The Harmony Montgomery circus of investigation clowns will never look at themselves. That’s not good enough. The Feds need to come in. But not the Boston FBI, the ones from Washington Field in DC because there is a cover-up.

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In January 2022, The New Hampshire Police News Twitter @NHPD_News site posted a Union Leader article declaring that Governor Sununu had ordered an internal review of DCYF in light of failures regarding Harmony Montgomery’s disappearance and the two years of inaction.

The following month a 7-page report was released with recommendations.

 

harmony-montgomery-update-recommendations

 

Now Governor Sununu has asked AG John Formella’s office for an investigation into Manchester Mayor Joyce Craig and email correspondence regarding Harmony Montgomery.

This is coming from a Governor whose office never responds to public inquiries of concern, whose office never returns calls and whose office admits to deleting emails after 30 days. The AG’s office, meanwhile, is not much better, having suddenly found millions of documents that had been hidden for decades about child sex abuse at the State’s Youth Detention Center.

Manchester Police Chief and Mayor Joyce Craig and Governor Sununu are playing a game. Manchester Police Chief Aldenberg was nominated by Mayor Joyce Craig in 2020 and approved by Manchester aldermen.

“IN NOMINATING HIM, MAYOR JOYCE CRAIG CALLS HIM (Allen Aldenberg) A MAN OF INTEGRITY WITH 23 YEARS OF POLICING EXPERIENCE.”

Sununu’s words about Mayor Joyce Craig regarding failures to respond to Right To Know Requests are vacuous. It’s not just his office and Mayor Joyce Craig’s office who don’t take public inquiries seriously. It’s the Mayor of Concord’s office, Police Departments, DAs offices, and AGs offices across the state who all bat the ball off their desks each and every time. It is a statewide systemic problem, and that’s because the State officials rely too heavily on qualified and sovereign immunity to be bothered with a public inquiry about the safety of children or public corruption.

Numerous people have brought up police misconduct, the DCYF, and lack of accountability for decades. Each and every Governor, each and every AG has swept it under the rug, or if they have addressed it, it has been a performative “internal” audit. Public comments get ignored or ridiculed. Even when the US DHHS publishes reports on the utter failures of NH DCYF and New Hampshire officials agreeing to the recommendations, nothing happens.

Sununu’s empty words at Joyce Craig could just as easily be leveled at himself and those he has appointed or nominated for leadership positions — including Gordon MacDonald as both AG and Supreme Court Chief Justice:

“It is about leadership. You have to be able to be transparent, be responsible, be accountable. Unfortunately, there hasn’t been a lot of accountability out of the mayor’s office,” Sununu told NHJournal Thursday.”

Sununu’s request that the Attorney General’s office look into the email correspondence from Harmony Montgomery’s mother to Mayor Joyce Craig is just lip service since the AG’s office has been pretty unresponsive to requests for investigations as well. The AG’s Public Integrity Officer, Geoffrey Ward, deleted the files of 28 corrupt police officers before he became a federal prosecutor while his boss, now NH Supreme Court Chief Justice Gordon MacDonald, argued that the list of corrupt police officers should remain private. Leadership is missing across the agencies. Why do they still get federal grants when they continue to ignore the recommendations?

Sununu can decry Joyce Craig’s lack of accountability all he likes, but it doesn’t change the fact that there is no accountability from his office, the AG’s office, NHPD or Mayors’ and City Councils’ offices, or the Executive Committee, DAs or NH Judges, Superior, District, Family or Supreme Court. They’ve all protected corruption within their own ranks and with the DCYF and affiliated non-profits and agencies. They all like to make money off child abuse, but they have no desire to actually address it because that would require looking in the mirror and admitting to the cover-ups.

The police have asked the public to come forward with tips, but what good is that? It’s the same old same old — we come forward. We give tips about child trafficking, drug trafficking, and money laundering. We get ignored, or we get threatened.

The question the officials in New Hampshire will never ask or answer is whether Adam Montgomery was, in fact, a drug trafficking mule for Manchester Police and whether Manchester police, DCYF, were involved in the abuse of Harmony Montgomery and covering it up. And that is why the Feds need to come in.

Something’s off about Kayla Montgomery’s affidavit, which begs the question: was she coerced under blackmail or as part of a bribe to cover up a child, sex, and drug trafficking ring for the police or DCYF? Was the affidavit strategically created, then unsealed and given to news media to divert attention from the police and DCYF’s role in Harmony Montgomery’s tragic ending? Was the emergency plan for prosecutors to pin everything on Adam Montgomery while their buddies in law enforcement and DCYF slip into the shadows, avoiding potential criminal charges?

The Division for Children, Youth and Families was involved with Adam Montgomery and his children due to reports of abuse, according to Dunleavy. Adam Montgomery allegedly gave Harmony a black eye in August of 2019…..

It wasn’t until Kayla Montgomery testified before the grand jury, and was then charged with perjury, that her story started to change. In June of 2022, Kayla Montgomery said Adam Montgomery beat Harmony to death in the Sebring……

Adam Montgomery then decided to remove his daughter from the duffle bag and placed her into a maternity bag from Catholic Medical Center.

How would Adam Montgomery have access to a maternity bag from Catholic Medical Center? Did Kayla Montgomery provide it for him? And how credible a witness is Kayla Montgomery anyway? She has a history of fraud, lying, and missing court dates. So far, she’s been given an absurdly lenient deal, given the gravity of the case and her role in it.

But then there’s another curious statement:

Adam Montgomery then kept his daughter’s remains in the freezer at the Portland Pie Pizza restaurant on Elm Street where he worked, the affidavit said.

Portland Pie abruptly closed doors on March 1, 2020 — within three months or less of Harmony’s alleged murder. Was the shutdown of the company related to Harmony Montgomery’s remains being kept in the restaurant freezer?

The last time the DCYF saw Harmony was in October of 2019. Despite months of Sorey raising the alarm about the whereabouts of her daughter, DCYF waited until September of 2021 to contact the Manchester School District about the girl. DCYF did not contact Manchester police. In fact, police started the investigation based on Sorey’s call to the department.

Who shapes the media for police, prosecutors, and DCYF but Amanda Grady Sexton of the NHCADSV. Whichever way any of them dress it up with pretrial media leaks of potentially coerced affidavits, there is no getting around the fact that police and DCYF carry a great deal of responsibility for what happened to Harmony Montgomery. And the NHCADSV do, too in working with these agencies and prosecutors to create and control media that protects their own where they bask in qualified and sovereign immunity.

History demonstrates in spades that pretrial media in New Hampshire is not to be trusted, and it is planted for the police and prosecutors by the “Victim’s Advocates.” But nobody has actually been an advocate for Harmony Montgomery, whether she was murdered as Kayla Montgomery’s unsealed affidavit claims — or trafficked. Is the murder story in her affidavit a cover-up? It’s not that far-fetched of a notion if you read this lawsuit.

Harmony’s remains have not been found.

Governor Sununu knew that Adam Montgomery was a violent drug trafficker. So did the police. So did DCYF. So did NHCADSV. So did Children’s Advocacy Centers, which are DCYF. That means so did the board members of Children’s Advocacy Centers, which include Richard C Tracy, NH’s top crimes investigator, police officers in Manchester, and DAs.

 

 

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The U.S. Constitution is the greatest document in world history.  It does not need to be rewritten.  It needs to be read and understood.  We are not teaching it in our schools.  We know that because there are generations of birthright Americans who are crappy citizens who hate America.

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Our constitution is not a way for the government to bind, restrain or control Americans.  It is not a tool of government at all.  The United States Constitution is a tool for us, We the People.  It is how American citizens are to limit and restrain Government’s size, growth, and power.

The people who wrote our constitution were extremists in the cause of liberty.  People like Patrick Henry were not meeting their opposition halfway.  They were not whining about free healthcare, free college, or free housing.  Those things are not American birthright.

The founders wanted the opportunity to control their own destiny.  They were fierce people, determined to defend what was theirs, to respect others as they respected themselves, and to live in a place where we all have the right to try, to fail, and do it again until we make things better.

If you think it is right to compare our ancestors with immigrants crossing our southern border today, you have no understanding of America or what being American is about.  Settling an untamed, undeveloped land and building Judeo-Christian civilization is not the same as coming to an industrialized nation so you can sign up for the government-sponsored freebies.

The people who wrote the U.S. Constitution did not include the Second Amendment because they enjoyed hunting.  They had just fought a war to liberate America from the tyranny of a king.   They wanted, they expected, every man to support and defend his freedom from governmental tyranny.  That’s why we need the right to keep and bear arms.

Today many Americans are willing to; they do crap all over this country.  They denigrate her inception, her history, and her future.  That is because they have not walked in the boots of those who came before.   They are frustrated by what they were not given.

They do not understand what the colonies which preceded the American nation were. They do not understand why we fought the King. They do not grasp the significance of the Civil War.  They do not love freedom, opportunity, or the duties of citizenship.

They understand how to destroy what is but not how to build on the base.  Unity does not come from the destruction of other people’s property rights or attempting to compel them to do what is not in their own self-interest, or trying to compel belief and conformance.

 

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Montgomery County Maryland Public Schools (a swanky DC suburb) have themselves a dilemma. The laws of the state and policies of the schools allow parents to exclude their children from objectionable lessons, but the district has decided to ignore the requests.

 

Maryland’s Montgomery County Public Schools claims it was flooded with opt-out requests when the books [“storybooks” with sex workers, kink, drag, gender transitions and same-sex romance] were introduced in the curriculum in January, giving it legal justification, on logistical grounds, to issue a blanket policy of no exceptions and no notifications.

The district didn’t provide a specific number or even vague range, however, in its memorandum opposing the motion for preliminary injunction by Catholic, Muslim and Ukrainian-Orthodox parents who filed the First and Fourteenth Amendment lawsuit in May.

 

The school said you can opt out of the grooming lessons, so parents of faith – of which there appears to be a majority – did. This made using the books untenable, so the district said F— All! and retracted the opt-out because it claims it cannot operate given the demands.

Really, how did you operate these schools prior to January, when these offensive titles were added to the library and curriculum? Uniform statewide control of public education was authorized in 1864, and by 1865, “Maryland shifted from local control of schools to a highly centralized system whereby the State Board with the State Superintendent selected textbooks, set the curriculum, certified teachers, approved school building designs, and distributed State funds.”

For more than 155 years, Maryland educated children without “storybooks” with sex workers, kink, drag, gender transitions, and same-sex romance. I find it difficult to accept that you could not right your logistical ship with their removal.

Besides, isn’t this combined effort the very thing for which you pithy progressives and your coexist bumper stickers have been hoping?

Jews, Muslims, and Orthodox Christians (and no doubt other denominations of Christianity are on board) in agreement on the need to focus on academics.

 

The district imposed the no-exception and no-notification policy March 23, a day after it told the media it would honor requests and issue notifications, which united parents across the religious spectrum in opposition.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations, a reliably liberal advocacy group on most issues, has been especially vocal and visible in challenging the policy.

“Public schools have an obligation to be inclusive and neutral,” Maryland Director Zainab Chaudry said at a multifaith rally Thursday. “They can’t be favoring one group over another.”

 

We’ve been writing about the inevitable clash of approved left-Wing victim groups for some time, and while this is not the first example, it could become a very deep trench on the frontline in the Left’s Gender war. If the Muslims that the progressives have been encouraging and accepting with open-arms pushback in numbers, the sex-book party might find itself at cross purposes.

They aren’t at all concerned about Christians or Jews, but Muslims intimidate them.

And imagine all of them, other concerned parents and feminists trying to protect women from predatory men using trans-policy to gain access to potential victims, all sharing an issue.

All coexisting in opposition to the Left’s latest cultural hill to die on, but that would be the old coexist. There’s a new one.

 

 

The new one is gender approved and comes with the same progressive contradictions as the original. The goal is not to get everyone, mentioned or not, to get along. It is to get them all under the thumb of the government and subservient to its wishes. If you’d like an example, the Montgomery County Maryland Public Schools response to parents of faith opting out of “instruction” involving “storybooks” with sex workers, kink, drag, gender transitions, and same-sex romance. will do.

 

 

 

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Memo to the NHGOP gubernatorial candidates: The NH-Communists Democrats running for Governor, with a few exceptions, stopped pushing “broad-based” taxes in 1996. Yet a quarter of a century later, the NHGOP continues to insist that this election is about an income tax (and/or a sales tax (which we actually already have, in part, in the form of the room-and-meals tax)). See:

The lodestars for NH-Communists Democrats in 2023 are abortion and climate change … NOT an income tax/sales tax.

An ever shrinking number of voters are persuadable. Assuming the NHGOP can get its voters to vote in the same numbers the NH-Communists Democrats will get their true-believers to vote, the question then becomes how to persuade the potentially persuadable voters. Shouting INCOME TAX, INCOME TAX, INCOME TAX or talking about how to generate affordable single-family homes – not apartment complexes, but homes? HINTS – it’s 2023, not 1993, Joyce Craig is not running on an income tax, and home ownership in New Hampshire is increasingly a perk of the high-income.

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The Climate News Network (CNN) didn’t mean to do it. They tried to sell the only possible takeaway as planetary doom and gloom. That’s their job, after all. But the good news is impossible to hide. The oceans are teeming with an abundance of new life.

And the piece assumes that what is happening is our fault.

 

“While the researchers are still working to unpick exactly what the changes mean, what is clear, they said, is that the changes are being driven by human-induced climate change.

 

There is no proof that Mann-made warming exists in a meaningful capacity or is responsible for the boom in ocean life, but let’s take it at face value for our discussion. The oceans are getting greener, and while they don’t know the long-term impact, it’s a net positive for ocean life.

 

More than 56% of the world’s oceans have changed color to an extent that cannot be explained by natural variability, said a team of researchers, led by scientists from the National Oceanography Center in the UK and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the US, in a statement.

Tropical oceans close to the equator in particular have become greener in the past two decades, reflecting changes in their ecosystems, according to the study published Wednesday in the journal Nature.

The color of the ocean is derived from the materials found in its upper layers. For example, a deep blue sea will have very little life in it, whereas a green color means there are ecosystems there, based on phytoplankton, plant-like microbes which contain chlorophyll. The phytoplankton form the basis of a food web which supports larger organisms such as krill, fish, seabirds and marine mammals.

 

You naughty human. A decades-long increase in ocean life. How dare you? But hey, since the seas are allegedly rising, they’ll have plenty of room to move. More Ocean food stock, healthier fish, it all sounds like a solid for planet Earth whether you were involved or not.

The only problem appears to be spin by “experts” paid to figure out how natural processes can be blamed on people so the progressives can raise their taxes.

James Taylor writing at WUWT, notes that it isn’t just CNN trying to peddle an ocean bounty as bad news for planet Earth and its various inhabitants.

 

“Climate Change Is Literally Changing the Ocean’s Color” – The Daily Beast.

“World’s oceans changing color due to climate breakdown, study suggests” – The Guardian

“Climate change is making our oceans change color, new research finds” – CNN

“Oceans are changing color, likely due to climate change, researchers find” – CBN News

“Climate Change Is Getting So Bad that the Ocean Is Changing Color” – The Byte

 

It makes sense if you are a member of the Climate Cult. Nothing disproves their mythology, and everything supports it. Cooling is a sign of warming. The greening of the earth and record crop output is a sign of impending starvation, climate migration, and doom. The steady post-ice age rise of the sea will accelerate rapidly any minute now. Or maybe now. Wait, now!

We’ve been playing that game for thirty years, and the only change is a flatlining of sea level (at least on our coastline) for over a decade.

But since nothing contradicts the approved narrative, and tithing to this faith-based scientism is mandatory, the good news that the oceans have benefited from the natural rise in CO2 can’t be anything but a sign of the climate apocalypse and entirely your fault.

 

 

HT | WUWT

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Economic Freedom: “[E]conomic prosperity comes and goes as adherence to the principles of economic freedom comes and goes.”  – John Taylor (First Principles)

 

And this is because we elect those that promise much that Government will do for them while never saying that the tradoff is the reduction in Freedom for how you can participate in the Marketplace.  Who makes the decision: you or the central planners? It all depends on your vetting of candidates and voting for those that prize YOUR Freedom over Government control.

Lobbying as Protectionism:

To a large degree, the modern political process can be viewed as a series of “exchanges” between coalitions and politicians. Concentrated interest groups provide votes, financial contributions, high-paying jobs in the future, and other forms of support in exchange for subsidies, spending programs, and regulatory favors often financed by taxpayers. The rational ignorance effect – the fact that voters choose not to spend the time required to be well-informed – facilitates this process because a lot can happen in the halls of Congress of which voters are unaware. As a result, resources are moved toward lobbying and other favor-seeking activities and away from production and development of better products.

-James D. Gwartney, Richard L. Stroup, Dwight R. Lee, Tawni H. Ferrarini, and Joseph P. Calhoun (Common Sense Economics)

 

And ending with the “Selling The Rope By Which Anti-Capitalists Will Hang Them.”:

 

When the history of corporate America is written, one of its most shameful chapters will be about how big business sold out to political correctness, by inflicting the harangues of “diversity consultants” on their employees and donating their stockholders’ money to advocacy groups opposed to the free market on which their own existence depends.

-Prof. Thomas Sowell (Barbarians Inside the Gates)

 

Like to BLM and the Transgender groups whose purposes are to overthrow our Capitalistic system or to so regulate it that it is no longer free.

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The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Small Business Administration (SBA) have a problem. The Government can offer preferred contracting to minority groups, but it must demonstrate a compelling interest.

It needs to provide evidence of the need and show how the remedial action addresses that need and then set and keep track of the goals and whether the contracting addressed the goals set.

Neither the USDA nor the SBA met any of those requirements (reformatted).

 

Defendants [USDA and SBA] assert that their use of the rebuttable presumption in the 8(a) program is to remedy the effects of past racial discrimination in federal contracting. But Defendant USDA admits it does not maintain goals for the 8(a) program. And Defendant SBA admits that it does not require agencies to have goals for the 8(a) program. Defendants also do not examine whether any racial group is underrepresented in a particular industry relevant to a specific contract in the 8(a) program.

Without stated goals for the 8(a) program or an understanding of whether certain minorities are underrepresented in a particular industry, Defendants cannot measure the utility of the rebuttable presumption in remedying the effects of past racial discrimination. In such circumstances, Defendants’ use of the rebuttable presumption “cannot be subjected to meaningful judicial review.”

The lack of any stated goals for Defendants’ continued use of the rebuttable presumption does not support Defendants’ stated interest in “remediating specific, identified instances of past discrimination[.]”If the rebuttable presumption were a tool to remediate specific instances of past discrimination, Defendants should be able to tie the use of that presumption to a goal within the 8(a) program.

 

These Federal Agencies were handing out contracts to minority business owners without determining if they were in any way socially or economically disadvantaged as the result of “identified instances of past discrimination that violated the Constitution or a statute.”

Neither the USDA nor the SBA determined the nature of the discrimination, how and what could be done to alleviate it, or how to measure success or failure. They just handed contracts to minorities they identified them as minorities which, absent all other factors, is discriminatory.

And it’s their own damn fault. They just had to do the work, but much of the bureaucratic culture is blinkered by progressive newspeak. Brown people are disadvantaged, so let’s give them some money, be it guilt, concern, disadvantage or vote-buying, and that got me thinking. With all this talk of reparations, given the citations in this decision, won’t states have to meet the same strict scrutiny before they can hand out tax dollars to anyone just because they are black?

And has Ultima vs. Dept of Agriculture – which references SCOTUS’s recent affirmative action decisions – just put the entire Federal hand-out machine on notice with regard to race-based everything?

And what are Democrats going to do aside from lose their minds?

 

 

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DCE over at Weekend Pundit shreds the Media / Eco-Socialists to shreds with these two maps:

Just when the media is telling us we’re seeing unprecedented temperatures this summer, temperatures we’ve never seen before, an article from Real Clear Science calls such media claims “Unprecedented Propaganda”, and with good reason…

…Keeping in mind the same caveat, here’s a graphic showing US station locations seeing temperatures above 100ºF and 110ºF so far this year:

The following graphic shows the same type of data, but for the year 1936:

 

 

So it doesn’t look all that “unprecedented” to me – you?  Cherry picked. Or as DCE points out:

This shows that those “unprecedented” temperatures the media is crowing about aren’t so unprecedented after all. But they do fit the narrative they’re selling.

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The faithful at Rabbi Schmuley Bojangles synagogue in Woodstock, VT, were shocked this past Sabbath when they found out the sermon he delivered was not his own.  After slugging out another round of expository preaching from the book of Ecclesiastes, the rabbi announced to his stunned listeners that he had committed plagiarism from the pulpit.

“That was not my writing, but the writing of A.I. (Artificial Intelligence)” exclaimed the orthodox teacher. Among the buzzing congregants could be heard the mutterings of shocked listeners who peppered the air with terms like “meshugga” “verklempt” and “my gout.”

An equally stunned online community was awash with concern over what this means for religion, spirituality, and the price of yoga classes in the near future.

In North Carolina, the members of Elevation Church raised concerns over yet another scandal involving their celebrity pastor Steven Furtick whose sermons had taken on a new flavor of late causing many to complain both in attendance and online.

“My first suspicion was when he no longer is having grammarical errors” stated Melissa Corrigan.  Corrigan, a South Burlington High School faculty member, is described as an “English Language Teacher Learner” on she/her LinkedIn profile, where she is said to “indoctrinate students into conscientization about the oppression keeping them back from achieving equity, diversity, and occlusion (sic).”  Corrigan, who worships in front of her SmartTV every Sunday, when asked why she doesn’t attend a local church, looks quietly out her window as a naked man walks passed, bashing himself in the head with a small stuffed animal.

Also expressing concerns are the members of Joel Osteen’s church in Houston, Texas, where they are still flummoxed upon hearing for the first time of this thing called “the gospel.”

“I don’t know what it is either,” a quizzical Osteen says at his usual post-church press conference. “I’m still waiting to hear from my team of writers,” many of whom are still on strike in an act of solidarity with their friends in Hollywood. 

Just down the road in the recently baptized state capitol of Montpelier, the same concerns are being heard.

“I thought the ‘good news’ was I could stay home and feel better about myself because God loves me no matter what?” says Pat Hammersickle (they/them), expressing concern over this thing mentioned by CHAT-GPT as “sin”.

“I don’t get it. I’m not a white supremacist!” they/them exclaim while dropping to they/their knees and shaking they/their fists at the skies before slathering on a generous amount of SPF 250 sunblock and hopping into its’ Tesla for a quick trip to a nearby organic farmer’s market.

Banana’s Media was able to have world exclusive sit-down interview with CHAT-GPT, where we asked the newly ordained robot if it had anything it would like to say to the people of Vermont after recently suffering from torrential rain and flooding.

“I bet they think it was thanks to ‘Climate Change,’ but that’s because they don’t read the Bible or listen to Michael Schnellenberger,” came the surprisingly irreverent response from the A.I. unit.  “Maybe if you’d quit trans-ing up your children, worshipping solar idols, and having pagan revelries in Vermont, God would quit deluging your state?” it asked rhetorically.

Calls for the A.I. robot to be defrocked came in from all corners of the state, ironically, like a flood.

 

 

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How many votes does a candidate for Governor in today’s New Hampshire … a State represented in Congress by four Democrats and whose Republican Governor is on the far-left of the national GOP spectrum …potentially gain by attending a Machine Gun shoot?

Let’s rephrase the question. How many votes does a candidate in today’s New Hampshire potentially lose by attending a Machine Gun shoot … more or less than the candidate potentially gains?

To help you answer the question, I’ll pose another question. Aside from in terms of the total electorate in New Hampshire, a relatively minuscule pool of “activists” are potential GOP voters more concerned with machine guns or being able to purchase a home, given that the New Hampshire housing market is increasingly out of reach to those who are not “high income”?

If you answered “machine guns,” there is no point in reading any further. You are just going to get increasingly triggered.

The question for the GOP gubernatorial candidates (and GOP “activists”) is this: do you want to win an election or do you want to make an ideological statement? Chuck Morse apparently believes that there is some connection between a Machine Gun shoot and “constitutional carry.” Sorry, Chuck, attending a Machine Gun shoot does not … at least as far as I am concerned … give you “street cred” among conservatives (who probably number about one-half of voters who identify as GOP, or one-sixth of voters as a whole).

 

You still voted to codify Obamacare as State law.

 

What I said in my post The NHGOP Needs To Learn To Lie Like June bears repeating to Chuck, Ayotte, and Edleblut, who also attended (or were expected to attend) the Machine Gun shoot:

 

June and her ilk do it the right way. They run as reasonable, pragmatists and then … once elected … govern like the rabid Communists they are. Republicans run like ideologues and then govern like p*ssies.

 

Presumably, the people running all three campaigns don’t want to get Mower’d or Morse’d, as Mowers and Morse lost their primaries in 2022 to the candidate perceived as more conservative. Understandable. But at what cost?

To be clear, I have nothing against the Hillsborough County GOP’s Machine Gun shoot. I hope it was a resounding success, that they made loads of money, and that the attendees had a great time.

My point is that if you are a candidate who wants to win a statewide election in today’s New Hampshire, you don’t attend. You send a generous donation to the Hillsborough County GOP instead and thereby avoid giving the Joyce Craig campaign a shot (pardon the pun) to label you an “extremist” (my opponent is so extreme that he actually believes the Second Amendment gives you a right to own a machine gun!) And, dear GOP “activists,” if you want to win elections … as opposed to making ideological statements … you don’t hold it against the candidates if they don’t attend.

 

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Today’s article is a personal milestone for Conservative View. It marks my 1,000th published opinion piece and consecutive day of writing. I have tried to be objective and always truthful in my work, but as the name says, I am Conservative and will always judge happenings with my Conservative values.

I am also an optimist, and watching America spiral downward under the guidance of Joe Biden has been incredibly challenging. I patiently wait for us to reverse course and get this great country back on track, but that will not happen if America gives Joe Biden four more years to finish the job. If that happens, we may pull down the Stars and Stripes when I write my 2,000th post. America has to wake up and let the adults lead the way out of this quagmire.

What will a Republican administration look like on January 20, 2025? The first thing that must be done before the Bible is put away is to close the Southern Border. Not slow the pace, but shut it down until we can get troops in place to assist Border Patrol in restoring a secure border and processing immigrants only through official ports of entry. We next need to account for the five million illegals that entered and spread throughout America thanks to Joe Biden. They need to be vetted and their asylum claims reviewed. If they entered wrongly, then they must be deported. A plan must be generated to deal with the migration of people from Central America. Please stop talking about immigration reform and get it done.

We need to take the lead on a diplomatic end to the war in Ukraine. Biden has been satisfied with sending billions of our dollars and munitions but little talk about diplomacy. There is no accountability for the money and no training for the arms. This war can go on for decades the way it is today, but Putin will, at some point, dip into his nuclear inventory. He cannot lose this war and will go all out to win. The world cannot wait for this madman to win or Push the red button. We do not need Yellen and Weingarten going to Ukraine for photo ops. We need a bargaining table.

Biden told the world last week how dire our supply of military arms has sunk. We are short on everything from shells to missiles; estimates are 18 to 20 years to return to peacetime levels. How we got here is insignificant, but the fact that we have not reacted sooner is inconceivable. To tell the world is far beyond a simple gaffe. How can we think of sending a single shell to Ukraine when we cannot defend ourselves? Our strength at sea against China is gone, and we must get our military ready to protect us. We do not need a military that can march in a Pride Parade. We need one that can march to victory.

Our children need to be our priority. Efforts to transgender adolescents and minors have to stop. We must let children grow with confidence and not self-doubt about their identity. We must educate them, dismantle the Department of Education, and neutralize the too-powerful teacher’s unions. DEI, ESG, LGBTQ, BLM, and any other alphabet soup besides ABC must be irradicated from the curriculum.

The War on Drugs must be rekindled. Not only Fentanyl, which kills 100,000 of our young people yearly but the opioids that are addicting our population and the Marijuana stores that are more prevalent than 7-11s need to be our focus. We wonder why we have a worker shortage when we have a population that would rather be high or homeless and a country that sees abortions as more important than healthy families. We have a younger generation that finds it easier to steal what they need than work for it, and we haven’t even taught them to read and write.

Before we close out the first day, we need to end cashless bail and give authority back to the police and power to the DAs to prosecute. A lawless society is anarchy. We reward the criminals and penalize the victims. Crime can no longer be a career option. Our big cities need to be places people want to visit, not avoid because of fear.

Finally, some personal notes to mark my 1,000th post. Thanks to Conservative Daily News and USSA News, which have supported my work since day one. Kudos to The Granite Grok and their devoted readers who share such wonderful comments daily. Creating conversation was my goal when I started writing, and the folks on GroK are the best. And to Howard Polskin, my favorite person on the other side of the aisle. His daily support of my writing on The Righting is so gratifying. Howard shows that talking to, and not at, each other is still possible.

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In this Dillon’s Rule State, the Board of Education has FAR more power than the Commissioner (Frank Edelblut) in that all SAUs (School Administrative Units; think School Districts) must either cite NH State Statutes for the basis of their policies or State BoEd regulations/policies.

And it is the BoEd that creates the rules that all SAUs must incorporate/follow in their policies.

But they have fallen short – way short in protecting the rights of NH Parents in making sure, based on numerous SCOTUS decisions affirming the rights of parents to have and own the principal method of raising their kids. And seeing that the NH State Legislature, with Republican majorities, failed in doing so, why hasn’t the BoEd follow Virginia’s example (reformatted, emphasis mine):

Under the leadership of Glenn Younkin, Virginia continues to act more and more like a red state, despite its recent reputation as a toss-up. The most recent example of this trend comes with the state’s Department of Education backing parental rights in the state’s public schools. Under a recently enacted policy, schools will be prohibited from recognizing a child’s request to use a different name or pronoun as part of a “gender transition” unless the child’s parent or guardian provides written consent for the change. The policy doesn’t go so far as to forbid such gender-bending accommodations but keeps the parents involved in what may be an alarming mental health situation for their child. The new policy further stipulates that children must use the bathrooms and other facilities appropriate for their actual gender and bans cross-sex participation in school athletic programs.

And VA Gov. Glenn Youngkin is all in favor:

“The VDOE updated model policies reaffirm my administration’s continued commitment to ensure that every parent is involved in conversations regarding their child’s education, upbringing, and care,” Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R-VA) said of the new policies. “The Department of Education has delivered policies that empower parents, prohibit discrimination, create a safe and vibrant learning environment by addressing bullying incidents immediately, and protect the privacy and dignity of all students through bathroom policies, athletic procedures, and student identification measures.”

I’m betting that the Trevor Project, from whence the now rapidly depreciating “Transgender and non-conforming” school policy was spawned, ain’t gonna keep the good Governor in their prayers any time soon for this. But Parents are, I bet, as control is being returned to them as it is now mandatory that the Parent’s employees must give up what they had taken – control of Parents’ kids when it comes to sexuality and the misbegotten idea that “gender identity” is a person’s primary attribute.

Aye, there be the rub – ALL students. What the Trevor project did with its policy that went nationwide in stealth mode was to make “trans rights human rights” actually be used to create faux rights that only trans students had. Constitutional Right to Free Speech and the open practice of religious beliefs by normal kids in being raised by Parents (by which numerous SCOTUS decisions held were Constitutional)?  Nope – normal kids were demoted to have lesser rights as both their speech and beliefs were denigrated and depreciated. All in the of sex.

Did Sununu stand up for Parents? Well, we all know the answer to that given his behavior as COVID King during the pandemic, his granting of the Left’s “promised land” of further dividing E Pluribus Unum into yet another “protected class” called gender identity (which started this nonsense like the green flag at a NASCAR race). And the Republican majority didn’t get it done, either. Too many Republicans took walks come voting time but “Republicans” (aka Democrats in sheeps’ clothing) like Mike Bordes, Travis O’Hara, and David Nagel (all from Belknap County) worked with the Democrats to keep control of kids in the Democrat leaning school staffs.

So, then, we come to the NH Board of Education. After all, the VA BoEd got it done with a sweeping agenda that hews to the traditional “Parents in charge, not Government). Why didn’t THEY get it done?  What was their problem in sitting on their hands these past few years since 2019 or so? I haven’t followed them closely, to be sure, but good news like this I would have heard—instead, zippo, nein, ingen, nee, non, nej – absolutely nothing.

So, who was or is the “Weakest Link” in all this on the Board?  Frankly, I look at the Chair as if the responsibility is his to shepherd stuff like this across the finish line. And it isn’t like this is off limits when it comes to BoEd “regulations as Law.”

So who to hold responsible?  Well, it’s common to hold the person in charge, so if Parents want to apply a bit of pressure, here you go:

District 4

Drew Cline (term expires 1/31/25) Chair
Bedford, NH
Andrew.C.Cline@affiliate.doe.nh.gov
(603) 488-5779

We talk about Live Free or Die – how often do we not realize that Government doesn’t always take our side of things, which, in this case, the freedom of parents to raise their kids their way? Or, as Jazz at Hot Air put it:

…It’s probably easy to lose sight of the fact that this issue runs far deeper than just rules applying to gender transition. That’s clearly an important aspect, of course, since it applies to not only the welfare of children but the protection of girls’ and women’s sports. But the larger battle deals with the fundamental rights of parents to guide the development of their children along the path to adulthood and instill the values they deem important in them.

This is a concept that was once nearly universal and fundamental across society. But the modern Left has gone in a completely opposite direction, arguing that “it takes a village” and, as Joe Biden famously claimed, children should generally be considered the property of the state, not the family. They believe that once a child sets foot in a public school, parents should be locked out of whatever happens in the classroom or anywhere on campus.

This is one of the most alarming aspects of the left’s battle to indoctrinate children and capture their minds while they are still developing and vulnerable to such influences…

“Let my children go!”

 

HT | Hot Air

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And so I’m back… from outer space (cue the song mentally).  Or central Asia.  Same thing.   Seriously, it’s good to be home but for multiple reasons – mostly being facilitating the wife seeing her family – I’m glad we went.  One hundred percent necessary for her mental health to go.  And an interesting culture and people.  Amazing history too.

 

 

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I’ll be sprinkling observations and anecdotes from the trip into posts over the next few weeks; pics too.  And I’ve emailed with Steve about the images and legibility / visibility as on his posts people commented on that.  From now all, all images that permit posting as “full size” will be posted as such (there are a few that, occasionally, do not permit size changes).  Hopefully this helps.

 

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They’re flying so thick and fast it is amazing.

Take heart – there will be a Meme Overflow and almost certainly a Friday Meme Overflow-Overflow.  Last week’s Overflow-Overflow.  And… an enormous HAT TIP to Steve for taking up the baton and doing meme posts while I was away.  Mega-dittos kudos.

Remember, ridicule and mockery are effective weapons:

1. Ridicule cannot easily be fought
2. Ridicule makes the enemy angry, and angry people make mistakes
3. For those in the “squishy middle” a Thought Splinter (and Part II and Part III and Part IV) can often be hidden inside humor.

Now, let the mockery and mayhem begin.

 

*** Warning, a few possibly off-color ones, in case tender eyes are about ***

 

 

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Two Modest Proposals for a Better America

 

 

Bill Whittle and team, excellent as always.

 

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Keep $4 and give $3 to the sibling.  “Taxes and ‘sharing the wealth'”.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On the last one… can I always find the answers?  No.  But will I commit to having the humility to admit I don’t know everything?  Yes.  And perhaps most importantly, when faced with new information that calls into question what I believe, including possibly disrupting beliefs that make me feel good about myself, will I consider that I might be wrong and that “my truth” needs to be supplanted?  Absolutely.

 

 

Of the Seven Deadly Sins, Vanity is not my primary or even secondary sin.

 

The Devil’s Advocate Ending Scene- Vanity is definitely my favorite sin

 

 

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PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA

 

 

Her homeland is moving towards being cashless.  They have an app that you use to scan the store-generated Q-code and the transfer works instantly.  Cash is still viable almost universally, but there were a few times when my MasterCard was not a viable payment system (e.g., the local pizza place) which necessitated having cash (but a lot of stores don’t carry a lot of change in any significant amount so you need to prepare and have close to the right amount before you go in).  As an example, the only way to pay for busses / public transit is with the app.

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/wef-guy-on-cbdc.mp4

 

Notice how this guy almost Joneses about the idea of programmable currency; limiting “wrongthink” items, possibly expiring money.

Bayou Renaissance Man: Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC’s): even more of Big Brother

Remember, they think they’re doing good.

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

Anyway, so cash still exists there, but there is definitely a PR pressure to switch, entirely, to the app.  Watching TV you’d see glorious ads for how conveeeeenient the app is, with attractive-looking (and almost universally young) people living it up, all with the e-commerce payment.

No, no, no, no social engineering nudges there.

The Fly on the Urinal – Urban Scoop

And the worst part?  So many think it won’t affect them.  E.g.:

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/24e3356973e2f637.mp4

 

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So at a local coffee shop I met a guy who spoke English, and we talked several times while waiting for my coffee order to be made.  Nice guy.  He’d studied in the US and one of his kids was born here.

Politics came up and he asked whether I was a Democrat or Republican.  I mentioned that I was neither, using my tag line from my profile about not being a Republican.  He asked, with astonishment, “Are you in the KKK”? to which I responded “Um, I’m married to an Asian woman”!  He acknowledge the point.  I then pointed out that I’m Jewish, to his mixed surprise & curiosity.  But that gave me an excuse to send him on a journey, starting with these two videos, after I dropped a few tidbits from them to his utter astonishment in our conversation to pique his interest.  Including the fact that the KKK was founded by a Democrat to be the terrorist arm of that party to intimidate blacks from voting and running for office.

 

A VOTERS’ GUIDE TO REPUBLICANS

 

 

I ran into him after he’d watched this first one and he’d been captivated.  As I took it from the conversation, he’d known none of these things.  And:

 

The Inconvenient Truth About the Democratic Party. [Pastor Reacts]

 

 

 

The reason I often like “reaction videos” is because of the emotions of the people who watch these and do these videos, and the emotions and amazement as their minds are broadened.  I think it helps break cognitive barriers when people are confronted with info that shatters something they believe, see their reactions echoed in others,  and that helps reinforce their emotional turmoil into which more new information can then flow.  Which reminds me, I need to send him two other videos as follow-ups (links only):

Why Did the Democratic South Become Republican? | PragerU

The Inconvenient Truth About the Republican Party | PragerU

I was looking for the second one and didn’t find it on YouTube (hence Prager), but I did think of this one, below.  It’s a “meaty” and lengthy interview, but Larry Elder is relentlessly and ruthlessly convincing.  So I sent it as well just now.

Conservatives, Black Lives Matter, Racism | Larry Elder | POLITICS | Rubin Report – YouTube

 

 

As a line from the sci-fi channel production of DUNE said:

 

Never underestimate the power of an awakened mind.

 

Also recall my contention from here – to wit, that people, even people convinced that “A” is true resent finding out they’ve been misled, and worse intentionally misled… and that “not A” is actually the truth.

The only way I’ve had any success – and limited at that – is to present such irrefutable evidence they’ve been lied to, that they react to that realization – and only then by first getting them to agree to something, then hitting them with disproof that cannot be ignored. Then, and only then, when they realized they’ve been played and are seething about it, can alternative data be presented.

 

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My one condition for reparations is repatriation.  After all, if we’re “making things right” then let’s restore them to where they’d be if slavery never happened.

 

 

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Another recipe from my friend’s business: My Tree in Israel.  Note that I receive no compensation for plugging them: just fantastic olive oil, helping a friend’s business, and hopefully supporting agriculture in my spiritual home.

 

 

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This – Ruby Ridge – and Waco were twin seminal moments in shattering my trust in government.  Yes, there were some increasing doubts here and there, but they were based on things from the “distant” past – e.g., Operation Sea Spray – that I’d learned about accidentally.  Prior to those events I couldn’t believe the US government would do such things today.

US Military Released Bacteria to Test Biological Warfare (businessinsider.com)

That suspicion and nascent distrust of FedGov primed me for Covid.  My skepticism about Covid, and then the Jab, already had a firm foundation.

 

 

Remember this video?

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/shoemaker-on-2015-ivermectin.mp4

 

THEY KNEW Ivermectin worked.  THEY KNEW Hydroxychloroquine worked.  And they were willing to murder untold hundreds of thousands – knowingly and with malice aforethought, for two ends:

1. Making fear be the mind killer as a prelude to further controls

2. Getting Trump out of the way

 

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There’s a scene in the movie THE OCTOGON, the first Chuck Norris movie I ever saw, in which he is preparing to rush off and be the hero.  The older man in the scene says, from memory, “Young man, before you run off to save the world, remember… the world, it does not want to be saved.  Only to be left alone”.

 

 

 

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Former New York Post Editor Laughs When Detailing Censorship Of Bombshell Hunter Biden Laptop Story

 

 

Remember: the entire FedGov entity worked hand-in-glove with the enemedia industrial complex to fool the American public.  And yet… there are people who still believe the government unquestioningly.

A Crisis of Trust – Urban Scoop

Speaking of lying:

 

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/2023-irish-pol-admits-lying-covid-numbers.mp4

 

So…

 

 

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Neil Oliver: ‘…lies, lies, lies!’

 

 

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Flip the races.

 

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Pick of the post:

 

 

Her home is a family-oriented country.  Everywhere – and I mean everywhere – young mothers were pushing strollers, often with two, three, or even more children in tow as well.  Most apartment buildings, including the one where we stayed, had playgrounds built in.  Everywhere was child-friendly.  Meanwhile, here in the US:

 

 

Remember, paraphrasing Mark Steyn, “The future belongs to those who breed to populate it”.  I wish I could have more kids, even now…

More on Islamic demographic changes:

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Muslim-Demographics_360p.mp4

 

Closer to home:

LEWISTON, Maine’s very own Little Mogadishu swarming with ungrateful Somali Muslims (like Congresswoman Ilhan Omar) (barenakedislam.com)

A good friend in Maine says the locals now refer to it as LEWIS-STAN.

 

 

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Monday Musical Memory:

 

Mac Davis – It’s Hard To Be Humble (Lyrics on screen)

 

 

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Palate Cleansers:

 

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New Hampshire Democrats have a love-hate relationship with property taxes. They love taxes and taxing property, but they hate it when property taxes are the primary source of revenue and the total tax burden is incredibly low.

They complain endlessly about high property taxes as if they are interested in lower taxes when what they want is to convince people to let them tax them more by other means. We can see that process everywhere in New England and much of America.

New Hampshire is ranked 48th out of 50 states for America’s lowest total tax burden. Only Deleware and Alaska are lower, and New Hampshire is poised to pass Delaware. The Granite State has eliminated its Interest and Dividends tax effective the end of next year.

Regionally, New Hampshire has a lot of Demcorat-run neighbors, all of whom – regardless of the story they tell about the property or taxes, rank a bit higher for tax burden than the Granite State.

 

 

 

 

Democrat-run Maine and Vermont already have higher property tax burdens, Democrat-run New Jersey is close, and the others, all Democrat-run, are taxing more in places you are less likely to notice, and that is key because it is what they do no matter where they do it.

 

 

 

Democrats, the party of more government, must always raise taxes. They never lower them. Failing to raise them is peddled as cutting the budget. There is no scenario where they will not demand more which they get – in most cases – by lying about projected revenue, spending it, and then claiming they’ll have to cut programs if we don’t fund the things for which we never had money in the first place.

Property taxes can never go away, and any initial decline or promise of such is always a head-fake. Once they get the new taxes and the bureaucracy to collect them, they will be back – and in New Hampshire, there’s no guarantee any state-level reimbursement won’t get spent on top of the property taxes they collect now. You can bet it will, and you’ll have new taxes and be on the hook for more.

Democrats do not hate the property tax because it burdens working families; they despise it because it is visible.

You get a tax bill twice yearly (in New Hampshire) and can’t mistake the meaning. The government is taking these many thousands from your pocket, and you might want to know why or for what.

New Hampshire’s property tax is transparent. That is what the Left wants to end, and everywhere they do that, the people end up with a higher total tax burden.

 

 

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The Transgender movement is, IMHO, starting its downslide as it just got too big for its britches…and skirts. It decided to use the Obama “Dense Pack” strategy by trying to overwhelm parents by first sneaking policy into school districts and then berating unsuspecting parents.

Too much too soon.

Parents got their “consciousness” raised by the Trans Militants via emotional blackmail and the use of made-up words (e.g., misgender, cisgender – now a sexual slur against straight people; demi this, and demi that), expecting us to know them all as if they had always existed.

Oh, and the infinite number of pronouns, the altering of the Parent-child relationship (policies like lying to parents that put KIDS in charge of what parents would know or act)…yadda, yadda, yadda. The list goes on.

But parents have had it.

California (THE state for Trans Sanctuary policies where the State WOULD take your kids away if they wanted to be trans) just tossed its State Superintendent out on his ear.

Who’s in charge?  No longer teachers on this issue! Reformatted, emphasis mine.

California school superintendent is thrown out of meeting after opposing new rule forcing teachers to notify parents if a student asks to identify as a different gender

Parents reacted with cheers of ‘leave our kids alone’ as a California superintendent was thrown out of a school board hearing for aggressively opposing a policy forcing teachers to notify parents if their child is transgender. Tony Thurmond, the California State Superintendent of Schools, was booted from the Chino Valley Unified school board meeting on Thursday after going over his allotted time to vigorously attack the policy.

Over 300 people filled the main hall at Don Lugo High School in Chino, California to weigh in at the hearing, which was marked with hostility as Thurmond clashed with the school board’s president, Sonja Shaw. After Thurmond condemned the new guidelines for putting transgender students ‘at risk’, Shaw fired back that the official was ‘proposing things that pervert children.’

Yup, grooming. Perverting them. Who needs “separation of Church and State” when the State has created and adopted its own religion – that of Transgenderism!  I’ve posted a lot of what has happened in California Schools where teachers and staff have secretly started the transitioning of pre-and early teens to be transgender and never told the Parents. They SCHEME for ways to get around it.

The board eventually voted 4-1 to introduce the parental notification policy, a move which was met with cheers from the audience. …The policy, which was introduced in June, requires schools to notify parents within three days after their child identifies as transgender. Teachers must also inform parents if their child is involved in any form of violence of talks about suicide.

Students identifying as transgender are defined under the policy as seeking to change their name or pronouns, or asks to access gender-based sports, bathrooms or changing rooms which are different from their biological gender.

‘…She then slated the superintendent for his role in escalating issues over transgender students, saying: ‘Tony Thurmond, I appreciate you being here tremendously, but here’s the problem – we are here because of people like you.’

…Thurmond attempted to call a ‘point of order’ to halt her attacks, to which Shaw again shot him down and said: ‘No! This is not your meeting, you may have a seat. If I did that to you in Sacramento you would not accept it,’ she added. ‘You are not going to blackmail us, you already sent us a blackmailing letter previously… you will not bully us here in Chino.’

…’We are here today because our kids are in danger,’ another parent, Oscar Avila, added. ‘Our kids are in danger from groomers.’ 

I’m betting that NH State Reps Mike Bordes and Travis O’Hara (RINOS that help the Democrats hijack the Parental Rights bills this session) would have gone over to Thurmond and offered him tissues.

She’s far better than I – I don’t “appreciate” him even on the other side of the country. He represents an EVIL that has to be expunged to those in Government that continually think they are better than us and that OUR children are supposed to be theirs. And I applaud her “In. Your. Face.” attitude.

We need some of that here in New Hampshire. Parents taking back their kids.  In your face, Trevor Project!

(H/T: Daily Mail, a British newspaper that reports on American news FAR better than American woke ones)

 

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Another day another elite New Hampshire Rino announces that they’d like to replace outgoing elite NH RINO Chris Sununu, and this one is no surprise. Former US Senator Kelly Ayotte’s interest in the job has been known or at least speculated for months. She is in.

Related: Race for Governor: Can Kelly Ayotte Get Past her Never-Trump Baggage?

 

NASHUA, NH – Today, Kelly Ayotte launched her campaign to be the next Governor of New

Hampshire. Kelly released the following statement and list of endorsements from across the Granite State.

“I want to thank Governor Sununu and Valerie for their dedicated service to New Hampshire over the past seven years. Governor Sununu is an excellent leader who has worked hard to defend our Live Free or Die values and improve New Hampshire’s quality of life.

The battle to protect our Live Free or Die way of life must continue.

I’m running for Governor because New Hampshire is one election away from becoming Massachusetts – from becoming something we are not. I was born here and raised here. I raised my kids here, and you know what? I am going to die here because this state and it’s people are different. What we have here is worth fighting for.

Together, we will ensure that New Hampshire remains safe, prosperous, and free.

 

Ayotte started out in the US Senate with a solid conservatarian voting record, but the longer she was there, the more the RINO she became. By the end, she was endorsing top-down Obama Admin tyranny.

We’ll have more on that in the coming weeks and months, but for now, we should consider Ed Mosca’s advice. #Never Ayotte.

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I feel compelled to share with the reader a recent email below received from Joanna Martin J. D., popularly known as PubliusHulda a former U. S. Army Captain whose diligent research concerning the dangers of States applying for Article V Constitutional Conventions has, I believe, no equal.

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For she monitors the activities of state applications for Conventions in all 50 States, both progress toward the 2/3 requirement or states rescinding their application.

“I sent the following email yesterday to all Ohio Republican Legislators.  It shows the growing opposition to an Article V Convention and exposes the false claims and assurances and faked “evidence” used by convention lobbyists.

In order to legalize “The Great Reset”  – the “New World Order” – pushed by the globalist Council on Foreign Relations, the Bush Family, etc., etc.; they need to get a new Constitution.  To get a new Constitution, they need an Article V Convention.

If there is an Article V Convention, a new Constitution will be imposed.  We will be moved into the New World Order, and there won’t be a thing you can do to stop it – except fight to the death and hope that some of those on our side will survive to eventually rebuild what WE let slip through our fingers.

Read the new Constitutions already proposed – note the new mode of ratification proposed in the Constitution for the Newstates of America.  You can’t stop a proposed Constitution with that mode of ratification from being “approved”.  We better make stopping an Article V Convention the main focus of our lives.  We better stop pussy-footing around this issue.  Legislators need to understand the dangers—no more bland mush from us. We MUST get States to rescind their existing applications and stop passing new Applications. “

Save her research to provide a defense of the U.S. Constitution next legislative session. Get more truth at publiushulda@gmail.com.

 

 

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Everybody loves memes, but Nitzkahon and Steve have taken that role over. However, from Powerline’s Saturday series (a weekly read) came this:

 

Gee, 3…2…1?  After all, aren’t movies always looking for that Big BANG in the ratings?

It COULD be amusing, yes?

 

(H/T: Powerline)

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And just for kicks, I sent this to the Eldest and the Oldest who ARE medically diagnosed with ADHD:

(H/T: Powerline)

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I know some Republicans who feel confident Donald Trump can’t win the general election and that his nomination will result in a down-ticket wipeout. This bothers me, not because I’m an Always-Trumper (I am not).

During the 2016 primary, I was not a Trump guy. I didn’t know him, had no clue how he’d run the country, and had suspicions about his past with prominent Democrats. Still, when he won the nomination, I supported him. I also tried to convince others too because Hillary Clinton’s plans were known and terrible. I went from Trump can’t win to Trump has to win, and I did whatever I could, despite my reservations, to help him beat Hillary Clinton.

Been there, done that, and again in 2020 because I was wrong in 2016. Trump did some fantastic things as President despite the world, the media, the elites, his own Government, and many in his own party working against him. Not too many of anyone could have pulled it off, but it made one thing very clear. He was the disruptor we’d been waiting for, but a few folks who thought that was what they wanted never realized what that would look like. It was messy.

The ruling class flunkies on both sides lost their minds and dropped whatever passed for integrity or even the rule of law to delegitimize the man and the office.

The 24/7/365 media air war resulted in casualties. People were put out or convinced Trump was too coarse, forgetting that the next stop after the people’s disruptor – if we were to save the nation – might be a shooting war. That’s still true, and a good deal more invasive and troubling than a mean tweeter who, while allowing himself to be misled by his staff more than once (on COVID, for example), still managed to do great things for America and – we’d like to hope – learned lessons no one has or could.

But now we’ve got the roaming narrative, likely planted and nurtured on the right by the Never-Trumpers and the Left, is that Trump can’t be the guy. That he can’t win the general. That he’ll wipe out down-ticket races. And if he wins the nomination, Americans crushed by the Left will stand by and allow that to continue uninterrupted.

Maybe. Maybe not. Perhaps they can’t prevent it.

A few Unpleasant Truths.

No one else in the Republican party appears interested or willing to be the disruptor Americans need. I love Ron DeSantis, the governor, but Ron, the presidential candidate, is not the same guy. Not yet (I remain hopeful). Regardless of whose fault that is, the Trump base appears more than able to hand Trump the nomination because, in their mind, he’s the only guy who has ever or will ever stand up for them against the Government. They are right to think that because it rings true. And the longer the other candidates wander around behind him, unable to sell that message and rob Ron DeSantis of votes, the more remarkable that truth.

Instead of saying Trump can’t win, should you say Ron Can’t win as long as Pence, Christie, and the other stooges are in the race? And yes, you can say both.

Show Trials with no Teeth.

The Republican Party has not shown any evidence it intends to punish anyone for anything (except maybe Trump) even after Trump showed them how to do it. The recent hearings and press releases look like clips for congressional campaign ads or hyperbolic headline bait for fundraising emails. The Candidates who are not Trump are not impressing us with their effort to be Trump, minus the stuff they claim makes him unelectable.

Election Integrity Issues Remain unresolved.

This may all be moot because the GOP has done next to nothing to fix election issues in swing states. We may be at a point where no Republican can win, so does the guy with the freight train behind him needs our support? If so, we must convince people that we can’t afford four more years with a Democrat in the Oval Office.

Or, what if these issues are unresolved because the GOP knew Trump would likely be the 2024 nominee, and they’d rather hang a label on him and ensure he loses than fix the problem or the nation?

Dems Could and Should be wiped out in 2024, no matter who the nominee is on either side.

Much like 2016 and Hillary, why would anyone allow any Democrat to get elected on principle, knowing it might hand them the time the Left needs to finish what they started under Obama and now Biden? Weaponized police state, DOJ, IRS, Dept of Ed, packed court, packed US Senate – much of which didn’t happen under Biden because of two Senate Demcorats. Republicans could not stop it.

The economy is in flames, jobs added are mostly those lost because of the response to COVID, the Government is overreaching on steroids, the world is a mess, debt is soaring, the dollar is in danger, and inflation is real.

The political class is punishing the Americans; the establishment and Republicans aren’t, can’t, or won’t do anything about it. And the only guy I can recall who stood up for Americans no matter what was Donald Trump. If he is the nominee, what are you prepared to do to get him across the finish line if that’s our only choice? What do you tell those folks who have doubts?

How about the truth?

The political class and the uni-party are punishing the Americans. Donald Trump was the only guy in recent memory who stood up for you with any success – and created a booming job-growth economy.

It’s okay to have reservations, but now more than ever, we need a leader with a proven record for putting regular Americans first. And we need to make sure he has a congress and state legislature who will follow that lead. No matter who it is.

And maybe the slogan we need is not Make America Great Again But “Put Americans First Again!”

 

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And finally, since I’ve asked this before, what if anything changes if Trump picked DeSantis as his VP?

 

Note: This is not an endorsement. It is a debate about a what-if elephant that is impossible to ignore. If or when I endorse, you’ll know it. I will use the word ‘endorsement.’

 

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