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Gilford School Board: “They seem intent on making this happen irrespective of people’s concerns,” – Part 3

January 7, 2020 Skip

Well, the Gilford School Board meeting is tonite and it is likely that unless the Board is convinced that there is more to which they can be subjected to legal action, they will vote in Policy JBAB, the transgender and gender non-conforming policy that makes those suffering from gender dysphoria a new protected class. The … Read more

Trump’s Biblical Confrontation with Terror

January 4, 2020 Norm Silber

“If someone is coming to kill you, rise against him and kill him first.” From the Talmud, derived from Deuteronomy 22:26, hundreds of years ago (This law applies equally to someone coming to kill someone else — you’re obligated to kill the murderer in order to save his intended victim.) The Talmud is a large … Read more

Gilford School Board: “They seem intent on making this happen irrespective of people’s concerns,” – Part 2

January 3, 2020 Skip

Again, a few more thoughts on the two Daily Sun articles by Roberta Baker on the Gender Dysphoria / Transgender issues now roiling a couple of Lakes Region school districts: Locker rooms, restrooms a sticking point on trans policy Trans policies highlight rift over gender This from a Gilford resident: “There hasn’t been much dialogue,” … Read more

Gilford School Board: ““They seem intent on making this happen irrespective of people’s concerns,””

January 3, 2020 Skip

Now Normal people are starting to catch on that ANY Progressive agenda items, specifically the Gilford School Board and Superintendent Kirk Beitler trying to ram Policy JBAB on transgenders, declaring its love for “inclusion” is lying about the inclusive parts: “They seem intent on making this happen irrespective of people’s concerns,” said Angelo Farrugia, a … Read more

“…costs Gilford $95 per ton for trash removal and $235 per ton for “recyclables”

January 3, 2020 Op-Ed

I’m writing this follow up letter on the eve of the new Gilford Solid Waste Center’s opening. After my last letter, Town Administrator Scott Dunn found my email address and sent me a sheaf of material on the subject. Unfortunately, I feel that I understand the situation even less now. Mr. Dunn confirmed my statement … Read more

Gilford – Take our money for a Transfer Station THEN make recycling mandatory? Now a vote for Monarchical diktat

January 2, 2020 Skip

Sigh, this feels like its going to be a bit of a slog. While some may be saying “Skip, just do it – find the bags, find the time, wash everything, take more time to sort…just do it. Stop rocking the boat”. They don’t realize that is isn’t necessarily that I’m against doing all that, … Read more

Transgender – more pushback from Tennessee with no biological boys on girls teams

January 1, 2020 Skip

Just as a bill is being put into the NH House hopper that would prevent biological boys compete on biological girls teams, so is this bill from Tennessee. And has a whale of a penalty if some government official allows it to happen (reformatted, emphasis mine): Proposed bill would prevent transgender females from competing in … Read more

Gilford – Take our money for a Transfer Station THEN make recycling mandatory? Part 2

January 1, 2020 Skip

I did my initial rant here. Did you know that our new Recycling Center is now going to have a firing range (supposed to be for law enforcement but why stop there – if the taxpayers are paying for the facility, why not the rest of us?), and a boat storage area (probably for the … Read more

“Lawmakers Fatal Conceit on Recycling Should Be Trashed”

January 1, 2020December 31, 2019 Skip

My hamlet has just decided to force mandatory recycling on everyone in town (and they didn’t have to. They could have just said that IF you are going to recycle, here’s where what stuff goes where.

Tales from the Selectboard – “sure, ve haff der Power to make you verk for free fer der Recyling Center”

December 31, 2019 Skip

So last night was the Selectboard’s Public Meeting on the Recycling Center / Transfer Station: Rules, Regulations, and Fines. And what fine Fines they are! Here’s the paperwork / package that was prepped for the meeting. Again, to set the stage, twice the Selectboard put in warrants for the money to build out this place: … Read more

Finally, some sanity – HB 1251 (prohibiting biological boys from biological girls teams)

December 30, 2019December 29, 2019 Skip

2+2 = 4 —

“This bill prohibits public schools from permitting a male student to participate in a student sport designated for females.”

What to do: Gilford School Board Stonewalls a Right-to-Know Demand – The Result (with a whimper)

December 29, 2019December 28, 2019 Skip

2+2 = 5 I never did get a response back from Superindent Beitler…But I DID get a response at the next School Board Policy Committee meeting! Government coercing speech and thought over gender dysphoria – the Gilford School Board example. It all started with this: and just like that, it ended with this: C. Names/Pronouns … Read more

What to do: Gilford School Board Stonewalls a Right-to-Know Demand

December 28, 2019December 28, 2019 Skip

2+2 = 5:

“…it is about the SAU, as a subdivision of the State of NH, assuming a Power to grant Rights to someone as well the Power to obviate the First Amendment Rights of anyone who happens to be on SAU property”

Give, Don’t Govern

December 29, 2019December 28, 2019 Op-Ed

By John Stossel: Christmas Day 2019 –

This week, children may learn about that greedy man, Ebenezer Scrooge. Scrooge is selfish until ghosts scare him into thinking about others’ well-being, not just his own.

What to do: Gilford School Board Stonewalls a Right-to-Know Demand – Part 2

December 28, 2019December 28, 2019 Skip

I know, I know, – late again to finish this saga of how the Gilford School Board finally figured out they were blowing smoke with their notion that they had the Power to grant a new Right upon a person suffering from gender dysphoria that then placed legal obligations upon others: The first Right to … Read more

On transgenderism, the emperor has no clothes

December 26, 2019December 24, 2019 Skip

(Note: emphasis mine. Steve posted about Shaun Cooke here. -Skip] ***** A friend of mine recently commented on a Union Leader piece on a “woman” (above)who was being sought after not returning to transitional housing. It was accompanied by a photo of a bald man in a T-shirt with a scruffy beard. She was laughing. “Look … Read more

Incredible that the Left treats animals better than some kids

December 22, 2019 Skip

We see this “mis-attention” all the time. For instance, we’ve all heard the Left wail about kids crossing the border were housed in cages – a practice blamed on Trump but started by Obama. More locally, NH State Rep Katherine Rogers is all in for not allowing cats to be declawed (HB1387) and acting as … Read more

WHAT IS THE FEDERALIST SOCIETY & WHY IS IT IMPORTANT?

December 20, 2019 Norm Silber

Law schools and the legal profession are currently strongly dominated by a form of orthodox liberal ideology which advocates a centralized and uniform society. While some members of the academic community have dissented from these views, by and large they are taught simultaneously with (and indeed as if they were) the law. The Federalist Society … Read more

A Brief Introduction to the Federal Court System

December 20, 2019 Norm Silber

The federal court system has three main levels: district courts (the trial court), circuit courts which are the first level of appeal, and the Supreme Court of the United States (“SCOTUS”), the final level of appeal in the federal system. Only the SCOTUS is specifically established in Article III of the Constitution. The Courts of Appeal … Read more

Gender Dysphorics demand we learn an INFINITE number of Pronouns?

December 19, 2019 Skip

It isn’t tolerance or acceptance of what the LGBT Gender Dysphoric are demanding – it is total AFFIRMATION. It is an application of force to change the language and to change your thinking based on willful changes in language.