Tuesday • May 14 • 2024
Vol.XVI • No.XX
Manchester, N.H.
Donald J. Trump will go down in history as the last Republican elected President of the United States … because NeverTrump and the GOP used COVID as a pretext to rig elections through among other means ballot-harvesting … and as a result States like Arizona, Nevada, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin no longer hold actual elections … they hold ballot-harvesting competitions.
And even if somehow the GOP candidate despite the interference of the Deep State, the bias and censorship of regime-media and Big Tech, the rigged rules in key swing States, etc. etc. etc. … manages to win … WHAT NEXT? The Biden-regime has filled the federal judiciary with communists who will block everything that President tries to do … the Deep State will undermine everything that President tries to do … the grifter Republicans, the Paul Ryans and Mitch McConnells will oppose everything that President tries to do, unless it pads their pockets.
America as we knew it is gone. It is never coming back. The ONLY hope short of expatriation is internal migration to Red States and then a peaceful national divorce.
But keep on telling me that the real problem is restrictive zoning laws and that massive Russian fleet shelling Hampton Beach.
It’s wild how much of the corruption we’ve seen the last few years began with an effort to get rid of Trump. The System just took a blowtorch to every last bit of public trust in order to rid themselves of one man.
I wonder if a single one of them can see it.
— Jesse Kelly (@JesseKellyDC) March 2, 2023
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A recent spate of mass plant and animal suicides is rocking the globe.
The number of food processing plants experiencing such disasters appears to be high, but In the U.S. there were approximately 1,410 warehouse (not just food processing) fires per year between 2014 and 2019.
According to the National Fire Protection Agency (NFPA), these fires caused an annual average of two civilian deaths, 20 civilian injuries, and $159 million in direct property damage.
However it’s not just plants and animals, even trains seem to be going off the rails from the madness. A recent episode occurred in East Palestine, Ohio just across the border from Jerusalem, Pennsylvania. After years of tension between to the two cities a Northern Suffolk train appears to have ended it all as a message to the world. Though the tracks were poorly cared for and the wreckage showed signs of an external explosive device the railway coroner ruled it a suicide.
On April 21 of 2022 A plane crashed into a General Mills plant in Covington, Georgia. The Federal Aviation Administration reported that an unidentified small plane crashed within a mile of the runway of the Covington Municipal Airport. Local sources say the plant had been showing signs of depression recently giving away its entire collection of early edition Raisin Bran boxes to Captain Crunch.
“I had no idea the General was so upset. He seemed like such a happy guy on the outside”, commented long time friend and former cereal killer Count Chocula.
Authorities still are unclear as to how the plant was able to steer a manned aircraft into itself dealing the fatal blow, however the local Sheriff is certain it was suicide.
Over 1 billion chickens have all died in a coordinated event that appears to be the result of their involvement in a mass suicide. Several members of the bovine community were seen milling around the outside of the various chicken harvesting plants where the mass extinction events took place, although authorities say there is nothing unusual about cows dressed in black who can drive black SUVs. A psycho-forensic analysis of the bird bloodbath reveals the chickens “just didn’t give a cluck any longer”, which is likely the result of too much time on social media.
On April 13, a major food California processing plant, Taylor Farms, burned itself almost completely to the ground after it realized it was not going to be able to flee California.
Also on April 13, a plane crashed into Gem State Processing in Heyburn, East Idaho at about 8:35 a.m. Despite this being a potato plant in Idaho of all places, local officials have ruled it a copycat suicide stating the plant was driven insane after realizing its childhood hero Mr. Potatohead was now genderless.
On April 11 New Hampshire’s East Conway Beef and Pork experienced a “major plant fire”, which is another way of saying it snuck over the border to Vermont and smoked so much weed it asphyxiated itself. Given the popularity of plant based suicides this year the East Conway police department has decided rather than create beef with the locals and cold case it, the hot thing to do is call it a suicide. Many in the town say that’s a bunch of bologna.
Finally in an act of solidarity with plants and animals, Mark Middleton, a long-time aide to Bill and Hillary Clinton, was found dead on his property. A family member found him hanging from a tree, clearly a symbolic nod to the plant deaths, and he lived in a town known to have both cats and dogs who are struggling with the will to live. So as not to fail at his mission he courageously loaded a shotgun and, whilst hanging on for dear death, turned it lengthwise to his chest and delivered the fatal blast.
Authorities expressed consternation over the missing rifle only to discover it was sent to the Smithsonian’s new Suicide’s In American History exhibit, sponsored by a generous grant from the Clinton Foundation, where it can be seen encased in glass, rather than hanging like Jeffrey Epstein who didn’t kill himself.
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I am convinced that no three people have done more harm to America, especially our children, in the last two years than these three individuals. Acting alone and in concert with each other, they sustained the COVID Pandemic far longer than was needed, set our children’s education back decades, and may have made decisions that will cause health concerns for a generation. The Left and the media worship this trio and credit them for how they guided us through the worst health crisis in a century. The facts tell a different story, and their ulterior motives are becoming more evident with time.
Joe Biden used the Pandemic to reach the White House. It gave him cover to hide from the public, the media, and Donald Trump. It minimized his exposure so that nobody could ascertain his level of mental incapacity. Biden and the media conspired to disparage the results that Trump had gained to give us a path out of the Pandemic and keep our economy sound. Once elected, he continued to parlay COVID as an excuse for massive spending and bills that would never have passed in more normal times. Joe teamed with Fauci to push the vaccine and booster myth and to block any efforts to blame the origin of the COVID virus on China. He and Weingarten worked hand in hand, including the Justice Department, to keep schools closed far too long and to quell any public pressure towards CRT or Gender Alternative Studies forced upon our children.
Fauci played us like a Stradivarius. He had both ends of COVID covered as he was funding the lab in Wuhan and exerting excessive power and restrictions on America. He was complicit with Biden in suppressing efforts to restart our economy. The Left and media want to elevate him to god-level when they should be investigating him for any potential role in developing the COVID virus. By forcing an ineffective vaccine and multiple booster shots into the arms of Americans, we may have caused severe heart conditions for many young adult males. We still have no clue as to the damage done to the reproductive capabilities of young women forced to take the jab.
Along with Weingarten, he kept our children masked and stuck in remote learning for far too long. Fauci, Biden, and the media set up a system where anyone who criticized their methods and restrictions was immediately debunked and canceled from Social Media. Fauci did all this while being the highest-paid Federal employee and setting a new high for the most significant yearly pension paid upon retirement. We will be paying for the decisions of Dr. Anthony Fauci for years to come.
Randi Weingarten may be the most dangerous individual in our country. Still, she could be considered an existential threat to America by teaming up with Biden, Fauci, and the Justice Department. As President of the AFT, American Federation of Teachers, the largest teacher’s union in the country, she was instrumental in keeping our schools shut and our children locked in their homes. She worked with Fauci, Biden, and Merrick Garland to close schools and the mouths of parents who dared to challenge local school boards. She bribed billions of dollars from the government, and much of that money has yet to be spent or allocated. Her efforts significantly negatively impacted test scores, drop-out rates, childhood depression and drug use, and even childhood suicides. She did nothing with the American money she stole to enhance our kids’ education process or results.
These three are like a trio of fine musicians. They sound great solo but are incredible on stage together. Unfortunately, the music these three played for America was dark and off key. It may be years before we know just how bad this band was for America.
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Today is a day to celebrate everyone that keeps voting for Democrats (It’s Brain Injury Awareness Day). It is also Fight Sexual Exploitation Day (where’s that list of visitors to Jeffy Epstein’s Island?).
March 4th used to be inauguration day in the US. The new President and congress (or the re-elected) were sworn into office on March 4th. The 20th amendment to the US Constitution changed all that, but before it did, many Presidents were sworn in today.
In a not-so-belt-tightening twist of irony, it is both National Snack day and World Obesity day (March 4th is also Pound Cake Day). The Waltz, Marching Music, Grammar, Game Masters, and Engineers also have a Day today.
It is also Hug a GI day in the US. Not Gibraltar (Country Code: GI) or Gastro-Intestinal, Ground Infantry, though the term can apply to any ground pounder if you happen to know one that you’d be willing to hug.
In 1801 Thomas Jefferson was the first US President to be inaugurated in Washington, D.C (as were the rest of them until the 20th Amendment was passed). 1936 saw the 1st flight of the airship Hindenburg on this day at Friedrichshafen, and in 1922 the first vampire film (an unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, “Nosferatu”), premiered in Berlin.
Republican Charles Curtis became the 1st Native American to be Vice President of the United States (1929) – Herbert Hoover was Inaugurated, President.
The Morning Mail
‘Make them use electric!’ – Jill Biden cooking on a “gas” stove.
PUBLIC HEALTH?
LOCAL FLAVOR
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For at least the past few months, Dan Bongino has been flirting with the idea of a state seceding from the union and governing itself as an independent nation. Bongino is among the most popular conservative talk show hosts, and he is the only conservative podcast that I listen to daily.
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Twitter may not be for everyone. At its core, it is a platform made for short tempers, short ideas, and short language. On a good day, it is full of tribalism with black-and-white narratives and political pontificating. At its worst?
It is a morass of human cesspool-level dialogue and videos exposing people at their lowest. Like a theme park full of real-time car accidents, the ride is made for gawking at the wreckage. In order to get in, you don’t have to be tall enough, it prefers you remain short.
This is why the MVCS Girls’ story (of taking a principled stand against enabling insanity) going viral on Twitter was so uniquely special.
Despite its rhetorical flaws, the social media app is a measuring stick of cultural opinions for the latest controversies. Thanks to Twitter, the MVCS girl’s story was shared by an account titled “boysvswomen.com,” which is followed by a world-famous psychologist, NY Times best-selling author, and culture commentator Dr. Jordan Peterson. Known more for verbosity, Dr. Peterson re-tweeted the story to his 3.7 million followers, stating simply, “It’s about time,” and within 24 hours, the story reached over 1 million views.
The tiny school in Quechee was being lauded around the globe as fast as it spun on its axis.
As the attention grew and the comments rolled in, the support was overwhelmingly in favor of the Eagle’s stand for girls/women’s sports to remain free from male athletes identifying as girls/women participating at the expense of the fairer sex’s safety. Here are a few:
As of this morning, the boysvswomen.com tweet has 1.2 million views, 7,941 likes, 1,325 re-tweets, and 220 comments. Our Vermont Daily Chronicle article, which broke the story, also shared by boysvswomen.com, has been seen 18.3K times, liked by 277 accounts, and re-tweed 32 times.
The story since has been picked up by the Daily Wire, the Daily Caller, the Daily Signal in the UK, Sportskeeda, the Blaze’s Glenn Beck podcast, and a variety of other online personalities. Virtually all of those commenting or covering the story support the school’s decision.
A call to help out the small school with donations to bless their courage has been made by many if you’d care to throw your weight behind these big-time little women. You can make donations via their website: https://www.mvcs.info/resources/support-mvcs/
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Alinsky’s rules demand that Democrats blame perceived threats to their power for whatever ails them, from their failed economy to the border, supply chains, and Ukraine. They blamed Donald Trump for the disaster in East Palestine, but that narrative just got derailed.
Washington Post fact checker Glenn Kessler dispels these claims, finding that none of the regulatory changes made during the Trump administration can be linked to the accident.
What did he find? According to this report,
Kessler found that the Trump administration was not responsible for the lack of electronically controlled pneumatic brakes on the train, as the Biden administration made no effort to reinstate them. He also noted that the brakes would not have helped, as by the time the crew activated them, the train had already derailed.
None of this, even coming from as liberal a landscape as the Washington Post, will end the smears. Remember, “Neither truth nor facts nor light of day will stay them from the swift implementation of their approved narratives.”
WATCH: NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy says the brake rule Buttigieg and Joy Behar blamed President Trump for repealing ‘would not have prevented’ the East Palestine derailment.
“The wheel bearing failed on car number 23. So even with ECP brakes, the derailment would have occurred.” pic.twitter.com/AECPta0T5F
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) February 24, 2023
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So only 22 percent of Stanford’s freshman are white … which makes it impossible to claim that Diversity-Equity-Inclusion is about making institutions “look more like America.” Stanford’s freshman class does NOT resemble America at all.
So it’s about redressing past wrongs? You know the argument that white people have historically oppressed people of color and continue to benefit from that oppression, so it’s simply balancing the scales of justice to discriminate against white people in order to benefit people of color. If you nodded yes, then please explain to me how D-E-I is morally different from the Nuremberg laws in the mid 1930s in Germany that began the process of de-individualizing an dehumanizing Jews.
Rhetorical question … the woke Republicans will simply robotically respond with, “it’s different because DIVERSITY IS OUR STRENGTH.”
For decades, we’ve been told that affirmative action was simply an effort to make colleges “look more like America.” But only 22% of Stanford’s incoming freshmen are white — less than half the share of white adolescents in the national population. @NROhttps://t.co/ADEOV3Wszn
— Nate Hochman (@njhochman) February 25, 2023
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I am sharing my public comments this week at a meeting of the Nashua Board of Alderman in regard to an anti-Catholic vote by Democrat Nashua Alderman-at-large Melbourne Moran, Jr. that was made when he was serving as my NH state representative in 2022.
Related: “God-Fearing Catholic” Nashua Alderman Says Fly Satanic Temple Flag With Save Women’s Sports Flag
Moran identified himself as a “God-fearing Catholic” at a previous Board of Alderman meeting when he attacked me about my raising of the Save Women’s Sports flag on the Citizen Flag Pole on the Nashua City Hall plaza.
Moran never misses a chance to criticize New Hampshire Republicans, including Governor Chris Sununu.
I am here to talk to you Aldermen Moran about your vote as a state rep on bill HB1625 that would have repealed the unconstitutional buffer zone law. Although you are vocal in your opposition to Governor Sununu’s agenda on many issues, you showed solidarity with him for giving private abortion businesses control of public sidewalks when you voted to uphold his veto of the bill.
As a Catholic, you know that Christians are called to serve the most vulnerable and who is more vulnerable than a pregnant mother and her child? Your fellow Catholics are on the public sidewalks outside abortion facilities to offer help to pregnant mothers in their hour of most desperate need when they are considering ending the lives of their precious preborn children.
You may ask what good your fellow Catholics are doing on the sidewalks outside abortion facilities. They are reaching out with offers of help to women who are there under threat of being thrown out of their homes by abusive partners or angry parents, women who are being sexually trafficked, and women who are addicted to drugs. They are reaching immigrant women, documented and undocumented, who feel like strangers in a strange land and who don’t know who to turn to for help.
One of the mothers who was recently helped was an immigrant from Brazil who was pregnant with twins who was being physically abused by her husband. Her husband told her she must have an abortion or else. Your fellow Catholics were there for her on the sidewalk and offered her help, which she gratefully accepted. They threw her a baby shower. She was so grateful and she gave birth to her beautiful twins.
They have saved many more babies with equally heartwarming stories.
These are happy stories that everyone should be celebrating.
And yet you voted with Sununu to allow private abortion businesses to force your fellow Catholics off the public sidewalk and deprive these vulnerable women and their babies of lifesaving help. You accuse Sununu of not caring but where is your compassion?
On a related topic, I am looking forward to candidates challenging potential presidential candidate Governor Sununu about his opposition to freedom of speech as detailed in NH Governor Chris Sununu Whacks the First Amendment and Takes All His Credibility With It. If you are working on a presidential campaign, please share this with your candidate.
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For many years, there has been an initiative to make Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico states. This has been a goal of Democrats because the benefit to statehood for these two entities is a more secure hold on Congress. This logic is based on the assumption that both new states would be solid Blue.
Each new state would add two Democrat Senators and one Congressman. The D.C. area has a population of just over 700,000. It would not be the least populated state, but would be a very important state for the Left. Securing statehood for D.C. is more important to the Democrat Party for the power it would bring than the benefits it would bring the people of D.C.
D.C. is one of the most dangerous cities in the country and an embarrassment to the country to be our National Capital. D.C. is a unique piece of America carved out of Virginia and Maryland to host our Capital. The oversight was that the residents were not given federal representation. This has gone unresolved for over two hundred years. One of the solutions would have been having the residents decide which state they wanted to be absorbed by. They then would have been represented without the addition of another state. That does not benefit the Democrats. They need more.
The increase in the number of states is part of a larger plan. The Left wants to reduce the voting age to 16, knowing that the new younger voters will be primarily left-leaning. They want to give illegal aliens the right to vote in local and state elections. The same logic as the voting age reduction drives this. The Dems want more absentee and mail-in voting because there is less control and accountability of these votes. Similar thinking explains the Left’s disdain for Voter ID and why they want to allow vote harvesting. It is apparent the Left wants to skew the voting process in their favor. Why can’t they work on getting on board with policies that will better Americans and fight for their seats on an honest playing field? Because it is far easier to cheat and bribe to retain power.
In addition to these procedural attempts to secure power, the Left has control of most of the media machine. They also have a grip on the Intelligence community and social media. This is why Elon Musk scares the hell out of the Left because Twitter is an open forum that is a dent in their arsenal. The incredible spending spree we have witnessed in the last two years is the frosting on the cake. The redistribution bill disguised as a infrastructure bill, the inflation reduction act, which was a climate control bill, and the student loan forgiveness executive order was nothing but a $20,000 check to secure votes. All are payouts for votes. If the Left would concentrate on pro-American policies, they could save us a boatload of money, because one thing that Liberals never do is spend their own cash.
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42% big. From Visual Capitalist:
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It seems paradoxical that only 4% of the world’s population is so productive that it is still responsible for a plurality of the world’s Gross National Product. Note, too, that while Japan may have more companies listed on the Nikki, each of the US markets, NY Stock Exchange and the NASDAQ, dwarf its value. More productive and a higher value?
Yet, we see the Progressives working on killing “the Golden Goose that lays the Golden Eggs”. They never seem to care that the results of their actions never seem to match the ideology spawning those actions.
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To all those who are sending in memes, thank you! Keep them coming please, as it helps me gather weaponry to fight the Left. Please do share this post, and if you share an individual meme, consider mentioning you saw it on the Grok!
Speaking of, from this week, Monday Memes and Meme Overflow. Also don’t forget both complementary parts of my Survival Sunday feature: PREP edition and SITREP edition.
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Due to a crash thing work-wise I won’t be doing anything meme-wise next week. I will do the Survival Sundays but probably not at the same level of detail. I’m already on the work thing so – forgive me – these are just dumped memes without my normal commentary inserts.
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Have you heard the name, Michael Hugo? The Framingham, Massachusetts Democrat Committee Chair suggested that misdiagnosed disabilities in the womb translate to huge added costs to public education.
“if an unqualified sonographer misdiagnoses a heart defect, an organ defect, spina bifida or an encephalopathic defect, that becomes a very local issue because our school budget will have to absorb the cost of a child in special education, supplying lots and lots of special services to children, who were born with the defect.”
There’s been some outrage about the implications. It sounds like his belief is that such a diagnosis should result in aborting the unborn child to save taxpayers money. That is a safe assumption for someone whose ideological ancestors were eugenicists and depopulation fanatics. Given recent narratives from progressives about the overcrowded planet, the 21st-century Democrat apple does not fall far from that tree.
His party has history, past, and present to suggest that is precisely what he meant.
For the record, the comment was made weeks ago, and they had no plans for him to step down. Local Dems didn’t want him out, but then the story went national, and yesterday, Hugo stepped aside as committee chair.
“Recognizing my unfortunate misstatement at a recent City Council meeting, and upon discussing the issue with my wife, family, Senate President Karen Spilka, and various members of the Framingham Democratic Committee, I have decided that my resignation is necessary to eliminate any distraction from the important work of the local Democratic Committee, as well as the State Party,” Hugo said in a prepared statement.
He stepped down, but I don’t think he ended the distraction. Michael Hugo’s quoted remarks include what ought to be at least two deal breakers for Dems and should have them calling for his political head.
First, from his February remarks, any “school budget [that] will have to absorb the cost of a child,’ implies that it is a child, just one that has not yet been born. This is anathema to the political left.
Second, what if ‘an unqualified sonographer misdiagnoses a heart defect, an organ defect, spina bifida, or an encephalopathic defect’? It sounds like he just institutionalized the probability of a medical misdiagnosis that ends the life of “a child.”
That’s hardly a game changer for Dems, they support killing healthy unborn children as often as you please, but by stepping down, Hugo has added value to the outrage over his original “unfortunate” remarks.
Unborn children have value. It is a child.
I think Framingham Dems had better get rid of this guy before he becomes more of a liability (or distraction) to the party of death.
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Of the 22 hearings in the House, we are recommending support of 2 and opposition of 4 with 2 being of interest.
Of the 8 hearings in the Senate, we are recommending support of 0 and opposition of 0 with 1 being of interest.
| Position | Bill | Title | Committee | Day | Time | Room | State Analysis |
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| Oppose | HB249 | non-germane amendment #2023-0697h to HB 249 relative to establishing regulatory standards for the pet insurance industry |
Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Tue 3/7 | 9:45 AM | LOB Room 210-211 | The amendment establishes regulatory standards for the sale of pet insurance, allows the restaurant owner to bring their companion dog to the restaurant premises, and removes the option for restaurants to allow patrons to bring dogs to outdoor dining areas. |
| Oppose | HB402 | relative to prohibiting false statements against candidates. | Election Law | Tue 3/7 | 10:30 AM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill prohibits the publication of false statements by any candidate, political committee, or political party regarding another candidate’s positions on issues. |
| Oppose | HB463 | relative to the establishment of an election information portal. | Election Law | Tue 3/7 | 11:00 AM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill authorizes the secretary of state to develop an election information portal. |
| Support | HB496 | relative to the delivery of ballots to nursing homes and elder care facilities. | Election Law | Tue 3/7 | 1:30 PM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill establishes a new procedure for delivering absentee ballots to voters in nursing homes and elder care facilities. |
| Of Interest | SB270 | relative to appropriations to the department of transportation. | Finance | Tue 3/7 | 1:00 PM | SH Room 103 | This bill appropriates $20,000,000 to the department of transportation for municipal bridges, and $20,000,000 to the department of transportation for additional “Apportionment A” distributions. |
| Of Interest | HB609 | relative to energy facility siting. | Science, Technology and Energy | Tue 3/7 | 9:00 AM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill establishes the regulation of energy facility siting within the public utilities commission and establishes new procedures to replace the site evaluation committee. |
| Oppose | HB142 | relative to the operation of the Burgess Biopower plant. | Science, Technology and Energy | Tue 3/7 | 10:30 AM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill allows the public utilities commission to amend its orders as necessary to protect the continued operation of the Burgess Biopower plant. |
| Support | HB127 | relative to the declaration of a state of emergency. | Executive Departments and Administration | Wed 3/8 | 10:30 AM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill revises the authority of the governor and general court to declare, renew, or terminate a state of emergency. |
| Of Interest | HB533 | Public Hearing on amendment #2023-0705h to HB 533-FN, relative to public school human rights complaints |
Judiciary | Wed 3/8 | 9:00 AM | LOB Room 206-208 | The amendment gives the commissioner of education the authority to issue subpoenas related to violations of the code of ethics and code of conduct for licensed or certified personnel. |
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Nothing but bullies with chips on their shoulders, trying to portray themselves as “victims”, and a penchant for aggressively trying to ruin other peoples’ lives that refuse to go along with their delusions.
From a post at RedState:
It should be understood that these activists do not speak for the entirety of the LGBT community. I’ve met too many from that community that thinks the activists are garbage and they, like most people, want to be left alone to live their lives. However, the activists are ironically making people wary of the community at large, and judging by the reactions to Pikamee’s bullying, they’re making it worse.
The back story:
After Bullying VTuber ‘Pikamee’ Into Retirement Over Hogwarts Legacy, People are Souring On Woke Mobs
I didn’t know much about the VTuber (streamers and YouTubers with virtual avatars) going by the name of “Pikamee” but after watching her name trend on Twitter more than a few times recently I decided to dig into the situation and what I found was something of a tragic story involving the woke mob and a sweet Japanese woman…
…Like most streamers, Pikamee would often play games while interacting with her chat. Apparently, she had plans to play the game “Hogwarts Legacy,” and all at once the trouble started.
As RedState previously reported, “Hogwarts Legacy” became the new front in the culture war. The game was boycotted by members of the LGBT activist community for its connections to Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling, a person the activist community has labeled as “transphobic” for her unwillingness to embrace the narrative that gender is interchangeable and a man is a woman if he says he is. While it’s been proven that Rowling isn’t actually transphobic, the woke mob refuses to see her any differently.
Once again, Identity Politics came to fore. The Trans-Authoritarians demanded that Hogwarts Legacy, a spinoff game of the Harry Potter movies, HAD TO HAVE Transgender characters in this game about magic BECAUSE! So fearing the backlash if they didn’t, the developers put one in. Satisfied that we bowed down to you?
Not.A.Freaking.Chance.
Not liking how the character turned out, the TBs (Trans-Bullies) went on yet another rampage against J.K Rowling (who has blown them off to my great delight) and then decided to ruin those people who make their living by streaming their game playing. Like Pikamee.
There’s a lot more detail at the post and I’d suggest that you mosey on over and read it. I am convinced that:
What is being documented is true – most transgenders have more mental issues than just gender dysphoria and this is a PERFECT example of these activists demonstrating several of them at the same time (er, anger management, doesn’t play well with others, fragile egos such that they HAVE to be right all the time, narcissistic, obsessional behavior, and psychopathic modalities to want to ruin someone else for their own well being – and yes, they’ve tried it on me).
Now, Normal people are turning on these folks and telling them to stuff it.
There’s a reason why there is an “LGB without the T” movement and “Gays Against Groomers”. I doubt that these Trans-Authoritarians even have any sense of self-awareness to realize that the pushback is really starting to roll.
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This speaks for itself. The Biden-regime and its allies and supporters get comic relief from Americans dying of fentanyl … and I’m sure the reason why is that they believe most of the deaths are working-class white voters.
Those of you who continue to believe that it’s possible to share a country with these people are such fools.
President Joe Biden reacted to a mother who spoke out about her two sons being killed by fentanyl poisoning by saying that happened "during the last administration" — with a chuckle. pic.twitter.com/Zqfs7RxJ63
— NEWSMAX (@NEWSMAX) March 2, 2023
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Older people need to make sure they have all the resources they need to stay happy and healthy well into their 70s, 80s, and beyond. Depending on their health, seniors may find it difficult to live solo.
Sometimes a helping hand is necessary for very elderly people to get food, take walks, and go to doctor’s appointments.
If a senior has a disease like Alzheimer’s or dementia, living in an assisted living facility might be the best course of action. On the other hand, some seniors are happy and healthy and still capable of taking care of themselves. People like this might need to know how to move into a new home in their golden years, or they can choose to live in the same home.
Finding strategies for saving money is helpful. Senior discounts for homeowners insurance are available depending on the type of house that is bought. What can adult children do to aid their senior parents during this time of possible upheaval? What can seniors do to help themselves during home shopping?
Keep the Home SimpleGetting older can make getting around the house more of a chore. Modern technology advancements have made the future of home appliances complex and difficult for older people to use if they are inexperienced with such items.
Perhaps look into buying a one-story home if climbing stairs is becoming more of a struggle due to physical limitations. Don’t buy a home with a large property in need of maintenance, as this adds to your inconvenience.
Mowing the lawn, clipping trees, and watering the plants can be healthy activities for retired people who are in good health, but some people are not capable of doing these things in their 70s and 80s. Buying a large property is going to require some sort of guarantee from loved ones that they will help take care of all the chores that go into living in a big house.
Don’t install fancy new appliances you can’t understand. Moving into an older home with familiar items inside is a good way for seniors to feel comfortable with their living space.
Move to a Retirement CitySome retired people may want to move somewhere sunny and upbeat. Living in the rain of Seattle is not for everyone. The shiny brightness of San Diego might be better suited for those who get seasonal depression during gloomy seasons.
It’s important for these people to think about how to move into one of these bright cities to combat these blues and whether they have the money to afford the cost of living. Seniors who have a large savings may have the money to pay for luxurious homes they didn’t have when they were younger.
The real estate market reacts by pricing the homes higher if they are in an area of affluence. Homeowners’ insurance may also be higher on homes in an area attracting a lot of retirees. The more expensive the house, the higher the insurance is priced for it. Luckily, many seniors can get great discounts just for being over 55 years old.
Get Senior Insurance DiscountsCompanies like Allstate and AARP’s Hartford products are priced specifically for seniors. Allstate has the aforementioned 55 and older discount of over 10%. AARP has always been intended to help seniors manage their money and credit.
The discounts bring the price of insurance down immediately upon purchase due to the intended customers being senior citizens. Safety is the utmost concern for older people and their loved ones. Children sometimes worry their parents and grandparents are going to be in danger of being victimized by home break-ins and other crimes in lower-income areas.
Seniors could move to an expensive area, but the price of housing makes it more difficult to pay for daily expenses. This creates a tough situation. Cheap homes are more likely to be in areas with higher crime rates. It could mean the final decision may just be to move senior-aged loved ones in with children or grandchildren.
Think About Live-In Caregiving SituationsIf a senior is in poor health, it could be better for a caregiver to be living with them at all times. Running a house by themselves can lead to complications and consequences. What if they fall and have nobody to help them recover from the fall?
How about Alzheimer’s causing memory loss? Seniors with mental health diseases may leave their homes and not return. This calls for younger people to move their parents or older loved ones in with them so they can keep an eye on them. This also saves both parties a tremendous amount of money.
A senior’s older house can be sold, and no money has to be put into buying another home. Younger homeowners may even be able to get a tax write-off from their older parents if they are living with them by claiming them as a dependent. This gives money back to adult children to alleviate any expenses incurred because of a live-in caregiving situation.
Moving Into Assisted Living FacilitiesIf a senior’s health problems are too much for an adult child, then moving them into a nursing facility or senior living home may be the best option for their safety. Professional nurses and caregivers are able to assist elderly patients. It should be made clear these situations can get very expensive, though.
Living in a nursing home can be very stressful for seniors if friends or family don’t visit them frequently. Seniors and their relatives should keep in touch often to avoid homesickness.
All in all, seniors may just want to live in the home they raised their family in if at all possible. If they do choose to live in this situation, they can still get discounts on homeowners insurance by switching policies. Seniors can also be happy knowing they may have paid their home off in full and can enjoy financial freedom in their familiar place of dwelling.
Shawn Laib writes and researches for the insurance comparison site, ExpertInsuranceReviews.com. He wants to help seniors understand the choices that can make retirement living more pleasurable.
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It’s National “If Pets Had Thumbs Day.” I know. What the … It’s also ‘World Wildlife Day’ and ‘Canadian Bacon Day,’ eh? Do you like Irish Whisky? Today is International Irish Whiskey Day and the first day of The Iditarod.
You could grab some whisky and bacon and pets with thumbs (if they have them), Cold Cuts, thank Moms in Georgia, caregivers, and celebrate The National Anthem. March 3rd is their day too.
It is also the birthday of the US Navy Reserves.
On this day in 1857, the Second Opium War Began. Thirty years later, in 1887, Anne Sullivan began teaching 6-year-old blind-deaf, Helen Keller. Mahatma Gandhi began a fast in Mumbai (Bombay, 1939) to protest against autocratic rule in India. And Los Angeles police officers were recorded (1991) beating motorist Rodney King which later led to riots when the police officers were acquitted.
The Morning MailAnd don’t you know it!
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Newly elected Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) may be both dead and alive, according to various pundits, nurses, seers, and medical men. As a fellow who enjoys physics, this reminds me of one of the greatest thought experiments of all time – the tale of Schrödinger’s cat.
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Nitro the cat is placed in a steel cat box along with a Geiger counter, a vial of poison that becomes an easy-to-breathe aerosol if its container is shattered, a ball-peen hammer, and a radioactive substance. When the radioactive substance finally decides to decay, the Geiger counter detects it and triggers the hammer to fall, smashing the vial and releasing the poison, which subsequently kills Nitro the cat. Radioactive decay is a random process, and there is no way to predict when it will happen. Physicists say the atom exists in a state known as a superposition—both decayed and not decayed at the same time, as does Nitro and perhaps once mighty Mr. Fetterman.
Until the box is opened, an observer doesn’t know whether the cat is alive or dead—because the cat’s fate is intrinsically tied to whether or not the atom has decayed and the cat would, as Schrödinger put it, be “living and dead … in equal parts.”
In other words, unless that box is opened, the cat’s state is completely unknown, and therefore, the cat is considered to be both alive and dead at the same time until it is observed by someone outside the enclosed system.
“If you put Nitro in the box, and if there’s no way of saying what the cat is doing, you have to treat it as if it’s doing all of the possible things—being living and dead—at the same time,” explains Eric Martell, an associate professor of physics and astronomy at Millikin University. “If you try to make predictions and you assume you know the status of the cat, you’re [probably] going to be wrong. If, on the other hand, you assume it’s in a combination of all of the possible states that it can be, you’ll be correct.”
Upon looking at the cat, an observer would immediately know if the cat was alive or dead, and the “superposition” of the cat—the idea that it was in both states—would collapse into either the knowledge that “the cat is alive” or “the cat is dead,” but never both.
So, physics brings us to the man who crushed Dr. Mehmet Oz, the Republican, for Pennsylvania’s open and proud US senator’s seat.
It has been suggested of late, on a growing number of news blogs far outside of the perpetual prevaricators posing on the mainstream press, that Senator John Fetterman, following two strokes, the latter being pretty serious, punctuated by that sad bit of his starring in the old “Lost at Sea” vaudeville show when he was sworn in with the terminally jocose Vice President Harris in attendance, is both alive and dead. In this state of superposition, it won’t matter about his voting. No, the Democrats have relied for years, in tight races all across our land, on those inviolate absentee ballots culled from the faithful Democrat dead who come to life for every election and then scurry back beneath the sod before dawn, and the votes are counted.
The Democrat stool, it has often been pointed out, is supported by three sturdy legs: one for the voting dead where the dead vote Democrat in over 85% of the cases examined, another for the ever more mollycoddled criminal class with tips of the hat to lily-livered DA’s who ran on Georgi Soros’ dime and were elected before being recalled, with the last leg representing that latest tranche of the three million illegal aliens who have caused such a ruckus for Governor Abbot (R-TX) and Mayor Adams (D-NYC) because Joe Biden has waived them home with the same storied success of a Yankees third base coach or the landing signal officer on a US aircraft carrier.
There is that famous meme featuring a Democrat filling out absentee ballots using names on tombstones in an ancient cemetery.
Despite the orders from numerous judges across America to rid the voting lists of the voting dead, they slither back onto these same lists and keep on voting as Democrats in the best Stephen King tradition. Sometimes a Republican corpse is hijacked by the Democrat side of a family and their post-mortem votes will appear in the latest voters’ rolls.
So, John Fetterman, if he’s lying in a coma being kept alive by machines, or if he’s playing liar’s poker with the nurses in intensive care, will cast his ballots Chuck Schumer’s way every time, alive or dead. And if Fetterman can remain both alive and dead through August 18th, then a special election for the Senate seat won’t be required to fill his then vacated seat and instead it would come time to let Governor Shapiro, who did away with required college degrees for 92% of the fabled Commonwealth’s positions and is said to have as many questionable miniatures on his kitchen shelf as Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), to appoint his replacement from Harrisburg’s array of highly educated and qualified hacks now that neither college or common sense is required in Ben Franklin’s and William Penn’s once dignified state.
Oh, yes, what about Nitro the cat? If you look closely at the photo you’ll note that Nitro’s sporting a George HW Bush button on his collar. Did that tough little cat, the closest I ever came to Schrödinger outside of physics classes in college, vote?
Having scanned the voting roll at my polling place near my last Massachusetts home in Brighton, when I voted for that female communist instead of Thomas “Tip” O’Neill shortly before moving to our less onerously taxed and far better-led Granite State, I found no cats or dogs registered. But I always wondered just how many loyal Democrats dead voted for the “Tipster” in that moment of his greatest need?
As for the dearly departed Nitro, it would break my heart if he was now voting Democrat.
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Swedish Climate Muppet Greta Thunberg is making news in Norway, where she and some activist muppet buddies blocked access to the Ministry of Energy to protest a proposed wind farm project. The reasoning: “indigenous peoples who live in the area.”
“We cannot use the so-called climate change as a cover for colonialism,” said Thunberg, according to TV2, outside the ministry’s doors. “A climate transition that violates human rights is not a climate transition worthy of the name.”
With those two sentences, Greta opened a Climate-sh!t-sandwich shop, but is she prepared to serve them to everyone who needs to take a bite? The Net-Zero, electrification, solar, wind, and EV energy transition is built on human rights violations of indigenous populations.
China, a long-time human rights violator before this windfall came their way, is the world leader in both mining rare earth metals and manufacturing components, parts, and equipment for this farce. Nearly everything “green” has CCP fingerprints on it. China owns many of the mines in Africa and South East Asia, where local low-wage or slave-level laborers work in criminally unhealthy conditions with massive environmentally damaging footprints. Not the fake damage used to sell the agenda but real, generational harm with long-term impacts on human health, land, water, and wildlife.
Can we expect Thunberg to visit the Congo, Indonesia, or the Mother Ship in China? What about CCP climate ‘colonialism’ and human rights violations? Will Greta stand before the UN and say, “How Dare You” support an energy transition under these circumstances?
And what about the rest of it? I mean, all of it. Are all the groups milking the colonialism schtick going to shoot their narrative or climate cash cows because the NWO energy transition depends on climate change colonialism and the harmful offshoring of emissions to third-world nations for the benefit of wealthy globalists?
Not a chance. It’s full Green-catastrophe ahead! So, Greta might want to hire some security. If she keeps this up, Thunberg may find herself having committed “suicide” from a wind turbine in the Swedish backwoods with a story that changes as quickly as Paul Pelosi’s home invasion hammer assault.
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