Monday • May 5 • 2025
Vol.XVII • No.XIX
Manchester, N.H.
It is NOT hyperbole to say that our government is corrupt … perhaps irremediably corrupt. And that goes for the State government in New Hampshire, too. For example, Sun-King Sununu made one of his minions the Insurance Commissioner despite that minion having no qualifications for the job.
And that goes for the local government, as well. Who voted to have “diversity” directors, officers, etc., running public schools?
But just keep shouting “New Hampshire Advantage,” the “Constitution is the solution,” blah, blah, blah …
This is GREAT…. Whoever did it.
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— Juanita Broaddrick (@atensnut) October 5, 2023
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Speaking of, from this week, Monday Edition and Wednesday Edition.
*** Warning, a few possibly off-color ones, in case tender eyes are about ***
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Which is why they cannot take everything away from you. Because then you have nothing to lose – and are very likely to go looking for the people that took it.
That famous Truman quote comes to mind…
I remember this and the utter panic that ensued. Funny how the actual truth never got much play.
What a coincidence.
Men going to war travel alone. Men fleeing war bring their families. Remember this quote (embedded in my essay here):
IN 1974, FORMER ALGERIAN PRESIDENT HOUARI BOUMEDIENE SAID IN A SPEECH AT THE UN:
“ONE DAY MILLIONS OF MEN WILL LEAVE THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE TO GO TO THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE. AND THEY WILL NOT GO THERE AS FRIENDS. BECAUSE THEY WILL GO THERE TO CONQUER IT WITH THEIR SONS. THE WOMBS OF OUR WOMEN WILL GIVE THE VICTORY.”
Hijra – conquest by migration and demographics – is a real thing.
You searched for hijra – Political Islam
And please understand that I’m not advocating or recommending anything here. But people like the above need to remember the (adapted) adage that no matter how powerful the financier, a 400 yard “attitude adjustment” will seriously cramp his style. See my note about people who have had everything taken from them.
It was not just the inconvenient fact of the pore sizes that I encountered on my journey into skepticism. It was the rapid pivot from “Wear a mask to protect yourself” to “Wear a mask to protect others”. I.e., empathy got weaponized. something that made me very suspicious. Same for The Jab. It was all about “Protect grandma”.
Excellent find / observation.
Oh please please please please please. I certainly would read his obituary with great pleasure (channeling the Mark Twain quote).
I’ve seen pictures and videos of people discussing the essentially-completely redacted contracts. From multiple countries.
This is a very uncomfortable truth, I think.
Think that through.
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Pick of the Post:
I keep seeing tyranny / one world government being predicted with varying forms of “Whether you want it or not”. My reply:
On the plus side, that hair would make a nice ID point through a scope. See my comment, above, about 400 yard attitude adjustments.
Again, let me be 100% clear. I am not advocating such. I don’t want to see such actions happening. But at some point men (and women) who just wanted to be left alone will be left with little option:
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Palate Cleansers:
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The ACLU just did something extraordinary. In an eye toward overturning laws in Kentucky and Tennessee that prohibited gender drugs or surgery for children, they grabbed the LGBT narrative by its meaningless genitals and twisted.
But the Court didn’t scream the way they expected.
You can wander the “ruling” weeds here if that’s your thing, and more is divulged here, but I’d like to focus on two critical points that cut the hairy legs out from under the noise machine of the transgender agenda.
The gender spectrum is not just a spectrum. It is a moving target. Chapter and verse profess to us that anyone can be anywhere on that spectrum at any time. Gender is not fixed. This argument undermines the previous cornerstone of gender hijinks: I was born that way. The latter confirms that sex parts matter – you are, after all, born that way, while the former affirms that everything else is in your head space – a mental health issue.
In defending the right of parents to mutilate children or give them dangerous drugs that could kill them, the ACLU insisted that Transgender status is immutable, like skin color. The Court said, wait just one damn minute.
Citations removed.
To establish a new classification, plaintiffs must show that transgender individuals “exhibit obvious, immutable, or distinguishing characteristics that define them as a discrete group.” It is difficult to see, at least at this stage of the case, how transgender identity fits that description. Unlike existing suspect classes, transgender identity is not “definitively ascertainable at the moment of birth.” It is not necessarily immutable, as the stories of “detransitioners” indicate and as plaintiffs do not dispute. Instead of defining a “discrete group,” “transgender” can describe “a huge variety of gender identities and expressions.”
11/ The ACLU also attempted to argue that transgender status is “immutable,” like being born with a certain skin color. But the Sixth Circuit observed that the meaning of “transgender” status is constantly changing. Every day there’s a new gender. pic.twitter.com/IY8lS3SZKq
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) September 29, 2023
The only thing special about it is how it cannot be classified as immutable.
The second of those things I wanted to point out related to parental rights. You may have heard. Parents don’t have any. Ask a school board, Teacher’s Union Boss, one of their dues-paying flunkies, or the United States Attorney General. Efforts to define rights are hills to die on for Gender Cultists and their abettors in the Democrat party. Thou shalt not legislate parental rights.
The ACUL, in arguing against the laws in Tennessee and Kentucky passed to protect children from their parents – the same thing the Gender cult says we need – insisted the opposite.
[T]he Sixth Circuit wasn’t done. They also ripped apart the familiar argument that parents should be allowed to do whatever they want with their kids,” he said. “As the Sixth Circuit pointed out, that’s completely illogical. You have to look specifically at what parents are doing to their children. Being a parent doesn’t give you the right to mutilate your child.”
The ACLU and the Gender Cult want you to believe that parents have no rights unless you mean mutilating children. Not just any mutilation. A very specific, politically driven one. There is no right to have fingers removed, or perhaps an ear, but breasts or penis? As for drugs, no parent may encourage the prescribing or use of drugs ill-suited to children, but hormone blockers, which are unapproved and have dangerous side effects, including death, should be protected.
To say yes to either argument would be to legalize Munchausen Syndrome by proxy, which, as I observed back in 2019, meant that,
That these parents got the added benefit of defending their child from the discrimination they’d never have faced were it not for the parent. It’s like a Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy double-tap. You not only created a condition in your child to feed off them like a psychological lamprey, but you get the added bonus of ranting about how unfair the world is to the child re-gendered.
A US Circuit court has determined that the ACLU’s arguments are contradictory and, in doing so, undermined a cornerstone of the gender cults foundation, not that they could ever have one. I mean, what is a cornerstone anyway? And what if it doesn’t want to identify as a stone or a corner?
Jeesh.
HT | Daily Wire
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Why was the thought “like bringing a Michelin star level 10-course tasting meal to a 6-year-old” rolling through my head when I saw this?
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Given the national fiasco that was the 2022 “Red Tide to a Red Eyedropper”mid-terms, (and – I’ll be kinder than I should here, “less than stellar” NHGOP midterm performance and in every special election since) WHY would I think that the electorate is going to vote how they speak?
Look at those results since Biden took office. As Powerline says, “It finds that Democrats’ standing with voters has declined significantly since 2020, while Republicans have gained.” For each column, left to right:
But polling, even while favorable here, doesn’t get people to the polls. Only GREAT Get Out The Vote (GOTV) efforts do. For years, I have asked the Republican organization here to do just that – REALLY organize for a long time using lots of strategies and nailing down every grunt-level activity perfectly.
Yeah, a prophet in my own mind.
The table is being set, not by the Republicans but by the Democrats trying to rip the tablecloth out from underneath us all but calling it goodness. People are seeing that it’s not, and given that the Dems are continuing their headlong rush, who knows?
As in these other stories, like, “Democrats increasingly embrace censorship from the government and Big Tech: Poll.”
Their decades-long rush through our institutions and denigrating the precepts of the Constitution and the Rights it is supposed to protect are coming to fruition.
HT | Powerline
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The internet applauded when the citizens of Chicago, or whoever stuffs the ballot boxes in that corrupt city, kicked incumbent mayor Lori Lightfoot to the political curb. Her replacement, however, hasn’t received much in the way of applause since taking office.
He inherited a vast criminal enterprise in a city plagued by crime. Small businesses always had difficulty prospering, but since the Summer of Love, those who were not burned out are leaving or have just gone out of business. They can’t afford to operate thanks to the aforementioned crime exacerbated by Inflation, employment issues, regulation, and did I mention crime?
Those are old problems, systemic – as the Left likes to say. This is Chicago, and these are not things another Democrat mayor will address in any meaningful way. Their predecessors broke the system for the benefit of a few and left a lot of people behind. But now they’ve got another problem. It is new to freshman Mayor Brandon Johnson but pre-exists his reign.
Thousands of illegal aliens have blown into the Windy City since the elevation of Stumblin’ Joe and Fumblin’ Kamala. The same Democrats who helped them, and Chicago’s Brandon, into positions of power have discovered that thing about being a sanctuary city they don’t like. The illegal aliens. They are invading their city like a horde of zombies seeking sanctuary.
Both were fooled. Chicago Democrats didn’t want these zombies and lacked the brains to feed them.
I honestly have no idea if the invaders are aware of the irony or if they even care, but the Democrat zombies who voted for this are confused. Their virtue signal has been scrambled by the smell wafting from the stench of the huddled masses (with iPhones, wearing Adidas) yearning to be freeloaders. We didn’t ask for this, they shout. And don’t these politicians work for us?
WATCH: Enraged Deep-blue Chicago residents TAKE OVER City Forum HECKLING Democrat mayor for trying to set up colony of illegal migrants in middle of city:
“YOU WORK FOR US!”
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— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) October 4, 2023
It is amusing to watch Democrats yelling at Democrats over the impact of Democrat policy not long before the Democrat Presidential Convention arrives in Chicago to anoint the next ‘Brandon.’ But are disgruntled voters of Chicago capable of grasping how they got here from there? Do they understand the change they need?
I don’t think they are clever enough to work it out.
My state borders Massachusetts. It is full of corrupt Dems who set fire to the cradle of liberty before stomping on its ashes and tossing them into a deep hole. They call it a commonwealth, but the only thing they have in common is generational ignorance. They vote Democrat because that’s what their parents and grandparents did. Their neighbors, co-workers, random crooks, and near-do-wells pull the lever for the D-Team like brainless zombies. And like Chicago, they need a twelve-step program.
They need to admit that they have a political addiction, which has made their lives unmanageable. That there is a power greater than the government and the Democrat Party. That they need to take a fearless moral inventory of the Democrat Party’s failures. In the case of Chicago, that greater power is the people in the Constitutional Republic they have for generations been working to undermine.
And that is what is so amusing. These Democrats are working for you, and this is what that looks like. If it is a different outcome you seek, only you can make that possible, but you’ll have to stop electing Democrats, and I don’t think you know how.
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I’m sorry to hear that Josh Kruger died, but when he chose to ignore reality, and that reality then bit his backside (and bit it hard), a comment on the relationship between these two things is perfectly allowable.
As always, emphasis mine reformatted.
A left-wing Philadelphia journalist who mocked concern over rising crime in Democrat-run cities was shot to death in his home. Josh Kruger was shot seven times after someone entered his home, shot him at the base of his stairs, and then fled. Kruger ran outside seeking help from his neighbors and collapsed, where police found them after responding to call just before 1:30 a.m. on the 2300 block of Watkins Street. Kruger, 39, was rushed to the Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, where he died just before 2:15 a.m.
Kruger frequently mocked conservatives on X, ironically calling Dilbert creator Scott Adams “Nostradamus” on Saturday for predicting that people would be dead “within the year” of Biden’s election…Kruger also mocked conservatives concerned over the city’s shootings, which he said were “dropping to levels not seen in years.”
And:
Philly journalist consistently defended drug addicts and their right to steal in order to “survive” — boasted about living in a drug infested area — shot and killed https://t.co/QRhsDHeNzT
— The_Real_Fly (@The_Real_Fly) October 2, 2023
There is an old semi-joke on the Right that a NeoCon is a former liberal who got mugged. You know, an epiphany on the road to a figurative Damascus. I’m betting that this liberal never got the chance to recant his belief in Leftwing policies that then aerated him before he hit the floor.
My problem is NOT that he may have brought this upon himself but that he may have led others to believe as he did. That crime post-George-Floyd was not a big deal. It wasn’t happening (go to the link for more), but if it is … the fault lies with the Right.
Until it didn’t.
In that split second before lack of oxygen kicked in, did he berate himself for getting it all wrong? And would he have been a hypocrite if he had been a Second Amendment dude who could have defended himself FIRST?
That would have been cognitive dissonance, wouldn’t it?
HT | ZeroHedge
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When the time comes to sell your luxury vehicle, you are presented with a number of options. You could go to a traditional dealership and see what they have to offer you, opt for a self-led sale, or investigate the process of selling it through an online platform.
This post focuses on the online selling option and all of the advantages that brings to the table.
No False StartsWhen you decide to sell a luxury vehicle, there are a lot of things that could go wrong. The number one boon tends to be the number of potential buyers that are either running a scam or just showing up to mess you around and waste your time. The only way to avoid this happening is to move through a reliable online channel where there will be no false starts and absolutely zero scams to speak of. This means your vehicle is safe, and so is your precious time.
Direct QuotesWhether you have a sale price in mind, or you are completely in the dark, there will be fairly instant access to a quote for your car. This means you can make a quick decision as to the viability of the offer, and either accept or reject it to move things forward. If you don’t like the price from one place, try another to get a sense of a general value.
No FussBy opting for a sale with a reputable company like We Buy Exotics, your car is in safe hands. The price quoted is what you will receive for the sale, and all of the administration around the exchange will be handled for you. Companies like this even arrange for the collection of the vehicle as well, which is exactly what you need. If you were to opt for an alternative path, there would be a lot of admin to sift through, which is incredibly time consuming.
Avoid DelaysThe biggest problem when trying to sell a luxury vehicle is that there are few buyers out there who want or need this type of car. The fact is, exotic automobiles are for a niche portion of car owners and this is not the climate for this type of sale. Economically speaking, car sales are in decline on a global scale and the luxury market has suffered as a result. Trying to sell a used exotic car is difficult, and you just don’t know how long it will take if you do it without professional input. However, if you choose a reliable online outlet to finalize a sales agreement with, there will be no delays at all and these types of companies take a range of vehicles in a variety of conditions. You will need to prove that you are the owner and be prepared to list in detail the state and status of the vehicle.
Selling your luxury car online is the preferred option for all of the reasons discussed above. It is a difficult economy to move this kind of asset in, so it makes sense to lean on professionally proven methods instead.
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Ian Giving Speech On The History Of The FBI’s Attack On Free Staters
First of all, if you haven’t read my write-up on the history of the FBI’s attack on liberty in New Hampshire and how one agents serious grudge has resulted in millions of dollars wasted and 3 targeted attacks on one man Ian Freeman, his radio show Free Talk Live, and ultimately the Free State Project’s libertarian migration movement check that out first, and then come back here when you are done. Also, check out TheCrypto6.com for video coverage, how to access links to articles, news coverage, and Free Talk Live coverage of the case, documentaries, and more.
Now I’m imagining you are here because you want to know how you can write to Ian Freeman. His current status is he’s being held at the Merrimack County Spiritual Retreat until at least his next court appearance where the defense and prosecutor will hash out what restitution will be stolen from Ian Freeman and… presumably others given that Ian has taken a vow of poverty and retains few possessions let alone any valuables. To be clear, most people don’t know this as Ian is a very humble individual and I’ve NEVER heard him speak about this semi-private decision publicly. However I feel this is as good a time as any to point this out given his current situation.
Now the state has kidnapped and caged many members of our community over the years, but this time it’s different. The amount of cage time is almost unprecedented outside of one other amazing activist and now a state rep Jason Gerhard (for those who don’t know Jason partook in anti-tax activism and spent 12+ years in federal prison for it).
So here is what we’re going to do. We’re going to write Ian Freeman at every opportunity. Send him print outs of things you find interesting that he can read. Send him letters about what is happening around New Hampshire. Let him know what the media is saying about his sentence. Let him know what we’re doing and how we are doing. Have you been pushing for New Hampshire independence? Has there been progress in that arena? Let Ian know! It’s not likely he’ll be able to read about this stuff in the mainstream media.
Mailing address:
[inmates’s name]
314 Daniel Webster Hwy
Boscawen, NH 03303
No inmate number is required, just the inmates name (Ian Freeman) at the jail’s address. Things to note: No crayon, altered paper, laminated paper, polaroids, staples, or paper clips are allowed and your mail may get rejected if any of this is true. We recommend typing your letter or writing with a black or blue pen to avoid having your mail being returned. What constitutes crayon may include colored pencil.
Be sure to number your correspondence with “Letter number #” at the top of each page as well as page # like this “Letter number 2 Page 3 of 6” so that the person you are writing to knows what order letters came in and for that matter if a letter or page doesn’t arrive in tact.
As always, assume that everything is going to be read, not all your mail may get received, and any response may not get returned to you.
And one last thing… Ian’t not actually the only caged activist in prison right now. We shouldn’t forget that Aria is also serving an 18 month sentence for selling Bitcoin as well. She is another of the Crypto6. You can find out how to write to her at https://www.ariadimezzo.com/
We would like to thank James Guzofski for stepping up to serve his community to run in the Northwood/Nottingham special election for State Representative. We’d also like to thank all the NH State Representatives, town committees, and volunteers who graciously and generously gave their time to help James Guzofski in his campaign.
We are disappointed to be hearing disparaging rhetoric from fellow Republicans. This is dangerous and problematic but not surprising because those behaving badly have been doing so from the start. This behavior is a cancer in our party, and it needs to be eradicated before it becomes fatal.
Most folks don’t know that James Guzofski wasn’t the original candidate. Nottingham and Northwood Town committees had found another qualified gentleman to run for this position; however, a Golden Dome representative had called our candidate and talked him out of running for the position a week and a half before candidate sign-ups. Golden Dome Leadership had its own candidate that they planned to run, but to their surprise, that candidate backed out last minute. This prompted a phone call to the town committees with a confession by Joe and a plea to us to find another candidate. We then approached twice-elected Northwood Selectman and Northwood Chaplain James Guzofski, he happily agreed.
Meanwhile, Golden Dome Leadership had found yet another candidate they had chosen to run for this seat, and they worked in the days leading up to the primary to elect her. Even after the primary, both town committees were left out of all strategic planning even though we requested to be included, and some of those who were involved with the planning had requested local town chairs to be included.
Town committees struggle to find candidates for all town and state-elected positions. We do not need those who are courageous enough to step up to be a candidate to be disparaged, it only makes finding future candidates harder.
We don’t lose elections because voters choose bad candidates in primaries; we lose elections because some in our own party refuse to listen to the voters. Voters don’t come out to vote when they feel they are not being heard, and they don’t come out to vote when they feel their vote doesn’t matter. We constantly hear in our town committees from frustrated voters who don’t feel heard, and they feel their own party is working against them at times. We as Republicans, must do better if we want to get voters out and win.
Cheryl Dean
Northwood GOP Chair
Maureen Campaiola
Nottingham GOP Chair
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Did you see Faux News’ Kilmeade’s “interview” of Rep. Burchett? Kilmeade is unhinged with rage over the ouster of McCarthy. So unhinged that he even mocks Burchett’s faith. Here is the “interview”:
What’s up with Kilmeade?@RepTimBurchett handled himself well.
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— ALX (@alx) October 4, 2023
Colin Rugg sums it up perfectly:
Interim Speaker Patrick McHenry agressively slams the gavel as he and 200+ other Republicans fume over Kevin McCarthy's ousting.
Where was this anger as millions of migrants poured over the southern border?
Where was this anger as US debt rises over $33T?
Where was this anger… pic.twitter.com/ewW2nvroZN
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) October 3, 2023
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— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) October 4, 2023
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By creating an inflationary regime via policy (I blame Biden and his Socialist/Communist minions for this problem), the Fed’s predictable response is to start raising interest rates – a major factor for just about every small business.
That often ends in declaring bankruptcy.
Reformatted, emphasis mine.
…Nearly 1,500 small businesses filed for Subchapter V bankruptcy this year through Sept. 28, nearly as many as in all of 2022, according to the American Bankruptcy Institute. Bankruptcy petitions are just one sign of financial stress. Small-business loan delinquencies and defaults have edged upward since June 2022 and are now above prepandemic averages, according to Equifax.
An index tracking small-business owners’ confidence ticked down slightly in September, driven by heightened concerns about the economy, according to a survey of more than 750 small businesses. Fifty-two percent of respondents believed that the country is approaching or in a recession, said the survey by Vistage Worldwide, a business-coaching and peer-advisory firm.
…“We are just at the front end of the impact of these dramatically higher interest rates,” Gonzales said. “There are going to be plenty of small businesses that are overleveraged.”
- Five Reasons for Surge in Bankruptcies
Rising Interest Rates
Surging Wages
Tighter Bank Credit
Overleverage
Work-at-Home Curtailing Demand
S0, who was correct? Is the Right for skewering “Bidenomics,” or is Biden for trying to own “Bidenomics” and take control of it away?
Can you say “Backfire”?
HT | ZeroHedge
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Russian disinformation! Russian propaganda! You’re Putin’s puppet! The Russians have suffered catastrophic, unsustainable, really, really, really big casualties! Putin is dying! The Russians have lost so many tanks they are reduced to pulling World War II vintage tanks out of mothballs! ETCETERA, ETCETERA, ETCETERA … . The foregoing is representative of the response from the warmongers to any suggestion that Ukraine is not “winning”.
But there is an easy way to know who is telling the truth. It’s called a map. And despite all the hundreds of billions that the Biden-Regime and the UniParty Corruptocrats have poured into Ukraine … there have been no major battles won by Ukraine during this year’s “counteroffensive” and the Russians, while holding a quarter of a million troops in reserve, have held the UAF and all its heralded, vaunted NATO equipment at bay. So … NO … Ukraine is NOT “winning.” It is losing and losing badly.
Here's the ROI for our half-trillion (and counting) to motherland Ukraine. All the red is what Russia has taken. The blue specks are what Ukraine has retrieved. pic.twitter.com/r8OfXUhERX
— Eddie Scarry (@eScarry) October 3, 2023
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The death cult is lengthening its stride in the US. A number of states have embraced medically assisted suicide under the pretense of compassion. Initially for those with chronic pain, but increasingly for people who represent cultural or political pain.
Related: Slippery Meet Slope: When the State Decides That it is in Your Best Interest to Die
That’s the slippery slope. Once you convince your population that dying is a solution to what ails you, the Government – especially one run by depopulation zealots – will encourage it indirectly through policy or by direct action. Compassion for the chronically ill evolves, in some cases, rapidly into a political solution for poverty and homelessness, mental health, the old or infirm, autism, strained public health budgets, and even boisterous political opponents.
Doubters are welcome, but we have receipts. I’ve been sharing the death cult’s mission creep and reported on bioethicists publishing trial balloons meant to ground future policy. Hawaii shortened the waiting period to five days. Canada has suggested letting poor people kill themselves (with the help of a government doctor). Oregon has opened medical dying to everyone.
In the Netherlands, they’ve allowed the practice for (at least) two decades. Professor Theo Boer, originally an advocate for the practice, has studied it at length and arrived at a conclusion. “[I]t is impossible to police the euthanasia law.”
Boer told the Committee that “loneliness and meaningless are constituent reasons for asking for euthanasia.” Boer gave an example of how the law could not be upheld:
He cited a Dutch case where there was a question over the legitimacy of a signature requesting euthanasia, and from which an ethics committee had to step back, because it did not hold criminal investigatory powers.
‘When the doctor was asked ‘are you sure that this signature is the signature of the patient,’ the doctor said ‘I was told that it was.’’
‘So, in the end, we backed off,’ Prof Boer said.
Boer commented on the “silent pressure” of euthanasia:
Once you have a law… it is absolutely impossible to put a police officer in every hospital room or in every bedroom… and look [for] some silent pressure.
That is impossible, because that will infringe very much on the privacy of their patient-doctor relationship so there is no solution.
Assuming the police officer is not there to aid and abet the pressure. And so you see the problem.
‘The legalisation of euthanasia has done much more than just providing some citizens the liberty to take a way out,’ he said.
It has created death as a remedy against ‘unbearable suffering,’ he said, and moved society from the presumption of ‘not killing.’
Boer’s criticism of euthanasia is based on what he has seen happen: euthanasia has quadrupled in twenty years and in some regions of the Netherlands, 15 percent to 20 percent of the people are dying by euthanasia.
People who are young and able-bodied. They are more than capable of being productive if they can get help and find a way through their current circumstances (that includes surviving the mental health mill of public education). A road that is lengthy and difficult. In states with socialized medicine, it is expensive, where they have made it easier to get a shot and go to sleep, and everyone’s problems go away. A relationship where it is unclear whether the soon-to-be deceased was encouraged or pressured, convinced, that euthanasia was the best or only option.
Related: How about The ‘Health Benefits’ of Less Government?
It is impossible to police, even if you wanted it and could get around existing privacy laws.
The only cure is not to let it get there from here, but everywhere medically assisted suicide is approved, we find the slippery slope. The pool or eligibility expands, as do the reasons for allowing it.
People in chronic pain or with terminal illnesses are being used as a crutch to expand a policy that will end in the deaths of thousands of capable people (if not more) who have been convinced that death is a better answer.
Better for whom?
HT | Lifesite News
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At 2:20 PM on October 4th, the Government, through the FCC, tested the National Wireless Emergency Alert System. Regardless of carrier, every cellphone in the country got a screeching audible signal and an alert on their home screen.
This alert is an extension of the old system we used to see on our TV screen or hear on our radio. With cable, satellite, streaming, and whatever else is out there, the old system did not work to reach the majority of Americans. Since we are a country glued to our cell phones, the system tested today appears to work for today’s technology.
Scheduling the test might be a bad idea this week as many see the country in such a horrific place that maybe we should be sounding the alarm. Anybody with their head above the sand, and I fear that is the minority, knows we are a hot mess. We owe it to the 24% of the voters to wake them up to reality. Joe Biden is destroying our country. It is a tough call whether it is Joe’s plan or on behalf of China or Russia. We know that Joe Biden is not fully functional, so somebody other than the President is calling the shots.
The crisis and emergencies are everywhere, and we may be reaching a tipping point where we cannot correct these situations and the country is lost. It has been said that I only write about what is wrong. That is not true. I contacted the local Government and school board. I Faxed my Federal Representatives about every issue on my list. I resorted to Fax versus the contact form on their websites. They both go into the heavens, but at least I have a record of the Fax. In the old days, you used to get a response, albeit a customary form letter, but today, you get nothing. I have a stack of Faxes and a complete silence from Shaheen, Hassan, and Pappas. As a Republican, they do not see me as a constituent, and as they have all qualified for their Congressional Pensions, why put in the effort to speak to the people? That is why I write.
Where to begin logging the issues? If you listen to KJP every day, you are wrong. All is well. She is wrong. Biden can say the economy is strong, but the only thing strong is rising prices. The typical shopping basket is probably 30-40% higher than last year, and a quick run to the grocery store will set you back $75 to $100. Gas prices are pushing $4.00 in New England and $7 on the Gold Coast. Home heating fuels are up 30%, and we have yet to start heating our homes.
Auto and healthcare workers are striking, and their wages have been frozen for years, but nobody is freezing costs. We are short on workers in every field, and the Administration is more concerned with taking every gas appliance and vehicle away from us rather than urging people to get back to work.
The Southern Border is hemorrhaging, and we will see 10 Million illegals enter America on Joe Biden’s watch. Housing, wages, rents, medical costs, and education are all being impacted adversely by the Biden Doctrine.
Our standing on the International Stage has been damaged. China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran all flex their muscles, and we are watching our military fall into disrepair and lack readiness. We are dumping billions of dollars into Ukraine with no accountability and no way of seeing how much gets funneled back to Biden’s LLCs.
We should sound the alarm, but this is not a test. This mess is the vision of the Democrat Party, and that is why we should be focusing our attention. Democrats are an existential threat, and that is no hyperbole.
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The media tried to sell July as hotter than anything ever without acknowledging that the temperature record we have proves that it is a lie or that there is no temperature record for much of the world or its existence. There is no scientific way to support the assertion.
NOAA plays this game, too, encouraged by their media cult allies, and they’ve got a new game.
If you search sites like Newspapers.com, anything similar, or even just a non-Google search engine, you will find reports across time and save (history) of massive damage and loss of life from changing climate long before CO2 was repurposed by Marxists.
Regardless of when or where, if you don’t adjust for inflation for the sake of comparison, you are – what’s the word – lying about the relative fiscal cost and impact.
$100 in 1962 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $1,016.64 today, an increase of $916.64 over 61 years. The dollar had an average inflation rate of 3.87% per year between 1962 and today, producing a cumulative price increase of 916.64%.
This means that today’s prices are 10.17 times as high as average prices since 1962, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics consumer price index. A dollar today only buys 9.836% of what it could buy back then.
One of NOAA’s “Billion Dollar Disasters,” today in 1962 dollars, is $98,600,000. That’s 900 million shy of a billion.
The other issue, aside from the value of a dollar and inflation, is how different the world is today from any point prior to it. America has grown, placing more people and more expensive infrastructure in harm’s way. Any storm, regardless of strength, will cause more damage and more expensive damage than a similar event 50, 100, or 150 years ago.
Without adjusting for inflation, it’s apples to oranges. It is bad math, lazy accounting, or simply dishonest. In other words, it’s what we’ve come to expect from the Climate Cult and its enablers.
Garbage.
HT RCSB
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The sexual revolution was marketed as the way to end the war on women, but the state of modern femininity points only to its failures.
Progressive feminists often scream, “THE FUTURE IS FEMALE!” hoping you’ll believe our society will get better the more power we give women. They don’t acknowledge the sad reality that their fates and sexuality were traded for the promise of a soul-sucking corporate job and an empty apartment where home and family should be.
During World War II, women were encouraged and rewarded to leave their homes to work in the manufacturing plants that kept the Allied forces winning. This ushered in a void that allowed the sexual revolution and its catastrophic effects on the relationship between the sexes.
When the men went off to war, the women were still home learning the art of caring for a family. They returned triumphantly only to find that a growing number of women no longer wanted a man’s leadership or guidance. Joining the workforce gave them the financial incentive to leave traditional life behind and support the sexual revolution, pushing women’s empowerment through their sexual exploitation. Women believed the lie that they’d be happier with sexual freedom than with a loving marriage. The reality is that the granddaughters of Rosie the Riveter are likely depressed, alone, and oversexed.
Like a moth to a flame, women pulled themselves out of the safety of marriage and into the volatility of a man’s world. Women aren’t meant to be where chastity and love are mocked. That much is obvious.
When women are asked to ignore their purpose, they suffer. The corporate ladder is the modern man’s battlefield. It’s where they find the ability to provide for their families. The women blessed with a family are stretched thin, constantly asked to perform more, but at least they have love. Without it, women are consumed by workplace hostility, leaving them isolated and fragile. All you have to do is look at the meme culture mocking how tired working women are all the time to know women aren’t thriving in this environment. Men find that the conflict is a motivator – the fuel that drives them to build wonders.
The Sexual Revolution and its consequences… pic.twitter.com/gZSKp6TI3i
— Reddit Lies (@reddit_lies) September 29, 2023
For decades, we’ve taught women that their value is in their sexuality or their ability to assume male stoicism. That capacity to heal has been slowly ripped away, leaving jaded, bitter women lashing out at anyone who doesn’t fall in line. While it’s heavily mocked in our society, women are blessed to be emotional. We have the ability to see suffering and soothe it. (ROOKE: If Men Are Really Serious About Saving America, They’ll Launch A War On Porn)
It’s not that women aren’t capable of running a company, hiring a competent workforce, or dealing with complicated issues. It’s that we were meant for a higher purpose. Nothing has a greater effect on our ability to function as a free and safe society than what mothers do for the next generation of leaders. Our world desperately needs good mothers, but modern women are too busy marching for the right to murder their babies to notice. Society should champion a movement to remind them that their purpose is to nurture, not neglect.
Mary Rooke is a reporter at the Daily Caller.
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The views and opinions expressed in this commentary are those of the author and do not reflect the official position of the Daily Caller.
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Growing up, we learned about fault lines, earthquakes, and how the coast of California had lots of the former and was prone to the latter. One fault line we did not discuss, that I would come to understand years later, was that Democrat rule could be equally devastating.
If you made the mistake of falling into that trap, voting for progressive politicians and their empty promises, the decline would evolve into the prophesied doom loop—a cascade of systemic policy failure catalyzing into rapid decline. A handful of US cities are experiencing this deliberate destruction. Yes, deliberate. This is no accident, though most Democrat voters, nearly all the independents, and at least a few Republicans might be surprised to learn that inconveninet truth.
From its beginnings, the Marxists were very clear. You cannot make the utopian omelet without breaking all the eggs. All of them. Oh, and there is also no utopia, and only the ruling elites will be able to afford eggs or anything else. You have doubts. Look at San Francisco. Decades of Democrat rule have catapulted it into a dystopian decline.
The Sh!tty by the Bay. Poop and discarded needle maps, rampant crime, and homelessness. It’s a dump.
The problem began with a government policy, of course. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the city paused enforcement of graffiti removal. Now graffiti and other property crimes are out of control.
Another novel but serious crime problem also has struck the Bay Area: piracy.
Piracy! Hooligans use old boats or steal newer ones to rob and pillage Bay Area boaters.
Homeless encampments are being used as mini-pirate coves. Bands of thieves use small watercraft to raid houseboats and yachts in Bay Area harbors. These thieves often violently assault those aboard.
So, is there a plan to stop the pirates? Not really. In fact, the Oakland Police Department often won’t respond to calls.
Even Starbucks can’t take it anymore. They have joined Whole Foods, Walgreens, and other retailers who are fleeing. Starbucks had 59 locations in the city. They are closing seven. A number that will grow as the problem of Democrat rule continues to push the City by the Bay into the rhetorical bay. No one is holding conventions there, though I suspect part of the problem is the lack of hotel space occupied by Joe’s illegals. Office vacancy is reportedly at 30%, a number that can only grow.
As the budget becomes increasingly strained, as it must, the government will abandon its promises to sustain itself, as is always the case, but will people understand? Not in San Francisco, but everywhere else in America. This is what they want for the entire nation. San Francisco is America if we don’t change course and for at least a half-dozen election cycles.
San Francisco is on its way into the progressive dystopian fee, and the party responsible is giddily looking to drag the rest of America with it.
And it will if you let them.
HT | Daily Signal
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The Democratic Party once upon a time claimed representation of the working class. More Americans are seeing that this reputation is long gone. Barack Obama bailed out Wall Street and backed Monsanto – the exact opposite of what he promised. Joe Biden-Brandon promised to be a uniter.
Can I get an LOL?
What would the Martha’s Vineyard crowd do without false claims about DT to whip up terror in a dumbed-down electorate?
In “Listen Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People?” Liberal political observer Thomas Frank boldly cautioned his party that policies would be required eventually – hating a single human is not a very effective long-term party platform, no matter how much the target is demonized. Indeed, some Americans are fatigued by the incessant hatred and intolerance in the name of a neo-liberalism that feigns tolerance and inclusion. What on earth would the deranged do without Donald Trump to fuel their insanity?
Frank reviewed Obama’s perfidy in Listen Liberals, but the liberals did not listen. He included a chapter about Martha’s Vineyard elitists, recounting the disgusting excesses of those who claim they help the impoverished. Like Soviet dachas or Marie Antoinette and cake, the Democrats have become the caviar-slurping pigs at the farmer’s table in Orwell’s Animal Farm. Fattened swine cannot roll out of the way fast enough if Trump dies and leaves them nothing upon which to gorge.
John Klar is an Attorney, farmer, and author. Mostly farmer… And Regular Contributor to GraniteGrok and VermontGrok.
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Tucker Carlson is back on our pages to talk about being brave about what’s required and what is involved. And the secret sauce, he suggests, is that you must stop being afraid to die. That embracing the inevitable can liberate you.
I have been called brave for the things I write and what we do here. I’m not sure that’s true, but I am viewing it from my side and my worldview. I’m just being me, and I am NOT inclined to self-worship (at least, I don’t think I am), so that makes me humble or stupid or both. You can decide. To others who are not inclined to share these sorts of thoughts publicly, I suppose it appears brave. There are plenty of other words that suit, but to stay on point, I’ve not felt fear of death for a long time, and surviving a heart attack five years only affirmed that.
Many a night, I would experience odd symptoms. Not enough to warrant a call to 911, but my body was doing curious things. Lots of people people die from heart conditions “in their sleep.” Maybe I’d be one of them. I later learned most of it was medication side effects, but at the time, it seemed a lot like I might be heading back to the hospital or – maybe, not waking up to do even that.
It didn’t stress me out or make me anxious, it just affirmed the inevitability. Death comes for everyone. If it’s my turn, I hope I managed to get a few things done before I’m gone and leave my family with the means or ability to continue on without me.
I’m not sure that made me brave. It hasn’t changed my behavior online, as far as I can tell – understanding that there is a stark difference between brave and reckless. I know distant “relatives” who have used the death of a family member as an excuse to embrace excess. That’s not brave—quite the opposite.
We all know people who use some outrage to be outrageous themselves.
So, Tucker Carlson embraces the topic of fear of death and bravery. The end of every life is coming. Tucker paraphrases an idea from an essay by Orwell, saying, you might as well die with your shoes on doing something you believe in.” Death is part of a cycle of life. It is always there, so why not play with house money?
He talks about God, faith, and, ultimately, that there is nothing to be afraid of other than cowardice, with the underlying idea that if we remain afraid, there is no chance our children will prosper in the country we leave to them and that your being brave is what the left fears.
Trust me, it all sounds better coming from Tucker Carlson.
The key to being brave is brooding about death. pic.twitter.com/GguFvPZrDs
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) September 30, 2023
The original published version was missing a critical word. Not. It should read. “I am NOT inclined to self-worship.” Talk about a strange way to fumble your point. It has been corrected.
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Some people might ask why I even bother with doing this, reaching out to him only to be both ignored and misrepresented(by voting the wrong way) again. It’s kind of like Robin Norwood’s book Women Who Love Too Much(when you keep wishing and hoping he’ll change).
No, I’m not in love with Wheeler. Let me get that statement out of the way, just for the record, though I know there are some Granite Staters who, unfortunately, are! And we all know what Einstein says about repeating the same behavior and expecting different results.
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I noticed another bad judge appointment with a hearing on the calendar for Wednesday, October 4, at 2:30 pm. The lucky appointee this time is Elizabeth Paine, who apparently goes by “Betsy.” What’s not so apparent, according to my initial internet search, is where she calls home. NH dot gov is implying it’s Center Sandwich, though it appears that she voted in Andover as recently as 2020. While it’s possible she moved from Andover to Sandwich in the past three years, the bigger concern with her becoming a judge is wokeness and covidiocy. I will save us some time by just pointing to a few links, which were supplied to me by the famous JR, for the readers to click on and explore for themselves.
It’s kind of like Groundhog Day all over again. Just like Sonny and Cher’s song playing at 6 a.m., I will email him to “give instructions” to reject this appointment. He will ignore it and rubber stamp the future Judge Paine as he did with Gordon MacDonald, Anne Edwards, and, though not a judge, the dishonorable DJ Bettencourt.
Again, why am I doing this, one might ask? I am doing this because “they”(meaning EVERYONE who had been in Concord for a long time in one elected office or another) just plain don’t care, and “they” want us just to give up. Think of Bart and Lisa asking Homer to take them to Mt. Splashmore.
Let us NOT give up in our search for an electable primary opponent for Councilor Wheeler. Let’s send him back to his cottage industry homemade Kinko’s factory, where he spends quality time with his family, farm Christmas trees, shoot guns, and make maple syrup as a PRIVATE CITIZEN.
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