New Boston is still in the process of “cleaning up” the Winslow property on River Rd. “Cleaning out” is more like it.

Here is a picture of the log truck the Town hired with a handshake agreement – no certificate of insurance required for this scheme. Although Town Policy requires it and others have to comply, not with this deal. You see, no contract – no time limit.

If you look closely you can see the Town’s contractor is hauling away Mr. Winslow’s galvanized boat trailer – license plate still attached. Nothing heavy was dropped on top of the boat trailer except some of Mr. Winslow’s tools.

Why would the Town of New Boston try and pull this off?

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Protect the Rights of Conscience for Medical Professionals

Please call or email committee members of Judiciary and ask that they vote to approve this bill. It will be heard in the committee this Tuesday, February 20 at 10:00 a.m. in the Legislative Office Building in Room 208.

If you are in the medical profession please consider attending this hearing as we need doctors, nurses, and pharmacists to testify on behalf of this bill.

Please see below for more information about this bill and how to contact your representatives. Make sure you get in touch with them before Tuesday morning.

Jen Robidoux
President of NH Right to Life

HB1787 | Title: Relative to the Rights of Conscience for Medical Professionals
Judiciary Committee at 10:00 AM, LOB Room 208
NHRTL SUPPORTS

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I hear stuff and sometimes I hear a lot of stuff.  Whatever happened to local self-reliance and responsibility in dealing with problems? Item one is about the Opioid problem and “Daddy Moneybags”:

At the Belknap County Republican meeting someone from NH GOP HQ was padding around a petition asking people to sign and support Sununu’s request for more funds from Washington for our drug problem.

To me this is like asking someone to not take $10 from my right pocket but take $20 the left pocket instead, the extra needed to pay Washington overhead in giving us $10 back.

Gotta love (/sarc) that “from” and “our” bits.  To that last part – I’ve said that for years that it doesn’t matter a whit what level of government is arguing with another one who is going to pay for what because when it comes right down to it, it all is coming out of only one wallet – mine.

Oh, that other item?

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A long post from Matt Kibbe about the TEA Party’s demise – the milestone WAS this latest “CRomnibus” act that kept the Feds open (again, no big deal to me if it had shut down) and also spent FAR more than we can afford.  GraniteGrok was one of the co-founders of the NH TEA Party Coalition – a group of us that had had it with politicians up and down the chain. We all agreed that if we weren’t willing to do something ourselves, no one did.  We did – and we had an impact. Using the Constitution as our Measure of Quality, we held their feet to the fire and it worked. At least for a while.

Again, with the Republicans leading the charge on spending and widening the deficit, what IS the difference between the Dems and the Republicans???   Sigh…

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The Tea Party Is Officially Dead. It Was Killed by Partisan Politics.
I helped make the grassroots activist movement a reality. But now the party’s over.

The grassroots movement that fought so hard for fiscal sanity in government over the past decade is no more. It was killed off by the very same Washington establishment it sought to overthrow. Its death leaves proponents of limited government with some big questions: What went wrong? And what do we do now?

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If ever there was a case of the so-called “school shooter” phenomenon being about guns – this Florida case isn’t it.

I see the anti-Second Amendment industry has mobilized its minions about as fast as a Russian can put together an anti-Hillary for President parade float, but this incident is not about how militaristic a semi-auto rifle looks. It is way more than that.

Guns and bullets were involved in Florida’s government mega-school shooting all right, but the boy involved also rang every alarm bell professionals and amateurs are supposed to notice – before something like this happens.

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It’s not a gun problem – it’s a heart, mind, and soul problem:

Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin called on Americans Friday to “wake up” and recognize that school shootings are a “cultural problem.”

“We have become desensitized to death, we have become desensitized to killing, we have become desensitized to empathy for our fellow man and it’s coming at an extraordinary price and we have got to look at the root causes of this,” Bevin told the Associated Press.

“We can’t celebrate death in video games, celebrate death in TV shows, celebrate death in movies, celebrate death in musical lyrics and remove any sense of morality and sense of higher authority and then expect that things like this are not going to happen,” he added.

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In the Concord Monitor a bit ago, a Dr. Oge Young had a piece on abortion with the thrust being (emphasis mine):

Many people seem to think a woman’s pregnancy is an open invitation to decide what is best for her. Lawmakers who know nothing of a woman’s complex life circumstances should have no voice in her decision making, particularly when it comes to pregnancy.

The U.S. Supreme Court decision Roe v Wade, handed down more than 40 years ago, in no way resolves the divisiveness and polarization surrounding abortion. The decision was not written to protect women’s rights, but instead to protect the privacy of the physician-patient relationship. Once more we are seeing legislation throughout the country and in our state that define what is medically necessary…

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Yep, the Association of Undemocratic States and Tinpot Despots who have made it clear that they are there because MO MONEY, MO MONEY, MO MONEY, getting cover for their actions, and oh yeah, hating on Israel. In a piece titled “My Turn: Strengthen the UN“, Ray Perkins Jr (professor of philosophy, emeritus, at Plymouth State University and vice chairman of the Bertrand Russell Society board of directors) seems to be typical of those academicians that went to Germany in the 1880s that brought back that foreign political philosophy that called for a larger, more intrusive government that dismissed the US Constitution – Socialism.  Now, Perkins wants to pick that up a notch and centralize government control even higher – to the UN.  Self-government, representative republic?  Not if the UN is in charge.  And he’s happy as a jay bird in doing so.

…But how dare the U.S. take it out on the U.N.’s meager budget and even threaten member states with financial retaliation. Never mind that the U.N. has denied Israel lawful control of Jerusalem since 1947 (and reaffirmed the original plan for international control many times since, despite Israel’s illegal seizure of control after the 1967 Six-Day War). But in practice the issue in recent years has been a point of contention which the Palestinians have hoped to settle peacefully in forthcoming talks with the Israel. It’s hard not to think that this internationally disapproved action by the U.S. has undermined hopes for peace in the region.

Say, Professor – you left out that Israel has been under attack since 1948.  And contrary to popular Progressive belief, violence does solve problems and answer questions (like it or not). Read the rest but this is what caught my eye (note: he forgets the fundamental rule for “respect”):

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“Collusion” is writing fake news articles about the media’s most favored candidate? Is that what Russian meddling in an election is about? I feel safer already.

What will Mueller’s next move be, arrest Putin and make him talk?

We all know this is nuts, right? Indicting foreigners for an almost non-existent case of collusion, meddling, and hacking – but letting George Soros spend billions trying to influence American elections – for real.

I think this Russian “collusion” just turned out to be an “illusion.”

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By Steve’s In-Box

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I just read this piece by David French at NRO. At first read, I was, and am still, skeptical and a little suspicious. But he makes some good arguments and does address the due process problem found in the other list approaches where the list restricts someones access to firearms without recourse and thus obliterating someone’s constitutional rights.  And the Gun-Violence Restraining Order (GVRO) places the responsibility to act and seek a GVRO on the person(s) who are closest to the potential threat (a sibling, spouse, parent or roommate), not the bungling Bureau or other federal authorities that have the track record of doing nothing with information they received to stop the carnage.  Charleston, Pulse nightclub, Sutherland Springs, and now Parkland school, that’s four since 2015. I think anyone objective would see this record and come to the conclusion that the federal authorities really are not capable of stopping these types of things. At least not yet.

But a GVRO, just might be.

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ZeroHedge reports that Buzz Feed, WaPo, and Soros backed Media jumped on a story about the Florida Shooter that turned out to be Fake News.

In the immediate aftermath of Wednesday’s tragic school shooting in Parkland, Florida, several major news outlets published a report that the shooter, Nikolas Cruz, was a member of a white supremacist organization. In fact, the MSM was hoodwinked by 4chan users into publishing fake news.

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Previous here and here. To recap: at about the time we put up a post,  Windham School Board Approves Unconstitutional “BATHROOM BILL” Policy, I received an email from a Donna Sawyer who believes that people (other than her) are SO stupid that they have to be told “oh, GraniteGrok might get a spiff if you buy something there”.  In my email back to here I had written:

I generally believe that most people are smart – after all, you found them (being from MIT and all) so I believe others that cared such things would as well. And yes, we are independent.

After all, caveat emptor.

She just couldn’t help herself (as if it would make a difference):

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