One whistleblower has a way of encouraging others, and we’ve had several reach out regarding VA facilities in New England. Our Manchester VA whistleblower inspired this latest report from a new whistleblower who says they are sick of the poor leadership.

The New England VA appears to be spending your money on “gatherings” when it has more pressing issues.

Currently the entire VA is basically insolvent. VA Maine has a deficit of $7M, Manchester $22M. White River Junction $48M. VA Boston $95M. VA Bedford $13M. Hiring is at a standstill as the VISN director tries to figure out how to find the money to solve the deficit. Veterans are being sent to the community for care. And where are the VA Hospital Directors and over 100 Nursing leaders today and tomorrow? They are all at a retreat in Portland Maine burning taxpayer money that could be used for veteran care.

“Today” was Thursday, and ‘Tomorrow” is today (Friday, March 15th).

 

It is cute how they ask you to keep the travel costs down, which reminds me of something I like to say when someone in my family says they can get 30% off some purchase. I know how you could save another 70%.

If you’d like to put that into perspective, we (as a nation) are spending billions to fly illegal aliens into the country and then house them in hotels that many of us might not be able to afford to stay in ourselves for more than a few days.

We are sending tens of billions overseas for every manner of so-called national interest, but housing and caring for veterans take a back seat to these priorities.

No one reading this is likely surprised by the news, so the question has to be, are we so used to it that we are numb?

The contact stated that they also have monthly leadership meetings at your expense in Portland, Maine, or in Portsmouth, NH.

How does this square fit with VA guidelines for necessary travel?

 

More from our latest VA whistleblower:

The issue isn’t whether the travel is legal. Maybe it meets the criteria, but when hospitals aren’t hiring first-line nurses, clerks, and doctors, the optics of a couple of hundred “leaders” making a retreat in Maine is bad.

It does look bad. It is also how government-controlled health care looks. To which they’ll say, well – we have to have these meetings to fix all the problems. I’m sure this isn’t your first such gathering, so how has that worked out for Veterans and taxpayers?

Zoom meetings, anyone?

 

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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.

 

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That and a spine transplant to the GOP squishes.

 

 

 

 

I suspect this is one reason why so many Covidians simply refuse to see.  If they consciously acknowledged this, they’d have to acknowledge the danger they’re in… and the fact that they let it happen to them, even were rejoicing in the Jab at the time.

 

 

 

 

 

I may NEED a doctor from time to time, but I no longer TRUST them like I used to.

 

 

 

I know so, so, so many libs who – when SHTF and they get robbed and/or worse, will state they had no clue things like this were coming.  Note that I read, a few years ago, that if the power goes down the real festivities start at about Day Three.

 

 

 

 

For this, at least… we should be like France.

 

 

 

 

 

I can’t stress this enough… to my knowledge the 100% censoring of a document related to public health has never happened before.

 

 

 

 

IIRC the late Walter E. Williams said something like this.

 

 

That’s the problem with human nature; it’s not just enough to succeed, which is a good thing.  It’s that most people feel the need to tear others down.

 

 

 

The US is my home.  I was born here, grew up here, live here, and expect to die here.

 

 

 

 

 

Understand that I don’t want WWIII, but I would find it the height of irony if WWIII results in a full on exchange… and all those pushing for war and the resulting arm sales get flash-fried.

 

 

 

 

Weep for the children.  And weep for our civilization that we have this happening and don’t stop it BAMN.

 

 

 

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PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA

 

 

Weimar hyperinflation incoming.  Not IF but merely WHEN.

 

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But… but… but we’ve been assured by our intellectual and moral superiors that there’s no war on white people.

 

 

 

Good!

 

 

 

 

So even kids at no risk are now mandated to have that.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Personally, I vote for a short drop and sudden stop.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I once emailed my local school board with multiple videos showing how air inside masks alarms-out on OSHA air quality meters.

Precisely. Zero. Impact.  I mean none.

 

 

 

 

 

Like these PSAs that tell you to put “something important” in your car’s back seat so you don’t forget your kid.

 

 

 

 

 

Flip it.  Imagine if a man said this about a woman.

 

 

 

 

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

 

GA: Bill Would Make Property Owners Liable For Injuries In Gun-Free Zones | Jews Can Shoot

Excellent idea.

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Biden Proposes Largest Spending Package And American Taxpayer Burden In US History | Armstrong Economics

Crash incoming.  As I understand from here & there, fewer and fewer are willing to LOAN to us, so that means… running the presses!

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United Airlines reports fifth incident in over a week as US-bound flight returns to Australia (nypost.com)

One can make a good case, I think, for this not just being a result of DEI and profit-above-all, but a deliberate attempt to turn people off flying in general.  For the planet of course.

WATCH: Boeing Factory Exposed * 100PercentFedUp.com * by M Winger

Boeing Security Camera Footage Of Work Done On Plane With Blown Out Door Plug ‘Overwritten’, NTSB Says * 100PercentFedUp.com * by Danielle

And from my friend:

The Boeing executive turned whistle-blower that revealed a plethora of quality issues being covered up was preparing to go to court & testify.  A couple days ago he was found dead with a “self-inflicted” gunshot wound.  How…. convenient:

Boeing Whistleblower Found Dead of ‘Self-Inflicted’ Gunshot, 787 Suffers Another Mishap – PJ Media

Related:

https://100percentfedup.com/dozens-of-boeing-737-max-production-issues-discovered-in-faa-audit-report-states

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What Kind of Feminist Wants Rapists in Britain? | Frontpage Mag

So why, in a case in which male sex-criminals pose a threat to women in their communities is Harper far more concerned for the perpetrators’ safety than for that of their actual and potential victims? What kind of feminism is this?

Speaking of crime:

Moonbattery Toronto Police: Leave Out Keys for Car Thieves – Moonbattery

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NBC’s Main Concern About Cannibal Gangs in Haiti is Conservatives Saying There Are Cannibal Gangs in Haiti – modernity

Hey, cannibals… most journalists live in NYC and are unarmed.  Related:

BOOM! JORDAN SCHACHTEL drops the motherload in his piece “Western societies are being replaced by people who hate Western civilization”; he is being NICE, let me break it down, we are being f*cked & (substack.com)

We Are in Trouble

As the border collapses, a measles cluster is growing at a migrant shelter in Chicago (substack.com)

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WWIII: Poland Hints At SEISMIC Escalation In Ukraine * 100PercentFedUp.com * by Vince Quill

Who actually wants WWIII?  More importantly, WHY?  MHO?  They know the Jab and its effects are about to make a breakout into the at-large public awareness.  Related, at least to me:

The U.S. Navy’s Aircraft Carriers Would Be Useless in a China War | The National Interest

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Shrinkflation or economic reality: who you gonna believe? – American Thinker

Your wallet or your lying TV?

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The Persecution of Donald Trump Means Turning Ordinary Activities Into Crimes – Flopping Aces

We WERE the land of the free.  Soon to follow Canada, no doubt:

Canada’s Fast March to Totalitarianism – small dead animals

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The blueprint for democrats stealing the 2024 election – Flopping Aces

Multi-axis attack.

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JPMorgan To Roll Out Controversial Biometric Payments (reclaimthenet.org)

And it will be “voluntary” of course.

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West Point Removes ‘Duty, Honor, Country’ from Mission Statement Values – Slay News

The United States Military Academy in West Point, New York has caused outrage with a new super-woke update of its mission statement.

Superintendent Lt. Gen. Steve Gilland has announced that the institution has removed “Duty, Honor, Country” from the key values in its mission statement.

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This is a fairly long video (1 hour 10 minutes), but absolutely fascinating.  This woman runs a group that is serving various county and school boards with writs that prove they are illegally running the country, and they can be held PERSONALLY responsible.  Once the board members know they can be held personally responsible, & that they can be sued for $$$$, they start seriously looking at their actions.  It’s showing how effectively this works.  I watched it tonight, and I plan to hand this on to others, as it’s very powerful.  It’s the first thing I’ve seen in a LONG time that actually makes me feel like we could take our country back WITHOUT a civil war:

https://rumble.com/v4ghh3t-exclusive-miki-klann-breaking-maricopa-board-of-supervisors-run-after-being.html

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The City Of Pittsburgh does not have enough police officers to man 6 stations during the night, so they’ll just shut down.  How’s that “defund the police” working out for you now?  Guess you’re on your own.  Criminals need to understand that the police are there to protect the CRIMINAL’s rights.  Armed citizens, when faced with potential severe bodily harm, we’ll just shoot and ask questions later.

Steve Gruber on X: “Welcome to the purge! Pittsburgh police won’t send officers to specific emergency calls. No officers will be available between 3am to 7am at the 6 stations throughout the city. https://t.co/LcfQv83x9v https://t.co/6Xg1not2Aa” / X (twitter.com)

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For my Jewish friends:  An excellent take-down of the “anti-Jewish” Oscars by a Holocaust survivor:

Holocaust Survivor Crushes Left-Wing Jew Jon Glazer’s Refuting His Jewishness on Oscar Stage – Geller Report

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James O’Keefe and his O’Keefe Media Group are doing some really good undercover videos that expose the mindset of the people who are running the government.  Here’s a senior DOD staffer openly saying that they want to pack the Supreme Court, ban guns (and have the National Guard do a house to house search to take them away), all to make sure that the government has a monopoly on violence.  Gee, fascist much?.  Oh, and the boarder should be open to anyone; it’s just a waste of resources to guard it:

https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1768009862963728480

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Related to taking guns away, the powerful in government are trying to make SURE they have a monopoly on violence by stopping any “non-approved” training of a “para-military” type.  They have recently introduced a bill to outlaw all para-military activities that do not receive government permission.  This outlaws teaching about firearms, military tactics, drilling, or practicing pretty much ANYTHING that is not a state sanctioned military (like the National Guard).  You could get arrested for teaching your children to shoot safely.  Or how to use camo effectively.  Heck, even the Boys Scouts could be in trouble for training to earn the Rifle & Shotgun merit badge!    The whole point of the 2nd Amendment is so WE THE PEOPLE can form Militias which are NOT under government control.  As far as I’m concerned, this bill is blatantly unconstitutional, but when has that stopped the Deep State?.  There are actually two bills, one in the Senate & one in the House, but they are basically identical.  If they can get this to pass, they have effectively gutted the 2A, as (in their eyes) there is no longer a reason to “bear arms” for a “well regulated militia”.

Senate Bill:  https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/3589/text

House Bill:  https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/6981

As an aside, I wonder if they would apply this to Antifa or BLM?  Somehow, I think they would get a “permission slip”.

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Lastly, the esteemed Victor Davis Hanson with an excellent summation of how the left treats “Democracy”:

The Anti-Democratic Democratic Left – Victor Davis Hanson (victorhanson.com)

Related:

The Rutherford Institute :: The State of Our Nation No One’s Talking About | By John & Nisha Whitehead |

 

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Pick of the Post:

 

 

It’s been done before, step by step, multiple times.  And yet those who have experienced it, those who warn about it, are dismissed.

 

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Palate Cleansers:

 

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I’ll show myself out.  TGIF!

 

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NH Senator Kevin Avard filed bill SB304 to create a cause of action for medical injuries resulting from medical gender transition. I submitted the following testimony in support of his bill to the NH Senate Judiciary Committee. It is the personal and tragic account of a young detransitioner from Massachusetts who tweets at twitter.com/sam_the_m.

My name is Sam. I started identifying as transgender as a teenager, which would eventually lead me down the path of cross-sex hormones and irreversible surgeries. By the time I was 21 years old, I had completed my medical transition which included having my penis and testicles amputated, a decision that I now deeply regret. 

I was formally diagnosed with gender dysphoria by two qualified psychologists, both of whom recommended sex reassignment as a solution to my gender dysphoria. During both of my assessments, few attempts were made at understanding the underlying etiology of my gender dysphoria or the underlying motivations that led me to identify as transgender. I was treated based on the affirmation model of care, where therapists are discouraged and sometimes even prohibited from attempting to question or challenge the decisions and beliefs of their clients. 

A balanced approach to treatment for young people who experience gender dysphoria should include a differential diagnosis and explorative therapy to address comorbid psychosocial conditions before escalating to drastic and irreversible measures like a gender transition. There is limited evidence that suggests that sex reassignment procedures produce desirable long-term outcomes, and many young people who undergo this process will come to regret it. 

A notable study of adolescents with gender dysphoria concluded that most adolescents who experience gender dysphoria will grow out of it by the time they reach adulthood. I would eventually grow out of my gender dysphoria by the time I was 22 years old, but by that time my reproductive organs had already been amputated. 

A medical doctor who supports the decision of a patient to have their arms amputated would be met with disgrace and would have their fitness to practice questioned. Why is this not the case when the patient demands to have their reproductive organs removed?

In retrospect, as I reflect on my journey, I now recognize that I was immature and lacked the wisdom necessary to understand the long-term implications of my decisions. I feel that I was misled to believe that I was born in the wrong body and that gender reassignment was a solution to my discomfort, and subsequently subjected to a medical experiment that reminds me more of a modern-day lobotomy than evidence-based healthcare. 

I hope you will make the right decision to promote patient safety and protect young people from being irreversibly harmed by irresponsible practitioners.

Related: A Bill To Protect Citizen’s Sexuality From Abuse and Negligence by Their Doctors

The Senate Judiciary Committee is still accepting testimony for SB304. Contact them and ask them to vote Ought to Pass to protect vulnerable young people from these horrific experiments.

Watch Senator Avard read Sam’s story below.

“I was misled to believe I was born in the wrong body, and that gender reassignment was the solution for my discomfort, and subsequently subjected to a medical experiment.” Sen. Kevin Avard reads @Sam_the_m‘s testimony in support of SB304 @avard_kevin #NHPolitics pic.twitter.com/ptTccizWZe

— Sidewalk Steve (@Sidewalk_Steve) January 17, 2024

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The acronym E.D., which I have long referred to as Electile Dysfunction – the inability to overcome any number of voting-related irregularities needed to elect good candidates, is more commonly associated with erectile dysfunction, and to be honest, that almost seems like the same problem.

Whatever it is, you can’t get it up or keep it up. Solving this problem is big business. Sectors of the economy have devoted themselves to the project. Email marketers have a field day coming up with subject lines that will get men (and maybe women) to open themselves to whatever possibilities lay inside.

You’re not a man if you can’t (you know), but we’re here with a sure-fire solution that will get you back in the saddle overnight—a money-back guarantee. No salesman will call.

Did you know there is a similar anxiety among electric vehicle owners? A majority of them, having spent large sums (even after taxpayer-backed incentives and bailouts) to acquire these forms of transportation, are anxious about whether they’ll be able to find a place to charge them.

Great mileage, but...

More than 90% drivers worldwide report feeling “anxious” about finding somewhere to charge away from home, according to a survey of 5,454 motorists worldwide, including 2,225 BEV owners conducted by Parkopedia. …

Other key findings of the survey: 44% of BEV drivers have reported that they have run out of charge and 22% found themselves stranded multiple times. Globally, 92% of BEV drivers flagged how they struggled to locate charging points away from home.

And there we have the answer. You’re not supposed to leave home. Your Electric Vehicle is meant to sit in your driveway (assuming you’ve paid your rain tax) as an ornament or monument to the revolution. A world where behavior is manipulated toward dead ends. You bought this costly thing, and we’ll assume that made you feel good about how (you thought) other people would feel when they saw what you did. But using it was prohibitive before you bought in, and I can’t think of a better metaphor for Democrat rule.

A big shiny thing full of promise that, in reality, will become an impractical anchor on your freedom. You bought a boat in the middle of a desert, and the cure for this is not to make other people pay to bring in water. Trade in the boat for a camel. It’s the sort of thinking that might help solve a few other problems, as well.

 

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We learned that the House needed a lesson on microphone etiquette. The General Court Technical Services (GCTS) Team came to work on the microphones prior to the House session and shared some tips and techniques with our House Clerk, Paul Smith.

Our House Clerk walked us all through proper distancing microphone techniques for when we come up to speak at “the well.” Now, we can all hear those floor speeches that go way past three minutes and lose everyone’s attention much better.

We also learned about the good work accomplished by Rep. Sharon Nordgren (D-Hanover), who passed away on February 10, 2024. Rep. Mary Jane Wallner (D-Merrimack) shared memories about Rep. Nordgren, and the House welcomed family members attending in the upstairs gallery.

We learned that we covered a lot of ground this week with 40 or so bills and lots of motions to vote on. So let’s get into it.

The House agreed to expand the area in which law enforcement would need a search warrant. HB1204 and its amendment protect privacy from government intrusion outside of the home on the person’s property. If the property is posted or has “No Trespassing” signs, then law enforcement would need to obtain a warrant. The bill passed 228-139. Now, get off my lawn.

HB1276 passed 198-175. This bill repeals the prohibition on the sale and possession of blackjacks, slung shots, and metallic knuckles… except to minors. Rep. Dennis Mannion (R-Salem) explained how these small, lightweight self-defense tools are useful for people like joggers who are out running or others who may be hiking out in secluded areas. Of course, Rep. David Meuse (D-Portsmouth) believes that every school child will get one of these items and crack open someone’s cranium and that there will be a big rush to the slung shot store, resulting in everyone engaged in crime and street fighting after passage of this bill.

We also learned that a voice vote tabled HB1336. There was just too much controversy regarding making it allowable for an employee to keep a loaded firearm in his personal locked vehicle while at work. The bill would also remove any civil liability on the part of the employer should there be an illegal use of that firearm by a third party – as in if the car or firearm was stolen from the parking lot. This was where 2nd Amendment rights interfered with property rights. While 2nd amendment rights should not be infringed, we also cannot dictate to a property owner/employer what he can or cannot allow on his business property (parking lot).

Additionally, we learned that the bill that House Democrats filed, HB1162, to try to repeal the prohibition of Critical Race Theory (CRT) (and similar curriculum) from being taught in our schools (RSA 193:40) was Indefinitely Postponed with a vote of 192-183. House Democrats wanted to repeal laws that prevent any public employee from teaching, advocating, or advancing that people of one age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, creed, color, and more are inherently racist. They wanted to repeal provisions in the law that grant the right of freedom from discrimination in public workplaces and education. They kept trying to say that teachers can’t teach about the Holocaust or Jim Crow Laws, etc., but we all know that is not true at all. Since RSA 193:40 was enacted in 2021, the teaching of history hasn’t changed at all. The truth is that it is one thing to teach ABOUT hate and a completely other thing to teach kids HOW to hate. Teaching kids HOW to hate is what CRT (and curriculum like it) does. House Dems apparently are good with that.

We learned that HB1305 ultimately passed with its amendments (206-169) after some brilliant strategy by Rep. Jason Osborne (R-Auburn). This bill was all about securing freedom of speech on our college campuses. After the motion to pass the amendment 2024-0654h failed (181 Y-182 N) because House members had left the chamber and could not vote, Rep. Osborne called for Reconsideration, at which point members had returned to the House Chamber. Reconsideration passed 189-183 and then the Amendment was voted on again where it passed 192-182. Another amendment, 2024-1094h, also passed 197-175, and then the bill passed OTP/A. It is important to note that this was a bi-partisan vote, and members Rep. Jonah Wheeler (D–Peterborough) and Rep. Valerie McDonnell (R-Salem) both spoke in favor of the bill and the importance of free speech on college campuses. The big take away was in order to get good bills passed, members must remain in their seats and not wander off to practice their free speech in the ante room..

We further learned that a bill that should have died, but didn’t, was HB1311. This bill requires school districts to adopt policies for library collection development that would prohibit forbidding acquiring or prohibiting materials based on an author’s “protected class.” It would also allow the administration to reject parental complaints about inappropriate materials. An attempt to Indefinitely Postpone this bill failed (185 Y-190 N) even after Rep. Rick Ladd (R-Haverhill) said, “If I know it’s time to clean up our libraries, I would press green”. Then, after that vote, House Democrats and 8 Republicans voted Ought To Pass on this awful bill (194 Y-180 N). It appears House Democrats are hell-bent on keeping age-inappropriate materials in our schools because they feel it allows our children to “explore and expand their minds.” So when it comes to pornography and graphic violent material …. “it’s for the children.”

HB1312 passed 186 Y-185 N. This bill requires parental notification of student health or well-being and certain curricula by school districts. More robust opt-out procedures and advance notice were included, along with prohibiting a district from adopting a policy that prohibits school personnel from answering parents’ questions about their child’s physical, mental, or emotional health, sexuality, or changes in related services. All House Democrats and 3 Republicans voted against this pro-parent bill. It was roll called so you can see who supports parents.

There were two attacks against the Education Freedom Account program in the form of HB1512 and HB1594. Both were Indefinitely postponed 187-185 and 189-184, respectively. One bill tried to limit the budget allocation of the EFA program, and the other tried to establish an annual review of eligibility qualifications for EFA families. Annual changes in income might have created the possibility of kids becoming “yo-yos” as they could be tossed in and out of the program based on annual changes in eligibility. All Democrats voted in lockstep to try to undermine this successful and nationally acclaimed school choice program…. Because you know, “it’s for the kids”.

We learned that a number of good election law bills passed: HB1146, which allows a voter to remove themself from the voter checklist – like when they move out of town or out of state. That passed 186-183. Then HB1348 passed 191-183 with an amendment. That bill allows for a candidate to apply for a recount if the total count of ballots exceeds the total number of registered voters. The HB1369 passed 191-181, which allows for verification of voter rolls every four years. We also passed HB1370 254-120 which would require plastic durable containers to be used, instead of cardboard boxes, to store ballots. Rep. Robert Wherry (R-Hudson) lauded the use of sturdy plastic containers and implored everyone to “save the trees.”

The House killed HB1557 by Indefinite Postponement 189-185. This bill would have required the Secretary of State to enter into a cooperative agreement with the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC). ERIC is hailed as being a secure, bipartisan, long established, reliable, fiscally responsible, nonprofit association of states working together to improve the accuracy of voter checklists. The major problem is that ERIC requires that you share private voter information, like social security numbers, date of birth, driver’s license number, and other sensitive information with an outside organization, which violates Part 1 Art. 2-b of the NH State Constitution… and individual’s right to privacy. Florida, Missouri and West Virginia already revoked their membership to ERIC over privacy concerns. The NH House made the right vote on this one. You can’t spell “Privacy Concerns” without “ERIC.”

That another election law bill, HB1569, passed 189-185. This was a huge win for voter integrity as it eliminated the affidavit process (i.e., voter identification “exceptions”). 189 House members said “enough” with allowing people to vote without proper identification, even if they put their vote aside and hope they come back with proper ID. Let’s face it; nowadays, you need ID to do so many things: buy cold medicine, board a plane, drive a car, drink at a bar, open a bank account, rent a hotel room, pick up packages from USPS, enter certain government buildings, buy a firearm, and so on. Rep. Robert Wherry (R-Hudson) invoked “The Who” as they were correct in asking, “Who Are You?” and that song should apply to voting in NH. Same-day registration is fine… just prove you are who you say you are, and we’re all good. Now, between “We Didn’t Start The Fire” and “Who Are You?” are there any bets on what musical hit we’ll be referencing next week?

A fast tracked Senate Bill, SB395, passed 213-136. This bill will statutorily establish the position of assistant commissioner in the Department of Agriculture, Markets and Food. It was budgeted for, but never had a formal job title slot in state statute. So if you’re looking for a new gig, the salary range is $87,373-$121,751.

HB1231 passed 294-66. This bill allows qualifying patients and designated caregivers to cultivate cannabis for therapeutic use. If you’ve got a qualifying health condition and meet other criteria, and you’re into gardening, you can possess 8 ounces of usable cannabis, three mature plants, three immature plants, and 12 seedlings.

We also learned that HB1156 was Tabled. This bill would have provided preemptive protection against extranational organizations—like the World Health Organization—from attempting to impose binding health policies onto Granite Staters via overreaching international protocols.

We learned that HCR9 passed OTP/A via voice vote after an ITL motion failed 238-128, and then an amendment was passed 209-161. This House Concurrent Resolution proposes the rescission of HCR40, adopted in 2012, requesting Congress call an Article V Constitutional Convention to propose an amendment to the Constitution requiring a Balanced Budget Amendment. Proponents of this bill understand that a Con Con will not be restricted to a particular topic and can open up the US Constitution to all manner of amendments. Plus, it is unclear who and how delegates to this convention would be chosen/appointed, and with monied interests lurking about what kind of influence to such a convention could be bought.

That HB1244 was ITL’d 188-171. This bill would have prohibited smoking in your vehicle if persons under the age of 16 are passengers. It was another bill that’s “for the children”… and, on its face, may sound like a good idea if you can’t open a window… but the question remains as to what else the government is going to tell you that you can’t do in your own vehicle. As Rep. Ted Gorski (R- Bedford) said, “Tell Big Brother to stay out of the cars of NH citizens.”

We also learned that HB1332 was ITL’d on a voice vote after the OTP motion failed 145-221. This bill would have prevented Electric Vehicles from parking in parking garages. The premise is that they are very heavy and can be fire hazards. It was noted that a parking garage in NYC collapsed due to an EV fire. Well, it looks like EV owners won’t have to waste electric energy circling the block a few more times looking for a parking space.

Finally, we learned that HB1254 was Indefinitely Postponed 195-171. This bill would have allowed municipalities, like Conway and Portsmouth, to tack on an additional fee of up to $2 (public safety assessment) to room occupancies in order to pay for municipal services. The premise is that people vacationing in an area should have to pay for the extra municipal services needed to deal with them vacationing there. Tourism has an impact on the area that the locals either are unable or unwilling to absorb. The problem with this is because municipalities decide on the fee, it can create a checkerboard of different fees across the state, and it really is a new tax in “tax-free NH.” It might be better to figure out a more equitable way to divvy up the rooms and meals tax or find some other way for the municipality to deal with the impact lucrative tourism has on them. Perhaps the hotels can put a voluntary tip jar at their concierge desk.

Read more next week and see how House Democrats will continue to fight to restrict your rights, keep age-inappropriate materials in our schools, push their expensive green agenda, kill successful education programs, and support illegal aliens and criminal activity in our state as we convene on March 21st!

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I am old enough to remember when George Stephanopoulos and the rest of the Clinton-Regime toadies attacked the women who came forward claiming that they had been raped and sexually assaulted by Bill Clinton. You can call Steph a hypocrite for rape-shaming Rep. Nancy Mace, if you wish. But it is NOT hypocrisy.

It is hierarchy, an element of communism.

Steph and the Left believe there are two sets of rules. One for them, the rulers, and another for those who don’t want Steph and his ilk to rule over them. Hence, the same rules do NOT apply to Bill Clinton and Joe Biden as they apply to Trump. The latter is a “rapist” because a kangaroo court in New York says he is. Clinton and Biden are pro-women and their accusers are trailer-park trash, etc., etc., etc..

But just keep pretending that we can find “common ground” with Communists like Steph and that Steph and his ilk do NOT intend to steal the 2024 election as they stole the 2020 election.

“You were out of line, you were offensive…”@MegynKelly unloads on Jimmy Kimmel, Robert De Niro, and George Stephanopoulos for leftist hypocrisy.

Watch below, and download: https://t.co/F96HgI8fyuhttps://t.co/2J6BcKb0CQ

— The Megyn Kelly Show (@MegynKellyShow) March 11, 2024

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The Civic Action Fund is running low? Inconceivable!

Join us on Thursday, April 4 at Chunky’s in Manchester for a 6:30pm screening of The Princess Bride! All funds raised will go the Civic Action Fund.

Buy your tickets here, and your peanuts (or snack of choice) there.

P.S. Costumes are encouraged, so feel free to bring your favorite [polydactyl-compatible] gloves!

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Richard Nixon left office over a cover-up and something called Watergate. Before the internet, spying on the opposition was more hands-on, but the media was the same. Get the Republicans, protect the Democrats. When the Left spied on Trump, they thought he deserved it, even after it was exposed as Watergate on Steroids.

Democrats persisted in that fantasy for years, creating others along the way, obscuring facts, and hiding the truth with the help of helpful idiot Republicans like Liz Cheney, who recently went on another rant about how dangerous Donald Trump is. Not long after that ode to Trump Derangement Syndrome, the committee investigating the J6 Committee released a report documenting several issues that show us how dangerous Liz is.

THE SELECT COMMITTEE DELETED RECORDS AND HID EVIDENCE – Reps. Thompson and Cheney failed to turn over video recordings of witness interviews and depositions despite using these recordings in their high-profile, primetime hearings. The Subcommittee recovered over one hundred deleted or password-protected files, including some files that were deleted days before Republicans took the majority. They also hid multiple transcribed interviews of witnesses who had firsthand knowledge of Trump‘s actions on January 6.

Liz is alleged to have helped hide and erase contradictory or exculpatory evidence (to their preferred narrative), which, as we know, is the foundation of any good democracy.

On that point,

Former Representative Liz Cheney noted in her memoir that the Select Committee decided that reading witness transcripts during their primetime hearings was “unlikely to be effective” and that instead they “needed the public to see” the witness on camera recounting their testimony. According to Representative Cheney, these video recordings were indispensable in the Select Committee’s efforts to convey their narrative.

Chaney and the J6 Committee decided not to archive recorded testimony (you decide why). She also failed to keep interview transcripts that might later come back to bite them in their collectivist ass.

In addition to these missing video recordings, the Select Committee also failed to archive transcripts from numerous transcribed interviews or depositions of White House and USSS personnel interviewed by the Select Committee. 101 According to the House Clerk, a committee record is “any document, regardless of format, that …Select Committee members create, receive, or maintain.”102 The House Clerk specifically notes that “records that should be archived” include “depositions” and “transcripts.”

Exculpatory evidence was suppressed, and transcripts and video testimony were lost or deleted. Liz Cheney was at the center of everything, but why wouldn’t she be? Cheney is a name with clout in the uniparty deep state. She was offered a spot on the committee by Democrats (Pelosi) and elevated to vice-chair for appearances. A starring role in the made-for-TV programming the J6 Committee was created to produce.

And the Democrats love her. She easily repeats their lies while pretending to be a bi-partisan voice, but don’t expect her to switch parties. She has more value with an (r) next to her name. Not to anyone who values truth and transparency, but as we’ve seen in recent years, those two things are declining in America.

Fifty years ago, Richard Nixon was driven from office over a few minutes of deleted “tape” tied to an election year office break-in—a Republican president implicated in spying on his Democrat Party opponents. Cheney was voted out of office for being the meat puppet of the Vendetta party and its crusade against a member of her party before anyone knew how much evidence she’d deleted.

She should be more of a pariah after this scandal than Nixon ever was.

 

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A Christmas Story is a well known movie in my family. While it very much annoys my mother that anyone would watch the same movie more than once, my father and my sisters and I know it by heart. Readers might ask why I would think about such a movie in March and my answer is that Ed Mosca made me do it.

Ed is a seasoned expert at calling a spade a spade, telling it like it is, and giving politically asleep-at-the-wheel people a harsh wake-up call. One might argue that those qualities are not always endearing, but they are in the same category as that stickler coach, scoutmaster, or faculty department head. You must thank them with the same mindset as Prager U’s Jocko Willink.

I just read Ed’s newest article criticizing Kelly Ayotte and I happen to agree with it. While she has no shortage of critics, any criticism of Chuck Morse should not be taken as a Kelly Ayotte endorsement.  Let’s be clear on that.  And with that said, I want Chuck, a well-known dog person, to have some more cyber spotlight.

Chuck’s “fan club” includes many senators, including mine, and several reps, NOT including mine. Comrade Mrs. Newman voting for enemy camp scum in November is as guaranteed as death and taxes, but let’s not digress too far. I ran into Sharon Carson behind the state house on January 4 while wearing a “Chuck Morse’s voting record matters” shirt and holding my coat in my hands.  She called attention to it, and some polite talk about it followed.

What I took home from that unexpected encounter was the encouragement to raise my hand at the end of one of his stump speeches. With the primary in September, it’s just a matter of time before he stumps locally. He should consider himself warned, and I’ll make it known that I plan to be polite. Granite Staters deserve answers, but to the readers, I ask, “Why wait for him to stump locally?”  If you happen to run into known members of Chuck’s fan club from “either side of the wall,” approach them (politely) to ask what their thoughts are about his 11/19/21 vote, as seen in this video.

Remember that he’s a dog person, and I triple dog dare you.

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In June last year, I found the book “Pride Colors” by Robin Stevenson on the Pride display in the Nashua Library children’s room. It’s a board book so it’s made for babies and toddlers. It has bright colors and adorable pictures of children. The book promotes Pride celebrations as wholesome affairs.

Related: Night Cap: Library Promotes Gender Propaganda to Toddlers

Anyone who has seen Pride events knows there are unsavory aspects like the very unwholesome “family-friendly” drag show at Nashua Pride.

The one thing in the book that is inexcusable is the page that says, “Be yourself. Love who you choose,” opposite a picture of two kids holding hands. As adults, we know what that means. It means it’s OK to be attracted to anyone – same-sex, opposite-sex, multiple partners, and could include adults being attracted to children. Is that appropriate for a children’s book? Why should toddlers even be thinking about attraction? This is yet another inappropriate book in the Nashua Library children’s room.

 

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I caught some stomach bug that knocked the crap out of me for (going on) 36 hours, but things are moving forward anyway. The Newsletter is now delivered twice daily – splitting morning and evening content into separate emails (check them both). We are close to 100% compliant, so almost everyone who has signed up should be getting that.

If not, check spam and whitelist it. And then click on the links and enjoy!

Updates on the next iteration of the website are in process, which means those things we need to fix or improve are getting some attention. As a reminder, when we launch the new site, DISQUS will no longer used for comment management. It will be the built-in WordPress comment system. The Ads that come with DISQUS should also go away (lost revenue, but we’ll have to fundraise the difference).

We are aiming for an Ad-free VIP version, better search, and a few other items on the bucket list. Once the new site is up and bug-free, I will reach out to a developer I have lined up to build that Grok App I’ve been talking about for longer than just about any other add-on or improvement. I’m still open to different vendors if you are an App developer. Nothing has been signed or sealed.

Before I got this wicked pissa tummy ache (fever, it was so much fun), I ran some more equipment tests on our new RODECASTER II Soundboard as an input to Riverside FM. This looks very promising as we continue to plot a return to podcasting (I know, I’ve said that 100 times, but no podcast). I’m working on it. I’m also working on a podcast category that could include non-grok content from around the state, Vermont, and Maine.

There should or will be a MaineGrok to go with VermontGrok as our liberty friends in Vacationland shout for backup.

One more thing. We have a surge in Grok Author content and more op-eds. This means that not every op-ed will get published (I have some thoughts to solve that, too, for later). Submission has never guaranteed publication, and most of you know that, but I wanted to drop a reminder. Please keep it coming.

There are days when I can’t get a thing written (stomach flu, for example), and having those is a huge help. We get a lot of great stuff and pride ourselves on being able to showcase it here, especially when your local paper might not. Keep them coming, please.

Finally, the 2024 fundraising is a bit on the underachieving side, which I get. The economy sucks. We appreciate every dime, dollar, or whatever you can spare.

‘Grok On!

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Since February 29, 2024, 10 whales have washed up on eastern seaboard shores. Two humpbacks in Virginia on 3/4, a Fin Whale in Rhode Island 2/29, a North Atlantic Right Whale, Juno’s calf 3/3. The calf was found dead on a beach in Georgia, a Minke Whale in North Carolina on 3/5, a Sperm Whale calf in Nags Head on 3/8, And on 3/8, another, to be identified south of Nags Head on Pea Island.

Plus, a Rosso in RI (not a whale but the largest member of the Dolphin family) on March 1, A 50 feet long and 50,000-70,000 pounds whale is stranded off the coast of Venice, March 10, the second Risso’s dolphin in the last ten days, on March 10. There is a barely alive whale directly across from The Tropicana Casino Hotel in Atlantic City that they are trying to help (March 11).

Where are the bullhorns with folks demanding justice for the whales? (See the list at the end for other reporting in 2023.) This is an unprecedented number of dead whales, and they seem to be multiplying as the construction of offshore wind farms increases while in Maine, a dead Right Whale washed ashore in February 2024. Its death was caused by a fishing net that received national attention and renewed an ongoing fight between Maine fishermen and whale advocates!

I first heard about the uptick in whales washing up from, of all places, a NJ comedians podcast. But this podcast was different. It wasn’t funny. Originally from New Jersey, Jim Breuer became aware, as most people who live along the NJ coast, that there’s an increase of marine mammals washing up dead!

NOAA only reports Humpback and Minke whales and has not posted any data for last year, and the data is not thorough. It does not go back long enough to accurately determine when and why so many have shown up dead in the water and shores in the past couple of years. Once an infrequent event, it has turned into a near-daily event.

I can’t finish this article before another is reported, and these are just the ones we know about.

Eighty-five washed up last year (data collected from local newspapers).

I’m always wary when Google queries say, “Offshore wind has NOTHING to do with whale deaths!” When you ask Google,” It says the ocean warming is causing them to come closer to shore for food!? This causes ships’ propellers to kill them, but the recent deaths are not from propeller strikes or fish nets! They wash up dead or nearly dead with no apparent disease or injury.

What does the necropsies tell us? We may never know.

Orsted (a Danish Offshore Wind conglomerate) and Eversource (Buyer of the electricity 52% owned by Blackrock) gave $1.25 million last year to Mystic Aquarium. Mystic Aquarium does the necropsies on the whales, including the ones just washed up in RI. Would they release any information that might link strandings to Orsted and other offshore wind developers?

Plus, the Risso found dead in RI was brought to the town dump for a supposed necropsy on March 1!

Hold my beer….

Part 1 of 4

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Trump in; Haley out; extremely unlikely Haley could be Trump’s V.P. Does Trump want a black V.P.? The 9-0 SCOTUS ruling on Trump’s eligibility to run; who is in charge of allowing someone on the ballot for POTUS, e.g., if they’re a foreign national? NY Governor sues Nassau County over their decision to disallow transgenders to compete on female’s teams; can a state influence permits for a park in a county? NYC putting national guardsmen in the subway system; what does the posse comitatus act actually cover?

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The ten million ILLEGALS that the Biden-Regime has imported do not just represent 10 million votes for Biden in 2024 (and, by the way, tell me how many of these 10 million ILLEGAL voters are reflected in those wonderful polls you think show “we’re winning”).

If memory serves me correctly, they represent 13 new House seats for the Democrats once the ILLEGALS are counted in the next census, in addition to 13 electoral votes shifted from Red to Blue States.

They … the Democrats and the UniParty … are “transforming” America before our very eyes. At best, one-party rule. At worst (and probably much more likely), America will devolve into Haiti. But don’t get distracted by this unfolding destruction of America … focus on cutting taxes and workforce housing!

Ohio Rep. Ismail Mohamed:

"We have 20+ political representatives such as Rep. Ilhan Omar. Our aim as a united front is to lobby for Somalia."

He brags about naming a street in Ohio after Mohammed Abdullah Hassan.

He led a holy war with 200k deaths.

pic.twitter.com/o997D2Nj2m

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) March 11, 2024

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On February 28, 2024, Nashua Superior Court held a Motions hearing where a plaintiff was representing herself against the City of Nashua. Attorney Bolton appeared to represent the City.

The City moved to dismiss. The plaintiff believed part of the claim should survive the motion to dismiss. Judge English, after listening to both sides, requested that the parties discuss when a trial would take place and agree on a structure and conference order. The Judge instructed the parties to submit their agreement to the Court within thirty days. Attorney Bolton responded, “It’s difficult for me to deal with the plaintiff. I will attempt to come to an agreement on a structure and conference order.”

The Judge then conceded to Mr. Bolton’s “I can’t communicate with people” terms. She stated she would just make the ruling on the motion to dismiss, and if any claims remain, she would order the parties to submit competing proposed structuring orders as are permitted to schedule.

Judge English did not inquire into Bolton’s claim that the Plaintiff is “difficult to work with,” accepting his unwillingness even to discuss an agreement with the Plaintiff.

In an RTK hearing last year before Judge Colburn, Mr. Bolton got furious with a pro se litigant when she addressed the service of her summons to the City. He raised his voice to the Judge, aggressively arguing with her about the purpose of the hearing. The Judge quietly tried to calm Mr. Bolton. It was a tense occurrence for all in the Courtroom, particularly the lady seated before the Court in her first appearance.

The Judge attempted to soothe Mr. Bolton’s emotions and console him for being “offended” by the Plaintiff and Judge.

At my first pro se Right to Know hearing with Mr. Bolton, he informed Judge Temple that he refused to communicate with me. He asserted I had offended him so he would not communicate. The Judge responded by stating that he would not dictate how the parties communicate. This proclamation enabled Mr. Bolton to simply refuse reasonable communication, force everything into emails that have long response times or go unanswered, refuse phone calls, and then publicly complain that I am running up City costs, wasting taxpayer dollars.

The above are instances of three different judges accommodating Mr. Bolton regardless of the burden his demands placed on plaintiffs and court time. It is puzzling why judges would enable Mr. Bolton by accepting his assertion that he would not communicate directly with opposing plaintiffs. If he could not, it would seem he was not capable of doing his job, as Court rules require parties to confer.  Judges send a strong message that pro se litigants are the “lesser party” with no legal experience; surely, the City Attorney is more credible.

Why does Mr. Bolton become enraged about working with those who seek adjudication? Notably, he especially appears to display confrontational bullying behavior towards women who question him. Mr. Bolton chose to become a municipal attorney, which requires him to work with all citizens in the City not just those who agree with him. The 100+ pages of multiple police incident reports that Mr. Bolton has generated over 20 years further document an angry, aggressive, out-of-control man.

Judges should stop coddling attorneys who cannot behave professionally with pro se litigants. Attorneys have a responsibility to communicate with all parties involved, regardless of their personal feelings toward them. Mr. Bolton shows he is unwilling to do so. The court needs to stop accommodating, comforting, and even enabling Mr. Bolton to conduct himself in an unprofessional manner. Judges in Nashua should cease tolerating Mr. Bolton’s unreasonable demands.

People questioning the government and seeking adjudication are not “problem people” who lose their right to communicate with municipal lawyers. Mr. Bolton’s behavior needs to conform to his professional standards, or he should be required to move on.

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With the desperate call to improve Civics Education for students in New Hampshire, you would think one of the most prominent Civics organizations would be at the forefront of making sure our students are literate in this important subject.

Numerous bills have come before The New Hampshire Education Committees, where legislators listened to the poor state of Civics literacy among New Hampshire students.

NH Civics has been criticized for its political leanings, which you can read about here and here. One would hope that an organization like this would ignore the politics, and stick to promoting Civics literacy. Unfortunately, that doesn’t seem to be the case.

Their latest initiative seems to involve classroom management through mental health therapy. What does that have to do with Civics education? That’s a good question.

Why is NH Civics, promoting mental health therapy in the classroom?

NH Civics is providing Professional Development in Restorative Practices for educators, and those who attend will earn Professional Development Hours. In other words, taxpayers will pay school employees to attend this event which is supposed to better prepare teachers for the classroom. But does it help?

In this article from the Fordham Institute, the author is highly critical of restorative circles used in the classroom, and even calls them unethical: (emphasis mine)

In the past decade, the role of the teacher in schools has slowly shifted from pedagogue to therapist. Perhaps the most glaring example of this shift is the practice called “circle conversations.” These circles are cousins of the non-punitive approach to discipline called restorative justice, and are intended to be community-building prophylactics.

While the ritual—I mean classroom practice—can vary from school to school, it has a few common characteristics: students sit in a circle, pass around a talking piece, and discuss open-ended questions, often deeply personal ones. The NEA wrote positively of a school that incorporates them into classrooms weekly.

Take a step back, however, and these circles closely resemble group therapy.

Once again, we can see the shift away from educating students, to turning our local schools into mental health clinics. But does it work? Is it ethical? How do you educate and train a public school teacher to become a therapist in the classroom? What about privacy issues?

Vendors are lining up to sell schools therapeutic programs that address the mental health of students, but none of these people are educated or trained in the field of Child Psychology.

…Consider a few example questions that one author at Edutopia suggests:

How does the state of your mental health affect you as a person?
What do you do to relieve stress?
Who would you like to forgive?
And now compare those to a few recommended questions at a counseling center:

How do you think your negative thoughts influence your behavior?
What are some things that make you feel stressed? How are you coping with these things?
Is there anyone in your life you’re struggling to forgive? Why?

When did The New Hampshire legislature give authority to the schools to transition into medical or mental health centers?

Why are school administrators so heavily invested in turning their school into a mental health clinic? Think $$$$.

The federal government bypassed the Executive Council and the legislature and went directly to The New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services with grant funding for the schools. Their vision is to turn the local public schools into the CDC’s (Center for Disease Control) model Community School. This is where public schools move away from teaching academics, and instead, become medical and mental health clinics.

Of course, that comes at a price to children who have had medical services administered without parental consent. Or in some cases, where school counselors shared personal mental health information on New Hampshire students without their knowledge or consent.  We’ve already had two students vaccinated in Rochester and Nashua against their parents wishes. It looks like NH Civics is getting into the game.

Who is paying WestEd to push this agenda in our public schools? And why does NH Civics think this area is something that they should be promoting? They are having enough difficulty selling everyone on the belief that they actually care about teaching quality civics content to our students.

The classroom is no place for group therapy, yet here we are, watching SEL delve into the area of treating anxiety in young children.  This document comes from SEL as taught in the Merrimack schools: (PAGE 5)

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This explains why, recently, a young girl came home from school to inform her parents that she believed she was depressed. She learned about it in school.

What can this do to your children? A lot, and it’s not good. 

Take a listen to this podcast from Honestly with Bari Weiss. Bari interviewed Abigail Shrier about her new book, Bad Therapy: Why Kids Aren’t Growing Up. 

Episode Description
American kids are the freest, most privileged kids in all of history. They are also the saddest, most anxious, depressed, and medicated generation on record. Nearly a third of teen girls say they have seriously considered suicide. For boys, that number is an alarming 14 percent.

What’s even stranger is that all of these worsening mental health outcomes for kids have coincided with a generation of parents hyper-fixated on the mental health and well-being of their children.

Take, for example, the biggest parenting trend today: “gentle parenting.” Parents today are told to understand their kids’ feelings instead of punishing them when they act out. This emphasis on the importance of feelings is not just a parenting trend—it’s become an educational tool as well. “Social-emotional learning” has become a pillar in public schools across America, from kindergarten to high school. And maybe most significantly, therapy for children has been normalized. In fact, there are more kids in therapy today than ever before.

On the surface, all of these parenting and educational developments seem positive. We are told that parents and educators today are more understanding, more accepting, more empathetic, and more compassionate than ever before—which, in turn, makes wonderful children.

But is that really the case? Are all of these changes—the cultural rethink, the advent of therapy culture, of gentle parenting, of teaching kids about social-emotional learning—actually making our kids better?

Best-selling author Abigail Shrier says no.

In her new book, , Shrier argues that these changes are directly contributing to kids’ mental health decline. In other words: all of this shiny new stuff is actually making our kids worse.

Today: What’s gone wrong with American youth? What really happens to kids who get therapy but don’t actually need it? In our attempt to keep kids safe, are we failing the next generation of adults? And, if yes, how do we reverse it before it’s too late?

Schools need to return to teaching kids how to read, write, add, and subtract. Children who need mental health services need to find that help outside the school setting. Teachers can use assistance with techniques to address behavior, but this is not an open invitation to begin therapy in the classroom. This is unethical and can lead to bigger problems for your children.

So why is NH Civics involved in any of this? Was $$$ money involved?

 

 

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I’m unsure what my Irish grandmother would have said about it, but the alleged animal rights group PETA has asked the White House to change the traditional Easter Egg Hunt this year. Instead of chicken eggs, they are recommending dyed Easter … potatoes.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is calling on the White House to roll a different way this spring — swapping chicken eggs for potatoes at the annual Easter Egg Roll. https://t.co/9eBg4krRjP pic.twitter.com/l8wOqvyvxu

— The Hill (@thehill) March 12, 2024

A potato won’t break like an egg if you step on it. You can also make Vodka with them (though perhaps not after dying). But you could erase Easter by combining it with St. Patrick’s Day. Drinking. Potatoes. None of that dead on the cross and rose bodily to heaven business. The Catholics are, after all, accused (by some) of hijacking Easter from the pagans (She was a goddess of spring pictured with eggs and rabbits), so it’d be one of those what goes around comes around things. Related: The New State Color Will Be Potato

Call it Social Justice.

And with St Patrick’s Day on the 17th and Easter on the 31st, you could turn it into a Spring Saturnalia. Two weeks of drinking and not thinking about Ukraine, the open US border, escalating drug deaths, crime and violence, or the fact that potatoes are cheaper than eggs in the Biden Economy. You can then rise from your alcoholic stupor, sunglasses over your eyes and a pounding ache in your head to set the screaming little leprechauns loose with their burlap easter sacks to collect the little spuds (undyed because I bet that stuff is terrible for the environment).

Just don’t use White Potatoes; that would be racist.

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In full disclosure, I am not a TikTok user. I refused to install it on my devices for fear of giving the Chinese access to my data. TikTok is owned by ByteDance. The execs at TikTok have testified before Congress numerous times and claimed that an American company owns them. Still, everyone knows that is a facade, and ByteDance, and by extension, the CCP is the owner.

TikTok in China is completely controlled by the Chinese government and is used as a teaching tool. In America, the CCP is using TikTok as a tool to control the young people of America. Like a drug, TikTok’s algorithm gets people addicted to its offerings very quickly.

When Congress announced last week that they would force ByteDance to divest and sell off the app to an American group, the users were urged to call their Reps and Senators and tell them to leave TikTok alone. With over 150 Million users, the switchboards lit up, and the calls poured in. Many of these callers probably had no idea who their reps were, but they called, threatened, and told that the person called. Some even said they would commit suicide if the app were shut down.

The Democrats will fight to keep TikTok alone. In the middle of this controversy, with all federal employees forbidden from having TikTok on government devices, the President starts using the app to reach young supporters. It was a very hypocritical act but a successful one. With Biden bleeding support in every other sector, he has to hold onto the young voters. So far, he is successful, but that support will be gone if TikTok is, too. All of a sudden, these kids are political activists.

There is too much money involved in Social Media, especially Instagram, Tumblr, and, of course, TikTok. Develop a following, regardless of talent, and influencers can make more money making 30-second videos than they ever dreamed possible.

Charli Grace D’Amelio is an American social media personality. She was a competitive dancer for over a decade before starting her social media career in 2019 when she began posting dance videos on the video-sharing platform TikTok. You probably never heard of her, but if you have children, they have. She has been on TikTok since 2021 and has 151 million followers. D’Amelio “earned” $17.5 million last year. Is it any wonder why there is no value in a dollar or no employees working at your favorite shop?

Should TikTok be dismantled? Absolutely, or at least assured, the Chinese have no stake in the app or business. The dangers of Social Media still need to be addressed, but the tentacles are in too deep. There has to be a concerted effort to break the dependence on cell phones for elementary-age children. You will not get them away from teenagers, but you have to break the funnel of new users.

Hearings start Wednesday in Congress on the future of TikTok. It will be a great study of money, power, and the impact of the youth on Congress. Washington loves lobbyists. Let’s see how they enjoy millions of kids strung out on TikTok.

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Just a meme about March 14.  3.14.  Pi Day.

 

 

BTW, fun fact.  The fraction 355 / 113 is as close to exactly pi as you will need in your life.

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This grand experiment has failed. Hillary Clinton coined the phrase “It takes a village,” and Joe Biden said, “They are all our children.” They were referring to the cooperative effort of parents, teachers, and the government in co-parenting our future generations.

Through gaslighting, they convinced parents the job of raising children was insurmountable for Mom and Dad, and schools and the government were ready, able, and willing to lend a hand. This wonderful gesture was far from sincere. The “village” approach was part of the century-long process to indoctrinate and control our future by programming young generations. The final grade is in, and this village gets an F.

From falling test scores to promoting transgenderism, there is nothing positive these folks can point at to give credit to their efforts. They have removed God, patriotism, and parents from the early stages of development because they were impeding the process. What we have for the decades of this effort are kids glued to electronic devices, unable to perform basic math skills or read at a high school level. We have children with escalating absenteeism and suicide rates, and Fentanyl poisoning is the number one killer of young people between 18 and 45.

We are spending more effort to pass legislation to legalize marijuana and keep sexually explicit books in elementary school libraries than to elevate the quality of education. Drag queens can host reading hours in schools, but Christian-based groups are forbidden from the same. During COVID, school boards and teacher’s unions were exposed for their efforts to actively remove parents from the education process, and they fought efforts to promote charter schools or home-schooling.

We insist on space-age car seats for infants and helmets for bikers and skateboarders, yet we allow young men who identify as women to participate on the playing field with young women. When local and state governments have an opportunity to protect these female athletes, they scoff at any issues and fail to keep these girls from harm.

The New Hampshire House Education Committee recently considered HB1205, Protecting Women’s Sports. HB1205 goes to the House with NO recommendation, as the committee voted 10-10 along party lines. One of the most outrageous comments during the discussion came from Rep. Linda Tanner (D), Sullivan District 5. 

RE: the discussion about girls getting hurt playing sports with transgender students:

“Injuries sometimes happen in sports; in fact, that’s one of the fun things about it: you test your body to the limits, you’re trying to be as competitive as possible, and sometimes injuries happen. There have been NO INJURIES directly related to a trans person actually causing that injury outside of what it normally would be in an athletic event”…..” I’m ashamed to be a part of this bill..”

No, Ms Tanner, we are embarrassed you are a member of our state legislature. This statement is evidence of Representative Tanner’s irrational thinking and ignorance of the subject. Tell the high school volleyball player knocked unconscious when hit by a spike from a trans player on the opposing team that she was having fun. Months later, she is still plagued with migraines, dizzy spells, and blurred vision—such fun. Tell the three basketball players hurt in the first half of their basketball game when a trans player who was nearly a foot taller and fifty pounds heavier fouled them to the court and injured them-they were having a blast.

A transgender mixed-martial arts fighter who broke his female opponent’s skull is an intrepid hero who deserves to be celebrated as “the bravest athlete in history.” That’s the assessment of Cyd Zeigler, co-founder and blogger at Outsports, an LGBT-focused site that is part of left-wing digital media company Vox’s SB Nation network. You may have to read that twice to be sure you read it correctly. This trans-athlete issue goes beyond right and wrong and right to illogical and insanity.

If we cannot get a grip on this education system and government hee-bent on destroying our future, then we have no hope of saving this country. The country is in the hands of the young, and if those hands are busy holding electronic devices, the country will fall to the ground. The young people will hear about the demise of America from their favorite TikTok influencers.

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