Wednesday • April 24 • 2024
Vol.XVI • No.XVII
Manchester, N.H.
Beware, citizens, radicals, and extremists are roaming the countryside. That’s what all those signs littering the streets would have you believe. Oddly enough they seem to consider Freedom to be a radical concept. This, in the ‘land of the free,’ doesn’t make sense.
In order to understand what’s really going on, you need to consider the source. It appears that the source is working from an instruction manual. Perhaps they are using Saul Alinsky’s ‘Rules for Radicals?
We want to thank NH State Rep Mike Sylvia, Chair of the Belknap Delegation for this Op-Ed. If you have an Op-Ed or LTE
you would like us to consider, please submit it to Editor@GraniteGrok.com.
Alan Posnack (registered Democrat) audaciously claims to be the leader of the Citizens of Belknap PAC. He and a small band of entitled elitists scatter their sign trash across the county in an attempt to appear to be supported by the average people of the area. These are the same sorts of people that want to ban ‘single use’ plastic bags. They lack the self-awareness to see the irony of the mess they create.
As Rob Natelson writes in his article, “Beware the Word “Extremist”:
The modern “Progressive” project has centered on changing the key factors of culture and freedom: attacking the culture, undermining constitutional restraints on government, and expanding the public sector until it dominates American life. A group that seeks to topple the central pillars of a system is by definition “extremist,” no matter what they call their opponents.
I’ll happily accept the badge of honor offered by ‘Progressives’ for my work in leading the most conservative county delegation in the state of New Hampshire. They are a small minority desperate to distract you from the catastrophic failures of the Biden administration of which you are reminded every time you reach for your wallet.
Mike Sylvia is a NH state Rep and Chair of the Belknap Delegation
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Bernie Sanders was honest, rare for a Senator, when he said this bill was not accurately named. The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) will do nothing to change the trajectory of our rising inflation. The most optimistic say this bill will reduce inflation by .25%, but over two years. So much for this inflation being transitory.
Inflation was 2% as Trump left the White House in 2021. Biden has given us the most accelerated inflation in history. Thanks, Joe.
Now that the Senate has passed the bill and Joe Biden is taking a victory lap, 69% of Americans say the economy is worsening. That is easy to believe if you have done any grocery shopping, filled your gas tank, gone to a restaurant, or got pricing on heating your home for the coming winter. Americans are hurting, and inflation hurts low and middle income most severely. Some in these brackets may have to choose between food and fuel come December, and you can forget about Christmas shopping.
The IRS gets $80 BILLION in this bill to hire 87,000 new agents. This move makes the IRS larger by employee count than the State Department, FBI, and the US Customs & Border Protection combined.
This expansion of the IRS will strike fear into every taxpayer, and the number of audits will skyrocket.
The list of Green Deal initiatives that will get a piece of the $300 Billion set aside in the IRA is too long to detail here. One thing to key on is the rebates available for solar panels, electronic vehicles, and energy-efficient appliances. Who benefits from the manufacture of these commodities? China is the correct answer, and it is ironic to remember how deep China’s claws are into our President.
It is bad enough that we were an energy exporter in 2020, but now we are importing crude. The IRA puts a new tax on imported oil. First, Biden cuts off domestic drilling on Day 1, and now he wants to add to the cost by adding a tax on fossil fuels, Just brilliant.
Just a quick sidebar. I am typing this as I watch the afternoon news shows on FOX, and they are dissecting this bill. With each revelation, it makes one angry to think of how brazen Democrats are when they spend our tax dollars. But I watched a segment on Biden visiting the area devastated by a flood in Kentucky. Biden is explaining he will ensure they will be stronger after the Government rebuilds the region. He is describing the need for a new infrastructure for getting fresh water to the area and how we can also provide access to high-speed internet for every Kentuckian. How tone deaf as these people just last every bit of their existence. Does he think scrolling the internet is paramount on the minds of people that have lost it all?
Congress, specifically Democrats, can put together monstrous pieces of legislation but are horrific regarding accountability. During the Pandemic, $122 Billion was allocated to get our schools ready to allow our children to return to their classrooms. Nearly two years later, 93% of that money is yet to be spent. That is almost $115 Billion floating in the system, and only God knows where it will eventually land.
The IRA moves to the House, where it will be debated, and more wasteful spending will be uncovered. The Democrats have the votes to pass the bill on to the President for his signature, but I hope the Republicans can do all they can to expose the IRA for what it is; a waste of $700 Billion that will leave us more in a hole and worse shape than we are today.
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A six-hour meeting was scheduled by The Resolve to begin at 4 pm last Friday, August 5, with the goal of slimming down the list of legislative candidates for the Sept 13 primary. You might think that only the very dedicated would travel to Wolfeboro for such a grueling session, but I counted 150 in the audience.
And it wasn’t grueling after all — it was a hoot and an inspiration.
Many candidates got to sell their wares. Their pitch was augmented by truth bombs wherever there’s an incumbent in Concord whom The Resolve desires to remove. This required Regina Barnes to come out onto the stage and read to us a tasty morsel of the incumbent’s past sins. (Nothing defamatory, you know — the truth bombs were straight from the record, usually in the unfortunate person’s own words.)
Another character who made several appearances was a guy wearing a tee shirt marked “NHGOP.” Pretty sure it was our current governor. Couldn’t tell absolutely, as he was wearing a full face mask of a rhinoceros. Oh, speaking of rinos and dinos, The Resolve claims it is non-partisan, but I did not see a whole lot of democrats there.
It would be good if the Dems would eavesdrop on The Resolve’s plan to turn back any federal funds sent to NH for “education.” The result would be a NET GAIN for our state’s coffers. Yes, it doesn’t even have to be ideological to kick the feds out of schools. It’s fiscal!
Let me tell you if you missed the Wolfeboro meeting, you really missed something. I was deeply moved as I had not thought it possible for competitors to get together and form a united front. But when Terese Grinnell takes the microphone and speaks, you suddenly feel that uniting is normal, every day, baseline human behavior.
At 7 pm we were treated to The Debates, with four persons who are on the Republican ballot, challenging the aforementioned “Mr. Su-no-no.” Questions were thrown at the four by Attorney Dan, who clearly hoped for constitutional answers — and was not disappointed. (The state constitution seems to be another baseline human behavior with this lot. “Article 10” got some mentions, discreetly, of course.)
The four gubernatorial wannabes are the dead-serious Karen Testerman, Thad Riley — a father of five who thus is at the coalface every day, Jay Lewis — white-bearded as befits any decent Granite man, and Julian Acciard, who, when the chips are down, has the vocabulary of a sailor. I longed to vote for all four of them.
Mary Maxwell is author of Prosecution for Treason (aimed mainly at Congress) and is herself trying to break into the Capitol, by your vote in District 1, on September 13.
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The latest bit of pork and mirrors to come out of Congress is the Inflation Reduction Act, more appropriately named the IRS inflation Act. It will inflate the IRS, who will then Lois Lerner whomever the ‘crats (Demo or Bureau) decide has won the 5 AM raid Lottery
Armed agents with the FBI (FSB?) at the tip of the spear, making examples of people. Who? Anyone. Donald Trump, your neighbor who has chickens and the Gadsden Flag. Donors to the wrong charities. Why leak lists when you can just use them yourself?
It was inevitable.
Forcing local PD to comply with their police state fantasy is taking too long (especially after all that defunding business) so boom! One sweep of the pen and we’ll have the same thing with built-in confiscatory powers. They take you, your stuff, and maybe you’ll get a cell next to one of those J6 “trespassers” awaiting trial.
They are coming, and the law has nothing to do with what motivates them.
The other prominent feature of the Inflation Creation Act is spending. Lots of spending backstopped with BS about taxes to pay for it. Hint: if the Feds ever cared about paying for something, we wouldn’t be 30 trillion dollars in debt. These taxes are just a new regulatory burden to hide the true purpose.
Anyway, the green jobs bill won’t create jobs or electricity. It will enrich leftist friendlies who will recycle that into Democrat coffers to keep the wash cycle on high.
Increase inflation (it will), add to the federal debt (it will), and launder future generations of taxpayer’s money to Democrat friends and family dressed up as green infrastructure enhancements.
Quick note: whining about the impending brownouts and blackouts is going to be hate speech (that’s what they mean by environmental justice).
Ugly business this, but it’s where we are, and it’s our fault.
Oh yeah, and then there’s this now totally random video of a wind turbine on fire. It reminded me of the Left’s energy fantasy and everything they’ve done in the past few years.
America on fire (falling apart while we record it for Tik Tok or Instagram), turning in the breeze until it can turn no more, as Democrats spend as much as they can while they can on more of that.
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You cannot make this stuff up. These were two consecutive sentences from Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD) on FOX News Sunday.
We are going to completely pay for the Inflation Reduction Act by raising taxes on companies with revenues over $1 Billion and on wealthy Americans who have been able to avoid paying taxes to this point.
Next question: Don’t most economists agree that it is a bad decision to raise taxes during a period of high inflation or recession?
We will not be raising any new taxes with this bill.
Excuse me. Don’t those two answers contradict each other? Not in Democrat speak. There was no follow-up question from the reporter. I would love to have ten minutes to ask questions of these politicians who speak out of both sides of their mouths.
Just like the continuous contradictions from its supporters, the $700 Billion Reconciliation Bill passed by the Senate on Sunday is a contradiction starting with it name. The majority of economists confirm that the Inflation Reduction Act will have a negligible impact on inflation for the short or long run. If anything, dumping more money into the economy, most say it will have just the opposite result.
By increasing taxes on corporations and the “ultra rich,” this bill will slow the economy and raise the costs of goods, adding to the over 9% inflation rate. Only the Democrats can spend over $300 Million to collect more taxes. Only the Democrats would think to double the size of the IRS by adding 87,000 agents tasked with hunting down low to middle-income tax avoiders. Curious, but with most companies struggling to find workers to avoid cutting hours and services, the government thinks it is a good idea to take 87,000 people out of the workplace and make them domestic spies for the IRS.
Chuck Schumer raved about how the Senate compromised to pass this bill. The compromise was within his party as they had to bribe Senators Manchin and Sinema to go along with the bill. No Republican voted for the bill, so please don’t say it was anything but a partisan bill that will do more harm than good to Americans.
And, of course, what Democrat bill would ever be complete without $300 Million spent on Green Energy initiatives. This includes over $7000 in rebates to anyone purchasing an Electric Vehicle. Keep in mind, you cannot locate many EVs. Not all carry a rebate, and of course, with no infrastructure in place, where will you be able to charge yours?
Biden is calling this bill, which should pass the House this week, a crowning achievement. It may very well be the final nail in the coffin for Democrats in November. If inflation numbers continue to rise and GDP to shrink, the country will be completely done with Biden and the Progressive agenda. Gas prices, though coming down, are still two dollars a gallon more than last year.
It continues to be more painful each week as the cost of weekly groceries skyrockets. And we have yet to go through a heating season with the new Biden prices. Some people may need to choose between heat and food to eat. This is a choice that should not exist in America but does in Biden’s America.
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It’s been said that prosecutors can indict a ham sandwich. Soviet Secret Police Chief Beria said, “Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime.”
For seven years Democrats, and others enriched by big government, alleged that Donald Trump committed many crimes, including treason. Trump’s opponents spent over $100 million in tax dollars trying to prove those allegations. The media endlessly repeated and repeats those allegations providing Trump’s opponents with billions of dollars worth of free advertising.
Despite all these investigations, not one criminal allegation has been substantiated.
Trump’s opponents falsely slandered Trump too many times to just be believed.
The one-sided Trump-hating Jan. 6 Committee now makes new allegations; rational people demand proof … none has been provided.
The Jan6Com presented selectively chosen and edited documents and statements, false claims endlessly repeated, slanders, innuendos, and allegations; it excluded all exculpatory evidence. The Jan6Com refuses to allow the scrutiny required of proof: due process; cross-examination of witnesses; presentation of additional evidence; and interpretations. Why?
Democrats are desperate to prevent Trump’s re-election in 2024. Under President Trump most Americans could afford gas, food, electricity, and heat and cooling for their homes; inflation was negligible; peoples’ retirement savings were growing in value; our nation was secure and energy independent, our environment was improving; the world was growing more peaceful; our enemies were in check and weren’t threatening nuclear annihilation.
Since Democrats took power and resumed Obama’s fundamental transformation of America, most Americans, and people around the world, began suffering.
An election is coming in November. The Jan6Com extravaganza is intended to divert voters’ attention from how much Democrat control of government has made Americans poorer, and their lives less free and more dangerous.
In November, vote Republican to stop the painful Democrat fundamental transformation of our country.
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To paraphrase/plagiarize (see image below):
Gary Kiedaisch/Brian Beihl, Power Mongers: “It is not enough to simply beat Ness and Strang. They must be destroyed thoroughly. Their kind must not rise again.”
What was it that the former Gunstock Area Commissioners’ team feared so much about them both?
…They were/are the existential threat.
When your business involves gaining personal wealth by selling out the Belknap County residents, Ness and Strang’s investigations are bad for business.
Just like the TEA Party movement and the Free State Project that both adhere to a limited Government philosophy where people become more self-sufficient and self-reliant, that independence is BAD for Democrats. Why?
This outlook is anathema to large Government Socialists/Democrats who REQUIRE people to be dependent upon government in order to have their Power base.
In the case of Kiedaisch and Company, they required destroying those Commissioners and NH State Reps that are asking the hard questions that have resulted in two investigations being started to track down possible malfeasance. Kiedaisch’s defense?
UNLEASH THE GINNED UP MOB (as a smoke screen)! Decimating the Conservative Republicans in the County is just a bonus.
I guess I shouldn’t using the below tweet- instead of a warning, Doug and Jade might think it a how-to manual.
“Extremists” is their chosen word for those they see as the Enemy in regaining their Power on the Gunstock Area Commission but other Progressives are back to using “Nazi!!!” and “Fascists!”
(H/T: Conservative Treehouse):
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We’ve known or suspected since the summer and fall of 2021 that the COVID “vaccines” create immune issues that make you more susceptible to infection. Doctors brave enough to speak the truth warned us, and we later discovered the NIH and CDC knew about the risk.
“COVID-19 vaccines designed to elicit neutralising antibodies may sensitise vaccine recipients to more severe disease than if they were not vaccinated.”
States with high vaccination rates were seeing record-reported cases and increased hospitalization. The ‘experts’ and the media insisted it was a pandemic of the unvaccinated, but that was another lie, and those fibs are getting harder to tell, the truth more difficult to hide.
It is almost impossible to hide the truth when you’ve injected 60-70% of the global population, but The Public Health Industrial Complex (PHIC) isn’t ready to admit that yet.
The vaccinated are becoming a public health crisis.
Dr. Robert Malone:
In a July 21 interview for EpochTV’s “Crossroads” program, Malone, an inventor of mRNA vaccine technology, said this phenomenon is the result of a process called “immune imprinting,” whereby initial exposure to a virus strain may prevent the body from producing enough neutralizing antibodies against a newer strain. …
“All over the world, we are seeing these datasets that show that, unfortunately, the people that are dying and being hospitalized are overwhelmingly the highly vaccinated,” he said. “It is not those that have natural immunity.”
Vaccine regret is rising, with nearly a quarter of recipients suffering some condition they connect to their injection.
Related: Here is The FDA’s List of Pfizer’s 1,290+ Known Adverse Side Effects for Its Experimental COVID19 “Vaccine.”
Over at Lew Rockwell.com, there is a lengthy review of issues around why they are treating COVID patients with an HIV drug. Well worth the read, lots of science and analysis, but this is of particular interest to gay men who, as a cohort, are highly vaccinated with mRNA goo.
Citations omitted.
Considering both the COVID jab and Jynneos [Monkeypox vaccine] may increase the risk of HIV infection, or worsen existing infection, and that these men are already at increased risk for HIV and AIDS, the overall, compounded risk these men face seems to be remarkably elevated, yet no one is warning them of this.
On top of all that, we now have people who have received both the COVID jab — which spawns mutations and suppresses immune function — and the smallpox vaccine. What mutations may the smallpox vaccine trigger in the SARS-CoV-2 virus, if any?
In other words, the immuno-deficiency characteristics of the COVID Jab put gay men already at increased risk of contracting HIV at greater risk, as may the smallpox (monkeypox) vaccine they are most likely to get if they opt in for that.
It also follows that because the mRNA injections compromised their immune systems, odds are good it increased their susceptibility to monkeypox (pure conjecture on my part). But both or either Jab present issues long-term with immunity to everything else, so this pro-covid vaxx progressive demographic is now at high risk of illness and death.
And no one was adequately informed, even though the PHIC knew, so they could not legally give consent. You cannot consent if the known risks are not communicated, and they were not only not shared, but efforts by third parties to inform the public were censored or shouted down.
Everyone injected is, in varying degrees, at an increased risk of illness—promoted to this day (primarily by) the party that says we need public/political intervention in health care to reduce costs and improve outcomes.
Instead, we get another health crisis manufactured by the Public Health Industrial Complex or, at the very least, something that reflects their influence and policy. A program that puts public health last, not first.
Imagine if the same folks had an obsession with depopulation?
Oh, wait, they do!
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My impression of Andrew Livernois’s answer: EVERYTHING in the Law is a “grey area” (so go do what you want). And now the Delegation is getting sued over it.
Like I said here, NH State Rep Harry Bean broke the Law after being manipulated into whipping himself into a frenzy to be seen as getting “Get Something Done” (get Gunstock “opened” even though efforts had been underway since 2020 to deep-six the hated “Soulfest” Christian gathering by Tom Day since 2021 – see here). What Harry told me was that he had talked to the County Attorney (Andrew Livernois) about calling an emergency meeting and was told “SURE, you can call the meeting to remove Dr. David Strang from the Gunstock Area Commission ‘for cause'” and tried to do so. And so Harry did – wrongly.
And in doing so, now the Delegation is getting sued. Again. Way to go!
He decided to go with Livernois’s “advice” because, as sometimes happens, of “confirmation bias” – the state in which one WANTS to believe something because of an end goal – and not wanting to believe anything/anyone else that says otherwise. Shoulda listened to me, Harry, because I TOLD you Livernois was lying to you in not telling you EVERYTHING he should have. Shame on him for lying to you (by omission) and shame on you for not listening to you even as you agreed that *I*have never lied to you in the years we’ve known each other, bro (remember, you called me that just a bit ago).
So, with that as the backstory, I tried to call Livernois’ office – was told was in a meeting. Long story short, he put out a Letter/Presser telling people his advice. Remember, from my previous posts, there are TWO competing State Statutes: RSA 24:9-D and RSA 91:A-2; the latter is for calling a meeting by any political body but RSA 24 SPECIFICALLY controls how a Delegation can call a meeting.
And in my humble opinion, worth every cent y’all didn’t pay for, Livernois made everyone look bad, especially Harry and Livernois himself. Here’s Livernois’s gawd-awful CYA Letter that he sent me in response to my question:
“Isn’t RSA 24 “superior” to RSA 91A is this is Delegation business? Therefore, the Delegation has to give SEVEN days’ notice to the Public.
Here’s his response:
—— Original Message ——
From: “Andrew Livernois” <alivernois@belknapcounty.org>
To: “skip@granitegrok.com” <skip@granitegrok.com>
Sent: 8/1/2022 4:08:31 PM
Subject: Gunstock meeting tonightDear Skip,
I received your message with the question about the meeting tonight. I think the easiest way to answer your question is to provide you with a copy of the letter that I wrote this afternoon and sent to the members of the Delegation and the Commission with my thoughts on the legality of the meeting tonight.
Hopefully this will give you what you are looking for.
Yours,
Andrew Livernois
/s/ Andrew B. Livernois
Andrew B. Livernois, Esq.
Belknap County Attorney
64 Court Street
Laconia, NH 03246
603-527-5440
alivernois@belknapcounty.org
And the attachment Letter:
Belknap County Attorney Andrew Livernois Letter Regarding Emergency Gunstock Meeting, Ver. 2I’ve already gone the deep dive route in the link above – this post isn’t going to rehash that directly but in finding out that Andrew Livernois deliberately refused to acknowledge that he withheld the COMPLETE part of RSA 91A:2 that would have told Harry “er, no, YOU can’t call the meeting – but Mike Sylvia could have”. My emphasis mine now:
—— Original Message ——
From: “Skip” <Skip@granitegrok.com>
To: “Andrew Livernois” <alivernois@belknapcounty.org>
Sent: 8/1/2022 4:33:16 PM
Subject: Re: Gunstock meeting tonightSo how come you didn’t quote the relevant part of 91-A:2 II:
An emergency shall mean a situation where immediate undelayed action is deemed to be imperative by the chairman or presiding officer of the public body,
The Chair, whom I just talked with a couple of minutes ago, has not called this meeting. That alone should invalidate it. Nor has the Vice-Chair. There is nothing in 91-A:5 for such an exemption for someone else to call such a meeting.
That is not included in your letter. Does my pointing this out change your advice?
I will be posting this on GraniteGrok. I have already updated my 8am post on this: https://granitegrok.com/mg_lakesregion/2022/08/gunstock-somebody-gave-nh-state-rep-harry-bean-real-bad-advice-about-a-delegation-emergency-meeting
Please, if you would, let me know where I might be wrong in my conclusions (bottom half) and those of Dan Itse, former State Rep.
Thank you.
-Skip
Look, I make no claim to be a lawyer. However, I’ve worked with RSA 91A for years and it doesn’t take a genius to read its plain language – it’s there in black and white. No real amount of legalese, not obscure terminology – it actually IS an easy read. During this interval, I found out that a request for a Temporary Restraining Order to stop the meeting was forwarded to me so at Livernois’ request, I sent it.
And re-asked my question again:
—— Original Message ——
From: “Skip” <Skip@granitegrok.com>
To: “Andrew Livernois” <alivernois@belknapcounty.org>
Sent: 8/1/2022 5:29:26 PM
Subject: Re[2]: TROYou’re welcome!
And my question about ONLY the Chair or presiding officer being the only ones permitted to file such an emergency meeting?
-Skip
And now Livernois decided to throw up an impregnable mist up in trying to obfuscate what he road. Othewise known as CYA (Cover Your A$$). I asked an embarrassing question as I’m betting he didn’t think that an “ordinary” citizen would either go through the effort to, you know, READ THE LAW, and understand it well enough to call him out over it.
GREY AREA??
—— Original Message ——
From: “Andrew Livernois” <alivernois@belknapcounty.org>
To: “Skip” <Skip@granitegrok.com>
Sent: 8/1/2022 5:43:00 PM
Subject: Re: Re[2]: TRODear Skip,
I think this is another grey area in the law where different people could reach different conclusions.
On the one hand RSA 24:9 contemplates that there will be situations where a majority of the delegation can call for a meeting even without the support of the chair. So presumably that means that some other delegation member would need to be selected to be the presiding officer for that meeting.
So I think that there is an open question in that situation as to whether the member of the delegation who called for the meeting (with the support of the majority) can be deemed to be the “presiding officer” for declaring the need for an emergency.
As with many legal questions, there is no clear answer to this question. Reasonable minds could differ.
But again, the courts have tended to give quite a bit of deference to County Conventions, even when they technically violate the notice requirements. And the court has made clear that the delegation could correct any notice issues by holding another meeting down the road to ratify their decisions later.
I certainly don’t think that the delegation — if they do meet tonight — should seek to remove Dr. Strang on such short notice without giving him due process.
In my mind, the only thing they should be contemplating in tonight’s meeting would be the appointment of someone to fill either Keidash or Ness’s vacant positions, and I plan to make that clear at the meeting tonight if I’m asked.
Yours.
Andrew
Oy vay!
RSA 91A:2 An emergency shall mean a situation where immediate undelayed action is deemed to be imperative by the chairman or presiding officer of the public body, who shall post a notice of the time and place of such meeting as soon as practicable, and shall employ whatever further means are reasonably available to inform the public that a meeting is to be held.
24:9-d Notice. – The clerk of the convention, or his or her designee, shall mail to each member of the convention a notice stating the time, place and purpose of further meetings at least 7 days before the day of the meeting and shall cause to be published a like notice at least 7 days before the day of the meeting in a newspaper of general circulation in the county. Mailing such notice is not required during any session of the general court, if the notice is printed for 2 legislative days in the journal of the house of representatives.
Yep, trying to have it both ways at the same time. Which he did he did with the above:
On the one hand RSA 24:9 contemplates that there will be situations where a majority of the delegation can call for a meeting even without the support of the chair. So presumably that means that some other delegation member would need to be selected to be the presiding officer for that meeting.
He KNOWS that RSA 24 calls for a 7 day notice time period – and not the 24 hour one as in RSA 91A. And in order to use 91:A, the Delegation would have had to have a properly noticed meeting in order to select that presiding officer that could then use 91A emergency meeting.
See the nonsensical circular reasoning here? My thought: flat tire and totally rediculous hash of the reading.
So I told him that:
—– Original Message ——
From: “Skip” <Skip@granitegrok.com>
To: “Andrew Livernois” <alivernois@belknapcounty.org>
Sent: 8/1/2022 6:14:43 PM
Subject: Re[5]: TRO>> On the one hand RSA 24:9 contemplates that there will be situations where a majority of the delegation can call for a meeting even without the support of the chair
Now you are trying to use both at the same time. IF 24:9 is the superior, then the meeting hasn’t had the requisite 7 day notice given. Thus, illegal.
If 91A is in force to call the meeting, then the Chair must call the meeting (which he hasn’t). Thus, illegal.
Either the Law is, or it isn’t. It can’t be melded with both – which is what you are trying to do.
Without the Law, are we now in the Rule of the Strong Man? Words should matter – and mean specific things. If they do not, we’re all screwed.
Or this whole situation has gone to the Political Strong Man – and we’re still screwed for it means there are multiple levels of Justice because anyone can do this “change the meaning game”. And me, being an engineer, this is unacceptable.
-Skip
So my concern now is WHY is he an attorney in the first place, much less the Belknap County’s lawyer.
When this happens, you know what happens? Andrew Livernois just contributed to the growing distrust in government. If you can’t get a straight and COMPLETE reading of the Law from the Chief Attorney in the County, WHY vote him back in? Why bother listening to him when he can’t bother to cut and paste the Law into his Letter????
But the members of the Delegation who were running scared of the 3% of Belknap County residents that ski, that wanted SoulFest to go on (even as I’ve pointed out that Tom Day, GM at Gunstock had been working for MONTHS to break that contract), and the resulting “failure” that the Democrat and monied interests have been creating so as to 1) Gain control of the Mountain back again, and 2) destroy the Conservative Republicans here in the County, wouldn’t listen.
Pure Fear.
They need one of these:
However, Livernois needs some of these pointed at him:
Blue pitchforkIn that good old political tradition.
Who got to him?
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Sara Persechino, the young communications director for Planned Parenthood New Hampshire Action Fund says in an editorial that she had an abortion of an “unwanted pregnancy” at the age of 17 and later suffered a miscarriage of a “wanted pregnancy.” She then went on to give birth to two living daughters.
Using the word “pregnancy” for the first two babies and “daughter” for the last two babies, she draws a line between the two sets of children. How does she keep these children in separate categories with the last two as invaluable and the first two having no value at all?
She says “My abortion enabled me to go to college, start a career, and attend graduate school.” My life, my career, and my family are possible because I had access to the full spectrum of reproductive health care. ” Has she heard the numerous stories of women who have successfully navigated college, career, and graduate school after giving birth? Is she pretending they don’t exist?
She writes about “parents who did not have the resources or capacity to care for additional children; young women not ready to parent; and people escaping abusive relationships.” She is advocating for abortion for women who are in tough circumstances financially and emotionally.
Instead of being offered help, women are offered the option to kill their children. Instead of being told about the availability of open adoption where a mother can choose the family who adopts her child, meet them, and keep in touch, women are told it is better off to terminate the life of her child.
Related: It’s About Much More Than Abortion
She says “Everyone loves someone who has had an abortion – even if you don’t know it.” This is true and the truth is that a lot of women regret their abortions. Many of those women have channeled their grief into action for protecting other women from the evils of abortion. Post-abortive women are the heart and soul of the pro-life movement.
She talks about “the thoughtful, compassionate decisions people make” when choosing abortion. She doesn’t mention the panicked pregnant mothers coming into abortion facilities terrified of going back to an angry boyfriend, husband, parent, or sex trafficker who has demanded they have an abortion or they will be kicked out of the house or beaten up or killed.
She writes:
Shame, stigma, and silence have allowed extreme politicians control over the narrative, public policy, and now our bodies. It’s time to break that cycle.
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The key to our power and our liberation are our stories. It’s time to raise our voices. It’s time for our elected leaders to listen.
I agree. If women were able to talk about their abortions and their pain and regret, the abortion extremist politicians like Governor Chris Sununu would no longer control the narrative. Maybe a newfound willingness to talk about abortion experiences is why things are really falling apart for the abortion industry.
You can read their stories at silentnomoreawareness.org.
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Who are these terrible “Free Staters” I keep seeing people write about? Are they rioting, looting, burning, assaulting, or even killing (like the Black Lives Matter/Antifa movements did)? Missed it on the news and like the “Proud Boys,” this names is kind of new and being alleged as somehow huge dangers to Democracy.
Really?
Where did they come from? Never heard of them until the last few years, so what’s the story; the Daily Sun and the media do not tell us if they are dangerous, and if so, how?
My belief is they are responses to BLM/Antifa (Leftist domestic terrorists) and the Progressive/Political Totalitarian Democrats that want to trash our Constitution, our laws, turn us into a police state, and install a Chinese communist-like government here with them as the ruling elite. Can’t say I blame either the Proud Boys or Free Staters; most Americans don’t want any United Communists States Of America, so who are those spreading the narrative that these Right-wing (supporters of Constitution, the Rule of Law, observing human rights, etc.) are bad? Well, they are the Saul Alinsky “Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals” disciples following the rule “blame the other side of doing what you are doing.” Pure, raw communism.
So readers when you see a letter citing Free Staters, understand the source. The author is either ignorant or a communist. Both Proud Boys and Free Staters are responses to radical Leftism. It’s the Left who created them, inadvertently to be sure, but nevertheless did and now they condemn them for pushing back. Too bad.
Again look at what these “Progressives” running things have done to America. Inflation up over 9%, credit rates up, violent crime up, drug deaths up, unsecured border, sex trafficking, and canceling of Free Speech. Everything the Left has done result in disasters. Listen to them and those disasters will continue like that we are again dependent on foreign nations for our oil when we exported domestic oil two years ago.
Go figure.
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Apologies for no Sunday Survival. On vacation. Given my workload I’ll just resume it next weekend.
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They’re flying so thick and fast it is amazing. And take heart – there will be a Meme Overflow and I will back-edit to include the link. And this week I do expect to have a Friday Meme Overflow-Overflow (link to last one).
Remember, ridicule and mockery are effective weapons:
Now, let the mockery and mayhem begin.
*** Warning, a few possibly off-color ones, in case tender eyes are about ***
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I am no legal expert. How to deal with this? A certified, return-receipt letter to the school cc the school nurse? Requesting a signed reply?
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But first, a random sampling of three of my cartoons. Please note these are my concepts but I pay a professional to do them.
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Once again… point out that the pharma companies cannot be sued and nobody blinks. Astonishing!
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There are multiple people I know who are only alive today because I’ve figured it’s not worth it.
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Please understand that I’m not advocating anything. I abjure violence. But… I fear it’s coming. And not just to facilities, but to the homes of pharma employees who knew, or should have known, and said nothing. LinkedIn / mewe are your friends, as are places where you can look up their addresses.
Again, I don’t want this. How many have seen this video, from Oz, and thought “That doctor is lucky to have escaped with his life”?
The comments, though, are fascinating. Virtually nobody is talking about the fact that the doctor was attacked after the man’s loved one died from the Jab.
Again, I am not-not-not encouraging this. But when enough people have an AHA moment about the damages the Jabs are doing, they will go to lawyers, who will tell them nothing can be done. Ditto for their politicians. And then, barring silent acceptance, people will start planning…
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Remember, something you have a “right” to must be provided to you by taking from someone else, taken by force most often.
(Link to AZ Quotes per their policy)
Very honored to have his picture, autographed to me, on my wall at home.
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Otherwise called “hypochondria”. And the experts are ENABLERS.
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Pick of the lot:
Rule 1: It’s not what’s true, it’s what you can get people to believe.
Rule 2: Control the information flow, control what people believe.
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Col Richard Kemp: “Palestinian” Movement Invented by the KGB (pulseofisrael.com)
Interesting insights into the situation in Israel. On both my (recent-ish) trips there were whites, blacks, and every color in between. There were no “Jewish only” water fountains. Arabs moved freely. Arabs can vote, be judges and other officials, soldiers, and more. And… :
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Palate Cleanser:
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Especially now that they were successful in forcing former GAC Chair Peter Ness to resign (he could no longer take the political bullying they were heaping on him) who started the Audit Committee because of rumors of financial malfeasance? And that they are STILL trying to get Commissioner Dr. David Strang to resign (who headed up the Audit Committee)? Won’t NH State Rep Harry Bean, who took it upon himself to call an illegal meeting of the Belknap Delegation to remove Strang “for cause” figure out that in doing so, he’d be helping to cover up both the misdeeds and those that, if the rumors hold true, committed them?
Note: NH State Rep Mike Sylvia, the ACTUAL Chair of the Delegation (and not Harry Bean) had written an Op-Ed concerning just this issue – I requested a copy and just received it (below). Emphasis mine.
Remember, there is a rumor that Tom Day wrote a second check to the Sununu campaign for $1,000 in June
Commissioners Doug Lambert and Jade Wood have remained silent on both investigations – what are they hiding?
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Belmont, NH
On Sept. 18, 2020, without a public hearing or approval by the Gunstock Area Commission, Gunstock General Manager Tom Day, a former employee of the Waterville Valley ski area, owned or controlled by the Governor and his family, signed a check “donating” public Gunstock money to the “Friends of Chris Sununu,” the Governor’s 2020 re-election campaign.
Since Gunstock is owned by Belknap County, all of its funds are public monies, and using public dollars to support a political campaign is clearly improper and possibly violative of the law.
It has been confirmed that the check was signed by Mr. Day and cashed by the Sununu campaign.
As the Gunstock Area Commission is now in the midst of an audit, its very first with an Audit Committee, as well as an internal legal investigation, authorized by ALL of the Gunstock Commissioners, this and other financial irregularities are coming to light.
At 3 pm on Wed., July 20, Mr. Day and others at Gunstock, received a letter from the attorney conducting this investigation, instructing them to turn over documents and make themselves available for an in-person interview. Three hours later at the July Gunstock Commission meeting, Mr. Day publicly resigned along with others from the Gunstock management team, under the excuse that the Commission had created an intolerable work environment.
Since then, Governor Sununu has come to Mr. Day’s defense. Within the last week, he has called for the removal of all members of the Gunstock Commission, the very people who have uncovered this financial malfeasance. This is an ethical quandary for the Governor as it interferes with the leadership of a competing ski area, whose closure stands to benefit his family and his pocketbook. Additionally, he has publicly offered a job to Mr. Day in the NH Parks and Recs. Dept.
Making such an offer after receiving a campaign contribution is the definition of quid-pro-quo. What makes this revelation all the more disgusting is that this campaign donation was made with the money that belongs to the taxpayers of Belknap County.
Representative Mike Sylvia
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So are Doug Lambert (of DGF Industrial) and Jade Wood (NH GOP Area 5 Vice-Chair) going to allow both investigations to continue forward unimpeded? Or are they going to politically bully both into the ground?
And if so, WHY are THEY hiding something?
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Finding sources of good news in today’s world can be a daunting task. It seems the more we look for it the more difficult it becomes to find. Countries all over the world are seeing stunning rises in civil unrest, protests, violence, and even war. Politicians are being exposed the world over for being bought and paid for by agents of a global elite with designs on a one-world government run by and ostensibly for the “Illuminati”, that is, those with secret and superior knowledge. Drugs are flooding U.S. city streets, as are illegal immigrants fleeing even worse cities. Videos show teens and twenty-somethings acting with bold disrespect toward their fellow man fighting in restaurants, cursing out law enforcement and teachers, and participating in protests turned riots that have destroyed billions of dollars in private property. From the beginning of life to the end we see turmoil and madness. Innocent babies have been aborted by the millions, murder rates are up, human trafficking rates are skyrocketing, and elder care has turned into for-profit eugenics in many instances. Humanity has become inhumane on a global scale. The news, it seems, is almost universally bad.
Scanning the community and political landscapes for answers to why all of this is happening there seems to be both symptomatic and source explanations. Simpler views will say people are unhappy because of (fill in the blank) therefore they act out (fill in the blank). Taking this view it seems if we could just figure out a way to keep people happy then these horrible problems would go away. Here in the U.S. hundreds of thousands of people are flocking at risk of great personal peril for a slice of the American pie that offers many millions of sources of potential happiness. From homes to giant televisions to video games to massive food supplies to more shots at becoming a millionaire or billionaire than virtually anywhere else in the world, it would seem if abundance brought happiness we’d be the happiest people on earth here in the states. Sadly that is not even close to being a reality. The U.S. steadily ranks in the top ten globally in cases of depression. Eight of the other nine are also western countries that enjoy abundant economic advantages. It seems all of the benefits in the world can’t buy happiness.
So what is the source of our misery? The two prevailing cultural views offering an explanation are Christianity versus Progressive-Woke-Marxism. Christianity, founded on the teachings of the Bible, tells us the source of our problems is in our very nature. The word used to describe this is “sin” which occurs some 450 times, even more than the Bible talks about love (300 times). Despite the modern emphasis on love and tolerance, it seems the most bought, read, sold and published book of all time, the very will and word of our Creator, acknowledges we don’t just have problems, we are the problem. Our nature is corrupt and the result is a world full of bad news.
Woke-Marxism offers a different view, one that attempts to “liberate” humans by making us “critically conscious” or “woke” to the systemic problems, not caused by sin, but caused by religion and historical inequities that cover the gamut from class to race to sex to sexual preference. Similar to the Bible telling us we “are blinded by the god of this world” (2 Corinthians 4:4), progressive-woke-Marxist tell us we are blind to the systemic racism, sexism, homophobia, and privileges afforded by that system and the only way to end human suffering and inequity is to 1) get woke and 2) tear down the systems. Progressives believe if we do this long enough the natural “progression”, as Marx taught, will lead to communism and ultimately Utopia where man lives in peace with one another forever and ever. Why? Because once we abolish religion, the family, private property, nation-states, and so on, man’s true nature will emerge as a socialist man who is woke and will inherently live in solidarity with his fellow man without a hint of corruption. This new world will manifest itself with a new order, hence the talk of the New World Order. To have the new world we need to destroy the old one, and anyone who looks back at it like Lot’s wife longing for Sodom needs to be discarded.
By comparison, Christianity offers hope but not one tied to this world. It is a hope of a kingdom that exists beyond this world and is only briefly experienced by those who put their faith in Jesus with the assurance of today’s salvation through Christ eternally realized with His second coming. This faith is in Jesus alone, not us or our good works or our knowledge or our popularity or prosperity or diversity of church or any of that. The perfect life and sacrifice of Jesus, who is God made in human flesh, and recorded in the New Testament, offers eternal salvation to anyone who puts their faith in Him alone. It begs the question if you are the problem how can you also be the solution? Simply put, you can’t.
Conversely, woke-Marxists tell us our nature is good we just need salvation from the oppressive systems. Though lying, robbing, raping, murdering, slavery, sexism and selfishness have been with us since recorded history, and in every culture, it’s not because of us, it’s because of the systems we create. The virus in the software of life is just bad code written on our part, but if we put our trust and faith in Marx or Marcuse or DeAngelo or Hillary or Obama or Bernie we can re-write both history and our future with new, perfect progressive-woke-Marxian code and we can achieve Utopia – trust us. Never mind the authors of the code have gotten it wrong since the beginning. This time we’ll get it right.
This dichotomy lies at the heart of our current societal unrest. The lines have been drawn and the walls put up, it’s time to pick a side. Luckily, these teams can be put to the test, and I have done that. As tempting as it is to believe my problems are external, honest self-examination left me no doubt that my real problems are in me to the very core. Systems don’t make me lie, my poverty wasn’t because of “the man” other than my dead-beat dad, my identity crisis wasn’t because of an uncertain sexual preference, and my self-centered and often victim-claiming character that loved to elevate myself while blaming others wasn’t informed by the world around me. I live in America, and despite a lower-class upbringing I brought my rotten nature to the middle class and beyond, white privilege and all.
I grew up with as diverse a friend group as you can imagine, raised by a feminist mom, picketed for a union, reached out to the poor and oppressed, did the drugs, and the yoga, and meditation, overcame homelessness, bought the clothes, bought the cars, ate the finest foods, and slept with as many women as would let me, and none of it brought happiness or peace. I’ve read the progressive-woke-Marxist literature and understand it enough to call myself woke but won’t because I know that won’t solve the problems either. I didn’t need to be woke, I needed something much greater that the world and its wisest teachers can’t offer.
I needed a new life, literally. I needed to be raised from the dead by the only one who can – Jesus. This spiritual transaction and the holy life insurance that offers eternity is what many call “the good news”. It is, but there is even better news. Jesus, Himself is the better news, not just what He did to save my soul. As wonderful an assurance as that is, He offers to be with me in this life, to provide peace in hard times, blessings when I ask, and answers to prayers that show me He hears me and knows me and will meet my needs. He has even made His will for my life available in book form more abundantly than any other book ever written, in every language, and on every continent, and even tells me at the end what the world is going to look like right before He comes back. How will it look? Almost exactly as it does today.
Marx and the priests of woke-progressivism tell us we need to accelerate the contradictions, smash the system, and not worry about some killing and robbing and lying, as morals are merely social or religious constructs. Don’t bother worrying about one man-one woman marriage, or families, or freedoms, or your private property, there is a much bigger goal – Utopia – even if we have to lie, cheat, kill and steal to achieve it, by golly that’s exactly what we’ll do. Sure, we need to create a lot of bad news, but that will lead to the good news. Never mind the chaos, it will, despite the laws of logic that say otherwise, lead to order. Trust us.
Marx and his followers had the benefit of looking back at Jesus and the Bible to formulate their New World vision. However the Bible does what no other book can – it predicts the future, and with stunning accuracy. Consider these words from Jesus:
Therefore Jesus said again, “Very truly I tell you, I am the gate for the sheep. All who have come before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep have not listened to them. I am the gate; whoever enters through me will be saved. They will come in and go out, and find pasture. The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full. (John 10:7-10)
The good news is, that His promise still stands and will see anyone through the darkest of times, who puts their faith in Him, to the real land of promises only the One with the power to resurrect from the dead could achieve.
Time in this life is short, and there is more bad news than you can shake a stick at. Yet it’s not the stick but the one holding it. I hope you’ll see you’re your real problem is you? Not the LEFT or the “woke” or progressives who are merely deceived about the world and its problems. There is only one policy that ever works – repent and receive the good news from the only One who can save us all, and the life of abundance that comes with it.
I have, and I say this without an ounce of pride, but only by the grace of God. I know me, and I know what I did with my freedom to choose. I ended up dead inside. I know how dead I would be without the power of God to save my soul.
Thank you, Jesus!
He went to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath day he went into the synagogue, as was his custom. He stood up to read, and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. Unrolling it, he found the place where it is written:
“The Spirit of the Lord is on me,
because he has anointed me
to proclaim good news to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners
and recovery of sight for the blind,
to set the oppressed free,
to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”
Then he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant and sat down. The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fastened on him. He began by saying to them, “Today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.”
(Luke 4:16-20)
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I have crunched the numbers – i.e. the voting records of the last dozen years – to determine objectively which members of the New Hampshire House are RINOs – Republicans In Name Only.
I looked at every vote where (a majority of) Republicans voted opposite (a majority of) Democrats. I ignored votes where both sides voted the same. A RINO vote is when a Republican votes with Democrats against a majority of Republicans.
Almost every Rep, at one time or another, casts a vote the same as the Democrats. One example is when a Republican votes against the budget because it is too large while the Democrats vote against it because they think it is too small. Thankfully, such votes are not common.
Most Republicans only rarely vote with Democrats against other Republicans. Looking at the 194 Reps running for election this year, the median RINO score was 6%, meaning that on average, they voted with Democrats only 6% of the time. Anyone who voted as much as 15% of the time against fellow Republicans is a bit out of the mainstream. Anyone with a RINO score above 20% is definitely outside mainstream Republicans.
We want to thank Spec Bowers for this Op-Ed. Please direct yours to Editor@GraniteGrok.com.
Of the 105 current or former Reps in this year’s primary, 16 scored worse than 20%, seven were worse than 30%, and three were above 40%. Those three voted very nearly as much with Democrats as with Republicans.
RINO score
48.2% Cardon, G. Thomas (R, Derry)
46.7% Wolf, Dan (R, Newbury)
46.1% Willis, Brenda (R, Derry)
37.1% Ham, Bonnie (R, N Woodstock)
36.1% Bickford, David (R, New Durham)
35.5% Gonzalez, Carlos (R, Manchester)
34.8% Crawford, Karel (R, Ctr Harbor)
29.0% Deshaies, Brodie (R, Wolfeboro)
28.1% Mason, James (R, Franklin)
25.9% Umberger, Karen (R, Kearsarge)
22.9% Allard, James (R, Pittsfield)
21.5% Gay, Betty (R, Salem)
21.4% Sytek, John (R, Salem)
21.2% McMahon, Charles (R, Windham)
21.0% Khan, Aboul (R, Seabrook)
20.3% Janvrin, Jason (R, Seabrook)
Dishonorable Mention goes to two who are very near to 20%:
19.8% Milz, David (R, Derry)
19.4% Richardson, Jon (R, Allenstown)
In the coming days we will report the RINO scores on a district-by-district basis. E.g., in Derry, with 16 Republicans vying for ten seats, the RINOs are Cardon, Willis, and Milz.
If you want Republicans to vote like Republicans, vote against these RINOs in the September 13 primary. But if they survive the primary, they will vote better than their Democrat opponents so please vote for them in November.
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Our Daily Sun (Pravda on the Paugus) has jumped both feet into the Gunstock issue. It has sided is siding with, no surprise, the big money fat cats who were running it like it was their plaything and ignoring the laws governing its oversight.
Gunstock’s Commissioners, in which Gunstock Mountain Resort, is owned by the people of Belknap County and not these rich cats. The Belknap Delegation, was correct to remove them for cause (overstaying their terms of office) in being right, and legal by Law. The money men, not to be thwarted, teamed up with a George Soros-funded professional PAC from Manchester, and the mountain was temporarily closed. We all read all about it so no more on that. But here we see just what these big shots think of average people here in this county teaming up with Soros Leftists to do harm.
Enter The Daily Sun which has been turning Left like a corkscrew ever since Ed Engler got too sick to run his paper. At the “walk out” resignation performance the young Sun reporter, taking the side of the Left, of course, performed his biased political activist routine. Everything other than a 5-year-old falling to the floor and holding his breath. What a disgrace, no pretense of objective reporting at all.
The lies and smears flow freely down on the Paugus, chief among them Leftist “cartoonist” Mike Luckovich. Drummed off a couple of years ago he’s been back pumping his hate since earlier this year. In his space last week, he was trying still to convince readers President Donald Trump committed some crime. After six years and six investigations, not even a parking ticket but Mike keeps trying. It must pay well to be pushing hatred.
This is all about turning our county blue in November; you’ve seen the disasters socialists are doing.
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For many people, the thought of the most powerful people in the world, entrusted to lead our countries, major corporations, and even religious bodies, as psychopathic predators are either too unbelievable or too uncomfortable to consider. No one wants to believe the reins of power are in the hands of people who not only fail to live up to their public servant calling but have and will use their power to target vulnerable children or facilitate the criminal human trafficking market. Sadly most people are unaware of the history of heads of state in the west who either were or are connected to, child predators.
England
Former UK Prime Minister (1970-1974) Edward Heath was accused by at least 42 people of having sexually assaulted them as minors. Heath, most famous for leading the UK into the EU, would die at the age of 89 before any investigation brought charges against him. Like Jeffrey Epstein’s victims, they would not get justice other than posthumously.
Also in the UK around that time was a man named Jimmy Savile who most Americans have not heard of. Savile could be likened to the Dick Clark of England as he hosted a dance and music show for teens and twenty-somethings. Savile also was not exposed until after he died and the things he was known to have done are so far beyond the pale we won’t go into them here. However, the power Savile had come largely from his tight relationships with the royal family. He was one of the few visitors who didn’t need a security clearance when he would drop by Windsor Palace to hang with his buddy Prince Charles. Savile was such a fixture it’s said Queen Elizabeth recommended Charles and Diana seek his counsel when they began to have marital problems. Diana knew Savile’s character and was disgusted by the suggestion. She would die of mysterious circumstances not long after her divorce.
The most powerful royal family in the world has another son, in Prince Andrew, currently being investigated for his trysts on Epstein Island.
Time magazine also wrote this article detailing the network of child abusers in Margaret Thatcher’s administration which, despite massive incriminating evidence gathered by Scotland Yard, was covered up by a complicit media apparatus.
Outside the halls of power, the UK has a massive problem with Muslim grooming gangs that grew thanks to aggressive immigration policies fostered by many of those in Parliament.
Canada
Justin Trudeau is more famous among Americans for his metro-sexual good looks and political pedigree. However, since the pandemic, he has shown his tyrannical teeth with a cold disregard for Canadian citizens’ freedoms. Perhaps most demonstrably by having bank accounts of truckers, who were legally participating in a vaccine mandate protest, frozen with a wink and nod to Orwell’s Big Brother. A global media apparatus has a way of suppressing stories that expose the power elite, thanks now to social media giants who can bury both headlines and political ads, which is why most of us haven’t heard about Trudeau’s pedophile scandals both in and outside of his family. Trudeau has more than one underage accuser and is said to have settled out of court to the tune of $2.25 million at least once. This story was confirmed by the Buffalo Chronicle. Add to that his best friend was busted on possession of child porn and the picture gets darker. A cousin of Trudeau’s wife has been vocal about a cover-up of Liberal Party MPs and their predilection toward children.
Canada, part of the British Commonwealth, also has an alleged history of abusing native children in church-run schools that has never been given a proper investigation.
Australia
The island nation is no stranger to a similar political and church-linked power elite of predators. Recently the mega-church Hillsong has come under scrutiny for the handling of its founder’s son, Brian Houston, known concealment of child sexual abuse. The largest and most powerful evangelical church in the world was begun by Houston’s father, also found guilty of child abuse only to be allowed back into the pulpit by his son and a team of elders, as detailed in this documentary.
Shane Dowling, an investigative journalist covering Australia’s court system, has written a book about the ongoing protection racket that allows pedophiles to go unpunished. Dr. Reina Michaelson, the founder of Australia’s Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Program, published a 2005 article about her experience that led to a discovery of a powerful political protection racket also involving police.
The United States
There is now so much information on the problem of child sex-ploitation here in the U.S. one book alone couldn’t do it justice let alone this two-page article. From the Super Bowl to Hollywood the paths of child predators are well worn and their reach is growing, as seen in this HHS chart, thanks in large part to the Biden Administration’s open border policy. Joe Biden, we’re told, was voted in to become the most popular president in history, and is suddenly now the least popular president in history. Virtually all of his policies are not just bad but seem to actively work against the best interests of the American public, including children. Biden, now famous for his child sniffing and groomer-like commentary to children has a son, Hunter, who has the odd combination of narcissistic video journaling and criminal behavior. Investigative journalists Project Veritas recently suffered the first ever FBI raid of a journalism group for merely possessing Ashley Biden’s diary wherein she says she took inappropriate showers with her dad as a child.
Prior to Biden, the presidency saw Bill Clinton famously groom a young female staffer in Monica Lewinsky. Despite the public outcry and shaming, he would go on to appear on the Epstein flight log over twenty times and Epstein visited the Clinton White House some seventeen times, though Clinton claims none of it is true. Pictures are more honest than the former president as can be seen in this photo of Ghislaine Maxwell taken at Chelsea Clinton’s wedding.
As much as the political Right wants to believe this issue comes from the Left, Heath was a member of the Conservative party, and Republican Senator from Nebraska John W. Decamp detailed the child trafficking during the Reagan and Bush administration that went directly to the White House via Boys Town.
Is this all coincidental activity by the psychopathic opportunists who manage to make their way to the highest levels of global power? Or is there a global power elite that grooms the groomers to do their bidding for fear of public humiliation from blackmail, the kind being gathered by Jeffrey Epstein? This audio from one-time Broadway playwright Myron C. Fagan goes into great detail describing the latter. Never mind his miscegenistic comments and unpopular opinions of historical heroes, he seems to connect the dots as to where the Power really lies and why our leaders lie about their connection to the human trafficking and child sex-ploitation rackets that operate above the law among the global elite. Upon listening, it would explain why our world seems to be in the unbreakable clutches of a power elite who get pervert politicians to do their political bidding on the way to a global, some say Satanic, one world government.
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Maggie “The Budget Hawk” Hassan’s latest ad explains that she is busily reducing the prices of oil and gasoline that are plaguing us. She is portraying herself as having “fiscal responsibility” in another one and being praised as a budget hawk.
That’s great, Maggie, but does anyone believe that these two items are going to solve all the terrible problems visited on us by the Biden/Democrat axis?
A July 5, a Monmouth University poll showed that 63% say either inflation, gas prices, the economy, or everyday bills/groceries are their family’s top concern (inflation and gas prices alone combined for 47% with the panacea of them all, abortion, at 5%).
Inflation is a result of too much money chasing too few items to be purchased. 40% of all our printed money in circulation has been printed by Joe Biden and his administration. Imagine that 40% of your pocket change appeared since Biden said that he would protect and defend the US Constitution instead of working to destroy it and us.
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Where was Maggie, the budget hawk, when word was spread that Biden and his tool, Br’er Mayorkas, were flying illegal aliens all over America and putting them up on our dime? Crickets.
Where was Maggie, the budget hawk, when Biden started throwing hundreds of millions of borrowed money at Ukraine without a nod to or from the House, which is supposed to handle expenditures or the Senate? Crickets?
Where was Maggie, the budget hawk, when Biden and his confreres announced his glorious plan to give non-citizens, who broke federal law when they illegally crossed the southern border, federal ID cards which will enable them to start scooping up our limited benefits, which were hidden behind “Door # 3”, once the Democrats realized that these often illiterate people could be draped in emoluments they never dreamed they’d get, will vote for them keep them in power? Crickets.
Related: Maggie Hassan’s Latest Ad Says She’s Fiscally Responsible – That’s a Big A** Lie.
Regardless of what the far left media swears are possible, men will never get pregnant, it’s a biological impossibility any more than a guy telling you he is a woman is now, presto, a woman like Lia Thomas is a “woman.”
Where was Maggie the hawk when Biden just signed something, some sort of Executive Order of the type that made Barack Obama famous – the pen and the phone caper – which allows Biden to steal Medicaid funds, which are normally reserved for children, pregnant women, parents, seniors, and individuals with disabilities? Biden is stealing these funds from our most vulnerable to pay for the airline, train, and bus tickets for folks in states where the voting majority has said no to abortion and send these abortion seekers to other states? Does anybody have a clue about the price of this insanity? Didn’t we once foot our own medical bills? Crickets from our own Maggie, the budget hawk.
While we’re at it, the Democrats and some RINOs have just passed a tremendous bag of insanity, the Inflation Reduction Act, which will throw rocket fuel onto our roaring inflation bonfire. NBC says there’s $430 billion in new spending along with taxes – read taxes on every one of us putting an end to Biden’s talked about $400,000 limit, below which he said we wouldn’t be taxed. Suddenly the Moon is made of green cheese.
Under the Inflation Reduction Act, the IRS would receive $80 billion in funding to hire as many as 87,000 additional employees and future Democrat voters. The increase would be more than double the size of the IRS workforce, which currently has 78,661 full-time staffers, according to federal data. The Internal Revenue Service will now employ more bureaucrats than the Pentagon, State Department, FBI, and Border Patrol combined. The IRS has 5 million rounds of ammunition and recently purchased another 4,500 weapons. Where’s Maggie, the budget hawk on this bit of chicanery? Crickets.
Included in this act is $4 billion in new federal drought relief funds to help the re-election campaigns of Democratic Senators Catherine Cortez Masto in Nevada and Mark Kelly in Arizona. And just for the dim but mouthy AOC and her buds, this gargantuan bill aptly named the Inflation Reduction Act, which will do absolutely nothing to curtail the inflation that’s eating up every dime we own, contains $369 billion, a $1,000 dollar future bill for every American, just to help change the weather. What, nothing from Maggie the budget hawk again? What? Crickets.
The Tax Foundation estimates that the insanity contained in the Inflation Reduction Act will reduce long-run economic output by about 0.1 percent and eliminate just about 30,000 full-time equivalent jobs in the United States. It would also reduce average after-tax incomes for taxpayers across every income quintile over the long run and reduce capital stock valuations by .3%.
This worthless bill, for us in New Hampshire and for folks all over the USA, will cause no end of damage possibly meted out at the hands of armed IRS agents. But when you’re a budget hawk at Maggie Hassan’s level, you need never investigate the fallout from not reading the bills you blindly vote for, and if you do see a contrarian piece from a non-partisan economic source, stop, read no further than the troubling headlines then discard it. Just vote for any kind of bill that’ll shake us down like a boot full of quarters turned upside down, just so long as you garner Chuck Schumer’s kudos and nods at far-left luncheons and soirees and are praised by Chris “Flap Jack” Pappas and the likes of Annie Kuster, two other exceedingly keen budget hawks.
If somebody dares grill Maggie the budget hawk, about the full-blown insanity called the Democrats since 2021, or how vast monetary expenditures will limit drought by changing the weather, you’ll get the same species of insect you always get from US Senator Maggie Hassan:
Crickets.
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NH-NeverTrump Journal recently held a debate for the candidates in the CD-1 GOP primary. I did not watch the debate. Any debate hosted by a NeverTrump organization like NH-NeverTrump Journal is a waste of time as far as I am concerned.
I was curious, however, about how far NH-NeverTrump Journal would go to shill for the Establishment choice, Matt Mowers. Naturally, NH-NeverTrump Journal declared Mowers the winner even though, even according to NH-NeverTrump Journal, he was not the actual winner … which strikes me as a variation of the NH-NeverTrump Journal position that we should all take COVID-vaccines that are not really vaccines and provide no protection against infection or transmission to protect ourselves from getting and transmitting COVID.
But I digress. This is what I really want to talk about:
The candidates again disagreed on aid to Ukraine, with Mowers and Prescott coming out in full favor of helping Ukraine fight Russia’s invasion, though both said the money needs to be accounted for.
At this point it is inarguable that Ukraine is NOT anything remotely resembling a democracy. Back in March, Zelensky banned opposition political parties and nationalized television news. Government corruption is so rampant and obvious that even the regime-media … albeit temporarily; that is until forced to self-censor by the domestic and foreign grifters getting rich from U.S. spending on Ukraine … pumped the brakes on its cheerleading for Zelensky:
And to top it all off, Breitbart has reported that Zelensky … after all the military aid and support he has received from the West … is trying to get into bed with Communist China.
And yet Mowers wants to keep the grift going. Disqualifying … unless you believe the purpose of the Republican Party is to keep the country constantly at war in order to enrich the defense contractors.
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