Tuesday • April 21 • 2026
Vol.XVIII • No.XVII
Manchester, N.H.
We’ve completed another week, and it is time to choose another Comment of the Week. I’ve selected one comment from each of the past seven days (Mon-Sun) and included them below for you to review before you vote.
The winner, as selected by the Grokosphere, will have the option of contacting me (steve@granitegrok.com) to provide an address to which I will ship a ‘Grok goody. We will announce the winner on Wednesday.
I have provided a link to the post where you can find the comment and one to the commenter’s Disqus profile. Feel free to click and review for context if you feel it necessary.
And wow, great conversations everywhere, but especially on Pedophiles and Psychos Employed at U.S. Youth Detention Centers, and this Evidence Suggests That Children Who Get No Vaccines … Have Better Health Outcomes.
Thanks to everyone who reads and comments. There were a large number of excellent remarks and exchanges.
When voting, you will select the Disqus Handle of the commenter you’d like to win this week in the poll below. The poll closes Tuesday at 8 pm.
Comments are as originally submitted.
Ian Underwood
Rights, or Permissions?
How about consent — which essentially reduces to the Golden Rule — as a shared value upon which to base both society and government? According to the Declaration of Independence, that’s the ideal upon which the need to form a new country is based.
Here are the things I don’t want anyone else to be able to do to me. Therefore, I agree to be punished if I get caught trying to do them to anyone else.‘
That captures all of the things that should be crimes (like murder, assault, and theft), without including the things that shouldn’t be (like smoking pot or paying for sex or gambling). And it eliminates using government as a tool for redistributing wealth.
Or how about Bastiat’s description of government as ‘nothing more than organized self-defense’?
These are the opposite of chaos.
What we have nowis chaos — a situation where 51% of the voters can force their preferences on the other 49% at the point of a gun; where 51% of the voters can treat the other 49% as ATMs, and so on; where every election feels like it could spell the end of the world as we know it, because a handful of voters in the middle could turn everything upside-down overnight.
TheOrneryNurse
Obesity: Eating Less is Out – Drugs and Surgery Are In
Watch this. #NoAmnesty
Jack
Maine Follows Vermont Down Another Disarmament Rabbit Hole
I believe the only reason our current regime and all it’s tools don’t want us to form militias is because they want to disarm us even though Article 1 titled: The Militia.. Clauses 15 and 16 give the federal govt. the power to call up and use state militias. Against us if Congress deems fit. And if they succeed they definitely would use militias against us.
Besides, if they eliminate our power to form them they will be able to form their own. Like the “Collectivos” in Maduro’s Venezuela.
Tombstone Gabby New ‘Green’ Building Code to Dominate Housing ConstructionFirst time I’ve heard that expression, had to look it up. Hadn’t heard that he was pushing “15 Minute Cities”.
As for “15 Minute Cities”, each “City” is supposed to provide/have available every service that a resident might want? Have you had a hip replacement lately? How far did you have to travel? Just the thought of training enough doctors to staff local clinics – not going to happen.
Returning to the European feudal village way of life, with a Lord of the Manor and his serfs. Just don’t get caught poaching the King’s deer in the King’s Forest – you will be transported to a north American colony.
(The last ‘official’ group of English convicts was landed in north America in April of 1776, 28 of them.)
NHnative
Vermont Tax Revolt Continues …
The fall of Vermont has been hard to watch because I love that state.
The older I get, the more I love the physical beauty of the state and the old fashioned quiet life that one can live in Vermont.
It’s devastating that the state seems to be on a suicide mission though..
They could use more people like us that desire to live simply in small towns without a lot of people around. BUT then they’ve made it impossible for us to move there..
To move there is to agree to be owned by the psychopaths in control, robbed by the government and driven downward- and a victim of crime in many areas!
So that ain’t gonna work!
Collcat
Pedophiles and Psychos Employed at U.S. Youth Detention Centers
Not challenging you and respect your opinion but analysts think roughly 25,000 victims have come forward across the country just between 2019-2024. Given the fact that most victims don’t come forward till 51, this number is likely going to grow into the hundreds of thousands.
States certainly are in the wrong but I agree with author and Senator Jon Ossoff, the Federal Government holds the largest liability in all of this. They listened to Quack Drs for decades and used these centers to test pseudoscience on kids. Pseudoscience attracts those who abuse children always has.
Victims should certainly file lawsuits against the state, but in NH the state is corrupt so what good is that? This won’t stop without the federal government taking accountability. Follow the money to find those who are to blame. The grants all came from the federal government.
LauraCondon
Evidence Suggests That Children Who Get No Vaccines … Have Better Health Outcomes
I’ve been at this subject for so many years that I have to remind myself that it was a journey for me and is likely a journey for most people. My journey started as a special ed teacher in the Autistic Unit at Spaulding Youth Center in Northfield decades ago when parents told me, “My child was fine, my child was perfect, my child was normal. Then they got the MMR shot and totally regressed, never spoke again, lost developmental skills, developed food allergies and seizures.” Media used to report on vaccine failure and harm back then with Phil Donahue talking about the DPT shot and 60 Minutes reporting on the Swine Flu shot causing paralysis. Then in 1986 when the industry got the federal government to pass the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act that shielded vaccine makers from all harm from vaccines, the floodgates of vaccine development opened up and the aggressive vaccine mandates on children were militantly enforced.
But yes, like you I too once believed that some vaccines surely were good…I mean the smallpox one was good, right? But there were just too many, too soon, too close together. Best to pick and choose and space them out. But I kept reading and investigating as more vaccines were brought to market (meningococcal, and Hep B, and chickenpox and HPV, etc.) and even more “boosters” were added for vaccines that were now failing (polio is now 3 doses, measles is now 2 doses, even chicken pox is now 2 doses, mumps is 2 doses with call for a 3rd dose of this failed shot). I saw the harm. I saw the failure. And I met healthy, thriving children and adults who never had any vaccines. Over a period of years I realized I was wrong about the too many, too soon, and too close together. I learned that none of them were necessary and the vast majority are very dangerous. And smallpox and polio??? Those were the last ones I let go of. Lots of reading got to the truth.
So welcome to this journey. I hope that you will continue to keep an open inquisitive mind and that maybe you too will find that what you once thought was true is not actually the case. And good health to you!
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Donald Trump has to name a Vice Presidential running mate today. This decision is imperative for many reasons, and I am unsure why he is procrastinating. I realize Trump likes to be the only person on the stage, but the 2024 election is like no other before.
He has to realize this and the importance of a strong person to join him on the ticket to save this country from a Biden/Harris journey to extinction. Let me outline my reasons for calling for Trump’s decision, and then you can decide if my reasoning is valid.
Unprecedented election in modern times: It has been nearly 70 years since we had the same two candidates run in consecutive elections. Sixty-eight years ago. After Eisenhower beat Stevenson in 1952 and won all but nine states, the incumbent president faced Stevenson again four years later and secured an even larger landslide. Whoever wins this election will only have four more years. Many say a vote for Biden is a vote for Kamala Harris. The same is true for Trump. He has to generate some excitement for his running mate now.
Trump is the first president ever to be charged with a crime: Trump is tied up in a New York courtroom by DA Alvin Bragg and will be for up to six weeks. Biden is out on the campaign trail, and Trump is threatened with jail time for violating a gag order. He needs a VP candidate who can hit the trail, get the Republican vision to the voters, and hit hard on Harris.
First of many trials: Trump faces 91 indictments, and Biden’s INJustice Department is going to tie Trump up in courtrooms as long as possible. These are not legitimate trials but a mechanism to impact a Presidential Election. This farce has to be reported and repeated often.
Phenomenal group of potential VPs: The Dems are handicapped with Kamala Harris, who has a lower approval rating than Biden. Trump has a plethora of possible candidates who could give Biden a run for his money. Tim Scott, Vivek Ramaswamy, Doug Burgum, Ron DeSantis, Greg Abbott, Elise Stefanik, and Tulsi Gabbard are just a few. The fact there are so many good options may explain why Trump is having a tough time narrowing the list to one.
Campaign Funds: Elections should not be a fundraising contest, but that is the reality. Trump beat Hillary with far less money, but that will not happen twice. The choice of VP could be a massive influx of cash to the ticket. Money to fund a ground game will be crucial.
There has to be a VP Debate: Trump may never get Biden on a debate stage, but Tump’s VP candidate can get Kamala Harris into a debate. Any of Trump’s options will clean Harris’ clock. It has to happen. Biden is weak today, and Harris must be exposed as a weakness for the future.
The trial in New York City is backfiring on the Democrats. With every ruling by the Judge, the foundation is laid for the appeal should Trump be found guilty by the “Jury of his peers.” The Democrats are involuntarily boosting Trump’s numbers, and RFK Jr is now on the ballot in the toss-up state of Michigan. Losing Michigan alone could cost Biden the election. The mainstream media is salivating at the thought of Trump being found guilty and jailed. The picture of Trump behind bars might be history’s most potent campaign shot. If Trump makes an excellent strategic choice for VP, it may be all he needs to tip the scales in his direction beyond the possible Democrat manipulation of the election. So let’s get it done, Mr. Trump. Make your pick, and let’s rally around your choice.
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So a couple of days ago I got trapped in front of a television and had to endure the supposedly local “news” on WMUR. There was a relatively long segment on ARIZONA … more specifically, a court decision in Arizona that restored an old law that bans most abortions and the Arizona legislature addressing that decision. What does this have to do with New Hampshire? If you answered ABSOLUTELY NOTHING … that’s a bingo, and you are absolutely correct.
Later the ABC “nightly news” or whatever they call that 30-minute pro-Biden/anti-Trump propaganda-dump came on … and virtually the identical segment on ARIZONA. Do you see what is going on bitter-clingers? ABORTION is one of the DemocratsCommunists’ major themes for the 2024 election and their propagandists are out there pushing the issue. But just keep pretending that Adam Sexton and the rest of the grifters at WMUR are “journalists” … that they are informing and not manipulating the electorate, that somehow an Arizona law that has absolutely NO applicability or relevance to New Hampshire is more newsworthy in New Hampshire than, for example, the anti-white racism being taught in public schools under the pretext of making public schools more “diverse, equitable and inclusive.”
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Our world demands a radical shift in approach in the face of an unprecedented global challenge. We no longer have any choice. The threats looming over humanity are no longer confined to local issues, rendering traditional practices inadequate. Now, more than ever, we must unite and leverage our collective resources to combat the complex and debilitating challenges that cast a shadow over our planet.
Our problems are not mere parochial concerns; outdated thinking won’t cut it. In this era of interconnectedness, every ounce of our energy must be directed towards solutions rather than wasted in petty disputes and personal conflicts.
But are we truly ready to acknowledge the urgency of this global call to action? Can we set aside our differences for the greater good?
The magnitude of today’s challenges is unlike anything we’ve encountered recently. Conventional solutions falter in the face of the formidably complex and unique situation that defines our world. To confront these challenges, civil disobedience alone is as futile as fighting off a pack of hungry wolves armed only with toothpicks.
We must keep asking ourselves – what innovative strategies can we employ to tackle challenges that defy conventional solutions? How can we foster a collective mindset that transcends outdated approaches?
The threat posed by the Islamic Republic’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei and his cronies cannot be underestimated. Their lack of interest in negotiation and compromise is evident as they barrel forward in their quest for nuclear weaponry, aiming to wield power and intimidate not just the region but the entire world.
Mullahs are ruling Iran with rock-solid resolve to carry out their “divine plan” of imposing their brand of Islam on the world with the help of the Bomb is a terrifying thought.
So, how can we effectively address regimes that seem impervious to diplomatic efforts? Is there room for negotiation, or is a more robust approach necessary?
The first step in addressing these issues is to acknowledge the reality of the situation. Iran’s regime has made significant advances in its nuclear program, which is a cause for concern for the international community. The country has been able to reverse engineer and further develop purchased technological advances, and its knowledge is irreversible. This means that any attempt to stop Iran’s regime from developing nuclear weapons could be futile.
The religious fanatics steering the Islamic Republic have a track record marked by deception, dissimulation, betrayal, and violence. These Quran-trained agents of a wrathful Allah can never be trusted. Centuries of perfecting the art of deception, double talk, double-dealing, and deceit have made them master schemers.
Civilized people cherish and celebrate life. The Islamists relish death, as stated in their ideology, and practice daily. Recall what Hassan Nasrullah, the leader of Lebanon Hizbollah, had to say about why his people would prevail in the war with Israel. He said, “Israelis love life. We Muslims love death.” These fanatics firmly believe in an incomparably magnificent pleasure-filled next world that awaits the faithful Muslim. This world is nothing but a heap of dust to them, while the next is a paradise of eternal lust.
What strategies can we deploy to outdo their deception and ensure our collective safety in the face of such cunning adversaries?
The West must dispel the illusion of “happy talk” and recognize the true nature of these cunning players. The dismissive notion that they pose no global destructive capacity must be cast aside. While they may currently be arming factions and sowing chaos in specific regions, the potential for global havoc cannot be underestimated.
Therefore, how can we shift public perception to acknowledge the gravity of the situation? What steps can we take to counter the dangerous underestimation of the threat these cunning adversaries pose?
I don’t claim to have all the answers, but I have a starting point. We must understand that we’re dealing with different social factors or individuals than we were three decades ago. Concerted efforts are needed.
The United States finds its best ally in the region in supporting a free Iran. This support is not an act of altruism but a prudent measure of enlightened self-interest. Helping Iranians dislodge the oppressive regime is a strategic move that benefits the U.S. and the global community, in particular, Israel.
How can the international community, led by the United States, contribute strategically to the cause of a Free Iran? In what ways does Iran’s liberation align with the enlightened self-interest of nations globally?
The suicide bombing that maims and kills dozens is often dismissed as an act of aberration by an individual deceived by ruthless, conniving handlers. But, no one would ever contemplate using the nuclear bomb when it entails the certainty of his destruction as well as his country; so goes the deterrence logic.
Logic, what logic? Fanaticism generated by belief defies logic at every bend. The zealot, end-of-the-worlder Shi’a militia has already climbed to a position of great power. The call to action is clear. The time for complacency and wishful thinking has passed. It’s time to unite, strategize, and act decisively in the pursuit of a Free Iran – a beacon of hope in a world threatened by the shadows of tyranny.
A quote from the late Ayatollah Khomeini, the founding father of the Islamic Republic, should suffice since his words are still considered authoritative in Iran: “We do not worship Iran; we worship Allah. Patriotism is another name for paganism. I say let this land [Iran] burn. I say let this land go up in smoke, provided Islam emerges triumphant in the rest of the world.”
What words do you still believe in: acquiesce, capitulate, surrender, or give up?
I keep pleading that we should immediately help the Iranian democratic opposition and send the death-bearer Mullahs back to their mosques. It is the world’s best and most urgent action.
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We welcome another program to our “podcast” lineup. Manch Talk with Tammy Simmons and Caral Gericke.”Will NH Senators Defend the Guard or Cave to The Military Industrial Complex?”
“Tammy is back after a vacation in FL. Carla gets to tell her about the NHGOP Annual Meeting, where several Republicans had their cars keyed by The Unhinged. We discuss the silly and sublime proposals and resolutions and why geoengineering is now, at least symbolically, banned in the Free State.
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Biden’s EPA has announced new rules for Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS), more commonly known as forever chemicals since they do not break down in the environment and build up in human bodies.
The EPA is implementing drinking water regulations that track only six PFAS, but new industry regulations will require comprehensive reporting by companies that generate or import these forever chemicals. Given that the EPA currently lists 12,034 PFAS, this nearly-impossible compliance will cost billions – and it won’t actually stop a single particle from contaminating the ecosystem.
A Brief History of Forever ChemicalsHumans create thousands of unnatural chemicals annually, but it can take a century to figure out if they are harmful. PFAS have been in widespread use since the 1940s and may linger in the ecosystem for … well, forever. A lot of public money is invested to develop new chemicals and technologies; almost none goes to researching their impact on human and animal health – let alone when combined in a toxic interactive soup of hundreds of thousands of untested compounds in the soil, air, water, and food supplies.
Americans may recall the “amazing” advent of Teflon frying pans, accompanied by scoffers who dismissed any concern that the black peelings consumed with scrambled eggs were of any health concern. As it turns out, the PFAS in Teflon are particularly damaging to young children (like lead paint chips), and ingesting them out of the frying pan and into the fire of a child’s belly was not well-advised. Techno-ignorance is not bliss.
Unfortunately, invisible forever chemicals are far more ubiquitous than frying pans. They’re found in drinking water supplies, food products and food packaging, household products, upholstery, clothing, paints, shampoo, dental floss, cosmetics, fertilizers, lubricants, pizza boxes, carpets, microwave popcorn bags, plastic water bottles, candy wrappers … and the list goes on almost as long as the chemicals themselves. These pollutants are just one category of toxins that are far more harmful to human health than carbon dioxide or other so-called “greenhouse gases,” yet Biden’s campaign to manufacture heat pumps, solar panels, and EVs on the taxpayer tab ensures that the forever chemical spigot will not only remain open for business but will, in fact, spew more environmental carcinogens and endocrine disrupters than have ever been generated before. It is far easier to generate them than to reclaim them from the bodies of trout, cows, or infants: For ending forever chemicals, the Biden plan appears to be never.
The lengthy menu of products and industries contaminated by forever chemicals is paralleled by a frightening list of still-to-be-discovered human health risks, which, according to the EPA, include (thus far): damage to the reproductive system including decreased fertility and high blood pressure in pregnant women; developmental effects in children including low birthweight, accelerated puberty, bone variations, and behavioral changes; elevated risks of certain cancers, including prostate, kidney, and testicular; compromised immune systems, including reduced vaccine response; increased cholesterol levels and obesity; interference with the body’s natural hormones (which could cause “gender fluidity,” but it is politically verboten to consider that as real science). No, this is not an upcoming John Carpenter horror flick – it’s the world we live in, and the air, food, and water Americans consume every day.
Biden’s Bureaucratic BoondogglesThe EPA rules will impose daunting compliance costs on corporations (passed on to consumers) without demanding any pause in the ongoing generation of forever chemicals, let alone in the environmentally apocalyptic but immensely profitable “renewables” manufacturing industry. This is the “complexification” pattern of the bureaucracy-feeding Biden-Harris administration. EPA tailpipe emission standards comprise 1,184 pages; new SEC environmental reporting rules total 886 pages.
The merely 43 pages of PFAS rules will likely impose even more costly compliance costs: The EPA requires “any person that manufactures … PFAS or PFAS-containing articles in any year since January 1, 2011, to electronically report information regarding PFAS uses, production volumes, disposal, exposures, and hazards” within 18-24 months. After the EPA collates the data a few years from now, it will “study” it:
EPA’s researchers and partners across the country are working hard to answer critical questions about PFAS:
- How to better and more efficiently detect and measure PFAS in our air, water, soil, and fish and wildlife
- How much people are exposed to PFAS
- How harmful PFAS are to people and the environment
- How to remove PFAS from drinking water
- How to manage and dispose of PFAS
The EPA is still studying how to remove forever chemicals from drinking water, yet has issued rules requiring public water companies to reduce levels below four parts per trillion with paltry public funding, is issuing no comprehensive “cease and desist” orders against industry culprits, and is investing hundreds of billions of borrowed taxpayer dollars in “public-private partnerships” to turbo-charge the manufacturing and installation of “renewable” energy gizmos that will renew their discharge of forever chemicals (and many other toxic pollutants) at disposal and when replacements are procured in the future.
These PFAS regulations are thus a costly dilly-dallying delay focused on remediation and disposal (someday), not reduced generation of known toxins now. What then of phthalates, BPA, atrazine and other herbicides, neonicotinoids and other (bee-killing) pesticides, microplastics, and glyphosate? The EPA claims it is “protecting people from toxic chemicals” but more resembles a team of Keystone Cops with a firehouse watching Rome burn while all its citizens sleep. This administration has pulled out all stops (often unconstitutionally) to conquer greenhouse gases, halt oil and gas pipelines and drilling, and unscientifically malign cows, but it does nothing about cell phones, flat screen TVs, lawnmowers, downhill skiing, or other recreational pollution. Ditto for PFAS: It is merely “identifying” them – like police listing known pedophiles then letting them roam free.
Human Toxins Versus Carbon DioxideIn contrast, consider the focus of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. running mate Nicole Shanahan, who seeks to prioritize cleaning up chemicals other than harmless watch-the-birdie carbon dioxide:
“We will find the answers to our most pressing health concerns within weeks, not decades if we have access to their databases. It is time to move out of the dark ages of medicine, we can solve the mysteries guarded by corporate influence. We can move from band aid solutions and we can end this chronic disease epidemic once and for all,” she said. “We can figure out what is making us sick, we just have to ask the right questions and apply the right tools. We have to rid science of the corporate bias that contaminates it today.”
This sounds more responsive than Biden’s Kamala-like regulatory word salad, always accompanied by economy-crippling regulations, subsidies for corporations that manufacture “renewables” that spew massive plumes of chemicals (including PFAS) into the environment in the name of saving it, and band aid “studies” that do absolutely less-than-zero to reduce chemical exposures of children, let alone end chronic disease. The federal government under Joe Biden has become too technocratic to accomplish much of anything, let alone retrieve toxins from the ecosystem.
Why isn’t Joe Biden championing net-zero PFAS?
John Klar is an Attorney, farmer, and author. Mostly farmer… And Regular Contributor to GraniteGrok and VermontGrok.
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This week you will have four opportunities to help pass bills to protect New Hampshire women and children from the serious abuses of the trans cult.
Related: NH Trans Rights Activists are Desperately Fighting to Stop the Tidal Wave of Bills to Protect Women and Children
On Monday, April 22 there will be hearings in the NH House Education Committee for Parental Rights Bill SB341, also known as the Honesty and Transparency in Education Act, at 10 am followed by Save Women’s Sports Bill SB375 at 10:45 am, both in the Legislative Office Building. The committee is scheduled to vote on these bills immediately after the hearings.
Take action TODAY on parental rights and to protect women’s sports.
On Thursday, April 25 there will be hearings in the Senate Judiciary Committee for HB396 at 9 am, to allow the state to segregate by biological sex in prisons, sports, and places of intimate privacy, and HB619 at 9:15 am, to ban genital gender reassignment surgery for kids. Both hearings will be held in Room 100 of the New Hampshire State House.
Take action on women’s rights and to protect children from irreversible genital surgery.
You know how awful it has been for women and children under the tyranny of the trans cult. This is your chance to do something about it!
This Milford mom has had it with transgender supremacy & her story is one of many like it. To protect girls’ safety & innocence, NH institutions must be able to differentiate individuals by biological sex. #HB396 clarifies this right. Show your support: https://t.co/VWcVMNKyJc… pic.twitter.com/q34aymicVP
— Cornerstone Action (@nhcornerstone) April 19, 2024
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Most of us have at least a rudimentary familiarity with yoga, either as a practitioner or someone who knows one. You can confirm that lots of poses are named after animals. To all Granite State yogis and yoginis, I present the “Hilliard Position.” Stay with me here.
In the recent Ortolano vs. City of Nashua et al. RTK case, Attorney Hilliard was the legal big gun hired by Attorney Bolton at nearly $1/2M to do his own job. Hilliard played “first chair,” and the “Hilliard Position” does indeed involve a chair, but specifically a wooden armchair. It is the posture that I observed him engaging in for cumulatively countless hours and minutes, laying in wait to say “objection” as many times per minute as a football ref blows the whistle. He could now probably benefit from an appointment with Tom Lanzara’s father or one of his siblings in their family of Chiropractors, but just humor me with the picture in your mind. Hilliard has both hands grasping the front ends of the armrests with his elbows pointing at the ceiling and his tush behind a few inches off the seat, and his spine at about a 45-degree angle from the floor.
With that image in mind, I can picture Attorney Lehmann already doing it now because of what I did and the first of two action items I am proposing. Again, stay with me on this. The Senate Judiciary Committee essentially “gave the Live Free or Die state the finger” in giving the RTK tax (HB 1002) their unanimous OTP blessing. Shame on them! My disappointment in Senators Gannon and Abbas and Committee Chair Carson is heartbreaking. Because of what Attorney Lehmann said on 3/13/24, 91A only applies to government bodies and quorums of them, I emailed him with a new RTK request. It’s for emails to the Senate Judiciary (and quorums of it) and the whole Senate (and quorums of it) from the following list of senders:
NH Municipal Association, including anyone doing its bidding
City of Nashua, including all current and former staff*
Lobbyists and lobbying groups working for the City of Nashua
Nashua’s 27 state reps plus Rosenwald
All House Judiciary members
Karen Karwocki and Jennifer Foor, both House Judiciary staffers
All sponsors of HB 1002
Governor Sununu and his staff*
AG Formella and his staff*
*Staff includes all elected, appointed and hired positions.
If you, the reader, live in a community “in RTK distress,” please model your own email to Attorney Lehmann after mine, but customized appropriately. RTK distress would include communities that have reps that voted the wrong way on HB 1002, such as Windham and Rochester. Yeah, Senator Gray and Regina need to hear from YOU!
While Gannon, Abbas, and “Commander Sharon” need to be shamed and primaried, a separate discussion is in order, but let’s move on to the other action item, which is an all-hands-on-deck one.
It’s to email YOUR senator and get people you know outside of the Grok Faithful to email theirs, no matter who it is. If it’s one of the Naughty Three mentioned here or Tim Lang (a supporter of this awful bill), politely ask them to change their minds. If it’s one of the ten members of the enemy camp, remind them that they work for you, especially if it’s Attorney Twitley, who’s now seeking higher office (still wanting to WORK FOR YOU). That leaves ten other Rs out of the 24. Be polite and use one or more of the many talking points on why HB 1002 is a bad bill. Refer to personal experience, if applicable. If you need help with that, it’s available in the form of many resources, including, but not limited to, older articles, testimonies in committee hearings on January 17 (House Judiciary) and April 9 (Senate Judiciary), or RTK guru Laurie Ortolano’s page.
Laurie was a recent guest on Lumberjack Logic and Speaking with the Senator.
And yes, Kevin is one of the ten other Rs that I referenced, and I’m aware that he is listed as a cosponsor, which he addresses in his show with Laurie. While I don’t agree with his philosophy on cosponsorship, it is what it is and I’ll leave it at that.
I will finish by providing some more tools for encouraging people outside the echo chamber to use them. The word “spoonfeeding” has a derogatory sound to it, so let’s call it a “job aid” at NH dot gov. If people in your sphere of influence don’t know who their senator is, they are to go to NH dot gov and hover over the word GOVERNMENT and click on “who is my legislator?” A map of NH will appear, and they can follow the directions. If you know where they live, just bookmark this link from the Senate homepage.
A drop-down menu with every town and city will appear, and you can look it up yourself, tell them who it is, and provide their email addresses. If you’re using a phone, you can figure out how to do it that way. I give your intelligence the benefit of the doubt. You are, after all, still reading this.
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On April 17, I testified to the NH Senate HHS Committee in favor of Rep. Jim Kofalt’s bill HB1660 which would ban using Medicaid to pay for gender reassignment surgery for kids. Rep. Kofalt and I were the only two to testify in favor of the bill. Not forcing taxpayers to fund irreversible surgeries for gender-confused kids is the least the NH legislature can do to protect children.
Related: NH Trans Rights Activists are Desperately Fighting to Stop the Tidal Wave of Bills to Protect Women and Children
Here is my testimony.
I am a grandmother from Nashua and I am testifying in support of HB1660 to help protect gender-confused teens from irreversible gender reassignment surgery.
I support this bill because as it says in HB619, “Adolescent genital gender reassignment surgery generally lacks both adequate information for informed consent and involves a high risk of coercion for parental consent when parents believe that they are faced with a choice between their child committing suicide or consenting to their child’s genital gender reassignment surgeries.”
It’s natural for teenagers to want to individuate and make a new path separate from their families and they want to stand out from their peers. Those of us who are neurodiverse have a much tougher time. We have trouble fitting in. We are painfully aware that we aren’t living up to our potential. We are bullied and we are excluded from so much. The LGBTQ groups invite neurodiverse kids in and love-bomb them and make them feel special. Identifying as transgender helps them explain why they are struggling.
Before their parents realize what is happening, their child is asking for medical transition and threatening to commit suicide if the parents don’t allow it. Parents feel backed into a corner. They don’t want to lose their child so under great duress they may agree to hormones and surgery.
We know so many parents and kids that have gone through this and in hindsight they realize it was the wrong decision. New Hampshire taxpayers should not be paying for these irreversible procedures. We should be doing everything we can to prevent it and help gender-confused kids and teens get the care they need for their mental health without medical transition.
Please vote OTP on HB1660 to protect gender-confused kids.
After I testified, Sen. Kevin Avard asked about the bullying I had received from the Trans Rights Activists in the NH State House. Sen. Becky Whitley asked what I thought of reports that bills like this are correlated with increased hate crimes in other states.
Watch my testimony and my exchange with Senators Avard and Whitley.
“Parents feel backed into a corner. They don’t want to lose their child, so under great duress they agree to hormones and surgery.” @BethRS62 testifies for SB1660, which would ban using Medicaid for pediatric sex trait modification surgery. #NHPolitics pic.twitter.com/W94tQbEKuV
— Sidewalk Steve (@Sidewalk_Steve) April 17, 2024
Linds Jakow of 603 Equality, who identifies as “non-binary,” testified that she was glad she had her breasts amputated in her 20s.
“As a young teen, I watched these mini-documentaries where trans men got top surgery, and felt extremely jealous.” Child transing lobbyist Linds Jakows testifies against HB1660, which would ban using Medicaid for gender reassignment surgeries for minors. #NHPolitics pic.twitter.com/XFV8ERf68F
— Sidewalk Steve (@Sidewalk_Steve) April 18, 2024
Dartmouth Health had an unexpected response to the bill.
Undramatic testimony. Last year @DartmouthHealth claimed that child-transing laws would cause suicides. This year media relations head Courtney Tanner is concerned about hypospadias repair. Why tone it down? The lawsuit? The Cass Review? HB1660 would stop Medicaid from paying… pic.twitter.com/X32R3tF7Kd
— Sidewalk Steve (@Sidewalk_Steve) April 19, 2024
The Senate HHS Committee is still accepting testimony on HB1660. Email your testimony in support of the bill to Regina.Birdsell@leg.state.nh.us, Kevin.Avard@leg.state.nh.us, Jeb.Bradley@leg.state.nh.us, Becky.Whitley@leg.state.nh.us, Suzanne.Prentiss@leg.state.nh.us, cameron.lapine@leg.state.nh.us
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First, credit where credit is due. Excellent piece in NH-NeverTrump Journal exposing how broadly and deeply the Left has implanted DEI … that lovely euphemism for anti-white racism that the NHGOP is afraid to call anti-white racism … into public education.
For example, Manchester employs a Tina Philbotte as the Manchester School District’s “Chief Equity Officer” at $120,000/year, TWICE the average salary of a teacher. And to do what? As you can see below, to indoctrinate students in Manchester public schools with anti-white racism:
Perhaps Manchester Mayor Ruais could explain to us what, for example, an “abolitionist educator” is and does? If he knows. According to Wikipedia:
And while you are at it, Mayor Ruais perhaps you could share your thoughts on “microaggressions,” or more generally on Ms. Philibotte NOT treating people as individuals, but instead categorizing them according to their skin-color:
The NH-NeverTrump Journal piece contains other examples of individuals like Tina Philibotte being paid massive salaries to indoctrinate children with CRT, DEI, BLM and whatever other wonderful euphemisms exist for anti-white racism. For example, the Oyster River School District’s analogue to Tina Philibotte:
Blansett’s “academic interests” include “challenging anti-Blackness and colonization ideology and theorizing/implementing accessible and liberatory practices.”
Rachael Blansett
And even before she came to New Hampshire, Blansett was speaking out for what she sees as racial justice. During a school board meeting in 2022, first reported by Granite Grok, it was revealed she recorded podcasts and posted comments on social media featuring messages like, “White people are not OK,” and “White people don’t wash their legs, and can’t dance.”
Why has not the NHGOP, which supposedly controls all three branches of State government, not prohibited anti-white racism … whether categorized as DEI, abolitionism, etc., … from being taught in New Hampshire’s public schools? And don’t tell me: LOCAL CONTROL. Jason Osborne and the other imposter-Republican “leaders” in the House are working feverishly to outlaw single family zoning, so they obviously do NOT really believe in local control.
And it is not just local school districts where taxpayers are being forced to subsidize “abolitionist teaching,” etc., etc., etc. … it’s UNH too:
UNH recently underwent a punishing round of layoffs and cuts to save $14 million in the budget. While the university’s art museum and journalism program, which has produced Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters, were affected, there appear to be no cuts to the university’s DEI programs. UNH pays at least $1 million a year in salaries for the DEI program staffers.
Why is the NHGOP funding anti-white racism at UNH, in addition to allowing local school districts to push anti-white racism? Here is why. Its “leaders” either don’t think it is a priority issue or they are afraid to take on the diversity-is-our-strength grifters or, worse, they actually buy into the “diversity-is-our-strength” canard. One such “leader,” Big Jo(k)e Sweeney:
A parental bill-of-rights is not going to get anti-white racism out of public schools … a law prohibiting DEI directors, equity officers, etc., etc., etc. is what is needed. But, apparently, Jo(k)e Sweeney … that self-proclaimed fiscal conservative … either supports or doesn’t have the nuts to take on the exceedingly well compensated “DEI”-bureaucracy.
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If you are running for the NH House (or even just thinking about it) and you want help on everything from signs to the mechanics of campaigning in NH, fundraising, door-knocking, what to expect, issues support, and more, you need to sign up for the Free Training offered by The 603 Alliance.
It’s free. It’s one day. They feed you. You learn from people who have run campaigns for the NH House (and won). And there are three opportunities over the next few months to sign up for this immersive one-day class.
If you are a Republican who is running or thinking about running, you should take advantage of any training, but you definitely do not want to miss this one. The 603 Alliance has been training candidates for the NH House for years, many of whom get elected and a few of whom have even joined our Board.
You are not going to get a better grasp of what is needed and expected and how to win your primary (if you have one) and your election in November.
Pick one of these three dates.
Saturday, April 27th, in Manchester, 8:30 AM to 5 PM
Saturday, May 18th, in Concord, 8:30 AM to 5 PM
Saturday, June 22nd, in Concord, 8:30 AM to 5 PM
Email the 603 Alliance and let them know which training you’d like to attend. We still have some space for the April 27th training if that works best for you.
Note: The 603 Alliance is your primary source for candidate campaign training in NH in 2024 (the NHGOP will be offering training for Poll Watchers on May 2).
But Wait—there’s More. Your path to the state house doesn’t end there. You can also attend the Issues Briefing Summit, an evening event (with food) that will help you grasp the things voters are likely to ask you when you engage them and what you’re likely to see coming up in Concord when you win.
Class candidates can also get access to campaign resources and past instruction, as well as invitations to future Zoom calls throughout the campaign season to help with questions and issues or connect you with resources.
You register for the one-day training and get access to experienced candidates and activists all the way to election day.
Email today, and you can still get into the April 27th training in Manchester. Or sign up for a later date.
We look forward to seeing you there and sworn into office for the coming legislative session.
Note: Please share this in your in-person and online local groups and local town committees
Disclosure: I am a long-time member of the board of directors of The 603 Alliance.
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Listening to the experts analyze the Israeli attack on Iran on Friday morning, you could hear one common thread, and it was not complimentary of the Biden Administration. The assessment is that Biden has no military or diplomatic acumen, which is also true for his team. Biden has America involved in two wars involving our allies.
There has been no wavering on Ukraine as Biden cannot be more supportive. He has gone back to the well many times for funding for Ukraine, and many will say with conviction that he has a vested interest in Ukraine funding as a percentage is kicked back to him and the Democrats. There is no end in sight for the Ukraine/Russia conflict, nor a quest for more funding.
Israel is a different story for Biden. He initially declared unconditional support for Netanyahu and Israel after the October 7 attack by Hamas. Still, things changed quickly as the political climate in America shifted support to Hamas and Palestine and a break in our longtime support for Israel. The protests on college campuses in support of Hamas and Palestine and against Biden’s support of Israel have forced Biden to make the political shift rather than show a spine and continue support of Israel. Biden would rather turn his back on Israel in exchange for the vote of the young protesters and their supporters.
Israel’s actions this week speak volumes about how they view Joe Biden. Biden has been calling for restraint and no retaliation by Israel against Iran, which attacked Israel last weekend. Netanyahu would make no comment saying he would yield to the American wishes. The Israel attack on Iran Friday was a message to both Iran and America. Israel will defend itself, as she should. The Israel attack was small and strategic. They sent drones into Iran’s nuclear region, telling Iran we can hit you where and when we want. Israel did not notify Biden before the attack.
Biden has announced a new round of sanctions on Iran because of their direct attack on Israel. This is not Iran’s first attack against Israel, as they have been attacking using their proxies, but this attack was the first to emanate from Iranian soil. These sanctions are insignificant and do not negate the favorable actions that Biden took on Day 1 to reverse stringent sanctions placed on Iran by Donald Trump. Trump had put a stranglehold on Iran by freezing Iranian money in American banks and preventing Iran from selling oil to Russia, China, or Iraq. These actions cut off significant sources of cash needed by Iran for its nuclear program and to support terrorism.
Biden restored all of these primarily because they were Trump’s decisions. Biden and Blinken both claim that Trump facilitated Iran’s nuclear program by voiding the Iran Nuclear Agreement. That is an outright lie. Trump shut off the funds and the agreement, which was condoning Iran achieving a nuclear warhead. Biden negated both of those. He has freed billions in a combination of relaxed sanctions and oil income from our adversaries. Biden and Blinken are playing a game of projection and gaslighting. Now, those are two games this administration is proficient.
Sanctions is a powerful but complex word. A political hack like Biden uses it to make an impact, as most people perceive sanctions to cripple a country and its economy. There are many levels of sanctions, and those used by Biden on Iran are minor and will have little impact on the biggest sponsor of terrorism in the world.
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