Saturday • May 18 • 2024
Vol.XVI • No.XX
Manchester, N.H.
Effectively, NH State Rep Mike Bordes is SCREAMING:
PARENTS – Your children belong to Government!! SCREW YOU, PARENTS!
And the vote is this Thursday (according to the House Republican Leadership, from what I’ve been told).
Here’s the floor amendment that will be put forward by him, via a different State Rep, for the vote on SB272 – the Senate’s version of HB10 that Bordes voted against to send that bill down in flames. (emphasis mine):
It removes:
(t) The right to inquire of the school or school personnel and to be truthfully and completely informed if their child is being identified by any name other than the name under which the child was enrolled in the school or any nickname that a reasonable person would understand to be commonly derived from such name, including under circumstances which a reasonable person would understand to be for the purpose of facilitating a change of gender or gender transition.
(u) The right to inquire of the school or school personnel and to be truthfully and completely informed if the child is being identified or referred to by school district staff, as being of a gender other than that of which the child was identified or referred when enrolled.
(v) The right to inquire of the school or school personnel and to be truthfully and completely informed if any school or school personnel are proceeding with any intervention to affirm or to provide an accommodation of a child’s asserted gender identity when the student’s gender identity is other than that of which the child was identified or referred when enrolled.
(w) The right to know what extracurricular activities, clubs, or organizations their child is participating in.
It’s bad enough that many School Districts (including my own if you haven’t been following my posts on it) are keeping secrets from Parents under the guise of “Childism” (re: children ALWAYS know what is best for them and Parents are just oppressing and evil towards their children, treating them like chattel or property). Now Mike Bordes is trying to codify that practice into law and force the State of NH into becoming a Sanctuary State, of sorts for children in school with respect to sexuality (that many are FAR too young to even begin to understand the long term ramifications of such choices).
Here’s his Facebook page. Can you imagine the smirk on his face, given the above and eliminating Mothers from knowing about their children, and him all but handing their children over to Government, and doing this for Mother’s Day? Here’s the post. And if that link goes dead because he just closed down his page, here’s the screenshot:
Nice of him, on Mother’s Day, to screw over all Mothers with children is school.
And of course, right under that was a Teacher Appreciation Week post. Yeah, we know whose eyes this Unionista is poking out and it isn’t the teachers.
The Democrats will all vote for this. Bordes and a few other Parent hating RINOs will also vote for it.
Isn’t this just lovely, those Moms that live in Laconia in Wards 1,3,4, 5, and 6? A majority of you voted him into office to represent you in Belknap District 5 last November. Is this what you expected from him?
Oh, other mis-Partied (hey, if the Transgender folks can make up new stupid words like “misgender”, I can do the same) Reps will probably go for this as well. Or vote against the bill. Or “take a walk” when the vote is being called (which means voting against the bill without actually voting).
Others to add to the list that I believe will vote for this and/or vote against SB272:
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Third parties have had to drag the FDA to court to learn what Pfizer, Moderna, and the FDA/CDC knew about their COVID-19 vaccines that they didn’t want the public to see, and those folks just notched another victory for transparency.
From Aaron Siri.
As you may recall, we obtained a court order in January 2022 forcing FDA to produce all of its data on Pfizer’s covid vaccine for those 16 years and older at a rate of 55,000 pages per month, as opposed to the 75 years FDA sought. That production should be completed in a few more months.
In a second lawsuit we brought, the same judge just ordered FDA to produce the documents it relied on to license and Moderna’s covid vaccine AND Pfizer’s covid vaccine for 12-to-15-year-olds at an average rate of at least 180,000 pages per month.
According to Siri, there are 4.8 million pages of material available through this lawsuit. The FDA tried to insist that it “would be “impractical” to release the pages at more than 1,000 to 16,000 pages per month.” At that rate, Siri reports that it would take over 23 years to get the material out into the open. The judge, recognizing that this is total and utter cow manure, ruled that they must release it all in the next two years.
How ironic.
They managed to accumulate 4.8 million pages in under two years, so how hard could it be to make them available with more time to do it? Just put a rush on it, like you allegedly did with the alleged vaccine. Call it operation warp speed or, if you’d like something more accurate, operation sh!t hits the fan.
ICAN and Siri have been the driving force behind public health policy transparency. Their pursuit of the truth has confirmed much of what was observable in the wild. In thanks, machine-propaganda mills like Wikipedia describe them as,
The Informed Consent Action Network is one of the main anti-vaccination groups in the United States. Founded in 2016 by Del Bigtree, it spreads misinformation about the risks of vaccines and contributes to vaccine hesitancy, which has been identified by the World Health Organization as one of the top ten global health threats of 2019.
It is a shameful narrative shared by their fellow travelers in politics and media. Not much different, really, than the SPLC labeling GraniteGrok as anti-government (we get called anti-vaxxers, too, even though we’ve all received numerous vaccines, including (at least for a few of us) the blessed COVID Jab). We are not anarchists. We believe in government as envisioned by the Founders. Necessary but limited and organized to optimize individual liberty.
That’s pro-government. And I was a fan of medicine, especially given how well things went after my heart attack. The response to SARS-CoV2 destroyed my faith and trust; the more information we have, the less confidence I feel.
ICAN and Siri just scored a massive win for the public and informed consent, and no, the professional media is not expected to notice or cover any of the critical points in the released data, but it should. State and national data on positive tests, hospitalizations, or deaths made it clear early in their pandemic that the 18 and under age group was neither at risk nor a likely vector for transmission. It has also become clear the vaccine has harmed or killed more of them than COVID ever could.
We do not yet know, but if there are 4.8 million pages on vaccinating 12-15-year-olds, and they don’t want it public, that data probably shows the same results we saw out here in the trenches, and it won’t be pretty.
Not safe, not effective, dangerous, and unnecessary.
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100% of it. You earn it and watch Bernie’s IRS swoop in and take every last cent. He proves our point that the answer to the question of “Who’s money is it FIRST?” is that it isn’t the person that earned it. A reminder: I used to ask Bruce Currie, a past frequent commenter until he went Troll, that question all the time. He’d never answer it directly but I finally found something he wrote that gave the game away:
But wait, there’s more. A corollary to the fact that all money first comes from the government…
He was a least “coy” about it even though nobody at GraniteGrok thought it was otherwise. Once I read what he wrote, my response was:
Bernie isn’t coy at all about these things – he IS all about Government taking control and doing that “allocating” unapologetically.
Bernie Sanders: Government Should Confiscate All Wealth Over $999 Million
Bernie Sanders’s choice of $999 million as the permissible level of wealth and no more brings to mind Barack Obama’s words: “I mean, I do think at a certain point you’ve made enough money.” Of course, once such a wealth confiscation is announced, billionaires will depart for friendlier shores, there will be very little left to confiscate, and entrepreneurs will be creating jobs and wealth elsewhere. That’s what happened when France tried a wealth tax, and that’s why it was repealed.
"Are you basically saying that once you get to $999 million, the government should confiscate all the rest?"
BERNIE SANDERS: "I'm saying that we should go back to a very progressive tax policy."
"Over $1 billion basically all goes to the government?"
SANDERS: "Yeah" pic.twitter.com/YmIpTpI1oy
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) April 29, 2023
Here’s the transcript of the conversation:
WALLACE: “Sir, you’re saying that billionaires should not exist. So, are you basically saying that once you get to $999 million, that the government should confiscate all the rest?”
SANDERS: “I’m saying that we should go back to a very progressive tax policy like what we had under Dwight D. Eisenhower.”
WALLACE: “Which would mean that — that — over a billion, basically it all goes to the government?”
SANDERS: “You may disagree with me, but — fine, yeah, I think people can make it on $999 million.”
Bernie, who is himself worth $3 million, according to GoBankingRates, previously criticized both millionaires and billionaires, but now only opposes those worth over a billion dollars.
And yes, that is the debunked, disclaimed, and decrepit Chris Wallace who left Fox News for CNN Streaming only to find himself backed at ground zero in the news broadcasting biz. Really, Chris, you didn’t alREADY know what he was going to say? Oh, that’s right, you’re still with CNN basement bumming. I will admit perhaps a quarter floor up – can I say that Fox News pulled a Bud Light with trying to cancel Tucker Carlson?
He missed a great opportunity to ask Bernie THE question of the interview:
If we did go back to Eisenhower, should we also return to the size of Government that existed at that time as well?
Yeah, we already know the answer to that question.
And yet, Biden’s Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre claims that REPUBLICANS are the greatest threat to the American economy?
Bernie Sander’s sound-alikes are all economic illiterates as they either have no idea of the ramifications of altering such a point in our economy (or don’t care). Again, France removed their wealth tax just like America removed its yacht tax that was set up to mooch off the rich and their toys. What happened is that the rich didn’t buy any more yachts and thousands of blue collar workers working in the shipyards all up and down the coastlines lost their jobs either building them or maintaining them.
(H/T: ZeroHedge, DailyWire, IJR)
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On the occasion of Mother’s Day, let us abandon hate, bury the hatchet, unite around a common set of moral principles, and systematically overcome our common foe — the ills that face humanity and every one of us. There is much joy for all if we only rise to the challenge.
Mothers are the life-givers and nurturers of life. They are the ones who have a greater appreciation for the preciousness of life. They are the ones who should take the lead in raising men of peace and love rather than beasts of violence and hate.
Humanity’s best hope rests with mothers. They are the ones who are more likely to take the human tribe back to the Garden of Eden by making the earth a reflection of heaven.
Happy Mother’s Day!!
Amil Imani
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BUD has been downgraded by HBSC as a hold, and they can’t even give away Bud Light. Their other brands are also tanking, and his tweet shows us why.
BUD LIGHT UPDATE: Bud Light sales continue to crash as Anheuser-Busch stock was just downgraded.
Rocky Mountain states have seen the largest sales collapse, down 29%.
New England: Down 14%
West Coast: Down 18%
NY, PA, NJ: Down 19%
East South Central: Down 22%
Midwest: Down ~24%… pic.twitter.com/FOuSp9noVJ— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) May 11, 2023
And still, they haven’t bothered to do an apology to their then-loyal fans that have moved on to other brands like Coors/Miller and Yeungling.
Now, I don’t drink alcohol, so I have no dog in this fight, but most people do. So AB is a big loser, a BIG loser. But you know who is even bigger?
The Left.
For years they have used boycotts and the threats of boycotts against major and small corporations as well as small family businesses under the rubric of “Nice business you have there – pity if something were to happen to it” as in “we’ll yank your customer base a six-pack at a time.” Now, the Right, Conservatives, and those normally unaffiliated-but-refusing-to-be-identified-as-a-scrawny-guy-larping-as-a-young-girl folks have joined together to create a multi-billion dollar boycott.
Is this a one-shot, or as Saul Alinsky’s Rule #6 says, they have finally learned that this can be an effective tactic against the Left, even if just to have some fun but not be political?
After hordes of blue-collar and “frat boys” deserted them, the Human Rights Campaign (part of the Gay Mafia) threatened to pull their demographic, too, if they didn’t bow down to the mighty HRC CEI Score that measures how LBGT-friendly a company is. And now the gay bars are also retaliating against AB. Caught in the middle, eh?
VUNDERBAR!
I’m betting right now, after what Dylan Mulvaney has done to their company with just a few “influencer” videos, AB is wondering if DM was a corporation-wrecking plant by the anti-alcohol folks.
Wonder what this beer blood bath will look like in a couple of weeks? As one wag has written, if this lasts until and just through Memorial Day, they may be just another can – if it even survives.
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Seventy-five years ago, May 14, 1948, was the rebirth of one of the oldest nations in history, Israel. She is a unique and diverse Jewish state with a young viable democracy in an unstable region.
Your rebirth, Israel, is, in reality, a culmination of thousands of years of gestation during which the Jewish people, dispersed through much of the world, endured immense degrees and varieties of suffering. The Nazi murderers and their collaborators capped the crimes committed against your people by brutally slaughtering six million innocent men, women, and children.
Regrettably, your journey from your early beginning to the present has been fraught with great suffering. It is a tribute to the indomitable spirit of your people that they persisted in their valiant struggle to re-gather again in the land of their birth.
A noble and just Persian king, Cyrus the Great, rescued your people from captivity in a foreign land and empowered them to return home and build their sacred temple. By his action of freeing an entire people from captivity and restoring their rightful dignity, Cyrus the Great, the author of the first code of Human Rights, cemented a bond of friendship between the Jews and the Persians. It was the Just King’s way of setting the world on a course of freedom, equality, and justice for all people, irrespective of any and all considerations.
Now, Israel, you are a sovereign state but hardly safe. You are surrounded by nations and peoples who are bent on your destruction. It is tragic that your neighbors and you have not been able to find an equitable way of living side-by-side with mutual respect and in peace.
Many of us Iranians co-suffer with this tragic state of affairs that harms you as well as your neighbors. We earnestly hope that ways can be found for a peaceful resolution of this destructive impasse.
We appreciate the fact that you, Israel, have welcomed the Iranian Jews who could no longer tolerate the rule of the oppressive venomous mullahs. These mullahs are indeed traitors to the lofty long-standing tradition and values championed by Cyrus the Great and revered by Persians throughout the ages.
We applaud you for affording millions of Israeli Arabs opportunities denied to them in many other lands.
Your fair treatment of the Baha’is, Israel, is further testimony to your ability and willingness to live in harmony with any and all people. In Iran, the birthplace of the Baha’i faith, Baha’is are ruthlessly subjected to a form of gradual genocide by the savage mullahs. Some Baha’is are executed for their faith, Baha’i children are denied university studies, Baha’i holy places are destroyed and even their cemeteries are bulldozed, just to cite a few examples. You, Israel, by contrast, have provided the Baha’is freedom to care for their holy places which were established in the Holy Land during the 19th century, long before your rebirth.
The story of the rebirth of Israel is truly a miracle, yet challenges have remained, challenges that threaten the existence of this tiny ancient country filled with rich culture. As we watch, we pray for Israel and the Jewish people, for everlasting peace and prosperity.
Your perennial prayer, “Next Year in Jerusalem” has finally been answered. We also pray that you succeed in taking the steps necessary for making the New Jerusalem a place of hope and lasting safety for your people as well as people of all religions and those with no religion at all.
Happy Birthday, Israel
Amil Imani
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Why would NH residents trust any of Sununu’s Picks? Back on November 22, Steve MacDonald interviewed Brenda Towne on the issues with the Electronic Voting Machines in Windham, NH in the recent past elections.
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They had a number of experts bring this up to the Secretary of State at the time.
The Secretary of State was presented with the fact that there was something wrong with the Machines. They stated there wasn’t enough evidence. So, Brenda, with a bunch of volunteers, canvassed ½ the State by going door to door with a compiled list of registered Voters in NH.
The results were devasting, proving something was wrong and needed more investigation into the matter.
When Brenda and Company brought this back to Sununu’s appointed Secretary of State, they said that there was nothing they could do with it and sent it to Sununu’s appointed Attorney General, who is still sitting on this TODAY!
This brings into question how does the ASST ATTY GENERAL not know about this issue, and Sununu is appointing this person to be a Superior Court Judge.
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The Marco Polo (MP) report includes a timeline beginning detailing key activities with dates. These entries indicate the trail of evidence found on the laptop and corroborated either with official White House entries, newspaper articles and releases, as well as names of those involved in the criminal activity.
Perhaps the most notable is the already reported dealings for Hunter, having been discharged from the military on his first day of service after testing positive for cocaine, quickly finding help from friend and business associate Devon Archer who, similarly unqualified, found opportunity in Ukraine with the Burisma Energy company. The timeline moves through the “western supported” ousting of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych who seeks exile in Russia, followed by the White House announcing Joe Biden as the “face” of American concerns with Ukraine’s “energy security”.
MP notes:
“April 13 [2014] at 12:43 AM: Hunter emailed Archer an extremely long memo about leveraging Joe’s position as the “public face” of the U.S. administration’s policy in the Ukraine: ‘The [Bursima] contract should begin now- not after the upcoming visit of my guy [Joe]. That [Burisma contract] should include a retainer in the range of [$]25k p[er]/m[onth] w/ additional fees where appropriate for more in depth work to go to BSF [Boies Schiller Flexner LLP] for our protection.”
MP also notes “the e-mail to Archer contained 22 bullet points and bore the subject line ‘Tmrw.’ In No. 22, Hunter Biden told Archer ‘Buy a cell phone from a 7/11 or CVS tmrw and ill do the same.’”
Fast forward to February 18, 2016 and the White House released a statement praising Ukrainian president Poroshenko for firing the Ukranian prosecutor, Viktor Shokin, mere weeks after Biden threatened to withhold a $1 billion loan guarantee if Shokin – who was investigating Burisma at the time – were not fired. Biden would later brag about this at a Council on Foreign Relations meeting that would go viral.
What follows is a series of attempts by Mac, and his father and uncle – both former Air Force colonels – reaching out to the F.B.I. for help. Instead they are met with either silence or threats to keep quiet about the laptop’s contents. Meanwhile then House Speaker Pelosi begins impeachment hearings on President Trump’s call to Zelensky to uncover the truth about the Biden’s and Burisma. Ultimately acquitted by the Senate the tarnishing attacks on Trump were just beginning.
As the laptop saga unfolds we find more associates of both Joe and Hunter use their positions of power to either intimidate or harass Mac who had to relocate to Denver following massive threats to his person and livelihood. One such couple included Joe and Lesley Wolf. Lesley graduated from Yale alongside Hunter and Archer. Joe worked at U Penn home to the Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement which “received over $22 million in anonymous foreign donations from China blatantly violating 20 USC & 1011f(e), which forbids anonymous foreign donations over a $250k threshold.”
MP sets aside a section to describe the Biden “mob” family as essentially four packs emanating from Joe’s father. Throughout the years they have had multiple brushes with the law, engaged in obvious nepotism, and shown disdain for law enforcement. Among them include:
The Biden mob extends to Hollywood by way of Kevin Morris, an attorney and husband to super agent Holly Mongerman, who represents the likes of Miley Cyrus, Matthew McConaughy and the creators of South Park. Morris “threatens and cooks up ridiculous PR strategies for his media defense.”
Devon Archer, a former model and fellow Yale grad, is also a felon. Hunter considers him “family” and one of their text exchanges is uniquely benighted about how they use power to achieve their goals.
For all of the media’s soft pedaling Hunter liked to play the gangster behind closed doors. Several text exchanges with lawyer friend and cover man, George Mesires, show him using the “n***a” word liberally. He humble brags a song titled “Break Da Law” is his “life without exaggeration for the past three years”. Perhaps this alter-ego grew out of his relationship to James Bulger, nephew to infamous Mafiosi and serial killer James “Whitey” Bulger, with whom he sat on the Bohai Harvest RST (BHR) board. The Bulger clan are in tight with the CCP.
Also connected to China, and bizarrely the Satanic Biden appointee for the monkey pox outbreak, Demetre Daskalakis, is Joe Zeigler, the agent responsible for obtaining Hunter’s bank records from accounts held in China. Zeigler, appears on pages 78-79 of the report, with his partner wearing a tutu and a rainbow “love sees no color” shirt. Zeigler was the IRS Special Agent and go between who would have revealed multiple felonious violations of Foreign Bank Account Registrations (31 USC & 5314) connected to Hunter, which are yet to emerge. Apparently love is also blind to the breaking of laws.
The reports section on the Biden family involvement in China is extensive. Hunter does most of the heavy lifting by using his social skills to meet, greet and match Chinese businesses to their desired American connections. Emails reveal Hunter can drop the gangster attitude in exchange for a sinophilic sycophant saying to prospects “you’re the best” “we had a blast in Shanghai” and “give me my marching orders”.
One oddly Third Reich-ish message to Devon Archer reads “Your question – ‘why dos Super Chair[man – Che] love me so much?’ is easily answered. It has nothing to do with me and everything to do with my last name (and I bring along very handsome Aryan godlike men wherever I go.)”
Along the way Joe’s name is dropped, as his brother Jim’s, and pictures of Joe shaking hands with the Chinese suitors are abundant. This is, apparently, the Delaware way Vermont. One wonders with Vermont politicians also making friendly with the Chinese if we are unaware of the Biden’s in our midst?
The report goes on to show the same scheme played out in The Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Russia and Mexico. The casualness displayed by the Biden’s as the run roughshod over the American legal code is stunning. The collective narcissism and lawlessness, made easier by the inbred self-deception, and what this says about our country, is the focus of part three in this series.
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Yep, I have too many of these kinds of stories just sitting around in tabs and I have to start unloading them. Mostly for my own benefit as we have become, as Steve says, self-referential. With over 50,000 posts since 2006, we’ve probably written something about almost everything that bubbles up in the Venn Diagram intersection of Politics and Culture. It’s nice to have that as a “lookup” or a surprise when trying to find something else. Anyways, time to get to the meat of this post…
Sidenote: hey, with the Greenies trying to force us to become Vegans, can I even say that anymore?
I’ve been commenting that California, Oregon, and Washington State have decided to become Transgender Sanctuary States because parents are evil (see “Childism” in Stack of Stuff #45 of yesterday). However, time to start putting up the proof of what I have written:
(April 13): The Washington State Senate passed a sweeping law on Thursday that permits juveniles to undergo transgender surgery without parental consent. This is how the Washington Senate Democrats describe the law, SB 5599, in a press release.
Under current law, licensed shelters must notify parents if a child comes into their care, unless a compelling reason applies. This legislation allows licensed shelters to contact the Department of Children, Youth and Families (DCYF) in lieu of parents in certain additional instances, like when a young person is seeking reproductive health services or gender-affirming care.
So Mommy and Daddy tell the young’un that 1) cutting off your bottom external genitalia, 2) slicing up your breasts like they were a turkey at Thanksgiving, and 3) taking hormones that will leave you sterile in most cases is a BAD thing – and they are evil for doing so? And Government MUST protect a minor child that can’t sign for anything with respect to consenting to anything because Society believes that their minds are still too underdeveloped and critical thinking skills are non-existing and let them do this?
And I really can’t believe this Presser has this written this line:
“We know that young people experiencing homelessness are exposed to dangerous and harmful outcomes. That is why we must take every step we can to ensure their safety,” Sen. Liias said. “This legislation ensures that our trans youth have safe options and access to secure, stable shelter when they may not be welcome at home.”
And because #1-3 aren’t dangerous so we must protect against “unwelcomeness”? #1-3 are “safe options”?
The need for SB 5599 comes as states across the country introduce and pass anti-LGBTQ legislation. According to the ACLU, 452 anti-LGBTQ bills have been introduced across 45 states and 29 bills have passed in 14 different states.
Yes, you read that right. A kid claiming to be transgender can run away from home, go to a shelter, and the shelter is not required to tell the parents the kid is safe.
…This law effectively strips the parent of their rights, allows a minor to make an irreversible surgical decision without the ability to give informed consent, makes the parents pay for it, and dumps the whole dumpster fire of emotional, psychological, and financial impacts back them to deal with as best they can.
And who is the kid being protected against? His or her evil parents. This is continuing the Democrat war on parents and this is going to be FAR worse than any of the scapegoating that the Dems have been waging on mere Republicans over the last few years. The goal is to “finish the job” of fundamentally transforming American (again, Obama reference) society by breaking the notion of the tradition American family. LBJ’s Great Society started the process by forcing husbands to move out so that the Government would then financially support his wife and kids and now the very idea of a husband and wife with 2.5 kids as a nuclear family is getting nuked itself. This is as Totalitarian as Hitler’s Germany, Mussolini’s Italy, Pol Pot’s Cambodia, Mao’s China (still is), Fidel’s Cuba, and Lenin’s Soviet Union.
Go review the SCOTUS decisions in that post that maintain that Parents Rights over their children trump that of The State. How far our Society has fallen.
And those desiring Political Power of adults in Vermont on their S.5 bill that will add a Greenie tax on fossil fuel heating oils to move the State to “Electrify EVERYTHING!” even as they don’t have enough electricity supply to do it have been “stripping Parents of their children” ideologically to use the children against their parents to yammer them to switch (“Mom and Dad, WHY do you hate my planet so much??”):
The Vermont Energy Education Program, a nonprofit organization, would like to get access to all Vermont students as well as adults to address climate matters and energy policy. The organization already has influence. It has been operating in 80% of Vermont schools within the last five years, according to Andy Shapiro, the energy engineer for the organization. On Tuesday, he told members of the House Education Committee that educational efforts regarding green technologies should focus on youth.
“I realized it was pretty hard to convince adults about payback, but kids, they just want to know, does this stuff work?” he said. “They generally think [green energy policies] are a good idea.”
He detailed the range of programs that they bring to Vermont’s K-12 schools.
Why wouldn’t the kids be amenable to this – they’ve been immersed in this Cargo Cult of greenness ever since they started in daycare. But this is how Totalitarians roll: “I don’t care about you – I have your children”.
Continuing along with Totalitarianisms, there can be no Free Speech that is dissenting from the accepted Narrative of the Left. And make no mistake, the American Library Association doesn’t like when tradition Parents complain that pornography is easy to get by youngsters at their public libraries:
PJ Media reported the heinous and graphic material that is available to children in Maine public schools. Parents went to the school board to report the disgusting content in the middle school and high school libraries in the Bonny Eagle school system that included bestiality, incest, and child rape. Parents read from the books, one after the other, finding over 100 books in the school catalog that contained violent and explicit themes. As a result of the meeting, the board voted to remove eight books until they could be reviewed and assessed for appropriateness.
In the clip below, you can hear an excerpt from one of the books pushed by the groomers who want to destroy children’s innocence and separate them from their families. I warn you, it’s so explicit that I had to set an age restriction on YouTube, and at the age of 46, I had never heard some of this stuff before (and wish I hadn’t). So don’t listen if you don’t want to be permanently scarred. I can’t even retype what is written in these books because Google will flag this article as “advertiser unfriendly.” Keep in mind this is what is being shown to kids as young as ten in almost every public school in the nation.
An excerpt from a new pornographic book found in Bonny Eagle public school in Maine. This is read to the school board, who have allowed this, by an incredible father. No matter what you think you’ve heard before, you’ll be shocked. @MeganFoxWriter
This is your “inclusion”. pic.twitter.com/tVhNArRp4U
— Courage Is A Habit (@CourageHabit) April 4, 2023
A small group of local child abusers has been nasty to the board chair insisting he put those 8 pornographic books back, despite hearing exactly what were in those books. pic.twitter.com/Ciag1Mq2qE
— Courage Is A Habit (@CourageHabit) April 11, 2023
I think that we should start calling School Board members, School District Staff, and teachers that support this idea that youngsters NEED porn in order to function better or because they are members of “marginalised communities” one short, two word phrase: Porn Stars for their activism in pushing salacious material upon children that are not ready for it yet against the wishes of their Parents.
After the board removed eight books, promising to review them, the radical American Library Association (ALA) wasted no time sending its hounds to intimidate the board. An offshoot of the ALA called the Maine Association of School Libraries (MASL) sent a letter with the intent to shame the board for allegedly violating the First Amendment and listening to parents instead of the communistic ALA guidance that demands even the youngest readers have access to X-rated material.
Merely excuses for deviancy, degeneracy, and debauchery. So let’s try something a bit lighter: Gnosticism
“There is nothing new under the sun,” says the Book of Ecclesiastes (1:9), and that includes today’s fashionable trans madness. While men mutilating themselves and taking hormones and calling themselves women may be a new aspect of this phenomenon, men have been donning dresses and prancing around pretending to be women from time immemorial. And now a detransitioner, a woman who spent several years pretending to be a man before awakening from her delusion, has rooted the trans phenomenon in another extremely old idea: Gnosticism, an ancient religious belief that derided the material world as evil and is combated in the New Testament.
Estella Suarez-Hamilton, who began pretending to be a man as a teenager, explained Wednesday that at the heart of the trans fad is a desire to escape from reality: “Oftentimes, people are looking for an escape. There’s a lot of escapism in my generation, and this is especially true with the trans ideology. It was a distraction that I needed, to not look at the parts of my life and the relationships in my life that I was not succeeding in, and were falling apart. I was looking for escape — and the political, kind of spiritual, aspects of trans ideology, when they’re combined with the online [community], that offers a type of escapism. A lot of times people will say that it’s a ‘cult,’ and in a way, that could be applied, but I think a more accurate term is a ‘cyber sect.’” This sect has surprisingly ancient roots, in an old version of escapism.
“If you are thinking about how to describe the sect,” Suarez-Hamilton continued, “it is very much connected to, like, the modern Gnostic principles. This is a syncretic cyber sect of modern Gnosticism, and I love how complicated it sounds, because the trans community loves language, and they love to complicate language to the nth degree. So, I think that this term is just very — from my experience — very accurate to explain what I went through, that’s what I think happened, and that’s how I can articulate it.” A syncretic cyber sect of modern Gnosticism is actually a remarkably apt term.
Gnosticism was a secretive and multifaceted movement that was based on its adherents gaining access to a secret knowledge, or gnosis in Greek.
It’s a good read, and easy read, even if a bit heavy on ancient philosophy. I still think that Childism is a better explanation for a lot of this (as well as a rebellion against God in a sideways version of the Tower of Babel).
Back to the infamous “Banned Books” of the Left when Parents catch drift that today’s Librarians aren’t much better than the owners of “adult book stores”. Just the two most important bits because I’ve gone long with the snippets above:
The Left is in an uproar. Parents opposed to their indoctrinating ways are forming a resistance movement. One uproar is over books—assigned books in the classroom and available books in the school library. Disagree with the content of the books? You’re for “book bans.” Technically, this is accurate inside the school, but the leftist press makes it sound like you’re banning books entirely from public view. They get to pose as the defenders of books and “book learning” and as compassionate defenders of the book-reading needs of the “marginalized.”
…But nowhere in this story is there a single second of explaining the offensive content. Author Elana K. Arnold complained that the sexually explicit scenes in her books are considered pornographic, but this is “a gross misrepresentation.” But that’s not an explanation. This is how the leftist media operate. They are all about channeling outrage about “book bans,” and they spend no time explaining the pornographic passages and images that stoke the controversy. It’s all posing and no disclosing.
…The Left hates dissent. They associate dissent with “disinformation.” They “ban” conservative ideas and advocates from many of their news stories. They call conservatives Nazis, and no one gets to tell them that’s atrocious.
And back to School Districts deciding that they have the Power to keep secrets from Parents (which really is the process of teaching children to NOT trust their parents and that teachers are better than their parents). I am STILL fighting the Gilford School Board over this and I CAUGHT the Grandson’s teacher lying to me!
Remember when schools taught academics and not how to change your gender? Aurora Regino, a mother in California blasted her local school board after finding out her 11 year old daughter was being secretly transitioned in her elementary school. Even after she called it out, the school board voted to keep the “parental secret policy” so they could continue secretly transitioning young kids. Talk about grooming!
Chico California school district mother Aurora Regino says her daughter was transitioned from a female to a male by school staff without her knowledge.
The school counselor capitalized on a vulnerable time in her daughter’s life as Regino’s father had just passed and she was… pic.twitter.com/wTRDpg8fzt
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) April 13, 2023
“Treating every parent as a potential threat is wrong,” she said and added, “It’s a slippery slope to allow any adult in our schools to keep secrets from parents for any reason,” and talked about how evil it was what the school did.
They see parents as such because of their Moral Superiority. They have take the actions of the few, combined it with a liberal dose of the Trans-Authoritarianism, and with Critical Race Theory pronouncing that no one is any better than the group they belong to (in this case the group called “Parents”), ALL Parents are guilty of the sins of the few.
And we used to think that Government schools were bad when we only concerned ourselves that schools were illegally taking our pregnant daughters out to get rid of that mass of tissue. No longer illegal if these legislators get their way. For 13-year olders, Government would officially continue the process of “normalizing” the taking of a life:
Public schools would teach children as young as 12 about abortion as part of the middle and high school sex education curriculum, give them a list of abortion businesses, and inculcate an attitude of “inclusivity and support in conversations surrounding abortion,” if a new bill passes the California legislature. The legislation is one of 17 new abortion-related bills Democratic lawmakers have introduced to enhance the state’s self-identity as an “abortion sanctuary.”
Additional bills would allow abortionists to break the law in other states with impunity, create a taxpayer-funded “awareness campaign” that critics believe will malign pro-life pregnancy resource centers, and expand publicly funded abortion-on-demand for minors without parental consent.
AB 598 from Assemblywoman Buffy Wicks (D-14) requires that middle school and high school sex education programs instruct kids in “pregnancy prevention and care, including, but not limited to, guidance regarding contraceptive methods and abortion.” Teachers have to give students “information about obtaining abortions during different stages of pregnancy, including informational resources, methods, and medical risks.” The bill further specifies that “all pupils shall receive a physical or digital resource detailing the local resources” to carry out an abortion — such as a webpage linking minors to local abortion facilities. The bill also asks teachers to inculcate a “positive” attitude of “inclusivity and support in conversations surrounding abortion or contraception.”
The legislation encourages teachers to have children “support” abortion-on-demand.
I just have no words to describe this evil of legislators, again, breaking the bonds between a child their their parents. How DARE they decide that they know what is best for a child over the concern and responsibility of a loving mother or father?
They are reducing us to being mere breeding pairs for The State.
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The Surgeon General for the state of Florida, Dr. Joseph A. Ladapo, is not well-liked among the liberal intelligentsia. Sure, he’s a successful black man, but that is overshadowed by his refusal to parrot the approved public health narratives.
He’s also Gov. Ron DeSantis’ Surgeon General, which permits the left to indiscriminately discriminate with offensive and racist epithets. The latest outrage, like many before it, started with a tweet.
When I asked the feds for more honesty and transparency around COVID-19 vaccine data, they replied with a word salad of pandering and gaslighting. Here’s my response. Let’s try again, @CDCgov @US_FDA. pic.twitter.com/PEDXyARCJF
— Joseph A. Ladapo, MD, PhD (@FLSurgeonGen) May 11, 2023
Even with the Pfizer docs available and fisked by third parties – to reveal all the deceptions and obfuscations – the Public Health Industrial Complex can’t bring itself to speak the truth.
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HT | NewsWars
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In case you missed it Donald Trump graciously allowed CNN to interview him by way of interrogation on Wednesday night in Concord, NH. Emerging to loud applause the embattled former president graciously took a seat next to CNN hopeful Kaitlin Collins who proceeded to wage a mockery of an pre-election inquiry.
CNN has been credited with appearing to return to their once “most trusted name in news” style of unbiased reporting under new management, but it is clear their old habits are hard to break. Such is the bane of the hopeless elitist ideologues, but at least they deserve credit for trying.
Collins has a history with president Trump who shut her down on multiple occasions in public during his presidency. Though the introduction and first few moments were cordial, it didn’t take long for Collins to maneuver the dialogue to a series of “gotcha” type sound bites they no doubt were desperate to obtain.
Rather than sit through the CNN broadcast and be pummeled by Pfizer advertisements during the breaks, I decided to watch the Louder With (Steven) Crowder coverage and play along to the drinking game with a nice Temperanillo and cigar. The rules for taking a drink were:
The nice thing about this format is it made the obvious hit piece much more tolerable given I had to drink rapidly within the first ten minutes. Luckily it slowed down after that.
Collins asked leading questions attempting to get the unleashed MAGA-log-maniac to heel, only to be reminded why the country picked him and still loves him – he has ZERO respect for the establishment or the elite nor their media lap dogs.
Very clearly commanding the stage Trump would answer her questions in his candidly Trumpian way with her bravely interrupting him to interject her attempted counter-trump cards, such as “will you accept the results of the 2020 election?” Whatever your feelings about Trump, he remained true to form and would not budge an inch. This is called integrity.
She moved on to the recent E. Jean Carroll case Trump ostensibly lost calling it “sexual assault” when the verdict was for defamation and battery. CNN’s mistake was allowing Trump to speak which is when he reminds the audience of how crazy the woman is. Not admissible in court was her dog’s name “vagina” which Trump enunciated in his uniquely NY accent – which rose to the level of a thug-life moment and one more drink. For those wondering if this Carroll woman is yet another story-teller I suggest you check out Mr. Reagan’s take. It appears she may have based her story on a Law and Order episode. The similarities are uncanny, as was the way she related the story without remorse to Anderson Cooper.
Collins tried to capitalize on the crowd’s questions offered to Trump, which included how he’d handle the war in Ukraine. “I’d end it in 24 hours” he says, followed by rauckus applause. The hostess, clad in her virginal white pant suit, attempts to take the moral high ground and get him to stand with Ukraine by suggesting “don’t you want Ukraine to win”. Trump brings it back to the need to stop the human carnage, and we’re again reminded of his humanity, often overlooked by his critics.
Other topics included: Roe v. Wade, a victory for Trump who loves babies; mass shootings and gun laws, where he focused on mental illness; and the high cost of living under Biden, which was a slam dunk for his economic record including low gas prices. “Drill baby drill” he said, and we all happily drank to that.
CNN had the event scheduled for 90 minutes only to cut it short at 75 minutes because the hostesses pretty pant-suit was stained red from the absolute beating she was taking. Though they love to dish it out they can’t take it, which was made evident by the stunned dialogue from the talking heads at the home studio.
CNN to Trump is like Wile E. Coyote to the Road Runner. Their seemingly endless amounts of Acme props brought out to destroy him in fantastic fashion nearly always backfire in their faces. Cartoonish and brutish they sally forth for yet another stab at him as if they were goring a bull in a stadium full of adoring fans.
Not that night in Concord though. The crowd still had that “live free or die” vibe we know and love from the Granite staters. They applauded the champ multiple times and even boo’d the media darling.
Hats of to the bull.
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This seems to be a question I keep asking a lot lately – and it applies here: “What is it about me that I know but that you don’t – but should.” Moral of the Day: Don’t threaten to hurt a man you don’t know is carrying and willing to defend the girlfriend you beat up.
Reformatted, emphasis mine
A concealed carrier fatally shot a man who allegedly threatened to harm him while aggressively approaching him early Monday morning in Maryland. Police were called to the 2900 block of Sedgemore Place in Bryans Road around 3:30 a.m. for a report of a domestic assault in progress, Southern Maryland News Net reported, adding that prior to their arrival, police got a report of gunshots in the same area. Bryans Road is about 40 minutes south of Washington, D.C.
When police arrived, they found a man with gunshot wounds near the intersection of Sedgemore Place and Matthews Road and administered first aid until paramedics arrived, the outlet said. The man — identified as 30-year-old Carl Francis Braxton — was transported to a hospital, where he was later pronounced dead, the outlet added. Braxton was an active-duty firefighter/EMT, according to Washington, D.C., Fire and Rescue Chief John A. Donnelly Sr., the outlet reported.
Braxton reportedly had assaulted his girlfriend inside their townhouse, the outlet said, citing a preliminary investigation. Donnelly’s statement indicated a female 911 caller said a man assaulted and strangled her and was possibly following her outside a home, the outlet added. After reportedly fleeing the home, the woman encountered a man who was walking his dog, the outlet said. Witnesses said Braxton walked aggressively toward the man and threatened to harm him, the outlet said. The man — who has a permit to carry a gun — shot Braxton, the outlet added. Donnelly’s statement indicated Braxton was shot multiple times.
Man sees a damsel in distress, has a dark knight threatening him as well, and turns out to have his own shining armor. Some on the Left would not like that characterization I just made. Well, guess what – I decided to play along with your stereotype of what we think we are.
We who carry take the responsibility of carrying legally (unlike the gang bangers who criminally have guns even if they are prohibited from possessing them) believe it is a heavy burden (Rights also have responsibilities) and not one to be trifled with.
He is out for a walk with his dog and never expected this kind of situation but he was prepared for it.
While the story doesn’t discuss her behavior, state of mind, or dress, I would imagine she was in pretty rough shape. Any man worth his salt would offer her protection from a man like Braxton, who immediately decided to go after him the same way he (allegedly) went after his girlfriend.
Frankly, I carry to protect myself and my family. Friends are also included. But only as a last resort, as I learned from my martial arts training decades ago. Thus, I’ve never had to use any of that training – not once. I hope that I never have to unholster – ever.
Unfortunately, that unnamed protector had to. Braxton made a decision and suffered the consequence – you don’t threaten to hurt people.
(H/T: The Blaze)
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The arrogance of Sun-King Sununu knows no bounds. He really does consider himself anointed by some woke-deity or deities rather than an elected public servant. Here he is scolding his subjects … we’re not citizens to Sun-King, but subjects … for “embarrassing” him by cheering for Trump at the CNN “town hall.”
And … by the way … Sun-King said this to JEN PSAKI … former Biden-regime propagandist and current MSNBC propagandist JEN PSAKI. Apparently, Sun-King’s narcissism is so over the top that he can’t see the tragic irony of calling us embarrassing while groveling at PSAKI’s feet for a pat on the royal scalp and an “attaboy.”
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I have said it previously that the Grandson suffers from Fetal Alcohol Syndrome – his birth mother was too selfish in her self-gratification losing streak to think, “what am I doing to my child with my boozing and drugging?”
To the point that after being airlifted to Dartmouth-Hitch to give birth, she left the next morning. To DCYF’s credit, the social worker stationed at D-H pleaded with TMEW if we’d be the “family caregiver,” and things proceeded from there in that he is ours.
F.A.S. has a number of symptoms that are now starting to emerge wider in-depth and deeper in intensity. And so, he has an IEP under the rubric of delayed development in some areas. We’re used to IEPs – our two (now grown sons) also had them as well – we know the drill, and I know a lot more about RTKs, Edu-Rules, and Edu-Law. And since becoming a political blogger, I have far less patience with those in such positions that believe the Edu-Industrial Complex has successfully flipped the former relationship that PARENTS are in charge of their children and not the School Districts.
So I’m putting this up because I am hearing that some Districts, when invoking retribution about some “involved” parents (that have become too “involved” for the District’s liking), have been siccing DCYF onto parents in attempts to intimidate them (yes, I’m getting those stories) as this may go further.
Background: at the last “remote learning” day that the District had, I paid much more attention to how that went for the Grandson (and TMEW as well). Let’s say that I was not pleased, that I saw how little attention that the boys received with respect to the girls, that he was lost during it (learning disabilities don’t do well in remotes). Suffice it to say that when there was a lull when there were no students online, I made what I was seeing clear. Less than two minutes to tell her that we’d talk about this at “tomorrow’s meeting and not now,” except that it didn’t happen because the next school day was canceled due to the weather as well.
So TMEW and I dropped it. The teacher didn’t—wrong move.
Everyone was present at the IEP meeting except for her. Suffice it to say, she decided to come loaded for bear and, to be honest, victimize herself. I responded, but she kept cutting me off. I finally said, “this meeting is over,” and I stormed out. The Principal saw that and hurriedly went into the meeting. Things didn’t get any better because the teacher, for 45 additional minutes, kept making the meeting about her until TMEW announced, “enough, this is about <the Grandson>. The only thing substantive that was accomplished that this late in the year was that he was reinstated back into Title I for math as it was clear he has been left behind (we know because he gets “homeschooled” after the school day is over in the Government school). In our eyes, that should have been the case at the beginning of the year as he had been placed in Title I last year and had been given more assistance during the summer (“learning loss avoidance”).
But some things were said and I decided that if those kinds of things were said, I’m going to make them prove their words (here, RULE 4: “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.” ). If you state something, that’s now your Rule Book because (to use the language of the Left against them) you are in a position of Power and taking advantage of that Power Imbalance). So, without attribution:
“Oh really,” when TMEW rejoined me after the meeting. If these things are being held to be true, let’s let them prove it because it affects the Grandson. TMEW is the LAST person that wants to get caught up in such a controversy – she’s also the LAST person you want to get riled up. So here they go; the following Right To Knows were issued as a result of this meeting:
Pursuant to the Right to Know Law (RSA. 91-A), I am demanding access, within 5 business days, to the following governmental records:
- A copy of the District’s Ethics Complaint form(s).
- A copy of the Process/Instructions/Chain of Custody for submitting, acknowledgment of, status updates, and final decision.
To #1 above:
Pursuant to the Right to Know Law (RSA. 91-A), I am demanding access, within 5 business days, to the following governmental records:
- Provide the NH RSA(s) that provides such a Power to be able to order a Parent to Cease and Desist in their Constitutional supported Right to educate their offspring
- Provide the Education rule(s) that provide such a Power over a Parent to not educate their own child.
To #2 and partially #3 above:
At the latest Special Education Meeting, the <redacted> made the remark that our legal son, <the Grandson>, could not be in the situation whereby he is near the top of his class yet still require Title I assistance.
Pursuant to the Right to Know Law (RSA. 91-A), I am demanding access, within 5 business days, to the following governmental records:
- The evaluation/determination process of how a First Grade student is determined to be on the Bell Curve/class ranking in mathematics/arithmetic relative to his peers
- The same for reading.
Note: Sometimes, people ought to ask “what is it that THEY (TMEW & I) know that we do not – but should. While he is “lost” in mathematics, he is already reading at a Third Grade level.
Further, the Responsive Records will also include:
- <the Grandson>’s standing with his First Grade peers relative to mathematics/arithmetic on a percentage or standard deviation of the Bell Curve that adequately demonstrates the capability of the entire First Grade class relative to the District’s goals for the year.
- Ditto for reading.
Please note that this Right To Know also serves as our permission to such information pertaining to <the Grandson> as these determination, under FERPA (“any and all education records”) restrictions as necessary release it to us.
And relative to #3:
Pursuant to the Right to Know Law (RSA. 91-A), I am demanding access, within 5 business days, to the following governmental records:
- The evaluation/determination process of how a student meets the lower 20% of a class, (in this case, Kindergarten and First Grade) in order to be eligible for additional in-school Title I instruction that the District offers. This also includes for after-school Title I instruction.
- Provide which subjects, within the Kindergarten and First Grade classes, does the District offer Title I additional instruct above and beyond the normal classroom curriculum and instruction.
The Responsive Records will include:
- Provide the academic data is reviewed to make this determination
- Provide the process/methodology that uses the information in Item #1 to determine a >20% determination (e.g., threshold or cut-off values)
- Provide the roles/titles of District Staff that are involved in the process
- Provide the roles/titles of District Staff that can override any determination a denial or acceptance into Title I eligibility status.
- Provide the information as to if an override was issued.
- Provide all of the data outlined above for our legal son, Benjamin Scott Murphy.
- Provide the District’s year end goals in mathematics/arithmetic for the respective two grade levels in concerning regard as to
- Provide the District’s milestones are to be achieved at the various points in the school year for the respective two grade levels.
The comment was made during the Special Education meeting that our (to wit: <TMEW and I> legal son, <the Grandson> was not eligible for Title I instruction. Subsequently we were informed that he was going to receive it anyways, showing ambiguity and capriciousness as to how the District’s determination was made.
Not enough Parents, unfortunately, have the temerity to hold their Government employees to account to what they say. Some might have the courage but also have the fear that their child might suffer retribution for their standing up for their child. I would also posit that far fewer have both the knowledge to do so – I certainly wouldn’t have years ago when our two boys were going through similar types of issues. It has taken me years of being a political activist to sufficient learn the Law and the methods to employ to better advocate now for the Grandson.
And most of all, how many people have a GraniteGrok to get some publicity as to what is going on?
OH WAIT, YOU DO! If you find yourselves in dealing with some part of Government that is being obstinate AND in which we have some expertise, let us know. We may not be able to help everyone but we can help some.
Like a rumor I just heard about last night in that some parents’ School Districts are filing bogus claims with DCYF to make trouble for them simply because those Parents expect their Districts to Follow The Law AND always be striving for Excellence – but aren’t. Skip@GraniteGrok.com
After all – Article 8:
[Art.] 8. [Accountability of Magistrates and Officers; Public’s Right to Know.] All power residing originally in, and being derived from, the people, 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. Therefore, any individual taxpayer eligible to vote in the State, shall have standing to petition the Superior Court to declare whether the State or political subdivision in which the taxpayer resides has spent, or has approved spending, public funds in violation of a law, ordinance, or constitutional provision. In such a case, the taxpayer shall not have to demonstrate that his or her personal rights were impaired or prejudiced beyond his or her status as a taxpayer. However, this right shall not apply when the challenged governmental action is the subject of a judicial or administrative decision from which there is a right of appeal by statute or otherwise by the parties to that proceeding.
Remember, they work for us. Sometimes, means must be deployed to remind them of that.
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Obviously, the Green Energy folks led by John Kerry, Al Gore, and the Wiz Kid, Greta Thunberg, are not mathematicians. In the last twenty years, the world has invested $5 Trillion, most of it in America, for a net reduction in fossil fuels of 2%.
That is nearly $17,000 for every citizen in this country on a program that is not based on science and is poorly planned. And the results are abominable. If this were a private sector project, it would be scrapped or paused and retooled. But not with the government. The government solution is more funds (resources) and regulations. It is about seizing more control over the populace. Joe Biden’s White House is circumventing Congress and attacking our cars, air conditioners, gas stoves, washing machines, and dishwashers by instituting standards that will be nearly impossible to achieve. This White House initiative may be the biggest power grab in American history. The only positive we can pull out of this mess is by using Executive Order rather than legislation to force this down our throats, every decision can be reversed with the stroke of a pen, BUT we need to win back the White House to put pen to paper.
This plan was not moved forward as a master plan. It has been dropped piecemeal, with a new appliance added to the list each month. It is not a plan but a whim. This action is designed to assuage the Green Left. Even without significant results, the effort itself is adequate to secure the vote of the Greenies. A win for them is a politician validating their demands by doing anything that looks proactive. Results are immaterial because there were no expectations of the process. By the way, as we are spending a fortune on alternative energy sources, China is putting a new coal-burning plant onboard every 14 days. Does anyone believe that China is concerned with carbon credits or windmills?
We have to get out from under the thumb of these Biden orders as quickly as possible. That will happen only with a Republican in the Oval Office in January 2025. Please, God, give us the strength to survive the next two years of Biden’s term.
Some of these mandates will be challenged by Republicans and find them in front of the Supreme Court, where sanity and reason still flicker. The flame is burning less bright after revelations of outside money filling the corrupt pockets of some of the Justices. The disclosures of significant donations made to Justices Sotomayer and Thomas damaged the image of the Court, which had always been beyond reproach.
The 2024 Election took a few hits this week. Everyone on the Left is upset and disappointed with CNN for giving Trump a significant platform. The Pro-Trump people in the audience were so demonstrably positive of Trump’s performance that CNN opted to avoid live audiences in future Town Hall events. CNN cannot be perceived as giving any positive airtime to Trump. Even some of CNN’s prime celebrities, like Anderson Cooper, were critical of the “despicable” event.
Joe Biden’s approval numbers continue to fall, and Senator Joe Manchin is making more noise about running as a third-party candidate. Three candidates on the ballot in 2024 will make the Presidential race a Saturday afternoon horse race when anyone can win. Republicans must coalesce behind whoever their candidate is on the ballot. We cannot fall into the trap of splintering our base.
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It never seems to stop and because it never stops, it gets worse and worse. I’ll remind you, this whole “Fundamental Transformation” (yes, an Obama reference) that is turning the relationship of Parents and Children upside down over the broadening of the meaning of sexualizing children and destroying families. “Childism” is the cause and I have a snippet about that as well.
The Left is just plain evil and what’s even worse, they know it even as they try to “rationalize” it to others. Being godless and without Christian morals, they have decided that depravity is goodness.
Sidenote: I had a discussion with a Libertarian who only notationally believed in God but held that atheists could have a good moral code without going to church. My response was that his holdings were like that of a vampire venture capitalist – once all the money was sucked out of a company over time, there’d be no company left. So, too, with morality – without a constant renewal (like believing in God, going to church, reading the Bible), Society would also run down when a majority would no longer accept it. Well, here we are and who knew that the innocence of children would be the frontal battlefield?
Oh, the full image of the “Featured Image” above?
Like this one when transgender teacher activists told kids that telling their parents about this club “wasn’t safe”. Transformation – get kids to distrust and then hate their parents (and as always, reformatted and emphasis mine):
A Colorado momma bear is suing Wellington Middle School in Fort Collins, Colo., after learning they pulled her sixth-grade daughter into a secret transgender recruiting meeting disguised as an “art club.”.
“When she got there, she very quickly learned it was actually a gender and sexuality awareness club,” Erin Lee told Fox News. “The art teacher had invited in an outside presenter into the classroom that day,” Lee continued. “And this woman did absolutely unthinkable things with the kids. What you hear in here, stays in here,” the mystery groomer allegedly told the kids, suggesting that telling their parents wasn’t “safe.”
Lee further disclosed that the guest presenter informed the kids they were transgender if they didn’t feel totally comfy with their gender. “She explained to my daughter that if she is not 100 percent comfortable in her female body, then she’s transgender,” Lee stated. The secret speaker also told the kids they can refer to themselves as “queer” if they haven’t yet decided their gender. The presenter also introduced the 6th graders to the idea of promiscuity. “She talked to them about polyamory,” Lee declared.
Really? At around 12 years old, talking about shacking up with a bunch of their classmates? And this is just great:
“She told them that these new labels that they had just adopted made them more likely to commit suicide and talked to them extensively about suicide,” Lee continued.
And if you didn’t know already from reading just my Stack of Stuff posts, it seems like EVERYONE is trying to influence your children, if not in their classrooms, but from afar. What, they want the kids to tase their parents? Wouldn’t be surprised…
An Epoch Times investigation discovered a Florida activist group secretly sent hundreds of children transgender sex-change kits across the country. The “Build-A-Queer” kits contain breast binders, condoms, fake male genitalia called “packers,” tape used to bind and hide male genitalia, and more. Several of these items can potentially harm children, experts have told The Epoch Times. And some of the group’s actions appear to be illegal, at least according to the laws in some states, including Florida, attorneys said.
Until recently, the group’s giveaways included “Trans Self-Defense Kits” which contained weapons, including knives and tasers. The items were available to children and others who applied online, according to Cielo Sunsarae, director of the Florida group named Queer Trans Project (QTP)….“All of our items are for individuals of all ages,” Sunsarae wrote in a text to The Epoch Times. The group’s website posts no restrictions based on age or a requirement for parental consent.
Getting the picture? The transgender movement HATES parents and does things to keep them in the dark – and these are just two small snippets. And they have shipped them here to NH.
And you wonder why there seems to be so much hatred by the Left and in the school systems (but I repeat myself) and why we adults are being told so often that a child knows far more then we do and that we should defer to them especially on sexual mutilation surgery and harmful endocrine injections? You can blame it on “Childism”. I’m only going to take a small snippet but PLEASE READ THIS POST as it is a fundamental morality that has swept the Left and explains why the Blue States are working as fast as they can to separate you from your children:
So far, QTP has mailed 959 kits to recipients in every state except North Dakota, South Dakota, Alaska, Vermont, and Montana, Sunsarae said. The group hopes to double that amount this year. …In an Instagram video, a QTP volunteer hides a breast binder inside T-shirt packaging and tucks makeup into a plushie, offering assurance that items are disguised to keep from being detected.
Sunsarae offers advice on how to hide kits from parents in a YouTube video.
Progressives, in their never-ending crusade to force everyone to adhere to their religion, have added another commandment to their list of evils: Childism. They describe it as “anti-child attitudes” which lead to oppression of children. What fresh hell is this? you may be wondering. Not so fresh actually: two psychiatrists, Chester Pierce and Gail Allen, proposed the theory back as 1975. They described it as “the automatic assumption of superiority of any adult over any child.” One can assume that this would include parents as well.
…But in 2012, psychoanalyst Elisabeth Young-Bruehl resurrected the theory in her book, Childism: Confronting Prejudice Against Children. The book’s description reads, in part:
In this groundbreaking volume on the human rights of children, acclaimed analyst, political theorist, and biographer Elisabeth Young-Bruehl argues that prejudice exists against children as a group and that it is comparable to racism, sexism, and homophobia ….
…Rather this emerges from a generation which has acquired these two beliefs: 1) that children are not gifts from God, but are expendable prior to birth; and 2) the ultimate achievement in life comes not from raising responsible children, but from attaining fame on social media.
…The scientific theory of Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget has long instructed those who study child development that there are four stages of cognitive development. Piaget also found that a child can’t begin to understand abstract concepts until the adolescent years. Later, 2009 research from the American Psychological Association asserted that emotional maturity lags behind cognition in those same adolescents. Yet anti-Childists insist that immature children must have authority to control their lives. And adults who would deny them that? They’re exercising bigotry similar to racism.
And this article does a throw back to my first snippet:
The speaker also told students that “parents aren’t safe, and that it’s OK to lie to them about where they are in order to attend this meeting.” The mother added:
She doubled down that parents aren’t safe [and] that heterosexuality and monogamy are not normal.
The school district acknowledged that such a club does exist, but would not address the mother’s allegations. Yet anti-Childists would insist that such undermining of parents is perfectly appropriate. Because a 12-year-old has equal rights to their parents, who are guilty of bigotry should they deny the child what they want.
And schools seems to be perfectly good with the Tyranny of the Minority over Normal people when a single member of the Trans Minority complains. Yet another example of erasing Mothers from their child’s life:
The original message, which was crafted by Grade 6 students simply read, “Life does not come with a manual. It comes with a mom.”
“Grade 6 students at Kew Beach came up with the first quote collectively as they prepare for Mother’s Day this weekend, to share how much they care for and depend on their moms,” said Toronto District School Board spokesperson Shari Schwartz-Maltz. The specific Facebook user in question took issue with how the sign didn’t take into account kids from different kinds of families like LGBTQ families.
After receiving a few emails and calls from people who were also offended by the sign, Kew Beach acquiesced and replaced the message on the signage – ridding it entirely of any reference to mothers.
“Upon feedback, the school recognized that this quote does not reflect the inclusivity of our community, and took immediate steps to address the issue. The sign has now been updated with a new message of an encouraging acronym for May,” explained Schwartz-Maltz.
Hey Moms, aren’t you glad that you can be excluded for “inclusionary” reasons? You don’t matter to them. At all. Because of a sexuality ideology that is Trans-Authoritarian that must be first on EVERYONE’S political / religious totem pole.
But there can be some good news as we continue to approach Peak Trans. Yet another State has decided that sexual mutilation surgery for trans reasons is no better than gouging out an eye, replacing a hand for a hook, and chopping off half a leg for a wooden peg simply because a seven year old identifies as a parent:
Missouri lawmakers have passed legislation that bans sex changes, puberty blockers, and hormones for minors. A bill that prevents any school from allowing biological males to compete in female sports was also passed. New WindowSenate Bill 49 and New WindowSenate Bill 39 are both expected to be signed by Republican Governor Mike Parson after they were passed largely along party lines, CNN reported.
…SB39, sponsored by state Senator New WindowHolly Thompson Rehder, detailed that elementary schools through post-secondary schools are banned from letting males play in females’ sports.
Of COURSE Democrats voted against it – they are all in on the Childism (see above) cult. Heck, most States won’t let minors get tattoos but chopping of your genitals and breasts are no big deal? And speaking of stupidity, this from the Minnesota Lt Governor brings new life to ““You make it really difficult to underestimate you.” in another case of Childism:
MN Lt. Governor Peggy Flanagan on parenting and children changing their gender…
"When our children tell us who they are, it is our job as grown-ups to listen and to believe them.
That's what it means to be a good parent." pic.twitter.com/GJsZ1CiiRZ— Clarity (@covid_clarity) March 9, 2023
Yet, “The Science” keeps telling us that childrens’ brains aren’t fully developed until age 26 so I’m supposed to believe a 9-year old that he is really a she so give him bottom surgery before he realizes that that will mean to him at 15-18?
That is, of course, insane. But it is the new orthodoxy not just with Leftist politicians, but the majority of the medical community. A medical community that views going through puberty and growing up as a disease just like diabetes or asthma. The good doctor who compares sterilizing children to giving albuterol to an asthmatic runs the gender clinic at Children’s Hospital, a fine institution within walking distance of the Minnesota State Capitol. She is also an advocate for butchering children. For all the right reasons, of course. But a butcher nonetheless.
..Everything the gender benders are telling you about transgenderism in children is a lie….The killer backlash will come when the victims in their 20s and 30s realize how harmed they have been.
And guess who will be second in line to bear the brunt of the anger (the medical community being the first)? Yeah, stupid parents who didn’t believe and take to heart that their FIRST job is to protect their children – most often from themselves. Kids, even smart ones, don’t have the wisdom to take care of themselves and do the chess game looking past “when is the ice cream trucking coming???”. These mutilated kids WILL take it out on their Parents in no uncertain terms as well they should when that wisdom for a child finally arrives and confronts the real evil in their lives – their own Parents who didn’t have a backbone to stand up to this utter nonsense.
And don’t worry, CRT (Critical Race Theory whose main thrust is that you are only as good as your racial group and that ALL whites are oppressive to everyone else) is staggering backwards as well. In addition to all of the DIE staff being let go in corporations as they shed workers that had nothing to do with revenues and profitability, success is happening on legislative fronts as well:
A growing number of Americans vehemently oppose critical race theory and have pushed a wide variety of measures to combat it, according to a recently released report from UCLA. The report, “Tracking the attack on Critical Race Theory,” found that in 2021 and 2022, every state except Delaware had government officials introduce “at least one anti-CRT measure at some level.” The report defines anti-CRT measures as attorney general letters, executive directives, legislation, policies, regulations, resolutions, and statements.
Stating the “anti-CRT campaign has to this point shown no signs of slowing,” researchers found that from January 2021 through December 2022, local, regional state and federal officials and lawmakers “introduced a total of 563 anti-CRT measures, 241 of which have been enacted or adopted.”
The findings suggest efforts to combat critical race theory, primarily inside classrooms, “is not stagnating; indeed, government officials at all levels are introducing an equal or greater number of measures in 2023 as they did in 2021 or 2022,” the report states.
Well, there is one government official that immediately comes to mind here in NH that is against it – 2024 Prez Wannabee (ostensibly) Republican NH Governor Chris Sununu. Think I’m kidding? Just search through GraniteGrok.
Back to schools, again. Not only do they hide what’s going on in their clubs (see above), now there’s a CATHOLIC university that won’t even tell a biological women that their roommate is a transgender biological male??? And James O’Keefe’s new organization, OMG, has brought it to life:
A lot of parents have been sending their kids to religious schools in order to avoid the excesses of Leftist policies. Well, that was a mistake. Catholic universities are just as woke as any other, apparently. Despite the fact that even the liberal Pope has spoken out against transgender ideology, the academic bureaucracy at St. Thomas University in St. Paul is secretly putting trans students into single-sex dorms with women, even hiding their gender from their dormmates.
They even give preferential housing choices if you claim to be trans. Nice.
Director of Housing at @UofStThomasMN tells citizen journalist: “she could room with a girl."
Citizen Journalist: "And you wouldn't tell her she's trans?"
Director of Housing: “Yes”
— O’Keefe Media Group (@OKeefeMedia) May 10, 2023
Now? The school is so committed to ensuring that radical DE&I ideology is promoted that they have a secret policy to put transgender students into single-sex dorms–literally forcing female students to room with men, hiding that fact both from the students and from their parents.
The school is a fraud, literally.
And this Catholic school will face its own judgement – if not in the here and now but before that Great Throne.
And let’s saunter back to Bud light and Dylan Mulvaney – the transgender screwup that keeps of failing. Yep, and the financial dudes are starting to realize that ABInBev can make any good decisions. And as we know, decisions have consequences – including (at last sighting) losing 26% of your business:
HSBC, one of the world’s largest banks, downgraded the stock of Anheuser-Busch InBev this week amid controversy over Bud Light’s partnership with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney. Bank analysts downgraded the stock to “hold” status, which means investors should neither sell nor purchase the stock, CNBC reported. In a note, HSBC analyst Carlos Laboy, managing director for the global beverage sector at the bank, justified the downgrade by questioning the ability of Anheuser-Busch InBev executives to understand their consumer base.
“Is ABI’s leadership getting the brand culture transformation right? It’s mixed. At Ambev, we think the answer is ‘yes;’ in the US, we think it’s ‘no,‘” Laboy wrote. “The way this Bud Light crisis came about a month ago, management’s response to it and the loss of unprecedented volume and brand relevance raises many questions.”
He further explained:
Why did its US leadership underestimate the risk of pushback given the recent experience of other firms? Is A-B hiring the best people to grow the brands and gauge risk? If Budweiser and Bud Light are iconic American ideas that have long brought consumers together, why did these marketers fail to invite new consumers without alienating the core base of the firm’s largest brand?
You know, now that I’ve come across that Childism post (above), a lot of what I have been seeing from the Democrats when it comes to children and the Parental Rights movement that is fighting back against Government trying to take away their rights (see “The Republican push for “parental rights” comes at the cost of children” just below, confirming that Parents are evil):
Over the past ten years, we’ve spent a lot of time criticizing liberals. Pointing out their many flaws, mocking them, exposing their lies, and just raking them over the coals, really. But one thing we’ve learned is that sometimes, the best strategy is to just be quiet and let the libs own themselves. This is one of those times, courtesy of New York Magazine’s Sarah Jones, who wrote this for the ironically named Intelligencer:
I wrote about the parental rights push and its relationship to the GOP's authoritarian view of power https://t.co/8kVe4oEZyf
— Sarah Jones (@onesarahjones) February 23, 2022
To empower parents, Florida Republicans would put children in danger. @onesarahjones writes https://t.co/bjidJBv9Ct
— New York Magazine (@NYMag) February 23, 2022
Isn’t that just lovely: “comes at the cost to children”? Yes Conservative parents hate their children. To echo the other Democrat mantra, we want our kids to breathe dirty air and drink polluted water because we don’t care about our children at all.
"The GOP is the party of parental rights because it is increasingly anti-democratic. It has become the party of ruthless, cynical power, and children aren’t exempt from its schemes. In fact, they’re key."@onesarahjones writes https://t.co/jhLeueaVWm
— Intelligencer (@intelligencer) February 23, 2022
The right’s real ambition isn’t restoration, though, but expansion; they want to create new rights on top of the privileges parents already enjoy. In the party’s view, parental rights both supersede and exist in conflict with the rights of the child.
The assumption that the rights of the child are naturally in line with teachers and not parents is at the core of this entire problem. It might take a couple of more election cycles for you to realize this, though. https://t.co/GHcjU9VyVv
— Noam Blum (@neontaster) February 23, 2022
The question here is who has the power. They want to insist that teacher’s unions and activist bureaucrats are the only ones that should have a say. The only reason this is an issue that benefits the GOP is because Dems are siding with them over parents. https://t.co/m9ZzW8tvvN
— AG (@AGHamilton29) February 23, 2022
Well, who knew that Putin is the new Hitler?
"Why parents are no different than Vladimir Putin" – @NYMag
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) February 23, 2022
Here’s the full piece by Jones.
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The College Fix reports that MIT’s “student government president has been removed from his position and faces a recall election due to his role in perpetrating two campus hate-crime hoaxes” in opposition to new campus policies supporting free speech.
What a juicy pile of interlocking contradictions.
Undergraduate Association President David Spicer helped hang the offensive posters and chalk the quad once in February and then again in mid-April during Campus Preview Weekend, infuriating his peers — even progressive ones who once championed him as a leader in campus diversity and inclusion.
The Gay student president was mad that MIT was trying to defend constitutionally protected speech. Hence, he decided to test the boundaries by postering and chalking the campus with hate to see how far things could go.
Yet another case of a marginalized community member frustrated by the absence of actual ‘hate crimes’ perpetrating one to make a point about what wasn’t happening until they did it. Sorry, two. Spicer is alleged to have committed two hate crimes.
As regular readers know, I’m not all-in on the idea of hate crimes or even hate speech. These are made-up ideas by people who traditionally get their panties in a bunch about overcharging by police and district attorneys.
People who insist you accept them for who they are, but when you do, get frustrated by the lack of extra attention they think their marginalized status deserves and commit hate hoaxes to get more. But Spicer took it to a whole new level. He didn’t perpetrate the garden variety hate hoax against himself – he hated on the whole community.
“My decision to participate in the postering campaign was not one made lightly. I decided to join in the effort because I wanted, and still want, an MIT that supports students on the margin,” Spicer wrote in an April 27 op-ed in the student newspaper The Tech. …
“While I know that President [Sally] Kornbluth probably has not had to deal with homophobia in her life, I have and probably will for the rest of my life. I want the MIT administration to know the tax they impose on marginalized communities.”
Spicer engaged in what he viewed as a necessary exercise. Free speech can harm you like this. But the risk presented by restrictions on speech is far more dangerous. True liberty in any community is rare, and free expression is essential to freedom. If feelings get a say, whose feelings and where does that end?
The guardrails Spicer favors to protect those he claims are marginalized would inevitably marginalize everyone. The government doesn’t give back power. If you let them limit speech beyond the few exceptions in place, they’ll find reasons to limit it further. It is a path to compelled speech which is a restriction on thought itself, and the suppression will not be limited to people you’ve pre-segregated as outside your community.
You have to stop thinking like that. Your community is America, an increasingly marginalized political idea that has made freedom a reality and lifted more people out of poverty than any other in human history—an exceptional exercise whose success has made it the object of hate from outside and within.
One of my biggest gripes about the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion illusion which marches hand and hand toward utopia with many in the LGBT*** movement, is that its goal is (as always) not what they advertise. The same can be said for notions about hate speech or hate crimes. There is speech, and there is crime. And there are speech crimes—libel and slander, incitement, and fighting words, among a few rare others, all with high hurdles to keep speech free. But their goal is to make you hate free speech and to see its exercise as a crime. And while there’s no crime against being an asshole, it might cost you your gig as a student president, even if you think you had the best intentions.
HT | The College Fix
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So, in Part 1, I asked “that question” and the Grandson’s teacher refused to directly answer my question. Part 2 showed me that in simply asking that simple question, the Administration started to monitor that email thread. However, the Principal, Danielle Bolduc, gave me a direct simple answer: ‘The simple answer to that particular question is no”.
Glad to hear that. Problem is, Policy JBAB still leaves wiggle room for the District to lie to parents (and I’ve posted those issues here on GraniteGrok). So I dunno!
Well, for the time being, I’ll accept the answer at face value. However, Reagan’s words still ring as true and as loudly as they did when he first said them: “Trust, but Verify”.
So, a two-pronged process is now in play. The first is….wait for it…..a Right To Know (what, you expected something different from me?). I’ll leave the boiler plate aside for the moment (I have more RTKs to post) but put up the “payloads”. First was one about teaching materials (first one I’ve ever done, believe it or not!):
Pursuant to the Right to Know Law (RSA. 91-A), I am demanding access, within 5 business days, to the following governmental records pertaining to Health/Wellness/Physiology/Sexuality instruction for the following Grade Levels:
- Kindergarten
- First Grade
The Responsive Records will include:
- Provide all curriculum, handouts (including those for which it was mandatory to give back in and NOT to be taken home), books read to children
- Provide copies and any and all “classroom” materials that can be found within the classroom (including but not limited to “quotes”, posters, flags, and the like).
- Provide which which District staff (roles/titles) are involved in this instruction area (either the normal classroom teacher, normal classroom aides, or other staff members coming in to assist or teach this kind of material).
- Provide all lesson plans pertaining to this subject matter, in the two Grade levels, for last and this year.
- Provide the District’s goals for the respective two grade levels in this regard as to what milestones are to be achieved by the end of the academic school year.
I think that covers most of what I am looking for or at least it’s a good start. Regular readers who have waded through my “xxxx- Stack of Stuff” posts where I do an aggregation of between 5 – 10 Edu-Transgender Activists snippets know what it going on. The above is part of the “Verify“. There is a lot more that I can do. In fact, I have also RTK’d the following:
Pursuant to the Right to Know Law (RSA. 91-A), I am demanding access, within 5 business days, to the following governmental records: for all of the District’s electronic information systems that contain directly or are linked to student information:
- Provide the database schema that shows all database tables containing student information as well as key information linking one table to another
This information can either be represented in graphical, chart, or textual formats (although graphical would be preferred).
Note that the above does NOT include any system or security level tables (see RSA 91-A:5, XI). The latter tables have nothing to do with this demand and are, indeed, unwanted.
For those of you in (or retired from) Information Technology, you know what I just did. For those of you who do not know what a “schema” is, it is a map of what information is kept within an application. In this case, any of the District’s system that have anything to do with students. Most systems today use databases that organize their information in tables: rows and column. And there are a lot of them as developers will try to separate such data logically into various tables like this for a high school:
Knowing what the schemas are allows one to start asking more and more questions.
And another RTK that I put in gave them where I will be going based on what I find:
Pursuant to the Right to Know Law (RSA. 91-A), I am demanding access, within 5 business days, to the following governmental records:
- A copy of the District’s Ethics Complaint form(s).
- A copy of the Process/Instructions/Chain of Custody for submitting, acknowledgment of, status updates, and final decision.
Oh, I also have a bunch of other RTKs that have been issued based on another meeting. Those of you whose children have IEP (Individual Education Plans – for those with a disability of one nature or another) may find them “interesting”.
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New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu took his war against the Chinese Communist Party to a new level this week when he signed three bills into law that severely restrict the CCP’s ability to acquire land in the state of New Hampshire, crack down on the CCP’s data collection of U.S. citizens, and ban CCP influence from the education system.
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A Chinese think tank designated Sununu among the five most aggressive governors in the U.S. against the communist nation back in 2019, several months before the coronavirus pandemic erupted. Since then, Sununu has continued to take an aggressive approach toward China.
Sununu signed three new bills into law on Monday — SB 264, SB 846, and SB 258 — a package the governor’s office called “the strongest legislation in the nation to date to counteract the influence of the United States’ greatest economic, strategic, and security threat — the Chinese Communist Party.”
The trio of new laws:
“New Hampshire is taking action to stand against the United States’ greatest geopolitical threat — the Chinese Communist Party,” the governor said in a statement. “I’m proud to sign this legislation to stop the purchase of our farmland and land near our military bases and critical infrastructure by Chinese agents, to stop sensitive digital data from being stored in China, and to stop CCP influence in our education system from grade school to grad school. We are following through on our commitment to crack down on Communist China.”
At a press conference where he signed the bills, Sununu noted the numerous advantages that China has over the U.S., including how they use their government to create an unfair trading relationship with the U.S.“Part of the reason we’re in this predicament is because elites in our own country, for a generation, have sought short term profits over long term U.S. interests,” Sununu said. “They thought people were making money, that was good for some, and they didn’t have a long view of how that would work in terms of America’s industrial base here at home, or America’s security abroad.”
The governor’s latest actions against China build off legislation that Sununu signed into law back in 2021. According to the governor’s office, those laws:
HT | The Daily Wire
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My career was spent as a software engineer and consultant. The last twenty years of it were spent working for a manufacturing software vendor, and I spent a lot of time talking with both C-level leaders, the blue-collar workers on the shop floor, and everyone in between. The mantra, at least in well-run shops was:
“How do we constantly improve our product most efficiently, get rid of wasted efforts, and drop those savings down to the bottom line in order to lower the price of our product relative to our competitors, make a larger profit, and return that profit to our owners/shareholders?
In other words, they had the right eyes on the right prize(s) in their efforts to be the best they can be. And much of that effort was always in discovering excess labor – especially in indirect labor. DIRECT labor is all those folks that do the creating on the line – they create and assemble the “widgets” (be it the physical “something” you can hold in your hand or the “invisible” software held in your mind). Indirect labor is everyone else. That’s important because any manager worth their salt knew what that ratio was between the two and was always looking to improve that ratio of direct to overhead.
Not so in education – by a long shot. At least in my hamlet, I was constantly having to educate both the School Board and new Superintendents on this basic measurement by asking them, “what is your indirect/direct labor ratio by headcount and total burden cost?“. Usually, after a couple of years of demanding that answer as a Budget Committee member, that ratio would improve as “overhead” personnel and burdened costs were lowered (I think it’s time again to start demanding that answer – time for a new Right To Know?). And do you know why this is important?
Manufacturers understand they are going to be held personally responsible for their output and their cost. Our education system is the complete opposite. Yes, your local schools have costs like manufacturers, and they create “widgets” (usually called our sons and daughters called “students that have been educated”). But accountability isn’t there as taxpayers don’t ask the harsh questions necessary about how GOOD their output is and generally only grouse about the cost without asking the hard questions of WHY the cost. My indirect to direct labor question is akin to “Price Point,” and NAEP scores show the quality of their workmanship.
But without taxpayers acting like owners/shareholders asking about such things, you get our educational systems without any “limiting factors”. And you get Bloat:
And
Bloat – when adults get the money, and the number of kids getting an education drops like a kid going down a playground slide. Make no mistake, that drop in enrollment is happening here in NH as well.
And now you see why my question is so important. Sure, it is easier to point out in overly large school districts, but the scrutiny they receive is also too small for their size. Here in NH, the ordinary citizen CAN provide such oversight and suss out even small savings of the economy – if they bother to look for it.
The best example I can give you is Twitter. Before Elon Musk took over, it had 7.500+ employees. Afterward, head count (and cost) started to drop – dramatically. Much of the Left, who looked at Twitter as their “playground,” howled that Twitter would cease to work and then exist (both complaining and exulting at the same time). Now, the headcount and the commiserate cost are down to around 1,000. It’s still working – you can go and read tweets and create your own. That’s what it was meant for – everything else was “overhead.”
Perhaps y’all should be examining your districts more closely and asking what will be called “embarrassing” questions. Hold them accountable.
Just know it will take you a while to build up your courage and your credibility as you continue to hone your questions to be more insightful and penetrating.
(H/T: Powerline)
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