The National Weather Service has issued a tornado watch for the entire state of New Hampshire from now until 8 pm this evening.

Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Gray ME 110 PM EDT Sun Jun 23 2024 .SYNOPSIS... A stationary front lifts northward into New Hampshire today as a warm front. There is a slight to enhanced risk of severe thunderstorms across the area today, especially in New Hampshire, with the risk of a few tornadoes and damaging winds being the primary concerns. A cold front will then cross Sunday night and Monday with additional unsettled weather before high pressure builds in by Tuesday, bringing drier conditions. Temperatures moderate through the middle of the week, with another cold front bringing showers and storms late Wednesday. High pressure then builds in late in the week, bringing drier and cooler conditions.

The entire state of Vermont is also part of the watch as are portions of New York, Maine, and Massachusetts. Severe storms are expected and the potetnail for rotation (tornadoes) is estimated to be around 10% but still there is potential. We’ve had a few touch down over the years.

According to this reckoning (Burlington Free Press), there have been 110 tornadoes in NH since 1950. Sorry, no evidence that CO2 or emissions or warming have increased the frequency.

Most years have at least one if this data is correct. There were nine reported in 1963 and eight in 1972.

Year	# of Tornadoes	Direct Injury	Indirect Injury	Direct Fatality	Indirect Fatality	Property Damage	Crop Damage
All	110	30	0	1	0	$12,649,000
2023	1	0	0	0	0
2022	2	0	0	0	0	$8,000
2020	2	0	0	0	0	$5,000
2018	5	0	0	0	0
2016	1	0	0	0	0
2015	1	0	0	0	0
2014	2	0	0	0	0
2012	2	0	0	0	0
2011	2	0	0	0	0
2010	1	0	0	0	0
2008	5	2	0	1	0	$2,027,000
2006	2	2	0	0	0	$3,000
2004	1	0	0	0	0
1999	5	0	0	0	0	$100,000
1998	1	0	0	0	0	$30,000
1997	2	1	0	0	0	$750,000
1995	1	0	0	0	0
1994	1	0	0	0	0
1993	1	0	0	0	0	$5,000
1991	1	0	0	0	0
1988	1	0	0	0	0	$250,000
1986	4	0	0	0	0	$3,250,000
1984	4	0	0	0	0	$775,000
1981	1	0	0	0	0	$2,500,000
1980	1	0	0	0	0	$250,000
1978	3	0	0	0	0	$27,750
1976	2	5	0	0	0	$250,000
1974	1	0	0	0	0	$2,500
1973	2	0	0	0	0
1972	8	7	0	0	0	$330,250
1970	4	0	0	0	0	$325,000
1969	2	0	0	0	0	$27,500
1968	4	1	0	0	0	$77,500
1967	1	5	0	0	0	$25,000
1966	4	0	0	0	0	$257,500
1965	3	0	0	0	0	$52,500
1964	1	0	0	0	0	$25,000
1963	9	0	0	0	0	$855,000
1962	2	0	0	0	0	$27,500
1961	4	1	0	0	0	$257,500
1960	1	0	0	0	0	$2,500
1959	1	0	0	0	0	$25,000
1957	1	1	0	0	0	$25,000
1956	2	0	0	0	0	$25,250
1955	1	0	0	0	0	$25,000
1954	1	0	0	0	0	$25,000
1953	2	5	0	0	0	$25,250
1951	1	0	0	0	0	$2,500

 

Here is WMUR’s more recent update if you want to give them the clicks.

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Let’s look at the place “Absolute Immunity” holds in the Rule of Law in the United States: Every judge, whether that person sits on the local district court, any State or Federal court including the trial court, the intermediate appellate court and the State or United States Supreme Court is immune from a civil lawsuit or a criminal indictment regardless of their conduct on the Bench in the pursuit of their official duties.

That immunity explains the clownish and criminal conduct of Erdogan and Juan during the Trump trials. It also explains the malicious indictments of President Trump by the Soros-financed county attorney.

Every U.S. Senator and Representative has absolute immunity when they rant, rave or defame from the Senate or House floor.

So, when POTUS acts in accordance with official duties of the Presidency absolute immunity should attach. Otherwise, the Presidency becomes a meaningless, impotent position.

Clearly, the judicial conclusion of the Federal District Court and the Federal Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit that Presidential immunity does not exist defies historical precedent, is nonsense, and borders on judicial criminality. Nevertheless, these judicial clowns are clothed in “Absolute Immunity”.

Let us hope that SCOTUS has the political courage to recognize that President Trump acted in accordance with his official duties to protect the integrity of the 2020 election and, therefore, absolute immunity attaches.

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With a straight face and without blinking – as if this was some well-regarded scientific practice and not an outlandish conspiratorial Alt-Righ bugbear – the UK Guardian has a piece exploring research about the effects of geo (or climate engineering).

Reminiscent of the Persian-Cat-stroking evil mastermind whose quest for a global paradise (new world order) goes horribly wrong.

A geoengineering technique designed to reduce high temperatures in California could inadvertently intensify heatwaves in Europe, according to a study that models the unintended consequences of regional tinkering with a changing climate.

The paper shows that targeted interventions to lower temperature in one area for one season might bring temporary benefits to some populations, but this has to be set against potentially negative side-effects in other parts of the world and shifting degrees of effectiveness over time.

The authors of the study said the findings were “scary” because the world has few or no regulations in place to prevent regional applications of the technique, marine cloud brightening, which involves spraying reflective aerosols (usually in the form of sea salt or sea spray) into stratocumulus clouds over the ocean to reflect more solar radiation back into space.

Didn’t anyone warn them that it isn’t nice to fool Mother Nature?

We’ve gone from conspiracy theory to mad scientism in need of government regulation, which seems like a bad idea given that, like COVID, the government did this.

“Our study is very specific,” said Jessica Wan, who is part of the research team led by UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography. “It shows that marine cloud brightening can be very effective for the US west coast if done now, but it may be ineffective there in the future and could cause heatwaves in Europe.”

Heat waves are a side effect of US geoengineering, which was meant to create cooling. Another progressive idea produced the opposite effect. Who is surprised by that? And that opposite effect, regardless of any local positive changes, are important.

Heat waves can cause wildfires, which can cause destabilization. What else did the scientists learn? What didn’t make it into the published study?

In the Guardian’s article, as in every other article following the unexpected disclosure of the San Fransisco project, salt-blinded journalists failed to ask the most important question that every single reader wants to know: Where else in the world are they testing weather modification technologies by spraying chemicals into the air?

Besides chemtrails and salt sprayers, what other kinds of ‘solar geoengineering’ are going on?

There’s also a piece in the New York Times that mentions how there is no government regulation over geoengineering, which is also interesting. In New Hampshire, we had a bill this past session that would regulate geoengineering. HB1700 would prohibit “the intentional release of polluting emissions, including cloud seeding, weather modification, excessive electromagnetic radio frequency, and microwave radiation and making penalties for violation of such prohibition.” It came out of a committee inexpedient to legislate and died on the floor of the State House. I have not looked, but I expect there was a fair amount of ridicule and ranting about crazy conspiracies.

Not so crazy. And now “researchers” are suggesting that someone needs to regulate it, but that’d have to be the international, which is, as we saw with dual-use research to weaponize – oh, let’s say viruses – didn’t stop anyone (the US since GW Bush, for example) from pursuing biological weapons in foreign countries under the pretense of looking for cures to things our enemies might one-day produce.

Like heat waves in Europe?

All to mitigate a problem they created that doesn’t even exist.

And geoengineering is not a conspiracy theory. That is real.

 

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We are heading into the celebration of our country’s birth. July 4th is fast upon us! As we reflect on this great day, let us remember the men who sacrificed so much to give us birth as free people.

Let’s continue with the Declaration of Independence signers. Dr. Benjamin Rush was a very famous signer and distinct American on many levels.

He was born in Philadelphia and was an American physician, scholar, and political leader. He took a medical degree from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.

After graduating, he returned to America, began a medical practice, and was also appointed professor of chemistry at Philadelphia College.

He published the first American textbook titled, “Syllabus of a Course of Lectures on Chemistry.”

His practice grew to a substantial and significant impact. The American Medical Imprints lists that he has 65 publications under his name.

His influence was truly significant due to the large number of private apprentices and students from all over the country. It is estimated he taught some 3,000 students during his tenure as a professor at the University of Pennsylvania. His lectures were considered one of the leading cultural attractions of the city at the time.

In psychiatry, he labored among insane patients at the Pennsylvania Hospital, advocating humane treatment for them on the grounds that mental disorders were as subject to healing arts as physical ones. His Medical Inquiries and Observations upon the Diseases of the Mind, published in 1812, was the first and, for many years, the only American treatise on psychiatry.

He was an active patriot in the cause for freedom from British rule. He drafted a resolution urging independence and was soon elected to the Continental Congress, ultimately signing the Declaration of Independence.

He also served as a field surgeon for the Continental Army. He also served as the treasurer of the U.S. Mint by appointment of President John Adams.

He pioneered clinical research and instruction in medicine and chemistry. His unfortunate weakness was found in his insistence on the practice of bloodletting. This was an unnecessary treatment on many levels particularly in regard to yellow fever.

He had a strong and unwavering faith: A few quotes of his will clearly show his ardent love for God.

“My only hope of salvation is in the infinite transcendent love of God manifested to the world by the death of His Son upon the Cross. Nothing but His blood will wash away my sins. I rely exclusively upon it. Come, Lord Jesus! Come quickly.”

“The great enemy of the salvation of man, in my opinion. never invented a more effective means of limiting Christianity from the world than by persuading mankind that it was improper to read the Bible at schools.”

Christianity is the only true and perfect religion; and in proportion as mankind can adopt its principles and obey its precepts, they will be wise and happy.

Finally,

“Without religion the can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all republican governments.”

As you can see he was a definite proponent of faith in Christ and lived his life in that light.

Until next time….

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A Petition to Protect Fairness and Dignity for Women and Girls



To the legislature of New Hampshire;

New Hampshire is a centrist state. Yet, on gender issues, our state Department of Justice has the views of the DOJ of California.

For years, the New Hampshire DOJ has vigorously advocated for the forced inclusion of biological males in women’s athletics, restrooms, and locker rooms.

In fact, the DOJ has falsely claimed that it is always illegal to separate people based on biological sex in athletic competitions and places of intimate privacy.

Even Biden’s Department of Education admits that separating athletes based on biological sex, rather than gender identity, is perfectly legal.[1]

Although New Hampshire has a Republican executive branch, the DOJ’s lobbying against women’s sports is far to the left of the Biden administration.

New Hampshire taxpayers do not pay the DOJ to take far-left advocacy positions and lobby to deprive their daughters of athletic opportunities, privacy, and dignity.

As our legislators, we ask that you use the power of the purse to reign in the DOJ from engaging in partisan, progressive lobbying activities.

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[1] Section 106, point 31, subsection

2. https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/t9-unofficial-final-rule-2024.pdf

(H/T: Defend Our Kids)

Full Disclosure – I am on the Board for Defend Our Kids.

 

 

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Do you know who Davi Sacks is, bitter-clingers? He is a tech entrepreneur who was a contemporary of Elon Musk’s at PayPal. The Biden-Regime’s policies have been so ruinous … intentionally so … that sometimes it seems impossible to summarize the breadth and depth of the damage. That is why you have me, bitter-clingers.

Below is Sacks’ post on X explaining why he is going against the tech orthodoxy and supporting Trump. It is as comprehensive and irrefutable as it is courageous.

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Voter ID for ME is a petition initiative driven by The Dinner Table to get the Voter ID question on the ballot so the people of Maine can decide the fate of requiring an ID to cast your vote in The Pine Tree State. On June 11, over 350 volunteers manned the voting locations across the state to gather signatures on the petition and had an amazing, successful day. Those hard-working patriots gathered 40,163 signatures in one day. That number of signatures is nearly half the 100,000 needed to get the question on the ballot.

I had the pleasure of watching this initiative grow and gather momentum, and I am proud to have been a member of the team. Working the phones behind the scenes, I was amazed at how receptive people were to the petition drive and also to volunteer their help. The tools and support the leadership group gave us paid off, and we were rewarded with incredible results.

The Dinner Table (TDT) is Maine’s largest and most active grassroots conservative PAC. The goal of TDT is to flip the Maine statehouse red by recruiting conservative candidates and focusing on initiatives like Voter ID for Me. The name, The Dinner Table, was inspired by Ronald Reagan, who said, “All great change in America begins at the dinner table.” The founders, Alex Titcomb and Maine State Rep Laurel Libby are staunch conservatives committed to ending the liberal stranglehold on the state and returning common sense and traditional Maine values to Augusta.

My primary residence is in New Hampshire, but I spend every summer in central Maine. Having witnessed the direction of the state over the last few years prompted me to get involved with The Dinner Table, and not just with a donation. I wanted to get involved and help recover this beautiful state. Maine has the worst education system and the third-highest individual tax burden. The current group of politicians is destroying the lobster and fishing industries with excessive regulations. They are committed to making Maine the marijuana capital of the northeast. They are bowing to Planned Parenthood and passed the most liberal abortion bill in the country. They also have made Maine a sanctuary destination for juveniles seeking abortion and transgender services. The children and taxpayers deserve better, and Alex and Laurel are motivated to deliver results.

The Republicans are at a disadvantage in every election. The mainstream media will play up the Dems regardless of the record, and they will use scare tactics to turn people off to any Republican. Rachel Maddow, the one-day-a-week star of MSNBC, will not play the audio of any Trump event, claiming it is her responsibility to keep misinformation from the public. Is that censorship, election interference, or both? The Republicans also play by the rules, while Dems will stretch the rules to their advantage whenever possible.

It is because of this disadvantage that we need groups like The Dinner Table to stir up the base and conservative writers to flood the internet with the truth. If you want more information on the Dinner Table and to join the movement, click here: The Dinner Table
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For the last nine years, we have witnessed the evolution of the social pathology known as Trump Derangement Syndrome, or TDS. Numerous memes have circulated on the web featuring TDS victims in various stages of the ailment, from the motor and verbal tics, more commonly associated with Tourette syndrome, to the violent behavior most widely associated with sociopathy.

As the frequency and intensity have not lessened in response to the Biden presidency, it is clear that simply removing Trump from office provided no palliative effect for many TDS victims. In the absence of any positive accomplishments and the presence of numerous policy failures, they continue to attribute all negative aspects of the current condition to Trump and use him as their pole star in analyzing any new events.

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As we approach the next presidential election, it is clear that another variant of this syndrome has appeared amongst the American electorate. Victims of this variant exhibit very different symptoms. These symptoms include the embrace of visual icons that imply that Trump is an agent of God, that Trump bears no responsibility for the mishandling of the pandemic, or that one’s purity is substantiated by having no history of criticizing Trump.

Examples include declaring oneself as holding an America First ideology thoroughly opposed to the Deep State while at the same time stating that one supports a strong military-industrial complex. Usually, the “-industrial complex” portion of that construct is not voiced as our current military-industrial complex is at the heart of the Deep State.

While these two variants of TDS are related, they occur in very different sorts of people, and in my experience, they don’t co-occur in one person. How can we distinguish between them in casual conversation? Traditional English provides two prefixes that might prove helpful, although, in recent years, they have become abbreviations of other terms. Those prefixes are cis and trans. Prior to the current phase of the gender-culture wars, cis and trans were harmless words with simple definitions. Examples include trans-Atlantic, meaning the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, as compared with cis-Atlantic, meaning this is of the Atlantic Ocean, or transalpine, meaning across the Alps from Rome, as opposed to cisalpine, meaning on the side of the Alps closer to Rome.

Applying cis and trans to TDS gives us trans-TDS for the original variant, where Trump is viewed as other, and cis-TDS for the more recent variant., where Trump is viewed as one’s messiah. The best part of introducing this terminology is that it allows one to offend extremists on both sides of a contentious issue.

 

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More Activist Soft on Crime Judiciary Appointments

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Bureaucrats in all of the various agencies that make up the Federal, State, and local governments are getting over their ski tips. No, not all of them. I’ve met a number of government employees who really do consider themselves to be public servants and conduct themselves accordingly.

These are the types of folks who need to be praised and held up as models for others.

Like those who seem to believe that because their paychecks have another government employee signing the front of their paycheck, they can have an elevated sense of themselves. And often, this means that they can go above and beyond what their statutory authority allows them to do. They seem to believe (or have forgotten) that it is their Legislature that has given them whatever Powers they have – and not a smidge more.

Sure, a Governor must sign such legislation that is delegating those Powers under the Constitution(s) (or let it become law by not vetoing it), but just as the Constitution, either at the Federal or State levels, acts as a barrier to what Legislatures and Executive Branches can do, such legislation is also a barrier to agency employees.

Or, as Moses, passing as Gandalf in the Lord of the Rings said on the bridge, made clear:

Well, we have no Gandalf nor Moses, but we do have the Judiciary.

Reformatted, emphasis mine:

Federal Judge Blocks Rule Requiring Employers to Accommodate Employee Abortions

A federal judge in Louisiana has blocked enforcement of a rule in two states that required employers to provide accommodations to employees who want to undergo elective abortions, with the judge siding with plaintiffs who argued that abortions aren’t “medical conditions” that employers must facilitate. U.S. District Judge David Joseph announced the ruling in an order filed on June 17 at the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, granting a preliminary injunction in a lawsuit against the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), which he found exceeded its authority in implementing the rule. 

The EEOC “exceeded its statutory authority” in issuing the rule and “unlawfully expropriated the authority of Congress and encroached upon the sovereignty of the States Plaintiffs,” wrote Judge Joseph.

There’s more at the post about the injunction, but that last line is the crux of this ongoing “deliberately straying out of your lane” push, push, push. It’s either a case where:

1. I work here, and I know what is best – we’ll just do it (the “full of themselves syndrome”)
2. I work here, and let’s see if we can sneak this past the rubes.
3. I work here, but I don’t WANT to read some old legislation to see if we can do this – we’ll do it and let the lawyers sort it out.

They tried #3 and got caught; the judge jerked their chain. Note this next part – its ruling was made (assumed) to the ideology of the employees of the EEOC plus the comments:

…The EEOC said that its decision to keep the abortion provision was consistent with its own interpretation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, a federal law that prohibits an employer from discriminating against employees based on sex, race, religion, national origin, color, and pregnancy.

The EEOC decided to redefine pregnancy (originally, this was to protect any woman that was pregnant!) to be “making pregnant women be UNpregnant”. Gee, was THAT part of the Legislation? Er, nope, you dopes. But this is what was done – the redefinition of our common language to make something clearer but to forward an ideology (e.g., that babies, as Obama once said, are burdens). And they got caught:

The attorneys general of Louisiana and Mississippi, as well as the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and other groups, sued the EEOC over the rule, which was slated to go into effect on June 18. They argued that inclusion of abortion under the definition of pregnancy-related medical conditions was an attempt to hijack the provisions of the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act to impose a national abortion exception.

 

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First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.                                                                                 

Pastor Martin Niemöller

Don’t we have the right to know who really is running the country? It’s NOT this decaying, decrepit, concupiscible curmudgeon. BidenX is a figurehead, as well as an imposter. Who is really in charge?

 

Look how long it took Joe Biden to get into his car last night.

Notice how the Secret Service stands behind him too.

It took Biden over 15 seconds just to climb one step and sit.

This is not a deepfake or a “cheap fake.”

Biden is clearly falling apart.

It’s undeniable. pic.twitter.com/SDU17OQNZC

— Paul A. Szypula (@Bubblebathgirl) June 19, 2024

 

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New Hampshire Attorneys General, past and present, have actual knowledge of the link between William Glasser’s Theory and the abuse of children. New Hampshire paid pedophiles working as state employees to conduct William Glasser’s Theory Experiments. The pedophiles then weaponized William Glasser’s Theory to rape and torture New Hampshire children. The link between William Glasser’s Theory Experiments and state-funded abuse of children is not just found in New Hampshire. William Glasser’s Theory Experiments were and are used worldwide to abuse children.

The Laws of Unintended Results by Hon. W. Don Reader 1 is one of the most fascinating documents amid Sen. Jon Ossoff’s inquiry into the federal oversight of Youth Detention Centers. In 2024, The U.S. Senate Human Rights Subcommittee Chairman Jon Ossoff launched an inquiry with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) into alleged abuse of youth in juvenile detention facilities in Georgia and nationwide. He has requested the GAO review the state of federal oversight.

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Honorable W. Don Reader 1 states.

“In the 1960s, when we hung out our dirty wash as a nation and social activism and permissiveness were on the rise, the country saw activism among legislative bodies. By July 1974, Congress enacted the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act, which allocated funds for programs that emphasized community-based treatment and prevention. It established the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention to oversee these programs.”

“Federal incentives were inadequate to induce the states to implement these legislative reforms. However, many states nonetheless enacted enabling legislation to receive what little federal monies were available. What this legislation really said was, “Parents, you owe to your children the duty to care for, protect, house, feed, and educate.” Then we said to the child, “You don’t have to obey your parents, you don’t have to go to school, you don’t have to stay at home, and there is no one that can make you do any of these things.” When the court lost its authority over status offenders, buttressed by the freedom cry of the sixties, we saw an explosion of runaways in the seventies and eighties.

A zealous preoccupation by the administrators of the Office of Juvenile Justice was forcing states and communities to accept and implement untested, unproven, and costly theories, which created havoc in the administration of juvenile justice throughout the seventies. Recent research suggests these policies were disruptive, counter-productive, and, to a large extent, unnecessary. It appears that the modus operandi of the Office of Juvenile Justice was the following: We have a theory. We believe it is correct. Your states and cities must accept it, or you will not get any federal money. If you accept it, we Feds will pay for a small part of the cost of your programs. We will also pay for research that demonstrates that we were right. Now, we are told by researchers that we were wrong, or they still don’t know if we were right. But you still have to do it our way if you want the money.”

https://www.uakron.edu/law/lawreview/volumes/v29/docs/reader.pdf

As New Hampshire residents cough up 160 million to the victims of its own Youth Detention Center, William Glasser’s Theory Experiments, I am left perplexed. No federal investigations have been launched into William Glasser, William Glasser’s Institutes, and/or William Glasser’s Trusts. New Hampshire, via its Youth Detention Center Friendship House, was ground zero for the experiments of William Glasser’s Theory implemented on children. Why do New Hampshire taxpayers feel they should pay victims and mastermind Dr. William Glasser, who claimed to have the solution of the nation to juvenile delinquency, should not be investigated? The assets of all things William Glasser are not small. One could even argue that the assets of the William Glasser Institutes were acquired via its failed experiments on juvenile delinquents nationwide.

One of William Glasser’s practitioners, Barnes Boffey, is linked to Dartmouth College in New Hampshire.

“He has been a counselor in private practice since 1977. Since 1978, he has been a consultant in Choice Theory and Internal Control Psychology.”

Consultant is an interesting word. Barnes Boffey mentions on his website that he has consulted with corrections professionals. New Hampshire’s Youth Detention Center Pedophile Corrections Professionals?

Barnes Boffey was friendly with Dr. William Glasser and, according to his website, still implements Control Theory and Reality Therapy on his patients. This is the same Control Theory and Reality Therapy that was implemented on the victims of New Hampshire’s Youth Detention Center.

Barnes Boffey is also mentioned in the Investigation of The Aloha Foundation based in Vermont, which oversees the operations of Camp Lanakila for 8–14-year-old boys. Aloha hired former New Hampshire Attorney General Michael Delaney to investigate the sexual abuse of children at Camp Lanakila, where Barnes Boffey was director. The Investigation by former New Hampshire Attorney General Michael Delaney began in 2016. According to Valley News:

“Alden Hall, who is now a physician, said he told then-camp director Barnes Boffey about the assault after running into John Hall at an Upper Valley event in 2010. And while Boffey was apologetic, Alden Hall said there was no follow-up.”

I find it interesting how New Hampshire, via its resident’s tax dollars, is paying 160 million to victims when past and current New Hampshire Attorneys General are aware of the link between child abuse and the very dear friend of First Lady Nancy Reagan, Dr. William Glasser. I accept that this pseudoscience has, at a minimum, contributed to the abuse of thousands of children worldwide. A child is not likely to report abuse when they are brainwashed into thinking they choose what happens to them via Choice Theory.

You can find more about William Glasser and New Hampshire’s Youth Detention Scandal via a previous article.

Read more from Niko on GraniteGrok.

 

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As a follow on to my recent essay, Israel: The Lesson of Sudenteland Applies – Granite Grok, I want to highlight more statements and other information to point out the dangers of radical Islam, in many cases as voiced by their own preachers or ex-Muslims.

Understand two things before I begin:

First, I take no joy in this.  I don’t want to be screaming about any group of people willy nilly.  Believe it or not, despite multiple essays like Grid Teetering – Coming Sooner Than You Think? – Granite Grok and Cultural Rot: More examples – Granite Grok and Depopulation Speculations – Granite Grok (and I’m glad to say that we seem to – for now – have escaped this though the excess death situation appears to be still ongoing and I’m still worried about genetic consequences), I don’t want to be crying Danger, danger! continuously, especially on so many topics; it’s overwhelming, actually.  It’s costing me time and mental health to be on edge like this all the time, let alone a lot of money to try and prep as best I can.  But for good or ill, Hashem has seen fit to have me “awake” to what I see as clear and present dangers to our stable civilization and country.  Having given me these insights, I believe it would be criminal negligence, at the least, to not try and share this information with others.

Oh Lord, don’t lighten by burdens.  Broaden my shoulders.

Yiddish Proverb

Second, I believe fully that there are, in fact, “moderate Muslims”.  My wife for one.  Recently, somehow, we were discussing Gaza and she said that if she were in charge she’d carpet bomb the place; she said “Send me there and I’ll shoot them all”!  During our trip to visit her all-Muslim family, everyone was welcoming and extraordinarily hospitable despite knowing I’m Jewish.  In fact, while there, I visited the local Chabad – smack in the middle of a Muslim-majority country.  My guess, given the admission by the Rabbi of the small size of the congregation contrasted with the very nice, free-standing building with grounds and all, that there’s government funding.  Assuming this is true, consider it well: a Muslim government funding a Jewish place of worship.

As a warm up in the spirit of my prior post, ask yourself this:  Just what does Israel have to do with this Muslim attack on a bus of Hindu worshippers?

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/hindu-bus-attacked.mp4

 

 

IN THEIR OWN WORDS – TAKEOVER AND SLAVERY

In that prior topical essay I showed multiple examples – links and videos – of Islamic doctrine highlighting the supremacist nature of Islam.  There can be no “misinterpretation” of this video with translation by MEMRI (incredible resource, as is the ME Forum):

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/only-infidels-may-be-enslaved.mp4

 

Also available on my Rumble channel.  They talk about takeovers when they think they’re private:

Undercover Mosque exposes the planned secret takeover of Britain and the implementation of Sharia Law

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/undercover-mosque.mp4

 

“In 10 Years Europe Will Be Completely Muslim” (youtube.com)

Video, 10 minutes.  And about Britain:

A World-Historical Transformation is Taking Place in Britain | Frontpage Mag

Lawrence Fox continued: “Today there are over 3,000 mosques in England. There are over 130 sharia courts. There are more than 50 Sharia Councils. 78 percent of Muslim women do not work, receive state support + free accommodation. 63 percent of Muslims do not work, receive state support + free housing. State-supported Muslim families with an average of 6 to 8 children receive free accommodation. Now every school in the UK is required to teach lessons about Islam. Has anyone ever been given an opportunity to vote for this?”

From here (formatting in the original):

Ask Hamas, the West is next
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A map of Italy was found at the house of a high-ranking Hamas commander in Gaza.

An Islamic flag sits atop the Vatican. The inscription reveals their ultimate plan:

“???????? ???????????????? ???????????????????????????? ???????????????? ???????????????? ???????????????? ???????? ???????????????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????.”

???????????? ????????????????????????????? ???????????????????????????? ???????????? ???????????? ???????????????? ???????????????? ???????????????????? ????????????????????????????????????. ???????????? ???????????????????????????????????? ???????????????? ???? ???????????????? ???????????????????????? ???????????????????????????????? ???????????? ???????????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????????????????: ???????????????????????????????????????? ???????????? ???????????????? ???????????? ????????????????????????????.

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“???????????????????? ???????????????????? ????????????????????????????????, ???????????????? ???????????????????? ????????????????????????.” ???????????????????? ???????????? ????????????????, ???????????????? ???????????? ????????????????????????????????????????.

 

“The reason you fight them and kill them is because they are Christians and Jews” (barenakedislam.com)

Nor does Israel have anything to do with this scene from Pakistan where Muslims are shouting ALLAHU AKHBAR! while tearing down a cross from a church.

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/muslims-in-pakistan-tear-down-cross.mp4

 

Speaking of that war cry, understand what it really means:

Allahu Akbar is Why Muslims Kill – Daniel Greenfield / Sultan Knish Articles at DanielGreenfield.org

Remember sex slavery of kaffir women, and the “rationalization” of it.  Here:

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/interview-on-islamic-sex-slavery.mp4

 

How, hearing the below, does any woman possibly consider converting to Islam, or even supporting it?  Or looking at the images of gruesomely damaged women in “honor attacks” below the video (link only – content warning).

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/islamic-view-of-women.mp4

 

Women grievously injured in honor attacks

Islam has rules for beating your wife:

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/islam-beating-rules.mp4

 

How does ANY woman that values womanhood think this is acceptable?  Or this:

Women eating under Sharia (rumble.com)

 

 

And pedo is alive and well… and officially sanctioned:

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/pedo-in-islam.mp4

 

Same question of women also applies to the pro-Gaza Rainbow Coalition.

 

 

The Hamas Role in the Worst Massacre of Gay People in America | Frontpage Mag

Reality Check for ‘Queers for Palestine’ Delivered Directly From Palestinian Leaders-“Homosexuals Should Be Thrown Head First From The Rooftop Of The Tallest Building:” | The Gateway Pundit | by Margaret Flavin

Useful idiots everywhere, aiding jihad:

 

Woke Useful Idiots HELPED Islamists Take Power – Apostate Prophet (4K) | heretics. 65

 

 

 

CLARION WARNINGS FROM EX-MUSLIMS

‘Wake Up! The Global Existential Fight Against Radicalism’ Mosab Hassan Yousef #shorts (youtube.com)

Mosab Hassan Yousef, the “Green Prince”, is the author of this book, among others.  He was the son of a Hamas leader.  He knows, intimately and well, what Hamas specifically, and Islam generally, is about.  Others have written books too:

Why We Left Islam: Former Muslims Speak Out by Joel Richardson | Goodreads

One day, an American on the verge of converting to Islam said to one of the editors, Please, I fear I am about to make the biggest mistake of my life. Please give me one solid reason not to convert. This is the book Joel Richardson wishes he had at that moment. Powerful, often shocking but always heartfelt, these essays from over a dozen individuals who have left Islam — often in fear for their lives — are remarkable for their honesty. The stories of how these men and women freed themselves from this repressive and brutal religion are not just inspirational, but present a searing challenge to those Westerners determined to perpetuate the Islam is a religion of peace myth at all costs.

And they speak out:

Ex-Muslims: They left Islam and now tour the US to talk about it (bbc.com)

“There was one guy in particular,” says Muhammad. “I knew him through high school.

“We were in the same college. We were similar people – he was liberal like me. Then he grew this foot-and-a-half long beard.”

…

“I wanted to show my friend his perspective was wrong. But when I went through it, it was very clear that his perspective was actually the Islamic perspective.

“He was right and I was wrong.”

Another is:

Unveiled: How Western Liberals Empower Radical Islam: 9781999240509: Mohammed, Yasmine: Books

Supported by more:

Infidel

Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law

But Sharia isn’t staying in majority Muslim nations. Darwish now lives in the West and brings a warning; the goal of radical Islam is to bring Sharia law to your country. If that happens, the fabric of Western law and liberty will be ripped in two. Under Sharia law:

• A woman can be beaten for talking to men who are not her relatives and flogged for not wearing a headdress
• Daughters, sisters, and wives can be legally killed by the men in their family
• Non-Muslims can be beheaded, and their Muslim killers will not receive the death penalty
• Certain kinds of child molestation are allowed
• The husband of a “rebellious” wife can deny her medical care or place her under house arrest

Another book by her:

Now They Call Me Infidel: Why I Renounced Jihad for America, Israel, and the War on Terror

And a Muslim woman converted to Judaism:

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/rebekah-converted-from-islam-to-judaism.mp4

 

Which has earned her the death penalty for being an apostate.  And a late addition, a 1 hour, 45 minute conversation with an ex-Muslim women’s rights activist by Tommy Robinson:

Episode 37 – SILENCED with Tommy Robinson – Nuriyah Khan (rumble.com)

 

 

PLUS WARNINGS BY SCHOLARS OF ISLAM

Robert Spencer, founder of Jihad Watch:

Fairy-tale Islam: Deceptions Masking a Dark Reality

Religion of Peace?: Why Christianity Is and Islam Isn’t

Confessions of an Islamophobe

The Myth of Islamic Tolerance: How Islamic Law Treats Non-Muslims

The History of Jihad: From Muhammad to ISIS

Among many other books he’s written.

Dr. Bill Warner of Political Islam / CSPI has also written extensively.

And another, among legions:

Raymond Ibrahim – Middle East and Islam Specialist

Clarion call after clarion call about the dangers of Islam and Jihad.

Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis

Londonistan

While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within

The Suicide of Reason: Radical Islam’s Threat to the West

The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam

And the rabbit hole goes very deep if you start looking.

 

 

WAR IS DECEIT

 

 

So said Mohammed himself.  Deception of the infidel is hard-coded into their beliefs, to the point where they actually classify different types (above graphic, below link):

Taqiyya: Deception and Lying in Islam (thereligionofpeace.com)

Bill Warner has two excellent short videos about taqiyya and tawriya (respectively):

Bill Warner, PhD: Sacred Deception — Taqiyya (youtube.com)

Bill Warner, PhD: Deception in Political Islam (youtube.com)

So consider this essay, written by one of the above noted scholars – and note the clear intent to deceive and divide the infidels.  Eliminate Israel, Eliminate Islamic Terrorism? (raymondibrahim.com) (bolding added, formatting preserved as best I can, links in the original, italics in the original replaced by underlining):

Back in 2009, Bin Laden said:

You [Americans] should ask yourselves whether your security, your blood, your sons, your money, your jobs, your homes, your economy, and your reputation are more dear to you than the security and economy of the Israelis….  Let me say that we have declared many times, over more than two and a half decades, that the reason for our conflict with you is your support for your Israeli allies, who are occupying our land of Palestine [emphasis added].

Translation: Feed Israel to us and we’ll stop attacking you.

Needless to say, this message was (and continues to be) swallowed hook line and sinker by many Western analysts—even as bin Laden was stressing to fellow Muslims (in Arabic) the “real reason for our conflict”:

Our talks with the infidel West and our conflict with them ultimately revolve around one issue — one that demands our total support, with power and determination, with one voice — and it is: Does Islam, or does it not, force people by the power of the sword to submit to its authority corporeally if not spiritually?  Yes. There are only three choices in Islam: [1] either willing submission [conversion]; [2] or payment of the jizya, through physical, though not spiritual, submission to the authority of Islam; [3] or the sword — for it is not right to let him [an infidel] live. The matter is summed up for every person alive: Either submit, or live under the suzerainty of Islam, or die [The Al Qaeda Reader, p. 42].

More emboldened jihadis have of late dropped the façade.  In an article unambiguously titled, “Why We Hate You & Why We Fight You,” the Islamic State confessed that “We hate you, first and foremost, because you are disbelievers.”  As for any and all political “grievances,” these are “secondary” reasons for the jihad:

What’s important to understand here is that although some might argue that your foreign policies are the extent of what drives our hatred, this particular reason for hating you is secondary, hence the reason we addressed it at the end of the above list. […]  The fact is, even if you were to stop bombing us, imprisoning us, torturing us, vilifying us, and usurping our lands, we would continue to hate you because our primary reason for hating you will not cease to exist until you embrace Islam. Even if you were to pay jizyah and live under the authority of Islam in humiliation, we would continue to hate you [emphasis added].

This threefold choice, then—conversion, subjugation/jizya, or the sword—is the ultimate source of conflict between Islam and everyone else; it’s why prudent non-Muslims have always found the question of achieving permanent peace with the Islamic world an unsolvable problem.

RTWT.  A recent example of Pallywood (or specific to the situation, Gazawood) – deceptive stuff for the useful idiots:

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/An_Israeli_airstrike_hit_a_family_home_and_injured_an_elderly_woman.mp4

 

The Pallywood Oscars:

The 2019 Pallywood Oscars – Israellycool

And don’t forget this excellent piece:

 

Pallywood

 

 

About that “famine”, from here:

Ahmed and Mahmoud take us for a tour around the wartime markets of Deir al-Balah, Central Gaza Strip.
Uploaded to YouTube on 9 June 2024.
English subtitles.
Fake nation, fake genocide and fake hunger!

Also:

Market pictures

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/june-2024-food-in-gaza.mp4

 

With two more videos.

#gazawood #pallywood Deir El Balah market, June 20th, 2020 (rumble.com)

#gazawood #pallywood Shawarma in gaza (rumble.com)

The Gaza famine that’s been found to be… wanting:

 

 

There is no Gaza famine, but the pro-Hamas crowd is silent about this great news (nypost.com)

And all those “uninvolved Gazan civilians”:

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/uninvolved-gazan-civilians.mp4

 

This is an interesting tidbit of international law (Geneva Convention) regarding “civilians” who actively get involved in the conflict:

Customary IHL – Practice relating to rule 6 Civilians’ Loss of Protection from Attack (icrc.org)

You do not have a tunnel in your home and not know about it:

Gaza’s Rafah is filled with tunnels, top IDF commander tells ‘Post’ – The Jerusalem Post (jpost.com)

And one last, the Gazawood / Pallywood prop department.

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/gazwood-prop-department.mp4

 

My view of the problem is this: So many “useful idiots” want to believe it, because they can’t believe that little brown people could be so deceptive as to fool their uber-educated superior intellects.  I.e., racism.

 

 

A CULTURE OF DEATH & DEPRAVITY

So take a look at this video from here.  Content warning (hence the link-only):

Kid shoots tied up man and screams Allahu Akbar

This short snip is seen in this preview:

Kids: Chasing Paradise – The Clarion Project

Another charming kid (note, video starts off somewhat blurry – it’s not your eyes!):

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/baby-isis-and-teddy-bear.mp4

 

How old is that kid?  And this kid, below, can’t be 10 years old, pressing the button to blow up a car filled with execution victims.

Muslim child – can’t be 10 – presses button to blow up prisoners (rumble.com)

Understand what ALLAHU ACKBAR means:

Allahu Akbar is Why Muslims Kill – Daniel Greenfield / Sultan Knish Articles at DanielGreenfield.org

School punishment in a Madrassa:

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/madrassa-beating.mp4

 

Brutalized from birth.  Embracing death in jihad.

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/they-love-death.mp4

 

Take a look at this girl wanting her brother to be a martyr:

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/child-wants-her-brother-to-be-a-martyr.mp4

 

Again, the rabbit hole goes deep here.  But only when you grasp – to your core – that they are eager for death in war against the infidel will you start to understand what they do.  Their eyes are set on the eternal, whose highest reward is to be found in combat against the House of War.  No wonder they love death.

 

 

SHARIA LAW

People talk about Sharia Law as though it’s just another form of jurisprudence, like a Hebrew Beit Din, a religious court.  My two experiences with that are when my kids were converted to Judaism.  Here’s a Sharia guide on stoning adulterers:

 

 

Lest you think the above is a fluke:

Green lane mosque Birmingham UK.
Cleric explains the correct way to stone women to death, totally legal under Sharia

@No_More_Islam

To chit chat join here:
@ISLAMNOMORE

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/correct-way-to-stone-a-woman.mp4

 

Wonderful folks.  Let’s admit them to the West by the metric f*ckton.

 

 

CONCLUDING

Bill Warner in a 44 minute video:

 

Why We Are Afraid, A 1400 Year Secret, by Dr Bill Warner

 

 

I was recently accused of “Islamophophia”.  Hah.  To quote Bare Naked Islam:

It isn’t Islamophobia when they really ARE trying to kill you.

As a coda, Islamic migration to Sweden is not a case of “diversity is a strength”:

The Warning From Sweden : The Other McCain

As just one of myriad examples.  Remember, these are the people whom the Left is embracing.  And know your enemy.  Because Left and Islam are allied.

Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam And the American Left (2006-02-17) [Paperback]

United in Hate: The Left’s Romance with Tyranny and Terror

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If an enterprising teacher looked at their District’s cost per student and then created their own micro-school with even 20 students, they’d be earning far more than at their static union wage ladder.

Seeing that those “negotiated” wages are sticking to the newly minted teachers, I offer my unsolicited advice to work a couple of years “inside the system,” find out how you can improve on the teaching methodology demanded “by the system,” and strike out on your own. Why?

The Democrats’ only solution to the fact that our public schools are awful is to spend more money on them. But that is precisely the policy we have been following for decades, with terrible results. This chart, from the Committee to Unleash Prosperity, tells the story. In constant dollars, spending on education has skyrocketed, while student achievement has stagnated.

You can capture some of that rise in the cost of that system for yourself.

Sure, a coupla/few years to provision your classroom and then it’s more for you – reaping more of the rewards of your labor.

For Parents – would you accept the same results for your child with only higher costs eating at your bank account? I have two great questions for you to ask your elected School Board representatives:

1. What is the overall rise in spending for the District over the last 10 years, including all Warrant Articles (stuff not in the regular budget)?
2. Why aren’t our childrens’ achievement levels increasing at the same rate?
3. What percentage of each class, K-12, is at the Proficient level or above?

Now, GOOD school boards will try to get an answer back to you. BAD school board members will ignore you under the rubric of “we only wanted your votes but keep your questions and comments to yourselves, you rubes”. Vote those kind of school board members out.

Oh, as to #3 –  flip that percentage around to see how many children are being failed in the government school system. Then starting asking them REAL hard questions.

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In one of my favorite movies, The Shawshank Redemption, an innocent man who is wrongfully convicted of murder and imprisoned for many years is ultimately vindicated after patiently and methodically pursuing justice.

I can’t help but see similarities between this film and what happened to me as an employee of the Dudley-Tucker Library in Raymond, New Hampshire, over the past year and a half. While the activity that I was persecuted for was much different, and the length of time it has taken for me to be vindicated has been much shorter (although it has seemed like an eternity), both stories offer the redeeming message that justice will ultimately prevail and that, as Shakespeare wrote, “the truth will out.”

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Well over a year ago, on April 5, 2023, I was fired from my job as the Assistant Director of the Dudley-Tucker Library in Raymond where I had only been working since the previous December. Like all new employees, I was still within my probationary six-month period. As far as I knew, I was performing all of my job duties in a satisfactory manner. On this particular morning, however, the library director, Kirsten Rundquist Corbett, informed me that she and the library trustees, Jill Galus, Sabrina Maltby, and Valerie Moore, had decided to fire me. I was presented with a termination letter signed by Corbett, Galus, Maltby, Moore and then-town manager Ernest Creveling. This letter claimed that I had “not fulfilled the conditions of employment because of [my] lack of separation of personal/political values and agendas from DTL policies, procedures, and occurrences.” In a sudden state of shock and confusion, I could hardly process the words contained in this document.

Unable to identify any negative actions on the job that could have justified my dismissal, I asked if my termination had anything to do with my recent political activity in my hometown of Atkinson, New Hampshire, which I represent in the State Legislature. A couple of months earlier, I had recruited two conservative candidates to run for the board of library trustees in Atkinson, and I had continued to support them in their campaigns. This activity included writing an endorsement letter to a local newspaper that highlighted how these candidates believed in “protecting our children from the increasing amount of inappropriate material available both in print and online without sacrificing the intellectual freedom that has always characterized public libraries.” To my disbelief, Corbett affirmed my suspicions. Understandably upset, I succumbed to the natural “fight or flight” response by opting for the latter choice; I wanted to get out of that library immediately. Completely blindsided, I signed the termination letter and left. Only later would feelings of indignation motivate me to fight back.

Suddenly finding myself without a job, I reflected back on the weeks preceding my termination. I recalled the very politically charged environment I surprisingly found myself in. Some concerned Raymond residents had drafted warrant articles pertaining to the library that were to be voted on during that town’s upcoming election in March. One of these articles called for the removal from the children’s room of inappropriate material while the other pertained to the Dudley-Tucker Library ending its membership with the American Library Association, an organization which has been increasingly called out for promoting inappropriate material to children. In the weeks leading up to this election, many patrons commented to staff about these warrant articles when they came into the library both in support and in opposition. I tried to maintain an appropriately neutral position throughout this time even though other staff members freely expressed their opinions. The trustees even made a video that was posted on the library’s Facebook page by the director advising citizens to vote against the warrant articles, a situation that eventually led to the New Hampshire Attorney General sending a “cease and desist” letter to the director and trustees in response to this clear violation of electioneering laws.

In the days that followed my termination, I thought about this double standard, and I began to realize that a great wrong had been done to me. The trustees and director had egregiously violated my First Amendment right to free speech by terminating me for recruiting, supporting, and endorsing conservative library trustee candidates. I was fired for voicing my opinion about candidates outside of work time and even outside of the town I worked in. I began to wonder if I would have been fired if I had supported candidates who espoused beliefs more congruent with the ALA agenda.

I realized that, while new employees on probation can be fired for just about any reason, they cannot be fired for a reason protected by the Constitution. My right to support any candidate is ensured by the First Amendment. As permitted by state law (NH RSA 202-A:17), I requested a public hearing to discuss the circumstances related to my termination. While waiting for a response to this request, I also obtained a copy of my personnel file. This file included a copy of my published letter-to-the-editor mentioned above. The phrase “protecting our children from the increasing amount of inappropriate material available both in print and online” was highlighted, apparently because it was a section that was considered controversial. My endorsement obviously implied that I held the same belief, and this was the belief that the trustees and director objected to me speaking out against. To my utter astonishment, I also found a copy of a private e-mail message in my employee file. This message had been sent to the chair of my local Republican club and was only intended to be distributed to members of that group with the purpose of recruiting conservative library trustee candidates.

When I did not receive a response to my request for a public hearing after a week, I sent another request, this time threatening legal action. Two days later, on Friday, April 21st, I was surprised to receive a termination rescindment letter. Obviously, my adversaries had realized that they had done something wrong and didn’t want to get in trouble, so they attempted to brush their error under the rug. Returning to work three weeks after my dismissal, I felt like I had entered some sort of “twilight zone” in which I had never left, had never been fired, and had never been gone. There was no recognition that something egregious had happened, no apology, and no mention of my termination.

Despite being rehired and even being paid for the time I had been away, this ignoring of a great wrongdoing was troubling to me. Where was the justice and the certitude that such a violation would not ever happen again? Although I was re-hired with back pay, I was left feeling that justice had not been adequately served. I found it particularly troubling that the library trustees had violated my rights because, like all elected officials, they take an oath of office in which they swear allegiance to the Constitution. By wrongfully terminating me, these trustees had violated their oaths by infringing on one of the most important rights in the Constitution—freedom of speech. My reinstatement alone did not achieve adequate justice because the crime that the trustees and director committed had gone unrecognized.

In search of a more satisfactory resolution to this situation, I sought a legal remedy. I spent the next few months seeking legal representation from a number of nationally recognized organizations, but these groups, unfortunately, declined my case because it didn’t quite fit in with their missions. My final attempt at securing justice was a plea to the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ). I assumed that my request for legal representation would be denied until I heard back from ACLJ attorney Nathan Moelker. Speaking with Mr. Moelker at length one afternoon last August, I felt that someone finally understood what I was fighting for – not money or revenge, but simple justice.

Over the next couple of months, I frequently communicated with Mr. Moelker and the lawsuit was officially filed on October 27, 2023. In the months that followed as Mr. Moelker and his associate Ben Sisney negotiated with the defendants’ counsel, I found it extremely awkward and difficult to go into work every day having to interact with a supervisor who I was suing as well as the other defendants who frequently came into the library.

While this lawsuit initially demanded a jury trial, I was concerned about the amount of time such a trial would take and the emotional distress that it would cause. During negotiations between the lawyers on both sides, a financial offer was made in exchange for my resignation. Such a settlement, however, did not feel right to me because it would give the defendants exactly what they had wanted when they committed their original crime – my departure. I ultimately rejected this offer and remained at my job, difficult as it was to do so. Since my goal was to simply secure some recognition of wrongdoing and the assurance that such wrongdoing would never happen again, I ultimately agreed to a settlement that would achieve these ends in the form of a “consent decree.”

Finally, the defendants agreed to this decree. Basically, this document acknowledges that the “Dudley Tucker Library regrets its conduct toward [me] and the violation of [my] constitutional rights.” The decree loudly and clearly declares that terminating me for my political activity “constituted a violation of [my] First Amendment rights”! It further assures that the library and the town “will take any other actions reasonably necessary to ensure this type of constitutional violation does not occur again.” The decree recognizes the right of town employees to engage in political activities when not at work. It even stipulates that the town employee handbook must be revised to include a section acknowledging the right of employees to participate in political activism outside of work.

I have since left my job as Assistant Director of the Dudley-Tucker Library, but my resignation was offered in order that I can pursue a new opportunity, not because I would receive financial compensation in exchange for acquiescing to the demands of those who wronged me. Once an acknowledgement of their wrongdoing was finally made and a promise that such a transgression could never happen again, I left my job. This recognition is all that I had ever wanted during the many months that followed their egregious violation of the First Amendment. Such a violation seemed especially hypocritical since it happened in a public library, an institution that is supposed to be a shrine to free speech and intellectual freedom. I consider the resolution of my case, thanks to the hard work of the American Center for Law and Justice, to have ensured the redemption of one such institution, and I hope that it serves as an example to every public library not only in New Hampshire but throughout the entire country.

I would like to acknowledge the ACLJ for representing me pro bono. Such representation is made possible through the generosity of donors who truly support justice. Please consider financially supporting the ACLJ!

Originally published on Arlene’s Substack newsletter: “No Shushing Now: Exposing Today’s Woke Libraries”

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Here is James Roesener sermonizing about how her “community” is “marginalized.” (Due to the lag between submission and posting, a post I previously submitted about Roesener has not yet been posted as of when I am writing this – 6/19.)  Here is the LINK to Roesener’s sermon.

Halfway through #PrideMonth, hear from Rep. James Roesener (D-Concord) on what it means to be an ally to the LGBTQ+ community. #NHPolitics pic.twitter.com/Vcw8uSYI92

— NH House Democrats (@NHHouseDems) June 17, 2024

If Roesener actually believes what she is spewing, she is DELUSIONAL. The entire month of June is now devoted to her “community.” That is the OPPOSITE of being marginalized … that is being acclaimed, celebrated, elevated, promoted.

Virtually every institution in America, not just in June but year round … the federal government, State government, local government, Big-Tech, the media, Hollywood, professional sports, major corporations (e.g., Disney), etc. … acclaim, celebrate, elevate and promote LGBT (and whatever other additional initials are de rigueur). That is the OPPOSITE of being marginalized … James’ “community” is virtually everywhere and virtually all the time being acclaimed, celebrated, elevated, and promoted.

For example, here is the Vice President’s official residence turned into a set for Queer Eye:

The people who are actually marginalized are everyday Americans who resist the Woke-Commie hive-mind. They get visits from the FBI for wrong-think. How many times do you think the FBI has shown up at James’ door?

To paraphrase Khabib … Roesener’s sermon is number-one-bullshit.

 

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My name is Ted Lloyd and I’m running for State Rep in Kingston and East Kingston to be your eyes, ears and voice in Concord.

When elected, I will work with our legislative delegation to:

• keep the NH economy strong and lower our tax burden
• restore the security of the Northern and Southern borders
• ensure that our elections are secure
• bring back excellence to education.

And, I will fight to ensure that NH legislation is always within the boundaries set by our New Hampshire and U.S. Federal constitutions.

Our two towns are fortunate to have a strong delegation to the to the State House:

• Bill Gannon of Sandown represents us in Senate District 23;
• Mark Pearson of Hampstead represents us in Rockingham House District 34;
• Ken Wyler of Kingston and Deb Hobson of East Kingston represent us in Rockingham House District 14.

I know each of them very well — I’ve worked with them, and I’ve campaigned with them.

Rep. Hobson has decided not to run for re-election.

I’ve been encouraged by Rep. Wyler and Rep. Pearson to run for her seat, and I’m working with former Rep. David Welch to become more familiar with the details of the job and the people in the House.

Even as a newcomer to our legislative team, I am well-prepared to work with Ken, Mark, and Bill to listen to you and to work for you in Concord. I will work closely with them to serve the people of Kingston and East Kingston.

My Background

I was born in 1946, an early member of the “baby boom” generation. My father was the son of an immigrant father and a Yankee mother. My mother was the daughter of an immigrant father and a native-born mother. My wife Gisela is a German immigrant and naturalized citizen.

I was raised in a small suburb of St. Paul, Minnesota, and have a liberal arts Bachelor’s degree and a Master’s degree in Business Administration.

I joined the Gillette Company in St. Paul in 1979, was transferred to the Boston area in 1989, rose to the ranks of senior management, and retired at the end of 2001.

My values and priorities come from three areas that form the basis of my personal philosophy: God and Church, Family and Community, and our State and Nation:

God & Church

I am a Christian and an active member of Trinity Church in Kingston.

I believe that God and His Church are the fundamental sources of moral standards and virtue in the world.

Family & Community

Gisela and I were married on January 1st, 1997, and our blended family includes two sons, two daughters, and 14 grandchildren.

I believe that the family is the elemental organizing unit of humanity and that the community is the basic building block of civilization.

Gisela and I moved to East Kingston in 2004, and over the past 20 years have made it our adopted “home town.”

I have served on:

• East Kingston’s New Library Building Committee, which built our new Library
• the Library Board of Trustees for 10 years
• the Planning Board
• the Salary Review Committee
• the Co-op School Board, and
• the Trustees of the Trust Funds for the past 11 years, for which I am the chair.

I believe that marriage and the family are the elemental organizing factors for humanity and that the community is the basic building block of civilization.

I firmly believe in giving back to our community.

State & Nation

My father fought in World War II with the U.S. Navy in the Pacific theater. I am a Vietnam-era veteran, having also served in the Navy from 1968 to 1972.

I am currently the Chair of the East Kingston Republican Town Committee.

Previously, I served for five years as the Treasurer and then 1 year as Chair of the 4-town Republican Town Committee, of which East Kingston was a part.

I believe that the people are sovereign and are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights.

I believe that governments are established by the people to secure those rights.

I believe that our Federal Constitutional Republic was formed to perform certain delegated but limited functions of government.

It is under these terms that we owe allegiance to our Nation.

I Need Your Support

I humbly ask for your support in my campaign and for your vote in the September 10th Primary Election. Here are some ways you can help:

• Tell your friends and neighbors about my campaign
• Sign up for my e-mail list to get updates on my campaign
• Allow me to place a yard sign on your property
• Volunteer to help with my campaign. I need people to
• write letters
• to hold signs for me at events
• to help me go for-to-door meeting voters, or
• to make phone calls for me
• If you can, I need donors to help defray my campaign costs. $25, $50, $100 or more would be a significant help
• Finally, and most importantly, please VOTE FOR ME in the Primary Election on September 10th!

 

To join my team, please contact me at:
email: TedLloyd4StateRep@icloud.com
text:(603) 479-7073
facebook: Ted Lloyd for State Rep

Thank you!

 

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Not everyone has been able to take advantage of the gobs of taxpayer money pouring between the seams to encourage the adoption of so-called green technologies. And it’s not because they aren’t truly green. Joe’s Build Back Better has beaten back business.

Inflation and demand have made surviving in this “environment” challenging.

Electric vehicle maker Fisker filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, the second electric startup to do so in the last year as even industry leaders struggle to lure more buyers beyond the early adapters of the technology. …

“Like other companies in the electric vehicle industry, we have faced various market and macroeconomic headwinds that have impacted our ability to operate efficiently,” the company said in a prepared statement late Monday. “After evaluating all options for our business, we determined that proceeding with a sale of our assets under Chapter 11 is the most viable path forward for the company.”

It’s too expensive, even with government-backstopped bailouts or incentives. The free money doesn’t make up for the devalued currency and the rising cost of doing business. And Fisker is based in California, where Gov Nuisance has promised an EV in every driveway by 2035 or some such thing with the caveat that you, thanks to rain taxes, might not be able to afford (or want) a driveway either.

The not-so-sunny economic picture has also claimed one of the nation’s largest solar installers.

Titan Solar, which installed thousands of systems across the U.S., informed its employees June 13 that it was “closing its doors,” having failed to secure a buyer for the company, according to an email obtained by TIME. In the email, Titan said that it had helped over 100,000 households go solar.

Titan is not the only solar installer to close up shop lately. The company, which could not be reached for comment for this story—its website has shut down—is one of 16 major solar outfits that have filed for bankruptcy in 2023 and 2024, according to Solar Insure, which offers warranties and monitoring for homeowners who have solar. They include Pink Energy and Vision Solar, which like other operators in the industry faced regulatory action and numerous consumer complaints. Customers are left with solar panels on their homes that they may or may not want. Some are working with lenders to find another company to take over the maintenance of their panels; others are just trying to get out of the loans.

Residential installs peaked as fly-by-night “startups” appeared magically to line up at another taxpayer-fed feeding trough. However, relying on government handouts to incentivize private market sales is not a sustainable future, especially in a high-inflation economy. Sure, you can find cheap solar panels from China made with slave labor and dirty coal, but it doesn’t help with all the other fixed costs.

Related: Night Cap: Solar Panels Are Getting Exponentially Less Green By Leaps and Bounds

The cost of doing business climbed like Joe, out of the basement and into the heart of DC police making. Thining margins and price pressures on customers erase any incentive benefits, and if you can’t afford to feed your family, a solar install is probably not even on your radar.

The wind isn’t faring much better, not from a lack of trying—and they are still trying, and why not? Sure, it blows electricity prices into the stratosphere, but Companies that embrace wind get a huge tax credit.

“For example, on wind energy, we get a tax credit if we build a lot of wind farms. That’s the only reason to build them. They don’t make sense without the tax credit.” – Warren Buffett

This is driving Offshore wind as misguided environs, opportunistic politicos, and energy companies align despite the threat to consumers’ pockets and whales. Politicians want the green street cred, and Energy companies want the green tax credits, and no one cares who else has to pay. The scam is literally the very thing the keep it in the ground folks mean when they claim Big Oil gets all sorts of taxpayer support as if that would end if we stopped using Fossil Fuels.

Dopes. Every incentive or inducement is a product of politicians giving in to lobbying as if that would stop or isn’t in play. It very much is with a difference. Big Oil could stay in business without it – and provide abundant on-demand electricity. Green tech can’t and won’t even with the inducements, and the price for ratepayers is an economy-killing drag on everything else.

All lies and promises – the wind industry has finally been rumbled in Germany and is about to be shown the door in Australia.

The wind industry and its parasites have been guilty of more than just a little hubris.  Claiming to be able to deliver cheap, reliable sparks was always going to be their undoing. Gradually, Europeans are waking up to the unassailable fact that wind power is based on a technology that was redundant before it began.

No modern economy can run with electricity delivered at crazy, random intervals.  To compensate for that meteorological fact, Germany is flat out building more coal fired power stations – not less.  Around the globe the wind industry promises to displace “dirty” coal fired power and Germany is no exception. But the reality is very different: the facts have finally caught up with them – wind power will never replace fossil fuel generators and the cost of having capacity to back up wind power is astronomical.

German industry is bailing out and heading to the US – where power is a third of the cost that it is in Germany – and some 800,000 German homes have been disconnected from the grid – victims of what is euphemistically called “fuel poverty”. For Germans the attraction to wind power is fading fast – funny about that.

Less but still more than it should be.

We need to stop this progressive madness. The goal was to make electricity too expensive so we’d use less. What they seem to have forgotten is that making energy cost more makes EVERYTHING cost more. The combined rise in the cost of everything has an exponential impact on daily budgets and not just lifestyles but lives.

This deliberate assault has fueled inflation, already exacerbated by Democrat-Party-led DC policy.

 

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Back in February, Steve posted, “As Pistol Brace Rule Teeters on Doom, ATF Defense Shifts To … You Can’t Sue Us.” He led up to that with this, and Ian had one of his own concerning Pistol Braces and the ATF bending to the Democrat “popular demand.

Let’s make it illegal to own this even if you purchased a brace when the ATF  (the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) said it was legal.

As opposed to the recent SCOTUS decision on bump stocks, in which the ATF tried to claim that a bump stock makes an AR-15 pattern firearm a machinegun by redefining Congress’ clear writing and definition of what a machinegun (a fully-automatic firearm whereby a single pull of the trigger results in multiple rounds being fired) is.

SCOTUS slapped them upside their heads with a stock of their own; this was the ATF trying to do an agency sidestep of the Administrative Procedures Act, which lays out a specific methodology by which a government agency can make regulations that have the Force of Law.

Sidenote: passed in 1946, the Administrative Procedures Act was a great move forward of the Progressive philosophy that the Constitution was outmoded and that we, the citizens, should not be governed by elected Representatives but ruled by “experts” that “know what’s better for you than you do yourself”. It set the stage for the explosion of regulations and in Congress basically giving up its Constitutional mandate to be the only entity that makes Law. Nowadays, it is the Executive Branch (housing all these agencies) that makes the vast majority of Law as Congress merely throws their bills over the wall for government employees to do the grunge work of fixing what Legislators didn’t want to take the time to do things right.

What we are now seeing is that mere agencies are changing their “interpretations” of a law to make it fit what they want. For instance, the EPA changing MPG regulations such that only electric cars can meeting them (and the unelected CA CARB doing the same thing there). Imagine that – we’ve allowed ourselves to be ruled by a neo-Aristocracy / Nomenklatura and not by our representatives BECAUSE we don’t hold the latter sufficiently to account.

/rant

So, a US District Court, Judge Reed O’Connor, ruled that the ATF couldn’t even follow the APA well enough to make their new Rule legal. It was a case of “ideology over law” (something we’ve seen too much of in the Biden Administration these past few years). So, adding a pistol brace to an AR-15 pistol doesn’t turn it into a barreled Rifle as defined in the National Firearms Act of 1935 (reformatted, emphasis mine):

Federal Judge Overturns ATF ‘Pistol Brace’ Rule

A federal judge in Texas has overturned a rule issued by the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) that targeted pistol attachments known as “stabilizing braces” or “pistol braces” and treated pistols fitted with such devices as short-barreled rifles, subjecting them to various restrictions.

In a 12-page decision issued on June 13, U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor ruled that the ATF’s rule that treated roughly 99 percent of pistols fitted with the braces as short-barreled rifles violated the Administrative Procedures Act’s procedural requirements because it was not a “logical outgrowth” of the proposed version of the rule.
“The Court finds that the adaptation of the Final Rule was arbitrary and capricious for two reasons,” Judge O’Connor wrote. “First, the Defendants did not provide a detailed justification for their reversal of the agency’s longstanding position. And second, the Final Rule’s standards are impermissibly vague.”

These braces were invented to help disabled veterans who wanted to continue to shoot guns as a sport but were unable to do so due to their injuries. The ATF has, on several occasions, said that such braces did not force such pistols into the SBR category, which requires the same kind of scrutiny (and payment of a tax) due to machine guns and suppressors. A

After telling folks it was OK to have and use, their “Final Rule” pulled the rug out from underneath millions of gun owners and instantly made them felons…how convenient to destroy their Second Amendment Right to keep and bear arms!

So now that the Rule has been “vacated” (e.g., the ATF is not allowed to enforce it), it will most likely end up at SCOTUS.  I’m betting that they will slap it down (6-3) as well.

From the decision (emphasis mine, reformatted):

For close to a decade, the ATF concluded that “attaching the brace to a firearm does not alter the classification of the firearm or subject the firearm to NFA control.” The ATF changed course on this position for the first time in 2023, when it issued the Final Rule reversing the agency’s otherwise long-standing policy. “When an agency changes course, as [the ATF] did here, it must ‘be cognizant that longstanding policies may have engendered serious reliance interests that must be taken into account.’” Dep’t of Homeland Sec. v. Regents of the Univ. of Cal., 591 U.S. 1, 30 (2020) (quoting Encino Motorcars, LLC v. Navarro, 579 U. S. 211, 222 (2016)). “It would be arbitrary and capricious to ignore such matters” Id. But this is exactly what Defendants did when they inexplicably and fundamentally switched their position on stabilizing braces without providing sufficient explanations and notice.

Under the Final Rule, the ATF estimated about 99% of pistols with stabilizing braces would be reclassified as NFA rifles. The ATF contemporaneously issued approximately sixty adjudications pursuant to the Final Rule that reclassified different configurations of firearms with stabilizing braces as NFA rifles. The ATF provided no explanations for how the agency came to these classifications and there is no “meaningful clarity about what constitutes an impermissible stabilizing brace.” Mock, 75 F.4th at 585 (5th Cir. 2023). In fact, the Fifth Circuit “[could not] find a single given example of a pistol with a stabilizing brace that would constitute an NFA exempt braced pistol.” Id. at 575. Such “‘unexplained’ and ‘inconsistent’ positions” are arbitrary and capricious. R.J. Reynolds Vapor Co. v. FDA, 65 F.4th 182, 191 (5th Cir. 2023) (quoting Encino Motorcars, 579 U.S. at 222).

The Defendants’ [ATF] disregard for the principles of fair notice and consideration of reliance interests is further exacerbated by its failure to follow the APA’s procedural requirements for public notice and comment. As discussed above, Defendants failed to follow proper notice-and comment procedures because the Proposed Rule and the Final Rule differed in immense ways.

Essentially, the ATF pulled a “bait and switch” that if it were one of us, we’d end up in jail. How many of these evil government agents will suffer that consequence for this?

…Consequently, the Court finds that the Final Rule’s six factor test is so impermissibly vague that it “provides no meaningful clarity about what constitutes an impermissible stabilizing brace,” and, thus, that “it is nigh impossible for a regular citizen to determine what constitutes a braced pistol” that “requires NFA registration.” Id. at 584–85. Accordingly, Plaintiffs’ Motion for Summary Judgment is GRANTED and Defendants’ Motion for Summary Judgment is DENIED as to this issue.

So, all of the People of the Gun can now bring themselves “out of the closet” without fear of retribution (my non-lawyerly opinion), so it seems.

However, until folks in ANY agency who act in similar ways are forced to suffer a large consequence (big personal fines, jail time, money to the plaintiffs), this will continue across the government spectrum. Until TEETH are added into the mix with which to punish the guilty within government, we are subject to Tyranny.

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