Monday • April 29 • 2024
Vol.XVI • No.XVIII
Manchester, N.H.
I began a new adventure this week. I am co-hosting a radio talk show with my friend Liz Gabert once a month, and the show is called SW Meets NE…On the Right! Liz is a proud native of Texas, and I am a true blue New Englander.
Our topic was the Second Amendment and the impact that the recent mass shootings have had on an all-out assault on our gun rights. It was an interesting conversation about the misnomer “assault rifles,” age restrictions on purchasing AR15 rifles, more extended wait period on background checks, and the fact that no changes in any laws will make an iota of difference in illegal shootings. People who commit crimes do not reference the laws before they act. Period.
Two things we need to do is find ways to identify potential shooters by monitoring Social Media for people to predict their actions and by each of us being more aware of what is happening around us. We need to sharpen our senses for real issues that are potentially dangerous. We need to have the courage to speak up when we see a situation that may escalate. This second task is not easy, for we all see and hear things we blow off as noise.
We always see the trail left by a mass shooter after the fact and wonder how we missed it. We must close the gap, find these crumbs, and prevent a situation where we all say, how did this happen.
We blend our Right-leaning thoughts into a one-hour show. Here is the YouTube link for our pilot show this week.
We had a dynamic guest on-air during our show. Keith Hanson of Critical-Dynamics is a radio talk show host, a gun advocate, and a gun use trainer. Keith was well versed in the mental illness aspect of mass shootings and the impact of stabilizing drugs given to children in adolescence.
In Keith’s opinion, and backed by U.S. government statistics, these drugs used at an early age is the common denominator in 89%. That is a number that should motivate an investigation into this excessive use of medication and be able to correlate a pattern in potential mass assault perpetrators. To think this would be logical, but you would be wrong. The narrative that people want to push is guns and the need to restrict the purchase and use of all handguns. This is the “it’s the gun, stupid” mentality and is short-sighted.
The gun is to blame as much as General Motors for a car accident. The gun and the car are inanimate objects, and in the hands of a drunk driver or a mass shooter, either could be deadly. Law-abiding individuals use either millions of times a day and deserve the right to use it. That right should not be infringed upon because there are evil people in this world.
Evil people pay no attention to laws, no matter how many or how restrictive. Period. That thought may be redundant in this writing, but it is that important.
Until politicians get themselves past this narrow thinking, these shootings will unfortunately continue. The other fact to remember is we only hear about the most deadly shootings because body counts sell. There have been nearly 30 school shootings this year in America. That is in just the first half of the year. Do you now think it might be time to examine childhood drug use. You’re damn right it is.
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Beginning in 2023, anyone voting in New Hampshire without proper ID will be subject to the requirements of SB418, An Act relative to verification of voter affidavits. Voters lacking required documentation will have their ballots set aside pending proof of a qualification to vote.
And if you fail to provide that proof, your votes won’t count.
On the seventh day after the election, if an affidavit ballot voter has failed to return the verification letter with the missing voter qualifying documentation to the secretary of state, either in person or using the prepaid U.S. Postal Service Priority Mail Express Envelope, the secretary of state shall instruct the moderator of the town, city, ward, or district in which the affidavit ballot was cast to retrieve the associated numbered affidavit ballot and list on a tally sheet, by candidate or issue, the votes cast on that ballot. The counting of votes on affidavit ballots identified by the secretary of state as unqualified shall be conducted by the town, city, ward, or district using the same methods of counting and observation utilized on the day of the election for hand counted ballots. The votes cast on such unqualified affidavit ballots shall be deducted from the vote total for each affected candidate or each affected issue.
New Hampshire has required affidavits for a long time, but they prevented only a fraction of the fraud.
SB417 is a bit more stringent, and we know that because Democrats don’t like it. One of them even expressed concern about overseas military ballots, which is total BS. They have almost zero interest in the voting rights of a class of voters that is still majority Republican. So SB418 should improve things, but it doesn’t go far enough.
While it will have some impact on the loads of out-of-state Dems who flock here to tip our elections, it won’t stop out-of-state college kids paying out-of-state tuition from using their college ID as proof.
(1) A driver’s license issued by any state or the federal government.
(2) An identification card issued under RSA 260:21, RSA 260:21-a, or RSA 260:21-b or a nondriver’s identification card issued by the motor vehicles division, department, agency, or office of any other state.
(3) A United States armed services identification card.
(4) A United States passport or passcard.
(5) A valid student identification card if:
(A) The card is issued by:
(i) A college, university, or career school in New Hampshire and approved to operate or licensed to operate in New Hampshire.
(ii) A public high school in New Hampshire.
(iii) A nonpublic high school in New Hampshire accredited by a private school accrediting agency that is recognized by the department of education.
(iv) Dartmouth College.
(v) A college or university operated by the university system of New Hampshire or the community college system of New Hampshire.
Students who live in NH have an NH driver’s license or official state-issued ID. They can get a fishing or dog license, file their federal taxes from an NH address, or get called for jury duty. That’s the shortlist.
In other words, SB418 scratches the surface. It might encourage some in the Granite State to cast ballots in their own states by absentee, but we won’t have clean elections until out-of-state students are required to vote by mail or absentee in their home states.
And for those obsessed with counting every vote, make sure people are voting from their legal address in that precinct and not just from wherever they happen to be on election day.
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My, how things have changed in just a few years.
You need to have eyes in the back of your head in America’s cities now…pic.twitter.com/DuF7xDiX4o
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) June 18, 2022
...we began construction on the cabin.
It looks more like this today, but it's still a work in progress.
Husband and wife team John Bowman & Claire Ketteler are excited to announce our candidacy for the two House seats representing Newbury and New London, N.H., Merrimack County District 7.
We gratefully ask for your support in this marginally blue district. (2.5%)
83% of Americans believe our country is going in the wrong direction. This understanding proves that the mainstream public is sensible and can be trusted! Our state is sliding down the same path, and it is time for citizen volunteers to step up and “throw the rascals out.”
We chose to run because our state government is not responsive to the citizens. We witnessed the Senate lawyers tell our New Hampshire Supreme Court that our constitutional right to Petition and Remonstrance has “gone out of fashion” and is now just a right to ask permission to petition or remonstrate, with no obligation by the legislature to act. This same body allowed the Feds to mandate shared bathrooms in our schools under the threat of losing school lunch funding. This violates our Constitution in several ways.
Indeed, the US Supreme Court has held forever that school policies should be determined by community values. When did this change? The right to protest in the abortion debate is allowed only for one side. Mask mandates, school and business closures, and medical freedom all have devolved into hypocrisy. It appears that even at the local level, FREEDOM is held sacred only for some.
HB1431, the Parental Rights bill, failed by 5 Republican votes. Parents’ right to know what their children are being taught can only be controversial in a world turned upside down. That is why we run.
A biased media calling itself “mainstream” will tell us that Conservatives are radicals. That any crazy policies and their devastating consequences are not.
The most recent example: MAYRA FLORES made history as the first Mexican-born woman to be elected to Congress. Now, we don’t care what her social status is, but the biased media does, and they were completely silent. She did not fit the accepted ‘conservatives-are-bigots’ narrative. Ms. Flores responded to her election by stating that Mexican culture is based on conservative values of “faith, family, and hard work”. She added “patriotism” further on. You will not hear that on the news.
Claire and I believe that FREEDOM is a mainstream value held in very low regard by the Left. Indeed, it is a Natural Right given or revoked only by the Creator.
Freedom of thought brings freedom of conscience. Neither can exist without the right to speak your mind. Conservatives allow this. Radicals do not.
We believe that people should be free to express their views on any issue without being abused by the force of law. Our legislature has difficulty with this concept.
We believe that parents should be free to question whatever their children might be experiencing at school. No item of curriculum or behavior, happy activity or wrongdoing, should be able to escape full disclosure by law.
We believe that our State Constitution–and that other one–exists to limit government, not our rights. We approve of the NHGOP platform, but I didn’t read the word “God” in it once. So perhaps they too believe our rights come from the government–and can be revoked by the government also. This needs to change as well.
We understand that votes in the House do not always represent what they seem to, as many buried words and phrases can change the entire bill, making a flawed Bill a worthless Act to be disposed of forthwith. That will be our combined task, to investigate all the words and phrases in bills, listen to all interested parties, and to vote according to our core beliefs in
One final thought. We support TERM LIMITS for all elected offices, including the school boards, legislature, executive council, and the courts. We can’t be a citizen-volunteer government if we allow politicians to stay in business indefinitely.
Please check out our websites. We start marching as soon as the yard signs arrive!
johnbowman4nh.com claireketteler.com
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Unless you have studied communist Russia’s history the name Trofim Lysenko likely means nothing to you. Given the current political climate, however, Lysenko and his story are one we should all know and share with others, especially representatives.
Lysenko’s story is one of both science denial and the utter failure of the progressive/communist approach to agriculture.
Lysenko was born and raised in Ukraine, where his family owned a farm. He learned the basics from his father and then went on to study at the University of Kyiv where he was a middling-level student who was weak in math and lacking also the talent for ingenuity. Lysenko became radicalized by the growing popularity of Marx’s socialist view, which he then adapted to his anemic understanding of agriculture.
Lysenko learned of the two types of wheat grown in those parts, summer and winter wheat. Confusing plagiarism with genius, he took credit for a hybrid style of winter wheat which he claimed to adapt by subjecting summer wheat to extremely cold temperatures, which he also did in reverse with winter wheat, believing he could make them hardier. This method had already been done by reputable agronomists in the 1800s as well as likely any number of farmers throughout human history.
Human nature being what it is, Lysenko was able to take this agronomical plagiarism and turn it into opportunity. As Russia was under the iron grip of Stalin’s communist regime, Lysenko took his “discovery” and curried favor with the dictator, who made him director of Genetics for the Academy of Sciences in 1940. A handful of Russian scientists at the time saw the irony in this appointment, given that Lysenko rejected Mendelian genetics as a scientific fact. As a result, Lysenko had power over both Russia’s agricultural practices and the scientists who might speak out against him. This would prove to be disastrous for both.
Lysenko, a peasant, and lifelong proletarian developed scientific theories based on his ideology over science. Adapting communistic thinking to plant life he surmised plants behaved in Marxian solidarity that led to a type of utopia of the soil. His theories included plants having a sacrificial nature and that proximity bred cooperation among them rather than competition for nutrients. Other Soviet ideologues were enchanted by his synchronizing theories and this caused major media like Pravda to essentially shape the cult of Lysenko. With his newfound fame and power, he was also able to imprison his critics and even have some killed. This included those which had placed Soviet genetics at the top of the global scientific community by the 1930s.
In practice, his agricultural theories led to famines in both Russia and later in Mao’s China. Russians lost numerous millions while creating a food shortage from Lysenko’s pseudoscience. Mao, also an adherent of Communist science, adopted the same measures costing between 15-55 million during the Great Chinese Famine of 1959-1962. What Stalin and Lysenko had touted as a communist victory that would lead to annual harvest booms and year-round work delivered the opposite. Lysenko’s critics increased and would ultimately have him removed from his directorship to live out his days in shame for his failures.
Are we seeing a type of Lysenkoism among today’s progressives? Are those who called out, even panic-yelled, “follow the science” actually following pseudoscience based on bad ideology? Is the “Woke” movement a cornucopia of pseudo-scientific theories being pushed as social rights? If science is based on testable, repeatable, reliable models that offer universal truth about the natural order the answer is – yes they are.
Pick from any one of the mRNA-vaccine, fat-shaming, gender theory, queer theory, or even climate change hot topics and the discerning and scientific students will discover the incongruous of their “scientific” claims. Aside from weak and even backward thinking, these popular ideas share Lysenko’s political affinity for Marxist communism.
Unless you have $600-$1000 lying around to buy a copy of Survival of the Wisest by Jonas Salk, the same Jonas Salk who developed a polio vaccine, you probably haven’t read it. I was fortunate enough to get a copy from the Dartmouth College Library after listening to a review of it on YouTube. Given its controversial content, I had to read it for myself. Despite parting ways with Lysenko on genetic theory, Salk shares his communist-globalist leanings with some eugenics to boot. Salk explains how we can use mRNA vaccines (circa 1973) to essentially hack human beings and create a superior race of “wise” people. This highly engineered race would also need to leave the troglodytes from what he referred to as Epoch A behind since Epoch B would be for the ascended masters who moved on from traditional values in favor of super science values that mirror such Marxists as Marcuse and Foucault’s vision of a sexually liberated Illuminati – seriously. As we look out our windows we can see the effects of his pandemic theory and, like Lysenko’s, they are disastrous.
As a fitness expert, I am stunned by the ignoring of established science regarding healthy body weight metrics to avoid “fat-shaming”. I can only assume the champions of this new counter-fat craze never bothered to look up the etymology for the abdomen. Ab is to “go away from” and domeni is Latin for “God”. Named that because as one got fatter, the clearer was their gluttony. Conversely, the more one focuses on having ripped abs, the clearer their vanity. If only it were simple gluttony, obesity doesn’t add to the quality of life in any health metric. Furthermore, obesity disqualifies you from many joys of life, like with the 240-pound Tik Tok star recently denied her horse-riding adventure thanks to her excess body fat. Singer Adele was shamed for actually losing weight. Excessive fat is exactly that – excessive, as in unhealthy. We know that thanks to exercise science and modern medicine.
Gender theory is yet another farcical “science” based on the philosophical notions of Dr. John Money who simply borrowed sex grammar and applied them to people to validate his quackish attempt to change two boys into girls. At the expense of both of their lives ending in suicide, Money urged them and their parents to play along under the guise of his credentialed theory, which lacked any scientific merit. The loss of life is eerily reminiscent of Lysenkoism, and the rise in this practice among progressives seems to offer the Marxist Utopia that never comes while leaving destruction in its wake.
Gender theory is outdone by queer theory, ostensibly beginning in 1984 with Gayle Rubin’s essay “Thinking Sex” where she defends all manner of perversity, her words even, up to and including sadomasochism and even pedophilia which she euphemizes as “cross-generational attraction”. Dr. James Lindsay, Peter Boghosian, and Helen Pluckrose caught on to this, along with many others, and with the rise in pseudo-academic journals. These three exposed with their “Grievance Studies Affair” which was made famous by simply revising the thirteenth chapter of Mein Kampf as a submission to a Women’s Studies Journal only to see it applauded for the excellence of its aims (namely to subjugate men). Queer theory now openly states its aim is to queer everything to create a new normal – where boys can be girls, men can swim against women, and animals can be married to humans. The new normal seems to fit the Biblical warning of calling evil good and good evil.
Lastly, knowing Vermonters take Climate Change more seriously than they do murdering babies, this pseudo-science has been debunked numerous times by scientific experts unafraid to point out the climate kings have no clothes on. I’m no climatologist but I can see the polar bear population has doubled rather than died off per Al Gore’s warning. Ice caps contract and expand, which exposes another of his threats to mankind. Parts of the earth have seen the coldest temperatures in years and warming is not occurring, hence the name change to “climate change” from global warming. Manhatten is still above sea level, and with any luck, carbon dioxide will continue to create greater amounts of greenery leading to more arable land and the ability to sustain our desperately needed population growth. Yet the climate crazies would rather halt development in the third world by curbing their fossil fuel use, which will also cost millions of lives and the hope of prosperity.
One begins to wonder if this universal incompetence is even that, or if they have destroying human flourishing down to a science.
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Not that long ago, a few adverse vaccine events were enough to raise the alarm. If that event was patient death, the threshold was low. A handful of fatalities would end that treatment, and the public would be warned. Not anymore. Adverse events in the US from the COVID19 “vaccines” is nearing 1.3 million.
These “vaccines” have permanently disabled at least fifty-three thousand people. They are linked to 41,000 cases of myocarditis or pericarditis, nearly 15,000 heart attacks, and 28,714 confirmed deaths.
A search of WMUR, our local ABC affiliate, produced zero results for “VAERS.”
A search of “VAERS” at New Hampshire’s largest newspaper, The Union Leader, produced one result. A reprint of an article from the Washington Post (under crime) from Sep. 2021, which only mentions VAERS to downplay its accuracy.
There are zero articles by local NH “journalists” on the subject.
And it is understood and accepted by almost everyone in the public health apparatus that due to rampant underreporting, VAERS numbers are low. But how high do they need to be for this to stop?
It used to be policy to stop a pharmaceutical treatment after a few deaths. Tylenol pulled their entire inventory after seven people died from laced pills bought from store shelves and then went on a very real campaign to ensure product and public safety.
When three elderly people died after receiving the Swine Flu shot in 1976, cities and states halted inoculations. Others died, hundreds contracted a rare neurological disorder, and the nationwide rollout was halted; facts that are being scrubbed from the history or marginalized to hide the deliberate destruction of lives or quality of life in the wake of the COVID19 injections.
There is a conspiracy to hide the truth.
According to the Governments own reporting system, Pfizer/Moderna jabs resulted in over 3600 deaths the day they were administered and another 2875 the day after. Death is possible up to 28 days after a COVID shot, about the same time the alleged anti-flu benefits have waned from ineffective to useless.
In New Hampshire, of the 3,836 VAERS reports up to Jun 3, 2022, 79 people have died after receiving a COVID “vaccine” in the Granite State, and 102 more have been permanently disabled.
Two of those deaths were under the age of 18. Twice the number the state alleges have died from COVID*.
Not a peep from corporate media, probably because they took state/federal money to run ads contingent on the requirement that they promote only positive stories about the COVID vaccine scheme.
All the major networks are named, including Fox and Newsmax. So, who in New Hampshire got laundered federal money to promote the most dangerous “vaccine” in modern human history?
Who took the advertising dollars, and did they ever report anything negative about vaccines after that? Did anyone even dare to question their effectiveness outside the approved narratives?
It would be nice to have an NH whistleblower, but the evidence screams the truth.
As of Jun 3, 2022, at least 28,714 people have been killed by the COVID19 “vaccines.” If that number is accurate, it’s a huge story. If the number is undercounted, it’s a huge story. If that number is a fraud (and why), it’s a huge story. If even a fraction of those deaths is legitimate, it’s a huge story.
VAERS used to be the bellwether for medical professionals, the CDC, the FDA, and everyone. Now, we must believe that the government’s only resource for reporting vaccine safety issues is a crank line. It has magically become unreliable, and anyone who points to it need not be taken seriously while Fed-paid media outlets repeat that narrative, if they even mention VAERS.
Why bring all this up again?
Approval has been given to jab the youngest among us, including little kids and infants who, like everyone under 20, have no reason to need or want this pharmaceutical intervention, and some of them will die from that.
And when it happens, all we can expect from the experts and the media, if not silence, is criticism for trying to warn people about the risk.
*It is unclear if the COVID death was of a vaccinated individual or if the vaccine is why they contracted and died from or with COVID.
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Well, this was rather interesting! Once again, a little birdie coughed a nice gushy worm – just in time for the start of the 2022 Governor Campaign:
I’ve watched his polling number drop as fast as Biden’s cognitive ability in just over a year – and that’s no small feat.
Gov. Sununu has violated a lot of Republican norms here in what may no longer be the Live Free or Die State (meaning Individuals no longer have control). From taking over complete control of the NH economy during the pandemic (we know what that’s called, right?). His the government deciding winners and losers. To removing local control over a range of issues.
First and foremost, though, is the total disregard for Constitutional order with his “Public Health trumps EVERYTHING” and no longer letting grown adults absorb the latest pandemic information and make their own rational and measured decisions for their lives and that of their families.
Sun-King, indeed!
I do have one small nit with this Resolution – I wasn’t at the meeting when this was voted upon (only two objectors concerning it from what I was told by my source) as they failed to include a most important and personal insult to Parents:
whereas Governor Sununu threatened to veto the Parental Rights bill and in continuation of the Left’s disdain of Parents as of no account in their children’s education in Government schools inflaming the NH Republican base of voters against the Party,
OK, it needs a bit of wordsmithing, but you get the gist of it. It’s not enough that he’s already ticked off the Conservative / Liberty & Freedom wing of the Party (remember what happened to Scott Brown, Kelly Ayotte, and Walt Havenstein when they did that??). But then again, I live in Belknap, not Coos, so my thoughts on it are a bit immaterial on this petition’s verbiage.
It will be interesting to see what the reverberations will be. I’ve been told it’s on its way to the NH GOP Executive Board and I’m sure, given Elliot Gault’s revolving door status between being the NH GOP Executive Director position (past and present) and being on Sununu’s NH Government staff (past), Sununu will get the message pronto-fast.
Will there be other “renegade” counties that will stymy Governor Groomer – and NH GOP Chair Steve Stepanek – with similar actions? What if there arises a full-fledged revolt?
And does this open a door for Julian Acciard, Thad Riley, and Karen Testerman (his opponents in the Republican Governor Primary)? I’m sure this will be incorporated into their stump speeches.
Hey, if the Left can automagically turn men into women and women into men and go into each other’s bath and locker rooms, does this mean I can change and be a fly on Sununu’s office wall and during the next E-Board meeting? Heh!
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Forget CPI: the week’s most important data point is today’s monthly consumer credit update. Last month we saw a blowout, record surge in credit card usage as consumers tapped out…… and sure enough it was, while again confirming what we have been saying for month: any excess savings accumulated by the US middle class are long gone, and in their place Americans have unleashed a credit-card fueled spending spree.
Click to embiggen.
While it is traditionally viewed as a B-grade economic indicator, the April consumer credit report from the Federal Reserve was another shocker especially after last month’s stunning surge in credit card debt which saw the biggest increase in revolving credit on record which is why we said that today’s G.19 print straight from the Fed would be just as important as Friday’s CPI print…
Living on a fixed income during high inflation is not easy – but we are doing the opposite of most. I lived through the Carter years and then the Reagan years and I know it will HURT just from the financial side to get through this deliberate and planned chaos that the Obama retreads and Davos Elite are putting us through – America Last. Finances, inflation, energy, food, basic good, healthcare (we just ran around the last couple of days trying to find the Grandson’s medications that, all of a sudden, can’t be found. We finally did, today).
ALL of this is government inspired and I am convinced that this isn’t by accident or stupidity. Brace yourselves, folks, this is not just a “bumpy ride” coming at us.
If you are one of those using the cards to maintain your standard of living, STOP IT NOW! Lower it and and don’t finance it if you possible can. Discipline is going to be the watchword gong forward.
And if you really need to be persuaded of that advice, just click on the link below and be prepared to be shocked.
(H/T: Zero Hedge)
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Joe Biden spoke to the AFL-CIO this week in what can only be called a stump speech. It was a campaign speech complete with volume changes from whispers to yelling. It was big on style but weak on content. His speech was filled with lies and was both embarrassing and insulting.
I think we are starting to see the media call out Biden in his speeches filled with myth and short on facts. The fact is that Joe Biden does not only stretch the truth but rewrites it. How does he get away with this? Why is he not called out for his apparent mistruths? Joe Biden is losing the support of the media as they realize that his Presidency is beyond salvation, and the media needs to look to self-preservation.
Biden began his speech by patronizing everyone in attendance. Speaking with a phony accent, he thanked the members for bringing him home. He claimed to run on the promise of the most pro-union president in history, and he claims he has delivered. He might want to explain that to those who have lost their jobs due to his war on the fossil fuel industry.
Biden then immediately went into his attack on the economy on the day he was inaugurated. He failed to qualify his comparison with the Pandemic and did not refer to the Trump Pre-COVID economy. He talked about the three thousand Americans dying per day under Trump, while more people died during the Biden term than during the Trump term. Facts matter. He called out the twenty million lost jobs but again did not refer to the country shutting down due to COVID. Facts matter.
I’m not kidding, believe me, and I am being honest, are his go-to phrases, and if he were not lying continuously, he would not have to use such terms. He reiterates that Wall Street did not build America, but the unions did. Of course, he forgets to say where the investments come from to fund the building of America. Facts matter.
He spoke of the rich getting richer at the expense of the middle-class but did not mention the highest increase in middle-class wages in history under Trump. Facts matter. He talks about the spending bills he has passed and the trillions of dollars put into creating jobs but does not talk about how those dollars created the fastest and highest inflation rate in history.
That inflation hurts every American, has eaten up all gains made by Trump on wages, and is a “tax” on us all.
He claims the fastest growing economy in the world, which is false, but our economy contracted in the first quarter of 2022, and we are on the verge of a recession should that trend continue into the second quarter. Because of the Biden Inflation, the Fed has raised interest rates impacting mortgage and credit card rates. These, like inflation, will impact everyone. Facts matter.
When he talks about the jobs created under his watch, he does not say we are still below pre-Pandemic employment levels. Under Biden, we are chasing numbers set by Trump, but the Biden Economy is setting us back years. He talks about the increases in the Stock Market under his watch while we have given back all of the Trump gains and 401K levels will delay retirement for millions.
The union members in attendance cheered him on, which says they do not understand or know the truth. As long as there is a high level of ignorance of the truth, Biden’s lies will work with some people. We have to work hard to spread the truth because facts matter.
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The other day I heard someone say, “our system of government is broken,” and then they went on to point to corrupt politicians who continue to ignore what the people want in favor of special interests or bad ideology, which have been in Washington for decades.
They also pointed to big money from corporate America as a cause of elected officials being bought and paid for and not doing the people’s will.
This viewpoint, on its face, is compelling. It is also indicative of the societal shift (and not a good one) to blame everyone else but yourself for what misfortunes befall you. Our no-fault society has kicked out the underpinnings of our Republic in a way that is far more damaging than most would give credit and far more complicated to repair than the two sentence conversations of our social media mentality will allow.
Prepare to run to your safe space because you may be triggered by what you read next. The system is not broken! We are. The corrupt politician that gets elected time and time again doesn’t gain access to the office unless YOU vote for them.
We want to thank Greg Hough for this Op-Ed. Please direct yours to Editor@GraniteGrok.com.
If you have had it with the people in office, then run for office yourself! I see and hear so many folks complain and then do nothing except blame. How about you get into the game. The only way to not elect trash is to pay attention and get involved or to run for office yourself!
“I don’t like the party,” some say. The party is the people who are in it. Look at the Democrats, for example. They aren’t Democrats anymore. They are Socialist/Communist. That’s who showed up at the meetings, so that’s who they are now.
To the money problem, it costs a lot to run for office. In NH, the pay is $100 a year at the General Court. When was the last time you gave a candidate a contribution? It costs anywhere from $1,000 to $15,000 to run for the House of Representatives and $30,000 to $100,000 to run for the Senate here in New Hampshire. If you don’t pony up, someone will, and that someone won’t be interested in what you want.
What makes more sense paying the gas prices, food prices, housing prices, health care prices, and high property taxes year after year or giving a candidate that you know will fight for you and your interests a $25, $50, or a $100 contribution.
Get involved, learn about the people running, find the ones you like, and support their efforts. Hold signs, go to meetings, have fundraisers, write letters, donate your time or money, or both. It’s a much smaller price to pay than the one we are all paying now.
Those who say our system is broken want you to believe so they can change it such that you will never have a say in what happens to you. Stop belly aching and complaining and blaming anything and everyone else. Take a look in the mirror and get involved! Our country isn’t going to take back itself. We have to do it!
The system works fine. It is the greatest system ever devised. It cannot, however, run on autopilot, and you’ve seen what happens when you leave it to others. It needs YOU. Together, “Let’s keep the government off your back and out of your wallet.”
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No one likes to have their truth busted, and no one denies that better than the Climate Cult. For forty years, their models have been wrong, their predictions have not come to pass, but still, they cling (bitterly?) to their funding. Sorry, I meant “science!” and the false god named “consensus.” So this is for them.
This is the entire UAH Sattelite temperature record for the earth’s lower atmosphere.
You see warming throughout the timescale following the flip from the global freezing consensus of the 70s to the global warming consensus that has harassed us since.
The pause they denied in the oughts is visible as a flat and slightly declining temperature trend. That was followed by some more gradual warming until the Solar Maximum ended (NASA said late 2018 or early 2019). That’s where we are now – the beginning of a solar minimum. The global trend has stopped rising and is beginning a gradual decline (red box) without regard to CO2 emissions.
The average temperature actually is down 15% from 2016. It looks like we are getting cooler.
Red is El Nino, Blue is La Nina, and gray is neutral months.
As if the sun, not progressive policy advocates, determines the earth’s average temperature. And if true, the global mean will continue to edge downward for the duration, which is estimated at 30-50 years.
How much cooler? No one knows, but the Left is undermining cheap, abundant, domestic energy at a time when we may need more (not less) to weather the next few decades of cooling. From heating oil and gas to electricity, Democrats in the US and liberal governments worldwide are using policy to price these essential commodities out of the reach of many.
Our enemies won’t be cold if it makes you feel any better.
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The radical Democrats are destroying this country by rubber-stamping Joe Biden’s Socialist agenda. Chris Pappas, my opponent, is no exception. But, the truth that no one wants to talk about is that we have corrupt career politicians on both sides of the aisle that are destroying this country.
We must get rid of these corrupt scoundrels that are destroying this country, and that’s why I’ve pledged to vote no on Kevin McCarthy for Speaker of the House. Every other candidate in this race has already endorsed McCarthy, or they’ve stood silent. If you don’t have the courage to stand against McCarthy as a candidate, how should we expect you to stand against him if elected?
Politicians only become less principled once elected, not more. I’m the only proven conservative fighter running for Congress with a proven voting record. You can trust that I’ll fight for you in Congress. It’s what I’ve done in Congress. Send me to Washington, so I can fight to annihilate the Swamp.
Tim Baxter is a candidate for Congress in NH’s CD-01
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Dear Johnny,
I am writing to seek help with my dog who has been revealing himself to be a bigoted, racist, transphobic, bully and I don’t know what to do? For starters, he barks at all of the neighbors as they walk by our property with their dogs. I sat him down and explained to him (using my soft-tone voice) that it’s not okay to bark at the neighbors and their dogs as they walk by our house minding their own business. It’s bullying and unkind and they clearly are intimidated. He told me this is normal behavior for a Doberman, that he’s a guard dog and it’s part of his breed – he can’t help it, which I told him is just a cop-out. We can all change our behaviors, we can even change our identities. He asked what I meant by that and I told him he could choose not to be a Doberman if he wanted. I offered him an eager look so as to permit him and explained he could identify as a Pomeranian or even a cat! He cocked his head and stared blankly reminding me so much of Tucker Carlson I almost lost it!
“Why would I want to do that?” he asked. I said, “Because maybe on the inside you feel like a cat or a Pomeranian and you need to embrace those feelings and not be afraid to explore other identities.” “But I’m a Doberman” he insisted “cats are stupid and I’d almost rather be a cat than a Pomeranian”. I was heartbroken to hear him say these bigoted and transphobic remarks but he’s my dog and I can’t just have him canceled. We took a timeout and I offered to take him through a guided breathing exercise I learned from my mindfulness class. He insisted on playing with his rope toy shaking it like a rag doll but first had to demonstrably lick himself, which was such a micro-aggression I started to have an anxiety attack. After I rubbed some calming CBD oil on my temples and wrists I again tried to explain myself. I pointed out that when he barks at the neighbors in that manner it not only intimidates them but hurts the movement motioning to our Black Lives Matter yard sign (obviously next to the “I Stand With Ukraine” sign where we used to have our Biden/Build Back Better 2020 sign that I just couldn’t keep up after gas hit $8/gallon because our neighbor who drives a tractor-trailer stares at me like he’s going to roll it right over my tiny house) while reminding him that he’s black. “Yeah, but I’m not a Marxist. Marx was a racist, bigoted idiot who understood neither human nature nor economics.” This is the downside of getting a breed as smart as a Doberman because I looked into it and, honestly, he’s right about both. I couldn’t just let him win like that so I called him a Nazi and threatened to have him sent to a rescue program. I don’t want to have to do that because he’s bold and beautiful and looks amazing sitting on my lawn, but he’s also a transphobic, racist bigot. Johnny, what should I do?
Signed,
Woken-Hearted
Dear Woken-Hearted,
You sound like a cat person, maybe gerbils. Send him to the rescue. You’ll both be better off.
Johnny B.
(P.s. Please send pics. I’ve always wanted a Doberman.)
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They expect you to bow down to them and all their whims – they prey on the sense of politeness and good nature of most in order to get what they want.
Matt Walsh, the force behind “What is a Woman” documentary (I STILL have to watch it), takes apart one Eden Torres, a militant transgender, from a video that Matt uses to PERFECTION as a teaching moment. I try to do this with the posts I bring back from Treehugger but this was a master class in dissecting how this Transgender Militant used various techniques to belittle, berate, denigrate, and TRAP someone that simply just wants to get their job done: serve fast food. And tried to be polite in doing so after seeing that the name on the credit card was male. This was all about him and his feelings.
I agree with Walsh.
Or as NotTheBee put it: This guy is going out there looking for trouble
It’s similar to William Thomas (recently “Lia”) in proclaiming that he only wants to make himself happy and live his “authentic life” (what a miserable, petty, and selfish phrase that is!) and doesn’t care that the women that he parades around in their locker room in his BDay suit and takes their swimming championships away from them aren’t happy at all (nice to go from #462 to #1 by changing your swimsuit, eh?).
I feel for the manager that had to come out and put up with this nonsense – it’s clear he DOESN’T care. Good for him – he should be concerned with one thing and that’s getting the food out fast and hot and not having to trying to figure out genders, pronouns or other such stuff from a rather snotty person.
And yes, I know this was from a while ago but I just saw this now. Frankly, Eden Torres is an ugly person no matter what gender he thinks he is and forces people to believe their lying eyes to affirm him and make him good about himself. The manager DOES get the last word, though:
Torres: What would you assume in looking at me?
Manager: I would assume that you are a man.
Me, too – I see the facial whiskers. And that voice is not like any female that I’ve ever met.
Sorry, he’s the kind of person that seems to only be happy when he’s mad.
The Blaze has some of the comments:
(H/T: Frankly, I don’t remember where. Image H/T: Twitter video screenshot via @edentorres121; account has been deleted)
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So I didn’t know that The Daily Sun allowed fictitious names to be signed onto submitted letters to the editor.
Very clever, though cowardly, of the writer from Meredith, in his letter titled “Why doesn’t the news show the gore of mass killings?”, where he promotes the idea of showing the public the mutilated bodies of dead children and adults killed by mass murderers (under the guise of blaming guns and calling them weapons of war), to sign his name as Ragnar Loftbrook, the main character — a pagan — in the bloody and cannibalistic Amazon video series, “Vikings.”
And also how disrespectful and outright despicable to the families and friends of these deceased innocents to suggest such a horror as displaying the carnage on mass media.
Sounds like a very pagan idea he has indeed.
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If you want a story with layers of hypocrisy, this is probably it. The Daily Caller reports that Barack and Michelle Obama want to install underground residential-use propane tanks at their seven-bedroom, 8 1/2 bath Martha’s Vineyard Mansion. The one on a beach, at sea level.
The property, purchased in 2019, currently valued at about 19 million despite its imminent doom, sits on beachfront near Kingspoint. A fact of which we’d made sport. Climate Cult president cries sea-level rise for years, then buys hisself a swanky shoreline crib.
The headlines did write themselves.
And Martha’s Vineyard is all-in on the fearmongering. They’ve got sea-level-rise mitigation plans, contingencies, and even a video from 2013 showing what it will look like as catastrophic climate change starts to swallow their little paradise.
Barry and Michelle bought it anyway – they even got the owners to knock two million off the asking price. Imagine where we’d be if he strong-armed the Federal Budget like that?
Then consider a request for three large propane tanks amounting to 2500 gallons of capacity. Buried in the yard. Propane. A fossil fuel. Planet-destroying emissions-generating fossil fuels.
A little back-up for a home heated with natural gas (forced hot water)?
I know many folks are ranting about that, but 2500 gallons isn’t much for a home that size. It will keep the pipes from freezing for a good while and the people. Not that the Obama’s need to stay in the summer home over a New England Winter.
And Barry’s loaded. He’ll be more than comfortable, fed, and protected wherever he might rest his Marxist bones. So, the hypocrat has piled hypocrisy upon hypocrisy. Rich, fossil-fuel burning, beachfront owning, budget-conscious with his own money, Democrat who preaches class war, and climate alarmism.
Wait, here’s one more hypocrisy. According to Zillow, the property taxes have gone down over 20% since the Obama’s purchased the property (despite the estimated value going up).
Has anyone else’s property taxes decreased over the past few years – maybe ever? Asking for 81 million ‘friends.’
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The number keeps rising and is now half the States in the Union as of March: 25. Half the country now honors and respects the Second Amendment whose plain words put NO restrictions on the keeping and bearing of arms.
Period:
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
Georgia was the last State that said that Citizens did not have to ask permission from The State in order in order to exercise their Rights enumerated in the Second Amendment. I always wondered about the cognitive dissonance of having to get permission (by obtaining a license or permit) to exercise a Right that is in the Constitution to defend ourselves against a Tyrannical Government…you? If you were that Tyrannical State (or wanted to be in on the creation of such), would YOU issue such permits and licenses?
And for the trolls out there; if a person is a danger to themselves (e.g., suicide) or others (e.g., willingness to commit assault and battery, some leading to death), there are already laws that follow Due Process in removing them from Society and start the judicial process. And not the inanimate object(s)
Just look at drunk/under-the-influence driving – they don’t take away someone’s vehicle, do they? They pull their license instead and revoke the PERMISSION to drive on the public by-ways. And that is done by the judicial process in going after the PERSON and not the inanimate object.
It’s always been the Left (and supporting role Squish and Progressive Republicans) that go for the throat of our self-defense Right. They simply want to disarm us.
Then what? And telling me “oh, that can never happen here?” doesn’t wash.
A rather simple example of actions by Progressives promising such with the 16th Amendment that started income taxes. “OH, you don’t have to worry about it, it’s only the top 2% that will pay it!” – yeah, we know how well THAT worked out for us, don’t we? I’m getting off-topic here by talking about income taxes but AIER has a great history on how the 16th Amendment was created – and NOT just for the reasons we think today. It’s worth your time to read it carefully. And Mark Perry’s stuff as well.
The shift has been rather quick to realize that if one doesn’t have to get permission from The State in order to exercise their Freedom of Speech Right, one shouldn’t have to do so for a different one.
And don’t bother telling me that words don’t kill people. Leaders in Communist/Socialist countries, operating from the words spoken and written by Marx and Lenin, have killed far more people (well over 100 million by most estimates) than American civilians.
(H/T: Crime Research)
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I’ve had similar thoughts (along this line) and shared them here, but this was still very amusing to me. Delivery and timing help. And the audience thinks it’s funny, probably because what he has to say sounds absurd but actually makes sense by the time he’s done with the gag.
There is some “adult” language, so tag this NSFW. But it is brief and poignant and amusing, and what better way to start a Friday morning than with a chuckle.
And let’s remember, people, it’s a joke.
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City folk, and urban dwellers, have no idea how nature works. If you live in New Hampshire (90% forested +/-), you know a thing or two about that. Clear some land, and nature takes it right back and right quick. And every year, by my reckoning, it’s something new or different.
We cleared some trees a few years back, and the open land has proven to be an excellent place for new growth. I clear it (mower or string trimmer – it’s not all flat enough for a lawnmower), and it grows back. A lesson the urban dwellers may not have learned living in a city.
If you don’t keep after it, it will swallow the world back up and a lot faster than you ever imagined.
This years grow back is a lot different from previous years. Not a bad thing, but an interesting one, and I thought I’d see if anyone else had seen anything similar.
When spring finally sprung, we found a handful of new plants taking over the open spaces we’d created—some pesky, some pretty, and a few that were familiar but more prevalent.
We have a type of ornamental landscaping, “weed,” in the sedge grass family. I call it a weed because it acts like one but when isolated as a landscape element it is a pretty “no-maintenance garden” green feature.
I’m no expert but a search produced “Carex Hystericina” as its formal name. They grow into a big rounded thing a few feet in diameter but low to the ground. Last year we had two or three; this year, there are dozens or scores of them. I’ve placed a few around the yard and mowed down the rest. Yeah, they grow back, and I don’t mind.
Keeping it company is something called horsetail. I didn’t see any of this last year, but it is EVERYWHERE this year.
This stuff is handy (to me). It fills in places where lawn grass doesn’t grow well, and when you mow it, it creates an even green look that makes my yard look better than it is. But as I said, I saw none last year, and it’s all over the place this year. Is COVID or Global Warming to blame? Joe Biden’s presidency. Vladimir Putin?
A little politics in the garden (gardening/landscaping thread).
The wet spring temporarily tuned a chunk of my yard into a swamp, in which grew this in large quantities.
An image search says it’s probably Soft Rush (Juncus effuses) -I call it swamp grass. It grows tall and gets mowed or weed-wacked, though there’s still a ton of the stuff I’ve not yet cut down. It is also everywhere this year; we didn’t have it last year.
Another new edition, and these have not elevated to invasive yet. I just started seeing it this season. Sheep Laurel or Mountain Laurel.
Pretty little plant.
I’ve also got a few of these popping up. Aquilegia or Granny’s Bonnet if the image search results are correct.
I’d like to see more of these, but I have to be careful what I wish for – I might be inundated next year.
There’s more, but I’ve no pics of that stuff, so maybe next time. Until then, what’s invading your landscape or garden? What might you be growing on purpose? Consider this an open gardening thread.
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