Vermont has locked in on the California Cobb up-the-backside Electric Vehicle/emissions reduction plan. By 2035 you won’t be able to buy or register a new gas-powered vehicle in the state. All new vehicles will be electric which is a problem for a host of reasons.

Related: A Reality Check For Electric Vehicles in the Real America

You’re not cutting emissions. You are offshoring them. EVs are too expensive. Electricity is too expensive. And we’ll need a lot more power we don’t and won’t have (hello rationing!), but when Mitch Wertlieb was talking with Vermont Public climate and environment reporter Abagael Giles that never comes up.

Ignoring the “Green” Gorilla

Mitch and Abagael discuss where the Vermont rules come from (California) and how it will affect buying and registering a vehicle. Is there a market for EV’s, they wonder, and what are the incentives? It’s a quaint little chat, but no one asks or explains the disincentives like where all the electricity will come from or how the inevitable spike in price will crush lower and middle-class Vermonters, small businesses, farms, and the state economy.

Sorry, not just the Vermont State Economy.

As I noted here, New Hampshire is stuck on the same grid. If Massachusetts (another CA EV stooge-state) and Vermont mandate electric vehicles, the cost of electricity will have to rise exponentially, crushing us.

Related: Winter is Coming: Is It Time for New England to “Pay” the Green Energy Piper?

There isn’t enough of it now, and this would escalate demand into terrorism no one, including Mitch and Abagael, wants to discuss. To put it into a simple picture, we’re being told to dive into a pool with no water, and no one cares that there’s no hose.

Why isn’t anyone asking that question? Where is this electricity coming from? Shouldn’t we answer that question and have a plan that adds up before we commit to mandating a product that can’t run without it?

 

Unlike US dollars, you can’t “print” electricity into existence. Even if wind and solar were not dirty, inefficient, and expensive, there is not enough surface area in New England or offshore to generate the electricity needed to feed current needs, and all the cars people will be expected to buy and drive.

And it’s not an insignificant problem. Without the electricity planned to scale, you are forcing manufacturers, dealers, and citizens to embrace something with a significant carbon footprint and a high risk of catastrophic failure that will cost more and do less. Maybe nothing.

The poster child for this dumpster fire has already told EV users not to charge their vehicles because there isn’t enough juice. And they’ve probably got more rooftop solar than nay state in the country, not to mention wind and solar farms.

Related: Trying to Replace Fossil Fuels With Solar Will Require Burning a Sh!tload of Coal

But that’s the Democrat party. Expensive and wasteful, the plan contradicts the stated goal, and failure is a feature. But it’s not just elected Democrats. New Hampshire will pay the price because Vermont and Massachusetts are all-in on planned failure, and as far as I can tell, the NH plan is to sit on our hands and watch it happen.

 

 

#NZD

 

 

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You don’t need to take my word for it. Here’s Kamala announcing that federal aid for Hurricane Ian will be distributed based on skin color:

Kamala on Hurricane Ian relief:

The Biden administration will focus on “giving resources based on equity” by directing funds to “communities of color” pic.twitter.com/uixPpyQWdU

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) September 30, 2022

One of the nefarious goals of the Biden-Regime is turning America into an apartheid society. These people are evil.

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Let’s make sure that this goes VIRAL. 

In New Hampshire, you can go back to when the Democrats and Governor Chris Sununu signed the law that added “Gender Identity” to the protected class under the anti-discrimination law. 

Now parents are left having to fight against biological boys in the restroom with girls. We are now also seeing biological boys competing with girls in sports, and taking their scholarships for college. It sure sounds like a war against females, doesn’t it? 

What’s next? This story out of Vermont may answer that question. 

While I’m sympathetic to children who are experiencing gender dysphoria, and the peer pressure from some of their peers to transition; the fix is not to turn this into a war against girls and women. Unfortunately, that’s what this is becoming.In Vermont, a courageous girl revealed that she and her teammates have been banned from the girls locker room for feeling uncomfortable changing with a biological boy who identifies as a girl.

Make note that in this story, the transgender student made “an inappropriate comment” while the girls were changing. I think many girls are now concerned that boys will use these policies to access the girls locker room for nefarious reasons. Did the school administrators allow the sexual harassment of girls in an area that should be their “safe space?”  Also in the story, administrators are alleging that the transgender student was harassed. Let’s hope that they get to the bottom of all of this, but in many ways, this WOKE policy is not going to work well.  We can see that now in one of the most WOKE states in the country, Vermont.

The school administrators are now conducting one of those “investigations” in the school. Who actually thinks that’s going to produce anything meaningful?

It will take public pressure and electing legislators and school board members who reject this WOKE agenda in the public schools to really make a difference.  All children should be safe and treated with dignity while they are in school. Opening up the locker room to children who are the opposite sex does not respect the modesty of the girls who attend this school. A transgender student may also need a space where they feel comfortable changing, which may require problem solving skills that take all parties into consideration.

Many parents instill virtues in their children, modesty being one of them. There are boys and girls who are not comfortable in the restroom or locker room with a member of the opposite sex. Should children be punished for feelings of modesty now?  That seems to be the message from the co-principals Caty Sutton & Lisa Floyd. Get over it girls!

Good for Blake Allen and her MOTHER who made this public. 

 

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Moving the New Hampshire renaissance forward: Should we do something Medici Florence did?
Image: Petar Miloševi? Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0

Most New Hampshire independence activists are libertarians, and most seem to favor adopting a neutral foreign policy similar to that of 20th Century Switzerland. What is something we can do *now* to create more buzz and pull the state in that direction? By “we,” in this context I don’t mean the unwieldy NH government. Rather, the question is “what is something just a dozen or so New Hampshire activists could do to enhance the prospect of eventual neutrality? How do we immediately start “acting like a nation-state?” And what is within our power along these lines?

Here’s the best thing I could think of this week, based on historical precedent. Around the year 1500, one tiny nation led Europe out of the Dark Ages with a scientific and cultural Renaissance that shook the globe: It was the city-state of Florence in Italy. But as the arts and sciences leapt forward over the following centuries…politics in the West “advanced” much more slowly. You could argue that, politically, humanity is still almost in the Dark Ages. Sometimes civic transparency or liberty moves forward, sometimes backward…but things are not obviously better for liberty than they were a century ago.

As in the 1500 era, one tiny state has stepped forward to try and change this and create a renaissance. But this time it is a civic renaissance which we hope will compliment and enhance the world’s art and tech advances. Through its existing, relatively inclusive system…New Hampshire has become one of the freest places in the world and pro-liberty activists from around the planet have already migrated here by thousands. Meanwhile, the state has reduced its budgets in a time of double-digit inflation and become (or at least remained) the safest and most prosperous place in America. Next, liberty activists envision a gradual (sometimes interrupted) trend toward transparency, lower taxes and slow decentralization of power in the New Hampshire governing system. That is our careful renaissance.

During the 16th Century, Medici rulers in Florence invited governments from as far away as India to join in a great celebration of *their* Renaissance. What if we were to do something similar for *ours?* The Medici showcased the spectacular architecture and inventions they had commissioned, but what do we have to showcase? The answer is probably “Porcupine Festival with bus tours.”

PorcFest is an annual camping event which offers a perfect view of New Hampshire’s comely White Mountains but also the option of staying in motels. It’s usually sold out, and attendance tends to be around 3,000. Sometimes called “the libertarian Burning Man,” PorcFest showcases freedom itself: In contrast with the Nevada festival, government police are almost never present, drugs, guns and illegal commerce are welcome, assault rifles openly displayed. Depending on the year you can usually find devout Muslims and Israeli expats, Satanists and Christian Evangelicals, Ukrainians and Russians…all attending contentedly side by side. Housewives deliver unlicensed haircuts and live-stream the crime; children sell alcohol, illegal gambling tables spring up seemingly at random, and (late bloomer of the 20-year-old event) safely-practiced prostitution is reportedly easing its way into the mix.

Like the Woodstock festival of 1969, PorcFest has a ridiculously low incidence of harmful crime. Surely I’m missing something, but the worst event I can think of was a drunk driver who hurt no one and quickly generated a successful response from private security and our media outlets.

Forty-two percent of New Hampshirites favor a referendum on leaving the Union, according to SurveyUSA’s poll in mid-2022. And a Estonian-style “declaration of independence” went before the full NH State House the same year. But at PorcFest the numbers are much higher than 42 percent; the event usually includes a secession conference with regular appearances and visits by independence leaders from across the continent.

What if, like old Florence, we were to boost our status by sending PorcFest-secession-conference invitations to every national government in the world? Of course, attendees could also enjoy the weeklong event and join bus tours to other parts of the state.

The mere act of evenhandedly sending these invitations would be a tentative deed of neutrality. It would mean reaching out to Iran, North Korea and the Taliban (much as Ron Paul envisioned) while also requesting the presence of U.S. allies. It would be a chance for estranged nations to interact with these United States in a different way from “John Bolton.” It might “be the change we want to see in the world,” altering the current tone of international relations a bit with its re-introduction of Swiss-style neutrality. Unlike the Medici in Florence, we Ron Paul types don’t fully govern New Hampshire. But we do constitute a powerful faction here, and if the trend continues….we will eventually be the government here. Like the Medici before they fully achieved power in Florence, New Hampshire independence activists and libertarians may be group of people you want to know if you’re a foreign diplomat.

My brainstorm would be that for PorcFest 2023 we could email every national government in the world with such an invitation. For redundancy we would want to aim the invite at two different email addresses for each nation, and we would need to define what constitutes a national government. My tentative suggestion would be to include any national government that currently is recognized as such by at least one “UN member state.” For example this would include Kosovo in former Yugoslavia (U.S.-recognized but controversial) and Donetsk near the Russia-Ukraine border (Russia-recognized but also controversial). The list probably would not currently include ISIS diplomats, since it appears the group is not recognized by any UN member state. It would presumably include them in the future if that changes, and in the unlikely event they actually made it to New Hampshire we would have our chance to raise concerns about their behavior and show them a different path.

Although it would be tempting to send invitations in the native language of each recipient, this probably could not be done for all nations at this early stage. All the invitations would probably need to go out in English so that each nation is treated as equally as possible.

Disadvantages of this “invitation plan.”

1) There’s no way to guarantee the good behavior of any visitor to PorcFest. If we were to invite someone and they did something bad while in the U.S., that could be used as an excuse to harm NH liberty. Or there could be Washington-backed trickery.
2) Beijing, if it paid attention at all, would view this obviously neutral act as a provocation. Taiwan is recognized by some UN member states and would, like the CCP, need to be invited. Beijing hates anything that looks like recognizing Taiwan. But ultimately that is on Beijing. The Swiss did things that Germany viewed as provocations in 1940, but Switzerland needed to do them to remain neutral. Beijing could alternately see this invitation as an opportunity to peaceably tweak Washington’s nose. The neutrality of the porcupine has charms to match its quills.
3) The invitations might all be ignored; perhaps we are not big enough yet.
4) We’re diplomatic beginners and would make diplomatic mistakes. But that very process should make us better prepared for independence. Any Slovenian will probably tell you how important that is and how much “not being ready” cost them in ’91.
5) D.C. would perhaps try to block some nations from sending representatives…but this is likely more of an advantage than a problem. When D.C. uses its power, it usually gets weaker…and we get the publicity we seek. The lapdog presstitutes can be relied on to whine that we are being too evenhanded with some cleric at Tehran. Blocked passports might still let us have a publicity stunt on the Canadian border or in international waters…”North Korean diplomat meets U.S. dissidents off coast of restless New England province.”
6) As I understand it: During the War of 1812, New England representatives pushed for independence and met with the otherwise hostile British government. This perceived “separate peace” approach was considered backstabbing by some and is thought to have contributed to the demise of the Federalist faction in America. The groups which replaced it were arguably more authoritarian. By implementing the invitation plan….would we be making the same “mistake” in the same place?
7) Some effort might be required to determine whether outreach of this type is lawful. It seems unlikely that there is a law against individuals openly communicating with a foreign government, but if there is…it would be an opportunity for civil disobedience in front of a Federal compound. It would create both dangers and benefits which would have to be weighed before deciding what to do.
8) We’d need to invite U.S. diplomats, which would give them an excuse to legitimately be there. But D.C. is probably there anyway.

At present the main obstacle to carrying out the invitation plan is a logistical one. I don’t see myself being able to send out 500-odd invitations and perform follow-up activities by myself. Probably it would require about five of us to get started. So: I’m requesting four volunteers…regardless of your location. If they are forthcoming before November 1, 2022 (and there are no compelling arguments against this plan) we can start moving forward. If sufficient volunteers fail to materialize, that means this scheme is premature or flawed in some way. It would probably go back-burner for for a while. If you’d like to participate, respond in the comments section below…here at FreeKeene.com. No registration is required.

Dave Ridley
NHexit.com

The left is promising that they can stop Hurricanes or something, but that’s not even close to true for a lot of reasons, not the least of which is they (and their experts) can’t even tell us where one will be three days from now.

When Ian was creeping around the Caribbean, the projections said he would make “landfall” in the Florida panhandle and then head up into Georgia.

 

 

That was wrong.

 

 

When they decided landfall would be around Tampa, they projected Ian would stroll over to the east coast of Florida and hook back in at the Georgia- South Carolina border.

 

That was wrong.

 

Ian went straight across the peninsula back into the Atlantic for a bit and then headed up to South Carolina.

Not very good predicting, and to be fair, the climate is incredibly complex. But that’s not just true for hurricane Ian, and if you live in New England, you’ll know what I mean.

The dry, sunny forecast you woke up with is no guarantee. It might rain or snow depending on the season that same day. In other words, even with all that technology, models, experts, and some of the best guessing they can manage, they get it wrong the same day. They get it wrong a few days out.

The further out we go, the greater the errors are likely to be, which means long-term predicting is almost impossible with the tools and talent at our disposal. The climate is far too complex.

Pshaw, say the Marxist Dems, we may not know sh!t about economics, but we can prevent storms like Ian, which is about the stupidest hail-Mary mid-term BS throw I’ve seen in a while. They can’t predict today. The so-called consensus they rely upon can’t predict the track of the hurricane that’s right in front of them.

We appreciate you trying, and don’t stop but let’s admit that there are limits.

Speaking of Limits

These are the same people who estimated an above-average hurricane season in 2022 that never materialized. We are about to leave the busiest month for hurricane landfills in the US (September), and there are zero disturbances in the Atlantic aside from Ian. None.

Related: NOAA Predicted Above Average Hurricane Season so How’s That Working Out?

 

 

We are not seeing more storms or more severe storms making landfall, not that you could predict them if you tried. You can’t get anything right, and now you’re going to run on that?

I’m inclined to let you, but I can’t let this epic level of stupid go unreported.

 

 

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Many schools across the country are developing something called Portrait of a Graduate. At the elementary level, this is called Portrait of a Learner. SAU21 just put out a notice to parents that they will be discussing this program on Tuesday October 4th at Winnacunnet High School.

 

So what will be discussed? Will they tell you that Portrait of a Graduate is a national program created by an Ohio-based company called Battelle for Kids? Portrait of a Graduate is being used to fundamentally transform the purpose of US education.

It shifts curriculum, assessment, school accountability, and data collection away from academics and toward Social and Emotional Learning (SEL).

Battelle for Kids was created by Battelle, an applied science and technology company that uses technology to track behaviors. The program was incentivized through policies and grants in the 2015 federal education law the Every Student Succeeds Act ESSA. ESSA replaced No Child Left Behind and was signed into law during the Obama administration with bi-partisan support. These policies are an extension of Common Core reforms.

Some of Battelle’s strategic partners that direct states’ adoption of Portrait of a Graduate are CASEL (Watch the video where Tim Shriver admits teaching academics is no longer important), Aurora Institute, ExcelinEd <JEB BUSH (who profits off of his online Charter Schools) and KnowledgeWorks. These companies are working towards mass data collection of children’s values, attitudes and behaviors (aka..mental health) with a company called the Data Quality Campaign. 

The Data Quality Campaign was instrumental in developing states’ State Longitudinal Data Systems. So, Portrait of a Graduate/Learner is, essentially, a program to expand New Hampshire’s State Longitudinal Data System, and start tracking children into all sorts of social services including health services, and into the workforce. You can read more about that here from the Parent Coalition for Student Privacy. Here are the data elements you should be concerned about. 

Every few months, more data elements are “defined” and added to the CEDS, so that more information about a child’s life can be easily collected, stored, shared across agencies, and disclosed to third parties. You can check out the CEDS database yourself, including data points recently added, or enter the various terms like “disability,” “homeless” or “income” in the search bar.

In relation to discipline, for example, CEDS includes information concerning student detentions, letters of apology, demerits, warnings, counseling, suspension and expulsion records, whether the student was involved in an incident that involved weapons, whether he or she was arrested, whether there was a court hearing and what the judicial outcome and punishment was, including incarceration.

This type of information is obviously very sensitive and prejudicial, and often in juvenile court, records are kept sealed or destroyed after a certain period of time, especially if the child is found innocent or there is no additional offense; yet all this information can now be entered into his or her longitudinal record with no particular restriction on access and no time certain when the data would be destroyed.

 

 

In the final scheme of things, Portrait of a Graduate/Learner is the backbone for Social Credit Scoring and ESG scores for children.

New Hampshire

As the leader in implementing competency education, New Hampshire recognized the need for a state data system that was better equipped to communicate with district systems and provide necessary supports. The Initiative for School Empowerment and Excellence reduces the burden on schools and gives information back to schools based on regularly collected data to encourage student achievement through rigorous data use and analysis.

By encouraging states to develop data systems with complete information, the Data Quality Campaign has been essential to the first step of creating meaningful data systems across the country. With data collection getting better and better, the next step must address the use of this data. Collection and compliance alone have not and will not support students in reaching their full potential.

KnowledgeWorks is a Gates-funded organization (also based in Ohio) that the State Boards of Education paid to facilitate the districts’ adoption of Battelle’s SEL framework. (Pilot programs and legislation for Competency-Based Education will align “competencies” to those in Portrait of a Graduate) Local teachers are brought into the process to determine competencies, but only for show. In actuality, they are being shifted into becoming facilitators of the SEL system, and, over time, the entire system will be geared toward SEL.

Here are some resources:  

• Battelle’s website where they show that they are driving the work of states and districts across the US:

https://portraitofagraduate.org/

**KnowledgeWorks’ explains their work in New Hampshire: Policy Conditions in Action: Comprehensive Supports for Educators and Leaders in New Hampshire. In 2011, a group of postsecondary leaders in New Hampshire formed the IHE Network to influence policymakers and engage practitioners to promote innovative programs and policies that link educator preparation, new educator induction and ongoing professional development in the state.

Leadership

• President – Kristen Downey, Upper Valley Educators Institute
• Vice President – Nick Marks, Granite State College
• Secretary – Dale Boyle, Franklin Pierce University
• Treasurer – Nick Marks, Granite State College

https://knowledgeworks.org/resources/nh-comprehensive-supports-educators-leaders/

• KnowledgeWorks’ explains that they are replacing academics with competency-based learning which they see mirroring the “anti-racist” work of Marxist Ibram X. Kendi:

https://knowledgeworks.org/resources/detracking-personalized-competency-based-learning-replace-tracking/?fbclid=IwAR0uCEWMYOQDBsv9XUDK1ZWrm2sJHklD93045RrBJkyq0rnR-nEj4qx4Yrw

• KnowledgeWorks says our Constitution is racist and that education has to fix that:

https://knowledgeworks.org/resources/collectively-striving-more-perfect-union/?fbclid=IwAR1Y8gZvCg6F8idHhE_p9ymtIiLtD9enmuVdw_iVRs50A1Qe2Vl5fprK_R8

• Panorama Education’s website shows how they use Portrait of a Graduate to build their behavioral surveys and data collection. (Panorama was founded by US AG Merrick Garland’s son-in-law….the reason that Garland went after parents that oppose Critical Race Theory at local school boards).

https://www.panoramaed.com/blog/comprehensive-guide-portrait-of-a-graduate?fbclid=IwAR0wxa5s00ETMagTIjOIRBM08NeJvlxyNbAyrrPDdB9nYuQdeiCOeNCKR8g

What does this mean for the children in SAU21? MASSIVE data mining of your child’s behavior, attitudes, values, etc. (aka..their mental health)

 

What will this be used for? Good question but many of the researchers say for Social Credit Scoring and ESG scores for children.

Once the data on your children is collected, stored and sent who knows where, you no longer control it.
Parents are looking for ways to avoid all SEL (Social and Emotional) screenings, assessments in the schools because of the data mining. While SEL may sound good, it’s the data mining that is the biggest threat to your child’s future.

In SAU21 they will be using the PEAR screening on your children for SEL purposes. While they will be required to obtain parental consent, here is what PEAR says about sharing information with parents:

Will PEAR have access to your child’s sensitive information?

What is one of the biggest reasons parents are withdrawing their children from public schools? DATA MINING.

So what is the big deal about SEL in our schools? I think Nancy Bailey summed it up perfectly in this article titled: Social Emotional Learning: The Dark Side. Who is Nancy Bailey? First she’s NO RIGHT WINGER. She describes herself as:

 

EVERY parent should scroll through her list of problems with SEL. Pay close attention to what she lists here:

SEL and Social Impact Bonds and Pay for Success

School districts are encouraged to use SIBs or Pay for Success to fund programs. Schools get money for students based on their social and emotional skills. Upon student improvement, companies get back their contribution with a profit.

For example, SEL is listed in the U.S. Department of Education (DeVos)  Pay for Success Feasibility Tool Kit: Considerations for State and Local Leaders to increase kindergarten readiness (p.6).

Before anyone still claims this is a conspiracy make note that the union AFSME opposes the use of SIBs too.

This isn’t about right vs left on SEL. This is about standing against Corp. profiteers who will capitalize $$$$ on all of the data and products they now sell to our schools. This is also about social control through Social Credit Scoring and ESG scores for children. Wall Street investors will profit off of the SIBs, Ed Tech and vendors will profit off of schools that purchase these products that data mine your child’s mental health information.

What do I advise parents to so when it comes to SEL: AVOID SEL at all costs. NO screenings, assessments, treatment, or anything else. Unfortunately they are now embedding SEL into the curriculum. That makes this task challenging for sure.

In NH parents do have the right to opt out of objectionable material, but this could get complicated if it’s embedded in the curriculum.

What do you get? 

It’s not “improved academics,” that’s for sure.
My advice? AVOID SEL and AVOID this screening for your children.

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I am happy to say we have concluded our white dog summer research project. The object was to test a progressive premise established in May that “tick season” would be all year round ‘cuz, Climate change. The final results?

It was bullish!t.

If you’ve been following the “research,” you will know that my yellow lab – which has very white fur – is an excellent test subject for gauging the tick population. In the spring, it was awful, as it always is; we were pulling two to four or more off the dog every trip outside.

Many a blood-sucking parasite met an unpleasant end, burial at “sea,” immolation (sacrifice to the angry democrat gods), crushing hazards. We’re not kind to those little bastards, but they keep coming back for more. But not as predicted by the “experts.” The perception was that climate change had messed everything up, and it looked like we’d have no summer hiatus from ticks.

And then we did.

It was like every other year except for a very impressive heat wave. Heat, warming, CO2, but no ticks. What gives?

The white dog spent as much or more time in the yard as any other year, but through July and August, not one single tick was spotted on Cosmo. And none on us either. So, what about September?

One tick, but not until after summer was over. I found one tick on the white dog a few days ago and none since.

Not only did we not have ticks all year, we have a slow start to the autumn tick season (which is good), but then, that heavier-than-average hurricane season we were promised has been no less disappointing for the Climateers (Also good).

We had no named storm in July or August and nothing that hit land until the last week of September. And then, only one.

Just like the ticks.

Will someone suggest ticks and … never mind.

 

 

 

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Deficit spending and inflation are a tool by the government to freely spend while simultaneously eroding our wealth. Did you know the Constitution protects us from this tactic initiated through the Federal Reserve (FED) in 1913?

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

Sole power over money is given to Congress in Article I, section 8: “To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin.” Since 1913, Congress unconstitutionally transferred this power to a Board of Governors and twelve privately chartered regional banks. The formation of the FED was a major step to tyranny right out of The Communist Manifesto: “Centralizing credit in the hands of the State, by means of a national bank.“

What has happened since the FED implemented the Marxist, Keynesian economic system in 1913?

Fiduciary currency backed by lawful currency, silver or gold, was outlawed in 1971. Each time the FED creates more dollars by printing or digital clicks, dollars become worth less. There is no limit on the quantity created out of thin air.

Observing this habitual spending of other people’s money, it becomes obvious to me why in the 1940s my dad paid a nickel for a cup of coffee, and bread in the 1950s was two loaves for 29 cents. As money loses its value, it takes more dollars to buy the same item. Ignorance is not bliss; it’s expensive.

The national debt in 1913 was 1 billion. Today it’s over 30 trillion.

In 1913, again right out of the Communist Manifesto, Congress also passed the XVI Amendment: “A heavy or progressive income tax.”Article I, Section 8, gives the power of taxation to Congress but stipulates that taxes shall be uniform throughout the United States, which eliminates progressive taxes. Because of ignorance of the supreme law of the land, citizens and officeholders failed to uphold the Constitution but rather accelerated economic suicide. Keynes was correct when he prophetically stated his economic system would be the“ euthanasia of capitalism.”

The failures of the past do not have to direct our future. Thomas Jefferson gives us the remedy for this severe lack of knowledge about our Constitution:

“I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power.”

An uninformed electorate is an enemy of liberty and the best friend of tyrants. Again, ignorance is not bliss, it is expensive and the most powerful weapon our enemies have. Citizens who love their liberty need to search for the power of true knowledge that has been purposely denied them for generations.

A good place to start is to contact The John Birch Society Field Coordinator Matthew Rhodes at 207-391-0970 about “The CONSTITUTION IS THE SOLUTION,” a seven-week seminar now going on several places in New Hampshire.”

 

 

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The latest front in the culture war has taken an interesting turn. Mostly Democrats and members of various LGBT identity groups have decided there should be no discussion about the appropriateness of books that depict children performing gay sex acts.

The mere mention of it has been described as book banning.

The tip of this “spear” is a book called Gender Queer, which includes a cartoon depiction of a child performing fellatio on another kid. By all legal definitions, this is kiddie porn. If you handed it to a random kid on the street, you could be arrested, convicted, and added to the sex-offender registry for life. But daring to suggest it might not be appropriate to let anyone of any age grab it off a public or school library shelf is considered intolerant.

Speaking of intolerant, there are plenty of books, both graphic novels, and text only, that depict or describe sex acts, so are these banned too?

No Hentai in the school library but Gender Queer needs to be there.

How about any of the dozens, if not scores, of “periodicals” or other material depicting nudity or sexual acts in print? Are we okay with gay porn only, or is heterosexual porn acceptable? Can we have a debate about “banning that?”

It’s not a Ban

Leaving them out of the school library is not “book banning.” It is a choice about taxpayer-funded access based on age, maturity, and a general sense of public moral interest, but since we’re here. Is anyone who wants that material available to minors in public or school libraries advocating for children’s access to porn?

Is there some other explanation? It’s pornographic. You want them to see it. You do not want to debate it. And whether you are an elected official, school administrator, librarian, parent, teacher, neighbor, activist, or member of an identity group, your objection to the conversation says one thing. You believe children need to see this.

You think children need to be sexualized, and your vector of preference (in this case) is gay porn. And if possible, without further discussion, as evidenced by the town council in Rochester this past week.

 

(Couniclor Jim) Gray had tasked Blaine Cox, the city manager with sitting down with the city’s chief librarian, Marie Lejeune, and getting her take on the appropriateness, or inappropriateness of the above-referenced images in Gender Queer.

But the City Council chose to short-circuit the discussion by removing the agenda item using a rarely employed – at least with this body – Robert’s Rules of Order codicil that voids the agenda item with a two-thirds vote. The council voted 12-1 to remove it, with Gray the lone nay vote.

The vote robbed Cox of doing his job. In fact, we don’t know if he ever sat down with Lejeune or not.

 

The Rochester City Council banned debate, so we presume their position is no different than those in the LGBT community who showed up to defend the book; your kids have a right to access taxpayer-funded gay kiddie porn, and objecting to that is the equivalent of book banning, even though the book is readily available not just online but in print to anyone who wants it.

I guess what I’d like to know, and perhaps any number of taxpayers and parents as well, is why do you, as an adult, want children to access gay porn but not all porn?

Or do you want that too?

 

 

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NH State Rep Melissa Litchfield is being attacked by the NEA for suggesting an LSR (a precursor / placeholder for an actual bill) that would allow a School District, as she states below, to allow school staff to be trained to handle firearms and then District to store “First Responder” firearms to use in case of an emergency where someone is (or trying to) kill students or staff (emphasis mine):

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Melissa litchfield<melissalitchfield@comcast.net>
Date: On Thu, Sep 29, 2022 at 8:45 AM
Subject: Fwd: LSR# 2023-0212, NEA-2nd Amendment
To: Melissa litchfield <melissalitchfield@comcast.net>
Cc:

LSR that I have put forward…

In response to LSR# 2023-0212, the NEA has come out condemning it- this is just an LSR- bill has not been written and there is no official language.

Here is a link to what the NEA put out there last week: https://neanh.org/2022/09/22/nea-nh-condemns-rep-litchfields-bill-to-arm-new-hampshires-educators/

Reproduced in full below.

Here is my official response:

Surprisingly, the NEA has chosen to oppose LSR# 2023-0212, which they have never read.  I say that they’ve never read it simply because no one has ever read it – the final draft won’t be available for at least another week.  While terms, such as “weapons of war” or citing surveys about feelings, rather than data, may help them fight their own “culture wars”, they do very little to explain the actual bill.

Not surprisingly, their solution is to hire more dues paying members for their organization.  The NEA is, after all, a labor union, with one of their main purposes being lobbying and advocating for educators – not students.

To clarify this proposal for people, I’ll introduce two concepts which were not addressed by the NEA:  Student safety and facts.

The origins of this bill came about during my almost ten-year tenure on school boards, including our local Safety and Security committee. During this time, the idea of school safety was (and still is) a major concern.  I was able to work with and receive suggestions from law enforcement, Homeland security, and educators.  All of these groups suggested the idea of letting teachers have the ability to protect their students. The bill is not intended to have teachers carrying guns around schools or to be forced into harm’s way.

The bill allows for small firearms to be securely stored on campus.  The only people permitted near these are staff members who have volunteered, trained and had background checks done on them.  While every local law enforcement officer would race to a school with an intruder, they couldn’t get there as fast as someone already inside the building.

While it’s very easy to exaggerate the specifics of any proposed bill, this bill, as with all proposed bills, is subject to hearings with input from all sides involved.  I invite the NEA to attend these hearings.

On a personal note, I also had to look at this bill as the mother of four school aged children.  Hopefully, nothing ever happens in our schools.  If it does, I would want the quickest response possible, whether it’s law enforcement or teachers who have volunteered, been vetted and properly trained.

I could have just summed it up, “NEA is shutting down explorations of Safety: Attacking 2nd Amendment

Sincerely,

Rep Melissa A Litchfield

Our Kimberly Morin, also of the Women’s Defense League of NH (which also happens to have a Teachers Discount!) has a post on all the Gun Control LSR that have been filed by the Democrats.  Each one of them reduces your Constitutional Right to self defense.  The one that sends my ire rising is the last one:

LSR 2023-0069   Relative to possession or is charge of a firearm in a school zone.

There’s no underlying text associated with it yet but it is targeting LAWFUL gun owners. The current Federal Gun-Free Zone law has exceptions in it for carrying on school property – here’s the one that Steve Shurtleff is targeting (pun intended):

(ii) if the individual possessing the firearm is licensed to do so by the State in which the school zone is located or a political subdivision of the State, and the law of the State or political subdivision requires that, before an individual obtains such a license, the law enforcement authorities of the State or political subdivision verify that the individual is qualified under law to receive the license; [So if you have a concealed carry permit, license, or another official document which permits you to possess the firearm assuming that there is some qualification standard in order to receive that permit/license.]

It’s Revenge Legislation as most Democrat legislators / Governors / Mayors around the nation are reacting in various and sundry ways to “work around” the Supreme Court Bruen decision that has made it really hard for Progressives/anti-Constitutionalists from imposing restrictions on the “keep and bear arms” of the Second Amendment. This and the others Kimberly listed would most likely be ruled unconstitutional and rendered void (maybe the Red Flag/EPO one, LSR 2023-0042, might pass muster).  It would also affect me as someone with a valid NH Pistol/Revolver license signed by my local law enforcement.

It may become “interesting” if the Democrats regain the Majority in both the House and Senate and the Governorship.

NEA-NH Condemns Rep Litchfield’s Bill to Arm New Hampshire’s Educators
Posted on September 22, 2022 Posted in NH Public Education

Teachers should be teaching, not acting as armed security guards, or receiving training to become sharpshooters.

Why not? They are legally first responders if they suspect that a child is being abused (physically, emotionally, sexully), right?  How much more sever can abuse get “above” killing a student by an armed intruder bent on creating mayhem and murder?

CONCORD, NH – SEPTEMBER 22, 2022- The very last thing our schools need right now is to bring more weapons into them. But it appears that is exactly what Rep. Litchfield wants to do with her proposed legislation to arm New Hampshire’s teachers. Her legislation is extreme, out-of-step, and dangerous.

Sure, it’s only the gun-free zones that seem to attract the crazed armed intruders, right? Makes PERFECT sense to keep students and staff being sitting ducks. And I just LOVE this next strawman argument:

Arming teachers and other school personnel does nothing to prevent gun violence. In fact, a nationwide NEA survey found quite the contrary; educators would feel less safe if school personnel were armed.

No, NOTHING is going to “prevent” gun violence crime (there, I fixed it for you) as those crazed armed intruders will always have a weapon when they want one. This would be a deterrent (hopefully but not 100%) and a first responder capability.  What, the NEA WANTS to see dead children if the police can’t get on site fast enough? And I seem to remember a situation where the police did get on site fast enough, and then dithered…or am I misremembering?

“Most of us want the same thing – strong, quality public schools that give every student the freedom to reach their potential,” said Megan Tuttle, NEA-New Hampshire President.

Yeah, but that potential goes to zero if someone can’t arrive fast enough to stop the gunman.  Are you telling us, President Tuttle, that you’d rather see people be killed instead of eliminating a current and existential threat?

“Representative Litchfield’s bill ignores the needs of our students, their parents, and educators and instead tries to distract us by dragging right-wing culture wars into our community’s classrooms at a time when our students need our support the most.”

You REALLY want to go there, Tuttle?  Transgenderism? Critical Race Theory?  Social Justice, SEL?

Tell me this, what is the overall percentage of the students, that your teachers are supposed to be training, actually proficient in English and Math here in NH?  Is it 95%? Perhaps lower: 90%?   How low do I have to go to show what your union members are accomplishing?  I dryly note not one word on that score, right?

“We all agree that there are too many shootings in our nation’s schools, which is why New Hampshire’s elected officials should prioritize the safety of students and work to keep weapons of war out of our schools, not put our children at risk by bringing loaded guns into classrooms and hallways,” said Tuttle.

Weapons of war – your own Progressive ideology is showing.  And oh, by the way, why is the NEA in favor of canceling our Freedom of Speech and having teachers lie to parents??

And I’m betting she has no clue as to what a real weapon of war is, either.

Parents and educators understand that the biggest challenges facing our students and our public schools are getting students the one-on-one support they need, addressing educator shortages, and ensuring students have the mental health services they need. They want legislators and candidates to address these issues and not bring political culture wars into classrooms just to score points with their base.

No, the biggest challenge is having responsive school board member and then teachers teaching the basics such that ALL students are reaching proficiency in all subjects.  Which is not being accomplished across NH (and it isn’t because of money or staff – there a case to be made that the phrase “Go Woke, Go Broke” can be applied to the current warehouse system of education as well).

How about doing that FIRST and then we’ll talk about your Left-wing issues.

And remember, it doesn’t take much to see where the union dues go in supporting elected representatives in elections – what a phony

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Your thread, your time!

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Grace Curly had Derek Maltz Sr on her program to discuss the fentanyl crisis. Derek is a retired DEA special ops guy that wrote an article in the New York Post on cartels using open-border policy to kill more Americans than any terrorist organization.

That’s a bold way to put it, but it is not incorrect. The cartels have been running fentanyl into America thanks to Biden’s borderless America policy and Obama’s open-border policies before that.

Only during Trump’s administration did this begin to slow down.

As we’ve pointed out, the result is a massive pile of bodies from drug and overdose deaths, and elected Democrats are responsible for these deaths.

Rather than address the problem, they use the crisis they created to grow the government but not in any meaningful way – like border enforcement or supporting Immigration enforcement officers or the rule of law. They add funding for progressive NGOs or therapists or crisis or suicide helplines.

But that is only part of the story. Derek has some details we’ve not covered that you’ll never see in the local media, which he shares with Grace in this segment.

 

Grace Curly Show

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/grace-Curly-fentanyl-mono.mp3

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One that isn’t a scaredy-cat of getting involved in the contentious and fractious Culture War that now, on this battlefront, has co-opted Government (“Public Schools”) into aligning itself with the Democrat sexuality agenda of our children against Parents.

While I could not go to the Presser myself, Grok Friend Tom sent this along:

The context of this concerns Policy 100.1 in the Manchester School District which tells its staff to lie about the Transgender status of their child. Recently, the Maggie “The Red” Hassan appointee Judge in the case, Amy Messer, ruled that Parents do NOT have any legal say in how their child is educated in Manchester Public Schools. The translation is that “this child is OUR child, NOT yours, while they are in our building.  But feel free to think your child is your child at any other time.   I’ve been fighting this for almost two years in Gilford.

We’ve heard this before from other non-free countries built on the notion that The State (country) owns its subjects and not the American notion that we are a free people that happen to have a Government.  She confirmed for me that my long-term meme is true:

The Bigger the Governor, the smaller the citizen

When your child is no longer YOUR child, the Government has become too big.

Karoline has taken a lot of knocks for being too young, not having a voting record, and hasn’t “risen through the ranks”. Well, she’s doing something that FEW Republicans, especially the “old dinosaurs” ones, have done – taking on this issue with a smile, determination, and grit.  They abhor getting “their hands dirty” in things other than budgets and taxes; she doesn’t limit herself to those topics. She knows that the Democrats have taken their War right against families and expect them to just accept them.

She’s also quick on her feet, especially on the question asked by WMUR’s Adam Sexton.

She realizes that our fight HAS to be her fight as well – I like that style.

GraniteGrok endorsed her in the Primary Election.

 

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Fortunately, we are still at a place where we can come together to put the pieces back together after a weather catastrophe. Hurricane Ian has dominated the news cycle for the last two days, and that is a blessing within the tragedy.

The attention is focused on minimizing the loss and evaluating what is needed to get back to normal as soon as possible.

As we spent the last few days watching the track of the storm and trying to project its target as the storm makes landfall, it has become clear that we are powerless when it comes to Mother Nature. She holds all the cards. Even with all of the sophisticated equipment, we really have no idea what will happen until the day after. No meteorologist is ever wrong as they recap the impact of a vicious storm. The best we can do is prepare as best we can and pray.

The bottom line is Americans love each other despite political leanings. When our brothers and sisters have been hurt, we are there to do what we can to ease the pain. Over thirty states are coming to the aid of the good people of Florida. Most of these states did not feel a gust of wind or a drop of rain, but they are ready to dip into their wallet or get into a truck to deliver aid. This is America at its finest. This is America at its purest.

Governor DeSantis has been in the spotlight for the last few days and has performed with the level of excellence we expect from our leaders. He has communicated well, was ahead of the storm with preparations, and has been quick to direct assistance to the areas that need it the most. He has been able to get the Federal government to recognize the need to declare emergencies to free up relief funds. Progressive or Conservative was not part of the equation. Americans were in need, and the government was there to do what they were designed to do; hold the safety net.

The weather does not discriminate on any parameters, but it does take its most significant toll on the weakest of society. The elderly and the poorest among us have taken the most significant toll. The elderly are the most difficult to relocate in the path of a deadly storm, and the poorest do not have the means to move anywhere. This is why these two categories will see the highest percentage of devastation and fatalities. Notice this has nothing to do with race, just age and wealth.

The next few days will be crucial as the devastation is identified. There will be some that lose their lives and others that will need years to recover. As with any situation, there will be people striving to make money on the backs of others who are suffering. The storm will pass, but our efforts to help have to have staying power.

The best part about the news blackout of every other story is we did not have to focus on Vice President Harris declaring we are aligned with North Korea or the President of the United States making a major faux pas yesterday. President Biden on Wednesday asked a crowd if Rep. Jackie Walorski, who died in a car accident last month, was in attendance at a White House event. These are our leaders. The storm will fizzle in time, but when it does, we will still be stuck with Biden and Harris…..how lucky are we?

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But calling the Hanover Police on an HHS student?  This was sent to GraniteGrok by a Hanover parent (“In case you missed it from our good Commissar, er Principal….”) – somebody’s a bit nervous?  Read the construction of this email:

From: Julie Stevenson <julie.stevenson@dresden.us>
Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2022 1:13 PM
To: Joseph C. Anderson <Joseph.C.Anderson@dartmouth.edu>(“”)
Subject: Tik Tok: Here we go again!

Good Afternoon-

We wanted to take a moment to address the recent Tik Tok about Hanover High School made by an organization based out of state and not with the school. We have seen the Tik Tok and have been made aware of some of the responses both from Hanover High students and others not from our school community.

The maker of the Tik Tok asked administration if they could put their table in the building and they were informed that the only tables we allow in the school are those that are student initiated or related to post secondary opportunities.

Because of our memorandum of understanding, we have made the Hanover PD aware.

There are many good lessons here about freedom of speech, social media, truth in reporting and constructive and destructive dialogue. Please use this opportunity to talk with your families.

Have a nice afternoon,

HHS Administration

I was struck by a number of things in that email:

• made by an organization based out of state and not with the school

Note she didn’t even mention the “organization” – that would be Turning Point USA (“TPUSA is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization whose mission is to identify, educate, train, and organize students to promote freedom.”)an organization that is in direct opposition to the Woke construction in effect in the District. Gee, what side of the political spectrum uses “outside agitators” a lot?

• and others not from our school community

Yep, we’d be part of that “community” that’s not THEIR “community”.  Yet, like Martha’s Vineyard, these Progressively based schools are always touting their own horns about being “inclusive” until they run up against someone that needs to be excluded.  Once again, we see the “definition inversion” these folks are infamous for!

• Because of our memorandum of understanding, we have made the Hanover PD aware

I reviewed the Hanover High School site/policies and the only references that would have any attachment to that statement were:

The only mention of school policies covering this are: Behavior Expectations: https://hhs.sau70.org/hhshandbook/student-policies/behavior-expectations Threat Protocol:  https://hhs.sau70.org/hhshandbook/safety-protocol/threat-protocol Only the latter speaks to calling the Police.  I’ll have to wait to get confirmation that Hanover Police was actually called by HHS (necessary as we had a case where Democrat State Reps said they called the Merrimack Police against us for “threatening” and an RTK issued by Susan Olsen proved that the Rep making the claim was lying – I think the police chief enjoyed (seriously enjoyed!) letting us know that no such thing had happened and NO police police protection was ever activated. The Rep never thought we’d check – and she got angrier.). But one has to ask “how is setting up a table a physical threat?” sufficient to call the police?  Antifi (like at Dartmouth College), sure. But someone with TPUSA – conflating US Constitutions with violence? Well, we all know what the Woke think of that notion.

• There are many good lessons here about freedom of speech, social media, truth in reporting and constructive and destructive dialogue

This, THIS is the la creme de la creme of the entire email. So which side is Freedom on – the constructive or destructive side of “dialogue”. Add to that, please tell me, how does Destructive dialog square, EVAH!, with Freedom of Speech?

Sorry Ms. Stevenson, but your ideology just shown brightly.  There is no Hate Speech (jumping ahead here) as Freedom of Speech PROTECTS that speech that others find offensive or that other famous Leftist adjective “Hurtful”. Sorry, Free Speech exists to make sure that Government (that would be you as an agent of the Government as Public Schools are nothing if NOT Government) doesn’t restrict the liberty of its citizens.

And just throwing out the phrase “truth in reporting” went without any context at all.  The fact that you aren’t telling the entire truth when compared against the video has some of us going “so what context did you mean “truth in reporting”? Which reporters from which outlets?  What did they get wrong?  Did they lie?

But that also brings up the converse – why are you leaving so much out of your email, leaving to the readers imagination that perhaps something nefarious is going on that ruins the HHS ideology Narrative?

Just a casual question for the Principal – what IS the Proper Role of Government?  It’s an easy one to answer – if you’ve been reading GraniteGrok. Tell me, what did the curriculum for your Social Studies class inform your students what the right answer was?

She also doesn’t mention, at ALL,  the posters that were highlighted in the video.  Why did you run away from those in email – nary a mention at all. Why not? And why not mention that Deborah Bacon Nelson, the Democrat Chair of Hanover/Lyme, wasn’t given the same treatment? She is “outside of the school” as well, right?

Sigh, you know what happens with stuff like this – my To-Do list grows ever longer as the ideas just pile up quickly (and ram into all the OTHER stuff that’s filling up my 8′ X 4′ whiteboard “notebook”.

One would think that a Principal would know better. C’est la!

Guess I won’t be invited into “her community” as I ask uncomfortable questions.

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As predicted in the last Monday Memes, and in the Meme Overflow, I have an overflow-overflow.  Enjoy, and Happy Friday!

If you could, if you send a meme to someone, please say that you found it here (or whichever meme post is appropriate) and give the link.  In theory, it will get at least some to pop over and look.  The idea being is that they may peruse other memes which might then get through as Thought Splinters.  (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3).  Part IV is actually open on my computer and I’m slowly trying to finish it.

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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But first, please do consider visiting the Grok’s merch page.  Also, please help this bumper sticker of mine go viral:

 

 

I have no expectations this will sell by the megamillions… but it’d be nice if I could get something actually tangible.  Especially with the remodeling going on at the house.  Ugh.

 

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I don’t know who this advice-guy Damon guy is… but apparently, to his credit, he responded with a definitive NO.  But what’s disturbing is that the thought crossed someone’s mind as a good thing to do.  Remember, the greatest evil deeds are done by people believing they’re doing good.

Slip-Sliding Towards Hell with a Good Conscience – Granite Grok

 

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Blogger Aesop has this to say about that (bolding added):

If Palpatine and Jar Jar won, the Leftards should welcome honest audits and recounts, the better to take another victory lap, while rubbing the Right’s noses in the Left’s inevitable march to the throne room of power. People who’ve actually scored a touchdown don’t bitch about re-watching the video that proves it. It’s that simple.

You can run the tape back and forth, and if the feet are inbounds, and the ball is in control, it’s a touchdown time after time after time.

So when one team’s coaches, and half the fans in the stadium, boo and catcall the replay, and start agitating loudly to ignore it and just call the touchdown without looking at that pesky video replay, you know they didn’t score, and you know they know they didn’t score, so all their histrionics and hissyfits beforehand and afterwards is just them being pissed that they lost, refusing to admit it, even to themselves, and terror at having their noses rubbed in you seeing it with your own lying eyes, on a 50′ tall jumbotron, in front of millions of eyewitnesses.

They’ll be left losers, with egg on their faces, and be thwarted at achieving what they wanted so badly they could not only taste it, but were willing to lie, cheat, and steal to get.

Remember, to the Left, power is all they care about.

 

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Very coincidentally, this article discusses the possibility of the Elites – the “neo-aristocrats” – deliberately engineering not just an economic crash, and population crash, but also a crash of societal trust in every institution.

The Great Reveal or the boy crying wolf? – Miri AF

Why?  To create the chaos from which they expect to create their Socialist paradise.

 

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Pick of the post:

 

There are no words in Entish, Elvish, or the tongues of Men to capture my quasar-level hatred at this betrayal of our children.

 

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Palate Cleanser:

 

 

 

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It’s always better to plan things beforehand instead of making abrupt and instantaneous plans while enjoying a trip. Your trip might have two possibilities, either it can be a fantastic outcome loaded with fun and vigor, or it can be a disastrous journey wasting your time, money, vitality, and energy. Having said that, let’s find out some of the interesting places, activities, and fun elements to be exercised on your trip to Manchester, UK.

Heaven for sports lovers: without discussing sports and precisely football winnings in Old Trafford Stadium, it will be an injustice to describe Manchester. In order to experience the vitality of premier league wins, one must take a tour of the ground of this stadium. In addition, you mustn’t forget to visit the locker rooms, tunnels, and museum to make yourself acquainted with the history of the football club.

Get familiar with scientific and industrial inventions: having attained the title of the world’s first industrial city, the science and industry museum in Manchester attracts people for its extravagant display of steam engines, the first computer storing and running software, and most important cotton mill. Thus, while planning a trip to Manchester, include this in your checklist.

A Mesmerizing Nightlife: Manchester has always been famous for its unparalleled nightlife and fun. Music, dance, and having fun with friends hold amazement for the tourists and fun lovers.

1. AO Arena: this place holds space for more than 21000 people at one time. It conducts famous music performances running from Ozzy Osbourne to Hans Zimmer, comedy shows, orchestral performances, and even boxing matches.
2. Silent Disco: This is an unmatchable specialty of Manchester, as it asks you to just put your headphones on and start playing any sort of music you like, ultimately being involved in music, dancing, and partying with your friends.

An all-round gaming destination: Apart from being famous for its football club, Manchester has a lot more for tourists and game lovers. Its nightlife is incomplete without experiencing music, gaming, and, more importantly casinos. Rather than directly giving a head start to Manchester’s famous casinos, including Manchester 235, Genting Club, Grosvenor Casino, and many more, it’s always better and safer to try the online casinos UAE that are trusted by millions of users. Be it Manchester or UAE, you will find the best casino sites along with accurate and updated information about casino platforms in UAE. This will help you plan your next trip to UAE if gambling is in your blood.

Lively Theme parks: Besides the globally renowned nightlife of Manchester, it also has astonishing bewilderment for tourists in the form of its magical theme parks. The most famous one is Gulliver’s World which is complete fun for the whole family comprising rides and activities for both children and adults. So, this can also be a great holiday place to spend with your family.

A compendium of different arts: Manchester holds the world’s famous rich art gallery. This art gallery is an amazement for art admirers, as it contains paintings of esteemed British artists and even more than 500 sculptors covering a time span of over 200 years. Interestingly, the museum is not merely limited to exhibiting paintings and famous sculptors; however, it also contains multifarious designs of wallpapers, furniture, glassware, clothing, and costumes. Therefore, for budding artists, this place is a must-visit. Some places to experience different arts are as follows:

1. The Manchester Museum: this place gives you an opportunity to live through the Ice-age, and it also consists of an impressive range of ancient artifacts, including objects from West Asia, Mesopotamia, and ancient Egypt.
2. The Whitworth: the art gallery consists of over 60,000 artworks such as paintings, textiles, sculptors, contemporary art, prints, and so on. This place has a picturesque setting holding a sculptor terrace, orchard, and an art garden.

An exploration of Natural landscape: Amidst the artificial elements of providing clubs, rides, and roller coasters, Manchester has a beautifully made Fletcher Moss Park and Botanical Gardens that preserve interesting wildlife. The Fletcher park contains some rare species of trees, birds, and willow warblers while simultaneously serving a range of snacks during day hours. In addition, Manchester is an abode for various natural activities such as:

1. The Lake District National Park: This place is an abode for the tallest mountain in England named Scafell Pike. It holds incredible scenic beauty, picturesque imagery, and green landfills.
2. Chester Zoo: This zoo homes nearly 20,000 animals. It helps you encounter a range of species such as bears, elephants, big cats, and some endangered African Species.

To conclude, Manchester is a complete package of fun, serenity, travel, tour, and knowledge. It’s a must-visit place for those people having wanderlust. Its chromatic atmosphere gives you a life-living experience and animated learning outcomes.

 

 

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You think the switch of party colors when TV first had color to show on electoral maps was innocent? Conservatives were always royal blue by tradition, and Communists were red before then. But that pales, literally, in comparison to the devilish schemes of the left – we are literally engaged in a war of good vs evil. Let me explain…

You have probably felt many times that the war the left is waging on us is one of evil intent, the culture wars, debasing society and religion, destroying morality and the family, etc. You have probably noticed that bills named by the left (and some of the RINO ruling class) have deliberately deceptive names: “Affordable Care,” “For The People,” “Inflation Reduction,” and more. You have probably noticed, certainly in the past before they became emboldened and ripped of their masks of disguise how the left needs to lie about the effects of any proposed action in order to make it appeal to their camp followers, AKA useful idiots as Stalin called them.

But have you thought, really thought, (and I’m no theologian) about WHY the left and it’s evil intentions are always working from behind a glittering cloak of deceit? Who, exactly is the “Great Deceiver,” and are we really selling our souls every time we lend even a little support to denizens of the left?

What if I told you that it is an idea almost as old as time, and certainly common since the (re)birth of socialism in the 19th century, that devotees of Black Magic, followers of Satan, and seekers of power and fortune, called themselves followers of the Left Hand Path?

From the website Learn Religions

What Is the Left-Hand Path?
The left-hand path is considered to be about the elevation and centrality of the self as well as the rejection of religious authority and societal taboos.

The left-hand path focuses on the strength and will of the practitioner. It downplays the need for intercession by any high power although some may believe that a higher power exists.

Satanism (both LaVeyan and Theistic) and Luciferianism are considered left-hand paths.

If you seek gratification, fame, fortune, and more in the here and now, without having to really work for it, well, boy, oh boy, does Satan have a deal for you! Yesirree Bob, better than any used car salesman, just sign on the dotted line with a little blood and your immortal soul, and all you desire shall be yours.
If you seek the easy life, less work, government handouts, debts forgiven (paid for by the eevil rich), and more, the Democrats (and some RINOs) have a deal for you! Just sign up for their ruinous policies, and if you are in a protected class, things may get better for a while, but if you are observant, you will see the rest of society descending slowly and surely into Hell accompanied by a rising smell of sulfur.

The parallels between the Great Deceiver and left wing politicians, and the degree of deception to smoothly talk you into voting for their snake oil and poisonous nostrums, is uncanny.

Obama Devil by RiverDaughterDid you notice how the left orgasmically welcomed Barack Obama as if he was the Second Coming? But Second Coming of who or what, exactly? Trouble is that the smooth talking, deceptive, sharply dressed Obama more closely resembles the TV depictions of Lucifer than he does God’s right hand man, Jesus Christ.

 

 
Nowadays, with the transparently feeble Joe as a front, smooth talking “Chuck You Schumer” as the Senate Deceiver, and Lucifer’s Obama’s acolytes running the country into the ground, that sulfurous smell is not your catalytic converter struggling with cheap and nasty gasoline, but the rising tide of depravity and poverty foisted upon us by our very own Great Deceivers – the Democrat Party!

Vote GOP this November like your country depends on it – the slope is very slippery already!

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A man sexually assaulted seven children (now adults) and has since changed his gender. The official record indicates that a woman perpetrated these crimes because calling her him is a hate crime. She will be going to jail, but don’t you dare call her him.

Reformatted.

 

At the time of the offences, Dixon was John Stephen Dixon, who transitioned to female in 2004 – after the period during which the offences took place.

Dixon was given an 18-year custodial sentence, with an additional two years to be served on extended licence. Dixon will also be subject to a Sexual Harm Prevention Order indefinitely.

The five girls and two boys, who were aged between six and 15 in the seven-year period from 1989 to 1996, were abused at locations in Crawley, Bexhill and Icklesham.

Dixon was also found not guilty of four indecent assaults.

 

He will go to a woman’s prison where, if recent history is any guide, “she” will rape the other inmates with her penis. But don’t you dare say she is a man. That’s a hate crime in the UK.

 

 

The Police eventually had to beg off and apologize for their poor behavior, but not because it is a distinction with a difference. They overstepped on the hate speech thing, given the increasingly less unique circumstances. It is not uncommon for male predators of children to change their gender. If they are charged as “women” for things they did as “men,” the data begins to look different.

England may be a slow pondering semi-socialist bureaucratic behemoth with a #woke complex, but they take lots of notes. Much of their COVID data was responsible for unraveling the lies perpetrated by the Global Public Health elites in the UK and abroad. So the question that stirred things here was why these assaults were being documented as committed by a woman.

Think about it.

If your historical sexual predator data is skewed with assaults by men who later declare themselves women are you more or less likely to look for male or female sex predators down the road? No, but you will get research indicating a shift in predation that isn’t real.

Yes, there is plenty of both. Just look at the public school data. But if you are allocating resources to prevent sexual assault on children – as opposed to normalizing it as the progressives are trying to do now – you’ll be focused in all the wrong places.

And if you are too #woke to even dare to look at women who used to be men because it’s a hate crime, not only will you not find predators, but more male predators will “make the switch (if only on paper) to hide their crimes.

And, bonus, if they do get caught, the idiots in law enforcement will lock them up with hundreds of women for them to abuse in an environment where it may also be a hate crime to accuse them.

So, denying the fundamental laws of science (biology) result in an inability to properly meet out justice to such a degree that what you do results in more injustice.

Nice work, cultural Marxists.

 

 

 

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For months, we’ve been told by the Democrats that all Republicans are Extremists!  Even President Biden has called, seemingly, anyone that isn’t a Democrat (or Democrat-aligned) a radical, or a brand new term “semi-fascist”.

Sidenote: so how does that work?  Can one be a “half” fascist” (re Mussolini – Mussolini’s infamous quote also comes to mind: “All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state”) and a half something else?  How would that even work? Think fascist/Constitutionalist?

So someone sent me this image from out in Temple:

It provokes a lot of questions, doesn’t it, as the Progressives are INSISTING that men can be women (even as they can’t define what a woman is – or refuse to in revealing their ideology is shallow and hollowed-out).   But it IS funny – the extremists calling we Normals “extremists”.  The Right calls this “projection” since we see it all the time from them.

 

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