Friday • January 10 • 2025
Vol.XVII • No.II
Manchester, N.H.
On April 23, in Rye, New Hampshire, there was a presentation by the New England Fishermen’s Stewardship Association (NEFSA) on the impacts Offshore Wind (OSW) will have in the Gulf of Maine.
Two million acres were identified by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) for over a thousand Offshore Wind Turbines. They are scheduled to begin sight planning and construction in October 2024. The event, sponsored by Sea Bee Honey, was attended by approximately 80 people at the Rye Congregational Church. Fishermen, boaters, the general public, and others came to hear about what’s coming off the NH coast starting this October. The five NH gubernatorial candidates, many representatives, and senators were invited, but only one candidate showed up to listen. In attendance of the officials invited were Chuck Morse, NH state representatives Jason Gerhard, Kelley Potenza, and Deb Hobson.
I encourage everyone to listen and share this 1 hour 45 minute presentation. Once they start developing off our shores, we have absolutely no idea the cause and effects it will have and it may be too late to stop the damage.
The first part of the presentation was by Jerry Leeman, CEO of NEFSA. Mr. Leeman focused on the planned OSW impact on the fisheries and fishermen in the Gulf of Maine. Particularly our ocean food supply. If they destroy local fishing, our food will come by plane/ship. It makes zero sense why anyone thinks getting our food from China or Japan will save CO2 is a mystery. And those countries have zero protections for the ocean ecosystem and will cost much more for products to market. And it’s not “green.”
George Stover, NEFSA consultant with 42 years in the power industry, presented a detailed explanation of “The Language of Electricity” and the hows and whys of the electrical grid in New England.
John Borden, a fisherman from Portsmouth, NH, discussed how offshore wind in the Gulf of Maine would challenge an industry that is already stressed and heavily government-restricted.
The offshore wind projects have brought little jobs and power and unprecedented harm to ocean mammals. There have been ten dead mammals where they are surveying for OSW expansion off NJ, NY, and the MA coast. The list below are over 40 dead mammals from January to May 1 2024. These are the mammals we know about. There are no studies of the effects on mammals, microorganisms, and the problem or poisons to which these giant turbines have been linked. New England is known for its seafood; be sad if it all comes from another country halfway around the world.
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SB574, as amended, passed the House of Representatives 352-7. This important legislation allows children to have equal access to both their fit, willing, and able parents after separation or divorce.
Passing SB574 protects the Constitutional and God-given rights of parents and the rights of children to be parented.
Representative Lorie Ball-Salem (Rock. 25) could not have said it better, “This amendment continues to provide the exact same protection to victims of domestic violence, abuse, and neglect and does not prevent parents from creating a parenting plan that works for them. I implore my esteemed colleagues in the House to show our constituents that we have heard their pleas.”
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This legislation, current state law under RSA461-A Parental Rights and Responsibilities as well as numerous other state laws, addresses the stakeholders concerns regarding domestic violence, abuse and neglect. The court has the obligation to uphold the laws that have been legislated.
Amendment 2024-1853h, states:
Parental Rights and Responsibilities; Statement of Purpose. Amend RSA 461-A:2, I(a) to read as follows:
(a) Support [frequent and continuing contact] approximately equal parenting time
between each child and both parents.
3 Determination of Parental Rights and Responsibilities; Best Interest. Amend RSA 461-A:6, I-
a to read as follows:
I-a. If the court concludes that [frequent and continuing contact] approximately equal
parenting time between each child and both parents is not in the best interest of the child, the
court shall make findings supporting its order.
4 Effective Date. This act shall take effect January 1, 2025.
We commend representative Lisa Post (Hills. 4) and the numerous co-sponsors for bringing this important legislation forward.
Representing the people and bi-partisan support got this passed in the House overwhelmingly on two separate occasions this session. HB185 passed 202-172, and SB574, with amendment 1853h, passed 352-7.
We would be remiss if we did not acknowledge previous efforts on this same issue. We recognize previous and current members of the New Hampshire Legislature, the Honorable Betty Gay of Salem, the Honorable and Commissioner of Education – Frank Edelblut (Hills. 38) -HB1118 (2016), Chairman of Children and Family Law Committee – Representative Mark Pearson (Rock. 34) HB 236 (2017), Representative Jim Kofalt (Hills. 4) HB1382 (2022), Representative JD Bernardy (Rock. 36) for recognizing the state of the family court and bringing investigation forward in HR14 and the years of dedication Representative David Bickford (Straf. 3) has committed to reforming outdated laws to better protect New Hampshire children and families.
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The ciiiiircle, the circle of Mondays…
Please remember, I’m down to Monday & Friday. Last week’s Friday Edition.
Remember, ridicule and mockery are effective weapons:
Now, let the mockery and mayhem begin.
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Very happy to have his autographed picture. Though, alas, not personalized to me.
Delicious mockery!
Control the information flow, control what people believe.
Remember, they are MISSIONARIES. They are TRUE BELIEVERS.
Say WHAT now? My WHAT for sale????? And the fact that there needs to be a law to protect them???????
Ridicule. Beautiful.
Where is Greek steel? Where is the defiance worthy of Leonidas?
No wonder they killed him. (Did I type that out loud? Note: I’m not suicidal or depressed.)
Get the gallows ready, IMHO.
This was very recent. Despite all the evidence these are sham trials, despite all the evidence coming out of Georgia that there were “shenanigans”, this woman bitterly clings (see what I did there) to the belief that the election was completely fair. You simply cannot reason with these people.
I want to say this is the same woman who told me, years ago, that Gruesome Newsom was being groomed for the Presidency. Not sure, but that photo seems to ring a memory bell.
Now in the open.
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PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA
Not safe. Not effective. Keep saying HELL NO!
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Some posts ago I had a picture of some workmen removing a statue of Thomas Jefferson.
Ashley’s diary is real. Confirmed. And yet… his supporters are knowingly dismissing, or even accommodating, this simply because Orange Man Bad.
At this point I think it’s safe to wonder about ANY disease outbreak these days.
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Link section (some mine, some from my Jarhead friend):
Main computer not working. Will have to do on Friday, so expect a good amount of links.
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Pick of the post:
Might be a repeat, but so what? Here, and in another chronologically-distinct letter, she’s denied any physical relationship with Trump. These two things alone, in a just and sane world, should be enough to have the case dismissed with prejudice. Related:
Analysis of the above yields:
And I love the acting in this scene. The tone and tremor of the man speaking about the Rule of Law makes you really believe it.
A Man for All Seasons – The Devil Speech (youtube.com)
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I recently visited the Home Depot nursery to pick up a catnip plant because I want to be “the source” to neighborhood cats that regularly visit. Please talk to your cats about catnip before someone else does, but let’s now talk about POT as it relates to senate dynamics.
A little birdie told me that Commander Sharon is very displeased at Daryl Abbas for voting OTP on a pot bill (HB1633) in the judiciary committee, perhaps as much as I am at her for moving HB 1002 OTP.
He is a cat person, as is Sharon. Still, he’s been disobedient (like a kid or family pet) because he joined the enemy camp committee members on a pot bill, thus swinging the committee recommendation their way. Since Sharon is a veteran, one might consider calling such disobedience by its military name insubordination.
An attorney practicing just south of the border, he’s certainly not stupid, and it might be worth exploring who his donors are and which ones might benefit from the pot bill. He also holds no leadership positions(committee chair or vice chair), which I surmise is by choice as being a lawyer is his day job as breadwinner to a young family, which must occupy most of his time. Fair enough. If you’re not in a chain of command, there’s no demoting to be done.
As Senator Gray personally informed me that Donna Soucy chooses the committee assignments of the enemy camp troops, Sharon chooses them for “our side.” Next year, in HER senate, will she expel Abbas from Judiciary for his insubordination?
Hold that thought while we visit “the other side of the wall” for a moment.
Speaker Sherman recently removed Rep Leah Cushman for administering oaths, something she was well within the confines of what’s ok to do. Also, think back to 2022 when Rep Weyler was accused of saying that a certain heavily promoted item was “full of little creatures and 5G transmitters” instead of “safe and effective.” He was removed from his chairmanship of the Joint Fiscal Committee at the behest of the Damn Emperor and replaced with establishment RINO Karen Umberger, who was not reelected in 2022.
As a fellow Londonderry-bred member of Concord’s elite, one might expect Sharon to be like the Speaker as she is his presumptive senate counterpart next year. Senate Judiciary currently has three members from red districts, which means that they don’t have to toil to fight for every vote in order to stay in office. That also means that they can commit abominations against all of NH, in committee or in the chamber, such as supporting the RTK Tax, with impunity, but pot is seemingly a sacred cow in senate leadership. Yeah, Senator Murphy has voted for it before, but he’s not on Sharon’s committee. If Abbas is expelled from that committee, which “Sharon loyalist” will be his replacement?
No matter what happens to pot or to Daryl Abbas’s senatorial future, his cats are certainly welcome to cross the Merrimack River for some catnip here in another state-line district. Meow.
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I want you to take a close look at this. It combines elements of the platforms/policies of the Democrat Party and the Republican Party. And tell me what parts of this new “third-way” you disagree with:
Okay … I LIED. It is a page from Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism that shows the program of fascism, in its country of birth, at the time it was ruled by one of the progenitors of fascism … BENITO MUSSOLINI.
Fascism is simply the Italian … more specifically, Giovanni Gentile and Benito Mussolini and others … manifestation of “socialism” or collectivism … that system of government which I previously described, in my post explaining that the campus-“protesters” are more akin to Nazis than Marxists, as follows:
a system of governance where there is a ruling class and the rest of society is coercively structured to serve the ruling class under the guise of serving “the common good,” “the State,” “social justice,” “equity,” blah, blah, blah.
All of the “isms” employ censorship. What really makes the modern Left in America akin to fascists is all of the other things it has in common with Gentile/Mussolini fascism. And I am not saying that the entire Italian-fascist program is bad … for example, what’s wrong with repealing titles of nobility; albeit I support that for a very different reason than the Italian-fascists.
One of the differences between fascism and Marxism, that makes the modern Left in America more akin to fascists than to other “isms,” is that fascists believed that government control of the means of production was a better way to manifest socialism than abolishing private ownership.
Excellent thread on this from Tom Elliot that I am reposting:
Memo to my friends in the media covering Italy's elections:
Italian fascism — and especially Mussolini — were not "right wing," but rather another statist/collectivist ideology that was worshipped among left-wing intellectuals of the day.
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) September 26, 2022
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Seven days, one comment each day. Your vote decides the winner!
Here are your ‘contestants.’
Post: Jeb’s Senate Commenter: CT Patriot “In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”- Martin Luther King, Jr. We are continually betrayed by the Republicans we elect. Post: The Proverbial Picture Worth A Thousand Words Commenter: NHnative Ed I want you to answer this question, which I’ve asked you many times: What the hell do you want the voters to do out here? I don’t know one regular reader here that doesn’t get what the Uniparty is all about. We’re all dedicated voters and workerbees.. we go into the polls and pick from what is usually a list of crappy Republicans. What else can we do? Most of us knew Chris Ager would be a deadbeat water carrier- just as he’s been. We did what we could and no one listened- as usual. They installed their puppet, just as we knew they would. He’s delivered us nothing but more puppets to pick from, just as we knew he’d do. Do you want us to waste a vote going third party and grow the nutcases from that group? Do you want us to waste a vote writing in a candidate? Are we supposed to accept that we’re bitter clingers and just give up? or move to Florida? I mean what choices are there really? You of all people know how corrupt the state is and that a whole lot of our real power to change all this has been stripped from us- but yet this audience keeps on soldiering onward. This audience here are not the Bitter Clingers.. that is the WMUR crowd. Ed you need to spend your time directing people instead of beating them over the head with names. We need to root the corruption out of NH, give us a plan to do this. I think we’ve got an organizational issue on the right in NH. The RINOs need to be identified- loudly, and gone- replaced by MAGA supporters. Because, given that Trump won here AGAIN, that is clearly who the majority of the actual voters on the right want and support. But yet Concord is packed with clowns. Post: Inventing Human Rights To Erase Religious Freedom Commenter: Jay Eshelman Article 7 of the Vermont Constitution is the fly in the ointment. Why it hasn’t been challenged in Federal Court is a curiosity. But clearly, Article 7, in the Vermont Constitution, usurps the rights of individuals enumerated in the U. S. Constitution. Nowhere in our founding document is a State authorized to mandate “… that the community hath an indubitable, unalienable, and indefeasible right, to reform or alter government, in such manner as shall be, by that community, judged most conducive to the public weal.” The 5th Amendment states that: “No person shall … be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.” The 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution specifically states that: “No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” On the other hand, Benjamin Franklin warned of the impending lawlessness of ‘the People’ (i.e., the ‘community’) when he opined that: “… this Constitution, with all its Faults, if they are such… is likely to be well administred for a Course of Years and can only end in Despotism as other Forms have done before it, when the People shall become so corrupted as to need Despotic Government, being incapable of any other.” Yes, “Vermonters, you are being governed by law-breaking ideologues.” Unfortunately, “… world depression and local food shortages” are the least of our worries. Post: Another Local School District Asked to Explain Its Anti-Semitism Commenter: Beth Is this an SNL skit or a Babylon Bee post? “This mistake involved a spring concert where someone approved the theme “From the River to the Sea.” You were quoted in the Seacoast Online article saying it “was mistakenly chosen as the theme for Hampton Academy’s upcoming spring concert.”” For sure someone should submit it to Not the Bee. Post: An unholy alliance: Leftism and Islamism Commenter: NITZAKHON If I might, I’d like to dig a level (or two) deeper on why these two seemingly-opposed ideologies are attracted to each other. BOTH Islam and Communism… * Ruthless authoritarian systems * Value the Collective over the Individual * Have America as target #1 * Have any competing religion – for as I’ve been saying for years, Communism is a religion – as enemies Now, what will be entertaining to watch is what happens if they succeed in bringing down America (and more broadly, the West)? Just how quickly will they turn on the other? And in a battle between atheistic Communism (not placing any value on human life) and religious-jihad Islam (ditto), with no more moral limits on WMD use, who would win? Two great books on this: Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam And the American Left United in Hate: The Left’s Romance with Tyranny and Terror Post: Trump Trials Falling Like A House of Cards Commenter: Bs M We have been seeing all these kinds of fluff headlines for the last seven years. Remember that giant red wave, that was actually a dried up puddle in the desert? If things were sane and normal, these headlines would all be true, but the entire world is now run by insane criminals. The stories always end the way they want them to, reality and facts be damned. Don’t get to excited. If by some miracle this doesn’t take Trump out of play, they absolutely will JFK him. The only way this does not happen, is if Trump has been part of their team all along. Sometimes I wonder, especially with the crazy decisions Trump makes at times. Yes I am voting for Trump, but the man’s decision making process, stumps the hell out me more than I like to admit. Mike Johnson being the most recent. And Kevin McCarthy just prior to that. Trump also still thinks the poison shots, were manna from heaven. Post: The Cultural Issues Tainting the Libertarian Movement Commenter: Not Quite Human The problem with libertarianism is that it ignores the tendencies of human nature and essential science. We as a society will always be as bad as we can get away with, particularly if our culture does not value those virtues that are necessary to a functional society. They are “for” liberty, but ignore that mankind as a whole tends to be “for” slavery–to himself and to others. And half of them would find themselves in chains to others just as soon as they got the “liberty” they seem to want, begging for shackles because they are NOT fit for liberty and someone said there was garlic and free housing in Egypt. The real problem of society is not “you’re not the boss of me”; the real problem is “at what point is bossing warranted?” Because eventually, everything we do and are is connected to others, and stopping someone dragging others down around them is a greater aid to general liberty than simply pronouncing the Satanic mantra, “‘Do what thou wilt’ shall be the whole of the law” and then washing your hands of your neighbors.This poll will run until 8 pm tomorrow evening.
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Most American cities and towns are proud of their Open-Air or Farmer’s Markets. They block off city blocks, bring in local vendors and food tents with ethnic offerings and music, and organize these events as community gatherings and social events.
They are a melting pot of humanity, with young and older people from every background mingling and sharing a piece of Americana. New York, specifically Queens, has its unique twist on the open-air market, and the residents are enraged that law enforcement cannot stop this Big Apple event. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez has little, if anything, to say about this social event. Open-air brothels are the focal point of some Queens neighborhoods.
I will call Congresswoman Cortez, Sandy, as I refuse to use her preferred three-letter label. I will concede that Sandy has no direct impact on local happenings in her district, but she must speak out when her district is running amuck. Sandy prevented Amazon from building a distribution center in Queens that would have brought thousands of good-paying jobs because she did not understand tax breaks versus taxpayer loans. Sandy is an ignorant loudmouth who has done nothing for her home district. She will have primary competition in this year’s election and may have to return to shaking drinks.
The area of Corona in Queens has become overrun with illegal migrants who are doing whatever they can to make money to live. The streets are littered with clothes, household appliances, sneakers, and toys for sale. They are also the home of the largest open-air brothel in New York. Seven days a week, morning, noon, and night, young girls and older women display themselves on the city sidewalks, soliciting customers to pay them for sexual activity. Signs are on the buildings promoting the offerings of these prostitutes, and grammar school children are employed to hand out flyers and business cards promoting specific hookers.
Because of the police shortage, the court overloads, and the Liberal DA’s unwillingness to charge and prosecute sex trade offenses makes all of the activity possible. These DAs overlook the truth that many of these females are here against their will, part of a sex trafficking operation component of the illegal migration. With the girls and their Johns openly operating, the streets are not safe for law-abiding New Yorkers. This kind of local activity puts progress in Progressive for people in Congress like Sandy. She is not impacted by activity that would be a crime in every other corner of America because she lives safely in a gated D.C. community. Sandy and her Squad members are in office to destroy America. They despise America, its history, and the capitalism that made America a superpower and leader of innovation.
Whether it is Cortez in New York, Omar in Minnesota, or Tlaib in Michigan, their home districts have suffered during their terms. As people are waking up to what has happened in the last decade, you can sense a return to normalcy and a threat to the Democrat stranglehold these Leftist Reps have enjoyed. It is time to save America and reinvigorate our patriotism. Retiring Biden/ Harris will be included in this effort.
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This author recently wrote about the nature of capitalism in contradiction to its opposing ideology— communism. We echoed Javier Milei’s view that capitalism’s self-correcting mechanisms are not failures. This is akin to being on a bandstand in a jazz band. There are no failures if you approach the unfolding of events as part of the process.
A failure is only a failure if the group treats it as such. If a jazz band improvises off of a misplayed note, then it becomes part of the performance. Similarly, If a company’s investments losing value and causing price rebalancing across the market is considered simply a natural process in the markets, which it is, then all of the accessories to considering such an event a failure are unnecessary.
These accessories are typically government interventions and media hysteria promoting such interventions. None of this is necessary. The government and media can still exist and play a role in markets without such non-capitalistic socialist and communist-styled interventions. Contrary to socialist orthodoxy, all societal participants and jobs could exist and even be improved under the capitalist model.
This past week, a Tesla factory was raided by supposed anti-capitalists. A growing movement on the political left decries capitalism. They often protest that capitalism leads to all sorts of nefarious things and does nothing good. These people have believed wrongly that capitalism is a failing system and that what is necessary is to tear down the capitalist economy. This is simply silly.
What humans call capitalism is a natural and universal process. We use words in the English language like market, economy, and capital to describe features of human interaction. Such interactions are necessary in a society. They happen in all human societies. These interactioms help people to create prosperity and abundance for themselves and for their communities.
No human can live alone. We are not meant to live solo. Everyone who has tried has lost their life. Humans are meant to live in communities and interact with each other to help each other share the responsibilities, duties, and activities that are essential for human life. The exchange of complex, sophisticated goods and services that occur between humans requires the devices we call markets, prices, and capital.
We would not be able to build airplanes, computers, clothes, or other complex products without this system of interactions that we call capitalism. It doesn’t matter what this system of interactions is called. All of these products, which many take for granted, require intense specialization of labor and activity.
For example, a car requires steel to be mined, refined, and finished into a product. Similar multistage complex processes must occur with multiple different types of plastics, electronics, textiles, and other materials. None of this can be possible in any system other than the one we describe by the word capitalism.
Thus, saying that capitalism must be torn down and destroyed is like saying we must tear down and destroy a natural human function— like walking or communicating through speech, or farming. Imagine if farming was decried as a negative human process in the same way that the political left is propagandizing against capitalism. How stupid would that be?
This is why the arguments to destroy and overhaul capitalism are silly at best and ultimately stupidly idiotic.
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I have been saying I need to get involved, but I hate leaving the house and have said when an event is local, I will attempt to go. Moms for America had an event at Harley Jacks in Ossipee, and I did not get the gumption to go.
Then in a Wolfboro group I had talked about my efforts to at least act locally and then was told a US Senate Candidate would be down the road at Indian Mound Golf Course’s restaurant, The River’s Edge Grille & Tavern. I was called out and had to standby my word. Can’t get much closer. How could I not say “Yes”?
Holly Novelesky, who is running for Congress in New Hampshire’s 1st Congressional District, was the guest speaker. She is dynamic and a very good speaker. She runs a business and has been in the Steel industry along with being a Nurse and she served our country as a US Army reservist. She is as strict as Trump when it comes to immigration, being a nurse, of course she wants to work to fix the many issues in the Medical Industry, and is very energy conscious and understands that you can not just turn off coal and go alternative.
She understands we need to work on transitioning to alternate green energy solutions. She believes all illegal immigrants should be deported but does not advocate actively looking for them. Her attitude is when anyone commits a crime, if they are here illegally, meaning if they did not go through the Lawful process of immigrating here, then they should be immediately deported.
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Now I consider myself a Hippie Conservative with a twinge of liberalism, so I asked her, “What about those illegals who have been here working and actually contributing to society where they live, is there any way we could work with those good people caught in a bad place?” She said she believed in the two-tier system we have always had, and that would create a third tier, which would mean all the immigrants who have already gone through the process, and the ones in the legal process now, would unfairly be held back while those who broke the law to come here would go to the front of the line, and that is wrong. I could not argue that point.
She was asked about what she could do to look into the issues of the legal system in NH where we have issues from the top down where people who are not actually trained in Law Enforcement are overseeing our State police, Sheriffs, and local departments. She said her position does not give her much pull in local with NH issues.
She was then asked about congressional investigations into Law enforcement issues in states and why she could not work to have a panel of some sort investigate it? She had not thought about it that way, and that she would look into the issues.
Now, I Wish I had thought about the major case involving child welfare at the NH Youth Detention Center. If ever something needed federal attention, that is it.
I asked her about her Energy Independence plan and whether it would include drilling in Anwar (The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge), and she admitted she was not familiar with details about drilling there and would need to research further. I should have pushed her since Trump has said he would start up again as soon as he gets back in office, and how she did not know with all the news around about it over the last couple of decades? At least I planted the seed.
I spoke about her Clean Energy policy and how alternative green energy is not proven, especially in climates like New Hampshire’s, and her thoughts on Nuclear Power, which I believe is our best solution at this point in time. She said she should have included nuclear when she spoke about her Energy Independence policy and that alternative energy methods should work in concert with nuclear and coal as we work to transition to green energy in the future.
I didn’t like her answers on ANWAR or her Green Energy Plan, but those, in my humble opinion, are not enough to withhold my vote. I can vote for her “Without Holding My Nose,” and that is my litmus test on being able to vote for someone. https://www.holliefornewhampshire.com/
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Antifa was founded in the 1930s to attract National Socialists to their Marxist cause. The Former were attracting people away from their movement—which has very similar worldviews—and the Marxists wanted a monopoly on unhinged, violent street thuggery. Socialists do, after all, think they should own everything.
Someone has to own it; it just can’t be you.
For obvious reasons, these details are left out of the 21st-century Anifa brochures (saving space for all the color photos of them setting Portland ablaze). Pretty. Fire. Hee Hee.
Any affectations to the contrary are nonsense. They don’t care about gays, or blacks, or women’s health care, or being trans, or justice of any kind. They are focused on using those things to divide people so that they are unable or unwilling to join hands against the Democrat party. A party that hates it when other people have guns. The party of “you didn’t build that.”
Antifa are the left’s modern-day red shirts (in black block). They are engaged in street actions. They are, for all intents and purposes, a militia. But, laws regulating militias never mention Antifa. They talk about patriot groups or anti-government groups and use that as an excuse for other agendas. Vermont passed anti-militia legislation as part of a zoning dispute. Portland, where you can’t swing a dead cat without hitting an Antifa member, has legislation prohibiting or limiting citizen ‘militias.’
SECTION 1. (1) A person or group of persons is subject to an action described in subsection (2) or (3) of this section for engaging in paramilitary activity if the person or group
of persons knowingly, while acting as part of a private paramilitary organization or on behalf
of or in furtherance of any objective of a private paramilitary organization:
(a) While armed with a deadly weapon, publicly patrols or drills;
(b) While armed with a dangerous or deadly weapon:
(A) Publicly engages in techniques capable of causing physical injury or death;
(B) Substantially disrupts governmental operations or a government proceeding;
(C) Assumes, exercises or asserts, without legal authorization, the functions, powers or
duties of:
(i) A law enforcement officer, including any sheriff, police officer, marshal or other peace
officer; or
(ii) Any local, city, county, state or federal official; or
(D) Interferes with another person and thereby:
(i) Prevents the other person, or attempts to prevent the other person, from engaging
in conduct in which the other person has a legal right to engage; or
(ii) Causes the other person, or attempts to cause the other person, to engage in conduct
from which the other person has a legal right to abstain; or
(c) Trains to engage in any activity described in paragraphs (a) or (b) of this subsection.
No state allows paramilitary militias – not exactly -but what, in the context of the Oregon bill, is something Antifa does not or has not done? They are, by design, a trained, organized, violent faction, but all we ever hear is how they are involved in some violent act or about how they seized a police station or courthouse or tried to do that.
It might be a good question for candidates who support additional layers of law to address “groups,” especially if they invoke January 6th. The only armed individuals were government “employees.” If that is the framework or motivation for new legislation to address unrest, you’d better be prepared to explain how you’ve gotten buy-in from ‘constituents’ in BLM or Antifa, both of whom are more likely to run afoul of the law was the intention that it be equally applied.
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66 Billion to Illegal Immigrants & Just 3 Billion to Our Homeless Veterans …
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Kelly Ayotte is no conservative … unless you define “conservative” as spending the first five years of your Senate term being a mini-me John McCain and the last as a mini-me Jeannie Shaeenie. Morse is no conservative either … he voted to enshrine Obamacare into State law and staunchly supported COVID-tyranny.
More importantly, running as a “conservative” is not the way to win statewide office in New Hampshire for the foreseeable future. Hell, even the supposedly “conservative” CD-1 looks like it is going to belong to Chris Pappas for as long as he wants it. So why should the NHGOP primary be about which candidate is the most conservative … given that real conservatism is anathema to a majority of New Hampshire voters?
Let’s look at the 2022 CD-1 primary and general election. Karoline Leavitt received approximately 25,000 votes in the primary, while Mowers and Gail Huff Brown … who presumably were viewed as less conservative than Leavitt … combined for approximately 33,000. Prescott and Baxter combined for approximately 15,000.
Pappas won the general election by a landslide … 167,000 to 142,000. The “conservative” in CD-2, Burns, fared even worse. He was blown out by 36,000 votes. So, I ask again, why are Ayotte and Morse … who aren’t even conservatives … making the primary about who is the conservative? Makes no sense.
Sun-King Chris Sununu did NOT repeatedly win elections because the majority of voters believed he was a real conservative. He won precisely because the voters believed, quite correctly, that he was NOT a real conservative. I am aware that Sununu used the term “conservative” to describe himself, but his positions … abortion-on-demand, “diversity-is-our-strength,” boys participating in girls’ school sports, COVID-tyranny, etc., etc., etc. … were anything but real conservativism.
Unfortunately, bitter-clingers this is what New Hampshire has become … a place where only a pseudo-Republican like a Chris Sununu or a Larry Hogan or a Charlie Baker can win a major office like Governor or Congress.
What probably would best position Ayotte and Morse for the general election is to just drop the conservative-schtick.
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For years, I have always tried to give the libertarian movement the benefit of the doubt. I know there are different factions/degrees in the movement that may be more left or right leaning than others that claim to invoke or promote various concepts of voluntary, individual liberty.
I am not an expert on this school of thought, nor do I have any status or prestigious credentials about libertarianism to offer. What I can offer is my own observation and keen sense of identification.
Economically, I think the movement is spot on with many issues such as auditing the Fed, getting rid of income and other unnecessary taxes on both the Fed and state level, opposition to big central banks, concern over the revolving door (back and forth between multinational corporations/lobbyists and political positions), statist/coercive policies on any level and more.
In terms of civil liberties, they are great with a majority of issues such as defending due process, opposing unequal treatment of the law, opposing aggressive foreign policy, supporting vocalized protests against abuse of state and local power, calling out the weaponization and militarization of our federal administrative agencies, opposing the media propaganda, promoting voluntary associations and assembly, and the list goes on.
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In principle, the elements of voluntary association, non-aggression, localized representation, grassroots initiatives, free markets, regional banks, and decentralized currency all embody a set of concepts that sound pro-liberty, Constitutional, and likely are. 3
However, culturally, there seem to be some flaws. Unless, of course, there are various movements infiltrating some apparatus sectors of the libertarian movement. Either way, and most prevalently with LGBT activism, the legalization of drugs and legalization of prostitution ideas do not reflect the moral order of God’s natural law. This is not to say all libertarians support this. However, the umbrella of libertarianism seems to include anyone and anything that “does not harm anyone” and is “voluntary,” tolerating the pseudo-intelligentsia woke ideology that crept in behind the original movement closely associated with Ron Paul.
Where is the line drawn, though? Can anyone assert to be a libertarian because they don’t want to go to war, want local governments to have more control and privatization of the economy as much as possible?
What about staunch pro-choice, LGBT, prostitution, and drug rights? Can they be libertarian if they invoke one of these progressive issues while simultaneously declaring they are anti-vaccine, want less government all around (not a bad idea on its own), etc?
The libertarian movement should continue to be inclusive (in a non-woke manner) and promote the voluntary, non-aggression, anti-regime change ideals many sincerely promote in various ways and through a multitude of mediums. However, the party needs to adopt or become more vocal on some moral positions that are in alignment with Judeo Christian framework we were founded on (if they have already, then I refute this statement).
The concept of individual liberty is necessary, but only if it does not violate the natural rights of others. LGBT activism, hard drugs such as fentanyl and opioids, and the pouring in of hard drugs and rampant prostitution have all done spiritual damage to our youth despite this concept of “individual liberty.” Though the government has also abused the war on drugs and can use these issues as a false cover to become Orwellian, the issues should not be ignored. These issues should devolve to the states if not explicitly stated in the US Constitution. The laws of nature imply a moral order, not just rogue forms of individual liberty. This is a spiritual issue more than anything. Sometimes a consensual decision leads to spiritual death and depravity and our country should also protect these people in bondage or victims to un-Godly decisions, as well as our children.
Even if heavy-handed government policies are not enforced, at the minimum, God’s law should be promoted in the libertarian apparatus, especially with the way drugs and sexual perversion are polluting young people’s minds and cognitive development, not in a way that evangelizes but in a way that upholds the natural moral order. If we promote these values organically and work to engineer these ideas and promote the liberating power of the God of the Holy Bible, perhaps the next generation, less government would be necessary to promote and protect public health and order.
To those who already confront this and call this out thank you. This is more of an external view.
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Urban pandemonium and rampant crime are transforming many American cities into seemingly third-world metropolises. Aggravating this roiling mayhem is a flagrant open-border policy that is flooding US cities with undocumented foreigners in street camps and homeless shelters.
Alarming increases in reported cases of measles, tuberculosis, polio, and leprosy are all just additional symptoms of these chaotic times. Yet “vaccine hesitancy” from so-called “disinformation” is being widely blamed for these outbreaks by government and media outlets.
Applying the rubric of COVID-19 response to illegals carrying diseases is simple enough – social distancing, masking, contact tracing, and vaccination have long been the tools to combat measles, tuberculosis, and polio as well as coronaviruses. Hundreds of thousands of foreigners from nations with inferior safeguards against contagious illnesses have overrun US borders both north and south, evading traditional protections. Establishment media and government agencies poo-poo concerns that open borders risk resurrecting diseases once thought conquered in America, instead scorning detractors as racist nativists or vax-deniers. “Real science” (and common sense) suggests that untracked and un-vaccinated immigrants may be bringing not just fentanyl and weapons into the country but deadly pathogens as well.
Disease and Misinformation OutbreaksThe widespread media spin is that measles and TB are rising because of dangerous domestic sources: vaccine-hesitant US citizens. Common sense and science were jettisoned under the fear-mongering COVID-19 mRNA roll-out, along with liberties protecting free speech, free travel, and freedom of assembly. Americans were told a slew of unscientific lies about COVID-19 and novel vaccines by a government peddling Big Pharma products. This seeded a distrust not just of novel mRNA shots but of all vaccines, all around the world.
The jabs were not 100% safe and effective: They did not prevent infection, symptoms, or transmission. They caused myocarditis and other adverse health problems, and they were unnecessary for healthy minors despite being pressed upon them. None of this led to an increase in trust of either Big Pharma or the government.
It doesn’t help that the children of American citizens are required to be vaccinated against measles to attend New York City public schools in which illegals enroll their unvaccinated kids under an exemption. Meanwhile, vaccine proponents push to eliminate religious and philosophical exemptions for future vaccines, claiming “misinformation” is behind parental hesitancy. This will likely encourage even more parents to keep their young children home to protect them from both potentially infected foreigners and dubious medical “science.”
Outbreaks of varying diseases in Chicago, New York, and Florida all exhibit a similar pattern of government and media bias and misinformation.
Chicago’s Measles OutbreakMeasles is highly contagious, but it was reportedly eliminated from the US in 2000. In order to seed outbreaks, it must therefore be imported, find an unvaccinated population, and spread. Tens of thousands of unmonitored illegal migrants flocking over the Rio Grande are a natural vector for transmission, which is precisely what occurred in Chicago. However, the Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH) claimed that unvaccinated illegals are the victims, not the cause. “We have no reason to believe that new arrivals are bringing infections to Chicago,” CDPH public information coordinator Jacob Martin told Newsweek. But if the disease isn’t being brough in by unvaccinated migrants, where is it coming from?
“In this case, we believe the opposite, as the first measles infection identified in Chicago was not found in the new arrivals population, and 17 different states in the U.S. are currently experiences an emergent measles outbreak of some kind due to reduced vaccination rates,” Martin continued. “Measles is already here in the United States, but he migrant population on the whole is under-vaccinated compared to the traditional Chicago population and is therefore at higher risk of infection.”
This unscientific conclusion ignores real science. How can the CDPH possibly know how many cases are transmitted by an enormous influx of untracked, unvaccinated migrants traveling from nations where measles is more common? How can it conclude that the 17 other states are not similarly exposed – or that outbreaks are attributable to “reduced vaccination rates”? There must be a host to infect the unvaccinated. Similarly, the CDC reported that “most of the recent importations involved unvaccinated Americans who got infected in the Middle East and Africa and brought measles back to the U.S.” How can the CDC accurately trace ghost migrants who avoid monitoring?
If not the cause of importation, there is no dispute that unvaccinated immigrants are a key demographic for spread: Per the CDC’s report, more than half of 2024’s cases come from the Chicago outbreak, largely from people living in migrant shelters. Dr. Janette Nesheiwat, a doctor in NYC, told Fox News that the outbreaks in Chicago were predictable. “To be honest, I’m not surprised,” she said. “We have open borders with all sorts of people coming in from countries from all over the world bringing in various illnesses, viruses, disease and bacterial infections.”
Medical science confirms this logic. Open borders bypass overseas and US-entry screening, eliminate tracking, and make therapy and treatment difficult. Yet headlines proclaim that it is unvaccinated, misinformed Americans who are the threat. Such claims create a vicious cycle of yet more distrust of politicized government misinformation, increasing vaccination reticence.
New York City’s TuberculosisA recent tuberculosis outbreak in New York City appears to be similarly connected to illegals. In the Big Apple, the TB rate is 6.1 cases per 100,000 – more than double the national rate. According NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Commissioner Ashwin Vasan, “close to nine out of 10 (88%) of these TB cases are people born outside the United States.”
A 2019 study titled “The impact of migration on tuberculosis in the United States” concluded:
Florida’s Leprosy Surge“Due to greater exposure to Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection before migration, migrants moving to low-incidence settings can experience substantially higher tuberculosis (TB) rates than the native-born population.
“….TB among non-US-born individuals now represents the majority of new TB cases. ….As TB disease can develop many years after infection, migrants exposed to high rates of tuberculous infection in their country of origin face elevated risks of future active disease after US arrival compared with US-born individuals ….with 53% of TB cases in non-US-born individuals coming from the top five countries (Mexico, the Philippines, India, Viet Nam and China), and 22% from Mexico alone.
“For the five countries of origin that represent the majority of non-US-born TB cases (Mexico, the Philippines, India, Viet Nam and China), their contributions to US TB epidemiology reflect large resident populations as well as elevated TB exposure for these individuals before arrival.”
The government’s disinformation campaign protecting illegals was repeated in Florida, where leprosy has been steadily rising and may be endemic, though experts do not know. Traditional risk factors include armadillo exposure and “having recently lived in leprosy-endemic countries.” Armadillos have been ruled out as a cause of Florida’s leprosy surge, yet the CDC issued a statement that seems to reach unsupportable conclusions:
“Florida, USA, has witnessed an increased incidence of leprosy cases lacking traditional risk factors. Those trends, in addition to decreasing diagnoses in foreign-born persons, contribute to rising evidence that leprosy has become endemic in the southeastern United States.
“The number of international migrants in North America increased from 27.6 million persons in 1990 to 58.7 million in 2020, so a link to migration may account for the increase in incidence of leprosy in historically nonendemic areas. Further, reports from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that, although the incidence of leprosy has been increasing, the rates of new diagnoses in persons born outside of the United States has been declining since 2002 (Appendix Figure).”
The CDC emphasized that “Contact tracing is critical to identifying sources and reducing transmission.” Illegals are not traced or effectively treated. The referenced appendix figure is titled “Case Report of Leprosy in Central Florida, USA, 2022,” but only includes data through 2010 – hardly a very good measure of current immigration conditions, let alone a sound premise for reaching conclusions that immigrants cannot be a cause of spread.
Politicizing disease outbreaks against Americans to justify yet more dangerous illegal immigration ensures greater vaccine hesitancy. One needn’t hold a doctorate to see that “real science” is being doctored.
John Klar is an Attorney, farmer, and author. Mostly farmer… And Regular Contributor to GraniteGrok and VermontGrok.
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I just saw a story about Candidates for Governor, and Shaun Fife was not mentioned, so I searched DuckDuckGo and Google and got a few results. He needs to get out there in the media. Between Morse and Ayotte, I will be writing in “None of the Above” again.
My litmus test is being able to actually support someone enough to vote “without holding my nose.”
Well, I just searched FreeSpoke and Noticed Shaun Fife is under “The Maji Party.” I Like what I have read about Shaun so far, but I am not too sure about the Maji Party, and I will not be alone.
“The Idea for MAJI came from the failed election of 2020.”
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“We are gathering Anons and other citizens of the electorate to put GOD FIRST.”
I did not know if “Anons” were actually short for QAnons, and now I know it is; I looked it up. Early on, I followed QAnon. I actually jokingly used a Star Trek reference “I am Q”, until it went off the tracks. And then that guy in Horns at the Capital on January 6th certainly finished taking it right off the rails into the bushes!
I believe in what Shaun Fife is saying as a platform, and hopefully, the Anon connection can be overlooked by independents. That depends on how many independents have any signs of TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome).
I can overlook the Anon connection because I know the Majority of those people are not wearing horns, as I did not when I first followed QAnon. But those unhappy Republicans against RINOs, conservative Democrats, if there are any left, and conservative “Undeclared” voters may be chased away by the Anon connection.
Either way, Shaun Fife needs to get out there more and push his agenda, which I do believe is worth supporting and could, at this point, even pass my smell test.
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I hate throwing a vote away, but I can no longer vote anti-democrat without actually supporting the candidate.
It feels good to vote for people you believe in. As a young libertarian voting for the first time, I believed in John Anderson, then again for Ross Perot. Then, I voted Democrat in the Primary for Tom Laughlin (Billy Jack), but he did not make it past the primary, so back to Ross Perot.
Then, when Clinton started stealing sportsmen’s money and redirecting government organizations to Animal Rights, I became anti-Democrat and voted that way in every election until this year’s primary.
If Shaun Fife does not get out there in the media and push his Working Man’s Agenda without name recognition, he will not stand a chance. If he stays on the tracks, I will be able to vote for him or write him in if I have to.
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By now, anyone who’s not politically asleep at the wheel ought to know that the American Library Association (ALA) is no friend of any community of decent people. Please talk to people like Beth Scaer and her husband or Rep Arlene Quaratiello or Cindy Bennett if you want to learn more.
Covid has taught many of us that the decision-making behavior of lower levels of government is often yoked to grant money from either higher levels of government or NGOs with intentions repugnant to the values of decent people. That’s a big part of why secession is a topic worthy of polite and meaningful discussion, no matter how you, the reader, feel about it.
Though I think I’ve beaten the dead horse enough, I’ll still point out that 11/19/21’s unfortunate event in the Joint Fiscal Committee was about taking the wrong money, but let’s move on with another quick point. Campaign finance data is popularly sought for obvious reasons.
Moving on, let the readers be reminded of the role and responsibilities of the executive council, and Wheeler has two bad actors from the enemy camp primarying each other to become his November opponent. One of them is Alderman Kelly, his previous opponent, and the mayor’s lap dog. While she is equally unworthy of office, ANY office, let’s, for now, focus on her opponent, Ms Melanie Levesque.
I know some eyes are already rolling, but to that, I will point out a few things with the lesser one being that her birthday is coming up this month. If you happen to run into her, by all means, wish her a happy one. And I would also suggest reminding her that Alderman Kelly, Wheeler, and Kevin are all younger than her and always will be! The other item, though for the attention of ALL Wheeler constituents, is a local matter concerning her because it’s about the Brookline library.
If you poke around enough to learn who the power players, um, I mean “trustees,” are, they are no ordinary members of the enemy camp. While data in Marylyn Todd’s Nosey Neighbor App is not necessarily admissible in a court of law, it’s another example that the Party of Diversity has no diversity of thought in the Board of Trustees. Trustee Carol Schreck, whose term ends next year, can also be found here.
All you have to do is see who the captain of the team is and who her right-hand woman is! “So what,” you might say. I received a tip about Ms Melanie’s apparently relentless interest in “utilizing” a local with some physical challenges, to put it respectfully. It was said that family members claim the existing accommodations that the library currently provides are perfectly acceptable. However, as mentioned earlier, now comes the ALA and some free money that the Brookline library might qualify for. They just need an excuse to apply for it. Family members are keenly aware of their flesh and blood being used as a tool. If Melanie is successful in securing that grant money, it’s as guaranteed as death and taxes that there will be a press release promoting her accomplishment just before it’s time to vote, either in the primary or in November.
There are variables, such as how long the paperwork process takes and who wins their primary, but the voters in District 5 should know that Alderman Kelly pushing for federal grant money bringing commuter rail to Nashua or Melanie pushing for ALA money infusing their agenda into the Brookline library are the kind of grant-chasing behavior that needs to be kept out of the government body who’s responsible for the oversight of the movement of YOUR money.
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We have been so blessed with op-eds and content that for the rest of today, we will be publishing a post every hour. Typically we add new content every two hours, beginning at 6 am and ending at 10 pm each day. Today, we are publishing a lot of additional content.
Beginning at 2pm we will have a new post ever hour on the hour. The purpose is to off-load the backlog of submissions.
If they sit in the folder too long, they might time out (no longer relevant) or might never see the light of day (lost in the shuffle). It happens. I can’t publish everything, but very little of what I get isn’t at least worth sharing to see what the community thinks.
So here we go, and apologies in advance for the firehouse.
Tomorrow (Monday), we will go back to the regular schedule.
And hey! Happy Mothers Day!
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(TU – Londonderry) The Town of Londonderry has dismissed a complaint by Kristine Perez against Councilor Farrell, stating that Councilor Farrell did not violate the ethics code. Kristine Perez filed the following complaint:
On 4/22/24 at approximately 8 PM Councilman John Farrell exited the Moose Hill Conference room from the rear exit. He immediately approached me and in aggressive manner, pointed his finger directly in my face and yelled “Go ahead report me to the AG’s office. Bring it on bring it on” he then entered the men’s lavatory and when he exited, he again yelled “Bring it on, bring it on” waving his arms in the air. I responded, “you’re being an ass” to which he stated “you’re the ass just look in the mirror.” Please review the video tapes from the town hall, “Back lot, hall entrance B” for this time period. I felt extremely threatened by his aggressive actions and feel it meets the legal definition of assault without battery.
Complaint filed 5/3/2024 by Kristine Perez
The complaint stemmed from an interaction Perez had with Councilor John Farrell in the Town Hall after speaking during public comment.
Kristine Perez spoke at the 4/22/2024 Town Council Meeting asking for public comment to be added to the Town Council meetings, concerns of charter violations and the planning department reorganization.
Kristin Perez speak at public comment, 4/22/2024
Below is a video of the interaction between Kristine Perez and Councilor John Farrell. The video has no audio. Councilor John Farrell was contacted for comment but did not respond.
Video from Town Hall, 4/22/2024
Shortly after opening the 5/6/2024 Town Council Meeting, the council made a motion to enter Non-Public Secession under RSA 91A. The Council left the room and returned 7 minutes later. The council did not seal the meeting minutes. The Council also did not comment on the non-public session. According to the meeting minutes, the session was to discuss the complaint filed by Kristine Perez. The Town attorney “assumed the truth of the allegations” but found that Kristine Perez “does not allege conduct that would violate the Code of Ethics or fall within the scope of the Code of Ethics”. Chairman Chad Franz entertained a motion made by Vice Chairman Combes to close the matter with no further action based on the findings and advice supplied by Attorney Carrier. Councilor Faber seconded the motion. The motion carried unanimously, with Councilor Farrell abstaining.”
Minutes from Non-Public Session on 5.6.24
Following the pledge of allegiance during the regularly scheduled Town Council meeting on 5.6.24, a motion was made by Vice Chairman Combes to enter a non-public session pursuant to RSA 91:A-3 II(l) for the consideration of legal advice provided by legal counsel. It was seconded by Councilor Dunn and a roll call vote was taken, with each member of the Town Council voting in favor.All 5 members of the Council left the Moose Hill Room and moved to the TM Conference room on the second floor of Town Hall along with the Town Manager and Assistant Town Manager.
Attorney Megan Carrier indicated she had reviewed the Code of Ethics complaint made by Kristine Perez against Councilor Farrell, which had been received by the Town Manager and Chairman Franz on May 3, 2024 and referred by them to Attorney Carrier. She stated she reviewed the Code of Ethics, which requires complaints to be investigated. For purposes of her analysis, Attorney Carrier assumed the truth of the allegations. Having done so, she concluded that Ms. Perez’s complaint does not allege conduct that would violate the Code of Ethics or fall within the scope of the Code of Ethics. She provided a list of prohibited conduct, including conflicts of interest, a failure to recuse in quasi-judicial actions, a failure to disclose, unfair personal use of town property, misuse of confidential information, improper gifts, and failure to cooperate with an investigation. Attorney Carrier indicated that Ms. Perez does not allege such prohibited conduct in her complaint.
Chairman Franz entertained a motion made by Vice Chairman Combes to close this matter with no further action based on the findings and advice supplied by Attorney Carrier. Councilor Faber seconded the motion. The motion carried unanimously, with Councilor Farrell abstaining. Chairman Franz asked the Town Manager what the next steps are? The Town Manager indicated the minutes would be unsealed unless the Council makes a motion to seal them upon returning to public session. A discussion followed whether to seal Attorney Carrier’s advice. The Council determined that neither the minutes nor Attorney Carrier’s advice should be sealed.
At approximately 7:10 p.m. the Councilors returned to the Moose Hill Chambers and the meeting.
A motion was made by Vice Chair Combes to end the non-public session and return to the public meeting. The motion was seconded by Councilor Faber and all voted in favor by roll call vote.
Minutes taken and prepared by: Mike Malaguti
When public comment was opened Councilor Farrell immediately asked to speak and addressed comments made at prior town council meetings. Farrell referenced the alleged charter violation in regard to voting on the town budget. Farrell stated that the town council does not adopt or vote on the budget.
Councilor Farrell address comment made at prior meetings, 5/6/2024
Kristine Perez’s husband, John Perez, spoke at the 5/6/2024 Town Council Meeting, addressing concerns of a council member bullying and attacking his wife at the 4/22/2024 meeting. He expressed concerns about his wife attending future meetings. After speaking, the Town Council did not respond.
Resident John Perez addresses treatment of his wife at the 4/22/2024 town council meeting
On 5/8/2024 Kristine Perez was informed through email that Councilor Farrell did not violate the Town Ethics Code.
Please be advised the Town has investigated your complaint and determined that Councilor Farrell did not violate the Code of Ethics during your interaction on April 22, 2024.
Email from Town Manager Malaguti, 5/8/2024
Asked for comment, Kristine Perez stated that she did not file an ethics complaint but used the ethics form since it was the only form available on the town to file a complaint. The complaint filed was due to threatening and aggressive behavior of Councilor Farrell.
| Town Underground
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Grokster Ed’d in March, pointed out how WMUR’s Political Director Adam Sexton believed it was “interesting” when NH State Senator Becky Whitley had a hissy fit when someone said something that broke her Narrative concerning the use of the perfectly legal and applicable phrase “illegal alien.”
Interesting discussion in @TheNHSenate Judiciary Committee today as @BeckyWhitleyNH asks @SenatorGannon not to use the term “illegal alien” as they debate a bill dealing with immigration issues #NHPolitics #WMUR pic.twitter.com/xodktsXknh
— Adam Sexton (@AdamSextonWMUR) March 12, 2024
He followed that up in another post, “The Becky Whitleys Are The Dehumanizers,” where he tore her a new one—outlining her hypocrisy of holding up a “Principle” but in “defending” it, jumped right into the vat of boiling excrement. She certainly refused to “maintain the dignity of every individual with whom we interact” by putting on a “Karen on steroids” performance. Civility, Becky? But WAIT, there’s more!
But I didn’t see or hear of anyone commenting on the last bit she said. Listen again at 1:05 for what is in our future if she is elected:
“The Administration has actually issued many memos, including from the top official of Customs and Border Protection, that we should not be using that term.”
Got that? She’s like that old-time spinster school marm wrapping our knuckles because we refuse to obey.
In doing so, she let us know that she’s all about doing the “Democrat Lockstep Limbo”…
SideNote: Dontcha just love the visual of bending over backward to support the indefensible by allowing her own speech to be determined by some “important” bureaucrat – who happens to be in charge of keeping our southern border open to the diseased, the drug mules, the armed cartels, and the thousands of central and south American gang members (remember the cops being assaulted in NYC by our, as Biden and other Democrats have named, “newcomers”?)
…her philosophy. Her gums flapping, eyes blazing, and determination to correct our backward ways made it quite clear that her fellow “mansplaining” Senators were beneath her contempt. But we are to have our wallets fleeced by these criminals that flout our laws – after all, being an AWFL (Affluent White Female Liberal) demands that her morality is superior to any others.
“Everything is free in America” – except your speech if you are a citizen paying the taxes for all that. Becky is seeing to that as well. But she can’t take credit for being original for that.
Guess who, in the Live Free or Die State, is in charge of what speech we all are allowed to use in Her Excellency’s hearing? No, not her, although she tried hard to be a mouthpiece for the Democrat propaganda machine. Yep, see above.
You see, I’ve been writing for years that the Democrats have been trying to turn Live Free or Die into Washington DC Democratland; what happens there, they want here.
So remember, when government officials, be they Democrat government workers or a Progressive / Socialist / Democrat Guv named Becky Whitley, BY DEFINITION, you are seeing a Fascist. After all, fascism puts the State FIRST and individuals don’t exist. She gave us the best example possible…
…She demanded that individuals bow down to DC, give up their speech, and in doing so, give up their minds and conscience to the State.
And the Left gets upset when we on the Right talk about Tyrannical Govt? How bad can it get if they demand to control, as she did, our minds?
Yes, I have seen the light at the end of the tunnel and it wasn’t an oncoming train. I announced at last year’s Groktoberfest that I was going into semi-retirement because I had to step back from the ‘Grok and place my family first for a while. I handed all the reins over to Steve.
Fortunately, the medical issues that best TMEW and the Grandson are now under control, and the Granddaughter / Foster Child has been returned to the Eldest and Daughter-in-Law, with two lines (from others) said by DCYF workers:
Yeah, I have to say that it was one of the BEST DAYS of my life. The Judge, however, was not amused.
So all that is now in the background and I will be starting to return to writing (slowly). However, know that Steve will still hold the reins.
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Over one hundred and twenty colleges and universities across the United States and the world saw the planning of spontaneous protests this past month and with it the staunch capitalists at NCAA headquarters seized the opportunity to form a new sports league. The league will be named the Collegiate Radical Interscholastic Protest League (CRIPL) and will be the first ever truly trans-ed sports team endeavor by the NCAA.
Inspired by the tremendous athleticism on display by many of the protestors, NCAA officials, anticipating these protests to occur regularly every four years like the Olympics and presidential elections, anticipate three seasons of preparatory play with a national championship held quadrannually.
Early favorites among the schools clearly show an edge to the Ivy League institutions, which have been falling lately in the rankings as preferred destinations by high school students concerned about employment after college. Early odds favor Columbia, UPenn, and Dartmouth as having the talent to go the distance, while on the West Coast, UCLA has emerged after weeks of high-level civil unrest.
Boston’s Emory Board University, famed for its Cosmetology Ph.D. program, has already hit the ground marching, meeting on the greens outside the quad for daily singles. These dedicated student-athletes are up at the crack of noon to hone their skills and take their game to the next level.
Questions about funding the teams and the league have many concerned that other programs will need to be cut however, sizeable donations have already been offered to create a trust fund from which the schools will get equal compensation across the board so as to create a perfectly fair and socially equitable pay scale disallowing advantages given to larger programs. However some students anticipating a career as professional protestors argue their future hopes and dreams should not be limited.
“I’ve been protesting since I was a little kid, so I’ve always known this was my passion. I never imagined I would have the opportunity to do it for a living,” states Yale freshman Uriah Goldenspoon. Goldenspoon’s parents tell Bananas Media he was a uniquely anti-authoritarian child despite being given virtually anything and everything a child could want. Mrs. Goldenspoon recalls one summer vacation when Uriah refused to get on the plane to Cancun after throwing a stage five tantrum in the jetway upon learning he would not be flying coach with the rest of the patrons, many of whom applauded after seeing Uriah buckled into his first-class seat.
“We knew pretty early on he was likely to be an insurgent somewhere in the third world when we got a call from his teacher saying he was community organizing the other students to stage a revolt after the school refused to put in electric chargers for tricycles” Mr. Goldenspoon recounted. “We also found a stash of books under his bed when he was eight. First, it was Mao’s Little Red Book. Then we found Rules for Radicals and, finally, Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit. I’m forty-eight, and I still can hardly make out what those guys were saying. We got him a poster of Brittany Spears in a bathing suit only to have him paste a picture of Che Guevara’s head over hers. It was very concerning.”
Not concerned are Goldman’s non-student coaches, who anticipate that his ability to break through a police line with a garbage can lid is unparalleled.
“Uriah has serious quick-twitch muscles, he’s very explosive. Since the league won’t let us use actual explosives, he’s a game changer. Most of the guys we have out here are severely malnourished vegans who can barely get through the ‘hey-hey ho-ho’ chants, so we’re hoping Uriah doesn’t get picked up in the portal before the championship season. We know the comrades over at Georgetown have been courting him online with an extra-large tent and a fully-financed waterbed.”
Speaking of water beds the SEC has one school, North Georgia State, which will be headed up by a coaching legend. His simple philosophy of “ground and pound” is sure to get the attention of the more finesse driven styles of the other schools.
“I’m here to build character” states the coach who famously has a corner booth at Beef O’Brady’s where he needs help opening the door due to the number of championship rings he wears on his turning hand.
Rivals Alabama State School for the Legally Blonde have asked his coaching nemesis to captain their squad; however, they were turned down as no self-respecting southerner would be caught dead at a college protest. ‘Merica!
Many of the teams were concerned about mascots, of course, so the race for inoffensive team names was a heated one.
The NCAA pre-season top ten rankings are:
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