The Manchester Free Press

Saturday • May 4 • 2024

Vol.XVI • No.XVIII

Manchester, N.H.

PI DAY!

Granite Grok - Thu, 2024-03-14 08:00 +0000

Just a meme about March 14.  3.14.  Pi Day.

 

 

BTW, fun fact.  The fraction 355 / 113 is as close to exactly pi as you will need in your life.

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Night Cap: If Not For The Kids, Then What

Granite Grok - Thu, 2024-03-14 02:00 +0000

This grand experiment has failed. Hillary Clinton coined the phrase “It takes a village,” and Joe Biden said, “They are all our children.” They were referring to the cooperative effort of parents, teachers, and the government in co-parenting our future generations.

Through gaslighting, they convinced parents the job of raising children was insurmountable for Mom and Dad, and schools and the government were ready, able, and willing to lend a hand. This wonderful gesture was far from sincere. The “village” approach was part of the century-long process to indoctrinate and control our future by programming young generations. The final grade is in, and this village gets an F.

From falling test scores to promoting transgenderism, there is nothing positive these folks can point at to give credit to their efforts. They have removed God, patriotism, and parents from the early stages of development because they were impeding the process. What we have for the decades of this effort are kids glued to electronic devices, unable to perform basic math skills or read at a high school level. We have children with escalating absenteeism and suicide rates, and Fentanyl poisoning is the number one killer of young people between 18 and 45.

We are spending more effort to pass legislation to legalize marijuana and keep sexually explicit books in elementary school libraries than to elevate the quality of education. Drag queens can host reading hours in schools, but Christian-based groups are forbidden from the same. During COVID, school boards and teacher’s unions were exposed for their efforts to actively remove parents from the education process, and they fought efforts to promote charter schools or home-schooling.

We insist on space-age car seats for infants and helmets for bikers and skateboarders, yet we allow young men who identify as women to participate on the playing field with young women. When local and state governments have an opportunity to protect these female athletes, they scoff at any issues and fail to keep these girls from harm.

The New Hampshire House Education Committee recently considered HB1205, Protecting Women’s Sports. HB1205 goes to the House with NO recommendation, as the committee voted 10-10 along party lines. One of the most outrageous comments during the discussion came from Rep. Linda Tanner (D), Sullivan District 5. 

RE: the discussion about girls getting hurt playing sports with transgender students:

“Injuries sometimes happen in sports; in fact, that’s one of the fun things about it: you test your body to the limits, you’re trying to be as competitive as possible, and sometimes injuries happen. There have been NO INJURIES directly related to a trans person actually causing that injury outside of what it normally would be in an athletic event”…..” I’m ashamed to be a part of this bill..”

No, Ms Tanner, we are embarrassed you are a member of our state legislature. This statement is evidence of Representative Tanner’s irrational thinking and ignorance of the subject. Tell the high school volleyball player knocked unconscious when hit by a spike from a trans player on the opposing team that she was having fun. Months later, she is still plagued with migraines, dizzy spells, and blurred vision—such fun. Tell the three basketball players hurt in the first half of their basketball game when a trans player who was nearly a foot taller and fifty pounds heavier fouled them to the court and injured them-they were having a blast.

A transgender mixed-martial arts fighter who broke his female opponent’s skull is an intrepid hero who deserves to be celebrated as “the bravest athlete in history.” That’s the assessment of Cyd Zeigler, co-founder and blogger at Outsports, an LGBT-focused site that is part of left-wing digital media company Vox’s SB Nation network. You may have to read that twice to be sure you read it correctly. This trans-athlete issue goes beyond right and wrong and right to illogical and insanity.

If we cannot get a grip on this education system and government hee-bent on destroying our future, then we have no hope of saving this country. The country is in the hands of the young, and if those hands are busy holding electronic devices, the country will fall to the ground. The young people will hear about the demise of America from their favorite TikTok influencers.

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Bananas: Biden Gives Epic State of the Onion Address

Granite Grok - Thu, 2024-03-14 00:00 +0000

Despite having lower approval ratings than people who club baby seals, Joe Biden faced the nation last week to deliver the annual State of the Union address.  After a lengthy wait for him to arrive at the Capitol, where many wondered if he might have fallen or gotten lost, again, the gamey 80-year-old entered the house to a cacophony of groans and forced adulation as he made his way to the dais.

Hearty greetings from California Senator Stu Sycophant and New York representative Jerry Diddler, as well as a series of the once culturally relevant practice of taking selfies, was stopped abruptly when Georgia’s Margorie Taylor Greene, clad in red MAGA hat and a blazer barely hiding her AR-15, confronted the old codger to “say her name.”  The normally nimble octogenarian looked as if he’d seen the Grimm Reaper, who stood only a few feet behind him, before dutifully repeating “her name.”  Despite utterly missing the point, his sea of congressional fans erupted into applause at his first of many elementary cognitive victories for the evening.

The rumor mill had it on good intelligence that his speech writers had been working hard for weeks to craft the most inclusive and uniting speech in the history of inclusivity.  After the one-sided applause died down, he addressed the crowd and got off to a good start by stating “If I was smart I would go home right now”.  This would be his only statement that drew unanimous praise, and yet in sticking around, he proved the point many assumed he was making – that he is not smart and likely doesn’t know how to get home.

As the potent cocktail of Adderall, amphetamines, and adrenochrome passed the blood-brain barrier, the most powerful man in the world morphed into a raging orator with the singular focus of a death star laser beam.  As he launched into his Hitlerain woke-handwerk, he reminded his listeners this was “no ordinary moment”, which any eighty-year-old hopped up on Class A stimulants instead of in bed sleeping at that hour is likely to believe.

“Freedom and democracy are under attack!” he reiterated as it came through the microscopic earpiece.  The roomful of secret pedophiles jumped up in raucous applause reminiscent of a high school pep rally.  No sooner were they seated when their dear leader slur-screamed another preferred phrase, causing them to hop up again, and again, and again in what appeared to be a game of stationary musical chairs that would qualify as leg-day for most Crossfitters.

“Stand with Ukraine!”and “No American soldiers!” followed by a quote from the Democrat’s favorite president, Ronald Reagan—“Mr. Grab-a-chair tear down this wall”—had the crowd so overcome with excitement that they wept like a room full of Adam Kinzingers as they chanted, “Four more years!”

Of course, no speech would be complete without a reminder of the massive threat posed by Donald Trump and his band of insurrectionists who made Pearl Harbor look like the Boston Tea Party on January 6th.  Democracy and history were anthropomorphized, both threatened and “literally watching” on this night.  Yet the crowd of highly paid and easily manipulated political puppets was overcome as their speaker continued to avoid stroking out despite multiple veins bulging from his head that were large enough to be seen from space by the naked eye.

Second only to the hatred of Trump is the hatred of unborn babies who dare to seek citizenship in these United States, which is why the president vowed to reinvigorate the War on Fetuses by making Roe v. Wade the law of the land again.  Even Senator Bernie Sanders couldn’t mask his excitement despite literally wearing a mask.

After quickly consulting his note card, the teleprompter synced back up to his hearing device, guiding him through a litany of the emperor’s new successes.  “Consumer confidence is at an all-time high” which could be taken to mean consumers are confident the products they want to consume are at an all-time high.  His next statement was difficult to make out other than “Buy American,” which must have been aimed at the Chinese to whom he sold much of our strategic oil reserve.  Not yet tired from the seemingly endless set of Roman Catholic-like sit-to-stand-and-clap sessions, the indefatigable room erupted as Mr. Biden took a hard stance on shrink-flation and vowed to get both Snickers and Doritos in his crosshairs.  Hardly a more American moment has happened within the confines of this hallowed building.

Somehow, in between naps and vacation days, he says he will:

  • Lower drug prices – both legal and illegal
  • Adopt housing tax credits
  • Lower rents
  • Give us the best education system in the world – yes us
  • Give every three and four year-old child a running start
  • Stand up for seniors (which the crowd was clearly already doing)
  • Get rid of junk fees – not junkees – sorry red team
  • Reduce credit card fees
  • Pass a border bill and create a surveillance state to capture fentanyl
  • Stop the banning of child porn books in school libraries
  • Raise the federal minimum wage
  • Get behind transgender people
  • Stop climate change dead in its tracks
  • Create a climate change youth army he will personally triple in a decade if it kills him, assuming he’s still alive.

Then, borrowing a page from Vladimir Putin, he gave a brief history lesson referencing his old friend and former Grand Dragon Edmund Pettus, over whose bridge crossed the venerable John Lewis on his way to vote Democrat in the South in perpetuity.  Ahhh, those were the days.

A brief humble-brag about violent crime falling to the lowest levels in fifty years thanks to aggressive non-policing and anti-prosecuting of criminals was ironically paired with the need for more community officers.  We’re guessing they will simply stand around and cheer on all of the non-crime not taking place in our cities.  Like Morning Cup-a-Joe Scarborogh said, if you don’t see the man is a genius then F-U.

The make-a-wish foundation speech meandered on and on like an old man lost in a garden but managed to find its crescendo when the cantankerous codger artfully referenced Martin Luther King Jr. with an air of world-class pandering.  His speech writers, most likely Harvard grads, literally para-plagiarized the “I Have a Dream” speech by simply re-phrasing it to “I see a future” as the pasty mostly-ninety-year-old magically turned black before our very eyes.  After which he headed over to the congressional gymnasium for a game of one-one-five against Byron Donald, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Matt Gaetz, and Lauren Boobert.  The president won 11-0 after repeatedly dunking on the Republican team right in their faces.

So, with the election still to come, and the lingering question of whether or not black people will figure out how to vote, the president would like to remind you if you have a problem knowing whether to vote for Donald Trump or Joe Biden then you ain’t….

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The Deep State Wants to Control TikTok

Granite Grok - Wed, 2024-03-13 22:00 +0000

I know we have much, much, much more important things to worry about … like secession (that was sarcasm, for those of you who actually believe that secession can and should take the form of resolutions, etc. from State government).

But maybe you might want to take a few minutes to read this post from Sean Davis about the bill to “ban” TikTok that does no such thing. Instead, the bill allows the Deep State through its Big Tech proxies like Mark Zuckerberg (the Tech-tycoon who helped rig the 2020 election for Biden) to control TikTok.

On the other hand, if you refuse to believe that America is a corrupt empire in a precipitous and irreversible decline, despite all the evidence in plain view, don’t read it. Slava Ukraine!

 

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NH AG Didn’t Sign on To A Letter Calling Out Maine’s “Extraterritorial Bullying” [Update: Kidnapping/Child-Trafficking]

Granite Grok - Wed, 2024-03-13 22:00 +0000

Maine has legislation in the pipeline that would enshrine a right to puberty-blocking and transgender surgery. Maine can do what Maine wants to do, but according to Tennessee AG and fifteen other AGs, it ‘creates a private right of action for damages against law enforcement, prosecutors, and officials in other states.

As currently drafted, LD 227 violates the United States Constitution and flouts the federalist structure that allows each of our States to engage in self-government responsive to the will of our citizens. The Constitution’s Full Faith and Credit Clause, and federal statutes implementing it, mean no state cause of action should ever accrue from a different State lawfully enforcing its own permissible laws or executing valid judgments.

LD227 is titled “An Act Regarding Health Care in the State,” but I was unable to locate the full text of the bill, so we will have to take those sixteen AGs at their word. And it seems appropriate given their concerns. What is being sold as a way to protect “rights” appears to deny them to other states and those in these states tasked with enforcement of laws in those states.

According to sixteen state AGs, as written, Maine’s legislation infringes on other states’ rights and sets the table for regulator civil war.

From a practical perspective, LD 227’s ill-considered attempt to influence and intimidate officials in other States could also trigger a rapid tit-for-tat escalation that tears apart our Republic. One could easily envision a First Amendment Protection Act that creates state law liability for people, even people out of state, who seek to suppress purported hate speech, or a Second Amendment Protection Act that creates liability for those who seek to regulate firearms, or laws that impose harsh penalties on people who express support for one side or another in the war between Israel and Hamas. If one State does not like another State’s regulatory regime with respect to cars, or food, or alcohol distribution, or whatever else, it could create a tenuous jurisdictional hook to allow the same sort of extraterritorial bullying attempted by LD 227. State officials would be dragged into legal battles in far-flung jurisdictions, thwarting their ability to focus on protecting their own citizens consistent with their own duly-enacted laws.

We also know that New Hampshire’s AG, John Formella, is not concerned enough to add his name to the letter. None of the other New England states is represented, either. I guess they are okay with interstate bullying. Is that because they have plans to do something similar, they don’t see it surviving, and it is therefore not a threat? Are they fine with Maine infringing on the rights of residents in other sovereign states, or is it because they would like to legitimize puberty-blocking drugs and surgeries that even transgender advocates admit can lead to cancer or death?

Update: A reader sent me an infographic on LD227 that clarifies what it permits—child transition trafficking/kidnapping across state lines.

The Letter from the 16 AGs is below.

 

pr24-26MaineLetter transgender surgery

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Even More Thoughts on Reps’ Private Email Accounts

Granite Grok - Wed, 2024-03-13 20:00 +0000

With the Right To Know Tax, aka HB 1002, awaiting its big day in the House, many readers have already seen my first piece on private email addresses being used by members of the legislature for public business and my follow-up piece. As a result, there has been some discussion, which I’m pleased to say has been thoughtful and civil so far.

Many thanks to those who have weighed in, both private citizens and the elected. One rep, whose name I’ll withhold due to not having sought permission to quote, said the following:

“For what it is worth, I forward 100% of my Legislative email to my Gmail account. I do this because I’d much rather use Gmail to manage email, then the house email server program/app.”

Many use private emails. In some cases like mine, it is just not as obvious. I do not think it is malicious in nature to not want to use the state house email servers/app. The other valuable thing is that you get to keep the email if you don’t run or lose an election.”

So, I can’t blame decent people in the legislature for feeling that way, and those are excellent points. It inspired me to clarify my own position because I happen to very much like many members of the legislature who prefer Gmail or other private email accounts, so let it be known that I am NOT attacking any member for that reason alone.  It is important to make that clear, but with that said, I want to share some data that any reader is certainly welcome to do the grunt work of verifying, if desired.

While I’m not a professional statistician by any stretch of the imagination, consider my findings raw observations in which you can put your critical thinking cap on and do with what you will.

Out of the 63 rogue Rs that voted for HB1002 2/1/24, 19 of them display on their House home pages a private email address RATHER THAN a “leg.state.nh.us” address—more on the “rather than” in a moment.

The House has 24 standing committees, and the chairs of 14 of them use their own email. The vice chairs of 10 committees also do. Of the 24 aforementioned leadership people, six chairs and six vice chairs voted for HB 1002 on 2/1/24.

I have not counted the number of non-leadership Rs who voted correctly in that roll call and use private email, nor have I looked up non-leadership Dems to count the number of private email users. Someone else certainly can, if desired, but it would be time-consuming. Again, this is not a professional report but rather an observation, so about that “rather than.”

When a rep displays a personal email RATHER THAN and instead of ‘in addition to’ a “leg.state.nh.us” address, the member of the public or the ill-intentioned agent alike do not have the opportunity to get their initial attempt at communication on record in the government server. That’s a problem when you’re “building a case,” which Judge Lynn, Attorneys Cianci, and Lehmann, and the fine gentlemen of Senate Judiciary ought to appreciate. Hence my desire to have my most recent email to the latter answered soon.

I could get long-winded here by pointing out a variety of situations as to who emailed whom and who replied to whom, using public or private emails, like the way a geneticist does a Punnett square, but I won’t.  For now, I won’t.  What I’d like to do next is find out if a government email account does exist for every rep, whether or not it’s preferred or even displayed somewhere in NH dot gov.

I can’t picture a law forcing reps to check their emails often or even at all. However, I would like a bill that requires each rep to display a “leg.state.nh.us” email address on their home page.

What are your thoughts? Please post them in the comments.

 

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Secondary to the 2024 Election

Granite Grok - Wed, 2024-03-13 18:00 +0000

The socialist’s grab bag, leading into this 2024 election, is just jammed full of sound bites for their mindless minions. Conceding that they must and will finally select the most plausible empty suit to run against Trump, their next trinket is twofold: furthering their promotion of democracy along with their drum beating about the supposed negatives that our Electoral College system represents.

Given this line-up, the fake news can’t wait!

Forget their empty suit impasse. Any suit will garner the votes from their clueless base. And while their jumbo prize of turning America away from her Constitutional Republic, for the chaos and tyranny of democracy would wrap up their revolutionary aims, that will also have to wait. More attractive is supposedly the elimination of the ‘College.’

I recently stumbled upon an older article from almost twenty-five years ago that recounted a few of the media’s tag lines attached to several incriminating ‘College’ pieces. I imagine that they were previously attributable to arousing the public’s ire against another so-called Founder “relic,” which was eliminated with the Seventeenth Amendment’s passage!

Our Founders were wise in creating a Constitutional Republic rather than instituting the emotional guidelines of a democracy. Their efforts included balancing the States with equal representation and authority. This was their reasoning behind the Electoral College so that the smaller States would not become dominated by the larger States. Today, this precaution is also applicable to the sparsely populated “flyover” States.

However, fairness is not the object of a popular National voting system. In fact, contrary to its public lure of simplifying the election process, it’s merely a tool to manage and control the public’s vote, which is largely assured through today’s persuasive methods for swaying public opinion.

This article was from a time when Hillary first ran for a Senate seat, and in doing so, she stated that one of her aims was to support an amendment endorsing a “direct election” when selecting the President. Also, Illinois Rep. Durbin publicly stated that the College was a “Constitutional dinosaur!” His Illinois Republican cohort, Rep. LaHood, also called for its termination and stated in part that, “The way things get changed is if there’s a calamity in the country, where
somebody were to get the popular vote but lose the electoral vote.” While that “calamity” has come and gone, their unrelenting anti-College crusade continues.

In addition, the League of Women Voters defamed the Electoral College as a “horse-and-buggy” election system. Also, USA Today ran an op-ed from John B. Anderson, a former Presidential candidate and head of the World Federalist Association, who commented that “’ Majority rule’ is a basic tenet of democracy. The Electoral College…fails this test.”

It certainly does! However, in addition, it also provides the proof that our Founders did not create a damn democracy but rather a Constitutional Republic! This fool didn’t realize that in his attempt to denigrate the ‘College,’ he affirmed that America is not a democracy.

This January 2001 piece also cites Rep. Delahunt, D. Mass., with his attempt to sway the public’s interest and probably in the same manner
which no doubt led to the public supporting the Seventeenth Amendment’s passage when he labeled the ‘College’ “…a compromise that reflected a basic mistrust of the electorate.” No doubt, this was typical of that long-ago pro-17th Amendment chorus imploring that it would provide a more direct public voice when selecting Senators.

The bottom line is that America was blessed with a galaxy of Founders who not only understood human nature and various past governing forms but were also willing to sacrifice for and serve the country they loved. I would venture to say that this is kind of reminiscent of someone running today.

Finally, those who discredit our original design, and I do mean original, are the least capable of challenging the thinking of that August gathering in 1787. To do so only validates their evil ambitions since they, more than anyone else, are well aware of their lack of knowledge and personal limitations.

 

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Pro-Liberty Bills Would Protect Us From Cops

The Liberty Block - Wed, 2024-03-13 16:12 +0000

A number of bills proposed for the 2024 session would increase liberty for Granite Staters by holding police accountable or by making it more difficult for them to act as tyrants. Many areas of the laws could be improved this session, including traffic laws and protection of due process.

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Meme Overflow

Granite Grok - Wed, 2024-03-13 16:00 +0000

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

Let the mayhem, mockery, and ridicule resume:

 

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

 

 

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Growing up the only time this ever happened was Halloween.  Not a regular school day.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Let’s DO include the time and effort and cost of developing and bringing it to market.  Nevertheless, not a good look.  And I say this as someone who takes Insulin.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The entire process is set up to channel monies, and to avoid those who want to stop it from being able to do so.

 

 

Oh, slightly ignoring the fact that the Founding Fathers wrote the thing!

 

 

 

Pretty much.  And universal, across the world.

 

 

Not content to kill off all the Ukrainian men, they’re working on the women too.

 

 

 

 

Again, I cite Bismarck:

 

 

 

Promote a culture of casual, even anonymous sexual contact, and then act surprised at the results.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA

 

Buried Project Veritas Recording Shows Top Pfizer Scientists Suppressed Concerns Over COVID-19 Boosters, MRNA Tech | ZeroHedge

Understand, your health and even your life are not concerns – just how much they can pump into you and how much profit they’ll make.  And the government is absolutely willing to cover up for them too:

 

 

How… how… HOW does anyone trust the government at this point?

 

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

 

America’s Destructive Education System – American Thinker

I compare my – admittedly sketchy – memories of what I was learning “back then” with what I observe now in my kids’ classes and homework.  Frightening.

When I was in fifth grade I was reading and analyzing/critiquing Lord of the Rings.  Now?  Don’t ask.

At a recent promotion ceremony for the new New York City Fire Commissioner (Laura Kavanagh), Attorney General Latitia James spoke.  This is the same Attorney General who recently railroaded President Trump with fake “fraud” charges to the tune of $455 Million.  During her remarks, she was roundly booed and pro-Trump chants broke out.  Now the new Fire Commissioner has ordered those firefighters who spoke out to “surrender” & answer for their behavior, or they will be “hunted down” and “re-educated”.  Wow!  Fascist much?

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/outrageous-fdny-firefighters-who-booed-tyrant-ag-letitia/

Related:

https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/03/fdny-investigating-staffers-who-booed-ag-letitia-james-at-event-last-week/

https://gellerreport.com/2024/03/ny-firefighters-to-be-hunted-down-punished-re-educated.html/

Updated:  Turns out this was NOT an official event, as the firefighters were not required to be in uniform.  Which makes the witch hunt even more egregious:

https://victorygirlsblog.com/fdny-firefighters-who-booed-ag-letitia-james-to-be-re-educated/

Biden et. al. want to crush the 2nd Amendment with a passion.  Now they are flat out inventing lies to continue their draconian policies:

https://politicalmoonshine.com/2024/03/09/biden-administration-how-the-worlds-leading-exporter-of-guns-faked-a-pandemic-and-created-a-legal-backdoor-to-breach-separation-of-powers-and-destroy-the-second-amendment-at-home/

Nobel Economist Reverses His Support for Migration (breitbart.com)

Actual change of heart?  Or just CYA?  Related:

Good News: Violent Venezuelan Gang Present In U.S. Thanks To Biden’s Open Border – Pirate’s Cove » Pirate’s Cove (thepiratescove.us)

Moonbattery in Maine:  The DA of Cumberland County (which includes the Greater Portland Area), will NOT hold illegal aliens accountable for traffic violations (including DUI), because “they can’t get a drivers license”.  Again, the US citizen is supposed to obey all the laws, but the lawless illegals get a free pass.  We have to get our country back!

https://moonbattery.com/illegal-aliens-do-not-need-to-obey-our-laws/

Off shore wind turbines are causing more and more environmental havoc, as the sounds generated by the giant blades are driving whales mad (and the blades are killing a lot of birds).  So now there is a huge fight between “green energy” groups and environmental “save the animals” groups.  Get your popcorn:

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/03/10/cfact-blasts-offshore-wind-multiple-site-assessment-as-ridiculous/

This is an EXCELLENT rebuttal from a Godly student to his liberal professor when the professor tried to ridicule God (X, formally Twitter, I know, but still worth it):

https://twitter.com/johnrich/status/1766281160928399864

In France, teachers are now getting death threats from Muslim men.  This is because France passed a law to outlaw abayas (the complete head covering for a Muslim woman), and teachers are enforcing the law in the schools.  However, even though multiple reports of these death threats are being made to the police, the police have done nothing.  It’s only a matter of time before this boils over.  And right now, France is only 10% Muslim.  What happens in 10 years, when the Muslim population is predicted to be 25% (maybe more)?:

https://www.jihadwatch.org/2024/03/an-intolerable-situation-has-been-created-in-france

Related:

https://gatesofvienna.net/2024/03/many-french-people-are-victims-of-aggression/

Apparently we’re not the only ones that think the Three Letter Agencies (TLAs) will be very active in “selecting” the next president.  Looks like 52% of the people in America expects this to happen.  Which means we no longer have a legitimate government (and we should be withdrawing our consent to be governed):

https://sharylattkisson.com/2024/03/poll-many-voters-suspect-us-intel-might-try-to-intervene-in-2024-election/

One in the “Win” column:  Arizona passed a law that you must show proof of American citizenship to register to vote.  Predictably, the Feds sued to have it struck down.  However, a federal judge just upheld it, so MAYBE, Arizona elections will be a little less fraudulent this year.:

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/judge-rules-arizona-law-requiring-proof-citizenship-vote/

A couple in the “Maybe a Win” column:

The EU is starting to wake up to the fact that EV’s are NOT “earth friendly”, and EV mandates are just making China stronger:

https://notrickszone.com/2024/03/10/sobering-up-eu-may-scrap-its-plans-to-ban-internal-combustion-engines-by-2035/

Fani Willis is already on the hot seat for LOTS of issues, but her whole RICO case may get thrown out because (as it turns out) the original phone call that was recorded between President Trump and Georgia’s Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger was recorded ILLEGALLY, which means it cannot be used in court!

https://thefederalist.com/2024/03/07/new-book-admits-fani-willis-get-trump-investigation-began-with-illegal-recording/

 

 

90% of U.S. Cheese Contains GMO Made by Pfizer • Children’s Health Defense (childrenshealthdefense.org)

And because of a loophole, it can pass GMO labeling.  More from them:

BREAKING NEWS: 10 Year Old Girl Dies Following HPV Vaccine | Childrens Health Defense

Pediatrician has started to “recommend” this for the girl.  Related:

Plasmid DNA replication in BNT162b2 vaccinated cell lines (substack.com)

Wait, what did I predict?  (Third of my Depopulation essays.)

Dark Thoughts in the Small Hours – Granite Grok

And round-about on Jabs and Trump, which I echo enthusiastically:

President Trump – Can You PLEASE Stop Promoting the Poisons Your Base Hates! (substack.com)

‘Follow the Money’: D.C. Billboard Truck Hits Biden for ‘Blood on His Hands’ as ‘America Is Burning’ at the Hands of China (breitbart.com)

Excellent!

Now here’s a question for you.  We KNOW that massive amounts of fentanyl have been seized – amounts capable of wiping out every living person here.  So what about the amounts not seized?  At what point does that get loosed on the population here?

Bidenflation Resurgent: Consumer Prices Rising Faster Than Expected (breitbart.com)

“Unexpectedly”.  More:

Biden Trots Out Policy To Deal With High Housing Costs – Pirate’s Cove » Pirate’s Cove (thepiratescove.us)

Becoming Haiti: How Biden Is Transforming America Into a Gang-Infested Wasteland – The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

A crime-riddled, desperate wasteland is what the Dems want.

I Live, I Fight, I Win : Rules of Life In War (substack.com)

This is long but worth bookmarking and sharing, anticipating spicy time.  Related:

Matthew Bracken on Gab: ‘This feral race-hate violence occurs while all sys…’

Video at the link.  Yes, get out of the Blue Hives.  This is what they do with the power ON.

A Theory for Gender Differences in Variability

I understand that this is a sensitive subject, but reality is about dealing with what IS.  From the intro where I got this from:

[I]n 2017, two scientists by the names of T. Hill and S. Tabachnikov submitted an article to the the (sic) New York Journal of Mathematics titled “A Theory for Gender Differences in Variability”. The article proved that there was higher variability in intelligence in men compared to women, meaning while there are more male idiots than female idiots, there are also more male geniuses.

The article was then accepted and published. Feminists however, did not like the idea of most geniuses  being male, no matter how true it was. So they started pressuring the journal into removing the article. One feminist activist, in an act of ultimate femininity, nagged her influential scientist husband into denouncing the journal. These tactics worked, and the journal removed the article. This was the first time a journal had arbitrarily removed an accepted article, without there being any scientific justification.

Reminds me of “The Bell Curve” controversy.  And this:

“I am no longer a professor of medicine at Harvard….” – Geller Report

England Bans Child Puberty Blockers | The Daily Caller

Good.  More:

Irish Voters Reject Leftist Effort to Change Definitions of Women and Family – The Last Refuge (theconservativetreehouse.com)

Like the EU referendum, don’t be surprised if it comes back with an admonition to “Vote correctly this time”!

 

 

Trial of Dr. Charles Hoffe – UPDATE (ussanews.com)

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Dr-Charles-Hoffe_480p.mp4

 

Hoffe is where I learned about the D-dimer test.

Nonsensible Shoes: Tax the billionaires! Wait, what?

As Sowell said, the wealthy will always find a way to protect that wealth.  It’s the middle class that can’t do it.

 

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Bound and determined to poke poke poke until it all lights off.

Poland’s foreign minister says the presence of NATO troops in Ukraine is ‘not unthinkable’ | AP News

 

 

“Women+”  WTF?

 

 

If someone did something, and I were on the jury, I’d accept the Southern Defense.

 

 

 

Hashem only knows that I’ve become far, far, far more inquisitive about the ingredients in everything I buy.

 

 

 

 

I remember some years ago, a German woman who was raped by a migrant and penned an open-letter apology to him for “provoking” him.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ami Horowitz: Do Voter ID Laws Suppress the Black Vote? (youtube.com)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Did her cat army have any role to play?

 

 

 

 

This is the language app I’m using.  And I noticed this, perhaps a year or so ago.  How stories (Spanish) might have a woman waiting for “her wife”.  Other very subtle things slipped in.  Even my son noticed these – good, he’s aware.

But this is the nature of the fight we’re in.  These people are MISSIONARIES.

 

 

 

“D” vs “R” of course.

 

 

 

Create a narrative, then report on that narrative.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Pick of the Post:

 

 

James Woods for the win!

 

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Palate cleansers:

 

 

Burn.  Ouchie!

 

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

 

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Hard To Believe George Stephanopoulos Has Daughters

Granite Grok - Wed, 2024-03-13 14:00 +0000

I have never been a fan of George Stephanopoulos (GS) since his beginnings in the Clinton White House. I have always thought he was one of the most biased members of the legacy media. But what he did to Representative Nancy Mace on his supposed news show this weekend was disgraceful. Disgraceful may be too kind.

It was shameful, dishonorable, disgusting, and worthy of ABC’s disciplinary action. What he did cannot be assuaged by an apology. He deserves to be terminated, and if the women of ABC have any guts, they will be insisting he be removed.

It is unclear why Mace was on the show This Week, which is supposed to be highlighting the week’s events. Stephanopoulos (GS) ambushed Mace by referring to her rape in her teens to her support of Trump, who GS incorrectly labeled as twice found libel of rape. Let’s unpack that statement.

First, Mace quickly claimed that her rape was not a topic to be discussed when she was booked for the spot, and she promptly let GS know that she would not be subject to his shaming her over being raped. The insensitivity of GS didn’t stop, and he went on to make the same incorrect statement about Trump at least ten times. When he finally gave up that he would not bait Mace into tearing down Trump, he segued to January 6. Did someone explain to George that his show was about the week’s events and not 2021 or Mace’s teen years? Tim Russert must be spinning in his grave at the caliber and quality of today’s weekly news shows.

The reason I referred to Stephanopoulos’ daughters is that he should be ashamed of his conduct toward them and every woman. I hope nothing ever happens to his two girls, but what he did to Nancy Mace should never happen to any woman. This sordid situation is exactly why women are hesitant to come forward when assaulted or raped at any age, let alone as a teenager.

Nancy Mace (R-SC) is a third-rail politician. I am not sure if that is endearing or insulting, but what I mean is Mace is not afraid to speak her mind and usually without a filter. She appeared at the State of the Union dressed in Trump regalia and gave the President a pin urging him to say the name Laken Riley. She went on to confront Biden during his speech, which forced him to address the killing of Laken. Biden compounded his reluctance by calling her Lincoln. But it has gotten worse for Joe. He referred to Laken’s killer as an illegal and has spent the last few days backtracking. He ticked off a few with his original remarks but has angered half the country by apologizing to the killer, whom he now calls undocumented.

This interview, or assault of Mace, maybe the first volley of the campaign. If so, the bar has been set very low for the Democrats. Michelle Obama once said when they go low, we go high. It was a meaningless sound bite. If Stephanopoulos showed us anything, there is no depth too low for the Democrats. We better develop thick skin as we will all need it for the next eight months. As for George Stephanopoulos, may he rot in hell for what he did to Nancy Mace.

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Now That Trump and Biden Have Surpassed the Delegate Count to Secure “Presumptive” Nomination …

Granite Grok - Wed, 2024-03-13 12:00 +0000

Yesterday was not Super Tuesday but was “super” for Joe Biden and Donald Trump supporters. Both candidates secured enough delegates to become the presumptive nominees of their respective parties. It looks like a 2020 rematch, but is it?

Nothing is guaranteed, of course. Delegates are promised in politics, and promises are easily broken. Biden, as we’ve frequently noted, will likely be sunsetted after yelling at Democrat delegates in his acceptance speech. I don’t think the DNC will do the deal then and there. A room filled with delegates at a nominating convention might think they have a voice. Silly Democrats. It would be easier to do afterward and just tell them who they want. That’s the sort of government they are fighting for, so no one has any right to complain.

On a related note, I predicted the same thing about Biden in 2020, and Joe ended up being the guy, so there’s that.

Trump

Donald Trump will continue to vacuum up delegates. At the same time, some of the Never Trump money that is no longer being spent to sell Haley is redirected toward making America Hate Trump Again. Ads will feature jilted Trump supporters opining on the reasons for their contentious political divorce.

“These are former Donald Trump voters. They supported him and his policies in the past. But now, they refuse to support him for president again. Watch them explain in their own words why they’re voting against their party to ensure that Trump never holds office again,” the website reads, with many of the individuals offering classic leftist-style critiques, pointing to January 6 and accusing Trump of wanting to be an “authoritarian.”

Same Never Trump shit, different election, but it works, so why give it up.

I’d like very much for The Donald to walk away from Warp Speed and any positive narratives about encouraging Big Pharma’s path to the thing we call the COVID Jab. Yes, he’s said he’d oppose any vaccine mandates in the future, even block them if he can, and not force jabs on kids or government employees. Still, many in his 2016 base and more than a few of his more recent detractors are irked by how he facilitated (or, at worst, was duped) into the initial response to COVID.

His campaign can’t expect them to hold their noses and pick him because Biden is a constitutional threat when the opening salvos against COVID led to brazen violations of constitutional rights. Health Care Freedom is important, and he needs to step into that lane in Trumpian Fashion. Every vote counts, and he can use his stage to let experts talk about what went wrong and how to prevent it in the future. His audience will love that.

I’ve heard Trump say the CDC and FDA need a house cleaning, but until he gets off the warp-speed bandwagon, more than a few Republicans aren’t going to believe he’s serious.

The Blob is going to suppress and pressure. DAs are going to keep indicting. Dems are going to do what they do in critical states and Republicans? Trump just pulled the flush handle at the RNC. Scores of staffers have been let go as leadership is replaced with Trump-friendly people. They’ve got seven months, and they’d best not spend it measuring for new drapes.

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Secession or Statehood?

Granite Grok - Wed, 2024-03-13 10:00 +0000

New Hampshire State Rep Jason Gerhard of Northfield sponsored Constitutional Amendment Concurrent Resolution CACR20, which is a proposed amendment to the New Hampshire Constitution. It will trigger the secession of New Hampshire from the United States when the national debt rises to $40 trillion.

The national debt, not counting unfunded mandates, is approximately $34 trillion. Mr. Gerard’s proposed amendment needs to get 60% of the vote in both the House and Senate. If passed, it goes to the New Hampshire voters in the next general election where it needs 2/3rd of the voters to approve it. Of course, in the very unlikely event that it would pass and be adopted, New Hampshire would have to deal with the federal government. We fought a war over states seceding from the Union back in 1861.

A similar proposal to secede was proposed back in 2022. It received a handful of votes, and the Left used this as a battering ram against the few House members who voted for it. I would think that members of the Left, who constantly tell us how evil, wicked, and racist the United States is, would love to secede from a country that they hate.

After watching Biden’s “Hate of the Union” yell fest, I can see why secession appeals to some. If I were a member of the House or Senate, I would not support CACR20. However, I would support statehood for Belknap County.

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Statehood:

Article IV, Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution is where we find the method of creating new states:

“New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union, but no new State shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the Junction of two of more States, or Parts of States without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress.”

Three states have been added to the United States in this matter:

1792: Kentucky, which was once part of Virginia.
1820: Maine, which was once part of Massachusetts and
1863: West Virginia was once part of Virginia. Virginia had seceded from the Union, but most of those who lived in Western Virginia opposed secession and ended up creating their own state.

Over the years, there have been a number of proposals to create new states. They include The State of Jefferson, which would consist of Northern California and Southern Oregon, and the State of Liberty in Eastern Washington. So, why not the State of Belknap or, as I would call it, The Free Republic of Belknap? All we would need is a simple majority in the NH House, Senate, and Congress. With such a small population, we would have one seat in the House of Representatives but, like the other 50 states, two in the Senate.

The Opposition

By looking at his voting record, Congressman Chris Pappas represents the Democrat National Committee and the Biden Administration-not his constituents. His E-mails clearly demonstrate that he has no knowledge of Article 1, Section 8 of the US. Constitution, or he assumes that the majority of his constituents are ignorant of it. He recently voted for D.C. statehood because it would guarantee three far-left Democrats in Congress. Let’s see how he would spin his opposition to Belknap statehood.

Our two U.S. Senators are no better. They, like Chris, have voting records that indicate that they represent the Democrat National Committee, the Biden Administration, and the racist Planned Parenthood. They, like Chris, are seldom, if ever, seen in Belknap County. It would be refreshing to have members of Congress who actually represent the people who voted for them.

There would be well-funded opposition. Millions of dollars would be spent to hire lobbyists both in DC and Concord to oppose our statehood movement. Our “friends,” who started a now defunct or inert organization back in 2022, would be back in action, littering the roadsides with their obnoxious and inane signs. Let me give them a few suggestions: “Hate Has No Home Here And Neither Does Statehood” or “Statehood for D.C. But Not For Belknap”’ But we can counter with signs that read: “We Are part of the Lakes Region But Not The Swamp,” “Free Belknap-Vote for Statehood,” and People of Belknap: You Have Nothing to Lose but Pappas, Hassan and Shaheen.”

I would be honored to chair a committee to write our state constitution. I would propose Alton be the state capitol. We won’t need much office space. We can probably rent space in the town hall. I am hoping that my editor and the leader of the ever-growing Flatlander Party, Brendan Smith (I think it is up to three dues paying members) would get behind this campaign. We would have lots of fun voting on the state’s official bird, flower, fish, reptile, and ice cream. If I had my way at our state constitutional convention, we would be the 30th state to be a constitutional carry state, and the only one without any compulsory education laws, and mandate that all government schools have a warning sign in front of it which reads:

“Warning: This school is dangerous to the mental and physical well-being of its students. Alternatives are strongly recommended.”

We would bump Rhode Island out of the smallest state category and give Maine some competition by being the second state bordered by only one state and one up Maine by being the only state surrounded completely by another state. Fellow Belknapians: It is time that our voices be heard in Washington. It is time for statehood. Let’s make our beloved county a state. Statehood for Belknap now. Statehood for Belknap forever.

Readers who would like a free pocket copy of the U.S. Constitution may contact me at campconstitution1@gmail.com; those who want a New Hampshire State Constitution should call one of their state reps to request a copy.

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Porn Hub Helps Undermine the Argument for Sexually Explicit Material in Libraries and Schools

Granite Grok - Wed, 2024-03-13 02:00 +0000

Porn Hub wants people to look at porn, so in the interest of its business model, it filed a lawsuit when Texas passed a law requiring online purveyors of pornography to do more (a lot more) to verify users’ age before allowing them access.

Self-verification, typing a date on a webpage that suggested you were 18 or older, was not enough. Porn Hub sued, and a lower court accepted PornHub’s First Amendment argument, but the Fifth Circuit, on appeal, disagreed.

Applying the lowest standard of review, called rational basis, the appellate court ruled that Texas’s interest in protecting its children from accessing harmful material was rational. And in possibly better news for the future, the three-judge panel went further, citing long-standing law for the general principle that the government has a rational interest in controlling certain kinds of materials for kids — in general.

Jeff Childers includes the Fifth Circuit’s justification for upholding the age verification portion of the law (wait for progs), citing Justice Ginsberg.

The decision in Erznoznik v. City of Jacksonville, 422 U.S. 205 (1975), reaffirmed a robust reading of Ginsberg’s principle: “It is well settled that a State or municipality can adopt more stringent controls on communicative materials available to youths than on those available to adults.” Id.  Ginsberg’s central holding—that regulation of the distribution to minors of speech obscene for minors is subject only to rational-basis review— is good law and binds this court today.

In other words, it is not book banning or censorship for a state to take an interest in limiting the unfettered access of minors to age-inappropriate material. That then must include public schools or libraries.

“…Friday’s decision also delivered fresh ammunition to parents working to scrape obscene books and pornographic materials out of schools. If the state has a rational, constitutional interest in controlling minors’ access to obscene materials on the Internet, how much more obviously rational is the state’s interest in protecting kids the very same way in the school library?

Erznoznik v. City of Jacksonville overturned a local ordinance restricting the content permitted on drive-in movie screens but recognized a State’s interest in protecting children from obscene “speech.” The Fifth Circuit has affirmed the state’s interest, but it is unclear whether Pron Hub is prepared to take the next step. To ask the Supremes for their thoughts.

Outside the Fifth Circuit, State interests are obvious. Every city, county, or state government has obscenity statues. Public decency. Nudity. The rejection of any number of challenges by the Free the Nipple folks. It is not new “news” that people and their governments have guardrails in place meant to manage minors’ access to a wide range of things, at least in public spaces.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but aren’t Public Schools and Public Libraries … well, public?

 

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Neoliberals, Neoconservatives, And RINOs, They are All Whigs!

Granite Grok - Wed, 2024-03-13 00:00 +0000

How did America go from the foreign policy Thomas Jefferson stated in his inaugural address of 1801, “Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations-entangling alliances with none,” to Commodore Perry’s armed incursion into Japanese territory in 1853?

Unsurprisingly, wealthy people sought to have the federal government take action that would directly benefit their interests while the entire nation would bear the costs. Sound familiar?

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Who Were the Whigs?

The political party that represented the interests of those wealthy people was the Whig Party. The Whig party emerged in the early 1830s and was driven by several key motivations, including

● Opposition to President Andrew Jackson: The Whigs were formed as a direct response to the policies and leadership of President Andrew Jackson.
○ They opposed Jackson’s expansion of executive power, viz. dismantling the Bank of the United States.
○ They opposed Jackson’s spoils system, which rewarded political supporters with government positions.
○ Notably, they did not offer broad opposition to Jackson’s genocidal policies toward native Americans.
● Economic Development: The Whigs believed in a strong federal government role in promoting economic growth, and development.
○ They supported policies such as protective tariffs, internal improvements (building roads, canals, and railroads), and a national banking system.
○ The protective tariffs favored by the Whigs were a significant cause of the Civil War. The Whigs embraced industrialization and sought to protect American industries from foreign competition. Conversely, Southern agricultural interests opposed tariffs as much of their export-focused economy would suffer when foreign nations retaliated against American Tariffs.
○ The Bank of the United States was a private corporation with public duties; the bank handled all fiscal transactions for the U.S. government and was accountable to Congress and the U.S. Treasury. The battle over the national banking system was a key factor, among others, that caused the Civil War.

The Whig Party was not sectional. Meaning that there were Northern Whigs and Southern Whigs. While the tariffs appealed to Northern Industrialists, federally-funded economic improvements appealed to business owners in both the North and South. There were notable abolitionist Whig Party members, including John Quincy Adams during his post-presidential congressional career, William Henry Seward, Thaddeus Stevens, Charles Sumner, and Horace Mann. There were also notable pro-slavery Whigh Party members and pro-slavery advocates who enjoyed broad support in the Whig Party, including John Tyler, Millard Fillmore, and John C. Calhoun.

What Happened to the Whigs?

The Whig Party lasted from 1833 to 1856. Its power was at its height in the 1840s when it held the Presidency and majorities in both the House and the Senate. In 1852, the Democratic National Convention picked a pro-slavery candidate, New Hampshire’s own Franklin Pierce, who won the election and helped carry many of the down-ticket candidates. This loss happened as several smaller parties came into existence, including the anti-Catholic Know Nothing movement, which became the American Party,

Who Are The RINOs?

Republicans In Name Only, RINO, is used pejoratively to describe Republicans who are perceived to be insufficiently conservative. This term came into common use in the United States in the 1990s. Nikki Haley, who served under Trump as the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, is the current RINO poster child. RINOs are, generally, less likely to put the interests of the United States ahead of foreign interests. A reasonable person might ask, what distinguished them from neoliberals? The answer is not much. When Hillary Clinton, on June 3, 2011, referred to Iraq as a potential “business opportunity” for American businesses, she was pure Whig. Likewise, when Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell argues for aid to Ukraine, he’s pure Whig. Even if we do not know the identity of their paymasters.

What Can We Do?

Whether you’re a rock-ribbed autochthonous New Hampshire conservative or a pot-smoking free state nudist, Whigs, be they RINOs, Neoliberals, or Neoconservatives, should make you wig out. Reject those politicians who would pauperize our progeny in support of their paymaster’s stock dividends. Follow the work of our representatives in Concord and let them know what you think, not merely at the ballot box but each week via phone calls, emails, and testimony.

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House Gold Standard – March 14, 2024

N.H. Liberty Alliance - Tue, 2024-03-12 22:51 +0000

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Cui bono? Who Benefits – It Looks Like DC In New Hampshire Part II

Granite Grok - Tue, 2024-03-12 20:00 +0000

Cui bono? is a Latin phrase about identifying crime suspects. It depends on the fact that crimes are often committed to benefit their perpetrators, especially financially.

In New Hampshire, we only lend our Legislators the ability to govern us under the spirit of “common good,” provided they follow their oath of office and allegiance to the NH and US Constitutions. We reserve the right to take it away if they abuse that authority in NH Constitution Part 1 Art 10, provided we use all legal and available means of redress.

We did not authorize or forfeit our rights to any political party, private company, or federal authorities based on grant funding.

This is very difficult for me to admit. Looking back, I feel like a hypocrite and, at times, a coward. I did not start out this way, but over time, I fell into this trap. Legislators are surrounded and isolated in committees attended by few of the overworked general public yet overwhelmed by lobbyists.

HB154 was the final straw for me (see Part I), the Health Care Bill “bait and switched” to a Voting Machine Bill. I learned from a source close to the Sec. of State’s office (aka Sec. Scandal) with the help of lobbyists crafted the language months before to be quietly inserted by the UNIPARTY favorite Senator Gray ( aka. Mitch McConnell) and Rep. Ross ( aka. ITL) Berry. Shame on all of you!

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Is there a reason why nearly all of #127 of the House Democrats and most of the Republican Committee Chairmen #27 supported the dishonorable HB154 ( Rep Sanborn, Packard, and House Clerk Smith did not vote?) while the Honorable #162 of the rank and file Republicans revolted and voted in favor of the reconsideration? Is it a coincidence that many of the same committee chairmen are now supporting a specific person running for governor?

Speculation about SB154: Did the Democratic leadership get the needed $ $ from Sec. Scandal the HAVA [Help America Vote Act (aka) “Hack America Act] with lobbyist influence to expand the market for voting machines into the remaining 38% of the towns that Hand Count? Who wins the voting machine/ software company that ultimately picks the winners, with no true oversight by the citizens? Cui bono, not “The People.”

In turn, did the Republican leadership get to undo the past election transparency laws (exposed in Windham and Senate District 24 recount) as well as flexibility to change the rules as needed? Forcing language into RSA 656:40 that is repugnant to the NH Constitution. Canceling the term voting machines on a “Trial Basis” as well as forcing machine count towns to suspend hand counting of ballots. A violation of the NH Constitution Part II Art; 32  – Cui bono not “The People”.

Welcome to the Live Free or Die State – where no one is held accountable!

Why have the House / Senate Election Law, Ballot Law Commission, and the Attorney General not acted or supported legislative penalties for those town officials who consistently abuse best voting practices, policies, and procedures?  – Cui bono – The lobbyists that represent their associations – not “The People.”

Get your popcorn, grab a front-row seat, and get ready for some coming attractions.

Integrity, transparency, and the NH Constitution are about to be undone again.

  1. HB 1149, HB 1569 Fx -No restrictions on who can vote in NH – (National Democrat talking point)
  2. HB 1610 -Standardized testing for Home school students –( Teachers union)
  3. SB 453,HB463, HB447, SB489. Gives centralized voting power to one individual away from towns.

To none other than our Sec. of State, self-proclaimed champion for Voter Confidence.

  1. HB 1002 – Right to Know that limits and taxes citizens for access to their public information (Municipal Assoc.) Cui bono? Not the People. Follow the $$$ and the Power.

Wow the universe works in strange ways, I just realized in the background of my writing space is the music of Bob Marley song. Get Up Stand Up…Don’t Give Up Your Rights …. “You can fool some people some of the time but not all the time”….

History has taught us that the further we (in the administrative state) move away from the people – tyranny and revolution are sure to follow, and to my friends and non-partisan legislators who still believe in your oath of service to We the People. Let’s recommit ourselves to restore dignity, TRANSPARENCY and rebuild the Voter’s Confidence in us. As well as restore the principles of secure elections, where every vote is counted per our NH Constitution, not repugnant laws crafted by those who Cui Bono!

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9th Annual 2A FREEDOM RALLY – This Weekend!

Granite Grok - Tue, 2024-03-12 18:00 +0000

This Saturday, the Women’s Defense League will hold its 9th annual Second Amendment rally at the State House in Concord—a perfect precursor to St. Paddy’s Day on Sunday!

The blog below mentions raffles and door prizes, but you HAVE to check out the firearm raffles they will be holding:

Courtesy of WDLNH Courtesy of WDLNH

From the Women’s Defense League:

The Women’s Defense League will be holding our 9th annual 2nd Amendment Rally on Saturday, March 16th from noon-2PM at the State House in Concord!

There are multiple gun control bills in the legislature this year. Out-of-state gun control organizations have spent over $1 MILLION to take your 2nd Amendment rights away. LET YOUR VOICE BE HEARD and show the legislature that Granite Staters will NOT tolerate losing our protected rights!

There will be firearm raffles, speakers, and door prizes! And, of course, pearls!!!

This is a family affair! You can even bring your beloved pet; just be sure they are leashed and get along with other dogs and humans :-).

If you would like to contribute to the raffles or help at the rally, please contact the League at info@wdlnh.org

We also welcome other related organizations. You cannot sell items at the rally but you can have a table set up to provide information to like-minded people. If you’re interested, please email info@wdlnh.org

9th Annual 2A Freedom Rally – March 16th. Image courtesy of WDLNH.

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Why Is Alejandro Mayorkas Still Employed

Granite Grok - Tue, 2024-03-12 16:00 +0000

A Few years ago, I watched as Lois Lerner was exposed for leading an IRS witch-hunt to penalize and effectively shut down as many right-wing groups and PACs as possible. The Obama Administration weaponized the IRS, one of the largest government agencies, against political opposition to the Left, and Lois Lerner was in charge of the effort. Lerner did not suffer any consequences for her actions. Instead, she retired with a full pension. I thought that I would never see such an abuse of government power and fraud of the American people. Then came the Biden Administration, and my hopes were shattered.

There are so many incompetent people in the Biden inner circle that I could focus on that are in place to fulfill the goal of the most diverse administration at the expense of a competent team. I watched dozens of YouTube videos of Biden Cabinet members testifying before Senate and House committees, and they all had one thing in common. These folks do not prepare for testifying, do not grasp the facts, and do not take these hearings, or their jobs, seriously. Buttigieg/Transportation, Yellen/Treasury, Granholm/Energy, Cardona/Education, Austin/Defense, and Blinken/State all suffer the same memory loss and refusal to answer a direct question when called to the Capital. It is embarrassing and infuriating, but nobody rises to the level of Alejandro Mayorkas/DHS. Mayorkas may have the most appearances before Congress, and each beckons the question, why? The only purpose of calling Mayorkas is to show his defiance towards Congress, especially Republican members.

We have been listening to the Mayorkas Doctrine for three years that the border is secure. It is anything but secure, as nearly ten million illegals have entered our country and are now somewhere in the country. DHS has no idea where they are, just like the 85,000 unattended children who are lost in the system. The Democrats used to claim the Trump administration was yanking children out of their parent’s arms. It was a lie, but these 85,000 are not a lie. They are lost and either in the sex or labor trafficking system. That is what Democrats describe as humane.

There is no sense of responsibility or accountability in this administration. I saw numerous examples of members of Congress citing letters sent to Cabinet members with no response. East Palestine, Ohio, Lahaina, HI, and St Louis, MO, are all waiting with bated breath for help from this administration. Fifty members of Congress have been waiting since last August for help with the Chinese Cartel. Still, DHS and DOJ are too busy letting millions in the back door, finding more January 6 insurrectionists, or looking for more domestic terrorists at school board meetings. This administration has mixed-up priorities but one goal: to destroy America. And they want four more years to complete their mission.

We cannot allow them to have more time. It has to be one and done for Biden, and the thought of a Harris/Newsome ticket in 2028 makes my head spin. Nobody in this cabinet has been replaced this term, and there are plenty of reasons for any of them to be gone. The House has impeached Mayorkas but he will never be found guilty by Schumer’s Senate. He has to go. There is no member of this cabinet more dangerous to America than Alejandro Mayorkas.

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“Experts” Admit That Transitioning Kids Can Result in Cancer or Death

Granite Grok - Tue, 2024-03-12 14:00 +0000

The World Professional Association for Transgender Health is a go-to resource for everyone promoting the gender surgery laundromat. They provide excuses for neutering kids and ruining their lives, giving them cancer or causing premature death. They don’t admit those risks in public, but they do discuss them in private.

Leaked internal communications show doctors who offer so-called “gender-affirming care” know that transgender hormones cause serious diseases, including cancer. ..

The “WPATH FILES” include emails and messages from an internal discussion forum by doctors, as well as statements from a video call of WPATH members. The files reveal that the doctors working for WPATH know that so-called “gender-affirming care” can cause severe mental and physical disease and that it is impossible for minors to give “informed consent” to it.

You can read Michael Shellenberger’s tweet here, but the gist is that “do no harm,” as we’ve all suspected—especially since COVID—shall not interfere with bloated bottom-line benefits, including those generated by certain elective surgeries—treatments and interventions whose consequences the “patient” is admittedly incapable of understanding.

Speaking of transitions, and I’ve mentioned this in the past, hop in the Wayback machine and jump to 2009. What were some of the chest-pounding progressive exhortations for justifying a massive public intervention in private medicine? Unnecessary tests, drugs, or procedures that drive up the cost of health care.

Democrats are not just the party defending that, on children, without fully informed consent and in the absence of the ability to give it. They bully anyone who dares to question the validity of the science (hard or soft), even though we know that 80-90% of kids who express any level of gender dysphoria will end up happy and alive, living without gender drugs or surgery.

We also know that transition does not improve mental health, likely makes it worse, and has no effect on suicidal ideation unless, by that, you mean it increases.

Given these admissions by the go-to experts on the topic, the only reason for chemical or surgical intervention (as opposed to care, concern, and perhaps therapy) is to make money.

Is it safe to assume that some of that money ends up in Democrat Campaign coffers?

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The Fair Share Surcharge

Granite Grok - Tue, 2024-03-12 12:00 +0000

I recently saw a receipt from a restaurant in Los Angeles, which included a 4% surcharge labeled ‘Healthy LA’.  Presumably, it is supposed to pay for health care and other benefits for restaurant workers.

Apparently similar surcharges are being added in other California cities.

Now, this surcharge doesn’t appear on the menu.  You don’t know ahead of time that it’s going to be charged.  And it’s not clear what would happen if you just refused to pay it.

Instead of raising the prices of items on the menu, they leave those the same, and slap on the surcharge at the end.

Which made me think: Given how many times I heard President* Biden use the phrase fair share in his State of the Union address — always to spirited applause — maybe this points to a way to ensure that everyone does pay his fair share.

Imagine that you go to a restaurant.  You order a meal, you eat it, you signal that you’d like to pay.  The server takes your credit card, and comes back with a bill that includes a surcharge labeled ‘Fair Share’.

You have an average income, so the surcharge comes to 28% of the cost of the meal. Your $50 meal is now $64.

At the table to your left, the diners aren’t so well off, so their surcharge is only 10%.  Their $50 meal is $55.

At the table to your right, the diners are millionaires, so their surcharge is 200%.  Their $50 meal is now $150.

This is exactly the kind of thing that Biden is asking for, right?  It implements the first half of the classic definition of Marxism:  From each according to his abilities.

The rich should pay more simply because they have more.

How would such a surcharge be assessed?  This would have been impossible a generation ago, but now technology has made it easy.

As soon as your identity is established (from your credit card or, if you’re paying with cash, from a government-issued ID, like a driver’s license), a government database that knows everything about you (including the adjusted gross income from your most recent tax returns) would calculate the ‘fair share’ of the your income that you should be paying for that meal.

Of course, there’s no reason this would have to be restricted to restaurants.  Once the system is in place, a ‘fair share’ surcharge could be attached to every purchase, from Oreos to stereos, from cantaloupes to cars.

How do you suppose people would react to this?  How would you react to it?

I just ask because this is exactly what happens now with school taxes.  Different people, paying for the exact same thing (an educated citizenry), pay radically different amounts depending on how much their homes are worth.

And yet, people act as if it’s the most normal thing in the world, although, in any other context, they would regard it as insane.

What do you suppose might happen to our school funding mechanisms if people ever figure this out?

 

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