Sunday • May 5 • 2024
Vol.XVI • No.XVIII
Manchester, N.H.
New Hampshire’s Executive Council will vote today on whether to launder tax dollars into the pocket of a well-heeled Republican donor.
This story is developing, but here are the basics from a reader.
Steve Duprey purchased a vacant building called Granite One in Concord for about 2.9 million in June ’22. The parking garage was in horrible shape so it needed a new one.
The best place to build it is where the Attorney General’s office is, so we spend $1 million to tear down a building worth $ 4.8 million and now need to relocate the NH DOJ .
Duprey *offers* to lease the state his building for $3.5million/year for a 20 YEAR LEASE ($70M) or to sell it to the state for $15 Million.
The lease is a triple net lease which means the state pays all maintenance all repairs and all taxes in addition to rent.
Duprey is a wealthy former NH RNC Committeeman and a long-time RINO donor to suitable candidates (mostly Republicans, but he’s donated a few bucks to Dems like Dan Feltes and Andru Volinsky). And not all RINOs, if you care. But if the Executive Council approves any version of this plan, Steve Duprey will be rewarded for his commitment to the Granite State’s crony politics laundromat. Your tax dollars to donors through (in this case) what appears to be unnecessary and very expensive development.
And if this is all correct, and this story is still developing, the only winner, in my opinion, is Duprey.
Link added: https://patch.com/new-hampshire/concord-nh/duprey-acquires-brady-sullivan-holdings-granite-place-concord
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It was Stephen Scaer’s post about Elle Gallo that got her “copyright demand panties” in a wad. Once again, we see that yet another “transgender activist” can’t STAND that someone has an opinion that varies from theirs. Go ahead and read Stephen’s post and then come back. I’ll wait…
So now, having read Stephen’s post, you know that Elle Gallo censored his speech a first time by “canceling” his billboard “speech” about the issues surrounding transgenderism of minor children. So she “stalked” him (see, two can play this game!) and followed him from the billboard to GraniteGrok. She then found me and decided to submit a demand of me – to censor Stephen a second time (emphasis mine):
—— Original Message ——
From: “Elle Gallo” <elle@ellegallo.com>
To: “skip@granitegrok.com” <skip@granitegrok.com>
Sent: 11/21/2022 7:04:18 PM
Subject: Copyright/article 11/21Dear Skip,
Steven Scaer has copied information and images from my website that are subject to copyright restrictions. Please immediately remove his opinion piece dated November 21, 2022 “Derry Dem Saves Citizens from Dangerous Book”.
I look forward to your response.
Thank you,
Elle Gallo
Silly person – she failed to read our FAQs concerning emails sent to any of we Groksters:
…Anything you send us is fair game and may be used on the site. Exceptions to this policy include if you ask us not to; however, if we judge the email to be nasty, we may still publish it to skewer poor judgment or lack of critical thinking.
And so I have. And in my judgement as the Beneficent Dictator of GraniteGrok, I judged it’s intent to be “nasty” given that I am a Free Speech supporter – demanding that someone be censored isn’t in my wheelhouse except for a very few reasons (e.g., Adult themes but kid friendly).
So I decided to send a response – and to be technically correct, a commentary on both her email above and on Stephen’s post’s commentary:
—— Original Message ——
From: “Skip” <Skip@granitegrok.com>
To: “Elle Gallo” <elle@ellegallo.com>
Sent: 11/22/2022 1:48:10 AM
Subject: Re: Copyright/article 11/21Dear Ms. Gallo,
I have reviewed your email below as well as Mr. Scaer’s post (he is BCC’d on this email) and I have a few thoughts.
It is clear that he has commented about information located on your NH House campaign site (from Derry) that you put out for public review. Thus, his actions are a valid expression of protected Speech under the First Amendment as well as Articles 22 and 30 of the NH Constitution. It is called “public discourse” – a fundamental part of American civics and governance. While you do have a copyright notice at the bottom of your campaign website (now, only a single page), do you know anything of what is known as the Fair Use doctrine when it comes to such material?
In essence, it is legal for others to extract/abstract limited parts of a larger work (e.g., your public political page) with the intent to report upon your words and/or to formulate any kind of commentary upon your speech. In this case, your political stances and actions. Just because the material is copyrighted does not mean that an iron dome now surrounds it that prevents any commentary by others, either in support of or against it. Others are allowed to express their opinions on it.
If you look at the totality of his post, his limited abstraction of your speech pales in comparison to his commentary upon it. It passes muster.
Please also remember that as you voluntarily decided to run for public office, you became a “public person” making it much more likely that others would comment on your political ideas and stances. Thus, it is also legal for him to use your image in identifying you and to further identify you with your own speech.
Reverse the position – the part of your website that mentioned his copyrighted speech (the billboard). Should he have brought a demand that you erase any mention of your “erasing” his speech? Of course not (although he might be able to bring an action for other reasons).
However, you took it upon yourself not to debate his speech, as he has done, but to “silence” his speech. You didn’t just comment upon his speech as he did on yours – you had him CENSORED. Is this what an NH State Representative is supposed to do (even though you were not successful: https://www.derrynh.org/sites/g/files/vyhlif3026/f/news/returnofvotes11.8.22.pdf) – and then boast about it? And how would you have justified your action given the Oath of Office you would have had to take (NH Constitution, Part Second, Article 84) in which you would have sworn allegiance to the Constitution before taking your House seat:
I, A.B. do solemnly swear, that I will bear faith and true allegiance to the United States of America and the state of New Hampshire, and will support the constitution thereof. So help me God.
You admit his post was an “opinion piece” – again, protected Constitutional speech. You silenced him once and now you are demanding that *I* be your instrument by which you would strip Mr. Scaer of his Free Speech a second time?
So what is my response to your demand (far better than what you did to Mr. Scaer)?
UP YOURS!
He caught you red-handed and embarrassed you with your own words about your own actions. You admitted to what you did to him – and now you want to hide it? Oh, WAIT! You have! Why DID you remove that part of your campaign website that he screenshotted?
(click to embiggen)
I searched your website – and it is gone. Ashamed of what you did?
Man up and own up to what you did to him – or does “responsibility” not exist in your vocabulary? In fact, you ought to be apologizing to him.
And to be sure, I WILL be posting this response on GraniteGrok in the morning. Welcome to the Streisand Effect (you can look it up on GraniteGrok), Ms. Gallo.
Oh, one last thing – nice linking to DerryUnited from your website. I dryly note that it, too, is copyrighted yet you used all of its information. Should they be demanding that you take down your use of their information for campaign purposes (heh!)?
-Skip
Skip Murphy
Founder, co-owner
GraniteGrok.com | Skip@GraniteGrok.com
No, as a public person, she can’t just say that you cannot quote what I have put out there for all to see. You ran on it so ANYONE gets to comment on it.
Yes, I stand behind Stephen and his right to comment on Elle Gallo’s stances, ideas, and speech. This is the ESSENCE of our democratic process (seeing that “our democracy” [as the Democrats kept yammering about all during this election cycle as if America would be only a burning husk if they didn’t keep their political power] – and this Democrat wants to have it both ways at the same time:
*I* can talk but you can’t. That’s saving Our Democracy.
Sorry, that makes HER the dangerous and extremist person in all this.
So, Elle Gallo – when did you decide that your mission in life was to be “Karen the Censor”?
And yes, snark and satire is a vital part of Free Speech, Ms. Gallo.
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I give thanks every day, but every November, we set aside a day to do it as a nation. Part of this tradition involves lots of food. Turkey, Stuffing or dressing, cranberry, potatoes, yams, squash (pretzels, popcorn, toast, and jellybeans).
You may also have a friend group that celebrates yearly, and no, that’s not Friendsgiving. It’s Thanksgiving. The Indians and pilgrims celebrated the harvest as friends despite being quite different so please call it what it is.
Some folks (families or friends) will also have a special side dish or two that is traditional in their family. Maybe it’s something they make for their table or bring to someone else’s as a guest.
So what is it? Is it a side dish, a certain type of dessert, a snack platter, or even a beverage?
We’d like you to share yours with our readers, including the recipe if you want. You can leave it in the comments or email it to me, and I’ll add it to a comment for you. It should be something you have to make not buy prepared.
At my house, we try to do a different extra dish every year so that it’s never the same thing twice in a row. I do not know what that is yet for this year (even though I do the majority of the food shopping for our family.
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Nearly 1400 years ago, a group of nomads from across the scorching Arabian Desert conquered Persia (Iran), the greatest empire known in the history of mankind. With that, they injected their Islamic virus into the veins of their victim: the Iranian people.
1400 years later, in a show of solidarity, the people of Iran have risen and stand shoulder to shoulder to defeat the virulent disease of Islam. The Iranian revolution is not just a political revolution; it is a full-fledged renaissance against Islam.
I translate the image below: “I am glad I live in an era when Islam will depart Iran forever. The Iranian retaliation, after 1400 years.”
“I am glad I live in an era when Islam will depart Iran forever. The Iranian retaliation, after 1400 years.”And many more comments like that have come directly from Iran and Iranian teenagers. As I predicted 40 years ago, when I started to write about Islam, this imposed ideology will be terminated in my lifetime. I am glad I am alive to see it happening. I am glad I was part of it and made a difference. “WOMAN, LIFE, FREEDOM.”
Translation of the image below: “Due to lack of cameras to register Islam’s historical events 1400 years ago, you can now witness (watch) the pure form of Muhammadan Islam in Mahabad, Iran, in action.” (And for that matter, everywhere else in Iran where the forces of the Islamic Republic are savagely murdering Iranian people) . “Due to lack of cameras to register Islam’s historical events 1400 years ago, you can now witness (watch) the pure form of Muhammadan Islam in Mahabad, Iran, in action.”The post The Iranian Revolution Is Not Just a Political Revolution, It Is a Full-Fledged Renaissance against Islam appeared first on Granite Grok.
Like Moses leading his people out of Egypt,
Donald Trump single-handedly guided a progressively repressed America to the brink of a new promised land. In 2015 Trump was maligned by the Republican establishment and left for dead by Hillary Clinton and the Washington DC Deep State.
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But miraculously, Trump opened the Red Sea of the Republican primary and general election, won the presidency, and brought together a new coalition of blue-collar and traditional Americans. Over the next four years, he was brutally and dishonestly attacked. His progressive/ deep state enemies tried to take down his presidency {think Russiagate}, but by putting America first, Trump was able to change the nation and the world.
His foreign policy projected strength but, at the same time, made the rest of the world pay their fair share. He constrained China’s ambition, North Korea’s paranoia, and Iran’s terrorism, and his Middle East peace accords were masterful. He removed foolish business regulations, demanded fair free trade {think new NAFTA}, and the stock market soared. The military was rebuilt, and the borders were sealed. And America was safer. Trump kept inflation in check and called out the deep state, ensuring American retirement savings were safe and Americans would not be illegally abused by a corrupt DOJ/FBI.
In early 2020, like a biblical plague, the Coronavirus came.
Instead of recommending protecting the at-risk population and keeping the country/schools open, panic overtook our leaders, and the nation was shut down. Trump quickly realized the disastrous consequences of this action and gave the ok to reopen, but the power to make it happen was at the level of State government. Governors {mostly progressive} declared an emergency, suspended constitutional rights, and forced shutdowns of all nonessential work. The main CDC spokesman was Dr. Fauci, who, by refusing to acknowledge the entire effect of the pandemic and ignoring the harm created by his draconian recommendations, violated his Hippocratic oath of “Do no harm.” Thousands of small businesses were forced to close and never reopened. Untold numbers of not-at-risk children were deprived of socialization and education. Suicide and drug use rates soared. And an entire generation of children is 2-3 years behind in learning, and most will never catch up.
Some States refused to buckle to the intense politically motivated progressive intimidation. Florida, Texas, and Georgia come to mind. Their businesses stayed open, and their children stayed in school. And the virus mortality rate was no different.
The progressives and the media blamed President Trump for every virus death.
The election was on, and candidate Joe Biden was sequestered in his Delaware home, hiding his clear cognitive dysfunction and ineptitude and, most importantly, deceiving the country by pretending to be moderate “Scranton Joe.” The corrupt FBI, now exposed as trying to bury the Hunter Biden laptop, warned tech titans of impending Russian disinformation, and when the Hunter Biden laptop surfaced, all reference to it was suppressed. President Donald Trump was removed from all social media and, in effect, banned from the public square. Fifty former intelligence officers penned a letter opining the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation. Despite knowing the letter was felonious, AG Barr and FBI Director Wray refused to set the record straight. Likewise, Pfizer held up the announcement of the world-saving Covid 19 vaccine until after the election.
The fix was in, and when the votes were counted, Joe Biden was elected president. The election was dirty-trick legal but clearly was not fair. Polls show if the public knew the truth about Hunter Biden’s laptop, 6% would have changed their vote, shifting the election to Trump.
If Donald Trump had exited office in silence,
he would be the overwhelming favorite to be the next president of the United States, but he didn’t; and in what can only be described as an irrational rage, he refused to acknowledge that it was progressive unethical dirty-tricks, not widespread voter fraud, that had taken him down.
On January 6th, 2021, Americans who sensed how unfair the 2020 election was, marched on Washington, DC. Trump knew there might be trouble and authorized the National Guard to be called out, but Speaker Nancy Pelosi, hoping for chaos, refused to give it an okay. There was a riot and a breach of the capital building. President Trump was blamed, and very powerful forces fabricated a now-debunked bogus death of a policeman, armed insurrection narrative.
Trump survived the ridiculous impeachment attempt but never let go of the unfair 2020 election. Over the next 18 months, the country radically changed. The fossil fuel industry was systematically destroyed. The price of home heating oil doubled, gas topped out at five dollars a gallon, and electrical rates skyrocketed. This, combined with massive spending, sparked the worst inflation in over 40 years. Crime runs rampant in major progressive cities; the southern border is nonexistent, with 5 million illegals having crossed along with American youth killing fentanyl and child sex traffickers. The world is on fire with Russia invading Ukraine and China eyeing Taiwan.
During the buildup to the 2022 midterm elections, President Trump demanded total fealty on his election-denying claims. Anyone who did not kiss the ring was fed to Trump’s base, and few survived.
Then the 2022 midterms happened, and it became clear that American independent voters, who decide elections, voted against their children’s future and America’s best interest to take down almost all of Trump’s handpicked election-denying nominees. And that independent voters are never again going to allow the post-Jan 6th, 2021, Donald Trump to have power.
Just like the great prophet Moses, who led his people for 40 years in the desert, and who God did not allow to enter the promised land; the political forces of the universe are not going to allow the post-Jan 6th 2021, Donald Trump, to lead the coalition he created, into the promised land of America’s renewal.
There are some caveats.
On November 15th, 2022, a very different Donald Trump announced his candidacy to be the next President of the USA. The election-denying bitterness was replaced by a sharply focused, forward-looking vision of how to return America to greatness. Viewers of the speech cannot help but wonder how big the Republican Senate majority would be if this version of Trump had emerged from the unfair, dirty-trick 2020 Presidential election. But few believe Donald Trump has the discipline to reign in his mercurial personality and maintain his newfound political balance. Even if he could maintain his newfound focus, Trump-hating Republicans and similarly-minded independent voters will be almost impossible to win back.
Many in the Republican party and in the nation appear ready to move on from Donald Trump. Not because of his record {there is none better}, but simply because of his aggressiveness and post-2020 election behavior.
If Trump attacks, emerging MAGA leaders will be best served by not engaging
and instead, give Trump credit for what he has done for our nation and the Republican party. All the while reminding the voters it is time to build on Trump’s legacy and move on to a new-generation MAGA candidate. If Donald Trump does, without substance, ratchet up his rhetoric, he will diminish; eventually devolving into irrelevance.
But if any of the rising MAGA leaders show fealty to the old elite Republican establishment,
kowtowing to Ivy League Wall Street elites {Karl Rove types} and turning their backs on noncollege-educated blue-collar American workers, the new MAGA coalition will turn away and turn back to the one person who led them into a land where promises made, were promises kept.
It is time to make America Great Again! 2024 will come faster than you think!! Never give up!!!
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If there is one thing we need to thank Mitch McConnell for is that he never allowed Merrick Garland a chance to become a member of the Supreme Court.
Barack Obama had nominated Garland in 2016, his last year in office, and under intense pressure, McConnell never allowed the Senate to begin hearings to approve Garland to the Court. Garland has shown that he can be manipulated and would have been a progressive pawn on the Supreme Court.
I was most aggravated by Garland’s actions last week, but my angst with him goes back much further. Garland has done more harm to his office and the country but his failure to act than the ways he has. One of Garland’s most egregious acts was his part in the teacher’s union’s involvement during the Pandemic. Garland allowed his office to get involved in the union’s insistence that schools remain closed even after the CDC had said it was safe to reopen.
This came on the heels of Garland weaponizing the Justice Department and the FBI against parents who protested too robustly at school board meetings. His actions were in response to parents being outraged that they were blocked from involvement in the children’s education process. These parents were irate that CRT was taught in public schools, that children were being exposed to sexual topics in elementary grades, and that children were being counseled on transgender issues without parental consent. Garland refused to resign when called to during Congressional hearings.
Some of the worst situations, where Garland has refused to involve his Justice Department is investigating the FBI’s involvement in the Russian Dosier, Hunter Biden and possible participation of Joe Biden in money laundering and tax evasion, and the protests and assassination attempt of Supreme Court Justices after the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
Garland was quick to act to have the FBI invade Donald Trump’s home at Mar-a-Lago. As soon as Trump announced he would run to regain the Presidency, Garland announced the appointment of two Special Counsels to investigate the former President for his part in the January 6 attack on the Capitol and the possession of top secret documents from his Presidency. These actions were done to embarrass Trump and to stymie any possible run for President.
Garland has proven to be an inconsistent and inept Attorney General and leader of the Justice Department. He is weak and can be manipulated at will. He has shown that the President can use his office, the Justice Department, and the Intelligence Agencies to target the American people and political foes.
One of the many promises Joe Biden made upon taking office was that he would not interfere in the function of the Attorney or Justice Department. That promise was hollow and false. He has used or blocked them in far too many instances to list. This manipulation of the Justice Department, FBI, and CIA has placed a shade of doubt on the honesty and integrity of them and the President. With the Republicans taking back the House, we may get some answers, and hopefully, many will be held accountable. Only if we can put a face to the questions and issues we know have been mishandled can we start building confidence in these essential facets of our government.
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Nations gathered for the COP 27 Climate Conference are on the brink of agreeing to a world Welfare package that redistributes wealth from Western countries to third-world countries. John Kerry has been talking about how to do this for decades. But there’s a catch. Kerry tested positive for COVID at the Conference.
Related: The Goal of the “Climate Change” Movement (Ironically) is a Political Climate in Which Nothing Changes
Everyone is worried (OMG!) that vaccinated and boosted special envoy John Kerry has been infecting all the other vaccinated and boosted attendees. Or are they more concerned that it might make it impossible to reach an agreement on world welfare in the name of climate reparations?
“He is fully vaccinated and boosted and experiencing mild symptoms. He is working with his negotiations team and foreign counterparts by phone to ensure a successful outcome of COP27,” Kerry’s spokeswoman Whitney Smith wrote in a statement late on Friday.
Loss and damage remains the main sticking point between rich and poor nations, particularly the issue of how to compensate countries that have already been ravaged by climate-driven floods, droughts, mega-storms and wildfires.
I could remind everyone that there is no evidence of man-made “climate-driven floods, droughts, mega-storms and wildfires.” And this “use the climate as a global wealth redistribution plan” has been on John Kerry’s lips for longer than I’ve been blogging. Obama was also a big supporter, and it came up numerous times, but they never had the gas to get it done right.
COP27 appears to be the time and place, but Kerry got himself the COVID.
Thank god for modern communications infrastructure made possible by climate fuels. They are still all in on it but will the divided US Senate pass any such treaty, and, better yet, would a Republican majority House fund it?
Given the current inflation and fiat money, I’m hoping the answer is no. Still, we’re always just one stolen election away from another Democrat majority, so stay frosty, my friends (except my friends in Buffalo. You need to keep warm).
Good thing shoveling is exercise, which will keep you toasty as long as you’re bundled up for all the six feet of climate change you just got.
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When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.” – sometimes attributed to Thomas Jefferson
So, let’s get to it – once again as my collection of educational posts has been growing out of control. And in many cases, reformatted here and emphasis mine. So the Boston School District is fearing its Parents? Good! After all, who really is supposed to be in charge?
The trend of American public schools turning into radical liberal indoctrination centers that defy the rights of parents to control how their children are raised has been ramping up for some time now. But in recent years, encouraging signs have been observed as parents have sought ways to reassert their rights. Some have opted to abandon public schools, choosing either private schools or homeschooling for their kids. Others have run for and won seats on school boards to retake control of the curriculum and school policies. But a group called Parents Defending Education has adopted a far more confrontational approach. They have identified incidents where schools are promoting racism, transgender ideology, and the sexualization of children and have taken the school districts to court to stop it. They’ve been particularly active in Massachusetts lately and, as the Boston Globe reports, the schools are growing increasingly anxious in fear that any of them might be next.
An increasingly active right-leaning nonprofit called Parents Defending Education filed a federal civil rights complaint against Newton North High School last month, alleging that a student-led theater production broke the law by limiting auditions to people of color only.
The same group sued Wellesley Public Schools last year for alleged illegal discrimination when Wellesley High School hosted a forum for Asian students and students of color to discuss a mass shooting at an Asian massage parlor in Atlanta. The teacher who organized the session wrote that it was “*not* for students who identify only as White.”
So far, the national group has identified 43 “incidents” in which they say Massachusetts schools inappropriately — or even illegally — taught students about race, sexual orientation, or gender, setting school districts across the Commonwealth on edge that they might be sued next.
Sounds like good people to know! Go read the rest of the post. “Reverse Rascism” is still racism and it still it is wrong no matter what the SJWs/BLMs want us to believe. Breaking the Law on behalf of their Wokeness ideology is still breaking the Law. Even if it is President Asterisk’s:
A federal district court determined Friday that “sex” should not be defined to include “sexual identity” or “gender identity” in federal statues. The ruling, from the court case Neese v. Becerra, sets legal groundwork for restricting women’s sports at colleges and elsewhere to biological females. The ruling, which revolved around a Biden administration regulation that required medical professionals to provide transgender healthcare services, also struck down related rules that would require female scholastic sports to be open to men who identify as women. That’s because in both cases, the Biden administration argued that Title IX’s prohibition on sex discrimination applied to “gender identity” and “sexual orientation.”
Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative legal nonprofit, filed an amicus brief that argued against that interpreation. It represented two collegiate athletes in the brief – Maddie Dichiara at the University of Houston, Madison Kenyon at Idaho State University and high school long jumper Chelsea Mitchell. However, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, Amarillo Division, decided that “because Title IX does not protect ‘sexual orientation’ or ‘gender identity’ status, neither does Section 1557,” according to its Friday ruling. The ruling also entails that Title IX does not guarantee the rights of males to participate in female sports teams, according to ADF.
“Title IX’s protections center on differences between the two biological sexes—not SOGI [sexual orientation and gender identity] status,” the court wrote in its opinion. “Title IX expressly allows sex distinctions and sometimes even requires them to promote equal opportunity… Defendants’ theory actively ‘undermine[s] one of [Title IX’s] major achievements, giving young women an equal opportunity to participate in sports.”Even more, “the Defendants’ reinterpretation of Title IX through the Notification imperils the very opportunities for women Title IX was designed to promote and protect—categorically forcing biological women to compete against biological men,” the court wrote.
And let NO AGE be young enough for schools to indoctrinate YOUR children into their sexuality moral code – and dismissing yours with disdain:
The largest school system in Maryland has unveiled a new book list loaded with LGBT-activist propaganda aimed at elementary schools and tailored to children as young as 4. The objective of the sexual content is to “reduce stigmatization and marginalization of transgender and gender nonconforming students.”
And instead, stigmatize those of Faith, especially Parents, that hold traditional values concerning sexuality.
Fox News Digital reported that a recent Montgomery County Public Schools PowerPoint presentation referenced a set of activist books that will be distributed to classrooms, from pre-kindergarten through fifth grade. The books seek to undermine the concept of a gender binary at an early age and immerse children in the vernacular of LGBT activists, teaching toddlers words like “drag queen” and “intersex.”
Pre-kindergarteners will read or be read “Pride Puppy!” a book about a young child celebrating “Pride Day” with his grandfather. It is touted as an “affirming and inclusive book that offers a joyful glimpse of a Pride parade and the vibrant community that celebrates this day each year. Kindergarteners (i.e., children ages 5 and 6) will take a break from learning to tie their shoes and mastering the alphabet to read “Uncle Bobby’s Wedding,” a book about a gay wedding. Move over, “Clifford the Big Red Dog.” First-graders will read “Intersection Allies,” a “gleeful entry into intersectional feminism for kids … offering an opportunity to … connect to collective struggle for justice.”
…MCPS pre-K teachers were provided with a resource guide linking them to the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s glossary of “LGBTQ+ words.” Accordingly, teachers can provide toddlers with activist-approved definitions for words such as: “non-binary”; “transgender”; “pansexual”; “cisgender”; and “gender expression.”
Can’t get much more blatant than that, can they? Yes, read that whole post as well. And I can assure you that this next School Board will not warm the cockles of your hearts:
…In today’s edition Chaya documents how one school board in Michigan has appointed a truly scary new “Trustee,” as they style their School Board members. The Dryden Community Schools decided to appoint a young man with a substantial TikTok following to their Board, putting him on several committees. The school board had a seat open due to the resignation of a member, and they tapped Austin Grondin. The young man, Austin Grodin, “describes himself as “chaotic evil” and “unhinged” while posting pictures and videos filled with offensive language and sexually inappropriate attire.”
Chaotic evil and unhinged do not seem to be characteristics desirable in a school board member. Just sayin’. The former student/now school board member is an advocate of using the term “homophobic” as a weapon even in cases where it does not apply. He admits as much in one of his TikTok videos. Clearly he is a role model for the ages and representative of the larger community.
This is a verbal blackmailing abuser that is now a school board member. Nice philosophy, there, dude:
Perhaps that is how he got the gig? Through a sort of blackmail of threatening the committee with slander should they not appoint him? Who knows?…What I do know is that the ideological Left doesn’t hesitate a moment to pick these fights and dare parents to fight back. And fighting back is exhausting and time consuming. There will be acrimonious school board meetings, endless articles about the racistsexist homophobictransphobic parents fighting progress. Even if they win, parents will have to keep fighting these fights.
Can’t even give a child an aspirin without parental consent but surgical mutilation of minors is just perfectly fine:
We live in a society run by clowns. Totally, completely, thoughtlessly unserious people. The have replaced religion, tradition, and human reason with vague “feels” that are about as consistent as a 2 year-old’s identity preferences. I am a cow! Mooo! Superman! Fireman! A non-binary ghost-pronouned polycule Barbadian crypto-fraud! Children have the most amazing flexibility.
New York, home of some of the most radical gender politics in the country, also has some of the strictest laws against child mutilation. Because children are not old enough to make decisions such as getting a tattoo, even if they have their parents’ permission.
Amazing. The article quotes an official with the American Academy of Pediatrics who says that kids don't have the "agency" to permanently alter their bodies. And yet the American Academy of Pediatrics fully endorses gender transitions for minors. https://t.co/1emRoJOz73
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) November 14, 2022
Last month, a 10-year-old boy walked into the nurse’s office of his elementary school in Highland, N.Y., and asked for some Vaseline. He wanted to rub it onto his new tattoo — a crude rendering of his name in large block letters on the inside of his forearm.
The nurse called the police.
The boy had gotten the tattoo with his mother’s permission from a neighbor, according to local authorities. While some states have no minimum age for receiving a tattoo if a parent allows it, New York State forbids anyone younger than 18 from getting tattooed with or without parental consent. Last month, both the tattoo artist, Austin Smith, 20, who was unlicensed, and the boy’s mother, Crystal Thomas, 33, were arrested, as pictures of the boy’s arm stirred outrage across local and international news sites and social media.
Now subject that boy to “bottom surgery” and his parents will be hailed as tenderly loving parents who wish to affirm their 10 year-old’s believe that he is now a she even as he can’t make up his mind over which cereal to have in the morning or which video game to buy. He’s called a MINOR for a reason as Society knows young kids don’t have the agency to decide on “important” stuff. Yet, with this overwhelming urge by sexuality activists tearing and shredding our norms, many just smile over ruining their lives by those that will never be held responsible for shoving this evil onto us. And yes, I do mean evil in making young kids to believe they can be something that they can never be – and then never do a “reset” to go back to what they really are.
We’re back in the Middle Ages when people believed in stuff they shouldn’t have – but no one stands up now to tell these charlatans they are nothing more than grifting snake-oil salesmen. After all:
…Surprisingly, it’s the New York Times that published an in-depth piece seeking to answer the question: “They Paused Puberty, but Is There a Cost?” The cost not only comes in delayed sexual development but in serious effects such as permanently retarded bone growth, infertility, and potential retarded brain development.
“Many physicians in the United States and elsewhere are prescribing blockers to patients at the first stage of puberty — as early as age 8 — and allowing them to progress to sex hormones as soon as 12 or 13,” the Times said (emphasis added). But yet, “the United States had produced no data on the impact or safety of blockers, particularly among transgender patients under 12.” There are 300,000 “trans” young Americans between the ages of 13 and 17, the Times reported, and an unknown number younger than that. That’s a whole lot of children potentially seeking these treatments. So puberty blockers were being used on kids as young as eight, with no data on the safety and side effects? How is that allowed?
There’s a lot in this Times article, including a lot of framing to make puberty blockers sound very helpful to a good many trans youth—for instance, by saying blockers can mitigate the high depression among “trans” kids. And the article does not mention certain important facts, such as that a recent projection estimated that transgender surgery will likely be a $5 billion industry by 2030 (from $1.9 billion in 2022), which indicates a high financial incentive. The Times also did not note that a majority—as much as 80%—of “trans” youth later change their minds and wish to return to their biological sex, though they are less likely to do so once they take puberty blockers. That said, the Times was far more honest than might have been expected, even putting potential harms toward the top of the article and alleged benefits much farther down.
Just another male “erasing” females in sports – and doing so with a self-righteous, self-glorifying sense of glee
A biological male won the women’s elite division of a cycling race in Massachusetts on Saturday. Austin Killips, who identifies as a transgender woman, won the Verge Northampton International Cyclocross held in Northampton.
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The wins were not the first by Killips this year. The cyclocross competitor has also kept biological women off the podium in other women’s races, including a third-place finish at the Women’s Elite Cyclocross in Rochester, New York, in September, along with two wins in other events in Massachusetts. Killips made headlines in 2019 as a cyclocross racer, later becoming the first biological male to race in the sport’s World Cup in the women’s field. In an interview on the topic, Killips called the achievement significant.
“I haven’t pored over records, but I think I’m the first trans woman to race a World Cup in the Women’s field. I know Molly [Cameron] has raced, but she’s always raced the Men’s category,” Killips said. “I do think it’s significant and notable. You know, when I’m at bike races and have other queer and trans folks come up to me, it’s super meaningful, and I guess I’m very aware you can’t just separate the two out. When I’m training and racing, I’m just a bike racer. I’m out here competing with these people.”
And never forget – teachers are YOUR employees. YOU are the ones that have the primary responsibility for raising and teaching your kids to be normal adults. Are you listening, former NH State Senator Jeanne Dietsch??
There seems to be a common thread among the overeducated, elitist class — the same class that is currently in charge of our public school system. They have the idea that they are more qualified than parents to decide what is best for children. It’s an arrogance that has always been on display on the left, but one that came to a head in 2016, after Trump’s historic victory. The mantra of the left became, “white, uneducated voters.” Their idea of “uneducated” rested on one metric — who went to college and who didn’t. Somehow, the prevailing common wisdom from the progressive elitists is that if you didn’t go to college, you’re not really educated.
It is ridiculous, of course, and rather pathetic. It would be laughable if this weren’t the attitude currently infecting our public education system. It is an attitude that separates parents from their children in the name of “expertise.” It is an attitude that has led us to a constitutional crisis, as parents cede more and more of their authority to the state.
Let me be blunt – our educational system screwed over the parents by not teaching them the Proper Role of Government (and the various fences that are supposed to protect us from Goverment) so they can screw over our kids even more. And I’m willing to have that screaming match with anyone because I KNOW most Parents know little about Civics.
They want to shame you into acquiescing to the teachers’ unions — the Experts. Take this post from school choice advocate Corey DeAngelis, who shared a very disturbing tweet from the NEA. They knew what the response would be so they closed the replies, but DeAngelis opened new replies with a thread of his own. Unsurprisingly, it has been getting a lot of responses.
they closed their replies like they closed schools. pic.twitter.com/mqtbErpV3Q
— Corey A. DeAngelis (@DeAngelisCorey) November 14, 2022
I forget who said it but some teacher, that he had never met, had this same ‘tude and telling him that this self-indulgent teacher cared more about his kids than he did. His simple response (which I have adopted and used a number of times in the past):
Go ahead – tell me their names
How DARE these teachers, sitting on their self-elevated perches, have the temerity to adopt that attitude to make us believe that they are something that they are not. Yes, they have studied, yes, they have experience. And we carefully vet the teachers that the Grandson had/has now and we are satisfied. But TMEW is a teacher and knows the ins and outs and I certainly know the politics of this situation – a dangerous pairing. We’re NOT going to put up with this if some educational professional decides to give us a hard time (are you listening, my school board? You still have two outstanding emails asking detailed questions that you STILL haven’t answered!!).
And the best way to say “YOU SHALL NOT PASS!”:
The parental rebellion against wokeness, radical gender ideology, and misguided COVID-19 policies continued, producing some solid results in school board elections across America. Again, it wasn’t a red tidal wave, but commonsense candidates found success in an arena long dominated by the Left and public sector unions. Unions still dominate at the local level—in both organization and money—but the landscape is changing.
Though they are often “nonpartisan,” school board elections have become a serious battleground in debates over K-12 education. Nonpartisan does not mean that there isn’t a serious debate about ideas. As local schools—even in “red” districts—increasingly promoted critical race theory and radical gender ideology alongside stringent COVID-19 lockdowns, parents began organizing in earnest.
A few national organizations, such as the 1776 Project PAC and Moms for Liberty, added much-needed support and financial backing for citizens to step into the arena to save their local schools. For instance, Bridget Ziegler, a Florida mom who not only won her Sarasota County School Board election back in August, now helps educate other potential candidates as the Leadership Institute’s director of school board programs.
This kind of organization and institutional support has proved invaluable and means that campaigns once dominated by left-leaning insiders are now open and competitive. Over the past year, the 1776 Project says it has flipped more than 100 races nationwide.
And some big wins came during the midterm elections. These groups helped flip school board elections in Florida, Maryland, Indiana, and Michigan, according to The Daily Caller.
“Of the 67 candidates Moms for Liberty supported in Florida school board elections, 41 won,” the Caller reported.
March and May are both coming soon and that means local elections for a lot of towns here in NH. Including School Board.
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The Magic Kingdom has hit hard times, and while the pandemic makes a good scapegoat, the reality is a harsher mistress. In recent years Disney has spat in the face of its customer base (middle-American families), and they have returned the favor.
Related: Paying a Price: Can Disney or Democrats Get Back in that “Closet”?
From Grooming to vaccine mandates, the House The Mouse Built has chosen a path that has led them where they are today.
“The Board has concluded that as Disney embarks on an increasingly complex period of industry transformation, Bob Iger is uniquely situated to lead the Company through this pivotal period,” Board Chairwoman Susan Arnold said in a statement. … The shakeup came just a week after the company announced hiring freeze and layoffs, signaling an increasingly gloomy economic outlook amid what analysts warn is a looming recession.
Bob Chapek is the guy who got the boot in the wake of a long list of declines across the drawing board.
All the while clinging (bitterly!) to the thing most responsible for their decline. They’d rather appease #woke activists and identity-politics culture warriors than regular Americans.
Yes, the former is louder and has better “marketing,” but there are not enough of them to prop up your (approximately) 100 billion dollar business. You need the people you’ve been spitting on, and they won’t have it, and does Bob Iger even sense that?
He’s been along for this ride for a good stretch, and while he was not the CEO from 2020 until now, he was still around. His hands are dirty. But he’s accepted the offer to return, so that might be good for America if not for Dinsey.
There were rumors he might run for President. I doubt he’ll make that leap now that he has agreed to try and right the House that Walt Built.
What happens to Disney remains unclear. They are not doomed, but I doubt Bob Iger as Disney’s fairy godmother, will be able to wave a wand and fix what’s broken. Mismanaging popular brands is one thing. Those you can get back on track. Breaking people’s trust and faith is another and much harder to repair.
HT | Just The News
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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 Friday Overflow.
Remember, ridicule and mockery are effective weapons:
Now, let the mockery and mayhem begin.
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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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When? Half-past never. Certainly not on this side of the Great Veil. And part of the problem is this:
The corruption stench rises to Heaven itself… and most do not care. Or have given up. This is how Rome fell, IMHO – when the “common Roman” understood that Rome, the concept, had become nothing more than a sewer of bribes, corruption, etc., they ceased being willing to fight for it.
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It’s a war on religion. Just like their parallel war on traditional families. Remember, this is their FAITH, they are MISSIONARIES, and the Lord Their Marx is a Jealous Deity.
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There’s a sweet shotgun I’ve been salivating over. I just can’t swing it financially. And a pistol for my kids to share.
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Pick of the post:
Can you imagine ANYONE of today’s young generation doing this? Me neither.
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Demographics are destiny. And the Jab is going to be devastating. We know about excess mortality, but also at the beginning:
Germany’s birth rate improbably falls by 11% in the first quarter of 2022 – Dr. Eddy Bettermann MD (dreddymd.com)
Taiwan witnesses catastrophic 23% drop in birth rate in May of 2022, as global depopulation schemes take effect – Dr. Eddy Bettermann MD (dreddymd.com)
Birth rates plummet in Hungary due to mass covid “vaccinations,” says MP – Dr. Eddy Bettermann MD (dreddymd.com)
Are their ovaries… deadvaries?
Borrowing from a Dog Food Ad – Urban Scoop
This is necessary for “climate justice”:
Reuters wants DEPOPULATION to achieve “climate justice” – says there are just too many people alive – Dr. Eddy Bettermann MD (dreddymd.com)
Take a step back. Imagine that you believed, TRULY BELIEVED, that humanity’s billions were a curse on the earth, and represented a threat to the entirety of life on the planet. What would you not do to stop this, believing that if you did nothing all life on earth would die?
They will euthanize the old, the infirm, and the mentally ill. They will sterilize. They will freeze people this winter. All in the firm belief they are doing good.
Slip-Sliding Towards Hell with a Good Conscience – Granite Grok
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Palate Cleansers:
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My previous post on re-elected Dan Eaton (D-Stoddard) brought up an interesting question: where does he really live? He lists 139 Power Line Rd, Stoddard NH as his official domicile/residence as living in the NH State Representative District in which he lives.
But a couple of tipsters are curious about that as it was clear that a resident of that street said that he didn’t know where Eaton lives. Well, some additional info…
The lakeside cottage still doesn’t show any “signs of life”:
Street sign and “cottage signs: what, no “Eaton”?
Finally, the name “Eaton” shows up – but is this just a “mail drop”?
Will there be more?
But a more important question is: will new NH House Democrat Leader Matt Wilhelm ask the important, and perhaps embarrassing, question (with proof) of his Elder-of-the-Party (the one who already seems to have a bit of an unsavory past) as to where he actually lives?
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The answer is still no. You don’t get amnesty. Your behavior was reprehensible. You’ve damaged millions of people and ruined millions of lives, and when the accounting is done, you were complicit in what may be the single most significant genocides in human history.
But that’s not why you don’t deserve amnesty.
The entire time, the truth was right in front of you, whether you labeled the people challenging your “new normal” deniers or not. I’ve still got screen-grabbed data showing over a year’s worth of State numbers.
| 4/15/21 | % Risk of | % Risk of | Positive Test |
| Age | Hospitalization | Death | Survival Rate |
| 0-19 | 0.10% | 0.00% | 100% |
| 20-39 | 0.273% | 0.019% | 99.99% |
| 40-59 | 0.96% | 0.15% | 99.85% |
| 60-69 | 3.33% | 1.21% | 98.79% |
| 70+ | 7.4% | 13.27% | 86.73% |
These results were consistent throughout, and even then, COVID Cultists demanded quarantines, vaccine passports, masks, and other restrictions.
But pre or post-masking, distancing, or lockdowns, the numbers are the same. Pre-vaccine to post-vaccine numbers were the same, with a few minor exceptions. New Hampshire had no COVID deaths under 20 until after the vaccine rollout.
COVID was never the threat advertised, and it was right in from of you in the state’s data. But your so-called media, politicians, “leaders,” and state and local health boards ignored it. All they cared about was positive cases detected by a flawed test.
| 12/14/2021 | Age | Hosp% | Deaths | Death % | survival |
| 0-19 | 0.13% | 1 | 0.00% | 100.00% | |
| 20-39 | 0.33% | 16 | 0.03% | 99.98% | |
| 40-59 | 1.26% | 105 | 0.22% | 99.83% | |
| 60-69 | 3.42% | 222 | 1.29% | 98.63% | |
| 70-79 | 7.30% | 442 | 5.35% | 93.60% |
Those most likely to die – while still a tragedy – were past the average life expectancy age. Their odds of surviving the flu after the age of 80 are already low; still, 80% of them survived the so-called plague of COVID.
Your answer was to inject 70% of the population with an experimental drug with significant risks, almost none disclosed. You then pilloried the other 30 percent while fearmongering alternatives with long tracks record of safety.
Your science was so bad that you had to stop reporting vaccine status because most people still getting hospitalized for COVID were and still are vaccinated, but not after repeating the lies. And we have not yet begun to discover how badly this “cure” has damaged the lives of children who were never at risk.
I don’t care if you joked about hoping we died. I assume that’s everyday dinner conversation among the vapid Left. I don’t care that you danced on the graves of those who did. You’ve always done that. What bothers me is how quickly you embraced and advocated for tyranny as if all you needed was an excuse.
You are the threat to Democracy and the Republic. You are a threat to women’s health and human rights.
And, while I’m a big fan of salvation and redemption – assuming genuine contrition – this particular offense is hard to forgive. But the specter of another test is upon us. There’s been an unprecedented spike in Respiratory syncytial virus in infants, probably of vaccinated mothers or vaccinated children likely cased by this.
There was an interesting article in Cell magazine showing that Covid vaccine destroys all-important hematopoietic (blood-related) stem cells responsible for the development of immunity and much more. If you want to read more about it, check out Brian Mowrey’s article too.
[More from Igor Chudov, here]
The COVID Karens are not handling it well, blaming the unvaccinated.
No amnesty for you.
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Elle Gallo, an “open-minded” former Democrat candidate for state representative in Derry New Hampshire, is proud of censoring a billboard message promoting a book about protecting girls from lives of pain and regret.
Her campaign website (screen-captured here) says:
Here in Derry I successfully rallied a small but mighty group of Derry residents to form a coalition to remove an anti-transgender billboard in town.
The electronic billboard message featured an image of the book Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters by Wall Street Journal writer Abigail Shrier, and the message “Your Daughter is Learning About Gender Identity on Social Media. Get The Facts. Read This Book.”
I raised funds to put up the message from concerned parents, including some who saw their daughters being harmed by the gender craze. Since transgender activists had my message removed, I’ve taken to the sidewalk.
Gallo asserts on her website:
I don’t claim to be an expert on everything, but I’m open-minded and will listen to town officials, residents, businesses, and students of Derry.
Had Gallo been open-minded enough to research the book, she would have learned that it was named one of the best books of the year by the The Economist, The Times and The Sunday Times in the UK.
Shrier explores why there has been a 4,000% increase in children seeking gender treatment in the UK between 2009-2018, while in the US the number of teens identifying as transgender doubled between 2018 and 2020. Many of these children are permanently damaging their bodies with puberty blockers, hormones, and double mastectomies.
Shrier suggests that gender identity is being spread as a social contagion since these are girls who never expressed discomfort with their sex until they heard coming-out stories or discovered trans influencers on social media.
Since Gallo forced the billboard message to be removed in March, Shrier’s concerns have also been raised by The New York Times, Reuters, and former president of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health Erica Anderson.
Related: Transgender Ideology Harms Children
Health officials in England, Sweden, Finland, and France have also recognized teen transing as a social contagion and banned or strictly limited administering puberty blockers and hormones to minors.
From the official announcement of Sweden’s policy change:
These treatments are potentially fraught with extensive and irreversible adverse consequences such as cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis, infertility, increased cancer risk, and thrombosis.
As a result of the powerful trans lobby’s censorship and misinformation, there are tens of thousands of detransitioners, young people who previously identified as trans or non-binary but then “de-transitioned” to reclaim their sexual identities, like Prisha Mosley, 22 who was interviewed by Reuters:
Mosley suffers from painful vaginal atrophy, marked by dryness and inflammation of the vaginal walls, a common side effect of testosterone that she said she didn’t fully understand when her doctor warned her about it. She is undergoing laser treatments to remove the facial and body hair brought on by testosterone, and she hopes to be cleared for breast reconstruction.
Mosley said she wishes her doctors had focused more on her mental health instead of endorsing her desire to change her body. ” just took the cure that was handed to me,” she said, “and I ruined my life.”
Elle Gallo is a devout proponent of a fragile ideology, so it’s understandable that she would be willfully blind to these dangers and insist that the citizens of Derry share her ignorance. I encourage those who are open to another perspective to read Abigail Shrier’s insightful book.
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And on and on and on it goes. First, second, and now third. Need I say more?
One such notable snafu occurred in the state of Arizona, which is embroiled in a lengthy tabulation process that has exasperated voters. A new report from Votebeat has shed a bit of light on the “how” of the voting issues plaguing Arizona. Simply put, the printer settings had been input incorrectly for the voting machines in question.
Election Department representative Megan Gilbertson told Votebeat that the “media weight” for ballots was set to “heavy, as recommended.” That is, apparently, the correct setting. The media weight of the receipts and ballot envelopes was, however, set to a lighter setting. So the printers were not able to heat the ballots enough for the toner to stick, according to reporter Jen Fifield.
These settings didn’t appear to cause any issues, or at least not this widespread, for the primary election or for early voters. Why did this error occur on the literal day of midterm voting? Votebeat reported that printers are tested before voting begins. Why didn’t the alleged testing catch any of these issues? At the end of the day, this falls on the Board of Supervisors and Gates. They will eventually have to answer these questions, and anyone concerned with election integrity will certainly be listening with attentive ears.
For the second congressional election in a row, a journalist has demonstrated that there is a potential hole that could be exploited in the way one Nevada county deals with mail-in ballots.
In 2020, columnist Victor Joecks of the Las Vegas Review-Journal tested Clark County, Nevada’s signature verification process for mail-in ballots, and found that eight ballots were accepted in which the handwriting on the envelope containing the ballot and the ballot itself was different. This year, six ballots made it through, he wrote in the Las Vegas Review-Journal.“I had 11 people send me a picture of their ballot envelope. I then wrote their name in my handwriting. Each voter then copied my version of their signature onto their ballot return envelope. They sent me a picture to ensure it wasn’t their normal handwriting. This simulated signing someone else’s ballot. It’s also legal because each voter signed his or her own ballot.”
In a perfect system, all 11 would have been set aside, he said. Instead, only five failed to make it through.…“What this proves is that Nevada’s mail ballots remain vulnerable to fraud. Even small-scale fraud can shift races,” he wrote…
You’ve Been Gaslighted – Democrats Just Stole Another Election
Think of all the times in just the past few years you’ve been gaslighted. They lied to you about open borders…they lied about Hillary’s 30,000 deleted emails…they lied about spying on Trump…they lied about Russian Collusion…they lied about a perfectly fine Ukrainian phone call…they lied about massive Biden corruption in Ukraine and China… they lied about the Hunter Biden laptop…they lied about the origins of Covid…they lied about the need for lockdowns and masks…they lied about the need for Covid vaccines…they lied about the vaccines being “safe and effective”…they lied and covered up all the deaths and injuries from the vaccine…they lied about the success of miracle drugs Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin…they lied about the stolen 2020 election…
And these are the exact same people now telling you Democrats just over-performed, and stopped a GOP red landslide, against all odds, without cheating and stealing the midterm election. Historically, every president in history facing his first midterm experiences a tough day with automatically 20 to 30 House seats lost…and 4 or more Senate seats lost…but this terribly unpopular President Biden is brain dead with severe dementia, and can’t put 3 coherent sentences together…Yet Biden defied history? While also facing the worst economy in modern history…and the worst inflation in America’s history…and out of control crime…and open borders…and failing schools…and polls showing 75% of Americans believe the country is going in the wrong direction…Yet Biden beat all of that?
If you believe Democrats made a miracle happen, without cheating, rigging and stealing…I have a bridge to sell you, over the Atlantic Ocean, in the Vegas desert…
…With the Left’s constant radical messaging of pushing sexualization on kids, driving gas prices up, draining Americans’ wallets, and being soft on crime, it should have been obvious that voters would go another route in this year’s midterm elections. However, it only left Republicans disappointed with the results.
Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla) believes he knows why the red wave didn’t come as planned.
“I think we’ve got to reflect now. What didn’t happen?” said Scott, adding, “I think we didn’t have enough of a positive message. We said everything about how bad the Biden agenda was. It’s bad, the Democrats are radical, but we have to have a plan of what we stand for.” Despite polls showing Republicans were in the lead ahead of the elections, Scott said that the reason the party fell short was that Republican voters didn’t show up to vote, calling it a “complete disaster.”
Actually, voters did show up – just not where they were needed. That said, I looked at the Republican House messaging as the “new Contract with America”. Frankly, it was hollow, vapid; a wild, wild, West movie town facade with words across a page that said nothing concrete about what Republicans were going to accomplish in detail. There was nothing there of any substance. Heck, even the ordinary blogger could come up with better messaging than these geniuses in DC paying millions of donors’ dollars to high-priced consultants. I certainly didn’t buy it.
Call it “the White Wave.” A flood of white envelopes containing mail-in ballots lofted Democrat candidates to victories in several key Nov. 8 races. Case in point: Democrat John Fetterman will occupy Pennsylvania’s coveted U.S. Senate seat instead of Republican Dr. Mehmet Oz. In that race—and several others—mail-in ballots acted as a breaker against the “Red Wave” of wins that Republican leaders had hoped would wash across the nation at a time when Congress and the White House are both Democrat-controlled.
The lopsided numbers in the Fetterman-Oz race starkly reveal how key the mail-in segment of the electorate has become despite Republicans’ emphasis on in-person voting.
Based on unofficial tallies available as of Nov. 9, Oz drew 500,000 more voters to visit the polls on Election Day than Fetterman did. But that margin wasn’t enough…
Surveying the wreckage of the disappointing Republican midterms, voters were left scratching their heads, trying to figure out what went wrong. With the fundamentals being as bad as they were this year, Republicans underperformed expectations, and it was fairly obvious that they would experience no red wave by early in the evening on Election Night. While I’ve seen plenty of postmortems already, the single biggest issue that wrecked the wave was mail-in voting combined with ballot-harvesting, which all but eliminated Republican hopes in states where Democrats control the voting rules. This is why Senate polls were so wrong in these states.
The two states where the impact was most obvious were Pennsylvania and Michigan, but it snuffed out real Republican chances all over the map in states where the Democrats control voting laws. Pennsylvania literally elected a dead man, and I’m not even talking about the pro-crime radical with such severe brain damage that he can’t form a coherent sentence.
Some day, perhaps even sometime this year if we’re lucky, when election officials in Arizona finally find someone capable of mastering preschool mathematics and they finish counting their ballots, we may know the outcome of the 2022 midterm elections. But that day is not today, my friends. They are somehow still flummoxed by the task of gathering up hundreds of thousands of ballots and feeding them into machines of dubious efficacy. Meanwhile, a different set of election supervisors appears to be ready to move forward with a hand count of nearly all of the ballots. Those officials are facing threats from state Democrats, however. The liberals have gone to court and obtained an order to forbid any such action, though the ruling seems to defy the state’s election laws. But even under the ominous threat of criminal charges, the group of election “radicals” appears to be ready to start the count as early as this weekend. (Associated Press).
…The details of the election law in question make it unclear how this judge’s ruling could withstand a challenge. The normal process typically only involves a handful of precincts undergoing a hand count. But that’s by tradition, not by law. The law only says that the precincts subjected to a hand count must be selected “at random.” The judge’s order even admits that the number could be increased.
There is seemingly more being revealed here than any potential flaws in Arizona’s electoral process or voting machinery. Why would Democrats be so uniformly opposed to a hand count? What is the downside of doing it? When the “official” count as tallied by the machines is finished, they can release those results immediately. But even if it takes weeks to complete the hand count, those numbers could then be matched against the machine tally…
That’s brought us to the point where we have a senile vegetable in the Oval Office who is being handled by a cabal that’s driven by extreme leftist fringe interests. These people wake up every morning bright and early thinking of new ways to get their puppet president to shred the United States Constitution.
In case you missed it, President LOLEightyonemillion is feeling pretty frisky after last Tuesday. Robert wrote on Friday that Ol’ Gropes has vowed to not change a thing now that the red wave didn’t make it to shore.
That means that his handlers have free rein to continue the executive abuses of power we’ve been suffering under since January of last year. In September I wondered how long the country could survive a rogue Justice Department and an attorney general hell-bent on revenge. Well, boys and girls, we’re about to find out.
It’s not just the Biden administration that’s ready to flex. Ryan has a post about Sen. Ed Markey of Massachusetts threatening Elon Musk with congressional action because Musk mocked him in a tweet.
Nothing unhinged about that at all.
The GOP Consultant Class Has a Choice to Make
As I wrote in my election post-mortem, this entire ordeal has been an unmitigated disaster, and there’s plenty of blame to go around, which I’ll choose not to rehash here.
With that said, there is a looming battle that’s about to take place, and it’s an important one. Namely, who will be in GOP leadership going forward? Is Kevin McCarthy going to be the Speaker of the House? Will Mitch McConnell once again reprise his role as the Senate Minority Leader?
If you ask the GOP consultant class, they will answer in the affirmative to both those questions. Despite the fact that we just had the worst mid-term failure in decades, beltway-dwelling Republicans are just fine with keeping the same failed leadership in positions of power. Why wouldn’t they? After all, Mitch McConnell is supposedly a genius. I mean, it took real skill to pass gun control and to give Joe Biden his infrastructure bill last term.
I’m assured that no one else can possibly do the job. Certainly, it couldn’t be a Republican who might have favorable ratings that aren’t in the low-20s. I mean, who cares if the vast majority of Americans hate the second most powerful Republican in the country, a man who also happens to be 80 years old? Better that we keep him in power as a divisive, controversial figure until he completely ages out. Someone has to keep Lisa Murkowski in line. Of course, getting rid of Murkowski would have been a better solution, but McConnell decided to bankroll her against another Republican instead.
Ever since the professional Republican apparatus decided to target, eliminate and destroy the grassroots movement known as the Tea Party, there was always going to come a time when the battle for the heart and soul of the GOP Club would take place. CTH has been calling this battle ‘The Big Ugly‘ for around a decade.
The Big Ugly battle is essentially the fight between the grassroots working class base of MAGA voters and the professional political snobs in control of the Republican Club boardroom. Some call it the ‘base’ -vs- the ‘establishment’. There are other names and catchphrases, but the essence of the dynamic is the same. A scruffy voting base, who, prior to Donald Trump, had no visible leader to represent their internal interests around the mahogany table.
Ordinary voters were in an abusive relationship with the people around the GOP boardroom. The Club needed our votes, and our money (less so after the Citizens United decision) but had no intention of ever actually delivering on the priorities of the voters. The Republican political establishment played Lucy with the football for years, and We The People always ended up flat on our backs, continually frustrated and feeling used.
…The Corporate Club didn’t and doesn’t care. Instead, while they sold out the working-class to the multinationals (TPA, TPP, Paris Climate, etc) they fought harder, gaslight more, and made even more promises they never intended to keep. Lucy had an unending supply of footballs.
Then in 2015 things changed. The voting base found a weapon for use against the Republican Club, the weapon’s name was Donald Trump. From the very first poll conducted after his 2015 announcement Trump was leading the charge, and that lead steamrolled 16 other Club approved candidates. The Club remained furious and vowed to remove the disrupter we sent into the boardroom…
It suffices to say that Election Day didn’t go as planned for some polling places that experienced and are still experiencing ballot-counting issues. Despite the varying election-related difficulties, multiple jurisdictions share one foreseen commonality. There’s a common thread connecting five counties spread across several states that were in disarray on Election Day: federal “monitors.”
On the eve of the elections, the Biden administration’s Department of Justice announced Monday it would be dispatching such monitors to as many as 64 jurisdictions in almost half of U.S. states on Election Day to oversee federal election law “compliance.”…
‘We have to figure out how to beat them in their own game’
HEGSETH: “what are Republicans to do then? Is this a state-by-state effort? Everything you just said we laid out they will declare you and I and everyone else who thinks this way as election deniers and threats to democacy, we’re spinning conspiracy theories. Let’s just say evereything’s above board in Arizona and ned. Let’s just say you are still delaying it in a way that makes people lose confidence in the process. If you were governor or secretary of state. We laid out some of those things they will have to overcome resistance from people to call them bad names.”
RYUN: “Two-prong approach, Pete. Early voting and mail-in ballots it is rife for corruption and fraud. Where we have the ability to outlaw, we must. Where we can’t and I have to tell you after Tuesday nights elections in Michigan and Pennsylvania and other places we better play by the rules of the game that have been laid out for us. If they want to have early voting, universal mail-in and ballot harvesting in their state we have to figure out how to beat them in their own game. I think that’s the only way you’re going to do it in some of these upper Rust Belt blue states. Beat them at their own game, and where we can, we outlaw that.”
“I’ve never been as wrong as I was this year,” Gingrich, an Epoch Times contributor, said on Nov. 10. “It makes me challenge every model I’m aware of, and realize that I have to really stop and spend a good bit of time thinking and trying to put it all together.”
He pointed to a vote tracking sheet by the Cook Political Report, a bipartisan newsletter that analyzes elections, which shows a roughly 50.7 million Republican turnout for the House—outnumbering Democratic votes by nearly 6 million. Gingrich noted this gap could shrink to 5 million when ballots in deep blue California are fully processed. “But it’s still 5 million more votes,” he said.
“And not gaining very many seats makes you really wonder what’s going on,” he added. “I want to know, where did those votes come from?”
America has become more divided, but Democrats are far more loyal voters
The 2022 midterms are almost in the books. The large red wave did not materialize, although Republicans did pick up some congressional seats and, apparently, the House. There are significant and important reasons why a large red wave didn’t occur and one large warning for Republicans.
First, before anyone says Republicans had bad candidates, keep in mind that the Democrats won the Senate with John Fetterman and Sen. Krysten Sinema, D-AZ, before him. Bad candidates didn’t stop them, and this article addresses why.
6. We are More Divided Than in 2010.
5. The starting point in the House.
4. Republicans had 21 Senate seats to defend.
3. Democrats are far more loyal voters than Republicans.
2. Americans are addicted to government.
1. Republicans failed to convince voters they had a plan.
Somebody better get canned. Someone has to pay. Somebody important. Our culture is a disaster in large part because we have failed to hold leaders accountable when they screw up, because we have given losers a free pass and accepted excuses and therefore, accepted sub-par performance. Look at the wars since 2001 – what generals got relieved for the failure to win them promptly? And look at our military now. It’s a disaster. This goes for the GOP in the wake of last week’s fiasco.
We were supposed to win big on Election Day. The fundamentals were there – history, the bad economy, general malaise. The president is a doddering pervert and at least one of the opposing candidates was a brain-addled ogre. We were told we were going to see a red wave, maybe a red tsunami, and the red we ended up seeing was our blood on the floor. So, who in a very top position of power in the GOP – not some second-tier functionary – is getting fired because of it?
Now, I understand there are a lot of people with a piece of last week’s debacle. But this is a situation that us lawyers call “joint and several liability.” That means a lot of people are to blame and all of them own the results jointly. So when we talk about the GOP leadership, the guys and gals who accepted the job of getting it done, there’s no “What about so-and-so!” There’s no “But I was a victim of circumstances beyond my control!” There’s no excuse…
Go read the rest of the above!
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There are several land-based casinos in and around Manchester, and they are all fully licensed to offer real money gambling services by the United Kingdom Gambling Commission – an independent non-departmental public body that is sponsored by the Department for Culture Media and Sport (DCMS).
This renowned authority is responsible for licensing and regulating the online and offline gambling industry in the UK.
Currently, you need to be at least 18 years old to play at a land-based casino in Manchester, and some of the best land-based casinos where you can play classic table & card games, slots, and more, are revealed right here.
What are the casino regulations in Manchester?
Everything comes under the watchful eye of the UK Gambling Commission – one of the most trusted online and offline gambling licensing authorities in the world. To play at a land-based casino in Manchester, you must be at least 18 years old, and to apply for a premise licence to operate a casino, you must also be at least 18. The same legal minimum age requirement applies across the entire UK.
You must also be authorised to apply for a premise licence if you are applying on behalf of a company or partnership, and you must hold or have applied for an operating licence from the UK Gambling Commission for the relevant gambling activity. The main forms of gambling activities that you can hold a licence for are categorised as the following:
Gambling premises fees are attached to all of these different types of gambling activity licences, which include a new permit fee, a provisional statement fee, a licence following proof statement fee, an annual fee, a variation fee, a reinstatement fee, a change of details fee, and a copy of document fee. Additionally, there are also gambling permit fees attached. The exact cost of these fees varies slightly from one type of gambling licence to the next.
Top casinos to visit when you’re next in Manchester
If you live in the United Kingdom and you’re looking for a casino experience, but don’t have the time or the money to visit Las Vegas or Macau, then you may want to save a bit of cash and head to Manchester. The city has a great selection of casinos, and some of the best casinos in Manchester to visit before trying any others are the following:
All of these fantastic venues are controlled by reputable owners with proven track records, which means that they are all perfectly legit. They all offer a unique casino experience and a great atmosphere. You can also count on ample parking, friendly and professionally trained staff, and a wide range of games to choose from. They also have restaurants where you can eat and drink, and they are all set in fantastic locations that are easy to get to.
Many of these land-based casinos run the occasional tournaments and other special events at certain times throughout the year, and many of them also have some fantastic bonuses for new players and existing members to take advantage of. For a complete guide about legal gambling age requirements in the UK, you can visit several trusted sites, such as Ask Gamblers or the official UK Gambling Commission website.
Which is better, a land-based casino or an online casino?
For those of you who can’t easily get to any of these casinos, the next best alternative is to play at an online casino. Today’s best UK online casinos are also fully licensed by the UK Gambling Commission. They are free to sign up to, and they are also controlled by trustworthy operators.
Online casinos that accept real cash wagers from UK players are generally packed with 1,500 or more games to choose from, all of which have been developed and supplied to the casino by various leading online casino software providers, such as Microgaming, Playtech, NetEnt, Red Tiger Gaming, Blueprint Gaming, Play’n GO, Inspired Gaming, iSoftBet and Pragmatic Play, to name just a few top providers.
If you want to take your online casino experience to the next level, you need to check out the live dealer casino games. They are the closest thing to land-based casino games, and some of the best live dealer games out there today are from Evolution Gaming, Playtech, and Pragmatic Play. Don’t forget, when you sign up to a UK online casino, you can also claim a guaranteed new player welcome bonus.
You can play at these casinos from any modern smartphone, tablet, laptop, or desktop computer that has internet/Wi-Fi, and you can deposit and withdraw at these sites using a wide range of popular UK online payment options, such as Visa and MasterCard (debit cards only), and e-Wallets, such as PayPal, Skrill, and NETELLER. The exact type of payment method you can use will vary from one online casino to the next. If you do play at a casino, always remember to gamble responsibly.
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Republican Dennis Hogan, is in a virtual tie with Democrat Mary Ann Crowell in the race for Hillsborough County Register of Deeds. Hogan got 81,388 votes and Crowell received 81,450, a difference of only 62 votes, a minuscule .038% of the votes cast.
Hogan, a former Hillsborough County Attorney, has a very good chance of taking this seat.
In the recount for Nashua Ward 9 the Republican state rep candidates each gained more than 20 votes apiece and many of those voters likely voted for Hogan. In a recount of the entire county, there could be many more Republican votes recovered.
Related: A Few Thoughts About the Election Recounts in Nashua
This is also a good chance to uncover irregularities in the machine count of the ballots across the cities and towns of Hillsborough County including Nashua, Manchester, Merrimack, Milford, Bedford, Amherst, Goffstown, Hollis, and Hudson.
We need at least eight volunteers who are registered Republicans for the recount plus a few more volunteers in case someone has to cancel and more if volunteers can’t stay for the entire recount.
The recount is on Tuesday, November 29 at 9 am at the New Hampshire State Archives at 9 Ratification Way, Concord. Training will be available on-site prior to the count so plan to arrive at 8:45 am at the latest. Plan on being there for three to four hours and longer, if you can. Please contact Di Lothrop at vchair@nashuagop.org if you are interested in helping with the recount.
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In the previous post of this series, SAU 3 Berlin – Trying To Mollify Me That A Card Catalog Isn’t What I Know It To Be (Parsing, Much Parsing), I ended my email to SAU 3’s hired lawyer, Barbara Loughman this way:
Right now, you are needlessly spending valuable taxpayer money in stalling for time in refusing to cough up a simple list of books that would take no longer than 3 minutes if you had complied from the get go. Add 5-10 minutes to create an email, attach that file, and email to me.
Should I start submitting a series of RTKs for the legal expenditures at the GL account level for paying your invoices to the District? And the complete audit trail for invoices, payments (of course, redacting any “privileged communications” from them – only financial totals of each instrument) and then start publicizing it locally as to why the District is spending THEIR hard earned money because you won’t fork over a list of books?
Happy to do so. I would rather, however, just get all the responsive records and get out of your hair. Your decision.
I was on my town’s Budget Committee for almost 10 years and actively monitored such GL transaction activity and when I saw wasteful spending, you can bet I let others know about it.
After all, it’s not the District’s money – it’s the taxpayers’. At the rates you charge, it is now being wastefully spent.
Or, what are you hiding? I can write about that as well. Your decision.
Well, that pretty much ended it – game over.
—— Original Message ——
From: “Atty. Barbara Loughman” <loughman@soulefirm.com>
To: “Skip” <Skip@granitegrok.com>
Cc: “Julie King” <jking@sau3.org>; “Karen Lancaster” <karen@soulefirm.com>
Sent: 10/17/2022 11:46:26 AM
Subject: RE: Re[2]: Berlin PS/RTK/Gr.Gr.10.2.22req.Dear Mr. Murphy,
This is a further response to your RTK request printed below.
Attached is the Berlin Public Schools Library Book inventory on an Excel Spreadsheet. This could not be done via PDF. The listing is in alphabetical order by author, and includes: Title, Author, ISBN
Berlin does not have and cannot generate a list containing book summaries. However, since all the books can be previewed on Destiny, on the library website, it would just be a matter of searching. Destiny would also give other information such as similar titles, etc.
Thank you for your consideration.
Barbara F. Loughman
Soule Leslie Kidder
PO Box 908
Wolfeboro, NH 03894
603-569-8044
I AM glad that it was not necessary. It shouldn’t have been – not over a list of books.
The Morale of the Story? There are actually two:
The process SHOULD be that if someone asks for something, it should be given to them ASAP with a smile. Unfortunately, that isn’t the case.
In this, the blame is totally on the Berlin SAU 3 Superintendent Julie King for not complying with my simple request from the get go. Instead, she decided to spend monies defending her decision that a citizen would not be given a list of books and decided to lawyer up.
Perhaps I should attend one of their School Board meetings to ensure that those who are supposed to be in charge really KNOW they are in charge – and accountable for this wasteful spending.
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When Democrats talk about women’s health, they mean sex parts, the uterus, and little else. And even in that context, “heath” means reproduction, which mostly means abortions—but choice means you can choose to have an abortion or a baby, and anyone who takes that choice away is an extremist.
Related: Heavy Menstrual Bleeding After the COVID Vaccine – Guess Who Has a Drug To “Treat” That?
So, what do you call a political party that demands women put an emergency-use pharmaceutical in their body and threatens their job, business, freedom, or lifestyle should they refuse?
A Democrat! And Vermont (which is full of them) may have a huge problem. There is growing evidence that the COVID-19 vaccines can directly and adversely affect a woman’s “reproductive freedom.”
Related: If mRNA Vaccines Aren’t a Threat to Human Fertility, Then Why …
From Steve Kirsch
This is one of the slides in a recent presentation I made at the FLCCC conference showing VAERS symptoms that are elevated for the COVID vaccines vs. other vaccines. The slide shows the top 37 VAERS symptoms that are most elevated by the COVID vaccines. As you can see from all the arrows, the COVID vaccines are a disaster in terms of interfering with a woman’s reproductive health.
Related: Similarities Between Horse Sterilization Drug And COVID mRNA Vaccines
Wait, there’s more!
A large study found that women of childbearing age who got the Covid vaccine are at heightened risk of 14 different conditions including having a miscarriage, fertility issues, fetal cardiac arrest, and menstrual abnormality.
Isreal, another nation that over-vaccinated its population, understood and has since tried to hide the threat and the damage.
Watch this short leaked video that the public was never supposed to see. This is from a meeting between the Israeli Ministry of Health and the scientific team they tasked with looking at the safety data.
The FDA, CDC, Doctors, hospitals, and Clinics failed to provide complete information so that those lined up to get an experimental drug could adequately exercise their right to informed consent. A violation of numerous local, national, and international laws. But it also undermines the Left’s claim that they are the defenders of a woman’s right to choose whether or not to have a baby.
And as bad as that is, states like Vermont have another problem. Our neighbors to the Left have enshrined “reproductive freedom” in their Constitutions. Any woman who henceforth made to take the COVID vaccine or booster to attend a school or keep a job and experiences menstrual hemorrhaging miscarries, or has some other detrimental side-effect (and can no longer choose to have children), has been denied their constitutional right to reproductive freedom.
Find a good lawyer and sue.
There’s probably a case to be made that a State can’t offer immunity from prosecution when that immunity violates a constitutional right.
Remember that the implicated EUA injection will have to have occurred after the Amendment went into force or the product was authorized by the FDA. For everyone else, feel free to take the nearest Democrat to the woodshed (rhetorically) until they stop insisting women give up their reproductive freedom to appease the Let’s vaccine extremism. Or because they refuse to stop scaring them into doing it.
#BelieveWomen
HT | Steve Kirsch
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I grew up with sports and have been a traditionalist about sports since I was a kid. That was probably instilled at an early age by my Dad. He loved all sports and taught me to do the same.
Two of my special sports memories were being taken out of school early on an April afternoon in 1967 and to be sitting in Fenway Park a few hours later at the Boston Red Sox Opening Day. The other is going to my first Patriots game at Fenway Park, a 13-13 tie with the San Diego Chargers, but what happened after the game made it special. Dad took me onto the field, and we walked out to the Green Monster. We were standing in left field at Fenway Park where my Dad’s hero, Ted Williams, ruled. I still well up thinking about that day and what it meant for my Dad and me. This was my Dad’s Field of Dreams and even at a young age, I could feel the importance of the moment to my Dad.
That was a long preface, but essential to why this week’s Spotlight has impacted me. Bull Durham, Tin Cup, and Field of Dreams are the early works that made Kevin Costner very special in my life and why he is this week’s Sunday Spotlight.
Kevin Costner was never acting to me. He was himself, the average guy living out his fantasies in sports and life. He was living out a story we could connect with and sometimes put ourselves in his place. It was an escape from reality and a trigger for great memories we should explore more often. Growing up, I was a fan of Jimmy Stewart, and I see these two men in a similar light. They were living life in front of a camera.
Costner loves this country, nature, and is a traditionalist. I see him as an anachronist enjoying life today but wishing he could explore the life of yesteryear. I watch the series he has done on Yellowstone, the landmark, not the series, and you can see the awe and admiration in his eyes as he looks out on the expanse of beauty. When I think of Kevin Costner, I see him in nature or the field of sports. Costner is a man who should not be trapped on a busy city street.
In his recent work, Costner plays John Dutton in the fantastic series, “Yellowstone” written by the genius Taylor Sheridan. In this role, Costner is the head of a family that owns the largest ranch in the country. He can enjoy the magnitude and beauty of the Montana land, protect his family from nature, and head off the corporations that want to transform the region. Though John Dutton is not a fan of government, he runs for Governor and wins the seat in the corner office of the statehouse. In this position, he has the power to thwart big-money efforts from California and New York that want to change Montana into their personal playground. You can see this playing out in real life and feel the anguish of John Dutton. This is the magic that is Kevin Costner. When he is on the screen, the screen comes to life.
Costner is working on his next project, Horizon, which will release in 2023. Costner will direct and star in this four movie saga set in, no surprise, the American west. The Horizon series will span a fifteen-year time frame of a western family in the American frontier. Costner claims the series will focus on the strong women of the time who often did not ask that this be where they were, but they did what was necessary to survive.
I am glad to see Kevin Costner getting accolades and recognition for his work while he is still with us. Costner is a natural treasure, and I hope he continues to master his craft for all of us to enjoy and live. It has been a pleasure to grow up through the eyes and works of this gifted man.
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