeed all of Western Civilization, is incredibly vulnerable.  But TPTB want to gaslight us:

A New Elitist Craze: Fixing the Public’s “Perception of the Economy” – Flopping Aces

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Ignore This Birth Control ‘Misinfo’ Unless You Want To Be Happier (thefederalist.com)

There’s another effect of The Pill: it apparently alters women’s sense of smell and their mate-picking preferences (links in original):

In addition, before taking my classes, my female students were never told that the Pill scrambles the sensory messages that they subconsciously detect with their sense of smell: The hormones in the Pill make them more attracted to men with immune systems similar to their own. Those scrambled signals mean falling in love with a man while taking the Pill is risky. If the couple marries and tries to have children, the woman will have somewhat higher odds of repeated miscarriages and perhaps of having more-vulnerable offspring.

More on this:

Psychology and the Pill – TCU Magazine

In fact, one study shows that the pill may blunt women’s sense of smell, hampering their ability to sniff out men with markers of desirable genes.

“The idea that women might choose different partners when they are on the pill than when they are off it suggests that the pill may have rippling effects on the quality and dynamics of women’s long-term relations — maybe even the risk of divorce or infidelity,” Hill wrote.

Birth Control Pills Affect Women’s Taste in Men | Scientific American

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America Isn’t The First Empire Doomed By Open Borders (thefederalist.com) (link in the original):

And even then, most were barred from settling in the Italian heartland. As another writer, Annalisa Merelli pointed out, it was the Roman Empire’s saving of thousands and thousands (some say upward of 200,000) of Goth tribal refugees fleeing from the Huns in 376 that led to Rome’s sack less than a century later. After a variety of mutually broken promises between the two sides, the Goths turned on their Roman rescuers at the Battle of Adrianople in 378, a massacre of Romans that saw the deaths of more than 30,000 and would eventually lead to the fall of the Western Roman Empire.

While few would suggest that today’s immigrants have plans to militarily besiege America, it does not take a leap of the imagination to extend the analogy to our own times. Like Rome, we have lost our cultural confidence and moorings, which dramatically increases our risk of being overrun both literally and metaphorically by newcomers.

More on Rome’s error:

The Barbarians Who Sacked Rome Came Into the Empire as Refugees | Gates of Vienna

 

 

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It Took Ten Years For Powerful People To See That Leftism Has Crossed A Red Line – Flopping Aces

Only when it affected them.

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US Military is the Largest Investor in mRNA Synthetic Biology (substack.com)

Now I find this very disturbing.

Japan Declares Emergency Over ‘Explosion of mRNA Cancers’ (planet-today.com)

 

 

How Do Vaccines Cause Autism? – by A Midwestern Doctor

RTWT.  Book mark it.  Share it.

DEMOCIDE EPIDEMIC: The First Ever Peer-Reviewed Journal Study That Proves Excess Covid-19 Deaths in the United Kingdom Were Due to Midazolam (2ndsmartestguyintheworld.com)

Around the world, they murdered people to make the virus look scary… to justify the lockdowns and Jabs.

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New Scientific Evidence That CO2 Emissions Can’t Warm Atmosphere Because it is “Saturated” Published in Peer-Reviewed Journal – The Daily Sceptic

I’ve read about this.  An analogy that I saw: Paint over a window with one layer of paint – some light will still come through.  Another layer, less, and so on.  But at some point, all light is blocked and added layers of paint do nothing.  But it’s convenient for tyrants:

Fascism: Joe Biden Considering Declaring a National Climate Emergency and Giving Himself “COVID-Like” Powers Without Congressional Approval (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Cullen Linebarger

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No More Special Counsels | City Journal (city-journal.org)

Few innovations in American law enforcement have done more damage than “independent” prosecutors. Independent and special counsels have upended every presidential administration that has encountered them. They have never yielded benefits commensurate with their costs. They should be abolished.

From what I can see, they’re mostly used as weapons.

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Lawless Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs Vetoes Bill to Require Proof of Residency for Voting | The Gateway Pundit | by Jordan Conradson

IMHO there is NO innocent reason why someone would veto this; there can be only one motive: election fraud.  Other Dem governors too, from what I understand.  Related:

Victor Reacts: They Aren’t Hiding it Anymore, Biden Wants Mass Amnesty Before Election (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Victor Nieves

Why 2020 ‘Election Denialism’ Is Not Denialism at All – American Thinker

WATCH: “We Absolutely Have to Get President Biden Reelected” – Leftist Arizona AG Kris Mayes Says The Quiet Part Out Loud Before Announcing Grand Jury Indictment Against Trump 2020 Alternate Electors | The Gateway Pundit | by Jordan Conradson

Judge Cannon Unseals Docs Alleging Jack Smith’s Lead Prosecutor Threatened Trump Valet Attorney and Tried to Bribe Him in Exchange For Client’s Testimony Against Trump | The Gateway Pundit | by Cristina Laila

WAYNE ROOT: “We’re all GAZA Now.” Trump was Right. One Rigged & Stolen Election has Turned America into a Third World Craphole. | The Gateway Pundit | by Assistant Editor

When a Victory Becomes a Defeat: Biden and Bragg Are Making a Mistake, and It May Cost Them – Bigly – Flopping Aces

RTWT.

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Progressive Democrat women have become suicidally evil and stupid – American Thinker

I recently posted about the 19th amendment and a possibility of arguing for repeal of the same.  This supports that case.

Diogenes’ Middle Finger: CONGRATS LADIES, YOU PLAYED YOURSELVES. (diogenesmiddlefinger.com)

 

 

Every demographic leans R except unmarried women.  Perhaps modify the 19th so that only married women can vote?  Related:

5 Ways Feminism Has Ruined America (usnews.com)

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What became of communism in Vietnam? – American Thinker

Zitelmann describes how Vietnam, the poorest country in the world in 1990, overcame poverty and became a prosperous country by abolishing the planned economy and introducing private property rights.  By examining the case of Poland, which was among the poorest countries in Europe in the 1980s but has since emerged as Europe’s growth champion for the past three decades, Zitelmann shows how capitalism makes people’s lives better.

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Biden’s capital gains tax proposal could crush the economy, experts say | Fox News

Could?  WILL.  And that’s deliberate.

 

 

CA Fast Food Outlets Defy State’s New, Economy-Crushing Minimum Wage Law With Automation, Raising Prices – Flopping Aces

Biden’s new overtime rule another big blow to small businesses (bizpacreview.com)

Ross On Unfunded Pensions: ‘There Are Trillions Of Dollars At Stake’ – One America News Network (oann.com)

Reprise:

 

E I Feel Like Sarah Connor The Coming Financial Collapse

 

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Biden DOJ Says Droning American Citizens Is Totally Fine Because Obama’s DOJ Said So – Flopping Aces

“So this is actually the way that the system should function. The Department of Justice takes criminal law very seriously,” Dreeben continued. “It runs it through the analysis very carefully with established principles. It documents them. It explains them. And then the president can go forward in accordance with it. And there is no risk of prosecution for that course of activity.”

Takes the law seriously????  BWAAAA HA HA HA HA HA HA!

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About 7% of Americans own an EV now, but the Greens are running out of “believers”, as only 9% of Americans are seriously considering buying one:

(GALLUP) More electric vehicles owners now, but fewer non-owners say they would buy one | Sharyl Attkisson

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Tennessee just passed a bill (in both houses, now headed to the Gov’s desk) that would allow teachers to carry in classrooms.  They have to be volunteers, get 40 hours of firearms training and have a psychological evaluation, which seems pretty solid to me.  Predictably, the Dems are having a melt-down:

Tennessee State Dems Stage Die-In After Gun Vote – Victory Girls Blog

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James Woods slams drag-queens dancing for children as “prelude to pedophilia”:

James Woods on Pedophilia (independentsentinel.com)

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When asked about the anti-sematic protests that are springing up in many leftist hell-holes (and collages, but I repeat myself) all over the country, FBI Director Wray states:  “We don’t monitor protests”.  Oh really?  What about January 6th, pro-life Christians protesting abortion, parents who protest school boards, and many other “conservative” protests?  What he’s REALLY saying is:  We’re OK with a protest if it suits the narrative:

https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/04/fbi-director-christopher-wray-we-dont-monitor-protests/

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The Central Banks of many countries are actively working to get rid of cash, so they can implement Central Bank Digital Currency.  Now thousands of banks “down under” are locking people out of withdrawing cash from their own accounts!

https://100percentfedup.com/thousands-denied-access-bank-withdrawals-australia

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When the House voted to fund Ukraine another $60 Billion (which we have to borrow for, and pay back, with interest), the Dems all cheered and started waving little Ukraine flags.  Republican representative Thomas Massie (who did NOT vote for this) took a video of them waving the flags & posted it on X to show how our congress-critters care more about Ukraine than America.  However, the Sgt-at-Arms of the House has been directed to tell Rep. Massie to remove the Tweet or get fined $500/day.  I guess because it makes Congress look bad, doesn’t it?  Maybe they should not have sold out America:

Moonbattery Massie Threatened With Fine for Exposing Betrayal – Moonbattery

Remember:The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury.” — George Washington

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I saw this and was intrigued:  A way to get a “patent” on your land, and remove it from the governments grip (no more property taxes).  Definitely want to look at it more:

Chain of Title – Ron Gibson’s Book, Land Patents by Ron Gibson (chainoftitleresearcher.com)

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Closing – Hashem is amazing.  Just watch this video.

Amazing Video Shows Bright Flash of Light When Sperm Meets Egg and Human Life Begins – LifeNews.com

 

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Palate Cleansers:

 

 

Maybe because I’m male, but I’ve NEVER laughed because of a salad.  Women – have you?

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President Joe Biden seldom takes any questions. That frustrates reporters, pundits, allies, and voters. It is what it is. And it’s unfortunate. But whenever Biden speaks, voters are reminded of his diminishing mental competency.

There is no way he’ll debate anyone this fall. But Dems are in lockstep behind his candidacy, apparently expecting him to beat Donald Trump to position the ultra-liberal Kamala Harris to become our 47th president. (Her many inane statements are not due to age but to incompetence.)

This brings us to the Democratic frontrunners for New Hampshire’s open Congressional District Two seat, Colin Van Ostern and Becky Whitley. Colin is 46, and Becky is 44. They are presumably pretty sharp and don’t need to hide signs of cognitive impairment. Would they answer questions? (With accompanying comments in italics.)

1. Do you support sanctuary cites in N.H.?
(Democrat gubernatorial candidates Joyce Craig and Cincy Warmington refuse to answer this simple question, knowing that a truthful answer dooms their candidacies.)

2. Do you agree with the majority of Americans who favor restricting late-term abortions of viable fetuses?
(A Harvard-Harris national poll indicated that 73% of Americans would limit horrific late-term abortions.)

3. Do you support biological boys playing on girls’ sports teams?
(Polls show over 70% of Americans oppose.)

4. Do you think Democrats should pick your Republican opponent?
(In 2022, Democrat Political Action Committees spent large sums to successfully position Bob Burns as Annie Kuster’s CD2 opponent. Kuster easily beat Burns by 12 percentage points.)

5. Do you feel important positions should be filled based more on competence or on identity politics?
(In 2020, Joe Biden committed to choosing a woman of color as a running mate, thus eliminating almost 95% of potential vice presidents based on race and gender.)

6. Do you agree with Democratic New Hampshire legislators who seek to restrict school choice and take away Education Freedom Accounts from poorer families?
(Numerous Democrat-sponsored measures in Concord have sought to do exactly that.)

7. Do you support illegal aliens/undocumented migrants getting driver’s licenses and thus voting rights?
(The Democrat-controlled N.H. House overwhelmingly supported HB397 in 2019, which would have done exactly that.)

8. Would you share specific recommendations for entitlement reform?
(Social Security will be insolvent in less than ten years.)

9. Do you agree with Democrats who say that human-induced climate change is an “existential threat” warranting carbon taxes and restrictions on gas powered vehicles?
(President Biden has often said that climate change poses a greater threat than nuclear war.)

10. Will you accept campaign money from sources hostile to Israel?
(Such as from George Soros or the Council for the National Interest.)

11. Do you agree with those who assign some blame for the current military recruiting crisis to Biden Department of Defense policies emphasizing DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) and who say that this recruiting crisis impacts national security?
(Our Army and Navy are falling way short of recruiting goals.)

12. Most experts agree that our current deficit spending is unsustainable. Can you share specific proposals to address the spending crisis?
(The federal deficit for 2023 was almost $2 trillion. Our deficit spending now approximates a quarter trillion dollars a month. 16% of total federal spending now goes to service the debt.)

13. Do you agree with economists who blame the current high inflation rate on excessive government spending?
(Economics 101 teaches that if money supply grows too big relative to the size of an economy, then purchasing power decreases accordingly.)

So, there are 13 straightforward questions for your consideration. Granite State voters would surely appreciate answers. Similar questions will also be directed to other candidates from both parties.

As Henry David Thoreau once said, “The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when someone asked me what I thought.”

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Many Of us sadly have elder relatives who suffer from various stages of memory loss or dementia. We see their pain as they struggle to recall names and events. We ensure that these precious souls do not injure themselves or others. We help them with decisions they can no longer make independently.

We love these people who guided us through our lives, and now they need guidance. This journey is the circle of life, but we do not need this circle of evolution in some facets of our lives. Business and government are two where we do not need people far beyond their prime who are entrenched simply because they have always been present. People like Mitch McConnell, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, and Joe Biden are examples of such fixtures. They have invested a lifetime in what they call Public Service, but what I choose to title Public Absorption. They have built a powerful machine to ensure they stay in power, taking from those who unwittingly vote to keep them there. These folks are ageless parasites.

Joe Biden loves to preach about the plethora of experience and wisdom he has garnered in his fifty-plus years in Washington. Biden never had a real job, made anything, had employees, or lived within a budget. Joe Biden has spent a lifetime spending our hard-earned money on projects and causes he thinks are suitable for us. He rarely asked for our opinion, for he knew it would be the opposite of his, but that never stopped him. People like Joe, Mitch, Nancy, or Chuck are never wrong and love to point a finger at those who are. For the last three years, Joe has justified his existence and position by distracting and accusing others of wrongdoing or thinking. He is a master of gas lighting. For the last three years, one declaration permeates his message: Joe is correct, and Donald Trump and the Supreme Court are not. It is SCOTUS and Trump who have brought about desperate policies threatening American Democracy and freedom, and we must elect Biden to stand in the way of the existential threat to our existence.

Joe traveled to Florida, where he is about as popular as a gator in your backyard pool. Florida has had more than its share of illegal migrants, and the blame falls solely on Joe Biden. We all remember when Biden lashed out at Peter Doocy of FOX News, calling him a “One-Trick Pony.” Biden is becoming that pony. With the chaos at the border, the runaway inflation killing Bidenomics, two wars, and now civil unrest on campuses threatening Jewish students, Joe is playing one tune as he campaigns across America: Abortion.

Biden’s approval ratings are slipping across the spectrum, but alarmingly so with the young voters. With Democrat support softening with the Black and Brown communities, Biden cannot afford any drop in support with Millennials and Gen-Z. That is why he is beating the Abortion drum. He is in Florida to draw attention to restrictive rights favored by Trump and DeSantis. It is almost comical when Biden looks at the camera and says that Trump is wrong on the Abortion issue, and so is the Supreme Court. Joe Biden, the intellectual giant who cannot put two sentences together unless on a teleprompter and looks to Congresswoman Cortez for words of wisdom, is calling out our Supreme Court. Very rich for a man who is betting his reelection on the dismembered bodies of unwanted fetuses.

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Dear Goffstown voters: you don’t get to elect an extremist like Kelly Boyer to the Board of Selectman (whoopsie; so sorry; you changed Board of Selectmen to “Select Board”), and then complain about Goffstown having a problem with extremists: Does Hate Really Have No Home In Goffstown.

What’s that, you say? Boyer is not an extremist? While Boyer may be much more careful about what she posts to social media than other extremists in the New HampshireDemocratCommunist Party, she is an extremist nonetheless.

 

The LGBTQ+ flag represents the chemical castration of children, biological males playing on girls’ school sports teams, and teachers supplanting parents. So, yeah, I would call Boyer extreme. If you don’t, maybe it’s because the abnormal …the chemical castration of children, biological males playing on girls’ school sports teams, and teachers supplanting parents … has become normal in New Hampshire.

Credit where credit is due. Boyer is an actual political activist. And a good one. Not someone, like me, who just runs his mouth. Someone who actually puts in the long hours and hard work to effect change … of course, that “change” is the transformation of Goffstown into Wokestown.

Boyer uses your values against you … let’s make Goffstown a loving, inclusive, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah place. And it works … you elect her to that institution known in the bad, old patriarchal days as the Board of Selectmen, WHERE SHE CURRENTLY SITS AS VICE “CHAIR”, which emboldens extremists. From the recent post mentioned above:

Two conservatives recently ran for Library Board of Trustees in our local election. This really bothered and triggered another extreme leftist, who happens to be our Select Board Vice Chair’s wife, and she requested the candidates’ actual library cards from the library. After receiving them from the Library Director, she proceeded to display them (including their patron codes) publicly online in order to intimidate and call them out.

You cannot have it both ways, voters of GoffstownWokestown … you cannot elect a Woke-Communist to lead your town and then complain about Woke-Communism in your town. If you want to see the root of the problem, look in the mirror.

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We’ve gone silent for the last few weeks while we’ve worked on collecting audio/video authorization forms from four different District Courts in New Hampshire.  Four courts have allowed Joa to film anonymously while the Hillsborough District Court had him arrested for doing it.  These documents and requests are still pending.

Joa has filed a Motion To Compel the Release of Criminal Records to have the Court order the State to release his criminal records for trial preparation as the prosecutor was reluctant to do so.  This is a normal procedure as there are very strict rules governing the release of these records.

I’d like to mention that the prosecutor has been nothing but a gentleman and actually helpful to me personally in explaining some lawyerly procedures to me that I wasn’t too familiar with.  I believe he represents the community of Hillsborough very professionally.  I unfortunately don’t have years of law school and mock trial preparation like he and other lawyers do, so I am most grateful to him.

The trial date is presently scheduled for May 21st at 1:00PM.

The United States of America is currently experiencing a total psychological takeover from a foreign country. That country is Russia.

Nowhere is this more clear than in the halls of the federal institutions in Washington, DC. US federal officials are obsessed with Russia. They cannot stop blaming everything on the Asian country. These US officials think it is a good idea to commit such ideological obsession. Nothing good can come of such a silly infatuation.

This was blatantly put on display last week when US federal lawmakers in Congress collectively waved small Ukrainian flags in a show of support for passing legislature aimed to continue funding for financial aid to the beleaguered European country. Many of these same lawmakers decry waving their own country’s flag. These people are totally corrupted and have sold out their own country.

In fact, Ukraine today is no longer a fully functioning state. It is an extension of the US government. In a twisted expression of geopolitical power, this is in no way in the real interests of US citizens. Yet, it is US citizens’ wealth that is being squeezed away and drained.

How is this happening? It is solely due to the deeply corrupted and compromised Biden cabal, which took power in 2020 in a coup that was given cover by the US election cycle. The Biden cabal utilized biomedical and race warfare to inflame national sentiment and distract the citizenry so that it could conduct an entirely corrupt and illegal electioneering campaign.

This was all smoke and mirrors to distract US citizens and the world from one stark reality: the Biden cabal, which is essentially the US Democrat Party, is fully controlled and operated by non-US interests. Mainly, it is controlled by Chinese, British, and European military intelligence forces.

This has increasingly become apparent over the years since Biden took office. His cabal’s use of the US intelligence, media, and federal legal apparatus to destroy political opposition and censure public conversations has been entirely totalitarian. Nothing about the Biden White House’s governing style is democratic whatsoever.

Ukraine is one of the most corrupt states on the planet. What does this mean? Simply put, there is vast criminality, mostly in the forms of nepotism, embezzlement, bribery, and money laundering. For example, Ukrainian officials will take large portions of international aid money for themselves. Through various schemes and mechanisms, some of this money will be returned to the very politicians in the USA who provided the aid in the first place.

Under Joseph Biden’s administration, the USA has joined Ukraine as one of the most corrupt countries on the planet. No internationally published corruption index will show this because most of them favor the US Democrats and the Washington establishment. They are not sophisticated enough to fully understand the corruption taking place.

In whose interest is is that the USA continues to fund Ukraine? Internationally, several groups have direct interests. Firstly, the European Union, especially the western countries like Spain, France, and Germany, benefit from creating a stronger political and economic divide between Russia and the EU. It allows the countries of the EU to compete economically within the single market with less external economic pressure, because Russians have less interest and ability to attempt to compete economically in the EU.

This divergence between Europe and Russia is enforced by the US military, which is providing most of the aid in the form of military equipment and personnel support. The entire US military economy is able to continue to generate profits because this conflict with Ukraine exists. They are too myopic to see any other potential avenue for profits. The US military and its economies gain at the expense of US citizens.

China and the entire group of countries in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, politically known as BRICS, gained as well. They gain because the US is invested and distracted by the Ukraine war. The US cannot focus on so many things simultaneously, even though it pretends to. This gives enormous leeway for China and many other countries to operate. Politically, it also allows China to play neutral and take the most morally superior position while the USA sinks into a clearly amoral position of funding war— an unpopular notion.

Russia gains because this is a war that it can only win. On nearly every level, it is impossible for Russia to lose. It is too large to be defeated by Ukraine. It is too easy for Russia to control the conflict. And despite Washington’s propaganda, Russia does not need to or want to entirely annex all of Ukraine. Russia gains as long as the conflict persists because its military economies also benefit from war. Furthermore, the entire conflict puts Russia in a favorable international situation, as many countries around the world see that NATO has bullied Russia into the situation. Only the Western political elite have convinced themselves of Russia’s malfeasance. Most other intelligent people around the world can see the real role of NATO and the logic of Russia’s actions.

US citizens are the only ones who lose. US citizens’ wealth decreases every time the US government sends funds to Ukraine. Thst wealth is transferred to Ukranian oligarchs, which is in turn spread over the Eastern European region and the Mediterraneans where those individuals operate. The wealth is transferred to the US military economy, where US defense corporations and military community members gain. The wealth is transferred through inflation when the money is created rather than drawn from the tax base, and US citizens lose their purchasing power. Finally, US citizen’s voice is squelched, as any attempt to alter the situation is nullified by an oppressive and totalitarian federal government.

It is a disgusting situation. The Biden cabal is committing many crimes against its own people in order to enrich itself, even while taking government salaries for the positions its members fill during the administration.

These people in the US Democratic party and in the US Washington establishment who are enforcing this reality on the planet and in the USA are despicable people. They are totally ideologically corrupt, and they are protected by the forces of all of the people who benefit— essentially almost everyone else on the planet.

There are better ways to manage and check the growth of the USA, which is the goal in attempting to build a multipolar world. This is not the best way. It is far from the best way. The people who are complicit in allowing the situation to persist are deserving of a great punishment and a great reckoning.

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Psychology is a “science” that studies human behavior but is itself morally bankrupt.  That is, psychology is unable to scientifically define normality.  It can’t.  “Normal” depends on what the society (through “norms”) or the patient views as morally correct.

This limitation of psychological study is apparent when addressing transgenderism, until recently labeled a mental illness (“gender dysphoria”) by psychology.  Modern textbooks on transgender (and other paraphilic) disorders observe that they arise from “adverse childhood experiences” (ACEs): “Any event sufficiently stressful to threaten a fragile ego” (Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing, 8th edition, Mary C. Townsend, 2015, p. 615).  But here we face a conundrum: the textbook relates that such people are “unable to use coping mechanisms effectively” and become either “adaptive” (“urges are suppressed and not acted upon”) or “maladaptive” (“urges or behaviors cause significant distress or interfere with social, occupational or other important areas of functioning”).  But if society alters its mores such that a person is rewarded for his paraphilic condition in self, occupation, or even a run for public office, then this textbook is reversed, and what was viewed as adaptive becomes toxic, and what was termed maladaptive is healthy.

Drug addiction also is linked directly to ACEs.  Is the “cure” for the disease of addiction found in affirmation or in “correction”?  In encouraging more heroin abuse or in helping people into recovery?  We must ask this question of transgenderism with the utmost compassion and introspection.  If the behavior is “normal,” there is no “condition” to address.  America’s Left has imposed the conclusion of normalcy without critically considering the effect on the patient or others.

What of people who suffer from delusions of grandeur, a common presentation of which is the quite sincere belief that they are Jesus Christ?  Shall we address them as Messiah or instead gently correct them to bring them back down to earth (reality), under the care of a talented professional?  Crucifixion would seem a harsh therapy (however affirming).  Yet the surgeries being performed on people with species or gender dysphoria are quite horrifying in their mutilation of the human body.

In Vermont, those surgeries are now available to schoolchildren!

Those affirmed in species dysphoria (the belief that one is of a different species) will become parents and cause ACEs for their children — doubtless, it is traumatizing for children to grow up with a father who “identifies” as a lizard or a mother who “feels” she is a wolf trapped in a womanly form.  This guarantees an expanding pool of victims, perpetuating the vicious cycle of child victimization that causes these emotional traumas.

Additional child victims of transgender “reorientation” by society are the girls who have brought a complaint regarding the unfair advantage gained by male high school athletes.  There are numerous effects on others from “affirming” dysphorias.

The rush to enable these mental illnesses and to instruct children that they can surgically alter their physiology at whim (“liberating” them?) is indeed dramatically altering what is normal.  The next step is to normalize species dysphoria and allow children to be surgically altered in any and all manifestations of physicality they demand.  By what logic can gender dysphoria be approved and species dysphoria rejected?

In a Georgia school, a young man was outraged that the school “singled him out” in the cafeteria and removed him…for wearing a penguin costume.  In a video, he states:

Have you seen the Georgia laws for discrimination?  You can’t discriminate against someone by who they are.  I identify as a penguin, and this is me as a penguin.  This isn’t a hood.  This is my penguin head.  You can’t tell me not to be a penguin, cause, I mean, I was born a penguin and honestly that’s against the law to discriminate and if you go through with this I will let the ACLU know and they will send their people[.]

Teachers and administrators are trying to cope with the increasing permutations of mental illness in young students.  Meanwhile, progressive hospitals are quick to offer medical, pharmaceutical, therapeutic, and other surgeries to encourage these same children.  At the University of Vermont Medical Center Transgender Youth Program, “a multi-disciplinary team of physicians and mental health providers” explains that gender identity for children is not a choice but that radically and irrevocably altering their genitals and hormones is a “normal” option:

At the University of Vermont Children’s Hospital, we believe that all people, including children and teens, should be allowed to live their lives in their preferred gender.  Gender identity is not a choice, and it cannot be changed through treatment[.] …

We provide the full spectrum of care, from simple observation and guidance to hormone suppression and gender-affirming hormonal therapy for children of all ages[.] …

We require that all our patients are in active mental health therapy as we feel this is a vital part of any gender exploration journey[.] …

We can provide a referral to the reproductive endocrinology team at the UVM Medical Center to discuss fertility preservation options if it is desired by the patient and family, and if the patient is at pubertal age[.] …

When the right time comes, planning for having children is a part of life.  Like everyone else, a transgender person has choices.  Once on pubertal suppressive treatment and/or gender affirming hormones, the likelihood of being able to have biological offspring decreases significantly or is not possible at all.  It’s good to plan ahead.

Just as suboxone is offered as the lifetime cure-all for substance abuse, the pharmaceutical industry offers lifetime drug therapies for these children at government expense.  Most people do not become dependent on suboxone until adulthood.  In Vermont, the progressives are connecting pharmaceutical companies to their customers at a much earlier age through lifetime hormone therapies, sometimes without parental consent.

History will reflect that this transgender experiment on Vermont’s children is as insane as the eugenics movement, which in Vermont led to the sterilization of people “for the public good.”  Or perhaps the better parallel was the period when lobotomies were in vogue, before society realized how ridiculous that acclaimed “solution” was.  America champions the cause of women from foreign cultures who endure societal genital mutilation but somehow fails to see the reflection of that mutilation in today’s U.S. hospitals.

Mutilating the genitals of young children will surely one day lead to a cascade of lawsuits against the State of Vermont.  These sex surgeries are as irreversible as lobotomies.  In a time when municipalities may hesitate to install new playground equipment for fears of liability, these hospitals are unconcerned with future reimbursement of these children when they regret these rash procedures in the future — or when society reverts to the old normal.  Perhaps these hospitals and government agencies should set aside a financial reserve, just in case some of these young boys regret permitting physicians to alter their “penis tissue” “to construct a vaginal cavity between the rectum and urethra … with the depth and appearance of a biologically developed vagina.”

That just does not sound normal at any age.

(September 16, 2019)

Postscript:

“A new systematic review of international clinical guidelines for children with gender dysphoria found a “lack of evidence” for transition treatments for minors and also accused the medical authorities who recommend such treatments of engaging in “circular referencing,” or exclusively citing one another’s recommendations to create an artificial expert consensus, according to reporting from Christina Buttons. The study, commissioned by Dr. Hilary Cass as part of her evidence review for the U.K. National Health Service, found that the main organizations that have endorsed “gender-affirming care” for children—including the Endocrine Society, the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, the American Psychological Association, the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and the American Academy of Pediatrics—consistently cited one another’s guidelines and conclusions without conducting any independent research, thus creating the illusion of widespread professional and scientific agreement on the safety and efficacy of these treatments.”

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

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A. J. Kierstead and Dexter Tarbox discuss Defend the Guard and NH HB229, which the New Hampshire Senate might send to Interim Study. People like NH Rep. Tom Mannion, and other liberty lovers are, doing their part to make sure this gets done!

 

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The Internet has eroded  institutional control over what ordinary people see as “news.” Corporate media are still thieves, but not as they used to be, while locals have been obliterated in print and online. Many struggle to keep the dream alive, but with significantly reduced staff and declining coverage, and now wealthy progressive foundations have come to the rescue.

The problem?

Since 2005, approximately 2,200 local newspapers have closed, resulting in 20 percent of Americans living in “news deserts” with little to no reliable coverage of important local events. Press Forward seeks to reverse the dramatic decline in local news that has coincided with an increasingly divided America and weakening trust in institutions.

The Solution?

A coalition of 22 donors today announced Press Forward, a national initiative to strengthen communities and democracy by supporting local news and information with an infusion of more than a half-billion dollars over the next five years. Press Forward will enhance local journalism at an unprecedented level to re-center local news as a force for community cohesion; support new models and solutions that are ready to scale; and close longstanding inequities in journalism coverage and practice.

The funding.

Initial Press Forward partners are The Archewell Foundation, Carnegie Corporation of New York, Community Foundation for the Land of Lincoln, Democracy Fund, Ford Foundation, Mary W. Graham, Glen Nelson Center at American Public Media Group, Heising-Simons Foundation, Henry Luce Foundation, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Joyce Foundation, KFF, Knight Foundation, The Lenfest Institute for Journalism, Lumina Foundation, McKnight Foundation, Outrider Foundation, Rita Allen Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Skyline Foundation, and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

These groups have promised 500 million in grants to start (for which outlets like InDepth NH, among others, will apply) to prop up favorable venues that can fill search engine results with echoes from the correct chamber. It sounds like the David Brock thing – fake local news/public interest websites peddling news, sports, and “opinion” that press the progressive message. If those are still around, maybe they can apply too.

And it is, of course, about preserving Democracy and countering misinformation.

 

Under the cover of supporting news gathering and reporting by underserved populations, most of whom will suffer from the success of the reporting.

And yes, I wish we had easy access to similar grants to push back from our “side.” One of the Grok’s missions, when my job disappeared last year, was to do more day-to-day reporting, which is constricted by raising donations, for which I am forever grateful, but I’m not good at it, so it hasn’t freed me up to do any of that. I still have to work part-time elsewhere, which is fine. I like working, but it keeps us from pressing forward (hee hee) with some of our goals.

We lose a step here and there, while deep pockets on the Left fund portals labeled as local news to leverage people’s better opinion of “local news'” to push the progressive agenda.

Press Forward, indeed!

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Comparisons only capture the ears of the curious. Amid all this social, economic, and cultural turmoil, it would surely be beneficial if curiosity could return. This quality is very much in demand since America is being attacked with the enemy’s new weapons of equality and equity.

This new warfare astounds simply from the aspect of its ease and successful implementation, and now without any injury or loss of life! Such success was likely dependent upon the prelim of a patient conditioning program. Without getting too detailed, all this roughly began around the dawning of the twentieth century. The central distribution point was academia with its purpose to infiltrate nationally. Graduating the like minded, many remained in the education field while others dispersed throughout the many sectors of our economy and yes, governments!

Not to get political, but it’s a necessary element that fuels today’s affecting headlines. Trump’s 2015 entry upset their long march through the institutions,’ as the Red Chinese say. At first, his entry was comical, but suddenly, Trump became President. All their laughter ceased. What has happened since, most notably in 2020 and now during this campaign season, or should I say ‘attack season,’ has been to protect their slow grind through all that is still America but, most importantly, to keep Trump from obtaining Presidential power ever again, for he is their only credible threat!

This confrontation is very much a psychological affair in that all these drastic societal and cultural reversals and/or eliminations are being played out so as to keep the masses unbalanced and misdirected while the brunt of their efforts centers upon their last obstacle!

For whatever reason, they might have erred by refocusing America’s attention on one issue that also acts as a reliable public safeguard: our unalienable Second Amendment. Incredibly, Biden’s insistence that our Constitutional rights, listed as The Bill of Rights, “are not absolute” might be an overstep, or in this case, an attention-getter when connecting with one uncomfortable fact: Red China!

This may only point to a possibility rather than a probability yet throughout Biden’s entire time in public service, his record is at least murky and with many question marks. Thus, it may not surprise as recent information has revealed to the public about unknown business dealings of our President, his family, and associates with our foreign adversaries. At the very least, this should cause some serious questioning concerning Biden’s real motives and overall allegiance to our Country. So, when he decides to attack everyone’s unalienable right to self-defense, it’s not a far reach to wonder just how Red China would welcome the knowing that no longer would there be “a gun behind every blade of grass.” This Constitutional right of the people, to be armed, acted as a deterrent causing that response from Admiral Yamamoto when asked why he didn’t continue on to our West Coast after attacking Pearl Harbor.

Also, such an airing of this Congressional investigation, which to the public may suggest the unthinkable, casts a dim shadow over Biden’s concern for public safety as his reason for disarming our people. Even the modern public fable that it was originally written for hunting purposes attempts to downplay the Founder’s concern for the public’s protection against governmental growth!

Today’s circus in the courts, no matter which side of the aisle one may prefer, is an outright threat to our Constitutional Republic. This abuse of our judicial system against a citizen’s right to run for office defines today’s new warfare. While this is temporarily viewed as a partisan effort, it never-the –less is an attack upon every American! The only catch is that this won’t become obvious until it’s too late! Biden’s overreach exemplifies Red China’s preference for a peaceful takeover. As stated, this is merely a possibility, but it’s eerie how it all connects with such a positive result for Red China. As this courtroom drama unfolds, the enemy has obviously gained influence within our prosecutorial and judicial arms of justice. Lady Justice is blind, but our people can ill afford to look away. And to borrow a quote, “This isn’t a joke!”

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The next generation of DemocratsCommunists are moving on up in New Hampshire. One such Communist is Angela Brennan, running to replace her comrade, Becky “The Red” Whitley, who is moving on up to run for Congress in the 2nd-CD.

It is pretty common knowledge that “Blaine Amendments” in State Constitutions (enacted by States in the late 19th century (when Protestantism was still being taught in public schools) to discriminate against Catholics)  violate the First Amendment of the United States Constitution, and therefore are unenforceable. For example:

The first major blow to Blaine Amendments came in June 2020, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue that the federal Constitution forbids states from excluding families and schools from educational choice programs based on their religious status. The U.S. Constitution, wrote Chief Justice Roberts for a majority of the Court, “condemns discrimination against religious schools and the families whose children attend them. They are members of the community too, and their exclusion from [Montana’s] scholarship program here is odious to our Constitution and cannot stand.” The Supreme Court’s holding was clear and unambiguous—and it applies to every state: While a “State need not subsidize private education[,] . . . once a State decides to do so, it cannot disqualify some private schools solely because they are religious.”

The second blow to Blaine Amendments came two years later when the Supreme Court ruled in Carson v. Makin that states may not prohibit families that participate in educational choice programs from selecting schools that provide religious instruction. The Court held that such programs must be neutral regarding religion and allow parents to pick the school that works best for their children. Chief Justice Roberts, again writing for the Court’s majority, held that Maine “violates the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment” when it prohibits parents from choosing religious educational options in a school choice program.

Yet here is Angela Brennan disseminating the FALSEHOOD that New Hampshire’s Blaine Amendment remains operative:

The question is: IS COMRADE BRENNAN A CONSTITUTIONAL KNOW-NOTHING OR A LIAR? The question that does not need to be asked is whether Comrade Brennan is a RELIGIOUS-BIGOT … she clearly is.

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Any day now, we’re going to hear about a new federal program to help younger kids become bilingual. This is so they’ll be able to understand what their illegal alien child rapist is saying while they are being abused.

They are already being groomed so that part is already paid for locally through the school budget. And we’re covering the cost to transport them, process them (when that happens), and for criminal justice to know who they are and release them into (or back into ) the homeland. While the children are paying a different price.

The moment of this alleged child rapist’s arrest while we were with ICE Boston. He was their fourth alleged child rapist arrest of the morning.
All had been released by local jurisdictions who refused to cooperate with ICE. pic.twitter.com/JYEVxWbchi

— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) April 16, 2024

Given these are all known predators here illegally, handled by the system but left to roam free, I’m curious as to why they’ve been arrested (publicly). Did the open borders, sanctuary city state Dems need a photo-op (look we’re hard in illegal immigration!)? Did the predators exceed their bag limit? And how soon before they are out on the street to find new targets, possibly even closer to our homes here in New Hampshire?

Oh, and what about all the other criminals wandering around?

No wonder even Democrats are getting sick of this crap.

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The urgency for transparency in using Nashua taxpayers’ hard-earned money is not just important; it’s paramount. As a state that prides itself on transparency, New Hampshire citizens should demand openness and accountability, particularly for publicly funded discretionary projects.

For instance, Nashua City’s Performing Arts Center project has already surpassed its budget, making the need for transparency even more pressing. Where is the money going? How much is coming back to the City? Is there waste or fraud? Is everything on the up and up? These are questions that should concern us all.

When elected and appointed officials impede access to information about what is happening, something is amuck.

Under the leadership of Nashua Mayor Jim Donchess, a disturbing trend of misrepresentations and obfuscation has emerged among the mayor and other top City officials. This is not just a matter of miscommunication; it’s a betrayal of citizens’ trust in certain of their elected representatives and appointed officials.  The pattern is particularly troubling regarding the peculiar routing of millions of taxpayer dollars diverted from infrastructure and public safety projects to fund the discretionary Performing Arts Center, which appears to be the mayor’s pet project.

Mayor Donchess’  director of economic development, Tim Cummings, orchestrated secretive meetings to keep the public in the dark about the project’s complex financial structure, which has taken on the characteristics of a “shell game.” Suppose the funding for the Performing Arts project was transparent and accountable. Wouldn’t you expect the responsible officials to invite public inspection and not hinder public access and commentary by trickery?

It’s not just a matter of trust but of our collective responsibility as citizens to ensure that our tax dollars are used wisely and transparently. We have the power to demand answers, and we must use it.

Now, the NH Court must decide if this project’s meeting and records generated in the shadows can be seen in the sun. Should hearings on the expenditure of public funds be open to the public? It came to that!

On April 10-12, 2024, Nashua Superior Court held the last three days of a six-day Right to Know (RTK) Trial, Laurie Ortolano v City of Nashua and the 201 Main St. Corps. The Trial was all about public meetings and records contained within Director Cumming’s Economic Development Office (EDO).

The lawsuit challenged Director Cummings’s denial of noticing meetings and posting minutes per the law for the various commissions, committees, and boards under his office’s responsibility. While under oath, Mr. Cummings hesitantly acknowledged that his office oversees several City Committees and boards.  However, when questioned on the two shell corporations (201 Main Street Corps) formed to accept federal money for the Performing Arts Center, Mr. Cummings claimed the 201 Main Street Corps were not under his department’s oversight. His statement proved to be false.

The City paid the legal expenses and fees to create these nonprofit public corporations to accept federal money. Because these corporations were pitched to the Board of Aldermen as public nonprofits, there is cause to believe that they were subject to the right-to-know NH RSA 91-A law. The structure presented by the City Attorney did not depict these Corporations as autonomous entities, separate from the City.

Mayor Donchess and his Corporation Counsel, Steven Bolton, failed to clarify the function of the corporations, and they appear to have done so to evade NH RSA 91-A. This pattern of denial continued for almost a year until Ortolano filed a right-to-know lawsuit, asking that the “City” manufactured agencies to advance the Performing Arts Center identify their public body/public agency status and produce the records they contain. She argued all of these meetings and records should be public.

I, Laurie Ortolano, have been to Court with the City too many times, seeking the truth and leaving without it. The April Trial reached a pinnacle of deception, and when the dust settled, so didn’t some of the deceptions.

I wanted to understand the City’s process for handling my right-to-know requests. I could not get a consistent and clear answer from Nashua City Attorney Leonard or Director of Administration Cummings. Attorney Leonard applied this blanket statement to many of my questions, “We comply with RSA 91-A.” You can see Leonard’s repeated statement as an overgeneralized and misleading response. Her actions seemed to diverge from compliance as prescribed by law.

Director Cummings and Attorney Leonard expounded on the stand that the 201 Main St. Corps created by the City as public corporations were not public bodies or agencies of the City. Therefore, the City was not responsible under the RTK law for noticing meetings for public attendance and posting their minutes. So, why did the City officials create them?

Because Mayor Donchess acted as if the 201 Main Street Corps were not City Corporations, his counsel argued that Corporations needed separate legal representation at the Trial. The City Attorney objected to questioning how these corporations involved with the Performance Art Center were structured, who structured them, and the purpose for this entangled condition. Now, five defense attorneys opposed one self-represented person.

Counsel for the Corporations specified that the City did not guide its hand-picked Board of Directors regarding governance or municipal law requirements, even though these Board members would be responsible for more than $25 million in taxpayer money to build the Performing Arts Center. So, we have a statement from a paid attorney that a non-taxpayer enterprise can run a taxpayer-funded entity without accountability and spend taxpayer money. The difficulty with the argument was that there was no evidence that the entities were untethered from the city.

Most people have seen how the blame game plays out. If someone is caught with their hands in the cookie jar, they blame someone else for making the cookies tempting. In roughly this way, the Trial became a finger-pointing game of villainizing the victims harmed by the Mayor’s non-disclosure practices. For example, for 20 months, the City, under Mayor Donchess, would not budge on a refusal to disclose who was responsible for notices and records for meetings and records and financial decisions recorded in documents relevant to the Performing Arts Center. As I raised questions, the mayor’s entourage villainized me and made themselves sound like the victims of their indiscretions and fiction.

The City claimed no responsibility for administrative oversight of the 201 Main Street Corps meetings where public funds were allocated and how they would be managed. Without realizing it, they declared themselves fiscally incompetent. The facts and evidence showed that the ” We know nothing (but control everything)” position was contradictory and fallacious but typical of  positions the City previously took on right-to-know issues, such as attorney Leonard’s redundant ambiguous  assertion, “We comply with RSA 91-A.”

 The following exposed the Big Lie:

• The 201 Corporations have the same Employer Identification Number as the City of Nashua (in IRS terms, the City owns the Corporations.) Therefore, the city’s claim of separation of fiscal authority is false.
• The Board of Aldermen approves the Board of Directors members for 201 Main Street Corporations. A private corporation chooses its board and would rightly reject governmental interference in determining who is selected to serve on a Board. (Would General Motors seat only government-approved Board members?)
• The Board of Aldermen must approve changes to the Corporation’s bylaws. The entity that determines the bylaws controls the agenda and the organization. That action by the Aldermanic board adds further evidence that the City controls the entities,
• The 201 Main Street Corporation’s business address is City Hall. (If you ran “Barts Bakery,” could you use City Hall as your mailing address?)
• The Corporations’ business contact is Nashua City Director of Administration Tim Cummings. If the entities were separate, such an arrangement could be rightly viewed as a cozy arrangement or conflict of interest, but the preponderance of evidence points to a fusion. They originated with the City and are aligned with the city.
• The City is responsible for the tax filings for the Corporations. An independent agency would file its taxes as a separate entity.
• The Corporation’s only revenue source is the City of Nashua, and taxpayers funded the Corporation with the $21 Million of sold bond proceeds to construct the Arts Center. An organizational director with hands in a municipality’s pockets cannot be considered autonomous.
• 201 Main Board of Directors realtor President Rich Lannan identified that an employee of Mr. Cummings’s office recorded the minutes for their Corporation meetings despite both corporations having their secretaries. This government control of the private organization’s recorded records is incomprehensible unless the private organization is a façade for the government.
• The Nashua Taxpayers paid the Attorneys representing the Corporations in this lawsuit. This arrangement demonstrated the extra costs associated with an organization’s pretense of autonomy requiring its counsel at a hearing and a governmental agency’s payment of such counsel. The statement that the Corporation was independent and needed its private counsel to be paid by the City is a skit for Saturday Night Live.

 City-orchestrated lies flowed free until mid-afternoon on the last day of the April trial. At that time, Mr. Cummings whistled a new tune. He seemed to understand that an avalanche of evidence against his false statements made it difficult to continue concealing the trickery and deceptions in the make-believe independent corporation game he and the mayor were playing.  The 201 Main Street Corps associated with the Performing Arts Center were the City’s alter ego in advancing the Performing Arts Center agenda.

Mr. Cummings made a 180-degree change and negated his denial by admitting that noticing and posting meetings/minutes was his responsibility. Why he wouldn’t admit to something likely in his job description bewilders.

Mr. Cummings did not acknowledge that the Corporations were under the City’s control and management but that the City was the third-party vendor to post notices and meeting records on the City’s website. Ms. Leonard identified under oath that the City entered into a third-party contract late last year to serve as their meeting website (this was not disclosed to the public).

The city took three years to write this contract. The pussyfooting had ended. Why all the deception? A Court decision that the Corporations are public bodies or public agencies of the City could open challenges to the legality of the Corporation’s structure and potential misuse of public funds.

No shenanigans were necessary in this matter. The Corporate structure would not have been up for review if the City had just owned its responsibility as a third party to notice and post meetings/minutes.  However, the easy way does not appear to be the Donchess way.  Once he starts on one track, he continues.

I’ve lost count of the prevarications and dissimulations from Nashua city officials and agents. I am surprised when I hear something truthful. That’s a sad testament to our times but one I hope will start changing.

Fairness is a prelude to truth and trust, which are preludes to cooperation. Transparency weaves through this process, as it must be for people to pull together and work together.  This basic human need is making a comeback. The 2023 word of the year is authenticity.  However, those who practice derision and promote discord are not to be underestimated. They are like “bad pennies that keep coming back.”

Does truth matter in Court? Not of you listened to days of testimony by Mr. Cummings.  The Courts provide an opportunity for a just result, but there are no guarantees. Exposing fiction and using some common sense, however, helps spur justice.

To all who read this, what do you think?

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A few years ago, Governor Sununu got a whiff of some Federal Wind Money up his skirt, and New Hampshire’s been fondling the idea ever since. But much bluer states with much bluer governors have decided that there’s no way to get there from here )and Bidenomics is partly to blame).

The next time some proglodyte tells you inflation isn’t as bad as “some people” say, don’t open with food prices or gas. Use wind. Inflation and material costs are making it impossible for the developers to move forward, but the deals they want would bankrupt ratepayers and cost billions in subsidies and tax credits. Even tax and spend states like New Jersey, and Maryland are shuddering at the price tag to move forward. A problem the wind idiots in New York have come to discover isn’t going away and cannot be justified.

 New York’s signature offshore wind projects meant to boost confidence in the industry are being scrapped, a major hit to the industry in the state and the nation.

The decision is another setback to New York’s aspirations to achieve 70 percent renewable energy by 2030 and be a hub for the nascent industry in the United States. It will also be another challenge for President Joe Biden’s already likely out-of-reach 30 gigawatt goal for offshore wind by 2030.

Wind isn’t off the table, but as we reported previously, it’ll take some political capital, by which we mean politicians’ commitment to screwing ratepayers to get signature projects (intended to meet meaningless emissions reduction targets) back on track.

The newly-contracted projects are also expected to increase utility rates in the state. Residential electricity rates are expected to jump by $6.84 per month, commercial rates will increase by $58.73 per month, and monthly industrial rates will rise by $513.22, according to E&E News.

As I noted in the linked piece, these are lowball numbers. Given the trajectory of the economy, the industry, and global suppliers, these rates won’t survive construction, let alone completion. Ratepayers in Maryland (and New Jersey, where the Gov. is still trying to make wind happen) are going to get fiscally raped. It’s going to become difficult to impossible to do business there, which means price hikes to stay in business on top of the already rising prices.

The rising cost of offshore has had some positive effects.

In North Carolina, the latest long-term energy plan from Duke Energy drops offshore wind entirely in favor of nuclear, solar, and onshore wind. Furthermore, Duke has committed to only close any existing power plants once replacements are in operation, an idea that other states should follow. Two new offshore wind lease areas in the Gulf of Mexico failed to attract a bid. Vineyard Wind off Nantucket has begun construction but faces three unresolved lawsuits.

Nuclear has gained favor, but only because the not-so-green energy revolution has driven costs so high that it is not affordable by comparison. We could make Nuclear more affordable if the powers that want us to live in the dark rolled back some of the regulatory burdens enacted, not out of safety but to kneecap the industry, which they did.

It’s nuts how the all-electric-crazies could get a lot closer to their fantasy sooner, but that the easiest way to get there is a boogeyman (nuclear) they’ve been scaremongering for nearly fifty years. But here in New Hampshire, they are still chasing an offshore wind project that only becomes viable (to the vendor) if the states involved (ME, NH, Maybe MA) agree to rape ratepayers for the privilege.

I hope that’s not the plan because none of the factors causing Blue states to bail on Offshore wind are going away anytime soon.

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Apologies for the delayed announcement. I started it but then got sidetracked. It happens. But we posted the comments, and you voted, and this week’s winner is Ian Underwood.

Ian won the first week we began this way back in February, if I remember correctly (I know it was Ian, it’s the month I’m not sure about). He consistently provides excellent comments, so we sometimes have to exclude him from consideration because, as one commenter observed many months ago, he’d win every week. Well, you picked him this time, so congrats to Ian. I’m not sure what I sent you last time, but send me an email, and we’ll get you something different.

Collcat and Laura Condon tied for second.

Here’s Ian’s winning comment.

Ian Underwood
Rights, or Permissions?

How about consent — which essentially reduces to the Golden Rule — as a shared value upon which to base both society and government? According to the Declaration of Independence, that’s the ideal upon which the need to form a new country is based.

Here are the things I don’t want anyone else to be able to do to me. Therefore, I agree to be punished if I get caught trying to do them to anyone else.‘

That captures all of the things that should be crimes (like murder, assault, and theft), without including the things that shouldn’t be (like smoking pot or paying for sex or gambling). And it eliminates using government as a tool for redistributing wealth.

Or how about Bastiat’s description of government as ‘nothing more than organized self-defense’?
These are the opposite of chaos.

What we have nowis chaos — a situation where 51% of the voters can force their preferences on the other 49% at the point of a gun; where 51% of the voters can treat the other 49% as ATMs, and so on; where every election feels like it could spell the end of the world as we know it, because a handful of voters in the middle could turn everything upside-down overnight.

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While Amil Imani’s policy suggestions may make sense from an Iranian-American viewpoint, they make NO sense from an American-American viewpoint. America has been following policies aligned with his suggestions for longer than most Americans have been alive.

America backed the principal opponent of the “[t]he religious fanatics steering the Islamic Republic” during the Iran-Iraq war, Saddam Hussien, for eight years. Our ally killed, on the order of half a million Iranians. That wasn’t enough to topple the mullahs, so we threw him under the bus and switched our allegiance to the House of Saud, who have spent $100 billion spreading their version of Islam, Salafism, around the world.

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Two Gulf Wars later have left the region with Iran as the principal regional power and Iraq as their vassal, at the cost of several trillion dollars and millions of lives. As our twenty-year-long experience of leading the Afghans from the Taliban to the Taliban amply demonstrates, the uniparty’s foreign policy consistently places American interests last, if they are considered at all.

It’s time for Americans to focus on America and let the rest of the world solve their problems on their own.

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