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Yep, it’s that time of year, and in my hamlet, only the BudComm has contested races – go figure!  The “Gilford Democrats” are all up in arms thinking that the BudComm members are going to take the their School Board budget and almost all of them are on the Government payroll (or family members are).  Joe Wernig, who takes a paycheck from the School Board, threatened the BudComm members that were up for re-election to the effect of “we WILL take your seats” during the Public Session for the budget.  This was handed to me via loyal reader (from Facebook, reformatted, emphasis mine):

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“The BudComm is the last bastion to protect taxpayers wallets”; that’s what I say when asked what is the purpose of the Gilford Budget Committee. It takes into account, not just one or two “communities” within Gilford, but the entire community needs, wants – and what it can afford. While the Selectmen and School Board are concerned with their communities/functions, the BudComm is the only fiscal entity that takes everyone into account from the richest to the poorest, from the most active to those that just simply want to call Gilford “home” and otherwise wish to be left alone, and everyone else in between.

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Hollywood’s Oscars Night Tanks as NRA Membership Skyrockets

The audience for ABC’s Sunday annual telecast of the Oscars declined for a fourth consecutive year, according to Nielsen data, dropping to an all-time low of 26.5 million viewers. The dip of nearly 20% from last year put it under the previous low of 32 million in 2008.

Not unexpected – when those that believe in the Democrat Progressive thesis that the American melting pot has swirled down the toilet bowl and MUST be replaced by their Identity Group Politics, why would they be surprised when their opposition takes up the same in their own defense? Did they believe that there would be no reaction – or did they expect only sheeple that would lay down and yelp “thank you, sirs, may I have another (classic Animal House reference)”?

In Rejecting U.S. Immigration Law, California Has A Role Model: The Confederacy

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The machinations of the Windham School Board concerning their Transgender Policy JBAB, for whatever reason, still bugs the heck out me. I really think that a lot of it is summed up in this part of the policy which does two dastardly actions:

• Demands, by the Government board, coerced speech on the part of students and staff, in support of a Progressive policy that many reject
• Provides for punishment if said folks decide to not follow said mandatory coerced speech

To wit (emphasis mine):

C. Names/Pronouns

A student has the right to be addressed by a name or pronoun that corresponds to the student’s gender identity.  A Court-order name or gender change is not required and the student need not change his or her official records.  The intentional or persistent refusal to respect a student’s gender identity (for example, intentionally referring to the student by a name or pronoun that does not correspond to the student’s gender identity) is a violation of this policy.

“Live Free or Die“, the concept of Individual Liberty and Freedom, does not exist with Rob Breton, Dennis Senibaldi, Keleigh McAllister, and Daniel Popovici-Muller  (Tom Murray, the only Conservative on the Windham School Board, voted against it seeing it for what it is – entrenching a Progressive morality and displacing Traditional Norms).

So, I just issued a second RSA 91-A Right To Know demand; I am pretty sure that it won’t be too well received:

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So, the kids in high schools (and lower) all want to have a breath of fresh air on Wednesday the 14th to commemorate the 17 lives that were lost in South Florida and to protest that they aren’t safe because a former (expelled) student shot up his classmates.  Are they protesting him?  Nope.  Are they protesting the Broward County Sheriff whose deputies went to his house over 40 times because of alleged problems? Nope.  Are they protesting the policy in which the Obama Administration paid off the county, the locals, and the school district to lower the stats of kids being arrested which allowed this sociopath to skip free? Nope. Are they protesting the cowardly deputies that stayed outside while he was killing his fellow students?  Nope. Are they protesting all of this government failure that would have put him on the prohibited NICS list so that he couldn’t buy a gun in the first place?

Nope.

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I have been remiss on keeping up on the two RSA 91-A demands that I have made lately.  This one, concerning the Windham School Board, I believe is the more important one:

Please know that this is a formal RSA 91-A request for all materials (e.g., hardcopy, softcopy, emails, documents, voicemails, minute meetings (draft and approved) and videos, et al) pertaining to how your Policy BGB (“Policy Adoption”) was utilized in approving and adopting your Policy JBAB (“Transgender and Gender Non-conforming Students”). This is also a formal demand that any and all responsive materials are to be retained and not to be deleted.

This RSA 91-a is looking for actual source materials that would prove that Policy BGB was followed to the letter (as opposed to someone merely stating “we followed our procedure”). What was your timeline of events, in detail, with respect to hewing to your Policy BGB for Policy JBAB:

And it goes on for the particulars.  Well, I got an answer back and it WAS within the 5 business day window allowed by the law.  Here it is:

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The original post is here – the relevant background (reformatted):

That would be city planner Peter Britz. Nice to not scare people – and in the same article, decides to do exactly that: City planning staff has estimated that Portsmouth will see sea water rise 2 feet by 2050 and 6 feet by 2100, Britz said.

Right – that would be 0.75? per year for the next 32 years.  Scary numbers, eh?  Being that I can’t help myself, I decided to bring up a couple numbers of my own:

Methinks Peter Britz needs to go back to 3rd grade for a remedial class in simple arithmetic.  NOAA is reporting that the Atlantic Coast off NH is rising at a whole 0-3mm / year. Let’s take the worst case of 3mm / year. Over 32 years (2050, where he says that the rise will be TWO FEET!), that translates to…..drum roll please…….3 inches. 3mm = 0.11811?.

By 2100, that would be almost 10 inches. Yep, I guess that close enough 6 feet (72?), by golly! Start screaming “WE’RE DOOMED!”

And then I issued a RSA 91-A (Right To Know or RTK) request to them (the relevant parts):

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I’m following up on the Op-Ed by Cornerstone post with the actual votes by Republicans.  Here are the Republicans that voted for “prohibiting discrimination based on gender identity” and have, with their vote, helped to solidify and codify the Progressive Identity Politics group – another nail in the coffin of E Pluribus Unum or, if you prefer, a melting pot.  This is not about discrimination this was about putting another notch on the Democrat handle – “look what we made the Republicans do FOR us” (like raising the gas tax of a few years ago).

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Again, I’m following up on the Op-Ed by Cornerstone post with the actual votes by Republicans.  Here are the Republicans that voted against HB1532 ( “prohibiting gender reassignment surgery for minors.” – This means that House members want taxpayers to be forced to participate in irreversible and unnecessary surgery and chemical treatments for minors).  Yet, the House voted to up the marriage age; young hetersexual marriage (before 16) bad but young (and younger) genital mutilation (because that’s what happens during reassignment and chemical treatments) is perfectly fine.

Do they ever think cohesively? As in one thing is chained to others?

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So now the Republican are assisting the Democrats in shoving NH closer and closer to a broad-based tax?  Jeb Bradley and Chuck Morse have all but said it by trying to show what was their MAHvelous Obamacare Medicaid Expansion plan into “managed care” plans (anyone else have a bad experience with HMOs in the past?  Bueller? Bueller?) in trying to contain costs they incurred by shoving 50,000 additional able-bodied workers (many, many already covered by private insurance) onto the Public Dole.  And now the R’s have decided that Federal / NH taxpayers are going to give up even more for what should be elective surgery (or at the least, their costs instead of our costs).

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Former US Speaker of the House Tip O’Neal (D-MA) famously said of national politics “ALL politics is local”.  Early in ‘Grok history, we turned that around to “Politics: if it is happening here, it’s happening in your town, too” as we described some of the political machinations of our little hamlet and surrounding areas.  I’ve been blogging about Windham’s School Board (hi Rob Breton, Dennis Senibaldi!) for a bit now over their ramming of their Transgender policy down the conservative throats of the residents there – making transgender kids, a la the Democrat / Progressive / Socialist methods, a protected political class and wiping out any vestige of the Normal kids’ privacy rights.  Oh, they wrap it up in such delicate, smooth talking language but as I pointed out earlier, they then threaten anyone in the District that doesn’t toe their line about coerced speech.  More on that later.

So in the latest “contract” with the Windham School Board, the older, more experienced, and RICHER teachers decided to shive their younger, less experienced, and poorer teachers by grabbing all of the cash of the newest and bloated teachers contract.

Sidenote: That same group of adults (writ large) always couches their arguments in saying “it’s for the children” as if that covers all the holes in all of their arguments.  It is but one of the Political Correctness Sledgehammers that the Left uses to silence dissent of all kinds because that Sledgehammer comes smacking down into their PC Anvil if you even DARE to disagree called “What, you HATE CHILDREN??”.  It’s what they say when

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