So back on 6/27, I posted up the video that was taken by activists during the White Mountain Pride’s Drag Queen Children Hour event in which, in spectacular fashion, Director David Smolen covered himself with a legal word salad in trying to CYA himself in denying access to regular Conway Public Library patrons. It reminded me of my sons (and your children as well, I bet) in trying to persuade me that they hadn’t broken something of mine that was rather valuable. The phrase used was “Limited Public Forum” in which he was right (it is a legal term) but completely botched how it is actually used.

Well, a Conway activist reached out for help in trying to make him live up to his words in that video (paraphrased) “I gotta go but I’ll get back to you on that” – and never did. She had seen the RTKs I’d been putting up but couldn’t write on herself. So of COURSE I helped her write a Right To Know to present to the Conway Public Library Trustees last night at their meeting speaking exactly to that.

July 10, 2023

Right to Know demand per RSA 91-A: Conway Public Library: “Limited Public Library”

[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…The public also has a right to an orderly, lawful, and accountable government…

RSA202-A:3-a Records and Meetings Subject to Right-to-Know Law. – A public library established or accepted by a town or city shall be deemed a “public agency,” and the library trustees a “public body,” for purposes of RSA 91-A, and they shall be subject to all applicable provisions of that chapter; provided, however, that any books, documents, records, or other information maintained by a public library that is exempted or protected from disclosure by other provisions of law shall not be subject to disclosure under RSA 91-A.

202-A:5 Status. – Every public library shall remain forever free to the use of every resident of the town wherein it is located.

Background:

On a video captured by citizens and hosted on GraniteGrok (https://granitegrok.com/blog/2023/06/so-about-that-drag-queen-at-the-conway-public-library-last-friday-part-2), Director David Smolen, while conversing with a Conway Citizen said that the reason she was disallowed from attending the White Mountain Pride Drag Queen Reading was that the Conway Public Library (“CPL”) was a “Limited Public Forum” as the reason for preventing her entrance. She was also disallowed from entering the building environs exclusive of the reserved room for the WMP meeting.

The sense of “Limited Public Forum” is not mentioned in RSA 202-A which proscribes how Public Libraries are to be managed and act. Neither is that description mentioned in RSA 201-D.

Demand:

Given that NH is a Dillon’s Rule State, pursuant to the Right to Know Law (RSA. 91-A:4 (I) ), I am demanding access, within 5 business days, to the below enumerated governmental records:

• Provide the NH Statutes (“RSA”) that label or define that a NH Public Library is legally defined as a “limited public forum”
• Provide the NH Statutes (“RSA”) that can disallow residents access to the CPL in the whole for reasons that a meeting held in a given room
• Provide the NH Statutes (“RSA”) that can capriciously and arbitrarily set conditions as to the manner of entrance. In this case, only those adults accompanied by a child would gain entrance.
• Provide any and all CPL Policies that cover the above and the reference to State Statutes authorizing the actions in the Policies.

Otherwise, if this cannot be fulfilled within that 5 business day mandated window per RSA 91-A:2, II, please advise when the Responsive Record will be made available.

Per RSA 91-A:4 IV(c) If you deny any portion of this request, please cite the specific exemption used to justify the denial to make each record, or part thereof, unavailable for inspection along with a brief explanation of how the exemption applies to the information withheld.

As you are aware, in 2016, the New Hampshire Supreme Court ruled that a governmental body in possession of records is required to produce them in electronic media using standard common file formats: Green v. SAU #55, 168 N.H. 796, 801 (2016). Unless there is some reason that it is not reasonably practical to produce such, explain why it is not practical to comply.

Please also note, per RSA 91-A:4 III, III-a, and III-b, you are required to maintain the safety and accessibility of such Responsive Records. This also includes such responsive records (e.g., emails, query files, policies) which may have been deleted from respective local hardcopy or software systems but are still available on the applicable servers or in application or archival system(s) either in-house or hosted.

Please let me know when these records will be sent to me for inspection. You may email the Responsive Records to me at butterfly91011@yahoo.com. If the volume turns out to be substantial, I have already set up a Dropbox folder to use in uploading those Responsive Records.

Thank you for your lawful attention to this matter.

Sincerely,

Wendy Richardson

Now, there seems to be several backstories that surfaced when she went to the meeting last night and personally delivered this RTK to the Trustees.  She also asked them some questions to which the response was “deer in headlights” and a few feeble “er, no”. I’ll be getting the details from that later on. Some of those “no’s” seemed to be markers of “something ain’t right here” so yet another project.

Oh, and I wrote an RTK for myself – and the Director’s response.  So I couldn’t help myself with my response. Hilarity ensued.

To Be Continued…

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I have written before about the recent tendency of US Democrat Party members to act to subvert the idea of democracy in attempts to rile up citizens, cultivating and nurturing democracy in the process. Like stoking a fire, except it is not as simple as poking some embers with a stick to send up a shower of sparks.

The Democrat Party technique on display is more akin to dumping toxic flammable chemicals on the fire, with the result that the vaporized fumes become so noxious that people are driven away. The end result is that there is less competition in controlling the reigns of power. Whether this is intentional or not, it appears to be the only rational ideology behind the Democrat Party’s otherwise intense obsession with enacting the most aggravating, stupifying, amorally abhorrent policies.

Look no further than the US Supreme Court case Moore vs. Harper, which recently produced a decision on states’ rights pertaining to the autonomy of state legislatures. Therein, the Republican-led North Carolina State legislature’s efforts to redraw congressional district lines were rebuked because they produced a result favorable to Republicans. The state Democrats criticized those results as gerrymandering and forced a redraw which led to a near-even split.

Which is gerrymandering?

Looking at a map of the congressional districts might be the best way, as gerrymandering is most evident when the lines of the districts make such a convoluted shape that it appears to be lizardesque in nature, like a salamander. But is it gerrymandering to draw a map arbitrarily or to intentionally draw a map that balances the division of elected representatives? If the state is actually more Republican-leaning by the percentage of the population, then it is surely gerrymandering to adjust the lines so as to favor the Democrats.

Inevitably, the federal-level Supreme Court has stepped in to overturn states’ rights. The Economist, a left-leaning, subtly partisan magazine, noted that “the Supreme Court has stood up against a subversion of democracy.” Yet, in this case, SCOTUS has exercised federal will over states’ rights. That in itself is a subversion of democracy! An unelected, 9-person judiciary body somehow thinks that whatever it does protects democracy by default?

The one action at the federal level that most champions democracy is for federal actors to take a poll of the citizens affected by the issue, in this case, North Carolina residents, and follow the majority’s will on the issue. Today’s Democrat Party too often has followed the minority’s will, which is frequently subject to bigotry, misunderstanding of the values and traditions of the nation as a whole, and intent on attacking the majority rather than building the prosperity of the entire nation.

It is a great tragedy when a minority group thinks that the best way forward is for a majority group to lose, be destroyed, or be weakened. That is dangerously myopic, zero-sum thinking. That is not the best way forward in a true democracy of upstanding, intelligent citizens. An enlightened minority would recognize that their fellow citizens in the majority should also gain from the steps forward taken. The majority is not in the way of the minority necessarily. The best way forward is one where all benefit.

Joe Biden and his junta administration have constantly used the hyperbolic statement that “democracy is under attack” and that they must “defend democracy” in an effort to rally support in a national political struggle. The idea is that anyone opposed to Democrat Party policies is, by default, attacking democracy. The Democrat Party, by this rationale, can do whatever it wants, carte blanche and those actions are automatically in support of democracy.

This is a twisting of words and ideas that is repulsive, despicable, and only works on the most sycophantic and idiotic. It is fundamentally incorrect and wrong. It depends on citizens’ inaction, cowardice, and disinterest, which it also coincidentally seeks to bolster.

Specifically, we must divide our understanding and pay special attention to the difference between a capital-D Democrat and a small-d democrat. At the moment, the former is nothing more than petty tyrants, Nazi-supporting authoritarians, speech-censoring fascists, and the mentally deranged projecting their mistakes onto everyone else. They are fortunate that the other citizens of the planet are so tolerant, and we are all praying that the 2024 election comes soon enough to prevent matters from getting worse.

Real cultivation of democracy involves compassionately building a political arena with multiple (i.e., five or more) political parties that ensure that everyone’s needs are met and that the duties of government are fulfilled. We need more of that mindset in Washington, DC, which necessarily requires forcing the democracy subverters to move somewhere else.

 

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After eleven days, the Secret Service closed the investigation of the mysterious bag of Cocaine found in the White House. The Service claims they have no facts about the illegal drugs found in the West Wing that could lead to the person responsible. Is no one in the Biden White House ever accountable for anything?

Nobody should be surprised by the announcement on Thursday. The Secret Service is charged with protecting the President and his family from harm, and ending this investigation without finding does just that; covering for the First Family.

In an embarrassing statement, the Secret Service reported the following:

• No fingerprints were discovered on the bag
• No DNA could be lifted from the poly bag
• There were no video cameras in the area where the plastic bag of Cocaine was found.
• Visitor logs indicate at least 500 people had access to the drop area over the Fourth of July weekend

You might ask why it took eleven days to come to a conclusion that could have been made in minutes with the same feckless effort. Supposedly, the FBI worked with the Secret Service on this case, meaning the most sophisticated equipment was available to investigators. Yet with all the resources available, we have a bag of drugs left in the White House by someone with no fingerprints or DNA, and we are expected to buy their story. I don’t think I’m buying.

It is alarming that we have not heard the President show concern with this matter. He should be insisting on answers to assure the American people of the security of the White House. It was quietly leaked yesterday that this was the third such find in the White House during Biden’s term. Why are we hearing of these situations now? Wasn’t this to be the most transparent Administration ever? This is becoming a House of Mirrors, Cocaine Mirrors.

Nothing is light or funny about this matter, from the initial discovery to the bogus investigation. If anyone could place an evidence-free bag of Cocaine in the White House, what would stop someone from leaving Anthrax, Ricin, or Fentanyl? This investigation fits perfectly with the many other slow-walked or ongoing issues. We saw many times during FBI Director Christopher Wray’s testimony in front of Congress his reluctance to answer direct questions about the Biden family. Whether questioned about the Biden Laptop, Bribery, Money Laundering, or the Cocaine discovery, his escape was that the investigation is ongoing, and he cannot comment. Ongoing is the new safe word. This explains why there is no urgency to close any of these investigations, as they are the perfect legal cover for the Biden Crime Family. 

The American people are waking up and tired of the legal manipulations by our government to mask the obvious illegal activities of the First Family. The credibility of the Justice Department, FBI, and now the Secret Service is being destroyed, all to protect a corrupt lifelong politician and his family that have used their positions to reap fortunes from around the world. They have also been shown to cheat the tax system, which I guess means fair share only applies to law-abiding citizens and not their slimy political leaders.

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An attorney in West Palm Beach, Florida, has been arrested for possessing thousands of images of child pornography. He is an attorney who represents the DNC and was active against sex abuse.

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West Palm Beach is where Monsignor Edward Arsenault has a business called Da Franz with his husband Francesco Bolignini-Arsenault West Palm Beach is where Autofair sold to. Andrew H Crews, the CEO, was on the board of Children’s Advocacy Centers and Granite One Health tied to Catholic Medical Center tied to Edward Arsenault

West Palm Beach is where Jeffrey Epstein lived – tied to 10 Ferry Street Concord NH, which ties his business via International Peace Institute/International Rescue Committee to Edward Arsenault’s Virtus LLC business and Maximus, Policy Studies, DCYF, Kathleen Kerr, Sylvia Gale, Police Detective James F McLaughlin, Veritas, Children’s Trust Fund, Dataminr.

Didn’t Eric Spofford of Granite Recovery Centers move to West Palm Beach too? Isn’t it curious that Edward Arsenault was released only 17 months into his 4-year sentence and in home confinement in Salem, where Eric Spofford Enterprises was?

As Cindy McCain said after Epstein was suicided, “Everyone Knew.”  But in New Hampshire, when Ghislaine Maxwell was arrested, everyone claimed not to know.  That’s not possible – her house sale was recorded by the registrar of deeds, who came out of the banking department and endorsed the sheriff of Merrimack County and is at an address next to his. Ghislaine’s company Granite Reality LLC shares a name with Red Granite Reality in Maryland which can be traced to ownership by Glenn Perlow of NH Trusts.

Everyone knew about Patrick Rose in Boston Police as a predator, too, since 1992 or so. AG at the time in Mass. was Scott Harshbarger, who got caught out after the McMartin Pre-School Satanic Panic scandal. He was hired to do the investigation into St Paul’s School that was published while the State (lobbied by the NHCADSV) decided to keep its own report for the period when AG Michael Delaney and AG Joseph Foster were there private.  And David Vicinanzo, providing legal counsel to the NHCADSV who got a contract out of it all, thought that was just dandy.

Let’s not have fake non-profits that actually protect child sex predators, please. Let’s not have AGs or Chief Justices or Judges who protect corrupt police officers posing as sex crimes officers but actually child traffickers and pedophiles and drug traffickers.

Let’s keep our children and our society safe from dangerous fakes.

 

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Early in the year, I prepped the battlespace for what typically happens around New England. Everyone yells “drought” and “climate change!” But by year’s end, we have our average annual precip or more. This year has been wet. You could say there’s been a systemic lack of drought.

But drought is still a scary thing. It feeds the fear and false narratives upon which the Climate Cult props up its fraud.

Too much water has the same effect. Flooding. Massive flooding. Holy stormwater runoff Batman! It’s mostly hyperbolic nonsense, as is how the Cult peddles the transition from one to the other. Extreme weather. Climate chaos! It’s your fault! But what doesn’t prove global warming? Even normal is wrong because their faith is unassailable, and any refutation is sacrilegious. As for the lack of drought, you’ll have seen a lot of headlines about flooding, mostly in Vermont but in New Hampshire as well.

After a barely above-average month for precipitation in May, New Hampshire rocked the following month with the 14th wettest June on record. Not exceptional, but worthy of note. Vermont’s June 2023 was the seventeenth wettest, while July could be a record breaker. July has seen significant rainfall and flooding in both states, blowing the NOAA spring-summer prediction to high heaven (if such a thing exists for climate cultists).

But back to New Hampshire.

 

 

Five of the wettest Junes in New Hampshire have been since 1998, which aligns with the annual trends over the past 50 years. The Granite State has been wetter more often since 1969 than the 75 years of record prior.

 

 

CO2, if anything, has made the state wetter and greener (which naturally reduces CO2 if that concerns you), but we’re due for a change, sois one coming? Since 2005, annual totals have been above the 100-year average but declining since 2005.

 

 

Approaching the historical norm, as in normal. Not too much, not too little, not having anything to do with your lifestyle in either case.

Boring? Maybe, but we are at war with the left on these issues, and you, dear reader, wading through these sorts of articles, have more information than most when discussing the realities of climate.

Not always exciting but invaluable.

No hyperbolic venting required. Just point to the science.

 

 

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On the 4th of July, 1976, 124 U.S. Senators celebrated their loyalty to the United Nations by signing a Declaration of Interdependence, a complete repudiation of the Declaration of Independence.

On 9/11/1990, our 41st President, George H. W. Bush, boldly challenged the eternal wisdom of our Founders by saying: the U.N.-directed Gulf War was intended to create a “new world order.” Sadly, only The John Birch Society and several patriotic organizations challenged this ultimate betrayal of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution by our Commander in Chief, who surrendered his war powers to UN/NATO control, now a “no-win war’ for 20-plus years.

Blind trust in government invites despotism. The result is peace without freedom. Over the past century, the apathetic voting habits of the American people have followed this fatal trend. In 1945, Americans starving for peace were deceived by this “cheese in the mousetrap.” The mousetrap was the framework of world government, the UN Charter. Who could argue against it in those chaotic times? Both parties and political candidates supported the promise of peace. The phony promise of “no more wars” won Senate ratification of the UN Charter with only two descending votes.

The lack of accountability by the UN thrived under the honeymoon of world peace. It wasn’t exposed until years later when, in 1960, the John Birch Society initiated their “Get Us Out Of The U.N. and Get The U.N. Out Of The U.S. campaign to expose this betrayal.

“When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.”

Today Edmund Burke’s advice challenges our complacent indifference to what is really happening. Trusted bad men have combined against liberty under the banner of peace in a generational plot that never made N.Y. Times headlines even after, In 1980, the State Department issued a document entitled Postwar Foreign Policy Preparation 1939-1945 …:

“… key government figures in UN planning within the U.S. State Department and Treasury Department: Alger Hiss, Harry Dexter White, Virginius Frank Coe. Dean Acheson, Noel Field, Lawrence Duggan, Henry Julian Wadleigh, John Carter Vincent, David Weintraub, Nathan Gregory Silvemaster. Solomon Adler, Abraham George Silverman, William L. Ullman, and William H. Taylor.” G. Edward Griffin reveals this in his 1964 book, The Fearful Master: that all these men except Dean Acheson have been identified in sworn testimony as Secret Communist agents.

Americans must not remain ignorant of the true purpose of U.N. peace. We cannot continue to elect self-promoting globalists to office. Which world do you choose: the Godless tyranny of the U.N. or freedom under God secured by leadership obedient to the Constitution? Answering that question with party votes, waving the flag, and firecrackers are insufficient for the sacred fire of independence and liberty to reign. Restore Americanism by demanding your Representation sponsor the American Sovereignty Restoration Act. Get the truth at Go to JBS.org.

 

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is one of the most conservative politicians in Texas. He has been a staunch defender of the Second Amendment, religious freedom, and traditional values. However, in recent months, Paxton has been betrayed by some of his own Republican colleagues.

Indictment and Impeachment
Paxton was indicted on securities fraud charges. The charges stem from a 2011 investment deal that Paxton was involved in. Paxton has denied any wrongdoing and vowed to fight the charges. However, the sham impeachment has injured his reputation and made it more difficult for him to do his job.

Despite the indictment, Paxton has continued to be a vocal critic of the Biden administration. He has sued the administration over several policies, including its vaccine mandates and immigration policies. Paxton has also been a vocal supporter of former President Donald Trump.

Paxton’s conservative views have not favored him over his Republican colleagues. In recent months, some Republicans have backstabbed him. They have argued that the indictment has made it impossible for Paxton to do his job effectively.

Tinderholt’s campaign also sheds light on the role of individual lawmakers in shaping public opinion and the political narrative. As a respected Republican representative, his actions carry weight and resonate with the party’s base. By actively engaging with Republican voters and encouraging them to express their opposition to Paxton’s impeachment, Tinderholt seeks to counter the negative perception of the charges brought against Paxton. His efforts are a powerful reminder that individual lawmakers can play a significant role in influencing public opinion and shaping the outcome of critical political events.

Moreover, the consequences of Tinderholt’s mobilization efforts extend beyond the immediate impeachment trial. They highlight the broader significance of public engagement and political activism in our democratic process. Grassroots mobilization allows citizens to participate in politics actively, express their views, and influence decision-making. These efforts can strengthen the bond between elected officials and their constituents, deepening democratic engagement within the Republican Party and beyond.

The Betrayal
The betrayal of Paxton by some of his Republican colleagues is a sad day for Texas. Paxton is a man who has dedicated his life to fighting for conservative values. He is a true conservative warrior, and he deserves the support of his fellow Republicans.

Paxton has defended dozens of lawsuits related to election fraud. Democrats wanted to open the elections to mail-in ballots and ID-free elections and sued Texas for instituting these unconstitutional practices in our elections. He and his office won every single one of these cases and prevented Democrats from stealing Texas as they did in Georgia, Arizona, and many other states.

When progressives left across the country, including in Texas, attacked our freedom of religion daily, he stood firm and stopped them. He has defended the rights of religious Texans to worship freely, without government interference.

At a time when both parties and too many activist judges play politics and refuse to defend our constitutional rights, his strong stance is particularly welcome. He has been a tireless advocate for the Constitution, and he has always put the rights of the people first.

The allegations against Paxton are still unproven. He has not been convicted of any crime and has the right to a fair trial. However, the indictment has damaged his reputation and made it more difficult for him to do his job.

Unveiling the Viciousness
Some blame Karl Rove and the Bushes for using their power against him. Their tactics were not merely the result of political competition but deliberate acts of aggression. Rove’s relentless pursuit of power and the Bush family’s disregard for the nation’s well-being has left lasting scars on American democracy.

By highlighting the viciousness of these individuals, it becomes apparent that their actions were driven by a thirst for power and a willingness to manipulate the system to their advantage. The negative consequences of their policies and decisions cannot be understated. From the lives lost in unnecessary wars to the erosion of civil liberties, their viciousness becomes apparent when we delve beneath the surface.

Karl Rove, the Bushes, and their political legacies are riddled with deception, self-interest, and a relentless pursuit of power. Their tactics have left a lasting impact on the American political landscape, with repercussions that continue to resonate today. By shedding light on their Machiavellian strategies and destructive policies, we must remain vigilant, ensuring that such individuals are held accountable and that our democracy is safeguarded from their insidious influence. We can only strive for a more just and equitable political future through an informed and critical assessment of their actions.

The betrayal of Paxton by some of his Republican colleagues is a sad day for Texas.

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My apologies if I have not been living up to the level of Nitzahkhon’s Meme-a-saurus, but I promise he will be back in a few weeks with exactly what you’ve come to love.

Until then, I’m still winging it, piling up the images, and pouring them out three times a week. If you missed Monday Memes or the Wednesday Overflow, you can view them at the embedded links.

For previous explorations into meme-land, search Monday memes or click one of the tags at the end of the post.

Not everyone will appreciate the content, so please scroll responsibly – I feel there are some things that will offend someone.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Long-time readers know that I used to confront the Eco-Socialists over at Treehugger by 1) bringing a Freedom/Liberty viewpoint to them (which wasn’t all that well received most of the time) and 2) trying to hold up a mirror to their “inclusive” mantra to show their groupthink wasn’t inclusive nor “diverse.”

Well, Lloyd Alter has started a SubStack here, at which the same kind of articles are starting to appear. I have been leaving some comments, and I have started bringing them back here but on this one, it’s a very dubious assumption in the sub-title:

 

Quit whining. Even the Dutch don’t all cycle like the Dutch.
Many are complaining about a new study that says if we cycled like the Dutch, carbon emissions would drop by more than all of Canada’s emissions. But it wouldn’t be so hard.

 

Yes, he is anti-car and fits in well with the WEF (the communistic World Economic Forum that wants to control us all via corporate masters and is looking to severely limit private ownership of cars) so I’m not surprised – he’s “carbon emissions” obsessed to which I say “everyone has a ‘thing’.” He also talks about the USA but lives in Toronto, where he’s a professor of sustainability (which explains the obsession). But I started to read the post, and the first line was this:

 

I am turning the comments back on here because, notwithstanding a few who criticize everything that I write, comments are useful and often fun.

 

I was told he had turned them off because a few of us normal people, believing that Freedom is the highest value rather than “less carbon used,” started to comment on his new site. Hey, he did everything except use my name (heh!).  So even though I didn’t know they were off, I left one that tried to make the case that comments are GOOD even if they take on the author or the ideas – or other commenters. And I try HARD to keep this attitude (‘cept for trolls. Don’t like trolls) here at the ‘Grok. But there is an important distinction I wanted to make:

 

“I am turning the comments back on here because, notwithstanding a few who criticize everything that I write”

There is a difference between criticizing (which, truth be told, I have done so in the past at TH) and challenging. I get both all the time. Frankly, I learn from both but the latter is far more fun to engage with readers holding viewpoints that are not mine.

TH – speaking of which: I’m betting that your former “heads of state” are wondering why its readership has plummeted as it has become “HGTV Lite” (the comment VB left bemoaning the paucity of “hard Eco stuff” that DEMANDED commenting upon). They should never have let you and Sami go as it has now turned into a feminist enclave, devoid of any of the stuff that made us THINK (and then, of course, comment) in discussing your main points AND with other commenters.

The posts themselves, as I hold over at my place, should just be the “jumping off” place – the commenting area should be a loud, boisterous, and rambunctious on the differences of opinions.

I certainly had my share that mostly didn’t agree with me [at TH, that is] – it forced me to sharpen my thoughts, logic, and presentation to debate better. It was a LOT of fun while it lasted.

 

Indeed – you learn a lot in the hot and heated battles in the Arena of Ideas. Either go hotter and smarter or just go home. And just like at TH, I just couldn’t help myself when a new commenter (to me) let this fly. As you read it, keep in mind the phrase “keep in lockstep” as you read Dubbeldam A+D (an architectural firm). What caught me is bolded now:

 

Love it Lloyd. A rational presentation. We can attest first hand that the Netherlands had a car culture like North America in the 70’s and it took decades (still happening) to build out the change to make that 28% modal share possible. fyi there are parts of The Netherlands in the south that border Belgium that have hills and the culture there is no different than in the North. In many of NL’s urban centres it’s actually preferable to commute by bike in terms of time and cost. Imagine if Toronto had the same bike infrastructure as Utrecht NL. By car it currently takes about 40 minutes to travel across Adelaide St from Bathurst to Sherbourne in rush hour. By bike its only 15 minutes. Like those who refused to believe the world was not flat, it will be an uphill battle to make change for those who can’t see the possibility for change. You have to want to change in the first place. Any smart person knows you have to “be the change you want to see” (Mahatma Gandhi)

 

Aye yeah, sure, I said:

“…it will be an uphill battle to make change for those who can’t see the possibility for change…”

Or perhaps it isn’t that they don’t see the possibility – should not others respect that they have other opinions on things? Why is it that those refusing to go along are talked about with nuances of “they have to be EDUCATED one way or other”. Which generally means force has to be applied to make them comply to make others happy at their expense.

We Conservatarians hear this a lot – “if we were better educated…go educate yourself…if you knew more, you’d agree with us”. It’s always a one way street. Look, you want to think that way and stay in your own groupthink monoculture? Knock yerself out and be happy. But don’t assume that your happy is my happy because my happy immediately is replace by other emotions when when you force me to change them up.

You won’t like me when I do.  Ask my kids for an example. And a lot of adults, too.

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Democrats and their media homunculi have adopted a conspiracy theory of their own, amplified in the wake of the release of the movie Sound of Freedom. They are claiming that child trafficking is a right-wing conspiracy theory.

Over this.

The synopsis of the movie: After rescuing a boy from ruthless child traffickers, a federal agent learns the boy’s sister is still captive and decides to embark on a dangerous mission to save her. With time running out, he quits his job and journeys deep into the Colombian jungle, putting his life on the line to free her from a fate worse than death.

 

Sounds like a million other Hollywood TV or movie dramas. But in the wake of its release,  the Atlantic (as but one example) claims there is no Child Trafficking epidemic. Who said there was? How about the Biden White House? “An estimated 25 million people are subjected to human trafficking and forced labor” globally, which is a lot. Save the Children says nearly 30% of those trafficked humans are kids, and the US Government has been spending millions “to combat” it, including “Nearly $5.2 million to four states (in 2017) to improve jurisdiction-wide coordination and multidisciplinary collaboration to address the trafficking of children and youth.”

They’ve spent a lot more since, including tax dollars, to traffic illegal immigrant children.

 

“The tax dollars of people who are listening are paying to put children in the hands of criminals,” Rodas told Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe. “These vulnerable children, we care for them, we clothe them, we feed them with your dollars and my dollars. We fly that product directly to the trafficker. God forbid, it’s sex trafficking.” …

“Young children living with multiple older, unrelated men,” he stated. “And, in one case, from Gulf Freeway in Houston, Texas, a young girl who admits her female sponsor is using her for sex work.”

 

According to The Government Office of Elementary and Secondary Education,

 

An unknown number of U.S. citizens and legal residents are trafficked within the country for sexual servitude and forced labor. Contrary to a common assumption, human trafficking is not just a problem in other countries. Cases of human trafficking have been reported in all 50 states, Washington D.C., and the U.S. territories. Victims of human trafficking can be children or adults, U.S. citizens or foreign nationals, male or female.

Common examples of identified child trafficking cases include:

• Commercial sex
• Stripping
• Pornography
• Forced begging
• Magazine crews
• Au pairs or nannies
• Restaurant work
• Hair and nail salons
• Agricultural work
• Drug sales and cultivation

 

Or Child Find of America, which reports that 2300 children go missing in America every day; relatives abduct some, others run away, but many disappear. And I’m no mathematician, but 2300 a day seems like an epidemic to me which may be why the US Department of Justice has an entire page dedicated to missing children.

And here’s something for our “it’s not that big a problem” fans of so-called indigenous peoples. Young Native American girls are at a dangerously high threat of abduction. That notoriously right-wing rag, NPR says that risk is higher for them than other groups, and according to SFist, “Native American women in California are being kidnapped and murdered at an alarming rate.”

 

“Today, we are asking our local, state and federal partners to take a stronger stand against the trafficking of Native women and girls,” said Joseph L. James, the Chairman of the Yurok Tribe. “While human trafficking and abductions have been all too common in the Humboldt County area, I ask all of our members to be extra cautious at this time. If you have to go into town, please take someone with you and let a family member know when you expect to return.”

 

The Cali dems who blocked the bill to jack up penalties for child trafficking must not care about young indigenous girls and women (or they don’t watch what Hollywood coughs up).

Then there’s the matter of the US government, which (as noted above) is alleged to have misplaced at least 85,000 children of immigrants. Depending on who you ask, many of those “immigrants” have an ancestral right to most of the Southwestern United States. That would make them displaced indigenous people, even though none worship the indigenous gods or speak the indigenous language. They are mostly Spanish-speaking Catholics, projecting their non-indigenous colonial conquerors’ cultural and religious beliefs.

I guess what I’m trying to say is pick a team.

The Government Office of Elementary and Secondary Education says kids are getting abducted for stripping, pornography, and commercial sex, and we know kiddie porn exists. People who say it doesn’t keep getting arrested with it in their possession and many of them wear the same jersey as “team child trafficking isn’t that big of a problem.”

But if it is not as big a problem, how small of a problem is it, and how many children are you okay with disappearing or being sex trafficked before we consider it a problem? And what does any of that have to do with your outrage over a movie about a guy quitting his job to recuse one child-trafficked immigrant girl?

One more question. Are Amber alerts misinformation or disinformation?

 

 

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Moms for Liberty has come under fire from the radicals on the left of the political fence. Parents began showing up at school board meetings a few years ago when they realized that their public schools were going to push kids to hate each other based on the color of their skin.

Critical Race Theory (CRT) pushed more division among the races, but that wasn’t enough. After that came a push to teach children about gender ideology.

Much to their surprise, the far-left radicals were not happy that these parents didn’t want their form of radicalization thrust upon their children. These parents wanted their kids to be taught how to read, write, add, and subtract. Out of this battle came a new group of moms who called themselves Moms For Liberty.

Early on, Moms for Liberty caught some backlash because they offered to pay $50.00 if someone presented evidence that a teacher was teaching CRT in the classroom. They were adamant about fighting to stop radicalized teachers from teaching kids to hate each other. Some of the black parents were just as vocal, saying they didn’t want their kids to be taught that they were nothing but victims. The unions and the leftists decried the “bounty” that would be paid if a teacher was caught teaching children to hate each other based on their skin color.

I work with plenty of teachers who were not bothered by the “bounty.” Why? Because they weren’t teaching that kind of hatred in their class anyway. History must be taught, facts must be presented, and slavery is an example of how evil can prevail until good people stop it. Children need to learn a lesson from slavery in the United States and how it continues even today. But there’s no need to blame students today for any of this.  We want them to learn and never repeat the mistakes of the past.

Then came the gender ideology. Parents didn’t want their children confused by their teachers now teaching about gender dysphoria or gender transitioning. They could see that a social contagion was impacting kids who were now removing genitalia. Instead of listening to children who had made this terrible mistake, their voices were silenced by the radicals on the left.  Once again, parents said that they wanted their kids to learn how to read, write, add, and subtract, only to be vilified by the radicals on the left. Many parents and teachers, who were extremely supportive of LGBT students, knew that this kind of public education wasn’t going to help their children get into a top college. But they also knew they had to remain silent based on how the radicalized MOB would attack them.

As if this wasn’t bad enough, parents are now discovering pornographic and obscene books available to their children in their school library and on the school library Apps. Giving children pornography is considered sexual abuse, so why are there some on the left who are ok with this?  Shouldn’t it be a bi-partisan effort to at least remove pornographic content from the school library? Sexualizing children with pornography, according to the radicals on the left, was a way to help LGBT students. Since when does exposing any child, gay, straight, or trans, help a child? It does help a sexual predator.

Moms for Liberty didn’t care if the pornography was aimed at LGBT students or straight students. They didn’t care if it was gay or straight porn; school libraries shouldn’t abuse a child in that way.

As a parental rights advocate in New Hampshire, there are plenty of teachers and parents from the LGBT community who do not want children exposed to this obscene material. They do not want teachers to teach kids to hate each other. They do not want any radical agenda pushed in the public school system. They want public schools to go back to teaching kids academics. This would elevate the quality of education in the schools and help bring back respect and dignity to the teaching profession.

While these agendas become more prominent in public schools, more families will remove their children.  All of this does one thing, it drives families out of the public schools. Look at these numbers.

 

So whose side are you on? Parents who want quality public schools for their children where they learn the academics or one that drives families to leave by pushing an agenda of hate and that sexualizes children for the benefit of sexual predators?

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Ignorance is bliss, or so it seems, in the President Joe Biden Administration. Everybody with a microphone in their face is as scared as a person at Karaoke Night for the first time, and they don’t know the song. It does not matter if it is Joe or the lowly Pete Buttigieg, if they do not have a pre-approved lie to answer the question, they just go blank. Since Biden vowed the most transparent administration in history, blank must be a shade of transparent in the Crayola 64 count box. We already know that the President is not allowed to take questions unless they have been screened and his staff-supplied answer is in his hand. This is so embarrassing for our President and so funny for the rest of the world that SkyNews from Australia has a weekly feature with Joe’s blunders. The world sees our President as a comedy routine. Biden skipped the NATO dinner this week, claiming exhaustion from working four straight days. Maybe he should run for President of France. They work a much shorter work week. Seriously, can it get any worse? Actually, yes. Thinking Biden sees himself fit for six more years is frightful. Then there is Kamala. Our Vice President claims she was a District Attorney and must have seen a courtroom in her career. Her closing arguments must have been must-see TV. Never has a person used so many words to say so little. Her “word salads” are famous and expected. SkyNews runs her bloopers after Biden’s for a Double Feature. Then we have the Cabinet. This diverse fiasco should not ever see a microphone. Blinken, Mayorkas, Yellen, Buttigieg, and Granholm fill the air on Left TV.They are all like a cheap box of chocolates. As Forrest  Gump said, “You never know what you are going to get.” There has been talk of impeachment involving most of these officials, but we are getting what we deserve. This administration was based purely on diversity and never on competency. The Justice Department and the FBI have been weaponized against January 6th participants, parents of schoolchildren, Pro-Life Catholics, and anyone who says anything negative about Hunter. Jerry Nadler mocked Republicans during his opening statement of the Wray-FBI hearings on Wednesday. He claims that Republicans are caught up in a constant string of conspiracy theories, and no validity exists to these investigations. The Republican-led House has done a good job developing the hearings into Hunter and FBI Whistleblowers, but nobody testifying will go on the record with an answer. Director Wray was elusive and would not commit to any question. He either did not know, had not seen the memo, or it happened before his tenure. It was a terrible performance for the head of our FBI, but should we expect any better. Wray does identify as a Republican, but obviously his loyalty is to the Bidens. He vehemently denied covering for Joe and Hunter, but his actions speak louder than any proclamation. His actions also betray his credibility, and with that, he fits in well in this horrid administration hellbent on destroying our great country.

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We all should think about what’s coming in the economy in order to be able to tighten up our finances and safeguard the home front, and there is an advantage in understanding when to tighten our budgetary belts. What do the economic stats tell us?

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Statistics are more reliable indicators of coming economic change than political utterances. We are entering the silly season yet again, so The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) just released a report stating that American businesses are changing their workforce. They are moving to more part-tim (PT) and fewer full-time (FT) workers. There are about 450,000 more part-time workers who want full-time work. There are now 4.2 million involuntary part-time workers. That’s a 12% increase from the prior month.

A marked increase in involuntary part-time workers has accurately predicted a recession or economic downturn in the past. One stat is indicative, but all data needs corroboration. So, are there other things pointing in one direction or the other?

Now let’s talk inverted yield curve. That may not be what you discuss over the breakfast table. What is an inverted yield curve?

Well, when the U.S. government sells its debt to investors, it promises to repay the debt in either the short term, less than a year, or the long term, greater than a year. Short-term debt usually carries a lower interest rate than long-term debt.

There is a reason for this behavior. Longer-term debt means the money is tied up for a long time. There is always a risk your money will lose value over time from inflation. So long-term debt has to build in this inflation risk into the interest rate where, in the short term, this is less of a concern.

So, back to the inverted yield curve; what has happened is, short term interest rates are higher than long-term interest rates. When this happens, it too is an indicator a recession is coming. That has been true every time going back to 1978. The recession tends to hit about 15 months after yield inversion. Two indicators are a stronger indication than one.

Is there anything else out there we can and should look at? Well, yes. Yes, there is. The Federal Reserve is reporting rising credit card debt and depletion of savings. The pandemic stimulus money is gone, out of the economy. A lot of us have less financial cushion if a recession comes.

We are getting mixed economic signals. There are storm clouds. Clouds don’t always bring rain. But it is a good idea to note when there are storm clouds as we decide whether to bring an umbrella if we are going out. Just saying, don’t get caught in the rain without your umbrella.

 

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Christopher Wray is a shameless, arrogant LIAR. The FBI is the modern-day equivalent of the Stasi. Yet the House GOP is content to preen for the television cameras … “GOP grills FBI Director,” “Wray on the Hot Seat,” blah, blah, blah.

Nancy Pelosi would have impeached Wray months ago. Kevin McCarthy has NO BALLS, or he is not really in charge.

When the FBI can, WITH IMPUNITY, interfere in elections on behalf of the Democrats, terrorize pro-life activists, terrorize people exercising their First Amendment rights by protesting a rigged election (including fomenting a riot), terrorize parents for speaking out at school board meetings, etc., etc., etc. … you don’t have a free country. You have a POLICE STATE.

But keep your eye on the ball … it’s PUTIN who is the real enemy. Not Wray, not Garland, not Mayorkas, not the actual Communists controlling the figurehead/imposter President. It’s PUTIN. PUTIN, PUTIN, PUTIN, PUTIN, PUTIN.

 

The FBI is a lawless, extraconstitutional agency that’s been violating Americans’ civil liberties & various federal laws from the get-go, yet has never been fundamentally reformed, nor have individual agents been held accountable for the most egregious crimes.
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— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) July 12, 2023

 

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The 2023 Liberty Dinner is just over a week away, and there’s still a little time to get tickets—but prices increase tonight and close completely on Monday night!

If you’ve been hesitating… WHY?!? This is our 20th anniversary celebration, and a chance to see James Bovard and all of your favorite New Hampshire liberty supporters! Don’t live with regret; get your tickets at libertydinner.com now!

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For decades, we have had modern-day “people from the past” yammer that NH NEEDS A COMMUTER RAILROAD! With stops at various places like Manchester and Nashua. They talk about the “enhanced economy” and “less emissions” as those folks who “bedroom” here in NH go to jobs in MA on the train.

Frankly, I know this idea is little more than a longing for this 19th-century technology and convenience – which is to say “not very” for the vast majority of NH residents who would be expected to fork over their money to pay the subsidies for the tiny minority that would use it. Why else hasn’t a private company come along and done the work because they believed there was a universe of customers that would use their services (in sufficient numbers to pay the startup capital costs, operational outflows, and maintenance upkeep of their system)?

They are smarter than the NH politicians who want this and have no financial skin in that game – who look at us as piggy banks to pad their progressive “resumes.”

If they were truly wise and prudent (ok, I know – you can stop laughing and wincing now), they would see their choo-chii future in this story.

$10 Billion Boondoggle Opens

Honolulu officials worried that their new train would be “overwhelmed” with riders when it opened at 2 pm on June 30. They needn’t have worried; a local news station reported that “scores of people lined up to ride the trains, which were free the first five days of operation. In fact, about 9,000 people rode the train the first afternoon. Considering that each train can hold 800 passengers and they ran six times an hour until 6:30 pm, they were operating at about 40 percent of their capacity on opening day. Over the next four days, another 62,000 people rode the trains, less than 25 percent of their capacity. When the agency began to charge fares, daily ridership fell to under 1,300 per day, or about 2 percent of the rail line’s capacity.

Taxpayers spent $9.9 billion, or $900 million per mile, for this 11-mile line to nowhere.

1963 was when the talk started in Hawaii. That was 60 years ago, and it was supposed to be “easy.” The price went from $350K for a study to a  finished cost of $10 billion. The long story can be found here. It is a fascinating tale of over-promising and under-delivering with absurd low-ball estimates that ended with “it cost WHAT to build”?

The full 20-mile stretch (they’ve only got 11 miles so far) is estimated at close to 12.5 billion. And guess what, folks! Even though most US Citizens will NEVER step foot in Honolulu, we’re ALL paying for it. The Federal Government has become not much more than a washing machine that cleans us all of our money, washes-rinses-folds-and “puts it away” in someone else’s pockets. And most projects end up with this lovely line as well:

Construction was plagued by wheels too narrow for the tracks, cracked pillars, safety issues (that were solved by firing the whistleblower), and other problems.

Of course, the Government’s doublespeak of the guilty vs innocent is mind-boggling. I’d suggest that everyone in NH against the Choo-Choo Train Totalitarians read both articles for backup when this issue raises its smokey stack again. After all, I’d bet this line would be the “final word” for use, too:

Instead of Skyline, the city’s name for it, one local activist calls it the Skylying.

HT | The AntiPlanner

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Our fundraiser lost some of the steam these things enjoy in the early weeks, but we’re still making our way toward the goal thanks to so much generosity. We’re at 29%, with most donations as checks or through PayPal.

Thanks to everyone who has given so far, but I’m writing in the hope that we can get over the 30 percent mark this weekend. If you have yet to give and can (if you can’t afford it, we’ll manage – please take care of yourself and your family first), please consider writing a check – email steve@granitegrok.com for the address,  or you can donate at GiveSendGo. And there’s always PayPal (which charges a transaction fee).

Thanks also to the donors that opted for a monthly subscription, available through GiveSendGo (no transaction fees) or PayPal. We count it all toward the goal and appreciate every dime you part with in support of our ongoing mission. To explore new worlds … wait, sorry, different mission.

Ideally, we can wrap this fundraiser up in a few months and focus on the 2024 election, local reporting, projects, and updates. If not, we’ll keep at it.

Every donation helps and is greatly appreciated.

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What would be Edward Arsenault’s need to tell a priest never to talk about this box of sex toys again? Why was he then transferred to St. Luke’s Institute in Maryland when this came out?

Read Part 1: Sicilian Ceramics, Florida Boys, NH Law Enforcement, “Spotlight,” and (it sounds like) HBO’s “White Lotus”

And why would an assistant Attorney General, Jane Young, sort out a deal with Arsenault to give him a soft sentence?

The West Palm Beach Sicilian vase show of Arsenault’s becomes more intriguing when you discover that that Andrew H Crews, on the board of NH Children’s Advocacy Centers and on the board of Granite One Health — connected to the Catholic Medical Center- mysteriously stepped down as CEO of “Autofair,” New Hampshire’s largest car dealer and the company was sold to an agent in…….West Palm Beach in December 2021, just as the Senate Ways & Means Committee was starting to probe Governors about the Pandora Papers.

New Hampshire is home to $932.5 billion in Pandora Papers — hidden trusts, LLCs, and non-profits hiding money. And who else ended up in Florida after it was discovered that his associate Jeff Hatch was trafficking fentanyl across state lines but Eric Spofford, who owned Granite Recovery Centers — also connected to the Catholic medical/insurance enterprise. He’s now suing NHPR for defamation after a report that employees at the center claimed he’d sexually assaulted them and reported it to NHPR. NHCADSV, I believe, saw the Granite Recovery Centers as a new market for their victim entrepreneurship expansion venture.

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Not surprisingly, NHPR is resisting a judge’s orders to turn over discovery to Eric Spofford. The chances are that the NHCADSV (with Brian Harlow’s planning skills) was involved in providing NHPR with the narrative that would hopefully result in a contract for them at the centers. It didn’t quite work out, as the centers shut down after the expose of Jeff Hatch’s fentanyl trafficking business. He said he was part of a larger network, but nobody ever probed what that network was. He was given a ridiculously light sentence too.

From social media, it looks like Edward Arsenault and Francesco Bolognini met online. Now that he’s been defrocked, it seems Monsignor Arsenault’s “Virtus LLC” never had any real desire to “Protect God’s Children” as it claimed. With the cover-ups of Boston Police’s Patrick Rose, it’s not hard to see that the New Hampshire judiciary and non-profits are more interested in protecting pedophiles and sex rings than addressing them because of the money involved for the NHCADSV/SNAP, law firms, police & prosecutors budget planning.

The Boston Herald has been denied a FOIA request for documentation from the investigation of Rachel Rollins, US Attorney for Massachusetts, who was recently forced to step down for unethical activities.

When is US Attorney Jane Young, Federal Prosecutors Scott Murray (told the public that police & prosecutors had investigated St Paul’s School and found nothing to prosecute other than Owen Labrie), Geoffrey Ward (deleted the files of corrupt police officers with no explanation) and NH Supreme Court Chief Justice Gordon MacDonald, NHCADSV/SNAP going to be investigated for deals, kick-back schemes with Arsenault, local attorneys, police, priests, governors and media?

The pattern of insidious corruption continues, and it directly puts children in danger: Manchester, New Hampshire, Police allegedly deleted emails from Mayor Joyce Craig regarding the disappearance of Harmony Montgomery. The speech and facial expressions of the Manchester Police Chief in interviews about her disappearance show that nobody is telling the truth. His department’s accounts of welfare visits were inconsistent as well. It wasn’t just that they dropped the ball. It is that the NHPD, DCYF, and related agencies are complicit in covering up abuse & trafficking, not addressing it.

What is very clear is that there is a pattern of dishonesty and that the Concord Monitor, Boston Globe, Union Leader, WMUR, NH Press Association, and Associated Press are going with narratives that are provided, curated or censored. From Amanda Grady Sexton’s bio, it would appear that she and the NHCADSV/SNAP are doing the curating and censoring to further their & the State’s public officials and affiliated attorneys’ RICO interests — not the public interest. “I’ll scratch your back if you scratch mine,” including if that means being complicit in and covering up crimes against children.

The Boston Globe Spotlight team only exposed a carefully curated part of the story of priest sex abuse — enough that the public would back off. A member of the same Spotlight team (Jenn Abelson) executed the same when it came to St. Paul’s School in the memoir “I Have The Right To.”

Judge Richard McNamara decided to keep the Grand Jury Criminal Investigation report in to St. Paul’s School private. He quoted Mark Twain in his ruling:

In a 23-page order, McNamara wrote that grand jury testimony can involve all sorts of false, damaging and one-sided information, and New Hampshire has no historical or legal basis for releasing such information.

“Mark Twain famously said that a lie is halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. In an internet age, he might have added that the lie will forever outrun the truth as search engines become ever more efficient,” McNamara wrote.

His ruling decided a case that had been argued in secret.

Eight people who either testified or cooperated with the grand jury retained a lawyer to fight disclosure. David Vicinanzo said they did not want their information or identity out in the public.

He called McNamara’s order a “full-throated defense of the grand jury as an institution.”

David Vicinanzo is also the NHCADSV’s attorney. His clients got a deal out of it. He had been Gordon MacDonald’s partner at Nixon Peabody. He is now one of the attorneys representing victims of sex abuse at the YDC and in a dispute with one of his former clients who claimed he was seeking too much money (40% of the settlement).

The report on historic sex abuse, which St. Paul’s School published in 2017 and didn’t cover the period from 2009 onwards, was carried out by Scott Harshbarger, who is listed in Bernard Goldberg’s book “100 People Who are Screwing Up America”. This is the reason he is in it:

40. Scott Harshbarger (Mass. Attorney General)
Harshbarger built a child-abuse case against a day-care center’s owners using solely testimony from forty children. Upon investigation by the show 20/20, the testimonies appear forced by Harshbarger. Harshbarger was relentless in keeping the accused behind bars, and he remains as a force in the general climate of child-abuse hysteria.

Scott Harshbarger would have been AG General in Massachusetts during the cover-ups of Boston Police Union Chief Patrick Rose and his pedophilia. I suspect that he was referred to St. Paul’s School via Michael Delaney, former AG of New Hampshire who was representing St. Paul’s School but, per a report to the US Senate Judiciary Committee, tampering with State witnesses (including with the son of Governor Maggie Hassan’s legal counsel) in the courts before they testified. A large part of Michael Delaney’s law firm’s business (McLane Middleton) is advising schools on compliance regarding sexual misconduct protocols. It also has a Government strategy business. The unlawful interests for these can’t be hidden. Just like the Diocese of Manchester, St. Paul’s School was a cash cow for the attorneys, police, courts, and non-profits. Performative scandalous PR ventures hiding extortion rackets and protecting the real predators — the friends of the New England Club of attorneys, journalists, administrators, police, and non-profits.

What if the real scandal actually involves grooming, kidnapping, raping, and trafficking with the help of the police, attorneys, and courts themselves?

There is something New England’s courts don’t want to admit: Jane Young, who is now US Attorney for New Hampshire, arranged/agreed to Arsenault’s plea deal when she was assistant AG for the state. She shook hands with him in the courtroom.

AG Phil McLaughlin was congratulated on the “creative solutions” in the Catholic Priest Sex Abuse scandal- everyone kept their jobs, and a lucrative extortion racket ensued.

Gordon MacDonald and David Vicinanzo, for Nixon Peabody, were sorting out fast deals, and Edward Arsenault was assuring everyone that insurance would take care of the settlements and the Diocese wouldn’t lose money. He was CEO of Catholic Risk Retention Management. He was also on the board of CMC, from which he stole. Yet his job role was to increase profits for the hospital. And while he was incarcerated, it appears he was still able to consult on risk management and to profiteer from it. It’s obviously lucrative because he managed to pay off $300K in restitution in a remarkably short amount of time. Inmate wages are cents on the hour.

Edward Bolognini follows Governor Sununu on Twitter. He also follows Donna Soucy, a prominent Democratic leader in New Hampshire who was once the legal counsel to the NH Banking Department (in 2006 when Arsenault was at the Diocese) when it was engaged in the FRM Ponzi scheme. She managed to escape scrutiny from the joint legislative committee investigating the scheme by joining Maggie Hassan’s campaign. Michael Delaney was the AG when the FRM Ponzi scheme came to light. His office was also involved in the cover-up. He has also been criticized for allowing police to make cash payments to each other. His wife was legal counsel for the Department of Revenue.

When AG Gordon MacDonald was nominated by Governor Sununu to become New Hampshire’s Supreme Court Chief Justice, he received two bizarre endorsements:

One was from Amanda Grady Sexton of the NHCADSV, who evidently didn’t have a problem with MacDonald’s defense of the Diocese and a priest’s grooming of a young teenager with pornography. The other was from Brian Harlow, also of the NHCADSV. Harlow had allegedly been the first victim found by Jim Rosenberg (at the time an assistant AG for Phil McLaughlin) to come forward in the Diocese of Manchester sex abuse scandal. It’s very curious that a victim advocate and survivor would both endorse an attorney who had defended the Diocese, which covered up decades of sex abuse and pedophilia.

Brian Harlow, of Concord, offered perhaps the most surprising words of support. A victim of clergy sex abuse, Harlow said at the hearing he met MacDonald when MacDonald represented the Diocese of Manchester. MacDonald, he said, helped him take “immeasurable steps toward healing.”

The non-profit Times Up was formed in response to the #MeToo movement following the NYT expose of Harvey Weinstein. But author Ken Arletta (“Hollywood Ending”) had tried to expose Harvey Weinstein for years. NBC shut down Ronan Farrow’s expose. Vanity Fair did a reputation clean-up piece when Malia Obama went to intern for Harvey Weinstein. It turns out that Times Up was protecting predators and using funds to promote celebrities but not really helping many victims. The message was a great distraction from the harsh fact that the Clintons, Obamas, and others had spent the last decade praising Harvey. Coincidentally Times Up had PR representation from SKDK (with Anita Dunn and Hilary Rosen at the top of it. These were Obama’s and Hillary Clinton’s PR experts).

When the priest sex abuse scandal started, the nonprofit SNAP opened. Is SNAP, in fact, just like Times Up — creating a narrative to protect the real truth from coming out? SNAP has only been very mildly critical of Edward Arsenault. What if it’s all a money laundering, sex trafficking, and extortion racket that is being carefully protected by the New Hampshire & Massachusetts Bar Associations who want to keep the money pouring in?

Considering the recent exposure of New Hampshire’s police corruption and the City of Boston’s cover-ups of Patrick Rose, Jim Rosenberg’s statement below hasn’t aged well:

Jim Rosenberg, who with Will Delker, the head of the criminal division, undertook the inquiry, said that McLaughlin was the architect of the approach that eschewed criminal proceedings against the church hierarchy in favor of full disclosure and a commitment to cooperate with law enforcement. Rosenberg said that the outcome was preferable to what could have been expected from criminal proceedings. Noting that McLaughlin assembled a coalition of victim advocates and law enforcement officials, he stressed that “creative remedies were achieved by Phil’s leadership.”

Jim Rosenberg’s law firm Shaheen & Gordon (who represented Ghislaine Maxwell in New Hampshire) has hired Concord Police Officer Julie Curtin for claims made by Nicholas Huppe, aka Niko Roswell, against the Diocese for cover-ups of his own child sex abuse and trafficking involving his mother, father (a police officer) and grandfather (a decorated marine). His mother worked at St. Mary’s, Rochester, New Hampshire. He claims she was paid in cash too.

Creative solutions come in Italian Ceramics in Florida, Catholic Risk Retention Management, the New Hampshire AG’s office, and cash payments.

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We have a standing rule. If you find someone that accuses GraniteGrok or one of its authors of Hate or calls us a Hate site, we ask that you politely inform them that our lawyers would like the evidence, and could you forward it to us? No one ever sends us anything.

That is instructive. And I’m not just trying to be clever. In most cases, they’ve never read a word we’ve written or seen the words attributed in context. They are regurgitating a slur based on a false stereotype perpetrated by whiners, and no one here cares unless, by care, you mean, “Oh, look low-hanging fruit about which we might write.”

I assure you no one on our site is intimidated or losing sleep. But it is a warning of sorts. These are typically the same folks who insist on things like hate speech, hate crimes, hate tribunals, and even prosecution based on the above. If that’s your verb, then any indiscriminate accusations using the word “hate” suddenly represent a significant risk to the accused. You’ve (potentially) defamed someone and are susceptible to a lawsuit without evidence of actual crime or malice.

We will be happy to take your money and watch you pay our legal fees, but we’d rather you leave us be while also knowing that’s impossible. Progressives lack the capacity to leave others alone. Happily, nothing like that is in the pipeline, on the horizon, brewing, forthcoming, imminent, or expected. The Attorney General of New York, however, finds herself in that situation. She is being sued. As your typical A-list Lib, she has done what many do; echoed accepted thought in what passes for the progressive collective consciousness, not at some swanky private uptown fundraiser, but in public.

 

During a press conference held by New York’s Democratic Attorney General, Letitia James, to announce the filing of a civil lawsuit against Red Rose Rescue and several pro-lifers for an injunction to block the group from protesting within 30 feet of abortion mills, James branded the group’s members as “terrorists” without evidence to support the claim.

“It is my duty and my honor and my responsibility to keep individuals safe from terrorists, and that’s what they are,” she said in reference to Red Rose Rescue, as The Washington Times reported.

James’ lawsuit, however, does not accuse the group or associated pro-lifers of terrorism, which AFLC noted is because “there are no facts to support such a claim of criminality.”

 

Perhaps Red Rose Rescue should have burned down some black-owned businesses near the abortion clinics where they gather. These violent and destructive acts referred to colloquially as mostly peaceful protesting (Summer of Love 2020) were never once labeled by the left as terrorism, nor were its Marxist BLM and Antifa perpetrators referred to as terrorists by anyone in Letiata’s progressive class of rhetorical wordsmiths.

 

One of the plaintiffs in AFLC’s lawsuit, Miller, a co-founder and spokesperson of Red Rose Rescue, told LifeSiteNews that James’ “terrorist” claim is a “total propaganda lie – born from sheer pro-abortion politics.”

“Those who participate in Red Rose Rescues are quiet, loving and completely peaceful,” Miller said in a statement. “Terrorism doesn’t save babies from abortion – love saves babies from abortion – and Red Rose Rescuers are committed to acts of love.”

Miller pointed out that the Red Rose Rescue code of conduct requires members to “refrain from violence of any kind” and to avoid “profanity, cursing, yelling, screaming, or loud arguing.”

 

Defamation has a high bar, but Red Rose Rescue is not a “public person.” The recent spate of attacks on pro-life aligned centers helping women with unexpected pregnancies doesn’t help. Red Rose Rescue has also referenced “the chilling effect on Plaintiffs’ rights to freedom of speech and expressive association.”

The high bar may be a lot lower when it’s the State’s top cop doing the name-calling.

 

 

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So the NHGOP Establishment wants Joyce Craig as the Communist … oops, I mean Democrat gubernatorial nominee. Be careful what you wish for, NHGOP Establishment.

According to NH-NeverTrump Journal, Craig would be easy pickings because:

 

“Voters don’t want a governor who’ll turn New Hampshire into Manchester,” said House Majority Leader Jason Osborne (R-Auburn). “Craig is the New Hampshire Democrats’ Donald Trump: The more she campaigns, the more Republican voters will turn out.”

Craig is finishing her third term as Queen City mayor, where she has come under fire over the issues of crime, homelessness, and opioid overdoses. Manchester suffered a 22 percent increase in suspected opioid overdoses in 2022, … The number of opioid-related deaths jumped 41 percent.

And the homeless problem reached a crisis point this past winter with the deaths of two deaths of homeless people and the discovery of a baby born in a wooded area in Manchester over the Christmas holidays.

 

Yet despite all this “Craig’s Chaos,” Joycie cruised to reelection not once but twice. Joyce Craig is the proverbial poster child for the NHGOP’s inability to connect with voters:

 

 

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