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Wednesday • April 30 • 2025

Vol.XVII • No.XVIII

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The Post-Lockdown Disorientation in the Arts

Sat, 2025-03-29 02:00 +0000
Snow White, the live-action version cobbled together by Disney, opened over the weekend with devastating reviews and empty theaters coast to coast. In my community, there were no sellout crowds on opening day and the thinning turned to zero tickets in the final afternoon and evening of the weekend. No showings are scheduled past Wednesday.  ... Read more

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Quote of the Day

Sat, 2025-03-29 00:00 +0000
From Abraham Lincoln’s first inaugural address: [I]f the policy of the Government upon vital questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to ... Read more

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Atoms for Peace, And Other Things Pandora Promised

Sat, 2025-03-29 00:00 +0000
(Manch Talk 03/26/25) Nuclear is on the table in a big way in the Granite State–are you ready for NH to be the green energy star on the Northern Seaboard? More cash for kids hurt in the YDC settlement–$10 million, discounted for an apology! And what’s the point of fasting? Better health! Please like, follow, ... Read more

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Democrats’ Anti-American Agenda is Doomed

Fri, 2025-03-28 22:00 +0000
On March 25, 2025, Speaker Mike Johnson took to X to deliver a scathing rebuke of the Democrat Party: “Democrats cheered against an American company. They refused to celebrate the rescue of American astronauts. They couldn’t even stand for a childhood cancer survivor. Their message has shifted from being anti-Trump to anti-American.” Standing before a podium emblazoned ... Read more

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To The Honorable Jonah Wheeler:

Fri, 2025-03-28 20:00 +0000
I’m saddened to read the article in the NH Journal about your Town Hall meeting and that the progressive white loving democrats were verbally attacking and that you are receiving death threats because they can’t grow up and behave.. Their comments about you are totally out of line because you voted your conscience, principles, and ... Read more

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Gender Bender Gets Schooled (Just a Little Bit) at School Board Meeting [Updated]

Fri, 2025-03-28 18:00 +0000
Some things are just too funny not to share—funny, ha hah, not funny odd. What is odd is the testimony of Suzy Colt, a resident in a town served by the White Mountain Regional School District (WMRSD). If you missed it, WMRSD has been considering whether to ignore state law and Federal Title IX by ... Read more

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Friday Meme Thing

Fri, 2025-03-28 16:00 +0000
It’s another day starting with F. That can only mean one thing. Memes! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... Read more

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AI Agriculture Boosts Soil, Crops, and Human Health

Fri, 2025-03-28 14:00 +0000
Hailed as “the beginning of a new era” and “a revolutionary way to improve agriculture,” artificial intelligence (AI) is being used to monitor potato harvests and discover which soil microbes best feed crops. This novel AI tool also can expose past (and current) technological follies and hazards in agriculture. Drone-Farmed Potatoes Potato researchers collected data ... Read more

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Grafton County Commissioner – On ICE

Fri, 2025-03-28 12:00 +0000
The following is excerpted from an email sent by NGCRC Chairman Nick De Mayo M. Ed., an occasional contributor to Granite Grok. The email concerns Grafton County Commissioner Martha McLeod and is directed to Governor Kelly Ayotte’s office. Nick relates some things attributed to Martha that suggest she is not a fan of removing illegal ... Read more

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Short Videos For Mr. Sorg et al?

Fri, 2025-03-28 10:00 +0000
Plato said, “If you don’t take interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.”  Let me tell you, my friends, how much that resonates with me as a former constituent of Mr & Mrs Newman and Alderman Dowd, to name a few.  The goal of ... Read more

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Legal Wrangle Over NYC’s Congestion Pricing Comes to a Head

Fri, 2025-03-28 02:00 +0000
The court will settle the tussle between the New York governor and Trump. New York City has been torn apart by a protracted legal wrangle between President Donald Trump and New York Democrats over congestion pricing. Underlying the conflict is a tussle between equity and tax revenue, pitting progressive initiatives against the working class. The ... Read more

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No Rooney But We’ve Got Rants!

Fri, 2025-03-28 00:00 +0000
Ambassador Francis Rooney was going to be my guest this week, but he’s out of the country and in unstable internet territory, so we’re rescheduling. Instead, I grabbed some clips off the internet and a few classic rants from this week’s episode of Granite State Live and pasted a show together. The last one still ... Read more

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School Deficiency

Fri, 2025-03-28 00:00 +0000
One of the latest attacks against President Trump is his Executive Order to close the Department of Education.  He wants to return educational standards to parents and each state.  Daily, we hear how poorly students are doing, even though the United States spends more per student than any other nation.   Two recent stories concern students ... Read more

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Who Is Using the Motel Voucher Program?

Thu, 2025-03-27 22:00 +0000
Governor Scott and the House and Senate Democrat majorities are at loggerheads over the motel voucher program that pays to put up homeless people in, well, motel rooms. The governor vetoed the budget adjustment bill over a $1.8 million spending increase for the program and is threatening to do so again if a revised version ... Read more

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Vermont Makes Top States Where You Are Least Likely to Get Arrested

Thu, 2025-03-27 20:00 +0000
What Does That Even Mean? According to Summit Defense Criminal Lawyers, you are less likley to get arrested in Washington, Michigan, and Vermont, than in any other states in the nation. How you take that is a matter of personal preference. Criminals might think, damn, better places to commit crimes, and that might be correct. ... Read more

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GOP Legislative Agenda Faces Daunting Hurdles

Thu, 2025-03-27 18:00 +0000
George Caldwell – The Daily Signal When members of Congress return from recess this week, they will face challenges in their efforts to effect legislative change. The GOP is attempting to codify President Donald Trump’s ambitious agenda with narrow majorities in the House and Senate, all while a growing faction of Democrats is pushing for leadership to resist ... Read more

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Vermont Pretends It “Barely Missed” Its Emissions Reduction Targets

Thu, 2025-03-27 16:00 +0000
Late last year, there was a big to-do about nothing in the Green Mountain State. The “nothing” is that by reducing its “emissions,” Vermont will somehow save something – not money, they are burning that like used tires. It’s okay, it’s not the legislator’s money. However, as the deadline approached, some estimates had them missing ... Read more

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‘Hoax-Peddlers’: Pentagon Spokesman Attacks Atlantic After More Signal Chat Messages Released

Thu, 2025-03-27 14:00 +0000
Jacob Adams: – The Daily Signal: On heels of the testimony of several leaders of the U.S. intelligence agencies, The Atlantic released additional screenshots from the Signal group chat that was composed of high-ranking Trump administration national security officials and accidentally also included The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg. “It’s no surprise hoax-peddlers at the Atlantic have already abandoned ... Read more

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SAU 36 SCHOOL BOARD MEETING THURSDAY MARCH 28 at 6PM

Thu, 2025-03-27 13:00 +0000
Ladies, Gentlemen,  Time to show up. This one matters. Speak if you can…but show up. I work at the school,  but I will speak regardless of the possible consequences.  I’m a parent and father before anything else. At this point, the only thing I’ve done wrong is  that I did not speak out publicly sooner.  ... Read more

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These Are The People In Your (Sanctuary City) Neighborhood!

Thu, 2025-03-27 12:00 +0000
Many of us grew up with Sesame Street (before HBO bought it and turned it into whatever it is now). I’m not sure how long they went with the ‘These are the people in your neighborhood song‘ but Bob used to sing it and there were postmen and plumbers and stuff. This gallery of local ... Read more

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