Democrats in the House and Senate voted against parental rights when they voted against SB272. SB272 would have established a parental bill of rights in New Hampshire.

Democrats said they were standing up for the LBGTQ community because of the provision in SB272 that would have required school staff to answer parents honestly if they asked about their child’s gender status in school. Much of this comes from the model school policy JBAB that was recommended by the NH School Boards Association several years ago. Since then, and after a couple of lawsuits, the NHSBA removed their recommendation. It’s important to note that the NHSBA also opposed SB272. Do you get the feeling the lobbying organization that parents fund out of their school budget doesn’t have much respect for them?

A few years ago Kristie Torbick was praised for her work as a beloved guidance counselor in Bedford, and then worked at Exeter High School. A few months later, she pleaded guilty to raping a child at Exeter High School! Kristie groomed a sexually confused girl.

She had the student babysit her children and met her at playgrounds to sexually assault her, all under the guise of “counseling.” Parents need to know what’s happening with their children, but Democrats want parents to be kept in the dark.

Yesterday ALL of the Democrats in the NH House VOTED to support school personnel like Torbick LYING to parents about their children. Torbick would have been supported by Democrats, the NHSBA, the ACLU, these NH school board members, and every other organization that testified against parents, and in support of school staff lying to parents.

Predators who work in our schools have a better chance of abusing children now because LYING to parents is acceptable.  Every Democrat New Hampshire Senator and Representative voted against parental rights, and in support of lying to parents.

Telling children that they will keep secrets allows for a predator to groom the child, just as Torbick did to this victim.

Democrats also made sure that this legislation cannot be brought back up for a vote for two years! They didn’t just remove the provision in the Bill that they said they opposed; they killed the entire Bill for two years. This was never about standing up for the LGBTQ community because those parents have rights too. Why didn’t they bring forward a parental rights bill that eliminated the provision they opposed? They had the power to rewrite the Bill the way they wanted it but chose instead to KILL a parental bill of rights.

As a parental rights advocate in New Hampshire, it is shameful that Democrats now stand against parental rights. All of their talk about supporting parents is not true. If it was true, they would have amended the Bill to reflect their support for parental rights.

The only ones who benefit from this vote are the employees like Kristie Torbick, who have not been caught yet.

 

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It never ends, does it? The Left never stops, never gives up. We who simply just want to be left alone and want Government to do what we pay it to do and nothing more and nothing less have to learn that lesson. “You WILL be made to care” (Erick Erickson) you can add “If you try to be a speedbump to their agenda, ya’d better bring yer mob of other speedbumps”. The lesson is that we can’t stop either. I just wish I could enthuse more Normals that while we do have to pick up and wage war in the Culture War the Left has brought (WE certainly didn’t bring Transgenderism, Childism, and Porno books into school), we should look at it as a way to amuse ourselves while doing it. They certainly don’t like Happy Warriors looking back at them (they have little sense of humor and a dour outlook).

And today, a new couple asked for some help writing RSA 91-A Right To Know demands as their School District has been blowing them off – Welcome to our Party!  And there is a larger and larger Party growing (as always, pretty much all is reformatted and emphasis is mine):

• Parents Are Suing Schools Over Pronoun Policies. Here’s What You Need to Know

While the battle over transgender students’ rights at school is waged nationwide, a handful of parents continue to argue that by aiding in students’ social transitions, districts are violating parental rights. Over the last three years, parents in at least six states have sued school districts over policies the districts say support transgender, gender nonconforming, and nonbinary students. The parents who have filed the lawsuits claim that their 14th Amendment rights to direct the upbringing of their children are violated when schools do not inform them of their children’s pronouns or names, or aid in their social transition at school in any other way.

Now, if you go there, remember one thing: Ed Week is a bit of an “Edu-Industrial Complex” trade rag – they are not friendly “outsiders”. WE are the interlopers that are to be dismissed. Note that their stand is that Districts MUST “support” transgenders. In effect, Normal kids are discriminated against and that Free Speech, Freedom of Expression (of religious values), and Constitutional Rights of Parents are the Primary entities in raising their children.  And Chris Erchull, a lawyer for GLAD (who is following GraniteGrok) makes it clear that E Pluribus Unum no longer is in effect such that transgender kids have a higher status than Normal kids:

Chris Erchull, an attorney for GLAD, a legal organization that defends LGBTQ+ rights: “To meet that obligation, schools must support students by, at the bare minimum, dignifying them when they say, ‘this is my name, and [these are] the pronouns that I want to use.’”

Frankly, I don’t care, and I think most parents would agree, with what you call yourself. We DO care that Districts are destroying the First Amendment to “dignify them” while denigrating others. It’s really STUPID that America is being changed in that everyone is being known NOT for their character (honor, courage, decency, manners, knowledge, work ethic) but for what is (or isn’t) between your legs.  We don’t CARE what your sexuality is – drop it and leave it in your bedroom.

Want safer schools? While this goes back to April, it IS a way to harden schools against mass shootings. After all, the nutcase transgender (you have to be really mentally ill to take revenge by killing innocent children) who shot up the Christian Covenant School chose that over a different target that she (using the pronoun that fit her biological sex) had evaluated because the other had a more heightened security environment.

• Gov. Bill Lee To Propose Plan To Put Armed Guard In Every Tennessee School

Every Tennessee private and public school will have the resources necessary to hire an armed guard if Governor Bill Lee (R-TN) gets his plan through a Republican-led legislature.

Next week, Lee will propose a plan to funnel millions of dollars to public and private schools to beef up security following the mass shooting at a Nashville Christian elementary school on Monday. Lee’s plan would place an armed school resource officer (SRO) in every public school and provide funding for private schools to hire armed guards with the same level of training as those in public schools. Private schools would not be forced to join in on the program, The Tennessean reported.

That bill passed and now is in force. The Leftist politicians are always yammering “It’s for the kids!” but have refused to do the same things for those same kids that they themselves have – armed bodyguards and other security measures. Republican Bill Lee has done the right thing!

And then we come to another kind of nutcase embedded in a school environment. Read this next headline and try to think of all the bad ramifications this could have:

• School superintendent: male coaches don’t want naked girls in the locker room, but they should

Assistant Superintendant sic] of the Glendale California Unified School District Kelly King explained in a video call that male coaches feel uncomfortable being in a locker room with trans-identified males walking around naked. This is unsurprising since adult men and naked young girls don’t shouldn’t be mixing. King, though, lectures them that since these are not girls, but boys, they should be fine with it.

Once again, I can call my now elderly dog a racing horse but they aren’t going to let Mieka run in Churchill Downs anytime soon. Or let me identify as a 6’8″ Black power forward in the NBA at almost 70 years old (you racist ageists who ignore what my “authentic self” is!!!!  heh!).  While this Kelly King gal is smirking about this, she must be a misandrist in nature. Sure, subject those male coaches to an environment that anywhere else would get them arrested for being a Peeping Tom (at best) to being, as the post says, a sexual predator. And being that these girls-masquerading-as-“boys” are underage, throw in pedophiles as well. I guess that smirk is for how many years those coaches will be subjected to a different kind of shower environment. But to these transgender-its supporters, it’s this next bit that is key:

But Ms. King is, of course, completely wedded to gender ideology. She appears to see a boy when a girl stands in front of her, and demands that everybody else does too. The comfort of every other person in the world is irrelevant, including both the coaches and the other students. Nobody matters but the alphabet people. Nobody.

Including the parents, whose wishes are also irrelevant. She is perfectly happy to hide what kids do from the parents, up to the point of skirting state law about record-keeping. Abiding by the wishes of the parents is just perfect, but only as long as the parents abide by the wishes of the school.

Boy, have *I* found that to be true! Chris Erchull (of GLAAD employment, above) is responding with a rousing “Huzzah”! Both of those paragraphs PERFECT summarize the situation we Normal people are in – even as Transgenders are crying that we are trying to “erase” them, the gaslighting fact is that the show is on the other foot. It is Erchull’s job to make that happen.

And now there are health professionals that are starting to buck the “peer struggle” that people like Erchull have been using to scapegoat the rest of us by “shading” the medical studies that now, for SOME obvious reason, are not being shown -so why is that and is it for “medical” reasons or others?

• Doctors Expose Just How Experimental ‘Gender-Affirming Care’ Truly Is in Florida Medicaid Case

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Psychiatrists, endocrinologists, neurologists, and other doctors testified in support of a Florida health agency’s rule preventing Medicaid from funding various forms of “gender-affirming care,” such as “puberty-blockers,” cross-sex hormones, and transgender surgeries.

“Patients suffering from gender dysphoria or related issues have a right to be protected from experimental, potentially harmful treatments lacking reliable, valid, peer-reviewed, published, long-term scientific evidence of safety and effectiveness,” Dr. Paul Hruz, an endocrinology researcher and clinician at Washington University School of Medicine, wrote in a sworn affidavit provided exclusively to The Daily Signal. (Endocrinologists treat the endocrine system, which uses hormones to control metabolism, reproduction, growth, and more.)

Hruz joined with other doctors in testifying in support of Florida’s Agency for Health Care Administration, which finalized a rule in August 2022, declaring that Medicaid would not cover “puberty blockers,” cross-sex hormones, “sex-reassignment” surgeries, or other procedures that alter primary or secondary sex characteristics.

So what does the Left always does when it can’t get its way?  Sue. Were they successful?

…In denying that temporary injunction, the court ruled in October that the case centers on whether Florida’s determination that the transgender interventions are “experimental” is “reasonable.”

…Hruz and other doctors argue that the medical interventions often described as “gender-affirming care” are experimental and that the organizations that present standards of care supporting them—the World Professional Association for Transgender Health and the Endocrine Society—represent more a political and advocacy effort than an objective analysis supporting these alleged treatments.

AHCA asked WPATH and the Endocrine Society to hand over the documents they used to craft their treatment protocols, but the organizations at first declined, then handed over a limited selection of documents that AHCA found insufficient. AHCA calls “the continued reluctance” of these organizations “significant, especially when [the LGBT groups] and their experts rely extensively on the WPATH standards of care and the Endocrine Society’s guidelines.”

…While “WPATH claims to speak for the medical profession,” it “represents a self-selected subset of the profession along with its many non-professional members” and it “does not welcome skepticism and therefore deviates from the philosophical core of medical science,” Levine writes.

…Levine explicitly calls transition and affirmation “experimental therapies that have not been shown to improve mental or physical health outcomes by young adulthood,” and warns that these therapies “do not decrease, and may increase, the risk of suicide.”

He further warns that hormonal interventions “are experimental procedures that have not been proven safe.” So-called puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones can have negative effects on fertility, bone density, brain development, and psychosocial well-being.

Enough of that for a bit – what about what schools are supposed to teach?  And the methodologies used?  Or in this case, a time honored practice that most of us hated but, in retrospect, knew it worked? Yeah, drop-kicked for being racist (what ISN’T racist nowadays? Shouldn’t the question be a different one?

• Maryland School District Reviewing Policies to See If Homework Is Racist, Negatively Impacts ‘Marginalized Communities’

…Montgomery County Public Schools will reevaluate its homework policies, last updated in 1986, “with an antiracism lens” to determine how homework affects “social-emotional learning” and whether it negatively impacts “marginalized communities,” according to a Daily Signal review of a March 16 Board of Education meeting.   Proponents of anti-racism say that America is systemically racist and that racism is built into nearly every institution. They say that just being against racism is not enough—one must be anti-racist and actively work to tear down these institutions.

The homework policy review follows the release of Montgomery County’s “anti-racist” audit results in October 2022. The audit raised concerns about “inequitable expectations, practices, and transparency” in terms of homework policy, according to a slideshow on the policy revision framework.

Ho-hum.  You know, EVERYTHING that is wrong, according to the Left, is the result of some “-ism”. Racism is just one of them and an easy one to hide behind. And IMHO, that’s what its being done. How about install real school discipline? Putting in a great dose academic rigor and setting the expectation by everyone that students should excel – and getting that into these young, skulls full of mush kids that have been molly-coddled too much by school administrators that “fear the woke mobs” instead of Parents turning on them for churning out inferior results:

…The homework policy review comes as new mid-year Evidence of Learning standards in the district show that less than half of sixth grade students met math standards and only 52.6% of third graders met literacy standards.

But that would take Parents turning on them for churning out inferior results – which doesn’t seem to be in evidence. But one thing is very sure, given that schools are turning themselves in taxpayer sponsored emotional sanitariums – and creating permanent life-long victims:

While claiming to equip children with the ability to manage emotions, feel empathy for others, and maintain positive relationships, social-emotional learning integrates critical race theory throughout the education system.

The school district outside Washington, D.C., says it will adjust its homework policies in accord with those of comparable Maryland districts, including Howard County Public Schools, which has “flexible deadlines” for homework assignments, and Frederick County Public Schools, which instructs teachers not to grade all homework assignments to avoid “reveal[ing] biases.”

So do the homework while the kids will never know if it made a difference. Are the headhonchos that stupid to not realize that the kids aren’t that stupid to waste their time doing something that will never matter? At least one Mom gets it:

“Our scores are going down—reading, mathematics, science,” she said. “But they’re spending money and wasting money on something absurd like this.”

Add this as well: Schools axe homework, deadlines in the name of equity: Report

And Government, either in the schools, cities, or the States, keep pushing Childism by actively pushing for any excuse to remove children from their parents. A couple of “quicker takes”:

• In California, parents may soon effectively lose custody of kids 12 and older

In California, “stranger danger” may be about to acquire a whole new meaning. Forget warning kids. It’s the parents in California who will need to be terrified of strangers if a new bill passes. Snuck into AB 665, legislation ostensibly about extending mental health care to lower-income California youths, is a provision that effectively would terminate parents’ rights over their kids as soon as they turn 12.

The California Family Council warns that this bill “would allow children as young as 12 years old to consent to being placed into state funded group homes without parental permission or knowledge.” As long as a mental health professional signs off on it, the kids can go to such a group home—and it doesn’t matter what their parents think.

“This bill is essentially stating that parents are criminals that have to prove their innocence to get their child back,” adds Friday, who is a leader of the parent advocacy group Our Duty.

And by “mental health”, they mean for LGBT children. This, too, is another example of Government taking your children’s future from you – another District forcing their staff to lie to parents (by omission or commision) – just like in my school district, Gilford NH, and in Manchester’s (also NH) school district:

• Teacher says she was told to deceive ‘suspicious’ parents about children’s stated gender identities at school — now she’s suing

…The cable network said attorneys for Mirabelli and fellow teacher Lori Ann West — both of whom taught for decades at Rincon Middle School in Escondido — filed a federal lawsuit last week against the school’s leadership, claiming they were effectively required to lie to parents whose children assumed different gender identities at school.

The lawsuit, which was also filed against administrators with the Escondido Union School District (EUSD) and the California State Board of Education, alleged that the K-8 school district’s harassment and discrimination policies mandated teachers to accept a child’s transgender or gender diverse identity without hesitation and to hide it from families.

The suit also claims they were instructed to use students’ preferred names and pronouns in school, but to revert to their biological pronouns and given names when speaking with their parents. Teachers were told to tell “a suspicious parent” that they were allowed only to discuss “information regarding the student’s behavior as it relates to school, class rules, assignments, etc.,” according to the suit.

…While she was figuring out how to approach the situation, Mirabelli told Fox News she learned from the school counselor that students’ names were being changed in official school records without parental knowledge or consent.

So it’s Canada so I’m a bit shakier ground than talking about the US Constitution but there’s this that mirrors our First Amendment:

The “Fundamental Freedoms” section of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms states:

2. Everyone has the following fundamental freedoms:(a) freedom of conscience and religion;

(b) freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication;
(c) freedom of peaceful assembly; and
(d) freedom of association.

Yet, just like our Constitutional Right to Freedom of Speech and Expression, it seems that the new State sanctioned secular religion of Sexuality trumps deeply held doctrines of faith:

• Catholic Student Arrested After School Suspension for Saying God Created Only Two Genders

A Roman Catholic student in Canada who was suspended for saying that God created only two genders has now been arrested. On Monday, The Western Journal reported on the story of 16-year-old Josh Alexander, who was suspended from St. Joseph’s Catholic High School in Renfrew, Ontario, after saying in class that there are only two genders and leading a protest against trans athletes using the girls’ locker room. The suspension was justified on the grounds that his presence would be “detrimental to the physical and mental well-being” of the transgender students at the school.

“I expressed my religious beliefs in class and it spiraled out of control,” Alexander told The Epoch Times in an interview. His attorney is bringing the matter to an Ontario human rights tribunal, alleging religious discrimination.

…This is a really disturbing case, and it is especially disturbing that it happened at a Catholic school, which one would think would acknowledge the biblical truth that there are only two genders.

Indeed – yet another religious institution that got the Woke and has lost its connection and fealty to its First Principles.

• How about we stop putting books with pornography in school libraries?

Moms for Liberty was launched in 2021 and now claims 275 chapters in 45 states with 115,000 members and counting. The group has grown exponentially after bringing attention to books like “Genderqueer” in school libraries, which the moms have deemed inappropriate. “Never bet against a mom,” Justice said in the CBS interview, “I mean, nobody’s going to defend anything like a mom is going to defend their child.”

…She continued, “We want people who are serving an elected office [to] respect the role of the parent in a child’s life.”

When the “CBS News Sunday Morning” host asked what kind of books they want in libraries, Descovich said they want books that “educate children.”

The host called her answer a “generalization,” and Justice interrupted.

“Books that don’t have pornography in them. Let’s start there. Let’s just put the bar really, really low. Books that don’t have incest, pedophilia,” she retorted.

The host then went quiet.



There is no reason, NONE AT ALL, as to why porn has to be in our school libraries. The Woke /  Trans folks (but I repeat myself) say it is for the “marginalized communities”. Frankly, that’s a stupid dodge and they expect us to swallow that codswallop in one big gulp and like it.

Horsepuckey. There is a reason for it and it isn’t for the marginalized – its meant for conversion of young minds that don’t understand it’s wrong. It’s also evilness being brought against our kids by evil adults that are in on the Woke con.

Remember: “We don’t care about you – we have your kids”.

Don’t let them.

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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s presidential campaign announcement speech on Wednesday included much that advocates of limiting the power of the United Sates government can cheer, including strong criticism of the US government’s crackdown in the name of countering coronavirus and of the series of wars in which the US government has engaged from Vietnam to Ukraine. We’ll be watching and listening as Kennedy in the coming months expands on this criticism and discusses his promised different approach.

Early in his speech and immediately following announcing that he had decided to seek the Democratic Party presidential nomination, Kennedy stated what will be the focus of his campaign and, should he win the election, his presidency. Declared Kennedy: “My mission over the next 18 months of this campaign and throughout my presidency will be to end the corrupt merger of state and corporate power that is threatening now to impose a new kind of corporate feudalism in our country, to commoditize our children, our ‘purple mountains majesty,’ to poison our children and our people with chemicals and pharmaceutical drugs, to strip mine our assets, to hollow out the middle class, and keep us in a constant state of war.”

Coming back to this theme later in his speech, Kennedy stated:

All I am saying is you need a president at this time in history who can stand up to his bureaucracy. The bureaucracies are owned by the industries. I’m talking about, you know, NIH and EPA and CDC and FDA and DoT. That train track wreck would not have happened in East Palestine except we have a captive agency at DoT. Our food is terrible because the food companies and the pesticide companies own USDA. We’re in constant wars because the military-industrial complex, the big contractors, own CIA.

Kennedy proceeded to note that he believes most people at the CIA are “patriots” and “good public servants” with “enormous courage and idealism.” That, continued Kennedy, “is the same with most our agencies.” But, he explained, “the problem is the people who end up rising in those agencies generally are people who are in the tank with industry, and that’s how they get corrupted.”

As you watch Kennedy’s presidential campaign proceed, keep these comments from his campaign announcement speech in mind. They will likely be important for well understanding his future comments and proposals.

Kennedy’s ability to gain support in the race may end up largely dependent on his ability to bring along voters to understand and agree with both his take on the “corrupt merger of state and corporate power” and his pitch that, as president, he would successfully counter that problem.

 

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A few hours ago, Skip shared NOAA’s predictions for the summer weather – above Average temps and normal or slightly above for precipitation. And this is where I remind everyone how bad NOAA is at this.

Political science has taken over at the agency, so it is difficult to take anything they say seriously – and recent failures do not help matters. They totally blew last year’s hurricane forecast and then guessed wrong again for most of their winter prediction. If NOAA’s confidence is high, yours should be low, at least around here, especially given the El Nino situation.

We’ve been expecting it, the El Nino, and it’s coming, but there’s no conclusive data one way or the other to show us what that means for weather in New England. None I can find. But the warnings and the big red-brown-yellow maps are on the loose, and that means Climate Cult Zombies and their digital sandwich boards predicting the end of the world on every virtual street corner.

The end of the world unless you give them your property. A sort of personal belongings drought that never ends. And on the subject of drought, New Hampshire is still in one of its wettest periods in history which suggests – using their science – that higher CO2 concentrations equal less drought (more rain), but that’s not entirely accurate.

Let’s look at the entire country from 1895 to 2023. There is (net) zero evidence of any relationship between the “emissions” and how wet or dry it is.

 

USPA Wet Dry US 1895-2023 NOAA

The CO2 line would be an upward-angled curve from the bottom left (Jan 1895) to the top right (Apr 2023): nearly 130 years of “climate” data and no correlation. But in reality, Fake news, CNN is all in on the El Nino scaremongering.

 

Scientists consider 1.5 degrees of warming as a key tipping point, beyond which the chances of extreme flooding, drought, wildfires and food shortages could increase dramatically. https://t.co/k3FwSnhIQ6

— CNN (@CNN) May 17, 2023

 

I don’t spend much time reacting to that sort of Twitter garbage, but I couldn’t resist.

 

I remember when a rise of 1.0 Degree C was the end of the world (2005)? We passed that, and nothing happened, so they moved the goalposts.https://t.co/egOrGnYt9M https://t.co/SMeBLEeORs

— Steve Mac Donald (@TheRealNHSteve) May 19, 2023

The fact that the “earth” has warmed 4.0C since 1750 without anything going sideways is also mentioned at that link which means we’ve come a long way during our interglacial, but odds are swinging back the other way. So, when you’ll need cheap, abundant energy more than ever, the Climate Cult’s political allies are working overtime to limit access.

And much like NOAA’s predictive ability, there’s no science to it. It is wild conjecture, and since NOAA is hit or miss most of the time just a few months out, the failure rate any further into the future is exponentially ridiculous, as is basing any policy on it.

So, yes, we’ll be watching to see how badly they called it, with the caveat that even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

 

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Educators often use the metaphor of the three-legged stool to convey the ideal parent-teacher-child relationship.  If one leg is weakened, the stool inevitably becomes unstable.  Over the past few years, this three-legged stool has become more and more wobbly.

We want to thank NH State Rep. Arlene Quaratiello for this Op-Ed. Please submit yours to Editor@GraniteGrok.com.

Last Thursday, one of the three legs broke as the New Hampshire House of Representatives failed to pass the Parental Bill of Rights (SB272).  This bill sought to strengthen the three-legged stool, ensuring that students, teachers, and parents could have cooperated in a partnership that would have worked in the best interests of children.   It was intended to enshrine in law that the relationship of these three groups be based on truth and respect, two values that must be highly upheld in any free society.

The House Democrats, along with the help of a few nominal Republicans, “indefinitely postponed” the bill, ensuring that parental rights cannot be discussed again during this current term of the current legislators.  Before this motion was passed, an all-ought assault was launched on SB272 as a group of representatives with no regard for parental rights sought to gut it with a number of pernicious amendments.

In addition to those parental rights already codified in law, SB272 sought to grant parents the right to ask questions pertaining to issues of gender identity and to be truthfully answered by school personnel.  It would have prohibited the current policies of some school districts which demand that school personnel give parents erroneous information regarding their children, information that contradicts the reality of what is actually going on in the classroom.  In other words, this bill asserted that familiar age-old mandate “You shall not lie” upon which free societies have always been based.

The failure to pass the Parental Bill of Rights and to legally uphold the right to get truthful answers to questions will destroy parents’ trust in their children’s schools. Since it sends the clear message that parents are not respected, the defeat of this bill will be “the last straw” for many parents who have been considering alternatives to public education.  Now that SB272 has failed, the noticeable decline in public school enrollment that began in response to detrimental COVID policies will likely accelerate as more and more parents abandon a governmental education system that obviously considers their children mere wards of the state.

Since the legislature did not pass the Parental Bill of Rights, the three-legged stool of our public education system can no longer stand.  In fact, the use of this metaphor has become ludicrous.  If our laws fail to reflect our deepest values as a society, if they don’t assert parental authority, prohibit secrets and lies, and uphold the importance of “the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth,” our democracy itself might not survive.  We need only look to historical precedent—the Communist Russian Revolution’s “Family Code” of 1918, Hitler’s Youth, and the Maoist Cultural Revolution—to see what happens when parental rights are not upheld and truth is no longer considered essential.  We can also look to literature, in particular Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, a novel that portrays a dystopian society that seems more believable with each passing day—a society in which the state not only believes that it is more qualified to raise children than parents themselves but in which parents have been completely eliminated.  To counteract this toxic mindset, parents must assert their God-given authority.  They will have the opportunity to do this at the ballot box in 2024 when they can elect candidates who will truly support parental rights and restore the three-legged stool that upholds our society.

Rep. Arlene Quaratiello
Atkinson
Education Committee Member

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My mother passed away at the age of 77. Her life in China was tragic, and it took me a while to write about her life and death because I had to confront the complex feelings and meaning of her legacy.

I loved my mother for her kind and gentle soul. She was meek, although often in ways I did not understand: bulliable, submissive, & conflict-averse. Her interactions with China Communist Party (CCP) officials were characterized by obedience and tolerance to their inhumane treatment of people like herself & I was long haunted by a childhood memory illustrating the aforementioned, where she got on her knees and begged a CCP official for a raise at her factory job. She sacrificed her dignity only to be cruelly denied. I used to assume I was entirely my father’s child, as he was a fighter whose strength was like the factory steel he worked: firm, resilient, & tough. I spent my life assuming that my defiant nature was the product of my father, but now I am not so sure.

In an unremarkable village in Penshan, China, a sickly child cursed by fate was born. Her mother believed her too weak to survive & left her to die in peace, yet the child refused. Fighting through labored breathing, she produced a cry so loud & enduring that her mother could no longer ignore it. She fed that night & would live to see the morning. The child that defied a peaceful death for a difficult life was my mother.

Growing up poor with an elementary education resigned her to a life of labor in a state-run factory in the capital of Sichuan. The oppression of her social condition was matched by her physicality: measuring under five feet tall, she was frail & strongly nearsighted. Despite this, she won the love & adoration of my father, an illiterate orphan whom she married & blessed with three children. Raising children under Mao’s regime was an arduous burden. We lived in a primitive worker’s row house sharing one restroom & faucet with 8 families. Our mud floor would sprout mushrooms after flooding; we were dirt-poor.

In spite of this, my mother’s heart never hardened. She was known for approaching beggars in the street with small gifts & the words: “Buddha bless you!” Her generosity defied the cruelty of her reality. Despite this, she found happiness in music (which she only sang after a little Chinese moonshine). She was elegant, clean, & loved pretty, pink clothing, which was frowned upon under Mao’s regime. Using what little money, she saved to buying pink fabrics was a small act of defiance against Mao’s Cultural Revolution.

Happiness was often short-lived, however, as she was ill most of the time and required frequent care in the decrepit state-run Chinese hospitals; a product of socialized medicine. While undergoing surgery in the eighties she received a blood transfusion infected with syphilis that was discovered a decade later when I brought my mother to the United States. Despite a course of antibiotics, her brain had already suffered the consequences of neurosyphilis. She displayed signs of dementia at the age of 60. Though ill, America offered my mother a degree of peace, even if it was momentary. She & my father converted to Christianity & lived peacefully, attending a Chinese church every Sunday. In the end, her advanced dementia collided with COVID-19 & after being hospitalized, she died in 2020.

My mother’s legacy is one of defiance. It began with a cry that defied death, lived through compassion that defied pain, & endures in me. This revelation testifies to the miracle of God’s design; subtle, yet purposeful. For God imbues in each of us a part of his divine essence. For my mother, she bore the suffering & submission to pain that Christ knew; not out of weakness, but out of love for her family, so that they may have survived. She embraced God’s Word that we defy evil not through the hardening of our hearts, but through turning the other cheek & committing to compassion.

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Michelle Obama, the grand dame of the lousy school lunch, has leveraged her fame at our misfortune into another likely cash cow. She’s the wind beneath the wings of a new “healthy” drink called Plezi that is anything but healthy.

 

Former First Lady Michelle Obama’s touted health drink Plezi would fail the health standards set by the Obama administration, a new Bloomberg report found.

After discussing with 12 independent health professionals and organizations, the news organization found that Plezi’s current flavors released earlier this month would not meet the requirements to be served at elementary and middle schools.

 

The Obama’s have leveraged their stint in the Oval into an estimated net worth north of 240 million, give or take. Does that mean Barry will donate his salary for life to needy causes? Not a chance, but as a reminder, President Donald Trump donated all of his presidential salary while in office.

Democrats don’t have to live by the “it was never yours” philosophy they use to justify taxes to expand their wealth and power. They did build that and intend to keep it, and the government they created will protect them. But not you or your kids, which brings me to the “Wait. There’s More!”

I have a video excerpt from Michelle-O’s remarks about her juice, children’s health, and profiteering that deserves an irony alert award.

“I learned the hard way that a lot of those products that were being marketed as healthy weren’t actually healthy. And that made me furious.All I wanted were good products, good information, good partners, who didn’t just see my kids as profit generators for their bottom line.”

So, you object to the government, schools, Unions, the Democrat Party, the FDA, CDC, Big Pharma, state and local public health offices, and politicians mass-injecting teens, tweens, kids, toddlers, and even infants with COVID-19 vaccines that were more dangerous to them than the flu from which it could not even protect them?

Harmful products and misleading information from profit-minded money launderers. Just like your Juice!

 

 

 

 

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There is a saying that a soft life produces weak men. In Sun-King Sununu’s case it is a weak, soulless man. Our not-so-little Lord Fauntleroy … a narcissist, who loves to hear himself talk … says that pro-lifers are LOSERS. I kid you not. From his publicist, the NeverTrump grifter, Mikey Graham:

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The entire National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration report can be seen here.

 

It looks like El Nino is also about to start its cycle (the flip side being La Nina) and last through the rest of the year. For the Northeast, it looks like we’re going to have a high chance of having above average temperatures but a “regular” amount of rain.

Weekly, I also watch NOAAs’s National Integrated Drought Information System on New Hampshire’s Drought status (comes out every Thursday).  We were in drought for quite some time before the winter but finally returning to normal after some of our drenching rains late in the winter and into spring. It’s looking like we aren’t going to be in as bad shape as last summer.  Here’s a baseline snapshot as of yesterday with only the very northern tip of NH being a bit dry

Hopefully it stays that way.

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Back on April 30th I discussed that there was no reason for Sun-King Sununu et al. to wait for the POSSIBLE passage of a parental bill of rights to start protecting children in public schools from grooming/sexualization/etc.:

The NHGOP controls the Department of Education and the Attorney General’s office … there is no reason to wait for the POSSIBLE passage of a Parental Bill of Rights to protect the children …

Well … on the heels of the NHGOP House failing to pass a parental bill of rights, the NHGOP Senate is now essentially saying the same thing. More specifically, Sun-King Sununu could simply issue SB 272 in the form of an Executive Order:

Maybe the only person in NH who hasn't commented on the parental rights bill vote yesterday: @GovChrisSununu

Yesterday, NH Senate Republicans called on the governor to issue an executive order in lieu of the bill. The governor's office has not responded.#NHPolitics pic.twitter.com/YfHOffrmBB

— Ethan DeWitt (@edewittNH) May 19, 2023

Needless to say such an Executive Order is long overdue and, thanks to the incompetence of the NHGOP House, ESSENTIAL … but I am not holding my breath.

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Many of us are not happy about the direction of America and concerned about the younger generation being content with our trend away from Capitalism and towards Socialism. We were told by some nefarious historical figures that this would happen and exactly what the steps in the process would be. If you disregard history, you are destined to repeat it, and if you do not heed warnings along the way, you get what you deserve. I do not think that Baby Boomers deserve the America of the future. Still, we allowed our younger generations to be influenced and indoctrinated by a failed education system, so in a way, we are complicit in the process.

A viral post on social media is attributed to Nikita Khrushchev, former Premier of the Soviet Union in the 50s and 60s. The quote describes how Russia would feed us small doses of Socialism over time, and eventually, we would abandon Capitalism for Socialism and, finally, Communism. We would collapse and be easy prey for a takeover by Russia without ever firing a shot or launching a missile. The quote may be fictional, but what is happening to the United States is very real, and the steps are so apparent that we could have been manipulated.

Let’s look at the text of the quote and try to dispel any part of it:

“Your children’s children will live under Communism. You Americans are so gullible. No, you won’t accept Communism outright; but, we will keep feeding you small doses of Socialism until you will finally wake up and find you already have Communism.”

“Democracy will cease to exist when you remove from those willing to work and give to those who would not.

There are nine levels of control to make this transition a reality.

1. Healthcare: Control Healthcare, and you control the people
2. Poverty: Increase the poverty level as high as possible as poor people are earlier to control and will not fight back if you supply all their needs.
3. Debt: Increase debt to an unsustainable level so you can justify more taxes which will increase poverty.
4. Gun Control: remove the ability to defend themselves against the government, thus creating a police state.
5. Welfare: take control of every aspect of their lives; food, income, and housing, thus making them dependent on the government.
6. Education: take control of what people read and listen to and what children are taught in school, and you control the future.
7. Religion: Remove the belief in God from schools and government because you need people believing the government knows what is right for the people.
8. Class Warfare: divide the people into the wealthy and the poor. Eliminate the middle class causing more discontent and the need for more taxation on the rich.
9. Control the Media: make the media the mouthpiece of the government.

Many of these steps have been in play for years but look at America since 2009. The Obama administration accelerated the 9-step process. The Affordable Care Act (Obama Care) made every American accountable and dependent on the government for healthcare. Remember Biden’s comment when it passed? “This is a “big F%$^&*^ Deal!” It wasn’t about health but about Step 1. We have discussed the education situation ad nauseam. The flood of humanity over our Border satisfies a number of steps. These people add to the number of people in the poverty sector, depend on the government for welfare support, complicate the education system, and further divide the classes in America. The government allows China to infiltrate our country in many ways, including setting up police stations in major cities.

Every step of the 9-step process is working against the America we knew and loved. The FBI has been spying on our worship services, and we know how the media is the mouthpiece of the Left. We are letting this happen, BUT we can slow or stop the process by electing Conservative Republicans. Every public position filled with a Liberal Democrat is one step closer to Socialism or Communism. We can make a difference, which is why elections are important, and whether Local, State, or Federal, we must turn out and vote.

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In the private sector, you either succeed, or you get fired.  A company either makes the right decisions according to its consumers, or they abandon (er, fire) you, and you go out of business.

Emphasis mine.

“All the people who want to ‘regulate the planetary climate’ and demand the power and unlimited resources to do so are people who have proven themselves incapable of competently managing and running recently built, closed, man-made systems.

“They cannot competently run power grids, or municipal water systems, or trash pickup; they cannot competently maintain, let alone repair, the ‘roads and bridges’ they are always pratting about; they cannot competently run or maintain the public housing they increasingly want people to live in, or the public transportation systems that they want people to rely on …

“Yet they want people to believe that they can, and should, be permitted to try and regulate the planetary climate.”

To which we really must add that they (or one particular government I have in mind) cannot manage international airports, passport issuance, legitimate protests, civil service payroll systems, support for their veterans, maintain a sufficient military, a national health-care system (which used to be the pride of the country) inter-provincial relations, and conflict of interest legislation. To be fair, they are good at handing out contracts to their friends and running up consultancy bills.

There is truth to the above, and it points to one entity – The government.

There are those that CRAVE the power that comes with their high perches (or striving to get one) within Big Government. While some elected representatives are still held accountable at the ballot box, most are incumbents until they retire or die. Bureaucrats rarely are riffed so it seems they can do what they want to the rest of us (re: the “all of a sudden to eliminate our gas stoves, rejigger our dishwashers, light bulbs (again), air conditioners, clothes washers, dryers, and cars.

Even as they are rigging the regulations to get rid of gas cars and move us into electric cars in their “ELECTRIFY EVERYTHING!!!” headlong rush in their GAIA ritual worship, they just passed MORE regulations such as coal and natural gas electric generation plants will be mostly closed on “harmful emissions” basis.

Hammer, meet Anvil (with us in the middle). And there seemingly is not a dang thing we can do about it. Just like with Obamacare, they will sacrifice themselves for their ideology.

Which as the quote points out, they are incapable of pulling any of that off. And that’s ok with them.

Their main purpose is simply to make the rest of us miserable – and they are laughing at us along the way.

 

HT | Rex Murphy via Instapundit

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Four years have passed since the Howie Leung incident broke out in Concord. The scandal centered around a teacher accused of inappropriate contact with female students and the years-long cover-up by the school.

Students who stepped forward previously had been silenced, and everyone from the union reps to the administrators was keen on hiding whatever it was. The Concord Monitor, Patch, and even the Grok were all over the story at the time, elevating it to a level that could not be avoided.

Leung was arrested. The district Superintendent and a Principal were shown the door a few months later. But Leung still hasn’t been charged in New Hampshire and has been out on supervised release (in Massachusetts), awaiting trial for charges in that state.

Claire Best mentioned it in a wide-ranging email sent last week to the NH DOJ and a list of State Reps and media folks (myself included).

In January 2023, The Concord Monitor publishes an article stating that Primo “Howie” Leung has not been prosecuted in New Hampshire, that the criminal trial against him in Massachusetts has been delayed several times and is now set for fall of 2023.  Concord DA Paul Haloversen has not prosecuted him. Concord Schools insurer paid out $1.5 million based on investigations by an ex prosecutor from Massachusetts but Concord Police Detective Julie Curtin’s original affidavit remains sealed and the case seems to have progressed no further since the April 3, 2019 arrest.  The judge for the civil suit against Fessenden School Massachusetts tossed the case out completely citing the lack of evidence – the evidence relied on Concord Police Detective Julie Curtin’s statements and Massachusetts attorneys, defense attorneys and prosecutors have been unable to advance due to lack of information.

 

The problems with evidence fit a profile that Claire has shared on our pages time and again. Sexual assault cases arising in New Hampshire have a strange history that includes a familiar cast of characters and ends with large sums of money passing between familiar fingers.

We covered the Howie Leung story, emphasizing the Teacher’s Union and Administrative cover-up of alleged misconduct. Union reps tried to intimidate witnesses. The principal at the High school was also a principal at the Middle School where Leung is suspected to have been a bit handsy with the girls – but clearly knew something was off and managed to provide cover at two separate schools.

And after all that, the State of New Hampshire hasn’t charged him or appears likely to, and Massachusetts can’t bring a case to court.

But the money has changed hands. The insurance company paid the alleged victim for what we must ask.

If you have the time, Claire has cataloged a lot of that sort of thing in the Granite State. Sexual assault cases, witness tampering, smearing the accused, what look like payoffs, sketchy prosecutorial and court practices, and, as I noted above, many of the same players in the NGO and Political environment.

Some of whom continue to move up in the so-called criminal justice system in New Hampshire.

And there always seems to be a lot of money moving around.

 

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It is fair to say that legalizing marijuana is the actual top priority of the NHGOP House “leadership.” And it is also fair to say that making Obamacare Medicaid Expansion permanent is the actual top priority of the NHGOP Senate leadership.

And it is also fair to say that neither marijuana nor Medicaid are among the top issues of actual GOP voters.

In other words, the priorities of actual GOP voters … protecting students in public schools from being groomed and indoctrinated (DEI/CRT); stopping illegal immigration; crime; out-of-control government spending, and the resultant inflation … are NOT the priorities of the NHGOP “leadership.”

In fact, it is just the opposite. Sun-King Sununu proposed a massive increase in spending in his budget proposal, and the NHGOP House increased the spending. Another example: NHGOP House leadership wants an open border with Canada.

And, of course, there is the incessant normalizing of the NH-Communists, aka NH-Democrats, by referring to them as “friends,” “colleagues,” etc. Dear NHGOP leaders, if Communists like Matt Wilhelm and Debbie Altschiller are your friends … then you are no friends of GOP voters.

 

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This is as good a time as any to discuss the unholy alliance to advance the Green New Deal between “capitalist titans” and green Marxists  — an incredibly anti-free-market anti-business agenda that is using what appears to be military dominance tactics to achieve escape velocity.

Bonner Cohen, writing at the Daily Caller, introduces us to how this confluence of interests appears to be using “a military doctrine that arose in the Pentagon in the early 2000s. “Full-Spectrum Dominance,” also known as “Full-Spectrum Superiority.” And Biden’s recent energy and environmental Executive Orders (and related rules changes) could create a “hegemony  …without effective opposition or prohibitive interference.”

Cohen labels this Green Full Spectrum Dominance. It’s a scary bit of phone and pen EO gymnastics that, if left unchallenged, has dire consequences for the middle and lower classes, America, and our way of life. And that appears to be precisely what they are after.

A few key points from the piece

Point One.

 

 [T]he White House was deadly serious when — in office for less than a week — it pledged a “whole of government” approach to combatting what it told the public was a “climate crisis.” …[and]

The lengths to which the administration and its allies are willing to go to force a transition to a green energy future go far beyond government regulations and presidential executive orders.

 

Point Two

 

[T]he energy transition is part of a larger transformation of society pursued by a woke elite intent on cementing and expanding its own power and wealth, with scant regard for the consequences this will have on people of middle- or lower income.

 

Point Three

 

At the societal level, the left achieves full-spectrum dominance by having its ideological allies — inside and outside of government — control the levers of economic, legal, political, and cultural power.

 

Pint Four

Not in their wildest dreams could Gramsci or Dutschke have imagined that a future generation of capitalist titans would lock arms with the left in the march to transform society along progressive lines. But that’s exactly what 21st century oligarchs in the U.S. and elsewhere in the West are doing. … [AND]

“The giant capital controllers, like Dimon and Fink, have teamed up with heads of western governments and the Biden Administration in particular, to deny and constrain citizen rights while they continue to live – and intend to keep living – billionaire lifestyles,”

Point Five

Just as green Full-Spectrum Dominance can be imposed domestically, it can — by manipulating tariffs and the lending practices of international finance institutions — be used to force poorer countries in the Global South to meet climate goals set by elites in wealthy countries.

 

This is green colonialism, or as Saint Greta called it, Climate Change Colonialism. “A climate transition that violates human rights.” Greta was trying to stop a wind farm that would infringe on the lands of indigenous people in Norway. It is an odd objection that seems (like most of Greta’s activism) misplaced. The world’s new not-so-green capitalist energy titans have long been working alongside the watermelon Marxists to tear up African countries for rare earth metals—places where people may have a legitimate claim to being from there (truly indigenous).

The by-product of this unholy red-green axis is a massive public health crisis killing millions of brown people as the work harms workers and despoils local land and rivers for miles. These modern green robber barons don’t care about that, so it is safe to assume that exerting diplomatic, financial (or as-needed) military pressure to keep the third world from ever escaping poverty will be easy work as long as they keep doing the hard work of mining the Elites fraudulent net-zero future.

We may even have to add a few far-flung foreign wars over mining rights. Projecting power not to enhance and improve every aspect of our lives – which fossil fuels undeniably did – but to lower every standard by which Western prosperity can be measured for the amusement of the globalists in the name of a problem that doesn’t exist.

 

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Remember what we were told by our NHGOP “leaders” after the NHGOP got shellacked in the 2022 midterms? We still have a Republican Governor, a Republican Executive Council, a Republican Legislature! Well … the NHGOP “leaders” need to be held to their words … to be held accountable.

Despite that nominal majority in the House, “leadership” failed MISERABLY yesterday … failing to get Republicans to show up and thereby allowing the NH-Communists (aka NH-Democrats and certain NHGOP) to destroy the parental rights bill and make OBAMACARE Medicaid Expansion permanent. Apparently Osborne and his “team” were too busy shilling for DeSantis to DO THEIR JOBS.

Packard/Osborne and their “team” need to step down as leaders. They are LOSERS. Indeed they don’t even know how to fight … being more concerned with “decorum” than winning. The parental rights bill was a choice between good and evil … BUT our decorous NHGOP leadership was too spineless to say that … too spineless to call the NH-Communists what they are … COMMUNISTS.

And, apparently, nothing … not even ignominious failure … will snap them out their delusions. Here is Joke Sweeney … clearly the court jester of the Packard/Osborne regime … trying to spin HIS and the rest of the team’s failure to turn out GOP Reps as a positive for 2024:

If Joke Sweeney really believes this … then he is hopelessly stuck in an alternative reality. The NHGOP can scream “we are for parental rights” from now until Election Day in 2024 and it will not move the needle one bit … calling out Democrats by name for using public schools to groom children would … but that wouldn’t be “decorous” … “we’re better than that!” You are LOSERS, Joke Sweeney, total LOSERS.

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Our criminal courts must be free of political interference, racketeering, and profiteering for us to have any trust in them at all. US Attorney Rachel Rollins in Massachusetts has been exposed for corruption and has resigned.

My research indicates that Chessy Prout’s (a Witness for the State of New Hampshire) statement to the US Senate Judiciary Committee regarding witness tampering in the criminal trial of State v Owen Labrie was correct. The records indicate that the State, Merrimack County, and Public Officials have attempted to cover this up in order to protect the exposure of public corruption in which they or their colleagues and collaborators were engaged.

Prosecutors Catherine Ruffle, Joseph Cherniske, DA Scott Murray, and AG Gordon MacDonald disregarded the oath of their office to protect a financial & political interest they shared with private attorneys (including but not limited to Michael Delaney, Shaheen & Gordon, Douglas & Leonard), the NHCADSV, Concord Police, UNH, the US DOJ Office of Violence Against Women and Senator Jeanne Shaheen’s and Congresswoman Ann Kuster’s political campaigns.

The public was defrauded. St Paul’s School was extorted. Dartmouth College was extorted. Lives were ruined, a life was lost, and other lives put in danger for life. People were bullied, stalked, lied to, and threatened – all in order to support extreme public corruption. There has to be accountability.

I believe it is now imperative in order to restore public trust in the New Hampshire Court System for a transparent investigation into:

• State v Owen Labrie
• Doe/Prouts v St Paul’s School & other copycat lawsuits
• The Grand Jury Criminal Investigation into St Paul’s School ordered by Gordon MacDonald as AG
• The Settlement Agreement between AG Gordon MacDonald’s office and St Paul’s School announced in September 2018
• Gordon MacDonald’s and the NH Supreme Court’s denial of Owen Labrie’s appeals
• Judge Richard McNamara’s ruling to keep the Grand Jury Criminal Investigation Report into St Paul’s School.
• Geoffrey Ward’s deletion of Police Officer Files
• Concord Police Department’s Julie Curtin, Sean Ford and Office D’Angelis
• NHCADSV’s relationship with NH Press Association/AP/WMUR/Boston Globe and Government PR Agencies

 

My extensive research into this trial and the events surrounding it present unequivocal proof that St Paul’s School was targeted, Owen Labrie framed for a desire backed by publicly elected officials to get inside St Paul’s School to profiteer and racketeer.

That the successful social media campaign to shut down ABC GMA from airing a program which would have exposed this in July 2019 was a willful malicious action against the public interest in order to protect the financial interest for the NHCADSV, Chuck Douglas Esq (Chair of NH Judicial Selection Committee), Steven J Kelly Esq (partnered with Amanda Grady Sexton of NHCADSV) in Rappuano & Does v Dartmouth which settled two weeks later for $14 million of which the NHCADSV received $2.865 million I believe.

• Rappuano & Does v Dartmouth led to the suicide of Dartmouth Professor David Bucci, who left behind his wife and a 10-year-old daughter.
• Malicious prosecution in a criminal trial is unacceptable.
• Racketeering for profiteering in civil suits and contractual arrangements is unacceptable.
• Witness tampering in a criminal trial is unacceptable.
• Allowing tampered witnesses to give testimony in a criminal trial is unacceptable.
• Training witnesses “to cry more” is unacceptable. Manipulating the media is unacceptable.

The felonious actions by public officials paid for by the public are numerous.

 

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To all those who are sending in memes, thank you!  Keep them coming please, as it helps me gather weaponry to fight the Left.  Please do share this post, and if you share an individual meme, consider mentioning you saw it on the Grok!

Speaking of, from this week, Monday Memes and Meme Overflow.  Also don’t forget both complementary parts of my Survival Sunday feature: PREP edition and SITREP edition.

 

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PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA

 

It’s STARTING! The NEXT Pandemic is here & children are the target says Bill Gates | Redacted News

 

 

Remember, from here, my informing you about the drive to “catch up” on Covid Jabs.

ALL my Covid cartoons are here:

CARTOON: We Trusted the Science – Granite Grok

 

 

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This book is Explosive!

 

 

Long.  Looks like an interesting book!

 

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Remember, we’re slip-sliding our way to Hell with good intentions.

Slip-Sliding Towards Hell with a Good Conscience – Granite Grok

 

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Don’t forget what Build Back Better really is…

 

 

Buy the bumper sticker!

 

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ROFL.

Let’s be clear: I do not want women relegated to second-class baby-factory status.  At the same time, we abandon tradition & the traditional family roles at our peril.

 

 

To cite Thomas Sowell, tradition is not the stifling hand of the dead past, but the distilled wisdom of countless generations who experimented to find what worked.  Also citing him, so much of modernism is replacing what’s worked for untold centuries with what sounds good in the moment.

 

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Pick of the Post:

 

 

I actually had people laugh at me when I suggested the possibility of this.

 

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HE COULDN’T BELIEVE TRUMP RALLY WASN’T “RACIST” MUST WATCH!

 

 

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Palate Cleansers:

 

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Democrats delivered a blow to New Hampshire parents by defeating a parental rights Bill. Cloaked in caring for LGBTQ children, Democrats along with a small handful of Republicans, defeated legislation that supported parental rights.

They didn’t like that the Bill enumerated current laws that support parental rights. Why would new legislation include a list of current laws? Maybe for parents who research the parental rights laws. If SB272 were to become law, a parent could easily see what laws have already been passed since those were enumerated in the proposed legislation. That’s helpful to parents so they don’t have to try to figure out what laws currently exist. These laws would have been easily accessible to parents. Opponents objected to parents seeing this enumerated list of current laws that supported their rights.

The parental rights bill was also criticized because of the provision that would have required school staff to answer parents honestly if they asked about their child’s gender status at school. Currently, many schools in New Hampshire include a provision in School Board Policy JBAB that instructs the staff to LIE to parents if they ask about their child’s gender status in school.

Since this policy is a direct attack on parents, many parents wanted legislation affirming their right to have school staff answer these questions in an honest way. That’s what SB272 would have done for them. Require school staff to answer the question honestly.

During the public hearing on SB272, parents warned that if this law is not passed, they will remove their children from the public school. Some will utilize the school choice programs available, others will figure out a way to get their child an education in a school that does not promote lying to parents.

There are many reasons for declining enrollment in public schools, but this one will certainly drive more families out of the public schools. In turn that means new supporters for school choice programs. It seems odd that Democrats have become the biggest proponents for school choice programs in New Hampshire, but we are seeing families fleeing their public schools because of policies like JBAB. The parent who is currently suing the Manchester district over JBAB removed her child from the school district.

In Manchester alone, the families are leaving because funding is now available to them through the Scholarship program and the EFAs. School Choice proponents are not happy about the defeat of SB272, but are cheering as they know more parents will become new supporters of these programs.

My role has always been to support public education in New Hampshire. A quality academic education where parents are respected in their role, is a ticket to increasing enrollment. So why is this recipe rejected by Democrats? That’s something that you will have to ask them. I prefer to look for ways to improve the public schools while they look for ways to push families out of them.

One thing’s for sure, those who worked hard to defeat SB272 have done more to help the school choice movement than any Republican could have hoped for.

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True to form for a Socialist Progressive, new Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has vowed (during his swearing-in ceremony, no less) to make the financial lives of “The Rich” and Big Biz miserable since Chicago is in desperate straights in the Treasury area.

 “Chicago’s New Woke Mayor Is Signed In and Vows to Tax the Rich and Big Business to Pay for Progressive Agenda – As Major Firms Vow to Pull Out of City”

Translation: your money already belongs to me – you just haven’t realized it yet. It doesn’t matter that Illinois, especially in Cook County where Chicago is located, is already hemorrhaging such people and companies who are tired of paying in and not getting the value that should be coming with those high taxes. You’d think, with all of the bad press that Chicago has received the last few years with climbing taxes, the street crime, and the gang warfare ending up in gun battles that rival entire small countries every weekend, Johnson would be spending some time trying to salvage Chicago’s reputation.

Yeah, I know, bringing a chicken to a dentist to have wisdom teeth extracted. But, by golly, Johnson’s looking to use that “extract” word one way or another (reformatted, emphasis mine):

Companies are already vowing to leave Chicago over additional taxes promised by its new mayor – a progressive newcomer tasked with addressing the city’s dwindling image under predecessor Lori Lightfoot. Appearing on a podcast Sunday, the chief executive of the country’s foremost financial derivatives exchange, Terry Duffy, voiced his distaste over additional taxes planned by the ex union organizer, whose upset win was endorsed by Bernie Sanders. Intended to dig the city out of its current financial hole, the increases are aimed at high earners and companies headquartered in the Windy City – whom, as CME is already proving, are likely to put up a political fight.

While Johnson may have won the infamous election vote, like most Progressives, hasn’t learned that votes are also cast by feet moving out of the jurisdiction. Has he not learned from economically illiterate progressives in Chicago, California, and New York, where if you have a high net worth, the government sees you as a piggy bank; while demonizing you for “stealing from the poor.” Those folks are voting with their feet and taking their piggy bank with them.

Killing the goose that lays the Golden Egg(s) in real-time for all of us to see.

Speaking to the Odd Lots podcast about 24 hours before the ceremony that will see the former Chicago schoolteacher succeed his similarly aligned predecessor, Duffy made it clear his firm is willing to join several businesses like Tyson, Caterpillar, and Boeing in relocating, if Johnson does not heed his and others’ warnings.

Unfortunately, the article then goes more into the crime disaster that Chicago has brought upon itself and not further into the financials. However, reports from Fox32 and Chicago Business push numbers from $800 million to $12 Billion. And Progressives wonder why this phrase is standard:

Taxation is Theft

Especially at this magnitude simply because corruption-ridden, machine politics-driven, and hack-o-rama livin’ Chicago can’t live within its peoples’ (and companies’) means. No wonder it is going to hold the next Democrat National Convention!

 

HT | The Daily Mail

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