Wednesday • April 30 • 2025
Vol.XVII • No.XVIII
Manchester, N.H.
So, dear NHGOP, let me pose the following question to you: HOW MUCH DOES AN “ADEQUATE” TEACHER COST? And now, dear NHGOP, a follow-up question: IS DETERMINING THE COST OF AN “ADEQUATE” TEACHER A LEGAL QUESTION OR A POLITICAL QUESTION?
And before you answer, dear NHGOP, consider that the people of New Hampshire may, and probably do, value “adequate” police protection, “adequate” firefighting, “adequate” roads, “adequate” sanitation, etc., etc., etc. every bit as much, and in some cases more … than an “adequate” education. And what that means, dear NHGOP, is that the cost of an “adequate” teacher CANNOT be determined in a vacuum … i.e., in a courtroom … it must be done in the context of all our other needs and wants: police, fire, roads, sanitation, etc.
In other words, dear NHGOP, to cut to the chase … the cost of an “adequate” education … is OBVIOUSLY and UNDENIABLY a political question—a question to be determined at the ballot box. And when the judiciary overrides the people’s determination of how much to spend on public education versus police, firefighters, etc., etc. … WHICH, DUMMIES, IS EXACTLY WHAT THE CONVAL LITIGATION ENTAILS … then the judiciary is attacking our democracy.
No question that the above will be met with scorn and a smirk from the NHGOP leaders: “the difference is that an adequate education is a ‘constitutional right.'” Yup … and, if you believe that, you probably also believe that Obamacare reduced the cost of your healthcare, that we are days away from finding the WMDs in Iraq, and that the COVID vaccines “work.” In other words, you are a lemming, incapable of independent thought … and simply believe whatever the authority figure tells you to believe.
How much to spend on public education is … for the reasons shown above … OBVIOUSLY AND UNDENIABLY a political question. To reiterate: if a court decrees that “adequacy” is not being “fully funded” then the Legislature must, in response, either raise taxes or cut spending elsewhere, right? Well … if you responded “right” … then you have conceded that the court is setting tax policy and determining spending priorities. These are political questions, not legal questions.
BUT, our feckless, useless NHGOP treats the abnormal … courts setting tax policy and determining spending priorities, WHICH ARE ACTUAL ATTACKS ON DEMOCRACY … as normal.
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James Madison wrote in The Federalist #48 that he worried about what he called; “the weakness of parchment barriers” to protect the liberties and property of people when the government increasingly draws all power into its vortex.
Paper, he felt, cannot offer protections to anyone – that is why checks and balances must be required.
Madison was right, and it is on full display here in NH -in our towns, legislature, and courts.
Civics and knowledge of the NH Constitution are not taught in schools, nor are they popular, nor are NH Citizens publically aware. This directly allows politicians free range to enact legislation that, in many cases, violates their oath of office, to bear faith and true allegiance to the NH Constitution. There is no real good faith legislative test before passage.
The New Hampshire Constitution provides that we, the citizens, have a right to require of our lawgivers and magistrates an exact and constant observance of them in the formation and execution of the laws necessary for the good administration of government. (Under; Part I, Article 38. Article 7., and Article 8.)
We, the people of NH, are the checks and balances I believe Madison was referring to. However, once legislation is passed, it takes a citizen(s) to challenge it in the court system vs the administrative state. The administrative state, in turn, uses your tax dollars to fight you. NH Attorney General represents the state!
Solutions begin with YOU. Jefferson warned us that without being sufficiently educated to provide oversight in that we would not function as a republic nor be able to self-govern. We are the “checks and balances.” Our elected officials need to be held personally and professionally responsible for not upholding their sworn oath of office. (Not as it currently appears: to political parties/actors, political organizations, or corporations.)
“You see if you do not know your rights, you simply do not have any!” (Daniel Richard/ Com. of Safety 2020)
2nd Failure to honor their oaths requires; “We the people of NH” to get organized and involved in crafting legislation that would create an office of Citizen Attorney General or enact a Citizen Grand Jury. To directly represent citizens and challenge the administrative state, supported by community funds to offset the financial burden of self-representation or attorneys in these costly constitutional – and court challenges that must be fought!
Next time you pass those little American flags that grace a military tombstone remember they, too, swore an oath and paid the ultimate sacrifice to secure it. Let’s again honor their sacrifice and duty of OATH. Get off the couch, put down the remote and foolish App’s, and step up to rebuild the spirit of “parchment barriers” and our checks & balances of self-government.
Apathy is no longer an option – time is short!
In liberty and justice for all…
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An Update: Well, perhaps not quite that direct but certainly, within the “politically polite” language used in DC (aka “my friends on the other side of the aisle” as they are shivving each other), a 9-0 unanimous vote against acceding to the whims of an (allegedly) co-equal Branch of government.
Supreme Court unanimously rejects ethics complaints by Democrats against Justice Clarence Thomas
The United States Supreme Court unanimously rejected ethics complaints about Justice Clarence Thomas by Democrats.
Sen Richard Durbin (D-Ill.), chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, sent a letter on April 20 requesting Chief Justice John Roberts appear for a hearing about potential conflicts of interest within the top court. The letter was signed by all 11 Democrats on the Judiciary Committee.
This after US Senators Angus King (I-ME but caucuses with Democrats) and Lisa Murkowski (RINO-AK) entered a bill to create a [weaponized Code of Ethics.
It’s clear that since the Democrats lost the majority of Justices on the Court, thanks to both Trump and McConnell, the Democrats have been FUMING that “their” super-legislature (as they appear to believe that’s what the Court should be for them rather than deciding cases according to the US Constitution and the Laws that have been passed) was taken from them. So if they can’t “have” it, they have been working overtime to discredit it and the conservative Justices as often and as hard as they can.
Thomas is always their punching bag and Kavanaugh has been similar since the Democrats on the US Senate Judiciary brought up and threw all the mud they could against him during his confirmation hearing. Now Gorsuch, another Trump appointee, is also under attack for real estate transactions (that started before his tenure on SCOTUS). Throw in that Thomas’s wife, Gigi, is been under their hammer because she’s outspoken as an unabashed Conserved as well as the wife of Chief Justice Roberts (who is no conservative but still a Republican appointee by Bush II) is under attack for ability and earning quite a bit of money as a headhunter.
This is part of their overall plan of personal destruction with discrediting the institution itself. Durbin doesn’t care as he and his fellow Democrats, as I said before, look at it differently than we do – a legislature rather than an actual court.
(H/T: The Blaze)
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On Friday, a man in Texas was asked by his neighbors to stop shooting his semi-automatic rifle in his yard. This doesn’t sound like a big ask of anyone, especially since it was illegal, but the family didn’t call the police and the 38-year-old man, Francisco Oropeza, instead chose to shoot the family, murdering five people, including two children.
It turns out Oropeza is an illegal alien who has been deported at least two times previously. Law enforcement had also spoken with him about shooting in his yard. Of course, if he’s an illegal alien, that also means he cannot legally purchase or possess a firearm, so he clearly also had an illegal firearm.
A reminder that murder is also illegal. Before committing this heinous act, the scum had already violated several laws, including being in the country illegally.
New Hampshire’s hellish holophobic senator, Maggie Hassan, decided to comment on the case and as always, blames the rifle for the horrific deaths of the family:
Horrified by this shooting and praying for the victims and their families. Weapons of war do not belong in our communities. https://t.co/HBSl0xJxrz
— Sen. Maggie Hassan (@SenatorHassan) April 29, 2023
To be clear, a semi-automatic rifle is not a ‘weapon of war.’ That is a made-up term by Democrats to fearmonger the ignorant into believing that civilians own the same rifles as the military. If our military only had semi-automatic rifles in war, we’d have no military. And the person who didn’t belong in our community was the murderous illegal alien.
Hassan and her fellow Democrats in Congress have done NOTHING to stop Biden’s Border Invasion. Not. One. Thing. If anyone is responsible (aside from the murderer) in this instance, it’s Hassan and her anti-American goons in the Democrat Party for continuing to keep the border open with zero ramifications for those who cross it.
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Well, Chris Sununu had some good news in the RealClearPolitics polling – his polling doubled! But as in all things, context is absolutely necessary. It’s like the Greenies when they boast that the amount of electricity from Renewables has doubled.
Sure, a doubling from a starting point of almost zero is still pretty much “not much”. And that’s the same for Sununu – not much support still, as the RCP polling shows him reaching 1.0% from 0.5 % last week:
(click to embiggen)
He’s at least beating Asa Hutchinson (re: Why?), who formally entered the race last week but only by 1/10 of a point. However, he’s even with Younkin, who also announced last week – that he wasn’t going to run for President, so there’s that. Again, as a comparison, I’m going to continue to use political newcomer Vivek Ramaswamy who has bounced to 2.3% from 0.9% last week.
As always, Sununu’s own words about setting THE threshold in making it to the debate stage:
Hangover: An “Evergreen” statement by Sununu himself on low-rated wannabes:
Mr. Sununu also warned minor candidates not to carve up the field.
“I think there’s a lot of hope and opportunity for good candidates to get in, drive the message where it needs to be,” he said. “But the discipline is getting out, too. The discipline and saying, ‘Look, you’re only polling at 5%, you got to get out.’ We don’t want a crowded field here.”
At this point in time, Sununu would have his wishes as of the eleven candidates (official, unofficial) being tracked, only Trump, DeSantis, and Pence (combined 76% of the field in polling) would find a debating podium placed in front of them.
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NH Associate Attorney General Anne Edwards has been nominated to be an NH Superior Court Justice.
In our Constitutional Republic, justice is supposed to be blind, and those who are accused of wrongdoing are supposed to be presumed innocent until proven guilty. Additionally, those who have committed wrongdoing should be held accountable under the law. But that is not always the case because the achievement of those altruistic goals is incumbent upon those who have sworn an oath to uphold and defend our Constitutional Rights.
Unfortunately, it has become commonplace for activists throughout government – including judges – to violate their oaths… so it is essential that only qualified people with impeccable moral values be appointed to the bench. It is essential that those who adjudicate do so with strict adherence to the Constitution and devoid of any personal bias as the basis for all of their decisions.
“Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
– John Adams
Does Anne Edwards meet the criteria to be an impartial justice?
New Hampshire’s five Executive Councilors will vote to accept or reject Edwards’ nomination. Whether you are for or against her appointment, now is the time to make your voice heard. Members of the public will have an opportunity to provide public comment during the Executive Council meeting THIS WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 2023, AT 2 PM in the Governor and Executive Council Chambers at the State House, 107 N. Main St., Concord, NH.
You can also submit your public comments via email to: gcweb@nh.gov.
This is an opportunity for NH citizens to be involved with the appointment of who will adjudicate issues in Superior Court.
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They’re flying so thick and fast it is amazing. Take heart – there will be a Meme Overflow and almost certainly a Friday Meme Overflow-Overflow. Last week’s Overflow-Overflow.
Remember, ridicule and mockery are effective weapons:
Now, let the mockery and mayhem begin.
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Is it even legal?
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Andy Ngo: The far-left’s goal is to normalize political violence against conservatives
Remember that Antifa truly believes they are angels and “doing good” – we all know where good intentions lead:
Slip-Sliding Towards Hell with a Good Conscience – Granite Grok
Do not also forget Huxley’s statement about how to gin up enthusiasm for a cause – the prospect of being able to be bad while feeling good:
(Link to AZQuotes per their policy.)
And this:
I fear these are prophetic words…
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And Man Created A.I. in His Own Image: Why Elon Musk is Worried About Artificial Intelligence
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Pick of the post:
Yes.
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Palate Cleansers:
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Not a great week for me – it was bound to happen as I kinda fell off the wagon. Didn’t help either that Grokster Mike came up and we went out to dinner at our favorite Mexican restaurant here in the Lakes Region – El Jimador. So much for moderation! But, still over halfway there (instead of the almost 80% of last week).
Tom is keeping it going!
And the tale of the chart:
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According to Attorney General Johnny-Woke, courts can AND SHOULD determine whether “the State” is “fully funding” an “adequate education,” as long as they don’t try to determine how much it costs to “fully fund” an “adequate education.” I kid you not … from New Hampshire Business Review:
Attorney General Formella’s team is not seeking to justify the state’s contribution to funding public schools. Instead, they primarily mount their defense on two propositions, one that relies on the separation of powers and the other that restricts the cost of an adequate education to the factors enumerated in statute.
First, the state asserts that the court “lacks jurisdiction to award any relief to Plaintiffs other than a simple declaration that the State is, or is not, complying with its constitutional duties.” Instead, the means of meeting the state’s constitutional duties is vested in the Legislature, which “possesses the exclusive discretion to determine what programs and what levels of funding are necessary and appropriate.”
“This case,” the state’s brief reads, “presents one or more non-justiciable political questions due to a lack of judicially discoverable and manageable standards, the impossibility of deciding the issues without making policy determinations of a kind clearly reserved to nonjudicial discretion.”
Attorney-General Johnny-Woke’s position is that it is possible to be just a “little pregnant.” The problem is that once you accept the premise that “the State” has a “constitutional duty” … more specifically
The State does not contest the underlying law applicable to the issues in this case. Under our education funding jurisprudence, Part II, Article 83 of the State Constitution “imposes a duty on the State to provide a constitutionally adequate education to every educable child in the public schools in New Hampshire and to guarantee adequate funding.” Claremont School Dist. v. Governor, 138 N.H. 183, 184 (1993). To comply with that duty the State must “define an adequate education, determine the cost, fund it with constitutional taxes, and ensure its delivery through accountability.” Londonderry Sch. Dist. v. State, 154 N.H. 153, 155-56 (2006) (quotation omitted).
you are PREGNANT. That is, you have accepted the premise that the Court has the FINAL SAY on the definition of an adequate education, how to determine the cost, how to fund it, and what “accountability” looks like.
All of the Claremont “duties” are “non-justiciable political questions.” To name but a few examples, whether to have a single statewide definition of an “adequate education” versus letting school districts create their own definitions, whether to use “adequacy” or some other measure as the aspirational standard, whether to utilize pervasive and meaningful school-choice as the means to “deliver” an “adequate education” are ALL “non-justiciable political questions.”
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Good morning everyone, This is a reminder that tomorrow, May 2, 2023, the Special Committee on the Family Division of the Circuit Court will be meeting from 9:30am to 12:00pm at the House LOB, Room 206-208 , that you may be interested in attending.
Please Submit Group communications or Press Releases to editor@granitegrok.com.
Submission is not a guarantee of publication.
Again, I encourage all of you to “pass the word,” and let everyone else who might be interested know about the upcoming meetings of the Special Committee , such as by posting on social media, etc. Additional upcoming meetings are also scheduled for May 9th, 16th, and 23rd.
Thanks,
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Remember when everyone who was anyone said the COVID-19 “vaccines” would prevent infection and spread? We needed them to return to normal, which – as it turns out meant making excuses for why they didn’t do that. And they have run out of excuses.
While the approved narrative on The Jab continues to include the words “prevents severe disease, hospitalization or death,” (another lie) outside forces continue to press the CDC to admit the error of their ways. Any error in any way.
The agency’s response? Redefine what a vaccine is or does. Nothing. Vaccines don’t have to do anything to get EUA approval.
Vaccines don’t have to prevent infection or transmission to be cleared in the United States, the country’s top regulatory agency said in a new document.
“It is important to note that FDA’s authorization and licensure standards for vaccines do not require demonstration of the prevention of infection or transmission,” Dr. Peter Marks, a top official at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), said in the document.
Is this a bad time to point out that the CDC’s full and proper name is The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention?
Is it, not a good time to remind everyone that Section 564 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetics Act only allows the issuing of an emergency use authorization if four criteria were met, one of which was that “There is no adequate, approved, and available alternative. Among other reasons, an alternative may be considered unavailable if there are insufficient supplies of the approved alternative to fully meet the emergent need or if the agent is or may become resistant to approved and available alternative products.”
If “vaccines” don’t need to prevent infection or transmission, neither the CDC nor the FDA can issue another EUA ever because there will always be innumerable alternatives that do nothing to prevent infection or transmission.
One ironic example; the Public Health Industrial Complex has insisted for years that neither Hydroxychloroquine nor Ivermectin is effective in preventing the transmission or spread of COVID. We know that’s not true but were COVID to start today, assuming their expert opinion was unchanged, they could not issue a legal EUA because we already have treatments that are ineffective against COVID so Section 564 prohibits emergency use authorization.
And then we have the more obvious problem. If flu vaccines don’t need to prevent infection or spread why does anyone need them, given that public health watchdogs already changed the definition of informed consent to lie, hide, obfuscate, redirect, and blamestorm?
The only things the CDC is trying to prevent are interruptions in kickback operations for green-lighting injections they reserve the power to mandate whose only benefit is kickbacks to “experts” working at the CDC.
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The GOP, by and large, refuses to accept that elections since 2016 are NOT a battle of ideas. They are trapped in the past … we will release “white paper” after “white paper” defending the free market! so-and-so has a new talk radio show where he can preach the free market to the choir each and every day! Etc., etc., etc..
The Communists aka the Democrats … unlike the GOP … are living in the real world. Consider the following:
I Have To Be Honest With You
Right now, Joe Biden is on his way to re-election. If Republicans plan to only vote on Election Day in 2024, we will lose — like when 30% of Maricopa County, AZ, polling locations had machine errors on one day.
My vote in the presidential primary…
— #ThePersistence (@ScottPresler) April 25, 2023
Everyone talking about these dorks being paid operatives.
1. You didn’t know that?
2. Why isn’t the GOP doing this? The is the stuff that moves culture. Moving culture is often cringe and lame. But it’s necessary. pic.twitter.com/KW67j7pkz1
— Jesse Kelly (@JesseKellyDC) April 29, 2023
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On Saturday, April 29th, we shared news about a local American Legion post that had scheduled a Drag Queen event on July 8th. As of this morning, two days later, that event and any future Drag shows the Sweeney Post leadership had planned have been canceled.
If you missed the original story, “The American Legion Henry J Sweeney Post #2 in Manchester, NH, has a surprise for Veterans and family members of all ages. They are the location for “the newest show in New Hampshire drag entertainment!”
Available for all ages.
I was contacted by at least one Veteran who is a member of Sweeney Post #2. We had an in-person chat not long after that, and he named a few names. Liberals in leadership whom he believed (probably) couldn’t help themselves. We’ll refrain from sharing names for the moment, but they know who they are, as do the Veterans who called them after we published the story.
Those Vets expressed their concern about the decision to host drag queen shows at their American Legion Henry J Sweeney Post #2 in Manchester, NH, and it seems to have made an impression. The original post went up at 8 am Saturday. By 8 am Monday, I was told they had backed off not just the July 8th show but any plans for additional Drag Queen events.
On the bright side, the “newest show in New Hampshire Drag Entertainment” title is up for grabs.
Surprise!
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In a post that dealt more with Musk’s talking about a Swedish story about Transgender transitioning doesn’t lower the risk of suicide and that child sexual-organ mutilation is wrong, there was this:
“[By the way], I regard cisgender as a slur,” he added.
I agree – wholeheartedly. I can deal with being called “straight” just fine but technically, I’m a heterosexual (and it’s binary relationship of male or female and not Heinz gazillions). However, the LGBT lobby (as opposed to the gun lobby) has gone all out to make heterosexuality and heteronormative to be slurs. Oh DARE you ancients and conservatives reject our new words that set the stage that “trans” is the word of most importance (even as its percentage in the general population is <1%). How DARE you take away our ability to control the language in order to control our mindset.
So they couldn’t just leave us well enough alone and created “cisgender” and use it incessantly in order to drive it in our language patterns.
Like “assault weapon”, it is a made-up political term simply to forward a sexual-political agenda. They are calling us names.
Time to tell them, every time we see or hear it, “shove it”.
I’ve had enough of this nonsense and so should you. Otherwise, the Left (of which the LGBT Lobby) will continue to 1984 us right out of our Freedom. Orwell’s book made it clear that it could happen and the Left knows and is taking advantage of it.
(H/T: Breitbart Politics)
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United States Supreme Court Justice gave a remarkable interview to the Wall Street Journal. Among other things, he said that he “had a pretty good idea” who leaked the draft abortion-decision, but didn’t have the level of proof needed to name names. Clearly, he believes that the leaker was one or more of the “liberals”:
“It was a part of an effort to prevent the Dobbs draft . . . from becoming the decision of the court. And that’s how it was used for those six weeks by people on the outside — as part of the campaign to try to intimidate the court.”
Alito also called out … as best a sitting Justice can … the Bar for not defending the Supreme Court from the obviously planned and coordinated attacks by the Left:
“We are being hammered daily and I think quite unfairly in a lot of instances. And nobody, practically nobody, is defending us. The idea has always been that judges are not supposed to respond to criticisms, but if the courts are being unfairly attacked, the organized bar will come to their defense,” Alito said, adding, “If anything, they’ve participated to some degree in these attacks.”
Bar organizations, at this point, are every bit as controlled by the Left as practically all our other institutions. The GOP needs to step into the breach to defend the last bastion of constitutional government … the United States Supreme Court (Biden is well on his way to packing the lower courts with the jurisprudential equivalent of Mao’s Red Guard).
Yet the GOP is AWOL on this issue as it is on the other issues that really matter … grooming, DEI, “gender affirming care” for children, the border. Instead, the Uni-Party-GOP is all about Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine and taxes, taxes, taxes.
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With certain markets expected to decline in 2023, many people are curious to know …
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