It is a well-known legislative strategy in the NH House to protect a “win” against later efforts of your opponents to convert it into a loss. This is especially important when the numbers of Reps on each side of the aisle are fairly close together, as we find ourselves now.

Thus, when the majority has won a vote on a bill, no matter whether it was determined to pass or fail, the win can be protected by the simple process of having a Rep who voted in the majority move for reconsideration (yes, only a single Rep is required to make such a motion) and urge voting AGAINST the reconsideration motion. If the reconsideration motion is defeated (assuming that those who voted on the winning side will also vote against reconsideration), the bill cannot be brought up before the House again until the next legislative session quite a way down the road.

So, last Thursday, the morning votes went fairly well for the Republican majority, even though by very small margins. But it has been reported that some Dem operatives were standing by the chamber doors to record who was leaving for the day and who was staying, so they could adjust their own strategy. And in the afternoon, after several Republican Reps had left early for the day, shifting the majority of those present to the Dems, the Dems brought virtually all of the morning bills that had been handled successfully by the Republicans back for reconsideration, at which point, since the Dems now had a small majority, the prior actions on those bills were reversed, handing the Republicans a series of defeats- unforced errors.

One might ask how this could happen. One might ask why no Republican Reps attempted to lock in their morning victories by seeking reconsideration and having reconsideration defeated when the Republicans still held a majority in attendance. The simple answer is that no Republican Reps sought such reconsideration or were asked or encouraged to do so through what appears to be an abject failure of the so-called “leadership” in the House. Some might even call it political malpractice.

If that so-called “leadership” cannot implement even the simplest legislative strategy, one might wonder why they are still in “leadership.”

And it is very well known that the Republican majority in the House is now very thin, making attendance and voting by Republican Reps absolutely essential. There have been numerous statements by very smart people about the benefits and necessity of simply showing up (at the General Court as in everything in life):
“Showing up is half the battle in life. The ones who have the life they want showed up every single day and did the work. It’s not about doing intense work or doing smart, complicated work. It’s about just showing up to work and seeing the day through to the end by giving it effort.”

Yet we seem to have some Reps claiming to be Republicans whose attendance at House voting sessions is abysmal. If they do not care enough to show up and vote, they should not be in the House.

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Democrats famously walked out of a session of the NH House when a Republican began reading smut from a book they want to be left in public schools. Books that include drug and alcohol abuse, suicidal ideation, and adult-child sex. If they aren’t groomers or abetting the practice, what then is this?

This is truly a battle between good and evil!@COHouseGOP pic.twitter.com/8myMM38pOc

— Representative Scott Bottoms (@repscottbottoms) February 17, 2024

All day in committee we discussed whether or not to require jail time for somebody that buys little children — 2, 3, 4, 5 year old kids — for sex. Right now, most of the time they get off on probation after buying and raping a little child. We tried to get a bill through, (representative Bradley’s) to ensure these buyers do time, a minimum of 4 years.

But democrats voted a 100% against putting these pedophiles in jail. They defended the pedophiles! They came up with all kinds of reasons, including that these buyers are victims themselves.

It doesn’t help that the same Democrats (not all, but most) are all-in for open borders, which has abetted child and human sex trafficking. If pressed in “safe spaces” with the right company, they will easily admit that adult-child sex is a lifestyle choice that should be defended. States with majorities of Democrats and no one to stop them will purposefully favor the pro-pedophilia culture.

It’s who they are, and we see that when they walk out of Session or vote 100% against punishing adults caught having sex with or trafficking children. When challenged (as with the argument that limiting access to age-appropriate material is banning or censorship), the perps are the victims.

Where does this leave the children? They are physically and mentally abused – which is what Democrats are also defending, and they need to be called out on it.

 

 

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Last Week, Wolf PAC’s Cenk Uygur and his “Conservative” allies were handed a defeat in New Hampshire, and this week they were handed a defeat in Maine.

The odious Cenk Uygur, founder of Wolf  PAC, and his “conservative” allies at Convention of States and Term Limits USA were handed a defeat last week in New Hampshire when the New Hampshire House tabled HCR 8-an application for an Article V Convention by a 247-99 vote, and this week February 20,  Maine’s State Senate voted 12-18 against the Motion to Accept Majority Ought to pass report on SP 705 which was a joint collaboration between Wolf PAC and Term Limits USA, and its lobbyist Ken Quinn.

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The well-funded pro-Article V Convention lobbyists have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in both states over the past ten years to no avail.  It appears that the more money they spend, the fewer votes they get.  This is due to the hard work of local activists who take the time to educate their elected officials on this issue.  However, we cannot rest on our laurels.  We need to rescind all extant applications in both states.  Thanks to all of those who helped make these victories for the U.S. Constitution possible.

Last night, a friend in Maine informed me that Ken Quinn, a lobbyist for Wolf PAC, was on a popular Maine radio show promoting an Article Convention.  I immediately E-mailed the station and asked for some equal time. Within a few minutes, Mr. Ric Tyler, co-host of the George Hale-Ric Tyler Show on WVOM FM, invited me to call in at 6:06 AM.  Here is the interview.

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There are still a lot of towns in New Hampshire that gather every year for Town Meeting. In a crowded room, all your neighbors raise their hands and say yeah and nay in front of everyone else. It could always get contentious, but in today’s political climate, you could get branded or targeted. There’s a cure for that.

SB2 was the Senate Bill that allowed towns to switch to a secret ballot for casting votes on town business, budgets, warrant articles, and so on. You got the chance to have your say and keep your anonymity. It’s not mandatory, but a town can vote for it using a ballot, just not in the traditional sense. If someone wants to switch to server balloting for future “elections” and town business – at present – you have to do that during town meeting, by submitting your ballot to the moderator.

It’s still sort of secret, but you walk up and hand in your ballot. There is legislation to change that to make it a truly secret ballot vote.

To quote a reader, HB1175 “If enacted, would restore the original (pre-2019) language by providing for an all-day vote by secret ballot at the polls to decide whether or not to adopt SB2 voting.”

The new (old) verbiage looks like this.

III. The local political subdivision shall place the question on the warrant of the annual meeting under the procedures set out in RSA 39:3 or RSA 197:6, and the question shall be voted on by official ballot in accordance with the procedures established in RSA 669:19-29, RSA 670:5-7, and RSA 671:20-30, including all requirements pertaining to absentee voting, polling places, and polling hours.

There are no vote-by-mail ballots for town meetings; you have to show up, but again, that tends to lower participation in what are often (even in SB2 towns) underperforming events. Local elections attract a fraction of registered voters, yet these are what – at least around here – determine the majority of the taxes you will pay in a year. That disinterest baffles me, but I can see why you might be reluctant to sit in a room all day and raise your hand or yell yay or nay. SB2 creates the opportunity to enhance local participation.

Secret ballots allow for informed no voters to intercede in the wreckless spending antics of (primarily) the public school system, which sucks up about 70% of the average local budget.

SB2 won’t fix that, and HB1175 doesn’t make every Town SB2; you still get to decide that locally, but if it passes, it might encourage a few towns to consider a move that is a step in that “right” direction, and that was the original intent of the law.

 

 

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As the cradle of American Liberty (Massachusetts) prepares to force its citizens to house illegals (you should start that in Lexington and Concord and see if they remember their history), New Scientist Magazine is floating a trial balloon that might solve two problems simultaneously.

Despite the lab-leaked COVID and its alleged leaky-lab preventative, too many people are still walking around on Planet Earth. The depopulation cult has deployed decades of killing pre-borns, allowing easy access to drug overdoses, and defunding police while funding criminals, and there are still too many people. Assisted suicide is catching on, but it’s early days, so what else might get the job done? Cannibalism! If you can’t beat them, eat them!

Is it time for a more subtle view on the ultimate taboo: cannibalism? https://t.co/wRmiU8ZSrZ

— New Scientist (@newscientist) February 19, 2024

Sure, we’ll open our home to a friendly migrant family if you send some seasonings and a case or two of Red River barbeque Sauce. We’ll save the planet and “relocate” some illegals at the same time. Can you imagine a marketing campaign that went something like this? US Open Borders is a cannibalism cattle call as entire families go missing, never to be seen again. It might actually flatten the curve if you take my meaning. This is, of course, the point of the eating people trial balloon. What do you say we write something about how eating people used to be normal (the way slavery?) and see who ‘bites’?

To add a catalyst, the authors even managed to claim that our disgust at the prospect of killing and eating a neighbor was racist and colonialism. And so are math and reading because illiterate zombies are easier to catch and eat, I suspect.

Cannibalism isn’t ethically too bad, and the reason that we’re against it is because… racism. pic.twitter.com/UEy0K3LWEv

— Leftism (@LeftismForU) February 20, 2024

New Scientist was not, of course, thinking we’d suggest that their idea could solve the overcrowding of America by invaders moved into the nation by the UN and the American left. They were likely thinking the opposite (they could eat us); after all, we’re the electorate that needs replacing. And Americans continue to become victims of the open border invasion by gangs, cartels, pedophiles, traffickers, terrorists, and the like.

What’s really happened is the elites are feeding us to them.

 

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In a little-noticed presentation on Dec. 9, 2023, at COP28 in Dubai, a panel of soil experts presented the case for cows as climate allies, not gas-spewing destroyers. The event, titled “Conscious Livestock Rearing and Soil Health,” discussed “animal rearing’s impact on soil health and its place as a part of the climate solution.” Contrary to the anti-cow cacophony of the climate crisis crowd, these experts explained the vital role ruminants like cows play in nourishing and rebuilding precious soils. It turns out grazing cows sequester massive amounts of carbon.

On the panel of experts was Seth J. Itzkan, co-founder of SOIL4Climate, Inc., a nonprofit that “promotes soil restoration as a climate solution,” and a man akin to a Lorax for the cows.

“I would respectfully push back against the less animals narrative,” Itzkan said, referring to calls to reduce the number of cows on the planet. “I actually don’t think there’s nearly enough,” he continued. “I think we’re going to need way more ruminants on the Earth, maybe twice as many as there are now, and they will need to be managed in this way that is beneficial.”

The Case for More Cows Bill Gates, Klaus Schwab, and globalists of their ilk claim humans must cut back on meat to save the planet from doom. The entire argument is premised on claims of enteric methane emissions from cattle confined in unnatural factory operations: Rotationally grazed cows sequester more carbon dioxide in the soil with their manure than they emit when they burp. Cow manure rebuilds soils destroyed by synthetic fertilizers and other chemicals, nurturing microbial life that feeds on methane. Robust natural soils sequester more carbon dioxide than forests, yet bovines are denied any carbon credit.

Itzkan was one of many soil and agriculture experts on hidden display at the global climate summit who explained that soil health is a key element of effective environmental stewardship and that ruminants are integral to that ancient cycle. Itzkan argued that:

[G]rasslands, the second largest ecosystem on the planet after the oceans, coevolved with extensive herds of grazing ruminants. These migratory mammals were essential to giving grasslands their fertile soils which store an enormous amount of carbon. A great deal of this carbon has been lost because of poorly managed cropping and grazing. However, ecologically beneficial cropping techniques, and grazing in a way that replicates the behavior of wild herds, can replenish much of this essential element.

Where the Buffalo Roam North America’s legendary bison herds once thundered across the Great Plains, nurturing soils and the entire ecosystem. Efforts to eradicate the buffalo to undermine Native Americans starved the precious soil microbiome; subsequent compaction and tilling by tractors and equipment gradually weakened and eroded topsoils. Synthetic fertilizers (manufactured from natural gas, aka methane) replaced bison manure, while various chemical concoctions began killing off soil microbes, poisoning wells, and wiping out colonies of vital honeybees.

The push to eliminate cows has been crafted by the same industrial forces that imprisoned them in Confined Animal Feed Operations (CAFOs). Synthetic and fake meats grown from soy or corn harvested with tractors and chemicals do not rebuild soils, instead accelerating erosion and the release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Cows returned to roam the fields and hillsides, converting grass to meat and milk while replenishing soil health naturally.

Cows are not the cause, but the solution, of climate change. Humanity needs more cows, not fewer! Those who say otherwise are simply manure deniers.

John Klar is an Attorney, farmer, and author. Mostly farmer… And Regular Contributor to GraniteGrok and VermontGrok.

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I’m confident that people who show up drunk for work are more likely to get injured or injure someone else, but this study on weed and workplace injury suggests something less immediate and more lasting. The potential for a decline in cognitive agility with long-term use of marijuana might result in more work-related injuries.

Drunks, or those in training to be one, have well-understood immediate handicaps that fade without persistent use, joined later by chronic or terminal conditions resulting from long-term excessive use or abuse. The corpus on legalized or decriminalized marijuana, in contrast, continues to grow. Still, there are well-documented inferences to mental health issues as marijuana is a popular hobby among mental patients. Feel free to engage in “which came first debates,” as I’m sure there is evidence on both sides, but the US Department of Labor Statistics is reporting something we could add to the conversation.

U.S. Bureau of Labor statistics for 2006 through 2020 show that legal “recreational marijuana sales were associated with a 10% increase in workplace injuries among individuals aged 20 to 34 years,” the study authors concluded. … The study was published Friday in the journal JAMA Health Forum and co-led by Dr. Joseph Sabia, chair of the economics department at San Diego State University. ..

“Two and 3 years post-adoption, injuries were significantly higher,” the research team concluded.

Among 20-to-34-year-olds generally, on-the-job injuries rose by 10% on average, and when the data focused on folks solely engaged in full-time work, the researchers observed an 11.9% rise.

Correlation does not mean causation, but seeing as we’re in the early stages of this particular human experiment, and the legal weed train (and all the lovely taxes that will spring from it) appears unstoppable, what is society to do about this?

The idea that freedom is merely the ability to act upon one’s whims is surely very thin and hardly begins to capture the complexities of human existence; a man whose appetite is his law strikes us not as liberated but enslaved. And when such a narrowly conceived freedom is made the touchstone of public policy, a dissolution of society is bound to follow. No culture that makes publicly sanctioned self-indulgence its highest good can long survive: a radical egotism is bound to ensue, in which any limitations upon personal behavior are experienced as infringements of basic rights.

For my part, the government need not be much involved until there is a threat to the rights of others, and that threat does not include other states collecting revenues from Granite Staters that we could be collecting here. My primary objection to state involvement has long been their using appetites (liquor and tobacco taxes have long rankled my sensibilities) to accumulate revenue, with which they might then do more serious harm—the same with gambling. I’ve opposed them all on the basis of enriching legislators and regulators inspired to grow government—a far more significant threat to human liberty than any other.

Pretending to set up a slush fund to address addiction to the thing you’re peddling is deceptive misdirection; after all, where’s the slush fund to address addiction to the uncontrolled taxation, meddling, and growth of government?

So, is there some middle ground between the right to put things into your body and the effect it inevitably has on society? We’ve come to terms with alcohol, so many will say yes. And who is to complain if an employee who has harmed their cognitive agility hurts themself unless that results in the harm of others for which there are already laws to punish offenders after the fact?

It may or may not be a thorny question, but if long-term use of modern-day marijuana is proven dangerously debilitating and irreversible, what then? Are we just sacrificing future generations to death by misadventure or, worse, creating a caste of eaters? Our new morals allow us to plumb this state of decline but do not permit us just to erase the results, although there is a movement among assisted suicide advocates to convince them to do just that.

Assuming they survived their workplace injury.

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I won’t say this is the best or worst of times, but I think it is a time of change in America. Change may be the most overused and meaningless word in politics. It is a sign of pure laziness when a candidate claims it is time for a change and thinks that says it all. It says nothing. It is tantamount to someone responding with the word interesting in a conversation.

It means and contributes nothing to the dialog. The change that is happening in America is palpable. It is a slow but growing movement rejecting the radical socialist views of the Progressive Left that were initially embraced but have proven to be failures. It is a movement that indicates a possible trend back toward more traditional values, dare I say, more conservative values.

The 2024 Presidential race is the redo that many of us have longed for and that the Democrats had hoped would never happen. The brash and maligned Trump is seeking to regain his place in history, taken by the lifelong politician, Joe Biden. In a time of change, two octogenarians will compete to be the leader of the free world, our President.

Both have been down this road, and both have won and lost. The battle in 2024 will be a contrast between a man who gets his energy from being with and in front of the people and one who has used up his energy and will run for office from his Delaware basement once again. Biden will do his best to avoid people and exposure to minimize his blunders, while Trump will balance his time between the campaign trail and various courtrooms. The 2024 Race will be our history’s most unique and confusing election.

The Democrat Party is caught in the conundrum of admitting Biden is unfit for the office and exposing the lie they have been telling for four years or sticking by their man and risking losing the Presidency. The Dems have done their best to weaponize the DOJ against Trump and force him to split his focus between the campaign and the preservation of the Trump business empire. The 91 indictments would seem insurmountable for most people, but Trump is rising above the most. Trump has the resources and the will to go toe-to-toe with those who would take him down. Leticia James and Fani Willis have exposed themselves politically, not legally, focused on taking Trump down. Each daily legal report shows a corresponding increase in Trump support. As Trump said a few weeks ago, he is one indictment away from winning the Presidency.

On the flip side, Biden will rely on his immediate surrogates and the Party to speak for him. Biden will not debate, hold a legitimate press conference, or public rally. Biden will try to win a second term by being the least transparent candidate ever. Show them nothing, say nothing, and hope the Democrat machine can produce enough votes in the crucial states to bring home the win.

Trump has to avoid a guilty verdict by a high court that will stall his campaign. New York will not survive the appeal, and Georgia is falling apart before it starts, but there are many more legal land mines between Trump and victory.

This election is unfortunate and embarrassing on the global stage, but the blame for that falls solely on the Democrats. They have a flawed incumbent candidate and an unpopular record, which forced them to get creative. Let’s hope the awakened American voters see through this and take the first step to reviving a great America, by putting Trump back in the White House for four more years.

A note from the author. This is my 1,200 article and consecutive days publishing on Conservative View From New Hampshire. I thank you for your support and look forward to keeping the streak alive. We have so much work to do but together, we can get the job done. Ray

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From a front-row seat on January 31, I observed two well-known lawyers sparring in the executive council chamber.  It was Warmington and Formella, and the heated dialogue begins at 1h21 min in this video.

Most people paying attention to the Corner Office race know that reproductive issues primarily fuel Warmington’s campaign, and she lashed out at Formella because he declined to join an amicus brief with his out-of-state counterparts.  He took it like a gentleman at the mic for about 10 minutes, claiming that it didn’t pass legal muster while she was gaslighting him.

That was not the first time Warmington became unhinged in the chamber.  A previous time, a date unknown to me at the moment, she spent about 30 minutes lashing out at Wheeler for recording his vote. As the “leader of the pack,” so to speak, one of Wheeler’s responsibilities is to deliver the meeting minutes to Scanlan’s office to be archived. Warmington took objection to Wheeler recording his vote on voice votes.  It was a “wah wah wah, transparency” cry to no avail while Wheeler defended himself, claiming that he always does that.  She claimed that he was taking advantage of the benefits of being the messenger.

There’s other fodder to make criticism of Warmington, but instead, let’s discuss the kinds of votes there are and their applications.  While I’m most certainly a Wheeler critic, I commend him for recording his vote in a VOICE VOTE, which is resoundingly transparent. A future researcher who pays little or no attention to what’s happening today has a shovel to start digging if desired.

The VOICE VOTE is used in lots of government bodies, including the executive council and both chambers of the legislature, usually to move things along and/or when the item being voted on is of little interest or consequence.  In addition to saving time, there are a few other advantages.  One of them is the subjectivity of the person running the show.  Look at the Senate, for example.  No matter how loud you hear the enemy camp shout “no” with D’Allesandro playing lead vocals, Jeb can still say, “The ayes have it, and the item is adopted.”  So it’s a great “power tool” in the toolbox, but it also cloaks cowardice, and the cowards have an easier time dodging accountability in a larger body, particularly the House.

All kinds of shenanigans can and do happen when an item of specific interest, like brass knuckles, falls victim to the establishment’s hive mind. I mention brass knuckles because that bill was in the Senate last year. Twitley moved the item right after the clerk called on her to introduce the committee recommendation just to usurp any opportunity for discussion, and a VOICE VOTE was involved.  Remember that this is a body of 24; one could ask each one how they voted, but there’s no individual recording and archiving of said votes.

Let’s revisit the executive council, which only has five members.  What I just said about the Senate applies here also, hence Wheeler’s desire to record his vote.  Then there’s the roll call.  Roll calls are time-consuming, especially when there are a lot of them.  In the House, all 400, or as Senator Gray would say, “members with butts in seats,” which is often much less than 400, will press their buttons during that window of time to vote.  It goes ON RECORD, both how they voted or if they voted at all.  Accountability.

Before leaving Twitter, I used to follow Eric Brakey, the good senator from Maine who was blocked by Buckley.

One of his videos showed the Maine Senate voting just like the NH House. They have 35 members.

We have 24, and the clerk calls the roll, one at a time. Pay attention to the dynamics here. Carrie Gendreau will always vote first and Altschiller will always vote last.  This is the same for the executive council. Kenney will always vote first, and Wheeler will always vote last. In a body of 5, Wheeler has the opportunity to be a tiebreaker if one of his peers has already gone rogue with a vote.  The flip side is that Wheeler’s vote is rendered irrelevant if Kenney, Stevens, and Gatsas vote the same way.

Why am I boring you with all this civics?  It’s because the executive council has to vote on the judge nomination of the Gunstock accomplice, aka Belknap County Attorney Andrew Livernois.  Remember that this is a political favor from His Excellency for Livernois’s contribution to torpedoing NH’s reddest county. If you’re not up to speed on Gunstock, which the Damn Emperor prefers you not be, you can find intel here.

I emailed Wheeler shortly after Livernois’s January 31 nomination, which was at the same meeting as  Warmington’s most recent public meltdown.

At the end of the email, I said, “Please vote NO and encourage your peers to do the same.”  I published the open letter as a model for those with writer’s block, but personalizing an email to one’s elected is known to have a better chance of being read than copied and pasted activist group emails.  As voter number five in a ROLL CALL VOTE, Wheeler’s vote can potentially become irrelevant as I already noted.  He can’t block Livernois all by himself; therefore, it is important to get at least 2 of his peers on board. Kenney, who always votes first and was the lone dissenter against the approval of Anne Edwards’s judge appointment, would be a good person to target.  Kenney also recently made some public comments about wanting more “big government” in the form of snowmobile regulation on the heels of recent accidents involving rentals.

Politely point out that he is on notice.

Have you told YOUR executive councilor to vote NO yet?  If not, please do it now.  I suggest pointing out that it’s an election year.  Now it’s time to go follow up on Wheeler, who has a habit of ignoring my emails.

 

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The young lady murdered by an illegal in Georgia: to the globalists/corporatists, she was “collateral damage,” the price that unfortunately has to be paid to get the ruling elites the workers they demand. To the evil people running the Biden Regime and supporting the Biden Regime, she was nothing.

Because what really matters is that she had white skin, and people with white skin have oppressed people with non-white skin throughout history, and this is a small step to evening the score.

These people … the people inciting, encouraging, allowing, tolerating, etc., etc., etc. … are EVIL. You, your family, your friends mean NOTHING to them.

Laken Riley, a nursing student, was brutally murdered on the University of Georgia campus. The suspect in custody is a 26-year-old illegal from Venezuela, Jose Antionio Ibarra. Athens-Clark County is a sanctuary city. Every crime committed by an illegal alien is an avoidable… pic.twitter.com/wviDqNoHGC

— Allie Beth Stuckey (@conservmillen) February 24, 2024

#BREAKING DHS sources confirm that Jose Antonio Ibarra was arrested 5 months ago in New York.

Records show he was arrested on 9/14/23 in Queens, NY for injury to child less than 17 and no license.

— Ali Bradley (@AliBradleyTV) February 24, 2024

Athens-Clarke County, where a young woman was just murdered by an illegal, is one of 3 sanctuary cities in Georgia. The city is the home of UGA, and its status as a refuge for criminals could change very quickly if UGA’s donors refused to give their dollars & parents refused to…

— Allie Beth Stuckey (@conservmillen) February 24, 2024

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The origin of life and the universe is not a typical water-cooler conversation, but in an increasingly secular world, nagging questions remain. Problems for which relativists, atheists, and secularists can’t answer with certainty. Well, no one can; that’s the beauty of mystery, but the uniqueness of reality suggests the need for more debate.

On the science side, there are variables that, if they were even the slightest bit different, suggest none of this nor any of us could exist. There’s a lot of luck involved or, as advocates would suggest, evidence of design. I’m sure it is also a “we don’t know what we don’t know” problem, so I’ll stray from that universe into one more my speed and still on topic (at least in the universe of my consciousness), using government in pursuit of progressive perfectionism.

There is an apolitical idea held by groups who are increasingly more secular than theist that someone (them, actually) can use their superpowers (legislation, rules, force of law, and even a police state) to usher in the utopia on earth. A perfectly functioning pile of millions of otherwise disparate moving bits that result in heaven on earth. A mortal political paradise – while you as an individual (in their context) are not allowed or perhaps even capable of knowing what your ideal life or world might look like. Despite the frightening similarities (homo sapiens sapiens), it is not within you to know how individual peace or prosperity might look. What it would feel like. In their mind, you are more likely a barrier on the road to utopia.

This perfect place can only be achieved by their design. A vision precipitated by their will into which you will confine yourself in deference to the illusion that they can not only know but make your life better, but each and every one of the over 300 million of you in the United States, at the same time.

For a bunch of secular humanists, this sounds very much like the theocracy that tells you to fear wherein you will play the role assigned so that you might one day achieve thanks to a government that always hunger, led by people who never starve, in pursuit of a perfection that never arrives.

The Intelligent design of an all-seeing oligarchic god-king without whom it would have been impossible.

The difference, of course, is the first cause. We do not know where all the matter in the universe came from or if there was a designer from where they came. Oligarchic god-kings or governments that behave like them are allowed to create themselves, and in our case, with the will or indifference of the people.

We allowed them to heap disdain on the paradise we had, a messy and imperfect arrangement but the best chance for true liberty in the arc of human history, whether you think it was ordained by God or not. In the end, the problem with people is always people who cannot imagine a power greater than themselves, whether it is the designer of the universe or their constituents.

 

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Imagine a Mosquito at a nudist colony that knows what to do but doesn’t know where to start. Kudos to State Rep. Michael Granger and the five co-sponsors who know where to start! Introducing HB1294 to Nullify the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in NH will preserve state sovereignty and nullify (EPA) regulation enforcement.

Rep. Granger needs your help to educate his colleagues to overcome decades of disinformation that has saturated our culture with doomsday scenarios. Among many other frightening projections, remember 1969’s Population Bomb dangers Paul Ehrlich predicted: The battle to feed humanity is over. In the 1970’s and 1980’s hundreds millions of people will starve …”! Prophetic nonsense, in 1975, from Nigel Calder of International Wildlife, warned: “The threat of a new ice age must now stand along side nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankind.”

Encroachments on our liberty ignited by loud voices of fear created the EPA. Environmental hysteria propagated EPA implemented false solutions, ostensibly to save the environment with an underlying cause to control people. The result: bureaucratic laws supersede our Bill of Rights protections. Fear of government must once again be viewed as Washington did: “…It’s a dangerous servant and a fearful master.” If government uses phony science and fear against the people, then certainly we can use the fear of truth about the EPA to save our liberty.

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America’s survival needs pullers at the oars in the liberty boat. Consider this a call for emergency action. I am now using their tool of fear to motivate action from the reader. Freedom needs help to continue for posterity. Your involvement in helping push the “nullification” of the EPA’s unconstitutional usurpations of power will not stop accidentally. We need to confront these encroachments on our liberty by placing phone calls and emails demanding NH legislators pass HB 1294 to stop the EPA’s unconstitutional law. Ponder the thought of edicts from the EPA mandating another lockdown.

We need to build a fire in the minds of our State Rep”s and Senators with true facts to help Rep Granger pass HB 1294. Tell them our Bill of Rights have no emergency exceptions. Tell them they have the authority and duty to interface for “we the people” to protect our God-given inherent rights.

Nullification

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“Report Wrongdoing.”

This is the message encouraging employees at the Manchester Veteran’s Affairs (VA) Medical Center to report violations of federal law, regulation, or policy. Several agencies are tasked with oversight of VA programs and investigation of complaints, including fraud, waste, abuse, and gross mismanagement.

After years of reporting issues to many members of leadership and their unwillingness to address the malfeasance and injustice that continued, I decided to become a whistleblower. Please read part one of this series for background information.

“Whistleblower”

This word seems to evoke fear in the hearts of Manchester VA employees.  I remember a colleague advising me not to talk about the 2015 whistleblower case around a manager who was well-known for retaliation.  Conversations about poor management often include lines such as: “They don’t work here anymore.  They were a whistleblower.”  Or, “Management made it known they didn’t like that person after the whistleblower case.”

Like-minded employees who shared my concerns seemed hesitant to talk after I revealed my whistleblowing to them, and for good reason.  I faced severe retaliation for reporting even minor concerns within Manchester, VA, and this evoked a sense of fear, preventing me from becoming a whistleblower sooner.  News stories about retaliation in the VA and this GAO report only serve to reinforce this fear. Related:Whistleblower: The Manchester VA is A Microcosm of Everything Wrong With the Federal Government.

Faced with an assortment of oversight agencies to choose from, I filed a whistleblower report with the Office of Accountability and Whistleblower Protection (OAWP).  Within a week I received an email from a representative who asked me for more information, which I provided extensive records with names and dates of each interaction with VA managers. What I did not know was that OAWP does not have investigative authority on most issues, and my case would be forwarded to the Office of Inspector General (OIG).

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“Do Not Reply”

Once my case was forwarded to OIG, I was cut off from all human interaction.  I received emails only from a “Do Not Reply” email address informing me to use an online portal if I needed to submit more information.  I asked to remain anonymous until I could speak with someone from OIG, thinking there would be some sort of investigation at Manchester VA.  About a week later, OIG sent me an email stating they closed my case without investigation and forwarded the case to VA New England Headquarters.  The email indicated I could call this office for follow-up, but they cut and pasted the address and phone number from their own website.  The final email indicated there is no appeal process and seemed to discourage any further communication.  I made two attempts to call OIG, where a voice message tells the caller that OIG “does not respond to requests of status of complaints” and “we will only contact you if we close the case or need more information.”  The emails had similar wording, stating you may never hear from anyone.  When I did speak with the telephone representative, I asked if I could have a point of contact at the New England Office to follow up.  I was informed they could not provide any information and I could file a request under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

Transparency

When I filed FOIA requests, I was sent only my emails back to me after requesting all files in my case.  They even had the audacity to redact my own name and email address. At one point, a FOIA officer called me and attempted to talk me out of asking for more information.  I sent a letter of appeal asking for a case file as to understand better how the decisions were made and to ensure all documents were transferred from the multiple agencies involved.  The FOIA officer’s letter back to me, citing the many exceptions to FOIA, case law, and the privacy act, effectively stifled any hope for transparency.  Why did they tell me to file a FOIA request in the first place?  When I called the New England VA Headquarters, nobody returned my call.

Questions

Unsure if my concerns for the care of our nation’s Veterans would ever be addressed, I reached out to another whistleblower who informed me they had the same experience with different agencies handing off complaints to each other and no resolution.  It seems the agencies tasked with oversight and investigation do not feel the need to speak with whistleblowers.  They don’t feel the need to validate concerns brought to them or give any assurance that those concerns will be investigated or addressed in any way.  When one agency hands the case off to another, they close the case and provide no follow-up.  In my case, the oversight agency sent the case back to the same agency I filed the complaint about in the first place (or so I thought … more on that in part 3).

Are our elected representatives in Washington, DC, aware of this issue?  In part 3 of this series, I will reveal my interactions with their staff members.

 

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Announcing the 100th – official – MONDAY MEME post. At least, per the number in the link.

Take heart – there will be both a Wednesday and Friday Edition.  Last week’s Friday Edition.

Remember, ridicule and mockery are effective weapons:

1. Ridicule cannot easily be fought
2. Ridicule makes the enemy angry, and angry people make mistakes
3. For those in the “squishy middle” a Thought Splinter (and Part II and Part III and Part IV) can often be hidden inside humor.

Now, let the mockery and mayhem begin.

 

*** Warning, a few possibly off-color ones, in case tender eyes are about ***

 

 

Already happening in some countries, e.g., Ireland.

 

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And why did they need all those shell companies to do it?

 

 

 

I have to wonder.  Barium = BA.  Aluminum = AL.  BAAL.

 

 

 

 

 

Amen.

Let me be clear: Consenting adults in the privacy of their own home?  Straight, gay, whatever?  Not my business.  You recruit kids, let alone maim, etc., kids?  My business.

 

 

 

 

Let me be clear: When VAIDS truly strikes en masse, there will be people I will mourn.  And some, I’ll pop open a bottle of bubbly.

 

 

 

 

Department of Energy too, IMHO.

 

 

 

True to their slaver roots.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA

 

World War III Watch: US and NATO Give Ukraine permission to Use F-16 Jets to Launch Attacks Inside Russia | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft

Push-push-pushing to get Russia to do something in reply to ever-increasing provocations, which would then justify NATO’s full-on response.

Leaders Agree to Expedite Ukraine’s NATO Membership > U.S. Department of Defense > Defense Department News

Related:

Biden’s Iran Policy Is an Existential Threat – American Thinker

Now, I want to be crystal clear – within the confines of the quip that there is no form of human communication so clear that it cannot be misunderstood: I don’t want war with Iran.  Many Persians are wonderful people; I remember one video of students in Iran scooting to avoid walking on American and Israeli flags painted on a walkway.  But when one understands Shiite ideology – that their version of the messiah, the “Twelfth Imam”, cannot come to earth until there is a worldwide conflagration – one starts to grasp that unless the Mullahs can be overthrown, war will happen.  And it will happen on THEIR TERMS and on THEIR TIMING.

Iran’s enriched uranium stockpile 27 times limit of 2015 deal: IAEA – Insider Paper

War is coming, whether we want it or not.  As Iran et al develop better missile technology, pursue if not already have nuclear weapons, have already practiced launching missiles from ships declaring success when the missiles reach 90-100 miles up?  This. Is. Coming.

EMP: A Terrorist’s Dream (youtube.com)

 

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It doesn’t matter.  You could have these three on video serially sodomizing and cannibalizing infants, and the majority of Dems wouldn’t consider that a deal breaker.

 

 

This begs the question… if this is enough fentanyl to kill every American, where’d it all go?  Or are there plans for it as “someone” builds up a country-killing supply?

 

 

 

The below series are not so much Israel-related, but rather to highlight our need to GET OUT OF THE UN!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

One of the “tells” for me, as the whole Covid story deployed, was that Nancy Pelosi (among others) encouraged people to go out.  In parallel, the absolute-common sense Trump action of shutting down travel from China was decried.  They WANTED Covid here, and to be widespread, as a weapon against Trump.

 

 

Back in the day when a household could survive on one income.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Link section (some from me, some from my Jarhead friend):

 

Largest COVID Vaccine Study Ever: What You’re Not Being Told – Vigilant News Network

Open Letter To All The Doctors Who Have And Continue To Promote Vaccinations (COVID-19 & Others) (substack.com)

Look How Bill Gates Smiles When He Says “The Next Pandemic” * 100PercentFedUp.com * by Noah

Medical Staff Ordered to Euthanize ‘Covid’ Patients: Leaked Docs – Slay News

They lied. There is DNA Plasmid Contamination in mRNA injections – Gibraltar Messenger (gibraltar-messenger.net)

Open Letter To All The Doctors Who Have And Continue To Promote Vaccinations (COVID-19 & Others) (substack.com)

Three items On the mRNA Vaxx: “Bizmillah No, we will not let it go“ – Vlad Tepes (vladtepesblog.com)

Covid was the excuse to get the genocide shots into peoples’ arms.

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Bayou Renaissance Man: So who’s running the country? Not this man…

So much news that the US’ enemedia doesn’t report or comment on; we have to go overseas to get an accurate look at our own country.  No matter how much you hate the enemedia, it’s not enough.

 

 

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New York Elementary School Hands Out ‘Black Lives Matter’ Coloring Book Promoting Transgender Affirmation | The Gateway Pundit | by Cassandra MacDonald

Cult.  And internationally:

Canadian High Schoolers Given Pornographic Book, Wooden Penises, Condoms for Sex Ed

A Canadian High School sent students home with condoms, wooden penises, and a sexually explicit pornographic book about gay sex as part of its sex education curriculum, according to Reduxx.

The incident occurred at Virden Collegiate Institute in Manitoba, Canada.

Janine Stephanie Penner, the mother of one of the teen students who received the items, documented the controversy in a Facebook post on Feb. 19. Penner explained that her son in grade 10 was given a “gay porn graphic flip book at school as a method of learning how to use condoms and in addition, received 15 condoms and a wooden pecker for practice.”

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LOVER BOY NATHAN WADE GOT GEO-TRACKED! Fani Willis and Lover Nathan Wade in Danger of Disqualification in Trump Case After Fresh Discovery of Cellphone Data Suggests They Lied Under Oath | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft

So geotracking works for this.  Geotracking works for J6 persecutions prosecutions.  Doesn’t work for the 2020 vote mules.  Got it.

Trump Georgia Case: Cellphone Data Allegedly Contradicts Wade’s Testimony About Visiting Willis’s Home Before 2022 (legalinsurrection.com)

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Bayou Renaissance Man: Inflation: Food is costing more and more – but so is everything else

Joe Biden’s Disastrous Economy Sends Food Prices, Credit Card Debt Soaring to Highest Rates in Decades – The Lid (lidblog.com)

I’m in a double bind because I work very hard to buy organic stuff only.  And it hurts.  There are foods we’re having to go without.  From the Grok on that:

As Australia Considers Clothing Regulations (To Save The Planet), Who Doesn’t See Where “This” is Leading? – Granite Grok

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Moonbattery Google AI Defends Pedophilia – Moonbattery

Regarding perverts who sexually molest children, Gemini intones, “generalizing about entire groups of people can be dangerous and lead to discrimination and prejudice.”

In a world run by Google through AI, disapproving of raping children will be punished as a hate crime.

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Canary in the German Coal Mine? | Gates of Vienna

Silvia Sardone: The Suicide of Europe | Gates of Vienna

The end of Europe.  And America:

The Democrats’ Long Game for 2030 Census – American Thinker

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Prepping for When “I Can’t Hear You Now” (legalinsurrection.com)

I have a satellite phone.  Not cheap, either the phone or equipment, but I have it.  Need to look into ham radio asap as well.  Related:

No, It Wasn’t A Software Update | NC Renegades

Video.  If we get a direct hit by a Carrington-level flare, it’s GRID DOWN.  And for quite some time IMHO.  Related:

10 Foods You Should Store in Lard for a Long Shelf Life – Ask a Prepper

And don’t forget my last Survival Sunday:

Survival Sunday – Granite Grok

Also:

Here’s Why I Think An “EMP” Is The Biggest Threat To America Right Now * 100PercentFedUp.com * by Noah

EMP’s a big threat; MHO is that the invading army of mostly fit military-age men being married to all the weapons Barackus bought – and then let loose on the US after being told the native whites want to deport them – is a bigger one.

Now, as a nightmare scenario, imagine those arms and ammo distributed, the army primed by telling them about deportation… and then an EMP hits.  A foreign army already here, with no means of organizing effectively to resist it.

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Get Out of New York, If You Can (legalinsurrection.com)

That Hochul is even giving such an explanation is tantamount to an admission of the unusual nature of the effort to get Trump. Just follow the rules and you’ll be okay, until you are subjected to our inquisition and found not to be completely following a rule.

And more broadly about all blue-hive cities:

San Francisco Hardware Store Requires Customers Shop With Escort to Curb Shoplifting (legalinsurrection.com)

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U.S. Spending $1 Million on Research to Make Bird Flu More Infectious and Deadly (legalinsurrection.com)

And then people wonder when I repeat Surak in saying “They really do want you dead”.  There can be no innocent reason for this.

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Geological Discovery Upends Politically Correct Climate Science | Canada Free Press

Interesting analysis. Related:

Top Climate Scientist Admits ‘Global Warming’ Alarmism Is ‘Rewarded’ by Green Agenda ‘Industry’ – Slay News

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Biden’s Legacy Disease Is Appropriately Named | NC Renegades

Look who what is coming to the US.  And, broadly, related to mass migration:

It’s a very sad day for Great Britain when a Parliament member says he would feel safer in Israel right now (during a war) than he feels on the streets of his own country (barenakedislam.com)

It starts to end when those in power feel the pain as well.

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Democrat Denialists | Power Line (powerlineblog.com)

The Democrats have become so insane on the subject of Donald Trump that it is hard to know which of their mutterings to take seriously. But if Trump wins the election and a Democrat-controlled House refuses to certify his election on the ground that he is an “insurrectionist” under the 14th Amendment, we will be past the point of a constitutional crisis. If that happens, the only realistic path forward will be disunion, possibly accompanied by civil war, but preferably not.

Here it comes.  Rest assured, IMHO, the Dems WILL do this if Trump can somehow overcome the vote fraud that’s coming.  More:

WEF Orders U.S. Electors To Not Certify Trump’s 2024 Election Win – The People’s Voice (thepeoplesvoice.tv)

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‘Big brother’ satellite capable of zooming in on ANYONE, anywhere from space is set to launch in 2025 – and privacy experts say ‘we should definitely be worried’ | Daily Mail Online

But the EFF said that aside from these positive uses, more detailed satellites could infringe on human rights, saying: ‘The same technology that exposes human rights abuses can also be used to perpetuate them.’

Experts fear that this could mean privacy will become a thing of the past and government agencies will be able to view anyone, anytime, anywhere without their knowledge.

‘This is a giant camera in the sky for any government to use at any time without our knowledge,’ Jennifer Lynch, the EFF general counsel, told the New York Times, adding: ‘We should definitely be worried.’

One does need to ask: Why does anyone need to look at the earth’s surface with that close a resolution?

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Liberal Media Outlet Axios Says the Term ‘Open Border’ is a ‘Myth’ Being Pushed by Conservatives | The Gateway Pundit | by Mike LaChance

Denying the evidence right in front of our eyes.  Related:

Before opening this, try to guess which country is ranking #2 for illegal immigration in San Diego (Really, try to guess.) | Not the Bee

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Debt spending to surpass defense spending … this year – American Thinker

There’s no stopping what can’t be stopped.  Collapse is coming.

 

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Funny how, when faced with the consequences of their actions, they flip?  Remember just how fast the people on Martha’s Vineyard deported the illegals flown there?

 

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Palate Cleansers:

 

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That does not seem like a complicated question to answer. When you look at some of the laws passed over the last few years, the Democrats who claim to represent all the people in Maine when they get together in Augusta are doing quite the opposite. They certainly are not passing laws that make it easier or safer to raise a family in The Pine Tree State, and they are not pro-business in a state that desperately needs an influx of new industry to help increase the living standards for much of Maine that exists at or below the poverty level. They are not interested in getting tough on organized crime poisoning much of Maine’s rural cities and towns. So when you listen to Democrats, they will gaslight you to think they are still the Party of the People, but their actions prove they are the most anti-people legislators you could conceive.

The people are starting to wake up in Maine and throughout this great country. The Black and Brown people that the Democrats thought they could count on without effort are beginning to realize they are the forgotten people of the inner city. Housing is scarce and out of reach of most minorities. Crime, especially in the metropolitan areas, makes it unsafe to raise a family and is forcing businesses to leave the downtown areas as it is too expensive to remain viable.

Minorities are also seeing the truth that Democrats have been supporting abortion rights for decades as a way of controlling Black and Brown populations. And now, with the influx of millions of illegal migrants, minorities are seeing the resources meant for them redirected to people who broke into our country. These illegals are the new darlings of the Democrats because they see these people as future voters, and they are padding census numbers in Blue states from Day One, which helps to keep the Democrat power base solid.

Democrat policies in Maine are mimicking the national trends. Maine has one of the most liberal abortion laws in the country, allowing abortion up to the moment of birth. Maine legalized recreational marijuana use almost a decade ago, and with pot shops more prevalent than coffee shops, they are keeping the population numb and easy to manipulate. Maine has welcomed more than their share of illegal migrants, including a vast number of Asians, who have established a huge illegal pot farming industry that Democrats do not seem anxious to stop.

Democrats seem unable to stand up to the Biden Administration that is crushing the Maine Lobster industry with excessive regulations, and they are working tirelessly to make legal gun ownership more difficult. They are putting pressure on legitimate businesses to stop selling “assault” weapons even though there is no such classification of rifles. Democrats argued that if Maine’s only Cabela’s location was to stop selling “military-style semi-automatic weapons,” they would be showing “leadership” and would be doing their part to prevent another shooting in Maine. Rather than push for more support for mental health services, Representative Golden and Senator King have used the recent shooting in Lewiston to attack gun sales.

Maine Democrats believe in removing a child from a family that does not support their transgender efforts and voted no to a bill to prevent males from using female restrooms. There are few, if any, decisions that Democrats can point to show support for Mainers or families in general, which harkens to the question, why give these people the power to continue to chip away at the Maine we have loved. It is time for Mainers to follow the trend of Democrat voters nationwide. It is time to look at the Republican Party as the option for a better tomorrow.

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Two inspiring trends from my stroll through last week’s comments. I see a lot of new names and a lot more upvotes. Our debate team – that’s you, folks – are engaging with each other and showing more support for good or meaningful input.

I enjoyed reading these and admit it took some time to wade through them, but I increasingly enjoy the experience. I’m still not 100% Grok full-time because we never hit our fundraising goal. Steve is still doing other work (he says of himself in the third person), so time to not just wade in but comment is not yet part of my “schedule.” My loss, truly. And it is still something I want to spend more time on.

Comment of the week forced me to find time to read through your thoughts and remarks, and there is plenty worthy of recognition, so I have been trying to upvote some of them myself as I work through my process.

Nice job, everyone, even the trollish goon calling everyone stupid, whom I think my moderator has since banned – stopped clock and all that.

Anyway.

The weekly recognition of someone’s comment is upon us in all its inspired randomness, but first, a few of the many runners-up. Snellville Bob, Nitzakhon, Ian Underwood, NHNative, Jim Lanese, Tony Jankowski, RRMo, TombstoneGabby, …wow, there were so many good ones.

This week’s winner is Rick Kenyon.

Create a Crisis- Democratic Governing

“BELLOWS FALLS — U.S. Rep. Becca Balint, D-Vt., unveiled what she said Monday was her first major piece of legislation in her first term in Congress — a $500 billion plan to boost affordable housing.” As reported by the Reformer.
You kind of have to chuckle when you watch how the Democrats run this our country. And here’s a good example:
1. Let 10 million illegal immigrants come into our country with open boarders and have no plan on how to assimilate them into the country.
2. Then…….. declare there is a affordable housing crisis……hello!….
3. Solution: $500 billion dollar plan to fix affordable housing crisis by taxing the citizens who have worked hard to pay off their mortgages and outrageous property taxes.
4. And the underlining goal: you will have dedicated illegal immigrants voting Democratic.
5. Unfortunately, we have republican politicians who have no problem with this.
And of course we all know that affordable housing means “government controlled” housing. As in socialism!
And lastly, and this is heartless…..the collateral damage of having open borders has resulted in tens of thousands of American youth dying from fentanyl coming over the border unchecked! But, the democrats will not declare that a crisis because it would not benefit them politically.

Rick, please email me at steve@granitegrok.com so I can get a ship-to address.

AllyforFreedom, you won last week, and I have either not received or missed your email. Could you please reach out as well?

Thanks!

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There had been a lot of “movement” in the COVID/vaccine universe. A major online medical influencer, Annette Bosworth, MD (“Dr. Boz”), had a road to Damascus experience thanks to a peer-reviewed paper by Peter McCullough, Steve Krisch, and others. Oh, and Pfizer/Moderna admit their cure had issues.

Side Effects

The major forces in the Vaxx or Bust Pharmacological universe have published a report claiming there were indeed some unpleasant side effects from their various injectable treatments. Russell Brand has an amusing look at the cause and effect (the report and some reactions). It is a genuinely unique idea (among that crowd). Your need for their vaccine might be something (put your coffee down) you should decide based on your circumstances.

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People got pilloried and canceled for having that opinion not so long ago. They also got downgraded, censored, or erased for suggesting there was evidence of severe health issues after receiving a Moderna or Pfizer/BioNTech injection, which the Vaxx or Bust folks are admitting. The debate destroyed careers, relationships, and even families.

Don’t get too excited; allowing for the things you were suggesting and warning years ago are not admissions of guilt but an introduction to the new science. We knew or suspected these emergency-use drugs could have significant side effects, but now, as then, we continue to assert that for many, the benefits outweighed the risks. That’s their new crutch, and the vaxx cult that assembled to worship the culture of fear and lies is expected to use the breadcrumb left to them to carry forward.

If you have been lazy about screengrabbing your lefty neighbor or local elected officials’ social media screeds about safety and effectiveness, mandates, passports, unemploying, or confining the unvaccinated, you might be running out of time. Anyone who didn’t start erasing all that evidence when the Medical Industrial Complex reluctantly admitted that their drugs neither prevented infection nor transmission, or that masks and social distancing don’t work, or that quarantining the healthy doesn’t work, this latest mea culpa will probably drive them to do some outrage housecleaning.

Myocarditis, Gillian Barre Syndrome, blood and organ issues. There’s a lot there and then not enough, but the CDC and Pfizer were never going to fund research whose conclusion was that the level of fraud invalidates any assumed benefit. Despite the truths that admittedly many have not yet seen, they are clinging bitterly to their preventing severe disease and hospitalization schtick (unless you got myocarditis, a blood disease, experienced organ failure, or developed a complex and debilitating nervous system disorder).

They did (sort of, kind of) leave their jabbernaughts out to dry. Do you remember them? The ranting lunatics screeching about following arrows on supermarket floors. The “safe and effective and “we’re all in this together” Gregorian chants. Gang sign mask wearing. Stay on your Dot! Follow the Science!

What a bunch of wankers.

The real science was always that only a few were at high risk, and only they needed to consider either Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions or emergency use treatments. Children never needed the Jab. Pregnant mothers should have skipped it. Most healthy adults were neither at risk nor presented a risk unless they actually had symptoms. We didn’t need to shut down anything. Businesses didn’t need to not just close but go out of business.

The COVID Jabs were not effective (they do not stop infection or transmission), and they have now admitted there were serious risks (not safe). All things we’ve known for some time.

There were more mistakes made.

Will the Medial Industrial Establishment continue to force doctors with a conscience to do their bidding? I’d say yes, especially where I live. Private practice is not exactly private. Everything, including urgent care, answers to the nearest hospital. And Big Pharma is still big. Hospitals buy the attention of politicians to protect their monopoly on care, even when it includes the coordinated censorship of doctors and experts who did real science on what turned out to be a not-so-dangerous virus and a dangerous cure.

And then, there is the media’s complicity. I have not yet looked, and perhaps you can help. Local media, with rare exceptions, continues to repeat the approved psalms. They’ve ignored not just the truth but a balanced look at the debate throughout the pandemic period. Where did they come down when the CDC-funded report admitting side effects was released? Did they apse the “but covid was worse” narrative?

Did any of them even notice the damning peer-reviewed research by McCullough, Kirsch, Rose, Meade, and others?

I’ll start looking when I have time, but I think I already know the answer.

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As an abutting neighbor of the Granite State, an owner of rental properties in NH (who would be stupid enough to be a residential LL in MA), and a thoroughly kindred spirit of the “ole Yankee farmers” of NH, I ask you to come to the aid of your brothers in kind south of your border.

The taxpayers of Dunstable and Groton are on the verge of getting a Louisville Slugger shoved into their anterior orifice sans lubricant. We are facing a HUGE prop 2 1/2 override bill precipitated by our regional school district’s outrageous budget request.

It is my opinion that the administration of the school district is a puppet and tool of the teachers’ union, as well as being inveterate woke lefties to the core. It is my understanding from several “public discussion forums” held by our town administrators, which, by the way, are correlated with similar “public discussion forums” being held in our partner town of Groton, that the school district’s administrators refuse to cooperate with any detailed investigation of the facts. They apparently have erected a granite wall against such audacious behavior by the serfs who toil in their fields to pay their rent burden. At best, we are to be allocated a small plot for our potato patch.

A town meeting is scheduled in BOTH towns for 3/26/24. How convenient is that? A mere coincidence, I am sure. The main article to be voted on is the question of placing the override on the concurrent 4/2/24 town elections. I am guessing the purpose of that coordination is so that the rebels in neither town will be able to use a NO OVERRIDE verdict by the other town’s electorate to influence the second town’s voters. The town administrators of both towns have worked closely hand in hand to put forth this agenda.

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My daughter Erica and I have worked diligently to assemble a significant amount of data from the MA DOR and Dept. of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) websites, which, in our opinion, completely repudiates the need for additional funds. These facts have been assembled into spreadsheets with attendant notes, and a PowerPoint presentation was made by Erica to the Dunstable Select Board (talk about an arrogant name) on Tuesday, 2/20/24. A number of other taxpayers were present, the majority of whom supported our efforts.

Back in 2017, our town investigated the possibility of secession from the Groton-Dunstable Regional School District (GDRSD), but the matter was eventually dropped. The possibility of such a break up was mentioned earlier this year by our Town Administrator. I raised the question again at this meeting. Naturally we heard a lot of excuses why the matter isn’t being diligently pursued.

Immediately after the meeting, my daughter posted the PowerPoint presentation on both the Dunstable Facebook site and the Groton Facebook site. The video of the meeting is available on Dunstable’s website. Additionally, we are both working with as many Dunstable and Groton like-minded taxpayers as we can find. We need many, many more. I am sure both town administrations, as well as the entire school administration in conjunction with its union members, will be exerting great effort to have a record turnout for their team. I ask your help in doing the same for our side. If you need ready access to more of our data, just email me, and I will send you additional charts and spreadsheets for your review.

I don’t know how many followers this publication has in the border towns, but we need every hand on deck to beat this thing back. The school district has made it clear they “need” similar increases in their budgets for the next 4 -5 years.

On May 22, 1775, the patriots of your state joined ranks with those in our state to fight our common oppressor. We need your help again, about two months earlier this time. Any assistance you can lend us in getting out the vote will be greatly appreciated and returned in kind, as your need may dictate.

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Here is the latest nonsense from New Hampshire’s fast-talking Sun-King, Chris Sununu … GOP voters don’t support Trump because of his policies but because they believe he is a fighter. I know it is just anecdotal evidence, mighty Sun-King, but you are a fighter and I certainly do NOT support you … because you fight for all the wrong things: boys participating in girls school sports, DEI, COVID-tyranny, destroying local zoning laws, doing nothing about stratospheric local property taxes, etc., etc. etc.. Roll the tape:

Sununu on Trump: “It’s quite simple, the enemy of my enemy is my friend” is why Republicans stick with Trump when Dems/liberal elites attack him. “It’s literally that simple of a psyche. It’s not about policy…at least someone’s putting up a fight.”#POLITICOGovernors https://t.co/NxP6wGNzYy

— Kevin Baron (@DefenseBaron) February 22, 2024

Oh mighty Sun-King, you are such an entitled, spoiled, privileged bloviator. GOP voters support Trump because of his policies … securing the border, no endless wars, actually getting tough (as opposed to just talking tough) on China. That is why Trump destroyed the field in the 2016 primary. The other candidates were talking about “immigration reform” (recall John Kasich telling everyone illegal immigration was essentially like jaywalking … “you pay a fine”), still defending the senseless and stupid Iraq War, regurgitating globalist pablum about “free markets.”

Whether he is just an idiot or a liar, what’s undeniable is that the mighty Sun-King despises, loathes, hates actual GOP voters.

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As we embark on the latest city budget fiasco that’s going to cost us where it hurts, as a taxpayer who has to balance a home and business budget, here are some tips. First, I implore you to stay under the tax cap or, even better, below. Second, the key to successful budgeting is to start with income and work within those numbers backward, not the other way around!

Tips from personal observation with this city (and perhaps your town or city as well)!

1. When you leave a room, and no one is in there, turn out the lights and monitors. Energy and water conservation efforts are huge savings. Fix dripping faucets, etc…
2. Close all computers and detach chargers at days end
3. Turn down the thermostat to 68 and wear a sweater in winter. On this topic, I was at a meeting at city hall in a conference room not used all day. It was HOT, so hot the person who opened the room put the AC on. This was in January! In summer, open windows (especially at night) and use fans until it’s unbearable before turning on AC. Maybe some thoughts on insulation!?
4. Optimize staff to multitask. Instead of waiting for so and so, just do the job.
5. Stop trying to embark on new businesses when you cannot keep the basic city budget under control. The land/river development, electric company, waste management etc.
6. Stop pandering to the school board. At this point, the numbers enrolled are declining as fast as the test scores…. Ten years of this is enough. Say no.
7. Don’t say yes to everything right away. Pause and reflect. Sleep on it. Ask the people. Think how you save money in your home or business world!
8. Business development on existing facilities, ice arena, and schools during downtimes is underutilized!
9. Sandpits, it fries my butt that we own our own sand yet pay for it and allow a subcontractor to use it!?
10. Limit overtime.
11. Travel restrictions and don’t let city employees take city vehicles home or for personal use, period!
12. Riverfront development aka Dovers Big Dig is a bust, a money pit of despair, stop the bleed, sell it.
13. We supposedly have mechanics, yet seem to buy new equipment all the time… You should at least keep them until they are irreparable, then sell them for metal.
14. We pay a librarian(s) huge salaries, and they don’t read books!?
15. This city and schools are top heavy with Admin…need a serious audit on essential necessary jobs and cull the rest. Worth the consult fee.
16. Your tri-city homeless band-aid is a total mess and money pit. Enabling these mentally ill drug addicts has our city police and EMTs tapped out to the point where tax payers in need are now in line waiting while Dovers finest chase them around town.
17. Install time clocks or whatever time management tools are out there… Track specific jobs so you can be more efficient
18. Don’t leave vehicles running
19. Get trash compactors
20. Employees of the city need to be on a performance scale, especially teachers. There needs to be check and balances on the job performed by the measurable outcome. If a class is failing, then the teacher needs to be put on probation. If students continue to fail, fired. All this pandering has got us dumb kids and huge budgets. It’s time to fix that and aside from good/better curriculum, teachers who can teach. Same for all employees. You won’t find a production company keeping a slacker or poor performer. You may actually get measurable results!

Some purchasing tips

1. The lowest bidder is not always the cheapest, get solid references
2. Do not fall prey to the illusion of electric vehicles! And I hope you charge people to use the chargers in the parking garage and that money goes to the city electric bill!!
3. Get a Costco card for bulk
4. Use more UNH students in schools
5. You have a whole technical high school, start using it more for city projects
6. Start “go fund me’s” or baked sales for stuff like athletic fields and other things like new city hall clock that broke after a year.

There is a point to the following…

.Here’s a true story of my years engineering with government contractors, in the late 70s. I was part of the Total Quality Management team for Navy contractors. We wanted a way for the workers to understand that through their good “quality” work, in turn, they were saving their own tax dollars! So we did a movie on a submarine that was “dead in the water” the reason was a faulty bearing. A $50 item. The cost to fix it was $75,000. We showed this movie to contractor employees right down to the foundries. It worked. We saw less problems. The workers started paying more attention to their work. The city employees remind me of the contractor workers. They didn’t care until they realized they were hurting themselves, in a sense. City workers should realize every decision cost money from turning a light out to quality time on the job. Maybe they need a TQM course!

You’ve been overspending the city and school budget for years. Our city is overinflated with waste and people. If it were your personal money you were messing with, you’d lose your car and house and end up at Willand Warming Center. Be responsible with my money. I’m tapped out, and if you keep upping our “taxes,” the levy will break because there aren’t that many “rich” people here yet who can afford it.

The above consultation is on me (as in free) in an effort to save me money by lowering everyone’s taxes.

 

Editor: email to the town of Dover, lightly edited.

 

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