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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ANNOUNCEMENT

Survival Sunday is now being broken up into two pieces, one today – Sunday – and one on Thursday.  This is because these things are becoming so long and unwieldy that it seems to make sense to me to split it into two.  Please be patient with me as I work through this but the plan is that:

Sundays: All prep stuff, no world sitrep stuff.

Thursdays: All world sitrep stuff, no prep stuff.

I am hoping this will make sense and work out.  Each will, however, have a “Top of the Fold” section wherein I place things that I think are hot-hot-hot and need-to-know-now stuff.

Please let me know in the comments if this is working, but give it a few weeks while I feel this out.

 

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First, I am merely an “enlightened amateur”.  Please vet & check on your own.  Caveat emptor.  Consider these to be priming the pump for your own investigations.  I know this is a long post; I am attempting to put out a lot of information as a resource.  Read or skip sections depending on your interests.

Second, I fear spicy time is very close, but even a month of food, water, etc., puts you well ahead of most of the sheeple.  IMHO, set your minimum sights on a three-month period.

Third, two things will be critical for having the best chance of making it through:

1. Mentality: first and foremost in survival is having a flexible mentality and cultivating the ability to adapt. Vanity has no place in survival.
2. Develop a meatspace network of people that are likeminded: cultivate your community ties and build alliances with neighbors (note: don’t babble about the Jab or globalists or depopulation, or start pointing political fingers when doing this)… and remember, the first rule of PREP CLUB is that there is no prep club.

And please follow both me, Nitzakhon, on Gab… as well as my blog host Granite Grok and also on Telegram Tommy Robinson Official plus his Urban Scoop site.  And don’t forget posts sometimes get cloned on American Reveille as well, which is a good site to check out in general.

FYI, links to my last two Survival Sundays:

Survival Sunday – November 27, 2022

Survival Sunday – November 20, 2022

 

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https://youtu.be/jJL0XoNBaac

 

Interesting.  I remember reading something about this, ages ago, but nice to see an explanation.  Especially if, in SHTF times, you have undesired house guests that “insist” on being fed, etc.  Musing… I wonder where I could get one.

 

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Top of the fold:

Damn, hoping it goes hot! A game changer. Sent in by a frequent gearhead.

This would be yuuuuuuuge.  And while I’m not downplaying the hope, imagine if this goes through.  Every person on the Left would be screaming, and likely rioting, that Trump somehow stole it.  Imagine the tantrum over 2016, times a million.  If this happens, lock and load.  And if it happens, Trump better have damned good security.

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BREAKING: Maricopa County Response to AZ AG Materially Conflicts with Instructions on Election Day – But They Announce They Will Certify Rigged Election TOMORROW Anyway

71% of Americans Say Our Elections Are Rigged – Congrats to America’s national security state for destroying the credibility of our republic – Flopping Aces

And you REALLY think things will get fixed by 2024?  TINVOWOOT.  The Dems have been at this for a long, long time.

Democrat Voter Fraud: A Brief History – American Thinker

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None so deaf as those who will not hear…

This experience, as related and concluded, echoes so many conversations I have.  It’s not possible, or it’s so unlikely I won’t worry about it…

 

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Related:

How to Make DIY Activated Charcoal for Prepping and Survival (primalsurvivor.net)

How to Make Activated Charcoal (with Pictures) – wikiHow

4 Steps To Make Charcoal At Home (emoffgrid.com) and 8 Steps To Make Activated Charcoal (emoffgrid.com)

How to Make Activated Charcoal: A Prepper’s Guide (geekprepper.com)

 

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Prepper Site URLS:

Most have daily articles; revisit daily.  Please recommend others in the comments.

Ask a Prepper, how to prepare, survive and thrive, latest news

Mother Earth News

The Organic Prepper Home – The Organic Prepper

SurvivalBlog.com – The Daily Web Log for Prepared Individuals Living in Uncertain Times.

SHTF Blog – Modern Survival

Survival World – Everything You Need To Know to Survive

Homestead Survival Site – How to Live Off The Grid in Comfort and Style

Urban Survival Site | How to Survive a Disaster in the City

Mind4Survival – Survival and Preparedness

Gray Wolf survival

Sustainable Living (sustainablelivingideas.com)

The Classic Survivalist – Surviving in a Modern World

Primal Survivor – Practical and sensible prepping advice (new)

And three aggregate sites listing their top favorite sites & links too:

TOP 50 SURVIVAL & PREPPER BLOGS

The 50 Best Survival Blogs

Prepper Website – Preparedness • Survival • Alternative News

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Specific, one-up articles:

SURVIVAL HOW TO:DIY FISH TRAP (VIDEO) (theclassicsurvivalist.com)

From the same site:

DEADFALL TRAP BUILDING FROM START TO FINISH (VIDEO) (theclassicsurvivalist.com)

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The First Thing You Should Do If An EMP Strikes – Ask a Prepper

My belief is that any follow up EMP would be a few weeks down the road.  That would be because the survivors would be coming out and reactivating things – and then those things would be gotten by the follow-on hit.  And if they’re smart and plan ahead, they’d do it a third time in another couple of months.

Oh please, not like they haven’t thought of the above.  I’m not giving anything away to actors with EMP capability.

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Read This Before You Store Anything In A 5-Gallon Bucket (askaprepper.com)

Mostly aimed at food storage.  On food storage:

What I Wish I Knew Before Building A Root Cellar In My Backyard (askaprepper.com)

 

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Related to Spicy Time:

 

 

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BREAKING: Corrupt Obama Appointed Judge Who Banned TGP Reporter From Maricopa County Press Briefings Sanctions Kari Lake And Mark Finchem Over Lawsuit Banning Voting Machines

When there is no legal recourse, people will resort to illegal recourse.

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Focus | NC Renegades

Imagine ten attacks on substations around the country. No electric in winter. No sewer lift stations. No water treatment or pressure. No replacement parts. God works in mysterious ways and we certainly are living under an evil government.

Understand that I am not advocating this.

But if such a thing were to happen if IT kicks off – hypothetically – the US government would have divided attention between preserving the urban centers and fighting any insurgents.  Plus if insurgents got into the urban centers, protecting their own precious hides.

 

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I have to say that looks like an enormous amount of work for one person.

 

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Short of years and untold wealth, you cannot possibly be fully prepared for everything (I have to keep reminding myself of that).  But even some preparations, ideally at least 90 days of food, water / water purification, etc., puts you head and shoulders in front of the vast majority of the sheeple who will be in jaw-gaping astonishment when the SHTF.  The only relevant questions are:

1. When does it start?
2. How bad will it get?
3. How long will it last?
4. What will the aftermath look like?

 

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I just started a FORAGING group on Gab.  Does anyone know how to open it up for people to join?  I’m stumped.

 

Foraging: One-up articles

None found this week.

 

Foraging: Permanent sites:

Foraging (practicalselfreliance.com)

Wild Harvests (arcadianabe.blogspot.com)

Southern Appalachian Herbs

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Books (permanent feature):

Feasting Free on Wild Edibles (old but good)

The Lost Ways (much more than just foraging)

The Forager’s Guide to Wild Foods

THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO EDIBLE WILD PLANTS FOR BEGINNERS

 

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Shortages (broadly):

“80 times that of CO2”

This will be another excuse to attack beef production.

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Bird flu prompts slaughter of 1.8M chickens in Nebraska (phys.org)

I do not trust this.  At all.

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Gardening, animals, food preservation, overall health, etc.:

 

 

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44 Sustainable Gardening Tips – The Plant Guide

Background.

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28 Vegetables That Grow in Shade For Gardens Without Full Sun (littleyellowwheelbarrow.com)

I sure as heck don’t have full sun on a lot of my property.  My bigger problem is my lawn is built over gravel landfill.  Not much topsoil, it’s all acid like crazy from the pine trees… and my wife will not support my turning the back yard into a garden.

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How I Finally Got Rid of Pantry Moths! – Susiej

I think I’ve finally gotten rid of the little SOBs.  I haven’t seen one in several weeks.

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25 Crops You Can Grow In Buckets All Year Round – Ask a Prepper

Still requires / takes up indoor space.  And requires light.

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Stop shouting!: SELF SUFFICIENCY SUNDAYS: Guerrilla Gardening

Some scary points.  From the same site:

Stop shouting!: SHTF Self-Education: Introduction to Pressure Canning

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Links on old-time food storage (permanent feature):

Thanks to the Canning and Preserving group on Gab, I now have these links:

Preserving foods by drying | How to dry foods safely (uada.edu)

USDA-Complete-Guide-to-Home-Canning-2015-revision.pdf (healthycanning.com)

Canning | SDSU Extension (sdstate.edu)

Food Preservation– Canning | Consumer Food Safety | Washington State University (wsu.edu)

Canning Timer & Checklist App | OSU Extension Catalog | Oregon State University

National Center for Home Food Preservation (uga.edu)

Canning Recipes | Ball® Mason Jars (ballmasonjars.com)

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Topical Books (also permanent):

Charcuterie: The Craft of Salting, Smoking & Curing

Salumi: The Craft of Italian Dry Curing

A Guide to Canning, Freezing, Curing & Smoking Meat, Fish & Game

The Prepper’s Canning Guide

Pickled Pantry

Fermented Vegetables

Hydroponics and Greenhouse Gardening: 3-in-1 Gardening Book to Grow Vegetables, Herbs, and Fruit All-Year-Round

Hydroponics for Beginners: The Complete Guide to Hydroponic Gardening, Designing and Building Inexpensive DIY Hydroponic Systems…

The Aquaponics Guidebook: Combining Aquaculture and Hydroponics Combining Aquaculture and Hydroponics

 

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Self-defense (broad) & Hunting:

Lawfare and the PLCAA

Lawfare against RKBA.  Related:

The Remington settlement gave precedent to suing Daniel Defense

I said the holders of Remington who settled the Sandy Hook lawsuit were going to f*ck us over.

They did.

Now every grieving parent will be targeted by the blood dancers to file a lawsuit that is engineered to be a runaround the PLCAA.

Give them an opening a femtometer wide, they’ll pry it open.  Speaking of:

FedEx and UPS Help Feds Track Gun Sales, State Attorneys General Say (theepochtimes.com)

They will never ever ever ever EVER stop until they have a federal registry.  And:

Banks Are Now Creating Systems To Track Gun Purchases… – Tactical Sh*t (tacticalshit.com)

I only pay cash for guns and ammo.  Speaking of, there’s a sweet shotgun I’m saving up for – please go buy my bumper sticker to help me get it.

 

 

And the .223 version.

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Dry Firing – Area Ocho

I’ve heard of this thing called “Mantis X”.  Any good?

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The “Crazy, Right-Wing Shooter” Myth | RealClearPolitics

I like Lott.  He signed my copy of his book.

 

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Concluding thoughts if I’m moved to comment:

 

I’ve been reflecting on the sheeple.

It’s my belief that when SHTF – and I truly believe it will to some degree – they will be livid with us.  Not just because we have food and other supplies and won’t shaaaaaare like we were taught in kindergarten.  No, they’ll be white-hot at the fact that we saw what was coming and took action, thus they’ll be angry at our perceptiveness and initiative.

 

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Palate cleansers:

 

 

 

 

 

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Please check out my MEMES collections; last one here.  Mockery, ridicule, and the wrapping of uncomfortable truths inside humor can penetrate the cognitive shields of normies far more effectively – IMHO – than dry facts and figures.

 

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America’s Forcefeed (us) Drugs Administration (FDA) approved the New and Improved bivalent boosters (OMG, they’re “Bi?”) after reading about the reimbursement check potential from big Pharma. Could we expect better for injecting 6-month-old babies? Nope.

Talk about adding a new definition to the term ‘booster seat.’I have no idea what motivated FDA to issue an emergency use authorization for BA.4/BA.5 Bivalent boosters (OMG, they’re “Bi?”). There were no human trials, and even the rat trial was underdone. And we only have their word they tested it on a handful of rats which, after the past two years, isn’t worth a thing.

But here we are, adding babies to another human test trial for an experimental pharmaceutical product descended from the deformed mRNA family tree. From Dr. Nass.

 

FDA authorized bivalent booster for 6 month olds after only a 3 day review of Pfizer documents – It seems FDA is not even trying to pretend it is following any of its standards, let alone following the Science.

Talk about redefining the term “booster seat.”

Actually, FDA authorized both the Moderna and Pfizer bivalent boosters for kids 6 months through 5 years today. It had already authorized them for everyone else. Don’t expect the new boosters to work, however.

 

One thing the FDA has learned. If there’s little to no evidence to hide, you do not have to keep it hidden because no one can find what does not exist.

There is the matter of public health, but we can say without much fear of contradiction that this is no longer why the CDC or FDA exists. Their new role is to maximize revenue opportunities for connected individuals and organizations (including political parties) regardless of the health risks, so I think a few edits to the “about FDA/what we do page” are in order.

Here’s the current bullshot.

 

The Food and Drug Administration is responsible for protecting the public health by ensuring the safety, efficacy, and security of human and veterinary drugs, biological products, and medical devices; and by ensuring the safety of our nation’s food supply, cosmetics, and products that emit radiation.

 

Are they doing any of this, and (to be honest) have they ever? It seems like a dereliction of duty is job one, and they have only recently behaved like some unemployed 45-year-old divorcee who gave up trying to hide the decline.

The current FDA mission isn’t even close to what they do, so I invite our readers to craft a new one.

If we like them, we’ll publish a few.

 

 

 

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The fact that Stephen Stepanek’s job is open has made me wonder what the state and local R leadership positions are all about.  I plead ignorance. I always assumed the GOP has a function but have never given it any thought.

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During my thirty years in Australia (1980-2017), I was always annoyed that my Party had monthly meetings at which the MP came to talk to us. It was never supposed to be for us to talk to him! He and his colleagues were called “the parliamentary wing” of the Party. A real disgrace, if you ask me. But now I am wondering what the RNC is a wing of.

It is well established that Republicans (including me) believe: 1. that the 2020 election was stolen, and 2. that the Jan 6 invasion was arranged by Pelosi et al.

So let me ask this: What did the RNC or GOP do about this? Why did Mike Lindell and Sidney Powell have to take the bull by the horns? Did the RNC even sponsor or publicize Dinesh D’Souza’a Twenty Million Mules?

Did Stephen Stepanek make a stink about the wrongful impeachments of Trump? Maybe he did; I don’t read all the pertinent papers, but I never saw a word from him at GraniteGrok, for example. Did he file any lawsuits against Twitter?

And at the state level, is the Party Person supposed to inspire others to work at, say, getting rid of unconstitutional state legislation? Is there someone who could now fill that job or acknowledge that responsibility?

I hear you saying, “Mary, don’t be daft. It is for the legislators to do that” (i.e., the parliamentary wing of the R party). OK, I do realize it is their job, and it’s our job as journalists, and it’s the job of everyday members of the Party, dues-paying or not. But should the paid leader of the R’s steer clear of all issues? Does it suffice for him to recite a few pieties such as “I hate Democrats; I oppose abortion; I believe in a balanced budget”?

And what is the salary? And how much obedience does he/she have to show to the Men at the Top Table? What do the everyday members, even just the dues-paying ones, want him or her to do?

Have the applicants for the job now held by Stepanek announced their position on vaccines? On censorship? On the coming food shortage? On our payments to Ukraine?

What do you want him or her to say? And did I hear that “Water St” supported the Sun King during the primary? Was any other candidate, such as Karen Testerman, entitled to any support? I suppose I am making a fool of myself, admitting how little I know.

Did you attend the Victory Breakfast at the Grappone Center on September 15, 2022? I recognized only a handful of the 400 suit-and-tie wearers. Whom would they pick for Water St? Are they entitled to more consideration than the plaid-flannel shirt types?

For the record: December 23, 1776:

Thomas Paine:
“These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated. Britain, with an army to enforce her tyranny, has declared that she has a right (not only to TAX) but “to BIND us in ALL CASES WHATSOEVER” and if being bound in that manner, is not slavery, then is there not such a thing as slavery upon earth. Even the expression is impious; for so unlimited a power can belong only to God.”

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Another healthy adult has died suddenly. Forty-eight-year-old sports reporter Grant Wahl fell back in his chair during “the World Cup match between Argentina and the Netherlands.”

Medical teams attended him as he was moved to an ambulance and then to Hamad General Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. But the media isn’t saying much else. We know he felt unwell earlier.

 

“My body finally broke down on me. Three weeks of little sleep, high stress and lots of work can do that to you,” Wahl wrote. “What had been a cold over the last 10 days turned into something more severe on the night of the USA-Netherlands game, and I could feel my upper chest take on a new level of pressure and discomfort.

“I didn’t have Covid (I test regularly here), but I went into the medical clinic at the main media center today, and they said I probably have bronchitis. They gave me a course of antibiotics and some heavy-duty cough syrup, and I’m already feeling a bit better just a few hours later. But still: No bueno.”

 

He was clearly misdiagnosed. He died from a heart attack. But some reports claim there was something going around among the media most of whom, like Wahl, were probably vaccinated. But were they all proudly vaccinated?

 

 

Wahl’s wife, Dr. Celine Gounder, could be classified as a vaccine extremist, according to this report.

 

[Grounder is] a rabidly pro-vaccine medical doctor who recently called on Facebook, Twitter, and Google to “deplatform” media outlets and citizens who spread “anti-vaccine disinformation” online.

Grounder’s bio at Wikipedia states that she “is an American physician and medical journalist who specializes in infectious diseases and global health. She was a member of the COVID-19 Advisory Board transition team of then-incoming U.S. president Joe Biden in 2022, she joined the Kaiser Family Foundation as senior fellow and editor-at-large for public health at Kaiser Health News.”

 

Given who his wife is, we have to assume he’s gotten all his shots and boosters, though there is no information available about that. He does not appear to have bragged about that on Twitter. But she was who she is, and her husband Grant may be another casualty of that war.

 

 

HT | Leo Hohman

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I recently watched a YouTube video that promised to show Ben Shapiro ‘destroying’ Piers Morgan in a discussion about gun control.

But a few minutes into it, I realized that Shapiro had already conceded the larger argument in order to score a few technical points.  In particular, he said his answer to gun violence was to make sure that ‘the wrong kinds of people’ didn’t have access to guns.

As I’ve pointed out before, this is basically an invitation to people like Joe Biden to claim that ‘no rights are absolute’, and that ‘common sense’ trumps constitutional prohibitions on government power.

That is, what Shapiro is arguing is that you have a right to self-defense, and to own the tools required for self-defense, unless you’re the ‘wrong kind of person’, in which case you don’t.

Okay, this isn’t new.  What’s new is that this is the same kind of reasoning that will ultimately be used to justify the federal government’s use of social media companies to censor ‘the wrong kinds of opinions’ put forth by ‘the wrong kinds of people’ — as currently being exposed in the ‘Twitter Files’.

If you support the argument that ‘the people’ in the Bill of Rights really means only certain kinds of people, then you necessarily support the argument that ‘arms’ really means only certain kinds of arms, and that ‘speech’ really means only certain kinds of speech.

And who will decide which kinds?  Democracy itself!

So if you’re one of those people who thinks that it’s a legitimate function of government to limit who can own what kinds of guns, then you have no grounds to oppose those people who think that it’s a legitimate function of government to limit who can express what kinds of thoughts.  They’re the same edge of the same sword.

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I am beyond understanding why there are those that are EXCITED to have porn in youngsters’ public school libraries. In addition to the first set, we got even more hate mail with respect to our mailers dealing with porn books in public school libraries and the politicians that choose NOT to affirm Parental Rights in keeping it away from young and impressionable students.  So, I’ve got more – this one from Amherst.  The envelope:

And of course, they also sent back the mailer inside like at the previous post. Now, I have to admit – I’m not completely sure that I am reading this correctly.  Reason is that when someone writes in a thick Sharpie, it’s hard (at least for me) to fully get it right.

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I THINK it says “Parents should read these AND they are ok for children”.

Now, I think ALL parents should be reading what is in their child’s curriculum as well as what’s in their school’s library.  I’m betting that MOST parents are NOT going to agree that minor children should be reading them.  I should ask, beyond the excerpts on the mailers, have ANY of these folks actually read the books themselves?

Backside: “Read as Parents and children should not read”

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So I’m confused – which is it?  Ok for kids or not?  Is she hedging her bet?  I have no idea.

Oh, for those that sent their return addresses in sending back the mailers? Yeah, I’m going to send something back.

And still more, along the same lines, to post later.

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Thomas DiLorenzo, LewRockwell.com: Why the Left Must Destroy Free Speech – or Be Destroyed Of course minority opinions “must also be silenced” and “every act of the government must become sacrosanct and exempt from criticism.” This was never more on... Tom Bowler

The most famous, most significant, and first National Park in America, Yellowstone was never meant to be. The U.S. Government sent a team of explorers, geologists, and engineers to ascertain the feasibility of building railroad tracks through Montana, Colorado, and Idaho. The goal of these men was not to preserve the natural characteristics of the region but to cut through it to ease the railroad connection from East to West. It did not work out as planned, but the National Park System was born.

The first organized exploration of the territory was by a team of Army Civil Engineers in 1860. The venture was cut short by Mother Nature and the winter snow cover. The Civil War prevented any future attempts at surveying the area. Ferdinand V. Hayden, head of the U.S. Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories, led the next scientific expedition in 1871, simultaneous with a survey by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

What Hayden and his men saw and experienced during the trip led them to convince President Ulysses S. Grant to rethink the railroad construction. Their mission was to find a way to destroy the land in the name of progress. Their experience told them they needed to preserve the nearly two million acres of natural beauty and wildlife. They were overwhelmed by the scope of the land and the natural interaction of the various species that call this area home. Through journals, letters, photographs, and drawings, they told their story to President Grant.

Apparently, these men sold their story well as any Railroad plans for this region were scrapped. On March 1, 1872, President Ulysses S. Grant signed the Yellowstone National Park Protection Act into law. The world’s first national park was born. This was just the beginning, as in the 150 years since the birth of Yellowstone, 423 parks have been designated, and added to the National Park network. The National Park Service manages over 80 million acres in all 50 states, the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Guam, and American Samoa.

There are various types of National Parks. National battlefields, Military Parks, Historical Parks and sites, National Monuments, and Memorials are some classifications. These areas must be placed into the National Park Authority so they can forever be protected from encroachment and their natural resources and wildlife can be maintained and prosper. I believe the National Park Service is one of the best uses of a government authority.

The popularity of television series like Yellowstone and 1883 shows a thirst for the Midwest’s beauty, toughness, and nature. We still have a connection to our country when it was still forming. That is true Americana. It is not Times Square or the sidewalk dwellers of San Francisco. The pioneers who challenged the elements and natural predators of the midlands are still the heroes and backbone of this country. There is no Woke in Montana in the middle of winter. Just a will to survive, which true Patriots have shared for over two centuries.

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...from PowerLine. See the rest here. Tom Bowler

Fraudulent Michael-Mann Made Global Warming has only lasted this long because it is well-funded (by you through your government) and broadly advertised by State-Run media. It has almost nothing else going for it, and now it has even less.

 

According to researchers from the University of Cambridge and University of Coppenhagen, the northern peninsula of Greenland – which is now a polar desert – once contained boreal forests of popular and birch trees that were teeming with wildlife.

 

These conclusions are the product of a 16-year research project examining DNA recovered from a 100-meter-thick sediment deposit from Kap København at the north end of Greenland, well inside the Arctic Circle.

 

 

Scientists are telling us that two million years before there were SUVs, oil or gas-heated homes, western government, capitalism, private jets, or even CO2-emitting people, Kap København Greenland was a lush, verdant, wooded landscape.

 

Once they pieced together the fragments, a picture emerged of forests teeming with reindeer, rabbits, lemmings and mastodons – the latter of which have previously only been found in North and Central America.

No carnivores were found, most likely because they were fewer in number, however the researchers speculated that there were likely ancient sabre-toothed tigers, wolves or bears.

 

 

This is a problem for the tipping-point party and their outrageous abuse of taxpayers not yet born to fund “solutions” to the presumption that your lifestyle is killing the planet.

For the record, here’s the current weather forecast for Kap København, Greenland.

 

 

What if it is warmer in the summertime, Steve? It is!

 

 

It is at or around freezing in July. So, it is warmer, but not “boreal forests of popular and birch trees that were teeming with wildlife” warmer. In other words, there are other more complex drivers of changing climate (notice I did not say ‘Climate change) than the ranting Marxists accounted.

And we knew that. The politics of climate change has always been about changing the world’s economic climate, not the weather. But for the folks pushing the latter, this research is a vicious kick in the McNuggets.

A warmer planet is not only not a bad thing, it’s good for mother nature, something else we knew but that the Marxists must protest, perhaps too much.

But respected scientists, experts in their field, are telling us that the planet has been a lot warmer (which we also knew) and wildlife thrived in places that are currently polar deserts, long before the Michael Mann-made global warming was even conceived.

It’s a bad look for the Climate Cult, and their relentless push to insist that your “not freezing to death” with the lights on is killing the planet.

No, it’s not. Go away.

 

HT | The Burning Platform | The Guardian | Nature

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So I’m a bit behind on posting up what is now Court paperwork in the case of Douglas Lambert [allegedly] assaulting Erica Golter during a Belknap County Republican meeting and was stripped of his General Membership by the Members for it. He has been charged with Simple Assault and the victim is looking to have a Restraining/Stalking Order placed against him as his actions were not just a one-time deal.

Sidenote: you can see the previous posts on this by clicking here).

Anyways, the first time she filed for the Order, it was denied as more specifics were needed:

Order on Stalking Denial - need specifics - 2022-11-07 Golter v Lambert Laconia District Court

However, the victim quickly filed an amended complaint/additional material including the video from GraniteGrok of the meeting.  Michael Garner, Circuit Court Judge watched the video and the materials and decided that a hearing was to be set by another judge. In other words, there was enough “there” to warrant additional action by the court system (e.g., this was not a baseless case):

Order for a Hearing for the Stalking petition given the video 2022-11-08 Laconia District Court

Note what the judge wrote (emphasis mine):

“I agree that Respondent stood in front as Petitioner in an effort to obstruct her view, and when she moved past him to his right, he leaned in with that direction and initiated contact with her.

Corroboration of what I saw, what the victim underwent, what the BCRC Executive Committee saw, what the Gilford Police determined, and now observed by a Judge. Deliberate action – not an accident.  Of his own volition. 

Validation.

Accordingly, an Order was written for a hearing on November 29 at 11am in Laconia District Court in case 450-2022-CY00223:

Notice of Hearing on Stalking Petition 2022-11-08 Golter v Lambert for 2022-11-29 Laconia District Court

Yes, I showed up with my camera early (always need time for setup).  An additional item to the checklist was to check in with the Clerk of the Court. While GraniteGrok is a registered media entity with the NH Judiciary (with paperwork attesting to it), I’ve learned twice before that such paperwork doesn’t automatically gain one access to the hearing courtroom. Must check in first.

And then I found that Lambert, instead of doing the right thing and “manning up” and taking his lumps responsibility for his actions, had lawyered up.

Things went sideways (a bit).  We’ll talk about that in the next post. However…

…Methinks he knew all along that he was in deep sneakers even as he was trying to do the “oh gosh, nothing happened, this is a lot about nothing” schtick during the BCRC meeting where he had to be told, several times:

You are no longer a member, please leave the room.

And that’s when I was the receiver of “The Bony Finger of Lambert” Award. ‘Cept now, there’s a bit more to it:

Deep sneakers. You know, I should go back to the video and fisk what he really said to the General Members and then compare it to the paperwork thus far.

And now we know why people don’t want to be videoed at the Belknap County Republican meetings – they do stupid stuff and don’t want a record of them being stupid. I really don’t have a better explanation.

You?

UPDATE: My friend John Hawkins has another SubStack post out (I’m on his email list and it came in just as I was finishing this post) and this was entitled “The 40 Best Quotes About Politics” where the first one was from Sam Adams (the Patriot, not the beer maker); emphasis mine:

1) “A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy. While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued, but when once they lose their virtue then will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader.” — Samuel Adams

Methinks Lambert has spent too much time with the Citizens of Belknap PAC (I saw him cavorting in their booth during Gilford’s Old Home Day) and he’s lost both his Principles and his Manners – I would never have believed that he would have attacked a lady for no reason at all. Some manners (or actually, none at all).

Ditto, his virtue.

He needs to resign from the Gunstock Area Commission. Does he have the manners and virtue to realize that he’s done wrong to someone that was just standing there minding her own business?  And are the two “feminist” Gunstock Area Commissioners, Jade Wood and Denise Conroy going to put up with his behavior?

How about the Belknap County Delegation – is this cause for “removal for cause”.  How about it, former Judge (and now Representative) David Huot?

Oh Wait!  The Belknap County Administrator hasn’t seen fit, a month after the election, to update the Delegation listing?

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New Hampshire’s RINO/NeverTrump Sun-King Chris Sununu appeared on Fox News’ Neocon/NeverTrump Cavuto show yesterday to discuss South Carolina being awarded FITN by the Democrat Party. It is stunning how uninformed the Sun-King is.

Cavuto, who despises Trump, naturally asked Sun-King if Trump was to blame for the GOP’s miserable performance in the midterms. Sun-King, who obviously loves to hear himself talk, said essentially Trump was part of the problem, but the major problem was candidates who could not win.

Sun-King evidently is unaware that in Nevada, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Georgia, etc. elections are now ballot-harvesting contests. Democrats win these contests because in the weeks leading up to “Election Day” they bank so many votes that the GOP has already lost by Election Day. For example, there had been weeks of “early voting” in Pennsylvania BEFORE the debate where voters finally got to see that Fetterman was as much a vegetable as Biden. In Arizona, the Democrat candidate for Governor refused to debate because she knew that she didn’t need to persuade, but to “harvest.”

And speaking of “bad candidates” Lord Sun-King, your boy Chuckie Morse couldn’t even win a primary where the majority of voters are NOT real conservatives … because he campaigned like it was 1982, not 2022: low taxes, small government, blah, blah, blah.

Sun-King also claimed that the Democrat “liberal elite” would mount a primary challenge to Biden in New Hampshire. So, apparently, Sun-King is also unaware that the “liberal elite” are actually running the Biden administration.

Sun-King is such a clueless narcissist.

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While most of the attention is put on the kids in schools, hospitals are getting in on the game (big money in those surgeries and after care!). We’ll redefine our Hippocratic Oath so that NOT mutilating our kids and pumping them up with drugs used to chemically castrate pedophiles is “shall do no harm”. Redefine that porn is “literacy for marginalized school populations” and lying to parents is “we want interested and involved parents”.

Our entire Society is going psychotic and the Left is pleased that their efforts are working. And that effort is wrapped up in the title above (and below) – destroy the traditional family and you can remake Society in their own image (which, we all have to admit, is rather dysfunctional to begin with as their ideas (Marxism) have never worked. Period.).

As always, snippets may well be reformatted and emphasis is mine (for the speed readers amongst you).

• The Transgender Movement Isn’t Just Targeting Kids, It’s Targeting Families

The point of the indoctrination, though, isn’t only to create more “gender-nonconforming” students. It’s to break down family structures and parental authority. The goal isn’t simply to teach and encourage transgenderism in our schools. It’s to lay claim to the students themselves, over and against their parents and families, for purposes that go far beyond the promotion of gender identity. After all, you can’t very well reshape society according to your utopian vision if something as solid as a family is standing in the way.

Creating Chaos is the key – in the minds of the kids and then in the Parents. It’s like when Marxist Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals were first unleashed upon the unknowning and Republicans. This Transgender Movement is using them – until WE realize it and then com back with a vengeance.  See below as to the end goal:

 The solution is to break down the family. Most recently, Christopher Rufo reported this week that the largest children’s hospital in Chicago has partnered with local school districts to promote a radical transgender agenda, including sexually explicit materials that push “kink,” “BDSM,” and “trans-friendly” sex toys for children.

…Don’t laugh, though. As outlandish as this might sound to most people, the targets of all this are impressionable students, many of whom are susceptible to such messages for the simple fact that they are dealing with the turbulent — albeit altogether normal — emotions and angst that accompany adolescence.

…Rufo rightly identifies part of the dynamic here is the creation of a “school-to-clinic” pipeline. A cynic might say the motive is simply profit, since every transgender patient represents a lifetime of medical interventions and surgeries. But there is another motive, says Rufo. Transgender activists, he writes, “believe that they are in a struggle for liberation from the system of ‘cisheteropatriarchy’ — and each ‘gender non-conforming’ child is another tool in that fight.”

He’s right, but it’s even worse than that. Put bluntly, these activists are in a struggle against parents and families, many of whom oppose radical redefinitions of sex and the multiplicity of genders being pushed on their children in school.

And if you are a loyal reader, the story of Gunstock this past year, is just another example, albeit in a different setting and style. But one can see the manchinations of the Citizens of Belknap being the local political equivalent of of the transgender activists – sew Chaos among the unknown and then change the culture.  Neither is going to give up”

And then at the other end of the spectrum is The Stupidity. If “female” is not a gender, how can there be a “ma’am”?

Sidenote: which is one of my favorite words – a sign of politeness and respect to those that should not be called “miss”.  Yes, I’m waiting for the day that I’m called out for being “ageist” (yet another made up Woke political word whose only purpose is to use the Guilt and New-Shame cards) – then I will free to unload.

Non-binary teacher takes to TikTok to ask whether there is a non-binary form of the term ‘ma’am

Libs of TikTok shared a video in which an individual, who apparently teaches somewhere in Texas and identifies as non-binary, asked whether there is a non-binary equivalent for the term “ma’am.” The individual’s TikTok account includes a description that says, “Your local non-binary Math Teacher.” The account also includes the pronouns “They/Them.”

“I’ve come out to my students,” the teacher noted in the video. The person went on to say that a student had inquired about what language should be used, noting that referring to the teacher by saying “yes ma’am” or “yes” both seemed disrespectful.

And then the pull to suck impressionable students that can be now normalized to this:

“Open discussion welcome in the comments #teacher #nonbinary #enby,” the TikTok post states.

And then someone else asked MY immediate question when I first saw the title:

When sharing the video, the Libs of TikTok account declared, “These are the people teaching your kids.”In response to the tweet, one person commented, “My genuine question is, ‘Why are you discussing your sexuality with students?’“

Why indeed?  They are paid to teach subjects – not tell students what their sex lives are all about. And they wonder why our kids are ignorant of what they SHOULD know when they graduate

These are the people teaching your kids pic.twitter.com/GornHZ4Vj1

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) September 5, 2022

Make no mistake – the Teachers Unions are ALL IN on this transformation (which immediately should bring up that Obama utterance of “In five days, we will radically transform America”.). Yep, those old images of a wooden desk with an apple on top of a book with a smiling teacher in the chair. Oh, the teacher may be smiling but not necessarily for the reasons you think.

• The teachers union promotes a how-to guide for “anal sex,” “bondage,” “sadomasochism,” and “fisting.”

The national teachers union’s “LGBTQ+ Caucus” has created a website and badge for public school employees that promote non-binary identities, a how-to guide for “queer sex,” and the idea that “transgender men can get pregnant.”.  According to local reports, the National Education Association and its local affiliate in Hilliard, Ohio, have been providing staff in the Hilliard City School District with the QR code-enabled badges, which point to the “NEA LGBTQ+ Caucus” website and resources from gender activist organizations including Scarleteen, Sex, Etc., Gender Spectrum, The Trevor Project, and Teen Health Source.

One of these linked resources, Teen Health Source’s “Queering Sexual Education,” which promises to “empower youth” and includes a how-to guide for performing “anal sex,” “bondage,” “rimming,” “domination,” “sadomasochism,” “muffing,” and “fisting.” The materials are extremely graphic, explaining how to, for example, “[put] a fist or whole hand into a person’s vagina or bum.”

This isn’t a fringe organization. The NEA is the largest teachers union in the country, representing more than 3 million public school teachers in all 14,000 local school districts—and it has been captured by radical gender theory and its perverse sexual ideology.

So, why go through the hassle of having such materials as porno books in the kids’ school libraries when you can have impressionable students whip out their smartphones, scan that QR code, and immediately have access to all the same materials and MORE?

And Parents will never know, will they? Like in the above snippet, it is all about separating Parents from their children and claiming them for their own.  After all, teachers have to make that “mind and soul grab” before the kids realize “oops, my mistake”:

• England’s NHS Warns That Most Transgender Minors Could Be Experiencing a ‘Transient Phase’

The National Health Service (NHS) of England issued a warning this week that most children who identify as “transgender” are going through a “transient phase.” .  The publicly-funded health service issued draft guidance last week on treating children and young people with gender dysphoria, the condition where someone feels that their gender does not align with their biological sex.  The guidance reportedly stated that physicians should be open to “exploring all developmentally appropriate options” for children who are showing signs of gender dysphoria, keeping in mind that “this may be a transient phase.”

Remember, the current statistic is that almost all of these gender dysphoria suffering children are also suffering from a plethora of other mental illnesses and may realize that what social influencers, teachers, and peer-group pressure revert back to their real biological sex/gender (the two last words used interchangeably and NOT possessing different contexts).

This year, the NHS announced that it would shutter its only dedicated gender identity clinic for children, Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust in response to recommendations from an “expert review.” The review criticized the clinic’s long waiting lists and “raised concerns over a lack of consensus about how the health service should assess, diagnose and treat young people seeking gender services,” Reuters noted.

And now the trans activists are going all Soviet Union  “Zampolit ” (CTRL-F if you go to the link for word search)”. The Zampolit were political officers that were assigned to military units and, for political and lyality to the Communist Party reason, could override the orders of the actual military unit commanders.  Many were shot or dispensed with one way or another (e.g., The Hunt for Red October).

• LGBTQ+++© Police State: ‘Trans Buddies’ Now Assigned to Monitor Doctors for Transphobia

Respecting The Science©, as we are trained to do, obviously requires that we place LGBTQ+++© Gestapo [er, Zampolit – Skip] in every doctor’s office in America. Their job is to make sure bigoted doctors don’t slip up and practice medicine based on biological reality, because biology is transphobic, as is reality.

Vanderbilt’s Pediatric Transgender Clinic practices The Science© by providing “evidence-based, personalized gender-affirming care for transgender and gender-diverse children and adolescents” — a fancy, rambling way to say “transing children.” And now it’s upped its game by inserting “Trans Buddies” into the doctor’s office.

The Trans Buddy Program’s mission statement reads:

“The Trans Buddy Program’s goal is to increase access to care and improve healthcare outcomes for transgender people by providing emotional support to transgender patients during healthcare visits. We emphasize a patient-centered  approach, with the goal of empowering the patient to make informed healthcare decisions. Trans Buddy recognizes the importance of intersectionality to our direct care practice, and we therefore aim to work with people of all identities with compassion and respect.”

In case the objectors hadn't gotten the memo, Vanderbilt unveiled a program called "Trans Buddies." The "buddies" are trans activists from the community who attend appointments with trans patients, monitoring the doctors to guard against "unsafe" behavior such as misgendering pic.twitter.com/KyYUdRHrrP

— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) September 20, 2022

…Next on screen, a wide-eyed Trans Buddy who looks like she just parachuted a gram of MDMA pops into frame to explain her sanctioned role in coercing hospital staff to comply with the prevailing gender orthodoxy: “Sometimes I’m there to be sort of always observing kind of how hospital staff are interacting with individuals and again, you know, using correct pronouns.” (emphasis mine)

I guess the Woke Hospitals were just copying the schools as this next one show that having “Trans Buddies” are for life:

• Why Does Fort Worth ISD Want To Teach “Gender Identity” To Pre-K Children?

Evidently no child is too young to push the transexual agenda on, at least to some administrator at Fort Worth ISD, where they give “gender identity” training for Pre-K teachers.

At Fort Worth ISD (FWISD), a school district of almost 75,000 students, teachers take training sessions that may endorse concepts related to critical race theory (CRT).

A screenshot obtained from an anonymous FWISD teacher shows that pre-K teachers are required to participate in almost nine hours of “anti-bias” training in order to satisfy continuing education requirements.

All classroom teachers in Texas must complete 150 hours of continuing education training every five years.

The description for the anti-bias training reads, “This course offers information on culture and language, racial identity, family structures, gender identity, economic class, different abilities, holidays, and more.”

And if teachers don’t finish the training, their pay is docked.

Why does someone at Fort Worth ISD think that pre-K children, who don’t even know what sex is, need to be exposed to “gender identity?”

Simply because the victimhood identity politics hard left simply can’t wait to corrupt your children to their worldview. Everything must be subordinated to their warped will-to-power. No child or institution is safe from their clutches.

As loyal readers know, I have been after my School Board for a couple of years over their Policy JBAB (Transgender and non-conforming) over coerced speech by Government (“preferred pronouns” which they now have backed down from) and lying to Parents (still on going). However, this next snippet brings up yet another battlefield. One of the Gilford School Board members, intrepid Kyl Sanborn has insisted that if training is to be done on this, someone who has rejected their transitioning from their original sex to the other, should be brought in to tell the other side of the story.  This has been fought against.  Why is the operative question:

• Why Are They so Afraid of Detransitioners?

The detransition movement has been growing over the past few years as more people who attempted to transition to the opposite gender come to regret their decisions. Many of these individuals went through social, medical, and even surgical treatments as minor children. But now, many are deciding to reject what they previously believed about their gender identity. This paradigm shift has been quite troubling to progressives – especially those who believe it is acceptable to push these treatments on kids. They have been trying to discredit these individuals in any way possible – but it is inevitable that their voices will be heard regardless.

The Post Millennial published a report detailing how a Pennsylvania school board rejected an offer from a resident to allow a detransitioner to share their experiences with teachers tasked with learning about then teaching about gender identity to small children.

From the report:

On October 25th Mike Winterode, with the No Left Turn in Education Pennsylvania chapter, made a statement at his local school board meeting. He said that after reading the training “while some in attendance did learn strategies for introducing gender identity to kids who still believe in Santa Claus, they didn’t really learn about gender, and what happens once we get beyond name changes and pronouns.”

He went on to describe some of the not so glamorous parts of transition. Such as how a double mastectomy takes away the ability to ever breastfeed a child, and how the use of puberty blockers can destroy the ability to orgasm as an adult. In his statement, Mr. Winterode made an offer to bring Transexual Content Creator Sara Higdon (me) and Detransitioner Chloe Cole to speak about the dangers of transitioning children; at no cost to the district.

…GenderGP, an advocacy group for transgender individuals, claimed “detransition is a loaded term,” and that it does not refer to an “unsatisfactory or regrettable result,” but only “refers to the small group of people who transition and then go back.”

Yeah, well “gender-affirming” is as well.  It really is “sexual multilation surgery” and drugs used for other purposes than originally designed for.  And the trans-activists are working hard to invalidate them just like the Left calls us every name under the sun.  These people are simply Speech and Idea Totalitarians.

Happy Warrior time!

• Alex Stein confronts armed Antifa members guarding Texas bookstore hosting transgender storytime for children: ‘These are the real cowards‘

Political provocateur Alex Stein stirred the pot at a Texas bookstore that was hosting a “transgender storytime” for children. Stein confronted armed Antifa members guarding the bookstore in Denton, Texas. Patchouli Joe’s Books & Indulgences store hosted a “transgender storytime” for children on Saturday afternoon. The bookstore promoted the event on its website and Facebook, “This FREE event takes place during National Transgender Awareness Week, and will be hosted by Patchouli Joe’s Books & Indulgences – a family-owned, LGBTQ-friendly, independent bookstore in the heart of Denton, Texas.”

Confronting Armed Antifa at Drag Queen Story Time in Denton, Texas

pic.twitter.com/Jgb6na8oGs

— Alex Stein #99 (@alexstein99) November 19, 2022

And lest we forget what started this “Stack of Stuff” series off, we’re back to Critical Race Theory:

• Debunking the grievance industry in our schools

City Journal last month released a survey that asked eighteen-to-twenty-year-olds whether they had been taught six concepts related to critical race theory. These included: “America is a systemically racist country,” “White people have white privilege,” “White people have unconscious biases that negatively affect non-white people,” “America is built on stolen land,” “America is a patriarchal society,” and “Gender is an identity choice.”

Each of these was answered in the affirmative by a majority of participants, of whom more than 80 percent attended public schools.

That’s curious given that public educators and their defenders in corporate media have been claiming for years that CRT is not taught in schools. “Teaching critical race theory isn’t happening in classrooms, teachers say in survey,” reported NBC in July 2021. The Washington Post’s Eugene Robinson in June 2021 called the controversy over CRT “manufactured,” while his colleague Karen Attiah the same month called it “hot air.”

Since then, the narrative has evolved into “well, various themes associated with CRT may be taught in public schools, but not CRT itself.” A November 2021 report from PBS, for example, explained, “There is little to no evidence that critical race theory itself is being taught to K-12 public school students, though some ideas central to it… have been.”

When Big Flashlights keep looking around, stuff has a way of being found out.

 

 

 

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Without getting into the weeds, the differences between the Real Right and the True Left are simple. The Right wants maximized individual liberty with limited government oversight. The Left wants maximized oversight regardless of the cost to individual rights.

Groups like No Labels try to accumulate influence and power by playing the worst on both sides against the fantasy of a romantic utopian middle.

But anyone willing to sell some liberty for more government sold as security can be convinced or tricked into giving away too much.

No one on the real right can trust them, and everyone on the Left is content to use them. There is no middle. It’s a fantasy that leads further left.

No Labels was started by Democrats and RINOs on the premise that they could moderate the political divisions. In the 12  years since their founding lie, the left-right divide appears wider. So how might matters get worse?

Accusations of racial and sexual discrimination or harassment.

 

• There is lingering discord over the decision to hire and ally with individuals who left prior jobs under allegations they’d sexually harassed women.

• Two former staffers said they witnessed one of the organization’s few Black employees being singled out to discuss race issues at a staff meeting.

• At least three ex-aides have sought remuneration from the group over the nature of their termination in the last two years.

• Two female staffers recalled management telling female employees to dress more conservatively after a colleague was improperly touched by a male member of Congress at a No Labels event.

• Staffers are bombarded with emails and demands by Jacobson. They come at all hours of the day, sometimes with odd requests, such as changing the employer listed on their LinkedIn profiles to “America” to throw off a journalist trying to locate them.

 

In my mind, no Labels has always been a Liberal front group designed to use accusations of extremism on the right to pull Republicans to the Left. The Republicans it courts or who praise it are all sell swords content to give up (some or more of) your freedoms for a seat at the Washington elite’s table. A place setting owned by the inside-the-beltway progressive establishment.

Democrats who say kind words are using them as moderate covert for higher office from which they will advance the Left’s priorities.

And you can’t convince me otherwise because no one worries about their candidate going to DC and coming back too conservative.

No Labels is and always was a progressive creature, and as such, it makes the same mistakes as similar groups like the Lincoln Project, which exists to enrich the consultant class while advancing the Left’s hold on power. Their headspace is the same. Say one thing, do another.

And in their defense, they can’t help it. But candidates who cannot put individual liberty before government power are doomed to become progressives and excuse the abuses of the ruling class at the expense of everything else. And that’s where NoLabels is now. The only thing that matters is the movement, and that’s always a path to tyranny, no matter where you claim to stand.

 

 

HT | Politico

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There is no longer any denying it. The Twitter-Files PROVE that the 2020 election was RIGGED on many, many, levels. So where is the apology, or at least the recanting, by NH-NeverTrump Journal that there is NO EVIDENCE that the 2020 election was rigged, that Biden beat Trump fair-and-square, that if you question the propriety of the election you are an “election-denier,” blah, blah, blah.

There won’t be an apology, or even a recant, because the purpose of NH-NeverTrump Journal is to gaslight New Hampshire into believing that the GOP must reject populism and return to its neocon, Chamber-of-Commerce, country-club roots.

A simple question: If NH-NeverTrump Journal is gaslighting you about the 2020 election … which undeniably it is … what else is it gaslighting you about?

The Twitter Files, Part 3

Deplatforming the President https://t.co/nvdlRNYXxA

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 10, 2022

Part 2 –

1. A new #TwitterFiles investigation reveals that teams of Twitter employees build blacklists, prevent disfavored tweets from trending, and actively limit the visibility of entire accounts or even trending topics—all in secret, without informing users.

— Bari Weiss (@bariweiss) December 9, 2022

Part 1 –

1. Thread: THE TWITTER FILES

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 2, 2022

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A truth the right side of the aisle must wrestle with: the Deep State international cabal uses American foreign policy to advance global interests” under the guise of patriotism.

Did you know that Congress has not followed its constitutional duty to declare war since WWII?  America has ceded its power to declare war to that cabal since Pearl Harbor. Who is this “cabal”? It is the regional military arm of the UN, a.k.a. NATO.

Thinking critically, one might ask: Why is America sending 100,000 troops to defend 29 nations in Europe, all under the command of NATO, while simultaneously ignoring the invasion of our southern border? Answer: The cabal tells us it’s Patriotism, however it’s the truth played out before our eyes. It’s the advancement of global interests at the expense of our men and women in uniform.

U.S. troops serve under UN command because Congress shrinks from its responsibility to declare war. Citizens have no control over the UN or NATO. Because of this, military families in NATO countries lose the God-given protections of the Bill of Rights and live under the laws of European Union nations.

Does spending 65 billion dollars to protect Ukraine this year with the higher cost of American blood looming make sense? This foreign policy is not American. It represents the advocates of one world government who have dominated our nation for the past century.

The UN Peace dove is a fraud, and its military arm NATO, sold as a way to defend European nations from the USSR, is part of the con game. Article 52, Section 1 of Chapter VIII of the UN Charter allows for the “maintenance of international peace and security and regional actions of agencies”  such as NATO  or SEATO in Vietnam.

These agencies must conduct their activities consistent with the purposes and principles of the United Nations. Do you remember 911? The UN Security Council Resolution 1441 was issued to President Bush in 2002. This was permission for our President to commit American troops to battle in Iraq. Later resolutions would spread the conflict to Syria and Afghanistan. One does not ask permission from an inferior power but from a superior power.

Let’s look closer at the UN Charter written by FDR Advisor Alger Hiss, a Soviet Agent. Chapter VIII, Article 54 states:

“The Security Council shall at all times be kept fully informed of activities undertaken or in contemplation under regional arrangements or by regional agencies for the maintenance of international peace and security.”

China and Russia are on the Security Council.  Do you trust their leaders with NATO’s strategies of war? I don’t! Isn’t it strange that American diplomats at the San Francisco  Conference in 1945 agreed that our two future enemies would know all of our planned military strategies in UN-condoned wars?

Is this why we didn’t win the UN war in Korea and Vietnam? UN Anti-American war policy was initiated in Korea and Vietnam. The results are displayed on the Korean War Veterans Monument and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. That’s what you call bloody anti-American diplomacy that our Congress and one Administration after another ignore. Congress continues to enable this compromise of our war powers because there’s no accountability that will blame them for sending troops to battle.

We need to get out of NATO and the UN. American liberty depends on holding our leaders accountable to the Constitution.  We can’t enforce it unless we know it. Knowledge of this great document designed to limit government must replace loyalty to party. We need to implore our federal Congress to co-sponsor the American Sovereignty Restoration Act for 2023.

We won’t win the battle until our people gain a sufficient understanding of congressional responsibilities and limitations placed on our leaders by the Constitution. Check out JBS.ORG  or contact Regional John Birch Coordinator Matt Rhodes about the seminar called The Constitution is the Solution at 207-391-0970.

 

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Believing anything “the government” says was always tricky. We can add a new measure of skepticism to government agencies pretending to be interested in public health. The COVID response killed that, and they are back to make matters worse.

The Public Health Industrial Complex is peddling another blood-for-money campaign that pushes flu vaccines. Regular Flu. The thing they replaced with COVID, which they have since rebranded to facilitate more money laundering.

 

It turns out that a year ago, the CDC changed the definition of “Influenza-Like Illness:”

For this system, ILI is defined as fever (temperature of 100°F [37.8°C] or greater) and a cough and/or a sore throat. Since the 2021-22 season, the case definition no longer includes “without a known cause other than influenza”. Since ILINet monitors visits for ILI and not laboratory-confirmed influenza, it will capture visits due to any respiratory pathogen that presents with the symptoms of fever plus cough or sore throat. These data should be evaluated in the context of other surveillance data to obtain a complete and accurate picture of influenza activity.

As of now, any illness with “fever AND (cough OR sore throat)” is counted as influenza and would darken the map!

 

By changing the definition of flu, the experts have elevated the incidence in the wake of a two-year public-health terror campaign. State-run media has made sure you knew about the rise in “flu,” but not why.

Igor Chudov explains the double counting here. I have other fish to fry. The latest Flupocalypse aligns with all the other domestic terrorism from the Biden administration.

The non-stop renewals of the COID public health emergency

DHS continues to issue partisan national security domestic terror Def Con 1 updates.

The mess at the border, the economic misery, and a new end-of-the-world conspiracy every other minute.

It’s exhausting or meant to be; people in a constant state of tension are more likely to cede their freedom in exchange for a false promise of security. Some will increasingly act out or initiate actions that can be used to advance the goal of a police state. Flooding the nation with third-world hooligans only accelerates the problem of crime and disorder among the ‘migrants” and actual citizens.

In 2020 “they” weaponized a virus and created a new path to tyranny in the form of the public health police state.

As I write this, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia are building theirs. Blue states in the US are on the same path. Changing the definition of flu adds tension to accelerate the process. If Big Pharma gets more money for “treatments,” then that’s a bonus that finds its way into the pockets of the elites or downstream to buy off state and local public health despots to keep them on the line.

All while dismissing or ignoring the real threat to public health. The CDC, FDA, and we can add the growing Hospital cartel, and health insurance companies can deny service and control the public at the direction of policymakers.

Do no harm has evolved to do harm as needed, and without a way to reign in the bureaucracy behind it or legal protections we shouldn’t need to protect us from it, real threats can never be known or even believed.

And that’s probably on purpose.

 

 

HT | Igor Chudov Substack

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An email worth reading was sent to New Hampshire’s Executive Councilors regarding their vote to reject taxpayer funding for the Get Real sex education program for NH students.

Three out of five voted to reject the funding:

 

9 December 2022

Members of the New Hampshire Executive Council
By Email, with attachments
joseph.D.Kenney@nh.gov
cinde.Warmington@nh.gov
janet.L.Stevens@nh.gov
ted.Gatsas@nh.gov
David.K.Wheeler@nh.gov

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen:

I write to thank you for refusing to proceed with funding for the Get Real sex education program. I also offer background information to support your decision and encourage the Council to seek alternate course providers.

While the Get Real program may previously have been funded in NH for some period, the premise upon which it was developed and purported standards for its materials (present medically accurate education about healthy sexual behaviour) changed radically in 2019 to one of explicit progressive sexual education advocacy. Get Real references the organization SIECUS for the frameworks it says it aligns with. That organization’s stated purpose is to “spark large-scale social change.”

SIECUS also (1) asserts that “Sex Ed sits at the nexus of many social justice movements – from LBGTQ rights and reproductive Justice….” The motto for the Get Real publisher (ETR) is “advancing health equity.” That purpose is decidedly different to educating young children (middle school age) and informing young adults (high school age) about biology and healthy sex behaviour. What is the social change they want to effect? I doubt parents of prospective students know of this focus for the program, nor the single viewpoint of the authors and presenters. Does the Executive Council want to endorse these objectives? ( 1 https://siecus.org/about-siecus/our-history/)

The program’s authors assert that the program is shown to delay sex among participating middle school students; empower parents as primary educators about sex; and reinforce communication within families. However, the studies relied on to support these broad claims are based on entirely subjective surveys of approximately 500 school-age participants in the Boston area. As with much social science analysis, there is no way to confirm the purported results nor to replicate them. Further, the surveys addressed vaginal sex only and were administered during a period (2005-2008) when children in the US were generally found to be exploring other behaviours less likely to result in pregnancy – oral and anal sex in particular, and increasingly homosexual and bisexual activity. It was also a period when sexually transmitted diseases increased in the US. All of these shifts have affected girls disproportionately.

The program says it seeks to highlight the role of parents in their children’s care but also asserts that the materials and activities used by participants will be private within the classroom. That seems intended to assure children that no one will be told anything about conversations or disclosures the child makes in the class. Parents certainly have reason to expect that all activities their children participate in with other adults will be open and disclosed to them, but that may not be the case. However, depending on the teacher’s personal beliefs or school policy, parental rights could be ignored completely.

The program’s developers, presenters, and trainers have substantial ties to Planned Parenthood. That organization’s primary profit-making activity is providing abortions. Increasingly it characterizes as educational and advocates for pornography in school libraries. It also assists in making available permanent changes to children’s bodies through sex change surgery and medications such as chemical castration packaged as puberty “blockers.”

The foundation for Get Real and other newly promoted sex education courses is from SIECUS – Sex Ed for Social Change, formerly known as Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States. It was formed as a not-for-profit organization by a senior executive of Planned Parenthood, reflecting the specific intentions and practices of that organization. It is not a governmental agency, although it has presented itself (and apparently been widely accepted) as the sole authority on sex education in this country for decades. It’s now focused on advocacy surrounding sexual practices and expanding acceptance of homosexual and non-binary behaviours, particularly at younger ages. (The results of that advocacy show up in news reports almost weekly with adults parading online the ways they present sexual matters (their own and that of their friends) in their primary classrooms.) SIECUS also contributes to the publication of the so-called National Sex Education Standards. These Standards are followed by schools throughout the country and now assert without irony that a child’s gender is “assigned” at birth by a medical professional. (This apparently makes the x and y chromosomes the only ones biologists should ignore.)

The Standards document also widely expands the concepts of sex education to include class, climate, law enforcement bias, privilege, race and culture, and other non-medical concepts. Those are ideological and highly politicized concepts that no one discloses to parents when seeking consent to classes. They are certainly not appropriate for middle school and early high school-aged children.

Information about SIECUS and ETR is readily available online, but I attach PDF files of the Guidelines and the Standards that present in detail the outlook for the Get Real program. It is a politicized and ideological program very much focused on effecting social change by influencing children’s behaviour, in large part by encouraging sexual experimentation at earlier ages and secretive relationships with non-family adults. It dismisses any recognition of parental rights. Is that the outcome you want? I urge you to seek other viewpoint-neutral materials for any taxpayer-funded sex ed program.

Sincerely yours,
Diane Dunning Martin

PDF email Attachments :
National Sex Education Standards –
Guidelines for Comprehensive Sexuality Education -3rd edition

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Most of our readers understand how this works. The government screws something up, deliberately in most cases, and then pretends to help with the downside of its policy priorities. When that fails, you blame your opponents while regular people suffer.

The New England energy dearth has been an ongoing concern for years. As reliable energy is decommissioned from the grid, nothing reliable has been proposed to replace it. All while heating oil or gas infrastructure has been delayed, sidetracked, or blocked by environmentalist politicians and their green boots on the ground.

The elevation of Joe Biden and his homunculus (Kamala Harris) to the White House alongside a Democrat majority Congress has pushed the Northeast past a tipping point. The Dems’ war on fossil fuels has driven prices up, making the stuff precious and harder to get. With winter days away and a cold and bitter January just weeks away, the folks who had a decade or more to get on the right track picked the wrong one and think sending you a check to pay for overpriced heating oil is the answer.

As I noted here, make sure you ask for small bills, you may need to burn the money to keep warm.

And while getting some of your money back from the crooks in the government is welcome, a check doesn’t make it available to buy.

New Hampshire pushed its own ‘Cash for Oil’ scheme. A stipend to help offset energy prices that have risen in part due to years of inaction or the wrong action by so-called “leadership.” It passed, and I’m sure the check is in the mail, but no one I know has seen one.

Maine tried that too. Gov. Mills wanted to spend 474 million to help Mainers offset the fiscal abuse heaped on them by her political party’s indifference to facts on the ground. Buy some heating oil (or gas or pay for your electric rate hike) but only for a month or two, assuming there’s electricity, oil, or gas.

A handful of the remaining Republicans in that State’s Senate said no, and the measure failed. Mills blamed them.

“A minority of the minority choose to reject this help for Maine people,” Mills said in a written statement. “I urge Senate Republicans to join their other Republican and Democratic colleagues in the Legislature to give this plan the support needed to enact it as an emergency measure so that we can get this relief into the hands of Maine people without delay.”

I didn’t look but does this “relief” include an admission that you are part of why there’s an emergency? That the New England grid needs hydro from Canada or natural gas from Pennsylvania and on and on?

Is there a path to motivate change in DC to overturn old laws so we can get oil or natural gas from the Gulf Coast (instead of Asia or Africa) and have it shipped to the Northeast? Is there any motivation to back pipelines or other much-needed infrastructure?

Has anyone accepted that the math doesn’t work if we try to switch to wind and solar or that the transition (if you are even on onboard with one) will take decades? Or that, yes, we do indeed have plenty of time to find valid alternatives to extend our energy future, and maybe wind and solar are not that?

Or is it just another handout to temporarily assuage the guilt or misdirect culpability (as in the case of Mills blaming Republicans), not that there are no Republicans who bear some blame?

Residents can probably buy cordwood, motor fuel, propane, or kerosene for portable heaters. It’s getting expensive, and maybe the handout helps a little, but giving people some of their money back or giving it to people who never earned it, isn’t relief. It’s more like giving someone fentanyl for chronic pain.

It doesn’t fix the problem, but people become dependent, and without an intervention and a recovery plan, they could become addicted until it kills them.

Or was that the plan all along?

 

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