For many years, America has moved down a path of disrespecting the Constitution. It goes on, without regard to whether the White House is red or blue. When did you last hear of a Republican president (Bush or Trump) yell, “We will not disturb the balance of power”?

When did you last see a Republican Congresswoman (unless it was the ghost of Mary Maxwell) slamming her shoe on the desk, saying, “No way can a president make war until we legislators have said ‘Do it, Boy!’ “?

ALL persons — of all Parties — who think they can run the US government “my way” (I’m referring to Frank Sinatra’s way) are guilty of mortal sin. We have to run the country the constitutional way. Not to do so is suicide. Period.

I attended the Republican Victory party this morning at Grappone Conference Centre in Concord. It was simply beautiful. Everyone was happy, the brekkie food was great. The successful candidates were gracious to the, ahem, failed candidates. And as usual, the “pledge of alleej” made me cry. (Believe me, when you have lived out of country for 30-plus years, as I have, there’s a lot of emotion just in the phrase “the United States of America.”)

Each of the five speakers, including one from the RNC, did a big “Rah-rah, get the Dems.” That’s all good fun for the day after the Primary, of course, but NH is a state with a majority of Dems, and it would not be possible for us Repubs to win — how’s my math doing? — unless we hug and kiss a number of Dems. If I’ve calculated that incorrectly, do let me know.

The title of my latest book (free download below) is “Keep the Republic, Kill the Takeover.” Takeover? What takeover? This land is being taken over NOT by Dems (who don’t seem to have the neuronal capacity for it anyway), but by takeover artists. I call them globalists, hoping to emphasize that they are persons whose alleej is not to the Flag of any country. They want all national sovereignty to go bye-bye.

Yes, that’s how demented and vicious they are. And betcha five dollars, it is they who have a big stake in stirring up the blue-red battles. Been doing it for centuries. Divide and rule. Distract and rule. Humans are such easy pickins.

Sign Carriers of the World, Unite!

So now let me tell you about Primary Day, September 13, 2022. Around 10 am it started raining. (Ask me my theory about weather control, K?) The last time I had voted was in November 2020 — famous day — in Concord. Nice weather, cold, and the hopefuls, or family and friends of the hopefuls, stood outside the venue holding big signs.

I’m sure, from memory, that the reds and blues (pardon me) were interspersed on the sidewalk. I recall quizzing a man who was promoting a candidate for the sheriff job (Merrimack County). By the way, it seems to me that sheriffs should be elected non-partisanly. I mean uni-sexly. You know what I mean. Anyway, this sign carrier talked me into voting for his Dem pal because the pal was a Marine. I guess I did a Marine-melt and voted out-of-Party. That was 2020.

This week, as a candidate myself (US House of Reps, CD1), I lugged my lovely sign to three polling places, hoping to scrape up a few last-minute votes. One venue had no campaigner there (a small population and off-hour). Another had about eight sign-carriers, and they were MIXED, Republican and Democrat.

A cop oversaw the activity and insisted, gently, that the hopefuls maintain the permitted distance away from the door. Perhaps because it was raining, there was an allocated porch for them to sand on. But thereby, folks arriving to vote couldn’t take up any kind of private chat with a sign carrier on the crowded porch.

Yours Truly moved away and “engaged” arriving voters on the sidewalk. The cop did not discipline me — how could he? — a public street has First Amendment written all over it.

Around 1 pm, I went to the third venue. I was shocked to see the hopefuls in cages. Do you disbelieve me? I later reported to Secretary of State’ office about this horrific situation. He (Mr. David Scanlan) was not in his office. He was properly out checking on venues that had problems with ballots, but his secretary immediately knew what I meant by “cages.”

Let me tell you that I don’t much mind that the sign carriers were asked to stay behind barriers (that’s what I mean by cages) — as this particular venue had a crowded, complicated parking lot. Had we hopefuls been milling about, there could have been a car accident. But what appalled me was that the Dems and Repubs were put in SEPARATE cages!

Loonysville

As far as I know, I am the only loony-bird who objected to that. (Similarly, at the Victor Party today, I was wondering if I’m the lone loony bird.) Believe me, the “inmates” of the two cages were hostile to one another. I was appalled. It was like being in the Roman colosseum, waiting for the lions to be let in. (Exaggeration; I’m upset.)

The hostility will be blamed on the Dems, natch. I do acknowledge that there is some election nastiness happening. I felt the brunt of it, twice — not physically, and yes it was Dem-initiated.

Wait, it has just come to mind that one of the en-caged Republicans at Venue #3 told me that her assistant went over to Chris Pappas to ask a question (he is an incumbent, so should answer questions), but his staff member shoved the woman aside. Physically shoved her.

A wonder the incident wasn’t shown on CNN as proof that the Repubs are terrorists or something.

All in all, I felt bad as an American that the members of the two big Parties do not see themselves as Americans working for the same cause.

But more (“much more than this…”) I had a fit that the Takeover Artists must be laughing in their beer or laughing all the way to the bank, whichever. Here they see us concentrating on a local feud while they take our country away and demolish the Constitution like there was no tomorrow.

Which there isn’t unless we start to concentrate on reality.

Oh, and here’s that free book download: “Kill the Takeover“

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Already Sen. Maggie (“The Red”) Hassan is pedaling her slander against Don Bolduc, the Republican nominee for US Senate, to replace her. If you haven’t seen it, no problem you will soon be getting glossies in the mail, deluged on TV, and ads in the newspaper. When hearing or seeing these, please keep in mind this is the same Maggie Hassan who just last month claimed to be fiscally responsible but who never saw a wasteful, unnecessary expenditure she didn’t vote for. And she yammers constantly that she’s working to lower costs for the people of NH.

Again remember her votes to approve policies that have created the incredible rise in costs she now says she is working to lower  – and will last until she is reelected (hopefully not).  Maggie has zero problems exploiting a severely handicapped child (and her own) telling us how she presented a bill to help these individuals but didn’t tell us that she failed to get it even to the floor for consideration. That, I believe was in 2021. Guess she has been too busy bobble-heading every dumb, destructive Leftist idea rolling past her desk?

I last heard from her on the subject of our Sothern border was that it was secure. Stop laughing, she’s serious, no joke. Plus it’s only two million illegal aliens and counting sucking up our tax money.  You know, those taxes which she promised would not be raised?

Not even a Democrat can identify any bill that she has authored that has benefitted the people here in NH or the nation.

Her competition, Gen. Don Bolduc, who retired due to combat injuries sustained in defending our nation from foreign terrorists, is a man of honor and integrity. He enlisted as a Private E1 and through incredibly hard work, rose to the rank of Brigadier General and commanded Special Forces in combat.  Gen. Bolduc is a man who says what he means and will support our Constitution, laws, and Rights as written. We can depend on him to look to the welfare of all the people in NH, defend us against the crazy extreme Left that is trying to reinvent our laws, take away our Rights and steal everything they can carry away.

No hack politician will impress this General, he’s seen tougher and taken their measure. Now the question is will National and State Republican leaders support someone not of their “Chosen Ones” or try to give him the Joe Kenney Treatment ( minimal support to assure he loses)?

If the State and National Republican groups do what’s right, we can replace the do-nothing Maggie Hassan with Don Bolduc – a powerful dynamic leader who will support “We the People”. I urge readers, all Republicans, independents, and disillusioned Democrats to support and vote for Don Bolduc for Senate come November.

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We learned it was “Veto Day” and the last session of this legislative body until after election day and new legislators are sworn in. The opening ceremonies included a memorial to Rep. Mary Griffin, who passed away recently, and prayers for Rep. Gary Hopper who is fighting cancer. There were also many thanks to those who have served the House and will not be returning and those who did not make it through their primaries last Tuesday.

We learned that we needed around 216 votes for 2/3rds of the House to overturn any vetoes on the docket for this session… but first we needed to have that amount, or more, to suspend the rules in order to consider an energy relief bill crafted and presented by House leadership. The rules were suspended 259-66, and the energy assistance bill HB2023 was passed on a voice vote.

The fuel assistance program will provide a one-time $450 benefit to households with an annual income over 60% and up to75% of the State Median Income. The electric assistance program will provide a one-time $200 benefit to households with an annual income over 60% and up to 75% of the State Median Income. $25 million will be appropriated for the fuel assistance program. $10 million will be appropriated for the electric assistance program. Any unexpended funds remaining when the program ends on June 30, 2023 will return to the general fund.

There is also an appropriation of $7 million to the Electric Assistance Program to ensure this program is sustained throughout this period of excessively high electric bills. House Republicans were NOT going to let Granite Staters freeze this winter due to the Democrats’ disastrous energy policies coming out of Washington… and apparently, NH House Democrats agreed! And so did the NH Senate … passing it next to the governor for his signature.

We learned that voting Yes overturned a veto and voting No sustained a veto because the question is, “Notwithstanding the governor’s veto, shall HBxxx become law?” It’s not confusing once you get used to it.

We learned that the governor’s veto of HB52, apportioning congressional districts, failed to be overturned by a vote of 103Y-220N, which is a good thing because undoing that veto would have put elected candidate Karoline Leavitt and others who ran, outside of their district and thrown the constitutionality of this past primary into chaos. While the maps finally accepted are still being challenged in court by the Democrats, at least this dog was left to lay in peace.

We learned that the governor’s veto of HB275, relative to the declaration of a state of emergency, failed to garner enough votes to be overturned. With a vote of 157Y-167N, it looks like the Democrats came to the governor’s rescue to preserve his power in an emergency. This bill would have revised the authority of the governor and the general court to declare, renew, or terminate a state of emergency. Interesting to note that the original vote in the House was 190-165 with Republicans voting 188-3 for passage.

We learned that the governor’s veto of HB319, requiring university and college students in NH to pass a US citizenship test, failed to be overturned with a vote of 143Y-181N. Civics class??? Nah, they don’t need to know about that.

We learned that the governor’s veto of HB1022, permitting pharmacists to dispense ivermectin by a standing order, was sustained with a vote of 144Y-170N. Apparently some folks, including the ones vaccinated with experimental vaccines and still wearing masks in House chambers, don’t want the people to easily get their hands on ivermectin to treat COVID, despite studies that show its effectiveness.

We learned that the governor’s veto of HB1131, relative to mandating facial coverings in schools, was also sustained with a vote of 150Y-170N. Schools still get to decide, over parental wishes, whether their kids wear masks all day in class or not. You can’t get more “local control” than that.

We learned that the governor’s veto of HB1454, relative for siting landfill permits, was overturned in the House with a resounding 256Y-65N. This bill had originally passed in the House with a voice vote. The bill would have placed restrictions on siting landfills near bodies of water based on geologic studies regarding the underground movement of water over time (5 years) such that if there were to be a leak it could be detected and dealt with before causing environmental damage. The bill wasn’t perfect, and the issue does need more study, but it is better than the current 200-foot set back requirement. In any case, the bill’s veto was sustained in the Senate. This is one that will certainly be coming back to us as recycled material next year.

We learned that the governor’s veto of HB1625, repealing buffer zones around abortion clinics…Ummm, I mean reproductive health care facilities was sustained with a vote of 145Y-175N. This is a free speech issue…but the veto message claimed that there was no reason to change the law since no one has been harmed by a buffer zone requirement being in statute for the past eight years (SB319 enacted in 2014). The House has spoken on not speaking.

Finally, we learned that now we’re all off to campaign for the November elections. For those with over 20 years of service in the House and not returning, it was nice to take some time to recognize them. There were seven members of the House with 20 or more years of service who will not be returning. Together they represented 214 years of service! That is a lot of institutional knowledge leaving our chambers! We wish them all well in their retirement and look forward to welcoming those who will come after (hopefully more of the Conservative variety).

In this past biennium, we passed some really good legislation, saved our constituents money, and helped get NH back on its feet after COVID. We even met in parking lots, ice rinks, ball fields, and hotel conference centers. What a wild ride!! Our House Republican leadership did an amazing job with the thin majority that we held. I know I learned a lot, and I hope that “what we learned today” with every House session will help you decide who you want to represent you when you get out to vote in November (I repeat, hopefully, more of the Conservative variety). Take care and see you next year!

 

 

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It’s really simple.  The democrats on the left love to take our money and spend it.  There are two ways the government can acquire money to spend.  They can tax you or print it.

Raising taxes makes it obvious who the culprits are.

Printing money is more subtle and hides the fact of what is taking place. When money is printed, the value instantly goes down. More money supply means everything costs more.  The federal government under Joe Biden and the democratically controlled congress has passed multi-Trillian dollar programs funded by printing more money.  As money supply goes up, the prices of goods and services go up.  The value of your hard-earned dollars goes down.

With inflation running at close to 10%, everyone has just effectively had a tax increase.  Yes.  Joe Biden and the democrats have indirectly just taxed you almost 10% of your income by printing more money.  The trick is it makes it easier to blame others instead of taking responsibility themselves.

In many sectors, inflation is running significantly higher than 10%.  Food and Fuel costs have gone up well over 10%.  Those with low income or retired with a fixed income feel it hard.  The democrats love to tout how they help the elderly and poor.  Well, the democrats just indirectly handed out the biggest tax increase to the elderly and poor in recent times.  Thank you, Joe Biden and the democrats!

Doug
poundsnh.com
poundsnh@gmail.com

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….but he still beats the independence-friendly candidate at Winchester.

Video:  https://odysee.com/@RidleyReport:b/3400.11d:c

Image below is thumbnail only.

 

“Veto Day” Political Machinations – and out of touch with Founding and NH GOP Platform Principles

Once again, our solons have failed to learn from history – Davy Crocket (scroll more to the bottom).

Posting is low for me today – just one of those sleepless nights again.  However, this came in over the email gunwales that just about wrote this post by itself (even at my reduced capability today). Two, emails, in fact, from the House Republican Office and NH House Communications (same email address for both, though).  Each is pretty much crowing about how much Republicans are “helping” us about the high electricity costs that have been foisted upon us by Eversource, Unitil, and the NH Co-op – because of Government interference in that marketplace.

California Refugee wrote about the real reasons here.

The cost of my electricity doubled (Eversource).  I am NOT impressed with this move with the big news of the Day.  Instead of vetoing this “throwing buckets of money at people” Sununu bill, it passed.  I talked with a Rep that left in disgust – the explanation for leaving early was that “the car needed to be washed”.  Good enough for me.

The first email, following the Alinsky Rule of turning a “negative into a positive” (emphasis mine).  All because Baby Huey Sununu had a “great” idea to shovel out the State’s excess funding in burnishing his cred for both the General Election and a possible 2024.  You know, acting like the Democrats’ Inflation Reduction Act being passed in time for the midterm elections.

This is called Pandering and I would have hoped that Republicans wouldn’t have fallen for this.  Shows you how much *I* know…sheesh…

—— Original Message ——
From: “NH House Communications” <NHHouse@leg.state.nh.us>
To:
Sent: 9/15/2022 2:00:17 PM
Subject: House Speaker Sherman Packard Responds to Passage of HB2023

For Immediate Release
September 15, 2022
Contact: Jennifer Tramp
NHHouse@leg.state.nh.us

House Speaker Sherman Packard responds to today’s passage of HB2023

Concord, NH: House Speaker Sherman Packard (R-Londonderry) responds to the passage of HB2023, making appropriations to the department of energy for a state emergency fuel assistance program and a supplemental electric benefit, and relative to the electric low-income program fund:

“Today was a huge win for New Hampshire. In a bipartisan effort, this energy assistance bill passed by a voice vote giving the green light to provide up to $35 million in aid to families who earn between 60-75% of the state median income. The new program will supplement existing assistance programs that help households making 60% or less than the state median income.

An additional $7 million is appropriated in the bill to bolster the existing Electric Assistance Program for those households making 60% or less.

The fiscally responsible leadership of the General Court of NH has produced a budget surplus which allows us to create this one-time emergency relief package that will help offset rising fuel and electric costs this winter. 

Right – instead of letting people keep their money in the first place, send it to others.  Don’t worry, it won’t mean that people won’t complain next year when Government doesn’t do the same thing.  And Democrats will beat you about the head and shoulders over it. Note, too, how MUCH of the surplus funds gained this year just went “poof”!

This bill provides direct relief to those in need and reduces the anticipated burden placed upon municipal welfare programs – a cost that would otherwise be passed along to property owners at the local level. We believe these surplus funds will alleviate some of the financial pressure for NH families who would otherwise not qualify for existing assistance programs. By coming together today, we chose NH citizens over party politics.”

They never stop, right? Politicians of BOTH stripes always seem to forget that WE know of the four levels of Government that are ALL taking money out of our pockets – it doesn’t matter which one is doing the Nasty of the Day because in the end, it is ALWAYS the aggregate cost that matters.

Oh, and do these politicians doing the crowing even KNOW what that fourth level is?  I bet that in the House, I’d be surprised if even 25-35% know.

My response:

—– Original Message ——
From: “Skip” <Skip@granitegrok.com>
To: “House Republican Office” <HouseRepOffice@leg.state.nh.us>
Sent: 9/15/2022 2:47:45 PM
Subject: Re: RELEASE: Republicans’ Leadership Delivers Relief to Granite Staters—–REALLY, you REALLY believe that?

 

Thanks, also, to NH State Senate Jeb Bradley, in ignoring the Great Mind Fallacy, of interfering in the Free Market concerning electricity generation and distribution that has left NH without its own generation capacity of any note.

I would be remiss if I didn’t add this:  “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs”.  Only from the font of Government can good things flow?

So, “fellow” Republicans, what IS the Proper Role of Government?  Is it MORE distorting of the marketplace and enlarging the role and function of Government?  Don’t you remember your basic Civics class taught you?

From the NH Grand Old Party Platform:

We believe that the New Hampshire and United States Constitutions were written by our forefathers to limit our government, not our freedom.

We believe in free people, free markets and free enterprise.

Meddling Jeb, Meddling Jeb

We believe that economies flourish when all people retain as much of their hard earned income as possible, to spend and invest as they see fit.

We believe that we the people are strongest when we stand together, that it is our responsibility to hold government accountable and that it is through the integrity of the ballot box that we do so.

This is what we do almost every single day. After all, if not us, whom?

We believe as the New Hampshire Constitution states, that acquiring, possessing and protecting property is a natural, essential and inherent right.

And when Government is taking it (for the sole reason to extend the welfare state) from you, they are infringing upon that natural, essential, and inherent Right, right?

That the people justly view with alarm the reckless extravagance which pervades every department of the Federal NH State Government; that a return to rigid economy and accountability is indispensable to arrest the systematic plunder of the public treasury by favored partisans…(and)…

Oh, and I fixed that last one for you. Favored partisans being those that, again, are afraid of being seen as “doing nothing”. Or those politicians that are scared of being accused of not “Doing Something” and not giving thought to the idea that, often, doing nothing IS the correct thing to do and let the people / private sector come up with better solutions rather than just having Government throwing money at “problems”.

So, chuckleheads, which ones do you think you all violated? Hint: it’s really an easy answer.

Funny, that.

Please note that old saw goes “I am from the Government and I am here to help you“.  And on a voice vote, to boot.  What’s the matter – afraid of being held accountable on this vote to spend millions because Government pushed Eversource to get rid of its fossil fuel plants and rely on REs?  With the consequence of those actions falling into OUR wallets?
Shame on you all.

-Skip

Skip Murphy
Founder, co-owner
GraniteGrok.com | Skip@GraniteGrok.com

Or properly, OUT of our wallets.

And then Speaker of the House, Sherm Packerd, tried the “What a good boy am I” stance:

—— Original Message ——
From: “NH House Communications” <NHHouse@leg.state.nh.us>
To:
Sent: 9/15/2022 2:00:17 PM
Subject: House Speaker Sherman Packard Responds to Passage of HB2023

For Immediate Release
September 15, 2022
Contact: Jennifer Tramp
NHHouse@leg.state.nh.us

 

House Speaker Sherman Packard responds to today’s passage of HB2023

Concord, NH: House Speaker Sherman Packard (R-Londonderry) responds to the passage of HB2023, making appropriations to the department of energy for a state emergency fuel assistance program and a supplemental electric benefit, and relative to the electric low-income program fund:

“Today was a huge win for New Hampshire. In a bipartisan effort, this energy assistance bill passed by a voice vote giving the green light to provide up to $35 million in aid to families who earn between 60-75% of the state median income. The new program will supplement existing assistance programs that help households making 60% or less than the state median income.

An additional $7 million is appropriated in the bill to bolster the existing Electric Assistance Program for those households making 60% or less.

The fiscally responsible leadership of the General Court of NH has produced a budget surplus which allows us to create this one-time emergency relief package that will help offset rising fuel and electric costs this winter.

This bill provides direct relief to those in need and reduces the anticipated burden placed upon municipal welfare programs – a cost that would otherwise be passed along to property owners at the local level. We believe these surplus funds will alleviate some of the financial pressure for NH families who would otherwise not qualify for existing assistance programs. By coming together today, we chose NH citizens over party politics.”

So, extend the STATE’S welfare programs, right?  For this is what it is – enlarging that aspect of Government.

I responded simply as I had already made my viewpoint known:

—— Original Message ——
From: “Skip” <Skip@granitegrok.com>
To: “NH House Communications” <NHHouse@leg.state.nh.us>
Sent: 9/15/2022 2:50:26 PM
Subject: Re: House Speaker Sherman Packard Responds to Passage of HB2023

Please explain this to me, as I am but a poor simpleton – how is this any different than all of the rest of the Democrats attempt of extending and expanding what Government gives to citizens – at the expense of others?

-Skip

Hey dopes – perhaps you should have considered an even higher priority – like the pension plan?  NH is, on a per capita basis, one of the worst funded Retirement Funds in the nation.  How about shoveling that money there – YOU caused that debt, haven’t you?  When are you going to fix it?? And then put new folks into a 401K type plan. A defined contribution is a lot more fiscally responsible way to go than defined benefits.

And the love of NH, PLEASE stop meddling and let private industries serve NH folks with the most stable and ratepayer costs possible.

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Don’t … I repeat DON”T … ask me how I did it, how I got the questions to the WMUR and NHPR CD-1 debates. I can’t and won’t say. The years I spent training under Master Sensei Chozen Toguchi have clearly paid off as I alone among the New Hampshire press can “break” this story.

Below are the topics that will be front and center at both the WMUR and NHPR debates:

 

You’re welcome.

And that’s right, Mr. Michael Graham at NH-NeverTrumpJournal, in New Hampshire, the rules of political engagement are not only that the Democrats get to dictate which “debates” take place, but they also get the questions of their choice asked.

Don’t believe me? Then stay tuned. Should the Leavitt campaign participate in these SHAM DEBATES … which it most certainly should NOT … you will hear the interlocutors pose “questions” to Leavitt designed to attack her on the topics Pappas wants to talk about, as opposed to the topics that are the voters’ top concerns.

 

 

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The Democrat’s Dollar Value Reduction Act is making a difference. In August, food inflation reached a forty-three-year high. And electricity is up nearly 16% (110% if you live here). So, that reduction act is reducing something; your income, savings, and lifestyle.

But you’ll be happy to know that beginning in 2023, “your” government is changing how they calculate these numbers to make them look better without actually being better.

 

In order to give the statistical appearance of things being better than they are, the BLS is going to reset their weighting for the CPI to only compare against 2021.  This is being done with purpose to give the illusion next year that things are not as bad.  2021 was when Joe Biden’s inflation policies first surfaced. By comparing consumer prices to the timing when those prices first increased, the scale of future price increases will be statistically diminished.  We are in an abusive relationship with our government.

 

That exponential price increase on the shelves. It’s not there, and the approved news will tell you as much. Inflation is low. What they won’t tell you is that this is compared to record high inflation in 2021/2022. The new baseline will have the old inflation baked in, so you’re not ten feet under water. It’s only 6 inches because we’re starting at 9 feet six inches moving forward.

It has to be this way, and don’t you dare deny it.

We are officially in a run-up to a presidential election. The machine has to arm the press and the political minions with the proper rhetorical tools for the coming battle. With the CPI recalculated based on the new rules, you’ll be an election denier and a recovery denier (or some such thing).

And so what if Eggs cost 300% more since Biden took office? Bad is better than when they were worse, and Democrats can guarantee us more of that but hey! Hey,  if you don’t want to bring a child into a world they made lousy, they’ll “protect” killing babies.

 

 

HT | Conservative Treehouse

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This Republican Senate race in New Hampshire was not supposed to be this close. According to the polls, Bolduc had a comfortable advantage. But then the games began. Republican money came into the race for Morse, and Democrat money was placed on Bolduc. You read that right.

The Democrat Party spent nearly $5 Million to push Bolduc across the line as they see him as the easier candidate for Maggie Hassan to beat in the midterms. Be careful what you ask for, as you may have backed a pit bull that will eat Hassan for a snack.

Hassan is considered one of the more vulnerable incumbents, and everyone seems to feel the Republicans have a good chance of turning this seat red. Nowhere is this more apparent than in Hassan’s media ads. She has been on the tube since last fall and has spent a ton of dollars on advertisements that embellish her performance and, as of last night, are spreading mistruths about her presumed opponent, Don Bolduc. Her ad claims that a vote for Bolduc is a vote for a nationwide abortion ban. This claim is easily debunked, as Bolduc has been open about his view that abortion should be a state’s decision. Maggie Hassan, like most Democrats, will not let the truth get in the way of her message. This tactic will burn her in the end.

On the House side, Karoline Leavitt easily beat Matt Mowers, the Republican candidate who ran unsuccessfully against incumbent Chris Pappas in 2020. Pappas, like Hassan, is considered vulnerable in 2022 and will have a tough time matching the energy and poise of Leavitt. Should Leavitt be successful, she would become the youngest member of the House in our history.

As with Morse, Republican money flowed into the race to support Mowers. The waste of Red Cash shows that the people of New Hampshire are not in tune with DC Republicans. We are a very independent lot and have chosen two newcomers to politics to go up against two incumbents who may be ripe for the picking.

With only about seven weeks until the November election, it is time for Republicans to get on the same page in the Granite State. The people have chosen their candidates, and the motivation of the Party money must be cast aside.

The Republicans can look to the Royal Family, which is putting aside their differences to honor the matriarch of their family, Queen Elizabeth II. The Democrats have the cash, but the Republicans have the message and this may be the best chance to flip the State Red. We cannot let this opportunity slip through our hands.

The next few days are critical. There is no time to waste. Governor Sununu has to throw his support to Bolduc and Leavitt, as do all of the Republican candidates who came up short on Tuesday. Anything less than 100% support will be welcomed by the Dems and is their only chance at success.

 

 

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I was culling my email this morning when I stumbled on something from John Fredricks. It is an interview, a conversation really, between John and Steve Bannon about the Republican primary results in New Hampshire and what they mean.

Both of these gentlemen are very excited about the outcome. Neither Bolduc, Leavitt, nor Burns were the establishment choice. They didn’t get a nod from Sun King Sununu (which for many turned out to be a kiss of death). And the GOPe, according to their reporting, spent 10 million in the last eight days to ensure that Mowers, Hansel, and Morse would walk away with wins.

That failed, and to these two guys, that means something amazing. They are, in fact, so enthusiastic that I’m sitting here thinking I’ve missed something.

 

“Fredericks: RINOs and Democrats Will Remember September 13th as the Day that MAGA Took New Hampshire.”

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It has been over nine years since Edward Snowden released the first documents exposing the extent of NSA spying to the world. Since then, the surveillance state has only gotten bigger.

I finally got around to reading Snowden’s memoir, Permanent Record.  I bought the book not long after it was released, but life took over, and the book sat on the shelf all but forgotten until we recently moved. As I was unpacking, I thought, “I really need to read this.”

I was right.

The book was a poignant reminder of just how insidious and omnipotent the national surveillance state has become. And how a complete breakdown of the constitutional system supports it.

SPYING ON EVERYBODY

The Snowden revelations had a profound impact on the trajectory of my own work. In the ensuing years, surveillance became one of my primary policy areas. I was heavily involved in the Tenth Amendment Center’s efforts to turn off the water to the NSA facility in Bluffdale, Utah. I spearheaded the TAC’s OffNow project to address warrantless surveillance more broadly.  I contributed to the drafting of a local ordinance creating oversight and transparency for surveillance programs that passed in numerous cities. And I got involved in fighting a surveillance program in Lexington, Ky. That resulted in a multi-year lawsuit.

As you can imagine, in the course of this work, I’ve read a great deal about surveillance. I dug deep into Snowden’s documents and the reporting as he released them. I’ve poured over hundreds of documents describing the ever-growing surveillance state. I even took an online course on surveillance law. So, I have a keen understanding of just how deep and powerful the national spy complex runs. But Snowden’s simple description of one NSA program stunned me. It is the program that allows U.S. intelligence agencies to access information about you, me, and pretty much everybody.

“The program that enables this access was called XKEYSCORE which is perhaps best understood as a search engine that lets an analyst search through all the records of your life. Imagine a kind of Google that instead of showing pages from the public internet returns results from your private email, your private chats, your private files, everything.”

In documents released by Snowden, the NSA calls XKEYSCORE its “widest-ranging” tool used to search “nearly everything a user does on the internet.” In his memoir, Snowden called it “the closest thing to science fiction I’ve ever seen in science fact; an interface that allows you to type in pretty much anyone’s address, telephone number, or IP address, and then basically go through the recent history of their online activity.”

“In some cases, you could even play back recordings of their online sessions, so that the screen you’d be looking at was their screen, whatever was on their desktop. You could read their emails, their browser history, their social media postings, everything.”

Snowden goes on to describe how analysts with access to XKEYSCORE shared pictures of nudes they found on target computers.

I knew this was a thing. But Snowden put it in such stark, simple terms that I was floored by the scope of federal surveillance all over again.

Snowden’s revelations shined a light on the NSA’s unconstitutional overreach. It produced some outrage, but it’s almost certain that these surveillance programs continue today. And in all likelihood, surveillance has expanded with the advancement of technology over the ensuing years.

HACKING THE CONSTITUTION

As Snowden put it, the government has “hacked the Constitution.”

He describes a wholesale breakdown of the constitutional system that shredded the Fourth Amendment.

“Had constitutional oversight mechanisms been functioning properly, this extremist interpretation of the Fourth Amendment  — effectively holding that the very act of using modern technologies is tantamount to a surrender of your privacy rights — would have been rejected by Congress and the courts.”

Reading Snowden’s outline of the constitutional breakdown that supports the surveillance state, it’s glaringly clear that we can’t count on the federal government to limit the power of the federal government. Every branch of the federal government shares culpability.

As Snowden points out, “Congress willingly abandoned its supervisory role” over the intelligence community. Meanwhile, the failure of the judicial branch was just as egregious. The FISA Court created to oversee foreign surveillance approved 99 percent of the surveillance requests brought before it, “a rate more suggestive of a ministerial rubber stamp than a deliberative judicial process.” But Snowden described the executive branch as the primary cause of the “constitutional breach.”

“The president’s office, through the Justice Department, had committed the original sin of secretly issuing directives that authorized mass surveillance in the wake of 9/11. Executive overreach has only continued in the decades since, with administrations of both parties seeking to act unilaterally and establish policy directives that circumvent law — policy directives that cannot be challenged, since their classification keeps them from being publicly known.”

In effect, all three branches of the federal government failed “deliberately and with coordination” creating what Snowden called a “culture of impunity.”

It was time to face the fact that the IC (intelligence community) believed themselves above the law, and given how broken the process was, they were right. The IC had come to understand the rules rules of our system better than the people who had created it, and they used the knowledge to their advantage.

They’d hacked the Constitution.

As I read Snowden’s words some nine years later, I had to ask myself, “What has changed.”

The answer is — nothing.

The Constitution remains hacked. The federal government still won’t limit its own power. That means it’s up to us to rein in this surveillance menace. State HERE.

 

 

Mike Maharrey writes at The Tenth Amendment Center

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Miles Brown (CT) and Nicolas Macri (TX) are out-of-state students attending Dartmouth College. They also signed up to run for one of four NH House seats in Grafton County Dist. 12. With six candidates vying for those four seats, Democrats decided to kick the Dartmouth kids to the curb.

Related: San Francisco Resident Writes Op-ed Supporting Connecticut Resident for a New Hampshire House Seat

 

 

 

Brown and Macri came in fifth and sixth leaving actual New Hampshire Democrats to fill these House seats.

Republicans don’t win election ins Hanover, so this is important. Had either of them managed to survive the primary, they’d be rubberstamped into office, and as I’ve pointed out a time or two, they are not from here.

Still not from here.

And as a reminder, their “voting rights” are not nor have they ever been in danger unless they get caught voting here when they should be voting absentee (by mail) in their home states.

NH Dems will still tell them they can vote in NH, but there’s a hitch. Your ballot might get set aside if you don’t have an NH ID (I’m sure Hanover will accept your Dartmouth ID, so there is that). But your vote will not be counted if you fail to provide acceptable proof of residency. That ballot will be destroyed.

In other words, if you listen to Democrats, you could lose your voting rights. If you vote by mail to your home precinct, the way Republicans do it when they are away on election day, your voting rights will be preserved.

And yes, NH Democrats will lie to you about it on the odd chance that they can steal a few votes in November.

 

 

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There is no joy in being a member of the “we tried to tell you” team. However, those of us who have been sounding the alarm for years are now sitting through the most painful stages of the I-told-you-so chorus ever sung. For those who were eager to dismiss Q-anon and Pizzagate with their claims that the Left was overrun with Satanists and pedophiles, have another look. The Biden administration just added another nail to the coffin they’re hoping to embalm the United States into by shamelessly hiring a Satanist to co-head the MonkeyPox task force.

Meet Dr. Demetre Deskalakis, an out and proud member of the LGBTQ-anon community. Deskalakis has the usual pedigree for a darling of the Left: Harvard and Columbia educated, alphabet group identitarian, pro-vaccine, pro-choice, pro-unrestrained sexual behavior, and ad nauseum. However, Dr. Demetre goes one further as an out and proud Satanist. Yes, he and his male partner most notably opened a satanic-themed gym in Manhattan called Monster Cycle. Who better to tackle the modern-day Sodom and Gomorrah’s latest STD issue than this guy?

No stranger to religion, Demetre was raised by Greek Orthodox parents who have to wonder where they went wrong. Maybe setting your child’s eyes on the Ivy League isn’t what it was once cracked up to be, Mom and Dad? Sure, while he did spend some time as a general and religion double major, however, of all religious outcomes he opted for the one with the shortest life expectancy and the longest eternal consequence. The red hot irony singes the psyche.

Never one to miss out on some quality delusions, the crack team of journalists over at NPR legitimize Dr. Demonic with a series of semi-serious questions that solicit equally semi-serious answers from the bad doctor. Here is one revealing exchange:

(NPR) “What’s it been like for you to be in such a visible role as the gay/queer person that’s the face of the White House monkeypox response?”

(DD) “My very first hour of doing this, I got to meet with the President and he said my job is to make sure that we’re really working hard for the LGBTQ community, especially in the vein of equity. So literally, I landed and was told to do exactly what I love doing. It’s been great.

I get to work with Bob Fenton, [the White House MonkeyPox Response Coordinator]who is like a rock star from the perspective of large event emergencies. I’m learning some really valuable things from him that are definitely outside my normal wheelhouse.”

Equity, rock star, wheelhouse – these are medical terms, folks.

If MonkeyPox is anything, it’s equitable. It doesn’t care if you are gay or straight, black, white, red, Jewish, gentile, short, or tall. If you have sexual contact with homosexual men, it will make itself available to you. Period.

However, MonkeyPox is just another pimple on the posterior of modern-day sexual liberation. Just like Dr. Demetre is careful to groom himself when appearing at the White House instead of taking the podium in his preferred half-naked leather BDSM get-up, the preferred outcome for the LGBTQ-Satanist community is a return to “normal” life, says Dr. Do-lots-of-partners:

(DD) Single partnerships [meaning one-time sexual encounters] that men who have sex with men report are down, 50% have stopped doing them or reduced them, and less anonymous sex. All of the things we advise as temporary measures until we get vaccines into people’s arms and they can go back to life as usual.

We’re in this phase where getting the supply and maintaining the demand [for vaccines] is so important. It’s reasonable to think people will change behaviors for a while, but not reasonable to think that they’re going to change it forever. And we’re not asking for forever, we’re asking for now.

Reality check, Vermont – this is indicative of the type of people running the most powerful country in the world who also assume authority over you and your children. They are the “party of let’s party and to hell with the consequences” – literally.

These are the same people who are trying to sell you on climate change, the Great Reset, Drag Queen story hour, patriots and rosary beads as signs of domestic terrorists and gun buy-backs.

They’re doing it on your dime.

Are you awake yet?

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Maggie Hassan is a complete tool. She runs dishonest ads and says stupid things. And now that Don Bolduc is her opponent in November, she has named him as an election denier. Um, Maggie, he just ran in and won “an election.”

The guy is completely committed to the process. He campaigned, tried to attract voters to his vision, and more of them voted for him. He’s been about as committed to elections as anyone. And there’s no denying it.

An election denier, he is not.

But I get it.

Election denier Don Bolduc is officially my opponent. He supports ending Social Security and decimating Medicare, and would vote for a nationwide abortion ban.

Bolduc is too extreme for New Hampshire.

— Maggie Hassan (@Maggie_Hassan) September 14, 2022

If you want a good laugh, check out Maggie ‘Moloch’ Hassan’s Twitter feed. Abortion, abortion, abortion.

But to stay on point (Denial, Denial, Denial), she is referring to the 2020 election. It has some irregularities and not in far-flung places but right here in the Granite State. Like many of us, Gen. Bolduc has questions and would like to see more audits to secure the process, and that sounds familiar but not in a way Democrats would like you to remember.

In 2016 Donald Trump won the office of President. Democrats rejected that victory with riots, vandalism, and assault. Elected Democrats talked about blocking the certification of the electoral college.

Democrat “activists” threw eggs at inaugural dinner attendees. The entire progressive firmament was in denial.

But it didn’t end there. The entirety of the Trump presidency was spent insisting his election was illegitimate, as was he. All of it. The media peddled campaign lies as facts, and Democrats allowed tens of millions to be spent trying to make them true. Trump was even impeached by Democrats based on these lies.

And you played a part in that. Your staffers, your party, from top to bottom, and no one tried to shut you up.

So, before you spend too much time ranting about election deniers, you might want to look in a big mirror or you can listen to Kari Lake.

In 86 seconds, she nails it on the head – and this is exactly how we’ll respond every time you bring it up (in case you wanted to know).

 

The Federalist backed up her point: 

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The development of the internet and cloud computing has significantly increased the amount of accessible information stored in data centers. Data centers consume a lot of energy, but they also help the economy save a lot of energy.

By facilitating digitalization across infrastructure and industry in general, this is accomplished. Through energy-efficient design, major IT corporations are accepting responsibility for the energy consequences of data center energy consumption. The average data center, however, is already more than 20 years old, and many of them were not built efficiently. The only way to keep costs down and reliability high is to continue to be at the forefront of energy efficiency. Numerous chances exist for system enhancement and huge energy savings.

 

What Are Data Centre Energy Consumption?

All data center energy consumption points are merely structures that house servers in variable numbers and offer room, electricity, and cooling for network equipment. The number of servers in a data center directly affects how much power it uses. Data centers centralize essential IT activities and resources while storing, managing, and sharing data. They can be grouped according to their location, ownership structure, and business model. Edge data centers, which are strategically positioned close to where the data is being collected and analyzed, are anticipated to experience the most significant increase in the data center industry and are projected to nearly quadruple by 2024. By 2025, outside of the typical data center or cloud, more than 75% of data generated by businesses will be created and processed.

 

How is Data Energy Measured?

There are presently no official data on data center energy consumption points accessible globally or nationally. As a result, mathematical models must be utilized to calculate the quantity of energy used. So-called “bottom-up” models consider the installed inventories of IT devices in different data centers and their energy consumption characteristics to estimate overall energy use. Bottom-up research offers a plethora of knowledge regarding the factors influencing energy usage, but it is uncommon because it takes a lot of effort and data. According to the most reliable bottom-up analysis of the past ten years, data centers consumed between 1.1 and 1.5% of the world’s electricity in 2010.

Contrarily, extrapolation-based models forecast overall energy consumption by scaling up earlier bottom-up projections based on data center market growth indicators like global IP traffic or data center investments. Since extrapolation-based processes are easier to use, they have been used to fill in the gaps left by sporadic bottom-up research. Such extrapolations frequently predict significant increases in data center energy consumption demand since the market indicators are expanding rapidly upon which they are based. By extrapolating from past statistics, several often-cited extrapolations have suggested that the energy used by data centers worldwide may have doubled since 2010 and would likely continue to climb quickly in the coming years. These statistics have received a lot of media attention, confirming the widely held belief that data center energy use is rising more quickly than the demand for data.

Despite the sharp rise in demand for information services in recent years, new bottom-up data indicates that the energy consumption of data centers worldwide only climbed by 6% between 2010 and 2018. These new conclusions differ from the earlier study because they consider several recent statistics that more accurately describe the installed stocks, operational traits, energy consumption of data center IT equipment, and structural changes in the data center industry.

The conclusion that worldwide data center energy consumption probably consumed about 205 terawatt-hours (TWh), or 1% of global power use, in 2018 is significantly different from past extrapolation-based estimates that suggested rapidly growing data center energy use over the last decade. The near plateau in energy use attributes to three key efficiency effects:

• Servers and storage drives are now much more energy-efficient because of continual technological advancements by IT manufacturers.
• The energy consumption of each hosted application has significantly decreased due to the increased use of server virtualization software, which enables multiple programs to run on a single server.
• Most compute instances have been transferred to the massive cloud and hyper-scale data centers, which use energy-saving ultra-efficient cooling systems among other things.

 

What is the Way Forward?

The development of more reliable and predictive methods that increase the frequency of bottom-up insights and do away with the drawbacks of extrapolation-based forecasts is a key priority for the energy analysis community as decision-makers need to evaluate future efficiency and mitigation options confidently.

 

 

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Well, readers, the votes are in, and we lost some and won some. The good news is that We the People selected Don Bolduc, Karoline Leavitt, and Bob Burns as our choices for US Senate and US House.

However, Skip’s recent post expresses the fear that the State Republicans might give these three the “Joe Kenney treatment.” That means providing very limited support, assuring that they all lose in the General Election come November.

Not one of these three was “of the chosen” by the State organization (NH GOP) and in a snit, may refuse to properly support them directly or urge big contributors not to support them financially.

I will suggest to Skip and Steve that we urge our supporters to organize a direct contact with Gov. Sununu (titular head of the State Party) and NH GOP Chair Steve Stepanek, demanding that the NH Republican Party fully support our elected choices/nominees or we will not only withhold our votes from Sununu but actively vote against him and work for the Democrat.

If Sununu (and Stepanek) refuse to support our selections by our votes, then We the People, will refuse to support Sununu/Stepanek and their backers.

New Rules: if they want to play that way, we will too.

Skip and Steve, I now do urge this action if we detect the “Joe Kenney Treatment” is being contemplated. Show’em where the votes will go.

 

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It will soon be Christmastime and I am always transported to my childhood, a time of gorgeous sunsets and those thoughts of limitless success now fading as the ever-deepening recession eats up food, sundries, and retirement money alike.

As the snow fell outside, in a room illuminated by a yellow electric candle reflected on frosty windows, my mother read the story, the story of the first Christmas to me from the Children’s Bible.

It had, once upon that particular time, been a busy evening.  Carolers visited my grandmother, disabled for many years, singing “Silent Night,” and “Angels We Have Heard on High.”  My brother and I helped my folks trim the Christmas tree, and my old man hung the stockings over the fireplace. Christmas Eve and we will attend the late service at the Methodist Church and sing the final hymns outside in the flurries.   A late night snow meant a wonderland tomorrow.

We want to thank John Burtis for this Op-Ed. If you have an Op-Ed or LTE
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As my mother finished reading she began singing an Irish lullaby to me and I drifted off into a contented sleep.

But as I write, I realize that somewhere in the intervening years, we have all lost our way. We are at war with ourselves, our country, our value system, our once shared morality, and each other. Politics has become a war of ideologies, made ever more stark every Christmas season, with trees banned, red and green colors outlawed, free speech under intense attack, and Christianity rests under the gun worldwide. Tolerance has given way to carping and has moved on to an extreme hatred decorated with a current disdain for what we all once held dearly.

In the dull drab colorless socialist “paradise” that the Democratic party is in such a hurry to have us inhabit, Christmas carols would be rare indeed, to say nothing of laws banning Christian carolers from singing their way through neighborhoods and mere Christian assembly.  Colored lights in windows would be sparse in number, if not banned altogether, as would the pretty colored paper under even scarcer “holiday” trees – all falling under the rubric of worldwide conservation and numerous multi-trillion dollar efforts to change the weather.

Bibles, like the treasured books in Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, would be passed down by word of mouth by the faithful where they’d gather surreptitiously in basements, attic hideaways, and abandoned houses, like Christians of old in the catacombs, following the end of the Bible’s sale for being hate speech, followed by their public confiscation. Churches have been closed and have been sold or taken over by the inimical bureaucratic state.

A highly politicized police force is both powerless and unwilling to prevent roving bands of toughs from roughing us up.  Laws have been passed, in the interim, doing away with bail which encourages thugs to ever greater predations.

The Democrat nomenklatura made up of the Hollywood glitterati, billionaire fops and poseurs, and their pet politicians who always vote against our interests would glide around in secure armored limousines.  Meanwhile, we proles and plebes, mere kulaks if you will, in our rags, scuttle about in their headlights.

I don’t know where we’re heading in America nor what the Democrat end plan is for us beyond our eventual elimination, but based on the evidence, the portents are not good. Politicians openly deride our troops with ever greater time spent haranguing them with race and pronouns, while encouraging our enemies who have been massively armed by a feckless Democrat leadership.  Terrorists, once upon a time caught and tried, have been freed by these same leaders who value the criminal class far more than honest citizens.  The Democrat Party is hell-bent on the destruction of Christianity, the elimination of free speech, and the seizing of firearms purchased legally.

Public school administrators and school boards have become willing dupes and shills for the most inane ideas while racing along in the furtherance of these same Democrat goals.  Teachers preach and demonstrate all manner of frivolous inanity at the expense of any semblance of the learning necessary to function in an increasingly technical society.

The mainstream “press” is neither “mainstream” nor seemingly ever accurate, and their prevarications and innuendoes in the promotion of these same dangerous ideals are so outrageous that only the limited education of the publicly educated masses prevents any hue or cry.

A feeling of general happiness has given way to a bleak cheerlessness, contrived trumpery, and the outright demagoguery of our “liberal” politicians, who are, after all, in league with their media cheerleaders, who fawn over them like toadies and trumpet their limited accomplishments.

At Christmas, I doubt that the carolers will ever visit me again. It has grown far too dangerous in today’s America to sing songs of joy on our garbage and homemade tent-lined streets in this, our once most joyous season.

As I contemplate our nation’s fading future and our preening liberal leadership, it makes me sad.

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It doesn’t take a high-level seer to know that the NH GOP is mostly likely upset with Republican voters right now (“You peons didn’t listen to we experts and didn’t .vote RIGHT again!?!?!?!?!”). The GOPe (“NH GOP Establishment”) choice for US Senate was Chuck Morse, for CD-1 was Matt Mowers, and in CD-2 was George Hansel.

Sununu endorsed George Hansel on the latter’s first day of announcing his candidacy.  Sununu endorsed Morse just a few days (9/8) before the Primary (couldn’t make up his mind or threw Morse an Establishment life preserver, which turned out to be made of lead?).  And he has openly berated, along with a number of other Republicans, Don Bolduc showing disdain for his service as a Special Forces warrior.

When I went to the NH GOP website first thing this morning, which IS supposed to be neutral in Primaries, there was NOTHING congratulating the winners: Don Bolduc for US Senate, Karoline Leavitt for CD-1, and Bob Burns for CD-2.

As I write this now (1 pm today), there is a mention.

Problem is, it’s of no use at all. You’ve heard of non-apology apologies?  Yeah, this is a non-Presser Presser:

 

 

Cute.  Very much in line with the “Joe Kenney Treatment” in this post title.

Back in 2008, Joe Kenney ran for NH Governor.  While I remember that he ran against yet another “hand-picked” Prince.  The upshot of that upset was that Joe Kenney was put out on a political raft onto a roiling political sea – alone.  The NH GOP did the barest minimum they had to do in order to say, “see, we DID support you <snicker>!”. The word went out to the Donors to close their wallets. Consultants shied away.

He got eaten alive in the General Election. “So sorry, Joe,” was the response.  And it was the same with Jack Kimball.  Yeah, there’s history there to back up my claims.

Now, seeing this NH GOPe endorsed trifecta of Morse, Hansel, and Gretel Mowers having to concede to three hoi-polloi and dealing with us, the “unwashed,” what are they gonna do?

Is their hatred of Hassan enough to hold their noses and support these three? Is the fear of being giggled at by other GOP heavyweights from other States if NH, once again, can’t beat the Democrat in what is supposed to be a Red Wave Year too much to bear?  Is the history of being yet another NH GOP Administration who can’t (or won’t) get the job done AGAIN sufficient to say, “yeah, this time, we gotta go all in” enough?

Or will their support be so tepid that “The Page You Were Looking For Was Not Found” is an apt description of, once again, telling the grassroots to go pound sand – we can do without you…

…and we’re perfectly happy to take the “L.”

Again.  Act like actual Republicans?  I remind them from “Quick Thought – another thing on the NH GOP’s “we’ve done this to ourselves” list” from back in 2018-11-12:

If the NH Republican Party wants to win, and win Consistently, act like you believe in the Platform.  Speak like you do and at each and every turn.  Vote like you do at each and every opportunity.  And Legislate like there’s no tomorrow because two days ago was that “no more tomorrow” – and you blew it

It’s another way to combine two of my favorite memes”

• Consistency breeds Trust which yields Votes
• Winning is only a precursor; what you do afterwards is more important

And to the NH GOP, add this as well: you’d best SUPPORT your candidates even if you don’t like them.  Don’t add to the “disillusioned” Party.

Otherwise, we out here will start thinking, again, WHO is this Party for – us, or YOU?  Do not give us reason to believe it is the latter, or like me, I’ll stop voting for YOUR candidates (as I did on Tuesday).

 

 

 

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If you have any technical experience, you’ll be familiar with the phrase feature or bug. When something does something you didn’t expect, you have to ask if it was supposed to (a feature) or not (bug). And yes, it’s a joke. Like Oregon, which decriminalized hard drugs claiming they wanted to help more people … overdose?

 

According to the Oregon Health Authority and their 2022 Opioid Overdose Public Health Surveillance Update on May 19th, opioid overdose deaths have become sequentially worse in the past three years. In 2019, the state’s deaths totalled 280. In 2020 that number rose to 472. And in 2021, those deaths reached a staggering 607 — a 216 percent increase from 2019.

 

No one is going to say that an exponential rise in drug-related deaths was the plan, but at no point in human history of which I am aware has weakened the barriers to lousy behavior led to societal enlightenment. Put more simply, if you removed every social or legal impediment to suicide, many more people would kill themselves rather than tough it out and recover to live long productive or meaningful lives.

Related: Depopulation Progs Aren’t Transing Your Kids Out Of Empathy

Killing yourself is a singularly selfish act that leaves others around you to pay to clean up your mess – typically without the benefit of insurance payouts voided by the act.

Drugs are no different.

 

Addiction to, or regular use of, most currently prohibited drugs cannot affect only the person who takes them—and not his spouse, children, neighbors, or employers. No man, except possibly a hermit, is an island; and so it is virtually impossible for Mill’s principle to apply to any human action whatever, let alone shooting up heroin or smoking crack. Such a principle is virtually useless in determining what should or should not be permitted.

 

The obvious question is, who, if anyone, thought this would go some other way? And was that even the intention? The political left is obsessed with unraveling society like a ball of string. Their utopia is impossible until they’ve wrecked everything. Add to that their not-so-recent obsession with eugenics, social engineering, depopulation dogma, and a 216% rise in drug overdose deaths, says a feature, not a bug.

Since Obama’s DACA EO circa 2014, we’ve been wrestling with an open border through which gangs and drugs pour. The Democrat response to the exponential increase in overdose deaths was to grow government anywhere but in defense of our border. When Biden planted his creepy hair-sniffing self in the Oval Office, he opened the borders again to similar results.

The kitchen is flooding, but no one bothers to turn off the tap. And so I see it in Oregon. Led by a left-wing loon Kate Brown the folks in the Beaver State embraced Measure 110 without regard for the predictable consequences. People addicted to Drugs will use more drugs if you make it easier for them to get them, have them, and use them.

More drugs, more dead, surprise!

No, I think the people in the tall backed chairs knew what would happen, and they are okay with it. But that doesn’t mean they won’t raise taxes or grow government to address the problem they created. That is, after all, how they get that done.

 

 

HT | PM

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Yep, he of the poor voting/legislative record and union shill “laundering” that union PAC money to others.  Getting endorsed by Democrats isn’t a good look either.

And thus, the voters of Wolfeboro looked past him:

Once again, not a great thing to be the third man in a two-man race. Yet another ambitious young politician too big for his britches.  Not involved in the Gunstock Incident here in Belknap (wrong end of the Big Lake), I can, however, use the metaphor of “got over his ski tips” in looking at him myself.

Oh, sorry, not a two MAN race – Katy Peternel won!  Good choice, people of Wolfeboro!  And by a handy margin as well – well DONE for a new person seeking political office.  Also sorry to see that Larry Borland didn’t beat out another RINO, John MacDonald.  Well, sir, think “name recognition for next time” and work your butt off over the next two years!

Full disclosure – Larry does write for GraniteGrok from time to time. As I keep saying (and Gregg Hough still doesn’t believe me), we Groksters are all political activists first, then writers.

Oh, another thing – will Brodie keep his Union Money Laundering Machine (otherwise known as the Common Sense PAC) up and running?  If not, now that he is out of the house, how EVER will these other RINOs get their campaign funds so they can vote against the Freedom to work where ever you want without a Union interfering with that?

• Bonnie Ham
• Dennis Acton.
• James Allard
• Mike Bordes
• Travis O’Hara (how’s that texting doing?)
• Doug Trottier
• Howard Pearl

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