You’d consider this an outright challenge, yes?  It’s just begging you to try it. And this may be one of the reasons why TMEW has never entertained the idea of letting me get a motorcycle.

 

 

 

She just looked up at me when I asked, “Will you look at this for a moment”?

She looked at the image. Then she gave me “The Look.”

My attempt at trying to have a “look of innocence” flopped as badly as if I really had tried that moving ramp stunt.

 

HT |  Hot Air

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Saturday, Oct 28, is shaping up to be a beautiful Fall day, with great weather, speakers, table vendors, food, free speech (a gun raffle), and conversation. All that’s missing, as they say, is you, and we’ve got some updates we hope will encourage you to join us.

We invited vendors and groups to take tables; we’ve got at least 18 of them. Eighteen tables so far and counting – with products or information for you, including books, handouts, and whatever other goodies they’ve planned to bring along.

We’ve updated the speakers list. Author and Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski is still our keynote, but we’ve added Michael Rectenwald. He is the author of Springtime for Snowflakes, Google Archipelago, and more – a White Tower Marxist who was canceled for daring to question one facet of the approved orthodoxy. He’s not with them anymore, but we’ve got him.

 

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Laurie Ortolano is speaking, fresh from picking up her Loeb School First Amendment Award (on Oct 26), as is the already-announced Hal Shurtleff, the Camp Constitution guru who won a 9-0 free speech case at the US Supreme Court.

Author and speaker Ian Underwood will also take some time at the podium.

Skip and Steve are still speaking if they let us, but we may have to give one scheduled speaker, Dan Richards, a pass. His business, Global Rescue, was already busy with the Ukraine “conflict” but has been working overtime since the Hamas attack on Israel. But we might be able to sneak in a Zoom call or a quick recorded message – we’re waiting for the final word, which may come that morning or during the event.

More…

The Gun raffle ticket price is a steal—five dollars for one ticket, three for ten, or ten tickets for 20.00. You have to be there to buy them, and … you must be legally able to pass a background check with the FFL to take possession with the dealer, so if you can’t do that, buy something else or donate the money, please. Otherwise, show up and stock up on tickets!

As noted above, the forecast for Saturday (as of today) is 67 and mostly/Partly sunny. If it stays that way, we’ll leave the firepits behind, but we’ve got ’em if we need ’em.

 

 

 

Event ticket buyers will get admission, access to everything, the opportunity to talk with our speakers, and a handful of food and drink tickets to pick and choose from the menu, which includes desserts.

And I won’t lie. We have yet to nail down a band. We want one, but they either charge too much or are…what’s the word, bad. We’re still planning to have music, but we want that to be live!

We have a comedian, well – he thinks he’s funny. You can decide for yourself. And, of course, the best Master of Ceremonies in the Granite State, Jeff Chidester, who is also a speaker at this event.

And I can bring the cornhole set (it is still in the box), but I’ll break it out if anyone is interested.

So please grab a ticket or two, and come and enjoy the food and the company, chat with friends you bring or meet, and enjoy an afternoon celebrating another great day in New Hampshire and to support of independent media in the Granite State and beyond.

 

All proceeds pay for event costs or to fund GraniteGrok.com. Everyone else has volunteered their time to help us raise money and awareness.

 

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Boston University Keeps sending me “Bostonia,” which touts itself as being THE Alumni magazine of BU. Forty years later, I still have no idea how they found me up here in NH (never gave them my address); they keep sending me this rag.

I used to read it, but as it drifted Leftward in its positioning and presentation (as opposed to its down-the-middle description of “alumni of note”), I graduated to merely reviewing the Obits – and then, for years, just tossed it away.

They continue to disappoint me, and I’m sure I’ve disappointed them. I’ve never given them a dime over the decades. Glad, too, given that its current “luminaries,” US CongressTwit AOC and Critical Race Theory grifter Professor Ibram X. Kendi, are the face of BU when it comes to Politics. But now this.

The latest issue.

 

I dryly note that guns don’t divide a country, people do, but that would ruin their Narrative, wouldn’t it?

I didn’t toss it right away, thinking I’d read it a bit later. Months later, I just read it Saturday morning. Much to my unsurprise, the slant and bias of both the writer and who she interviewed was quite present. So I decided to leave some comments.  I was respectful but I guess calling AOC a “CongressTwit” and Ibram X Kendi, the BU Professor, who is now under investigation of “missing” millions of dollars given to his “Anti-Racism Center”, a “grifter”. Other than that, and stating that Bostonia had slide Leftward over the years, I was actually very respectful. Truely, I was!

That included the one in which I stated that with the deliberate destruction by the Left of traditional American norms and mores, the problem isn’t with an inanimate object but with the minds, hearts, and souls of those that would have the mindset to make such a horrible decision to follow though with actions that would take peoples’ lives. Until the Left finally recognized that, this is merely ignoring the actual root cause.

And I was duly rewarded before I could save of the page to bring them here , the moderator deleted them. I HATE wasting time and they were pretty good, too (IMHO)! Even my last comment in following up the other deletions, in which I said

“for a politically self-categorized article, it’s clear that my political world isn’t acceptable at BU anymore) got deleted.

So, back to the trash can they go. After all:

Groucho Marx: I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.

 

 

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I think we’ve been clear about this. The immunity protections given to Pfizer by the government were never genuine, and the people handing them out knew that. And that while the Pfeds would cover for their own, the rest were on their own. That day may have arrived.

 

You can now sue the mRNA COVID vaccine manufacturers for damages and the FDA is required to take the COVID vaccines off the market. Why? Adulteration. The plasmid bioactive contaminant sequences were NOT pointed out to the regulatory authorities. It’s considered adulteration.  …

The FDA is now at a crossroads. Either they admit that they knew about the plasma contamination, and failed to disclose that to the public and to the outside committees, or they can claim that they didn’t know about it in which case Pfizer is liable. But we have the Pfizer documents that were given to the FDA so we know what the FDA got. And I seriously doubt there’s any disclosure of SV40 contamination. That means we have an adulterated vaccine and the FDA has to remove it from the market until the adulteration is fixed.

 

That is Steve Kirsch via Thread reader, and thanks to the small army of “researchers” who sent it to me. And I’m very excited to have hinted at Pfizer’s doom (with a lot of help from the internet) just last week. Two pull quotes from my piece. First,

 

If you hide details that lead to harm, the political rats will abandon your ship faster than you can say mRNA Vaccines.

That’s the boat Pfizer may soon find itself in, and it should not expect its Pfederal Pfriends to lift a pfinger to help, noting that any who might have probably “retired” and have packed their”stipends” and inducements in their saddle bags as they ride into the sunset. Any still on the payroll (wink-wink) also got what they wanted. A full-scale global tyranny test that a majority of the Western World Pfailed.

 

And second.

 

The ‘crats (Demo and Bureau) will feign surprise and outrage if the weight of truth becomes too much for the narrative damn to hold back, they will find the nearest microphone and throw Pfizer under the bus. The Pfeds will lose the Pf and launch investigations while states bring lawsuits to take whatever settlement they can manage as “compensation” for being fooled or in on the scam.

 

For now, rejoice. Shoddy drug-making and sloppy Quality control (remdesivir with glass particles in it) may have opened the door for a global lawsuit that would end Pfizer, which investors saw coming. There is, of course, at least one fiat. While the government stooges will easily switch sides and take their pound of flesh from either with a wink and a smile, one judge’s ruling is only another ruling away from becoming meaningless.

I don’t think this leaking barrel holds water long-term because of systemic deception.

Tens of thousands of pages of Pfizer and FDA documents are in the public domain. There is clear evidence of misinformation, deception, and fraud. Research continues to pile up, proving the jab was crap, getting it made matters worse, getting more of it worst still. And people were wising up to that.

The FDA and CDC then drove disinformation down into the state and local public health Matrix, and the process was multiplied. They created the tagline that will come to haunt them.

Safe and Effective. It was neither. And they have been avoiding the conversation becasue it makes them look dumber than the people they’ve been ridiculing who told the truth. That means you burn any bridge to save some face. So whichever way the ill wind blows, the Government franchise of the Medical Industrial Complex will cover its bloated ass, and blowing up Pfizer is a small price to pay.

And Pfizer doesn’t have a police force if you take my meaning.

So, once they get the okay, every DA and AG across the fruited plain will want a vulture in line to pick at the carcass. And they’ll pretend that means they were looking out for you all along. And? How about more regulations and more government to regulate the regulators?

You can count on that.

Whatever happens, don’t be distracted by the potential for the largest class action lawsuit in human history, Pfizer’s inability to pay what they should, or any government is your health-freedom friend crap. None of them has your back (we do). And all do it again in a heartbeat.

But you saw through the covid crap the first time, so keep that eyesight sharp and your BS meter ready.

Stay frosty.

 

This article was updated after publication.

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The government in Canada has both embraced and promoted medically assisted dying. Assisted suicide. It started with the chronically ill, but soon, almost anyone could ask the government to please kill them, even those who thought they wanted to live.

Government-approved euthanasia is not new and does not always begin as a call for compassion, but it always develops mission creep. In our so-called modern age, Nation-states or just states stand teary-eyed, choking on their empathy, begging us to give them the authority to end life. It is a kindness. A gift. To stop their suffering. But much the way a hammer sees every problem as a nail, so do the regulators and legislators who empower your government with this hand of death.

The tale begins with word salads of concern for the dignity of the chronically ill—those few who cannot separate daily living from pain, inevitably leading to the government ending life to escape its failures or to solve problems it created. Hide them, even. Every possible encumbrance upon the state is increasingly solved by “allowing” some class of “burden” to end its life.

The old, the poor, the homeless, the depressed, Veterans with PTS, anyone who is a strain on the socialized health system or the welfare budget, and eventually, inevitably, those who speak out against the government.

Housing crisis – look, something just opened up. Not enough food because you won’t let farmers grow it, or perhaps you think there are too many people on your planet?

Another lockdown will have them lining up for a mental illness date with Dr. Death.

Related: Progressive Governing 101: If You Make Life Miserable People Will Volunteer to Kill Themselves

Oh, Steve, that’ll never happen. Except it has or will. Mental health issues are defined by state social workers and therapists, most of whom were trained by partisan Marxist progressives who are all eugenicists and social engineers with the power not just to recommend assisted suicide but to counsel their patients to consider it.

Encouraged by those above their pay grade, they become end-of-life counselors of opportunity. I know you think you want to live, but this is what’s best.

And if you think that sort of handling is crazy talk, NH banned its therapists from counseling the gender confused toward their birth sex, even if that’s what the patient wants. It would be a crime.

States like Oregon have made assisted suicide (MAiD) available to everyone. Hawaii has shortened the waiting period to a few days (you would wait three times as long to get a handgun). Beginning in the Spring of 2024, drug addicts in Canada will have their own box car to carry them to the Medically assisted dying camps. And why not? Keeping the drugs out is expensive. Policing them once we’ve let them in is expensive. Recovery programs that may not work are expensive. If there’s a risk of a drug overdose anyway, and they don’t recall like people anyway, let the state overdose you in peace. Many problems solved.

Slippery Slope.

 

Dr David Martell, physician lead for Addictions Medicine at Nova Scotia Health, who is presenting the framework at the conference, told VICE News: ‘I don’t think it’s fair, and the government doesn’t think it’s fair, to exclude people from eligibility because their medical disorder or their suffering is related to a mental illness.

‘As a subset of that, it’s not fair to exclude people from eligibility purely because their mental disorder might either partly or in full be a substance use disorder. It has to do with treating people equally.’

It has to do with killing anyone you can convince needs to die. Anyone?

Not that long ago, after Trump was elected in 2016, the soothsayers in the Donkey Party saw signs in the bilgewater wells of their ruined cities. Biblical plagues (minus the Bible), from economic crises to famine to nuclear war. They were, of course, projecting. Back in power, Democrat fears become real for their political opponents, complete with collateral damage Nancy Pelosi promised, always with the specter of a mental illness diagnosis lurking in the wings.

They always said you had to be crazy to support that guy or that thing or to think that way. COVID etched that perception in granite. They will do whatever they can get away with and a few things they likely can’t if it secures their political power.

As a reminder.

 

A government that thinks there are too many of us, that we are some sort of burden, and encourages medically assisted suicide will always make its citizens suicidal and then pretend it is a kindness to kill them.

That is not speculation or conspiracy theory; it is a fact. Over the past several years, nation-states have gone to great lengths to ensure mental health distress, chronic drug abuse, and illness. At the same time, the more progressive players have either instituted medically assisted suicide or made it easier for you to “qualify.”

Depending on how far gone, the State will declare its political opponents (agitators who brought them to power and agitators who oppose their power) mentally unfit, make them disappear in jails or in mental institutions where they will either kill themselves (suicide), or ask to die (assisted suicide).

 

Who among us refuses to believe that a government that would lock up and isolate its citizens as political prisoners without due process rights might also brainwash them into accepting medically assisted dying, were it an option? How about in a society where the same government punishes opposing political speech?

Assisted suicide supporters mean well, but in the end, just like welfare, it will cause more harm to good people than do good to people in need.

Freedom is messy, life is a bitch, and personal responsibility is demanding, but governments are evil. And we’ve allowed ours off their leash too long to trust them with this.

Even in New Hampshire.

 

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This week, I want us to examine the thinking of some of our most important Founding Fathers and Presidents in regard to the place that the Bible has influence in the governing of our nation. The period of the first 150 years of our country’s founding is significant because the foundation was being laid for the building of a nation.

Our nation, America, was conceived in the thoughts and hearts of our Founding Fathers and expressed in our great documents of the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and the Bill of Rights. These great documents contain many direct references to scripture and its nuances. The Judeo-Christian Bible was the most consulted book that our Founding Fathers and our current leaders used in seeking to build a great Nation.

In light of the decline monetarily (excessive debt), morally (myriads of assaults on God-given sexuality and fidelity in marriage), and violence in our streets…it is important that we reflect on our decline and ask the simple question, “How did we get here?”

Well, when we stray from the blueprint (the Bible) and seek to build apart from the clear guidelines laid out for nation-building in the scriptures, we create a culture of confusion, a society of no morals, no clear right or wrong. That is where we have drifted, too, since we have severed the chords of faith from government in the name of individual rights over clear truths of nature and nature God.

Two important scriptures speak to us of God being involved in the blessing of Nations. Psalm 33:12 states: “Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord,” and Proverbs 14:34 says: “Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people.”

Let’s examine a few quotes in regard to the place and importance of the Bible and Prayer in the minds and lives of some of our most influential leaders.

“It is impossible to Govern the World without God and the Bible.” George Washington

“We have staked the whole future of American civilization not on the power of government, far from it. We have staked the whole of our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind for self-government, upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves according to the commandments of God. The future and success of America is not in the Constitution, but in the laws of God upon which the Constitution is founded.”James Madison

“ The first and almost the only book deserving of universal attention is the Bible. I speak as a man of the world..and I say to you, “Search the Scriptures.” John Quincy Adams

“That book, sir, is the Rock upon which our Republic rests.” Andrew Jackson

“ In regard for this Great Book, I have this to say, it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good Savior gave to the world was communicated through this Book.”

Abraham Lincoln

“ Hold fast to the Bible as the sheet anchor of your liberties, write its precepts in your hearts, and practice them in you lives. To the influence of this book are we indebted for all the progress made in true civilization, and to this we must look as our guide to the future.” Ulysses S. Grant

“ If you take out or your statutes, your constitution, your family life all that is taken form the Sacred Book, what would be left to bind society together? Benjamin Harrison

“ We cannot read the history of our rise and development as a nation without reckoning with the place the Bible has occupied in shaping the advances of the Republic. Where we have been the truest and most consistent in obeying its precepts, we have attained the greatest measure of contentment and prosperity.” Franklin Roosevelt.

“Inside the Bible’s pages lie all the answers to all the problems man has ever known…It is my firm belief that the enduring values presented in its pages have a great meaning for each of us and for our nation. The Bible can touch our hearts, order our minds, and refresh our souls.” Ronald Regan

“The rights of man came not from the generosity of the state but from the had of God.” John F. Kennedy

There are of course hundreds of quotes from famous leaders conveying the importance of the Bible in our culture for the good of all society. If you have never taken the time to read the Bible, (even if you are not a person of religious persuasion), I would encourage you to examine this amazing book…in the words of Hebert Hoover, “The study of the Bible is a post-graduate course in the richest library of human experience.”

Until next week….

Allen

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This is timely. Just days after a UK report on how 95% of those who died from COVID had the COVID vaccines and boosters, CDC Director Mandy Cohen and Senator Chuck (It’s not a) Schumer are asking you to get updated flu and Covid “vaccination.”

Why?

Who needs a reason? Seriously? The sun rises, you pay taxes, and you roll up your sleeves for America. Or not. We also reported that 98% of Americans have not lined up for the latest thing. The Power of the Pandemic has lost its allure. I won’t say that mass psychosis has, at least for the media and the elites. The world showed them their ass during COVID, especially Western Democracies, so they’ll want to keep spanking that.

I have my doubts about the Cohen-Schumer One-Two Beg getting job one done. Especially when Chuck says, “They will do you a lot of good…it will avoid a lot of pain later.” Weaponized flu may still have legs, and in blue cities, states, and counties, their desire to scratch the itch is like Stimpy wanting to hit the bright red button. Still, if you’ve got people inoculated against the idea that voting by mail is fraud by mail everywhere else in the world, there is no need to play dress up.

Credit where it’s due, however, Senator, as the UK COVID data suggests, you might be one booster away from helping COVID kill you and dead people feel no pain later.

Here it is if you’d like a good laugh. Beauty and the Beast? Herman Munster and Cousin Marilyn. Jaclyn and Hyde. One of your own, if you prefer.

 

 

CDC Director Mandy Cohen and Senator Chuck Schumer want you to the get jab.

What do you want to say to them? pic.twitter.com/niJ5cPXkGU

— DiedSuddenly (@DiedSuddenly_) October 19, 2023

 

Update Breaking News – Another reason not to get the shot or, maybe, just a reason to sue Pfizer, because maybe you can!

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The middle, compromising stance of those called “centrists” or “moderates” is very often mistaken for a balanced and reasonable position. Little else is worse than an entire world tricked into what rationally amounts to crime, thinking it is balanced, realistic, and optimal.

The centrist has become convinced that their middle position is the only fair and just stance and that anything else is imbalanced extremism. The opportunity to rationally examine these assertions has never been as important as it is now.

Let us start by realizing that most people do not actually call themselves centrists yet are convinced that their views are a proper mixture of ideas, a negotiation to meet somewhere in the middle, which is what centrism entails. Whether this is a mixture of safety and freedom, socialism and capitalism, or collectivism and individualism, few have admitted that their unique mixture ratio is behind their confidence in their own political views. Most are convinced that they have the right mixture, while they believe those with different views have their mixture somewhat off.

How many traditional conservatives are against socialism without realizing that many of their views are based on socialism? They do not put the label of “socialism” on their beloved military, police, and public schools, but these are textbook examples of socialism. How many progressives for wealth distribution via government will truly admit that they want the profit motive to remain as the deep well from which they can perpetually draw? Nearly everyone has a mix, if only so they can satisfy themselves that they are not radical extremists.

To further the confusion, there are parallels in our world that suggest to us that a mixture is best, like the alloys of metals being more useful than pure metals alone or the right temperature being a mixture of not too hot and not too cold. It is intuitive to infer a moderate compromise in social, economic, and political matters.

Now, let us see the mixture from a different perspective. Engineers do not strive for a healthy balance of both planes that continue to fly and planes that fall from the sky. They are very imbalanced in their view that all planes should continue flying without issue to every possible extent. We would find it unacceptable if the legal system outwardly promoted a healthy mix of bringing criminals to justice and letting them do whatever they want. The point to see here is that we must not mix poison into our food and call that a healthy balance.

No percentage of violent crimes have a fitting place in civilization, same with fraud, corruption, and a long list of wrongful acts. The practice of forceful plunder through the apparatus called “government” is the rational equivalent of criminality, asserting that the ability to do so equates to the right to do so, and dismissing other peaceful means for funding as if they are inferior. No degree of what is rationally criminal is somehow a quality ingredient to mix into one’s political stance, even if the current laws legitimize it. That it comes from the basis of “might makes right” and violates inalienable rights means that justifying any degree of it makes a person complicit with this criminality, which is objectively criminal and evil because objective reality is altered thereby, to the subtraction from objective and measurable well-being.

Well-intentioned people of all kinds mix in ideas that are objectively criminal, not seeing with rational eyes because they used the going laws as their only measure for what is just. Even those reaching for higher moral ideology believe in things like city-states and small or local governments as the solution, as if to not have fully admitted that nobody is fit or entitled to rule, whether they are a person or a group. It is the rational that gives us the tools to collaboratively orchestrate law and order, and the same that stands as the constant standard for what is good and evil, what preserves rational rights, and what depletes them. If rationalism can reveal what toxic and evil justifications we might have mixed into our views, it can be the tool for helping us clean up our views, even if someone thinks that doing so will amount to extremism.

 

Ben Jarick is a writer, inventor, entrepreneur and lifelong student. 

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Mr. Biden speaking from the Oval Office, addressed the nation about the Wars in Israel and Ukraine. He spoke in lofty terms about America’s role in the world, saying in part, “… We’re facing an inflection point in history…” and told us he will spend our money taking on Hamas and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Mr. Biden plans on asking Congress for another $60B in Ukraine and $10B for Israel, with smaller sums for Taiwan and the US border. Those are political sweeteners. Ya gotta spread it around to get it done in DC.

But are these the priorities of the American people?

A recent poll from Reuters News Service says 19% of Americans rate the economy as their greatest concern. Second was illegal immigration, and third was crime. That sentiment of priorities is echoed in polling from outlets like Statista and Pew Research Center.

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An AP poll released this week says nearly 70% of Americans think Mr. Biden has engaged in criminality or unethical behavior connected to his family’s foreign business deals.

A CBS poll shows 57% of Americans think Mr. Biden is going too easy on China. China is one of the countries where he and his family maintained relations, resulting in lucrative contracts. 50% think Mr. Biden is making the US weaker in the world. And 31% approve of his foreign policy agenda.

My nickel’s worth says we have to lockdown the southern border. Our open border is having a cascading effects throughout the country, from crushing our communities with drugs and fentanyl deaths, saddling our cities with profound economic burdens to take care of illegals, and giving an open door to untold numbers of unvetted, uninvited foreigners, with record numbers on our terror watch list.

We need to focus on re-establishing law and order in America. The goal is to allow families and kids to flourish in a safe environment. We must create that same safe environment for private industry and manufacturers to both flourish and rebuild business operations previously shipped offshore.

China is America’s gravest threat, hands down. Nothing and no one else comes close. Not climate, not Russia and Putin, not Hamas; China is our greatest threat. The US military, law enforcement, and intelligence communities have confirmed this… repeatedly. The economy has been screaming about it. The vast majority of available American resources should be used to counter China.

That’s because the good news is there are some smart solutions to the China problem, though they are not easy. But the two that are in our most immediate control that would solve most of our problem would include revoking all US visas held by Chinese citizens and sending them all back home. And forcing Chinese investors to divest their holdings, most especially those land purchases in this country.

There will be times when it’s important to give foreign aid or to refocus our military spending. When we do, the guiding principle should be to support the people and countries that will prevent a global fight with the Communist Party of China or shore up our defenses.

There might be smart exceptions to that. Israel is an example. That’s where Presidential discernment comes into play. But those are my suggestions to you. Lockdown the southern border, re-establish law and order, and take on the Chinese.

What’s clear is that poll after poll shows Mr. Biden’s message fell on deaf ears. We have different priorities than he does. We’re not interested in his message, nor are we listening to the messenger. It’s time for change… because he’s killing our security, our prosperity, and our hope.

 

This was originally published with an incorrect byline.

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I have not yet picked a candidate for President. For me, I am really late in doing so but I just haven’t had the bandwidth to “go after them”, to meet them, to interrogate them, and make them prove their case to me that they best represent what I believe in and are demanding of them. You all know why so I’m not going to rehash them.

That said, other than “Asa Hutchinson – WHY?” again, I just ran across this from the Conservative Treehouse in which Tucker is talking about The Donald in terms that the Left AND the Establishment Right just doesn’t get:



Will I vote for him in the Primary? Dunno. Will I if he becomes the nominee?

Yes.

(H/T: Conservative Treehouse)

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At least two Vermont college students have helped to start the Student Declaration 2023, which is to ensure that overzealous COVID-19-related mandates are never repeated again on their school campuses.

“We were told that mask, vaccine, and lockdown mandates would be justified by their benefits, yet, in light of the incredible harms these mandates caused, such mandates cannot be justified today,” the Declaration states.

It continues that students have been under a lot of peer pressure to fall into line.

“An undeniable psychological toll fell on every student facing pressure from peers, professors, and university administration to comply with mandates, and many, denied face-to-face contact with others for over a year, found themselves forced to accept medical coercion under duress,” it states.

Two of the Declaration’s three originators are UVM students, Lauren Palmer and Isla Stover. Palmer, according to her Linkedin profile, has studied performance arts and offered homeschool courses. Stover is an avid cyclist. The third person is Nadia Ghazal, a graduate law student.

The petition currently has 94 signatures including nine students, 10 faculty/staff and 75 citizens.

The Declaration further suggests that students who refused COVID vaccines were punished for doing so.

“Those who chose not to vaccinate (a choice owed to all people under a truly democratic society), whether for medical or personal motivations, were made outcasts; they were socially ridiculed, segregated, and blamed, losing scholarships, academic and social opportunities, jobs and internships, medical autonomy and privacy, their ability to see friends and family, all campus platforms for free and uncensored speech, and the most basic human rights of Compassion, Dignity, and Empathy,” it states.

It also accuses academic leaders of abandoning the principles of free speech and public debate.

“It is clear that modern academia and academic leaders have betrayed their commitment to the free and open exchange of ideas, allowing fear, and not reason or common sense, to triumph. The freedom of rational thought must be recovered, and, in order to do this, we must first restore the principles of the university: the quintessential fountain of ideas. Dialogue must again be the foundation of all institutions.”

On the UVM student’s petition webpage it talks about empowering students. It states “Students were once the vehicles of change. We hope our movement on October 23rd empowers students, as well as professors, staff, and inspired community members, to be that vehicle of change once again.”

Similar to the Great Barrington Declaration

The statement is not unlike 2020’s Great Barrington Declaration, which has more than 938,000 signatures including at least 43 medical professionals.

It stated in 2020, “Current lockdown policies are producing devastating effects on short and long-term public health. The results (to name a few) include lower childhood vaccination rates, worsening cardiovascular disease outcomes, fewer cancer screenings and deteriorating mental health – leading to greater excess mortality in years to come, with the working class and younger members of society carrying the heaviest burden. Keeping students out of school is a grave injustice.”

COVID mandates still in national news

In related news, Children’s Health Defense announced last week that a ruling by the New York State Supreme Court in January to strike down the state’s vaccine mandate for healthcare workers will remain after the state’s appeal was dismissed earlier this month. It’s not yet clear what the implications might be in Vermont.

Also, the former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson was in the news recently, warning Americans to reject any return of COVID-related mandates.

“Look at how much control they were able to exercise over the people: shutting down the schools, keeping our children from learning, putting them so far behind. It’s going to take years, maybe decades, for them to catch up again,” he said on Newsmax’s “American Agenda.”

 

Michael Bielawski | Vermont Daily Chronicle

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If you want school systems that work, start by getting rid of teachers’ unions. They are a Special Interest racket to enrich adults and do not better the educational system for the benefit of kids. Doubt me?

Pull the public contract for your town’s unions and then demand to know from your school board how many children score PROFICIENT in the NAEP standardized tests. Prepare to be unhappy with the results.

Or, you could ask current Manchester City Mayor and candidate for NH Governor Joyce Craig. She is a BIG supporter of the teacher’s unions. HOW is that union helping educate those children? It’s not pretty.

There is a solution – after NOT voting for Craig for Governor.

If you think I’m blowing one bad report out of proportions, the National Assessment of Educational Progress [NAEP] report that came out earlier this year found similarly dismal student performance in the public schools. Reading and math proficiency collapsed over the past four years in part because of the teachers unions’ insistence that public school stay closed during COVID — a national act of child abuse.

The Left obsesses about income inequality and the gap between rich and poor. Yet, they are so captive to the teachers unions that they do nothing about what is arguably the most regressive policy in America: our failing public school system. The decline in test scores is only half the story. The other part of the story is that the biggest declines in learning and achievement are among the poorer families.

I’m the furthest thing from an education expert, but I have had five kids. It’s pretty clear that three essential components to an enriching education are discipline in the classroom, high expectations and a classical curriculum. This isn’t that complicated. It’s not like solving a Rubik’s Cube.

Nor is it rocket science. Our education system, before the 70s, was the envy of the world. Then the Left took control – so here we are.

• Control of the classroom – enough of the modified CRT that is Childism. EXPECT GOOD BEHAVIOR – DEMAND IT and help reset the Culture instead of bowing to it.
• Expectations – enough of the bigotry of low expectations and stop calling those that demand to do so “racists” and “culturally inappropriate.”
• Curriculum – enough basketweaving, social-emotional learning, and other non-academics that have risen and are being deployed in favor of academic rigor. I dare school systems to show me their kids ace-ing tests from the 40s, 30s, 1890s…heck, even the current US Citizenship test. Do that, and I’ll allow you to scream at me.

Let me add to those three:

• Stop with the “Education Fads”. Tell your School Boards to not accept new curriculum unless it has been peer-reviewed with results that can be duplicated to be better than what your kids are being fed.
• Make sure that you AS PARENTS can help with homework
• Start demanding that School Boards start elevating academics over athletics. Start handing out “Academic sweaters” rather than “athletic sweaters.”

 

HT |  Hot Air

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We all agree that a calm world results from a strong America. Donald Trump is the first President since Jimmy Carter not to enter U.S. Troops into a new conflict. Part of the reason for that period of peace is Trump rebuilt our military to a point where nobody dared threaten the United States or its allies.

It was Ronald Reagan who coined the term “Peace through strength.” President Reagan hoped that his new military initiatives would not only contain communism but defeat it. Reagan broke the Soviet Union and witnessed the collapse of the Berlin Wall. Joe Biden is the antithesis of Ronald Reagan. Biden has weakened our military by introducing Woke thinking and bad decisions by Biden. Biden opened the door for Russia to invade Ukraine. He has ignored many of the offensive activities of China, and he has allowed Iran to rebound their financial status and accelerate their nuclear program. Tie those situations with the botched Afghanistan debacle, and you have a disastrous foreign policy package.

If not so serious, it would be comical. Biden and his team like to take credit for the way Biden has handled each of these global hotspots, but the truth is these conflicts exist because of him. What he has done is tantamount to saving an elderly person from drowning when you tossed the person overboard in the first place. His reckless policies have turned the world into a powder keg ready to explode.

Joe Biden went to the Resolute Desk and the Oval Office for a prime-time address to the nation. In that setting, there was speculation all day that this was a seminal moment for the President and an opportunity for him to unite the country in a unified effort to save Israel from the latest attempt to obliterate Israel and all Jews. He failed miserably. Instead of coming across as Reaganlike, and finally the leader of the nation and the free world, he came across as the prototypical Liberal and went for our wallets. In what he termed a “small investment,” he detailed his request for $100 Billion that he would present to Congress for speedy consideration.

Now, that kind of money may seem small for someone who has been extorting millions from our foes for decades, but for us in the middle class, that is as painful as trying to balance our budgets with Bidenomics. The significant problems with his request are combining his plea for our money to aid Israel with more funds for Ukraine and asking for $100 Million for Gaza and the Palestinian people. We know he is getting kickbacks from every dollar he sends to Ukraine, and Hamas will scoop up that $100 Million before a single dollar gets to the people for humanitarian aid. He also disappointed many people by continuing to refuse to place the blame on the Hamas and Hezbollah attacks on Israel on Iran, which is obviously holding the strings.

He tried to connect the two struggles as threats to our future freedom, but he failed. Had he focused on Israel, he would have garnered support across the aisles in both chambers. With his approach, he will have a battle in both. I am a realist and did not expect much from Biden on Thursday night. You can put him behind the big desk, but that does not make him a big man. Biden is a weak leader; every time he is behind a microphone and in front of a camera, he looks worse. The only good thing about him sitting for the address is it keeps him off the floor. That small win is insufficient for America, Israel, or the Free World.

 

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Twenty-five years ago, French Model Laetitia Casta became a household name. Pretty thing, modeled women’s clothes and underwear. She could look sophisticated in a sweater or sexy in a teddy. And she helped start a dynasty that took women’s lingerie from the back of the store to the storefront.

She had a lot of famous help over the years, either famous going in as a model or famous after being one. They later added wings and called them angels—advertising brilliance. But once you’ve advertised sexy women in lingerie with wings (to sell undies, clothes, perfume, and accessories), what’s next? The not-so-obvious choice is transwomen and plus-size models, but they are your ad dollars; throw it at the wall, and maybe it sticks.

There is, of course, the pesky problem of human nature.

Unattractive people do not buy magazines to look at unattractive people; no one does. Nor do the obese. Just ask non-woke Madison Avenue for all its history until the rise of social justice scores and woke stupidity.

Don’t get me wrong (or do; I’m okay with that, too) – body positivity is an essential mental exercise, but it shouldn’t be monopolized as a euphemism for fat women. If the goal is to get you comfortable with a circumstance you can’t change today (or perhaps ever), be it weight, wardrobe, looks, your current work or relationships, or some physical handicap, body positivity as a concept might be what gets you to tomorrow. You need to feel good in your skin to focus on the rest of life because most of us live in that world. The one where what you do matters. Where being productive and valuable matters.

It’s not an easy thing, life, nor is it anyone else’s responsibility to make you feel good about being you (if they told you that they lied), but people will sell you things to get there from here, and there are rules of nature that apply.

A paraplegic competing in a marathon on high-tech “legs” is inspirational. A huge woman in a bustier – who may be the sexiest thing on God’s green earth to her lover, Rubens – will not sell as many bras and panties to everyone else. That doesn’t mean she’s not beautiful (inside or out). She might be a math genius, a soulful singer, a top-shelf software designer, or great with children. All things that should add to the sense of self, value, and inner beauty.

While the world owes you nothing, it cannot define your inner beauty (your job) or how that motivates you. The world will get in your way, but that doesn’t mean your vision is for anyone else because nature has a vision, at least for observable perfection, and we’re all wired into it. The Ad men and women know this, too.

People of all sizes, shapes, ages, and appearances are drawn to many things, but they are almost all drawn to The Golden Ratio. 1:1.618. The entire universe works like magic around it. And while beauty is in the eye of the beholder, universal beauty, regardless of race, culture, time, or space, always comes down to 1 to 1.618. Sticking ‘pretty’ men and large women in panties is not likely to inspire people who don’t typically pay attention to fashion shows or understand the math behind beauty to tune in to yours. They know what looks appealing, and so, once again, do the folks at Victoria’s Secret.

Going woke with oversized and transgender “angels” cost them 1.3 Billion in sales last year, so they’ve re-discovered a secret. It might be Victoria’s, or maybe not. Gillette learned the secret at a much higher price. If you accuse men of being bullies and bigots, they might stop buying your razors and other man-maintenance goodies. Their dance with the woke devil cost P&G about 8 billion.

Budweiser made Bud Light’s sales much lighter, singing to a similar tune. It won’t end them, but they lost millions of customers who’ve found other beers to drink and will never return.

So, what about Victoria’s Secret?

You don’t have to sell all the sizes on the runway to sell all the sizes you sell for every customer who might buy. And it pays to know your customer base. Don’t piss them off to pander to the latest round chambered in the progressive cultural revolver. 

Take their advice. Be You! And Victoria’s Secret has decided to do that.

 

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Human ingenuity is a funny thing.  Of course, it has brought us such technological delights as the iPhone and the Thigh-master, however, there is a downside to our eternal optimism in our ability to achieve God-like creativity.

In our quest to solve the world’s many problems, as well as trying to solve problems that aren’t there (looking at you, climate change), our finest minds have sallied forth in hopes of making life easier while trying to save the world, which is a deadly combination.

Elon Musk is one of those Uber geniuses who has honed his talent to achieve what many might have only dreamt of.  Thanks to his uncanny ability to make his dreams a reality we have entered into an age where his products alone might cure our terminal cancer on our way to outer space while sipping a latte and listening to our favorite podcast on yet another use for shiplap.  What’s not to be excited about?

I may not have the pedigree of an Elon Musk, however, I am the World’s First Truly Fake News Reporter, which means I possess a very rare and valuable brain trust, to me at least.  This is why when I was asked by my friend what I thought about self-driving vehicles, I took the stance any reasonable human being should take, which is – that’s a ridiculously bad idea.  Of course, my friend had sixty-thousand rea$on$ to disagree with me, and I was the one asking for a ride, so I was forced to reconsider.

After several minutes of listening to him promote this horrible idea of letting the car drive us I realized I was in for the ride of my likely-to-be-shortened life.  After reluctantly easing into my white vegan leather passenger seat the silent death trap let out a demonic howl that sounded more like a Banshee getting sucked into a black hole than the thunder of horses tearing down the road.  This is the sound of progress, sure.

As we attempted to leave my driveway, the supposedly sentient beast seemed confused about what to do next.  Its owner excused the machine’s hesitance because “it doesn’t recognize your driveway since it’s not on the map.”  We’re not five seconds into the trip, and already, it’s clear there are more bugs than the ones splattered on the windshield.

After “assisting” the rolling robot into position, it takes off down the winding road and comes to a stop at the appropriate time but with the braking sensitivity of a meat cleaver before turning onto the next road.  The next thing I know, we are being driven up the exact middle of the freshly paved road because “it doesn’t have any lines painted on it, so it doesn’t know where the lane is.”  Which I’m sure makes perfect sense to the oncoming motorists who don’t have the same problem until they see us coming.

I try to distract myself by admiring the over-sized R-2 unit’s many bells and whistles, among which is a small flat-screen TV where the stereo controls should be. On it appears a rudimentary 2-D/3-D map of the neighborhood as “we” drive through it.  To my friend, this obviously feels like Star Trek has come to life in his driveway, fair enough.  Star Trek was clearly ahead of its time.  Yet, it required us to suspend our reality.  Evidence Spock was an alien were his pointy ears – really?  The Enterprise’s diversity and inclusion policies were cutting edge, but have another look at those control panels – they were barely ahead of the Commodore 64.  As for that patri archical playboy Captain Kirk, I have a La-z-boy in my living room that rivals his command chair.

 

 

Not to mention, they were only to flip phones at that point in space travel.  Highly suspect.

I feel like I am having to similarly suspend my reality as I consider this piece of Space-X technology that has yet to make it down a stretch of road without my friend attempting to explain why it did the next dangerous thing.  As we get into Hanover, he’s made more excuses for it than a battered housewife for her abusive husband. 

Enter the construction along the Ledyard bridge, and the steely beast starts to convulse like it’s having a seizure, trying to figure out what comes next.  “It doesn’t recognize all these cones,” my friend explains matter-of-factly.  No, it does not.

It also doesn’t recognize the Ivy League privilege enjoyed by the Dartmouth student who just walks right out into traffic and nearly gets hit by Elon’s creation, which was about the only thing it almost got right that day.  I can’t think of a driver who hasn’t secretly wanted to teach the student body about applied physics a time or two while they clog up the campus arteries like high-end extra virgin olive oil.

As we near our destination, we have one more intersection to make it through, and the green goblin does not disappoint.  “I don’t know why it won’t go,” he wonders aloud, finally sounding annoyed.  I know why it won’t go – it’s a machine, not a person. The only thing it has in common is the ability to mess things up spectacularly and look good doing it. It’s not made to rationalize or make judgment decisions.  It lacks nuance and a nervous system.  It doesn’t know how to genuinely solve the problems of human traffic, nor does it keep a record of all the times some idiot violated the rules of the road and nearly ruined your day.

“One day, the road is going to be full of these, and they’ll all be talking to each other, and it will revolutionize the way we travel,” my friend beams, believing this to be a good thing.

Millions of these, talking to each other in Tesla-ese, Toyota-ese, and Ford-ese?

That’s exactly what I’m worried about.

 

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The jury in the double murder case of Stephen & Djeswende Reid has left for the weekend without a verdict as to Logan Clegg’s guilt or innocence. While the jury deliberates, there’s a very glaring hole in the prosecutors’ arguments.

Compare this statement from In-Depth New Hampshire’s article on the trial from October 19, 2023.

 

“There is no mention of a robbery involved in the murder, but Stephen Reid’s cell phone from that day is still missing. Police were able to use the phone’s Google location data from the phone to find the bodies. However, FBI agent Kevin Hoyland testified Stephen Reid’s phone was downloading and uploading a large amount of data about an hour after the murders, indicating it was being used.”

 

To this statement from an NHPR report on April 25th, 2022, following the discovery of the murders.

 

“The bed was neatly made and a window was open. Both their phones are still in the apartment. My Dad’s wallet is also still in the apartment, and both their cars are here,” Brian wrote.

 

According to prosecutors, Concord police were able to locate the bodies with the help of “the phone.” But if both phones were present in the apartment when the Reids went for the walk, and the FBI agent testified that Stephen Reid’s phone was downloading and uploading a large amount of data about an hour after the murders, then something doesn’t add up in the prosecutor’s statements.

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Stephen Reid worked for The Peace Corps and was involved in US Aid. It makes you wonder if there was something on his phone that had to do with human or organ trafficking (did he know about it? Did someone not want him to know about it?)…or?

International Rescue Committee (related to the work of The Peace Corps, I believe) is located at 10 Ferry Street, Concord. International Rescue Committee is tied to the UN and Jeffrey Epstein, while 10 Ferry Street has also been reported to the FBI for suspected child trafficking. The address also houses Quest Diagnostics, Dataminr, Children’s Trust Fund, Boston Scientific, Maximus Inc…

Former AG Geoffrey Ward deleted the files of police officers on the Laurie List, and he magically found bullet casings a month after the murders. Concord PD DNA lab is completely unreliable. Katie Swango, State Lab DNA Tech, is reliable and testifies to discrepancies she finds, but Merrimack County Prosecutors have ignored her testimony in the past when it doesn’t suit the narrative they are looking for. Was Katie Swango’s lab test entered into the exhibits for the jury? Or did prosecutors convince the judge that only the police lab report should be entered?

When prosecutors just claim that someone is guilty with so many inconsistencies from state witnesses, it makes one question what the prosecutors are hiding and what they really know.

 

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While I haven’t been writing as much as I have wanted, I’m still surfing, and the dastardly attack by Hamas on Israel has taken the oxygen out of the blogosphere’s room. And, post-attack, Hamas and the Palestinians are trying to make the progressive case for Critical Race Theory – that the Hamas attackers are really just the victims.

Instead of being branded as the oppressors as history has shown us and the Israelis as the victims (which is certainly the case the last few weeks now), Hamas and the Palestinians are “the people of color,” and ALL Israelis have suddenly become “Whites” – thus fulfilling the racist philosophy of CRT’s parameters.

And our Education system is complicit in all this by not teaching us any history of the last 70 years, and certainly, our Leftist Mainstream media is one-sided. To wit: how fast did they move from “Hamas killed Israelis and tortured them” to believing the Hamas propaganda that it was an Israeli air strike that brought down a hospital with 500 deaths? Worldwide, the media pounced on that – only having to slowly walk away when daylight came, and the building was still intact ‘cept for a few broken windows. Never a thought was given by the media “Er, how did the Palestinians get the 500 dead number within an hour if the hospital WAS in rubble? What was the count: 1…2…3…4…500?”.

So like my other Stack of Stuff on Government Schools (which we can’t trust either on Transgenderism/Childism), I’ll put up some facts as I run across them.

• So, how did the Palestinians become victims? Via an American Public Relations firm

And now comes the seed that leads to the current support from the left of “Palestine.” In the early 1960s, the Arab coalition was not only physically losing wars, but was considered bullies of Israel in worldwide media. They were the Goliath that kept losing to David. So they hired the public relations firm of Dudley-Anderson-Yutzy in New York (founded in 1909, no longer in business) to change their image in the world. George Anderson told them they needed a “victim,” a group that would be perceived as smaller and even more abused than the Israelis, and the Palestinian cause was born.

Like I said in the headline, it’s an actual public relations scam. The rich “Palestinian” history that the perpetually aggrieved American protester class thinks is being fought for is a work of creative fiction. It’s an even easier sell to the American Left today, given that they spent all of 2020 convincing themselves that Joe Biden was a thoughtful centrist who would bring some class to the White House.

• And that trope that Hamas are not the same as the regular Palestinian civilians. Well, the latter put the former into power and have kept them there for almost 20 years:

As for Gaza? In 2005, the Israelis, in their eternal quest for peace, gave self-governance to the people of Gaza. In 2007, the people of Gaza elected Hamas as their leadership by over 90%, and they have reelected and kept Hamas in power for these 16 years. Please do not cry for a distinction between the citizens of Gaza and Hamas, for Hamas was and has been elected by the people of Gaza for almost two decades. They’ve made their gullibility a cornerstone of their politics.

• Israel is NOT “apartheid” (emphasis mine):

The only thing that’s lacking from the left’s scenario is any actual apartheid. The term “apartheid” comes from South Africa, where it referred to a system of institutionalized racial segregation and discrimination that was in place from 1948 to 1991. The word itself means “separateness,” and South Africa instituted numerous laws to keep the races apart in schools, workplaces, and areas where the public gathered, such as beaches.

There is absolutely nothing like this in Israel. As my Jihad Watch colleague Hugh Fitzgerald has explained: “In Israel, Arabs sit on the Supreme Court, serve in the Knesset, go abroad as ambassadors. The chairman of Israel’s largest bank, Bank Leumi, is an Arab. Jews and Arabs work in the same factories and offices, play on the same sports teams and in the same orchestras, act in the same films, are treated in the same hospitals by both Jewish and Arab medical personnel, attend the same classes in the same universities. Jews and Arabs own restaurants and start high-tech businesses together. The only difference in their treatment is that Jews must, while Arabs may, serve in the military.”

• And a longer history of that area of the Middle East – one that the Islamic militants of Hamas, Iran, et al never want you to remember or learn if you never have:

Let us start with a brief history lesson. Despite what the media has been preaching for almost 60 years, there is no historical Palestinian state or people. Over 4,000 years ago, there were small tribes living in Canaan, such as Moabites, Amalekites, etc. There was no Palestine of people or land. Then around 3,200 years ago, the 12 tribes of Israel, united under King Saul into the first kingdom in the region, a Jewish theocracy called “Israel.” That split into the kingdoms of Judah and Israel (both Jewish), which were conquered by the Babylonian empire a little over 2,500 years ago. This became the Persian Empire, which was defeated by Alexander the Great, and Israel was controlled by the Greeks.

The Greeks were defeated by the Hasmoneans, and Israel once again became a Jewish state about 2,200 years ago. The Hasmoneans were beaten by the Romans, and there followed a series of kingdoms that controlled Israel: Byzantine, Sassanid, Ummayad, Frankish, Christian, and eventually the Mamluk Dynasty, which controlled the region in the 13th-16th centuries. This is the first time there is a governmental Muslim presence in Israel, but again, it is not related to Palestine as a people or nation at all. The Mamluks ultimately were absorbed into the Ottoman Empire, which controlled the region until it was defeated by the British in the 20th century. Nowhere in this 3,000-year history does Palestine or Palestinians exist or even get discussed. The British created a mandate called “Palestine” on July 24, 1922, which was the first mention of the word in thousands of years.

For over 3,000 years, there has been no such thing as a Palestinian or a country of Palestine! So how did this Palestinian issue even start in modern times? In 1948, U.N. Resolution 181 granted statehood to two states: a Jewish one called Israel and an Arab one called Palestine. This is the first time there is a nation or people with the name of Palestine, even though they were in fact all Jordanians. Immediately, five Arab nations attacked Israel, which continued to be attacked repeatedly for the next 15 years but successfully defended her nationhood.

…At Anderson’s advice, the Palestinian Liberation Organization was established on May 28, 1964. This is the start date of the “Palestinian cause”: 1964. After the 1967 war, when Israel kept Gaza, the Sinai, the Golan Heights, and the West Bank, the concept of the Palestinians as victims became more popular.

• And with the “impending” wiping out of Hamas by the Israeli IDF, what does the Hamas Leadership want to do? Ayup, make more dead people in Gaza to proclaim they are the victims:
  • Hamas Impeding Evacuation Of Americans From Gaza To Egypt, Biden Adviser Says.
  • Hamas Confiscating Car Keys From Civilians To Prevent Them From Leaving Gaza: Intel Reports.

 

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Most of us recognized Black Lives Matter as a shadow organization when they dominated the news cycle during the “Summer of Love” in 2020. The members of BLM did not resemble the Hippie Movement of the original Summer of Love in 1967.

BLM was a complex con job perpetrated on the American people and government. It was a pyramid-style money-making effort for the few who started and controlled the movement. Still, members of BLM managed to infiltrate many levels of government and remain in office. School boards were a favorite target of these candidates, and they realized how soft and Woke a target our education system was and continues to be. BLM coerced many boards to place their people into DEIJ-related positions. As counselors of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice, these mentors, with their racist and anti-America feelings, have direct contact with impressionable children. This relationship must end.

My hometown of Exeter is a perfect example of the BLM influence. SAU-16 is the administrative body for Exeter and surrounding communities. In 2021, the Seacoast Chapter of Black Lives Matter issued a list of demands for Exeter and other larger towns in New Hampshire’s seacoast area. These demands involved local government, school administration, and the Police Department.

Two things of note: why does BLM even have a chapter in any geographic section of New Hampshire, and what gives them the audacity to believe they can make demands on anyone? They got their way with SAU-16, which hired one of BLM’s members/officers for its newly formed DEIJ department. At a time with falling test scores and the town laying off teachers, the SAU hired a man who claimed to be a member of BLM and was openly bi-sexual, according to his biography. I do not have children in this school district, but if I did, I would not want this man to have any contact with them. His life choices and lifestyle are not the influence Exeter’s children would ever need or want. By the way, he was hired at $150,000 a year when the average teacher’s salary in Exeter is about $55,000 yearly.

This week, Black Lives Matter aligned their support with Gaza and Hamas. We have a DEIJ counselor interacting with our children who support a country and terrorist group that believes in the extermination of Jews and is responsible for the death, massacre, rape, and kidnapping of thousands of Israelites on October 7.

It is time for every municipality in this country to review which employees align themselves with BLM. These relationships should be terminated immediately. This action is not discrimination. It is for the security and safety of our children. We would never hire, I would hope, a supporter or member of the KKK. Why would we want anyone with ties to BLM? BLM got their say and way in 2021. It is now time for the residents of Exeter to have ours.

 

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Maxim Magazine (Australia) just named a transwoman to its latest 100 hottest women list. He’s not even a good-looking guy. It’s quite insulting, so I think the folks over at Maxim Australia wanted some media attention because it used to be a ‘maxim’ that there is no such thing as bad press.

Tell that to Gillette, Bud Light, and Victoria’s Secret (more on them later today).

 

Maxim magazine named a biological male and former Australian rules football player, Danielle Laidley, to its “Hottest 100 Women” list in Australia for 2023, with the trans-identifying man landing in the number 92 spot.

 

There are 99 women, many of whom could qualify as hot – I’ve not seen the list – but there are eight women on the list who were not as hot as the dude in the dress in a magazine whose core audience is heterosexual men, which brings us back to the question, if ‘Danielle’ is “hot,” is it becasue she’s a convicted stalker of women?

 

The magazine released the list on Wednesday and is being blasted not only for honoring a biological male in a list of hot women, but also because three years ago Laidley, who formerly went by the first name of Dean, was arrested for stalking, The Age noted.

In 2020, the Maxim honoree reportedly pleaded guilty to stalking after repeatedly making calls and sending text messages to a woman, also sitting in a car outside her home watching and photographing her, the outlet noted.

 

I’m guessing that Dean decided two things. He needed an image rehab – you’re not allowed to poke fun at transwomen, and being one would conveniently give him access to more women in the bathroom or locker room. And he may have already fancied dressing in women’s clothes, so why not?

But no worries, Western Culture’s not broken. Male predators using woke ideology to gain access to women or girls. It’s almost as we all predicted that. Well, no sh!t, we did (2016).

 

 

Could a truly self-identifying transgender person be a sexual predator? Of course. They could also be a fabulous tenor or great with animals or an amazing mechanic, a-sexual, or indifferent, all of which have nothing to do with the threat being blessed by the idiot-left and their cultural pall-bearers when they insist that “men” who claim to feel like women have a “right” to use the ladies bathroom.

And yes, it is about that.

There are a great deal more sexual predators (by orders of magnitude) than there are self-identifying transgenders. These predators will use that “loophole” as a way to gain access to girls and women in places where they could or may be more vulnerable. … [And]

In the real world, not all men are sexual predators, but some men are, so your opposition to men using the ladies’ room is not about denying manufactured rights to a fraction of a fraction of the population. It is about defending the right of hundreds of millions of girls and women to feel safe in their persons and property in these public spaces.

 

 

I guess down in Australia, at least at Maxim Magazine, that’s hot. I feel bad for Hot Girls 93-100. How do you face your friends? What do you say when the interviewer wonders if there’s something they can do to be hotter than the old guy in a dress?

Exit question. Why not an issue dedicated to a list of the 100 hottest transowmen?

I think we all know the answer.

 

-This is Dani Laidley, a biological male

Dani was just added to the “Hottest 100 Women” list by Maxim Magazine pic.twitter.com/2P4mfywCPy

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) October 19, 2023

 

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What, you haven’t already figured this out? How can you NOT be paying attention if you love your children? “Free speech… that extraordinary thing we have that Muslim countries don’t.”

 

All of that led my brain to a quote that is often falsely attributed to Winston Churchill: “When Muslims are in the minority they are very concerned with minority rights, when they are in the majority there are no minority rights.” The British Bulldog may not have said that, but a look at a map of nations with Sharia law suggests that it’s correct.

 

That phrase “Using our Freedoms and Rights against us” should be dancing in your head right about now. After all, it is about Power – the process of obtaining it (including lying and subterfuge), then aggregating and wielding it.

And while Muslims may have Sharia Law, Socialists & Communists often use “for the common good,” which is just about the same thing. “Disturbing the Peace” can be used for the same purpose.

And then there’s always the “Domestic Terrorist” and “Enemy of the State” that seems to be in more use with the Biden Administration…

 

 

HT:  American Thinker

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