This question was posed to me the other day by a friend (I will paraphrase and omit the profanities): “How is it that New Hampshire, a state roughly the same geographic size of Vermont with about twice the population spends half the amount of taxpayer money that we do?”

Here are the actual numbers. New Hampshire’s population is about 1.4 million, and Vermont’s is about 640,000, so we’re slightly less than half. Vermont’s current budget is $8.5 billion while New Hampshire’s is $3.1 billion, so we spend well over two and a half times – nearly triple — more. Naturally, this means that, compared to Vermont, New Hampshire is in a state of total neglect. Children wandering the streets uneducated. The sick left to suffer and die. The poor abandoned hungry and unsheltered. Criminals terrorizing the citizenry…. Umm… no.

In fact, according to the National Alliance to End Homelessness, New Hampshire has 11.6 homeless people per 10,000 population, while Vermont has 43 — nearly four times as many! There are a few possible explanations for this. One is our economic and social welfare policymakers are such inept doofuses that they’re driving more citizens into systemic poverty. Another is our policies are so out of whack “generous” that homeless people are flocking to Vermont to free ride on the backs of Vermont taxpayers. But since homeless advocates are adamant that the latter is not happening (yeah, sure), we’ll have to go with the doofus hypothesis for now. (It actually applies to both scenarios).

When it comes to educating children, Vermont, according to US News & World Report, ranks 11th for student outcomes. Pretty good! But New Hampshire ranks 4th. Do they spend more to get better outcomes than we do. Nope. New Hampshire spends twenty percent LESS at $19,633 per pupil compared to Vermont’s $24,666 – and these numbers are before the coming 14% property tax increase, new internet service tax and short-term rental tax fueling a $200 million plus K-12 spending increase for next year.

Healthcare? According to Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Vermont comes in 9th for overall quality. Still, New Hampshire comes in 6th. Is New Hampshire paying more for that higher quality. No. Oh, no… MoneyGeek reports a New Hampshirite’s annual health insurance bill comes in at $6072, or the tenth lowest nationally. A Vermonter’s? (Scrolling down… scrolling down… scrolling down…) There we are! Number 47 at $10,236.

What it comes down to is “Return on Investment” (ROI), or in layman’s terms, bang for the taxpayer’s buck. WalletHub does an annual analysis for ROI on state spending and, low and behold, New Hampshire is number one. Their legislators spend wisely and to good effect. Vermont is (scrolling down… scrolling down… scrolling down…) 43rd. Sandwiched between New Jersey and Arkansas of all the appalling places to find oneself. Our legislators, it seems, have a propensity to, rather than “invest’ our money as they would have us believe, something akin to piling it on the State House lawn and setting fire to it.

According to the WalleHub analysis of New Hampshire,

The Granite State’s tax resources have had a good impact on crime prevention and the environment, as the state has the second-lowest crime rate and the second-lowest air pollution in the country. It has one of the best public school systems as well…. New Hampshire residents are doing very well for themselves, considering they’re paying out less money in taxes, and the state has some of the lowest unemployment and poverty rates in the country.

And they do this with no income tax, no sales tax, and the sixteenth-lowest per capita state and local tax burden versus Vermont’s (scrolling down… scrolling down… scrolling down) forty-seventh. So, when you get your next property tax bill with its massive increase and try to cover it with a paycheck suddenly made smaller by a new payroll tax, etcetera, and so on, know that it doesn’t have to be this way.

Our politicians on the Left tell us Vermonters want more expensive government. No, we don’t. We want a cost-effective government. We might be willing to spend more if it meant getting better results, but that’s not happening. We’re paying a lot more for, quite frankly, really crappy service. The solution: stop electing doofuses who think your tax money is their ideological plaything, and start electing responsible adults who take seriously their responsibility according to the Vermont Constitution, Article 18, to apply a “firm adherence to… frugality.”

Rob Roper is a freelance writer with 20 years of experience in Vermont politics, including three years of service as chair of the Vermont Republican Party and nine years as President of the Ethan Allen Institute, Vermont’s free-market think tank. He is also a regular contributor to VermontGrok.

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Teachers across America are speaking up about the lack of controlled behavior in public schools. What changed? Why are teachers frustrated because behavior problems have become unbearable?  Why are they leaving the profession in droves?

I believe there are many factors contributing to this problem. Parents who believe the school is a daycare center for their children are failing to do their job of raising respectful children. As a parental rights advocate in New Hampshire, I make no excuses for poor parenting. This is becoming a bigger problem that schools must deal with. But even if parents are failing to raise respectful children, that doesn’t mean that schools should be failing students, too.

The national fad is to provide students with Social and Emotional Learning (SEL), and more school counselors and social workers are being added to the payroll. You might be asking yourself, what does bad behavior have to do with any of this? Send these kids to the Principal’s office, where consequences will be administered. Sorry folks, a lot has changed since you were in school.

Classes have become chaotic with poor quality pedagogy practices. Instead of teachers teaching, teachers are told to have the kids work in groups. This will help them build collaboration skills for the workforce. Remember, public education is workforce training–it’s no longer about teaching them academics. The classroom can become chaotic, which then requires additional paraprofessionals in the room to help the teacher manage the class. This drives up the cost of education and requires a great deal of classroom management.

Schools use Project Based Learning or Inquiry Based Learning, which can add to problems in a classroom. Gone are the days of teacher-focused instruction which leads to higher levels of proficiency, kids are expected to teach each other in groups or go figure it out.

Social and emotional learning is supposed to help children self-manage their emotions and behaviors. But it can extend to group therapy and mental health assessments. This SEL data is collected, stored, and even shared without parents’ knowledge.

How does SEL replace consequences in the school for children who need that?

In this study, SEL Equity-based social-emotional learning (SEL): A critical lens for moving forward, they report: (emphasis added)

Authors King Lund, Hillis, Green, and Mofeld in their article, Mind-Sets Matter for Equitable Discipline: Aligning Beliefs to Practice Among Middle Grade Educators, also call attention to SEL. They write about how Restorative Justice Practices (RJP) offer a positive approach to disci-
pline while also providing middle school students opportunities to develop social-emotional skills (confict resolution and self-management). In contrast to other more traditional, punitive, and systemically inequitable models, RJP offers an approach where students of color are especially considered.

You can see the call to move away from the “punitive and systemically inequitable models” of consequences in schools. They then reference, “students of color are especially considered.”But does that work in the classroom? Many teachers across America are speaking up and talking about the behavior problems they are now expected to manage.

This article from Education Week attempts to explain Restorative Justice in the Classroom. But if you read the comments from educators, you will see that many of them don’t buy it.

 

 

It’s not that these teachers have “biases” or are racists, it’s that they know how kids work. They know that if you let kids off without any real consequences for their behavior, many will repeat bad behavior.  This isn’t rocket science, if you’ve raised children you know that boundaries must be set, and consequences administered, if the child defies those boundaries.

Can there be other factors to consider when a child breaks through those boundaries? Of course. Some kids learn the first time, some go on to repeat their actions to see how far they can go.

Teachers have become desperate for SEL or other fads because administrators are failing to bring order and discipline to the school. Some teachers are better at managing their classrooms but some of these faddish practices set teachers up to fail. They are there to teach, not become the enforcers.

When we were kids, we didn’t visit the school counselor for mental health if we were misbehaving. This isn’t a mental health issue, but that’s how some of them are treated. Or when you finally see the administrators punish the school bully, sometimes they go and reverse it. What kind of message is that sending the child?

Parents need to do their jobs, but it’s no excuse for the school system to fail these kids, too. This is one big set-up for failure when these kids get older.

MORE HERE:
Restorative circles are unethical and have no place in schools
Nine Criticisms of School Restorative Justice

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I think we’ve been going about this all wrong. People “on our side” keep asking to fly flags in front of city hall and getting rejected, which hints at unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination. The City just rejected a revolutionary-era flag.

And now it has rejected a trans-rights flag.

Nashua Mayor Jim Donchess rejected my appeal of the city’s decision to not allow me to fly a flag commemorating Detransition Awareness Day. I hope he has a change of heart as this medical scandal unravels.@NashuaOEM @JimDonchess #NHPolitics pic.twitter.com/lbsucXhHBa

— Sidewalk Steve (@Sidewalk_Steve) March 9, 2024

Trans rights. Yes. If you have a right to transition, you must also have a right to not transition (a choice) and the right to transition back. Otherwise, what you call trans rights is nothing of the sort, and by refusing to fly that flag, the City of Nashua and Mayor Donchess are anti-trans rights.

Prove me wrong.

We could say the same for a pro-life flag. Ask any pro-abortion supporter – even the intolerable harpies, and they will proudly announce that no one is making you get an abortion. It is a pro-choice argument, but I doubt Nashua would ever let anyone fly a pro-choice flag (where life is the choice) if such a thing even exists. Perhaps someone should try.

Going About It the Right Way

Some other pro-liberty person should request to fly a BLM flag or pride flag or some such thing. See if the City approves that. Or, if you can’t stomach the notion, take pictures of the flags they do fly, and we’ll probably have enough evidence for a case you can send to any number of pro-bono national liberty law firms who chase these sorts of things through the courts at their own expense.

In the name of rights and stuff and junk. Detransition rights, for example.

Just find a flag the City will fly that proves it is guilty of viewpoint discrimination unless you already have evidence, in which case it’s off to the races. Or just because it’s fun.

What’s the worst that could happen? The City has to stop pretending to be non-partisan and unbiased; no more citizen flags of any stripe. That’s what Boston did after wasting two million dollars defending its viewpoint discrimination and losing. Let them do that and then we get to ask them what else about their administration is just like the flag pole

The answer is probably everything.

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Rep she/her Selig wants you to know that she has a vagina and is heterosexual. This, apparently, is very important to her because in her tweet celebrating “Pride Month,” those are the first things she tells us … she has a vagina and is heterosexual. This is narcissism.

She/her Selig is actually celebrating her opinion of herself … I am different and better; yeah, I may have a vagina; yeah, I may like sex with men, but I am part of the elite, the enlightened, the chosen! 

She/her Selig and he fellow Woke-Communists are … I repeat … narcissists. They believe that their religion, Woke-Communism, makes them special, better, superior.

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Most of you knwo about the years or fire predictions in the 1970s. Scientists believed we were at the beginning of another ice age. Experts, along with a compliant media, pimped story after story about the precipice of frozen doom and what we should do about it.

By 1978, everyone was well aware of the situation, but four years later, in 1982, the compliant media was singing a different song. The experts had been warning us about global warming “for years.”

Credibility, much?

Forty years into the latest thing and what experts believe has resulted in forty years of failed predictions, models that calculate the size of future grants but nothing about the earth’s climate or even the local weather.

Trillions have been wasted on non-productive purposes. A decades-long political movement whose only purpose is to realign the means of production.

Four years, and the narrative completely flips.

Tony Heller at RCSB shares a few of the receipts.
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Incredible show of support for Donald Trump at last night’s (6/1) UFC 302. The pop he got when he walked in with Dana White gave you goosebumps. And it was not just the crowd … IN NEW JERSEY … showing Trump the love. The fighters did to … shaking his hand, taking selfies with him, giving him shout-outs in the post-fight interviews.

It’s very simple … real men support Trump, while the “men” who support BidenX are unhappy, low-t, no-t, pussy-boy, woke-commies. Don’t believe me … just look at the “men” with Ds after their names in the NH-House.

 

 

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A former Superintendent of the New York Department of Financial Services (DFS) is alleged to have used the power of her office to coerce financial institutions to refuse to do business with the National Rifle Association (NRA).

We see a good deal of this alleged misconduct as partisans engage with banks and insurance companies as a way to stifle an operation or impair its ability to operate, which includes the ability to freely associate, do business with, and engage in public expression.

Maria Vullo, while serving as DFS superintendent, appears to have made it her mission to ensure that those over whom her office had regulatory authority chose not to do business with the NRA. And while the action was based on a legitimate violation of state law.

[An] investigation revealed at least two kinds of violations of New York law: that Carry Guard insured intentional criminal acts, and the NRA promoted Carry Guard without an insurance producer license. By mid-November, upon finding out about the investigation following DFS information requests, Lockton and Chubb suspended Carry Guard.

Lockton and Chubb paid fines in the millions and made every effort to comply with New York State law, but Vullo used this single instance as an excuse to reach out to everyone and anyone associated with insurance lined to the NRA. Vullo used DFS letterhead. Vullo spoke as the Superintendent of the DFS. Vullo, upon finding minor violations, offered to dismiss or ignore them if the business promised to cease all relationships with the NRA (and any other gun groups). These companies complied, aiding Vullo’s viewpoint discrimination to make it difficult or impossible for the NRA to operate in the State.

The case made its way up the judicial food chain to the US Supreme Court which arrived at a 9-0 unanimous verdict. In the opinion written by Justice Sotomayor, Vullo is shown to have clearly violated the First Amendment rights of the NRA (citations removed).

Nothing in this case gives advocacy groups like the NRA a “right to absolute immunity from [government] investigation,” or a “right to disregard [state or federal] laws.”  Similarly, nothing here prevents government officials from forcefully condemning views with which they disagree. For those permissible actions, the Constitution “relies first and foremost on the ballot box, not on rules against viewpoint discrimination, to check the government when it speaks.”  Yet where, as here, a government official makes coercive threats in a private meeting behind closed doors, the “ballot box” is an especially poor check on that official’s authority. Ultimately, the critical takeaway is that the First Amendment prohibits government officials from wielding their power selectively to punish or suppress speech, directly or (as alleged here) through private intermediaries.

The Left hates the NRA, so they will hate this decision, but I have yet to see any email alerts from MoveOn listing Justice Sotomayor or Justice Jackson (for example) as “constitutional Threats” who must be impeached. I guess they can’t fundraise off of them, even when their BIPOC justices “vote” the wrong way.

 

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In 2016, New Hampshire Police and Fire rewarded Concord PD Julie Curtin for inter-Alia calling around the world to get internet posts taken down regarding Chessy Prout, the state witness in NH v Owen Labrie. She was rewarded for going above and beyond and getting “justice for the victim.”

Before all this happened, Laura L. Dunn (advisor to the White House “Not Alone” task force and co-founder of SurvJustice, a non-profit) had trained Concord PD and prosecutors in campus sexual assault investigations at UNH. The Executive Council approved a grant for the NHCADSV (a DOD contractor) for this purpose.

According to Laura Dunn’s resume, she handled the media during NH v Owen Labrie. According to the Concord Monitor from August 2015, Amanda Grady Sexton—of the NHCADSV, Sen Shaheen’s re-election campaign, and City of Concord Council—attended the Labrie trial to “keep tabs on the media,” seeing it as an “opportunity’ for the media to make important decisions about what is fair or not to report.

WMUR (Adam Sexton) had exclusive coverage on the trial, and influencer journalists hired specifically for the job from Vice Media, AP, Boston Globe, NYT, WaPo, and NBC were involved, along with political PR companies, including SKDK and HillImpact.com. NHPR’s Paige Sutherland had her tweets included in an exhibit to restrict media access, but she was never informed of this. I discovered this in court files.

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The trial was, I believe, the first trial in the U.S. to use and experiment with the Censorship Industrial Complex with full backing and communications with the White House during the trial from Laura L Dunn, who merely presented herself on TV as the “personal representative for the victim’s family.”

Everyone knew—Concord PD, Merrimack Prosecutors, Congresswoman Ann Kuster, City of Concord Council, Amanda Grady Sexton, Senator Jeanne Shaheen, UNH Law, UNH PIRC, DOE OCR, DOJ OVW, and the Prout family, who’d flown to DC to sort out the details with Laura L Dunn—except St Paul’s School, its community, and the defendant, Owen Labrie.

A book was already preplanned, media engagements were preplanned, work for the Democratic Party was preplanned, and the Prout family would earn an estimated $2 million between 2104 and 17 if they agreed to the plan set out and introduced by Concord PD and Laura L Dunn.

It is my belief that while Concord PD Julie Curtin was rewarded for censorship of Facebook and other social media posts regarding Chessy Prout, the negative posts may very well have been hoax posts created by and with the help of Concord PD Amanda Grady Sexton and Laura L Dunn in order to leverage public hatred against Owen Labrie and sympathy for Chessy Prout as the “survivor” that Congresswoman Ann Kuster needed in order to influence “the Harry Potter generation” (there was also the Harry Potter Alliance political organization as well).

New Hampshire’s AG has never investigated this but I believe there should be an investigation into the media, censorship and social media and censorship in the Labrie and St Paul’s cases. I believe that UNH PIRC (paid to create propaganda for the DOJ OVW and WH “Not Alone” task force) knows all about this.

Laura L Dunn instructed Concord PD Julie Curtin in 2014, according to an account by Chessy Prout. Laura L Dunn helped with the fake Rolling Stone UVA “A Rape on Campus” story, which led to the Eramo v Rolling Stone lawsuit. Dunn is featured in Exhibit 15B. Her resume states she was an expert witness in the case. Actually, she was instrumental in helping to place the story and instruct the journalist. Dunn lied about her own alleged sexual assault on a Center for Public Integrity program on NPR in 2010, which paved the way for her involvement in the unregulated “Dear Colleague “ Title IX directive introduced at UNH on April 4, 2011. She had on the board of SurvJustice, a social media influencer-Wagatwe Wanjuki.

Mimicking social media handles appears to be a specialty of Amanda Grady Sexton, NHCADSV, and Concord PD. It was after I wrote to the LEACT commission that my Twitter handle was followed by Amanda Grady Sexton and the NHCADSV. Then it was followed by a since removed handle called @letsheartherea1, which copied the anonymous @letshearthetru handle I started in July 2019 when Amanda Grady Sexton, NHCADSV, Congresswoman Kuster, Laura L Dunn, SurvJustice, et al. launched their successful social media and phone campaign to block Owen Labrie’s interview with Amy Robach on ABC from airing. Dan Hill of hillimpact.com (working with NHCADSV, Prouts and Laura L Dunn, and Kuster) was sent in to try to phish and find out my identity on Twitter, to mock me, smear me, accuse me of being a rape apologist, etc.

I am none of these. I read actual records. I read actual depositions and discovery.

New Hampshire has allowed its justice system and its educational institutions to be tainted by the censorship of the military-industrial complex. The result: a rapidly failing democracy because democracy cannot thrive without divisions between branches of government and the media.

The book, with introduction by Congresswoman Ann Kuster and heavily promoted by the NHCADSV, SurvJustice and Laura L Dunn: ihavetherighttobook.com equates Owen Labrie to an “Al Qaeda terrorist” and “Donald Trump”. Simultaneously, Chessy Prout expresses awe at meeting Bill Clinton- who lied to the public about his torrid abuse of power to sexually abuse and then have his wife smear Monica Lewinsky. The Prout family was effectively recruited before the trial of Owen Labrie to work for the 2016 Clinton campaign via Shaheen’s campaign director Amanda Grady Sexton, Concord PD Julie Curtin, and It’s On Us.

Dan Hill got pretty angry with me for figuring this out. He doesn’t have such a stellar reputation when you start digging. It’s amazing what you can get away with in NH courts once you use media to create, manipulate, and control the narrative in order to get government contracts as NHCADSV, SurvJustice, and the Concord PD did.

They are happy to remove social media and articles that are negative to Chessy Prout or NHCADSV, but ask NH AP to correct the actual facts about Owen Labrie, and you will get nowhere.

Do you want your children to be incited to commit hate violence against someone because of what they read about someone in the news from articles generated and controlled by the NHCADSV, or do you want them to become critical thinkers?

I have worked in media for over 30 years in the UK, the US, and around the world. I understand how censorship works because I have had to deal with it in the course of my career in studios and agencies and as a freelancer filming in Mexico, Japan, South America, and Germany before the wall came down, as well as China and Japan. I knew something was wrong in the Labrie trial regarding the sensationalized coverage. I was horrified by what I uncovered.

Liars beget liars to cover lies.

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The Trump conviction; so many due process and constitutional issues were involved; would federal courts touch the case before State appeals are exhausted? The panel agrees that Trump will likely be taken to jail at sentencing on 7/11 or alternately sentencing may be postponed; should Trump go home to Florida and dare them to take him back to NY? What are the odds of getting SCOTUS to intervene early in the process? Will Biden be replaced? Could American “stumble” into a war? The Fauci hearings and his admitting to so many lies.

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An article on Nashua Inklink stated that the school district budget was going up 4.49%. However, the City’s 2025 Budget book states that the School District is going up 4.94%. One would think that someone made a typo, but no, it gets better.

In going back to Superintendent Mario Andrade, he stated that the school district does not pick up benefits, and no, he is not kidding.

The Nashua residents should take note that the benefits amount to $51 million dollars, and believe me when I say that the Nashua taxpayers do pay for them. Of course, the benefits to employees need to be put in because all employees, including teachers, are getting these “benefits.” This additional $51 million dollars will also change the cost per student from $17,775 to $18,380. A resident should forget that my figures do not include the School Special Revenues and School Grants, which are included in the City’s budget but NOT in the school budget.

Residents pay all this for a below-par education in our public schools for our children. Per the Student Proficiency Assessment of 2023, Nashua scores were:

North HS   South HS  Academy of Arts
Math Proficiency  34%  48%  86%
Reading Proficiency 58%  65%  90%
Science Proficiency 41%  53%  84%

Also reported in this assessment was the fact that the average salary for North and South teachers was $65,319 and the cost per pupil was $19,498 compared to the Academy of Arts & Science, where the average salary was $43,566 and cost per pupil was $9,985. And residents wonder why there has been an increase in Charter School enrollment, up by 35% since 2019 (per Union Leader 1/11/2024 report).

If a resident goes to page 25 of the school budget presentation, they will note that the average teacher has 18.4 students, down from 18.9 students last year.

If a resident goes to the school district budget, they will see on page 11 that the school district shows the 24 Adopted Budget vs the Proposed 2025 Budget.

Adopted Budget for 2024:

Labor $98.1 million 56%
Benefits $48.2 million 28%
Proposed Budget for 2025:
Labor $100.0 million 55%
Benefits $50.9 million 28%

This shows that 83% of the school budget is going to employees for salaries and benefits. All teachers have city and state-funded pensions whereas most people do not get this luxury.

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Welcome to Wednesday. Hump Day. Midweek. When I went to college, Wednesday was the day before the day before Friday, so we started the weekend early. And now you know why I didn’t graduate.

It was also ten-cent wings and beer night.

Correlation may, in this case, be causation.

Memes, you say? Yes, let us get on with the memes. And they are memes. Potentially more accurate than Wikipedia, Snopes, or the Nightly News, or just as accurate. We are not here to judge, merely to pretend to be the meme guy, hoping no one suspects a thing.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Trigger warning. … Pride Month Humor.

 

 

 

Next!
Lefty Pride monther parade disrupted by lefty pro-Palestine “rain.”

NEW: LGBTQers and pro-Palestine protesters have a standoff at the Philly Pride Parade.

Remarkable.

Pro-Palestine protesters were seen blocking the path of the LGBTQ pride parade.

“Tense moments as Palestine Protesters block Philly Pride Parade as it heads towards Gayborhood,”… pic.twitter.com/3vjh8ncGHR

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) June 2, 2024

 

 

And, back to your regular memeapalooza

 

 

A few years old but true (link).

 

 

 

Trump-Trump-Trump …

 

 

 

 

 

A few more memes

 

 

 

 

 

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So Fauci … the Godfather of COVID … has admitted UNDER OATH that masking and social-distancing had no scientific basis. They just made it all up. Those of us who are still capable of independent thought already knew that … it was all so nonsensical. For example, you could take your mask off to eat on a commercial flight because … because airplane food somehow repels COVID?

You could go on and on and on and on and one with examples of how absurd and illogical the “COVID rules” were. But what I want to know is … WHEN IS FAUCI GOING TO PRISON? When is an Attorney-General in a Red-State going to indict that demonic, arrogant dwarf?

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Our own illustrious Beth Scaer is pushing the buttons and pulling the triggers of the snowflakes cluttering up Nashua City Hall. She has requested that they fly another flag, and they’ve returned with a hard no.

At least one version of the flag is featured above, and there is no good reason to deny it. Maybe the City has decided it doesn’t like Beth? She made news and waves a few years back when she wanted to fly a Save Women’s Sports flag on the People’s Pole in front of City Hall. The flag got permission and was raised, but within 24 hours, whiney mayor Jim ‘The Douche’ Donchess had it pulled down (His pole appears to have a partisan case of ED).

When pressed with legal concerns after Boston lost 9-0 in the US Supreme Court—another flag pole and a different flag—Nashua removed the citizen flag pole webpage as if the solution was to do what Boston did after losing: stop raising citizen flags altogether. If we can’t control the speech then there shall be none! I’m actually okay with that. It seems wholly inappropriate for cities to be flying black Marxist banners and Gaystapo gang colors, given how intolerant the militant factions among each tend to be.

But, cities like Boston wanted to fly pride flags and BLM flags, but if they did that, according to the court, “…it will probably have to allow a Proud Boys flag. That’s just what the First Amendment requires.”

Damn, you First Amendment!

You may also be familiar with longtime ‘Grok friend and occasional contributor Hal Shurtleff. He took his case against Boston to the high court and won. We interviewed him about that journey here but back to Beth. The City must still be raising citizen flags because she asked permission to fly the NH Pine Tree Flag.

Nashua’s brave soldiers fought and died at the Battle of Bunker Hill on June 17, 1775. I applied to raise the Pine Tree Flag, which our soldiers carried into battle that day, on the Nashua City Hall Plaza to commemorate this solemn anniversary. My request was rejected because the “flag is not in harmony with the message that the City wishes to express or endorse.” The citizens of Nashua would be quite alarmed and ashamed to know that the City does not endorse the message of commemorating our soldiers fighting and dying at the Battle of Bunker Hill.

I am writing to appeal this decision by Jennifer Deshaies of Risk Management and requesting that my application to raise the Pine Tree Flag on June 15 be approved.

See my application and the rejection letter below.

 

As noted above, that was a hard no. Beth adds, that,

Mayor Donchess should be deeply embarrassed about his administration rejecting the raising of the Pine Tree Flag on Nashua City Hall Plaza in commemoration of the Battle of Bunker Hill. I am asking him to overturn the decision by the Risk Management office and approve my application to fly the flag.

(Law) Suit Yourself

After Shurtleff v. City of Boston, Nashua has very little room to move. As arrogant and intolerable as the City’s legal counsel is, they can’t possibly think they could survive a pricey trip through the American legal system given that Free Speech cases in general, and one identical to this, resulted in a unanimous verdict against a similar rejection. Every Justice agreed, and that trend continues with Sotomayor writing the latest 9-0 opinion in opposition to another deliberate case of viewpoint discrimination.

If Nashua has flown anyone else’s flag, they will lose, and having an unconstitutional pole policy is no excuse.

It’s not even a shadow of a penumbra. The only possible victory for Nashua is if a lower court has the sense to save taxpayers millions by stopping their viewpoint discrimination in the lowest court possible.

That seems unlikely. Another feature of the Gate City is that the mayor is just as arrogant as his legal counsel. As I write this, Beth has informed me that her appeal has been rejected.

20240604 Response to B. Scaer Appeal

Is there a national legal outfit willing to drag Donchess and the City into Court? I’m guessing Donchess doesn’t think so. Maybe someone will surprise him, not that his city doesn’t love being sued. Just look at how they handle the right-to-know requests (or the spending cap, for that matter).

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The world of nail care and beauty is a world of precision in the sense that any mistake can lead to bad results that are clearly visible. Nail beautification means shaping the nails with what can be termed an “art approach.” In the olden days only those with years of experience were able to shape nails with very precise results, but today, things have been made easier with the development of technology.

The electric nail drill is a game changer in the world of nail beauty because of its speed, precision level, and ease of use. There are many electric nail drill products available in the market and can be purchased online but only a handful of them live up to expectations. One of them is what Maryton has come up with the rechargeable Second Generation Professional Nail Drill.

This portable nail drill retails for only $220.00 but its capabilities far exceed its price. In other words, this electric nail drill is definitely worth buying.

Why is this nail drill worth buying?

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– LCD display: This nail drill machine is capable of operating in full view thanks to the LCD screen embedded in it. For you users, you can control the operational parameters with the control knob and know the changes from the screen, for example when you want to increase the rotation speed of the drill. This electric nail drill is capable of rotating from 1,000 to 35,000 RPM.

– Handpiece holder stand: Each purchase includes a premium quality nail drill pen holder stand, ensuring you can put your nail drill down without worrying about it slipping off.

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Each purchase comes with a full set of accessories as mentioned above. Every Maryton nail drill is certified by ROHS, FCC, and EMC, ensuring that they are perfectly safe to use even by non-professionals. Maryton also guarantees that its entire wholesale nail supply is safe to use. Overall, it can be concluded that Maryton’s Second Generation Professional Nail Drill is worth buying.

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Vice President Kamala Harris has given us dozens of videos and sound bites worthy of SNL skits but not of the second-highest-ranking member of the Executive Branch. From giggle sessions to sitting with young professional actors posing as interested students as the VP talked about the marvels and mysteries of outer space, these sessions gave fodder to comedians and talking heads. Unfortunately, we do not have many digital clips of our Vice President interacting meaningfully with any other person. One of Harris’ most viewed clips was her trip to Seattle to announce funding for electric school buses to replace our diesel fleet.

I concede that an electric bus will operate on the road in a cleaner fashion than its diesel counterpart, but it offends me when the administration professes the factless claim that electronic buses will increase test scores for student riders. There is never a discussion of what goes into generating the electricity required to charge these buses for three hours. They want you to not think about that element of the debate. I drive a school bus and am not interested in driving an electric one. It concerns me that there have been reports of incredible car fires when the EV battery ignites—the thought of 40 children on a bus with two massive rechargeable lithium batteries keeps me up at night. We are not ready to put our most precious cargo, our children, on an electric bus.

Let’s look at the numbers. There are nearly 500,000 diesel school buses in America. The cost of these buses is about $100,000, while the replacement cost of a new electric bus is $400,000. To replace the American fleet with Buses would cost the people of the United States $200,000,000,000. That is $200 billion, and it does not include the charging stations and the retraining of our techs from diesel engine experts to electric motor mechanics. We are not prepared to make this transition at this time. That is a significant issue with this administration. They do not think through the ramifications of their lousy decisions. Their plan is tantamount to putting cars on the road before the invention of tires. Their need to satisfy the Green faction of the Left is more urgent than a sound plan Americans can embrace. By the way, what will we do with 500,000 retired diesel buses? Maybe we can dig a giant crater in New Mexico and bury them. Again, we don’t have a plan.

The American people are not prepared to spend that massive amount of money on a bus program that is not suited to the various climates of our country. Here in New England, we have documentation of an entire fleet of a district’s buses sidelined in the winter because the harsh winters are not a friend of battery-operated motors. There is another major problem for the government issuing grants to facilitate this diesel to battery conversion. Some buses are owned by cities and towns, but far more are owned by private companies under contract with specific school districts. Is it legal for taxpayer dollars to fund vehicles given to private companies, or will they be forced to absorb $400,000 per bus to make their fleet conform to government regulations?

There are far more questions than answers on the yellow school bus that Kamala loves so much, but that is what we have with all of Joe Biden’s half-baked plans. I work with many bus drivers and have yet to find one excited about driving an E-bus. It’s too bad Kamala didn’t come to us to ask about Joe’s earth-saving program. We love our buses, but we also love the sound of a dependable diesel engine.

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Memorandum regarding Trump “conviction.” Either fight back or shut up. Enough with the “double standard,” “hypocrisy,” “eroding confidence in rule of law,” blah, blah, blah rhetoric that the Left just laughs at. Fight back or shut up and go away.

An example of fighting back is Sun-King Sununu’s wingman, Formella, who could indict Cinde WORMington for lying about oxycontin. Call her a drug dealer. Find a crime or crimes … or invent one or some.

“We’re better than that” is the excuse of cowards and losers who don’t want to fight … which, unfortunately, is most of the GOP.

To be clear, bitter-clingers, I am NOT saying New Hampshire is a Red State. It is NOT. But if you have power … use it. And we supposedly have “Republican” control of the Executive Branch. So call the Sun-King and ask him when we can expect the indictment of WORMington.

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After compiling a yuuuuuge file of links that I’ve seen plus my comments, and from my Jarhead friend, and seeing how long it’s gotten, I’m putting it here this time – separate from the memes.  But a few memes scattered within as well.  I don’t want the links that I’ve compiled – important stuff IMHO – to overwhelm Monday’s meme post.

Peruse as you will.

‘What could go wrong?’: Woke Boston mayor seeks to decriminalize theft, not punish thieves | The Post Millennial | thepostmillennial.com

And WHEN the inevitable happens, and Boston spirals down into crime and squalor with businesses fleeing, they’ll be as baffled as liberals have been the last… dozen?… times this has been done.  And given the number of times the same pattern has happened, I can only conclude that this is by design.

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World War III watch.

Don’t Let Yourself Be Misdirected | NC Renegades

It’s one thing to supply small arms.  It’s a step up to supply advanced arms to be used within the territory of the nation being attacked to push invaders out (think Stinger missiles in Afghanistan, for example, or Javelin missiles against invading Russian tanks).  But to have that provided weaponry be used against the territory of the attacking nation?  That’s casus belli against you.

Poking the Bear | NC Renegades

While everyone is focusing on the Trump verdict, Biden has given permission to Ukraine allowing the use of US supplied weapons to target Russian territory.

The countdown for WWIII has started in conjunction with CWII.

Biden lets Ukraine hit Russia with US arms to defend Kharkiv: official – Insider Paper

It won’t stay local.

Cyberattack could trigger Article 5 – NATO — RT World News

Today Is a Good Day to Be Vigilant | NC Renegades

And Russia is, once again, issuing an OR ELSE:

We are not bluffing about nuclear war, Putin ally warns as US raises WW3 threat by granting Ukraine permission to fire its missiles INTO Russia | Daily Mail Online

Ukraine, Allies to Receive Devastating Response If Western Arms Used on Russia – Medvedev (sputnikglobe.com)

“The former Ukraine and its NATO allies will receive a response of such destructive force that the alliance itself simply will not be able to resist being drawn into the conflict,” Medvedev wrote on Telegram.

My wife – who insists that “nothing will change, don’t be paranoid” – is currently visiting her family “over there”.  It’d be truly ironic, albeit catastrophic for our family even beyond the obvious world implications, if WW3 kicks off while she’s there and can’t get back here.

But more broadly, Russia cannot issue OR ELSE statements like this and then not follow through.

To Avoid Nuclear War, Putin Needs to be a Little Crazier | NC Renegades

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Enclosures To Defend F-15Es From Drone Attacks Eyed At Seymour Johnson AFB (twz.com)

In my post about the grid, I mentioned sabotage teams targeting the grid.  Not the only thing they could target, and target easily.  Now consider this about the water outage in Atlanta:

Atlanta Continues It’s State Of Emergency Status Over Water Outages

US Government launders billions to defense contractors as America’s infrastructure continues to crumble

“Atlanta, There is multiple water main breaks, in the whole city is without water, and they’re telling the people they don’t have a time frame on when it will be fixed. My question is, how does a whole city’s water supply get knocked out? Systems are set up, so this does not happen. But how do multiple water mains break in the same city at the same time?

Now I’ve seen some people talking about the pressure. If one water main breaks, it can affect the pressure on another one. Listen, there’s valves, and they have separate systems all throughout cities, so this cannot happen.

So my question is, how did this happen, and is this suspicious to you? Please leave a comment below.”

WalkStreetApes (https://x.com/wallstreetapes/status/1797818218834464918?s=46)
@CherokeeOwl

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WEF Orders Govt’s To Burn Millions of Bees To Usher In ‘Global Famine’ – The People’s Voice (thepeoplesvoice.tv)

I cannot even wrap my mind around how evil this is.  Aren’t there people who say NO?  Or will we follow orders to global famine?

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Banana republic, and you can keep it – Surak substack blog

“Live and let live” doesn’t work when the other party doesn’t want to let you live.

34 REASONS the Bragg-Biden Show Trial Should Have Been TOSSED OUT — Each One Alone Providing Grounds for a Mistrial | The Gateway Pundit | by Paul Ingrassia

Moonbattery Why Even Trump Haters Must Vote for Trump – Moonbattery

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China Weaponizing 90%-Fatal Ebola | NC Renegades

As I read this, a scene from the movie “Conan the Destroyer” comes to mind:

Evil wizard: We will control him (evil deity Dagoth whom they want to bring back to life)

Akiro: Nobody can control him. His power and his evil are too great.

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Bill Gates’ New Plan: Cut Down 70 Million Acres of Trees to “Combat Global Warming” – Free West Media

Block the sun.  Remove CO2 from the atmosphere.  Cut down forests.  These people are, actively, anti-life.

Moonbattery Vermont Moves to Outlaw Energy Production – Moonbattery

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Spicy Time commentary.

Bless her heart. She thinks she is going to win. – Gun Free Zone

Not only do these guys grow and ship food to the cities, they know how to hunt.  Every hunter is a sniper.

Cut off food, water, and electricity – especially the latter – to the Blue Hives and within a week they’ll turn on each other like rats in a flood.  Related to Spicy Time / SHTF:

Items People Would Kill for in a Crisis – Ask a Prepper

How to Protect Your Car from Becoming a Target After SHTF – Ask a Prepper

How to Communicate When the Grid Is Down – Ask a Prepper

I got a satellite phone through Shepherd Group.  Not cheap, but doesn’t rely on the phone / internet structure.  It DOES need line of sight to the satellite (so to make a call I have to go to a clear area).  He also has IT security and other products.  If you contact him, please mention me as – in full disclosure – I get a commission.

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Moonbattery Episcopal Church Replaces St. George With LGBTism – Moonbattery

Their tendrils penetrate everywhere.  And people react:

One million United Methodists quit the church after sex rule change

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Communist Democrats like Bennie Thompson want to deny Trump Secret Service protection (pacificpundit.com)

They don’t want him disgraced or out of the race.  They want him dead.  But that’s not all.  They want YOU dead.

 

 

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The Universal and Imperialist Islamic Mandate | Hungarian Conservative

Know your Islamic enemy.

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Desperate, Lying Biden May Abuse AI To Pull The Ultimate Race Hoax | ZeroHedge

We know that AI voice fakery can fool most people.  We know that AI videos are not perfect, but… we don’t know what the alphabet agencies actually have available (doubtless far, far, far beyond anything we’ve seen).  Watch out for outright fakery.  And censorship dialed to 11:

FEDS ATTEMPT TO SHUT DOWN INFOWARS TONIGHT – Alex Jones Breaks Down in Tears on Live Show – Heartbreaking Video – Steve Bannon Urges Alex to Take Them to the Mattresses! | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft

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Megyn Kelly EXPLODES In Fiery Monologue Calling To Toss Democrats In Prison: ‘The ONLY Way’ (trendingpoliticsnews.com)

I agree with the fire in the belly.  I disagree with the theme.  First… RINOs.  Second… courts.  Third… you have to win elections to do this.  And the Left has proven they will stop at nothing.  Do you think, seeing what Trump is experiencing, that people who might otherwise run for office will shy away?  Yes.

TINVOWOOT.

 

 

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The mysterious disappearance of a Mexican ‘supermodel’ Gabriela Rico Jiménez who emerged screaming from glitzy hotel claiming the elite were ‘eating humans’ … and then vanished | Daily Mail Online

I remember seeing this video, years after the fact.  Not surprised she got disappeared.

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Tulsi Gabbard on how the verdict against President Trump in New York has caused a major degradation of our Rule of Law in the country:

https://x.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1796944559680954403

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Our “DEI” military in action.  If we need them to defend the country, we’re screwed.  Of course, if we have to fight them, I like our odds…

https://x.com/dolfijnmanjohns/status/1795051626924830905

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Pharma giant Merck was caught fudging the data for the effectiveness of their MMR shots.  But when taken to court, the (probably bought off) Judge says:  That’s OK, the government knew about it and will mandate them for kids anyway. Do you still “trust the science”?:

Irons in the Fire: Holy crap… at what point do we start taking corrupt bureaucrats and pharma execs (elmtreeforge.blogspot.com)

Related:  It’s now coming to light that Dr. Fauci et.al. were not just pushing the “Covid-19 came from a wet-market” narrative, they were actively covering up the REAL origin (the Wuhan lab), and the fact that THEY were FUNDING the gain-of-function research at the lab.  To paraphrase a good friend:  Rope, Tree, and Criminal.  Some assembly required:

Fauci & Co. need to pay a price for funding Wuhan lab research — and trying to cover it up (nypost.com)

Pro-Vaccine Doctor Realizes She’s Been Injected With Poison — Video (infowars.com)

Fauci admits ‘science’ behind masking kids, 6-foot social distancing was made up | The Post Millennial | thepostmillennial.com

NIH scientists made $710M in royalties from drug makers, a fact they tried to hide (nypost.com)

Just call BRIBES… “Royalties”.

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In the 1970’s, the UK used blood supplies from HIV patients that they KNEW were infected to give to people who needed blood, which helped “kick off” the AIDS epidemic.  Our current FDA is now opening up the blood supply to accept gay men.  What could possibly go wrong?:

Rishi Sunak Admits to ‘Infected Blood Scandal’ – American Thinker

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Wealthy conservatives who donate to Donald Trump are getting “visits” by the FBI.  This is why I all my political donations are done anonymously, through postal money orders, which I pay cash for. And I mail the letter from a place far from my home.  Read the comments also, as several stated that after a large donation, their business got audited by the IRS.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/05/28/remarkable-and-truthful-statement-about-fbi-political-surveillance

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Another good reason to keep you head on a swivel:

NEW Info About the Chechen Illegal Who Was Shot While Possibly Surveilling Special Ops Soldier’s NC Home – RedState

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This is an excellent article by Jeffery Tucker of the Epoch Times showing the “3 layer state” that exists today, and how they are REALLY the ones in charge, and that they don’t care about the law, or the Constitution:

The 3 Layers of the Technocratic State | The Epoch Times

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Those of you in Maine Stands Up will recognize Dr. Meryl Nass, who hails from Ellsworth, Maine.  Here she is writing about how the next “pandemic” to solidify total control over the populations:

Pandemic Preparedness: Coming to a Country Near You | The Epoch Times

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Jeffery Tucker on how most internet searches are being manipulated by the government to only allow you to see what they WANT you to see.  This is a good reason to have access to a 2nd form of communication that bypasses government (like ham radio):

https://www.theepochtimes.com/opinion/they-are-closing-up-the-internet-5660249

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Some good news:  School choice is working very well in Florida, to the point that several public schools are looking at being shut down, saving taxpayer money.  Of course, the teachers union and various people who benefit from forcing children into public schools are having fits:

School choice programs have been wildly successful under DeSantis. Now public schools might close. – POLITICO

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6 Best Laying Chickens for Your Backyard – pets indoor

Tempted.

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A digital wallet is the first step: How Estonia built its digital state | Biometric Update

It is being held up as an example.

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The Amendments to the IHR have been adopted (substack.com)

Even as we crow that we won, no, they are moving forward.

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Even Alone – Please Read All And Pass On To Others – Western Rifle Shooters Association (coldfury.com)

Compare militaries.

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‘Highway robbery’ by U.S. police gets green light, thanks to ruling | WND | by Bob Unruh

Asset forfeiture.  All they have to do is declare whatever-it-is the product of drug trafficking, and it’s gone.  Good luck getting it back.

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Megafossil Carbon Dating Indicates Sweden Was 2-3°C Warmer Than Today During The Last Glacial (notrickszone.com)

New Study: China’s Loess Plateau 7-8°C Warmer Than Today For Much Of The Last 4000 Years (notrickszone.com)

But… but… but it’s warming now, right?

 

 

And did you miss Zuckerberg’s mega yacht?

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Lavrentiy Beria was Stalin’s chief of secret police in former Soviet Union & he said in his reign of terror “show me the man and I’ll show you the crime”; he meant he can create a crime out of anyone, (substack.com)

That’s exactly what the situation is.

Of Course They’ll Put Trump in Jail – PJ Media

Time To Fight Dirty – PJ Media

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Farmers must kill 4.2 million chickens after bird flu hits Iowa egg farm – ABC News (go.com)

Food shortage incoming.

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Closing out – Surak with info:

COVID-related resources – Surak substack blog

 

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I know, a lot to go through.  But information is life these days.  And even the above only scratches the surface.

 

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The Bayerische Motoren Werke (BMW) makes world-class automobiles, motorcycles, things that go vroom vroom, and all that. Thye’ve got Bimmers, Beemers, and the like. BMW also knows, like all of corporate America, that pandering can be good for your Social Credit Score so every June is Rainbows its Logo.

But only in places friendly to the imagery.

BMW’s official corporate account on X said the quiet part out loud when someone dared to ask why the car company’s Middle East-facing logo had not been subjected to the same Pride-Month-rainbow-flag treatment as the logo seen in the United States: it wouldn’t be culturally acceptable there.

Libs of TikTok reminds us that it is not just BMW.

Every. Single. Year. This will never not be funny pic.twitter.com/BVj40itRxs

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) June 2, 2024

But someone asked BMW why, and it responded.

This is an established practice at the BMW Group, which also takes into consideration market-specific legal regulations and country-specific cultural aspects (4/4)

— BMW (@BMW) June 1, 2024

…”However, as is customary with such communication and marketing activities, it is at the discretion of our sales companies and independent distributors to decide if they wish to join centrally initiated communication and marketing campaigns or not. (3/4)”

In other words, BMW doesn’t want its sales teams in Islamic countries getting beheaded or thrown off a roof.

Very brave.

And we’re not picking gon BMW. The rest of them are likely no less courageous. As in, wow, we really support this thing, and we’re against discrimination, and support you being you but not anywhere that it matters.

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Ossipee “selectmen’s chair Jonathan Smith said the Main Street Program is essentially defunct.” “In fact, he and the other selectmen voted 3-0 not to give the Main Street Program $2,500 that voters approved at the annual meeting last week.”

Tuesday, May 28th, the meeting was going to be a public session on the demolition of The Building used by Main Street Ossipee and others at 15 Moultonville Road. Apparently, a few Ossipee Residents circulated a petition to force this issue to be voted on at a public town meeting.

My name was on the petition.

When I started paying attention to and voting on local issues, I voted for the $2500 to go to Main Street Ossipee. Two days later, I read that the selectmen rescinded the money. The Main Street Ossipee group sued the town for failing to notify them. Well, apparently, the notifications required are minimal, and that is what the selectmen did—the absolute minimum.

Sometimes, something may be “Legal,” but that does not make it “Right.”

This has a stink on it. When the Chair, Jonathan Smith, finished his statement on planning a special town meeting to vote on this issue, he looked at the people who submitted the petition and said, “This is a waste of money.”

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Well Mr. Smith, we may end up voting to demolish the building, and very well may, but it will be on the People of Ossipee to weigh the options and make that decision. There was a lot of talk about moving the Police Station to 43 Chickville Road.

Would it be a better decision to move the police into the Highway Department Building and have the police take over the building behind the Town Offices? There were many pros and cons in the discussion.

One of the gentlemen who got the signatures feels this way as well, but the topic was driven by Dallas Emery Jr. Everyone there agreed the building is a deal and the town should buy the building no matter what. A couple of people kept defending the purchase, even though no one there was against it.

Mr. Emery was discussing different options and reasons for the move, and the Chair Laughed and said he was going to set a time limit for Mr. Emory. I stood aside out of camera view and watched and listened, but as soon as the chair said this, I spoke up and said, “I Yield my time to Mr. Emory!” It may not be in the transcript since I did not properly state my name, but it should be heard on the video.

All we are asking for is transparency and better communication, legal or not.

The profits from the sale of 5 Dore Street, the old police station, is another issue; if it does not sell, they may have to temporarily divert paving funds to cover the price and return the money if and when the property sells.

It brought back a lot of bad memories dealing with these local boards, but I had already been banished from Exeter, and Ossipee was our Dream place, so I really did not have anywhere else to go. “Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!”

So, it goes.

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Dave “Whale Killer” Watters ended up having his meeting yesterday despite the lack of a quorum and took time to listen to the peasants’ objections to offshore wind projects off the coast of New Hampshire. One participant noted how disrespectful Whale Killer Watters was to the rabble’s concerns.

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That’s a lot of video; I’ve not sifted it yet. Time has been at a premium for the past several days (no comment of the week if you’d not noticed). If the crowd has time to source examples, send me time stamps, and we’ll see about pulling those out for display purposes – and not just clips of Watters being a weenie. Good questions with bad or no answers are good, too.

There is an obvious disdain for suggesting that these leases not get done. The project is being fast-tracked. They want to get out there and kill some whales, and on that point – here’s Robert Bryce – (author, filmmaker, public speaker, and energy sector observer) – with some unpleasant observations.

Related: Of Course Offshore Wind is a Bigger Threat to Right Whales than Lobster Fisherman

Why are they developing offshore wind infrastructure on top of endangered Right whale habitat?

The U.S. Wants To Put Hundreds Of Wind Turbines In North Atlantic Right Whale Habitat. This Map Proves It. #rightwhale #us #newyork #alternativeenergy #greenenergy #windturbine #wind #solar #climate #climatechange #endangered pic.twitter.com/1xRE3fwyZV

— Robert Bryce (@pwrhungry) April 25, 2024

You might recall a California pressure group called Seafood Watch and its smear on Maine Lobster fishermen. They were endangering right whales, they said. They banned their lobsters, and they did. But we don’t eat whales, so Seafood Watch isn’t watching right whales when it comes to wind. Neither is Greenpeace, which actively promotes offshore wind. They have a page to stop commercial whaling, and they oppose offshore drilling/mining ‘cuz whales, but wind? Nothing.

A Group Called Save the Whales issued a 78-page report as part of public comment for an East Coast wind project that challenged many of the assumptions about offshore wind and included concerns about harm to the endangered right whale.

• The findings of federal scientists at NOAA-Fisheries (National Marine Fisheries Service) were that the project represented a threat to the continued existence of the North Atlantic Right Whale. The agency wrote a letter in May of 2022 to BOEM recommending, for harm mitigation, a buffer zone bounded on the east by the depth line where the Nantucket shoals depth measures 30 m and extending southwest for 20 km (12 mi). There was a big exposé by Bloomberg News in November of 2022 that BOEM was not heeding the federal government’s own scientists at NOAA-Fisheries. The Mayflower DEIS reveals that BOEM ruled out doing this because it considers the power purchase agreement to have irretrievably committed whatever portion of the lease area is necessary for power production outlined in the agreement, which was formed in 2020, three years before conclusion of the environmental inquiry as to the project’s effects. This means the decision as to whether to commit ocean resources to any specific purpose is being made ahead of the environmental review which examines what the environmental consequences will be. This runs counter to the intent of the environmental law.

That seems to parallel the experience here in New Hampshire regarding BOEM and the alleged tri-state offshore wind commission upon which Dave ‘Whale Killer’ Watters so proudly sits.

Of course, whales are not the only issue. Despite the massive growth of wind generating capacity in the US, electricity generated by the infrastructure declined last year.

But what happens when you build massive amounts of wind energy capacity and it doesn’t deliver — not for a day or a week, but for six months, or even an entire year? That question is germane because, on Wednesday, the Energy Information Administration published a report showing that U.S. wind energy production declined by 2.1% last year. Even more shocking: that decline occurred even though the wind sector added 6.2 GW of new capacity!

A hat tip to fellow Substack writer Roger Pielke Jr., who pithily noted on Twitter yesterday, “Imagine if the U.S. built 6.2 GW new capacity in nuclear power plants and after starting them up, overall U.S. electricity generation went down. That’d be a problem, right?”

Something about weather-dependent intermittent energy capacity … blah, blah, but don’t you dare point it out, or you are just being political. Damn right (whale!) I am because nothing about this is NOT POLITICAL. It is all political, and we know that because if it were not, more environmental groups (who have become cutouts and proxies for the Federal wind and solar agenda) would be up in arms.

A much younger Jeanne Shaheen proudly protested the construction of the Seabrook Nuclear power plant to protect the environment, including sea life. I’m unsure if she’s raised a drawn-on eyebrow regarding the rise in whale deaths following the rapid expansion of offshore wind along the East Coast. Not even one blue-ribbon committee.

And the whales don’t get a vote, but I was out over Jeffreys Ledge Saturday (19 miles out from Portsmouth), and we saw a lot of whales—groups of three. Here is a quick clip of one of them.

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/one-whale-close.mp4

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