Wednesday • May 8 • 2024
Vol.XVI • No.XIX
Manchester, N.H.
Dutch Lawyer Eva Vlaardingerbroek has chosen a side, as she’d say. She is speaking out in defense of Western populations and their cultures in an effort to wake people up about the elite’s commitment to erasing them.
When asked, “So, how do conservatives deal with this Catch-22 of not wanting to be replaced in their native countries, but also not wanting to be attacked with this term?” She reples,
You can’t. That’s the thing, you can’t. So you have to pick a side. Of course, you’re going to be attacked if you say, “Hey, this continent, Europe, has been predominantly White for the entirety of its history, and now suddenly within one generation, a few bureaucrats have decided against the will of the people that we should suddenly be a minority. Why do we agree with that, or why do we allow that to happen?” If you say that, you are going to be attacked.
But the only other option then you have is saying nothing and have it happen, so the choice is yours, and I’ve made my choice. I think there are many ways in which you can defend yourself, of course, against this ridiculous attack, so I’m sure that they’re going say about me that I’m a terrible racist again. No, that’s not true. I don’t think that any race is superior to another. I just think that mine is also not inferior to that of others.
Is she brave or crazy?
@EvaVlaar: “If we don’t start to fight for our continent, the time in which we live will go down in history as the time Western nations didn’t need to be invaded to be conquered. Our corrupt elite invited the invaders in!” #CPACHungary2024 pic.twitter.com/DmtQcXbFoU
— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) April 26, 2024
Her approach can be summed up from the interview headline, ‘Explain to me why we don’t have the right to exist?’
EXC: “The choice is yours and I’ve made mine!”@EvaVlaar tells Remix News she has accepted she will be attacked by the establishment for calling out attempts to make indigenous White Europeans a minority on their own continent.#CPACHungary2024 pic.twitter.com/faAE298zv3
— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) April 26, 2024
More here.
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It seems like we are enduring a constant kerfuffle over whether or not to extend the now-ended federally funded COVID-emergency “hotels for homeless” program with state tax dollars. Lots of them. Twenty million here, thirty million there….
The latest House budget proposal allocates a whopping $50 million. Clearly, Vermonters can’t afford this. But, as Ronald Reagan warned, there is nothing so close to immortal as a government program.
So, instead of pouring hundreds of millions of dollars year after year to put these 1500 individuals/families in a bunch of derelict motel-no-tells, how about we spend a fraction of that just one time to everyone’s benefit and be done with the problem? How? Buy these people a cruise ship!
I did the research!
We can get one listed on Yacht World for $33 million. That’s just the asking price. Surely, the state can use its influence to get an even better deal. It can accommodate over 3500 people, and according to the description in the classified ad,
Most recently refurbished in 2016, this 880 foot luxury cruise ship welcomes up to 2,767 guests and 912 crew members. Passengers [Those experiencing homelessness] can enjoy a rock climbing wall, a basketball court and a casino, plus four bars and multiple lounges. Guests can also choose from six dining venues. Ocean View and Suite cabins, all of which come outfitted with flat-screen TVs and minibars. Thanks to a dazzling, top to bottom renovation, this popular 880’ cruise ship is more majestic than ever. Guests [Those experiencing homelessness] will enjoy a newly remodeled pool deck, 2 pools, 4 hot tubs, expanded Day Spa & Fitness Center, plus tastefully refurbished staterooms, featuring luxurious bedding and eye-popping flat-screen TVs and more.
There IS more! Such as on-board medical/hospital facilities, a library, a conference center, laundry, and shopping venues.
What’s not to love? Park the thing in Burlington Bay or Shelburne Bay and leave them to it. I looked at the nautical charts and there’s plenty of space to accommodate the S.S. Bernie’s Mittens’ 28-foot draft. My idea; I get to name the boat!
Now, obviously the on-board Johnny Rockets and Café Latte-tudes aren’t going to continue operating following this change of mission for The Mittens, as she will affectionately be known, nor will the kiosks selling tacky clothing, commemorative key chains, and suntan lotion. But that infrastructure can be re-purposed and managed by the residents (or others, I suppose) for their own entrepreneurial enterprises. Open a convenience store… a salon… laundry service… a snack shack to serve the community. Put the inmates in charge of the operation and have them be responsible for the upkeep of their floating neighborhood.
If this idea works, great! We will have saved Vermont taxpayers tens of millions of dollars if not more, and we will have successfully provided not just shelter, but economic opportunities and the infrastructure for on-location support facilities for folks currently living in distress. If it doesn’t work and they end up just trashing the place, we can always take the thing out into the middle of the lake and turn it into an artificial reef for the benefit of marine life and SCUBA tourism — after disembarking the residents, of course. Maybe on the New York side.
The S.S. Bernie’s Mittens is currently berthed in Port Washington, New York. I bet we could have it here by Monday. Then maybe everyone could just shut the bleep up about this issue and can move along to solving the property tax crisis before the rest end up experiencing homelessness too.
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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The U.S. Supreme Court reversed a lower court ruling that blocked an Idaho law to protect children from irreversible procedures progressives tout as gender-affirming care for minors.
The question is, why did it take a SCOTUS ruling to prevent the transgender cult from harming American children?
Republican Idaho Gov. Brad Little signed HB 71 into law in April 2023, to the dismay of far-left activists. Little defended the bill, saying that he recognizes the role “society plays … in protecting minors from surgeries or treatments that can irreversibly damage their healthy bodies.”
#BREAKING: The Supreme Court votes 6-3 to allow Idaho to implement its Vulnerable Child Protection Act, which bans gender-affirming care for minors. Justices Sotomayor, Kagan & Jackson dissent from the decision. #SCOTUShttps://t.co/NOvJbbtIOb pic.twitter.com/nDSuaQZReV
— Katie Buehler (@bykatiebuehler) April 15, 2024
HB 71 made it a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison for anyone caught providing puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, or so-called gender-affirming surgery to minors. Predictably, the transgender cult immediately filed a lawsuit to block the bill from taking effect. The far-left American Civil Liberties Union brought the case on behalf of two families with children suffering from gender dysphoria.
“There is no justification for banning all gender-affirming medical care for young Idahoans with gender dysphoria,” Leo Morales, executive director of the ACLU of Idaho, said in a statement. “The ban prohibits care that the youth, their parents, and their doctors all agree is medically necessary, and which is supported by every major medical association in the U.S.”
The organization went on to say that HB 71 was part of a “trouble trend” to end so-called gender-affirming care in the nation. Clinton-appointed U.S. District Judge for the District of Idaho B. Lynn Winmill then granted a stay preventing HB 71 from being enforced.
“After carefully considering the voluminous evidence on this point, the court finds that the treatment for gender dysphoria — when provided in accordance with the guidelines published by (the World Professional Association for Transgender Health) and the Endocrine Society, and which may include medical interventions such as puberty blockers, hormone therapy, and surgeries — is safe, effective and medically necessary for some adolescents,” Winmill stated in the ruling.
Transition ruins lives. It ruined mine.
Transition ruined my health. Transition destroyed my endocrine system. Transition ruined my liver. Transition made me think I was infertile. Transition took away and incinerated my healthy breasts – and transition stole food from my baby.…
— Prisha (@detransaqua) April 17, 2024
Seriously, what is wrong with the adults in the room? Haven’t they heard the passionate cries from the thousands of detransitioners who were subjected to these treatments and now have to live with the life-long medical complications that resulted directly from these “treatments”?
Leaked documents from WPATH showed that it is impossible to give parents and their children informed consent regarding the effects of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and transgender surgeries. Despite their best propaganda to tell the world otherwise, these doctors admit that placing children on puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones is not a temporary change. Young boys put on puberty blockers often suffer from severely underdeveloped sexual organs. Both males and females suffer drastic bone density loss and impaired brain growth that leads to issues with logical thinking.
LEAKED VIDEO – WPATH FILES: Behind closed doors, WPATH members make shocking admissions to challenges in obtaining informed consent for radical gender transition drugs and surgeries from young patients. This is the premise of our lawsuits with Detransitioners @ChoooCole, Layla… pic.twitter.com/QZ2O0wTA6j
— Center for American Liberty (@Liberty_Ctr) March 5, 2024
The complications that arise from the surgeries are even more horrific.
Male patients who undergo vaginoplasty surgery to create a “vagina” where their perfectly healthy penis used to be, complain of painful urination, loss of sexual function, and in some cases, a pungent smell that never goes away. That smell, by the way, is likely from either necrosis (dying/dead tissue) or because their rectum is seeping feces into the surgical hole created.
Vaginoplasty always functions as intended? Hmm, let’s see about that.
Vaginoplasty Volumes: Coming Out of the Water Closet https://t.co/XMmAVClnXL pic.twitter.com/jXSVJbFhN5
— Σ????ulansic (@TTExulansic) March 28, 2024
For a female patient to have a phalloplasty surgery, the doctor typically removes skin, muscle, and veins from their thigh or forearm to create the new “penis.” While the skin grows back, everything underneath does not. Their fake penis is not sexually functional, meaning it does not grow when aroused; no orgasm comes from having it. All they are left with is the scars and pain from surgery.
When they say “gender affirming care” this is what they mean. The sterilization, m*tilation, and castration of minors.
The Supreme Court ruled today that Idaho can enforce a ban on these procedures and treatments.
This is the biggest medical scandal in modern history and it… pic.twitter.com/ljVgYGAOwG
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) April 16, 2024
These doctors are mutilating these patients in the guise that this will help their mental illness. All the bill does is prevent this from happening to children. It doesn’t stop adults from disfiguring themselves. No person in their right mind should be advocating for this to be done to children. Yet entire medical hospitals and court systems are advocating for this so-called care.
The Cass Report was a damning rebuke of the medical industry’s failure to protect children from harm. Due to its findings, the UK recently blocked minors from access to puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries. It found that the mounting issues from their prolonged use and the reality that the medical industry still has no clue about the extent to which the harm from being on them is enough to pause their availability.
Psychologist Jonathan Haidt on why he says social contagion is behind the surge in the number of cases of people claiming to be transgender: “Because it happens in clusters of girls, it happens in clusters of girls who had no previous gender dysphoria when they were young.”… pic.twitter.com/ldIBFnCdhP
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) March 31, 2024
Americans have to decide which side of this fight they will be on. Every day, the number of kids tricked into this life is growing. The social contagion grows faster than parents can stop it, and no one is coming to protect them. Sadly, this case had to go all the way to the Supreme Court to stop the madness. It should never have made it out of the doctor’s office.
Mary Rooke | Daily Caller News Service
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The poll for the ‘comment of the week’ winner is still live and will remain open until 8 PM Easter Time. If you have not yet, please click over, check out the seven “finalists” for last week, and pick your favorite.
Each week, I choose a comment from each day, and readers then select a winner who can opt to be not only recognized by readers but also receive free stuff.
Since we started this new reboot of the previous giveaway, the number of votes has been few, and the margins of victory are slim. I’d appreciate it, as might those whose comments are up for the honor (what of it there is), if we could get more involvement.
Of course, the goal is to increase engagement, and that’s been successful. We’ve had some excellent back-and-forth on a number of posts and more reactions to posts and comments.I like to reward someone each week from among all of those, and I hope you’ll take a minute to help us do that.
You can find the comments and the poll here.
Thank You!
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It tickles me to no end when I see students radicalized by woke teachers and professors, getty uppity about the Biden regime. Even in New Hampshire, where we’ve not seen the vitriol and violence from which years of progressive inculcation stems, they came out to shout some slogans and demand things.
Joe is, after all, Pretending to be the President. His staff and the folks running his government and pushing for war funding for places like Israel are all Democrats who came up the same way – radicalized in schools and Universities. It amuses me when their creations turn on them.
Calling for “intifada” and denouncing the American flag as “that dirty rag” and “this Nazi flag,” a small but vocal group gathered on Thompson Hall Lawn at the University of New Hampshire Thursday to join the wave of anti-Israel protests across college campuses.
If you spent a lot of money on the education of these students, you should request a refund—public school, college, all of it. They are demanding a cease-fire and a violent rebellion—the end of hostilities by Israel and the rise of hostility by Arabs in Gaza. But let’s not get mired down by the mangles intentions of pro-peace students. Don’t forget to ask for that refund. We’re here to discuss the timing. NH House Bull 1305 (HB1305) has passed the House and is in the Senate. It would secure Free Speech Rights in public spaces on college campuses by preventing the college or university “from discriminating against any religious, political, or ideological student organizations, even if the organization requires members to adhere to its beliefs, standards of conduct, or mission.”
188-J:3 Freedom of Association and Nondiscrimination Against Students and Student Organizations. No public institution of higher education shall deny a religious, political, or ideological student organization any benefit or privilege available to any other student organization, or otherwise discriminate against such an organization, based on the expression of the organization, including any requirement that the leaders or members of such organization:
I. Affirm and adhere to the organization’s sincerely held beliefs;
II. Comply with the organization’s standards of conduct; or
III. Further the organization’s mission or purpose, as defined by the student organization.
I’m already on the record defending peaceful pro-Palestinian protests. I’m pro-any-peaceful protest. So the local peaceful protests could not have come at a better time. The Senate is going to move this legislation forward, and under the circumstances, it would be awkward for anyone, regardless of party, to protest. And HB1305 is not a toothless gesture.
188-J:4 Remedies. Any person or student organization aggrieved by a violation of this chapter may bring an action against the public institution of higher education and its employees acting in their official capacities, responsible for the violation and seek appropriate relief, including, but not limited to, injunctive relief, monetary damages, reasonable attorneys’ fees and court costs. Damages awarded in an action brought under this chapter in 2025 shall not exceed $20,000, provided that the cap shall be annually adjusted thereafter based on the percentage change in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers, Northeast Region as published by the United States Department of Labor. Any person or student organization aggrieved by a violation of this chapter may assert such violation as a defense or counter claim in any disciplinary action or in any civil or administrative proceedings brought against such student or student organization. Nothing in this section shall be interpreted to limit any other remedies available to any person or student organization.
Students radicalized by woke teachers and professors, and their woke professors and administrators, may not realize precisely what this means. One of the many tactics used by the Left to silence opposing opinions or debates, even on campuses where speech is “protected” on paper, is to create a security situation—the threat of violence or unrest—administrators who demand exorbitant sums for security that make the “speech” impossible.
Denying the “speech” equal access under HB1305 can or will get them sued. It includes the school, professors who agitate to stop the speech, and even individuals actively preventing it.
HB1305 does not permit the narrow limitations recognized under law by the courts.
IV. Nothing in this section shall be interpreted as preventing public institutions of higher education from prohibiting, limiting, or restricting behavior, conduct, or expression that:
(a) Violates any law and could be subject to criminal action.
(b) Is unprotected by the free speech provisions of the United States and New Hampshire constitutions, including but not limited to true threats and expression directed to provoke imminent lawless actions.
I don’t think peo-Palestinian protested calling for Intifada classifies as provoking violence or lawless action, but again, the likelihood of those radicalized students and professors exercising expression on (say) social media to organize opposition or a counter-protest to speech protected by HB1305 to which they object, could become evidence of a violation of the law if the counter-protest or action succeeded is stopping the expression.
That’s a hint.
So, here’s to peaceful protests, good timing, and HB1305.
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This is not a new story, but it is certainly worth writing because these companies need to be called out for their complicity in harboring juvenile sexual predators. The Disney Corporation and Nickelodeon are both guilty of hiring known, convicted individuals or those charged with sexual offenses against children to work with children.
It is unconscionable for any company to condone pedophilia, but it is a new low in moral standards to put children at risk knowingly. What could possibly be the upside in the risk-reward equation to make such a decision? There is so much uncovered with this topic that it is exhausting. Today, we will highlight a few just to peel a couple of layers off this rancid onion. We are not looking at isolated instances but dozens over the last fifteen years. Enough to label this a pandemic of sickness.
The staggering figure was previously unknown but came to light after a recent HBO documentary, titled “Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids’ TV,” included testimonials from child actors who allege they were subjected to abuse on the sets of Nickelodeon shows such as “All That,” “The Amanda Show,” “Drake & Josh” and “Victorious.” CNN reported over a decade ago that 35 employees of Disney had been charged and found guilty of sex offenses with children. This expose did not prevent Disney from hiring a former employee of Nickelodeon who had already been convicted as a sex offender. Does that make Disney progressive for believing in rehabilitation or complicit in the crime?
The Woke Left ate Florida Governor Ron DeSantis alive when he publicly exposed the Disney Company for knowingly employing pedophiles, but are now doing the same to Nickelodeon. These hypocrites won’t dare admit that someone with an “R” after their name was right.
Bill Maher, who, like Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, is starting to sound more Conservative with each issue, went on an eight-minute rant on his HBO show Friday night about the abuse of children by the Woke Liberals that have gone so far to the Left that they have fallen off the world of reality and common sense. It was an incredibly honest monologue you must see on X or YouTube if you do not have HBO.
Isn’t it time we grew up and stopped all the WOKE BS we are subjecting a generation to? As Maher said, these kids are not wannabe adults but submissive morons who will do anything to impress adults, even if those adults want to castrate or physically mutilate them in another fashion. From sexually offensive books in school libraries to drag queen reading hours in first-grade classes to creating sanctuaries for adolescents who want abortions or sex reassignment treatment, when are we going to realize it is adults enticing and entrapping children into a sick and twisted world? It is going to take politicians and a judicial system to grow some cajones to prosecute and convict some of these corporations and parent/sex offenders for what they are: pedophiles, the sickest of the sick.
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My name is Lauren Bone, and I am the Legal Director of Women’s Liberation Front (WoLF), a national feminist non-profit organization whose mission is to advance, restore, and defend the rights of women and girls.
I am writing today to express our enthusiastic support for House Bill 396 (HB396), which would clarify that public entities are not prohibited from using biological sex to separate men and women in sports, jails, and prisons, bathrooms, and locker rooms. We particularly note with favor the inclusion of medical and mental health facilities where persons may be involuntarily committed since that is an extremely vulnerable population frequently overlooked by similar bills. We commend that and urge you to consider expanding it to any inpatient or outpatient program.
Men and women have specific innate physiological differences with social implications, including the unique ability of females (but not males) to become pregnant and birth children, including by rape; the increased vulnerability of females to numerous forms of sexual assault and other assault by males; and advantages associated with male physiology in athletics and other physical activities, including musculoskeletal advantages that cannot be equalized via pharmaceuticals or any other medical treatment.
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There are other differences between men and women, including a greatly increased rate of violent crime and sexual crime committed against females by males, significantly increased rate of sexual exploitation of females by males, and certain disparities in employment and education. These population-level sex differences are not modified by a person’s self-identity as something other than their actual sex. Women in New Jersey and California prisons have become pregnant from being housed with men, and there have been numerous reports of sexual assault, as well as countless anecdotes of physical violence and intimidation, voyeurism and exhibitionism, and sexual harassment.
Sex-specific facilities and services are often necessary for privacy, modesty, religious observance, safety, and redress of historical discrimination and exclusion. Lack of access to such facilities and services limits the ability of women and girls to participate in public life. As such, outright prohibition on legal recognition of biological sex fails to consider the unique needs of women and girls, which can serve to unduly disadvantage them.
Inconsistency in definitions and in court rulings applying these concepts have led to endangerment and in some cases legal prohibitions against single-sex spaces, which was never the intent of Congress or of the state of New Hampshire in elucidating protections for women and girls in sex discrimination laws. As such, explicit statutory provisions such as those provided in HB 396 are needed to clarify the terms of prohibitions against discrimination based on sex.
This is a good bill, and a step in the right direction for protecting women and girls in the state of New Hampshire. WoLF urges the Committee to give it a favorable vote. Thank you for this opportunity to testify.
WoLF works to restore, protect, and advance the rights of women and girls
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Being a modern farmer is not easy at all. The farmer controls all processes from a field with a growing crop to a garage with agricultural machinery. Future profits and the success of the season depend on his actions and decisions. For this reason, the farmer must be mobile and able to find the goods he needs as quickly as possible.
It’s for such purposes that the agricultural marketplace “VAS” was created: https://usa.vas.trade/.
The website covers all states of the country so that every user can buy agricultural products and quickly sell them everywhere. This new bulletin board consists of twelve big categories with the most common products and a various agricultural services.
In the “Agricultural vehicles and equipment” category, each site user can place an advertisement for the sale and purchase of tractors, combines and garden equipment. Not only purchase but also rent is possible; this information must be indicated in the ad.
The “Ready-made products” category is filled with products of plant and animal origin. Here farmers can find seeds for the future harvest and sell their ready-made goods at the right price. The price can be indicated wholesale and retail.You can set a negotiated price by simply clicking on the button when filling out the ad.
Agrochemicals is in the category of the same name for strengthening and protecting your plants.
Where can you find specialists to work in the field or build facilities on the agricultural marketplace? The “Services” category is ideal for finding workers for fieldwork, agricultural lawyers and accountants, marketers and many others.
You can register on the site in five minutes and all site options will immediately become available.
To communicate with each other, users can use chat and leave reviews for a successful purchase. Moreover, if you have any problems using the site, our 24-hour support service is always ready to help you. The agricultural marketplace “VAS” allows you to buy and sell not only new but also previously used goods.
The main thing is to indicate the condition of the product when you publish the ad. This service is not only a bulletin board, but also a place where the agricultural community can exchange experiences and find new contacts for work. The service is growing and developing like a living organism; new categories and groups of products appear every day so that everyone on the site can find exactly what they need.
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A recent, popular post God Help Us reminded me of an episode in the series Vikings. King Aelle of Northumbria is informed that the Great Heathen Army is at hand and marches his army out to meet them.
The King, with the Bishop by his side, is openly contemptuous of what they believe is the Great Heathen Army. However, the Vikings have only revealed a fraction of their army, the remainder being hidden by the terrain.
As more and more of the Great Heathen Army reveals itself, the King’s and Bishops’ contemptuousness is replaced by shock and terror. The Bishop exclaims “God Help Us!” The King, a devout man but the veteran of many battles, replies, “I don’t think he can.”
“I don’t think he can” is also the appropriate response to God Help Us. The Left has controlled “higher education” for decades. The “protests” are simply one manifestation of the Woke-Communism that “students” are taught.
But it is hardly just “higher education.” The Left controls every major institution, and the GOP is just controlled opposition. Just a few examples … the GOP in DC sends hundreds of billions to protect Ukraine’s borders but does nothing to secure America’s open borders; the GOP in Concord is obsessed with destroying single-family-zoning (massing up New Hampshire) and does nothing to actually stop the DEI (anti-white racism) permeating the public schools.
So, yeah, the appropriate response tot God Help Us is what King Aelle said.
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Once Upon a Time, Howard Dean was the governor of Vermont. He ran for president a few cycles back (2004) and was doing well until the infamous scream in Iowa. The young folks loved him but it flattened his curve, and John Kerry went on to win the party nomination. Dean’s not been idle but hasn’t run for elective office since.
Vermont’s decline was predicted in the Dean era but has accelerated in recent years. What was a commitment to economic malaise has metastasized into committed ruin. Governor Phil Scott, a Republic up north but a Democrat anywhere else, couldn’t stop it if he tried so that might be a good theme for Dean as he ponders another shot at the job.
Might as well be an actual Democrat!
Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean could be considering a run for re-election this year.
Dean told NBC5 that he is currently thinking about another run for the state’s highest office.
Dean, a Democrat, could potentially face off against current Gov. Phil Scott.
Scott has not announced if he is running yet, but has said he is considering a run for a fifth term.
Dean, a physician and former DNC chairman, completed six terms as governor from 1991 to 2002. He made an unsuccessful bid for president in 2004, ultimately losing the Democratic Party nomination to John Kerry.
Were Dean to run and win, the Legislature could stop the pretentious torturing of the citizenry and deliver a killing blow with Dean’s giddy consent. A rejection of Dean, along with a shift in Statehouse power, would send a different message, but I’m not sure voters have it in them, even after the last few years.
I hope they do push back the progressive advance. Vermont is a beautiful state. If Dems keep control long enough, they’ll have de-beautified it with endless acres of wind and solar – which is th eonly way they could possibly hit their Green goals unless the plan is to make Vermont so expensive that it is covered to a gentrified gated progressive community that continues to outsource its “emissions” to third world countries full of people they claim to defend.
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Over the last year, Vermont’s school board disputes have revealed the same pattern of a unilateral ideology dominating school boards and attacking anyone who dares differ with the cultish frenzy of agitation behind “woke” CRT and transgender activists who have infested government and public schools.
The stakes are indeed high for both political revolutionaries and the children upon whom they are experimenting. The deck is stacked, but the hypocrisy is epic. This is evident in contrasting the outspoken aggressiveness of legislators like state Rep. Elizabeth Burrows, D/P-Windsor.
Rep. Burrows sits on Mount Ascutney School Board concurrently with her House seat, both of which she uses like cudgels against young children not her own. Her current outrage is to sponsor a bill that would allow children to undergo hormone therapy to change their genders without parental consent. As I have explained previously, this is already the practice in Vermont — Burrows et al. seem to think they can cover their bureaucratic butts by passing a law to protect this horrid ideological recklessness toward children.
Mrs. Burrows proudly proclaims her wokeness, though her credentials to decide that young children should be permitted to consent to permanent infertility are absent. It is only a matter of time before these outrageous behaviors by officials lead to lawsuits: will Burrows be personally liable for her gross negligence toward the children entrusted to her care, or do the state and its insurers cover her malfeasance as she presumes to be a psychotherapist and master of legal jurisprudence?
Burrows’ bill, H.659, sets out the following rationale for permitting children at any age to choose to undergo irrevocable, risky hormone therapies:
Only the last of these relates to hormone blockers, and it does not state what percentage of suicides are averted, or who wrote the study, over what time period, or how it was peer-reviewed. The argument for excluding parents from these decisions is hardly even offered, though the statute gets legally twisted when it recites this folly:
A minor who identifies as transgender may give consent to receive hormone blockers and any other legally authorized nonsurgical, gender-affirming care or treatment from a licensed health care professional working within the health care professional’s authorized scope of practice. Consent under this section shall not be subject to disaffirmance due to minority of the individual providing consent. The consent of the individual’s parent or guardian shall not be necessary to authorize the minor’s access to legally authorized nonsurgical, gender-affirming care or treatment.
Aside from the absence of actual resources for this bold leap, the bill is silent as to the permanent infertility these children face; the risks of cancer, heart disease, and many other health risks associated with experimental hormone therapies; or the constitutional justification to permit children consent to change sexes before they can legally consent to marry or have sex (unless Burrows plans to liberate kids from those oppressive restrictions as well).
This last issue is a legal and jurisprudential one, and we are talking about a legislature passing laws. The core issue here is one of consent: why does Burrows perceive that she can legislate the ability of a child to consent with the sweep of her delusioned pen? Statutory rape is a fundamental protection for children, present in most societies through history:
Statutory rape is the crime of sex with a minor when the sex is agreed to by both parties, not forced. The reason why it is considered rape is because the minor is considered to be too young to legally consent to have sex or sexual contact. The age at which a person is too young to consent to have sex or sexual contact varies by state, and often varies by different crimes. For example, if an adult has “consensual sex” with a person under the age of 12, that might be rape in the first degree, carrying a heavy sentence. If an adult has “consensual sex” with a person who is 16 years old, then that might be rape in the third degree and carry a lighter sentence.
Vermont recognizes this distinction: sexual activity with a child under 13 is considered an “aggravated” assault – even if “consensual,” like Burrows’ perverse effort and the laughably fake “consents” being signed by kids at UVM without their parents’ involvement. By definition, a child cannot give consent. How does Burrows imagine she has insulated herself, any more than any child predator?
The proposed statute cites high school statistics, but contains no age limit for gender hormone therapy. American children achieve puberty at younger ages than ever, often at age 6 or 7 – clearly Burrows sees no bottom-end age limit, and no problem with informed consent issues like “Well, you are only six: shall we freeze your sperm in case you want to be a parent one day?” – that won’t hold up in court very well, because it is insane to suggest that child is capable of informed consent.
This issue of consent transfers also to the age of marriage – why are polygamy and child marriage wrong for Mormons, but the permanent pre-pubescent elimination of fertility is a decision the pseudo-enlightened Burrows can surreptitiously grant to other people’s kids? Looking at international marriage norms:
The United Nations defines child marriage as marriage before the age of 18 but some American states are violating this norm, allowing children as young as 12 to get married and exposing them to statutory rape. “Our study exposes the inconsistency between laws that permit children to marry and laws that criminalise sex with children across the US. The research shows that some child marriages are indistinguishable from sex crimes,” says senior author Alissa Koski, an Assistant Professor in the Department of in Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health at McGill University. “It’s unclear why they were certified as marriages rather than prosecuted,” she adds. The researchers recommend that throughout the US the minimum age for marriage should be raised to 18, bringing the United States “in line with its commitment to end child marriage by the year 2030 as part of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.”
How are these conflicting stances on consent to be reconciled? The far-out Left wishes to expand “freedom” for children akin to throwing them in a five-lane L.A. highway at rush hour. The statistics in the proposed consent statute reflect a subgroup of identities who seem particularly depressed, anxious, suicidal, and confused – 1% of Vermont high schoolers don’t know whether they might be trans (per the statute!), and Barrows wants to offer sex change hormones to much younger (less psychologically developed) children. It is difficult to choose between aggravated assault and lewd and lascivious as descriptions for this effort, so degenerate is this bill.
But herein lies the almost comic hypocrisy. Surveying just a handful of Burrowsian legislators in Vermont, let us recall that when Sen. Russ Ingalls released the already-public email of a teacher conditioning grade schoolers with gender pronouns, congressional aspirant Becca Balint called for rule changes to have him censored for “doxxing” the teacher! Later, when school board member Liz Cady (a parent, not a paid legislator) issued a very well-reasoned statement that people should not be discriminated against for vaccination status, the progressive chimps howled indignantly from the trees:
“One of our roles and responsibilities as board members is to avoid even an appearance of conflict of interest,” Knox said in an emailed statement. “(Cady’s) unsanctioned rhetoric is harmful, and implies a disregard for this responsibility to our students, staff, teachers, families, and community members.”
State Rep. Lori Houghton, D-Essex, wrote on Facebook that she and the rest of the Essex legislative delegation “are appalled by the latest statement from EWSD School Board Member, Liz Cady and unequivocally reject her twisting of historical facts to fit her narrative.”
“We encourage Essex residents to pay attention to the spoken words of our elected leaders,” Houghton wrote. “We can do better.”
There has been no condemnation by these same voices – or by anyone in Vermont’s school board or education systems – of Carolyn Partridge’s blatant instigation of voter fraud while both a legislator and school board member, or of Elizabeth Burrows’ shameless conflict here. Burrows is both legislator and school board member, and her extremist declarations of her political zealotry make it obvious that there is no effort at objectivity, or respecting the views of parents — she seeks to undermine parents. When the heads roll on this betrayal of our children, they will land in massive baskets under litigation. Burrows is a particularly cruel type of predator — Burrows seeks to open the whole world to experimentation under the pretense of child consent, while proclaiming herself as an enlightened liberator.
Perhaps Vermont parents will have recourse against Burrows and the ultra-progressives in international court, where their child-exploiting extremism will be more closely scrutinized:
The researchers question some states’ marital exemptions to statutory rape laws, explaining that such laws are in place to protect children from “potential physical and mental harms stemming from exploitative relationships.” They say that these laws “acknowledge that children may not have the capacity to give their full and informed consent to sexual activity.” They also refute another argument for marital exemptions, namely the parental consent requirement for children to marry “may be perceived as sufficient protection against potential harms.” The researchers note that “parental consent for child marriage may be difficult to distinguish from parental coercion in some cases, casting doubt on whether this requirement is sufficient protection.”
That last point sums it up: gender hormone therapy for young children is a very dubious venture – most children who are transgender change their minds in adulthood, per the science. There are likely small percentages of children who would benefit from thoroughly-considered hormonal therapies. But with so many experimental unknowns, allowing children to routinely undergo such life-changing treatments on their fleeting whim is child abuse and ideological exploitation – even if their parents do consent.
No wonder progressives object to Liz Cady opposing discrimination, as they seek to impose it through blatant voter fraud in schools, or laws that remove parents from the most important decisions facing their young children.
Originally published on March 16. 2022
John Klar is an Attorney, farmer, and author. Mostly farmer… And Regular Contributor to GraniteGrok and VermontGrok.The post ICYMI – Is Grooming Children for Gender Change (Behind Parents’ Backs) The Crime of the Century? appeared first on Granite Grok.
Japan has been in demographic decline for a while. Birth rates well below replacement level are such a big problem that the government has been paying people to have children, a program they’ve expanded to prevent complete demographic collapse.
The government will position the next three years as a period to focus on implementing measures to combat the low birth rate.
The allowance income cap will be removed and eligibility will be extended to all parents with children up to high school age — it is currently offered up to junior high school age.
Families will receive a monthly allowance of ¥15,000 per child ( $95.00 US)for the first and second children up to the age of 2, and ¥10,000 per child from the age of 3 through high school age. For the increase to ¥30,000 (apx. 190 US$) per child through high school age.
It doesn’t sound like a lot but the government will also expand “insurance covering maternity expenses for natural childbirth would be introduced in fiscal 2026.”
One thing they might want to try, if population is a concern is to stop pushing lipid-nano-particle producing mRNA into their citizens. A hint this might be up for consideration comes to us in new research linking three or more injections to a significant rise in Age adjusted mortality.
No significant excess mortality was observed during the first year of the pandemic (2020). However, some excess cancer mortalities were observed in 2021 after mass vaccination with the first and second vaccine doses, and significant excess mortalities were observed for all cancers and some specific types of cancer (including ovarian cancer, leukemia, prostate cancer, lip/oral/pharyngeal cancer, pancreatic cancer, and breast cancer) after mass vaccination with the third dose in 2022.
Correlation is not causation so, “research.”
As of March 2023, 80% of the Japanese population had received their first and second doses, 68% had received their third dose, and 45% had received their fourth dose [1]. Despite these national measures, 33.8 million people had been infected, and 74,500 deaths had been attributed to COVID-19 in Japan by the end of April 2023. Additionally, excess deaths from causes other than COVID-19 have been reported in various countries [2-6], including deaths from cancer [7-10], and Japan is no exception [11,12]. Cancer is the leading cause of death in Japan, accounting for one-fourth of all deaths. Therefore, it is essential to understand the effects of the pandemic on mortality rates of cancer from 2020 to 2022. Age adjustment is necessary for accurate evaluation, especially in diseases such as cancer that tend to occur in elderly adults. Japan has several characteristics that make it ideal for analyzing the impact of the pandemic on cancer mortality rates, including its large population of 123 million, availability of official statistics, and the high 80% accuracy rate of death certificates according to autopsy studies
Japan is officially on its seventh dose and while uptake has declined, they are still on dose seven. That seems, excessive given tis tidbit
Based on the molecular weight of BNT162b2 mRNA (Pfizer-BioNTech), the mRNA content per dose is estimated at 13 trillion molecules and 40 trillion molecules in mRNA-1273 (Moderna) [35,36]. The total number of cells in humans is estimated to be 37.2 trillion [37], making the number of mRNA-LNPs very high, ranging from one-third to the equivalent of the total cell number. After inoculation, the mRNA-LNPs are delivered to various organs, especially the liver, spleen, adrenal gland, ovary, and bone marrow [38]. In one study, vaccine mRNA was detected in the lymph nodes of persons vaccinated with hybridization of a SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccine-specific probe 7 to 60 days after the second mRNA-1273 or BNT162b2 dose [39]. Modified mRNA with N1-methyl-pseudouridine could translate a large amount of SARS-CoV-2 spike protein (S-protein) [40]. S-protein emerged on the surface of exosomes in the blood of the vaccinated [41]. Fragments of vaccine-specific recombinant S-protein were found in blood specimens of 50% of vaccine recipients and were still detected three to six months later [42].
And since we’re well into the weeds here.
Because cancer often leads to the activation of coagulation via various mechanisms, one of the major causes of mortality in patients with cancer is cancer-associated thrombosis (CAT) [49-51], manifesting as disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) in its most extreme form [52]. Therefore, it is reasonable to assume that the additional thrombus-forming tendency noted with the mRNA-LNP vaccine could be extremely dangerous. The viral and vaccine S-protein of SARS-CoV-2, especially Omicron lineages, having a solid electro-positive potential, could attach to electro-negative glycoconjugates on the surfaces of red blood cells (RBCs), other blood cells, and endothelial cells [53]. The S-protein of SARS-CoV-2 alone has been reported to bind to angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) and activate angiotensin II receptor type 1 (AT1) signal, which promotes interleukin-6 (IL-6) trans-signaling [54], induces vascular wall thickening via activation of the protein kinases [55], impairs mitochondrial function [56], and generates reactive oxygen species (ROS) [57]. A recent study revealed that certain segments of the S-protein can induce the formation of amyloid, a fibrous protein that is insoluble in water. This protein plays a significant role in blood coagulation and fibrinolytic disorders [58]. Anti-spike protein antibodies bind to the S-proteins that emerge on cell surfaces, which triggers autoimmune inflammatory reactions [59-63]. In addition, the injection of LNPs into mice has been reported to cause strong inflammation [64]. All these findings suggest that the COVID-19 mRNA-LNP vaccine poses a risk of thrombosis in individuals with cancer and might explain the excess mortalities after mass vaccination.
Dig in for more scary-sounding stuff, but before I close, Japan relied heavily on the US CDC/FDA approval process for managing their own. And according to the US FDA,
“There are several potential mechanisms by which residual DNA could be oncogenic, including the integration and expression of encoded oncogenes or insertional mutagenesis following DNA integration” [98]. The FDA’s guidelines are essential for Japan because Japan’s special emergency use authorization depended on FDA approval during the COVID-19 pandemic [99]. Recently, some researchers have reported that several lots of Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines contain a certain amount of double-stranded DNA fragments from residual plasmid vectors [100,101]. Some of them mentioned that the amount of residual DNA exceeds the regulatory limits for residual DNA set by the FDA. Given these reports and the FDA’s regulatory statement, further investigation is required to determine whether the observed excess cancer deaths following mass vaccination were linked to reported residual DNA in the vaccine.
Have yourself a filed day with that, and this.
These particularly marked increases in mortality rates of these ERα-sensitive cancers may be attributable to several mechanisms of the mRNA-LNP vaccination rather than COVID-19 infection itself or reduced cancer care due to the lockdown.
Research they should have done before even one person rolled up their sleeve.
One more point. Japan has also paying people to move out of Toyoko, which is overcrowded.
Although Tokyo’s population fell for the first time last year– a trend partly attributed to the coronavirus pandemic – policymakers believe more should be done to lower the city’s population density and encourage people to start new lives in “unfashionable” parts of the country that have been hit by ageing, shrinking populations and the migration of younger people to Tokyo, Osaka and other big cities.
Seems like they’ve had a plan all along (7 does?) that runs right into the other problem or demographic decline. Maybe they should pay people to not vaccine their kids too?
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Is it that the NHGOP does NOT want to win elections, or is it that they don’t know how? Does it matter? The DemocratsCommunists are destroying America, and one of the NHGOP State Reps thinks the 2nd-CD candidates should be talking about “entitlement reform.”
That lovely euphemism for making working-class Americans poorer to enrich the military-industrial complex: 13 Questions for Colin and Becky.
There is NO constituency in America for cutting Social Security except for “traditional” GOP like Mitch McConnell who wants to use the money to engage in forever-wars and GOP-mouthpieces who think that voters don’t understand the scam. Voters do NOT want “entitlement reform.” They want an end to the forever wars. But, not surprisingly, ending the forever-wars … like the proxy-war we are currently fighting and losing in Ukraine … does not make the list of the “13 questions” the 2nd-CD election should be about.
Any GOP candidate who is talking about “entitlement reform” and not talking about ending the forever-wars is NOT a serious candidate AND has NO CHANCE of winning.
If you want an actual list of what GOP candidates should be talking about, it’s this:
Why Are They Destroying Us?
If someone wished to destroy America, could he do anything more catastrophic than what we currently see and hear each day? What would an existential enemy do that we have not already done to ourselves?
Here are eleven now familiar steps to…
— Victor Davis Hanson (@VDHanson) April 2, 2024
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There I was, working the “dead man’s shift” at an electrical generating facility when a co-worker related what would become a common refrain from other working dads: his ‘child’ came home from college at Christmas a stranger regarding their attitudes and perspectives. Now, this was way back in the ‘sixties’ when colleges across the nation were also deep into protesting.
From my own experiences when coming home as a veteran, I was sadly familiar with such attitudes and protest actions. Many decades have come and gone, yet the college atmosphere has only stiffened its various ‘anti’ Americanisms. Today’s version has claimed the top protesting echelon that America is the problem! As such, even the stoutest of supporters, together with the loving parents of the misguided, may now wonder just how worthy a degree is and at what cost.
Back in the sixties, at least there was a reason for such action since who wants to get shot at or worse? Such defiance is not a momentary position. This act claims an inner angst at the time, which continues molding into later years. Along the way, children were born to these believers of our First Amendment. Given the amount of time that has elapsed, those children are now parents.
So, as family history is shared downward and familiarized within the family, its storytelling and questions of “What did you do in the war, daddy?” include the recall of the noble stances and ethical beliefs involved. This is only natural since the stances taken, while being the safer option, have often shaped and defined one’s lifetime character. The magnitude of that decision remains as entrenched as does the veteran’s!
Currently, we are experiencing the results of three generations, which have been divested from the rigid requirements, functions, duties, and overall appreciation that freedom requires. While Americans have weathered a constant downplaying of such guideposts as, ‘America, my country right or wrong,’ today’s actions provide the proof that to veer from what should inspire honorable, worthy, and willing sacrifice is to proceed down an easier path that will only invite more irresponsibility, apathy, and ultimately, a general dislike and even a hatred for the necessities which a free America requires from her people. These beliefs have remained through family “hand-me-down” yarns but have also been reinforced at our “institutions of higher learning.”
Today’s ‘protests’ can hardly be what the Founders meant by “freedom of speech” or “the right of the people peaceably to assemble!” In fact, today’s colleges and universities are in total opposition to their origins since America’s earliest colleges and universities were theologically based, with hopes of spreading Christianity throughout the new world.
Modern-day America has witnessed this ongoing effort to lessen faith’s influence upon our society. Its replacements are now the attractions that initially delight yet lack substance. Also, attitudes have changed concerning our most basic societal norms, such as pre-marital sex, no-fault divorce, proper attire, feminine pride, and the teaching of manly traits. Disturbing are the marriage totals and divorce numbers. Family responsibilities have been sidetracked by opportunities that deemphasize parenting. Unwed mothers and single-parent household increases are not societal building blocks!
Current governmental actions are now revealing their true intent by their own proposed policies, such as this asinine attempt to rid law-abiding Americans of their Second Amendment right while at the same time, there is evidence of close to forty thousand military-age Chinese men somewhere here in America! Then too, there’s the imported terrorist/criminal element that now roams at will! A very odd time to call for American disarmament.
How can an American President encourage this multi-year illegal invasion while at the same time attempting to snuff out his only Presidential challenger with criminal charges of a non-existent crime? Combine that with America’s private transportation vehicles being electrically fueled while, at the same time, closing down fossil-generating plants! DUH Youthful ideologies are most comforting during one’s formidable years, but fortunately and hopefully, we all grow out of such idealisms. The point is, given the current inaction of law enforcement, the voter is now hard-pressed not to vote out all anti-American representation. Voters must save America. If not, both Republicans and Democrats will rue the future that they voted for!
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CONCORD – U.S. Attorney Jane E. Young announces the appointment of Matthew Vicinanzo as an Assistant U.S. Attorney (AUSA). AUSA Vicinanzo will handle civil and criminal Civil Rights matters in the District of New Hampshire.
“Assistant U.S. Attorney Vicinanzo comes to the U.S. Attorney’s Office with a breadth of experience from private practice,” U.S. Attorney Jane E. Young said. “Matt is a New Hampshire native who cares deeply about our communities. He is eager to expand the Civil Rights practice in this Office, and further support the civil and constitutional rights of Granite Staters.”
Most recently, AUSA Vicinanzo represented clients in civil and criminal matters as Counsel at Crowell & Moring LLP, where he handled investigations and litigation related to the federal False Claims Act, anti-fraud statutes, and complex commercial disputes. AUSA Vicinanzo clerked for United States Chief Judge Jeffrey R. Howard, and he attended Georgetown University Law Center.
AUSA Vicinanzo is expected to investigate and prosecute civil and criminal Civil Rights matters. The U.S. Attorney’s Office was allocated two new attorney positions to address civil rights, and domestic terrorism/violent crime in New Hampshire. An AUSA focused on domestic terrorism and violent crime was appointed in October 2023.
What’s he going to do—investigate the AG’s conflicts of interest regarding YDC to help his father, David Vicinanzo, with his claims against the State? David Vicinanzo claimed that “We should have all done better” or similar words in the opening statements of David Meehan v NH. David Vicinanzo is bringing a case against the State that involves a time period in the 1990s when he was both a Federal Prosecutor in Massachusetts and an Assistant US Attorney in New Hampshire and Jeffrey Howard, for whom his son clerked recently, was the AG. Given the nature of the cases, it’s extremely unlikely that there isn’t back channeling going on between members of the Vicinanzo family, US Attorney Jane Young’s office and First Circuit Court of Appeals, Jeffrey Howard’s Office. The grants received by NH for state child care, domestic & sexual violence have to go through an approval process which also requires audits which get signed off at the highest levels: Secretary of State, AG, Governor, US Attorney. It is impossible that Jane Young, Jeffrey Howard, David Vicinanzo weren’t aware of these or the shenanigans going on. To quote David Vicinanzo:“I worry that some inadequacy on my part, a mistake, omission – something will hurt my client, will impede David Meehan, not just my client who is also now my friend, from getting the justice that he has so long been denied,” Vicinanzo said.
The evidence will show the devastation that was inflicted on a young boy under the “care of the state of New Hampshire.
“And the second thing is the evidence of the depravity, the wanton neglect of the state government that permitted and covered up the abuse of David Meehan and others because it didn’t care enough,” Vicinanzo said.
“Vicinanzo said top the administration was aware of the abuse. “The fish rots from the head,” Vicinanzo said.It came from the top of YDC, the top of DHHS, a place filled with nepotism “obsessed with protecting staff from any accountability,” he said.’”
David Vicinanzo is obsessed with protecting himself and his colleagues in the First Circuit, AG’s office, US Attorney’s office from any accountability. The place is overflowing with nepotism. The State’s Laws on Nepotism need urgent attention given that $160 million plus is being argued by David Vicinanzo and co and is likely to end up on some level on the doorstep of the First Circuit and US Attorney’s Office, where his son Matthew Vicinanzo is tied in. David Vicinanzo’s law firm, Nixon Peabody, has been involved in at least two Ponzi schemes (one involving public money and one resulting in a prison sentence for the attorney). He was one of the very early partners. “The fish rots from the head.”The post More Undisclosed Conflicts of Interest in NH YDC Cases? appeared first on Granite Grok.
Lo, and misery shall arrive every seventh day. Or, Monday…
Take heart – there will be both a Wednesday and Friday Edition. Last week’s Friday Edition.
Remember, ridicule and mockery are effective weapons:
Now, let the mockery and mayhem begin.
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NO END to the money laundering.
Problem is most are Jabbed, and what would that do to crops if they were turned into fertilizer?
More and more, I see this was planned for a long time. This play was ritual mocking. Just consider this ceremony:
The Opening Ceremony Of The Gotthard Base Tunnel, The World’s Largest Tunnel, Was A Satanic Ritual – Infinite Unknown
Can’t survive? Yes, that’s the goal.
I took an online test – so obviously completely accurate – on what part of the US you’d be most at home in. Interestingly, though my father’s side has been in New England / the northeast since the Pilgrims, the results said that I should be in Appalachia.
Millions of potential infiltrators. Oil reserves to calamitous lows. Ammo and munitions depleted, military WOKE and moral destroyed… why, one could almost believe this was all intentional.
“Almost”.
Article in Friday’s link section.
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PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA
Inferentially, celebrating an abortion.
Now to most people, a baby is the definitional emblem of innocence. Annoying and frustrating, sometimes, yes… but innocent nonetheless. And if someone can have the mentality of coldly eliminating a baby, a nascent life, even celebrating and memorializing that murder… what will they do, having been conditioned to kill, when faced with people to the Right of Stalin who stand in the way of their planned Socialistopia?
Read what the 60’s radicals were planning. The elimination of millions who wouldn’t go along with the plan.
Larry Grathwohl: Requiem for an American Hero | Frontpage Mag
I want you to imagine sitting in a room with 25 people most of which have graduate degrees from Columbia and other well known educational centers and hear them figuring out the logistics for the elimination of 25 million people and they were dead serious.
Now, remember, those people haven’t changed. Have no doubt that, like every prior genocide, they’re working to move you from “human” to “disease to be eliminated”. They’ve already gotten warmed up:
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Weep.
It’s real.
US6506148B2 – Nervous system manipulation by electromagnetic fields from monitors – Google Patents
All these idiots wanting Communism will NOT like it if they get it.
Just because you COULD doesn’t mean you SHOULD.
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Link section (some mine, some from my Jarhead friend):
Leftist reporters pretend they’re not partisan news squashers | WND | by Tim Graham
Control the information flow and control what people believe.
Statists On FCC Vote To Restore Obama Era Net Neutrality – Pirate’s Cove » Pirate’s Cove (thepiratescove.us)
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Law Professor’s New Book a Timely Look at the Legal History of Second Amendment – Bearing Arms
See David Kopel’s book too:
Supreme Court Gun Cases
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White House: Biden Has Been ‘Unafraid to Use His Emergency Authority’ on Climate (breitbart.com)
Of course he will. And it will be used before the 2024 election to promote mail in balloting… “for the climate”.
Your Fault: Worst Wine Harvest In 62 Years Blamed On Climate Doom – Pirate’s Cove » Pirate’s Cove (thepiratescove.us)
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It is simple: Conservatives don’t have the votes – Behind The Black – Robert Zimmerman
And why have Republicans been so hampered with a shortage of votes in Congress? The answer here is once again simple: They are not winning elections. The voters are not supporting them. Gerrymandering in the House might lock in too many Democrats and limit Republican districts, but that wasn’t a problem in 2014 when the public gave the Republicans the biggest voting majority in decades.
No, the problem is that the voters have simply stopped voting for the Republican Party, partly because many conservative voters have lost faith in that party because of its inability to pass its agenda even when it had the majority, and partly because Republican voters themselves have given up the fight and stopped voting. In both cases too many conservatives have seen how the establishment that previously controlled the Republican Party has worked very had to stymie and block Donald Trump. Why should they keep voting for a party that refuses to represent their interests?
In part, this is why:
The Left in a Nutshell – HotAir
Today’s protesters don’t know what they are protesting for or against, and when pressed admit: “I wish I was more educated.”
These are Ivy League students.
I went to an elite college and got a Masters’ degree at an elite university, and having studied ancient and modern political philosophy, I developed a deep sadness about how relatively uneducated I am. Still, my education puts these students’ to shame.
Also this:
Report, Lawfare Beach Friends Meet Every Friday to Discuss Legal Filings and Best Trump Attack Strategy – The Last Refuge (theconservativetreehouse.com)
Democrats Indicting 18 Republicans In Arizona For Claiming Trump Won 2020 | Armstrong Economics
Which is why they’ll find a way to suspend the election. And sure why they’ll cheat:
After Seeing These Polls, It’s Going to Take a Miracle (or Something) for Biden to Win – HotAir
What Next? | NC Renegades
They know, full well, that if they lose they’re toast. Great incentive to cheat, don’t you think?
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Fauci knew Trump would face a disease outbreak. He also knew Biden would not. Curious, no? – Flopping Aces
Interesting on Fauci’s 2017 prediction.
This was one of the big pieces of evidence that, for me, convinced me something was very wrong. You DO NOT write or speak definitively in a bureaucracy. That this man, who already spent decades in government, spoke this with certainty was very revealing to me.
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America’s Fertility Rate Hits Record Low as Planned Parenthood Abortions Hit Record High – LifeNews.com
America’s total fertility rate dropped to 1.62 births per woman last year, a 2% decline from the year before. That figure is below replacement rate, which means that Americans are not having enough children to replace people who are dying. Nation’s (sic) below replacement rates eventually experience massive social and economic problems ranging from an inability to support elderly people to worker shortages to higher rates of prostitution and sex trafficking.
Just from abortion? Or are other things (*cough cough The Jab cough cough*) also influencing that?
Planned Parenthood just published its annual report, its own figures from the previous year. And when it comes to abortions, the new report shows the abortion business killed 392,715 babies in abortions killed in the last year. That’s a 5% increase from the 2021-2022 figures.
That’s over 1,075 babies killed in abortions every single day of the year or 44 dead babies every single hour. That’s in insane figure for a company that giant claims its main focus is merely women’s health care.
Imagine going up to someone and saying there was an industry that killed over a 1000 people a day in the US. They’d be horrified. But then do the “big reveal”… and watch them squirm.
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5 Perennials to Plant Once that will Feed You Forever… (youtube.com)
Good to know!
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An Altogether Sorry State – Thomas W(h)ispered (thomaswispered.com)
Final question I’ll ask (although I’ve got a hundred more): if ‘they’ can puff up charges and gag a Presidential candidate (and former President) with the sole intent of forcing their will on him, just how fair do you think such a system will be to you and I?
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EPA Announces New Standards Which Will Raise Energy Prices – Pirate’s Cove » Pirate’s Cove (thepiratescove.us)
Don’t forget the Energy Secretary under Barackus who wanted $8 a gallon gas.
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Thanks to Biden, China Could Start World War III Here :: Gatestone Institute
Weakness has a cost. We’re about to pay it, big time.
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From here:
Congressman Michael McCaul Who Wrote The TikTok Ban Bill Invested $1.15 Million Into META After Writing The Bill
– On March 3rd, he authored the TikTok Ban Bill
– On March 22nd, he invested $150,000 in META
– On the 26th, he invested another $150,000
– On the 28th, he invested another $150,000
So about three weeks after writing the TikTok Ban Bill, this man invested $450,000 in TikTok’s competitor.
Oh, and then what did he do once he saw his TikTok ban was gonna be included with all the Ukraine funding:
– Well, on April 1st, he invested $350,000 more in META, followed by the fifth where he invested that again.
Then about a week later, of course, he voted yes on the bill he wrote.
So within the span of 40 days, this dude wrote the TikTok ban bill, proceeded to invest $450,000 in the competitor, and then invested another $700,000, taking his total investment and META at a $1.15 million.
And then he voted yes. Now, obviously the word most people are using here is suspicious, but the word we should be using is criminal.
This man wrote the f***** bill to ban TikTok, proceeded to invest more than a million dollars in its competitor, whose stock will skyrocket if TikTok actually gets banned, and then voted on the bill to ban it.
Are you paying attention yet?”
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A couple days ago “down under”, a Muslim man tried to stab a rabbi, but his folding knife wouldn’t open, so he used the folded knife to beat the rabbi. The video of the incident was posted on X and many people shared it. But the Australian government wants it taken down, because it “looks bad” for their policies of letting Muslim immigrants in. Elon Musk responded with something like: No, it’s the truth, therefore it stays. Now the Aussie government wants to jail Elon Musk because he won’t take censor the truth:
“Australia is NOT a Free Country”: Elon Musk Threatened with Jail for Defying Censorship Demands – Watts Up With That?
Me: Thought it was a priest, not a rabbi.
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More “Executive Order” BS from Slo-Joe. EO 14112 “authorizes” a group of unelected (and therefore unaccountable) persons to run the a “pandemic response” for the country, which means they will basically run the country (worse than what we saw with Covid). Did we sign up to a dictatorship? Apparently the clowns running the show think we did:
PERMANENT TYRANNY FROM THIN AIR: Biden Issues Executive Order 14122 Further Authorizing The Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response Policy – POLITICAL MOONSHINE
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Student protesters who make enough of a nuisance of themselves to get arrested are now worried about that record following them. Gee, yeah think? So now they are begging for amnesty, because they’ve never had to face actual consequences before. I hope they get everything they deserve (a criminal record, kicked out of college, no degree, and a most importantly, some life lessons learned).
https://www.aol.com/news/college-protesters-seek-amnesty-keep-040935351.html
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And another POS RINO (Bill Posey, R-FL) decides to retire before his term is up, but AGAIN, too late for holding a special election to fill the seat. This leaves the Repubs short by several seats when it comes to certifying the 2024 election; which is all by design, I’m sure:
https://www.aol.com/news/florida-rep-bill-posey-becomes-155047518.html
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There is growing evidence that the Covid-19 “vaccine” is directly involved with the rate of cancers happening in people who are not usually at risk:
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/this-strong-evidence-of-the-link-between-covid-vaccines-and-cancer-can-no-longer-be-ignored/
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Weird fibrous blood clots were the third vaccine side effect conspiracy to be shouted down by the choir boys for the Public Health Industrial Complex. The first was mental, and the second was sudden cardiac arrest (athletes were dropping dead all over the world). Clots, however, were elevated to a nickname—The Clot Shot.
Any number of documentaries are available, as is expert testimony by pathologists and funeral directors as to the sudden proliferation of long-stretch clots in the veins and arteries of the COVID-Era recently deceased. I don’t need to link or enumerate; you know what I mean and where to find it, as with the pushback that it was caused by COVID (almost everyone did die from that for a while).
Allegedly vaccine-injured litigants in the UK took AstraZeneca to court where,
[I]n the legal document submitted to the High Court in February, AstraZeneca said: “It is admitted that the AZ vaccine can, in very rare cases, cause TTS. The causal mechanism is not known.
“Further, TTS can also occur in the absence of the AZ vaccine (or any vaccine). Causation in any individual case will be a matter for expert evidence.”
Lawyers argue that the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine is “defective” and that its efficacy has been “vastly overstated” – claims AstraZeneca strongly denies.
Scientists first identified a link between the vaccine and a new illness called vaccine-induced immune thrombocytopenia and thrombosis (VITT) as early as March 2021, shortly after the Covid-19 vaccine rollout began.
Lots of things cause clots, including TTS, which can cause clots. Therefore, any increase in clots may not be a result of patients who received the AstraZeneca COVID vaccine, which might cause TTS, which might cause clots.
AstraZeneca’s vaccine is an actual vaccine constructed using a genetically modified adenovirus. It is not mRNA, which continues to be experimental (if you get it, you are the experiment).
The vast number of side effects, including looking like an ass repeating the 95% safe and effective marketing, appear connected to the mRNA for which we have yet to see any meaningful lawsuits unless you mean Moderna suing Pfizer (and BioNTech) over patent violations or GlaxoSmithKline suing Pfizer and BioNTech for “infringing GSK patents related to messenger RNA.”
There are suits in the US, but mostly over things tangential to the mRNA vaccine, like how the Feds manage taxpayer-backed mRNA vaccine injury compensation. Everyone had immunity when it came to the juice, which isn’t necessarily impenetrable. It seems to me that it can only be defended if accurate and complete details were provided so that anyone could realistically give informed consent. We know that didn’t happen.
Texas is suing Pfizer over “misleading acts and practices by making unsupported claims,” which is easy enough to prove a hat-trick of years later when many of the people who cashed in and bailed out have admitted the edges were squidgy.
The only real Financial victory (and it’s a bit hollow) is the tumbling share of Pfizer stock. It peaked at $58.50 during the mandate madness but has since collapsed to 25.73. For reference, prior to COVID, it languished in the low thirties, so 26 bucks is not the disaster, some claim. But it’s something. And not enough. The vaccine injured were tricked and pressured and then harmed.
Someone needs to pay for that and it shouldn’t be taxpayers.
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We’ve been talking (in comments) about Ian’s great comments (Ian Underwood). They are almost always thought-provoking, which is the point of comments. Yeah, we like the sark, snide, and sarcasm, too, but the intellectual journey demands people be willing to get pushed out of their comfort zones.
We all have them, and Ian does a very nice job of approaching problems from angles most people have not considered. This was such a great example of that, pointing to numerous other examples or past clarifications, and I wasn’t certain Ian was going to reshare it as content, so I grabbed it so you could all see it (I realize a majority of readers don’t do or read comments).
Here it is.
Kids need to get out of public schools, that’s for sure. But schools are the way they are because they’re funded with taxes, and therefore are inherently political in nature:
https://granitegrok.com/blo…
The same is true of EFAs, although it will take a while to see exactly how that plays out. (For example, at some point using your ‘freedom’ account may require hiring only ‘certified’ teachers like Mx. Munz, or undergoing periodic ‘mental health safety checks’ on your kids.)
Everyone who would be in favor of putting the government in charge of — or even giving it a significant role in — the private ownership of guns, raise your hand. Anyone? No one?
Being armed and being educated are the two principal mechanism for resisting government overreach. Why would we want government involved in either of them?
Note that, whatever value EFAs might have, the arguments most commonly made by proponents are false, and need to be set aside in favor of open, honest discussions about exactly what their purpose is supposed to be:
https://www.bareminimumbook…
By the way, the idea that using taxes to fund education is about ‘helping the parents’ is another big reason for the situation we currently find ourselves in. According to Article 3 of the state constitution, you can take my money only if you use it to protect my other rights. And Article 10 specifically prohibits taking money from everyone to ‘help’ one class of people, like parents.
For a long time, parents have treated ‘public schools’ like some kind of birthright, to be funded at everyone else’s expense. Now some other special interest group has learned how to use those stolen funds to promote its agenda, and the parents are upset about that. Loot is loot, no matter who is spending in on whom.
Tax-funded education is supposed to be about the taxpayers ensuring that citizens are literate, numerate, and rational enough to avoid voting away their own rights, along with the rights of everyone else:
https://www.bareminimumbook…
https://www.bareminimumbook…
If we took that seriously, we’d have a very, very different system in place.
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It is time, once again, to see which of the following seven comments and their commenter will accumulate enough votes to be this week’s comment of the week winner.
The poll will remain open until 8 pm Tuesday evening. Please encourage other commenters and readers to vote. Comments are published in total; please review and select the author’s name in the poll below.
Please note that while many comments were worthy, only one is chosen each day and you will choose the winner.
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Oppose HB1283 – The So-Called “End of Life Options” Bill Commenter: Ken Goodall
My Mother suffered with Spina Bifida and my grandparents were told she would not survive a year after her birth. Then it was three, then six, then her teens, and finally they gave up.
After suffering multiple different medical issues through out her lifetime along with the spina bifida, she lived to be 89 years old.
Not getting into the whole deal, I believe the Medical industry blew it. After speaking to several people and a lawyer, most commented on her age. I told them all, my mother was a fighter since birth. I had just installed a new deck with a ramp to make it easier for her, I had contacted the local Dialysis treatment center, so even if I could have had only a couple years living with her, that time would have been a treasure.
Congress Is A Disgrace Commenter: Old Matelots Whatever the platform and wherever the location, both of the ‘Legacy’ Political Parties have slowly but surely contributed to the rapid decline of the Nation since the 1960’s. Whether it is their ‘turn’ either in or out of power, both groups are heavily populated with individuals who could never have been elected were they to have faced a moderately well-educated, reasonably well-informed and somewhat civically engaged electorate. Sadly, in the 21st Century, such a constituency has become impossible to assemble.
Oppose HB1283 – The So-Called “End of Life Options” Bill Commenter: Live From OBidens Earpiece
Agree with you to a point. The position you are taking is similar to the Libertarian view. It may seem simpler to just let people do what they want within the scope they have. However, there are always unintended consequences, connections we weren’t aware of. We don’t live in vacuums. We just can’t decide to drive the way we want, while others follow the rules of the road. Similar to Oregon’s decriminalization of possession of heroin, cocaine and other illicit drugs. It had an effect on the users, but also a negative impact on the cities and people connected to the users.
That said, we do need to find middle ground which allows a person to die, in their own time, with dignity. Some still hold to the idea that suicide is a mortal sin while others worry our feral government will look to adopt laws to end our lives quicker especially for those deemed “unproductive”; warehoused in senior living, or those unwanted or who inconvenience society (abortion is an example).
Sadly, we treat our pets better. Somehow we have been able to reach a balance between the Vet, the owners needs and the pet’s best interest without the ham hands of government being overly involved. Not in all cases of course, but like life, nothing is perfect.
Last Chance to Save the Soul of the Nation Commenter: pfrcav717
Just a couple of things I would like to add to this excellent article is that no matter how many people come out and vote against Commie Joe Biden, The Democrat fraud machine will be able to halt the vote counting in key areas and bring in the ballots they need. Thanks to mail in voting the Democrats have been able to devise and test a system that all but guarantees victory in every single election. 2020 was the test.
The Republicans at the federal and state levels turned a blind eye; the courts lacked the courage and the integrity to address the issue which was clear cut. And our federal and state law enforcement agencies found themselves inept at even starting an investigation into voter fraud. But, then again, B Hussein Obama initiated that change in federal law enforcement as well as the federal judiciary, again, with full Republican support. We can even look at the Supreme Court and see the lack of courage and integrity due to politics.
The country we knew and loved, and many of us fought for, is in dire straits right now. And I don’t see anyone on the federal or state level that is willing or able to take on this level of corruption.
One last thing: Even if Donald Trump is elected, will he be able to do anything? As one commenter already said, he had the White House and both the House and Senate, and his own party fought him. The swamp is deep, deeper than any of us could possibly have imagined.
We will have to see what happens, but I fear what must happen to correct this destruction of America.
Comment of the Week Winner: Ian Underwood Commenter: James 51% using the other 49% as an ATM is terrible, but magnitudes worse is that we are entering a world where the 51% can **** your children, and unless you gleefully go along with it (not just accept it, but slobber gleefully at the prospect) you will be lined up and the Republicans will stand there and make a great speech about how they totally do not accept this, this is terrible what they are doing to you, but in the end they will do nothing to stop it, they are there to hold your head still, stop you from getting upset.
Transgender Surgery Is the Lobotomy of the 21st Century
Commenter: Houmid
Robert Heinlein in his Address to Annapolis cadets defined morality as behavior, “that tends toward survival.” All LGBTQ+ behavior leads to lower than replacement level birthrates, which is why historically, religions condemned such behavior; because it’s anti-life. Transgender surgery removes the capacity for creating and gestating new life, which is about at immoral as you can get short of murder or suicide.
Why are we continuing to parrot this false claim that flies in the face of basic math and the reality of our electoral system?
Look, support the EC on the basis of history, principle, whatever that’s fine but stop lying that it protects the small states from the big states. If that was the point it fails spectacularly.
At the moment every state is beholden to Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Arizona
What the electoral college does do is disenfranchise the Republican voters in California that outnumber those in Texas, and the Democrat voters in Texas that outnumber those in New York etc…
Also on the list of sins is the number of electors we have completely distort the representation of the states(along with the entire House of Representatives) and until we see the repeal of the 1929 Permanent Apportionment Act we aren’t even seeing the EC working as it should be
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So here is DemocratWoke-Communist Leader Matt Wilhelm engaging in some political self-promotion. While all politicians engage in self-promotion, how and where one chooses to self-promote matters.
More specifically, what does it say about Wilhelm that he chose to self-promote on an MSNBC show hosted by an apologist for Hamas?
And, just a reminder because the Biden-Regime and the DemocratParty have forgotten them … Hamas took Americans hostage on October 7th and continues to hold some Americans hostage.
Wilhelm does NOT view a pro-Hamas, apologist-for-anti-semitic-terrorism as an extremist. No … he views Trump-voters as the extremists. Wilhelm is truly disgusting and truly dangerous.
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