The Manchester Free Press

Wednesday • December 11 • 2024

Vol.XVI • No.L

Manchester, N.H.

Connecticut Mandates Climate Religion Classes in Government Schools

Granite Grok - Tue, 2022-12-20 16:00 +0000

The religion with the worst track record on predictions might surprise you. It’s the climate cult. A faith based on the mythical notion that 97% of “scientists” think human activity is warming the earth and that politicians, with enough of someone else’s money, can prevent it.

And people complain about used car salesmen. At least you get a car when they are done with you. The Climate cult takes and never even delivers that. The closest thing you might find is a used electric vehicle, but that’s a lot like “buying” a bridge in New York City or believing any of the Climate Cults armageddon predictions.

They’ve made many, and not one has come true, which the State of Connecticut has decided to turn into a mandatory curriculum. It is not an analysis of epidemic failure, but a means to get past it with global warming dogma.

You need only have faith (and support diverting trillions of dollars from productive people to non-productive purposes).

 

Starting next July, Connecticut will become one of the first states in America to mandate climate change studies across its public schools as part of its science curriculum.

The new law passed earlier this year comes as part of the state’s attempts to address concerns over the short duration – and in some cases, absence – of climate change studies in classrooms. The requirement follows in the footsteps of New Jersey, which in 2020 became the first state to mandate K-12 climate change education across its school districts.

 

Not chapters on prediction failure, waste fraud, abuse, money laundering, or how the prophets of Global Warming went on to become multi-millionaires living the lifestyles they claim are dooming the planet; in beachfront ocean-view homes.

Instead,

 

“The conservative turn in our country … often starts at a very hyper-local level of local town boards of education. There is this push towards anti-intellectualism, anti-science … anti-reason, and I didn’t want local boards of education to have the power to overturn the curriculum and say, ‘climate change is too political,’” Connecticut state representative Christine Palm told the Guardian.

 

To correct this anti-intellectual, anti-science posture, there will be no questions permitted. You will not be allowed to point to failed predictions, flawed models, or the painfully obvious lack of evidence that warming – if it were happening and mankind was responsible – is bad, or that politicians could “fix” it.

Challenging the text is verboten. Your job as a student is to listen and repeat (reading is unnecessary and may eventually be prohibited as it lends itself to independent thinking).

You must have faith and not just silence disbelievers’ words (disinformation) but call them out as heretics and discriminate against them.

That’s been the program to date. I can’t imagine an actual school curriculum would be any different. We’ll have to wait and see if any of these “conservative” school boards (if they even exist in that state) can massage the mandate into something verging on actual climate science and what the Legislature might do to them if they tried.

Mob action, climate lynching, burned at the stake.

Private schools never looked so good. Too bad the same Legislature also does what it can to make that path impossible for anyone but those with the most significant carbon footprints.

Peace be upon them.

 

 

HT | The Guardian

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The Definition Of Good Government Is One That Steals From Someone Else

Granite Grok - Tue, 2022-12-20 14:30 +0000

The past week has revealed two very interesting situations that will affect us in the near future. One is the revelation that an EU vice president and six of her lackeys have been arrested for taking $1 million in bribes from Qatar.

Also, two Americans are under a cloud, a retired Marine general is under investigation and an ex-American ambassador pleaded guilty to accepting bribes. The gushers of funds keep rising to the surface as the desperation of the thieves accelerates before the cataclysm.

Also, in an unrelated situation, during an interview in Der Spiegel, Angela Merkel admitted that the 2014 Minsk Peace Accords were just a front so that Ukraine would have time to rearm. Another coincidence is that the Fried kid at FTX was laundering money from the US taxpayer through Ukraine and back to the DC political cabals. The Fried boy was arrested to keep his mouth shut about for whom he was laundering money and where it went.

I imagine that any life insurance policies he was carrying have been canceled by the underwriters.

The moral pillars of our society have crumbled, and this has led to a run on our treasury as well as our societal standards. Leadership by the left habitually leads to massive corruption and incompetence by the type of people you did not invite to the HS prom, and they have not forgotten it. The gushers of money are voted by acclamation and not the budgetary process that is constitutional. This allows 3,000 pages of graft to slide through in 24 hours providing appropriate parachutes for the insiders.

One money sponge that feeds on the gushers is the church’s benevolent societies. These groups receive large government checks for the support of illegal aliens. These millions provide some food and shelter to people, but there is always enough left for a healthy skimming. I thought churches relied on members for donations for charitable works. Wrong again! The people that these groups sponsor are given things that American citizens do not receive from their own government. Our taxes go to aliens and do not help our own people.

The medical industry is a totally owned subsidiary of the Pharma complex. It has moved this way rather quickly since the advent of bammy care. Billions of dollars in government subsidies to drug companies are a huge source of profit for the Hospital Industry, with the usual corrupt system leading the way. If you don’t get stuck, you can’t come in.

A new German study on vaccine mortality is finally getting media recognition. All those young lives wasted with suicide or birth defects are now apparent. The sterilization of young people is horrifying. Prescribing useless or dangerous drugs is all in a day’s work for your friendly doctor. It is a job requirement, but he also gets a commission to pay his tuition loans or buy the new beach house. Joseph Mengele would be proud.

The Army is filled with perverts of various types in another obammy innovation. The latest revelation is that wearing dog masks to sexually mount subordinates also dressed as dogs is not punished or even discouraged in today’s military. The lack of condemnation from within the Army reveals that the officer corps is totally corrupt. They will tolerate anything that leads to a flag rank. As we all know, there are hundreds more generals now than during WW2, even though the army is about 15% of the size it was then.

Ukraine is quite the magnet for the financially connected of all types. Why in the world was school teachers union president Randi Weingarten in Ukraine? Would it be to try to protect herself from the illegal campaign contribution trail through the FTX scam? Could it have something to do with the illegal gain of function labs there? After all, she was instructing the FDA on keeping her schools closed which extended the paid vacation for woke teachers.

The sad thing is that these are all revelations of the past couple of months. There are so many that we have forgotten other large monetary scandals, such as the Clinton Foundation, ACORN, CAIR, and BLM, to name a few. Will we CREATE change in the coming year or whine and await our fate?

Courage is the first and most important step in defending our values; without courage, there is no protection for our lives.

 

 

Madame Defarge writes at The Blue State Conservative

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Dem Rep Breaks the Party’s “Fourth Wall” On Pedophilia

Granite Grok - Tue, 2022-12-20 13:00 +0000

The fourth wall, the proscenium, is the barrier that separates performers from the audience. The characters break the fourth wall when they include or refer to the audience. It can draw attention to the other three walls and the experience within them.

That’s a gross generalization, but there is a normalizing of the relationship between the actor(s) and the audience. You’ve been upgraded to first class, given VIP access, and allowed to see behind the veil, and Democrat Rep. Katie Porter just invited you behind hers. And you’ll be wondering. Is this just her, or does the whole cast agree?

 

 

What a great Q and A opportunity at your Dem congressperson’s next town hall. “Is pedophilia a sexual identity?” And, If pedophilia is an identity, are the Democrats openly accepting them as a protected class?”

“What does that mean?”

I am curious whether the political Left is prepared to admit to this. They’ve been open about it in an indirect way. Promoting the sexualization of children at ages where sex has no meaning is absurd on its face, but they’ve used misdirection to excuse it. The term minor-attracted persons is offensive but delivered as if this is something that can’t help much the way the LGBT agenda insists that this is just who they are.

Normalizing it is on their bucket list.

We should also assume that pedophilia will continue to be child rape and a sex crime when the wrong people do it (priests, Republicans) but just who someone is when it’s a protected class (teachers, administrators, donors).

Our stance is that it is child rape regardless of how Democrats, including Katie Porter, frame it, but we’d like to thank her for breaking the fourth wall and letting us in on what her party is trying to do.

Dem Rep Breaks the Party’s “Fourth Wall” On Pedophilia

 

HT | LifeSite News

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Joe, Why Do You Hate Us So

Granite Grok - Tue, 2022-12-20 11:30 +0000

Title 42 is set to expire this week. Title 42 was an emergency plan put in place during COVID to prevent an unchecked influx of illegals across what used to be our Southern Border. When used in conjunction with effective Border Patrol and the building of the Wall, the flow of illegals and Getaways coming across our Border under the Trump Administration was minimal. Joe Biden’s first actions on Day One of his Presidency were to cease all construction of the Wall, which Congress had already funded, and to end the Return to Mexico policy. Those actions did a few things detrimental to America. It destroyed our sovereignty by eliminating a secure Southern Border. It increased the number of illegal crossings to over two million per year. It increased the amount of Fentanyl smuggled so that Fentanyl poisoning is now the number one cause of death, resulting in close to 100,000 per year. Will any Democrat defend those actions or effects? Of course not. They refuse to accept the data. They turn their heads which makes them complicit in Biden’s destruction of America.

Joe Biden has never held a private sector job. He has been in Congress or the White House for fifty years, raking in money from foreign countries through his son, Hunter Biden. He has been sucking off the teat of the people of Delaware and America. Without this country, and some say a naive electorate, Joe Biden would simply be Joe from Scranton. Joe Biden is far from Scranton and Amtrak, which he likes to identify. The Biden’s are a very wealthy family, thanks to America. Instead of being grateful, he is on a mission to destroy it. Why? We may never have the answer, and he may not even know himself. We may give this man far more credit than he deserves or has earned.

We all see the lack of acuity in Joe Biden if we allow ourselves to be objective. The thought of him running again in 2024 and his level of mental ability when he is 86 years old in the eighth year of his Presidency is frightening. If the Democrat Party nominates him to run for re-election, it is proof he is a proxy President. But this brings you to the question of who is using Biden? Who is actually running this White House? With the ineptitude shown by his Vice President and Cabinet, it cannot be any of these diverse individuals. Is it the Obamas or Clintons? Doubtful. It may be as easy to deduce as to look to Biden’s Chief of Staff, Ron Klain. This would explain how quickly gaffes by Biden are corrected. There have been times the White House, Ron Klain has retracted or corrected a Biden statement “before” his public comments have ended. If this assumption is correct, it places Ron Klain at the head of the spear plunged into America’s heart.

Hyperbole? Maybe, but how else do you explain what this administration is doing to America, and we are only talking about the Border? If we expand to education, mandates, the destruction of Title IX, the gender transformation of our children, the assault on fossil fuels, the decline in value of our retirement accounts, and inflation, the story darkens.

The Republicans taking control of the House on January 3 will help slow the process, but only a significant change in our leadership in 2024 can save this great country.

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Don Surber’s Point #2: Normal Parents Reaction to Teachers’ Sexuality

Granite Grok - Tue, 2022-12-20 02:30 +0000

Part 1 was the reveal by Don Surber, while letting the info drop that I’d been looking for some time (where did the policy on “Transgender and Non-conforming” originate?). But as I said at the end of that post, Surber also made another observation I think is important, one that I think all Normal people can identify with it.

First, a quick note that Surber made about Sam Brinton:

If the charges are true, they show a man who is a slave to his impulses. He needs a checkup from the neck up.

But he’s LGBT and therefore exempt in our society from rules and standards.

And so it seems.  There is a political saying that “the Left operates on its Emotions, the Right operates on Reason”.  And from my perspective, that gap exists and has been getting wider.

Surber nails it – “slave to his impulses“. Translation: “feel it, do it”.  Translation Two: in other words, NO SELF-CONTROL  

This also ties into the whole Sexuality thing – let me summarize. For years, we have heard from the Left that when it comes to sexual matters, we humans can’t control ourselves. In essence, we are no better than animals who rut when they have the urge.  And the Left, having seized upon sexual morality and weaponized it, wants us all to believe that we cannot control our emotions, we cannot control our urges. We can’t control ourselves.

They dismiss the idea that most of us can and DO control ourselves as a matter of course. That there are those of us that can say “No” to them and say “we are above the animals”. Why else do they dismiss the idea of abstinence?  Sure, teens and young twenty-somethings do get randy, frisky…and risky. The Left capitalizes on that by changing what used to be a moderate and chaste Society. What they won’t discuss is that this is the age cohort that biology now says that young brains have not matured but applies that to the rest of us.

They wish to infantilize all of us in this regards.

And in doing so, by making “Transgenders” yet another protected class (THANKS! Governor Chris Sununu in implementing this in NH!  /sarc), Surber notes this as well in expanding Brinton writ small to Society writ Large

But he’s LGBT and therefore exempt in our society from rules and standards….

But half the country now believes LGBT teachers have the right to blab about their weekend orgy. A law to ban this kind of talk in Florida faced opposition from Disney.

Librarians meanwhile are demanding that schools stock books that depict children engaged in homosexual activity. The laws against child pornography need to be enforced.

Yes, when men can be on womens’ teams, when Normals are told that they must adopt politically made up language (“cisheteronormativity”? ze/zir?) to control speech and therefore thought (“1984” was written as a warning, not a how-to manual), when school districts and judges “take away” children from their Parents simply because of the Left’s new sexual identity morality – they are exempt from our former norms and standards.  They are out to destroy them to remake Society in their own sexual urges – at least at the surface level. The same goal, which Grokster Aaron recalled, was attempted to be put into place in Hungary during WW I.

And Surber is also right – certainly not during my time in school were teachers proclaiming their sexuality to young students.  Prositalizing, preaching, indoctrinating seems to now be part of their job description. Look at the Rainbow, Gay Straight Alliance, and other such sexually based clubs in Middle and High Schools that have popped up all over the country. “Transition Closets” in schools where those kids that believe that they are something that they can never be hang up the clothes they left home wearing to put on others that would horrify their unknowing Parents.

And School staff members are sworn to secrecy, sometimes under the penalty of losing their jobs, are all in on this separation of kids from their parents. In this respect, it’s a sword cleaving that special and needed bond.

And churches that should be upholding Godly norms, have decided to not just put that light under a bucket but have let it go out altogether. They have, as Revelations foretold, have left the Word of God and are adopting the Gospel of Licentiousness.  They serve themselves having lost that separation from Church and Society. When a determined set of people are out to destroy the norms of this country, its history, its values, we all will suffer the injuries.

Surber ends on a similar dismal note.

I have nothing against the LGBT people. I just don’t want them around children. I don’t want anyone so obsessed with sex hanging around kids.

This is unacceptable behavior and yet we as a society accept it.

And no, we shouldn’t.

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A Tutorial: How to Create a Right To Know to Hold Your Government Accountable – Part 1

Granite Grok - Tue, 2022-12-20 01:00 +0000

People have asked if I would create a post or two on how to craft an RSA 91-A demand. This is also known here in NH as a Right To Know, and it is specific to all government agencies (and often, non-governmental bodies that receive tax monies but only in some cases).

Its purpose is the same as a Federal FOIA – Freedom of Information Act demand – but at that level.

I. Purpose

Its purpose is to help an ordinary citizen to do one thing: demand certain information for YOUR purpose that your government officials, either elected, appointed, or employees, would rather not have to give you.  It puts you back in charge, let’s them know that someone is starting to shine a Big Flashlight into dark corners.

Most people in Government are decent people and when requested, will give you information about their procedures, processes, and inventories and we should be glad about that. After all, our taxes pay their salaries, their benefits, the equipment they use, the buildings in which they are housed, and the information that they manufacture and use. Like contracts, payroll, curriculum, financial audit materials, card catalogs, staff training, purchases, expendatures, dues, subscriptions, meals, travels, swag, and more.

Just tons and tons of stuff. Mostly, al for the asking – until it isn’t. Oh, you can ask – and ask, and ask again.

And sometimes, you won’t get answers. Sure, you ask and you might get a response:

  • Polite conversation (in person, phone, emails)
  • Answers not really aligned with your questions.
  • Misdirections
  • Buried in “chaff” paperwork – high in quantity, low to no information value
  • Pages and pages of redacted documents
  • Outright refusals
  • Silence
  • “See you in Court”

Well, maybe not that last part – but it may well end up there. Unfortunately, there are those in Government that believe that your purpose in asking doesn’t rise to the level of them answering truthfully. Or worse, they don’t believe that you are “just getting in our way”. You’ve impacted their work, slowing them down, or worse – they don’t want you to know. Period. And they will do what is necessary to hide that which is in their Dark Corner.

These are the people (fortunately, the few, the haughty, the hubristic, and the outright evil) who believe you are there for their benefit. They DON’T work for you – you serve Government. No, they won’t come right out and say that last bit – but actions speak Louder Then Words.

And that’s why NH RSA 91-A exists. Here is the link to the actual black and white Letter of the Law. It is set up for different purposes:

1-Preamble – the Why Does This Exist?

1-a: Definitions – the WHAT Does This Cover?

2-Meetings Open to the Public – the WHO (running the meeting, attending the meeting) and the HOW and WHEN?

3-Nonpublic Sessions – the WHEN and WHERE YOU can’t attend (and the Limitations placed upon them)

4-Minutes and Records Available for Public Inspection – the WHAT can You Demand?

5-Exemptions – What You CAN’T Demand?

5-a and 6 are some special additions/exceptions to #5 and I’ve never had reason to invoke them

And here are the two clauses that put “teeth into your bite” – the “oomph” that cannot be disobayed by the “Respondents”.

And lastly, the new Office of the Right To Know Coordinator which is going to make things a bit “interesting”.

So, there’s more here than can be covered in a single post. Thus, will be continued.

 

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Palate Cleanser – So, You Want To Clue Your Boyfriend for Gifts?

Granite Grok - Tue, 2022-12-20 00:15 +0000

After all, sometimes guys just don’t know what or worse – know how to ask.  Especially if they are one of those 8 pm Christmas Eve “Lord help me once again” shoppers as the fear in his eyes is palpable. Have mercy upon his soul – or shake his procrastination butt into motion.

Here’s an easy tip, care of Pleated-Jeans:

Merry Christmas!

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Canadian “Coloring Book” Normalizes Assisted Suicide for Children

Granite Grok - Mon, 2022-12-19 23:30 +0000

The death cult in Canada is really on their game. There’s an “activity book” available that explains how people can ask the government for permission to kill themselves (assisted suicide), but you have to be at least fifteen years old.

Related: Assisted Suicide is Now Available in Vermont after a Zoom Call with Dr. Death

I’ve never been a fan of this. You can’t trust the government; legally assisted suicide is another way the regime could eliminate opponents. Example: Seth Rich would have “asked” to die (depression, sudden chronic illness) instead of “someone” faking a robbery to have him killed.

And think about how less messy the Clinton trail of dead bodies would have been if people could “have claimed” to be in so much emotional pain they could no longer go on living. He consulted with (Canada calls them assessors), and they determined that ending that life was…well, you can work out the rest.

So here’s the relevant tweet (screengrabbed version here).

 

 

Canada Health didn’t produce the thing, but they linked to the third-party resource, which, if we understand the rules correctly, is an endorsement of the product – an activity book for children.

 

The source is Virtual Hospice Canada, which says it helps care for a seriously ill or dying child and those experiencing child or pregnancy loss. So they can kill your kid and provide therapy after? The site also promotes inclusive and respectful “health care” for the LGBTQ (again, end-of-life services). As well as end-of-life education resources for teachers.

All of which, by the way, gives them business on both sides of death.

And they are not shy about it. Note: I did not find the activity book on the site, but I gather it is supposed to help kids grasp assisted suicide as a choice by others and not just themselves – normalizing the practice.

So, the government promotes assisted suicide which, as I’ve noted, is a bad idea. Don’t expect the news out of Canada to get any better than it has in Europe, where otherwise healthy young people are offing themselves with a State blessing.

If you are not convinced, this is a bad idea; most of the world’s elites think the planet is overpopulated. The same ‘leaders’ encourage assisted suicide while implementing social and cultural agendas in early school-age children that increase the likelihood of mental health issues and depression. And we recently had a pandemic response whose major success was stress and depression, mainly among young persons.

We know that what is sold as end-of-life compassion for the terminally ill evolves (as it has in Europe) into a legal way to address the rising mental health issues like depression which is often temporary – through assisted suicide.

Health “Professionals” are constantly under pressure from elites to identify political opposition to the ruling class as a form of mental illness, while partisan professionals are tripping over themselves to make it so.

And is it only a matter of time before cultural selective suicide evolves to include an experimentation routine (well, they’re going to die anyway)?

Some will say what a ridiculous thing to suggest but what is not absurd about letting productive young people off themselves with the government’s blessing because they got a case of the sads or felt remorse because the same government encouraged them into a gender transition that they later regret?

Canada is normalizing this in children.

They might be normalizing it here; we’ll have to discover it to find out. It’s not like they are going to admit it openly.

 

 

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As If “Renewable Energy” Isn’t Already Blowing Itself Up?

Granite Grok - Mon, 2022-12-19 22:00 +0000

Heh!  Reader Bruce sent this in. Not exactly as showy as the Bridges or the Buildings but I find it ironic that while we are hearing calls for “More! More!”, they are taking them down.  For what reason, I don’t know: they stopped working, too expensive to maintain, putting up new ones?  Who know – and who cares? People just like to see explosions, I guess

The first one makes you think “What, not enough boom?  Was it a dud?”

Yes, it seems like this is a “video ad for Controlled Demolition, Inc.”. I really don’t care. I just like to watch.

(H/T: Bruce)

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Do They Want Fat Kids ‘cuz COVID Will Kill Them?

Granite Grok - Mon, 2022-12-19 20:30 +0000

The body positive are at higher risk of hospitalization and death from COVID-19. Above-average weight also makes you more likely to be or become diabetic, and that, too, can lead to severe infection and death.  Is that why the CDC just changed the BMI charts defining obesity in children?

 

Obesity for children is defined as a BMI that is higher than 95% of kids of the same age and gender, according to the CDC. Severe obesity is a BMI that is 120% higher than the 95th percentile.

Although children’s BMI is calculated using the same formula as adults, a healthy weight is measured in relation to other kids of the same age and gender. This is because children’s height and weight can vary significantly as they grow.

 

Obesity is officially on the spectrum. It’s not about what might be healthy for the average human being. If everyone around you is obese, then that’s normal and not a concern.

When can we expect this to apply to heart disease or cancer clusters? Don’t worry, dear. Everyone else has that, too, so it’s normal.

Obesity does not just increase the risk of COVID infection or severe disease. There is a long list of health ills associated with being overweight, including heart disease. By making the determining factor tribal or local, it essentially encourages a circumstance that will put a strain on the healthcare system, something the architects of Obamacare insisted they were trying to prevent.

That ship sailed a decade ago, then burned and sank with the response to the so-called pandemic.

We should not be surprised that the Centers for Disease Control have redefined what it means to control disease from prevention to manipulation.

To what end, we encouraged you to debate.

 

 

 

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The Truth About the Welfare Clause

The Liberty Block - Mon, 2022-12-19 19:28 +0000

The letter claims that federal programs funding food stamps, unemployment insurance, “public” education, and student loans are authorized by the preamble. The letter claims the preamble makes social welfare programs “the very purpose of constitutional government”. All these claims are false.

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That Danged Transgender School District Policy (Transgender & Non-Conforming)? NOW We Know Where it Originated

Granite Grok - Mon, 2022-12-19 19:00 +0000

I knew that it had to come from some central group as it seemed like it was a case of “not here, not there – and then it exploded ALL OVER THE COUNTRY!”. With all of the “Schools, Woke, Transgender, CRT” posts I’ve been putting up (click here for most (but not all) of those story snippets), I would have thought it would have surfaced by now in one of them. No such luck. However, it finally surfaced but in a most unexpected place.

Thanks to Don Surber – a retired journalist that I read fairly often. He writes well and on an interesting topic. This time, in a post called “We are letting weirdos run things“, he brought up Sam Brinton, the former “deputy assistant secretary of Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition in the Office of Nuclear Energy”. This is the narcissistic nitwit who thought that his sexual identification was his most important attribute.

Sidenote: happy to see that Surber used the older word “transvestite” in describing him instead of the newly made-up “Social Justice “non-binary” term.

John Burtis and Steve have already written about him and since his “Governmental Elevation”, he’s elevated his deranged and deviant behavior (including his “pup fetish”) to make sure that EVERYONE knows that he and that behavior should be “normalized” so I’m not going to do a short historical rehash. Instead, I’m going to go back to the title of this post (emphasis mine, links added):

“Before joining the federal government, Brinton was in charge of advocacy and government affairs at the LGBTQ youth suicide prevention nonprofit The Trevor Project, where he helped craft a ‘Model School District Policy on Suicide Prevention’ in 2019 along with the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, the American School Counselor Association and the National Association of School Psychologists.

“Brinton cheered the model at the time, saying it’s imperative for school suicide prevention policies to be LGBTQ competent.”

Look, I have been saying for a couple of years since Policy JBAB appeared in my School District that if you think you are something that you are not, have at it. If your friends and family accept it, more power to you. But DON’T believe that the rest of us have to accept it. At all. And NOT at the demand of giving up our Constitutional Rights (or have them taken away):

  1. That a School District give itself the Power to take away my freedom of speech and enforce its coerced speech (“preferred pronouns”)
  2. That a School District can give itself the Power to lie (by omission or commission) to Parents about the transgender status of their child

And here in NH, we are a Dillon’s Rule State which means that no subdivision of the State can do anything without a State Statute (an RSA) that enables it. My District actually states it in their Policy BBA.

Fortunately, after two years of fighting them, the Gilford School Board has rescinded #1 and it is no longer an issue. It’s also no longer an issue in a lot of districts because Parents across the nation are bringing them to court and winning.

Sidenote: really, we have to bring Government to court to obey the First Amendment and their State Constitutions??? It looks like I may have stopped them on #2 but, once again, they won’t answer my questions (verbally, email). Thus, this Constitutional battle continues. And yes, it IS a Constitutional and a Parental battle that is being waged.

So we have four groups, two embedded into school districts, that are responsible for attacking Free Speech and the role of Parents in the lives of our children (e.g., PRIMARY responsibility backed up by SCOTUS decisions – not the school systems). I did a quick dive into each of the four organizations and while I DIDN’T see a specific “School District Policy” like those that have been adopted by NH districts and around the country. However, they all do have similar intents and messaging: LGBT must be “affirmed” including speech and they see Parents as the enemy.

Once again, the Moral Superiority Complex of the Woke is at work here.

It was NEVER about suicide prevention.  That was the Shiny Object.  “LGBT competent” was merely the payload delivery mechanism.  For what, you may ask?

The smoke and curtains goal was to ALWAYS separate children from their Parents – blowing up the nuclear family.  Then finish Obama’s ultimate finish line: to “fundamentally transform America“.

There’s still another important point that Surber brought up that I believe most Normal Parents agree with but that will be the point of another post.

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'I'm Appalled,' Says Source of Phony Number Used to Justify Harsh Sex Offender Laws

Citizens for Criminal Justice Reform – N.H. - Mon, 2022-12-19 18:25 +0000
Claims of "frightening and high" recidivism rates, endorsed by the Supreme Court, have no basis in fact.

A New York Times "op-doc" posted this week zeroes in on a persistent myth that has helped inspire and sustain harsh policies aimed at sex offenders: the idea that their recidivism rate is "frightening and high," as Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy put it in a pair of cases decided a decade and a half ago. David Feige, a former public defender who directed Untouchable, a 2016 documentary about sex offenders, shows how an uncorroborated assertion in a 1986 Psychology Today article continues to influence the politicians who pass laws and the judges who uphold them.

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MONDAY MEMES

Granite Grok - Mon, 2022-12-19 17:30 +0000

They’re flying so thick and fast it is amazing.  And take heart – there will be a Meme Overflow and I will back-edit to include the link.  And there will likely be a Friday Meme Overflow-Overflow.  Last week’s Friday Overflow-Overflow.

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.  And if you send an individual meme, please consider sending a link to the post as well.

 

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

 

 

 

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But first, a random sampling of three of my cartoons.  Please note these are my concepts but I pay a professional to do them.

 

 

 

 

Question – please comment – if this were available on a T-shirt, would you buy one?

 

Speaking of buying:

 

 

Here.  Also available in .223.

 

 

 

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Special PSA – car safety / prep idea:

 

 

Another suggestion: an empty gallon / two gallon gas can.  Not full – that’s dangerous to cart around (though in cold winters that might be considered low risk vs. running out on a wintery road at night – not recommending it but a thought to weigh) – but something you can have to get to a gas station without having to drive to go buy one first.  Any other thoughts?  Obviously, these will vary depending on where you live and what season you are in.  I’d definitely add road flares.  (That reminds me… need to get some.)  Also, on flares specifically, remember that three things – flares, fires, smoke columns – in a triangle is an international sign of distress.

Also, cash!!  Enough to cover gas, food, and possible a place for the night if it comes to it (and toiletries and 1-2 night’s worth of medication too).

One thing I’ll be doing this week – late, I know, but better late than never – is a five-gallon bucket for each vehicle with a 50/50 sand / salt mixture and a scoop.

Speaking of preps:

Survival Sunday – PREP Edition – Granite Grok

Survival Sunday on Thursday (On Friday): SITREP Edition – Granite Grok

 

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https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/war-zone-girl-1.mp4

 

Coming soon to a neighborhood near you.  Because “Diversity is a strength”.  Remember, long term, this GREAT REPLACEMENT is the plan to create a forever-majority for the Left.

 

 

Not to mention the bonus for the Globalists: the chaos that ensues will be fertile loam for the globalists to offer the “benevolent” hand of Socialism as the savior.  Socialistopia needs its foundation.

 

 

Related memes:

 

 

 

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Images below from here:

The Truth Behind The Insane Vaccine Push is Revealed Through Leaked Pfizer Government Contracts – Red, White, and F You (redwhiteandfyou.com)

 

   

 

Incestuous doesn’t begin to cover this.  Don’t forget the $350 million in “kickbacks royalties” since 2009 that, per Fausti, don’t need to be reported.  And you have to wonder at the ethics of someone who makes this jump – for example, the woman who paves the road for a company’s drug, then moves over to be employed by that company?  Maybe it’s me, but I’d feel slimy even thinking about doing that.

Jab-related memes:

 

   

 

And now, a few words from – last I knew – the most published cardiologist in history:

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/mcollough-on-mRNA-persistence-and-transferral.mp4

 

Seven Hairy Hells.  An Immunologist PhD I know (internet know) said that the mRNA base chemistry was modified to increase duration in the body.  If this transferal to others and persistence in the body, never mind possible intergenerational effects, are verified – and all good science requires verification & replication of data collection methods and results – then I see only two possibilities:

First, this is intentional.  Which means that every pharma scientist involved, let alone everyone with decision-making authority at every single company and government agency, is culpable of crimes against humanity.  IMHO we need gallows.

Second, this is accidental.  Which means that this was so rushed into production and injections into billions that the negligence reaches Tower of Babylon levels.  IMHO we need gallows.

 

 

More:

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/mcollough-on-mRNA-and-myocarditis.mp4

 

Remember, myocarditis is permanent heart damage.

FDA Now Says Pfizer’s COVID-19 VACCINE Linked to Blood Clotting – Geller Report

It’s my opinion that the dam is cracking.  When – please Hashem soon! – the dam finally goes…

 

 

If you’re alive that is:

In a 2013 Trial of Over 200,000 People Testing MRNA-Based Medication – Less Than 5 Are Alive Today | EU | Before It’s News (beforeitsnews.com)

Before all of this went down I would have said no way could they cover up 200K dead people. But since they have been able to cover up tens of millions injuries and deaths, I believe they very well could have done just what he is describing.

And, they got exactly the results they wanted. Think about it. The trials they did with the animals that we know about were a joke. They were almost nothing as far as size goes.They really did not do enough to know how successful they would be at killing off people…unless they had already done some very large trials on human subjects over several years. They would need that test data to get the dosage right to not kill off everyone too quickly to give away what they were doing and planning to do. What he is saying actually makes sense.

What a way to answer the 7.3 billion person question.  Remember, “… there will be a need to kill many billions of people … or prevent them from giving birth…”

One example of the last link:

Covid Vaccines Affect Jewish Marriages, by Etana Hecht (Daily Clout/Wolf); this data can be extrapolated across cultures & it is troubling as to impact of COVID injections on fertility & reproduction (substack.com)

Anecdotally, in her own community pre-vaccination, there were generally 5-6 celebrations of newborns per week. After the Covid shots rolled out, that number dropped to 1-2 per month.

The average number of births seen in Hasidic communities in NY has been cut in half. Pre-Covid vaccine, there was a consistent ~20 births per week across the various communities. The practice of announcing those births in community newsletters has been in place for decades, and there’s a definitive sharp decline to ~10 births per week, beginning in 2021.

The same funeral director reported that while they rarely used to get stillbirth cases, they now get multiple stillbirth babies per month.

 

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Fighting for freedom entails risks and effort.  I am 100% sure I’m on several lists by now.  But in these immortal words:

 

(Link to AZQUOTES per their policy.)

 

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The more I learn, the more I am convinced that so much that happens in government spending is merely laundering taxpayer money into Dem pockets.  One way or another.  In this case… aid to Ukraine gets to FTX, which donates to Democrats.  Republicans too, but IMHO many still have some vestiges of decency left.

 

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Pick of the post:

 

Many good ones, but… this struck me.

 

 

We communicate through our faces and body language.  Absent visual cues in general, communications become very difficult.  Yes – when you cover a face the person becomes less than human.  And when you condition people to cover up en masse they start to see all people as less than human over time.  Every genocide in history has been effected after the target group has been painted as subhuman.

 

 

Globalist communists ramp up the rhetoric against the unvaccinated – American Thinker

The enemy, or the “villain” is the unvaccinated, they’ve made that clear, and if history is any indication of what comes next, oppressors don’t just stop when they reach the fourth stage of genocide.

WHO Labels Unvaccinated People a ‘Major Killing Force Globally’ – Slay News

The WHO is promoting a new video that targets “anti-vaccine activism” by blasting those who choose not to be vaccinated for supporting “anti-science aggression.”

The video features pediatrician and vaccine advocate Dr. Peter Hotez who laments the “devastating impact of misinformation and disinformation” regarding Big Pharma’s Covid shots.

Hotez goes on to link the so-called “anti-science aggression” of people who refuse the Covid vaccines to “far-right extremism.”

The professor continues by making several unsupported claims that “anti-vaccine activism” now “kills more people” than terrorism, gun violence, and several other crimes.

“We have to recognize that anti-vaccine activism, which I actually call anti-science aggression, has now become a major killing force globally,” Hotez said in the video, using a backdrop of photos of protestors against the Covid shots.

The University Professor of Biology at Baylor College of Medicine claims that “during the Covid pandemic in the United States, 200,000 Americans needlessly lost their lives because they refused a COVID vaccine, even after vaccines became widely available.”

So we’re anti-science heretics, and we’re mass murderers because we doubt The Jab.  How soon before it’s compelled “for the good of all”?  And my answer?

 

 

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Palate Cleansers:

 

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Bill of Rights: The Ignored History of Why it Exists

Granite Grok - Mon, 2022-12-19 16:00 +0000

[December 15th was] “Bill of Rights Day” – commemorating ratification on Dec. 15, 1791. But what the government-run schools – and supporters of the monster state – “teach” about the Bill of Rights has almost nothing to do with the foundational principles which motivated the people who supported – and demanded it.

They want us to focus on inane trivia – and they definitely present things as if the Bill of Rights “granted” our rights, or were meant to create a nationwide liberty enforcement squad in the federal government.

No, it was – you guessed it – about the principles behind what was ratified as the 10th Amendment. Drawing a line in the sand, as Samuel Adams put it, “between the federal Powers vested in Congress, and the sovereign Authority belonging to the several States.”

Richard Henry Lee – who on Sept 27, 1787 in the Confederation Congress proposed adding a Bill of Rights to the Constitution drafted by the Philadelphia Convention – BEFORE sending it to the states for ratification, agreed. He said that drawing that clear line between expressly delegated power – and those reserved is “the great use of a bill of rights.”

The same thing happened in a number of state ratification documents, starting with Massachusetts, then South Carolina, New Hampshire, Virginia – and New York.

I covered this in some detail in an episode of Path to Liberty, here:
https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2021/12/bill-of-rights-the-untold-story-of-why-it-exists/

In early 1788, ratification of the Constitution was almost certain to fail in Massachusetts – home of Samuel and John Adams, Theophilus Parsons, John Hancock – and so many others. A loss there – Federalists understood – would send them reeling in states where it was expected to be a very close call at best – like New York and Virginia. In other words, the entire proposal was close to being doomed.

But – as advised by Richard Henry Lee months earlier, Samuel Adams and John Hancock went along with a plan to ratify, but only with the option of including recommended amendments as well. On Feb 6, 1788 – they did just that, and the very first recommended amendment from the Sons of Liberty will probably look familiar to any reader of the Tenth Amendment Center:

First. That it be explicitly declared, that all powers not expressly delegated by the aforesaid Constitution are reserved to the several states, to be by them exercised.

South Carolina followed their lead with this:

This Convention doth also declare that no Section or paragraph of the said Constitution warrants a Construction that the states do not retain every power not expressly relinquished by them and vested in the General Government of the Union.

And on June 21, 1788 – New Hampshire sealed the deal on ratification by also including as their first recommended amendment the same precursor to the 10th Amendment from Massachusetts.

But even after New York and Virginia followed with similar proposals, Federalists in the First Congress stonewalled – and did everything they could to prevent amendments from being considered and sent to the states for ratification.

Samuel Adams, however, didn’t let up – pushing friends like Elbridge Gerry and Richard Henry Lee to get the Bill of Rights done. To Adams, adding these amendments was solely about having a “a Line drawn as clearly as may be, between the federal Powers vested in Congress and the distinct Sovereignty of the several States.”

James Madison – who was initially opposed to including a Bill of Rights – and even voted against Richard Henry Lee’s proposal in the Confederation Congress, slowly came on board – maybe for just political strategy. But his dogged persistence pushed it through the congress.

With that history in mind, it makes even more sense why Thomas Jefferson, on Feb 15, 1791 – 10 months to the day before ratification – made this essential point about the structure of the constitution:

I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground: That ” all powers not delegated to the United States, by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States or to the people.”

Why don’t they teach this history?  We can only guess, but I personally think it has plenty to do with the fact that the bill of rights wasn’t about granting rights to people – or having a central government to protect us – but instead – it was about opposition to centralized power.

Please do check out this episode of the Path to Liberty Podcast for a deeper dive into this essential history. There, you’ll find both video and audio versions of the show – and if you prefer reading – there’s a bunch of original source documents so you can read and learn more – in context – on your own time.

This is the kind of information we work to get out to more and more people every single day of the year. Nothing – absolutely nothing – helps us roll up our sleeves and get the job done more than the financial faith and support of our members.

 

 

Michael Boldin | The Tenth Amendment Center

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Mask Mandates Are Back! Are They Coming Soon to a School District Near You?

Granite Grok - Mon, 2022-12-19 14:30 +0000

Big city school superintendents are scratching their totalitarian itch. “Public school students in Philadelphia will have to wear face coverings at school for 10 days after their winter break, officials said.”

The mandate, which will run from Jan. 3-13, is aimed at reducing the spread of respiratory illnesses after a holiday season likely filled with more social gatherings and increased exposure, the school district said in a statement on Thursday.

Philadelphia is among state and local agencies around the United States rolling out mask mandates or recommendations this month to fight a new surge in virus cases, which is expected to grow as Americans travel and socialize around the winter holidays.

 

Rolling out useless mandates and Dr. Meryl Nass would like to know,

 

  • How did the Superintendent know on December 14 that there would be a spike in cases after the new year, and that it will last exactly 11 days, from Jan 3 through Jan 13?
  • How does he know that the masks the kids are sent to school with reduce infection? He doesn’t.
  • How does s/he know it won’t impair the kids’ education. He must know the opposite is true by now.
  • The Superintendent is calling it a “proactive measure.”
  • We know this is about making sure the public understands that those invoking “public health” are in charge, the masks will never completely go away, and regardless of any net gain or loss for the children (or the teachers) you will do what we say.
  • Philadelphia was one of the US cities where the local health officer ordered vaccinations of kids aged 12 and up without parental consent.
  • Last winter Rochelle Walensky warned, in the WaPo, that the masks could come back if cases rose…

 

Maybe it would be easier for these progressive tools if they just handed out armbands (black or rainbow would be my first best guesses). It’s not like they will be any more effective than cloth or medical masks, but you’ll get them used to their future as stooges for the regime without compromising their health.

Or is that the point?

 

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Sex Toys for Justice!

Granite Grok - Mon, 2022-12-19 13:00 +0000

There was a time when expressing your sexuality in a public space was inappropriate. The new rule is to lay it out there and demand others acknowledge it.

Silence is sexual violence, they might say.

You will be made to care and to express that care or be labeled a bigot. At the same time, there aren’t enough safe spaces to talk about sex. Do you mean like the Public Library, the grammar school, the online reading app with material an adult would be arrested for saying out loud to a child or in public, or everything, every day, everywhere? Those safe spaces!

The only unsafe place, as far as I can tell, is the room where the priests and altar boys “get dressed” for service.

 

Hosted by the University of Vermont Program Board on Dec. 2, the event was described on Instagram as a night of “sexperts, sex toy prizes, condom giveaways, and more.”

“We all need a safe place to talk about sex (and play some sex toy BINGO :). You know you want to come!,” the description states.

 

Double entendre, anyone?

And don’t get me wrong, I don’t care what college students waste their money on (they are technically adults), but apparently, this was paid for with other college kids’ money.

 

University of Vermont student Jacob Brocklin told YAF he’s “uncomfortable with my tuition dollars going toward something like this.”

“The Program Board’s mission statement says that they will hold events committed to ‘social justice.’ I don’t understand how giving out sex toys is accomplishing some form of justice,” Brocklin said.

The University of Vermont Program Board also hosted an event titled En-Sex-Clopedia on April 18, which was described as “a safe place to talk about sex,” and included sex bingo.

 

Jacob misunderstands either Vermont or “college.” A university used to be the place where you could challenge established thinking. These days they define what you should think and what words you should use to express those thoughts. It is less about learning and more about training. There are even words and thoughts you should not use or have.

Oh, and they are all about money.

Colleges have been sieves for Democrat campaign funds for many years and, in recent decades, THE Democrat party education camp of choice. But that’s evolved. Forward, and all that. The re-education begins in grammar school, so UV and its like are more of the progressive finishing school. And whatever happens, don’t be grateful. You were entitled to that useless degree in social justice, something or other.

And since you will likely emerge a toxic intolerable shrew (with or without a penis), sex toys are likely an essential part of your social justice future. As is legal drug use, and at least one house cat.

 

 

HT | Fox

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Put Schools on an Elimination Diet

Granite Grok - Mon, 2022-12-19 11:30 +0000

There is something called an ‘elimination diet,’ which people use to find out what foods their bodies have trouble processing.  You start by cutting out everything but one food — typically beef, because you can stay healthy indefinitely eating just beef.  It’s boring but sustainable.

If a problem is diet-related, it should clear up.  (If it doesn’t clear up, either you have a problem with beef, which is unusual, or your problem isn’t caused by your diet.)

At this point, you slowly start adding other foods to your diet, watching for the effects they have on you.

If a problem occurs when you add a food — for example, if adding gluten leads to bloating or joint pain — you know to stay away from that food.

What makes this work is that you don’t approach your problems by trying to cut things from your diet.  There’s too much going on in a typical diet to figure out which foods might be causing which reactions.

You have to start at the ground and build up.  It’s essentially a variation on the scientific method.  You vary one thing at a time over here and see what variations result over there.

This is exactly what we should be doing with schools.

How would that look?

We would start by teaching reading and only reading.  That’s because reading is the educational equivalent of beef.

That is, if you’ve learned to read, you can read about how to learn anything else — including how to read better and how to write. Reading is, in that sense, a complete skill in the same sense that beef is a complete food.

Once we get close to 100% of the kids reading at grade level, then we would start adding in other things — but only so long as we see improvements in the things that we have designated as ‘essential.’

And by essential — as opposed to elective — I mean reading, writing, reasoning (logical, mathematical, scientific, and statistical), and whatever else is important enough that everybody needs to learn it.

(Does everyone need to learn calculus, or French, or welding, or forestry?  If not, then they aren’t essential, are they?)

Of course, there’s a slight head fake going on here.  In a system in which all the students can read, ‘adding in’ a new academic subject merely requires (1) providing suggestions about what the students  should be reading, and (2) testing to see that they’ve actually learned what they’re supposed to.

Without the need to hire teachers to read the textbooks to the students, the marginal cost of adding an academic subject to such a system is close to zero.

If we add an academic subject (Elizabethan literature or Excel), or an extra-curricular activity (football or band), and there’s no improvement in the things we’re tracking (literacy, numeracy, reasoning), then we take them back out again.

They are the public school equivalents of high-fructose corn syrup, making budgets fatter without making education any better.

Of course, there is a simpler way to accomplish the same thing, which is just to prohibit a school from offering electives (non-literacy classes, sports, other extra-curricular activities) unless 95% of its students are reading at or above grade level.   That could be done with a one-line addition to the rules at the Department of Education.

This would, however, punish students who are reading at proficiency.

Fortunately, there’s a way around that, which is to allow schools to offer electives but only as self-study courses.  The school’s only responsibility would be to assign graduation credit to a student who passes a particular test.  The students themselves would be responsible for learning the material — which they’ll only be able to do if they’ve learned to read with fluency and comprehension.

Another head fake.  See how, when you teach kids to read, so many things that seem like problems just take care of themselves?  (And how, when you don’t, everything else spirals out of control?)

One final benefit of putting schools on an elimination diet is that as students take charge of their own learning, they can learn anywhere, at any time.  So there’s no reason to keep them locked up during normal business hours.

Which would be an excellent first step towards disentangling ‘education’ from ‘daycare.’

One way to think about the Elimination Diet for Schools is that it implements Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s observation that perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.  Which is what we should be aiming for with any institution that is funded by taking money away from people who would prefer to use it for something else.

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Five Left-Wing Domestic Terrorists Arrested

Granite Grok - Mon, 2022-12-19 02:30 +0000

The news is typically johnny on the spot when “explosive devices, gasoline, & road flares” and discovered after the arrest of troublemakers outside an area where a government facility is being built. Unless they are connected to Antifa, and maybe no one thinks that’s a story that needs reporting.

To test the theory, you must replace the reported association with the words ‘Trump Supporters” and boom – wall-to-wall 24/7 coverage. But this isn’t a story that ends this way.

 

 

From Andy Ngo.

 

On Dec. 13, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) launched a raid on the so-called autonomous zone at the site of the future Atlanta Public Safety Training Center. Since June 2021, Antifa and other far-left extremists from across the US have descended on the location to prevent the construction of what they call a “cop city.” Responding law enforcement were assaulted with rocks and bottles by militants occupying makeshift treehouses. The GBI says it found explosive devices and gasoline after the rioters were cleared from the area.

 

So the occupation, disruptions, and violence have been happening for 18 months with little media attention beyond the locals, throughout which Democrats in Congress have been trying to emphasize the importance of their January 6th show trial. A conspiracy concocted by the political left as a potential path to the indictment of Donald Trump to prevent him from being able to run for President.

It’s an intriguing contrast, an indictment of the Major Media left and their political patrons. Or maybe I have that reversed.

 

 

Daily Mail | Legal Insurrection | PM

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Sunday Spotlight: A Cowboy and a Yankee

Granite Grok - Mon, 2022-12-19 01:00 +0000

People sometimes look upon athletes and actors as pampered individuals paid exorbitant salaries to play a game or fantasy characters and never give back. We are blessed that there are exceptions to this stereotype.

The two men I write about today break the mold and are stepping up to work with one of my favorite charities, Tunnels to Towers. For what these two guys are doing to help our veterans, and first responders who did their jobs and either came home broken or never came home at all, they share this week’s Sunday Spotlight.

Andy Pettitte played 18 seasons pitching for the New York Yankees. In an era where my Red Sox and the Yankees were the greatest rivalries in baseball, you were born in New England to hate any athlete who wore the pinstripes. Try as I might, I could never hate Andy Pettite. Pettite was not flashy, brash, or cocky. He went out every five days, took the mound, and gave his all in every game he pitched. He seemed like he owned the Red Sox for nearly two decades. You would check the lin-ups for an upcoming game, see Pettitte penciled in as starting pitcher, and know the Sox were in for a challenging contest. I cannot remember a game where the Sox slayed this big left-hander on the mound. You couldn’t hate him. You just had to respect him and hope tomorrow would bring an easier game.

Cole Hauser is one of those actors you watch and think is not acting. Their character is who they are. As one of the stars who portray Rip Wheeler in the blockbuster series Yellowstone, Hauser looks totally natural in a cowboy hat sitting on a horse. He is one of the reasons we tune in on Sunday night. Hauser started his acting career in 1992, so he is not a newcomer to the screen, but his role in Yellowstone has been his most notable.

It is when athletes and actors leave their realm and use their notoriety for the benefit of others that we see their true value. These two men have joined forces and volunteered to help one of my favorite organizations Tunnels to Towers. It is not because it is my favorite, but because there may be no more worthy cause than to care for those who sacrificed their bodies or lives to protect us.

Both of these men remember well the fateful day in 2001 when fundamental terrorists attacked our country. These memories motivate them to step up and use their names and faces to aid Frank Siller in the mission of assuring that every man or woman who comes back from duty with a broken body has a comfortable home and every survivor of a First Responder has their mortgage paid in full.

It is my honor to feature these two men and to make them this week’s Sunday Spotlight.

 

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