In my previous article, I discussed the earliest candidate slate members for the executive council seat being vacated by the retirement of Ted Gatsas.  I elaborated on Ryan Terrell and have been asking some questions behind the scenes and even emailed Scanlan.

I received a prompt reply with a mention that one must have lived in NH for seven years and presently live in the district at the time of the election to be eligible for office representing it.  Fair enough, but voters still deserve to know when he relocated from Nashua to Lee.  I don’t want to stoop to the level of calling him a carpetbagger, as that’s what Jan Schmidt did to him, even though he moved to NH a long time ago as a New Orleans flood refugee.  If he’s eligible for ballot access, then so be it, but let’s talk about another early entrant and address some other things worthy of attention.

Burns announced his candidacy yesterday after waffling for a very long time about Annie Kuster’s seat.

If you need a timeline, I’m sure Lily Tang Williams can answer questions that she had asked Burns herself.  After losing her congressional primary, Lily called Burns to congratulate him, and most voters of the intelligent variety cast their vote for him in November.  When he lost to Annie, Lily started planning her 2024 campaign to try again, which I encourage everyone to support, no matter who is on their ballot.

Though I didn’t keep a journal of the exact words said and on what date(s), I do remember Lily saying she reached out to both Burns and George Hansel(the Damn Emperor’s endorsee and late entrant) to tell them her plans and ask for their support.  It’s been my understanding, subject to final confirmation with Lily, of course, that neither of them was quick to reply, and a commitment from either one of them was not obtained.  I think of those anecdotal stories about the single person playing the field or the fair-weather friend who won’t lock into Friday night plans because…(drum roll) something better might come along.

It’s only fair that I question Burns’s interest, passion, and suitability for the position with the same fervor I questioned Ryan Terrell’s ties with the community Ted Gatsas represents.  To either of them, a voter should ask some suggested questions:

Have you ever attended an executive council meeting?
If yes, how many times and when and why?(other than Ryan’s BoE nomination/confirmation process-related reasons)
Have you ever called or emailed Ted Gatsas?
If yes, when and why?
Have you ever asked him or any of his 4 peers to vote a certain way on something?
If yes, what was the nomination or agenda item?
Were you considering candidacy prior to learning of Ted Gatsas’s retirement?

One attribute of the human condition is the desire to stay relevant and some candidates and former candidates for many offices are known to be quite shameless in that pursuit.  The intelligent voter will filter out all the opportunists and vote for Nurse Terese.

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The forefathers established the United States as a Republic of States and not a Democracy. This provision was to maintain the power of the states as opposed to losing it to the collective wishes of the country as a whole.

They designed through the 14th Amendment that the election of a President would result from the elections held in all states and territories and not a popular vote. Each state is independent in assigning its electoral votes, which is equal to the number of Senators and Representatives. The Electoral College allows each state to have a proportionate say in who is elected President. The Left wants this system changed because the Electoral College creates an equal playing field. They prefer a popular vote because Democrat voters outnumber Republicans. In a popular vote scenario, the high population of Left-leaning regions would always elect the President. We would never see a Republican President under a National Popular Vote system.

In 2006, the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact was born. This initiative was to join enough states that would change their method of assigning their Electoral votes to the person who got the most votes nationally and not the winner of its statewide election. So far, the initiative has been successful in sixteen states and the District of Columbia, representing 205 Electoral Votes. The issue is pending in eleven states with 101 Electoral Votes in the balance. The plan for the Compact is to trigger it when they have enough states signed on to hit the 270 vote mark, which is the votes needed to win the Presidency. It is evident by looking at the map of states already in the compact and those pending that they are all Left-leaning states, proving this initiative favors Democrat candidates.

Maine, which is becoming the Socialist model of the Northeast, is close to joining the Compact. On Wednesday, the Maine Senate voted 18-12 to join the Popular Vote Compact and pledge Maine’s four electoral votes to the overall popular vote winner. The Maine House narrowly passed the bill earlier this week. The bill now goes to Governor Mills, who has ten days to sign, veto, or neither, in which case the bill automatically becomes law. The Governor has not indicated her intentions.

This action by the Maine legislature is possible only because of the Democrat majority in Augusta. This action, along with numerous other actions in the last year, starkly contrasts the wishes of the Republicans and possibly the Independents of Maine. If Trump were to win the State of Maine Election, but Joe Biden wins the national Popular vote, the four electoral votes would be pledged to Joe Biden. The voice of the people of Maine would be suppressed.

What is happening in Maine works for the Socialist Democrats, who are concentrated in the state’s major cities. Should the pendulum swing, and it is moving, then the Democrats will have to live with their decisions that may then work in the favor of Republicans. One thing is clear after the last twelve months: Democrats have little concern about what is suitable for all of Maine but what will keep them in power.

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Now that the COVID pandemic is behind us, we must thoughtfully evaluate what happened during this unprecedented time and prudently consider what should be done if a similar crisis ever happens again. One of the major issues that emerged during this challenging period was the mandatory wearing of face masks in schools.

A crucial bill has been proposed in the State Legislature this year (HB1093) that would prohibit school boards from ever again implementing any policy requiring the wearing of face masks.

As a member of the House Education Committee, I heard some emotional testimony last month at the hearing for HB1093. One parent described how her child was so psychologically traumatized that he developed nervous ticks due to the stress of mask-wearing. According to numerous teachers and parents, some children suffered such great anxiety that they were paralyzed with fear and could not speak. Mask mandates created an academic culture of fear and divisiveness which caused anxiety and hindered learning. Teachers explained the difficulties of working in such an emotionally negative climate and lamented that many students fell behind academically while also suffering emotionally.

During the hearing, I corroborated what the other witnesses had to say not by describing my personal experience but by sharing what I had learned about face masks from extensively reading medical journal articles and other sources providing information from medical experts. This research included a Cochrane Institute study last year which concluded that “wearing masks in the community probably makes little or no difference to the outcome of … COVID-19 like illness compared to not wearing masks.” Another article recently published in the Archives of Disease in Childhood concluded, “We fail to find any evidence of benefit from masking children…child mask mandates fail a basic risk-benefit analysis. Recommending child masking …is unsupported by current scientific data and inconsistent with accepted ethical norms.”

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Overall, I found that reasonable doubts had clearly been raised by reputable sources regarding the effectiveness of mask-wearing. Dr. Harvey Risch, Professor Emeritus of Epidemiology at Yale, had compared wearing masks as a virus deterrent to “putting up a chain link fence and hoping that it blocks mosquitoes.” Surprisingly, Dr. Anthony Fauci, in a February 5th, 2020 e-mail, wrote, “the typical mask you buy in the drug store is not really effective in keeping out virus, which is small enough to pass through the material.”

Not only did my research suggest that masks might possibly be ineffective but also revealed the probability of physical harm caused by toxic chemicals contained in the masks themselves including volatile organic compounds (VOCs), phthalates, microplastics and nanoparticles. Masks are also suspected by some experts to cause a condition known as MIES—mask-induced exhaustion syndrome. Considering all of this reasonable doubt, don’t you think that wearing a mask should be a choice rather than a requirement? More specifically, should school board members, who are generally not medical experts, ever arbitrarily mandate the wearing of facemasks?

HB1093 will not stop anyone who wants to wear a mask from doing so. Those who believe that face masks are effective can certainly keep on wearing them, and parents who want their kids to wear masks could still send them to school wearing them. Logically, these people should also believe that their masks will protect them and their children from those who choose not to wear them.

The House recently passed HB1093. Now it goes to the Senate where its passage would relieve school board members from having to determine controversial face mask policies while also giving parents the freedom to choose whether or not their children wear masks.

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It’s more than fifteen minutes after you drove home and finally you find a parking space in what once was your single-family zoned neighborhood. But the NH-UniParty outlawed single-family zoning in 2024, and your once picturesque, safe neighborhood is now an eyesore of “accessory dwelling units” crammed into what once was your neighbor’s front and backyards. And your neighbors are now mostly renters because once the UniParty outlawed single-family zoning BlackRock and the other “investment” firms swooped in and bought up as much of the neighborhood as they could.

It used to be easy to find a parking spot in front of your home. But the UniParty also outlawed minimum parking requirements. So lots that used to need one or two street parking spots are now taking six or eight. But finding parking is not the end of the ordeal. You have a 15 minute walk home ahead of you, in what once was a safe neighborhood but now is anything but that. Trash and graffiti have replaced impeccably maintained lawns and gardens. And there are also the dealers and the gangs and the street thugs.

This is the dystopia that Jo(k)e Sweeney and Ross Berry and other imposter-GOP want for New Hampshire. Kelly Ayotte claims that she is running for Governor in order to prevent Joyce Craig from “Massing up” New Hampshire. But what about Jo(k)e Sweeney and the other imposter-Republicans. Does Kelly support their jihad to outlaw single-family housing? She has NOT, to my knowledge, said one word in opposition to the NH-UniParty’s push to destroy the rural character of New Hampshire.

And where does Chuck stand on this issue? Does he share Jo(k)e Sweeney’s dream of turning New Hampshire into an endless sea of apartment complexes?

Maybe their wonderful surrogates could take a moment from telling us why their candidate is the true conservative to actually tell us something substantive? Not holding my breath.

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This blog is made pursuant to NH Rules of Professional Conduct 3.6 (c) (2).

I am grateful to Judge Susan W. Ashley for her correct interpretation of District Court Rule 1.3D…  the rule that allows non-lawyer representatives to appear and litigate for another in a criminal case.  Find her ORDER here.

It’s worth noting that Judge Ashley is the Deputy Administrative Judge for the Circuit Court.  You cannot achieve that position without knowing the rules front to back.

Find my required response to her ORDER here.

Retiring Burlington, Vermont, Mayor Miro Weinberger is, by all sane accounts, left-wing, as was his anointed replacement Joan Shannon; in anywhere but Burlington, they are far-left Democrats. So when the city elected a “progressive” last week, well, guess what?

If you think you voted for change, you are in for a surprise. Progressive Party winner Emma Mulvaney-Stanak is basically a Marxist, with the Progressive Party carrying the social banner to the left of the likes of Weinberger and Shannon. What does that look like on the campaign trail? After years of denying Burlington had a growing issue with crime, the ‘Progressives’ ran on addressing the growing problem of crime. Related: Change in Burlington: Replace Male Marxist Mayor with Female Marxist Mayor

Burlington’s crime problem is the direct result of left-wing political priorities shared by everyone who ran for mayor. Weinberger (nor the city council) know how to fix it because their party priorities create more crime and chaos. It is beyond their ability to repair. Shannon is no different. Mulvaney-Stanak will likely pour accelerant on the fire that is this problem.

Crime in Burlington is bad. Mulvaney-Stanak, who likely won partly as a result of the illegal gang vote (non-citizens can vote in municipal elections and her opponent’s “failure to acknowledge Israel’s unpopular invasion of Gaza”), is less equipped to address it than Weinberger or Shannon and that’s not saying much.

Hint: providing safe spaces to shoot up (drugs) will not stop the immigrant gangs from shooting up Burlington.

You need more cops, but no one with the intellectual agility to be on can think for a moment that the progressive mayor or its more “conservative Democrat/Progressive City Council” will defend them the next time a viral video drops that allows for virtue signaling on a national level. The cops will be under the bus faster than you can say. Where’s the next microphone to opine about systemic racism in a system run by Democrats and progressives for decades (Bernie Sanders was elected Mayor of Burlington in 1982).

The only way Emma Mulvaney-Stanak will ever get crime under control is to do what actual socialists do in communist countries, but as far as Vermont has fallen, even they haven’t gone that far. This means things can only get worse with one possible exception. The crime problem the progressives ignored before they decided they could use it to win elected office, blaming it on slightly less socialist Democrats, might disappear again. Not the crime, just any actual acknowledgement of it or data showing the truth.

Property and violent crime will continue to grow. They just won’t talk about it. And that is a change you can believe in.

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• These are the most liberty-critical hearings for the week
• Click on the bill number to read the bill.
• Click on the committee name to email the committee your thoughts.

Of the 32 hearings in the House, we are recommending support of 1 and opposition of 4 with 2 being of interest.
Of the 40 hearings in the Senate, we are recommending support of 11 and opposition of 3 with 7 being of interest.

Position	Bill	Title	Committee	Day	Time	Room	State Analysis
Of Interest	HB1400	(New Title) relative to residential parking spaces.	Commerce	Tue 4/9	10:20 AM	SH Room 100	This bill provides that zoning and planning regulations shall not require more than one residential parking space per unit.
Of Interest	HB1144	relative to requirements for sewage disposal system information to be disclosed during real estate transactions.	Commerce	Tue 4/9	10:30 AM	SH Room 100	This bill requires certain information to be disclosed about sewage disposal systems during real estate transactions of dwellings and food service establishments.
Support	HB1115	relative to the termination of tenancy at the expiration of the tenancy or lease term.	Commerce	Tue 4/9	10:40 AM	SH Room 100	This bill adds the expiration of the term of the lease or tenancy if over 6 months as grounds for an eviction.
Support	HB1298	relative to the definition of part-time teachers.	Education	Tue 4/9	9:10 AM	LOB Room 101	This bill defines “part-time teachers” and subjects them to the board of education’s professional code of ethics and professional code of conduct.
Oppose	HB1382	(New Title) granting witness fee reimbursement to unrepresented parents in the armed forces who prevail in special education hearings.	Education	Tue 4/9	9:20 AM	LOB Room 101	This bill authorizes witness fee reimbursement for a parent in the armed forces who represents themself at a special education hearing and prevails.
Support	HB1305	relative to freedom of speech and association at public institutions of higher education.	Education	Tue 4/9	9:30 AM	LOB Room 101	This bill establishes procedures governing freedom of speech and association at public institutions of higher education.
Support	HB1215	(New Title) relative to development approvals and appeals.	Election Law and Municipal Affairs	Tue 4/9	9:40 AM	LOB Room 103	This bill extends the existing 5-year exemption for subdivision plats to 10 years, and increases the preliminary step from 2 years to 5 years. The bill also changes the building code and fire code appeals process, limiting the jurisdiction of the local building code board of appeals to hearing decisions made under local amendments to those codes.
Support	HB1361	relative to municipal land use regulation for manufactured housing and subdivisions.	Election Law and Municipal Affairs	Tue 4/9	9:50 AM	LOB Room 103	This bill requires municipalities that adopt land use control measures to provide reasonable and realistic opportunities for the siting of manufactured housing on individual lots and in manufactured housing parks and subdivisions within residential districts. The bill also directs municipalities to provide reasonable and realistic opportunities for expansion of existing manufactured housing parks.
Support	HB1399	allowing municipalities to permit 2 residential units in certain single-family residential zones.	Election Law and Municipal Affairs	Tue 4/9	10:00 AM	LOB Room 103	This bill allows the expansion of a single family residence within a residential zone in an urban area to no more than 2 residential units without discretionary review or a hearing, if the proposed development meets certain requirements.
Of Interest	HB558	(New Title) requiring the department of energy to initiate a microgrid study.	Energy and Natural Resources	Tue 4/9	9:00 AM	SH Room 103	This bill requires the department of energy to initiate a study to investigate the potential benefits, risks, and key considerations around developing a framework for electricity microgrids in the state.
Of Interest	HB1314	relative to the comprehensive state development plan.	Energy and Natural Resources	Tue 4/9	9:20 AM	SH Room 103	This bill adds provisions to the comprehensive state development plan concerning protection of natural resources and identifying environmental threats.
Support	HB229	relative to requiring an official declaration of war for the activation of the New Hampshire national guard.	Finance	Tue 4/9	2:00 PM	SH Room 103	This bill limits the activation of the New Hampshire national guard to only those times where the United States Congress has passed an official action pursuant to Article I, Section 8 of the United States Constitution.
Oppose	HB1279	relative to payment by the state of a portion of retirement system contributions of political subdivision employers.	Finance	Tue 4/9	2:10 PM	SH Room 103	This bill provides that the state shall pay 7.5 percent of contributions of retirement system employers other than the state for group I teachers and group II members.
Support	HB1012	exempting from criminal penalty certain parenting decisions intended to encourage a child’s independence and freedom.	Judiciary	Tue 4/9	1:30 PM	SH Room 100	This bill provides that a parent shall not be guilty of endangering the welfare of a child for allowing the child to take reasonable risks to further their development as an independent human being.
Of Interest	HB1002	relative to fees for records under the right-to-know law.	Judiciary	Tue 4/9	1:45 PM	SH Room 100	This bill establishes parameters for when a public body may charge a fee for records provided under RSA 91-A.
Support	HB1069	(New Title)  relative to material subject to disclosure under the right-to-know law.	Judiciary	Tue 4/9	2:00 PM	SH Room 100	This bill: I. Clarifies a public body or agency’s ability to accept record requests by electronic means and to provide such records electronically. II. Replaces the word “citizen” with “person” throughout the chapter.
Of Interest	SB476	making a capital appropriation to the department of corrections toward the replacement of the New Hampshire state prison for men.	Public Works and Highways	Tue 4/9	10:00 AM	LOB Room 201	This bill makes a bonded appropriation of funds for architectural, engineering, programming, and design and construction documents for the New Hampshire state prison for men.
Of Interest	HB1059	relative to the state building code.	Executive Departments and Administration	Wed 4/10	9:00 AM	SH Room 103	This bill updates the definition of the state building code to include more recent versions of certain international codes and amendments approved by the building code review board.
Of Interest	SB599	relative to the state fire code.	Executive Departments and Administration	Wed 4/10	10:00 AM	LOB Room 306-308	This bill: I. Revises the definition of the state fire code. II. Ratifies amendments to the state fire code.
Of Interest	HB1190	relative to adopting the interstate social work licensure compact.	Health and Human Services	Wed 4/10	9:00 AM	LOB Room 101	This bill adopts the social work licensure compact.
Oppose	HB1296	relative to insurance coverage for diagnostic and supplemental breast examinations.	Health and Human Services	Wed 4/10	9:15 AM	LOB Room 101	This bill provides that certain insurers that provide diagnostic and supplemental breast examinations shall not impose co-payments, deductibles, or other cost-sharing requirements.
Oppose	SB403	(New Title) relative to the health care workforce.	Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs	Wed 4/10	11:00 AM	LOB Room 203	This bill: I. Extends the deadlines of the legislative commission on the interdisciplinary primary care workforce issues. II. Makes clarifying amendments to the nurse practice act statute. III. Establishes the position of and regulation of community health workers. IV. Provides directives to the department of health and human services.
Oppose	SB456	(New Title) relative to the state loan repayment program for qualified nursing professionals, and making an appropriation therefor.	Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs	Wed 4/10	1:00 PM	LOB Room 203	This bill makes an appropriation to the department of health and human services, state office of rural health, for the state loan repayment program to qualified nursing professionals, and directs the department of health and human services to provide a report to the legislature on a budget proposal for a student loan forgiveness program that would cover nurses who do not qualify for the state loan repayment program.
Oppose	SB496	directing the department of health and human services to establish a climate and health protection program.	Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs	Wed 4/10	1:30 PM	LOB Room 203	This bill directs the department of health and human services to establish a climate and health protection program in response to health threats associated with a changing environment.
Support	SB507	extending the time to petition for a new trial in certain cases.	Judiciary	Wed 4/10	10:30 AM	LOB Room 206-208	This bill extends the time to petition a court for a new trial in certain cases.
Oppose	SB474	relative to prohibiting metal detecting in certain areas.	Resources, Recreation and Development	Wed 4/10	1:00 PM	LOB Room 305	This bill prohibits treasure hunting with a metal detector in areas that expose students to the risk of injury.
Support	HB1533	relative to the safe harbor compensation amount under the business profits tax.	Ways and Means	Wed 4/10	10:00 AM	SH Room 100	This bill increases the amount of the safe harbor provision for compensation under the business profits tax and provides for a biennial increase in future years based on the percentage change in the Consumer Price Index.
Support	HB1536	relative to increasing the amount of the expense deduction allowed against the business profits tax.	Ways and Means	Wed 4/10	10:15 AM	SH Room 100	This bill increases the amount of the section 179 expense deduction permitted against the business profits tax.

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Publisher’s Weekly praises “Grandad’s Pride,” a children’s book for ages 4-8, available at local libraries, for how its “Bustling, bright-hued images with a rainbow motif” portrays various “gender expressions,” including men in bondage costumes with codpieces and a bearded woman with mastectomy scars.

Related: Nashua Library Doubles Down on Promoting Bondage to Kids

Even more troubling is an illustration featuring pink heart-shaped Lolita sunglasses, an allusion to the 1962 film about a man’s sexual relationship with his 14-year-old stepdaughter. Prominently displayed near the Lolita sunglasses is a Polaroid camera and a MAP, spelled out in capital letters, which happens to stand for “Minor Attracted Persons,” a euphemism for pedophiles.

Liberals greet requests to remove these books from the children’s section with cries of censorship. They claim that people who object to sexually explicit books are targeting LGBTQ+ individuals.

But there are no gay, queer, or transgender children, just girls and boys. By suggesting children can be born in the wrong bodies, libraries put children on the path to experimental medical treatments that will leave them permanently damaged. “Queer” is a nebulous word that justifies exposing children to any sexual behavior, including adult fetishes.

Libraries no longer serve patrons by choosing materials that reflect community interests and values. Instead, they bias their selection process to push their radical agenda. Censorship is built into their system. Since libraries choose books based on reviews from publications that align with their ideology, conservative books are unlikely to make the cut.

How did we get here? A 2017 American Library Journal article questions whether “it is still good enough to provide equal access, or if it is time to pursue an active equitable access that focuses on empowering the less powerful and amplifying the voices of the unheard.”

“Queering the library” is a top priority of American Library Association (ALA) President Emily Drabinski, who describes herself as  “a Marxist lesbian.” She’s also a proponent of queer theory. Like critical race theory, queer theory isn’t really a theory, but a political ideology that seeks to change power structures by promoting transgender and queer identities.

Our libraries assume that some children are born gay, transgender, and queer, and it’s their job to help girls and boys discover and explore their innate gender identities through drag queen story hours and books. For example, in “Red: A Crayon’s Story,” written for children ages 4-8  “A blue crayon is mistakenly labeled as red, and becomes much happier once he can be his true blue self.”

I’ve spoken to my local library trustees about the story “Jack, Not Jackie,” where a girl is relabeled as a boy and given a new name and pronouns because she hates frilly pink dresses, plays superhero, and splashes in the mud. It’s cruel to tell children that there’s a right way and a wrong way to be a girl or a boy.

A girl who hates pink dresses and likes to play with trucks is still a wonderful girl. Children’s books like “Jack not Jackie” tell abusive lies. My comments at the Nashua Library Trustees meeting. #NHPolitics pic.twitter.com/SCRdwVZVkH

— Sidewalk Steve (@Sidewalk_Steve) February 7, 2024

In a recent Union Leader op-ed NH Democrat Reps Nicholas Germana, David Paige, and Angela Brennan assured us that none of the challenged books qualify as pornography or “remotely fit well-established definitions of obscenity.” But if illustrations depicting oral sex and passages about anal sex don’t qualify as pornography, then what does? This isn’t a slippery slope, it’s a free-fall.

There must be no limit to what little children should be exposed to, according to the ALA’s policy statement “Access to Library Resources and Services for Minors.” The ALA “opposes all attempts to restrict access to library services, materials, and facilities based on the age of library users. The policy insists that:

Children and young adults unquestionably possess First Amendment rights, including the right to receive information through the library in print, sound, imagery data, and social media.

Libraries won’t compromise with concerned parents, whom Drabinski describes as an “angry white mob.” The ALA’s book-challenge process is stacked. The guidelines state that the materials can’t be judged based on just one part, such as an explicit passage or illustration, and instruct the trustees to consider reviews from ALA-approved journals.

Things could get worse. New Hampshire House Bill 1311 would make it a crime to remove materials that promote sexual fetishes and gender ideology from school libraries, no matter how false or explicit.

Opposing such bills is important but inadequate. States and municipalities should follow the leads of Alabama, Wyoming, Missouri, Texas, and Florida, sever ties with the ALA, and join the World Library Association. Taxpayers should defund their libraries.

For those of us in Democrat-controlled cities, the best we can do is keep speaking up. Although the librarians and trustees won’t hear us, they deserve to be embarrassed. Many moms and dads will get the message and avoid an institution that confuses and indoctrinates children and sets them on the path to irreversible medical harm.

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If the Trans-Cult didn’t have bad luck this year, it’d have no luck at all. Those who profit financially or ideologically from confusing young kids and getting them on hormone blockers as soon as possible keep getting kicked in the rhetorical head.

From the UK to France, the WPATH Files to Pediatrician Organizations, 2024 has been rough for the Trans-Cult, and the Netherlands just piled on.

The majority of gender-confused children grow out of that feeling by the time they are fully grown adults, according to a long-term study.

Researchers in the Netherlands tracked more than 2,700 children from age 11 to their mid-twenties, asking them every three years of feelings about their gender. But by age 25, just one-in-25 (4 percent) said they ‘often’ or ‘sometimes’ were discontent with their gender.

The researchers concluded: ‘The results of the current study might help adolescents to realize that it is normal to have some doubts about one’s identity and one’s gender identity during this age period and that this is also relatively common.’

It has been known for a very long time that just like dinosaurs or space, kids who wondered a bit about their sexuality before they understood anything about it grew out of it. It was a phase. It is a curious “finding yourself” moment that, for a super-majority of children, fades away, after which they feel both comfortable, safe, and happy in their “birth” bodies.

The gender cult ignored that, but this new research is a problem for anyone pushing hormone blockers on minors. They are dangerous, can lead to cancer, and are deadly. But they are the prerequisite to genital mutilation surgery, a rising flow of cash advocates will not want to abandon. But if most kids grow out of it, if ust leave them alone, what now?

Thanks to these Netherlands researchers, the question now is: should doctors be required to inform parents of potentially transgender kids about this study, especially when talking about invasive interventions like puberty blockers and surgeries?

I’m picturing a construction paper display on a class or hallway bulletin board. It’s got colors, pictures, data, and bits of research; wondering about gender is normal, and almost everyone grows out of it. You don’t need to take (hormone) drugs for the rest of your life or suffer the discomfort of surgery you will very likely later regret. Maybe a few quotes from doctors about how there’s no proof the treatments help and the risks like cancer or death.

No, we won’t be seeing that, but how about this? Legislators, school boards, parents, and others can ask why states like New Hampshire prohibit therapists and other kids look to for advice from daring to suggest they will gro out of it. It’s not conversion therapy. It’s… therapy. Doctors, therapists, counselors, and even teachers should be required not just to tell parents that their kids are expressing some gender dysphoria but that, based on “new” research, if they are supportive, they may (will probably) grow out of it.

Do you know what else would help? Stop with the 24/7/365 gender-cult recruitment dogma. If most kids grow out of it, the constant attention it gets is doing more harm than good, assuming this is actually about mental health and healthy kids.

Given all the revelations in recent months, more Lawsuits seem likely.

 

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Ted Gatsas had barely turned his horse and begun to ride off into the sunset when … LOOK AT ME! LOOK AT ME! EVERYBODY LOOK AT ME!!! perpetual candidate and perpetual general-election loser Robert Burns politi-bombed the scene. The question now becomes will GOP voters in Gatsas’ Executive Council District hand the seat to the Democrats by nominating the clearly unelectable Burns.

The NHGOP is NOT going to win elections by nominating the same candidates who have been rejected by the voters over and over and over again. This is NOT Joe Kenney’s District One. This is the Executive Council District that repeatedly elected Chris Pappas (2013 – 2019).

So the choice, bitter-clingers, is whether you want to win the general election, which requires nominating a new candidate … one who the voters have NOT repeatedly rejected… or whether you want to be represented by a Democrat.

And, dear bitter-clingers, I am NOT telling you what to do. I’m just telling you the consequences. Do what you wish. Believe what you wish.

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A few days from now, beheaded mythical creatures, absent a body, will swallow the Sun only to have it reappear shortly after. Roughly three minutes, give or take.

In some ancient cultures, a dragon (puma, bear, or wolf) swallows the Sun, relenting only after the people whose myth it is perform a preordained rite or ritual.

One source cited a Choctaw legend in which a black squirrel (Funi Lusa) gnaws on the Sun.

And it is not just in what passes for modern America that you are told not to look directly at the Sun. Navajo elders have long advised against it. Instead, put a hole in a piece of paper or a paper plate and look at the dot of light it projects onto another surface to watch the moon’s shadow advance over good old Sol (until it is actually safe to look up at the eclipse). Okay, that was my 6th grade teacher, Mrs. Hoag.

These stories exist from every culture (dragons and bears, not paper plates), and like most mythology, they share similar threads tied to common beliefs that manifest in different forms. People, wherever they may be, whatever environmental, social, or other factors, are still people. But my favorite solar eclipse lore is less mythological and more practical. It is attributed to Transylvania, in which the angry Sun turns away and covers herself with darkness in response to men’s bad behavior. 

Congress is full of them, including men in the general sense of mankind, which includes women’s bad behavior—their idolatry of the cause at the expense of common sense but with a common purpose: to centralize decision-making inside the 61.4 square miles of Washington, DC. A much smaller part of that, to be sure. An object, tiny compared to the heaving masses of a nation but capable of blocking out all of their light.

We must do something about that, you and I, and it is not a topic new to these pages. Changes must be made, and we can’t expect much from the heart of darkness 493 miles from Concord, New Hampshire (or whatever driving distance separates your state capital from Congress). The Federal government is powerless against the states if they are themselves not committed to their own sovereignty and protecting that of their people. That is why they exist.

We’ve had a saying around these parts for a while: Screw DC, Save New Hampshire. It sounds good, and while we have made small strides, Republicans continue to prove themselves lighter versions of Democrats instead of stalwart defenders of those who elevated them to state office. New Hampshire keeps taking federal money and then lying about obligations to their sugar DC daddy. They are whoring us out, and not just us but our children and grandchildren.

Not the national debt, though that is the voting rights issue of our time. Millions yet born slaved to a generation of spending that burdened them without a voice. Not that. I’m referring to the obligations created by state budgets filled with DC money backed by that federal debt. When the feds fail, and at this rate, they inevitably will, all that “free” money stops. If you’ve created a society in which promises cannot be kept unless you now tax the crap out of the locals, you were never all that low tax to begin with.

Will we shout until the Sun emerges from behind that dark object of deception so that the false vision is burned out by the rays of truth? I know it’s a bit heavy on the metaphor, but as candidates campaign for governor, we should consider asking how they plan to protect us from that disaster and if it has ever occurred to them.

And not just how we stop racing toward more dependency but how we claw some of our independence back.

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Sometimes, heroes arise in the most unlikely manner. Who could have predicted that Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) would become the voice of reason in the Democrat ranks and show support for the Republican Immigration bill, HR-2, that has been locked in Chuck Schumer’s desk since it passed the House on May 13, 2023.

Though he is not ready to sign off on the totality of the House bill, he calls the bill a solid framework to achieve the secure border that Donald Trump gave to Joe Biden in 2021. Republicans need to work with Fetterman to grow support for HR-2 in the Senate, force Majority Leader Schumer to do his job, and put the bill on the floor for debate and a vote.

Conservatives were appalled in 2020 when the Democrat Party allowed stroke victim Fetterman to remain on the ballot against Republican candidate Dr. Oz. The voters of Pennsylvania chose Fetterman to represent them in the Senate, but they also re-elected Representative Anthony DeLuca, even though he had died a month before the election. We all thought that the Key State voters had lost their collective minds. To his credit, Fetterman has overcome the effects of his stroke and a lengthy battle with debilitating depression. Against all odds, Fetterman has become a voice of centrist reason in Congress.

Fetterman’s support for HR-2, which he qualified with some exceptions, drew praise from hardline Republican Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX). Todd Pergram of FOX News spoke to Roy, who said, “The new and improved Fetterman can wear whatever he wants, if he keeps talking like that… I’m glad to see him talking about ‘hey, there’s some provisions in HR 2 that would actually do the job.'” Roy’s praise referred to the longstanding criticism of Fetterman by Republicans over the Senator regularly wearing shorts and a hoodie.

Fetterman is a big man with a growing presence in Washington. The reason for that new popularity is the Senator is a counter to the Radical Left that has been loud and center stage for eight years. The WOKE Radical Left may finally be losing traction. Whether the Transgender issue or the support of Hamas and the Palestinians that pushed too far, there are signs the support is waning or ambivalence is setting in. Neither of these scenarios is good news for the Democrats.

Fetterman is on board with working with Republicans to secure the border. This thinking is at a time when bipartisan is a word that might be cut from most dictionaries. He also has been very vocal about removing corrupt Senator Bob Melendez, who is under investigation for the same laws that Joe Biden is guilty of violating. He is also an avid supporter of Israel and condemns the Radical Squad members for turning their backs on Israel. This is all excellent news for Republicans but alarming for Democrats. If members of Congress start moving back towards the center, Joe Biden will have a decision to make. Does he stick with the Left and roll the dice on the election, or does he grab onto that big man from Pennsylvania and get a free ride to the mainstream middle?

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Sometimes, I choose a title, and that’s how it’s published. Sometimes, management alters it at its discretion. Sometimes, I submit a piece and call it “untitled,” thus letting the editor finish the job for me. There are a variety of reasons and one of them has to do with the enjoyment of pretending I’m Howie Carr or Ed Mosca, but today’s literary inspiration is Victor Davis Hanson.

That’s why I’m calling this article “The Case for Nurse Terese,” so let’s get started, shall we?

The CASE

I’m not here to discuss the not-so-recently dropped criminal charges against her and her codefendants but the case for why she should be the one to replace retiring Executive Councilor Ted Gatsas, who made his announcement yesterday.  But first, I feel the urge to point out the similarity between the opening up of seats belonging to Annie Kuster and Ted Gatsas. Readers might ask why I would compare a Concord office to a federal office, one branch of government to another, or two elected officials from opposing parties, but the answer has to do with the 10 Water Street brass.

The removal of Annie Kuster was never on Chris Ager’s to-do list; hence his lack of interest in 50% of NH being properly served in Washington. You can read more in my recent article promoting support for early bird entrant Lily Tang Williams here and please donate if you haven’t done so already.  “And just like that,” with a picture of Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump, there was 10 Water Street interest in recruiting some primary congressional candidates after Annie announced her retirement last Wednesday.

Similar to General Bolduc and Lily, Terese has been planning her candidacy right along, though, without much glamorous fanfare.  She’s been an outspoken critic of Ted Gatsas and his need to be primaried.  She walked the walk in addition to talking the talk as she did, in fact, primary him in the last election and received a good chunk of the votes. I don’t have numbers, but anyone interested in them is encouraged to visit Sec. of State Scanlan’s office. She also ran her 2022 race with little to no resources (funds, name recognition, and perks that private citizens don’t have at their disposal). Consider 2022 a practice run for Terese.

Switching from Tom Hanks to Bill Murray, it’s like Groundhog Day all over again at 10 Water Street because there is a sudden interest in Ted Gatsas’ seat, and it includes some household names.  Filing time is two months from now, so anything could happen, and the playing field for the primary could get crowded.  In an effort to keep things short here, I won’t get into attacking other candidates at this time because there will be plenty of opportunities to do that in follow-up articles.

However, there’s one exception, but only if it’s even considered an attack, and that’s Ryan Terrell, and only because he didn’t waste any time throwing his hat in the ring.  I would even surmise that the seat wasn’t even on his radar and perhaps Chris Ager, Stepanek, or one of their henchmen recruited him. Anyone interested in verifying that is encouraged to do so and report back.

Ryan, who is presently the GOP vice chair, is formerly of Nashua. Living in Clock Tower at the time when Comrade Andru Volinsky called him a token and arranged for the blocking of his Board of Education nomination made him eligible to run for state rep in Nashua’s famous Ward 4.  Ryan received lots of big-name establishment endorsements, and locals (myself included) were rooting for him as he was fundraising and campaigning whether or not they voted in Ward 4.  Ward 1’s Tom Lanzara was the only decent Nashua rep candidate that made it across the finish line, but Ryan since got renominated and approved (presumably 4-1 with Warmington dissenting) to the original appointment.

Please email the EC secretary, Meagan Rose, if you care to look into that vote.

I didn’t see or hear much from Ryan in the months and years following his taking office, but in all fairness, I had left Facebook and wasn’t an education watchdog or activist regularly trying to make contact with him.  What I later learned, perhaps as recently as last year, is that Ryan moved from Nashua to Lee.  What I also learned during the Dover “school library lewdness crisis” is that the Board of Education has five districts.  Though I haven’t done my due diligence, it stands to reason that BoE districting is like that of the Executive Council, and Ryan has been, therefore, representing Nashua (aka Wheeler’s EC district in the BoE) from Lee(Gatsas’s EC district in the BoE).

Let it be known that I don’t know exactly when Ryan moved or how soon a notice of moving is required. Keep in mind that in other government bodies, such as the House, failure to report a move outside the district being elected to serve is a problem. Look up Troy Merner if you need an example.  If someone would like to do some RTK inquiries on voter registration, mail forwarding, or change of address with the Registry, the sharing of findings is strongly encouraged.

So, to say it another way, regarding these 2 candidates for Ted Gatsas’s seat, how long has Ryan had to familiarize himself with the district he wants to represent? Terese has been a long-time Loudon resident and the length of Ryan’s residency in Lee matters. If he’s lived there long enough to be eligible for office there, then why is he still representing Nashua in the BoE?

I recognize that I took a real side trip in my discussion of Ryan and I welcome his comments in the public square, but let’s get back to Terese because this article is supposed to be about HER candidacy.

Terese’s compass always points to doing the next right thing. She has a passion for helping “kids in the system.” Ask her about The Forgotten Ministry. I am NOT a Bible scholar by any stretch of the imagination, but I am certain that she will credit God for her desire to answer the call to serve others.  Before becoming a nurse, she had a resume rich in project management and has been a regular attendee at EC meetings once charges against her were dropped.

Did you know that 20 months of tormenting lawfare had her bail conditions like that of a restraining order against a violent criminal? Terese is so committed to keeping an eye on the EC that pending charges against her were no deterrent from supervising Ted Gatsas. Needless to say, he works for her, and she is presently his boss. Now it’s her turn to work for him (and Ryan Terrell, as well as the rest of EC District 4).

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In a world where the overpaid diversity officers of large outfits drive policy based on some perception of social justice, it’s easy to trip over both left feet. Take Mass General Brigham Hospital. They just announced that they will no longer “report babies who are born with drugs in their system to child welfare.”

Because it is not in the welfare interests of the child? Of course not. It is because it “disproportionately affects Black people.”

UNREAL. The Mass General Brigham Hospital system will no longer report babies who are born with d*rugs in their system to child welfare because it “disproportionately affects Black people.”

Reporting child neglect is now racist. pic.twitter.com/JWUG1f50mW

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) April 3, 2024

It sounds to me like Mass Brigham just implied that more black people abuse drugs. Where’s the social justice in that?

Racists.

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In his latest 4-D chess move the former CEO of America, Donald Trump, has managed to get Democrats to defend the Bible.  Despite years and decades of mocking the most Holy Book while flat out defying its clear commandments, the Democrat party had a sudden change of heart upon hearing the King of the Solarverse, Donald Trump, is selling them for the economy-adjusted price of just $60.

Among those criticizing the Potent Patriarch are such religiously devout secularists as Raphael Warnock (Sen. – GA).

“The Bible does not need Donald Trump’s endorsement,” Warnock, the pastor of Atlanta’s historic Ebenezer Baptist church, said to CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday.  Speaking on Transgender Visibility Day (formerly Easter), one of the Democrat Party’s holiest celebrations next to the other 117 sexidays, Warnock added: “It’s a risky bet because the folks who buy those Bibles might actually open them up, where it says things like thou shalt not lie, thou shalt not bear false witness, where it warns about wolves dressed up in sheep’s clothing.”   However Warnock might heed his own warnings.  As the Bible says, those who wear glasses around the house should not get stoned, or some such proverbial truthiness.  The never sheepish Warnock apparently was unclear on the Bible’s injunction for “husbands (to) love your wives”(Ephesians 5:25) as he deliberately ran over his wife’s foot following an argument about a woman’s right to choose to collect delinquent child-support payments. 

Not to be outdone the Biden Administration declared the holiest day in Christendom will now be recognized as Transgender Visibility Day.  Former Vice President Joe Biden is a man known for his devout Catholic piety.  From swimming in his garden of Eden suit in front of female Secret Service agents to his unutterable reverence for “you know the Thing”, Joe Biden is practically a choir boy among men.  Where the Lord was known to say “keep not the little children from me” (Matt 19:14) Joe Biden is a man after God’s own heart, and His small children, laying his hands on them like a faith healer during an end-of-the-month fundraiser. Like Trump he is also fairly squeamish when it comes to picking a favorite Bible verse but prefers to keep his faith private.  One shining example of his privacy and extreme humility is this article about how humble he is with pictures and videos so everyone can see for themselves.  “It’s like that one passage where Jesus talks about being rewarded for PDA’s to God or something like that?  He’s so righteous.  He’s so righteous he’s lefteous!” says long time donor Thomas Foolery.

Accusations of Trump being a false prophet were also levied by former congressmen and false Republican Adam Kinzinger who took to X to warn the easily fleeced public:

“The fact that Donald is now selling Bibles is proof that he’s a false prophet for profit. Pastors beware: you will be held to account for how you led your people. Trump is an abomination to God and our country”

From his Truth Social platform the President of Bibles shot back:

“LITTLE ADAM KINZINGER WOULDN’T KNOW A PROFIT IF HE HAD NANCY PELOSI’S FINANCIAL ADVISOR!  WHAT A LOSER THAT GUY IS!  HE’S SO DUMB HE PROBABLY THINKS THE BOOK OF JOB IS ABOUT EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES!  TOTAL RINO!”

He then shared his most recent bank statement that showed a deposit for just north of $3 billion dollars thanks to his IPO earnings from Truth Social before lobbing one final holy hand-grenade of a tweet:

“CHRIST IS KING!”

Adam wept.

 

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TGIF!

To all those who are sending in memes, thank you!  Many, many good ones!  Please do share this post, and if you share an individual meme, consider mentioning you saw it on the Grok!

Speaking of, from this week, Monday Edition and Wednesday Edition.  Also check out my latest Israel-focused meme & commentary post if this is a subject of interest to you.

 

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OK, in one of those prove-me-wrong moments, I speculate that Google was actually ALWAYS an information-gathering tool for the TLAs, and that it turned out profitable was a pleasant surprise for them.  Same with FB and others.

 

 

 

 

The longer I observe, the more I am coming to believe that one cannot get elected to anything “serious” without varied powerful interest shadow groups having some form of kompromat over you.

 

 

 

Understand that, OOH, it’s barbaric.  OTOH, when violence is the currency of the profession, violence in return can be a very powerful tool.  Who here remembers this:

KGB Reportedly Gave Arab Terrorists a Taste of Brutality to Free Diplomats – Los Angeles Times (latimes.com)

The KGB then apparently kidnaped and killed a relative of an unnamed leader of the Shias’ Hezbollah (Party of God) group, a radical, pro-Iranian group that has been suspected of various terrorist activities against Western targets in Lebanon.

Parts of the man’s body, the paper said, were then sent to the Hezbollah leader with a warning that he would lose other relatives in a similar fashion if the three remaining Soviet diplomats were not immediately released. They were quickly freed.

The newspaper quoted “observers in Jerusalem” as saying: “This is the way the Soviets operate. They do things–they don’t talk. And this is the language Hezbollah understands.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I remember when my wife took her oath of citizenship.  She was beaming, smiling.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Never mind the fact these things – to my knowledge – can’t be recycled.

 

 

 

 

 

Early on my son had this done.  Never again.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA

 

 

 

You must grasp this to your core.  For the vast majority of the Jab pushers, there will be no What have we done? moment.  They will gaslight you – they will gaslight themselves – rather than jeopardize their paychecks or admit they were wrong.

But without admission, without remorse, there can be no forgiveness either.

 

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

 

Moonbattery Surgical Sexual Mutilation Gets Even More Surreal – Moonbattery

If Hashem doesn’t do something soon, then He owes Sodom and Gomorrah an apology.  Related:

15 Year Study: Vast Majority Of Children Grow Out Of Gender Confusion | ZeroHedge

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The Beepocalypse Has Been Canceled – HotAir

Good news!

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BREAKING: After Draining Strategic Petroleum Reserve to Lowest Level in 40 Years, Biden CANCELS Plan to Refill it Because Oil is “Way Too Expensive” | The Gateway Pundit | by Cristina Laila

Just for this alone The Potato needs to be removed from office.

 

 

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Fact Check: Biden’s Myth of the Lowest Crime Rate in 50 Years – Daniel Greenfield / Sultan Knish Articles at DanielGreenfield.org

While Biden has a history of making things up, this particular one has been slowly making its way through the media which is also composed of the only people who could possibly believe it.

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Social Media for Women – Liberty’s Torch (libertystorch.info)

I think it’s crack for everyone.

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JUST IN: Production Halted At Texas Plant Of Country’s Largest Fresh Egg Producer * 100PercentFedUp.com * by Danielle

Not local, but still worrying.  Related:

Cowdemic: Cattle Infected with ‘Super Bird Flu’ Now Detected in 6 States (legalinsurrection.com)

New Bird Flu Scare: Psy Op Or The Real Deal? | The Gateway Pundit | by Promoted Post

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Dying Japan: Diaper Maker Stops Making Products for Babies, Switches to Aged Adults – The Lid (lidblog.com)

Like many Western countries, Japan has a severe birth dearth.

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Three survival-related links:

EMP-Proofing Myths No One Ever Told You – Ask a Prepper

I take whatever-it-is, wrap it in foil, then a zipper plastic bag.  Wrap that in foil, then another plastic bag.  Then that gets labeled, and into a galvanized steel trash can.  Is this truly perfect and guaranteed, no, but it’s probably as good as I can get on my budget.

9 Signs You Might Be on FEMA’s List – Ask a Prepper

20 Medicinal Herbs Every Prepper Must Grow – Ask a Prepper

Shelter Mistakes That Can Get You Killed – Ask a Prepper

Related:

Prepping 101: The Step-by-Step Guide to Surviving Global Chaos | NC Renegades

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Bayou Renaissance Man: Things are getting very dangerous in the Middle East

Some may not like my support of Israel, and that’s their decision.  But here’s the kicker: you may not be interested in war with Iran.  Iran is interested in war with you.  Because in Shiite Islam, their version of the messiah can’t come UNTIL there’s a global conflagration.  So to you, WWIII is a bug to be avoided while to them, it’s a feature to be desired.

Understand that Islam is a 1400 year old mass murder machine.

The Greatest Murder Machine in History – American Thinker

That’s before the US ever existed.  Remember what the Muslim ambassador said to our entreaties to not attack American ships?

Jefferson Versus the Muslim Pirates | U.S. First Islamic Confrontation (city-journal.org)

Iran is at war with the West, but only Israel is fighting back (telegraph.co.uk)

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Bayou Renaissance Man: Remember our warnings about the price of beef?

All part of the plan.

No Meat for You | NC Renegades

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With $20 trillion between them, Blackrock and Vanguard could own almost everything by 2028 | Financial Post

More:

CulturalHusbandry on X: “Thread. Blackrock is buying every single family house they can find, paying 20-50% above asking price and outbidding normal home buyers. Why are corporations, pension funds and property investment groups buying… https://t.co/uTagTOQQgI” / X (twitter.com)

You’ll own nothing and be happy.

This Robot Already Owns Everything (And it’s just getting started) : Blackrock Aladdin (youtube.com)

MONOPOLY – Who owns the world? [MUST SEE] (rumble.com)

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Top Virologist Warns ‘Massive Tsunami’ of ‘Death’ among Vaccinated Is ‘Imminent’ – Slay News

Top Pathologist: Cancers Spread ‘Like Wildfire’ after Covid Shots – Slay News

Please understand that I don’t want this to happen – with a few notable Covidian exceptions – but…

Caddyshack – Well? We’re Waiting (youtube.com)

More on the virus and the Jab:

Federal Judge Forces CDC To Disclose 780,000 Previously Hidden COVID-19 Jab Adverse Event Entries * 100PercentFedUp.com * by Danielle

Rancher Blows Whistle: mRNA Vaccines Pumped into Livestock to ‘Ultimately Destroy Us’ – Slay News

In bed with big pharma: Corruption fears as report finds US doctors received record $12bn in pharma payments in past decade | Daily Mail Online

Moderna Unveils mRNA Vaccines to Treat Side Effects of Covid Shots – Geller Report

Massive Clots found in Cadavers Around the Globe (Podcast) | Sharyl Attkisson

New survey confirms that vaccines are, by far, the #1 cause of chronic disease in America (kirschsubstack.com)

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Every NATO Country Already Has Troops In Ukraine, Estonia Says | ZeroHedge

Dangerously, this shows that little by little, inch by inch, nuclear armed superpowers are at this rate continuously moving toward direct conflict in Ukraine.

Blinken Says Ukraine ‘Will Be a Member of NATO’ Because, Hey, Cool, WWIII – PJ Media

That 1938 Feeling…A scent of trouble in the air – Flopping Aces

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Lawyer George Conway who convinced E Jean Carroll to sue Trump gives nearly $1 MILLION to Biden campaign | The Post Millennial | thepostmillennial.com

Making a strong argument for limiting such contributions.

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More Details Have Come to Light About Feds’ Surveillance of Everyone That Watched Certain YouTube Videos (reclaimthenet.org)

Every move you take they’ll be watching you.

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Ex-ESPN Host Spills: Company Brass Carefully Scripted Her Questions to Biden (newsbusters.org)

No matter how much you hate the enemedia, it’s not enough.

 

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I recently filed two Attorney Discipline Office complaints, one against Attorney Hilliard and another against Attorney Bolton for failing to provide me with a properly and equitably marked exhibit book for a December 2023 Trial in which I am seeking records on the downtown barriers and the Nashua Performing Arts Center.

The City has hired high-powered outside counsel to defeat me in this request for public information. The City has retained McLean Middleton to represent two shell corporations established by the City to funnel public money into a private corporation for the Art Center and Attorney Russ Hilliard to represent the interests of the City. Attorney Bolton, Attorney Leonard, and now newly hired Attorney Barnes are also on the case. There have been five city attorneys in this case, and now, six against me, while I have no legal representation. To date, the City has spent almost $400,000 on this case. This City has many records to hide on the Nashua Arts Center, as it appears the City misused and committed fraudulent acts with public money.

The first three days of the Trial were in December, and the rules for submitting evidence required that the plaintiff mark the exhibits with numbers and the defendants mark their exhibits with letters. This rule is designed to clarify who produced what exhibits.

At the trial management conference, the City’s books were not marked properly, and the Judge ordered the City to redo their books to comply with Court rules. How could attorneys collectively with over 150 years of experience not properly mark exhibit books?

When Ortolano received her exhibit book, which the Court ordered redone, it did not contain the index and the letter markings to identify each exhibit. The City gave all of the parties at the defense table, the Judge, and the court stenographer books that were organized with a letter identifier for each exhibit. However, my book was double-sided printed and numerically Bates-stamped with no alphabetized page separators.

The City deliberately produced this book in this format to make it more cumbersome for me to reference the exhibits during the Trial. I would have to flip between pages to determine whether the exhibit I referred to was A, B, or C. The City deliberately took the time to create a “unique” book for me.

When the December Trial began, I put this issue before Judge Temple and noted my concern that the City did not properly mark my exhibit book. I carried in an example of a city exhibit book from a past trial and showed the Judge that, in the past, the City did comply with the Court’s rule for marking exhibits. Judge Temple remained silent on the issue, but during the Trial, he offered me the use of the Court’s book to more easily reference the exhibits I wanted to present to my witnesses and the Court. I refused to accept the City’s improperly marked exhibits. This resulted in one full day of the Trial being wasted on a page-by-page review and acceptance of the City’s exhibits.

These underhanded and dirty tricks done by high-powered yet dishonorable attorneys have no place in the courtroom. But in reality, they do when a judge is in the pocket of a city. Judge Temple has not been impartial or given me the expedited fair Trial I was to be afforded by the Constitution and due process rules. The tactics of the Court run up the cost and prevent citizens from affording representation. I have worked hard to open records in Nashua while going up against the single most corrupt enterprise in the State of New Hampshire—the New Hampshire Judicial system.

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The confidence artists doing business as Vermont’s Democratic majority legislature have crafted a bill it thinks will make Big Oil pay for environmental damage which it claims is the result of years of detrimental emissions.

It’s a polluter-pays model affecting companies engaged in the trade or business of extracting fossil fuel or refining crude oil attributable to more than 1 billion metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions during the time period. The funds could be used by the state for such things as upgrading stormwater drainage systems; upgrading roads, bridges and railroads; relocating, elevating or retrofitting sewage treatment plants and making energy efficient weatherization upgrades to public and private buildings.

I’m no lawyer, but I don’t think this will work. It is ex post facto and, therefore, unconstitutional. The actual emissions are the result of Vermonters (and everyone else, including the government and its lawyers) choosing to pay for and use fossil fuels for their own productivity, comfort, and enjoyment.

I’d go so far as to suggest that there is evidence the government (in some cases) demanded – under some earlier iteration of what we today call social justice – that utility companies ensure customers can use their products (electricity, gas, oil) to (in their current view) pollute the planet.

Isn’t that a little bit like suing Jack Daniels because a bartender didn’t take an “overserved” customer’s keys at the State House office party in 1972?

Under the legislation, the Vermont state treasurer, in consultation with the Agency of Natural Resources, would provide a report by Jan. 15, 2026, on the total cost to Vermonters and the state from the emission of greenhouse gases from Jan. 1, 1995, to Dec. 31, 2024.

The assessment would look at the (sp) affects on public health, natural resources, agriculture, economic development, housing and other areas.

Did Vermont not regulate equipment to burn fossil fuels or license its installers? Were there state inspections or fees to affirm and abet the proper burning of fossil fuels, or – and this is a fun one – didn’t the state make bank on the practice, thereby approving it? And if the government is so much smarter than anyone else, why didn’t they know better? How is this the energy companies’ fault and not the regulators and politicians in government who allowed it?

And if extraction and processing justify a fine for enviro-malfeasance leading to a global state of weather-related harm, shouldn’t Vermont fine China for not just burning dirty coal but all of its environmentally catastrophic Rare Earth Metal and mineral Mining in Southeast Asia and Africa, to replace fossil fuels. India, Africa, the oil emirates, Iran, and Russia too.

Why wait another 100 years? We know the mining for metals needed to make “green” energy is as bad or worse for the environment as are the end-of-life leftovers from wind, solar, and EVs.

Vermont’s Kobayashi Maru

The Kobayashi Maru was an infamous no-win scenario test for command-track cadets at Starfleet Academy in the Star Trek series. It measures character under pressure, and this is just a guess, but Vermont’s Democratic Legislature is not only going to fail theirs but look bad doing it.

If you were the type to take advice (and you are not), I’d avoid specifically making claims about the 2023 flooding. Vermont gets a rainwater beatdown every ten to twenty years, going back more than a century. As in, before you invented the emissions scam and long before CO2—your alleged evidence—was anywhere near a level you currently associate with the damage for which you seek restitution. Related: Vermont Warns Residents About Flood-Related Scams, Fails to Mention Its Own Fraud

The Environmental lawyers seem to think they’ll win, and they will. Vermont will spend a fortune paying them to defend this, possibly up to the US Supreme Court, where their odds are almost nil they win—assuming it gets that far. This sort of lawsuit—and Vermont will get sued—will bring forth all manner of discovery, which—despite their tunnel-vision confidence in their serial fraud—is not in their favor.

If emissions are harming people, it can’t just be in Vermont. This means you need to explain not only the frequency of similar events long before modern-era emissions but also any absence of similar effects in places elsewhere on Planet Earth. Good luck, but why not just tell the truth? This is about your incompetent stewardship of the people and their hard-earned dollars.

Vermont’s legislative con artists are only interested in finding a way to bilk someone else to pay for things they want, and they’ve so overtaxed their own citizens that asking for more might start a revolt.

 

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Literally, and I quote, on the floor of the House following a vote to make Vermont the state with the highest corporate taxes in the nation, Progressive Democrat Brian Cina of Burlington took up the microphone and told Vermonters, “Read my lips: Yes! New taxes!” Cina’s — what should we call it?

Attitude?… Promise?… Threat? — is characteristic of the Dem/Prog supermajority under the Golden Dome. He/they mean it!

It’s not just the corporate tax they’re jacking up; it’s the 20 percent property tax increase they just slammed us with, the new $100 million payroll tax that kicks in in July, the 20 percent hike in DMV fees that started in January, the 70 cent per gallon home heating carbon tax that’s coming after 2025, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg. They’re also looking at sales tax increases and/or expansions, a tax on internet software, a sweetened beverage tax, a Clean Transportation carbon tax on gas and diesel to go along with the Clean Heat carbon tax, the Renewable Energy Standard bill that just passed the House will add as much as a billion to our electric bills, an income tax surcharge that would give Vermont one of the highest marginal income tax rates in the country while kicking in at one of the lowest income thresholds.

This is not a new phenomenon. As Republican Representative Scott Beck (R-St. Johnsbury) of the Ways & Means Committee noted, “In the last ten years, personal income tax receipts in the state of Vermont have grown 54%, sales tax receipts have increased by 65%, and property taxes have increased by 53%. Corporate income tax has nearly tripled in the last ten years. And yet, we’re being told we don’t have enough money.”

All of this is, of course, on top of inflationary impacts on household budgets: rising costs for food, energy, labor, vehicles, etc. that are also making it harder for folks to make ends meet.

So, what do Vermont Republicans have to say to these greedy, tax-happy, endless spenders of other people’s money on ideological boondoggles? GET REAL!

A couple of weeks ago the VTGOP dropped an op-ed outlining what the GET REAL agenda for a hypothetical Republican majority would be:

G.E.T.  R.E.A.L. is a solemn promise and a positive path forward for our state by Vermont Republicans focused on improving the quality of life of our people. It is a prescription of policy proposals that includes: G.lobal Warming Solutions Act reform, recalibrating the law to reflect realistic and affordable goals; E.ducation reform, refocusing our schools’ mission back to excellence in core subjects; T.ransportation and infrastructure with a priority for fixing our roads; R.egulatory reform to lower the cost of housing; E.nvironmental protection initiatives focused on protecting and preserving our natural resources and landscapes; A.ffordability and tax reform to lower costs for working Vermonters; and restoring L.aw and order in our communities.

Yesterday they dropped another essay explaining in more detail what the “G” item in GET REAL would entail. (If you missed it elsewhere, you can read the full piece HERE.) I am looking forward to the rest of the series as it unfolds!

So far, I’d say this is a terrific, common-sense approach to connecting with Vermont voters. “GET REAL” perfectly encapsulates the feeling most of us get when the Democrats put forward one of their whakadoodle, multi-billion-dollar ideological schemes that is never going to work but will cost us massively in higher taxes and negative economic impact. (Remember Single Payer Healthcare? That was a fun waste of time and money! On to the Global Warming Solutions Act….)

GET REAL is also a meaningful call to action and the need to get serious about solving real problems facing real Vermonters in everyday life. We do, indeed, need to GET REAL about what needs to be done in these policy areas to garner results and who we need to elect in order to make that progress. Clearly, it’s not Democrats and Progressives.

Moreover, Vermonters seem ready to hear this message and respond to it. For example, at his most recent press conference, Phil Scott introduced Amanda Marie Shangraw, a third generation Vermonter and small businessperson. Her full remarks are riveting, and do watch the video below, but I’ll just share this summary clip:

I’m here today because I voted for a large majority of you, and I’m let down and hurting, and I’m defeated just like thousands of other Vermonters and small business owners…. I want to work and continue to create jobs and offer housing, and be a part of the solution, not the problem, but… Small businesses all around our state are folding, and I fear we might be next. These taxes are killing us. Please. Stop taxing the middle class, or in a year the middle-class won’t exist.

In other words, lawmakers, GET REAL!!! Get real about what normal people can realistically afford, what state government can realistically accomplish (and what it can’t), and the serious harm your policies are really doing to the rank-and-file citizens who are really the ones who make our state work.

But Republicans need to GET REAL about a few things too – and I’m talking to Republican voters, not just the party officials and activists. You can’t throw the bums out if no one steps up to replace them. You need field good, solid candidates for office running on the GET REAL message. A lot of them! And they need funding and volunteers to run those campaigns. Getting real takes real work. Let’s do it!

 

Rob Roper is a freelance writer with 20 years of experience in Vermont politics, including three years of service as chair of the Vermont Republican Party and nine years as President of the Ethan Allen Institute, Vermont’s free-market think tank. He is also a regular contributor to VermontGrok.

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Living in rural New Hampshire, even where the flatlanders roam, is very different from most urban settings. Most of America is like that, truly, so I’m not speaking to a fringe audience. But this is a group who, if not familiar with city living, has (hopefully) forgotten how different it is. For example, I live on a paltry 2.4 acres, give or take.

There are lots of trees (though fewer than when we bought the property). We have a yard big enough that I don’t look forward to mowing it and a keen understanding on a small scale of what happens when you don’t keep the jungle at bay.

What does that mean?

I had an acquaintance who claims to have spent some time in the Amazon (South America, not Seattle). They cleared a perimeter around their location away from a fence that didn’t stay that way for long if you didn’t keep it up. Daily, weekly, monthly, someone was clearing that land again and again, or the jungle would take it back. If you have any land at all, you’ll be familiar with the problem. The planet is eager to reclaim any swath of land you’ve cleared, no matter the reason and that’s something with which city-dwellers are unfamiliar.

Whacky concrete jungle environmentalists don’t get it either. Husbanding nature is a battle we are doomed to lose, and we could all save a lot of time and money if the focus were kept on specific incidents of industrial harm. All the money directed to fake global warming could roll back debt, pay reparations, help with “food insecurity,” and help house homeless vets (I’m not advocating reparations, by the way). Instead, we waste trillions on junk science – but I digress (hey, it’s a political blog, yes?).

If you don’t mow it (clear it, clip it, weed it), you are giving it back. Nature will begin to reclaim it immediately and take it over if you let her. Animals will move in, and in a few year’s time, that spot of land will be a copse, then woods, then forest.

My patch of nature is comprised of a decent mix of species. Oak, Maple, Chestnut, Sassafrass, Hemlock, Juniper, Beech, Birch, Poplar, and a few varieties of pine – White and Red. We’ve got plenty of Mountain Laurel, Wild Blueberry, Raspberries, and wild strawberries as well, but those are never the nuisance: the Oak (acorns in autumn) and the Pine, especially this spring. We’ve had what I call pinecone-mageddon. Massive acorn drops in the fall are not uncommon, but this 2023/2024 pinecone thing seems unprecedented in my thirty years in New Hampshire. There are pinecones everywhere, and the trees are not done. If I look up, there are massive clusters still clinging to the branches of both Red and Eastern White Pine.

What in the pinecone is going on, Batman? Stress, they say. If the trees have had a tough previous year or two prior, thy will respond with a massive seed drop. Drought is the easiest scapegoat, but insects are also a cause of stress, and we’ve had our share of pine borer beetles.

I looked back a few years at annual precipitation, and with the exception of 2020 (4 inches below the 100-year mean), we’ve had above-average precipitation year over year. 2021 and 2022 were two and one-half and three inches above normal, respectively, and 2023 was thirteen inches above the annual mean. Drought does not seem like a likely cause.

I did a bit of digging, and no one seems to have yet posted any explanation for this year’s bumper crop of pinecones, but it might be bugs. Every morning, when I bring the dog out to do his “duty,” I am serenaded. We’ve got two roosters within earshot. There has been a swelling in the number of birds and a growing chorus of woodpeckers. The latter is quite common, including small and large species, so that’s nothing new, but the number of peckers pecking has grown.

It’s better than the squirrel-mageddon that carpeted roadways in the fall of 2019, but does it explain all the pinecones?

No long-term weather stress. Annual rainfall totals have been at or above the norm, so there’s no solid evidence that this is the cause.

Pine borer beetles? Maybe. Bugs would explain the peckers, but there’s no shortage of pine trees or pinecones, so I’m at a loss for what it might be. They are everywhere (pinecones), and if you’ve got some thoughts, I’d love for you to share them.

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