Many will not know her name, Rep. Cortez, but I refuse to use her three letter moniker. No matter what you call her, Representative Alexandria “Sandy” Cortez is an embarrassment to Congress and the people of New York she represents. Unfortunately, they will probably return her to Congress in November, which does not say much for these folks.

These folks deserve what they ask or vote for.

Cortez has been in the House for four years. She has yet to have a bill she authored passed, which is just part of her impact. Her most significant action was to block Amazon from building and staffing a major distribution center in her district. This center would have created thousands of high-pay jobs, but since Cortez did not understand the economics of tax credits, she blocked the effort.

Just a quick aside to explain what she did to Amazon. They were looking for a tax credit to aid in the construction of a major facility. A tax credit is a reduction in local taxes for a specified number of years. This is common with every corporate construction project everywhere in the country. Cortez thought New York would have to cut a massive check to Amazon, so she squashed the deal. Her ignorance cost thousands of her constituents good-paying jobs in the future. They should not reelect her but run her out of town.

What she did to get herself in the national spotlight this time was to make some ludicrous comments after a committee hearing in the House regarding abortion rights. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., argued Thursday that access to abortion should be treated as an economic issue because policies that force women to have children and also force them to work so they can afford to raise those children, which she said was a form of economic conscription.

“Forcing poor and working-class people to give birth against their will, against their consent, against their ability to provide for themselves or a child, is a profound economic issue and it’s certainly a way to keep a workforce basically conscripted to large-scale employers and to employers to work more against their will, to take second and third jobs against their desire and their own autonomy,” she said. What does that word salad even mean? Like Vice President Harris, Cortez must feel if you cannot form a coherent thought, then just throw a bunch of words together and bore or confuse your listeners.

It gets boring and insulting when people like Cortez and Harris, who have shattered racial barriers, cannot see others do the same and therefore resort every ill to race. Harris has already done this with Hurricane Ian and the devastation in Florida. She claims that although black and brown communities have suffered the most, which they did not, these ethnic groups will be the last to see relief. That is nonsense, and she has no facts to support her ignorant claim.

It would be refreshing to see these women do something of merit to show they deserve their position, but I guess that makes me a racist. Anyone who reads my posts knows I call out anyone who does not do their job and praise anyone who does. Truth has no color, it just has facts, and the facts show these two individuals do not merit our respect nor the fruits of their jobs.

 

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Citizens for Sanity has taken another ad out in the Union Leader.  This time the ad exposes both Senator Jeanne Shaheen and Senator Maggie Hassan (up for re-election) for voting AGAINST securing the Southern Border from Biden’s Border Invasion.

There were three measures that were meant to help curb the millions of illegals crossing the border, yet Shaheen and Hassan voted against all three of them.

Hassan has blood on her hands

According to the ad, the first was to hire thousands more Border Patrol Agents.  Agents have been absolutely overwhelmed since Biden took office, with almost 4 million illegals crossing the border to date, and those are only the ones we know about.

Another measure was to “remove illegal immigrants with felony criminal convictions.”  Yes, you read that right, and yes, both Shaheen and Hassan voted AGAINST this measure. They voted to KEEP illegal felony criminals in the United States. Illegal crimaliens who have been known to commit crime after crime be sent back to their own country and then come back to commit more crimes.

The final measure that would have helped curb Biden’s Border Invasion was to stop the ‘catch-and-release’ program that currently exists. This forces Border Patrol Agents to release illegals into the country after they have been caught entering the country illegally. Illegals are given a court date to appear to see if they qualify to receive asylum.  These illegals then go to wherever the hell they want, U.S.A. Immigration courts are so backed up that it often takes an average of 5 YEARS before an illegal even has a court date. Shaheen and Hassan vote AGAINST the measure to end this policy.

Not only is there a crisis at the border, built by Democrats, but because of the crisis, Americans are dying from Fentanyl. Not just drug addicts, but regular, everyday TEENAGERS who take a pill thinking it’s for something else, and it ends up being Fentanyl. Americans are literally dying from Biden’s Border Invasion, and our NH Senators voted AGAINST doing anything to stop it.  Both Shaheen and Hassan have blood on their hands.

Shaheen can’t be retired for a couple more years, but Hassan is up for re-election this November. It’s time Granite Staters elected someone who actually represents them. Granite Staters are DYING thanks to Democrats, it’s time for a change, and it can’t happen soon enough.

Democrats continue to ignore Biden’s border invasion but remember, Hassan voted to hire 87,000 new IRS agents, who will indeed be coming after YOU.

 

 

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In January, M&M Mars announced that it was changing things up in the name of inclusivity. It would make the iconic candies different shapes and give them personality disorders – which might reflect reality in the front office of the MARS Wrigley global conglomerate.

Or maybe they wanted “fat” M&M’s to make obese people feel better.

And why not. Body positivity means it’s okay to let yourself be at high risk for heart disease and diabetes, and if you eat enough M&Ms, you’ll get there in a #woke heartbeat, and now we have the new Ms. Purple.

 

Designed to represent acceptance and inclusivity, our newest member is known for her earnest self-expression. Keen self-awareness, authenticity and confidence are the driving forces behind Purple’s charm and quirky nature. She joins the legendary cast of M&M’S characters, who recently were given a refresh with updated looks and more nuanced personalities back in January.

“Mars is thrilled to debut the newest member of the M&M’S cast of characters to the world. There is so much about our new spokescandy that people can relate to and appreciate, including her willingness to embrace her true self – our new character reminds us to celebrate what makes us unique,

First, I’d like to complain about them gendering “her.” And while we’re being ridiculous, is she chocolate identifying as vanilla (or the reverse)? How dare we even suppose (maybe she’s both!).

And it’s rude to even suggest it because there’s nothing quite as inclusive as forcing others to embrace the fantasy inside your head and getting mad at them if they refuse to play or follow along.

Related: US Govt. Plans to Use Drones to Fire Vaccine Laced M&Ms Near Endangered Ferrets?

Is she even purple? And is that a good look?

Prince was purple, deliberately overdosed on Fentanyl, and no one burned down any black businesses or shot any people of color. George Floyd – who may or may not have listened to music by Prince, died of an accidental Fentanyl overdose and America burned all summer. So, maybe Ms. Purple is a drug addict? An anti-Semitic leader of BLM? An addicted anti-Semitic leader of BLM (there’s room for a B and an L on that shell if you try, and isn’t it racist if you don’t)?

A BLM&M would be “inclusive.” But she’d have to live in a mansion in a predominately wealthy white neighborhood for it to be true to life. Speaking of which, there’s been an exponential rise in drug abuse and overdose deaths (from Fentanyl) since M&Ms started getting #woke, so Ms. Purple as a drug addict, works.

 

Our purpose story is just getting started and the introduction of our newest M&M’S spokescandy is the next chapter, as the brand continues to delight fans with fun in a way only M&M’S can.”

 

So there’s room for that.

 

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The new normal. The obviously mentally-incapacitated … and obviously President in name only … President of the United States giving a shout out to a dead person:

"Jackie, where's Jackie?," Joe Biden says about Rep. Jackie Walorski who died in a car accident a few months ago. pic.twitter.com/khdiesmEsx

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) September 28, 2022

Biden obviously is NOT running the country. Somebody this mentally-incapacitated couldn’t run a ghost-town, never mind a country.

The questions are: (1) Who is? … (2) Why aren’t the GOP “leaders” demanding to know who is actually calling the shots? The answer to the second question may be more frightening … and enlightening … than the answer to the first.

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When he said the buck stops at Joe Biden, he was lying, or maybe he was talking about the so-called gender pay gap. A survey of salaries in Biden’s White house revealed that men make 16.5% more than women. The buck stops at Joe’s gender.

Related: If Gender is a Social Construct, Then So Is The Gender Pay Gap

 

Female employees in the West Wing earn a median salary of $83,467, more than $16,000 less than the median salary of $100,000 for male employees, an analysis of a White House salary disclosure found. The 16.5 percent wage discrepancy tracks almost perfectly with the national gender pay gap, according to President Joe Biden’s own proclamation on Equal Pay Day in March, which stated that women across the nation make 17 cents less per dollar than men.

 

And since the Left is about equality of outcome, not opportunity, all that chatter means but one thing. They don’t practice what they preach. Women working for Biden, just like Obama, are underpaid compared to men. They make less. Not that it truly matters. Gender is a social construct. If gender is made up, then so is the pay gap.

 

[Megan Rapinoe]  is a very talented millionaire female athlete who has complained for years, despite her success, that she gets paid less than men for doing the same job. That’s the gender pay gap. Or is it? Rapinoe’s success did not come from playing against men. It results from being better than most other women in her chosen profession.

If forced to do the same job – compete professionally against men – Rapinoe doesn’t make the cut.

 

Maybe the men are doing jobs requiring more hours, stress, risk, or responsibility. In other words, what if the women are not doing the same job – like Megan Rapino – so they are not entitled to the same pay?

Megan, of course, led her coven of wealthy but discontented women (whatever those are) to an agreement with the world soccer people. They got a base pay deal on par with the men with whom they could never compete. Perhaps the Women of the White House could rally a similar deal.

Or, given the state of the economy, could they get the men paid 16.5% less?

It’s not like anyone there is doing anything that could be confused with good work. Most of what they’ve done is causing our dollars to be worth less and do less, forcing us to be less.

And since this is about equality, at least on paper, not a body in that building should be making more than $63,214.00. That’s the average individual wage in the US in 2022, down about 5K from when Trump was the guy sitting behind the Resolute desk. The median income under Biden is only $44,225.00.

The problem, if there is one, is that people in government make more than the people who pay them, including the women.

 

 

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Dear Nine American Justices, I’ve been told that you have before you a very modest case in which the Petitioner/Defendant, who was entitled to have a jury trial, now asks for your help. All that is required is that you send it back to the lower court for a trial.

We want to thank Mary Maxwell for this Op-Ed Please direct yours to Editor@GraniteGrok.com.

The case involves a conspiracy theory, but that need not play any part in your judgment. Not at all. The case is about a simple matter of procedural justice, to which each of us Americans is entitled at all times.

What this man is asking is that he be given a chance to fight for recognition of reality. The alternative is that he be forced to cave in to the 21st Century trend of treating reality as unimportant. I believe we are all under great pressure to cave in to that trend these days. Therefore, your decision on this case could be wonderfully historic. Or, it could be devastating.

This afternoon (September 30, 2022), I pulled out my old copy of the ‘novel’ 1984, written by George Orwell in 1949. I was reminded that a main plot of that book is Winston Smith’s desire to re-discover a hidden past, the real past. In Winston’s society in London, set in the 1980s, a totalitarian government, led by “the Inner Party,” deleted the past from the record.

As everyone knows, many of Orwell’s predictions are coming true in the United States. To name just five: 1. The government pushes propaganda more overtly than it used to. 2. Many people consider the government tyrannical. 3. A variety of techniques of mind control have come into use.4. Dissidents get bumped off. 5. There are surveillance cameras everywhere. And Orwell’s concepts such as the Two Minute Hate, and “Room 101” (Gitmo) are visible to us.

The book 1984 starts with Winston Smith, age 39, working for the Ministry of Truth. His job is to receive old publications, such as from The Times, in order to make a correction if the content no longer accords with officialdom’s current truth. When he writes the new version, it gets printed and made to pass for the original. He dutifully sends the original down the memory hole (which goes to a furnace).

Until Winston acquires a girlfriend (Julia), which acquiring is criminal itself, he is very alone. There’s no one he dares speak to. So we, the readers, get to listen to his private battling with questions, which can be roughly paraphrased as “What was the real past like?”, “If the current reality (the Party’s lies) are not true, must I make my emotions conform to them?”, and “Is life worth living if we’re all forced to be fakers?”

I will quote verbatim, to give the flavor. This is from Orwell’s 1984, copyright Harcourt 1949, copyright renewed by Sonia Brownell Orwell, 1977. Page numbers are from Penguin’s Signet Classics edition. The headings were inserted by me.

Making “Truth” (The Party announces that we are at war, against Eurasia.) pp 34-35:

“The Party said that Oceania had never been in alliance with Eurasia. He, Winston Smith, knew that Oceania had been in alliance with Eurasia as short a time as four years ago. But where did that knowledge exist? Only in his own consciousness, which in any case must soon be annihilated. And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed — if all records told the same tale — then the lie passed into history and became truth…. All that was needed was an unending series of victories over your own memory. ‘Reality control’, they called it….

“[Winston’s] mind slid away into the labyrinthine world of doublethink. To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, … to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, … to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed…. [ultimately] to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed.”

The Defamation Lawsuit

I [Mary Maxwell] interrupt Orwell here to describe the case — Fetzer v Pozner — that is before you, O Great Nine. I mean it’s in a pile of cases waiting to see if four of you will agree that it move to the much smaller pile of those that will be ruled on this term. It was initiated as a lawsuit by Leonard Pozner, and went before Wisconsin Judge Frank Remington, who made a summary judgement in Pozner’s favor. It fits into Orwell’s theme about reality.

In short, Prof Fetzer published a book in which he said that the death certificate of Pozner’s little boy Noah is phony. Fetzer believes that the Sandy Hook school massacre never actually occurred (he thinks it was a drill). Fetzer hired two top forensic examiners of documents to look at the death certificate. He submitted their affidavits but was not allowed the normal ‘Discovery’ process. The judge closed the case.

To many people, including myself, the reality of the child’s death certificate sort of stands for the reality of the massacre. But the authenticity of the document itself is all that’s in the case submitted to you. Pozner sued for defamation on the grounds that Fetzer had in effect called him a liar. Fetzer is now required to pay $450,000 to Pozner. Justice has not been done.

Here is the conclusion of one of the forensic experts, Larry Wickstrom:

“From my examination of the documents which were presented to me electronically and by US Mail, I make these determinations.

1. That the 132KB, JPEG imaged Certificate of Death, for Noah Samuel Pozner age 6, (CoD1) as examined is an altered and unreliable document image. No determination of
originality, or intentional act of forgery, can be supported due to the multi generational
copy degradation of printed image and the low resolution of the captured image.

2. That the obviously altered in shape and content, 1.7MB, JPEG imaged Certificate of
Death, for Noah Samuel Pozner age 6, (CoD 2) is a forgery.

3. That the State of Connecticut, Registrar of Vital Statistics, has issued two different and
certified as true versions (CoD 3 & 8) of state file number 2012-07- 078033, a Certificate
of Death, for Noah Samuel Pozner age 6.

4. That for reasons disclosed and undisclosed, the content of state file number 2012-07-
Case 2018CV003122 Document 178 Filed 06-07-2019 Page 7 of 22 Page 8 078033 has been digitally and physically altered.

5. That until such time as the State of Connecticut addresses and rectifies the conditions that
allow this kind of record manipulation, any ‘true copy of a record filed’, certified by the
Seal of State of Connecticut, Department of Public Health, should be considered suspect
and treated as unreliable.”

[Now I will get back to Orwell, to discuss Newspeak, thought control, and lying about statistics.]

The Limiting of Language (This is Syme, a co-worker, lecturing to Winston.) pp 52-5:

“You haven’t a real appreciation of Newspeak, Winston… In your heart you’d prefer to stick to Oldspeak, with all its vagueness and its useless shades of meaning. You don’t grasp the beauty of the destruction of words. … Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.”

“Even now, of course, there’s no reason or excuse for committing thoughtcrime. It’s merely a question of self-discipline, reality-control. But in the end there won’t be any need even for that. The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect. Newspeak is Ingsoc [English socialism] and Ingsoc is Newspeak… Has it ever occurred to you, Winston, that by the year 2050, at the very latest, not a single human being will be alive who could understand such a conversation as we are having now?”

p 41: “Statistics … a great deal the time you were expected to make them up out of your head. For example, the Ministry of Plenty’s forecast had estimated the output of boots for the quarter at a hundred and forty-five million pairs. … Winston, however… marked the figure down to fifty-seven millions, so as to allow for the usual claim that the quota had been overfilled… Very likely no boots had been produced at all. … And so it was with every class of recorded fact, great or small. Everything faded away into a shadow-world in which, finally, even the date of the year had become uncertain.”

Emotions and Humanness

I [MM] will now move to Orwell’s tie-in of the Party’s mind-control policy with the control over one’s humanity. Winston kept puzzling over the way that the government wanted to take away our natural emotions by, say, eliminating love and family loyalty.

(My point in bringing this up, in connection with Sandy Hook, is that the Wisconsin court may have been under pressure from “the Party” to cancel out the reality of what happened in Newtown CT on December 14, 2012. A summary judgment blocking inquiry would have the ‘desired effect’ of sparing any fraudsters from exposure. And — I argue — if there is a tie-in, as Orwell claims, between reality control and the curtailing of love, we ought to blow this open. Giving up our humanness is ridiculous.)

Marriage and Sex. p 65

“The aim of the Party was not merely to prevent men and women from forming loyalties which it might not be able to control. Its real, undeclared purpose was to remove all pleasure from the sexual act. Not love so much as eroticism was the enemy, inside marriage as well as outside it. All marriages between Party members had to be approved by a committee… permission was always refused if the couple concerned gave the impression of being physically attracted to one another. … There were even organizations such as the Junior, Anti-Sex League, which advocated complete celibacy for both sexes.

Love and Privacy, pp 166-167 (Conversation between Winston and Julia):

“[Julia]: ‘Everybody always confesses. You can’t help it. They torture you.
[Winston]: ‘Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn’t matter: only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you — that would be the real betrayal.’
She thought it over. ‘They can’t do that,’ she said finally. ‘It’s the one thing they can’t do. They can make you say anything — anything — but they can’t make you believe it. They can’t get inside you.’
‘No,’ he said a little more hopefully, ‘no; that’s quite true. They can’t get inside you. If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them’.”

Remembering his Mother and Tragedy, p. 30

The thing that now suddenly struck Winston was that his mother’s death, nearly thirty years ago, had been tragic and sorrowful in a way that was no longer possible. Tragedy, he perceived, belonged to the ancient time, to a time when there was still privacy, love, and friendship, and when the members of a family stood by one another without needing to know the reason. His mother … had sacrificed herself to a conception of loyalty that was private and unalterable. Such things, he saw, could not happen today. Today there were fear, hatred, and pain, but no dignity of emotion, no deep or complex sorrows.”

Comment

Orwell’s very widely-read 1984, has in it a great concern for the role of truth as against an arrogant, and plainly insane, set of bosses. That book should have been the nail in the coffin for totalitarianism, but instead we see an ever-growing police state in America. No one seems to know how to stop this.

Oh really? Yes we do know — by applying the law. In regard to the Sandy Hook controversy, a proper trial in which the authenticity of the Pozner death certificate (and thus the financial liability of James Fetzer) can be resolved, is simply the basic requirement. The Seventh Amendment (“In suits at common law… the right of trial by jury shall be preserved”) is not mocked.

If we don’t interpose now, things can only get worse; the problem of reality control can’t just fade away. As Orwell said, on pages 80-81:

“In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later…. Not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of external reality was tacitly denied by their philosophy. The heresy of heresies was common sense. ”

There are various Orwellian examples running rampant through our society, but Professor James Fetzer’s plight is the only one that I know to be before you, O Justices. A decision for the Petitioner that you will take this case would send a message to the Party (and its complicitous media) that you are willing to confront them when you are called upon to do so.

Thank you for considering this.

Yours very respectfully,

Mary Maxwell
Concord NH 03301 USA

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Blake Masters thinks that it should be possible to maintain a family on one income. That is heresy … real Spanish Inquisition stuff … to the globalists and corporatists.

They believe that Americans should be working for the big corporations, not raising their children themselves … that’s part of why we import so many illegals, to serve as nannies while mommy and daddy serve their corporate masters.

.@bgmasters: "I'm talking about an economy where you can raise a family on one single income. We used to have that. Certainly Democrats have abandoned the middle class, but I want Republicans to talk more about what can we do to make it possible to raise a family on one income." pic.twitter.com/Z8Uh5N9qTj

— American Firebrand (@FirebrandPAC) September 26, 2022

Perhaps this explains why Mitch has gone all in on Don Bolduc, even though Blake Masters’ race is much more winnable:

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Vermont has locked in on the California Cobb up-the-backside Electric Vehicle/emissions reduction plan. By 2035 you won’t be able to buy or register a new gas-powered vehicle in the state. All new vehicles will be electric which is a problem for a host of reasons.

Related: A Reality Check For Electric Vehicles in the Real America

You’re not cutting emissions. You are offshoring them. EVs are too expensive. Electricity is too expensive. And we’ll need a lot more power we don’t and won’t have (hello rationing!), but when Mitch Wertlieb was talking with Vermont Public climate and environment reporter Abagael Giles that never comes up.

Ignoring the “Green” Gorilla

Mitch and Abagael discuss where the Vermont rules come from (California) and how it will affect buying and registering a vehicle. Is there a market for EV’s, they wonder, and what are the incentives? It’s a quaint little chat, but no one asks or explains the disincentives like where all the electricity will come from or how the inevitable spike in price will crush lower and middle-class Vermonters, small businesses, farms, and the state economy.

Sorry, not just the Vermont State Economy.

As I noted here, New Hampshire is stuck on the same grid. If Massachusetts (another CA EV stooge-state) and Vermont mandate electric vehicles, the cost of electricity will have to rise exponentially, crushing us.

Related: Winter is Coming: Is It Time for New England to “Pay” the Green Energy Piper?

There isn’t enough of it now, and this would escalate demand into terrorism no one, including Mitch and Abagael, wants to discuss. To put it into a simple picture, we’re being told to dive into a pool with no water, and no one cares that there’s no hose.

Why isn’t anyone asking that question? Where is this electricity coming from? Shouldn’t we answer that question and have a plan that adds up before we commit to mandating a product that can’t run without it?

 

Unlike US dollars, you can’t “print” electricity into existence. Even if wind and solar were not dirty, inefficient, and expensive, there is not enough surface area in New England or offshore to generate the electricity needed to feed current needs, and all the cars people will be expected to buy and drive.

And it’s not an insignificant problem. Without the electricity planned to scale, you are forcing manufacturers, dealers, and citizens to embrace something with a significant carbon footprint and a high risk of catastrophic failure that will cost more and do less. Maybe nothing.

The poster child for this dumpster fire has already told EV users not to charge their vehicles because there isn’t enough juice. And they’ve probably got more rooftop solar than nay state in the country, not to mention wind and solar farms.

Related: Trying to Replace Fossil Fuels With Solar Will Require Burning a Sh!tload of Coal

But that’s the Democrat party. Expensive and wasteful, the plan contradicts the stated goal, and failure is a feature. But it’s not just elected Democrats. New Hampshire will pay the price because Vermont and Massachusetts are all-in on planned failure, and as far as I can tell, the NH plan is to sit on our hands and watch it happen.

 

 

#NZD

 

 

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You don’t need to take my word for it. Here’s Kamala announcing that federal aid for Hurricane Ian will be distributed based on skin color:

Kamala on Hurricane Ian relief:

The Biden administration will focus on “giving resources based on equity” by directing funds to “communities of color” pic.twitter.com/uixPpyQWdU

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) September 30, 2022

One of the nefarious goals of the Biden-Regime is turning America into an apartheid society. These people are evil.

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Let’s make sure that this goes VIRAL. 

In New Hampshire, you can go back to when the Democrats and Governor Chris Sununu signed the law that added “Gender Identity” to the protected class under the anti-discrimination law. 

Now parents are left having to fight against biological boys in the restroom with girls. We are now also seeing biological boys competing with girls in sports, and taking their scholarships for college. It sure sounds like a war against females, doesn’t it? 

What’s next? This story out of Vermont may answer that question. 

While I’m sympathetic to children who are experiencing gender dysphoria, and the peer pressure from some of their peers to transition; the fix is not to turn this into a war against girls and women. Unfortunately, that’s what this is becoming.In Vermont, a courageous girl revealed that she and her teammates have been banned from the girls locker room for feeling uncomfortable changing with a biological boy who identifies as a girl.

Make note that in this story, the transgender student made “an inappropriate comment” while the girls were changing. I think many girls are now concerned that boys will use these policies to access the girls locker room for nefarious reasons. Did the school administrators allow the sexual harassment of girls in an area that should be their “safe space?”  Also in the story, administrators are alleging that the transgender student was harassed. Let’s hope that they get to the bottom of all of this, but in many ways, this WOKE policy is not going to work well.  We can see that now in one of the most WOKE states in the country, Vermont.

The school administrators are now conducting one of those “investigations” in the school. Who actually thinks that’s going to produce anything meaningful?

It will take public pressure and electing legislators and school board members who reject this WOKE agenda in the public schools to really make a difference.  All children should be safe and treated with dignity while they are in school. Opening up the locker room to children who are the opposite sex does not respect the modesty of the girls who attend this school. A transgender student may also need a space where they feel comfortable changing, which may require problem solving skills that take all parties into consideration.

Many parents instill virtues in their children, modesty being one of them. There are boys and girls who are not comfortable in the restroom or locker room with a member of the opposite sex. Should children be punished for feelings of modesty now?  That seems to be the message from the co-principals Caty Sutton & Lisa Floyd. Get over it girls!

Good for Blake Allen and her MOTHER who made this public. 

 

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The left is promising that they can stop Hurricanes or something, but that’s not even close to true for a lot of reasons, not the least of which is they (and their experts) can’t even tell us where one will be three days from now.

When Ian was creeping around the Caribbean, the projections said he would make “landfall” in the Florida panhandle and then head up into Georgia.

 

 

That was wrong.

 

 

When they decided landfall would be around Tampa, they projected Ian would stroll over to the east coast of Florida and hook back in at the Georgia- South Carolina border.

 

That was wrong.

 

Ian went straight across the peninsula back into the Atlantic for a bit and then headed up to South Carolina.

Not very good predicting, and to be fair, the climate is incredibly complex. But that’s not just true for hurricane Ian, and if you live in New England, you’ll know what I mean.

The dry, sunny forecast you woke up with is no guarantee. It might rain or snow depending on the season that same day. In other words, even with all that technology, models, experts, and some of the best guessing they can manage, they get it wrong the same day. They get it wrong a few days out.

The further out we go, the greater the errors are likely to be, which means long-term predicting is almost impossible with the tools and talent at our disposal. The climate is far too complex.

Pshaw, say the Marxist Dems, we may not know sh!t about economics, but we can prevent storms like Ian, which is about the stupidest hail-Mary mid-term BS throw I’ve seen in a while. They can’t predict today. The so-called consensus they rely upon can’t predict the track of the hurricane that’s right in front of them.

We appreciate you trying, and don’t stop but let’s admit that there are limits.

Speaking of Limits

These are the same people who estimated an above-average hurricane season in 2022 that never materialized. We are about to leave the busiest month for hurricane landfills in the US (September), and there are zero disturbances in the Atlantic aside from Ian. None.

Related: NOAA Predicted Above Average Hurricane Season so How’s That Working Out?

 

 

We are not seeing more storms or more severe storms making landfall, not that you could predict them if you tried. You can’t get anything right, and now you’re going to run on that?

I’m inclined to let you, but I can’t let this epic level of stupid go unreported.

 

 

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Many schools across the country are developing something called Portrait of a Graduate. At the elementary level, this is called Portrait of a Learner. SAU21 just put out a notice to parents that they will be discussing this program on Tuesday October 4th at Winnacunnet High School.

 

So what will be discussed? Will they tell you that Portrait of a Graduate is a national program created by an Ohio-based company called Battelle for Kids? Portrait of a Graduate is being used to fundamentally transform the purpose of US education.

It shifts curriculum, assessment, school accountability, and data collection away from academics and toward Social and Emotional Learning (SEL).

Battelle for Kids was created by Battelle, an applied science and technology company that uses technology to track behaviors. The program was incentivized through policies and grants in the 2015 federal education law the Every Student Succeeds Act ESSA. ESSA replaced No Child Left Behind and was signed into law during the Obama administration with bi-partisan support. These policies are an extension of Common Core reforms.

Some of Battelle’s strategic partners that direct states’ adoption of Portrait of a Graduate are CASEL (Watch the video where Tim Shriver admits teaching academics is no longer important), Aurora Institute, ExcelinEd <JEB BUSH (who profits off of his online Charter Schools) and KnowledgeWorks. These companies are working towards mass data collection of children’s values, attitudes and behaviors (aka..mental health) with a company called the Data Quality Campaign. 

The Data Quality Campaign was instrumental in developing states’ State Longitudinal Data Systems. So, Portrait of a Graduate/Learner is, essentially, a program to expand New Hampshire’s State Longitudinal Data System, and start tracking children into all sorts of social services including health services, and into the workforce. You can read more about that here from the Parent Coalition for Student Privacy. Here are the data elements you should be concerned about. 

Every few months, more data elements are “defined” and added to the CEDS, so that more information about a child’s life can be easily collected, stored, shared across agencies, and disclosed to third parties. You can check out the CEDS database yourself, including data points recently added, or enter the various terms like “disability,” “homeless” or “income” in the search bar.

In relation to discipline, for example, CEDS includes information concerning student detentions, letters of apology, demerits, warnings, counseling, suspension and expulsion records, whether the student was involved in an incident that involved weapons, whether he or she was arrested, whether there was a court hearing and what the judicial outcome and punishment was, including incarceration.

This type of information is obviously very sensitive and prejudicial, and often in juvenile court, records are kept sealed or destroyed after a certain period of time, especially if the child is found innocent or there is no additional offense; yet all this information can now be entered into his or her longitudinal record with no particular restriction on access and no time certain when the data would be destroyed.

 

 

In the final scheme of things, Portrait of a Graduate/Learner is the backbone for Social Credit Scoring and ESG scores for children.

New Hampshire

As the leader in implementing competency education, New Hampshire recognized the need for a state data system that was better equipped to communicate with district systems and provide necessary supports. The Initiative for School Empowerment and Excellence reduces the burden on schools and gives information back to schools based on regularly collected data to encourage student achievement through rigorous data use and analysis.

By encouraging states to develop data systems with complete information, the Data Quality Campaign has been essential to the first step of creating meaningful data systems across the country. With data collection getting better and better, the next step must address the use of this data. Collection and compliance alone have not and will not support students in reaching their full potential.

KnowledgeWorks is a Gates-funded organization (also based in Ohio) that the State Boards of Education paid to facilitate the districts’ adoption of Battelle’s SEL framework. (Pilot programs and legislation for Competency-Based Education will align “competencies” to those in Portrait of a Graduate) Local teachers are brought into the process to determine competencies, but only for show. In actuality, they are being shifted into becoming facilitators of the SEL system, and, over time, the entire system will be geared toward SEL.

Here are some resources:  

• Battelle’s website where they show that they are driving the work of states and districts across the US:

https://portraitofagraduate.org/

**KnowledgeWorks’ explains their work in New Hampshire: Policy Conditions in Action: Comprehensive Supports for Educators and Leaders in New Hampshire. In 2011, a group of postsecondary leaders in New Hampshire formed the IHE Network to influence policymakers and engage practitioners to promote innovative programs and policies that link educator preparation, new educator induction and ongoing professional development in the state.

Leadership

• President – Kristen Downey, Upper Valley Educators Institute
• Vice President – Nick Marks, Granite State College
• Secretary – Dale Boyle, Franklin Pierce University
• Treasurer – Nick Marks, Granite State College

https://knowledgeworks.org/resources/nh-comprehensive-supports-educators-leaders/

• KnowledgeWorks’ explains that they are replacing academics with competency-based learning which they see mirroring the “anti-racist” work of Marxist Ibram X. Kendi:

https://knowledgeworks.org/resources/detracking-personalized-competency-based-learning-replace-tracking/?fbclid=IwAR0uCEWMYOQDBsv9XUDK1ZWrm2sJHklD93045RrBJkyq0rnR-nEj4qx4Yrw

• KnowledgeWorks says our Constitution is racist and that education has to fix that:

https://knowledgeworks.org/resources/collectively-striving-more-perfect-union/?fbclid=IwAR1Y8gZvCg6F8idHhE_p9ymtIiLtD9enmuVdw_iVRs50A1Qe2Vl5fprK_R8

• Panorama Education’s website shows how they use Portrait of a Graduate to build their behavioral surveys and data collection. (Panorama was founded by US AG Merrick Garland’s son-in-law….the reason that Garland went after parents that oppose Critical Race Theory at local school boards).

https://www.panoramaed.com/blog/comprehensive-guide-portrait-of-a-graduate?fbclid=IwAR0wxa5s00ETMagTIjOIRBM08NeJvlxyNbAyrrPDdB9nYuQdeiCOeNCKR8g

What does this mean for the children in SAU21? MASSIVE data mining of your child’s behavior, attitudes, values, etc. (aka..their mental health)

 

What will this be used for? Good question but many of the researchers say for Social Credit Scoring and ESG scores for children.

Once the data on your children is collected, stored and sent who knows where, you no longer control it.
Parents are looking for ways to avoid all SEL (Social and Emotional) screenings, assessments in the schools because of the data mining. While SEL may sound good, it’s the data mining that is the biggest threat to your child’s future.

In SAU21 they will be using the PEAR screening on your children for SEL purposes. While they will be required to obtain parental consent, here is what PEAR says about sharing information with parents:

Will PEAR have access to your child’s sensitive information?

What is one of the biggest reasons parents are withdrawing their children from public schools? DATA MINING.

So what is the big deal about SEL in our schools? I think Nancy Bailey summed it up perfectly in this article titled: Social Emotional Learning: The Dark Side. Who is Nancy Bailey? First she’s NO RIGHT WINGER. She describes herself as:

 

EVERY parent should scroll through her list of problems with SEL. Pay close attention to what she lists here:

SEL and Social Impact Bonds and Pay for Success

School districts are encouraged to use SIBs or Pay for Success to fund programs. Schools get money for students based on their social and emotional skills. Upon student improvement, companies get back their contribution with a profit.

For example, SEL is listed in the U.S. Department of Education (DeVos)  Pay for Success Feasibility Tool Kit: Considerations for State and Local Leaders to increase kindergarten readiness (p.6).

Before anyone still claims this is a conspiracy make note that the union AFSME opposes the use of SIBs too.

This isn’t about right vs left on SEL. This is about standing against Corp. profiteers who will capitalize $$$$ on all of the data and products they now sell to our schools. This is also about social control through Social Credit Scoring and ESG scores for children. Wall Street investors will profit off of the SIBs, Ed Tech and vendors will profit off of schools that purchase these products that data mine your child’s mental health information.

What do I advise parents to so when it comes to SEL: AVOID SEL at all costs. NO screenings, assessments, treatment, or anything else. Unfortunately they are now embedding SEL into the curriculum. That makes this task challenging for sure.

In NH parents do have the right to opt out of objectionable material, but this could get complicated if it’s embedded in the curriculum.

What do you get? 

It’s not “improved academics,” that’s for sure.
My advice? AVOID SEL and AVOID this screening for your children.

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I am happy to say we have concluded our white dog summer research project. The object was to test a progressive premise established in May that “tick season” would be all year round ‘cuz, Climate change. The final results?

It was bullish!t.

If you’ve been following the “research,” you will know that my yellow lab – which has very white fur – is an excellent test subject for gauging the tick population. In the spring, it was awful, as it always is; we were pulling two to four or more off the dog every trip outside.

Many a blood-sucking parasite met an unpleasant end, burial at “sea,” immolation (sacrifice to the angry democrat gods), crushing hazards. We’re not kind to those little bastards, but they keep coming back for more. But not as predicted by the “experts.” The perception was that climate change had messed everything up, and it looked like we’d have no summer hiatus from ticks.

And then we did.

It was like every other year except for a very impressive heat wave. Heat, warming, CO2, but no ticks. What gives?

The white dog spent as much or more time in the yard as any other year, but through July and August, not one single tick was spotted on Cosmo. And none on us either. So, what about September?

One tick, but not until after summer was over. I found one tick on the white dog a few days ago and none since.

Not only did we not have ticks all year, we have a slow start to the autumn tick season (which is good), but then, that heavier-than-average hurricane season we were promised has been no less disappointing for the Climateers (Also good).

We had no named storm in July or August and nothing that hit land until the last week of September. And then, only one.

Just like the ticks.

Will someone suggest ticks and … never mind.

 

 

 

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Deficit spending and inflation are a tool by the government to freely spend while simultaneously eroding our wealth. Did you know the Constitution protects us from this tactic initiated through the Federal Reserve (FED) in 1913?

We want to thank Russ Payne for this Op-Ed Please direct yours to Editor@GraniteGrok.com.

Sole power over money is given to Congress in Article I, section 8: “To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin.” Since 1913, Congress unconstitutionally transferred this power to a Board of Governors and twelve privately chartered regional banks. The formation of the FED was a major step to tyranny right out of The Communist Manifesto: “Centralizing credit in the hands of the State, by means of a national bank.“

What has happened since the FED implemented the Marxist, Keynesian economic system in 1913?

Fiduciary currency backed by lawful currency, silver or gold, was outlawed in 1971. Each time the FED creates more dollars by printing or digital clicks, dollars become worth less. There is no limit on the quantity created out of thin air.

Observing this habitual spending of other people’s money, it becomes obvious to me why in the 1940s my dad paid a nickel for a cup of coffee, and bread in the 1950s was two loaves for 29 cents. As money loses its value, it takes more dollars to buy the same item. Ignorance is not bliss; it’s expensive.

The national debt in 1913 was 1 billion. Today it’s over 30 trillion.

In 1913, again right out of the Communist Manifesto, Congress also passed the XVI Amendment: “A heavy or progressive income tax.”Article I, Section 8, gives the power of taxation to Congress but stipulates that taxes shall be uniform throughout the United States, which eliminates progressive taxes. Because of ignorance of the supreme law of the land, citizens and officeholders failed to uphold the Constitution but rather accelerated economic suicide. Keynes was correct when he prophetically stated his economic system would be the“ euthanasia of capitalism.”

The failures of the past do not have to direct our future. Thomas Jefferson gives us the remedy for this severe lack of knowledge about our Constitution:

“I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power.”

An uninformed electorate is an enemy of liberty and the best friend of tyrants. Again, ignorance is not bliss, it is expensive and the most powerful weapon our enemies have. Citizens who love their liberty need to search for the power of true knowledge that has been purposely denied them for generations.

A good place to start is to contact The John Birch Society Field Coordinator Matthew Rhodes at 207-391-0970 about “The CONSTITUTION IS THE SOLUTION,” a seven-week seminar now going on several places in New Hampshire.”

 

 

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The latest front in the culture war has taken an interesting turn. Mostly Democrats and members of various LGBT identity groups have decided there should be no discussion about the appropriateness of books that depict children performing gay sex acts.

The mere mention of it has been described as book banning.

The tip of this “spear” is a book called Gender Queer, which includes a cartoon depiction of a child performing fellatio on another kid. By all legal definitions, this is kiddie porn. If you handed it to a random kid on the street, you could be arrested, convicted, and added to the sex-offender registry for life. But daring to suggest it might not be appropriate to let anyone of any age grab it off a public or school library shelf is considered intolerant.

Speaking of intolerant, there are plenty of books, both graphic novels, and text only, that depict or describe sex acts, so are these banned too?

No Hentai in the school library but Gender Queer needs to be there.

How about any of the dozens, if not scores, of “periodicals” or other material depicting nudity or sexual acts in print? Are we okay with gay porn only, or is heterosexual porn acceptable? Can we have a debate about “banning that?”

It’s not a Ban

Leaving them out of the school library is not “book banning.” It is a choice about taxpayer-funded access based on age, maturity, and a general sense of public moral interest, but since we’re here. Is anyone who wants that material available to minors in public or school libraries advocating for children’s access to porn?

Is there some other explanation? It’s pornographic. You want them to see it. You do not want to debate it. And whether you are an elected official, school administrator, librarian, parent, teacher, neighbor, activist, or member of an identity group, your objection to the conversation says one thing. You believe children need to see this.

You think children need to be sexualized, and your vector of preference (in this case) is gay porn. And if possible, without further discussion, as evidenced by the town council in Rochester this past week.

 

(Couniclor Jim) Gray had tasked Blaine Cox, the city manager with sitting down with the city’s chief librarian, Marie Lejeune, and getting her take on the appropriateness, or inappropriateness of the above-referenced images in Gender Queer.

But the City Council chose to short-circuit the discussion by removing the agenda item using a rarely employed – at least with this body – Robert’s Rules of Order codicil that voids the agenda item with a two-thirds vote. The council voted 12-1 to remove it, with Gray the lone nay vote.

The vote robbed Cox of doing his job. In fact, we don’t know if he ever sat down with Lejeune or not.

 

The Rochester City Council banned debate, so we presume their position is no different than those in the LGBT community who showed up to defend the book; your kids have a right to access taxpayer-funded gay kiddie porn, and objecting to that is the equivalent of book banning, even though the book is readily available not just online but in print to anyone who wants it.

I guess what I’d like to know, and perhaps any number of taxpayers and parents as well, is why do you, as an adult, want children to access gay porn but not all porn?

Or do you want that too?

 

 

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NH State Rep Melissa Litchfield is being attacked by the NEA for suggesting an LSR (a precursor / placeholder for an actual bill) that would allow a School District, as she states below, to allow school staff to be trained to handle firearms and then District to store “First Responder” firearms to use in case of an emergency where someone is (or trying to) kill students or staff (emphasis mine):

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Melissa litchfield<melissalitchfield@comcast.net>
Date: On Thu, Sep 29, 2022 at 8:45 AM
Subject: Fwd: LSR# 2023-0212, NEA-2nd Amendment
To: Melissa litchfield <melissalitchfield@comcast.net>
Cc:

LSR that I have put forward…

In response to LSR# 2023-0212, the NEA has come out condemning it- this is just an LSR- bill has not been written and there is no official language.

Here is a link to what the NEA put out there last week: https://neanh.org/2022/09/22/nea-nh-condemns-rep-litchfields-bill-to-arm-new-hampshires-educators/

Reproduced in full below.

Here is my official response:

Surprisingly, the NEA has chosen to oppose LSR# 2023-0212, which they have never read.  I say that they’ve never read it simply because no one has ever read it – the final draft won’t be available for at least another week.  While terms, such as “weapons of war” or citing surveys about feelings, rather than data, may help them fight their own “culture wars”, they do very little to explain the actual bill.

Not surprisingly, their solution is to hire more dues paying members for their organization.  The NEA is, after all, a labor union, with one of their main purposes being lobbying and advocating for educators – not students.

To clarify this proposal for people, I’ll introduce two concepts which were not addressed by the NEA:  Student safety and facts.

The origins of this bill came about during my almost ten-year tenure on school boards, including our local Safety and Security committee. During this time, the idea of school safety was (and still is) a major concern.  I was able to work with and receive suggestions from law enforcement, Homeland security, and educators.  All of these groups suggested the idea of letting teachers have the ability to protect their students. The bill is not intended to have teachers carrying guns around schools or to be forced into harm’s way.

The bill allows for small firearms to be securely stored on campus.  The only people permitted near these are staff members who have volunteered, trained and had background checks done on them.  While every local law enforcement officer would race to a school with an intruder, they couldn’t get there as fast as someone already inside the building.

While it’s very easy to exaggerate the specifics of any proposed bill, this bill, as with all proposed bills, is subject to hearings with input from all sides involved.  I invite the NEA to attend these hearings.

On a personal note, I also had to look at this bill as the mother of four school aged children.  Hopefully, nothing ever happens in our schools.  If it does, I would want the quickest response possible, whether it’s law enforcement or teachers who have volunteered, been vetted and properly trained.

I could have just summed it up, “NEA is shutting down explorations of Safety: Attacking 2nd Amendment

Sincerely,

Rep Melissa A Litchfield

Our Kimberly Morin, also of the Women’s Defense League of NH (which also happens to have a Teachers Discount!) has a post on all the Gun Control LSR that have been filed by the Democrats.  Each one of them reduces your Constitutional Right to self defense.  The one that sends my ire rising is the last one:

LSR 2023-0069   Relative to possession or is charge of a firearm in a school zone.

There’s no underlying text associated with it yet but it is targeting LAWFUL gun owners. The current Federal Gun-Free Zone law has exceptions in it for carrying on school property – here’s the one that Steve Shurtleff is targeting (pun intended):

(ii) if the individual possessing the firearm is licensed to do so by the State in which the school zone is located or a political subdivision of the State, and the law of the State or political subdivision requires that, before an individual obtains such a license, the law enforcement authorities of the State or political subdivision verify that the individual is qualified under law to receive the license; [So if you have a concealed carry permit, license, or another official document which permits you to possess the firearm assuming that there is some qualification standard in order to receive that permit/license.]

It’s Revenge Legislation as most Democrat legislators / Governors / Mayors around the nation are reacting in various and sundry ways to “work around” the Supreme Court Bruen decision that has made it really hard for Progressives/anti-Constitutionalists from imposing restrictions on the “keep and bear arms” of the Second Amendment. This and the others Kimberly listed would most likely be ruled unconstitutional and rendered void (maybe the Red Flag/EPO one, LSR 2023-0042, might pass muster).  It would also affect me as someone with a valid NH Pistol/Revolver license signed by my local law enforcement.

It may become “interesting” if the Democrats regain the Majority in both the House and Senate and the Governorship.

NEA-NH Condemns Rep Litchfield’s Bill to Arm New Hampshire’s Educators
Posted on September 22, 2022 Posted in NH Public Education

Teachers should be teaching, not acting as armed security guards, or receiving training to become sharpshooters.

Why not? They are legally first responders if they suspect that a child is being abused (physically, emotionally, sexully), right?  How much more sever can abuse get “above” killing a student by an armed intruder bent on creating mayhem and murder?

CONCORD, NH – SEPTEMBER 22, 2022- The very last thing our schools need right now is to bring more weapons into them. But it appears that is exactly what Rep. Litchfield wants to do with her proposed legislation to arm New Hampshire’s teachers. Her legislation is extreme, out-of-step, and dangerous.

Sure, it’s only the gun-free zones that seem to attract the crazed armed intruders, right? Makes PERFECT sense to keep students and staff being sitting ducks. And I just LOVE this next strawman argument:

Arming teachers and other school personnel does nothing to prevent gun violence. In fact, a nationwide NEA survey found quite the contrary; educators would feel less safe if school personnel were armed.

No, NOTHING is going to “prevent” gun violence crime (there, I fixed it for you) as those crazed armed intruders will always have a weapon when they want one. This would be a deterrent (hopefully but not 100%) and a first responder capability.  What, the NEA WANTS to see dead children if the police can’t get on site fast enough? And I seem to remember a situation where the police did get on site fast enough, and then dithered…or am I misremembering?

“Most of us want the same thing – strong, quality public schools that give every student the freedom to reach their potential,” said Megan Tuttle, NEA-New Hampshire President.

Yeah, but that potential goes to zero if someone can’t arrive fast enough to stop the gunman.  Are you telling us, President Tuttle, that you’d rather see people be killed instead of eliminating a current and existential threat?

“Representative Litchfield’s bill ignores the needs of our students, their parents, and educators and instead tries to distract us by dragging right-wing culture wars into our community’s classrooms at a time when our students need our support the most.”

You REALLY want to go there, Tuttle?  Transgenderism? Critical Race Theory?  Social Justice, SEL?

Tell me this, what is the overall percentage of the students, that your teachers are supposed to be training, actually proficient in English and Math here in NH?  Is it 95%? Perhaps lower: 90%?   How low do I have to go to show what your union members are accomplishing?  I dryly note not one word on that score, right?

“We all agree that there are too many shootings in our nation’s schools, which is why New Hampshire’s elected officials should prioritize the safety of students and work to keep weapons of war out of our schools, not put our children at risk by bringing loaded guns into classrooms and hallways,” said Tuttle.

Weapons of war – your own Progressive ideology is showing.  And oh, by the way, why is the NEA in favor of canceling our Freedom of Speech and having teachers lie to parents??

And I’m betting she has no clue as to what a real weapon of war is, either.

Parents and educators understand that the biggest challenges facing our students and our public schools are getting students the one-on-one support they need, addressing educator shortages, and ensuring students have the mental health services they need. They want legislators and candidates to address these issues and not bring political culture wars into classrooms just to score points with their base.

No, the biggest challenge is having responsive school board member and then teachers teaching the basics such that ALL students are reaching proficiency in all subjects.  Which is not being accomplished across NH (and it isn’t because of money or staff – there a case to be made that the phrase “Go Woke, Go Broke” can be applied to the current warehouse system of education as well).

How about doing that FIRST and then we’ll talk about your Left-wing issues.

And remember, it doesn’t take much to see where the union dues go in supporting elected representatives in elections – what a phony

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Your thread, your time!

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Grace Curly had Derek Maltz Sr on her program to discuss the fentanyl crisis. Derek is a retired DEA special ops guy that wrote an article in the New York Post on cartels using open-border policy to kill more Americans than any terrorist organization.

That’s a bold way to put it, but it is not incorrect. The cartels have been running fentanyl into America thanks to Biden’s borderless America policy and Obama’s open-border policies before that.

Only during Trump’s administration did this begin to slow down.

As we’ve pointed out, the result is a massive pile of bodies from drug and overdose deaths, and elected Democrats are responsible for these deaths.

Rather than address the problem, they use the crisis they created to grow the government but not in any meaningful way – like border enforcement or supporting Immigration enforcement officers or the rule of law. They add funding for progressive NGOs or therapists or crisis or suicide helplines.

But that is only part of the story. Derek has some details we’ve not covered that you’ll never see in the local media, which he shares with Grace in this segment.

 

Grace Curly Show

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/grace-Curly-fentanyl-mono.mp3

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One that isn’t a scaredy-cat of getting involved in the contentious and fractious Culture War that now, on this battlefront, has co-opted Government (“Public Schools”) into aligning itself with the Democrat sexuality agenda of our children against Parents.

While I could not go to the Presser myself, Grok Friend Tom sent this along:

The context of this concerns Policy 100.1 in the Manchester School District which tells its staff to lie about the Transgender status of their child. Recently, the Maggie “The Red” Hassan appointee Judge in the case, Amy Messer, ruled that Parents do NOT have any legal say in how their child is educated in Manchester Public Schools. The translation is that “this child is OUR child, NOT yours, while they are in our building.  But feel free to think your child is your child at any other time.   I’ve been fighting this for almost two years in Gilford.

We’ve heard this before from other non-free countries built on the notion that The State (country) owns its subjects and not the American notion that we are a free people that happen to have a Government.  She confirmed for me that my long-term meme is true:

The Bigger the Governor, the smaller the citizen

When your child is no longer YOUR child, the Government has become too big.

Karoline has taken a lot of knocks for being too young, not having a voting record, and hasn’t “risen through the ranks”. Well, she’s doing something that FEW Republicans, especially the “old dinosaurs” ones, have done – taking on this issue with a smile, determination, and grit.  They abhor getting “their hands dirty” in things other than budgets and taxes; she doesn’t limit herself to those topics. She knows that the Democrats have taken their War right against families and expect them to just accept them.

She’s also quick on her feet, especially on the question asked by WMUR’s Adam Sexton.

She realizes that our fight HAS to be her fight as well – I like that style.

GraniteGrok endorsed her in the Primary Election.

 

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Fortunately, we are still at a place where we can come together to put the pieces back together after a weather catastrophe. Hurricane Ian has dominated the news cycle for the last two days, and that is a blessing within the tragedy.

The attention is focused on minimizing the loss and evaluating what is needed to get back to normal as soon as possible.

As we spent the last few days watching the track of the storm and trying to project its target as the storm makes landfall, it has become clear that we are powerless when it comes to Mother Nature. She holds all the cards. Even with all of the sophisticated equipment, we really have no idea what will happen until the day after. No meteorologist is ever wrong as they recap the impact of a vicious storm. The best we can do is prepare as best we can and pray.

The bottom line is Americans love each other despite political leanings. When our brothers and sisters have been hurt, we are there to do what we can to ease the pain. Over thirty states are coming to the aid of the good people of Florida. Most of these states did not feel a gust of wind or a drop of rain, but they are ready to dip into their wallet or get into a truck to deliver aid. This is America at its finest. This is America at its purest.

Governor DeSantis has been in the spotlight for the last few days and has performed with the level of excellence we expect from our leaders. He has communicated well, was ahead of the storm with preparations, and has been quick to direct assistance to the areas that need it the most. He has been able to get the Federal government to recognize the need to declare emergencies to free up relief funds. Progressive or Conservative was not part of the equation. Americans were in need, and the government was there to do what they were designed to do; hold the safety net.

The weather does not discriminate on any parameters, but it does take its most significant toll on the weakest of society. The elderly and the poorest among us have taken the most significant toll. The elderly are the most difficult to relocate in the path of a deadly storm, and the poorest do not have the means to move anywhere. This is why these two categories will see the highest percentage of devastation and fatalities. Notice this has nothing to do with race, just age and wealth.

The next few days will be crucial as the devastation is identified. There will be some that lose their lives and others that will need years to recover. As with any situation, there will be people striving to make money on the backs of others who are suffering. The storm will pass, but our efforts to help have to have staying power.

The best part about the news blackout of every other story is we did not have to focus on Vice President Harris declaring we are aligned with North Korea or the President of the United States making a major faux pas yesterday. President Biden on Wednesday asked a crowd if Rep. Jackie Walorski, who died in a car accident last month, was in attendance at a White House event. These are our leaders. The storm will fizzle in time, but when it does, we will still be stuck with Biden and Harris…..how lucky are we?

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