In open defiance of several United States Supreme Court rulings on gun ownership, Illinois has enacted a ban on certain kinds of commonly owned firearms and has required owners of other kinds of commonly owned firearms to register them with the state.

So far, compliance with the registration requirement seems to be well under 1%.  That’s the good news.

The bad news is that if you refuse to comply and you get caught the first time, that’s a misdemeanor, but the second time it’s a felony.  Which means you lose1 your right to own any kind of gun.

In other words, if the government says you have to register your guns, and you decide that it has no authority to do so, you are no longer law-abiding.  You are a felon — guilty of the ‘crime’ of believing that the federal constitution actually means what it says.

So according to the government — and for that matter, according to the NRA and the vast majority of ‘gun rights supporters’ that I’ve met — you can’t have guns.

And even when the Supreme Court gets around to striking down that law in a few years, your felony conviction will still stand.  So unless you have a pile of money and several years to devote to having it overturned, that won’t be of much help to you.

It’s time for people who think that only ‘law-abiding Americans’ have the right to keep and bear arms to rethink that position, which is what allows laws like this to exist in the first place.

At the very least, simply refusing to be disarmed (or to give the government the information it would need later to disarm you) shouldn’t be grounds for disarming you.  That’s the kind of thing that we should be reading about only in novels like Catch-22 and not in our law books.

 

¹ To be more precise, you don’t actually lose the right, because it is inalienable, which means it can’t be taken from you or even surrendered voluntarily.  If you’re a person, you have the right to self-defense and to own the tools necessary for self-defense.  But the state will punish you for trying to exercise that right.

 

 

 

 

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If you shop at convenience stores, you may have noticed that checking for proof of age during tobacco & alcohol purchases has quietly moved from viewing the customer’s driver’s license to electronically scanning our licenses.  I first noticed this at Circle K stores and then found the same practice in others.

Our privacy is once again under attack in a seemingly “small” way, but I became alarmed enough to dive into the legality.

A trusted State Rep pointed me to state law RSA 263:12.  The last section of this law prohibits the scanning of my driver’s license with all of my personal information on it without my consent (with an exception for pawnbrokers, scrap metal dealers, and other secondhand dealers).

RSA 263:12 states in part,

It shall be a misdemeanor for any person to:

1. Knowingly scan, record, retain, or store, in any electronic form or format, personal information, as defined in RSA 260:14, obtained from any license, unless authorized by the department. Nothing in this paragraph shall prohibit a person from transferring, in non-electronic form or format, personal information contained on the face of a license to another person, provided that the consent of the license holder is obtained if the transfer is not to a law enforcement agency.

I filed a complaint with the NH Attorney General’s office that the law – as well as my Constitutional Right to privacy – was violated. The response I received confirmed my concern as I was pointed to the phrase in RSA 263:12 X “unless authorized by the department.”

The “Department” referred to in RSA 263:12 is the NH Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV), which is run by unelected bureaucrats and political appointees free to push their political ideologies with apparently no desire by the NH Department of Justice to provide any oversight or enforcement.

Below is how The Department of Motor Vehicles and the NH Attorney General’s office washed their hands of their responsibilities to monitor and safely regulate who can access, scan, and store our personal data. They closed the case in typical Jedi Mind Trick fashion, inferring “there was nothing to see here” – but as you will see, can not back up their finding of no wrongdoing.

The Attorney General’s office identified DMV “rule” Saf-C 5606.05 which was written by those ideological, political appointees in the DMV, to unconstitutionally violate our Right to privacy.  Therefore, I was told that Circle K was “authorized” (by those appointed ideologues) to scan my license electronically, and the case was closed.

DMV rule Saf-C 5606.05 states:

(a) Notwithstanding any rule to the contrary, the department authorizes the scanning of personal information from any license in any electronic form or format so long as all the following conditions are met:

(1) The equipment used to scan such personal information does not visibly identify any personal information other than driver license number and name;

(2) The equipment used to scan personal information does not retain, store, or transfer any personal information, other than driver license number and name, for any period of time; and

(3) The equipment used to scan personal information does not store any personal information, other than driver license number and name, in a central repository disaster recovery central repository, such as a cold site or hot site, whether on-site or in a remote location.

So, I asked the AG’s office three simple questions:

Before closing the case, did you confirm the following:

1. Verify the equipment “does not visibly identify any personal information, other than driver license number and name”? If so, how did you do this? Please provide documentation to prove this finding. Driver licenses have other personal information on them, including date of birth, address, etc…
2. Verify the equipment “does not retain, store or transfer any personal information, other than driver license number and name, for any period of time.” Please provide proof the equipment that is used to scan licenses by Circle K does not retain unauthorized data.
3. Please provide proof that you verified the Circle K equipment “does not store any personal information, other than driver license number and name, in a central repository, disaster recovery central repository, such as a cold site or hot site whether on-site or in a remote location.”

It appears they did not.

Instead of answering my questions, they told me I had to talk with the DMV – but could not/would not give me a contact at “The Department.”  I found that to be a strange response from an investigative body that is tasked with enforcing the law based on facts.

How could the AG’s office close the case and not have answers to the very pertinent questions I raised? Did Circle K violate the law or not?

Stay tuned…

 

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Aaron Day is running for President, but not to win. He is on a mission to increase awareness about a looming issue he believes will come to the fore before November 2024, and it could mean the end of liberty in America as we know it.

I’ve known Aaron for a number of years in various capacities as a candidate for office, grassroots activist, and in a number of roles in between. He recently wrote a book and is traveling around the country talking to audiences, other Presidential candidates, Senators, and others about the threat of digital currency and how close we actually are to having one.

Note: The podcast is presented as is. The working concept is five questions, uncut. The video was recorded on Riverside FM and was not altered or edited. Length will depend on the answers, but the target is 10-15 minutes. This maiden voyage is a few minutes longer, but as noted, these will not be edited.

Here is my interview with Aaron Day. [Watch it on YouTube, Rumble, Facebook, or GAB.]

 

 

 

 

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Almost eighty years ago, Margaret Scoggin, a librarian at the New York Public Library, made an odd choice. As one of the founders of the NYPL children’s branch in the early 1940s, Scoggin had been contributing a column to Library Journal called “Books for Older Boys and Girls.”  In 1944, she inexplicably decided that her articles should instead be published under the title “Books for Young Adults.”

This decision catapulted the group of children for whom she was recommending books into an age bracket to which they did not actually belong.  It is to Miss Scoggin, therefore, who first coined the term “young adult,” that we owe the existence of this illogical category used only by librarians and publishers to promote books for readers aged twelve and up who are actually still children.

The American Library Association arbitrarily defines a “young adult” as a library patron between the ages of twelve and eighteen. This category does not only apply to public library patrons but also includes middle and high school students who use their school libraries.  Legally, however, adulthood is not attained until a person turns eighteen, so the youngest adult cannot possibly be younger than eighteen years old.  The age at which an individual becomes an adult also called the “age of majority,” is set at eighteen years in forty-seven states (in Alabama, Nebraska, and Mississippi, you have to be even older).

Medically, adulthood is similarly defined.  The American Medical Association and the National Institutes of Health only consider those who are eighteen and older to be adults; 13 to 17-year-olds are categorized as “adolescents.”  Considering these standards, “young adult” emerges as an illogical term.  “Pre-adults,” odd as it sounds, would make more sense, being similar to the term “preteen,” which is used, according to Merriam-Webster, to designate a child younger than thirteen. (The trendy word “tween” is also frequently used in libraries to specify children between young childhood and adolescence, generally ages 8-12.)

So, what explains this push by librarians and publishers to erroneously refer to children as adults?  Is it merely an innocuous marketing technique, or is the motivation behind it more insidious?  Some more library history may help to answer this question.  Where Scoggin got the notion to suddenly refer to older children as young adults is unclear, but in speculating about her reasons for suggesting this change, a look at the influences upon her, including her educational background might shed some light on this mystery.

In the 1940s, Scoggin attended Columbia University’s School of Library Service, the first “library school” established in the United States.  Two decades earlier, Columbia University had become the epicenter of Communist intellectual activity in the United States led by Frankfurt School intellectuals who relocated there from Germany.  It is well documented that Columbia University’s Teachers College and other departments at this institution of “higher education” were strongly influenced by Communist ideology at this time, so it is likely that the library school was similarly affected.

In the past year, the political infiltration of the American Library Association has become quite obvious as self-proclaimed Marxist Emily Drabinski has taken over the leadership of the organization.  Considering the origins of training programs for librarians, however, the roots of ALA’s ideological takeover may likely be traced back to the time of Margaret Scoggin.

Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow Chris Rufo recently appeared on Fox’s Jesse Watters Primetime. In the beginning of the segment, “Dirty Books Are Being Used to Advance the Marxist Dream,” a clip was shown of Deborah Caldwell-Stone, Director of ALA’s “Office for Intellectual Freedom,” admitting to a “sustained messaging” program to “reframe” and “promote” inappropriate books on sexual themes as “diverse materials …that are about inclusion and fairness.”  When asked why the ALA is pushing this agenda, Rufo explained, “The goal of Marxist political leaders since the beginning was always to abolish the nuclear family,” an institution which they consider one of the “impediments to the revolution,” and to have kids reject “notions of ‘heteropatriarchy’” to “advance the revolution” and “to dissolve the moral notions of children and their families.”

One of the goals of Marxism, as Rufo suggests, is to eliminate parental authority so that children become mere wards of the state.  The sooner children are not under the control of their parents, the sooner they will be more easily controlled by the government.  Indeed, Karl Marx called for the abolition of the family in The Communist Manifesto because he believed that children were being exploited by their parents.  Considering its current agenda, the values of the American Library Association appear to align with Marx, and its organizational structure supports its agenda.

Just as there is a separate section in most public libraries designated as “young adult,” the American Library Association has a distinct branch called the Young Adults Library Services Association (YALSA).  It should be no big surprise that Margaret Scoggin, thanks to her efforts to promote “young adult” literature, was appointed the first president of YALSA’s precursor, the Young Adult Services Division, which was founded in 1957.  This organization was rebranded as YALSA in 1992 and continues its mission of influencing the publishing industry and libraries nationwide in accordance with its Marxist ideology.

YALSA’s recent award-winning books clearly reflect its woke agenda.  Jason Reynolds is YALSA’s recipient of the 2023 Margaret A. Edwards Award, established in 1988, which “honors an author, as well as a specific body of his or her work, for significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature.”  What was one of Reynolds’s “significant and lasting” contributions to YA literature?—a book he co-authored in 2020 with CRT-guru Ibram X. Kendi titled Stamped: Racism, Anti-racism, and You.

Meanwhile, the YALSA Printz Award is given to “a book that exemplifies literary excellence in young adult literature.”  This year’s prize went to All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir, a novel based on a victim/oppressor worldview, which Kirkus Reviews praises for confronting “head-on the complicated realities of life in a world that is not designed for the oppressed to thrive in.” In Scout’s Honor, by Lily Anderson, one of the four honorable mention books in this category, “the cast displays an effervescent mix of racial and ethnic identities” (also from Kirkus Reviews), which certainly checks off the box for any ALA-award winning book requiring that its theme relates to racial or gender ideology.

In the latter category are the three other “honorable mention” books for the 2023 Printz Award.  These include Icebreaker, featuring a gay romance between two hockey players, When the Angels Left the Old Country, in which, according to Kirkus Reviews, “Queerness and gender fluidity thread through both the human and supernatural characters,” and Queer Ducks (and Other Animals): The Natural World of Animal Sexuality, a book that “offers nature-based analogs for many types of human sexual orientation and gender identity” according to a BookPage review.

With all of the YALSA Printz-ward-winning books being geared towards racial and sexual themes, there is an obvious overemphasis on woke ideology in material recommended for readers aged 12-18 (ALA’s arbitrary definition of “young adult”).

As part of the obvious agenda of libraries towards getting woke literature into the hands of older children, ALA supports all efforts to allow this age group to access these books without parental knowledge.  The ALA believes that children should be allowed to read books like Gender Queer and Lawn Boy without any parental consent, even if such books are shelved in the adult section of the library.  Article VII of the ALA’s “Library Bill of Rights,” which was not added until 2019, eighty years after the original “Bill of Rights” was written, states that all people, no matter how old, “possess a right to privacy and confidentiality in their library use.”

This initially sounds like a good thing until you realize that it undermines those parental rights that should supersede it.  ALA also “opposes all attempts to restrict access to library services, materials, and facilities based on the age of library users.” Most current state laws maintain the confidentiality of library records for all ages so that parents are not permitted to know what books their children are reading.  The ALA is just fine with this situation and opposes all efforts to amend state law so that parents would be allowed to access their children’s library records.

Considering how strongly the ALA promotes woke literature to children, baffled parents are left wondering why.  The answer is simple: the American Library Association is just following the Marxist dictate to undermine the authority of parents.  That’s why libraries, predominantly managed by adherents to the ALA agenda, can’t just let kids be kids.  To weaken the family, kids must become adults (or “young adults”) as soon as possible!

The cancer that had its roots decades ago has metastasized, and the only cure lies with parents and concerned citizens who vehemently reject the indoctrination supported by the American Library Association.  They must support all efforts to have their towns and states cut financial ties with ALA, elect conservative library trustees who will reject ALA’s toxic agenda, and demand that their state representatives support legislation allowing parents to have access to their children’s library records.

 

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I’d call this developing, and that’s not just a photography play on words. Pictures have hit the internet taken by photographers who appear to have been embedded with Hamas militants as they invaded Isreal.

 

The AP, CNN, Reuters, and The New York Times used footage and photos from reporters embedded with Hamas terrorists during their slaughter of hundreds of Jews.

These Western media outlets then posted the photos in their coverage of this horrendous surprise attack on Israel.

AP reporter Hassan Eslaiah took photos and video while traveling with Hamas killers during the massacre. Hassan also provided photos to CNN.

Yousef Masoud provided photos to The New York Times.

Hassan Eslaiah was seen with Hamas leader Yahya, Sinwar following the slaughter of Jews.

 

I don’t suppose we’ll ever learn how they knew to be there before the events of October 7th. You know, to capture the history of it.

 

On October 7, Hamas terrorists were not the only ones who documented the war crimes they had committed during their deadly rampage across southern Israel. Some of their atrocities were captured by Gaza-based photojournalists working for the Associated Press and Reuters news agencies whose early morning presence at the breached border area raises serious ethical questions.

What were they doing there so early on what would ordinarily have been a quiet Saturday morning? Was it coordinated with Hamas? Did the respectable wire services, which published their photos, approve of their presence inside enemy territory, together with the terrorist infiltrators? Did the photojournalists who freelance for other media, like CNN and The New York Times, notify these outlets? Judging from the pictures of lynching, kidnapping and storming of an Israeli kibbutz, it seems like the border has been breached not only physically, but also journalistically.

 

As ghoulish as that sounds – a word that keeps popping up to describe the premeditation media’s indifference to the death and destruction they signed up to record – what are the odds one or more of these “reporters” gets nominated for a Pulitzer?

 

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This is an attempt to “break out” memes, links, and my commentary about the situation in Israel / the Middle East so as to not overload the standard meme posts that I do.  In these Israel-related posts I don’t just have memes such, but lots of informative links as well as hopefully-insightful commentary.

Note that this is not meant to be a day-by-day update about what’s going on.  Rather, to highlight uncomfortable truths about the actual nature of the conflict, deep-history background, and so on, as well as to show the at-present immutable nature of Islamic Jew hate and why that matters to today’s events.

For reference, my last “general” meme post is here.

 

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A new site just popped:

ISRAEL WAR | Yishai Gelb

Informative.  By one of the co-owners of My Tree in Israel.

 

 

Full disclosure: Yishai is a friend of mine, but I receive no compensation for plugging his business.

 

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I attempt to populate each post with new material; thus, older posts have information that’s not in this one.  If this is a topic of interest to you I strongly urge you to go back through and peruse my older ones.  I do not focus on minute-by-minute updates but rather attempt to provide background and information relevant to this latest battle in a 1,400 year old war.  Reverse chronological order.

Israel: Still More Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok

Israel: Ongoing Memes, Links, and Commentary – Granite Grok

Israel: Ongoing Memes, Links, and Commentary – Granite Grok

Israel: More Memes, Links, and Commentary – Granite Grok

Israel: Even More Memes, Links, and Commentary – Granite Grok

Israel: More Memes, Links, and Commentary – Granite Grok

Israel: Memes and Commentary – Granite Grok

Israel: Memes and Commentary – Granite Grok

With some Israel-related materials here:

Meme Overflow – Granite Grok

Please post this, tweet & email it out, share it widely.

 

TOP OF THE FOLD

Watch Gaza residents watching the October 7 attacks live on a big screen TV set up for public viewing.  Yeah, a whole lot of innocent people who just want to hold hands and sing kum ba ya.  And understand something: if Hamas went to the trouble of setting up viewing of the livestream of the attacks… what does that say about how much attention they expected said livestream feed to get?

 

LIVE: Gaza Residents ENJOY Public Screening Of 7th October Attacks

 

 

(Interesting: google has censored this video in the draft.  Just in case, here’s the link URL.  https://youtu.be/ELLVMB1NzHg)

 

Also, look at Israel’s purported “peace partners” as the terrorists return with captive and dead Israelis.  This is a scene akin to welcoming your home team after a massive away game victory.

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/4_5922509122338558330.mp4

 

Another showing the “warm welcome” Israelis get, whether alive or dead.

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/israelis-get-warm-welcome.mp4

 

And here are those “peace partners” honoring and respecting a dead Israeli (GRAPHIC – adults only.  Click on the link but be warned.)

Abusing a corpse

And another, showing how dead IDF soldiers get treated:

Abusing dead soldiers

Now, just as a thought exercise, imagine the Dialed-to-11 outrage if this happened the other way.

 

WAR & WHEN WILL IT END?

Video likely shows Gaza civilians shot by Hamas as they were trying to evacuate to sa (ynetnews.com)

If they are fleeing then, to Hamas, they are traitors.

 

 

Yet Israel established a corridor for them to flee south, and honored people going there with white flags.  They cheer Jewish deaths, Jews protect them as they flee:

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/gaza-compare-and-contrast.mp4

 

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In the last post I’d commented that there are Arabs who give me some hope.  Like this guy:

 

As Arabs, we need to understand that Israel and the West are not our oppressors or enemies.

We, Arabs, are our own worst enemies.

We, Arabs, are our greatest oppressors.

We, Arabs, have killed and oppressed a million times more of our people than the West and Israel can ever… pic.twitter.com/SpGQHFFFuF

— Luai Ahmed (@JustLuai) October 30, 2023

 

Again, I don’t want to see mass slaughter.  But until sane and measured voices like his can quell Hamas and become an effective competing narrative…  His main X page:

Luai Ahmed (@JustLuai) / X (twitter.com)

He’s pointed out and questioned the same data as shown in this meme:

 

 

Another saner voice:

Kuwaiti Writer: We Are Our Own Worst Enemies | MEMRI

As does this guy:

 

Stolen Palestinian Land? An Arab Israeli Responds

 

 

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West Bank Incitement To Jihad Against Israel | MEMRI

Say, where is that “moderate” Palestinian government again?  And here’s a video where people on the street are interviewed.  Do they sound like they’re going to budge and share the land?

 

Palestinians: Are you willing to share the land with the Jews?

 

 

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ISLAM: PRACTICES, HISTORY, AND MENTALITY

WARNING GRAPHIC: Rape Jihad – Geller Report

Graphic.  Not for the squeamish.  But… from everything that I’ve read over the years, and especially recently, completely within the bounds of historical practices in jihad.  More terror and horrors:

‘I saw that Allah had sent me the Jewish woman and I understood that I had to kill her’ – Geller Report (links in the original):

Back in 2019, a Palestinian Muslim named Arafat Irafaiya raped and murdered a nineteen-year-old Israeli girl named Ori Ansbacher. The murder was so brutal that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu specifically noted its “shocking brutality.” Irafaiya emphasized that he had raped and murdered Ori Ansbacher because she was Jewish; as if to emphasize the ideology that had spurred such bloodlust, Irafaiya was captured in a mosque.

Irafaiya afterward made statements to investigators that are newly relevant as illustrative of the jihadi mindset. In an upbeat mood, Irafaiya exulted: “I did everything an Arab dreams of.” He even said that raping and murdering Ori Ansbacher was “the best and most important thing I did in my life.”

Rape Jihad: Hamas Sexual Abuse of Jewish Women Follows Islamic Doctrine – Geller Report

With a bunch of follow-up links within.

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As in the last post with several videos that were just links only, below are some images from the Oct. 7th aftermath.  Again, graphic content warning – not for children.

Dead in their own blood

Dead by their car

Posing with their kill

And a short video:

Trail of blood

ALSO CONTENT WARNINGS – a series of beheading videos, courtesy of Bare Naked Islam.  ONE MORE TIME: Do not click if contents might bother you.  Note: I’ve watched them all; a mix of still pics and videos.  Each is as bad as you’d imagine.  Or even worse than you can imagine.

YESTERDAY was the 8th anniversary of the horrific beheadings of 21 Christians by the Islamic State (ISIS) (barenakedislam.com)

Before you consider going hiking in a Muslim country like Morocco…..watch this. (WARNING: Very graphic) (barenakedislam.com)

“BEHEADINGS ‘R’ US” in the ‘pre-Elon Musk’ Twittersphere (barenakedislam.com)

BNI “BEST OF” SERIES: Islamic State Justice (Viewer Discretion Advised) (barenakedislam.com)

Islamic Beheading Music (WARNING: Graphic Images) (barenakedislam.com)

BY SPECIAL REQUEST…a video for our ‘resident Muslim’ (barenakedislam.com)

EGYPT: Gruesome beheading in the middle of the street (WARNING: Graphic Images) (barenakedislam.com)

It’s a catchy tune, but can you dance to it? (barenakedislam.com)

Ah, here we go…the beheadings in Afghanistan have begun (WARNING: Graphic Images) (barenakedislam.com)

[UPDATED] Because it’s snowing and I’m in a bad mood… (barenakedislam.com)

Azerbaijani soldiers behead Armenian soldiers (WARNING: Very graphic images) (barenakedislam.com)

Beheadings here, beheadings there, beheadings in current times and ancient times both.  Egypt, Afghanistan, Chechnya, Azerbaijan, Syria, Morocco,  why, one could be forgiven to think such savagery was part-and-parcel of Islam itself.

THIS. IS. ISLAM.  From Mohammed to today.

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Hamas Sends Out Women and Children to Protect Its ‘Fighters’ (jihadwatch.org)

Remember the Islamic mentality.  Any Muslim who dies in the service of jihad is, automatically, elevated to the highest level of reward in paradise.

 

 

That’s why they teach their children from birth:

Hamas Indoctrinates Kids Into Jihad, Martyrdom, Antisemitism | MEMRI

Video: Cute Gaza kids being brainwashed to want to die ~ Elder Of Ziyon – Israel News

And why they hide munitions in forbidden places:

 

 

 

 

UNRWA accidentally shows tunnel under its schools ~ Elder Of Ziyon – Israel News

IDF troops in Gaza discover rocket launchers stationed inside youth center, mosque | The Times of Israel

A scout center.  I’m curious – is there a merit badge for missile building?  Do you get another merit badge after you’ve fired a certain number of salvos?

Map of Israeli attacks closely tracks with tunnel locations in northern Gaza ~ Elder Of Ziyon – Israel News

Intercepted phone call between two Gazans confirms Hamas headquarters are underneath hospital (barenakedislam.com)

 

 

Finally, a reporter actually reports about Hamas firing from hospitals and UNRWA schools ~ Elder Of Ziyon – Israel News

 

 

And interestingly, about Israel’s attacking an ambulance (or ambulances):

US Supports Israel on Use of Ambulances by Hamas (jihadwatch.org)

Being used to transport Hamas fighters; aid coming in is being used to camouflage war materiel smuggling.  It’s one thing to actually transport wounded for care, but quite another to transport soldiers in ambulances to attempt to hide troop movement.  More on this (video):

Hamas terrorist in interrogation: ‘We have ambulances that look like civilian ambulances’ – YouTube

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‘We Will Drink Your Blood and Eat Your Skull’: A Legacy of Islamic Savagery – American Thinker

No surprise if you’ve read my prior posts.  Like beheading, this is straight from the origins of Islam onward.

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Hamas Wants a Ceasefire In Which It Keeps Attacking Israel | Frontpage Mag

They want a hudna, a temporary stop so they can reload and regroup (bolding added):

The “hudna” that Muslims make with non-Muslims can never be more than temporary, and is entered into only because the Muslim side feels it is too weak to conduct open warfare, and would benefit from a respite from open hostilities. Alternatively, a Muslim polity may enter into a hudna with non-Muslims if it has a reasonable expectation that those non-Muslims will soon adopt Islam.

If the hudna is undertaken in order to give the Muslims time to gather their strength, then the Muslim side is then not merely allowed, but required, whenever it feels strong enough, to re-engage in open hostilities. And of course all during the period of the “hudna” it may conduct whatever operations not involving combat that it is capable of, including economic boycotts, diplomatic offensives, and suchlike — which is exactly what all Muslim states do engage in to weaken Israel, whether or not they are still in an official state of war, or have signed, as have Egypt and Jordan, so-called “peace treaties.”

 

 

Note that last sentence; even Egypt and Jordan are attempting to weaken Israel economically, etc.  This is why I’ve been skeptical of the Abraham Accords; hopeful, but very skeptical.

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Civilizational Conflict – Political Islam

Several weeks ago, a US Army private was killed in front of an army recruiting center in Little Rock, Arkansas. The killer was a Muslim jihadist. A memorial service for this victim of Islamic jihad was held in Little Rock. A Muslim woman in a burka showed up at the event screaming Islamic supremacist and Jew hatred slogans, interfering with the memorial. This was all captured on video. (See below).

Why would someone interfere at a memorial event for an innocent American murdered by a new-fangled Muslim jihadist killer? Interfering in the service was this woman’s jihad, fighting in Allah’s cause against the kafir. No compassion is extended to the kafir unbelievers in jihad, no basic courtesy even in mourning is given. Kafirs are less than human, they do not merit any courtesies from Muslims. Terrorizing kafirs, confusing them, and preventing them from following their own traditions of remembrance and respect are all jihad actions.

The kafir culture and kafirs themselves merit no respect by Islam and its adherents. Because kafirs have not accepted Allah and Mohammed so they are therefore the enemy. Islam knows its enemies – all non-believers wherever they might be. We do not know ours. “The sheep do not know the wolf, but the wolf knows the sheep.” (Walid Shoebat)

Jihad through migration and demographics is a real thing.

The demise of Europe through Islamic cultural enrichment (Updated!) – Flopping Aces

Just look at what’s happening in Germany specifically:

Germany’s Muslim Demographic Future :: Gatestone Institute

The Growth of Germany’s Muslim Population | Pew Research Center

Germany’s Muslim Demographic Revolution :: Gatestone Institute

All warned about.  Repeatedly.

Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis

The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam

While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within

 

 

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Geert Wilders: “It is an Ideological Conflict, Not a Conflict Over Land” | Gates of Vienna

More insights – supporting my claim that while it’s peripherally around land and the Islamic command to retake any land held by Islam, it’s about Islam itself.  Speaking of formerly Islamic land, remember they want Spain back:

 

 

They were deep into France too – part of Italy as well:

 

 

They want all of Eastern Europe, as shown above.  Don’t forget the history of the Muslim Tartars in Russia:

 

 

Further evidence that Tartaria was an Islamic Empire, and that the Northern Crusades of the 12th-15th centuries were against the Islamic Tartars of Russia and Eastern Europe : r/CulturalLayer (reddit.com)

India too:

 

 

Mughal India ~ The Biggest Holocaust in World History | SikhNet

And look here, and remember the videos of beheadings above.  Remember: beheadings are part and parcel to Islam from the very start (embedded quote from the article, bolding added):

“In a short space of time all the people in the [Delhi] fort were put to the sword, and in the course of one hour the heads of 10,000 infidels were cut off. The sword of Islam was washed in the blood of the infidels, and all the goods and effects, the treasure and the grain which for many a long year had been stored in the fort became the spoil of my soldiers.

Don’t forget this broader history:

The Greatest Murder Machine in History – American Thinker

Every single square inch shown in the maps above, collectively, to a believing Muslim, MUST BE RETAKEN.  And then, also per Koranic command, on to the rest of the world.

“First Saturday, then Sunday”.

 

ON INTERSECTIONALITY / LEFTIST SUPPORT

UK: Far-left activist shocked to find that Muslim anti-Israel protesters don’t share his views on LGBTQ issues (jihadwatch.org)

The problem is… they really are that clueless.

 

 

‘Dumb College Kids’ Have Been Supporting Mass Murder for a Hundred Years – Daniel Greenfield / Sultan Knish articles

Those protesting against Israel should know what Hamas stands for | Toronto Sun

Minnesota: Socialist public school teacher calls for Israel’s eradication (jihadwatch.org)

Islam and Socialism are very related: both are aggressive, expansionist, collective-over-individual philosophies.  Of course they are allies, especially against their common “The enemy of my enemy is my friend” West (America in particular).

 

PALLYWOOD

Adobe Caught Selling AI-Generated Images of Israel-Palestine Violence (yahoo.com)

Very obviously such things can go both ways.  The problem is that such images hit emotionally, and once the impression is made it’s very hard to undo that initial gut-punch reaction.  As I’ve highlighted before, consider this claimed image of an Israeli soldier stepping on a child:

 

 

Absent any other information, what person with a soul would not be horrified?  Now, pull back:

 

 

Street theater.  In Bangladesh IIRC.  Now, never mind that per se.  Consider how easily people see the first image and just jump to conclusions without saying WAIT A MINUTE.

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His Name is Mr. FAFO, Crisis Actor – HotAir

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One of the big lies is that Israel is an apartheid state.  This Israeli Arab woman disagrees:

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Arab-Israeli-woman-Flashback-version.mp4

 

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Report: Photographers From AP, CNN, NYT, Reuters Were With Hamas on Oct. 7 (legalinsurrection.com)

Willing participants.

 

 

TERROR COMING GLOBALLY?

WATCH: Young Muslims in Germany and Belgium say they will become the majority, abolish the Constitution and Institute Sharia law – Geller Report

Terror.  Islamic law ruling all.  Yes, coming, across Europe and America, and very soon.  More:

Austria: Afghan Muslim migrant stashes hand grenades in Vienna asylum center (jihadwatch.org)

“Palestinian Asylum Seeker” Under Arrest For Planning a Bomb Attack Against Jews in the U.S. – Geller Report

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Iran Proxy Hezb’Allah THREATENS The United States: “The United States That Must Pay the Price.” – Geller Report

Remember – in Shia Islam their messiah cannot come unless there is a worldwide war.  WWIII is, to them, a feature to anticipate, not something to be avoided.

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And it’s growing:

Unsurprising: Jew Working For UK Guardian Feels Unsafe – Pirate’s Cove » Pirate’s Cove (thepiratescove.us)

Shocked by the Jew-Hate on College Campuses? I Wasn’t. | The Free Press (thefp.com)

European Commission Statement on antisemitic incidents in EU (europa.eu)

Anti-semitism in Melbourne: It is the epicentre | Daily Mail Online

‘We don’t feel safe.’ As antisemitism threat rises, South Florida’s Jews arm themselves (yahoo.com)

And getting worse:

Elderly Jewish Man Dies After Being Injured at Pro-Hamas Rally in Los Angeles (Updated) – RedState

Some follow-up to the above death:

What Pro-Hamas Protesters Did After Jewish Man Was Put Into Ambulance Shocks the Conscience – PJ Media

A pro-Hamas protester who seemed to come to Kessler’s aid placed a sign underneath his head. Afterwards she was seen laughing while looking towards the bloody sign.

This will, I fear, be only the first of many.  Why?  I think Golda captures it well:

 

 

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Terrorists and Saboteurs Are Surging into America :: Gatestone Institute

Watch that southern line that we used to call a border.

 

 

 

Attacks Imminent – 80K U.S. Enemies Ready in Sleeper Cells w/ JJ Carrell (rumble.com)

And let’s not forget the “plan” to bring more here.  I’m sure that will end well.

Congressional Democrats Urge Joe Biden to Facilitate Entry for Thousands of Palestinian Nationals into the US | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hᴏft

Just like taking in Palestinian refugees – who were expelled from Jordan for fomenting riots and attempting to take over the country -ended well in Lebanon, right Brigitte?

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Brigitte-gabriel.mp4

 

 

TREADING ON THE POLITICAL

The Jewish American Dilemma – Kunstler

Some excellent critique, especially of the perverted doctrine of “Tikkun Olam”.

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Kamala Harris’ Stepdaughter Raises $8 Million for Hamas-Controlled Gaza – Becker News

Millions raised by a Democrat that will help Hamas.

White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre refuses to condemn pro-Hamas poster-rippers – American Thinker

Biden: Pro-Israel by Day, Pro-Hamas by Night – American Thinker

Joe Biden Is No Friend to Israel – PJ Media

JOE BIDEN has sent more than $1 billion in aid to Palestinians reversing the Trump freeze, and proposes sending another $260 million in its FY2024 budget request (barenakedislam.com)

White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre refuses to condemn pro-Hamas poster-rippers – American Thinker

It’s clear whose side he and his administration is on.  Despite any aid given to Israel.  American Jews, you face a binary choice:

 

 

Another one looooooved by liberal Jews actually helped enable what’s happening:

Barack Obama’s silent on Israel war because he made it possible (nypost.com)

Don’t forget his infamous quote:

“I Will Stand With the Muslims Should the Political Winds Shift In An Ugly Direction.”

 

 

MISCELLANEOUS

There Is No Food, Water, or Medicine Shortage In Gaza (jihadwatch.org)

But people eat up what they want to believe.

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A CONCLUDING THOUGHT FOR THIS POST

Before the main comment, a follow-up to the last post’s criticism of the “Team Humanity” useful idiots.  This channel, below, does have some useful info, but this piece of absolute fantasy by the channel owner struck me (bolding added):

We have so much to be grateful for. There’s so much beauty and abundance on this planet…. and still we fight and kill one another, for what?

I don’t believe it’s in our nature to be violent, it’s a learned behaviour, a manipulation of perception engineered by those that wish to see us destroy ourselves so they may control everything in the aftermath of our own stupidity!Wake up humanity, wake up! Before it’s too late…

https://t.me/LauraAbolichannel

Clearly someone who believes that man, in his basic nature (video, about 8 minutes), is a “noble savage”.  And here’s a comment from another channel (copied verbatim, bolding added) – in reference to a video I’d posted (the one above entitled “Palestinians: Are you willing to share the land with the Jews?”):

Hes interviewing people who have endured decades of violent occupation. Like one Guy said “it started with force and its very late” for a friendly lets share the cake together suggestion.
Also you must take into the equasion that a lot of “the other side” would say exacly the same if you asked them.
I bet the same video could be done the other way around really easy. This is just another “lets point the finger at the palestinians” and blame them for their own missery.
It dosent proove or solve anything and its part of the old narrative we need to get rid of so we can advance towards a more intelligent solution for all of us on the planet.
And i guarantee you that if we dont expose the people and see this on a deeper level on who instegated this attack none of us will have a country of our own in the future and we will all “own nothing and be happy”

So, basically, “all” we need to do to solve the problem is to completely reform Islam, remove a lot of Mohammed’s explicit commandments and directives and the hard-coded Jew hatred and requirement to reconquer Islamic lands; also to modify some of the more extreme elements of Judaism, undo over a millennia of animosity on both sides, and there we go.  Oh, and change fundamental human nature.  Then, we can all be at peace with one another.  Let me know how that works out.

The conflict is not about “occupation” or “apartheid” or “nakba.” It has ALWAYS been about Jew-hatred. ~ Elder Of Ziyon – Israel News

The conflict has always been about hatred of Jews. Every few decades, the Arabs come up with new excuses for murdering Jews to tell the gullible West, since they have to pretend not to be antisemitic to their Western partners. In the 1920s-30s it was “Jewish immigration.” In the 1940s-50s it was the “refugees.”  In the 1960s-90s it was “statelessness.”  Since then it was  “occupation.”  Since 2009 it was the “Gaza siege.”  Since last year it was “apartheid.” All of those things are excuses to cover up the real reason for attacks on Jews that have been consistent for over a century: age-old hatred of Jews not acting like meek second class citizens under Muslim rule. And as we have seen, Jews have always been despised under Muslim rule, even if they were sometimes tolerated.

‘The Elephant in the Room’: The Real Source of Jew-Hatred in the Middle East :: Gatestone Institute

In their own words, texts, and deeds, they state their goal: dead Jews, a destroyed Israel… and eventually conquest of the whole planet.  And these “Team Humanity” fantasists truly have the hubris to think they can “evolve humanity” past this.  Just like “Team Socialism” thinks that this time they’ll get it right.

Nemesis is cackling and rubbing her hands…

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Now:

If Hamas’ billionaires don’t give a damn about Palestinians why should we? – Flopping Aces

Hamas Leaders Worth $11 Billion Fortune, Indulge in Lavish Lifestyles in Qatar as Gazans Face Desperation | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hᴏft

Hamas leaders are billionaires, rolling in the dough – American Thinker

Gaza: Woman says Hamas top dogs drive SUVs and live in luxury while ordinary Gazans are poor (jihadwatch.org)

They’ve gotten very, very rich while their people suffered.

 

 

So this is a legitimate question.  If they deliberately keep their people in poverty, and shoot them when they’re trying to flee, and put them into the line of fire hoping they get harmed / killed to be CAMERA FODDER, and in one video they’re seen actively covering the mouth of a grieving woman screaming that Hamas did this to her people… and more importantly the people put up with it… why should we then give a f*ck about them when their own *cough cough* leaders don’t?  And when they don’t rise up to take those leaders out?

 

 

And just as an example, in closing, here’s something from one of their textbooks:

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/palestinian-textbook.mp4

 

Who you honor and revere tells you much about who you are.  Remember, they cheer, dance in the streets, and hand out candy when Jews are murdered, including Jewish children… while they teach their children from birth to this mindset.

 

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The picture book “The Meaning of Pride,” targeted at ages 4 to 7, was prominently displayed in June in the Nashua Library’s children’s room. Six months before, Kristin Beck, who is featured in the book as a “transgender woman,” reclaimed his identity as a man.

Chris Beck, a decorated Navy SEAL, described the trauma and mental health problems he was facing when he was falsely sold transition as a cure by quack medical professionals at the Veterans Administration.

A year before, in August 2022, singer Demi Lovato, who had claimed a non-binary identity and is also featured in the book, said, “Recently, I’ve been feeling more feminine, and so I’ve adopted she/her again.” Demi has been very public about her struggles with mental health problems and drug addiction. If you have followed Demi over the years, it is pretty obvious that adopting a non-binary identity was a way for her to cope with these challenges, and it failed.

Both Demi Lovato and Chris Beck are people with serious mental health struggles who have detransitioned or desisted from a gender identity, and yet their gender transition is being sold to kids in “The Meaning of Pride” as something to emulate.

Related: The Truth Leaks Out: Dolls and Trucks Are for Everyone

It would be helpful if the library featured age-appropriate books about detransitioners and shared the pain and regret detransitioners deal with. I don’t expect we will be seeing those books in the library’s children’s room or the teen room because the American Library Association-approved book review journals won’t endorse them. It’s tragic that these important stories are being withheld from children.

I am delighted that the Nashua Library acquired “Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters,” which highlights the harm being done to kids and teens, as well as other gender-critical books for adults, but we need more books for the children’s and teen rooms that push back on the propaganda being fed kids and teens about gender ideology in books like “The Meaning of Pride.”

 

 

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???? Vivek Ramaswamy Calls Out Lester Holt to His Face at the Republican Debate “Think about who is moderating this debate. This should be Tucker Carlson, Joe Rogan, and Elon Musk. We’d have ten times the viewership.”@TuckerCarlson @joerogan @elonmusk pic.twitter.com/8ce9u4ThDx... Tom Bowler

Polls have been soft for Biden since day one of his Presidency, but this weekend, they tanked, and every Democrat pundit either jumped or was pushed off the Biden Train. ABC News, not precisely a Right Wing tool, reported that 76% of Americans think the country is on the wrong track.

These people are on every media outlet proclaiming Biden as the man for these difficult times, but you also see them choke on their words like an Angora cat on a fur ball. It is pathetic and fake, and Americans see through the smokescreen.

Mark Levine, a former VA Democrat Delegate, appeared on The Ingraham Angle and embarrassed himself by fawning over Biden and Harris. He compared Biden to Truman and Reagan on the international stage and called Harris a positive for the ticket, and her accomplishments need to be highlighted. Good God, drug test this man before he utters another word. David Ignatius of the Washington Post says that Biden has to tap into the enthusiasm he has shown as a man of the center who can quickly bring this country back together. Still, if he fails, we are headed for a cataclysmic election. How far back in the Time Machine does he have to go to witness Biden’s enthusiasm? Maybe in the East Room when Obamacare passed, and Biden was caught on a hot mic telling Obama, “This is a big F$%^#%$ deal.”

And, of course, Stacey Abrams used her time with Jenn Psaki on Sunday to pull out the race card. Does she have any others in her deck? Abrams blamed the Republican racists, bigots, and misogynists for not giving Harris the credit she was due, and if she were a white man, people would be singing her praises. Well, she is not, and, honestly, she isn’t Black either. Her parents were from India and Jamaica, but it is politically advantageous for her to be Black. Okay. But even if we were all colorblind, she would still be the worst Vice President in our history.

How can a writer with the status of Ignatius jeopardize his credentials to ignore reality and elevate Biden to Mount Rushmore? Joe Biden has shown no ability to fulfill any of his campaign promises other than to have the most diverse Administration in history. It is okay to be diverse, but not if inept is your other descriptive. Nobody in Biden’s cabinet, from Harris to Buttigieg, performs even at an average level. And what policy of Joe Biden has made life better for America? I’m still waiting.

As bad as Joe Biden’s policy package has been, his inability to unify the country is what his critics point to as his biggest failure. This country has never been so divided, and it is because of two significant reasons. Obviously, the policies of Joe Biden have put America in a weakened place in the world but have put every American family in a sorry state. From having enough money in their budget for food after paying the bills to have their kids indoctrinated in school and possibly convinced they should change their gender. Realizing their savings and retirement funds are gone, retirement is no longer an option. They don’t feel safe in their neighborhoods as they see war springing up around the globe. They have nightmares about a phone call that Fentanyl or an illegal alien killed their child. In three years, Joe Biden took a prosperous and dynamic country and turned it on its head, and these ignorant talking heads try to convince America that Biden is the man for the time. I don’t know about you, but I have had enough of Joe Biden.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The US House did at least two interesting things Tuesday evening. They presented a clean appropriations bill: “…a standalone funding bill for the General Services Administration, Securities and Exchange Commission, and other related agencies.”

They then muddied it (just a bit) with an amendment to reduce the Transportation Secretary’s salary to one dollar.

I wonder if he’ll get the message.

 

Since taking office in 2021, Buttigieg has faced criticism for Republican lawmakers in response to several crises that have faced the Department of Transportation.

For example, in February, after a train carrying vinyl chloride, a dangerous colorless gas, derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, Buttigieg was criticized for his apparent inaction and for waiting several weeks before traveling to the site of the derailment.

In addition, there have been multiple instances of mass commercial airline cancellations during his tenure for various reasons, including a pilot shortage. Republicans and Democrats alike had called for Buttigieg to take decisive action to ensure air travelers are protected from such cancellations.

Pete’s been busy making Kamala look competent in comparison [update: whose office they also tried to defund], so Marjorie Taylor Greene introduced an amendment to save taxpayers some money by paying Pete what he’s worth—one increasingly useless dollar.

 

BREAKING: I’m proud to announce my amendment to FIRE Pete Buttigieg just PASSED the House.

Pothole Pete staged fake bike rides to the White House and used private planes funded by taxpayers to receive awards for the way certain people have sex.

American taxpayers should not… pic.twitter.com/9fq9XrXLV2

— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (@RepMTG) November 7, 2023

 

Is he even worth that? I’d go with no. His existence as a squealing piggy at the seat of government is an endless waste of resources, and it’s not just Pothole Pete. Congress should use this power more often in more places, not that it will be more than political theater. The Senate will never go for it unless they had a bet that they could make Pete Buttigieg Transportation Secretary.

 

 

 

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Sam Smith’s Grammy Awards tribute to Satan reflected the acceptability in the current culture of what would be unthinkable even in jest in the past: glorifying the hellish. The normalization of Satanism as a respectable belief system is just one of many signs of these seemingly End Times.

In eerie irony, the number of self-identified Satanists increases in direct proportion to the decline of belief in a literal Hell.

Various denominations of Satanism flourish in 2023 America. Some sects claim to worship Lucifer himself, but most espouse secular beliefs and disavow any faith in a literal spiritual person known as Satan. The general popularity of Satanism may be because of growing antipathy toward Christianity, a sort of oppositional radicalism. Yet the vacuum created by a loss of traditional faith is filled through various permutations of secular religiosity or New Age imaginings, including the unlikely cloak of Luciferianism.

Smith’s Grammy Awards depiction of a plump, salivating Satan on stage for millions, would traditionally have been viewed as inappropriate for prime-time TV. But America is a nation where the Temple of Satan boasts some 700,000 members, and children have for years been exposed in public schools to “After School Satan” programs to “balance” against Christian “Good News Clubs” and similar sectarian efforts.

The belief in Satan would necessitate a belief in the God of judgment, the God of Christ. However, most modern Satanists eschew belief in the supernatural, and thus meet the devil at the crossroads, believing they can invoke Satan’s name without yielding to any actual spiritual power or control. And so as godlessness rises in America, Satanic “churches” increase.

Polls show a steady decline in the number of Americans who believe in the dark side. In 2001, one poll suggested sixty-eight percent of Americans believed in the devil. By 2007, this number had dropped to sixty-two percent; a recent 2023 poll pegs the number of demon-believing at fifty-six percent. (Optimistically, sixty-nine percent of Americans still believe in angels!).

The fastest-growing religion in America is “none,” according to a 2021 Pew Research Center poll. Satanism was reportedly the fastest-growing sect in 2018, but perhaps this is a distinction without a difference: most Satanist groups embraced the tenets of secular humanism.

One question is unanswered by the polls: If more Americans believe in angels than in the Devil, why don’t more atheists and agnostics choose to name their after-school programs and faux temples after angels instead of Beelzebub? As the nation’s woes deepen, perhaps more people will be repulsed by Satanism and instead seek the Light, rather than the dark, for spiritual guidance. God may well use the evil of Satanism to draw people toward a 21st-century Christian revival. (Romans 8:28).

Because Christians understand the limitless malice of the spiritual adversary, it is unimaginable that anyone would consider deliberately worshipping the Evil One. Fortunately, scripture provides our defensive remedy against such villainy: “Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. Draw near to God and He will draw near to you…. “(James 4:7-8, NKJV).

 

John Klar is an Attorney, farmer, and author. Mostly farmer… And Regular Contributor to GraniteGrok and VermontGrok.

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YouTube has become one of the most popular platforms for learning new skills. With over 2 billion monthly users, YouTube offers an immense library of educational content on just about any topic imaginable. Whether you want to learn a new language, pick up a musical instrument, master a software program, or dive into a hobby like cooking or woodworking, YouTube likely has high-quality instructional videos to help you out. Here are some of the key reasons why YouTube is such a great resource for learning new skills:

Variety of Topics

You can find videos on virtually any skill or interest on YouTube. A quick search will reveal in-depth tutorials, how-tos, lessons, lectures, and more. The breadth of topics covered is truly impressive. While books and courses may only cover common mainstream subjects, YouTube has niche videos on everything from niche hobbies to technical skills to obscure academic subjects. So, no matter how obscure or specific the skill you want to develop, there’s likely a video that can help get you started.

Variety of Instructors

YouTube has videos presented by all kinds of instructors – from expert academics and renowned professionals to fellow hobbyists. This variety is valuable because sometimes you may connect better with certain presenters’ teaching styles over others. You can sample videos from multiple creators to find the ones that best match your learning preferences. Whether you prefer an energetic, comedic approach or a formal, in-depth tutorial, YouTube has instructors that fit the bill.

Short Digestible Segments

Most YouTube videos are relatively short, often less than 15 minutes. The bite-sized segments make it easy to fit learning into small pockets of time. You can conveniently access educational videos during breaks at work, while commuting, or whenever you have a few free minutes. The short segments also appeal to shorter attention spans and make it easier to stay engaged. You can steadily gain knowledge by watching multiple videos over time versus tackling lengthy lectures or courses in one sitting.

Free Access

Accessing educational content on YouTube is free for anyone with an internet connection. This removes financial barriers that would otherwise prevent people from being able to access learning materials. Anyone can start picking up new skills through YouTube, regardless of their economic status. Being able to learn for free via a channel like James Cordier YouTube is an invaluable benefit for many people around the world.

Visual Learning

YouTube videos are multimedia – often combining video footage, audio narration, text, graphics, screenshots and more. This multimedia approach appeals to visual learners and makes digesting information easier compared to mere text. Seeing processes and concepts presented visually can accelerate learning and help retention. Whether it’s seeing how a car engine works through an animation or watching step-by-step processes for software skills, YouTube offers powerful visual learning experiences.

Recommendation Engine

YouTube’s recommendation engine analyzes your watch history and preferences to suggest additional relevant videos to further your skills. This makes it easy to find related tutorials to continue expanding your knowledge. The platform essentially does the work for you by identifying other videos aligned with your interests and learning path. This allows you to steadily build upon existing skills over time by progressing through YouTube’s suggested recommendations.

YouTube has become one of the best online destinations for picking up new skills through self-paced learning. It’s easy to see why millions rely on YouTube as their go-to platform for enriching their knowledge and developing new talents.

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One of the reasons that Trump is running away with the 2024 GOP primary is that GOP voters do NOT believe the Establishment/NeverTrump argument that the 2020 election was a legitimate election and proves that Trump cannot win in 2024.

Also, it was their votes that were stolen, negated, whatever you want to call it. This point bears repeating because the Establishment/NeverTrump just does NOT get it … the victims of the 2020 election were the millions of GOP voters whose votes were stolen, negated, etc., by the censorship, the false leaks from the Deep State, Zuckerbucks, the illegal changes to voting rules, the mail-in voting and drop-boxes, etc., etc., etc.

The latest … Jim Jordan has exposed that DHS was censoring to help elect Biden.

 

BOMBSHELL REPORT ON THE CENSORSHIP-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX

HUNDREDS of secret reports show how @DHSgov’s @CISAgov, The GEC (@StateDept), @Stanford and others worked together to censor AMERICANS before the 2020 election, including true information, jokes, and opinions.

THREAD:

— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) November 6, 2023

 

And an example of the effect of the censorship … the censors squashed Sean Davis’ tweet about the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s illegal change to the mail-in voting rules.

 

According to a new investigative report by @JudiciaryGOP, we know for a fact that DHS/CISA and its censorship regime, in concert with corrupt third-parties and Big Tech apparatchiks conspired to target and censor me specifically. Just days before the 2020 election, I reported on a Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision that allowed late ballots without a postmark to be counted as valid ballots.

I took a screenshot of the opinion, quoted it, and provided a link to the court decision. Twitter censored my post at the time and falsely claimed I was “misleading about an election or civic event.” We noticed it when it happened and called it out immediately. Now we know why it happened: DHS/CISA specifically targeted me, complained that the reach of my tweet was “viral” and “growing exponentially” and then demanded that it be censored by Twitter.

You read that correctly: our own government had a temper tantrum that my indisputably accurate tweet was gaining traction and calling into question the integrity of the officials who defied state law and allowed late, un-postmarked ballots to be counted. Our own government demanded that Twitter violate 1st Amendment right to speak and to report the news, and they demanded that Twitter violate your right to consume news in the middle of an election.

We know when they targeted me, why they targeted me, and we even know the name of the third-party researcher they used as a censorship middleman to launder government censorship. They lied about my tweet, they lied about the facts, and they shredded the Constitution. The damage done by these illegal censorship activities is incalculable.

To me, to my publication @FDRLST, to all of our readers and followers, and to our country writ large. This is how a republic ends: not with a bang, but with illegal simp censorship. https://thefederalist.com/2020/11/04/twitter-is-censoring-sean-davis-for-quoting-pas-supreme-court-decision-allowing-post-election-ballots/

 

According to a new investigative report by @JudiciaryGOP, we know for a fact that DHS/CISA and its censorship regime, in concert with corrupt third-parties and Big Tech apparatchiks conspired to target and censor me specifically.

Just days before the 2020 election, I reported on… pic.twitter.com/moddsLfeyg

— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) November 7, 2023

 

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Congressman Pappas does not support aid for Israel; he voted against H.R. 6126. At the same time, Congressman Pappas supports the administration’s efforts to place your tax money at high risk of ending up in the hands of Middle Eastern terrorists.

About three weeks ago, the White House promised to send Palestinian civilians about $100M in aid.  Mr. Biden said,  “This money will support more than 1 million displaced… Palestinians, including [for] emergency needs in Gaza.”

But Mr. Biden’s Inspector General at USAID is saying that’s not necessarily true. The IG says some of that money will likely go to terrorists, e.g., Hamas. The USG will give $100M in cash to international aid organizations but end up supplying the aid to terror groups.

This happens one of three ways: 1) The Terrorists force or coerce the aid workers to give them money, using threats or targeted violence; 2) Hamas and others impose a tax or fee on the cash or supplies; or 3) Terrorists demand the aid or cash goes to certain people or groups of people that are terror supporters or sympathizers.

The IG lists several examples of these things happening previously in the Middle East.  The prior diversions resulted in millions of your taxpayer dollars going to fund international terror organizations. But don’t worry, be happy, the IG says.

This time, they (USAID) will work very hard to prevent that from happening.  Doesn’t it kind of make you wonder: Why didn’t they prevent it from happening in the first place…?  Hey Just asking.  Don’t we all understand who we are dealing with?  When did you become aware of who and what they are?

This time, the IG says they will be conducting some pre-vetting measures… of some kind.  They will be asking aid organizations to certify in writing that they won’t do anything bad with the money.  Isn’t that reassuring? They have done so well safeguarding our money in the past…

The day after the report was released, Mr. Biden’s special envoy to the region told reporters there is no evidence that Hamas is diverting or stealing aid once it goes into the Gaza Strip. Good thing our government has two sides of its mouth to talk out of.

But we have reports from the United Nations that Hamas is, in fact, stealing from their warehouses right now. Hamas is taking mostly fuel and medical supplies. Despite this, Mr. Biden plans to move forward with giving $100M of your taxpayer dollars to the “Palestinians.”

What this administration is, is stupid. Offering $100M in aid to organizations, knowing that some, maybe most of it will likely go to terrorists, is beyond ignorant.  Israel is our ally. We should not be funding their attacker.

There are better options.

First, we could do nothing. Let Arab governments provide aid. Second, we could do what Jordan just did. They coordinated with the Israeli military several days ago to airdrop in medical supplies. They cut out the middlemen: the international aid organizations. They got the supplies directly to the people.

Sure, Hamas fighters probably rushed to the drop zones and took some amount of the food, water, or medicine. But compare that to dropping off pallets of cash to international organizations or the United Nations, knowing Hamas and Hezbollah are the likely recipients.  Doesn’t it seem like doing nothing or maybe doing the airdrops are the better options?

Reach out to Congressman Pappas and let him know how much you appreciate his efforts (202-225-5456).

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I recently read this Reason article about how homeschooling as increased since the pandemic. Some quotes from people who are apparently against homeschooling blew my mind.  I had the need to share some comments about them.

“Policymakers should think, ‘Wow — this is a lot of kids,'” Elizabeth Bartholet, an emeritus professor at Harvard Law School told the Post “We should worry about whether they’re learning anything.”

Are these people worried about parents teaching their own kids, rather than the innumerable number of kids in public schools who get socially promoted and graduate without being able to read? To say nothing of the 50+ years of data that show that learning in schools is flatlined.

“I can tell you right now: Many of these parents don’t have any understanding of education,” added one school board member. “The price will be very big to us, and to society. But that won’t show up for a few years.”

Ha ha! Many certified teachers don’t have any understanding of how to teach kids to read! And the price is already humongous.

 

Homeschools are judged by the worst possible outcomes.

Government schools are judged on their aspirations.

 

When will these people take their heads out of their butts and see what’s actually going on?  What a crazy world we live in.

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President Joe Biden says 24 million Americans “suffer from food insecurity!”

News anchors were shocked that there is “food insecurity in the richest country in the world!” ABC hosts turned “insecurity” into “hunger.”

But in my new video, Rachel Sheffield, who researches welfare policy at the Heritage Foundation, explains, “Food insecurity is not the same thing as hunger. It just means that they had to rely on cheaper foods, store-brand alternatives … or reduce variety.” (RELATED: JOHN STOSSEL: Rand Paul Was Right)

Really? The alarm about “food insecurity” is based on that? Well, yes. Even the U.S. Department of Agriculture, in its fine print, admits that “for most food-insecure households, the inadequacies were in the form of reduced quality and variety of food rather than insufficient quantity.”

“They always want to create a crisis,” I say to Sheffield.

“Government programs want to keep themselves going,” she replies.

She’s talking about the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program; the Women, Infants and Children program; the National School Lunch Program and the other constantly growing handouts that make up America’s welfare system.

The biggest effect of these handouts is to harm the people they want to help. They harm people by making them dependent on government.

Before government’s War on Poverty began, Americans were steadily lifting themselves out of poverty. Year after year, the number of people living below the poverty line dropped.

That natural progress wasn’t good enough for us.

We (I include myself because I believed it, too) who wanted to reduce poverty declared “War on Poverty.” Welfare checks poured out. The poverty rate continued to drop for seven years. But then progress stopped.

What happened? Why did progress stop?

Because handouts taught people to be dependent.

Welfare payments did something remarkable. They created a new class of dependent people — a nearly permanent “underclass,” where generation after generation lives in poverty.

Today, government does things to perpetuate that, like claiming millions of Americans are “food insecure.” Charities raise money using the same language.

But the opposite is true.

“Americans consume too many calories,” says Sheffield. “Food insecure” adults are more likely to be obese.

When that became obvious, activists promoted a new myth: Poor people are overweight because they live in “food deserts,” neighborhoods where healthy foods are much less available. Michelle Obama talked about that a lot. She claimed some poor people had to take three busses to buy healthy food.

Nonsense.

When government officials first labeled “food deserts,’ they deviously ignored small stores, only counting stores with more than $2 million in sales. It’s true that one “food desert” Obama visited didn’t have a supermarket. But it had multiple smaller businesses selling fruits and vegetables. Government officials just didn’t count them.

Now, the media claim college students are food insecure.

But most college goers gain weight at school! At school!

It’s bizarre that when obesity is the bigger problem, government hypes food insecurity. But of course, “that creates the rationale for expanding food assistance programs, expanding the welfare system,” explains Sheffield.

Expanding welfare seems to be the government’s goal. “We’ve spent more on the War on Poverty than all the military wars combined in the United States without any success,” says Sheffield.

Really? More than all our wars combined? Well, yes. We’ve spent $23 trillion on the War on Poverty. So far.

“Actually,” says Sheffield, “it’s been a success in one way. It increases dependence on the federal government.” That’s what bureaucrats consider success.

The handouts are good for the people who dole out the money. They’re good for politicians who get to look like “good guys.” (RELATED: SUZANNE DOWNING: Generation Blubber — Good Times Forge Weak Men)

But they’re bad for poor people.

Before government handouts began, private charities helped people escape poverty. They encouraged people to learn how to take care of themselves. Work gradually lifted people out of poverty. “Work also has a lot of other benefits,” Sheffield points out. “It builds a greater sense of community, gives people access to resources and friend networks that help them improve in their lives.”

Encouraging self-sufficiency is so much better than what government does.

Every Tuesday at JohnStossel.com, Stossel posts a new video about the battle between government and freedom. He is the author of “Give Me a Break: How I Exposed Hucksters, Cheats, and Scam Artists and Became the Scourge of the Liberal Media.”

 

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Rep Rashida Tlaib is not shy about her partisan preference for Palestine. She claims to be Palestinian. So when Hamas invaded Israel and slaughtered civilians, Tlaib wasn’t remorseful. In fact, she had some rather impolite remarks, which is par for the course.

Words to which she is entitled, but so then, are her colleagues permitted to express their disfavor of those words. They did.

 

The 234-188 tally came after enough Democrats joined with Republicans to censure Tlaib, a punishment one step below expulsion from the House. The three-term congresswoman has long been a target of criticism for her views on the decades-long conflict in the Middle East.

 

“Enough Democrats,” including New Hampshire CD-1 seat-warmer Chris Pappas, has taken some heat, and it looks like someone in leadership permitted him to vote Yea. He did. Pappas still supported BDS legislation and generally toes the line on the Democrat party’s negative view of Israel. I’m not sure he’s allowed to have his own opinion,

Ann Kuster voted against censure. There is no press from either yet on that vote (that I found), but Pappas does have another related piece of PR.

 

On Tuesday, November 7, Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01) joined a statement on the phrase “from the river to the sea” and the ongoing Hamas-Israel War.

The text of the statement reads:

“We reject the use of the phrase “from the river to the sea”— a phrase used by many, including Hamas, as a rallying cry for the destruction of the State of Israel and genocide of the Jewish people. We all feel deep anguish for the human suffering caused by the war in Gaza. Hamas started this war with a barbaric terrorist attack on October 7, 2023, and neither the Palestinian nor Israeli people can have peace as long as Hamas still rules over Gaza and threatens Israel.  …

 

He seems to be in rehab mode, but … did he give the 8K back yet?

 

You can see how your stooge voted on the censure below or at this link. Alphabetical by Last Name.

H.Res. 845: Censuring Representative Rashida Tlaib for promoting false narratives regarding the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel and for calling for the destruction of the state of Israel.
name	party	state	district	vote
Rep. Robert Aderholt [R]	Republican	AL	4	Yea
Rep. Sanford Bishop [D]	Democrat	GA	2	Nay
Rep. Earl Blumenauer [D]	Democrat	OR	3	Nay
Rep. Michael Burgess [R]	Republican	TX	26	Yea
Rep. Ken Calvert [R]	Republican	CA	41	Yea
Rep. John R. Carter [R]	Republican	TX	31	Yea
Rep. Ed Case [D]	Democrat	HI	1	Nay
Rep. James Clyburn [D]	Democrat	SC	6	Nay
Rep. Tom Cole [R]	Republican	OK	4	Yea
Rep. Danny Davis [D]	Democrat	IL	7	Nay
Rep. Diana DeGette [D]	Democrat	CO	1	Nay
Rep. Rosa DeLauro [D]	Democrat	CT	3	Nay
Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart [R]	Republican	FL	26	Yea
Rep. Lloyd Doggett [D]	Democrat	TX	37	Nay
Rep. Anna Eshoo [D]	Democrat	CA	16	Nay
Rep. Kay Granger [R]	Republican	TX	12	Yea
Rep. Sam Graves [R]	Republican	MO	6	Yea
Rep. Raul Grijalva [D]	Democrat	AZ	7	Nay
Rep. Steny Hoyer [D]	Democrat	MD	5	Nay
Rep. Darrell Issa [R]	Republican	CA	48	Yea
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee [D]	Democrat	TX	18	Not Voting
Rep. Marcy Kaptur [D]	Democrat	OH	9	Nay
Rep. Rick Larsen [D]	Democrat	WA	2	Not Voting
Rep. John Larson [D]	Democrat	CT	1	Nay
Rep. Barbara Lee [D]	Democrat	CA	12	Nay
Rep. Zoe Lofgren [D]	Democrat	CA	18	Nay
Rep. Frank Lucas [R]	Republican	OK	3	Yea
Rep. Stephen Lynch [D]	Democrat	MA	8	Nay
Rep. Betty McCollum [D]	Democrat	MN	4	Nay
Rep. James McGovern [D]	Democrat	MA	2	Nay
Rep. Gregory Meeks [D]	Democrat	NY	5	Nay
Rep. Jerrold Nadler [D]	Democrat	NY	12	Nay
Rep. Grace Napolitano [D]	Democrat	CA	31	Nay
Rep. Richard Neal [D]	Democrat	MA	1	Nay
Rep. Frank Pallone [D]	Democrat	NJ	6	Nay
Rep. Bill Pascrell [D]	Democrat	NJ	9	Nay
Rep. Nancy Pelosi [D]	Democrat	CA	11	Nay
Rep. Harold Rogers [R]	Republican	KY	5	Yea
Rep. Mike Rogers [R]	Republican	AL	3	Yea
Rep. A. Dutch Ruppersberger [D]	Democrat	MD	2	Nay
Rep. Linda Sanchez [D]	Democrat	CA	38	Nay
Rep. Janice Schakowsky [D]	Democrat	IL	9	Nay
Rep. Adam Schiff [D]	Democrat	CA	30	Nay
Rep. David Scott [D]	Democrat	GA	13	Nay
Rep. Robert Scott [D]	Democrat	VA	3	Nay
Rep. Pete Sessions [R]	Republican	TX	17	Yea
Rep. Brad Sherman [D]	Democrat	CA	32	Nay
Rep. Michael Simpson [R]	Republican	ID	2	Yea
Rep. Adam Smith [D]	Democrat	WA	9	Nay
Rep. Christopher Smith [R]	Republican	NJ	4	Yea
Rep. Bennie Thompson [D]	Democrat	MS	2	Nay
Rep. Mike Thompson [D]	Democrat	CA	4	Nay
Rep. Michael Turner [R]	Republican	OH	10	Yea
Rep. Nydia Velázquez [D]	Democrat	NY	7	Nay
Rep. Maxine Waters [D]	Democrat	CA	43	Nay
Rep. Joe Wilson [R]	Republican	SC	2	Yea
Rep. Jim Costa [D]	Democrat	CA	21	Yea
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz [D]	Democrat	FL	25	Yea
Rep. Emanuel Cleaver [D]	Democrat	MO	5	Nay
Rep. Brian Higgins [D]	Democrat	NY	26	Nay
Rep. Virginia Foxx [R]	Republican	NC	5	Yea
Rep. Patrick McHenry [R]	Republican	NC	10	Yea
Rep. Al Green [D]	Democrat	TX	9	Nay
Rep. Michael McCaul [R]	Republican	TX	10	Yea
Rep. Henry Cuellar [D]	Democrat	TX	28	Nay
Rep. Cathy Anne McMorris Rodgers [R]	Republican	WA	5	Yea
Rep. Gwen Moore [D]	Democrat	WI	4	Nay
Rep. Doris Matsui [D]	Democrat	CA	7	Nay
Rep. Kweisi Mfume [D]	Democrat	MD	7	Nay
Rep. Kevin McCarthy [R]	Republican	CA	20	Yea
Rep. Doug Lamborn [R]	Republican	CO	5	Yea
Rep. Joe Courtney [D]	Democrat	CT	2	Nay
Rep. Kathy Castor [D]	Democrat	FL	14	Nay
Rep. Vern Buchanan [R]	Republican	FL	16	Yea
Rep. Henry C. Johnson [D]	Democrat	GA	4	Nay
Rep. John Sarbanes [D]	Democrat	MD	3	Nay
Rep. Tim Walberg [R]	Republican	MI	5	Yea
Rep. Adrian Smith [R]	Republican	NE	3	Yea
Rep. Yvette Clarke [D]	Democrat	NY	9	Nay
Rep. Jim Jordan [R]	Republican	OH	4	Yea
Rep. Steve Cohen [D]	Democrat	TN	9	Yea
Rep. Gus Bilirakis [R]	Republican	FL	12	Yea
Rep. Robert Wittman [R]	Republican	VA	1	Yea
Rep. Robert Latta [R]	Republican	OH	5	Yea
Rep. Bill Foster [D]	Democrat	IL	11	Nay
Rep. Andre’ Carson [D]	Democrat	IN	7	Nay
Rep. Steve Scalise [R]	Republican	LA	1	Yea
Rep. Gerald Connolly [D]	Democrat	VA	11	Nay
Rep. Brett Guthrie [R]	Republican	KY	2	Yea
Rep. James Himes [D]	Democrat	CT	4	Nay
Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer [R]	Republican	MO	3	Yea
Rep. Tom McClintock [R]	Republican	CA	5	Nay
Rep. Chellie Pingree [D]	Democrat	ME	1	Nay
Rep. Bill Posey [R]	Republican	FL	8	Yea
Rep. Glenn Thompson [R]	Republican	PA	15	Yea
Rep. Dina Titus [D]	Democrat	NV	1	Nay
Rep. Paul Tonko [D]	Democrat	NY	20	Nay
Rep. Mike Quigley [D]	Democrat	IL	5	Nay
Rep. Judy Chu [D]	Democrat	CA	28	Nay
Rep. John Garamendi [D]	Democrat	CA	8	Nay
Rep. Terri Sewell [D]	Democrat	AL	7	Nay
Rep. Paul Gosar [R]	Republican	AZ	9	Yea
Rep. David Schweikert [R]	Republican	AZ	1	Yea
Rep. Eric Crawford [R]	Republican	AR	1	Yea
Rep. Steve Womack [R]	Republican	AR	3	Yea
Rep. Daniel Webster [R]	Republican	FL	11	Not Voting
Rep. Frederica Wilson [D]	Democrat	FL	24	Yea
Rep. Austin Scott [R]	Republican	GA	8	Yea
Rep. Larry Bucshon [R]	Republican	IN	8	Yea
Rep. Andy Harris [R]	Republican	MD	1	Yea
Rep. William R. Keating [D]	Democrat	MA	9	Nay
Rep. Bill Huizenga [R]	Republican	MI	4	Yea
Rep. Bill Johnson [R]	Republican	OH	6	Yea
Rep. Mike Kelly [R]	Republican	PA	16	Yea
Rep. Jeff Duncan [R]	Republican	SC	3	Yea
Rep. Charles Fleischmann [R]	Republican	TN	3	Yea
Rep. Scott DesJarlais [R]	Republican	TN	4	Yea
Rep. Morgan Griffith [R]	Republican	VA	9	Yea
Rep. Mark Amodei [R]	Republican	NV	2	Yea
Rep. Suzanne Bonamici [D]	Democrat	OR	1	Nay
Rep. Thomas Massie [R]	Republican	KY	4	Nay
Rep. Suzan DelBene [D]	Democrat	WA	1	Nay
Rep. Donald Payne Jr. [D]	Democrat	NJ	10	Nay
Rep. Doug LaMalfa [R]	Republican	CA	1	Yea
Rep. Jared Huffman [D]	Democrat	CA	2	Nay
Rep. Ami Bera [D]	Democrat	CA	6	Nay
Rep. Eric Swalwell [D]	Democrat	CA	14	Nay
Rep. David Valadao [R]	Republican	CA	22	Yea
Rep. Julia Brownley [D]	Democrat	CA	26	Nay
Rep. Tony Cárdenas [D]	Democrat	CA	29	Nay
Rep. Raul Ruiz [D]	Democrat	CA	25	Nay
Rep. Mark Takano [D]	Democrat	CA	39	Nay
Rep. Juan Vargas [D]	Democrat	CA	52	Nay
Rep. Scott Peters [D]	Democrat	CA	50	Nay
Rep. Lois Frankel [D]	Democrat	FL	22	Yea
Rep. Bradley Schneider [D]	Democrat	IL	10	Yea
Rep. Garland Barr [R]	Republican	KY	6	Yea
Rep. Daniel Kildee [D]	Democrat	MI	8	Nay
Rep. Ann Wagner [R]	Republican	MO	2	Yea
Rep. Richard Hudson [R]	Republican	NC	9	Yea
Rep. Ann Kuster [D]	Democrat	NH	2	Nay
Rep. Steven Horsford [D]	Democrat	NV	4	Nay
Rep. Grace Meng [D]	Democrat	NY	6	Nay
Rep. Hakeem Jeffries [D]	Democrat	NY	8	Nay
Rep. Brad Wenstrup [R]	Republican	OH	2	Yea
Rep. Joyce Beatty [D]	Democrat	OH	3	Nay
Rep. David Joyce [R]	Republican	OH	14	Present
Rep. Scott Perry [R]	Republican	PA	10	Yea
Rep. Matthew Cartwright [D]	Democrat	PA	8	Nay
Rep. Randy Weber [R]	Republican	TX	14	Yea
Rep. Joaquin Castro [D]	Democrat	TX	20	Nay
Rep. Roger Williams [R]	Republican	TX	25	Yea
Rep. Marc Veasey [D]	Democrat	TX	33	Nay
Rep. Derek Kilmer [D]	Democrat	WA	6	Nay
Rep. Mark Pocan [D]	Democrat	WI	2	Nay
Rep. Robin Kelly [D]	Democrat	IL	2	Nay
Rep. Jason Smith [R]	Republican	MO	8	Yea
Rep. Katherine Clark [D]	Democrat	MA	5	Nay
Rep. Donald Norcross [D]	Democrat	NJ	1	Present
Rep. Alma Adams [D]	Democrat	NC	12	Nay
Rep. Gary Palmer [R]	Republican	AL	6	Yea
Rep. French Hill [R]	Republican	AR	2	Yea
Rep. Bruce Westerman [R]	Republican	AR	4	Yea
Rep. Ruben Gallego [D]	Democrat	AZ	3	Nay
Rep. Mark DeSaulnier [D]	Democrat	CA	10	Nay
Rep. Pete Aguilar [D]	Democrat	CA	33	Nay
Rep. Ted Lieu [D]	Democrat	CA	36	Nay
Rep. Norma Torres [D]	Democrat	CA	35	Nay
Rep. Ken Buck [R]	Republican	CO	4	Nay
Rep. Earl Carter [R]	Republican	GA	1	Yea
Rep. Barry Loudermilk [R]	Republican	GA	11	Yea
Rep. Rick Allen [R]	Republican	GA	12	Yea
Rep. Mike Bost [R]	Republican	IL	12	Yea
Rep. Garret Graves [R]	Republican	LA	6	Yea
Rep. Seth Moulton [D]	Democrat	MA	6	Nay
Rep. John Moolenaar [R]	Republican	MI	2	Yea
Rep. Debbie Dingell [D]	Democrat	MI	6	Nay
Rep. Tom Emmer [R]	Republican	MN	6	Yea
Rep. Ryan Zinke [R]	Republican	MT	1	Yea
Rep. David Rouzer [R]	Republican	NC	7	Yea
Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman [D]	Democrat	NJ	12	Nay
Rep. Elise Stefanik [R]	Republican	NY	21	Yea
Rep. Brendan Boyle [D]	Democrat	PA	2	Nay
Rep. Brian Babin [R]	Republican	TX	36	Yea
Rep. Donald Beyer [D]	Democrat	VA	8	Nay
Rep. Dan Newhouse [R]	Republican	WA	4	Yea
Rep. Glenn Grothman [R]	Republican	WI	6	Yea
Rep. Alexander Mooney [R]	Republican	WV	2	Yea
Rep. Trent Kelly [R]	Republican	MS	1	Yea
Rep. Darin LaHood [R]	Republican	IL	16	Yea
Rep. Warren Davidson [R]	Republican	OH	8	Yea
Rep. James Comer [R]	Republican	KY	1	Yea
Rep. Dwight Evans [D]	Democrat	PA	3	Nay
Rep. Andy Biggs [R]	Republican	AZ	5	Yea
Rep. Ro Khanna [D]	Democrat	CA	17	Nay
Rep. Jimmy Panetta [D]	Democrat	CA	19	Nay
Rep. Salud Carbajal [D]	Democrat	CA	24	Nay
Rep. Nanette Barragán [D]	Democrat	CA	44	Nay
Rep. Luis Correa [D]	Democrat	CA	46	Nay
Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester [D]	Democrat	DE	0	Nay
Rep. Matt Gaetz [R]	Republican	FL	1	Yea
Rep. Neal Dunn [R]	Republican	FL	2	Yea
Rep. John Rutherford [R]	Republican	FL	5	Yea
Rep. Darren Soto [D]	Democrat	FL	9	Yea
Rep. Brian Mast [R]	Republican	FL	21	Yea
Rep. Drew Ferguson [R]	Republican	GA	3	Yea
Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi [D]	Democrat	IL	8	Nay
Rep. Jim Banks [R]	Republican	IN	3	Yea
Rep. Clay Higgins [R]	Republican	LA	3	Yea
Rep. Jamie Raskin [D]	Democrat	MD	8	Nay
Rep. Jack Bergman [R]	Republican	MI	1	Yea
Rep. Don Bacon [R]	Republican	NE	2	Yea
Rep. Josh Gottheimer [D]	Democrat	NJ	5	Yea
Rep. Adriano Espaillat [D]	Democrat	NY	13	Nay
Rep. Claudia Tenney [R]	Republican	NY	24	Yea
Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick [R]	Republican	PA	1	Yea
Rep. Lloyd Smucker [R]	Republican	PA	11	Yea
Rep. David Kustoff [R]	Republican	TN	8	Yea
Rep. Vicente Gonzalez [D]	Democrat	TX	34	Nay
Rep. Jodey Arrington [R]	Republican	TX	19	Yea
Rep. Pramila Jayapal [D]	Democrat	WA	7	Nay
Rep. Mike Gallagher [R]	Republican	WI	8	Yea
Rep. Ron Estes [R]	Republican	KS	4	Yea
Rep. Ralph Norman [R]	Republican	SC	5	Yea
Rep. Jimmy Gomez [D]	Democrat	CA	34	Nay
Rep. John Curtis [R]	Republican	UT	3	Yea
Rep. Debbie Lesko [R]	Republican	AZ	8	Yea
Rep. Michael Cloud [R]	Republican	TX	27	Yea
Rep. Troy Balderson [R]	Republican	OH	12	Yea
Rep. Kevin Hern [R]	Republican	OK	1	Yea
Rep. Joseph Morelle [D]	Democrat	NY	25	Nay
Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon [D]	Democrat	PA	5	Nay
Rep. Susan Wild [D]	Democrat	PA	7	Present
Rep. Greg Stanton [D]	Democrat	AZ	4	Nay
Rep. Josh Harder [D]	Democrat	CA	9	Nay
Rep. Katie Porter [D]	Democrat	CA	47	Nay
Rep. Mike Levin [D]	Democrat	CA	49	Nay
Rep. Joe Neguse [D]	Democrat	CO	2	Nay
Rep. Jason Crow [D]	Democrat	CO	6	Nay
Rep. Jahana Hayes [D]	Democrat	CT	5	Nay
Rep. Michael Waltz [R]	Republican	FL	6	Yea
Rep. Gregory Steube [R]	Republican	FL	17	Yea
Rep. Lucy McBath [D]	Democrat	GA	7	Nay
Rep. Russ Fulcher [R]	Republican	ID	1	Yea
Rep. Chuy García	Democrat	IL	4	Nay
Rep. Sean Casten [D]	Democrat	IL	6	Nay
Rep. Lauren Underwood [D]	Democrat	IL	14	Nay
Rep. James Baird [R]	Republican	IN	4	Yea
Rep. Greg Pence [R]	Republican	IN	6	Yea
Rep. Sharice Davids [D]	Democrat	KS	3	Nay
Rep. Lori Trahan [D]	Democrat	MA	3	Nay
Rep. Ayanna Pressley [D]	Democrat	MA	7	Nay
Rep. David Trone [D]	Democrat	MD	6	Nay
Rep. Elissa Slotkin [D]	Democrat	MI	7	Nay
Rep. Haley Stevens [D]	Democrat	MI	11	Nay
Rep. Rashida Tlaib [D]	Democrat	MI	12	Nay
Rep. Angie Craig [D]	Democrat	MN	2	Yea
Rep. Dean Phillips [D]	Democrat	MN	3	Not Voting
Rep. Ilhan Omar [D]	Democrat	MN	5	Nay
Rep. Pete Stauber [R]	Republican	MN	8	Yea
Rep. Michael Guest [R]	Republican	MS	3	Yea
Rep. Kelly Armstrong [R]	Republican	ND	0	Yea
Rep. Chris Pappas [D]	Democrat	NH	1	Yea
Rep. Jefferson Van Drew [R]	Republican	NJ	2	Yea
Rep. Andy Kim [D]	Democrat	NJ	3	Nay
Rep. Mikie Sherrill [D]	Democrat	NJ	11	Nay
Rep. Susie Lee [D]	Democrat	NV	3	Yea
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez [D]	Democrat	NY	14	Nay
Rep. Madeleine Dean [D]	Democrat	PA	4	Nay
Rep. Chrissy Houlahan [D]	Democrat	PA	6	Nay
Rep. Daniel Meuser [R]	Republican	PA	9	Yea
Rep. John Joyce [R]	Republican	PA	13	Yea
Rep. Guy Reschenthaler [R]	Republican	PA	14	Yea
Rep. William Timmons [R]	Republican	SC	4	Yea
Rep. Dusty Johnson [R]	Republican	SD	0	Yea
Rep. Tim Burchett [R]	Republican	TN	2	Yea
Rep. John W. Rose [R]	Republican	TN	6	Yea
Rep. Mark E. Green [R]	Republican	TN	7	Yea
Rep. Dan Crenshaw [R]	Republican	TX	2	Yea
Rep. Lance Gooden [R]	Republican	TX	5	Yea
Rep. Lizzie Fletcher [D]	Democrat	TX	7	Nay
Rep. Veronica Escobar [D]	Democrat	TX	16	Nay
Rep. Chip Roy [R]	Republican	TX	21	Yea
Rep. Sylvia Garcia [D]	Democrat	TX	29	Nay
Rep. Colin Allred [D]	Democrat	TX	32	Nay
Rep. Ben Cline [R]	Republican	VA	6	Yea
Rep. Abigail Spanberger [D]	Democrat	VA	7	Present
Rep. Jennifer Wexton [D]	Democrat	VA	10	Nay
Rep. Kim Schrier [D]	Democrat	WA	8	Yea
Rep. Bryan Steil [R]	Republican	WI	1	Yea
Rep. Carol Miller [R]	Republican	WV	1	Yea
Rep. Jared Golden [D]	Democrat	ME	2	Yea
Rep. Dan Bishop [R]	Republican	NC	8	Yea
Rep. Gregory Murphy [R]	Republican	NC	3	Yea
Rep. Thomas Tiffany [R]	Republican	WI	7	Yea
Rep. Mike Garcia [R]	Republican	CA	27	Yea
Rep. Jerry Carl [R]	Republican	AL	1	Yea
Rep. Barry Moore [R]	Republican	AL	2	Yea
Rep. Jay Obernolte [R]	Republican	CA	23	Yea
Rep. Young Kim [R]	Republican	CA	40	Yea
Rep. Michelle Steel [R]	Republican	CA	45	Yea
Rep. Sara Jacobs [D]	Democrat	CA	51	Nay
Rep. Lauren Boebert [R]	Republican	CO	3	Yea
Rep. Katherine Cammack [R]	Republican	FL	3	Yea
Rep. Scott Franklin [R]	Republican	FL	18	Yea
Rep. Byron Donalds [R]	Republican	FL	19	Yea
Rep. Carlos Gimenez [R]	Republican	FL	28	Yea
Rep. Maria Salazar [R]	Republican	FL	27	Yea
Rep. Nikema Williams [D]	Democrat	GA	5	Nay
Rep. Andrew Clyde [R]	Republican	GA	9	Yea
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene [R]	Republican	GA	14	Yea
Rep. Ashley Hinson [R]	Republican	IA	2	Yea
Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks [R]	Republican	IA	1	Yea
Rep. Randy Feenstra [R]	Republican	IA	4	Yea
Rep. Mary Miller [R]	Republican	IL	15	Yea
Rep. Frank Mrvan [D]	Democrat	IN	1	Nay
Rep. Victoria Spartz [R]	Republican	IN	5	Yea
Rep. Tracey Mann [R]	Republican	KS	1	Yea
Rep. Jacob LaTurner [R]	Republican	KS	2	Yea
Rep. Jake Auchincloss [D]	Democrat	MA	4	Nay
Rep. Lisa McClain [R]	Republican	MI	9	Yea
Rep. Michelle Fischbach [R]	Republican	MN	7	Yea
Rep. Cori Bush [D]	Democrat	MO	1	Nay
Rep. Matthew Rosendale [R]	Republican	MT	2	Yea
Rep. Deborah Ross [D]	Democrat	NC	2	Nay
Rep. Kathy Manning [D]	Democrat	NC	6	Yea
Rep. Teresa Leger Fernandez [D]	Democrat	NM	3	Nay
Rep. Andrew Garbarino [R]	Republican	NY	2	Yea
Rep. Nicole Malliotakis [R]	Republican	NY	11	Yea
Rep. Ritchie Torres [D]	Democrat	NY	15	Yea
Rep. Jamaal Bowman [D]	Democrat	NY	16	Nay
Rep. Stephanie Bice [R]	Republican	OK	5	Yea
Rep. Cliff Bentz [R]	Republican	OR	2	Yea
Rep. Nancy Mace [R]	Republican	SC	1	Yea
Rep. Diana Harshbarger [R]	Republican	TN	1	Yea
Rep. Patrick Fallon [R]	Republican	TX	4	Yea
Rep. August Pfluger [R]	Republican	TX	11	Yea
Rep. Ronny Jackson [R]	Republican	TX	13	Yea
Rep. Troy Nehls [R]	Republican	TX	22	Yea
Rep. Ernest Gonzales [R]	Republican	TX	23	Yea
Rep. Beth Van Duyne [R]	Republican	TX	24	Yea
Rep. Blake Moore [R]	Republican	UT	1	Yea
Rep. Clarence Owens [R]	Republican	UT	4	Yea
Rep. Robert Good [R]	Republican	VA	5	Yea
Rep. Marilyn Strickland [D]	Democrat	WA	10	Nay
Rep. Scott Fitzgerald [R]	Republican	WI	5	Yea
Rep. Julia Letlow [R]	Republican	LA	5	Yea
Rep. Troy Carter [D]	Democrat	LA	2	Nay
Rep. Melanie Stansbury [D]	Democrat	NM	1	Nay
Rep. Jake Ellzey [R]	Republican	TX	6	Yea
Rep. Shontel Brown [D]	Democrat	OH	11	Nay
Rep. Mike Carey [R]	Republican	OH	15	Yea
Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick [D]	Democrat	FL	20	Nay
Rep. Mike Flood [R]	Republican	NE	1	Yea
Rep. Brad Finstad [R]	Republican	MN	1	Yea
Rep. Mary Peltola [D]	Democrat	AK	0	Nay
Rep. Patrick Ryan [D]	Democrat	NY	18	Yea
Rep. Rudy Yakym [R]	Republican	IN	2	Yea
Rep. Dale Strong [R]	Republican	AL	5	Yea
Rep. Eli Crane [R]	Republican	AZ	2	Yea
Rep. Juan Ciscomani [R]	Republican	AZ	6	Yea
Rep. Kevin Kiley [R]	Republican	CA	3	Yea
Rep. John Duarte [R]	Republican	CA	13	Nay
Rep. Kevin Mullin [D]	Democrat	CA	15	Nay
Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove [D]	Democrat	CA	37	Nay
Rep. Robert Julio Garcia [D]	Democrat	CA	42	Nay
Rep. Brittany Pettersen [D]	Democrat	CO	7	Nay
Rep. Yadira Caraveo [D]	Democrat	CO	8	Nay
Rep. Aaron Bean [R]	Republican	FL	4	Yea
Rep. Cory Mills [R]	Republican	FL	7	Yea
Rep. Maxwell Frost [D]	Democrat	FL	10	Nay
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna [R]	Republican	FL	13	Yea
Rep. Laurel Lee [R]	Republican	FL	15	Yea
Rep. Jared Moskowitz [D]	Democrat	FL	23	Yea
Rep. Rich McCormick [R]	Republican	GA	6	Yea
Rep. Mike Collins [R]	Republican	GA	10	Yea
Rep. Jill Tokuda [D]	Democrat	HI	2	Nay
Rep. Zachary (Zach) Nunn [R]	Republican	IA	3	Yea
Rep. Jonathan Jackson [D]	Democrat	IL	1	Nay
Rep. Delia Ramirez [D]	Democrat	IL	3	Nay
Rep. Nicole (Nikki) Budzinski [D]	Democrat	IL	13	Nay
Rep. Eric Sorensen [D]	Democrat	IL	17	Nay
Rep. Erin Houchin [R]	Republican	IN	9	Yea
Rep. Morgan McGarvey [D]	Democrat	KY	3	Nay
Rep. Glenn Ivey [D]	Democrat	MD	4	Nay
Rep. Hillary Scholten [D]	Democrat	MI	3	Nay
Rep. John James [R]	Republican	MI	10	Yea
Rep. Shri Thanedar [D]	Democrat	MI	13	Nay
Rep. Mark Alford [R]	Republican	MO	4	Yea
Rep. Eric Burlison [R]	Republican	MO	7	Yea
Rep. Mike Ezell [R]	Republican	MS	4	Yea
Rep. Donald Davis [D]	Democrat	NC	1	Yea
Rep. Valerie Foushee [D]	Democrat	NC	4	Nay
Rep. Charles (Chuck) Edwards [R]	Republican	NC	11	Yea
Rep. Wiley Nickel [D]	Democrat	NC	13	Yea
Rep. Jeffrey Jackson [D]	Democrat	NC	14	Nay
Rep. Thomas Kean [R]	Republican	NJ	7	Yea
Rep. Robert Jacobsen Menendez [D]	Democrat	NJ	8	Nay
Rep. Gabriel (Gabe) Vasquez [D]	Democrat	NM	2	Nay
Rep. Nicolas LaLota [R]	Republican	NY	1	Yea
Rep. George Santos [R]	Republican	NY	3	Yea
Rep. Anthony D’Esposito [R]	Republican	NY	4	Not Voting
Rep. Dan Goldman [D]	Democrat	NY	10	Yea
Rep. Michael Lawler [R]	Republican	NY	17	Yea
Rep. Marcus Molinaro [R]	Republican	NY	19	Yea
Rep. Brandon Williams [R]	Republican	NY	22	Yea
Rep. Nicholas Langworthy [R]	Republican	NY	23	Yea
Rep. Greg Landsman [D]	Democrat	OH	1	Yea
Rep. Max Miller [R]	Republican	OH	7	Yea
Rep. Emilia Sykes [D]	Democrat	OH	13	Nay
Rep. Josh Brecheen [R]	Republican	OK	2	Yea
Rep. Valerie Hoyle [D]	Democrat	OR	4	Nay
Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer [R]	Republican	OR	5	Yea
Rep. Andrea Salinas [D]	Democrat	OR	6	Nay
Rep. Summer Lee [D]	Democrat	PA	12	Nay
Rep. Chris Deluzio [D]	Democrat	PA	17	Nay
Rep. Seth Magaziner [D]	Democrat	RI	2	Nay
Rep. Russell Fry [R]	Republican	SC	7	Yea
Rep. Andrew Ogles [R]	Republican	TN	5	Yea
Rep. Nathaniel Moran [R]	Republican	TX	1	Yea
Rep. Keith Self [R]	Republican	TX	3	Yea
Rep. Morgan Luttrell [R]	Republican	TX	8	Yea
Rep. Monica De La Cruz [R]	Republican	TX	15	Yea
Rep. Jasmine Crockett [D]	Democrat	TX	30	Nay
Rep. Gregorio Casar [D]	Democrat	TX	35	Nay
Rep. Wesley Hunt [R]	Republican	TX	38	Yea
Rep. Jennifer Kiggans [R]	Republican	VA	2	Not Voting
Rep. Becca Balint [D]	Democrat	VT	0	Nay
Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez [D]	Democrat	WA	3	Yea
Rep. Derrick Van Orden [R]	Republican	WI	3	Yea
Rep. Harriet Hageman [R]	Republican	WY	0	Yea
Rep. Jennifer McClellan [D]	Democrat	VA	4	Nay

HT | Truth Press

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From Caroline: “Some context to this: I was not homeschooled, private, or classically schooled. I was a public school AP student. I got a 5 on the AP Human exam. My lowest AP exam scores were 4’s. I was all in on this system, and I navigated it very well. I came across this because of tutoring…”

 

Some context to this:
I was not homeschooled, private, or classically schooled. I was a public school AP student. I got a 5 on the AP Human exam. My lowest AP exam scores were 4’s. I was all in on this system, and I navigated it very well. I came across this because of tutoring… https://t.co/EV7Oaam9eT

— Caroline Andrews (@realcfandrews) November 2, 2023

Here is the enlarged image.

 

 

More from Caroline.

I’m not objecting as an outsider, but as a student who took these classes and did very well in them. I’m not a disgruntled AP failure trying to get revenge years later. I’m a student who, by the grace of God, has come to realize how incorrect and influential College Board is.

 

And.

 

 

 

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They’re flying so thick and fast it is amazing.  And I do apologize for skipping Monday – the entire weekend was crazy with scheduled things, and there was no time.  (Even with basically “pure memes” doing these does take precious time.)  But I’m back at it!

And yes, there will be a Friday Edition.  Last week’s Friday Edition.

Remember, ridicule and mockery are effective weapons:

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

Now, let the mockery and mayhem begin.

 

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

 

 

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I think there’s a fine balance here.  We’ve clearly gone too far.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And more “stuff”.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Supposedly there actually is a growing market for unJabbed sperm.  Except… if the woman has had several shots, I think it’s landing on barren soil.

 

 

For all those saying the Israelis are immune… not so much.  (And a close personal friend over there has said the number of people who are “dying suddenly” is quite worrying.

 

 

 

 

The science was settled.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Truth.  There’s that poem:

“A hundred years from now it will not matter | The Foundation for a Better Life (passiton.com)

 

 

I think the units / measurements are missing or just off.  But… that’s one heck of a building for a concentration camp.

 

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Pick of the post:

 

 

Prep.  Get ready as best you can.  Going to try and wrap up the Survival Sunday post that’s been slow-cooking on the backburner.

 

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Palate Cleansers:

 

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Come back Friday for another edition.  Same Meme Time.  Same Meme channel.

 

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If you want to keep disease out of your country or to keep track of it when it arrives, then checking the health of those arriving at the door to your country makes sense, especially from places where unpleasant transmissible diseases are common.

We don’t do that.

Biden’s open border has allowed millions of illegal entrants into America with little if any, surveillance or screening. They are then bussed or flown to cities and towns in the interior and released into the wilds of modern America. Even during the height of COVID pandemic fear, the idea of testing and isolating anyone was sold as racist, nativist, or xenophobic. Be it COVID or any number of third-world plagues (aside from the invaders themselves) that we’d eradicated from sea to rising sea.

There is no concern for the risks to citizens and non-citizens alike, but the CDC has decided to increase surveillance for respiratory illness in airports. I assume this is for show. Look, we’re doing something!

 

“The expansion of the Traveler-based Genomic Surveillance program to flu, RSV, and other pathogens is essential as we head into fall respiratory season. The TGS program, which began during the COVID-19 pandemic, acted as an early warning system to detect new and rare variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and will do the same for other respiratory viruses going forward,” said Dr. Cindy Friedman, chief of the CDC’s Travelers’ Health Branch, in the statement. …

The CDC’s program has “enrolled” more than 360,000 air travelers since it was implemented in late 2021, the agency said, adding that it is both “voluntary and anonymous.” It covers flights from more than 135 countries around the world.

 

The government is collecting the genomic profiles of foreigners to look for flu viruses that statistically represent a low threat level but allow millions of people in unchecked – to the best of our knowledge – with any number of more dangerous diseases.

Are they watching to see where the next engineered respiratory virus arrives from so they can plan how they will deny it was engineered or originated in Nation X?

It seems more likely, given the situation.

And this is not about public health and safety.

 

 

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