I guess the New Hampshire Democrat Party is going to meet on December 2nd to discuss changing the name of their Jefferson-Jackson Kennedy-Clinton biggest annual fundraising dinner. I’m not sure why. JFK and WJC are perfect examples of Democrat priorities and politics then and now. | Keep Reading at GraniteGrok
How About Next Year NH Democrats Call it the Weiner-Weinstein Dinner?
Is It Time for Some New Trolls?
The moderators at Granite Grok have allowed trolls to gum up the works of the comments section for a long time. These trolls have a pattern of behavior which is easy to see. It is tedious, repetitive, repetitive, and repetitive.
The saddest of our trolls live in Boulder, Colorado, couch surfing at a private home of some poor woman who appears to have as many emotional problems as our troll. | Read More at GraniteGrok.com
New consumer scam leverages fake law enforcement threat
CONCORD, NH – The U.S. Marshals are alerting the public of several nationwide imposter scams involving individuals claiming to be U.S. marshals, court officers, or other law enforcement officials. They are urging people to report the calls not only to their local U.S. Marshals Service office, but also to the Federal Trade Commission. | Keep Reading at ManchesterInkLink
N.H. Officials Likely to Opt Out of National First Responder Network
he First Responder Network Authority, or FirstNet, is a federal program created by Congress in 2012 in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Police and fire departments were unable to communicate with each other that morning over incompatible radio systems. The FirstNet program aims to fix that with a secure communications network for first responders across all 50 states. |Keep Reading at NHPR
SAU 55: Timberlane is the poster child for fiscal irresponsibility
In yet more demonstration of a completely tone deaf school district management “team,” Timberlane’s draft one budget is asking for a $3.4 million INCREASE. We’re looking at the staggering ask of $75.1 million, up $3.347 million in one year. (Enrollment is still falling.) | Keep Reading at timberlaneandsandown
2017 Democrat Thanksgiving Talking Points
Would it be about defending the sex-crazed power-imbalanced Entertainment donor class? Or would it concerning the indignity that Trump won and how to protect their over-regulation of our lives? Or that we should all be thankful that abortion kills 500K children/year and how we are protecting our environment from the added burden of CO2 loading? And how we should be arguing that our money is really their money and teach us all how to win that argument that “We built it” with a lesson from US Senator Elizabeth “Fauxcahontus” Warren? |Read more at GraniteGrok
Forget Paris, the Agenda Marches On
According to this article from Forbes, The U.S. May Never Leave The Paris Climate Accorddespite the fact that President Trump vowed to get us out. According to the report…
“Donald Trump may have vowed to take the United States out of the Paris climate accord, but you wouldn’t have known it based on the words of the negotiators he sent to the summit in Bonn to hammer out the rules of the agreement. | Keep Reading at Granite State Futures.org
DUI Checkpoint Activism + College Know-Your-Rights Outreach
Recently I wrote the eulogy for Cop Block, the national police accountability activist news website. Nothing lasts forever, especially in the world of activism, where doing the right thing rarely means one can make a living at it. Burnout is real and has happened to some of the brightest activists to ever hit the Cop Block scene.
Cop Block as a national organization may have died, but it’s not dead here in New Hampshire, where it was incubated – according to founder Pete Eyre – in Keene. | Keep Reading at Free Keene
A Treat for Advent: Northeast Catholic College Polyphony Choir
The singers from Northeast Catholic College are taking their show on the road for a New England tour during Advent 2017. Having enjoyed music from NCC students both at their campus and at various New Hampshire events, I can say you’re in for a treat if you attend one of the Polyphony Choir’s upcoming performances. All these events are open to the public. | Keep Reading at Ellen Kolb.com
OP-ED: A Turn of Phrase to Turn Thoughts Toward Gun Control
On Sunday, October 1, 2017, Stephen Paddock opened fire on the Las Vegas strip killing 58 people and injuring 527 people before turning his firearm on himself, ending his rampage, but signaling the beginning of the fall-out that has followed.
The media, obliged to report the news unbiasedly, instead capitalized on a turn of phrase that has been burnt into the minds of Americans, effectively limiting the conversation from protecting Americans from mass acts of violence to a single idea – that more gun control is needed. That phrase, “This was the worst mass shooting in modern American history”, does not draw suspicion, because it smacks as being factually correct, but it forgoes solving the real problem, instead pushing a political agenda. There is a word for that – rhetoric. | Keep Reading at NH Political Buzz