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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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UPDATED: An orange flag will be worn by all of the Oscars attendees in support of gun control.

The celebrities will be making a political statement as the symbols are a show of support for the gun control advocacy group Everytown for Gun Safety. According to their website, Everytown “is a movement of Americans working together to end gun violence and build safer communities” founded by Michael Bloomberg. The pins have been sent to The Wall Group, a key agency, and will be distributed prior to the red carpet. According to the Hollywood Reporter, the pins will likely feature the slogan used by Parkland shooting survivors, “#NeverAgain.”

Everytown is an Astroturf outfit bankrolled by former NYC mayor and billionaire Bloomberg who hates guns (even as he’s surrounded by armed guards all the time). They exist, not for ending gun violence but for ending gun violence via complete civilian disarmament.

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Thank you, Lakes Region Planning Commission Executive Director Jeffrey Hayes for giving us a glimpse under the curtain! In this relatively short clip, he proves TWO things:

• Regionalization is still being pushed by NH’s “fourth level of Government” (the others being local, county, and State) even as we were hammered that it doesn’t exist
• A GREAT example of what I’ve been saying for years – bureaucracies exist to grown beyond their underlying and authorizing State statutes.  Here, Jeffrey Hayes seeming wants to turn the LRPC from being an advisory organization to a money making one by making it “topmost” and charging the underlying (and soon to be subordinate) towns money for stuff.

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Absolute idiocy – and it isn’t just stopping on college campuses as we are starting to see this nonsense spilling out into what used to be our common Civil Society.  Look, you want to call yourself something, knock yourself out.  Expecting the rest of us to go along with this absurdity to call you something that the rest of us go “huh?” and going all nutty about it? Especially when on a whim, you expect us all to keep up with your life so we’d know when we have to call you something else?

‘Pronouns matter’: Georgia college suggests ‘ne’ and ‘ve’ as gender-neutral words

The LGBT Resource Center at a Georgia college may want to pay a visit to the English department after a new controversial pamphlet lists several gender pronouns as “ne,” “ve,” and “ey.” The words are featured in a pamphlet titled “Pronouns Matter: A guide to using gender neutral pronouns” that administrators handed out in Kennesaw State University’s Student Center Tuesday, as reported by CampusReform.org.

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“…the task force was told to consider “new progressive revenue sources,…”

I just slowly shake my head.  We’ve covered Seattle’s silliness (except it really is disheartening) over the years as Statism / Socialism seems to have grabbed hard on its leaders (at least one is outright and proud Socialist) as it deploys policies that keep screwing over its residents instead of getting tarred and feathered (here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here just for starters).  And again, the Seattle Socialists have decided that they know better how to spend other peoples’ money better than they do and are going to target “rich” companies and tax them on their head counts.  No, not just annually but EVERY HOUR for EVERY EMPLOYEE (reformatted, emphasis mine):

Seattle task force recommends ‘head tax’ to fund help for homeless

A Seattle task force is recommending the City Council adopt a $75 million-per-year “head tax” on high-grossing businesses to help address homelessness. Members of the community panel set up by the council reached consensus during their last meeting Thursday after about two months of work.  The council narrowly rejected a $25 million-per-year head tax (also called an employee-hours tax) in November, instead vowing to revisit the issue and pass a tax this year after more study by the task force.

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They have to – most of them are seemingly rather insecure and only comfortable living in alternative realities acting like they are someone else but believe that gives them the right to morally preen in front of the rest of us.

On this topic, they’d have a bit more credibility if they fired all those bodyguards that have firearms but they haven’t seem to have figured out that little bit of irony.

(H/T: BizPac Review)

UPDATE: From the Daily Caller

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Memorable line from the piece: “”… believes if he’d grabbed the smaller gun, the threat would have been less effective and he would have ended up shooting the man“

So a big black scary rifle (of only medium caliber) stopped a thug without firing a shot: deterrence through strength! Reformatted, emphasis mine:

Dave Thomas was getting ready for work Monday afternoon when he heard women screaming in his apartment building in Oswego. 

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SO MUCH FOR THE NARRATIVE: Report: Parkland Shooter Did Not Use High Capacity Magazines. “The gunman used only 10-round magazines. The Parkland shooter did not use magazines larger than 10 rounds, but gun reform lobbyists are calling on lawmakers to ban higher capacity magazines after the Valentine’s Day tragedy.”

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I’M SORRY, BUT IF YOUR FIRST THOUGHT UPON SEEING A STATUE OF A GORILLA INVOLVES BLACK PEOPLE, then you’re the racist.

It took the townfolks to protest this stupidity to get it put back.

A statue of a gorilla in a community playground was removed because some people found the children’s plaything racially insensitive. The gorilla, which had stood for 19 years in the playground in Corsicana, Texas, was removed by city workers.

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Poll: 82% Of Dems Favor Banning All Semiautomatic Weapons, Evenly Split On Banning All Guns

YouGov asked people whether they favor or oppose banning semiautomatic weapons. Note: Not semiautomatic rifles, which some might incorrectly but understandably treat as a question about AR-15s or “assault weapons.” YouGov asked about semiautomatic weapons. That means handguns too.

Which basically means around 90-95% of commonly held firearms by citizens.  This is confiscation and the drumbeat

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I’ll just leave this here and say that SB193, NH’s ESA bill, ought to be passed:

DC’s Projected High School Graduation Rate Drops To 42%

Washington, DC’s high school graduation rate is projected to drop by as much as 31% this year, with just 42% of seniors currently on track to receive a diploma. From the Washington Post:

Data released Thursday by D.C. Public Schools show that 42 percent of seniors attending traditional public schools are on track to graduate, while 19 percent are considered “moderately off-track,” meaning they could still earn enough credits to earn a diploma.

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That’s why I’m not interested in arguing with people who want to leave me defenseless against the next demonic attack … er … mass shooting. Most pro-gun commentators, including me, figured out a while back that the Organized Left had long wanted to turn the USA into a full-blown Leftist Paradise — one likely to be replete with cartels and jihadists armed with AK-47s and the like, true automatic rifles — have long had one fact which makes the transformation an iffy proposition: personal and legal ownership of firearms.

I said the following in 2003, the first year I started blogging:

It’s been demonstrated that states which have liberal (not Liberal) CCW regulations tend to have lower violent crime rates, so what could be the purpose of not adopting these regulations? Why would a government not want its citizens to be able to protect themselves?

• The government may want the average citizen to depend on the government for his/her protection. This will plant the idea that citizens can count on the government for nearly all of their needs. No, it doesn’t matter how demonstrably false the idea is. As we’ve seen in countless other matters, as long as the lie seed is planted, the lie will flourish, serenely unhindered by the facts.

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Seriously?  These nitwits think that merely changing a sign is going to give them the mantle of “inclusivity” (emphasis mine, reformated)?

The Boston Red Sox are asking the city of Boston to change Yawkey Way back to its original name, Jersey Street. The name has been under fire for years for its connection to what the team’s principal owner has said is the franchise’s complicated racial past under former owner Tom Yawkey.  Yawkey Way is the street Fenway Park is on.

Yawkey owned the Red Sox from 1933 to 1976 and presided over the last franchise in Major League Baseball to field a black player. That was in 1959, more than a decade after Jackie Robinson played for the Dodgers. The team said Wednesday that restoring Jersey Street shows that Fenway Park is “inclusive and welcoming to all.” Yawkey died in 1976. The street was named for him in 1977.

Got news fer ya – someone is always going to be first and someone is always going to be last.  Taking 40 years to

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Rasmussen Reports (reformatted, emphasis mine):

Most Americans think government error is more responsible than a lack of gun control for the Valentine’s Day massacre at a Florida high school.

• 54% of American Adults believe the failure of government agencies to respond to numerous warning signs from the prospective killer is more to blame for the mass shooting. Thirty-three percent (33%) attribute the deaths more to a lack of adequate gun control. Eleven percent (11%) opt for something else.
• Among Americans who have children of elementary or secondary school age, 61% think the government is more to blame. Just 23% of these adults fault a lack of adequate gun control more.
• Forty-one percent (41%) of Americans believe stricter gun control laws would do the most to reduce the number of mass murders, while just as many (40%) say more action to treat mental health issues would make the biggest difference.

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With unprecedented speed, the Trump administration has already implemented nearly two-thirds of the 334 agenda items called for by the Heritage Foundation, a pace faster than former President Reagan who embraced the conservative think tank’s legendary “Mandate for Leadership” blueprint.  At this stage of his presidency, Reagan had completed 49 percent of the Heritage policy recommendations. “We’re blown away,” Binion said in an interview. Trump, he said, “is very active, very conservative, and very effective.”

(Reformatted, emphasis mine throughout). Again, if you semi-ignore what he says and tweets and concentrate on what has been done, for a non-conservative President, he’s pretty conservative and I’ve been pleasantly pleased when you look at Trump from that viewpoint.

What’s more, he said, Trump hasn’t just focused on one agenda area, but he and his team has pushed through administrative moves on foreign policy, deregulation, immigration, tax reform and health care, moves often ignored by the media. “It is a huge volume that his administration has worked on and it is a huge spectrum of issues,” said Binion. His report card jibes with one from the West Wing which showed at the end of the year that the administration has scored 81 major achievements slashed at least 11 major legacy items of former President Barack Obama.

Which is ticking off Obama, his former Administration members, and Socialists in general.  Which is fine by me as it was one of the reasons I voted for him – Obama went WAY too far to the Left – HARD Left.  Yet, the MSM tried to paint him as a “moderate”.  But then again, the MSM has gone Left as well.

What are those “wins”?

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