Monday • December 23 • 2024
Vol.XVI • No.LII
Manchester, N.H.
Republicans in the New Hampshire legislature have a pair of bills working their way through the process that protect parents’ rights. The opposition position states unequivocally that “parents do not have the right to know what is going on with their children in schools.”
The political left is fighting for net-zero transparency. They don’t want to have to explain what they are doing with your kids. It’s the sort of thing they do in a cult, but taxpayer dollars pay for this cult. It is robbing parents to then deny them access to whatever is being stuffed into these children’s heads.
It’s fascist, actually, and while NHGOP Chair Ager has some strong words for the antics of NH Dems, he doesn’t go that far.
Concord, NH – House and Senate Republicans Defend Parents’ Rights in Concord with two Parental Rights bills. New Hampshire Republicans stand firmly with Granite State families and parents and our Republican majorities. Chairman Chris Ager released the following statement:
“Parents have every right to know what their children are being taught, what they’re struggling with – personal or academic.
As a parent and grandparent myself, I find it astonishing that Democrats, teachers unions, and LGBTQ+ activists are opposing this, arguing that parents do not have the right to know what is going on with their children in schools.”
House Bill 10 and Senate Bill 272 would institute a Parental Bill of Rights aimed to codify a parent’s right to raise their children and clarifies that schools are not allowed to withhold information regarding that child’s academic or emotional wellbeing.
The fact that these bills are even necessary and that Democrats and the cultural left would rise in opposition tells you more than you need to know. Dictators, tyrants, and despots steal children from their parents. They program them to be good political party slaves. Sometimes they even have them spy on their guardians. Report them to the politicheskiy rukovoditel; the political officer.
That is the position of New Hampshire Democrats and their allies who oppose transparency and accountability. A precedent that isn’t limited to public education. The goal is to take your money, and they refuse to tell you anything about how they spend it because, in their mind, it belongs to them.
Remember you didn’t build that? It also applies to your children, and we shouldn’t need more laws, but here were are, and here they are opposing them.
Example of Parental rights from HB10.
169-I:4 Parental Rights.
(a) The right to direct the education and care of his or her minor child.
(b) The right to direct the upbringing and the moral or religious training of his or her minor child.
(c) The right to apply to enroll his or her minor child in a public school or, as an alternative to public education, a private school, including a religious school, a home education program, or other available options, as authorized by law.
(d) The right to access and review all school records relating to his or her minor child, pursuant to RSA 189:66, IV.
(e) The right to make health care decisions for his or her minor child, unless otherwise prohibited by law. This right includes decisions pertaining to end-of-life treatments and care for a child with a terminal condition.
(f) The right to be physically present at any health care facility licensed pursuant to RSA 151:2 at which their minor child is receiving hospital care.
(g) The right to access and review all medical records of his or her minor child, unless prohibited by law or if the parent is the subject of an investigation of a crime committed against the minor child and a law enforcement agency or official requests that the information not be released.
(h) The right to consent in writing before a biometric scan of his or her minor child is made, shared, or stored, pursuant to RSA 189:65 and RSA 189:68.
(i) The right to consent in writing before any record of his or her minor child’s blood or deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is created, stored, or shared, except as required by general law or authorized pursuant to a court order.
(j) The right to consent in writing before the state or any of its political subdivisions, including, without limitation, any school board, school district, or school administrative unit; and pursuant also to the provisions of RSA 189:68, III- V, makes a video or voice recording of his or her minor child unless such recording is made during or as part of a court proceeding or is made as part of a forensic interview in a criminal or other investigation by the bureau of child protective services or is to be used solely for the purpose of a safety demonstration, including the maintenance of order and discipline in the common areas of a school or on student transportation vehicles;
(k) The right to be notified promptly if an employee of the state, any of its political subdivisions, any other governmental entity, or any other institution suspects that a criminal offense has been committed against his or her minor child, unless the incident has first been reported to law enforcement or the bureau of child protective services and notifying the parent would impede the investigation.
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We learned that it was a really good day for gun rights, school choice, property rights preservation, and saying NO to things like carbon taxes and green energy schemes. Republicans were truly in the majority today, and we accomplished some very good things!
We learned that the House agreed with the revenue estimates established for the next biennium budget by the Ways and Means Committee. Their plan passed with a resounding YES on OTP by a voice vote.
We learned that the Reconsideration motion for HB498 – The Fish and Game bill that was to require Fish and Game Officers to obtain search warrants when they search someone’s car or boat, failed by 256-117. That bill was voted on the last House session, and there was a motion made to reconsider the vote. That bill still stands as an ITL, and no changes to that part of the fish and game statute will happen. The 4th amendment lost.
We learned that the House passed HB31 (196-176), which repeals the prohibition or sale of blackjacks, slung shots (yes – that is what they are called), and metallic knuckles. A continued ban violates the right to self-defense. Courts have ruled that hand-held weapons like these can be, and are, used in self-defense, so it is unconstitutional to ban them. Seeing as these things can be just as damaging as baseball bats, wrenches, and other similar commonly used items that are not banned or illegal, it made sense to repeal the ban. Of course, Democrats like Rep. David Meuse (D-Portsmouth) are now very worried that horrific things will happen and NH will become a den of unfettered violence.
We learned that it was a good day to protect 2nd amendment rights from the anti-gun crowd. HB32 having to do with possession or discharge of a gun in a safe school zone, died 199-174. HB59 having to do with background checks on commercial firearms sales, and the non-existent “gun show loophole” died 197-175. HB78– repealing the prohibition of our state from enforcing federal statutes, regulations, or Presidential Executive Orders, was killed 200-173. HB106 – relative to extreme risk protection orders (i.e. red flag laws) was killed 198-172. While Democrats whined over the need for Red Flag laws and what other states have put into place, Rep. Terry Roy (R- Deerfield) stated, “You don’t lose your rights because of what you MIGHT do” and “I don’t care what other states do because this is NH.”
We learned that dimethyltryptamine (DMT) will remain on the NH-controlled drug list despite its use for religious reasons. HB216 died with a solid 274-97 vote. House members obviously weren’t thrilled with the prospect of having unintended consequences occur from full-on legalization of this hallucinogenic/psychedelic substance.
We learned that the House passed HB624 (220-152), which would require law enforcement to provide 24 hours’ notice about where and when they will conduct immigration checkpoints. Doing so kind of defeats the purpose of conducting these security measures with regard to illegal immigration and border control, but then again, 4th amendment rights are also to be considered. Again, the 4th amendment lost. We’ll see what the Senate thinks.
We learned that Education Freedom Accounts were under attack but were protected and expanded by the Republican majority. HB367 passed by a slim 187-184. This allows for the qualifying family income threshold to be raised from 300% to 350% of the federal poverty level, allowing for more students to participate in the program. HB440 was passed 191-185, which would add funding of EFA’s to the Education Trust Fund uses. HB464 was passed 192-184, and that bill expands eligibility of certain groups of students regardless of the income of their parents. So kids in foster care, kids with disabilities, kids who are homeless, kids who are bullied in school, and kids with other issues, can now take advantage of the EFA program. It was felt that the most vulnerable students should not be forced to stay in public schools which do not adequately serve them. Of course, Democrats who cater to the teacher’s unions were upset at the passage of these measures, even though this really was “for the children.”
We learned that landlords’ and property owners’ rights were protected by Republicans today. Several bills having to do with limiting what property owners and landlords can and cannot do were killed today. HB112 regarding tenants’ notification of the property sale was ITL’d by a voice vote after the Ought To Pass (OTP) failed 199-175. HB117 was passed 211-157, and that had to do with the termination of tenancy once a lease is up. HB401 was ITL’d after the OTP failed 213-154. That bill dictated when a property owner could renovate or rehabilitate a property that had tenants. It also discouraged renovation or rehabilitation by making it difficult for property owners to do so. HB469 died by voice vote after the OTP motion failed 206-165. That bill would have forced property owners to take Section 8 tenants.
We learned that HB154 passed 192-180, and this bill changes the manner in which public health ordinances are locally adopted. It simply requires majority approval of any new public health ordinance by the town legislative body. So for instance, if a mask mandate is adopted by the state, and ergo their appointed town health officers, a municipality can choose not to adopt it. Funny thing was that in this instance, the Democrats became quite concerned about government “overreach.” That is weird since that never seemed to bother them before.
We learned that Democrats wanted to ban gasoline-powered vehicles in NH with their vote on HB92 requiring the adoption of “innovative” vehicle emissions standards pursuant to section 177 of the federal Clean Air Act. Luckily, the Republican majority killed that with a vote of 194-171 and ended up ITL’ing the whole mess after the OTP (minus the failed amendment) ran out of gas and failed 331-40.
We learned that we had the votes to kill a carbon tax bill, HB372. It would have wasted time with a commission study on carbon pricing mechanisms. The OTP motion on this bill died 188-163, and it subsequently was ITL’d with a voice vote that the speaker determined represented the repeat vote of 188-163. More humor at the end of the day came from our petite Rep. Notter (R-Merrimack) when she delivered her floor speech and declared, “I’ll be short.” Indeed she is, and she was…but what she had to say was spot on!
We learned that it was a very long day, and we averaged getting through 3-4 bills in an hour. This is becoming the norm with bills coming to the House floor with no Committee recommendation, endless roll call votes, and House members who, for some reason, enjoy speaking at length when they should probably understand that they are saying really won’t change anyone’s voting position on a bill.
We learned again the importance of showing up and staying in one’s seat until you are told to go eat or until after the third reading when we can go home. Again we are reminded: When Republicans show up, we win.
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On this day in 241 BC, the Romans sank the Carthaginian fleet (Battle of the Aegates Islands), ending the first Punic war, and in 1783 the USS Alliance won the last naval battle of the US Revolutionary War off Cape Canaveral.
British Parliament divides Ireland into two parts in 1920 with the passage of the Home Rule Act. Seventy-seven years later on that same day, and not related in any way, Joss Whedon’s “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” premieres on the WB Television Network.
March 10th is the Festival of Life in the Cracks, pack a lunch day, and the international day of awesomeness. We pay tribute to Harriett Tubman (where’s that twenty-dollar bill with her face on it Barry Obama), middle names, Mario (the one form Ninetend0), landlines, dry shampoo, and ranch dressing. It is also allegedly paper money day, Skirt day, bagpipe day, and girls and women’s aids awareness day.
The Morning Mail
Obscure word of the day
Parapraxis: a small, inadvertent mistake in speech or writing
Quote of the day“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
― Albert Einstein
Spies Like Us
Misc.
The Morning Mail is a selection of content emailed to me by readers, unsolicited newsletters, and other miscellaneous sources. Publication does not imply endorsement or validity of the source or content.
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I met Maya on September 7, 2021, at the Bedford polls while Linda Camarota’s special election was being stolen from her by way of same-day voting, but I digress already. My encounter with her was pleasant, and she gave me the business card that identified her as some GOP staffer.
She was visibly upset at Murphy’s Taproom after the election results became available.
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On November 19, 2021, Chuck Morse voted to sell NH’s state sovereignty to DC despite being aggressively urged not to by the citizenry. He voted with the worst of the senate enemy camp (Rosenwald and D’Allesandro) despite having just heard well-spoken, passionate statements by Senator Giuda and then Gary Daniels. That day in Concord will live in infamy.
Anyway, back to Maya, she became a front-line campaign staffer, along with Rep Sweeney, when Chuck sought higher office. Thank God, General Bolduc beat him in the primary. I would like to credit myself with a small part of that, which absolutely incensed Maya. I stood outside (on public property) for many scheduled Chuck Morse appearances, and Maya would always express her disapproval of my free speech. I even have reason to believe that she was the one who called the Windham police on me outside their high school access road on April 23, 2022. That was when all the Republican delegates had met, but I’m trying to stay on topic here, Maya. Maya’s reactions to my presence (holding a sign criticizing Chuck’s 11/19/21 voting record) have ranged from begging me to stop all the way to outright anger.
Sometime after Chuck lost his primary to General Bolduc, I was told that she was wearing two hats, one being a senate staffer and another whose title escapes me for the moment though the informant expressed concern that it was a conflict of interest (citation needed). On Inauguration Day, I was standing outside Scanlan’s office with a large poster of His Excellency with a piece of tape over his mouth and the word “amen” written on the tape. The caption said, “had the NH9 arrested for peaceful assembly at a public event.”
BTW, the trial for Nurse Terese, one of the NH9, starts on June 28. I said, “hi, Maya,” in a civil manner with a witness present. Her smarmy reply was, “hi Julie, new year, old you.” The witness and I then looked at each other and laughed at the snark in her talk.
Maya recently blocked me from her personal Twitter account, but I understand that any INDIVIDUAL Twittering in a PERSONAL capacity can do that to anyone. Actually, I find this particular situation an amusing badge of honor. But with that said, I have reason to believe that she is responsible for my being blocked from the NH Senate Twitter account. More on that in a moment.
On January 28, the Republican delegates met at the Trump event hosted by Salem High School. Maya, operating in some (citation needed) professional capacity, spotted Nurse Terese and her husband in line waiting to be admitted. Maya was observed loudly saying to Terese something like, “I can’t believe you want to be here with all us RINOs.” She was later observed inside squirming on the aisle floor and in front of the stage with her camera and wearing a dress that most people would not select during an NH winter, if you get my point. I say “squirming” rather than pole dancing because, if asked about it, a possible defense reply might be that she was angling for the perfect photo shot. Whatever.
During a “meeting of the minds” among the Resolve supporters the next day, one participant, whom I will not identify because I hadn’t sought courtesy permission to, expressed concern about “someone’s” behavior at the event the day before. This unidentified person was careful not to mention names, but it was very obvious that Maya was the one being criticized for a variety of subversive and rude behaviors. I leave it up to the readers to make what they want out of that.
This morning while looking for a particular picture that the NH Senate account had previously tweeted, I noticed that I had been blocked. Wow! I should also point out that my reply to one of Tuesdays Women’s Day-themed posts has been removed. For what? Hurting someone’s feelings? Was it because I shared a June 2020 photo of incumbents Sharon, Ruth, and Regina with candidates Denise, Mariellen, and Carla with a caption that said “Team Senate Women (had the last two elections gone correctly)”?
Was it because I insulted the wardrobe of the District 11 incumbent? Was it because I commented that Jeb was wearing His Excellency’s preferred fashion; a baby blue shirt with a brick-red tie? Or was it that I commented on a picture of Jeb writing a postcard to some South Dakota school group with “I hope you said ‘let’s trade governors’?” Oh, oh, oh, I think I know what it was, the 2023 senate team picture! I had commented on that post with a “Melanie’s Century 21 blazer does NOT belong in Gary Daniels’s seat.”
This begs the question of silencing members of the citizenry by social media admins of elected bodies. If any attorneys are reading this, I would like a legal opinion on that for the sake of ALL Live Free or Die Staters. A constitutional scholar has said many times that being polite is NOT a requirement regarding our rights, free speech being one of them.
I have a 91A right-to-know request submitted to find out who the NH Senate Twitter account admin is, and I think it’s Maya. Hopefully, Concord is faster at answering RTKs than Nashua City Hall! We’ll see.
Anyway, back to the original question, who is Maya? I will leave it up to the readers to decide. I don’t want to take credit for any name-calling, but the point of this article is to bring certain FACTUAL occurrences to everyone’s attention and inspire their own creativity.
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There was a time when the census was just a head count. That is no longer the case. The American Community Survey (ACS), sent to about 3.5 million homes every year, is the byproduct of a government that believes it has the right to know all of your personal business.
“Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficent.”
—Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis
If you haven’t already received an ACS, it’s just a matter of time.
A far cry from the traditional census, which is limited to ascertaining the number of persons living in each dwelling, their ages and ethnicities, the ownership of the dwelling and telephone numbers, the ACS contains some of the most detailed and intrusive questions ever put forth in a census questionnaire.
At 28 pages (with an additional 16-page instruction packet), these questions concern matters that the government simply has no business knowing, including questions relating to respondents’ bathing habits, home utility costs, fertility, marital history, work commute, mortgage, and health insurance, among other highly personal and private matters.
For instance, the ACS asks how many persons live in your home, along with their names and detailed information about them such as their relationship to you, marital status, race and their physical, mental and emotional problems, etc. The survey also asks how many bedrooms and bathrooms you have in your house, along with the fuel used to heat your home, the cost of electricity, what type of mortgage you have and monthly mortgage payments, property taxes and so on.
And then the survey drills down even deeper.
The survey demands to know how many days you were sick last year, how many automobiles you own and the number of miles driven, whether you have trouble getting up the stairs, and what time you leave for work every morning, along with highly detailed inquiries about your financial affairs. And the survey demands that you violate the privacy of others by supplying the names and addresses of your friends, relatives and employer.
The questionnaire also demands that you give other information on the people in your home, such as their educational levels, how many years of school were completed, what languages they speak and when they last worked at a job, among other things.
Individuals who receive the ACS must complete it or be subject to monetary penalties.
Although no reports have surfaced of individuals actually being penalized for refusing to answer the survey, the potential fines that can be levied for refusing to participate in the ACS are staggering. For every question not answered, there is a $100 fine. And for every intentionally false response to a question, the fine is $500. Therefore, if a person representing a two-person household refused to fill out any questions or simply answered nonsensically, the total fines could range from upwards of $10,000 and $50,000 for noncompliance.
While some of the ACS’ questions may seem fairly routine, the real danger is in not knowing why the information is needed, how it will be used by the government or with whom it will be shared.
In an age when the government has significant technological resources at its disposal to not only carry out warrantless surveillance on American citizens but also to harvest and mine that data for its own dubious purposes, whether it be crime-mapping or profiling based on whatever criteria the government wants to use to target and segregate the populace, the potential for abuse is grave.
As such, the ACS qualifies as a government program whose purpose, while sold to the public as routine and benign, raises significant constitutional concerns.
The Rutherford Institute has received hundreds of inquiries from individuals who have received the ACS and are not comfortable sharing such private, intimate details with the government or are unsettled by the aggressive tactics utilized by Census Bureau agents seeking to compel responses to ACS questions.
The following Q&A is provided as a resource to those who want to better understand their rights in respect to the ACS.
Q: What kind of questions are contained in the ACS?
A: The ACS contains questions that go far beyond typical census questions about the number of individuals within the household and their age, race, and sex. The survey combines intrusive questions with highly detailed inquiries about your financial affairs. Furthermore, the questionnaire also demands that recipients provide information about their family and other people in their home, such as their educational levels, how many years of school were completed, what languages they speak, when they last worked at a job, and when occupants of your home are away from the house.
Q: How will this information be used?
A: The Census Bureau states that information from this survey is used to assist a wide variety of entities, from federal, state and local governments to private corporations, nonprofit organizations, researchers and public advocacy groups. The Bureau lists 35 different categories of questions on its website and offers an explanation on how the information is to be used. For 12 of those categories, the information is used to assist private corporations. For another 22, the information is used to aid advocacy groups, and in nine of those cases, the Census Bureau states that the responses will be used by advocacy groups to “advocate for policies that benefit their groups,” including advocacy based on age, race, sex, and marital status. Thus, information obtained through the ACS is not simply used to inform government policy in a neutral manner, but is also being provided to private actors for the purpose of promoting corporate and/or political agendas.
One concern raised by the Brookings Institute is the use of ACS information by law enforcement for “crime mapping,” a surveillance tool used to predict crime and preemptively target certain neighborhoods for policing. It is “most effective” when “analysts can see the relationship between various types of criminal incidents (e.g., homicides, drug dealing) and neighborhood characteristics (risk factors such as poverty, population density, and vacant housing), pinpoint where crimes are most likely to occur (hot spots), and focus police resources accordingly.” The Brookings Institute notes that because the ACS provides data every year, rather than every ten years, crime mapping is more effective and cheaper.
Q: Are my responses kept confidential?
A: While the Census Bureau claims that an individual’s information will be kept strictly confidential, it does require a recipient to put their name on the survey, ostensibly for the purpose of asking follow-up questions in the event of missing or incomplete answers. This means your answers could be linked to you even if it is forbidden by law to share your individual responses.
Q: Am I required by law to fully complete the American Community Survey?
A: Federal law makes it mandatory to answer all questions on the ACS. A refusal to answer any question on the ACS or giving an intentionally false answer is a federal offense. The Census Bureau also maintains that responding to the ACS is mandatory and that recipients are legally obligated to answer all questions.
Q: Is there a penalty for refusing to answer American Community Survey questions?
A: The law requiring answers to the ACS also provides that a person who fails to answer “shall be fined not more than $100.” The actual fine for a refusal to complete the ACS could be much greater because a failure to respond to certain ACS questions could be considered a separate offense subject to the $100 fine.
Q: Has the government prosecuted persons for refusing to answer the American Community Survey?
A: While The Rutherford Institute has been made aware of Census Bureau agents engaging in harassing tactics and threatening behavior, to date, we are unaware of the Census Bureau having levied any financial penalties for non-compliance with the ACS. However, a refusal to answer the survey violates the letter of the law and a prosecution might be brought if the government decides to adopt a policy to do so.
Q: How does the Census Bureau typically ensure that people complete the survey?
A: Those who do not answer the ACS risk repeated overtures—by mail, by phone and in person—from Census Bureau employees seeking to compel a response. Typically, the Census Bureau will telephone those who do not respond to the survey and may visit their homes to coerce the targets to respond.
The Census Bureau boasts a 97% response rate to the survey via these methods, but critics argue this constitutes harassment. One recipient who did complete the survey but whose answers were misplaced by the Census Bureau wrote about his experience. First, a Census Bureau employee left a note at his apartment asking him to contact her. When he did, the employee asked him to allow her into his home. When he refused, the employee “turned up twice unannounced at my apartment, demanding entry, and warning me of the fines I would face if I didn’t cooperate.” Only after he filed a complaint with the Census Bureau did the agency realize he had actually completed the survey, thus ending its attempts to enter his home.
Q: Is this an unconstitutional invasion of privacy?
A: There are significant and legitimate questions concerning the authority of the government to require, under threat of prosecution and penalty, that persons answer questions posed by the ACS. The ACS is not part of the enumeration required by Article I of the Constitution, and that constitutional provision only applies to a census for purposes of counting the number of people in each state. As noted, the ACS seeks much more information than the number of persons in a household.
In other contexts, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that citizens have no obligation to answer questions posed by the government and are free to refuse to do so. This same principle could apply to questions posed by ACS agents. However, because the government has not brought a prosecution for a refusal to respond to the ACS, the question of a person’s right to refuse has not yet been decided by a court.
Q: What are my options for objecting to the ACS survey as an intrusion on my Fourth Amendment rights?
A: If you receive notice that you have been targeted to respond to the ACS and you desire to assert your right of privacy, you can voice those objections and your intent not to respond to the ACS by writing a letter to the Census Bureau. The Rutherford Institute has developed a form letter that you may use in standing up against the government’s attempt to force you to disclose personal information.
If you are contacted by Census Bureau employees, either by telephone or in person, demanding your response, you can assert your rights by politely, but firmly, informing the employee that you believe the ACS is an improper invasion of your privacy, that you do not intend to respond and that they should not attempt to contact you again. Be sure to document any interactions you have with Bureau representatives for your own files.
If you believe you are being unduly harassed by a Census Bureau employee, either by telephone or in person, it is in your best interest to carefully document the time, place and manner of the incidents and file a complaint with the U.S. Census Bureau.
Remember, nothing is ever as simple or as straightforward as the government claims.
As I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People and in its fictional counterpart The Erik Blair Diaries, any attempt by the government to encroach upon the citizenry’s privacy rights or establish a system by which the populace can be targeted, tracked and singled out must be met with extreme caution.
While government agents can approach, speak to and even question citizens without violating the Fourth Amendment, Americans should jealously guard what Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis referred to as the constitutional “right to be let alone.”
WC: 2002
Constitutional attorney and author John W. Whitehead is founder and president of The Rutherford Institute. His latest books The Erik Blair Diaries and Battlefield America: The War on the American People are available at www.amazon.com. Whitehead can be contacted at johnw@rutherford.org. Nisha Whitehead is the Executive Director of The Rutherford Institute. Information about The Rutherford Institute is available at www.rutherford.org.
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I don’t follow a lot of sports, there isn’t enough time, or they’ve tripped one too many woke-wire culture-mines and have lost my support. And I never followed women’s competitive powerlifting, but folks do, and that’s great if you are into it, unless it’s in Minnesota.
USA Powerlifting is being forced to include biological men who identify as women in the women’s divisions of their competitions after losing an anti-discrimination lawsuit last week.
A Minnesota state court ruled the organization must revise its policy within two weeks and allow trans-identifying men to compete in the women’s categories, per Fox News. They are being called to “cease and desist from all unfair discriminatory practices,” which in this case means limiting inclusion based on gender identity.
Forget jokes about the Soviet-Era East German “women’s” swim team. We’re talking about actual men who power lift competing as women. Men who are middling athletes at best compared to the gods of the sport. But as women, they have an opportunity to excel and simultaneously kill any enthusiasm among biological women to join the sport.
Any competitive sport requires a considerable investment in time and often money to train—years invested in the idea that if you become your best, you might be the best. If you’re a woman in Minnesota, you have to ask yourself if it’s worth the time, and that applies to any sport anywhere the culture has kneecapped girls and women by allowing men to compete as women.
And here’s where I think Title IX gets tricky. It was meant to provide equal access and opportunity for girls and boys (or men and women) in sports. Does knowing you may have to compete against a biological boy rob you of access or opportunity? Does it dissuade girls thinking about sports from joining, not because they are sexist or bigoted but because the system has imposed a new glass ceiling that will be nearly impossible to break?
The science is clear. Given similar size and training, boys and men have advantages. Even after extensive hormone treatments, those born male have something like a 12% advantage out of the gate, and that number only gets more significant based on other variables.
The Left likes to talk about the pay gap. Maybe they need to start talking about the gender gap they’ve created that treats girls and women in sports like second-class citizens.
For their part, USA Powerlifting isn’t giving up. They don’t believe men should be competing in the women’s category.
“Our position has been aimed at balancing the needs of cis- and transgender women whose capacities differ significantly in purely strength sports,” the organization’s president, Larry Maile, said in a statement.
“We have received a summary judgment decision from the Court finding us liable for discrimination. We respectfully disagree with the Court’s conclusions. We are considering all of our options, including appeal,” Maile continued.
If the case rises to the US Supreme Court, how does that story end? Do the Justices declare Minnesota’s Human Right Act, which prohibits barring men from women’s competitions, out of order?
And does Justice KBJ have to recuse herself?
Prerequisite Southpark Gender Humor;
HT | Daily Wire
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Yep, that’s right. Instead of doing the right things by the right process (e.g., not properly noticing the Budget meetings, not making the proper motions, seconds, and votes on changing line item amounts, trying to circumvent NH’s Right To Know Law) that tainted / despoiled their work (look what happens when you try to cut corners, kiddies) so as to make it unusable, a motion was made to table the Delegation’s budget and just accept the Belknap County Commissioners’ budget.
See above that last line in the image above – the work of Commissioners Peter Spanos, Glen Waring, and Stephen Hodges (all Republicans if I remember correctly) that will take 35% more out of your wallet for County taxes. In this time of financial instability, this is putting Government over taxpayer wellbeing.
Nice to see that Republicans are now starting to be with the Progressives in stating that your money is really theirs’
Belknap County Delegation: Motion made and seconded to table the Delegation’s budget to accept 35.4% percent rise in taxation of the Belknap County Commissioners to accept the 35.4% percent rise in taxation of the Belknap County Commissioners.
Sidenote: Too easy to give up? Or WAY too easy to make a political point against those pointing out errors in trying to make them the fall guys? I’ll go with both. Led by Chair Harry Bean and Travis O’Hara (Republicans).
Voting to raise your taxes because they can’t get the job done:
Voting and showing that they care more about your wallets than the wants of Government:
Motion failed 7-9. I’m amazed at the pique shown by the Republicans that voted for that and punted their responsibilities.
And where did that pique come from? At the sake of repeating myself, this:
A good leader listens and uses persuasion to bring people on board
A bad leader merely berates and scapegoats in coercing them to change.
Guess which one is the operative on in this clip from Monday’s Delegation money with Chair Harry Bean front and center (“Belknap County Delegation Chair Harry Bean calls for working together then stomps on his tongue”):
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Forewarned is forearmed. Thus, this is intended to be a compilation of articles, with my commentary, to try and get like-minded people to grasp what’s coming. Even merely being aware of events in the world will make you better prepared than the hordes of sheeple. Note that these compilations are catch-as-catch can, and presented as is. I make no guarantee of accuracy or complete coverage of the world.
Please follow both me, Nitzakhon, on Gab… as well as my blog host Granite Grok and also on Telegram Tommy Robinson Official plus his Urban Scoop site. And don’t forget posts sometimes get cloned on American Reveille as well, which is a good site to check out in general.
For prep materials, please see:
Survival Sunday – PREP Edition – Granite Grok
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Remember, I’m under a work crunch so this isn’t as comprehensive as I’d like. Hopefully in another week or so I’ll have more time, including time to do MEME posts.
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They’re Telling You It’s Happening! Are You Paying Attention?
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Top of the fold:
Mind-reading AI turns your thoughts into pictures with 80% accuracy | Daily Mail Online
The principle of law, as I understand it, is The Guilty Mind. Well, looking more and more like they can read it and thus dispense with the whole “jury of one’s peers” thing.
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Federal Contracts, Timing and Evidence: Private Equity Deals Impossibly Link Bidens to COVID-19 Before It Ever Existed, How Can That Be? – POLITICAL MOONSHINE
Look at the dates when “Covid 19” was used.
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Oh SH*T, vaccine passports just got VERY real | Redacted with Clayton Morris
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Deep State / Coming Tyranny / WEF / Globalists (broad):
UNESCO Propagates ‘Regulation of the Internet’
In the name of “human rights” – the right of free speech will be quashed. Related:
World Health Organization is Getting Closer to Being Granted Expanded Surveillance Powers
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Aggro-Culture: Farmers’ Protest Brings Brussels’ EU Quarter to a Standstill
Convoys of tractors brought traffic in Brussels to a standstill Friday, as thousands of Belgian farmers protested the Flemish regional government’s plans to limit nitrogen emissions from agriculture.
Some 2,700 tractors rolled into Brussels from the Flanders region, according to police estimates, filling the streets with a cacophony of honks as farmers vented their anger over the planned cuts, which they say threaten to put many of them out of business.
It. Won’t. Do. Anything.
Well, it WILL show others that they’re not alone, but then… you have to be under a rock to not have known that. But the Globalists have a plan, and are advancing relentlessly. So please… protest your way out of this. Vote your way out of this. In the meantime, remember:
Started your “personal accountability list”?
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Biden’s Executive Order Nightmare: Government Will Track Every Dime You Spend :: Gatestone Institute
And the gate is being installed on the already-built pen.
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Protecting Children:
11-Year-Old Shocks School Board, Reads Aloud From Sexually Graphic Book He Got From Middle School | The Daily Wire
“When I rented it out and showed my dad it, the librarian asked if I wanted more and if I wanted a graphic novel version,” he said.
The f*cking graphic novel???? In a middle school library? Vile, vile stuff in those libraries.
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National Security (specifically):
America’s Public Schools Are a Disaster | Power Line (powerlineblog.com)
This dumbing down is intentional. And it’s going to cost us. Big time. More from Bill Whittle:
THE STRUGGLE FOR STUPIDITY
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Bayou Renaissance Man: Just a thought…
Chinese… Russians… Iranians… al Qaeda… who knows who is coming north?
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Reminiscence of the Future… : Larry Nails It. (smoothiex12.blogspot.com)
Real General Staffs salivate at the opportunity to try their technology and fighting doctrines on a real battlefield. It is all about those precious war correlates, performance data and its statistical analysis which allow to constantly update tactical and operational manuals, to shape technical requirements, which, in the end, translate into crucial advantages over the enemy.
An excellent point.
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Powder Keg – Hashtag Media (thehashtag.us)
On Navy readiness. On readiness in general:
Secretary of the Army lists ‘resiliency in the face of climate change’ as a top priority – twitchy.com
FFS. If he truly believes this, he’s an ideologue who has no place in that position. If he doesn’t believe this and is just kissing up, ditto. More:
U.S. Troops Running Out of Arms and Munitions as Biden Keeps Sending More to Ukraine | The Gateway Pundit
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On The Jab (and Covid)
Miami Dolphins cornerback Byron James says covid “vaccines” destroyed his game; “DO NOT take the injections they give you” – DC Clothesline
This is not a nobody saying this.
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Top Harvard Professor Schools ‘Vaccine Fanatics’ on Natural Immunity during Covid Hearing – Slay News
Excellent. This dismissing of natural immunity was one of the reasons I started being extremely skeptical about this whole thing.
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Scientists Raise Alarm as Study Links mRNA Shots to Brain & Heart Damage – Slay News
It was clear from the autopsy that the myocarditis was not caused by natural infection but, instead, by vaccine-induced spike proteins.
This research showed very clearly that the patient’s pathology was caused by the vaccines and not by natural infection.
Increasing evidence of fertility damage as well:
Stillborn in Singapore – Vox Popoli (voxday.net)
My expectation is the latter, and we’ll have confirmation of that as governments start hiding their population and health statistics in a futile attempt to prevent the vaxxed from realizing what has been done to them and their children. I say “futile” because, sooner or later, the reality is going to become obvious to even the most thoroughly brainwashed individuals.
More:
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/naomi-on-male-fertility.mp4
Dr. Naomi Wolf: “So the next generation of little boys doesn’t even have to be vaccinated in order to have their masculinity impaired. But she also found that they were degrading the Leydig cells and the Sertoli cells in the testes, which are literally the factories of masculinity. So literally, we don’t know if these little boys of vaccinated moms are going to turn into men, essentially.”
So here’s what I predict – as I’ve said before
Note that, again, I will not condone such action beforehand, but… were I on the jury, I’d accept “They needed killing” as the defense.
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Inflation:
Overstimulated Demand — How COVID Cash Fueled Inflation
Government stimulus payments during the coronavirus pandemic may have played a larger role than thought in fueling inflation.
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Enemedia:
Widespread public distrust in media baffles mainstream pundits – American Thinker
Utterly clueless.
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Pro-life:
Nothing.
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Know your Leftist / Globalist & Islamic enemy:
Well, aside from pols from both DEMS and REPUKES trying to get the Jab 6 tapes kept under wraps?
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Immigration / Migration:
UK: Student Who Refused to Enter Arranged Marriage Was Stabbed in the Chest With a Metal Spike by Her Uncle and Dumped on Industrial Site in ‘Honour Killing’, Murder Trial Hears
Charming culture. Let’s import them by the metric f*ckton. Another:
SWEDEN: Muslim screaming ‘Allahu Akbar’ stabs 10-year-old Swedish girl in the stomach, who remains in critical condition (barenakedislam.com)
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GERMANY: Senior citizens are being evicted from their Berlin nursing home by a Christian organization to make room for ‘irregular immigrants’ (illegal alien Muslim invaders) (barenakedislam.com)
They want you replaced.
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Chip Roy Calls Out Fellow Republicans: Will They ‘Honor Their Campaign Commitments to Secure the Border?’ (legalinsurrection.com)
Balls. And no, the GOP Elites won’t do diddly that actually affects their contributors’ ability to hire cheap labor.
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Economy at large:
US Bankruptcy Filings Surge at Fastest Pace Since 2009
And certainly more coming.
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Warning: The Next Major Downdraft is Approaching | ZeroHedge
I’m no expert, but this – plus many other things I hear – point to bad news coming. More:
‘Worrisome and Unsustainable’: National Bank Paints Bleak Picture of Belgian Economy
The National Bank of Belgium’s (BNB) annual report has painted an extraordinarily bleak picture of Belgium’s current economic predicament and suggested that the country faces a serious risk of deindustrialisation in the coming months as high energy prices continue to threaten business competitiveness.
The study, published on Wednesday, also highlighted that mortgage affordability has fallen to “historically low levels” across Belgium due to sharp increases in housing prices and mortgage rates. Belgium’s budget deficit — one of the largest in the EU — was deemed both “worrisome and unsustainable”.
That which cannot go on forever, won’t. And it’s international:
Aussies Brace for Even More Mortgage Pain: Interest Rates Could Hit the Highest Level in a Decade Today
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NYC Official Says City is Spending an Estimated $5M a Day on Housing, Feeding Migrants
Given that there are more than 30,000 migrants currently being housed in city taxpayer-funded facilities, that would amount to a daily staggering bill of $10.89 million.
Another tactic in Cloward-Piven.
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Political War
No More Mr. Nice Guy | Frontpage Mag
THIS is how you fight. It’s one reason why I loved, and still love, Trump:
He Fights (townhall.com)
For all his flaws and places where I differ from him (e.g., his ongoing support of the Jab, though even initially he did say it needed to be voluntary – not mandated as the Potato did) – at least he has a set and a scrapper mentality.
New Polls Show Trump Bump, Widening Lead Over DeSantis With GOP Voters
As opposed to the GOP in general:
GOP Senators Twiddle While America Burns (substack.com)
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Top Democrat Reveals ‘Literally Hundreds’ of Congressional Dems Don’t Want Biden as 2024 Nominee
MHO, he’ll be retired. Likely foot-first. Then, from a conversation I had a while ago, I think it’ll be Newsom.
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Schumer Trying to Give DC the Gift of Statehood – Granite Grok
DC and Puerto Rico would give the Left an almost certain lock on the Senate. Related:
Horowitz Video: ‘The Democrats Want a One-Party State’ | Frontpage Mag
Short video. MHO us that, between 2020 and 2022, it’s already too late. TINVOWOOT.
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US Stability (broad catch-all):
Hans von Spakovsky: 10 New Cases of Vote Fraud Again Demonstrate Imperative of Election Security | The Patriot Post
Drip by drop, we lose trust in the institutions we believed in. Until there comes that last straw when we realize the entirety of what we believed in is utterly corrupt. Speaking of:
Fauci’s Net Worth Increased 65% During Pandemic, Probe Finds
“Royalties”. That don’t need to be disclosed.
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Secession Is Inevitable. War to Prevent It Is Optional. | Mises Wire
I’d almost certainly have to move. There are two questions:
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Look at the data: Trump’s trade agenda would increase middle class income – American Thinker
Protectionism cannot be done ham-handed, like Smoot-Hawley did… and utterly wrecked the US economy during the Depression. The single biggest thing that could be done, IMHO, is slash business taxes here in the US, as well as taking a hard look at environmental regulations – not shredding them – but doing cost-benefit looks.
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The Clock Is Ticking for America – Intellectual Takeout
A North Korean’s book. A clarion warning. The author writes:
“[Our country] is producing more and more people who want to destroy the system because they don’t understand it. They don’t appreciate how fragile their freedom is, how precious their system of government, how rare their way of life. And so they entertain fantasies of tearing it down. In some cases, those fantasies are becoming reality.”
Fantasies that will be founded on death:
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World Stability (broad catch-all):
Points for Your Consideration
So the West pushed a false narrative to plant military forces on the Russian border. Add in a criminal money laundering scheme under the Obama/Biden administration, bioweapon laboratories, NATO malfeasance, mix liberally with a healthy dose of media propaganda, fraudulent elections, Presidential impeachments and an apathetic populace to put the world on the precipice of a nuclear world war.
And still people do not care. They accept the propaganda, tolerate the continual money transference to Ukraine with no accountability and watch television.
Meanwhile, Russia grinds forward. And as it does?
The Fall of Bakhmut, Is This the Prelude to the Fall of Ukraine? | The Gateway Pundit
The fall of Bakhmut is a major blow, not just to Ukraine, but to the United States and NATO. This sets the stage for the West doing something desperate while Russia is content to continue to pulverize what is left of the Ukrainian military.
As it does, IMHO, the likelihood of some kind of “rationalizing event” – i.e., false flag – grows to pull NATO into direct conflict. And in reading this, it suddenly hit me… I’ve long believed the Globalists would fake a “Russian” cyberattack on the West. Would they go all out and false-flag an EMP on the West?
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European Antiwar Protests Grow As Fears Of NATO vs Russia Spiral | ZeroHedge
If the anti-war groups gain traction, Russia will win. If they don’t, and pumping money and arms into Ukraine continue and expand, at some point there will not just be one casus belli, but many… and the war will expand.
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12 Days to Armageddon: Iran Poised to Enter the Nuclear Age – PJ Media
The date when Israel is going to try to destroy Iranian nuclear infrastructure is not far off. Prime Minister Netanyahu is not going to listen to Joe Biden despite the threat of an aid cutoff. And with Russian President Vladimir Putin getting closer to Iran, the possibility of a regional war, if not a world war, becomes a frightening prospect.
This will be a flash point, possibly literally, whether you like it or not. And IMHO this cannot stay regional. Related:
Biden Sets Israel on Fire – Tablet Magazine
Betting that Netanyahu will continue to sit on his hands is not a strategy. So, the Obama officials running Biden’s Middle East policy are set on bringing down Bibi. Their instrument is his domestic opposition, galvanized to thwart his proposed judicial reforms.
IMHO, this can only be made sense of by grasping that the Potato Obama/other handlers wants Iran to be a nuclear-power. Whether or not one cares for Israel – I do, obviously – this is NOT a good thing for regional, indeed, world stability. Remember that in Shia Islam the earthly paradise predicted, with the 12th Imam coming back, cannot happen without a world-wide conflagration. To a believing Shiite Muslim, world-wide, cataclysmic war is a feature, not a bug.
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Former NOAA Meteorologist: Natural Cycles Now Steering Our Planet Into An “Extremely Cold Period” (notrickszone.com)
So, at least per this guy, we’re entering a period where the planet’s temperature will fall. Assuming no other changes, that means greater demand for energy use. And now this:
Don’t forget aerosol blocking of sunlight.
So entering into a period where most people will be needing to use more energy to stay warm, the “brains” will be mandating solar and wind – both powered by the sun – even as they work to block that sunlight from hitting earth.
It’s almost like they want to kill us all.
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Specific to energy:
Joe Biden’s “9,000 unused drilling permits” lie – Flopping Aces
There’s nothing they won’t spin.
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WSJ CONFIRMS OUR WARNING: The power grid infrastructure is being deliberately dismantled to collapse America | NC Renegades
14 minute video. I agree. With America gone, the Globalists can run rampant.
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“You Are Killing Us!”: Southern California Gas Seeks 13 Percent Monthly Bill Increase
My electric bill – thanks in part to the heat pump – surpassed $400 a month. And my heating oil delivery this time was close to $500.
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The European energy crisis isn’t over – The Post (unherd.com)
Not by a long shot.
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Big Tech in general:
Ford patents car that can repossess itself and drive back to showroom | New Scientist
OR… if The State says “You’re done with car ownership” or “You’ve exceeded your driving miles for the month” and just takes it over.
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Catch-all miscellaneous:
Nothing.
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No time.
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Please check out my MEME collection. Here’s the last one.
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Health Freedom New Hampshire and Children’s Health Defense New England Chapter teamed up for this presentation on February 18, 2023, at Hope Chapel in Keene, New Hampshire.
From the Event Page: Doctor Madhava Setty will give us a much-needed physician’s reflection on Covid-19, Covid-19 vaccination safety and efficacy, and how we move forward. Independent investigator, John Beaudoin, Sr. plans to walk us through vital records and government data to peel back some of the layers of the last couple years. They have both sifted through data, studies, reports ad infinitum and will report on their conclusions of alleged coercion and fraud.
Part I
Part II
Republished with permission.
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There has been no shortage of video or testimony in which an adult or student steps up in front of a school board or some committee and reads from the books these schools claim are suitable for your kids.
Related: If Keeping “Porn” Out of School and Public Libraries Is Banning Books, Then ….
Local media, which defends the Liberals defending the books and carries their book ban narrative water, cannot include that content in their news coverage or live feeds. It is too explicit for the general public.
But it’s okay for kids; if you object, they call you a fascist book-banning Nazi. For a book that a parent can buy online or at almost any bookseller.
Banned?
Not any more than the absence of a comprehensive list of back-issues of Hustler, Penthouse letters, or any of the thousands of explicit materials (with or without the articles) not banned but conspicuously absent from public school libraries.
The book-banning narrative is a lie and hoax, but sexualizing other people’s children has become a hill to die on for public schools, school boards, Superintendents, democrat politicians, and progressive identity politics groups appropriately referred to as groomers.
Sexualizing children is grooming, so own it.
As for DeSantis, he has been the tip of the spear when it comes to opening up the soft underbelly of this hoax. Florida passed The Stop Woke Act, and as is their practice, the Lfft labeled it book banning, among other things.
Governor DeSantis held a press conference to discuss the Act, which addresses both CRT and the porn books in schools issue) to refute false claims about the legislation and what the law says and does.
The media showed up to live stream and report on this event in hopes of catching Governor DeSantis acting like the fascist book-banning nazi (no doubt). That didn’t happen, but the opening video presented content so explicit that the Television media reportedly cut their live feeds for that portion.
Gov. DeSantis’ press conference on the Book Ban Hoax was being live-streamed on social media and carried live by local news. The stream was CUT because the books (found in schools!) were too explicit. Sensitive Content warning on Twitter.
But liberals insist it’s good for kids? pic.twitter.com/Sk1pnzlYEc
— DeSantis War Room (@DeSantisWarRoom) March 8, 2023
From Real Clear Politics. “The video is so graphic that YouTube does not allow it to play on other websites, …”
This is what you get if you try to share it.
If you want to see it (content warning), you can watch it here, but much of what you’ll find has already been shared on our pages. This link is, however, an excellent resource to share with the confused or misinformed.
As noted above, the media could not share the video presentation live or on tape. They, too, would have to point you to it. It is too explicit.
Does this not prove a point?
If the books these progressives defend are too sexualized and explicit to be shown to the general public, why are they obsessed with exposing children to them? Why do these adults want to sexualize children? And why do they want it so badly that they would lie about book banning and intimidate or lie to parents who have questions or concerns?
The simple answer is that we are right. It is a gender warrior propaganda recruitment camp. Cultural Marxism. They want to sterilize your children and expose them to hormone drugs that could kill them. To trap them in a lifestyle choice they are not old enough to understand, cannot possibly give consent, and from which they may not be able to return.
You are sexualizing them to make them sexless. Or are you grooming them?
Here is the DeSantis press conference if you have the time (absent the above).
De Santis on this being equal to book banning: “It is a hoax and a hoax in service to trying to pollute and sexualize our children.”
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I was embarrassed over the blank stare on Karine Jean-Pierre when asked for the White House comments on the weekend assault on the Police Training facility in Atlanta, Georgia. I was also enraged more than embarrassed.
The Press Secretary responded that she, and the White House, were unaware of the assault. Are you kidding us? Is the White House staff on vacation every weekend like the President? Is there a news blackout at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue from Friday until Monday?
A group of 23 camouflaged and armed assailants threw Molotov cocktails, rocks, and other injury-causing projectiles at police and into the Cop City Compound. The Atlanta Public Safety Training Center, dubbed ‘Cop City’ by its opponents, is a $90 million, 85-acre training space, according to the Atlanta Police Foundation. The facility includes classrooms, a shooting range, a mock city for “burn building” and “urban police” training, and a course for emergency vehicle driver training, according to the city. Officials said the remaining 265 acres of the property, which until 1995 served as the Old Atlanta Prison Farm, will be preserved as “greenspace.” Much of the facility is under construction.
Groups have been protesting the facility since 2021 with the intent to stop the construction. Only 2 of the 23 arrested are Georgia residents. The remainder are from states in the Northeast, Canada, and Europe. The 23 are being arraigned today on charges of Domestic Terrorism. With so many having no ties to Georgia, one can only hope they are all held without bail. If released, these people will flee, never to be seen again.
The attackers claimed to be in the area to attend a music festival and participate in peaceful protests against the Cop City facility. I am not sure I have ever attended a concert in fatigues, tactical armor, and Molotov cocktails in my backpack. This is the story they are sticking with.
The fact that Karine Jean-Pierre was able to disavow any knowledge of the incident is telling and concerning. This gang was an international contingent bent on hurting Police officers and destroying a Police training facility. There is no excuse for the White House staff, including President Biden, to be ignorant of this story. KJP looked foolish and inept to have to plead ignorance to the question. It is concerning why Biden does not show concern for incidents involving Police officers, but, then again, his actions of late domestically support the America Last philosophy many accuse the President of having. Then again, maybe it should be expected now, and the President has yet to visit East Palestine, OH, the scene of the toxic railway spill. Out of touch or apathetic? You be the judge.
There are many reasons why Joe Biden needs to step up his game. He has been absent when he should be front and center with some of these national events. His doctors tell us the President is in perfect health, but only a week later are removing cancer spots from his body. He has yet to announce he is running for re-election and the rumblings are getting louder that he will not. The First Lady had a terrible response when asked to comment on Nikki Haley’s idea of means testing every President over 75 years of age. She called it absurd and would never be discussed. Over 60% polled disagree with the good Doctor Jill. And finally, the heat is being turned up on Hunter Biden and Joe is surely tied to many of Hunter’s sins. The cards are getting stacked against Joe Biden, and maybe he should just call it a day and be satisfied with a one-term Presidency.
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One problem with shining sunlight (the best disinfectant) on things is that those exposed as crooks, cads, liars, or despots make it personal. We’ve had some experience with that, and we’ve discovered what may be the best way to respond.
Double-tap. Hit them again. And again. Keep unloading truths because the odds are good that they will continue to prove you right and provide more of that rhetorical rope by which they’ve figuratively hung themselves.
Tucker Carlson knows this. He’s a multi-platform titan with a rare trait in modern media. He’s willing to lay it out and let you decide what it means. Scoring tens of thousands of hours of Capitol Hill CCTV footage from January 6th was huge, but the more significant win was the sunlight continues to expose.
“We’re Learning Exactly Who the Liars Are…”
So, here’s Tucker, revisiting what we can see compared to what they have said and continue to say…by which we mean the lying.
“WARNING-GRAPHIC FOOTAGE: Fox News host Tucker Carlson fires back at critics who are outraged over his airing previously hidden footage of the January 6 Capitol breach on ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight.”
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From Part 1:
Why? Because these Reps stand on Principle and the Law. They were also were targeted by the Democrat founded, funded, and led Citizens for Belknap PAC.
Citizens for Belknap RINO ReportBehold, all you Republicans and Independents who thought you were “saving Gunstock” – watch what your fealty to a lie (Gunstock never had to be saved but it was a GREAT political stunt on many levels) has brought you – the operative word is “Incompetence“. All the way around. And while I am pointing at Harry Bean, it really is the voters that decided “we will get the government we voted for”.
Indeed you have!
NH State Reps Barbara Comtois and Paul Terry were among those targeted by the CoB PAC (Political Action Committee) that spent 10s of thousands trying to get all Conservative Republicans kicked out of office – and did. Except for these two (and a couple others). As you look at the main table, they are on the far side, upper right hand corner. Barbara is in the middle and she let’s loose on all the things that Harry Bean, as Chair, SHOULD have been doing but failed to do.
Again, to keep in mind
A bad leader berates subordinates
A good leader persuades those not acceding to his wishes.
And this video, we can see Harry Bean (aided by another CoB “selectee” Travis O’Hara) complaining and trying to blame her for pointing out all the things they’ve done wrong. Talk about misogynistic behavior (heh!) and “blame-shifting”. Take responsibility much, boys?
Sidenote: talk about bad representation. Why, Travis O’Hara, are you not showing up at the State House to do the jobs you were elected for? Yes, another tip came in. Another post is coming your way.
And as you saw in Part 1, my Right To Know showed that Bean and Schakett were not telling the truth when they said that every meeting had been properly noticed. However, it was rather humorous to listen to them because I had done the exact same amount of homework that Comtois had done in scouring the Daily Sun and watching for notices on the Delegation Schedule. Thus, I KNEW they were lying to cover their a$$e$.
And here’s the relevant parts from RSA 91:A that Comtois quoted from and Bean/O’Hara ran roughshod over
Follow The Law. Except, I guess, when said Law is quoted by a girl (see where I’m going with this?).
And that’s just the first part of the video. It was rather “interesting” to watch NH State Rep ask THE relevant question about who had the Responsibility for making sure that the subcommittee meetings were to be posted. Finger pointing Hilarity ensued as Bean / Schakett / O’Hara tried blaming each other. So what was the result of all this?
Very telling as again, another little birdie sent this to me (and Harry Bean won’t be able to figure it out) – emphasis mine:
From: Debra A. Shackett <dshackett@belknapcounty.gov>
Sent: Tuesday, March 7, 2023 10:54 AM
To: Barbara Comtois <bcomtois2016@gmail.com>; Charlie St. Clair <bogart8321@icloud.com>; David Huot (dhuot03246@yahoo.com) <dhuot03246@yahoo.com>; dnagel59@yahoo.com; doug.wmstc@metrocast.net; Harry Bean <froggytouttaint@aol.com>; Juliet Harvey-Bolia <jharveybolia@gmail.com>; Matt Coker <mattformeredith@gmail.com>; Mike Bordes <mikebordes@gmail.com>; nikkimc1973@protonmail.com; Paul Terry <revpaul51@verizon.net>; Peter Varney <pvarney@atsnh.com>; rbbmere25@aol.com; Russ Dumais <sundeedumais@metrocast.net>; sayyes2smart@yahoo.com; stbogert@gmail.com; Tom Ploszaj <tom.ploszaj@gmail.com>; Travis O’Hara <travis.oas@gmail.com>
Cc: Glen Waring <gwaring.bcnh@gmail.com>; Peter Spanos <peterjspanos@gmail.com>; Steve Hodges (1steve7301@atlanticbb.net) <1steve7301@atlanticbb.net>
Subject: meetingGood morning,
Because the Budget Review Committee meetings were not publicly posted, the Committee will have to schedule a properly posted meeting to ratify the action taken at the previous meetings. This should be done with enough time remaining in March to properly notice a Delegation meeting to follow through with last night’s agenda.
Once the respective chairmen set the meeting dates/times, you will be notified.
Debra
So, after all the sturm und drang in trying to put Barbara Comtois in a bad light simply because THEY messed up, that THEY screwed up and couldn’t take care of the most basis steps in “The Process”, they finally admitted to it. Methinks my Right To Know, and the answers they HAD to return, had something to do with it.
So, when do the apologies to Barbara Comtois happen? As the saying goes “When do I get my reputation back”?
But WAIT! There’s MORE for this show
From: Debra A. Shackett <dshackett@belknapcounty.gov>
Date: Tue, Mar 7, 2023, 3:55 PM
Subject: Budget Review Committee
To: Debra A. Shackett <dshackett@belknapcounty.gov>The Budget Review Committee will meet on Monday, March 13th at 7:00 pm to ratify action taken at their previous meetings.
Heh! This will be enjoyable. It is clear that they have no idea…shades of that Code of Ethics stunt years ago in Gilford.
You know, WHY is Harry Bean lamenting “why didn’t you help me when I screwed up earlier?”. That answer is simple – because you showed that you are a “Strong Horse” kind of politician. Many people will abandon Principles when it becomes clear that they will keep them from achieving their aim. He saw that the Democrat PAC Citizens For Belknap was out to wipe out as many conservative Republicans in the Delegation as they could. He perceived that they were the “Strong Horse” and decided to get in their wagon (my opinion) because Loyalty to friends that had helped him in the past didn’t matter in the present. His lifeboat only had room for one.
What mattered? Only winning. And staying Loyal to those now under CoB attack that had considered him their friend were no long in his cards – but winning was. This is why he ended up picking fights with those former friends and then was able to blame them for woes (and complained that they wouldn’t talk to him any more – that he told me himself during this past Gilford Old Home Day. Gunstock was such a convenient excuse for him.
Then he decided that wasn’t enough. After all, in the parking lot of the Superior Court, he decided to end ours by insisting, then screaming, that I had called him something that I never did because I don’t swear (well, maybe a “damn” every couple of years; I will admit to that but I immediately apologize. And sometimes I do when quoting someone else that did. I apologize for that, too). He wouldn’t accept that he was wrong – he just wanted to cut ties and declare another set of victimhood.
And now he’s mad that the folks he abandoned to win his race (and continue to get “his” FRM Ponzi scheme money back in some fashion) won’t help him?
So these posts, Harry, are not about revenge. That’s too petty. It IS about consequences from your past and present actions. Decisions have consequences and you are finding out what they are. The LACK of decisions, like proper posting of Public Meetings, also have consequences and from Shackett’s emails, it’s clear you have no clue still.
There are a few adjectives that describe that behavior – but I’ll let him tell you himself. Let’s see if he’s honest enough with himself to admit because the rest of us already know what they are. Will he be willing to share them with his new CoB buddies, too?
Lie down with dogs, don’t be surprised if you wake up with fleas…
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Orson Welles had people jumping out windows in his 1938 radio broadcast of H.G. Wells’ science fiction classic “War of the Worlds” because they feared the Martian invasion was actually occurring.
The historic milieu of 1898, when Wells published his story, may explain its dramatic impact in 1938. Bad news was causing overwrought emotionalism: the Great Depression, Hitler’s international belligerence, and ironically enough the 1937 Hindenburg explosion, which was the first live disaster broadcast . Current events instigated psychic preparation for mass delusion. The radio broadcast hoax provided the precipitating event.
Today, our political leaders are attempting to recreate Wells’ (Orson changed the spelling of his last name to match the author’s) mass delusion of 1938. After allowing the Chinese espionage dirigible to float over most, if not all, of our ICBM missiles, B-52 bomber sites, and military installations, POTUS consults with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Secretaries of Defense, State, and Justice.
According to our Mainstream Media, a collection of the greatest military, strategic and political minds of modern history. Their meeting results in the earth-shattering decision to shoot three more objects over our airspace out of the sky, originally identified as UFOS. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief that the potential Martian invasion or not Chinese attack had been prevented.
In a few days, it becomes clear beyond a reasonable doubt that a hoax, equal to the Great Hoax of 1938, had been perpetrated on the American public. There were no Martians; there were not even any Chinese balloons. The MSM Greatest Cabinet Ever, using our most advanced jet fighters with at least four $400,000 missiles, destroyed one of our own weather balloons and a child’s scientific experiment while the third balloon is unexplained to date. Not surprisingly, our boneheaded leaders are unable to recover the debris.
You cannot make this insanity up.
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What do Barbie, Amerigo Vespucci, Joe Franklin, Crab Meat, Paddlefish, false teeth, and dishwashers have in common? March 9th is their Day!
It’s also national meatball day and National Get Over It Day. For example, Tucker Carlson is showing America the J6 Capitol Hill CCTV video, so get over it, you meatball.
On this day in 1776, Adam Smith published the influential economics book “The Wealth of Nations.” The Russian Bolshevik Party became the Communist Party in 1918. And in 1961, Soviet flight Sputnik 9 carried and returned from orbit a dog named Chernushka (Blackie), frogs and a guinea pig.
The Morning Mail
Obscure Word of the Day:
Thalweg – The middle of the chief navigable channel of a waterway that forms the boundary line between states
Quote of the Day:“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves
COVIDIA
No Farms No Food
Leaked J6 Video (Language Warning)
The Morning Mail is a selection of content emailed to me by readers, unsolicited newsletters, and other miscellaneous sources. Publication does not imply endorsement or validity of the source or content.
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What is the most important takeaway from the J6 tapes? If you answered … that the insurrection narrative was a lie, you still really don’t get it. The most important takeaway is that both sides … that is the Republican Party to some extent … were and remain, at a minimum, in on that lie. In other words, obviously NOT every single Republican, but clearly “Republicans” such as LEADER Mitch McConnell and his fellow corporatist/globalist/endless-war/ grifters, were and remain invested in the false insurrection narrative, which has been used by the FBI as a pretext to crack down on America-First Republicanism. The J6 tapes have revealed that Mitch and his ilk are NOT on your side.
And which “Republicans” in New Hampshire are also NOT on your side? Sun-King Chris Sununu and his fellow faux-fiscal conservatives, faux-limited government NHGOP grifters … that’s who. Not a word of contrition, retraction, even qualification for the tweets below. Faux-fiscal-conservative and faux-limited government Sununu and his faux-fiscal-conservative and faux-limited government cronies, sycophants and hangers-on are NOT on your side:
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The political left has never understood that, if you give the government enough power to create “social justice,” you have given it enough power to create despotism. Millions of people around the world have paid with their lives for overlooking that
-Prof. Thomas Sowell ( Barbarians Inside the Gates)
“Social Justice” is really Mob Justice. Just think of the Antifa riots, the BLM riots – both are the extremes of the Mobs but they never say that their actions are to bring riots, they hide under “Social Justice. Social Justice is artificial, capricious, and arbitrary. It also has no bounds. There is no reasoning behind it, no studied approach to it.
Once one applies “Social” as a modifier to “Justice”, there IS no justice – just an ideological mob out to get what it wants. And what it wants is Control. Control of a location, control of a situation, control of actions, control of behaviors…
…control of your thoughts and your freedom.
It’s real name is NOT “Justice”, it is simply Cultural Marxism soon to be turned into Governmental Marxism. And with Biden’s recent executive order that is imposing “equity” (re: not the equality as seen by our Founders but the “equal outcome” demanded by Socialism & Communism), that is where we are headed.
(HT: Cafe Hayek)
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I don’t think this gets said often enough, but oil is a biofuel, and it is one of the best we’ve ever found. Coal is another. Nothing beats nuclear, of course, but that solves the imagined problem, so we can’t use that. What to do, well – Exxon tried algae.
You’ll remember the ads, back before streaming, when cable television was king. Exxon spent tens of millions on ads to appease the Goreons ranting about our dying planet. Exxon invested vast sums in research that would (allegedly) turn algae into some replacement for oil with fewer emissions. What it did was replace money that could have been spent on something useful with nothing.
The end of algae as a substitute for crude oil comes after $350 million and 14 years of commitment. This expenditure was joined by a “green” advertising campaign around the project of at least $60 million, mostly spent between 2017 and 2019. … Exxon has slashed its support for Viridos Inc., a biotech company based in La Jolla, California, that operated as the oil giant’s key technical partner since it began its algae push in 2009. With Exxon funding drying up and difficulty finding other backers, the biotech firm laid off 60% of its staff on Dec. 27, according to Viridos executives.
Exxon has wielded a cleaver to the algae budget ending their commitment to icky goo as a viable alternative fuel.
Is this a good time to remind Exxon and everyone else that oil is biofuel or that CO2 from its use is not ‘warming the planet’ or the rest of it? No, too bad. It’s true. The Goreons are just angry little worker ants with empty, meaningless lives carrying the political ambitions of Marxists to fill their godless vacuum.
And to be fair, there are a growing number of folks who claim to believe in a God that has fallen under the same spell as Exxon – that you can appease these people. Like all their other science, hard, soft, or political, the facts are whatever advances the agenda. Playing along just encourages them.
Stop doing it.
The moment you think you’re close, they change the name and the rules and move the goalposts – none of which apply to them. It’s sort of their tell. You’d think people who make millions being smarter at running a business would notice.
HT | WUWT
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Background:
Well, Monday night was supposed to be THE night that the Belknap County Delegation (made up of all the NH State Representatives from Belknap County) to finalize the Belknap County budget for the next year. The “Biz” items on the Agenda:
NH State Rep. Harry Bean, as Delegation Chair, has the ultimate responsibility for initiating, for over-watch, and for finalizing the process of determining the budget for the entire county. That means that he is responsible for the process for arriving at “The Bottom Line Number” starting with the Belknap County Commissioners’ proposed budget and ending up with that Bottom Line Number.
That Number determines how many dollars are going to get grabbed out of our wallets as one part of the four parts of our property taxes
Of prime importance to taxpayers is that unless the Delegation members, under the “leadership” of Harry Bean, do their job right and get a number for THEIR budget by the end of March, the Belknap County Commissioners (Peter Spanos (former NH State Rep), Glen Waring (former Gilford Financial Director), and Stephen Hodges (former Belknap Sheriff) ) proposed budget will go into effect by default. Their budget calls for a total raised by taxation (that’s you and me, boys and girls) will rise a whopping 35.4%.
Thus, keep two three things in mind after reading that last line along with this one: this sordid story of proving that the Peter Principle (that people rise to their level of incompetence) still runs amok here in the County.
Sidenote: YES, I saw SO many things wrong, I can’t contain them in just one post. But I shall talk about them all over some amount of time.
Back to the Agenda. Remember these as you read through (and PLEASE read this post!) as they play a part in this recounting:
Open Meetings. Or rather, the lack thereof by the Delegation for Budget Meetings
My tutorial on the Open Meetings of RSA 91-A is here. However, for this post, it’s more than a bit chopped up to let me quote it and bold the important bits that pertain to the rest of this post. Starting with that if a Public Meeting by a Governmental Body isn’t properly noticed (re: publicized), is it really a public meeting? Emphasis mine
Except in an emergency or when there is a meeting of a legislative committee, a notice of the time and place of each such meeting, including a nonpublic session, shall be posted in 2 appropriate places one of which may be the public body’s Internet website, if such exists, or shall be printed in a newspaper of general circulation in the city or town at least 24 hours, excluding Sundays and legal holidays, prior to such meetings.
So NH State Rep Stephen Bogert, a brand new Rep, was made the subcommittee chair by Chair Harry Bean who, himself, had never chaired a governmental body until this year. However, Harry served a number of years on the Gilford Budget Committee and we ran ALL meetings extremely by the book. Harry should know the “public meeting and notice” drill by heart as he was a part of it for so long.
There were supposed to be meetings during February to prep the Delegation’s budget. When it became the time, after the Nov election, for it to start, I started watching for the notice on the Delegation website (see above). Was there?
Nope:
None in January -just the main Delegation meetings on Jan 10th and 18th. Sure, they jabbered a bit but got nothing done on the budget (what a surprise). But they DID have Budget Committee meetings – I have downloaded the video files that were recorded for 2/1/23, 2/8/23, and 2/15/23 meeting. Mysteriously, they now show up on the main County page schedule for Feb but none for January.
In violation of RSA 91-A. Not, not that they were recorded but that they didn’t tell the Public that they were going to happen. And according to RSA 24:9-D, they had to have to give seven day notices for each of those meetings.
And didn’t.
And here is where the Delegation has gotten themselves into really hot water to the point where they “conveniently” forgot to properly notice that the meetings were to occur on those dates.
During the meeting there was a lot of fingerpointing going on with some of the “CoB” Reps saying that the meetings HAD been noticed, I was waiting for the Public Input to state that they HADN’T been noticed, NH State Rep Barbara Comtois, during the meeting brought up that NONE of the meetings had been PROPERLY noticed (but got a lot of push back for it (re: one of Harry’s “scapegoats” that DOES know more than he does about the process), and then Harry and Debbie Schakett (County Administrator started a back and forth that told me, via word and body language, they both knew that the jig was up and that they had to go into CYA mode about not properly noticing the meetings.
Why? Any results, work, or decisions made during improperly noticed meetings have to be thrown out and thrown away. Everything has to be redone. So this is the SECOND TIME that Harry Bean has decided to “lead” by ignoring the proper laws because “we have to get something done!” even as I and others have told him what he MUST do. Yet he’s well steamed up over others telling him that instead of admitting he was wrong.
I’ve got the video but haven’t had the chance yet to clip out the good bits but here’s the Zoom meeting on the Lakes Region Public Access site: click on Belknap County Delegation 3-6-23. Once I edit / clip out the relevant parts, I’ll either update this post or put up new posts.
Leadership, anyone?
So rather than relying on just what said during meeting, I decided to find out for myself so I did two things:
Pursuant to the Right to Know Law (RSA. 91-A:4 (I) ), I am demanding access, within 5 business days, to the below enumerated governmental records during the period starting December 1, 2022 to March7, 2023 inclusive…This request concerns the proper noticing for any meeting, be it the full Belknap County Delegation or any subcommittee thereof per RSA 91-A:2, II (excerpted, emphasis mine):
I am demanding that the Belknap Delegation / Belknap County Administration provide:
Financial Records
- The expenditure transaction history from any and all General Ledger accounts, during the stated period (above), used to pay for noticing meetings in the Laconia Daily Sun or other media outlets
- Any and all Invoices from the Laconia Daily Sun or other media outlets for such services
- Any and all remittances from the Delegation / Belknap County paying those invoices
Creative / Advertising documents:
- Copies of any and all ads created by the Delegation / Belknap County for placement in those media outlets
- If the above is not provided, and emails / voice mails / other correspondence by the Delegation / Belknap County outlining the information for such noticing to be used by the media outlets for their ad creation.
So here is what Deb Schakett send to me for the “creatives” (think ads/notices):
Note the bottom line with the 35.4% rise in taxation that the Commissioners think is appropriate for Belknap County residents to fork over. But the notice IS for the 12/12/23 meeting. And if the Delegation doesn’t get its act together NOW, it will be THEM that are responsible for it and Spanos will be grinning ear to ear that he pulled a fast one over Harry Bean and the other CoB endorsed Reps (remember, the “scapegoats” are all people that the CoB were going after to get rid of them).
And the next one
So that was what Schakett sent. Note that NEITHER OF THEM cover any of the subcommittee meetings (just one Delegation meeting to talk about the process – and they didn’t really get anything accomplished during that meeting either).
Here’s the Purchase Orders from the County and the Invoices from the Daily Sun:
asdfBelknap County Deb Schakett Daily Sun Invoice PO Scans_20230307_130428
And the two ads sent to me by the Daily Sun:
The dates by the Daily Sun were 12/29/2022 and 2/22/23 for placement.
Look at all that time WASTED! Nothing in November, nothing in December, and only unnoticed meetings during February. And STILL no budget ready.
Way to go, Harry & Company!
So, what’s the upshot of all this:
Oh, and there’s more coming! I originally wasn’t going to go to the meeting, but something that TMEW said to me that told me “Go”, so I did. But this post is long, once again.
To Be Continued…
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Chuck Schumer exposed himself and the entire cabal of members of Congress who staged the January 6th lie on prime-time TV. When he threw his temper tantrum on the floor of the Senate on Tuesday, he built a case against him for crimes against the American people.
The January 6th Committee showed hours of footage of the protestors entering the Capital. Those images told a horrid story showing windows and doors smashed in to allow access to the Capital’s interior, where they damaged property and disrespected the core of our government.
Unfortunately, the Committee chose the video segments that supported their story that the protestors were a mob creating an insurrection against the United States government in retaliation for a corrupt election in 2020. They kept the remainder of the unseen video under lock and key. As long as the Democrats controlled Congress, their misdeed was safe. The Republicans took control of the House in 2022, and one of the first actions of the new Speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy, was to release over 6,000 hours of video the public had never seen. His office released the stash of recordings to Tucker Carlson of FOX News. After a few weeks of reviewing the many hours of video, Tucker released some of the tapes on Monday night in Prime Time. I guarantee more people watched Tucker than the January 6th Committee hearings. These tapes told a very different story that destroyed the findings of the Committee.
Senator Chuck Schumer took to the Senate floor on Tuesday and threw a Senatorial Temper Tantrum demanding that Tucker Carlson and Kevin McCarthy be charged with treason. Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries sent Rupert Murdoch a letter requesting he censors Fox News hosts. This is the leader of the Senate and the Minority Leader of the House violating the First Amendment and requiring the censoring of the media.
Schumer attempted to place blame on Carlson for perpetuating a lie on the American people and that Kevin McCarthy was complicit. In truth, the disaster here is the egg all over the faces of the Democrats, who have lied and are guilty of suppressing evidence.
Among the lies debunked by Tucker Carlson were Brian Sicknick being murdered by protesters (Tucker showed he was unharmed), Jacob Chansley, aka “The Qanon Shaman” committing sedition (he marched peacefully throughout the Capitol), and Ray Epps being a patriotic whistleblower (he perjured himself before the Committee.)
Showing these tapes cannot be the end of this story. Schumer, Pelosi, and every Senator and Congressperson who went along with the dog and pony show of the January 6th Committee must be questioned, investigated, and possibly charged for violations.
There was much wrong with the protest on January 6th, but it should not be compounded by members of Congress breaking the law to tell a fictitious version of the day. Holding office does not place you above the law, and violating the First Amendment and suppressing evidence are serious crimes and should be treated so.
Tucker Carlson invited Chuck Schumer to appear on his show, but Schumer insists on Tucker and FOXNews apologizing for showing the tapes and admitting they lied to America. As usual, Chuck has the facts wrong, and he should take to the microphone and do exactly what he demanded of FOX. Don’t hold your breath waiting.
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