Tuesday • July 1 • 2025
Vol.XVII • No.XXVII
Manchester, N.H.
During her campaign for Executive Council in District 4, Terese Bastarache passionately condemns the appalling neglect and complicity surrounding the abuse allegations at the Sununu Youth Services Center.
Her opponent, John Stephen, who served as Commissioner of the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), bears a significant burden of responsibility for this scandal.
As DHHS Commissioner, Stephen should have been acutely aware of the horrific abuses occurring under his watch, yet his inaction speaks volumes about his priorities and commitment to vulnerable children. John Stephen’s tenure at DHHS coincided with a period when reports of abuse at the Sununu Youth Services Center were rampant.
Despite being in a position of authority with direct oversight of such institutions, Stephen failed to act decisively or transparently to address these grave issues. His silence and lack of meaningful intervention allowed a cycle of abuse to persist, inflicting untold suffering on the children who were supposed to be under the state’s protection.
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Terese Bastarache vows to be a different kind of leader—one who will never turn a blind eye to the suffering of the most vulnerable. She criticizes Stephen’s gross negligence and underscores the urgent need for accountability and reform. As Commissioner, Stephen had a moral and legal duty to ensure the safety and well-being of children in state care. His inaction is a betrayal of that duty and a stark indication of his unfitness for public office.
Bastarache’s campaign is fueled by a commitment to justice and the protection of children. She pledges to bring transparency, accountability, and unwavering dedication to the Executive Council. Unlike her opponent, Bastarache will fight tirelessly to ensure that no child in New Hampshire is left to suffer in silence.
She believes that the children of New Hampshire deserve leaders who will stand up for them, confront difficult issues head-on, and take decisive action to prevent such atrocities from ever happening again.
The voters of District 4 deserve a representative who prioritizes the safety and well-being of all citizens, especially the most vulnerable. Terese Bastarache embodies these values and is determined to bring about the change and accountability that has been sorely lacking. Her commitment to justice and child protection is unwavering, making her the clear choice for those who believe in a safer, more compassionate New Hampshire.
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I have absolutely no empathy at all for this mid-wit. Here she is, ASU Senior Breanna Brocker, lamenting how tough her life has turned simply because she didn’t think these through.
Well, what do you expect from a member of the Participation Trophy / Self-Esteem / You’re Special generation? And now she’s found out that Society doesn’t think that she’s special. That it doesn’t care about her misbegotten self-esteem. But she certainly has received yet another Participation Trophy. Just not the kind that she thought she deserved.
Anti-Israel student protester cries over missing graduation after she was arrested, suspended
An Arizona State University senior who was arrested and suspended after trespassing during an anti-Israel protest broke down in tears over missing graduation as a consequence of her actions.
“I’m being restricted from a lot of things right now that I didn’t expect to be for standing up for something I believe in,” Breanna Brocker told ABC15 as she choked up.
…“You know I have family coming in who I have to let them know not come to my graduation ceremonies.”
WATCH: We spoke with ASU senior Breanna Brocker outside the courthouse, who said she will not be able to graduate because the suspension will cause her to miss her final exam pic.twitter.com/FKGaMuzOt7
— Ben Brown (@bdbrown473) May 4, 2024
Did this sad twit learn anything? Does she have a better handle on that old truism that my grandson understands implicitly: “Decisions have Consequences”? Let’s just say I look forward to seeing Breanne’s name again in the press for all of the wrong reasons:
“I was doing what I believed was right and I still believe it to be right. I would stand up for the cause again, even if it means something negative for me,” she said.
Rush’s old adage still comes to mind: “young skulls full of mush”. I do wonder if there even three brain cells firing against all of the other dead weight in her cranium that are begging her “THINK FIRST, then do” as her no-longer future employers will be giving her the consequences she hasn’t wargamed out.
Her parents must be SO proud of her, spending 10s of thousands of dollars in putting her through four years of school to which they’ll not see that graduation ceremony. SHE might not care but wait until those parents lit into her…
She has learned nothing. Nothing at all.
If she only knew:
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I did not have this on my Friday Bingo card! As we New Hampshirites know, the Free State Project had people who put Liberty as the highest Civics value and moved to NH as it was selected to be the State where a few committed people could make a difference according to the Declaration of Independence’s purpose…:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
…and also running for elected office. Why not, as the Democrats have made it clear that they are the Party of Government (that Government is the highest value and have embedded themselves into Government to make that happen)? As it has turned out, ANYone that disagrees with that is subject to all kinds of opprobrium, scorn, and fearmongering (THEY ARE DANGEROUS to Our Democracy!!!!). Democrats desire nothing less than single Party Rule. Problem is, as we are seeing in California, their socialistic totalitarian ways that are bereft of any concern for Individual Liberty their subjects are unable to make decisions for their own lives.
So, with all that said, I was really amused and bemused to read this:
A “Free State Project” Inspired Gun Owner Migration Strategy to Win Elections
The FSP has had a noticeable impact. As of late 2021, 40 Free Staters had been elected to the New Hampshire legislature, including the House Majority Leader. Besides the electoral wins, the FSP has also had an ideological impact on the Republican Party, making it more libertarian…If you loosely define libertarianism as “fiscally conservative but socially liberal,” that’s only about 16% of the electorate according to Nate Silver. Clearly, the FSP has punched above its weight class, using a thoughtful strategy combined with persistence spanning two decades.
The proof is in the pudding:
New Hampshire entered 2021 with more liberty representatives than ever before.
– 69 of @YALiberty 2020 wins were in NH (25% of their wins)
– 74 @RebuildNH candidates won
– 91 @nhliberty endorsed candidates won
– ~40 Free Staters were elected, including to House Majority Leader pic.twitter.com/Sq83HmxjUZ— The Free State (@FreeStateNH) December 31, 2021
And I don’t think that I am overstating the fact that NH Socialists / Progressives / Democrats hate them with white hot passion (right, Jeanne Dietsch?? And add in no small number of GOPe-ers and RINOs that have hated any Libertarian/Conservatarian as well) in keeping them from duplicating California here. Like it was a God-given right to rule or sumptin…
But I digress. So here’s the thought – what if gun owners were willing to uproot themselves in defense of THEIR value of “…keep and bear arms.”? While one can put forward the supposition that while gun ownership is only a subset of Liberty, the Left has made it a lighthouse to shoot at (yes, pun intended). So what if the 2A-ers did what the FSPers have done (reformatted, emphasis mine):
In my previous article, I talked about how the migration of just 2% of New York gun owners to Pennsylvania can change presidential elections. What if a similar strategy of concentrated fire is replicated nationwide? In other words, what if Second Amendment advocates do what Free Staters have done nationally?
There is an advantage that gun owners have: there are a LOT more of us – close to 100 million – than there are committed libertarians. Since the last presidential election, around 22.3 million people have become first-time gun owners. That gives us a lot of power nationally although our power within states varies. Some states have a higher concentration of us resulting in “wasted votes,” while others have too few of us resulting in our rights getting trampled.
For the four decades I’ve been in NH, we’ve seen the likes of Zandra Rice-Hawkins, David Meuse, and Deb “Hip Check Assault Weapon” Altschiller move into NH while assaulting Freedom type folks with great alacrity – and never admitting their hypocrisy in doing the exact. same. thing. in getting “their” people to move here. Plan?
Taking a page from the Free State Project, Second Amendment voters can embark on a political migration project as follows:
- Find swing states with the narrowest margins of victory.
- Migrate disenchanted gun owners from adjacent anti-Second Amendment states.
- Migrate some “wasted votes” from adjacent strong Second Amendment states.
And the purpose of the Plan?
This strategy should make it harder for an anti-Second Amendment presidential candidate to win an election. Candidates will need to soften their infringement proposals, stop weaponizing the executive branch, and give us a better judiciary if they want to win.
Might it work in Vermont? Maine? Dunno but it certainly wouldn’t in Massachusetts, NY, Rhode Island. Unsure about Connecticut. However, here is some musings on a couple of targets: Where?
So, which states should be targets for migration? Starting with the closest states from the past 2 elections, I narrowed it down to those that: 1) had a <5% margin of victory, 2) switched parties between 2016 and 2020. These states, ranked in the order of narrowest margins, are:
- Wisconsin (2016: R 0.77% → 2020: D 0.63%)
- Pennsylvania (2016: R 0.72% → 2020: D 1.16%)
- Michigan (2016: R 0.23% → 2020: D 2.78%)
- Arizona (2016: R 3.50% → 2020: D 0.31%)
And those are all battleground States as well. Snipping out the detailed examples, the results:
It won’t take much to swing these states in a pro-2A direction. For example, Illinois and Iowa have almost 5 million gun owners combined. Just 20,000 of those gun owners migrating to Wisconsin can change presidential elections.
…The Free State Project has shown that organized political migration can have a positive impact. It’s time for gun owners to think and act on a similar strategy.
That’s a gun owner population shift of just 0.4%. And indeed, for all of the Democrats’ caterwauling, the FSP movement has been a positive here in NH.
So, does this have any merit? I think so but what’s more important is do YOU think so?
(Note: Porcupine with AR-15 generated by Perplexity AI)
(H/T: Bearing Arms)
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Albert Einstein says, “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.” That is how I see our political system, especially in Maine and New Hampshire. Looking back 40 or 50 years, both states were traditionally conservative. Still, a migration of people left Massachusetts to the less expensive Granite State or the tranquil and beautiful Pine Tree State.
Unfortunately, many of these people forgot why they left Massachusetts, brought their progressive views with them, and worked to make their new home resemble their old. If the system didn’t keep you in the Bay State, why would you think it any better north of the border? But that is what they did. They elected liberal representatives and morphed their new homes into an extension of the old. They took two systems that were working well and broke them—sheer insanity.
People get caught up in their old habits. I was born in Massachusetts, where everyone is born a Kennedy Democrat. I left when I started a family and moved to New Hampshire. I had concluded that I was actually a conservative, and New Hampshire was the place I felt more comfortable for my children. I left my Democrat roots behind and embraced the “Live Free or Die” life of New Hampshire. Unfortunately, Massachusetts followed me up Route 93, and I feel like I am back where my journey began.
Two situations in the last few years show how habits and ignorance of the truth can blur our vision. In 2022, the voters of Pennsylvania re-elected Tony DeLuca, and in 2024, New Jersey re-elected Donald Payne Jr. to another term. The problem is that both candidates were dead. They had died close to Election Day, and the ballots had already been printed to include their names. The voters robotically went to the polls, pulled the D lever, and never checked the pulse of their candidate. Joe Biden is still with us, but in November, millions of Democrats will cast their vote for Joe, and anyone can see he is as effective as DeLuca or Payne.
It may be disrespectful to compare Biden to two men who are deceased, but it is equally insulting for people on the left trying to convince America that Biden is as sharp as ever. This effort to hoodwink the voters starts with the First Lady, who should be charged with elder abuse, and goes right through the staff, stopping at the worst Press Secretary of all time, Karine Jean-Pierre. The Bidens have also gotten the legacy media to abandon their principles and credibility once more to be complicit with this charade.
The Dems will turn out in November. Not the 81 million who put Joe in office, but there will be a good turnout. Real or not will be the question. He will have the Pro-Choice crowd and the Anti-Supreme Court fanatics, but he has lost a lot of the female, Black, and Spanish votes. They are the smart ones who realize the Dems have left them behind for their new love, the illegals. Can they get enough of the old-school Democrats to offset the momentum of the Trump Train? I don’t think so, and I pray not.
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Join us for this week’s Manch Talk, where we take a deep dive into the most recent Manchester NH crime stats. We haven’t been keeping an eye on the local po-po, and it shows!
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Originally braodcast Apr 5, 2024
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Bitter-clingers … you’ll never learn, never figure it out, will you? Next week’s CNN “debate” is RIGGED. The coverage has already been written … Joe Biden put to rest the claims he is too old for a second term. It was Trump, not Biden, who looked confused and fatigued. Biden answered the critics. BLAH, BLAH, BLAH.
Expectations for Trump are impossibly high. While expectations for Biden are so low that they are virtually subterranean … indeed, all Biden need do is show up and not sh*t or p*ss himself and he will be declared everywhere (including the Faux News that you bitter-clingers continue to desperately believe is NOT regime-propaganda) to have “done what he needed to do” and any number of other stupid cliches.
The Regime is giving BidenX an entire week of rest. He’ll probably be off his feet for 20 hours per day and sleeping (under the influence of drugs, of course) for 16 hours per day. And he will be jacked up on amphetamines for the debate. You are going to see a pharmaceutical superman … not the bumbling, mumbling REAL BidenX.
Also, BidenX will already have rehearsed answers to all the questions. Do you really believe, bitter-clingers, that CNN is NOT going to RELEASE THE QUESTIONS TO BIDEN BEFOREHAND? Are you really that naive, bitter-clingers?
Trump, on the other hand, will be asked … maybe … a few disingenuous questions about the economy, inflation, etc., in order to allow the Regime-media to tell you that the debate was NOT rigged. But the emphasis will be on “J6,” “convicted felon,” “democracy is on the ballot” and whatever other themes the Regime wants “debated.”
It is a RIGGED debate … part of a RIGGED election … in a country that has NOT been a functional democracy (or Republic, if you prefer) since the Deep State assassinated JFK.
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Following years of marketing hype proclaiming that fake meats would transform the food industry and modern diets, sobriety has descended on the industry as manufacturers wrestle with declining sales, dissatisfied customers, and difficulties achieving profitability. As the remaining plant-based-meat players scramble to bolster sales and preserve a dwindling market share, meat substitutes are shaping up to be a short-term fad that could not meet expectations. Fake meats will likely remain in stores and some restaurants as a vegan consumer niche but will unlikely displace the animal livestock industry anytime soon.
A Tale of Two FakesFake meats include simulated meat products fashioned from plant and other substitute ingredients (plant-based proteins) and animal cells cultured or lab-grown from plant matter (“cultured” meats, or cell-based proteins). The three chief selling points for both categories have been animal welfare, climate rescue, and improved human health. The products have run aground on issues of affordability and taste. Meat substitutes cost more than real meat but don’t stack up on taste or health benefits. Cultured meats may taste like natural ones but offer no health improvements for their higher price. They are currently more harmful to the climate than cows or chickens because of technological hurdles that require massive energy and enormous externalized environmental costs.
Impossible Foods, a maker of cultured meats, has thus far found profitability impossible. Beyond Meat, a leader in fashioning meat substitutes from plant ingredients, has faced consumer and industry pushback on company claims its products are healthier than natural meats. In response, it has reformulated many of its products to attract consumers with improved taste and nutritional content but continues to suffer a dramatic loss of sales. Its stock price reflects this shift, down from $234.90 a share on July 26, 2019, to $7.19 on May 17, 2024, a nearly 97% drop.
The Fading Novelty of Fake MeatsAs one commentator said, fake meats seem “less a world-changing innovation than another food trend whose novelty is wearing thin.” Making plant proteins taste like animal flesh involves additives for flavoring and texture that concoct not an alternative meat but an alternative processed food. Even vegans are turned off by high prices and dubious health benefits. Meat lovers, meanwhile, are passionately resistant to products that seek to ape mother nature, leading several US jurisdictions to prohibit misleading advertising of fake meats or ban the sale of the stuff outright.
The struggles of these bellwether manufacturers of fake meats bode ill for the sector, which broke out with massive venture capital funding and Utopian marketing promises but have crashed on the shoals of dubious health claims, high pricing during a period of sharp food inflation, concerns about claims of sustainability, and consumer taste buds. Promises of widespread fast-food restaurant consumption of meat alternatives have fallen flat as national chains have found sales anemic. Grocery stores and restaurants have pared back shelf and menu space for meat substitutes.
In the long run, fake meats have already passed their brief zenith in consumer popularity. Product novelty has waned while claims of fraud and unhealthiness wax along strongly. Once turned off to products by glowing promises that turn out dim, consumers are not likely to be easily lulled into a repeat expenditure. They may not even sample new products when the taste of the failed ones still lingers on the tongue. Vegans are not enamored with fake blood; meat lovers are not enamored with fake anything.
Health, Cost, TasteFake meats, whether cell-grown or plant-processed, have failed to deliver on promises of improved health, environmental benefits, cost, or taste. This leaves perceptions of animal welfare benefits as the sole remaining selling point. But most consumers will not pay extra money for bad-tasting, unhealthy, processed substitutes that hurt the environment in order to spare cows and chickens from perceived hardship.
Beyond Meats is in the fourth ingredient iteration of its burgers, having reduced the salt content, switched out canola oil for healthier avocado oil, and replaced environmentally destructive soy with a mixture of peas, red lentils, brown rice, and fava beans. Still priced higher than a real burger, the factory alternative will have to be mighty tasty and healthy to woo consumers who are determined not to be fooled again.
The world has surpassed Peak Fake Meat and must begin to look beyond faux foods for real solutions.
John Klar is an Attorney, farmer, and author. Mostly farmer… And Regular Contributor to GraniteGrok and VermontGrok.
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The weather (extreme heat in some places and snow in others) and climate change; pending SCOTUS cases including Biden v Missouri re: censorship by social media, Trump’s immunity, Chevron case re: interpretation of statutes by the rule makers in the administrative state/non-delegation issue, the decision on mifepristone, which was decided on issues of standing; why does SCOTUS wait until the end of the term to release decisions? Should we rule out lawfare against truly crooked politicians? Alito suggesting congress could write a bump stock ban into the law; should the government have the power to ban masks? Should citizens have the right to protest anonymously? Will there ever be comeuppance against Fauci? Pfizer? How to circumvent the immunity given Pfizer?
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The National Weather Service has issued a tornado watch for the entire state of New Hampshire from now until 8 pm this evening.
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Gray ME 110 PM EDT Sun Jun 23 2024 .SYNOPSIS... A stationary front lifts northward into New Hampshire today as a warm front. There is a slight to enhanced risk of severe thunderstorms across the area today, especially in New Hampshire, with the risk of a few tornadoes and damaging winds being the primary concerns. A cold front will then cross Sunday night and Monday with additional unsettled weather before high pressure builds in by Tuesday, bringing drier conditions. Temperatures moderate through the middle of the week, with another cold front bringing showers and storms late Wednesday. High pressure then builds in late in the week, bringing drier and cooler conditions.The entire state of Vermont is also part of the watch as are portions of New York, Maine, and Massachusetts. Severe storms are expected and the potetnail for rotation (tornadoes) is estimated to be around 10% but still there is potential. We’ve had a few touch down over the years.
According to this reckoning (Burlington Free Press), there have been 110 tornadoes in NH since 1950. Sorry, no evidence that CO2 or emissions or warming have increased the frequency.
Most years have at least one if this data is correct. There were nine reported in 1963 and eight in 1972.
| Year | # of Tornadoes | Direct Injury | Indirect Injury | Direct Fatality | Indirect Fatality | Property Damage | Crop Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All | 110 | 30 | 0 | 1 | 0 | $12,649,000 | |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 2022 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $8,000 | |
| 2020 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $5,000 | |
| 2018 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 2014 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 2012 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 2011 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 2010 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 2008 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | $2,027,000 | |
| 2006 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $3,000 | |
| 2004 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 1999 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $100,000 | |
| 1998 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $30,000 | |
| 1997 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $750,000 | |
| 1995 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 1994 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 1993 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $5,000 | |
| 1991 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 1988 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $250,000 | |
| 1986 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $3,250,000 | |
| 1984 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $775,000 | |
| 1981 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $2,500,000 | |
| 1980 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $250,000 | |
| 1978 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $27,750 | |
| 1976 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $250,000 | |
| 1974 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $2,500 | |
| 1973 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 1972 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $330,250 | |
| 1970 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $325,000 | |
| 1969 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $27,500 | |
| 1968 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $77,500 | |
| 1967 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $25,000 | |
| 1966 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $257,500 | |
| 1965 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $52,500 | |
| 1964 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $25,000 | |
| 1963 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $855,000 | |
| 1962 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $27,500 | |
| 1961 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $257,500 | |
| 1960 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $2,500 | |
| 1959 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $25,000 | |
| 1957 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $25,000 | |
| 1956 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $25,250 | |
| 1955 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $25,000 | |
| 1954 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $25,000 | |
| 1953 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $25,250 | |
| 1951 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $2,500 |
Here is WMUR’s more recent update if you want to give them the clicks.
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Let’s look at the place “Absolute Immunity” holds in the Rule of Law in the United States: Every judge, whether that person sits on the local district court, any State or Federal court including the trial court, the intermediate appellate court and the State or United States Supreme Court is immune from a civil lawsuit or a criminal indictment regardless of their conduct on the Bench in the pursuit of their official duties.
That immunity explains the clownish and criminal conduct of Erdogan and Juan during the Trump trials. It also explains the malicious indictments of President Trump by the Soros-financed county attorney.
Every U.S. Senator and Representative has absolute immunity when they rant, rave or defame from the Senate or House floor.
So, when POTUS acts in accordance with official duties of the Presidency absolute immunity should attach. Otherwise, the Presidency becomes a meaningless, impotent position.
Clearly, the judicial conclusion of the Federal District Court and the Federal Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit that Presidential immunity does not exist defies historical precedent, is nonsense, and borders on judicial criminality. Nevertheless, these judicial clowns are clothed in “Absolute Immunity”.
Let us hope that SCOTUS has the political courage to recognize that President Trump acted in accordance with his official duties to protect the integrity of the 2020 election and, therefore, absolute immunity attaches.
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With a straight face and without blinking – as if this was some well-regarded scientific practice and not an outlandish conspiratorial Alt-Righ bugbear – the UK Guardian has a piece exploring research about the effects of geo (or climate engineering).
Reminiscent of the Persian-Cat-stroking evil mastermind whose quest for a global paradise (new world order) goes horribly wrong.
A geoengineering technique designed to reduce high temperatures in California could inadvertently intensify heatwaves in Europe, according to a study that models the unintended consequences of regional tinkering with a changing climate.
The paper shows that targeted interventions to lower temperature in one area for one season might bring temporary benefits to some populations, but this has to be set against potentially negative side-effects in other parts of the world and shifting degrees of effectiveness over time.
The authors of the study said the findings were “scary” because the world has few or no regulations in place to prevent regional applications of the technique, marine cloud brightening, which involves spraying reflective aerosols (usually in the form of sea salt or sea spray) into stratocumulus clouds over the ocean to reflect more solar radiation back into space.
Didn’t anyone warn them that it isn’t nice to fool Mother Nature?
We’ve gone from conspiracy theory to mad scientism in need of government regulation, which seems like a bad idea given that, like COVID, the government did this.
“Our study is very specific,” said Jessica Wan, who is part of the research team led by UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography. “It shows that marine cloud brightening can be very effective for the US west coast if done now, but it may be ineffective there in the future and could cause heatwaves in Europe.”
Heat waves are a side effect of US geoengineering, which was meant to create cooling. Another progressive idea produced the opposite effect. Who is surprised by that? And that opposite effect, regardless of any local positive changes, are important.
Heat waves can cause wildfires, which can cause destabilization. What else did the scientists learn? What didn’t make it into the published study?
In the Guardian’s article, as in every other article following the unexpected disclosure of the San Fransisco project, salt-blinded journalists failed to ask the most important question that every single reader wants to know: Where else in the world are they testing weather modification technologies by spraying chemicals into the air?
Besides chemtrails and salt sprayers, what other kinds of ‘solar geoengineering’ are going on?
There’s also a piece in the New York Times that mentions how there is no government regulation over geoengineering, which is also interesting. In New Hampshire, we had a bill this past session that would regulate geoengineering. HB1700 would prohibit “the intentional release of polluting emissions, including cloud seeding, weather modification, excessive electromagnetic radio frequency, and microwave radiation and making penalties for violation of such prohibition.” It came out of a committee inexpedient to legislate and died on the floor of the State House. I have not looked, but I expect there was a fair amount of ridicule and ranting about crazy conspiracies.
Not so crazy. And now “researchers” are suggesting that someone needs to regulate it, but that’d have to be the international, which is, as we saw with dual-use research to weaponize – oh, let’s say viruses – didn’t stop anyone (the US since GW Bush, for example) from pursuing biological weapons in foreign countries under the pretense of looking for cures to things our enemies might one-day produce.
Like heat waves in Europe?
All to mitigate a problem they created that doesn’t even exist.
And geoengineering is not a conspiracy theory. That is real.
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We are heading into the celebration of our country’s birth. July 4th is fast upon us! As we reflect on this great day, let us remember the men who sacrificed so much to give us birth as free people.
Let’s continue with the Declaration of Independence signers. Dr. Benjamin Rush was a very famous signer and distinct American on many levels.
He was born in Philadelphia and was an American physician, scholar, and political leader. He took a medical degree from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.
After graduating, he returned to America, began a medical practice, and was also appointed professor of chemistry at Philadelphia College.
He published the first American textbook titled, “Syllabus of a Course of Lectures on Chemistry.”
His practice grew to a substantial and significant impact. The American Medical Imprints lists that he has 65 publications under his name.
His influence was truly significant due to the large number of private apprentices and students from all over the country. It is estimated he taught some 3,000 students during his tenure as a professor at the University of Pennsylvania. His lectures were considered one of the leading cultural attractions of the city at the time.
In psychiatry, he labored among insane patients at the Pennsylvania Hospital, advocating humane treatment for them on the grounds that mental disorders were as subject to healing arts as physical ones. His Medical Inquiries and Observations upon the Diseases of the Mind, published in 1812, was the first and, for many years, the only American treatise on psychiatry.
He was an active patriot in the cause for freedom from British rule. He drafted a resolution urging independence and was soon elected to the Continental Congress, ultimately signing the Declaration of Independence.
He also served as a field surgeon for the Continental Army. He also served as the treasurer of the U.S. Mint by appointment of President John Adams.
He pioneered clinical research and instruction in medicine and chemistry. His unfortunate weakness was found in his insistence on the practice of bloodletting. This was an unnecessary treatment on many levels particularly in regard to yellow fever.
He had a strong and unwavering faith: A few quotes of his will clearly show his ardent love for God.
“My only hope of salvation is in the infinite transcendent love of God manifested to the world by the death of His Son upon the Cross. Nothing but His blood will wash away my sins. I rely exclusively upon it. Come, Lord Jesus! Come quickly.”
“The great enemy of the salvation of man, in my opinion. never invented a more effective means of limiting Christianity from the world than by persuading mankind that it was improper to read the Bible at schools.”
Christianity is the only true and perfect religion; and in proportion as mankind can adopt its principles and obey its precepts, they will be wise and happy.
Finally,
“Without religion the can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all republican governments.”
As you can see he was a definite proponent of faith in Christ and lived his life in that light.
Until next time….
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A Petition to Protect Fairness and Dignity for Women and Girls
To the legislature of New Hampshire;
New Hampshire is a centrist state. Yet, on gender issues, our state Department of Justice has the views of the DOJ of California.
For years, the New Hampshire DOJ has vigorously advocated for the forced inclusion of biological males in women’s athletics, restrooms, and locker rooms.
In fact, the DOJ has falsely claimed that it is always illegal to separate people based on biological sex in athletic competitions and places of intimate privacy.
Even Biden’s Department of Education admits that separating athletes based on biological sex, rather than gender identity, is perfectly legal.[1]
Although New Hampshire has a Republican executive branch, the DOJ’s lobbying against women’s sports is far to the left of the Biden administration.
New Hampshire taxpayers do not pay the DOJ to take far-left advocacy positions and lobby to deprive their daughters of athletic opportunities, privacy, and dignity.
As our legislators, we ask that you use the power of the purse to reign in the DOJ from engaging in partisan, progressive lobbying activities.
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[1] Section 106, point 31, subsection2. https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/t9-unofficial-final-rule-2024.pdf
(H/T: Defend Our Kids)
Full Disclosure – I am on the Board for Defend Our Kids.
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Do you know who Davi Sacks is, bitter-clingers? He is a tech entrepreneur who was a contemporary of Elon Musk’s at PayPal. The Biden-Regime’s policies have been so ruinous … intentionally so … that sometimes it seems impossible to summarize the breadth and depth of the damage. That is why you have me, bitter-clingers.
Below is Sacks’ post on X explaining why he is going against the tech orthodoxy and supporting Trump. It is as comprehensive and irrefutable as it is courageous.
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Voter ID for ME is a petition initiative driven by The Dinner Table to get the Voter ID question on the ballot so the people of Maine can decide the fate of requiring an ID to cast your vote in The Pine Tree State. On June 11, over 350 volunteers manned the voting locations across the state to gather signatures on the petition and had an amazing, successful day. Those hard-working patriots gathered 40,163 signatures in one day. That number of signatures is nearly half the 100,000 needed to get the question on the ballot.
I had the pleasure of watching this initiative grow and gather momentum, and I am proud to have been a member of the team. Working the phones behind the scenes, I was amazed at how receptive people were to the petition drive and also to volunteer their help. The tools and support the leadership group gave us paid off, and we were rewarded with incredible results.
The Dinner Table (TDT) is Maine’s largest and most active grassroots conservative PAC. The goal of TDT is to flip the Maine statehouse red by recruiting conservative candidates and focusing on initiatives like Voter ID for Me. The name, The Dinner Table, was inspired by Ronald Reagan, who said, “All great change in America begins at the dinner table.” The founders, Alex Titcomb and Maine State Rep Laurel Libby are staunch conservatives committed to ending the liberal stranglehold on the state and returning common sense and traditional Maine values to Augusta.
My primary residence is in New Hampshire, but I spend every summer in central Maine. Having witnessed the direction of the state over the last few years prompted me to get involved with The Dinner Table, and not just with a donation. I wanted to get involved and help recover this beautiful state. Maine has the worst education system and the third-highest individual tax burden. The current group of politicians is destroying the lobster and fishing industries with excessive regulations. They are committed to making Maine the marijuana capital of the northeast. They are bowing to Planned Parenthood and passed the most liberal abortion bill in the country. They also have made Maine a sanctuary destination for juveniles seeking abortion and transgender services. The children and taxpayers deserve better, and Alex and Laurel are motivated to deliver results.
The Republicans are at a disadvantage in every election. The mainstream media will play up the Dems regardless of the record, and they will use scare tactics to turn people off to any Republican. Rachel Maddow, the one-day-a-week star of MSNBC, will not play the audio of any Trump event, claiming it is her responsibility to keep misinformation from the public. Is that censorship, election interference, or both? The Republicans also play by the rules, while Dems will stretch the rules to their advantage whenever possible.
It is because of this disadvantage that we need groups like The Dinner Table to stir up the base and conservative writers to flood the internet with the truth. If you want more information on the Dinner Table and to join the movement, click here: The Dinner Table
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For the last nine years, we have witnessed the evolution of the social pathology known as Trump Derangement Syndrome, or TDS. Numerous memes have circulated on the web featuring TDS victims in various stages of the ailment, from the motor and verbal tics, more commonly associated with Tourette syndrome, to the violent behavior most widely associated with sociopathy.
As the frequency and intensity have not lessened in response to the Biden presidency, it is clear that simply removing Trump from office provided no palliative effect for many TDS victims. In the absence of any positive accomplishments and the presence of numerous policy failures, they continue to attribute all negative aspects of the current condition to Trump and use him as their pole star in analyzing any new events.
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As we approach the next presidential election, it is clear that another variant of this syndrome has appeared amongst the American electorate. Victims of this variant exhibit very different symptoms. These symptoms include the embrace of visual icons that imply that Trump is an agent of God, that Trump bears no responsibility for the mishandling of the pandemic, or that one’s purity is substantiated by having no history of criticizing Trump.
Examples include declaring oneself as holding an America First ideology thoroughly opposed to the Deep State while at the same time stating that one supports a strong military-industrial complex. Usually, the “-industrial complex” portion of that construct is not voiced as our current military-industrial complex is at the heart of the Deep State.
While these two variants of TDS are related, they occur in very different sorts of people, and in my experience, they don’t co-occur in one person. How can we distinguish between them in casual conversation? Traditional English provides two prefixes that might prove helpful, although, in recent years, they have become abbreviations of other terms. Those prefixes are cis and trans. Prior to the current phase of the gender-culture wars, cis and trans were harmless words with simple definitions. Examples include trans-Atlantic, meaning the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, as compared with cis-Atlantic, meaning this is of the Atlantic Ocean, or transalpine, meaning across the Alps from Rome, as opposed to cisalpine, meaning on the side of the Alps closer to Rome.
Applying cis and trans to TDS gives us trans-TDS for the original variant, where Trump is viewed as other, and cis-TDS for the more recent variant., where Trump is viewed as one’s messiah. The best part of introducing this terminology is that it allows one to offend extremists on both sides of a contentious issue.
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More Activist Soft on Crime Judiciary Appointments
Three clips.
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Bureaucrats in all of the various agencies that make up the Federal, State, and local governments are getting over their ski tips. No, not all of them. I’ve met a number of government employees who really do consider themselves to be public servants and conduct themselves accordingly.
These are the types of folks who need to be praised and held up as models for others.
Like those who seem to believe that because their paychecks have another government employee signing the front of their paycheck, they can have an elevated sense of themselves. And often, this means that they can go above and beyond what their statutory authority allows them to do. They seem to believe (or have forgotten) that it is their Legislature that has given them whatever Powers they have – and not a smidge more.
Sure, a Governor must sign such legislation that is delegating those Powers under the Constitution(s) (or let it become law by not vetoing it), but just as the Constitution, either at the Federal or State levels, acts as a barrier to what Legislatures and Executive Branches can do, such legislation is also a barrier to agency employees.
Or, as Moses, passing as Gandalf in the Lord of the Rings said on the bridge, made clear:
Well, we have no Gandalf nor Moses, but we do have the Judiciary.
Reformatted, emphasis mine:
Federal Judge Blocks Rule Requiring Employers to Accommodate Employee Abortions
A federal judge in Louisiana has blocked enforcement of a rule in two states that required employers to provide accommodations to employees who want to undergo elective abortions, with the judge siding with plaintiffs who argued that abortions aren’t “medical conditions” that employers must facilitate. U.S. District Judge David Joseph announced the ruling in an order filed on June 17 at the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, granting a preliminary injunction in a lawsuit against the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), which he found exceeded its authority in implementing the rule.
The EEOC “exceeded its statutory authority” in issuing the rule and “unlawfully expropriated the authority of Congress and encroached upon the sovereignty of the States Plaintiffs,” wrote Judge Joseph.
There’s more at the post about the injunction, but that last line is the crux of this ongoing “deliberately straying out of your lane” push, push, push. It’s either a case where:
They tried #3 and got caught; the judge jerked their chain. Note this next part – its ruling was made (assumed) to the ideology of the employees of the EEOC plus the comments:
…The EEOC said that its decision to keep the abortion provision was consistent with its own interpretation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, a federal law that prohibits an employer from discriminating against employees based on sex, race, religion, national origin, color, and pregnancy.
The EEOC decided to redefine pregnancy (originally, this was to protect any woman that was pregnant!) to be “making pregnant women be UNpregnant”. Gee, was THAT part of the Legislation? Er, nope, you dopes. But this is what was done – the redefinition of our common language to make something clearer but to forward an ideology (e.g., that babies, as Obama once said, are burdens). And they got caught:
The attorneys general of Louisiana and Mississippi, as well as the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and other groups, sued the EEOC over the rule, which was slated to go into effect on June 18. They argued that inclusion of abortion under the definition of pregnancy-related medical conditions was an attempt to hijack the provisions of the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act to impose a national abortion exception.
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First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
Pastor Martin Niemöller
Don’t we have the right to know who really is running the country? It’s NOT this decaying, decrepit, concupiscible curmudgeon. BidenX is a figurehead, as well as an imposter. Who is really in charge?
Look how long it took Joe Biden to get into his car last night.
Notice how the Secret Service stands behind him too.
It took Biden over 15 seconds just to climb one step and sit.
This is not a deepfake or a “cheap fake.”
Biden is clearly falling apart.
It’s undeniable. pic.twitter.com/SDU17OQNZC
— Paul A. Szypula (@Bubblebathgirl) June 19, 2024
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