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Forget about parents. Teens need “someone with reason in a public health environment.”

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The following letter appeared in several local newspapers responding to my weekly Laconia Daily Sun column (page 4) where I ran the story about the teen clinic poster I found hanging in the local post office.

teen family planning

I was going to "fisk" the letter, but then decided that the informed GraniteGrok reader needs no such "help" with understanding the content of the writer’s tome, which is nothing more than the classic liberal-view of the world. You know, the one where ALL children are having sex anyway, and ALL parents refrain from teaching their children about such things until it is too late and they become pregnant and the parent throws the child out, or worse… Yeah, that describes my childhood and my children’s alright…

You’ll note the classic liberal mantra that if we don’t pay to prevent and abort before babies are born, we’ll just have to pay more after, assuming that the child will automatically need "services" that, again thanks to the writer and his comrades, we’ll have to provide. Like some good Nazi from a supposedly bygone era, he advocates killing those he deems undesirable in order to save money (many elderly in German nursing homes were euthanized for "the good of the Fatherland"). To the letter writer, teaching morality and fostering the difference between right and wrong, and applying consequences for actions doesn’t enter into his worldview. Rather than seeking to change risky behavior, he simply enables it…

Lambert doesn’t know difference between contraception & abortion
To the editor,

Once again, Doug Lambert should stick to fabricating metal and not anatomy and physiology. His opine on Teen Family Planning is fraught with errors from a reproductive biology point of view.

While perusing the FBI’s Most Wanted List for Terrorists in the post office he was drawn to a poster — R.E.S.P.E.C.T., a positive teen program of the N.H. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) — that he takes issue with.

The valuable program, which is educational for teens (in four regions of N.H.) regarding their bodies and sexual health, is chided as being a program where “Lambert’s taxes” are funding abortion. Nowhere on the poster that Lambert lifted from the post office to scan for his Sun article, does it refer to “abortion.”

As I am a reproductive biologist (MS and Ph.D. in that fi eld and worked for J&J Ortho), Lambert should be re-educated as to what “emergency contraception” is all about. It is not abortion as he suggests. The “emergency contraception pill” is a pill that has nothing to do with a fetus, conceptus or implanted embryo. It prevents ovulation after “unprotected sex” and is administered the day or so after intercourse up to 72 hours. Since ovulation has not occurred, there should be no conceptus and the emergency pill prevents the egg from being released if a woman is mid-cycle. It is basically “a large dose of the daily oral contraceptive.” Does Lambert not like the birth control pill either?

 

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Flag Flap Update: This guy just won’t stop stepping in it!

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Wolfeboro flags

The following letter was sent by the flag-removal lawsuit filer Claude Roessiger’s lawyer to one of the veteran activists expressing displeasure over what he tried to do to Wolfeboro’s public display of Old Glory. You’d think the guy would have simply crawled back under the rock from whence he came following his withdrawal of the suit. But nooooooo…

Writes the letter’s recipient:

Believe it or not I got an email this morning from Roessiger’s attorney trying to convice me that his client is a Patriot, and that the displaying of American Flags in Wolfeboro was a partisan display. Here is Attorney William Chapman’s actual comments:

Mr. Howe-

I am the attorney who represented Claude Roessiger in the now-terminated suit against Wolfeboro. He brought suit because the town refused either (1) to remove the American flags it is permitting a resident to display on town utility poles or (2) to allow Mr. Roessiger to display his own banner on those poles containing advice from George Washington that our country should avoid foreign entanglements.

Please be assured that Mr. Roessiger is a patriotic American who believes in what our flag stands for. What he objects to is someone using the flag and town property – public property – to advance a particular political viewpoint: support of the Bush Administration invasion of, and continued troop presence in, Iraq. It is clear from minutes of the meeting at which the selectmen approved the display of flags that they both understood and agreed with the reason for displaying the flags.

Mr. Howe, who is organizing tomorrow’s American Legion Flag Day motorcyle ride through Wolfeboro, replied, putting the whole thing in context:

 

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Tyranny of the [NH Democrat] majority. Guest Blog Post

by Doug

  The following was written by Representative Greg Sorg. Can you imagine if the Republicans had pulled this stunt? Citizens of New Hampshire who fail to follow the activities of their state government do so at the peril of their freedom and property. A stark demonstration why took place this week. On Wednesday, June 4th, … Read more

Interview with Doug. Sorry– I don’t worship space aliens….

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Reverend Schmidt

I was recently asked to do an interview that ended up not being used by the requestor. It was a rather odd experience, as it turns out that the person is some kind of reverend, although not in the usual sense, I suspect. I went to the website he claimed to be affiliated with and found it strange to say the least. Not wanting the small amount of time I put into doing it go to waste, I figured I’d post it here. While the interview itself isn’t too bad, it was the emails I had surrounding it that I think some of you might find interesting…

Hi Skip & Doug,I’m a big Heinlein fan, too! Can we do a 5 question online interview with one or both of you, mostly on Islam?

I answered:

Skip is travelling this weekend. Depending on when you want to do it, I guess I’m it. I’m happy to do it for you. Er, what group are you with?
 
Doug

The reply:

Just the website, Doug. No group. Great, I’ll create an interview and email it to you. 

Paul

Me:

Er, which website, again?

Answer:

The site your interview will appear on: www.thechurchatparonomasia.com

Which I found to be somewhat strange to say the least.

Here is the interview. I took several days and he seemed quite eager to get my responses:

 

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I get mail… [Caution, “salty” language!]

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Between postings here at GraniteGrok, over at GilfordGrok, and the Thursday column in the Laconia Daily Sun, along with the Saturday radio program, Meet the New Press, there is little left to the imagination as to where I stand on the issues. And along the way, I pick up people who agree with me– and … Read more

Must See TV: Defending the New Hampshire Advantage on Political Chowder

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With the Granite State Fair Tax Coalition’s silly "anti-pledge" warrant article appearing on 88 town warrants here in NH– a tool to begin the demonization process of our present system of government funding via the property tax– including ours right here in Gilford, we have decided that now is the time to stand up for the famed … Read more

Granite Grok Reader Survey- a Twofer: Pick McCain’s Veep & Identify Promising Lights of the Conservative Movement

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. .. . As John McCain moves toward securing the Republican nomination, the latest buzz is about who he might pick to be his Vice President. The new refrain from those conservatives unhappy with the Arizona Senator as the Party’s nominee, replacing the silly "I won’t cast a vote for him" meme, is one that … Read more

Not a bad Wednesday night

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Couch Potato

I had three reasons not to watch the CNN/YouTube GOP Debate last night:

1) The debates aren’t really debates. Debating requires two or more
people to exchange and refute ideas in a dialogue. What we have mostly
been watching are candidates giving sound bites, one after the other,
in front of a crazy backdrop of lights and TV network logos.

2) After seeing all the ridiculous antics in the first YouTube debate,
I was ready for somebody in a Chewbacca suit to ask a question about
the candidates’ positions on gender neutrality.

3) A couple of the candidates aren’t even well-known in their own
districts; they certainly aren’t going to become president. Sorry
Hunter, Gravel.

But I ended up watching it anyways.

Why?

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The Chaz and Skip Debate – Round 1 – Point

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Ok Thanks for your patience Skip et al. As you may have noticed, I endorsed Hillary Clinton for President this week. That has kept me occupied on the blogosphere. That plus building and preparing for winter is keeping me in "catch up" mode. I do think this is a great project though and one that I will commit to. So let me start with a short opening statement.

In my endorsement of Senator Clinton I called healthcare my number one domestic issue. No matter your vantage point, its a big one that isn’t going away. I think we all agree on that, correct me if I’m wrong. Health care is of course a huge economic issue. Industries in the western world have a capital advantage over us because of either universal or single payer systems. All you have to do is watch what is happening in our auto industry to see how crucial the difference is.

Our hodgepodge system began when I was born shortly after World War two. Employers at that time were able to sustain health care premiums for its steady workers. That system became outdated thirty years ago, but we still use it. Lose your job, lose your healthcare. If you don’t work for a major corporation chances are you won’t have ANY healthcare. Most self-employed people can’t afford it, or if they are paying it their operating costs become so thin that its hard to stay motivated. These are just a few of the problems, but from where most Americans sit, this is a broken antiquated system that needs fundamental change.

I also believe that the American people, through the American government should be able to use the most powerful capitalistic tools available to bring down the cost of health care. In other words I don’t see "buying in bulk to drive down costs" as anything remotely socialistic. I’m happy to go into any of this in detail when the time comes. End of intro.

Let’s start with the question of whether I am a socialist.

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