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Friday • April 10 • 2026

Vol.XVIII • No.XV

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Night Cap: Local GOP Makes a Dent with 2024 Town Election

Thu, 2024-04-11 02:00 +0000

My town, Merrimack, holds its SB2 elections later than most. Town election season in New Hampshire begins while the snow still flies and peaks in March, so an early April poll date is late for supper.

Merrimack’s nonpartisan town elections are always later, so you have more time to campaign (in slightly better weather). This year, the local GOP did something we need to see more of across the state.

It is nonpartisan but still party-driven. No Ds or Rs are on that paper ballot, but that doesn’t change who they are politically. The ones whining about high property taxes (Democrats) are the first to raise them, and slowing or stopping that falls to local Republicans—labeled or not.

The Merrimack GOP appears to have worked their butts off to get decent candidates, do some serious door-knocking, and get enough of their voters to the polls to hold back what is typically a progressive day of celebration. The police, fire, and teachers’ unions always seem to get their voters out, which means bigger budgets and higher taxes.

Deserving’s got nothing to do with it unless you mean we deserve to be able to afford to live here, and schools, in particular, suck all the air and dollars out of every room. Despite representing the supermajority of taxes paid by New Hampshire residents, local town elections are still the least attended. Turnout is typically a fraction of the total number of registered voters. The last time I checked, we had over 18,000 of them in Merrimack. If more than 20% show up for town elections, it’s a big deal.

So?

Turnout was not great. I don’t think it exceeded 4000 (my back-of-the-envelope guess), but with good groundwork and messaging, the local GOP got several candidates on the Town Council, the School Board, and the Budget and Planning committees. Voters also had a mountain of new spending to accept or reject on town and school ballots and kept nearly eight million of it off their backs.

Not every Gimme-money warrant failed, but a new 4.8 million special services building was rejected, as were the school and town operating budgets. The defaults are each slightly lower – a few million on each side.

Take the win.

Informed no voters can make a difference, and more importantly, given the traditional turnout, if you can find 100 folks who don’t typically show up to do that and vote for your candidates and issues, you can move the needle in races and spending. The Merrimack GOP found a formula that worked, and with luck, they will duplicate it in future elections.

While we wait, it is up to the people who supported these candidates at the ballot box to support them in office. The establishment doesn’t take the loss lightly and will do what it can to bully, isolate, and demoralize dissenters. It makes it harder to find people to run and to keep them there when they win.

I hope the Merrimack GOP has a plan for that as well.

 

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Urgent: NH Bill Deprives Children of Fathers

Thu, 2024-04-11 00:00 +0000

Republican NH Senator Sharon Carson is the prime sponsor for bill SB422. Originally the bill would have replaced all instances of “mother” and “father” in birth records with “birth parent” and “non-birth parent.” I wrote about that here and her constituents contacted her and she realized there isn’t support for that.

Related: Republican NH State Senator Wants To Remove “Mother” and “Father” From Birth Certificates

Yesterday, two days before the crossover day deadline of April 11 for the full NH Senate to vote on all bills, she and the rest of the Senate Judiciary Committee voted unanimously to pass a completely rewritten version.

The newly amended bill continues to promote the fiction, as the original bill did, that babies can be created without a father. If this bill becomes law, birth records will now have “birth mother” instead of “mother” and “father or non-birth parent” instead of “father.”

This bill allows a baby’s mother to completely cut her child off from knowing who his or her father is.

It is painful to see  Senator Carson putting the desires of parents to record a fictional “non-birth parent” in a birth record over the needs of a child to know who his or her biological father is.

In the future will we see legislation that allows polyamorous couples to put three or more parents on a birth record? Creating fictional birth records puts us on a slippery slope.

Contact your NH state senator ASAP and ask him or her to vote Inexpedient to Legislate on SB422, “changing several references and modifying language in parentage and birth records.” The vote is tomorrow, April 11.

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So, When They “Cheat on You,” You’re Supposed to Say, Thank You

Wed, 2024-04-10 22:00 +0000

So-called solutions to the housing issue have spawned some heated debate on our pages. I’m not weighing in on that here. What I am doing is using it to talk about a different problem. Republicans are getting mad at people who expect them to adhere more closely to traditional Republican principles.

To be clear, I understand. Sometimes, there has to be room for compromise to get points on the board. The 24-week abortion ban is probably the most mainstream example. It mirrors not only what most Americans think is sensible but most of the world, but some who oppose abortion see it as a failure to adhere to principles. I object to abortion with few rare exceptions, but I accept that given where we are, the 24-week ban is a huge improvement. It might be the best we can do, given where we are at this time.  But abortion isn’t the only place where moving the ball even a little bit would be a win.

Low taxes, small government, limited regulatory interference, protecting individual rights, healthcare freedom, the second amendment, election integrity, border security (even at the state level if you are a border state), equal justice under the law (as written, not as imagined), all need to advance toward liberty. And yes,  there are a lot of moving political parts, too many, and not everyone will understand the what-for-and-whys which is as much or more a problem than having to listen to someone explain them. It’s not supposed to be this complicated, but boiled down to its core, supporters of Republican candidates whom they thought would fight for traditional Republican principles feel like you’ve cheated on them when you do or say something that contradicts those principles. Given that the relationship is at least ideologically close, the failure feels like a betrayal, more so now that we feel like we’re losing from all sides.

Elected officials who get mad about that need to understand as much as constituents that while you are not married, it feels like you’re being asked to thank someone for cheating on you. No, it is not the same, but the sense of it is, and the response to that is often not much different.

Our Policy – What of It There Is

We’ve always had a bi-partisan thank them or spank them policy here, so yes, we do, on occasion – contrary to good advice –  show politicians some appreciation for doing the right thing, but political pain is always the better motivator. It also leads to some very interesting conversations. And no, it doesn’t always improve the general character of the offending official, but free speech is a political thing, and when our political “spouse” appears to cheat on the principles, we don’t necessarily have anywhere else to go.

Becoming an independent doesn’t fix it. Someone running for office is the only cure. Replacing leadership. Developing new donors who are not paying to move Oveton’s window further left. That journey and the conflict are never going to be easy. People are going to say things, and not everyone is going to agree.

We do need to agree that the Democrats will always be worse and then agree to do our best until we can do better. Agree to disagree and that it doesn’t have to end in divorce.

And then find a way to do better even if it is just a little better than yesterday.

 

Note: This is another one of those posts that started out in my head going one way and ended somewhere else. Rather than wrestle it into submission, if that were even possible, I’ve published it as is.

 

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Teachers’ Unions Care About Teachers, or Do They?

Wed, 2024-04-10 20:00 +0000

Democrats are calling in the bigwigs to address their partisan positions on public education. There is a ZOOM call scheduled with the President of the American Federation of Teachers, Randi Weingarten. Much of this will be centered around legislation that expands “school choice” options in New Hampshire.

Anytime public funds are diverted to private schools, partisan activists on the left cry foul. They see this as an attack on public education, while those escaping the public schools for something better find a great deal of relief. The left has become so hostile to any child receiving a better education, they will fight and work hard to keep those children in a school that is failing them.

I’ve worked for two decades on ways that improve public education, only to be met with resistance or rejection from Democrats who say they care about public schools. Really? While families are fleeing, I don’t see them working to improve the state academic standards which are based on the failed Common Core and Next Generation Science Standards.

When schools shut down, and children were not learning and suffering emotionally, where was AFT President Randi Weingarten? Fighting to keep public schools shut down. That didn’t help public schools, it hurt everyone involved. But what most people don’t know is, Weingarten also worked to remove teachers from public education, and replace them with facilitators.

If you go to this document from Education Reimagined, and scroll down to page 10, you can see how the role of teachers will change in the future. There will no longer be a role for the teacher in the classroom. Instead they will be replaced by “facilitators.”

Who is out to making the teaching profession obsolete? Scroll to the last page of the document to see who signed it: Randi Weingarten, along with several other education reformers.

Here you can see that former Governor Cuomo teamed up with Bill Gates on Education Reimagined, and asked why school buildings even exist. Forbes followed up by saying, Gates is not the person to “reimagine education.”

So who is attacking public education? They’re not Republicans, they are left wing ideologues looking to replace teachers with AI all to profit Ed Technology. Think $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ profits to Ed technology!

So for those who sign up for this Zoom call, you might want to remind Randi and her colleagues of their role in destroying public education. The only ones benefitting from these reforms are Ed Technology Companies.

 

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Jason Osborne’s Self-Serving, Nonsensical Definition Of Tyranny

Wed, 2024-04-10 18:00 +0000

You bought a home in a single-family-zoned neighborhood precisely because it was zoned single-family. Then, some supposed “Republican” State Reps joined forces with the Democrats to outlaw single-family zoning throughout New Hampshire—the one-size-fits-all, big-government solution that Republicans supposedly oppose.

Then, to add insult to injury, these “Republicans” nonsensically tell you that they are defending “property rights” when there NEVER was any right to build apartments in your single-family zoned neighborhood. IT WAS ZONED SINGLE-FAMILY.

And they self-righteously claim that they are fighting “tyranny” when it is they who are the tyrants—changing the rules AFTER THE FACT makes them, not you, the tyrants. These “Republican” State Reps are NOT real Republicans. They are IMPOSTERS … whose ideological extremism is exceeded only by their arrogance and self-righteousness.

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Meme Overflow

Wed, 2024-04-10 16:00 +0000

As promised in Monday Memes, I have an overflow. My meme cup runneth over.  And yes there will be a Friday edition too.

Let the mayhem, mockery, and ridicule resume:

 

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

 

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Invasion rebranded as a “welcoming and good thing”.

 

 

 

Do I know Trump is not perfect?  Yes.  Do I have some doubts about him?  Honestly, yes.  But… what’s the alternative?  Short of selling everything and humping into the woods to live a very meager and subsistence life foraging and farming on the sly, and likely very early demise, what?  Either that, or open rebellion.  Neither of which I suspect I’d live long in – which, for me, is fine, but what about my kids?  No, better to at least TRY one more time and then – if being a woods-based partisan is my fate – at least I did everything I could first.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We didn’t keep it Ben.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shut up and trust the priesthood experts.

 

 

 

You better understand this, and be ready for it.

 

 

 

 

But… but… but we’ve been assured by our intellectual and moral superiors there is no war on Christianity.  I weep at this.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA

 

 

Or your parents.  Or in general, anyone important to you.  It’s never too early to do a kindness, for in a moment it can become forever too late.

Short story: When I was in high school I was walking by the apartment building where a cousin lived.  A widower, always lonely now except for his cat, he was crushed when his cat escaped from the apartment and building.  I walked by thinking that I should stop in and say hello, but I figured that I’d do it next time.  Except there was no next time – he died that night.

I am forever haunted by that.

 

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Links (some from me, some from my Jarhead friend):

 

Bayou Renaissance Man: Medication reserves: it’s not only about the tablets

Which reminds me to make my eye appointment.  And when I get the new glasses, to go to the local discount place and get a backup.

Requiem for a Culture, Part 6: The End of Reconciliation | Gates of Vienna

Excellent piece, and the whole series is good too.

Moonbattery Shutting Down Mis-/Disinformation in South Africa – Moonbattery

Wrongthink around the world.

Cureus | Increased Age-Adjusted Cancer Mortality After the Third mRNA-Lipid Nanoparticle Vaccine Dose During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Japan | Article

Slowly, slowly, the harm this is going is getting out.

“Oops!” Pfizer Apologizes For Illegally Pushing COVID Using Misleading Claims * 100PercentFedUp.com * by M Winger

I’m surprised those at Pfizer haven’t been greeted by a mob bearing pitchforks and a rope by now.

I think this will happen as well.  As people understand the harm these Jabs have done they’ll go to lawyers, and be told “absolute immunity” from lawsuits.  Then they’ll go to their elected officials and be told the same thing.  And then, in talking with others, they’ll find out just how widespread the damages and injuries are.  Faced with an absolute inability to do anything within the legal, sooner or later they’ll conclude they need to go extra-legal.

Understand that I’m not encouraging this.  But when friends and family are injured and there’s no possible justice legally… sooner or later people will turn to the not-legal.

German Government Admits There Was No Pandemic – Global ResearchGlobal Research – Centre for Research on Globalization

CDC Admits Huge Wave of Deadly Covid Vax Injuries – Slay News

A Nation Without Honor – American Thinker

I’ve re-watched Reagan’s A TIME FOR CHOOSING speech several times lately.  Never mind renewed admiration for his commentary, and how still-relevant it all is, one line in particular sticks out in light of the above article:

“The nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master and deserves one”

— Alexander Hamilton

Related IMHO:

Toronto anti-Israel protest: Who was arrested and who not and more importantly what effect that has on Civilization and rule of law – Vlad Tepes (vladtepesblog.com)

It is our contention that police for the last decade at least across the West no longer enforce the law, which means there is no rule-of-law per se. But there is no anarchy or increased freedom either. What police do now, is manage the collapse of civilization in a controlled manner. A controlled demolition of the towers of civilization if you like, in order to make sure the transition to the authoritarian collectivist system now in place will not be too violent or face too much resistance.

World War III Is Now Inevitable – Here’s Why It Can’t Be Avoided – Alt-Market.us

You could say that WWIII has already started, at least in economic terms. I also highly doubt that the end game for the globalists is a worldwide nuclear exchange; why spend decades building a massive control grid only to vaporize it all in seconds? I do think the danger of kinetic warfare is skyrocketing and that US and European citizens will be directly affected. It will take a sizable resistance movement to change the path we are being forced to follow, and things will get much worse before they get better.

More:

More German troops arrive near Russian border — RT World News

My belief is that Putin is well aware that he’s being put into a position where it’s “use ’em or lose ’em”.  And, alas for the world, he has the stones to use them.

Top 5 reasons the BALTIMORE BRIDGE destruction was likely an INSIDE JOB rather than an “accident” or “cyber attack” * 100PercentFedUp.com * by Noah

Lara Logan did an interview on Redacted where she raised a great number of good points:

“The TRUTH is coming out in the Baltimore bridge cyber attack” Lara Logan | Redacted News (rumble.com)

Are European Intelligence Services Conspiring Against the Right? – AfD Member Petr Bystron Is their Latest Target | The Gateway Pundit | by Naomi Seibt

Yes.  The DS is global, and they want to crush rivals to their power.

 

 

I am not the only one agreeing with this diagnosis. – Gun Free Zone

The moment people feel voting is irrelevant will be the day we are done with this phase of the USA. After that, it will become a place where the Political Scum under the covering of legality will impose their will upon the Citizens as it was done in Venezuela with the consequences we all have seen.

Related:

WHAT’S SO GREAT ABOUT THE GREAT RESET, GREAT TAKING, GREAT REPLACEMENT, GREAT DEFLATION AND NEXT GREAT DEPRESSION? – The Burning Platform

You can’t help but be depressed that everything you’ve worked for over the last forty years could be “legally” stolen by those controlling the levers of our financial system in an instant. My first reaction was, how can they do this and expect to succeed. Wouldn’t the citizens across the world react violently and start hanging the culprits? And then I remembered how the masses reacted to being locked down, masked, forced to not earn a living, censored for questioning the government, arrested for swimming alone in the ocean, imprisoned for protesting a rigged election, and being coerced and threatened into getting jabbed with a toxic gene altering concoction which neither protected you from contracting, spreading or dying from the annual flu (sold and marketed as the greatest deadly pandemic in history).

America Is Hurtling Toward a Full Blown Hot Civil War – The Burning Platform

Especially when these folks are given weapons on the QT and told the native whites want to deport them:

 

 

Biden’s DOJ won’t hand over Hur transcript in Biden’s classified docs case to House Oversight Committee | The Post Millennial | thepostmillennial.com

Lawless.

Islam: A Reminder – Liberty’s Torch (libertystorch.info)

Truth.  They’re here:

Screaming ‘Death to America’ in Dearborn | Frontpage Mag

More woe for Boeing: New whistleblower claims company’s 777 ad 787 Dreamliner jets are flawed and could become catastrophic saying he ‘literally saw people jumping on pieces of the airplane to get them to align’ | Daily Mail Online

It was a few years ago, I don’t recall where, that I read that America’s export portfolio reads almost like a third-world country.  Aside from crops / food products and raw minerals, America exports planes (and military).  More and more, knock out the Boeings from that list.  And not just them:

Bayou Renaissance Man: It’s not just Boeing…

I’m almost at the point where I’ll say there’s a deliberate attempt to destroy air travel.  “Almost”.

Moonbattery Democrats Move to Keep Bugs in Food Hidden – Moonbattery

So they don’t vote for it because it’s not in place yet?

I want to close with this over-the-top alarmism from a college paper I read:

We are underestimating the danger of Trump’s potential second term – Massachusetts Daily Collegian

Now, this echoes a link I had before:

Project 2025 and Republican Domination (aknextphase.com)

They’re utterly panicked that Trump, and MAGA Americans, might actually be organizing to fight back.  And speaking of fighting:

“Getting Close To Post Time” – Liberty’s Torch (libertystorch.info)

The New, Improved RNC Is Zeroing In on the Right Priorities – PJ Media

 

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I remember once commenting, after I saw a video about women from Venezuela turning to this oldest profession, that these women – doctors, teachers, engineers – were forced to make ends meet by selling their ends for meetings.  So let me make this a NITZAKHON original quote:

As countries fall into Socialism, women will always be forced to make ends meet by selling meetings in their ends.

(c) 2024, NITZAKHON

 

 

 

 

An interesting article about Israel and the Arabs – the in-migrating Jews created the economic boom that drew in Arabs, who now claim to have been there forever:

Were the Arabs Indigenous to Mandatory Palestine? :: Middle East Quarterly (meforum.org)

 

 

 

 

 

Whenever someone says that the majority should rule, especially when they’re eager to do something to you, ask them – since slavery was once widely acknowledged as a norm, if the majority should still rule?  What about a group of men wanting a – ahem – sequential involuntary interlude with a woman?  Isn’t that majority rule as well?

 

 

 

 

 

I don’t fear going.  I fear how I go, and when I go.  But the actual thing?  No.

 

 

 

 

All together now:  “No matter how much you hate the enemedia, it isn’t enough”.

 

 

 

 

Irons in the Fire: Stability Privilege, full post (elmtreeforge.blogspot.com)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yes.  Exactly this.  And they won’t “get it” until very bad things happen to them personally.  And ONLY then.

 

 

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Pick of the Post:

 

 

Which actually was the inspiration for this cartoon:

 

 

You MUST assimilate this to the core of your being: this is their faith.  This is a video describing materials from 1928.  Almost 100 years ago.  And tell me, as you watch the video, if you don’t see what they planned then being implemented now.

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/communist-plan-from-1928.mp4

 

This is a multi-generational effort inspired by their belief they really can create Socialistopia.

 

 

Know your enemy.  This is not an economic war.  It’s a religious war.  They TRULY BELIEVE they can create paradise on earth.

 

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Palate cleansers:

 

 

I look back on some of the really, really, REALLY dumb things I’ve done and shudder.

 

I feel that one.

 

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Come back on Friday for more memes.  Same meme time.  Same meme channel.

 

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Biden Is Not Satisfied With Taking America Down

Wed, 2024-04-10 14:00 +0000

We know that Joe Biden has been working tirelessly, as much as a man working part-time can, to destroy America. He has destroyed our sovereignty, weaponized our Justice Department and Intelligence agencies against Donald Trump and select groups of Conservatives, ruined our energy independence, and made our cities unsafe.

Biden has embarrassed the Supreme Court with his defiance and is spending money without the approval of Congress, which is the only branch of government with authority to spend tax dollars. But now we see clear evidence that he is working to topple Benjamin Netanyahu and dismantle the state of Israel. Joe Biden is an evil, manipulative criminal man who needs to be re-elected to have four more years to finish his plans.

Caroline Glick of the Jewish News Syndicate has reported and has subsequently been validated by a second source, that on March 17, Israeli riot leader Ami Dror divulged that he had been directed by the Biden White House to resume the protest riots. He detailed the White House’s four-part plan to overthrow the government of Israel. The components involve actions on the ground in Gaza, the use of the U.N. Security Council, extortion of government ministers, and mass protests. The White House is using Benny Gantz, the chief rival of Netanyahu, to facilitate the overthrow with the end of Ramadan as the deadline. Ramadan has ended. Last week, Gantz announced he had demanded new elections by September and was looking to replace Netanyahu as Prime Minister.

Joe Biden is diabolical and is working to destroy two of the most significant democratic entities in the world. We have all the evidence we need to see his efforts in this country, and the dominoes are falling in Israel, showing his plan is working there, also. Joe Biden is not a lousy President. He is the frontman for a massive plan to change the future direction of the world. He is doing exactly as directed.

Joe Biden is not an intelligent or competent man. He never was. He has been wrong in every foreign situation in which our government has been involved. He surrounded himself with a diverse but feckless Administration that was ill-prepared to handle any problem under the Federal Government. We have seen what he has done to neutralize the Third Party Candidate, Robert Kennedy, Jr, and we know that he is behind the various efforts to convict and jail his arch-rival and leading candidate, Former President Donald Trump. Biden and the Democrats do not want a fair election in November. They want a closed election where they have eliminated the competition, and Biden is the only choice for America. The problem with everything I have written is that Joe Biden cannot design or implement anything for which I have given him credit. So the big question we must answer is who is in charge. I do not have the answer.

So what is the motivation? If the Democrats had their choice, we would be a monarchy. Biden is circumventing the Judiciary and Legislature, but I do not see him pulling off a coup and eliminating his two equal branches. Maybe 2020 was a test to see how little you had to do to get elected. It was a success, and you will see Biden repeat. After the convention, he will head to the basement, avoid live interviews, refuse debates, and let his surrogates do the heavy pulling. It will not work in 2024. The people, and possibly the media, will pull Biden from his bunker, make him defend his record, and explain his plans for the next four years. If that happens, he will be a one-and-done President.

The one thing I do know is that there is nothing about this country that Democrats like. If you want to change something fundamentally, you don’t love what you have in the first place. The one thing they like about America is that it affords these people the control and power they crave. That has to change immediately. We have to stop enabling these treasonous bastards and eliminate them from the equation. That is the only way this great experiment can continue and America can be great again.

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Woke Pope Comes Out … Against Trans-Surgery and Gender Theory

Wed, 2024-04-10 12:00 +0000

Pope Francis of the Left is a reliable progressive advocate. He is so bad that there is likely talk in the church of a schism the likes of which we’ve not seen in centuries. Francis has come out on the wrong side of just about every issue until now.

The Vatican declared Monday that transgender surgeries, surrogacy, and gender theory are threats to human dignity, breaking with the progressive approach to social issues that Pope Francis has adopted in recent years. ..

In the document, the Vatican doctrine office formally rejects gender theory and any attempt to change one’s gender, for the most part, while upholding the fact that men and women are biologically different.

“It follows that any sex-change intervention, as a rule, risks threatening the unique dignity the person has received from the moment of conception,” the document reads.

Pope Francis signed it and ordered it to be printed. This is the official position of the Pope and the Vatican, and therefore the Catholic Church. There will be dissent and outrage, but when is there not? Related: Former “Trans man” Says Teens Need to Resist Social Media Pressure to Transition

Timing

The reporting suggests this great work has been in process for five years, which means they’ve been thinking about it for a while. Why release it now? Is it because the WPATH files exposed the self-evident fraud form within the so-called brain-trust reference to justify hormone and therapy for the children progressives have confused about their gender?

Was it the four-year study out of the UK that led to an NHS ban on hormone therapy for anyone under eighteen? Or the move in France to ban both the therapies and surgeries?

How about the fifteen-year study out of the Netherlands showing there was no benefit and that nearly every child who expressed any degree of gender dysphoria grew out of it to become happy and healthy with their birth body?

The American College of Pediatricians recently came out against hormone therapy and surgery for minors, and now the Vatican.

“The child has the right to have a fully human (and not artificially induced) origin and to receive the gift of a life that manifests both the dignity of the giver and that of the receiver,” the document states. “Considering this, the legitimate desire to have a child cannot be transformed into a ‘right to a child’ that fails to respect the dignity of that child as the recipient of the gift of life.”

Closer to my home, a Democrat State Rep named Jonah Wheeler not only voted to protect minors from the trans-train of hormones and surgery, but he spoke before the whole chamber to explain why. Thirteen other Democrats joined him for the final vote, more than offsetting the three Republicans who voted with the rest of the Dems.

Jonah’s Democrat caucus bullied him mercilessly for speaking out, which is ironic. Maybe NH needs a bill to prevent that.

 

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Diversity Is Our Strength … Just Like War Is Peace, Freedom Is Slavery And Ignorance Is Strength

Wed, 2024-04-10 10:00 +0000

Diversity is our strength! Diversity is our strength! Diversity is our strength! Just don’t ask the bots repeating this Orwellian mantra how, for example, turning Dearborn into a den of America-hating makes us stronger. Indeed, the Left has such control of the debate over “diversity” that hardly any elected or aspiring GOP candidates dare to state the obvious … instead, we get: of course I support diversity, blah, blah, blah.

And how does importing “immigrants” like this (see X below) to New Hampshire make New Hampshire “stronger”? But don’t hold your breath waiting for the NHGOP “leaders” who “support diversity” to answer that question … they are far too busy building “multifamily” and “workforce” housing that will no doubt eventually be used to house “immigrants” who a best have no interest in assimilating and at worst hate America.

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