Wednesday • May 1 • 2024
Vol.XVI • No.XVIII
Manchester, N.H.
Do unaccountable government agents own your children? The evidence demonstrates that politicians and other government agents do believe that they own you and your children and that they are willing to use any amount of force necessary to assert that claim.
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NHPR’s Todd Bookman recently wrote an article claiming that LGBTQ people are in danger of being attacked by “hate groups,” and that some have begun arming themselves, and training, in response to this alleged threat. Here is the headline:
From the article:
Every member of the group has a different story about how they arrived here, feeling the need to carry a weapon for self-defense.
“I went from concealed carry every once in a while when I was feeling it to every single day,” explains Sharon, a Navy veteran and competitive shooter who transitioned last year. “Because reading the news, having a few experiences, realizing that I’ve gone from: old cis-male, white, upper middle class, really no real fears about anything, to: there are people that just looking at me will want to hurt me.”
Sharon, along with others, cite both the fear of being targeted while simply existing in public, as well as a more organized and ominous threat. A neo-Nazi group now active in New England has targeted spaces where trans people gather.
“There’s been an uptick in hate crimes, there’s been an uptick in groups that have been protesting drag story times and drag shows, and it felt like I needed to learn how to protect myself,” says Jamie, who is carrying a new pistol she received as a gift for Christmas.
This is jaw-dropping. Protesting drag shows … in plain English, protesting the sexualization of children … is portrayed uncritically by Bookman as the equivalent of a hate crime towards transgender people and the people who protest drag shows are portrayed as representing an existential threat to transgender people. Wow! Is it that big a step to seeing the religious school in Nashville as an equivalent threat to the “haters” who protest drag shows, Mr. Bookman?
And where are the data and facts regarding that “Neo-Nazi group” operating in New Hampshire that Bookman claims is “targeting spaces.” And what the hell is “targeting spaces” supposed to mean? New Hampshire has some form of trans/cis apartheid where there are “spaces” reserved for transgender people?
And how about the uncritical portrayal of Sharon, who apparently can just by looking at someone tell whether that person is a threat? Such as people working at or attending religious schools, Mr. Bookman?
Here’s Bookman promoting his propaganda:
And hat-tip to Tucker Carlson for exposing Bookman’s hate-speech and the potential ramifications:
Almost prophetically, just last week, Tucker Carlson covered NPR's fawning coverage of armed Trans groups like "Rainbow Reload":
"We’re as for guns as you could possibly be, but this seems like an incitement" pic.twitter.com/0DIx7PUrkG
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) March 27, 2023
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Once again, we can see that the shiny and bright conservative armor that the Union Leader wore in decades past has turned rusty and tarnished. Never would I have expected to read a UL written Op-Ed actively advocating against the separation of responsibilities and Powers between the Legislative Branch and the Executive Branch,
A quick recap:
Rudimentary civics but heck, do journalists ever learn this rudimentary and foundational knowledge? Should we not demand that their editors be even semi-learned in this area? The Op-Ed concerned HB557 which would have removed the rulemaking authority from the Executive Branch and would have brought it back to the Legislative (in this case, for vaccines). Reformatted, emphasis mine:
It was close but the New Hampshire House did the right thing last week in rejecting a proposal to make it the medical authority on vaccines. While we do think our legislators often have their fingers on the pulse of the people they represent, the expertise on specific matters of health resides with the professionals.
Rule-making as it applies to vaccines currently comes under the purview of New Hampshire’s Department of Health and Human Services. It should remain there.
Health officials are certainly not infallible. But In the case of public health emergencies, decisions of the life-and-death variety should not be subject to the whims or vagaries of 424 mostly non-doctors.
The UL niftily makes it seem as if NHHHS has had this Power since NH was formed instead of just 50 years ago. And sorry, unless a doctor is also a Legislator they should not have any more Power in creating Law than you or I. CERTAINLY, doctors should be advising Legislators in the process but it should never be left up to them to make Law outside of the Legislature. That’s unconstitutional.
Again, the Legislature [should] lead and the Executive [should] follow. So where does “Rulemaking”, the ability of the Executive Branch to “make Law” (as the rules/regulations don the force of Law mentioned in either Constitution?
Sidenote: the NHAPA has a mechanism called JLCAR which has a small select number of Legislators to “bless” or deny any rules proposed by the Executive Branch agencies. That’s still not legislating.
It doesn’t.
Instead, both the US & NH Legislatures just threw their Powers to the Executive Branch: the US Administrative Act of 1946:
…The 1946 law that gave Federal agencies the power to essentially make their own law and ability to set their own fines [and Administrative courts] was absolutely wrongheaded and philosophically inimical to the separation of powers laid out in the Constitution – and I think was the Congress’s starting moment of plunging into the abyss of being post-Constitutional. If you GIVE your power away, trust me, those that pick it up will use it.
…And you can blame it on the Republicans who hold the majorities:
- Have they held anyone in contempt AND DONE ANYTHING ABOUT IT to apply penalties?
- Have they withdrawn funding for offending agencies to make them feel the pain?
- Have they held brought charges AND FOLLOWED THEM UP?
Pretty much, no. Flapping their gums only is no way to govern.
and the NH Administrative Procedures Act (enacted in 1973). Ask yourself – which process makes more Law/Rules that affect our lives? Yes, the Executive Branch. Not those that we elect to actually make Law.
And that’s exactly how the UL wants it, I guess. It’s clear that the UL is now in the mode where the Administrative State is now its preferred governance model instead of the representative Republic model that our Founders designed.
Ayup.
Also this that I had left at Treehugger a while ago on the same issue:
Two thing at play and mostly due to the fact that we almost have two societies when it comes to the Proper Role of Government.
One, from the late 1800s decided that our US Constitution was outdated given the new idea that Societies could be “engineered” by the Smart People as if they were mere replaceable cogs and need their Guiding Hand to be successful (See Bill’s unsupported supposition above that the US, with 330M people, NEEDS that heavy hand). It is these folks that have inserted themselves into the bowels of Govt and have almost 180’d our Founders vision from being being one where Govt was supposed to protect Individual Liberties to one where Govt makes most of the important decisions (in contradiction to that vision)
The rest, myself include until a few years ago, placed our emphasis in family, friends, and careers thinking that Govt would just continue to work as we had learned in school.
And we have learned that this premise has been wrong for far too long. That’s how we “lost control” – most forgot the admonition that our government was only for a moral and involved people.
I’m afraid that too many became too complacent so we are where we are.
But I am labeled as an extremist for going against that now openly Socialist Narrative while I only hold onto the values embedded in the US (and New Hampshire) Constitutions – and fight for those values to be restored. Which requires a return to a limited Govt that stays within its “lanes”.
And to which Bill (and other THers) scoff at.
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The shooting of three innocent children and three innocent faculty members at the Covenant Christian School in Nashville, TN, yesterday quickly became the top story in the news. Of course, a tragedy like this is newsworthy if for no other reason than to mourn with those who are mourning and give Americans a chance to grieve and support them in their time of loss.
The facts surrounding the case, as we’ve been told, are as follows:
I have no doubt this event will be used energetically by those wishing to remove guns from society and with the least amount of genuine sympathy to those genuinely affected by it. Rather than ask why are these shootings taking place, why are the shooters nearly identical in nature and age, and why are they targeting children and gun-free zones, the opportunists and mock-heroes will come out denouncing guns with the loudest possible means – why? Because all they need is fear to move people into making irrational decisions.
Tragedies like these are used to create such a cloud of panic and fear, kind of like that felt on 9/11, that those in government will swiftly move to “solve the problem”, which they will tell you is guns. Not mentally ill or evil people using guns for evil purposes, but guns themselves. As if the gun made itself, loaded itself, took itself to the school/mall/street and began discharging itself on innocent people. If you are afraid you won’t even bother to notice the absurdity of the claim. You will simply fear for your or your loved one’s safety. The idea of safety is the tool they use to manipulate you. To feel safe you will agree to comply with their solution – let’s get rid of guns or greatly restrict them.
Of course this sounds cynical to those who are so overcome with emotional and empathy for those suffering they will likely rage against my point. However it’s important to understand how your brain works in moments like this.
The lower center of the brain is the “fight, flight or freeze” part that activates when we are confronted with unsafe and fearful situations. It’s the part that pulls a hand of a burning stove top reflexively. It’s made for that reason – to react quickly to danger. Those who manufacture psychological operations (psy-ops) know this. They know that if they can trigger a fear response people are more easily manipulated.
The part of the brain’s operating system they intend to avoid is the pre-frontal cortex which is responsible for executive function. This part of the brain analyzes a situation. It’s the part that officers and firefighters use as they rush in to fearful situations to save lives. They can do so because they’ve been trained to override the fight, flight or flee reaction, keep their calm in the face of danger and make rational, life saving decisions.
Let’s think rationally about this situation.
This is the latest in a long list of patterns that needs explaining. Schools are targeted by younger individuals, with over a 90% incidence of mental illness. The people, often with little to no income and no history of training, all suddenly brandish expensive weapons, have detailed militarized plans, wear tactical gear and have a blood thirsty desire to kill children who have done them no harm.
Many of them were known by the F.B.I. who did not act.
Furthermore, forensic psychologists are on the record stating what NOT to do following an event like this to avoid future events.
Already this morning I have seen every one of these rules violated. Already the school’s private video of the shooter blowing the glass doors open and shooting in offices as if we’re watching a video game or horror film are circulating online – everywhere. This will create two psychological environments that help no one:
Watch the media do this and you will know they do not care about you or your children at all.
Watch the politicians piggy back the narrative and you can only conclude the same.
These are the same people who forced now known deadly vaccines, useless masks, crippling lockdowns and are pushing CRT, SEL, drag queens and anti-American curricula on these children. When active shooters went into Ukraine they sent $100 billion of your taxpayer money in weapons to help defend them. When active shooters attack your children they want to take your weapons and ability to defend yourself away.
They are deliberately trying to demoralize and mentally cripple you and your children. They are now using a tiny Christian School for their agenda, right after a tiny Christian School in Vermont stood up to them.
Don’t be fooled friends. These people are evil.
If you haven’t already, it’s time to stand up and fight like heaven is on your side, because it is.
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And aren’t you just THRILLED with how well your new dishwasher works (sarcasm – I hate mine)? Thanks, Govt, for “looking out for me”! All by our faceless, unaccountable, unelected, and now, REALLY unassailable bureaucrats all in thrall to Global Warming.
It’s for their own good (justifying their jobs while we just want to be left alone). Is this what Govt is supposed to do?
Our Govt IS looking to hijack our gas ranges as they are pushing regulations so much that only 4% of what the market now offers will be available for purchase, you know who the only people will be that will be able to afford them). And God help us all if the Feds start taking after Vermont, whose S.5 bill is going to put the price of gas out of reach for most of us.
I wanted to play catch up on what we’ve already posted on this – which turned out to only be the first salvo:
So I’ve decided to fill in some more info to show that our Government really doesn’t care what you think – they have the Power and they are making us know that we don’t. So they are going to be “re-imagining” our appliances without a single “by your leave” – or Legislation. Biden’s Eco-minion regulators have figured out that they can do this all on their own. But it does go back a ways in time. A few posts from Treehugger (they were on this “delete gas” hobbyhorse for a long time) that was already starting to kvetch about “take gas away! Take it away! You don’t need that!” even when I pointed out that during electrical grid failures, I could still cook a hot meal for my family on my gas stove (I was branded a heretic). And the first one, from 2018, mentions the Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) that Steve’s post has.
Background/History:
Electrify EVERYTHING! was their mantra – before our grid got so shaky (conspiracy – take away gas and “all of a sudden”, electricity becomes problematic? ).
And non-Treehugger link:
And it turns out that it wasn’t the CPSC that that was going to do the Dirty Deed – try the Department of Energy
The key to the finding is the quality of the data they used — and critics say the researchers failed to factor in the findings of the most comprehensive global study on the topic conducted to date.
That would be a report published in 2013 by the International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood, or ISAAC, which utilizes data from more than 512,000 children in 47 different countries. The ISAAC study ultimately concluded there was “no evidence of an association between the use of gas as a cooking fuel and either asthma symptoms or asthma diagnosis.”…“There’s so many factors involved — you can’t just claim that 12% of asthma cases [are] related to a gas stove. You just can’t do that,” he said in an interview. “And maybe in some scenarios, it is [the cause]. And maybe in other scenarios, it’s not.”
The proposed rule-making would set new efficiency standards for both electric and gas cooking tops, preventing them from exceeding set levels of energy use per year. (For gas stoves, this would be set at 1,204 British thermal units, or BTU, per year.)…The metrics used would not attempt to limit stove usage when they are installed and in use.
The British thermal unit (BTU or Btu) is a measure of heat, which is measured in units of energy. It is defined as the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one pound of water by one degree Fahrenheit.
Sure, no limits. However, like current dishwashers and clothes washers, to “save” water and energy, they take twice as long. Am I being cynical to think that the largest burner that will be allowed going forward will the the same size as my current “simmer” burner?
And then the “We’re going to ban gas stoves by regulating them out of existence” begins.
Did anyone bother to inquire about how asthma—an allergy-response disease—is caused by natural gas cookstoves when there are no allergens in natural gas, or question the conflict of interest by the climate activist group Rocky Mountain Institute as a co-author of the paper? No—of course not. That would be inconvenient.
Me:
One of the “tells” of Progressives/Socialists – they TRULY believe that the rest of us should NEVER be allowed to make our own decisions. They SERIOUSLY believe that we are NOT adults and that we should NEVER be allowed that most unprogressive attribute of all….
Freedom. To choose for ourselves.
And then the walk-back begins (2023 onward):
The Consumer Product Safety Commission is not planning to ban gas stoves, its chairman said Wednesday, seeking to tamp rising political furor caused by another commissioner’s comments earlier this week. “I am not looking to ban gas stoves and the CPSC has no proceeding to do so,” Chairman Alexander Hoehn-Saric said in a statement.
Oh yes there is a ban!
Yes, the Biden administration is coming for your gas stove. The legacy media and the Left attempted to brush off the initial gas stove controversy and outcry from the Right as nothing more than an unsubstantiated, irrational conspiracy theory. The White House even insisted that President Joe Biden does not support a ban on gas stoves after one of his federal consumer safety officials suggested that such a ban was on the table.
But, as we are seeing in so many other instances, Republicans were right all along. President Joe Biden’s Department of Energy is, in fact, pushing an extreme regulation that would effectively eliminate nearly all gas stoves.
The Department of Energy is conducting this gas stove grab through a rule that would impose extreme energy performance standards on residential cooktops. The department’s proposed rule sets requirements for gas cooktops at the maximum technologically feasible or “max-tech” level. Based on the Department of Energy’s own analysis, gas cooktops at the max-tech level represent just 4% of current market share and exclude all conventional free-stand ranges.
Any rule that causes 96% of the products available today to be eliminated from the market is an extreme regulation. In fact, it is essentially an outright ban on gas stoves…Comically, Biden’s Department of Energy is justifying this proposed requirement based on estimated savings to the consumer for gas cooktops of $21.89 over the next 14.5 years, which equates to a savings of just $1.50 per year. People are not willing to trade such substantially decreased functionality and features for minuscule savings
Such claims, however, have nothing to do with science and everything to do with radical climate activism.
…“I am not looking to ban gas stoves and the CPSC has no proceeding to do so,” Hoehn-Saric said in a statement.
A memo published by Fox News in February, however, shows federal regulators were far more serious about efforts to ban the gas appliance.
“The need for gas stove regulation has reached a boiling point,” Trumka wrote in an October memo. “CPSC has the responsibility to ban consumer products that emit hazardous substances, particularly, when those emissions harm children, under the Federal Hazardous Substances Act.”
(Memo here).
“There is sufficient information available for CPSC to issue an NPR in FY 2023 proposing to ban gas stoves in homes,” he added. “The additional work needed to complete an NPR is primarily economic; the available health and scientific evidence on illnesses caused by the relevant gasses at the concentrations present in homes with gas stoves already exists.”
Emissions from the food cooked, however, are 11 times higher than the gas on the stove. Studies purporting to show dangerous emission levels from gas stoves examine aerial pollutants in enclosed spaces without ventilation.
Stoves are the anvils – now for the hammer (increased gas prices that will further constrain usage)
Oh, and that estimated savings to the consumer for gas cooktops of $21.89 over the next 14.5 years? Yeah, manipulated. Does “Social Cost of Carbon Dioxide” ring a bell? It should. It got put into use during the Obama reign – it’s only purpose was to take a nebulous term and turn it into the environmental version of a Barrett .50 rifle? Or is the Ma Deuce (.50 cal machinegun) a better metaphore?
Everything that is done by Government for economic reasons is based on that number – and it is arbitrary. It is whatever the current administration wants to peg it at. Obama had it at $53 to justify programs and making your lives miserable. Trump reduced it to a dollar. Biden has set it back to $53. In this case, for that measly “SAVINGS!” of $21.89 over 14.5 years ($1.51/year), it will end up being FAR more expensive just in the upfront costs of buying a new range or additional gas.
Here is the most important document that the Biden Admin is using to kill off gas ranges. That financial mumbo-manipulation is on page 3.
DOE estimates the value of climate benefits from a reduction in greenhouse gases (“GHG”) using four different estimates of the social cost of CO2 (“SC-CO2 ”), the social cost of methane (“SC-CH4 ”), and the social cost of nitrous oxide (“SC-N2 O”). Together these represent the social cost of GHG (“SC-GHG”).[8] DOE used interim SC-GHG values developed by an Interagency Working Group on the Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases (“IWG”).[9] The derivation of these values is discussed in section IV.L of this document. For presentational purposes, the climate benefits associated with the average SC-GHG at a 3-percent discount rate are estimated to be $1.17 billion. DOE does not have a single central SC-GHG point estimate and it emphasizes the importance and value of considering the benefits calculated using all four SC-GHG estimates.
Oh, the A/C – just starting but you can see what they are planning here.
The new energy efficiency standards, which will apply to room air conditioners and portable air cleaners, will enter into effect next year. The Energy Department contended that the new rules will assist with “tackling the climate crisis,” as well as save consumers $25 billion over the next three decades. Room air conditioners are more commonly called window air conditioners.
Has ANYONE ever experienced a lowered cost from anything that the govt has promised to “help” us with?
It’s like they’ve planned this all out in advance…indeed they have:
THE GREEN SCAM: Dark money group pushing gas stove crackdown has significant financial stake in green energy.
Alex Laskey, Saul Griffith and Ari Matusiak – who together founded Rewiring America in 2020 – have all pursued various wind, solar, electrification and energy efficiency ventures, some of which have netted them millions of dollars in buyouts or received significant federal funding. The three co-founders have simultaneously advocated for policies benefiting those ventures through the nonprofit.
“It’s a shocking amount of money that they’re hauling in with this scheme of theirs,” Tom Pyle, the president of the Institute for Energy Research, told Fox News Digital in an interview. “I call it Big Green Inc. It is literally a business for these guys and they cloak themselves in the mantra of trying to save the planet. But, really, this is just very sophisticated self-dealing.”
“Congress needs to be an aggressive watchdog precisely because of organizations like Rewiring America.”
As Glenn Reynolds says:
MAKING ORDINARY PEOPLE’S LIVES WORSE IS THE GOAL, THE ENVIRONMENT IS JUST THE EXCUSE
It’s all about The Control.
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Founded in 1912, World Athletics – previously the International Amateur Athletic Federation – was formed to standardize equipment, competitions, and recordkeeping. And beginning this Friday, any biological male who has been through puberty before “transitioning” is banned from women’s sports.
In regard to transgender athletes, the Council has agreed to exclude male-to-female transgender athletes who have been through male puberty from female World Rankings competition from 31 March 2023.
World Athletics conducted a consultation period with various stakeholders in the first two months of this year, including Member Federations, the Global Athletics Coaches Academy and Athletes’ Commission, the IOC as well as representative transgender and human rights groups.
It became apparent that there was little support within the sport for the option that was first presented to stakeholders, which required transgender athletes to maintain their testosterone levels below 2.5nmol/L for 24 months to be eligible to compete internationally in the female category.
In terms of DSD regulations, World Athletics has more than ten years of research and evidence of the physical advantages that these athletes bring to the female category.
Experts in sports medicine and sports science (and track and field) agree that passing through puberty as a male gives young men inherent benefits regardless of what happens after. Years of research, they say.
Unfair advantages.
This is great news and a step in the right direction, but it needs to trickle down. The K-12 schools and colleges obsessed with letting boys compete as girls continue to have a degrading effect on opportunities for young women. Being sporty as a hobby is a distraction but taking it seriously is an investment in time and resources. It is a path many may forego, knowing that achievements will be more difficult or impossible if they must compete against otherwise unexceptional boys and young men who have traversed puberty before discovering “success” in women’s sports, thanks to the transgender agenda.
Losing an event or a game could cost a scholarship opportunity or a chance at competing nationally or internationally. So yeah, the same progressive culture that is obsessed with prattling on about glass ceilings has introduced one made of even tougher stuff.
World Athletics should be applauded for its bravery, but until that ‘science’ finds its way back down the food chain, thousands, if not millions, of girls are going to grow up knowing they can’t win, so why bother?
HT | Daily Wire
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It’s a good day in New Hampshire for Dunkin Donuts! Chris Christie … whose appearance suggests that he starts every day with three dozen donuts … is back in town. And New Jersey Fats is here to educate us about the Forever-War in Ukraine. You thought it was a proxy war against Russia … but New Jersey Fats is here to tell you that you were so wrong. We are actually in a proxy war with China!
So just ignore all the facts indicating that Joe Biden and his family are de facto agents of China … and Mitch McConnell’s China-grift. The Fat Man is here to tell you that Biden and McConnell are actually at war with China!
They think we are so stupid. Have another donut … Fat Man.
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Depending on the fear-mongering, the difference in predicted catastrophic warming you’d get if we saw a rise of 1° C or 1.5° C for any reason would be between 1.8° and 2.7° Fahrenheit. Do you realize that most people wouldn’t be able to feel the difference?
And the planet could care less.
Our planet has seen a lot worse during human habitation without you and your reliable, affordable fossil fuel energy. But we are told the earth would spin into a death spiral if the temperatures rose that wee bit. It’s BS, but not BS you have to wait for because you’ve been living the proof—no Tipping point.
Did you know the ‘Earth’ has warmed 4° C since 1750 and nothing? But back in 2005, climate mullahs warned us that as much as a degree (1° C) rise in global temperatures would be a tipping point.
And in a manner of speaking, it was. We passed that tipping point, so they moved the world’s end to 1.5° C. The media skipped that big story or how, by the IPCC’s demented fearmongering estimates, we’re almost at the next world-ending benchmark (1.5° C). Can you feel it? The climate tipping point.
The newest IPCC report laments the fact that Earth will soon pass the 1.5°C level of temperature rise, seen in the projection in Figure 1. The current extrapolation is to reach 1.5°C by April 2035.
It’s already too late. We’ve seen both the 1.0 C and the 1.5 C tipping points (2017), and nothing happened.
The fact that the IPCC says we are at 1.2 already invalidates the 1.0 lie, and the peak to 1.5 on the graph resulted in no tipping of any sort unless you count the end of the recent warming with the end of a Solar Maximum. There’s no warming from 2016/2017 to 2023 on the IPCC’s graph ‘cuz the glop isn’t getting warmer (oddly, since the end of a solar maximum).
We’ve reported on it a few times.
Reality is an inconvenient truth, so it goes unreported.
Global surface temps have been flat with a bit of a downward slope since that peak, and locally (NH Coastline), we’ve had no measurable sea level rise in the past decade.
If word of that got out, you’d see a tipping point, but not the one they are after
So, spread the word.
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Spec’s RINO Report is here and it listed the top 10 RINOs (Republicans In Name Only) using a formula that picks out Republicans (ahem!) State Reps that vote counter to the majority of Republicans on a given bill. It’s not emotional, it’s just about the numbers. Bordes had a reaction to my posting and I thought this was “precious” of him: he wants to be the top RINO:
“I’m just upset I got the bronze and not the gold.”
Really? Taken at his plain words, he wants to be worse than Dan Wolf concerning the NH GOP Platform? I wonder what his constituents think about Bordes’ response given they thought they were voting for a good Republican.
Otherwise, it seems like he’s not happy about being outed about his vote, especially on major items like abortion and Parental Rights.
Accountability
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Drug relapse prevention is an important aspect of recovery for individuals who have struggled with substance abuse. Relapse refers to the return to drug use after a period of abstinence, and it is a common challenge for people in recovery.
There are a number of factors that can contribute to drug relapse, including stress, trigger situations, and social pressure. It is important for individuals in recovery to be aware of these potential triggers and have strategies in place to cope with them.
Strategies for preventing drug addiction relapseOne key strategy for preventing relapse is to develop a strong support network. This can include therapy, support groups, and participation in recovery programs. Building a network of supportive friends and family members can also be helpful, as they can provide emotional and practical support during difficult times.
Another important strategy is to learn coping skills to deal with stress and negative emotions. This can include activities such as exercise, meditation, and deep breathing, as well as seeking support from others when needed.
It is also important for individuals in recovery to have a plan in place for how to handle high-risk situations, such as being around people who are using drugs or being in a place where drugs are easily accessible. This might involve finding alternative activities to do in these situations or finding a way to remove oneself from the situation altogether.
Drug relapse prevention planA drug relapse prevention plan is a comprehensive approach to preventing a return to drug use after a period of abstinence. It is an important aspect of recovery for individuals who have struggled with substance abuse and can help to reduce the risk of relapse.
A drug relapse prevention plan typically includes a number of different strategies and activities, such as:
1- Identifying triggers: Triggers are things that can increase the risk of relapse, such as certain people, places, or situations. Identifying one’s own triggers can help individuals in recovery to be more aware of high-risk situations and to develop strategies for coping with them.
2- Developing coping skills: Coping skills are strategies that can help individuals in recovery to manage stress, negative emotions, and other challenges that may arise during recovery. These can include activities such as exercise, meditation, and deep breathing, as well as seeking support from others.
3- Building a support network: A strong support network is an important component of a drug relapse prevention plan. This can include therapy, support groups, and participation in recovery programs, as well as supportive friends and family members who can provide emotional and practical support.
4- Having a plan for high-risk situations: It is important for individuals in recovery to have a plan in place for how to handle high-risk situations, such as being around people who are using drugs or being in a place where drugs are easily accessible. This might involve finding alternative activities to do in these situations or finding a way to remove oneself from the situation altogether.
5- Ongoing therapy and support: Continuing to work with a mental health professional and participating in recovery programs can help individuals in recovery to address the underlying issues that may have contributed to their substance abuse and to maintain their long-term recovery.
By following a drug relapse prevention plan, individuals in recovery can significantly reduce their risk of relapse and increase their chances of long-term recovery. It is important to remember that relapse prevention is an ongoing process and that it requires effort and commitment.
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Overall, our goal at Genesis House is to provide our clients with the knowledge, skills, and support they need to overcome their addiction and achieve long-term recovery. Through our comprehensive relapse prevention program, we strive to help our clients develop the resilience and self-management skills they need to maintain their sobriety and live a fulfilling, sober.
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Got to love this crazy mixed-up world we live in now. Democrats in New Hampshire unanimously voted against the NH House Parental Bill of Rights legislation. But even the Library gets a “Bill of Rights.”
Weare parents plan to address their school board on March 28th at 6 pm during a school board meeting about the pornography available to their children in the school library. Parents across New Hampshire have tried to get the obscene books removed from the school library but have come into resistance from those in charge of the schools.
Since giving children access to pornography is considered sexual abuse of a child, you have to wonder what these people are thinking. Have we completely abandoned protecting children for political purposes? Are your politics more important than trying to protect the innocence of a child?
Why does the library get a Bill of Rights but not Parents? Especially since the library distributes pornography to children?
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S B272 “Establishing a Parents’ Bill of Rights in Education” is the Senate version. The New Hampshire House Education Committee will have a hearing on SB272, which passed in the State Senate but will need the State House to advance.
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It is sad that we need a Bill of Right for Parents, but Democrats and Leftists have forced us into passing laws to protect our kids in school. Please come to testify on Thursday 3/30/23 at 1PM in the NH Legislative Office Building (LOB) -33 N State St, Concord (right behind the State House) in room 205-207or email your support by using this link: The New Hampshire House of Representatives (state.nh.us)
My Interview of Katerina From The Former Czechoslovakian Socialist Republic
“I Thought Communism Was Done but It Is Back” – Katerina
Katerina was born in Prague in the Czechoslovakian Socialist Republic. She studied at the Prague College of Economics. Like thousands of others, Katerina took part in the Velvet Revolution in 1989 and saw the fall of the communist regime. Katerina was twenty-five at the time. For her, it was an unforgettable and exhilarating experience.
I interviewed Katerina about her life in Czechoslovakia under Communist rule, and her concerns for today’s America as she observes the specter of communism looming on the horizon.
Immigrants Speak Week 11: Katerina from Czech: I Thought Communism Was Done but It Is Back – YouTube
My ThoughtsDEI training reminds me of Struggle Sessions of Mao’s Cultural Revolution.
This is a clip from my first appearance on @timcast in 2021. “We see the writing on the wall.”
DEI Training Reminds me of “Struggle Session” – YouTube
Save Our Children!
Lily
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It was brought to my attention a little while ago that there is a rumor making the rounds that I wrote Karen’s “Dilemma for Whom?” and then attached her name to it and posted it as hers. Didn’t happen. Do you know why?
My writing style is nothing like hers, and the converse is also true. Any regular reader, if presented with a post of Steve’s or one of mine, could tell who wrote it without ever seeing the byline. Ditto Karen and me. That’s one reason – a big reason. Do you know what a bigger one is?
This! WordPress is the “engine” that GraniteGrok uses so that we can write and display the content that you come to read (and we thank you VERY much for doing so). It has features that make our “blogging life” a lot easier. And for the first time, I’m about to use a feature that I never thought I’d have to use: Revision History.
It’s a simple purpose – to track who writes a post, the date it was written, and a time stamp. Also does the same if anyone does an EDIT on the post. So who set up Karen’s post? This guy:
Steve MacDonald, 5 days ago (March 22, 2023 @ 10:10:33)
Steve MacDonald, 5 days ago (March 22, 2023 @ 10:10:22) [Autosave]
Steve MacDonald, 6 days ago (March 21, 2023 @ 09:40:59)
I get it – there are some that confuse me with him (more often, it’s the case of folks confusing Mike Rogers and me – heh!). And we oft laugh when we get (Yes, Liz -> you!) called Steve Murphy and Skip Mac Donald. All in good fun.
But this is serious – I’m not him and he’s not me. We have different user IDs here in WP land.
So we can put this rumor to bed. T’wasn’t me. And Steve only took what Karen sent and put it up on GraniteGrok.
If someone tells you otherwise, laugh at them and THEN send them my way (rubbing hands together over the prospect).
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We reported on the other BLM in 2020. A group called Black Lives MAGA (#BlackLivesMAGA). “Amidst the scorn, and despite being called c**ns and Uncle Tom’s, a few of us black Trump supporters took to the front to head a collective march thru the streets of Los Angeles, as we all showed support for America, Trump, and our police.”
I’ve not seen a lot from them since then though that could be as much my fault as anyone. Until Elon took over Twitter, I wasn’t spending much time there. And I forget some of this stuff and never – to borrow from Jen Psaki – circled back.
But circle back, I have, as the internet has dropped things into my lap which have captured my attention. Things shared recently, but whose actual age is unknown. These clips were posted to Twitter recently, and while I can’t say when they were recorded, I’m not sure that matters. For our purposes, these will still trigger libs, progs, and Dems regardless.
It’s also great to have something to share when they call Trump supporters white supremacists or racists. You drop one of these on them and ask, so are you saying these folks are racist white supremacists?
They want to say yes, but that reminds us of what we already know. Diveristy, to them, is a room full of people who might look different but are all expected to think the same. And if you do you get the Liberal Privilege.
Wait. I know. These are Russian Bots, right!
We The People!
BLM #BlackLivesMAGA #WeThePeople pic.twitter.com/5jhEANaXF6
— KC (@KCPayTreeIt) March 27, 2023
Black Lives MAGA! pic.twitter.com/HavI2OYdRm
— Conservative Memes (@Cons_Memes) March 27, 2023
And since we’re in the neighborhood,
Attention
According to the news if you use a GIF with a black person in it that is now considered using “digital blackface”
Here is my contribution to that
#DemocratsDestroyEverything#DemocratsHateAmerica #democratsareevil #digitalblackface #Republicans pic.twitter.com/oxgorWF1EW— Random Thinkin (@random__thinkin) March 27, 2023
If you’d like to read a bit of Twitter pushback on that one, look here.
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I’ve been saying Peak Woke and Peak Transgender for a few months now – and the pushback against Critical Race and Transgenderism (both manifestations of Cultural Marxism and whose only purposes are to sow chaos and division.
In the case of those little kids, lifelong misery). As always, as I abstract from the posts I’ve collected, expect reformatting and emphasis mine.
First, a short but magnificent rant demanding what DIE (Diversity, Inclusion, and “Equity”) has wrought
These DEI deans are malignancies on the body academic, absolute poison. They get paid boatloads of money collected from overblown tuition, which saddles students and their parents with debt for life, to provide an ostensibly valuable service that my law degree, rabbinical degree, advanced history degree, and other educational attainments still leave me unable to fathom. What do these noxious DEI warts do to better society other than to promote reverse racism, divide people by ethnicities and skin color, in many cases promote anti-Semitism, and preach virtue-signaling effluvium that, once analyzed objectively between the lines, promote nothing but hate, the good woke kind of hate, hate for the values that once made America great?
I would have loved to see the first faces of those DIE missionaries/grifters upon hearing of this!
And, just like in Manchester’s (NH) school district, yet another California district got caught severing the bonds between students and their Parents
Another school district has been caught helping children suffering from gender dysphoria “transition” to the opposite sex. Amid a national backlash against the move to push transgender ideology on children in K-12 schools, a new report shows that a school district in Orange County, California, has been facilitating the social transition of a number of students to the opposite gender.
A parental rights group in Orange County, Calif., claims 23 students—eight of them elementary age—began social gender transitioning at a local school district without informed parental consent from January 2020 to October 2022.
…The group, California Alliance for Education, obtained hundreds of pages of emails and documents from the Newport-Mesa Unified School District, which oversees pre-K through grade 12 schools for Newport Beach and Costa Mesa.
A parental rights advocate involved with the alliance who goes by the pseudonym Kim Davis for fear of retaliation told The Epoch Times that in all 23 cases, parents were either not informed about the initiation of their child’s Gender Support Plan, known as a GSP, or were told and did not consent.
…The report noted that public records show how district counselors and psychologists were given teaching materials called Gender and Sexuality Galaxies by Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights, a far-left organization.
After all, according to former NH State Senator Jeanne Dietsch, who ARE these Parents getting in the way of highly educated school staff? Some Parents are dropouts – trust the experts (paraphrasing here)!
And who ever thought otherwise about this next snippet? After all, when you look at the cost / student at Government Schools, you might as well just send them to private schools to save some money and getter better student achievement outcomes:
Data released by the National Center for Education Statistics, which is a part of the U.S. Department of Education, shows that Catholic school teachers, on average, work slightly more time each week than pubic school teachers–but get paid less while producing better results than public school teachers.
In NCES’s 2022 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reading test for fourth graders, public school students had an average score of 216, while Catholic school students had an average score of 233. Among eighth graders, public school students had an average score of 259 on the reading test, while Catholic school students had an average score of 279. In the NAEP reading test given to 12th graders in 2015, public school students scored an average of 285, while Catholic school students scored an average of 311.In the 2022 NAEP math scores, Catholic school fourth graders scored 246 while public school fourth graders scored 235. Catholic school eighth graders scored 288 in math while public school eighth graders scored 273.
We need more competition to Government Schools, not more money for Government Schools, until the latter can show consumers (Parents, taxpayers) they can provide a better Value Proposition. And I’m not Catholic.
And on the Gender Dysphoria front, the front man for the “glory” of being transgender and trading that in for fame (and I presume for some other “considerations”) comes Jazz Jennings. He now realizes, without directly stating it, that thinking that his efforts in being a girl/woman hasn’t solved his mental / self-image issues:
He was pushed into “transitioning” to be a girl by his mother at the age of five or six and went through all of the steps associated with that process as a child. Cross-dressing led to hormones. He was put on puberty blockers for most of his life, leading to full genital mutilation surgery before he was even an adult. And now, in a video clip where he’s talking to his mother, he tearfully confesses, “I don’t feel like me ever.”
Born Jared Jennings in 2000, Jennings gained fame at a young age, barely 6, when he publicly identified as trans and received all the positive reinforcement from his mother and even celebrities like Oprah that any child could ever crave…Jared chose the female name Jazz after Jasmine from Disney’s Aladdin, his favorite Disney princess. But now he says on his current TV show, I Am Jazz, “All I want is to be happy and feel like me, and I don’t feel like me, ever.”
…Following the initial surgeries, Jennings gained over 100 pounds through binge eating and experienced a range of mental health disorders. Jennings’ mother, Jeanette, deflected theories that those difficulties were caused by the penile inversion vaginoplasty and argued that Jazz had long experienced mental health issues.
How COULD, how CAN he know what he is – that part of growing up normally was taken away from him before he got to the age when he could have figured that out. And this is a grand (as in large, not as “good”) admission that those suffering from gender dysphoria also suffer from what is now coming to light the problem isn’t “I’m in the wrong body” but underlying mental issues. Severe ones This from that post sums it up and I fully agree with it:
…what was done to this young man as a child should have been illegal and his mother should have been locked up. I’m not going to go into the full depths of the specific medical procedures and the horror show that followed. But if you have the stomach for it, Megan Fox delivers the truly disturbing specifics [GO READ IT! -Skip]. You’ve been warned in advance if you choose to click on that link. I’m going to have nightmares after reading it.
And the rate of detransitioning (which many trans-activists claim doesn’t exist) is accelerating and with worse stories of hopelessness. I agree – Parents that deliberately shove their young kids, who barely are past potty training and have no idea what they want to be, much less who they are now, into part or full transitioning to something they are not are committing child abuse through endocrine sabotage and sexual organ mutilation, should be arrested and labeled as “Munchausen syndrome abusers by proxy”.
The physical damage done to Jennings as a child can never be reversed. He has no sex drive because of all the hormones he was given. He has never experienced an orgasm. He will never father children nor will he bear children…
(Because he’s still a male.)…Meanwhile, his mother has become famous and wealthy because of the reality TV show she launched. The abuse of her child was displayed for all the world to see.
More here on this poor child:
Fortunately, level-headed Legislators are starting to take notice and take action:
Republicans in Kentucky have passed Senate Bill 150, which will ban surgeries and hormone therapies on minors for the purpose of gender transitioning.
The bill, which also includes provisions regarding mandatory sharing of information between schools and parents, along with banning forced use of preferred pronouns by teachers in school, has been delivered to Democrat Governor Andy Beshear. According to CNN, Beshear is opposed to the bill; however, a Republican majority can likely overrule the governor’s veto…
Tennessee is starting to do the same action.
This is GREAT – a turnabout on the BLM / SJW tactic of trying to ruin anyone that has ever appeared in “blackface” (unless that person is a Democrat – then only a small “stiff breeze in a teacup” is raised for political reasons):
Walter Wendler, the campus president of West Texas A&M University, criticized drag shows as an event that demeans and diminishes women while canceling an event on campus. Wendler sent out an email to the school on Monday announcing that the college would not be hosting a planned drag show charity performance titled “A Fool’s Drag Race” on Mar. 31. The performance was originally meant to raise money for the transgender crisis management non-profit organization The Trevor Project.
While Wendler supported donating money to the organization itself, he denounced drag shows as demeaning to women under the subject headline “A Harmless Drag show? No Such Thing.”
“Does a drag show preserve a single thread of human dignity? I think not. As a performance of exaggerating aspects of womanhood (sexuality, femininity, gender), drag shows stereotype women in cartoon-like extremes for the amusement of others and discriminate against womanhood.
And the hammerblow:
Any event that diminishes an individual or group through representation is wrong.
He’s absolutely right – if it isn’t not good for one group, that group can’t go and do the same without being hypocritical.
And The Trevor Project. In part, the trans-activist group that flooded the nation with the transgender policy that subverts our Free Speech and got districts to lie to parents about their child transitioning (see first snippet, above). So, in taking blackface to the next level, is dragface right or wrong?
Can we also start using “TransFace” (pretending to be what one isn’t)?
Sidenote: like Dylan Mulvaney? An ultimate example of the Patriarchy further grinding the matriarchy under his bootsteps. Hey, if the Left keeps doing this kind of stuff to us, we SHOULD turn the tables on them!
And pushing back on Critical Race Theory / BLM. Wish my school board would do this:
A newly elected majority-conservative school board in California recently approved a resolution to hire an anti-critical race theory consultant. On March 13, in a 3-2 decision, Temecula Valley Unified School District voted to allocate $15,000 to anti-CRT initiatives, including hiring a consultant to hold “discussion groups” at an after-school board workshop.
The discussions would cover the history of critical race theory and the board’s December resolution to ban CRT. The district, which enrolls approximately 28,000 students, plans to host six two-hour sessions. Christopher Arend, former school board president of Paso Robles Joint Unified School District, was hired by the district to host the discussion groups and serve on the workshop’s six-member panel, which will be held at James L. Day Middle School. All of these panelists are reportedly against teaching CRT in classrooms.
I don’t think that I’ve ever heard of a lesson plan that reads “Kids will eat bugs to save the planet”. Parents, you ok with this?
But of course, there are those who have been baptized into the First Church of Climatism. Some, if not most of these folks I think, enjoy the power that comes with posturing, hectoring, and bossing people around under the banner of saving the planet. In fact, I am convinced that 75% of climate outrage is the product of people getting in touch with their inner totalitarian.
With that in mind, we take you to Spring Canyon Middle School in Springville, Utah. As part of an English assignment, teacher Kim Cutler purchased bugs approved for human consumption from a website and gave them to her students. It was part of an assignment on–what else? Climate change. The premise was that cows, which produce methane, are depleting the ozone layer and should be replaced with ze bugs. According to Fox News, the school issued the following statement, “Middle schoolers loved the ‘ewww’ factor, many of them gave bugs a try (and even a few staff members!). Many thanks to our English teachers for creating fun and engaging lessons.” And the kids may have had a fine time since middle school students are still young enough to enjoy icky stuff and it was probably a fun change of pace from the usual lesson plan.
However, there was also an essay assignment. For the essay, students were told that they could only argue for eating bugs and against eating beef, since cow flatulence poses a dire hazard to said ozone layer and life on Mother Earth. According to Ms. Cutler, there is no evidence to support eating beef over bugs and thus any pro-beef argument cannot exist.
English lesson or Climate Indoctrination (methinks the latter is easy to see)? And then there’s this – again, without Parents knowing about it:
Gender theory has been prioritized in most Vermont public schools, and children are taught newly-created gender terminology as a consequence. However, most parents are unaware of the types of materials being read to their children, and may be surprised to find out that administrators aggressively defend the new gender curriculum. In an interview with True North Reports, Tara Ferf Jentink said she was unaware of ANWSD’s gender curriculum until alerted by her young child, and she took steps to address the issue with administrators — and was stunned by their response.
…“My daughter explained the health teacher had taught them new universal terms for extended family members who were LGBTQIA+. For example, if a niece or nephew does not know their gender the universal name is now ‘nibling,’ and if an aunt or uncle is unaware of their gender identity they are called an ‘auncle.’”
…“The principal responded, ‘Well, from my opinion it is too heavy if they don’t know.’”
And did this one talk with former (and present) NH State Senators Jeanne Dietsch and Debra Altshiller?
During a Monday Georgia House Education Subcommittee on Policy meeting, a Democrat lawmaker argued that parents are not qualified to influence and direct their child’s education because many of them “did not finish high school.”
The subcommittee passed the Georgia Scholarship Act in a 7-5 vote this week, which would create a state-funded $6,000-per-year scholarship that could be used to cover approved education expenses for each student. The bill already passed in the Senate in a 33-23 vote along party lines.
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TikTok CEO Shou Chew testified before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Thursday. Chew’s remarks and answers were an excellent example of why we cannot trust the Chinese government or any company associated with China.
Chew’s prepared opening statement painted TikTok as a privately owned application that was not only designed to educate its users but is a public service to the American people. He built a case to show how TikTok respects the privacy of its users and that none of the information garnered by TikTok is ever given to or used by the CCP. Nobody, not a Republican or Democrat, in the room was buying what Chew was selling.
I do not support government intervention in business, but TikTok is not a private company, as they claim. ByteDance LTD, a Chinese technology firm, owns TikTok. At the same time that Chew was perjuring himself to Congress, claiming TikTok had no connection to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the CCP released a statement that they would not agree to the sale of TikTok. How do you have a say in the sale if you are not part of the ownership? A direct contradiction, and you have to side with the CCP claim. This example was not the only mistruth by Chew, who was ill-prepared for his testimony. It would not be a surprise if Chew were replaced as CEO and never seen again. That is how China deals with incompetence.
Chew did his best to assure the Congressmen on the committee that TikTok was an up-and-up operator with the operator’s well-being in mind. He was not successful. Data handling, access, sales, and push content were non-existent, and China did not have access. He only accomplished unifying both sides of the room, which never happens, to go on the offense against the TikTok AP and company.
There is inconsistency in Washington and across the country with how to control TikTok. The decision has already been made to restrict the app from every federal government phone and computer. Yet, you have the President participating in a Tik Tok video on St Patrick’s Day. Rep. Cortez created her first TikTok account and video this week after the hearing. Both actions were ill-advised—a mistake by the President and a sign of immaturity by Cortez.
There are 150 million TikTok accounts in the United States. Children are the heaviest users, but adults make big money on the app as “content creators.” Many of these adults are making a significant income and will not be pleased should the app disappear. There are no good options here for Congress. There are no adequate changes to render TikTok safe in the hands of the Chinese but to prohibit access to Americans sets an unwanted precedent for Congress. We do not need the government to become censors of computer applications. With TikTok, I do not see it as censoring a Social Network app but as eliminating a threat to Americans by a foreign adversary. It is a move that must be made, and an American company has to fill the void so everyone can put TikTok in the rearview mirror and forget it.
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Yeah, this is my long-late response to Alexa Carpenter’s Op-Ed “NH’s Housing Crisis: a Product of Vocal NIMBYs and a Silent Majority“. I agreed to put that Op-Ed up back in February even though I disagreed with it. I emailed her back at the time that she’d get blowback about it and she basically said she didn’t care (“I’m used to the backlash…”). She got some – from our commenters so go read them. This one struck me. While Kevin, I believe, hits it on the head for a bunch of folks “why can’t I help my “own folks” instead of being forced to help those I don’t know?”. A good point but it wasn’t mine in responding to her Op-Ed.
“Affordable” housing is a euphemism for subsidized housing, and the subsidies come from the other property tax payers. I pay to live here and I do not want to pay even more so that someone else can pay less.
No, my point is that Gov Sununu has paid back a large contingent of his political donor class, real estate developers, with new laws that help to override local communities’ sense of themselves and the nascent land use court system that very much tilts the teeter-totter to developers. Sununu and his sycophants have basically brought into the Live Free or Die State the worst of Obama’s AFFH housing policies (which Biden just revived) and what is happening in California and New York.
I hate it. Passionately. The message that Sununu and his proxies, including Alexa Carpenter and her funders “The Residences at Epping Station” went even further. Nice of them to pose with these platitudes:
Helping our teachers to live where they teach, medical personnel to live where they heal, and police and service workers to live where they save lives
Translation: you’re an ugly person if you don’t want them here. And some genius thought that doing a Change.org petition was going to seal part of the deal for them – nice of a commercial entity in demanding permission to despoil a community that doesn’t want it. Low bar, they set for themselves – thus far, “supporters” could only muster up 258 signatures of the paltry 500 they thought would be a show of force.
Yep, this proved what she complains about below – lack of support. The only thing they didn’t outright say is RACIST!
But what’s even uglier is what she wrote if you view it from the respect of who she quoted and how her “My argument trumps those that live in those towns – those selfish people!” was a pile of steaming you know what (reformatted, emphasis mine):
…Considering NH is short of 20,000 units needed to balance the market, this finding should not come as a shock.
However, what is shocking is how much the other third limits development across the state. That’s right, often it’s the minority of opponents who sway a town’s decisions over development, no matter how much broader support exists. Why? Because decisions are made by those who show up, and typically, those who show up for project approvals are homeowners who refuse changes to their neighborhood’s status quo. In fact, 85% of development meeting attendees are opponents, and this leaves a small opportunity for support to shine through, despite its existence. The problem with this is how much it skews the picture of community perception toward development. Despite its distortion, this picture influences the outcome of housing projects all the same.
Let’s discuss this for a few moments even as what came next is worse. So she, and her bosses, don’t like those that take enough time to get involved in their town’s well-being, its character, and its sense of community? The undertone she nuances is that these are selfish people who are only concerned with their own well-being – and their investment in their homes. Sense of the Left, in my opinion, as I have seen that attitude FAR too often from the Left (especially at the newly castrated and pablum-filled Eco-Socialist site called Treehugger. I may not have agreed with their posts but it certainly held rousing discussions! I do miss it). Carpenter goes all flank speed from there in trying to cut off any reasonable comeback that such pushback isn’t “selfish” but IS “self-interest”.
There’s nothing wrong with “conserving” what one has and as I’ve been saying, more and more since Sununu and Carpenter’s cohorts started in with the Royal “We should do what we want” in bullying local towns and townfolks, people in their towns have an unspoken and unwritten right (notice lower case) to covet the existing sense of community without the “buttinsky” attitude whose only end goal is money. They saw a place to either continue to stay in or move in because they loved the place, its look, its feel, and the community bound up in that.
Carpenter doesn’t care.
Sidenote: if they really cared, developers would be using the Habitat for Humanity model of real charity instead of just financial transactions.
And if she really cared, she wouldn’t have made me hate my alma mater even more by quoting the slanted bias of using “privileged” as if she was a snot-nosed college feminist SJW Leftist. Insulting those that count – those that vote in that town – and whipping out the Race Card doesn’t help. Her bolding, not mine
New research from Katherine Einstein, a Boston University political science professor, reinforces these findings. According to Einstein, a distorted picture of public consensus is a staple of the housing approvals process in New England. And recognizing the sway that homeowners have over the development process, Einstein set out to identify the demographics of those who typically attend project meetings, specifically where affordable or multifamily housing is proposed. What she found was that those “who show up are privileged, whiter, older, homeowners, who also overwhelmingly opposed development, with only 15% who showed support.” And this crowd has no problem influencing decisions that impact the wider community.
Sure thing – and she’s quite proud of herself. So I’ll answer with the Leftist Socialist permanent protesters’ anthem “THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE!” (repeat 100s of times for effect). She’s upset that those who are more motivated have more cause and interest in influencing the making of such decisions. And if only 15% support such development, they SHOULD lose. That’s what direct democracy looks like. And I’m betting that’s what she and Carpenter are upset about as well.
Too bad.
Do you know what this really wassupposed to accomplish Denigrate those that CARE, about their town and themselves, MORE than those that don’t. Yes, we are older – it wasn’t until I GOT older that I had the time and concentration level to get involved locally (and beyond). Before that, I had my family, young boys and their needs and activities, a career, and older parents to tend to. Younger people, correctly, have other priorities to tend to.
And yes, I’m white – SO WHAT! It’s not like I had any control over it but thank you, Alexa, for quoting someone who used it, not to be accurate, but as a slur.
So what’s the end result of all of this? Land use boards often yield to the wishes of the outspoken, meaning development proposals (outside the scope of single-family homes) are squashed and the inventory remains stagnant.
So you want them to ignore this contingent that cares? That sounds like a real lack of support on your part (unless you bring in your Astroturf mob like many Leftist organizations do), right? And this was just a GREAT capstone in trying to “persuade” people like me – that my main motivation is that I’m FEARFUL!
Sorry, you really want to know what I’m motivated by, Ms. Carpenter? You. Sununu. His hangers-on like Joe Sweeney, Joe Alexander, and Ross Berry support themselves in interfering with other people’s lives and communities via The Law that benefits them and not us.
You see, we want to Live Free – from coercion and bullying. We have an innate Scots-Irish (even if not of that lineage) attitude, dislike and distrust of Government trying to push us around. And that is what is happening here in NH once again – government turning against us.
That dislike and distrust goes to a higher gear when we see the rent-seekers like you trying to use the power of government against us.
Up Yours!
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If you haven’t already, please take 1 minute and register your support for the Senate version of the Parental Rights bill; if you already did register, thanks. Take an extra couple of minutes and pass along for others to register their support. Our kids need to be protected!!!!
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We lost the House version because of a few bad votes, and we really, really, really need everyone’s support to help make sure parents have a say over their kids in our public schools. Opinion as of now is 141 support and 173 oppose…
Here is the link to show your support for SB272, which is being heard on 3/30 by the Education committee. https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/house/committees/remotetestimony/
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They’re flying so thick and fast it is amazing. Take heart – there will be a Meme Overflow and almost certainly a Friday Meme Overflow-Overflow – depends on work and how I can manage that… I’m into the gagillion meticulous detail phase. The last meme post is HERE.
Remember, ridicule and mockery are effective weapons:
Now, let the mockery and mayhem begin. Still slammed for time so “just” a meme dump, absent commentary.
*** Warning, a few possibly off-color ones, in case tender eyes are about ***
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Help a guy out and buy a bumper sticker:
Build Back Better – the hidden message Bumper Sticker | Zazzle
The distance between Socialism and Freedom Bumper Sticker | Zazzle
Also available in .223.
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IMHO you need to have a skin in the game.
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Earth is an incredibly complex system, within a constantly-changing solar system and energy flux. To have our climate boil down to ONE VARIABLE is beyond simplification… and, of course, how conveeeeenient that said variable is the one thing that we can affect, and that control of gives politicians power. Related:
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Pick of the post:
Priceless mockery!
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Who watches the watchers? Who guards the guards? | Neil Oliver
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Palate Cleansers:
This is actually a marvelous picture and a testament to long-lasting friendships.
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