Democrat Presidential candidate and former member of Congress Tulsi Gabbard has announced that she is leaving the Democrat Party. “I can no longer remain in today’s Democratic Party that is now under the complete control of an elitist cabal of warmongers driven by cowardly wokeness …

 

I can no longer remain in today’s Democratic Party that is now under the complete control of an elitist cabal of warmongers driven by cowardly wokeness, who divide us by racializing every issue and stoke anti-white racism, actively work to undermine our God-given freedoms, are hostile to people of faith and spirituality, demonize the police and protect criminals at the expense of law-abiding Americans, believe in open borders, weaponize the national security state to go after political opponents, and above all, dragging us ever closer to nuclear war.

She is also asking fellow Democrats to join her: “If you can no longer stomach the direction that so-called woke Democratic Party ideologues are taking our country, I invite you to join me.”

 

Here’s the complete statement from Twitter.

I can no longer remain in today’s Democratic Party that is now under the complete control of an elitist cabal of warmongers driven by cowardly wokeness, who divide us by racializing every issue & stoke anti-white racism, actively work to undermine our God-given freedoms, are… pic.twitter.com/oAuTnxZldf

— Tulsi Gabbard (@TulsiGabbard) October 11, 2022

 

So. Tulsi is calling her “former” party a bunch of extremists. And that they are, so please, by all means, defect – just make sure that means not voting for Democrats even if you no longer choose to register as a party member.

 

 

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Over the course of the past few years, many people have begun to take more of an interest in and a hands-on approach to their personal finance. Driven in part by Covid-19 lockdowns, when people forced to stay indoors decided to assess their assets to pass the time, ensuring a stable and sustainable financial future is now a priority for a lot of people.

As geopolitical issues and other factors influence global markets, we have seen the bite of inflation and rising costs across the world. Now, more than ever, it is important to guarantee the financial health and security of you and your loved ones. What steps and measures can you take to achieve this? Keep reading to find out.

What is Financial Health?

Financial health can be defined as the current state of your financial situation. It encompasses things like income, debt, assets, and savings. Much like your physical and mental health, financial health is vital for your wellbeing, both presently and in the future, and it must be managed and maintained regularly to ensure it remains in a good state.

To be financially healthy means that you are seeing enough income and have enough savings to cover all the outgoings involved with day-to-day life. This includes living expenses, debts, and other obligations. Additionally, someone who is financially healthy would have enough cash reserves to cope with a sudden, unforeseen emergency, such as one that seriously impacted their income.

How can you tell if you are financially healthy? There are a number of methods you can take to evaluate your situation. Read on to find out more.

Measuring Financial Health

Measuring your debt-to-income (DTI) ratio can be a good indicator of the current state of your financial health. This is done by dividing the total of your monthly debt outgoings by your monthly income to get a percentage. The lower the percentage the better, and financial bodies like mortgage lenders will often look at DTI when considering an application.

Checking savings and emergency funds can give you an idea how you’d cope in an emergency, while staying on top of your credit score can ensure you remain attractive to lenders or creditors. While these steps allow you to evaluate your financial health, how do you achieve and maintain it in the first place? Let’s find out.

Saving and Investing

This is perhaps one of the most important steps. Effective saving and investing can work to give you financial security and stability, while also making you attractive to lenders like mortgage brokers. It ensures you have cover in the event of an emergency and gives you something to temporarily fall back on should your income be affected.

One of the best ways to save is through a savings account. There are all types of savings accounts, each with their own unique advantages and disadvantages. Accounts can come with a range of benefits and different interest rates, with some dedicated for specific purposes such as accounts for children or for students.

The key to building up a solid foundation of savings is to start saving early. Your savings will compound, and you can build up a substantial amount with relatively low, regular payments if you start saving when you are young.

Draw up Budgets

Budgets are absolutely vital for managing money, they can stop you from spending beyond your means and can give you a detailed insight into where exactly your money is going.

Start by determining your income, which could be easy or tricky depending on what it is you do for a living. If your income is variable month to month, use an average figure over a set period of time rather than a set monthly amount.

Once you have determined your monthly income you can start calculating how much you spend per month. Breaking down these expenses into groups can give you even more detail as to where the greatest percentage is being spent, allowing you to make adjustments if things seem unbalanced.

Pay off Debts

Debt can mount over time, and it can work to seriously impact your financial health. Whether it is credit card, student loan, or car debt, don’t ignore it in the hopes it will go away. Stay on top of your debt and strive to pay it off as quickly as you can.

Creating a debt repayment strategy can let you evaluate how much it is you owe and give you a timescale for repayment. Make up an inventory of your debt, who you owe, how much, and when the repayments are due. Seeing everything laid out like this can be very helpful and can allow you to formulate a plan moving forward.

Avoid just paying the minimum payment for your debts each month. Interest can mean you just end up paying more over time, and it will keep you in debt for longer. Try and pay more than the minimum whenever possible, this will help you get out of debt faster.

Conclusion

Being in a stable financial state isn’t just beneficial for your monetary situation, it can have significant benefits for your mental health and emotional wellbeing as well. Follow these tips to achieve your desired financial health and safeguard your future.

 

 

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The media is doing what it can to hide the recession and food inflation. They talk about monthly numbers without noting how this cumulative price rise is crushing America, the left claims to champion. But will it have the opposite effect?

Related: Inflation Reduction Act Will Hurt America’s Middle Class

People go to the grocery store to buy food weekly, if not more often. If ends were barely meeting before, they can’t find each other now. Prices are not just higher. They are exponentially higher.

To help customers understand it, a bakery posted a list of prices for ingredients they use with their costs in January 2020, January 2022, and July 2022.

 

Inflation causing higher prices at the local bakery, explaining all of the price changes for his ingredients. pic.twitter.com/q51hDV1q3U

— Wall Street Silver (@WallStreetSilv) October 9, 2022

 

Many of these ingredients have more than doubled in price. These price differences paint an ugly picture of an economic mess Democrats are trying to hide. A kitchen table issue over which they are the cause and from which they are trying to run.

They use their majorities to spend (as they always do) trillions we do not have on partisan interests with no regard for the domestic consequence.

That whiteboard is a searchlight in the night shining right on those consequences, and the owner of that bakery might want to prepare for a visit from the FBI for acts of sedition, incitement, treason, insurrection, or plain old domestic terrorism.

That’s supposed to be a joke, but these days, not so much.

 

Related: Watch: What Inflation Really Looks Like.

 

 

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I posted earlier about WMUR … Adam Sexton, more specifically … helping the Chris Pappas campaign deflect from the issues that the voters rank as their top concerns: WMUR Rigging The CD-1 Election. Sexton is actually engaging in multiple levels of bias.

The first level of bias, which I covered in WMUR Rigging The CD-1 Election is covering Social Security as a top issue, when the voters believe that right now we have much bigger fish to fry.

The second level of bias that Sexton engaged in is treating Social Security as a stand-alone issue, when it is NOT … rather, Social Security is simply one part of retirement planning.  Indeed, the value of one’s IRAs, 401-Ks, pensions and other retirement investments typically play a much larger role in determining the standard of living in retirement than Social Security.

Yet Sexton leaves out of his lovely hit-piece on Karoline Leavitt that the values of these other retirement investments has plummeted because of the policies of the Biden-regime … POLICIES THAT CHRIS PAPPAS HAS SUPPORTED … by an order of magnitude of at least 25 percent:

BREAKING: Nasdaq falls to 2-year low on Monday (-1.84%); S&P 500 lost 1.2%

NASDAQ is down 33% in 2022

S&P 500 is down 24.5% in 2022

Stock market losses have wiped out $11 TRILLION from Americans' wealth pic.twitter.com/CCis80fjxv

— InteractivePolls (@IAPolls2022) October 10, 2022

Adam Sexton is FAKE NEWS.

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I was truly shocked when Don Bolduc flipped after the primary and said he no longer believed the 2020 election was stolen. When Blake Masters in Arizona did the same, I guess I shouldn’t have been surprised. And yet I was.

We want to thank Frances Erlebacher for this Op-Ed Please direct yours to Editor@GraniteGrok.com.

So many Americans believe the election was stolen—55%, including 35% of democrats! (Rasmussen)—that I truly don’t get why candidates are so easily persuaded the “only way” to win a general election is to deny their lying eyes.

I realize few candidates are nimble enough to talk about the 18,000 ballots that magically “showed up” in Arizona one day after the election yet were illegally counted.

Or the tens of thousands of absentee ballots received in Pennsylvania in excess of the number requested/mailed out. Or the many nursing homes in Wisconsin with 100% voter participation (Stalin would be impressed!), a 75+% increase over years when only the mentally competent were able to vote.

Or Michigan, where the only permitted forensic audit showed more than 60% of machine-run ballots had been “manually adjudicated” even though only 1/250,000 is permissible by federal law.

Or (my favorite) that there were only 153 million registered voters TOTAL in the entire country in 2018, so there is no possible way 155 million eligible individuals voted legally in 2020—there was barely any population increase between 2018 and 2020, and new registrations in that time period skewed heavily towards the GOP, much to the chagrin of media pundits.

So here are a few simple responses to the endless trap questions from the media or democrats—sorry, I repeat myself—without seeming to cave or throw supporters under the bus.

*Any election where watchers are not allowed or tricked into leaving is suspect.

*Any election where multiple districts stop counting at exact same time is suspect, especially when the “break” is followed by a huge dump of ballots for the candidate who was losing.

*Democrats and the media (sorry, I repeat myself again) started stealing the 2020 election with the multi-year fake Russia collusion “investigations.”
*Ditto for James Comey and his cohorts at the FBI, who knew from day one the Russia Russia Russia nonsense was a hoax hoax hoax and, later, the Hunter Biden laptop was real, real, real.

Take it from the United Nations; the election was fishy.

The UN training for fraud spotting teaches that an election is most likely fraudulent when poll watchers are not allowed, when certain jurisdictions have unrealistic turnout or excessively one-sided results and when counting stops and the loser pulls ahead when it resumes (especially after midnight). That is how we judge elections around the world—in Venezuela, in Myanmar, in Crimea, and, most recently, in the newly occupied territories of Ukraine.

There is never any proof. Asking for it is just a canard by people who know an election was stolen and want the world to move on.

During an open election, no one calls election challengers “deniers” or “threats to democracy.” Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff, and many more “denied” Donald Trump won in 2016—though YouTube just censored the reel of Democrat election deniers, so that is harder this week. After the 2000 election, the New York Times and Miami Herald spent almost a year and tens of thousands of dollars counting and recounting and recounting the Florida ballots again and again and again, trying to show Al Gore had actually won. This time? Nah, we’re good. Only a democracy killer would question an election!

This brings me to Kari Lake, also in Arizona, who had the best response I’ve seen to a “big lie” question. Without batting an eyelid, she turned the question on the reporter—“Do you believe 81 million Americans voted for Joe Biden?” The silence that followed was breathtaking. Because the dirty little secret we’re not supposed to get is that they all know the 2020 election was riddled with fraud. The media know it, and the Dems know it. Even some RINOs know it, though perhaps they just choose to see nothing.

That’s why they all work so hard to intimidate us, to get us to shut up about it. To say our eyes lied. They hope if the actual “big lie” is repeated often enough, that 81 million live people voted for a man who couldn’t fill a parking lot even with people sitting ten feet apart, we’ll all believe it eventually. Thankfully it’s not working, at least not yet—and if 55% of Americans are willing to tell a pollster they believe fraud affected the 2020 outcome, we know the real number is much higher.

If only more of our candidates could see that, perhaps they’d be more willing to channel Kari Lake and stand their ground because this must never be allowed to happen again.

 

 

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Here’s another crowd-sourced problem with which our readers can wrestle. Everywhere I look, I see the exact same news about how David Brock (Media Matters and a million other well-funded Left-wing Projects) created a network of at least 51 fake news sites that ape left-wing stories in swing states.

Hello, New Hampshire!

Reformatted, emphasis – mine!

 

A network of at least 51 locally branded news sites has popped up since last year under names like the Milwaukee Metro Times, the Mecklenburg Herald, and the Tri-City Record. The sites are focused on key swing states with elections in 2021 and 2022: Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, Michigan, New Hampshire, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin. …

Each follows a similar template: aggregated local news content and short write-ups about local sports teams and attractions — interspersed with heavily slanted political news aimed at boosting Democratic midterm candidates and attacking Republican opponents.

 

Seacoast Current.com? The NH Bulletin? The Concord Sentinel? None of the above, as far as I can tell (so far). But they are here, somewhere, and I’d like to know who they are and under what name they are doing business.

Brock’s Dem-Money laundromat powers them with content generated by the American Independent, a progressive news source that bills itself a number one resource, though it has very little actual traffic. That might be because the news is written to end up on local sites in swing states.

It’s not local, but it is peddled as that, surrounded by local sports or special interest stories.

Political stories about how gas prices, electricity prices, or the economy are not that bad. It’s all spin to scavenge mid-term scraps for floundering Dems. Like any of Maggie Hassan’s campaign ads. BS that leaves out details that would undermine the message.

If you know what site it is or have a suggestion, please let us know (and don’t say the Concord Monitor, Keene Sentinel, Portsmouth Herald, Union Leader, etc., we know about them).

I sifted through dozens of stories, and not one of them had a complete list of these 51 fake-news sites. I hate when that happens.

 

 

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Mid-term elections are supposed to be referendums on the party in power … in this case, the Democrat Party. Given that the policies of the Democrat Party have hurt most Americans … out-of-control crime, open-borders (fentanyl), war on domestic fossil fuel production, out-of-control federal spending (inflation) … that is very bad for incumbent Democrats like Chris Pappas.

So here comes WMUR to the rescue … making the election about an issue that currently is not on any voter’s radar in order to distract from all the ruinous Biden-regime policies that Chris Pappas has supported:

 

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The calendar says that today is when we celebrate the exploration chutzpah of some guy we call Columbus. Whatever his faults and they are many, he had the stones to sail off into a world of mystery to answer questions Europe had long pondered. What the hell is over there?

Related: Exposing The “Indigenous People” in North America Lie … (Again!)

It resulted in the discovery of two continents and a new source of slaves.

Oppressing locals has been a historical habit of humans of all colors, races, religions, etc., so that’s not surprising. Those “enslaved people” probably had slaves, some of whom – depending on the culture – were sacrificed to local gods. People who did not originate there much the way the Spanish-speaking world of Central and South America did not speak Spanish until they were conquered and forced to speak it.

None of this matters if you are progressive or carry their water. To them, this Monday in October is an excuse to grind an axe in service to a larger political agenda. It is not Columbus Day; it is ‘Indigenous People’s Day.’ But as we’ve pointed out annually, there were no indigenous people here, just the last people to conquer or occupy lands previously empty or occupied by those they killed or drove out.

I’ve shared a small mountain of content on this here, but one of my favorite examples centers on a social media post by a Lakota Indian flipping off Mount Rushmore.

 

The Black Hills has only had human occupants for about 10,000 years. Since then, several peoples have occupied or conquered the area to call it their own. Before the Europeans took it over, the last tribe to do this was the Lakota Sioux (Lakota), a few of whom are offended that their ancestors were “conquered” or displaced.

Lakota man is not happy, but then, neither I suspect, were “the Cheyenne, Crow, Kiowa, and Pawnee,”

“…when the Lakota arrived in the 18th century, they drove out the other tribes and claimed the land for themselves. The lands soon became sacred to the Lakota Sioux, who called them Paha Sapa, which means “hills that are black.”

The Lakota drove them out, probably through barter, threats, shows of force, or violence. They conquered the land, taking it from the “indigenous people” who occupied it before them, just as those people had done to whoever came before they did.

Those lands and that mountain (Mount Rushmore) were likely unknown to the Lakota until the beginning of the American Revolution. Not sacred at all until much of the eastern seaboard was occupied by increasingly disgruntled Europeans.

That must mean that I can declare New England and as much of the Eastern United States as I feel inclined, sacred European Land. It had been occupied, systematically tamed, and culturally converted (through barter, threats, shows of force, or violence) beginning 150 years (more or less) before the Lakota stumbled into the Black Hills of South Dakota.

 

It drives the point home, yes? The mountain was there for a very long time, surrounded by other tribes or people (for about 10,000 years) before the Lakota killed or ran off the most recent “occupants” and decided the mountain was theirs and that it was sacred. About 200 years later, maybe less, the US government did the same thing to your ancestors and turned it into a national monument.

Related: Pilgrims, Indigenous Peoples, And Progressive Reprogramming on Thanksgiving

The only thing sacred is the perception that your claim was better than anyone else’s and the progressive desire to use that for political purposes.

Do you honestly believe the Left gives a damn about your past claims, sacred or otherwise?

You’d be a poor student of history if you did.

 

 

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Joa from “Breaking the Flaw” was in Concord last week with me, Bonnie, and Footloose and we went to the state house with cameras rolling. We encountered a rude woman in the Governor’s office, a security agent leveled a false threat against Coconut the dog, and we had a lengthy conversation with a state rep on various issues.  Here’s the video:

More and more parents are discovering that their children are not learning much in terms of academics. What can parents do about that?

The excuse has been used that teachers are to make their lessons meaningful to children. While that may sound good, some of this involves the students answering all kinds of questions about themselves. They are more focused on self-reflection than any kind of meaningful learning in the core subjects.

Core Knowledge developed a scope and sequence on all subjects for grades k-8. You can go here to download the 2010 sequence.  (SAVE THIS). You can then ask your kids to highlight what they learned so you can see what they are not learning in class.

Ask the teacher to highlight what they will be covering throughout the year. If there is content that they will not cover, it’s time to start asking why.

This is the time to engage the teacher and principal in an effort to refocus the classroom on learning academic content in the core subjects. If you run into resistance, take this all to the Superintendent and then to a public school board meeting. Engage other parents and show them how much content is not being taught.

The Core Knowledge Sequence can easily be incorporated into each grade level for free. The sequence is rich in academic content which will help your children acquire the knowledge they need.

Public education took a turn away from academics when government  entities decided that your local public schools should be medical and mental health clinic. They also think they get to dabble in social engineering. So it’s up to parents and taxpayers to push back and remind them that YOU are the parent, and they are there to instruct your children on academics.

This shouldn’t be a partisan issue. All parents who care about public education need to come together before these schools completely self destruct.

The dumbing down of public education has consequences. Not only is this harming your children, it’s harming public education. The enrollments are dropping as parents discover they can find something better at a local private or religious school. Home-schooling has taken off across the country because parents realize that illiteracy is becoming a bigger problem among high school graduates.

This is one way to push back for quality academic outcomes, and to really support public education in New Hampshire.

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Comedian George Carlin had a very old joke that went something like this. Is God so powerful that he can make a rock so large that he himself can’t lift it? It was spun as the sort of question a smart-assed kid would ask in Sunday School, but it has genuine real-world applications for the energy industry.

Related: Australia’s Energy Price Problems Get Worse – Will New England Get the Hint?

Can the green energy industry make electricity so expensive that it cannot afford to operate? In this case, the answer is yes.

 

Audun Martinsen, Rystad Energy’s head of energy service research, said high power prices not only pose a significant threat to European decarbonisation efforts but could also result in increased reliance on overseas manufacturing.

“Building a reliable domestic low-carbon supply chain is essential if the continent is going to stick to its goals, including the REPowerEU plan, but as things stand, that is in serious jeopardy,” he added.

 

Absent more affordable fossil fuels, it is becoming too expensive to operate. To quote JoNova, “So much for all the solar jobs. Europeans are being reduced to being installers while the production of panels shifts to coal-fired China because electricity is so much cheaper. Most of the wind turbine industry has already moved to China.”

 

Around 35GW of PV manufacturing projects in Europe are at risk of being mothballed as elevated power prices damage the continent’s efforts to build a solar supply chain, research from Rystad Energy suggests.

The consultancy noted that the energy-intensive nature of both solar PV and battery cell manufacturing processes is leading some operators to temporarily close or abandon production facilities as the cost of doing business escalates.

 

How amusing is it that the Green energy industry has admitted that they require insane amounts of energy to create a product that can’t make insane amounts of energy or at affordable prices?

Related: Planners Are Planning for Blackouts This Winter (for you, not them).

I think we’ve mentioned that a few dozen times. It also applies to wind power, and neither can even happen without burning coal. Something China is happy to do, which is why they manufacture most of the solar components worldwide. They burn insane amounts of dirty coal to do it.

Europe is learning a hard lesson; one American Democrats work hard to subvert. Advertising these contradictions or failures gets you branded as a climate or science denier, but it is they who are in denial.

None of it works. It doesn’t reduce emissions. It offshores them. But China is happy to take your money while our “leaders” cripple western economies, kill jobs, and kneecap our military while ignoring China’s industrialization at our own expense.

And no green jobs to boot, while we pay through the nose for energy while they get rich, making it more expensive.

And no one is reducing emissions; all they do is reduce lifestyles.

 

 

HT | WUWT

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They’re flying so thick and fast it is amazing.  And take heart – there will be a Meme Overflow and I will back-edit to include the link.  And potentially there will be a Friday Meme Overflow-Overflow.  Here’s the Overflow-Overflow from last Friday.

Remember, ridicule and mockery are effective weapons:

1. Ridicule cannot easily be fought
2. Ridicule makes the enemy angry, and angry people make mistakes
3. For those in the “squishy middle” a Thought Splinter (and Part II and Part III) can often be hidden inside humor.  Stand by for Thought Splinters IV… it’s coming, I swear!

Now, let the mockery and mayhem begin.

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

 

 

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Citing Sowell:

 

 

With regards to every vaccine, and the Jab in particular (I separate it out because it’s not a vaccine, even if the CDC did change the definition to help The Jab Cause)… no company will face any consequences unless fraud is shown, at which point – at least, in theory, fraud vitiates everything.  This is why the pharma companies, with the help of the FedGov, are so ruthlessly attempting to squash accusations of fraud.

Whether injections or, honestly, at this point almost any medical intervention… the doctors, the hospitals, and the companies making it need to have a skin in the game.  And speaking of the game:

 

 

I don’t trust anyone who doesn’t share data.  You want to inject something into me, then try and hide the data about it, that’s a brick-on-the-jeweler’s-scale red flag for me.  Same for making changes to the energy grid, farming, etc., based on data and analyses that are not open to independent verification.

Concealed Data: My BS Meter Pegs Out – Granite Grok

 

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As I said in a prior meme fest, showing a similar quote by Barackus Rex, you must – MUST – understand that population dilution/replacement is THE GOAL for the Left.  Thus statements by every single Democrat on stopping illegal aliens was all just a misdirection to make people believe they intended to fix it.  Remember, they have a LONG GAME and are perilously close to the end.  As I predicted in Survival Sunday what the Left will do if they keep the House and make even one Senatorial gain in the Senate:

1. Nuke the filibuster entirely – everything will now be straight majority.

2. Their all-encompassing voting bill, which will cement Democrat majorities at the federal level forever. Included in this will be amnesty and citizenship by 2024 for the millions of illegals that are coming over and getting onto the welfare train. LBJ’s comments about owning blacks in the “Great Society” will echo here with these illegals-now-citizens.

And then, insofar as voting, it’s over.  Done.

 

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Understand, I do not advocate or recommend this.  But whether Antifa or the greenies or whomever, their protesting and blocking traffic or whatever is only tolerated because people tolerate it.  We don’t want to get arrested for anything and we believe in the right to protest.  But I am predicting that, sooner rather than later, people will lose patience.  Patience with the protestors, and patience with the political class that enables this behavior.  And again – not advocating – but if someone’s family or cherished friend dies because an ambulance couldn’t get through due to road blockages, well, use your imagination.  Related to spoiled brat misbehaviors that only continue with the tolerance of society at large:

Furious motorists DRAG Just Stop Oil protesters out of the road as one glues himself to police van | Daily Mail Online

Extinction Rebellion protesters glue hands to Picasso painting at National Gallery of Victoria | Daily Mail Online

 

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Pick of the post:

 

 

Most will not make that leap.

Understand I am not a psychologist, nor do I play one on TV.    But I’ve got more than a few years under my belt, have learned an awful lot about psychology especially from Doctor Sanity (alas she’s stopped blogging), as well as other readings and video viewings.  And in dealing with people with a curious incuriosity (Part 1 and Part 2) I’ve learned that, for the vast majority, they won’t even look at information that makes them uncomfortable, e.g.:

“Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new evidence cannot be accepted. It would create a feeling that is extremely uncomfortable, called cognitive dissonance. And because it is so important to protect the core belief, they will rationalize, ignore and even deny anything that doesn’t fit in with the core belief.”

― Frantz Fanon

Whether climate change, or the Jab, or the appeal of Socialism / Globalism, or anything else – people have tied their sense of moral superiority to a specific belief.  It’s a hard hill to climb to get someone to challenge a belief that makes them feel good about themselves.  And thus, per Sowell, it’s generally fruitless to try and change their minds:

 

 

Instead, we need to follow this advice.  The question is… how; on a practical level… HOW?

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”

– Buckminster Fuller

 

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HAPPY COLUMBUS DAY!

 

 

An Italian-American’s Heartwarming Defense Of Columbus Day – The Lid (lidblog.com)

 

 

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Palate Cleanser:

 

 

 

 

And while I certainly am captivated by the biblical implications of this… just the sheer, raw miracle of getting 2000-year-old seeds to sprout, grow, and resurrect an extinct species:

 

 

I love dates.  I’ve always played with the idea of trying to make date wine.  Maybe next year in my “copious free time”.

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Misspeaking is a tremendous problem for this President. I am not talking about the situations where Joe Biden has been picked up by a “hot” mike and dropped four-letter expletives like he was in a locker room. I am referring to the President describing the nuclear situation we are facing with Russia and Ukraine as Armageddon.

He said this is the closest America and the world have come to nuclear conflict since the Bay of Pigs. Unfortunately, if this claim is true, we do not have JFK in the Oval Office. We have JRB vacationing in Delaware. It took Karine Jeanne-Pierre a couple of days to walk back the President’s statement. That act should not make us warm and fuzzy.

KJP has as much credibility as JRB. That is not much. Just this week, Karine was emphatic that the White House had no plans to withdraw any additional petroleum from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Less than twenty-four hours later, Biden announced another ten million barrels to be withdrawn. Do these two ever communicate with each other?

Neither option is a good one for Americans. First, Biden should be calming the American public. He should not be using hyperbole, as Jake Auchincloss (D-MA) said in defense of Biden’s comments. Auchincloss went on to say we have been enjoying superior leadership from Joe Biden. What planet is he living on? Oh, that’s right. He is from Massachusetts. If he misspoke, then the President should have clarified his comments. If he stands by his words, why is he relaxing in Delaware and not in the Situation Room, working to assuage the global situation? Apparently, to Joe Biden, the potential nuclear option by Russia is tantamount to the Border Crisis, record high gas prices and inflation, and the country now in a recession. None of them warrant concern or action. That is not superior leadership.

The world’s bad actors were licking their lips on January 20, 2021. Donald Trump held these regimes at bay. Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran did not dare to act up while 45 was in the office. With Biden, it is a different story. They know that Biden is weak, and they are all testing his resolve, and they are winning. It is inevitable that Putin will dip into his arsenal to save face and reverse the momentum in Ukraine. Success is the only option for the Russians.

Biden is negating our strength on the global stage. He is weak with some of our foes and is groveling with Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela to fill the gap in our petroleum supply caused by his bad policy decisions. This is so concerning for Joe that he is in Delaware for another weekend of peaceful repose. Americans would like one of the weekends but have not had one since Biden took the oath.

By the way, the Secret Service responded to a Freedom of Information Request this week about the people who have visited Joe Biden during the forty weekends he has spent in Delaware. They claimed there were no records to disclose. For the most transparent administration in history, what are they hiding? There is no way that Biden has not seen anyone during these weekends, but that is the story they expect us to believe. They can expect it, but they will be disappointed. Nobody is buying the word of the Secret Service, which appears to have joined the list of compromised government agencies. Washington needs a deep cleaning. We can all agree on that.

 

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One would think that you wouldn’t need a poll to tell you that most Americans oppose obscene or sexually explicit content in public schools. Since this is turning into a national debate, let’s take a look at some of the polling. According to a new Rasmussen poll, voters are overwhelmingly against obscene books in public schools.

 

A new national telephone and online survey by Rasmussen Reports and the Capitol Resource Institute finds that 89% of Likely U.S. voters think it is important that public schools fully inform parents about what is being taught to their children in classrooms, including 70% who say it is Very Important. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

Sixty-nine percent (69%) of voters believe books containing explicit sexual depictions of sex acts, including homosexual sex, should not be present in public high school libraries. The majority opposed to sexually explicit books in public school libraries rises to 79% for middle schools and 85% for elementary schools.

AND:
The survey found broad agreement across political and demographic categories. For example, 79% of whites, 73% of both black and Hispanic voters, and 72% of other minorities were at least somewhat concerned that school-age children are being exposed to sexual material that is not age appropriate. Majorities of Republicans (85%), Democrats (56%) and 69% of voters not affiliated with either major party believe it is Very Important that public schools fully inform parents about what is being taught to their children in classrooms.

To those who continue to push these grooming practices, the vast majority of voters do not support this. These are the same people who will be voting on school budgets and other funding for public schools.

The small minority of people who do support these grooming practices should not be working in a public school. They are a danger to your children.

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Summer seems to be over for good, even in New Hampshire, where harsh temperatures are driving more and more people to take refuge in the warmth and comfort of their homes.

The transition from one season to the next is never easy; on the contrary, sometimes it is so sudden that it manages to catch people completely off guard, even causing them some mild physical ailments and a general feeling of loss. It is the time of year when people, when not working, prefer to stay indoors, with the exception of the occasional evening spent out with friends.

For some, getting back to spending more time indoors means resurrecting the ghosts of Covid-19 and lockdown periods, of all the restrictions due to the global pandemic and those measures that, in one way or another, have prevented most people from having a social life, forcing them to stay indoors and spend their time with loved ones. But the arrival of the cold seasons does not necessarily represent bad news for New Hampshire residents: all that is needed is a little optimism, in the full knowledge that autumn and winter can represent exceptional opportunities to regain control over one’s life, to achieve certain personal goals, to engage in those passions and pastimes that had long been neglected.

Something new

To avoid bringing back the hardest moments of the health emergency, such as those associated with lockdown periods, you can try following these simple tips: while you are at home, engage in new activities and pastimes that you have never tried before, even during the most complicated months of the global pandemic. Try to avoid all those activities that helped you fill your days during the lockdowns, because they might bring back to the surface all the discomfort and pain you experienced during those days, with very unpleasant consequences for the serenity of one’s mind.

Even if these are activities to which you have become accustomed by now, and which are now among your absolute favorites, you can take the beginning of the new season as a valuable opportunity to devote yourself to something new, thus breaking out of the temporary comfort zone you had created for yourself and thus discovering other aspects of your personality, other passions, other tastes that you did not even know you had. In fact, you must avoid at all costs that your home activities evoke the ghosts of Covid, since they would be able to generate harmful (and silent) effects on your happiness and productivity, without you almost noticing them.

The strategy of opposites

From this perspective, you should take advantage of the strategy of opposites: if during the lockdown you spent most of your time in front of Netflix or TV series, now you should engage in something different, manual or intellectual. Repair a few household items or furniture, change the arrangement of furniture in a few rooms, improve the appearance of your home with small manual tasks. You might also think about devoting yourself to studying, reading, or improving some specific skill that might also come in handy from a professional point of view. The possibilities are really endless: you will just have to keep your mind busy, trying as much as possible to chase away any negative memories related to the two-year global pandemic.

This method also applies in the opposite direction: if you have spent most of the lockdowns working, doing physical or manual activity, you will now have the opportunity to devote yourself to something else, to activities that are more relaxing and less physically strenuous. Why not take a look at all the media content you have available on your smart TV? You may discover a new passion for a movie or TV series you had never heard of, or for a series of documentaries that can illustrate the wonders you will see on your next trip, such as the spectacular landscapes and numerous entertainment opportunities encapsulated in some Southeast Asian countries, such as Thailand.

One of the benchmarks for online entertainment is certainly the world of gambling and online casinos, known in Thailand as คาสิโนออนไลน์, which are undoubtedly becoming a favorite option for those who prefer to spend the cold autumn and winter months at home. With the wide selection of casino games offered by these portals, users will be able to discover more about themselves, their personal tastes, thus approaching an exciting world full of entertainment opportunities. The useful guides and reviews on the sites, moreover, will also help even the most inexperienced players to settle in smoothly and start their online adventure quickly and easily.

Getting out of your comfort zone sometimes requires going in with a different spirit, alert and ready for change.

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Florida no longer recommends that men ages 18-39 get the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines because the data suggests potential cardiac complications with significant health risks.

 

Based on currently available data, patients should be informed of the possible cardiac complications that can arise after receiving a mRNA COVID-19 vaccine. With a high level of global immunity to COVID-19, the benefit of vaccination is likely outweighed by this abnormally high risk of cardiacrelated death among men in this age group.

 

Today, we released an analysis on COVID-19 mRNA vaccines the public needs to be aware of. This analysis showed an increased risk of cardiac-related death among men 18-39. FL will not be silent on the truth.

Guidance: https://t.co/DcWZLoMU5E
Press Release: https://t.co/Y0r9yepi7F

— Joseph A. Ladapo, MD, PhD (@FLSurgeonGen) October 7, 2022

 

Isn’t that refreshing?

A state took the data it collected and, instead of ignoring what it told them about public health because of Pfizer or Federal money (The New Science), arrived at a conclusion in the actual interest of the public’s health.

 

Results from the stratified analysis for cardiac-related death following vaccination suggests mRNA vaccination may be driving the increased risk in males, especially among males aged 18 – 39. Risk for both all-cause and cardiac-related deaths was substantially higher 28 days following COVID-19 infection. The risk associated with mRNA vaccination should be weighed against the risk associated with COVID-19 infection.

 

My favorite New Hampshire example is the push to vaccinate Granite Staters under twenty. Before the introduction of the Emergency Use pharmaceuticals (in the name of preventing COVID infections), very few (for lack of a better word) children got COVID or advanced to severe illness. None died. With the help of the media, politicians, and the Hospital cartel, the State pushed them anyway.

Buckets of money and all that.

The “vaccine” killed more kids than COVID, and we’ve numerous indications of increased health risks from other causes post “vaccination.”

But neither the State nor its “experts” have said boo about any of it, and we are still taking federal money to promote these inoculations despite known risks.

You will have noticed that the Florida Surgeon General prefaced the recommendation by saying that the benefits of a high global immunity outweighed the risk presented by the mRNA injections.

Wouldn’t it be great if your state health apparatus did the right thing and told your friends and neighbors that there are risks to these experimental therapies, and some of them are greater than the virus?

We’re waiting.

 

 

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BUMPED from 1/18/22 at the request of the author.

The Nashua taxpayers should think that our Board of Aldermen are looking out for the taxpayers’ however they are not.  I had to send an email to remind them that it is their duty to look out for the Nashua taxpayers.

Email read as follow:

This email is an official request to the Board of Aldermen to take action on City Clerk Lovering’s letter sent to Board members on December 17, 2021 re Alderwoman Kelly. This email requires more than just procedural actions of placing this email on file.

The December 28, 2021 Agenda for the Board of Aldermen meeting, contained the letter sent by the City Clerk to inform the President of the Board of Alderwoman Kelly being absent more than three times for regular board meetings. Aldermen O’Brien motioned to put this item on indefinite hold.

Per NRO-5-6: any member of the Board of Aldermen that is recorded absent at three or more regular meetings of the board, the City Clerk shall transmit a communication stating that fact to the Board of Aldermen, and the stipend for that quarter shall be withheld.

This letter needs to come before the board again. However, this time I request that all Aldermen that have done business with Alderwoman Kelly’s company (Kelly Creative also doing business as The Do it Left Project) abstain from voting on this item.  As you can see below it will show a direct conflict of interest on the part of the Aldermen that had used Alderwoman Kelly’s company for campaign literature.

Clearly, some of our Aldermen have financial ties to each other.  It appears that Alderwoman Kelly’s marketing company does a lot of work for some of the other Aldermen and other city officials. Perhaps the work required to support the Aldermen prevented Alderwoman Kelley from performing her elected duties. Below are some examples of the Creative Kelly bills that were paid for the campaign:

 

 

Board of Aldermen members that gave contributions to the Nashua Democratic Party, approximately $22,000 in contributions, should also abstain from casting their vote due to a direct conflict of interest because the Nashua Democratic Party used Alderwoman Kelly’s company for campaign literature.

One of the Board of Aldermen’s functions is to be accountable to the Nashua taxpayers and therefore the stipends paid to Alderwoman Kelly should be returned to the Nashua taxpayers.  Taxpayers should not be paying for work that was not done.

I ask that Alderwoman Kelly’s stipend for the 3rd quarter of 2021 be returned to the City of Nashua. I have enclosed a copy of the December 17, 2021 memo to President Wilshire just in case any board member needs a reminder.

 

Nashua BOA Memo on Alderwoman Shoshanna Kelly 12.17.21

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Steve MacDonald, editorial partner at GraniteGrok, wrote an article about porn. At least, I think it was about porn. I don’t remember the article, but I remember the photo of two book covers that appeared with it. One was called Lawn Boy, and the other had the word “queer” in it.

We want to thank Mary Maxwell for this Op-Ed Please direct yours to Editor@GraniteGrok.com.

Unrelated to Steve’s item, I get very antsy if I see anything that connects Republican conservatism with, um, the virtue of heterosexuality. I am heterosexual, and I don’t consider it virtuous to be so. Likewise, I don’t consider homosexuality to be good or bad. There can be a gay man who’s a horrendous human being, or he might be just middle of the road or be some kind of saint. It’s not predictable from his sexual orientation. (If it is, please tell me how. Same for gals.)

Let me tell the Lawn Boy story quickly, so I can get Steve off the hook and then get back to my ranting about cultural conservatism.

I ordered, from abebooks.com, the kids’ book entitled “Lawn Boy,” by Gary Paulsen. It was cheap (used, falling apart.) I haven’t yet ordered the other one, the LGBT one, as it’s a bit pricey. The reason for investing in the book is that I got caught red-handed at Granite Grok making a remark in support of the LGBT book, using only Amazon reviews as my source. (I commented under Steve MacDonald’s article.)

Yep, I was mighty embarrassed and thought I had better spring for a copy, belatedly. The book, Lawn-Boy, arrived today. I assumed it would focus on pedophilia. I wondered if I’d get persuaded that schools should teach a 12-year-old boy that if a man invites him to his house, he should be wary. (We tell little girls not to accept candy or get into a stranger’s car, don’t we?)

Examining the Book

I am very aware of child abuse (from working on court cases in Australia). Last week, I posted an article at GraniteGrok entitled “Pedophilia Is Not a Side Issue” or something like that. So if it’s a biggie, maybe — just maybe — it’s OK for a school library to have a book that deals with it.

I go to the back page first — About the Author, Gary Paulsen. It starts out nice: “Gary Paulsen is the distinguished author of many critically acclaimed books for young people.” These include “Molly McGinty Has a Really Good Day,” (you wonder what she was doing?) “Woods Runner,” (OK, maybe the kids had to run away from a pedo) and — wait for it — “The Amazing Life of Birds.” (Surely, surely, Gary Paulsen is not going to discuss bird sex, is he?)

Then I went to the front of the book and found that Publishers Weekly said: “Witty, quick moving… Readers will find this madcap story a wise investment of their time.” Yeah, but that source works for the publishing industry and hardly ever knocks a book, right? (Publishers Weekly praised my first book, Human Evolution, in 1984, whereupon my librarian-ridden family told me that a review from PW is a sales technique.)

Then I view the pre-loved background of this Lawn Boy book: a stamp inside the front cover indicates it was formerly held by “Omaha Public Schools.” Well, I guess you know the child abuse that went on in Boys Town, Omaha. I can see my Dad now, placing a one-dollar bill in the envelope when we were asked to contribute yearly to Boys Town. Quel racket!

Also, Omaha is the stamping ground of David Shurter. In 2010, I went to Nebraska to stamp with him. He made a video to show the walking distance between the Omaha Police Station and the place where he regularly got beat up (sexually) by a club of businessmen. About 80 feet. Omaha is also written up in Nick Bryant’s tome, “The Franklin Sandal: A Story of Powerbrokers, Child Abuse, and Betrayal.” David Shurter’s book is “Down the Rabbit Hole.”

Next, I look at the back cover for a precis of Lawn Boy. Or a little teaser, as the case may be. It says: “The grass grew and so did business [lawn mowing]. Arnold [the likely suspect] invested my money in many things. One of them was a prize fighter. …That’s when my summer got really interesting.” Aha! I get it. A heavyweight champ is going to rape the 12-year-old.

Reading the Book

Remember the context of Steve’s displaying the cover of Lawn Boy is the question of school libraries foisting dirty ideas on children. Luckily for me, this book has only 88 pages. I went through it in order, no cheating, please. (I always cheat on long YouTube videos, don’t you?) It started out sweet and funny, especially about the kid’s grandma, who had actually bought the lawnmower for him.

Not until page 24 was there even the possibility of a lascivious moment. The kid who is writing this, as an autobiography, never reveals his name, but one of the main characters is “Arnold,” a stockbroker, who shows him how to invest his big cash intake from the lawnmowing job. On page 24, Arnold offers to help Lawn Boy employ other men and says “Can you come back after dark?

Oh-oh.

Well, it turns out that the need for doing business in the dark has to do with the fact that the men, who will mow lawns as subcontractors for our 12-year-old, could be illegal immigrants, and we don’t want ICE, DHS, or IRS coming around, do we?

Dear Groksters, it’s time for me to put Steve out of his anxious state and make an announcement about the Lawn Boy book (Copyright 2007, Random House publisher). Here goes:

There is not one sentence, not one word, not even a comma, that is pornographic. There is nothing at all in this book, about pedophilia. Also there’s not so much as a locker room joke or a bathroom joke. There isn’t even a slightly suggestive riddle like “What do you call the guy who swam the English Channel with his hands and feet tied behind his back? A clever Dick.”

Nothing, nada, cipher. This book is about the stock market! It shows how the broker took the kid’s summer earnings of $4800 and turned into 48 thousand for him. It teaches a young reader such terms as investment, subcontracting, offsetting your gasoline expenses, and — amazingly — the need to postpone capital gains.

Here’s what we find on page 40 about Bill Gates. Oh, I should warn you, this book really is humorous and clever. Arnold is teaching the boy that the $8,000 he just made by investing the lawn money is not really a big amount at all:

“Everything,” Arnold said, “is relative. Eight thousand dollars is not all that large. If Bill Gates, who owns Microsoft, could hold all his wealth in his hands and he suddenly dropped it, just on the way to the ground it would make over forty thousand dollars in interest.”

(Parents may need to worry that their youngster will get an overly rosy idea about increasing their allowance!)

Back to My Rant, Please

So where was I? oh yes, I was saying that it pains me to think Republicans would reject a person or disapprove of a person based on his/her sexual orientation. I guess the excuse is that “cultural conservatism” means we should go with the norm, as in conserving the cultural past. Oh yeah? Well, it was standard in the past (say, 1905) for women to “sun” on the beach in bathing suits that covered from shoulder to ankle. Is that how you want to spend your summer at Hampton?

As a former candidate for Congress, I’m trying to see how “republicans” would have anything to say about culture. Isn’t it the essence of this Party, especially of the New Hampshire flavor, that we don’t want nobody telling us what to do. No seatbelts, no mandatory vax, no “official guides to true happiness.”

If I recall, in the Supreme Court case about the baker who refused to decorate a gay wedding cake, he made his case on First Amendment grounds. A baker should be able to make wedding cakes according to his artistic inclination type thing.

Also, there is no constitutional scope, per Article I, sec 8, for Congress to legislate about marriage. “The Defense of Marriage Act” is null on the face of it. (Sure, I know that nullification hasn’t really been hot stuff since the Virginia and Kentucky resolutions of 1798, but I can dream, can’t I?)

Anyway my “appallment” isn’t mainly legal. It’s small-c christian. Or maybe it comes from my Australian “fair-go” mentality. All persons have a right to marry the one they love, if it’s based on a long-term commitment. Many lesbians do in fact marry, and live as a couple, but for the little piece of paper at the Registry office. (Nowadays they can get the paper.)

Hey Mary, haven’t you learned that there’s a sinister move to destroy the family? Yes, yes, I do know of it and I oppose it heartily. But think for a minute how that applies to a gay couple. Are they harming family life? No. They are enhancing society’s family-basis by being in a marriage.

Beats me how anyone can not see that.

I also dislike the attack on transgender people. Granted, it’s statistically unusual. Granted most of us have a brain wiring that makes us recognize every individual as being male or female, not “other option” or “customize.” But some persons really do feel that they belong to both genders, or neither. They, too, have a right to flaunt the motto “Live free or die.”

Is transgenderism being propagandized? Yes, Blind Freddie can see that someone is pushing it. But even so, a person who has settled into being the opposite gender from the one they had at birth shouldn’t be punished as a propagandist. Most likely he or she plays no part in that sort of PR activity.

Sexualizing Children

For the record I am strongly opposed to puberty blockers or encouraging any person to change sex before, maybe, age 25. Many years ago, my hairdresser was taking up a collection for a friend who was going “to get operated on.” Probably I contributed, having no clue what it was really about. But by God, no surgeon should do it to a person who feels “mixed up.”

Anyway, I am furious, as I’m sure you are, that schools are teaching sex — of any kind — to kids. Don’t teachers know better than to do that? Perhaps they think that the kid may encounter it online anyway, at risky sites. And thus it’s better for them to hear it in school where it can be criticized?

I don’t know. So I’ll shut up now. I thought I was writing a book review for Lawn Boy but it kinda got outta hand.

LGBT’s, you rock. Propagandists, you suck.

Gary Paulsen, thanks for the delightful and useful book. And for reminding us of that soon-to-be non-existent phenomenon: capital gains.

 

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Readers are encouraged to remember the fictional Forrest Gump character was a poor, simple, fatherless, southern boy from Alabama brought up by his single-parent mother. And whose book and movie life sparked reflection on America’s 1950,’60, and ‘70s political turmoil. He is back in that role, resurrected as an enlisted 2022 American soldier.

We want to thank Jim Betti for this Op-Ed Please direct yours to Editor@GraniteGrok.com.

Dear Mama,
After six months in the military, I thought I would write you a letter and let you know how things were going. First of all, when you come up North to visit do not be surprised when in front of my superiors, I call you my “birthing person”. Saying “mom or dad” is not encouraged on base. The military says these terms are divisive and would violate something called the doctrine of “gender neutrality”. And could be hurtful to others who were brought up differently from us regular Americans.

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It has taken a bit of time to get used to, but I now understand that being born a white man I have profited from “white privilege”. I know you worked two jobs bringing up the family by yourself. And, how when the school principal wanted to throw me out of school, you went to his house and convinced him to let me stay. It must have been hard to convince him because when you came out it almost looked like you had been in a fight. Your make-up was smeared, and your dress was all messed up. Even so, when the school principal came out to say goodbye, he had a big smile on his shiny face and seemed very happy with your convincing. I finished school and didn’t let you down. And I learned the value of good old fashion American hard work, but my sergeant says that just makes the point: If you were not born a white woman and instead were brought up in an unprivileged home, you probably would not have had the opportunities to work those two jobs and do what it took to bring me up and keep the family off of welfare.

I am working really hard and doing good in the classroom and on field tests. At first, I didn’t understand why others who did not do as good, including a colored soldier and a female soldier who for some reason wanted to be a man, were given leadership positions ahead of me. There is another soldier, who in the shower sure does look like a regular guy, but he dresses like a woman and if by accident any of us refer to that guy as “him” we get reprimanded. It is hard to keep it all straight, but I think I’m getting it because I now understand all those folks deserved a leg up and special treatment because of all the “white male privilege “I have had.

Many of the colored soldiers are talking about getting paid cash money because of America’s terrible history of promoting slavery. They say the government is always spending more than they have and something called the Federal Reserve can just print another trillion dollars and send it out to their people. I know our great, great, northern cousin died in the Civil War, fighting for the North to free the slaves, but the colored soldiers have told me that doesn’t matter, and because of something called” Systemic Racism”, our cousin’s family don’t deserve anything.

The Secretary of Defense is a colored man named Lloyd Austin, and everyone says it is a good thing President Biden nominated him because of the need for something called Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the top of the military chain of command. The first thing Austin did was order the entire military to look for extremists in the ranks. I’m not sure why the investigators kept asking all the troops who voted for Donald Trump, but the word is they couldn’t find any extremists. Not finding any of these bad-guy extremists didn’t change much and it sure seems like the folks who voted for President Trump are being watched and treated differently from everybody else. That’s because Secretary Austin knows there are an awful lot of white privileged Trump voters in the service, and the Brass says they are racist.

Secretary Austin appointed a colored woman to be responsible for our education in Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity. All of the officers were thrilled that another unprivileged minority person was getting authority over us privileged white people. It seemed odd she {It is ok to call her that because she dresses in a woman’s uniform?} sent out emails calling us white privileged folks” Karens”. I figured in today’s US army, being called a “Karen” should not be upsetting because Karen might be a man, and the whole thing could be a compliment. But some of the troops got really upset. The Department of Defense showed these upset soldiers immediate respect and quickly deleted any references to the incident, and we are to proceed as if it never happened.

The officers all say how fortunate I am to be part of the new military culture of Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity. They call it “Woke, “and they learned it at the military academies. They say with Biden as President, soon the whole country will be this way.

I heard our neighbors and everyone in town have stopped encouraging their children to sign up for military service. I hope, as my birthing parent, you would pass this letter along so they can see how great it is to be part of America’s new future.

Love you
Forrest

In early 2021 President Joe Biden made a commitment to nominating cabinet members not on merit but solely driven by Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity. Retired General Lloyd Austin was nominated to be the Secretary of Defense and was confirmed by the Senate. His first action was to pause the military and search for and root out extremists. Many Americans felt this was really an attempt to identify and mark white Trump voters as extremists. In the end, Austin’s attempted purge found no significant evidence of extremism in the US military. In September 2022 Secretary Austin announced the formation of the Defense Advisory Committee on Diversity and Inclusion {DACODAI} with the intent to transform the military culture to become more aligned with the progressive “Woke” religion.

Kelisa Wing was appointed head of the military’s education department on Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity. She is responsible for the worldwide DoD’s department of education and oversees all children K-12. Multiple Emails have surfaced exposing Ms. Wing as an anti-white fanatic who often refers to white Americans in a derogatory way, describing them as” Karens”, which is a known degrading anti-white term. Ms. Wing’s social media accounts have been made private, and the DoD has no comment.

The Air Force Academy has been exposed as becoming a “Woke” institution, now encouraging all cadets to no longer use the terms mom and dad.

The” Woke” armed services of America are unable to fill their recruitment needs despite its attempt to advertise and entice people with alternative lifestyles. The US military is now considering lowering its standards to try and fill the ranks.

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is on record that if the “Woke” influence continues to infect our armed services and is not reversed soon, our military’s ability to respond to world events will continue to degrade, and America will no longer be safe.

The “Woke” contagion is not only spreading in our military.
Our schools, colleges, and corporations have also been infected, eating away at the fabric that brings America together. Instead of uniting, dividing us, using race and gender. Turning their back on what makes America great. That we are “One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all”.

There is only one way to defeat the “Woke” contagion, and it is not a vaccine.
November 8th is coming!

Vote like our country’s, and your family’s future depends on it!! Because it does!!!

 

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The FBI did NOTHING about the BLM/Antifa domestic-terrorists who torched police stations and federal court houses, who looted businesses and burned them to the ground, and who killed people throughout the summer of 2020. The FBI is doing NOTHING about the spate of “abortion-activists” vandalizing … including firebombing … churches and pro-life centers.

But the FBI is conducting a national-campaign of harassment and intimidation of peaceful pro-life protesters.

AND if you think the FBI will stop with pro-life activists … you are DELUSIONAL.

One of the pro-life leaders targeted by Biden's DOJ sent me footage of the early morning FBI raid on his family home. Paul Vaughn was placed in handcuffs by armed FBI agents in front of his children just before school drop-off. Watch as his wife pleads for answers mid-arrest: https://t.co/lUP6tJOSzW pic.twitter.com/XeYComC6mZ

— Mia Cathell (@MiaCathell) October 7, 2022

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