Wednesday • January 14 • 2026
Vol.XVIII • No.III
Manchester, N.H.
And yet another week starts with… mockery, ridicule, and occasional insights.
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.
*** Warning, a few possibly off-color ones, in case tender eyes are about ***
See the concept of the Thought Splinter again.
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This quote applies:
“NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF THE HUMAN MIND TO BELIEVE WHAT IT WANTS TO BELIEVE, NO MATTER THE CONFLICTING EVIDENCE.”
― BRIAN HERBERT, HOUSE HARKONNEN
Learn what you can while you can. I just ordered another book on foraging. And speaking about learning:
How to Learn Something New—And Make It Stick (duolingo.com)
Is there a precedent for this? Any lawyers want to chime in? I can’t imagine how it’s Constitutional – not that the Left gives a carp about that – to forbid the accused from speaking on their own behalf.
Comedian Evan Sayet – after his “waking up” (see this seminal essay) had this to say:
He Fights (townhall.com)
Hey, I know… let’s invite them in by the metric f*ckton.
Remember, in 2017 (!) what Fauci said:
This was one of the critical data points in my growing skepticism. Working in my field, one learns to NEVER say things definitively – sometimes to the point where it’s so ingrained it bugs my wife. The fact that he was so definitive, so sure, really rang my alarm bells. Especially when, IIRC in 2022, he said some statement that was full of weasel words like should, and is likely to, etc. The contrast really sticks out to me.
I don’t mean to be cruel, but… if you haven’t figured it out by now, make sure to take choline supplements for 30 days prior to your Jab.
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PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA
The Grok does a good job of highlighting upcoming legislation; recently I made several posts about such in the NH Patriot Gab group based on their alerts. But if you live in NH I also urge you to at least get on the mailing list of RebuildNH.
RebuildNH – Liberty for New Hampshire
As long as we still – at least in theory – have free speech and the right to petition our government, let’s use them. Also don’t forget Jury Nullification. Because IMHO we’re approaching the point where the fourth box is being increasingly seen by many as the only possible option… and if it starts – as I believe it will, alas? I want my conscience to know and believe I tried everything else first.
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Land grab, pure and simple.
Only one box? I’ve targeted by new acquisition based on a conversation I had today. Just to diversify my ammo use potential. And, of course, at least 1000 rounds to go with it.
#TEXIT
It’s not incompetence. They made it up as a test to see who would obey. And there are multiple videos out there of people screaming at people for not staying six feet apart, or being harassed out of stores for not wearing a mask.
Fear. Fear, pure and simple.
Good point! I remember when our kids were bottle-age, I’d mix a bit of peanut butter into their formula bottles.
What I want to know is – who still has faith in the government?
Basically, they don’t work.
Emotional decision-making is what drives the fear porn. To wit, be afraid of climate doom:
Don’t forget to eat your bugs to save the planet!
When dealing with Democrats there’s always a caveat.
And I still vote to add dipping your finger in indelible ink to avoid people going from polling place to polling place in states that have same-day registration.
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Pick of the post:
At this point there’s no substantial difference between the two-faces of the same uniparty.
“Legal” For Illegals To Vote In Presidential Election In Arizona … – Granite Grok
As I understand it, not truly legal, but there’s no means to stop it. And in general:
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To us dinosaurs, life used to be a system of meritocracy. You worked and studied hard to get ahead at school, work, and life. You planned well and surrounded yourself with positive mentors. You were proud of your accomplishments, but not to the point of being brash. The action that disrupted the equilibrium was nepotism.
Because of this system, we continued to build a country on the excellence of its people. A few decades ago, things changed, and the system was turned upside down. Meritocracy was replaced with parity. It became the social norm to replace winners and losers with participants. Everyone played the game, and leaders in all facets of life were now chosen based on their grades on the DEI scale and not on the ABCs. Competency and excellence that once were colorblind are directly measured on one’s shade of the rainbow. This new scale does not improve society.
The sports and news worlds focused on Foxboro this week as the end of an era in New England Patriots history was marked by the departure of Coach Bill Belichick. The book is closed on a quarter century of excellence that was the envy of most and the target of hate and jealousy by some. There will always be questions about whether Brady or Belichick deserved the credit for the dynasty that brought six Lombardi trophies to Gillette Stadium and New England. I will yield to the sports folk to debate coach versus quarterback. I will tackle Kraft.
If not for Robert Kraft, pundits would not be debating the person responsible for the dynasty, for there would not be one. Like the rest of us, Kraft was a frustrated fan who cheered for a team that suffered from mediocrity for forty years. Everything changed with the team, town, and even New England when Kraft stepped up and bought the Patriots in 1994, preventing the team from moving to St. Louis and setting the stage for the most successful twenty years in a football franchise.
Kraft established a level of excellence that should be a model to learn from and emulate, but instead, some want to tear it down or watch it crumble. Excellence is no longer something to strive for but to avoid. Parity is the new norm. The demise of the Patriots since the departure of Tom Brady is not Bill Belichick’s or Robert Kraft’s fault. The Patriots are doing exactly what the league is designed to do: return to the pack. Free agency, the salary cap, and even the requirements for staff hiring are intended to prevent dynasties. Kraft is a dinosaur, like us, and will fight the norm, and my money is on him to succeed.
Many of us still remember the hapless Patriots. I saw my first game in 1964 at Fenway Park, one of the many homes of the Pats until Kraft built them a permanent residence. Knowing the past made us appreciate what Kraft, Belichick, and Brady gave us for twenty years. Fortunately for YouTube, we can relive those thrills with the click of a remote. But for our younger fans who know nothing but championships and duck boat parades, this period of rebuilding for the Patriots is a new and uncomfortable experience.
It is made more difficult because we were blessed with too much success, and damn, it was a great run. In this WOKE era, we should ensure our kids understand the how and why of the Patriots story. Maybe they will focus on propping up merit and success and reject those who want to suppress them with Woke. If this happens, this week will end an era, but WOKE and DEI, not excellence, will end.
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I remember way back in the early 2000s when I was exploring my politics. After 9/11, I wanted to know how that might happen and realized years of disinterest left me unprepared to discuss it. Politics. Some might argue I still am. But I tried to learn. I started with the Founding documents and kept going.
Lurking on websites was vital. I could read news and opinions and then skim through comments to see what others felt and why. The first time I dared to add, my voice was likely precarious, but it didn’t end badly. I think Early Red State (2005-2006), and I was nervous, but ideas must be laid out, explored, and tested right or wrong. A few years later, the pile of questions and ideas needed a better outlet, so I started a free WordPress blog. I still have it.
Many articles, connections, and years later, I’ve written on at least a dozen platforms, some for pay and others to get the questions, challenges, thoughts, and observations out of my head. I’m still doing this after fifteen-plus years and probably 25,000 pieces of content later, you probably want me to shut up and tell you who this week’s Commenter of Week is.
I will, but I said all that because we have a lot of folks who aren’t shy about sharing, and at least a few do it as themselves. That’s not a dig on those who don’t or can’t. You have your reasons, and I’m good with that, but at some point, any one of you might want to take the next step as I did, and we’re here for you even if you don’t want to use your actual name. We need to know who you are, but no one else does.
So, congrats to NHnative. You are this week’s winner for this. It wasn’t just a comment but an excellent idea.
One of the most significant plagues rotting NH is our court system… reading this article, I don’t have to tell you how bad it is.
I’d like to know why this is okay with the residents of NH, first of all.
Second, I’d like everyone to know that it’s not that hard today to find yourself IN this corrupt court/legal system.. it’s only then will most people understand what a crisis we’ve got here that just rolls on with seemingly no real efforts to fix anything.
So yes, this does really impact us all.It’s not really IF you’ll have a turn, it’s when.
The majority of folks in NH don’t have the extra money to hire attorneys and take this on like Laurie did.. and this is precisely how this system is designed to work.
Laurie, what I’d love to see you do is start a non-profit, build a team, and help citizens learn what they need to know to represent themselves pro-se to go to court.
NH has a shortage of attorneys, and it’s become more clear that We, The People out here, need somewhere we can go to learn the ropes of taking more and more on ourselves in court.
NHnative, if you’d be so kind as to email me an address I can ship to, I’ll send you your “prize.”
To everyone else, again, damn difficult decision. We’ve got more commenters and comments this week, and again, I can only afford to reward one a week at the moment, but I can still give you a shout-out because there was plenty of great stuff. David Ss, Mike Remski, Bowana, Josue Lugo, Neil Johnson, Dan Batten, Gary Davis, Old Vet, Rick O’Shea, Bryan W, Steve Earle, LunarDog made me laugh (was not a finalist for that), Asperous for “Stop referring to “Lia Thomas” as she/her,” NITZAKHON, gramps, Jay Eshelman, Tombstone Gabby, and more.
As a reminder, if you see a comment you think should be considered, email it to me. In the first two weeks, I received one of those, and I’d like a few more each week if possible.
Thanks for reading and commenting!
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We were a few months into the COVID chaos – well past the two weeks or fifteen days or whatever the narrative had shifted to to flatten the curve. Masks were not just a mandate but a political statement, and social distancing dots had appeared on floors across the land—six feet, they said, which made no sense.
We went looking and uncovered a source on all things social distancing.
No one can prove it works or does not. There are no clinical trials. In fact, the basis for the theory comes from a 14-years old’s high school science project back in 2006. A computer model developed with the help of her dad, who has no medical training or experience.
Much like medical or cloth masks and quarantining healthy people, none of which had any basis in science, the Machine Media took up the call. Fearmongering pied pipers spread the message across the land, stealing the lives of children in their wake as schools stayed locked down and those that opened months later mandated masks and, yes …distancing.
Last week, one of the founding fathers of COVID-era medical fraud, Tony ‘Little Shoes’ Fauci, admitted under oath that “guidelines to keep six feet of separation — ostensibly to limit the spread of COVID-19 — “sort of just appeared” without scientific input.”
Did someone make it up? They did. It started with then-14-year-old Laura M. Glass, who has long since distanced herself from her “work.” But back then,
Laura, with some guidance from her dad, devised a computer simulation that showed how people – family members, co-workers, students in schools, people in social situations – interact. What she discovered was that school kids come in contact with about 140 people a day, more than any other group. Based on that finding, her program showed that in a hypothetical town of 10,000 people, 5,000 would be infected during a pandemic if no measures were taken, but only 500 would be infected if the schools were closed.
That experiment later became the basis for a paper by Laura’s dad, Robert, “a complex-systems analyst with Sandia National Laboratories. He had no medical training, much less an expertise in immunology or epidemiology.” Robert was the lead author of Targeted Social Distancing Designs for Pandemic Influenza (his daughters also get credit), and, again – he had zero medical training or public health experience, which invited a scathing refutation by some actual medical professionals.
There are no historical observations or scientific studies that support the confinement by quarantine of groups of possibly infected people for extended periods in order to slow the spread of influenza. … It is difficult to identify circumstances in the past half-century when large-scale quarantine has been effectively used in the control of any disease. The negative consequences of large-scale quarantine are so extreme (forced confinement of sick people with the well; complete restriction of movement of large populations; difficulty in getting critical supplies, medicines, and food to people inside the quarantine zone) that this mitigation measure should be eliminated from serious consideration…
One of the authors of that refutation was D.A. Henderson, who is credited with eradicating smallpox, so when the time came to ask whether lockdowns and distancing were sound, the “experts” chose the paper by the systems analyst and his teenage daughter and not the world of a real scientist with practical global experience.
Three years later, Fauci forgets the backstory and goes with, yeah, we don’t know, and no one checked. So, drunken-brainstorming at the CDC or NIH. That would explain a lot about how the situation was mishandled and one of the legitimate digs on the Trump presidency. He let Fauci run the show for too long, and while he openly commented on things with which he disagreed – death percentages were too high, defending the efficacy of HCQ and Ivermectin, it wasn’t enough to protect us from Fauci and his microphone-addicted, attention whores whose guidance on more than just distancing just appeared and – in some cases – contradicted existing scientific input.
“It is clear that dissenting opinions were often not considered or suppressed completely. Should a future pandemic arise, America’s response must be guided by scientific facts and conclusive data.”
That sounds like a mea culpa, but he is also reported to have said: “that the policies and mandates he promoted may, unfortunately, increase vaccine hesitancy for years to come.”
I’m guessing Facui still has a vested financial interest in vaccine uptake, so that statement, to my mind, is less about public health and more about Fauci’s financial legacy.
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Custom keyrings are multipurpose items with many advantages for businesses. These advantages include creating a memorable brand presence, marketing that is affordable, customised branding, increased client loyalty, and word-of-mouth advertising.
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Effective Custom Keyrings: Design Tips for Optimal ImpactTo get the maximum benefits of custom keyrings for businesses, these useful design tips must be included in every design strategy.
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ConclusionWe have discussed three proactive custom keyring design tips that ought to be included in your design plans. Any business may fully realise the benefits of custom keyrings and get a competitive edge by implementing the tips covered in this article.
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In the category of you can’t make this stuff up. Maine … you know the State where some unelected, unaccountable former ACLU lunatic recently threw Trump off the ballot … is building luxury apartments for illegals. But just keep pretending that the Great Replacement is a “right-wing, conspiracy theory,” as you are being replaced in front of your very eyes.
Maine is now an apartheid state. Illegals have more privileges and rights than actual citizens. Maine, like New Hampshire, is a lost cause. Real Republicans should get the hell out of Maine (and New Hampshire) as fast as possible, and migrate to a State that is not “transforming” America into a socialism-based-on-woke hell-hole.
5 new luxury buildings are going up in Brunswick, Maine to host illegals.
2 years of rent will be paid off by the taxpayers for jobless illegals.
Maine is also supplying them with $100k for legal support to help them with asylum and work authorization.
Woke residents gathered… pic.twitter.com/qGs4PATOdb
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) January 13, 2024
Maine taxpayers are footing the bill for new apartments built specifically for illegal immigrants. They have *two years worth of rent paid for by state taxpayers.
pic.twitter.com/IAPkCK3uoF— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) January 12, 2024
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Our bill to end town mask mandates forever has made a surprising reappearance in the Senate thanks to Rep. Juliet Harvey-Bolia and Senator James Gray. The vote will be on the 18th, and we need everyone to call Senator Ricciardi and Senator Avard and urge them to support the floor amendment to SB63.
Let’s kindly persuade them.
Tuesday, January 16th, N.H. Senate
9:00 a.m. – OPPOSE –SB343
Currently contracted, school-based health care clinics do occur, yet apparently there is no current legal authority for this, only for school nurses and physicians to perform various procedures and exams. Parental consent is already required via law. This bill seeks to give legal authority for contracted school health care clinics using money from a federal grant, accepted by the Executive Council. This is part of a larger agenda to create government dependency from cradle to grave, is potentially harmful (2 children last year were vaccinated “accidentally” in schools), and provides no further protections for parental consent.
Schools are for learning reading, writing, and arithmetic and are not meant to become mini health clinics.
Click here to register your disposition.
Email the committee:
Ruth.Ward@leg.state.nh.us
Carrie.Gendreau@leg.state.nh.us
Timothy.Lang@leg.state.nh.us
Donovan.Fenton@leg.state.nh.us Suzanne.Prentiss@leg.state.nh.us
Please Submit Group communications or Press Releases to steve@granitegrok.com.
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1:00 p.m. – SUPPORT – HB1677
This bill makes Education Freedom Accounts available for all students in failing districts (less than 49% proficiency)
Click here to register your disposition.
Email the committee
Thursday, January 18th, N.H. House
10:00 a.m. – SUPPORT – HB1012
This bill would ensure parents cannot be found guilty of child endangerment for making a parenting decision that is not otherwise illegal and presents no more than a hypothetical risk of harm. Protect parents’ rights and the ability of children to grow into independence.
Click here to register your disposition.
Email the committee
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