Saturday • May 18 • 2024
Vol.XVI • No.XX
Manchester, N.H.
Sports can be divisive. Yankees vs. Red Sox. Michigan vs. Ohio State. El Salvador vs. Honduras. What? Yup. These two countries went to war in 1969 after El Salvador beat Honduras 3-2 in a FIFA World Cup (soccer) qualifier.
Then there was that preseason NFL game in San Francisco. After the 49ers hosted the Oakland Raiders, football “fans” got into some parking lot fights, and several people were shot.
But sports can also bring folks together. Like when our USA Olympic ice hockey team beat the Soviets in 1980. That “Miracle on Ice” truly united Americans—from Maine to California to maybe even Hawaii!
A local example of sports bringing people together occurred on June 26 when Loudon Country Club hosted the Legislative Golf Classic. This “scramble” event brought together Republicans, Democrats, libertarians, vegetarians, males, females, friends, relatives, lobbyists, good golfers, bad golfers, young golfers, and older golfers. One participant even celebrated his 90th birthday at LCC.
The golf event was a charity fund-raiser for Manchester’s Liberty House, which supports homeless and transitioning military veterans. I was happy to be on the event planning team as well as on a golf team—the Legislative Beer Caucus Founders.
As a former sports management professor, I know there are many crucial parts to these fundraisers. Numerous people must tend to many aspects, including player/sponsor solicitations, publicity, registrations, goodie bags, signage, raffles, and contest monitoring. Someone must watch the Hole-in-One competition to document a golfer getting an ace worth $20,000. (Before buying clubhouse drinks for all.) And someone must supervise the all-important traveling beer cart and the all-important Beer Cart Girl.
(One may wonder why there are never any Beer Cart Guys. And one can probably figure out why.)
Fortunately, LCC had the extremely capable Alina in charge of the extremely important traveling beer cart.
But there is one variable that even the best planners in the golf world struggle with.
The weather.
Ten days out, I woke up, and the first thing I did was check the 10-day forecast. There was a 90% chance of precipitation on June 26. A couple of days later an 80% chance. A couple of days later, there was a projected 100% chance of precipitation. My heart sank. It rained on a different golf scramble at LCC on June 24. The two-day forecast called for more rain on June 26.
Even the best golf planners can’t control the weather. Or can they?
I recalled that General George Patton summoned a chaplain during the darkest days of the Battle of the Bulge in 1944 and ordered him to come up with a prayer that would bring good weather for air support. Father James O’Neill was the chaplain who answered the call, and he wrote a beautifully solemn entreaty asking the Almighty to “restrain these immoderate rains with which we have had to contend.”
The skies cleared, and the battle was won.
So, a la Father O’Neill, I offered up a weather prayer. I acknowledged that there were folks facing more dire situations than our scramble golfers. Certainly, the suffering people in Ukraine rated more divine intervention than our legislative linksters. But we wanted to bring folks of different political persuasions together to raise money for the homeless! I ultimately left things in the hands of the Great Greenskeeper in the Sky.
I awoke early on June 26 and looked out the window. It was cloudy but dry. And it stayed dry through the morning and into the afternoon as Republicans and Democrats laughed it up, hitting golf balls up and down the hills of Loudon Country Club.
My foursome encountered the extremely capable Alina and the extremely important traveling beer cart at least four times in five hours. And we all hit at least a few good shots—such fun.
And it stayed dry for the post-golf social, where Democrats and Republicans literally and figuratively embraced and laughed it up. We’d raised around $20,000—along with a few libations. After the final award was given, the legislative linksters headed for their cars when suddenly the heavens burst forth with heavy rain.
Perfect timing.
Somehow, I think Father O’Neill was watching from somewhere.
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State Rep. Mike Moffett of Loudon chairs the House Committee on State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs.
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The Florida governor running for president likes to tout how Florida passed “constitutional carry” legislation this year – under his watch. But a close examination of House Bill 543, and related laws that were unchanged, reveals that “constitutional carry” is illusory at best.
Open carry of firearms remains prohibited in Florida and constitutes a crime called “brandishing.”
You may conceal carry in Florida under the DeSantis “constitutional carry” law without obtaining a government permit or license if you are not a prohibited person. But the law did not change the fact that firearms are still not permitted to be carried, even with a permit, in any of the 15 places outlined in Florida Statute §790.06(12)(a), including most bars and lounges, any school, college, or professional athletic event not related to firearms; any meeting of the governing body of a county, public school district, municipality, or special district; any meeting of the Legislature or a committee thereof; any polling place; and any college or university facility (with only a few limited exceptions).
You can call it an expanded carry law, but it is not constitutional carry by even the broadest definitions.
Open carry (i.e. carrying on one’s person a firearm entirely or partially visible) without the necessity of obtaining a government issue permit or license has been the law of New Hampshire for many decades.
And while before February of 2017, carrying concealed in public required obtaining a pistol permit from the government in a relatively painless process; that changed dramatically on February 22, 2017, when the NH Governor signed a bill into law making New Hampshire the 11th state to have “constitutional carry” as a matter of law.
New Hampshire’s constitutional carry law is clean, pure, and straightforward. Unless a person is prohibited from carrying or possessing a firearm under state or federal law, they may carry a concealed firearm in nearly all public places without obtaining a government permit or license. You may not have a firearm, either openly or concealed, in a courthouse or in the sterile areas of an airport. And federal law imposes some restrictions on places where firearms are not permitted, such as post offices and a few other locations.
It’s not true constitutional carry, as in anywhere you have a right to be. Still, the bottom line is that New Hampshire has a more bona fide constitutional carry, while constitutional carry in Florida is a step in the right direction, but with a long way to go.
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I was watching Tucker on Twitter episode six, and he featured a story about an insufferable prick named Dr. Peter Hoetez. You’ve likely heard of him. Twitter users have amassed millions for his favorite charity if he will debate Robert Kennedy Jr. on Joe Rogan’s podcast.
The “Hoe” still refuses. It is beneath him. “One typically doesn’t debate science,” Hotez said.
The science of COVID, as with the Climate, is not open to debate. There is a revered text, psalms refigured to music, and a series of repetitious actions (kneel, sit, stand, and genuflect). These are their stations of the cross; masks, distancing, and mRNA vaccines that – like the CDC’s hospital protocols – are divine inventions of man and proof of Scientism’s will on earth.
Put another way; there is no second opinion. You can’t have one, get one, or believe one if it is not identical to the first opinion—another sheep in the heard or voice in the choir. You can’t ask another nurse, internist, or surgeon if they have thoughts outside the approved narrative. Excommunication awaits those deviating from the “faith.”
No Modern Martin Luther, No GalileoMartin Luther is revered as a true member of the resistance to the tyranny of his time, but anyone who attempts to nail lists on the CDC’s “church” door shall be canceled, “losing their jobs, their professional standing, their health, friends and family, even their children,” to quote Transcriber B. Denied a voice for practicing what can only be called the 21st-century equivalent of witchcraft—a theory of motion outside the approved dogma of the day that challenges the true COVIDISM.
Whatever the matter, the response to such heresy is medieval. Or, perhaps a better comparison might be Colonial Salem, Feb 1692 – May 1693—another “notorious case of mass hysteria.” Except that the modern one has taken an interesting turn. The 21st-century Court of Oyer and Terminer has released to the public reams of modern digital scrolls outlining how, in detail, the anti-science deniers were correct. Plain as day, in black and white.
From the CDC, FDA, and public health bureaucrats. It is not a secret anymore. There was more than one person behind the curtain hiding important details, but expert pricks like Dr. Peter Hoetez continue to spew that which the divine source itself has been forced to admit were either half-truths or lies. You can also find it in ads funded by the State of New Hampshire on Gas Station TV. Pay too much for gas and get trolled by the NHDHHS. Get the latest COVID vaccine!
Sure, the suppressed science has been forced out of the dark by court order, but that does not mean that these Pharisees of public health need to read them out loud—quite the opposite. They continue to repeat their lies, and when challenged, they call you liars, frauds, racists, and murderers. Your choice is still their choice or their choice, despite your having a right to a second opinion. Even the website patient advocate.org assures you of the right to a second opinion, a site that appears to be another victim of COVID Cash capture.
It’s tragic.
And while there continue to be acknowledgments that the COVID pandemic could have been handled differently, very little of that finds its way out of the mouths of many doctors, researchers, and scientists who are supposed to question everything. Who, instead, refuse to be challenged because to do so could give credibility to other arguments—the opposite of science.
Ep. 6 Bobby Kennedy is winning pic.twitter.com/jW51PYahLV
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) June 22, 2023
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So, what happened during the Conway Public Library Drag Queen show held last Friday? My contact couldn’t make it inside the library to watch the proceedings because of “HATERS!!!” named Director David Smolen and White Mountains Pride Christopher Bellis. Why do I call them haters?
Because the advance notice said:
By increasing the visibility of materials and services for everyone in our community, we are establishing the library as a welcoming and inclusive center with free access to all ideas, without censorship or discrimination. By providing library users with the freedom to explore an array of viewpoints, we help them develop them into thoughtful citizens.
And as we saw in the previous post, for all of their word salads about equality, equity, inclusiveness, and welcoming, they are none of that. Plain frauds, these ones. The verbiage says one thing but as you saw in the video, it only goes just so far. The inclusiveness and the “welcomingness” only last until “The Narrative” is endangered as we saw how they “developed” an antipathy to those that possess other “ideas“.
Is “hypocritical haters” a more descriptive term?
But someone did get in and let slip what happened. And why would we all be surprised:
Costumes. Makeup.
This was reported as good as in “Look – kids having fun!” Groomers going, “Heh! Costumes? Makeup? Just like us, just like us.”
Did all of the parents catch the sub-messaging by “Reverend Yolanda” in “preaching to his new choir” in introducing a lifestyle/worldview/morality” that gets passed off as “reading children”? That’s right, him. Steve shared a good write-up on this pervert (all dolled up as an “artiste”); or, seeing that he calls himself a “Reverend,” is calling him a “missionary” a more descriptive term?
Roger Anthony Mapes 4 (Rev. Yolanda) was born in 1956 in the city of Muscle Shoals, Alabama. He was raised as a Methodist, and then in 1974, he became an evangelical “Jesus Freak” and moved to a commune called Jesus Manor. He ended up leaving the faith to pursue a sinful homosexual relationship.
Mapes eventually went to theater school and moved to New York City in the early 90s, where he met a group called the Radical Faeries ; Mapes moved into a commune with them in 1993 in Vermont. The Radical Faeries are a worldwide network and counter-cultural movement seeking to redefine “queer consciousness” through “secular spirituality.” The Radical Faeries reject the classical understanding of men and women and the heterosexual relationship. They instead seek to destroy what they see as “hetero-imitation” by grooming children from an early age. They were born during the Sexual Revolution and grew rapidly under the supervision of communist Harry Hay, Don Kilhefner, and Mitchell Walker.
Adopting what totalitarian states have said throughout history, “We don’t need you – we’re taking your children”.
I have no idea what books were actually read on Friday, but one of Conway Public Library’s pages had a list:
I still have more, so we’ll do another iteration tomorrow. However, I will leave you with these from the “other side”: Critical Race Theory aimed at toddlers and in making recent parents guilty.
Really, we are supposed to listen to a Library that thinks it’s our Mommy and Daddy?
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“Somebody is lying… Either Merrick Garland has lied under oath to the Congress, or David Weiss lied to the IRS agents.” Fox News legal analyst Sol Wisenberg.
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“Merrick Garland has testified that David Weiss, the U.S. attorney in Delaware investigating Biden, had complete authority, more authority than even a special counsel did to do anything he wanted.” Wisenberg said to Laura Ingraham
It’s pretty simple. If Garland, as he claims. gave Weiss “complete authority” to bring a case against Hunter and “more authority” than even a Special Counsel, where is the written proof? Where is the letter from the AG designating Weiss as a special attorney under 28 USC 515(a)?
— Sol Wisenberg (@WisenbergSol) June 27, 2023
Weiss “told at least six witnesses last year that he lacked authority to charge the first son outside Delaware and was denied special counsel status.” whistleblower IRS supervisory special agent Gary Shapley.
Two simple questions for Weiss: 1. When the DC and CDCAL USATTYs denied your requests to bring charges in their respective districts, who did you go to within DOJ to ask for Special Counsel status? If not the AG, why didn’t you go to him directly after your request was denied?
— Sol Wisenberg (@WisenbergSol) June 27, 2023
Finally, did you lie to the IRS Special Agents when you told them on 10-7-22 that you were NOT the ultimate decision-maker? Did you lie when you told them you had been denied Special Counsel status?
— Sol Wisenberg (@WisenbergSol) June 27, 2023
It appears simple enough. Garland is the nation’s attorney general, and Weiss is the Delaware-based federal prosecutor who years ago was tasked with investigating Hunter Biden. And it seems to be a discrepancy that’s easy to sort out. Just bring them both before Congress… again. Ask them some pointed and specific questions. Then begin impeachment proceedings against the guy whose story doesn’t add up.
Ah ha, we’ve found the missing part of the American government today… accountability. Would you bet a cup of coffee on whether it happens?
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Mikey Graham’s choice of words says much, much more about Mikey Graham than the person he is trying to demean and discredit. The proper description would be Sun-King Sununu’s illegal, unconstitutional, un-American actions repudiated by the court.
Instead, Mikey continues to LIE about the COVID vaccines that are NOT a vaccine and that Big Pharma always knew were NOT a vaccine.
Shame on Mikey Graham, and shame on anyone who still believes that Mikey and his ilk are “on our side.” He/they are NOT. They are grifters who – if Trump is the nominee – will support Biden, just as they supported Biden in 2020. AND they still have not apologized for … nor even acknowledged … that virtually all they said and did about COVID was not only not based on science, but egregiously wrong (indeed, in some cases EVIL) in terms of health, in terms of the economy and the rule of law. SHAME.
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The US Supreme Court has ruled that college admissions policies based on race are a no-go. The cases involving Harvard and the University of North Carolina, Harvard, for under-enrolling qualified Asian applicants while UNC was accused of failing to achieve diversity by other means.
Both schools take public money and must change their Admissions programs as a result of the decision.
“The Harvard and UNC admissions programs cannot be reconciled with the guarantees of the Equal Protection Clause. Both programs lack sufficiently focused and measurable objectives warranting the use of race, unavoidably employ race in a negative manner, involve racial stereotyping, and lack meaningful end points. We have never permitted admissions programs to work in that way, and we will not do so today,” wrote Chief Justice John Roberts for the six-justice majority.
However, universities may still consider an applicant’s discussion of how race affected his or her life, be it through discrimination, inspiration, or otherwise. Roberts clarified that this does not mean universities can simply establish through application essays or other means the regime declared unlawful by the Court. It means, explained Roberts, “the student must be treated based on his or her experiences as an individual—not on the basis of race.”
Is it just me, or did the Court leave a backdoor for colleges and Universities to continue the practice of racist-based admissions?
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It all started in 2015, and it has taken almost eight years for Saifullah Khan, a former Yale student and an Afghan refugee whose family fled the Taliban, to see a glimmer of hope for justice.
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This past week, on the anniversary of the introduction of the 1972 introduction of Title IX, the Connecticut Supreme Court published a ruling against Yale University and a Jane Doe who had claimed immunity in a defamation suit brought by Saifullah Khan following a Title IX sexual assault disciplinary procedure which Yale claimed was “quasi-judicial”: Jane Doe had claimed Saifullah Khan raped her and Yale took her at her word and sided with her against Khan without calling witnesses he had put forward in his defense of the accusations.
CT Supreme Court: “Statements made in sexual misconduct disciplinary proceedings that are offered and accepted without adequate procedural safeguards carry too great a risk of unfair or unreliable outcomes.”
Yale accuser not entitled to absolute quasi-judicial immunity. pic.twitter.com/wcnVXNRGMX— KC Johnson (@kcjohnson9) June 23, 2023
The Connecticut Supreme Court ruled that the Title IX disciplinary procedure which caused Saifullah Khan to be deprived of his Yale education was not “quasi-judicial” because it failed to offer Khan his due process rights which included, inter alia, the ability to cross-examine his accuser — something he had been granted in a criminal sexual assault trial stemming from allegations by the same Jane Doe. Khan was acquitted of all charges by a criminal jury, but Yale held its own standards, which it claimed were “quasi-judicial” and yet had no legal standing.
Fifteen women’s and victim’s rights non-profits, which included Legal Momentum, the National Women’s Law Center, Futures without Violence, the National Crime Victims’ Law Institute, Know Your IX, National Alliance to End Sexual Violence, wrote an amicus brief in support of Jane Doe’s immunity for making false statements.
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The Connecticut Supreme Court rejected their amicus brief. The full list of organizations that supported Jane Doe and her false accusations is here:
Several of these organizations had also supported Amber Heard, who was successfully sued by Johnny Depp for defamation in a civil suit in 2022. Amber Heard claimed she was a victim of domestic abuse and sexual violence in an Op-Ed written for her by the ACLU and published in the Washington Post in December 2018.
The ACLU then partnered with one of the organizations included in the list above — Know Your IX — to sue Trump Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. They didn’t think the due process in sexual assault cases on campus was appropriate. They lost the case, but campuses still didn’t fully embrace her new standards requiring due process. Joe Biden’s 2020 election campaign promised to revert to the 2011 unregulated standards. He believes those who believe in due process are like “Nazis marching on Charlottesville.”
These women’s and victims’ rights organizations have been fast and loose with their language — so much so that they had to refile their amicus brief to the Connecticut Supreme Court for Jane Doe in Khan v Yale because their first one stated that Khan “raped” Jane Doe.
Connecticut Supreme Court rejected that amicus brief outright since Khan had been acquitted of all charges, including rape, in a criminal trial. Facts haven’t mattered to these groups, and they toss the word “rape” around like cotton candy in Disneyland. One of the reasons they toss it around is because it is a word that draws sensationalist attention for # engagement which is always good for major brand advertisers/sponsors tied to them, such as L’Oreal (and its multiple global brands under it).
Now that Yale is facing a $110 million defamation suit and so is Jane Doe, perhaps these organizations will think before they support, encourage, or recruit the next Jane Doe or Amber Heard for their lucrative false accusation industry. They harm women’s credibility and agency. They do not help it.
Cancel culture on college campuses and in high schools and the denial of due process for Saifullah Khan at Yale are all connected, as is the censorship of media and social media and the use of Government-backed propaganda to create fake rape narratives (harming many real victims of sexual assault in the process).
The University of New Hampshire should be held accountable because it all started there:
Cancel culture on campus and Saifullah’s deprivation of his civil rights would not have happened if Vice President Joe Biden had not introduced an unregulated federal directive “Dear Colleague” Title IX letter at the University of New Hampshire on April 4, 2011.
This unregulated directive spawned Kangaroo Courts. “Ambassadors” and “influencers” (posing as journalists) were engaged by the White House & non-profit affiliates to promote propaganda and silence dissenters. The PR money was flowing to journalists at every major publication: New York Times, Boston Globe, Washington Post, Teen Vogue, Glamour Magazine, The Guardian, The Sun, The Daily Mail, BuzzFeed, and The Daily Beast, to name a few. NBC, CBS, and CNN especially were also partnered to promote the “rape culture” narrative. It was used to get women voters engaged and to the polls (for female Democrat candidates only, however).
UNH was providing guidelines to the White House that made preposterous biased assumptions using faulty statistics and propaganda.
The University of New Hampshire was in a strategic partnership with the White House “Not Alone” task force headed by Valerie Jarrett, President Obama’s Chief of Staff. But also involved were the Department of Education Office of Civil Rights, the Department of Justice Office of Violence Against Women, and the Department of Defense. All of whom have been silent on Larry Nassar, Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, and Hunter Biden.
The money flowed from the Department of Justice Office of Violence Against Women and others to non-profits working with political PR firms who, in turn, would help get journalists to place sensationalist and untrue tales of rape on campus in magazines and newspapers. The UN was part of it as well — Emma Watson was recruited as the ambassador to influence “the Harry Potter” generation.
It was nothing short of a profiteering and racketeering industry that boosted the ratings of young female Ivy League graduates such as Alexandra Brodsky with political or book publishing goals in their future.
Hopefully, with Saifullah Khan’s historic win in the Connecticut Supreme Court, victims’ rights activists who promote “Bystander” and “Know Your Power” training or who drink Brett Sokolow’s cool-aid will think twice before continuing with this or with the “Believe women” false accusation industry.
Yale and Jane Doe are facing a defamation suit in which Saifullah Khan is seeking $110 million for being labeled a rapist and denied the tools with which to defend himself.
Khan’s attorney Norm Pattis criticized Yale’s methods in a January 2019 blog post.
“There’s no doubt in my mind that the process Yale used to engage in its fact-finding was fatally flawed,” Pattis said in the post.
The University of New Hampshire’s Prevention Innovation Research Center was recognized for entrepreneurship with the creation of “Soteria Solutions” to teach “Bystander” and “Know Your Power” training. Lyn Schollett, JD of the NHCADSV, is on the board.
“Bystander” and “Know Your Power” training were heralded by the NHCADSV at Phillips Exeter Academy and St Paul’s School in New Hampshire.
Vanity Fair highlighted the failures of “Bystander” training in “Mr. Weber’s Confession.” The genius of the training -for which UNH received millions in federal grants to create — led to a retired school teacher being framed for a sexual assault that his “victim” said never happened.
For all the federal grants the University of New Hampshire has received to study sexual, domestic violence, and child abuse, it can’t even address problems of such on the home front both on its own campus and in its State Youth Detention Center.
It’s time the Office of Inspector General for the Department of Justice (who funded UNH’s flawed research and training), Department of Education, and Department of Defense (with whom RAINN is tied) take a hard look at the violations of constitutional rights that the University of New Hampshire in partnership with the Obama White House introduced on April 4, 2011, and which were used to influence not only campus disciplinary procedures but also police criminal procedures.
It’s also time for the New Hampshire Bar to question the New Hampshire Criminal Courts and Police and ask why it was ever appropriate for them to take instruction from Laura L Dunn, Joe Biden’s VIP guest to the launch of “Dear Colleague” in 2011 and a representative for the White House “Not Alone” task force.
Laura L Dunn instructed Concord Police at UNH, and Concord Police referred Chessy Prout (according to Chessy Prout’s “memoir” with an introduction by Congresswoman Ann Kuster — “I Have The Right To” and promoted by Dan Hill of hillimpact.com boasting his work in securing over $21 billion in Government contracts for his clients) — Owen Labrie’s accuser to Laura Dunn in Spring 2015, 5 months before his high profile criminal sexual assault trial.
Unlike Saifullah Khan’s journey through the sexual assault sham, there was no Title IX investigation to put in abeyance while the criminal procedure played out in Owen Labrie’s case, which started one year earlier than Khan’s in 2014:
Concord Police had told St Paul’s School to stay out of it, to not let Owen Labrie know he was being investigated. According to the trial transcript, they advised his mother and him that there was no need for him to have an attorney present while they questioned him. But they had already recommended Laura L Dunn of the White House “Not Alone” task force and affiliated non-profit SurvJustice to Chessy Prout before they even contacted Owen Labrie in June 2014. They’d taken their instruction from Laura L Dunn, a lackey for Vice President Joe Biden, and she brought with her media, journalists, and an entourage of victims advocates and civil attorneys ready to go after St Paul’s School’s money off the back of the trial.
I was so, so lucky that the detective who interviewed me while I was laying in a hospital bed had just gotten back from a conference where they had worked on how to talk to and interview survivors of sexual assault. That was pretty serendipitous. She connected us with a wonderful attorney and advocate named Laura Dunn, who, when the trial came around, basically held my hand.
(It should be noted that on her way to the hospital, Chessy Prout texted Owen Labrie to say that things were getting out of hand. She’d told her sister that she never said she’d been raped, and the police wrote that statement down. But the police detective told her not to worry about the details and to not discuss anything with anyone, including her mother, for the “integrity” of the investigation. There was none. The police detective lied on a sworn affidavit about the report from the SANE nurse and used that to get an arrest warrant for computer communications which she then selectively redacted and tampered with. Where did she learn all of this?)
Laura L Dunn has been extremely vocal about her belief that due process is not appropriate in campus sexual assault cases. So what was she doing spreading this belief to police and prosecutors as well for criminal procedures?
Laura L Dunn was promoting her own business as an ambulance-chasing attorney for “victims,” and she needed to shop for them, train them and train police & prosecutors for her own self-advancement, which went hand in hand with the victim’s rights groups who could also profiteer from this business. She publicly stated that she wanted to be “Gloria Allred big.”
“I’m always mad that we’re not bigger,” said Dunn, matter-of-factly. “I want to be Gloria Allred big. People know if your civil rights get violated, you go to the ACLU. I want people to know if you get raped, you go to SurvJustice.”
And she had Vice President Joe Biden, President Obama, his chief of staff Valerie Jarrett, the Department of Education Office of Civil Rights (Catherine Lhamon), and the Department of Justice Office of Violence Against Women (Lynn Rosenthal) behind her as well as her mentor: S. Daniel Carter.
Nobody cared that Laura L Dunn had lied about her own alleged sexual assault on NPR in 2010, which they finally corrected five years later in 2015.
On the board of SurvJustice with Laura L Dunn was Wagatwe Wanjuki — a social media influencer — and Meg Garvin of the National Crime Victims Law Institute, which featured Dunn as a “partner spotlight” in November 2014 — the same month she promoted the false Rolling Stone “A Rape on Campus” story which led to the defamation suit Eramo v Rolling Stone (featuring Dunn in Exhibit 15b).
New Hampshire (“First in the Nation,” “Live Free or Die”) police and prosecutors swallowed Laura L Dunn’s instruction hook, line, and sinker to undermine their own criminal trial procedures. There was a ton of money on offer to them for doing so. The coffers filled quickly: Merrimack County Attorney (later US Attorney for New Hampshire and now Federal Prosecutor Scott Murray) called New Hampshire v Owen Labrie “A Victory for Victim’s Rights.” He was awarded “Prosecutor of the Year.” The National Crime Victim’s Law Institute who supported the false accuser Jane Doe in the amicus brief against Saifullah Khan and rewarded Concord Police Detective Julie Curtin in the investigation of Owen Labrie for “justice for the victim.” The judge, Larry Smukler, also pronounced “justice for the victim”. He’d decided to ignore prosecutor and police misconduct which were blatantly evident in the trial transcript.
We should not have any public funds going towards flawed sexually biased programs at the University of New Hampshire or elsewhere, which are then used to target, frame, profiteer, and racketeer and deny the assumption of innocence, a constitutional right.
Sharyn Potter, Executive Director of UNH Prevention Innovation Research Center, doesn’t hide her gender bias: She lists herself as a “Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies University of New Hampshire.”
Title IX’s language below is crystal clear against such bias. What were the Department of Justice Office of Violence Against Women & Department of Education, White House “Not Alone” task force thinking, and why isn’t there a Senate inquiry into this?
“No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.
| Claire Best
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Before you squawk, I’ve advocated for ending the state’s gasoline tax. Gone. I got pushback from Libertarians and Republicans, but I’m still a fan of the idea. Having said that, there is a growing siren song in some states for mileage taxes.
If you like to rob people, it is a great idea: taxes, mileage taxes, it’s all theft.
The vehicle mileage tax is a response to the Democrat idea that we should all be driving EVs or not driving at all. Democrats also like to hike fuel taxes ‘cuz reasons, but the growing fleet of climate-killing, extra-heavy-road-wearing EVs don’t pay it. The idea is to shift to a per-mile tax that accurately represents wear and use for infrastructure upkeep.
If that’s where we are headed, I have some conditions. Much like my belief that EV users should only be able to charge their vehicles with renewable power, only EVs should have to pay the mileage tax. This is not unreasonable because no one is ever going to end the motor fuel taxes, not even Republicans and Libertarians.
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So have at it. Pass a mileage TAX on EVs. They weigh a lot more and cause a lot more road wear. While you’re at it, might I suggest a separate carbon tax paid annually when drivers register their vehicles to cover the end-of-life cost to manage the waste-stream burden of a vehicle sized used up lithium pack? Aside from the front-end carbon footprint of mining, milling, moving, and manufacturing costs (plus local environmental damage), what to do with the discarded heart of your EV corpse represents a significant ecological burden/hazard.
Wait. We also need “risk of EV fire” fees. When those things burn, Fire Departments have no easy way to extinguish them. You’ve more or less banned the foam they used to use, so we’re left with containment while the EV emits insane amounts of crap into the air from burning plastic, fabric, electronics, metal, and – oh yeah, the rare earth metals melting down and exhausting into the biosphere from the battery pack.
Maybe another fee for emissions insurance that can launder money through carbon-offset schemes that promise to plant trees along the equator, by which they mean “might cut fewer of them down.”
While we continue to ignore or avoid similar environmental threats created by solar panels, if you can get ahead of this now, you can have a healthy set aside to rob blindly to balance other irresponsible acts of budget abuse while pretending you planned ahead.
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You can hear the whistles blowing, and the trap around the Biden Cartel is closing because FOX News is no longer the only voice in the choir singing about the sins of the Biden Family.
After years of defending or ignoring the apparent bribery and extortion cases involving the Bidens, the tone and talking points are changing. They are going to force each other to stay focused. The MSM does nothing individually. It is all in or out, and today, they are in.
The temperature has risen in the White House Briefing Room. This past week, when usually the only news team pressing Karine Jean-Pierre was FOX, numerous reporters were pressing KJP. Karine is doing a terrible job of deflecting questions about the ties and crimes of Joe and Hunter. She continues to claim that her colleagues have already addressed the question. The reality is that all spokespeople for the White House are deflecting. The most transparent White House has pulled the shades down, which is not a good look in the dark.
The mistruths(lies) that come out of this White House are infinite. Whether it is misrepresenting the facts about the economy, inflating the production and value of Kamala Harris, or outright lying about the President’s knowledge of Hunter’s business dealings, there is no credibility at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. It is a severe problem. I want to believe that we had no part in the attempted coup of Vladimir Putin, but when Biden addresses the country, urging us to believe this was an internal Russian issue, we cannot believe him. That is unfortunate.
Six IRS whistleblowers have come forward to give their version of the facts. The FBI and Justice Department are hard-pressed to dispel the stories. These six individuals are pressured to tell the truth or face the consequences of the law. They have all been consistent, making it more difficult for the government to shoot holes in their testimony. This situation poses a tremendous problem for the Bidens. The stories of the IRS slow-rolling the investigation, not applying the full impact of the law, and cutting deals that never would be available to anyone not named Biden.
In addition to the whistleblowers, Comer, Jordan, and Grassley are heading up three investigations on separate committees. All have indicated and promised damaging testimony that will connect the money with the Bidens. These investigations’ outcome must be Joe Biden receiving money and not just a tax evasion violation. The Republicans, the press corp, and the mainstream media are the three-headed monster that has to be giving the Bidens nightmares and JKP more reasons not to answer questions.
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We’ve had three named storms in June. Arlene and Bret didn’t get very far, and while Cindy managed to rise to the level of a Tropical storm, she gave up a few days ago just north of the Dominican Republic.
This year’s third named storm fell apart and is drifting aimlessly toward Bermuda. There is still an opportunity for her to get her groove on, but it’s low, and as she moves north into colder water, the fuel required becomes scarce.
NOAA has predicted 12-17 named storms for the 2023 season from June 1 to November 30, 5-9 Hurricanes, and 1-4 major hurricanes. A normal hurricane season. That’s probably a safer guess after last year. Hurricane NOAA predicted an above-average season for 2022 that never happened. They missed by a country mile.
This year scientists are certain that they are uncertain.
After three hurricane seasons with La Nina present, NOAA scientists predict a high potential for El Nino to develop this summer, which can suppress Atlantic hurricane activity. El Nino’s potential influence on storm development could be offset by favorable conditions local to the tropical Atlantic Basin.
Maybe, maybe not. But we are doomed by 2050 or wherever the goalposts got moved to after the last jet-setting, carbon-intensive climate cult conference. Being uncertain about that is to deny science.
As for Cindy, the hurricane, not the youngest Brady Girl; she’s the green smear in the middle of the Atlantic.
Not much to look at, and so far, most of the action has been in the Pacific, off the coast of Mexico.
Maybe those storms will spin up and try to migrate across our open southern border.
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“He is the smartest person I know” and “My son did nothing illegal, and I am proud of him” are two comments that President Joe Biden made about his son, Hunter Biden. Those comments came when the Joe Biden camp tried to justify the $80,000 monthly salary given to Hunter by Ukraine energy company Burisma. Hunter had no experience in the energy sector but was named to the Burisma Board shortly after a trip to Ukraine with then Vice President Joe Biden. Hunter did not have a lot of investment expertise, yet received billions of dollars to invert for the Chinese Government. This transfer of funds also coincided with a trip to China with his father, Vice President Joe Biden. Biden and his associates worked daily to convince Americans that his son was more intelligent enough to handle the rigors of these complex jobs.
About a year ago, the story and talking points had to change. The Administration was forced into defense mode as facts and whistleblower testimony came into focus. With the advent of this damning information, the Administration had to find a way to deflect the facts. The people going on the record were credible and could not be put down, so they had to discredit Hunter by pointing out he was an alcoholic drug addict at this point in his life and could not be held responsible for his words or actions.
You cannot have it both ways, but you cannot claim no masse on the allocations of bribes, shakedowns, and extortion while declaring the perpetrator a genius. This is a classic conundrum of the Biden White House. The stories are never consistent, and you can never trust any statement from Biden or White House spokespeople. Leadership is based on trust and consistency. Neither of these traits is present in the Biden White House.
Each day, more information is disclosed by the whistleblowers that indicate a collusive effort between the White House and the Justice Department to change the narrative of all stories involving Hunter Biden. The whistleblowers face stiff penalties for dispersing false information, so you have to give them the edge on credibility. Each statement released is damaging to all Bidens and Attorney General Merrick Garland. Garland is in the crosshairs, and talk of impeachment proceedings against the AG may be forthcoming.
There were reports over the weekend that the Bidens had added a criminal defense attorney to their legal team. That is an absolute admission that the walls are crumbling in, and the hearings, indictments, and potential charges are forthcoming. The tactic of avoiding questions by Joe and Karine may stop working soon, as the people insist on answers and the media realizes they must stop covering for the first family. When that finally happens to the mainstream media, the Bidens should start packing up their personal effects.
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It was a slow weekend, with nothing on the calendar, but I caught an email telling me one of our Presidential candidates would be in Alton Sunday evening. I said, “What the heck – why not?” Vivek Ramaswamy was/is a little-known candidate, but like I said, “What the heck, I’ll go” (By the way, the cookies were great).
Cutting to the chase, Vivek was introduced by his wife, who, by any judgment, would make a stunning First Lady. Okay, I know this young man (age 37) is a virtual newcomer to big-time politics and is only poling maybe 3% while Trump is pushing near 60%. Not a chance, really?
Still, I was blown away, Mr. Ramaswamy has a presence and composure equal to or better than the far more experienced candidates twice his age. After his opening remarks, he took questions with no hesitation or evasion, proving that he has a solid grip on the issues and plans to deal with them. I’ve been around the block, closer to 81 than 80, so believe me when I tell you he is the real deal. Although overcoming polling leads of the many better-known candidates may not be a reasonable expectation but how about you give the guy a chance? Or at least a look?
Sure, I am impressed, but I’ll make no promises or outrageous predictions but invite you to go and meet him.
I know that as a Constitutional conservative, he checked all my boxes, So if you’re a conservative or moderate Republican or independent fed up with the Lefty Democrats’ make-believe realities and lawless double standards, you will welcome the fresh air he provides.
Can he win the NH primary? I don’t know. Does it really matter? The way I felt listening to him was a mental vision of Donald Trump as Obi-Wan and Vivek as the new hope.
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In case you missed it, Terese Grinnell (Bastarche) has had the charges dropped against her. New Hampshire State Police arrested her for “disrupting” an Executive Council Meeting – a ridiculous accusation and a story regular readers know well.
A video of the entire event was available since the day of the arrest (here’s a short excerpt). Anyone who watches it can tell the whole exercise was harassment and intimidation (even members of the governor’s staff could see it, I suspect).
Terese was not about to stand by and put up with either.
She eventually subpoenaed Governor Sununu as a witness. The judge quashed the subpoena, claiming it was delivered too late as if this was somehow more unfair than being escorted out of a crowded public meeting for saying Amen, and having to pay lawyers and legal fees because of His Excellencies’ petty vendetta.
No way he’s taking the stand under oath, and that’s sad. Sununu says he has big shoulders, but this guy had someone who was legally carrying arrested for trespassing on his lawn with a firearm. Pro-Gun Big Shoulders Sununu then canceled his outdoor inauguration just in case any gun nuts might disrupt the occasion.
It was a whiney little d!ck move, and here’s another one. The baggage that needs unpacking.
New Hampshire Journal has an article on Grinnell’s charges being dropped. The headline is “Charges Dropped Against Anti-Vax Protester on Eve of Court Date.”
Anti-Vax protester. How incredibly clever. Sorry, I misspelled ignorant narrative stooge. What moron labels a nurse an anti-vaxxer? And we know they knew she was a nurse.
Terese has had many nursing jobs and has given just about every “vaccine” to people who have consented to receive them. She has received vaccines herself over her life. She explained to me that her family got the COVID vaccines.
That didn’t bother her, probably because she has administered hundreds, if not thousands, of injections of all types to people of all ages. Calling her an anti-vax protester is absurd and dishonest, and just wrong. It panders to a false progressive narrative, not unlike the claims that protecting children from sexualized age-inappropriate material is book banning. It’s not.
The correct modifier for Grinnell is anti-mandate. She objected to policies that ruined people’s lives and shared several stories with me of people in health care. Nurses who had exemptions- legitimate exceptions – denied that cost them their jobs. In at least one instance, it put a home, family, and their access to health insurance at risk, not to mention on the cusp of financial ruin.
The mandates affected many in that way.
Mortgages and bills don’t pay themselves. The mandates she opposed put a lot of people in dire straights. Turned their lives upside down. That was what she opposed.
So, I’m curious to know more about whoever wrote the NH Journal piece. Did they get both jabs, all three boosters, and the bivalent? Did they skip one or more because they thought, I don’t need that, and if so, why aren’t they an anti-vaxxer? The experts said you needed it, and you, at some point, said no.
Vaccine-hesitant?
So yes, we’d love to know, but the by-line is NewsNHJ. The author’s name is unknown, much like the vaccine’s side effects that were hidden in contradiction to informed consent law as they were yelling about mandates, testing, pushing passports, and lining people up to get jabbed.
The things that Terese Grinnell actually opposed that you wouldn’t know from the NH Journal piece.
We’re happy to have cleared it up.
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It’s a GREAT question. Why?
But first, this is from Dan himself for context:
OF COURSE, it’s a constitutional crisis.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruling yesterday, in Moore v. Harper, comes the day after I filed my case with the NH State Supreme Court (docket # 2023-0097), which is the same theme and argument in Richard v. Sununu, et al. now before the Court.
Under stare decisis the NH Supreme Court will now be bound by the SCOTUS opinion in Moore v. Harper, causing a constitutional crisis in NH, as this case validates my complaints in my lawsuit.
SCOTUSBlog has a quick background and why it applies to Dan’s case
In a major election-law decision, the Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that although the Constitution gives state legislatures the power to regulate federal elections, state courts can supervise the legislature’s exercise of that power. By a vote of 6-3, the court rejected the so-called “independent state legislature theory,” holding that the North Carolina Supreme Court did not violate the Constitution when it set aside a congressional map adopted by the state’s legislature.
Daily Signal has more:
Justices ruled 6-3 Tuesday in Moore v. Harper to reject the “independent state legislature theory,” the idea that legislatures have unrestricted power under the Constitution to administer federal elections without review from state courts.
The Supreme Court held that the Constitution’s elections clause “does not vest exclusive and independent authority in state legislatures to set the rules regarding federal elections.” The case stems from the North Carolina Supreme Court’s decision in February 2022 to toss a congressional map drawn by the Republican-led legislature after the 2020 census as “an egregious and intentional partisan gerrymander.”
“State courts retain the authority to apply state constitutional restraints when legislatures act under the power conferred upon them by the Elections Clause,” Roberts wrote. “But federal courts must not abandon their own duty to exercise judicial review. In interpreting state law in this area, state courts may not so exceed the bounds of ordinary judicial review as to unconstitutionally intrude upon the role specifically reserved to state legislatures by Article I, Section 4, of the Federal Constitution.”
Since 2019, Dan Richard has been waging a one-man skirmish in the election arena – what are the rules, how did they get to be, and why are we having such a problem with out-of-state voters (mostly college students who pay out-of-state tuition, go figure)? And more importantly, how can the Constitution be “amended” by mere State Statute/law instead of by the mandated Constitutional process on which We, the People, make that decision? Instead, our elected legislators, over time, made the incremental changes by passing bills that bypassed that Constitutional process.
While it can take many to do a wrong by consensus, it only takes one person to do the right thing by being persistent. That’s Dan. But this asks the most important question:
Why did legislators do so (an effort that has taken place over 50 years) to change NH election law by statute rather than doing the right thing in properly amending the NH Constitution? That we may never know, but in having the Judiciary put on the spot for their results, perhaps these legislative wrongs can be righted. From Dan:
After a lot of work, and help from others, my appeal to the NH Supreme Court was filed today. Please share far and wide as all of our constitutional rights are being violated. All of my complaints are unresolved and still law;
- Amending the constitution by fraud;
- Unconstitutional voting machines;
- Unconstitutional, illegal absentee voting (no affidavits);
- Allowing unqualified out of state residents to vote
Here is his NH Supreme Court appeal petition (it is meaty):
Dan Richard – NEW HAMPSHIRE SUPREME COURT-2And the appendix with the supporting information:
Dan Richard – APPENDIX PDF copyWe wish him well and hope to be in the courtroom for the hearing on this. And in talking with him a few minutes ago, as of this writing, there will be a lot more on this.
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I have been honored to represent the people of New Hampshire as their US Congressman and US Senator for 18 years. I know New Hampshire values. I also know that those values are not currently represented by the Biden administration and its left-wing cohorts in the media.
We want to thank Senator Bob Smith for this Op-Ed. Please submit yours to Editor@GraniteGrok.com.
The 2024 elections must bring us back to these values if America is to survive. Pause for a moment and think of all of the candidates who are running for President in both parties. Ask yourself which candidate you really believe will stand up to the left and fight for these New Hampshire and American values that we are losing?
Who do you want to face China, Russia, and North Korea in a crisis? You know that person is former President Donald J. Trump. You know this not because he said he would fight for our values and stand up to those dictators but because he has done so as President and continues to do so now.
Six years ago, in June of 2015, Donald Trump promised us that he would secure our borders, drain the swamp, build up our military, make us energy independent, fill our courts with conservative constitutionalists, and get us out of endless foreign wars. In spite of the incredible dirty tricks and lies perpetuated by the swamp, Hillary Clinton, the media, and yes, even Obama and Biden, Donald Trump prevailed and accomplished what he promised he would do for us.
They did not stop after the election, however. Two political impeachments and even an accusation that he was a Russian asset hounded this good man for four years, and the harassment continues to this day with politically motivated indictments by a weaponized Biden-controlled Justice Department. In spite of all of this, President Trump accomplished more in four years than most presidents do in eight years. In our hearts, we all knew how bad these people were, but the Durham Report confirmed the level of corruption was far beyond anything we could have imagined.
Now that President Trump is running for re-election, they are currently using the same old playbook because they know that they cannot beat him at the ballot box, where millions of his supporters will rally to his defense and elect him again. Why this extraordinary effort by the left to take President Trump down? The answer is clear. Donald J. Trump is the only candidate in the field with the stamina, experience, and backbone to prevail against these vicious forces, and the left knows it. Donald Trump is not only their enemy. He is the symbol of all freedom-loving Americans. If they defeat Trump, they defeat all of us. America will be lost to the left, the globalists, and the swamp.
A few days ago, my wife, Mary Jo, and I had the honor to meet personally with President Trump. When you look a man in the eye, you can see his heart as well. When we left that meeting, we knew that Donald Trump loves America and its people, and he is doing everything he can to save it and preserve our freedoms at great personal sacrifice. President Trump stood up for us when we needed him, and now it is our turn to stand up for him. He has earned our respect and our support. Trust me when I say America needs Donald Trump, and I am proud and honored to support him for re-election to the Presidency of the United States.
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I want you to think back to the days of “Tom Sawyer” and one of his greatest pranks performed on his friends. Burdened with a chore for skipping school, Tom comes up with an ingenious way to get out of it.
Sidenote: That is before the SJWs got their uppity mitts on that story and declared it racist because THEIR morals say that anything that doesn’t hew to their “presentism” ideology must be banned or torn down.
Side-Sidenote: Presentism – the only thing that matters is how we think and feel right NOW and judge history from it – as opposed to understanding how those back then felt and instead “punishing them” for wrong-think decades or centuries later.
Back on topic, Skip. Last week I received the result of my NH Legislative Ethics Committee complaints against NH State Rep Harry Bean, Travis O’Hara, and the One-Who-Cannot-Be-Named. The former two waived their Confidentiality so that I can name them. The third did not, so I’ll just call him Voldemort (no, not because he’s that evil, but I legally cannot name him – and no “Lord” title for them – though I’m betting that the three of them are thinking of themselves that way).
The official Summary by the Committee for all three of them is effectively whitewashed. Because neither RSA 91-A (Right To Know law that demands that public meetings be properly noticed) nor RSA 24:9-D (the law that regulates the behavior of how NH County delegations made of all the NH House Reps in that County – including how THEY publicly announce their meetings) have penalties for misbehavior, so there can be no unethical behavior.
Even though the Committee stated in the Travis O’Hara summary that the public meetings for which they were on the hook for handling properly were “That fact is uncontested.” From Bean: …it is clear that they were not properly noticed pursuant to RSA 91-A”. A similar language was used for Voldemort.
However:
I’ll address that in a bit, but here are the official summaries for the first two.
NH State Rep Harry Bean:
NH Legislative Ethics Committee – Harry Bean exoneration
NH State Rep Travis O’Hara:
NH Legislative Ethics Committee – Travis OHara exonerationNo, I can’t put up the summary for Voldermort because that Rep never waived their confidentiality but if you read the two public ones above, you get the idea.
So what are MY takeaways, as an ordinary citizen trying to act in accordance of Article 8 of the NH Constitution?
…all the magistrates and officers of government are their substitutes and agents, and at all times accountable to them. Government, therefore, should be open, accessible, accountable and responsive. To that end, the public’s right of access to governmental proceedings and records shall not be unreasonably restricted. The public also has a right to an orderly, lawful, and accountable government.
Now, go look at the image at the top of this post again. Why say you folks?
I wasn’t looking for a criminal conviction – it was my understanding that this was a panel of former and current legislators to judge these three Legislators’ behaviors from an ethical standpoint – above and beyond (and in some cases, below) the Law and not a LEGAL standpoint. But it’s clear that to me, an ordinary citizen, they turned it into that. Do so ONCE, and I can accept “bad faith.” Doing the same behavior, NOT listening to those that are more experienced or reading the actual law to them multiple times?
I now know that I no longer understand what the definition of unethical is.
However, I did send Rich Lambert, the Executive Administrator (for whom I have nothing but good words) a follow-up to see if another action by these three (and other Reps would fall under Donna Sytek’s Book of Unethical Behaviors. They all put in for and accepted the RSA 24:9-eee meeting and mileage fees for these now admitted-to-be-illegal meetings. Given that “this fact is uncontested,” – would not return the County’s money (I have their forms, they all self-signed, as well as the remittances) be considered unethical behavior? I’m betting it isn’t in that Book:
—— Original Message ——
From “Skip” <Skip@granitegrok.com>
To “Rich Lambert” <Rich.Lambert@leg.state.nh.us>
Date 6/27/2023 7:46:28 PM
Subject A question for you and the Honorable Sytek’s Book of Unethical behaviorGood evening Mr. Lambert,
I am in receipt of the exonerations of Harry Bean, Travis O’Hara, and <Voldermort>. In reading each, it seems that the wordings for each are a bit tortured in coming to their conclusions.
So be it as the NH Legislative Ethics Committee has made its rulings and exonerated all three even as the Committee found that the illegal meetings are summarized by the Committee’s words of “That fact is uncontested” (Complaint 2023-6, Travis O’Hara, second paragraph).
I have a number of takeaways from that line and those rulings but the main one is that if State Statutes in these cases (e.g., RSA 91-A and RSA 24) does not have associated penalties for bad behavior, there can be no ethical unseemliness. My second main takeaway will remain unstated fully but the phrase “his two remaining brain cells are vying to be in third place” as a line of defense / explanation seems to be acceptable and viable.
So before I spend the time that might well be better spent on more productive efforts, let me ask a question of the Committee’s words: “That fact is uncontested” in that the improperly noticed meetings were illegal. My question:
Would those three, and other Belknap Representatives as well, having put in their self-authorizing forms for the per meeting and travel expenses (RSA 24:9-eee) and accepting such taxpayer monies for the now uncontested illegal meeting be considered to be an unethical action? That having this official ruling about the meetings, not returning the monies for meetings that should never have happened, be considered unethical?
Or would it be a charade to attempt to hold them fully accountable per Article 8 of the NH Constitution?
-Skip
So yes, a “pre-question.” I wonder if I will hear back from:
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Recently I’ve started pushing the idea here at Grok that libraries and schools are inherently political institutions, so we should start treating them as such by electing librarians, teachers, and school administrators.
To give parents and taxpayers more voice over what happens in schools.
Lots of people have had trouble getting their heads around this idea, but Donald Trump has picked up the idea and is running with it.
He’s starting with just school principals, but he’s always been more of an incrementalist than I am.
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This comes to us from the inimitable Victor Davis Hanson (VDH), one of Conservatisim’s deep thinkers and observers of what Society is doing – and where it is heading.
Drawing on his vast historical knowledge and the ability to compare and contrast our situation against those of other cultures and times, he’s always a necessary read. Lawrence Person’s Battleswarm Blog has a video of VDH doing exactly that, and he pulled out a lot of quotes – this post’s title is one of them – so go over and read them.
His post is about how California has gone from hero to zero in a few short decades and made easy by just using pull quotes from VDH.
It’s the epitome of when Progressive/Socialists take over Government – the end results in a type of governance that has never succeeded EVAH, and we can see that in real-time. In the meantime:
“…The consequences of their own ideology”.
I used to fight that battle over at TreeHugger – that our “betters,” that MUST know so much more than we do concerning what is best for us just too casually toss off the downsides (especially the financial ones) of any of their ideas. However, they demand that we embrace those ideas totally and without reservation.
They want themselves to be our gods.
The proper response should always be “Up Yours!”.
The decline of California under one-party Democrat rule has been one of the long-running themes of this blog. Today Victor Davis Hanson discusses how California’s wealthy destroyed the middle class with policies whose baleful effects they knew wouldn’t fall on them.
And because of their wealth, they can weather whatever their policies do to them – but don’t care about what happens to anyone else because of them. I used to, semi-jokingly, ask those that wanted expansive and expensive that intruded upon my financial and liberty freedoms when they’d be sending me a check, like when they wanted to eliminate my propane furnace and wood stove and put in rather expensive heat pumps (that yet are unable to work well in the -20 F temps that are certainly not unknown here in central NH). While they all yammered that I HAD TO BECAUSE WE’RE SAVING THE PLANET, not a single one sent me a check.
Why was I not surprised? That’s how they roll and do exactly the same thing as in California (but with more zeros to the left of the decimal point). And that’s what those that have achieved much financial and/or political success seem to believe – having done so; they have the right to boss other people around.
Actually, they don’t, and the middle class that has borne the brunt of their policies is voting with their feet as California is the largest state in terms of legal outflow (as opposed to the illegal alien inflows, which is going to be another problem for them soon). Already, Gov Newsom is starting to have a bad hair day, and that smirk is getting to get wiped off his face as the billions of surplus last year (of which he boasted broadly) has now gone into the dumper bigley.
The State has been riding its reputation and financial success for decades, where it went from being the best to now cratering (and if you look at their roads and highways, literally cratering). The analogy is like when vulture venture capitalists take over a company simply to siphon its money out of it (instead of the normal VCs that want to BOLSTER the value of a takeover) where the Democrats became the “political culture vultures”.
It’s the same problem that I see in our general culture. Religion, especially the Judeo-Christian tradition, gave us a shared morality and outlook (plus or minus). With the advent of religious animosity starting in the late 1950s, that shared attribute began to disappear and now is, IMHO, now in a death spiral.
For instance, it ISN’T the gun that is committing the crime that the Left blames on guns; it’s the heart/soul/morality (or lack thereof) of those using the guns. The Left can’t stand to admit that their constant pulling out the bricks of our wall that is our norms and mores has brought it to a teetering point – can it stand, or is it inevitable that it will just collapse? When I see that the killing of babies has been normalized, that sexuality has gone wide and into the gutter, and that stealing has been legalized (with California being the prime example, again), what other conclusion can I rationalize?
The Left has now said that we no longer have shared values (Obama wanting to restrict us only to HIS designated media and values!) – that we must yield to them. WHY would I do that, given their results (again, look at California)? An Elite again trying to tell us what to do?
Yeah, screw that. Shut up, Obama, and leave us to our own designs for our own lives. Ditto the rest of them, too.
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