Video: Jack Kimball reports, along with Bill Wynne, as Karen Testerman drops out of the race for US Senate and endorses Bob Smith

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As I was watching Fox News Sunday (along with This Week with Stephy, and the other talking head shows) I was struck by what Juan Williams said about Bowe Bergdahl (as all the shows were talking about him:

You can’t get lost in the fog for key, very clear principle.  The clear principle is that we do not leave soldiers behind.  And at the moment, what is necessary here this Sunday is that I am reminded of the story of the Prodigal Son.  You don’t make judgments as you have the opportunity to bring that child back.

America should be loving this child at this moment.

So here we have an adult, who made an adult decision to join the military, had the adult forethought that he’d be deployed, had the adult training to go and kill our enemies, and then made another adult decision to leave all of his gear (excepting water, a journal, and a compass) when he made his adult decision to deliberately walk away from his platoon mates in a very adult situation of a battlefield to deliberately find our enemies (the Taliban) even so as to ask other adult Afghanis “where is a Talibani that can speak English”?  That also left an adult message behind.

I dunno, maybe it is just me, but I’m not seeing much of a “child” in all that. 

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GrokTALK! for the week of 6/7/2014.  As always, Steve has the entire audio podcast up here.  So, here are the videos:

Pre-Show – The “Eye of Sauron” returns, Skip turns it on Steve (who is not amused).  Discussion on Smartphones; The room temperature; the new GraniteGrok bookmarks are in; References from “The Last Star Fighter” (1984), and what it presaged – contemporary US Military crew served weapons.

• Segment 1 – We welcome new Groksters JR Hoell and Kimberly Morin!  Grokster Mike comes in by phone and Steve Kenda joins us early (candidate for the NH GOP nomination for NH State Senate District 24 (Greenland, Rye, Strathan, North Hampton, Kensington, Hampton, Hampton Falls, Seabrook, South Hampton, Newton)
• Segment 2 – We continue out talk with Steve Kenda
• Segment 3 – Gary Daniels joins the crew; after 18 years in the US House, he has thrown his hat into the ring for the NH State Senate District 11 (Wilton, Milford, Amherst, Merrimack)
• Segment 4 – former US Senator Bob Smith joins us by phone as he continues his campaign to become the Senior US Senator from New Hampshire.

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Next videos after the jump:

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“There are some people who say that. That’s a very highly charged thing to say. Where is the US Constitution not placed in the right level today?”

Here is the video:

The longer version of this video is here; the above quote can be found at the 7:13 mark.

As a national level MainStream Media journalist, I am surprised that Gregory even has to ask – not!  Given how few seem to know what it is, how  about this from the Constitution itself, David – the Tenth Amendment:

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people

There are all kinds of reasons David – why is it within the sphere of the US Senate to formerly get involved in the name of a sports team (e.g., Washington Redskins)?  Why is it the Proper Role of the Federal Government to determine the amount of flush

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…by which the Gilford School Board develops its budget, submits it to the Budget Committee (which can change that budget), and the budget prepared by the BudCom is presented to the Gilford Taxpayers at the NH SB2 mandated “Public Hearing” so that the townfolk can ask questions about the budget (and hurl invectives if it “offends” them).  The next to last step is the “Deliberative Session” at which time the budget line items can be changed by votes of the townfolk.  The final step in the process is to actually vote, up or down, on the budget in the safety and privacy of the voting booth (to me, a much better time to vote than the traditional Town Meeting format).

Unlike the municipal budget process (in which excess and unspent funds can be carried forward to future years in a “Rainy Day fund”), the School Board is to return all funds not spent to the taxpayers.  THIS School Board, the Gilford School Board, has decided that it is above this process – and more and more over the last few years, decided that it would purchase more goods and services with “end of year excess monies”.  In this case, because they didn’t ask the right questions at the right time, a $65,000 one last nite.  Of COURSE I spoke up:

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“Nothing in this policy shall be construed as giving parents/guardians the right to appeal to the School Board.”

Yup, you read that right (full policy after the jump) – the Gilford School Board had William “Billy” Baer arrested simply because he tried to seek  redress from his elected Gilford School Board elected representatives; he asked questions and they just sat there.  Stonewalled. Period. Refusing to address his concerns.  Making themselves unaccountable to the voters that put their derriers into those seats – the exact opposite of what a representative democracy is all about  (after all, listen again to Gilford School Board member Kurt Webber authoritarian demeanor).  As millions of people watch that video on the Internet, get mentioned in the print media, and widely watched on TV programs, the GSB’s stonewalling silence to engage Mr. Baer has turned them into a laughingstock.  One would think that they would have figured out, perhaps, that this was a “wrong track” event?

Nonsense!  They DOUBLED DOWN and have codified the regulation – if the Principal turns them down, that’s it. The Gilford School Board has codified itself from having to deal with the lowlies called Parents and Taxpayers:

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(H/T: CNSNews)

Oh, and those “harmless” Talibani just released into the security of Qatari officials to be highly monitored for a year?  Prison time?  Er, no so much:

A senior Gulf official speaking to Reuters has said the five Guantánamo detainees traded for Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl are being kept in an “accommodation facility” and will be allowed to roam freely in Qatar before moving to other parts of the world. The claim undermines President Obama’s claim that they will be monitored.

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As always, Steve has the podcast video here.

• Pre-show – Groksters Steve, Mike, and Skip just yak a bit.
• Segment 1 – Frequent commenter Chris P. Bacon (aka, the “Baconator”) calls into the show and keeps the crew laughing
• Segment 2 – The gang talks about the news of the Day and Week: Weather / Climate, Reparations, ICE catching Illegal Aliens in Texas but releases them in Arizona, New York and elsewhere, Walt Haverstein, US Senate Republican Primary, Running for NH GOP Delegate
• Segment 3 – Warner Todd Huston (of PubliusForum, Breitbart, WizBangBlog, et al) comes on to talk about a post he wrote about CCW holders:

“But if you are a concealed carry holder you should ignore these attempts to curtail your rights. If you are legally armed, feel absolutely free to enter and patronize those stores with your firearm no matter what these anti-Constitution store owners want. “

• Segment 4 – NH State Representative / Chair, Rockingham County Republican Committee Regina Birdsell comes on to talk about her run for NH State Senate in District 19 (Windham, Derry, Hampton)

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