February 10, 2022 Dessert with Friends: Constitutional scholar: Mr. Daniel Richard.

by Bob Hatcher | Jan 22, 2022 | OldNews

Dan is a self-taught Constitutional scholar and N.H. Secretary of State Bill Gardner (a Democrat) has called Dan “The most knowledgeable Constitutional scholar he has ever known.”  Dan is a popular speaker who has presented to hundreds of people all across New Hampshire.

 Dan will provide us with updates on his three law suits:

1. The Remonstrance case: on the right to petition government.  (Decision should be available in February.)
2. A second suit about Federal money and separation of powers.
3. A third case about unconstitutional voting laws.

Dan is a Granite Stater who grew up in Manchester.  He acquired skills in training and managing police dogs in the U.S. Air Force, leading to a 35 year career in training police dogs,
including a being the Head K-9 trainer for the US Dept. of Energy.

Dan spoke recently about voter integrity and you can see the presentation on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYPQUy1QFe8

January 13, 2022 Dessert With Friends – Mr. Eric Pauer, VP School District Governance Association

by Bob Hatcher | Dec 10, 2021 | OldNews

Care about our schools and the country’s future? Don’t miss this important presentation. 

In our January 13, 2022 Dessert with Friends at the Ashland American Legion, Mr. Eric Pauer, Vice President of the School District Governance Association (SDGA) will deliver an overview of how parents and other interested citizens can ensure elected school officials are performing their proper duties. He will also discuss School Board best practices and present the SDGA’s model for school district policies.

Eric will also review some current legislation that enhances local control in education and openness in administration.

Mr. Pauer represented Brookline NH on the Hollis-Brookline-Cooperative-School-Board from 2014 to 2017, including as secretary from 2015 to 2016. As a fiscal conservative, Eric spearheaded the successful citizen efforts to adopt official balloting system (SB2) for the Brookline School District (2016), to adopt a tax cap for the Brookline School District (2018), and to require tax impacts to be listed in future Brookline School District warrants (2021).
Eric has worked in engineering and systems architecture for a number of different companies for over 32 years in defense and medical electronics. He also served part-time for 30 years in the Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve as a Civil Engineer, State Director of Logistics/Engineering, and Senior Emergency Manager, retiring as a Colonel in 2018. He has two adult children with his wife Diane, who is currently a NH State Representative for Brookline/Mason (R-Hillsborough District 26).

Dessert with Friends, December 9, 2021 – Hear from the Granite Grok

by Bob Hatcher | Nov 29, 2021 | OldNews

Dessert With Friends – November 11, 2021 — Bills in the NH legislature – the good, the bad, and the ugly

by Bob Hatcher | Oct 15, 2021 | OldNews

Want to know how they make this sausage in the state legislature?  Come hear Mark Alliegro speak from an up close and personal perspective.  Mark will discuss law-making process and give examples of good ones, bad ones, the funny, and truly ugly ones.

Mark Alliegro is the state rep from District 7, Campton, NH.  He was elected by a wide margin in November 2020, and is term ends on December 6, 2022.  Earning his B.S. in biology from Fairleigh Dickinson University New Jersey he went to for a Ph.D. in cell biology from SUNY at Buffalo.  He’s worked as a program director of the National Science Foundation, a Senior Scientist at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, and as a professor of cell and molecular biology at Brown University.

Mark’s talk will begin at 7:00 PM but come early for dessert.

Dessert With Friends – October 14, 2021 How to talk to a liberal about climate change

by Bob Hatcher | Oct 14, 2021 | OldNews

Liberals and progressives want you to think that climate change is an “existential problem”.  Well, the bad news is that it’s a bit of a problem; but the good news is that it’s not nearly as much of a crisis as they want you to believe.  It’s a false alarm.  We’ll talk about how to talk to a liberal in general (hint, ask questions, don’t argue) and then specifically how it relates to climate change.

For example, here are some facts.

• Heat waves in the US are now no more common than they were in 1900, and that the warmest temperatures in the US have not risen in the past fifty years.
• Humans have had no detectable impact on hurricanes over the past century.
• Greenland’s ice sheet is shinking, but it isn’t shrinking any more rapidly today than it was eighty years ago.
• The net economic impact of human-induced climate change will be minimal through at least the end of this century.

Bob Hatcher, PARC Board member with degrees in Meteorology and Atmospheric Fluid Mechanics will go over the data and give you the straight scoop.  He’ll give you talking points on how to talk to a liberal about the issue.  Come prepared to think and to have practice sessions and Q&A.