Another Human Rights Commission – this time Washington State – told the Christian owners of a women’s Spa that they could not refuse service to transwomen who had not had surgery (discrimination!), even though several services required customers to be naked.

 

The spa was described by its owners, who are Christian, as being designed based on the belief that “a male and a female should not ordinarily be in each other’s presence while in the nude unless married to each other,” according to a complaint filed by the owners.

Many services provided by the spa require patrons to be fully naked, and the employees who work on-site are all female.

 

The owners challenged the “anti-discrimmination” law claiming it discriminated against them. The Judge didn’t see it.

 

The constitutional rights of the owners, employees, and patrons of the Olympus Spa in Washington state were not infringed when officials in the state ordered the facility to provide services to “transgender women” with male genitalia, Washington District Court Judge Barbara Jacobs Rothstein said in a June 5 ruling. …

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“The Court does not minimize the privacy concerns at play when employees are performing exfoliating massages on nude patrons. Aside from this nudity, though, there is simply nothing private about the relationship between Olympus Spa, its employees, and the random strangers who walk in the door seeking a massage,” she said. “Nor is there anything selective about the association at issue beyond Olympus Spa’s ‘biological women’ policy. “The Court therefore has little difficulty concluding that the personal attachments implicated here are too attenuated to qualify for constitutional protection.”

 

And there is some debate as to whether the individual who filed the discrimination complaint was ever at either of their facilities.

 

Haven Wilvich, a male who identified as a woman yet has not undergone sex change surgery …  alleged that the spa “denied me services and stated that transgender women without surgery are not welcome because it could make other customers and staff uncomfortable.”

Spa policy dictates only admitting females older than 13.

An investigation by the spa owners found no evidence that Wilvich had ever been to the spa, which has facilities in Tacoma and Lynnwood and has been operating for more than 20 years. Myoon Woon Lee, one of the spa owners, also expressed concern that exposing female customers, especially minors, to male genitalia could open the spa up to criminal penalties based on state laws governing lewd conduct and public indecency.

 

At issue then is not if you are trans but if you genuinely are trans and not just a guy who might want to wave their junk around in front of women and girls as young as thirteen.

I’m sure the state would have been happy to oblige by repealing the indecency statute, or maybe not – being charged with that would be a doozy of a thing and probably ruin the Spa. That’s not to say that the publicity and likelihood that women might encounter man parts based on this ruling won’t cut into their customer traffic and ruin them anyway.

Ladies, we have this unique spa experience and look, pensis, at no extra charge. And hey, maybe they do more business as the clientele shifts, but what are the odds this doesn’t hurt their business? And it is a familiar pattern. From Bakers to Photographers to artists to dating services – Christian businesses are targeted, not so that gender warriors can use their services but to put them out of business.

Remember Sweet Cakes by Melissa. Or how about Jack Phillips and Masterpiece Cake Shop? Phillips got his case to the US Supreme Court and won. Still, the state and the Gaystapo came at him again (and again)—lawfare to destroy the man, his business, and his way of life even though there were dozens of places a gay couple could go to get a wedding cake and he had a protected right under the First Amendment.

Cultural assault and battery.

This sounds like that.

 

 

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Earlier this year, the NH House of Representatives passed an amended version of HB 315, prohibiting provocations based on a victim’s actual or perceived gender, gender identity, gender expression, or sexual orientation from being used as a defense in a criminal case. 

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While the original text of this bill was framed as a prohibition against the so-called, “gay panic defense,” in reality, it would have promoted sexual harassment by removing any ability for a woman on trial for murder to claim that she acted in self-defense against unwanted romantic or sexual advances. Thankfully, the amended version of the bill remedied this while serving the bill’s stated purpose. However, this past week, the Senate amended and passed the original text of the bill, returning it to its pro-sexual harassment form. The bill will now return to the House to be voted on once again in its original form.

If this bill were truly about protecting homosexual men from hate crimes, then the bipartisan version passed by both the House Criminal Justice Committee and by voice vote in the NH House would have been acceptable, as it contains language prohibiting provocations based on sexual identity from being used as a defense in cases of manslaughter. However, the bill was amended to again contain language which protects and facilitates aggressive “sexual advances.” As a consequence those who would be most hurt if HB 315 passed in its present form would not be heterosexual men who killed homosexual men, as those pushing the bill would have you believe, but women who defended themselves from the predatory behavior of straight men. It is evident that the impetus behind the bill is to erode the safety and dignity of women, and to promote sexual harassment.

In light of this, Cornerstone strongly opposes HB 315 as amended by the Senate. Please call or email your representatives and urge them to vote against HB 315 as amended by the Senate.

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Former Democrat Senator Jeff Woodburn has had himself an odd few years. And not COVID. He was accused and convicted of being a bad boy, admitted to that, but then decided to get the State Supreme Court to overturn what he admitted to doing in pursuit of the truth.

Related: Did Jeff Woodburn or His Attorney Leak an Image (In his Domestic Violence Case) Under Protective Order?

Which truth?

In May 2021, former Democrat State Senator Jeff Woodburn bragged about how he was ‘believed’ by a Coos County Jury after they convicted him.

 

 

Sure. So why go to the NH State Supreme Court, and convince them to overturn those convictions based on a procedural error?

 

Writing for the court, Justice James Bassett said that “because the record contains some evidence supporting a rational finding that the defendant acted in self-defense, the trial court’s refusal to instruct the jury on that theory of defense was unreasonable.”

Woodburn’s case will now be sent back to a lower court for a new trial, where he will be allowed to present his self-defense arguments.

 

I’m not a lawyer, nor do I play one on the internet, but to what did he admit of which he is no longer guilty?

 

In a statement, Woodburn said, The Supreme Court confirmed that I was unfairly treated and wrongfully convicted. As I said from the beginning more than 4 years ago, that this process would and will continue to reveal the truth, underlying politics, and injustice. I know what happened in this relationship, my mistakes and that I defended myself and never abused anyone.”

 

If the Judge erred in his trial, Woodburn deserves to have that corrected in a new proceeding, but he isn’t exonerated. The lower court has to re-hear the trial with Woodburn’s self-defense argument included in the proceedings. He is still alleged to have perpetrated acts of domestic violence, and he admitted to doing something for which a Jury convicted him.

Now he’s saying that’s not the case.

I’m a huge fan of the right to self-defense, but Woodburn (who has some problem with his) has admitted to anger issues and doing something wrong for which a jury convicted him. How does he explain admitting guilt with conviction and then claiming he is innocent and in pursuit of the truth?

Which truth, Jeff?

 

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They’re flying so thick and fast it is amazing.  Take heart – there will be a Meme Overflow and almost certainly a Friday Meme Overflow-Overflow.  Last week’s Overflow-Overflow.

Remember, ridicule and mockery are effective weapons:

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

Now, let the mockery and mayhem begin.

 

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

 

 

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A brief thought before I dive into the memes.  I’ve written several times about the depopulation agenda:

The 7.3 Billion Dollar, er, Person Question – Liberty’s Torch (libertystorch.info)

Proverbs 16:18… and What’s Coming? – Granite Grok

Dark Thoughts in the Small Hours – Granite Grok

Borrowing from a Dog Food Ad – Urban Scoop

As well as less officially – e.g., see one of the sections in last week’s Monday Memes.  Now, not from me, this:

Report 74: Lipid Nanoparticles Corrupt Nature – DailyClout

Dr. Naomi Wolf Uncovers Pfizer’s Depopulation Agenda, as Evidenced by Its Own Documents; “This is a mystery novel in which the question is, how do we stop women from having healthy babies?” – DailyClout

Which got me to thinking in the wee hours that the Covid Jab is non-sterilizing against the virus; many immunologists and virologists, let alone the raw data, have said this.  But then it occurred to me: it’s not sterilizing vis a vis the virus.  But it is sterilizing… for humans.

So, in reality, it IS a sterilizing agent.  So then, what is the point?  The Final Solution to the Human Problem.  To what end?  “Just” to benefit the Elites?  Or is there more?  Just throwing this out there – not saying this is the answer, but in my own twisted thought process, possibly related:

NewsNation special: UFO whistleblower speaks (newsnationnow.com)

The interviewer wrote this book, which I read: In Plain Sight.  Good book.  Not, IMHO, breathlessly insane but very methodical and a good mix of skeptical and open-minded.

FREAKY: What Is Going on With Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla’s Neck During This Interview? (Video) – The Washington Standard

And look at the dates and predicted timeline here:

 

 

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Islam’s treatment of homosexuals is pretty clear.  And yet homosexuals are for mass migration?

 

 

 

It’s perverse.  Taking the side of people who would cheerfully throw you off a rooftop after binding and beating you, or drag you behind a motorcycle, or just hang you… and wanting more of this kind of person to migrate to your country?

 

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https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/emigrating-because-homosexuality.mp4

 

Funny.  But also prescient.

All “pride”-related memes this entry:

 

 

 

And in boycott news:

Bud Light Is Sponsoring An ‘All-Ages’ Drag Show’ Despite Massive Loss In Sales (trendingpoliticsnews.com)

Bud Light also sponsored the Boston Pride event.  And take a look at this video compilation about Target, specifically.  If there is an “innocent” explanation for the images, shirts, and mannequins, I’d like to hear it.  Because to me, there is none.

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/target-goats.mp4

 

And note the teacher’s threat here: Watch the pedo agitprop or come in Saturday:

 

https://media.gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/140/111/710/original/cff05e8bec1f40a9.mp4

 

And then they turn around and say there’s no indoctrination or grooming.

Idaho residents thwart “Pride Month” Drag Queen event (massresistance.org)

This is a good group!

 

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Seven Hairy Hells.

There are no curse words in English or any other human language sufficient to capture my raw, seething anger at this.

Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy.  And consider it well: think of all the praise the parents get for being so brave and courageous and open-minded, etc.

 

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Tell HR to SHOVE IT, I Aint Workin’ Here No More!” | Buddy Brown | Truck Sessions

 

 

BEAU-TI-FUL!

 

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I need to check this out; get a copy of the book from the library and read it.  But I’ve read this alleged excerpt in multiple places and it keeps coming up.  Certainly no big reveal of this being fake has been forthcoming in my feed.  So I make an assumption: it’s true.

People like this always broadcast their intent, confident that the vast majority of people will not just not read it, but if they read it will think “Oh, that’s just not possible”.

Winston Churchill knew who – and what – Hitler was.  Churchill had read his book, and had the moral courage to take him at his word.  Why are we so scared to take people at their word, when they state – clearly – what their plans are?

 

 

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Didn’t Take Long: WHO Global Vaccine Passports Go Live In Europe (technocracy.news)

I remember how our side crowed and celebrated when governments around the world “backed down” from this.  Fools!

Your Papers, Please | Gates of Vienna

The Globalists have been planning this for at least a century.  They’ve poured billions, if not trillions, into this.  This is their dream, their utopia – at least for them.  Did you really think they’d abandon those plans in the face of some protests?  They have plans – a needle in every arm.  And IMHO the consequences need to come faster – I can think of a few Covidians who need to do the death spiral pretty quick.

 

 

Look, I don’t want things to go kinetic.  Not just for the raw fact of it, but for the fact that I know I’ll probably not live through it.  But TINVOWOOT.  Things look to get very… “uncomfortable” soon.  The avalanche has already started…

 

 

Related, at least to me:

 

 

Said it before, will keep saying it: this is one of the main reasons Rome fell (link in original):

This is how Rome fell.  When the average Roman finally understood how corrupt-to-the-bone the Rome they knew, loved, and would have fought and died to protect had become, they turned inward towards their community and even closer to their families… no longer willing to fight or die for that greater entity now that they understood that greater entity no longer represented them or their values.

Well, that and the biological consequences of a comfortable existence – “good times” – coming to fruition:

Civilizational Collapse and Biology (Part 1) – Urban Scoop

Civilizational Collapse and Biology (Part 2) – Urban Scoop

Civilizational Collapse and Biology (Part 3) – Urban Scoop

 

 

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Neil Oliver: ‘…diets, food & the ‘Grocery tax’ that’s coming down the line…’

 

 

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Pick of the post:

 

 

Observant, and prescient.  Note the date.

 

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Monday Musical Memory:

 

Baltimora – Tarzan Boy

 

 

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Palate Cleansers:

 

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For years we have been watching the Left systematically dismantle this great country. They have used education, the media, and the press to spread their word. They have embraced a Socialist from Vermont who condemns Capitalism while deciding which of his three homes to spend his weekends.

They have taken advantage of Pandemic lockdowns to create a new lifestyle and work mode. They have gone from protesting a stay-at-home order to making it their Constitutional Right. They have worked to destroy the family unit by replacing parental with government control. It takes a village has morphed to they are all our children. It appears the Left is working from a singular playbook, but that would be giving them far too much credit. This effort by the Radicals is more like pushing the limits with each new thought and seeing if it attracts a following.

They have created a legion of non-thinking young people thirsty for the next glass of Kool-Aid. Liberty, Freedom, and Opportunity for all be damned. Please tell us what we need and how we should think, and make us dependent on the government to survive, and the process is nearly complete. America is almost defeated, but there is one final obstacle: the millions of Conservatives who are not ready to take down the flag and pledge our allegiance to the new Socialistic order.

If a foreign regime incorporated the political tactics and double standards we have witnessed from the Left, America would have risen up in defense of Democracy and possibly intervened in the name of freedom. Spying on our political opponents, creating false narratives, weaponizing our intelligence agencies to promote them, and discarding the fair application of the law to investigate, indict, and potentially jail your political foes. These are the acts of Third World Countries and oppressive regimes that we have fought against for decades. Now, we are one of them.

The one element that the Left was not prepared for was a political outsider with a “give me your best shot” attitude and a legion of followers in the millions standing in their way. For nearly seven years, the Left has been working in unison to eliminate Donald Trump from the political landscape. He has weathered every shot and seen his popularity rise with every victory.

This week, the Left has circled the wagons and is taking their ultimate shot at slaying the orange monster with the bright red MAGA hat. With total disregard for the potential crimes of Hillary Clinton, Hunter Biden, Joe Biden, and the leaders of the FBI and CIA, the ruling class of Leftists has destroyed over 200 years of Constitutionally by pointing their biggest guns at Donald Trump. They have put together a litany of Federal charges against the former President that could imprison him for life and eliminate his political threat to their efforts to transform America.

This effort will unify MAGA Nation and all Conservatives recognizing this assault on America. I predict a surge in Trump’s popularity this week and a continued erosion in the President’s ratings. This will infuriate the Left, but they underestimated their foe. They do not understand that those of us who back Donald Trump are doing so out of an intense love of our country, the country we grew up with, not the one the Left is pushing on us.

There are stats to back that millennials are moving toward the Right. The Left is failing them, and they yearn for the opportunities of the Right. Some see this coup that the Left is attempting and it is not for them. If there is one thing that this coup will accomplish, it is a boldening of the MAGA Movement, not because of Trump, but because we are not ready to surrender, and we will continue to watch our flag of liberty wave.

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Arranged marriages and matchmaking are still a thing despite it seeming odd to us in the West. Iran was once much more free; women had more rights and were not required to wear hijab. My point is that culture matters and is defined by what we accept or reject as a community.

There are plenty of places in America where a T-shirt with coarse language will get you asked to change it or wear it inside out. The same can be said for pubic (not a misspelling) schools these days that will let you wear a BLM shirt, but the Thin Blue Line Flag will get you sent home or suspended. Culture, shared interests, and goals for children define where your town, state, and nation are headed.

Ours is headed for the toilet.

 

Parents at the Wells Road Intermediate school say their 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders were shown the video, in which children discuss identifying outside the gender binary and wave pride flags around. … Many parents believe their children are too young to be learning about these topics and claim they were not warned about the Pride month programming in advance.

One parent shared that their child were given puberty kit[s], and also claimed her son had been sent home with pantiliners and maxi pads.

 

And as a reminder, pads and panty liners are not typically flushable, so that toiled we’re for is clogged.

And what do you do either as a parent or a taxpayer who paid for the “supplies” handed out to boys when girls aren’t even thinking about any of this at that age? Wondering what the hell would be an understatement, and we know that Wells Road Intermediate School isn’t the only one doing this.

The parents are spun up in Granby, CT, and the politicians and bureaucrats are lined up to do whatever it takes to suppress any opposition. And this is not a new problem, but it relates to an old one. The elections most likely to affect the culture in the pubic schools are local, but these contests consistently have the lowest turnout. It would be a surprise if you get 25% of the federal election crowd.

Andrew Breitbart said politics is downstream from culture, but parents and taxpayers could flip that maxim. If you use politics and the ballot box to advance and elect good candidates for School Board, you can change the culture in your pubic schools. But you have to want that and do it, and then you need to support those candidates in elected office.

The Left will never give up. If you want your school, town, county, state, or country back, you can’t give up either.

 

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In Men vs. Women: The Boys From Wrexham Wrecked ‘Em! from June 8th, the takeaway was that the men (some much older than the women) beat them 12-0. A blowout – and the men hardly looked like they were trying.

While surfing around, I ended up on YouTube at a channel called Nate The Lawyer, which had an even deeper dive on this “biology doesn’t matter because we’re all equal” beatdown “US women’s Soccer Team LOSE 24 – 1 to Mens Team to Prove a Point. He had the point that made that US Women vs. Wrexham 12-0 final score even worse than it looked: the shots on goal count was 31 to 4. Translation: the women shouldn’t have even been allowed to walk onto the pitch; the men scored on one of every three shots.

Not only that, every other game the US women’s team played, whether, against all men or co-ed teams, they lost. Badly:

 

 



 

Once again, Biology DOES matter even as the Left continues to try to Cancel the Science.

And he ended up with THE question in all this: What would happen if the US women’s Soccer Team played the US men’s team – for real?”

Doubt it would ever happen, but does anyone really believe the women would win?

 

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It’s hard to deny that our nation is currently under relentless attack from evil forces. More and more frequently, we read in the news about issues and events unheard of before. Yet, we seem not to understand the severity of the situation.

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We are seeing a coordinated Marxist-oriented tyrannical subversion of our Nation’s very foundations. And we are at the inflection point: the gradual hundred-year infiltration has “switched gears” to the rapid-speed disestablishment of our fundamental national institutions. Think “fundamentally transforming the United States of America.”

Without immediate, powerful resistance to this subversion, our children and grandchildren will not enjoy the life of freedom and prosperity that we have.

Ronald Reagan reminded us that life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are “never more than one generation away from extinction.”

Today we are that “one generation!”

It is up to us, now, to take a stand against this tyrannical insurgency — not just with words, but with actions.

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Many of us profess to be Christians. We try to do good. We are charitable. We even go to church on Sundays. We trust in God.

What does it mean to trust in God?

Recently, Christians celebrated the feast of Pentecost, commemorating the Holy Spirit’s manifestation to the Apostles, imbuing in them the power and grace they needed to “go forth and teach all nations.” God’s plan was for them to spread Christianity.

God indeed has a plan, and part of His plan involves us taking action!

There is a danger in passively assuming God will do it all — He wants His people to do their part.

A lesson of Pentecost is that we must balance our trust in God with doing our part to advance His plan. As the traditional motto tells us, “God helps those who help themselves.”

God was instrumental in the founding of our great Republic. We believe that He has a plan for our Nation. Our nation, however, has been gradually falling away from Him.

The United States of America could be entering a “death spiral” from which we might not recover. God’s purpose is being thwarted by the forces of darkness, so the forces of light need to step up!

Remember, “the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men and women to do nothing.”

Current events are proving this true. Things that once would have been so abhorrent that they would never stand are now commonplace. They are occurring with such rapidity that we soon forget, and life goes on.

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Don’t be one of those doing nothing! Here is what you can do to get involved:

• Attend local Select Board & School Board Meetings. You don’t have to speak, just watch and learn.
• Join your town’s Republican Committee. Attend their meetings. Meet other like-minded citizens. Learn about the issues and the Republican positions.
• Meet the candidates running for office. Learn why they’re running and for what they stand. New Hampshire is the home of “retail politics.”
• Talk with your friends and neighbors about what you’re learning.
• And of course, vote in every election. Following the above steps makes you an informed voter, a rare breed indeed!

If you’re already involved, here’s how to step up your involvement:

• Get active in your local Republican committee. Their Executive Committee is always in need of active members.
• Write a Letter to the Editor in your local newspaper explaining your take on issues and candidates.
• Consider running for local office: Library Trustee, Selectman or School Board member.
• The First-in-the-Nation NH Presidential Primary is on the horizon. Attend candidate town halls and house parties. Don’t remain on the sidelines. We in New Hampshire have a unique opportunity to influence the 2024 Federal Elections.

Now is the time for action!

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The Trump indictment in Florida is only the warm-up act. Next the “special counsel” will indict Trump over J6:

As my friend @julie_kelly2 is warning everyone, you’re mad about the baby charges Trump is facing in Florida next week when you should really be concerned about the big boy felonies they’re gonna charge him with in D.C. next month. That’s the coup de grâce.

Scary times.

— Jesse Kelly (@JesseKellyDC) June 9, 2023

I told you all of this back in April:

Perhaps the worst take I’ve seen on the Bragg indictment was on this site: Alvin Bragg Just Elected Donald Trump. Take off the rose-colored glasses and look around you … half the voters in this country, the Blue half, want their political opponents put in jail.

The Bragg indictment is just the beginning. Georgia is going to indict Trump … you know the grand jury headed by that woke forewoman who told the regime-media that she fantasizes about personally serving a subpoena on Trump … on bogus charges too.

And the Biden-regime’s totally corrupt DOJ is going to indict Trump on bogus charges too.

And if somehow Trump … despite all these political prosecutions, and despite elections in the crucial swing-States: AZ, GA, NV, PA being rigged … manages to win the general election, the Left will ASSASSINATE him. They will kill him rather than allow him to become President again.

But this post is not to say “I told you so” (although I just did) … it’s to note how disgustingly and pathetically shortsighted and self-serving certain “GOP” are in giving this latest salvo of mud from the USDOJ any legitimacy whatsoever. They are also deluded if they believe that the political prosecutions will stop with Trump. Indeed, the delusion is such that they probably also have convinced themselves that “there’s a lot of good stuff” in the disastrous excuse for a budget just passed by the supposedly GOP-majority NH-legislature.

 

 

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Under a post over at LifeHacker is this title: The Out-of-Touch Adults’ Guide to Kid Culture: What is ‘Bed Rotting’?

I’ve heard of the young Chinese doing “laying flat” (rebelling against the notion that they MUST STRIVE to do their best to help The State!). I have heard about “quit quitting” by the young (as opposed to “retiring in place” by those close to that age in merely “going through the motions”) that they only do the least amount necessary to keep from getting fired – never striving to do their best.

And the subtitle to the post just made me angry: It’s a little like “wasting away,” but as a self-care strategy.

Sure thing, you twits for children – that’s just plain lazy. But notice the self-justification of trying to call it something else to make themselves feel better. This is the Self-Esteem and Participation (or is it NON-participation?) Trophy movements meant for children but now employed by the Twenty/Thirty-something twits?

Emphasis mine, reformatted:

This week, all children and young people are rotting in their beds, but it’s not due to illness, disgust, or unemployment. It’s the “new” trend of just not wanting to do anything because that takes effort. (Relatable.)

Bed rotting, JOMO, and the rise of cosy [sic]
I may be a crusty old bastard, but I feel a kinship with Generation Z when it comes to “bed rotting.” These young people are making doing nothing into a lifestyle and I am fully onboard. Bed rotting is big on TikTok and the practice is part of a larger movement that includes JOMO (joy of missing out) and an appreciation for all things cozy.

Bed rotting differs from “hiding from the world” or “suffering from overwhelming depression” in the intentional way it’s practiced. When you’re bed rotting, it’s not that you’re unable to face the world; you’ve chosen not to. It’s about happily saying “f*** all that” to the outside world and instead, choosing to lay down, eat your favorite food, binge a TV show, and pet your cat instead. Whether it’s done for a few hours after work or school, or for days at a time, bed rotting is not being lazy. It’s practicing self-care.

NOTHING in that explanation makes much sense to me other than we are now seeing a bunch of over-aged entitled adults believing that they can do nothing for themselves.  And I bet there’s a host of “enablers” behind them, patting them on the head like 4 year olds going “There, there, dears, you keep staring at the ceiling and thinking that you are the greatest in the world”.

Not being lazy?  It is the EPITOME of laziness!!!    Self-care?  No, self-delusion. It’s feeling sorry for your lazy A$$ for probably not much more than “Hey, Life’s is not what I thought it should be”. Welcome to the real world, you lay-a-bout.

Absolute rubbish and if it were my son or daughter, I’d be marching them down to Parris Island (US Marine Corp Boot Camp) in quick step, throwing them over the wire with a scream of “Rot, this! You lazy son of a sun-basking lizard. Do you think you’ve had a hard life?  Look at that Drill Instructor Sgt staring at you with a gleaming eye thinking to himself “THIS is gonna be fun!”.

In a way, bed-rotting is an aspect of JOMO, or “joy of missing out” in which one experiences fulfillment from consciously rejecting the demands and expectations of the outside world. The quietness of Gen-Z is also seen in the rise of coziness. Gamers are making best-sellers out of “cozy video games” like Stardew Valley and Animal Crossing , and online spaces like Reddit’s “CozyPlaces” board are full of people fetishizing the coziest and most comfortable places on earth. Who wouldn’t want to bed rot here, am I right?

Yep, the young(er) parents that decided that being their kids “friends” are at fault for this instead of instilling into their child that most of the successes in life are motivation and willingness to forego instant gratification. Work Ethic?  What’s that (Mike Rowe of Dirty Jobs fame must be fuming over this). Just the fact that the word “adulting” is a thing should drive the rest of us that know better absolutely livid.

Look, I get it – everyone needs a vacation once in a while but this is next level stupidity as it engenders an attitude of “Meh?  Who cares – nothing else is more important than what I’m feeling about myself” that eventually takes over for good

We first saw this rise up during the Obama era when unemployment became “funcation”. The Pandemic had Government become everybody’s sugar daddy and paid everyone to stay home and do nothing. This is just yet the next extension of that absolute soul-rotting nonsense.

And they haven’t realized that ramification yet.

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Apparently, former President (and current GOP presidential candidate) Donald Trump said that his poll (and fundraising) numbers have increased as a result of his being indicted for various supposed crimes.

I’m inclined to believe him.  I don’t really want Trump to be president — I don’t really want anyone to be president, with the possible exceptions of Ron Paul or John Valera– but the way all these career politicians and bureaucrats are losing their minds at the very possibility of his being elected makes him by far the most interesting candidate out there.

The more he’s indicted on obviously political charges, the more I feel like voting for him.  And if he’s convicted, that will probably clinch it.

My dream scenario is that Trump campaigns from prison in an orange jumpsuit with a campaign slogan like ‘If they can get me, they can get you.’  Then he wins and immediately pardons himself while still in prison.  And then sets about dismantling the federal agencies that helped land him there.

 

 

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Dear Friends –

As you may know, service and sacrifice for our nation is something that’s deeply personal to me. It is more than just wearing a uniform. Our nation’s Purple Heart recipients are a community of heroes bound together by the scars, both physical and emotional they carry as a result of their service.

We want to thank Don Bolduc for this Op-Ed. Please submit yours to Editor@GraniteGrok.com.

Their stories need to be told and they deserve to know America remembers their sacrifice.

Today, I’m writing to ask for your support for a special program that pays tribute to their contribution to American freedom.

 

Later this year, the National Purple Heart Honor Mission, a fantastic nonprofit organization devoted to paying tribute to our Purple Heart recipients, will be hosting their 2023 Purple Heart Patriot Project Mission. This unique event brings together Purple Heart honorees from across the nation for an all-expenses-paid trip to visit the historic birthplace of the Purple Heart, the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, the deeply moving National Purple Heart Hall of Honor, and other historic sites associated with the Purple Heart.

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These emotional Patriot Project missions provide a unique opportunity for our Purple Heart heroes to connect with each other, share their stories, create new bonds and experience the appreciation of a grateful nation. Honorees have called it “a trip of a lifetime,” and “the homecoming we never had.”

Each Patriot Project mission costs about $250,000. That’s why I’m asking you to join me in helping make this happen for our Purple Heart heroes by CLICKING HERE and donating today.

My words cannot truly reflect the profound impact these events have on our heroes.  Click here to see for yourself  how these missions impact our Purple Heart recipients and hear first-hand the stories of valor they share on these missions.  I need your help to ensure this mission is funded.

For more than 25 years the National Purple Heart Honor Mission has been dedicated to paying tribute to our nation’s combat wounded through special outreach and educational programs. The organization was the driving force behind the establishment and later the expansion of the National Purple Heart Hall of Honor, it played a significant role in the creation of the Purple Heart Forever stamp and in 2020, they led the effort to pass through Congress the creation of the nation’s first U.S. Minted coins honoring our Purple Heart heroes.

They need your help today. Please give our heroes an incredible salute to their service and sacrifice. Donate today to support the 2023 Purple Heart Patriot Project by visiting www.PurpleHeartMission.org.

Sincerely,
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Larry Fink is the CEO of Blackrock, the world’s largest “asset manager,” owning as of December, 2022 approximately $9 TRILLION of “assets,” e.g. STOCKS, which in plain English means Blackrock effectively controls  corporate-America. Here is Larry Fink, in 2017, talking about “FORCING” corporate-America to go WOKE:

It's all a conspiracy, they said. No one is trying to socially engineer corporate America, they said.

BlackRock CEO, Larry Fink: "You have to force behaviors…If [firms] don't force behaviors, whether it's gender or race…you're going to be impacted." pic.twitter.com/RDqtKOjQeM

— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) June 5, 2023

What does what Blackrock … and firms like Blackrock … forcing ESG down consumers’ throats have to do with capitalism? Where’s the “private ownership of the means of production” where Fink and his ilk have the power to handpick who runs any corporation. How can we claim to have a free-market economy when the economy is actually controlled by a handful of people … the Finks, if you will.

This is oligarchy. America is an oligarchy.

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You’ll have heard the “news.” Hyperbolic predictions for another El Nina summer. My past reporting, and I’m no expert, suggests there’s no discernable pattern for temperature or precipitation even as that itty-bitty trace gas, CO2, has claimed a few parts per million.

Related: There’s No Evidence Connecting CO2 and Drought (Or NOAA and Predictions)

A degree of minutia not fully understood by the masses that look like this.

 

 

Everything weather, including NOAAs politicized interpretation, is based on 3% of the 0.04% despite no evidence of a correlation. With that in mind, let’s make fun of NOAA (again), which can “predict” the Earth’s climate 30-80 years into the future but has it rough when it comes to the next few months.

After blowing the 2022 hurricane season prediction, then missing winter for the entire west and left coast (they didn’t get ours right, but they were closer), NOAA dropped their summer of El Nina forecast last month. The Northeast is expected to have above-average temps, and precipitation was a tossup.

 

 

 

 

It is early, but they have missed both so far. It has been cooler and wetter around here, not warmer and drier. The forecast for the next ten days has a lot of rain and temps in the upper 60s to lower 70s with nighttime temps in the mid-50s. That’s not an alarming difference, but it is at or below average, not at or above. The advertised hotter-than-typical weather has yet to show its face beyond two days, followed by a week of wet, cold weather.

July and August get hot around here. As for rain, we are 15% above the one-hundred-year mean for annual precipitation through May.

So, to generalize the predictive nature of the Cult, the forecast is drought, with an increased chance of flooding, and high heat, except when it’s cool. Your emissions of a trace gas (a trace amount of that trace amount) in the vast and complex system that is Earth’s atmosphere are to blame.

And even though NOAA, nor any other expert, can guess anything with certainty, we must give up modernity to appease the future they’ve predicted that we all know is junk science and hogwash.

 

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

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

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

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

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

FYI, here’s a link to the last Survival Sunday.

 

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You Must Have Three Children!

 

 

I wish I could have more.

 

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Top of the fold:

10 Things You Should Do To Stop The Government From Tracking You – Ask a Prepper

Good list, but in practice it’s very difficult to do.  And, yes:

Doing the things I’ve mentioned in this article are likely to have unintended consequences. That is, they’re likely to make you look suspicious to anyone investigating you.

From the same site:

How To Become Untraceable When SHTF – Ask a Prepper

I’d reword: harder to trace, not totally untraceable.  Unless you go off-grid, completely, you can be traced with enough work / resources.  Related:

5 Things You Can Do If People Find Out You’re A Prepper – Ask a Prepper

 

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Oddments – random thoughts on prepping:

A good ax and hatchet.

 

 

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SITREP sites:

I used to do a SITREP post as a separate, stand-alone.  I can’t afford that time any more.  Here are some “starter places” for sites that I routinely go to get info about what’s happening.  And then spend hours following rabbit holes.

The sidebar of my old blog, with links to other places.   redpilljew

Gates of Vienna

Doug Ross @ Journal (directorblue.blogspot.com)

The Other McCain

TheBlaze

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Prepper Site URLS:

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

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

Mother Earth News

The Organic Prepper Home – The Organic Prepper

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

SHTF Blog – Modern Survival

Survival World – Everything You Need To Know to Survive

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

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

Mind4Survival – Survival and Preparedness

Gray Wolf survival

Sustainable Living (sustainablelivingideas.com)

The Classic Survivalist – Surviving in a Modern World

Primal Survivor – Practical and sensible prepping advice

Em Off-grid – We & Our Off The Grid Life – Em OffGrid

Resource for Practical, Daily Prepping Skills for SHTF & Survival (geekprepper.com)

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

TOP 50 SURVIVAL & PREPPER BLOGS

The 50 Best Survival Blogs

Prepper Website – Preparedness • Survival • Alternative News

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Specific, one-up articles:

Don’t Do This – Ask a Prepper

Good list.  From the same site:

Deinfluencing You: 14 Items You Should Stop Stockpiling Right Now – Ask a Prepper

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Bayou Renaissance Man: A few more thoughts on emergency preparedness

Potpourri of good ideas.

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Related to Spicy Time:

 

Spare Gun Parts All Preppers Should Have

 

 

A few other videos (links only):

A SURVIVAL GAME-CHANGER Most Preppers Don’t Even Think Of – YouTube

How Bad Will A Grid-Down Collapse Be For The Unprepared? (Podcast 440) – YouTube

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Related to Bushcraft specifically:

 

 

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

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

 

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Selling fresh produce is NOT allowed!

 

 

More from Richard Vobes:

Have we become little children? – YouTube

The worries of Electric and Magnetic Fields – YouTube

We got rid of a 20-minute neighbourhood! – YouTube

Is universal basic income really a good idea? – YouTube

 

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I have a FORAGING group on Gab.  I will check 2-3 times a week to see if people have asked to join.

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Foraging: One-up articles

Quick-hit style:

A beginner’s guide to summer foraging | Live Better | The Guardian

9 Summer Herbs To Forage This Year – Herbal Academy (theherbalacademy.com)

FIND YOUR FOOD | Foraging can be a fun way to get outdoors and put good eats on the table | Wisconsin DNR

5 Wild Foods To Forage In Wisconsin This Summer | Wisconsin Public Radio (wpr.org)

Essential Foraging Guide – Wild Food Month by Month – Woodland Trust

Summer Forage: Wild Edible Fruits and Vegetables – Prepper’s Will (prepperswill.com)

Foraging walk near Chicago beach teaches residents about edible plants they didn’t know grew in the heart of the city – LimaOhio.com

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Foraging (permanent feature):

Foraging (practicalselfreliance.com)

Wild Harvests (arcadianabe.blogspot.com)

Southern Appalachian Herbs

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Books (permanent feature):

Feasting Free on Wild Edibles (old but good)

The Lost Ways (much more than just foraging)

The Forager’s Guide to Wild Foods

THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO EDIBLE WILD PLANTS FOR BEGINNERS

 

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Shortages (broadly):

WEF Accelerates Plan To Engineer Global Famine: 13 Nations Agree To Abolish Farming – The People’s Voice (thepeoplesvoice.tv)

They will starve us to death as the mindless sheeple cheer that they’re saving us from the dreaded climate change of dooooooooom.  On that:

America Signs Global Climate Agreement to Crack Down on Farming

Beef Company CEO: “The Climate Change Argument Against Cows Is Garbage and We Will Not Comply” | The Gateway Pundit | by Promoted Post | 90

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Soft on crime DA’s and judges will destroy this country as we’ve known it. Shoplifting – always a problem – is now out of control…

What happens when they decide that a digital ID is what’s needed to open the cases?

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Bayou Renaissance Man: The food shortages continue…

And they’ll get worse.  But it will be slowly… slowly… so as to not alarm the sheeple until they wake up with a start at the absences that have finally become apparent.

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Why global elites now are targeting agriculture and OUR FOOD

 

 

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Gardening, Food Storage, Animals, Food Preservation, Health, and Related:

 

 

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If You Have Been Storing Meat This Way, Stop Doing It Immediately – Ask a Prepper

And this is one reason why I haven’t invested in lots of frozen meat.  If things really hit the fan, my frozen meat stash goes bye bye quickly.

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6 Reasons Ducks are Better Than Chickens on a Homestead

 

 

Other poultry-related videos (links only):

Amish WARNING about Chickens and Eggs! – YouTube

Everything You Need to Get Started with DUCKS – YouTube

8 Things To Know Before Getting Ducks – YouTube

The CUTE and the UGLY About Keeping Ducks – YouTube

Why Ducks are Better than Chickens for a Backyard Homestead – YouTube

3 Game-Changing Tips for Raising Happier, Healthier Chickens – YouTube

Raising Ducks and Geese – Nutritional Requirements & Treats – YouTube

Watch This BEFORE You Keep Chickens – YouTube

10 Things I’ve Learned Raising Geese – YouTube

Everything I Know About Raising Geese – YouTube

I love my Guard Goose. His name is Larry. – YouTube

Duckling & Gosling Care Supplement Feeding – YouTube

In particular, geese are – from what I’ve read – excellent early warning systems.

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Garden-related videos (links only):

5 Tasks You Should Do EVERY DAY in the Veggie Garden – YouTube

5 TIPS For BEGINNER Food Gardeners to Grow Veggies at Home – YouTube

5 Watering Mistakes You’re Probably Making – YouTube

10 Ways to Water Your Garden Better – YouTube

12 Perfect Vegetables To Grow in a Shady Garden Space – YouTube

Turn ONE Sweet Potato Into 100 LBS Of Sweet Potatoes By Growing SWEET POTATO SLIPS! [Complete Guide] – YouTube

4 Mistakes That Are KILLING Your Tomato Production! – YouTube

This Pepper Fertilizing Technique Will DOUBLE Your Pepper Harvest! – YouTube

5 Veggies That Grow FASTER Than GRASS! – YouTube

Don’t Make These 5 Food Gardening Mistakes! – YouTube

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

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

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

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

Canning | SDSU Extension (sdstate.edu)

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

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

National Center for Home Food Preservation (uga.edu)

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

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Topical Books (also permanent):

Charcuterie: The Craft of Salting, Smoking & Curing

Salumi: The Craft of Italian Dry Curing

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

The Prepper’s Canning Guide

Pickled Pantry

Fermented Vegetables

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

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

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

 

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Self-defense (broad)

Yes, the Founding Fathers knew repeating firearms existed – Bearing Arms

 

And while Stephen Crowder is out of favor, I do like this video:

 

The 2nd Amendment : For Muskets Only?!

 

 

 

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Hunting & Fishing:

Nothing found this week.

 

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Concluding thoughts if I’m moved to comment:

Knock Knock! It’s FEMA, We Need Your Stockpile – Ask a Prepper

And this is the danger of having stockpiles.  Not that I think it’s a bad idea… but understand that the government does have a way of saying NOW IT’S MINE.  And usually at the point of a gun.

So, damned either way.  If you have stockpiles at home, almost certainly – even if only from random searches – they’ll find it.  If you have it offsite, it’s hard to get to assuming that is not found.

 

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How to build a GET-HOME BAG (2 Levels)

 

 

Just as important as a bug-out bag.

 

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Palate cleansers:

 

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

 

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Blackrock/Chase/Biden … whoops! so, so sorry! meant “Ukraine” … kicked off its “counteroffensive” against Russia by blowing up a dam to flood the Russian frontline defenses, which also flooded civilians. But flooding these civilians is okay with Blackrock/Chase/Biden because these particular citizens are predominantly Russians.

Joe Biden … although he is merely a figurehead … still deserves to go down in history as a war criminal. A figurehead war criminal, to be sure, but nonetheless a war criminal.

This is, by the way, an egregious violation of the Geneva Convention.

Article 56 of the 1949 Additional Protocols bans flooding civilians *even if dams are legitimate military targets.*

Because this attack was blatantly illegal, the U.S. will pretend it was Russia's work. pic.twitter.com/JfVYMEJROo

— Clint Ehrlich (@ClintEhrlich) June 6, 2023

 

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California’s governor has proposed amending the federal constitution to

• raise the federal minimum age to buy a firearm to 21 from 18;
• mandate universal background checks;
• institute a ‘reasonable’ waiting period for all gun purchases; and
• ban assault rifles nationally;

while ‘leaving the Second Amendment unchanged.’  That’s the bad news.

The good news is that the likelihood of getting this to happen is close to zero.

But the even better news is that, finally, progressives seem to grasp that it’s necessary to amend the Constitution before passing laws restricting the right to keep and bear arms.

That realization has been a long time coming.

And it changes the game considerably.  Now, instead of just bloviating about ‘common sense’ and ‘public safety’ as justifications for infringing on a fundamental right, it’s necessary to discuss why the Second Amendment is in the Bill of Rights in the first place; whether the need for citizens to be able to resist arbitrary overreach by their own government has decreased since 1791; and whether it makes any sense at all to cede control over what arms you can have to a government that you might someday have to fight.

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Stories about Canada abound this week, and the hits have not stopped. At the same time, everyone is wondering what natural phenomenon results in hundreds of forest fires starting almost simultaneously, another story that deserves our attention has risen above the media bilgewater.

While total actual numbers are still low, the year-over-year change is startling. In Quebec, the land of mysterious simultaneous burns, Medically assisted deaths rose 51%.

 

Image Credit UK Daily Mail

 

Nationwide the trend is up 35%, and there’s no reason to believe those increases will stop because Canadian Public Health is invested in convincing people to die.

 

Canada has one of the world’s most permissive assisted suicide programs. Critics say it’s on a perilous road to mass euthanasia and ever-more pressure on the sick, disabled and poor to end their lives prematurely.

Alex Schadenberg, director of the coalition, said euthanasia rates were ‘skyrocketing’ because a ‘heavy promotion of MAiD within our medical system’ had ‘normalized’ lethal injections.

‘Every major healthcare institution has a MAiD team which will literally approach everyone who may qualify for MAiD and ask them if they want to die,’ Schadenberg told DailyMail.com.

 

This is the slippery slope we’ve been talking about for years. It is one that Vermont, to my geographic and political to my left, has embraced. And we’ve no reason to believe they will not fall willingly and legislatively down the same bunny hole as Canada. They are no less ‘progressive,’ and death therapy is common in increasingly socialist “states.”

It starts with those in chronic pain, which has to annoy Big Pharma just a bit. Offing their addicts cuts into the bottom line, and maybe that’s why they went wide with other revenue silos like the COVID thing. We’ll be killing people; sorry, we meant convincing people to die, but we don’t want that to impact your donations to our campaigns. How about we create a replacement revenue stream?

That would sound far-fetched but after the whole COVID thing, not so much. And they share an intimate connection. The same people who might think that way would also use your objection to their chemical mandates as an excuse to declare you mentally unfit, which inevitably becomes another condition for which public health experts suggest Medically assisted death.

None of this is beyond the realm of possibility. Leftists are two things: Eugenicist social engineers and complete economic incompetents. The former becomes a public good when the bill for the latter comes due. And organ donations skyrocket, which is good news for the ruling class—no more waiting for other people to die.

 

 

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Although I admit, Steve’s post about biology trumping silly sexuality identity propaganda came close (yes, I’ve had that tabbed to put up – GREAT fun!): Men vs. Women: The Boys From Wrexham Wrecked ‘Em! – I think this edges it out, even if in a tweet:

“Gender-affirming care” is to health as “Elizabeth Warren” is to Indian.

 

https://twitter.com/xenophonrocks/status/1666470495271755776

Yep, that 1/2024th of an Indian was just GREAT in taking an old, rich, white Progressive to the heights of Harvard Law (otherwise known as “affirmative action hire” and onward to a self-righteous Senatorial campaign that allows her to thrust her ideology (“You didn’t build that” meaning you’re just stupid to do anything without Government) onto the rest of us. Translation – nothing to do with Warren at all. TMEW is orders of magnitude more Indian than Warren.

Euphemism – the Left would blink out of existence faster than a proton meeting up with an anti-proton if they didn’t have euphemisms to call and change a horribleness like voluntary human mutilation by Parents of their children by slicing off perfectly good body parts for the sake of being part of the “cool kids” they missed out on being part of in Jr. High School (yes, I am of that age and so is Warren. Older, she is, truth be told).

That’s all that “gender-affirmative” means in this case – and now the studies are starting to show that it is all for naught – WORSE outcomes, mentally, than before being drugged and knifed into some simulacrum of attempting to be the other sex that you can never be.

Even the concept of doing so completely wrecks the illusion that gender is a spectrum item – if you’re a guy, you’re trying to get fixed (like a dog being neutered) to be a girl.  Isn’t that demonstrating that sex is binary – you know, real life and real biology without the idiocy of attempting to redefine what “gender” means simply to fulfill a political agenda???

One last point before I leave. Before “transgender” became a thing, there used to be another word that described a guy wearing girls’ clothes (and visa-versa):

Transvestite

Glad to see that word is coming back into use as it more correct in describing what is now happening. No child-body mutilation can result in a boy/girl becoming a girl/boy.  Clothes do NOT make the man. Or girl.

 

(H/T; Instapundit)

 

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Listening to the White House talk about jobs would lead you to think everything is rosy in the economy. Yes, there is a lot of hiring going on. Sure people are going back to work now that we are officially past the pandemic. Some part of the hiring is still rehiring as opposed to new job creation.

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But there is a deeper issue.

Productivity growth is down. The Bureau of Labor Statistics is reporting the productivity of American workers decreased by a revised 2.1% annual rate in Q1 2023 versus Q4 2022. Productivity was down 0.8% in the first quarter from a year earlier.

The important point here is: This marked the fifth consecutive quarter of negative year-over-year productivity growth. That is the longest streak of declining productivity since records began in 1948. And why do you care?

In the US, GDP per hour worked is set to fall −0.7% in 2023 after declining −1.1% last year. Declining productivity means we are putting out a smaller amount of goods and services per hour worked. Putting out a smaller amount of goods and services per hour worked means the price of those goods and services will rise.

Now, add to declining productivity the effects of increasing the number of dollars in the money supply. The money supply is up about 650% since 2008. Can you feel the pressure from the rise in inflation?

According to Statistica, U.S. GDP was $14.4742 trillion in 2007 and $25.4613 trillion in 2022. If the money supply went up 650% and GDP, the goods and services in the economy, went up 75%: Where did the rest of the money go?

The White House wants you to think all is well, but somebody is playing with the numbers.

 

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