Monday • April 29 • 2024
Vol.XVI • No.XVIII
Manchester, N.H.
This: “A new Biden administration rule would prevent students from receiving federal funding for public school lunches if their district didn’t comply with LGBT mandates.”
A new Biden administration rule would prevent students from receiving federal funding for public school lunches if their district didn’t comply with LGBT mandates.
More than half of state AGs say it's unconstitutional.
Via @ElizabethTrou20 https://t.co/eExlQ6xhvS
— Washington Free Beacon (@FreeBeacon) June 15, 2022
Governor Groomer’s Attorney-General SUPPORTS Biden’s mandate, which of course means Sununu supports the mandate. From the article:
In a letter to the president, 26 Republican attorneys general demanded the Biden administration withdraw its Department of Agriculture’s Title IX interpretation, which will take billions of dollars in National School Lunch Program funding away from schools that don’t let biological males use the girls’ bathroom or compete in girls’ sports. The department’s interpretation violated the Administrative Procedures Act, …
With the exception of New Hampshire attorney general John Formella, every Republican attorney general joined the coalition, which is led by Tennessee attorney general Herbert Slatery.
As I have said previously, Governor Groomer is NEITHER a conservative nor even a Republican. Nor are you if you vote for him.
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Mask mandates have a lousy record when it comes to stopping the spread of viruses, but there is growing evidence that they increase the chances that you’ll get them. And not just one. Doctors are reporting pediatric patients with as many as three viruses at once.
Thomas Murray, an infection-control expert and associate professor of pediatrics at Yale, told The Washington Post on Monday that his team was seeing children with combinations of seven common viruses – adenovirus, rhinovirus, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), human metapneumovirus, influenza and parainfluenza, as well as the coronavirus.
Some children were admitted with two viruses and a few with three, he said.
‘That’s not typical for any time of year and certainly not typical in May and June,’ he said.
Experts say pandemic policies might be responsible, but no one in the source article is willing to blame mass masking. They suggest that preventing kids from exposure to everyday viruses makes immune systems ill-prepared to fight them when encountered. That has always been a concern, but that’s the only problem.
Masks don’t prevent the spread of viruses. Wearing one does not prevent exposure. They are not engineered to do that and never were. Neither do cloth masks nor, in many cases, better devices improperly used. What they can do is accumulate exhaled human “waste” in the form of bacteria and recycle that into the lungs with other trapped particulates. The deeper breathing required to get adequate oxygen while wearing a mask can embed these bits further into lung tissue, which presents the opportunity for more severe illness.
It creates fertile ground for something, including things to which they were not adequately exposed.
I’m not a doctor, but I’m not beholden to medical associations, corporate hospital systems, big Pharma, or serving at the will of politicians and bureaucrats who have an agenda and an approved narrative. And I can read, and have.
Trapping kids in masks for six or more hours a day can create the potential for unwanted side effects; Hypoxia, Hypercapnia, particulate vulnerabilities, microbial challenges, and now they are catching viruses in spring and early summer when that used to be rare. A problem some of the same experts are suggesting is the new normal.
It’s new, but it is not normal.
Mass masking any demographic, especially one with nothing to fear from COVID, is not normal. It’s extreme, and these are likely the consequences but don’t worry. They’ll blame it on something else, like climate change.
And that’s a hint. The cure to this and many problems that ail us is a change in “leadership,” prompting a shift in the political climate. An electoral vaccine that protects you from Donkey Pox. And yes, a booster is required (at least every two years), or you should expect to lose more than just your liberties.
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Stealing elections is expensive, so Democrats need to raise a lot of money. Typically, you can count on the titular party heads – the P and the VP as a featured attraction. It allows donors and sycophants a shot at rubbing elbows with “greatness,” unless that someone is Kamal Harris.
The Democrat National Committee (DNC) reportedly had to reschedule its Woman’s Leadership Forum fundraiser on May 25 and 26 with Vice President Kamala Harris for lack of ticket sales.
“The event was rescheduled last minute for the autumn, when the event is traditionally held, after the event couldn’t sell enough tickets,” Status Coup News reported. “When the invites were sent out on May 5, it was hyped as an incredible opportunity to mingle in person after two years of virtual events and meetings.”
We have the first woman (whatever that is) Vice President (and that), and one of at least some color, and Democrat women don’t want to meet her. They don’t want to dish out dollars to support the party she supposedly leads. They don’t want her to be president.
That’s the only reason to prop up dementia-Joe. A guy who, every time he speaks, does damage to the nation and the Democrat brand. And Kamal is worse.
And these are the people the “experts” on the Left chose to run the country or what’s left of it. Maybe they got that part right. Destruction is always the goal, and Biden-Harris will go down in history, assuming it doesn’t get re-written, as the worst Administration ever.
And I’m not suggesting they couldn’t do worse, but when Democrat women don’t want to attend an event featuring Democrat women, that’s bad. And why do they think the fall event will be a better draw? Nothing happening now is going to get better—quite the opposite.
Kamala will be even less of a draw in three to four months, but that’s the plan.
Let’s see how that works out.
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I am running out of ways to say that Ron DeSantis has a preternatural, uncanny ability to troll the heck out of demented leftists. The guy can’t hold a press conference without twisting the knife in Democrats.
As good and as often as he torches these fools, though, I think we just entered Top Five territory with this latest comebacker. Let me set this up: DeSantis is speaking to reporters and enters a Q&A session. He fields a question from the journos referencing an earlier tweet from Elon Musk basically saying he [Musk] felt Ron DeSantis should be the GOP nominee for 2024 and that he was leaning towards voting for him. Enter DeSantis.
Watch below as Florida’s hotshot governor takes over from here:
Absolutely priceless. As Clay Travis tweeted, this is “pure gold.” My goodness, was that delicious. Elon Musk, a South African native and therefore an immigrant from the continent of Africa, might not be the envisioned image of the term, but it’s nonetheless accurate and the perfect way to corner Democrats who thought they couldn’t hate him anymore after he exposed Twitter as a fraudulent organization.
I admit it’s not the first time I heard the term, but I have only heard it from commentators, not from duly elected governors and potential presidential prospects.
It’s moments like these that Ron DeSantis is gaining popular momentum for 2024. He has the same instincts that drove Trump to the White House when it comes to speaking honest truths and pushing back on the media. But what separates him from the former president is his more affable, approachable manner and articulate communication. This is not a dig on Trump, who was the only person – literally, the only person – who could have defeated Hillary in 2016 and who exposed the absolute corruption of the Deep State for four years. Trump is owed a huge debt of gratitude.
But moving forward, is DeSantis best poised to carry the torch? This is the question on everyone’s mind as the field for GOP candidates is effectively down to two men – the former president or Florida’s governor.
Here is the tweet that set the internet on fire and gave DeSantis this opportunity to torch demented leftists everywhere:
I previously wrote about some reactions online from Musk’s one-word reply to the question. Over at the Daily Wire, there was near-unanimous consent among their preference to see Trump step aside and allow DeSantis a chance to run on 2024.
“Time will tell how the presidential primaries shake out within the Republican Party, but this tweet cannot be ignored for the impact it will have. Musk has his own ideas, to be sure, but he is also good at reading the room.
Interestingly, while it is nearly unanimous that Donald Trump saved America (we wrote about this right after Election Day 2020), there is also no shortage of conservative voters that can simultaneously lionize the man and have a different vision for the immediate future of the entire MAGA movement.
Some voters worry about what would essentially amount to a lame-duck term should Trump run and win. Others point out that while Trump is a great visionary, DeSantis shares his bombastic retorts for corrupt media and politics, perhaps in a more deft tone, and with the additional bonus of having executive experience. There is then the fact that Donald Trump carries a lot of baggage, especially as it relates to the end of his term. Fair or not, the aggressive and savage media narratives would make it hard for him to overcome certain voter tendencies.”
Hailey Sanibel writes at The Blue State Conservative.
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“Social Credit Score” policies patterned after the Chinese Communist Party’s methods to control their people are silently being implemented into our economy based on a company’s trustworthiness to the policies of the state in areas such as Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG).
This mandate is moving to become bureaucratic law through the corporate environmental policy of the Security Exchange Commission (SEC) Climate Disclosure S7 – 10 – 22. It will be regarded as law through executive fiat by the Biden Administration without congressional approval unless, during the “comment period” ending on Friday, June 17th, an overwhelming miraculous irate citizen response builds into a wall of resistance that convincingly tells the SEC this is a line they had better not pass.
Some folks unfamiliar with ESG Chinese style Social Credit Scores may wonder: what’s the big deal? First of all, this latest policy of the Biden White House is moving through a sneaky law-making process that bypasses the constitutional mandate that all law-making is vested in Congress.
Why should citizens stand idle while our political leaders violate this constitutional mandate, allowing the SEC to do their job? Such as issuing limitations on corporate and personal liberty through bureaucratic law that requests many costly bogus environmental disclosures. Mandating public companies to report climate risks and the cost of moving away from fossil fuels and even the physical impact of storms on higher temperatures blamed on the bogus science of global warming. All among other ridiculous demands that, according to the IV Amendment, are none of their business.
These burdensome edicts placed on the backs of American enterprises will further make us less competitive, and the average Americans who will fund these policies out of each paycheck will face future loss of jobs. Don’t worry, more government jobs will solve the problem is the socialist dream. Hogwash!
Even worse, this “tyranny is contagious,” companies will need to impose their own “social credit scores” on consumers resulting in Americans being denied services because they haven’t adopted the Great-Reset-compliant lifestyle that follows the Chinese Communist agenda. Needless to say, Patriots who believe in individual responsibility to make their own decisions in all areas of life will not get passing grades.
This must be stopped. For Social Credit scores are right out of the tyrannical Chinese Communist totalitarian agenda to control people. It is fair to assume that most American entrepreneurs do not want to live in such a climate of business that demands compliance to so much useless “red tape” that only produces higher prices and bureaucratic job security on the way to 100% total government control.
“Social credit scores” in America for individuals or corporations must be defeated. For generational liberty depends on each generation preserving it for the next. The challenge is ours. Otherwise, Through silence, we help implement this communist Chinese-style Great Reset Policy of the World Economic Forum.
As you ponder this perilous dilemma, consider the eternal truth that is a foundation pillar of American liberty expressed by the wit of President Emeritus of the John Birch Society, John F. McManus: “America has become great not because of what the government has done for the people, it has become great because of what the government was prevented from doing by the Constitution.”
It is urgent that we put this process of limitation on government into action by June 17th by spreading the word to both the federal and state legislatures to put pressure on the SEC to reverse their 3-1 decision to implement Social Credit Scores by decree on American free enterprise. Insist that the Biden Executive department crawl back into their “constitutional cage.”
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Obama’s EPA hackarina, Gina McCarthy, serves as a climate advisor for the Bidenistas. Not the economic climate nor the international. And not the broken border (that’s Kamala). Baby Formula Czar? Nope. She’s Biden’s Climate cult Torquemada and wants her big tech inquisitors cut your tongue out.
“We need the tech companies to really jump in,” she said, because highlighting the costs of green energy is “equally dangerous to denial because we have to move fast.” Got that, Mark Zuckerberg?
Merely pointing out technical limitations of lithium-ion batteries could be “disinformation.”
If you want to discuss issues with engineering, physics, or logistics, that demonstrate how what they demand will fail – harming people, the nation, and the environment, well, gosh, Wally, that’s disinformation.
We’ll have none of that, and the Government, through the mouthpiece of Gina McCarthy, is asking the internet to censor it. That would be like banning the sale of newsprint to broadsheets that dared to question the methods and tactics of bureaucrats and politicians in centuries past. The internet is just a medium, and big Tech may be its gatekeeper, but the Government asking, hinting, and coaxing them to censor partisan speech is a problem.
It is a different problem from them engaging in censorship voluntarily.
Without getting into a debate about whether Facebook, Twitter, or Google are more public utilities than private entities acting on their own behalf, the Government is expressly prohibited from what McCarthy suggests.
Yes, the Government does it all the time and more than we can know, and not just from the lips of Gina McCarthy. Censorship is a plank in every authoritarian platform. And the progressives have been very successful at grooming their corporate oligarchs to print their own branches.
Censorship or censure. That’s the Government’s policy. And what’s left is labeled the consensus.
It’s the intellectual equivalent of ethnic cleansing.
So, modern Democrats like Gina McCarthy are just little Hitlers purifying the “intellectual” dogma of their 21st-century master race, and big Tech and corporate media are their Schutzstaffel.
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As RINOs worked to undermine Trump all through his tenure in office:
We now have RINOs throwing our sacred Bill of Rights down the gullet of the Left’s crocodile. Hoping for accolades, invites to the “beautiful people” cocktail parties, and laudatory puff pieces in the enemedia about how they’ve “grown in office”, and leave us not forget the nest-feathering. Funny thing about crocodiles, though. They’re never satiated.
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Getting tough on border security and immigration helped catapult Donald Trump to victory in 2016. I think we can agree that Biden and Democrats have outdone themselves, undoing his gains and making things exponentially worse in a year than Barry Obama did with eight of them. Will that hurt Democrats in 2022? I did in TX-34.
Mayra Flores avoided a runoff and flipped Texas’ 34th congressional district in a special election last night. She becomes the first Latina House Republican from Texas, and perhaps the vanguard of a coming red tidal wave in the midterms:…
It’s a primarily urban-suburban district in the Rio Grande Valley (RGV) — only 16% of it is rural — and Flores won it outright by running on immigration enforcement. The district is rated D+5 in the Cook index, and most promising of all for the GOP, 85% of its voters are Hispanic.
What’s the Democrat party messaging to Hispanic Americans along the border who have been overrun? Suck it up? Don’t be a racist? Where do you go with that, and how do you come back from this? It’s a brutal 5-point loss.
If the Donkey-Party had even suspected a loss, they’d have engaged special measures to firm up their odds.
It turns out the DCCC didn’t really give the Democrat much, if any, money. I guess he ran as a pro-life Democrat. There’s no room in the Diversity party for that sort of diversity. But does that matter?
A Hispanic woman running as a pro-border security Republican (her husband is in the US border patrol) won in a district that is 85% Hispanic and voted for Biden by (I believe it was) 12 points.
I think that’s a big win. A red wave win.
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More random thoughts – the Left’s absolute mind-tearing political rampage about killing babies, while I wait for the Grandson’s field trip bus to the Squam Lake Center to arrive, after the leaking of the Alito preliminary decision about overriding Roe vs Wade.
Throw in some about the “shall not infringe”-ing going on by the Democrats over the latest mass school shooting in Uvalde, Texas just because of the need for these politicians, both Left and Right, to be seen as doing something.
And that “do something” almost always seems to end up in taking away our Rights, enlarging Government, or taking more of my money.
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The California State Legislature has a bill that would put the right to gender transition above parental rights. Parents who object to chemical or surgical transitioning would be guilty of child abuse and abandonment.
The California bill was introduced by San Francisco Democrat Sen. Scott Wiener, an openly homosexual lawmaker who previously introduced a bill (S.B. 145) allowing judges to exempt individuals who engage in homosexual sex acts with minors from the state sex offender registry if they’re no more than 10 years older than a minor aged 14 and up. The bill has since been signed into law.
As if people didn’t have enough reasons to leave the “golden” state, not that it would be of much use if your estranged spouse stays and is intent on flipping the gender switch with your child.
“Usually, if a parent refuses to return a child to another state after visitation, California courts won’t take jurisdiction,” National Review reported. “But a specific exemption to this general rule is being fashioned when ‘gender affirming care’ is at issue”. …
Families engaged in custody disputes centered around transgender “care” for their kids could find California courts moving in to ensure the child receives destructive hormone and surgical interventions, even against the wishes of the parent opposed to transgender ideology.
According to the proposal, a California court would assume “temporary emergency jurisdiction” if a child is “present in the state” but “has been unable to obtain gender-affirming health care or gender-affirming mental health care.”
If it becomes law, I’d expect it to come into conflict with Constitutionally-protected religious rights, especially if a school or other “government” entity is pushing gender ideology on kids. And maybe that’s what they are after. A Case where they might get a friendly court to set a precedent on “property rights” as it relates to children.
Ugly business, but the Left never sleeps, so neither shall we.
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I’ve read somewhere on these pages that Democrats destroy everything they touch. A broad statement that seventeen months of Joe Biden and another Democrat majority congress are etching in stone. Maybe add the words “wrecking things is easy for them, and they like doing it.”
For example, I was in a grocery store yesterday and saw the price of a trendy local brand of coffee I used to prefer. Last year it was around eleven dollars and change for a tub of the stuff. This past week, that item was closing in on 18.00 for the same size package. That’s a 63.6% increase in price in one year.
Gasoline is, of course, at or over 5.00 a gallon for the first time, up about 150% from not so long ago. Let’s call it PB or Pre-Biden.
Speaking of PB, Peanut butter is becoming more difficult to find. It was once an affordable but reliable source of food and easy protein, but many shelves appear empty except for the crunchy version of the store brand, and even that isn’t in abundance.
A loaf of store-brand bread I’ve been known to purchase went up 67% in price this past week.
This morning we discovered that electric rates in New England and New Hampshire are about to double. It’s good to know all that extra money you didn’t have will go toward keeping the light on – just the one. Heating and cooling options look precarious at double the previous rate, which was already one of the more expensive rates in the nation.
Democrats destroy everything they touch – wrecking things is easy for them, and they like doing it.
It seems to me that this path we’re on is unsafe. Not just for school kids (shooter and gender cultists), or the “most vulnerable,” but everyone. People’s lives are being put at risk. And many people were caught unaware, believing that Democrats meant what they said (lies) and not the opposite (reality). In the interest of public health, we need Blue Flag laws.
Public policy protective orders.
Citizens who suspect or know that someone is a progressive Democrat or advocate of Democratic-Socialism would be able to contact local authorities who could secure them in the interest of protecting Justice, ensuring domestic Tranquility, providing for the common defense, promoting the general Welfare, and securing the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.
Just to have a conversation.
They’d be prohibited from holding or running for public office until further notice. And no voting. Not until this gets cleared up. And at least until we’ve been assured they are not or are no longer a threat.
After which, they could begin the long, expensive, and arduous process of getting their rights back.
Blue Flag Laws.
They could save America.
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George Soros wants to see America burn, so he’s invested vast sums into electing public prosecutors who are soft on crime. Virginia State Attorney Buta Biberaj received $860,000.00 from a Soros PAC (she won by two points), but she was just tossed off a case by a Judge for concealing criminal records.
Loudoun County circuit court judge James Plowman said the office of Commonwealth’s Attorney Buta Biberaj (D.) was “deliberately misleading the Court and the public” about “a possible 12 burglary crime spree spanning 4 counties over 10 days.” In a plea agreement, Biberaj’s office failed to note the offender had recently pleaded guilty to felonies and had pending charges and prior convictions as a minor, according to Plowman. Fox 5 on Saturday first reported on the judge’s order to remove Biberaj from the case.
“The Commonwealth is deliberately misleading the Court, and the public, in an effort to ‘sell’ the plea agreement for some reason that has yet to be explained,” Plowman wrote in his order.
Write an early ticket for the crook and then justify it by hiding the defendant’s extensive criminal history. How often are they getting away with this?
We know about the millions being “donated” by rich liberals to third parties who provide cash bail, sometimes to violent felons. The same crowd has worked to eliminate bail so criminals can go free while “awaiting” trial. They may refuse to arrest, refuse to charge, or just drop cases. It got so bad that San Francisco just recalled their Soros-backed DA after crime got so bad that even the liberal poop pile by the bay couldn’t take it any longer.
I’m sure it’s Putin’s fault, but so far, no one appears ready to lay that blame at his feet.
As for Virginia State Attorney Buta Biberaj, one commenter at Instapundit suggested getting her disbarred. That’s a great idea, except it won’t happen. You have to bring cases against mask and vaccine mandates to get disciplined by your peers these days.
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It is my pleasure and honor to announce my candidacy as a Republican for State Representative in the new Carroll County District #6 serving Tuftonboro and Wolfeboro.
A little bit about me: I’m a military wife, a mother, a grandmother, a caregiver, an educator, a farmer, a coach, a servant, a friend, and a neighbor. I’ve never been a politician, so I hope you will all bear with me as I take up this journey.
My husband Bill and I moved to Wolfeboro 27 years ago. We looked at surrounding New England states but decided that New Hampshire values were a perfect match. We still live in the only home that we have ever owned.
We raised our four daughters on the farm we built from the rocks up. We chose to homeschool our girls, and they were active on Kingswood athletic teams, an experience that we value highly. As the years have gone by, we have come to cherish the friendships and community that we have nurtured here. Now that the girls are grown, it is time to give back to the community that has meant so much to us.
We want to thank Katy Peternel for this Op-Ed.
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My empty nest coincided with the beginning of the pandemic, and that made it challenging to find ways to get involved, but I did find them. I have taken on work as a gardener, yoga instructor, and most recently, caregiver. In 2020, I volunteered as a greeter, absentee ballot opener, and relief ballot clerk for both the primary and general elections. I currently serve as a town-employed ballot clerk in Wolfeboro, a position that gives me great pride to be part of our town and state. I am also a member of the Wolfeboro Agricultural Commission.
Seeing what is going on in our country and reading about state issues, I turned my attention to state legislation. I began with online registration of my opinions on legislative bills this term, which in turn led to testifying on bills and learning more about the state legislative process. I have attended committee hearings, executive sessions, and recently a full eight-hour House Session. Comparing bills and legislation to the US and NH Constitutions has been fascinating.
In October 2019, I visited the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, TN. The museum is on the site of the motel where Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated. Upon leaving the museum, humbled by the immensity of Dr. King’s sacrifice, I turned to my daughter and said, “I hope that we also will know when it is time to stand up and do the right thing.”
For me, that moment is now. After two years of watching our basic rights of life and liberty erode rapidly, along with common decency, I can no longer be silent. I’m choosing to be part of the solution. As I go forward on this journey, I look forward to meeting with people in both Tuftonboro and Wolfeboro and talking with you about the issues that concern you. I hope to win your vote for State Representative serving Wolfeboro and Tuftonboro so that together we can keep New Hampshire the Live Free or Die State.
Katy Peternel Rock Farm, Wolfeboro
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There is a tendency among the progressive establishment to lean on mental health issues when it comes to mass shootings. It’s easy to see why. Almost everyone they know has mental health issues, so what else could it be?
And they don’t know anyone they would trust with a firearm, so that must mean everyone else is like that. Unstable and dangerous, likely to fly off the handle at any moment. It’s a reasonable assumption given the peer group.
And I’m speaking of the rank and file pussy-hat, black fist, occupy Wall Street, Climate Cult, defund, stand with Ukraine, party-regular hoplophobes. The people who believe the top-down rhetoric whose true purpose is disarmament so that government won’t have to fear armed resistance to planned tyranny.
They just think guns are scary and know no one they’d trust to have them, even the police they claim as a reason why we don’t need to possess our own firearms.
Like I said, mentally unstable.
But how crazy can a shooter be if they are lucid enough to pick a gun-free zone like a public school over an NRA meeting or a gun show? If your goal is to commit mass murder, regardless of the motivation, then hard targets are off the list.
It only follows then that these would-be murderers are otherwise of sound mind in that respect. If that’s true, then hardening targets is the answer. And it’s the answer because events like Parkland and Uvalde have proven something else.
The Government (schools, policing, etc.), no matter how extensive its programs, planning, or preparation, are incapable of protecting teachers, staff, and children from people who know that this same government has disarmed them and takes pride in that fact.
They advertise it.
What to doThere is no guaranteed solution to violence of any sort (humans being humans), but if you’d like to reduce the chance of a school shooting, stabbing, or any related acts of mass violence, end gun-free zones. It’s not as if they have prevented school shootings.
Take the signs down. Make noise about hardening the target. Lie, it’s not like schools aren’t good at that. They lie to the parents all the time. Hide the truth.
Start a rumor about arming teachers. And you should, by the way, arm them (I bet you’ll get volunteers), but the mere presumption of resistance can significantly reduce the perception that kids and staff would be easy prey.
Wouldn’t it reflect better on leadership if they demonstrated more sense than the so-called crazy people looking to commit mass murder?
Apparently not, and that’s because the disarmament party doesn’t truly care about life, children, or even safety. They just want you disarmed. And as long as their rank-and-file water carriers ape the approved message, what we’ll get is more dead kids.
Bonus material; Penn and Teller explain the Second Amendment.
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A reply to the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board, “The Evidence of the Jan. 6 Committee.” The Journal says its Editorial Board (EB) stands “… against the ukases of kings and other collectivists; and for individual autonomy against dictators, bullies and even the tempers of momentary majorities.” Except for now.
This is pure Gigot-speak, and some poor editorial scribbler in a back office got the unenviable assignment to make Gigot sound rational. Nice try. Ukases? How about the lot of the many J-6 accused? Somebody said, “lock ‘em up and throw away the key!” American justice is now deeply stained! The WSJ is as loud on this outrage as it has been on Shakil Afridi.
Does the EB stand for solitary confinement prior to trial? Apparently so. This preachment amounts to bullying in support of a momentary majority: a ukase decreeing that we Biden-doubters must shut up. It’s like calling Trump’s claims that he was spied on preposterous. But now there’s a long list of what-abouts.
Those thousands of hours of unreleased videos? The ukase reads, “Stonewall!”
We want to thank Bryan Blanchard for this Op-Ed.
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Pelosi’s and Bowser’s refusal to accept federal troops days before the event? The ukase says, “Don’t mention that!”
All those similarities to Michigan’s Whitmer Caper? Ignore those, too!
And all those shady FBI-connected characters who were involved in it! Throw in Ray Epps, too! He’s a must-case “forgettable.”
There couldn’t possibly have been agents provocateur among the protestors!
So is the EB still standing by the claim that 2020 was a “perfect election?” How about taking some time out to go watch 2000 Mules! The Geo-tracking that True The Vote used to corral the mules was the same technique as that utilized by the FBI to hunt down the January 6th “insurrectionists.” So it must be valid. Even Chief Justice Roberts swears by it.
The “momentary majority” is having their way with all of us, aided and abetted by the first three Estates of the Ancient Regime. And the 4th Estate (that’s you, Editorial Board, in case you forgot), is their handmaiden.
The nonsense aired on Thursday night was nothing more than than the latest chapter in the anti-Trump saga that refuted his claim that he was spied on, that accused him of collusion and treason, that brought Mueller out of retirement to despatch a tyrant and Biden out of his basement to bring back civility, and teed-up two impeachments and other assorted investigations and civil cases.
So where did all that get us? Look around. Life sucks in most major cities, and the economy sucks, too. Americans are struggling, and America is threatened from many directions. It could go even further off the rails if China is as opportunistic as Russia. The members of the electorate who pay attention aren’t buying the thin gruel the EB is serving up and laments their lack of real curiosity about what got us here.
I’d trade the Editorial Board and the entire cast of WSJ reporters and analysts for one Julie Kelly. They all should go read her book on the subject or watch Dinesh D’Sousa’s movie. Many of the rest of us have and are open to looking further into the evidence. For good measure, go back and take another look at the braggadocio that appeared in Time. There may have been something to it.
Link | WSJ
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Donald Trump spoke more truths about the corrupt political machine than any American president in history. Rather than contribute to the corruption, he called it out and attempted to remedy it.
For his efforts, he was ridiculed by the stupid masses that prefer tyranny over freedom and was targeted by the Deep State for ouster.
One video perfectly shows how obvious our current problems are and where they come from. No one should be surprised that we are facing a cataclysmic economic downtown, runaway inflation, nor that we are once more mired in an endless and expensive foreign way. Trump saw this coming miles away, as did the patriots who voted for him.
Hat tip to whoever put these clips together:
The greatest video you’ll see today — Trump predicts EVERY absolute failure of Biden’s Presidency
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— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) June 14, 2022
(Editor’s note: I have a local copy of the video here if you don’t want to give clicks to Twitter.)
“They’re coming for your guns. They’re coming for your jobs. And they’re coming for your freedom.”
“They hate American energy and Joe Biden will shut it all down. He’s going to!”
“If Biden’s elected, he will wipe out your energy industry.”
“Gas prices going $5, $6, $7 for a gallon.”
“Flood your communities with criminal aliens, drugs, and crime while they live behind beautiful gated compounds.”
“They try to take away your guns – second amendment – they want to take it away while they enioy private security that’s fully armed.”
Spend trillions of dollars rebuilding foregin nations, fighting foegin wars, and defending forgein borders.
“You want to use the word recession or depression?”
On one hand, it was so refreshing to have a President just call it like it was and be a straight shooter. He didn’t hide behind political speak or vague promises. He spoke freely and honestly – and was amazingly almost always correct.
On the other hand, it’s not like this is hard to see. We all knew Biden and the Democrats were hellbent on destroying our country. They hate America, individualism, and freedom. They would much rather see a state-centered world where the bureaucratic elite control the rest of us.
For his efforts of trying to rescue America, Trump and his supporters have been branded as racist traitors. Reassuringly, the public at large isn’t buying it anymore as evidenced by recent polling in response to the Soviet show trials featuring nine Democrats in the House Select Committee.
One such poll from Issues and Insights noted that:
“Fewer than half of all Americans are convinced that the Democrats’ Jan. 6 Commission is making an honest attempt at discovering the truth about the mostly peaceful political demonstrations that took place on Capitol Hill that day, the latest data from the I&I/TIPP Poll show.
Some 44% of Americans said they were either “very confident” (21%) in the committee’s investigation or “somewhat confident” (23%) that the Democrat-dominated Jan. 6 Commission “will make a genuine effort to uncover the truth.”
Fully 40% in June’s poll said they weren’t confident, with equal parts saying they were “not at all confident” (20%) and “not very confident” (20%). As the pie chart below shows, another 15% said they were “not sure.””
Add to this the fact that viewership for this spectacle is likely limited to people already convinced Trump is guilty, and this thing, rather than moving the needle in the desired direction, is just turning more people off.
Hailey Sanibel Writes at The Blue State Conservative.
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Progressive in politics is a misnomer. Progressives have no interest in enhancing the state of our nation but rather in tearing it down and rebuilding it in their image. This philosophy is why Progressives aim to eradicate the country’s history and repaint it in as bad a light as possible.
In the last couple of years, we saw extreme examples of this effort defacing or destroying historical monuments and renaming schools to remove the connection with prominent figures from our past. Progressives are a product of an educational system that has been programming them since kindergarten. Unfortunately, with no life experiences, their theories have no connection with reality. They are proponents of a Socialist ideology that has failed and destroyed every country it has consumed.
The Squad members are coming up on their third run for office. The mystique and novelty are wearing off even with their young base. At some point, they need to start running on their accomplishments, and like AOC, none of them have any pieces of successful legislation they drafted to claim. They continue to be the Radical Left Wing of the party that the rest of the party feels a need to satisfy. How has such a group of underachievers attained such power and influence?
In just sixteen months, we have witnessed the devastating effects of a poorly run Biden administration. AOC, Omar, Tlaib, and others think that by pulling the Biden team to the Left, they can get the country heading in their direction. That direction results in a wholly reformed America with no resemblance to the one designed by our forefathers. That is the America they seek.
This vision will not work for most Americans. Though the Progressives think they have control over the country, there are still more adults in the room than Progressives. Thank God. AOC is the youngest and best-known member of the Squad. But Tlaib, at 45, and Omar, at 40, do not show more maturity or experience than AOC. None of them have done anything to enhance the lives of their constituents, and it could be said that AOC harmed hers significantly by killing an Amazon distribution and office center in her district.
The Congressional Democrats are looking at a tsunami of change coming in November. Most of the Pre-Covid economic gains realized under Trump have been returned under Biden and the Radical Left. By sticking to this far-Left agenda they espouse, the Squad may set themselves up for extinction. This reset would be a massive win for the American middle class that has taken many steps backward under the Progressive influence these last few years.
Suppose there is a silver lining to the Biden Presidency. In that case, it is to show the American people how toxic the diverse, Woke and Progressive wing of the Democrat party can be and how it will tear down this grand experiment. That would account for why 74% of Americans think we are being steered down the wrong path by Joe Biden. They also cannot agree on a viable alternative for Biden in 2024 with such a weak bullpen for the Lefts. It is nearly impossible to get three-fourths of Americans to agree on anything. But the Progressives have managed to turn that many people against them. That is what we on the Right call a success.
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Pfizer’s former global Head for Respiratory Diseases, Dr Mike Yeadon gets Radical:
— Maajid أبو عمّار (@MaajidNawaz) June 15, 2022
“No team I was ever part of would have picked the spike protein…I believe they did it on purpose. It was COLLUSION & MALFEASANCE” pic.twitter.com/NiyjlNZtT4 https://t.co/HLs6zMGJPP
Local utilities serving the Granite State are preparing to adjust what they charge for electricity. The cost of natural gas has skyrocketed, and that pain is about to find ratepayers’ pockets.
Talk about energy policy chickens coming home to roost.
In a Monday filing with the Public Utilities Commission, Liberty Utilities proposed increasing the per kilowatt hour price of electricity from 11.11 cents, the rate in effect from February to July of this year, to 22.23 cents starting in July.
That means a typical household would see a 47 percent increase in its electric bill, according to consumer advocate Don Kreis. (Other charges on the bill would remain unchanged.) A household currently paying $150 per month would see their electricity increase to $220 per month.
Unitil and Eversource are right behind them – their rat adjustment periods are different, but they will all file the changes before winter comes and winter is coming. And so was this problem. We’ve been discussing the need for more natural gas in New England for years (one example), but the default setting has been no new infrastructure.
Not that this would affect the price. The Democrat’s war on domestic energy and Biden’s promise to end fossil fuels has raged since ‘Brandon’ sat his demented ass behind the Resolute desk. The price of that policy has come calling, and as with all acts of Democrat destruction, the poor and middle-class will get hit hardest.
And no, the prices are not going to go down. “Projections show that cost more than tripling to $30 per Btu.” That means your electric rates will need to be adjusted upward again, and no, it’s not Putin’s fault you could be paying three to five times or more than you do now to charge that electric vehicle they insist you’ll have to drive. To cook, use lights and appliances, and even heat or cool your home. Those costs are all going up exponentially thanks to the Democrat’s war on fossil fuels.
Their war on prosperity. A war on you.
Costs that everyone from small business owners to health care providers to your government won’t be able to absorb, so you’ll be paying for that too.
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