A plucky berg in California and its Mayor Pro-tem, a descendant of Japanese immigrants, has moved to protect local businesses from the trap set by the state.

Los Alamitos, the second smallest city in Orange County, just passed a huge ordinance asserting the city’s compliance with the United States Constitution. Specifically, in an unprecedented yet necessary state, the council voted to opt out of the immoral, unconstitutional mandates of SB 54, aka the California “Values” Act or Sanctuary State law.

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School Choice for New Hampshire has a post up about School Districts that ask more of Home Schoolers and their families than the law allows. You’ll see a few of the “usual suspects,” district who get a lot of attention from the bloggers around our quaint little shop. What’s more important here, however, is that you review the issues being reported and the links to the actual statute, so you can explore whether your district is breaking the law by asking for things that are not required.

It appears that hostile districts deliberately prey upon unaware home-educating families, hoping to take advantage of their trust.

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The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) has announced a hotline,

“…to help students who have been harassed, intimidated or bullied for resisting peer pressure to join the wave of protests against guns and the right to keep and bear arms.”

As Bearing Arms Notes, this is (sadly) necessary,”…because of the actions of some school administrators (National Walkout), the dividing line has been drawn. Now people know, and that makes it possible to single out students who hold the “wrong” opinions.

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Nothing says we are one with your plight than limousine liberals with millions in the bank (earning millions) and living large holding a pow-wow on inequality.

On Monday evening, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Michael Moore, and economist Darrick Hamilton hosted a townhall on inequality in America. This makes sense, since they should know an awful lot about it: Sanders owns three homes, Michael Moore owned nine homes as of 2014 and was worth $50 million then, Warren lives in a $2.4 million home and is worth between $3.7 and $10 million herself. All three of them are intent on rectifying the financial imbalances in America by taxing people who make less than they do to pay people who make even less than that, presumably.

Classic elitist ruling class group-think. We’re rich so we must know what poor people need – government to steal for them.

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As Y’all know, I’ve been trying to better understand the RSAs (NH Statutes, especially RSA 32 and RSA 40 that govern Budgeting and Budget Committees) this past year.  Read the RSAs, talk with a couple of lawyers, talk with Legislators, talk with the Dept of Revenue Administration – I learned that our BudComm was not obeying the RSA that said that we SHALL do year-round budget oversight.  Well, being a programmer, I am the quintessential one – work really heard in order to “be lazy” later on (yeah, that second part never seems to come around but it’s nice to lie to ourselves once in a while).  So, instead of actually going to a meeting (time, my friends, time), I figured that automating it would be better – getting atomic level data at the GL account level, storing it off, creating both snapshots, time sequenced, and analytic results and then just send out the “run of the mill” and “anomaly” reports out automatically.

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By the Belknap County Delegation (all of the NH House Representatives)

RESOLUTION

BE IT RESOLVED by the county convention of Belknap County, New Hampshire, that, pursuant to §399.14 (c) of the New Hampshire Laws of 1959, Chapter 399, as amended, the Gunstock Area Commission is hereby required to turn over to Belknap County, within 45 days after the close of each fiscal year, any sums accumulated and on hand at the end of the fiscal year in excess of twenty-five percent (25%) of the average gross income of the three (3) immediately preceding fiscal years, not required for the payment of outstanding bills or amortization of outstanding indebtedness; and this requirement shall be deemed to be a continuing requirement unless and until such time as this resolution is amended or revoked by a majority vote of the Belknap County Convention.

Resolution Adopted on March 20, 2018

By a vote of 8 to 7.

Backstory by Skip: Gunstock Ski Area in Belknap County

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“This is especially relevant when considering where to draw the line between what constitutes parents’ responsibilities and a school’s.”

Wouldn’t it be great if NH schools had this outlook on who is responsible for what, and what the school’s boundaries are?  In the context of that question, I remind you that my soon-to-be daughter in law, while taking her teaching classes, was told by the professor “don’t trust the parents” – a theme I have heard AND seen a lot lately that seem to believe that OUR kids are really theirs via a collectivist outlook of “it takes a village” (so they belong to the village).

Thus, this came as a great relief – a school that knows its place and its mission:

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Yesterday, the New Hampshire Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on House Bill 1739 (HB 1739), AN ACT prohibiting female genital mutilation.  The hearing was led by testimony from the bill’s main sponsor, Representative Victoria Sullivan (R-Manchester).

Sullivan spoke about the barbaric practice and explained that female genital mutilation (FGM) is not a religious-based practice but that it is cultural based:

According to the World Health Organization, there is no medical reason to have this procedure. It is considered a human rights violation. FGM is not a religious ritual as is commonly thought. In fact, it pre-dates most organized religion. This is a cultural practice that mutilates the genitals of young girls as a way to control their sexuality. This barbaric procedure often results in severe bleeding, lifelong problems urinating, infections, painful intercourse, cysts later in life, complications in childbirth, increased risk of newborn fatalities and death of the mother during delivery.

Sullivan’s goal is to protect young girls from this horrific practice that is both physically and emotionally damaging to them for the rest of their lives.

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Kurt Schlichter has a new piece at Townhall titled, “The Joy and Necessity of Driving Liberals Nuts,” which is not at all unlike what we do around here. With pleasure, I might add.

But is that all this is? Is our movement simply about slamming the people we’re annoyed at and nothing more?

Of course not.

Napoleon (allegedly) warned that you should never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake, and dismissing your opponent – especially one who snatched away the presidency from The Smartest Women in the History of Ever – is always a grave strategic error. But we can safely discuss it here because they won’t listen.

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A few years ago Mount Holyoke College announced it would no longer permit any presentation of The Vagina Monologues because,

“at its core, the show offers an extremely narrow perspective on what it means to be a woman … Gender is a wide and varied experience, one that cannot simply be reduced to biological or anatomical distinctions, and many of us who have participated in the show have grown increasingly uncomfortable presenting material that is inherently reductionist and exclusive.”

Fast forward to now, and the College has taken another “small” step toward eliminating other forms of thinking which are inherently reductionist and exclusive.

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Holding two different views on essentially the same underlying philosophy:

“My favorite thing about the gun control debate in America is that the exact same people who insist that buying a gun at a store, which at a minimum requires a government-issued ID and background check, is too easy will also tell you that requiring an ID to vote is an impossibly high hurdle to expect average people to overcome.”

“Are you really who you say you are” is really the

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A state that is using the “death by a thousand cuts” in killing the Second Amendment Rights in their State has summed up the idea of no ID needed to vote here: 

Laws??  We don’t need no stinkin’ laws!  After all, they just put an illegal alien into a post in their State Government (reformatted, emphasis mine):

Lizbeth Mateo, an illegal alien and citizen of Mexico who came to the country with her parents when she was 14, is the first [illegal] undocumented person to be appointed to a statewide government job in the United States. The job, to serve on the California Student Opportunity and Access Program Project Grant Advisory Committee, is an official government position that seeks to aid poor and “underserved communities” in gaining access to college. Mateo’s appointed was approved by the California Senate Rules Committee Wednesday.  In a statement, Mateo said illegal aliens are “underrepresented” in government. “While undocumented students have become more visible in our state, they remain underrepresented in places where decisions that affect them are being made.”

Gosh, I just can’t understand WHY they are “underrepresented” with

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(reformatted, emphasis mine):

Republican Gov. Phil Bryant signed House Bill 1510, which bans most abortions after 15 weeks of gestation, on Monday in a closed ceremony attended by legislative supporters and abortion opponents…and was slapped with a lawsuit less than an hour later. The law and responding challenge set up a confrontation sought by abortion opponents [SIC – I think that should have been “future murderers – Skip], who are hoping federal courts will ultimately prohibit abortions before a fetus is viable. Current federal law does not.  Some legal experts have said a change in the law is unlikely unless the makeup of the U.S. Supreme Court changes in a way that favors abortion opponents.

“We are saving more of the unborn than any state in America, and what better thing can we do?” Bryant said in a video his office posted on social media.

Note that line:  who are hoping federal courts will ultimately prohibit abortions before a fetus is viable. Current federal law does not. Once again we see the Left, having failed in the Legislative process, turn to the courts, packed with like minded judges, to have them rule “legislatively” from the bench.  What should be done is to rule on the letter of the law and what is actually written and not rule on words that aren’t there BY DESIGN AND PASSAGE and “rule in” words out of thin air.

Oh, that viable part?

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At 2 1/2, he’s learning quick – he knows his way around TMEW’s iPad like nobody’s business.  It’s Sesame Street all the time – he’s in love (like many his age) with Elmo.  Elmo brushing teeth. He gets his own toothbrush out and brushes in time to the music.  And at one point, each and every time he watches it, Michelle Obama comes in view.  As I write this, he’s doing what TMEW noticed a bit ago…

…yes, he turns her it off.  Absolutely NO prodding by either me or TMEW to do so – Bwahahahahahaha!

Speaking of the Grandson – tomorrow is going to be a great day…

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