Honorable Texas State Senators,

I am writing to express my deep concerns regarding the ongoing impeachment proceedings against General Ken Paxton, the Texas Attorney General. As a concerned citizen who values fairness, due process, and the principles of justice, I implore you to stand against this ill-conceived and unwarranted impeachment effort, which I believe to be a sham lacking substantial evidence and driven by political motives.

The impeachment against General Paxton is nothing short of a political witch hunt driven by partisan motives rather than genuine concerns of wrongdoing. The burden of proof for impeachment lies with those making the allegations, and we must adhere to this fundamental principle of justice to protect the integrity of our democratic processes.

It is also crucial to recognize that impeachment should never be employed as a tool for political retaliation or a means to settle personal or partisan differences. Instead, it should be reserved for apparent misconduct or public trust violations. As you evaluate the allegations against General Paxton, it is vital to ensure that the burden of proof is met and that due process is respected.

It is crucial to consider the potential repercussions of setting such a precedent, as it could undermine the stability and functionality of our government institutions, eroding the public’s trust in our democracy.

The House’s rush to impeach Attorney General Paxton, with 20 articles adopted within a mere two days, raises concerns about the integrity and fairness of the process. Such haste, combined with the lack of compelling evidence, undermines the credibility of the impeachment effort and threatens the foundations of our democratic institutions.

While addressing any legitimate concerns or allegations raised against public officials is essential, ensuring that impeachment proceedings are grounded in genuine evidence of misconduct is equally vital. As they currently stand, the accusations against General Paxton lack substantive proof and fail to meet the threshold required to justify removing him from office.

Moreover, it is worth noting that the people of Texas have overwhelmingly elected him to serve as their Attorney General. Therefore, the impeachment of a popular elected official should not be taken lightly, as it challenges the voice and choice of the electorate. Removing him from office through an impeachment process lacking strong and compelling evidence would undermine the vote and will of the voters. Such actions risk alienating a significant portion of the population and exacerbating political divisions rather than fostering harmony and cooperation. Removing him from office based on flimsy allegations sets a dangerous precedent that could further polarize our society and undermine the people’s trust in their elected representatives.

I would like you to judge Attorney General Ken Paxton based on his records and the tangible contributions he has made to the safety and well-being of Texas. Throughout his tenure, he has demonstrated a steadfast commitment to upholding the rule of law and protecting the interests of Texas residents.

His efforts to combat crime, defend individual liberties, and stop the federal government’s overreach have impacted our communities and our way of life. It is imperative to consider these accomplishments when evaluating his fitness to serve and resist succumbing to the pressures of political agendas that seek to undermine his achievements.

Therefore, as honorable representatives of the people, I urge you to carefully consider the facts, weigh the evidence presented, and evaluate the motivations behind this impeachment effort. It is essential to remember the broader interests of the citizens of Texas and prioritize their well-being over political expediency.
As a concerned citizen, the best alternative is dismissing the allegations against General Paxton without a mock trial.
Upholding the sanctity of due process is crucial and sets a precedent for future proceedings that should be grounded in truth, evidence, and the people’s will.

Should you decide to vote, I urge you to vote against this sham impeachment. Doing so would demonstrate your commitment to fairness, integrity, and preserving our democratic system. It is crucial to safeguard the credibility of our democratic processes, as well as to protect the rights of those who have been elected to serve.

Thank you for your attention, commitment to public service, and dedication to upholding the principles of justice. I trust in your wisdom and integrity as you make this critical decision that will shape the due process in the great State of Texas.
Sincerely yours,

Amil Imani
Professor of Homeland Security

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Government power is like a deadly disease.

If you don’t nip it in the bud, it grows faster and faster – and more dangerous.

That’s what the Founders and Old Revolutionaries warned us about – repeatedly. As a result of ignoring their warnings for generations, we now live under the largest government in history – and the disease keeps getting worse.

Virtually every time the people ignore one new government power or another, there’s an excuse – an “emergency” they claim requires us to ignore some limitation on power in the Constitution.

I’m sure you’ve heard things like this as much as I have.

“The Patriot Act is just for the terrorists”

“The income tax is only an emergency war time measure”

“If we don’t ban ___, people will die in the streets!”

“But it’s for the children!”

All these excuses are based in fear, what John Adams warned is “the foundation of most governments.”

We were warned – repeatedly – how dangerous this mentality is.

Founder after founder warned us against turning a blind eye to violations of the Constitution, which they also called “arbitrary power” or “usurpations” of power.

Samuel Adams put it this way:

Let us remember that if we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom!

In his opinion against the constitutionality of Alexander Hamilton’s first National Bank, Thomas Jefferson warned that even a single step beyond the limits of the Constitution was a step too far:

To take a single step beyond the boundaries thus specially drawn around the powers of Congress, is to take possession of a boundless field of power, no longer susceptible of any definition.

Years earlier, John Dickinson, the “Penman of the Revolution,” took the same view as Jefferson and urged us to “Oppose a disease at its beginning” – because even a single concession to the limits of government power would act as a “PRECEDENT for other concessions” in the future.

He warned that those concessions would lead to the end of freedom. John Adams described it like a deadly disease:

The nature of the encroachment upon the American constitution is such, as to grow every day more and more encroaching. Like a cancer, it eats faster and faster every hour.

That’s why so many of the founders and old revolutionaries understood that arbitrary power needs to be opposed by the people themselves, the earlier the better. Adams put it this way:

“Obsta principiis – Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. When the people give way, their deceivers, betrayers and destroyers press upon them so fast that there is no resisting afterwards.”

He was reiterating a long-standing maxim that James Otis also recognized a few years earlier:

“It is my countrymen of the utmost consequence that we boldly oppose the least infraction of our charter, and rights as men. Obsta Principiis is a maxim never to be forgot: If we do not resist at the first attack, it may soon be too late”

Thomas Jefferson gave the same advice in his “Notes on the state of Virginia.” He wrote:

“The time to guard against corruption and tyranny, is before they shall have gotten hold of us. It is better to keep the wolf out of the fold, than to trust to drawing his teeth and talons after he shall have entered.”

These leading founders and old revolutionaries recognized a timeless truth. When you allow a government to chip away at the limits on its power, eventually the dam will burst. You will end up with a government exercising virtually unlimited authority – arbitrary power.

Unfortunately, that dam burst many years ago. From money printing that powers an almost endless list of unconstitutional federal programs, to mass, warrantless surveillance, violations of your natural right to keep and bear arms, unconstitutional and undeclared wars – and everything in between – we can see the danger of ignoring the founders all around us.

Although going from where things are today – to a true “land of the free” won’t be quick or easy. It’s definitely not game over for liberty.

As St. George Tucker put it:

The acquiescence of the people of a state under any usurped authority for any length of time, can never deprive them of the right of resuming the sovereign power into their own hands, whenever they think fit, or are able to do so, since that right is perfectly unalienable.

We’ve got a long way to go, and a lot of work yet to do. But with your support, we’re building a strong foundation for the Constitution and liberty – whether the government happens to like it, or not.

 

 

 

Mike Maharrey | The Tenth Amendment Center

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The Climate Cult’s apocalyptic prognostications don’t hold up well when compared to facts and science, but anyone who points this out is smeared as a denier. To be fair, I do deny the validity of their arguments, their “science,” the alleged causes, effects, and cures.

Related: The Climate Cult’s Cape Cod Conundrum

I deny that this is anything but a power grab based on a desire to undermine free market capitalism and human liberty.

There is no connection between atmospheric CO2, and the things the Climate Cult alleges are in response to it. There is no evidence their proposed solutions would lower “emissions” or that they would change any of the side effects they claim are caused by them. Nothing they say makes sense, but they keep saying it, so some folks think it must be true.

If you want to invest your time and money in it, be my guest, but there is no such thing as climate choice. However, there is ample evidence that those who agree with me are more likely correct than those who disagree – primarily on the relationship between emissions and weather.

And we enjoy scouring the internet for examples that arm you in the fight.

Related: Biden’s EPA ‘Erases’ the 1930s ‘cuz “Climate Change”

Tony Heller has been a reliable source of such evidence. In a recent video, he explores the super-safe climate of seventy years ago as he takes us back to 1953. Tito was inaugurated as President of Yugoslavia. Eisenhower refused clemency to Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Stalin suffers a stroke that kills him. Winston Churchill is knighted, and Elizabeth II becomes Queen of England. The SCOTUS tells restaurants in Washington, DC, they cannot refuse service to black people. Castro started his Cuban Revolution; Chevy rolled out its first Corvette, the Korea war ended, and General Electric announced it was firing any employee who was a communist.

CO2 was very low in 1953, but the weather was still “extreme.”

 

 

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Let me quote from my published op-ed from last year, paying tribute to my father.

MY FATHER was born in 1938, in a village in Sichuan, China, to an intelligent but poor and sickly father whose death left his impoverished mother to fend for herself.

Fate was not kind to her, as the struggle of being poor and raising six children was compounded when she developed a severe infection from a dog bite. Treatment cost her what little she had, and my father was orphaned at the age of 6.

The life of an orphan in China was unforgiving, but thankfully my father’s uncle adopted him. As a man of little means, he needed my father to work on the farm; education was expensive and out of the question, but he could earn his keep as a farmhand. These experiences shaped my father into the man he would become: powerful, steadfast, and honorable — a true fighter. One that not even the local bullies would challenge.

As a teenager, he earned a reputation as a hard worker. During Chairman Mao’s Great Leap Forward campaign, my father was recruited to work for a vast state-owned steel enterprise in Chongqing. This was idyllic considering the fate suffered by some 40 million Chinese who starved as a result of central planning gone awry.

After several years he was transferred to Chengdu, where he met my mother and fell in love. They were married after obtaining their respective work unit leaders’ permission. I was their first child, one of three, born two years before the terror of the Cultural Revolution ensued.

My memories began in an employer-provided eight-family row house. Our family of five shared two small rooms with dirt floors and an outdoor kitchen. There was no plumbing or heating, and we had to share a single water pump and “bathroom” (a hole in the ground) with eight other families. My parents worked tirelessly, but their positions were lowly, and our food rations were limited as a result.

I always remember my father as a hard worker, waking early each morning to take the bus to work. Public transportation was crowded and the competition to obtain a seat was so fierce that fights would break out. One day, after nearly being run over in a scuffle to get a seat, my father refused to degrade himself any further and bought a used bike to ride to work.

Dad was a prodigious worker and popular amongst his colleagues. His Communist minders thought he was trouble, and he was. His pride denied him submission to their corrupt authoritarianism, and he fought their tyranny at every turn. Honor, however, comes at a price. They conspired to get rid of him by relocating him to a work site 19 hours away. He refused to leave my mother — a sickly woman — and his three children, despite the commonality of family separations in communist China.

His refusal to relocate earned him a permanent “early retirement” in his late 40s. He refused to accept this. And so, he illegally served as a bicycle taxi at night. He had his bike confiscated by the police on multiple occasions and was robbed even more frequently. When seized, he would buy a new bike, and when robbed, he would fight back.

My father certainly could have made our lives easier, but it would have required obedience and submission to his immoral masters. Instead, he persevered honorably so that we could survive the brutality of communism. If he had chosen dishonor, perhaps I would not be the person I am today. Because of my father’s unwavering moral code, I fought back against a life of slavery in China.

After escaping communist China, I brought my parents to the United States, where my father worked in a local Chinese restaurant for a few years. He became a U.S. citizen in 2005 and was later baptized a Christian, something that would have never happened in China. Last year, he was afflicted with COVID at the age of 82, yet he would not submit even to this, and he made a full recovery.

Dad, you are a man of integrity, honor, and dignity: a small man who cast a large shadow and stood defiantly against the evils of communism. You never asked for much, just the freedom to work and provide for us. I am thankful for your love, sacrifice, perseverance, and hard work. You knew you were a man of little means and social status, but in the best way possible, you taught me how to live with dignity in defiance of evil. Despite the harsh lens through which you judge your achievements, you were and are my hero. I love you very much. Happy Father’s Day.

 

Republished with the author’s permission.

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Are you making a car insurance claim for an accident that wasn’t reported to the police? Maybe you were involved in a minor accident, and you’re wondering whether or not you’ll be able to file a claim.

Or perhaps you had an accident, and the other driver refused to report it to the police. You’re wondering what you should do without a police crash report.

Take a look at our guide to finding out if you can get a car accident claim without a police report.

How Insurance Companies Handle Claims Without a Police Crash Report

When a car insurance claim filing without a police crash report, in most cases, insurance companies will still accept the claim and proceed to investigate the claim. Generally, insurance companies will ask for any information available, such as the following:

• other party’s name
• insurance information
• description of the incident

Because police crash reports can provide a more accurate description of the events leading to the crash, the lack of this important detail may lead to longer processing times and lower settlements.

Insurers may also want to use third-party appraisers to determine the value of the loss, which may cause similar delays. To avoid some common claim mistakes you should avoid when getting insurance, it is best to contact your insurer and check their policies on the matter.

When You Can Expect Your Claim to Be Filed Successfully Without a Police Report

Yes, you can file a car insurance claim without a police crash report, as it is not always necessary to provide a police report to your car insurance provider to file a claim. Depending on the situation, you may be able to file and get your claim processed without it. Generally speaking, if this is like:

• damages are minimal
• there are no other parties involved
• you are not at fault

You should be able to get your claim successfully filed without a police report. The only time a police report might be necessary is in cases of significant damage, especially if there are other parties involved and/or the fault is unclear. As long as you provide sufficient evidence of the accident, you should expect your car insurance claim to be filed successfully without a police report.

Understanding the Role of the Police Crash Report in a Car Insurance Claim

In conclusion, filing a car insurance claim without a police crash report is possible, and the decision to do so is ultimately up to the policyholder. It is best to discuss this option with your insurance agent to see if it is the right choice for your situation. For assistance with this and other important questions about your car insurance policy, contact your local agent today.

Sometimes, you learn the most from reading other peoples’ experiences, like when they had to get their car insurance claim filed without a crash report. Visit our blog often so you can become better informed!

 

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The Chairman of the New Hampshire Democrat Party has published an open letter ridiculing RFK Jr. for speaking at the Porcupine Freedom Festival (Porcfest). Buckley condemned the Democrat presidential candidate and rebuked him for associating with libertarians, referring to them as extremists for supporting school choice and gun rights. 

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Quote of the day:

“Made it harder for people to buy stabilized braces.  Put a pistol on a brace, it turns into a gun.  Makes them more, you can have a higher caliber weapon, a higher caliber bullet coming out of that gun.”

That’s Joe Biden.  You can see it here.

 

 

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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.  I know this is a long post; I am attempting to put out a lot of information as a resource.  Read or skip sections depending on your interests.

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:

1. Mentality: first and foremost in survival is having a flexible mentality and cultivating the ability to adapt. Vanity has no place in survival.
2. Develop a meatspace network of people that are likeminded: cultivate your community ties and build alliances with neighbors (note: don’t babble about the Jab or globalists or depopulation, or start pointing political fingers when doing this)… and remember, the first rule of PREP CLUB is that there is no prep club.

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 posts sometimes get cloned on American Reveille as well, which is a good site to check out in general.

FYI, here’s a link to the last Survival Sunday.

 

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June 14th….Boots on the Ground and News you need to know. Things are not getting better.

 

 

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Top of the fold:

Coming soon to a store near you?

The increased crime will cause stores to close.  The thieves will then need to travel farther to get to places where they can still steal, like viruses infecting new tissue.  Soon the collapse of commerce will spread to previously “safe” environments, furthering the chaos and uncertainty that the Globalists want.  This is not accidental.

 

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SITREP sites:

I used to do a SITREP post as a separate, stand-alone.  I can’t afford that time any more.  Here are some “starter places” for sites that I routinely go to get info about what’s happening.

The sidebar of my old blog, with links to other places.   redpilljew

Gates of Vienna

Doug Ross @ Journal (directorblue.blogspot.com)

The Other McCain

TheBlaze

ancipient news

 

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Oddments – random thoughts on prepping:

Trade goods: Toothbrushes & travel-sized toothpaste. Feminine products.    Small soaps.  Coffee.  Shoelaces.  Pens, pencils, paper.

 

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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, 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

Mind4Survival – Survival and Preparedness

Gray Wolf survival

Sustainable Living (sustainablelivingideas.com)

The Classic Survivalist – Surviving in a Modern World

Primal Survivor – Practical and sensible prepping advice

Em Off-grid – We & Our Off The Grid Life – Em OffGrid

Resource for Practical, Daily Prepping Skills for SHTF & Survival (geekprepper.com)

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

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Specific, one-up articles:

The Desperate Measures The Government Is Secretly Resorting To (askaprepper.com)

This Is Why You Should Not Build A Bunker – Ask a Prepper

Highly Nutritious Foods You Can Grow In Mason Jars – Ask a Prepper

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Related to Spicy Time:

 

 

Just wait until the EBT cards get cut off, and they believe that you – as a white person – have a garden and chickens.  More charmers:

 

 

 

I’m not trying to provoke a race war here.  But understand that there is a significant percentage of that demographic that believes they are OWED.  And they want PAYBACK.

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It’s A New Day! It’s A New Opportunity! | NC Renegades

Our Country is deeply divided. We will not fix this by voting. These people hate us. They want us dead because we will not bow to them. We won’t live in their delusional world. It’s well past time to let them know that we will not go quietly into the night. Are we going to continue to watch TPTB revel in their success of stealing our country and do nothing? Or will we fight? We have lost our Country. Now what are we going to do about it? There is but one way to restore Liberty for the future generations!

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Related to Bushcraft specifically:

None this week.

 

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Mass immigration is a problem

 

 

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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:

1. When does it start?
2. How bad will it get?
3. How long will it last?
4. What will the aftermath look like?

 

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Life, Death and Arnold

 

 

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I have a FORAGING group on Gab.  I will check 2-3 times a week to see if people have asked to join.

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Foraging: One-up articles

Mushrooms!  Quick-hit style:

10 Mushrooms That You Can Safely Forage This Spring (& More) — First Light Farm (firstlightfarmer.com)

An Illustrated Guide to Mushroom Foraging (& 10 Earthy, Savory Recipes) (food52.com)

Mushroom Foraging: Everything You Need to Know (survivalsullivan.com)

6 Beginner-Friendly Mushrooms You Can Find in Summer | Wild + Whole (themeateater.com)

Foraging for Mushrooms: The Beginner’s Guide – Mushroom Insider

10 Mushrooms You Should Forage This Summer – The Lost Herbs

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Foraging (permanent feature):

Foraging (practicalselfreliance.com)

Wild Harvests (arcadianabe.blogspot.com)

Southern Appalachian Herbs

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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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Shortages (broadly):

22 Medication Shortages: List of Drugs – Parade: Entertainment, Recipes, Health, Life, Holidays

My pharmacy has now taken to pre-asking if I want refills “so they can be sure to have it on hand”.  Understand that NOTHING I take is exotic.

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10 Biggest Grocery Shortages of 2023 So Far: Eggs, Corn, & More (eatthis.com)

The 13 Food Shortages To Expect In 2023 (thedailymeal.com)

12 items to buy early as supply chain shortages loom | Las Vegas Review-Journal (reviewjournal.com)

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German government prepares to end meat consumption – Rations of just 10 grams daily! — Society’s Child — Sott.net

OF COURSE the ones implementing this won’t live by the rule.

 

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Gardening, Food Storage, Animals, Food Preservation, Health, and Related:

 

How to grow butternut squash – Episode 05

 

Other gardening-related videos, links only:

How to Grow Butternuts, Pumpkins, and Any Other Winter Squash | A Complete Guide – YouTube

DANDELIONS are the BEST INDICATORS of… – YouTube

How to Grow Squash in Containers || Black Gumbo – YouTube

How to Build a Squash Trellis – YouTube

How to Grow ButterNut Squash seed to harvest – YouTube

The Self Sufficient Backyard PDF (Ron And Johanna Melchiore) – YouTube

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8 Long Lasting Pioneer Recipes You Need To Learn By Heart (askaprepper.com)

There’s wisdom in the past.

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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)

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Topical 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

Hydroponics and Greenhouse Gardening: 3-in-1 Gardening Book to Grow Vegetables, Herbs, and Fruit All-Year-Round

Hydroponics for Beginners: The Complete Guide to Hydroponic Gardening, Designing and Building Inexpensive DIY Hydroponic Systems…

The Aquaponics Guidebook: Combining Aquaculture and Hydroponics Combining Aquaculture and Hydroponics

 

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Self-defense (broad)

Beginner’s Guide to Reloading Ammo in 2023 | The Arms Guide

Good basics.

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I sent this to a martial arts friend, who replied that in a dojo is one thing, but that in the real world these moves take too long.

 

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Hunting & Fishing:

Nothing this week.

 

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Concluding thoughts if I’m moved to comment:

Take care of yourself.

This is the last Survival Sunday for a while.  I’ll be back.  But I am winding down as I need to take a break for my own sanity.  My last post before I go off to recharge will be a meme post this Friday.

 

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A nation that decries nationalism is a nation that is willing to surrender its culture, its history, its very identity.

A nation without identity is nothing more than a land mass; a resource for all and sundry to exploit.

A mere land mass has no emotional pull, no meaning, nothing to inspire men and women to value and protect it.

Thus the motive of the anti-nationalist is clear to see.

— Anonymous

 

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Palate cleansers:

 

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Please check out my MEMES collections; last one here.  Mockery, ridicule, and the wrapping of uncomfortable truths inside humor can penetrate the cognitive shields of normies far more effectively – IMHO – than dry facts and figures.

 

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Did you know the Los Angeles Dodgers … to honor Pride Month … held a night to honor a drag group that openly HATES on Catholics and whose “show” is all about mocking and demeaning Catholics:

Why are the LA Dodgers and CA lawmakers proud to honor and celebrate anti-Catholic drag group ‘Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence,’ whose sole claim to fame is their anti-Christian religious bigotry? Everyone, regardless of our religious beliefs, should denounce such hate and… pic.twitter.com/DU99qRSqGm

— Tulsi Gabbard (@TulsiGabbard) June 16, 2023

What would our wonderful Sun-King, Chris Sununu, say? Not to hard to imagine: I am NOT a big-government guy; I am NOT a culture-war guy. The government has NO business telling a private company what it can and cannot do. Blah, blah, blah. 

Based on the Big-Pharma propaganda they were spewing to justify corporations coercing people into shooting up with an experimental drug, New Hampshire’s phony “think-tanks,” etc. would be spewing the same the Dodgers are a private company mantra.

Actually, Major League Baseball operates under an anti-trust exemption granted to it by the federal government. In other words, Major League Baseball gets special treatment from the federal government other businesses do NOT get.

But inconvenient facts like that won’t stop the fweemarketeers … like Sun-King Sununu and his cronies … from continuing to make the totally ridiculous argument that we don’t have a “fwee market” if corporations can’t push woke down our throats without any pushback, not even criticism.

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Advocates for child rape have, for a long while, been looking for a way to legalize the sexual assault of children. NAMBLA, the North American Man Boy Love Association, has been after it for decades, and it looks like the United Nations is here to help.

The pathway is laid out in a report titled “The 8 March Principles for a Human Rights-Based Approach to Criminal Law Proscribing Conduct Associated with Sex, Reproduction, Drug Use, HIV, Homelessness and Poverty.”

 

For a number of years now, the UN Secretary-General, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, global and regional human rights mechanisms, bodies and experts, national courts, legislatures and domestic human rights institutions, as well as civil society have grappled with the problem of the harmful human rights impact of criminal laws that proscribe conduct associated with sex, reproduction, HIV, drug use, homelessness and poverty.

 

Some of the critical human rights issues include the right to abortion, sex outside marriage, homosexual sex rights, how HIV-positive persons are oppressed by disclosure laws, outlawed drug use, as well as matters of poverty and homelessness. In other words, our long history of faith-based morality, as represented in statute, is likely out of date, and they’ve compiled 32 pages of thoughts that – and I’m just guessing – are cover for legalizing adult sex with minors.

 

The enforcement of criminal law should reflect the rights and capacity of persons under 18 years of age to make decisions about engaging in consensual sexual conduct and their right to be heard in matters concerning them……. Pursuant to their evolving capacities and progressive autonomy, persons under 18 years of age should participate in decisions affecting them, with due regard to their age, maturity, and best interests, and with specific attention to non-discrimination guarantees.

 

Boom!

Not only could children be considered capable of agreeing to be raped by adults (so it’s not rape), but it might also be a violation of their rights to have laws punishing adults who have sex with minors; to require parental consent for abortions as a result of those encounters; or to suggest that children raped by adults might have been coerced into claiming it was consensual.

The UN has paved the way for a conversation about how these laws we mistakenly believe exist to protect children from physical or psychological harm violate human rights. What they mean is that there are a lot of sick, perverted adults who want to rape minors, and they’d like to make it legal.

They must think the time has arrived. That people are ready to embrace pedophilia as normal.

You won’t get any pushback from the political Left. They are enthusiastic supporters happy to refer to pedophiles as minor-attracted persons. They’ve muddied the gender waters for children, promoting sexualization at a very young age and insisting that kids should be able to self-castrate with drugs or surgery, free from meddling adults who might also be their parents.

Following that logic, it makes sense for the UN to suggest that minors are more than capable of consenting to sex with adults, and so they have.

Would this be a good time to remind everyone of a 2018 scandal that reported as many as 60,000 incidents of sexual assault by UN aid workers, “including rape and sex with underage persons”?

 

 

HT | Salvo Mag

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OK, perhaps the most efficient or useful mode of transportation around, but you have to admit, for someone who seemed to have a ton of extra time on their hands…

 



 

After all, everybody needs a hobby…and this one needs a bit of planning ahead of time and a fair amount of available wood by the side of the road.

(H/T: Cheezburger Fail Blog)

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Earlier this month, Marshall Simonds Middle School in Burlington, Massachusetts, was at the center of a conflict over a Pride Month celebration. Many students that protested the event are now the targets of criticism from Pride supporters and calls for disciplinary action against the protestors.

I have problems and concerns with both sides of this issue. I am on record as being against celebrating any group of people. I believe in equality, not equity, for everyone, and singling out a specific group of people defeats the spirit of equality. I am going out on a limb to start my arguments and say these protestors should be praised for having the courage to speak their minds. To discipline them sends a wrong message to all children in this school and beyond.

To be clear, this is a Middle School with students aged 11-14. At this age, I find it hard to believe they understand the concept of Pride Month and do not need to be taught the different lifestyles that make up the LGBTQIA+ community. The teachers and administrators of the school forced the Pride concept onto the student body, and I can guarantee that parental consent was not solicited. For teachers to say that the students do not have social awareness should be a reason not to push the Pride concept, but instead, it is used as an argument to hold the protestors accountable for their actions. That sounds like a double standard. Without social awareness, teaching “Pride” is indoctrination.

These students are adolescents, and labels, pro or con, should never be used to describe them. The protestors are labeled as homophobic. You can only be labeled as such if you understand homosexuality. You cannot be against or afraid of something unless you have a basic understanding of the basis of the issue. I cannot put myself into the heads of the protestors, and I lay the blame for this ugly situation at the feet of the adults. It was unnecessary and has put a spotlight and undue pressure on all the students in the school and system.

Proponents of LGBTQIA+ are calling for implementing a DEIJ committee and hiring a DEIJ Counselor for the school staff. They are seizing on this unfortunate circumstance to promote Pride further and push DEIJ into the middle-school curriculum. Just like there is no place for BLM, CRT or the 1619 Project in our schools, pushing DEIJ on children highlights inequality and even racism to children without these concepts. People that claim this country has a systemic racism problem are planting the seeds of racism in our children. They are the people who should be held accountable for their actions, not the few children strong enough to stand up and say no to indoctrination.

I hope the parents of these young protestors stand with their children and do not yield to the pressure of these WOKE teachers and administrators. The move by parents to regain control of their children’s education began during COVID and has to keep the pressure on educators. Parents must remain vigilant and end the injection of social beliefs into the curriculum. It may be trite, but we need less DEIJ and more ABCs. Our schools are failing our children. They have no place in co-parenting our children. They are our kids, not theirs.

 

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General Secretary of the Communist Party of New Hampshire, Ray Buckley (oh! So sorry! I meant “New Hampshire Democrat Party”), embodies today’s Communist (there I go again, I mean Democrat) Party. To them, you are a member of a group, a tribe, or a race.

That is, you may NOT see yourself as an individual and others around you as individuals … all to be treated as individuals. Your worth is determined by your status … Christian white male: BAD, very bad, oppressor, privileged, even if he lives in a trailer park … Trans-African-American: GOOD, very good, oppressed, victim; even if parents are mega-millionaire Google execs.

Bobby Kennedy, Jr. is a throwback to that time before the Democrat Party was taken over by Communists … to that time when we were individuals, when Democrats saw the role of government as giving a helping hand to everyone who needed it and acting as a check on corporate power when Democrats opposed forever-wars and believed in civil liberties.

Without any further adieu … here’s Bobby Kennedy telling General Secretary Buckley to go f*** himself:

 

The Democratic Party Bosses who promote censorship, who have stripped New Hampshire of its rightful First in the Nation primary status, who have shut down debate, who refuse to campaign in New Hampshire, are in no position to tell me who to talk to. I’m going to speak at Porcfest…

— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) June 16, 2023

 

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Headline: Vermont’s Oldest Loon Dies…” My first thought is that the perennial primary victim of DNC hijinks, Senator Bernie Sanders, had shuffled off his mortal coil. Nope. He’s still kicking. They are talking about a different old bird.

And not bird, in the English sense, and having written that, I’m wondering if you can still call a woman a bird in the UK, and after another thought, if you can, do you have to apply that slang equally to transwomen or you’re a bigot. And who is in charge of policing it?

Sorry for derailing the train of thought. Yes, the old bird was a Loon.

 

Last Tuesday, Newark Pond Male, as Hanson refers to the loon, was found to have died recently at an estimated age of 31. He was the oldest documented loon in Vermont. It’s possible he could be even older, as that age is based on the assumption that the loon was 6 years old and in his first year of nesting during that first encounter, Hanson said.

 

Perhaps the old Loon identified as a much younger Loon, in which case the point is moot.

If you are interested, this link has all sorts of exciting things about banding Loons (the bird, not the Sanders).

If you’d like to read some of our thoughts, reporting, or observations about that loon, Bernie Sanders, you can do that here.

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Subtitle: SUE THEM ALL! This will kill of Wild, Wild West of Transgenderism child mutilation by the Medical Community. Next, do what you do to School Districts! Make it too toxic to their wallets and at least one social norm will be restored (“First, Do No Harm”) followed by “Leave The Little Kids Alone!”. There’s been too much, WAY too much, of “boy wears a tutu – he MUST be a girl” and “girl playing with Tonka trucks – she MUST be a boy”.  And too many Parents using their kids to either relive their high school “The Cool Kids Clique” days (or having missed it then, trying to be “The Cool Parent” now).

It’s time to put that emotional blackmail line by Trans-Authoritarians to the dustbin of history (along with the tattering of THEIR wallets) of:

“Would you rather have a live daughter or a dead son?”

Whose only purpose is meant to shut down, HARD, any kind of debate from those that disagree with them? Especially by Parents.  These are ideological Tyrants and NOW, with $$-signs-in-their-eyes lawyers coming to the fore, we may start to see the air out of this Societal balloon by the de-transitioners who TRULY became someone else’s sick cannon fodder to push a Narrative whose only purpose is to sow chaos and hurt people – THEY are the abusers:

Girl Sues Hospital for Removing Her Breasts at Age 13

A hospital and doctors in California are facing a new lawsuit for removing the breasts of a 13-year-old girl after she claimed she was a boy.

The defendants carried out “ideological and profit-driven medical abuse” when they prescribed her puberty blockers and hormones and, later, performed a double mastectomy, Charles LiMandri, one of the lawyers representing the plaintiff, Layla Jane, said in a statement…While three doctors said Jane was too young for cross-sex hormones, she was eventually referred to several other doctors who prescribed her puberty blockers and hormones. Within six months, they removed her breasts. The hormones and puberty blockers were given based on a single, 75-minute session with Susanne Watson, a psychologist, according to the suit. Dr. Winnie Tong, a plastic surgeon, concluded after a 30-minute session that Jane could have her breasts removed.

“Defendants did not question, elicit, or attempt to understand the psychological events that led Kayla to the mistaken belief that she was transgender, nor did they evaluate, appreciate, or treat her multi-faceted presentation of co-morbid symptoms,” the suit reads. “Instead, Defendants assumed that Kayla, a twelve-year-old emotionally troubled girl, knew best what she needed to improve her mental health and figuratively handed her the prescription pad. There is no other area of medicine where doctors will surgically remove a perfectly healthy body part and intentionally induce a diseased state of the pituitary gland misfunction based simply on the young adolescent patient’s wishes.”

…“The law says children aren’t mature enough to make serious decisions that could have long-lasting consequences like getting a tattoo, driving with friends, drinking alcohol, smoking cigarettes, or even voting,” Jane said in a statement:

“So why is it acceptable for 13-year-olds to decide to mutilate their body?”

A 12-year-old girl “knew best” – are you FLIPPING kidding me? Yet, this is what passes for genius-level thinking with parents, hypocritical Hippocratic Oath Takers, and accountants seeing a constant flow of dollars flowing into their coffers And “highly educated” school staff (have to include them – remove that lesion and much of this social contagion goes away – take away 11-15 year old’s smartphones, too). THIS is child abuse of the maximal type.

Now 18, she asked the right question. Unfortunately, the adults in her life 7 years ago didn’t. Sorry, their response was more akin to “Ok, OKAY, we’ll go to MacDonalds and get you a Happy Meal!!!!” when confronted by a strong-willed child (been there, refused that, let them cry – hours later, they forgot what they were trantruming about). The adults were not “adulting” – they gave into their child (and the emotional blackmail, above).

Norway has stopped this practice. Sweden is about to. England is shuttering its largest trans clinic. Several American hospitals (probably seeing this legal tidal tsunami coming at them) have stopped the practice. Even though the Trans Activists are working hard to squash the existence of de-transitioners, the signal can’t be stopped. Now with lawsuits starting to hit the news along with what school districts have been doing with siding with the trans movement, the anti-Trans train has now left the station. More and more, the public at large is turning against it, realizing that the lives of too many kids have been absolutely ruined.

(H/T: The Epoch Times)

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I don’t much care what you believe as long as it doesn’t infringe on the rights of others. A few hundred years ago, some folks risked their lives on an ocean journey for the right to believe what they wanted, and not long after, we had this thing called America.

It’s been touch-and-go ever since, with a few simple rules and a sort of Ten Commandments (the Bill of Rights) to temper the hijinks one might expect from most central governments. The worst system concocted by man except for all the others. One of the rules was no state-sponsored religion which did not prevent the sovereign states from doing that very thing, but political evolution changed that for the better.

The descendants of the folks who survived the dangerous journey across the ocean were free to “worship” anything or nothing. They could discuss it in the press or on a soap box, with the General Government having no say in any of it, not legally. Local peer pressure was another matter, but with the freedom to travel, you could up and move if you had the means or even if you did not.

Somewhere along the way, someone decided that you could get around the prohibition and suppress people’s religious rights (and not long after speech, press, and association) by worshiping things like science or reason, even if the attendant dogma was neither.

Science, hijacked by atheists, has since been reduced to scientism with an accompanying theological absolutism about as anti-science as a thing could be. Some of its greatest sins are recent (climate and COVID come to mind), but the greatest debate revolves like the earth around the sun over origin. The two camps (there are more, but not today) are “You can’t get something from nothing” and “Oh, yes, you damn well can.” The latter, unable to explain where the stuff that erupted from the Big Bang originates, have decided it didn’t and doesn’t need to have even existed.

From Marilyn Prever, writing for Touchstone,

 

One of the most popular candidates for a “natural process” that may account for “the entire universe” is a random quantum fluctuation, which has the advantage of being virtually nothing at all, and acting upon a new kind of nothingness, a vacuum that somehow has a structure. The idea is that nobody has to pipe up and ask, “But Professor, where did the quantum fluctuation come from?”

You don’t have to account for it, this nothing that can turn into a universe; it’s just there, like the cosmic ocean, or Yggdrasil the World Ash Tree, or whatever is already just there in those charming Babylonian-type creation myths—and very much unlike the unique simplicity of Genesis: “And God said, Let there be light, and there was light.”

 

The answer to the ignorance of the ineffable in religion is for those who believe themselves exponentially more clever than people of faith to lobby for ineffability in science. The atheists are swooning, but as Prever also notes,

 

Why is it that the atheists are allowed to freely accuse believers of cowardice and wishful thinking—of not having the guts to face the hard truth—when we believers don’t dare suggest, even ever so delicately, that when someone prefers this non-personal “fluctuation” to the God of Abraham and Moses, there may be something at work besides heroic honesty. After all, belief in a personal God is liable to cost the worshipers something in the way of interference with their sex lives, their reputations, or even their chances of tenure. There are all kinds of wishful thinking.

But even if all the atheists have hearts as pure as the driven snow and all believers are the crabbed, bigoted, fearful yahoos the atheists would like to think they are, I still insist that this updated form of atheism is a perverse and ignoble idea, and answering it does not require a Ph.D. in astrophysics. We only need to ask what kind of hard evidence could possibly be brought forth to prove it, considering that the whole idea of proof depends on the reliability of the human mind—which must be pretty much zilch if that mind is nothing but the effect of random and meaningless processes.

 

The random and meaningless processes can no longer explain where the quantum fluctuation came from than their alleged ape ancestors could explain the sun or moon. It just is, like the idea that you can believe what you want as long as it doesn’t infringe on the rights of others. And we’d be fine if that were the case, but it’s not. The New Atheism, while more religious, is less tolerant, just like its secular humanist ideological brethren who cluster under the banner of the Political Left. Denominations of the same empty faith, all equally ineffable, but certified as legitimate simply because they pretend it is based on science.

A belief system, perhaps no different than any other. After all, if there is a God, it is reasonable to ask where they came from. What is not reasonable is using scientism to deny everyone else their unexplained first origin or the belief system that sustained it. If we are truly equal under nature or nature’s god, then none of us is entitled to a monopoly on faith or its absence. And wouldn’t demanding otherwise be one of the many sins of which atheists or ‘scientismists’ accuse people of faith?

Believe what you like, just as long as it doesn’t infringe on the rights of others, which includes believing things you do not.

 

Note: The original version, as published, was unfinished. Apologies for the error, but it has since been remedied.

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On the morning of May 16, I was at the New Hampshire State House handing out flyers to state reps urging them to vote for SB272, the parental rights bill, on behalf of Cornerstone. There were people crowding the hallway that morning, and the majority were there to lobby against the parental rights bills.

A woman standing near me was holding a sign that said, “Protect trans kids from ignorant adults.” I politely asked her if she believes that parents are ignorant.

The man with her responded to my question by aggressively walking up to me and holding his large “I love my trans friend” sign inches from my face, trying to intimidate and harass me and block me from handing out flyers to the legislators walking by. One of the organizers of the anti-parental rights group asked him to step back. The organizer said, “She really likes to say ‘They touched me! They touched me!” insinuating that I lie about progressive activists assaulting me despite the evidence right in front of her that these people do not respect boundaries.

After a few minutes of holding his sign in front of my face and taunting me, he asked for one of the Cornerstone flyers. I handed it to him, and he proceeded to rip the flyer in a comically dramatic fashion.

I discovered my tormentor is Dominic Osmund, a registered lobbyist for 350NH, an organization that lobbies for “Climate Justice.” Osmund was not wearing the legally required orange lobbyist name badge even though he was lobbying legislators, and he was trying to block me from lobbying those same legislators.

Related: Book-Burning ACLU-NH Trans Justice Organizer Axed

This is not my first run-in with a badly-behaving registered lobbyist. The last one was ACLU-NH’s former Trans Justice Organizer Palana Belkin, whom I also blogged about here. Will Dominic Osmund meet the same fate as Palana?

 

Watch Dominic Osmund’s harassing me here:

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Incredible thread by Matt Walsh. Fox News … one you pull back the curtain … is every bit as woke as CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, etc.. “Fair and balanced” is a LIE. Fox News is every bit as much unfair and unbalanced as the networks it wants you to believe it is different from. Fox News is CONTROLLED OPPOSITION … and we know who is doing the controlling. First, let’s get you started with Walsh’s thread:

1/ BREAKING: We've obtained internal docs from @FoxNews employees. Fox Corp is celebrating Pride by encouraging employees to read about “glory holes,” supporting a group that gives sterilizing hormones to homeless youth, & deployed woke AI to monitor everyone. EXPLICIT CONTENT:

— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) June 15, 2023

Have you figured out yet who is behind the wokification of Fox? Well if you guessed BLACROCK … winner, winner, chicken-dinner:

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Some in the LGB community can probably see it coming. What used to be an expression – albeit a bit oversexualized – of pride in an alternative lifestyle choice has been hijacked. The T and the Q are in the driver’s seat, and the party bus is headed for a cliff.

The over-the-top elements are front and center as they try to normalize gender-transitioning kids. The Democrat party, teachers, schools, and school boards are not pushing back. Parents who do are pilloried and threatened by teachers, boards, and even the DOJ. Pushback was inevitable, and there will be casualties.

And not just the distributors who work for companies like Anheuser Busch.

The push to mutilate kids seems like an odd hill on which to die, but they are playing it not much differently than the problem of moderate Muslims. They exist, but the extremists get more press and run the show. Calls for moderation appear to fall on deaf ears, mostly because they would prefer to be left alone to live or worship in peace. Standing up can cost you your head (rhetorically and literally).

Radicals rule the roost suppressing all dissent by example. Look at what we did to that guy. Do you want to be next? It is an essential tactic of despotic movements, necessary. Radical Isalm has more in common with Stalin and Mao than Washington or Jefferson. The Left’s Democratic-Socialism is equally aligned with mobs that choose to vandalize crisis pregnancy centers in the name of choice, Eco-Warrirors who set forests on fire or derail trains to protect the environment, and the “be you” crowd that needs you to be like them or not at all.

Last year June was Moneypox Month. This year there are nearly 4000 cases in over 50 countries, but it would be intolerant to talk too much about it, and even the World Health Organization is avoiding anything short of regular surveillance announcements.

This year we are seeing pushback in schools, sports, and business. The LGB folks need to figure out what to do with T and Q before the whole mess swings back around, and Pride is little more than a word to describe a bunch of lions who choose to live and hunt together.

In other words, it’s on you to salvage the ruin being perpetuated by the intolerance and overreach of the Transgender movement.

 

 

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Given our electoral political situation where the Left seems to own the young (normally thought to be from the effort in capturing our Education system), it may seem that a Conservative party may be past history. Or is that more like Jeanne Shaheen’s no more snow prediction of years ago – completely false?

Emphasis mine reformatted

Millennials Are Not an Exception. They’ve Moved to the Right.

Fifteen years ago, a new generation of young voters propelled Barack Obama to a decisive victory that augured a new era of Democratic dominance. Fifteen years later, those once young voters aren’t so young — and aren’t quite so Democratic. In the 2020 presidential election, voters who were 18 to 29 in 2008 backed Joe Biden by 55 percent to 43 percent, according to our estimates, a margin roughly half that of Mr. Obama’s 12 years earlier.

The exit polls show it even closer, with Mr. Biden winning by just 51-45 among voters who were 18 to 27 in 2008 (exit polls report results among those 30 to 39, not 30 to 41 — the group that was 18 to 29 in 2008).

 

The question is whether or not this holds merely because of the candidate(s).

Obama was a phenom with charisma (and no shortage of an Alinsky mean streak). Biden is a retread with dementia. And the above sample is a very short time span.

Throw the Nixon/Reagan landslides with the rebounds that happened afterward. I keep thinking it is more of a pendulum process rather than just an aging process. After all, if that old saw (half in the title) held true, why is it that there are so many white-haired Progressives in legislatures?

Policies enacted by one side or another, however, can predicate the elections as well.

Not sure if or how that impacts this short time span.

 

 

HT | Powerline

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