New England got a severe blast of arctic air this weekend. Wind chills dragged already cold temps into dangerous territory. It got so cold that parts of Maine expected temperatures not reached in forty years.

NPRs headline reads, “Parts of Maine are experiencing the coldest temperatures in 40 years.”

 

Wicked cold in New England. Temperatures fell last night between 10 to 20 degrees below zero in much of Maine. Strong winds made it feel much colder. As Murray Carpenter reports from Maine Public Radio, the weather is leading to cancellations and warnings.

The National Weather Service was predicting some of the coldest windchill temperatures in decades for much of Maine.

 

I had to click on that headline because it’s NPR. National Pravda Radio, Nancy Pelosi Radio, pick your favorite; it’s all the same. Whenever possible, fit the approved narrative into the reporting but not this time. The conversation was around cold cancelations or outdoor activities delayed by the risk these temps present. And not even a tittle about your SUV being to blame.

So I looked around, and they had a second story titled, “Arctic chill brings record low temperatures to the Northeast.”

 

In New Hampshire, the peak of Mount Washington on Friday night hit minus 47 degrees Fahrenheit, tying with the lowest temperature ever recorded at the station atop the state’s highest mountain — known for its extreme weather — first set in 1934, a year after recordings began, according to the Mount Washington Observatory.

The Mount Washington summit’s windchill — how cold the temperature feels — recorded an all-time record low of minus 108 degrees, said the National Weather Service. The reading was so extreme, the agency said, that it created errors in its software. The National Weather Service’s office in Maine said the windchill temperature sets a U.S. record.

 

There is no mention of irresponsible western lifestyles in this piece, which has me wondering. Did I miss a memo? Did someone at NPR decide that tying extreme cold to their warming lies made them look like dopes?

Getting wet is a sign of dryness!

New Hampshire’s Local Chapter, NHPR, had several stories parroting the same. Record cold, stay inside, locations of warming centers for the “unhoused” (that’s a new one for me), and no Climate Cult hijinks.

I’m not holding my breath, but we give credit where due. Thank you for focusing on the story and the impacts and the resources and leaving your bankrupting little fake-green crusade out of it.

As for ‘Unhoused?” I’m picturing a gargantuan peeling the roof off a home, picking the people out, and setting them in some downtown tent city (instead of eating them as they did in the movie).

No house for you. Talk about sanitizing a problem.

 

 

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Cannon Mountain is at it again – now demanding $25 million from state taxpayers to replace a part-time ski lift that is only halfway through its engineered life (the tramway).

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Why is a “self-funded” state-owned ski area looking to take more money from taxpayers for such an egregious project? And how are they going to treat this new lift, considering they’ve already had three major emergency lift repairs in the past year from lack of maintenance?

Ask the following “Republican” state senators, who are sponsoring SB 55, why our tax dollars should be funding this wasteful project:
Gendreau (R), Jeb Bradley (R), Lang (R), Avard (R), Carson (R),

SB 55 goes before the Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday afternoon.  You can register your opinion here:  https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/remotecommittee/senate.aspx

And e-mail the committee here:  James.Gray@leg.state.nh.us; Daniel.Innis@leg.state.nh.us; Regina.Birdsell@leg.state.nh.us; Howard.Pearl@leg.state.nh.us; Jeb.Bradley@leg.state.nh.us; Cindy.Rosenwald@leg.state.nh.us; Lou.Dallesandro@leg.state.nh.us; debra.martone@leg.state.nh.us

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There aren’t enough rare earth metals for the New World Order, generation capacity, infrastructure, money to pay for it, or time to build it if we could. So, are New Hampshire Democrats stooges of villains?

Related: California Bureaucrats to Create NH State Laws?

House Bill 92 requires adopting the “innovative vehicle emissions standards pursuant to section 177 of the federal Clean Air Act.”

Innovative?

In the name of emissions reductions, California demands unique blends of motor fuels. It requires specific vehicle modifications on its roads; if yours doesn’t have them, you can’t drive it there. And, famously, it has banned all combustion vehicles by 2035, an announcement right after which it had to ask citizens not to charge their EVs because there wasn’t enough electricity.

HB92 would tie New Hampshire to a room full of unelected bureaucrats over 3000 miles away based on rules that can’t be met and are worse for the environment than doing nothing.

The first-order problem is that they deprive you of choice, but there are so many other problems we can’t ignore. You’re not cutting emissions. You are offshoring them. EVs are too expensive. Electricity is too expensive. And we’ll need a lot more power we don’t and won’t have (hello rationing!), 

There aren’t enough rare earth metals to build the vehicles and infrastructure and replace them as they wear out. The process of mining is not just emissions-heavy. There are significant human rights and human trafficking issues. Manufacturing batteries, vehicles, grid upgrades, and charging infrastructure is emissions-heavy.

We can ignore all that at our peril, but you can’t disregard this. There is not enough time or material to achieve the stated goal. Period. California’s Clean Air standard as it applies to vehicles in a fantasy. Pursuing it would require tradeoffs that would redirect resources to such a degree as to create significant economic hardships through price hikes, including the cost of electricity to run homes and businesses, if the electricity is even available.

Scarcity is part and parcel of this vision.

It will drive up the cost of vehicles, and vehicle ownership, including operating and repair costs, all for nothing. Literally nothing. EVs are not greener. They create an increased risk of fire, producing significant toxic emissions and burning hot such that fire departments need to use thousands of gallons of water to contain them until they burn out.

Assuming there is any electricity to charge them. Energy will also be scarce, not just for charging vehicles or running the economy. You might not have enough to keep the lights on or heat your homes in winter.

If that doesn’t get you, we can step back to giving California Bureaucrats power to regulate what happens in New Hampshire. I can see Democrats loving that, but does anyone else?

 

 

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July 1990 
The young Urologist just finished his residency and there was new hope for men with prostate cancer. A protein referred to as prostate-specific antigen (PSA) had been identified and seemed to be a useful screening test to look for early prostate cancer.

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Curable prostate cancer is most often asymptomatic and a digital rectal exam (very operator dependent} was the only {albeit a poor one} available screening tool. The diagnosis numbers had not changed for many decades, and approximately 70% of all prostate cancer cases were incurable at the time of their discovery.

During the next 18 years, the backload of undiagnosed prostate cancer was detected and treated. The system came into a new steady state with the death rate of prostate cancer declining and almost all new prostate cancers were found at a curable stage. Since many prostate cancers grow slowly and do not impact life expectancy the next issue facing the urologic medical community was figuring out which cancers to treat. Studies from Europe were pointing toward the observation of cancers that did not have aggressive characteristics. Holding invasive treatment, unless over time there were signs of advancing disease. Things were looking very good for the future of American men who were diagnosed with prostate cancer.

2008
The United States Preventive Services Task Force composed of primary care physicians (not all practicing) and government bureaucrats reviewed the medical literature and recommended against PSA screening for men over 75 years of age. Despite the fact that American men were living longer and the old adage that most men died with, rather than of, prostate cancer was being challenged, this went into effect.

2009
The same task force recommended stopping screening mammograms for women under 50 years of age. The outrage from feminist activist groups was immediate. There are a few things a politician will respond to, and angry feminists are at the top of the list {think abortion}. Washington moved quickly and by statute screening mammograms for women under 50 became available. Unfortunately, women do not have a prostate, because if they did, the present prostate cancer resurgence would have undoubtedly been avoided.

2012
The United States Preventive Service Task Force decided to challenge the famous quote attributed to Einstein, that doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different outcome is the definition of insanity, and recommended stopping all PSA screening.

The effect was drastic. Primary care providers stopped ordering PSA and to make things even more challenging they stopped doing routine digital rectal exams. Given early curable prostate cancer has no symptoms and there are no other screening tests for prostate cancer, the stage was set for trouble. And the clock began to tick.

Since no one was looking, the number of new prostate cancer diagnoses dropped precipitously. The government task force beamed with their brilliance.

2018
The government task force did not change its position but softened its rhetoric. Their new recommendation was a PSA could be obtained for a patient between 55 and 70 years of age, only after he discussed the risks and benefits of screening for prostate cancer with his primary care provider. The new recommendation didn’t change much. The patient didn’t get a rectal exam and if they didn’t ask for a PSA, most of them never got one.

2022
Ten years have passed since the task force’s recommendation to stop PSA screening. America’s tank of undiagnosed prostate cancer is starting to overflow. The National Cancer Association came out with its statistics and except for prostate cancer, almost all cancers across America were down. And to make matters worse, newly discovered prostate cancers are being diagnosed at an incurable stage.

To those of us that for the last three decades practiced Urology there was no surprise that a government agency made up of elites had Doubled Down on Dumb and put American men at risk. Einstein was right again and maybe his theory of time relativity is also coming into play because; American prostate cancer detection has moved back to the future. The date might as well be 1985.

Similar to the incompetent members of the US Preventive Task Force who brought about the Prostate cancer fiasco, instead of using competency and merit, President Biden has filled his cabinet with equity-chosen ideologues. In the guise of climate change, equity, and redistribution of wealth(socialism), these unqualified neophytes destroyed America’s energy independence (skyrocketing energy costs), spent trillions of dollars the country does not have, left Americans behind in Afghanistan, opened our borders to 6 million illegal immigrants along with youth killing fentanyl and lit the fires of inflation.

But perhaps the best American Government example of Doubling Down on Dumb and expecting a different outcome is the rising national debt.
The national debt is approaching 32 trillion dollars with a GDP to Debt ratio of 125%. It is generally thought when this ratio goes above 77% the country involved will have difficulty maintaining healthy growth or an adequate GDP. Just like the US Preventive Task Force’s incompetence that has resulted in a pernicious prostate cancer bubble, our entire Government (and many economists) has bought into the fallacious concept that because the American dollar is the world’s reserve currency, the United States can borrow, print and spend unlimited amounts of money.

These are the same Elite Ideologues who ignored the basic economic rules of inflation and flooded the world with too many newly printed dollars chasing too few goods, awakening the corrosive effects of inflation. The Federal Reserve has increased interest rates in hopes of bringing inflation down to less than 2%. But if inflation is not tamed quickly, over the next several years the US Government is going to have to refinance its debt at higher interest rates. The resulting annual interest payment on the National debt will approach 1 trillion dollars, and in effect, America will be insolvent. All the while China, Russia, India, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and others plot ways to end the American dollar’s dominance as the world’s currency.

The economic tsunami of this developing bubble is now starting to show signs of building. Just like the resurgence of Prostate cancer, it is not a question of if, but when the deficit bubble will pop.

2023
The future looks bleak, as America still has to contend with a President and US Senate who continue to Double Down on Dumb, expecting a different outcome, demanding that unworkable and disastrous policies continue to be funded and followed.

But America has been down before and came back stronger and better. We have a glimmer of hope. Republicans now control the House of Representatives and wasteful spending will stop. Real investigations will unearth the truth of Biden family corruption and how big tech and the FBI/DOJ’s involvement tilted the 2020 presidential election. And the SCOTUS will put a stop to affirmative action, and the legality of equity will fall with the decision.

But to fix the rest, America must stop Doubling Down on Dumb!
2024 is coming!!
Vote!!!!

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From WMUR: “Milford [NH] students are allowed to use whichever bathroom, locker room or participate on whichever sports team is in accordance with the gender identity they consistently assert at school, according to Christi Michaud, superintendent of Milford School District. But some parents are taking issue with that.”

My husband wrote about a mother who is taking issue with the abuse that her daughter and her friends experienced at Milford Middle School. From her testimony on bill HB396:

Our young girls were exposed in the locker room when this transgender individual and their friends, some of who also identify as animals, came in and watched them inappropriately, then over the following weeks, continued to bully them and make rude comments about their bodies in retaliation for these victims making a complaint to the school’s administration.

The same transgender student was urinating in the girls’ bathroom with the stall door open when my daughter and her friend entered the bathroom, but their complaints to the guidance office were brushed off.

Related: Gender-Fluid Boy and Furry Friends Terrorize Girls at Middle School

The Milford School Board is meeting Monday at 7 pm at Milford High School to discuss the district’s transgender bathroom policy and whether to reinstate student restroom and locker room use according to biological sex. The pro-trans crowd is holding a protest in support of continuing to allow boys to run amok in the girls’ facilities. We will be counter-protesting them.

Please join us Monday, February 6 from 6 to 7 pm outside Milford High School, 100 West St, Milford, NH in support of girls’ safety and privacy. We will have signs for you to hold or bring your own.

 

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If you missed it, the hot new blonde in scaremongering medicine might be Valley Fever. She’s raised her pretty little headline, flipped her hair back, and asked you to check her out, but we’ve got bigger problems.

Connecticut River Valley Fever.

Valley Fever is caused by a fungus “that lives in the soil and is breathed in dusty situations, whether it’s a dust storm or around construction or excavation.” It is more common in California and Arizona, and only “5% to 10% of people who get Valley fever will develop serious or long-term lung problems.”

So why have they brought it up? Philadelphia and Kansas City are playing a game in Arizona in a week, and, well?

 

“If you’re just traveling to the airport and to the hotel and to the Super Bowl, you’re probably going to be fine,” Perkins said. “If you’re out hiking in the desert, you might want to give some consideration to your risk for development of Valley fever.”

Mask sales must be slipping.

Meanwhile, closer to my home, we have a far more severe infection that runs 24/7/365. I’ll call it Connecticut River Valley Fever. Vermont is a nasty shade of blue, and it leaks. The septage creeps across the Connecticut river and infects neighboring towns on the New Hampshire side of the valley. They, in turn, poison the wells of neighboring towns, spreading the diseases of liberalism across New Hampshire.

Granite Stater’s make jokes about people moving up from Massachusetts, which has been a problem for decades, but this is worse. And the only cure for it is the boot of tyranny.

We’ve seen our fair share of boots in recent years, which has inspired the despots to reach for more. The only prophylactic for that is state and local governments that resist the allure of that kind of power, and is anyone reading this convinced we’ve got that?

I’m not.

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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 121 hearings in the House, we are recommending support of 31 and opposition of 16 with 11 being of interest.
Of the 39 hearings in the Senate, we are recommending support of 0 and opposition of 0 with 1 being of interest.

Position	Bill	Title	Committee	Day	Time	Room	State Analysis
Oppose	HB134	extending the public employees labor relations act to employees of the general court and relative to the duties of the joint committee on legislative facilities.	Legislative Administration	Mon 2/6	1:00 PM	LOB Room 301-303	This bill establishes the legislature as a public employer under the public employee labor relations act and establishes procedures for collective bargaining by nonpartisan employees.
Support	HB381	relative to the system benefits charge.	Science, Technology and Energy	Mon 2/6	9:30 AM	LOB Room 302-304	This bill provides that system benefits charge and local distribution adjustment charge funding levels may only be increased by passage of legislation or authorization by the fiscal committee of the general court.
Support	HB257	relative to telephone carrier of last resort obligations.	Science, Technology and Energy	Mon 2/6	2:30 PM	LOB Room 302-304	This bill allows for an incumbent telephone utility to be relieved of its carrier of last resort obligations.
Support	HB491	relative to prohibiting the use of the prone restraint for minors.	Children and Family Law	Tue 2/7	11:00 AM	LOB Room 206-208	This bill prohibits the use of prone restraint on a child in a school or treatment facility.
Support	HB490	relative to modifying the definition of neglect.	Children and Family Law	Tue 2/7	2:00 PM	LOB Room 206-208	This bill amends the definition of neglected child to exclude a child permitted to engage in certain independent activities.
Oppose	SB143	establishing a scholarship fund for certain small businesses applying for loans from the capital access program administered by the New Hampshire business finance authority.	Commerce	Tue 2/7	9:00 AM	SH Room 100	This bill establishes a scholarship fund in the capital access program of the business finance authority to cover entry costs for socially and/or economically disadvantaged individual small business owners applying for loans from the program.
Oppose	SB196	establishing a minimum amount of uninsured motorist coverage required for vehicles operating as part of transportation network companies in New Hampshire.	Commerce	Tue 2/7	9:45 AM	SH Room 100	This bill establishes a set minimum amount of coverage required for vehicles operating as part of a transportation network company in New Hampshire.
Oppose	SB144	relative to the state minimum hourly rate.	Commerce	Tue 2/7	10:00 AM	SH Room 100	This bill provides for increases in the minimum hourly rate.
Of Interest	HB648	relative to establishing a state bank of New Hampshire.	Commerce and Consumer Affairs	Tue 2/7	11:00 AM	LOB Room 210-211	This bill establishes a state bank of New Hampshire.
Oppose	SB214	establishing a department of early childhood education and relative to a pre-kindergarten pilot program.	Education	Tue 2/7	9:30 AM	LOB Room 101	This bill establishes an executive branch department of early childhood education. The bill also establishes the authority for the department to design, create, and administer a 3-year high quality, community-based, mixed delivery public pre-kindergarten pilot program.
Of Interest	HB505	relative to comprehensive mental health education in schools.	Education	Tue 2/7	11:15 AM	LOB Room 205-207	This bill adds comprehensive mental health education to the public school health education curriculum.
Support	HB539	relative to vaccination clinics at schools.	Education	Tue 2/7	1:45 PM	LOB Room 205-207	This bill prohibits a public elementary or secondary school from conducting a vaccination clinic during school hours.
Of Interest	HB179	relative to the definition of electioneering.	Election Law	Tue 2/7	2:00 PM	LOB Room 306-308	This bill amends the definition of “electioneering” to remove the prohibition against wearing clothing or paraphernalia that a reasonable person would believe explicitly advocates for or against any candidate, political party, or measure being voted.
Oppose	SB132	prohibiting cities and towns from adopting sanctuary policies.	Election Law and Municipal Affairs	Tue 2/7	9:45 AM	LOB Room 103	This bill prohibits any state or local government entity from establishing sanctuary policies.
Of Interest	SB155	relative to the adoption of school administrative unit budgets.	Election Law and Municipal Affairs	Tue 2/7	10:00 AM	LOB Room 103	This bill revises the procedure for the adoption of the annual budget for school administrative units and repeals the alternative budget adoption procedure.
Oppose	SB55	making an appropriation for the Cannon Mountain tramway.	Finance	Tue 2/7	1:00 PM	SH Room 103	This bill appropriates $25 million for the Cannon Mountain tramway from the fiscal year 2023 surplus.
Of Interest	HB558	relative to electric microgrids and electric grid resiliency.	Science, Technology and Energy	Tue 2/7	10:00 AM	LOB Room 302-304	This bill establishes the authority for and procedures for adoption of electric microgrids.
Of Interest	HB605	relative to solar generation under the renewable portfolio standards.	Science, Technology and Energy	Tue 2/7	10:30 AM	LOB Room 302-304	This bill revises the minimum percentages for solar electrical generation included in the renewable portfolio standards for 2024 through 2050 and after.
Of Interest	HB616	relative to administration of the New Hampshire’s renewable portfolio standard.	Science, Technology and Energy	Tue 2/7	2:30 PM	LOB Room 302-304	This bill eliminates the use of the class definitions for renewable electrical generation for compliance with the renewable portfolio standard requirements, and adds Generation IV or later nuclear energy systems as a new class for the renewable energy portfolio standard.
Support	HB370	relative to after market window tinting on motor vehicles for drivers with medical conditions.	Transportation	Tue 2/7	9:30 AM	LOB Room 201-203	This bill authorizes persons with medical conditions to apply for a special permit to waive the prohibition on automobile after market window tinting on the left and right side of the driver.
Support	HB537	permitting vehicles to have front windshield tinting.	Transportation	Tue 2/7	10:00 AM	LOB Room 201-203	This bill removes the prohibition on front windshield tinted glass.
Oppose	HB356	relative to the application of motor vehicle laws to bicycles.	Transportation	Tue 2/7	10:30 AM	LOB Room 201-203	This bill would require bicycles to have 4″ diameter mirrors on each side of the handlebars while operating on public ways with other motor vehicles.
Of Interest	HB198	modifying the new resident drivers’ license transfer requirement.	Transportation	Tue 2/7	1:30 PM	LOB Room 201-203	This bill would require nonresident drivers who establish residency in New Hampshire to notify the department of safety if they then cease to become residents within 60 days, or if their out of state driver’s license expires or is relinquished.
Support	HB280	relative to the sale of freeze-dried food.	Commerce and Consumer Affairs	Wed 2/8	1:45 PM	LOB Room 302-304	This bill excludes freeze dried fruits and vegetables from the definition of potentially hazardous food.
Of Interest	HB645	relative to the establishment of decentralized autonomous organizations as legal entities within the state.	Commerce and Consumer Affairs	Wed 2/8	2:15 PM	LOB Room 302-304	This bill establishes decentralized autonomous organizations within the state.
Oppose	HB32	relative to possession or discharge of a firearm in a safe school zone.	Criminal Justice and Public Safety	Wed 2/8	9:00 AM	SH Room Reps Hall	This bill adds a criminal offense for the possession or discharge of a firearm in a safe school zone.
Oppose	HB59	requiring a background check prior to any commercial firearm sale.	Criminal Justice and Public Safety	Wed 2/8	9:45 AM	SH Room Reps Hall	This bill requires commercial firearms sales or transfers in this state to be subject to a criminal background check and provides a criminal penalty for a violation. The bill excludes private, noncommercial sales or transfers between individuals, provided neither individual is prohibited from owning or possessing a firearm under state or federal law.
Oppose	HB76	imposing a waiting period between the purchase and delivery of a firearm.	Criminal Justice and Public Safety	Wed 2/8	10:30 AM	SH Room Reps Hall	This bill establishes a waiting period for the delivery of a firearm.
Oppose	HB78	repealing an act prohibiting the state from enforcing any federal statute, regulation, or Presidential Executive Order that restricts or regulates the right of the people to keep or bear arms.	Criminal Justice and Public Safety	Wed 2/8	11:15 AM	SH Room Reps Hall	This bill repeals the prohibition on the state from enforcing any federal statute, regulation, or Presidential Executive Order that restricts or regulates the right of the people to keep and bear arms.
Oppose	HB106	relative to extreme risk protection orders.	Criminal Justice and Public Safety	Wed 2/8	1:00 PM	SH Room Reps Hall	This bill establishes a procedure for issuing extreme risk protection orders to protect against persons who pose an immediate risk of harm to themselves or others.
Oppose	HB351	relative to the negligent storage of firearms and relative to firearm safety devices.	Criminal Justice and Public Safety	Wed 2/8	1:45 PM	SH Room Reps Hall	This bill requires a locking safety device accompany all private and commercial firearms transactions and expands the criminal penalties for negligent storage of firearms.
Oppose	HB444	prohibiting possession of a firearm at a polling place.	Criminal Justice and Public Safety	Wed 2/8	2:30 PM	SH Room Reps Hall	This bill prohibits possessing a firearm at a polling place and includes certain exceptions.
Support	HB474	relative to enforcement of federal firearms laws and establishing penalties.	Criminal Justice and Public Safety	Wed 2/8	3:15 PM	SH Room Reps Hall	This bill prohibits the enforcement of any federal law or rule that might impair a person’s natural right to firearm ownership and natural right to self-defense and requires any public official who attempts to enforce such a federal law to be terminated from their position.
Oppose	HB623	establishing a teacher candidate loan forgiveness program.	Education	Wed 2/8	10:45 AM	LOB Room 205-207	This bill establishes a teacher candidate loan forgiveness program administered by the university system for new teachers in critical teacher shortage areas of the state.
Support	HB563	relative to the adoption of school administrative unit budgets.	Education	Wed 2/8	11:15 AM	LOB Room 205-207	This bill revises the procedure for the adoption of the annual budget for school administrative units and repeals the alternative budget adoption procedure.
Of Interest	HB354	relative to chartered public school eligibility for state school building aid.	Education	Wed 2/8	1:45 PM	LOB Room 205-207	This bill adds chartered public schools to the procedures for consideration, approval, plan requirements, and determination of grants for school building aid.
Support	HB394	relative to the organization of cooperative school boards.	Education	Wed 2/8	2:30 PM	LOB Room 205-207	This bill requires that officers of cooperative school boards and the locations of meetings of the board rotate among the members and their districts.
Support	HB632	relative to the cooperative school district budget committee.	Education	Wed 2/8	3:00 PM	LOB Room 205-207	This bill requires that the chairperson of the cooperative school district budget committee shall not be from the same pre-existing district in consecutive years.
Of Interest	SB1	(New Title) relative to the closing of the Sununu youth services center and establishing a commission to study the public safety of the secured youth development center and surrounding communities.	Finance	Wed 2/8	10:00 AM	LOB Room 210-211	This bill requires the closure of the Sununu youth services center, and sets out parameters for the contract for a replacement facility. The bill also establishes a commission to study the public safety of the youth development center and surrounding communities.
Oppose	SB175	relative to Medicaid coverage for mothers.	Health and Human Services	Wed 2/8	9:45 AM	LOB Room 101	This bill: 1. Mandates that the department of health and human services extend Medicaid coverage for pregnant women to 12 months postpartum, to cover doula services, to cover lactation services, and to cover donor breast milk for eligible infants, and creates appropriations thereof. 2. Establishes minimum workplace supports for nursing mothers. 3. Appropriates money to the department of health and human services to support healthy outcomes for caregivers and children. 4. Establishes a commission to study home visiting programs for all parents of newborns and young children. 5. Mandates the department of health and human services establish a network of early childhood behavioral health supports.
Support	HB262	relative to laboratory testing by licensed naturopaths	Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs	Wed 2/8	9:00 AM	LOB Room 210-211	This bill adds naturopathic doctors to the definition of “licensed medical practitioner” for health facilities authorized for laboratory testing.
Support	HB477	to prohibit municipal inspections of owner-occupied units of multi-unit housing.	Municipal and County Government	Wed 2/8	10:50 AM	LOB Room 301-303	This bill prohibits municipal inspections of owner-occupied units within residential structures of 4 units or less.
Oppose	HB467	relative to public playground accessibility.	Municipal and County Government	Wed 2/8	12:00 PM	LOB Room 301-303	This bill requires public playgrounds in use on or after January 1, 2024 to have solid rubber or rubber composite surfacing for accessibility to the playground and each piece of equipment.
Support	HB423	relative to accessory dwelling unit uses allowed by right.	Municipal and County Government	Wed 2/8	1:45 PM	LOB Room 301-303	This bill increases the number of accessory dwelling units allowed by right from one to 2, changes the definition of attached unit, and increases the maximum square footage from 750 to 1,000. It also gives towns the right to require one unit to meet the definition for workforce housing.
Support	HB135	prohibiting no-knock warrants.	Criminal Justice and Public Safety	Thu 2/9	9:30 AM	LOB Room 202-204	This bill prohibits a law enforcement officer from seeking, executing, or participating in the execution of a no-knock search warrant.
Support	HB481	relative to arrest warrants and search warrants.	Criminal Justice and Public Safety	Thu 2/9	1:00 PM	LOB Room 202-204	This bill requires that the state disclose any prior evidence used to obtain either an arrest warrant or a search warrant, and whether a prior arrest or search warrant was denied based on the evidence being submitted in requesting a new arrest or search warrant.
Support	HB593	relative to the forfeiture of assets in connection with a drug offense.	Criminal Justice and Public Safety	Thu 2/9	2:30 PM	LOB Room 202-204	This bill establishes a procedure for the forfeiture of items used in connection with a drug offense.
Support	HB624	relative to federal immigration checkpoints.	Criminal Justice and Public Safety	Thu 2/9	3:30 PM	LOB Room 202-204	This bill requires a law enforcement agency to provide public notice of an immigration checkpoint.
Of Interest	HB653	prohibiting personal recognizance bail for violent crimes.	Criminal Justice and Public Safety	Thu 2/9	4:00 PM	LOB Room 202-204	This bill lists certain offenses which, if committed by the defendant, create a presumption that a defendant is a danger to the public and shall be detained for up to 36 hours. The bill also provides that a person who commits an offense while on bail shall be detained without bail pending a hearing before a judge.
Oppose	HB532	relative to the licensure and regulation of music therapists.	Executive Departments and Administration	Thu 2/9	10:30 AM	LOB Room 306-308	This bill establishes the licensure and regulation of music therapists under the allied health professionals.
Support	HB507	relative to unauthorized practice in occupational and professional licensing and certification.	Executive Departments and Administration	Thu 2/9	11:15 AM	LOB Room 306-308	This bill clarifies that penalties for the unlicensed practice of a profession regulated under the office of professional licensure and certification do not apply so long as the person practicing does not hold themselves out as being licensed or certified and discloses the fact that he or she is not licensed or certified.
Support	HB594	relative to the licensure of out-of-state applicants to boards or commissions organized under the office of professional licensure and certification.	Executive Departments and Administration	Thu 2/9	1:15 PM	LOB Room 306-308	This bill authorizes the office of professional licensure and certification to issue licenses to out-of-state applicants who are licensed in another state, if the other state’s licensing requirements are substantially similar to those in New Hampshire.
Support	HB644	relative to regulating barbers, cosmetologists, and estheticians.	Executive Departments and Administration	Thu 2/9	2:00 PM	LOB Room 306-308	This bill makes changes to the regulation of barbers, cosmetologists, and estheticians.
Support	HB188	relative to the duration of physical therapy.	Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs	Thu 2/9	9:00 AM	LOB Room 201-203	This bill removes the requirement that a physical therapist refer a patient to a health care provider if there is no documented improvement after 25 days of treatment.
Support	HB500	relative to prescribing opioids via telehealth medicine.	Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs	Thu 2/9	10:30 AM	LOB Room 201-203	This bill allows practitioners of telehealth medicine to prescribe opioids.
Support	HB611	relative to eligibility criteria for the therapeutic cannabis program.	Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs	Thu 2/9	1:00 PM	LOB Room 201-203	This bill removes the requirement that severe pain be resistant to other treatment options in order to be considered a qualifying medical condition for therapeutic cannabis.
Support	HB610	expanding the definition of providers who can certify patients of the therapeutic cannabis program.	Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs	Thu 2/9	1:30 PM	LOB Room 201-203	This bill expands the definition of provider under the therapeutic cannabis program to include any individual licensed in New Hampshire to prescribe drugs to humans who holds an active registration from the United States Drug Enforcement Administration to prescribe controlled substances. The bill also requires, for issuance of a registry identification card to a minor, certification from either a pediatrician or family practice provider.
Support	HB431	permitting qualifying patients and designated caregivers to cultivate cannabis for therapeutic use.	Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs	Thu 2/9	2:00 PM	LOB Room 201-203	This bill permits qualifying patients and designated caregivers to cultivate cannabis for therapeutic use.
Oppose	HB191	relative to voluntarily surrendered firearms.	Criminal Justice and Public Safety	Fri 2/10	9:30 AM	LOB Room 202-204	This bill removes the prohibition on a state agency operating a voluntary firearms “surrender and destroy” program and permits a state agency to destroy voluntarily surrendered firearms.
Support	HB305	relative to exceptions for violations related to Presidential Executive Orders governing the keeping or bearing of arms.	Criminal Justice and Public Safety	Fri 2/10	10:15 AM	LOB Room 202-204	This bill limits the ability of state, local, or county law enforcement officials to aid federal officials in the investigation of criminal violations for federal firearms laws to cases where the state criminal violation is a class A felony only.
Support	HB651	authorizing the department of education and local school districts to contract with transportation network companies to provide school transportation services.	Education	Fri 2/10	9:45 AM	LOB Room 205-207	This bill allows the department of education to contract for buses to transport pupils with transportation network companies.
Support	HB275	relative to schools approved for a school tuition program by a school board.	Education	Fri 2/10	11:15 AM	LOB Room 205-207	This bill allows a pupil’s parents to pay the difference between a receiving school tuition cost and the sending district tuition cap in a school tuition program.
Oppose	HB640	relative to cost recovery for vocational rehabilitation programs.	Education	Fri 2/10	12:45 PM	LOB Room 205-207	This bill repeals the state’s right to recover the cost of vocational rehabilitation services from an individual who receives a third party settlement or benefit award.
Oppose	HB628	requiring certain non-public schools or education service providers that accept public funds to perform background checks on all employees and volunteers.	Education	Fri 2/10	1:15 PM	LOB Room 205-207	This bill requires nonpublic schools and education service providers that accept public funds to comply with requirements for criminal history background checks for employees and volunteers.
Support	HB427	relative to public comment and inquiry during school board meetings.	Education	Fri 2/10	2:00 PM	LOB Room 205-207	This bill establishes requirements for public meetings held by a school board to include a designated time period for questions from the public and answers from the board. The bill also allows an attendee of a meeting of the school board to demand which New Hampshire statute or administrative rule gives the school board the authority described in a school policy or operational procedure.
Oppose	HB629	establishing a student bill of rights.	Education	Fri 2/10	2:45 PM	LOB Room 205-207	This bill establishes a student bill of rights.

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Today I would usually publish a Sunday Spotlight, but what is happening in the sky over our mainland is too important not to address today.

I always got a kick out of ordering Chinese take-out. No matter what you ordered or the quantity, it will always be ready in 10 minutes. Egg Rolls, Steak Teriyaki, Chicken Fried Rice…..10 minutes Shrimp with Lobster Sauce, Chicken teriyaki, Beef Fried Rice….10 Minutes. Joe and Hunter Biden on a silver platter…10 minutes. The variety of your choices does not matter. It will all be ready in 10 minutes. The Chinese own our President, and what will he not allow the People’s Republic of China to do to America and Americans? Covid, Fentanyl, theft of intellectual property, and now a surveillance balloon traveling at will over our mainland, and what is Joe Biden doing? Eating popcorn and watching old movies in Delaware with Dr. Jill. Pathetic.

This floating airship is not a weather balloon but a surveillance device. In actuality, it’s a “trial” balloon. China is testing American leadership to see how far we can be provoked before we react. We have known about it for months. It is a violation of our air space and sovereignty. It violates international law. Yet the Pentagon and Administration claim it is not a threat. Are you kidding, or do they think we are all ignorant? They are underestimating the acumen of the American people. The Pentagon admits they do not have knowledge of the equipment on the balloon but that they have neutralized the information-seeking equipment. These two statements cannot both be factual. Again, we are given a story and not the truth.

Air Force Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder, the Pentagon’s press secretary, met with the media on Friday and did his best Karine Jean-Pierre impersonation. We watch this situation unfold as we allow this camera in the sky to traverse our mainland over some of our most sensitive military bases. Why do these people even hold these briefings if they refuse to answer questions? This dodge and deflect is not transparent. It is insulting. And as the day progresses, and these spokespeople need to walk back earlier comments, it shows we are fed a narrative, not the facts. We expect the Chinese to lie to us, but we should insist on our government giving us a straight story. Washington continues to disappoint us. On Saturday, a second balloon was detected over Latin America. It is not ironic that our heartland and Central America are regions where the Chinese have bought land.

It appears that inaction is the plan of our administration to handle this assault by China. We should not be surprised. Inaction is how Biden has dealt with the source of the COVID virus, Fentanyl, the theft of American intellectual property, the inhumane treatment of the Uyghurs, and now a violation of our sovereign airspace. A compromised President, such as Joe Biden, is extremely dangerous to our National Security. When our most significant adversary can run roughshod over our country, our President has violated his most crucial role: protecting the homeland and its people.

Anytime our country has faced a situation that threatens us in any way, the President has gone before the people to answer questions, calm the masses, and explain our mission to rectify. We have gotten nothing from Biden. Joe Biden is a weak, feckless, compromised “leader” of our country, and we will feel his impact for years. America is a pawn in the relationship between the Biden Cartel and China.

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The Democrat Party, it seems, has always had the ability and propensity to exploit crises and catastrophes whenever and wherever they find them.

More than 10 years ago, as Barack Obama’s Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanual flaunted that concept, publicly admitting, “You never let a serious crisis go to waste…It’s an opportunity to do things you’d think you could not do before.”

Later, his long-time friend, Hillary Clinton, echoed his words. And though Joe Biden doesn’t seem to remember much these days, he never forgot the Emanuel Doctrine or its corollary: One man’s misfortune is another man’s opportunity. While more than a million Americans were suffering and dying during the Covid pandemic, Biden called it an “incredible opportunity” to fundamentally transform the country. Biden and the Democrats still see pain and suffering as opportunities to further the Democrat agenda.

On Tuesday Biden is scheduled to deliver his second State of the Union Address. Most Americans know something is not right with the country. A recent Marist poll indicates that 62 percent of Americans believe the union is no longer strong. Other polls show that 71 percent of the country is on the wrong track. But we won’t hear about that from Biden on Tuesday. Instead, his speech will consist mostly of political spin and distortion, flaunting America’s strength and his “successes” over the past two years. He sees success when things go from utterly untenable to simply terrible.

Biden certainly won’t talk about the flood of illegal immigrants invading our country, the anarchy spreading across our cities, the fentanyl poisoning our citizens, or the Chinese surveillance balloons meandering through our skies.

Looking at the invited guests, though, it’s pretty clear that there will be a healthy dose of the Emanuel Doctrine.

There were two human tragedies in recent months that captured the attention of a nation. On January 21st, 11 people were killed and nine others injured during a shooting spree at a Lunar New Year celebration in Monterey Park, CA. The perpetrator left the scene and arrived at a dance studio a few minutes away in Alhambra, brandishing the same weapon. There, he was subdued by an unarmed civilian, Brandon Tsay, who was, of course, celebrated as a hero.

Before that, an incident occurred that had an even greater impact than the Monterey Park shooting. On January 7th, five black Memphis police officers, attempting to arrest a black motorist for no apparent reason, savagely beat him. His name was Tyre Nichols, and soon after, he died of his injuries. Not since the George Floyd case has the nation been so shocked and appalled.

Biden and the Democrats have invited Brandon Tsay and the family of Tyre Nichols to attend the State of the Union Address on Tuesday.

Tsay deserves to be honored and his heroism recognized, but we know Biden won’t stop there. He seizes on every opportunity that comes his way to talk about gun violence in America. He’ll likely use this shooting and those 11 deaths to call for more restrictions on our Second Amendment rights and to further advance his anti-gun agenda.

Like the family members of the Monterey Park massacre, the Nichols family is suffering unimaginable grief. But Democrats see it as nothing more than another opportunity. The question is, how will Biden exploit it? Reasonable people know that race was not an issue in Tyre’s death. Everyone involved was black. Still, incredibly enough, some race-obsessed fanatics have somehow tried to blame “white supremacy.”

No, Biden can’t use this tragedy to promote systemic racism or white supremacy. But he can use it to further demonize our police departments – even though the catastrophic impact of anti-police sentiment is already apparent. Nonetheless, he’ll probably still talk about more restraints on local law enforcement, and may even raise the issue of nationalizing the police.

The Constitution mandates that the president “from time to time give to the Congress information of the state of the Union, and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.” That’s the basis for the annual State of the Union Address. Of course, past presidents have also used that venue to promote their political agendas. But today’s Democrats see it not as an objective report on the state of the Union, but as a propaganda tool, and an opportunity to exploit the despair of fellow citizens.

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In California, a physician who expresses a view on COVID-19 that differs from the one held by the governor of that state is guilty of 'professional misconduct' and is subject to losing his license to practice -- depriving him of the opportunity to make a living, and depriving his patients of the benefit of his training, experience, insight, and wisdom.  

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The City of Nashua has installed office signs that say, “By Appointment Only.” Has the City has eliminated access to records available for immediate inspection? Yes. You have to schedule an appointment, but the City won’t provide an appointment.

Catch-22.

Given these signs posted all over City Hall, does this mean that a Citizen who knocks on the door to speak with someone or schedules an appointment is subject to arrest for trespassing? As Attorney Bolton has stated, are we just citizens out to disrupt the operation of government?

On January 23, 2023, I emailed Dir. Cummings with a request to meet with him or anyone who could provide some answers on the Mohawk Tannery project. The mayor indicated in his personal newsletter, released last week that the project is full-steam ahead. The City has a well-documented history of moving forward rapidly on multi-million dollar projects with little public input.

The Phone number, 589-3020, on the plaque rings to an unanswered and unrecorded line, so you cannot set up an appointment. Just another City game to harass citizens.

On January 27, 2023, I received a response from Gary Perrin. Mr. Perrin’s first sentence in his response is that this is not a “Right-to-Know request (RTK). This is an interesting twofold response. Has the City now decided that basic questions or requests for a meeting are NOT RTK requests?

20230127- Mohawk Tannery Meeting RESP.RTK.2023067.GP

Why did Director Cummings give Gary Perrin, hired into the Right to Know paralegal position with the job title of Records Administrator, this question to respond to if it was NOT an RTK request or a request for a record?

It is not Gary Perrin’s job to answer this.

The request for a meeting was not answered, was logged as 2023-067AS for city tracking, and was formally responded to five days later as if it was an RTK request. This was Dir. Cummings’s responsibility to respond to.

I stopped by City Hall to speak with Mr. Perrin and ask if I could set up an Appointment with Mr. Cummings. He stated that he was only the Records Administrator and could not help me. I asked who could help me, and he wouldn’t respond other than to state it was not “his job”.

I told Mr. Perrin that he did not answer my question in his response for an appointment. He said it was not his job to do that. He explained that my question was not a Right-to-Know request and I agreed with him. I asked him why he responded to it, if it was not his job. Mr. Perrin was silent.

Mr. Perrin explained that Dir. Cummings gave him the email to respond to. I asked him why he didn’t hand it back to Dir. Cummings and inform him that this was not his job, after all, he was vociferously expressing to me that it wasn’t his job. Mr. Perrin was silent. I pointed out to Mr. Perrin the Plaque on the door that says “By Appointment Only.” So who can schedule an appointment? Nobody will give you an appointment or respond to your request. Catch- 22

Dir Cummings, the Mayor and City officials are committing acts of Official Oppression under RSA 643:1 by leading citizens to believe that appointments must be scheduled, establishing an unanswered or recorded phone line, and then never responding to requests for appointments or scheduling an appointment. This has been going on for years.

A public servant, as defined in RSA 640:2, II, is guilty of a misdemeanor if, with a purpose to benefit himself or another or to harm another, he knowingly commits an unauthorized act which purports to be an act of his office; or knowingly refrains from performing a duty imposed on him by law or clearly inherent in the nature of his office.

Mayor Donchess and Mr. Cummings stop wasting our tax dollars and needlessly creating paperwork, purchasing plaques and harassing citizens by establishing “rules of engagement” that are maliciously fictitious and designed to prevent people from understanding what their government is doing.

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Remember Nikki Haley? Governor of South Carolina, who left that gig to be Trump’s United Nations Ambassador, who left that gig after only two years. Well … Nikki is planning to announce on February 15th that she is running for President.

So … it’s time for a nickname for Nikki. Like New Hampshire’s Sun-King Chris Sununu, Nikki was a big supporter of the BLM riots in 2020 … and like the Sun-King she believes that George Floyd should be canonized. So, perhaps, the Sun-Queen … or since she isn’t a sitting Governor perhaps Sun-Princess or Sun-Duchess? Let me know in the comments.

And a few other things about Nikki. In 2011, when she was Governor of Georgia, she was selected by the World Economic Forum as one of its “Young Global Leaders.” She also supports the military-industrial/BlackRock/etc. proxy-war against Russia:

Russia’s war in Ukraine is bigger than just Europe. It's the story of freedom over oppression, democracy over dictatorship, and Putin vs. the West.

— Nikki Haley (@NikkiHaley) March 9, 2022

Should Presidential-candidate-wanna-be Sun-King Sununu be nervous about the Sun-Princess eating into his single-digit support? Which NHGOP “insider”/”consultant”/”operative”/”strategist” will the Sun-Princess choose to guide her coronation? I’m sure whoever gets to cash in on Sun-Princess will be described as a “big get” by the local FakeNews. YAWN.

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Commenter Mike Remski left a humorous comment on my “I’m Agreeing With NH Senator Cindy Rosenwald (D-Nashua)?? Why, Yes I Am” post concerning personal privacy vs the State trying to hoover up data on Moms that had just given birth. Had nothing directly to do with the post’s topic – except for “other questions” that might me asked by a doctor:

First [appointment] with a new Dr. He’s going through his list of questions, asks me “Do you feel safe at home?”

I answer “Yes, because my wife would kill me if I said No”.

It was beautiful. He completely froze for about 7 secs, turned slowly to see me with a huge grin on my face. Took 15 mins to convince him that I was just busting him.

Told my wife and she went to get the cast iron frying pan…..

I laughed – how could you not?

My doctor of almost 40 years retired and was assigned to another doctor in the practice that he had started.  I was wondering if I was going to get that question.

I would have answered with yep – I have a CVN-65 (nuclear USS Enterprise (carrier), an A-10 (“Warthog”, Lightening II, close ground attack jet), an M1296 (Stryker armored personnel carrier) and a  Mark 48 ADCAP (nuclear attack submarine torpedo).

Then let him figure it out that I was mimicking Mike Remski, just differently.

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Joe Biden is again taking bows for results for which he has no impact. He is bragging to America about the 12 million jobs he has created in his first two years. More jobs than any other President in four years

. He doesn’t point out that 10 million of those jobs are the people who lost their jobs due to the Pandemic are returning to work. He points to the unemployment rate down to 3.5% but doesn’t talk about the 750,000 people who have dropped out of the workforce. Put those people back into the calculation and watch that unemployment number balloon.

Inflation is outpacing pay increases, so the breathing room that the President always points to is more of a gasp for air. Food and energy costs are eating up people’s paychecks. Withdrawals from savings accounts and hardship draw from 401K accounts are at a record high.
Retail and energy sectors are announcing huge numbers of planned layoffs as revenues are not meeting expectations, and the IT industry is bracing for a recession.

He was gloating over the low unemployment rates for Blacks and Hispanics. But, again, this does not factor in those who have dropped out of the workplace. Nor does he address the impact of minority employment when these millions of illegal aliens stop sucking on the government’s breast and need to hit the workforce. It is easy to make the picture attractive when you only tell half the story. There is no energy shortage in this White House, as the gaslights burn 24/7. There has always been a question of credibility with our government, but the Biden Administration has resolved that question. If anyone’s lips move in the White House, they lie.

It really is disheartening that we are now cynical of every data point the government supplies us. We have heard about impending mass layoffs for weeks, and then the January job numbers are announced, blowing away expectations. According to the Department of Labor, 517,000 jobs were added in January. These numbers are often modified after being published, and is this another form of gaslighting? Announce positive numbers, and then when nobody is waiting for data, the actual results are published.

What I found more offensive than Biden taking false credit for the positive job numbers and his perception of the economy is his disparaging the state of the economy he inherited in 2021. First, he is formulating a false narrative about the state of the economy he inherited from Trump, and he only tells part of the story. In January 2021, we were still in the grips of the Covid Pandemic. The economy was growing, with January being the first positive growth in four months, and inflation was at a menial 2.2%. He continues, as does his Press Secretary, KJP, to work to convince America that Trump handed Biden an economy in shambles. It is not valid, and other than the unemployment number due to the Pandemic, we were in a good place and on the road to recovery. Our economy didn’t tank until Joe Biden declared war on the petroleum industry and gave us nearly 10% inflation and $5.00 gasoline.

The misinformation from this administration far exceeds any fake Russian misinformation that our media could ever conjure. Biden and his team will vacate the White House at some point, but the damage they are causing will last for years. That will be the Legacy of Scranton Joe. That will be how we remember AmtraK Joe. Hopefully, we can forget Joe Biden. He has.

 

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The thought that immediately came to mind was “When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty.”  Yet, here we are where The People are starting to believe that Government is the largest problem in their lives.

In a new survey conducted in January, Americans said the government/poor leadership is “the most important problem facing this country today.” The second most important problem cited is inflation. In the survey of 1,011 adults, aged 18 and older, Gallup asked, “What do you think is the most important problem facing this country today?”

Overall:

But look at the “Partisanship divide – BOTH Republicans and Democrats are solid on this:

So, Govt it is!  Going back to the quote – how to make that second clause rise in priority?

(H/T:  CNSNews)

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In June 2022, Leavitt’s bakery allowed local high school students to paint a colorful mural above its entryway. Depicting various baked goods and a rising sun, the town politicians of Conway decided that the mural is a ‘sign’ for advertising and not a work of art, and is illegal. In true arbitrary fashion, they insist the mural would be allowed were it smaller, or even if it were above the farm stand next door. Just not where it is on the property of the bakery.

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If Jay Newton is right, why are many workers poor after each minimum wage increase? Why, after about 24 minimum wage increases over 70 years, haven’t we achieved economic nirvana where everyone’s rich and no one’s poor? Minimum wage laws aren’t a panacea; they’re attractive-sounding political programs designed to get votes.

A higher minimum wage makes it harder to get people’s most important job, their first job; the job that starts people toward prosperity.

New Hampshire is creating jobs and increasing wages without a minimum wage increase (see page 4 of the Jan. 25 Laconia Daily Sun). Local starting wages are $14-$16 per hour.

The 2014 Seattle $15-per-hour minimum wage increase helped some, mostly experienced, workers minimally, about $5 a week (here and here). Other workers suffered reduced work hours, were laid off, and/or had their employer-paid benefits cut. Most businesses can’t just absorb increased costs.

Minimum wage increases, without productivity improvements, ripple through the economy, causing inflation that hurts poor people the most (higher skilled workers get increases, businesses raise prices, taxes increase, etc.).

When initially considering minimum wage laws, the Labor Department said that they were “likely to produce undesirable effects upon” the Puerto Rico and Virgin Island economies. If a minimum wage hurts their economies, why not others? Minimum wage laws are politically, not economically, motivated.

During the pandemic, billionaires became richer because government changed how people work and consume (rewarding investors) and shut down businesses providing millions of jobs, especially blue-collar ones.

To help poor Americans, remove the illegal aliens who depress wages, take jobs, and raise their living costs; encourage investment to provide more and better jobs; buy American-made goods; and improve education to improve American workers’ skills.

Don’t fall for the false promises of minimum wage increases.

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Instapundit had these tweets from Michael Shellenberger (not in his Twitter feed anymore) on information from Pew Research on how US Journalists see their jobs vs. how the Public see how they SHOULD be doing it.

There’s a pattern there – and the younger “journalists” will soon find out that if you call yourself a news journalist that is indistinguishable from a political operative, you’ll soon be saying, “want fries with that?” or taunts of “learn to code.” WAIT!  Mcdonald’s is working to robotize ALL of its operations, and the rise of AI bots like ChatGPT is replacing low-level programmers)

 

 

They call themselves NEWS reporters – not opinion writers. And they wonder why the public no longer trusts them to report just News.  We KNOW they are Woke; we KNOW they slant Left, because COLLEGE!

Remember that TV ad for the room freshener that talked about being “Nose Blind”?  Yeah, that – journalists don’t understand they “stink” at their jobs, but they are so in the “room” they can no longer smell their biases.

This:

 

 

We have become segmented by age and smaller and smaller subsections of the population. Those people reading the Huffington Post and (formerly TreeHugger) are the kinds of folks reading the Washington Beacon or the Epoch Times (they may be reading the NY Times). This is similar to the geographical “Grand Sorting” that is happening as people migrate to Red or Blue States.

And it seems to not only be hammering in the biases of their readers and watchers but the Journalists themselves.  It’s the Lefty journalists that are responsible for “misinformation” because they no longer accept the idea of Free Speech and that everyone gets to have an opinion.

 

 

But if you disagree with their monoculture, you are to be persecuted.

 

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Computer Numerical Control (CNC) router machines can be used to produce a wide variety of projects. However, if you are looking for the perfect ministry addition to help grow your business, definitely look into a CNC router machine.

From sign timber, cabinet work timber, distance plastic fabrication, non-ferrous distance essence machining, press timber etc., CNC router machines can offer you a whole other position to grow your business. CNC router machines run on computer numerical control and robotic technology.

This means that upon downloading a software program to the machine that tells the machine exactly what to do and what to do, basically, all the driver has to do is press the launch button while the machine loads the content. . Yes, it fills and requires very little mortal intervention.

One hand can supervise the operation of several machines at a time. Once started, the machine will continue to operate until the program tells it to stop. CNC router machines come in different sizes giving you more design possibilities depending on the size of the material and what you can create. Of course, there will be very little waste because the machine will cut all the necessary corridors using one spacer (unless the design is very large and demands a lot of material).

For the machine to operate the various systems

Virmer is a program that would need to be written for each design. You can save the program that the programmer wrote and use it any time in the future when you may need to copy a project. However, the design will of course, not be exactly the same if it does. With computer numerical control technology, you can guarantee that every time the program is used; You will get exactly the same finished product. Copying is a simple process.

A router has motors that actually help the system to cut in all directions on its axis. The drive system is important to the machine because the better it is, the better the quality of your routine. CNC router bits are actually controlled by a spindle and come in many different shapes and sizes as you will know if you are using a power tool with drill bits. It is important to note that whenever you operate any machine you have to think about safety first and this is true when using a CNC router.

Although the machine comes with guards that can protect your hands from injury while feeding the material, you should also use common sense while operating the machine. There is also a stop button system on the color corridor of the machine. Still, you should wear gloves and sound-blocking equipment as backup protection to avoid accidents. A CNC router machine is also provident because once you program it, you don’t have to keep an eye on it. Rather, you can switch to another task or take a break when it suits you. It also opens up the opportunity to do systems that used to tolerate a platoon of people.

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Vermont has a lot of things we don’t have here in New Hampshire. They’ve got a State income tax. They’ve also got a majority Democrat legislature, and yes, those two things are related.

They are a sanctuary state which explains the exponential increase in border crossings, and have advanced more gun restrictions as crime rates climb. So, when I saw this headline, I knew what it meant, but it also meant something else to me.

“Vermonters Encouraged to Support Threatened and Endangered Species Recovery with Nongame Tax Checkoff.”

Because you have to pay state income taxes in Vermont, they can also ask you for things like donations to the Nongame Wildlife Fund.

 

“Every dollar Vermonters donate to Nongame Wildlife Fund on their taxes is nearly tripled,” says Rosalind Renfrew, the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department’s Wildlife Diversity Program Manager.  “Donations are leveraged by matching federal grants, meaning that every dollar donated secures another $2 in federal funds for Vermont’s wildlife.”

 

They mention a sturgeon and a bat, but if we’re being honest, the most endangered “species” in Vermont is principled Republicans. The National GOP ATMs – and I’m not implying any of them are principled Republicans – have more or less written the state off, expecting little or no return for their money. In other words, they can’t even get a RINO elected except Governor Phil Scott, who is a token now that the legislature has veto-proof majorities.

And he’s barely purple, leaning blue.

Things are bad. Massachusetts bad. It won’t be long before successive speakers of the Vermont House find themselves in jail for corruption or fraud or something. Even re-elected while in prison (we’ve had that happen on our side of the Connecticut river. It’s a Democrat thing). But it doesn’t have to be that way.

Instead of lining up to beg for alms from the state budget (or almost everything), you could elect candidates who would eventually create a state economy that allows you to succeed. Where keeping what you earn is a bigger priority than finding new ways to take it from you. A place where you don’t have to ask a bureaucrat about your carbon offset balance and do you have enough social credit points to cook some of those insect-based weiners they’ll make you eat.

Where identifying as an illegal “migrant” will get you more rights and benefits than if you were actually born there.

Democrats suck, by which I mean the lives and livelihoods of everyone in their ideological blast radius. Which is to say, what is endangered is Vermonters and Vermont.

I wonder what Ethan, Ira, and Ebeneezer Allen would think of that?

 

 

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