Saturday • April 20 • 2024
Vol.XVI • No.XVI
Manchester, N.H.
I have often opined that I feel there are groups of people who foment the belief the country is ripe with systemic racism. They do this for power, relevance, and, of course, money. I always point to the Rev. Al Sharpton as proof of my theory. There has never been an incident involving people of different colors that the Reverend did not insert himself into the middle of.
It is the sole issue that keeps him in the public eye, for without Racism, Al would be another talking head hiding on MSNBC.
Jesse Jackson drew the blueprint for Sharpton to follow, but Sharpton never ran for President as Jackson had. Black Lives Matter has proven to be a money laundering pyramid scheme, but the Department of Education maintains its support of BLM, and BLM reciprocates. Their mutual efforts keep both relevant in their eyes.
Every February, all of these groups and individuals band together to convince Blacks, Browns, and Reds they are oppressed and Whites that they are the oppressors. They use media and classrooms to push their agenda and work tirelessly to convince the current generation of students that the country was built unfairly on the backs of people of color, remains systemically racist, and that all White people are supremacists by heritage. This message is untrue, unfair, and unsafe for White students who bear no responsibility for the actions of their ancestors.
I remember the feelings of guilt I had as a child, being of German heritage. Whenever WWII, Hitler, or the Holocaust was discussed in school, I had feelings of responsibility. I grew out of this state, but it influenced me greatly. This is the guilt that is being exerted on our caucasian children. They do not deserve it, and it is unfair to subject them to it. Children are not born racist. They do not see color as an issue. They may be taught to see the differences in a person’s skin color by their parents, friends, educators, or society. This exposure and education of racism is what I see happening in our schools and media during Black History Month.
When doing some research for this article, I came across the following:
The Center for Racial Justice in Education website contains a subsite called: A RACIAL JUSTICE GUIDE TO THE WINTER HOLIDAY SEASON. The following is just one of the segments.
Christian Privilege, Hegemony, and the Winter Holiday Season:
I confess I had to look up hegemony and found: hegemony: he·ge·mo·ny hi-ˈje-mə-nē 1: preponderant influence or authority over others: DOMINATION battled for hegemony in Asia 2: the social, cultural, ideological, or economic influence exerted by a dominant group.
They took a season of joy that belongs to no particular race or color and turned it into a study of White Supremacy.
Even our President takes frequent opportunities to rally his core by touting his perception that America, and specifically the Republicans, is systemically racist and filled with white supremacists. This is a dangerous message coming from our leader and a person who says he was elected to unify us. Talk and lessons like these are pure evil and divisive. They do not belong in our schools or culture. Singling out groups to celebrate them, such as Black History Month or Gay Pride Month, has the reverse effect of their intent.
Or, as is the case of the Reverend Sharpton or Joe Biden, maybe creating issues and division is their true intent. It all comes down to power, money, and relevance.
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Two time slots are used for any news story you want to bury. These slots are the black holes of news. Friday afternoon and Sunday night are when you drop news you don’t want anyone to see or hear. Chuck Schumer started teasing the text of his blockbuster border bill on Friday morning, but it did not become public until late Sunday night.
So, the bill that Schumer claimed would garner bipartisan support and be law quickly was dropped along with the trash for Monday curbside pick-up. If anyone printed this bill to read, the pages probably hit the curb, too. That is where this lousy piece of legislation belongs.
First, this bill does not stop the flow of illegals across our border. The bill has a trigger that sets steps to close the border in motion. That trigger is 5,000 illegals crossing per day. There should not be a single Republican in line to sign this piece of scratch paper. Why should we allow any illegal migrants into the country? We have avenues for people to enter America legally. Anyone who enters by wading across the Rio Grande enters this country as a criminal. Come through a legal port of entry, or do not come in at all. If the Federal Government cannot change that 5,000 to zero, this bill should be dead in the water. That is how the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, refers to this bill.
Next is the real reason for this bill. The amounts of money in this bill tied to Ukraine, Gaza, and Taiwan are staggering, and Biden and the Democrats hoped that they could sell America on the border control portion of this bill and that the slush money would slide through as a bonus. The Dems should not be surprised that the Republicans are not falling for the sleight of hand. Even though it got published on a Sunday night, the Republicans caught it before it slid through to Joe’s desk.
The American people are tired of the billions of dollars funneled to Ukraine without accountability or results. We can send billions to Ukraine every few months until the end of time, and they will still not win the battle with Putin and Russia. Remember a year ago when every politician, right down to Randi Weingarten, traveled to Ukraine to show their support? When was the last junket you can remember to have their picture taken with Zelenskyy? But the money keeps flowing as do the rumors of kickbacks coming back to Biden and the Democrats. Ukraine is a money laundromat for the Dems. Here is a breakdown of the money in this bill:
It is disappointing, but not surprising that Mitch McConnell had a hand in crafting this bill, and his Republicans will submarine him. This may be the action that ends McConnell’s career, which is fine. Rick Scott is primed and ready for his slot. Maybe Mitch can take Chuck with him.
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Australia and New Zealand were frequent objects for criticism when it came to authoritarian pandemic policy, so I admit that this comes as a surprise. “The South Australian Employment Tribunal has found that employers who mandated their staff to take the COVID-19 vaccines can be held liable for injuries caused.”
It found that the injury arose “as a result of both [the government’s] vaccination mandate and the applicant’s employment.” Employment, the tribunal said, does not have to be the “only or most significant cause”; it is only necessary that it be a “significant contributing cause of a work injury.” The implication is that employers cannot shift the blame; they, too, are responsible.
The potential fallout looks epic as the Medical Industrial Complex, aided and abetted by politicians and government agencies, wrestles with job creators who zealously took them all at their word. On one side, you’ve got institutional pressure to comply, and on the other, the “if they told you to jump off a bridge, would you do it?” The answer was yes, primarily because if it was no, there were immediate consequences, and not just in Australia.
I’ve no doubt the government will refuse to accept responsibility for forcing businesses into a corner where they may now find themselves faced with – if not a class action, then an endless train of individual lawsuits to address side effects from vaccine mandates that incapacitated injured, or killed employees who only got them because the alternative was to get fired.
The other fun bit, not for the vaccine injured or the families who lost loved ones, is that a Western Court has documented as a work-related injury any debilitating consequence of job-related forced vaccination. From 30,000 feet, we expect insurance companies to balk. At the same time, future mandates may now need to cross a new set of hurdles erected by business owners who have every right to question everything if they are to be left on the hook for any consequences.
We now need that to spread faster than the Wuhan Flu to the rest of the so-called Western world and, from it, a line of responsibility to government agents, NGOs, bureaucrats, politicians, colleges and Universities, and everyone else. If you made them do it and caused harm, you are liable with the caveat that it is the government who is responsible if the employer was acting under threat from it.
With another caveat. Employers could have come together and pushed back, given the sketchy emergency use authorizations and absence of fully informed consent.
Peaceful resistance works, but you have to choose it before you lose it.
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Name something that the most notorious RINO/globalist/corporatist GOP Senators have in common. If you said they come from RED States (RED meaning States that overwhelmingly went for Trump) … that’s a bingo—for example, South Dakota. When you think South Dakota, you think RED, right? Think again.
Here is South Dakota’s Mike Rounds pushing Mitch McConnell’s amnesty-bill by claiming that if you oppose amnesty you are … wait for it … Putin’s puppet. How original!
Mike Rounds says Russia is why you don’t want an amnesty deal and money for Ukraine.
Mike Rounds of….South Dakota.
South Dakota is a GOP state by around a 30 point margin.
Their senator is Mike Rounds.
GOP primary voters are the problem. https://t.co/dFTKdwMMc8
— Jesse Kelly (@JesseKellyDC) January 31, 2024
The “face” of the amnesty bill … James Lankford of RED Oklahoma. The list goes on and on. Romney … RED Utah. Cornyn … RED Texas. Mitch McConnell … RED Kentucky.
The inescapable conclusion is that GOP voters are NOT very good at voting. They keep electing RINOs.
New Hampshire, while a BLUE State, is illustrative. Dear Leader Chris Sun-King Sununu locked us in our homes over a flu. He told us that liquor stores were “essential,” but houses of worship were non-essential. You know the rest. And what did GOP voters do in response … they overwhelmingly helped to reelect him. They rewarded his tyranny.
The problem, GOP voters, is staring back at you when you look in the mirror.
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The UK Daily Mail (Online) has a lengthy look at the public safety issues in Vermont. Rising overdose deaths and a murder spike have the experts reeling as they look for ways to turn things around. It’s a mystery to them – but not to us.
Stop voting for Democrats and supporting their failed policies at every level of government.
The state police are short-staffed because no one wants to work for a state whose ruling party is more interested in burnishing its progressive image with the next TikTok video alleging misuse of force. The cops know you don’t have their back and will throw them under your bus at the first opportunity.
This applies to local police forces as well, which are chronically understaffed, in some cases because Democrats defunded them right before the crime wave started.
You even bragged about it, so consider yourself lucky that you are not 20 or 25% understaffed, though that’s likely to happen as people retire that you can’t replace because you went out of your way to sh!t on cops for the better part of a year.
The drug overdose problem is the Democrat’s fault as well. Open borders and sanctuary policies allow easy entry for both the product and the gangs who will seek to profit from it. Add decreased policing, and you’ve created an environment for lawlessness, which you use to disarm law-abiding citizens, resulting in more victims.
To this, we add the systemic policy failures on a number of other fronts (energy, food, monetary) that have driven up inflation and prices, making it harder for locals to make ends meet, on whose backs you’ve piled teeming masses of undocumented illegal entrants.
Not surprisingly, no one seems to realize that Democrats are the problem.
When asked about a solution, [criminology professor Penny Shtull] said she and other experts are working with police – stating that they are looking at federal data secured over past few years for the entire country, hoping it will provide some guidance.
‘Nationwide, we’re looking at what type of programs or practices – whether that’s law enforcement or on a governmental level in terms of policies and practices – may have reduced the overall, nationwide crime rate and whether those can be applied to places like Vermont.’
You don’t have to look far. New Hampshire, just a step to your right, is significantly safer per capita (the safest state in the nation, actually). We didn’t defund any police, we don’t disarm law-abiding citizens, we are not a sanctuary state, and we have no sanctuary cities.
We have record low poverty, high quality of life, one of the lowest overall tax burdens, are the freest state in North America (Fraiser Institute), and support the right to self-defense (constitutional carry). We’ve also managed to keep Democrats from dominating state offices (just barely) for long enough to encourage growth and independence instead of stagnation and dependency.
I’ve said it many times before. Vermont is that train wreck of a family member whom you look to for what not to do. You see your Uncle Vermont over there. Don’t be like that.
Vermont’s crime problem is tragic, as are the overdose deaths (we’ve got a lot of those here as well), but they are problems that begin with policy. Deliberate choices. Decisions and paths of pursuit whose failure is foretold in places like Chicago, DC, Baltimore, Memphis, Loc Angeles, and Detroit. Geography cannot protect you from Democrat rule, and Vermont is no different.
Get rid of the Democrats if you can. If not, you might have to move.
If you are planning to come to New Hampshire, please don’t bring the Democrats with you, or not long from now, you’ll have to move again.
They destroy everything they touch.
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HB1002 recently passed the House by about a dozen votes and now heads to the Senate for deliberations. This Bill permits municipalities to establish a policy to charge up to $25 per hour for requests that take over 10 hours to fill.
The Preamble to the Right-to-Know Law states: The purpose of this chapter is to ensure both the greatest possible public access to the actions, discussions, and records of all public bodies and their accountability to the people.
Nashua has a well-documented problem with transparency. In the last 2 ½ years, the City has lost five cases in Superior Court and three cases in the Supreme Court. In a case before the Court now, the City has acknowledged eight violations claimed by the Petitioner; the case is still in the Court (226-2022-cv-00309). See Superior Court orders for 2026-2021-cv-00163, 226-2021-cv-00354; 226-2021-cv-00306, 226-2021-CV-00133,226-2023-cv-00141 and Supreme Court orders 2021-0253, 2022-0237, and 2022-0399.
This bill will not improve transparency in New Hampshire.How are we supposed to verifiably know as taxpayers if our records requests are over and above the 10-hour “free” limit when charges begin? In Nashua, where it’s all personal, will the accounting be trustworthy? Early on in my records requests, a City official claimed that my requests had cost the city over $100,000 in 6 weeks! When I requested the data to support this claim, no records existed. Unpopular people have the same constitutional rights as people who are liked.
While some citizens have won their record cases against the City, the cost and damage to their reputations was high. The courts are seriously under-resourced and faced with delays, backlogs, and workforce shortages, so these matters are taking years to come through the Superior Court. The inability of the court to be efficient to these priority hearings, has empowered an already overly empowered city. The Ombudsman’s Office is still establishing rules and has no history.
All Nashua court orders have yielded no improvement for records access for citizens, despite a Court order strongly suggesting that the [City] quickly get ‘in the business” of responding to Ms. Ortolano’s basic questions and requests for information” and “the Court strongly encourages the City to develop a uniform policy outlining the process for making a Right-to-Know request for City records and to make that policy publicly available on its website.” (226-2023-CV-00165)
How did this city become so obstinate to responding to public record access? Massive imbalances in power and political control over decades, echo chambers, and an elected board and leaders – emboldened to disparage and marginalize citizens in their attempts to redress their government.
My recent work has focused on the cost and the financing scheme for the Nashua Performing Arts Center (PAC). The City entered into a federal New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) transaction to obtain $2.5 million in additional funding for a project that ended up costing almost $40 Million. My interest was piqued two years ago when the city refused to legally notice public meetings and provide records on the PAC. I was being stonewalled and filed a lawsuit in August 2022. This federal program is designed for for-profit corporations, not municipalities, to provide tax credit benefits to construct facilities for the greater good of the public living in low-income areas.
Unable to get any City leaders to answer basic questions, I put in an August 2022 RTK request to gather all NMTC emails to help me understand how this financial scheme worked. The City is subverting any cooperative efforts to work together, and they will not engage in productive communications.
Initially, the city stated there were 1200 emails they would “batch out,” and they would keep me updated on the completion date. After six months and no updates, I emailed the city for the completion date. The City responded that they had discovered another 1800 emails that would take approximately four years to deliver. The City offered no record description to reduce the burden, and they did not deny the request as unreasonable. Imagine the cost of these records under HB1002.
Frustrated and believing that this was an unreasonable delay of records, I filed a short, concise, expedited petition. Exasperatingly, the Court consolidated it, without a hearing, into a case that is taking two years to be heard. The court decision destroyed my right to reasonably access the records, which I should have rightfully been afforded under RSA 91-A to help me understand the fraud and deceit, misuse of public money, and falsification of records that took place on this project. How will the Courts mediate this costs issue when requesters believe they are being charged unlawful fees?
Unsurprisingly, the city is heavily redacting these emails. I filed a Petition claiming a crime/fraud was perpetrated, requesting the Court review the emails to determine if the redactions are legal. That, too, was rolled into the Petition that’s taking two years to process. My faith in the adjudication process has wavered.
Nashua’s Performing Arts Center was not the proper application of this NMTC Federal program. The city formed three shell companies that shifted $21 Million of public bond money ultimately into a fully private Corporation and shut down all record access.
The emails, despite the slogging production, have been enormously valuable. They established the timeframe for all the hidden transactions and revealed that the city, before closing the Federal money deal, formed a for-profit company without disclosing this candidly and properly to the Board of Alderman. The city did not disclose:
The emails documented more public fund mismanagement:
The three shell corporations formed for the NMTC transaction cannot pay:
o their operating costs
o fees associated with this seven-year federal program – and-
o the interest payment on the loans
To deal with the fact that the Corporations have no revenue sources except by way of the City, the city is now renting the building taxpayers bought, paying approximately $500,000 a year to cover the above costs.
All this was learned through records requests and a lawsuit that has currently been through 3 days of Trial and will conclude in April 2024. It is clear from three days of the Trial that this lawsuit was necessary. Additionally, the lawsuit has now prevented the City from engaging in future NMTC transactions – a significant victory.
What would all this citizen work cost me under HB1002? On January 17, 2024, I asked the City to estimate the cost of batching these records. Several days after I made the request, I received the next batch of emails and immediately wrote back and requested an estimate for the time to produce those records. It has been 18 days, and no one has responded. How much deliberation does this request require? I am interested because fees may be right around the corner.
The Honorable Chair of the Judiciary Committee, Mr. Lynn, knows better when he tells the legislative body that citizens can get their costs back in Court if it is proven that the municipality was unreasonable. The Judicial system is seriously under-resourced and overburdened. Cities have deep pockets funded with taxpayer money to fight to their last dying breath. The Court awarded $63K in Attorney’s fees for my 2020 RTK case for Assessing Records (2020-00133). It is now under appeal with the Supreme Court. If I prevail, it will have taken over five years to get the money back without interest. Frustrating and stonewalling requesters is the name of the game in Nashua, and this bill will only enable some municipalities to continue with their unsavory tactics with impunity.
Please protect our First Amendment rights and vote ‘No’ on HB1002.
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This week, my committee continued with public hearings. HB 1292 allows state retirees to include adult children up to age 25 in their health insurance, whether or not they are students; this is the same as the employee plan and private health plans. Since the parents pay the full cost for their dependents, the committee voted unanimously to recommend this bill.
HB 1435 would extend payments from the retirement system to former spouses even after the retiree returns to work and stops receiving a pension. In that case, there is no payment for the ex-spouse to receive a portion of, and the ex has no relationship with the retirement system – neither a member nor a beneficiary. This is a rare situation – there are about 650 split benefits (due to divorce court orders) for over 40,000 retirees, and even fewer are affected by a return to work. The retirement system is constrained by the New Hampshire constitution and statute and by IRS rules to only pay members and beneficiaries. The committee voted unanimously to kill the bill, with the court system as recourse in individual cases.
HB 1352, on firefighter protective equipment, intends to ban PFAS-treated gear unless there is no equivalent; the current technology for high-temperature protective equipment uses PFAS in one form or another, although manufacturers are researching other materials. Uniforms other than protective equipment, however, can be made from non-toxic materials. The bill went to a subcommittee to ensure it wouldn’t be a mandate on local fire companies and that it properly considers volunteer fire departments.
HB 1079, on critical incident stress management team members, started as a one-line addition to the current statute that added hospital emergency room personnel as potential members of these teams. The sponsor brought in a five-page amendment that added a lot of clarifying detail, so the bill went to a subcommittee to review the amendment.
HB 1070, on procedures in a state of emergency, essentially told state employees not to obey orders that would violate civil liberties or the federal or state constitution. Since the governor and council are now specifically barred from issuing such orders, it doesn’t seem the bill is needed.
HB 1267 prohibits the state treasurer or the retirement system from investing in funds that consider environmental, social, and governance (ESG) standards in any way. While pure reliance on ESG is not something the state looks for in investments, many funds look at governance or assess environmental risks as part of their due diligence for investments. Saying they couldn’t is restricting the capability of the treasurer or the retirement system to maximize returns. We voted unanimously to recommend killing the bill.
HB 1451 is a recommendation of the retirement commission I chaired this fall: it includes “mandatory overtime” in base pay for pension purposes rather than pay over base.
This allows all mandatory overtime to be credited towards pension earnings since other overtime can be limited. This is an anti-spiking provision; it commonly happened that some late-career employees would work lots of overtime to pad their pensions. HB 1451 gets around that by requiring the employer to classify the overtime as mandatory – much harder to manipulate that way. The committee discussed what was mandatory and how to identify it; after a few rounds of discussion they agreed letting the employer define it was the most flexible way. The bill was recommended to pass unanimously after I thought about it for a while.
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HB 1548, recommendations of the joint committee on employee classification, presented that committee’s recommendations on employee pay classes and the pay ranges for a few employees who, because of special skills, were paid outside the classification structure (the state epidemiologist; pharmacy investigators.) After some explanations, we voted unanimously to recommend the bill.
HB 1411 would require all state agencies and their contractors to accept cash payments. The sponsor was concerned that low-income citizens would be penalized since many do not have bank accounts, and in particular, the Spaulding turnpike from Portsmouth through Rochester has been aligned to require E-ZPass payment. Those tolls no longer take cash; an EZPass account requires a $20 non-interest earning balance, and going through the tolls without an EZPass has penalties. Issues the committee brought up – and the sponsor could not address – included online transactions (fish & game licenses, professional license renewals) and tolls. The DMV, another government agency people deal with, does accept cash. The bill went to subcommittee to consider these complexities.
My HB 1271, converting a number of licensing boards to advisory boards, took a number of boards with fewer than 200 licensees (many fewer than 50!) and converted them to advisory boards. This is beneficial since these are the boards that have trouble getting members appointed, meet infrequently since they don’t have a lot of business, and are otherwise less responsive than we like. In addition, many licensees know each other, so
investigations are difficult. This went to subcommittee to consider if these are the right boards to consider and if advisory boards are the appropriate response.
HB 1408, merging and reorganizing various licensing boards, was a request of the governor’s office. Many boards and licensees objected, and so a subcommittee was called to work on the details.
Two bills I sponsored at the request of the governor’s office -both sections pulled from HB2 last year as needing specific evaluation – were HB 1285, merging the board of podiatry with the board of medicine, and HB 1286, merging the board of land surveyors with the board of engineers. The board of medicine didn’t mind covering the podiatrists – they deal with physicians, physicians’ assistants, and all specialties – but they opposed trimming the size of the board. The podiatrists were vehemently opposed to losing an independent board; with only 100 licensees, the subcommittee will consider an advisory board.
Both the land surveyors and the engineers objected to the board merger, and since both boards seemed to be operating effectively, I wasn’t convinced this was necessary. Both sets of licensees are substantial – 6500 engineers of several specialties and 450 surveyors – so I think we’ll leave them alone.
Thursday, we met in session for what should have been a short day. Forty-six noncontroversial bills – including two from my committee – were approved on a voice vote. Two new representatives from Coos County were welcomed: they were both Republicans, bringing the count to 200 R, 195 D, three I, and two open seats.
HB 1199, having the office of the child advocate collect data on homeless youth, was not tabled, 187-188, then passed on a voice vote. Both HB
155, updating court statutes to reflect the recent change for special education eligibility through age 21, and HB 1598, having federal payments (social security and veterans’) for children in foster care collected and given to the child when leaving foster care, were passed without comment.
HB 1237, forbidding unmarked police cars from being used for traffic enforcement, was debated, not killed, 162-213, then amended and passed on voice votes. The opponents were concerned that it was an unfunded mandate on local police departments; the amendment specified that unmarked cars can be used if the officer sees a traffic violation – they just can’t lie in wait to catch speeders. Marked cars are more effective at slowing traffic, if not at raising revenue by catching speeders – and local police here don’t profit from traffic tickets!
At this point we reconsidered our vote on HB 396, which allowed discrimination on the basis of sex in the specific cases of toilets and locker rooms, jails, and women’s sports. We had passed it, 192-184, on January 4; reconsideration failed, 187-190.
HB 1372, prohibiting torture, was killed, 319-58, without debate. Since any act that qualifies as torture is already illegal, this ban is redundant and unnecessary.
HB 1068, requiring a blood test for lead for any child entering public schools or childcare, was a duplicate of a bill (HB 342) that was vetoed by the governor last year. I opposed it then, as asking schools and day cares to enforce (without pay, of course) the state requirement of lead tests for children. After some debate – reminiscent of last year – the bill failed to pass, 189-190, then was killed on a voice vote.
HB 1520, establishing a car ownership program for some families on welfare, was debated at some length before not passing, 184-193, and being killed on a voice vote. I was opposed since the program would be expensive to run, might burden the individuals granted the cars with unsustainable insurance and maintenance costs, and is better handled by private charity.
CACR 23, putting a right to abortion in the state constitution, was debated at length, including one supporter who carried her few week old infant while she spoke! It did not pass, 193-184, as constitutional amendments require 60% of the legislature as well as 2/3 of the voters.
HB 1002, allowing municipalities or state agencies to charge fees for responding to large or complex right to know requests, was debated at some length. It passed, 193-179; I voted against it because I was concerned it didn’t strike the right balance between overburdening local employees and maintaining the public’s right to know. At least some of the opposition seemed to be concerned that public employees would maliciously inflate the time to respond to these requests and so charge excessive amounts – not my concern, I’ve found most public employees are trying to do a good job.
HB 1005, requiring training and continuing education for judges, passed without debate. HB 1248 would ban abortions after 15 days of pregnancy; before the debate started, a motion to indefinitely postpone the bill passed, 363-11. So the House won’t entertain any more bans on very early abortions this year.
HB 1230, creating a study committee on home weatherization, was debated at some length before being killed, 240-133. HB 1398, on cost recovery relative to net metering, went to interim study
without debate. HB 1499, a study committee on a clean energy and conservation corps program, passed without comment.
CACR 13, a constitutional amendment prohibiting slavery and involuntary servitude, was debated on an amendment that echoed the language of the federal constitution. This was all about the word-smithing, as nobody is in favor of slavery; the amendment was defeated, 168-201, and the bill passed 366-5.
HB 1179, granting military retirees free access to state parks, passed without comment. HB 1338, prohibiting state or local enforcement of the draft, was debated and killed, 266-101. The fact that the draft has not been used for fifty years probably had a lot to do with it.
HB 1391, allowing new cars not be inspected until the second year after purchase, was debated and passed, 241-123. Car inspections have not been shown to reduce accidents, and new cars are the safest and cleanest cars on the road; this is the first time I remember any reduction in mandatory inspections passing the House.
CACR 20, declaring independence from the US if the national debt goes to $40 trillion, had been pulled from consent, presumably by some representatives objecting to the committee’s recommendation to kill the constitutional amendment. Before the (undoubtedly lengthy) debate began, a motion to indefinitely postpone passed, 341-24.
HR 20, affirming the friendship between New Hampshire and Taiwan, had been pulled from consent so that the sponsor could make a long speech in support of the committee recommendation. After a few more remarks, the
resolution passed, 354-6.
HB 1447, prohibiting smoke emitters on motor vehicles, had a lengthy speech by the sponsor opposed to the committee recommendation.
Apparently, these “rolling coal” devices are prohibited by federal law, but that isn’t well enforced in New Hampshire, in his opinion. After some debate, the bill was killed, 308-46.
Friday, I met in subcommittee on HB 1466, disaster relief to small towns. We talked with the department of homeland security and emergency management, and found out that they were fully funded by federal grants, and so unable to work on a state grant program. The bill essentially set up a parallel organization, which seemed excessive. After some discussion, we agreed to amend the bill to simply authorize towns to ask the Fiscal committee for a grant once an emergency is declared. This will be quick and hold a town over until they have time to apply for a FEMA grant or hold a town meeting to authorize a loan. I’ll present this amendment to the committee this coming week, and see how it looks.
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I have been saying this (see tweet from Elon Musk below) since the illegitimate Biden-Regime took power. And even if the Regime is unable to legalize the millions (probably over ten at this point) illegals they’ve assisted in invading the United States, it is only a matter of time until the children of these illegals, who are born citizens through so-called “birthright citizenship,” … we’re talking about 20 MILLION or more new Democrat voters … are able to votes and give the Left permanent political control.
This issue transcends everything. America is on track to become a one-party, police-state in AT THE MOST twenty years.
And yet GOP voters in supposedly “red” States keep sending RINOs to Congress who support illegal immigration because it’s what the GOP-donor-class wants … e.g., Graham, Cornyn, McConnell, Lankford, etc., etc. etc.. “A Republic, if you can keep it” … we obviously can’t.
Biden’s strategy is very simple:
1. Get as many illegals in the country as possible.
2. Legalize them to create a permanent majority – a one-party state.
That is why they are encouraging so much illegal immigration. Simple, yet effective. pic.twitter.com/B9M5ypUOQB
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 3, 2024
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So-called “climate science” extends far beyond the traditional bounds of science built on facts and logic and is driven by emotions, amounting to essentially a religious cult masquerading as scientific discipline.
The more climate “studies” depart from traditional scientific foundations, the more bizarre the efforts to taint objective determinations with moralizing policies.
A recent example is displayed by a climate ecologist who has undertaken to solve humanity’s most ancient moral challenges through globally orchestrated renewable energy and wealth redistribution.
Take the example of “environmental redistributism.”
These climate “scientists” promise to rework all human social relations to reverse the existence of carbon dioxide.
A recent “study” seeks to employ climate modeling to reallocate wealth and solve the moral conundrum of human inequality. The researchers claim this is a “paradigm-shifting” plan for “environmental redistributionism” (a.k.a. ecosocialism).
Professor of Ecology at Oregon State University’s College of Forestry William Ripple said:
“We aim to bend the curves on a wide range of planetary vital signs with a holistic vision for addressing climate change, biodiversity loss and socioeconomic injustice. Our work presents a case for how humanity can embark on the journey of saving the world from these environmental and social crises.”
This is science fiction fantasy: Prof. Ripple has left the science class and entered the climate chapel. He did not propound a new currency, tax structures, or motivations for humanity to give up personal property, but that will likely infuse his environmental justice pseudo-scientific sequel.
Other voices are joining him.
The Climate CacophanyWithin the recent “climate” study are the visible seeds of justification for governments, globalists, and corporations to take totalitarian control of individuals and their liberties (including eating choices) and wealth (to balance the world “equitably”):
….we call for the development of a new restorative pathway scenario that would go further for sustainability and equity than the current SSP1. ….The scenario would also focus on reducing the consumption of primary resources to keep environmental pressures within planetary boundaries. The restorative pathway would represent a more equitable and resilient world with a focus on nature preservation with vast reserves as a natural climate solution; post-growth economics; societal well-being and quality of life; equality and high levels of education for girls and women resulting in low fertility rates with higher standards of living; more efficient crop fertilizer use; a diet shift with major reductions in meat production; and a rapid transition towards renewable energy….
This distillation of the Green New Deal into the guise of scientific study is a bait-and-switch too far. The more climate ideology steers humans toward grand schemes of totalitarian domination, the more apparently disconnected from established liberties and traditional scientific methods it becomes. The climate priests of woke theocracy are polluting science in the name of ending pollution.
Then there’s ecosocialism.Governments that have failed to provide equity, a perfect society, and an end to all evil thought are to be replaced by a globalist power that will now cure all of these problems, in toto.
The Biden administration has announced its own pseudo-scientific plans, claiming Joe Biden is:
….laying the foundation for the most ambitious environmental justice agenda ever undertaken by an Administration and putting environmental justice and climate action at the center of the federal government’s work.
The executive order formalized the President and the Vice President’s commitment to ensuring that all federal agencies develop programs, policies, and activities to address the disproportionately high and adverse health, environmental, economic, climate, and other cumulative impacts on communities that are marginalized, underserved, and overburdened by pollution.
The environment has become the Marxist Trojan horse through which the government seizes all power over all humanity.
Other areas of science have similarly abandoned trusted moorings for strange skies. Scientific reasoning has been jettisoned for an ideological agenda that has nothing to do with the scientific method but instead abuses science to attain totalitarian domination.
Scientific research may one day establish unequivocally that totalitarian domination is evil. In the interim, what used to be called science has lost its way, and in 2024 looks more like necromancy, wizardry, or plain old-fashioned snake-oil chicanery.
John Klar is an Attorney, farmer, and author. Mostly farmer… And Regular Contributor to GraniteGrok and VermontGrok.
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The bipartisan Uni-party border “deal” was released last night (2/4), and it is even worse than rumored. Among other things, there is no cap at all on illegal immigration (“the border never closes”).
Mayorkas receives virtually inestimable discretion to interpret/implement the deal; and, as if that is not enough, Biden receives the discretion to suspend the “deal” as he sees fit. GOP voters have been screwed again … BY THE VERY “REPUBLICANS” THEY ELECTED. Just from Sean Davis’ X:
I have carefully reviewed the @SenatorLankford + Mayorkas bill
It codifies invasion policies, kneecaps the ability of President Trump to undo the damage, and is a massive giveaway to the far left interests promoting illegal immigrantion
— Mike Howell (@MHowellTweets) February 5, 2024
Lankford’s ‘compromise’ border bill legalizes the invasion https://t.co/wEHfw1Cnsy pic.twitter.com/KTGrCs5UEx
— TheBlaze (@theblaze) February 5, 2024
This bill is the worst screwing in the Senate since that Dem staffer filmed his porno on Klobuchar’s desk. https://t.co/v8WDDcgaAf
— Rep. Mike Collins (@RepMikeCollins) February 5, 2024
Get this: Under the new border bill, if you are an immigrant who wants to work in the US you no longer have to be married to a citizen—you only have to be a *fiancé / fiancée* of a citizen. I’m sure that won’t become a huge scam!
Section 214(c) of the Immigration and…
— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) February 5, 2024
Under The Senate’s Atrocious Border Bill, Everybody Gets Asylum https://t.co/wRTQxFyXfx
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) February 5, 2024
The Inflation Reduction Act was actually a trillion dollar spending bill. The border security bill is actually a mass amnesty. Just assume bills do the opposite of what they say.
— David Sacks (@DavidSacks) February 5, 2024
The House is impeaching Mayorkas next week while the Senate will be voting to give him massive discretion to …not enforce the border. Why would any Republican vote for this? https://t.co/7PI8uqIWfJ
— J.D. Vance (@JDVance1) February 5, 2024
"The border never closes" is a good summary of this bill, and of Joe Biden's policy.
I can understand why Chris Murphy supports it. I cannot imagine why any Republican supports this atrocious proposal. https://t.co/ekv7LJ8qbO
— J.D. Vance (@JDVance1) February 5, 2024
The bipartisan deal from the Senate immediately gives @fema over $930 million of your tax dollars to import and spread more illegals throughout your communities.
This is not negotiation this is capitulation. pic.twitter.com/8Tcn3gDepL
— Rep. Tim Burchett (@RepTimBurchett) February 5, 2024
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Councilor Wheeler:
I am emailing you to go on record that I want you to reject the judge appointment of Belknap County Attorney Andrew Livernois. It is clearly another political favor of the Damn Emperor, just like many others, the most recent one being DJ Bettencourt.
We all know it’s an election year, and His Excellency is retiring from the Corner Office; therefore, his days are numbered, and “favors,” as disgusting as they are anyway, are soon going to be irrelevant.
I was pleased to have the fortune of seeing Barbara Comtois, one of a handful of incumbent Belknap reps, in the dining room while you were there and on the same morning as the nomination. And I was also pleased to observe you two talking and expect that you’ll be hearing from her peers in the near future. However, something interesting occurred the next day regarding RTK. That horrible bill, supported by Judge Lynn, HB 1002, passed the House, but praise God, it’s going to have another roll call vote next time the House meets. What does that mean to you?
I’ll explain.
If this “RTK records tax” makes it across the finish line, it will create a bigger barrier to accessing the truth that’s supposed to be available to the public. You represent Nashua and certainly know what a hostile city it is in many regards, RTK being one of them, but Nashua does not have a monopoly on “RTK hostility.” All you have to do to learn more is look at Gunstock. There are certainly many people who can speak more intelligently than I regarding what a mountain of buried secrets it is, but Andrew Livernois is NO friend of RTK.
Imagine, for a moment, lots of Belknap folks having to resort to litigation, especially if HB 1002 is successful and Livernois is there playing goalie. He’s potentially a “Judge Temple 2.0,” and Belknappers deserve better. Furthermore, Nashua owes them a solid. We have no representation in the House and, therefore, must depend on them to elect good reps (like Barbara Comtois, Nikki McCarter, and Paul Terry) to offset our 27 swamp rats.
I am unfortunately ill-prepared to answer detailed questions about Attorney Livernois’s role as a Gunstock accomplice because I’m not a lawyer. But former Rep Norm Silber is! I want you to make yourself available to him, Mr. Sylvia, and Dr. Strang for a discussion about the potential harm to Gunstock, Belknap, and perhaps all of NH that could happen in the court of Judge Livernois.
Please vote NO and encourage your peers to do the same.
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The volume of material available from our stint on Radio Row with the 603 Alliance continues to deliver content (you can catch up on our Rumble Channel here). Bill O’Brien joined us for a handful of minutes to talk about the First in the Nation Primary and a subject on the lips of most of our readers. Closing that primary.
Note that this interview was cut a bit short when Kari Lake sat down (you can watch that interview here), but Bill had plenty of time to offer some thoughts about the big day, unwanted outside influence, and how we need not just to close the primary but prevent same day registrants from messing with our process and the results.
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They’re flying so thick and fast it is amazing.
Take heart – there will be both a Wednesday and Friday Edition. Last week’s Friday Edition.
Remember, ridicule and mockery are effective weapons:
Now, let the mockery and mayhem begin.
*** Warning, a few possibly off-color ones, in case tender eyes are about ***
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New voter base.
A someone who is blond, blue-eyed, and “pasty white” I’ve experienced massive reverse discrimination.
I know people like this. Terrified. Just saw a woman with a mask and a face shield. Still. FFS.
There’s definitely “something” going on. But at this point if the government were to tell me the sky was blue on a clear & sunny day I’d run outside on the next such day with a color chart to check it.
For this crime alone IMHO Soros needs to hang. And for his work weakening America and Western Civilization, never mind his work against Israel, I – as an American Jew – want to be the one to pull the lever on him and all his progeny as a way to cleanse the world of his evil.
Jefferson et al, weeping. And it brings to mind a simple question: why can’t these men say NO?
How do you “find” 50K votes just like that? And if they can, actually, do that – isn’t that testament to their ability to fraudulently win elections in general?
Just another shy innocent ravished… uh huh.
Doubtless hooking up with already-here agents and planning & scouting.
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PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA
Kids and phones / tablets:
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/kids-and-screens.mp4
And it’s not just intellectual danger:
PJTV: Five Alarm Fire
Actual danger to kids’ motor skills development.
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A Rothschild. F*CK. As though we don’t have enough trouble with all our liberal BS infecting Judaism.
I highly recommend this counter-argument:
The 2nd Amendment is Obsolete, Says Congressman Who Wants To Nuke Omaha | Monster Hunter Nation
I know people – committed American patriots – who can hit 5″ groups at several hundred yards. And the target doesn’t have to be people. It can be transformers. It can be fuel depots. It can be water pipes feeding the “blue hives”. Don’t worry – none of this hasn’t been discussed openly – and no, I’m not advocating it. I’m trying to warn all these anti-gun advocates the kind of hell they’re talk could be unleashing. Just imagine all these frame-house, closely-packed neighborhoods on a dry, windy day – in many many cities. When the firehouses have been taken out, or the water feeds to the hydrants taken out. And then… well, you can figure out what very unpleasant thing could happen next. Now imagine this happening in a refugee-oversaturated town where there is no shelter or hotel space capacity left… and vast swaths of multiple neighborhoods are now smoldering ruins. And there’s no power or water.
Again, not advocating anything. But with no power, and no water, and little food… how long will these cities last? And don’t forget what a few boxes of roofing nails could do to the food shipments into the city.
All of this has been discussed in various places around the web.
One more time – I do not want to see this happen. I am not chafing at the bit for spicy time.
IMHO it won’t be “happening” until they’re removed from being able to have power again. One way or another.
CO2 is roughly .04% of the atmosphere. Or roughly .0004, or 400 PPM. Of that about 3% is emitted by humans. So .0012% of the atmosphere is man-emitted CO2… or 12 PPM. How… convenient that out of all the factors that could affect climate, it boils down to this tiniest sliver of something mankind does. Suuuure it does.
My pediatrician read me the riot act over not getting the boy his latest “required” vaccines.
Control the information flow, control what people believe.
So… is this all for show to convince us there are “good guys” trying to stop it? The above image does present complications for the Abbott is a good guy narrative.
Foreign agent.
True for me whenever I was on a bus.
I know a “fair” amount about foraging, etc. If I was forced to live off the land MHO is that I’d simply die at a slower rate than most of the people I know.
What a lot of people don’t realize is that – only for Palestinians – people can relocate to a “safe” country and still be called refugees; for most once they reach a safe country they’re not refugees any more. Palestinians can get citizenship in that new country, build new lives there, and still be called refugees. And unlike any other refugee population or group, refugee status for Palestinians is unique in that it transfers generationally. Thus, Bella and Gigi Hadid – multimillionaires born in America and both with NYC apartments and mansions elsewhere, who live jet-set lives that few can afford, who have never actually been citizens over there, and weren’t even alive when the population exchange between Israel and the Arab lands happened – are nonetheless considered Palestinian refugees.
So Israel’s situation with them is special. Once again, a situation with Jews involved is marked for special handling.
Get US out of the UN. For this reason and a million more.
Heck yes. And from the first earning to the last. Everyone needs skin in the game.
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Link section (some by me, some by my Jarhead friend):
Scientists propose million-square-mile umbrella to fight global warming (wnd.com)
Let’s do something that has the potential to wipe out all life. What could go wrong? And what’s the carbon footprint of making and launching it?
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Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont says state will be first to cancel medical debt for all eligible residents (nypost.com)
So generous with other peoples’ money.
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Microsoft To Disable Computers of Users Who Share ‘Non-Mainstream Content’ Online – The People’s Voice (thepeoplesvoice.tv)
A rumor for now, but I’ll be paranoid and suggest that this was an aim from way way way back. It was never about finding criminals but about developing the ability to track everyone, everywhere. Speaking of tracking:
Face Recognition Technology Becoming More Sophisticated — And Better at Tracking You • Children’s Health Defense (childrenshealthdefense.org)
Surveillance state. Made no less “innocent” because much of the data is in private, not governmental, hands.
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“We’re Broke with Biden – We Weren’t with Trump” – Black Man at Barbershop Tells MSNBC “A LOT” of His Friends are Voting TRUMP (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft
Not just this. They’re being replaced by the migrants as the darlings of the Left, and the more observant among blacks see this as well.
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Why America will Fall – by RE Nichols (substack.com)
The avalanche has already started. It can’t be stopped. The main question IMHO is surviving until the rebuild phase.
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Globalists Will Use Carbon Controls To Stop You From Growing Your Own Food – Alt-Market.us
And related:
Glazov Gang: ‘Ecocide’ Charges – on the Horizon | Jamie Glazov Productions
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TSA Rolling Out Worrying New Tech at More Than 400 Airports (westernjournal.com) (bolding added):
“The CAT-2 units are currently deployed at nearly 30 airports nationwide, and will expand to more than 400 federalized airports over the coming years,” a TSA official told Nextgov/FCW — and noted that travelers can opt out of the scan by notifying a TSA agent and going through standard verification procedures.
Bet that gets you put on a list, surely.
Furthermore, the move is being billed as privacy-enhancing, not privacy-degrading.
The cage, sold as beneficial.
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Dr. Philipe Grandjean Exposes The History Of Fluoride’s Harms (thelastamericanvagabond.com)
As Sowell once said, life is not solutions, but merely trade-offs. And increasingly, I am defaulting to the position that whatever The State / The Authorities say is completely wrong.
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Glazov Gang: Leftism and the Delusion of Beating Death | Frontpage Mag
And this is a central element, IMHO, to transhumanism. The idea that you can beat death. And this is, ultimately, one of their great weaknesses. Please note that I’m not advocating anything, but… on an intellectual level, were some globalists to get ventilated, it might give the rest pause.
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Iron Skillet Cleaning and Seasoning | Cooking With Brenda Gantt 2023 (youtube.com)
I think I need to get to thrift stores, yard sales, etc., and grab some old ironware pans, etc. Restore them and they’ll be good barter items when the SHTF.
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Explosive Investigation Uncovers a Global Shadow Government’s Secret Control Over “Elected” Governments & Public Health Bodies, Forging a Global Vaccine Regime – Flopping Aces
“Altogether, 38 individuals run the daily lives of 8 billion people on Earth … The Biden administration is under the control of the shadow government. I can confirm this without any hesitation based upon the information that I have,”…
If someone had told me this before 2019 I’d have laughed, smiled, and looked for a rock. Now… I’m willing to believe it. Related to control:
Push for Collecting Your DNA to Target and Control Behaviour (inewparadigm.com)
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Houthis may sabotage western internet cables in Red Sea, Yemen telecoms firms warn | Yemen | The Guardian
If they actually do this, and I have no doubt they will try, that’s double-plus ungood.
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They Already Have a Foot in the Door – Don’t Give Them More! · Caldron Pool
What we are witnessing, and I am sure most of you have already recognised this, is the destruction of the once-Christian culture that made the Western democracies great. That once meant rule of law and equal rights for all. But now the Woke Stakeholder-Capitalist ideology of the WEF cultists is being imposed on us, from the top down. This is the Fascist/Marxist propaganda of diversity, inclusion and equity (DIE).
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Today in “Science”: American Psychological Association Study Asserts ‘Hiring Most Qualified Candidate’ may be ‘Unfair’ (legalinsurrection.com)
Losing our science to DIE: Now it’s “unfair” to hire the most qualified candidate, because it keeps the diversity candidates out of jobs. Gee, whatever happened to the concept of work harder, get better educated, & earn more skills so you BECOME the most desirable candidate?
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The Firm (coldfury.com)
Our Congress Critters are despicable, but it’s the system that’s REALLY rigged against us. Here a senator states that bills are created in secrecy, and legislators given only days (or hours) to read the bill before voting on it. In this way, hundreds of “laws” get passed without any real debate or even a chance to read them. It’s a system that completely undermines our “representative” form of government,
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The problem is that they THINK they’re so much smarter and more educated.
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The politicians who run for and take office at any level and have a focused agenda for who they represent need to be targeted for replacement. Politicians may have a Party affiliation, but once in office, they represent every person in their town, district, county, or state.
They may have a philosophy that leans Left or Right, but they cannot represent just a subset of their constituents. Over the last decade, we have seen politicians who have an agenda to represent LBGTQ, Trans people, or certain minority groups, and that is wrong. We see politicians who hold onto the belief they need to represent only Black or Brown people. That is tantamount to me winning a government position and only representing Senior, Italian, and Heterosexual Males. It is wrong, and we must call out politicians who do this.
Ilhan Omar has been the subject of many of my articles, and not because of her good policies that have enhanced the lives of her constituents in Minneapolis. Omar is a member in good standing of the Squad and goes out of her way to show how radical her beliefs can be. A refugee brought to America with her family to escape the civil war in Somalia, Omar has never shown gratitude to her new host country. She is now a woman who has achieved what few women have: a seat in the United States Congress. Let’s stipulate one fact, and that is Ilhan Omar hates America and Americans. She went too far recently with that angst.
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene has begun the process of censuring Ilhan Omar. Greene’s move comes in response to Omar’s alleged admission of acting as a foreign agent for another country.
The Daily Caller has procured a copy of the resolution, which is set to be introduced following a controversial speech by Omar. In her address, Omar purportedly stated that her primary responsibility as a Congress member is safeguarding Somali interests. This statement, delivered to Somali leaders in Minnesota on January 27, has drawn significant backlash from her Republican counterparts. This lack of respect for America should not only anger and disgust Republicans but every American who has pledged their allegiance to our country that has given us, and Ilhan Omar, so much. Her comments were not just to assuage and patronize the people she addressed. This is what she believes in her gut.
Numerous incidents should have triggered ethics investigations during her short time in America and Congress. There is evidence of immigration fraud, marrying her biological brother, and campaign finance violations. She continues to get complete support from the Party’s Radical wing and cover from Party leadership.
We have a video of the illegal migrants who assaulted two New York City Police officers and were released without bail. Two of these criminals were then seen giving the camera and all Americans the “double-bird.” These illegals have left New York for the sanctuary and safety of California. They will blend into the masses and never return to New York to face the consequences of their actions. Ilhan Omar has thrown us the “double bird” too, and because of her gender, color, and nationality, she will never face the fiddler, either. The sad thing is that because of the government saturating the area around Minneapolis with Somali immigrants, Omar is assured of a long career in Congress.
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It was another excellent week for comments and debate, dominated by the anti-Democracy hit list and the topic of assisted suicide. Plenty of other posts received a lot of comments, but those two stole the show.
The result was a lot to read through to find a remark that tickled my comment of the week fancy. There were a lot of excellent contributions, so you continued to make the task at hand difficult.
One side note: Jeanne Dietsch chimed in under the piece about her list of 500 anti-democracy granite staters, and it got seventeen downvotes. I think that’s a record. Feel free to put it on your resume, Jeanne, and thanks for coming back for more. The comment community was happy to engage.
As for this week’s winner, there were plenty of runners-up, tons of excellent stuff – even Skip found a tie to join the fun (he comments as ‘GraniteGrok’ if you didn’t know), but there can be only one.
Jim Peschke summed up a lot of what many people said succinctly and, as a long-time commenter, managed to eke out this week’s win.
Nobody cares about you personally, Jeanne, nor are we interested in your narrow-minded views on libertarianism or any other economic/political philosophy.
By producing and endorsing this Nixonesque “enemies list,” you have shown your true colors, and they are damning.
Guilt by association, Thoughtcrime, political persecution, and intolerance. These are the ideas that will forever be spoken in the same breath as “Jeanne Dietsch.”
I confess that Invoking Nixon did it for me because of its McCarthyesqe undertones. Democrats project like mad, alluding to witch hunts that they engage in frequently. It dovetails nicely with the lie that they put people before politics, which is impossible. To a true Dem, there is only politics, and you can’t line up the dissenters after the revolution if you don’t have a list.
Congrats to Jim, who needs to email me: steve@granitegrok.com.
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The New Hampshire legislature doesn’t have a plastic bag ban this year (there’s one for plastic utensils that needs to die), but banning misnamed single-use plastic bags is still on the Left’s bucket list even though doing so is worse for the environment they claim to be protecting.
I won’t relitigate past proof; you can read through it for yourself. A summary, however, is in order in the form of recent reporting on the complete failure of New Jersey’s recent “bag ban.”
Most of New Jersey’s stores switched to reusable shopping bags, the kind often sold in supermarkets. These bags are made with non-woven polypropylene, which uses more than 15 times more plastic, and they are often not recycled.
As a result, these bags caused greenhouse gas emissions to rise 500% compared to the old bags in 2015, according to the report.
On top of this, people tend not to reuse the new reusable bags as much as intended — on average they are only used about two or three times before being thrown away.
There are no reusable bags, plastic, hemp, or poly, that are less carbon-intensive or better for the waste stream than thin film, and this is old news. From manufacture to care to disposal, they have a bigger footprint that gets bigger unless you stop washing them after about 800 uses.
Related: Dems Proposed NH Bag Ban Created 5.2 Million More Pounds of Less Environmentally Friendly Waste in California
Yes, the anti-baggers will cite their own studies, but if the goal is to reduce waste and emissions, much like wind and solar, their solution makes matters worse, which is amusing if you read the opening of that plastic utensil ban I noted above. Proposed, “In furtherance of the state’s goals to reduce waste, promote equity and environmental justice, and address the impacts of climate change.”
And please do not misunderstand. I have no quarrel if you like or want reusable bags as a personal choice. The gripe is with applying government force based on, at best, a half-truth and something worse than a lie. Thin film bags are cheaper and easier to recycle and dispose of, while every alleged ban excludes so many types of plastic bags as to be little more than a virtue signal attacking one visible feature whose prohibition results in the use of more plastic to replace it.
You can ignore all that if you want, just don’t use the government to force the rest of us to go along on that ride.
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Winter weather has become a harbinger of climate justice agitation. In the past, frigid snaps were exploited by eco-warriors to “prove” global warming, as climate scientists predicted colder extremes as part of global climate change. Actual science has now disproved that hackneyed assertion, so alarmists have pivoted from manipulating arctic blasts to “prove” global warming to discrediting anyone who questions the official (if fictional) narrative.
A Moving Climate TargetTypical headlines currently dominating the cacophony of mainstream media propaganda include titles such as “Why we still have brutal cold snaps even as the planet warms to record levels.” The jargon now indicts “conservatives [who] use cold snaps to dispute climate change” as a pre-emptive effort to discredit anyone who dares do what green militants routinely do – use every anecdotal weather event to rattle sabers for the end of the world.
Americans are witnessing more than mere hypocrisy – this clueless disconnect reveals that science is the last thing that the pseudo-scientific climate activists wish to consult. The green tea leaves predict the end is nigh. Every single wildfire affirms the vision – even if ignited by a clan of arsonists. Every record hot day “proves” climate change and human-caused at that. Every flood, drought, hurricane is leveraged into a Thunbergian ballyhoo to terrify.
Exploiting Cold SnapsRecently it got really cold, really fast across many regions of the United States. “Hold on,” say the alarmists, “that doesn’t mean anything. All roads MUST prove anthropogenic climate change; alternative discussions are verboten!” El Nino, a known climate contributor, was predicted to cause a warm winter and brutal cold spells – that is largely ignored. Consideration of other factors, however well scientifically established, is simply not done.
The evolution of environmental propaganda is visible. A 2017 Forbes commentary titled “A Response For People Using Cold U.S. Weather To Refute Climate Change” averred that “there are some studies that suggest that a warming climate (because more water vapor is available to a warmer atmosphere) may fuel bigger blizzards or snowstorms. That science is also emerging.” Well, that science has “emerged” and been increasingly questioned. Warming trends have yet to be proven “anthropogenic,” so it seems clear scientific proof has taken a back seat to ideological conviction.
El Nino Still ExistsThus, eco-alarmists have shifted from “record cold is caused by climate change” to “conservatives are wrong to use record cold to refute climate change.” A Jan. 16 article by the Associated Press titled “US in deep freeze while much of the world is extra toasty? Yet again, it’s climate change” claimed this apparent contradiction “fits snugly in what climate change is doing to Earth.” The piece then favored a single scientist who claimed cold outbreaks are caused by climate change and stated, “It’s a theory still debated by climate scientists but growing in acceptance.” El Nino goes unmentioned.
However, 2024’s winter is expected to be warmer due to the long-studied effect of El Nino. CBC News reported:
A Predictable Ideological Pattern“[E]very couple of years the polar vortex is disrupted, splitting into multiple ‘lobes’ that extend south. That disruption also causes the polar jet stream to weaken, which can help push and hold the freezing air over parts of Canada and the US.
“Even though the polar vortex is strongest in winter, it can be disrupted by certain patterns in the upper atmosphere. According to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, those patterns can become more common in late winter during El Niño years.”
The ideological pattern is far easier to discern than that of the weather. Climate warriors continue to abuse science by claiming that the current cold snap is further evidence of climate change, even as they mock detractors for using the same event to question their wobbly models. This knee-jerk adherence is so profuse it has become predictable – here at Liberty Nation in December:
“El Nino is predicted to be very strong in the coming months, warming many areas. (Climate Crisis!) It is also predicted to amplify swings in the polar jet stream, causing sharp cold snaps. (Climate Crisis!) Cold or hot, El Nino or El Nina, all temperatures and storms precipitate howls of doom and demands for increased power from the Climate Warrior Clan.”
Weather has always been unpredictable. Lately, meteorologists trying to forecast next week’s storms sound more like charlatan pretenders than scientists. Though they can’t seem to predict local temperatures accurately three days out, Americans can correctly predict what the climate alarmist community will hysterically claim even years from now.
John Klar is an Attorney, farmer, and author. Mostly farmer… And Regular Contributor to GraniteGrok and VermontGrok.
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