Monday • December 23 • 2024
Vol.XVI • No.LII
Manchester, N.H.
Concord, NH – The New Hampshire Republican Party congratulates House Republicans for protecting students, gun owners, and the ratepayers of New Hampshire during yesterday’s session in Concord.
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“House Republicans succeeded in expanding access to Education Freedom Accounts to more children in low income families. Education excellence for our children is once again taking top priority” said NHGOP Chairman Chris Ager.
Chairman Ager continued “House Republicans also stopped Democrats from both attacking the Second Amendment and raising energy rates as families struggle to pay bills during these cold winter months.
With a slim majority, House Republicans have done an admirable job of maintaining the New Hampshire Advantage and protecting personal freedom in the Granite State. Well done!”
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Note to the FBI and Big Tech, today is World Day against Cyber Censorship Day. It’s also Glaucoma day, so many won’t see that. It is also Alfred Hitchcock Day and the Aztec New Year, but since it predicted the world’s end in 2012, there’s no point in celebrating that.
It is also Daylight Saving Time for those who must suffer it, so I hope you moved your clocks ahead an hour last night, or you’ll be an hour late for everything today (I know, our smartphones do it for us).
In sixteen-hundred-and-forty-two, Abel Tasman sailed the ocean blue, and became the 1st European to “discover” New Zealand (Tasmania, which he also “discovered,” was eventually named after him). In 1918 Vlad the economic impaler Lenin moved Russia’s revolutionary capital from Petrograd (St. Petersburg) to Moscow. Ghandi began his famous 200-mile protest march against the widely hated British salt tax in 1930. Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In last aired on NBC-TV (1973). And the Church of England ordained 33 female priests (1993).
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Obscure Word of the Day
Suasible – being susceptible to persuasion.
Quote of the Day“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.”
― Jim Henson
Stoopid Gubmint Stuph
B-B-Biden’s B-B-Budget
Misc
Dr. Peter McCullough: “The vaccines install the genetic code through lipid nanoparticles which circulate in the body … directly damaging the heart, damaging blood vessels — causing blood clots.”
.@P_McCulloughMD Explains Why the Jab, Not the Virus, Is Largely Responsible for Uptick in Heart Damage
“The vaccines install the genetic code through lipid nanoparticles which circulate in the body … directly damaging the heart, damaging blood vessels — causing blood clots.”… https://t.co/k9i2JZdYYX pic.twitter.com/Qolgs3fOJw
— The Vigilant Fox (@VigilantFox) March 11, 2023
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Back in the mid-70s there was an infamous XXX cult classic movie released called Debbie Does Dallas. It was hard, no pun intended, not to miss the billboard in front of the Newington NH XXX drive-in on rt 16. This movie was playing there for a long time. And made many returns.
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Minors were not allowed into the drive-in, per state law on adult entertainment, as it should be.
Fast forward to the past five years. With help from the ALA, School library journal, School Board assn., Publishers Weekly, Kirkus reviews, etc. Sexually explicit books have been added to the public library children’s room, public schools, SORA, and the online school library. Parents are none the wiser.
Below are pornographic excerpts from one of the many books available to children in public schools. If you have delicate sensibilities, you’ve been warned, but if your wondering what the fuss is about, read on. When you compare the two, the 70s flick is mild in comparison to the books in NH schools. They both involve teen girls and sexual relationships with older men.
In Tricks, it’s also father’s having sex with daughters. Question is, what possible literary value or message is the school library trying to send to our teenagers?
The defenders of the porn, the Dover School board, are saying they have positive messages and are highly awarded books, yet they cannot possibly be reading them. If they are, these people do not belong anywhere near school children nor deemed reasonable judges when it comes to choosing books.
Currently, there are over 100 books that are similar to Tricks in Dover schools. The author of Tricks, Ellen Hopkins, has 15 books at the high school, equally sexually explicit! Why are parents supporting this? What is the school board trying to teach our children? These are not sex education books. They are explicit instructions beyond anatomy and how babies are made. Many are harmful examples of sex, not real life experiences.
The woke mob has parents in NH believing that there’s nothing to see here or that objections are an attack on the LGBTQ community, which is not true.
They scream “freedom of speech” and yell “bigot” at concerned parents but the fact is that children have no rights until they are 18. Parents are responsible for their children, not teachers, activists, or school boards. Besides, most of the books that contain sexually explicit content are heterosexual.
Look at the Dover list and read them for yourself.
Since when do we permit children to read and see porn? See?
Parents must have the knowledge and option to know what the schools are making available through their libraries online and in classrooms. The firewalls are not working. Getting around firewalls with the Chromebooks is considered a challenge; to access areas the school is supposed to protect them from, but they can access many sites through the browser and the hyperlinks in the SORA app.
The explicit books in schools and children’s sections of the public library send a clear message to children the behavior in these books is acceptable, but children cannot process pornography. Many adults cannot process porn either. Why is this allowed, and to what end are the school boards going to ruin children?
These books are written by ADULTS to groom children. The experiences are adult experiences, not a child’s experiences.
Drug use, alcohol, suicide, self-mutilation and other horrors are in all these books. What happened to D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) and keeping children away from drugs and alcohol? Next, there’ll need S.A.R.E (Sex Abuse Resistance Education).
Through these books, we are telling children drugs are cool; all the sex, rape, and pedophilia are ok!
Many “graphic novels” have sexually explicit images and exploration you would normally find in Penthouse, yet you cannot get a Penthouse at the library, “too graphic,” the librarian said.
Start reading these books through a child’s lens. They glorify sexual behavior and lay it all out with step-by-step instructions at schools through books paid for by our taxes.
The newly anointed review committee in Dover was formed this month without public knowledge. Not one notice went out to citizens to apply for the committee and no minutes on how it was created: no charters or guidelines. Five people were chosen to respond to the challenged books. The clandestine group decided to purchase, with our taxes, 5 more of the challenged books rather than get them free online or through the library download.
No one will answer what will happen to the additional tax-funded porn books? Taxpayers are being punished for bringing books up for the challenge by spending more tax money that will only support authors who groom children! Didn’t see that one coming.
And back to Debbie, does Dallas. Why, after years of protecting children from hypersexualization, is the school board pretending the content is no big deal? They say it’s the overall message, and children need these books to help them navigate life’s challenges. They claim some are sex-ed books; I cannot disagree more; they are sex-ed for adults, the pornography version.
Not too long ago, children were protected from pornography movies/books like DDD, and children could not buy them. So why are these obscene books being forced into schools, onto children, on the taxpayers’ dime, and why is it impossible to get rid of them?
Editors Note: If you would like to get a better sense of the material being added to school libraries, here is link to a video about the content from that was too explicit and the media could not broadcast.
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I’d Like To Thank Jane Fonda for Saying Pro-Life Activists and Politicians Should Be Murdered
You have to hand it to Jane Fonda. She’s not afraid to speak her mind. During a recent appearance on the progressive nag-fest doing business as The View, Fonda suggested murdering pro-life folks to help the pro-abortion cause.
BEHAR: “Besides marching and protesting, what else do you suggest?
JANE FONDA: “MURDER.”
TOMLIN: “What did you say?”
FONDA: “MURDER!”
Is Jane Fonda advocating for the murder of pro-life politicians and activists? pic.twitter.com/bGA7zWOWl0
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) March 10, 2023
So, retroactive abortion, and that makes sense. It fits what we’ve been saying for years. That the defense of abortion by a major political party (democrats) is not about rights or choice unless you mean the government’s right to choose to end life arbitrarily at a whim.
Fonda just sealed the deal. She thinks political opponents on this partisan issue should be murdered to protect the interests of the issue, which includes denying women their right to health care.
Abortion is about devaluing human life in favor of politics.
Thanks, Jane!
Oh, and since the Left’s response here is that she’s joking, how funny is that same scenario if, say, Country Music Star Jason Aldean’s wife Brittany (for example), who enjoys triggering progressives on Twitter, said that you could advance the pro-choice movement by murdering people who supported abortion? Tee-hee, just kidding.
HT | GP
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So I recently received an email from Cornerstone regarding SB 219. From the email:
Senator Keith Murphy has proposed a floor amendment to SB 219 that would require school districts to post the six-figure salaries of diversity professionals and other high-paid administrators before school budget meetings. … Teachers’ unions are fighting to protect New Hampshire’s high-paid DEI bureaucracy by ensuring that Senator Murphy’s bill does not come to the floor. … Now is the time to take a stand and not to let school administrators conceal this information and continue to prioritize “diversity, equity, and inclusion” over the quality of school education.
My question is: WHY THE HELL DON’T WE ALREADY HAVE THIS INFORMATION? Where is the pie chart on DOE’s website showing the public the percentage breakdown of how on average the education dollar is spent? And there should be such a pie-chart for every school district.
DOE should be exposing how much of every education dollar is spent OUTSIDE the classroom … both statewide and for each school district. DOE should be exposing how much of every education dollar is spent on “diversity, equity, and inclusion,” that lovely euphemism for anti-white racism … both statewide and for each school district.
And the NHGOP State Senate and House leadership have equally DROPPED THE BALL. Form special committees, hold hearings, subpoena witnesses, hold press conferences … expose how much “education funding” is being spent on an ever-expanding bureaucracy and on indoctrination.
DO YOUR DAMN JOBS.
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Democrat Debra Altschiller was recently quoted as referring to schooling anywhere but the blessed government-run schools as “sending our students to siloed and unregulated institutions of indoctrination.”
Related: Government Official Debra Altschiller is attempting to censor a Normal citizen? Part 2
Without getting bogged down on the idea that government schools mandating porn in libraries, institutionalizing systemic racism against white students (CRT), the opposition to civics education, forced grooming, or using teachers as mental health professionals (without parental consent) are themselves ‘unregulated silos of indoctrination,’ … what about women’s rights?
Don’t women – in this case, moms – have “choice” rights? I know I’ve heard that somewhere. Or is choice reserved for killing kids before they are old enough to be enrolled in the government schools?
It can’t just be that because the Deb-Meiseter chose to send her kids to private schools.
“What’s reckless is Sen. Altschiller’s slander of the schools that thousands of Granite State parents—including Altschiller herself—choose to educate their children. As she should know from personal experience, private and parochial schools form an important part of the social fabric of communities around the state,” [Jason] Bedrick said.
Altschiller’s children attended elite Phillips Exeter Academy, with $50,000 a year tuition bills, and Berwick Academy, a more affordable $30,000 per year.
Are we to assume Debula is unhappy with the results of her children’s siloed and unregulated indoctrination? Not at all. Her kids were benefactors of a top-shelf education because her family had the money to spend, which means she doesn’t just hate women (moms). She hates poor women.
They aren’t wealthy enough to be qualified to choose education options for their children.
Little Debby is, but the Debatron isn’t going to choose Berwick or Phillips Exeter for your precious darlings. Her choice is the local government school. An institution that spends more on administrative overhead than teachers or education.
This is why public Ed costs are rising faster than atmospheric CO2 while academic results remain flat or in decline. If Berwick or Phillips Exeter asked for more to pay for declining academic output, the Debonator would have exercised her right as a mom to put them in some other unregulated silo of indoctrination.”
And so we are clear (as Vodka, Comrade) that is her right.
It is also your right. But you may not have 30k a year between the Emperador couch cushions to send your precious darling to a private school. That’s where the Education Freedom Account (EFA) she opposes comes in. It allows you to apply a portion of your education property taxes back (the school keeps most of it) toward an unregulated silo of indoctrination of your choice.
The Debster doth not approve -“Let them eat at Public Schools,” she crows—yet another fine example of liberal privilege.
Speaking of which, we have space for one more insult from the Altschitler. She and her party often lament the burden of sky-high property taxes. It’s a false narrative they’ve been running. But it implies that those dollars belong to you. That it is your money.
They leave out that local property taxes are high to pay for administratively top-heavy yet poorly managed, lackluster government school monopolies that account for as much as 70% of that tax bill.
These education property tax dollars are yours, on the one hand, but then they are not. If you want to use them where they can’t be laundered through teachers’ unions into Democrat political campaigns, that’s a no.
EFAs divert resources from reliable Democrat constituencies and their left-wing zombie-making machines (failed public schools).
The Deb-0-rama can’t let that stand, even if it means hating on low-income single women.
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The White House celebrated International Women’s Day by honoring a Trans Woman. Let that sink in. On a day to celebrate women, we cannot find a biological woman to elevate. We see a man who is now a woman to celebrate as better than any woman we could find.
As a Conservative individual who identifies, as I have from birth, as a male, I am disgusted by this whole debate.
There were so many women who were sitting on that stage with the First Lady who deserved to be recognized for their accomplishments. Unfortunately, the First Lady decided to highlight the WOKE version of a woman to honor rather than the real thing. Why is being transgender such an accomplishment? Why do we celebrate and promote these people?
There were eleven women on stage from every corner of the world. Here are notes about a few:
Dr. Zakira Hekmat of Afghanistan had to attend high school secretly in defiance of her country’s hard-line rulers. She became a doctor, working with refugees. She now lives in Turkey.
Brigadier General Bolor Ganbold flew over her military’s top hurdle, becoming the first female general in Mongolia and that country’s first female staff officer assigned to a U.N. peacekeeping operation.
Professor Daniele Darlan was fired from her nation’s top court after she refused to allow changes to the constitution of her country, the Central African Republic, to allow the President to extend his rule. That and other acts earned her the nickname “Woman of Iron.”
These women broke barriers, overcame challenges, and shattered the glass ceiling. But apparently, none accomplished as much as the woman born a man.
These were some notable comments as Twitter World exploded after this event.
“We are not a serious country,” Common Sense Society’s Christopher Bedford responded.
“Why are the Democrats working overtime to push the trans agenda?” news commentator and former congressional nominee Karoline Leavitt asked.
Claremont Institute president Ryan P. Williams tweeted, “The jokes write themselves.”
We understand this Administration’s infatuation with diversity and consider it more important than competency. But no one can explain the adoration for transgender individuals. The President and his team are the tip of this iceberg, as we know the push to promote trans options extends to our elementary schools. This is a problem and needs to be treated as such. Teachers have no place in counseling young children on gender options, and to do so is child abuse.
Here in New Hampshire, legislators are working to protect parents’ right to be told by educators if they become aware of their child asking about or taking steps to reassign their gender. Surprisingly, these laws are meeting opposition, with some wanting to protect teachers over parents. There are also bills to protect trans individuals from abuse and harassment. Abi Maxwell, the mother of a 10-year-old transgender girl, told the crowd that her family moved out of their small town because her daughter was bullied by children and adults alike for her gender.
Think about that last statement. Parents who guide their young children through gender reassignment before they even reach puberty should be charged with abuse. No preteen is ready to make such a decision, and to think that society is celebrating such decisions is sickening. We don’t allow children to drive until 16, vote until 18, or buy alcohol until 21, but we let them decide to change their birth gender at 10. What the heck are we doing? Like our public education, gender counseling is failing our kids and must stop.
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Yesterday … March 9, 2023 … every single GOP State-Senator voted to make Obamacare Medicaid Expansion PERMANENT. These NHGOP State Senators are neither fiscal conservatives nor limited-government … and to the extent that they tell you they are … they are FRAUDS.
These faux-limited-government, faux-fiscal-conservatives State-Senators will tell you that they are keeping the costs of healthcare down because otherwise the hospitals would have to pass on the cost of unreimbursed medical expenses to you and me … which is TOTAL B.S.. It’s the equivalent of all the elites on twitter telling us that, despite being quintupled vaccinated, they’ve caught COVID … BUT it would be so much worse if they hadn’t gotten all those jabs. If Obamacare Medicaid Expansion worked the way Jeb Bradley and his fellow faux-fiscal-conservatives claim … then we would have seen a reduction in the cost of health care when they first passed the program. We did NOT.
These faux-limited-government, faux-fiscal-conservatives act like it’s free money … the federal government is paying for it … Yeah! Again, that is TOTAL B.S. The federal government is BROKE … the federal government is in excess of $30 trillion in debt … you and I and everyone else are paying for this supposed free money via higher debt and higher INFLATION.
Obamacare Medicaid Expansion is NOT intended to be a “hand-up” … it is intended to make able-bodied Americans PERMANENT dependents of the government. That is what your supposed limited-government, fiscally-conservative NHGOP State Senators support. They are FRAUDS … and to the extent they understand the purpose of Medicaid Expansion they are LIARS.
Jeb and his fellow faux-limited-government, faux-fiscal-conservatives are not that much different than the people telling us to ignore what we can see and hear on the J6 tapes and believe, instead, what they tell us to believe … that J6 was a “violent insurrection.” Just ignore that Obamacare Medicaid Expansion adds to the national debt and exacerbates inflation. Just ignore that the intention of Obamacare Medicaid Expansion is to reduce able-bodied Americans to permanent wards of the government. Instead believe what we tell you to believe.
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Last fall, idiot Democrats convinced idiot Credit Card companies (banks) that tracking legal credit card purchases of guns and ammo could reduce mass shootings. That’s their story, and they were sticking to it, but there’s been some backtracking.
Related: Gun Grabbers Convince Credit Card Companies To Help Them Harass Law Abiding Gun Owners
The banks that issue these cards would use merchant codes assigned to firearms and ammunition. The result is a list of cardholders’ names, phone numbers, and addresses (mother’s maiden name, first car, the town you were born in, and million other minutiae) for legally purchased arms and ammunition.
The fear is that, upon request, the banks would cough up that information to Tom, Dick, or Leo in law enforcement that asked, and that’s a legitimate concern, as is the likelihood that the data would be shuffled to the Feds in real-time, creating a live-feed database of whom they’d need to visit in force when the revolution comes.
Gun-grabbing dip-sh!ts like Lizard Warren are happy to perpetuate the lie that this will reduce mass shootings when the majority of gun crime in America occurs where Democrats have passed so-called common sense gun laws. To anyone who believes this is why they want to track legal purchases, there is a Marxist dictatorship in your future for which you will be made to pay (and not just in Rubles, comrade).
Before the Dems begging these banks to impose their tracking system hung up the phone, 23 State AGs responded. They promised to do everything in their power to protect their citizen’s constitutional rights., even though I could see millions of those “citizens” dumping Visa and Mastercard for whatever arises to replace them. Free-Market Capitalism is like that, and yes, the Left is trying to ruin that too.
But some things still work.
Several active interventions by state legislatures later, and VISA Discovered it couldn’t Master the Card code angle if it can’t be used in all states.
“There are bills advancing in several states related to the use of this new code. If passed, the result will be an inconsistency in how this ISO standard could be applied by merchants, issuers, acquirers and networks,” a spokesman for Visa told Bloomberg. “It’s for that reason that we have decided to pause work on the implementation of the firearms-specific MCC.”
The war is not won, but this battle has turned into a trench warfare stalemate. Visa is the world’s largest credit card company. The Empire will not be pleased if they can’t give Dems the gun registry they’re searching for. That won’t stop the Left. The Democrat Socialist mission cannot succeed while a single American they do not control remains armed.
Democrats love guns. You cant get from here to Utopia without firearms, and once we’ve arrived, they’ll need guns to enforce the mandates. Do you think 15-minute cities, bug diets, vaccine mandates, high social credit scores, and the worker’s multi-gendered paradise can continue without guns? People are chaotic creatures, especially when the government is engaged in 24/7/365 brainwashing. The “therapists” will have guns and body armor, and treatment will often include getting a boot in your face.
And Visa could care less if they are picked to help manage the digital currency system that already exists thanks to credit card companies.
Common sense gun laws are those with the sense to ensure only the government has guns. Without gun registries and firearms tracking, you’ll never be the Ash Ketchum of gun grabbers. But Visa wants to be everywhere you want to be, meaning they want you to use their card, so for now, that includes gun stores minus the tracking codes ‘cuz reasons.
For now.
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Millions of people would disagree, but a very vocal core of the political Left is obsessed with creating a world where men take things from women, and if you don’t applaud, you are a bigot.
And it’s not just weird. It is an exception to the rule.
Cultural appropriation is so bad college students have been taught to riot over it.
Racial appropriation is bad (unless you’re Lizard Warren).
Pretending to be a vet (stolen honor) is bad. Pilfering identities is terrible. Identity theft is wrong. And you are not allowed to impersonate elected officials, most licensed professions (doctors, lawyers, etc.), or law enforcement (fraud).
Robbing women of their privacy, scholarships, accolades, jobs, and even their history is GOOD! The contradiction runs so deep that a man pretending to be a woman who takes a trophy, opportunity, career, scholarship, or accolade from a woman is better than a real woman. Men pretending to be women who rape real women are not treated like men who rape women.
If you’re a rapist, the message is clear. The Democrat party is committed to raping women in every way possible. If you happen to be an old-fashioned rapist, claim to be a woman, and the Progressives will lock you up in a building full of them. This makes about as much sense as putting Anthony Weiner in charge of a daycare, or Bill Clinton, a battered women’s shelter -Hey Baby, what’s your name?
The Left organized the Women’s March to protest Donald Trump saying something Joe Biden did (without consent).
This brings us to International Women’s Day, Wednesday, March 8th. Hershey’s honored the day with a man who pretends to be a woman. Dr. Jill Biden handed an award to a man in honor of his pretending to be a woman. And let’s not forget Admiral Levine, who was awarded woman of the year by some liberal mag.
Overall, March 8th is turning out to be a great day for men as the Left honors their insurgency into the world of women. Women whose rights these progressives pretend to represent and defend. An act of fraud for which there has as yet been no punishment.
Tucker had a hilarious opening bit about “International Men in Dresses Day.”
“We got them to make abortion all about men’s bodies!”
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Parents in New Hampshire and across the United States are taking back their most basic rights, seized by school officials, teacher unions and the billion-dollar woke Critical Race Theory/gender ideology industry.
The NH Senate ED Committee just voted to pass parental rights legislation (SB272). Because the vast number of New Hampshire citizens support this bill. The remaining question is whether democratic processes or profiteering totalitarian special interests will prevail.
All reasonable people deeply resent the deliberate injuring of children by profiteering anti-intellectual ideologues within or allied with our public schools.
We greatly resent the deceitful secret sexualizing and mutilating of children, a process initiated by unqualified, uncertified, and untrained public-school radical ideologues unaware that their anti-science cult-like beliefs are being reversed by an array of other countries’ public health agencies, including England, Finland, and Sweden.
Citizens also recognize the allied and the equally anti-intellectual racist philosophic keystone of their beliefs—the same eugenics-grounded racism that produced racially motivated mass murders of the 20th century.
New Hampshire’s significant successes are hopeful models to others currently risking their livelihoods while being socially persecuted for their courage. The purveyors of this evil will come to understand that we will never give up on our children nor surrender the equality of our citizens regardless of their skin color.
I just thought I’d mention it.
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New Hampshire House Rep Jeffrey Greeson (R -Wentworth) had some words and gestures for a local member of the road crew. He seems unhappy with the work and felt the need to “communicate” his disapproval.
Here’s the video.
I reached out to Pastor Greeson, who has an outstanding NHHRA score (98.5%), and Liberty Rating (93 – A), for comment, but he might have been busy getting arrested.
Representative Jeffrey Greeson, 51, a Republican of Wentworth, was arrested Friday and charged with disorderly conduct, criminal threatening, and simple assault, New Hampshire State Police said in a statement. He was released on personal recognizance and is due back in court on May 18.
The plow driver, Wentworth Highway Road Agent Paul Manson, said Greeson was standing in front of his truck in the middle of the road and yelling at him while he was out plowing the towns’ streets as a storm dropped nearly a foot of snow in the area on Saturday. Wentworth is a rural town about 15 miles northwest of Plymouth, N.H.
Manson said he got out of his truck to talk to Greeson, whom he did not know, and brought his phone to record the interaction. Manson shared the video with the Globe.
Greeson is not commenting to any media, so we’ll have to wait for an explanation if he’s got one. I’m not sure what excuse would suffice for this case of road-crew rage. Clearly, he wants the mounting snow off the road and not in his driveway. Did he need to be somewhere? Does that justify the behavior? Nope.
And yes, I suspect Democrats will be calling for his resignation. The loss of even one vote in the thin Republican majority for the rest of the session is a big deal. Any offense will be grounds for a PR campaign to oust a Republican.
They will probably be relentless.
And while there’s no excuse for the behavior that I can see, is it an offense that rises to the level of leaving public office? He is accused of assault for touching the plow driver’s camera and, presumably, the driver.
We know at least two assault reps on the Democrat side who stayed in office and kept pushing the Democrat rock. Katherine Rogers and Deb Altschiller.
There’s also a sitting NH Congresscritter, Ann Kuster, who grabbed a camera out of someone’s hands and swore at them a few years back, and we’ve been punished with her repeated re-election ever since.
There is precedent to stay in office, but I think he owes someone an apology.
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In a strange twist of fate (or is it), today is both National COVID-19 day and National Funeral Director and Mortician Recognition Day. A coincidence? I think not!
March 11th is also World Plumbing Day, Worship Tools Day, and National Promposal Day. You can also celebrate Geneology, Debunking, Oatmeal Nut Waffles, Johnny Appleseed, or urban ballroom dancing.
Ismail, I was crowned Shah of Persia in 1502. IN 1985 Mikhail Gorbachev replaced Konstantin Chernenko as Soviet leader (and we all know how that worked out). On March 11, 2011, “a 9.0 magnitude earthquake struck 130 km (80 miles) east of Sendai, Japan, triggering a tsunami killing thousands of people causing the second worst nuclear accident in history at Fukushima nuclear plant.”
IN 2018 China’s National People’s Congress removed term limits for a leader allowing Xi Jinping to be dictator president for life. And two years later, on this day in 2020, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, head of the WHO declared the Wuhan Flu a pandemic.
The Morning Mail
March 11th is Cosmo’s Birthday!
Happy Birthday, Buddy!Obscure Word of the Day
gynarchy – a political system governed by a woman (I know, should have used that on March 8th, right?)
Quote of the Day“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
― Lao Tzu
Covidia
NWO
MISC
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Merrick Garland is the Attorney General of the United States. He is the head of the Justice Department charged with ensuring a safe and law-abiding society in this country.
Merrick Garland was nominated for the United States Supreme Court by Barack Obama in 2016 but was never brought before the Senate for vetting and eventual confirmation. That is good for SCOTUS and the country because Merrick Garland is a liar. He has destroyed his credibility with his many lies to the American people that he should not even be nominated and confirmed for third-shift traffic court. Merrick Garland is a very dishonest man.
The sad thing about the performance of Merrick Garland is that he blends in with the others in this administration. Garland is overshadowed by Biden, Kamala Harris, Mayorkas, Yellen, and Buttigieg. The list goes on of people in this administration that are truth challenged. We expect more from the Attorney General, but Garland has destroyed that expectation. His stories about January 6th, the Southern Border, the weaponizing of the Justice Department against parents challenging school boards, his collusion with the restrictions, and misinformation about COVID are all indications of a lack of morality in this Attorney General.
But when he took to the microphone yesterday to address Tucker Carlson’s release of the March 6th tapes that had been suppressed by the Democrats, his ability to lie to the American people reached a new level of absurdity. He claimed that five Capitol Police Officers died on January 6th while protecting the Capitol, members of Congress, and their staff from the violent protestors who had breached the Capaitol’s line of security. This statement is a bald-faced lie, period.
Five Capitol officers died around the time of the January 6th breach of the Capitol. That part is actual, but here is the rest of the story. Brian Sicknick Died on the January 6, and though it was said he died of injuries inflicted by MAGA hoodlums, he in fact died of a heart attack. Of course, the autopsy results came in long after Officer Sicknick’s body laid in state in the Capitol Rotunda. The other four officers committed suicide and had nothing to do with any activity in the Capitol building. How can the AG lie so easily when the facts are so well known?
The confidence in the government was already low, but the Biden Administration is working hard to lower the bar. From top to bottom, from Biden to Karine, the lies come fast and furious. The work the Republicans are doing legislatively is being overshadowed by the concurrent hearings that are highlighting the biggest failures of Biden’s first two years. It is like a three-ring circus with hearings on Afghanistan, COVID origin, the January 6th oversight, and the manipulation of the media by the FBI. It is difficult to take it all in, and it almost takes your attention away from Biden ignoring the day’s issues. But I am sure Karine will tell us how seriously the President takes all of these issues. He just doesn’t understand them.
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It’s been claimed that: “No power source is more dangerous to life and the environment than burning fossil fuels”. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Such evidence hasn’t been provided.
Would returning to burning wood, peat, dung, whale oil, and animal fat be safer? No.
Honest evaluations consider minuses AND benefits. If we only considered minuses, we would abandon most transportation forms because of their occasional injuries and deaths.
US life expectancy has gone from about 40 years to about about 80 years since oil was discovered. Reliable, cheap, portable energy enabled modern life; improving health, transportation, communications, medicines, education, etc., and improving most people’s lives far above their former bare subsistence level existence.
Constructing wind and solar farms require huge amounts of materials and land, destroying native plants and animals, maybe even whales. Obtaining the materials needed for wind and solar farms will require hundreds of new mines, some dealing, potentially unsafely, with very toxic substances and operated mostly using fossil fuels (https://tinyurl.com/4m628f3p). Operating wind and solar farms destroys millions of birds and bats, eliminating their beneficial impact on the environment. Burning fossil fuels seems far less destructive to the environment.
If climate change advocates actually wanted to reduce human CO2 production they would immediately: abandon costly, unreliable, and environmentally damaging wind and solar systems; quickly transition to generating all electricity via safe, cheap, abundant, reliable nuclear power (eliminating about 25% of human-caused (https://tinyurl.com/2p83yw8f)); and outlaw or prohibitively tax private jet travel…but they don’t. Why?
Climate change advocates created a fake crisis to benefit their own and their rich supporters’ wealth, power, and conveniences (https://tinyurl.com/2p972wer). For that, they willingly sacrifice the well-being of the vast majority of living humans.
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Amazon can be #woke, so it was amusing when it got crap for launching a unique retail experience. Cashless stores were racist or something. But the online giant persisted until recently. Amazon has announced it is closing some of these stores.
The retail giant said it would be permanently shutting down eight of its 29 Amazon Go stores, which are designed for maximum convenience as the shopper can just scan the items as they leave, with no staff required.
Criminals can also conveniently jump over the barrier with no one there to stop them.
Despite the cashier-free system helping Amazon’s bottom line, the company claimed it was closing the outlets because they haven’t met profitability expectations.
Since the BLM summer of love, crime, and punishment have gone their separate ways, at least on the Democrat-run urban plantations. Soros-supported District Attorneys get the blame, but they are little more than a magnifier focusing pre-existing left-wing policy. The middle class is a problem for Marxists. It likes stability, so the Left looks for ways to amplify chaos. Rob them through taxes and regulations and rob them of everything else by whatever means are available.
The plan is working. Chaos is up exponentially. Partisanship and tribalism create more of it. They have or are trying to legalize drugs and prostitution. Letting criminals rob local businesses. No cops to follow up on crimes. It gets unnerving, and refusing to prosecute these crimes establishes chaos as the new standard.
Most of Middle America is watching if they aren’t affected, so they wonder when it will reach their door.
Retailers in cities where the Left has been beta-testing this scheme are trying to hold it together, but even Wal-Mart has bailed on the intolerable BS that is Portland, Oregon. No Wal-Marts in Portland. None.
The official company line is that they are shedding unprofitable locations without mentioning that legal theft is why they are unprofitable. Sure, but the folks truly harmed by these migrations are inner-city residents: higher prices, fewer choices, fewer jobs, a declining dollar, and increased crime.
Democrats are doing this to you deliberately, and it doesn’t end if you do not vote your way out of the co-dependency of one-party Liberal rule. And if you can’t escape the misery they have heaped on you, they have or will have legalized assisted suicide so they can help you kill yourself.
And they say free will, freedom, and free markets are dangerous.
I know, a dark turn considering the title, but if Amazon can’t afford to make it work, who the hell can?
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He thinks that he’s keeping from establishing a “quorum” via doing BCC emails (“Don’t do REPLY ALLs”). Won’t tell us who the “appropriate people” are that gave him the advice information. Problem is that in trying to avoid ONE Right To Know problem, he stepped into another one.
And he’s quite blunt and so sure of himself about it to the point of having in put into the minutes (Heh!).
Once again, NH State Rep Barbara Comtois reads the relevant part of the Law to him, and like with Harry Bean, just tosses it off. Here is the relevant part of RSA 91-A:
Communications outside a meeting, including, but not limited to, sequential communications among members of a public body, shall not be used to circumvent the spirit and purpose of this chapter as expressed in RSA 91-A:1.
So, since he refused to tell us who those people were, I sent this off to him (and Belknap County Chair Harry Bean) yesterday:
—— Original Message ——
From “Skip” <Skip@granitegrok.com>
To steven.bogert@leg.state.nh.us
Cc froggytouttaint@aol.com
Date 3/9/2023 9:54:52 AM
Subject RSA 91-A Demand for any communications or emails sent by or received by NH State Rep Steven BogertGood morning,
Please find attached an RSA 91-A demand for emails that were sent by or received by NH State Rep Steven Bogert with respect to his statement that the use of the BCC feature of emails was approved by “Appropriate People”.
The public has a Right To Know who they are and the construction of that advice.
The clock starts ticking now.
-Skip
Skip Murphy
Founder, co-owner
GraniteGrok.com | Skip@GraniteGrok.com
And the payload of that RTK is this (e.g., sans the boilerplate text)
From RSA 91-A2-a (excerpted, emphasis mine):
Communications outside a meeting, including, but not limited to, sequential communications among members of a public body, shall not be used to circumvent the spirit and purpose of this chapter as expressed in RSA 91-A:1.
The intent of this Clause is to ensure that people in Government (re: elected, appointed, and employees) from circumventing the Right of the People to always know what is being done within their Government and WHO is doing it “by other means”. Especially the “WHO” part.
Thus, this Right To Know demand is a result of NH State Rep. Steven Bogart stating last night that Delegation members use a feature of emails known as Blind Carbon Copy when discussing Delegation matters. This circumvents the “spirit and purpose” of New Hampshire’s Right To Know Law and philosophy as it shields our duly elected participants from accountability for their actions.
This demand is for all communications, including but not limited to any and all emails, during the period stated above, between NH State Rep Steven Bogert and the “Appropriate People” as seen in this video that gave him credence for his email BCC statement in handling official Government Records and materials
- his (or their) official leg.state.nh.us email addresses
- his (or their) Belknap County email addresses
- his (or their) personal email addresses
In a Right To Know, you aren’t allowed to ask questions. Well, you can but RSA 91-A doesn’t mandate that the receiver has to answer them. However, I can ask for any communications (e.g., emails and other) concerning this issue of BCC and Appropriate People as they are related to the performance of his duties as an NH State Rep.
Here’s the video of this past Monday night’s Belknap County Delegation meeting where he talks about his BCC scheme as well as during the March 6th Budget Review subcommittee meeting of which this first time Representative was elected to be the Chair
Clock is now ticking…
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Dear Senators :
I will continue to share information that contradicts what some of you heard during the hearing to fund MTSS-B in our local public schools. SB265. Thank you to the Senators on the committee who voted ITL.
Last night I spoke to a parent in SAU16 whose daughter was receiving counseling in school but whose parents never consented. This is happening more often than you realize.
Today this was posted on social media:
Keene State/BHII managed to avoid IRB approval when gathering mental health PII on students in some of our public schools. I plan to look deeper into this exploitation of children in our public schools by these mental health professionals.
Until this is corrected, I ask that you oppose legislation and funding going toward mental health services in our public schools. Not only is this agenda exposing how parents and children are exploited, there are no independent studies showing that MTSS-B improves behaviors.
As one who works with parents across New Hampshire, I see the opposite impact in our schools. Violence and behavior problems are driving good teachers out of the profession. This has been reported publicly by teachers in districts like Nashua and Keene. Students in Keene post on Instagram the numerous fights that take place in the restrooms. How is MTSS-B working? Take a look at this.
We have children who are in desperate need of mental health services from professionals committed to helping children WITHOUT exploitation. This kind of funding should be re-directed to those services.
The collection of mental health personally identifiable information (PII) started with Plymouth State, then Antioch and now Keene State BHII. This has been going on for years in New Hampshire without any informed consent by parents or guardians. In addition, some school counselors have been meeting with students, without parental consent. This violates Federal Law Every Student Succeeds Act signed by President Obama in 2015.
Protecting student privacy should not be a partisan issue.
Let’s put these valuable resources towards helping the mental health of children where it is truly needed. More importantly, let’s make sure that any expenditure of tax dollars is done in an ethical and lawful way by school officials.
Ann Marie Banfield
North Hampton
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I had sent my previous post to NH GOP Chris Ager and I did get a response back. While he is technically correct, it is still maddening and really bad, Bad, BAD political optics for an NH GOP Officer to rest their endorsement on such a technicality (and yes, I am always running behind and just can’t seem to get caught up). Emphasis is Chris’s:
From “Chris Ager” <chrisager@aol.com>
To “Skip” <Skip@granitegrok.com>
Date 3/5/2023 6:46:55 PM
Subject Re: Heads up if you haven’t been told about this alreadyThanks. I’ve talked to Thad and Melissa Litchfield. The bylaws state “when there is a candidate nominated by the Republican Party for that office“. In this case, town elections are non-partisan and thus no candidates are nominated by the party. My job in upholding the bylaws is not in question in my view. Even if one believes this is a poor decision, it is not a bylaw violation.
I have reminded the e board, however, that we should be supporting Republicans at all times.
I appreciate the heads up.
As always, I have my own opinion(s) so I sent a couple back (emphasis now is mine):
On Sun, Mar 5, 2023 at 8:42 PM, Skip
<Skip@granitegrok.com> wrote:
Hi Chris,Thanks for the reply and I’ll add it in as an update.
That said, it’s a REALLY bad case of political optics. Even with adults, elected officials are role models and this one looks like a loophole that’s being taking advantage of.
Back in the day, I forced Alan Glassman (Belknap Chair at the time), remove Alida Milham as a candidate for the State Committee 2 minutes after announcing she was a candidate after I brought up that she had endorsed TWO Dems over a Republican in a local race.
Methinks that better messaging is needed over this but it’s your call.
-Skip
Glassman was perfectly willing to let Millham slide onto the State Committee if I had not said anything and the fact that she ran both R&D in races for years. How do you square those two sets of Principles (answer: you can’t).
One more response from Chris
From “Chris Ager” <chrisager@aol.com>
To “Skip” <Skip@granitegrok.com>
Date 3/6/2023 2:02:47 AM
Subject Re: Re[2]: Heads up if you haven’t been told about this alreadyThanks. I must follow the rules. Then the voters get to decide.
It is because local races changed from partisan to non-partisan that these hijinks can be carried out by Republicans who would better fit with Democrats but ran as Rs simply because of the times back then when Dems couldn’t win (and in some cases, still can’t but much less so). With this change, and speaking to that last point, it allowed such R actions to happen without consequences. More importantly, this loophole in the Bylaw has, in part, allowed the Democrats to grow their farm league and now we see where Republicans status sits in the State electorally. That’s why Eric Turer (on the right here) is beaming so broadly as the former Brentwood Dem Chair – he pulled a fast one and Riley fell for it:
Oh, as far as the guy in the middle and just to make sure that he’s a Democrat, here’s the Brentwood checklist (partial, reformatted to better fit here but information is untouched):
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Insurance companies have been on the ropes post-COVID response. The wake of the supposed “cure” is dark and littered with an exponential increase in death. Where COVID vaccines proliferate, increases in all-cause mortality follow.
It’s a form of exposure they need to analyze and understand, and the byproduct of that is data that tells unpleasant truths.
Josh Stirling explained to the EPOCH Times what happened when they analyzed the growing pile of data on the numbers of COVID vaccinated and the number of doses for each, compared to all-cause mortality year over year.
What a working vaccine should show and what the data tells insurance companies… and Americans willing to listen.
“If the vaccine is helpful at reducing all-cause mortality, you would see … lower levels or mortality year-over-year because of people who got more vaccine as other places. And you would see an improvement…” Instead when we did that analysis…what you see is … the more doses you have in a region in th united states the bigger increase in mortality that region has had.”
Top Insurance Analyst Finds a 7% Increase In Aggregate Mortality for Each C19 Dose Received
Josh Stirling: “The more doses … you have in a [US] region … the bigger increase in mortality …”
“If you’re over the age of 50, and you took all 5 doses, that’d be a 35% increase.”… https://t.co/kyDSySB3Yx pic.twitter.com/d6e3n1zRk6
— The Vigilant Fox (@VigilantFox) March 5, 2023
The tweet alleges a 7% increase in all-cause mortality per dose, which isn’t a quote from the clip, so I went looking – from the transcript (the entire video is over 40 minutes) – subscription required.
In that case, it’s all just a question of what is the aggregate level of dosing? In which case, if you use the regression line on that data, you end up being able to very clearly draw a conclusion that says the slope of the line is basically how much mortality increase you’re getting from every dose. It’s about a 7 percent increase in aggregate mortality from U.S. data per dose. If you’re over the age of 50 and you took all five doses, that would be a 35 percent increase.
“It’s about a 7 percent increase in aggregate mortality from U.S. data per dose. If you’re over the age of 50 and you took all five doses, that would be a 35 percent increase.”
He’s not making a partisan speculation. These numbers come from a complex industry analysis of data that tells us that the more vaccinated your state, the higher the rate of all-cause mortality year-over-year.
That includes deaths from COVID among the vaccinated, which, based on everything we’ve seen and shared, results from the COVID vaccines making people more susceptible to infection and transmission. And as I noted here, there’s no plan to address the public health emergency created by the mRNA vaccines.
There are several mRNA spike protein detox protocols out there, but none are approved or mandated by anyone responsible for this mess, and that’s probably for the best. If they stepped up and said try this, your best bet would likely be to avoid it and consult the FLCCC, Americans’ Frontline Doctors, Doctors Malone McCullough, or others.
HT | Gateway Pundit
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