I assume that by the time this is posted, Cornerstone’s post regarding the passage of HB 224 … the de facto repeal of the ban on post-six-months abortions … will have been posted. The point of this post is that there will be NO consequences for the “Republican” Reps who voted with the Democrats to allow abortion-up-to-birth … NHGOP “leadership” will simply go on with business as usual. And that should disqualify New Hampshire from hosting the First-in-the-Nation GOP Presidential primary.

NHGOP “leaders” will … as they always do … tell us that the majority of the House GOP voted against HB 244. The same tired refrain we have been hearing for at least the past 30 years … it was the RINOs; it was the RINOs; it was the RINOs. NOT good enough.

The failure to take any action against these Reps (names below) … for example, loss of committee assignments, loss of funding from the State Party … indicates that preventing late-term abortions is NOT a priority for the NHGOP. And that shows that the NHGOP is hopelessly out-step with the Republican Party as a whole on abortion, as well as a host of other issues. New Hampshire is not a barometer of the Republican Party or the country … it has no business hosting the First-in-the-Nation GOP Presidential primary.

Lex Berezhny of Grafton 11

David Bickford of Strafford 3

Mike Bordes of Belknap 5

Carroll Brown of Grafton 10

Karel Crawford of Carroll 3

Tanya Donnelly of Rockingham 25

Oliver Ford of Rockingham 3

John Lewicke of Hillsborough 36

David Lundgren of Rockingham 16

James Mason of Merrimack 3

David Nagel of Belknap 6

Mark Proulx of Hillsborough 15

Dick Thackston of Chesire 12

Susan Vandecasteele of Rockingham 25

Dan Wolf of Merrimack 7

Josh Yokela of Rockingham 32

 

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Did you know that more than 25% of traffic deaths are related to alcohol impairments? Drunk driving is very dangerous due to how alcohol slows a person’s reflexes and influences their behavior. A drunk driver could easily injure or kill someone.

What should you do if you see a drunk driver on the road? Should you call the police? Should you try and pull the driver over?

Keep reading and learn more about what you can do to help.

Don’t Try to Stop the Drunk Driver’s Car

Many people think that they should take a direct approach and try to stop a drunk driver’s car. But this is a bad idea. Drunk drivers are reckless and might not have any control over their cars.

They may not know how fast they’re going or how to slow down. They may make turns that are too wide or too tight. They may try swerving into other lanes to avoid the cars ahead of them.

Some drunk drivers may fall asleep at the wheel and crash into a telephone pole or another car. A drunk driver is an immediate danger to everyone around them. The signs of a drunk driver include swerving, going too fast or too slow, and driving off the road.

Find out more here if you want to know more about DUI drivers.

The Details

Because drunk drivers are so dangerous, you should stay far away from them. It is best to move your car behind them. This keeps you out of their line of sight, and they are less likely to hit you.

Avoid driving in front of them or to the side. They may not be paying attention to the road and may crash into your car from the back or side. If the drunk driver stops and gets out of the car, don’t confront them.

Drunk drivers may become violent if you try to talk to them or stop them from driving. Yelling or honking at the driver may also startle or distract them. This could cause them to get into an accident.

If you make the driver angry, they may purposely try to cause an accident. They may try to drive their car into yours or tailgate you. This is a sure way to get yourself into a dangerous situation.

It is better to hang back and assess the situation from afar.

Memorize the Car’s Model and Plate Numbers

Just because you should hang back doesn’t mean that you can’t do anything useful. If you think there is a drunk driver on the road, pay attention to the car they’re driving. What model is it?

What about the color? How old does the car look? Is the car worn down or covered in dents and rust?

Any visual details can help you identify the car if it gets out of your line of sight. You can then call the police when you are in a safe location and tell them about the car you saw. You should also consider whether the car looked stolen or not.

If the windows were broken, the driver may have broken into the car. You should also check if there is more than one person in the car. It may be a group of college students who drank too much and are putting themselves in grave danger without realizing it.

What You Need to Know

You should also pay attention to the car’s plate numbers. Be careful when getting these numbers. You may have to get very close to the car to see them.

The car may slam on its brakes, which could send you crashing into the vehicle. It is best to stay as far away as possible when collecting the plate numbers. Memorize the numbers in your head first before writing them down so you won’t forget.

You can then give these numbers to the police. If you can’t get close enough to get these numbers, don’t worry. Your visual recount of the car may be enough for the police to find the drunk driver.

Identify the area where you saw the drunk driver and where the driver was headed. This will make it easier for the police to find them.

Call the Police

Calling the police is very important because they are the ones who will stop the drunk driver. This is not your responsibility. Your responsibility is instead to collect important information to give to the police.

Once you collect enough info from the driver, pull over and call 911. Tell the police about the car you saw, who was driving, what the car looked like, and so on. You should also tell them where you think the car was headed and where you last saw it.

You should also tell them why you think the driver was drunk. Was the driver swerving or driving off the road? Were they driving too fast or too slow?

It is important to have your answers ready once the police start asking you questions. The police need as much information as possible to find the driver and pull them over. If a drunk driver hits you, make sure you call a lawyer as well as the police.

What to Do When You See a Drunk Driver

A drunk driver is a danger to themselves and everyone around them. Alcohol will slow their reflexes and make them drive more recklessly. You can solve the problem by gathering information about the car and calling the police.

The police will take it from there. To learn more about it, check out the other content on our site.

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Amusing, but given today’s political atmosphere and totalitarian ways by those using “The Environment” and “Safety” and “We’re only here to do the best for you!” lies, there is certainly a serious message here:

Do you see it? CAN you see it?

Yes, the above is a Dodge Challenger when they brought it back.  It’s going away because of “Green!”. This week, too, we got the news that GM has pulled the plug on the last Camaro – no more at the end of this year. While it IS going out with a bang (a firebreathing 1,024 horsepower, 1.6 seconds to 60 miles an hour at hundreds of thousands of dollars less than supercars), our unelected, unassailable, and unaccountable bureaucrats (I think I’d be correct in saying they’re all down with restricting our freedom by whatever means possible) have regulated it out of existence.

I’m said to see it go – my second car, when in high school, was a ’67 Camaro. Red with black stripping and black interior. Four speed.  I still miss it.

The invention of the car was one of the greatest tools for individual Freedom as it allowed the ordinary person to travel to anywhere at any time for any reason in a reasonable time.  No longer were people constrained by time (walking, riding a horse) and by distance. No waiting to travel according to someone else’s schedule (trains, subways and other public transportation).

IMHO, the forced reduction of the use of fossil fuels is a method to constrain travel by the common man.  Doubt me?

If every gas vehicle was immediately replaced by a shiny new Electric one in your driveway, do you think our grid could take the load?  Who then gets to charge their cars?

Hint: it won’t be we, the common folks. The rich and powerful, however, will have little problem.

We losing our cars. They are taking our Freedom(s).

(H/T: Tony)

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Reports are saying Rep. James Comer R KY, chairman of House Oversight Comm., is getting cooperation from unnamed individuals as the committee is investigating Hunter Biden and the Biden family’s financial business connections to China. Fourteen years of banking records have been subpoenaed but Janet Yellen is stonewalling on records of bank violations still Rep Comer says he has records in hand to make the case to court to force Yeller to produce those records.

Meanwhile, Democrats are trying to calm this investigation is nothing but a “dragnet” of political research on behalf of former President Trump. Isn’t it interesting how Democrats with zero evidence of wrongdoing by Trump carry on years of political vendetta against him but with clear overwhelming evidence and history of the same against the Bidens are angry and outraged they should be the subject of an investigation?

I have no idea if this investigation was designed to benefit Trump or may only be a side effect. Neither do I believe that anyone else does either. It just sounds good too good to be true but they are still trying to tie the two together. After all, there is an ever lusting apatite on the left to smear and slander the former President.

Following this line of thought, should we be expecting an arrest warrant to be issued for the former President based on his pay off to Stormy Daniels as hush money? At least that seems to be the media reporting as I read it. If they are indeed correct (which we can never be sure with MSM) I can’t ever recall hush money being a crime unless it involved a crime having been committed in the first place. Oh yes, Trump’s a (fill in a slander or lie here) and they hate him because he stands for MAGA (Make America Great Again) and he was doing it, too.

The more I think on this attempted legal lynching, the more I suggest it could trigger the biggest backlash these Leftists might ever see. But they do tend to believe they are immune to being held accountable for their actions.

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The people must Elect a Man or Woman who understands the Constitution of New Hampshire and is faithful to their oath of office, by upholding and defending said Constitution.

The Constitution of N.H. Part II, art. 41 requires that the governor shall be responsible for the faithful execution of the laws. He may, by appropriate court action or proceeding brought in the name of the state, enforce compliance with any constitutional or legislative mandate, or restrain violation of any constitutional or legislative power, duty, or right, by any officer, department or agency of the state.

Part II, art. 50. The governor, with advice of council, shall have full power and authority, in the recess of the general court, to prorogue the same from time to time, not exceeding ninety days, in any one recess of said court; and during the sessions of said court, to adjourn or prorogue it to any time the two houses may desire, and to call it together sooner than the time to which it may be adjourned, or prorogued, if the welfare of the state should require the same.

Upon election, the Governor should exercise such powers by doing the following:

 

1. Exercise the aforesaid Constitutional Executive powers by the following acts.
2. Sign an executive order under the authority of Part II, art. 50 to call the legislature to assemble in special session to restore the Constitutional Citizen Grand Jury Part I, art.15.
3. Sign executive order instructing the legislature to restore the Constitutional rights of the people, and the constitutional duty of the legislature to redress public grievances, under Part I, art. 31 and art. 32.
4. Sign an executive order instructing the legislature to abolish the statutory “state” and restore the sovereignty of the State detailed in Part II, art 1.
5. Sign an executive order abolishing all forms of government or agencies not authorized by the Constitution of New Hampshire in Part II.
6. Call for a State Constitutional Convention to repeal any amendment void of the informed consent of the voters, required by Part I, art. 1. and Part II, art. 100.
7. Sign an executive order abolishing unconstitutional government education, and sell all said properties.
8. Sign an executive order declaring Part II, art. 72a. and art. 73a. null and void for being repugnant and contrary to Part I, art. 1 (the consent of the voters), as said amendments also violates the separation of powers in Part I, art. 37, which are the private rights of the people. 72a. and 73a. also violate Part II, art. 4. (the legislature’s oversite over the Judiciary).
9. Sign an executive order terminating the entire Judicial branch, and the New Hampshire Bar Association’s (NHBA) charter for violating Part I, art. 1. (the consent of the voters). The Supreme Courts creation of a monopoly (NHBA) is a direct violation Part II, art. 83 (the monopoly clause).
10. Sign an executive order declaring the 14th amendment void for lack of jurisdiction as the U.S. government is a corporation (a body-corporate and a (body-politic within the 10-mile square), a creation of the States). The U.S. gov. (a corporation) through the use of force cannot make citizens unto to its-self as there as there was no consent of the voters of this State, and such actions violates the sovereignty of the people, Part I, art. 7. The people of this State are not subject to laws to which they have not given their consent (Part I, art.1).
11. Sign an executive order declaring the 16th amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America void for lack of jurisdiction as the N.H. legislature cannot delegate it’s power to tax the people of N.H. to the federal government. The legislature is prohibited by the N.H. Bill of Rights, Part I, art. 1. and Part I, art. 28. which requires the consent of the voters; Part I, art. 7, the sovereignty of the people, and Part II, art. 1. the sovereignty of the State. The 16th amendment also violates Article 4. Section 4. of the U.S. Constitution also.
12. Sign an executive order declaring the 17th amendment void, as it is violation of the U.S. Constitution also, as it violates the sovereignty of the State (the party to the compact of the U.S. Constitution, Article 7), as said amendment denies the State its representation, nullifying the compact.
13. Sign an executive order instructing the Legislature to form a State Bank based on lawful money, as the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 violates Article 1 section 8, clause 4. And the 13th
14. Sign an executive order instructing the legislature to repeal all federal programs and federal aid, as it violates the sovereignty of the people (Part I, art. 7), and the sovereignty of the State (Part II, art. 1.).
15. Sign an executive order declaring void any federal law, or agency operating in this State that is repugnant or contrary to the Constitution of New Hampshire or the sovereignty of the people, or the State.

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Really?  Using the word “ma’am” is now verboten simply because I’m oppressing you because you’re not ready to accept that we all age with the passage of time? That you can even get upset by our perception of you EVEN AS we’re trying to be nice, show manners, and be polite?



Gosh, I remember the first time I was called “sir”. You know what my reaction was?  Simple: quick little eyebrow raise – “I’m surprised it took this long”. And the grace to accept that someone had been taught some manners.

The post that spurred this edition was here (yes, I do read CNN from time to time) – I just had to see why “ma’am” is now offensive. Mom would have been horrified if I failed to use that honorific when called for. Now, I’m now the one that could be called “offensive”???

For quick background, some snippets for my Snippet:

How ‘ma’am’ went from being a respectful word for some — but polarizing for others

…I was completely unaware of how much women were outraged by this word until it started getting directed at me as I hit my mid-20s. Like the first time you aren’t carded at the bar, I remember being called “ma’am” by a waiter and realizing, “Yes, he is talking to me.” As someone from Seattle, this term sounded foreign and out of place. It was like society had decided without my permission that my youth was behind me.

…It’s an identity shift when you realize people look at you and no longer see a young person.

…When I hear “ma’am,” I feel my youthful privileges slipping away — like the assumptions that you’re interesting, open-minded and up-to-date

…”It rattled me the first time I was called ma’am,” one 23-year-old shared on Reddit. “I thought I wasn’t quite old enough for that yet.”

…”Ma’am” is generally considered to be a polite term to address a woman, but depending on the region or context, it can mean the exact opposite.

and this next part is the stupidest of all:

…”You can’t control how people see you, but you have a right to assert how you’d like to be seen,” said Wright, who notes that she is trying to use the word less after discovering many hear it as offensive and not inclusive. “The only way these things move forward is through constant reassertion.”

Are you thinking of “preferred pronouns” and the associated demands to control YOUR speech to make THEM feel better about how they are perceived?

Yeah, that. Go read the rest and laugh.  We all get old and unless a medical breakthrough happens, that isn’t going to change.  Do say other is to deny reality – to yourself.

 

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I have gone on the record, on this site, that I did not want Trump to run in 2024. Though I supported him in 2016, I still think his Pre-COVID term will be considered one of the most successful administrations in history. But, and that is with a capital “B,” I felt a third Trump run would be too divisive for the country.

I felt comfortable with the many qualified Republicans who want to run that we would elect a strong Republican President in 2024. I have changed my mind. I think this country needs Donald Trump. We need him to come in and correct all of the mistakes made by Joe Biden, get this ship righted, and set the table for DeSantis in 2028. I am buying my ticket on the Trump Train!

Let’s look at what needs to be done, and after you review the list, I think you might be sitting next to me in the Club Car.

1. The Economy Joe Biden blew this economy up with Trillions of dollars that we do not have. His foolish policies have resulted in inflation that may still be double-digit if you don’t filter out essential commodities like home energy, automobiles, air travel, and gasoline. Our growth is anemic, and we are finding more ways to guarantee people a guaranteed income that we have killed the need to work. The Fed has raised interest rates to a level forcing the bank failures we have seen already, with more to come. Those interest rates are halting the real estate market and making credit unaffordable for many. Biden still claims the economy is the strongest ever, but 68% of Americans disagree.
2. Bank Failures and Bailouts. We have already touched on the failures, but the recovery or relief by the Biden Team is a failure. Biden says all deposits will be covered, which would cost $6 Trillion. Yellen contradicts her boss and says the Government will decide which banks deserve to be made whole. Who wants this White House to pick the winners and losers? See East Palestine.
3. The Military Nobody wants to see a war with Russia or China. Still, the only way we can avoid their aggression is by having the greatest military in the world ready to put down anyone who threatens us. Our military wants $114 Million to school our military in DEIJ while we have a 15,000 deficit in recruitment in 2022. Our military equipment is breaking down. We are retiring battleships only six years old because we cannot afford the maintenance. We allowed a Chinese balloon to traverse our country and Russia to sink a $34 Million drone and force our jets out of International Airspace. We are a weak military under Biden, and our enemies sense it.
4. Energy Plan Trump left us energy independent and a major supplier of LNG to Europe. Biden flipped that on Day 1. We are back at the mercy of OPEC and are even looking at Iran and Venezuela as possible suppliers. We are concerned about gasoline-driven cars while China is building coal plants. The world is not on board with our green energy plan.
5. The Former Border We cannot call it the Southern Border, as the Border no longer exists. Trump’s wall materials, which are already paid for, are waiting for him to restart construction, shut the Border and reinstate some sanity to our Mexican Border.
6. Ukraine Trump will stop the flow of Billions to Kiiv and get Russia to the table. NATO needs a strong Trump back in Washington.

Give Trump four years without a Pandemic and phony impeachment trials, and he can get America back. Biden made me do it. I have my MAGA hat out, and it looks beautiful.

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Sun-King Chris Sununu … the most narcissist politician in America … created a Political-Action-Committee called the Live Free or Die PAC to finance his make-believe, look-at-me, look-at-me, everybody-look-at-me Presidential campaign. Not surprisingly, the Live Free or Die PAC is spewing the same familiar LIES as the Sun-King has regularly spewed:

Low taxes? Yeah that’s true … as long as you ignore the major tax paid by working and middle class families, the local property tax … a tax that primarily funds a WOKE public education bureaucracy. Indeed, it appears that around two-thirds of every education dollar is spent OUTSIDE the classroom to fund this bureaucracy … a bureaucracy which as a practical matter is unaccountable to parents and is hostile to parents. The local property tax in New Hampshire is essentially stealth funding for Diversity-Equity-Inclusion, i.e., identity-based socialism, Critical-Race-Theory, i.e., anti-white racism, and grooming.

Limited government? Are you kidding me! In 2018, Sun-King Sununu signed a transgender bill into law, which his own Attorney General says requires schools to allow boys to compete in girls’ sports and use girls’ locker rooms. In 2019, the Democrat-controlled legislature with the support of all but one Republican State Senator passed and the Republican Governor signed a bill codifying Obamacare into State law. Earlier this year every Republican State Senator voted to make Obamacare Medicaid Expansion permanent.

Local control? Surely you jest. Public school districts in New Hampshire are actually run by unaccountable and woke bureaucracies that ignore and often simply silence the remonstrations of parents at school board meetings. Sun-King and his minions are on a jihad to nullify local zoning laws in order to allow developers to build apartment complexes that are destroying the State’s rural character. Local control is a myth.

 

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These don’t exist yet, but they need to. And New Hampshire should lead the way by becoming the first. The idea isn’t new. New Hampshire is one of several ‘Second Amendment Sanctuary’ states as of June 2022.  As of that date, the state is prohibited

 

from enforcing any federal statute, regulation, or Presidential Executive Order that restricts or regulates the right of the people to keep and bear arms.

 

If we can do this for the Second Amendment, why not for the Tenth, which is undeniably larger in scope, and therefore arguably greater in importance?

The Tenth Amendment says:

 

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

 

Following in the footsteps of HB 1178 (2022), a corresponding bill would prohibit the state

 

from enforcing any federal statute, regulation, or Presidential Executive Order that exceeds the delegated powers enumerated in Article 1, Section 8 of the United States Constitution as written.

 

The phrase as written is included to prevent the federal government from appealing to ‘amendments’ that it has made (via rulings by its judicial branch) to the Constitution.

Note that this would eliminate federal interference in education, medicine, agriculture, food, finance, energy, and dozens of other areas where the federal government now seeks to impose one-size-fits-all solutions on our state.

In 2017, shortly after being elected Governor of New Hampshire, Chris Sununu wrote a letter to the House Majority Leader, in which he said:

 

We urge Congress to untie the hands of the states. Let us have the flexibility to design a New Hampshire system for New Hampshire citizens.

 

If he was serious about that, then he doesn’t have to wait for Congress to act.  He can get his own legislature, which is controlled by members of his own party, to act right now.

The precedent is there.  The party is in place.  All that’s missing is the political will to return New Hampshire to its rightful role as a sovereign partner in a truly federal government, instead of continuing as a de facto colony of a national government.

 

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• These are the most liberty-critical hearings for the week
• Click on the bill number to read the bill.
• Click on the committee name to email the committee your thoughts.

Of the 45 hearings in the House, we are recommending support of 3 and opposition of 2 with 0 being of interest.
Of the 28 hearings in the Senate, we are recommending support of 5 and opposition of 5 with 3 being of interest.

Position	Bill	Title	Committee	Day	Time	Room	State Analysis
Support	SB206	prohibiting corporal punishment in child day care agencies.	Children and Family Law	Tue 3/28	9:30 AM	LOB Room 206-208	This bill expands the definition of endangerment to include corporal punishment as defined by the department of health and human services.
Of Interest	HB170	requiring the teaching of cursive handwriting and multiplication tables.	Education	Tue 3/28	9:15 AM	LOB Room 101	This bill requires school boards to teach cursive handwriting and the memorization of multiplication tables.
Support	HB296	relative to local authority for granting driveway permits.	Election Law and Municipal Affairs	Tue 3/28	9:45 AM	LOB Room 103	This bill clarifies the authority for local land use boards to regulate driveway access for residential properties.
Support	HB119	relative to homestead food operation licensure.	Energy and Natural Resources	Tue 3/28	9:45 AM	SH Room 103	This bill allows homestead food operations to sell food, excluding potentially hazardous food, from the homestead residence, at the owner’s farm stand, or at farmers’ markets.
Support	HB31	repealing the prohibition on the possession or sale of blackjacks, slung shots, and metallic knuckles.	Judiciary	Tue 3/28	1:00 PM	SH Room 100	This bill repeals the prohibition, penalty, and exceptions relating to the carrying and possessing with intent to sell a black jack, slung shot, or metallic knuckles.
Of Interest	HB97	establishing an additional penalty for a violation of privacy.	Judiciary	Tue 3/28	1:15 PM	SH Room 100	This bill increases the penalty for certain offenses that constitute a violation of privacy.
Support	HB201	relative to changing the penalties for driving without a license.	Judiciary	Tue 3/28	1:30 PM	SH Room 100	This bill changes the penalties for driving without a license to a violation, unless the individualis convicted for second time in a 12-month period.
Support	HB307	relative to attorney’s fees in actions under the right to know law.	Judiciary	Tue 3/28	1:45 PM	SH Room 100	This bill requires the court to issue a final judgment in favor of the requester before attorney’s fees are awarded under the right to know law.
Of Interest	HB321	relative to minutes from nonpublic sessions under the right to know law.	Judiciary	Tue 3/28	2:00 PM	SH Room 100	This bill requires public bodies to review meeting minutes withheld from public disclosure at least every 10 years to determine whether they should continue to be withheld. Minutes not reviewed after 10 years shall be made public.
Support	SB245	relative to the inspection of hotel guest records.	Criminal Justice and Public Safety	Wed 3/29	11:00 AM	LOB Room 202-204	This bill clarifies the obligation of hotels and similar lodgings to maintain a record of each guest.
Oppose	SB136	prohibiting the employment or volunteering of a revoked or suspended educator.	Education	Wed 3/29	1:00 PM	LOB Room 205-207	This bill prohibits the hiring or service of a person by a school administrative unit, school district, chartered public school, or nonpublic school who is listed on the department of education’s list of revoked and suspended educators.
Support	SB35	relative to RSV vaccine administration.	Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs	Wed 3/29	10:30 AM	LOB Room 201-203	This bill authorizes pharmacists, pharmacy interns, and licensed advanced pharmacy technicians to administer an RSV vaccine to adults.
Oppose	SB149	relative to nurse agencies.	Executive Departments and Administration	Thu 3/30	11:30 AM	LOB Room 306-308	This bill establishes a licensing and application process for nurse agencies.

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At my post “If You Live In Belknap County (NH), You are Looking At A 35% Rise In Your County Taxes. Blame Belknap Delegation Chair Harry Bean!“, my intent to bring a Big Flashlight that the Belknap County Delegation (made up of all the NH State Reps in the County, majority are Republicans) was about to give the residents of Belknap a 35% rise in their county taxes portion of their property taxes. It opened with this as a call to action as the public has been shut out of the process:

You need to contact Belknap County Delegation Chair Harry Bean:  Email: froggytouttaint@aol.com  Phone: (603) 455-2993.  He’s responsible for this.

In NH, the various Counties, all County budgets start with the Commissioners.  Here in Belknap, I’m betting that they didn’t just throw the kitchen sink into their budget, they put your street’s entire collection of kitchen sinks as well.  And then smiled after watching this County’s dysfunctional “budget committee” process.

And NH State Rep, Harry “Cutting Corners” Bean is the Chair and he’s responsible for this mess AND for hoovering more of your money out of your wallet than needed.  Doubt me?  If you live in Belknap County, ask him this question:

Why is Merrimack County’s budget going up only 1% and mine is going up over 35%??? How can they do it right and you can’t???

A local fellow, Ronnie Abbott (not exactly a friend by far – on the other side of the Citizens for Belknap Democrat PAC debate from me) decided that telling other residents how to contact their elected Representatives (email, phone, from the NH House and Belknap County Delegation) was a CRIME (doxing). The DISQUS debate went downhill from there.

So, I had words that needed to be said:

 

I’m betting I’ll hear from him or others that I have just “doxxed” his comments. S’alright, they’ve been saved off.

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Bioloigical male Tiffany Thomas just won another top-tier women’s cycling event. It is at least the 16th elite cycling victory Thomas has robbed from a biological woman, and does that make TiffThom feel like a superhero?

 

On Saturday, trans cyclist Tiffany Thomas, 47, was photographed with her arms aloft in victory at the top of the podium at the Randall’s Island Crit — at least her 20th win since she started racing in 2018, while already in her 40s.

The NYC-based biologist posted photos of herself in full flight from the race while wearing the bright orange team kit of her team sponsor, LA Sweat.

“I’m not going to lie, sometimes it made me feel like a superhero when I wore it,” she said alongside one image of her fully focused on the NYC race.

 

One of ” superhero” Thomas’ powers when wearing the super suit is getting biological women competitors to quit the sport.

 

Champion cyclocross rider Hannah Arensman bolstered her decision with a statement in a Supreme Court filing on the issue.

“I have decided to end my cycling career,” Arensman said last Wednesday.

She said in her last race, in the elite women’s division of the UCI Cyclocross National Championships in late December, she “came in 4th place, flanked on either side by male riders awarded 3rd and 5th places.” …

“Additionally, it is difficult for me to think about the very real possibility I was overlooked for an international selection on the US team at Cyclocross Worlds in February 2023 because of a male competitor.”

 

The left is empowering “women” by driving them out of competitions they can’t win because of the influx of biological men.

 

On her Road Results page, Thomas is listed in Category 1 which is considered an elite level under USA Cycling rules. USA Cycling follows the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) rules regarding transgender athletes at the elite level of competition. USA Cycling points out the “main points” on its website. …

It appeared Thomas began to race at the elite level in the summer of 2019 and, before that competed in Categories 5-3, which is considered non-elite.

 

Thomas “transitioned in 2017/2018.

Another mediocre male competitor (this one is middle-aged) goes from zero to ‘hero’ after changing their gender so they can “beat” up on little girls.

Women are leaving the sport, leaving sports, and many will never even try knowing that real uncompetitive losers can claim to be girls or women at any time, and the progressive stranglehold on sports and culture will demand they smile and applaud.

And let’s not forget. Tiffany is a biologist.

 

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Again, some unsolicited advice that I wrote on Nov. 12, 2016: “If the NH Republican Party wants to win, and win Consistently, act like you believe in the Platform.  Speak like you do and at each and every turn. ” 

Vote like you do at each and every opportunity.  And Legislate like there’s no tomorrow because two days ago was that “no more tomorrow” – and you blew it.

So I get email missives from the NH House Republican Office (perhaps not after this!).  Glad I get them; sometimes, self-congratulatory info and some make me fume.  So, here is some unsolicited advice. First, the “missive.”

—— Original Message ——
From “House Republican Office” <HouseRepOffice@leg.state.nh.us>
To “House Republican Office” <HouseRepOffice@leg.state.nh.us>
Date 3/23/2023 12:33:42 PM
Subject Release: House Democrats Embrace Radical Abortion Position

For Immediate Release
March 23, 2023
Contact: (603) 271-3665

House Democrats Embrace Radical Abortion Position

Concord, NH- House Majority Leader Jason Osborne (R-Auburn) released the following statement after House Democrats continuously supported extremist abortion bills.

“Last term the New Hampshire House came together in a bipartisan manner and passed a law that upheld our basic values regarding this issue on a unanimous vote. I have been clear that Republicans would not support any efforts to expand restrictions on abortion. It is unfortunate that the Democrats have held onto their radical position and refuse to work with Republicans on this issue.

While it is easy for extremist Democrats to use heated rhetoric to try to advance their radical agenda, the fact of the matter is that public opinion is not on their side. The current House Democratic position is to allow abortion on-demand and up until the very moment of birth. Republicans acknowledge the truth that Granite Staters identify as pro-choice, but also know that over two-thirds of Granite Staters support some restrictions on abortion. Our current law satisfies and represents the majority of Granite Stater’s views on abortion. Today’s votes prove the Republicans are not the extremists on this issue.”

xxx

For anyone that isn’t conversant with the inside baseball of this, that might be sufficient: Dems bad, Repubs good.  Simplistic at best. While I make NO claim to be an expert and seer within the House machinations, I’m tired of the Republicans bashing the Democrats – but only the Democrats. Too many of us watchers, with experience built over the years, are tired of seeing a gain by the Republicans erased (and not the transgender trite epithet of “you want to erase me!!!” used against anyone that doesn’t believe that one sex can be the other) by the Democrats…

Background – a limitation of abortions after the 24th week of gestation was prohibited by a Republican bill last session

…with the help of renegade Republicans. Generally, by a small number thereof, but that’s all it takes this session where the Republicans have only a 6-vote majority. And in this case, it looks like either the Repub Whips (those folks whose job it is to “whip the votes” – make sure that the Republicans actually vote like Republicans) but failed this time – OR got lied to. Otherwise, why would the Speaker and Leadership hold the vote on these two bills, given the topic of Abortion, without knowing they could defeat these Democrat bills?  That’s the whole POINT of having Whips – the Early Warning Network to watch out for Win or Defeat

The aim of these two bills by the Dems were to effectively either neuter the penalties for doing an abortion after the 24-week cutoff or erase last year’s bill completely. Why would the Republican Leadership allow votes on them when you know they’d pass and give Dems great joy in defending their Moloch celebrations?

These baby-killing Republicans did both.  And the same two Belknap Republicans, supported/endorsed by the Democrat Political Action Committee, Citizens for Belknap, appear on both. Ronnie Abbot is going to have a cow that I’m holding Republicans accountable by calling them out:

—– Original Message ——
From “Skip” <Skip@granitegrok.com>

To “House Republican Office” <HouseRepOffice@leg.state.nh.us>; “Jason Osborne” <Jason@osborne4nh.com>
Date 3/23/2023 2:06:43 PM
Subject Re: Release: House Democrats Embrace Radical Abortion Position

And no mention of the Republicans that stood in solidarity with them to pass HB224 (repealing the criminal and civil penalties from the fetal life protection act, which effectively moots the bill into nothingness):

• Lex Berezhny
• David Bixford
• Mike Bordes (R-Belknap)
• Carroll Brown
• Karen Crawford
• Tanya Donnelly
• Over Ford
• John Lewicke
• Davi Lundgren James Mason
• David Nagel (R-Belknap, Sponsor)
• Mark Proulx
• Dick Thackston
• Susan Vandecasteele
• Dan Wolf (Prime Sponsor)
• Josh Yokela

Why do I continue to see Bordes voting against the Republican platform so often?  And Nagel, as a new Rep this session, is showing some really bad votes.

And on HB271: repealing the fetal life protection act (returning NH to abortion on demand right up until a couple of seconds before birth).

• David Bickford
• Mark Proulx
• Susan Bendesteele
• Dan Wolf
• Josh Yoela

What’s going to happen – a “sternly worded Letter” placed in their permanent file? Then washing of hands after the ink has dried?

And some can’t understand why I hold Republicans to account – publicly.

-Skip
Skip Murphy
Founder, co-owner

GraniteGrok.com | Skip@GraniteGrok.com
Dominating the political Bandwidth in New Hampshire

And maybe that’s our unofficial official job to be done (and done better if it is) if the NH Republican institutions refuse to maintain political discipline.What will it take for the NH GOP and its elected officials to do what I posted at the top of this post? Over and over again, it’s a replay of then US Senator John McCain, after years of the Republicans say that they’d repeal Obamacare, step up to vote and vote NO and killed that Republican bill.

And they wonder why we on the outside get so cynical of their Republican brand?  I think too many Republicans, under the rubric of “A Republican’s Republican for the sake of the Republican Party” combined with that ersatz mantra of “don’t criticize Republicans” of that ill-used Ronaldus Magnus’s “11th Commandment” give free reign and take away Accountability from those that deserve it.  It certainly hasn’t been the case that the NH GOP, historically, has defended its reputation and brand all that well, has it?  As I have said/written before, and I guess I’ll have to continue saying it until I can no longer do so:

GraniteGrok espouses Conservatarian Republican ideals more in a week (or even less) than the NH GOP and other Republican Leadership do in a year. And I know we do a better job doing it, too.

Prove me wrong – start counting them versus us.

And they wonder why cynicism reigns supreme at times like this?

Does everyone have to agree all the time?  No.  But on those items that matter majorly and that are part of the NH GOP Platform they are supposed to support, and the Constitutions they swear oaths to,  I say that before I support them, they need to support those first.

Showing who the Dems are (in this case, unborn baby haters) is needful.  Doing the same to Republicans voting like them is also necessary.

And remember, Bordes is the Vice-Chair of the Belknap County Delegation!  Isn’t a Leadership role supposed to be a role model??

Guess he doesn’t remember why Steve Duprey, in part, was given the heave-ho out of his NH GOP RNC Committeeman seat? Nagel, too.

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Now that we know that some New Hampshire schools are sharing mental health data on students with outside organizations like Keene State BHII, parents are beginning to remove their children from SEL. (Social and Emotional Learning) SEL is in Tier 1 of the Multi-Tiered System of Support.

MAKE SURE YOU READ THIS and THIS.

New Hampshire law requires all school districts to include a policy that allows parents to replace objectionable material assigned to their children. Some of the SEL programs might look ok, but since we know that many schools in New Hampshire are sharing this personal mental health information without parental knowledge or consent, parents don’t want any part of this.

Here is what one parent in Londonderry recently posted:

 

This attempt to avoid informing parents of what is going on in their child’s school will not be tolerated by many parents. If what you are doing to children is valuable to them, parents will agree and consent. If you have to hide what you are doing, expect more parents to refuse this kind of mental health treatment.

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WOW, just WOW. That is my initial response to Karen Testerman’s article (hit piece) titled “Dilemma for Whom?” This article makes me immensely sad, and the fact it was written in the first place is absolutely mind-blowing to a group of patriots (me being a huge one) who supported her.

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I and thousands of others campaigned hard for Karen, from sign waves to being outside during her debate, from sample ballots to social media, from videos to standing at the polls, and so much more. All the precious time and people’s hard-earned money were sacrificed for Karen because she was The Resolve’s pick for Governor.

This article, THIS rhetoric, is just one prime example of why the party is standing on quicksand.

Let’s take the article’s allegations and break them down…

Did I violate the party bylaws? If I did, then didn’t Karen Testerman as well?

1. I was not a NHGOP voting committee member when we did The Resolve in 2022; I was voted in as a committee member long after the November election was done. The Resolve was born because I was a working mom trying to find the best individuals to vote for… people who would legislate with integrity and represent my family and our conservative values.

2. Didn’t the person writing these allegations support The Resolve initiative? I can recall seeing this same person promote The Resolve all summer long, and she even had a sign on her car. How soon do we forget that this author asked me to be at the state house in the SOS office when she declared her candidacy for NH Governor?

3. Is Karen saying she did not support Lily Tang Williams while she was a committee member? Did Lily not pop in to say hello to the entire NHGOP toward the end of the annual meeting in January? She is a Republican, right?

4. We know many elected/non-elected “Republicans” that are Libertarians (many were free staters, too)… our current House Majority Leader and the Merrimack Area Vice Chair are/were, but that is not an issue for anyone, right? How far should we take this line of thinking? Should all those who affiliate with the Libertarian party and run as Republicans be removed and/or get pushed out too? How is that unifying those against this globalist, woke, destructive progressive agenda?

I do not understand your rationale for this article, but I am thankful for the clarity and wisdom that it brings.

Comparing me to Thad Riley (I heard he apologized to the Executive Committee) or, even worse, Kevin Smith, who are promoting progressives? Come on, Karen, really? I can’t even believe you could write that garbage. How about you address Thad Riley and Kevin Smith, for endorsing progressive liberals instead of kicking a rock-solid conservative in the head who will not settle for anything but candidates with integrity?

I will always do what is right and just for my boys and work to elect people who will keep this globalist communist “China as a role model” agenda out of our towns, cities, state, and country. That means I will NEVER be the go-along to get-along “Republican.” That distorted mindset is one of many reasons we are in this mess in the first place.

I am as real of a Republican as it gets. If you want to disparage me because I may sometimes support an individual unwilling to rubber stamp and shepherd in communism over someone with an R next to their name, which has proven otherwise, that’s on you! That, Karen, is the definition of a true “Karen.”

Many in the NH grassroots and part of We the People NH have voiced their desire out of the dysfunction of the NHGOP. I have not given up on the party yet, but your less-than-warm and fuzzy article does not give your former supporters or me much hope for the future. Those people referenced above have taken it upon themselves to lay the groundwork for something different, and who am I to tell them no?

I will close with this; we, the voters, are done with this destructive behavior dismantling the foundation of our country. The NHGOP needs to embrace anyone who does not want to become communist China right now. Articles like this are not building a winning slate for 2024; it is not building the unity everyone desperately wants and needs. It creates the opposite, a spirit of division, and wastes time and energy. Hence why Democrats eat our lunch; they love this; it adds fuel to their fire.

We the People NH, are productively staying focused. If you are tired of the uni-party crap and the infighting, find us on Facebook, join our weekly strategy calls every Sunday night, or visit the website at WeThePeopleNH.org

Stay free, NH. Together, we have strength and safety in numbers. You are not alone in wanting something you can trust!

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An oxymoron could be a toothless hillbilly high on painkillers. For our purposes today, we will cling to the standard dictionary definition: one or two words in which seemingly contradictory terms appear side by side.

Typical examples are “alone together,” “awful good,” “conspicuous absence,” and even “civil war.” Crash landing, definite maybe, and found missing also fit the bill: student teacher, soft rock, or silent scream. Military intelligence?

How about Liberal Historian?

As a rule, doing that liberal thing you do requires a look forward—no looking back except to change it. History is your enemy. The true purpose of a Liberal Historian is to rewrite it in your forward-looking image to hide past misdeeds or whatever it takes to suit your current narrative, as opposed to exploring it for objective truths or lessons we carry with us.

Liberal Historian Rachel Hope Cleves wrote a book in which she refused “to use words such as “survivors” or “abuse” when discussing the rape of a 10-year-old boy.” The non-fictional rape of a 10-year-old boy.

In the video, Cleves said, “In writing this book I didn’t want to use pedophilia discourse because I felt like it would fail to capture this other historical organizing system, for intergenerational sex, which was the topic I wanted to address.” Cleves then went on to say, “I don’t use the discourse of survivors or necessarily abuse to make sense of sources.”

 

Adults raping children is intergenerational sex. That’s the new “new” (new!) term for child molesting perverts for those keeping notes at home.

 

In a talk on her biography on pedophile writer Norman Douglas, @uvic professor Rachel Hope Cleves described pederasty as “intergenerational sex” and says she won’t use the discourse of “survivors or necessarily abuse.”

Douglas was charged with raping 10-year-old children pic.twitter.com/MSu6siE3rm

— Cosmin Dzsurdzsa (@cosminDZS) March 21, 2023

 

Behavior that is being normalized with your tax dollars in the local public schools (probably).

 

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On Thursday, March 16th, the New Hampshire House of Representatives voted on HCR4, an Article V convention application limited to proposing an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to limit the number of terms that members of the U.S. House and Senate can serve—Term Limits for Congress.

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This popular reform polls at 82% nationally, with tri-partisan support at 87% Republicans, 83% Democrats, and 78% Independents. In New Hampshire, over three-fourths of the voters support term limits for Congress with an average of 77% which breaks out at 74% Republicans, 78% Democrats, and 78% Independents.

Voters in New Hampshire were also asked the following question regarding this resolution;

“The U.S. Constitution authorizes state legislatures to call for a convention to recommend Constitutional amendments. Two-thirds of states would have to agree before any action could be taken. Would you favor or oppose having New Hampshire call for an amendment proposing convention to enact congressional terms limits?”

Over two-thirds of the respondents, 69%, were in favor, with 66% Republicans, 68% Democrats, and 72% Independents!

First, we learned that 145 New Hampshire State Representatives stood with New Hampshire voters by voting to pass HCR4 to TERM LIMIT CONGRESS! Additionally, over 50 representatives committed to voting for this resolution by signing the Term Limits Pledge. THANK YOU!

Secondly, we learned that 224 House Representatives chose not to listen to the voters by voting against it. Yes, that is correct, New Hampshire voters, Term Limits for Congress, a common-sense reform that 82% of the voters nationally support, was defeated because your opinion does not matter to them.

In his parliamentary inquiry, Rep. Steve Shurtleff (D) asked members to join him in voting against HCR4 because JBS and special interest groups opposed it. Let that sink in. Rep. Shurtleff agreed with JBS and special interest groups instead of the 69% of New Hampshirites that favor HCR4 to propose a Term Limits Amendment for Congress!

This is the same JBS that claimed the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s was a communist plot.

The same JBS that tried to impeach Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren because the Court ruled state laws separating children based on race were unconstitutional in Brown v Board of Education.

The same JBS whose founder, Robert Welch, stated that Dwight Eisenhower was a “dedicated, conscious agent of the Communist conspiracy” in his book The Politician, whose leader, John McManus, claimed that Presidents Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter were communist lackeys, and whose CEO, Art Thompson, claimed that Thomas Jefferson was a traitor to the United States.

Conspiratorial fear was on sale, and the members were buying. I’m sure some members voted against HCR4 because they prefer to keep things as they are in Congress and don’t believe we need term limits. So, take your pick; Fear of using the Constitution or maintaining the Status Quo. Regardless of the reason, the outcome is the same; the people lose again while special interest groups and entrenched politicians in Congress win.

Something we are all getting very accustomed to these days.

Congratulations.

 

Kenn Quinn is the Regional Director, U.S. Term Limits

 

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I am old enough to remember when the environmental tree-huggers of the 70s were all about saving the whales. Save the Whales was founded in 1977 but celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2020. Math was not the strong suit of the early climate watchers and saviors of Mother Earth.

These folks are at a fork in the road for their lifelong cause, and John Kerry and Al Gore are not taking their calls for guidance. All and John are still wondering why the polar ice caps did not melt away in 2014 as they had guaranteed. The green movement wanted the fossil fuel industry destroyed and replaced with solar panels and windmills. They have watched in delight as beautiful ocean views in New York and New Jersey was eradicated by the massive fins of windmill farms that now crowd the horizon. They were so proud of their accomplishment until they looked to the beach as the waves came crashing in. Those waves carried the dead carcasses of whales and dolphins, victims of the beautiful windmills. Oops! Such a beautiful plan. Even Greta Thunberg smiled and approved. Where did we go wrong? Let’s review. These folks are the same who could not figure out their 40th anniversary. Ideologues, yes, but not too bright.

The environmentalists have virtually shut down the lobster industry in Maine. The issue at hand is the equipment that lobstermen use, and have used for generations, is considered deadly for whales, and we must save the whales at any expense to humans. Decades of data have been reviewed to ascertain the damage done to our ocean mammals. We will have to dig deeper as there are no deaths, none, zero, nada, but it must be a threat, and we need to shut down these nasty guys in yellow overalls working hard to make a living.

It is not just the lobstermen hurt by the regulations placed on them by these “Greenies” who have never put in a hard day’s work in their lifetime. They also impact seafood wholesalers, truckers, restaurants, and grocery/seafood shops. Finally, these regulations are depriving lobsters from or driving the price beyond the reach of many lobster lovers worldwide. Sadly, there is no data to initiate or substantiate these regulations.

On the flip side of environmental initiatives is the damage to sea life, especially sea mammals, by constructing and operating the massive wind farms built off-shore from Maine to New Jersey. Whales and dolphins have been washing up on shore, allegedly disoriented by sounds emanating from these windmills. These mammals use sound waves to navigate, and these foreign sounds created by the wind farms are causing these mammals to beach and die.

Over 300 whales have been killed in the northeast waters since 2017. Dolphin deaths are rising from the Northeast to the Gulf of Mexico. Many are blamed on disease, but the Northeast spike coincides with the increase in wind farms. Environmentalists are flocking to defend the wind farms, but unfortunately, the same number is hell-bent on destroying the Northeast lobster industry. Sadly, this shows a lack of concern with data or facts from a group of people who claim to be fact-driven. Hopefully, there will be more research done into wind farm damage and relief for the lobstering industry.

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This is a freakingly great concept!  If you can’t spend for everything, try PRIORITIZING the spending.

Authorized and even appropriated spending isn’t “the public debt.” For constitutional purposes, promised benefits from Social Security, Medicare and other entitlements aren’t even property, as the Supreme Court held in Flemming v. Nestor (1960), and Congress has as much authority to reduce them as to increase them. When lawmakers were drafting the 14th Amendment, they revised Section 4’s language to replace the term “obligations” with “debts.” If the Treasury ran out of money, the constitutional obligation to pay bondholders would trump all statutory obligations to spend.

“NO, No, no!” is what we hear from Democrats (pretty much all of them) and not a small number of fallow Republicans (The Stupid Party) who are He**bent on continuing to self-bash the Republican reputation (see how I did that, Ronnie Abbot??).  Every Government dollar is sacred but only gets thrice blessed once it is spent on their priorities.

Which to say on all of their agenda items. NO program can be cut; no dollar can go unspent, and none of their activist’s supporters cannot go unenriched.

Government can NEVER be diminished, and that’s the reason their only argument is, “You’ll ruin the Faith and Credit of the US in the world if you don’t increase the Debt Ceiling!”.  Never, EVER will you hear them say, “OK, everything and everybody in Govt gets a 5% haircut (financially).  All they want to do is keep increasing the spending because Big Government must always be in the process of becoming BIGGER Government – so much the better in becoming their end game – where we are all dependent on the State and they will have achieved “equity” -> no one can be better than anyone else in ANYTHING (Harrison Bergeron, anyone?).

And as last century’s history taught us, that ends up in Shared Misery unless you are at the top of the heap of those who HAVE to control that “equity” (which is definitely NOT Equality).

Reasonable people, NORMAL people, FAMILY people sitting around the kitchen table when the pink slip arrives (or pink email or tweet – that’s PROGRESS?) and the money in stops, decide to prioritize. They decide what’s important: mortgage, electricity, heat for the house, car payment, food, clothes, and meds for the kids. Other stuff falls down from that. Some things fall out of the checkbook/debit/credit card spending flow after that – theaters, dining out, and other non-essentials.

At NO time, however, will those in Government do that.  Biden just put in a $7 Trillion annual budget and announced that everything is needed, including, and very importantly, not telling people that it doubles the size of the Federal Government spending.  There is no prioritization process.

You see, it is ALWAYS their money to be spent, and nary a thought that it was ours first (or now third as well as we will have to pay back the borrowed money + the interest on that borrowed money).

So who is at fault, the root cause?

We are – or, at least, some of us. Rather “them” as if I was in charge, I’d be looking at every program that has even the tiniest whiff of Stupidity wafting up from it, or one that can’t be traced back to the Federal Government’s Constitutional Powers, or one that should be offloaded back to the States, or that it belongs to the private sector.

And let the chips fall where they may. Besides, during my time in local government, I ALWAYS said that it was never our money.

After all, that’s the reasonable and Normal thing to do.

 

(H/T: Instapundit)

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By voting for HB 10 you have not only betrayed the Republican Party, you have betrayed a basic tenet of Americanism. By joining with the Democrats to defeat the Parent Bill of Rights bill, you have joined with the Marxist who seek to destroy everything decent about our nation.

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For you are promoting more and more government that always takes away freedom and spends the taxpayers money to create more controls.

Have you ever taken the time to read the NH or the US Constitution that you are all sworn to obey? By the way you vote on this bill, one would never know that you have.

Check out the Constitutions of NH’s, Bill of Rights, Art.] 2-b. [Right of Privacy.] An individual’s right to live free from governmental intrusion in private or personal information is natural, essential, and inherent,” December 5, 2018.

Both State and Federal Constitutions limit the government not the people. Compare your vote with our American birthing documents and then with these words from section II of Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto written in 1848:

Abolition [Aufhebung] of the family! Even the most radical flare up at this infamous proposal of the Communists.

On what foundation is the present family, the bourgeois family, based? On capital, on private gain. In its completely developed form, this family exists only among the bourgeoisie. But this state of things finds its complement in the practical absence of the family among the proletarians, and in public prostitution.

The bourgeois family will vanish as a matter of course when its complement vanishes, and both will vanish with the vanishing of capital.

Do you charge us with wanting to stop the exploitation of children by their parents? To this crime we plead guilty.

Don’t you think your vote is more in line with President Biden plus all the Department of Education/UNESCO bureaucratic mandates than it is with the NH or the US Constitutions? It is time you voted for limited government as your constitutional authorization specifies instead of the path you have chosen that leads to 100% total government and the loss of liberty. You should take into consideration that there are fortunately a lot more parents than there are unaccountable bureaucrats. And they vote! Parental constituents who desire to protect their children should demand an explanation.

Sincerely & Respectfully

Russ Payne

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