Friday • April 26 • 2024
Vol.XVI • No.XVII
Manchester, N.H.
So I was tipped off yesterday that there was going to be another Emergency Meeting for the GAC early this afternoon and one agenda item caught my attention (emphasized below):
Posted 7/30/2022
NOTICE
Emergency Public Meeting of the
GUNSTOCK AREA COMMISSION
Sunday, July 31, 2022, at 1:30 p.m., Eastern Time at the Gunstock Mountain Resort.The undersigned chair of the Gunstock Area Commission pursuant to Article III, paragraph 1(e) of the Commission’s bylaws calls for a special public meeting of the Gunstock Area Commission:
Dr. David Strang, Chair Pro-Term of the Gunstock Area Commission
This notice is posted at the Gunstock Administrative Office, the Belknap County Commissioner’s Office and online at GUNSTOCK.COM
This special meeting is a public session pursuant to RSA 91-A:3.
Tentative Agenda:
• Call to Order
• Pledge of Allegiance
• Motion to rehire GMR staff
• Motion to seal the non-public minutes of the July 29 emergency meeting
• Adjournment
I can imagine, from the prodding of how extremist both Doug Lambert and Jade Wood have become in demanding other GAC Commissioners resign because THEY won’t toe THEIR line, how contentious the following non-public meeting had to have been. After all, with the constant pressure placed upon a relatively new person to politics (and Doug being a master of it), I was not surprised to hear that Peter Ness had finally had enough and resigned. When these two announced the news, their faces were beaming with pride (and the partisan crowd erupted in loud cheers).
Look at that 4th agenda item. Well, my turn (emphasis mine):
Pursuant to the Right to Know Law (RSA. 91-A:4 (I) ), I am demanding access, within 5 business days, to the below enumerated governmental records Otherwise, if this cannot be fulfilled with the mandated 5 business day window per RSA 91-A, please advise when the Responsive Records will be made available.
This request is for the currently unsealed meeting minutes and the Zoom recording of the meeting of Friday, 7/29/2022, (as it was a remote attended meeting by some of the participants).
This document is a more formal one meant as a follow on to the “texted” RSA 91:A demand sent to Chairman Pro Tem Dr. David Strang at 8:50 pm yesterday (7/30/2022):
Having seen the agenda for tomorrow’s special meeting, consider this a text version RSA91:A demand for the July 29 non-public meeting as the minutes have not yet been sealed at this time. I will follow up with a more formal document if that is needed.
This demand is also for the Zoom recording of that meeting. If it was not locally record, it can and will be provided by Zoom.
This is that more formal document. All such companies like Zoom are required to follow all Laws in this type of matters; this 91:A document is a legal demand. They will have a backup on their servers.
Also, if it turns out that this Zoom meeting was illegally recorded in that not all participants were informed that it was being recorded (NH is a two-party consent State), this demand should include whether it was legally recorded or not. Further, this demand requires the name of the person who triggered the recording.
Per RSA 91-A:4 IV(c) If you deny any portion of this request, please cite the specific exemption used to justify the denial to make each record, or part thereof, available for inspection along with a brief explanation of how the exemption applies to the information withheld.
As you are aware, in 2016, the New Hampshire Supreme Court ruled that a governmental body in possession of records is required to produce them in electronic media using standard of common file formats: Green v. SAU #55, 168 N.H. 796, 801 (2016). Unless there is some reason that it is not reasonably practicable for you to produce these records in the requested format, I ask that you either do so or explain why it is not practicable for you to comply.
Please also note, per RSA 91-A:4 III, III-a, and III-b, you are required to maintain the safety and accessibility of such responsive records. This also includes such responsive records (e.g., emails) which may have been deleted from respective Inboxes but are still available on the applicable email server or in your / email host backup system(s).
Please let me know when these records will be sent to me for inspection.
You may email the responsive records to me at Skip@GraniteGrok.com. If the volume or he size of responsive records turns out to be substantial, I will set up a Dropbox folder for all those responsive records to which they can be uploaded.
Thank you for your lawful attention to this matter.
Sincerely,
Skip Murphy
GraniteGrok.com
I have a real good guesstimate that a number of things were said that would show that a couple of the attendees in a far different light than what their more public personas appear to show.
I’ve completed processing the videos from Friday and I’ll start posting them up tonite. One thing is clear, Peter Ness was hounded and bullied by the “tolerant crowd” to resign. Twice now, during public meetings, I have brought up the name that you readers know full well: Saul Alinsky and his Rules for Radicals. Each time, I have met with derision and catcalls – and Doug Lambert just shaking his head. My thoughts are that he’s trying to run away from it knowing full well that what he and Jade Wood are following such Rules.
Sidenote: She’s not just a GAC Commissioner, she is also the NH GOP Area 5 Vice Chair who is now not only working to dislodge good Republicans from their appointed seats on the Commission but also agitating that the mobocracy unseat good Conservative/Liberty& Freedom Republicans in the Primary and General Election in the 2022 Primary Season.
They hounded Peter Ness to quit. They’ve now switched to pound Dr. Strang such he would be the next. They are also ginning up the crowd to remove the Belknap County Delegation leadership –
You know, like this:
RULE 12: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. (This is cruel, but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works.)
RULE 8: “Keep the pressure on. Never let up.
RULE 5: “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.” There is no defense. It’s irrational. It’s infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions. (Pretty crude, rude and mean, huh? They want to create anger and fear.)
Yet, Lambert consistently maintains he knows nothing of it. Yet, ALL of their actions can be traced back to these Rules when it comes to Peter (and a couple more as well). Yet, both of them willingly engaged in the politics of personal destruction – neither can argue the merits of the differences.
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We grew up with many myths. We had Jason and the Argonauts, the Medusa, Atlas, Hercules, and gods like Mercury and Wotan. But, following Schliemann’s discovery of Troy, when combined with more recent excavations, it appears that much of what Homer wrote about Troy has moved from myth to history.
With the possible exception being Atlantis, which was most likely the volcanic island of Thera in the Aegean Sea inhabited by mortals instead of that vast continent beyond the Pillars of Hercules in the Atlantic inhabited by gods so aptly described in song by Donovan.
Today, however, we have reverted to being ruled by myths.
We are told that Joe Biden is a vigorous far-sighted US President who keeps his finger attuned to our needs and who protects our incredible Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic, and who was fairly elected by somewhere over 80 million legal folk.
As we learn more every day, the 2020 election was rife with fraud and with skewed voting machine models which had been used to help elect foreign dictators like Hugo Chavez in Venezuela.
The machines from Dominion/Smartmatic are easily accessible to online fiddling ,with their totals and tinkering with individual ballots. Ballot harvesting, combined with easily controlled voting machines whose vice president is the husband of our currently benighted Vice President, was an abomination. Thankfully, the latter is being reined in by state courts who view this caper as unconstitutional. But the sandstone myth that Joe Biden was elected fairly remains ever-present.
Today, ERIC, the supposedly fair way to gather and collate voting information, seems to be an increasing myth, paid for by an “anonymous” donor who increasingly appears to be George Soros, a man ceaseless in his attempts to destroy our “perfect union.”
Joe Biden, despite four anti-Covid vaccinations and an in-house doctor that only the one-worlders like John Kerry and Bill “Willy Wonka” Gates can afford, has recently left quarantine for the disease he said he’d stamp out, another myth. Nope, Sleepy Joe, as the far more healthy and endlessly active Donald Trump calls our President, is visibly failing, in mental capacity, competence, and temper, before our very eyes while we are treated to the myth of Joe’s robustness.
Additionally, it appears ever more likely that “Dr.” Jill Biden shares the throne with others, unlike the myth that our strongman rules alone and determines our foundering ship of state’s rhumb line all the time like that masterful and merciful Captain of both testaments. Biden’s puppeteers are rumored to be Barack Obama and George Soros, thanks to his billions of dollars and his myriad 521(c) 3 tax dodging organizations, who sends his son Alexander to keep the Democrat cognoscenti in congruence with George’s every thought and whim.
George Soros “owns” the Democrat Party today much as Hillary Clinton did then when she allowed “Li’l” Debbi Wasserman-Schultz, or Wasserdorf-Schmaltz as I once saw scrawled in a cartoon, to pay her back on an installment plan for her loaned largesse needed to bail out a bankrupt DNC.
Sadly, another myth is “equal liberty and justice for all.” Many of the Republicans, who were waived forward into the Capitol on 1/6 by FBI agents and Capitol cops, an activity even the limited AOC has demanded answers for, still lounge in a DC gaol. But Democrat staffers from Stephen Colbert, who later invaded the Capitol at night and cut capers around and threatened late working Republican legislators, were not prosecuted for their trespassing. Far left hooligans – good; honest folk – bad.
The foregoing must also be viewed in juxtaposition to the lack of any kind of federal investigation into seemingly endless summer insurrections of 2020. Another key myth, pushed valiantly by Democrats pols and solons alike and echoed by the slavish far left cheerleaders in their yellow dog press, is that Antifa doesn’t exist and is just a figment of the tortured imaginations of the right. This is patently ridiculous and one need only follow the tribulations of journalist Andy Ngo, who was thrashed repeatedly by these nearly anonymous ‘men in black’, to see right through this myth of non-existence.
Further, deeper in the justice myth, turn your weary eyes to those whose Soros’ money was instrumental in getting elected as local district attorneys. Chesa Boudin, the unrepentant son of American terrorists in San Francisco, and far left George Gascon, who has allowed criminals free reign in Los Angeles, believe that the rights of criminals, even violent criminals, must always trump the rights of honest hard working victims in every case and caper. Always!
My favorite yet highly hokey myth is that the so called “trans” population who identify as women really are and we, in the name of the justice and equality endlessly circumvented by the left, are supposed to believe this bunk lock stock and barrel. Take the infamous swimmer Lia Thomas who was a guy not too long ago. He/she/them prides himself in swimming faster than the little women sans his physique.
Lastly, a myth is employed across our fair but granite state that our DC representatives, “Magster” Hassan, Chris “Flap Jack” Pappas and dear little Annie Kuster actually represent our interests and deliberately weigh our needs – limited budgets, equal protection under law and fair elections – before every vote. But they don’t. Their easily accessible voting records prove they don’t and their silence when questioned about DC’s rot arising from the foregoing prove their collusion with the myths.
Yup, simply by employing the wand of myth, laws are equally enforced on all – the rich and powerful Democrats and the kulaks, men become women, doddering old fools become learned and act with prudence, noted imbeciles are elected with vast unheard of majorities, electronic voting machines always trump paper ballots for fairness and ease of access, AOC is a bright light in a dim far left galaxy, a recession is not a recession if simply redefined here an there and the liberal Democrat Party actually cares for the people’s, as in “We the People”, welfare ahead of their attaining raw absolute power to enrich themselves with legal and illegal emoluments gleaned from their offices above us.
“Wands of Myth” are available on many Chinese retail sites for a nominal cost should one of us kulaks require one
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It has become painfully evident that the American college system is bankrupting students while not preparing them for a successful future. The average cost for four years of college in the United States is $35,720. At private colleges, the average tuition is $37,200 per year. The typical cost for four years of a college education is no doubt expensive.
Add the cost to live during the college years, and it shouldn’t be a surprise that the student loan debt in America is now approaching $1.7 trillion.
The money is one concern, but it is the fact that colleges are producing graduates not ready or prepared to enter the workforce in a productive manner. The average cost is increasing at about 8% a year, meaning the price of a college education doubles every nine years. Unacceptable for a failing system.
There is now an option, and it is long overdue. The newly created College of St. Joseph the Worker in Ohio offers affordable vocational studies degrees and will prepare graduates to enter the workplace with a trade.
The following from their website sums it up:
The College of St. Joseph the Worker forms students into effective and committed members of their communities by teaching them the Catholic intellectual tradition while training them in skilled and dignified labor. We teach our students to think, but also to pray, to love, and to build.Beginning in the Book of Genesis, the dignity of human work has long been celebrated as a participation in God’s creative work. By work, humankind fulfills the command in Genesis to care for the earth (Gn 2:15) and be productive in their labors. Saint Joseph, the carpenter and foster father of Jesus, is but one example of the holiness of human work. Jesus, too, was a carpenter. He learned the trade from Saint Joseph and spent his early adult years working side-by-side in Joseph’s carpentry shop before leaving to pursue his ministry as preacher and healer.
College of St. Joseph the Worker fills a void that has been widening for nearly fifty years. After the Vietnam War, the educational community began a crusade to get every student into a four-year college or university. This plan was successful at the expense of the trades, which remain a noble and necessary career. Not every student is right for college; we know that college is not right for every child.
A college that prepares a young person for a trade is a welcome option to the indoctrination centers disguised as liberal think tanks that have strapped millions with loans due to spiraling costs. A person with a trade is on a fast track to a fulfilling life of prosperity as opposed to someone exiting a college with a useless degree in some obscure liberal arts field.
There are other colleges around the country like St. Joseph the Worker, and these institutions have to be promoted as productive entities for the American economy. God knows we need more electricians, plumbers, and welders than we do unemployed college grads with a Political Science degree and a $200,000 student loan.
We thank those who thought outside the box and conceived St. Joseph the Worker College. Not only are you offering a welcome alternative to a useless traditional college degree, but you are enhancing the spiritual side of your students. In one swipe, you have done two beautiful things. You have given your students a proud future and restored God in their minds and hearts. For that, you have earned your spot in today’s Sunday Spotlight.
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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.
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:
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 my posts sometimes get cloned on American Reveille as well.
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Top of the fold:
Democrat Susan Wild Wants to Reeducate Trump-Supporting Constituents (breitbart.com)
This is their mentality. That they are smarter, more educated, more moral and more better people than we deplorables.
They are not hiding their intentions of drugging you into obedience and servitude.
You’ve been warned.
Trust big pharma at the risk of losing your soul. pic.twitter.com/TCABoeJgHU
— Michael (@sovrynmindset) July 28, 2022
And they’ll drug you into compliance. From there, it’s not such a far step from thinking yourself superior in every way, to seeing those you despise marked down as irredeemable, and then not even human at all.
Kind-of related, speaking of othering:
Al Gore Says Climate Deniers Are Like Uvalde Cops Who Did Nothing to Rescue Children
IOW, we opposing him have zero redeeming qualities.
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White House announces sale of additional 20 million barrels of oil from Strategic Petroleum Reserve – [your]NEWS (yournews.com)
For this alone, never mind everything else, President Potato needs to be impeached.
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216 House Democrats vote AGAINST requiring the US. government to disclose the HARM on children’s academic achievement, mental health, social development resulting from school lockdowns, closures – Geller Report
Party of treason. For this and many other things.
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“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? After all, you knew ahead of time that those bluecaps were out at night for no good purpose. And you could be sure ahead of time that you’d be cracking the skull of a cutthroat.”
-Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
When you realize you have nothing left to lose. Or, perhaps, the thing you still have left is your freedom. And while I’m certainly not advocating violence, or recommending a specific course of action, when the politicians who give the orders to implement tyranny are smacked hard by the fact that there are people who can hit a few-inches circle reliably from a few hundred yards away. I fear the avalanche is starting. I don’t want that, no sane person does, and I pray every day that things don’t go spicy. But if it does, remember this:
Live free or die. Death is not the worst of evils.
General John Stark
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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
And two aggregate sites listing their top favorite sites:
TOP 50 SURVIVAL & PREPPER BLOGS
The 50 Best Survival Blogs
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Specific, one-up articles:
If I Could Only Stockpile 10 Foods – Ask a Prepper
7 Diseases That Will Become Deadly After Doomsday (theorganicprepper.com)
Storing Rice Long-Term – How Preppers Do It (shtfblog.com)
Storing Flour Long-Term – How Preppers Do It (shtfblog.com)
From experience, I highly endorse freezing for – conservatively – 72 hours and then sealing it up in two Ziploc bags. At least.
5 Food Storage Myths That Are Ruining Your Stockpile – Ask a Prepper
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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:
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Likely applies to many plants.
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Foraging: Books and one-up articles
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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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Deep State / Coming Tyranny / WEF / Globalists (broad):
BREAKING: Federal courts have begun barring unvaxxed lawyers from entering the courthouses
First suit has already been filed in the USDNJ – Docket 2:22-cv-4661
— Mike Yoder (@Yoder_Esq) July 23, 2022
Which brings to mind this meme:
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Extra-wide tiny house pushes the boundaries for comfort and style (newatlas.com)
We are being conditioned to be used to this. Related:
World Economic Forum Urges Public To Eliminate Ownership Of Private Vehicles (thegatewaypundit.com)
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Consistent with others. Consistent with the 2015 prediction (see here):
[T]o prevent them from giving birth in order to reduce the population…
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71 Per Cent of French Want ‘Sharp Reduction’ In Migration
Doesn’t matter what the natives want. You VILL become diverse. More:
Cyprus Claims New Surge in Illegal Migrant Arrivals
Rescue Ship Gets OK to Bring 438 Rescued Migrants to Italy
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Shortages (broadly):
What’s Going On? Ireland Joins Canada and Netherlands and Targets Farmers with Carbon Emissions Cuts — Further Endangering Global Food Shortages (thegatewaypundit.com)
No farms, no food. No food, no uppity people. What was it Stalin said?
Death is the solution to all problems. No man – no problem.
Related:
Ireland Joins Canada And The Netherlands In Contributing To World Famine
A food shortage is coming, even in the U.S.! Geoengineering and the deliberate destruction of the weather, inflation and green policies are threatening the US food supply – Strange Sounds
Food Wars — Starvation Driven by Globalist Elites Creates Cheaper Labor – Uncanceled News
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COVID QR codes now being used to RATION FUEL in Sri Lanka as economic collapse accelerates – NaturalNews.com
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Where’s Pete Buttigieg? Record Container Ship Backlog Develops Off East Coast Ports
Probably off getting his case of monkeypox treated…
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Ireland: Global Food Crisis: Restaurant Tsar Expects Winter Shortages, Tells Public to Stock Up Now
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“To destabilise this dirty western society? It’s not difficult: you just have to destabilise the woman. Women are the keystone of any society. All you have to do is take the woman out of her temple: the house, the family, which can only stand on its own feet because of the woman. She must be persuaded that she is exploited and debased. She must be uncoupled. She must be trivialised, she must be taken away from the teaching and education of her children, who then become easy prey for vice and the worst utopias. And there will be a crisis of morality! She must be thrown into the labour market in bulk, which will lower the price of labour and lead to unemployment and economic crisis, thus disorder and ruin of society”
– Henri Vincenot, L’oeuvre de chair, 1984
All deliberate. See Bill Whittle and his critical video on The Narrative. (I suspect it’s age limited because it reveals so much. Don’t worry, IMHO there’s nothing NSFW there.)
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Enemedia:
CAUGHT: Michigan News Channel Posts Results to Republican Primary Election — That’s Not Until Next Week!! (thegatewaypundit.com)
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MEDIA BLACKS OUT WORLDWIDE PROTESTS: Argentina’s Government Collapsing – Joining Panama, Italy, Holland, Estonia, Sri Lanka, UK – Geller Report
Control the information flow, control what people believe. Related:
Big Tech’s Plot to Stop a Red Wave in 2022 – Geller Report
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Inflation (broadly):
In Case You Were Wondering Why Inflation Has Started To Spiral Wildly Out Of Control… – DC Clothesline
90 Miles From Tyranny : Democrats’ high-spending ‘Inflation Reduction Act’ will do just the opposite (ninetymilesfromtyranny.blogspot.com)
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Producer price index June 2022: Gain 11.3% on surge in energy costs (cnbc.com)
And energy affects everything else. Related:
Biden Transport Secretary AGAIN Says “PAIN” Of High Gas Prices Is A Benefit – Summit News
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When I was in the hospital ER a few weeks ago, it took eight-plus hours just to get me in. And I was on a stretcher the entire time until I was admitted. Not that I’m a hospital “frequent flier” – thank Hashem – but it seemed odd.
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Who Would Have Known?
Why do we have to read this stuff about America in the UK papers?
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US Stability (broad catch-all):
Glazov Gang: China’s Wicked Designs for U.S. Farmland | FrontpageMag
Folly. And this is the innocent explanation.
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Pervert Parade: An Insane Number of Teachers Have Been Arrested for Sex Crimes This Year (townhall.com)
Public Schools Teach Students Queer Theory As Young as Kindergarten – Geller Report
A society that fails to protect its children is doomed.
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"I'm living in a nightmare neighborhood"
Portlanders break down in tears over how @PortlandGov has allowed their neighborhoods to be run down by encampments. Efforts at any clean-up is strongly resisted & sabotaged by far-left activists allied w/Antifa. https://t.co/q1JeMR1bqa pic.twitter.com/1fgKuNjY3j
— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) July 24, 2022
A preview of what will happen if Dems gain permanent control. Related:
Americans Are Waiting In Breadlines To Feed Their Families At Food Banks Across The Country To Survive Biden’s Inflation Nightmare
Never, ever forget Commie Bernie saying this is a good thing. More:
Joe Biden’s America: Hershey CEO Warns of Halloween Candy Shortage
Inflation is Squeezing Food Banks and Food Pantries
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No wonder the criminals are winning
The numbers are stark.
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Los Angeles County Bans Observers From Monitoring District Attorney Gascón Recall Vote Count
And if you think they won’t do this nationally in November I have some prime self-irrigated land in Florida to sell you.
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World Stability (broad catch-all):
If this actually goes through, this is double-plus ungood.
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If not now, when?
19th Ward Chicago: Of course it’s an intentional provocation, with perfect timing
A Warning Within the Warning
Will Tweaking the Dragon’s Tail Ignite a Terrible Fire With China? (thegatewaypundit.com)
UK National Security Adviser Warns of Sudden Nuclear War With Communist China
Unusual Increase in China and US Military Activity in South China Sea as Tensions Flare Up Prior to Pelosi’s Trip to Taiwan (thegatewaypundit.com)
China Launches Live-Fire Drills Off Taiwan With US Carrier Group Nearby, As Pelosi’s Plane En Route To Asia
Swiss set to match EU sanctions if China invades Taiwan
Oh no, not sanctions! Don’t forget the sternly worded letter! Hey, let’s prod an already aggressive Dragon and Bear at the same time. What could go wrong? And in China’s case, a Dragon that desperately needs distractions:
China’s Economy Is Failing – New Goal for 2022 – “Strive to Achieve the Best Possible Results” (thegatewaypundit.com)
Don’t forget Little Rocket Man:
North Korea Threatens Biden with Nuclear War – Geller Report
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We have a two-tiered justice system. https://t.co/yN18qga7bQ
— Election Wizard (@ElectionWiz) July 22, 2022
I say this regularly: this is how Rome fell. When the “average Roman” finally grasped how corrupt the actual Rome had become – not the Rome of the past, not the Rome of his imagination, but the reality – they ceased to be willing to fight for it.
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Specific to energy:
With Strategic Petroleum Reserve at lowest level since 1985, US sells stockpiled oil to China | Just The News
At what point can we call this treason? I argue we’ve passed that point.
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BIDEN’S RECESSION: The “Political” Fed Is “At the End of Its Rope” – Fighting Inflation Will Take Biden’s Economy into a “Freefall”
BREAKING: Fed Gauge on Inflation Jumps 6.8% from Last Year – Highest in 40 Years
I have to see if I can pre-buy a winter’s worth of oil (I should be able to). At today’s prices. Painful, but all signs are pointing to more inflation and higher fuel prices… if not outright shortages and unavailability. Yes there’s a risk prices could fall and I’d lose on that score. But consider the risks vs. rewards: a loss of some money vs. being unable to heat my home at all.
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The lights are going out across Europe – spiked (spiked-online.com)
How many in Europe will freeze to death this winter? In America?
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Gardening, animals, etc.:
Not fond of beets. Nor, apparently, are beets fond of my gardening efforts. I’ve been trying to grow them as a way to entice my wife into being more interested in my gardening efforts.
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Zone 3 Gardening, by HollyBerry. Vegetable gardening in Maine. (survivalblog.com)
I’m in Zone 5 and have only a very small garden (dammit!). But these are still useful.
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Pinto Bean Information – Tips On Growing Pinto Beans (gardeningknowhow.com)
Beans and grains = complete protein. And well-done, beans can be very prolific. Other articles on the sidebar also look interesting! E.g.:
Children’s Bean Teepee – Instructions For Making A Bean Teepee
Pole Bean Supports: How To Stake Up Pole Beans
Tips For Growing Beans – Learn How To Plant Beans In The Garden
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Bit of a “wingnut” site in general but these do look interesting:
A Beginner’s Guide to Growing Your Own Food (substack.com)
6 Things to Know Before Growing Your Own Food (substack.com)
The 10 Vegetables To Grow That Will Feed You. (substack.com)
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Egg colors from different breeds.
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Gardening in Arid Environments – The Organic Prepper
Just read that even in wetter climates, don’t water every day. The theory was that letting the plant dry out some helps promote root growth. I’d accept that line of reasoning. Even in nature, generally, plants don’t get wet every day.
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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)
If you see others, tell me in the comments.
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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
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Big Tech in general:
Is Amazon Buying All Our Hospitals? – GreatGameIndia
This should scare the cr*p out of you if it happens.
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New Documents Show CDC Worked Directly with Tech Giants to Crush Opposition to COVID Vaccine Regime – Big League Politics
Questioning and open debate are how you do science. This is the exact opposite.
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The Borg of the Gargoyles – Tablet Magazine
About data hoovers all around us.
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Self-defense & Hunting:
Three men shot dead in the last six days in London (gbnews.uk)
But… but… but how can this be? Isn’t this impossible in gun control land? And in another paradise:
DEVELOPING: Several Homeless People Shot Dead in Mass Shooting in British Columbia, Canada – Suspect Arrested
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Do Want
Yes, want.
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Worst States To Live In If You Have To Defend Your Property (askaprepper.com)
And linked / shown in the above:
5 Things You Need to Do When There’ll Be No Rule of Law – Ask a Prepper
The 6 Golden Rules of Surviving Martial Law – Ask a Prepper
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But No One’s Talking about Taking Your Guns – The War on Guns
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Handgun Marksmanship – Simple Steps to Improve Accuracy (shtfblog.com)
Getting a good coach too.
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Second Amendment Protects Everyone, As 12 Examples of Defensive Gun Use Show
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Catch-all miscellaneous:
Why Does Eric Adams Want New Yorkers To Drink The Tap Water??? – Chicks On The Right (chicksonright.com)
A legit question. What’s in the water that they want it in you?
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Wrap-up commentary if I am moved to do so:
If this were, somehow, achievable without bloodshed I’d strongly consider it. I do see, however, several issues with this concept.
First, from a practical standpoint… how? Again I know, realistically, I’d have to move. And I’m OK with that. (Wife wouldn’t be but that’s another matter entirely.) But logistically, you’d have to have untold millions moving from one part of the country to another. India, in 1947 when it split into India and Pakistan, had roughly 400 million people. It was NOT violence free, and anger still simmers a lifetime later from what I hear.
Second, remember that Communism, like Islam, is an expansionary & aggressive religion. They would look across whatever border existed and not see people but merely territories to conquer and minds to enslave. Even if a separation could be achieved, missionaries that they are, they’d infiltrate. They’d immigrate in under false pretenses. And years down the road we’d be faced with the same crisis we have now, except we’d be in 1/2 the country we have now.
No. It ends, either in victory or defeat. Prepare yourself.
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Biden Creating Permanent U.S. Postal Service Division to Deliver and Return Ballots in US Elections – Geller Report
So you think 2022 is going to save us? BWAAAA HA HA HA HA HA HA!
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Palate cleanser:
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LET’S GO BRANDON!
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I don’t have time to dig into this, but it got my attention. This is a very short video in which its creator matches a 16-year-old girl who went missing in 1997 to an identical name on an alleged Lolita Island flight log.
Kristy Jean Rogers went missing on August 2nd, 1997.
Kristy told her family she was spending the night of August 1, 1997 at a girlfriend’s home in Crestview, Florida. She stayed at her boyfriend’s instead. This was the first time she had spent the night with him.
Her boyfriend, Mack Cawthon, told authorities Kristy departed his house on north Lloyd Street at approximately 5:00 a.m. on August 2. He asked her to leave early so his grandparents, who lived next door, would not know she had stayed there. Cawthon’s residence was located less than one mile from Kristy’s family’s Walnut Avenue house, about a fifteen-minute walk. She never arrived home and has never been heard from again.
In February 1998, six months after Kristy’s disappearance, a bag containing clothing belonging to her was found in a wooded area behind the Crestview Plaza Shopping Center. The area had already been thoroughly searched by investigators and cadaver dogs; they believe, therefore, that the bag was left there after the search.
The exact same name appears on an April 1998 flight log, alleged to be that of Jeffy Epstein’s private plane.
Was she groomed by Ghislaine Maxwell and then transported to Epstein Isle? How many more missing persons might be listed in the flight logs?
And then, why would their actual names be used? It seems a bit sloppy to me. Kristy would also be 17 by the time she made the trip which is still young but not as young as some we’ve been lead to believe.
If there is a connection and the information is just out there online, why have we not heard more about links from Epstein flight logs to disappearing girls?
Epstein’s list of patrons or clients would be people who could pay to keep that information hidden. And the government probably has plenty of vested interest in having that list at hand if they need to leverage someone. But the girls were supposed to be nobody, plucked from their normal lives and groomed for the pleasure of the global elite.
I’m intrigued but still skeptical. Yes, they would be missing persons – no doubt of that, but to be listed on a piece of paper for someone to find, and no one is finding them except this guy?
Please have a look and tell us what you think. (14 sec.)
If you have issues viewing this video, you can try it here.
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There is perhaps no better example of a privileged, leftist elitist than the Duke of Sussex: aka Britain’s Prince Harry. He was born with a platinum spoon in his mouth and has lived a life so detached from reality that he can’t begin to relate to regular folks, yet he somehow feels empowered, or perhaps obligated, to lecture the rest of us after a caviar brunch and immediately prior to being whisked away with bodyguards in a limousine.
Add to the equation Harry’s apparently unavoidable penchant for condescension and pompousness, along with his complete betrayal of his family, and the prince becomes one of the least likable public figures on the planet. So, when he is verbally taken behind the woodshed by a noteworthy celebrity or official, many of us find it difficult not to smile. But when the individual clobbering the duke is an otherwise quiet and unobtrusive Supreme Court justice, that tongue-lashing becomes even more satisfying.
During an appearance in Rome recently, Justice Samuel Alito made his first public comments since the June announcement of the SCOTUS decision in Dobbs V. Jackson, a ruling which effectively overturned the infinitely flawed Roe V. Wade decision from 1973. With his comments, Alito did not hold back on various international critics, and he did so with extraordinary sarcasm and antagonism.
According to Metro, Alito’s comments included the following:
“I had the honour (sic) this term of writing I think the only Supreme Court decision in the history of that institution that has been lambasted by a whole string of foreign leaders who felt perfectly fine commenting on American law.”
While the target of that comment was at least somewhat veiled – though Alito was undoubtedly alluding to Canadian Prime Minister and clown Justin Trudeau and French President Emanuel Macron, among others – he also called out U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson by name, adding: “one of these was Boris Johnson, but he paid the price,” referring to Johnson’s recent resignation.
But the following comment left no doubt as to whom Alito was referencing:
“What really wounded me – what really wounded me – was when the Duke of Sussex addressed the United Nations and seemed to compare the decision, whose name may not be spoken, with the Russian attack on Ukraine.”
It’s a sad state of affairs when a Supreme Court justice needs to weigh in on political matters in this way, but his rhetoric was both appropriate and necessary. The viciousness and ignorance that we’ve seen with attacks against Alito and the court have been outrageous, and Harry’s criticisms have been particularly ill-informed. For those who may not remember, Harry’s comments at the United Nations two weeks ago included this statement:
“And from the horrific war in Ukraine to the rolling back of constitutional right in the US, we are witnessing a global assault on democracy and freedom.”
Yes, being lectured by a British Prince about freedom is enough to strike a nerve in any American. Perhaps Harry forgot about that lesson from his personal tutor regarding the Revolutionary War. But when we also consider the man’s obvious illiteracy behind America’s Constitution and the values which created it, his comments become even more enraging. For those who may have forgotten, once upon a time the Duke of Sussex also called our First Amendment and the freedom of speech provided by it “bonkers.”
So, when a brilliant jurist and patriot like Samuel Alito takes off the gloves and goes after Prince Harry, we can all enjoy a moment of gratification. Hopefully, Harry will go back to trying to keep his insufferable wife happy and asking “How high?” when Meghan commands him to jump. In the meantime, let’s be grateful we have people like Justice Alito around to set him straight.
Jess Lawson writes at The Blue State Conservative
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Four-times vaxxed Joe Biden is at high risk so when he got COVID again, instead of giving him something that works, State medicine and TV praised the introduction of Paxlovid. How often do we need to say it? The evidence suggests that Paxlovid masks symptoms.
It can’t clear the virus, so you may get it again, but worse. And Biden has it again!
He was old, frail, and failing before he was named president. And they gave him Paxlovid?
As a reminder, Paxlovid is a pricy laundromat drug that pumped billions through the government to Pfizer and the Chinese so “you” could get it for free to treat your symptoms but not the disease.
If you want a poster child for how DC works, Paxlovid is it.
Related: “4x Vaccinated” Fauci Got Covid (Again), Took Paxlovid …And COVID Came Back, Worse!
It is possible that your natural immune system could clear the virus while on Paxlovid, but you are probably better off (and would get the same result) without it, though that decision is up to you.
If you’ve been jabbed and boosted, you may have scrambled your immune system, so a rebound is probably more likely.
Biden is reported to have been jabbed twice and boosted twice. His White House breaks out with COVID regularly. And he’s got it not just again, but again. Paxlovid rebound!
They are reporting that he only tested positive and has been isolated without symptoms as a precaution to protect all the other multi-jabbed denizens at the White House.
“[Biden] was previously seen at several White House events without a mask since testing negative for COVID-19 on Wednesday, including at a roundtable discussing the economy on Thursday.
Dr. Marc Siegel, Fox News medical analyst and professor of medicine at New York University Langone Medical Center said it’s not a good look for President Biden.
“Not a good look for a president who talks about mandates. He has played too loose with this,” Siegel said.
Rebound is much more common than they are willing to let on, but they know it happens, so what’s the protocol for the hyper-sensitive mandate monkeys? Nothing to see here when it’s Biden, but if it were you?
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For years, Maine has been called the Pine Tree State. As you drive around this beautiful state today, you will quickly understand why the Pine Tree has been replaced by the marijuana leaf on the state flag. Okay, that did not .really happen, but with the number of pot shops springing up in every city and town, it makes one wonder where we are heading.
As we get off RTE 95 in Auburn and drive the twenty miles to our cabin in Hartford, we pass at least seven shops and two more under construction. They seem to appear on every corner, just as convenience stores did years ago. It makes you wonder if everyone in this state is searching for a bag of Doritos. I jest, but honestly, it makes me question how many people driving with me are impaired by the latest special offered at their favorite shop.
This new industry is a money grab by the state that has been so desperate for funds that they have taxed Girl Scout Cookies and campsites in the past. Maine’s medical marijuana market brings in more money than blueberries, maple syrup, apples, elvers, herring, and oysters combined. Marijuana sales are third behind only the Lobster and Potato industries. Many cities are generating revenue by running lotteries where interested entrepreneurs buy a chance to win one of the limited marijuana retail licenses. The town of Kittery recently raised nearly two million dollars by running such a lottery.
Whether you are looking for “flower,” or the recognizable green buds that can be rolled into a joint or smoked through a pipe; pre-rolled joints; edibles, such as THC gummies or chocolates; tinctures, or THC oil that is dropped under the tongue for effect similar to that of edibles; vaporizer cartridges, containing THC oil; and cannabis concentrates, which look like wax, you local budtender is waiting to serve you. Having never indulged, I have no reason to enter one of these shops, but I know I would be overwhelmed and confused by the offerings.
I realize this is a revenue boom for the state, but I wonder at what cost. I am not naïve to believe that pot was not available before the shops became legal. But is it so in your face now that the user base will grow exponentially? These shops are on main roads, and all have large signage advertising their specials and new offerings. Marijuana is regulated for users over 21, just like alcohol in the state, but is the industry attracting people, especially the younger crowd? Has there been an impact on the number of impaired drivers on Maine’s roads? A lot of questions and not many answers.
I don’t condone the government entering the legal drug trade. But I am an adult and believe in rights and choices. If this is a way to regulate the delivery and quality of marijuana to users and may put illegal dealers out of business, then it may be doing a public service. If it creates a “high” populace and harms productivity and health, I think it is a wrong decision. We may have to circle back in a few years to see how this new industry has impacted the great state of Maine.
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Throwing money at problems that get worse might suggest to some that the problem isn’t money but not Democrats. First, it’s not their money, so why would that matter? Second, the cash enlarges government and state power which is why they spend it. What, you thought they cared?
A small percentage of people on the political Left care; the rest are fools. Government interventions, regardless of size, are almost always doomed to fail. The redistribution of wealth by acts of force diminishes true charitable giving, which is more accountable to the donors. In today’s example, we have the twin problems of Vermont and Homelessness.
The Green Mountain state is neck-deep in progs who have taken control of the levers of power in recent decades and done what Democrats always do. Set about destroying it. It’s still early days, but the signs are all there.
Headline one (WCAX): Vermont spends hundreds of millions to address homelessness
The report says this is the first time the state has calculated the total financial effort, and the report says that number is $455 million.
According to the data, yearly spending on homelessness jumped considerably during the pandemic. For example, in the fiscal year 2020, about $50 million was spent. But in the fiscal year 2021 that had jumped to more than $153 million. And 2022 looked similar, though the auditor’s office notes it’s likely an undercount since the fiscal year wasn’t done yet.
Headling two (Digger): Homelessness continues to rise in Vermont since pandemic’s onset, despite increased spending
Despite drastic increases in spending to curb homelessness since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, the number of people living without permanent shelter continues to climb, according to a report issued Thursday by Vermont State Auditor Doug Hoffer. …
Former Gov. Peter Shumlin, a Democrat, announced a five-year plan to end homelessness in 2013 and issued an executive order with a four-year pledge in 2016.
Although the state has seen an infusion of funds into various services aimed at addressing the issue, the efforts are fractured, according to Hoffer’s report.
Homelessness is a complicated public problem, and the pandemic has added to the intensity of it …
Homelessness is a problem but let’s be honest. The pandemic didn’t “add” to the problem. Spending didn’t jump because of the pandemic. Both result from extreme government action that destroyed jobs, businesses, and families.
It is no different than the opioid crisis. It, too, is a direct result of decisions made by Democrats in positions of power. The open border started it, and leaving it open exacerbates it.
But the solutions are the same. Democrats who won’t take responsibility for creating a problem try to solve it with more of someone else’s money instead of reversing course or learning from past mistakes.
And when that fails, the answer is more of the same. More of what makes government bigger, less efficient, and still incapable of doing anything about whatever it is they claimed needed their attention.
And that’s because the priority is always to make government bigger regardless of the cost, fiscal, human, or otherwise.
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Heh! For years, I said that a large part of what I write about is based on what “they” said. In this case, the Insufferable GAC Twins – extremist Commissioners Doug Lambert and Jade Wood who made it REAL clear that they were bound and determined to resign yesterday at 5 pm (“Extremists Doug Lambert and Jade Wood: Their Clintonian-Style “Wag The Dog” Political Stunt Failed. Spectacularly” – abstracted below).
So today, I am starting a new series: the Insufferable Resignation Watch Day XXX. Their words on what they said they would do – not mine. Their actions in not living up to those words. I’ll just track them and ensure that they promised to resign in front of their family and supporters; they wouldn’t lie to them, would they?
This will either end with a bang (they finally summon the political courage to do what they promise to do and resign) or a whimper (tails between THEIR legs, they’ll clamber into chairs at tomorrow’s special GAC meeting – the only question will be will they meekly do their job or will they continue to grandstand and obfuscate in getting nothing done?).
Either way, this series will continue to remind them to either do what they said they would do (you know, honor their promise to resign) or act like any other crass politician who is full of rhetoric but refuses to take up the responsibility of said promises and do what they want anyways. The former might restore some bit of honor – the second shows that they are just projecting onto others what they themselves have become – just as craven as any Democrat politician that never apologies (unless they think it might keep them out of jail).
SO, DOUG AND JADE – Day Two! Can you send me your signed resignation letters that you promised you would sign YESTERDAY? Or are you both “all hat and no cattle”??? Just empty promises as valuable as Biden’s statement that we are not in recession? You know, Baghdad Bob and Bobbett?
Promises made, promises unkept. And remember YOUR words, not mine.
Oh yeah, I still have to finish processing the video from yesterday. Sorry, too many phone calls this morning and then talking to the candidates at the 603 Alliance training session this afternoon. Hopefully, tomorrow!
From the above link:
During yesterday’s GAC meeting, both Wood and Lambert kept up the attempt to whip the attendees into a mob-like mentality right from the get-go. Both made the case that unless both Peter Ness and Dr. Strang resigned by 5 pm yesterday, the mountain would close because of those GAC Commissioners. Then, Lambert started to nuance it was all about the insurance being pulled if both of them didn’t resign by 5 pm yesterday.
So, the “Wag the Dog” – Clinton bombed an aspirin factory in Libya in an attempt to take attention away from his political problems. Lambert and Wood tried the same thing:
IF THE DELEGATION DOESN’T DO SOMETHING BY 5 PM, WE’LL RESIGN TOO!
First off, they knew that the Delegation can’t operate that fast – Laws don’t allow it. So this “demand”, too, was yet another political stunt. And one that they weren’t willing to follow through on. The Daily Sun has the sorry story:
I’m still not sure that they’ve realized that they are the tail and not the dog. Dogs wag their tails – not the other way around. When you are appointed by the Delegation, you can’t order them around and the Delegation knows it.
…At 5 p.m., they stood outside Gunstock’s ticket office with a half dozen employees and members of the Lambert family. Lambert folded and unfolded an unsigned resignation letter in his hands.
Soaring words, no action.
Tomorrow will be Day 3.
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