Friday • April 4 • 2025
Vol.XVII • No.XIV
Manchester, N.H.
I know a few folks who are big fans of Bud Light. I don’t think it’s the calories. I think they like the taste. It must be something you need to acquire, but I’ve had a few over the years, and I’ve acquired a taste of my own when it comes to being offered a Bud Light.
Related: Alienating Your Biggest Consumers to Go Woke
I say no thanks. I’ve already got water.
It makes the recent agreement to have gender-confused Dylan Mulvaney as a spokesmodel the makers of this tasteless swill – while dangerous for business – the perfect fit.
Mulvaney thinks he’s a girl. Bud Light thinks it’s a beer.
A guy who thinks he is a girl drinking Bud Light should be the perfect fit.
Is this the result of the ill-considered and not well-thought-out marketing campaign from 2015?
“The perfect beer for whatever happens,” the slogan reads. It is accompanied with the twitter hashtag “#UpForWhatever.”
So, you make yourself look like a chick on the outside but inside … still a dude. Whatever!
But it’s appropriation, man. You’re just a white man colonizing another gender.
So, does that make Bud Light the Queen of Beers?
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“During the Obama years, professional progressives could afford a certain smug magnanimity, confident that demographic change had bequeathed a permanent lock on power. It was smarter to nudge the great unwashed toward what was decided than boil the frog too quickly.
So the populist reaction of 2016 struck many as profound betrayal: perpetrators had to be punished, examples made, and push brought to shove. What began as institutional resistance amid the Trump interregnum has become actively vengeful governance under the Biden regime—a policy agenda nonsensical as to most of its official objectives but coldly strategic as retribution against structural opposition, not just punishing saboteurs but putting subjects in their place.
Whether wrecking American energy to wreak far worse environmental damage elsewhere, printing enough funny money to substantially devalue the dollar, insisting on demonstrably harmful Covid mandates, or ushering in millions and millions of unvetted migrants, it amounts to a sort of shock treatment to corral and humiliate an unruly electorate that has been found wanting.
Yet the crass opportunism only guarantees greater backlash and further delegitimizes the actual progressive project, or whatever’s left of it. Generations of hard work and good faith have been squandered in just a few short years, trading credibility and potential for spiteful self-indulgence.”
-The Ivy Exile (Vulgar Display of Power) [Emphasis mine]
Found it on Instapundit, which adds:
Well, that’s the epitaph for our ruling class: “Trading credibility and potential for spiteful self-indulgence.” At least I hope it’s their epitaph.
For decades, the Left has convinced itself that America is broken, bad, and needs to be transformed and rebuilt in their image. To do so, they have to break those of us that actively disagree and work against them.
Well, no, that last bit is wrong. As we saw with the Floyd rages/riots and with the DIE (Diversity, Inclusion, and Equality) crew’s anthem of “If you’re not an anti-rascist, you ARE A RACIST!” and must be punished, so the Progressives are telling us and showing us that they ARE and WILL CONTINUE to punish us.
They DO believe that we are mere serfs and not able to reason and decide for ourselves. With that in mind and over the years, their “entitlement to Power” is ruining the American Experiment, American Exceptionalism, and the RADICAL American Idea that we, each Individual is Sovereign.
Instead, the Democrats/Progressives are trying to turn back the clock to a time when were were mere subjects (at best), serfs (middling), and slaves (at worst).
They believe that they ARE our new Royal Aristocracy and expect us to behave according to their New World Order.
So, whattyagonnadoaboutit??
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Manhattan is not underwater, Florida and its Keys look the same, the Maldives have changed (they added more oceanside hotels), and your paltry emissions aren’t going to change that. The Earth is far more complex than the political scientists milking you on its behalf.
Related: Read This, and You’ll Know More About “Sea Level” than 99% of Climate Cult Alarmists.
But the fear emoted by the idea of an oncoming unstoppable ocean is intense. The left sells it like an inexorable tidal wave of water. A diluvian catastrophe of biblical proportions. One they can stop with your continued “donations.” None of which is true. It’s not coming, and they couldn’t stop it if it were.
And it’s not coming.
And not just because sea level rise has been very post-ice age predictable. Part of that complex system the modelers can’t see or ignore to promulgate cataclysmic headlines has been addressing changes throughout Earth’s history and most definitely during these few and rare eras during which human habitation and expansion have been possible.
The arctic sea ice can melt all it wants, and that won’t change a thing. Realizing this has become more common knowledge, the climate cult has settled its sea level science on ice and snow on land – If that melts, we’ll see six feet of sea level rise. And if it all melted? Maybe. Many of the places we live were once underwater. For thousands of years, perhaps millions. And it wasn’t dinosaur farts, and it’s not you today, but I digress.
Greenland is the poster child for landbound snow and ice-melt doom. But Greenland was much warmer 1000 years ago, and there was no catastrophic sea level rise (oops).
Northern Greenland was covered with wildlife roaming a vast arboreal forest two million years ago. Again, warmer, and you weren’t cooking with natural gas, and why wasn’t that coastline underwater?
Good question.
Imaginary Tipping Points.Dave Burton, writing at Climate Alarmism, explains some of the natural changes that are part and parcel of Earth’s complexity.
[I]n a warming climate, there are factors which both increase and decrease sea-level trends.
On one hand, ice which is near 0°C can melt, and if it was grounded (rather than floating) that would raise sea-level. Also, thermal expansion at the ocean’s surface can increase sea-level rise locally, though it doesn’t affect sea-level elsewhere. Those are things which raise sea-level.
On the other hand, warmer temperatures increase snowfall accumulation on glaciers and ice sheets, sequestering water, and thereby lowering sea-level, in two ways:
● Warmer air carries more moisture, increasing snowfall on glaciers & ice sheets. For each 1°C of warming the moisture-carrying capacity of the air increases by about 7%. That’s why the heaviest blizzards occur when temperatures are not far below freezing.
● Reduced sea-ice coverage increases Lake/Ocean-Effect Snowfall (LOES) downwind, some of which accumulates on glaciers & ice sheets.
The fact that global warming has not been accompanied by significant sea-level rise acceleration strongly suggests that the factors by which a warming climate increases sea-level and the factors by which a warming climate reduces sea-level are similar in magnitude, and largely cancel.
Other factors include subsidence or vertical land motion, which are the primary drivers of sea level change along the Eastern Seaboard (sorry, it’s not oil or gas heat, Vermont). And why does Betio Island, part of the Tarawa Atoll, have more land mass than it had in 1943? Because there are more variables on Earth (or in the atmosphere) that the computer models can or try to account for, understand, or explain.
They understand grants and continued funding but not much else.
They can’t predict sh!t about the climate, so how could they possibly predict the impacts of their alleged prescription? They can’t. They don’t ever try because, as you already know (‘Grok Readers), those schemes have nothing to do with the weather, the climate, warming, or sea level.
It is about control, including message control, and they are (sadly) getting better at both.
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Did “they” not learn from Gillette who made sport of their loyal customers (Steve: #Woke Gillette Has to Write Off 8 Billion Dollars After SJW Toxic Masculinity Ad?)?
Bud Light: The Drag Queen Of Beers
Anheuser-Busch thought that sponsoring “notable” gender-confused Dylan Mulvaney was going to get them some “good karma” by showing how inclusive they are investing in a guy that is mentally ill (the definition of gender dysphoria). Who has spent thousands on cosmetic surgery (e.g., you know, only the “skin deep” kind of diversity) to make himself appear to be more feminine?
Yep, Budweiser has done it to itself, just like Gillette. Did anyone compute how pandering to this infinitesimal number of potential new consumers would make others can their cans and go elsewhere?
And is paying a guy participating in “Transface“? Would Bud be doing that to a White guy doing blackface?
Doubtful – so why give tons of money to a guy that’s making sport of real women? And he’s celebrating his “365 Days of Womanhood” as if he’s actually become female.
I’m betting he still has a prostate.
Derek Hunter described Bud Light this way:
If you’re a normal human being you’ve likely had a Bud Light at some point in your life. You probably thought it was crap, but you choked it down anyway because people buy it because it’s cheap and known. It’s the melba toast of beers – non-threatening alcoholic drink that, after you suck down a couple of them, the taste doesn’t matter anymore.
Being the son of an Irish drunk, I don’t drink alcohol, but it certainly doesn’t seem to be of “high quality.” Neither is a guy pretending to be a woman that isn’t in “Mrs. Doubtfire,” which took pretty good acting from Robin Williams, with whom Mulvaney ain’t in the same league.
This is the best that Bud can do. A know-nothing?
This is what's up with everyone talking about Bud Light if you see some memes flying around…
"Dylan Mulvaney is the new brand ambassador for Bud Light." pic.twitter.com/4yKxaxpw2g
— Numberonepal (@numberonepal) April 2, 2023
I’d rather see the Clydesdales…at least they’re “authentic.”
(H/T: Townhall)
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Lobbyist Ken Quinn failed, once again, to convince State legislators to call for a Constitutional Convention. Instead of realizing he has a losing argument, he blames legislators for not voting the way his polls predicted they should on HCR 1 & HCR 4.
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Both resolutions wisely voted down the Article V Conventions to address fiscal restraint and term limits.
Each Resolution has the same goal to force the US Congress to call for a Constitutional Convention, the second method to amend the Constitution. Since the 1787 Convention, there have been 27 Amendments passed into law by the first and safe method in Article V: 2/3 of each House pass the Amendment, which is submitted to the states for ratification.
After my testimony at the HCR 1 hearing on Jan. 27, Quinn came to the microphone as the last speaker, using the advantage that no one could follow to counter his words. By not using my name, he referenced my testimony that I quoted from Madison’s letter of November 2, 1788, to George Turberville, saying that Madison’s letter did not contain my claim. On the contrary, this is my quote from the 1/27 testimony: “ that he trembles for the results of a second Convention.”
On Feb 24, 2023, he again misrepresented Madison by telling Montana Representatives, at the hearing on his “term limits” application (HJ 5), that Madison never said he trembled at the prospect of Article V Convention. Joanna Martin pointed him to this.
Read for yourself; he again misrepresented Madison by telling Montana Representatives, at the hearing on his “term limits” application (HJ 5), that Madison never said he trembled at the prospect of an Article V Convention. See for yourself. You’ll find the source of my quote of Madison when you read Joanna Martin’s full quote. How can one disagree with Martin’s conclusion “that he is not a truthful person?”
Time and again, Mr. Quinn is consistent in misrepresenting what his political adversaries say. For brevity, I’ll just stick to this one example of his strategy to use a “fraudulent claim.” Don’t you think one who stoops to deception is like the one apple that spoils the whole barrel? This moral dilemma brings to mind the survivor of the Soviet Gulag, Alexandr Solzhenitsyn. He keenly pointed out: “The line between good and evil runs through the human heart.”
History reveals that the safe method to amend our Constitution from Article V gave us the Bill of Rights. Consider the fact that the Bill of Rights is similar to the Ten Commandments. God gave mankind his rules to limit man’s behavior at Mount Sinai. In both, they start with almost identical commands. The Bill of Rights targets the behavior of government with the words: “Congress shall make no law….” And The Ten Commandments words are, “Thou shall have no….” Consider the fact these eternal foundations of liberty limit individual morality and put limits on government behavior. In both cases: they are not the “Ten Suggestions.”
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Recap: Nancy Pelosi, former Speaker of the US House, infamously said that Trump will have to prove his innocence in court – turning our judicial philosophy upside down by telling us he’s guilty BEFORE his trial:
Pelosi confirms malicious political prosecution by suggesting Trump is guilty until proven innocent! https://t.co/5mhcP0GD7v
— Tom Fitton (@TomFitton) March 31, 2023
And now NH Governor Chris Sununu, who harbors dreams of becoming POTUS (or at least a talking head position on MSNBC), has said basically the same thing on Bill Maher’s Real Time show on HBO (H/T: NHJ):
During an appearance on HBO’s “Real Time With Bill Maher,” New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu said he “assumes” former President Donald Trump is guilty in the case being brought by the Manhattan district attorney, but he will back the former president if he becomes the GOP presidential nominee.
Always trying to split the difference by trying to leave a bigger negative nuance than a positive. Yep, wishing Trump well.
Translation: “Can’t wait to see him in jail, but I’ll be magnanimous and say that I’ll vote for him.”
And while waiting to catch the weather on WMUR the news guys had the latest NH-based poll from St. Anselm on the 2024 Republican Prez race. I have to admit that Sununu DID beat his 5% polling result with 14%, but being third in your home State isn’t anything to brag about given all the name recognition you have here with people having seen (and lived) through your record:
So what does Sununu have to do to win his own State?
Two other surprises – that newcomer Vivek Ramaswamy is at 3% only after being in the race just a few months (a decent ROI), and former Veep Mike Pence is a laggard at 1%.
It’s still a long time before the race really starts to heat up, but one would think that Sununu would be closer to second rather than 50% behind DeSantis – at leas in the state he allegedly governs.
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Today, the NH Ballot Law Commission met to listen to the results of voting machine audits as well as a presentation on NH State Senate District 24 Ballot Irregularities (Press release here).
NOTE: It seems that YouTube is taking more than an inordinate amount of time to “process” the video. Please be patient, but I bet it’s because of “Ballot irregularities.” Should have been done by now.
The latter was from a number of the towns in the District assembled by Lou Gargiulo and his volunteers. Compiled from voting machine testing, watching results afterward, issuing numerous Right To Know demands, as well as watching the results of the recount of the November 2023 election where Debra Althshiller’s win was re-affirmed.
The report was given as a non-partisan view of irregularities that were found that violated various RSAs and established “chain of custody” norms from when ballots were run through the voting machines (mostly LHS / Dominion’s AccuVote machines) all the way through the recount. It was stated, up front, that the election was NOT being contested, that Altschiller won the election, and requested actions to either have election officials comply with State Law or for new State Law / Secretary of State / Attorney General to address these irregularities was not part of the presentation.
I have the voluminous paper-based report that was handed out; I have asked for and will be receiving a PDF of the report for publication.
There is also a more detailed addendum that was given to the Commissioners but has not yet been released to the media that contains all of the foundation observations that led to the presentation itself.
Since no other media outlet has the time or space, or willingness to do so, I have offered GraniteGrok to be an open repository of each element of data (e.g., machine tapes, issued Right To Knows, responses to those RTKs et al.) so that it can be “open source” for anyone to review and,
1) try to shoot holes in the conclusions or
2) let people know what can be done in their towns and cities to ensure that “Follow the Law” is not just a platitude.
I’ll be putting up other camera angles later on.
Agenda:
BALLOT LAW COMMISSION
April 5, 2023 10:00 a.m.
STATE ARCHIVES BUILDING
9 RATIFICATION WAY
CONCORD NH 03301AGENDA
1. Authorize the minutes from the meeting of January 11, 2023.
2. Discussion on results of tests from municipal elections.
3. Appeal of Lou Gargiulo from District 24 Senate Election Recount – presentation of issues of concern as allowed at pre-hearing conference.4. Discussion on what devices, if any, to send for further examination and
consideration.
5. Other Business.
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Yesterday, April 4th, Biden won Wisconsin’s ten electoral votes. And it wasn’t even close. He won by a blowout margin of 55 percent to 45 percent. If you don’t know what I am talking about … then you are part of the problem.
A GOP that refuses to accept that the nature of American elections fundamentally changed in 2020 and that continues to bitterly cling to the delusion that everything is just going to go back to normal.
What I am talking about is the Wisconsin Supreme Court. It now has a four to three liberal majority. The repercussions for the 2024 election include that court reversing itself and holding that ballot harvesting is legal and voter ID is not legal … in other words, Wisconsin is now out of reach for the GOP Presidential candidate. From NBC:
Janet Protasiewicz, a judge on the Milwaukee County Circuit Court, has won a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, NBC News projects, giving liberals their first majority on the state’s highest court in 15 years.
Protasiewicz defeated conservative Dan Kelly, a former state Supreme Court justice, on Tuesday in what became the most expensive state Supreme Court race in U.S. history and one of the most closely watched elections of 2023.
Protasiewicz’s victory will allow the court’s new liberal majority to determine the future of several pivotal issues the bench is likely to decide in the coming years, including abortion rights, the state’s gerrymandered legislative maps and election administration — including, possibly, the outcome of the 2024 presidential race in the battleground state.
With 85% of the expected vote counted, Protasiewicz had the support of 55% percent of voters, while Kelly had 45% percent. …
… the Protasiewicz campaign, as well as groups supporting it, widely outspent Kelly’s campaign and groups supporting it.
This election … not Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine … should have been the top priority for the GOP. It obviously wasn’t:
"At least 435,000 people voted early for this election — either via the mail or with in-person absentee voting — and that group is expected to lean heavily Dem. . . Protasiewicz banked at least a 100,000 vote lead from those early voters." https://t.co/A5pQxPG5Vu
— Ned Ryun (@nedryun) April 5, 2023
Daniel Kelly being out raised $14 million to $3 million is such an utter embarrassment that I care less and less about 2024. All the GOP leadership remains.
This party has learned nothing and hasn’t suffered enough pain to improve. I’ll laugh when we lose in 2024.
— Jesse Kelly (@JesseKellyDC) April 5, 2023
Jesse Kelly’s tweet is super-applicable to the NHGOP. The House has a functional Democrat majority and yet the “Republicans” in the House kept the same “leaders” that lost their majority. 2024 is going to be a bloodbath for the NHGOP. Governor Chris Pappas, a solid Democrat majority in the House and a better than 50 percent chance that the Democrats take the Senate and Executive Council too.
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Researchers looked at “the prevalence and associated risk factors of post–COVID-19 condition (PCC) in young people after mild acute infection.” What they discovered was its prevalence absent any infection.
What will annoy them more? There’s clinical research suggesting long covid is a mental illness or that we reported on that over a year ago.
From the research – Emphasis Mine.
Findings This cohort study included 382 SARS-CoV-2–positive individuals and a control group of 85 SARS-CoV-2–negative individuals aged 12 to 25 years who were assessed at the early convalescent stage and at 6-month follow-up. When applying the World Health Organization case definition of PCC, prevalence at 6 months was 49%, but was also comparably high (47%) in the control group. PCC was not associated with biological markers specific to viral infection, but with initial symptom severity and psychosocial factors.
Psychosocial means relating social conditions to mental health. The other term for this is Somatic symptom disorder: “…any mental disorder that manifests as physical symptoms that suggest illness or injury, but cannot be explained fully by a general medical condition or by the direct effect of a substance, and are not attributable to another mental disorder.”
We can paint that picture.
The pressures and strains associated with being fearmongered, locked down, remoted, masked, distanced, masked, hand sanitizer, and masked, combined (perhaps) with the oversized amount of attention or focus (or social sympathy) for those claiming symptoms or infection…in a world where being noticed is a higher social good than being healthy.
Long COVID is a social disease!
The point prevalence of PCC at 6 months was 48.5% in the SARS-CoV-2–positive group and 47.1% in the control group (risk difference, 1.5%; 95% CI, −10.2% to 13.1%). SARS-CoV-2 positivity was not associated with the development of PCC (relative risk [RR], 1.06; 95% CI, 0.83 to 1.37; final multivariable model utilizing modified Poisson regression). The main risk factor for PCC was symptom severity at baseline (RR, 1.41; 95% CI, 1.27-1.56). Low physical activity (RR, 0.96; 95% CI, 0.92-1.00) and loneliness (RR, 1.01; 95% CI, 1.00-1.02) were also associated, while biological markers were not. Symptom severity correlated with personality traits.
The only reference I could find to vaccination status was this: “The SARS-CoV-2–positive group had received fewer immunization doses in the observational period; otherwise, the 2 groups remained comparable.”
Lacking any other detail, it looks like “the response” is responsible for long covid, not COVID, which is interesting. In March of 2022, we reported that,
[VA Sen. Tim]Kaine has a bill to throw buckets of money at more research, but the NIH has already laundered 1.5 billion on the idea of the “prolonged health consequences of COVID19.” Long COVID.
I have a better idea. Read GraniteGrok. We spent zero federal dollars reporting on the prolonged health effects of the COVID19 response. The policies and programs that are in my mind responsible for a lot of ills, including Long COVID.
“Jeremy Devine, a resident psychiatrist at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, argued in a Wall Street Journal editorial last year that long COVID is “largely an invention of vocal patient activist groups.” He says symptoms attributed to long COVID could be “psychologically generated” or “caused by a physical illness unrelated to the prior infection.” …
“[The] fear of chronic illness is likely the underlying problem.”
I created the featured image above for the March 22 piece and this one a few month later.
Oops, we were on the right side of the science again!
Exit Question: When does Pfizer announce they have a new drug to treat the mental illness of Long COVID?
The WHOs “definition” of PCC, or Post COVID Condition, can be found here.
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Good evening, folks. “Your trusted reporter, Buzz Buzzby at your service. Today I am joined by my intern and trusted sidekick, Timothy Hasno Bottoms, and we are standing-incredible as it may seem-in the center of the Garden of Eden, directly under the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.
We are here to try to cover an evolving story: rumors abound that Adam is cheating on Eve and is about to announce his liaison with…Wait! I see Adam now. He is approaching our position with something in his hands. Not sure what he is holding…let’s get a little closer…ah, I see it now. In his left hand a big juicy ripe Macintosh apple. In his right hand…not sure…it looks like a roll of duct tape. What the Heck is going on? Let’s get over to the man and get some quick answers on this one.”
Adam: ” Pray tell, what the heck are you two doing here? How did you get in?”
Buzz:” We heard a rumor about a breaking story involving you and Eve. We wanted to investigate those rumors, so here we are. And the way we got in, well, we just walked right in the front gate, right passed the guards. There were two doors to enter by. The first one had a sign above it saying in big letters SINNERS. The other sign said ” EVERYONE ELSE.” The line to get in under the first sign was huge. The other line was empty, so we just jumped over to the empty line, and here we are.”
Adam:” No kidding. I don’t think that is how it works. But, ok. Not sure about any rumors.
Buzz: “Well, Tim and I are reporters. Can we ask you some questions? Like, how and why are you even in the Garden? I thought God kicked you out. Permanent.”
Adam: “Yea, I thought he did too. I guess that was my own belief based upon my own conclusions after eating the Apple. Turns out, it was my own choice to leave. When I ate the apple, I told him that I wanted to live in a world where he wasn’t God, and I was. He said, “FINE” but guess what? Dad never said goodbye. Ever since I ate the apple, he has constantly been in my life, my every breath, my every thought, trying to have me come home. I guess he was trying to rescue me from the horrors of the world I created. His own son, Jesus, argued my case in front of him and famously said, “FORGIVE THEM FATHER, FOR THEY KNOW NOT WHAT THEY DO.” That was me-the guy who did not know what I did when I ate that stupid apple.”
Buzz: “So you argued your way back in? Tell our listeners how that works that you outfoxed God with your debate skills.”
Adam:” Huh? No. No way. I am not some dam Lawyer (BTW, he does not really like lawyers) arguing a case before some Judge (he does not like Judges at all). My brain is not near what his is and outsmarting him was not my plan. If it was, I deserve to be on the outside like before. That is stupid,” I ate the apple” thought. I am tired of being stupid.
No, I read the story of the “PRODIGAL SON.” It was Dad’s “how to get out of jail” card laid out right in front of me. I read it, took a shower, gathered up Eve and our kids, and marched strait to the front gate of Eden. I stood out there for three days constantly repeating what the prodigal son said to his dad when he returned from living with the pigs. I guess Dad got tired of listening to me so he opened the gate. He did not let me in though, but rather told me to stop repeating everything. He said I was irritating him. He said ” it’s not the words that matter. The prodigal son learned something while he slept with the pigs. What matters to me is whether you have learned what he learned.”
Buzz: “Well, did you? Tell us what happened next?”
Adam: “I reread the story. I then began to think. What have I learned in the last five thousand years?”
This is a question that is not hard to answer. What I learned is that I should never have eaten the apple. I have should never have chosen to leave God’s world and try to invent my own.
Why? let me explain:
When I asked to leave Gods world, I was not just asking to leave God, but all that he is. I was asking him to let me live in a world where his values, his truth, his love did not exist. And of course, in removing his “nature” from the world I wanted to live in, I needed to fill the void that was left with my own replacement parts.
Take his love. Dad’s nature is just pure love. Not the “love” referenced in a Hallmark card. Not the “do you love” love of a teenage girl. Not the love that says “What can you do to make me happy?” love. No, his love is the love that says “No greater love has a man but that he give up his life for his friends.” kind of love. Dad, by his very nature, cannot help himself but to pour out his love on me. He wants nothing but good and truth and beauty for me all the days of my life. He wants to nurture me, grow me, make me into the most wonderful, beautiful person I can ever be. And he wants to pour out this love on me thru all eternity.
When I told him to go away, to leave me to my own world, I guess I thought it would be really easy to replace that kind of love with a love of my own making.
Wrong!
What I got was truly horrible. I substituted his “love” with rape. Not just sexual rape. That would be bad enough. But rape in every fashion you can think of. Rape militarily. Rape spiritually. Rape financially.
You see, rape is me loving myself and imposing my will on you thru my superior strength, for my own pleasure and against your needs, wants, desires or pleas.
Look at what is happening as we speak-wealthy billionaires are bleeding every last cent out of the world population so that they can grow their 5 billion into ten, and their ten in to 50. Why? Rape. Pure and simple. If God’s love prevailed, the billionaires would do everything in their power to take care of those less fortunate. If the billionaires gave just half their billions to the poor, that alone could end world hunger But, they don’t. They take pleasure in their billions and in taking even more at their whim from the world. Rape. Pure and simple. It’s the world’s way of filling the void left behind by asking God to take his “love” out of our equation.
Look at what is happening to our youth. In a world filled with God’s love, they would be cherished. Nurtured. Protected against evil. In a world without Gods, love-three 9-year-olds are murdered so that a shooter, out of their own self-love can feel the pleasure of watching them die. Rape!
Look what is happening to women. In God’s world, they are loved, honored, and respected. In a world lacking God’s love, they are called “birthing persons;” they are pressured into self-mutilation; they are condemned for bearing their own child.
Look at our military: they are given nearly a trillion dollars to protect us, but …
Buzz: “Wait, hold on, Adam… I see Eve coming. What happened to her? We heard that she and you were getting a divorce?”
Adam: “Divorce? No, well, maybe in my prior life. But that is just it-I used to love her as any Adam would. Now, I see her thru the eyes of my Dad. And I am loving her in Dad’s way.
I told Dad that what I learned while sleeping with the “pigs” was that I want to love as he does. And he knew I spoke the truth when I stopped treating Eve like an Adam woman and began loving her like the God woman she was always meant to be.”
Buzz: “Hello Eve. It is my privilege to be here with you. I am Buzz Buzzby, and this is Timmy Bottoms. We are just asking your husband all about why and how you all got back here to the Garden. Can you add anything to what your husband has told us? Like how you convinced your God to let you back in.”
Eve: “Well, I guess. I stood outside the front gate, and I simply raised my voice loud enough for him to hear. Some call it prayer. To me, I was simply telling him the truth of what was in me. I asked-I begged: “I don’t want to live anymore in a world without
God. That hip, slick, and cool dude named lucifer-with the thousand-dollar shoes and the fancy hair- was a dam liar. I had no idea that the world he said I would be god in was a world of genocide, pedophilia, murder, chaos, greed, violence, war, and hatred. I had no idea that everything that God created would be mocked, spit on, and ultimately by my own hand, destroyed. I had no idea that I would be enlisted in, causing the crazy gullible people to self-destruct.
I would rather be Eve in a God world, than a god in an Eve world.
I am done with evil; I am done with hatred. I just want to go home where I am free of all that horror.
And by the way, Dad said its ok if I change my name to Mary. She got it oh so right. I cannot wait to stomp on that damn lying, serpent’s head.”
Buzz: “Ok. I think we have enough now for our story. Thank both of you. We will check back soon to see how you are doing. If that is ok? Bye now.”
(Camera clicks off. Microphone too) Buzz: “Wow, Timmy. Amazing. Of course, the “I LOVE EATING THE APPLE AND LIVING IN A GODLESS WORLD” folks out there will ignore this whole story. I had no idea that Adam and Eve had returned to the Garden. Did not know that was possible…. you know Timmy, I am not an overly religious man. But did you pack us a lunch? Any chance you put an apple in it?”
Timmy: “I sure did. Want me to get it? It’s in the car.”
Buzz: “Sure. Also, do you have any duct tape in the car?”
Timmy: “Sure do boss. Real men go nowhere without duct tape. You can fix anything with Duct tape.”
Buzz: “Hard to believe I can-we can-fix the world with Duct tape. “
Timmy: “I don’t think we can fix the world with duct tape boss. But I am with Adam and Eve…I mean Mary…I think duct tape can fix us.”
Later that nite, the local T,V. station carried a teaser headline” TREE OF KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL VANDALIZED WITH 4 DUCT TAPED APPLES. FILM AT 11″
(Good folks-Easter is coming. Is it time for you to stop eating the apple and maybe duct tape it back onto the tree. For me and my house, we wrapped it 8 times lest the first seven fail. Hope you will join us. GOD BLESS!)
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As promised in the last Monday Memes, I have an overflow. My meme cup runneth over. Certain about a Friday Overflow-Overflow.
Also, for those prepper-minded, my last two Survival Sundays:
Survival Sunday – PREP Edition – Granite Grok
Survival Sunday – SITREP Edition – Granite Grok
Now, let the mayhem, mockery, and ridicule resume:
*** Warning, a few possibly off-color ones, in case tender eyes are about ***
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Hang on! We knew about Covid WHEN???
This is, to me, staggering. First, the date of the job posting – November 2019. In Ukraine. Those two things, in and of themselves, are damming. But then… think about it.
That’s a job with a pay of well over $300K. That’s not chump change, and doubtless is only one of multiple positions for which they’re searching for warm bodies. So we’re talking a significant project. A project for which there had to be a RfP, bids, consideration & debate, awarding, budgeting, etc. This is months and months before November 2019.
Now most people reading this I suspect that, in general, they understand Covid 19 was planned, and deliberately engineered to enable a mass injection – not vaccination – campaign, is not news. But the scope of this… and you think, given the untold BILLIONS that went into this, the countless decades of planning, and millions of man-hours of research and development, you’re going to PROTEST and VOTE your way out of this?
Remember, they want mRNA in your vegetables: Researchers aim to develop edible plant-based mRNA vaccines (news-medical.net)
They want mRNA in your meat: Roughly 2 In 10 Cows Injected With mRNA Vaccines Die Instantly – [your]NEWS (yournews.com)
They want mRNA in you. Period.
Understand, I don’t want this.
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Yes, they will. They’d rather betray their friends or, worse, their differing family, than admit they were bamboozled.
And to build on that, when your being right and their being wrong shows that YOU – that knuckle-dragging, beer-swilling, gun-toting, G-d-fearing deplorable was actually more aware, more perceptive, more insightful, etc., than their uber-intellectual, uber-educated selves. Their egos won’t handle that.
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Even AI developers are getting nervous. Time for a Butlerian Jihad? There is AI that writes its own code. AI that has “children”.
What have we done?
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We still believe we live in a high trust society. It’s become a crisis – a crisis of trust.
A Crisis of Trust – Urban Scoop
And… “Seasoning Americans”. BWAAA HA HA HA HA HA!
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Somehow this snip from Batman came to mind (with a Men in Black overlay):
Welcome to the future, pal!
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Pick of the post:
And thus is the racism of the Left revealed, for the Left dismisses these people as nothing but ignorant & illiterate.
IMHO, it’s one reason the Left swallows “Pallywood” hook line and sinker. Because they can’t believe that “little brown people” can pull the wool over their hypereducated, elite selves.
Pallywood
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‘Our so-called leaders knowingly talked nonsense, destroyed lives and turned society upside down’
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Palate cleansers:
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In W. Virginia vs EPA SCOTUS decided that the EPA had gone well past its authorizing legislation in demanding that it could regulate CO2 emissions even though CO2 was never in that legislation. They decided that they could “broaden” their “mandate” and start applying their government powers in ways that Congress never intended or granted.
The National Marine Fisheries Services tried it, too, and lost with a rule to Track Charter Boats Without a Warrant.
In a landmark win for charter boat fishermen across the Gulf of Mexico, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has set aside a controversial Final Rule issued by the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), which required 24-hour GPS tracking of recreational charter boat fishing vessels and reporting of confidential economic data. As Judge Jennifer Walker Elrod wrote, “in promulgating this regulation, the Government committed multiple independent Administrative Procedure Act violations, and very likely violated the Fourth Amendment.” The ruling is major for many reasons, including that the government tried to claim that charter boat fishing is a “closely-regulated industry” to which the Fourth Amendment does not apply.
NCLA represents more than 1,300 federally permitted charter boat owners in the class-action lawsuit, Mexican Gulf Fishing Company v. U.S. Department of Commerce. The Final Rule required each charter boat to be “equipped with NMFS-approved hardware and software with a minimum capability of archiving GPS locations.” The Rule would have required charter boats to install onboard an NMFS-approved Vessel Monitoring System (VMS) tracking device—an “anchor bracelet”—that continuously transmits the boat’s GPS location to NMFS, whether the boat is being used for a charter-fishing trip or for something else. Charter boat operators “are responsible for purchasing the VMS units,” which the Final Rule estimated would cost upwards of $3000 plus a monthly service fee of $40 to $75. NCLA argued this 24-hour GPS surveillance was not only unnecessary and unduly burdensome, but also that this requirement violated the Fourth Amendment by searching without probable cause or a warrant, exceeded the authority granted by the Magnuson-Stevens Act (MSA), and was arbitrary and capricious in violation of the Administrative Procedure Act (APA). NCLA also complained that the rule required reporting economic data that had nowhere been specified by the agencies in proposing the rule for comment.
Translation: The NMFS claimed that if you want to make a living, you MUST buy this stuff, that YOU will pay, and you will give us your data (made up out of whole cloth). The Judge said, “Up Your!” and “No way.”
People make fun of us or wonder why we don’t trust the Government but “running amok” is a phrase we need to apply more often.
Why so these power-hungry morons believe that they are above the law? What is WRONG with these people???
The Fifth Circuit agreed with NCLA’s analysis and held that the GPS-tracking requirement was unlawful for “several independently sufficient reasons.” These include (1) that the “unambiguous language of the Magnuson-Stevens Act does not authorize the regulation;” (2) “the Government failed to respond to public comments expressing concerns of personal privacy violations stemming from GPS surveillance;” (3) “the Government failed to rationally consider the associated costs and benefits;” and (4) the Final Rule cannot withstand APA review because there was improper notice of the data the agency planned to collect. Regarding the contention that the Government failed to address Fourth Amendment concerns in public comments, Judge Elrod emphasized that “the Government fail[ing] to identify this particular concern from the public comments borders on incredible.”
Charter boats operating in the Gulf of Mexico are small businesses. They account for less than one percent of Gulf fishing. NCLA commends the Fifth Circuit for recognizing the financial and privacy costs associated with NMFS’s ill-conceived regulation. The Court also correctly held that the agencies could not state vaguely that they sought “other” socio-economic data and then require purely economic data reporting like the cost of fuel and how much passengers were charged. In highlighting how the Government failed to connect the GPS-tracking requirement with any legitimate conservation purpose, Judge Elrod wrote, “What benefits does the Government point to in response? Next to nothing.”
Next to nothing – but they tried because they could. It seems, more and more, that the Government is acting under the principle that if they aren’t caught, it’s fine—lawlessness for them and hardship for the captains and crews. And the NMFS didn’t care.
Another word for this is Tyranny.
This hits home because my Dad was a commercial fisherman – a charter boat out of Cohasset (MA). If he hadn’t passed away when I was young, I might have ended up “under his captain’s hat” (rather than “in his shoes”). It does explain why one of my favorite shows is “Wicked Tuna” – that’s what he did some of the time.
Final Thought: Can we get a requirement in place that any executive branch’s personnel must have a Civics class on the Constitution, Bill of Rights, and their authorizing legislation such that if they fail to obey them, they can be held personally responsible for court costs and damages?
After all, aren’t we?
(H/T: Instapundit)
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Women have a choice. Shut up about men winning your competitions and taking your trophies or get canceled—thats’ a choice from the party of choice. And the women who lost the WPGA Tour Australian Women’s Classic to a biological man?
They “chose” to celebrate his victory.
The WPGA Tour of Australasia celebrated the theft of the prize from the female golfers with a tweet showing the biological male, who goes by the name of “Breanna” Gill, kissing the trophy and commenting about his “nerves of steel,” that helped him to win the women’s professional golf tournament. …
“I always thought in my head if I ever got the opportunity to actually win a golf tournament and the girls happen to come running out on the green, I was going to stand there and take it. I wasn’t going to run away,” said Gill.
Golf New South Wales reports that (reformatted),
[Danni] Vasquez showed no signs of disappointment at being so close to victory but not quite reaching her goal. “I just enjoyed the first two days and then before the last round I said to Darcy (Danni’s caddy and fiancé) ‘let’s just give myself an opportunity’ and I did exactly that so I’m really happy,” Vasquez said.
“As sad as it is losing in a playoff, I’m very happy that Breanna did Winn. She’s a great lady and I’m very happy to go up against her but I’m also very happy with myself.”
Australian Golf Digest.
The third-place getter was thrilled that she was still in contention all the way to the end.
“The way I hung in there for the entire 18 holes is something that I’m very proud of after what I thought was a relatively slow start,” Bunque said.
“Bree got off a quicker start than I did and I think that could’ve gone south pretty quickly but I’m proud of the way that I kept hitting every shot as it came and just hanging in there until literally the last putt.”
No one batts a mascaraed eyelash, ladies, so you’d best get used to it. B-Team )C-team?) men have invaded swimming, cycling, and a host of other sports, so why not golf? But will it get so crowded that someday they’ll need the TWPGA?
Exit question: are they allowed to make jokes about washing ‘her’ (golf) ‘balls’?
Note: Featured image is a generic royalty-free pic of a woman golfer.
HT | Gateway Pundit
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“New cars compared to 1970 vehicle models: 99% cleaner for common pollutants. New trucks compared to 1970 vehicle models: 99% cleaner for common pollutants. So why are the climate change fanatics trying to force us to buy EVs?”
And rarely will they acknowledge that there is no such thing as a “no emission” vehicle – it takes emissions to make them, emissions to transport them, and even MORE, emissions to charge them. Saying that there are no “tailpipe emissions” is merely a marketing ploy and a distraction for those that are ignorant of what is going on under their hoods and out of the mouths of those FORCING us to get rid of our current cars.
Too expensive for the regular folks, and just one person can flip your electricity off and keep you from “fueling” your batteries – it’s all just another tool for control.
Stephen Moore | Climate Depot
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America needs to wake up to the all-out assault on its existence by China. Except for John Kerry, most Americans believe our most critical threat is China, but I do not think most understand just how extensive and dangerous China’s threat is. China is a formidable foe by itself, but its effort to form a global alliance elevates the threat to existential. Existential is an overused word, made so by Climate Change advocates, but when you look at the Chinese attack on America and its quest for world dominance, it is the only word to describe it accurately.
The assault began years ago when China offered American industry cheap labor and a ready-made infrastructure. It appeared to be an innocent way for American businesses to enhance their bottom line. Over time, the manufacturing industry was eroded at home as production and manufacturing went around the world to China. Made in the U.S.A. was replaced with Made in China. China has become a force in the Middle East since the U.S. pullout from Afghanistan, and China has been buying land in the U.S., Central America, and South America.
The pandemic shed light on China being a sole source of essential needs. Medical equipment, pharmaceuticals, and computer chips became challenging to source, or the Chinese purposely controlled the flow to hurt America. We know the COVID virus originated from China, as does the raw Fentanyl shipped to Mexico to be processed by the Cartels. This combined effort between China and Mexico results in 100,000 Fentanyl deaths annually in the United States.
Now an organization called BRICS is getting attention for the threat it poses to the rest of the world. BRICS is not new, as it was formed almost a decade ago. At the start, it was BRIC which stood for Brazil, Russia, India, and China. Recently, the S was added to indicate the inclusion of South Africa and Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia joining sounded the alarm. On Monday, Saudi Arabia and OPEC announced a cutback in production for the rest of 2023 of one million barrels per day. This announcement caused an immediate spike in crude prices, and there is no estimate of how high they will rise.
This manipulation of oil supply and price is part of the overall plan of BRICS. BRICS wants to eliminate the Dollar as the price standard of international crude to be replaced with a new BRICS currency. This decision may make the Dollar useless internationally. It is not a secret that China wants to be the sole superpower in the world and has set 2030 as a target to achieve that goal. BRICS is a significant step in China’s plan.
China is using the rest of the members in BRICS. When they finish using them as pawns in its global chess game, they will squash the other members. China will not share the power and dominance they seek.
Why is BRICS coming into play now? Because they sense the weakness of America under the leadership of Joe Biden. Whether Biden is compromised or not, he is no match on the Global Stage to Xi, Putin, and their new mates. America is the loser with Joe Biden.
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Joe Biden and the Democratic Party’s use of pejorative labeling to defile and dehumanize their political opponents is not only their “go-to” strategy of late but also a potential bellwether of more sinister intentions. Biden’s use of labels to vilify those who don’t support his agenda is heard on a nearly daily basis.
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Their apocalyptic tone makes Hillary Clinton’s “basket of deplorables” comment seem endearing in comparison. Whether it’s Biden referring to his political opposition as “MAGA Republicans,” “domestic terrorists,” or “threats to democracy,” his use of these categorizations is insulting at best, and, at worst, a painful reminder of similar strategies employed by his Leftist predecessors during darker periods in modern history.
Biden’s use of labels to define and target his enemies is eerily similar to that of other Progressive despots. Joseph Stalin used the term “enemies of the state,” while Mao placed those opposed to his Cultural Revolution, including “Right Wingers,” into one of five “Black Categories.” These cohorts were rounded up and sent off for political reeducation, otherwise known as torture, imprisonment or execution. Pol Pot, Che Guevara, and Kim Jong-Il – all the Leftist heavyweights, employed similar labeling tactics to coalesce their followers and marginalize and breed contempt for the non-compliant.
The historic precedent of this type of labeling leading to violence and marginalization of large subsets of a national population is, therefore, well established. The question that remains is what combination of factors escalate this from simple name-calling to actual persecution? What causes the scales of reason to tip irrevocably from political rhetoric to policy? Adolf Hitler took advantage of a horribly depressed German economy and a desperate citizenry to advance his obscene agenda. In a few short years this progressed from Anti-Semitic grumbling to the adoption of the Nuremberg Laws that robbed German Jews of citizenry and political rights, and ultimately to the grotesque atrocities of the Holocaust.
While genocidal events resulting in the slaughter of tens of millions of innocents may seem like extreme examples, they are relevant because they are emblematic of how motivated, Leftist regimes execute their strategies. The first and most important step in their process is to target a subset of their populations (the opposition) and label them as “threats” to the agenda of those in power.
This labeling creates division, and division leads to an irreparable fracture in a Nation’s foundation – a united Citizenry. Labeling is an insidious cancer used by those in power to create disharmony and contempt between brother and sister citizens. While seemingly harmless at first, labeling has a hidden superpower – an ability to rapidly metastasize and destroy its host from within. Beware the power of labels.
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