Saturday • January 11 • 2025
Vol.XVII • No.II
Manchester, N.H.
Do you get the feeling that school administrators do not want you challenging them on the garbage they are allowing in your district now? From Pornography for kids to gender theory to CRT to assignments that are more about identity and self-examination than actually learning any quality academic content. The Keene school district is no exception. They are selling this latest fad as if it’s a “strategic plan.” Schools simply copy the fads, then years later when it’s time to keep the focus off the lousy proficiency scores, they come up with something else to replace them.
Here’s another way that administrators are working hard to get parents to ignore the poor performance we see in many of our schools. Portrait of a Graduate and Portrait of a Learner.
Here is what you will not hear from administrators when they sell your school board and community on this latest fad;
Unfortunately, many school board members tend to lap up these latest fads as they are presented, rather than question them. It will be up to parents to demand better.
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This will sound familiar and should elicit a similar reaction. The Old Soviet Union employed “a political commissar or political officer – a supervisory officer responsible for … ensuring political control of the military.” Similar “officers” infiltrated every aspect of life and reported to the State.
Keep that image in your head as you read this.
Biden’s so-called American Climate Corps will, according to the White House, mobilize “a new, diverse generation” of more than 20,000 Americans who will be trained and put to work on conservation, clean energy and environmental justice projects. The ultimate goal of the program is to pave the way for members of the corps to find jobs in the public and private sector.
“The American Climate Corps is a new initiative that will… work on a wide range of projects that tackle climate change — including restoring coastal wetlands to protect communities from storm surges and flooding, deploying clean energy, managing forests to improve health and prevent catastrophic wildfires, implementing energy efficient solutions to cut energy bills for hardworking families, and more,” the White House said.
Green Shirts. Climate commissars. State-trained infiltrators tasked with reporting your climate sins to the government. That’s my read.
“Today’s historic action to put an American Climate Corps into motion is a clear demonstration that the Biden administration knows there are more ways they can leverage executive power to lead an all out mobilization of our government and society to stop the climate crisis,” said Sunrise Movement Executive Director Varshini Prakash, who joined the White House on a press call for the announcement. ..
“Young people everywhere should feel empowered by this victory and continue demanding the change we need,” Prakash continued. “We’re often asked how President Biden can win the support and enthusiasm of young people. He’s gotten our attention. Keep going.”
Mao’s Cultural Climate Revolution.
I know Congress isn’t good for much, but this needs to be unfunded, defunded, or reverse-funded, and where, by the way, is Biden getting either th money or the authority to do this crap?
I know. The Republic doesn’t work the way it used to.
HT | TGP
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The tiresome trend of self-righteous climate activists gluing themselves to treasured works of art to “protest” against fossil fuels and anthropomorphic climate change recently extended to the US Open, where tennis was condemned via the gluing of footwear to the tarmac. This theater of the cultishly absurd has become increasingly clownish as attention-seekers vie for the limelight. This contrasts starkly with historic American protests, e.g., labor unions, civil rights, women’s suffrage, Abolition, or the War in Vietnam. Protesting tennis based on climate is shameful compared to the misery and climate impacts of war, particularly the War in Ukraine.
The folly of humans deliberately gluing their fleshy limbs to airport runways, Picassos, or dinosaur parks in protest against carbon dioxide has become passe. This self-flagellating fad is flagging like pet rocks or platform shoes. Once enough of ‘the in crowd’ have attached themselves adhesively to a motorway, car dealership, or Italian sculpture, the ennui sets in. The tennis court disrupters sporting “End Fossil Fuels” t-shirts had their fifteen minutes of fame, but such antics increasingly stick out like a bad mullet. How can such juvenile shenanigans be taken seriously?
Vietnam War protesters, union organizers, urban blacks, and slave liberators often had skin in the game – gluing one’s shoes to the ground is child’s play next to burning a draft card in public or taking a club to the head to unionize or desegregate. America has not been this divided since the Vietnam War but is now splintered over carbon dioxide gas. Yet those protesting on behalf of climate ignore the environmental disaster of the War in Ukraine.
Protests against the Vietnam War were volatile, a cauldron of tension boiling beneath the nation’s socio-economic landscape. More recently, many Americans protested against the indefensible war in Iraq. But nary a peep from the erstwhile peacenik left against the Ukraine War. This is tragic, likely due to the lack of American military personnel being shipped overseas to battle in Ukrainian grainfields (let alone a draft!). The tennis-court-gluers would not be so bold if they clutched draft cards instead of $1,000 cellphones that pollute the planet, risking only their loafers.
The greenhouse gases generated by the ongoing Ukraine conflict increase daily, joined by toxic chemicals. Cluster bombs manufactured in the USA contribute to significant warming in that region – a heat wave of demonstrably anthropomorphic origin. American elementary school children are conditioned to think that burping cows are an existential threat, and that humanity has but a handful of years within which to avert certain doom. Even those schoolchildren can see that, if that is true, the munitions and destruction in Ukraine threaten to destroy the entire planet irrevocably unless peace is sought immediately.
Climate Peace in Ukraine? And yet peace is not sought in the name of climate change, either by the Biden Administration, NATO, the United Nations, or the brave tennis court foot-gluers. If not on behalf of the women and children being maimed and killed in Ukraine, why not protest for climate urgency as applied to that faraway conflict? Where is climate envoy John Kerry’s derision of the US-fueled war while he chides American farmers for growing food with tractors, or owning cows? AOC is vocal about cow flatulence but doesn’t burp a word against the ongoing environmental calamity in Ukraine – instead, she hawkishly voted to send weapons there.A recent UN report claims that drastic shifts in finance, industry, and consumption are required to sufficiently reduce greenhouse gas emissions to avert disaster and that it is unlikely this can be achieved. The report calls for eliminating fossil fuel subsidies, which will drive up consumer energy costs by trillions of dollars to “incentivize” struggling communities to use less fuel. It also claims meat consumption must be reduced by eighty percent, immediately – quite a good deal for Bill Gates’ creepy synthetic meat, especially since the UN calls for global domination using “both supply and demand side measures” to technocratically control markets!
No Protests of the Ukraine War Yet the environmental impacts of the war in Ukraine have gone unprotested by those who glue themselves to paintings, airport runways, and tennis courts. The world leaders gathering at the UN to inflate consumer fuel prices and compel vegetarianism (who gets to eat the 20% of meat left, BTW?) also gathered to fund Ukraine’s war machine with hundreds of billions of dollars. Perhaps they could have saved the UN their upcoming November meeting, had they sued for peace instead.The Nord Stream Pipeline was sabotaged as a consequence of this un-climate-protested war, by actors unconcerned by environmental impacts. The German Environment Agency estimated the climate impact of the explosion to be equivalent to roughly 7.5 million metric tons of carbon. That equates to a whole bunch of Dutch cows, yet cows are targeted by the UN, with no concern for war.
The rippling effects of the Ukraine War are cataclysmic in greenhouse gas terms. Beyond the munitions and explosions, and the Nord Stream Pipeline, there are Pantagruelian dimensions of increased greenhouse gases. Per one report:
The World Burns Because Ukraine Burns Where are the protesters of the Dakota Access and other oil pipelines, if not screeching like Vietnam War protesters against this Ukraine-centered, Europe-wide, greenhouse gas effusion? Is the protection of sacred Native American lands paramount to Ukrainian villages? Might the carbon footprint of the Ukraine War call down the world-ending fire of climate change upon those very same sacred tribal lands? Why is the mass conversion of large swaths of Europe to a coal-burning frenzy not attracting the attention of the cow-flatulence and Rembrandt-gluing climate crisis brigade, even as the UN calls urgently for universal immediate consumer sacrifice?Germany has followed through on the controversial decision to close its six nuclear power plants (NPPs) and has restarted its coal-fired plants to replace lost Russian gas imports. Germany is currently burning an all-time record amount of coal to keep the economy powered. And it’s not just Germany: Turkey overtook Germany and Poland in June to become Europe’s top producer of electricity generated at coal-fired plants.
Perhaps they are watching tennis, glued to their TVs.
John Klar is an Attorney, farmer, and author. Mostly farmer… And Regular Contributor to GraniteGrok and VermontGrok.
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Chris Christie and Americans for Prosperity are spending a lot of money in New Hampshire to convince voters that Trump can’t beat Biden. So, how is that working out? Not well, at least not yet. Trump is still on top with 39%, followed by Ramaswamy at 13%.
Nikki Haley landed third with 12 points in the UNH poll, with Christie rolling in fourth(11 points); Ron DeSantis is disappointing at 10%.
With four more months and then some to move the needle, this is not the end, but the DeSantis folks must be concerned. What looked like a neck-in-neck race early on (he was even ahead six months ago) has devolved into a nearly complete collapse in the Granite State. Since March, when Governor Ron was leading Donald Trump, he’s lost 33 points.
Trump is nowhere near his peak, so he may want to watch out for the new kid. Vivek has been persistent and bold. He’s got PACs running good, hard-hitting, no-nonsense ads in New Hampshire (that I actually like), and this is the time for that.
Vivek was nobody in March when DeSantis was at 43% but is now ahead of people with better national name recognition (Mike Pence is pathetic at 2%). So, Ramaswamy is (at the very least) tied for second place, accounting for the margin. That’s impressive. (Iowa has him fourth behind Trump, DeSantis and Haley. Vivek has ranked second or third in a few national polls).
And please don’t construe that as an endorsement, which is a persistent problem when discussing candidates in races. Last month, I endured a rather tiring email thread over several days with someone who claimed GraniteGrok (I will leave out the vulgar language and insults) was a bunch of Trump fanatics. Even after pointing out that our writers can write about whomever they like, however, they want, and that this is not an endorsement by anyone else or GraniteGrok, they persisted.
Right up until I insisted, they provided some evidence (links in this campaign cycle) showing how I (personally) was a Total Trump Homer. I never heard from them again. That may mean they are busy compiling evidence, but I get a sense that the argument was less compelling once sobriety weighed in. And they had spent a lot of time complaining about how crass and rude Trump is while browbeating us with insults and vulgar language. I found the absence of self-awareness amusing.
It was a DeSantis supporter, so this post won’t help.
I will admit to this. Donald Trump is far more interesting a candidate than anyone else running. Our readers are more likely to respond to posts about him. And yes, that’s why many folks feel he can’t “beat” Biden. He is polarizing. But the Left fears him more than anyone, and that means something to Republican Primary voters, even in fickle New Hampshire, where they may be realizing that he sells the message better and has receipts. He’s far from perfect. I’d like to hear more about cutting spending and opposing pandemic planners and their ilk. But he has tried to stand between us and them (the government).
That’s not common.
Nearly every Republican politician says it. Few do it once elected or do it for very long, but it is what Republican Primary voters seek, now more than ever, and it all shows up in the poll.
69% of those polled are sticking with Trump no matter what.
Ramaswamy has a very impressive 31% of those polled who have decided to vote for him, which means he’s built a fan base in the Granite State on which to build.
There is some good news for DeSantis. he is the overall best second pick of the litter in this poll.
And some more bad news for former NJ Governor Chris Christie. Sixty percent of those polled would never vote for him not even if he brought donuts.
Mike Pence didn’t fare well, with 42% refusing to choose him, with Donald Trump untouchable by 30% of the polled Republican primary voters. That’s a lot and instructive. 69% have decided on Trump, while 30% have decided against Trump. If Trump wins the general, it is safe to say that one of the ways the AFP prediction comes true is if 30% of Republicans let the Democrat win rather than choose Trump.
Aren’t the people who say they won’t vote for Trump many of the same folks who have always told everyone else to hold their noses and vote for whatever spinless RINO piece of trash the party puts up?
Just another thought among many.
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The New Hampshire House Education Committee met to discuss a proposed Bill that would require schools to include COMPREHENSIVE Mental Health Education in all schools. The Committee members took time to discuss the merits and the problems with HB505.
During the long discussion, a surprising admission came from Representative Cascadden (D), who represents Coos District 5. Her statement was even more surprising given her background in education, where she has worked as a Superintendent in our public schools.
Dr. Cascadden often times offers reasonable comments to consider when addressing proposed legislation. That is why so many of us were surprised to hear her comments on how to deal with students who are suffering from mental health problems that may be caused by issues raised in schools.
Representative Mike Belcher (R), who represents Carroll – District 4, asked the committee to consider some of what students face in school that could lead to mental health challenges for some students. You can hear him bring this up at 1:33:00 when he discusses a student who came before the committee on other proposed legislation and shared her struggle with some of the heavier topics that are now discussed in schools.
Representative Cordelli (1:32:00) first makes the case that maybe some of these problems students are facing could be coming from what is happening in the schools. Representative Belcher followed up with a call for some introspective thought and agreed that maybe some of the problems they expect the schools to solve could actually be coming from the schools themselves.
Rep. Belcher mentioned a student who testified on another Bill earlier that year. That student was practically in tears because students are now burdened with societal problems such as climate change and racism. She felt these problems were now on her shoulders. Rep. Belcher asked his colleagues if schools are now putting the problems of the world on teenagers and asking them to solve these problems.
This was a thoughtful question that deserved a thoughtful response.
Instead, Rep. Cascadden, in reply, says, “That’s why parents have choice.”
This response caught many by surprise. If the weight of the world has been put on teens, then maybe we need to look at that. Everyone is talking about students having to deal with mental health problems like no other time before. Let’s look at where teens are situated and spending most of their time in school. Why was that suggestion dismissed without any consideration?
Adults today are wondering why their children are struggling with their mental health. There are many factors that can contribute to a decline in a child’s mental health. It could be social media and bullying. It could be their home life, but it could also be heavy subjects that are discussed in school. Are teens going home with the belief that the future is doomed or that they are responsible for the actions of other people?
What happened to learning in a joyful environment? Many of us can remember a time when we learned academics in school but, at the same time, learned in a joyful environment with our friends who became lifelong friends. It’s where many teenagers met their spouses. It’s where we graduated with a lifetime of memories.
Today’s students have to deal with school shutdowns, forced masking, and societal ills. If they have any kind of home life that adds to these problems, is it any wonder that they are struggling?
Rep. Cascadden seemed like she was concerned about the mental health of children until she made such a flippant remark like that.
If the topics are too heavy for teenagers, then let’s listen to them. How are teachers approaching these subjects in the classroom? In a way that educates children or in a way that leaves them depressed, anxious, and believing their existence is causing the destruction of the planet.
Maybe Rep. Cascadden needs to look inward, too. If she does care about these kids, as she has indicated, then we should take into consideration how these subjects are taught in school, too.
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ow can Donald J. Trump electrify the campaign trail, turbocharge his re-election prospects, and nauseate the Democrat Left? Stage MAGA rallies in the hood.
Atop his usual Republican-leaning venues, the former president should hold his signature mass meetings in the black neighborhoods of such swing-state cites as Atlanta, Cleveland, Detroit, Las Vegas, Milwaukee, Philadelphia and Richmond. Trump should capitalize on one of Election 2024’s most intriguing trends: The 45th president’s rising popularity among black voters.
The Fulton County, Georgia, mug shot that made Leftists salivate backfired. The GOP base circled its wagons more tightly around Trump. Added advantage: This police-involved photo shoot gave Trump street cred as a victim of The Man. (RELATED: JOSH HAMMER: Hunter’s Gun Charge Is A Big Problem For The Biden Crime Family)
New York Post’s Jon Levine recently showcased pro-Trump rappers. Chief Keef told his 8.8 million Instagram followers, “He good in da hood.” Badman Kevo, who boasts two Trump tattoos, complained: “Biden…actually got me paying a lot of taxes.” Buffalo’s Benny the Butcher declared via X: “I’m votin Trump 2024.”
Black attitudes towards Trump are warming far beyond the recording studios. Edison Research’s exit polls gave Trump 8% of the black vote in 2016 and 12% in 2020, including 19% of black men. Reuters/Ipsos discovered in July that 18% of blacks favor Trump versus 46% for President Joe Biden. A late August Economist/YouGov study pegged Trump at 20% among black registered voters compared to 62% for Biden.
Fox News on Thursday spotted Trump at 21% and Biden at 69% — down from 87% at the last election, per Edison. These combined figures put Trump 9% ahead of and Biden 18% behind their final 2020 results.
Trump should ask in person for the votes of this increasingly receptive audience. He also should discuss his overall record and how it specifically helped black Americans. He should remind black voters about the broad economic boom that the Trump/GOP Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) and deregulation unleashed, before COVID-19 wrecked everything.
TCJA included Sen. Tim Scott’s Opportunity Zone initiative. The South Carolina Republican’s measure has lured at least $48 billion in private capital into 8,764 low-income Census tracts whose populations are 57% minority.
Trump arranged a steady stream of taxpayer support for Historically Black Colleges and Universities. He extended Pell Grants to summer school students. HBCU presidents begged Obama-Biden for this small reform and got nowhere. Trump delivered.
Trump reauthorized and funded the Washington, D.C., school voucher program. Obama-Biden struggled to kill it.
Trump signed the First Step Act, which has granted second chances to 23,158 mainly black non-violent prisoners. After going home, 12% have reoffended, far below the general prison population’s 45% recidivism rate.
Trump should promise a vigorous economic renaissance, robust school-choice options, and a muscular fight against crime — to protect its disproportionately black victims.
Rallying black voters also will endear Trump to other minorities and even “nervous whites.” They will see for themselves how the regime media shamelessly lie about Trump’s “white nationalism.”
Democrat officials will have seizures. They consider blacks their political property and take them for granted — save for their condescending, quadrennial battle cry: “GOP = KKK!”
This might explain why black turnout trailed national participation in 2020 and 2022. If Trump can attract 20% to 25% of disillusioned black voters in November 2024, Democrats will be cooked like Thanksgiving turkeys.
If Trump stumps in the ’hood, Leftists who call him “Racist!” will beclown themselves. If Trump disables the Democrats’ relentlessly overplayed race card, he will cripple them.
Trump’s inner-city rallies would find black and white Trump fans shouting in harmony: “Make America Great Again!” CNN and MSNBC anchors would hurl on cue. Who cares?
What a perfect rejection of the Critical Race Theorists, who hate seeing black and white patriots happily disproving “systemic racism.” And what an affirmative reply to Rodney King’s eternal question: “Can we all get along?”
Trump should ask black voters a question that will crystallize their sense of betrayal at the hands of their morally bankrupt “benefactors.”
“What the hell have the Democrats done for you lately?”
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Mark Robinson is the current Lt. Governor of North Carolina. He is the first black man to hold the role, but he deserves a shot at much higher office (rumor has it he might be on Trump’s shortlist for VP, but that is not confirmed). All I can say is, wow!
Related: Remember Mark Robinson Who Scolded a School Board. Now’s He’s Scolding Others Over Voter ID
According to his bio, he is the 9th of ten children with an abusive alcoholic father and a strong Christian mother. After watching him speak, I was willing to bet he had some background as a preacher, but I didn’t find any. He worked in furniture manufacturing, mostly, before landing in the world of politics, and he appears to me to be very good at that. Politics. The talking it up part, at least.
Robinson comes off as very pro-America and pro-American. He supports a strong US military free from the race and gender BS, and he’s got some suggestions about Biden’s open borders and what he’d do if he were the governor of Texas (looks like he may have listened).
Good read meat for Republicans and Conservatives.
Jump to 9 min. 30 sec. to start and watch through 25:03.
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I want to thank all those who came out and voted in the Rockingham County District 1 special election on September 19th. This whole journey started in June when I decided to run for the seat that Ben Bartlett had to step down from due to health-related issues. Ben stuck it out as long as he could but felt he couldn’t perform the duties he was elected to do.
I commend him for being a person of integrity and doing what he felt was right. If he hadn’t stepped down, I would not have had the privilege of running for this seat.
This campaign allowed me the opportunity to meet so many really awesome people. The communities of Northwood and Nottingham are similar in many ways. But the greatest resource of this community is the people! I met some many beautiful folk that I was truly blessed beyond measure. I could go on and tell many stories of my encounters, but for now will savor them in my heart.
I want to thank all those who invested their time and talents in this campaign. I want to especially thank all the state representatives who came out and knocked on doors along with making phone calls. This was truly a team effort, and I, for that, will be forever grateful.
I will continue to serve my community as a selectman and the fire department chaplain. That role was never going to change. Although the election results didn’t turn out as I and many others had hoped for. I am eternally blessed for the experience of running in this special election and meeting so many great people.
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It was inevitable that the philosophy of no grades in schools would find its way into business and government. After all, that is the purpose of indoctrination instead of education. It is not to educate our children and prepare them for productive lives but to adjust their mindset to accept the new America, the one that the Left promised to transform.
They are delivering on their promise, and what we have is a generation weaker, less educated, and most importantly, more malleable than any generation in our young history.
Two leaders in our past told us the truth. A young Ben Franklin answered a question during the closing days of the Constitutional Convention. On September 18, 1787, “A lady asked Dr. Franklin, Well Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy – A republic replied the Doctor if you can keep it.”
Former President Obama, on October 30, 2008, just before the presidential election, told a crowd in Columbia, Missouri, “We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.” Many thought Obama was referring to a man of color becoming President, but we now know he wanted to break down America and rebuild it as a Socialist entity.
The indoctrination of America that started over 100 years ago is complete. From kindergarten through college, the Left has succeeded in making the purpose of our education system the transformation of our young people who are now poised to become leaders in our country.
That is a long preface to get to a “profound” point. The John Fetterman affair has disheartened me since his unfortunate stroke. It is sad when anyone experiences a life-threatening event, but sadder when someone recovering from a severe stroke is pushed to continue his campaign for a Senate seat. I am still naive enough to think the Senate is a body of 100 of America’s best and brightest. John Fetterman has destroyed that myth, and now Chuck Schumer is breaking the traditional dress code on the Senate floor for Senators, not for staff.
Schumer has instructed the Sargeant at Arms to no longer enforce the Senate dress code of suits for men and business attire for women. To accommodate John Fetterman’s love of shorts and hoodies. He can now grace the Senate floor in his favorite sweat-shorts and bulky hoodie.
The rules are changed for the 1 of 100. The minority has spoken.
I do not think a person necessarily performs better in a suit than a hoodie, but the Senate is looked up to by more than Americans. The world looks at our Senate as representative of our best, and then seeing John Fetterman struggling to parse a sentence together wearing a hoodie with ketchup stains down the front is not symbolic of America we should all aspire to. John Fetterman is a non-functioning member of the Senate, and now he looks his part.
He is a manipulated con man blocking his seat from a legitimate Senator for the Keystone State, and the Majority Leader just became complicit. Fortunately, changes like this are not law or cast in stone, so we can right these wrongs when the adults regain the room.
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In 1957, J. Edgar Hoover, FBI Director, warned: “The American mind simply has not come to a realization of the evil which has been introduced into our midst.” Hoover went on further stating that this ignorance of evil “would handicap an individual coming face to face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists.”
Patriots should pressure their Senators and Representatives to help Speaker McCarthy keep his promise to shine a congressional searchlight on the Chinese-linked biolab called Prestige Biotech. Speaker McCarthy has a laboratory in his own backyard where mice are “genetically engineered” to catch and carry the COVID-19 virus.
This accidental exposure found during a code inspection was a red flag, causing the city fire department to declare the lab a hazard to the community, a possible source of explosion, and other health threats. According to the 9/11 issue, the “emergency specialists of truth” at thenewamerican.com:
The Fresno County Department of Health reported finding thousands of gallons of biological fluids and samples of at least 20 pathogens such as HIV, malaria, SARS, and E. coli.” Health Department Director David Luchini told the Mid-Valley Times that in his 30 years experience,” he had never seen anything like the medical violations his department uncovered… among countless blood, tissue, and bodily fluid samples, investigators also found thousands of vials containing unlabeled fluid.”
The fact that mice are genetically engineered to catch and carry the COVID virus right in the Speaker of the House’s home district is dangerous. And the China connection makes it more serious. But even worse is that the power of “we the people” to limit government to the Constitution remains only an asset to the Deep State because Americans do not know the law of the land that needs citizen enforcement.
This is evident by the kind of leaders we continue to put in office. There are no shortcuts. The American people must, in the majority, learn how the Founders intended the Constitution to limit government abuse of power. For more info about the Constitution in The Solution seminars now presented throughout New England, please contact John Birch Coordinator Matt Rhodes at mrhodes@jbs.org or at 207-391-0970.
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The headline is a quote from a piece at Brownstone. It is a lengthy thing that documents at least 40 incidences of elites ignoring their own mask, lockdown, or distancing mandates. It is a handy reference worth your attention, but as the title tells you, that’s not what I’m going to talk about.
The Transgender agenda is a thing with no foundation, no rules, no guardrails. becasue it can’t have any. And yet it does. LGBTQIA+- or BIPOC people are victims unless they vote the wrong way or use incorrect words. At that point, you can mistreat them at will. So it’s not about sex or gender. It is like every other group to which the Left panders. Politics and ideology define you.
Outside of that truth, everything else is made of quicks that swallow everything, but can it swallow this? “If a person’s genitals do not determine their gender, how does removing them change their gender?”
Why do men who say they are women dress as the caricatures women have sought to liberate themselves for decades? And why isn’t this parody scorned like blackface or cultural appropriation?
Why do these men play-acting as women act like the Hollywood stereo-typical bubble-headed bleach blonde?
Why does this subculture advocate giving children gender-bending drugs that can kill them under the guise of keeping them from killing themselves when nearly half the kids treated (far more than if you left them alone) will try to kill themselves when you’re done?
And if genitals do not determine gender, how does removing or adding them change their gender? Deliberately trying to match a person’s body parts to their mental state directly contradicts the idea that gender is fluid.
Genital mutilation surgery is anything but fluid, which might explain why so many of the kids brainwashed into castrating themselves as a solution to another problem the left created, try to end their lives – which, as we’ve long suggested, is the goal. The Progressives have concocted a way to make castration – long considered a suitable social engineering tool, protected. And if they end up dead, that advances the depopulation agenda too.
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And yet more evidence that America is a Police State … the Biden-Regime is throwing grandmothers in jail for the crime of opposing abortion. And the people on the Right who are saying, “this should concern you even if you support abortion” just don’t get it. The Left does NOT support free speech. They believe that opposing viewpoints should be censored, criminalized.
I don’t hear too many GOP “leaders” talking about this. Presumably because they’re afraid of losing the suburban moms in Bedford. And, at least in New Hampshire, these “leaders” want us to focus on the important issues … like protecting Facebook and Google from regulation so they can continue to interfere in elections, and help the Deep State spy on us and censor us.
BREAKING: Pro life activists Jean Marshall (73) and Joan Bell (74) were just convicted for blocking the entrance to an abortion clinic and now face 11 years in prison.
It's good to see the Biden DOJ removing these hardened criminals from our streets. pic.twitter.com/W4Pysg2xoy
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) September 18, 2023
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I want everyone to take a look at this email from Citizens Alliance NH, a group I am not very familiar with, but I did respond to them as a rep candidate last year.
This message could easily get very long as I could refute the ratings of lots of reps, particularly many well-known ones who have earned their reputations, good or bad. This group has red-starred a lot of good reps that I support. I’m sure you will see for yourself as you spot-check a few.
I’m glad that the author of this report had enough common sense to red-star ALL the Nashua reps, particularly the Newmans and their ilk in Hollis. However, they gave green stars to some very unworthy RINOs!
Ted Gorski voted YES on HB 1342 last year. He and former Rep Wuelper seem to like the idea of uncapping Nashua and voted with the enemy camp. Thank God Wuelper is no longer in office, but Gorski sadly isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. They’re the kind of people that Ward 4 (home to the disgraced SM Laughton and no-show serial swamp rat David Cote) would vote for. Green stars were also given to several Belknap treasonist members of the famous “Lang Gang” of Gunstock. (see other GG articles)
And about Lang, let’s talk about how they reviewed the Senate. First and foremost, the WHOLE Senate deserves a reprimand for voting YES on Mass Health unanimously, and one should never forget that. At least my senator responded to my complaint with a defense argument about uncompensated care being a “hidden tax.”
While I appreciate his honesty and decision to not ignore me, I still do NOT support that vote.
And Tim Lang wrote an editorial about a “conservative vote for it.” 23 out of 24 Senators got red-starred. While I agree that some Republicans have gone wayward, two examples being Denise voting YES on Twitley’s welfare school lunch and database surveillance and Sharon’s union sympathizing, I don’t think all of them necessarily deserve red stars. And Sharon makes up for that union sympathizing elsewhere, particularly in her support for SB 203. And the one and only yellow star (a mediocre rating)? You guessed, Senator Murphy.
I happen to like Senator Murphy, but how did he do marginally better than his 23 peers? Was it just because he voted for pot? I’d like to know. Asking for ALL of NH.
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According to the NHGOP’s “leaders,” Republicans lost a winnable special election for the House because of Trump, but the GOP candidate for Mayor in Manchester … despite getting only a little more than 40 percent of the vote … was a winner. I’m not joking! This is their takeaway from Tuesday’s (September 19) elections. The proper takeaway … which I have been consistently posting … is that New Hampshire has been BLUE Hampshire for some time and Sun-King Sununu’s legacy is that New Hampshire has gotten much BLUER under his watch thanks to his embrace of WOKE and COVID totalitarianism.
So here are the NHGOP “leaders” reacting to the House special election … essentially GOP PRIMARY VOTERS ARE STUPID:
For some context, my understanding is that the Osborne-Regime has lost four special elections in a row. The NHGOP, under the Osborne-Regime, also LOST House seats in the 2022 midterms. The problem, according to the Mikey-Graham-RINO-Republican-types, is that GOP primary voters are just too stupid to realize that Trump is toxic and that they must embrace “Republicans” like Sun-King Chris Sununu who reject Trump.
Sun-King Sununu won repeatedly because his non-Republican embrace of WOKE and his non-Republican COVID-authoritarianism reflects what most voters in New Hampshire want. Stated more succinctly, New Hampshire is BLUE Hampshire and real Republicans are unelectable. You can denounce Trump all day long … but if you hold real Republican positions, you are still going to lose.
The “victory” in Manchester for the GOP candidate was NOT a victory. The three Democrats (Communists would be a far more accurate description) running for Mayor combined for nearly 60 percent of the vote. That is a LANDSLIDE victory for the Democrats … but, of course, NHGOP grifters like Ross Berry and Mikey Graham are trying to sell it as a victory. And if you believe that those Democrat-votes are going to Ruais in the general … you probably also believe that “masks work,” that Mikey Graham is an independent journalist and that Ross Berry is a political-mastermind.
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As promised in Monday Memes, I have an overflow. My meme cup runneth over. And yes there will be a Friday edition too.
Let the mayhem, mockery, and ridicule resume:
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There are two themes that President Joe Biden has harped on as long as he has been in office. One is people paying their fair share of taxes, and the other is stricter gun laws. So what happens when the President’s son violates laws highlighting his disdain for both of Biden’s crusades? You hire high-priced attorneys who attempt to shoot holes in the Constitutionality of the rules your Father, the President, wants every American to live by. That may be the best example of hypocrisy in history. But we are talking about the Bidens, so should we expect anything different? Absolutely not.
Special Counsel Weiss indicted Hunter Biden last week on three gun charges. These charges primarily involve Hunter lying on his background applications to purchase a pistol. The charges claim he misrepresented his drug addiction, which nullified his right to own a firearm. There is visual evidence that Hunter possessed two guns, a revolver and a semi-automatic, but there is only proof of him applying for one. So much for details. Hunter’s legal team is trying to prove the unconstitutionality of drug addicts denied gun ownership. Somehow, that doesn’t align with Joe’s strict gun laws. No hypocrisy there, is there?
The other situation in which Weiss may file more charges and indictments is Hunter not paying taxes for millions of dollars of income over two years. Some violations have passed the statute of limitations, but some are still active. How ironic that the son of the President, who says the rich need to pay their fair share, has a deadbeat son who pays nothing on money earned illegally by shaking down foreign governments and companies. This is not the plot of a Tom Clancy book, but real life for the Bidens.
Hunter Biden thought he had beaten all these charges a few weeks ago, but that plea bargain agreement blew up when the Biden team got too greedy. Weiss was involved in the agreement, which would have given Hunter immunity from future charges. A Federal judge smelled out this rotten deal and killed it. Her actions also exposed Weiss as being soft on Hunter. He is now trying to save his reputation with multiple charges on Hunter. This could not happen at a worse time for Joe, as these cases will all be scheduled during the 2024 campaign. The networks must cover the case they have worked hard to keep under wraps.
The Hunter Biden situation puts Joe in a difficult position in many ways. If Hunter gets sweetheart or preferential treatment, the Republicans will use it during the campaign. If convicted, Joe must decide if he wants to pardon his son. He may pardon Hunter and retire if he has to go this route. This will be the only way to negate the Republican criticism and assuage the Democrats who want someone else on the ticket. Every Democrat and the Media had been supporting and defending Joe and Kamala. That changed dramatically this week, and the pressure now seems to be to force Joe to the sidelines. They now see what we have all seen for three years. Joe is not fit to serve four more years. He is not fit to serve four more days, but one step at a time.
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As prior installments of this series have shown, state and national standardized test scores in New Hampshire and Vermont don’t appear to support the current narrative that the COVID pandemic shutdown caused children to suffer “learning loss.” Instead, the data revealed two things: First, that the test scores have been dismal for more than two decades, and second, they were in decline well in advance of the pandemic shutdown.
As elementary schools are tasked with teaching children how to read, we’ve looked at several in our region to assess both their scores and how they teach reading. Our reports on the Croydon Village School and Killington Elementary School reveal that there’s little, if any, evidence of “pandemic learning loss.” Remember, it was statements made by Croydon Principal Nicole Lackey, who faulted the pandemic shutdown for poor test scores while also admitting schools didn’t know how to teach reading, that inspired this series.
We now look at Washington Elementary School in Washington, NH. Here, we see a similar pattern but also something different.
WES is a K-5 school with multi-grade classes for K-1, 2-3, and 4-5, balanced each year according to the numbers. They typically have 50 students, with enrollment ranging from 40 to 56 in recent years. They have three full-time teachers, one full-time special educator, and three full-time paraprofessionals, with some focusing on special education.
Kelli Colarusso has been the teaching principal of Washington Elementary School (WES) for three years. Before that, she served as the school’s associate principal for one year. As a teaching principal, Colarusso taught math and science to the upper grades. Last year, she switched to teaching physical education and music. Prior to being in the administration, she taught all subjects to grades 4 and 5.
Though Washington’s scores on the NH Student Assessment System (NHSAS) test declined dramatically from 2017 to 2018 and showed continued decline in 2019, it appears the decline accelerated following the pandemic shutdown (see chart below). The scores improved from 2021 to 2022. School scores for 2023 are not yet available.
Colarusso said she’s not really sure how to explain the drop in scores. She also said that the NHSAS is not the only measure they use to determine a student’s reading ability.
WES uses a data-driven approach to make instructional decisions that focus on the growth of individual students, which small schools have the luxury of doing. They use the iReady diagnostic test 3 times a year to track student progress. Younger grades use Phonological Awareness Literacy Screening (PALS), which measures phonics ability.
Colarusso and two other teachers have been taking the NH Department of Education LETRS training — Language Essentials for Teaching Reading and Spelling. LETRS helps teachers understand the science of reading in order to help them teach better. LETRS has made the WES teachers rethink how they teach reading and has driven some of their curriculum decisions.
The “science of reading” is based on decades of research about how students become proficient in reading and writing and why some of them have difficulty. Using brain scans and eye-tracking technology, they found that good readers process virtually every letter in every word as they read. Some children catch on quickly, but some need to be taught how to do it. Learning to read is not as natural as learning to talk. The science of reading research is summarized in an engaging podcast series called “Sold a Story,” produced by Emily Hanford, an investigative education journalist at American Public Media.
Historically, WES used Treasures (K-3) and Reading Street Common Core (4-5). Before they started the LETRS training, they had already felt those were not providing what their students needed. They have been using FUNdations for phonics at the K/1 level for as long as Colarusso can remember. This past year, the school added FUNdations instruction to grades 2 and 3. FUNdations is a structured literacy approach for grades PreK-3 grounded in the science of reading to make learning to read fun.
WES also started using the Fountas & Pinnell (F&P) Benchmark Assessment System (BAS) instead of the Rigby Reading Inventory. Colarusso said the school went to F&P because the staff felt that the Rigby system they had been using gave them data on fluency but not on comprehension. Teachers, she said, felt the BAS would give them more actionable information.
As explained in previous articles, the science of reading research has shown that Fountas & Pinnell’s BAS testing does not provide reliable scores for student performance and that the F&P “cueing” approach is not supported by the science of reading and can even harm students.
According to Colarusso, a lot of progress has been evidenced by FUNdations unit tests. The results of unit tests guide teachers to provide effective instruction to students. Since FUNdations is used for the lower grades, the improvement Colarusso mentions refers to students in grade 3 and below.
With all of this, it’s not clear why WES chose F&P after being trained in the science of reading. It will be interesting to see if reading will improve in the upper grades. It’s possible that if students build a good reading foundation through 3rd grade, F&P won’t confuse or harm many children.
WES takes a “station-based” approach to teaching. The stations include core instruction by the teacher based on student needs, review or practice led by a paraprofessional, and a station where students practice skills independently. Students are grouped according to need based on their diagnostic tests and teacher observations about their work.
The K/1 stations are focused on phonics, with some reading comprehension, and they integrate science and social studies. WES recently instituted dedicated phonics time for grades 2-3, something they had not done before. Grades 4-5 focus on reading comprehension and now have more dedicated time to what Colarusso calls “word work,” which includes things like Latin and Greek roots, prefixes, and suffixes.
Colarusso said that COVID changed the way WES teaches and learns. Since WES is very community-based, the most drastic change was not being able to invite community members into the school. Traditionally, the school has worked with local conservation commissions, had writing buddies in town who also visited the school, hosted a monthly program for students to eat with a local police officer, and had parents come in for performances and family nights. They are trying to bring these things back, opening their doors to their families and community members again.
They are now working with a consultant from WestEd to learn how to better use data to inform their instruction. A goal centered around literacy instruction for this school year has been set. Colarusso is hopeful that these changes will greatly help each student succeed.
This story was first published by the Eagle Times and is part of a series where we show how the pandemic shutdowns in Vermont and New Hampshire affected student performance on state and national standardized tests. We’re also taking a look at how some elementary schools in our area teach reading. Next, we’ll take a look at test scores and reading instruction at the Albert Bridge School in Vermont. Prior installments in this series were published in the Eagle Times on September 9, 12, 14, and 16 and can also be found on Jody Underwood’s Granite Grok page.
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I picture Merrick Garland rousing from a restless sleep, donning his Obama slippers and a pilly white cotton robe, before scurrying to his lair. You can hear distant, muffled screaming as he walks, clinging bitterly to the remnants of the dream he’s just had.
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A new way to disarm law-abiding citizens or, at least, make the exercise of Second Amendment rights more burdensome. That is, after all, what a Democrat attorney general is supposed to do.
Garland makes his way to his desk, where he quickly downs two fingers of scotch forgotten from earlier. His chair creaks when he sits, his hands illuminated by a pool of lamplight paw for a Pall Mall Mentholated cigarette, which he sticks to his chapped bottom lip.
A Sphynx cat listens to the scratching of a pencil on paper from a dark corner, its eyes reflecting the scant light from its gloomy perch.
Suddenly, a cackle echoes down the hall as lightning strikes and thunder booms. It’s Alive! Alive!
What’s alive? Merrick Garland is reimaging portions of the Gun Control Act that would require vast numbers of gun owners to pay the ATF for a firearms dealer’s license or face the consequences.
The new rule purports to narrow the term “personal collection,” which Congress did not limit, to “personal firearms that a person accumulates for study, comparison, exhibition, or for a hobby.” Somehow “self-defense” didn’t make the cut, although that’s a predominant reason to acquire firearms. …
The rule adds that the term “personal collection” “shall not include any firearm purchased for the purpose of resale or made with the predominant intent to earn a profit.” But collectors in general buy guns with the purpose of eventual resale when they locate and can afford guns of ever-higher quality and rarity, and they certainly intend to sell guns for more than they paid as the collection moves up the ladder. And any gun owner would hope that the value of his or her firearms will increase in value, even if only to be sold by the heirs at a profit. …
The new rule is calculated to require potentially hundreds of thousands of gun owners who occasionally buy and sell firearms to obtain dealer licenses from ATF.
The new rules would also expand the ATF’s power to seize firearms based on the presumption or potential intent. “A single firearm need not even be sold if the person expresses a willingness to sell firearms, even if the person has no firearms to sell. That’s not how Congress defined the terms.”
You post a picture of a firearm on social media, and guess what? ATF could decide you intended to sell it and introduce you to their 5 AM raid program (hide your dog).
ATF can supposedly seize and forfeit firearms based on “presumptions” it invented and is not limited to the grounds for forfeiture set forth in 18 U.S.C. § 924(d), which for many forfeitures requires a showing of intent “by clear and convincing evidence”—the opposite of a presumed violation.
Stephen Halbrook, writing at Reason.com, has a lot more background and foreground here, but the long and short of it is this. Merrick Garland, DoJ, and ATF, whose jobs are to enforce laws, not make them, are penning rules that create crimes they can then use to enrich the Government at the expense of your rights (property and self-defense).
These suggested rules have little chance of surviving even the thinnest scrutiny, but that’s not the point. The point is to try. To try everything, overwhelm the system, and build on whatever they can sneak by or learn from their failed attempt. They will take your hand. The Left wants to disarm law-abiding citizens and will do anything to accomplish that task, evening the shadow of Bruen.
Americans should respond to the news … by buying more guns.
HT | Reason
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President Donald Trump’s political tenure was marked by fervent support and vehement opposition. However, beneath the surface of political disagreements, it becomes evident that he exposed adversaries lurking within the government and media who now actively conspire to sideline him. These adversaries, threatened by Trump’s policies and America-first commitment, are tirelessly working to diminish his influence and thwart his legacy.
During and after the Trump administration, some individuals and groups could be labeled as “enemies within” of the President. They represented political opponents and potential threats to President Trump’s vision for America. Their actions included vocal criticism of the President’s decisions, alleged leaks of sensitive information to the media, and behind-the-scenes maneuvers aimed at obstructing or undermining his policy agenda.
President Trump pointed fingers at those he perceived as threats to his administration. Among these adversaries were the “deep state,” influential figures in the media, and Democrats in Congress. They formed part of a vast network determined to dismantle his America-first agenda.
The “deep state,” often synonymous with entrenched bureaucrats and officials, became a recurrent target of President Trump’s relentless pursuit of transparency and accountability. This shadowy network sought to undermine his authority, thwart his policy initiatives, and hinder his promise to prioritize American interests over global agreements and conventions.
His America-first approach, characterized by stricter immigration policies and tax reforms, faced unwavering opposition from lawmakers across the aisle. This resistance only reinforced the belief that enemies conspired to eliminate Trump’s influence on national policy.
During his presidency, Trump oversaw a remarkable economic boom, groundbreaking criminal justice reform, and staunch efforts to safeguard Second Amendment rights. His administration’s economic policies led to record-low unemployment rates and substantial stock market gains. Criminal justice reform, an issue that long languished on the sidelines, saw unprecedented progress under Trump, earning him bipartisan acclaim. His pledge to protect Second Amendment rights resonated deeply with millions of Americans.
A group of career bureaucrats and former Obama administration officials were accused of conspiring to undermine President Trump. The House Intelligence Committee’s release of declassified transcripts related to the Trump-Russia collusion investigation revealed a lack of concrete evidence to support the collusion claim. This raised questions about the credibility of the accusations and fueled suspicions that some members of the “Deep State cabal” had been saying one thing behind closed doors while making wild and often contradictory claims in public.
Trump’s enemies within the political landscape may be overlooking his resilience and ability to rally his supporters. The left-wing media’s anti-Trump fervor, rather than weakening him, has, in the eyes of his supporters, only served to make him stronger.
The left’s steadfast refusal to acknowledge any successes or achievements of the Trump administration underscores a bias that fuels the perception of a hostile media environment. Trump’s opponents are aware that he has the potential to stage a remarkable political resurgence, underscoring the enduring political influence of Donald Trump.
One of the most enduring legacies of President Trump’s time in office is his role in exposing an alarming level of rot and corruption within the American political system. He shed light on the extent to which ruling class elements were willing to undermine a president who challenged the established order. The relentless efforts to destroy him, differing standards in the courts, and the use of hatred as a proxy for destruction all exemplified the determination of some to protect their interests, even at the expense of democratic norms and institutions.
Even after leaving office, President Trump remains at the epicenter of an unrelenting battle. High-profile events like the Georgia subversion trial and ongoing disputes over the 2020 election results underscore the enduring impact of his presidency on American politics.
The Georgia subversion trial showcases the enduring legal challenges surrounding the 2020 election, serving as a testament to President Trump’s dedication to ensuring the integrity of the electoral process.
The looming threat of impeachment in Texas is a calculated move by political opponents who seek to undermine individuals like Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and the values and ideologies they represent. It’s seen as part of a broader pattern where individuals perceived as Trump loyalists are targeted for their commitment to conservative principles, traditional values, and support for the former President.
President Trump’s presidency exposed enemies within the government and media who now actively conspire to diminish his influence and impede his legacy. Regardless of one’s political affiliation, it is crucial to recognize the significance of such power struggles and their potential consequences for individuals and society as a whole.
While the fight continues, it is important to remember the substantial accomplishments of the Trump administration and the ongoing commitment to America-first policies, which remain a cornerstone of political discourse. President Trump’s legacy, whether lauded or criticized, undeniably left an indelible mark on the American political landscape, inspiring passionate support for the principles he championed.
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I want everyone to take a look at this email from Citizens Alliance NH, a group I am not very familiar with, but I did respond to them as a rep candidate last year.
This message could easily get very long as I could refute the ratings of lots of reps, particularly many well known ones who have earned their reputations, good or bad. This group has red-starred a lot of good reps that I support. I’m sure you will see for yourself as you spot check a few.
I’m glad that the author of this report had enough common sense to red-star ALL the Nashua reps, particularly the Newmans and their ilk in Hollis. However, they gave green stars to some very unworthy RINOs! Ted Gorski voted YES on HB 1342 last year. He and former Rep Wuelper seem to like the idea of uncapping Nashua and voted with the enemy camp. Thank God Wuelper is no longer in office, but Gorski sadly isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. They’re the kind of people that Ward 4(home to the disgraced SM Laughton and no-show serial swamp rat David Cote) would vote for. Green stars were also given to several Belknap treasonist members of the famous “Lang Gang” of Gunstock. (see other GG articles)
And about Lang, let’s talk about how they reviewed the Senate. First and foremost, the WHOLE Senate deserves a reprimand for voting YES on Mass Health unanimously, and one should never forget that. At least my senator responded to my complaint with a defense argument about uncompensated care being a “hidden tax.” While I appreciate his honesty and decision to not ignore me, I still do NOT support that vote. And Tim Lang wrote some editorial about a “conservative vote for it.” (citation needed) 23 out of 24 senators got red-starred. While I agree that some Republicans have gone wayward, two examples being Denise voting YES on Twitley’s welfare school lunch and database surveillance and Sharon’s union sympathizing, I don’t think all of them necessarily deserve red stars. And Sharon makes up for that union sympathizing elsewhere, particularly in her support for SB 203. And the one and only yellow star (a mediocre rating)? You guessed, Senator Murphy. I happen to like Senator Murphy, but how did he do marginally better than his 23 peers? Was it just because he voted for pot? I’d like to know. Asking for ALL of NH.
Share your thoughts about this group and this survey report in the comments.
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