Big Tech (Google, Facebook, Twitter) has been having its way with the law. On the one hand, they can’t be held accountable for anything published on their platforms, while on the other, they can unpublish whatever they want in the name of accountability. They claim the First Amendment protects this behavior.

Followers of such things will know that what stays tends to support the progressive agenda and what goes challenges it—Big Tech policies speech on these terms leveraged by the speaker’s reach. The more people appear to want to hear what you have to say; the more likely THEY will have to silence you.

First Amendment.

Texas passed a law that has yet to take effect because it dares to suggest that the First Amendment does not protect partisan viewpoint censorship. It is not. Big Tech says we’re private companies, and we can police whatever speech we please. They can. But then they can’t. And after reading several reports on the 5th Circuit decision in favor of the Texas Law, I have failed to find what, to my mind, is the correct response.

No one has mentioned how they abuse the law in two directions. If Big Tech can’t be held accountable for what they like, no matter how offensive to someone else (section 230), they can’t be held responsible for what they don’t.

They claim a First Amendment right to use viewpoint discrimination on public platforms based on political preference and little else, which doesn’t scare nearly enough people. Joe Biden just gave a speech about it. The Red Speech. It’s the same thing. Using your authority to define who or what is acceptable to those in power and who and what is not.

Biden dehumanized Republicans in the Red Speech. Big Tech dehumanizes people and their ideas with selective censorship. They are Dalit. The untouchables from India’s Caste System. The basis of order and regularity of society” until their Constitutions banned it.

Here, we find ourselves headed in the opposite direction. From a Constitution that protects opposing speech to a place where prohibiting it is normalized. But not in Texas.

The 5th Circuit says, “Today we reject the idea that corporations have a freewheeling First Amendment right to censor what people say.” But they never mention the contradiction with Section 230 (Internet Decency Act), and maybe – given that it’s not part of the case, they can’t. But we can. And it’s ripe, low-hanging fruit.

I don’t think you can claim section 230 protection while enforcing viewpoint discrimination across the same platform. You can’t be both obsessed with protecting people from what you call hate speech while immune from prosecution for speech you allow that others find hateful.

The solution is to allow all of it and let the people sort it out with more speech. The alternative is what Big Tech and the Biden Administration want, and that’s more than just message control.

 

 

Law and Crime | Daily Wire

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It’s the same play that the NH-Democrats run every two years. The instant the primary is over they flood the airwaves with dishonest negative ads to “define” their GOP opponents.

It works because the GOP candidates are typically bereft of cash, and the FakeNews in New Hampshire will NEVER do an honest “fact-check” on the NH-Democrats.

I recently posted about the flat-out LIE that Chris Pappas is running on WMUR regarding abortion: The Election Rigging Has Already Started … Adam Sexton Is Enabling Chris Pappas’ LIES. Maggie Hassan is running an equally dishonest hit on Bolduc.

Where are Stephen Stepanek and Ronna McDaniel? AWOL. Both have the leverage to arguably stop WMUR from airing the NH-Democrats’ LIES. Stepanek could threaten a GOP boycott of the WMUR debates. McDaniel could and should use the nuclear-option … keep airing the NH-Democrats’ LIES and kiss FITN, and all that advertising revenue, bye-bye.

But they won’t. Because they both share that quintessentially GOP-Establishment loser’s mentality.

And don’t give me that Karoline and Don will set the record straight in the debates. By the time we get to the RIGGED debates, Leavitt and Bolduc will be in a hole impossible to dig out of.

Stepanek and McDaniel need to act NOW.

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Manhattan is supposed to be underwater, the ice caps melted, our ravaged beachless shores teeming with climate refugees (as opposed to the economic ones with which we find ourselves). But the Gucci-shoed sandwich board prophets were wrong. The end is anything but nigh.

Which is good news for fans of fall foliage.

Three things you can count on

There’s a joke that goes something like this. You can count on only two things in this world: death and taxes. That’s no longer true. There are three—death, taxes, and dire Climate Cult predictions that never come to pass.

If it were a foretelling of the second coming of Jesus, they’d have been laughed off the world state decades ago. But they have deep pockets or deep-pocketed backers. A Vatican Bank, if you like, and maybe that bank is in on the scam as well – the end of the world being up their alley.

But these are “Bums” in Bergdorf Goodman suits, pimping muppets like Greta Thunberg to peddle their bottles of piss.

It’s the oldest confidence scam in the book – from before, there were books. The end is nigh. Come into the light to be saved. If you refuse, we shall all be damned to some hell that includes no maple syrup, bad apples, the end of skiing, beachless beaches, fewer potatoes, more forest fires, undermined ancient monuments, and less leaf-peeping—a world filled with plagues, shortages, and not enough energy to keep us warm.

They failed so badly at predicting what nature would do that they had to “man-make it all” themselves. The Gucci-shoed sandwich board prophets engineered a virus (and a more dangerous cure), wrecked the economy, the supply chain, the energy markets, and look: we’re running low on things, or they are getting unaffordable.

The climate they were referring to was theirs but look on the bright side. The fall foliage soothsayers think it’ll be another good year to get out and watch the leaves die.

 

Vermont Forest, Parks and Recreation Commissioner Michael Snyder, along with a team of foresters, have put out the state’s first weekly fall foliage report of the season. For the next six weeks they will let leaf-peepers know about the progression of the season based on scientific data. The stage is set for another season of resplendent fall color, Snyder and company said in their report from September 12.

 

It’s still game on for autumn in New England. New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine, and Upstate New York predict that New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine, and Upstate New York will be the best places to see the best color this autumn. I won’t disagree. Fall in New England isn’t just some pretty trees and colder temps (which do not, as a reminder, mean the end of climate change).

This annual splendor is impossible without change. It is change. Autumn is climate change with or without the Gucci-shoed sandwich board prophets. And this year, not unlike all the others, change looks good (and has nothing at all to do with your western lifestyle).

 

 

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Billboard Chris, an activist for the protection of children from the serious harms of gender ideology, has organized a protest outside Boston Children’s Hospital on Sunday, September 18 starting at 11 am.

Boston Children’s pediatric gender clinic is providing “affirmative” care to gender-confused kids as young as three and amputating the healthy breasts of girls as young as 15.

If you are in or near Boston, please try to make it to this event as we stand peacefully united against child mutilation.

See the details at https://shoutout.wix.com/so/30OD7b6tr.

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So Don Bolduc went on Fox News and totally reversed his position during the primary that the 2020 election was stolen. Not just that, his comments suggest that he came to this conclusion … he totally reversed his position … BEFORE the primary ended.

” … I have spent the past couple of weeks talking to Granite Staters all over the state, from every party, and I have come to the conclusion, and I want to be definitive about this, that the election was not stolen”.

NHPR, as the FakeNews is fond of saying, POUNCED:

Indeed, Matt Mowers … you remember him … also “POUNCED,” suggesting that all the candidates (obviously he was talking about Leavitt) really believed that the 2020 election was legitimate but were trying to appeal to the conservative rubes in CD-1:

Bolduc presumably believes that he has taken this issue off-the-table. He could not be more wrong. Hassan and the FakeNews are still going to go after hm as an “election-denier” AND now they can also go after him as a flip-flopper.

The tragic part about Bolduc’s blunder is that his new position makes him an “election-denier” … so the Hunter Biden laptop wasn’t censored and Zuckerbucks weren’t used to commandeer local election offices in key swing States to drive Democrat turnout? He is not going to win a meaningful number of new votes with his new position, and he very well may lose voters who supported him in the primary because he was the “outsider.”

All Bolduc needed to do was to answer Fox News by saying that by “steal” he meant the censorship of the Hunter Biden laptop and Zuckerbucks. This was a massive, unforced mistake by Bolduc.

 

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America is in uncertain times. Most are focusing on a unity of command approach in a desperate attempt to grab hold of the reins, to assert control. They do not understand that the reins are not theirs to grab. That is the people’s job; rather, what must be provided is a unity of direction.

This unification of direction is individual rights, State sovereignty, and continued U.S. unity and independence. When thoughtfully communicated to The People, we will move forward together in peace, prosperity, and freedom.

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

Thank you to each and every individual who voted for me in the 2022 New Hampshire Republican primary for United States Senate. You have my deepest and most sincere gratitude for your commitment at this most defining moment in human history. It is now time to be a good witness to history.

Be a prosperous entrepreneur!

If you are single, it is time to marry. For those who are married, be fruitful and multiply abundantly! Hold to the truth. Be courageously loving. Detest harmful actions, but love the actors!

Spend time with friends and family. Enjoy God’s nature and your fellow souls. Find common ground with others, and be benevolent to all mankind, for we need it! Grow food.

Learn how to hunt, trap, and fish. Stay fit, stay positive, and trust the miracles of your body. Take responsibility for offering what you know is needed. Focus on the good positive direction you want for our people, our States, our Country, and our progeny.

Authority has been delegated, but responsibility has not. You are champions of the human race, and I am proud of you! Thank you, and may God abundantly bless you each and all. The future remains in your hands.

Kindly, Mr. Tejasinha Sivalingam

Citizen

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It now seems that there will be more than (the promised) five parts in this series on the moral militia. Today I will detour from the main road to look at the current event of the FBI grabbing the cellphone of the Pillow Guy, Mike Lindell.

But first, let me reveal the overall thrust of the series and the reason why “moral” appears in its name. I have a background in evolutionary biology.  I have no trouble understanding human evil as an outgrowth — maybe a hypertrophy — of ordinary selfishness.  All mammals must be self-preserving, which includes grabbing plenty of resources for survival. That can lead to greed, and greed usually involves deceitfulness. People may end up being destructive and cruel.

Today we are surely seeing an increase in deceitfulness and cruelty while values such as fairness and decency go out the window. Those trends will continue — if for no other reason than trends get accepted as the new reality.

If we were “only” animals, I doubt that the current awful trend could be stopped. But humans innately have morality; they know that there is at least a possibility for community members to respect the law. In my lifetime, that was taken for granted until maybe 2001. I am certain it can be restored — pure enlightened self-interest should tell even the most aggressive baddy that his quality of life, too, must suffer under a regime of chaos and violence.

Teaching Us Helplessness

In my opinion, mainstream media has been tasked with making the good life sink as low as possible. They diligently work on our minds to cause a shift in our focus. They want us to drop all the attention we once gave to justice and honesty and watch the circus. Every week there is some new circus. This week it’s the raid on Mike Lindell’s car, which was stopped at a fast-food restaurant in Iowa.

Probably the circus act is more important than the FBI’s obtaining of whatever is they want to get from Mike’s phone. This circus act persuades the TV viewers that:

No law exists to protect a citizen from the theft of his phone and/or any private stuff inside that phone.

There is no accountability by the authorities (in this case, purportedly, the FBI) to the people. Anything goes if the ones doing it are wearing a badge or are driving an official-looking car.

No person high up is ever going to crack down on such people. We should stop expecting justice. “Hey, Everybody, the Perry Mason show is old hat. Grow up.”

Just imagine being able to teach such big lessons, to millions of Americans, merely by conducting a single raid on a guy at a Hardee’s drive-through. And Mike is well-liked, so it even hurts the viewer to see it happening. That’s an added benefit — making people emotionally distressed contributes to the ease of control by those at the top.

Lovely Bunch of Coconuts

So what are we to do with this lovely bunch of coconuts? Well, for starters, one can iterate that the three lessons are inaccurate.  There clearly ARE laws against thieving a man’s cellphone and his private data. There IS accountability by the FBI to the people. (Yep). And expectations of justice should NOT DISAPPEAR — we should assume that justice still exists and will make a fierce comeback.

Why not?  We’ve got all the apparatus for it, as established over many centuries. And, as I said, mainstream media is the handmaiden of the baddies, so MSM must be cracked down on, into the bargain.

So what is the moral militia?  Before I read Edwin Vieira’s thesis (see Part 3 of this series), I meant the word “militia” in Mary’s Moral Militia to invoke merely a general sense of there being a way to fight off the evil trends. But I was delighted to find, from Vieira’s historical analysis, that when the word militia appears in the 1787 US Constitution, it means the kind of militia that was well known in 1787.

That is the citizenry in arms. All able-bodied men — who were ordered to have at home a gun in good condition and could be called up by their state. They were obliged by the US Constitution to be available in case Congress called them up to act against an invasion or an insurrection or to enforce the laws. (Article I, sec 8, clause 15.) Uniformed police did not get started till many years later.

I omit here the issue of Clause 16 (see a later part of this series), where Congress governs the militia. Edwin Vieira makes it clear that there would be no state militias for Congress to call on if there were no state militias. To find out what the state requires of its militia (remember, I am not talking about the “National Guard”), you must look at the particular state’s constitution.

Invasions

When I was ranting, in 2015, about the FBI’s 2013 invasion of Boston (see my book, Boston’s Marathon Bombing), I checked the Massachusetts constitution and found that the governor could lead his troops against the FBI.  Don’t waste your time giggling — this is serious government business. As for the FBI stealing from Mike Lindell, one must see what Iowa’s constitution calls for.

As for the southern border states — Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California, it appears that without a need for Congressional permission, the state can act against an invasion by immigrants if their constitution allows.

An article in Texastribune.org, dated July 5, 2022 says:

“Kinney County has been one of the focal points of the state’s border security efforts, with officials there arresting hundreds of migrants for criminal trespass on private land as a way to sidestep the local government’s inability to regulate immigration. Shahan said Kinney County had signed an official declaration calling on Abbott to declare an invasion.”

Helping Mike Lindell

There is something special about the Mike Lindell cellphone episode. Mike says the FBI spoke to him for a while at Hardee’s and asked him about the information he had on software companies in regard to the “stolen election.” Subsequently, they grabbed his cellphone. I take that to indicate that they wish to denude Mr. Lindell of any evidence he is carrying that could bring about the indicting of “Software Company D” (not its real name).

I note that Mike mentioned many other things that should not be taken away from him, such as his cellphone’s feature that organizes his hearing aids. Can you imagine!  But the FBI can argue that that’s incidental — they need his phone to assist in their case against some persons whose conversations may be stored there.

So it’s the Software Company D data that I would use as an indicator of a crime being committed by the FBI, or its boss, the DoJ, or its boss, the US Attorney General. The name of the crime is obstruction of justice — a federal felony codified at 18 USC 1503. It is defined as an act that “corruptly or by threats or force, or by any threatening letter or communication, influences, obstructs, or impedes, or endeavors to influence, obstruct, or impede, the due administration of justice.”

What I mean is that the data sitting in Mike Lindell’s phone, which incriminates the Software people, and which needs to be put to law enforcement (in the proper way), is being taken out of his hands by people whose likely plan is to suppress it.

Do I know that for sure?  No, but the massive efforts made to tell us that the 2020 election was hunky-dory leads me to believe that the last thing Attorney General Merrick Garland intends to do is to charge Company D with, um, defrauding voters.

Personally, I would arrest Merrick Garland, or lower-hanging fruit if necessary, for obstruction of justice.  I would also arrest any FBI person involved in this scheme (if such a scheme there be) for misprision. No, that word does not mean they’ve missed out on prison, though surely they have. The crime of misprision (rhymes with vision) is codified at 18 USC 4 as follows:

“Whoever, having knowledge of the actual commission of a felony cognizable by a court of the United States, conceals and does not as soon as possible make known the same to some judge or other person in civil or military authority under the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.”

Ding!

 

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So, Belknap County Republicans, especially those in the County Delegation, that aligned themselves with that Political Action Committee (Citizens for Belknap (“CfB”), have you realized yet that you got played?

Sidenote (extended): So some folks are giving me shade for going after my Elected Representative, Gregg Hough, so hard. So be it – everyone is entitled to an opinion just like I am.  They’re giving me grief for focusing on him too much.  Well, too bad – if you break the Law, you deserve all the opprobrium that can be mustered. I dryly note that not ONE of them, including Gunstock Area Commissioner Doug Lambert (also of DGF Industrial), has mentioned that after Gregg Hough did the acting in carrying out the aims of Citizens for Belknap, they turned around and told everyone in their voting guide, proudly in their full-page ads in the Laconia Daily Sun, to not vote for Gregg Hough in the Primary:

And in coming to this past week’s Belknap County Republican Meeting, Doug Lambert, you carefully excluded that bit of information in your attempt (as Hough failed) to try again in attacking me and GraniteGrok. Of COURSE, you didn’t mention – it wouldn’t have fit the Narrative. Instead, you decided to use the blanket of “Unity” to attack GraniteGrok (‘YOUR media”) in going after Hough after YOU have spent months destroying Peter Ness and Dr. David Strang (both good Republicans).  That latter bit also didn’t make it into your spiel Wednesday night, did it?  Again, the Narrative must never be despoiled, eh? Ah yes, ever the Machiavellian, right?  Only Power matters, eh?

“RULE 12: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it“. In your attempt in coming after GraniteGrok while proclaiming yourself the King of Unity trying to cull the herd, you forgot something.  After all, even as a Republican, you have explicitly aligned yourself with the Democrat-run Citizens for Belknap.  Not only in deed, as you have done they were seeking to do (eliminate those Commissioners asking hard and uncomfortable questions, but philosophically as well.

It did not go unnoticed, by your grinning face at the CfB booth during Gilford Old Home Day, but by larking around and wearing your CfB t-Shirt, how you have deeply aligned yourself with your new Democrat and Democrat leaning friends and allies with the CfBin going after Republicans. A “Machiavellian in Republican clothing”? But I digress…

In the Daily Sun a couple of days ago was this:

I think we had a very good day,” said Citizens for Belknap organizer Brian Beihl, who lives in Alton Bay. “We were able to unseat our primary objectives, Mr. Silber and Mr. Sylvia. I thought the voters appreciated our guidance. One thing we have accomplished aside from unseating extremist state reps is voters realize they need to do more homework. They understand now they have to be a lot more careful who they vote for,” Beihl said.

He’s a Democrat with past involvement with the Leftist groups Open Democracy NH and NH Rebellions. Note the always-constant use of the word “extremist”. Note, too, that NO one from CfB or the Republicans aligned with them, have ever defined what an “extremist” is?  That word is in contant use by….who?  Yes, Democrats.  What’s the point of pointing this out?

“It was about the voters. They educated themselves. They were tired of being represented by people who didn’t represent themselves. That spoke loudly in Gilford and Belmont. The voters had enough. We did a job in educating people,” said Al Posnack of Alton, a Democrat, and the chair and founder of Citizens for Belknap.

No, no education was done – it has been a smear campaign right from the get-go. Gary Kaidaisch and the other monied people that wanted that restaurant, wanted that hotel, and saw it slipping away when the Convention started to put folks on the GAC that started asking uncomfortable questions, went first to Lawfare (running up a $110,000 legal bill with Divine-Millimet) and then political (HB1397 which would have taken the GAC away from the overwatch of the Convention and the County Commissioners), and then this political campaign.

The last pull quote:

Posnack said the group will continue its political advocacy and voter education mission in the general election in November and beyond. Beihl, a Democrat, worked until March 2022 for Open Democracy, a group dedicated to campaign finance reform, and issues of redistricting, voting rights and voter suppression, which are Democrat causes. He said the bipartisan Citizens for Belknap PAC will update its voter guide for November to include Democrats and possibly independents in some races.

“Our charter is to promote reasonable representatives, not support people with extreme views,” Beihl said. “We’re making recommendations. We’re not forcing anyone to vote a particular way.”

Balderdash. Nice sounding words but now that the “delivery rocket” has gone orbital (the Primaries), that last bolded bit is the payload – the entire raison d’etre for this whole campaign.

Revenge.

Those folks that were targeted in their hit list campaign guide are going to get targeted again even as they are not extreme view holders.  They are being targeted because they believe in the NH GOP Platform and they believe in Liberty.  They also took their duties seriously in trying to find out what was going on at Gunstock.

The over use of the word “reasomable” for their side and “extreme” for anyone “not them” is telling.

Those being targeted don’t believe in the Pelosi/Schumer/Ray Buckley value set.

And this what this is all about.

 

 

 

 

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Governor Abbott of Texas and Governor DeSantis of Florida have simultaneously pulled off a quick Checkmate on Biden and the hypocritical Republicans. It was a beautiful move and caught the Dems completely off-guard. Their action has done what nobody could do to this point, which gets the media to cover the Border Crisis.

To this point, Texas and Florida sent illegal aliens who consented to the move to Washington D.C., New York City, and Chicago. The mayors of these three self-proclaimed sanctuary cities are apoplectic that DeSantis and Abbott had the audacity to transport aliens from their states, making these cities and states Border States. Chicago Mayor Lightfoot called the action unchristian to move these people without notifying the officials of Chicago. At the same time, she reloaded these folks onto buses and transported them to the Chicago suburbs without notifying the destination officials. Obviously, she has no problem acting in an unchristian manner.

This week, the Governors stepped up their game and finally got the attention of President Biden, Vice President Harris, and surprisingly, the mainstream media. DeSantis sent two planes loaded with illegal aliens to the posh island retreat of Martha’s Vineyard. Abbott sent his planes to the Naval Observatory in Washington, the official home of Vice President Kamala Harris. These initiatives have prompted everyone from Biden to California Gavin Newsom to explore legal action against the Florida and Texas Governors. Newsom is accusing the two Governors of kidnapping, but the individuals asked as they deboard planes in both locations say they consented to the relocation.

The reaction by President Biden is the height of hypocrisy as he has been transporting illegals from all of the Border states to undisclosed locations via flights in the dark of night. There was no indication that the people transported by Biden consented to their trips. The Governor of Massachusetts today called up the National Guard to Martha’s Vineyard to control the illegals. As many as 125 Guardsmen were called up to contain 50 aliens. The four million aliens who have invaded the Border States are an immense problem and a drain of resources for all five states, including Florida. The fifty people sent to the Vineyard is equivalent to a high school field trip.

Talking heads on the network “news” shows are keying on the inhumane and unchristian handling of illegals. Many Democrats, including Hillary Clinton, claim that the aliens are used as political pawns. Chuck Todd and Joe Scarborough are the loudest critics, but none of these will attack the real problem: the insecure Border.

Karine Jean Pierre, the totally inept White House Press Secretary, doubled down yesterday, reinforcing the false claim from Biden, Harris, and Secretary Mayorkas that the Border is secure and that this crisis is the fault of the Trump administration. It is a bogus line that few people are buying.

Biden can point his finger, yell, whisper, or however he wants to express his perception of the situation. He is attempting to divert attention to the actions of these two Governors rather than take responsibility for his own actions that have created this Border Crisis. That is the problem with this feckless, feeble President. He creates terrible policies that are detrimental to America, and when the results implode, he will not take the blame. Maybe this week, Biden will hold a Fiesta on the south lawn to celebrate his failed Border policy.

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With “Red” standing for the traditional color of Socialists…

If Folks haven’t learned already that Maggie Hassan is a liar, her most recent attack on Don Bolduc proves that she is. According to Hassan, if Don Bolduc gets elected in her steed to the US Senate, he will push for a full ban on all abortions nationwide. This fairy tale is patently impossible because of what SCOTUS did when it overturned Rowe vs Wade (it was not an enumerated Right no Power at the level of the Federal Government. Instead, that Power was rightfully returned back to the States. Maggie knows this! Still, she spins her lie to terrify gullible women.

Ladies, no one in the Federal government has any power over the abortion issue. Not in the U.S. Senate, not in the House, not the President, and not with any federal agency, period. Maggie is lying to you. She wants you to think if you elect her, she can help reinstate Rowe. She can not.

It is now a State issue, and as of now abortion, here in NH is still legal. The possibility of that status changing is slim to none. If anyone tells you otherwise, they are blowing smoke up your skirts.

So what can Maggie do for the ladies of NH, or the men and children for that matter? Based on her many years sitting in the U.S. Senate, not much. In all those years, she has not brought a single bill to the floor of the Senate. Her greatest achievement there was to rubber stamp the work of others in bobble-headed ignorance, merely going along to get along. What she has done to the people of NH is aiding in the reckless spending of great sounding bills so filled with pork and corruption that pork farmers are jealous.

She has helped establish the highest inflation in forty years and what is turning rapidly into a Recession, perhaps a Depression, if changes are not made (and fast!). She is helped to open our Southern Border to three million illegals aliens (I previously said two million but I have been corrected).

Oh sure, gas prices are dropping some but if anyone thinks that lowering will last much longer, that it takes the likes of Hassan to be reelected to continue, they are kidding themselves.

How do I know? I refer you back to the second line of my story. Read again.

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According to no less an authority than Joe Sweeney … campaign manager for Chuck Morse … GOP candidates should NOT talk about anything but the so-called pocketbook issues. This is truly STUPID political advice, which shows the fundamental disconnect between GOP “leadership” and GOP voters:

Voters care very much about public education being used to indoctrinate their children with CRT and DEI … those wonderful euphemisms for anti-white racism. Indeed, this issue is arguably why Glen Youngkin … who pledged to ban CRT in Virginia schools … was elected Governor of Virginia. While New Hampshire has a law that purportedly bans CRT, it is a toothless tiger that is routinely ignored and needs to be massively strengthened. Also, local school boards should be prohibited from advancing CRT under the smokescreen of DEI … diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Opposition to CRT is a proven WINNING issues for GOP candidates. But Sweeney wants GOP candidates to avoid CRT and its analogue, DEI. STUPID.

Something else Sweeney wants to avoid, the All Ages Drag Shows sweeping America, typically with woke corporate sponsorship. For example:

Happening in UTAH:

“ALL AGES, Family-Friendly” Back-to-School drag show happening Saturday.

Performers include (when sounded out) “Anal Leakage” and “Genitalia”

WTF? pic.twitter.com/lpAxiEgrEv

— Morgan Zegers (@MorganZegers) August 31, 2022

These shows obviously are NOT “family-friendly” and are intended to proselytize children. Yet Sweeney’s advice for the GOP candidate running against a Democrat who supports exposing children without their parents’ knowledge to the likes of “Anal Leakage” and “Genitalia” is to never mention it.  STUPID.

Crime is running rampant in Democrat-run cities all across America. Just recently a 75-year old Manchester resident, while out taking a walk, was stabbed to death by a homeless thug who was out on bail for trying to stab another person. But Sweeney’s advice for the GOP candidate running against a Democrat who supports cashless bail and other criminal-coddling policies is to talk about the fed-funds rate. STUPID.

Of course, voters are concerned about inflation and the so-called pocketbook issues. But they are also concerned about public education being used to indoctrinate students to view everything through the lens of race, and about the Left grooming children … maybe ask Disney how their stock is doing, Mr. Sweeney … and about keeping our neighborhoods safe, and about all the drug overdoses.

To take all these non-pocketbook issues off the table is stupid … STUPID … political advice. STUPID.

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I could hardly believe the news this past weekend when I learned that British nobility, Her Royal Majesty Elton John, had passed away. While on tour in Australia, the queen was attacked by a crocodile, tripped, and fell trying to escape only to plummet headlong into a rock. The irony of it all was not lost on fans who stood outside and sang “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road”.

It seems just like yesterday, all her troubles were so far away when Saturday nights were alright for fighting and she was still standing.

After many years of Philadelphia freedom, it was the last time she would sing your song. It seemed like the sun might never go down on the queen but we are reminded that life, fleeting though it be, is like a candle in the wind. I guess that’s why they call it the blues.

In attendance at the funeral were long-time colleagues Bennie and the Jets, John’s close friend Daniel and a midget known simply as “Tiny Dancer”.

As the United Kingdom mourns their great loss, their request for privacy and not go breaking their hearts at this time will be honored by Bananas Global News. John joins other famous royal queens who have passed on in recent years including George Michael, Freddie Mercury, and Elizabeth the II.

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We’ve been pointing out some of the worst RINOs (Republicans in Name Only) that decided to run in Tuesday’s primaries across the State.  Thanks to Spec for compiling these records where “RINO” is defined as a vote by a given NH State Rep that ran contrary to the majority of Republicans on a given bill.

Here’s what Spec said about his methodology (emphasis mine):

 

First, let me say that the current Republican caucus is as conservative and liberty-minded as any in recent memory. Almost every Republican Rep has a good voting record. Some are better, some worse, but most are good. A few are very good, and a few are very bad. Almost all Republicans can be proud of their records.

The goal of the RINO Report is to objectively identify the RINOs – the few Reps with very bad records. In the process, it also identified those with very good records. We have a very simple measure of goodness: Does a Rep’s vote agree with the majority of Republicans or with the majority of Democrats?

The Republican majority is almost always right, but there are occasional votes where a principled Republican will disagree. Almost every Rep will at one time or another, vote against the majority (and hence with the Democrats).

During the last three terms, the median Republican voted 17.3 times each term against the party majority. The worst, i.e. the RINOs, voted more than 50 times against the party. The best voted wrong just six times

 

Spec sent me the below list (because I asked if he was going to do a post on the RINOs that voters finally figured out that RINOs exist – and were ready to do something about them) with this caveat:

I will wait for official results and possible recounts but it appears that the RINO Report has defeated:

• Brodie Deshaies
• Jim Allard
• Dennis Acton
• Betty Gay
• Tom Cardon
• Brenda Willis

There will be a more official “RINO” report in a while, but this is a good start.

And a lesson. We ARE watching and letting people know what those REAL voting records are with special thanks to Spec for all that work!  You should thank him as well!

 

 

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This weekly post is ALWAYS about you and your ideas, but I’m curious to see how you felt about not only Federal level ones (US Senate, US Congressional) but your countyand local ones as well?

Otherwise, have at it and yak about anything that’s on YOUR minds!

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It has been a while since we updated this topic, mostly because there has been no updated news to offer since July 30, 2021.  To recap, we were threatened with a lawsuit for using a photo attached to a small news item concerning the graduation of offspring of those NY Firefighters that gave their lives at the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001, when it collapsed.

At the time of the notice, three of our readers had actually read the post. Only three. The known Internet copyright troll, Higbee and Associates, threatened a lawsuit just like they had done against hundreds (if not thousands) of small websites like ours.

We took the picture down but claimed “Fair Use” as it really was a very short piece.  Made no difference, Higbee replied. They had sued for a previous “infringement” but settled for a FAR lower amount than they demanded, and we thought that was the end of it with our settlement agreement. Thus, we replied that this time we were not going to pay their demand. Like the America of its early years after the Revolutionary War (US Marine Hymn: “…to the shores of Tripoli…”), “thousands for defense, not a cent for tribute.”

We asked, and you all responded by funding a legal defense fund that went into five digits.

With a back and forth between Grokster Norm (a lawyer) and their representative, they stopped their efforts. We haven’t heard back since that date above. So that begs the question – what to do with all of those donations you gave for a single purpose, that defense?  It is still there – after all, we asked for a specific purpose, and unlike another organization that did a similar ask (and then spent that money on a different “purpose,” and then another one, and then…), all that money is in the bank. Not a single dime has left.

So if that purpose has gone away (and in talking with Norm, it seemingly has), now what?

• Would you want it back?
• Should we use it for another purpose – like enhancing GraniteGrok (example: we desperately need a better Search for our over 47,000 posts (“I know it’s in here…somewhere”)?

Or for a different (different) purpose altogether? Like a PAC (Political Action Committee) that could help bring “teeth” to our writing “bite.” Or to use another US Marine unofficial motto: “No better friend, no worse enemy.”  To assist those candidates that need help and that fit our profile built up over the last 17 years – and against those that don’t (e.g., RINOs and those who are openly against Liberty and Freedom).

An entity that could ALSO assist in our advocacy/investigative efforts in getting Government entities to simply Follow the Law – especially when they refuse to honor the Law with our Right To Know demands (I can think of one Commissioner who is doing EXACTLY that right now). Sometimes, “legal teeth” are necessary.

So, what say you all?  What should be done? One of the above – or something else?

 

 

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Since there has been some fuss — by the likes of CNN and NPR — about “Bolduc and the Steal,” I’d like to weigh in with my brand-new angle on the Electoral College.

Here we go.

Donald Trump and Joe Biden were contending for the US presidential election in 2020. Who won? Biden won because more than half of the 535 electors (i.e., 218 of ’em) said so. Indeed, the 535 electors went well beyond 218 and gave Ol’ Joe (and I do mean Ol’) 302.

Hey, wait a minute — what about what the People wanted at the November 2020 polls? I say never mind what they wanted, it is not constitutionally relevant.

(Listen up, Senator General; I’m giving you some great advice here. Namely, that it IS kosher to say that the November general election for presidents is not worth the paper it is printed on.)

Well, if it’s not the People who elect the prez, who is it? Hmm. Does one have to be a constitutional scholar to figure it out?  Well, yes, one has to be scholarly enough to know: 1. That we do have a Constitution (hurrah!), 2. That the second article is about the president, and 3. That the beginning of that article (i.e., section 1 of Article II) specifies how a person gets to be president.

Voila: Art II, sec 1: “[The president shall be elected, as follows: Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress.” (So, 4 for NH, nowadays, 55 for California.)

That, from 1787, was followed by some stuff that got replaced by Amendment 12 in 1804; see below.

Art II, sec 1 also says “The Congress may determine the Time of chusing the Electors, and the Day on which they shall give their Votes; which Day shall be the same throughout the United States.”

And voila Amendment 12: “[The electors in each state make lists] which lists they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the seat of the government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate; — the President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted; — The person having the greatest number of votes for President, shall be the President if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed….”

Fine. Good. Like groovy, man. So now we look to see what Congress did, in the fullness of time, to take up the Framers’ 1787 offer “to determine the day in which [the electors] shall give their votes.” Easy peasy, just google for “What day do electors meet?” Several items will come up. I chose www. crs [Congressional Research Service] reports.congress.gov. Naturally, it points you to the big, codified law USC (United States Code), specifically 3 USC 1 through 15.

I am trying to support Bolduc (aka “Senator General”) as against media monsters, so I will come right to the point for 2020. Federal law, in furtherance of the Constitution and its 12th amendment, arranged that December 14 be the day in 2020 for Electors to meet and vote, in their respective states.

Note:  January 6 is always the day for the famous opening of the ballots.  (Jan 6 “a day that shall live in infamy type thing.”) Mike Pence was the mandatory opener in 2021.

Hang on. Congress also arranged, at 3 USC 5, that there be a “safe harbor” day. Great, it made a law that governors would react to any problems about the November polling. I’ll quote the very reliable CRS in regard to December 8, 2020: The “Safe Harbor” Deadline:

“The U.S. Code (3 U.S.C. §5) provides that if election results are contested in any state, and if the state, prior to election day, has enacted procedures to settle controversies or contests over electors and electoral votes, and if these procedures have been applied, and the results have been determined six days before the electors’ meetings, then these results are considered to be conclusive, and will apply in the counting of the electoral votes. This date, known as the “Safe Harbor” deadline, falls on December 8 in 2020.”

Why December 8?  Because that is 6 days before the Dec 14 meeting of 50 electoral colleges. As far as I am aware, no governor invoked the 3 USC 5 provision for dealing with fraud that may have occurred in November.

Oops, I couldn’t recall what day of the week was the Tuesday for People to vote in 2020, so I asked Google and got this reply from Wikipedia: “The 2020 United States presidential election was the 59th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 3, 2020.”  Wow.  How naughty can you get? Per the parchment, the ELECTION OF A PRESIDENT never occurs at the polls. Never ever. It occurs in the Electoral Colleges. See Art II, sec 1 above.

Granted, the People’s pick on November 3 could — and possibly should — influence the Electors. In fact, about half the states require their electors to rubberstamp the November vote count. But the electors elect.  Period.

In the title of this article, I mention “535 Brilliant electors.” My new position is this: It is up to the electors to be brilliant and give us a good president. The buck stopped with them on December 14, 2020. (Even the ones who are supposed to be rubber-stamps can “go faithless” on the day, per a court ruling.)

In previous articles, I have dwelt on the fact that Congress has the ultimate say. That’s true. There is a provision for any member of the Senate or House to challenge the Jan 6 vote count on the day. A House member did challenge the vote count from Arizona and got a co-signature from a senator.  Also, Rep Marjorie Greene challenged the vote count from Michigan, but she failed to get a senator to co-sign. Then a Rep challenged the Pennsylvania count and did get a co-signer.

Thus the votes of the two properly challenged states, Arizona and Pennsylvania, were debated for hours late into the night of Jan 6 and continuing to the wee hours of Jan 7, 2021. A full vote was then taken, and neither challenge won a majority, so the 302 became the qualifying electoral votes for Joe Biden to enter the White House a fortnight later.

As I have consistently said, Biden is the legitimate president BECAUSE THE CONSTITUTION WAS FOLLOWED.  There is no other way to determine legitimacy in this country.

Personally, I feel confident that the material in Dinesh D’Souza’s movie 2,000 Mules is correct, and I think Mike Lindell’s two-hour documentary contains ample evidence of cheating on November 3, 2020. So what does this tell us? It tells us that all sorts of politicians, judges, and some citizens are disgusting. They commit fraud and worse.  We can, at any moment, haul them in for punishment.

And we should.

But now to what may be scandalizing some NH Republicans at the moment.  Yesterday’s newspaper made it sound like Don Bolduc had campaigned on the promise of “I love D’Souza and Lindell” (so to speak), but then, about 13 and a half minutes after he was hailed the primary’s nominee for US senator, said, “Ha ha, kidding; Biden’s my prez.”  So to speak.

I presently think Bolduc can bolduck his way out of the “scandal.” He is CORRECT in holding both positions — that there was fraud and that the election was legal. See?

After the Victory Party at Grappone Centre (see my article), I spoke to Senator General in the parking lot around 10 am. He, with dog, said, “Where’s my wife?” Later that evening, when I heard from CNN (aka God) that Bolduc had turned 180 degrees on his story, I immediately thought he had been intimidated into it.

That’s how my brain works. In fact, I wondered if “Where’s my wife?” could have indicated that the Bad Guys had kidnapped her straight out of the Victory Party to use as a human shield — so to speak. They do this. They are ruthless. I figured maybe they told him to retract his claim “or else.”

(On rereading CNN and NPR’s news, I reckon they just word-twisted as usual. God help us.)

Anyone wanting to deal with the above is welcome to email me at MaxwellMaryLLb@gmail.com. We can meet by the bay in Concord.  No bay in Concord?  OK, we can meet at my house. Or at the fish counter in Hannaford’s. Whatever. Trust me — if enough people cared, there could be a happy ending to “the stolen election.”

 

 

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The Democrat leadership, from Joe Biden down to Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi, have made remarkable decisions that appear to be backfiring in their faces. It was discovered that the Democrat Party invested millions of dollars in the New Hampshire Primary held this past Tuesday.

On the surface, you might say what is noteworthy about that expenditure. Well, if the funds were spent to get a particular Democrat candidate elected, I would agree with you, but nearly $5 Million was paid to promote two Republican candidates. The DNC thought Don Bolduc and Karoline Leavitt would be the easier candidates to beat for the Democrat incumbents. Both candidates won their primary matches and are primed to cast a stark comparison between their Conservative views and the far-left beliefs of Hassan and Pappas.

There is much debate about the use of funds to promote members of the other party. It is laughable that the Democrats who are preaching election integrity are redefining election meddling. This approach is surfacing in virtually every state, and the Dems will have eggs on their faces if this leads to them losing both Houses of Congress.

Giving support to the other side of the aisle or the enemy is nothing new in the last few years. Many of these situations have already blown up in the Democrat’s faces. Let’s look at a few.

Afghanistan: A year ago, we witnessed to worst day in American military history. As we walked away from Afghanistan, leaving an unknown number of Americans and Afghan allies behind, we left billions of dollars worth of military equipment. This stash of vehicles and arms makes the Taliban one of the top 5 equipped militaries in the world. After this donation of munitions, the President and his disciples refused to acknowledge that the Taliban and Al Queda existed or were in charge of today’s Afghanistan.

Southern Border: two years ago, we had the most secure Border ever between the United States and Mexico. The Wall had been funded and was being built by the Trump administration. That all changed dramatically on January 20, 2021, when Biden signed an Executive Order stopping the Wall and destroying the sovereignty of the United States. The supplies to build the Wall now lay rusting on the Texas desert, and two million illegal aliens have crossed thanks to Joe’s wrong decision.

Chinese Fentanyl: in addition to the flow of illegals across the Border is the tsunami of drugs, specifically Fentanyl, smuggling and killing Americans. We are losing nearly 100,000 Americans between 18-45 to Fentanyl Poisoning, and the President has not acknowledged the crisis. Is that because he is indebted to China because of the favors they bestowed on Hunter?

Iran Nuclear Program: Donald Trump had ended our compliance with the Iran Nuclear Treaty. He had placed sanctions on Iran and put their quest for nuclear weapons on hold. Biden has reinstated the treaty and given the Iranians free reign in their pursuit of weapons they can turn on the free world. How does this serve the world’s security? It does not and is an affront to our biggest ally in the Middle East, Israel. Iran wants to obliterate Israel, and Joe Biden is allowing them to build weapons to accomplish their goal.

With this track record, should it surprise us that the Democrats are funding Republican candidates, meddling, and influencing elections with their cash? Absolutely not. The Democrat Party is self-destructing, and unless stopped in November, they are intent on taking America down with them.

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The job of REAL journalists is to hold the politicians accountable. To expose them when they tell blatant LIES. To juxtapose the truth, the facts with the politician’s LIE.

BUT NOT IN NEW HAMPSHIRE. Adam Sexton, the “political director” at WMUR is the most powerful “journalist” in New Hampshire. BUT he does not see his job as holding the politicians accountable. He sees his job as helping to elect Democrats.

The GOP primary was barely just hours old when Chris Pappas began circulating this LIE:

This is a BRAZEN LIE. Leavitt’s position is that abortion is a STATE issue:

The REAL ISSUE here is Pappas’ character or more accurately lack thereof. He is a LIAR … a blatant and shameless LIAR. That’s newsworthy. That’s something that REAL journalists would report. But Adam Sexton and the rest of them at WMUR, NHPR, etc. are NOT real journalists. They are Democrat operatives posing as journalists.

RIGGED ELECTION.

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Democrats create problems that they then insist can only be solved by the government. Always more and bigger, never less, or fewer. The Wu that Flu over the Han is a fine example, but that takes a back seat to a much older and experienced bit of left-wing fearmongering. The climate.

Making you fear the weather has been the go-to global scam for decades—a way to get us all under one tent. But no one cares. Even now, decades later, most Americans put “climate change” way down on the list of concerns. Not so for college-aged idiots.

 

In a story in the Washington Post, “eco-anxiety,” also known as “climate distress” or “climate stress,” is an actual thing. Sarah Stoeckl, who is, incidentally, the director of the Sustainability Office at the University of Oregon, believes that in order to enable young people to fight climate change, they also need to be provided with emotional support. She wants more of the school’s resources to address the problem, including access to counselors.

 

It’s a made-up problem. If you stopped talking about it, it would go away. But you can’t, so the solution is to grow the campus carbon footprint to address the distress you created by lying to the kiddies about the weather.

 

 

Experts agree that next summer will be the hottest time of the year (every year), and don’t let winter confuse you, especially if you have no heat. It might feel cold, but that is caused by warming, and that is why they changed their obsession with warming into ‘climate change.’

Who dare to suggest the climate doesn’t change?

Not me. I look at the morning weather report, and more often than not, it changes before the day is done. But that’s no reason not to use that to advance socialism. A problem and solution imagined by the same people who believe they need crying rooms and couches to console individuals for whom they as a faction are responsible.

Here, have some bandaids for all those cuts I gave you.
Oh, thank you, you are so caring.
I know.

 

 

Trillions for the “cuts” and trillions more for the bandaids, wait – we need climate grief counselors to address eco-anxiety.

I have an easier, faster solution that will save a large sum of money that can then be redireced to something useful like left in the hands of those who earned it.

Just shut up about it already.

Problem solved.

The earth has been a lot warmer. Civilizations expand and prosper when the earth warms but not on your watch. And just in time for the grand solar minimum. Thirty to fifty years of cooling, for which you may also need counseling.

Why is it cooler? There can be no cooling without warming, grasshopper. That’ll be $250.00, please. Medicare, Medicaid, ObamaCare, American Express, Visa, check, or electronic transfer?

Which one has the smallest carbon footprint?

Sorry, what?

 

 

 

 

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I’ve run into YAL campaign workers the last couple of election cycles – industrious, seemingly at a lot of places, and with this notice sent out, rather successful in this “Last In The Nation Primary”. Why not call this past Tuesday that – NH IS at the end of the cycle of States holding their primaries.

Anyways, I think this is a great counter-balance to all of the Progressive/Socialist money and workers that the NH Democrats bring in. And in some cases, a stick in the eye to the Establishment Republicans that seem to be more aligned with Democrats than they are with our wing of the Party (they can’t be pushed around as easily). Emphasis mine one this from the YAL folks:

—— Original Message ——
From: <redacted as requested>
To: Skip@granitegrok.com
Sent: 9/15/2022 1:20:09 PM
Subject: Re: YAL Wins 50+ Races in New Hampshire, Adding Dozens of Hazlitt Members

Hi Skip​,
As expected, Young Americans for Liberty (YAL)—the nation’s most active youth liberty organization—has secured major victories in the New Hampshire primaries, winning more than 50 races overall and adding nearly 40 Hazlitt members to its national coalition. YAL’s Hazlitt Coalition now features more than 300 pro-liberty lawmakers across America.

From school choice and medical freedom to Constitutional Carry, the Hazlitt Coalition is determined to advance the cause of liberty in the United States, especially in New Hampshire. The dozens of Hazlitt members in the state have been especially vocal against mask and vaccine mandates during the COVID-19 pandemic, speaking out against government tyranny.

Below is a statement from YAL Hazlitt Action Director Daniel Stuart:

“This week’s victories in New Hampshire prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that people love liberty. The Granite State keeps getting more free with each RINO and socialist ousted by our pro-liberty legislators. As New Hampshire becomes a microcosm for liberty policy, it also acts as an example to the rest of the United States that liberty works.”

Can you use YAL’s perspective?

Thank you,

<redacted as requested>

<redacted as requested>
<redacted as requested>

And what is Liberty? Simply deciding what is best for you and your family – you know, what the Democrats/Socialists want to take from you as they think THEY should make those decisions “for you”.  Anyways, here’s a list of folks that they backed and who won their primaries:

Congratulations to YAL and these candidates that want you making those decisions!

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