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Transjacking – biological males taking over biological female athletics

December 7, 2019 Skip

2+2 = 5 “Lies Are Informing Public Policy” The Gilford School Board, as a result of one family’s complaints about their child suffering from gender dysphoria (I’m not going to use the Left’s language anymore if at all possible – you loose the debate right off the bat) and of the passage of NH SB263, … Read more

Democrats’ campaign ideas never make it in practice

December 6, 2019 Steve Earle

While it’s on my mind I should comment on a couple of letters in the Laconia Daily Sun where the writers lament our failure to buy into their climate change hysteria. Seems they believe all the disaster scenarios produced over the past 20-some years are cascading into reality. Frankly, I do not see it.

The Decline & Fall of The Union Leader- a morality tale as to why print media is dying or is already dead

December 6, 2019 Norm Silber

I used to subscribe to The Union Leader for delivery to my home in Gilford 6 days a week. But not anymore. For two major reasons. First, starting with occasional failures to deliver the paper a couple of years ago, their very frequent failure to deliver their product to my mailbox on a regular basis, … Read more

Waste-to-energy is the solution to the trash problem

December 6, 2019December 6, 2019 Doug

Regarding the recycling center in Gilford, this whole project has been a boondoggle of the highest degree. As the entire recycling industry crashes and burns, Gilford dives in headfirst … to an EMPTY pool. Once again, government is a day late and a dollar short in providing a “solution” to a “problem” that doesn’t exist, … Read more

Christians Stand with Israel. Amazon stands with discredited Southern Poverty Law Center.

December 5, 2019December 5, 2019 Op-Ed

The AmazonSmile Program Now Prevents Customer Donations to a Pro-Israel Organization, Proclaiming Justice to The Nations (PJTN), a Tennessee-based non-profit evangelical Christian organization committed towards standing with Israel and fighting antisemitism, has been removed from the AmazonSmile program, which enables Amazon customers to donate a percentage of their purchase to their favorite charity. PJTN President … Read more

Property Taxes – We must live within our means, and that means making hard choices.

December 5, 2019 Norm Silber

If you are a Gilford property owner, you have just received your property tax bill. Happy? Sad? Angry? Did you notice that, while the total tax rate dropped by less than 7%, the portion of the total tax rate represented by the school tax rate increased (as it usually does) from the prior year?

Hate Thanksgiving: what else would you expect from two generations being taught to hate America?

December 5, 2019December 5, 2019 Skip

It is almost a week after Thanksgiving but these kinds of notions and mindsets didn’t arise from nothingness. If they weren’t handed down by their parents (rather doubtful, especially at a “Christian” college, methinks), it’s by our educational system that has taught this self-loathing of one’s own country.

Throw the Bums Out!

December 2, 2019 Norm Silber

Our selectmen and county commissioners, among all other government officials, are fiduciaries and have fiduciary duties to us, the voters and taxpayers. If they fail to honor their fiduciary duties to us, they must and should be removed from office. In other words, throw the bums out! Sometimes easy to do with typical 2-year terms, … Read more

The Myth of Voter Suppression

December 2, 2019 Norm Silber

Do Republicans win elections by preventing minorities—blacks, Latinos, and others—from voting? For those on the left and their allies in the major media, the answer is yes; even more than that, it’s an article of faith. The left says yes, but the data says NO. Jason Riley, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and contributor … Read more

Transgender policy erases girls’ gains in athletics

November 29, 2019 Op-Ed

To the residents of Gilford & Gilmanton, If you are not already aware, our School Board is on the brink of adopting a new transgender nondiscrimination policy based on the passage of SB 263. Now, on the surface, this sounds like a good idea, right? I don’t imagine many people would tolerate a transgendered student … Read more

B.b.b.b.b.but those stories on transgender women don’t mention this part at all!

November 29, 2019 Skip

For all of the trans sports stories that are here above the high school level, you never hear about the bathroom / locker room issue (except for that one of NH based Planet Fitness that threw out the Normal woman who complained about the man who said he identified with being a woman – but … Read more

Gilford: Money, Monopoly, and Mandatory – what a Mess for Trash and Recycling

November 29, 2019 Op-Ed

BY RICK NOTKIN

MY ERROR! I failed to swap the actual writer’s name for mine – that has been corrected and I apologize to those that thought I wrote this when it was Rick Notkin. My humblest apologies. It has been corrected and bumped

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Let’s see if I understand the situation in Gilford. The town is dissatisfied with the arrangement with Laconia for disposal of trash, so they decided to build a combined trash/recycling center at the recycling site.

“Elves are afoot on behalf of Lakes Region Porcupines”

November 27, 2019 Op-Ed

The LRP (Lakes Region Porcupines) Elves are afoot. As the Lakes Region Porcupines’ annual toy drive is underway, we are seeking donations to help struggling families have a good Christmas. We give each child at least two gifts, but it is usually more than that. 100% of all donations go directly to the kids. We … Read more

6 ft 2 in Transwoman Athlete “Stands Out” as She Dominates Biologically Female Opponents

November 7, 2024November 27, 2019 Steve MacDonald

This transwoman athlete is giving me flashbacks to jokes about Soviet-era West German Woman Olympians. Hannah Mouncey is a 6′ 2″ and male, except that he’s not. He’s a her and she has an obvious advantage in competition.

Notable Quote – We’re Screwed

November 26, 2019 Skip

“A generation that doesn’t know history has no past; and no future.”-Robert Heinlein (science fiction writer, author, speaker, and “source for” part of the GraniteGrok name)

The Islamic Infiltration of America Continues- is it treasonous spying?

November 25, 2019 Norm Silber

Rep. Ilhan Omar (Democrat) has made wearing a headscarf seem fashionable, chic and powerful. But it now appears that she was recruited by a foreign government, received funding from a foreign government, and passed sensitive information through intermediates to Iran, a Florida court has been told. It is now claimed that she passed information to … Read more

If it is wrong in one place, it should be wrong in the other, right?

November 26, 2019November 25, 2019 Skip

So, one is from the Kavanaugh trial where the Democrats tried to railroad him off the Supreme Court bench. Or yet another #MeToo event (either real like Harvey Weinstein, or yet hoax for some agenda based reason (er, drinking, buyers remorse, get-the-boyfriend/girlfriend, or just some other obscure reason that we’re supposed already know about). Either … Read more

Bathrooms and Trannies: who ever thought this would be controversial??

November 23, 2019November 23, 2019 Skip

From Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals: RULE 5: “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.” There is no defense. It’s irrational. It’s infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions. (Pretty crude, rude and mean, huh? They want to create anger and fear.) So while this is a serious topic … Read more

Gilford School Board – October meeting. Leftist arguments on full display

November 23, 2019 Skip

I’m late in putting these videos up of the Gilford School Board’s October meeting where Policy JBAB, the 2008 NH School Board Association’s transgender policy was to be “read” and it was clear that the battle lines had already been drawn up and I think THE operational statement comes down to this: “You will be … Read more

Gilford School Board – October meeting: Powers and Rights (Part 2)

November 23, 2019November 23, 2019 Skip

“Mr. Murphy, please submit that question in writing to us…..I have already; twice! No answers” Well, this coverage of the Transgender issue that the Gilford School Board has jumped the gun on may take a while but I think it is important not only on students and staff affected by this but IS THE SCHOOL … Read more