It’s been said “if you’re not in a cult by now you’re crazy”.  The chances are you’re already in one and don’t even know it, which is the sign of a well-run cult, so congratulations. Most people wouldn’t stick around in a cult if in fact they knew they had been hoodwinked into involuntary membership.

However, the loneliness and insecurity of not being in a cult when nearly everyone else in the known world has taken the plunge can leave you feeling like an outsider.  Luckily, Bananas Research Inc. has done the heavy lifting to help you find the right cult for you!

Any cult worth its kool-aid will have one or more of the following key features:

• Sex – lots of sex with lots of people, usually with the charismatic leader
• Money – lots of money flowing through the cult, usually to the charismatic leader
• Death – lots of death or focus on climactic death, usually with the charismatic leader
• Drugs – lots of drugs for making money and having sex, usually with the charismatic leader
• Secrets – lots of them, typically yours being kept by the charismatic leader
• Science – we all know you need to follow the science, especially the kind taught by a charismatic leader
• Aliens – because aliens can make up for a leader lacking in charisma

Joining a cult that doesn’t feature heavily in one or all of these is like going to public school for a well-rounded education – a complete waste of your time.

History tells us cults emerged out of man’s need for purpose, belonging, and power (and sex).  The earliest known cult was discovered in the area known as Meso-California, where ancient hieroglyphs indicate a multi-level marketing scheme was hatched by a very charismatic man named Jeh-Bull-She’e’ter who convinced the locals he was an alien-god and would reveal the secrets of the universe for the low-low price of six sheep, a tusk and their virgin daughters.  Archaeologists have confirmed his followers all agreed to commit mass suicide by jumping off a high cliff, believing they would be teleported into the waiting mother ship if they were holding hands.  The lone survivor was a guy named Derek, who failed to make the leap after seeing his sandal needed tying, only to watch his fellow cult members plunge to their demise.  Way to go, Derek. Jeh-Bull-She’e’ter, however, would buy his silence with select members of his new harem, mostly sheep, and the fast-moving world of cults was born.

Today there are more cults than there are people not in one.  Choosing a cult can be very difficult because cults work better when they choose you.  So if you are a hapless loner in search of meaning and a group of people ready to love-bomb you until you’re ready to give them your life and life savings, don’t mess it up by asking, “Are you a cult?”  Not only will this preclude you from membership, but it will deeply offend the members and likely get you blacklisted from ever being invited to their pagan festivals.  Play it cool.

The secret to getting into a top-level cult is to make yourself appear lost and vulnerable.  It also helps to be young and naïve, so child-like that you may in fact be a child.  Start early, or as the Shwim-Shwarma says, “the early bird gets the magic worm of destiny”.  Cults do their best work on the young and dumb, which brings us back to public schools.  Public, and even many private schools, are a virtual hotbed of cult recruitment locales.  Already graduated?  Fear not lone stranger!  You can still gain entry into many reputable cults by virtue of having your child grandfather you in by simply enrolling them into the neighborhood indoctrination center.  Willingness to sacrifice one or all of your children will show the cult you are the kind of deeply committed dummy who is in it for the long haul.

Day one in the cult will be exhilarating at first but quite tiring by the end.  This is necessary to draw down your defenses creating the requisite fatigue in order to give your brain a good washing.  Though you may be dying for food or sleep, it’s important to know those are for losers who don’t understand the true meaning of life is a super-spiritual denial of necessities so you can support the needs of the charismatic leader who is your direct connection to god. If your charismatic leader doesn’t have god on speed dial like a true BFF, it’s time to switch cults and fast.

I regress.

Back to brainwashing.  Why have your brain washed, you ask?  Have you seen your brain?  You know it’s filthy, we all know its filthy, just like everyone else’s, which is why it needs washed. If this is your first time in a cult, you have only ever experienced the same mass programming as the rest of the world, so you’ll need a serious scrubbing to wipe the slate clean.   This gets it ready for your new cult masters to create the proper bond that will keep you devoted to the cult mission.  This is very important!  If you think you’re joining a cult and they don’t have the decency to wash your brain get out!  You’re about to sell Amway or supplements and those won’t get you to the penthouse at the top of New Heaven.  (Not to worry, no one will actually touch your brain, but it will be wiped clean of all undesirables.)

Big words bother you?  Of course, they do you tool of the enemy you!  In order to understand your role in the cult, you’ll need to misunderstand your role in society.  Big, confusing words will help you help yourself away from the mal-initiated proletarian masses. You can’t join the cult without first unjoining yourself from the problem, which is the false system you’re being rescued from.  Which false system, you ask?  They’re all false!  Don’t you get it?  You’ve been born into the wrong body and/or wrong family and/or wrong country and/or wrong religion and/or the wrong side of history.  All roads lead to hell, except for the one built by the super-geniuses running your new cult, of course.  Family, liberal democracies, capitalism, whiteness, racists, gender assignments, fake religion, true religion, and all those other people with God-given rights and freedoms are all trying to keep you back from ascending to the true utopianization of conscience you were made for.  Duh!  Learn the lingo, fam.  If you don’t find yourself repeating the same thought-terminating clichés the rest of the members do, you will find yourself back in the godless society that had you trapped in the first place.  You want to be included, don’t you?  Inclusion is everything to a well-oiled and highly performing cult where the diversity of members creates equity for all.  Repeat after me – diversity, inclusion, and equity make you free.  DIVERSITY, INCLUSION, AND EQUITY MAKE YOU FREE! Again! Again! One more time!  I can’t HEAR you!

There, there now.  Don’t you feel better?  We do.

Now it is important to note the continuum of cult hierarchy so that you don’t bite off more than you can chew.  We suggest you start small with a quasi-cult before going on to the big time.  Here are a few entry-level cults to get your un-baptized feet wet:

·                     Sour dough club	·                     Cross-fit
·                     Quilting club	·                     Essential oils
·                     Vegetarianism (the portal to Veganism)	·                     The Church of the Sub-Genius

Once you’ve gained the insights on how cults function you can move up to the show and join:

·                     The Family International	·                     LGBTQ-anon
·                     Happy Science	·                     The Illuminati
·                     Superior Universal Alignment	·                     Raeliens
·                     Order of the Solar Temple	·                     Jehovah’s Witnesses
·                     Church of Scientology	·                     The Nation of Islam
·                     Kabbalah	·                     MAGA
·                     Mega-church (any)	·                     Political party (any)

 

So there it is!  The Bananas Guide to Joining A Cult will have you swallowed up by an amorphous mass of bot-people in no-time.  Now go to it!

(We would be happy to tell you that you have what it takes, but you don’t.  That’s why you need to join a cult silly!)

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The Democrats must have an oversized amount of whatever passes for faith in their ability to “win” in November because their open-door illegal alien invasion policy is so well past pissing off their own base that Trump winning Massachusetts has to be a consideration.

Nationwide “immigration,” the polite media word (like migrant) for the Biden administration’s third-world invasion policy (them invading us), is becoming THE biggest issue for Democrats. Democrat states chocked full of Democrat voters are saying it is more important than climate change or grooming, which has to come as a shock to the party leadership.

Complaints by mayors of Democrat toilets doing business as cities have tricked down to the peasants who are increasingly put out by wave after wave of unvetted, non-English-speaking invaders, many of whom are allegedly being flown in directly and ferried to shelters, community centers, hotels, and motels, where they are collecting in every crevice like sand during a dessert storm. But it might be worse than that (if you can imagine such a thing. Voters in Massachusetts, one of the bluest states on the electoral map, were recently polled, and none of their top concerns are issues Democrats typically give a damn about.

A plurality of Massachusetts residents, 21%, said that immigration and migrants are the biggest issues facing the Bay State, with housing coming in second at 15%. Taxes, government spending, and welfare came in as the third biggest issue facing the state at 12%. Inflation and the cost of living, meanwhile, tied government spending in third place at 12%.

What happened to promoting abortion (dba: women’s health care), grooming (Public Education), and Marxism (climate justice, social justice, blah blah blah)? Were those not even options? They were, sort of, but in the bluest of blue-blood locales, Climate and ‘Social Issues” as pressing concerns came in dead last.

 

That might explain why the Bidenistas are so keen on a regional Middle Eastern Conflict, but I’m not sure that’ll be the distraction they’re looking for. China, which backs Russia over Ukraine. Russia is an ally of Iran. Iran (and its proxies), along with China, have been using Biden’s invasion of America to move operatives into the domestic US. And you can argue that this is unverified, but if you were them looking at us, would you sit on your hands or use it to your strategic advantage?

Trust me; there are trained interlopers all across the increasingly fruitless plain waiting to impose as much inconvenience and harm as they can manage and we’re backing their geographic enemies on both conflicts.

Vegas odds, given that Biden and the Democrats have done almost everything they projected on Trump, that they will also try to prevent the election or its results? The odds are getting better every day if the Blue States start to become less-than-reliable electoral gimmes as we creep closer to November.

 

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Speaking of, from this week, Monday Edition and Wednesday Edition.  And Saturday will be the Israel post, if that interests you.

 

*** Warning, a few possibly off-color ones, in case tender eyes are about ***

 

 

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Will that be in the language you “voluntarily” sign to get your CBDC card – which will be offered as your only choice as they remove cash from the economy?  Doubtless.

 

 

 

Now, imagine the police doing the same for any other religion.

 

 

 

Don’t buy Canadian.

 

 

Square this circle.  Please.

 

 

Some kind of -ist, or -phobe…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I’m seeing Persian voice after Persian voice, whether inside Iran or out, supporting Israel and wanting freedom from the Mullahs.  How can we help them?

I remember Iran, albeit being “knee high to a grasshopper” at the time.  Warm and wonderful people that we met.

 

 

 

On pretty much anything the Left proposes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

OK, so who?  If he’s predicting the end of humanity’s domination, who replaces humanity?  Inquiring minds want to know.

 

 

 

Remember my two essays “It was the best of times, it was the end of times”…

 

E It was the best of times, it was the end of times 1

 

E It was the best of times, it was the end of times 2

 

 

 

My older kid will, soon, be entering the workforce.  And will soon be seeing, with their own eyes, the effects of TAXATION IS THEFT.

 

 

It’s painful to me in particular: so many Jews who, among all peoples, should distrust government – so mindlessly servile to “If the government / news say it, it must be true”.

 

 

My brain hurts thinking someone actually believes this!

 

 

 

Interesting metric.

 

 

Celebrating the murder of your child.  A pity they didn’t tie her tubes while they were in there.  How far we’ve fallen – gone back to the old times!

 

 

 

 

 

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PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA

 

Dr. McCullough is the most published cardiologist IN HISTORY.

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Mccollough-on-oncogenesis.mp4

 

The Jabbed, especially those who have had it multiple times, are in great danger.  Also see links section, below, for other info on this.

 

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Presented to show the Mobius-strip mentality of the Left.

 

 

 

One of the single greatest crimes of 20th century Democrats was the destruction of the black family.  Or any family that was pushed onto the “Great Society” and its welfare requirements.

 

 

 

 

Echoing 2020.  And I fear the results will echo it too.

 

 

 

Can we spell C O N F L I C T  O F  I N T E R E S T boys and girls?

 

 

 

Marry that up with the info apparently being distributed in the pre-border staging areas telling people to vote for Biden… and how to do it.

 

 

That’s the thing.  That department DID NOT EXIST until Carter, and the American education system was the envy of the world.  See this Bill Whittle video:

THE STRUGGLE FOR STUPIDITY (youtube.com)

And note the paragraph that sixth grade students were reading and analyzing, which is the centerpiece of Bill’s discussion.

 

 

 

You have to wonder when so many people make the same gesture.  Is it just “Hey, me too!” or is there something more?  Up until a few years ago I’d have said “Just me too” but now…

 

 

Chops to Kirstie.

 

 

 

Words mean things.  That’s why the Left spends so much time working to corrupt the language.

 

 

We care about borders, national and cultural security, and the safety and security of our children too.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It’s a real shirt!

 

 

See prior comment about Conflict of Interest.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I’ve seen quite a number of articles and videos that don’t convince me to repeal the 19th instanter… but do convince me that a case can be made for it.

 

 

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Link Section (some mine, some from my Jarhead friend):

 

No Oaths of Office in the Federal Government (madmaxworld.tv)

When I worked for the US Army as a civilian (intern!), I still had to take an oath.  I can’t fathom how – not one, but many – of these people are functioning at the highest level without an oath.  Speaking of oaths and impeachment:

On The Mayorkas Impeachment in [Market-Ticker] (formatting removed):

The impeachment of Mayorkas has nothing to do with “policy disagreements”; it is first, last and only about a Cabinet official’s deliberate refusal to enforce laws as written, including 8 USC §1324.

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A Millennial Conflict – Liberty’s Torch (libertystorch.info)

An ageless conflict, actually.

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Camera Catches Biden’s Cheat Sheet for Meeting with Iraq PM, Shows Embarrassing Directions to Guide Him | The Gateway Pundit | by Jack Davis, The Western Journal

National embarrassment.  At least, to anyone with three brain cells that work with each other.

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Borepatch: How do you find “Global Warming” when there’s no actual warming?

The upward warming trend from 1970 to the present day is not due to the data as read, but rather to the (made up) adjustments to the data.

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Bayou Renaissance Man: Put not your trust in bureaucracies – Second Amendment edition

 

 

Related:

Defense against robots – Gun Free Zone

I agree.  More on guns:

Unlicensed Dealers Account for fewer than 1 of 10,000 Firearms Sold in USA (jpfo.org)

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Closed-Loop Fission Energy? in [Market-Ticker]

Interesting about nuclear energy.  A civilization like ours needs reliable and consistent energy.

Biden WH Weighs Invoking Climate Emergency To Hamper Oil Production, Garner Youth Votes – Climate Change Dispatch

War on Oil: Biden Has Taken More than 200 Actions Against U.S. Oil Industry – The Lid (lidblog.com)

And broadly on climate:

Net Zero? Oops, Never Mind | Power Line (powerlineblog.com)

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Bill Gates Patent Gives Him ‘Exclusive Rights’ to ‘Computerize’ Humans – Global ResearchGlobal Research – Centre for Research on Globalization

More and more, I view this as a not-merely-theoretical threat.  Kind of related, at least to me:

‘Terrifying’: FISA Bill Set to Include ‘Vast’ New Surveillance Powers Forcing Businesses to ‘Become NSA Spies’ (infowars.com)

Technology is, increasingly, changing from a tool of liberation and information to a tool of oppression.  And related to technology:

Video: Boston Dynamics unveils stronger, more capable electric Atlas robot (newatlas.com)

AI-powered robots can now autonomously repair other bots (newatlas.com)

Why do the above NOT give me warm fuzzy feelings?  Or this:

AI Is Now Dogfighting With Fighter Pilots In The Air | The War Zone (twz.com)

From a purely military standpoint, this makes sense.  The downside potential for this, however, is enormous.

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7 of 12 Trump Jurors Have Been Picked. Here’s What We Know About Them… (thenationalpulse.com)

Can we spell FIX?

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This Is What Your Neighbor Might Already Know About You – Ask a Prepper

Never Throw These Away! – Ask a Prepper

Prep.  Prep.  Prep.  Lather, rinse, repeat.  No, you can’t be 100 sure or completely prepared for any possibility, but even something is better than nothing.  Related to spicy time:

Video: Robert Spencer on How the Left Is Trying to Foment a Civil War (jihadwatch.org)

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Researchers Warn of Mutant Monkeypox Strain with ‘Pandemic Potential’, Discovered in Congo Village (legalinsurrection.com)

Spread by sexual contact.  And you know they want pedo too:

New York Democrats Want Law to Allow Little Kids to undergo Sex Change without Parental Consent – The Lid (lidblog.com)

Just what kind of monster would, possibly, permit this.  Or this:

California Democrats Oppose Bill Making Child Prostitution a Felony – The Lid (lidblog.com)

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German Peasants Warned They Could Be Restricted From Driving On The Weekends To Meet Net Zero – Pirate’s Cove » Pirate’s Cove (thepiratescove.us)

Consequences of Green policies.  Benefits unknown.

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Oriane Filhol (left-wing politician who campaigned for the rights of migrants) and Pippa Bacca (hitchhiker in Turkey who tried to promote world peace), both attacked & killed by islamic 6th century (substack.com)

I want-want-want to feel sorry for them; I’m sure their friends and family are grieving.  I can’t scrape up a shred, sorry.

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South American ‘Burglary tourists’ strike again: Now foreign armed gangs are targeting wealthy San Diego neighborhoods after flying in to America on Visa Waiver Program | Daily Mail Online

Videos: Migrants Complain That New Yorkers Don’t Learn African Languages – modernity

Wait, wait, wait… you come to a new country and then demand that people in the new country learn YOUR language?

At another point in the hearing migrants began complaining about the free food and housing they have been provided, saying it isn’t good enough.

And you come here, getting free room and board, often clothes, medical care, etc., also free – and you’re complaining still?

Student suspended for using term ‘illegal alien’ in English class (carolinajournal.com)

Before my wife got her US citizenship, she was a RESIDENT ALIEN.  Someone here illegally is an ILLEGAL ALIEN.

Period.

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We’re All Paying A Deadly Price For Obama’s Foreign Policy (thefederalist.com)

Go past the Israel focus of the article.  Barackus’ influence has been calamitous generally.  And he’s still got his hand in the mix.

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Confirmed: Researchers Reveal COVID mRNA Vaccines Contain Component that Suppresses Immune Response and Stimulates Cancer Growth | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hᴏft

See video in PSA above.  Scary stuff.  More:

BREAKING–New Manuscript Concludes 100% Pseudouridinated mRNA is Potentially Cancer-Promoting (substack.com)

From the same site:

Why is Academic Medicine Stonewalling on the COVID-19 Vaccine Debacle? (substack.com)

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Two from Surak – always insightful:

STATIN DRUGS laid the groundwork for COVID (substack.com)

Who takes statins?  Primarily older people.  Whose health care is more expensive.  See the “Pick of the Post”…

Changing the Constitution to save America (substack.com)

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Congressional Spending Goes Full Weimar – American Thinker

Death spiral approaching!

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Mainstream Media Issues Joint Statement to Pressure Biden – Morning Report News

As I understand, Trump has publicly said YES, repeatly.  It’s The Potato (or more precisely, his shepherds) that refuse.  Speaking of the enemedia:

Let’s Play ‘Spot the Missing Word’ : The Other McCain

Control the information flow, control what people believe.  There’s a reason that word is missing.  For example, when you search for DEMOCRAT and CORRUPTION in a search, nothing comes up.  Generally:

Democrats Continue To Look For Ways To Regulate Free Speech – Pirate’s Cove » Pirate’s Cove (thepiratescove.us)

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Two lifeforms merge in once-in-a-billion-years evolutionary event (newatlas.com)

I just think this is cool!

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Democrats One Step Closer to Mob Rule: Maine Joins Blue States To Abolishing Electoral College – Geller Report

Maine circling the drain.  IMHO, NH will not be more than 10 years in doing the same.

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A fairly long video (almost 50 minutes) from October 2022 that lays out a fairly strong case for the Vatican being one of the powers behind “The Great Culling”, and how they are pulling a lot of financial strings to hasten the End Times.  The presenter says some pretty outlandish stuff, but he also has some good backup.  Definitely food for thought:

https://www.bitchute.com/video/7eRf1t5gs6Gy/

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More on “The Great Taking”.  Strongly suggest getting any cash you have OUT of the banks.  The FDIC insurance isn’t going to matter for squat if the government declares a “bank holiday” and locks everyone out of their accounts.  Start NOW, as amounts larger than $5000 or so will cause much push back (I know from personal experience):

https://www.theburningplatform.com/2024/04/07/whats-so-great-about-the-great-reset-great-taking-great-replacement-great-deflation-and-next-great-depression/

Also, understand that if you draw money routinely, sooner or later you will be accused of “structuring” – drawing money out in smaller amounts that is designed to evade that limit.

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A government commissioned report  has been released that shows causality (i.e. a direct link) between the mRNA “vaccines” and myocarditis.  Given this report, they can no longer claim ignorance of the damage caused by the “Jabs”, and they need to stop pushing the “vaccines” immediately (or at least put a HUGE warning on them).  Let the court battles begin:

Biden Admin-commissioned report concludes Pfizer & Moderna mRNA shots cause myocarditis (dossier.today)

Don’t forget this video – they knew, and knew in 2021:

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/naomi-wolf-they-knew.mp4

 

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The government is running experiments to create clouds and block the sun, all to combat “global warming”. They just had their first major experiment, but did not tell anyone until AFTER it was conducted, as they were concerned about public backlash.  You think?:

https://www.theepochtimes.com/epochtv/secretive-experiment-shoots-aerosols-into-sky-to-increase-cloud-cover-facts-matter-5624329

If they goof and put too much in, there goes photosynthesis.  And all life on earth.

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Now that the R’s are getting into mail-in voting & ballot harvesting (where ever it’s legal), the D’s are getting concerned about how it may affect the election:

Democrats, Media Starting to Admit Some Mail-In Voting Problems Ahead of 2024 Presidential Election – Tennessee Star

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Flyers found in Mexico, at a processing station for illegals are openly telling the “newcomers” to vote for Biden.  First:  These are NOT citizens of the USA, so they should not be allowed to vote at ALL!   2nd, this is out-and-out election interference, trying to dilute the vote of We The People:

GOP Slams ‘Vote Biden’ Flyers at Migrant Center (dailysignal.com)

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Even the left is getting tired of the pro-Hamas protesters:

Whoa: Google Fires 28 Employees After Pro-Hamas Sit-In – HotAir

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For anyone who owns a gun & wants to sell it someday, the ATF just dropped a new “rule” (466 pages worth), making it a crime to sell your gun at a profit unless you have an FFL:

The Feral Irishman: Bee Aye Tea Eff: Making It Up As We Go Along

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This article has a strong argument that we are already a police state, but the police just haven’t gotten around to you yet.  To paraphase a friend “Every day the coils of the deep state snake squeeze a little harder”:

DAVID KRAYDEN: America is already a police state; it just hasn’t captured you yet | Human Events | humanevents.com

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Saw this recently, and thought it was spot on:

“The most oppressed people in America are the law-abiding individuals.”  

— sloanmagnum5009

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Concluding:

Paris 2024 Games flame lit in ancient Olympia – Insider Paper

Notice what’s not there?

“Diversity”.

And related to Greece:

Must be “The Climate Change”: Greece’s Population Plummets as Sudden Deaths Soar (substack.com)

 

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Pick of the Post:

 

 

Remember these words:

Remember, in socialist societies, an individual’s worth is measured, not by being a unique person made in the image of God, but by that person’s utility to the state. If you’re no longer useful and, worse, if are an economic drain on society, you’ve got to go.

Cases Of Medical Murder Explode In America (allnewspipeline.com) (bolding added):

Taking a longer view, Ezekiel Emanuel, one of the country’s most influential bioethicists and a prime architect of Obamacare, wrote as far back as 1996 that health care “services provided to individuals who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens are not basic and should not be guaranteed.”

What did the first excerpt say?  If you’re not productive / participating, you’re on the chopping block.

In a possible “predictive programming” moment, there was a Star Trek: The Next Generation episode centering around a planetary civilization that had The Resolution where it was your social duty to commit suicide before you became a burden.  Given the enormous push for euthanasia around the world – at least in western societies – that seems prophetic.

And then, of course, there’s Logan’s Run.

 

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Palate Cleansers:

 

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I’ll show myself out.  TGIF!

 

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HILLIARD, Ohio (WCMH) — Several central Ohio parents suing Hilliard City Schools allege a student suffering from “severe emotional trauma” was pressured by teachers to adopt “a new name and identity as the opposite sex.”

Nine Hilliard parents say school officials “treated the child as the opposite sex” without parental consent after “diagnosing” the student with gender dysphoria, according to the filing in the U.S. District Court in the Southern District of Ohio. The complaint claims the district deceived the student’s parents while the child’s “condition spiraled out of control” and led to a suicide attempt.

Hilliard student coerced to ‘identify as opposite sex,’ anti-LGBTQ+ lawsuit says

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Speaker Mike Johnson is a one-person-wrecking ball. But what he is wrecking is the GOP that he supposedly leads. He is single-handedly wrecking the GOP’s electoral prospects … vote GOP, so we can play the role of controlled opposition while fully-funding the Left’s anti-America, globalist agenda. 

But remember bitter-clingers, he’s not the problem … it’s Matt Gaetz, and Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Chip Roy who won’t go along with the charade who are the real problem. Yeah, just keep telling yourself that.

When Mike Johnson was elected speaker, there were 222 Republicans and 213 Democrats: a nine-seat majority that allowed Republicans to lose the votes of four members but maintain a majority.

Under Johnson, through both incompetence and corruption, that slim majority has only…

— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) April 18, 2024

Enough already! If you ever even begin to start believing anything anyone in Republican leadership tells you just watch this. Pay close attention to those that don’t seem bothered by this. They’re not our friends. pic.twitter.com/rj2NMGBarg

— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) April 18, 2024

Chuck Schumer bragged on the Senate floor about Speaker Johnson giving Democrats everything they want in the foreign war bill and for Ukraine.

Joe Biden just announced he supports the House bill Johnson is forcing forward.

Johnson is not our Speaker, he is theirs.

The…

— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (@RepMTG) April 17, 2024

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A Texas father is left powerless as he fights his ex-wife in a California court over her insistence to start their son on puberty blockers.

The terrifying saga facing Jeff Younger is a cautionary tale about how the U.S. court system is weaponized against parents who do not go along with the transgender cult. For years, Younger and his ex-wife, Anne Georgulas, have fought over custody of their children, with the highlight of their fight being about one of their sons, who she believes is transgender.

A mother may soon be allowed to have her son castrated without the father’s permission because she believes her son is transgender:

https://t.co/ZqBZ9vl1JM

— The Dallas Express News (@DallasExpress) April 14, 2024

Georgulas moved their children, including their 11-year-old son, to California against the wishes of their father. The move was protected after Younger lost his petition in the Texas Supreme Court to force her to return the children to Texas. (ROOKE: Blue State Dems Soundly Lost Debate On Radical Trans Bill — So Now They Want To Sneak It Past You)

The Texas Supreme Court denied his petition, claiming that Younger misinterpreted SB 107 and that the current Texas court order preventing Georgulas from giving their son these medical treatments would be honored in California. California currently has a transgender child trafficking law on the books, SB 107, which allows the state to refuse lawful extradition orders from other states over issues related to so-called gender-affirming care.

“I concur in the Court’s denial of the petition because Father is already in possession of a court order prohibiting Mother from doing precisely what he fears she will do with his son. In October 2021, the district court—with Mother’s full agreement, and indeed at her request—ordered that: neither parent may treat a child with hormonal suppression therapy, puberty blockers, and/or transgender reassignment surgery (if any) without the consent of the parents or court order,” the Court stated.

The Supreme Court of Texas denied my Mandamus, effectively terminating my parental rights. My children are now subject to being chemically castrated in California. Texas is an empire of child abuse, led by Texas judges.

— Jeff Younger (@JeffYoungerShow) December 31, 2022

Proponents of the law claim SB 107 makes California a “refuge for trans kids and their families.” Law experts have long warned that these bills strip parental rights away from concerned parents, preventing any opposition to these medical treatments. This means that for Younger and his family, it will allow the mother to start harmful medical treatments on his child without his permission. (ROOKE: Democratic Lawmaker Who Destroyed Own Family Wants To Come For Yours Next)

Despite the Texas order supposedly preventing this from happening, Younger’s family has an upcoming pro forma hearing on April 25 that will ultimately decide whether Georgulas will be allowed to start their son down a path that will eventually turn him into a medical patient for the rest of his life.

A bombshell U.K. review, the Cass Report, of the usage of puberty blockers for minor patients found alarming problems when children are given these drugs to pause or delay puberty.

“A further concern … is that adolescent sex hormone surges may trigger the opening of a critical period for experience-dependent rewiring of neural circuits underlying executive function (i.e. maturation of the part of the brain concerned with planning, decision making and judgement). If this is the case, brain maturation may be temporarily or permanently disrupted by the use of puberty blockers, which could have a significant impact on the young person’s ability to make complex risk-laden decisions, as well as having possible longer-term neuropsychological consequences,” the report found.

The research shows that male children put on puberty blockers from an early age suffer from “inadequate penile growth,” and both male and female minor patients suffer from compromised bone density and growth issues.

“Puberty suppression was never intended to continue for extended periods, so the complex circumstances in which young people may remain on puberty blockers into adulthood is of concern,” the report stated.

On the heels of the Cass report, which inexplicably shows the severe harms of the sex reassignment industry, radical politicians like @GovernorShapiro are pushing even harder to mutilate kids.

It’s sickening. https://t.co/wieey8H8On

— Meg Brock (@MegEBrock) April 11, 2024

Georgulas promised Texas courts that she was not intent on sending their son to a gender clinic to receive irreversible treatments for his supposed gender dysphoria, but if that were the case, why would she be in a California court attempting to allow it to happen? Now that Texas ruled against Younger, there is little legal protection left for him to protect his son. He is not even allowed to argue against these treatments in the pro forma hearing on April 25, according to the National File. (ROOKE: Meet Celebrities’ Favorite LA School Turning Their Kids Trans)

SB 107 proponents swore this wouldn’t happen when their bill was signed into law, yet here it is occurring in broad daylight. The Younger case is the realization of what these transgender cultists ultimately wanted. They demonized concerned parents, calling them right-wing conspiracy theorists. The slippery slope is not only real but worse; it’s more like an uncontrollable water slide.

 

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Victor David Hanson is a smart guy. A historian, he pays attention to past and present and seems to be neither a deep-state neocon nor some feckless progressive academic interested in politics before facts or science.

He shared some thoughts about the Biden Admininstrations “footing” when it comes to global and regional conflicts that paint a less than flattering picture of Uncle Joe than we may remember.

We should remember, so I felt like this was worth sharing. Joe isn’t just bad with unity at home, which is why traditional antagonists are so emboldened.

“Don’t!”— Or Ten Ways to Guarantee a Theater-wide War

On the eve of the October 7 massacres, National Security Advisor bragged in an essay that his Mideast portfolio was “quieter than it has been for decades”. Now we are on the verge of a multifront Middle East war. How did Joe…

— Victor Davis Hanson (@VDHanson) April 14, 2024

Peace through weakness is a tested strategy. It ends badly.

Unrolled.

“Don’t!”— Or Ten Ways to Guarantee a Theater-wide War

On the eve of the October 7 massacres, National Security Advisor bragged in an essay that his Mideast portfolio was “quieter than it has been for decades”. Now we are on the verge of a multifront Middle East war. How did Joe Biden inherit a decades-long regional calm and turn it into a precursor to a gargantuan war?

1. Talk loudly and carry a twig. Issue hollow Obama-like “redlines” or serial Biden threats to aggressive enemies like the vapid “Don’t!” Witness a U.S. President who works a 3-day week, struggles to read a teleprompter, and shouts more at conservative Americans than at America’s enemies.

2. Destroy hard-won deterrence. Abruptly pull out of Afghanistan. Abandon $50 billion in weapons to terrorists. Abandon a new $1 billion embassy. Abandon a $300 refitted air base. Abandon thousands of NATO allies, thousands of U.S. contractors, and thousands of Afghan allies. Lose 13 Marines in a horrific scramble to get out, while killing collateral Afghan civilians in a supposedly “righteous strike”. Call the entire American humiliation an impressive withdrawal.

3. Sit passively while a Chinese spy balloon traverses the continental U.S. Shoot it down only after days of escalating public outrage. Be afraid to call the Chinese out for the Wuhan-lab-generated, gain-of-function Covid-19 virus. Let Chinese diplomats dress down our silent and stunned secretary of state and national security advisor on American soil in Anchorage.

4. Assure Vladimir Putin that the U.S. reaction to a preemptive invasion of Ukraine would hinge on whether it was a major or “minor” invasion. Delay $100 million in military aid to Ukraine as Putin massed on Ukraine’s borders in hopes such forbearance would be reciprocated. Implore Putin to be more selective in his cyber targeting of U.S. infrastructure and institutions.

5. Coddle terrorist Iran. Seem eager to resume the Iran Deal. Lift sanctions. Allow $100 billion in oil profits to flow into Iranian coffers. Restore aid to the terrorist Palestinian authority and Hamas. Ignore Hezbollah’s terrorism. Remove the terrorist designation of the Houthis. Mostly ignore over 120 Iranian attacks on American installations. Transfer suspended funds to Iran at the rate of $1.2 billion for each American hostage it took.

6. Pressure Israel not to destroy Hamas—and not to reply to missile and drone attacks on the Israeli homeland. Threaten to cut off military aid to the only democratic government and longest U.S. ally in the Middle East should it finish off Hamas. Signal the Middle East that there is growing distance between Israel and America. Try to subvert if not overthrow the elected government of Israel. Transfer U.S. weapons stocks from Israel to Ukraine. Ignore thousands of missiles launched by Hamas and Hezbollah, and 100,000 Israelis internally displaced from their homes.

7. Run up the U.S deficit by $1 trillion every 100 days through reckless spending for entitlements, massive green subsidies, and DEI initiatives—while neglecting American shortages of munition stocks, arms, ships, and planes.

8. Recalibrate the U.S. military by substituting DEI criteria for past meritocracy. Accuse white males of being suspect white supremacists, then investigate them, then find no such evidence—and then suffer a shortage of a record 41,000 recruits. Lose the confidence of the American people in the military, so that less than half the population polls high confidence in the armed forces. Render the Uniform Code of Military Justice a mere construct.

9. Destroy the U.S. border for rank political purposes. Cancel all prior border enforcement. Abandon construction of the border wall. Allow in 10-million illegal aliens, among them thousands from hostile nations and some with terrorist ties. Provide generous subsidies, exemptions, and entitlements to immigrant lawbreakers, not always accorded to the U.S. poor.

10. Lose control of the world’s maritime commercial corridors. Allow the Chinese to harass allies in the South China Sea and the Philippine Sea. Allow the Houthis to shut down the Red Sea. Allow Iran to hijack ships in the Straits of the Hormuz. Witness the Black Sea become off-limits to maritime traffic. 

• • •

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How do you get immunity in New Hampshire as a public official for being a pervert, a drunk, dishonest, a rapist, a murderer, or a thug?  Pay off the right people to not probe into what you’ve been up to. Political donations or kickbacks on deals.

Think how Police Officer/Rep. Jonathan Stone was covered up all these years, and about why James F. McLaughlin is still covered up despite his dirty past.

640:2 Bribery in Official and Political Matters. –
    I. A person is guilty of a class B felony if:
       (a) He promises, offers, or gives any pecuniary benefit to another with the purpose of influencing the other’s action, decision, opinion, recommendation, vote, nomination, or other exercise of discretion as a public servant, party official, or voter; or
       (b) Being a public servant, party official, candidate for electoral office, or voter, he solicits, accepts or agrees to accept any pecuniary benefit from another knowing or believing the other’s purpose to be as described in subparagraph I(a), or fails to report to a law enforcement officer that he has been offered or promised a pecuniary benefit in violation of subparagraph I(a).
    II. As used in this section and other sections of this chapter, the following definitions apply:
       (a) “Public servant” means any officer or employee of the state or any political subdivision thereof, including judges, legislators, consultants, jurors, and persons otherwise performing a governmental function. A person is considered a public servant upon his election, appointment or other designation as such, although he may not yet officially occupy that position. A person is a candidate for electoral office upon his public announcement of his candidacy.
       (b) “Party official” means any person holding any post in a political party whether by election, appointment or otherwise.
       (c) “Pecuniary benefit” means any advantage in the form of money, property, commercial interest or anything else, the primary significance of which is economic gain; it does not include economic advantage applicable to the public generally, such as tax reduction or increased prosperity generally.

Source. 1971, 518:1, eff. Nov. 1, 1973.

Peter Heed is the attorney to whom Laurie List, corrupt police officer James F McLaughlin, referred his “clients” in the late 1980s. At least, this is the case with Robert LaMontagne and Father Gordon MacRae, both of whom claim, among many others, to be victims of James F McLaughlin’s corrupt practices, with significant and irrefutable documentation to prove it.

Robert LaMontagne’s child lived with Peter Heed (who was also the child’s counsel) for a while. LaMontagne, meanwhile, was incarcerated in Keene jail. James McLaughlin charged him with sexually assaulting his three young children out of the blue while LaMontagne was serving a sentence for driving without a license after a DUI. (meanwhile, Peter Heed pled guilty to a DUI in 2013). LaMontagne was never shown the polygraph test he offered to take. He was just told he’d failed it. The state never gave him due process, but James F McLaughlin would have been rewarded, Keene Police would have got money, and Peter Heed did nicely.

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Peter Heed’s friends at the Union Leader appear to have deleted the inconvenient links to Peter Heed’s own misconduct. That’s how it rolls in New Hampshire. The Concord Monitor is guilty of doing the same – censorship of articles inconvenient to those who are in “the club”. Even Congresswoman Ann Kuster (an attorney in the same club as Heed) has had her Wikipedia page edited to remove references that are inconvenient to her frontage as a victim’s rights and women’s rights advocate. She doesn’t want people to remember that she lobbied for date rape drug Rohypnol and ignored the pleas of women who’d been gang raped under its influence.

Peter Heed went on to become DA of Cheshire County and then AG of New Hampshire. In 1994, he resigned after being accused of sexually groping two social workers at a conference sponsored by the State on DV & SA. James F McLaughlin and his eager-beaver corrupt police officer friends in the New Hampshire Sexual Assault Unit left Heed alone. It looks like that would have been a deal due to McLaughlin being allowed to continue after his atrocious record of misconduct.

Did Peter Heed or James McLaughlin ever declare these kinds of quid pro quo (“ad honorarium”) deals? No. And neither did anyone who got paid or had their spouses or AG Gordon MacDonald do media for Marsy’s Law. Gordon MacDonald endorsed Marsy’s Law for Amanda Grady Sexton, who was ED for it. In return, she endorsed him to become NH Supreme Court Chief Justice.  RSA 15, RSA 15B has also been thrown out the window.

You wonder how Rep. Jonathan Stone’s police misconduct was covered up all these years? Baksheesh is why – Bribery. RSA 640.2. And if you don’t do something about it, you continue to put children and families in New Hampshire in extreme mortal harm’s way. It is not as if there haven’t been disappearances of children, adults, unsolved murders. Why is that? The same reason.

James F McLaughlin had a documented history of dishonesty and malfeasance for which he’d been suspended in the 1980s when Peter Heed was in private practice in Keene.  In 1998, the First Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Government had engaged in federal entrapment against a man from Maine: Paul Gamache.

The “Government” was James F McLaughlin under the guise of “Francis”, a 31 year old single mom who put an ad in a newspaper seeking a man to have fun with and “mentor” her three children under age 12. When questioned by Paul Gamache, who’d responded to the ad, what was entailed in mentoring, “Francis” wanted him to have sex with her three young children.  He casually went along with her solicitation for this in correspondence because he was really interested in her. He drove to Keene to meet her, only to be greeted by police officers who arrested him.  It was a tale of deceit from start to finish but Keene Sentinel newspaper was in James McLaughlin’s pocket as well. Reports indicate he’d worked with Paul Montgomery at the Sentinel to use media to help provide “probable cause” for charges. The practice is customary with the Concord Monitor, NH AP, NHPR, Union Leader, WMUR as well.  There are multiple cases to prove this.

Peter Heed would have or should have known about the ruling of federal entrapment in 1998 but he protected James F McLaughlin – one can only assume this is because he’d had good business out of him when he was in private practice. This looks to be the case with AG Gordon MacDonald as well who hired McLaughlin in 2017 and then argued to keep the Laurie list private in 2018 after he knew McLaughlin’s name had been added. MacDonald had great business with McLaughlin when he was at Nixon Peabody representing the Diocese. So had David Vicinanzo – another one who has failed to call him out.

A look at who Peter Heed and other prominent NH attorneys donate to appears to be an indication as to what’s really going on in New Hampshire and why there have been so many cover-ups, behind-closed-doors conferences on McLaughlin and other corrupt police officers:

Is Peter Heed paying people off to look after his own reputation and, in turn, James F McLaughlin’s?  One of those people is Kelly Ayotte (she had an aide who was in a prostitution ring), who conveniently stated about him:

“Deputy Attorney General Kelly Ayotte, whom Benson said will take over for Heed, said the county attorney’s office is investigating the allegations. She said the harassment allegation is the first time against Heed since he took office.”

“I’ve worked with Peter for over a year. I have respect for him. It’s been a privilege to serve with him,” she said. “And I’ve never seen him act inappropriately.”

Another person Peter Heed has donated to is Cinde Warmington, who is currently running for Governor.  He’s also donated to Chris Sununu.

Have you noticed a single one of these demanding to know what’s going on with James F McLaughlin and why Attorneys General have protected him? No.

(I’m copying Cinde Warmington and Debra Altshiller on this because they need to think very seriously about their own ignorance of the Bribery and Lobbying Statutes and what the consequences of that can lead to. It’s not OK to ignore the Statutes when you are in a position of power as an elected official to represent the interests of the public and the Constitution). 

Is Baksheesh just the New Hampshire way of doing business in the Law Enforcement/DA/AG/Governor incestuous swamp? Is that how James F McLaughlin, Rep. Jonathan Stone, and others have gotten away for so long? Not a single Attorney General will call out the misconduct of their predecessors.

They are not adhering to their professional codes of conduct, not their oath of office, nor the mission statements on the NH DOJ site. They are adhering to a secret code in a closed-door club to prevent the real truth from coming out—DECADES OF HORRIFIC CORRUPTION that has acted as a cancer through every hallway of law enforcement, the AG’s office, law firms, agencies, and NGOs. These are the “stakeholders” mentioned by members of the various “Governor’s commissions.”

“At trial the detective testified that the use of the word “mentor” in the advertisement was purposeful in order to draw out only persons who were interested in “inter-generational sexual interaction between adults and children.”   Appellant testified, however, that after looking the term “mentor” up in the dictionary, he concluded that it meant “like role model,” that “it was just another gal looking for somebody to take care of her kids like they do nowadays all over the country ․ [f]inancially, take them fishing, hunting, whatever.”

What does the term “mentor” mean in New Hampshire Law Enforcement? Exactly? James F McLaughlin has dozens of qualifications in child sexual assault and related. He teaches other police officers and he is an “expert witness”. 

What does “expert witness” mean in New Hampshire Courts?  In the case of James F McLaughlin, it means someone who knows how to federally entrap and who is themselves a pervert – a danger to society.

A YDC rape victim testified yesterday that “he knew he wouldn’t be believed.” If you look at the number of organizations, qualifications, publications, and training sessions on child abuse James F McLaughlin has been involved with. Why has the Attorney General’s office protected him for being a sexual pervert, a thug, a liar, but victims of YDC abuse were ignored? He was the expert in signs of child sex abuse….<

Chairman Ray Buckley has somehow avoided scrutiny for what appears to be his own sexually perverse misconduct with teenagers, which appears in this YouTube video.  Why is nobody in the NH State House bothered by it? Is it the same reason nobody was bothered about Stacey Laughton, Jonathan Stone, Timothy Siekmann? Or do people just pay off the right people to carry on?

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LD227 would permit the state of Maine to hold those in other states liable for violating it; violating what? The law allows human trafficking and protects adults from charges of kidnapping and transporting minors across state lines for gender surgeries. Tennessee pushed back, but not just against the unconstitutionality of LD227.

Tennessee lawmakers in the state’s Senate on Thursday passed a bill on a 25-4 vote that would make it a felony for adults to aid minors in seeking gender transition procedures. It now heads to the GOP-led House, where it is expected to get additional Republican support.

State Sen. Janice Bowling, a Republican, sponsored SB 2782, which would penalize any “adult who recruits, harbors, or transports an unemancipated minor” in Tennessee “for the purpose of receiving a prohibited medical procedure that is for the purpose of enabling the minor to identify with, or live as, a purported identity inconsistent with the minor’s sex or treating purported discomfort or distress from a discordance between the minor’s sex and asserted identity, regardless of where the medical procedure is to be procured,” and make it classified as a felony.

Objections are without merit. It is about protecting children from a medical, industrial complex revenue machine that secretly admits the risks and failures of its alleged cures on one hand while cashing checks for its services on the other.

A practice that is rapidly losing support around the world (in just the past few weeks).

• “Experts” Admit That Transitioning Kids Can Result in Cancer or Death
• Night Cap: A Majority of Gender Research Lacks Rigour, Quality, or Evidence
• New Study Confirms that If You Leave Gender-Confused Kids Alone … They Grow Out of It
• UK Bans Puberty Blockers for Everyone Under 18 Years of Age
• Woke Pope Comes Out … Against Trans-Surgery and Gender Theory

A growing institutional force recognizes how dangerous and ineffective this is for children’s mental health.

What About Rights?

Children have very limited rights, historically recognized across almost every culture. No one has a history of deliberately letting kids decide what they are ready for or when they can begin certain behaviors. Results may vary (rural kids are up working the family farm and using equipment many an urban youth would be unable to master without the time and training of their rural peers). Still, when it comes to smoking, driving, vaping, drinking alcohol, tattoos, firearms*, and, until recently – sex, the universal standard has been when the time is right. That time is commonly mid to late teens (these days) or later, which ought to include the elective surgical removal of healthy human body parts.

Every culture can debate when the best time is for marriage and firearms safety, but we don’t typically let adults chop off healthy body parts (theirs or someone else’s) unless it is for sexual reassignment surgery, which, when you consider it, is not the best policy. Recent research affirms that a majority of what gets labeled gender dysphoria in children is a different mental health issue that gender-bending does not address. It would explain why the quick-to-judge gender reassignment solution is failing so badly. Even in accepting communities, those lured into the LGBTQ lifestyle continue to embrace other unhealthy habits, including suicide, in statistically high numbers.

You are not addressing their mental health. You are using it to project your political will. Adults are free to make mistakes for which they must then pay some price (unless they are members of Congress). Children manipulated into those choices, contrary to the rising body of evidence against it, are being abused sexually, politically, and forever. You can’t undo the damage of gender surgery, and hormone treatments are dangerous, leading to disease, cancer, and even death.

Maine Democrats are not just fine with the risks. They would add human trafficking to the list. They are putting children in harm’s way. Tennesse is trying to protect them. More states should do the same.

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Democrat-owned fake news media continues to bamboozle their self-blinded followers with false narratives in order to sell their stories to the unsuspecting populace.

As long as left-leaning voters take the bait by the media, they will never learn what it was like 50 years ago to have honest and unbiased news presenters like Walter Cronkite.

The “news” articles of today are more like gossip columns reeking of manipulated, sensational “gotcha” opinions by left-wing reporters at CNN, MSNBC, HuffPost, AP, ABC, et al.

This is called controlling the message. When the message is controlled, the people are controlled.

However, Democrats without a conscience don’t seem to care because they are happily living in their controlled fantasy world. Left-leaning people totally believe the negative, fictional opinions made against Republicans by the leftist media simply because it fits their Democratic narrative.

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Democrats in Congress love to claim “bipartisanship” when pushing laws. Have you noticed that they all claim to “work with” Republicans to negotiate bills? The reality is that they don’t leave space for Republican discussions; they shut Republicans out of the conversation. Congressional Democrats have no desire to negotiate. It seems it’s their way or the highway.

It is extremely rare for a Democrat to go against their party in Washington, DC. The reality is, if they appear to waffle, they pay a price. When Speaker Nancy Pelosi reigned over the House, they were led in shackles to her throne to have a “little chat”. Subsequently, the “throne-in-waiting” of the House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. And to current Senate Leader Chuck Schumer. They are all given the order not to stray from liberal chronicles.

The media will never report that.

Remember when Joe Biden was running for president on a platform of unity? The reality is that Biden has denigrated Republicans for years. He slams Donald Trump at every chance, propagating the same falsehoods claimed by the media, albeit in his mumbling, bumbling Biden-esque way.

Biden is the most divisive president this country has seen in a long time. He wouldn’t know unity if it bit him in the nose.

And yet, Biden’s controlled partisan followers continue to walk around with blinders on. In their letters to the editor and other public communications, they note that Biden is ‘full of stamina and vitality’ and ‘clearly articulates his policies’. Are they drinking the weird Kool-Aid?

Another dramatically false claim is that Trump is a ‘threat to America’ and he ‘cozied up to dictators’ and his ‘greed fed corrupt pay-to-play politics’. They sound catatonic and seemingly suffer from foaming at the mouth.

Talk about being controlled.

People don’t get the full truth. All they get are subjective opinions calling Republicans bad. They listen to fake news with liberal ears and believe the false claim that President Trump said he was going to be a dictator. No. That was taken out of context by the media. Look at the transcript of the conversation. With tongue in cheek, he said he would be a dictator on day one only and would close the border and stop illegal border crossings. Frame of reference: On day one, Joe Biden acted as a dictator when he signed 77 executive orders all cancelling Trump policies simply because they were not Democratic policies.

Let’s not forget Biden holding a pay-to-play billion dollars hostage to force the Ukrainian government to fire the Ukrainian prosecutor who was investigating Hunter Biden’s corrupt deal. Well, son-of-gun, the prosecutor got fired, and Biden got them their billion dollars!

Take the “bloodbath” incident. Trump was speaking metaphorically about a major economic disaster, not a bloody war like the liberal media claimed. Biden used the term in 2020, referring to a political bloodbath. Result: nothing from the media. They let that go without calling him out.

The media claimed Trump called all illegals ‘animals’ – they forgot to mention that he was talking about the murderous criminal element of illegals crossing our border.

Liberals will not be swayed by this column and will continue to turn a blind eye. They’d rather focus more on the lies about Trump than talk about Biden’s economic disasters affecting us all.

Knowledge is key.

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George Carlin used to tell jokes about his time in Catholic school and his smart-ass interactions with The Church, like asking a priest if God is so powerful that he can create a rock so large that he himself can’t lift it. A similar situation has arisen closer to Earth. Vermont close.

In their pursuit of ineffable emissions goals, the Vermont Legislature has created an environmental standard so complex that no one knows how to implement it. Grokster Rob Roper explains.

The Clean Heat Standard (CHS), the “Rube Goldberg” carbon tax on home heating fuels, became law almost a year ago over the veto of Governor Scott. The Democrat/Progressive supermajority that passed the CHS did so without providing – or even considering in any significant detail – how it would work or what it would cost. Instead, they kicked that can into the laps of the Public Utilities Commission with the charge to just figure it all out – by September 2024 (fifteen months) for review before a legislative vote in January 2025.

So far, the only thing we’ve figured out is that this thing can’t be figured out. Certainly not by September 2024/January 2025 and probably not ever.

He proceeds to show us the receipts in support of the claim, which is simplified by the fact that the agencies tasked with achieving goals have not because the way the law is written, it can’t be done. This is progressive busybodying at its finest, and you’d be right to ask the next question.

How many emissions have been emitted not just during the drafting, deliberation, and passage of the Clean Heat Standard but also since trying to work out how it won’t work, starting with the fact that it creates a financial instrument (a carbon credit) the state would have to oversee and regulate (more government, more emissions).

“From the outset, you should treat the credit like a financial instrument if you want to see what happens when you don’t, look at the beginnings of the European Emissions Trading System ten or twelve years ago. It was a disaster. They are a financial instrument. They are basically the same as money, so you need to track them like that. There should be a single registry for credits, and they should all have unique identifiers…. And the final thing, I’d say, is there should be an annual review of market activity. It seems like overkill on day one, but it is really important to understand what is happening in the credit market to make sure that it’s being operated above board….”

Yeah, all that. And much more. Good luck hammering out the details of how to create, track, and regulate what is essentially a new crypto-currency during a three-hour Zoom meeting! This is not the fault of the TAG or the EAG, it’s the fault of the morons who passed this law with this time frame with this bureaucratic framework without doing anywhere near the due diligence necessary to determine if this were possible.

And Vermonters didn’t even want it. They don’t want to pay more to heat and cool their homes, but that’s what this does if they can figure out a way to make it work, which is not a bad thing. The longer it takes, the more time you have to replace them and get this repealed.

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IF you consider yourself a political activist … then there is a thread on X from Jesse Kelly that is a MUST-READ. But let’s start with me, okay? Am I a political activist? NO. Writing posts for GraniteGrok does NOT make me a political activist. It makes me a political commentator (the dysfunctional NHGOP would probably use gadfly instead of commentator). But it does NOT make me an activist.

The vast majority of what is posted on this site is “preaching to the choir.” I am not changing minds. I am not affecting elections, And I can say this because I see how many views the posts get. The reach of my posts, in terms of votes cast in elections, is not material.

If I were a candidate for, let’s say, a school board, or I were helping such a candidate … then I could actually call myself an activist. But I am neither, so I have no business calling myself an activist. Similarly, someone who just posts on Facebook and flies a MAGA flag is not an activist. You are not doing anything actually to manifest change.

Democrats … more accurately, Communists … are winning because they understand the distinction. They seek and win positions of power, and then they use that power. That is why you see drag shows and pride flags in supposedly Red States.

If you want to be an activist, then you need to ACT. And a word of advice, if you do choose to take Jesse’s advice … ignore the NHGOP. The NHGOP is dysfunctional and useless. Trying to “take over” the NHGOP is a colossal waste of time. Instead, the focus should be on taking over your local school board and other aspects of local governance.

Needless to say, I do not expect anyone to actually follow this advice. It is so much easier to do things the same way—the losing way—that the NHGOP has been doing things for decades. TOP OF THE TICKET, COATTAILS, DON’T MASS UP NEW HAMPSHIRE. What’s really “massing up” New Hampshire is not the alleged threat of an income tax—it is the Communist zealots running school boards and other aspects of local government.

Read the whole thread on X by clicking on the below:

Wanna know why “red” towns across America have child drag shows and muddy buddy parades?

Walk with me and I’ll tell you why. And how to stop it: https://t.co/Qvj0lsmMe3

— Jesse Kelly (@JesseKellyDC) April 16, 2024

Unrolled:

Wanna know why “red” towns across America have child drag shows and muddy buddy parades?

Walk with me and I’ll tell you why. And how to stop it:

Unroll available on Thread Reader

First, you need to set aside Nursery Rhyme Conservative notions like “majority”. The Right loves cope like that.

“We’re the silent majority!”

Yeah, dork. Thinking like that is why you lose. 

The communist understands “power” and “majority” are very different things. His is a demonic religion of destruction so he knows he’ll never be popular. And he doesn’t have to be.

He just has to take the choke points of power in a society. 

Which brings us to your town. You know that library you drive by on the way to work every day? Do you even look at it?

No. You don’t.

Guess who does. The communist does. You see a library. He sees a choke point. 

The communist understands power in a way the American Right never has. You put on a MAGA hat and post on Facebook and think you’re “political”.

The communist gets himself on your city’s parks department. Why? Cause he knows what politics really is about. 

So yes, there are only 10 commies in your “red” town. But they’re all on your school board. THEY have the power. Your “majority” means nothing. Nothing.  If you want to save the parts of your country that can be saved, it involves much more than voting for Trump once every 4 years and avoiding Bud Light. You must become involved. LOCALLY.  Run for school board. When there’s a meeting or a committee in your town (communists love committees), go get on them.  When the communist pushes the next tranny parade, make noise. Organize. Last time they tried that in my “red” town, I had so many people calling that they stopped answering the phones in city hall. And in the end, I won. 

Legal and local is our path to victory. Your red area is vulnerable cause you’re watching the game while the communists are planning and organizing.

Plan. Organize. Fight. Win.

That’s all. 

• • •

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The Democrats, especially Joe Biden, have learned to use the courts and trials to their advantage. They set the Justice Department loose because Donald Trump would return to run against Biden to regain his Presidency. The word in the White House last week was “Don’t.”

For the previous year, the Dems favorite word was “Indict,” and indict they did, to the tune of 91 indictments filed against Former President Donald Trump. They did this for three reasons:

1. They knew the media would cover every indictment and trial, and that would poison the people on Donald Trump.
2. Make Trump spend on legal proceedings stealing it from the campaign.
3. Tie him up in court for the stretch run when he should be on the trail for votes.

This three-pronged attack failed on every front. Every indictment meant a plus in Trump’s approval. Trump is setting records raising money and will have enough for both battles. Trump has the energy to be in a New York court during the day and hold a rally in Texas at night. Joe Biden dreams of energy, and Donald Trump exudes it.

The House has impeached Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas. Not because he is incompetent but because he is doing precisely as Joe directs him to keep the border wide open. He is impeached for his treasonous activities that have led to 10 million illegal migrants entering the country under his watch. The House has delayed delivering the Articles of Impeachment to Chuck Schumer and the Senate because Schumer has leaked that he will table the articles rather than convene a trial per the Constitution. For Schumer to table would be unprecedented and in defiance of the Constitution. It would be as disastrous for the Senate as Harry Reid blowing up the 60 vote majority.

The Senate has always been referred to as the upper chamber because it is supposed to be the more stately of the two wings. Senators tend to be more seasoned politicians, and some rules and traditions force the Senate to debate, negotiate, and compromise to get bills passed. That is how it used to be, but like everything else in this new world order, things are not as they used to be or as good. If Schumer does as he promises, it will be another notch downward for the Senate. We should not be surprised that someone like Schumer would do this, especially this New York Jew who had a brain freeze this week and turned on Israel and Benjamin Netanyahu by calling for new elections.

Being in the minority, I do not know if the Republicans have any procedural tricks they can pull to force the issue and the trial. Still, if Schumer is successful in protecting Mayorkas, impeachment will become a lame act if the impeached is of the same party as the majority. Conventional thinking has Trump back in the White House and the Republicans taking the Senate but losing the House. Should that come to fruition, you can bet the house, your house, that Trump will be impeached before the summer of 2025. If Schumer blows up impeachment like the supermajority, a Trump impeachment will become a placement in the Senate cafeteria.

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Germany, like Vermont, has some problems. They are both scrambling to meet arbitrary and unnecessary emissions targets. Stop laughing; they think this is serious. And like Vermont, Germany has unworkable laws with rules to get there from here, because the world might end if they can’t agree on how to massage or cheat them.

The problem in Central Europe’s largest nation is that dueling sides are fighting over a thinning slice of what was once a proud and stable manufacturing economy. This planned ruin includes addressing what to do about vehicle emissions, but as deadlines loom without a compromise, Transport Minister Volker Wissing thought he’d try a different sort of motivation.

In a push to get his coalition partners to quickly approve the changes, Wissing said the [Transportation] ministry would have to enforce a ban on driving to meet the current law requirements if the amendments do not come into force before mid-July. “A corresponding reduction in traffic performance would only be possible through restrictive measures that are difficult to communicate to the population, such as nationwide and indefinite driving bans on Saturdays and Sundays,” Wissing wrote in a letter dated Thursday to coalition parliamentary group leaders.

Strange meets insane. Germany is known for making decent automobiles, which is harder to do given the constraints on energy produced by unreliable intermittent fancy. Not to mention that it’s impossible to make steel in the new green world, so missing the emissions targets is less of a threat to Germans than the government that sets them and insists on meeting them.

Whether Wissing is making fun of his coalition partners or not is unclear to me, but it feels like he’s making a point they’ve all missed, which brings us to the dumber thing alluded to in the headline.

“It is not responsible for a minister to stir up unfounded fears,” Green Party parliamentary group leader Katharina Droege said on Friday, calling on the minister to make sensible suggestions for more climate protection in the sector.

Amusing, yes? The entire emissions scheme stands on unfounded fears, without which you’d not be arguing about how to meet meaningless targets whose only effect is to shackle your economy and bankrupt your people.

Failed Policy, Failed State

“Social Democrats (SPD) deputy parliamentary group leader Detlef Mueller” was also put out by the scaremongering, and he was not referring to the climate scam. He meant the bit about a driving ban, which is disingenuous coming from a Social Democrat. Driving can’t be anything but verboten to reach the movement’s actual goals. And that is not an unfounded fear; it is a logistical fact. Environmental policy is about control, especially movement. The 21st-century equivalent of a Berlin Wall. Not a physical structure but a technological one. Social credit, digital currency, transportation tyranny, cultural reprimand. All for what?

As with all forms of Marxism, once they’ve convinced you to give up your freedom, it must descend into the same sort of dirty economy China has now. Government power cannot stand on green lies. To keep it, they will make excuses for well-meaning environmental policy (not what we thought) to justify whatever energy use keeps the gears of despotism oild, turning, and oppressing.

The goal is economic control, not climate control. In the end, governments will still be scrambling to meet emissions targets, but under absolute state rule, there’ll be more emissions to keep the home fires burning.

Germans need to understand that this is a different face, but the same fascism, and the end of it isn’t all that different from that which they were liberated in the last century.

 

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If you want to understand why NHGOP House “leadership” believes it can ignore the priorities of actual GOP voters while instead pushing their decidedly non-GOP agenda … an obsession with legalizing marijuana, outlawing single-family zoning, increasing urban density, and catering to the rich and the elites (e.g., ending interest-and-dividends tax) while ignoring working people (no hard cap on local property taxes), etc. etc. etc. … check out this from “Leader” Jason Osborne on X.

Essentially, “they have nowhere to go,” … we can do whatever we want because at the end of the day voters are zombies who will vote the Party line up and down the ballot.

Not this voter, Jason. The NHGOP has left me, not the other way around. So, I intend to vote for Trump and then turn in my ballot.

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Some elements in our state are trying to force longtime-established single-family zoned neighborhoods into multi-family neighborhoods. Their goal is to eradicate the suburbs and morph towns into cities.

We urge the NH Senate to reject HB1291 on the following basis:

– This bill’s provisions amount to zoning by the State in a one-size-fits-all manner rather than by the municipalities themselves. It does not give back, but instead takes away property rights in that it takes away the choice of SF neighborhoods from buyers.

– When zoning is done by the State using a top-down mandate, existing property owners are penalized for the benefit of a few.

– If residents did not want to live in SF neighborhoods, why has no one tried to remove zoning altogether via the warrant article process?

– If HB1291 passes, single-family residential lots would now be converted to three-family rental properties “by right” (bureaucratic state mandates), under the guise of “ADUs”.

– Current RSAs allow municipalities to make their own zoning changes by warrant article at the annual vote.

– Current RSAs already allow one ADU by right and one detached ADU.

– If HB1291 passes, single-family homes will then be bought by developers, eliminating the SF housing supply and exacerbating an already low supply of SF housing.

– HB1291 will permanently alter the face of single-family neighborhoods forever.

– The changeover will be gradual, but 5-10 years out, it will be too late.

– The idea of letting the state mandate housing rules sets a dangerous precedent of “central planning.”

– This legislation forces municipalities to allow two additional rental units, one attached and one attached/unattached.

– This legislation forces municipalities to increase the size of the first rental unit to no less than 1000 sq/ft and the additional unit to no less than 850sq/ft. If a municipality does not limit sizes, there are, in effect, no limits to how big these units can be. Any/both ADUs could be bigger than the single-family residence itself.

– If you have a garage, you can convert it to a rental unit. If you have additional space above a garage, you can convert it to another rental unit. Have a big shed in the backyard? You can convert it to a rental unit.

– According to the proposed legislation, the second rental shall be required to meet the definition of “workforce housing” and shall be required to meet the definition of “affordable” as defined in the RSAs and recorded in the Registry of Deeds. This is purely a form of rent control, and the House has recently killed two bills dealing with rent control.

– On smaller lots with a primary residence, rental units #1 and #2 could potentially take up nearly every square foot of the property. So where would the cars park? That is covered by the following proposed language: “at a legally dedicated off-site location at the property owner’s discretion” could mean one block, two blocks, a half mile, or even several miles away from the property. What is more likely is that the renters would end up parking on and clogging up the streets near the units.

What impact would HB 1291 have on our NH communities?

First, there is the negative aesthetic and social effects on the neighborhoods. Let’s say you bought in a neighborhood consisting of single-family homes. You had the expectation that the zoning would remain the same as when you bought. But now, your neighborhood is going to change dramatically, and not for the better. Worst of all, you and your neighbors will have zero input in determining the matter because this zoning change was mandated and dictated from the central planners in Concord, not by changes proposed and passed in a warrant article that was voted on by you and your neighbors, as is the normal and proper process.

There will be increased demands on municipal water and sewer infrastructure. There will be a requirement for increased police and EMT presence and increased trash collection. What is the increased cost going to be for the taxpayers? Are the required sewer/water upgrades paid for by the State (this is a state unfunded mandate)? How many new school-aged kids will be enrolling when the rental units each have one, two or more children living on the property? Does an extra $1,000 or two collected in property taxes for the added rental units justify the $20,000 in additional costs to the taxpayers for each child? Without having voted to approve this zoning change, taxpayers/homeowners will be covering all these added costs for the benefit of a few property owners.

Summary

The additional rental structures allowed by HB 1291 would be by mandate at the state level, thereby taking away “local control” from the municipalities. This is socialist “central planning” at its worst.

To be clear, the phrase in the language used within the legislation “allowed as a matter of right” means municipalities MUST allow two ADU’s, anything else is not an option.

Progressive politicians in Concord do NOT understand or know the needs and wants of distant municipalities such as Pittsburg, or Hampton, or Lebanon, or Nashua or your town or city. To believe that these politicians and bureaucrats “know better than you” is simply wrong.

Do not infringe on the municipality’s role of zoning.

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I’m guessing most of the Grok Faithful are familiar with the areas of interest of the regular contributors.  A few examples would be Ann Marie Banfield and education or Claire Best and law enforcement/justice system corruption involving the youth center.

I don’t want any of the many people worthy of mention to feel slighted, so I’ll leave it at that for now.

To give full disclosure, I am a Wheeler constituent, but one of my many areas of interest is the executive council seat currently occupied by the retiring Ted Gatsas.  If you don’t know who his constituents are or who YOUR EC is, here’s a district map, which I suggest bookmarking for when you have discussions with people less informed about the EC and its role in Concord.

To back up for a quick moment, another item on my radar is the RTK crusade of Laurie Ortolano, someone also deserving of mention in the first paragraph.  While in court, I observed her mentioning “the quiet phase”(of fundraising) in her RTK case against the City regarding the new arts center.  I had never heard such nomenclature before, but it spoke for itself, at least to me.  Look it up if you want, but I’ll give my own crude definition and keep it short.  Before the public unleashing of a monster fundraising project, potential, generous donors are targeted and solicited.  It’s a concept similar to down-ballot candidates obtaining an endorsement of an up-ballot candidate, someone who has been in equal or higher office, or even a private citizen pillar of the community.  It’s desirable like your kid’s favorite professional athlete wearing a particular sneaker so s/he wants to be wearing the same one.

Because the executive council is a body of only 5, a candidate must campaign to 1/5 of the population.  Though District 4 is a densely populated area that’s smaller in square miles than Districts 1, 2, and 5, it still consists of 20 towns. That’s 20 political subdivisions that have their local busy intersections for sign waves, 20 dumps(or “transfer stations,” if you prefer) for weekend literature distributions, and 20 communities with local pillars to recruit the support of.

Speaking from her pre-nursing experience in project management, Terese mentioned the 3-legged stool.  The legs are time, money and quality.  She went on about it at the podium on how the surplus or lack of one of such things affects the demand on the others.  You get the picture.  I will also point out that one of her commonly used phrases is “we’re going up against a Goliath.”  Let’s talk about those “Goliaths” for a moment, and I don’t mean Davey Hansen’s dog.

A few of such “Goliaths” include, but are not limited to; money, name recognition, and connections.  Burns has plenty of money.  Ryan Terrell has plenty of name recognition.  Senator Reagan and Mr Stephen presumably have plenty of connections.  Terese is a private citizen political outsider and therefore disadvantaged.  Pundits might even call her an underdog, but remember that Underdog always saves Sweet Polly Purebred in the end.

What can you, the reader, do to help?  You can look again at the map.

If you live in or have ties to any of the 20 communities in District 4 or know someone who does, gather some intel.  Find out and write down who the influential locals are and where the large political signs(for our side, not the enemy camp) are usually placed.  If you’re feeling even more helpful, look up the addresses of such locations in the local assessor’s database so that owners can be reached out to in requesting their blessings.  Find out when and where popular local events are, public or private, and find out who’s in charge of them.  Get the contact info so Terese(or one of her volunteer minions) can get permission to solicit, if appropriate or required.

Because Ted Gatsas made his announcement and there are already multiple candidates with filing time still several weeks away, there will be no QUIET PHASE of the campaign process.  It’s already an all-hands-on-deck situation.  Find your puzzle piece and do your part.

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I was planning to wait for the site refresh to be completed to reboot the podcast page (GrokTV) with just podcasts, but Ken Eyring and Tom Murray just sent me an interview with our own Laurie Ortolano on government corruption (guess where!).

Neil Johnson (180,000 followers) leads the interview as part of the Lumberjack Logic Show with Tom and Ken riding sidecar as Laurie walks us through how she went from ordinary citizen to concerned citizen, taxpayer, property, and RTK rights activist, and the bane of Nashua’s corrupt city government.

Regular readers will be familiar with bits and pieces of these stories from our pages—followers of Laurie will know a good bit—but it will be news to many, including tens of thousands of Neil’s followers, exposing the city government’s crass indifference to corruption, abuse of taxpayer dollars, and the citizens’ right to know.

Some old stuff, and some new stuff you might not know yet – so please check it out!

 

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Water, water everywhere, but get ready for odd, even watering bans. Yes, spring has sprung like a stripper from a giant cake as the whores in government line up to spring regulatory speed bumps at our summertime fun. Will water bans be part of it? Is the Pope a Marxist?

Damn straight (that’s so bigoted!), there will be bans. We’ve had odd, even watering in my town for so long that I can’t remember when we didn’t.  Last year, amidst near-record precipitation, the signs were still up, and I think I know why. For the previous decade that we’d had them, it was wetter than usual but not wet enough (is it ever?). Since then, we’ve added thousands of additional “apartments,” each with faucets and toilets and showers used by people who are paying too much for rent because they can’t afford to pay too much for one of those racist single-family homes.

That’s a developer scam. The sums they get for rent are not far from what you might pay for a mortgage. Rent at $2700 a month is more than you’d need for a 30-year mortgage at 5% with 10K down over 30 years. But I digress.

I can’t speak for everyone, but New Hampshire has been in a decades-long wet period that you can clearly identify by the years of corporate media drought reporting. How much more? The 100-year mean from 1901 to 1999 is 43.44 inches annually. The mean for the past 50 years (1973-2023) is 47.35 inches annually. Since 2000, the annual mean is 48.97 inches.

Something up, if you take my meaning.

Post-Ice Age warming has resulted in a generous increase in available water for Granite Staters, at least on the averages, but the reporting is a bit less measured. We’re either drowning or droughting because clicks are more important than facts. And given the facts, as present by NOAA of all places, issues with water management seem more likely the culprit than the absence or presence of rainfall in any given month.

There is enough for mosquitoes to breed but no outside watering for you on odd or even numbered days, depending on the numerals in your street address.

To be fair, I can’t recall anyone enforcing the ban even as you drive by homes in the morning, irrigation systems watering luscious green lawns on the wrong days of the week. I’ve not taken a survey, but it seems more like an affectation. Virtue signaling. Look, we put up signs that say odd-even watering in effect, but it really means, isn’t it odd how evenly watered some of these lawns are?

That does not mean they would not choose to make an example of someone in the same way the FBI engages in entrapment as policy. No crimes to investigate? Why don’t we encourage someone to commit one and then brag about how we caught them?

If the fines go to the water district, that’s exactly what this looks like, but until then, we live with clown-car edicts about the lack of water despite years of record rainfall. 2023 saw 56.19 inches, which is a lot but not a record. 1954 was wetter, as were 1996, 2005, 2006, 2008, and 2010. We’ve had above-average years 17 of the past twenty, and 2024 has begun looking to keep the trend.

February was way below average, coming in at 0.73 inches against a mean of 2.91, but January saw 5.46″ (mean at 3.24), while March dumped four inches above the norm of 7.58″ compared to 3.52.

 

April typically sees 3.64 inches but has been at or above average for seven consecutive years, following five years with below-average totals. May 2023 was just above average, followed by a very wet June and July. In other words, there’s no way to know. The Farmers Almanac says a sultry and soggy New England this year, while NOAA – not much better of a predictor, says above average temps and precipitation across most of New England (they agree this year!).

If you like to bet the NOAA line on hurricane predictions, an easy way to lose money, they’ve got another best guess for 2024: 23 storms, 11 of which will become hurricanes and five of which will reach Category 3 status or stronger. Stories of a warm Atlantic suggest this could be closer than in recent years, in which NOAA has blown the call by a wide margin in one form or another. Two years ago, not even close. Last year, total storms were good, but few made landfall, and NOAA had guessed there’d be more.

The reality is they have no clue what the weather is going to be like in a few days, so months, years, or decades are, at best, guesses – a well poisoned by politics and climate cult narratives. It’s not so much science and faith, but there are resources out there that stick to the data and trends based on past years. Weatherbell analytics, for example – and they say we’re kind of screwed on Hurricanes this year.

Basin Forecast

Names Storms 25-30
Hurricanes 14-16
Major Hurricanes 6-8

 

Impact Forecast

Named storm Impacts 10-14
Hurricane Impacts 5-8
Major Hurricane Impacts 3-5

 

And hurricanes that come close or make landfall mean more rain up the Atlantic coast.

All we can do now is wait.

 

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