Democrats’ ads show that abortion is their top priority. Abortion is more important to Democrat politicians:

— Than your ability to feed your family and pay your housing, heat, electric, phone, and tax bills, etc. (Democrat incompetence created shortages; their votes created inflation.)

— Than protecting children and adults from the deadly drugs coming over our Mexican border that Democrats opened to drug dealers, criminals, and others.
— Than protecting innocent people from the criminals that Democrat prosecutors release without bail, refuse to fully prosecute, and release them arly from prison.
— Than your ability to fuel your car so you can get to work, shopping, doctor or dentist appointments, or do other needed or desired travel.
— Than your dwindling retirement or other savings.

Instead, Democrats demand ultra-extreme abortion laws far beyond Roe v. Wade. Only a few nations have such ultra-extreme abortion laws.

Democrats reject moderate, democratically established abortion laws like in Europe or New Hampshire, which limit unrestricted abortions to 15 weeks typically and 24 weeks, respectively. (https://tinyurl.com/2764eyun)

Democrats demand legalizing, nationwide, the barbaric practice of killing healthy, full-term babies at the moment of birth.

They demand that the rapists of underage girls be allowed to get them abortions without notifying their parents. They outlaw requirements that states believe are needed to ensure that women’s abortions are done safely. (https://tinyurl.com/547wryjw)

If ultra-extreme abortion laws are your top priority, vote Democrat knowing that Democrats will continue making all your other problems worse.

If you prioritize feeding and protecting your family, affording a comfortable modern life, and letting the people democratically decide the important issues regarding life and death, babies’ rights, women’s rights, and the kind of society we live in, then you better vote straight Republican in November.

 

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People making gobs of money from mutilating children in the name of evidence-based care are upset that the practice rattles some folks. “The American Medical Association, American Academy of Pediatrics, and Children’s Hospital Association all signed the letter to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, urging the administration to “investigate.”

Related: Eugenics Party Advocates Mutilation and Sterilization Disguised as Gender Rights

“Providers of evidence-based gender-affirming health care and their colleagues are facing increased stress and fear on top of the conditions they have faced while working on the frontlines of a global pandemic for nearly three years,” the letter said. “Families seeking care at these institutions as well as our those providing their care fear for their personal safety in the wake of these attacks.”

 

If you object to cutting off children’s “sex parts” for profit, the AMA wants the DOJ to give you the 5 am morning raid treatment. You are a domestic terrorist for expressing an opinion. And let’s be clear. I’m not talking about people making actual threats to harm or those attempting or succeeding at the same. We have laws to address that without any need for Federal intervention.

It isn’t about that. It is an extension of the assault on free speech that began with the Climate Cult and spread to Public Health during the COVID Cult Karen years. The goal is to silence dissenting opinions by labeling them as hate or disinformation. Nothing more.

The National School Board Association did the same thing when parents became informed and then outraged about their children being discriminated against over slavery, labeled as white supremacists, and second-classed under the rubric of Critical Race Theory.

Related: Pushback: Alabama Senate Votes to Make Hormone Therapy, Surgery for Trans Youth a Felony

The Groomers are working the same scam, but this one has a heftier price tag—mutilating children under the guise of gender-affirming surgery equals big money. Huge money. And we know that while doctors and staff might not all agree, hospitals have no morals. They are businesses, many set up as non-profits making huge profits. COVID proved that. Death by hospital was a gold mine, and so is mutilating children.

With the COVID laundromat winding down, the greedy bastards are looking for a new revenue stream, and this appears to be it. One that might not last, so while they’ve got a favorable political wind thanks to Democrats in Congress and the Biden Administration, they intend to cash in on the scheme.

And they’d like Federal stormtroopers to protect their business model.

 

 

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The Meredith Republican primary had three candidates for the New Hampshire House. Lisa Smart and Tofts are conservatives with traditional values. Cindy Creteau-Miller is pro-abortion and anti Second Amendment. She received a D rating from the NRA. How unusual is that?

We want to thank NH State Rep Jon Mackie for this Op-Ed. If you have an Op-Ed or LTE
you would like us to consider, please submit it to Editor@GraniteGrok.com.

The vast majority of Republicans serving in the House are A-rated. There are no D-rated Republicans and she is the only “Republican” candidate this year with a D rating. The majority of Republicans in the House are also pro-life. So why did Meredith Republicans make her the top vote-getter by 31 votes in the primary, 555 to 531 to 524?

They did not. Over 400 independents picked up Republican ballots for this primary. Not all of these were Republican-leaning independents. The Democrat-led Citizens for Belknap PAC spent about $5,000 on ads in The Laconia Daily Sun with their voter guide and other advertising and urged independents to pick up Republican primary ballots to defeat the “extremists” who were under-funding county services and destroying Gunstock.

Since neither Jeanne Tofts nor Lisa Smart were incumbents, they certainly weren’t part of that “extremist” group. Then what was their plan? In Meredith, they supported the one Republican whose views on abortion and gun control are the same as the Democrats. It was a clever strategy. Knowing that Democrats are unlikely to win a House seat in Meredith, why not urge left-leaning independents to pick up a Republican ballot and vote for a Republican who will vote like a Democrat? What can Republicans in Meredith do now? Definitely plan to vote for Lisa Smart in November and hope there is a conservative Republican willing to mount an aggressive write-in campaign to defeat the Democrats and Cindy Creteau-Miller.

NOTE: I strongly good Republicans and Independents to write in Jeanne Tofts on the Meredith ballot to defeat the Democrat-supported Cindy Creteau-Miller. We don’t need a Republican that hates the Second Amendment in the NH House that would be aligned with the Democrats.  THAT’S an Extremist Republican!

-Skip

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As a candidate for State Representative in District 19, Ward 5, Concord, I’ve heard many people express concern about the rising cost and availability of energy.

I’ve always been fascinated with subjects like quantum physics and frequencies and how they work, so I’m bringing some ideas that haven’t been seriously mentioned before to the table. Ideas that would be cost-effective and good for the environment. Why shouldn’t they at least be explored?

Did you know that low-cost energy has been around for a very long time? Why haven’t we ever heard of it? Why are we stuck with energy rates determined by entities like the Public Utility Commission?

Those questions all have a one-word answer: money. If the powers that be can’t make a great deal of money off of it, they don’t and won’t allow it to become known, much less available to the people.

I’m not an electrician, an engineer, or an inventor, so I can’t intelligently describe these concepts to you, so I’ve provided links to some YouTube articles (short ones) that can. At least they might be food for thought.

Have you ever heard of Nicola Tesla? Here’s a YouTube video about him, his inventions, how they work, and why they were never brought into use.

 

 

And this one describes the similarities between Tesla’s coil that produces low-cost, universal energy and the Egyptian pyramids.

 

 

This video link explains why energy doesn’t have to flow through wires:

 

 

Maybe we should demand that these alternative energy-producing inventions be explored and utilized. And if they already are, then support their efforts. Considering some of the things supported by our government, it might be refreshingly sensible.

 

 

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In March 2021, six New Hampshire residents were arrested by federal agents in a massively violent no-knock raid. The liberty activists were charged by federal prosecutors with multiple crimes, all of which involved cryptocurrency, and none of which involved any victims. 

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First Amendment Auditor “Press NH Now” aka Marc Manchon was arrested last year in Charlestown, NH as he was live streaming video in the police department. He was charged with “disorderly conduct”, the police’s favorite catch-all charge for people they don’t like, and “obstructing government administration”, because of the alleged actions of his viewers, which were clearly free speech. Hence, after a two hour trial he was found “not guilty” on both counts.  Here’s the full trial video:

Manchon had come to Charlestown to pick up a freedom of information request and when he interacted with the police department’s dispatcher, she refused to tell him her name. Manchon suggested people could try to find out her name, and calls began coming in to dispatch from alleged viewers that were trying to get the tax-feeding woman, Sirena Reliham, to simply identify herself, which all government bureaucrats are supposedly required to do by Article 8 of the NH Constitution. When police chief Patrick Connors arrived, rather than acknowledging his employee was out-of-line by keeping her identity a secret, he doubled down and arrested Manchon because people were calling their publicly-listed department number and asking questions, or sharing how they felt about the corruption in the Charlestown police.

“Press NH Now” Supporters in Claremont after trial.

Basically, if the government thugs don’t like why people are calling them, they will call it a crime and make arrests. Thankfully, the robed man in this case, judge Jack Yazinski, despite his clear desire to protect his buddies from accountability, did issue a “not guilty” verdict on both counts, as obviously recording video in a public place and calling a public phone number to speak with so-called “public servants” is not a crime. However, he did take the opportunity to scold Manchon prior to issuing the verdict, telling him that he was “rude and disrespectful” to the bureaucrats while expecting they be respectful to him, and that “the street does go two ways”. Yazinski is wrong – respect is earned. No bureaucrat is deserving of respect simply because they have a badge, fancy hat, or uniform. Further, Ms Reliham didn’t show Manchon the simple respect of giving her name when asked and the entire government system regularly violates people’s rights, throwing innocent people into handcuffs and destroying peaceful people’s lives. They do not respect us. They rule us, while laughably calling themselves “servants”.

Kudos to Manchon for refusing to take a plea deal and going to trial. His activism is exemplary and you can follow his channel here. For full video background on the Charlestown situation, see his playlist here.

There are a few Republicans who will whine over this fisking, but it wasn’t my douchebaggery. I’m just reporting it. And it needs public airing. Chris Sununu is sending New Hampshire National Guard troops to the southern border in “response to a federal mobilization order from the Department of Defense.” Excuse me?

Related: Family Separation Week – Governor Sununu Carries The Left’s Water

 

Sununu said the soldiers are going to be focused on surveillance, acting as eyes and ears for the Customs and Border Protection agents handling what’s being described as a humanitarian crisis.

“They’ll be manning surveillance posts along the border that they’re responsible for and that will allow the agents to focus more on the ground and dealing with people coming directly across the border,” said Greg Heilshorn, director of public affairs for the New Hampshire National Guard. …

“This deployment, even more than others, directly affects New Hampshire, when you’re talking about the human trafficking, the drugs, the money and weapons that are coming across the border,” Sununu said. “That’s exactly what these orders are, for these men and women to be there to provide support services to push back on what’s coming across that border.”

 

When President Donald Trump was trying to stop the flow of drugs and human trafficking “across that border,” Gov. Chris Sununu said, “that while the New Hampshire National Guard has not been asked to send troops to the southern border to enforce the Trump administration’s controversial immigration policy if asked, he would refuse to deploy troops “to separate families.”

At that time, governors, all Republicans, were voluntarily sending Guard troops to help secure the border. Sununu not only did not volunteer guard troops, he said he would not send them if asked and used a Left-Wing talking point (lie) for cover.

Douchebaggery.

Sununu sent New Hampshire Guard troops to support Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s political militarization of the fenced capital compound. And now, the Biden bunch has asked for a political show of support before the mid-terms as if they have any interest in preventing drug or human trafficking, and Chris Sununu is Mr. hop to it!

And it’s always been a matter of separating families. Obama’s DACA inspired drug and human traffickers to take kids from families and use them to get into the US. The mere idea that the border is porous or that there’s some welfare pot of gold separates families when members die or are killed during the journey. Any talk to the contrary is just BS.

And you are sending troops to surveil so US Border Patrol agents can do what? Separate coyotes from the kids they stole or bought to help MS-13 gang members, cartel mules, and assorted terrorists get into America.

Yes, sending them now IS something, but it is so Sununu. It is a decision calculated to appease, not in any way based on principle. If he had any, he’d have been leading the charge to secure the border when we had a president who cared to do it. Obama’s open border policy started the overdose death spiral that has claimed thousands of Granite Stater’s lives and separated our families. Democrats defended that, and when Trump tried to stop it, Sununu leaned Left.

Chris didn’t take the podium, he didn’t suggest solutions, he didn’t ask how we could help, but he will take federal money to address the overdose epidemic or almost any federal money if we’re being honest. Deficit spending that devalues your dollars and aggravates inflation in a recession economy.

And yes, earlier this year, Mr. Sununu did “sign on” to an agreement between twenty-eight states to share information related to the crime that results from the open border problem he never cared to solve. A don’t patch the boat keep bailing strategy that will not solve the problem, and now this. Another show of support for the wrong president, and he says it is because they asked. So, if the Biden Bros didn’t ask?

What if Governor Abbot asked?

That’s what I thought.

 

 

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As promised in the last Monday Memes, I have an overflow. My meme cup runneth over.  Almost certain about a Friday Overflow-Overflow.  We’ll see.

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

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

 

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One can legitimately not like the guy or his actions in Ukraine, but this is spot-on accurate in his analysis of Western degeneracy… and I will give him credit for protecting Russian culture and tradition.  More on that:

Russia fines TikTok for ‘LGBT propaganda’, Twitch over Ukraine content (yahoo.com)

 

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Now they want to use mRNA Jabs on all cattle.  And doubtless on all chickens.  It’s almost like there’s a world-wide conspiracy to push mRNA into every living thing.  Remember that mRNA gets excreted in milk, so once this starts it’ll not just be in the meat, but in all the dairy products you consume.

 

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ROFL!  But that’s the way my mind goes too.  Every day I look to see what I can buy to increase my – and my family’s – chances of surviving the “Great Culling”.  Remember, they’ve been at this for at least a century.  Two of my essays on that:

The 7.3 Billion Dollar, er, Person Question – Liberty’s Torch (libertystorch.info)

Proverbs 16:18… and What’s Coming? – Granite Grok

And isn’t this interesting.  I search (on bing) for the first essay by “the 7.3 billion person question” and it pops as the first result.  To find the second, I search for “proverbs 16 18 nitzakhon” and it’s not there.  NO link to the essay.  I tried searching for the cut-n-pasted title itself.  Not on the first page.  Search for this, +”Proverbs 16:18… and What’s Coming?”, and NOTHING on bing.

It’s the third link at google.  The exact title… third link.

 

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Understand, their hatred for Trump extends to anyone to the Right of Stalin.  These are the people who would cheerfully herd you into a concentration camp because you’re not on board with Socialism/Communism.  As Surak keeps saying, “They really do want you dead”.

 

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Pick of the post:

 

 

Some will disagree with me and will want to expel all black people.  I won’t sign on to that.  But I expect everyone – from blackest-black to whitest-white – to be part of mainstream American culture, and to contribute positively to American society.  I don’t care what color you are: if you can’t do that, if you won’t assimilate, if you view others as prey not as a partner in America, GET OUT.  GO BACK TO WHERE YOU CAME FROM.

 

 

And if, particularly for black people, remember: odds are good you were here because of slavery.  You are in a far better place because slavery happened to your ancestors.  Yes, of course, slavery was a horrific institution… but you are here only because of that institution that existed in every country and civilization until WHITE PEOPLE ended it.

 

 

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OK, upon reflection a second one:

 

 

Again, in line with yesterday’s pick, this is simple, effective, uses humor, and can get through a lot of cognitive shields because it’s so damned true in a dark-humor way.

 

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Back to the slavery thing for a moment:

 

 

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From Sowell’s notable book “Black Rednecks and White Liberals”:

 

 

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Palate cleanser:

 

Wait for it…

 

 

 

 

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To those who have been following the nightmare on our southern border over the past two years, it’s utterly inconceivable that anyone in America would be unaware of the problem.

But until Governors Abbott of Texas, and DeSantis, of Florida, enlightened the residents of a few liberal strongholds, it seems that they were completely clueless about the throngs of foreign citizens illegally swarming into our country every day. Some estimate that as many as five million immigrants have crossed our border illegally since Joe Biden took office.

Seemingly oblivious to the surge overwhelming border towns like El Paso and Eagle Pass, Texas, liberal meccas across the country continue to welcome and harbor people who are in this country illegally – including hardened criminals. Places like New York, Chicago, and Washington D.C have long been “sanctuary cities.” During the Trump Administration, entire states, like Massachusetts, jumped on the bandwagon, becoming sanctuary states. Illegal aliens across the country know full well they will be protected from deportation if they can only reach one of those sanctuary communities, purportedly established as enclaves of compassion and benevolence.

We would all probably agree that compassion and benevolence are not the same. Compassion is what we feel. Benevolence is what we do about it. We might all feel compassion for the plight of immigrants suffering under third-world conditions. Benevolence, on the other hand, refers to generosity – how far we’re willing to go to accommodate them as immigrants. No doubt liberals in those sanctuary communities have convinced themselves that they’re imbued with a generous amount of both attributes.

Recently, while serenely basking in their altruism, liberals in one sanctuary community were jolted into reality by a busload of Biden’s illegal immigrants, courtesy of Ron DeSantis. That’s when they came to realize that there were limits to their benevolence. They also learned that those millions of citizens coming from poverty-stricken nations don’t arrive here self-sufficient – that someone has to pay for their food, housing, healthcare, and education. Maybe they even began to understand that there really are good reasons to regulate immigration.

By delivering a taste of Biden’s open border policies to Martha’s Vineyard, DeSantis was demonstrating that now, every town is a border town, that no community can forever evade the impact of Biden’s policies. It was also his way of saying that those communities that incentivize illegal immigration should be the first to reap the consequences.

Naturally, the politicians in those sanctuary cities were, and continue to be, beside themselves. They’re so busy condemning Abbott and DeSantis as racist, un-American, and un-Christian that they can’t see their own hypocrisy. As they desperately tried to cling to their own version of moral superiority, they wasted no time shuttling those immigrants away from their communities and onto military bases or Republican suburbs. It suggests that there are limits to their compassion as well as their benevolence. If there’s any doubt about that, Nancy Pelosi recently cleared it up. While trying to explain the flood of immigrants and the need for them to remain in the south, she announced at a recent news conference that they’re needed to “pick the crops down there.” It tells us all we need to know about liberal compassion.

The unorthodox tactics used by Abbott and DeSantis highlight one of the less significant consequences of open borders. The unsustainable cost to taxpayers doesn’t begin to address the influx of drugs, the crime, disease, and the potential terrorism that also come with unregulated immigration. Governors Abbot and DeSantis can’t solve the border crisis alone. But they’ve taken a significant step in the right direction. They’ve exposed a critical problem that liberals have desperately tried to ignore.

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The Constitution doesn’t use the word “immigration.” Those consulting the constitutional debates of 1787–1790 (such as the essays in “The Federalist”) will find no discussion of the subject.

Consequently, some modern writers argue that, constitutionally, America should be an “open borders” country—that Congress has no power to limit immigration. Others say that there must be immigration-control authority somewhere in the Constitution. After all, the document alludes to a power in Congress, beginning in 1808, to prohibit the “Migration or Importation of … Persons” (Article I, Section 9, Clause 1). The word “Importation” refers to the slave trade, but “Migration” refers to the movement of free people.

This uncertainty has encouraged the usual claims that the Constitution is defective and that the framers made another of their alleged mistakes.

False Answers

In a recent Epoch Times essay, I described the “Great Forgetting,” during which 19th-century Americans lost the meaning of key terms in their own Constitution. One of the casualties of the Great Forgetting was the source of Congress’s immigration authority. The amnesia continues even today: I recently used the Westlaw database to collect articles on immigration composed by law professors. The overwhelming majority still had no clue as to the source of Congress’s immigration authority.

Even the Supreme Court has cast about for an answer. In 1875, the court concluded that Congress’s authority to restrict immigration stemmed from its power to “regulate Commerce with foreign Nations” (Article I, Section 8, Clause 3). The justices soon abandoned that idea—and with good reason: Non-commercial cross-border travel is not “Commerce” as the Constitution uses the word (pdf).

In 1889, the court suggested that the power to control immigration was “inherent” in the federal government’s sovereignty (pdf). Some modern writers agree. But that proposition directly violates the terms of the 10th Amendment, which prescribes that if a power isn’t listed in the Constitution (or incidental to a listed power), then the federal government doesn’t have it.

Still, other writers speculate that Congress’s authority to regulate immigration comes from its power “To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization” (Article I, Section 8, Clause 4). But that dog won’t hunt, either. Immigration control is a subject as important as, and separate from, naturalization: It isn’t merely incidental to naturalization (pdf).

Modern writers have offered other suggestions as well, but they are even more far-fetched.

The ‘Define and Punish’ Clause

As I mentioned briefly in an earlier Epoch Times essay, Congress’s authority to limit immigration is contained in its power to “define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the High Seas, and Offenses against the Law of Nations” (Article I, Section 8, Clause 10). This is called the Define and Punish Clause. The phrase “the law of nations” is the 18th-century term for international law.

When the Constitution was written (as today), there was no international agency available to punish certain conduct internationally recognized as criminal. Moreover, international law usually didn’t specify the elements of such a crime, how a defendant should be charged and tried, or what the punishment might be. Without such standards, it was impossible to apprehend and punish those who violated international law while still respecting the rules of due process. It was a common practice on capturing a pirate, for example, to string him up then and there.

The Define and Punish Clause addressed this situation by granting Congress authority to enact criminal statutes setting forth the details of piracy and other “Offences against the Law of Nations.” 

The ‘Law of Nations’

In the 18th century, the term “nation” often referred to an ethnic group—such as “the Arabs” or “the Koreans”—rather than to a sovereign state. A sovereign state might be composed of one “nation” or of many. Or a “nation” might (as is true of the Arabs and Koreans today) sprawl across several sovereign states.

Two thousand years ago, the Romans developed a common law for non-Romans within their empire. They called it the ius gentium—“the law of ethnic groups” (or “peoples”). Later, the spelling was altered to jus gentium.

In accordance with the contemporaneous meaning of “nation” as an ethnic group, the phrase was translated into English as “the law of nations.” A more modern translation might be “the jurisprudence of all ethnic groups.”

Despite the ancient origins of the jus gentium, the modern law of nations didn’t take shape until the 17th century. The man generally recognized as its founder was the brilliant Dutch scholar and diplomat Huig de Groot. His masterpiece, published in 1625, was entitled “De Jure Belli ac Pacis” (“The Law of War and Peace”). It was, like all learned books of the time, composed in Latin, and the author’s name was Latinized to “Hugo Grotius.” It is by his Latin name that he is known today. (This is true of many historical figures: We also refer to Cristoforo Colombo by his Latin name: “Christopher Columbus.”)

As formulated by Grotius, the law of nations applied not just to “nations” in the sense of ethnic groups, but to sovereignties. It sometimes applied to individuals as well.

Following in the footsteps of Grotius were other outstanding international law scholars. The most important were Samuel von Pufendorf’, a German who published his leading work in 1672; Christian Wolff, another German, who published in 1749; and Emer de Vattel, a Swiss lawyer and diplomat, whose 1758 volume was composed in French. Additionally, a French scholar, Jean Barbeyrac (1674–1744), gained fame for his translations of, and commentaries on, the works of Grotius and Pufendorf.

America’s Founders were familiar with all of these scholars. American courts relied on the opinions of Grotius, Pufendorf, Barbeyac, Vattel, and, more rarely, Wolff. In 1783, a committee of the Confederation Congress recommended a list of important books for acquisition. They included the principal works of all these authors. The committee was a notable one. It consisted of three men destined to be among the Constitution’s framers: James Madison, Thomas Mifflin, and Hugh Williamson.

During the Constitutional Convention, delegates cited Vattel. During the subsequent public debates over the Constitution’s ratification, participants mentioned Grotius, Pufendorf, Barbeyrac, and Vattel.

An author even more famous among Americans also devoted some attention to the law of nations. He was William Blackstone, whose “Commentaries on the Laws of England” was the most popular law book in the United States.

Immigration Control as Part of the Law of Nations

We can summarize the rest of the story quickly. Here it is:

• All of these authors affirmed that just as one usually may not enter a property-owner’s land without permission, it usually is an “Offense against the Law of Nations” to cross another sovereign’s borders without permission.
• If a state intrudes into the territory of another state without the consent of its sovereign, the intruding state offends against the law of nations. If an individual enters the territory of a foreign state without the consent of its sovereign, the individual offends against the law of nations. It also violates the law of nations for a state to permit or encourage its citizens to cross a foreign border without permission.
• There are some exceptions and modifications to the foregoing rules. The authors disagree slightly on their scope. However, they agree that a sovereign has a legal or moral obligation to try to accommodate exiles, refugees, those shipwrecked on foreign shores, and those required to pass through a foreign country. Even in those cases, however, each sovereign has wide discretion to set the terms and conditions of entry.
• All of this was confirmed by yet another international law scholar, Georg Friedrich von Martens, a German professor who published in 1789, while the Constitution still was under debate in North Carolina, Rhode Island, and Vermont.

Thus, Congress’s power to “define and punish Offenses against the Law of Nations” includes authority to adopt laws restricting immigration. As chief executive, it’s the president’s sworn duty to “take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed”—and therefore to enforce those laws.

Once again, a claimed weakness in the Constitution turns out to be non-existent, and the framers are absolved of error. The prevailing uncertainty on this subject is our fault, not theirs.

 

 

Republished with permission from The Tenth Amendment Center

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Ivermectin is a Nobel Prize-winning medicine that was affordable, licensed, safe, and approved for off-label use until doctors tried to use it to treat flu patients with COVID19. The FDA not only got between you and your doctor, but they also convinced boards of health to threaten the licenses of physicians and pharmacists.

Related: We Know Why The Public Health Industrial Complex Had to Discredit Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin

The result was a chilling effect on the doctor-patient relationship that likely resulted in a significant increase in severe disease, hospitalization, and death.

An actual crime against humanity.

The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) issued an amicus brief in support of Apter v. HHS,  the FDA, for meddling to the detriment of their patients.

 

“Defendant FDA has improperly exploited misunderstandings about the legality and prevalence of off-label uses of medication, in order to mislead courts, state medical boards, and the public into thinking there is anything improper about off-label prescribing,” AAPS writes in its amicus brief to the court. “Not only is off-label prescribing fully proper, legal, and commonplace, but it is also absolutely necessary in order to give effective care to patients.”

 

Until COVID, I’ve been led to understand that doctors were at liberty to write scripts for off-label use of licensed drugs for whatever purpose they and their patients deemed appropriate. It was a doctor-patient thing. Treat each person based on the symptoms and their circumstances. But the Wuhan flu sent the Public Health Industrial Complex (PHIC) into Hitler mode.

Politicians piled on blindly following Federal agency guidelines even when they contradicted all known practices, including those agencies’ previous research. The result was more illness, hospitalization, and death, complete with cash incentives for the PHIC if it ignored patient health and safety and did as they were told.

Related: FLCCC Doctor Gives COMPELLING TESTIMONY to NH House Committee in SUPPORT of IVERMECTIN Dispensed Without a Prescription

Hospitals and state’s cashed in, scooping up trillions in taxpayers’ dollars while those taxpayers were losing jobs and businesses and getting an illness for which they could not get proper treatment.

Let’s just say someone said, enough of this crap, and they sued the FDA.

 

AAPS General Counsel Andrew Schlafly pointed out to the court that the FDA “has engaged in a campaign of interference with the proper use by physicians of ivermectin, which has long been approved as fully safe for human use.” He alerted the court that once the FDA approves a medication as safe, then physicians have full authority to prescribe it to treat any illness, particularly a novel virus like Covid-19.

 

If the FDA gets away with it, they’ll do it again, putting the interests of politics and big pharma ahead of doctors and their patients the machinery of public health, and will continue to pursue self-interest before all else. And that, we cannot have.

 

Added: Amicus Filing by the AAPS

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Joe Biden is the President that was to unify all Americans. It did not matter the color of your skin or the balance of your 401k, Joe wanted to be the man in your corner. Well, Joe is a flat-out fraud.

Joe has proven that he is the biggest divider ever to sit behind the resolute desk, and he has no prejudice when it comes to screwing Americans. Today, he threw his tomahawk squarely at the Red Americans. Today, he canceled all oil drilling leases on Indian reservations. The Red Man is unhappy with Joe today, and you don’t need to read the smoke signals to feel their anger.

The Indians relied on the income from these oil drilling rigs, and they are beyond angry. He has made a decision regarding the ability to make money on private land. In this case, he has violated the sovereignty of Indian land. Joe Biden may have gone too far with his war on fossil fuels. But at least he is making his Vice President happy by treating his war on fossil fuels with equity. He has effectively taken down every sector of American Society.

The cost of gas has been declining, which was something this warped administration was bragging about. They had driven the price of a gallon of gas to over $5, and they bragged about it coming down to $3.50. Great Job, Joe. It was $2.25 when you took your oath. You cannot remember either of these markers. It was and is your bad policies that are costing every American thousands a year in increased cost of gas and home heating fuel. Your anti-fossil fuel policies are the most significant broad-based tax increase ever.

It is evident that the American public does not share the administration’s zeal for Green policies and the war on fossil fuels. The American public is not excited about trading in their gas-burning automobiles for a toxic battery-powered electric vehicle. You will have to pull the keys of my four-wheel drive Jeep from my dying hands before you put me behind the wheel of a Chevy Volt.

Parshall, North Dakota includes 464 nearby oil and gas leases. Parshall (Hidatsa: dibiarugareesh) is a city lying within the jurisdictional boundaries of the Mandan Hidatsa and Arikara Nation. It is located on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in Mountrail Count,y North Dakota. These Native Americans have lost a major revenue stream thanks to Joe Biden. Does Joe consider the collateral damage of any of the bad decisions he makes, or is that beyond his purview? This is only one situation. Joe Biden’s decision will impact nearly every reservation in the country.

Apparently, Joe does not see this as pushing American and Alaskan Indians away from the Democrat Party. Like Blacks and Browns, Indians have traditionally voted Democrat. This trend is changing significantly with Blacks and Browns, and bad decisions like this Fossil Fuel killing act by Biden may add the Reds to that changing demographic.

We are in a dynamic time domestically and internationally and Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are filling the news cycle with their blunders when we need to see their best efforts at showing American strength and resolve. In the old days, when the Mafia families went to battle, they needed wartime leaders and consiglioreris. America is at war with illegal immigration, fentanyl poisoning, inflation, and an energy crisis. There is no wartime leader anywhere near 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, and will not be for two years. Can we hold on for two more years of Biden’s Progressive insanity? Only time will tell.

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While the Democrat spending spree continues to devastate Americans and demolish the economy, Whoever is Running the Biden Administration (Ron Klain?) just gave their wife a made-up job with full pay and benefits.

 

“For the first time, the United States is designating a special diplomat to advocate for global biodiversity amid what policymakers here and overseas increasingly recognize as an extinction crisis,” the Washington Post reported on Thursday, under the headline “In a first, U.S. appoints a diplomat for plants and animals.”

“Secretary Antony Blinken has designated Monica P. Medina as the United States’ Special Envoy for Biodiversity and Water Resources, signaling the Biden-Harris Administration’s commitment to resolving the world’s intertwined biodiversity and water crises,” the State Department announced Wednesday. “Monica Medina is the Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs and will take on the Special Envoy designation in addition to her current duties.”

 

Medina is an environmental activist lawyer (Georgetown and Columbia) who founded an Environmental Newsletter. She has experience in the swamp, and her hubby happens to be the guy who is probably running the country (into the ground). No, not Joe Biden, White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain.

Klain runs things, including deciding who gets cushy jobs like Special Envoy to the Earth Birthing Person. It is a position that will require a workspace, office staff, supplies, underlings, and a large budget, all of which will add to the government’s already significant carbon footprint, deforestation, and emissions. It will also increase the regulatory burden, which, by extension, will exacerbate that carbon footprint exponentially across the increasingly fruitless plains.

As usual, this is the opposite of the advertised outcome.

Do you know what would reduce emissions if you are into that? Downsizing the federal government. It is probably one of the biggest polluters on the planet. But that’s not what Democrats are after. Their number one goal is to grow government, even if it means creating a make-work job for the White House Chief of Staff’s wife.

The Lorax with a six-figure salary and a mission to increase emissions.

 

 

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Landrigan’s State House Dome (reformatted, emphasis his AND mine):

AFTER THE VOTES are counted Nov. 8, there will be another election at the State House. The race for speaker of the New Hampshire House of Representatives is heating up.

…Many observers figured House Speaker and 18-term state Rep. Sherman Packard, R-Londonderry, would have a clear path to the nomination by the Republican caucus to keep hold of the gavel. This would be Packard’s first full term after replacing House Speaker Dick Hinch, who died from complications with COVID-19 soon after taking over in December 2020. Not so fast.

According to multiple sources in both parties, four-term Rep. Leonard Turcotte, R-Barrington, told associates he is exploring a GOP challenge to Packard…Legislative process disputes are one motivation behind Turcotte’s potential candidacy. Packard removed Turcotte from two conference committees because of his strongly held views, including a desire to do away with Gov. Chris Sununu’s voluntary paid family leave program.

This isn’t an ideological debate — Turcotte and Packard are both solid fiscal and social conservatives.

…If the race happens, install Packard as a clear favorite. It’s very difficult to unseat a sitting speaker.

To be competitive, Turcotte would have to hope this election delivers dozens of newly elected House members who aren’t beholden to the status quo.
Some close to the speaker hope a cease-fire will emerge, with Turcotte brought more into the leadership fold as an olive branch.

All of the above assumes that the Republicans keep the majority, naturally.

Hmmm…we’ll be watching.

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Who had everything to gain … and who had everything to lose … by blowing up Nord Stream? The Biden-Regime answers that question below. And don’t forget, the regime has NO problem with the United States being totally dependent on China for their “green economy.”

.@SecBlinken celebrates Nordstream bombings: "A tremendous opportunity to once & for all remove the dependence on Russian energy & thus to take away from Putin the weaponization of energy … That's very significant & offers tremendous strategic opportunity for the years to come" pic.twitter.com/ra64B00yqd

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) October 3, 2022

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School administrators are going ahead with SEL (Social and Emotional Learning) surveys on your children. This allows Ed Tech vendors to collect sensitive mental health data on students, in order to build a psychological profile on them.

SAU21 and SAU16 are both using the PEAR survey that coincides with developing the Portrait of a Graduate/Learner, which you can read about here and here. All of this is tied to collecting massive amounts of sensitive data on your children. However, many other districts around New Hampshire are engaging in the same practices. It would be wise for parents to start looking at what SEL (Social and Emotional Learning) programs are being implemented in the school.

If you haven’t noticed what’s going on in your child’s class, you might want to look at their assignments. Many of them are focused on self-examination of your child VERSUS learning the academic content that should be taught in the classroom. This is a path to illiteracy in those core subjects because it shifts the focus away from academics.

That is why I asked SAU16 for a copy of the questions they will be asking students. The good news is they did ask for parental consent, which is required by federal and state law. However, it looks like SAU16 failed to post the survey questions on their district website. Posting questions on the district website when they administer non-academic surveys, is required by New Hampshire law.

Here is what was sent to SAU16 parents;

Dear Parent/Guardian, We continue to be very excited to collaborate with Partnerships in Education and Resilience (PEAR) in order to promote the positive social-emotional development of our school community and students. We continue to be dedicated to the developing evidence that helping students feel good about themselves, their school and their relationships improves their learning. Thank you to all who have opted-in for our PEAR survey.  We are on our way to getting a strong response from our parents and we are hoping that more of you will be willing to agree to opt-in for this survey in the next week so we can reach a significant survey number that will help us better support your child.  We are extending the survey date to October 6th, 2022 to allow all parents who wish to have their child participate in this dynamic survey.  Every student who opts-in to the survey will support CMS helping students increase their academic and social development! With extending the survey date, we are also extending the OPT-IN Response Date to October 3rd, 2022. As a reminder the statements that are on the survey are based on agreement terms. Here are two examples. I enjoy playing board games with friends (I strongly agree, I agree, I have no opinion, I disagree, I strongly disagree) I enjoy lunch with my friends (I strongly agree, I agree, I have no opinion, I disagree, I strongly disagree) All statements on the survey are available upon request.  All stored data has students’ names replaced by an ID number that is only accessible to designated team members.  This information can help staff tailor teaching and support to your child’s unique strengths and challenges. Once the survey is complete and data is gathered, CMS and PEAR will continue its collaborative efforts to develop tier 1 and 2 social-emotional learning lessons to strengthen the overall life of a student at CMS. PEAR will use data from our school for research and educational work. Your child’s name is not accessible so will never be used as part of any research project. If you have any questions about this effort or would like to see a copy of this survey, please contact Assistant Principal Clyde Perezcastaneda.  email:  cperezcastaneda@sau16.org Please take a moment to review and fill out the attached form or complete the online form via THIS LINK. Please return this form by Oct 6, 2022.  Please disregard this message if you have already completed the permission form.

I followed up with an email asking to see the questions on the mental health survey:

HSA with SDQ 2022-23 Watermarked.docx

Once I read the questions, I then sent this email back to Mr. Perez and the school board members in SAU16:

Mr. Perez: Thank you for your prompt reply. You did not answer my question about why this survey has not been posted on the district website.  Please tell me why the PEAR survey has not been posted on the district website as required by state law.  No one should have to email staff members to access a non-academic survey. This information should be posted on the website as required by law: According to RSA 186:11, IX-d requires you to: 

IX-d. Require school districts to adopt a policy governing the administration of non- academic surveys or questionnaires to students. The policy shall require school districts to notify a parent or legal guardian of a non-academic survey or questionnaire and its purpose. The policy shall provide that no student shall be required to volunteer for or submit to a non-academic survey or questionnaire, as defined in this paragraph, without written consent of a parent or legal guardian unless the student is an adult or an emancipated minor. The policy shall include an exception from the consent requirement for the youth risk behavior survey developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The policy shall also allow a parent or legal guardian to opt-out of the youth risk behavior survey developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The school district shall make such surveys or questionnaires available, at the school and on the school or school district’s website, for review by a student’s parent or legal guardian at least 10 days prior to distribution to students. In this paragraph, “non-academic survey or questionnaire” means surveys, questionnaires, or other documents designed to elicit information about a student’s social behavior, family life, religion, politics, sexual orientation, sexual activity, drug use, or any other information not related to a student’s academics.

In addition, mental health assessments and treatment require parental consent per Federal Law. It is my understanding that the district did require parental consent for this screening. It would be helpful if they were also provided information on how this vendor will protect the privacy of the students. We can already see that they collect PII on the students’ mental health. I have found that these vendors have loopholes in their privacy policies. In other words, they’re not private at all.  Question #22 in the last section asks: I take things that are not mine from home, school, or elsewhere.    While the survey does include a statement on stopping the survey at any time, will anyone explain to children that this question requires a student to self-incriminate? I do not see any instruction that would explain to the student, their fifth amendment rights under the United States Constitution. While this normally applies to a criminal justice system, normally children come to school to learn academic content, not answer questions on whether they’ve participated in an illegal activity.    Within the privacy policy it says: . Notwithstanding any exceptions in the definition of Confidential Information, the parties agree to treat all Education Records as Confidential Information and disclosure thereof is allowed only to the extent permitted under FERPA.     FERPA now includes a loophole that you can read about here: Big Tech Makes Big Data Out of Your Child: The FERPA Loophole EdTech Exploits to Monetize Student Data  Excerpt: The legislation’s overly broad definition of education records, combined with the 2011 Amendments expanding FERPA to permit schools to disclose data to third parties, creates a loophole for the EdTech industry to avoid COPPA regulation regarding student data.10 As a result, commercial companies can quickly amass large amounts of data and potentially avoid the FTC’s oversight of COPPA compliance by contracting directly with schools.11 This practice runs afoul of legislative intent for both FERPA and COPPA, places student data at risk by creating a vacuum of oversight, and leaves little recourse for violations of data collection or use in the EdTech industry.12
  To the school board members, especially if you have children in the public school, you might want to brush up on the massive data mining that is taking place in SAU16 and public schools across the country. You are bringing in a vendor to collect mental health data on your children, and I have not seen any attempt to explain to parents what all of this entails. What happens if this company is sold? Who then will have access to your child’s sensitive mental health data? Who stores all of the data? Will the data ever be destroyed? What happens if there is a breach? How will you contact parents ?    Did you know that all you have to do is call yourself a researcher and you can access PII? The safeguards that were once in place to prevent your child’s sensitive data, no longer exist. FERPA was gutted so that technology companies can have free reign to your child’s most personal and sensitive information.  They will build a psychological profile with this information on your children, and it’s why many parents are quietly removing their children from the public schools.    It is your responsibility to look out for your children and the families you represent in the district. How much research have you done on this ?

Notice how the email to parents suggests that they should be excited about this? Notice how they gave two sample questions but left out the self-incriminating question? Notice how they didn’t attach the survey to the notice but instead required parents to contact them for a copy?  This is like being excited about buying a used car from the slick salesman who never tells you the engine doesn’t work. Do you hire these people to sell you garbage or inform you with details, facts, and information? It appears as if SAU16 is run by some of the slickest snake oil salesmen out there.

Please NOTE:  I ADVISE NO PARENT TO CONSENT TO ANY OF THESE SEL OR ANY OTHER NON-ACADEMIC SURVEY.

Too often we see administrators selling these SEL data mining surveys instead of conducting the research, and offering you all of the details you should know. I’m going to guess that you weren’t advised on any of this.   You can find additional information here: https://granitegrok.com/blog/2022/10/portrait-of-a-learner-in-sau21-more-data-mining-your-childs-mental-health-for. The school administrators you pay, should be providing this information to you.
  Ann Marie Banfield 

TRUST REQUIRES TRANSPARENCY

Schools in New Hampshire and across the country are administering SEL screenings and assessments. Now you know why I advise that NO parent consent to any SEL or NON-Academic survey, questionnaire, or screening.

 

 

 

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Quite spectacular!

Push-ups on the water (at the end)

music pic.twitter.com/cG4dQigyhB

— Wall Street Silver (@WallStreetSilv) October 2, 2022

 

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If you find you need blood, we have some bad news. The American Red Cross is either not asking donors if they’ve received the mRNA Covid “vaccines” or not labeling blood from these donors if they are asking for vaccine status.

 

“We don’t label blood products as containing vaccinated or unvaccinated blood as the Covid-19 vaccine does not enter the bloodstream and poses no safety risks to the recipient,” the Red Cross claims.

“If you have safety concerns about potential blood transfusions, please speak with your medical care team.”

 

Even if you are Jabbed, this might be a matter of concern.

 

We have found crystalline formations in the blood of all the vaccinated people whose blood we examined. We are continuing to analyse these formations. In every case that we have examined, we have observed a rouleaux formation of the erythrocytes (the red blood cells) and we frequently observe an unusually rapid disintegration of the different types of cells in the vaccinated blood that we examine.

 

Using AI technology to screen samples, these European researchers were also able to identify who received the COVID “vaccines” and who had not by looking at their blood. The claim these injections change your blood and not just in the short term. Blood is being distributed around the country and perhaps the world without any indication that it came from an mRNA “vaccinated” individual.

It sounds like the evil plot from some comic-book supervillain. First, we release an engineered flu virus into the world. Then we ignore safe, licensed drugs and OTC therapies in favor of a vaccine that (as it turns out) doesn’t help and might make matters worse. We insist everyone get it or else. And then we allow the “vaccinated” to donate blood that will filter into the general population until nearly everyone has this junk in them.

The blood and junk are connected to a wide range of side effects and complex long-term health problems.

I know it sounds crazy, but we’re living it and do not know if tainted blood is limited to the American Red Cross or if organizations that handle blood products are as disinterested globally.

Think about the potential harm to the ill or injured. Anyone with pre-existing heart or clotting issues would be at high risk for starters.

And the response from the Public Health Industrial Complex, at least in the form of the American Red Cross, is whatever. It’s not a concern. They have no intention of segregating blood from mRNA-vaccinated donors.

So, be careful out there, people.

 

 

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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.  Speaking of, here’s last Friday’s Overflow-Overflow.

Remember, ridicule and mockery are effective weapons:

1. Ridicule cannot easily be fought
2. Ridicule makes the enemy angry, and angry people make mistakes
3. For those in the “squishy middle” a Thought Splinter (and Part II and Part III) can often be hidden inside humor.  Stand by for Thought Splinters IV… working on it, hope to have it done this week!

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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Ben Shapiro may not be everyone’s cup of tea, but he has an excellent deconstruction of the song here (video, 10 minutes).

 

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I get that people look at this statement, and other similar ones from Pelosi, both Clintons, Schumer, and others… and scream HYPOCRITE!  No.  No.  No.  You don’t get it.  This is not hypocrisy.  This is distraction.  This is deception.  They know… they’ve known since 1965 (and doubtless earlier) that population replacement is the goal.  Or, at least, population dilution of the mostly-white, mostly-conservative population to the point where they have an electoral majority.  A permanent electoral majority.

They’ve said these things for decades and fooled most into believing they really believed this was a crisis they were actually addressing.  Instead, it was a maskirovka to distract and deflect from the fact that they did nothing meaningful… thus letting more and more into the country.  (I remember a picture of a news conference where a “bipartisan” Senator group was discussing yet another round of amnesty, and here was McCain holding forth while Chuck-E-Cheese Schumer was grinning from ear to ear.  He knew.  Same thing with Billy-boy Clinton now coming out about the southern border.  I have no doubts he doesn’t care… but now they think they have enough across the border that they can start paying public attention.  What is it, two million?  Three million before anything’s actually done?  Four?  That’s more than enough to demographically swamp this nation where most elections are only won by a few percentage points.)

How the Left Wins Elections by Transforming Nations – Daniel Greenfield / Sultan Knish articles

 

 

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Paper ballots.  Counting done with videos on each table, broadcast to the net live.  ID verification.  Voter roll purges annually.  And IMHO indelible ink finger dips with one-day, one-person, one-vote elections; no mail in voting and limited absentee balloting.  Oh, and a mandatory minimum five years if convicted of vote fraud.

 

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A question I think towards Covidians, liberals, and other assorted morons.  Most on the Left, some on the Right.

 

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There’s a quote from the late 90’s – I can’t find the precise one – that to be branded an extremist today all you need to do is point to current events and then quote the Founding Fathers on that topic.

 

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Pick of the post:

 

 

Remember what I keep saying: that a meme can carry a truth through someone’s cognitive barriers to plant a seed.  This is a perfect example of that – simple, effective… I LOLed.

 

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Palate Cleanser:

 

 

I’m as pasty white as you can get.  My wife is Asian.  We go to a “real” Asian restaurant and they give me the fork and her the chopsticks.  And we switch, because she can’t use them (Kazakhs may look Asian but culturally are more West than East, IMHO) while I learned ages ago, including my time working as a busboy & waiter in a Chinese restaurant.  On a trip to China a few years ago I was challenged to hold two peanuts side-by-side.  Did it.  Could not do three at once though.

 

 

 

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Did you think masks were over in school? Not so fast. In spite of the CDC dropping their recommendations on masks, one parent in SAU16 found out that her child was masked at school.

As enrollment continues to decline in public schools, look no further than the foolish decisions that have been made that drive parents to remove their children. This is a copy of an email sent to the SAU16 school board members. The parent highlights the list of bad decisions that have been made versus how well her children are now doing at a private school:

 

Subject: Re: Masks Good afternoon, I want to believe in, “your best professional intentions,” however, “your best professional intentions,” have unnecessarily hurt children in our district and there have been zero apologies. Who gives anyone the authority to mask a child that is wheezing from an asthma attack? Rockingham county’s transmission rate is LOW, President Biden has declared that the pandemic is over. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Sep 23, 2022, no longer recommends universal masking in health care settings. PLEASE STOP the insanity! This board has not lead by example, you continue to fail the test of inclusion and acceptance! Even when entire countries, states, local school boards and parents disagreed with your decisions, you didn’t budge. A different viewpoint was not respected and it’s STILL not being respected. Evidence is clear school closures, remote learning and masking….. hurt children! Masking statistically did NOT make a difference! History has repeatedly shown that there is a real danger in believing that you are so right that there is no other choice! You must be willing to consider there is evidence contradictory to your beliefs and admit that your beliefs might be wrong. A cloth mask from Old Navy, that was proven to be little than more than a facial decoration created such ugliness and crazy controlling behavior over children and this board took away parental rights! Our children were being taught fear, fear of the air they breathe and prolonged fear equals TRAUMA! I feel like we live in one of the most extreme towns in the country, the children at Phillips Exeter are still being forced to mask! We repeatedly made national news for what we have done to children! SAU16 had to be forced two times to do the right thing by the Governor, you didn’t listen to over 80% of the parents! Even when every single one of you said it could not be done, clearly it could be done! Dr. Ryan you and this board have never taken responsibility, you brought this school system to its knees. A once thriving district where families wanted to live so their kids could go to the school has become a place that is extreme. I tell my children we need to forgive and not forget! Teaches and staff should be having healing, conversations and apologies to children. My daughter didn’t want to go to the nurses office last week because she felt like they didn’t like her because she protested masking last year. I know a lot of kids feel this way in the school. The same people on this board and SAU 16 staff that were sending their own children to in person school and not wearing masks out in public were enforcing different rules on young children! I understand that many on the board are volunteering your time and everyone loves children, however, I think there’s many lessons that we can learn from over the last two years. I read a quote once that said “you focus on the hurt you continue to hurt you focus on the lessons you continue to grow.” Let’s focus now on doing the right thing for children, focus on the peer reviewed CDC and AAP guidelines that says implementing later school start times is the BEST thing you can do for ALL children! Maybe use ESSER funds to buy 2 electric buses for SST,  give kids normalcy, get them off I READY and out of unattended classes in the CMS auditorium, bring back ALL school dances (don’t call them recipes for disaster), bring back the overnight field trips, let the children know the adults believe they are GOOD and VALUED and let’s have some fun in the community …maybe have a carnival for unity and healing! We were able to pull our oldest out of SAU16 for high school she’s currently attending Saint Thomas and my three younger children are on a wait list at Sacred Heart. Sending them to private school was never our intention. Over the last few weeks we have watched our oldest daughter have the time of her life, what a difference a school makes. She has normalcy, she has staff excited to be there, excited for spirit week filling it with amazing activities, there was a home, Homecoming football game, a Homecoming dance and a real sense of community! Let’s bring back common sense to SAU 16 and respect what parents really want for their children, a great education with a fun, exciting, normal high school experience! It doesn’t have to be so hard! Over the years children’s needs haven’t changed, sadly it’s the adults agenda that has changed. Thank you,

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