Wednesday • May 8 • 2024
Vol.XVI • No.XIX
Manchester, N.H.
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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.
*** Warning, a few possibly off-color ones, in case tender eyes are about ***
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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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Hysterical mockery.
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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.
Post name
Commenter name
Comment
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
Poll!
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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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For the past few years, Ukrainian tech companies find themselves in a challenging position. While contributing significantly to the nation’s economy, they also face heightened cybersecurity risks: due to Russia’s war on the country, many international companies are wary of starting their collaborations with local companies. However, many existing clients remain loyal and prove that, amid military invasion, the companies successfully operate and produce the expected results.
This article discusses the current situation in the cybersecurity landscape in the Ukrainian software sector and how local companies protect their assets and maintain stability in the face of the ongoing war.
Cybersecurity MeasuresFor Ukrainian software development companies, in particular, implementing strong cybersecurity measures is not a luxury but a necessity. Secure systems can prevent unauthorized access to confidential data, protecting intellectual property, customer information, and financial records. Data breaches and ransomware attacks also can lead to huge financial losses as well as significantly damage a company’s reputation which can result in losing customer trust and market share. Therefore, investing in cybersecurity fosters a secure environment for innovation and growth.
Trends in Ukrainian Cybersecurity LandscapeUkrainian tech companies learn to benefit from adopting cutting-edge technologies and best practices to protect their clients’ data. Among the major trends that shape the Ukrainian cybersecurity landscape are
Additionally, many local tech companies have moved their data to the EU territory, which also minimizes the risks of data breaches.
Regulatory Framework and ComplianceInternational regulations and industry standards play a pivotal role in ensuring cybersecurity compliance. Ukrainian tech companies follow the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and ISO 27001 to enhance their cybersecurity practices. These are just a few regulatory measures taken to provide strong data security, access control, and incident response procedures. By aligning with these policies, Ukrainian companies demonstrate their commitment to protecting user data and meeting international compliance standards, potentially opening doors to new business opportunities.
Never Forget About the Human FactorThe human factor is one of the main sources that contribute to poor cybersecurity. Even the most sophisticated security systems can be compromised by human error or a lack of awareness. That is why it is so important to invest time and effort in employee training to raise awareness regarding cybersecurity. Among the most spread policies are various security training events including phishing simulations. This allows companies to check how their employees adhere to security measures and prevent data breaches.
The Future of Ukrainian CybersecurityThe Ukrainian tech industry is demonstrating remarkable resilience and innovation in the face of challenges caused by the active war and heightened risks of cyber-attacks from Russia. As the cybersecurity landscape continues to change, local tech companies easily adapt and remain competitive in the international arena. As to the future, current industry players shift their attention to
Automating routine security tasks and centralizing security management will further enhance efficiency and reduce human error.
Integrating security practices within DevOps will allow for a more proactive approach to identifying and mitigating vulnerabilities in applications.
Continuous monitoring and threat hunting will become increasingly important to identify and neutralize emerging threats before they can cause damage.
SummaryUkrainian tech companies are playing a vital role in driving innovation and economic growth for the country, especially during the hard times because of the ongoing war. By introducing a proactive approach to implementing best cybersecurity practices, they can continue to grow in global IT, ensuring a secure and prosperous future for the Ukrainian tech industry. The local talent pool is vast and has always been a competitive force in the international arena owing to their dedication, professionalism, and high standards when it comes to job performance
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I gave testimony this week in opposition to New Hampshire bill HB1633 to legalize recreational marijuana. This is my testimony.
I post frequently on Facebook about my concerns with the efforts to make recreational marijuana legal in New Hampshire and I get a lot of pushback from people who believe marijuana is completely harmless. I have warned them repeatedly about the studies that show that marijuana is linked to psychosis and an addiction expert who says that 1 in 20 daily cannabis users will develop schizophrenia. I worry a lot about these people and I hope against hope that my words will wake them up from their complacency.
Last year, a long-time acquaintance of mine insisted over and over in his comments on my Facebook post that cannabis does not harm anyone’s brain and as a daily user he functions at a high level. He accused me of spreading propaganda. Sadly, within three days of posting those comments he died by suicide. He left behind a wife and two small children. I was not able to wake him up to the serious harm he was doing to himself and his family with his daily use of marijuana and it breaks my heart.
Also last year, a young man was accused of shooting his uncle to death in Derry. He was reportedly motivated by a paranoid belief that his mother and others were trying to kill him and his father. This has all the hallmarks of cannabis psychosis. Living in southern New Hampshire, he would have had easy access to high-potency recreational marijuana just across the border in Massachusetts. We will see many more such crimes as marijuana floods across our borders from all sides.
Recently, when I was with a group of young people holding signs with messages in opposition to this bill outside Reps Hall, Jim Riddle, an advisor for the New Hampshire Cannabis Association verbally abused the teens and one of them started crying. I stood between him and them. He was very angry but I insisted that he back off. This is not normal behavior for a grown man. Marijuana is not good for anyone’s brain.
From Alex Berenson’s 2019 book “Tell Your Children: The Truth About Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence.”
Dozens of well-designed studies have linked marijuana with psychosis and schizophrenia. Researchers have found marijuana users are much more likely to develop schizophrenia. People with the disease suffer more frequent and severe relapses if they smoke.
Most people will never have a psychotic episode while using marijuana. Some will have temporary breaks from reality. But an unlucky minority of users will develop full-blown schizophrenia. At this point, doctors have no way of predicting who they will be.
We should not add to the supply of dangerous addicting, mind-destroying high-potency recreational marijuana by legalizing it in our state.
Related: Marijuana Legalization is NOT Inevitable
Contact the Senate Judiciary Committee and ask them to vote ITL on HB1633, “relative to the legalization and regulation of cannabis and making appropriations therefor” at sharon.carson@leg.state.nh.us; William.Gannon@leg.state.nh.us; shannon.chandley@leg.state.nh.us; Becky.Whitley@leg.state.nh.us; Daryl.Abbas@leg.state.nh.us; matthew.schelzi@leg.state.nh.us
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Democrats in Vermont are like Democrats in New Hampshire, New York, California, and the District of Catastrophe (DC). There’s no such thing as too much spending or too much taxation but for sh! ts and giggles, they like to call it things like tax relief. As in, we’d like to relieve you of more of your income with more taxes.
If you’ve followed VermontGrok, you’ll know a few things about this, and we encourage everyone to get themselves educated, especially if your local Dems have ever suggested support for property tax relief. We’ve got those here in the Granite State, and for years, I’ve been warning people that 1) They are still (always) looking to raise more “revenue” to spend on schools, government programs, and handouts. More of everything. And (2) that means taking more of your money, not less, so taxes can’t go down. Whatever they are claiming is a massive bait and switch to swindle you and destroy New Hampshire’s unique place in New England, raising revenue by lowering taxes.
Vermont, our poster child for why we should not let Democrats get control of anything, has been spiraling for many years, but in recent sessions, the Democrat super-majority elected (presumably) by Vermonters has been showing us why (with Maine working hard to catch them). The Green Mountain State has a spending problem (all Dem States do, and it never goes away – look at California). To address this, we get news of a “crucial milestone for Vermont’s public education system.” The headline at Vermont Biz is “House passes property tax ‘yield bill’ with 15% increase.”
This week marked a crucial milestone for Vermont’s public education system as the House passed the annual yield bill, H.887, which aims to provide relief to property taxpayers and sets a clear path forward for education finance and taxation. It passed out of the House Wednesday on a vote of 101- 39, which, as is, would be sufficient to override a gubernatorial veto if it were to come to that. Governor Phil Scott has frequently made the point that Vermonters are already overtaxed, and this plan would raise property taxes by an average of 15%.
A bill aimed at property tax relief raises those taxes by 15%. That means people want or need more, and they’ll find it elsewhere, so your property taxes go up 15% instead of 20% or more. No one is cutting spending to provide relief – the same abovementioned lesson.
• Section 2 sets the property dollar equivalent yield, income dollar equivalent yield, and nonhomestead property tax rate for fiscal year 2025. JFO estimates that these yields and rates would correspond to an average increase of approximately 14.97% for homestead property tax bills and income education tax bills, and an average increase of 17.99% for nonhomestead property tax bills. The section also includes a one-time increase of 14.97% to each claimant’s property tax credit for fiscal year 2025.
• Sections 3 and 4 repeal the sales tax exemption for prewritten software accessed remotely. JFO estimates this change would generate $20.4 million in additional revenue for the Education Fund in fiscal year 2025.
• Section 5 imposes a 1.5% surcharge on short-term rentals and dedicates the revenue to the Education Fund. JFO estimates this surcharge would generate $6.5 million for the Education Fund in fiscal year 2025.
There are many other notes, but the cost of property tax relief, summarized, is a 15% rise in property taxes and 27 million in taxes by other means. And the beatings will continue until you stop electing Democrats (and those outside that party who enable them).
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There is a word that describes someone who thinks males should get to spike volleyballs at females … should get to set a pick on females … should get to rewrite the records for girls’ school sports, essentially erasing female athletes. That word is misogynist.
Angela Brennan, DemocratCommunist candidate for Senate District 15 is a misogynist.
Stop the gaslighting, Angie. The students in question are not girls. They are males. They will never have ovaries … there is no gender-affirming surgery that lets men produce eggs. And, because they are males, they, in general, enjoy inherent physical advantages over females that make their participation in girls’ sports both unfair and dangerous.
The bill, SB 375, recognizes and affirms that girls’ sports is about girls competing with and against other girls … not about girls being forced into competing with and against males in order to accommodate males who identify as females. To the extent that you want to use terminology such as “targeting,” Angie … it is you and other Woke-Communists who are doing the targeting … targeting girls who want to compete with and against other girls, not with and against males who identify as females.
An excellent post on X by J.K. Rowling rejecting and refuting the claim of Woke-Communists like Angie Brennan that being female is nothing more than a state of mind:
You’ve asked me several questions on this thread and accused me of avoiding answering, so here goes.
I believe a woman is a human being who belongs to the sex class that produces large gametes. It’s irrelevant whether or not her gametes have ever been fertilised, whether or not… pic.twitter.com/X6mbdJ0YVm
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) April 6, 2024
And if you want to learn more about Angie Brennan, my post: Angela Brennan (Candidate For Senate District 15) … Constitutional Know-Nothing, Or A Liar?
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I was never a fan of Howard Stern or any “shock-jock,” for that matter, but at one time, Stern was considered an effective interviewer. That was years ago when Stern still had a fastball. Today, it is purely slow-pitch softball for Howard.
He was one of the heavy hitters who jumped from terrestrial radio to satellite in 2006 when he was 52 and in his prime. Like our President, Howard’s prime is in his rearview mirror. That is conceding Biden had a prime.
While Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican candidate, is mired in a courtroom, the victim of Biden’s DOJ attack on a free election, Biden sat down with Howard Stern for a fully orchestrated interview. As we learned from ESPN, the questions and answers for both parties are provided, and there are no deviations or follow-ups. In Biden’s world, the interviewer is irrelevant and simply a tool in the President’s effort to secure reelection. This is one of Biden’s series of fluff interviews. We will know he is serious when he sits down with FOX News or, even better, SKY News. That has been brutally honest in their assessment of Joe Biden.
One of the only new points of interest is Biden saying he would debate Trump at some point if Trump could behave. Whatever does that mean? I think it would be beneficial to have immediate fact-checkers handing out Pinocchios, especially when Biden starts talking about his uncle being eaten by cannibals in New Guinea.
There is no way Biden’s minions will allow Biden to get up on a debate stage with Trump or Kennedy. It would not be pretty, and Trump would clean Biden’s clock. The better debate might be between Kamala Harris and whoever is Trump’s VP pick. With this being an election for a one-term President, there is keen interest in the person who would be the next Chief Executive. That is why I believe Trump must name his choice quickly. The chosen person must contrast greatly with Kamala and start hammering Harris on her failures that have been integral to the worst Presidency in our history.
There are several ways to ascertain a debate performance’s impact on the race, but first, Biden’s committing to a debate is meaningless. Biden says many things, and his staff either negates or modifies Biden’s statements. There is also the John Fetterman debate from the 2020 Pennsylvania Senate race. Fetterman was recovering from a stroke, was incoherent, and gave no indication he could perform the tasks of office. He won. Sometimes, the result is baked in, and actions and debates have little impact.
Biden is on the campaign trail daily, producing at least one gaffe per event. Then Karine Jean-Pierre tries in vain to backtrack. Often, she makes the initial faux pais worse. We are all to blame for this horrific situation involving a Presidential election. We do not vet candidates. We allow incumbents to skate to reelection regardless of performance. We need to do a better job of voting before we critique the field of candidates. Shame on us if we let Biden/Harris spend four more years in Washington. There is not a single aspect of their policy portfolio that has not or will not do long-lasting harm to America.
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Vermont taxpayers are desperate for relief, especially in regard to funding public education. The only way to provide that relief is to return spending levels on Pre-K to 12th to something resembling normal pre-Covid levels.
The obstacle to this necessity is the politically powerful VTNEA, Superintendents’ Association, Principals’ Association, etc. (aka The Blob) are violently opposed to any reform of the system that impinges on the ever-increasing flow of money from Vermont taxpayers’ wallets into their own. And, conveniently for them, just as firmly ensconced in their pocket as $2.5 billion and growing of our hard-earned money is the Democrat Supermajority.
Taxpayers beg for relief; union special interests demand more cash, not less. Guess who the Democrats are doing the bidding of? Spoiler alert: not you!
We saw this in bald terms when Rep. Nelson Brownell (D-Pownal) explained that the education finance “reform” bill being proposed today is about “look[ing] at costs, but not in a containment way (emphasis added).” Just yesterday, House Ways & Means Chair Emilie Kornheiser (D-Brattleboro) snapped at Republicans offering an amendment to the property tax bill that would lower taxes, “There’s no decision on no taxes here. That’s just not an option.” Translation, “VTNEA et al, keep telling us how much you want to spend, and we’ll keep hitting up the taxpayers with more and higher taxes to pay for it.”
Here’s the reform reality we need to embrace: Vermont independent schools that participate in the Vermont’s 150-year-old town tuitioning system very generally speaking do a better job of educating our children for far less money. It’s a win/win for everyone who should matter.
We need more of this – lots more of this — not less.
Now, when opponents of this cost-effective, highly popular form educating our children howl – as they are certainly doing at this point in the story – that independent schools are only able to achieve these stellar results because they discriminate, no they don’t. That’s a lie. Every school, public or independent, in Vermont that accepts state dollars is subject to the same state and federal non-discrimination laws and regulations. Period.
The taxpayer funded per pupil costs for independent tuitioning schools are capped at $16,756 for elementary students, and $18,266 for middle and high school students. That’s 30 percent less than the official, weighted per-pupil average of $23,586 spent by the government run public schools. And, if one simply takes the $2.5 billion education budget and divides it by the 80,000 actual living, breathing student bodies in the classrooms, that number goes up to over $30,000 per kid.
So, using the most conservative numbers here, if every Vermont student were in the tuitioning system with a capped per-pupil spending rate, Vermont taxpayers could save around $750,000,000. And we’d still be spending 15 percent more per child than the national per-pupil average! And we’d more than likely be achieving better student outcomes.
Sounds like a plan, doesn’t it!
There are some communities that are coming to this conclusion. Parents of children in the Windham Elementary School, for example, just won a school choice petition battle – taking on the Blob as well as a hostile local school board – by an overwhelming vote of 82-45 to close the school and give the kids choice. As the Brattleboro Reformer reports:
“Windham families spoke up forcefully at the town meeting, giving several reasons for their fear and dislike of the Windham Elementary School, which is currently closed. They particularly cited the school board’s inability to affirm that the school would be improved in the immediate future, given lack of staff and serious deficiencies in the school plant,” the Windham Committee for School Choice said in an announcement. “The resounding victory for the solid majority of parents who wanted school choice was unexpected, and suggested that some pro-school voters at town meeting changed their minds on the basis of what they learned from the unhappy parents.”
That last point is key. Parents and taxpayers need to speak up, speak out, and make the case for school choice. Forcefully. It’s a winning issue.
National and state polling data tracked by the American Federation for Children shows public support for school choice at landslide levels between 65 and 75 percent. And for all you wokester social justice warriors out there, demographically that support is highest among Black respondents at 73 percent. (Or is your real attitude, “Black lives matter, but their opinions not so much”?) Hispanic support is at 71 percent.
Really, the only segment of the population that doesn’t support school choice is the special interests that profit mightily from the public school monopoly system. Breaking up that monopoly is the reform we need for the benefit of both as taxpayers and students. The system we have now, with rising cost and falling test scores is failing both. And so are the Democrats in Montpelier who are placing the demands of special interests above those of their constituents.
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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I gave testimony this week in support of New Hampshire bill HB396 to protect women’s spaces and sports. This is my testimony.
Related: Take Action to Save Women’s Sports in New Hampshire
This is the Live Free or Die state and Governor Sununu made a terrible mistake in 2018 when he signed HB1319, “prohibiting discrimination based on gender identity” into law. He thought he was integrating lunch counters in the deep south but what he was really doing was stripping away the privacy and safety of women and girls.
An estimated 91% of victims of rape and sexual assault are female and 9% male. Nearly 99% of perpetrators are male.
In a Swedish study on a population of individuals who had undergone sex reassignment, the researchers state: “male-to-females . . . retained a male pattern regarding criminality. The same was true regarding violent crime.”
A large percentage of trans-identifying males, also known as “transwomen” are sexually attracted to women. They transition because they have a sexual fetish called autogynephilia. If a person has one sexual fetish they are very likely to have other sexual fetishes.
Here in Nashua, we had a male state rep, Stacie Laughton, who identified as a woman, was sexually attracted to women, and who was charged with soliciting pornographic pictures of local toddlers. Thankfully, he is being housed in a men’s prison.
Should men with autogynephilia and other sexual fetishes be given access to women’s and girls’ spaces of intimate privacy or women’s prisons? Segregation by biological sex can be a good and necessary thing. It’s not like racial segregation.
The Libertarian Party of New Hampshire officially supported HB1319 in 2018. They thought they were giving freedom to trans-identified people but they were really taking away the freedom from businesses and organizations to choose whether or not to allow men to access their women’s restrooms and locker rooms.
Let Planet Fitness choose to allow men into their women’s locker rooms. Women can choose whether or not to join that gym and risk seeing a man undressing or a man watching them undress. Or they can join a gym that respects their need for privacy and safety.
My testimony against HB1319 has been immortalized in the Hulu documentary “Changing the Game” and it is still relevant today.
Do you trust women to use their own intuition about who is safe to be in a women’s restroom or locker room? Do you respect a woman’s right to privacy? Do you respect a woman’s right to protect herself? Do you want to see women left vulnerable in restrooms or locker rooms to sexual assault, especially young girls?
Contact the Senate Judiciary Committee and ask them to vote OTP on HB396, “permitting classification of individuals based on biological sex under certain limited circumstances” at sharon.carson@leg.state.nh.us; William.Gannon@leg.state.nh.us; shannon.chandley@leg.state.nh.us; Becky.Whitley@leg.state.nh.us; Daryl.Abbas@leg.state.nh.us; matthew.schelzi@leg.state.nh.us
“Governor Sununu… thought he was integrating lunch counters in the deep south but what he was really doing was stripping away the privacy and safety of women and girls.” HB396 would allow Granite Staters to acknowledge the reality of sex @BethRS62 #NHPolitics pic.twitter.com/0kf6SxsOIl
— Sidewalk Steve (@Sidewalk_Steve) April 25, 2024
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What the hell is the matter with Goffstown? The latest: A DemocratCommunist State Rep, Judi Lanza, arguably attempting to commit multiple crimes because, apparently, she thinks her position as a State Rep entitles her to shake down local businesses.
And … you can’t make this stuff up … Lanza apparently actually used the “DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM” line when called out for her thuggery:
Don't you dare get in between Rep. Lanza (D-Goffstown) and her scam of getting a drink and not paying for it!
She will quickly let you know who she is and why she is entitled to free stuff from Panera.
She won by 7 votes in 2022.#nhpolitics pic.twitter.com/8dWR8a0qcb
— Committee to Elect House Republicans (@CTEHR) April 26, 2024
Arguably, Lanza attempted to engage in Theft By Extortion, Theft By Deception, and Official Oppression. So I ask again: WHAT THE HELL IS THE MATTER WITH GOFFSTOWN?????
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The New Hampshire Republican Party held its annual meeting in Concord two weeks ago. That was probably a mistake, but the State House is there, so I can guess why they’d think it would be safe. Concord is a city filled with lefties and a few Libertarians, but it is not like there weren’t a bunch of armed citizens present inside at the event.
But they were all indoors.
While they were in their biannual “meeting” (discussing party business), some deranged proglodyte keyed a bunch of cars in the parking lot. Vehicles were reportedly tagged based not on a shadow of a penumbra but Republican-supporting bumper stickers or cars with State Rep. plates. You know, obvious GOP types. I hear there were a few there (snark!).
That sounds like an actual hate crime to me. Tony Schinella at Patch has the best reporting so far.
Lawrence Anthony Dunlap, 37, of South Spring Street in Concord, was arrested on Friday on 11 felony counts of criminal mischief. He was charged after a nearly two week investigation into close to a dozen vehicles that were keyed and damaged around Concord High School during the New Hampshire GOP convention at the school. The party rented the Christa McAuliffe Auditorium and the Main Street corridor for the function. In the early afternoon, when attendees began to leave, many with political license plates, including state representative registrations and political stickers, called police after seeing their vehicles damages.
Soms investigating by City Police, a warrant, and a search of Dunlap’s Residence later “yielded firearms, a manifesto, suicide notes, and a bag containing zip ties, masks, and gloves.” Isn’t this standard junk drawer fare for the average Concord Democrat? Maybe not firearms, but this is the Live Free or Die State, and the Constitution is silent on the right to carry gloves and zip ties, while suicide notes are clearly an act of free speech. I do have to ask. Were the Dunlap scribblings early drafts for shuffling off his own mortal coil, or was he pretending to be Xerox and making copies for others?
That might look bad. A local progressive who was outside (party meeting) was found in possession of abduction paraphernalia and firearms. Imagine the rising din were the report to suggest the opposite. They hated Obama (even Democrats hate Biden) and keyed Democrat cars. Found in possession of abduction material. That’d be a hate crime. The National media would pick that up, “discover” he was Christian for five seconds, and link him to everyone with name recognition in the GOP.
We’d have CNN and MSNBC holding panels and sticking microphones and cameras into politicians’ faces, many of whom would sputter pablum-filled apologies and denounce the dude.
That’s not what happened. The story got covered locally by Patch and NH Journal (and now here), but the only “corporate coverage” of the suspect and the arrest was a paltry 105 or so words from the local ABC affiliate (WMUR) with no mention of a partisan or (even potential) politically driven animus.
I guess that’s what the corporate media meant by unity.
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Many of us have been watching the images of the protests on the Columbia, Yale, and NYU campuses and listening to the alarming stories of Jewish students being harassed or confined to their dorm rooms for safety. The images could be of mass protests in Gaza if the crawler didn’t identify it as Harvard.
It is unnerving to think that our country has sunk to such a low level that antisemitism is spreading faster than COVID. But we were given words of hope and encouragement yesterday as Congresswoman Cortez (D-NY) praised the “peaceful” protests and the brave students exercising their right to gather and protest. Cortez is a buffoon, and the fact that President Biden commended her for her words of clarity is an example that Joe Biden cannot be of sound mind.
The protests against Israel and for Palestinians and Hamas are far from peaceful, and for anyone to say so is a fool. Police are being taunted. Jewish students are harassed, threatened, and told to go home. Illegal encampments have been set up on university real estate, and classes are disrupted, with Jewish students having to attend class via live stream. The irony is when one Jewish student was walking by the demonstration area, they were threatened with inciting violence. That is like saying the person with the black eye is guilty of being in the path of a punch. We have lost our collective minds.
Twenty-two of the top fifty universities in the country have active protests on their campuses. Some administrators have asked police to come onto the campus property to restore peace. Student protestors have been arrested, and non-student agitators are found mingling with the students and trespassing onto school property to join and bolster the pro-Palestinian actions. Some graduations have been canceled because the campuses are not safe. Some members of Congress are calling for presidents of the institutions with protests to resign if they are unable to bring order to their communities and assure safety for the Jewish students. President Biden has yet to make an official statement on the protests. He has given flip answers to media members yelling questions at him but no specific comments during his public appearances. It appears that Biden is hoping to lay low and hope this situation will burn out before he must address it.
Our President’s silence is as complicit to the anti-Israel sentiment as TikTok, `which is calling for violence if changes are not seen in America’s stance on Israel and Palestine.
These protests go well beyond free speech. When students and activists are threatening the safety and well-being of others and screaming, “We are Hamas,” they have lost their rights and should be arrested. Over 200 individuals were taken into custody at Columbia. None of them were booked, photographed, or fingerprinted. They were treated as if their parking meter had expired. We have lost control, and the inmates are running the asylum.
This article came together very quickly. Sadly, I wrote it with frustration and anger at the lack of leadership in our country and the absence of common sense. It is obvious this is a concerted effort across the country to promote hate and antisemitism towards Jewish people. Biden said on Monday that there are good people on both sides of this complex issue. That is exactly the comment that Donald Trump made about Charlottesville that Biden condemned Trump for. What short memory does our President have, or does he not have one at all? We now condemn him for his lack of fortitude to shut these protests down, call them out as hate crimes, and restore peace to these campuses and safety to all students. Maybe he can funnel some of the effort into locking up the January 6 protestors and direct them to find who is responsible for these insurrections.
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This week, my committee met twice on Senate bills. Tuesday we voted on six of them. SB 439, prohibiting boycotts of Israel in state procurement, was the most divisive. I moved to kill the bill, since the committee has long opposed using the state procurement system to make political statements.
After some discussion, the vote was 14-6, with the six not wanting to seem unsupportive of Israel or anti-Semitic. All our other votes were unanimous.
SB 480, on regulation of real estate practice, was amended, as planned, to delete unnecessary sections and passed. SB 437, on local authority to amend the building code, passed without amendment. SB 372, on plumbing apprentices, had the House clarifying amendment to go to two apprentices per master plumber. SB 369, on public notice for professional board meetings, had a committee amendment to only extend the notice period for written comment, then passed. SB 306, on manufactured housing rulemaking authority, was amended to insert the necessary definition of dispute resolution.
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We also discussed SB 485, which would require digital licenses, and realized that it was more complicated than we’d thought. Also, the testimony in favor was from a company that sells such a system, and it wasn’t clear that the interface with other states protected privacy well enough. So we recessed the executive session to prepare an amendment to cut out the digital licenses and just leave the boards’ responsibility to consider and evaluate military training and experience.
Wednesday, we started with SB 481, establishing Juneteenth as an official holiday, not just a proclaimed day. This was a concern to many members, as June 19 is pretty late for many schools, and we were not supportive of interrupting exams. Having an official holiday raised questions of time off (at taxpayer expense) for municipal workers, and how having government workers off when many private sector workers wouldn’t get a holiday was also questionable. We voted unanimously to not pass the bill.
SB 373, on the state building code, had been amended by the Senate to simply require the building code specify that leakage not exceed five air changes per hour. This number has changed several times recently, from seven to three in the 2018 energy code. The 2021 energy code (which we did not recommend) goes back to five; experience with buildings made to three air changes has shown that they build up moisture, favoring mold; chemicals from building materials and cleaning products; and tend to keep pollutants and allergens inside. From testimony, it seems the building code review board didn’t fully evaluate this specification by itself, but only as an element of the energy code; the home builders, who were pushing for the change, had also done a very poor job of presenting it as a stand-alone amendment. We ran out of time to vote on it, but I’m leaning in favor of the change.
Then we spent 3.5 hours hearing SB 440, on the board of optometry. Nationwide, optometrists are working to regularize the profession and increase their scope of practice; the opposition, here as well as elsewhere, comes from the ophthalmologists (eye surgeons.) We had testimony on the training and skills of optometrists, as well as their greater numbers and easier access – New Hampshire has 333 optometrists versus 77 ophthalmologists.
Some of the more important issues I heard were that only some of the optometrists are trained in the procedures they wish to add to their scope of practice – it’s a fairly recent addition, and only 2 of 24 optometry schools in the country are in states that allow optometrists to perform them (and so, get enough practice to actually qualify as trained.) The ophthalmologists report that approximately 13% of these procedures develop complications, and optometrists are not trained in treating these complications (per the ophthalmologists.) The bill is also rather badly written, with a long list of procedures they won’t do and no definition of the ones they want to add to their repertoire. So, off to subcommittee it went!
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Maine just became the 17th state in the nation to sign onto an electoral compact to reward the national popular vote leader, leaving Maine, New Hampshire and many other smaller states at the mercy (or lack thereof) of big blue states like California and New York.
National progressive activists and lobbyist firms hate the Electoral College, and they make absolutely no attempt to hide their disdain for the only institution standing between free and fair elections and national elections decided solely by New York City and Los Angeles County.
As a lifelong voter in a state of 1.4 million people, it scares me to death to think that ultra-progressives could void our votes in ONE county in ONE state.
Imagine it, folks! EV mandates from Gov. Newsome, lawless city streets like we see in Chicago, and mandatory jail time for misgendering an LGBTQIA+ person.
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That is what we have to look forward to after we lose our rights to an opinion, a voice, and a vote.
As a New Hampshire State House Candidate in 2024, I want to personally promise Grok readers in the Laconia area, as well as the entire state, that I will NEVER vote for the Live Free or Die state to join this horrific ultra-progressive power grab.
I would hope that every single republican candidate for office in the upcoming election would stand tall and come out against this publicly and proudly.
If you have any questions or would like to share your concerns, please feel free to email me at Littlefield.vivek2024@gmail.com, and I will respond promptly.
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This is an attempt to “break out” memes, links, and my commentary about the situation in Israel / the Middle East so as to not overload the standard meme posts that I do. My last “normal” meme post. In these Israel-related posts I don’t just have memes such, but lots of informative links as well as hopefully-insightful commentary.
Note that this is not meant to be a day-by-day update about what’s going on. Rather, to highlight uncomfortable truths about the actual nature of the conflict, deep-history background, and so on, as well as to show the at-present immutable nature of Islamic hatred of Jews and why that matters to today’s events.
Also note that these posts generally do not repeat information (e.g., specific links or memes) – so there is a lot of stuff in prior posts. Please do check them out too if this is a topic of interest to you. In reverse chronological order:
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
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Israel: Still More Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
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Israel: Even More Memes, Links, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: More Memes, Links, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Memes and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Memes and Commentary – Granite Grok
With some Israel-related materials here:
Meme Overflow – Granite Grok
Don’t forget my special report on the *cough cough* hardships of pre-Oct 7 “Concentration Camp Gaza”:
Pre-War “Concentration Camp” Gaza – Granite Grok
TOP OF THE FOLD
Iran’s Oil Exports Climb to the Highest Level in 6 Years | OilPrice.com
Not good. Iran is awash in cash these days. Cash to fund this:
Iran Mullahs Speeding Up Nuclear Weapons Program: Anyone Interested? :: Gatestone Institute
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Watch this video and tell me you’d want to give these blood thirsty individuals a state next door.
A question I keep asking.
WAR & WHEN WILL IT END?
From here:
BREAKING: Police investigator reveals 99% of captured Hamas terrorists show no remorse for their heinous acts on October 7th—murder, rape, and kidnapping of Israelis.
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/He_interrogates_Palestinian_terrorists.mp4
Understand, they’re PROUD and HAPPY with their deeds.
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From here – how clerics in Iran are being abused:
This is what Iranians think of the Islamic regime.
Obviously not ALL Iranians, but this is encouraging.
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Battles in the information war – Oct. 7 video shown
Good. Get this idea out there. Israel needs to release that full video.
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“Peace Mediator” Qatar: “October 7th is only the beginning. We will eliminate all the Jews” – Geller Report
They openly say they want Jews dead. Have the moral courage to take them at their word.
ISLAM: PRACTICES, HISTORY, AND MENTALITY
From here:
Oh yes prior to the founding of Israel Jews lived in Nirvana in Arab countries ! Well until pogroms just happened.. LGDN
//:::::::Compare the massacres of Jews on October 7 in Israel with August 7 in Algeria.
In 1934, Arabs slaughtered hundreds of Algerian Jews. Look at how they killed them.
“A scene of utter desolation and horror, of Jewish girls with their breasts cut off, of little children with numerous knife wounds and of whole families locked in their homes and burned to death, was described by a Jewish Telegraphic Agency correspondent, who succeeded in reaching this city today.
“It will take days before the world will obtain a true picture of all the atrocities committed by the Arabs during the pogrom on the Jewish quarter,” the correspondent wired.
“The only comparison I can think of is the Palestine riots of 1929. I found Jewish girls with their breasts cut off, greybearded Jews stabbed to death, little Jewish children dead of
numerous knife wounds and whole famities locked in their homes and burned to death by the rioters.“Just as in Palestine in 1929, the lists of the dead and injured run into the hundreds with no official estimates available. The hospitals are Alled with Jewish victims and the doors of the hospitals are besieged with half-crazed wives and mothers seeking to ascertain whether their loved ones are among the dead or injured, or whether they succeeded in escaping the pogrom bands.
“The Jewish ghetto is heavily guarded by troops, but the ruins are still fresh.and smoking. Many of the houses are completely de-serted. The famous Algerian Jewish families Halini and Dadoun were completely exterminated by the Arab rioters.
“The Jewish printer Attali, whose children were all murdered by Arabs and who was severely injured, as was his wife, told me of the bestialities practiced by the Arabs during the pogrom, which he characterized as worse than the Inquisition in Spain.
“I myself saw two Jewish girls on the verge of death owing to the fact that pogromists cut off their breasts.
“The city is calm now, but the authorities are prepared for renewal of rioting.”LONDON, Aug. 7. – London newspapers reporting the violent massacres which took place in Constantine, Algeria, emphasize that the worst features of the riots were the atrocities committed by the Arabs on the Jewish women and children. Estimates of the dead run to over 100, most of them killed in a brutal fashion.
The newspapers also revealed that most of the Jewish victims were killed by Arab debtors, whe seized upon the riots as a means of ridding themselves of debts owed the Jews.
Marina Medvin
@MarinaMedvin
I knew about Hebron and the Nebi Musa riots; this one’s new to me.
ATROCITIES
From here:
GRAPHIC CONTENT
No Masks!
No Keffiyah scarf!
No military uniform!
These are CIVILIANS who made a choice to kidnap,rape,burn and murder Civilians of ISRAEL.
Note, graphic – link only.
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They murdered the children’s mother in front of their eyes, grabbed her corpse, hit it under the bed and planted explosives around it.
Picture and text there too.
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From here:
DAILY REMINDER
Warning GraphicYes, this is what Hamas did on October 7th.
We will not forget the barbaric evilness of Hamas and the other extremists in Gaza. The evilness must be destroyed otherwise it continues and will come back more evil.
This was the reason the IDF went into Gaza. To destroy Hamas in order to prevent more terror from them. Lets not forget. When Hamas is not finished, the terror, as they say themselves, will continue. All the terrorists must be brought to justice
Also Rafah must fall
Desert Intelligence Unit
@DesertUnit0777
Graphic pics. Be warned.
Atrocity reminder 1
Atrocity reminder 2
Atrocity reminder 3
Atrocity reminder 4
ON INTERSECTIONALITY / LEFTIST SUPPORT
From here:
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/omar-shakes-hands.mp4Rep. Ilhan Omar is seen shaking hands with Khymani James, who openly said that “Zionists don’t deserve to live.”
See related links in the TERROR COMING HERE section.
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From here:
Now they merge transexualism with terrorism.
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/trannies-for-palestine.mp4
PALLYWOOD & MEDIA DISTORTIONS/LIES IN GENERAL
Palestinian Ruling Party Admits: Hamas Steals Aid, Kills Aid Workers in Gaza (breitbart.com)
Who could possibly have thought this could happen?
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DEBUNKED! Palestinians Caught Red-Handed Blaming Their Own Mass Grave on Israel (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Guest Contributor
It’s not just that they lie. It’s that – according to the article – the information was out there and readily available to check. That the enemedia did not do so is very revealing. Remember, about lying in jihad:
Taqiyya: Deception and Lying in Islam (thereligionofpeace.com)
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From here:
The coordinator of government operations in the territories provides data on bakeries in Gaza that have returned to activity.
26 bakeries that produce close to 5 million pita breads a day.
North Gaza: bakeries that produce 2.2 million pita breads a day.
Central Gaza: bakeries that produce 2 million pitas per day.
Southern Gaza: bakeries that produce 715,000 pitas per day.
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/gaza-bakeries-operating.mp4
That’s a lot of pita. Starvation? I don’t think so.
TERROR COMING HERE? TO THE WEST?
And today, visibly Jewish students and persons are being harassed and blocked. And while I take NO JOY in this prediction, I make it nonetheless: this will not be stopped with education, or gentle voices of fact and reason, or counter-protests. The Nazis were stopped by force.
They’re ginning themselves up, with their Antifa allies and fellows, for actual violence. When that inevitably happens, the cost must be high to them. Nothing quite daunts people when they see bullets incoming, and hitting them and people around them.
Again, I do not advocate violence, but – citing the second Lord of the Rings movie, open war is upon us whether we risk it or not.
Get strapped. Get trained. Get informed about the local laws of your state. And I strongly urge getting USCCA coverage in case you do have to shoot to defend yourself.
Also, look up:
Jews For The Preservation of Firearms Ownership (jpfo.org)
Homepage | Jews Can Shoot
I also highly recommend the book by Massad Ayoob:
Deadly Force: Understanding Your Right to Self-Defense, 2nd edition
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Black, non-binary Columbia student leading Gaza Camp protest says ‘Zionists don’t deserve to live’ | The Post Millennial | thepostmillennial.com
He seems nice and open-minded. As do these:
‘JEWS SHOULD DIE’: Here Are Extremist Nazi Student Leaders of the Anti-Jewish ‘Protest’ Camp Bringing Columbia To Its Knees – Geller Report
Related:
What I Saw at Pro-Palestine Ivy League Encampment (dailysignal.com)
Note the last quotation at the bottom. It’s an open alliance – the Green-Red alliance:
Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam And the American Left (2006-02-17) [Paperback]
United in Hate: The Left’s Romance with Tyranny and Terror
TREADING ON THE POLITICAL
US State Department Stabs Israel in the Back, Twists the Knife | World Israel News
Whose side are they on? (Wait, we know.)
Report: Biden Regime Behind Imminent Arrest Warrants for Senior Israel Officials – Geller Report
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White House: There Are ‘Too Many Civilian Casualties’ in Israel’s War, ‘The Number Needs to Be Zero’ (breitbart.com)
Setting a standard no nation can achieve.
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Reports: Steven Spielberg ‘Involved Strategically’ in Biden Campaign (breitbart.com)
Rising to the very definition of “Court Jew”.
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From here:
Liberal Jewish billionaire investor is indicating the direction many American Jews are willing to go in the coming election.
Liberal Jews starting to wake up to their binary choice:
MISCELLANEOUS
Donations to major pro-Palestinian groups go through this Jewish-chaired NY nonprofit | The Times of Israel
This man will be held down and slaughtered when his time comes. He’s a Jew. That’s all that will matter.
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Israel — An Unlikely Pariah in a Dangerous World – American Thinker
Israel is on the frontlines of the fight for Western civilization.
And this is a point I’ve tried to make repeatedly: If the West feeds Israel to Islam, Islam will not be sated but will, instead, have its appetite whetted and increased.
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/key-to-peace-in-the-middle-east.mp4
GIVING SUPPORT TO ISRAEL
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A CONCLUDING THOUGHT FOR THIS POST
The news is full of the protests at universities. And they’re getting violent:
WATCH: Activists Assault Breitbart News Journalist at UCLA ‘Palestine Solidarity Encampment’
They will escalate, and escalate, and it will be the “Summer of Love” with “mostly peaceful” arsons and beatings and murders.
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