While Republicans and Democrats are having a tug of war in defining “marriage,” they have involved the government in a sacred religious ceremony, stepping into unconstitutional territory.

What an incredible difference the 2022 midterm election made for the Republican Party—the one political organization many conservatives rely upon, and hope the party will uphold traditional Christian family values and channel these values through policies and decision-making in Congress.

In recent years, many Americans have come to view the Grand Old Party (GOP) as responsible for “conserving” personal liberties, and the social and moral fabric of the Republic. We look to the GOP as the mature sibling of the Democratic Party, and to safeguard America as our Founding Fathers intended when they framed the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

In mid-November, Republican Reps. Elise Stefanik of New York was re-elected House Republican Conference Chair, and Tom Emmer of Minnesota was elected House Majority Whip.

Congratulations—

I would’ve finished the above sentence but stopped short after learning they voted in favor of legislation proposed by the Democratic Party to codify “same-sex marriage” in federal law.

Stefanik and Emmer were among 47 Republicans in the House of Representatives who joined Democrats in mid-July to pass the “Respect for Marriage Act” (RMA) which would repeal the largely unenforced “Defense of Marriage Act” (DOMA).

Enacted in 1996, DOMA defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman under federal law and allows individual states not to recognize a “same-sex marriage” performed and legally recognized in another state. DOMA also clarifies that a “spouse” is someone of the opposite sex who is a husband or a wife.

In contrast, RMA would recognize under federal law a “marriage” between two individuals performed by a state, and require all other states to recognize that “marriage” regardless of the “sex, race, ethnicity, or national origin of those individuals.”

Furthermore, according to Republican Senator Rob Portman of Ohio, who also voted in favor of RMA, the bill does not authorize the federal government to recognize polygamous marriages.

For now, that is—because there is no bottom to pandora’s “marriage” box and an excellent opportunity for pressure groups and activists to fight for the “right” to a federally recognized “polygamous marriage.”

Some habits are hard to change. For example, Stefanik and Emmer voted in May 2016 among 43 Republicans for an amendment requiring any federal contractor to institute a policy refusing to “discriminate” individuals who identify under the umbrella of “lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender” (LGBT.)

At one point, Stefanik also backed the “Fairness for All Act” (FFAA) in February 2021, a bill that would prohibit “discrimination” based on “sex, sexual orientation, or gender identity, while providing certain benefits and exemptions to religious providers.” However, she eventually withdrew her support after mounting pushback from conservatives who argued that the bill offered minuscule protections for religious liberty.

In effect, the FFAA was a “moderate” version of the “Equality Act” (EA) proposed by the Democratic Party, which aimed to amend the “Civil Rights Act of 1964 to include sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity among the prohibited categories of discrimination or segregation in places of public accommodation.”

The EA would restrict employers with 15 or more employees from “discriminating” them based on “sexual orientation” or “gender identity.” It would also demand that individuals be given access to a “shared facility,” including a restroom or locker room, based on their personal “gender identity.”

Which political party carves America’s path?

One can observe that many Republicans attempt to hinder the pace of America on par towards cultural erosion, often supported by a tide of conservative resistance—but a trajectory they have nonetheless seemingly resigned will come to pass. At the same time, their Democrat counterparts are all too willing to push forward America’s voyage towards moral decline at a much faster rate.

Pressure group lobbyists who advocate for “rights” under the LGBT umbrella channel their activism through the more sympathetic Democratic Party, thus setting the trend of “progress.” At the same time, Republicans find themselves fighting to “conserve” traditional marriage; this struggle, this resistance can seem futile because over 70 percent of Americans say “homosexuality should be accepted” and about 60 percent say “legalization of same-sex marriage is good for society.”

Even Donald Trump, as a Republican, became the first American president to enter office already supporting “same-sex marriage,” calling the act “settled” by the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS.)

The idea of marriage—that is, the psychological and emotional benefits and economic advantages of a monogamous union between a man and a woman—must regain momentum at the grassroots level. It must be “sold” to emerging youth as “progress” towards good mental health and financial stability. The desire for children will naturally follow to a lesser or greater extent. But such a, dare I say, radical idea must be viewed by the target population as “progress” in their pursuit of happiness and not “going backwards.”

Thus, the Republican Party could go on the offense insofar as supporting pro-marriage and pro-family initiatives at a local level. But, unless there is a radical change among Republican lawmakers in the next few years, it might take at least a decade to educate an uprising of Americans who enter the GOP with a commitment towards upholding the moral backbone of society—and the Constitution.

Is DOMA or RMA even constitutional? We note that twelve Republicans in the Senate helped to advance a final vote for RMA in late November. But since the bill’s text differs from that passed in mid-July, it must return to the House of Representatives for an additional vote.

Let us not forget that New York Democrat Rep. Jerrold Nadler introduced RMA with claims to repeal the federal statute DOMA “and ensure respect for State regulation of marriage, and for other purposes.”

Interestingly, the SCOTUS had already ruled that DOMA was unconstitutional in 2013 (United States v. Windsor) and then again in 2015 (Obergefell v. Hodges.) Furthermore, regardless of the desire to codify “marriage” as a union between any two individuals in federal law, the “Full Faith and Credit Clause” of the Constitution addresses the duty that all states have to respect the “public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other state.” In other words, passing DOMA in the first place did not change what is already enshrined in one of America’s founding documents.

With the above said, even if a Supreme Court rules a state or federal statute as unconstitutional, that statute still exists—what changes are how courts, prosecutors and judges will proceed when evaluating whether to execute that particular statute. Thus, RMA merely cleans the DOMA federal statute that the SCOTUS already struck down on two separate occasions.

The biggest problem with RMA and DOMA is driving away the idea of marriage from a religious context and forcing the state to “recognize legal marriage.”

Is this idea entirely new? No.

If we dig back in time, we learn about anti-miscegenation laws criminalizing interracial marriages from the late 17th century through the late 1960s, until the SCOTUS ruled such laws unconstitutional via the 14th Amendment adopted in the late 19th century.

So here’s another radical thought.

How about We, the People, do not allow the government to define marriage?

Period.

 

 

Cameron Keegan writes at The Blue State Conservative 

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Remember Gibson’s Bakery? An Oberlin College Dean led a Social Justice war on a local small business. They created a crime fabricated a narrative to substantiate it then tried to ruin the Bakery.

 

They protested and spread flyers labeling the white family that owns (Gibson’s) as racist for stopping shoplifting students of color. It affected their business, and they are suing the College and select staff who they claim abetted the defamation.

 

In early 2019 the courts found Oberlin guilty and complicit in the smear. The total price tag rang up at around 31 million dollars. Oberlin began to appeal, and appeal, and drag out the process. They wanted anything but to pay for what the #woke little college had done – lead by a dean on the social justice warpath. A dean no one tried to reign in until after they were sued.

Ultimately, David Gibson and his father (Granpa) would pass away before the bill was paid, but they lived to hear the verdict, and the Gibson family and their business finally got their money.

 

The last we checked in on Gibson’s Bakery v. Oberlin College, the Ohio Supreme Court refused to hear Oberlin College’s appeal, ending the college’s fight to overturn the massive jury verdict. The $25 million verdict plus interest and attorney’s fees resulted in an almost $32 million judgment, with interest running at about $4000 per day since June 2019. In all, over $36 million was owed, secured by an appeal bond.

 

The interest charged is a nice touch, and I’m not familiar enough to know if that’s normal, but bravo. By delaying those snide, #woke, liberal-privilege bastages lost another five million.

Legal Insurrection has interviews if you are interested.

 

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It is not wrong for former members of our Intel community to support political candidates, including men or women, running for President. The problem, or issue, with the 51 former No-tel hacks listed below is that they conspired, lied, and still stuck by or hid from the letter of misinformation they all signed.

That letter claimed that the Hunter Biden laptop did not exist and that the idea was a product of Russian misinformation. This letter was used by politicians and the media to gaslight the public and to hide the reality that would have harmed Biden’s Presidential run. This letter was written on October 19, 2020, just weeks before the 2020 Presidential Election. Documents prove the FBI took possession of the Hunter Biden laptop in December 2019. The laptop that did not exist, according to these 51 individuals, had been in FBI headquarters for nearly a year. None of these lying former American spies will retract their claim.

I will not try and speculate who coordinated this letter and its impact on the election. The hearings will start in January, and let’s see who of the 51 are willing to lie under oath. These men need to be held accountable for their actions. It is the only way to restore some credibility in our government. That credibility was destroyed by the Lois Lerners and James Comeys of the swamp, who broke the rules, got caught, and retired with full benefits. We only need to be patient for a few weeks. January 3rd, the fun starts, and the onion gets peeled.

The Embarrassing Former Intel Hacks

John Brennan, former CIA director, now analyst for NBC and MSNBC: Didn’t respond.

Thomas Fingar, former National Intelligence Council chair, now teaches at Stanford University: Didn’t respond.

Rick Ledgett, former National Security Agency deputy director, now a director at M&T Bank: Didn’t respond.

John McLaughlin, former CIA acting director, now teaches at Johns Hopkins University: Didn’t respond.

Michael Morell, former CIA acting director, now at George Mason University: Didn’t respond.

Mike Vickers, former defense undersecretary for intelligence, now on board of BAE Systems: Didn’t respond.

Doug Wise, former Defense Intelligence Agency deputy director, teaches at University of New Mexico: Didn’t respond.

Nick Rasmussen, former National Counterterrorism Center director, now executive director, Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism: Didn’t respond.

Russ Travers, former National Counterterrorism Center acting director: “The letter explicitly stated that we didn’t know if the emails were genuine, but that we were concerned about Russian disinformation efforts. I spent 25 years as a Soviet/Russian analyst. Given the context of what the Russians were doing at the time (and continue to do — Ukraine being just the latest example), I considered the cautionary warning to be prudent.”

Andy Liepman, former National Counterterrorism Center deputy director: “As far as I know I do [stand by the statement] but I’m kind of busy right now.”

John Moseman, former CIA chief of staff: Didn’t respond.

Larry Pfeiffer, former CIA chief of staff, now senior advisor to The Chertoff Group: Didn’t respond.

Jeremy Bash, former CIA chief of staff, now analyst for NBC and MSNBC: Didn’t respond.

Rodney Snyder, former CIA chief of staff: Didn’t respond.

Glenn Gerstell, former National Security Agency general counsel: Didn’t respond.

David Priess, former CIA analyst and manager: “Thank you for reaching out. I have no further comment at this time.”

Pam Purcilly, former CIA deputy director of analysis: Didn’t respond.

Marc Polymeropoulos, former CIA senior operations officer: Didn’t respond.

Chris Savos, former CIA senior operations officer: Didn’t respond.

John Tullius, former CIA senior intelligence officer: Didn’t respond.

David A. Vanell, former CIA senior operations officer: Didn’t respond.

Kristin Wood, former CIA senior intelligence officer, now non-resident fellow, Harvard: Didn’t respond.

David Buckley, former CIA inspector general: Didn’t respond.

Nada Bakos, former CIA analyst and targeting officer, now senior fellow, Foreign Policy Research Institute: Didn’t respond.

Patty Brandmaier, former CIA senior intelligence officer: Didn’t respond.

James B. Bruce, former CIA senior intelligence office: Didn’t respond.

David Cariens, former CIA intelligence analyst: Didn’t respond.

Janice Cariens, former CIA operational support officer: Didn’t respond.

Paul Kolbe, former CIA senior operations officer: Didn’t respond.

Peter Corsell, former CIA analyst: Didn’t respond. 

Brett Davis, former CIA senior intelligence officer: Didn’t respond.

Roger Zane George, former national intelligence officer: Didn’t respond.

Steven L. Hall, former CIA senior intelligence officer: Didn’t respond.

Kent Harrington, former national intelligence officer: Didn’t respond.

Don Hepburn, former national security executive, now President of Boanerges Solutions LLC: “My position has not changed any. I believe the Russians made a huge effort to alter the course of the election . . . The Russians are masters of blending truth and fiction and making something feel incredibly real when it’s not. Nothing I have seen really changes my opinion. I can’t tell you what part is real and what part is fake, but the thesis still stands for me, that it was a media influence hit job.”

Timothy D. Kilbourn, former dean of CIA’s Kent School of Intelligence Analysis: Didn’t respond.

Ron Marks, former CIA officer: Didn’t respond.

Jonna Hiestand Mendez, former CIA technical operations officer, now on board of the International Spy Museum: “I don’t have any comment. I would need a little more information.”

Emile Nakhleh, former director of CIA’s Political Islam Strategic Analysis Program, now at University of New Mexico: “I have not seen any information since then that would alter the decision behind signing the letter. That’s all I can go into. The whole issue was highly politicized and I don’t want to deal with that. I still stand by that letter.”

Gerald A. O’Shea, former CIA senior operations officer: Didn’t respond.

Nick Shapiro, former CIA deputy chief of staff and senior adviser to the director: Didn’t respond.

John Sipher, former CIA senior operations officer: Declined to comment.

Stephen Slick, former National Security Council senior director for intelligence programs:

Didn’t respond. 

Cynthia Strand, former CIA deputy assistant director for global issues: Didn’t respond.

Greg Tarbell, former CIA deputy executive director: Didn’t respond.

David Terry, former National Intelligence Collection Board chairman: Couldn’t be reached.

Greg Treverton, former National Intelligence Council chair, now senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies: “I’ll pass. I haven’t followed the case recently.”

Winston Wiley, former CIA director of analysis: Couldn’t be reached.

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You can never tell with long-range forecasts, but the 14-day forecast for most of the US shows a mass of cold air and snow in places that don’t typically see it around December 25th. Yes, it looks like a white Christmas is headed our way, bringing cold air with it.

 

Coldest Christmas with most widespread snow over since 2000 IMO.
GEFS Christmas temp anomalies vs 2000, and enemble snow before that. Impressive for an ensemble that far out. Coldest DN -24 pic.twitter.com/TLJeieFAZ6

— Joe Bastardi (@BigJoeBastardi) December 12, 2022

 

Joe Bastardi has been pretty good at this (it’s his business), so while not gospel, it’s better than your average local news forecast, except for the finer details with which the locals have a spotty record.

And we’ve got this.

 

Maybe the coldest holiday period for the US in many years pic.twitter.com/B0n7t1VXcO

— Chigeorge (@Chigeorge72) December 12, 2022

 

Do all the signs point to a very cold US the week and day of Christmas?

I checked a few long-range weather pages across the interwebs (nobody special), and they say Christmas and the surrounding days are not usually cold or precipitous. One predicts heavy rain.

And yet another says snow showers and chilly while (yet another) says extreme cold and heavy snow.

Fourteen days is a long time, and we won’t know until it arrives.

It kind of puts a bright light on all that by 2030, by 2050 nonsense, yes? But I’ll take a white Christmas any year. It’s not like I’m going anywhere that day (as long as I have internet).

 

 

HT | WUWT

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I think we can all agree that the NHGOP is failing and needs new leadership. Chairman Stepanek and Vice Chairman Tucker are not seeking re-election, which has opened the field to a variety of new candidates, with more likely forthcoming.

As a state committee member, I’m considering my options based on the following criteria: fundraising capabilities, messaging and marketing plans, strategy ideas, and vision for youth outreach.

Notice I have not included any political ideals. Party leadership does not need to closely agree with my personal politics because they do not create governmental policy. In fact, I’m not sure I want to know what their specific political views are because I want leaders to be neutral. To win, the NHGOP must be a big tent organization and leaders cannot alienate any faction of the party. My biggest issue with current leadership is their lack of impartiality. Leaders should not get involved in day-to-day politics of the state and should remain neutral to all Republicans.

FUNDRAISING CAPABILITIES

It’s no secret that the NHGOP was massively outspent by the NHDP. I have sat back and tried to figure out where the Democrats are getting their seemingly unlimited quantities of money, and while it might be through fraudulent means like FTX or some Ukrainian money-laundering scheme, the fact remains that we cannot win if we are outspent 20-1, as in the US Senate race. This is not something I’m personally good at, so I don’t have the answers, but I need to hear some type of vision for how to get the money.

MESSAGING AND MARKETING

The Democrats aren’t campaigning the way they used to. They aren’t taking the swing voter lists that we all have and creating nice messages about their plans for the future. They are marketing to new voters, or those I refer to as the “garbage can” voters. There has always been a large group of people that don’t vote. They tend to be apolitical, have zero political or economic knowledge, but Democrats have made them come out to vote more and more each election. Democrats employ a single message, not multiple messages, to this group of people. The message is not what the Democrats will do, but an attack against the other side, leaving Republicans constantly on the ropes, in defense mode. This year, it was “Republicans want to ban abortion”. This is a brilliant message because it’s not a lie. Republicans DO want to ban abortion; it’s in the platform. They have no practical plans to do so, but that’s too subtle a concept for this group of voters. We need our message to be an attack against the other side in the same manner. It needs to create a visceral response, and it needs to be simple, with enough truth in it.

STRATEGY

From my observations, Democrats had a sophisticated ground game. They had observers in many districts marking off voters as they arrived, and teams ready to deploy and pull voters out as the day went on. In other states, they have employed elaborate means of taking advantage of early and mail in voting. While both of those options were illegal in NH this past election cycle, they still aggressively pushed absentee voting and same day registration. Republicans find this distasteful because it feels unethical. I agree with the sentiment, and I hope to change laws in the future to tighten this up, but we cannot wait for that day to come. We must fight fire with fire. Republicans have had this defeatist mentality that elections are fraudulent, and they sit around and cry about it. I’m not saying zero illegal activity occurs, but it’s the unethical behavior, such as pushing same day registration, absentee voting, mail in voting, and early voting that is flipping elections in the left’s favor. I want NHGOP leadership to not only understand this, but be able to articulate it to the base and have a plan to do the same thing, so we don’t continue to lose. We cannot govern if we cannot win.

YOUTH OUTREACH

It is clear from exit polls nationally that Gen Z destroyed the red wave. I argue that the likely swing voters did break for us over the economy, just as polling suggested. But pollsters can’t poll those who don’t usually vote, and the 18-30 crowd doesn’t usually vote. Estimates suggest that the 2022 election was the second highest voter turnout for this age group in the last three decades. The reality is that the NHGOP completely ignored this group. I shockingly found out that the NHGOP doesn’t even have a list of the College Republican chapters in this state. You know that the NHDP not only has such a list, but they also have that group mobilized. Republicans laughed when Biden invited Tik Tok influencers to the White House, but we shouldn’t laugh; we should be doing the same thing. Tik Tok and Instagram are where the kids hang and NHGOP has obligatory accounts, but they don’t use them in any way to reach outside of their own echo chamber. I want to hear a serious social media strategy and a concrete plan to engage Gen Z from any NHGOP leadership candidate.

In short, a simple “I’ve been around and have experience” isn’t a good sell for my vote for NHGOP leadership. Your “experience” is likely from an outdated playbook. I know these are usually volunteer positions, but they are critical positions, and I am desperately hoping to see innovation and inspiration.

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There are few, if any, facets of the Climate Cult mythology we’ve not debunked. It’s fun and easy, but one of the latest lies is that the government can get us to Net Zero carbon emissions. We’ve covered some of that too, but what I’m about to share should end all debate. It can’t be done, even if we needed it.

Related: Net-Zero Reality: There Are Not Enough Resources To Make the Batteries and Replace Them Every Ten Years

Willis Eschenbach has a must-read post with updates at Watts Up With That that is worth your time. It is titled “Bright Green Impossibilities,” and it’s all about the math.

 

 I got to thinking about how impossible it will be for us to do what so many people are demanding that we do. This is to go to zero CO2 emissions by 2050 by getting off of fossil fuels.

So let’s take a look at the size of the problem. People generally have little idea just how much energy we get from fossil fuels.

 

Willis calculates our energy bottom line and then tries to determine how much of any or all the other alternatives we’d need to keep up.

 

So if we are going to zero emissions by 2050, we will need to replace about 193 petawatt-hours (1015 watt-hours) of fossil fuel energy per year. Since there are 8,766 hours in a year, we need to build and install about 193 PWhrs/year divided by 8766 hrs/year ≈ 22 terawatts (TW, or 1012 watts) of energy generating capacity.

 

You can take the entire walk with him if you’d like, but after pouring out some frighteningly impossible numbers and responding to commenter input, the bill comes due.

 

To summarize: to get the world to zero emissions by 2050, our options are to build, commission, and bring online either:

• One 2.1 gigawatt (GW, 109 watts) nuclear power plant each and every day until 2050, OR

• 4000 two-megawatt (MW, 106 watts) wind turbines each and every day until 2050 plus a 2.1 GW nuclear power plant each and every day until 2050, assuming there’s not one turbine failure for any reason, OR

• 100 square miles (250 square kilometres) of solar panels each and every day until 2050 plus a 2.1 GW nuclear power plant each and every day until 2050, assuming not one of the panels fails or is destroyed by hail or wind.

 

It can’t be done. It’s a lie, and anyone connected to the energy industry (green or reliable) who tells you otherwise is lying. As was noted, we could get closer with nuclear, but not by 2050, and no one’s declaring a state of emergency to build any nuke plants – not that we’d get there from here if we started today instead of two years ago when Willis did the initial math (and those things aren’t cheap either).

Related: Anyone Who Supports Net-Zero Should Be Required to Address these Concerns (And Not Just Because they Can’t)

There also isn’t enough landmass for wind or solar to achieve those numbers, and no one wants to build nuke plants to back them up.

And we’ve not even touched on the cost. The Global Climate Cult has already wasted trillions if the goal is lowering CO2 emissions to go backward. If that’s not proof that they are the least qualified for the job, if it was even one that needed doing, then this should be. “Top consulting firm McKinsey has calculated that the net-zero emissions targets set by global governments and championed by the United Nations would cost the public a staggering $275 trillion by 2050, or around $30 billion per day for the next 25 years.”

That is probably a lowball number, especially without inflationary forces and supply and demand price pressures which would be enormous.

And then there’s that other emissions elephant in the room. The actual carbon cost of all the things that need doing to make all the things that are supposed to get us to Net Zero. You can’t make any of those things without coal. There aren’t enough rare earth metals to do it or, even based on the most forgiving estimates, replace the first round of batteries when they inevitably fail ten years later (or less).

None of this works without batteries.

Then there’s the energy or carbon cost of disposing of all those bits, little or none of which is recyclable.

And none of this math attempts to find electricity to do those things, so there’s that problem as well.

The solution to the problem of Net Zero is admitting they made it up, we don’t need it, and even if we did, it can’t be done. It’s a lie. When you encounter it out in the wild, show them Willis’ math.

It’s a long shot, but maybe they’ll begin to wonder about other possible lies.

 

 

HT | WUWT

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When it comes to Democrats, what you get never aligns with the shiny brochure of narratives they sell you – it’s usually the opposite. Take Black Lives Matter. Since the Summer of  2020, The Left couldn’t shut up about it, but since then, black men have been dying at a record-setting pace.

It’s as if they missed the memo about Black Lives Mattering, though I’m not sure how they could.

 

A study by the JAMA Network Open journal concluded that gun homicide rates among black men have exploded. The study concluded that about 55 black men were killed by firearms per 100,000, far beyond any other demographic group in America.

These numbers match those seen in the early 1990s, when violent crime was generally much higher. Nearly two decades of declining violent crime rates were wiped out in just a few years.

 

Some black lives must matter more than others.

Since the Left controls the narrative, this is NOT the result of Democrat-Run Urban Hellscape Planning. Reductions in policing can’t possibly be the reason for more crime – that’s just some white Republican conspiracy.

Second, since Democrats and their cities have common sense gun control, black men breaking those laws to shoot other black men the politicians have “disarmed” is not their fault. And Third, wacky Soros District Attorney’s dropping cash bail, refusing to prosecute criminals, and letting convicts out of jail has nothing to do with rising crime or homicide in the Black Community.

The problem is white people. They don’t shoot each other enough, the racists.

If the crackers spent more time using their white brothers for target practice like they do in Appalachia, all these black men killing each other wouldn’t look so bad.

 

And this, my god. The rate of gun homicides among Black men is right back to where it was at the height of the early 90’s wave of violence. Keep that in mind the next time someone tries to minimize the current resurgence. pic.twitter.com/GTFRzWCL5l

— Alec MacGillis (@AlecMacGillis) November 30, 2022

 

Alec MacGillis, he’s a white guy. He’s spreading rumors you could fix with a sharpie. Add a tail to the end of those other lines, and you get diversity and equity: nothing to see here. It’s all gun violence (despite the Lefty common sense laws) so there’s no other problem to solve except for the black community noticing how much worse things have gone for them since Democrats started saying, Black Lives Matter.

 

 

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Bill Gates recently got “the band” back together to play that “what if” a global pandemic board game he fancies. The last one was Event 201, and we all know how that turned out. This time the “virus” has a “higher fatality rate than COVID-19 and disproportionately affecting children and young people.”

I don’t mean to sound conspiratorial but talk about showing everyone your hand. They are coming for the children.

 

The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, in partnership with WHO and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, conducted Catastrophic Contagion, a pandemic tabletop exercise at the Grand Challenges Annual Meeting in Brussels, Belgium, on October 23, 2022.

The extraordinary group of participants consisted of 10 current and former Health Ministers and senior public health officials from Senegal, Rwanda, Nigeria, Angola, Liberia, Singapore, India, Germany, as well as Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

The exercise simulated a series of WHO emergency health advisory board meetings addressing a fictional pandemic set in the near future. Participants grappled with how to respond to an epidemic located in one part of the world that then spread rapidly, becoming a pandemic with a higher fatality rate than COVID-19 and disproportionately affecting children and young people.

Participants were challenged to make urgent policy decisions with limited information in the face of uncertainty. Each problem and choice had serious health, economic, and social ramifications. 

 

Motivations?

COVID didn’t wipe out enough aging baby boomers, and while the “cure” is severely damaging to the 18-49 age group, kids are the real problem. If you want to depopulate, wiping out an entire generation or two would get it done. With no one around to care for the elderly or infirm, they’d go away on their own.

And I know it sounds crazy, but it’s not a stretch after the last few years. The last response did more harm than the virus. We can’t expect better, nor can we assume that was not the point. The best response may be to end these WHO/Gates gaming sessions.

Here’s the simulation ad for the elite’s latest extinction event war game.

 

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Everyone in your office should be ashamed of themselves for not taking the porn in our schools and public libraries’ children’s section seriously! Mr. Formella, you need to pay attention to your constituents and step up and follow/uphold the laws on child porn now before more children are ruined.

Dover New Hampshire Adult Content City Ordinance

I am formally requesting an investigation and want an explanation for why you won’t investigate. The last request was sent to the governor’s office and dismissed.

Follow LA AGs lead… So far, over 50 +books have been identified in Dover that meet the legal definition of adult content. There are hundreds more. This is all over the state!!!!! If you’re not stopping this, then you’re enabling it.

Here’s a partial list of School Board and library-approved books. There are over 50 located mostly in the teen section of the library and schools. More are added every day!

The shortlist, rating and location. DPLT is Dover public library teen section. Ratings are based on movie ratings, with 3-5 recommendations for those over 18.

Look them up on ratedbooks.org for details on content…

Reference: Applicable Laws in NH

Gender queer, DPLT R4 Flamer, DHS, DPLT, R3 Let’s talk about it, DPLT, R4 Here and queer, DPLT NYR Sold, Patrick McCormick, DPLT R5 Sex is a funny word, DPL children’s R4 Last night at the telegraph, DHS, R4 This one summer, mariko tamaki, DMS, underage sex /oral sex R3 Lucky, By Alice sebold DPL, R5, explicit details of an adult raping a child It’s perfectly normal, Robbie Harris* DMS, NYR, Images of people in the middle of masturbation and homo- and heterosexual sex. Fun home, DPLT, R4 All boys aren’t blue, George Johnson, DHS R4 Jack of hearts and other parts, R5 We are ants , Shaun Hutchinson, NYR, sexual content, rape masturbation, pornography Melissa/George, Alex Gino DMS r2 What girls are made of , Elena Arnold R4 Lawn boy, Johnathan evason, DPLT R3 Out of darkness DHS, R3 L8r g8r, R3 Weird girl NYR Bone, HSS, GES, DMS, NYR violent, killing parents The bluest eye, tony Morrison DHS, R4 Seeing gender DMS, NYR, chapter on sex work “is not a bad term” The hate you give DMS, DHS, r3 The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie DMS, DHS The author Sherman Alexie was accused of sexual harassment in 2018 and did not deny the charges. There is alcohol abuse People are burned alive. A man is shot in the face. There is a lot of fighting and getting beat up Characters frequently swear and use racial slurs. The “N” word is used. The main character gets an erection while hugging a school counselor. Asking for It by Louise O’Neill DHS, NYR Burned by Ellen Hopkins, DPLT R3 Crank by Ellen Hopkins, DPLT R4 Fallout by Ellen Hopkins DHS, R3 Impulse by Ellen Hopkins DHS, R3 People Kill People by Ellen Hopkins, DPLT R4 Perfect by Natasha Friend DMS, DHS, R4 Tilt by Ellen Hopkins DHS, R4 Traffick by Ellen Hopkins DHS, r5 Tricks by Ellen Hopkins DHS, R5, The book Tricks is all about 15-year-old prostitutes. You’re not disturbed by the fact that it encouraged kids to be OK with their fathers molesting them and then becoming prostitutes. A Court of Mist & Fury by Sarah J. Maas DHS, R4 Living dead girl, Elizabeth Scott DHS, R3 The haters, Jesse Andrews DHS, NYR Push, sapphire, DPLT R5 This book is gay, R3 Heartstopper vol 1-4, DMS, DHS, NYR Fade, Lisa mcmann DHS, R3 date rape between teachers and students. Fallout (Crank #3) – Ellen Hopkins DHS, R3 Almost Perfect – Brian Katcher, DPLT, R4 Forever… – Judy Blume , DHS, R4 Breathless – Jennifer Niven, DHS, R4 Twisted – Laurie Anderson , DPLT R4 My Friend Dahmer – Derf Backderf , DPLT, R3 Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging – Louise Rennison DPLT, R4 Red Hood – Elana Arnold , DPLT R4 TTYL – Lauren Myracle , DPLT, R3 The Art of Racing in the Rain – Garth Stein , DPLT R4 Impulse – Ellen Hopkins DPLT R4 Neanderthal Opens the Door to the Universe – Preston Norton Nineteen Minutes – Jodi Picoult DPLT R3 The Carnival at Bray – Jessie Ann Foley DPLT R3 The Haters – Jesse Andrews, DHS, R4 The Midnight Lie – Marie Rutkoski DHS, R3 The Nowhere Girls – Amy Reed DPLT Julie P. Dover NH

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Puzzle provided by BestCrosswords.com Tom Bowler

They’re flying so thick and fast it is amazing.  And take heart – there will be a Meme Overflow and I will back-edit to include the link.  And there will likely be a Friday Meme Overflow-Overflow.  Last week’s Overflow-Overflow.

Remember, ridicule and mockery are effective weapons:

1. Ridicule cannot easily be fought
2. Ridicule makes the enemy angry, and angry people make mistakes
3. For those in the “squishy middle” a Thought Splinter (and Part II and Part III and Part IV) can often be hidden inside humor.

Now, let the mockery and mayhem begin.

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

 

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But first, a random sampling of three of my cartoons.  Please note these are my concepts but I pay a professional to do them.

 

 

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Buy the T-shirt!

 

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As we edge in towards spicy time, please do look at my PREP-oriented posts.  The latest:

Survival Sunday – PREP Edition – Granite Grok

 

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https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/war-zone-girl.mp4

 

Coming soon to a neighborhood near you.

 

 

 

Functionally, we have no border:

 

NEW: Thermal drone video from our team in Eagle Pass, TX shows a large group of migrants crossing illegally into private property early this morning.
Per CBP source, there have been over 1,400 illegal crossings in the Del Rio sector in the last 24 hours & 69,000 since 10/1. pic.twitter.com/N1FjKVVuDa

— Bill Melugin (@BillFOXLA) November 17, 2022

 

BREAKING: A huge migrant caravan of over 1,000 people crossed illegally into El Paso, TX last night, making it the largest single group we have ever seen. The city of El Paso reports Border Patrol now has over 5,000 in custody & has released hundreds to city streets. @FoxNews pic.twitter.com/ewUQX757Lt

— Bill Melugin (@BillFOXLA) December 12, 2022

 

Slimy NGOs Sent Tens of Thousands of Illegal Aliens to All 50 States  – Big League Politics

Remember, long term, this GREAT REPLACEMENT is the plan to create a forever-majority for the Left.  Added bonus: the chaos that ensues will be fertile loam for the globalists to offer the “benevolent” hand of Socialism as the savior.  Socialistopia needs its foundation.

 

 

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Who remembers that video of that little girl – 3?  4? – staring at that almost-nude drag show freak in Florida who takes her hand and parades her around?  To the cheers of the oh-so-woke crowd?

Now do every other state.  Great idea.  Related:

 

 

 

Hear my prayer, oh Saint of San Andreas.

 

 

 

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Now we just need sheriffs with the stones to enforce this.  And governors and legislators too.

 

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The Apartheid Libel to Destroy Israel :: Gatestone Institute

Let’s hear from people who actually lived under apartheid:

 

 

 

More, topical:

 

 

You must understand… hatred of Jews is hard-coded into the Koran (more here).  This is not about “sharing”, it’s about reconquest.  Per the Koran, even one square inch that once belonged to Islam MUST be recaptured for Islam.  And then onward.  “Christian Nationalists” who like the Arabs because of their Jew-hatred better understand… you’re next.

First Saturday, then Sunday.

 

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Pick of the post:

 

 

Wait… wait… corruption in the EU?  Piles of cash stuffed in drawers you say?  Say it ain’t so, Joe Nigel!

A short video from Nigel about this:

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/16-MEPs-caught-2022.mp4

 

I don’t recall where I saw it, years ago, but it was a new take on the old proverb that power corrupts.  It was to the effect that power attracts those that are corruptible.  More and more it looks like governments today, globally, are one big money laundering scheme.

 

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A Bill Whittle video on the Twitter revelations.

Let the Hearings Begin! Elon Musk Drops ‘The Twitter Files’ (Should House GOP Issue Subpoenas?) – Bill Whittle

Yes, absolutely.  But let’s suppose there is absolute confirmation of Dem and FBI and other corruption in this… like we already know, but it’s in the open.  Then I ask SO WHAT?

Will the FBI be disbanded?  Will the election be undone?  Will the vast majority of the sheeple even care?

No, no, and no.

 

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Palate Cleansers:

 

 

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With the rise of impossible foods like fake meat, we are getting much less than advertised. The phony meat, its fake benefits to the climate or the planet, and now, according to new research, phony nutrition.

Related: Fake Meat-Fraud Prediction – They’ll Market it Like COVID Vaccines and Hide What’s Bad About It.

From Science Daily.

 

‘Among these products, we saw a wide variation in nutritional content and how sustainable they can be from a health perspective. In general, the estimated absorption of iron and zinc from the products was extremely low. This is because these meat substitutes contained high levels of phytates, antinutrients that inhibit the absorption of minerals in the body,’ says Cecilia Mayer Labba, the study’s lead author, who recently defended her thesis on the nutritional limitations of switching from animal protein to plant-based protein.

 

I’m guessing that the FDA is too busy trying to regulate vitamins and supplements to keep people from self-treating or embracing homeopathic medicine (which they are) to take up the suspicious nutritional claims of fake meat mongers. But Chalmers University and Dr. Cecilia Mayer Labba, Ph.D., think they should.

 

‘It is clear that when it comes to minerals in meat substitutes, the amount that is available for absorption by the body is a very important consideration. You cannot just look at the list of ingredients. Some of the products we studied are fortified with iron but it is still inhibited by phytates. We believe that making nutrition claims on only those nutrients that can be absorbed by the body could create incentives for the industry to improve those products,’ says Ann-Sofie Sandberg, Professor of Food and Nutrition Science at Chalmers and co-author of the study.

 

I agree as long as we add that the processing is far from “green,” as is the product. Making “meat” from plants requires increased agriculture, which has been on the CO2 naughty list for decades. From earth-churning releases of CO2 to machinery emissions to fertilizer algae bloom and issues with storage, transportation, and processing, the level of framing needed to replace real meat is anything but green.

The sudden embrace of plant-based meats stinks like yesterday’s (and today’s) green energy addiction. The latter is less about saving the planet and more about crippling the fossil fuel energy industry, which leans right politically. By green, they mean money; more for theirs and less for yours. Using fear to wipe out revenue streams to their political opponents comes with the territory.

Real meat is not a health risk (certainly not the one they advertise) and provides proteins and nutrients you can’t get anywhere else. But if the result of the push toward fake meat means lower nutrition, the Dems don’t care – unless requiring better nutrition from faux meat gets them something else they want.

 

 

HT | Science Daily

 

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Senator Bradley,

I just watched your 10-minute conversation with Adam Sexton and was taken by a comment you made in the very last minute:

“as we have done in lowering property taxes…”

The way I understand those words is that you implied that lowering property taxes has been done. I am looking at my current bill, due December 20, and it is more than three times that of any previous bill! Please explain to me how you (presumably meaning the previous legislature) LOWERED property taxes. Clearly, there is a mismatch between what you said has happened and what has actually happened! I would like an answer please, not just for myself but for the whole city, Rosenwald’s people included.

Julie Smith
Nashua

 

 

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Religious conscience won another victory in Federal Court last Friday. Following a Fifth Circuit Court ruling in August, the Eight Circuit has declared that Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act could not force religious doctors or hospitals that receive federal funding to perform gender transitions.

The courts permanently blocked enforcement of the Team Biden interpretation.

 

Catholic nuns, clinics, a university, and hospitals were among the plaintiffs in the case, represented by the Becket Fund. The plaintiffs all provide medical care for transgender patients but refuse to provide gender-transition surgeries because they believe them to be harmful. Their grant of permanent injunctive relief from the lower court was preserved Friday.

 

The case is “The Religious Sisters of Mercy; Sacred Heart Mercy Health Care Center, (Alma, MI); SMP Health System; University of Mary; Catholic Benefits Association; Diocese of Fargo; Catholic Charities of North Dakota; Catholic Medical Association vs. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of the United States Department of Human Services (etc.).

The question relates to enrolled anti-discrimination protections provided in Title IX into an interpretation of rule 1557 from the Affordable Care Act (prohibiting discrimination in health care), balanced against the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

Long story short, this debate has been ongoing for six years, but the Biden Admin’s interpretation led to the most recent ruling. They wanted to control federal funding for Medicaid/Medicare-type coverage based on whether facilities were willing to perform gender transitions. If the answer was no transitions, the Feds might or could deny any federal money or coverage for treatments at the facility and follow with litigation.

HHS determined that just about everyone in the medical community was bound by Rule 1557, filtered through Title IX and Title VII, and could decide if violations on a case-by-case basis. Given the government’s hostility to religious conscience (with the exclusion of Muslims), Catholic Medical Centers could see the crosshairs. They would find themselves forever wrapped up in litigation if a case were ever brought, and we know they would.

Ask Christian Bakers, Photographers, Wedding Planners, Artists, or even Dating services. The Gaystapo repeatedly targets these in search of a favorable ruling, and if the legal process ruined the business owner, it was a victory for the militant Left.

From the decision, “HHS … would evaluate “individualized and fact specific” RFRA claims “on a case-by-case basis.” Id. “To obtain an exception, in other words, a provider objecting on religious grounds needed to convince HHS that the regulation circumstantially violated the RFRA.”

In other words, yeah, we know there are religious exemptions, but we’ll decide if they apply. I think we understand what that means. Do the surgeries, or we yank all your Federal money, including Medicaid or Medicare coverage. Assuming the legal fees don’t wipe you out.

The Religious Sisters of Mercy, Sacred Heart Mercy Health Care Center was right to preempt that course by challenging the new interpretation of 1557.

Without getting into the weeds, and there are weeds (other cases and ruling – read the decision for details), the government lost in part on the merits of its dismissal claim.

 

As the Fifth Circuit explained, the government’s assertion that “it ‘has not to date evaluated’ whether it will enforce Section 1557 against [the plaintiffs]” is actually a “conce[ssion] that it may” do so. Just as in Franciscan Alliance where the HHS “repeatedly refused to disavow enforcement against Franciscan Alliance,” id., so, too, has it refused in the present case. In fact, HHS has promised (1) “robust enforcement of Section 1557” in the 2016 Rule,  and (2) to “vigorously enforce [Section 1557’s] prohibitions on discrimination based on . . . sex” in the 2020 Rule (citations removed).

 

Claiming “it might not” infers that it might, giving the Sisters standing and ultimately a decision in their favor.

The permanent injunction against the rule is affirmed. At least until some other judges who work for the same government decide differently – which is itself the real problem and unresolved.

We’ll take the points but with an understanding that under our current system of government, victory is fleeting at best.

 

 

And my apologies if the title seems click-baitish. Disections of court rulings – even short attempts – are not sexy. I wanted a funny lead because I found the case compelling.

HT | NR

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Oops! pic.twitter.com/Chu40yLPRJ — ???????????????? (@esoryelsnya) December 11, 2022 Tom Bowler

When Raphael Warnock delivered his victory speech after he was declared the winner of the Georgia Senate Run-off Election, he stated that “the people have spoken.” He said emphatically that these are the four most important words in government. But what does it mean to have the people speak? Does it mean a straightforward one-vote win, or does it need an overwhelming majority? Does it mean it took two elections to achieve over 50% of the votes, or does it require a clear mandate? In today’s political world, I believe the people do not speak, that they no longer have a voice, and the race in Georgia proves this theory.

Georgia elections have come into focus of late because of intense criticism of state voting laws and the fact that nobody appears able to win a clear majority on the first ballot. Because of the split in Congress, additional attention has been placed on Georgia to determine the balance of power in D.C. The run-off election between Warnock and his Republican challenger Herschel Walker became one of the most heated and divisive elections in history. Did it really show that the people had spoken? I think not. Warnock won by a slim 3% difference, but that only tells part of the story. The election maps tell a bigger story.

The Georgia map is very similar to the country map for the mid-terms. Our government today is being chosen by the heavily populated regions. In the case of Georgia, the votes from Atlanta, Augusta, Albany, and Savanah determined the victor. On the national map, the West Coast, Northeast, and for some reason, Arizona and New Mexico are dominated by Democrats. The rest of the country is painted in solid red for the Republicans. So are the people speaking, or do just the urban dwellers have a voice?

The voters in the suburbs and rural areas are not represented unless they align with the Democrats. The same goes for the middle of the country, which is primarily Conservative. The big cities of their state choose their representatives. They have to live by that ideology. Politicians love to say they will go to Washington to represent all of their constituents. We know by their actions, as they only represent their voters or donors. That is how divided we are. The word bipartisan is thrown about far too often. Nearly every vote is cast along party lines, period. People cannot even see the other side of the aisle lest they crossover to vote with the opposition.

Over $400 Million was spent by Warnock and Walker, making this race the most expensive Senate seat in history. That is $400 million for 3.5 million voters. Have the people’s voices been heard, or just that of George Washington? Elections have ceased being about issues and character. They are all about money. Just ask John Fetterman in Pennsylvania or Kathy Hochul in New York. Neither deserved to be elected, but the money they raised said otherwise. And the Liberal voters that occupy the significant cities put them over the top. It is not a sound system, but even cynics say it is still the best in the world. Many more years like the last two, and I may want to debate those cynics.

 

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You can thank someone acting trollish. After warning about the behavior, I had to delete comments and accounts. Since the troll decided to rotate through guest accounts, I’ve turned off that privilege. To re-acquaint people with our few rules:

As LaShawn Barber says, “On this blog, your speech is a privilege. On your blog, your speech is a right. Learn the distinction.”

Comments (Again, but with more feeling)

UPDATE (2/7/2018): Needed because of trolls

Rule #1 – Adult themes, kid-friendly.  Don’t post something that would cause little Johnny and Janie to run to Mommy and Daddy to ask, “what does this mean?” because I’m the guy who gets the call or the email, and I have better things to do.

Rule #2 – Write what you want. Sure, we are a site, for the most part, focused on politics and culture, but if something amuses you, have at it.

The troll problem.

• Rule #3 – Don’t be a troll.  If I judge that you are, I will ban you.  You might get a warning but you might not – that is at my whim.  The decision to ban is final.
  Rule #4 – We need to be able to see your DISQUS home/account page.  I have disabled GUEST commenting.  If you wish to comment here, you will need to open a public DISQUS account first.  Apologies to our regular commenters – you may now need to verify your email addresses with DISQUS before continuing; blame the trolls.

Once the original “guest troll” problem passed, I turned guest commenting back on. We’ve had the problem a couple of times since. We have it back again so I’ve had to disable that privilege again. Apologies to you guests that DO behavior themselves – at some point, I will be able to turn them back on.

I will also be giving “Zero Day” DISQUS account greater scrutiny – no choice.

But as necessary, I can delete troll comments and ban troll accounts all day long. It’s not a big deal – it’s just a part of the business.

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Stacie Laughton made national news recently when she was arrested (again) for stalking a woman in violation of a protective order. Laughton, a Democrat, and the first Transgender elected to the NH House (to then also resign and un-resign) has a history of running for public office, criminal complaints, and arrests.

Stacie, born Barry Charles, Laughton Jr. is alleged to have an array of mental health issues, not the least of which is being a registered Democrat. Recently, someone sent me a list of incidents associated with Laughton.

We make no specific claim to the accuracy of the details and present them as provided for the record.

 

-When Stacie-Marie was Barry C he ran for city council in 2005(18%of the vote at age 21) and 2009 (10% of the vote) and school board in 2006 (2% of the vote) while living in Laconia but was not successful in his bid. Additionally, he lost his bid in a primary race for the NH house in 2010. – 7/2006 Stacie-Marie was Barry C and now ex-wife Lisa were arrested in 2006 due to contacting 911 3x from 2:13 am-3:45 am the 1st of 2 calls were because they were stranded with the last call stating that Lisa had fallen and that Stacie-Marie was suicidal and they requested 2 ambulances. During the intake at the hospital it was determined that there was no need for treatment, and a taxi was called to transport them home. Stacie-Marie refused to pay for the taxi, and this resulted in a felony charge for calling emergency services and for theft of services. The county Atty did not prosecute the felony and Stacie-Marie plead guilty to theft of services. – 2006 Stacie-Marie was Barry C was convicted of a misdemeanor criminal mischief for slashing the tires of another resident in her apartment building and was ordered to pay $647 in restitution. – 2007 Stacie-Marie was Barry C following an investigation and was arrested and charged following an identity theft investigation with a local resident being the victim. The ID info was used to obtain a credit card and more than $3,000 was charged to this card. Barry and Lisa were released on $15,000 PR bail each pending their arraignment in Laconia District Court. – When Stacie-Marie was Barry C after pleading guilty 7/2008 he was sentenced in 2008 to 7 1/2-15 years in prison for conspiracy to commit credit card fraud and 3 1/2-7 years for falsifying physical evidence. These sentences ran concurrently and were later reduced to 1 year in Belnap County DOC. It is unclear if Stacie-Marie was still Barry C when he/she/they were released after service only 4 1/2 months under the condition of 10 years of “good behavior” and ordered to pay $1,991 in restitution. During the proceedings, an Atty for the defense requested a competency evaluation, and the primary diagnosis of ADHD with some associated learning disabilities as well as Anti-Social Personality Disorder” and it was concluded that Stacie-Marie was a malingerer (as defined by Webster’s Dictionary). – In 2010 he/she/they were listed on the ballot as Barry “Stacie” Laughton but lost the primary race for 1 of the 5 seats as a Democrat. – 12/2010, Barry C officially changed her name to Stacie Marie Laughton -In 2012 she ran and won her race for state representative, but because she was a convicted felon and had not received her “final release” on 11/27/2012, she issued a statement resigning her position as state representative-elect. – 12/2012 she announced that she would run in the election to fill the seat she resigned from but on 1/2/2013 she abandoned her candidacy the day before the election commission held a hearing on the matter. – 3/2015 A warrant for her arrest was issued stemming from a bomb threat to Souther NH Medical Center. She was initially charged with the felony of making a false report of explosives, but a judge reduced the charge to a misdemeanor and sentenced her to a six-month suspended jail term. – 2019 She paid $2,000 restitution to be cleared to run for public office again and formed an exploratory committee in hopes of returning to city government. She ran for, and won, her former selectman seat in Nashua that year. – 2020 she once again ran for the NH House of Representatives, ultimately winning the seat – 2021 she was re-elected to her seat as selectman in Nashua – between 5/21/2021 and 7/19/2021 she was charged with 12 counts of penalty for false 911 information, was arrested on 7/27/21 and was released on PR bail 7/30/21. – Between 7/11/2022 – 7/15/2022 there were 2charges of E-911 false information and 2charges of harassment – 7/25/2022 there was a protective order requested and approved against her – 8/22/2022 9 of the 12 counts were Nolle Prossed and she pleaded nolo Contendere on 3 of the 12 counts, but was found guilty on these three counts with a sentence of 1. Good Behavior for 1 year. 2. Participate in Heats Peer Support Center. Confinement maximum 9mos deferred for 1 year with community service 25 hours with proof to be submitted to the state in 6 months. Case status pending as of 10/26/2022   – Between 8/25/2022 – 8/28/2022 a charge of criminal defamation and 2 charges of stalking was imposed and on 9/8/2022 a $200.00 cash bail was imposed and posted Case status pending as of 9/5/2022 – 9/2022 she ran for re-election for her seat as NH House of Representatives and won her primary. – 9/12/2022 Nashua PD filed a motion to impose deferred sentence. – 10/6/2022 Notice of decision was filed and request for a lawyer was filed and attorney was appointed. – 11/8/2022 she was successful in her bid of re-election for the NH House of Representatives – 11/12/2022 she was arrested by the Hudson PD on a charge of stalking. Case status pending as of 11/14/2022 – 11/14/2022 an arraignment and bail hearing was held and it appears from the case summary that she is being held without bail unitil Case status hearing 12/1/2022 @ 9AM Nashua District Court   – 12/1/2022 Motion Hearing to impose suspended sentence on Case#459-2021-CR-02498 (2021 charges). Case status hearing on Case#459-2022-CR-01963. Case status hearing on Case#459-2022-cr-02509.

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Another set of hate mail. Now, is it REALLY hate mail? Dunno, but I’m rather sure that they weren’t “happy thoughts”, either.  It’s very obvious that there is a difference of outlook/morality between the Parties. 

Porn is fine and they aren’t going to hold their elected representatives accountable for it.  What IS more troubling is that this small number of returns are just not exercised by the knowledge that porn is freely available – even in schools with little kids.

And yes, I do remember the time when “men’s magazines” (and PlayGirl as well – right, former PG centerfold Scott Brown?) were first put into brown paper wrappers out of the reach of children in convenience stores, pharmacies, and grocery stores.  Now, I haven’t looked for them recently, but I believe they are gone. So out of “places of public accommodation” but in “of “public school places”?

First up was one from Milford – Hillsborough District 23. Since I have already set a pattern, the envelope:

 

Now, it does seem that there was something to the left of “BOSTON MA 020” but it looks like it was erased.  And it definitely backs up what I said – I let a bunch of these returns sit around for a while.  But the inside had a bit more to say:

So let’s examine what she’s (a little less sure due to the handwriting but I’m going to go with it). On the mailer, this is what her note covered up:

Actually, this is a good summary of what has actually happened and we have blogged about this a number of times in the recent past. A girl went trans male while in school and the District’s policy has made it clear that such a change would be kept from their parents. Unfortunately for the District, a teacher who had called the parent slipped up and used this girl’s “male” name and catching the Mom by surprise. She made it clear to the District that she had not given them permission to do so – they told her, effectively, to pound sand and that they would stick with that policy. THE BOARD CONDONED LYING TO PARENTS – and in fact, made it clear to Parents that they WILL lie to Parents. Period.

She sued. Long story short, the Judge in the case, Amy Messer who was appointed to the bench by Maggie Hassan when she was NH Governor, ruled in favor of the District. Thus, NOTHING in the above is incorrect – it is entirely factual.

So, to the person who wrote this: YOU ARE ENTIRELY GULLIBLE if someone told you otherwise. The court case is public knowledge and the Judge’s decision/order is a public document – a little bit of homework will show you that your are wrong. Heck, just search GraniteGrok!  It was also

But this is what happens when people either get locked into a Narrative or locked into Partisan politics. Even when there is a clear indication that an assertion is wrong, some pople keep going down that path, fingers in ears, and going “na, na, na, I can’t hear you!”. And in this case, I wasn’t all that surprised at the reaction.

And a note was sent along:

Ah!  Government should supply all your needs – including kiddie porn?  No, we were not telling you, as a Parent, what your children should or should not read. Perhaps you’d love it if that crazy uncle of theirs that just “a bit off” read that porn while sitting in his lap.  I also have this vision of her going to her local bookstore and asking “please direct me to the age-appropriate pornography section, please” – ugh!  And yes, I DO expect you to pay for YOUR kids porn – why are you demanding that others who do NOT share your sense of morality pay for your children getting excited?

But she does admit what is of importance: “…under my supervision, of course”. Well, ma’am, do you want them accessing it when you have no idea that it existed  That you have NO CONTROL over their reading it (or worse, others reading it to them that might not have their best interest at heart. You have no idea, do you – or that you do not wish to contemplate that idea?

At least she made it clear – her decision and not mine. That’s fine.

However, it ISN’T her decision to have porn in schools. and she doesn’t even approach that point. We aren’t telling anyone what their kids can and cannot read – what we did do is:

• Spotlight that such books exist in public schools – with the tacit ok by public school librarians, public school Administrators, and school boards.
• That tacit ok means that the public schools have taken that decision OUT OF PARENTS hands – and authority over their children
• Maggie Hassen appointed a judge that decided that Government owns your children – not you – while in school.  THEY are preeminent and you are pointless.
• That Ray Buckley, the NH Dem Chair, thinks that any Parent that has a trans child can and will beat them to death (tells you what the Democrat Party thinks of Parents)

And that the candidates listed on the mailers vote against NH House bills that would have protected Parental Rights. Including her’s to have that “under my supervision, or course“.

So she missed the point entirely.  I should write her.

Next one was from Cheshire District 10 (Richmond, Swanzey) – the envelope:

Why people just reuse the envelope and NOT cancel out their name is beyond me – unless they WERE trying to make a statement. Now, she (and yes, it is a she) decided to start off with a message: “I DID! I was not shocked, except by you”. How  moral standards have fallen – previous generations would never put up with porno books in schools. *I* certainly don’t believe that such graphicly illustrated / written books belong where young children can access them – especially in schools.  Without Parents knowing about them and they don’t – this issue has just surfaced over the last couple of years.

But there’s more – the Religion card was thrown:

 

Last time I knew, pornography wasn’t listed among any Christian sacraments that I know of.  You?  I’d be hard pressed to find anything that would – you?

I hate it when someone throws any kind of “Card” to shut down debate. Worse is when they try to use my values against it. Happens a lot.

Fortunately, porn isn’t one of my values so this was useless.

Well, I know that he voted against YOUR Rights.  Twice.  Does that make him an “excellent legislator”?  Last time I looked, a legislator is supposed to represent you – NOT vote against your Rights concerning your children.

Is this really what you believe what Barrett Faulkner did in your best interest? In the best interest of your children?

And she didn’t say anything about the school system overriding her Rights, either…

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So … the Chris I am referring to is NOT our narcissist Sun-King Chris Sununu. It is Chris Ager who wants to be the next captain of the Titanic … er, sorry, the Chairman of the New Hampshire GOP.

To cut to the chase, I sure hope that Chris’ remedy for the NHGOP is just for the consumption of the NHGOP “activists” who have a vote on the next Chairman, and NOT how he really believes GOP candidates should approach the 2023 and 2024 elections. Why? Because … in case you haven’t noticed … it’s 2022, NOT 1982.

Here’s what I am referring to:

“I am excited to announce my candidacy for Chairman of the New Hampshire Republican Party. I have and will continue to fight to protect our First in the Nation Primary and tirelessly advocated for our principles of lower taxes, smaller government, individual responsibility, and local control as outlined in the platform. As we approach 2024, it is imperative we unite as a party behind these conservative principles and continue to build a well-oiled machine focused on achieving electoral success.”

If NHGOP candidates campaign on the “principles of lower taxes, smaller government, individual responsibility, and local control,” expect even worse results than in 2022. These principles were appropriate for 1982 … BUT THE WORLD HAS CHANGED.

For example, how is “smaller government” going to protect us from Big Tech interfering … to assist the Democrats … in our elections? How is it going to stop the Big Banks from canceling your credit card or closing your account if they deem you a threat to wokeness? The Left controls all our institutions, and as Alfie told Tommy Shelby, “big f**** small”:

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“Local control” … in 2022 … means skyrocketing local property taxes, grooming, and the anti-white racism euphemistically called “CRT” in our public schools. Maybe … just maybe … it’s time to update the message and start talking about state laws capping the growth of local property taxes, preventing school districts from hiring “diversity” directors, and stocking school libraries with books intended to sexualize first-graders?

“Lower taxes” … in 2022 … means businesses pay no taxes, and the burden is “downshifted” to the local property taxes. And don’t give me, “tax revenues rise when business tax rates are cut.” The voters believe otherwise, and that is what matters. Campaigning about cutting the BPT and the BET will get you a pat on the head from AFP and Josiah Bartlett. What it won’t get you are actual votes.

As I have said elsewhere, I think it is much too late to save the NHGOP. But for you bitter clingers, maybe start living in 2022, not 1982.

 

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