As promised in Monday Memes, I have an overflow. My meme cup runneth over.  And yes there will be a Friday edition too.

Let the mayhem, mockery, and ridicule resume:

 

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Waste of the Day: Debt Held By The Public Will Be “Unsustainable” By 2050 | The Gateway Pundit | by Guest Contributor

IMHO this is an overly-optimistic appraisal of the situation.  We’re already at $100 trillion added every 100 days, and that’s a death spiral that can’t be stopped.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is REAL privilege.

 

 

And yet, amazingly, there are people who just TRUST BLINDLY.  I had my own piece about that:

A Crisis of Trust – Urban Scoop

 

 

This is the cost of loose sex women (and men as well, let’s be fair).  It used to be that to gain access to sex – almost always through marriage – a man had to court a woman and demonstrate his suitability as a mate.  Now, it’s “swipe right” and off you go to date, with the deed almost expected on the first date, and practically mandatory by the third or fourth date.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

While I wish I had bought Bitcoin when it was less than a dollar, and envy those who did, I’m still skeptical.  First, it’s late in the game.  Second, to alter Arthur C. Clark’s rule, “Any technology, sufficiently advanced, is indistinguishable from a brick when the power’s off”.  All those bitcoins are useless if we’ve been EMPed or otherwise had the grid go down.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Are you f*cking kidding me?  PAIN BIAS?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I make a “spirited attempt” to keep kosher, so no pork for me and the family.  That doesn’t, alas, prevent my Covidian (not Jewish) wife from occasionally sneaking to let the kids buy something with bacon in it at a fast food place.

 

 

 

 

 

 

IIRC it was a SCOTUS ruling that, because someone’s homegrown tomatoes could potentially impact interstate commerce, even in a marginal way, that the government gained power to regulate home gardens, etc.

 

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PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA

 

Project 2025 and Republican Domination (aknextphase.com)

I don’t normally link to liberal bloggers, but this post rises to the very quote attributed to Nazi propaganda minister Goering: “Accuse others of that which you do”.

Understand that a good 30-40 percent STILL BELIEVE The Potato in Thief is doing a good job.  Like Covidians vis a vis The Jab, like Warmists about the dangers of CO2, you can shower them – a la Yuri Bezmenov – with information and facts and statistics and logic, and they’ll slam their mental gates shut.  (See my newly-coined quotation at the end of this post too.)

Cue my three essays “Teflon Intellects” from my old blog:

 

E Teflon Intellects 1

 

 

E Teflon Intellects 2

 

 

E Teflon Intellects 3

 

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Links (some from me, some from my Jarhead friend):

 

Google and Meta Function as Extensions of the US Intelligence Community – Geller Report

Duh.

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Mike Benz: Deep State – Foreign Policy Establishment Could Go Full Authoritarian – “I Believe They Already Have” (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft

James, Engoron Turning U.S. into ‘3rd World’ Nation, Commentary Warns | The Gateway Pundit | by Guest Contributor

Turning into?  No, IS.

Dirty Obama Judge Amy Berman Jackson Upholds DC Law That Allows Non-Citizens – AND ILLEGAL ALIENS – to Vote in Municipal Elections | The Gateway Pundit | by Cristina Laila

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Enemies of the People | Power Line (powerlineblog.com)

There’s a reason I call them the ENEMEDIA.  And an absolute majority agree with me.

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The Era of Informed Consent is Over ⋆ Brownstone Institute

For what the government considers “negligible risk” trials, there’s no need to inform the lab animals trial participants.  More:

FDA is trying to legalize its illegal approvals of COVID vaccines without human trials. Now one animal trial will do the trick to “prove” efficacy? (substack.com)

More FDA stuff:

LUPRON: dangers of this drug yet it persists! Lupron is linked to large increase in fatal heart attacks & diabetes & is even worse IMO than Statins; Lupron as a PUBERTY BLOCKER? IVF? GENDER CHANGE? (substack.com)

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War Correspondent Michael Yon Warns Russian Style Terror Attacks Coming to America (infowars.com)

Without a doubt.  I have hated going to local malls for years because of this possibility.

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Corrupt Chicago Democrats Suddenly Pull 10,000 Mail-In Ballots Out of Thin Air in DA Race – Clever Journeys

OMG.  Of course.  Not surprised.  The only thing that’s surprising is that anyone’s actually surprised.  And you really think you’re going to vote your way out of this?

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Tennessee lawmakers look to ban geoengineering; Critics argue bill ‘based on conspiracy theories’ (wkrn.com)

The measure was opposed by Nashville Rep. Justin Jones, who said a lot of the purported evidence for Fritts’ bill was “based on conspiracy theories.”

So if there’s no actual cost to the state to pass the bill, and no evidence that the threat actually exists, then where’s the problem with passing it, hmmm?

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While you were distracted by the “Where’s Princess Kate Conspiracy”, Deagel’s Depopulation Forecast was confirmed by Heavily Censored Pfizer Documents – The Expose (expose-news.com)

For the vast majority of Jabbed people in my circle, I’ll mourn.  For some few, I’ll celebrate, and for a selected subset of the latter, the sooner the better!

 

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The Potato is Barackus’ third term.  Anyone with three brain cells that talk with each other understands this.

 

 

 

 

“She”.

 

 

 

In every polling station.  As a condition of getting a ballot.  In addition to an ID of course.

 

 

NOTHING says “Trust the science” like a 148 page report with, literally, every word blanked out.

 

 

OOH, I’m sure he could use the support.  OTOH, is this a trap to ID people inclined to support him?

 

 

 

 

MHO, they’d start WWIII, globally, to prevent this.  AND to hide the accumulation of Jab effects.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Boycotts are appropriate.  But you need to let them know WHY.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Funny how research results often seem to align with the desires of who is paying for it.

 

 

I make beautiful, healthy hamburgers for the kids.  I make delicious air-fried, crispy breaded organic chicken for the kids.  I have all sorts of wonderful and healthy recipes… and what do they want?  Wendy’s, McDonalds, KFC, etc.  ARGH!  About my only consolation, at least for the boy, is that he’s bought hook, line, and sinker my telling him that adding greens like spinach is essential to the homemade meat sauce.  That, and the grated carrots add a dimension of flavor.

So far neither of them are aware I add “super-mushroom” powder to a number of the dishes I make for them.

 

 

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Pick of the Post:

 

Shot…

 

 

And chaser…

 

 

Say, Barackus has a house on Martha’s Vineyard.  What’s that maximum elevation?  311 feet.  That passes Tyson’s test.  Barackus paid almost $12 million for his house.  How high above sea level?

Sea Level Rise Dooms Obama’s New Martha’s Vineyard Mansion – Watts Up With That?

Eyeballing the contour map, it’s about 13 feet above sea level.  To quote Instapundit:

I’ll believe it’s a crisis when those who say it’s a crisis act like it’s a crisis.

Leave us not forget eco-loon Leonardo DiCaprio’s real estate portfolio:

Leonardo DiCaprio Builds an Eco-Resort – The New York Times (nytimes.com)

Blackadore Caye – while I can’t find an elevation on it, the pictures here are revealing as to its elevation above sea level.

Leonardo DiCaprio’s Luxury Eco-Resort Blackadore Caye Proves an Impossible Dream – autoevolution

 

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Palate cleansers:

 

 

Assuming I’m feeling snarky, my favorite comeback to being told that I’m talking with myself is “Yes, and when I finally find someone intelligent to talk with, you butt in”.

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If you didn’t have the song pop into your head…

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One of many demotivational posters available at

Home of Demotivators® – The World’s Best Demotivational Posters (despair.com)

 

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Come back on Friday for more memes.  Same meme time.  Same meme channel.

 

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I’m going to “mine” my old essays for some of the (hopefully worthwhile) quips and quotes I’ve coined.  And, currently, here’s a new one for you:

 

I would much prefer talking to a brick wall than the typical sheeple.  At least a brick wall doesn’t put on a preening air of intellectual, educational, and/or moral superiority as they ignore the evidence and logic I present them.

(c) 2024, NITZAKHON

 

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Congresswoman Ann Kuster has announced that she will not seek a seventh term in New Hampshire Congressional District Two (NH CD2).

WMUR

The six-term incumbent says she will leave Capitol Hill early next year at the end of the 118th Congress.

“This work has been many things — rewarding, frustrating, inspiring, and challenging. But, more than anything, it has been an honor,” Kuster said in a statement provided to WMUR. “I will continue serving the people of New Hampshire until the end of my term in January 2025. In the months ahead, I will use my time to help Congress build on the progress we have made and finish the job for the American people.”

Kuster said she will also continue to lead the New Democrat Coalition, a centrist, pro-business caucus that has played an increasingly pivotal role in a narrowly divided Congress.

Centrist?

There’s nothing centrist about Ann Kuster unless by the middle, you mean middle left, so this is obviously about money. The New Democrat Coalition is a group of 100 democrats pretending to be centrists to move Overton’s window further left.

I’m also not convinced this is not surprising to the NH Dems or that it is of much concern. An open congressional seat suggests the promise of change, which even Democrats in the district have been demanding for years. They were tired of Annie a long while back, but any Democrat will do, and we’ll get one or more in short order. Let’s see if they can manage a Democrat of color after the fallout from the 2024 Democrat Presidential primary debacle. Not just a primary candidate but the nominee. That would be a change.

What else might change is that Lily Williams, the only Republican running in CD2, should expect National Republicans to start looking to add another one. I love Lily, but the political machine and class have yet to show much interest in supporting her efforts, and an open seat in a swing state is not something they’ll ignore.

We’ll get a primary on the Republican side.

As for Kuster, I wish her well, but I won’t miss her.

My full statement to the people of New Hampshire’s Second Congressional District pic.twitter.com/HLQKyrs70J

— Ann McLane Kuster (@RepAnnieKuster) March 27, 2024

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I feel like a broken record in saying that criticism for one is not necessarily an endorsement for the other when discussing Chuck Morse and Kelly Ayotte, but keep in mind that the latter is a lawyer, after all.

Plus, I’ve come to think of it as a signature line, similar to when local treasure Allison Dyer finishes up her amazing video montages, which I encourage everyone to watch, with her famous parting comment, “And as always, my friends, elections have consequences.”

I’m putting Chuck on the hot seat again for something partly related to his 11/19/21 crime against NH. This crime was preventable if the executive council had stuck with their original 10/13/21 4-1 vote against taking the money and not quietly flipping it two weeks later.

Chuck posted on Facebook about his attendance at a law enforcement appreciation event in Keene yesterday and made another post about it today.

While it’s common, if not very popular, for candidates on our side to say “I back the blue,” both Chuck and Kelly need to go on record in answering the question “will you ever weaponize the green?”  Most local police wear blue uniforms, but the Gestapo, um I mean “state police,” wear green as do the game wardens.

In case you didn’t already know, the Damn Emperor ordered the unlawful arrests of his peaceful critics on 10/13/21, and I don’t know why it took me this long to think of it as an important post-stumping question.  Granite Staters deserve answers and assurance that another tyrant won’t occupy the Corner Office.  I still plan to ask Chuck about his 11/19/21 vote, but the next person to encounter him, preferably in front of recording devices or a large audience of witnesses, please ask him if he will pledge to never do what His Excellency did.  Don’t ask just for me; ask for the nine people arrested by officers who were “just following orders” at the police academy on 10/13/21.

The victims were tormented with 20 months of lawfare following that day until the charges were quietly dropped.

The Damn Emperor wants that shameful part of history banished to the dustbin of irrelevance as he rides off into his personal sunset.  Don’t let it happen.  And don’t ever think that what happened to the NH 9 can’t happen to you!

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While I defended Tucker Carlson after his interview with Vladamir Putin, some of the other “Russia” coverage didn’t sit well. The trip to the supermarket reeked of propagandist posturing. It stank of Western elites and their love affair with Stalin’s Russia. Putin is a bad man. Look, groceries!

I think the interview was necessary, perhaps groundbreaking, and a great get for any journalist, especially for the ones who whined like babies because it wasn’t them. Many have interviewed strong men with violent reputations to the jealous applause of their peers, never working so hard to push them off a cliff afterward as they did Tucker Carlson.

He’s got the bigger audience, so that (no doubt) wrankles as well. An audience that lays claim to a sense of awareness about truth and media that others allegedly lack (but then don’t they all). And did they buy the supermarket schtick, or were they savvy enough to get it? Putin was never going to let Carlson report on post-Soviet-era living, poverty, police-state militarism, or any reality outside the one that would paint the best picture. This is Russia. Those vignettes were probably part of the deal. You will supplement the interview with reports from places the Russian government selected. You do this then we let you go home.

I’m sure many were savvy enough to see through it, including Tucker, though we never heard him say that (unless I missed it).

It is also safe to assume many were not savvy enough. To be fair, we’ve all tripped over or fallen for something. Wow, that is exactly what I wanted to hear: the affirmation, confirmation bias, and even edification—the desire to see reality align with one’s feelings or at least suspicions. Who doesn’t want that? It makes you smile a little at a time when cheer seems to be in short supply.

The corollary to that might be this hurts my political enemy, so it is my friend, the enemy being a person, project, party, idea, nation, or which way the toilet paper should scroll off the roll. Anyone who disagrees is trapped in an echo chamber.

Just be careful when talking about other people’s echo chambers that the sound you make is not coming from your own. There’s no avoiding this, by the way, but you can assure yourself if you are willing to admit it. On the opposite side, you don’t want to live your life trusting nothing and no one. That’s a tough row to hoe. It can make you bitter and resentful. Angry. It is best to be a happy warrior with a honed sense of skepticism about everything, including what you think you believe.

Did you buy the Russian Supermarket thing? Did you want to? Did you think there were hundreds of these sprawled across what passes for the once-oppressed Soviet landscape? Does it matter? You know there’s no democracy there. No Republic. Putin won the way Saddam Hussein did, and Ukraine is a lot like that now (or again), and regardless of the landscape, post-peace may stay that way.

Russia at least has fake elections; Ukraine doesn’t have any.

Is that a win for Putin or NATO? Was any of it? That depends on who you believe about the what, why, when, where, and how. The Ukrainian people didn’t win, though they might walk away, those that can still walk, with less territory but security concessions (and fewer secret CIA bases and Biolabs).

And maybe some Democracy, not that democracy is all that and a bag of chips. It’s a part of something better, but mob rule describes Russia and more than a few other places where freedom doesn’t exist as we understand it.

In the US, many of the same people whose meddling is responsible for the mess in Ukraine would like to get rid of Democracy here. They talk about it so much that you know they hate it. Democracy used to be about one person, one vote. These days, Democracy is about counting however many votes it takes to protect uniparty institutions and elevating them above the people so that when these same institutions have destroyed faith in Democracy, the people will look to them for some semblance of security and give up freedoms in the bargain. That’s a popular narrative in my echo chamber.

The urge to discard rights (usually someone else’s) in the interest of the appearance of stability is strong. Russia works that way. They have not shuffled off the totalitarian coil. So, Tucker’s sojourn looks like San Francisco before and after Xi came to town. A shithole spit-shined for a moment in time. Proof that the state can pretend to get things done for appearances but has no interest in it other than as a hobby. Tidying up for guests. It’s an illusion we can make into reality if we want to believe it badly enough.

Or is it a truth we refuse to believe? That’s the fun part—working out the difference while saddled with the likelihood that our stereotypes or echo chambers are filtering all of it to the detriment of further inquiry. And is that prejudice or discrimination? No, they are not the same thing.

 

Authors Note: When I started this, I had a different idea about where it was meant to go. It landed somewhere else, and not necessarily well, but I stopped trying to fix it. My apologies if I’ve left you wondering what my point was. There is some value in what’s here, just not the one I thought I was looking for, which, in the end, might be a better thing. 

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I previously posted about Manchester DemocratWoke-Communist Rep Damond Ford’s problem (and “problem” may understate) with Israel: State Rep Damond Ford … You CANNOT Be Progressive And Pro-Israel and about how the “honest history” he wants taught in schools is actually a Woke-Communist rewrite of history: State Rep Damond Ford Doesn’t Know Much About History.

My apologies to the NHGOP bitter-clingers who believe Woke-Communists like Damond Ford are their “colleagues,” but there is more.

Woke-Communism, like all manifestations of collectivism/socialism … e.g., Nazism, Stalinism, Maoism … is a religion. Adherents to Woke-Communism, like Damond Ford, are religious zealots. The Christian heaven, per Damond Ford, is really hell and vice-versa. Hence Ford would rather spend the afterlife in hell.

But, bitter-clingers, keep deluding yourselves about your “colleagues” like Damond Ford, Becky Whitley, Cinde Warmington, etc.. Keep telling yourselves that they are “good people … we just disagree on some issues.” Evil is right in front of your eyes, and you refuse to see it.

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Let’s focus on the Money money-grubbing medical Industry prescribing Antidepressants, Stimulants, and SSRIs with little or no supervision. The majority of school shootings are done by ‘children’ with Mental issues, and most were being “treated,” as best as I can tell from the lack of information due to HIPAA.

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If you read as much as you can on these incidents, 1+1=2. The biggest reason to hold the Medical industry and parents responsible is that these medications have warnings, finally showing Suicidal Tendencies and also Psychotic episodes.

Allowing these children to take these drugs without supervising them should be considered criminal, as with the mother found guilty of Involuntary Manslaughter in the Michigan school shooting, and now the father is being charged and should also be found guilty.

Although this student showed mental issues, the parents never went for help, so it is possible a Good doctor could have avoided this, but as a rule of thumb, most likely would have changed nothing.

One statement certainly leads to the possibility one parent may have medicated him “but said he was given pills and told to “suck it up.”

Here are some warning labels for the common drugs prescribed to children:

PROZAC (fluoxetine delayed-release capsules) for oral use Initial U.S. Approval: 1987

And

Zoloft: WARNING: SUICIDAL THOUGHTS AND BEHAVIORS

*Antidepressants increased the risk of suicidal thoughts and behaviors in pediatric and young adult patients

*Closely monitor for clinical worsening and emergence of suicidal thoughts and behaviors.

LUVOX CR® (Fluvoxamine Maleate) Extended-Release Capsules for oral administration Initial U.S. Approval: 2008

And

FLUVOXAMINE MALEATE Tablets for oral administration Initial U.S. Approval: 1994 WARNING: SUICIDALITY and ANTIDEPRESSANTS

*Increased risk of suicidal thinking and behavior in children, adolescents, and young adults taking antidepressants for major depressive disorder and other psychiatric disorders

 

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In the contest for NH Governor, my vote will go to Chuck Morse. Chuck Morris has been an excellent senator for over twenty years. His voting record and Senate leadership represent NH Values.

Kelly Ayotte was appointed by her sponsor, Governor Benson, and both have had only one term experience in NH. Ayotte had experience in the Washington Swamp following her single term in New Hampshire. What did Kelly accomplish as Attorney General of NH? Governor Benson became wealthier as an excellent entrepreneur in multiple fields.

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NH was a stepping stone for Ayotte to improve her wealth and exposure to the Washington Swamp.

Chuck Morris has built an excellent reputation in his 20 years following the NH constitution as an excellent member and president of the NH Senate. Who can list the accomplishments of Ayotte in her two years in NH.

Chuck Morris has many accomplishments, leading the NH Senate well for many years following the NH constitution. I will support Chuck Morris for Governor.

 

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$100 million + of public funds plus resources of multiple state agencies are at stake. I urge you to consider the following and act accordingly to prevent further abuse of public trust and funds:

The attached article regarding the YDC child sex abuse claims and the parties involved contains statements regarding a “Janus-faced position”.

I note:
“Meehan’s attorneys asked Judge Andrew Schulman in January to prohibit the state from undermining Meehan’s credibility and trustworthiness through cross-examination based on a legal doctrine that prevents a party from taking a position in one legal proceeding that contradicts a position it took in another.

“The State cannot be allowed to take a Janus-faced position — wholeheartedly proffering David’s allegations of abuse on the State’s criminal proceedings while disavowing or discrediting those same allegations in David’s civil action,” they wrote.”

The State has held this Janus-faced position several times before. But so have have attorneys suing the State (particularly David Vicinanzo, Chuck Douglas) and the NGOs they engage with from SNAP to NHCADSV.  

They are collectively playing a game with public funds, public trust, children’s and families lives; defrauding the citizens to enrich themselves. This is abhorrent.

I am a victim of witness intimidation by some of the parties involved. I wrote to Russ Rilee (who brought the David Meehan et al. class action suit on YDC abuse) about my research and beliefs about what was going on.  I asserted that there was a “Kids for Cash” scheme, and I named names. Many of those are involved in the YDC cases, and they include members of NH Bar, Law Enforcement, and Public Agencies. My letter was forwarded to the NHCADSV, who then hired Timothy McLaughlin of Shaheen & Gordon to threaten me with a defamation suit if I did not recuse my statements regarding the NHCADSV’s and Amanda Grady Sexton’s involvement in a “Kids for Cash” Scheme. It’s unlawful to intimidate witnesses. It is even more unlawful when the law firm intimidating the witness is tied to a Senator for the State of New Hampshire who was Governor in the 1990s under whose governorship YDC abuse was taking place. Senator Jeanne Shaheen appointed AG Phil McLaughlin (her mentor, she says), whose son – Timothy McLaughlin – is the attorney at Shaheen & Gordon who threatened me on behalf of Amanda Grady Sexton, who happens to be on Senator Jeanne Shaheen’s re-election campaign committee, on the City of Concord Council, married to the political director of WMUR and Director of Public Affairs for the NHCADSV.  The AG’s office under Phil McLaughlin and others before and after him disregarded complaints about YDC while licking their lips with extortion of the Diocese of Manchester over priest sex abuse claims, which were quickly filed by Chuck Douglas and quickly settled by Gordon MacDonald and David Vicinanzo with former Monsignor Edward Arsenault who went to jail for defrauding the Diocese. The Diocese and Children’s Catholic Charities are indivisible from each other and from DCYF, which has deleted files of child sex abuse or ordered others to do so. New Hampshire Law Enforcement, Court officials, Civil Attorneys, NGOs, and DCYF have been involved together in this decades-long “Kids for Cash” scheme. It is a model that dates back to the 1980s to Sylvia Gale of DCYF, the Diocese of Manchester, Laurie List Police officer James F McLaughlin, and Peter Heed Esq, who would be referred kids as clients when he was in private practice by James F McLaughlin. Peter Heed was rewarded by becoming DA for Cheshire County and then AG for New Hampshire until he was accused of sexual assault by social workers at a publicly funded state conference on sexual violence. The pattern for “Kids for Cash” was so lucrative that it has flourished until now. But it was all paid for using public funds. The money they all made has been hidden in shell companies, real estate, and non-profits hiding as charitable foundations. Primary Bank and Merrimack County Savings Bank appear to be two of the financial institutions most likely involved.  Coincidentally, two members of Nixon Peabody (law firm for the Diocese) are on the board of Primary Bank along with former Governor John Lynch, under whose tenure as Governor the FRM Ponzi Scheme was exposed.  Shaheen & Gordon have represented directors of Primary Bank, and David Vicinanzo has been appointed as special prosecutor for Shahen & Gordon. I believe that Glenn Perlow of NH Trusts is also involved as well as the Secretary of State, Department of Revenue and Banking Commission. Perhaps this is why lawyers from the Banking Commission have been involved in the declamatory hearings for the John Doe v City of Keene Police et al. (James F McLaughlin’s case to be excused from exposure on the Laurie List). Case 213-2021-cv-00185 Several local journalists appear to have been engaged with these parties to leverage their position for whichever side of the door they need to be on. The Boston Globe, WMUR, Concord Monitor, AP have all been involved. Amanda Grady Sexton of the NHCADSV states in this document and on her bio that the organization works to shape and control media for police, prosecutors and civil attorneys, working with journalists. https://law.lclark.edu/live/files/25195-ncvli-newsletter—pretrial-publicityfriend-and The State and these parties are involved in it again with the YDC cases from which they will receive a large percentage of public money set aside to handle the complaints/trials/settlements.  These parties have already made significant amounts of money through this coordinated racket. The public has paid for it. The public has not received one cent of the benefit, but the parties involved have made millions.

There have been no plans put in place to prevent this from happening again. What guarantee is there that ten or twenty years ago there will be more cover ups of child sex abuse by state employees discovered and another sign off on $100 million to deal with those?

The public cannot have confidence in the courts because the State of New Hampshire has worked with NGOs and civil attorneys and media to manipulate judicial outcome for their own self-serving, unconstitutional and financial ulterior motives and now they are about to do it again. There is already in-fighting between David Vicinanzo and Chuck Douglas over legal fees for plaintiffs. I understand that David Vicinanzo also argued with Russ Rilee about fees for book deal rights for YDC victims. As a film and TV agent who deals with book deal rights on occasion, I am quite horrified that these attorneys are putting self-enriching book deals ahead of their client’s interests. In my profession, we are not supposed to put our own interests ahead of those of our clients. We would lose our talent licenses.  I believe that professional codes of conduct for New Hampshire attorneys stipulate the same. Why are these not enforced? https://www.courts.nh.gov/new-hampshire-rules-professional-conduct/rule-17-conflicts-interest As you can see – this is a cash cow payday for them. 

So how does this Kids for Cash deal work. I will lay it out here from the case I investigated which led me to this discovery:
In 2015, State prosecutors (Catherine Ruffle, Joseph Cherniske under Merrimack County DA Scott Murray) stated in the criminal trial of NH v Owen Labrie, that St.Paul’s School (a private school with large endowment) was not on trial.

The State’s witnesses which it called to argue its charges against Owen Labrie included present, former students, and faculty of St Paul’s School. The school and its board of trustees were represented by former NH AG Michael Delaney. (Michael Delaney was AG when the FRM Ponzi Scheme implicated his office. Michael Delaney defended Judge Judy Introcaso when she pled guilty of fraud. She’d magically divorced with a back date on the documents overseen by Susan Carbon, who oversees $400 million from the DOJ OVW, for which New Hampshire’s Law Enforcement, NGOs, and AG’s office are beneficiaries).

According to records from NH v Owen Labrie (including a statement to the US Senate Judiciary Committee from the State’s primary witness/complainant: Chessy Prout) the prosecutor/s (Catherine Ruffle, Joseph Cherniske) allowed state witnesses tampered with by former AG Michael Delaney, to testify. Amanda Grady Sexton of the NHCADSV informed Prosecutor Catherine Ruffle of the tampering. Present in the witness holding room when the alleged tampering happened was Sandra Mathieson – from the Office of Victims Advocate. Nevertheless, not one of these said anything despite the fact that they were ALL paid for by the public. Why not? Because it wasn’t in their personal and political financial interests to do so. But it was in the public’s interest because the public was paying for the investigation and the trial. The prosecutors prevented a line of questioning to one of these witnesses (Andrew Thomson) and then told the judge (Larry Smukler) that a deal had been made with this witness by the school (represented by former AG Michael Delaney – the attorney who has been accused of tampering with the witness group this particular witness was a part of). Andrew Thomson’s mother was legal counsel to then-Governor Maggie Hassan and on the board of trustees of St Paul’s School. She had avoided deposition by being out of the country. She has also worked in the AG’s office, and she works at UNH: Lucy Hodder Esq. She was also an endorser and close friend of Congresswoman Ann Kuster, who used the trial for her political campaigning, writing the introduction to the book ihavetherighttobook.com, which Government Affairs PR rep Dan Hill promoted. He claims he worked alone with Chessy Prout, whom he met in 2015, but the evidence strongly indicates that he worked with the NHCADSV, Amanda Grady Sexton, Steven J Kelly Esq, Chuck Douglas Esq, Steven D Silverman Esq, Congresswoman Ann Kuster and SurvJustice/the White House “Not Alone” task force tied to UNH.  In other words – not alone.  The NHCADSV and Congresswoman Ann Kuster promoted the “memoir” ihavetherighttobook.com. It compares Owen Labrie to Donald Trump and an “Al Qaeda terrorist.”  NHCADSV is supposed to be a non-partisan organization for its non-profit status. It is not. It was a front for Kuster, Shaheen, and Hassan’s political campaigns using DV & SA. According to Amanda Grady Sexton’s bio: “In 2016 Politico named Amanda one of “the most plugged–in activists and elected officials” inNH, and the Boston Globe called her one of NH’s “most desirable endorsements for candidatesseeking the Presidency.” The prosecutors sealed the admission of their knowledge of a deal having been made for State “tampered” witness Andrew Thomson. The New Hampshire Supreme Court ordered that information to be unsealed eight months later, long after the jury verdict and sentencing.  When it was unsealed, prosecutor Catherine Ruffle retracted the admission that a deal had been made, and so did St Paul’s School (via its counsel: Michael Delaney, who was endorsed by Sandra Mathieson, introduced by Maggie Hassan for consideration for the First Circuit Court of Appeals). Public records also indicate that Jim Rosenberg of Shaheen & Gordon, who was the counsel for Andrew Thomson, met the prosecutors during the trial and organized for his name not to be included in the Prout/Doe v St Paul’s School suit filed by Chuck Douglas, Steven J Kelly, Steven D Silverman.  Had it been included, discovery would have backfired on the prosecutors since Andrew Thomson had sent the State’s primary witness – Chessy Prout –  an invitation to a “secret snuggle” and a “lap dance” – documented in Chessy Prout’s memoir. The discovery in the civil suit would have undermined the entire premise of the criminal trial, and all indications are that there was an agreement in place between the police, prosecutors, and civil attorneys to prevent that from happening. They worked in sync. All of this information is in public records. The Concord Monitor published an article on May 10, 2016 about Andrew Thomson which has recently been disabled. I suspect at the request of those parties who are involved in the YDC cases hoping that the public doesn’t remember. We do.
Although the prosecutors stated that St. Paul’s School was not on trial in August 2015 and used witnesses from the school to argue their case against Owen Labrie, their statements in sentencing (October 2015) contradicted this position. Instead of focusing on the defendant, they spent most of their sentencing statements portraying St Paul’s School as a den of rape culture. But the school was not on trial. The State took a Janus-Faced position. When they wanted witnesses from St Paul’s School to work with them to convict Owen Labrie, they said the school wasn’t on trial. When they were done with those witnesses and got to sentencing, they changed their minds because they saw a windfall coming down with civil suits. The lawyers for those civil suits sat in the criminal trial and trained Chessy Prout, the State’s primary witness and prosecutors. These civil attorneys had been introduced via Laura L Dunn Esq, who’d been recommended to the Prout family by Concord Police Detective Julie Curtin sometime between 5 and 15 months before the criminal trial. These attorneys also worked with Amanda Grady Sexton of the NHCADSV who was controlling the media.  In return, her organization, the NHCADSV, gets kickbacks from the civil settlements. The NHCADSV (as they are in the YDC cases) worked both sides: for the State and for the civil attorneys. They were financial beneficiaries via federal grants, kickbacks from civil suits, and settlement agreements with the School, which they lobbied the AG for. They lobbied the AG for a Grand Jury Criminal Investigation into St Paul’s School, but they have not done so for YDC even though AG Gordon MacDonald referred complainants of YDC to them. The number of YDC complainants stretch into the thousands unlike St Paul’s School where there were a handful at the most.  A grand jury investigation into YDC would implicate DCYF and that would implicate NHCADSV and UNH. They don’t want a grand jury criminal investigation because they don’t want to jeopardize the federal grants they have received for decades. Greed and desire to protect the reputation of the NHCADSV, civil attorneys and public officials is what is at the center of the YDC conflicts of interest and inability to address them transparently.  

In May 2016, DA Scott Murray stated that police and prosecutors had done a thorough investigation into St. Pauls School and found no other prosecutable misconduct apart from the alleged activities of Owen Labrie. Thus contradicting the statements made by the prosecutors to the judge, which were unsealed eight months after the trial.  The entire goal of the trial was so that the NHCADSV could get inside St. Paul’s School and extort it with an in-house “compliance officer” spy who spends his afternoons hanging out at their office downtown Concord. I know this because I have been contacted by several who have been targets of this enterprise. AG Gordon MacDonald’s office was involved with it. So were Concord Police. So was UNH. So were civil attorneys Chuck Douglas (Chair of the NH Judicial Selection Committee), David Vicinanzo, Shaheen & Gordon (Jim Rosenberg, Timothy McLaughlin), Michael Delaney/McLane Middleton.  Coincidentally, Timothy McLaughlin is the son of former AG Phil McLaughlin, who ordered the Grand Jury Criminal Investigation into the Diocese of Manchester in 2002 and celebrated the “creative” solutions at his retirement party in 2015. 

In June 2016, Chuck Douglas Esq, Steven D Silverman Esq, and Steven J Kelly Esq filed a lawsuit against St. Pauls School, which benefited from being leaked to the Concord Monitor, NBC Today Show, and Vice Media before the school (Michael Delaney) was aware such a suit existed. I believe that a public official for the City of Concord, Amanda Grady Sexton, was responsible for the leak. She had called the criminal trial an opportunity and she had managed to restrict access by media to the trial. Her husband’s news channel, WMUR, was granted exclusive TV access. Preference was given to Susan Zalkind of Vice Media over Paige Sutherland Of NHPR, whose tweets were used in an exhibit to petition to restrict media access. Amanda Grady Sexton had been the informant to the prosecutor about witness tampering by Michael Delaney. Amanda Grady Sexton’s organization- the NHCADSV- were beneficiaries of the verdict and sentencing since they receive grants for Sex Offender Registration Management and from the Office of Violence Against Women.  

In July 2017, AG Gordon MacDonald (who dismissed YDC child abuse as “victim negligence”), ordered a Grand Jury Criminal Investigation into St Paul’s School. He cited discovery from the investigation into Owen Labrie to substantiate the necessity.  The NHCADSV had lobbied him for the investigation, suggesting that the NHCADSV – a lobbyist- had access to the discovery.  The NHCADSV’s attorney, David Vicinanzo, represented members of St Paul’s faculty during the investigation. The NHCADSV’s and Amanda Grady Sexton’s other attorneys, Shaheen & Gordon, represented the witness who had been allegedly tampered with by former AG Michael Delaney in the trial. The order for the Grand Jury Criminal Investigation and reasons for it contradicted statements made by Merrimack County DA Scott Murray regarding the police and prosecutors’ thorough investigation and being presented with no prosecutable misconduct.  It also flew in the face of the State prosecutors’ trial statements that St Paul’s School was not on trial. In September 2018, on the same day that Owen Labrie’s first appeal was heard, Gordon MacDonald announced a settlement agreement with St Paul’s School, which materially benefited the NHCADSV, who had lobbied for the investigation in order to get a contract for themselves.

State prosecutors, the NHCADSV, Concord PD, civil attorneys at Shaheen & Gordon (Jim Rosenberg, Timothy McLaughlin), Nixon Peabody (David Vicinanzo), McLane Middleton (Michael Delaney), Douglas & Leonard (Chuck Douglas) and the AG’s office (Gordon MacDonald, Jane Young, Geoffrey Ward) have been involved in playing all sides to their advantage from criminal trial to civil suit to Grand Jury Criminal Investigation and Settlement.  This is straightup racketeering and profiteering that is extremely well documented in public records. 

I believe it is imperative for public disclosure of the arrangements between the above mentioned parties- including correspondence and financial disclosures- before the YDC criminal and civil trials commence.  The arrangements in the St Pauls and Owen Labrie cases seem to reflect similar arrangements in the Diocese of Manchester cases in 2002. Indeed, on the website of State Witness/Complainant Chessy Prout’s non-profit ihavetherightto.org there is a statement from September 15,2018 which draws the link between the Diocese Grand Jury Criminal Investigation and settlement agreement and the St Paul’s one. This proves that Chessy Prout’s non-profit and statements made by it were done in collusion with public officials, non-profits and attorneys in New Hampshire who had knowledge of that agreement which was made when Chessy Prout was 4 or 5 years old.  https://ihavetherightto.org/newsroom/n-h-attorney-generals-settlement-agreement-with-st-pauls-unprecedented/ “The school’s primary focus was protecting its reputation, protecting itself, rather than protecting the children entrusted to its care, and that is a summary of the evidence we saw during the course of the investigation,” MacDonald said. “I Have The Right To” was registered in 2017 with Steven J Kelly Esq as the agent.  The above statement from the non-profit’s site is a clear indication that there was collusion and conspiracy involving public officials and the Attorney General. McDonald’s statement can now be replaced with: “The State’s primary focus is protecting its reputation, protecting itself, rather than protecting the children entrusted to its care, and that is a summary of the evidence we have seen during the course of the last several decades of complaints, deletion of files, cover ups and fake investigations”. 

Gordon MacDonald dismissed YDC complainants for “victim negligence”.  Any criminal case concerning YDC could end up appealed by the NH Supreme Court where he presides as Supreme Court Chief Justice. Gordon MacDonald (David Vicinanzo’s ex partner from Nixon Peabody) referred complainants of YDC abuse to the NHCADSV. The NHCADSV’s counsel “pro bono” is David Vicinanzo. Nixon Peabody is handling hundreds of the complaints. David Vicinanzo/Nixon Peabody will receive 30-40% of each settlement. The NHCADSV I believe will also be financial beneficiaries. Chuck Douglas will have a say in the judges since he is Chair of the NH Judicial Selection Committee. Who are they all out to protect? Themselves and their accounts. We shouldn’t forget that Chuck Douglas authored the guide to “Family Law” and it is the family courts and their procedures that resulted in many children being taken from their parents and ending up in foster care or at YDC.  We should also not forget that Chuck Douglas was accused of tax evasion by Caroline Douglas and that he had a timeshare in Aruba, of all places. Aruba is best known for the Paradise Papers – offshore tax-free hidden accounts. He was the New Hampshire Supreme Court Chief Justice. The NHCADSV have not petitioned for a Grand Jury Criminal Investigation into YDC as they did for St Paul’s School. They wouldn’t because they are aware of their own intertwining with the DCYF, which deleted files for David Vicinanzo’s client, Phillips Exeter Academy, when Governor Maggie Hassan’s husband was principal. It was her legal counsel’s son who, per state prosecutors, had a deal made for him with St Paul’s School. Information prosecutors decided should be sealed from the jury. Information that Amanda Grady Sexton, acting as go between for witnesses and prosecutors, civil attorneys and media I believe was aware of. Gordon MacDonald promised the Grand Jury Criminal Investigation into St. Paul’s School.

In November 2019, I met S. Daniel Carter, who was an advisor to the White House “Not Alone” task force, which was officially partnered with UNH Prevention Innovation Research Center. This center is partnered with the NHCADSV.  He informed me that the real interest in NH v Owen Labrie (and why his partner Laura L Dun attended the trial with Steven J Kelly Esq) was in St Paul’s School as opposed to Owen Labrie himself. Statements made by State prosecutors and UNH Law Professors, as well as the NHCADSV, corroborate this.  

The State, Concord Police, the NHCADSV, and Civil Attorneys were interested in Government control of St Paul’s School and an extortion enterprise to drain St Paul’s School of its funds. This would have come out on July 18, 2019, on ABC/GMA, except that public official Amanda Grady Sexton stepped in to get ABC to block it from airing. 

The State, NHCADSV, Civil Attorneys are interested in money, not justice in the YDC cases.  Just as they were with St Paul’s School, Phillips Exeter Academy, the Diocese of Manchester and Dartmouth College.

There must be a transparent (ideally) federal investigation of the parties involved who benefited from the Diocese of Manchester investigation, the St Paul’s School investigation, the Phillips Exeter Academy investigation, the Dartmouth College Rapuano & Does settlement before their further participation in the YDC Civil and Criminal trials proceeds.  Original email published with minor edits.

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You don’t need liberty-aligned bloggers to tell you that the renewable energy scheme is an expensive scam. The state laboratory of California is doing a fine job of that. It is the movement’s mentor and demon poster child for failure.

And if you are saying it’s California, who cares? Several New England States (my corner of the world) have adopted the left Coast strut on energy transition. Vermont is the best example. They proudly look for ways to go 100% renewable without a care for what is going on in their mentor state and what it is doing to not just the poor (wealth transfer) or the economy but also how it has failed to reduce emissions.

California’s “renewable energy” incentives account for over 25% of electricity generation, driving the cost to an average of 28.9 cents per Kwh. They are not the highest in the US, but they rank third behind Connecticut and Hawaii, but not for long. Mandates continue to push prices higher, and the infrastructure projects necessary to accommodate the new energy future add tens of billions in spending, all of which will end in ratepayer bills.

Vermont, are you listening?

These are not the Emissions You’re Looking For

California leaped into the big green litter box years ago, and in the beginning, there were emissions reductions (again, based on the lie that this is good). But at some point, they stopped seeing improvement despite the continued rise in solar installations and electric rates.

CO2 Intensity – California: Image credit WUWT

 

The cost per kilowatt hour is up 109%, which means nothing to rich people with solar on their rooftops but everything to lower-income folks.

According to a study done for the California Public Utility Commission, residents who have installed solar systems have household incomes 68% higher than the state average. Ashley Brown, executive director of the Harvard Electricity Policy Group, calls the proliferation of rooftop solar systems and the returns they provide to lucky people like me, “a wealth transfer from less affluent ratepayers to more affluent ones.” It is, Mr. Brown says, “Robin Hood in reverse.”

For all their talk of climate justice, the Proglodytes have turned electricity (living, working, basic comfort) into a luxury more and more Californians can’t afford. It is an inevitable outcome playing out next door to me in Vermont. The Democrat legislature is not only pushing forward with its green dreams (remember, Vermont has legislatively linked itself to California’s emissions goals), but it is also ignoring and belittling anyone who dares to suggest it is bad for Vermont and Vermonters. This is the same template the Democrats in New Hampshire want to see deployed, and that is the goal at the national level: to make water and electricity (food, shelter) too expensive for anyone but the ruling class for no measurable gain.

Californians are paying a considerable price to reach a stated emissions goal they must lie to achieve, which means it will be easy for them. They’ve been lying about everything else.

Net Zero was never about fossil fuel emissions. It was a goal for your lifestyle. When they’ve wrecked enough of it and enough people with it, they’ll just declare wherever that is as almost there (you can never quite get there), which looks a bit like feudalism. They’ll be living in luxury, eating grass-fed beef, and you’ll have nothing to live for and a near-constant fear of a boot on your neck.

 

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Check out this email excerpt from Congresswoman Ann Kuster earlier this month about her support of the border – I think it’s pretty telling and hope she never gets re-elected (March 16, 2024):

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“Last week, I wrote an op-ed in the Union Leader highlighting the essential role legal immigration plays in New Hampshire and beyond. [https://www.unionleader.com/opinion/op-eds/rep-annie-kuster-immigration-reform-will-benefit-labor-strapped-new-hampshire/article_7b236486-d65a-11ee-87b5-b7965a7df22b.html] [March 6, 2024]

There’s no question that our immigration system has been broken for decades. The situation at our borders is unacceptable. For too long, politicians in Washington [like her] have thrown up their hands and politicized the issue instead of … finding long-term, bipartisan solutions.

Leaving out present, emergency, short-term solutions by any party which we are crying for?

Real solutions are within reach.

Her citation to and support of the “Framework for Commonsense Immigration & Border Security Reform” does not reflect that assertion, nor does the partisanship in Congress, and is little more than a comprehensive spending plan – https://newdemocratcoalition.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/new-democrat-coalition-immigration-and-border-security-task-force-unveils_framework-for-commonsense-immigration-reform-calls-on-republicans-to-join-democrats-in-tackling-border-security.

We can increase funding and recruitment of Border Patrol agents to restore order.

Funding isn’t the problem, it’s the fact there is no wall – a strategy many countries use with success – and what about restoring order in the mainland 48 where the crimes are occurring daily?

We can improve technology at our ports of entry to strengthen drug interdiction.

Dog sniffers, which offer a lower-cost alternative and have the added advantage of being able to bite, might be more effective, e.g., the power goes out and the technology doesn’t work? What kind of tech are we talking about, massive machines or updates to existing ones?

We can expand the number of immigration judges … and give fast, fair, and final answers to asylum seekers.

Much better would be to hire lawyers on a contract basis rather than further bloat the cadre of permanent government employees which would happen with increasing CPB agents.

These commonsense steps will have a meaningful impact.

First, when? Second, you have not addressed deportation which you likely do not want to be bothered with. Third, your increased funding will increase taxes and inflation and further injure families and industries – not to mention increasing the wealth of Deep State.”

 

My conclusion is that she:

1. has known since she has been in office of the situation at the border, known it is “unacceptable”;
2. has politicized the border problem all the many years she has been in office;
3. is addressing long-term solutions and therefore is cruelly disinterested in addressing the horrible crisis Americans are facing and suffering right now [she of course is not the only one];
4. does not and/or is incapable of thinking beyond monetary solutions;
5. is plainly incompetent not to mention the wall when talking of increased funding;
6. reminds me of her comrades in the Biden/Democrat Administration not evacuating Americans in Afghanistan or in Haiti, the latter being brushed off, hiding behind their official warnings “we told you so, don’t go there” – the very warning given to nonessential personnel (families of diplomats), whom it did rescue. The FJB State Dept. blithely stated: “We have no higher priority than the safety and security of US citizens overseas” – but did nothing. In the words of Rep. Lisa McClain, R-MI: “Those stranded in war-torn Haiti were left hopeless and without options. The State Department’s answer was to sign up for a notification system and wait for alerts: They offered no real assistance, no opportunities to be rescued, and no plan whatsoever.” Congress is doing the same to us, making us wait for something, but what.

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Jet-setting to COP a climate feel is the poster-boygirlmanthing of the globalist elite. We are so concerned about emissions we’re emitting tons of them, so you don’t have to – by which they mean you can’t. Their luxury is about saving the planet for themselves.

In other words, they are proglodytes are hypocrites. Modern-day Pharisees. Holy men draped in finery, pontificating about the needs of the poor while making more of them.

Planeteers, advertising how self-aware they are, continue to show up at protests bedecked in Vinyard Vines and NorthFace, wearing Apple Watches with iPhones, Beats headphones, and the keys to mommies Bimmer. Even the street class of climate zealots tends toward tax brackets above the middle class, evidenced by how the landscape looks when their protest is over. There is garbage everywhere because, at home, they pay someone else to clean up.

It has been our habit to insist that every new restriction, limitation, or demand from austerity begin with them. If every holy man should come to us barefoot and in rags, then so too shall yours. Bugs for dinner? You first. Net-Zero community? You first. Fifteen Minute cities, only EV transportation, no meat every day, right down the list to composting human remains.

It’s actually not as uncommon as you think. “Human composting is legal in Washington, Colorado, Oregon, Vermont, California, New York, and Nevada.” Delware’s legislature just passed a law to join the club.

The Delaware legislature has approved legislation that would allow residents to compost dead bodies instead of traditional burial in a casket or cremation.

Composting reduces the dead to soil using natural processes. As opposed to preservation using formaldehyde or cremation that releases carbon dioxide and mercury into the air, composting “uses large vessels to hold human remains together with straw, wood chips, or other natural materials for about 30 days,” the legislation explains.

The legislation now goes to the desk of Gov. John Carney, a Democrat, after the Delaware Senate’s 14-7 vote Thursday and the state House’s 37-2 approval in January. …

As with any idea burped out of the gut of the cult, this one is likely based on assumptions that turn out to be false. Composting does solve some problems with land management (fewer cemeteries) as well as what to do with the little people, but does it reduce “emissions.” The science, believe it or not, is not settled.

Composting can divert organic waste from landfills, reduce landfill methane emissions, and recycle nutrients back to soils. However, the composting process is also a source of greenhouse gas and air pollutant emissions. Researchers, regulators, and policy decision-makers all rely on emissions estimates to develop local emissions inventories and weigh competing waste diversion options, yet reported emission factors are difficult to interpret and highly variable. This review explores the impacts of waste characteristics, pretreatment processes, and composting conditions on CO2, CH4, N2O, NH3, and VOC emissions by critically reviewing and analyzing 388 emission factors from 46 studies. The values reported to date suggest that CH4 is the single largest contributor to 100-year global warming potential (GWP100) for yard waste composting, comprising approximately 80% of the total GWP100. For nitrogen-rich wastes including manure, mixed municipal organic waste, and wastewater treatment sludge, N2O is the largest contributor to GWP100, accounting for half to as much as 90% of the total GWP100.

Not that any of that matters. Composting human remains, like the rest of the Cults manifold cures, isn’t about the things they claim. Legalized human composting is a waste management decision. Democrat rule leads to death. If we pretend that their incompetence can result in some good by abandoning tens of thousands of years of outdated notions about body, soul, and meaning, then game on. Your daughter may have been raped by an illegal immigrant gang member who is still alive and free. By composting her, we can renew the earth we’ve ceded to foreign invaders.

Sorry, I couldn’t help myself.

To avoid going long, you first? If cancer claims King Charles, a strong supporter of the Climate Cult dogma, think of all the emissions yo could reduce by just turning him with woodchips and straw for thirty days until he’s reduced to dirt. Everyone at the UN or the WEF or those who have attended a climate conference or spent any amount of time on a planning commission should have to sign up first.

No grave markers, no urns, and no placard unless they are responsibly sourced, fair trade, biodegradable signs attached to the tree your remains have fertilized.

In other words, you first.

 

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The Senate passed an emergency appropriations bill on Friday night to avoid a government shutdown. This $1.2 trillion appropriations minibus includes $825 billion for the U.S. Department of Defense and $62 billion for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

It funds several key agencies and programs pertaining to financial services, labor, health and human services, and education. Nothing is ever as it appears in Washington. This bill is not about keeping the government open but about an opportunity to have a D.C. Pork fest. Congress got very creative as they ensured their vote with millions for pet projects for their constituents. None of these projects has anything to do with keeping the government going, just keeping the money we don’t have flowing.

Joe Biden’s comments about the bill:

The bipartisan funding bill I just signed keeps the government open, invests in the American people, and strengthens our economy and national security. This agreement represents a compromise, which means neither side got everything it wanted. But it rejects extreme cuts from House Republicans and expands access to child care, invests in cancer research, funds mental health and substance use care, advances American leadership abroad, and provides resources to secure the border that my Administration successfully fought to include. That’s good news for the American people.

The lines in this statement are Biden’s take on child care, cancer research, leadership abroad, and the laughable securing the border. Gaslighting is a 24/7 job for Joe. It is so easy to be free with American taxpayer money when the country is $34 trillion in debt. But then again, Joe’s kids have a habit of not paying their “fair share,” or any share, for that matter.

Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) may be an elderly lady, but she is still a fan of kayaking. She ensured an amendment was attached to the bill to secure $2.5 Million for a kayak facility in the small town of Franklin, NH. You might ask what a kayak park has to do with keeping the lights on in D.C. It doesn’t, but every Senator and Congressperson knows the opportunity before them when they can add to a huge appropriations bill with little chance of people noticing. Shaheen got busted on this one, as it hit FOX News all weekend as an example of the wasteful spending by Congress.

And that only scratches the surface. The partial budget deal—which contains six of the 12 appropriations bills that make up the discretionary portion of the annual federal budget—is overflowing with earmarks to fund lawmakers’ pet projects. All told, there are more than 6,000 earmarks in the bill, costing taxpayers more than $12.7 billion, according to Sen. Mike Lee (R–Utah), who has urged Republicans to vote against the package.

Plenty of others make no sense for the public to fund at all, like a $3.5 million earmark secured by Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D–Mich.) for The Parade Company, which runs Detroit’s annual Thanksgiving Day parade, and a $2.7 million line item to help build a bike park in White Sulfur Springs, West Virginia, a town with a population of less than 2,300 people.

With few exceptions, like Lee, the two Scotts (Rick and Tim), and Kennedy, who understand the game and would love to see pork projects disappear. This will never happen in the swamp we know as D.C.

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Oregon allows anyone from anywhere to obtain medically assisted death (with dignity) in the Beaver State, but it doesn’t always go as advertised, as in, ‘gee beave, I didn’t think it was gonna take that long to die.’

The new numbers come amid growing concerns that Oregon and other US states are liberalizing their assisted-suicide programs too quickly and following the example of Canada, where 13,241 people were euthanized in 2022.

What numbers? Oregan had a 21% increase in medically assisted suicides last year, with 367 known successes from the 560 people who were given drugs to kill themselves. My first question is, what happened to the death drugs given to the 193 people who didn’t kill themselves? The answer is that some of them may have killed themselves, and the state just doesn’t know.

And not everyone dies right away.

Ten people faced complications, such as vomiting up their drugs or getting a burning sensation in their throats. One patient took fully 137 hours — nearly six days — to die. OHA did not provide any more details about the slow death.

Vomiting and other complications are reportedly on the rise. A bad look for your death-with-dignity tagline. I can imagine someone saying, “I was expecting a peaceful departure surrounded by loved ones and a few of the state-employed “specialists” who convinced me this was the best way to go, but someone had to hold my hair while I puked in a trash can.”

I’m guessing they didn’t die unless it was out of embarrassment.

Oregon’s empathy has other features worth noting. While early adopters of Doctor-Assisted Suicide were on private health care, nearly eighty percent were on government health care.

“…health funding status changed from predominantly private (65%) to predominantly government support (79.5%), and there was an increase in patients feeling a burden and describing financial concerns as reasons for choosing an assisted death. There has been a reduction in the length of the physician–patient relationship from 18 weeks in 2010 to 5 weeks in 2022, and the proportion.”

A widening range of acceptable reasons to shuffle off the mortal coil is as common as the increased speed with which a “patient” may obtain approval for death drugs. States and nations that adopt it let mission-creep take control, and there’s never any turning or rolling back. Every new legislative session presents an opportunity to embrace more death.

Last year, Hawaii dropped the waiting period to 5 days. That’s barely time for a second date with Doctor Death. Not to be outdone, Colorado has legislation this year that reduces that waiting period to 48 hours. Ecuador’s highest court has effectively authorized Euthanasia without consent for those in a coma.

The Netherlands has justified the killing of chronically or terminally ill children without their knowledge or consent.

And then there’s Canada. It euthanized over 13,421 of its citizens in 2022, which is too low a number. It is looking for more reasons from mental health (including suicidal ideation), being a veteran, low income, drug abuse, long waiting periods for medical procedures or specific procedures themselves, or as a way to save the taxpayers a few bucks on government-run “care.”

On a brighter note, organ donations are up. And organ sounds a bit like Oregon.

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Peter Sterling, Executive Director of Renewable Energy Vermont and one of the chief nit-wits in Montpelier lobbying for every policy imaginable to force you and me to cut our carbon footprints down to stone age levels (because of the “existential climate crisis”), was caught on a hot mic — during a Climate Council meeting no less!! — gleefully making plans for a spur-of-the-moment ski trip to Chamonix, France.

Skiing Chamonix France

I seriously doubt he’ll be getting there by hitching a ride on Greta Thunberg’s catamaran. And since his captured conversation is with someone about buying a season lift pass, he won’t be hiking up those Alpine Mountains once he gets there.

Oh, the hypocrisy! Mere words can’t express, so let’s roll the tape….

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Rob Roper is a freelance writer with 20 years of experience in Vermont politics, including three years of service as chair of the Vermont Republican Party and nine years as President of the Ethan Allen Institute, Vermont’s free-market think tank. He is also a regular contributor to VermontGrok.

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This blog is made pursuant to NH Rules of Professional Conduct 3.6 (c) (2).

Joa moves to dismiss his Disorderly Conduct charge due to the fact that there are no witnesses to his alleged conduct other than law enforcement officers.  Find that here.

This is not for the faint of heart. Dr. Levatino, speaking before the House Judiciary, explains the process of performing an abortion at 22 weeks gestation. He is glib and clinical, and if you don’t think you’ve got the stomach for it, stop reading now.

Congratulations, you’ve just performed a second-trimester abortion. You have affirmed her right to choose.

 

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— illuminatibot (@iluminatibot) March 23, 2024

 

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So I already posted some thoughts on the recent “debate” in the New Hampshire State Senate over illegal immigration: Adam Sexton Thinks Speech Codes Are “Interesting,” and The Becky Whitleys Are The “Dehumanizers.” I have a few more.

Predictably, during the “debate,” the DemocratCommunist State Senators’ defense of the illegal alien invasion of America was to insinuate that Republican State Senators who did not want to aid and abet the invasion were the moral equivalents of Adolf Hitler and Lester Maddox. And I say “predictably” because that is what Communists do … rather than attempting to defend the indefensible, in this case, their illegal alien invasion, they seek to stifle or at least shift the debate.

The NHGOP needs to understand that the terms “racist,” “white supremacist,” “homophobe,” “transphobe,” “Christian-nationalist,” etc. etc., etc., are simply the Woke-Communists’ equivalents for “reactionary” and “counter-revolutionary.” If you don’t goose-step along with the Becky Whitleys and the Shannon Chandleys, that makes you a “racist,” “white-supremacist,” etc., etc., etc. For example, here is State Senator Daryl Abbas in NH-NeverTrumpJournal:

Abbas noted his father legally immigrated to the United States from Egypt, but he still gets accused of advocating “white supremacism.”

“When I hear that political rhetoric, do they even know what they’re talking about, or are they reading off a script? All that talk, all they’re doing as elected officials – there are people who think I work with hate groups because my Democratic colleagues put that in a press release.”

Of course they are reading off a script, Daryl. WAKE UP. You consider the very people who smear you as a “hater” as a “white supremacist” your colleagues?!?!?! They see you as the ENEMY … as a modern-day Hitler or Lester Maddox … as a racist, a white-supremacist, etc., etc. etc. And, yet, you refer to them as your “colleagues”?!?!?! WAKE THE F___ UP. You are dealing with Woke-Communism.

Woke-Communism, like all variations on collectivism … Nazism, Stalinism, Maoism, etc. … is a religion. Your “colleagues” are the equivalent of religious fanatics. The ends justify the means. The illegal alien invasion is a means to one-Party rule. You are merely an obstacle to that … an obstacle that must be removed by any means needed.

Take off the rose-colored glasses, Daryl. See your “colleagues” for what they really are.

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Nashua’s Superior Court civil judges appear to align with the Nashua City Attorneys on Right to Know (RTK) cases. Judges are required by their ethics rules and training to conduct themselves impartially, but this is not happening in Nashua. I’ve been before two judges for my cases: Judge Temple and Judge Colburn.

Both judges need refresher training on the impact of technology advancements on RTK requests.  These advancements, especially concerning data storage, fast document search, and retrieval, have been available for some time and continue to improve rapidly.  While document requests might have been burdensome and voluminous previously, they can now be efficiently and expeditiously executed. Even if unintentional, both judges are subverting the rules for fair hearings and trials by accepting the City’s Attorneys’ inaccurate assessments of the scope and timing of fulfilling requests based on their antiquated understanding of technology.

The court system is under-resourced, and attorneys are disinterested in RTK cases. Many attorneys are on the City’s payroll and hence ‘conflict out’ of taking these cases. Others must consider going up against the City a “professional risk” and decline. Typically, the only way to adjudicate these cases is to represent yourself. It is difficult enough to go to court without a law school education, but coupling that challenge with seeming unquestioned judicial acceptance of the city’s unreasonable claims of technological burdens results in an environment that is unfair to the citizens.

I attended a hearing with another pro se litigant who failed to receive her records for a Roby Park information request. Judge Colburn dismissed her case for failure to properly serve the summons. However, Attorney Bolton appeared to me to dissemble regarding the City’s receipt of the summons. The City’s vague claims were accepted while the litigant was held to an exact process. When the Judge issued the decision, she wrongly asserted that I counseled the pro se citizen at the hearing. She cited me for potential criminal action for falsely representing myself as the attorney for this pro se litigant. (See Footnote, pg. 2)

I am concerned that my city has worked tirelessly to criminalize my RTK efforts, even going so far as to have me arrested. Now we have a Judge abetting the City’s extraordinary retaliatory efforts to silence anyone who dares question them?  Judge Colburn claimed I had gotten up during the hearing, approached the Plaintiff, and given her advice. She was wrong; I did not leave my seat or approach the Plaintiff to make any statement. The Judge further stated that I was writing and filing for the Plaintiff. I sometimes assisted the Plaintiff with filings, but their writing was submitted. Judge Colburn sent a strong and threatening message that she did not want citizens working together to get into Court on records claims. Why?  Is the Court intent on preventing citizens from freely sharing information and thereby enabling city officials to dismiss RTK requests?

The citizen who filed for the records filed a reconsideration request and asked the Court to remove the accusation. The Judge struck the accusatory remark from the record.

Judge Colburn should also know that working with the outdated Court electronic filing system is difficult for people representing themselves. The court clerk who handles civil cases would prefer to work with something other than self-represented parties. Is it surprising that citizens will seek the assistance of citizens with experience filing in Court, given that no attorneys are available for these cases?

Nashua city leaders are frustrating to work with when seeking records. They don’t abide by the NH Constitution which states:

All power residing originally in, and being derived from, the people, all the magistrates and officers of government are their substitutes and agents, and at all times accountable to them.  Government, therefore, should be open, accessible, accountable and responsive.  To that end, the public’s right of access to governmental proceedings and records shall not be unreasonably restricted.  The public also has a right to an orderly, lawful, and accountable government. 

City leaders refuse to create public policy, procedures, and guidelines for handling requests. They’ve locked the doors in City Hall so citizens cannot speak with record experts within the Departments. They have hidden the RTK Administrator behind a closed door with no office hours or phone number. Nashua’s corporation council has a documented history of alcohol problems and anger management issues. He appears to have difficulty working with women and doesn’t like people who challenge him.  Many citizens who fall on the other side of a City issue in opposition to the elected body are closed off from equal access to information. These are the people challenging records.

Just because citizens represent themselves doesn’t mean that their arguments should not be fairly heard. The court system shouldn’t penalize citizens lacking legal training and resources, especially when the Court tolerates the City’s shortcomings and violating timelines and rules.  Ironically, pro se advocates are held to higher standards than professional attorneys. We deserve trained Judges who will expedite these cases and adjudicate them fairly and impartially.

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In 2018, New Hampshire legislators granted minority status to anyone who claimed that he or she has a mismatched gender identity. They were caught up in the belief that they were promoting “community, inclusion, privacy, and freedom,” as Richard Ober, head of the NH Charitable Foundation, wrote in his recent Union Leader op-ed,  “LGBTQ Granite Staters deserve to feel safe and welcome.”

That same year the American Academy of Pediatrics issued an ideologically driven policy that calls for the immediate, unquestioning embrace of a child’s chosen gender identity, advocates for immediate social transition, and encourages puberty-blocking drugs and cross-sex hormones.

Related: Rotting from the Head Down: The American Academy of Pediatrics Gender Policy

Inevitably, we have seen exponential growth in trans-identifying youth as activists and an opportunistic medical industry push teens and young adults with emotional disorders and autism down a path of irreversible harm. Medical associations ignore the systematic reviews in Sweden, Finland, and England that found no sound evidence of benefit to these dangerous experimental treatments.

New Hampshire’s Gender identity laws don’t promote the values of “community, inclusion, and freedom,” as Ober claims – quite the opposite. Girls are coerced by laws and policies to sacrifice their privacy, safety, and spots on the podium to affirm gender identities. Children are turned into life-long patients dependent on clinics for synthetic hormones. Anyone who says the obvious, that sex is binary and unchangeable, is labeled as transphobic and ostracized.

Virtue signalers like Ober want to march with Martin Luther King and stand against injustice. Activists took advantage of their vanity. The sooner we correct our mistakes, the more young people will be saved from this convoluted ideology.

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