You can not get more bloviating and narcissistic than having John Kerry and Al Gore together at the same conference. No two people have ever had a higher opinion of themselves than these two lifetime politicians.

The Czar and the Conman, you figure out which is which, took center stage in Davos, Switzerland, this week and sucked the air out of the room. Kerry was there as the U.S. Climate Czar, and Al Gore was actually invited to address the convention of tree-hugging hypocrites. The organizers settled on Gore after Greta Thunberg had detention after her arrest this week.

John Kerry has been flying his private jet around the globe for years, telling anyone who would listen that he was there to save them and that he is always the most intelligent man in the room. He addressed the gathered and proclaimed to be one of the chosen. Good God, he says it with a straight face, and his disciples nod their heads in agreement.

Al Gore was invited because most of the people at Davos were not alive when he wrote An Inconvenient Truth: The Crisis of Global Warming. Nobody has predicted our extinction more times and obviously been wrong. The Greenies adore him, but he bombed in Switzerland like milk chocolate in the Texas sun. He went over the top, screaming to make his point. He invented new terms like “Rain Bombs” and told of the boiling oceans. Has anyone ever seen an ocean boil? Of course not, but with the hot air he spewed, we may see it for the first time.

His delivery was horrid, and his message was worse.

The organizers of the World Economic Forum will be asking for their speaker’s fee back, and no way they will validate parking for his private jet. Gore and Kerry were in good company with their private chariots as over 1,400 private jets landed at St. Gallen–Altenrhein Airport (ACH), bringing stewards of our climate to the WEF. Who would think you could gather that many hypocrites in one of the most beautiful hamlets in the Alps? There was so much carbon in the air that the Matterhorn is now gray.

The messages from Davos are fear and that no one on earth should own a gas-driven car. These elites can circle the globe in their carbon-spewing jets but if you need to get to work or the grocery store, walk. As these charlatans buy or build mega-mansions on the coast, and they tell us the rising oceans will obliterate the coastlines. Such drivel, but it wins Time Person of the Year, Nobel Peace prizes, and invitations to Davos. How can these people look at themselves in the mirror, and why do we give them any attention? Kerry, Gore, and maybe even Greta are laughing all the way to the bank. They are the carnival snake-oil salespeople of our time. We cannot shut them up, but we can ignore them. That is a poison these people cannot metastasize.

The last irony of the meeting was the condemnation of Twitter for allowing so much adverse dialogue about Climate Change. These zealots want to monopolize the conversation. No debate, no contrary opinion, just their rhetoric. They know their message is tainted, but if they can yell it loud enough without contest, the sheep will lap it up. How very weak the rich and powerful are. It is pathetic to watch, but we do.

 

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“A person who operates any motor vehicle on a public way with an animal of any size on their person, or who permits an animal to impede his or her free access to and use of vehicle controls or to obstruct their vision with any animal between the operator and the operators (sic) door is guilty of a violation.”

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If you’re looking for something to make you feel better about not getting the COVID vaccines, we’re always here to help. Sadly, we know plenty of folks who did get them or thought they had to, and this news is not great for them.

Related: Governors, School Boards, Public Health Officials, Everyone – And I Mean Everyone, You Need to Hear This…

First, a positive note. Someone gave The Wall Street journal permission to suggest that the government – Pharma – Vaccine pipeline is FUBAR, and someone needs to say that. Do you think?

ZeroHedge has some reporting on that here.

 

You might have heard a radio advertisement warning that if you’ve had Covid, you could get it again and experience even worse symptoms. The message, sponsored by the Health and Human Services Department, claims that updated bivalent vaccines will improve your protection.

This is deceptive advertising. But the public-health establishment’s praise for the bivalent shots shouldn’t come as a surprise.

I gather from the WSJ pull quotes that they have soft-sold the need for more accountability. Everything appears to be couched in the idea that, at some point, there were good intentions, but we’ve reached a point with the bivalents where the gatekeepers (FDA/CDC) have abandoned their duties.

There is some appropriate umbrage about The White House pushing hard to get them more Jabs on the ground ASAP. I’m sure the promise of tens of billions in immediate sales was a nice incentive on the drug-maker side. It is also safe to presume The White House applied pressure on the FDA and its review committee to approve it nearly sight-unseen, which would make for a tremendous congressional investigation.

The result is another chemical imprinting product that works like a computer virus, and you are the computer. You can wade through some of that here, but a reader sent me a comment under the ZeroHedge article, the news I intimated in the opening. Not new per se. We’ve been batting this unraveling ball of COVID yarn since late summer 2021. ADE. Antibody-Dependent Enhancement. That these vaccines* were teaching your immune system not to work correctly if you didn’t at some point have a more severe reaction, like dropping dead.

And here we are. Your immune system works fine, but the mRNA has taught it to attack you.

For those who took (or were forced to take) the original vaccine, our memory B-cells were trained to produce antibodies against the original Wuhan strain.

WRONG.

It is far worse than that. The covid vaccines train your immune system to attack any cell infected with one protein. And when I say attack I mean demolish with biochemical napalm.

When you are told the children’s version of how the immune system works, they say antibodies kill viruses. They don’t. Like in the viet Nam war, they airstrike villages that may be infected.

The villages being infected cells and cells around them. Your immune system can’t see a virus. It can only see cells infected by a virus (or other pathogen) then it effectively laser paints it, and the area is firebombed.

Antagonizing your immune system with one spime protein, is insane.

The immune system of people with infection acquired immunity knows a signature of 29 proteins, and only nukes cells with that profile.

The immune system of a person poisoned with the jab sees any cell infected with one spike protein as a target, and their body has been genetically engineered to produce that protein.

In response the body of the poisoned learns, if the person lives, to downregulate general immune response by making ig4 antibodies. To prevent your immune system from continually nuking spike infected cells, it minimizes its reaction to any pathogen.

This is global murder. If your body adjusts to the poison it has been genetically programmed to create, it only does so by making you more vulnerable to all other pathogens.

 

No one wants to admit they were taken for a ride, certainly not one that presents this risk. They may, however, be more open to accepting that the government cannot be trusted. No government can ‘cuz people. That has always been true. Those drawn to positions of power are the ones most likely to abuse it. And so they have, and you are living that history if you can’t be bothered to read the earlier examples.

Claiming they didn’t know is not good enough. Those who sounded the alarm early were shut down by the same machine that refused to see the safety signals (or chose to ignore them). Their interest in public health got them censored and, where possible, wrecked or ruined.

And the government had a lot of help. The result is that people are dying who were never at risk. So, as the commenter notes, this is global murder, but to what degree? I suppose it depends on what you knew and when you knew it.

 

 

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They’re flying so thick and fast it is amazing.  Take heart – there will be a Meme Overflow and definitely a Friday Meme Overflow-Overflow.  Last week’s Overflow-Overflow.

Remember, ridicule and mockery are effective weapons:

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

 

 

Now, let the mockery and mayhem begin.

 

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

 

 

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PSA: Super duper important about the ATF and pistol braces:

The ATF brace decision is a 2A and 5A violation – Gun Free Zone

Understand that this is not just about pistol braces.  This is about all guns – they want them all.  And they’re willing to place legal traps to get you.  Related:

 

SHOCKER!!! FBI & ATF Caught SECRETLY Monitoring Gun Owners!!

 

 

More:

Government Snoops Caught Spying on Peaceful Americans (reason.com)

 

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But first, a random sampling of three of my cartoons.  Please note these are my concepts but I pay a professional to do them.

 

 

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I’m sorry, but WTF?

 

 

The raciest art I have in the house are some African (and one from NZ?) statues of naked people.  But they’re not sexual at all in terms of the clear intent, IMHO.  That and a charcoal sketch done by a family friend in honor of my (now late) mother’s 50th birthday of a nude woman from behind.  Note: woman, not child.  And certainly not sexual in any way.

As I view the above, and recall many of the Podesta artworks I’ve seen… I shudder.  What’s worse, IMHO, is not the mere fact of the “art” but that she felt comfortable enough having it up and in view.

 

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Very much afraid this is true.  Like the Claire Wolfe saying:

 

 

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I remember in my graduate Macroeconomics class how enthusiastic the teacher – overall a Conservative and someone with whom I stayed in contact for years after graduating – was about getting off the gold standard.  At the time I agreed with the reasoning; no longer.  Remember what economist great Milton Friedman said about inflation:

 

Milton Friedman – Understanding Inflation

 

 

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Learning requires humility, for it requires that one might have to admit one was wrong.  Related:

 

 

And kind-of related – remember what I wrote about BETRAYAL TRAUMA (video, 11-odd minutes) a post or three back:

 

 

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There’s an old Vorlon saying: Understanding is a three-edged sword.  There’s your side, their side, and the truth.

 

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Pick of the post:

 

 

Reminds me of this Walter E. Williams quote:

“No matter how worthy the cause, it is robbery, theft, and injustice to confiscate the property of one person and give it to another to whom it does not belong”

Other quotes by this man whose autographed picture (to me!) is on my wall at home:

30 of Walter Williams’s Best Quotes on Liberty, Rights, Property, and Coercion – Foundation for Economic Education (fee.org)

And his collection of essays that he kindly sent to me:

American Contempt for Liberty (Hoover Institution Press Publication)

 

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Neil Oliver ‘…it’s a racket!’

 

https://youtu.be/vZe9d6bPEJg

 

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Palate Cleansers:

 

 

Every parent out there nodding their head.

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I’d live there.  Happily.

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This week, my committee met to hear ten more bills. HB 355, which would create a study committee on data sharing between state and federal public housing agencies, seemed to be a request for research help by the sponsor.

We want to thank NH State Rep Carol McGuire for this Op-Ed. Please submit yours to Editor@GraniteGrok.com.

We were not convinced that we needed to study this subject and voted unanimously to kill the bill. HB 366, prohibiting some non-compete clauses and nondisclosure agreements regarding free and open source software, was seen as interference in employment contracts and likely to inhibit software companies from growing or relocating in New Hampshire. It, too, was unanimously rejected by the committee.

HB 391, regarding a data sharing memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the departments of health & human services and environmental services, provided a learning experience on public health data collection and analysis. The departments agreed that they didn’t need a perpetual MOU, were providing each other with data that is publicly available on their website (and does not contain any individual data), and were members of the legislative commissions on environmental health. The bill went to a subcommittee to consider the end dates of the commissions and the real need for any statutory mandate on data sharing between departments.

HB 327 prohibited the state from using proprietary java scripts on any of its websites. After some education on java scripts and the concerns about them, we heard from the department of information technology on what would be involved in ensuring that none were present on the executive branch (only) 80+ websites and 270+ applications. It would be a massive, multi-year effort that would divert the department from all its other projects simply to analyze all those programs and determine if there were any such java scripts and then reprogram any that were found. This did not seem to be a wise use of resources since the dangers of proprietary java scripts were potential, not confirmed. Again, we voted unanimously to kill this bill.

HB 230 required the department of agriculture, markets, and food to use an electronic data system for all registrations. This was a request of the department since they currently do a great deal of manual data entry, and the existing systems (if any) are antiques. Setting up for the animal database we required last year brought an information systems expert to the department, who has scoped out what a reasonable system would cost and accomplish. Since the cost was easily covered by the current registration fees, the committee voted unanimously to pass this bill on to Finance.

HB 266, my bill to clarify requirements for hybrid or virtual meetings for rulemaking, had a number of questions on authority. I explained that the bill did not give anyone the authority to hold a virtual or hybrid meeting, but if they had such authority from another source, this specified the process to comply with the right-to-know laws. HB 337, requiring OPLC to provide notice and documents prior to meetings, had many questions on how it could be implemented. It went to subcommittee to work on some of the details.

HB 109, my bill on occupational therapy practice, had an amendment because the final bill was missing a few lines (my mistake in not checking it carefully enough!) and a request by OPLC to add a standard statement on exceptions for students and individuals in related professions where the scope of practice was very close or even overlapping. It, too, went to subcommittee to reconcile these points.

HB 258, establishing a certificate for animal chiropractors, had resulted in language that did not reflect the sponsor’s intent, so she had a simplifying amendment to just declare that animal chiropractic was not veterinary medicine. The veterinarians were opposed, of course; the veterinary board has been issuing cease and desist letters to animal chiropractors! People who use chiropractic for their animals (show dogs, injured pets, horses…) were satisfied with the care they received and felt a referral from a veterinarian was a needless cost and delay. So off to subcommittee it went!

Finally, HB 409, requiring the board of barbering, cosmetology, and esthetics to grant a license to anyone with a current license from another jurisdiction, deleted the current subjective language of “substantially equivalent.” The sponsor and several others spoke in favor, presenting data that licensing issues restrict movement and employment growth, and also that New Hampshire’s requirements are substantially similar to most other states’. We require 1500 hours of education for a cosmetologist, about average in the country, but not requiring any experience and limited testing. The board of cosmetology expressed their opposition to the bill but didn’t say exactly why. Unfortunately, some committee members seemed antagonistic to the idea. My position, after talking to every hair stylist I’ve used in New Hampshire is that 1500 classroom hours is excessive; the safety and sanitation areas are typically covered in the first third of the training, and after that, it’s all practice. The only reasonable comment came from OPLC, who noted a “current, valid” license included one that had been suspended; they suggested “in good standing” as better language. The subcommittee will have fun with this one.

To finish off the week, I presented my HB 330 to the committee on state-federal relations. This bill deletes the requirement that the National Guard enlistment incentive program and educational assistance program go through the formal rulemaking process, increases the maximum enlistment incentive from $500 to $1000, and puts fines from the military court into the enlistment incentive fund. Formal rulemaking is not required for any other function of this department, not least because they don’t deal with the general public, only the Guard and military veterans. The committee seemed concerned about the fines, but fortunately, the Guard commander was there to inform them that there are very few fines, adding up to less than $2000 most years, and they have adequate safeguards to ensure they are not “policing for profit.” After some discussion, the committee voted to pass the bill.

 

Representative Carol McGuire
carol@mcguire4house.com

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More documents were found in the Delaware home of president Joe Biden. We keep being told by Karine Jean-Pierre that all the documents have been recovered and turned over. She continues to gaslight that this Administration is the most transparent in history. KJP will not sleep this weekend as she waits to be grilled by the press on Monday.

We need to get one thing very clear. Biden and his team did not turn the first batch of documents over to the FBI. They claim to have done the right thing, but that horse has left the barn. When Biden’s lawyers found the first stash of classified, they did not notify Secret Service or the FBI. They informed the Department of Archives. It was Archives that called the FBI. Why were Biden’s lawyers involved, and why did they call archives? The Biden team did not do the right thing. The Biden team is playing defense and covering up their sins. The cover-up is far greater than the crime.

The materials found today in Biden’s Delaware home are classified documents from when Joe Biden was a Senator. That means they have been held in Joe Biden’s house since before 2008. These classified documents have been accessible by anyone for at least 14 years. Joe Biden and Jean-Pierre continue to use the phrase, “the President takes classified documents seriously.” Mr. President, can you define, seriously?
No, I didn’t think so.

This situation for Biden is like a snowball rolling down a hill. It gets more extensive and more significant by the minute. As much as the Administration tries to downplay the scope of the discovery of classified documents in possession of Joe Biden, the matter gets more severe with the dawn of each new day and more records. This matter is not going away from the President, and there is no guarantee that we have come to the trail’s end. The Congress returns to Washington this week, and if Karine thinks she has been under pressure, she has not seen anything yet.

Today’s discovery is significant because the DOJ searched Biden’s home. They are no longer taking a passive role while Biden’s lawyers search for documents. The investigative parties were content to receive the information the lawyers uncovered, but the explorers were unsupervised. There was no guarantee that all documents would be transferred, and these lawyers did not have clearance to see the documents they sought.

The question I have not heard is who placed the documents in the various locations. You would have to assume that Biden did this himself. He is pleading ignorance about the contents, but these papers date back to his Senate days. He should have been the only person to see these in a secure environment. Stacked next to his ’67 Vette is not secure. Hunter has access to the garage, so this area is available to many.

Biden used the term irresponsible when asked about Trump’s issues with classified materials. How would Biden refer to his forays? At least Trump has Secret Service protection and control of Mar-a-Lago. Joe had no such protection until he was elected President. That still leaves many years of vulnerability. With each drip and as another Sunday goes by, the Dems are starting to get malicious towards Joe, and the criticism on the Sunday talk shows is heated. I do not think it is a coincidence that Joe’s Chief of Staff, Ron Klain, who many believe is running the White House, announced his resignation this weekend. There will be more to this fiasco.

 

 

 

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If you were wondering what Facebook had planned to improve the experience, get ready for approved pornography. Meta has a panel of experts who review and decide if exposed nipples are or are not cisgender.

 

“The same image of female-presenting nipples would be prohibited if posted by a cisgender woman but permitted if posted by an individual self-identifying as non-binary,” the board stated.

Users will be able to post pictures and videos of their nipples if the content involves protests, giving birth, and breastfeeding, reports the New York Post.

“Additional nipple-related exceptions,” the board added, will be “based on contexts of protest, birth giving, after birth, and breastfeeding which it did not examine here, but also must be assessed.”

 

The outcome here seems obvious. The porn industry has always been at the forefront of technology and opportunity because what’s the difference between faked female boobs and fake boobs on men besides suggesting that there might be (or once was) a penis just to the south? And aren’t the point of the ones on men that they are women we’re not allowed to call men?

How do you know what a female body even is, and isn’t the presumption a violation of someone’s rights?

And what of these experts?

 

The new company’s new policy proposal will reportedly involve a team of female body inspectors who will be assigned with “quickly assess[ing] both a user’s sex, as this policy applies to ‘female nipples,’ and their gender identity.”

The spokesperson added, “We know more can be done to support the LGBTQ+ community, and that means working with experts and LGBTQ+ advocacy organizations on a range of issues and product improvements.”

 

A group of female body inspectors can quickly assess this, but no one dares suggest that a boy who claims to be female can’t use the girl’s High School bathrooms or locker room, and it would violate his rights to ask for proof.

The same goes for grown men in a public restroom or locker room, whether they look like men or women.

So, this is a new twist.

And what if a woman exposes her naked breasts on facebook or Instagram but says she identifies as a man? If that flies, as implied above, the porn industry will showcase many “men” who fit this category.

Next question. What is age?

 

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On Saturday, January 14, my husband and I joined Billboard Chris and several others in front of Boston Children’s Hospital to protest what they are doing to kids at their pediatric gender clinic which includes socially transitioning kids at three years old, administering puberty blockers to kids at 10, and amputating girls’ healthy breasts at 15.

We were there to highlight Boston Children’s Hospital’s bizarre criteria for what qualifies kids for these harmful psychological and medical interventions:

• Strong desire to be of the other gender or an insistence that they are the other gender
• Strong preference for wearing clothes typical of the opposite gender
• Strong preference for cross-gender roles in make-believe play or fantasy play
• Strong preference for the toys, games, or activities stereotypically used or engaged in by the other gender
• Strong preference for playmates of the other gender
• Strong rejection of toys, games, and activities typical of their assigned gender
• Strong dislike of their sexual anatomy
• Strong desire for the physical sex characteristics that match their experienced gender

When we stood with Billboard Chris outside the hospital a few months ago in September 2022, there were hundreds of Antifa screaming at us for hours. They eventually rushed at us to attack us but fortunately, the brave Boston Police stood in front of us and physically pushed Antifa back. We were grateful for the protection.

Related: The Boston Police Saved Us from the Trans Mob

Before his latest visit, Billboard Chris contacted the Boston Police and let them know he was coming to protest the hospital again and that he expected a crowd of counter-protesters. But Antifa forgot to show up. There wasn’t a single Antifa anywhere in the vicinity.

Nevertheless, our small group of 12 protesters was protected by 150 Boston Police officers. Police were swarming everywhere nearby, on foot, on bicycles, on motorcycles, in cars, and in vans. Even the Boston Police Commissioner was there.

I kid you not, there were 150 police officers today to keep us safe at Boston Children’s, and Antifa didn’t even show up.

Motorcycle cops, the bike squad, the gang squad, dozens of trucks, cars, & vans with multiple police in every one. Totally surreal. pic.twitter.com/kHLBhazrBM

— Billboard Chris (@BillboardChris) January 14, 2023

I witnessed a single counter-protester standing on an enclosed, elevated walkway connecting two of the hospital buildings. She stood there glaring angrily at us and when she saw me look up, she furtively opened up her jacket, exposing a message on her shirt but before I could read it, she closed her jacket and walked quickly away making a hand gesture at me. I never found out what she was trying to convey. 

The police stayed for the entire two hours we were there. We all left for lunch and when my husband and I came back, the barricades had been removed and the police had vanished. The two of us stood in front of Boston Children’s for another hour with no supervision from the police or hospital security. 

After @BillboardChris's rally, my wife and I went back for a second protest. We got encouragement from passersby and smiles and waves from BCH security guards on the sky bridge. Only the saddest misanthrope likes child transing. pic.twitter.com/bk4lpDhGwN

— Sidewalk Steve (@Sidewalk_Steve) January 14, 2023

The legacy media did not cover us this time nor were there a horde of photographers, as we had last time, but our event was covered by alternative media. 

Here Kalen D’Almeida of Turning Point USA interviews Billboard Chris and Chris explains why he is working to bring awareness of the serious harms being inflicted on children by the trans cult.

“There is no such thing as a transgender child..”

BOSTON: @billboardchris organized a protest of @BostonChildrens due to the fact they are offering breast mutilations, puberty blockers and cross sex hormones to minors. pic.twitter.com/L18ztREpd1

— Kalen D’Almeida (@fromkalen) January 14, 2023

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On Jan 19, the US reached it’s national debt ceiling (once again).  All you hear from the Democrats (and some Republicans) is that we have to raise it to borrow more money to “protect the full faith and credit of the United States” in paying our bills. And ONLY once, in 2011, was something done about the root cause of the spending – sequestration: spend more here, spend less there. And as always, the Republicans made a bad deal (and then called it “compromise”.

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The world’s most notorious state exponent of anti-Semitism, the Islamic Republic of Iran, is on a path to uproot not only all that is perceived as civilized but to annihilate the greatest threat to its existence, the Iranian people.

The mullahs and their mercenaries are wasting precious human life in order to maintain their power by terrorizing the population.

The Iranian people are simply hopeless and helpless. Even the UN does not come to their rescue. From its past performance, rather than its absence of performance, we know that the UN watchdog is a true disgrace to dogs since all it does is eat, sleep and look the other way. Furthermore, the dog has no teeth. The vet had to pull all its teeth before the dog became acceptable to the crafty cats that constitute the UN itself.

The Islamic Republic of Iran is a unique creature—it is best described as a Theocratic Aristocracy. The “divinely ordained” rulers maintain power through an elaborate patronage system. Lucrative positions, contracts, and valued privileges are distributed by patronage. The result is that the ruling Mullahs enjoy a significant number of supporters in all strata of society—the civil service, the military, the powerful Revolutionary Guards, (IRGC), and the hooligans and thugs who are ready to unleash their vicious attacks on anyone or group that dares to challenge the in-charge men of Allah.

The illegitimate government of the Islamic Republic of Iran is a quisling entity that has betrayed its people, its tradition, and its glorious pre-Islamic achievements, and is incessantly working against Iran’s national interest. Under the stranglehold and machinations of the Mullahs, Iran has been transformed, in less than three decades, to the lead perpetrator of all that is abhorrent to humanity.

The supreme leader of the Islamic Republic, Ali Khamenei, like his predecessor, Ayatollah Khomeini, whose callous disregard for human life was matched only by his consuming paranoia, allegedly has issued a decree to hang Iranian dissidents publicly in all the towns and villages with a population that exceeds 1000 people. For Ayatollah Khamenei, the dissident viewpoints represent an unacceptable threat. Anyone found questioning the Sharia Law — and many hundreds of thousands were — had to be “weeded out.”

The Islamic Republic is on a mission to end human life in Iran.  Mass public hangings, as well as secret executions in prisons, are routine in the tyrannical Islamic Republic of Iran. Recently Majid Kavousifar, 28, and his nephew, Hossein Kavousifar, 24, were hanged for the alleged murder of a hard-line judge, Hassan Moghaddas,  who also was a deputy prosecutor and head of the “guidance” court in Tehran and notorious for jailing and condemning to death political dissidents.

The victims were hanged from cranes and hoisted high above one of Tehran’s busiest thoroughfares. This “judge” had repeatedly bragged publicly that he often issued a death verdict without even examining the charges against the individual. The Islamic Republic of Iran has the dubious distinction of executing more children, those under the age of 18, than any other country in the world. Such is the plight of the Iranian people.

Iran’s ruling Mullahs are clustered around major factions such as the conservatives, the moderates, and the so-called reformists. Yet, the differences among these factions are tactical rather than strategic. One and all share the same overarching goal of defeating the “Crusader-Zionists” by any and all methods possible, bringing about the “end of the world” Armageddon, and thereby creating the requisite conditions for the appearance of the Hidden Imam, the Mahdi, to assume his rule of the world.

What is the likelihood that the ruling Mullahs will actually use the bomb, you may ask? If they remain in power long enough to have it, they are very likely to use it, in one form or another, you are told. At the very least, they will use the bomb for blackmail and intimidation in the region. How can you help to prevent this catastrophe from happening, you may ask?

Support the Iranian people’s struggle for freedom, by at least petitioning, you are told. [As for Majid and Hossein Kavousifar, they left Iran for Abu Dhabi following the assassination of the murderous judge, Hassan Moghaddas, and apparently, they both took refuge in the US Embassy where they had applied for US asylum. We have no information as to why they were handed over to the Islamic Republic authorities when they were aware that they would definitely be facing execution.

We hope that the US State Department can give us more information. In order to achieve total control, the Islamic Republic and its lackeys spawned a series of immense internal purges — beginning in 1988 and known as the “Massacre of Political Prisoners of 1988”– and have intensified their domestic terror in recent months and weeks. A society that is intense in its struggle for change has a flip side to its idealism: intolerance.

This totalitarian regime sees enemies everywhere, enemies who want to destroy the Islamic Revolution and diminish the results of its hard work of creating an Islamic utopia in the land of Cyrus the Great.  The regime seems to be panicking with hyper-suspiciousness. They have installed watchdogs in schools, universities, factories, and all offices across the country, and are urged to be vigilant against sabotage, against those who crave freedom and democracy. Many innocent Iranians are being victimized, and the saying has gone around that “when you chop wood, the chips fly.”

As with Khamenei, it was believed that some who were innocent would have to be victimized if all of the guilty were to be apprehended. In fact, they stigmatize, victimize and murder people without any due process of law. On the slightest suspicion, they arrest, convict, and execute. Few people would deny any longer that Islam and its variants mean, in practice, bloody terrorism, deadly purges, lethal actions, forced ‘hijabs”, fatal deportations, extrajudicial executions, show trials, and genocide. It is a widespread plague upon humanity, killing hundreds of thousands of innocent people. Today, the Islamic Republic of Iran is one of the greatest threats to the stability of the civilized world and humanity at large. It continues to impose this horrendous ideology called Islam on the Iranian population.

The world must file legal charges against the leaders of the Islamic Republic’s wanton violation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: for their crimes against humanity and genocidal actions against religious and political groups; for support of international terrorism; for demolition of sacred sites and cemeteries; for rape, torture, and summary executions of prisoners of conscience; for forgery of documents; for acts of blackmail and fraud; and for much more. To those misguided advocates of negotiation with the mullahs, beware.

The mullahs are on an Allah-mandated mission. They are intoxicated with petrodollars and aim to settle for nothing less than complete domination of the world under the Islamic Ummah. It is precisely for this reason that they consider America and the West as “Ofooli,” setting-dying system, while they believe their Islamism is “Tolooi,” rising-living order. They are in no mood to negotiate for anything less than the total surrender of democracy, the very anathema to Islamism. This is only one reason, but perhaps, one of the greatest reasons, for fostering democracy.

In short, we have an excellent opportunity to topple these parasitic terrorists once and for all. History will judge us all. At Munich, Chamberlain got an international agreement that Hitler should have the Sudetenland in exchange for Germany making no further demands for land in Europe. Chamberlain said it was ‘Peace for our time’. Hitler said he had ‘No more territorial demands to make in Europe. Neville Chamberlain, appeasement (1938) Hitler, our European allies, and the United States, are doing the same with the ayatollahs. [I really like to know how these people become National Security Advisors)?

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RedState has a post entitled “A Group of Pennsylvania Teachers Prove It Was Always About Indoctrination, Not Education” (reformatted, emphasis mine):

Public schools have become a minefield. Sending your kids to one is a gamble as winding up in the wrong classroom could put them into the clutches of an activist posing as a teacher, and as we’ve seen more and more over the years, these activists are everywhere. These activists can and will take advantage of your child’s naivete and sponge-like absorption of everything around him or her, to put ideas in their head that could harm them for the rest of their life.

While I wouldn’t do something so ridiculous as to label every teacher a bad actor — I know plenty of honest and good ones — the analogy of the jar of M&M’s is fitting here. If you had a jar of 10,000 M&M’s but even just 10 of them were poisoned, would you still eat from the jar? Your life is over, if you choose poorly. In the case of getting the wrong “teacher,” it’s your kid whose life gets destroyed.

And the School Board did the absolute right thing – schools are to be about academic subjects and not political or sexuality activism / indoctrination / turning kids against their Parents:

Recently, the school district of Central Bucks, Pennsylvania, saw the school board ban flags and banners that have political or social importance. This means LGBT flags, Black Lives Matter flags, Antifa banners, and more were not allowed to be displayed in public schools. This is absolutely reasonable, as a teacher’s personal politics should have no bearing on what the students are learning.

A teacher’s job is to concentrate on the academic subjects that we pay them to do – NOT bring their personal beliefs and worldviews on politics and sexuality into the classroom. The best teachers, in this regard, would have their students, at the end of the school year, not able to answer “what is your teacher?”. They shouldn’t have the foggiest idea of what a teacher’s sexuality is.  Nor their political outlook.  All that SHOULD matter is does a teacher have a firm grasp of the basic academics that they are being paid in transferring that knowledge to our children. Teachers should be absolutely neutral in all things – and so should any materials in a classroom or used for instructional purposes.

And what happened afterwards should have the School Board reaching for “pink slips”:

However, teachers from the schools didn’t find this acceptable and decided to protest.

Here they are, marching to be Sexuality Activists instead of teachers and quite proud to be so:

Today in the Central Bucks School District, a group of activist educators holding LGBTQ+ flags, held a protest over a recently passed policy that requires neutrality in classrooms.

They WANT their activism in the classroom. They aren’t even hiding it. pic.twitter.com/RmhvatZXxj

— Megan Brock (@MegEBrock) January 18, 2023

…For these teachers, it’s not about education. It’s not about reading, writing, and arithmetic. It’s not about teaching them critical thinking skills. This is about indoctrination, grooming, and strengthening their own political ideals by bringing up the young in them, while they’re away from their parents.

These aren’t teachers–they’re activists–and they have no business teaching our children anything. They clearly can’t be trusted.

Trust. I’ve been trying to speak to my School Board from a Trust position.  How can I trust my child’s Principal when she won’t answer the question of “What is the Transgender Status of my child?” because the School Board has made it mandatory to lie to me (by omission or commission)?  How can I trust my child’s teachers?

I can’t. Nor can I trust the School Board members.

And the “education marketplace” is learning that lesson: homeschooling, pods, online schools, and especially Charter Schools are popping up all over NH BECAUSE teachers, staff, and School Boards have forgotten ONE very important thing: Education is a product and service. It really is a commodity. Government has had a virtual monopoly on providing that since the late 1890s. Thus, they have forgotten one OTHER important thing:

WHO is their real customer? And what do they want that they aren’t getting from Government?

Charter Schools are springing up because they understand how important the real customers are.  Government schools have forgotten that and the process has started of losing market share. This is exemplified when the “head of a Government School District”, the School Board, refuses to answer questions from those customers at meetings, there is a strong and negative message that’s sent to those customers.

The Boards haven’t learned it yet.

They, like the “American Big Three” automakers, have taken their eyes off the car customers and put it on themselves thinking “where else will thautomakersst like the Republican Party does all too automakers

For the auto makers, the answer came swiftly – the Japanese auto makers came in the took their lunch money. It took a couple of decades for the Big Three (then the Big Two) to learn that lesson. Government schools, in a lot of cases, haven’t learned that they are following in the same path.

If you click through to watch the video on Twitter, you can see some of the disparaging remarks flung back at parents who complain that they don’t want activists, they want teachers. Like:

Imagine teaching kids they should be nice to everyone.

Yeah, empathy and inclusivity are terrible qualities to instill in your kids.

SorrPARENTS’ these apologists don’t understand that those things are the PARENTS responsibilities – not schools.  After what I have seen these last few years, I think this from “j.a. midget”  is spot on:

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: there is a large number of teachers who became educators specifically because they want to turn kids against their parents' beliefs and into activists. That's their entire purpose. It's going to be a long fight to eradicate this.

— j.a. midget (@YuccaManHoops) January 18, 2023

Think this is “all about nothing”?

Some teacher had this as an instructional element of these small childrens’ day:

This is the degeneracy they want. pic.twitter.com/TXoJ5Stf0I

— timo (@timo56037344) January 18, 2023

 

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First, I am merely an “enlightened amateur”.  Please vet & check on your own.  Caveat emptor.  Consider these to be priming the pump for your own investigations.  I know this is a long post; I am attempting to put out a lot of information as a resource.  Read or skip sections depending on your interests.

Second, I fear spicy time is very close, but even a month of food, water, etc., puts you well ahead of most of the sheeple.  IMHO, set your minimum sights on a three-month period.

Third, two things will be critical for having the best chance of making it through:

1. Mentality: first and foremost in survival is having a flexible mentality and cultivating the ability to adapt. Vanity has no place in survival.
2. Develop a meatspace network of people that are likeminded: cultivate your community ties and build alliances with neighbors (note: don’t babble about the Jab or globalists or depopulation, or start pointing political fingers when doing this)… and remember, the first rule of PREP CLUB is that there is no prep club.

And please follow both me, Nitzakhon, on Gab… as well as my blog host Granite Grok and also on Telegram Tommy Robinson Official plus his Urban Scoop site.  And don’t forget posts sometimes get cloned on American Reveille as well, which is a good site to check out in general.

FYI, here’s a link to the last Survival Sunday:

Survival Sunday – Thursday SITREP Edition – Granite Grok

 

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They’re trying to build a prison

 

 

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Top of the fold:

The Costs of Fighting for Our Rights

Protecting rights is expensive; see if you can chip in.

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(Image source)

The truth is in plain sight if you look.  More broadly, time and time and time again they’re right there saying what they plan.  We are deluded fools not listening to them.

 

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(Link to AZQuotes per their policy.)

 

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Prepper Site URLS:

Most have daily articles; revisit daily.  Please recommend others in the comments.

Ask a Prepper, how to prepare, survive and thrive, latest news

Mother Earth News

The Organic Prepper Home – The Organic Prepper

SurvivalBlog.com – The Daily Web Log for Prepared Individuals Living in Uncertain Times.

SHTF Blog – Modern Survival

Survival World – Everything You Need To Know to Survive

Homestead Survival Site – How to Live Off The Grid in Comfort and Style

Urban Survival Site | How to Survive a Disaster in the City

Mind4Survival – Survival and Preparedness

Gray Wolf survival

Sustainable Living (sustainablelivingideas.com)

The Classic Survivalist – Surviving in a Modern World

Primal Survivor – Practical and sensible prepping advice

Em Off-grid – We & Our Off The Grid Life – Em OffGrid

Resource for Practical, Daily Prepping Skills for SHTF & Survival (geekprepper.com) (new)

And three aggregate sites listing their top favorite sites & links too:

TOP 50 SURVIVAL & PREPPER BLOGS

The 50 Best Survival Blogs

Prepper Website – Preparedness • Survival • Alternative News

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Specific, one-up articles:

See the above links this week.

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Related to Spicy Time:

Man allegedly stabbed to death by 8 girls in Toronto identified by police | The Post Millennial | thepostmillennial.com

Swarm attacks work.  Not that I recommend anything specific, but… a sudden rush & swarm attack on 1-2 armed persons by people willing to kill can yield surprising results.

And then?

 

 

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Antifa Calls For Violence After Georgia Police Shoots ‘Comrade

Ruh roh.

 

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Short of years and untold wealth, you cannot possibly be fully prepared for everything (I have to keep reminding myself of that).  But even some preparations, ideally at least 90 days of food, water / water purification, etc., puts you head and shoulders in front of the vast majority of the sheeple who will be in jaw-gaping astonishment when the SHTF.  The only relevant questions are:

1. When does it start?
2. How bad will it get?
3. How long will it last?
4. What will the aftermath look like?

 

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I just started a FORAGING group on Gab.  I will check 2-3 times a week to see if people have asked to join.

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Foraging: One-up articles

Three videos through GAB TV:

Beautiful Springs & Watercress | Craig Schaaf (gab.com)

Foraging White Pine Part 1 | Craig Schaaf (gab.com)

Foraging Wintergreen | Craig Schaaf (gab.com)

Collection about Mushroom Hunting

And another few about Mushrooms

Our neighbor has some wintergreen.  I have already asked, once things have come back to life around here, if I could transplant some to my own area with his assent.  Part of my “forage-able plants that nobody’s going to recognize in SHTF” project.

And a crapton more videos here (not just foraging):

Craig Schaaf | Gab TV

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Foraging (permanent feature):

Foraging (practicalselfreliance.com)

Wild Harvests (arcadianabe.blogspot.com)

Southern Appalachian Herbs

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Books (permanent feature):

Feasting Free on Wild Edibles (old but good)

The Lost Ways (much more than just foraging)

The Forager’s Guide to Wild Foods

THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO EDIBLE WILD PLANTS FOR BEGINNERS

 

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Shortages (broadly):

The US meat supply may soon be widely contaminated with mRNA proteins from biotech “vaccines” – NaturalNews.com

I’ve been paying close attention to my meat point-of-origin and need to see about a local organic source.

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Soaring fertiliser prices ‘causing more global hunger than Russia’s grain blockade’ (telegraph.co.uk)

I’ve been buying Miracle Gro as I can.  Large amounts?  No.  But potential as a trade item.

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The Mainstream Media Admits That We Are Facing “The Worst Food Crisis In Modern History” | ZeroHedge

Cue up this scene soon?

 

 

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Food Chain Reaction: A Global Food Security Game (rumble.com)

Video.

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Bayou Renaissance Man: Looks like the medication shortage is getting worse

I was at Walmart yesterday looking for kids’ cough syrup among other OTC items.  Pretty much stripped clean.

 

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Gardening, Food Storage, and Related:

 

SIX Reasons Your Seedlings Are Leggy + Solutions

 

 

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Presented by request – grabbed at random off youtube.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And a general link to my search:

canning for beginners – YouTube

 

MY biggest problem is that the manual on my pressure canner doesn’t make sense to my feeble brain.

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Why You Should Put Plastic Forks In Your Vegetable Garden (askaprepper.com)

Sounds like one of my kids’ riddles.

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Links on old-time food storage (permanent feature):

Thanks to the Canning and Preserving group on Gab, I now have these links:

Preserving foods by drying | How to dry foods safely (uada.edu)

USDA-Complete-Guide-to-Home-Canning-2015-revision.pdf (healthycanning.com)

Canning | SDSU Extension (sdstate.edu)

Food Preservation– Canning | Consumer Food Safety | Washington State University (wsu.edu)

Canning Timer & Checklist App | OSU Extension Catalog | Oregon State University

National Center for Home Food Preservation (uga.edu)

Canning Recipes | Ball® Mason Jars (ballmasonjars.com)

 

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Topical Books (also permanent):

Charcuterie: The Craft of Salting, Smoking & Curing

Salumi: The Craft of Italian Dry Curing

A Guide to Canning, Freezing, Curing & Smoking Meat, Fish & Game

The Prepper’s Canning Guide

Pickled Pantry

Fermented Vegetables

Hydroponics and Greenhouse Gardening: 3-in-1 Gardening Book to Grow Vegetables, Herbs, and Fruit All-Year-Round

Hydroponics for Beginners: The Complete Guide to Hydroponic Gardening, Designing and Building Inexpensive DIY Hydroponic Systems…

The Aquaponics Guidebook: Combining Aquaculture and Hydroponics Combining Aquaculture and Hydroponics

 

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Self-defense (broad) & Hunting:

The 5 Best Pocket Handguns For Self-Defence – Ask a Prepper

I used to have a Mustang… nice little gun.

 

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Concluding thoughts if I’m moved to comment:

 

No time to be moved this week.  Very behind the curve.

 

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Konstantin Kisin | This House Believes Woke Culture Has Gone Too Far – 7/8 | Oxford Union

 

 

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Palate cleansers:

 

 

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Please check out my MEMES collections; last one here.  Mockery, ridicule, and the wrapping of uncomfortable truths inside humor can penetrate the cognitive shields of normies far more effectively – IMHO – than dry facts and figures.

 

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“Diversity is our strength,” right? I am sure that most of the NHGOP would answer: YES! … OF COURSE! … HOW COULD YOU QUESTION MY COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY! … blah, blah, blah. Especially the Sununicans … some of whom literally wept with joy when His Wokeness established a diversity-commission during his first term as Governor:

I am equally sure that if you asked the NHGOP supporters of diversity: WHY?, WHY IS DIVERSITY OUR STRENGTH?, you would get a circular answer such as: BECAUSE DIVERSITY MAKES US STRONGER.

And I am sure that these same people would also tell you that they oppose CRT, and if you asked, WHY?, the best you could expect would be something along the lines of: BECAUSE CRT IS DIVISIVE.

To cut to the chase, I am sure that most of the NHGOP believe that DIVERSITY and CRT are different concepts, that one is good and the other is bad. WRONG … diversity and CRT are NOT different at all.

Diversity, of course, is shorthand for DEI: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. Let’s examine what that means in practice.

INCLUSION means taking affirmative measures to ensure that our institutions … both government institutions and non-government … contain the right mix and proportion of supposedly disfavored groups. We used to call this quotas, but now we call it inclusion.

These affirmative measures are necessary … the theory goes … because America has always been, remains and will always be “systemically” racist,  homophobic, sexist, etc., etc., etc.. In other words, being colorblind, or filling positions based on merit is actually racist, homophobic, sexist, etc., etc., etc., because America has always been, remains and will always be rigged against everyone except straight, white males.

To say that America is systemically racist, homophobic, sexist, etc., etc., etc. is the same thing as saying that certain Americans, i.e. those “straight white males” who supposedly control the systems are racist, homophobic, sexist, etc., etc., etc..  For example, do you recall Pete Buttigieg … our incompetent Secretary of Transportation, whose only job qualification was his sexual orientation … saying that the nation’s roads were racist? He did not mean that asphalt is racist. He meant that the individuals who designed the roads … the straight, white males … were racists and designed roads to segregate races.

How is this any different from the theory of CRT that whites are inherently oppressors? It obviously is NOT. It is the same toxic brew, just bottled under a different label.

EQUITY is the antithesis of equal treatment. Equity is UNEQUAL TREATMENT in order to reach equal outcomes.

Equity sounds much more benign than cultural-marxism, but that is exactly what it is.

A recent well-publicized manifestation of equity is certain school districts in the Democrat part of Virginia withholding academic awards from students:

Your head will explode! Reporting an @IWN investigation published @CityJournal, I just learned, TWO YEARS LATER, my son is a National Merit Commended Student in the top 3% of students. His principal hides the honor from families as @fcpsnews chases "equal outcomes" for kids. pic.twitter.com/Cay2Ep98ry

— Asra Nomani (@AsraNomani) December 21, 2022

So how is pursuing EQUITY any different from “unpacking white privilege”or “male privilege” or “straight privilege” or “cis privilege”? There obviously is NO DIFFERENCE. It is the same toxic brew, just bottled under a different label.

Bottom line: If someone tells you that he supports diversity, but not CRT, or that diversity is good but CRT is bad … that person either does not know what he is talking about or is gaslighting you. DEI and CRT are sides of the same race-based, cultural-marxist coin.

 

 

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There is a great deal of effort in this piece on organ donations from CTV News Canada to opine on the need for medical ethics. “I am concerned that people who struggle with a lack of self-esteem and self-worth may be pushed to see this as an opportunity to mean something.”

That’s “Trudo Lemmens, a health law and policy professor at the University of Toronto,” about how well Canada appears to have convinced those who pursue assisted suicide to donate organs. According to the government, the people who choose to be euthanized have a chronic or terminal illness. That is the justification for the program euphemistically labeled as MAiD. Medical Assistance in Dying.

The Netherlands has had this for much longer, and while they claim to have built-in safeguards, younger healthy people who are just depressed continue to get an authorized chemical execution from the State. Some of them donate organs. But Canada is top of the class.

 

Data from the Canadian Institute for Health Information confirms this new source of transplant organs accounted accounts for six per cent of all transplants from deceased donors in Canada in 2021. Some transplants, like those for kidneys and livers, can be done with patients who are alive.

 

Canada’s socialized healthcare system is notorious for its protracted wait times for even the most basic tests. I can’t imagine the lockdowns, which kept millions from planned visits, treatments, or surveillance exams, have helped matters. And then there is the rise in mental health suicides. In other words, the government has, well and good, mucked it up. You cant get the treatment you want or need. This results in an increased number of people feeling trapped in mental or physical illness.

Long before COVID or Long COVID was invented, the experts in the Great White North embraced assisted suicide. It was a kindness, truly. That’s what they say, and I’m sure there are instances where chronic pain is untreatable, but the arc of socialist anything always ends with death or murder. Convincing them to die is inevitable and much easier than making them disappear, especially if you need them to disappear.

Dissidents or critics could drop dead or have some sudden chronic illness. The official report from the government is that they (you?) chose medically assisted death.

China, which is the sort of socialism the Western elites want, does this without all the gymnastics.

So back to Canada. It ruined its healthcare system, legalized a way around all that – you could kill yourself – and now they are trying to convince you that medical ethicists who support assisted suicide want to make sure people are not just offing themselves to donate organs as a way of adding some meaning to what they view as a vacant and useless existence.

A state of mind promulgated by the government that exists to protect them.

An existence (not accidentally) created through the destruction of a faith-based morality that valued life – an ideological culture capable of mass formation psychosis that has long promoted the benefit of organ donation.

And is it just a coincidence that somewhere down the road, the elites and the ruling class will have a readily available supply of organs to keep them alive?

Exit question: Will they be okay if the donor has had the mRNA vaccines, or will they insist on the organs of the “unvaccinated” or those who got saline shots for the cameras instead of the engineered poison?

 

 

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• These are the most liberty-critical hearings for the week
• Click on the bill number to read the bill.
• Click on the committee name to email the committee your thoughts.

Of the 167 hearings in the House, we are recommending support of 22 and opposition of 42 with 10 being of interest.
Of the 35 hearings in the Senate, we are recommending support of 0 and opposition of 0 with 3 being of interest.

Position	Bill	Title	Committee	Day	Time	Room	State Analysis
Oppose	HB633	relative to electric distribution company market share, prohibiting certain electric rate increases, and requiring enforcement against Eversource.	Science, Technology and Energy	Mon 1/23	1:00 PM	LOB Room 302-304	This bill requires that electric distribution companies shall not raise electric rates by an amount that exceeds the annual increase in the Consumer Price Index. The bill also prohibits electric distribution companies from having market share greater than 50 percent and requires the attorney general to bring an action against Eversource.
Of Interest	SB102	relative to the Jones Act’s effect on New Hampshire’s heating and energy fuel market.	Commerce	Tue 1/24	9:45 AM	SH Room 100	This bill requires the department of energy to submit a report to the legislature on the impact of the Jones Act on New Hampshire’s heating and energy fuel market.
Oppose	HB487	establishing a New Hampshire farm-to-school reimbursement program.	Education	Tue 1/24	9:00 AM	LOB Room 205-207	This bill establishes a New Hampshire farm to school reimbursement program and makes an appropriation therefor.
Oppose	HB334	relative to determination and cost of state adequate education.	Education	Tue 1/24	12:45 PM	LOB Room 205-207	This bill changes the calculation for the per pupil amount for grants for the opportunity for an adequate education to be 1/2 of the statewide average cost per pupil.
Oppose	HB430	relative to applications for the education freedom accounts program.	Education	Tue 1/24	1:45 PM	LOB Room 205-207	This bill provides for applications to the education freedom account program for a child currently attending a New Hampshire public school, including a chartered public school, for a minimum of one year, or who is entering kindergarten or first grade.
Oppose	HB324	relative to campaign contributions and expenditures and making an appropriation therefor.	Election Law	Tue 1/24	10:00 AM	LOB Room 306-308	This bill establishes a fund to provide campaign financing for eligible candidates for governor and executive councilor and makes an appropriation to the fund.
Of Interest	SB61	relative to surface water setbacks for landfills.	Energy and Natural Resources	Tue 1/24	9:30 AM	SH Room 103	This bill enables the department of environmental services to adopt rules relative to surface water setbacks for landfills.
Oppose	HB332	relative to school building aid for eligible projects.	Finance	Tue 1/24	10:00 AM	LOB Room 210-211	This bill increases the amount to be appropriated by the legislature for school building aid construction and renovation projects of school districts. The bill also allocates a portion of funds to be paid for school building projects approved in prior years but which were not funded.
Oppose	HB541	relative to school building aid grants and making an appropriation therefor.	Finance	Tue 1/24	10:30 AM	LOB Room 210-211	This bill increases the amount of school building aid grants that may be approved by the department of education per fiscal year. The bill also makes appropriations of $100 million in fiscal years 2024 and 2025 for approved school building aid projects.
Oppose	HB546	relative to the school building aid program.	Finance	Tue 1/24	11:00 AM	LOB Room 210-211	This bill requires a minimum of $50,000,000 per fiscal year to be transferred to the school building aid fund, in addition to any debt service payments, for school building aid grants.
Of Interest	SB80	requiring the recording of custodial interrogations and making an appropriation therefor.	Judiciary	Tue 1/24	1:00 PM	SH Room 100	This bill requires that custodial interrogations be recorded, establishes a fund to make grants to state law enforcement agencies to purchase equipment to enable such recordings, and makes an appropriation therefor.
Oppose	SB117	relative to the definition of a “child” for the purpose of negligent storage of firearms.	Judiciary	Tue 1/24	1:35 PM	SH Room 100	This bill changes the age of a child for the purpose of negligent storage of firearms.
Oppose	HB418	relative to eliminating the rebates distributed by the energy efficiency fund.	Science, Technology and Energy	Tue 1/24	10:30 AM	LOB Room 302-304	This bill eliminates the rebate amount distributed to retail electricity ratepayers and allocates all auction proceeds to support current or future energy efficiency resource standards programs.
Oppose	HB92	requiring the adoption of innovative vehicle emissions standards pursuant to section 177 of the federal Clean Air Act.	Science, Technology and Energy	Tue 1/24	2:00 PM	LOB Room 302-304	This bill requires the adoption of California Low Emission/Zero Emission vehicle standards to protect public health, enable New Hampshire automotive customers to utilize the extended emissions-specific warranty, and to enable New Hampshire automotive dealers to carry Zero Emissions Vehicles in stock. The bill also increases the inspection sticker fee and makes an appropriation to the department of environmental services to fund an additional position.
Oppose	HB597	relative to race and ethnicity data on driver’s licenses, and race and ethnicity data collection.	Transportation	Tue 1/24	11:00 AM	LOB Room 201-203	This bill adds race and ethnicity as optional information that may be included on a driver’s license, commercial driver’s license, and nondriver’s picture identification card and requires law enforcement agencies to collect such data.
Support	HB650	relative to prohibiting suspension of driver’s licenses due to nonpayment of fines or fees.	Transportation	Tue 1/24	1:00 PM	LOB Room 201-203	This bill modifies the circumstances under which a driver’s license may be suspended or revoked for nonpayment of fines, fees, or restitution; removes suspension of a driver’s license or privilege as a sentencing punishment for nonpayment of fines, fees, or restitution; and authorizes the commissioner of safety to expunge the records of individuals covered by this bill.
Support	HB388	relative to number plates for motor vehicles.	Transportation	Tue 1/24	1:30 PM	LOB Room 201-203	This bill would require private passenger vehicles to display only one number plate on the rear of the vehicle.
Support	HB393	permitting a motor vehicle operator to use only a rear license plate.	Transportation	Tue 1/24	2:00 PM	LOB Room 201-203	This bill allows all private passenger vehicles and commercial vehicles to have a single license plate on the rear.
Support	HB15	relative to the rate of the business enterprise tax.	Ways and Means	Tue 1/24	10:00 AM	LOB Room 202-204	This bill reduces the rate of the business enterprise tax for tax years ending on or after December 31, 2024.
Support	HB133	relative to repealing the communications services tax.	Ways and Means	Tue 1/24	11:00 AM	LOB Room 202-204	This bill repeals the communications services tax.
Oppose	HB192	relative to the rate and exemptions of the interest and dividends tax.	Ways and Means	Tue 1/24	1:00 PM	LOB Room 202-204	This bill repeals the previously passed phase out of the interest and dividends tax and changes the rates and exemptions.
Support	HB100	to repeal the interest and dividends tax.	Ways and Means	Tue 1/24	2:00 PM	LOB Room 202-204	This bill changes the effective date of the repeal of the interest and dividends tax.
Oppose	HB531	relative to the taxation of tobacco and nicotine products.	Commerce and Consumer Affairs	Wed 1/25	9:00 AM	LOB Room 302-304	This bill directs the commissioner of the department of revenue administration to annually set the tobacco and nicotine tax based on the rates charged by neighboring states, and directs the commissioner to produce a report detailing the uses of such taxes.
Oppose	HB279	increasing the penalty for on-premises licensees overserving alcohol.	Commerce and Consumer Affairs	Wed 1/25	9:30 AM	LOB Room 302-304	This bill increases the penalty for on-premises licensees overserving alcohol.
Of Interest	HB612	relative to the fees for New Hampshire wine manufacturers.	Commerce and Consumer Affairs	Wed 1/25	10:00 AM	LOB Room 302-304	This bill: I. Allows wine manufacturers to give a bottle as a sample under certain conditions. II. Changes the fee and tax structure on wine sold in state. III. Exempts a certain volume of wine from taxes for home use.
Support	HB639	relative to the legalization and regulation of cannabis and making appropriations therefor.	Commerce and Consumer Affairs	Wed 1/25	1:15 PM	LOB Room 302-304	This bill establishes procedures for the legalization, regulation, and taxation of cannabis; the licensing and regulation of cannabis establishments; and makes appropriations therefor.
Of Interest	HB544	legalizing cannabis for retail sale.	Commerce and Consumer Affairs	Wed 1/25	1:20 PM	LOB Room 302-304	This bill: I. Legalizes the retail sale, possession, and use of cannabis for persons 21 years of age and older. II. Authorizes the liquor commission to regulate and administer the cultivation, manufacture, testing, and retail sale of cannabis statewide, and makes an appropriation therefor. III. Authorizes alternative treatment centers registered to dispense therapeutic cannabis to register, as a separate entity, to manufacture, cultivate, or transport cannabis to the state for retail sale. IV. Authorizes a municipality to enact an ordinance prohibiting or limiting the number and type of cannabis establishments that may be permitted within the municipality and regulating the time, place, and manner of operation of a cannabis establishment permitted within the municipality. V. Establishes the cannabis control fund and requires funds to be distributed to municipalities and the general fund. VI. Makes an appropriation to the department of health and human services to create public media and social media campaigns to address some of the risks of cannabis use.
Oppose	HB272	increasing chartered public school per pupil funding.	Education	Wed 1/25	9:00 AM	LOB Room 205-207	This bill increases the amount of the additional grant for tuition of chartered public school students paid by the state.
Oppose	HB626	requiring the department of education to administer the education freedom account.	Education	Wed 1/25	1:00 PM	LOB Room 205-207	This bill changes the administration of the education freedom account program under RSA 194-F from scholarship organizations to the department of education.
Oppose	HB341	establishing licensure for massage establishments.	Executive Departments and Administration	Wed 1/25	10:45 AM	LOB Room 306-308	This bill establishes licensure for massage establishments under the regulation of massage therapists by the office of professional licensure and certification.
Oppose	HB105	relative to the registration of medical spas.	Executive Departments and Administration	Wed 1/25	11:30 AM	LOB Room 306-308	This bill establishes the registration of medical spa facilities.
Oppose	HB620	establishing a department of early childhood education and relative to a pre-kindergarten pilot program.	Executive Departments and Administration	Wed 1/25	1:30 PM	LOB Room 306-308	This bill establishes an executive branch department of early childhood education. The bill also establishes the authority for the department to design, create, and administer a 3-year high quality, community-based, mixed delivery public pre-kindergarten pilot program.
Oppose	HB329	establishing an ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis) registry in New Hampshire.	Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs	Wed 1/25	1:00 PM	LOB Room 210-211	This bill establishes an ALS registry administered by the department of health and human services.
Oppose	HB112	relative to tenant’s right to notification prior to the sale of a multifamily home.	Judiciary	Wed 1/25	9:00 AM	LOB Room 206-208	This bill requires the owner of restricted residential property to provide tenants with notice of sale of the property and an opportunity to make an offer to purchase the property.
Support	HB117	relative to the termination of tenancy at the expiration of the tenancy or lease term.	Judiciary	Wed 1/25	9:45 AM	LOB Room 206-208	This bill adds the expiration of the term of the lease or tenancy if over 6 months as grounds for an eviction.
Oppose	HB261	authorizing residential tenants to terminate their lease in instances of domestic violence or following a disabling illness or accident.	Judiciary	Wed 1/25	11:15 AM	LOB Room 206-208	This bill permits residential tenants to terminate their lease in instances of domestic violence or following a disabling illness or accident, and describes the written documentation required.
Oppose	HB283	to limit application fees charged to prospective residential tenants.	Judiciary	Wed 1/25	1:00 PM	LOB Room 206-208	This bill limits the rental application fee and other fees charged by a landlord as part of the rental application process for a residential property.
Oppose	HB340	relative to the transfer of residential property.	Judiciary	Wed 1/25	1:45 PM	LOB Room 206-208	This bill restricts the acquisition of single-family and multi-family housing to natural persons with certain exceptions. The bill requires a nonnatural person that acquires single or multi family housing within one of the specified exceptions to register and file reports with the secretary of state.
Oppose	HB379	requiring that attorneys be appointed to represent indigent tenants during residential eviction proceedings and making an appropriation therefor.	Judiciary	Wed 1/25	2:30 PM	LOB Room 206-208	This bill provides that an indigent tenant shall have the right to counsel at an eviction proceeding, establishes a fund for this purpose, and makes an appropriation therefor.
Oppose	HB401	relative to evictions based on the owner’s intent to renovate the property.	Judiciary	Wed 1/25	3:15 PM	LOB Room 206-208	This bill establishes certain criteria for evictions based on the landlord’s intent to renovate or remove the property from the residential housing market.
Support	HB296	relative to local authority for granting driveway permits.	Public Works and Highways	Wed 1/25	3:00 PM	LOB Room 201-203	This bill clarifies that local land use boards and not the state fire code regulate driveway access.
Oppose	HB472	relative to the placement of temporary seasonal docks.	Resources, Recreation and Development	Wed 1/25	1:00 PM	LOB Room 305-307	This bill prohibits a wetlands permitting exception for temporary seasonal docks which impact any wildlife species, threatened species, or endangered species in accordance with the endangered species conservation act.
Oppose	HB353	establishing an interstate compact for universal healthcare.	Commerce and Consumer Affairs	Thu 1/26	11:00 AM	LOB Room 302-304	This bill establishes an interstate compact for universal healthcare to provide payment for providing healthcare for the citizens of New Hampshire and other member states after the date of implementation.
Of Interest	HB318	eliminating bail commissioners, and relative to the release of a defendant pending trial and establishing new circuit court judge positions.	Criminal Justice and Public Safety	Thu 1/26	9:00 AM	SH Room Reps Hall	This bill eliminates bail commissioners; provides that judges shall set bail; amends the procedure for the release of a defendant pending trial; and requires the judicial branch to include in its budget funding for 3 new full-time circuit court judges.
Of Interest	HB643	relative to legalizing marijuana.	Criminal Justice and Public Safety	Thu 1/26	10:30 AM	SH Room Reps Hall	This bill legalizes marijuana for persons 21 years of age and older.
Support	HB581	repealing the controlled drug act and establishing a committee to study the policy and statutory changes necessary to implement the repeal.	Criminal Justice and Public Safety	Thu 1/26	11:15 AM	SH Room Reps Hall	This bill repeals the controlled drug act effective July 1, 2025, and establishes a committee to recommend legislation to make the necessary policy and statutory changes to accompany the repeal.
Support	HB473	relative to penalties for controlled drug violations.	Criminal Justice and Public Safety	Thu 1/26	12:45 PM	SH Room Reps Hall	This bill changes the penalty for certain schedule I, II, III, and IV drug offenses.
Support	HB360	an act legalizing cannabis for persons 21 years of age or older.	Criminal Justice and Public Safety	Thu 1/26	1:30 PM	SH Room Reps Hall	This bill legalizes the possession and use of cannabis for persons 21 years of age and older.
Support	HB344	relative to the home cultivation of cannabis plants and the possession of certain cannabis-infused products.	Criminal Justice and Public Safety	Thu 1/26	2:15 PM	SH Room Reps Hall	This bill permits adults to possess up to 3/4 of an ounce of cannabis, 5 grams of hashish, and certain cannabis-infused products; permits adults to cultivate up to 6 cannabis plants at home in a secure location that is not visible from other properties, and to possess and process the cannabis produced from their plants at the same location; permits adults to give cannabis to other adults, provided it is not more than 3/4 of an ounce of cannabis, 5 grams of hashish, or up to 300 mg of cannabis-infused products, or 3 immature plants; provides that smoking or vaporizing cannabis in public by an adult would be punishable by a $100 fine; provides that violations of the restrictions on cultivation would be a violation punishable by fine of up to $750; penalizes dangerous, volatile extraction; and permits adults to possess, make, and sell cannabis accessories to other adults.
Support	HB328	an act legalizing certain controlled substances for persons 21 years of age or older.	Criminal Justice and Public Safety	Thu 1/26	3:00 PM	SH Room Reps Hall	This bill legalizes the possession and use of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), mescaline, psilocybin, and peyote for persons 21 years of age and older.
Support	HB470	relative to fentanyl test strips and other drug checking equipment.	Criminal Justice and Public Safety	Thu 1/26	3:45 PM	SH Room Reps Hall	This bill amends the definition of drug paraphernalia to exclude drug checking equipment and authorizes the use of drug checking equipment.
Oppose	HB436	relative to group II retirement under transition provisions in the retirement system.	Executive Departments and Administration	Thu 1/26	1:00 PM	LOB Room 306-308	This bill adjusts the application of the minimum age, minimum years of service, and annuity multipliers in the transition provisions for group II service retirement adopted in 2011 to be applicable as of January 1, 2014 rather than January 1, 2012.
Oppose	HB449	relative to the calculation of group II retirement benefits in the retirement system.	Executive Departments and Administration	Thu 1/26	2:00 PM	LOB Room 306-308	This bill increases the service retirement and disability retirement annuity multiplier for the first 20 years of service of group II retirement system members under the transition provisions adopted in 2011.
Oppose	HB525	relative to group II service retirement provisions in the retirement system.	Executive Departments and Administration	Thu 1/26	2:15 PM	LOB Room 306-308	This bill adjusts the application of the transition provisions for group II service retirement adopted in 2011 to be applicable as of January 1, 2014 rather than January 1, 2012.
Oppose	HB579	eliminating the 2011 transition provision requirements for group II retirement.	Executive Departments and Administration	Thu 1/26	2:30 PM	LOB Room 306-308	This bill eliminates the transition provision adopted in 2011 for group II retirement system members that began service before July 1, 2011 but were not yet vested.
Oppose	HB506	relative to the construction of a rail trail box tunnel on Exit 4-A in Derry and making an appropriation therefor.	Finance	Thu 1/26	11:30 AM	LOB Room 210-211	This bill requires the department of transportation to complete the rail trail box tunnel project in Derry, makes an appropriation for the project, and establishes a criminal penalty for any person who fails to complete or impedes the progress of the project.
Oppose	HB50	relative to payment by the state of a portion of retirement system contributions of political subdivision employers.	Finance	Thu 1/26	2:00 PM	LOB Room 210-211	This bill provides that the state shall pay 7.5 percent of contributions of retirement system employers other than the state for group I teachers and group II members.
Of Interest	HB555	appropriating state general fund surplus toward the retirement system unfunded accrued liability.	Finance	Thu 1/26	3:00 PM	LOB Room 210-211	This bill requires the transfer of 75 percent of a state biennial surplus to the reduction in the retirement system’s unfunded accrued liability.
Oppose	HB469	prohibiting discrimination against tenants holding certain vouchers for purposes of renting dwellings.	Judiciary	Thu 1/26	9:00 AM	LOB Room 206-208	This bill prohibits discrimination against tenants holding certain vouchers for purposes of renting dwellings.
Oppose	HB567	relative to notice of rent increases in certain residential rental property.	Judiciary	Thu 1/26	9:45 AM	LOB Room 206-208	This bill requires a landlord of certain residential property to provide additional notice of a prospective rent increase.
Of Interest	HB533	relative to public school human rights complaints.	Judiciary	Thu 1/26	1:00 PM	LOB Room 206-208	This bill allows the department of education to bring a complaint on student discriminatory practices to the state commission on human rights.
Support	HB647	relative to causes of action for individual rights.	Judiciary	Thu 1/26	2:30 PM	LOB Room 206-208	This bill establishes a cause of action against the state for violations against individual rights.
Oppose	HB182	prohibiting discharge of volunteer firefighters or volunteer emergency medical technicians from other employment.	Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services	Thu 1/26	10:00 AM	LOB Room 305-307	This bill prohibits an employer from discharging or disciplining an employee who is a volunteer firefighter or emergency medical technician and whose failure to report for work was due to such employee responding to an emergency.
Support	HB190	relative to the duration of unemployment benefits.	Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services	Thu 1/26	10:45 AM	LOB Room 305-307	This bill specifies the duration of unemployment benefits based on the state’s average unemployment rate.
Oppose	HB125	relative to youth employment during the school year and at night.	Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services	Thu 1/26	3:00 PM	LOB Room 305-307	This bill clarifies the number of hours a minor is permitted to work when school is in session and limits the evening hours a minor is permitted to work when school is in session.
Oppose	HB483	to remove the duties of county delegations and delegate them to county commissioners.	Municipal and County Government	Thu 1/26	10:00 AM	LOB Room 301-303	This bill transfers the duties of the county delegation to the county commissioners as members of the county convention.
Oppose	HB357	relative to the length of terms for Belknap county officers.	Municipal and County Government	Thu 1/26	10:20 AM	LOB Room 301-303	This bill establishes a 4-year term for the county treasurer, county sheriff, county register of deeds, and county attorney in Belknap county.
Support	HB313	relative to the reductions from the default budget for official ballot town meetings.	Municipal and County Government	Thu 1/26	11:30 AM	LOB Room 301-303	This bill alters the definition of default budget to include salary and benefit reductions which occur as a result of position turnover.
Oppose	HB293	allowing a town to appropriate funds to create a town scholarship fund.	Municipal and County Government	Thu 1/26	2:00 PM	LOB Room 301-303	This bill allows a town to establish a scholarship fund for the benefit of town residents.
Of Interest	HB294	enabling municipalities to adopt a child tax credit.	Municipal and County Government	Thu 1/26	2:30 PM	LOB Room 301-303	This bill allows municipalities to adopt a per-child property tax credit.
Support	HB498	requiring fish and game officers to obtain a warrant to conduct a search and seizure.	Criminal Justice and Public Safety	Fri 1/27	10:45 AM	LOB Room 202-204	This bill requires conservation officers to obtain a search warrant for conducting certain enforcement operations.
Support	HB588	relative to the criteria for applying for parole.	Criminal Justice and Public Safety	Fri 1/27	1:30 PM	LOB Room 202-204	This bill allows an eligible incarcerated person to apply for parole upon the completion of 50 percent of such person’s minimum sentence.
Oppose	HB158	relative to armor piercing ammunition.	Criminal Justice and Public Safety	Fri 1/27	2:15 PM	LOB Room 202-204	This bill creates a criminal penalty for the possession, manufacture, or use of armor-piercing ammunition.
Support	HB503	relative to the rights afforded to a person accused of a crime.	Criminal Justice and Public Safety	Fri 1/27	3:00 PM	LOB Room 202-204	This bill codifies certain rights of an accused person in the criminal process, increases the penalty assessment in cases involving charges related to an alcohol or controlled drug offense, and requires those penalty assessments to be used by the state crime lab.
Of Interest	HB439	relative to the duty to provide an education and contracts with private schools.	Education	Fri 1/27	11:45 AM	LOB Room 205-207	This bill repeals the authority of a school board to execute a contract with a nonsectarian private school to provide education. The bill also provides that a school board has a duty to provide an education to a pupil until the pupil reaches 22 years of age.
Of Interest	HB540	relative to adequate education grant amounts for pupils receiving special education services.	Education	Fri 1/27	12:45 PM	LOB Room 205-207	This bill provides for categories of special education services for application to the calculation of differentiated aid in adequate education grant amounts.
Of Interest	HB530	relative to withdrawal from a cooperative school district.	Education	Fri 1/27	1:45 PM	LOB Room 205-207	This bill clarifies the process for the vote on withdrawal from a cooperative school district.
Support	HB466	relative to water bottle filling stations in schools.	Education	Fri 1/27	2:45 PM	LOB Room 205-207	This bill repeals the state board of education’s rulemaking authority to adopt rules pursuant to RSA 541-A relative to requirements for the installation of water bottle filling stations.

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In a previous post, I began an analysis of the 1.7 trillion-dollar Joe Biden funding bill.

I made the mistake of saying it was not “A” budget but many budgets applying to separate agencies.

The mistake was that the separate funding bills per agency are also not budgets. To put it as best I can, each separate portion of the OMNIBUS BILL is just a separate funding for each agency. It’s called OMNIBUS because it is 12 separate bills all pulled together under one umbrella that provides funding to different agencies. There is one for the USDA; another for the DOJ; another for the military and so on. If you add up the separate funding bills, they total the 1.7 trillion dollars.

Keep in mind that the OMNIBUS BILL was presented to Congress and the Senate roughly two days before they left on Christmas vacation. Mitch McConnel announced that he was leaving on Thursday for his vacation. Sadly, it was he-along with Pelosi and Schumer and Biden- that submitted the bill so late in the month of December that the Congress only had two days to consider it.

Hassan signed. Shaheen signed. Kuster signed. Papas signed. AND I GUESS THOSE THAT VOTED FOR THEM-NOT ME-ALSO SIGNED. THOSE WHO ELECTED THEM, THAT’S WHAT YOU VOTED FOR. No need to read nor deliberate. Just sign.

After my first article, it was my intent to locate some budget, any budget.

The reason: To my mind, a budget is a vital aspect of any entity, especially one that spends billions of dollars. It’s more than just an accounting of income and expenses-it’s a reflection of policy and of goals. It tells the reader what the agency involved hopes to accomplish and gives us an idea of whether the agency is accomplishing its duty and its marching orders from the Congress.

Without a budget, it is really hard to even begin to know what the agency is doing, or how it is doing it.

Since I began looking at the USDA, I decided to switch gears and see if they had published a budget of their own.

I found two things: first, the Joe Biden folks had in fact proposed a budget in March of 2022. It did not look much like a budget I would expect but it said it was a budget and it purported to set forth the funding and allocation of funds within each agency.

I went over it. Twice. I found it very, very useless. The numbers had no correlation with any of the funding I was aware of. Keep in mind that in addition to the OMNIBUS bill. that there were many other funding bills: THE INFLATION REDUCTION ACT; THE RESCUE PLAN; THE CARES PLAN. Each one of them funded the USDA in some way. 140 billion here; 9 billion there, etc.

I then went to the USDA web site. They in fact had a “budget” for 2023.

I read thru it.

Again-none of the numbers matched up.

For example, the USDA budget had an entry of 110 billion for the SNAP PROGRAM. The OMNIBUS BILL had 140 billion.

I decided to keep looking but, in the interim, I found a bunch of stuff that I thought I NEEDED TO REPORT-SOME STUFF MORE HORRIBLE THAN ALL OF THE CRAP I WAS SEEING RE THE LACK OF A BUDGET OR BUDGETARY PROCESS.

First, according to USASPENDING.GOV, the USDA was given $298.32 BILLION dollars for fy 2023. They call this number “budgetary resources.”  However, the site has a hedge: it says that the USDA has been given other “budgetary resources” from prior years to spend in 2023.

OK.

Of that number, $14.2 billion was for RURAL UTILITIES”; $1.2 BILLION for rural housing; and a whopping $162.5 BILLION for “food and nutrition service.”

Since the last one is the biggest elephant in the room, I chose to look into it. I admit the data is confusing but as best I could fathom, here is what the USDA is reporting:

For a family household of four people, the maximum gross income the entire household can receive and still be eligible for SNAP benefits is $3007 dollars a month. In calculating eligibility, the USDA ignores income from pension, or disability.

Moreover, you can own property, like a house, without losing your benefits. You can also own any kind of car you want “IF YOU LIVE IN IT” or need it for work; or transport food and water in it.

In terms of benefits, a family of four can get a maximum of $939 a month. (Turns out what people actually get is far less–like 2/3rds less).

In terms of benefits, the money is to be used solely for nutrition: food. The rules say no prepared foods like pizza from a parlor.  The rules also say no illegals. I know both of those rules are not enforced.

From the data I have found, it appears that 4o plus million people receive such benefits.

IN FISCAL YEAR, 2022, 41,206,916 PEOPLE received SNAP benefits. The average monthly benefit per person was $230.94. So far in fiscal year 2023, 42,338,021 have received.

In fiscal year 2020-Trump’s last year in office-39,852,778 people received average $154.94; when Biden was sworn in, the average was $253.43 dollars per month. Benefit costs to the USDA went from $74 billion under Trump in 2020 to $114 billion under Biden in 2022.

I think three conclusions are in order:

1. We have 42 million people living in horrible, miserable conditions–who the hell can possibly pay housing, gas, food etc on $3000 a month for a family of four? I think they are essentially homeless and destitute. My God. Holy Crap. and WTF?
2. From Trump to Biden, the number of destitute has increased by nearly 2.5 million people. I admit I did not vote for Biden. I admit I actually don’t like the guy and that I think he is a horrible President. But until now, I never knew how much I can actually hate somebody. What a horrible human being this man is with his Hunter Biden corruption and his Chinese business deals. All the while turning 2.5 million into people who cannot afford to live.
3. The GOP who worked really hard to defeat Trump-Congratulations. You have just joined the “most horrible possible” human beings award for the next ten years.

I will keep looking for a “budget”. I think that what I am seeing is a deliberate effort to conceal, not reveal. The Democrats under Pelosi and Schumer just decided we don’t need to know what they are doing so they are deliberately obfuscating the numbers and refusing to do the oversight they are called upon to do.

To his credit, the new speaker announced he will no longer accept this “OMNIBUS” bill crap and will return to the budgetary process.

BUT REALLY RIGHT NOW, WHO CARES. LISTEN TO THIS SPEAKERS’ WORDS:

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Caleb-Hall-Socialist-Hell-Hole.mp4

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Just think…we have sent over 100 billion dollars to defense contractors re Ukraine war. We have lined the pockets of every corrupt politician in the world.  We have watched the Biden crime family pillage our national wealth.  But the worst crime 0f all: THEY have killed the life, the dreams, the hopes of 2.5 million Americans and left them shivering in the back seat of their car hoping their food allowance of SNAP money can make it the end of the month. (Right in the dam USDA guidelines, they don’t count your car as a resource IF YOU ARE FRIGGIN LIVING IN IT).

To 2.5 MILLION-TO THE 42 MILLION- I apologize. I never knew how bad Biden, Pelosi, Schumer and McConnel really are.

I got plenty of corn bread and I make a good chili. I just need to find you. I plan to start looking right after I stop crying.

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The Democrat Socialists of America chapter in Maine has a problem. They wrote a diversity quota requirement into their by-laws because that’s what cultural Marxists do. So what’s the problem? There aren’t enough commies in Maine who are not white and straight.

 

Although the Maine DSA rules set diversity quotas for leadership positions, the document acknowledges that the organization has struggled to meet those quotas, presumably due to its overwhelmingly white, heterosexual, and cisgender composition.

“We have yet to fulfill diversity requirements,” the document states, “And should be sober enough to recognize that calling such standards “Requirements” is misleading, given that we operate with or without them being met.”

 

Democrat socialists are socialists. Socialists are Marxists. Marxists are responsible for cultural Marxism, which created identity politics and quotas, and in Maine, they can’t meet their own quota, so … they have to change the rules.

I find that incredibly humorous.

I will give them this much credit. They used the word misleading, which is groundbreaking for a socialist, not that we can expect it to infect their entire ideology. That would result in their dissolving the chapter and renouncing the lie of Democratic Socialism.

 

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For fifty years, they have gathered and marched in Washington. For fifty years, they had stood firm when the country did not support them. For fifty years, they have stayed committed to their belief because there may be no higher belief than life itself.

For fifty years, these folks have come to D.C. to celebrate life, the life of the unborn. On the fiftieth anniversary of their first march on Washington and for their unyielding tenacity to stay true to their belief, The March for Life is this week’s Sunday Spotlight.

I was watching the press briefing today when Karine Jean-Pierre outdid herself. I thought she had already shown the depth of her stupidity, but she went through the floor this afternoon. One of the reporters in the room asked for the White House’s comments on the March for Life that was happening just then. She responded. “The President believes in the first amendment and the right to peaceful demonstration, even if he does not believe in their purpose.’ Yes, Karine, the people who walk today are pro-life. They support the life of the unborn as a living being worthy of life outside its mother’s womb. They \support life and the sanctity of every life that touches this earth. It is a shame that our President, and his feckless mouthpiece, cannot celebrate life with those marchers.

I do not want to get too deeply into KJP’s callous statement, but should we have expected a different response? Not really. This administration abandoned Americans and Afghans, who had worked closely with our military behind in Afghanistan. These unfortunate souls were left at the mercy of the Taliban. This administration allows an unchecked amount of Fentanyl to cross into our country, killing 100,000 young Americans yearly. This administration supports the cartels that are making billions each year while raping and killing women, both young and old. It is no wonder this administration cannot celebrate life. It means nothing to them.

Today’s celebration was the first March for Life since the Pandemic and the overturning of Roe v. Wade by the Supreme Court. The marchers today had much to celebrate because the mood and will of the people were changing. And life is becoming precious once again.

The marchers look like America. Young, old, white, black, man, woman, young men, and girls all gathered to march, support each other, and show the power to be in Congress that, to many, life is precious and not to be snuffed out in a clinic.

The March is not just a protest… “TOGETHER, WE GATHER TO CELEBRATE LIFE. We celebrate each and every .life, from the moment of conception. We envision a world where every life is celebrated, valued, and protected.” That is directly from their website. Could there be any reason to march that is more pure and noble? The March comes a week after every Democrat voted against the Protection of Life Bill, which would protect the life of a survivor of an abortion. As I said, life is meaningless to Progressives.

Every January, they have gathered. In the sunshine, cold, snow, rain, or whatever Mother Nature can throw at them. They are undaunted because their cause is more significant than themselves. Their cause is about life and every beating heart. Regardless of race, gender, or socioeconomic background, they march for you. These marchers will leave Washington tonight with broad smiles on their faces because today, they did God’s work. They marched for his creations. They marched for life.

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Mikey Graham … the man behind the curtain at NH-NeverTrumpJournal … is as unconstrained by the facts as the Democrats that he plays the role of controlled-opposition to. Sun-King Sununu … another quasi-Democrat masquerading as a Republican … has been “strong[ly] pro-vax”. Yet Mikey has never questioned whether Sun-King’s “strong pro-vax stance” would hurt him among NHGOP FITN voters. According to Mikey, it’s only been a small fringe … the extremists, the conspiracy-theorists, blah, blah, blah … among NHGOP voters who have opposed Sun-King on COVID-vaccines.

Yet here we have Mikey “questioning” whether Trump’s continuing to be pro-vax will hurt him in the FITN primary … which, of course, assumes that New Hampshire will be hosting the FITN primary and implies that there are a sufficient number of “anti-vax” NHGOP voters to make a difference … which is the exact OPPOSITE of what Mikey has been saying to this point:

Mikey will say anything to try to erode Trump’s support … even if it means totally contradicting what he has previously said. That’s his job. He is nothing but a mouthpiece of the corrupt globalist, corporatist, open-borders, endless-wars GOP Establishment.

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A very interesting debate took place in England recently. British satirist Konstantin Kisin engaged in that debate at Oxford Union and, surprisingly, won over many woke liberals. I don’t agree with much of his views on climate change endangering polar bears and such but he scored high points with me for addressing free speech as the foundation of Western civilization and on race. He stated ”

The only way to deal with racism is to treat people based upon the content of their character, nothing else.

This, of course, echoes the great Martin Luther King Jr., who in his famous “I have a Dream” speech, first spoke those words. Anyone who denies this truth, practices racism in my opinion.

Moving onward he pointed out that one of the tenets of Wokeness is that feelings count more then facts. Really? Even a casual examination of such should reveal the utter childishness of it. Anyone can delude themselves into believing that a thing not based on facts has a bad habit of not budging when confronted reality.

No, Johnny, do not jump off a roof – you can not fly.

Back to climate change for a moment. Kisin pointed out a truth totally ignored by the Green movement This is an issue that will be decided by the poor people in Latin America, Asia, and (I add) Africa who couldn’t give a s**t about saving the planet. People in those lands are concerned with ending poverty and starvation so fossil fueled cars and trucks aren’t even on their lists of concerns. How can anyone expect starving people to worry about unproven polar ice caps melting theory’s when feeding their children is what matters?

Environmentalists here and in Europe would be far better employed to address those second world issues and stop playing at hero and try to actually become a hero to starving people.

Seems like some important truths that the Woke and the rest of us need to realize would be as Kisin said,

“the way to improve the world is to work, is to create, it is to build. And the problem with Woke is that it trained too many young minds like yours (addressing the audience) to forget about that”.

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