Just when you think you have seen the lowest form of selfie-mania there comes a snapping sound from New York City and the horrible fire they had last week. Some of America ’s young, smart set were caught taking selfies of themselves celebrating the demise of other people’s homes.

Oh, the locals were some happy with the smiling faces in front of the burning buildings posted on socialist media. The New York Post put some of the selfie takers up for ridicule on their own pages.

And then I heard the name of one of the self absorbed disaster posers. It was Christina Freundlich of the Iowa Democrat Party.

That name rings a bell.

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Democrats are stupid.  What you need proof?

This morning, the governor of Connecticut, Dan Malloy, announced that he would be the first governor in the union to sign an executive order limiting state-sponsored travel to Indiana because of Indiana’s ostensibly “discriminatory practices.”

Because of Indiana's new law, later today I will sign an Executive Order regarding state-funded travel. -DM

— Governor Dan Malloy (Archived) (@GovMalloyOffice) March 30, 2015

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To follow up on my Streisand Effect post it is now time to provide some details.  Mid-day, I get this call from a Dennis Senibaldi DEMANDING that I take down some posts.  Not posts that I had written but posts that Kimberly Morin had published both here and at Examiner.com; covering the Windham School Board circus of which he seemed to be Clown-in-Chief. (Actually, not so true as another decided to really out do him, but I do like that turn of phrase.). He said that they were inaccurate and that she was lying about him in those posts.  I was rather puzzled as I have generally found her posts to be well resourced, with links to foundational material (yes, I do require this of the Groksters – to always let our readers to go to the original material for background, and to make sure we’re not just blowing smoke when we talk about things).  We chatted for a bit and it was clear that there was an intimidation factor going on; he “leaned” on me by stating that since the Examiner.com had complied with his take-down request, I HAD to as well.

I don’t cotton well to someone’s demand to do ANYTHING just because someone was told to do such; you see, I learned my lesson well from Mom when she kept telling me “well, if everyone else was jumping off a bridge, would you?”  Yeah, telling her that if it was a real hot day and the water down there was wet and cool, it probably would be a great idea (just like when I didn’t clean my supper plate and she said “Children in China are starving!!” and I answered back smartly “Name two” – yeah, that didn’t go over well and I did learn a lesson about corporal punishment.  So, if the Examiner.com wants to wuss out and knuckle under, well, not a terribly good reason to join that cowering.

Well, I’ve been through this before

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Just a few passing thoughts, not all of them mine.

The Democrats and Progressives–because not all progressives are Democrats–tell us that there is no way the government could locate and round up 12 million illegal aliens but are more than happy to presume that if they passed a law they could locate and round up 350 million firearms.

c/o Charles C.W. Cooke (The Conservatarian Manifesto) “Nowadays students are suspended from school for making pistol shapes with their fingers or for simply saying ‘Bang!” in the schoolyard.  Progressives widely mock “abstinence only” sex education on the eminently reasonable grounds that sex is a fact of life and that children should therefore be taught about it.  Why should abstinence-only gun education be immune from their derision?”

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We all agree with Dennis Lintz (see his letter of 3/18/15 in the Laconia Daily Sun, laconiadailysun.com) that we don’t want war with Iran, or anyone, and that we hope for a wise treaty with Iran that prevents them from ever getting nuclear weapons.

Everyone should have learned that preventing an aggressor from becoming powerful is a much wiser and less costly course than not taking small threats seriously.  Consider the consequences of our refusal to believe that radical Islamists were at war with us before 911 or the world’s refusal to believe the threat that Hitler was becoming.

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There seems to be a lot of faux outrage over Indiana passing the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.  Not only do 19 other states have similar laws but Bill Clinton passed the RFRA in 1993 when DEMOCRATS were in the majority in Congress.

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As you have probably seen in other posts, I have written extensively over the past few months about the Windham School Board and then added more posts regarding the school board elections. Dennis Senibaldi is a member of the Windham School Board. Al Letizio Jr is a Windham Selectman. Both men are elected officials who hold public office.

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The eating of our own has begun at a pretty good clip, I would say. Welcome to Election 2016.

The ultra conservative Wall Street Journal, ok, I fib, has a very revealing story, from private sources, that Governor Scott Walker is flip-flopping on illegal immigration.

This flip-flopping tidbit is from Republican sources at this secret meeting. My senses say, “Hold it right there!”

Were these Republican sources Republicans the likes of Shawn Jasperite Republicans?

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A few years ago I hosted gay activist attorney Andrea Ritchie on my radio program and asked her whether she believed the homosexual lobby could peacefully coexist with traditional Christian morality. After a very pregnant pause, she responded pointedly: “Sure, if Christians will give up their resistance to our cause.”

(H/T: IndyStar)  Yes, we expect you to just totally abandon closely and strongly held Biblical beliefs – just give up.  The innuendo from Ritchie, with that line, was “Or it will go poorly for you” – and we have seen just that. We have seen it (“go poorly”) in the aftermath of Prop 8 in California and recently in the news as gay militants have used Government in forcing small biz Christians to either choose between their livelihoods and their beliefs.  And must I have to remind you of Mozilla’s Brendan Eich who was forced out of his CEO position simply because he donated to Prop 8 supporters?

This in a country that was founded on religious liberty and made explicit in our First Amendment. We have also heard similar things from NH’s Tyler Deaton, who has been vehement about Republicans like Rick Santorum not being allowed to speak at Republican events because HATE SPEECH as they support traditional families!  And NH GOP Committeewoman Juliana Bergeron, along with several other NH GOPpers have signed onto an amicus brief at the Supreme Court stating their opposition to the gay marriage bans in Ohio, Kentucky, Michigan and Tennessee.

From the NH GOP Platform: 

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NOTE: This is being added to GraniteGrok due to the bullying of Dennis Senibaldi and Al Letizio.  This post was removed from Examiner because Senibaldi complained.  Of course, everything in this article is linked back to factual documentation. 

Last night Windham voters decidedly voted to rid the school board of Chairman Jerry Rekart and member Mike Joanis. Tom Murray and Daniel Popovici-Muller were the winners of those races. If you recall, the race became quite sleazy over the weekend when Windham Selectman Al Letizio Jr made outrageous accusations against Murray regarding an endorsement. Apparently sleaze and corruption aren’t what Windham voters are looking for in school board candidates.

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Although Cenergistic has pulled its proposal out of the Windham School District for consideration, there is other interesting information that was discovered through a Right-to-Know request.  If you recall, Cenergistic proposed a $577,000 contract to “change energy behavior” in the Windham School District.  The proposal was literally shoved through the Windham School Board without the members reviewing the contract and without public input.

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