Tuesday • April 23 • 2024
Vol.XVI • No.XVII
Manchester, N.H.
They promoted Comirnaty as an FDA-approved mRNA COVID vaccine for one purpose. Get people to take the Emergency Use Authorized version. Comiranty never existed. You couldn’t get it. But the media, politicians, and public health officials pushed the lie that the “vaccines” were now approved. Go get one!
Related: We Were Right Again – “FDA Approved” Comirnaty Was a Hoax (Will Corporate Media Correct the Record?)
They also used the lie to push for more mandates and restrictions on the unvaccinated. But Comirnaty was never available in the US. The FDA approved a package insert and some graphics for a product Pfizer never made. And they just admitted it to what can only be called dead silence by the watchdog media.
“Pfizer received initial FDA BLA license on 8/23/2021 for its COVID-19 vaccine for use in individuals 16 and older (COMIRNATY). At that time, the FDA published a BLA package insert that included the approved new COVID-19 vaccine tradename COMIRNATY and listed 2 new NDCs (0069-1000-03, 0069-1000-02) and images of labels with the new tradename. These NDCs will not be manufactured. Only NDCs for the subsequently BLA approved tris-sucrose formulation will be produced.”
If Apple or Amazon or any other big business did this, they’d be in court for fraud, but Pfizer had the blessing of the Government. And after all the lies we’ve seen, it’s not difficult to believe the FDA, CDC, and NIH knew this was a smokescreen to increase vaccine uptake.
Related: Start the New Year Right – Stop Lying to People about Their COVID19 Vaccine Being Approved.
How high the lie goes up the political food chain is unknown. And while that’s a problem that needs investigation, a more pressing threat looms. A new legally distinct tri-sucrose version of “Comirnaty” may become available soon, and there’s no evidence it has been put through any human trials (like the bivalent booster they are also promoting). Same old whore new dress.
Having the blessing of thieves and liars in the Government doesn’t make it safe or effective; it just means they have elevated the lie after getting away with all the others they’ve told.
We expect the usual suspects to support the new lies as they did the old ones.
HT | The Dossier
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By a four to one ratio, Wall Street’s contributions to Biden exceeded contributions to Trump … which is part of the reason that the Biden-Regime is maintaining a totally open Southern border: cheap labor to pay back the oligarch-class for their help.
Not the only reason, of course. Democrats cannot see beyond skin color. So they believe that all those Brown people’s children … reminder every child born in the United States is a citizen … will all vote Democrat … in other words: the Great Replacement.
Hat tip to Buck Sexton:
Wall Street gave Biden $75 million dollars in donations in 2020- almost 4X what they gave Trump.
“Scranton Joe” the working class hero is a 40+ year running fraud that elites foist on the easily fooled https://t.co/nB3xhPD9tm
— Buck Sexton (@BuckSexton) September 6, 2022
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It was nearly thirty years ago when the Republican Party drafted the Contract with America. That plan led to a substantial Republican gain in the House of Representatives during the Clinton Presidency.
Essentially, the Contract with America was a nod to federalism, returning more power to the states and weakening federal authority. Federalism is the government practice of sharing power between the federal and state governments.
Joe Biden has been scoring points at all of his appearances, keying on his two primary topics. Abortion and MAGA Republicans are all he seems to have in his arsenal, and it is getting boring. When pressed, he insists that when he refers to MAGA, he is talking about the radical fringe. But when he is speaking, he refers to all Republicans as MAGA. A slip of the tongue? Not when it happens this frequently. He knows what he says is covered by all the media outlets and the retraction by none.
As for abortion, or reproductive rights as the Left erroneously calls it, the story is flat-out incorrect. Biden contends that a vote for a Republican is one for an all-out abortion ban. That is just not true. The Supreme Court sent abortion back to the states, where it always should have been. That is just fine for Republicans, and the issue is no longer to be debated in D.C.
What the Republicans have offered this week is a clear alternative to the Democrat platform we have been victim to for nearly two years. On the surface, it seems vague, but there are over one hundred and fifty specific initiatives that will support the overall plan.
The key elements are:
These are fundamental needs and wants for most Americans but we have drifted away from these core principles and have become more concerned with a WOKE society, climate change, and dumping money into the economy. Democrats were quick to call this new program radical and out of touch with mainstream America. They are quick to point out that there is no consideration for abortion in the new plan. That is because abortion is now a state issue and not the concern of Washington.
There is nothing radical in this plan. Transgender rights and CRT are radical, but it appears that the Democrats have redefined radical as they have with a secure border, inflation, and recession. The cards are now on the table. And it will be interesting to watch the Democrats to see if they pull away from the fear they are trying desperately to inject. They are in a bad situation with the poor Biden performance and have little to rave about. Abortion and fear should not win many races, and if it does, it proves we do not have an educated electorate. That would be unfortunate but not necessarily surprising.
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In the West, progressive women wear hijab daily as “a show of support.” For women. I’m serious. Pandering to oppression by militant theocratic patriarchs supports women. And while western women can take them off in Iran, that can get you killed.
Related: Chris Pappas and Ann Kuster Look the Other Way When Given a Chance to Support Women and Gays in Iran
The father of an Iranian woman who died in police custody last week has accused authorities of lying about her death, as protests rage nationwide despite the government’s attempt to curb dissent with an internet blackout.
NY Post
According to a tally by The Associated Press, at least 11 people have been killed since protests began earlier this month after the funeral of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who died in custody after being detained by Iran’s morality police. State media has said the toll could be as high as 35.
Masha was arrested and sent to a reeducation camp where Iran alledges her to have died of complications after a heart attack in their custody. Her family doesn’t buy it, and the death has spurned new calls for revolution, mostly from women.
Amini’s death spurred this latest explosion of outrage. She had been detained Sept. 13 for allegedly wearing her hijab too loosely in violation of strictures demanding women in public wear the Islamic headscarves. She died three days later in police custody; authorities said she had a heart attack but hadn’t been harmed. Her family has disputed that, leading to the public outcry.
Protests started after her Sept. 17 funeral, and have taken place in more than a dozen cities. The Iranian government has pushed back, clashing with demonstrators and clamping down on internet access.
None of my female (whatever that is) members of congress have a word to say in support of these women in Iran or their oppression by the Mullahs and the morality police. It’s as if it’s not happening.
Related: Iran: Female Cartoon Characters Should Wear Hijab “because of the consequences of not doing so.”
Are these the self-appointed defenders of women and women’s rights? Are they too busy defending men’s right to say they are women to say or do something in support of actual oppression?
Maggie Hassan is currently obsessed with the right to abort pre-born women, so she might be too busy, but Shaheen’s not up for re-election. And both Hassan and Shaheen are Arab/Muslim/Middle Eastern names, so it’s not as if they don’t have some sort of sisterhood of the oppressive hijab thing (by marriage) that they could plug into the PR machine.
But not a word for women who have no choice and who, when they make one, are beaten, detained, or killed by their government.
Non-English voice-over but good images of the protests.
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First, I am merely an “enlightened amateur”. Please vet & check on your own. Caveat emptor. Consider these to be priming the pump for your own investigations.
Second, I fear spicy time is very close, but even a month of food, water, etc., puts you well ahead of most of the sheeple. IMHO, set your minimum sights on a three-month period.
Third, two things will be critical for having the best chance of making it through:
And please follow both me, Nitzakhon, on Gab… as well as my blog host Granite Grok and also on Telegram Tommy Robinson Official plus his Urban Scoop site. And don’t forget my posts sometimes get cloned on American Reveille as well.
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Jason Bermas: Apocalypse Bunkers For The Elite AMA [VIDEO] (redvoicemedia.com)
Why it’s ALMOST as though they’re prepping for something coming up. Related:
Vatican Orders Massive Money Transfer: Signs Of Global Economic Collapse – Stew Peters
As I understand it, this will be staggering sums being taken out of the “regular” banking system.
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Top of the fold:
Election deniers? 82 Democrats who called GOP election wins questionable, illegitimate, or stolen | Just The News
Compare and contrast.
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Report: A Dozen Individuals On Terror Watchlist Tried To Cross Southern Border In August Alone – Summit News
I remember reading, a few years ago, about how prayer rugs were being found on the southern border.
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They Can’t Win if They Don’t Cheat… House Democrats Vote to Give Aliens the Right to Vote — IN UNANIMOUS VOTE! (thegatewaypundit.com)
One world, able to vote in our elections. Why be a citizen? More on elections:
House Passes Liz Cheney’s Trojan Horse Elections Bill (thefederalist.com)
I wonder what the inflation-adjusted amount of silver coins is. TINVOWOOT. On that:
I Got A Feeling TINVOWOOT.
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WATCH: Protesters learn how to hide identity from Iranian regime | World Israel News
Needless to say, remove anything else identifiable. Rings (wedding rings are common enough but unique rings must go), not to mention other jewelry. Any clothing with insignias. And IMHO, based on other readings, be ready to ditch clothes and have replacements once you’re done. E.g., wearing a blue shirt, have a green shirt under it, and peel off the blue one the moment you are out of likely camera sight.
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https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/twitter-person-says-to-keep-maga-out-of-restaurants.mp4
Damned with their own words, not that they care. They hate you, they really hate you – and would have no objections to putting you into concentration camps and murdering you if they had the power. Related:
Biden Admits His Attacks on MAGA Are NOT Just About Trump – But Involves All of Those Who Disagree with the Regime
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Prepper Site URLs:
Most have daily articles; revisit daily. Please recommend others in the comments.
Ask a Prepper, how to prepare, survive, and thrive the latest news
Mother Earth News
The Organic Prepper Home – The Organic Prepper
SurvivalBlog.com – The Daily Web Log for Prepared Individuals Living in Uncertain Times.
SHTF Blog – Modern Survival
Survival World – Everything You Need To Know to Survive
Homestead Survival Site – How to Live Off The Grid in Comfort and Style
Urban Survival Site | How to Survive a Disaster in the City
And three aggregate sites listing their top favorite sites & links too:
TOP 50 SURVIVAL & PREPPER BLOGS
The 50 Best Survival Blogs
Prepper Website – Preparedness • Survival • Alternative News
Mind4Survival – Survival and Preparedness
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Specific, one-up articles:
Build a Cheap Backyard Brick Oven – The Organic Prepper
Best Ways to Heat Your Off-Grid Home This Winter – Ask a Prepper
What Are the Fire-Starting Tools Preppers Forget About? – Mind4Survival
How to Start Prepping: Prepping for Beginners – Mind4Survival
8 Recipes That Shouldn’t Have Been Forgotten – Ask a Prepper
DIY Off-Grid Alarm System Against Intruders – Ask a Prepper
Benzodiazepines: Prepping for When the Meds Run Out – The Organic Prepper
Want to Make It Through Hard Times? Focus on Your Family. (theorganicprepper.com)
Is FIREWOOD the Next Shortage in America? – The Organic Prepper
30 Smart Ways To Reuse Things That You Usually Throw Away – Ask a Prepper
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Short of years and untold wealth, you cannot possibly be fully prepared for everything (I have to keep reminding myself of that). But even some preparations, ideally at least 90 days of food, water/water purification, etc., puts you head and shoulders in front of the vast majority of the sheeple who will be in jaw-gaping astonishment when the SHTF. The only relevant questions are:
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A Swedish influencer visited a crime-ridden migrant suburb to prove that the area was safe and ended up getting robbed on the street. What’s that Ayn Rand quote?
(Link to AZQUOTES per their policy.)
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Foraging: One-up articles
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Books (permanent feature):
Feasting Free on Wild Edibles (old but good)
The Lost Ways (much more than just foraging)
The Forager’s Guide to Wild Foods
THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO EDIBLE WILD PLANTS FOR BEGINNERS
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Deep State / Coming Tyranny / WEF / Globalists (broad):
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How Governments Are Using Democracy to TAKE AWAY Freedom (theorganicprepper.com)
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Humanity 2.0 Is Coming — You Ignore Steve Bannon’s Warning At Your Own Peril
This is the endgame of everything we have endured over the last several years. IT’S HERE. mRNA vaccines. Chip implants. Centralized digital currency. Now food and fuel shortages. They are exterminating the majority of us while they create their own insane and satanic Humanity 2.0 for themselves. Remember the movies like Terminator and Blade Runner? THIS is the future they are creating, and they are spending BILLIONS to make it reality.
What’s worse, they really believe they are doing good in the world by doing this.
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Related:
German domestic intelligence is running hundreds of fake right-wing extremist social media accounts (rmx.news)
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Catalonia’s Universal Basic Income tryout to start on 1 January 2023 | TheMayor.EU
Researchers prepare Poland’s first experiment in universal basic income | Notes From Poland
‘3,000 francs a month?’: Zurich to vote on trying universal basic income – time. news – Time News
LA County launches $1K per month universal basic income program | Fox Business
UBI “spontaneously” mushrooming up all over.
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Escaping The Digital Prison of Personal Carbon Scores (bitchute.com)
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Germ Games | Maryam Henein (gab.com)
Video. It’s all there, all out in the open. But nobody ever looks. Nobody ever believes.
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Vote “correctly” or we’ll fix it. We only thought we won WWII. More:
EU Commission President Threatens Italy On Eve Of Election, Says Brussels Has ‘Tools’ If Wrong Parties Win
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Tucker Carlson accuses Biden administration: ‘They want war’ (wnd.com)
Do they really think they can control a war once it starts? Or do they plan to go to their (Antarctic?) bolt holes and wait until things are over?
Serbian President Warns of “Great World Conflict” Within Two Months – Summit News
Going to be soon, I truly fear.
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Enemedia:
MSNBC: “White People Turn Violent When They Don’t Get Their Way”…
I sense a color inversion here.
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Economy at large:
Amazon Walks Back Bonus Emails, Tells Employees They ‘Miscalculated’ Compensation
Oopsie. Yet, doubtless, the C-Suite bonuses will not be touched.
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“Have They Gone Completely Mad?” They Know That They Are Killing The Economy, But They Are Doing It Anyway | ZeroHedge
[I]nstead of working to prevent a historic crisis, the Federal Reserve is actually encouraging one.
The American people deserve some answers, because there is something about all of this that really stinks.
If you start from the baseline assumption they’re trying to crash the economy, everything makes sense.
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Crash | ZeroHedge
Related:
Glenn Beck: Europe’s energy crisis warning for America – TheBlaze
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Inflation (specifically):
I’m glad I don’t live in Germany right now…
Image from article:
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US Stability (broad catch-all):
Biden Advisor: “I Don’t Think” Draining Strategic Oil Reserve Risks Nat’l Security
They cannot possibly be this stupid. This is intentional.
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Starting Small
This is a dark time, Gentle Reader. “It can’t happen here” is a laugh line, not a reliable statement of fact. And we are sliding down a slope of ever-increasing slipperiness.
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Equal Justice, They Said › American Greatness (amgreatness.com)
When the law is NOT blind, but rather plays favorites, you can be sure your nation is doomed.
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Three Million Illegals: Another Awful Biden Milestone
Border Patrol ordered agents not to assign migrants registration numbers to clear over-crowded facilities | Fox News
You can be sure every female of child-bearing age is getting pounded regularly trying to make an anchor baby. What’s this remind me of? Here:
How the Left Wins Elections by Transforming Nations – Daniel Greenfield / Sultan Knish articles
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World Stability (broad catch-all):
Police fear a surge in crime and civil unrest driven by cost of living crisis this winter | The Independent
All over, it sounds like the police are expecting bad things. Certainly, police globally are overwhelmed. In Israel, for example:
Israel police will no longer dispatch for theft: Official memo | America’s Frontline News (americasfrontlinenews.com)
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The Gathering Storm in the Pacific
Some excellent points about China in the Pacific, and also on their economic fragility. And related:
Russia readies to attack U.S. satellites – Washington Times
The US Empire Is Accelerating Toward Global Conflict On Two Fronts: Johnstone
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Will The United States and NATO Wake Up To What Happened at the Meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization? – A Son of the New American Revolution (sonar21.com)
Countries – allies and enemies alike – are understanding that America is a hollow shell. And planning accordingly. To wit:
Russia Reportedly Preparing for Mobilization – Kyiv Post – Ukraine’s Global Voice
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German Beer and Soda Industries Grow Desperate as Hundreds of Companies Face Bankruptcy Wave
As energy and other input costs sharply rise, Germany’s beverage industry is warning of an imminent wave of bankruptcies in the coming months, with hundreds of firms involved in beer and soda production under severe threat.
Related:
Italy May Lose Half a Million Jobs — Study
UK Pubs and Brewers Risk Closure — FT
I remember a presentation, gosh, at least 20 years ago, about a brewing company that used fuel cells that consumed the plant’s waste stream to create methane that was then used to make the plant’s power.
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How the US Squandered Its Strategic Minerals:: Gatestone Institute
They’re playing the long game while we play pronoun guessing. Related:
Biden Family Worked To Sell American Gas To China, GOP Lawmaker Says Citing Whistleblower
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“Tehran’s Streets in the Hands of the People” – Crickets from Jihad Squad! (thegatewaypundit.com)
And President Potato’s handlers are working on a way to throw the mullahs a lifeline. More:
‘It’s like a warzone: Unrest in Iran over the death of Mahsa Amini, 22, spills into seventh | Daily Mail Online
Iran protests: Mahsa Amini’s death puts morality police under the spotlight – BBC News
Iran Violently Suppresses Protests Over Death Of Woman Arrested By “Morality Police” For Failing To Wear Hijab
Iran’s president calls for fresh crackdown as hijab demos death toll hits 50 | Daily Mail Online
Of course, they are. Let me be clear in wishing for a good path for the Iranians, but I fear there is none. Only by blood do I think they’ll win.
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Not Good
Meanwhile, in China…
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Without actual debate, free and fair, coming at things from all sides, there is no freedom. Nor is there the ability to have discussions to get to the truth.
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Specific to energy:
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Finns Should be Prepared for Power Outages This Winter, Grid Operator Warns
Australian Fuel Prices Set to Soar as Excise Cut Ends
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BP Refinery In Ohio That Provides Gasoline For Midwest “Shut Down” After Fire
What’s Going On? Ohio BP Explosion Kills Two, Fourth Gas Plant Explosion Since June (thegatewaypundit.com)
Related:
A Natural Gas Shortage Is Looming For The US
Watch NG plants go up too. “Accidentally”. I just scheduled a propane delivery that should hopefully carry us through winter.
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“The Biggest Waste of Money I Have Ever Spent in my Entire Life… I Own Very Little Power” – Customers are Furious About Solar Panels’ Poor Performance (thegatewaypundit.com)
A friend of mine has a cottage that has solar panels, and they work well for him – but it’s a cottage and powers a fridge and just a couple of other things. IMHO it’s been oversold.
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How Big A Problem Is America’s Shrinking Oil Reserve?
Big.
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Massachusetts Energy Companies Announce 64% Increase in Electricity Rates Beginning November 1st – The Last Refuge (theconservativetreehouse.com)
My NH rates have already gone up. They’re going up again???
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Gardening, animals, etc.:
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Links on old-time food storage (permanent feature):
Thanks to the Canning and Preserving group on Gab, I now have these links:
Preserving foods by drying | How to dry foods safely (uada.edu)
USDA-Complete-Guide-to-Home-Canning-2015-revision.pdf (healthycanning.com)
Canning | SDSU Extension (sdstate.edu)
Food Preservation– Canning | Consumer Food Safety | Washington State University (wsu.edu)
Canning Timer & Checklist App | OSU Extension Catalog | Oregon State University
National Center for Home Food Preservation (uga.edu)
Canning Recipes | Ball® Mason Jars (ballmasonjars.com)
If you see others, tell me in the comments.
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Books (also permanent):
Charcuterie: The Craft of Salting, Smoking & Curing
Salumi: The Craft of Italian Dry Curing
A Guide to Canning, Freezing, Curing & Smoking Meat, Fish & Game
The Prepper’s Canning Guide
Pickled Pantry
Fermented Vegetables
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Big Tech in general:
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/american-company-implants-chips.mp4
Look at how giddy and enthusiastic these people are.
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Meta Execs Admit Coordinating With Team Biden
A word comes to mind that perfectly describes this type of coordination between government and private companies. That word would be fascism. Here we have, as so often is the case, Joe Biden projecting onto Republicans the very activity he and his administration are the most guilty of doing. It is the Biden administration that is trying to control Americans’ speech, not “semi-fascist” MAGA Republicans.
The real threat to Americans’ constitutional rights is not coming from Republicans; it’s coming from the party that has increasingly demonstrated that it cares nothing about protecting individual citizens’ rights. Democrats see those rights — rights like freedom of speech — as a threat to their political goals of benevolently providing “rights” to favored groups, usually at the expense of hated groups.
Democrats are increasingly showing themselves to be the party most threatening to the American Republic, irrespective of Biden’s fanciful claims otherwise.
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Related:
PayPal Co-Founder Warns Financial Giant is Creating De Facto ‘No Buy List’ by Banning Dissidents – Summit News
He warns that de-platforming is creating “hordes of desperate people, denied a voice and livelihood,” who will simply vote for an autocratic dictator the first chance they get.
More on PayPal:
PayPal Allows ‘Minor-Attracted Persons’ Group To Stay On Platform After Banning ‘Gays Against Groomers’ | The Daily Caller
Say Only What We Want To Hear, Or We Will Take Away Your Livelihood
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Self-defense & Hunting:
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Add pepper spray to your EDC
Force comes in degrees.
We spend a lot of time talking about gun rights because guns are the ultimate form of force. They dispense lethal force in a very abrupt way.
They are the ultimate in “stop doing that right the fuck right now” force.
But sometimes that is, pardon the pun, overkill.
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At 4.4 Miles, Wyoming Team Sets New Rifle Shot World Record
Anti-gunners, pay attention. From a place you cannot even see can come something that kills you.
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“Lies, Damn Lies, And Police Interrogations”
I don’t know, financially, about getting a lawyer on retainer… but certainly knowing a lawyer and having his/her card on hand would be a good idea.
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GET OFF MY LAWN: Suburban Defense Starts at Your Yard (theorganicprepper.com)
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Catch-all miscellaneous:
Minuteman Ambush Tactics
Preparation material for spicy time.
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Shortages – Area Ocho
On hospital staffing.
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Hostin says Latinos voting GOP counters ‘self-interest’ – TheBlaze
They really are the racists.
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Wrap-up commentary if I am moved to do so:
We need to grasp that the Elites really do believe themselves made from finer clay. We can scream HYPOCRITE all day, and it won’t make a dent. They’re our superiors, you see. Intellectually, morally, educationally… while it’s important, IMHO, to document it, don’t expect such accusations to make any dent in their beliefs or behaviors. There is no discussion possible with people like this, as well said by Thomas Sowell:
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LET’S GO BRANDON!
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REMEMBER MURPHY BROWN? It was three decades ago when then-Vice President Dan Quayle defended the traditional family and was rewarded with a sustained assault led by Candace Bergen nee sitcom star “Murphy Brown.”
Quayle’s sin, Issues & Insights reminds us this morning, was to extoll the intact family unit with a father and mother in the home to raise kids, instill positive values in them and maintain the sort of social cohesion required to preserve a healthy community.
“Quayle lamented that those controlling the commanding heights of the culture often send the wrong message. He specifically faulted the CBS-TV sitcom Murphy Brown for depicting its lead character as ‘mocking the importance of fathers, by bearing a child alone and calling it just another lifestyle choice.’ Quayle concluded his remarks by inviting a ‘national debate’ over these issues to ‘roar on.’
“The roar went on for months. Quayle was immediately denounced by Diane English, Murphy’s creator and producer. Hillary Clinton called Quayle ‘out of touch.’ The controversy reached a crescendo when the series returned for a fifth season that fall. Its season premiere was devoted to the Quayle speech with its star character lecturing the audience about the merits of nontraditional family structures.”
The intervening years have certainly provided abundant evidence of who was right and who was truly out of touch with human reality.
-Mark Tapscott
For context, Murphy Brown, as a single lady, adopted a child and became a single mom. In the show, however, she was a successful lady and quite self-supporting.
Non-traditional families? Heck, even the non-traditional families back 40 years ago are also under attack.
Sorry, but the traditional route to success (or, if you prefer, stay out of poverty) still holds:
In. That. Order.
And no, don’t start in with the exceptions to disprove this rule. Hard times, misfortunate not of one’s own making, and stupid decisions of one’s own making can play havoc with that formula – but it holds true for the general case.
With all of the “have it all NOW” variations that I’ve seen over the decades, I’ll still hold to the tried and true – a Mom and Dad raising kids together in a stable situation (aka, the traditional “nuclear family” that was the target of Hollywood in “Murphy Brown”) was and still is the recipe for overall success.
I grew up as the son of an Irish drunk. No, he wasn’t the violent type nor was he lazy. He just cheated, a lot, on my mom (just like he had done with his first wife). He was shown the door. And yes, that split had ramifications later on in life as a Dad myself (e.g., learning on the fly, not always doing the right things rightly, and making mistakes from never having that “training” from a stable father figure). So, a single-parent household.
For both my brother and I, it still worked even if there were “holes” – some of them deep holes. But we both followed the above – and did well enough.
Years later, Candice Bergen actually admitted that Quayle was right – a committed father was just as important as committed mom:
Bergen was attending the annual summer critics’ confab in Pasadena to promote her new Oxygen series, ”Candice Checks It Out,” in which she interviews non-celebrities on their own turf, but what reporters really wanted to check out were her thoughts on the decade-old Quayle quote. ”I never have really said much about the whole episode, which was endless,” the Associated Press quotes her as saying. ”But his speech was a perfectly intelligent speech about fathers not being dispensable and nobody agreed with that more than I did.”
(H/T: Instapundit)
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A recent email sent to my “representative” in Congress included the following:
“Let’s look at the top five records you’ve shattered since this Congress began:
- Number 1 – You’ve allowed OVER 2 MILLION personally, medically, and criminally unvetted illegal aliens to break into our country, the MOST EVER!
- Number 2 – You’ve allowed fentanyl to flow freely over our unsecured southern border, killing more young Americans than we lost during the entire Vietnam war!
- Number 3 – You’ve sold, wasted, and depleted our strategic petroleum reserves faster and more recklessly than at any time in our history.
- Number 4 – You’ve allowed an epidemic of rampant violence and lawlessness to spread across our country at a level not seen in decades.
- Number 5 – You’ve wastefully spent us into a financial crisis that has resulted in record inflation, rising interest rates, and skyrocketing consumer prices. A combination that is financially crushing hard-working Granite Staters.”
As usual, he didn’t actually read my email, his minions did. However, even they only read as far as my first concern, reflexively sending me the prepackaged “immigration talking point” response letter. It, of course, was devoid of any actual thought, care, or concern. As usual, the letter was full of the standard opening and closing platitudes meant to assure me that he truly cared about my opinion and concerns. However, after reading the few paragraphs pertaining to his view on immigration, I knew I had to respond.
We want to thank Michael Petruzziello for this Op-Ed. If you have an Op-Ed or LTE
you would like us to consider, please submit it to Editor@GraniteGrok.com.
His dishonest and disingenuous comparison between legal and illegal immigration had to be called out.
“Dear Chris,
Your response to my factual email, regarding your top five failures to your constituents, was nothing short of pathetic, sanctimonious, condescending, and above all else completely false.
More accurately, it was the usual bovine excrement expected from an insulated and out-of-touch politician.
In your ridiculous email, which addresses only one of my five concerns, you say:
“The United States is a nation of immigrants, and I believe that we are strengthened by people like my ancestors who arrived in America seeking a better life. I am the beneficiary of the journey, struggle, and hard work of my immigrant ancestors, and they allowed generations of my family to find opportunities and achieve the American Dream.
Those same doors of opportunity should be available to today’s immigrants, especially for those seeking refuge from violence and oppression. In order to do so, we must pass comprehensive, bipartisan immigration reform that supports our economy, our safety, and our American values. I believe we must show compassion for the Dreamers and immigrants with deep ties to our communities and our country and provide a pathway to citizenship for those who are contributing and playing by the rules.
We can achieve immigration reform while also ensuring that our nation remains safe, strong, and prosperous. I strongly support smart border security and am committed to ensuring that U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has the necessary resources to accomplish its mission. We must expand our investment in technology and manpower, especially at checkpoints where illegal drugs are brought into our country.”
Blah, blah, blah, same ole, same ole political TALK without any ACTION!
News flash, that’s not what’s happening today on our southern border, that is called an ILLEGAL INVASION. Something you’re supposed to STOP, not encourage.
Chris, did your ancestors come to this country illegally, and then expect the American taxpayers to support them?”
I know that my ancestors came to this country LEGALLY.
They worked hard, followed the rules, and became American citizens, LEGALLY.
They wanted to do the right thing.
They wanted to ASSIMILATE into our society, not be ACCOMMODATED by it.
If you don’t understand the difference, I’m happy to break it down for you.
I don’t know about your ancestors, but mine didn’t bring drugs, dependency, violence, crime, human trafficking, along with all the other myriad problems that YOUR ILLEGAL open border policies are allowing.
Also, what about those pursuing LEGAL immigration, why do they have to wait?
Why are you punishing those who obey our laws, while rewarding those who break them?
Also, please spare me the dribble about how you’re working on “comprehensive immigration reform”, that’s a political talking point older than you are.
More lies are not what this country needs, we need leaders, and you’ve proven that you’re not one”
I know that my immigrant ancestors would not be pleased with what we’ve done with the country they adopted, loved, and fought for.
Michael Petruzziello
Major, USMC (Ret)
Wolfeboro
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SHOT: From the President of the United States: ‘She was 12, I was 30’: Biden leaves viewers stunned in teachers speech.
…“You gotta say hi to me,” Biden said mid-speech at the National Education Association headquarters in DC. “We go back a long way. She was 12, I was 30. But anyway, this woman helped me get an awful lot done.”
CHASER: ROD DREHER: Sex With Children: The Gender Ideology End Game.
Irene Montero, a Communist who is the Minister of Equality in the left-wing Podemos government in Spain, says the quiet part out loud: that equality means children have the right to have sex if they want to. Here’s the clip, in Spanish, but with English subtitles (turn on the CC on the YouTube frame):
This is it. This is the end game of these queer theorists and gender ideologues: the sexualization of children. It was always going to end up here. This is what all these drag queen story hours mean, and these “family-friendly drag shows”. It’s all about sexualizing children and grooming them to become prey for pedophiles — sorry, “Minor-Attracted Persons.”
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I’m growing tired of Democrats heaping their opprobrium on the Granite State when it comes to the whole early primary bagatelle of a fraud of a hoax of a sham.
Once upon a time floating out there in Newton Minnow’s odious airwaves, was a Democrat operative, a nicely attired woman who hinted that New Hampshire has no business claiming the early primary honors because we’re not diverse enough. We don’t have enough, as Senator Cory Booker advised us all, co-opting lines from Hizzonah Ray Nagin from New Orleans, chocolate in the colloid.
But you know, that just shows how ignorant an out-of-town Democrat can be when they wax poetic about our New Hampshire and the lack of sprinkles on Moo’s vanilla ice cream.
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These being the autumn months, the NH highways and byways are flooded with Maine-iacs from the Pine Tree State, motoring west to escape their onerous taxes, the Somali take-over of Lewiston-Auburn and that continual pestilential influx of New Yorkers into their home state, and marvel at the Kancamagus Highway. The New Yorkers are, in turn, fleeing the even greater onerous fiscal fiats foisted on them by Governor Kathy Hochul (D-NY), who recently ordered every Republican to leave The Empire State.
Whenever you see somebody drive straight through a red light while weaving through the traffic, drive over somebody’s lawn or through someone else’s hedge to avoid waiting at a stop light, park across the entrance to a fire station, run out of petrol 200 yards past a gas station, and fly by you honking the horn while popping the malicious middle finger at you while speeding through a yellow going to a red light — you’ll all too often observe the Massachusetts licentia laminae, the MA license plate.
Then there are the folks from the Great White North, the people with Quebec on their plates and that slight hint of Français Canadiens in their lilt when they get lost and ask poor Pete at Pete’s Garage for directions and does he sell, you know, the “neek-nacks.” This query is followed by, “Non,” from a harried Pete.
But beyond the smiling touristas, who offer up their own special brand of diversity, you’ll find the third-worlders – “nether-worlders” say the town cops – brought in purposefully by the faceless bureaucratic myrmidons of Obama and Biden, in order to dilute the increasingly unhealthy demographics found in our larger cities like Manchester, Concord, and Nashua.
You’d think that the Democratic shills like Hassan, Pappas, and Kuster must be pleased as punch with the goings on in Concord because they never mention the regularly noted deleterious impacts. My land, the government has plunked down hundreds, if not thousands, it seems, of Bantus in their fiery tribal dress, right into the middle of the capital city, where they roam aimlessly. Of course this being America, it’s sort of a catch as catch can as they go about their marketing, pitching camp, cooking in those same shopping carts, and wandering through traffic with a brace of kids lashed to those purloined shoppers.
Then we have the growing posses of Latin Kings and MS13 roaming Manchester and preying on the weak and infirm. But, once they’re brought to heel by our valiant cops, they’re immediately transformed into convicted felons and future Democrat voters, to be hustled on the stump, glorified in the press, and have their welfare padded on any DC bill as an amendment to the budget reconciliation.
New Hampshire has changed a lot since I first moved here. Spanish is routinely spoken in the bodegas in Nashua and it greets me as an option at my credit union’s ATM. Manchester features apartment fires where hapless “refugees” set fire to their pied a terres by cooking on grills in the hallways and stairwells and forgetting about the lit rotisseries. Concord has become a melting pot of sub-Saharan culture.
But the Democrats, especially their uppity white left-leaning liberal prognosticators from Boston and New York City, claim we’re just too provincial and narrow up here to dare host such an early and important primary contest. And, by requiring an actual ID, we purposely limit the ability of non-citizens, those honest indigenous folk, and folks across all of New England, to vote Democrat like they easily do in Massachusetts where your permanent residence can be proved with a rumpled gas bill or a spindled dry cleaning slip.
But I say, just maybe the top leadership of the Democratic Party which damns us isn’t diverse enough.
If you take away the four increasingly wealthy white people, all growing rich at the public trough, who always fail to represent our NH interests in DC – Shaheen, Hassan, Kuster, and Pappas – who’s left?
Nobody.
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As I’ve said, I read a lot of sites during the day and one of them is yet another eco-Sustainability type site, not named TreeHugger, but “Inhabit“. Think of it as “Treehugger-lite” because the writing is rather light-weight – big on pictures, not much “stuff” behind its short posts, and the comment section tends to mirror the posts. So when I saw this headline, I knew it was only time that it would get worse (reformatted, emphasis mine):
California voters say no new gas vehicles by 2035
California, a notoriously car-loving state, has voted. And the future is not gasoline. By 2035, the sale of new gas-powered cars will be forbidden.
“This is the most important thing that California Air Resources Board (CARB) has done in the last 30 years. It’s important not just for California, but it’s important for the country and the world,” said Daniel Sperling, a member of the CARB, as reported by CNN.
It goes to show that California is a trendsetting state. As goes California, so may go the world. Many other states have already followed California’s earlier regulations around zero-emission vehicles. Alex Stack, a spokesperson for California Governor Gavin Newsom, predicts the “majority of states to follow.” Oregon, Washington and New York are already planning a similar zero-emission target, according to CNN. These new regulations will affect the auto industry. Many car companies have already embraced the zero-emissions movement.
“This is a critical milestone in our climate fight, which is why Washington is poised to institute these same requirements by the end of the year,” said Washington Governor Jay Inslee in a statement, as reported by CNN. “We look forward to partnering with other states and the Biden Administration to rapidly reduce the country’s primary source of greenhouse gas emissions.”
No, not all trends are trend-setting in positive ways (re: the “eat Tide-pods” fad was “trend-setting” a while ago, too). Yeah, this is the State that has outsourced its electricity generation to other States so that it can thump its virtue-signaling chest to say “Look at us, what good boys (or <insert “whatever” here, /sarc>!”). And it was just a few weeks ago that in with this announcement, California officials were telling people, the small 12% wealthy folks that had Electric Vehicles, to not charge them. Kinda shocked a bunch of folks (see what I did there?) about their notion of Progress vs Reality.
All that said, my point isn’t about the stupidity of the announcement and the surrounding reality. It’s about the headline – let me repeat it:
California voters say no new gas vehicles by 2035
No, California voters did NOT do any such thing. They had no say in this decision whatsoever. CARB’s makeup is strictly appointive – not elected:
CARB’s governing board is made up of 16 members, with 2 non-voting members appointed for legislative oversight, one each by the California State Assembly and Senate. 12 of the 14 voting members are appointed by the governor and subject to confirmation by the Senate: five from local air districts, four air pollution subject-matter experts, two members of the public, and the Chair. The other two voting members are appointed from environmental justice committees by the Assembly and Senate.[3]
We here at GraniteGrok write often about the “Administrative State” in which bureaucrats can make enormously large and life-altering decisions all on their say so. We also call it “the Deep State”. No oversight necessary in that One-Party State (er, Democrats, who are perfectly fine with this realization of a decades-long end goal). And that “trend-setting” is a feature, not a bug, in this way. Did the ordinary citizen get a chance to weigh in? Was public opinion in generalities taken into account or only “Environment FIRST!” special interests? How about the cost – can the middle-class citizens (those that are left, that is) afford this mandate?
And given what I mentioned above, the lack of grid capability, how is this going to pan out (and note that California is ready to ban diesel powered rigs for moving cargo around the State and they can’t even finish their years-over-estimate, and billions-over budget, and only two-city destination bullet train?
Or figure out their drug-infested, crime-ridden, and poop-map famous homeless issue? Nor even able to fix their current rotten road/highway infrastructure? Sorry, this whole thing is yet another top-down, centralized command without citizens deciding for themselves decision.
As many of us keep saying all the time, if such a thing was all that great of an idea for almost everyone, why does government have to get involved in the first place? Wouldn’t consumers have been clamoring for such vehicles for years now?
Nope, nope, and nope.
So once again, we have those special interests (GAIA worshippers) pounding on Government with their “Bright Idea” in order to force everyone else to adopt it. By fiat.
Not by free choice.
And I thought that Democrats were always the “pro-choice” Party?
Sadly, it’s always overshadowed by that old (but true) phrase “Within every Progressive is a Totalitarian yearning to break out”.
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And of COURSE, it is the Population of the Perpetual Dismalness. It isn’t that their priorities are wrong, it’s also their outrage at the rest of us that do not share that outrage. They KNOW it is outrageous that we don’t share their outraged value set.
Which makes it absolutely hilarious when we laugh at them which pushes their “outrage volume” to 13 because in no way can they really defend that outrage on anything but an emotional response.
What isn’t outrageous should be our response in pushing back their attempts to force their morality on us.
I will not become part of the Borg.
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I have some excellent reading, if you have the time, that demonstrates something we’ve all suspected or known for a while. The Democrat party is a cult made up of cults.
We often refer to them as victim classes or part of the identity politics totem pole, but each one is a cult, herded like cats by the Democrat National Party hand-in-hand with the progressive globalists who fund them.
COVIDISM is a cult. Climate Change is a Cult. Abortion is a cult with a long history of blood sacrifice. Antifa and BLM are also both cults. Modern Feminism and now the gender cult both want their predecessors burned to the ground. Even public health has been absconded and reduced to a depopulation death cult.
Transitioning children is very cultish. And how do we know these are cults? Groupthink and mass formation psychosis.
The Wuhan Flu is the most recent example. Health Science as god-head, not to be debated, when anyone with a few minutes can go online and look at the data collected by their state and see it was all a fraud. But to suggest that, challenge, or even offer parallel alternatives (options) to the approved Cult dogma is heresy, and the Cult will do anything to censor that – which is what a cult does.
They silence dissent or label it intolerant, anti-science, or call you a denier. The Democrat cult is in denial, unable to allow any thought that is not approved.
Free speech cannot survive, nor can any idea outside the Cult’s dogma. The so-called truths that buttress their mythology are created and then sustained by “free floating anxiety and frustration, a lack of social connection, an amorphous intangible enemy to be feared, then the reorganization into the new collective identify and adhering to strict ritualistic behaviors, and of course the creation of enemies.”
This,
create(s) an Orwellian connotation as Groupthink entails a deterioration of mental processes including a detachment from reality and morality that is driven by group pressures.
Excluding people from work or a normal life makes sense in their minds. Quarantine and confinement of the health that refuse to buy in – even allowing harm to come to them – overrides any remaining thread of common sense.
These related concepts of mass formation psychosis and groupthink describe an organic process that is evident in the climate change end times cult. To a great extent the irrationality we are seeing is in fact organic. There is indeed a rigid pattern of thought and a collective identification and all of the cult like behaviors are present such as censorship and coercion.
The climate cult was all-in on depopulation by any means long before the COVID cult arrived, the difference being that the COVID cult is embracing process and policy that kills its own members while it raves about science-deniers who
Dr. Joseph Sansone continues at length about these issues, and it’s worth the time – because I think it explains why the Demo party is a cult of cults.
Free thought is anathema in all of them, which is why NH progs have been going hard after the Free State Project. They are trying to create that “free floating anxiety and frustration, a lack of social connection, an amorphous intangible enemy.” Those people want freedom, taking extreme examples and applying them to any political opponent as if they were a cult.
But freedom can’t be a cult because, by its nature, it leaves room for you to decide what it means to you, as long as that does not infringe on a few fundamental shared interests as are required for common decency and order.
Free speech is shared even when it contradicts or challenges. Free thought and association is a birthright, as is the right to individual labor that permits you to acquire life, possessions, and your idea of happiness, which you must also have a right to defend.
Freedom can be messy, but it is free and does not work to silence your science or your faith, or even your election integrity concerns. It responds to them with more speech.
It is governments and Democrats that constrain us, and given the means and opportunity, they will do exactly that. Tossing aside all the rhetoric about unity or people before politics. Look no further than Biden. Sold as a leap toward sanity, order, and respect, his administration and party abandoned that as soon as they secured their majorities.
Under Biden and Democrats, the nation and the world are in chaos. Our economy is spiraling out of control, spending has escalated into debt as generational slavery, and the division has been cranked to level eleven. And because the political right reveres free speech (or should), the Cult gets to scream and rant loudly and often in its mission to silence all other voices.
An endless stream of one-sided mass formation psychosis and groupthink at whose end, if they are successful, will be the end of everyone who is not like them.
And on the other side, we want you to be free to be who you want to be as long as that does not infringe on the similar rights of others—the freedom side. We’re the good guys looking for ways to let you self-actualize or succeed, and every cut hates that; Democrats hate that.
The Democrat party is a cult.
HT | Joseph Sansone Substack – Psychology of Totalitarianism
Book Link
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And they did it to themselves. I DVR Fox News’s “The Five” because I like to watch/listen to smart people talking about the issues of the day. On Thursday’s show (which I am just watching as I type this), their first segment had this as their topic and had a clip of all Democrat candidates trying to run away from the Democrat Party’s battle cry of “DEFUND THE POLICE”! It was rather amusing as it is clear that they are trying to convince the LIVs (low information voters that generally don’t pay attention to the politicians that are mucking up their (and their families) lives with such bad decisions as getting rid of those that stand between us and criminals (putting aside the relatively small percentage of bad cops for now).
I’ll have to go find the clip as it was funny to watch after knowing what the Democrats have been running so hard against that phrase. Why?
The NBC News/Hart Research poll that came out said that the electorate, with the mid-terms all but here (early voting (a GHASTLY development, IMHO) has already started in many states), trusts Republicans over Democrats on the Crime issue 45% over 22%.
So, I had tabbed this from Citizens for Sanity clip earlier this month (9/3) and it fits so well:
Citizens For Sanity has released a new national ad “STOP THE SLAUGHTER!” It’s about woke leftist politicians transforming our cities into a hell of violence and death. pic.twitter.com/PQqt7KhFml
— Citizens for Sanity (@citizens_sanity) September 3, 2022
(H/T: Daily Caller)
UPDATE (before publishing) – found it!
Watch the latest video at foxnews.com
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Yes, I probably keep too much content around, a lot of it months old as I keep thinking, “I NEED to put this up…” and then get distracted – too many Shiny Objects. Sigh.
Anyways, this is back from July after the US Supreme Court twisted all of the Left’s panties (and a few on the Right as well – right, Steve Duprey, donor to NH Planned Parenthood even after being the NH GOP RNC Committeeman AND NH GOP Chair, contra the NH GOP Platform against abortion?). It’s still relevant as the decision is still roiling the mid-term politics – it’s the number one issue for Democrats (Republicans, not so much at all) even if all it did was to return the decision-making about abortion back to the States.
The premise: find where abortion is mentioned in the US Constitution. Find it, and get $20.
Yep, a sucker’s bar bet. After all, the Supreme Court walked away empty-handed as THEY couldn’t find it either. Thus, they made the right decision in correcting an earlier wrong decision; you can’t just “make stuff up” in such a foundational document. Happy to see that at least one guy got it right (the blue T-Shirt guy) and showed he understands the underlying Principle.
Campus Reform does these “Man In The Street” interviews a lot with their own generation cohort. It is illustrative to see what the younger set knows – and what it doesn’t.
And no, ideology isn’t part of the Constitution.
(H/T: Campus Reform)
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I’m that older generation, and every older generation goes, “Those younger people, they know nothing.”
(H/T: Mental Floss)
Problem is, more and more, we’re finding (because of our lousy education system where standardized NEAP scores SHOW my premise as the majority of public school students aren’t even at the Proficient level) that they really are know-nothings. And this doesn’t help those that argue against that:
Watch: Gen Z Can’t Even Answer ‘What Country Is the Queen of England From’ – Fails Even Easier Questions
“We’ve all seen those videos showing how little Gen Z knows about literally everything, so today we’ve come to Los Angeles, California, and we’re gonna figure out if this is really the case,” Klug said at the beginning of the video. He then hit the streets to ask people his various questions.
…One of the questions Klug asked was, “How many stars are on the United States flag?
he probably cheery picked footage of the very ignoran people , and decided not to include people who actually knew the answers
— Armando (@w1ll1a23) August 23, 2022
One of the harder questions Klug asked was, “What ocean is on the east side of the United States?” The fact that this was a hard question shows just how easy most of the questions were.
Absolutely flummoxed. But I’m not flabbergasted at the results. Yes, these “Man In The Street” are anecdotal and unscientific snapshots. That said, I’ve been putting them up for years and it isn’t a great look.
Sidenote: I abhor that the Education industry has decided to redefine our common language. Students signify people that are in the process of studying their lessons. However, they just couldn’t just leave well enough alone and decided to call everyone “learners”. While I AM a life-long learner (and am impressing that onto the Grandson), to be called a “learner”, one has to show that one is actually learning. The above folks show that they didn’t and are not learners in any way of what the word connotes.
(H/T: IJR)
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I mentioned Josh Rogers’ hit-piece on Don Bolduc in my post Massive Unforced Mistake By Don Bolduc. Rogers’ hit-piece … and another subsequent hit-piece by Rogers on Bolduc … merit a post of their own because Rogers is such a fount of misinformation that he represents a threat to the democratic process.
Let’s start with Rogers’ first hit-piece:
In this hit-piece Rogers writes:
Bolduc added he does still think the 2020 election was marred by fraud. Repeated investigations into the election have found no evidence of widespread fraud.
Rogers implies that “widespread fraud” was necessary to impact the 2020 election. That is patently FALSE. Presidents are not popularly elected. All that was needed to tip the election to Biden was to tip a few of the “swing states” … and that is exactly what the nearly half a BILLION of Zuckerbucks did. From Mollie Hemingway, who has exhaustively examined and documents how the 2020 election was rigged:
[Zuckerberg] directly funded liberal groups running partisan get-out-the-vote operations. In fact, he helped those groups infiltrate election offices in key swing states by doling out large grants to crucial districts. …
… [For example] Trump-voting counties [in Georgia] received an average of $1.91 per registered voter, compared to $7.13 per registered voter in Biden-voting counties.
… Trump won Georgia by more than five points in 2016. He lost it by three-tenths of a point in 2020. On average, as a share of the two-party vote, most counties moved Democratic by less than one percentage point in that time. Counties that didn’t receive Zuckerbucks showed hardly any movement, but counties that did moved an average of 2.3 percentage points Democratic. In counties that did not receive Zuckerbucks, “roughly half saw an increase in Democrat votes that offset the increase in Republican votes, while roughly half saw the opposite trend.” In counties that did receive Zuckerbucks, by contrast, three quarters “saw a significant uptick in Democrat votes that offset any upward change in Republican votes,” including highly populated Fulton, Gwinnett, Cobb, and DeKalb counties.
I am sure Rogers’ response would be that this was not fraud; that Zuckerbucks was legal at the time. So why not mention it in his hit-piece on Bolduc? Because most fair-minded people would not care whether Zuckerbucks was technically legal or not. They would see it as rigging the election. Which is why Rogers and the rest of the Fake News always talk about “widespread fraud.”
Additionally, there actually was a widespread rigging of the 2020 election. If the FBI-inspired Big Tech censorship of the Hunter Biden laptop is not widespread rigging then nothing is. NewsMax reports that eight out of ten Americans polled have said that they believe the censorship of the Hunter Biden laptop changed the outcome of the election. But, of course, no mention of the Hunter Biden laptop in Rogers’ hit-piece.
The foregoing is more than enough to say that Rogers’ misinformation represents a threat to our democracy. But there is more.
The very next day Rogers dropped another hit-piece on Bolduc. This one on abortion:
Not a single candid word in this hit-piece about Hassan’s position that there should be no restrictions whatsoever on abortion EVER; that is that Hassan supports abortion for ANY REASON up until the baby is born. And not a single word that Hassan’s position is EXTREME and not supported by a clear majority of Americans.
Rather, Rogers writes that Hassan merely opposes “any gestational limit on procedures.” What a lovely euphemism, “gestational limits.” To sugarcoat Hassan’s extremism on abortion with euphemisms such as “gestational limits” is misinformation. It’s no different than crediting Biden for bringing gas prices down without noting that it was his policies drove gas prices into the stratosphere and that gas prices under Biden remain much higher than under Trump.
Additionally, the so-called “national ban” … which Bolduc opposes on the grounds that abortion should be a matter for individual States to decide … would only ban abortion after 15 weeks, which is hardly a national ban. So that’s even more election misinformation.
Rogers is not in the least constrained by facts. He is single-mindedly focused … indeed one could say obsessed … with electing Democrats. He is NO journalist; he is a threat to our democracy.
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For all her ideological faults, Rosie Rung tends to get the most Democrat votes in town, which is why she is the only Democrat from our district in the State House. We have had more, and one of them is back, having hitched her equally flawed ideological wagon to Rung. Smart or dumb?
It’s dumb for Merrimack to send any of them to Concord, as they both have horrible voting records, especially for politicians arrogant enough to claim they put people over politics.
Related: Bad Votes by Politics Before People Rosemarie Rung (D, Merrimack)
Merrimack is a Republican town, and there are no examples of them voting the way that the majority of “their town” would prefer – quite the opposite. They vote against the town’s majority interest and the people. Rung’s HRA score for the last session was 4.5%. Nancy Murphy wasn’t any better when she served (2019,2020), with an average HRA of about 6.5%. You can revisit Rung’s lousy voting record here.
Here is Nancy Murphy’s
Parental Control
voted FOR subjecting students to intrusive surveys without the knowledge of parents ( 2019 SB196 )
Cost of Living
voted AGAINST prohibiting an income tax ( 2019 CACR12 )
voted AGAINST reducing electric rates ( 2019 HB477 )
voted AGAINST reducing electric rates by allowing more use of methane as a fuel ( 2019 HB157 )
voted AGAINST reducing the interest & dividends tax ( 2019 HB185 )
voted FOR creating a new tax on capital gains ( 2019 HB686 )
voted FOR creating an additional tax on room rentals ( 2019 HB641, 2019 HB641 )
voted FOR creating an income tax with rates set by an unelected bureaucrat ( 2019 HB712, 2019 SB1, 2020 HB712 )
voted FOR creating an income tax, and new taxes on capital gains, vaping, and sports betting; increasing business taxes ( 2019 HB2, 2019 HB2 )
voted FOR doubling and tripling various fees ( 2019 HB682 )
voted FOR higher electric rates ( 2020 SB124 )
voted FOR higher electric rates for most users ( 2019 SB165 )
voted FOR higher electricity costs ( 2019 SB72 )
voted FOR higher taxes on room rentals ( 2020 HB1160 )
voted FOR increasing electricity costs by at least $30 million per year ( 2019 SB168 )
voted FOR increasing residential electric bills ( 2020 SB122 )
voted FOR increasing the cost of electricity ( 2019 HB715 )
voted FOR raising taxes on small businesses ( 2019 HB623 )
voted FOR raising the cost of residential electricity by $5 million each year ( 2020 HB1496 )
Election Integrity
voted AGAINST ensuring that drivers’ licenses cannot be used by non-citizens to vote ( 2019 HB471 )
voted FOR making it easier for illegal aliens to get a driver’s license ( 2019 HB397 )
voted FOR making it easier for non-citizens to vote ( 2020 HB1700 )
voted FOR making it easier for non-residents to vote in NH ( 2019 SB67, 2020 HB1279, 2020 HB1653 )
voted FOR making it easier for out-of-staters to vote in NH ( 2019 HB105, 2019 HB106 )
voted FOR making voter fraud easier by allowing anyone to vote absentee ( 2019 HB611, 2020 HB1672 )
Constitutional Rights
voted AGAINST repealing a law that prohibits free speech on public property near abortion clinics ( 2019 HB124 )
voted AGAINST self-defense ( 2019 HB208 )
voted FOR confiscating guns from law-abiding citizens without any due process ( 2019 HB696, 2019 HB696, 2019 HB696, 2020 HB1660, 2020 HB687 )
voted FOR preventing law abiding citizens from protecting their children on school grounds ( 2020 HB1285 )
voted FOR preventing law abiding citizens, but not criminals, from buying standard firearms magazines ( 2020 HB1608 )
voted FOR protecting criminals by disarming law-abiding citizens on school property ( 2019 HB564, 2019 HB564, 2019 HB564 )
voted FOR requiring law-abiding citizens, but not criminals, to endure a waiting period between the purchase and delivery of a firearm ( 2019 HB514 )
voted FOR requiring law-abiding citizens, but not criminals, to undergo a background check for any transfer of firearms ( 2019 HB109, 2020 HB1379 )
voted FOR requiring law-abiding citizens, but not criminals, to wait 3 days before obtaining a firearm ( 2020 HB1101 )
voted FOR restricting the right to keep and bear arms ( 2020 HB1143, 2020 HB1350 )
Right to Life
voted AGAINST collecting abortion statistics ( 2019 HB158 )
Other
voted FOR allowing towns to ban plastic bags ( 2020 HB102 )
voted FOR banning plastic straws ( 2020 HB1472 )
voted FOR banning styrofoam cups ( 2020 HB1564 )
Please share these and explain to people why the People before politics line is not just a lie. It should be considered fraud.
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This Tuesday, I had the pleasure of meeting many of you at the polls in the primary election. Thanks to you, I will be on the ballot in November and hope to have the pleasure of representing you in Concord for the next two years.
My district has changed, due to redistricting, from Allenstown/Epsom/Pittsfield to Allenstown/Dunbarton/Epsom/Hooksett; it’s also a two-seat district now.
We want to thank NH State Rep Carol McGuire for this Op-Ed. If you have an Op-Ed or LTE
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The outgoing House met for the last time this week to deal with the bills we passed that had been vetoed by the Governor. As expected, none of the vetoes were overridden; the closest was HB 1454, the criteria for new landfills.
After some debate, the House overrode the veto, 256-65. I was in the minority because I’ve opposed this bill all along: it seemed to be based on objections to landfills in general and one new in particular, cloaked in the guise of protecting the environment. There are already strict requirements for landfills in New Hampshire, and despite recycling, they will be needed for the foreseeable future. The Senate upheld the veto, 11-12, but I bet this bill will be back.
HB 52, new congressional districts, was not overridden, 103-220, after a brief debate. I voted to override only because I had supported the bill in the House; I expect that we would redistrict again this coming year since the courts, not the legislature, created the map we’re using for this election.
HB 275, restricting the governor’s powers to declare and extend a state of emergency, also failed after some debate, 157-167. My committee worked hard on this bill, and we thought it had been negotiated with the governor after only a piece of the House-passed reform ended up in the budget. I was very disappointed that this bill was vetoed and I’m cosponsoring its return.
HB 319, requiring state college students to pass the civics test for naturalization, was also debated and not overridden, 143-181. It’s true that we now require high school students to pass this test, but not all college students recently graduated from high school in New Hampshire.
HB 1022, allowing pharmacists to dispense Ivermectin, had a long, dull debate before failing, 144-170. I voted in favor since Ivermectin has an excellent safety record. HB 1131, forbidding school districts to require masks, failed after a short debate, 150-170. The question seemed to be whether “local control” meant school districts or parents; I prefer parents.
We also suspended the rules and passed a new energy assistance program, using some of the state surplus to expand the low-income heating assistance program by extending eligibility from 60% of the state median income to 75%. Since the price of oil, gas and electric heat has jumped this year, some people who normally don’t need help will struggle to heat their homes this winter. The bill also expands the electric assistance program in the same way. I voted against suspending the rules because this bill had been crafted without public input, and I wasn’t convinced we had fully considered it. Also, there’s nothing so permanent as a temporary government program… In any event, the rules suspension passed 259-66, and the bill (HB 2023) passed on a voice vote. The Senate also passed it, and the governor signed it, so this assistance is available this fall.
I’ve submitted three bills in the early filing period: an update of the scope of practice for occupational therapists (requested by the OT professional organization), a repeat of this year’s cannabis legalization (home grow but no sales), and a tweak to the state retirement system, allowing a person to get a service retirement if they request it shortly after leaving their position. A constituent was unable to get a service retirement after changing his retirement date, and there are some benefits that a deferred retirement doesn’t offer. When checking into his case, I heard of other people who were misinformed during Covid, and I don’t think it’s fair or appropriate to penalize them for not fully understanding the consequences of this rather unusual situation.
If anyone wants a yard sign, let me know. The election is November 8, and JR Hoell, from Dunbarton, and I are running against Mary Frambach from Epsom and Dennis Davis from Allenstown. My husband Dan is running in Epsom against Elizabeth Rousseau.
Representative Carol McGuire
carol@mcguire4house.com
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After years of whining about how Republicans want to confuse voters, the NH Democrat Party has been slapped with a cease and desist order by the NH AG for…confusing and lying to voters.
The New Hampshire Department of Justice has slapped the state Democratic Party with a cease and desist order over mailers soliciting absentee ballot requests be sent to a non-existent government agency.
The mailers also contained false claims about voter histories, according to the order issued by Attorney General John Formella.
“In light of our conclusion that the NHDP has caused voter confusion given the incorrect return addresses to clerks on its mailers, the incorrect direction to non-existent ‘boards of election,’ and the incorrect voter domicile information, the NHDP is hereby ordered to cease and desist any and all activities which violate the law by causing voter confusion in the future,” Formella wrote.
NH Journal notes that the mailers had incorrect information for local town clerks, “incorrect return addresses and domicile information on mailers to 39 towns and cities” and referenced a Rockingham Board of Elections.” No such entity exists.
The Attorney General’s Office has ordered the Democratic state party to “notify each recipient of this mailer of the necessary remediation steps that they must take…and assist each recipient with explaining how they can obtain an absentee ballot prior to the General Election.” The NHDP has until the close of business Tuesday to present the Attorney General’s Office with a written plan to fix the mess.
The Dems are claiming it was a clerical mistake which is an excellent way to explain any voting irregularities they say we are not allowed to discuss. But challenging election results are at the center of every Democrat loss and a Constitutionally enumerated natural right. Free Speech. Okay, let’s say it wasn’t a repeat of the non-stop mailers fishing for mail-in ballots that besieged us in 2020.
A political party looking for votes in a primarily Republican County sends out thousands of these things hoping they can build a tiny wall to hold back the GOP wave everyone expects. But lust like how they run the government, they f**k it up.
When the government f’s something up, Democrats will try to make taxpayers eat the freight, but they can’t do that here. The NHDP will have to fix the problem with more expensive, massive mailers that will cost them a small fortune.
Money that they can’t spend on lying about Republicans or the Democrat agenda. But wait, there’s more!
Meanwhile, the AG’s office continues to “review the matter” of four illegal mailers sent by a Democratic mail shop into the Second Congressional District Republican primary. The mailers, which didn’t include any disclosure information about who paid for them or was responsible for their content, were sent to promote the candidacy of aggressively pro-Trump Republican Bob Burns. He narrowly defeated a more mainstream candidate, Keene Mayor George Hansel, by just 1,700 votes.
Maybe the NHDP should stay out of the mailer business, or was that just a clerical error too?
All this mail fraud is getting expensive and a drop in the bucket from 30,000 feet, but they did it to themselves. And best of all, it deliberately confuses voters, which, forever more, will serve as a riposte when they start yapping about Republicans and elections.
HT | NH Journal
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The legislature never authorized Social Emotional Learning for NH public schools. Governor Sununu did it all on his own. Governor Sununu brought Social Emotional Learning (SEL) to New Hampshire and hired an SEL Program Director who reports to him, not the Department of Education:
“Governor Sununu has institutionalized the program with the hiring of a Choose Love Movement Program Director, who reports to the Governor’s Office and works closely with the Department of Education, Homeland Security and Emergency Management, Department of Health and Human Services, and the Department of Safety. Town officials, local chambers of commerce, and other stakeholder organizations are also integrated. “Continuing support of these structures, the New Hampshire Department of Education’s Office of Social & Emotional Wellness will lead a three-pronged approach to improve children’s behavioral health system of care, in partnership with other state agencies. Funds from the School Climate Transformation Grant will be used to build, improve, or enhance the multi-tiered BEHAVIORAL FRAMEWORK; establish local student WELLNESS TEAMS; and collect and REPORT DATA to inform school climate efforts. This project will provide technical assistance to develop LEAs infrastructure, identify opportunities to strengthen professional development and training, and receive technical assistance to advance and sustain school climate transformation efforts through the adoption of policies, practices, and programs that address both in- and out-of-school time.”
There were no public hearings or legislative debates on SEL. The governor just inserted SEL programming into our public schools by offering free access and funding. In Nashua the school board had a brief one-sided presentation and a quick board vote. Parents had no voice in or knowledge of what was happening.
Most of us believe that state education laws are being followed in our schools. The legislature authorize the Department of Education to create state academic standards in accordance with RSA 193-C:3 with the state board of education and legislative oversight committee, not the Governor. Sununu completely overrode existing academic standards and corresponding state assessments.
There was no enabling legislation for Social Emotional Learning (SEL), behavior modification, mental health wellness programs and data reporting. Those just appeared with funding through Sununu. Seems like no one in government refuses “free money”, no matter how egregious the purpose.
Public school students have fallen behind academically after Sununu’s extended shutdown during the pandemic. They can’t afford to spend class time on non-academic endeavors. They haven’t even recovered from the shutdown.
State assessment results:
The legislature adopted “Work-study practices” in RSA 193-H:1 VIII, but those aren’t aligned with Social Emotional Learning.Work-study practices means those behaviors that enhance learning achievement and promote a positive work ethic such as, but not limited to, listening and following directions, accepting responsibility, staying on task, completing work accurately, managing time wisely, showing initiative, and being cooperative, and work-study skills that contribute to success in college, career, and life that include communication, creativity, collaboration, and self-direction.SEL engages in discussions of racism, cultural equity, and political activism. SEL promotes social justice or “equity,” not equal opportunity. SEL does not deal in work-study practices and involves no objectively measurable skills. Social Emotional Learning violates three New Hampshire state laws (1) Social Emotional Learning doesn’t align with state-approved academic standards or state assessments. RSA 193-C:3 (2) Social Emotional Learning is woven into the curriculum, making it difficult to impossibile to opt-out. Opting out their child is a parent’s right under state law. RSA 186:11, IX-c
(3) Social Emotional Learning contains non-academic surveys, which under state law require informed written consent from parents ,which are never obtained. RSA 186:11, IX-d
Who can overturn Social Emotional Learning? SEL is part of a nationwide agenda which tramples parental rights. Not surprisingly, Governor Sununu just vetoed our Parental Rights bill, HB 1431.
Despite violating these three state laws, Commissioner of Education Frank Edelblut has so far failed to provide a technical advisory on the subject. Below is my unanswered 2019 request concerning Social Emotional Learning to him while serving as a member of the Nashua Board of Education.
Subject: Request for Technical Advisory on Implementation of SEL Date: July 26, 2019 at 12:24:59 PM EDTTo: Louis Edelblut <Frank.Edelblut@doe.nh.gov>
Dear Commissioner Edelblut, I need some legal clarification. I am requesting a technical advisory on the implementation of a Social Emotional Learning (SEL) curricular program in our district. This is a voluntary behavior modification program that seeks to adjust how students think in an effort to decrease the incidence of violence in our schools. SEL is to be interwoven into our curriculum as opposed to a stand alone curricular instruction, making it difficult for parents to opt-out to protect their children from SEL if they find it objectionable. In June our board approved (7-2) a pilot program for K-5 with the expectation that grants would be forthcoming for professional development training of our teachers and that the curriculum, Choosing Love, was available online for no cost. My questions: (1) What rights to parents have if they find the SEL curricular material or assessments objectionable under RSA 186:11 IX-c? Should parents be allowed to opt-out their child given that SEL is only a voluntary non-academic program? 186:11 Duties of State Board of Education. – IX-c. Require school districts to adopt a policy allowing an exception to specific course material based on a parent’s or legal guardian’s determination that the material is objectionable. Such policy shall include a provision requiring the parent or legal guardian to notify the school principal or designee in writing of the specific material to which they object and a provision requiring an alternative agreed upon by the school district and the parent, at the parent’s expense, sufficient to enable the child to meet state requirements for education in the particular subject area. The policy shall also require the school district or classroom teacher to provide parents and legal guardians not less than 2 weeks advance notice of curriculum course material used for instruction of human sexuality or human sexual education. The policy shall address the method of delivering notification to a parent or legal guardian. To the extent practicable, a school district shall make curriculum course materials available to parents or legal guardians for review upon request. The name of the parent or legal guardian and any specific reasons disclosed to school officials for the objection to the material shall not be public information and shall be excluded from access under RSA 91-A. (2) What obligations does the district have to obtain informed written consent from parents for SEL programs given the nature of the instruction, which includes non-academic questions regarding the student’s social behavior and other issues? 186:11 Duties of State Board of Education. – IX-d. Require school districts to adopt a policy governing the administration of non-academic surveys or questionnaires to students. The policy shall require school districts to notify a parent or legal guardian of a non-academic survey or questionnaire and its purpose. The policy shall provide that no student shall be required to volunteer for or submit to a non-academic survey or questionnaire, as defined in this paragraph, without written consent of a parent or legal guardian unless the student is an adult or an emancipated minor. The policy shall include an exception from the consent requirement for the youth risk behavior survey developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The policy shall also allow a parent or legal guardian to opt-out of the youth risk behavior survey developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The school district shall make such surveys or questionnaires available, at the school and on the school or school district’s website, for review by a student’s parent or legal guardian at least 10 days prior to distribution to students. In this paragraph, “non-academic survey or questionnaire” means surveys, questionnaires, or other documents designed to elicit information about a student’s social behavior, family life, religion, politics, sexual orientation, sexual activity, drug use, or any other information not related to a student’s academics. Please help me understand the legal ramifications of Social Emotional Learning programs in the context of these two state laws. What can parents do if they object to the district re-programing how their child responds at a behavioral level? If a clinical psychologist engaged in such activities, he would have to obtain informed written consent or he would lose his license to practice. What protections do parents have in a public school?Even ESSA requires informed written consent from the parents of each child to participate in “any mental-health assessment or service.” Isn’t that the purpose of SEL to prevent mental health problems and minimize violence in schools?
Our district will be discussing a proposed Five-year Strategic Plan which implements Social Emotional Learning this coming Monday night. Included in this strategic plan are 56 new staff members at a cost of $4.5 million, including benefits. The proposal includes an Executive Director of Social Emotional Learning, a new Asst. Superintendent of Teaching and Learning, 10.5 Health teachers and 14 Social Workers. Clearly, implementing SEL is not cost neutral as the board anticipated. As expensive as SEL is to implement, my primary concern is to protect the rights of parents to direct the education of their children. I’m not seeing how that is possible given that SEL is to be interwoven into the curriculum and would benefit greatly from some legal advice from your office. Thank you very much for your time and attention. Regards, Doris Hohensee member, Nashua Board of Education
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