Sunday • November 24 • 2024
Vol.XVI • No.XLVII
Manchester, N.H.
From the Women’s Defense League of NH
On February 8th, there will be multiple gun control bills heard in the New Hampshire House Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee.
It appears that all the draconian gun control bills will be heard in one day, so take a day off and support your 2nd Amendment rights in New Hampshire.
It doesn’t matter that New Hampshire is consistently one of the safest states in the country. It doesn’t matter that New Hampshire has ‘Constitutional Carry.’ What matters to gun controllers is out-of-state legislation that will intentionally harm Granite Staters and infringe upon your fundamental human right to self-defense.
The most important gun control bills are listed below:
House Bill 32 – AN ACT relative to possession or discharge of a firearm in a safe school zone.
This bill makes it illegal to possess a firearm within 1,000 feet of a public or private school. This means that if you are a woman who drops your children off at school and carry a firearm to protect yourself and your children, you become a criminal unless your firearm is unloaded and ‘in a locked container’ in a motor vehicle. Essentially, this law renders women who seek to protect themselves and their children useless to protect themselves against a stalker or abusive partner.
This bill enables violent criminals to make easy targets of their intended victims.
House Bill 59 – AN ACT requiring a background check prior to any commercial firearm sale.
This bill has been resurrected from the depths of Hell for at least a decade. And as always, this bill will make it so anyone who provides firearm training, other than those who are already FFL dealers, will NOT be able to provide firearm SAFETY training. Year after year after year, we have explained how this bill harms those who seek gun safety training but year after year after year, gun controllers don’t care. They claim to be all about gun safety, but when it boils down to facts and reality, it’s more about control. They care nothing about actual gun safety.
House Bill 76 – AN ACT imposing a waiting period between the purchase and delivery of a firearm.
This bill seeks to stop law-abiding Granite Staters, who pass a federal background check, from taking the legally purchased firearm home for 3 days. If you’re a woman with a stalker or abusive partner and don’t have a restraining order, you’re SOL when it comes to protecting yourself and practicing your fundamental human right to self-defense. NH’s 2A doesn’t mention anything about a waiting period, neither does the Constitution. The only people who want a waiting period are those who seek to enable criminals.
House Bill 78 – AN ACT 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.
Last year a bill was signed into law states the following: “…the state of New Hampshire, a political subdivision of this state, or any person acting under the color of state, county, or municipal law shall be prohibited from using any personnel or financial resources to enforce, administer, or cooperate with any law, act, rule, order, or regulation of the United States Government or Executive Order of the President of the United States that is inconsistent with any law of this state regarding the regulation of firearms, ammunition, magazines or the ammunition feeding devices, firearm components, firearms supplies, or knives.”
HB 78 seeks to repeal this law because gun controllers seem to really want the federal government controlling New Hampshire’s 2A laws. These representatives seem to forget they ‘represent’ Granite Staters, not the swamp rats in D.C.
House Bill 106 – AN ACT relative to extreme risk protection orders.
NYC billionaire Michael Bloomberg is bringing back his ‘Red Flag’ bill once again. This legislation is one of the most destructive pieces of gun control to ever be brought to the New Hampshire State Legislature. It is absolutely ironic that the New York State Supreme Court just ruled that their Red Flag law is unconstitutional. You can find out more details about Red Flag laws, including information about HB 106, by visiting www.stopredflaglawsnh.org
House Bill 351-FN – AN ACT relative to the negligent storage of firearms and relative to firearm safety devices.
This bill is adding increased criminal penalties if a firearm isn’t stored according to existing law. The bill is specifically referring to children under the age of 16 who may gain access to a firearm. It’s unclear the need for changing this existing law. There doesn’t seem to be a rash of children intentionally or accidently shooting people in New Hampshire. This is another gun control measure to solve a problem that doesn’t exist.
House Bill 444-FN – AN ACT prohibiting possession of a firearm at a polling place.
This bill makes it a crime to carry a firearm at polling places, unless you are law enforcement. It doesn’t matter if you are legally able to posses a firearm. It doesn’t matter that there has NEVER been an issue with Granite Staters carrying at polling places. This bill seeks to make people less safe. Once again, another bill that will allow criminals, stalkers, and abusers to be able to easily prey on innocent victims who will not be able to protect themselves.
Not one of these gun control bills will stop criminals. ALL these gun control bills are looking for solutions to problems that do not exist in New Hampshire. Again, New Hampshire is consistently one of the SAFEST STATES in the country. These bills have nothing to do with safety and everything to do with control.
It doesn’t matter that these bills will probably fail in both the House and the Senate. What matters is Granite Staters continue to fight against these bills written by out-of-state organizations and pushed by extremists in the legislature who seek to infringe upon our fundamental human right to self-defense.
If you cannot make the hearings, you can email the Committee members and ask them to vote Inexpedient To Legislate (ITL) on each of the bills above. Even if you can make the hearings, you should still email them:
| Amanda.Bouldin@leg.state.nh.us |
| Amy.Bradley@leg.state.nh.us |
| linda.harriottgathright@leg.state.nh.us |
| Jason.Janvrin@leg.state.nh.us |
| Dennis.Mannion@leg.state.nh.us |
| David.Meuse@leg.state.nh.us |
| Nancy.Murphy@leg.state.nh.us |
| Alissandra.Murray@leg.state.nh.us |
| Jodi.Newell@leg.state.nh.us |
| Ray.Newman@leg.state.nh.us |
| Kevin.Pratt@leg.state.nh.us |
| Mark.Proulx@leg.state.nh.us |
| Karen.Reid@leg.state.nh.us |
| Jennifer.Rhodes@leg.state.nh.us |
| Terry.Roy@leg.state.nh.us |
| Loren.Selig@leg.state.nh.us |
| john.sytek@leg.state.nh.us |
| Jeffrey.Tenczar@leg.state.nh.us |
| Jonah.Wheeler@leg.state.nh.us |
Granite Staters deserve better than to be treated like criminals for simply practicing their rights and protecting themselves and their families from ACTUAL criminals.
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Memphis is famous for The Blues, Elvis Presley and Graceland, Barbeque, crime, and now … police violence. Don’t be offended if I left something out, and on that note; we might want to dig deeper into the question of police violence (sort of).
Related: Uncomfortable Fact: More Black Americans are in Prison Because of Democrats
Several of the “Cops” who beat Tyre Nichols to death might be Vice Lords Street Gang Members who were embedded into the Memphis Police Department after it allegedly lowered its standards in a desperate need to get bodies into uniforms.
In other words, it might be a gang hit.
REPORT:
Not only did Mayor Strickland reduce the qualifications to become an officer at Memphis PD, The academy was directly told to not fail anyone out due to their desperate need for officers.
They were literally letting anyone in.
— Lauren Witzke (@LaurenWitzkeDE) January 30, 2023
Here’s a screengrab of Lauren’s follow-up tweets.
I can neither confirm nor deny the allegations. We’ll need to wait to see what shakes out, but if you’ve not seen the five now former MPD officers arrested for the murder of Nichols, here they are.
Five former Memphis police officers have been indicted and jailed in the beating death of Tyre Nichols, who died days after a traffic stop on Jan. 7.
Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Emmitt Martin III, Desmond Mills Jr. and Justin Smith each face several charges, including second-degree murder, aggravated assault, aggravated kidnapping, official misconduct and official oppression.
We can probably agree that they were not motivated by racism, leading us back to police violence but with a twist. Black Lives Matter had an itch to cut urban police forces. It also wanted more representation from the community in those that stayed the course. Memphis, like most other Demcorat-run plantations, was happy to oblige. Following the rules set out by the Progressive identity politics axe-grinders and their BLM water carriers, we are not permitted to presume that not all officers of color are like these five.
Their rules, not mine, so while I can disagree – I care very little for the hypocritical nonsense that passes for liberal thought – they are bound and subject to appropriate levels of ridicule.
Memphis is not a safe place to live. At the end of 2021, one site ranked it the most dangerous city in America. Area Vibes, which curates details for prospective home buyers, gives Memphis an F for Crime, Schools, and Employment.
Related: Black America – Democrats Are Not Doing This for You, They Are Doing It for Themselves
If you run an increasingly street gang, it’s a great time to get some guys on the inside.
Memphis leaders are making plans to reduce crime rates. However, it is reported that the city needs more police officers. According to a tweet by the City of Memphis, MPD is offering a $15,000 signing bonus.
Another link from Lauren confirms that the MPD was struggling to find new officers.
REPORT:
Not only did Mayor Strickland reduce the qualifications to become an officer at Memphis PD, The academy was directly told to not fail anyone out due to their desperate need for officers.
They were literally letting anyone in.
— Lauren Witzke (@LaurenWitzkeDE) January 30, 2023
If you haven’t already lost your mind, I’m not saying this isn’t police violence. It is. This confirms what we’ve been saying for a long time. City Police, their Democrat-run unions, and these Democrat-run cities are responsible for everything. They’ve had a stranglehold on leadership for generations and plenty of time to address issues they talk about every chance they get. But Democrats refuse to own the generational poverty, inadequate public schools, crime, and the cop culture that is a reflection of their uninterrupted rule.
Memphis is over 64% black. The “arresting” officers were all black. And people are rioting; why? Police violence. And excuse changing the subject away from Biden’s classified document scandal? Well, ‘cuz reasons?
Tyre’s family has said no one should riot, it’s not what he would have wanted, but that didn’t seem to make a difference. Do you know what else hasn’t but might? These incidents happen in cities bought and paid for by the Democrat machine whose elected representatives run everything and control everything and have for decades.
Memphis is Blue; that’s why police reform is such a struggle.
If you want to riot for change, start by voting for someone other than a Democrat and not just one office but all. And not just once but every election for the next (at least) ten years. The Dems broke everything, and no one can fix that overnight.
Or keep doing the same thing about nothing’s going to change.
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They’re flying so thick and fast it is amazing. Take heart – there will be a Meme Overflow and almost certainly a Friday Meme Overflow-Overflow. Last week’s Overflow-Overflow.
Remember, ridicule and mockery are effective weapons:
Now, let the mockery and mayhem begin.
*** Warning, a few possibly off-color ones, in case tender eyes are about ***
And a hat-trick of past essays:
A Crisis of Trust – Urban Scoop
Things Fall Apart… With A New Cartoon “Getting Ready for the Spicy” and its sequel Things Fall Apart 2
Ideological Superorganisms – Granite Grok
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But first, a random sampling of three of my cartoons. Please note these are my concepts but I pay a professional to do them.
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Look at the time differences. Never mind just the money debasing… the time span.
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Life imitates art. There’s a line in the scifi novel Dune, from memory, where the arch-villain says “If I scattered sand in front of them and told them it was grain, they’d peck at it”.
Same thing here.
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Pick of the post:
Remember this charmer? This is the attitude so many had towards anyone not buying in.
No, I do not forgive.
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Palate Cleansers:
Sound on!
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/1_5091443760995238684.mp4
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Now THIS is spin!
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Sounds like a lot of my fishing trips. I remember the last one; as people were landing fish to my left, and landing fish to my right, I wondered if there was a sign in “fish-ese” on my line saying NOT THIS ONE, GUYS!
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Last week at the state house, liberty activists spoke on various bills in front of the Criminal Justice Committee including:
HB 581 – Finally, after years of compromised legislation trying to slowly scrape away at drug prohibition, one brave state representative, Matt Santonastaso, has put forward a bill that would in one fell swoop, end the entire War on Drugs. Sadly, only Bonnie and I came out to support Rep. Santonastaso and testify in favor of this epic legislation. We need more reps willing to take a risk with their “political capital” and actually put forward principled bills like this. Sure, it has no chance of passing, but the conversation needs to happen, and it needs to keep coming back and growing in its support. We also need bills to do other principled things like end government schooling, abolish the liquor commission, and abolish the state police. Hopefully we’ll see more liberty reps step up to the level of Matt Santonastaso in the coming years. Here is full video of the hearing:
HB 360 – One of several cannabis-related bills in the session this year, HB 360 is probably the best one I’ve seen as it does not contain any provisions to tax or regulate cannabis. It simply removes it from being a prohibited substance, although only for those over 21. It’s overall a great bill and would be awesome if it passed, though another bill that has taxes and regulations has the support of the house minority and majority leaders, so don’t get your hopes up. That said, it’s good to see the ideas discussed. Here’s full video of the hearing:
HB 328 – This straightforward bill creates an exception for people over 21 to be able to possess “hallucinogenic drugs”, which the statute defines as, “psychodysleptic drugs which assert a confusional or disorganizing effect upon mental processes or behavior and mimic acute psychotic disturbances. Exemplary of such drugs are mescaline, peyote, psilocybin and d-lysergic acid diethylamide.” Derek Januszewski of the Pachamama Sanctuary came out to speak the truth about these substances. Here’s full video of the hearing:
HB 470 – Possession of drug testing equipment is currently a crime in New Hampshire, which means people cannot legally have their drugs tested for purity, to ensure they are getting what they think they are buying. Drug testing equipment is harm reduction as it reduces deaths and serious overdoses. Even New Futures, who normally opposes legalization efforts, supported the bill. This is a good bill from the left and should receive the support of the liberty reps. Here’s full video of the hearing:
If you want to help rate pending legislation, please join the New Hampshire Liberty Alliance. You do not need to be in New Hampshire to help with this important task.
I’m thinking about changing my byline again. I was a Lying Dog-Faced Pony Soldier. After Biden, the source for LDFPS, alighted his stumbling ass upon the Offal Office, I became a Browncoat (Firefly Reference if you missed it).
But now, I might be Auntie Vaquser because Merriam-Webster’s Online Dictionary has decided to amend its definition of the term anti-vaxxer. I stumbled on it while surfing Substack.
The old definition included “a person who opposes the use of vaccines or regulations mandating vaccination.”
The new one goes something like this:
a person who opposes the use of some or all vaccines, regulations mandating vaccination, or usually both.
Since a vaccine has been redefined as almost any syringe-based medical intervention promoted by the state or its mouthpieces (so-called public health experts, alleged journalists, celebrities, athletes, or Instagram influencers), are those opposed to lethal injection or the death penalty anti-vaxxers?
Yes!
More good news. Intravenous drug users are not “vaccine” hesitant; they are self-vaccinating, and if you oppose this it might make you an anti-vaxxer. As you know, the government is not doing much, if anything, to stop the flow of self-medicating intoxicants from China, through Mexico, and into the US, ergo, approval.
We should assume that any regulations against these individual “medical” interventions might be anti-vaxxer.
And it all turns on the redefinition of a vaccine.
Check out @CDCgov’s evolving definition of “vaccination.” They’ve been busy at the Ministry of Truth: pic.twitter.com/4k2xf8rvsL
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) September 8, 2021
Maybe you shouldn’t have let them get away with that because not long after, they changed the definition of fully vaccinated and the efficacy of medical masks, etc., as the list of things that were once one thing then another is quite long.
And when it became clear these interventions did not prevent or stop the spread (presumably of COVID), they told you the answer was more of the same.
At some point, they admitted to a risk of myocarditis, and recently – after months of saying you should get the COVID and Flu vaccines together, doing so might increase the risk of stroke.
As the list of conspiracy theories becomes truth (see also science), a few of the so-called public health experts, alleged journalists, celebrities, athletes, or Instagram influencers have asked for amnesty. Sorry about all that; water under the bridge, okay.
Not okay.
But you can call me Aunti Vaquser anyway, at least until I change it again.
Edited and updated after publication.
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This is something that has been irritating me for a long time, and has now reached the point that it pisses me off. What is ‘this’?
Demanding tolerance of the abnormal.
What’s worse is this demand is being made by people who are intolerant of anyone who disagrees with them. It’s hypocrisy.
One of the left’s primary goals has always been to convince us that we are not normal if we do not affirm its ideology, a well established tactic among totalitarians. People who believe in normal things are under attack in America. We are assaulted on a near continuous basis by leftists who practice and promote behavior that is clearly abnormal. Frighteningly, some of this behavior is not merely abnormal, it’s evil.
The online Merriam-Webster Dictionary provides many definitions of normal. Among them are: “conforming to a type, standard, or regular pattern, characterized by that which is considered usual, typical, or routine; according with, constituting, or not deviating from a norm, rule, procedure, or principle; occurring naturally.
If we contrast these accepted definitions of normal with many policies and practices of the left, a trend emerges. Much of what today’s left promotes does not comport with what is recognized as normal. Instructing children how to think and behave like racists, as happens in many government schools through variants of Critical Race Theory, is not normal. It’s harmful.
They have relabeled pedophiles as “Minor attracted persons”. But they are pedophiles, predators hurting and damaging children. Yet we’re supposed to tolerate them? Some seem to support grooming children for activities that should never be imposed upon children. Yet we’re supposed to tolerate this? Abortion right up to the time of birth…or even after? An abomination…yet we’re supposed to tolerate this?
Claiming obesity is healthy and promoting it as such while castigating those disagreeing with them as “Fatphobic”. Working out is “Fatphobic”. Eating healthy is “Fatphobic”. Yet we’re supposed to tolerate this dangerous falsehood?
Examples of this nonsense abound.
Ordinary people are often intimidated into going along with abnormal ideologies because it’s easier than being screeched at by somebody who demands we affirm their abnormal behavior. This intimidation prompts many people to tip-toe around the fact that much of what we see in America today just isn’t normal and sometimes, we keep quiet even though we know it’s not normal. This is how normal becomes redefined.
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None of this is to suggest we should discriminate against people with such beliefs as they try to do to us. Many of these people have been deceived, coerced or extorted into affirming abnormal behavior and ideas for self preservation or a false sense of power. By the same token, other Americans have every right to withhold their acquiescence of abnormal behaviors without fear. A little more ‘live-and-let-live’ would go a long way. But live-and-let-live is a two-way street.
It’s time we tell the folks pushing this nonsense too far and that “We ain’t gonna play their game no more.” Normalizing the abnormal is just one more step in the decline and fall of any society. Remember the fall of Rome.
-DCE at Weekend Pundit (Thoughts On A Sunday)
Ever notice that it is always some from the Left that is telling us that “this stigma” has to be removed from Society? And it can be a whole bunch of things like those enumerated above. Add to it illegal drugs, hookup society, victimhood narcissism, drag shows for kids, basic human biology is irrelevant, feelings over reasoning, reverting back to tribalism, denigration of Judao-Christian moral values, separating kids from their parents by pushing transgenderism in schools, and here in the US, rejection of our Founders and the Constitution (our REAL Social Contract)? The list can go on and on with far more UNnormal habits and lifestyles.
Each is meant to do two things:
Why?
To remake us. By sowing chaos, anything can happen. There are those that aren’t just wishing for it, they are PUSHING for it.
Why?
They hope to be the ones that will be able to seize Power and remake us to be them. EVERY single Leftist group, if you really study them, are DEMANDING that you change who you are and what you do and what you think and how you can move around (if allowed) and what to eat and what to wear…don’t doubt me. We’ve blogged a lot of them.
Totalitarians all. DCE quotes:
But live-and-let-live is a two-way street.
In our eyes, it should be. In theirs, no such thing exists – there is only their way. And they are taking advantage of that most of us Normal, as DCE said, try to be “nice”.
Sorry, you need to up your situational awareness – being nice is just another word for “door-mat”. We do, indeed, have to start using “Up Yours!” more often and start putting all the bricks they’ve been been yanking out for years of the wall called Society.
It’s time to tell them “ENOUGH!”
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Here on Monday, after the snowstorm blowing over the driveway, I sit here and recall a Letter To The Editor that I sent a week or two back stating the climate has not changed in all my 80 years. So, of course, the following week a writer scoffed at my observation. May I suggest that person look out his window? Yes, I believe my point is made.
Now, it has to be clear to even the most die-hard climate change believer that something is wrong with the “experts” theories. What is wrong, I would suggest, is that isn’t about climate, it’s about politics. Everyone has a right to be critical of politics as it’s generally a nasty business on either side of the aisle but promoting fantasies as the facts insult everyone on both sides.
Might I suggest that the Left is always promoting how wonderful the illegal millions flooding – our-country are? No, maybe not? How about how great our economy and inflation…ahhh, no. Okay then cost of heating…wait. Crime? Drugs? Oh, I know, the wonderful, transparent…okay, okay, slander Trump and his stash of unsecured secret documents. After all, Biden would neveeer…
Well, he **** let them find their own darn political topics, they never run short of made ups.
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So here is a retweet by Sun-King Sununu of a CNN tweet for a CNN Sunday morning show. The company the Sun-King keeps! Schiff, Swalwel and Ilhan! RINO-traitor Adam Kinzinger!
Some of the less recognizable names: Crump says opposing CRT is racism, while Scott Jennings is a W-alumni, NeverTrump RINO.
The company the illustrious Sun-King keeps!
The NHGOP should have “moved on” from Sununu once he exposed himself as a woke-but-less, self-aggrandizing, COVID-tyrant. Sticking with Sununu has accomplished NOTHING … EXCEPT allowing certain “insiders” to grift and turning New Hampshire DEEP BLUE.
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Part I of this series ran on January 28, 2023, and can be found here. My complaint is now filed and now I wait.
My Attorney and I had about six communications with the District Court’s Clerk’s office about this order that was due out by September 30, 2022.
The clerks were all kind and compassionate but silent on answers or solutions. Citizens seeking information on Court orders don’t need a therapy session, we need solutions and answers.
When a Judge cannot competently perform their duties, they compromise the entire system, as they serve as the ultimate authority, both feared and respected. Coming forward on this is difficult; it exposes you to retaliation by the Judges and the Court. But, after years of slogging through the legal system, I have come to believe the courts are not where truth is found, and justice is served. Attorneys who lie can win, and money speaks. Judicial ethics appears to be on shaky ground. The entire system seems fragile.
Criminal matters required well-trained and skilled Judges to get it right. Liberty should never be taken lightly.
It does not appear as though the Court has any type of Judicial monitoring system to review order output and workload. It all has to become a dumpster fire to get fixed. With the loss of local newspapers, there is no place to shine a light and no investigative journalism to dig into these matters, so the Courts will be places of unchecked power and trust will be eroded. Someone should investigate the response time of the orders issued by this Judge and determine if there is a staffing problem or a competency problem.
On January 26th, after feeling so despondent speaking with the Clerk about the Judge’s failure to complete my order, I decided to see if this Judge was holding Court. Sure enough, he was. Thursday is his writing day, but it was Thursday, and he was in Court. Perhaps that is why orders are not coming out.
I had never seen this Judge or been in his courtroom. My personal feelings toward him and his work were so negative that I thought it might be best to create a more interpersonal relationship. I believed observing him in action might quell my anger and frustration, soften my perspective and help me find a kinder side.
It worked. Observing him in court, he was a kind and compassionate man. But, it was clear he is not committing to the Defendants when orders will be issued and their cases resolved. This is the crux of the problem.
I watched an incarcerated black man represented by a public defender who explained to the Judge that her client’s warrant and time served were not handled correctly and that she had really never seen something like this. I instantly had empathy. She believed he deserved his time served to be calculated into his new sentencing.
The Judge appeared to listen carefully and spoke directly to the defendant stating that he would look carefully into the matter and try to calculate the incarceration time correctly when he produced his order. But, he never gave any indication of when the order would be issued. Herein lies the problem. How long will this man wait to understand where he stands on his case?
Judges should be required to provide a time when an order will be issued. I’ll have an order out in 60 days, etc., instead of an “I’ll get to it when I get to it” approach. How can we hold the system accountable if there is no standard by which to hold them? When is it ok to complain?
On Thursday, I asked my Attorney to withdraw from the case. I loved my Attorney’s work and very much appreciate his commitment to my case. However, I wanted to file a request to ask the Judge to produce the notice of decision. I wanted to file a formal complaint. I didn’t want his reputation to suffer because of my request or actions.
Attorneys don’t want to ask Judges about deadlines and orders, and they don’t file complaints. They don’t want to anger a Judge and they don’t want to hurt a client. This is understandable. Citizens have to speak up to fix the system.
I signed on pro se for my case on Thursday, January 26th, and filed a request for a date for a Notice of Decision to Judge Curren.
Laurie Ortolano – Motion to request a date for Notice of Decision
I will be following up on this story, and updating the responsiveness of the Judge and Conduct Committee to resolve this matter.
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The person I feature today is a man of many facets. It is impossible to pigeonhole him with a specific label. He is a staunch Conservative, a veteran, an author, a historian, a family man, and a teacher. Through his work on FOXNews, he has taken us to the Holy Land and retraced the steps of Jesus.
He has walked the paths of our Patriots as they took on the mighty British army in the hamlets of New England. And he has taken us into the classroom and peeled back the curtain on the Department of Education and teacher’s unions. We recently watched his sadness as his beloved Minnesota Vikings collapsed in the NFL playoffs. For all he has done to enlighten his followers, we shine a spot on this week’s Sunday Spotlight: Pete Hegseth.
Pete is an Army veteran and still an officer in the National Guard. He does much to support the military and veterans of every branch. His admiration and respect for military personnel and first responders are evident when Pete hosts the annual Fox Nation Patriot Awards. Donald Trump also considered Hegseth to head up the Veteran’s Administration. That appointment did not come to fruition, but Pete’s work for veterans’ rights and education may touch more lives. He appears comfortable and confident in his calling.
Pete is one of the weekend hosts of Fox and Friends, a frequent contributor on every other show on Fox, and the producer of several specials on Fox Nation. Pete has gone to the Holy Land to bring two specials from Israel. One was on the origin and never-ending tension and conflict between Israel and Palestine. The more recent documents his trip to retrace the steps Jesus took through the areas around Israel where he was born and died. In a few episodes and with the help of religious and archeological experts, he taught us more about Jesus than we learned in Sunday School. They were amazing and insightful journeys.
Tough to beat religion in importance, but his work on the fall of the American education system with his two series called “The Miseducation of America” gives it a fight. He brings us back to the early days and the influence of Karl Marx on our colleges and universities. He shows us why and how indoctrination became the norm and how it has moved from higher education to preschool.
Pete exposes the mission of the teacher’s unions and the harm they are wreaking on our children. He focuses on Randi Weingarten and the power she has attained as president of the American Federation of Teachers Union. He paints a clear picture of how Randi’s agenda has nothing to do with education but with personal power and the control of the future by the Progressive Democrat Party.
Pete has a vested interest in the future of America and our education system due to his rather large family, including seven children. Pete was a lifelong resident of Minnesota but recently relocated to the Nashville area to ensure a better life for those kids.
A television personality, but his life is much deeper, and his focus on a Conservative America is razor-sharp. We need more people in the media like Pete who see wrong and bring it out of the darkness. God Bless you, Pete, and keep fighting the good fight for all of us.
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First, I am merely an “enlightened amateur”. Please vet & check on your own. Caveat emptor. Consider these to be priming the pump for your own investigations. I know this is a long post; I am attempting to put out a lot of information as a resource. Read or skip sections depending on your interests.
Second, I fear spicy time is very close, but even a month of food, water, etc., puts you well ahead of most of the sheeple. IMHO, set your minimum sights on a three-month period.
Third, two things will be critical for having the best chance of making it through:
And please follow both me, Nitzakhon, on Gab… as well as my blog host Granite Grok and also on Telegram Tommy Robinson Official plus his Urban Scoop site. And don’t forget posts sometimes get cloned on American Reveille as well, which is a good site to check out in general.
FYI, here’s a link to the last Survival Sunday:
Survival Sunday – Thursday SITREP Edition – Granite Grok
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What We Believe, Part 1: Small Government and Free Enterprise. – YouTube
A seven Part Series; this is to part 1. Bill Whittle.
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Top of the fold:
BREAKING: Federal Assault Weapons & Magazine Bans Submitted…There’s MORE Too!!
They want them all. Period. End of story. Gun-related:
Murders in US Are Very Concentrated, and They Are Becoming Even More So by John R. Lott :: SSRN
PDF paper by John Lott.
I suspect it’s not a 100% correlation, but I’d suspect there are strong correlations with a certain demographic, with fatherless kids, with population density, with amounts of fedgov support… and these are not independent variables, but confounded. Deliberately. Remember LBJ’s infamous quote:
“I’ll have them n*ggers voting Democratic for the next two hundred years. [Said to two governors regarding the Civil Rights Act of 1964, according to then-Air Force One steward Robert MacMillan]”
― Lyndon B. Johnson
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What the Progressive Socialist Liberals have in store for Conservatives (part 1) – Metallicman
A series. Note: pictures and text are not for the squeamish. But it’s the cold & stark reality of what Socialists have done time after time after time. Know the enemy and what they’re capable of.
Vladimir Lenin and the American Left | Frontpage Mag
They plan nothing good. Remember this hero’s risks and prophecy:
Larry Grathwohl: Requiem for an American Hero | Frontpage Mag
Based on history, time and again, they’re willing to murder untold millions in their attempt to create Socialistopia:
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Prepper Site URLS:
Most have daily articles; revisit daily. Please recommend others in the comments.
Ask a Prepper, how to prepare, survive and thrive, latest news
Mother Earth News
The Organic Prepper Home – The Organic Prepper
SurvivalBlog.com – The Daily Web Log for Prepared Individuals Living in Uncertain Times.
SHTF Blog – Modern Survival
Survival World – Everything You Need To Know to Survive
Homestead Survival Site – How to Live Off The Grid in Comfort and Style
Urban Survival Site | How to Survive a Disaster in the City
Mind4Survival – Survival and Preparedness
Gray Wolf survival
Sustainable Living (sustainablelivingideas.com)
The Classic Survivalist – Surviving in a Modern World
Primal Survivor – Practical and sensible prepping advice
Em Off-grid – We & Our Off The Grid Life – Em OffGrid
Resource for Practical, Daily Prepping Skills for SHTF & Survival (geekprepper.com) (new)
And three aggregate sites listing their top favorite sites & links too:
TOP 50 SURVIVAL & PREPPER BLOGS
The 50 Best Survival Blogs
Prepper Website – Preparedness • Survival • Alternative News
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Specific, one-up articles:
Water filtration triple-hit:
Water filtration on a “string” (modernsurvivalonline.com)
How to Make a Reliable Water Filter at Home – Survival Sullivan
How to Purify Water with Bleach (modernsurvivalonline.com)
And related to filtration:
How To Remove Radioactive Particles From Water In Case Of A Nuclear Fallout – Ask a Prepper
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8 Items You Need To Survive A Power Outage This Winter (askaprepper.com)
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Survival Mistakes I’m Too Ashamed To Admit – Ask a Prepper
When we think about what could go wrong in a survival situation, we always tend to think about gear and equipment first. But, as I have learnt, sometimes it’s basic common sense that could cause your downfall.
Stick to the basics. Don’t think you can outwit the common sense advice that all children are taught as the basic rules of camping and hiking.
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Related to Spicy Time:
Most Insane Booby Traps Used During the Vietnam War
Presented as an intellectual exercise only. Related:
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Be not quick in your spirit to become angry, for anger lodges in the bosom of fools.
– Ecclesiastes 7:9
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I would like two of these, please
Improvisation.
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Bayou Renaissance Man: Antifa – tool of the establishment
At this point they truly are Brownshirts.
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Max Velocity Tactical
Lessons.
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Modern Scottish Warrior Goes ‘BRAVEHEART’ on Elites | Neil Oliver | The Glenn Beck Podcast | Ep 171
Amazing discussion. It is just a delight to see two people, intelligent and knowledgeable people, talking. My only regret was not being in on it. And I was fascinated that part of it was clipped because of youtube’s censorship.
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Short of years and untold wealth, you cannot possibly be fully prepared for everything (I have to keep reminding myself of that). But even some preparations, ideally at least 90 days of food, water / water purification, etc., puts you head and shoulders in front of the vast majority of the sheeple who will be in jaw-gaping astonishment when the SHTF. The only relevant questions are:
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the matrix is malfunctioning
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I just started a FORAGING group on Gab. I will check 2-3 times a week to see if people have asked to join.
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Foraging: One-up articles
Foraging for Food: Tips, Common Foods, Safety, and More (healthline.com)
An interesting point buried within: be a specialist, or generalist?
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Foraging for Food: 10 Useful Plants to Look For – Epic Gardening
Good basics! More basics:
The First Timer’s Guide to Foraging for Food in the Wild (thedyrt.com)
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Foraging for Edible Wild Plants (or Parts Thereof) in Winter • Nebraskaland Magazine (outdoornebraska.gov)
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Foraging (permanent feature):
Foraging (practicalselfreliance.com)
Wild Harvests (arcadianabe.blogspot.com)
Southern Appalachian Herbs
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Books (permanent feature):
Feasting Free on Wild Edibles (old but good)
The Lost Ways (much more than just foraging)
The Forager’s Guide to Wild Foods
THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO EDIBLE WILD PLANTS FOR BEGINNERS
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Shortages (broadly):
“A Created Global Food Crisis”
Notice, too, how those who are trying to prepare for what’s so clearly coming down the pike at us are already being vilified as “hoarders” and “black marketeers”. Never mind that it’s a matter of simple, basic responsibility to prepare to feed one’s family during hard times: that’s now an indicator that one is being anti-social, selfish and mean-spirited. Those who’ve seen the writing on the wall and are preparing for what it predicts know better, of course.
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Gardening, Food Storage, Animals, and Related:
Herbs & plants for health, etc.
I’ve taken to adding bay leaves and thyme to my dandelion root tea.
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Thanks to a local contact, I have these books – download and print:
Victory Garden: Leader’s Handbook (1943)
Dried Beans And Peas In Wartime Meals (1943)
Homebuilt Electric Dehydrator 1944
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Tractor Supply Chicken Feed Reportedly Causing Egglaying to Stop, Board has Ties to WEF, Jeffrey Epstein (thegatewaypundit.com)
WTAF?
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Links on old-time food storage (permanent feature):
Thanks to the Canning and Preserving group on Gab, I now have these links:
Preserving foods by drying | How to dry foods safely (uada.edu)
USDA-Complete-Guide-to-Home-Canning-2015-revision.pdf (healthycanning.com)
Canning | SDSU Extension (sdstate.edu)
Food Preservation– Canning | Consumer Food Safety | Washington State University (wsu.edu)
Canning Timer & Checklist App | OSU Extension Catalog | Oregon State University
National Center for Home Food Preservation (uga.edu)
Canning Recipes | Ball® Mason Jars (ballmasonjars.com)
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Topical Books (also permanent):
Charcuterie: The Craft of Salting, Smoking & Curing
Salumi: The Craft of Italian Dry Curing
A Guide to Canning, Freezing, Curing & Smoking Meat, Fish & Game
The Prepper’s Canning Guide
Pickled Pantry
Fermented Vegetables
Hydroponics and Greenhouse Gardening: 3-in-1 Gardening Book to Grow Vegetables, Herbs, and Fruit All-Year-Round
Hydroponics for Beginners: The Complete Guide to Hydroponic Gardening, Designing and Building Inexpensive DIY Hydroponic Systems…
The Aquaponics Guidebook: Combining Aquaculture and Hydroponics Combining Aquaculture and Hydroponics
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Self-defense (broad) & Hunting:
5 Crucial Conceal Carry Tips For Beginners
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DIY Caltrops – The Prepared Page
Useful as an intellectual exercise only. Blocking roads may be necessary to defend your neighborhood. Or keep others from easily leaving theirs.
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Having THE talk with the kids
I was at the gun store a month or three ago looking at a new acquisition. I was holding it up in firing position when my son said “Dad, don’t forget, never put your finger on the trigger until you’re ready to fire”. The salesclerk looked at him and asked How old is he?
I just smiled!
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Boots on the Ground…Jan 22nd…Crime is widespread… Be careful
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5 Great Ways to Protect Your Home (modernsurvivalonline.com)
Basics.
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Duty to Retreat – Gun Free Zone
Know your state’s law on this. You could be, morally and ethically, precisely right… and per the law, exactly wrong.
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Despite claims, gun control doesn’t stop mass shootings – Bearing Arms
Duh.
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A few thoughts on defensive cartridges
Thoughts on ammo choices by a combat vet.
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The View: Gun Owners Have a “Mental Illness” That Must “Be Stopped”… | Weasel Zippers
And this is how it begins. If you own guns and don’t agree with the safety fascists you’re mentally ill. Paranoid. And thus your guns need to go. Despite what they say:
NY Times columnist: We’re not coming for your deer rifles or bird guns – Bearing Arms
Bumper sticker. Also available in a .223 version.
Don’t forget this one:
Please – help these go viral!
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ATF warns gun dealers on “potential civil unrest” – Bearing Arms
If the footage is as horrific as the chief indicates, then most of us are going to be on the same side when we see it for themselves. The collective outrage and grief over Tyre Nichols’ death could actually be a unifying moment for much of the country… at least outside of those who’ll exploit his death as an excuse to try to burn it all down.
But they’ll use it to divide us.
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Concluding thoughts if I’m moved to comment:
Gas bags: Progressive war on your stove is VERY REAL – HotAir
Billionaires and your natural gas stove | Watts Up With That?
As I’ve posted in meme posts, etc., the real reason is simple: independence. If your ability to cook is purely electric, then you can be turned off – and turned off remotely.
Do not doubt that this was planned years ago. The entire multi-axis assault we’re seeing now was IMHO conceived and outlined before even the hints of the technologies existed to create & implement them existed.
This meets, in my book, the definition of a missionary. Without knowing how they’ll get there to convert the world, they nonetheless set off without hesitation or doubt, committing all their resources to that goal, and persisting inter-generationally in its pursuit.
This is a religious war. A war to the knife, to make you a Communist. Or dead.
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“Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God”
– Benjamin Franklin
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Palate cleansers:
Timing!
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I work for myself. Hmmm.
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If you see a big eel
And his teeth are like steel
That’s a moray!
If he’s big and he’s mean
And he’s long and he’s green
That’s a moray!
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Please check out my meme collections; last one here. Mockery, ridicule, and the wrapping of uncomfortable truths inside humor can penetrate the cognitive shields of normies far more effectively – IMHO – than dry facts and figures.
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Mr. Cummings, Director of Economic Development for the City of Nashua, presented the Mohawk Tannery development project to the Board of Aldermen on January 10, 2023.
Nashua residents should be asking many questions starting with the 2019 projected Superfund cleanup costs of between $7-14 million dollars. This three-year-old costing should have been updated and more reasonable costs provided.
The presentation left one feeling as though much information was withheld. Some carefully worded phrases escaped “plain English”. It seemed like a lot of concessions would have to be given by the Nashua taxpayer, with fewer concessions given by Blaylock. So how is this fair?
Blaylock reps stated that they entered an agreement with the EPA however Blaylock neglected to state that they already purchased the Mohawk land (Purchase and Sales 12/2020 attached). Director Cummings stated that we would have to waive the back taxes and interest owed on the property. We already waived the back taxes as we no longer own the property. Where is the honesty here?
When the Blaylock rep was questioned about affordable housing requirements that were recently passed in the City of Nashua that required 20% affordable housing on all developments, Blaylock stated that Blaylock would pull out if they had to do the required amount for affordable housing. They. may not develop but they own the property. What is the legal and community impact of violating the recently passed Inclusionary Zoning Ordinance?
The city knew that the Mohawk & Fimble properties were sold to Blaylock back in December 2020. However, the city NEVER COLLECT THE PROPERTY TAXES OWED TO THE NASHUA TAXPAYERS ($1,200,000), and/or the city never actually changed the ownership of the property assessment and tax cards. Straightforward, honest communication from our City leaders is sorely lacking.
This project appears to be full steam ahead with public input not yet gathered. I submitted a letter documenting my concerns to the Board. No one responded. Many cost items have yet to be determined and most likely these will become the responsibility of the taxpayers.
State, law requires that lien properties have the taxes owed paid when a property is sold; however, this was not the case for the Mohawk/Fimbel properties. So taking the $1.2 million the taxpayers will write off for the back taxes and interest and the “other” loans that will be required, and taxpayers should take notice.
To review the actual presentation, please go to the following website:
To review the written minutes, please go to the following website:
https://www.nashuanh.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_01102023-6353
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According to a recent poll from Morning Consult, 84 percent of Gen-Z … I prefer the TikTok generation … HATE their country. To be clear, HATE is my word; 84 percent said they were NOT proud to live in the United States.
That means that they want to make drastic changes … TRANSFORM … the United States. And just what would that change look like?
Well … the Tik Tok generation does NOT believe in the First Amendment or the Second Amendment or the Fourteenth Amendment. In other words, they do not believe in traditional American values such as Free Speech, private gun ownership or due process. They believe in censorship … for example, Musk cutting back on censorship at Twitter made Twitter “unsafe,” i.e., free speech is unsafe … a police state, and guilt by skin color or religion.
Am I exaggerating? NO … the TikTok generation crushed the red wave because “democracy is on the ballot,” … i.e., democracy, to the TikToks, is not a process where informed voters decide who controls the government; instead, democracy is an outcome: if their side wins, there is democracy; if the other side wins, there is autocracy.
I know what some of you bitter clingers are thinking: JUST WAIT UNTIL THEY GET TO THE REAL WORLD. My response is: WAKE UP. The MEllennials and now the TikToks have changed the “real world,” NOT the other way around. The “real world” is now cancel culture and CRT and grooming … it’s Mao’s Great Leap Forward come to America. We have in the TikToks a generation of brainwashed, fervent Communists … whose numbers are growing while ours are rapidly shrinking.
We have reached the end of the America we knew and loved.
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I received word from Lloyd Alter yesterday that DotDash-Meredith, Treehugger’s corporate head, had decided to “go in a different direction” and has laid off all of the staff and writers.
I should have saved the Tweet from Lloyd because now his Tweets to me are gone, and with it, his announcement. He had commented on the Treehugger Featured Image above.
So, while the site is still up for now, that last tweet was in response to my Tweet reply to his news that I had appreciated him allowing me to comment on Treehugger even as I contradicted quite a bit of what he wrote (“Eat the Rich!”) and what the commenters would say. And yes, I carried the GraniteGrok gestalt and ethos to “the infidels” (heh!) that sometimes wereDTsworldviews rather unliked. But he made sure that my voice was heard and for that, I am thankful as they could have just bounced me forever (I had been banned twice but allowed me back in).
So, I offered him two lifelines. The first was personal:
Now I'll throw a loop at you – would you like to write Op-Ed at GraniteGrok? It might be a worldview role reversal but consider it to be an honest offer.
I know that if I don't write for a while, I get the blogging D.T.'s. I'm thinking you might as well. https://t.co/2YFYQxjuRU
— GraniteGrok (@GraniteGrok) January 28, 2023
He also announced his “last post” as “Mazda’s Electric Car Gets a Rotary Range Extender: Pairing a little Wankel with a little battery in a little hatchback makes a lot of sense,” and of COURSE, I had more to say to Lloyd, AND to the commenters there:
Lloyd Alter
weird that my last post on Treehugger is such a lame one but thanks for all your contributions and for keeping me honest. Much appreciated.GraniteGrok
I, too, am saddened that DotDash-Meredith is closing down Treehugger. I looked at your corporate site and they don’t even have the courage to announce this in their News section.I have, as the Founder/CEO of GraniteGrok, put in a press inquiry as to the state of this news.
And then let the commenters know what I had told Lloyd on Twitter yesterday:
Yesterday, I offered Lloyd to host a replacement site for him and the others (Treehugger II?) if they so choose.
That should make some heads here explode…heh!
And kinda goaded Lloyd to accept:
So here we go – will Lloyd et al embrace Capitalism and create their own company? Do they believe in themselves strong enough to take the risk? Will they have the stick-to-itiveness to bootstrap such an effort?
Conservative commenter Bob Baal pitched in (emphasis mine):
“weird that my last post on Treehugger” I have to say I am not very happy about that but of course things have to change – I wish you the best with your future writing and hope to see you around.
Hi if you don’t work for TH anymore you can jump the fence and join us commentators, I am sure VB and GG would welcome you with open arms.
Then you can really say what you think!
An aside to Bob and a reiteration to Lloyd of a different offer:
Yep! For as much as I was the “Loyal Opposition” for years, I will miss this site…
…unless Lloyd decides to take me up on my offers.
Still waiting, however, on my offer to come talk with your students in class (heh!).
Note: I’ve now asked 3 times to yak with Lloyd’s students but with no reply as of yet. It might be that he wants to protect his young students from this wizened Conservatarian with a worldview they may not have yet experienced (do I dare say “Woke” about these college students?)
And in response to Bob’s exclamation that Lloyd could now “join” in with me and Vindaloo Bugaboo (aka, VB).
Free speech, baby! Something that a number of commenters here did not like at all.
In addition to hosting a site, I offered Lloyd the ability to do some Op-Eds at GraniteGrok.com. I do hope he takes me up on it but it will be a severe role reversal with respect to commenters.
People there will think that I have lost my ever-loving mind – but that’s OK, there will be LOTS of comments flying, so “low carbon steel” yourself, Lloyd!
It remains to be seen if Lloyd will take me up on anything. That said…
I still have a bunch of Treehugger posts saved from which I want to post some comments, but unless Lloyd takes me up on my offer when they’re done, they’re done. So I’ll take suggestions if anyone knows of a similar site at which I can “poke the bear.”
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I testified last week to the New Hampshire House Commerce and Consumer Affairs Committee on Bill HB639 which would legalize the commercial sale of marijuana and other cannabis products in the state. This is my testimony.
Related: Marijuana Legalization; What the Public Deserves to Know
I am testifying today because marijuana has devastated my family. My brother started smoking marijuana at a young age and as a teenager, he became a paranoid schizophrenic. He has been homeless for most of the last 40 years of his life. This happened back in the 70s when marijuana had a very low level of THC. With the new, dangerous high-THC products many more families are suffering the same devastation that we have.
I recently read the following very scary statistics in Tablet magazine in an article “How Weed Became the New Oxycontin.”
If you’ve ever smoked a bowl and become irrationally anxious that everyone is staring at you and knows you’re high, what you experienced was a mild symptom of cannabis-induced psychosis. According to one study, about 40% of people react this way.
If you experience that paranoia and keep smoking on a regular basis nonetheless—especially with today’s high-potency THC products, and especially if you’re young—there’s a good chance you’ll eventually suffer a full psychotic break; 35% of young people who experience psychotic symptoms, according to another study, eventually have such an episode.
If you keep using after that, you run a decent risk of ending up permanently schizophrenic or bipolar. Cannabis has by far the highest conversion rate to schizophrenia of any substance—higher than meth, higher than opioids, higher than LSD. Two Danish studies, as well as a massive study from Finland, put your chances at close to 50%.
“One out of every 20 daily users can expect to develop schizophrenia if they don’t quit,” Dr. Christine Miller, an expert on psychotic disorders, told me.
Please vote Inexpedient to Legislate on HB639 to spare other families from the same tragedy.
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Someone called me last nite a wee bit more than upset saying (paraphrased) “What, the ONE media outlet in NH that truly is all about Republican ideals and philosophy, GraniteGrok, was not allowed at the NH GOP Annual Meeting? How stupid was that?”.
Well, we appreciate the sentiment – and we have been Consistently on message about Conservatarianism since we started. While there is a love/hate relationship over the years (“we thank them when they do right and we spank them when they do wrong”) when they deliberately don’t follow their own Platform, this is the first time that GraniteGrok has never been allowed to cover an event. We’ve covered all (but one) of the Trump ones here in NH.
So when someone sent this to me, the first question I had was (sarcastically):
“So what has OAN done for the NH GOP lately?”
Or any of them.
Now, I’m quite sure that the folks at OAN are good folks and I’m “picking” on them just because I can read the mic flag on their camera. However, the question still stands – and they flew in, covered the Trump speech, and left. How did they help the NH GOP either in amplifying the Republican message (which we do more in a week than the NH GOP does in a year; maybe in three days (snort!)) or correcting them when they fall off a Platform Plank?
And Maya had a hand in picking all of those cameras over GraniteGrok’s.
Whose cameras, IF she had asked, were going to be focused on doing “man in the street” interviews (like our “MicroInterviews”) the majority of the time. And one small camera focused on the stage (that’s all it takes nowadays).
So OAN is gone – and we remain. And blogging – and we’re not going away.
Object Lesson.
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Of the 97 hearings in the House, we are recommending support of 11 and opposition of 14 with 3 being of interest.
Of the 71 hearings in the Senate, we are recommending support of 2 and opposition of 2 with 1 being of interest.
| Position | Bill | Title | Committee | Day | Time | Room | State Analysis |
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| Oppose | CACR4 | relating to compensation for legislators. Providing that legislators’ biennial salary compensation shall be increased. | Legislative Administration | Mon 1/30 | 10:30 AM | LOB Room 301-303 | This constitutional amendment concurrent resolution increases the biennial compensation for legislators and increases additional compensation for attendance at special sessions, emergency sessions, and veto sessions. |
| Of Interest | HB301 | relative to recusal by members of the general court for conflicts of interest. | Legislative Administration | Mon 1/30 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill defines conflicts of interests relative to legislative ethics and delineates when members of the general court should recuse themselves due to such conflicts of interests. |
| Oppose | HB208 | establishing greenhouse gas emission reduction goals for the state and establishing a climate action plan. | Science, Technology and Energy | Mon 1/30 | 11:00 AM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill establishes greenhouse gas emission reduction goals for the state and authorizes the department of environmental services to inventory greenhouse gas emissions on an annual basis and to develop and report on a 5-year action plan. |
| Oppose | SB201 | relative to resale of event tickets. | Commerce | Tue 1/31 | 9:45 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill provides a civil penalty for the unauthorized resale of event tickets. |
| Support | HB130 | repealing the drug affordability board. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Tue 1/31 | 2:30 PM | LOB Room 305-307 | This bill repeals the New Hampshire drug affordability board and the fund related to the administration of the board. |
| Oppose | HB249 | establishing regulatory standards for the pet insurance industry. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Tue 1/31 | 3:00 PM | LOB Room 305-307 | This bill establishes regulatory standards for the sale of pet insurance. The bill is a request of the insurance department. |
| Oppose | SB141 | relative to administration of the education freedom accounts program. | Education | Tue 1/31 | 9:15 AM | LOB Room 101 | This bill provides for applications to the education freedom account program for a child currently attending a New Hampshire public school, including a chartered public school, for a minimum of one year, or who is entering kindergarten or first grade. This bill requires annual determination of eligibility for awarding of education freedom account funds. The bill also requires an annual report on the number of students participating in the program in each school district. |
| Oppose | SB151 | relative to mental health education. | Education | Tue 1/31 | 9:30 AM | LOB Room 101 | This bill expands the adequate education standards to include mental health education and provides rulemaking authority to the department of education to accommodate this change. |
| Oppose | HB324 | relative to campaign contributions and expenditures and making an appropriation therefor. | Election Law | Tue 1/31 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill establishes a fund to provide campaign financing for eligible candidates for governor and executive councilor and makes an appropriation to the fund. |
| Of Interest | HB482 | requiring the use of ballots with embedded security, traceability, and relative to the chain of custody for ballots cast in elections. | Election Law | Tue 1/31 | 10:15 AM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill: I. Requires the secretary of state to select a supplier to print and deliver ballots for elections. II. Makes certain security requirements of ballots. III. Specifies the chain of custody for ballots during and after an election. IV. Requires photocopied proof of identity and residency when submitting an absentee ballot. |
| Oppose | HB259 | relative to a study about making working at polling places on election day a civic responsibility and legal obligation for citizens. | Election Law | Tue 1/31 | 1:30 PM | LOB Room 306-308 | This establishes a committee to study whether to make working at polling places on election day a civic responsibility and legal obligation for citizens |
| Oppose | SB133 | relative to changing the date of the state primary election and creates runoff election for federal primary election. | Election Law and Municipal Affairs | Tue 1/31 | 9:45 AM | LOB Room 103 | This bill changes the date of the state primary election to May and creates a runoff election for the federal primary election. |
| Support | HB119 | relative to homestead food operation licensure. | Environment and Agriculture | Tue 1/31 | 1:30 PM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill increases the maximum annual gross sales of food a homestead food operation may sell and retain an exemption from food licensing provisions. |
| Support | HB122 | relative to microenterprise home kitchen operations. | Environment and Agriculture | Tue 1/31 | 2:00 PM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill defines homestead food operations and provides food service licensing exemptions for them. |
| Support | HB493 | eliminating the state meat inspection program. | Environment and Agriculture | Tue 1/31 | 2:30 PM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill eliminates the state meat inspection program. This bill is a request of the department of agriculture, markets, and food. |
| Support | HB348 | relative to the sale of raw milk and products made with raw milk. | Environment and Agriculture | Tue 1/31 | 3:00 PM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill increases the amount of raw milk a producer processor can sell or process without a license and removes the requirement that such ice cream and frozen yogurt produced using raw milk be sold in 6 ounce containers. |
| Oppose | SB114 | relative to payment by the state of a portion of retirement system contributions of political subdivision employers. | Finance | Tue 1/31 | 1:55 PM | SH Room 103 | This bill restores the state’s contribution to the retirement liabilities of certain teachers, firefighters, and police officers within the state retirement system. |
| Support | HB646 | eliminating the vehicle inspection mandate for non-commercial vehicles. | Transportation | Tue 1/31 | 10:30 AM | LOB Room 201-203 | This bill exempts vehicles that do not require a commercial driver license to operate from annual equipment inspection to determine whether such vehicles are fit to be driven. |
| Oppose | SB256 | establishing a safety program for off-highway recreational vehicles. | Transportation | Tue 1/31 | 1:45 PM | LOB Room 101 | This bill establishes a safety program for off highway recreational vehicles. |
| Support | HB288 | relative to taxation of sole proprietorship businesses. | Ways and Means | Tue 1/31 | 11:00 AM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill exempts sole proprietorships and single member LLCs from business enterprise and business profits taxes. |
| Support | HB486 | relative to vehicle registrations and reciprocal toll collection enforcement agreements. | Ways and Means | Tue 1/31 | 1:15 PM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill removes the authority of the commissioner of the department of transportation to suspend the motor vehicle registration of owners in violation of reciprocal toll collection enforcement agreements. |
| Oppose | HB225 | relative to prohibiting the use of currency that could be detrimental to privacy rights. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Wed 2/1 | 1:45 PM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill prohibits the use of any currency as legal tender that could be detrimental to privacy rights. |
| Of Interest | HB46 | relative to the appointment of magistrates and repealing the statutes governing bail commissioners. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Wed 2/1 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill authorizes the superior court and circuit court to appoint magistrates and repeals the powers, duties, and authority of bail commissioners. |
| Oppose | HB400 | relative to certain assault offenses, bail eligibility for commission of certain assault offenses, and making a false report to a law enforcement officer. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Wed 2/1 | 11:00 AM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill establishes a separate criminal penalty and bail conditions for assaults involving a law enforcement officer, firefighter, or emergency medical services worker. The bill also establishes a criminal penalty for making a false report to a law enforcement officer. |
| Oppose | HB549 | relative to definitions of domestic violence. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Wed 2/1 | 12:30 PM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill expands the definition of abuse to includes acts of financial abuse and domestic violence. |
| Support | SB206 | prohibiting corporal punishment in child day care agencies. | Executive Departments and Administration | Wed 2/1 | 10:15 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill expands the definition of endangerment to include corporal punishment as defined by the department of health and human services. |
| Support | HB274 | relative to the administrative rulemaking process. | Executive Departments and Administration | Wed 2/1 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill makes various changes to the administrative procedures act, including requiring the agency to verify that the rule complies with the underlying statutory authority and legislative intent; expanding the scope of fiscal impact statements; requiring that proposed rules be submitted to the appropriate legislative policy committee for approval; permitting JLCAR to deny adoption of a rule following final objection, and repealing certain exemptions from rulemaking authority. |
| Oppose | HB566 | relative to establishing a fund for child care workers and early childhood educators at state licensed child care centers. | Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Wed 2/1 | 10:30 AM | LOB Room 210-211 | This bill establishes a child care workforce fund to provide grants to eligible child care employers for child care workforce recruitment and retention bonuses and benefits. |
| Support | SB254 | relative to community-based sentencing alternatives for primary caregivers. | Judiciary | Wed 2/1 | 2:00 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill adds “dependent child,” “elder,” “person with a disability,” and “primary caretaker of a dependent child” to sentencing definitions. This bill requires sentencing courts make determinations for individually assessed sentences without imprisonment based on community rehabilitation and parent-child or dependent unity and support factors for primary caretakers of dependents. |
| Oppose | HB489 | establishing a county tourism development fund administered by the department of business and economic affairs and making an appropriation therefor. | Municipal and County Government | Wed 2/1 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill establishes a county tourism development fund administered by the department of business and economic affairs and makes an appropriation therefor. The bill also establishes a county tourism grant program funded from tax on meals and rooms income. |
| Oppose | HB226 | enabling municipalities to regulate the distribution and disposal of certain solid waste within landfills. | Municipal and County Government | Wed 2/1 | 11:30 AM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill allows towns and municipalities to regulate the distribution and disposal of certain solid waste within landfills. |
| Oppose | HB273 | requiring composting and waste recycling to be made available to residents of public housing. | Municipal and County Government | Wed 2/1 | 2:20 PM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill requires public housing residents to have access to on-site composting and recycling receptacles. |
| Support | HB592 | relative to buffers around wetlands. | Resources, Recreation and Development | Wed 2/1 | 2:30 PM | LOB Room 305-307 | This bill exempts temporary impacts and small impervious surface impacts projects from local over lay districts and permits for construction, excavation, or filling near wetlands. |
| Of Interest | SB191 | relative to road toll registration surcharges for electric vehicles. | Ways and Means | Wed 2/1 | 9:45 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill establishes a registration surcharge for electric vehicles and requires the division of motor vehicles and department of transportation to report annually on the surcharge revenue and use of funds. |
| Oppose | SB261 | relative to the interest and dividends tax rate and threshold. | Ways and Means | Wed 2/1 | 10:15 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill: I. Removes the repeal of the interest and dividends tax rate that was to take place on January 1, 2027. II. Removes the interest and dividends tax rate reductions that were to occur after December 31, 2024. III. Increases the taxable minimum of gross income from interest and dividends. |
| Oppose | SB262 | allowing municipalities to collect an occupancy fee from operators of local room rentals. | Ways and Means | Wed 2/1 | 10:45 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill enables a municipality to collect an occupancy fee from room rentals for the purpose of establishing a municipal capital fund, revolving fund, or tourism support fund. |
| Oppose | SB168 | relative to participation in a low-moderate income residential customers community solar project. | Energy and Natural Resources | Thu 2/2 | 1:45 PM | SH Room 103 | This bill allows for participation of certain large electrical generators in low-moderate income community solar projects and expands the eligibility of residents to benefit from community solar additions. |
| Oppose | SB149 | relative to nurse agencies. | Executive Departments and Administration | Thu 2/2 | 9:30 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill establishes a licensing and application process for nurse agencies. |
| Support | HB110 | prohibiting the use of state funds for new passenger rail projects. | Public Works and Highways | Fri 2/3 | 11:45 AM | LOB Room 201-203 | This bill prohibits the department of transportation from utilizing state funds for the planning, construction, operation, or management of new passenger rail projects. |
| Oppose | HB511 | relative to requiring the department of transportation to do road maintenance and repairs according to its complete streets program | Public Works and Highways | Fri 2/3 | 1:45 PM | LOB Room 201-203 | This bill requires towns, cities, state departments and state institutions who request maintenance and repair assistance for their roads from the department of transportation to coordinate with the complete streets advisory committee to plan and follow the complete streets program standards of the National Association of City Traffic Officials. |
| Oppose | HB633 | relative to electric distribution company market share, prohibiting certain electric rate increases, and requiring enforcement against Eversource. | Science, Technology and Energy | Fri 2/3 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill requires that electric distribution companies shall not raise electric rates by an amount that exceeds the annual increase in the Consumer Price Index. The bill also prohibits electric distribution companies from having market share greater than 50 percent and requires the attorney general to bring an action against Eversource. |
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So yesterday the RNC reelected as its Chairman Ronna ROMNEY McDaniel. Under Ronna, who has been at the helm since 2017, the GOP has LOST every election cycle. She is a LOSER. And it is not like the members of the RNC did not have an alternative.
They did … Harmeet Dhillon, who campaigned on changing the focus of the RNC from being a grifting operation for the consultants, operatives and insiders into WINNING.
Obviously, the members of the RNC do not think winning is important … or at least not as important as padding the pockets of the same grifter consultants/operatives/insiders who have lost every election cycle since Ronna took over.
By the way, this was sort of a proxy war between DeSantis and Trump. DeSantis endorsed Dhillon, while Trump worked feverishly behind the scenes to reelect Ronna. So another takeaway is that Trump remains a horrible judge of people and would repeat the egregious staffing mistakes that hamstrung his term as President.
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There are times that I post something and I get feedback. Other times, they just come in. Given some of the issues encountered during yesterday’s NH GOP Annual Meeting, this came in unbidden. I’ve re-written parts of it to protect the sender to “jumble up” the writing style a bit. If Chris Ager wishes to know, I can send him the redacted names to talk with.
Hey Skip!
While there may be been some issues today, there are lower-level problems that the new NH GOP Administration ought to be aware of if they really are mindful as to what is going closer to the grassroots – especially with NH GOP Delegates. Most would nominate either themselves to be State Committee members or their friends (who would then return the favor). And those Delegates are the ones that then vote, in their committees, for those that would become official NH GOP State Committee members like those that voted for Chris Ager to be the new NH GOP chair and other officials.
Here’s a BIG problem. As it seems during the State wide elections, there was yet another “election integrity issue” in Windham. The Windham GOP chairman unilaterally selected the slate of state committee members. It also happened in Londonderry. <Redacted> and <redacted> would both be good people to talk to about this in Londonderry.
In Londonderry, the Old Guard did what Windham did: put forward a unilateral slate for State Committee Members (as opposed to “open nominations”). This was challenged by the elected Londonderry NH GOP Delegates. Nevertheless, Jason Grotzky ran rough shot over the elected “grassroot” NH GOP Delegates in Londonderry and approved the GOP establishment slate. <Redacted> also knows all about this, too, as a third reliable source.
There were quite a few unhappy folks that criticized the process of how this was run. There are also rumors that a lot of the Area Vice Chairs had colluded with Sununu‘s people (gosh, I just have NO idea who they would have been – snicker) to put forward their own Sununu loyalist slates thus usurping the will/vote of the Delegates. This most likely was due to the fact that they knew many of those delegates were grassroots aligned.
So yet another battle between those who believe in Principles and the “Republican’s Republican for the Republican Party”, aka, the GOPe.
So the new leadership now has more problems to deal with.
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My indoctrination, starting three years ago, to the New Hampshire Judicial System has been fraught with frustration and stress.
As some of you know, I filed numerous Right-to-Know lawsuits against the City of Nashua and received some favorable rulings. It has been a long, slogging challenging process. I also have a criminal case before the 9th District Case regarding arrest in City Hall for trespassing.
I pleaded my trespass charge to a violation and, in June, Judge Curren signed off, within days of submission, on a conditional discharge. I was eligible to annul, so on July 7, 2022, the paperwork was submitted to put this behind me.
On July 22, 2022, I went to City Hall to collect some paperwork located in the legal office. The City email portal had been down for several days and the letter could not be accessed. Given the deep animus and hostility Attorney Bolton exhibits towards me, I called the office from the hallway to request the correspondence.
By chance, Attorney Bolton opened the door, saw me standing in the hallway and started shouting – ”leave, you’re trespassing, I’ll have you arrested.” I was stunned and frightened. The police arrived at City Hall and Attorney Bolton requested I be arrested immediately.
The Police conducted an investigation and on August 1, 2022, cleared me of any wrongdoing. The report noted that Attorney Bolton was unreasonable and angry.
Laurie Ortolano – Police Incident Report 7_22_22 Bolton trespassing 22-43246-OFWhen the report was issued, the police attached the conditional discharge notice. Mayor Donchess and Attorney Bolton sprang into action and hired Attorney Brian Cullen to intervene. On September 12, 2022, the City filed a frivolous pleading requesting a hearing and intervention to stop the annulment.
Laurie Ortolano – Nashua City Motion to Intervene 20220912Under the law, the City of Nashua had no standing to intervene, but given their deep pockets lined with taxpayer dollars, they were successful in ambushing my ability to resolve the matter in a timely manner. Judge Curren now had another filing to act upon.
Judge Curren has failed to complete the order. Apparently, this is a newly assigned Judge with little experience. My annulment was filed over 210 days ago and the City’s Motion to Intervene was filed 137 days ago. Well past the 60 day order deadline noted on the Court index for the case. My attorney started following up in November.
In December, the Court clerks informed us that the Judge denied the City’s Motion to Intervene and the order would be out in days. It never came. Upon visiting the Court again, the Clerk explained that the Judge forgot to sign off on the annulment so back to his desk it went. The Clerk was hopeful this would be completed in a week and noted she had never seen a case handled like this. The order never arrived.
I am now learning from other Defendants and parties that orders are taking 7 or more months with no explanation provided and no communication for the delays. This Judge appears to be wrongly holding people in incarceration and negatively affecting citizen’s lives. The personal attacks and the abuse from the City has been punishing and personal in my case and Judge Curren has joined in contributing to this situation.
The Courts have a responsibility to place competent Judges who know how to write and perform their duties in a timely manner. Judge Curren cannot produce orders in a timely manner.
Where is the professional courtesy in this Judge to communicate when an order is expected? Does this Judge have a clerk assigned to him and if he has one, perhaps he needs two? How many months am I to patiently wait before complaining? And who do I complain to?
Today, I am filing a formal complaint against the Judge with the Judicial Conduct Committee. His actions constitute misconduct. Competency matters. The system should be monitoring performance but who is the system? Someone, find us competent, professional Judges.
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