Donald Trump was right about the risks of Germany relying on Russia for energy, and now they need to burn a lot of coal. Muppet Greta and the other climate muppets staged a protest at a town that will be leveled because … Donald Trump was right.

Related: Why Would Germany Dismantle a Wind Farm to Expand a Coal Mine?

This fact is missing from all the reporting, as is the fact that Greta’s arrest – which they did report – was staged.

 

LMFAO Greta literally staged being arrested for the cameras.
pic.twitter.com/qGNurU0lrO

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) January 17, 2023

 

Feel free to wonder why German police would cooperate with a climate-muppet photo-op or who approved that. It suggests the protest and arrests were agitprop (for the WEF cabal?), and if so, what will Germany get out of it?

 

 

 

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Once again, a round up of what teachers and school administrators are doing to your children and ACTIVELY going “shhhh – it’s our secret!”. As always, some reformatting and emphasis mine

• Parents Sue Hilliard School District over Indoctrination and LGBTQ ‘I’m Here’ Badges

The removal of staff-worn LGBTQ badges is being demanded by a number of parents from central Ohio who are suing Hilliard City Schools in federal court because teachers are engaging in “intimate sexual conversations” with pupils as young as 6 years old.

In the case, Ohio Republican Council of Clubs‘ attorney Joshua Brown said he represents parents who claim activist instructors are conducting private conversations with their children about sexuality and mental health while keeping those conversations hidden from parents.

“The schools do not have the right to withhold information from parents for any reason. Especially when it involves mental health. When you are denying parents the knowledge their child is having mental distress, you are literally robbing the parents the opportunity to show their children, unconditional love,” Lisa Chaffee, director of Ohio Parents Rights in Education and one of the eight plaintiffs in the lawsuit said.

Indoctrination anyone?  This is taking kids out of the hands and responsibility of parents.  Seriously, calling themselves out as being LGBT missionaries?  How more blatant can you get?

And not only should the courts be the ones deciding that teachers, staff, and School Boards are in the wrong but Legislators should be as well. After all, they control the money (and the Left set this precedent years ago):

• ILYA SHAPIRO: State Lawmakers Can Reform Higher Ed: The vast majority of college students attend state schools.

Many Americans despair of reforming the culture of higher education. But a substantial majority of college students attend public institutions, and these schools are subject to state law. If legislators are determined to restore free speech and academic freedom, there’s a lot they can do. In cooperation with the Goldwater Institute, we’ve developed model state legislation based on four reform proposals:

• Abolish “diversity, equity and inclusion” bureaucracies. These offices work actively against norms of academic freedom and truth-seeking, advance primarily political aims, and fuel administrative bloat that raises costs and exacerbates student debt. Administrators at public institutions should maintain official neutrality on controversial political questions extraneous to the business of educating students. Leave compliance with federal and state civil-rights laws to the university counsel’s office.

• Forbid mandatory diversity training for students, faculty and staff. Even when DEI officials claim their training is “voluntary,” it’s often required for faculty who wish to perform basic extracurricular roles, such as serving on hiring committees. Typical diversity training includes unscientific claims about “microaggressions” and “implicit bias” and rejects the basic American principle that everyone should be treated equally. It indoctrinates an ideology of identity-based grievance, guilt and division.

• Curtail the use of “diversity statements” as a means of political coercion. These serve as litmus tests in employment processes to exclude applicants who don’t adhere to critical race theory and other radical beliefs. Although the Supreme Court has long held that requiring loyalty oaths in public education is unconstitutional—as are other forms of compelled speech—universities increasingly require that applicants state their belief in the importance of DEI, cite prior personal efforts to promote DEI and pledge to integrate DEI into their teaching. Applicants for many positions have been eliminated on the basis of diversity statements alone and many universities condition their hiring decisions on the applicant’s ideological conformity.

• End racial and other identity-based preferences. The Supreme Court may do this in a few months anyway by holding that racial preferences violate the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and, in the case of public institutions, the 14th Amendment. Regardless of how the justices rule, discriminating based on race, sex, ethnicity or national origin is antithetical to universities’ basic missions. Outlawing admissions and hiring based on these characteristics would curtail universities’ efforts to evade a mandate against them from the high court.

These straightforward reforms would go far in pushing back on some of the negative trends that have afflicted higher education—without intruding on curricula or other aspects of academic life. They would free faculty and students alike to explore intellectual ideas without fearing the thought police.

While this was written concerning “higher education” (college, university level), this DIE movement has transmographied itself down to lower and lower grades in education. And we know who are the “water carriers” are for this. However, for all of the “local control” that is yelled from the rafters here in NH, most school districts receive quite a bit of State monies as well (just look at your tax bills).

Education should be just that – not roping people into the ideological fray. At each and every point, legislatures should be looking at not just the Law already in place (and here in NH, Education Rules) and find out where local Districts are finding/inserting their own loopholes HOPING that ordinary people wouldn’t notice.

Like what I’ve been doing for the last two years in working to remove unconstitutional and CODIFIED policies that, if they were to get into the court system (where school districts fight extremely hard to keep from happening – you know, that “lack of standing” schtick even though its OUR children!), should be and are being shot down around the country.

Parents, too, ought to be complaining to their legislators and putting pressure on them.  Especially over having to pay for that “mandatory diversity training for students” bit. It used to be “voluntary, then it was one class, then a couple of classes.  Each of those classes, I will hold, do NOTHING to prepare one for being a citizen or for a job unless your goal is to be yet another DIE parasite that brings little in the way of value (go ahead, challenge me on that!). However, they are a MASSIVE profit center and make no mistake – even schools are going to hoover up the bucks if they see them laying on the ground.  Remember: from movement to racket.  It’s now to that latter stage.

Education is out of control in a lot of areas and every time somebody comes up with yet another fad, our education system moves that much further away from its main mission – academic rigor and teaching.

I found another paper by the same authors (Illya Shapiro and Christofer Rufo). While copyrighted, I feel safe using this under “Fair Use”:

Abolish DEI Bureaucracies and Restore Colorblind Equality in Public Universities

The absurdity of the status quo can be illustrated by way of a simple counterfactual: Imagine a world in which UC Berkeley had an administrative division, funded at $25 million per year, whose sole purpose was to train students, faculty, and staff in conservative ideology;

Or make it mandatory to take long distance precision rifle classes under the rubric of the Second Amendment?  I bet we could come up with a long list of “contra” classes to those of DIE and related ideologies. However, NONE of them should be made mandatory or required to either attend school or work at one.

Gilford is about to send staff to a DIE training class up at Plymouth.  Now, how to threaten an action for not being willing to send staff to the complete opposite type of training?  Wouldn’t that get their knickers in a knot over a threatened “worldview discrimination” action?

There is a lot to this approach so don’t be surprised if we write about this in later posts.  But here’s a quicker one that has LARGE ramifications if you think about it:

JOANNE JACOBS: Bring back the ‘F’ to help students succeed. “If college students don’t do the work, a timely “F” can be useful feedback, writes Louis Haas, a history professor at Middle Tennessee University.”

I received an F or two early in high school, and the feedback that came with them — from my parents — was instructive.

It isn’t about giving out “F” grades – it’s about recognizing excellence and when someone is is deep trouble and won’t ask for help. And yes, for recognizing that some students just don’t care and probably should be elsewhere.

While I never got an F, I did get a D in a math class in high school that I should have aced the first time – and the teacher knew it. Yes, the first time – when Mom found out, I ended up in summer school – involuntarily. Screwed up my entire summer as I had already made other plans. It did teach me a lesson – when you CAN do the work, don’t screw around or screw up – there are consequences to doing so and I learned the hard way. I redid the class in half the time and got the grade I should have the first time. Lesson was learned.

Sidenote: bring back the old A-F grading system. Gilford shifted to the new fangled system that no one likes, doesn’t understand, and doesn’t allow (if you’ll excuse me) A to B comparisons. I hate this “competency based” system as there is no competency about it.

And that Equity Movement is proving that Socialism (whereby EVERYONE must have exactly the same outcome regardless of capabilities) is now endangering students futures – badly. We seeing schools in Virginia refusing to withhold National Merit Awards to top achieving students:

• At Least 16 Virginia Schools Allegedly Withheld Merit Awards From Students
  “the number has since jumped after Loudoun County added one additional school Tuesday and Prince William County added two schools”

…At least 13 Virginia high schools are under investigation after failing to deliver merit awards prior to college admissions, with the state attorney general alleging that the move specifically targeted Asian American students. Following the case against 11 Fairfax and Loudoun County high schools, officials from Prince William County Public Schools revealed two of their schools did not tell 16 students they had earned a National Merit award. Attorney General Jason Miyares condemned the schools’ actions as the state launched an investigation over alleged Anti-Asian bigotry.

The National Merit awards are only given to 50,000 of 1.5million high schoolers who score well on the PSATS – and can help students compete for scholarships, honors accolades, and college admissions.

And here’s the cause

What we’ve found from news reports is that our schools have a maniacal focus on equal outcomes rather than rewarding high-performing students. This effort of withholding academic achievements is hurting the same students school officials claim they are trying to help. pic.twitter.com/4s4Kguw5gk

— Glenn Youngkin (@GlennYoungkin) January 17, 2023

The progressive concept of “equity” is a rejection of the equality of opportunity and a commitment to equality of outcome. Let’s be frank. This is communism, and it’s antithetical to everything the United States of America was founded upon.

No, they aren’t helping ANYONE. Socialism and Equity can only be “accomplished” by lowering standards to the lowest common denominators.

No.One.Can.Be.Better.Than.Anyone.Else.  Unless you happen to be the ones making all the decisions.

And we’re right back to where this is being hatched, nurtured, inculcated, and sent out to infect the rest of us just like China infected the world with COVID. A bit long and “bits and pieces” so read the whole thing to see where a college is attacking Free Speech:

• College professor claims he’s being fired for asking questions during campus diversity meeting

…Tenured Bakersfield College history professor Matthew Garrett said he and other faculty members of a free speech coalition were targeted with false allegations after they asked questions during a campus diversity meeting last October. Shortly afterwards, Garrett received a notice of unprofessional conduct by the administration that claimed he had caused “real harm” to students and said he was being removed from the diversity committee “effective immediately.”

In December, vice president of the school district’s Board of Trustees John Corkins made headlines after he lashed out at the group during a board meeting saying the “abusive” and “disrespectful” minority of teachers needed to be “culled,” and taken “to the slaughterhouse.”

…“Many of the faculty quietly tell me thank you for speaking up because we’re afraid to do so,” he said. He described how critical race theory and other racial equity initiatives had become popular after Black Lives Matter drew national attention in 2020.

“Our campus has been really radically transformed in the last two years or so. In the last two years we’ve adopted critical race theory, diversity training, implicit bias training, micro aggression trainings. We’ve adopted racial quotas and preferences, affirmative action-type behavior, we’ve adopted racially segregated classes, we’ve adopted mandated masks, compulsory vaccines, and location tracking software. We’ve got funding going to propaganda webpages you can track through grants,” he said.

…Other professors had raised concerns these social equity initiatives were weakening academic standards, he claimed. “A lot of the faculty are really concerned about the dissolution of rigor,” Garrett said, as academic programs were replaced with social programs focused on “inclusivity, [where] everyone passes.”

And it is happening in our high schools.  If you thought that academics can’t get much worse, just wait.

And then there’s the doctors:

• The Medical Profession Is the Newest Front in the Effort to Trans Your Kids

The Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), in a collaboration with the Fenway Institute, is training doctors and other medical professionals to affirm a young patient’s chosen gender identity. In a training video reviewed by Breitbart News, you can see how doctors are taught to interact with a child who might be experiencing symptoms related to gender dysphoria.

From the report:

During the training video, titled “Talking with a Parent and Child About Gender Identity,” a doctor asks a young child, referred to as Sam, what his gender is. “Can you tell me, do you feel like a boy, like a girl, like both, or like neither?” the doctor asks the young child in the video before adding “There’s no right answer.”

Sam’s dad interjects, telling the doctor how the family has approached the topic. He also says “I don’t know, I think he just wants to be like his big sister.”  The doctor doesn’t offer a response to the parent, other than to simply say “Thank you for sharing. I would like to ask Sam.” He goes on to inquire “So what do you say Sam?” The child responds “I’m a girl.”

The doctor asks “How long have you known you’re a girl?” prompting the child to say “I don’t know, but a long time.”

“So when we’re talking about you, would you like us to say he or she?” the doctor asks, with Sam requesting that he be referred to as “she.” The doctor then responds simply “Okay, thanks” before the video comes to a close and displays the MUSC logo.

And Legislators to the rescue!

Breitbart also noted that the university ceased offering hormonal care for children identifying as transgender “after the South Carolina Freedom Caucus began preparing to pursue legislation banning child sex changes.”

And does DIE Training actually do what it espouses it does?

Hardly:

• DEI Training: Harmful, Phony, And Expensive
  Every company has a DEI program. They cost serious money. But there’s no evidence they work, and some evidence that they make things worse

Over the years, social scientists who have conducted careful reviews of the evidence base for diversity trainings have frequently come to discouraging conclusions. Though diversity trainings have been around in one form or another since at least the 1960s, few of them are ever subjected to rigorous evaluation, and those that are mostly appear to have little or no positive long-term effects. The lack of evidence is “disappointing,” wrote Elizabeth Levy Paluck of Princeton and her co-authors in a 2021 Annual Review of Psychology article, “considering the frequency with which calls for diversity training emerge in the wake of widely publicized instances of discriminatory conduct.”

Dr. Paluck’s team found just two large experimental studies in the previous decade that attempted to evaluate the effects of diversity trainings and met basic quality benchmarks. Other researchers have been similarly unimpressed. “We have been speaking to employers about this research for more than a decade,” wrote the sociologists Frank Dobbin and Alexandra Kalev in 2018, “with the message that diversity training is likely the most expensive, and least effective, diversity program around.” (To be fair, not all of these critiques apply as sharply to voluntary diversity trainings.)

If diversity trainings have no impact whatsoever, that would mean that perhaps billions of dollars are being wasted annually in the United States on these efforts. But there’s a darker possibility: Some diversity initiatives might actually worsen the D.E.I. climates of the organizations that pay for them.

And if it is a company that is blowing its shareholders’ money, that’s one thing.  Blowing taxpayer money for government workers is another.

And WHY are Public Schools so interested in the sexuality of minors???

• ‘Who’s interested in knowing my daughter’s sexual orientation?!’ Father unleashes on school board about sexual content in books for 7-year-olds

A father attended a school board meeting recently to confront educators regarding sexual content found in a book that he says is available to his daughter, age 7. David Todor, whose daughter attends a school in the Waterloo Region District, in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, read passages from a book called “The Bluest Eye” a national best-seller readily available on Amazon.

“I can assure you this book has been approved, and it’s accessible to my daughter, the one that’s seven years old by the way … this book is approved … for grade four to five reading level,” the father remarked to the board of trustees.

“He could have been an active homosexual but lacked the courage, beastiality did not occur to him, and sodomy was quite out of the question for he did not experience sustained erections and could not endure the thought of somebody else’s,” the parent read.

“Who’s interested in knowing and affirming, celebrating, my daughter’s sexual orientation?! Why is the school board facilitating child abuse and has these books available in the library?” the father asked.

This evening @wrdsb father David Todor wiped the floor with school trustees who want sexually explicit material available in schools for seven year olds to access.

"Who is interested in knowing my daughter's sexual orientation? Why is the school board facilitating child abuse?" pic.twitter.com/rr0RQehk1n

— Cosmin Dzsurdzsa (@cosminDZS) January 17, 2023

And here are more excerpts:

His attention therefore gradually settled on those humans whose bodies were least offensive — children. And since he was too diffident to confront homosexuality, and since little boys were insulting, scary, and stubborn, he further limited his interests to little girls. They were usually manageable and frequently seductive. His sexuality was anything but lewd; his patronage of little girls smacked of innocence and was associated in his mind with cleanliness. He was what one might call a very clean old man.

And no, this is not new – NH Gov Chris Sununu made this law in NH years ago (contra our NH Constitution which mandated that the State MUST provide the funds to do stuff like this – but didn’t):

NEW FRONTIERS IN MENSTRUATION

When it comes to gender follies, Minnesota Democrats are keeping up with their insane colleagues on the coasts. DFL state representative Sandra Feist has been pushing a bill “that would require school districts and charter schools to provide students in grades four through 12 with access to free menstrual products in student restrooms.” Feist’s bill was approved in committee last year by a 12-4 vote. See Feist’s news clip. The news clip also maps out new frontiers in poverty: “Elif Ozturk, a sophomore at Hopkins High School, said ‘period poverty’ is an issue she’s encountered among classmates.”

Following the 2022 elections Democrats rule the roost in Minnesota. Feist’s bill has a better chance of passage this time around, although embarrassment and ridicule might serve as some kind of a deterrent. I hadn’t noticed that the text of the bill makes no distinction between boys and girls in mandating the availability of menstrual products. When Feist says students, she means all students.

Feist explains (video below): “[N]ot all students who menstruate are female. We need to make sure all students have access to these products. There are obviously less [sic] non-female menstruating students and therefore their usage will be much lower. That was actually calculated into the cost of this.”

Lower usage?  Try zero. But they can’t be honest, can they? 2+2=5 with these people – sorry not sorry, boys don’t menstruate.  They can’t have periods.

And you can’t be honest.

And once again, taxpayers have to pay for unneeded and ideological socialist bents.

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On Monday, we experienced a cornerstone moment in COVID history. A member of the Public Health Industrial Complex got an unpleasant truth about COVID published in the Washington Post. The Hospitalization and Death numbers were a lie.

There is nothing new or groundbreaking about that. The so-called COVID disinformation cabal has been making that claim since (at least) day 15 to flatten the curve. Skip had a comments brawl about it on Facebook after I shared this cartoon on April 7th, 2020 (not long after NH announced its COVID state of emergency and the lockdowns).

 

 

The soon-to-be pro-science anti-disinformation folks lost their minds. How could you say that?

It was easy. The Feds were going to pay hospitals to say they had cases of COVID, and they got more money for each escalation in the death-by-hospital protocol.

Where there is a trough, there will be pigs!

COVID was a cash machine, and Hospitals and Big Pharma do not exist to protect the public interest or health. They are there to make money off them. If the Federal Government was going to hand them buckets of cash with little or no oversight just for saying patients were “hospitalized” or “died” from COVID, they would, and did.

It was an expensive lesson for many with a side of, you’re right. I can’t trust them, can I?

Not everyone was or is on board with that truth, but here comes Dr. Leana Wen, who you might remember as the most honest Director of Planned Parenthood ever. She made it clear that abortion was their core mission and more of it was good for business. They asked her to resign. That sort of honesty isn’t good for business, which makes me wonder what comes next after this.

 

Two infectious-disease experts I spoke with believe that the number of deaths attributed to covid is far greater than the actual number of people dying from covid. Robin Dretler, an attending physician at Emory Decatur Hospital and the former president of Georgia’s chapter of Infectious Diseases Society of America, estimates that at his hospital, 90 percent of patients diagnosed with covid are actually in the hospital for some other illness.

 

Dr. Wen, a card-carrying member of the COVID-Cult, has opened a door, and everyone on the center-right has pushed through it to say I told you so, including me, but I’m more interested in why? Why now? Remember, Dr. Wen wrote it, but the Washington Post published it. Why?

The original miscoding had two distinct purposes. Money Laundering and fearmongering. It is why no one “in charge” ever took the flaws of the dysfunctional PCR test seriously. It was never designed to do what it did, but it could be used to aid and abet systemic money laundering and fearmongering.

If you ever visited your state’s COVID dashboard (we shared daily analysis on these pages for months), you knew there was no threat. It was all smoke and mirrors. And while some of that smoke has cleared in recent months, this latest revelation brings what we have known for years into the public sphere for open debate.

Why?

I don’t think Dr. Wen is trying to clear her conscience. What does the COVID-CULT gain? Is this one of many fence-mending admissions now that the Public Health Oligarchy is officially a functioning propaganda arm of the US Government?

They are convinced we can’t take it back, so why not offer up a few sacrificial narrative lambs? I’m open to suggestions, but I will add that the CDC is spending at least a million on an AI project to try and identify medical misinformation spreading “before it happens” so they can figure out how to combat it in advance.

That’s a bit ironic.

 

 

HT | AoSHQ

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So, it turns out that a second biological (non-binary male) has been paid to promote “women’s health” products. I know; who was the first? I’m not all that interested but is this a job women won’t do, or was it another job stolen by a man?

 

In a stunning victory over the patriarchy, women now have yet another transgender icon who was born with a penis to represent them and their feminine hygiene needs. A second transgender (self-identified “girl”/adult human male Dylan Mulvaney being the first) named Jeffrey Marsh just scored an endorsement deal with Tampax.

 

Jeffrey describes himself as a “non-binary person who does not menstruate” and took the job to “help end the stigma associated with periods.” Because humans born with a penis have had so much success with that to date?

And to that point, I’ve been around menstruating women all my life, and based entirely on their remarks or response to it, where’s the stigma? Some want to talk about it with you – perhaps a bit too much – and others don’t want to hear a word.

So, how does a non-menstruating anyone have the medical or cultural authority to discuss that?

Tampax is just being #woke, and it might cost them some sales, but – and I have to ask – did a man or a woman make this call? And can we expect a new line of Manpons for non-menstruating women with a penis (Is anyone curious about the printed application instructions for that?).

Did you pick him because menstruate has the word men in it? Can Jeffrey get gigs to talk about the stigma associated with men-o-pause, or do we have to wait until he’s in his fifties?

Is there an opportunity for once-prolific aged-out male-actor to get jobs for this the way they sell supplemental Medicaid insurance or mobility aids? “I’m Sir Christopher Lee, and this is Robert Duvall. We want to talk to you today about …”

And yes, Marsh says he got some hate from the TERFs (trans-exclusionary radical feminists). The Girl Power collective wasn’t feeling it, including the bit where something born with a penis took a job away from an actual woman.

First women’s sports and now “women’s health care” products. What female thing will men be allowed to take over next? Has JK Rowling had her say?

One more question? Why wasn’t he black and in a wheelchair, you ableist racists?

 

HT | PJ Media

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Anti-Gun expert Alec Baldwin has been charged with involuntary manslaughter in the shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins after an on-set “accident” resulted in his pointing a loaded gun at her and firing. Hannah Gutierrez Reed has also been charged.

Related: Review Our Alec Baldwin “Rust” Shooting Collection

Gutierrez Reed was the weapons supervisor on the set of the movie Rust.

 

Assistant director David Halls, who handed Baldwin the gun, has signed an agreement to plead guilty to negligent use of a deadly weapon, the district attorney’s office said.

Involuntary manslaughter can involve a killing that happens while a defendant is doing something that is lawful but dangerous and is acting negligently or without caution.

The charge is a fourth-degree felony, punishable by up to 18 months in jail and a $5,000 fine under New Mexico law. The charges also include a provision that could result in a mandatory five years in prison because the offense was committed with a gun.

 

Baldwin’s attorneys say there was no way he could know there was a live round in the pistol. Gutierrez Reed claims it was sabotage. But Halyna Hutchins is dead, and it’s a high-profile tragedy.

 

“If any one of these three people — Alec Baldwin, Hannah Gutierrez Reed or David Halls — had done their job, Halyna Hutchins would be alive today. It’s that simple,” said Reeb, also a newly sworn Republican state legislator.

 

The DA and Sherriff probably want to make a case, so we’ll see what shakes out, and let’s be honest. If someone handed you or I a gun and said it was or wasn’t loaded, and we shot and killed someone, well … we’d be guilty of not doing what you always do with a working firearm. Check it. Recheck it. Check it a third time.

You always check the firearm. I guess anti-gun expert Alec Baldwin didn’t realize, and I doubt they teach you that at Anti-Gun training class.

Charges will be filed by the end of this month.

 

 

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The reporters yell out questions at the President, hungry for answers from the most transparent administration in history. Answers are not forthcoming, but a laughing, smirking gaze from the President is. It is time to lose the smirk, Mr. President.

We know you see yourself and your delinquent son above the law, and there is not enough kryptonite to bring you down. As with most everything else in your career, you are wrong, dead wrong. The Republican House smells blood, and they have your scent. McCarthy, Jordan, and Comer are not going to let up. They want you on the mat for the count and the end of your compromised reign.

Document Gate is the third major scandal in the last decade involving a sitting President, a Vice President, and a wannabe President. Two Democrats and one Republican and equal application of the law has no standing here. One has his home and his wife’s lingerie, and undergarments searched. The other two, the Democrats, get a free pass to have their lawyers search for any remaining documents without any FBI or DOJ oversight and destroy over 30,000 emails under subpoena. Nothing to see here for the Democrats, while we are not done looking, ever, for the Republican. Trump is blasted daily by Democrats and the media, while the same two groups make excuses for Biden and Clinton.

There is no equal application. That is a joke. Need proof, look up the Hunter Biden Laptop and the fact he has not been charged. Look at the $50,000 a month “rent” Hunter was paying to live in Joe’s Delaware beach house. Yes, Hunter was staying in the same house where most of the documents were found, but no problem here; they were locked in the garage with the ’67 Vette…….What a joke, but Americans are not laughing. By the way, that $50,000 was an excellent way to launder the 10% payment to “The Big Guy.” You cannot make this up, yet Joe smirks and laughs. Guess Jim Clyburn was right when he said this whole investigation is laughable.

I watched Jim Clyburn interviewed, actually pressed, this afternoon, and it was amazing how calm he was about Biden’s missteps. It was as if he knew nothing would ever come of the allegations. He knows that Biden, Hunter, heck, the whole administration is protected because they are Democrats. Yes, mistakes were made, but let’s be patient and let it play out. No such patience ever rose to the surface with Trump. Not until his head was on a stick, Game of Thrones style, would Clyburn and his colleagues be satisfied. With Joe, let it play out. What a corrupt quagmire. This swamp is too deep and too overgrown ever to be drained. Not in my lifetime, for sure.

The White House Press Briefing has become a daily sparing match. The questions are more direct, and the answers are the same. Why schedule these exercises in futility? Is Karine Jean-Pierre trying to wear down the press? She is no match, but for now, she will hide behind the catchphrases: “there is a process” and “I refer you to the DOJ.” Lame, but it is working for now. I almost feel bad for her. She is totally out of her league, but then her arrogance shines through, and my empathy fades as that big smirk on Joe’s face grows. These events of the last few weeks paint a sad picture. The Republicans have to be cautious not to get swept up in investigations that they forget to legislate. I think it is giving them too much credit to think this is the plan of the Democrats. They are not that savvy, just that corrupt.

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Over the past few years, the list of things most Americans won’t speak of or discuss has become a long list. A recent addition to that list is the dramatic increase of people “suddenly dying” since around October 2021. Why is there a huge increase in excess deaths across Western Civilization?

The studies and data are out there if one wants to find them, and there’s been some coverage by independent and foreign media, but the North American corporate media gives this topic a big leaving alone. Why aren’t we talking about it? Are we afraid of what we might learn?

There’s little objective and factual discussion about the current transgenderism movement. It’s obvious that athletic events shouldn’t allow biological males to compete against females. Why are we allowing this to happen? Why are we allowing self-proclaimed females with a Y chromosome access to female locker rooms? The majority of people know it’s wrong, so why aren’t more speaking up and questioning this absurdity?

The list of political topics we won’t talk about grows daily. There’s no discussion in the legacy media regarding the egregious and ongoing corrupt practices and selective law enforcement by the Department of Justice, and particularly the FBI. Why is that? Why do we have an Attorney General that seemingly determines prosecution based on political affiliation? And since when has any Attorney General anywhere had the latitude not to enforce laws they personally disagree with, as we witness in cities like Boston, Chicago, LA, and even Burlington, Vermont?

Why aren’t we having a national conversation about how our public servants in Washington regularly become multi-millionaires after a few years in office? How did Joe Biden become worth over $10 million? How did Obama become worth over $70 million? While we hear things about Pelosi and Feinstein on this issue, It’s not just the Democrats getting rich. Plenty of Republicans have also feathered their nests while “serving the public”. How does that work?

Where’s the questioning of why Ukraine needs to be defended while our southern border does not? Our state-run media has been doing a good job bemoaning the border states sending busloads of illegal aliens to Democrat-declared “sanctuary cities,” but will not question the current administration’s policy of letting just about anyone into the US that shows up at the border. What’s happening at the southern border is effectively an invasion. Where’s the national concern?

Racism, green energy, censorship, wokeism, reparations, etc., etc.  The list really is endless. There is a point to this madness: It’s easier for our rulers to maintain control and scoop up the loot while the little people are busy fighting with each other about non-existential issues.

We the people bear much of the responsibility for letting this happen. There are few rulers, and many of us, but over the past few decades, we’ve become ignorant, apathetic, and, yes, even fearful.  Many have shrugged off the role of citizen in favor of subject, allowing the decline of our culture and looting of our country.

It’s getting late. If more of us don’t start loudly questioning our ersatz public servants at every opportunity and saying a loud “no” to the scams, distractions, false premises, and other bright shiny objects put out there to pit us against each other, we’re done.

It’s time to start speaking up and demanding answers to these and other questions while we still can.

 

Ted Ropple is a resident of West Charleston, VT, and can be contacted at https://www.tedropple.com

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A Right to Know put in by a Hudson Resident asking what most of us should be doing more of: WHAT did you use that boatloads of COVID money on?

Perfectly executed. In chronological order:

From: Terry Stewart <yrrets@aol.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2023, 8:54 AM
To: Gary Gasdia <ggasdia@sau81.org>
Subject: [PROBABLE SPAM] Right to Know Request

January 10, 2023

Hudson School District
20 Library Street
Hudson NH

RE: Right to Know Request
RE: Right to Know Request per RSA-91A

Pursuant to the Right to Know Law (RSA. 91-A), I am requesting public access, within 5 business days, to the governmental records reasonably described as follows:

1. How much federal and state funds did the Hudson School district receive for Covid?
2. A breakdown on how those funds were spent.

Per RSA 91-A:4 IV(c) If you deny any portion of this request, please cite the specific exemption used to justify the denial to make each record, or part thereof, available for inspection along with a brief explanation of how the exemption applies to the information withheld.

Please let me know when these records are available for inspection, or you may email the records to me at yrrets@aol.com
Thank you for your lawful attention to this matter.

Sincerely,
Teresa Stewart
Hudson, NH 03051

From: Gary Gasdia <ggasdia@sau81.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2023 9:01 AM
To: Daniel Moulis <dmoulis@sau81.org>
Cc: yrrets@aol.com
Subject: Fwd: Right to Know Request

Ms. Stewart,

I am forwarding this on to the Superintendent who will be able to handle this request.

Thanks,

Gary

From: Daniel Moulis <dmoulis@sau81.org>
Date: 1/10/23 10:19 PM (GMT-05:00)
To: yrrets@aol.com
Cc: Gary Gasdia <ggasdia@sau81.org>, Jennifer Burk <jburk@sau81.org>
Subject: RE: Right to Know Request

Ms. Stewart,

I am in receipt of the Right to Know Request and I will provide this correspondence to Ms. Burk, Business Administrator to provide this information.

Dan Moulis

Superintendent

From: yrrets <yrrets@aol.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2023 6:32 PM
To: Daniel Moulis <dmoulis@sau81.org>
Cc: Gary Gasdia <ggasdia@sau81.org>; Jennifer Burk <jburk@sau81.org>
Subject: [PROBABLE SPAM] RE: Right to Know Request

The information I requested per my RTK was due today,  I have not received it.

From: Jennifer Burk jburk@sau81.org
Sent: Monday, January 16, 2023 9:47 AM
To: yrrets yrrets@aol.com; Daniel Moulis dmoulis@sau81.org
Cc: Gary Gasdia ggasdia@sau81.org
Subject: RE: [PROBABLE SPAM] RE: Right to Know Request

Please note that today is a school holiday and all schools & offices are closed.

We received $449,195.37 in CARES funding which was used in the following ways:

• To help with cleaning our buses ($37,089.50)
• Add hotspots for students ($2,035.70)
• Software for ELL students ($4,500)
• Stipends for summer work to support returning to school ($260.30)
• To purchase cleaning supplies for our buildings ($181,722.77)
• Purchase food for remote meals for students ($13,617.24)
• Purchase additional laptops for students ($89,274)
• Software for general remote learning ($72,868.81)
• Materials for Presentation of Mary Academy ($3,406.58)
• Equipment for Presentation of Mary Academy ($44,420.47)

We received an allocation of $1,816,122.62 from ESSER II, and to date we’ve budgeted $1,794,562.80 of it, and received $1,374,398.07 in reimbursements:

• Additional software to support staff & students ($338,224.81)
• Indirect costs (offset administrative expenses – $42,537.82)
• Summer Scholars (staff, materials, transportation & food service – $1,038,063.11)
• Signage for communications ($39,940.90)
• Teaching Assistants ($109,803.60)
• Instructional Coaches ($225,992.56)

The ESSER III allocation is $4,082,746.60, we’ve budgeted $3,579,401.04 and received $1,475,748.37 in reimbursement to date:

• Software to support staff & students ($455,955.87)
• Indirect costs ($62,977.48)
• Schoology Master Trainer stipend for staff ($25,730)
• Curriculum Materials, Programming & Setup ($116,240)
• Referral Bonus budget ($45,034.50)
• Retention Stipend budget ($631,312.07)
• Instructional Coach ($112,996.28)
• Curriculum Coordinator ($144,104.75)
• Website upgrade ($18,000)
• Laptop carts ($36,000)
• Facilities Cleaning ($32,000)
• Additional Staffing to support transition to in-person learning ($77,818.79)
• Pathways staffing for 2 years ($350,273.69)
• Class size reduction staffing ($201,381.42)
• High School summer programming ($49,216.28)
• SEL Interventionists for 2 years ($597,758.26)
• EBD Counselors ($325,261.58)
• Math & Reading Tutors ($297,340.07)

Jennifer Burk
Business Administrator
Hudson School District
jburk@sau81.org

From: Daniel Moulis <dmoulis@sau81.org>
Date: 1/17/23 8:09 PM (GMT-05:00)
To: yrrets <yrrets@aol.com>
Cc: Gary Gasdia <ggasdia@sau81.org>, Jennifer Burk <jburk@sau81.org>
Subject: RE: [PROBABLE SPAM] RE: Right to Know Request

Good evening,

The following message was sent yesterday by Ms. Burk regarding the Right to Know request.

Dan Moulis
Superintendent

The post Right to Know – How Did Hudson Use Their COVID Money? appeared first on Granite Grok.

There are a number of original source materials available for studying the U.S. Constitution, including notes on the 1787 Constitutional Convention and articles written in favor of ratification (The Federalist) and against (the anti-federalist papers). The ratification debates held in the various State ratifying conventions are also very informative.

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At the January 10, 2023, Board of Alderman Special meeting for the City of Nashua on the development of the Mohawk Tannery/Fimbel Door property and the EPA superfund clean-up of the property.

The presentation by Blaylock Holdings and Thorndike was very well done; however, a lot of questions remain unanswered, and I would caution the Board to proceed slowly and methodically to fully vet this project that was described by Director Cummings as a complicated and complex project with “lots of fragilities,” “built on a house of cards” with elements stack on top of each other.

Observation 1: The City of Nashua had to make more concessions than Blaylock. However, Blaylock will be making a lot more money off this property than the City of Nashua taxpayers. If you just take the following as an estimate:

Apts         192    $1,500.00 per month – Annually, Blaylock will get $3,456,000

Condos   316   $400,000 per unit – Blaylock will make $126,400,000 on all units sold.

Observation 2: It should be noted that the property taxes owed is a combination of actual back taxes and interest. It is not the $1,000,000 stated by Mr. Cummings during the meeting.

Principal      $304,657.72
Interest        $926,997.62

Total        $1,231,655.34

This may not seem like a significant amount of money, but given that taxpayers have received no tax money on this property for 34 years, coupled with the new assessments and new tax rate, every million counts.

Observation 3: The presentation showed a payment of $300,000 for the Mohawk/Fimbel Property.  Who is getting this money?  Mohawk owes the above amount of $1,231,655.34, and Fimbel has not been charged any property taxes since 2002.  Therefore any money paid for these properties should be given to the City of Nashua. This should not be a talking point, and/or is this another concession that the City of Nashua is making?

It also does not mention how much Blaylock will be paying the City of Nashua for the two pieces of property that they want to acquire.  One slide stated that the cost to acquire the ROW parcel will be determined and added to the development equity.  What does this mean in plain English in terms of the money transacted?

Currently, the City of Nashua has assessed the Mohawk properties as follows:

Parcel                 2023 Assessment       Acres

L Intervale             $240,900               14.44

11 Warsaw                $25,000                 6.85

L Hughey St             $84,300                   .15

L Hughey St              $73,100                   .08

L Hughey St             $80,700                   .17

66 Fairmount           $39,100                 7.70

L Fox St                               $0                  4.98

$543,100               34.37

If the city has assessed these lands with value, then why is the city willing to walk away from their value? Should this be a concession by the City?

Observation 4: The Affordable Housing part of the city has taken the $75,000 per unit and brought it down to $37,000.  Benefit for Blaylock and a concession for the city. Why? If the city is agreeing to bring down the number of units, then why cannot Blaylock pay the full price per unit of $75,000?  I understand that Blaylock is funding some environmental remediation; however, if the properties were not contaminated, Blaylock would have to pay that price just for the land, if not more.

To sum up :

City                                               Blaylock

Loan*          $2,500,000.00                           $3,367,844.00

Loan*          $2,000,000.00                             $500,000.00

Walkway     $3,000,000.00                                          $0.00

Write Off    $1,231,655.34 (back taxes + int)            $0.00

$8,731,655.34                             $3,867,844.00

*Does not include interest

On the Environmental Remediation Sources, there is a note that Blaylock is to repay the $500,000 balance plus accrued interest at the time the RIF bond is put in place.  This requires further “plain English” explanation (RIF?).

Observation 5: The Parkway Widening & Signalization is listed in the presentation material at $750,000, and the Parkway Drainage Relocation cost at $290,000.  Is this another City concession?  What is the rationale for the City covering these costs and not the developer? Is this typical for new developments?

Observation 6 – Is there a traffic study being done, and who is paying for that? What is the estimated cost for this study?

Observation 7: On the Projected Tax Revenue sheet, it appears that the figures did not add up. I say that because, currently, the city has just reassessed the properties, and it does not appear that Blaylock is being charged on these new assessments.  Is this another City concession?

Observation 8: Who pays for the Interest Reserve Balance as shown on the Projected Tax Revenue?

Observation 9: The Blaylock representative stated in the presentation that the apartments would be constructed first.  I assumed that Blaylock would want the current rent in order to have additional funds on hand; however, the physical report shows that Blaylock will do more Condos than apartments. Was this just a mistake, and/or did the city want to show more income coming from Blaylock?

Observation 10: Your report also shows a tax rate of $23.22, which was the rate for 2021 and not $18.07, the 2022 current rate.  Your report numbers would come down substantially.

Also, looking at your figures and using the old tax rate, you have given incorrect numbers on the report:

EXAMPLE

• 1 apt      – $130,000 times tax rate is $3,018.16 in collected taxes – times 57 units is $172,060 and not the $179,920 shown in the report.
• 1 condo – $225,000 time tax rate is $5,224.50 in collected taxes – times 63 units is $329,144 and not the $344,178 shown in the report.

It also seems strange that Blaylock stated that their budget is $125 million dollars; however, if using the City’s figures, the valuation of the property is only $101,000,000 for both apartments and condos.  Blaylock would be going into this project with a loss of $24,000,000, which I think is highly unlikely.

Observation 11: If anyone in the city wants to review a past project, they should look into the Cotton Mill Project.  Because the developer purchased the land with contamination and the State of New Hampshire gave them a break of all property taxes for six years, and therefore the Nashua taxpayer did not get the full property taxes for six years (see below).  Will this also happen with Mohawk?  Another concession against the Nashua taxpayers?

Cotton Mill Taxes Collected

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Why does it seem that the burden is always on the Nashua taxpayers?

It just does not seem right that the Nashua Taxpayers should pay more than Blaylock because they will be benefiting in the future from all the rents that they will collect.  However, the City of Nashua budget will go up to accommodate all the additional services necessary to accommodate approximately 1,000 new residents.

Observation 12: If that is the case, would Nashua be better off just cleaning up the land with the EPA and selling the property once completed? If the city did do the remediation, they could put the EPA money of $6,000,000 and the city adding in $5,527,299 to add up to the total Clean-up of $11,427,399. Once the land is cleaned up, the city could sell the land for $5,155,500 ($150,000 new rate for an area) at minimum. It would be the responsibility of the investor to come in and widen the Parkway and redo the Parkway drainage.  At this point, the Nashua Taxpayers can actually recoup some of the monies that we have paid out on this project.

I think before any city officials vote on any changes for this land, many more questions need to be asked and answered.

The burden should not fall on the Nashua taxpayers’ shoulders. Period.

 

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We’ve drawn more than a few conclusions connecting the Climate and COVID Cults. It’s not complicated. They are run by the same lot of hooligans. The same media, lies, flanking maneuvers, and cover-ups when things go sideways. And here’s another one.

Related: What if COVID is in 2020 What Climate Change was in 1980?

Two graphs. One is COVID cases with a line marking the (Dec 2020) introduction of the vaccine*. You can see that despite all the do-si-doses and boosters and whatnot, the rise in cases is effectively unchanged. Constant.

 

 

I will offer one caveat. Not everyone is doing as much reporting as they once did, so it’s likely this number is undercounted, which makes matters worse for both the COVID Cult and their magic elixir. And yes, the crappy PCR test has always skewed the numbers. The Cultists were happy to use them then, and so shall we now, knowing that it’s a wash in both directions and the vaccine is still crap (without going down the “it makes it easier to catch” rabbit hole).

The second graph (from National Observer.com) is a dramatic, dirty-looking representation of emitted atmospheric CO (as measured at Mauna Loa) with a list of climate summits/treaties.

 

 

They fly their private jets to these CO2 circle jerks and glad-hand each other for but one purpose. How best to redistribute western wealth laundered through the hands of the jet-setters who show up.

What else could it be?

If lowering global emissions was the goal, they’ve done a lousy-ass job of it, which suggests that, like The Jab, these were likely never conceived (or at least sustained) as anything but money-laundering tools.

Related: Warren Breaks 7th Seal – Blames Coronavirus on Climate Change

What, aside from wasting trillions to accomplish nothing, have they managed? They’ve changed the name of it a few times. They decided that the tipping point wasn’t 2 Deg C. It was 1.5C. Do I hear one? How about point seven-five? Screw it. We’re tipping … we need global Marxism Now!

Did you know that there are actual climate experts who will tell you that CO2 is not only NOT a driver of the earth’s climate, but the earth’s alleged “greenhouse effect” isn’t either. That this construction is a simpletons ruse to distract non-experts from trusting any actual science?

Others note that 1.5C (remember, 2C) is not a tipping point anywhere or everywhere. Repeating that can get you labeled a science denier, except that we’ve passed 1.5C more than once in various parts of the world, and nothing happened. No tipping, No points (unless the massive expansion of greening, farmland and crop yields counts). And that’s because it’s a made-up number with no basis in reality in either cause or effect.

The models they insist are proven right are always wrong. They can’t even achieve the least scary made-up line on their forever-moving goalposts. And so it was with COVID, which turned out to be 99.97%, not life-ending.

Both graphs share symmetry, history, histrionics, and fraud.

In both instances, the response (the government) is the threat, which continues to be true.

 

 

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It’s getting close to the NH GOP Annual Meeting. This has not gone unnoticed by GraniteGrok. Per our usual practice in races that grab our interest, the authors at GraniteGrok all had the opportunity to vote for various positions.

 

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That’s all of our authors. The candidate with the most votes got the endorsement, so who did we choose?

GraniteGrok.com endorsements for the following races:

 

Chair: Chris Ager

Vice-Chair: Christine Peters

Treasurer:  Dawn Johnson

Regional Vice Chairman 5: JR Hoell.

 

If you remember, we endorsed Chris Ager for RNC Committeeman two years ago. We have seen nothing that has caused us to question our endorsement – he continues to be even-handed and thoughtful and puts the concerns of the Party over any individual.

He has voted for the Platform even as he made it known that he sometimes disagrees with it BUT embraced the fact that he represented the NH GOP members, who crafted the Platform, to the Republican National Committee.

A standup guy and a gentleman (but be careful of that titanium fist within the velvet glove). Upon being told of our endorsement, he quickly dashed this to us:

 

I am pleased to be endorsed by the GraniteGrok. If elected, I will work for the entire Republican party and our platform.

 

We also believe that Dawn Johnson is the most suitable candidate for Treasurer. She’s a hard worker, knows her stuff, and is devoted to the Platform as well.

GraniteGrok has known JR Hoell for years and what impresses us is his willingness to do “the right things” and be “that right guy” even as everyone else is excoriating him. The Party needs that that kind of person as the contrarian, as often, the contrarian turns out to be right and keeps everyone else from running off the Left cliff.

There is that need for someone to come in and weigh things from a different direction than others. And being an engineer, he does have a different viewpoint that is more than just political.

As always, individual Groksters can and will issue their personal endorsements as “the Spirit” moves them.

In my case, I am endorsing Mark Alliegro for Regional Vice Chair 1.

 

Note: Votes were collected from our authors via email over the first two weeks of January.

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During the Obama Era (early years), the idea of the one-percenter took hold. We can thank the Marxist Occupy Wall Street movement for making it stick. But if we are the 99%, and they also pretend to care about “emissions” and the Climate, it might be time to occupy some brain cells.

New research indicates that if emissions are a concern, the one percent and the 0.1% need to address their emissions equity problem.

A bunch of researchers associated with universities in Massachusetts has published a report titled, “Assessing U.S. consumers’ carbon footprints reveals outsized impact of the top 1%.” It’s dry and painfully dull for almost anyone (like most Supreme Court Rulings), but the highlight reels can be illuminating.

 

From 1996 to 2019, national average household emissions declined 16%, from 49.4 to 41.7 t CO2e (t). Deciles 1–9 show net declines between 16 and 23%. Decile 10 likewise shows an overall decline (6%). However, when decile 10 is broken into the top 1% and next 9%, we find an interesting divergence. The next 9% behaves like deciles 1–9 and declined 14%. Conversely, we estimate the top 1% emissions increased 23%. This is dominated by the top 0.1% increasing emission 50%, …”

 

The Climate Cult should consider you a good citizen (and good luck getting them to tell you that). Over the past two-plus decades, you’ve reduced your “emissions” by 16%. Even a few very well-off folks have matched you in their emissions reduction. But when you get to that blessed one percent (Gates, Soros, etc.), a few of whom are the loudest voices preaching “emissions” mythology, emitted 23% more over that period.

The Top 0.1% increased their emissions by 50% (which includes the Obamas, Pelosis, Kerrys, Kennedys, and more).

If you are wondering who else some of those folks are, at least a few flew private jets to Davos, Switzerland, this week. They have “emitted” to plot ways to take more from you in the name of whatever false god they care to name. Climate, Public Health, and Over-Population are currently quite popular deities in the New World Order Pantheon. They have gathered to worship and offer sacrifice: you or your lifestyle.

But suppose the accumulation of CO2 puts an endangered bee in your globalist climateer bonnet than accumulated wealth (odds are it’s both). In that case, the 1% and the 0.1% could immediately impact your imagined crisis by setting an example instead of trying to make one out of us.

How about that for a reset?

 

 

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You may give little thought to hormones except during times of your life when it’s obvious they’re wreaking havoc, like menopause or puberty. However, hormones are essential chemical messengers produced by the endocrine glands that affect our bodies on many levels, from our organs to metabolism, mood, and even mental health. There are many symptoms of a hormone imbalance, and depending on which hormones or glands are working correctly, your symptoms will vary. Common signs of hormone imbalance are weight gain or loss, fatigue, muscle aches and tenderness, sweating, depression, acne, and dry skin. 

Hormonal imbalance symptoms can also mimic the symptoms of other health conditions, some benign and others more concerning, so it’s important to consult with your GP to determine the cause of your symptoms, but if they have determined they’re hormone related, keep reading for effective ways to balance your hormones and potentially get relief. 

Regular Exercise 

We all know that routine physical exercise is a cornerstone to health and well-being and can also be the answer to restoring hormonal balance. Getting enough exercise greatly influences your hormonal health, so aim to get at least thirty minutes of exercise five days a week. This will enhance hormone receptor sensitivity. 

Fix Your Gut 

Your gut is also known as your second brain – did you know that Serotonin is produced in your gut? The connection from our gut to the rest of our bodies, including hormone balance, is well documented. You can get your gut healthier through pre and probiotic use, eating fermented food, and a more nutrient-dense diet. 

Regular Sleep 

Sleep is a critical time for our bodies when they undergo a restoration on deep cellular levels. While insomnia is rare, almost 40% of Americans report difficulty falling asleep and staying asleep. When dealing with hormonal balance problems, lack of sleep only exacerbates them. Hormone levels rise and fall throughout the day based on your sleep quality, so curating a nighttime routine conducive to good sleep is paramount. 

Supplements to Balance Hormones 

There are supplements available that have been shown to help with hormonal issues. Incorporating a supplement to balance hormones into your healthy lifestyle is a great addition to helping you feel back to normal quickly. These supplements generally help calm, center, and uplift your mood – things that need help when dealing with a hormonal imbalance. Most hormonal supplements contain key ingredients like 5-HTP, Vitamin A, Glutathione, and Vitamin B5. 

Reducing Stress 

We know that stress is referred to as the silent killer – because it can be the root of many health ailments, from serious ones like cancer and heart design to more treatable ones like anxiety. Stress can also worsen hormonal imbalance symptoms, so limiting your stress can do wonders for your symptoms. Work on setting boundaries and learning healthy ways to cope with everyday stress. 

Healthy Fats 

While it used to be a trend to eat as fat-free as possible, today, we know better. Science supports the importance of eating healthy fats to help maintain balanced hormones, which will help with your appetite and metabolism. Healthy fats are easily obtained through foods like avocados, cheeses, eggs, dark chocolate, nuts, and fatty fish. Try to incorporate more of these foods into your home meals. 

Stay a Healthy Weight 

If your hormone imbalances are due to menopause, losing weight or maintaining a healthy weight can feel impossible, but it is possible, and it’s an important step to take in balancing hormones. Obesity is related to a lack of ovulation in women, so if you’re younger and having fertility issues, losing weight can also help. Trying to stay in the appropriate calorie range for current height and weight can be significantly impactful, as well as maintaining regular physical exercise, as mentioned earlier. 

When our hormones are out of balance, it can feel like the imbalance impacts all areas of our lives, from the mental to the physical, and it’s true, the imbalance does. By implementing the above methods to manage your hormone imbalance, you can start the journey to feeling like yourself again. While no silver bullet exists for any medical condition, these have been shown to help. Always consult with your GP if your condition changes or worsens. Here’s to your health!

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How do you trust a government that continuously sidesteps the Constitution and undermines our rights? You can’t.

When you consider all the ways “we the people” are being bullied, beaten, bamboozled, targeted, tracked, repressed, robbed, impoverished, imprisoned, and killed by the government, one can only conclude that you shouldn’t trust the government with your privacy, your property, your life, or your freedoms.

Consider for yourself.

Don’t trust the government with your privacy, digital or otherwise. In the two decades since 9/11, the military-security industrial complex has operated under a permanent state of emergency that, in turn, has given rise to a digital prison that grows more confining and inescapable by the day. Wall-to-wall surveillance, monitored by AI software and fed to a growing network of fusion centers, render the twin concepts of privacy and anonymity almost void. By conspiring with corporations, the Department of Homeland Security “fueled a massive influx of money into surveillance and policing in our cities, under a banner of emergency response and counterterrorism.” For instance, all across the country, police are installing Flock Safety license plate readers as part of a public-private partnership program between police and the surveillance industry. These cameras, which upload data in real time to fusion crime centers, signal a turning point in the transition from a police state to a police-driven surveillance state.

Don’t trust the government with your property. In yet another effort to legitimize warrantless searches, police are employing “hit-and-hold” tactics in which police enter a home, carry out an initial sweep of the property, handcuff the occupants, then wait for official search warrants to be secured and applied retroactively. In the meantime, police have managed to bypass the Fourth Amendment. The rationale, to prevent possible destruction of evidence, is the same one used to deadly effect with no-knock raids. If government agents can invade your home, break down your doors, kill your dog, damage your furnishings and terrorize your family, your property is no longer private and secure—it belongs to the government. Hard-working Americans are having their bank accounts, homes, cars electronics and cash seized by police under the assumption that they have allegedly been associated with some criminal scheme.

Don’t trust the government with your finances. The U.S. government—and that includes the current administration—is spending money it doesn’t have on programs it can’t afford, and “we the taxpayers” are being forced to foot the bill for the government’s fiscal insanity. The national debt is $31.3 trillion and growing, and we’re paying more than $300 billion in interest every year on that public debt, yet there seems to be no end in sight when it comes to the government’s fiscal insanity. According to Forbes, Congress has raised, extended or revised the definition of the debt limit 78 times since 1960 in order to allow the government to essentially fund its existence with a credit card.

Don’t trust the government with your health. For all intents and purposes, “we the people” have become lab rats in the government’s secret experiments, which include MKULTRA and the U.S. military’s secret race-based testing of mustard gas on more than 60,000 enlisted men. Indeed, you don’t have to dig very deep or go very back in the nation’s history to uncover numerous cases in which the government deliberately conducted secret experiments on an unsuspecting populace—citizens and noncitizens alike—making healthy people sick by spraying them with chemicals, injecting them with infectious diseases and exposing them to airborne toxins. Unfortunately, the public has become so easily distracted by the political spectacle out of Washington, DC, that they are altogether oblivious to the grisly experiments, barbaric behavior and inhumane conditions that have become synonymous with the U.S. government, which has meted out untold horrors against humans and animals alike.

Don’t trust the government with your life: At a time when growing numbers of unarmed people have been shot and killed for just standing a certain way, or moving a certain way, or holding something—anything—that police could misinterpret to be a gun, or igniting some trigger-centric fear in a police officer’s mind that has nothing to do with an actual threat to their safety, even the most benign encounters with police can have fatal consequences. The number of Americans killed by police continues to grow, with the majority of those killed as a result of police encounters having been suspected of a non-violent offense or no crime at all, or during a traffic violation. According a report by Mapping Police Violence, police killed more people in 2022 than any other year within the past decade. In 98% of those killings, police were not charged with a crime.

Don’t trust the government with your freedoms. For years now, the government has been playing a cat-and-mouse game with the American people, letting us enjoy just enough freedom to think we are free but not enough to actually allow us to live as a free people. Freedom no longer means what it once did. This holds true whether you’re talking about the right to criticize the government in word or deed, the right to be free from government surveillance, the right to not have your person or your property subjected to warrantless searches by government agents, the right to due process, the right to be safe from militarized police invading your home, the right to be innocent until proven guilty and every other right that once reinforced the founders’ belief that this would be “a government of the people, by the people and for the people.” On paper, we may be technically free, but in reality, we are only as free as a government official may allow.

Whatever else it may be—a danger, a menace, a threat—the U.S. government is certainly not looking out for our best interests, nor is it in any way a friend to freedom.

Remember the purpose of a good government is to protect the lives and liberties of its people.

Unfortunately, what we have been saddled with is, in almost every regard, the exact opposite of an institution dedicated to protecting the lives and liberties of its people.

As I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People and in its fictional counterpart The Erik Blair Diaries, “we the people” should have learned early on that a government that repeatedly lies, cheats, steals, spies, kills, maims, enslaves, breaks the laws, overreaches its authority, and abuses its power at almost every turn can’t be trusted.

 

 

Republished with Permission from The Tenth Amendment Center

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“Investigators” (doing business as Biden’s Lawyers) continue searching for misplaced Obama-Era classified documents ferreted away by his former Vice President. And if they are being honest, they could be anywhere.

Related: All 128,000 Hunter Biden Laptop Emails Plus Ashley Biden’s Entire Diary

China, Ukraine, anywhere Joe found himself at any point, though the exact number of locations is not clear.

“The Vodka is a little cloudy on this one. Joe likes to embellish his history,” said one investigator. “Every time he opens his mouth, we find a new list of possible locations to search. Places he might have been or revisited in recent years and left something for which the general population does not have clearance.”

One team located some suspect material between the conditioner and shampoo in Ashley Biden’s shower.

“They’ve got a history, so it’s something we had to look at.”

The documents were a bit damp, but teams are reviewing the material to ensure it is not overly sensitive. Ashley was not interrogated as to whether she had read the documents or if Hunter had stopped by to freshen up.

“There was a used crack pipe and some pornography in the bathroom, but Ashley assured us that it belonged to one of the homeless people she was helping “get back on their feet.”

“They don’t have bathrooms,” she said.

Ashley has no known connection to Republicans or Donald Trump, so we took her word for it. Those Bidens are givers; no one could ever suspect them of any wrongdoing, even with sensitive documents lying around.

“And it’s not like the Chinese Government had established a real-time hack to a secret server while she was Secretary of State.”

Ashley Biden has, of course, never been Secretary of State, so, of course not.

 

*If you did not realize, this is a parody. Well, most of it is.

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As promised in the last Monday Memes, I have an overflow. My meme cup runneth over.  Certain about a Friday Overflow-Overflow.

Also, for those prepper-minded, my last two Survival Sundays:

Survival Sunday – Sunday PREP Edition – Granite Grok

Survival Sunday – Thursday SITREP Edition – Granite Grok

Now, let the mayhem, mockery, and ridicule resume:

 

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

 

 

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This strikes me as SO typical of Democrats.  It’s like how they bragged about gas coming DOWN to $3-odd a gallon when their policies were what raised it to $4+ a gallon first.  The problem is that it works on the average sheeple.  More on Democrats:

 

 

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Any good or service costs.  And if “free” to one person, someone else is paying for it; often, someone is having to do that service or get you that good.  More important, if you are DUE whatever it is, someone else is OBLIGATED to pay & provide for whatever it is.  And that’s slavery: i.e., the forcible coopting of the output of someone else’s labor.

 

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I can’t say I like Vox Day, but IMHO he is a sharp person.  And I like to learn from sharp people, even if I disagree with them on some things.  So… it was from his book SJWs Always Lie that I learned something very similar – that while technology is a factor in victory, and weapons are a factor, and numbers are a factor, it is very often the side that wants it the most that prevails.  Consider the quote that I embedded here, from here, about America and wars:

In fact, we have abandoned everyone who has ever helped us in a major conflict since 1953. Since Vietnam, our adversaries have learned that all it takes to defeat the most powerful, technologically advanced military that has ever existed is to simply be patient. We think in two- to four-year election cycles, whereas our enemies think in decades to centuries. When you’re up against supersonic fighters, ten carrier strike groups, stealth bombers, and the most elite force on the planet, all you must do is wait it out. Poke and prod and kill enough Americans to keep the war on the front page of the news, and eventually, an election cycle will come up with the slogan: “Bring our boys home.”

This gives us some clues about victory in this war we’re in.  Yes, they’re missionaries:

 

 

But we have an advantage over them.  They’re terrified of dying… death being what they see as the final end for them.

IMHO – and obviously I’m NOT wanting spicy time – if it happens, the more you bring the hurt to the masses supporting the globalists, the more pressure they’ll be under to back down.  Especially if the hurt can be applied to those most enthusiastic.  They’ve been made to believe that they’re invincible; but nobody’s invincible to someone determined & skilled, who can hit a few-inches circle from 400+ yards.

FYI, that’s not a recommendation.  It is, however, a warning.

The 2nd Amendment is Obsolete, Says Congressman Who Wants To Nuke Omaha | Monster Hunter Nation

 

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SHOULD BE.  But they won’t.  Instead they’ll be white-hot furious at we, the unwashed deplorables, for being more perceptive than their uber-educated selves.

 

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Pick of the post:

 

 

If these were actual refugees, there’d be women and children a-plenty.  This is an invasion force.  With a lot of speculation that they’ll be married to prepositioned equipment soon and loosed on the natives.  Related, refugees my <censored>:

Ukrainian Refugees In Britain Are Going Home For Medical Treatment Rather Than Endure NHS Waiting-Times | ZeroHedge

Please note that in the above, this is not meant to disparage those genuinely impacted by this war… or any war.  Or those killed.  But if, as a Telegram-friend said, Syrians go back to Syria for vacations, it’s not a refugee situation at all.

 

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Tucker Carlson: Voters are no longer in charge

 

 

To which I say TINVOWOOT, er…

 

 

 

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Palate cleansers:

 

 

Smart critter.

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A New Hampshire Resident sent a letter of concern to the US Attorney in Concord New Hampshire. It happens to be Jane Young, who will not be a stranger to our readers. In the letter, the resident asks, about child exploitation.

“I’m writing to make sure the DOJ is aware of the child exploitation and obscene content that exists in our K-12 schools in NH and around the country.”

 

The US Attorney, Jane Young, responds,

 

I am in receipt of your correspondence sent to our office on January 10, 2023. On behalf of the United States Attorney, I am writing to inform you that your allegations do not provide an adequate basis to commence a federal criminal investigation or prosecution at this time.

 

US Attorney Young then explains that her office “is not a law enforcement agency and does not conduct its own criminal investigations.” And maybe it is not, but now I’m going to have to figure out what the media means when it says this or that the US Attorney’s office (like, say, the southern district of New York) is investigating this or that alleged illegality.

I think we can say without error that the material that the author contends is dangerous to kids is being moved across state lines, either physically or electronically. This would make it federal as if it were the product of some anti-vaxxer insulting  Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee.

This is, of course, New Hampshire, and Jane Young’s letter is a safe stand to take. The odds that anyone is going to investigate grooming or any sexualization of children here are unlikely. Not if it will embarrass the Granite State Elites. Why do you think Ghislaine Maxwell chose the Granite State as a place to hide?

If there were a way for the Granite State Elites to make it work for them, sure, they’d be all over it, but otherwise, no.

Anyway, here is the entire letter to the US Attorney’s office in Concord and the response from that office. Take it as you will or for what it is worth and as always, feel free to reply in comments or send us an op-ed.

 

 

“I’m writing to make sure the DOJ is aware of the child exploitation and obscene content that exists in our K-12 schools in NH and around the country.” I’m seeing serious dangers in my kids’ online Sora Student Library App and other apps like it. Our public school uses Spotify which also poses a legitimate danger to students.

Spotify is the easiest trap for students to fall into. All they have to do is mistakenly put in 2 commas (or more) into their search bar. Doing that search brings up recordings of sex and child abuse. Offenders can share content with children that is graphically inappropriate. I was quickly listening to someone having an orgasm. Our kids are aware of this. This two comma  “glitch” has already been exposed on social media. Please open a Spotify account and test this for yourself. Scroll down and see what is really available to listen to when you put in 2 commas (or many commas). I stopped on something with orgasm in the title. And that is what I heard, a recording of a foreign woman pleasing herself. That’s not exactly what I want my kids listening to while they are at school. I know there is much worse to listen to (and share with offenders through the app) but I stopped there. I left you a screenshot of what comes up when I do the search. This can’t remain. It’s unsafe for students. They can be legitimately exploited through this app. As I research, I’m seeing several videos of ways kids can get exploited through Spotify. If nothing else, schools around the country should be warned of these dangers. Kids are at risk.

I would also like to inform you about the Sora Student Library App. I have found a dozen or so books that I feel contain illegal sexually explicit obscene content. Even worse, I found links for kids to adult dating sites for sex. I found it to be quite exploitative to children.

Let me explain. Many schools around my state use what is called the Sora Student Library App’s “The New Hampshire Shared Collection”. This library collection of online books contains hyperlinks to adult dating apps, child pornography, obscene adult content  and images inappropriate for children. Most seriously it has dangerous hyperlinks to unwanted sites such as Match.com and the author’s direct contact information. That sounds great until you suspect the author is a sex offender chatting with your kids. The embedded hyperlink to match.com is found in the area of the kid’s book that is entitled “How Sex Apps Work”. I’m not kidding. Watch my video. It’s about a minute long.

I worked as a sex offender counselor and have experience in calling out sexual boundary violations and criminal behavior. I know the harms that can result from early childhood sexual abuse and grooming from adults. I understand the impact of that embedded hyperlink. I know how widely this book is distributed through this app. The likelihood of at least one kid connecting to adults (for sex) through this link is high. And highly illegal I’d hope.

I’m aware that the NH Board of Education has notified the NH Attorney General’s Office that inappropriate content has been found. I pray it’s being taken seriously. I hope you contact Frank Edelblut, the Director of the NH Board of Ed, and the NH AG’s Office so everyone can work together to remedy this. I believe this is against our federal and state obscenity laws.

The most serious danger within this app is how our students are being hyperlinked to adults for sex. The video is an example of how some books just shouldn’t be available to our kids through student apps. I don’t believe parents want this book in the library with this embedded hyperlink. This book doesn’t educate what we strive to teach. Our Sex Ed curriculum does not include this book because we already have better. Circumventing the NH laws around curriculum, and putting this book in the library with an award on the front, is pretty sneaky. “This Book Is Gay” is advertised to the children when they open their app. It shows up in several different advertised sections in Sora. The Sora Student Library app is available to 53,000 school districts around the country. They may not all carry the same books, but “This Book Is Gay” (with the Match hyperlink) is widely distributed.  Tens of thousands of students are at risk.

Imagine going through the award winning section of your children’s library and finding it was almost all obscene sexualized content, like Grindr instructions? It’s eye opening when you really start to look. The award winning sections in Sora’s “NH Shared Collection” are the most explicit.

Our kids are legitimately getting exploited through the school’s apps. Blockers don’t help when the app itself is the problem. It’s distributing the inappropriate content as if it’s educational, when really it’s exploitation and porn. I hope you see these legitimate risks to our students and take some action. Again, if nothing else, warn schools that these dangers exist. Many have no idea and trust their online libraries without checking.

Here are a few resources if you wish to see what’s going on regarding books in schools.

Booklooks.org
Ratedbooks.org
Insideyourchildslibrary.com

NH Law:

https://www.nh.gov/nhsl/services/librarians/library_laws.html

 A PICO Analysis regarding the federal law:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/15Y_oihYPN0uORUyKRx_rdzZ010V_4-hF6PiDUtv4uQM/mobilebasic?fbclid=IwAR1OM7uTowiIbkMBQanMWvsSvARBqGaIvjRr6w-vYHJo2Nom311k_sxQbZ4&mibextid=Zxz2cZ

I appreciate your attention to this matter.

Respectfully submitted,

 

Response:

 

Jane Young US Attorney response to Letter on porn in schoolsduty letter 1-17-2023

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I was just at a meeting of the Croydon school board, and several times, when the question of how the students are doing came up, there was a rush — one might say a stampede — to offer excuses as to why it’s simply not possible to say in any objective way whether students are doing well enough to justify what we’re spending on them.

(Which is, it’s worth reminding ourselves often, about the cost of a house over the course of a K-12 education.)

Apparently, we can’t use anything like test scores, because those don’t tell the whole story.

The consensus among parents — who normally make up the bulk of the audience, showing up to protect their tax-subsidized 95% discount on day care — seems to be that we should just let the superintendent worry about it.

And if the superintendent says things are okay — because, for example, while a kid isn’t doing so well academically, he’s ‘excelling in extra-curricular activities’ —  we should take his word for it.

(If things seem too bleak, we can always just label the kid as ‘special needs’, in which case, all metrics become irrelevant, so even if the kid exhibits a ‘negative growth rate’ — yes, that’s an official term — then that’s still growth, so there’s nothing to worry about.)

Also, the consensus among parents seems to be that if they are happy, then it doesn’t really matter whether the people subsidizing them are happy.

From the taxpayer’s perspective, all of this is reminiscent of former basketball coach Bobby Knight’s advice that ‘if rape is inevitable, relax and enjoy it’.

But even if tests don’t tell the whole story, we don’t need the whole story.  What we need to know is whether kids are performing as expected for their grade levels, or even that they’re making reasonable progress compared to how they were doing last year.  And we really just need to know that for foundational skills like reading and mathematics.

But if these are things that we can’t test, then what the hell are we even doing?  How can we justify spending this much money on something without knowing how to tell whether or not we’re actually getting it?

I think we’ve reached this point because we have a vocabulary problem.  The parents are arguing that it’s difficult — even impossible — to say whether a kid is educated.  And there may be some basis for that, in that if you ask ten people what it means to be educated, you’ll get at least a dozen different answers.¹

But whatever else you can do, if you can’t

read a proposed statute or regulation and understand what behavior it’s supposed to punish or reward (and whether that’s consistent with the powers delegated to government under our written constitutions); or

look at a report written by a pharmaceutical company and re-issued by the CDC and tell whether the statistical methods being used are reasonable; or

tell the difference between an ad hominem attack and a substantive reply in a policy debate; and so on,

then you are uneducated.  And these are things we can demonstrate with tests.

As Article 83 of our state constitution reminds us, if you are uneducated, you are a danger to the preservation of a free government.

Which, by the way, is the answer to the question ‘Why is this guy paying to educate that guy’s kids?’

It’s not charity.  It’s not for the benefit of the parents (so they can have somewhere to park their kids while they make a living).  It’s not for the benefit of the kids (so they can have ‘bright futures’ or ‘get high-paying jobs’).  It’s not for the benefit of employers (so they can have a ‘reliable workforce’).  It’s for the protection of the rights of the people whose property is being appropriated in order to pay for it.

It’s right there in Part 1, Article 3 of the state constitution.  You can look it up.

And when we forget that, we end up with… well, what we have now.

 

¹  The state supreme court, in Claremont, gave its own definition:  you have an adequate education if you have the knowledge and learning necessary to participate intelligently in the American political, economic, and social systems of a free government.

Which means that, at the very least, taxpayers should ask of everything that they’re paying for:  For participation in which of these systems is it necessary to be able to weld, or hit a fastball, or play the tuba, or sew an apron, or speak French, and so on?

But I can tell you from experience that if you merely quote the court’s definition, you’ll be told that such an idea is ‘crazy’, that it is ‘too narrow a view of public education’, that it is a ‘detriment to our society’, and so on.

Apparently the court knows what it’s doing when it says that the state should spend more money; but not when it says what the state should get in return for that spending.

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