Monday • April 29 • 2024
Vol.XVI • No.XVIII
Manchester, N.H.
James Carville is an obnoxious loudmouth from Louisiana who has been a spokesperson for the Democrat Party since the Clinton years. Usually decked out in his LSU colors, though sixty years have passed since he walked the halls in Baton Rouge, he can still make sense with his political acumen. It was Carville who coined the phrase, “It’s the economy, stupid.”
He is sounding the alarm today, warning Democrats that they are going to take a beating in November if they don’t get their act together. His latest warning is the exodus of young people and the future strength of the Democrat Socialist Party. He is right in his assessment. The young are correct and should flee quickly.
The Democrats have invested a century and tons of money in using the education system to indoctrinate the younger generations, and they are seeing those efforts go up in flames as these adolescents are watching their future destroyed by foolish social programs designed to keep Democrats in power. They may be indoctrinated, but some can read and think for themselves, and what they see and hear concerns them.
The future of America has been mortgaged, and though so many zeros are challenging to comprehend, they know $31 Trillion is a number that will haunt many future generations. They also know that Washington is doing nothing to stop the debt number from growing except printing more money.
They see the cost of education growing exponentially, and the foolishness of “forgiving” student loans is only incentivizing colleges to hike tuition rates. Tufts University is not one of the elite schools in the country, but that doesn’t stop them from posting their tuition at $90,000 a year. Students graduating from Tufts will be strapped for years to pay off nearly $400,000 in school loans and then try to afford a place to live.
Starter homes are nonexistent, and apartments are becoming rare. Graduates will not hit their prime earning years for a decade, but they will need six-figure incomes to cover their loans and housing. Establishing a comfortable lifestyle is out of reach. The young recognize Democrat policies have eliminated the middle class, and they cannot be a part of that destruction any longer.
It is a positive element for Conservatives, watching the support of the Democrat Party erode. Democrats used to be able to count on the Jewish, Union, Black, and Brown voters. Remember the foolish comment by Biden in 2020 when he said, “If you vote for Trump, then you ain’t Black.” That is the disrespect he holds for people of color, but that is what happens when you put people in boxes.
Inner cities have been abandoned. The efforts and resources that used to be set aside for people of color are now used for illegal migrants. The Dems are bending a knee to the Radical Left who support Hamas and Palestinians over our greatest ally in the Middle East, Israel. Why should any Jewish person vote for Democrats who support their extinction?
The young have had an epiphany and they see the writing on the wall. Their future story needs to be rewritten, and that will not be done with a Socialist theme.
The post Carville Is Right, The Young People Should Flee The Democrat Party appeared first on Granite Grok.
In the Torah, in the Chapter of Leviticus 19:36, it states, “You shall have an honest balance, honest weights, an honest unit of dry good measurement, and an honest unit of wet good measurement. I יהוה am your God who freed you from the land of Egypt.” In ancient Israeli society, weights were used to measure goods as well as means of exchange, such as gold or silver, to facilitate trade.
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This is an attempt to “break out” memes, links, and my commentary about the situation in Israel / the Middle East so as to not overload the standard meme posts that I do. My last “normal” meme post. In these Israel-related posts I don’t just have memes such, but lots of informative links as well as hopefully-insightful commentary.
Note that this is not meant to be a day-by-day update about what’s going on. Rather, to highlight uncomfortable truths about the actual nature of the conflict, deep-history background, and so on, as well as to show the at-present immutable nature of Islamic hatred of Jews and why that matters to today’s events.
Also note that these posts generally do not repeat information (e.g., specific links or memes) – so there is a lot of stuff in prior posts. Please do check them out too if this is a topic of interest to you. In reverse chronological order:
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Still More Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Memes, Links, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Memes, Links, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: More Memes, Links, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Even More Memes, Links, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: More Memes, Links, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Memes and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Memes and Commentary – Granite Grok
With some Israel-related materials here:
Meme Overflow – Granite Grok
Don’t forget my special report on the *cough cough* hardships of pre-Oct 7 “Concentration Camp Gaza”:
Pre-War “Concentration Camp” Gaza – Granite Grok
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Czech PM Fiala pushes embassy move to Jerusalem to show support | Reuters
Thank them.
Embassy of Czechia
3900 Spring of Freedom St NW
Washington, Dc 20008
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So we have an airstrike. And tragic results.
The Palestinians claim this was an IDF strike that killed the WCK volunteers.
To me this doesn’t look like a missile from the air but rather a mortar shell from nearby. A missile would’ve destroyed the entire car…
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/wck-incident.mp4
That’s a pretty damned small hole, in my non-military eyes, for a missile strike. How is it that the front end seems wrecked but the doors didn’t get blown off?
Netanyahu acknowledges Israel launched airstrike that killed 7 World Central Kitchen workers in Gaza | Just The News
Even as the IDF investigates:
IDF: Announcement by the IDF Spokesperson, Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, following the World Central Kitchen incident:
“Last night, an incident took place in Gaza that resulted in the tragic death of World Central Kitchen employees as they fulfilled their vital mission of bringing food to people in need.
As a professional military committed to international law, we are committed to examining our operations thoroughly and transparently.
I just spoke to WCK Founder, Chef Jose Anders, and expressed the deepest condolences of the Israel Defense Forces to the families and the entire World Central Kitchen family.
We also express sincere sorrow to our allied nations who have been doing and continue to do so much to assist those in need.
We have been reviewing the incident at the highest levels to understand the circumstances of what happened and how it happened.
We will be opening a probe to examine this serious incident further. This will help us reduce the risk of such an event from occurring again.
The incident will be investigated in the Fact Finding and Assessment Mechanism: an independent, professional, and expert body.
For the last few months, the IDF has been working closely with the World Central Kitchen to assist them in fulfilling their noble mission of helping bring food and humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza. WCK also came to help Israelis after the massacre of October 7th; they were one of the first NGOs here.
The work of WCK is critical; they are on the frontlines of humanity.
We will get to the bottom of this and we will share our findings transparently.”
Attached is the full video announcement in English: https://bit.ly/3UaTfhn
So an open question to consider. We know that Hamas et al routinely launch mortars and missiles that fall short, injuring and killing Arabs. When’s the last time they were open and honest about that? When’s the last time they came out and said anything that potentially accepts responsibility? A video noting – among other things – that bad things happen in war, and that Israel has set a new standard of behavior in warfare in urban settings. One that I suspect no other country will meet, or even attempt to:
World Central Kitchen Tragic Incident in Gaza | Hamas Wants This Video DELETED
Another take, by a former military man:
Bayou Renaissance Man: The aid convoy tragedy in Gaza
And from the comments, this nugget I had not considered:
It is called “The Fog Of War” for a reason, And I am convinced that hamas leaked the intel on the convoy movement to get the Israeli’s to fire a hellfire into the convoy to embarrass them on the world stage and heap further condemnation on them. To hamas, people dying for their cause is perfectly acceptable especially if it civilians and aid workers, better propaganda value. hamas learned well from their old soviet masters well how to manipulate the gullible western media.
The Gaza war: Asymmetrical rules, useful idiots, and worldwide enmity – American Thinker
Based on its track record, the US has no business chastising Israel about accidentally killing civilians ~ Elder Of Ziyon – Israel News
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TOP OF THE FOLD
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From here – never forget how many times a “Two State” solution was offered, and who rejected it:
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/100-years-of-rejection.mp4
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Under Biden Administration, Iran’s Mullahs Enjoying Green Light to Go Nuclear :: Gatestone Institute
Under the third term of Barackus, you mean.
WAR & WHEN WILL IT END?
From here:
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/brigitte-on-western-blindness.mp4
What have I said? Our enemies – whether Jihadist or other – openly state their intentions.
The Israeli-Palestinian ‘Two State Solution’ :: Gatestone Institute
Curiously, like President Joe Biden and his top national security officials, the ambassador [Martin Indyk] ignores a crucial element: radical Islam does not tolerate the existence of a sovereign non-Islamic entity (such as Israel) on land that once was conquered by Muslims (dar al-Islam, “abode of Islam”). As most Palestinians have been creditably straightforward about, there is no place for an Israeli state.
I have the moral courage to take them at their word. Why do so many not do so? Personally, I think that to do so would mean recognizing an evil – along with the survival-driven demand to do something about it – that is hard for most to wrap their minds around. This is why I continue to post Oct. 7 atrocities (below), among other Islamic horrors, for people to attempt to grasp what we face.
See this video by Bill Whittle; it’s from him that I learned that “moral courage” argument.
Bill Whittle on holy war against Israel ( & liberals’ unwillingness to acknowledge & confront it)
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Gaza: Truths Behind All the Lies (dailysignal.com)
Insights and pointed questions.
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UNRWA: Rotten to the core (barenakedislam.com)
Political warfare.
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Sociologists on the Warpath—Against Israel – The Lid (lidblog.com)
Israel doesn’t just have military enemies.
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Trigger warning: This is a very unpopular opinion that will surely anger a lot of people.
We have a war between two sides who are playing a totally different game with different rules and different definitions of what constitutes victory.
You have one side with zero restrictions and zero need to behave morally. You have the other side that is held to a higher standard of morality than anyone, and one little mess up can cause an international crisis. You have one side that wants to minimize civilian death and one side that’ll do anything to maximize it. You have one side behaving like cockroaches and hiding in every corner and under every rock and you have another side that has to use cutting edge tech to kill the bugs.
Remember this video from a post a while ago:
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/life-begins-at-death.mp4
Any Muslim who dies in Jihad against the infidel is guaranteed a place in paradise. And a new one:
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/they-love-death.mp4
Against an enemy with this reward system, there’s only one solution: publicly denying them their paradise via the Jack Pershing method:
How American Soldiers Used Pig’s Blood and Corpses to Fight Muslim Terrorism | Frontpage Mag
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The airstrike in Damascus appears to have been legal under international law ~ Elder Of Ziyon – Israel News
Interesting analysis.
ISLAM: PRACTICES, HISTORY, AND MENTALITY
Whalid Phares on who’s next after Israel (rumble.com)
This is the thing that truly confuses me. Islam, openly, states their goal: the entire world. And yet so many refuse to take them at that word. But then, deceit is the way of Islam, and there are many “useful idiots”.
Taqiyya: Deception and Lying in Islam (thereligionofpeace.com)
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From here:
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/hamas-admits-on-shifa-use.mp4Hamas member is confessing:
“Units of the military intelligence operated from Shifa Hospital. The Interior Ministry, the Emergency Committees and the government of Hxmas also worked from there. It’s a safe place.”
Using a hospital for military purposes removes the Geneva Convention protections.
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/launchers-hidden-near-a-school.mp4
The @IDF is proven right again. And again. And again. ~ Elder Of Ziyon – Israel News
ATROCITIES
Never forget how they behaved on Oct. 7:
Take a look how Palestinian “civilians” are cheering as they carry the body of Israeli girl Shani Louk.
This is what we are fighting against – pure evil radicalism.
Video. Link only. Graphic.
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From here:
GRAPHIC FOOTAGE FROM OCTOBER 7
There are 2 different movements (at least until recently they were different…):
1. “Free Palestine”. Exists only in the West.
Completely disconnected from reality.
Totally fake invented cause that doesn’t exist on Planet Earth.
Chants about Palestine, a country that never existed.
All the chants only in English, “From the river to the sea Palestine will be free” rhymes only in English, there is no such thing in Palestinian language…
Oh wait, Palestinian language doesn’t even exist. Ever wondered why?They don’t fight for anything real. They are not helping anyone. They invented a cause because they are bored and violent.
They need to hate someone. And hating Jews is the safest and has the least consequences.2. The real Gaza. You can see it in the video.
No one there chants “Free Palestine” or has a Palestinian flag.
No one there wants freedom from occupation, they know very well that there is no occupation, because they actually live in Gaza.
They have absolutely no idea what is apartheid, white colonization, etc. All these terms were invented only to fool the West and to get money from the West.And what the money is used for?
This. Barbaric slaughtering of Jews, while yelling “allahu akbar”.
That’s what Arabs were doing long before Israel was even established.
Slaughtering Jews. That’s what they like to do, that’s what they want to do. They have no reason for it, they are not oppressed, not occupied, not miserable.
They are perfectly happy and they want to slaughter Jews.Lately, these two different movements seem to merge into one.
The “Free Palestine” movement is realizing what they are actually supporting.
But instead of being horrified, they are fine with it now.
Western Liberals now want to slaughter Jews. Probably they’ll also be yelling “allahu akbar”.(lelemSLP on X)
Link only – civilian casualties of Oct. 7.
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Watch this filmed segment of Amit’s testimony in the documentary “Screams and then Silence”.
Text and video at the link.
ON INTERSECTIONALITY / LEFTIST SUPPORT
POETIC JUSTICE for ‘Queers for Palestine’ (barenakedislam.com)
Mrmph. Sorry, muffling my laughter. Related:
UCLA Med School Students Forced to Pray to ‘Mama Earth,’ Scream ‘Free Palestine’ (jihadwatch.org)
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When Feminists Stand for Hamas, You Know the West Is Over :: Middle East Forum (meforum.org)
The West went from “believe women” to “believe terrorists.”
Nothing seems to interfere with the ideological excitement these old and perverse peacocks derive from a barbarism they mistake for rebellion in an unholy marriage of Western self-loathing and Islamic Jihad. They are willing to do anything to save the most squalid moral vanity and be able to continue selling us their “goodness.” Except that it is really evil.
Where Were These Ceasefire Bleeding Hearts for the Past 20 Years of Hamas’s Carnage? (substack.com)
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So, now, at the fascist state of Harvard University, you can be stopped and questioned by police for wearing a “Bring Them (Israeli hostages) Home” dogtag necklace (barenakedislam.com)
Occupied territory. No, conquered.
PALLYWOOD & MEDIA DISTORTIONS/LIES IN GENERAL
From here. Look at that marketplace. Might be price gouging and theft of aid goods, but… not starvation!
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/aid-sold-in-the-marketplace.mp4
From here:
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/sudan-and-gaza-side-by-side.mp4
Not sure what’s in those pots, but… that is NOT starvation. That poor child on the left? THAT is starvation. More, from here (video at link):
Famine in Gaza?
This market in northern Gaza is well stocked,
Especially after all the huge humanitarian aid that arrive from the air, sea and land for free and for some reason are sold in the market at high prices.
There is no problem of hunger or shortages, there is a problem of high prices.
1kg Flour – for 20 Nis ($5.40)
1gk – Chicken breasts – for 110 Nis ($29.80)
Cooking oil – 20 Nis ($5.40)
Corned beef – 60 Nis($16.25)
Tuna – 15 Nis ($4)
Canned hummus – 20 Nis ($5.40)
Can of soda – 10 Nis ($2.70)(Nis – new Israeli Shekel)
Gaza food prices plummet as area flooded with aid | World Israel News
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Islam codifies wife beating. Where are the feminists?
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/wife-beating-codified-in-islam.mp4
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Fortunately, Not Everyone Depends on CNN For Gaza Coverage (jihadwatch.org)
Other news sources exist.
Hamas makes up lots of lies for Shifa Hospital, and media believes them ~ Elder Of Ziyon – Israel News
TERROR COMING HERE? TO THE WEST?
From here. Looks like they’re already here:
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/pali-screams-down-with-the-usa.mp4
Remember, the Left and Islam are allies:
Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam And the American Left (2006-02-17) [Paperback]
United in Hate: The Left’s Romance with Tyranny and Terror
I think in part this stems from their hatred of Western Civilization, and also from the fact that they’re both supremacist, totalitarian ideologies.
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“There’s a real frustration growing among anti-Israel students that no matter how loud they scream … it’s really not getting them anywhere” (legalinsurrection.com)
As that frustration grows, their tendency to be violent will too. Related:
What it’s like for Jews who are living and/or working in Manhattan now (barenakedislam.com)
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Poll Shows U.S. Muslims Support Hamas – Daniel Greenfield / Sultan Knish Articles at DanielGreenfield.org
Muslims HERE IN THE US.
TREADING ON THE POLITICAL
Matthew Continetti: Biden Has No Israel Policy | The Patriot Post
I think he does. I think he hates Israel; certainly his puppet masters do. And IMHO in the depths of his thoughts, such as he has these days, is a recollection of when Begin told him off.
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Senator under fire for using Easter message to roast Israel, demand end to military aid | World Israel News
Democrat. As is this guy:
Top Democrats endorse anti-Israel ‘Squad’ member | World Israel News
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Is Biden Normalizing Hamas? :: Middle East Forum (meforum.org)
Yes. And helping Iran:
Thanks to Jihad Joe Biden, Iran’s oil exports Reached $35 billion in Last 12 Months – Geller Report
MISCELLANEOUS
Natasha Hausdorff responds to the ICRC on the Geneva Conventions
Since the Geneva Conventions are being used against Israel, understanding that – and the Conventions – is critical:
The International Legal War Against Israel with Natasha Hausdorff – Australian Jewish Association
Hamas really does think they’ll win with lawfare. Understand the ways of the enemy. Other videos featuring her:
The myths and facts of the laws of armed conflict in Gaza (youtube.com)
Why Israel has no legal obligation to give aid to Hamas (youtube.com)
Jerusalem and the Israeli settlements according to international law – Natasha Hausdorff (youtube.com)
Natasha Hausdorff: Why there is no illegal occupation (youtube.com)
Barrister Natasha Hausdorff addressing Proportionality in International Law on the BBC. (youtube.com)
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From here – video at the link:
One of the worst horror images that haunted me at night since October 7 was video of the running wounded dog shot by Hamas terrorists. Dogs in kibbutzim were so trustful and were simply running towards people without knowing that it was their last run…
“Israeli soldiers find the time to pet and take care of animals in the Gaza Strip.
I tend to be wary of people who dislike dogs (and any animal), yet I have confidence in a dog’s judgment when it takes a disliking to someone.
The Israel soldiers may embody strength, but they possess a gentle spirit and a kind heart towards animals”.
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”Who’s afraid of the big red cow, the big red cow, the big red cow?” ~ Elder Of Ziyon – Israel News
People are going bat-guano crazy here.
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Latest EoZ cartoons and memes ~ Elder Of Ziyon – Israel News
Good ones!
GIVING SUPPORT TO ISRAEL
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A CONCLUDING THOUGHT FOR THIS POST
If the West abandons Israel, we all lose – spiked (spiked-online.com)
Israel is the front line against the 1400 year old murder machine that is Islam.
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/why-israel-is-the-front-line.mp4
As I posted on one website to a person who advocated abandoning Israel to Islam, to get peace… “First Saturday, then Sunday”. Appeasement of those who hate you does two things:
1. It feeds their desire, not slakes it. They see weakness and it excites them.
2. Appeasement has been tried time and time again. E.g., the Sudetenland. And it never works. Santayana weeps.
Ultimately, force is the only language these people understand.
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/son-of-hamas-on-force-being-the-only-solution.mp4
They want war. Give them all the war, and all the pig blood and carcasses (see Pershing link above) they want.
Wars are won when the enemy’s spirit is crushed. Not when it’s appeased.
And there’s a reason there was no Fourth Punic War:
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As I prepared to pull out my Goldbacks for my sandwich at Robie’s country store and diner Wednesday, the co-owner informed me that the dollar had fallen below a fifth of a goldback. I remember when the exchange rate was around 3.20 dollars for each goldback just before the scamdemic. It’s been around four for the past few years. I had never seen it above five.
The post Goldback Hits All-Time High; Dollar In Freefall appeared first on The Liberty Block.
The bridge collapse in Baltimore, just a freakish accident, hopefully not related to DEI/competency crisis; RFK’s pick of VP, which will probably hurt the dems more than republicans; could this help RFK win any states? Did Mike Johnson screw the republican party and their voters with the budget agreement last week? Why are republicans retiring before the election? Are they being paid off by a rich dem? Is Putin protecting Islamists by minimizing their involvement in the terror attack last Friday?
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The Local Silver Mint has just unveiled what may be their most innovative silver product to date. This is quite a statement, considering that this is the creator who invented the Silver Card, Barter Bags, Tenth-Ounce Silver Rounds, Cig-Savers, Building Blocks, and so many other creative iterations of silver. But if you were looking for the best tool for covertly preserving your wealth in plain sight, you needn’t look any further than Weare, New Hampshire.
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Stae Rep Alissandra Murray … you may have heard about her? The State Rep who as a practical matter was/is being paid to be a State Rep by some abortion-advocacy group. From NH-NeverTrump Journal:
In an article highlighting transgender state legislators across the country, The Nation reported on the work of Josie Pinto, a registered lobbyist for the Reproductive Freedom Fund of New Hampshire (RFFNH), and her fellow community organizer, Alissandra Murray.
Murray is currently employed as the RFFNH’s deputy director and appears on the organization’s website.
Murray is also a Democratic state representative from Manchester.
Alissandra is also an anti-white racist:
What I said in a prior post about Damond Ford applies equally to Alissandra. The only thing that really distinguishes Woke-Communists like Damond Ford, Alisssandra Murray, etc., etc., etc. and their ilk from Pol Pot, Mao, Stalin, etc., is that the latter obtained sufficient power to destroy the lives of hundreds of millions. Pray that Ford, Murray and their ilk never obtain such power.
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Shocking news has emerged from the Middle East where Israeli and Hamas forces have been in the throes of a sectarian war which began on Oct. 7th, 2024, B.C.E., when a young man named Esau took issue with his half-brother Jakob eating some of his goat porridge.
This act of aggression has led to nearly four thousand years of bad blood between the two culminating in the most recent bloodshed seeing nearly thirty thousand dead Semites and semi-Semites in the Holy Land and surrounding areas. Luckily the members of the Lebanon City Council and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion committees banded together to let these centuries old enemies know that they have had quite enough.
“Knock it off” began the five page letter to the combatants. Several strongly worded words later, the sentiment was reiterated – “Stop it.” This unusually laconic phrase in the otherwise verbose letter seemed to be almost what was needed to get the two sides to come to their senses, however it was the carefully worded “Quit being silly” that was crafted by current council member David Wilkie that was the straw that broke the camel’s back (Editors note: we apologize to anyone who is offended by camel references).
After sending copies of the re-resolution by carrier pigeon to the Middle East leaders from both sides issued a joint statement thanking the council for straight-talking some sense into the historic belligerents. Signed by both the Israeli Minister of Defense and the Head of Hamas Terror, the letter read in part:
“We have agreed to do as you suggested and sit down and talk out our differences. We humbly apologize to the people of Lebanon, NH for any inconvenience we have caused you and publicly pledge to honor diversity, equity, and inclusion,” after which they held hands while lighting a menorah, raised a pride flag over the capitol of Gaza and then started a Go Fund Me for displaced members of the Middle East Trans-community.
In an act of solidarity singers Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga, Beyonce, Pink, Lizzo and Madonna agreed to hold a fundraising concert to honor women’s rights in Gaza, yet have agreed to wear burkahs out of respect to the austere Muslim culture among Gazans.
“Who doesn’t like to jam to these broads, am I right?” asked local Imam Mohammed Al-Bin Al-Bin-Binny before reminding those standing in line for tickets that it’s not halal to buy tickets during Ramadan. The undernourished and emaciated faithful would have to wait until after sundown before spending what little they have left on seeing these Western icons.
Also moved by the bold stance taken by the Lebanon City Council the Biden Administration has agreed to stop quietly sending weekly shipments of armaments to Israel, while stakeholders at Lockheed Martin, Boeing, General Dynamics, Halliburton and McDonnell-Douglas pledge to donate this year’s dividend checks to end Climate Change in the Middle East.
Local residents were asked to comment on this council’s re-resolution. One business owner preferred to remain anonymous but said, “I know the crime rate in the area and the roads in town look like they belong in Lebanon, you know, the country, but it’s a small price to pay for peace in the Middle East.”
Shalom to your mother.
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Think of me as the guy who doesn’t always drink beer, but when he does, he prefers Dos Equis. It’s funny I should think of that because I am presently a paying customer in the new Mexican joint in the Bertucci’s building on Amherst Street, using their Wi-Fi hot spot because my former employer’s product is being a POS.
Anyway, I don’t always agree with Melissa Blasek, but she was my favorite Merrimack rep. One might ask who cares about someone’s opinion of a rep in another district. To that, I point out that I have no representation in the House and therefore must, as Nurse Terese would say, “lift up in battle” the decent reps in the suburbs. Sadly, as many already know, Melissa is no longer in office, and neither is Gary Daniels, just to add a comment about the “other side of the wall.” Merrimack is turning into a hot mess, and I do hope, on behalf of all of us who aren’t represented in the House, that they turn the tide the right way this November. Anyway, onto MY list.
I’m calling it “MY list” so as not to be confused with that nutjob Dietsch, Angie’s list, Schindler’s list, or (for Beth Scaer’s amusement) Emily’s list.
My list is a cross-reference of the 31 Republican Enemies of Transparency and the 67 Republicans on another list I will call Ed Mosca’s list.
Melissa has pointed out that just because someone disagrees, it doesn’t necessarily make for a RINO. Fair enough. I have my own disagreements with a vast part of the Republican membership; hence my being an independent for decades and off and on over the past few years between candidacy for state and local office. It’s also worth pointing out that I have supported and/or voted for Republicans in disagreement with me, sometimes more than once.
“What’s the point of this cross-referenced list,” one might ask, and my answer is still a work in progress. The list of 67 definitely has plenty of people that I happen to like, and I will make no special concessions for them; as I said in my previous article, I gave no special treatment to any of its 31. The overlap is a list of 9 reps, and here it is:
Alexander
Ankarberg
Bean
Griffin
Harvey
Janigian
Lascelles
McGough
Stone
Do what you want with it, but let it be known that McGough is the arch nemesis of Melissa, kind of like Lloyd Braun is to George Costanza.
My hope for Merrimack and all of NH is that they can nix him along with the rest of the incumbent slate. Yeah, I said that. It includes three enemy camp members and mask lover Bill Boyd and his anti-RTK ilk Rs. Let’s get eight decent freshmen elected in Merrimack because that’s a tall order here in Nashua, an order taller than Alderman Comeau, who is sadly no longer in office, or Elliot Gault, or even the cardboard Shaquille doll in Staples, just to give it some perspective.
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If you need an example of bad drug policy vs. human nature, then Oregon is your gal. She decriminalized hard drugs in 2020 and was rewarded with a 200% spike in overdose deaths. People were not more likely to seek treatment, but they were more likely to become unproductive criminals if they didn’t kill themselves.
Oregon has assisted suicide, but this isn’t what they meant, and four years of failure with an exponential rise in unplanned deaths required action. This week, Governor Tina Kotek signed House Bill 4002.
According to Oregon Public Broadcasting, the bill comes into effect on September 1. After that, anyone caught with small amounts of cocaine, fentanyl, methamphetamines, or other similar substances will be charged with a misdemeanor.
Oregon has re-criminalized hard drugs but with a twist.
Under the new law, those apprehended by police for possessing drugs will be given the option to “deflect” from the legal system into treatment programs, however whether individual counties choose to go along with that system has been left up to local leaders.
A majority of counties are on board, but it will be five months before the new law replaces the old referendum. The trouble created by decriminalization, more crime, and death, will continue through the summer, after which the also broken Orgon criminal justice system will attempt to address the problem the new law creates. There are too few public defenders to represent the expected rise in individuals in need of their services.
I’m also not clear on how restrictive the rehab route rules are or who pays for that.
Seeing as this is Oregon, I’d have to imagine there is a herd of treatment pigs lining up at what looks to be a rather substantial trough. And while they won’t be able to find enough lawyers or possibly even police officers, the number of therapists will rise to meet the funding available to meet the “need.”
And no, I do not expect matters to improve much after September. Things that are easily broken are not so easily repaired.
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Welcome to the weather in New England, where it can be 60 degrees one day and snow-driven power outages the next. We lost power from 2 to 4 a.m. last night but woke up to warmth and light, only to lose it again at 6:30.
I fired up the Genny, and we’re live. We still have internet, so I’m back to work. The first order of business was checking the outage map. Eversource reports that 50,000 of its New Hampshire customers have lost power due to the heavy snow and wind bringing down trees or branches. I was out clearing the end of the driveway (when we still had power), and it’s gusty as get out, so we’re not betting on our power coming back (it was out when I came back in) for a few hours.
just under 34,000 NHEC customers in the Granite State are unplugged with 8400 Unitil customers joining them without power. Liberty customers, have zero outages as I write this.
NHEC Map – Updated: I momentarily had the wrong map here for NH Electric Co-op.
Unitil Map
Liberty Map (nothing to see here; please move along.
And Here’s the Eversource Map: you’ll want to go to the link and drill down.
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Fat Jerry Nadler is nothing if not committed to the narrative. Someone says men should not compete in women’s sports, and he insists that transwomen are not men, so that never happens. Funny thing about that, though.
If a woman and a transwoman pissed off the Clintons, “committed suicide,” or “buried themselves” in a swamp somewhere in Arkansas for a few decades, when some bluetick hound ran up the sent, and they pulled out the bodies, the corner would say it’s a man and a woman. No word of a lie. And that’s how they’d be identified, no matter who it triggered, ’cause all the pretense was rotted away by nature until all that was left was science.
In this case, biology matters. SheWon.org has cataloged 894 instances of biological males placing or better in a girl’s or woman’s competition. There are undoubtedly more. Talk about #MeToo? No medal or ribbon for you; we had to make room for what is characteristically a C-team male who identifies as female. Accolades, scholarships, a reward for years of hard work. Sorry. Step aside. It has gotten the attention of Congress on numerous occasions, recently summoning the umbrage of Fat Jerry Nadler.
“Men do not compete in women’s sports,” far-left New York Democratic congressman Jerry Nadler claimed during a congressional hearing several weeks ago. “Transgender women [sic] may compete in women’s sports,”
He’s not having any of this biology business, so I hope he has a plan for work pathologists who can “identify” the gender of the deceased at the time they died, given how subject to change that can be these days.
Nadler, who objected (ironically) to prevent non-truths from entering the Congressional record, was responding to “Republican congresswoman Harriet Hageman of Wyoming [who] wanted to enter into the record stats on females injured by male athletes as well as stolen titles. SheWon.org has cataloged the stolen titles, proving that men, in fact, do compete in women’s sports.”
At least he’s consistent. His position here, like many of his previous contributions to the Congressional Record, is a half-truth feeding a lie.
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WMUR has been covering quite a few fires lately, including this one. https://www.wmur.com/article/stratford-fire-barn-no-injuries/60362376 Since the story is not very old, not much detail is available. However, one can adjust their searches of coverage of recent fires by dates, location, damages, victims, and media outlets and come up with a variety of data.
However, what got my attention was the most recent one being far from the others and interestingly close to Canada. I think you know where I’m going with this.
Stratford is not an urban community where the alarm sounds and interrupts the fire station’s spaghetti dinner, and everyone slides down the pole and hurries to the fire. Most people know that rural firefighting is mostly done by volunteers with day jobs who get paged. I’m just a layperson, so you don’t have to take my word. Ask your homeowner’s insurance agent or former Rep. Tom Lanzara if you want to learn more. Tom recently became a Lieutenant.
While rural areas are not necessarily exempt from all urban fire hazards, this Stratford fire reminded me of the Worcester 6.
For those whose photographic memories don’t go that far back in time, Mr. Levesque and another homeless person were living in an old abandoned building in December 1999 when they knocked over a candle, starting a fire that ultimately killed six Worcester firemen who were looking for additional occupants while fighting the fire.
Considering that people like Senator Twitley want you to think that there have only been 21 illegal border crossings in/near Pittsburg, I offer the following supposition. Perhaps those responsible for the Stratford fire are NOT locals.
“The cause of the fire is under investigation” is the last sentence of the WMUR article, which is not an uncommon word choice for a breaking story. One would hope that the investigation will include some rigorous interviewing of neighbors and locals with the same fervor that the viewer observes the detectives using in most Hollywood crime drama shows.
If interviewed people say they saw suspicious activity in the area, particularly involving strangers, it will be interesting to see if WMUR and/or its ilk give it the same follow-up attention as they would with stories that prop up their agenda. An example of that would be what’s going on locally in Lewiston. That shooting happened in November, yet WMUR regularly scrapes the local barrel bottom for fundraisers or follow-up stories that have no ties to NH.
My message to the readers is not to let the Stratford fire investigation fall off the radar because that’s what WMUR would want to have happen during an election year.
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Bills to protect women and children from the trans cult are advancing in the New Hampshire House and Senate and the trans rights activists (TRAs) are desperate.
Starting in 2018, Governor Chris Sununu signed a slew of terrible bills, including a bill to allow males to self-id into women’s restrooms and locker rooms, a bill to allow males to compete in female school sports, a therapy ban, and other anti-child and anti-women bills.
The TRAs thought they were sitting pretty. They believed as Martin Luther King Jr. said that “the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” They expected that New Hampshire residents would learn to accept the new laws and that everyone could live in peace.
We have not been living in peace. Instead, we have been living with the horrible consequences including males invading female locker rooms and restrooms, boys winning in girls’ school athletic competitions, and gender-confused children having their bodies irreversibly damaged by puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and having healthy body parts removed.
Finally, bills are advancing in New Hampshire to roll back some of these awful attacks on women and children.
These bills were given an Ought to Pass in committee and are being voted on Friday, April 5 by the full NH Senate. Contact your senator and ask him or her to vote to concur with the committee report of OTP on these bills.
This bill was voted as Interim Study in committee and is also being voted on Friday by the full NH Senate. Contact your senator and ask him or her to vote to override the committee’s report and vote OTP on this bill.
Related: New Hampshire Bill Would Protect Young People From Modern-Day Lobotomies
These bills were passed in the NH House and are soon having hearings in the NH Senate. There is no action to take now.
This week the TRAs are making an all-out attack on these bills with attempts at convincing the senators to turn back the tidal wave.
I expect their desperation and efforts to increase as these bills advance closer to Governor Chris Sununu’s desk.
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I hope you had a nice weekend. I am sharing a very important update with you below in regard to marijuana legalization. As you can see by the leadership in Virginia, Governor Youngkin proved marijuana legalization is NOT inevitable.
He vetoed the efforts in that state based on public health safety. His full veto statement supporting the reasons why is provided here.
“The proposed legalization of retail marijuana in the Commonwealth endangers Virginians’ health and safety. States following this path have seen adverse effects on children’s and adolescent’s health and safety, increased gang activity and violent crime, significant deterioration in mental health, decreased road safety, and significant costs associated with retail marijuana that far exceed tax revenue. It also does not eliminate the illegal black-market sale of cannabis, nor guarantee product safety. Addressing the inconsistencies in enforcement and regulation in Virginia’s current laws does not justify expanding access to cannabis, following the failed paths of other states, and endangering Virginians’ health and safety,” said Governor Glenn Youngkin in his veto statement for HB 698 and SB 448.
Thank you for taking the time to learn about this important issue and understand its impact on our state and all of our citizens, most importantly our young people, who are the future generations to come. We should never rush into doing something just because others are doing it. That, as many of us know, is primary prevention.
This was sent to every NH State Senator and the Governor.
Celeste Clark is the Executive Director of the Raymond Coalition For Youth
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The headline will annoy the gender cult, but it is indicative of a transformation that has begun to crack the woke carapace of medical and chemical gender treatments for children. Corporate medicine is all in on this profit silo and the narratives supporting it, but it’s all a lie, and we’re just hurting children.
The American College of Pediatricians (ACPeds), based in Florida, released a position statement on Feb. 7 stating that “social transition, puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones have no demonstrable, long-term benefit on the psychosocial well-being of adolescents with gender dysphoria.”
“A review of at least 60 research papers demonstrates no benefit to social affirmation, puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones or surgical interventions for these youth,” lead author and vice president of ACPeds, Dr. Jane Anderson, wrote in an email to Fox News Digital.
The trouble began when The World Professional Association for Transgender Health got busted by an investigative reporter for telling truths in private that proved what they advocated was dangerous to the patients with little demonstrable upside. Shortly after, the UK health service banned hormone therapy for minors (ending the surgical freight train with it). Related: Transgender Hormone Therapy Increases Risk of Heart Attack and Stroke
The UK made its decisions after conducting a four-year study that showed the practice had no mental health benefit or made matters worse. An opinion shared by regulators in France, who “want to ban gender transition treatments for under-18s, after a report described sex reassignment in minors as potentially “one of the greatest ethical scandals in the history of medicine.”
We agree, but will the trend continue, and can it gain momentum in the US?
Abortion, another controversial topic, is a political holy grail on our shores, but most of the rest of the world prohibits it after six months, if not sooner. Given the political capital capable of sustaining such extremism, does common sense have any hope of breaking through to protect children from adults hellbent on stuffing them with puberty blockers and hormones?
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Chuck Schumer’s statement on Netanyahu and elections in Israel; Trump’s statements on Jews and democrats; Extremely high fines against Trump and his appeal; should Trump fight harder and more publicly/be more provocative; Fani Willis and Nathan Wade and the judge’s ruling regarding disqualification.
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Most of us know that something just isn’t right. We can feel it in our gut that the America we were lucky enough to be born in doesn’t feel the same. The American Spirit, that sense of patriotism that brought us to attention for a passing American flag, has been dulled.
Many of our fathers went to Europe or the South Pacific as kids to preserve America and ensure she remained that shining beacon on a hill. Ironically, what they fought for, and many died for, was the right of a new generation to look down on and think of America as a repressive country built with the blood and sweat of slaves. Fields of white crosses in Arlington National Cemetery, Normandy, France, and il Shima, Japan, mark the graves of the sons and daughters who gave their lives to preserve the rights of ignorant, ungrateful Americans to burn the Stars and Stripes or kneel in protest as The Star Spangled Banner plays.
I am so glad my Dad, who served in the Army Air Corps in the Philippines, is not around to see today’s America. I genuinely believe there are more of us who know we won the lottery to be born in America than those who would tear her down. The minority, however, seems to yell louder and more frequently than the majority. But we are learning to shout very loudly.
Some think America began to crumble with the Obama Presidency. Some of the younger folk may not have much recollection of time beyond fifteen to twenty years. Some believe it may have been when Camelot died as an assassin’s bullet downed John F. Kennedy. Others see the beginning of our demise with possibly our first Socialist President, Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Roosevelt was in his fourth term as President when he died in 1945. He was the only U.S. President to serve more than two terms, and his time in Washington signaled a change and a new direction for America. Yes, he and Winston Churchill worked together to put down the Germans and Japanese who wanted to take over the world, but in his time in the White House, he did so much more.
FDR adopted programs modeled after those established by Socialist and Fascist leaders of Europe and Central America. The Social Security program was taken from the Germans. It takes money from the young to supplement income for the elderly. The National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA), administered by the National Recovery Administration (NRA), was straight out of the playbook of Benito Mussolini, the fascist dictator of Italy. This program gave the federal government the power to control private businesses, which is very similar to what Biden is trying to do today with his effort to set commodity prices. These were part of FDR’s New Deal, which really meant more control over Americans.
Fast forward to Jimmy Carter, who introduced America to Economic Malaise and added the Department of Education to his cabinet. The DOE stripped control of education away from parents and states and gave it to the federal government. The result is out-of-control costs and declining levels of success. Barack Obama thought he had revolutionized the medical industry and ensured health insurance for every American. With costs rising exponentially and 30 million Americans without health insurance, it is challenging to call Obama Care a success.
Today, Joe Biden circumvents Congress and defies the Supreme Court to elevate the Executive Branch above the other two equal branches. He has also prioritized DEI over quality and innovation in the private sector and government.
I am not saying that Republicans are without sin in our decline, but what I am saying is the Democrats have openly introduced programs against the philosophy of a great America and intended to change the country negatively. We need to do a better job of communicating why Socialist style programs are bad for America and make sure we are never in a minority position in Congress, which makes us virtually useless in defeating these Leftist initiatives.
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This week, the House met to consider all bills that didn’t go to a second committee. Since this was a deadline, many bills we wanted to kill would be tabled instead since the motion to table is not debatable. Anything on the table after this week would need a 2/3 vote to do anything, so it’s likely it’ll quietly die on the table.
First, we had a memorial to a deceased representative, then welcomed two newly elected representatives (both Democrats.)
HB 1365, allowing pharmacies to substitute biological products, passed without discussion, as did HB 1366, penalties for negligent boat operation.
HB 1359, annulling or re-sentencing various cannabis offenses, would allow anyone who had been convicted of cannabis possession to appeal to the court directly, without the usual $300 fee, for an annulment or re-sentence. The bill would also have the state start the annulment process for those whose sentence had been completed. It was debated and passed, 283-80.
HB 1713, requiring a felony defendant be present in court, was not tabled, 112-256, and the committee chair presented a floor amendment that limited the mandatory presence to when the jury returns the verdict and the sentencing. I voted to table the original bill, but after the floor amendment, I wasn’t as opposed. After some debate, the floor amendment and the bill passed on voice votes.
HB 1014, on registering high school students to vote, had a committee amendment to put voter registration into the civics curriculum, 189-186. The bill then passed on a voice vote.
HB 1015, on elementary school literacy development, was extensively debated, primarily between two long-winded Republican representatives with different views on how to improve literacy. Since only 52% of students in the state test as Proficient in reading, it’s a serious problem. (Math and science are worse!) The committee amendment passed, 297-77, then a floor amendment from the other representative failed, 145-229. The bill finally passed, 365-9.
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HB 1084, instituting qualifications for the commissioner of education, would require her to be a professional educator or education administrator. It was tabled, 196-179. HB 1087, a study committee on information and media literacy, was tabled on a voice vote.
Then, by a 189-188 vote, we took HB 1683 from the table. This bill removed Medicaid coverage of routine infant circumcision. The pending motion to kill the bill failed, 185-188, a motion to reconsider the ought to pass motion passed, 188-186, then the pass motion failed, 184-191! All this without debate, as we had debated this bill for over an hour last week; we finally returned it to the table on a voice vote.
HB 1093, prohibiting mandatory mask policies in schools, was amended, 172-163, to except individual accommodations to students with disabilities. After some debate, the bill passed, 187-184. HB 1287, on the definition of “evidence based” in education, was debated, not passed, 179-193, and killed on a voice vote.
HB 1452, establishing qualifications for a superintendent of schools, was tabled, 193-182. HB 1453, requiring all institutions of higher education be non-profit rather than for profit, was also tabled, 190-184.
HB 1476, changing the due date for a memorandum of understanding between a charter school and the sending school from before the start of the school year to November 1, was also tabled, 192-182. These MOUs are necessary for special education, since the sending district is responsible for services.
HB 1481, on appointments to fill vacancies in cooperative school districts, was debated, with proponents urging that replacements be appointed from the same town as the former member, and opponents pointing out that cooperative districts have rules guiding this process, and the bill would retroactively affect these agreements. The bill failed to pass, 186-188, and Interim Study passed on a voice vote.
HB 1592, forbidding the use of Education Freedom Accounts for religious schools, was tabled, 191-186. HB 1616, requiring parental consent for each service provided to a child that is billed to Medicaid, was debated and passed, 190-187.
Then a member moved to take HB 1353 off the table. This bill granted the Department of Education subpoena authority when investigating cases of licensee misconduct, as other commissioners typically have. The motion failed, 183-194.
HB 1642, changing the school board member on a cooperative school board budget committee to non-voting status, was debated and not passed, 185-189, then went to interim study on a voice vote. Obviously changes to cooperative school districts are not popular in this session…
HB 1091, a cleanup bill of the campaign finance laws, had the committee amendment, a floor amendment, and then the bill, pass on voice votes; a motion to reconsider failed, also on a voice vote. The same thing happened on HB 1596, requiring disclosure of the use of deceptive artificial intelligence in political advertising. This bill was triggered by the use of a communications with a faked Biden voice before the presidential primary.
HB 1102, declaring breeding flat faced dogs (pugs, bulldogs, etc) to be animal cruelty, was tabled, 232-140.
HB 1145, prohibiting private ownership of new landfills, was not tabled, 180-193, then a floor amendment to ensure liability for leaks is set in any operator’s contract was adopted, 234-125. Then debate, with the opponents supporting the free market and the supporters wanting to prevent the importation of out of state trash (mostly from Massachusetts. Of course, they don’t mind that New Hampshire’s hazardous waste all goes to out of state facilities.) The bill passed, 208-162.
From my committee, HB 1059 updated the state building code. As expected, there was a floor amendment to update the energy code as well. I spoke against it, and the amendment failed, 179-192, and the bill passed on a voice vote.
HB 1190 would adopt the social work interstate compact. It was not tabled, 181-192, then we debated it briefly. The motion to kill the bill failed, 175-200, and the bill passed on a voice vote.
HB 1222, physician assistant scope of practice, had the committee amended adopted on a voice vote, then a floor amendment presented the compromise we’d worked out earlier this week. It added 8000 hours of clinical practice before a PA could practice independently, with a formal collaboration agreement if there wasn’t a physician in the same specialty working with him. I thought 8000 hours (about 4 years full time) was too much, but that was the lowest number we could get some of the opponents to accept. After the amendment was explained, it and the bill passed on voice votes.
HB 1271, converting some regulatory boards to advisory boards, was debated before going to interim study, 195-181. HB 1545, selling state surplus property for affordable housing below market value, was tabled, 190-185.
HB 1279, requiring the state to pay 7.5% of the retirement cost of local employees, was not tabled, 182-192, then debated. It was not killed, 178-194, passed on a voice vote, and not reconsidered, 179-194. I was opposed because we’ve already added a lot of money to the retirement system this session, but mostly because the state has no input into how many employees a municipality has, nor how much they’re paid. And arguing that the state needs to honor a 60 year old negotiating point strikes me as a very weak argument.
HB 1323, making an appropriation to print the state constitution, was amended to delay the effective date to the next biennium, to include any constitutional amendments approved in November.
It then passed on a voice vote, without comment.
HB 1280, putting a definition of informed consent and patients’ rights into the physicians’ licensing statute, was debated over whether or not it was necessary. It then passed, 189-181. HB 1568, providing Medicaid reimbursement for EMT calls even if the patient is not transported to a hospital, had a few remarks before passing, 237-136.
HB 1607, expanding “safe haven” protections when giving up an infant, was not tabled, 183-187, then debated at length. Interim study failed, 182-189, and a floor amendment to protect mothers from prosecution passed on a voice vote. Debate continued, with some members stating that they wanted to exclude evidence of drug use or whatever, but were unwilling to accept not using evidence of physical or sexual abuse. On that note, a motion was made to divide the bill (as amended), taking out section 5 which was the part making evidence from the abandonment inadmissible in court. That motion passed, 290-82, and the rest of the bill passed, 372-1. Section 5 did not pass, 185-188. I voted for it because I thought it more important to encourage that sort of parent to give up their child than to be able to prosecute them after they did.
It was now 4 pm, and coffee and snacks were available in the anteroom, so many representatives missed some or all of the debate on the next two bills.
HB 1181, on solid waste districts, which seemed to me to be a housekeeping measure allowing such districts to contract with third party haulers, use a manifest system to smooth out the accounts payable system, and authorize emergency expenditures – as other municipal authorities can do now. The committee amendment was debated mostly on the authority to “direct” waste rather than just “accept” it, and passed 223-136. The minority amendment, with more controls on procedures, failed 149-216, and the bill passed on a voice vote.
HB 1223, originally on budget committee membership, had a non-germane amendment allowing towns to vote to accept – or not – games of chance (charity casinos), as they had Keno. It was not tabled, 166-196, then debated on the amendment, which passed 282-86. The bill then passed without further comment.
HB 2024, the state ten year transportation plan, was adopted by passing the committee amendment on a voice vote. Then we debated a floor amendment that deleted a single element of the plan, returning Continental Boulevard in Merrimack to town ownership. Since Continental Boulevard is not really part of the turnpike system, the state wants to give it back. Interestingly, the state is completing a repaving project on the road and estimates annual maintenance costs at about $100,000; the town estimates them at $500,000! That discrepancy, plus the overheated rehashing of the history of the road, made me less sympathetic to Merrimack’s claims; the amendment failed, 172-195 and the bill passed on a voice vote.
HB 1113, requiring shoreland septic systems be inspected before the property is sold and replaced if necessary, had the committee amendment adopted on a voice vote, then a floor amendment to require replacement in 180 days rather than a year was also adopted on a voice vote after a few remarks. The bill passed without further comment.
HB 1121, codifying that landowners can remove woody debris and stream blockages after a flood or a storm without a permit, passed without comment.
HB 1301, regulating wake surfing, was tabled, 196-172. HB 1390, regulating wakesports, was also tabled, 190-178; a later motion to take it off the table failed, 165-188.
HB 1291, allowing two ADUs (accessory dwelling units) per house, by right, was not tabled, 87-277, then debated at length. It passed, 220-143. I supported it because I’ve gotten several communications from constituents who want to build an ADU for themselves or for disabled family members but have run into town regulations that made it difficult or impossible. It also makes sense to allow people to build these small apartments throughout the state rather than large apartment complexes – it preserves the character of our towns much better. Not to mention that the old farmhouses typically housed grandparents, aunts, and some farm HB 1339, requiring towns to allow duplexes in some single family zones, was debated at length before passing, 220-140. I sympathized with the opponents who said it would be difficult to administer, but, like HB 1291, it helps to increase the supply of housing units without drastically changing the character of the neighborhood.
HR 31, urging support of the dignity through prosperity act, was tabled on a voice vote.
At this point, HB 546 was taken off the table after a 182-179 vote. The bill passed, 182-178, and not reconsidered, 172-188. I was opposed to this bill because it added $50 million in school building aid, despite having funded such aid at normal levels in the budget.
HB 1273, protection of personal information from driver’s licenses, went to interim study on a voice vote.
HB 1711, allowing the state to report mental health data to the federal background check database, was not tabled, 150-205. A floor amendment to make it a study committee on the process was killed on a voice vote, then we debated, at some length, a floor amendment to limit the types of reports authorized (not guilty of a crime by reason of insanity, found by a court as a danger to others, but not just to themselves and not before final court judgment.) This failed, 101-252, with all the Republicans from the area, and Representative Turcotte from Allenstown, opposed. After some more debate the bill passed, 204-149.
HB 1637, reducing requirements for repairs after vehicle inspections, had been a unanimous committee vote. The full House adopted the committee amendment and a floor amendment to fix a drafting error, without debate. The bill passed, 349-6.
Finally, a representative moved reconsideration of HB 1283, medical aid in dying. This motion is rarely debated, but this time, both bill supporters and opponents mentioned the time (7 pm) and the eleven speakers already signed up to speak on this bill… Reconsideration failed, 147-210. Personally, I wouldn’t expect a different result this time; we debated the bill for over an hour last week, and everyone knows how they would vote on it. So, with Republicans down due to the hour, even if reconsideration passed the bill would pass again.
Editors note: My apologies for the delay in publishing this.
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As promised in Monday Memes, I have an overflow. My meme cup runneth over. And yes there will be a Friday edition too.
Let the mayhem, mockery, and ridicule resume:
*** Warning, a few possibly off-color ones, in case tender eyes are about ***
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The nice thing is that blue helmets are easily IDed from afar.
This, and a thousand other data points… and there are STILL people who think The Potato is doing a good job. Baffling. Like here:
About a half a heartbeat…
Remember, this guy was the CONSERVATIVE leader…
Sounds kind of like current events, no?
I’ve had the pleasure of meeting someone in the UK who is a pagan; their recounting of some of the end time prophecies from that belief system does also sound somewhat like what we’re seeing. So, again, going back to my old blog and two essays I did about the end times (and, yes, I do apologize for some mild cheesecake at the front, but at the time it seemed like the pictures of women did get a lot of traffic; in retrospect, cheesy and a little crass):
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
Hey schmuck – “Safe and effective”, eh? A pity, because I’ve enjoyed many of his movies.
I’d argue to use cinderblocks. A lot cheaper, much more common, just as effective too, and after SHTF we’ll need millstones far more than cinderblocks.
But… but… but we’re sooooo oppresssed!
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PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA
If you’re a member, might want to reconsider that membership. And if you do make the decisions to leave, tell others, and tell Planet Fitness why.
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Links (some from me, some from my Jarhead friend):
Antifa threatens violence at Indiana speaking event featuring Libs of TikTok, GOP congressman | The Post Millennial | thepostmillennial.com
Saw this too late to put into Monday. “You know what to do”. THAT is a dog whistle.
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Thanks, Joe: Afghan Women are Not Okay – HotAir
ISIS Is at War With the World Again, Thanks to Biden and Putin – PJ Media
Islam advances, and the West is silent. And while I don’t specifically agree with the Jesus references, I do agree with the criticism that NICENESS is going to be Western Civilization’s doom.
Being “Nice” is Destroying Western Civilization (rumble.com)
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‘White Supremacy’ Is Social Justice Code For ‘Economic and Social Success’ – PJ Media
As anyone like me who has lived in Asia can see clearly, the reason for Asian success in the United States — which, as Hunter Biden has shown, is not entirely meritocratic but meritocratic enough for merit to matter — is that Asians tend not to act like feral animals in places like schools, shopping malls, subway systems, etc.
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I Want to Stop CBDCs – What Can I Do? – Solari Report
On Point 1: I always use cash to the greatest extent possible. And I need – and you should too – to start writing all the stores you patronize to tell them you like paying in cash. That’s physically writing. Not emailed comments, not comment forms. In this electronic age, actual letters stand out.
Point 11: The problem is that nobody believes me. It’s all Oh so convenient and all… and when I say, with evidence, that CBDC and an all-electronic payment system is rife with risk, the response is inevitably some version of either Oh that can’t happen here or Oh that’s just not possible.
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Douglas Andrews: Obama to the Rescue? | The Patriot Post
Barackus has no choice but to become visible given The Potato’s screw-ups.
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K Paul Stoller’s excellent well-written paper on the danger of mRNA technology that is in the mRNA COVID vaccines; it is a bioweapon, it is deadly, it was made to kill; a non-sterilizing vaccine (substack.com)
What Makes All Vaccines So Dangerous? (midwesterndoctor.com)
More on the Jab specifically:
Caught in Their Own Trap? – The Vaccine Reaction
SHOCKING: USA Has Recorded Over 1 Million Excess Deaths Among the Over 65’s Since the FDA “Approved” the COVID-19 Vaccine (substack.com)
And this is fascinating:
Tucker: Why did they push the Covid vax even when they knew it didn’t work? – Whatfinger News’ Choice Clips
Could this effect of the spike protein on the mind, and ability to learn/be independent vs. being an obedient slave, be deliberate? And if yes, how on earth could this have been developed?
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Creepy Video: Vermont Dems Push Bill Against Gay Porn ‘Book Bans’ In Children’s Libraries – modernity
Seeking to make secret their grooming of kids. Related to that whole thing:
JK Rowling dares police to arrest her for ‘misgendering’ after Scottish hate crime law takes effect | Human Events | humanevents.com
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The FBI (or people claiming to be the FBI, they would not show ID) are coming to people’s houses to “ask” them about social media posts they have made. Gee, intimidation much?
https://twitter.com/realJoelFischer/status/1773452809347698829
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A couple posts ago I had an article where Slo-Joe was considering making all the illegal aliens into citizens (of course, so they can vote!). Now the Dems in Congress are actually contemplating that:
Moonbattery Senate Democrats Push to Legalize Illegal Aliens Quickly – Moonbattery
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Well, the client list for Epstein’s Island still has not been released, but a dedicated data miner has located ALL the phones that were there, showing maps of where they came from, where they went on the island, how long they were on the island, and many other small details. Of course, they did not connect it with NAMES mind you, but just the phone data should be enough (it was for the people who came to the Capitol on January 6th, 2021).:
Bayou Renaissance Man: Very interesting… but where are the details???
Same story, different angle:
Leaked Cell Phone Location Data Reveals 200 Mystery Guests On Epstein’s “Pedo Island” | ZeroHedge
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It looks like the DOJ was specifically targeting Trump from Day one of Biden’s administration, and Merrick Garland is actually getting flack from them for not putting Trump away by now:
Biden’s DOJ Targeted Trump From Day 1 – Daniel Greenfield / Sultan Knish Articles at DanielGreenfield.org
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Dems are very worried as the latest polling data suggest that young adults are leaning toward Trump, so they are throttling back on signing up young voters:
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/04/01/dnc-activists-warns-democrats-to-stop-registering-young-voters-theyre-gonna-vote-for-trump
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Are you ready for your “Social Credit Score”? Don’t want one? Well, the banks are already setting it up for you, so you’re getting one whether you want it or not. This video is about 1 hour & 20 minutes, but the meat is in the first 14 minutes:
https://www.theepochtimes.com/epochtv/americans-quietly-assigned-china-like-social-credit-scores-5619690
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Poland Quietly Confirms NATO Troops Are Deployed in Ukraine – Vigilant News Network
Closer and closer to the edge we get.
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Biden raises alarm bells with outright lie about pro-transgender Easter proclamation: ‘If he didn’t do this, then who did?’ | Blaze Media (theblaze.com)
Two possibilities. He did and is now denying it (or doesn’t remember)… or he didn’t, which means – duh! – that he’s not really in charge. Neither is comforting.
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SLOWLY… SLOWLY… (youtube.com)
This Bill Whittle video in conclusion. From 11 years ago. We must – MUST – remember, all that is currently happening was scripted years… decades… in advance. We’re only now waking up to it.
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To that “doctor”…. please get boosted. Make sure to take choline supplements for a month before too as it makes the Jab work better.
Always loved Bugs Bunny.
Mental illness. Pure and simple.
It’s not enough to boycott. Tell them why.
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Well, let’s be clear. Crime, visibly, will go up. But prosecutions and convictions will go down.
This picture, right there, should be enough to shock anyone. Now I want you to imagine flipping this, and Trump had done this. Can you even begin to imagine the outrage and calls for him to be removed from office over something like this?
If it weren’t for double standards, Liberals wouldn’t have any.
Blasphemy. This makes me sick.
Understand that, years and years and years ago, as a newly-minted atheist &&&
Definitely troubling.
Interesting how I’ve evolved. I used to have no problem at all with the idea of gays marrying. Now, while I certainly don’t advocate stonings or anything, I’m far less tolerant than I used to be.
All these nitwits think that their lives will be heaven when civilization falls are in for a very rude awakening.
Something does seem to be coming…
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Pick of the Post:
There is probably no simpler visual than this on what the enemedia is – which is deception and alteration of reality.
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Palate cleansers:
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Knowing from personal experience?
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Come back on Friday for more memes. Same meme time. Same meme channel.
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Revisiting and slightly editing a quote I originated in 2020 (I can prove it) but, here it is:
You cannot make a person see something when his view of himself as a superior being – good / highly-educated / intellectual / morally-superior – depends on his not seeing it.
(c) 2024, NITZAKHON
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