Never thought I’d write a title that would combine Star Wars and King of England Henry II but there you go!  Good ole Henry (ok, not so much) and the priest was Thomas Beckett who had excommunicated a number of bishops that supported Henry.

And yes, four knights did carry out Henry’s words as if it was a direct order which has passed down through the ages and whose “principle” still rides today when powerful/political people merely speak out and their supporters go forth.

Yes, I’ve twisted it a bit.

While it would be amusing to call Governor Groomer the modern-day King Henry, he really is the “troublesome priest” for the rest of us in that he decided to drop down from a moral governance model to rule our lives. Twice now, he has made it clear that Government is pre-eminent over we the people.  He believes that he no longer needs our consent – witness his “Public Health trumps Everything” during the pandemic in ruling (vs governing) how we would live our lives.

And now, he has decided that Parents SHOULDN’T be in charge and in control of their children when it comes to Education and being in school.  In this, he perfectly aligned with Biden’s Secretary of Education (and highly Progressive), Miguel Cardona:

U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona refused to say that parents should be informed if their child is undergoing a gender transition at school during congressional testimony on Thursday. The secretary’s non-answer came under questioning before the House Education and Labor Committee by Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN), who repeatedly asked Cardona if he thought schools should keep a student’s gender transition secret from their parents.

…”Should schools ever keep it a secret from parents if their children are involved in gender transition?” Banks asked again.

Cardona replied: “Schools should be partnering with parents on communication, and there are times when schools are working and supporting students on issues that are very sensitive, but I do believe that parents should be connected with schools, and, in many cases, working together is what’s going to help the student.”

“I have spoken to students who shared, whatever situation is at their home, that they felt safe at the school, and we have to be careful not to turn this into something that it’s not,” the secretary continued. “Our schools are safe places for our students, and our teachers are often the front-liners when it comes to supporting our students when they have issues in their lives.”

Cardona pussy-footed around but the intent was clear with his reference to “safe spaces” – note that he didn’t say that the child’s home was that “safe space”. Note, too, the “our teachers are often the front-liners” bit- and here I am thinking that Parents are ALWAYS the First Responders (leaving aside, for the moment, those parents who truly are unfit but who are a tiny percentage of Parents in the aggregate). This was a “side-eye” disparagement of Parents – and an underhanded disparagement against Parents.

Sununu, not being half the politician his Dad is, just blurted it out and made sure that Parents SHOULDN’T be involved in their child’s sexuality decisions while in school.  He fell hook, line, and sinker (or was he the behind-the-scenes guy in casting that hook, line, and sinker.) for the Left’s ideology that teachers are the new Parents.

He’s all in on the new phrase “What happens in Schools, stays in Schools”.  While that really is a Las Vega line, it is about the actions of consenting adults and the marketing nuance was “do what you want, we’ll keep your secrets”.  Who knew that school systems would adopt the same thought line and message for underaged, minor children?

Groomers, indeed.

So the question is, is Governor Groomer the new King Henry, and Parents are the new “troublesome priest(s)” in his worldview?  Or is it the other way around – is Sununu the priest that must be dealt with (politically) by Parents who are unwilling to allow Government to keep secrets from them when it comes to their children?

Frank Edleblut came within a hair’s breadth of beating Sununu in the primary three election cycles ago. Yes, GraniteGrok endorsed him at the time and I know that I would do so again.  He’s smarter than Sununu, more Conservative than Sununu, more thoughtful than Sununu – and is a self-made man instead of depending on Daddy’s money and contacts.

The above title aside, Frank isn’t a Wan-Kanobi, but certainly someone that understands boundaries and lanes for Government – and its Proper Role. The Left hates Edleblut because he understands that Government isn’t in charge of us, it should be the other way around. The Left sees Education as a wedge between parents and their children, Frank sees Education as what it was and is supposed to be – outsourcing of their child to teachers who have only certain things that they are supposed to teach but always knowing that Parents should be in control.

In this, Frank would be far superior to Sununu.

So, after all that, perhaps a twinge of Obi-Wan is there after all.

 

 

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First, remember I am merely an “enlightened amateur” as far as anything survival goes.  Please vet & check on your own.  Consider these to be priming the pump for your own investigations.

Second, the hour is late and I fear bad times are imminent, but even a month of food, water, etc., puts you well ahead of most of the sheeple.  IMHO, set your minimum sights on a three-month period.

Third, two things will be critical for having the best chance of making it through:

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

Fourth, as you read here, note that I present an aggregation of articles that I think are interesting, but I do not have time to vet them.  Caveat emptor.

 

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Prepper Site URLS:

Most have daily articles.  Please recommend others in the comments.

Ask a Prepper, how to prepare, survive and thrive, latest news

Mother Earth News

The Organic Prepper Home – The Organic Prepper

SurvivalBlog.com – The Daily Web Log for Prepared Individuals Living in Uncertain Times.

SHTF Blog – Modern Survival

And two aggregate sites listing their top favorite sites:

TOP 50 SURVIVAL & PREPPER BLOGS

The 50 Best Survival Blogs

 

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Short of years of preparation and untold wealth, you cannot possibly be fully prepared for everything.  But even some preparations, ideally at least 90 days of food, water / water purification, etc., puts you head and shoulders in front of the vast majority of the sheeple who will be in jaw-gaping astonishment when the SHTF.  The only relevant questions are:

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

 

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As I keep saying over and over, the scary thing for me is not that they’re pushing this.  Tyrants will tyrant.  The scary thing for me is how many sheeple will eat this up wholesale as a good and necessary thing.

 

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Top of the fold:

Biden’s Border Crisis — Half a Million Migrants Crossed US Border in 10 Weeks

Senator: Southern U.S. Border Resembles A “War Zone” – Summit News

Angry migrants protest for their ‘right’ to be in the US illegally – American Thinker

Over 9,000 Illegal Immigrants have entered UK this year so far – British Freedom Party

NO COUNTRY can sustain such an invasion and remain a country.  Related, tangentially:

Joe Biden Refuses to Enforce Law Prohibiting Protesting Outside Supreme Court Justices’ Homes – LifeNews.com

Our Justice System has died.

Any of us not aligned with the politics of the Left, would have been tried to the full original charges of attempted murder, more than likely convicted and sentenced to the full extent.

I believe this was part of the continuous message sent to the Left: You will not face grave consequences if you perform violence in the name of our politics.

The Left protects its own monolith-style.  Again, no country can sustain having such a two-tiered system.  Speaking of two-tiered, consider this on the two-tiered enemedia:

When a mass shooting occurs outside the accepted political parameters. – Gun Free Zone

And yes, the race of the shooter (s) is not mentioned and probably won’t be till the news cycle finishes disappearing.

Compare it with the Buffalo Mass Shooting where we had color, motive name and photo of the asshole shooter within 2 hours of the event.

If the shooter ain’t White, the Mass Shooting does not count.

 

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RUFKM?

The Constitution is “Potentially Harmful Content”?  It’s over.  Done.  Stick a fork in America.  Certainly the America that I was born into.

 

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Presented, quick hit style, are some links to specific-topic prepper articles I think are particularly noteworthy.  Print them out and start a binder – if the SHTF badly enough you won’t be able to retrieve these off the net or, possibly, even off your computer (I remember one Y2K event I went to – someone was selling survival info on CDs… yeah, useful when the power’s out!):

Last-Minute Preps on a Shoestring Budget – The Organic Prepper

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Canning $5 Amish Stew – Ask a Prepper

Everyone says the Amish will survive SHTF.  No they won’t.  Given their tradition of non-violence, when the food runs out everyone from 500 miles around will descend on them like locusts.

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7 Things You Have On Your Property That Will Attract Intruders When SHTF – Ask a Prepper

Avoid being a target.  Sadly, for example, you can’t really hide a garden.

 

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Deep State / Coming Tyranny / WEF / Globalists (broad):

‘Imagine the Compliance’: Pfizer CEO Pitches Davos Elites on Wifi Microchip Pills

Unfortunately, I have multiple medications to take daily.  I do not need Big Tech reporting on me.

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Meet all 3,800 graduates of Klaus Schwab’s globalist WEF education programs by name – The Rio Times (riotimesonline.com)

They’ve been planning this for decades… likely a century or more (long):

Grand Jury – World Domination FINAL REVISIE 2.docx (stopworldcontrol.com)

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Another ‘Conspiracy Theory’ May Be About to Come True: The WHO Could Decide if You Get Medicine, When You Travel, and What You Write on Social Media – PJ Media

And yet so many, when you point the dangers of this out, are MEH.

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US Postal Service Wants to Provide Digital ID and Collect More Biometric Data

In a new report on the role of the US Postal Service (USPS) in identity verification, the Office of the Inspector General for the agency has pushed for it to have an expanded role in the collection of biometric data and the rollout of digital ID.

 

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Shortages (broadly):

Analysts Warns World Has Only 10 Weeks of Wheat Supplies Left in Storage

Ruh-roh.  And China has been buying grain like crazy.

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It’s Probably Nothing

Bad news for California.  And not just there.

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Iran: Protests Over Soaring Food Prices Hit Several Cities | FrontpageMag

I’ve been to Iran (pre-revolution).  For the most part, warm, educated, and welcoming people.  It’s a shame what’s happened there… and happening there now.

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The Big Two see troubled waters ahead. So do I.

Amazon and Walmart preparing for an economic downturn.  Related:

It’s not just electricity. We’re heading for shortages of diesel, jet fuel and gasoline – Flopping Aces

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Why Are Nearly 300 Life-Saving Drugs in Short Supply? Big Pharma Will Make Too Little Profit. • Children’s Health Defense (childrenshealthdefense.org)

Production of low-profit generic drugs has dropped off in the U.S., and patients and their physicians face shortages of critical medications — including chemotherapy drugs and IV nutrition for premature babies, CBS News reported on “60 Minutes.”

And we are dangerously dependent on China for a vast swath of medications.  You think they’ll keep the flow going if things go hot over Taiwan?

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Inflation (broadly):

Expect Energy Bills To Reach More New Records, Crippling Highs This Summer

Biden Confirms High Gas Prices Are Part of Plan

Everything happening has been planned.

Stagflation Fears Rising, With 77% of Investors Forecasting Economic Storm

And yet, all I hear on the financial shows is to “wait it out” and so on.

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Hundreds of UK Grocery Items More Than 20% Pricier Over Last Two Years: Study

Not surprised.

 

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The Grid & Energy In General:

Bayou Renaissance Man: The power grid is getting more vulnerable by the day

Been reading multiple articles on how close to the edge our grid really is.

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And as more and more things become electronic, remember a take-off on Arthur C. Clark’s Third Law:

Any technology, no matter how advanced, is indistinguishable from a brick when the power is off.

 

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US Social Stability (broad catch-all):

Hillary Factor: Evidence now shows false Russia collusion story began and ended with Clinton | Just The News

Dollars to donuts, nothing will happen to Her Heinous.  As awareness of this spreads, broad swaths of the population will understand there really are two sets of rules.  This will further the decline as people give up their faith in the United States.  Increasingly, people are seeing that the United States cannot be saved.

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Carl Cameron Doubles Down on Prison for Conservatives

Imprisoning your political opponents.  I think I’ve seen this movie before.

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Democratic Socialist Candidate Calls for People to Break Into Homes – Truth Press

The real danger is this person really believes what she’s saying is possible.  In my mind related:

My Biden-Voting Friend Had ‘No Idea’ Things Could Get This Bad. Buckle Up, Buddy, We’re Just Getting Started – PJ Media

If, per Thomas Sowell, the single most dangerous person is the person who pays no price for his actions/decisions being wrong, the second most dangerous is the person who fails to learn when they’re paying that price.

The Fed Can’t Do What It Must

What can’t go on forever, won’t.

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SHOCKING GEORGIA ELECTION CRIMES UNCOVERED: 1.7 Million Ballot Images Illegally Destroyed – Video Monitoring Missing for 181,000 Drop Box Ballots

If 2022 turns out to meet my predictions and be a clusterfark of fraud, again, there’s no point in voting any more.  Related:

Bayou Renaissance Man: Is Georgia still riddled with electoral fraud?

When elections don’t work, what option is left?  IMHO the avalanche has already started.

 

 

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Through here:

“If pointing an empty gun at your opponent makes him duck, you may live for an extra two seconds-and who knows? I may find another gun, the bad guy may give up, or the ammo fairy may drop me a magazine.”

“If we’re going down a hall and I see the end of a double barrel shotgun, I better communicate to my partner, ‘cause I can be pretty sure it’s not the Easter bunny on the other end.”

“Shoot what’s available, as long as it’s available, until something else becomes available.”

“You can say ‘stop’ or ‘alto’ or use any other word you think will work, but I’ve found that a large bore muzzle pointed at someone’s head is pretty much the universal language.”

And more, from somewhere else:

If you’re going to be killed in a gunfight, make sure your opponent beats you to death with your gun, because you’re empty.

Ammo is cheap, life is expensive.

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World Stability (broad catch-all):

Russia announces western military buildup to match NATO presence near its borders | Just The News

Step by logical step, the pieces are being set up.  And one mis-step, and things get very hot, very quickly. And, as I’ve predicted, if this goes hot, other places will too:

China’s Most Powerful Bombers Buzz US Military Bases In Japan, as Biden begins Asia trip – Geller Report

Crossing More Red Lines

China Prepares for Sanctions

WWIII is already underway. The fact that it is primarily unrestricted rather than military doesn’t change the fact that it is observably underway.

Plan accordingly.

 

 

And more:

A Failure of Deterrence

Given their complete inability to correctly anticipate what Putin – or pretty much any of their other enemies – was going to do previously, what are the odds that they have gotten it right this time? More importantly, most of the people making decisions about the use of US military force have no loyalty to nor concern for the American people or their national interests, so they’re much more willing to take risks than actual Americans would.

Mitt Romney Calls on NATO to Prepare for Nuclear Strike from Russia

Could the Deep State/Globalist cabal have the ability to false-flag a nuclear attack?  I wouldn’t bet against it.

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Czechia Only Has Enough Food Reserves to Last One Day in an Emergency

As I understand it, most major cities are – at best – 3-4 days from running out of food.  If the power goes off, there goes electricity and running water.  Massive societal chaos.  In the meantime, Armenia is seeing politicians being attacked now.  Chile too.  It’s spreading.

 

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Gardening, animals, etc.:

 

 

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If the wife was onboard, I’d do this along the whole fence.

 

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Potatoes!

 

 

 

 

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Tech security:

Nothing found this week.

 

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Self-defense:

How to Survive a Human Stampede | The Art of Manliness

Panicked crowds can be deadly.  From the same site:

What to Do If You’re Being Followed

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Never forget they want you dead.

For a Peace-loving bunch, they sure love extrajudicial executions. Reminds me a lot of all the tin pot Fascists from South America.

From the same site, info about the school and firearms-on-campus policy:

What do you mean it did not work?

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California Will Vote Tomorrow on Bill to Legalize Infanticide. Babies Could be Left to Die Up to 6 Weeks After Birth – LifeNews.com

Remember, this is not just about abortion.  This is about programming.  If a person can knowingly murder an infant, the definition of innocence, what will they be willing to do to a “deplorable” who stands in their way of their planned Socialist Utopia?

A: They’ve shown what they will do, over 100 million times in the 20th century.

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And from here:

McCraw also reported Ramos had purchased over 1,600 rounds of ammunition. 58 magazines total were found in the school, on Ramos or in his crashed pickup truck.

Again, that’s a staggering amount of money for an 18 year old to have.

 

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Catch-all miscellaneous:

Rigged | Gates of Vienna

Long but worth it.  Apparently there are far more promises of physical silver than there is physical silver to fulfill them.  Kind of like the fractional banking system we have.  This gets messy if those get called in.

 

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Wrap-up commentary if I am moved to do so:

Not moved to add anything here this week.  Time, energy… all gone.

 

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LET’S GO BRANDON!

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In April, we shared evidence that Paxlovid, another pricy Pfizer drug with Emergency Use Authorization to treat COVID19, didn’t. A month later, the CDC admitted that if you use Paxlovid to treat SARS CoV2, you could experience what they call “COVID-19 rebound.”

 

“Rebound” occurs when a person who completes the course of Paxlovid treatment ends up experiencing symptoms again two to eight days after initial recovery, or when a person has a new positive viral test after having tested negative.

 

Fear not intrepid followers of the corrupt FDA and CDC “public Health” machinery. These same experts say that “rebound” patients do not need more treatment, and experiencing rebound does not mean the treatment has failed.”

That sounds familiar. Get vaccinated so we can get back to normal, they said, but the new normal turned out to be that people who got vaccinated – whether or not the injection harmed them – became more susceptible to COVID19. The jabbed and boosted got sick in record numbers, but that wasn’t proof it didn’t work, except that it is proof.

Related: Is Paxlovid Pfizers’ New and Improved COVID Virus Trojan Horse?

And here we are once more with the CDC chasing the “disinformation spreaders” who called it when they saw it and were right again.

 

It turns out that Paxlovid reduces symptoms, and maybe reduces viral load at day 5, but at the same time it does not clear the virus! Not only that, but the patients cannot clear it for extended periods AFTER Paxlovid administration is over.

 

But this isn’t the first time the media has had to cover the problem. Back in April, about a week after those ‘disinformation’ websites were raising red flags on Paxlovid, NBC came out and said, “Pfizer’s antiviral pills are highly effective at keeping people with Covid out of the hospital, but there are growing reports that, in rare cases, patients treated for the coronavirus with Paxlovid can experience a second round of the disease shortly after recovering.”

NBC is back, a month later, to let you know that the experts have recognized the situation, and hey, it’s no big deal, except it is. Paxlovid costs nearly $900.00 a dose compared to HCQ and Ivermectin, Vitamin D, Vitamin C, and Zinc, which cost pennies per pill and help you survive and clear the virus naturally.

Those treatments are still shunned and, in some cases, scorned, despite mountains of evidence they work. But that’s the new normal for public health in America. Health is no longer the concern. Control is what matters.

 

 

 

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I don’t want to write this – not now. I’m angry, and I’m sad. What happened less than twenty-four hours ago in Texas hurts. All I want to do is abide by Romans 12:15 “…weep with those who weep.” Looking through the pictures of those children, and reading their names, I could hardly do otherwise.

I don’t want to write this, but sometimes I don’t get to do as I please. Sometimes I’m pressed to do something in defense of myself and others – and, in this case, for those who I endeavor to represent. So, that’s what I’ll do, because I owe it to them to do so.

There are those in this nation, less than twenty-four hours after this tragedy – a massacre of children – who have stood on their still-warm tiny bodies to politick. They have not sought to unite, but to divide. What’s worst in this politicking is the manner in which they have done so: to present themselves as emissaries of Heaven with all the solutions to the evil in the heart of men.

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

We have fundamentally divergent worldviews from these partisans. There are those of us who understand that we live in a fallen world, where the evil fires burning in men’s hearts cannot be extinguished by man, nor by institutions of man, nor by governments of man.

We understand the existence of evil is inherent, that terrible things will happen (some perpetrated by men), and that government is little more than a band-aid on a broken bone. That does not mean that government can do nothing to quell the violence, but that it is limited, fallible, and powers delegated must be balanced against the known capacity of government itself to be the greatest of all earthly tyrants.

There is another worldview, wholly different from ours above, that says that mankind itself is on the verge of immanentizing the eschaton – to bring about the end of history and begin a new epoch – and introducing a new, manmade Eden on earth. In this Eden, all will not only be equal, but precisely the same in all things, and no violence will be necessary any longer.

This is the hypothetical Eden of Progressivism. It is the same hypothetical Eden as in Communism, which bills itself aptly as “the ruthless criticism of all that exists.” This ideology is in rebellion against all of creation and casts itself as the eventual savior of mankind – literally substituting itself for Christ on the cross.

It misunderstands man’s place in this universe and casts him as creator instead of a fallen creature. It misunderstands government’s place as one of forcing the evolution of society to perfection – either through vanguardism, proletariat dictatorship, or a bureaucracy of experts – instead of as an imperfect institution for upholding natural law.

It is in this vein that those now claiming the moral high ground while standing on tiny graves, accuse their opposition of moral crimes against humanity, and of standing in the way of this new, impossible Eden. They hold their opposition directly and uniquely responsible for original sin, and the fall of man. In this manner, they are exposed as the absolute lowest of snake oil salesmen and liars. They promise what they cannot deliver. They come declaring Heaven when Hell follows.

 

 

Mike Belcher | Substack

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Dear Sirs,

It has been brought to my attention that your organization recently published a study finding that 875 state legislators representing all 50 states are members of far-right groups on Facebook. This is shocking. Really, truly, shocking. I applaud your efforts to expose these kinds of harmful opinions, and I strongly encourage you to continue with this extremely important work.

My home state of New Hampshire apparently holds the top spot in your survey, with 62 legislators making it onto the naughty list. We actually have the single largest state legislature in the country, at nearly three times the national average. That presumably gives New Hampshire a bit of mathematical advantage in this contest.

In the interest of fairness, I did a quick back-of-the-napkin analysis (recycled, of course!) and found that among the states on your short list, New Hampshire actually rates pretty close to the bottom, percentage-wise. Arkansas takes the top slot, with over 25% of legislators being members of far-right groups!!! Gadzooks! (But then again, it’s Arkansas, right??? You know what I mean.) Montana is next at 22%, followed by Washington, Minnesota, Missouri, Maine, Pennsylvania, and then New Hampshire.

If I got my math right, New Hampshire is in eighth place!!! Eighth!!!! Egads, that’s just awful. We really don’t take kindly to being ranked eighth in anything. As you probably know, New Hampshire is the home of the “first in the nation primary”. The Cato Institute (a filthy far-right group itself, of course) recently ranked us first in economic freedom, and US News & World Report (probably a far-right group as well) rates us as the fourth best state in the country. (They are wrong about that. Obviously. We are so better than that. Also first. Of course.)

We need to do better, though, and you have my word as a proud Granite State activist , we will fight the good fight. By my calculations, if we can add another 42 right-wing extremist loons to our roster, we should be able to lock up a tie with Arkansas (assuming they hold steady, of course). With 43 wins, New Hampshire could potentially even take the top slot both in percentages and raw numbers. We could be the king of the gun-toting, anti-science, hate-mongering, anti-abortion, covid-denying, voter suppressing mountain.

Onward, brave soldiers!  I’m getting chills just thinking about it.

On a related, note, I should thank you for including me personally in your list of right-wing crazies. (I’m one of the 62 NH legislators in your report.) When I first scanned that list, I panicked… For a brief, terrifying moment I actually thought that I hadn’t made the cut. Truth be told, I nearly spilled my organic fair-trade coffee all over my gluten-free avocado toast. What a sigh of relief when I finally found my name! I’ll be running for office again this fall, so hopefully I can be part of that legislative class that cements New Hampshire’s top position in the IREHR rankings.

I would, however, like to voice one itty-bitty little complaint (if I may be so bold). My organization (“the 603 Alliance”) apparently isn’t sufficiently right-wing to have qualified for your list. That’s disappointing. Really disappointing. Like, slap-in-the-face disappointing. Think about the way you feel when someone says something really offensive like “you’re so articulate”, or when you see a person wearing a culturally appropriated Halloween costume. Yes, that disappointing.

The 603 Alliance deserves to be on your list of far-right groups. We believe in limited government, low taxes, and personal freedoms. That should be all the 411 you need on 603, but just in case you’re not convinced yet, there’s more: We believe that people should be allowed to own guns. And carry them. And even shoot them on occasion. We’re in favor of school choice. Just last week, we voiced our support for a bill asserting that parents have the right to raise their own children! Just let that sink in. Wow. Dude. Wow. We have hosted events featuring some real nut-job speakers like Mike Lindell, James O’Keefe, and Steve Bannon. Dude!!!!!!! Steve Freakin’ Bannon. How in God’s name does that not qualify us as a far-right extremist group???

As if that weren’t enough, I even began this letter with a gendered greeting. Gendered!!!! And a bit further down, I referenced the “king” of the mountain. Hashtag #toxicmasculinity. Seriously.

I humbly and respectfully request that IREHR reconsider the omission of the 603 Alliance from your far-right extremist report. Like, really really really hoping this was just an oversight on your part. Hashtag #JusticeFor603. Peace out.

Respectfully yours,

Jim Kofalt

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Steve identified the Reps calling themselves Republicans, who voted to allow public schools to groom children in secret.

Conservatives, real Republicans, America-Firsters, etc. are justifiably outraged at these Sununu-sycophant-faux-Republicans. But they should be equally outraged at the House GOP Leadership because there will be NO CONSEQUENCES.

Ned Gordon, for example, will (I am sure) retain his chairmanship of House Judiciary.

The NHGOP has engaged in this SCAM for as long as I can remember … blaming the RINOs but then never taking any actions to address their brazen apostasy.

The NHGOP is a JOKE. Don’t call him Speaker Packard. Call him SPEAKER GROOMER.

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A picture is worth a thousand words, so I can be brief. Here’s “Chuck” with the man who was in charge of the COVID-response and who failed miserably, and who continues to push the NeverTrump/Democrat conspiracy theory that Joe Biden got 81 million legal votes.

Can’t wait to see the picture of “Chuck” posing with Dr. Fauci.

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Lt Col Scheller has been outspoken on the failures of the General Command during the Afghan withdrawal debacle. He spoke the truth, and suffered for it. Here, both General Bolduc and Lt Colonel Scheller address the VFW post in Pelham, NH.

First, Stu Scheller, Introduced by Don Bolduc:

 

Second, General Bolduc, introduced by Paul Grant, who served with Don. Note how he talks about constitutional limits, and serving We, The People:

 

Finally, General Bolduc takes questions. (He moves around quite a bit during this, so camera aim was ‘best effort’):

 

I make no secret of supporting the General – he’s the real deal, as you will hear some in the audience say, too.

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This is a follow-up to multiple reports and discussions surrounding the Uvalde shooting on May 24, 2022. There is much public discussion in the United States about this incident and consternation.

The event has enflamed debates on gun laws and incited political divisions in the run-up to the midterms. Let’s consider several important aspects of this tragic event that should not be overlooked. Specifically, we should pay attention to the potential for black hand interference.

The timing geopolitically is crucial. Last weekend, the WEF began its annual meeting in Davos. One of the key takeaways from the meetings was Henry Kissinger’s comments on the war in Ukraine. The elder American statesman noted that the best resolution would be for Ukraine to cede territory to Russia and declare neutrality. This effectively would involve realizing the sovereignty of the people of the Donbas region and recognizing their right to self-determination, which has been publicly announced to be accession into the Russian Federation.

The syndicated global media’s narratives surrounding Ukraine have characterized it as a beleaguered, innocent country and encouraged fanatical support from audiences in the US and EU. Kyiv has been portrayed as an ally in need of help, bullied by a bellicose Moscow. This is not entirely the reality, as it ignores NATO’s role in sabotaging regional stability and development, as well as the weaponization of Ukraine against Russia. These media narratives have completely collapsed, and Kissinger’s comments risked completely exposing their fraudulence.

A new distraction was called for. Enter Salvador Ramos, a troubled young 18-year-old. Where did Ramos get USD$6000 to buy weapons and gear for this attack? Most likely he either stole it or earned it in gang-related activity involving smuggling humans and drugs over the US-Mexico border. His mother said that he had reasons for what he did. Those reasons are irrelevant in the context of the shooting.

Let’s take a minute to understand black hand interference. This is a term covering a range of techniques and tactics used maliciously to create a destructive and devastating event in such a way that the real instigator is able to avoid notice and attention. It is typically malicious in nature. A black hand operation typically takes several years or months to plan and involves feeding information to specific individuals, then outfitting them with equipment and reaction patterns so that when they are put into a specific situation, the outcome is destructive and usually deadly.

Reports indicate that a teacher at Robb Elementary had propped open the door on the side of the building closest to where Ramos had crashed his truck on arriving. That was a breach of school policy, but it is common for teachers to step outside briefly during the school day for a breath of fresh air. What is important to point out is the timing.

This is where orchestrated signals intelligence comes into play. The timing of these events indicates that there may have been black hand interference. First, why did the school’s security guard fail to identify the shooter heading toward the building? He did not hear the gunshots and did not engage the threat. There may have been communications interference involved that prevented him from reacting appropriately.

Secondly, why did the teacher who propped the door open leave the door open? Electronic warfare techniques can be effective in capturing and controlling an individual’s attention in order to achieve a specific objective. In this case, the teacher was distracted and pressured enough to fail to close the door. A simultaneous barrage of electronic signals combined with the sound of gunshots outside may have such an effect.

Finally, Ramos himself was somehow instigated into committing this act. What caused him to have these ideas? The set of actions and the planning necessary to conduct such an attack requires a certain degree of planning. It is not an off-the-cuff event. For an individual to do this, they must be fed information. Specifically, they must be fed ideas and encouraged to buy the necessary weapons and gear.

Uvalde’s mayor has made public comments that the town suffers upwards of 15 police chases a week due to illegal immigrants. Was Ramos involved in illegal human trafficking activity? Quite possibly. Was he targetted via the internet, fed specific information to pressure him into doing what he did? Extremely likely.

Who was the black hand? By the nature of such a conspiracy, it is difficult to be sure. It may not have been instigated by Americans. It could have been conducted by Russian, Chinese, Israeli, or British government/military units. Or it could have been another organization altogether.

How to defend against such an attack? We must be vigilant. Individuals must be very aware of what information they are consuming on a day-to-day basis, and what positions they are putting themselves in. We must be on guard when we are in our places of work and have precautionary safety measures practiced in the case of such violent attacks.

We must also be compassionate to our fellow citizens. It is the government’s duty to care for the people. The local, county and state governments must be able to account for citizens and help to support their well-being. There is no excuse for individuals who have written on the internet publicly that they want to commit violent crimes. That is a massive red flag. If there are algorithms in place to censor certain comments about COVID, there should be algorithms in place to identify potential violent criminals. These should directly flag authorities, who should act to contact the flagged individuals and help them, support them, provide care for them, and assist them to improve their lives.

Then again, it may have just been a perfectly natural occurrence. A product of American society in the 21st century.

 

 

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New Hampshire’s parental bill of rights, HB1431, didn’t have to fail. Yes, there were 15 Republicans who voted to kill it. There’s no excuse, but there are also those Republicans who were not excused and did not vote at all.

Twenty-Two Republicans in the NH House did not cast a vote on HB1431. Of those, thirteen were absent for legitimate reasons. The Speaker is listed as presiding (not voting), but seven other Republicans were present and refused to cast a vote.

The bill failed by seven votes.

In the event of a tie, the Speaker can then cast the tie-breaking vote which would have been to reconsider and pass the legislation. Given that leadership advanced the bill, passage would have likely been assured.

This does not absolve the fifteen republicans who voted no of any blame. They stabbed parents in the back. But this list of cowards deserves special attention. And yes, they could have voted no, and then they’d be on the previous list.

By refusing to support or oppose parents rights get their own list.

So here they are.

Kelsey, Niki(R) Hills. 7

Not Excused

Kilanski, Ben(R) Ches. 13

Not Excused

McKinney, Betsy(R) Rock. 5

Not Excused

Nelson, Jodi(R) Rock. 6

Not Excused

O’Hara, Travis(R) Belk. 9

Not Excused

Umberger, Karen(R) Carr. 2

Not Excused

Vandecasteele, Susan(R) Rock. 8

Not Excused

 

 

 

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The Bidenistas have decided. If you refuse to allow boys into girls’ bathrooms or locker rooms, then no federal lunch money to feed poor kids. So, is this another one of those “choices” my body things, like – you will take the experimental pharmaceutical or else?

Maybe require them to put that in the lunch and almost literally kill two little birds with one Federal stone. We’re not there yet, and it sounds far-fetched, but then so does this.

 

 

Under this new demand, establishments that accept any federal food funding, including food stamps, must also allow males who claim to be female to access female private spaces, such as showers, bathrooms, and sleeping areas. Such organizations must also follow protocols such as requiring staff to use inaccurate pronouns to describe transgender people and allowing male staff to dress as women while on the job.

 

So, it’s not just schools. Will this include battered women’s shelters, prisons, homeless shelters, and halfway houses?

 

Religious institutions, however, qualify for a waiver exempting them from these requirements, said Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Greg Baylor in an interview Monday. According to the 1972 Title IX law, he said, religious institutions don’t have to file any paperwork to be exempt, although they can if they wish.

 

That’s unexpected, but will it survive?

The rule-making gets pounded out this summer. Who and how to punish. Regulatory oversight. Expansion of the bureaucratic state. Funding – you always need more funding.

All to allow the misogynistic racist offspring of so-called white supremacist bigots access to girls in vulnerable places. Women and children will be hit hardest. Predators will take advantage.

Two words. Bag lunch. Three more words. Fund it locally if it needs funding at all. I know, such harsh language. What government entity wants to give up “free money.” How dare you suggest it, but we suggest it all the time.

Federal funds, federal strings, it’s a big deal, and in New Hampshire, the Feds have us in a noose thanks to governors and legislatures past, present, and (no doubt) future.

Live Free or Die is a mirage. New Hampshire is little more than another gold-digging DC trophy wife, and our so-called “leaders” work diligently to keep it that way.

And now we must comply with 100% trans-parency, or someone might go hungry, not that they should. Feeding kids who can’t afford a school lunch should be a local matter, but I bet NH Gov. Chris Sununu will love it. He’s Mr. local control when it suits him. and this is as anti-local control as you can get. And Governor Groomer is all in on transgender bathrooms, so just like a Democrat, he’ll be giddy.

It’s exciting when someone else takes the heat off you for policies you support—no political price to pay. You can pretend there’s nothing you can do even when you can.

States have rights, but Sununu is unlikely to complain because he has increasingly become just another authoritarian…tick.

Let’s see if I’m right.

 

 

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This isn’t the quiet part yet, but sets the stage:

“Meg Tuttle, president of the NEA-NH, the state’s largest teacher’s union, said it is dangerous to let parents get between teachers and students when it comes to talking about sex.”

Got that?

Parents are dangerous, only teachers are kind and nurturing.  ONLY teachers, with a Government mindset on sexual mores, should be the only ones to be talking to YOUR children about the physical and emotion intimacy of sexual relations.  Thanks for letting us know that being a School Groomer is GREAT, Meg!

And that our children really aren’t ours.  What’s your next step – having school boards build dorms to have them all the time (and adding more dues paying employees to “care” for them)?

 “HB 1431 disregards these well-tended relationships, substituting them with rules that make our schools and classrooms less safe for every student, risk their mental and physical health and well-being, and undermine the state’s obligation to provide an adequate and inclusive education for all students. Today, for the sake of a radical political agenda, the committee put the lives of children at risk,” Tuttle said.

And the quiet part that recognizes what the aims of Teachers and Teacher Unions really is – and it isn’t being in the tradition role of teachers with the 3 R’s:

Tuttle has previously said teachers in the classroom should be activists, especially when it comes to teaching subjects like sexual identity.

Is this what we are paying them for?  To be “activists”? Indoctrinators?  And the kids “graduate” after 12 years being non-proficient in the subject areas that we expect them to be excellent in?  Not able to read to grade level, can’t do multiplication in their heads and can’t solve a simple quadratic equation, have no idea of our real history (but that made up white guilt inducing 1619 “everyone white is a slaver under their skin”, they’re BOFFO, and have no idea of simple civics?

And you wonder why approval ratings are approaching that of CongressTwits and homeschooling and charter schools are starting to clean your clocks.

So when teachers screw up the kids, like that 12 year old girl in Clay County, Florida that tried to commit suicide after her school “counselor” convinced her that she was transgender TWICE before the school notified her Parents because of their Christian faith, are YOU TWO BOZOS going to take responsibility (especially financially?) for what you have done?

And now, TWO, for the price of one!  NH State Senator David Watters is of the same ilk.

NH State Senaor David Watters Union Leader

 

Opponents of the bill, like Sen. David Watters, D-Dover, suggested that children should be able to explore their sexuality with a trusted teacher, without telling their parents.

 

Yet another Government Groomer.  What is WRONG with you, Watters????   I have no idea but thanks for letting us know, as a “trusted” member of the Democrat Party, that Parents don’t matter.  That they shouldn’t be in charge of their kids, that you believe they don’t care about their kids.

NO, NO, NO – teachers should NEVER be inserting themselves into the middle of the Parent-child relationship in this kind of aspect of Life.  How DARE you intrude into this area without permission.  Look at all the stuff that a school must obtain permission from parents in order to do, and you two believe that one of the most important parts of these kids future lives MUST be foisted upon them too early just to be “activists” and take that precious moment and training away from Parents??

No, you’re not teachers, you’re not “activists” – you are MONSTERS, you are Groomers – you’re sexual predators.  And I have posted up enough example to easily say “I have receipts”.

No, because Democrats never say they’re sorry and they never take responsibility for their policies that cause harm.

They’ll just keep saying “Oh, this is the parents’ responsibility” and demand that the parents now take care of the mess that they just created.

Just like Governor Groomer Chris Sununu and his band of Establishment Republicans that decided to be Democrats for the day when they voted against HB1431 (Parental Bill of Rights).

You’re no better.

Anti-Parents, all of you.

(H/T: NHJ)

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The trial lawyer knows his client, Michael Sussmann, is guilty as sin.

The evidence is overwhelming Sussmann lied to the FBI, but the barrister has been very careful to not ask his client if he did it. If the client ever confessed to his trial lawyer; the lawyer would have to inform the court, and that just couldn’t be allowed to happen. The trial lawyer knows the system and there are still ways to get his guilty client off. He looked for technicalities, and errors on the prosecution side but there were none to be found. The trial lawyer is lucky President Obama appointed the judge assigned to the case, and the judge’s wife is associated with Hillary Clinton. He will be biased and true to form many pretrial motions that have already gone in the trial lawyer’s favor. The Washington DC jury pool heavily favors progressive Democrats. They voted for Hillary Clinton 95 to 5. The Barack Obama judge allows three probably biased individuals to be seated on the jury. Sussman’s lawyer knows he has life where there should be none. As the old lawyer saying goes; “if you have the facts on your side, pound the facts; if you have the law on your side, pound the law; if you have neither the facts nor the law on your side pound the table”. Sussman’s lawyer knows his client is guilty but has the most favorable jury possible, a sympathetic judge and he is going to pound as hard as he can. All it will take is one member of the biased Washington DC jury to turn its back on the evidence and Sussmann walks.

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The mood at the meeting of the Democratic power brokers was dreary.

They could not understand how things could have gone so wrong. How their progressive ideas had turned into a national catastrophe. Inflation was ravaging people’s savings, the stock market was crashing, and the southern border was a catastrophe with thousands of illegal immigrants along with human trafficking and American youth killing fentanyl crossing daily. Joe Biden’s cognitive dysfunction resulted in a hasty withdrawal from Afghanistan leaving Americans and American assets behind. Never before had America abandoned its own. Ukraine was on fire. George Floyd’s murder had allowed the progressives to solidify the black vote but the repercussions of the massive violent protests had been devastating. Inner cities were no longer safe and in progressive cities black on black crime/murders were epidemic.  President Biden’s Chief of Staff Ron Klain had been quoted as saying “the boss sometimes gets things mixed up in his head”. Everyone knew the extent of the understatement and the reality Biden was in cognitive decline. VP Harris was a cackling embarrassment.

The midterms were looming and by all measures, the Democratic Party was going to be massacred.

Progressives had tried to blame all of America’s problems on President Putin and it didn’t work. Blaming greedy oil companies for increased gas prices also flopped. They had tried to promote the “wins” of naming a black Supreme Court Judge, a cabinet full of equity appointments, and even a black gay press secretary. The public didn’t notice. Biden’s 1.9 trillion-dollar COVID give-away relief bill and trillion-dollar infrastructure bill along with his war on fossil fuels had backfired and ignited inflation. Six months of expensive consultant-driven focus groups which lead to labeling conservative Americans MAGA supporters failed miserably. Turns out most Americans want a great country.

The American public was angry and appropriately not impressed. The progressives and the media Titians had lied to them, and their chance to show their displeasure was rapidly approaching.

There was only one thing to do.

The unscrupulous trial lawyers were loyal progressives and the techniques used in the ongoing Michael Sussman trial showed the way. Unlinked from the Justice System there was no limit to how low the progressive trial lawyer tactics would go. It was time to pound the table, and there were no rules on how hard to pound or who was to be pounded.

The progressive Democratic Party was clearly guilty of mismanaging America and with the midterm elections approaching the far-left loons and the radical elites were about to go on trial.

The jury was the American people and they could not be allowed to clearly see the truth. Emotion must be made to rule the day because informed people would never vote for a continuation of the Biden administration catastrophe. The election judge, in this case, was supposed to be an unbiased media; but the progressives owned the judge{media} and there would be very little honest objective discussion of the issues. Progressives needed something to force antirepublican emotion on the people.

The leak of the probable overturning of Roe versus Wade was just what the doctor ordered.

Activating the feminist brain conditioning from years ago could be decisive. Perhaps a few violent riots, bra burning and hopefully the reemergence of vagina hats would help. The biased media will fan the fire as they portrayed nasty white Republican men taking over the bodies of helpless women.

Putting the icing on the cake a mentally deranged white man killed black people in Buffalo.

It couldn’t be better for the progressives. It did not matter the killer was clearly psychologically unstable. It didn’t matter thousands of blacks were being killed in progressive cities by other blacks. All Republicans were racist white supremacists and conservative media’s replacement therapy was their mantra.

The progressive Democratic power brokers took heart.

The American voter had been fooled before and using these trial lawyer techniques, it could happen again. They had gotten Bernie Sanders out of the Presidential race and were able to get a cognitively impaired Joe Biden elected President. The General public had bought the media’s lies about Russian collusion and Hunter Biden’s laptop. The 50 intelligent agents who said the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation was the best scam ever. The Internet Judges, Google, Facebook and Twitter had suppressed not only the Hunter Biden story but systematically suppressed conservative speech. It would be hard, but it could be done again.

All across America progressive lawmakers are returning to their districts and States with nothing to offer.

They have no wins, but they really believe the American people are so foolish they can be blinded to what they’ve seen with their own eyes {CRT/groomers in their schools, empty store shelves, crippling energy/gas prices} and swayed by emotion. After all, the election court has been stacked with corrupt Judges {media/Tech Titans} determined to push their progressive agenda.

The progressive candidates will plead their case and be allowed to break every rule. Any small mistake from the Republican candidate will be blown out of proportion. Republicans will be called racists, misogynist, climate change deniers and much worse. Conservative social media accounts will be shut down and progressive vitriol will be all over Twitter and Facebook. Google will do its best to make sure conservative fundraising’s emails end up as spam.

And despite all the corruption and a biased election justice system; 

Americans must overcome the progressive Kangaroo election court and pronounce sentence on the guilty progressives by doing one thing.

Voting!!!

2022 is here and 2024 is around the corner!!!

 

Both General Michael Flynn and Attorney Michael Sussman were accused of lying to the FBI.

General Flynn was set up by a corrupt FBI/DOJ, had his family threatened with imprisonment, a judge who was so bad he wanted a trial even though the DOJ withdrew its case, and Gen. Flynn had to be pardoned by the President to escape a politically contrived conviction. Several other Trump officials endured FBI Swat Team raids [one was conveniently filmed by CNN} and despite being no threat, themselves and their family were intimidated at gun point. Once again Presidential pardons were required to prevent political imprisonment.

Clinton operative Attorney Michael Sussman was treated with kid gloves, a sympathetic Obama Judge and given a defense lawyer dream jury. Even if convicted most likely the Obama Judge will go light on Sussman’s sentence. Sussman’s family is resting in the comfort of their home with no fear of a FBI Swat Team or imprisonment.

Readers are encouraged to come to their own conclusion which political party is best fit to run America.

Read more from James Betti on his Substack publication, Jamesabetti.substack.com

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Old story, but new to us and indicative of the culture with which we find ourselves wrestling. A tale from the people’s Republik of Wokeistan and one of its purveyors of the progressive pestilence, the public libraries.

Libraries.

There was a time not long ago when people predicted that brick and mortar libraries were vestigial structures not long for the modern age. But much like the paperless office or sea-level rise, the prognosticators got it wrong, though libraries have tried to commit suicide repeatedly in recent years.

They have become warehouses for all manner of perversion, from inappropriate books for kids, tweens, and teens to cross-dressing displays and drag-queen story hours that normalize sexualizing children.

Over in Britain, this phenomenon reached new levels of stupid last year.

 

Redbridge Libraries hired Mandinga Arts to provide entertainers for their Summer Reading Challenge event on July 10 when video footage from the day went viral.

One of the entertainers – who was described as, you guessed it, a “rainbow dildo butt monkey” on Twitter — was dressed, well, exactly how you’d expect a rainbow dildo butt monkey to look: A person in a multi-coloured monkey costume with nipples exposed along with a fake penis and butt cheeks hanging out.

 

The library apologized, which is surprising, but that did not manage to protect them from well-deserved scrutiny.

 

Writer Janice Turner tweeted, “I would really love a detailed breakdown of the commissioning process whereby Redbridge council commissioned the Rainbow Dildo Butt Monkey as a means to teach children to read.”

 

We all know that Rainbow D!ld* Butt Monkey’s role is not to teach children to read. It exposes them to an adult lifestyle choice wholly inappropriate for all “butt,” a few, and none of them children.

“Butt” the culture has poisoned its watering hole. People in the system who might want to prevent that mistake or question the relevance or appropriateness are so terrified of appearing intolerant that they let what should seem unlikely, if not impossible, proceed.

Like the library that approved the “entertainment.”

This new normal continues the slide down the not just rhetorical but very real slippery slope. Sexualizing children at an early age coincided with life-long mental and physical health issues long before the gender spectrum began to expose itself. It is why objects of this cult are more likely to attempt suicide and succeed even in communities deemed tolerant and welcoming.

You are messing with people’s mental wiring and, in some instances altering their bodies chemically and physically before they can consciously consider the ramifications. And that’s the crux of the debate. Very few people care what an adult does to themself these days (with a few exceptions). They are assumed to have thought it out and made a choice.

The problem is adults turning government schools into Gender-Transition Black sites with ideological waterboarding. And politicians and activists are pretending this isn’t harmful to kids. But it is dangerous. An agenda driver re-education camp that occasionally spills over into the general public’s view.

 

Mandinga Arts Group, the company hired by the library that provided the characters, also apologized on their website, stating that while the monkey was previously well-received at carnival events, “it was entirely unsuitable for a children’s event and should never have been used.”

 

That’s not the only thing that’s unsuitable, but that doesn’t stop the library or the culture from fostering environments that will inevitably result in four out of ten of these kids trying to end their lives before they are old enough to be called adults.

If that’s the role libraries want to play in the 21st century, perhaps it’s time to defund these institutions and let them wither away, and I don’t say that lightly. I love books and learning, but terrorists have hijacked that vehicle, and we should not negotiate with terrorists.

 

 

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It has been nearly four weeks since the Washington Post reported the leak from the Supreme Court, and we still are nowhere closer to the truth. That is four weeks of protests by groups favoring Roe v. Wade and the ongoing saga of our Supreme Court justices being in danger from overzealous radicals.

I am not sure which is worse and more volatile for the country. The decision on Roe v. Wade published by the Court, the name of the leaker, or the assignment of permanent protection for the Justices which is sure to set off more protesting.

Like everything in Washington, the search for the person or persons responsible for destroying over 200 years of credibility in our Judicial Branch has to be a monumental process. The job of heading up the investigation goes to Gail Curley, Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Court and head of the Court Police Force.

People who know Curley, 53, described the former Army colonel and military lawyer as possessing the right temperament for a highly charged leak investigation: smart, private, apolitical, and unlikely to be intimidated. The last trait is probably most important in the politically charged and divided Capitol. She must work quickly as this needs to be resolved before the Court releases the Opinion.

There is a very small pool of people in the Court from which the leaker needs to be extracted. There are roughly eighty people that would have had access to the leaked document. Those eighty include the Justices, clerks, and staff. With the security protocols, you would think the guilty individual would be easily uncovered. Not so. One strategy may be to use perjury as a tool to unmask the person who destroyed the credibility of the Supreme Court.

If the Marshal, at the Chief Justice’s direction, asks each person to sign a statement saying they did not leak the document and sign it under penalty of perjury, and it turns out someone lies, then they’re guilty of a [18 USC §] 1001 violation,” Smith told the DCNF, referring to a law against making false statements to certain government officials during investigations. “It’s a felony. The charges would be fairly significant.”

The expected Opinion will be released soon and will create its own firestorm of protests across the country. It would be best if the leak situation were resolved and allowed to work its way through the news cycle. The Opinion does not need any more fuel thrown on its fire.

The other element is that nobody in Washington ever gets held to accountability. Some situations may border on or cross the line into criminality. People will be investigated. There will be hearings in both houses. Time will pass, and so will the story until it is forgotten.

Lois Lerner is a perfect example. She was integral in the IRS targeting certain political groups. Everyone knew Lerner was guilty, yet she was allowed to retire with her pension. She helped crush legitimate political action groups because they did not align with the Democrat dogma, and she is enjoying a nice retirement on our dime.

We do not need a dead-end investigation or another Lois Lerner. We need someone to do time for violation against us, the people. Let’s find and put away the leaker for a long time.

 

 

Ray Writes for GraniteGrok.com and the Liberty Loft

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I grew up in a city neighborhood where when gunshots were heard it was never a good thing. My parents were both relative pacifists and we were poor so the thought of owning a gun was antithetical to how we lived. Toy guns, on the other hand, we had plenty of those. Like most kids, we fashioned our hands into one for a quick game of cowboys and Indians, back when that was still socially acceptable. Even my Native American friends Lloyd, Jason, and Bryan didn’t mind playing and didn’t mind being a cowboy when it was time to change roles. Kids back then weren’t easily offended and when you live in the same neighborhood with the same relative conditions the idea of social justice was a nonstarter.

I moved to New England in 2007. I was in my early thirties and still unarmed. However, once I arrived, I heard more gunshots out here than I had ever heard in the city. I learned gunshots out here meant someone was either practicing or putting food on the table. Now a full-grown man, and father to a son, I felt it my obligation to purchase a firearm and learn the ins and outs in case my son becomes, like so many of the local boys who go hunting with their dads and carry on the family tradition.

I purchased a Ruger 10-22, which I was told was the right small-caliber rifle with which to start. One of my friends had a spot up in Thetford, Vermont where we could practice. The slightly louder than a firecracker report from the barrel was intimidating enough to someone like me who had never held or shot any type of gun other than a summer when paintball guns first came out. The skill necessary to hit the target excited the competitive athlete in me, and the etiquette necessary to keep everyone safe also struck a chord. Unlike chasing each other around on foot as we played, or on horseback like they did in the movies, the seriousness with which gun owners conducted themselves commanded my respect. Gun ownership was not a game, nor was it about killing your enemy. Guns are tools, just like a lawnmower, and like a lawnmower, if you don’t handle them with respect, you can do some serious damage.

Something changed in my perspective after that day. I felt an obligation to learn more about guns, the history of their use, their many uses, and our right and responsibilities as Americans to own them for the good of our homes and communities. I re-read the Second Amendment and realized it was speaking to me, although I wouldn’t have known a well-regulated militia had I been invited nor was I looking to join one. At the time, I had total confidence in both my government and our military to defend me, my family, and our country.

Around the time ISIS started terrorizing western countries and videos of them beheading people who looked like me or people I knew is when I realized gun ownership for personal protection wasn’t just for police or ex-military types. Though Vermont seemed like a far stretch for a terrorist attack the number of attacks and school shootings was on the rise. Like with cars, you don’t notice them until you own one – I didn’t notice the amount of gun violence against ordinary citizens until I understood I may be in that situation someday, but owning and knowing how to use a gun could mean I don’t suffer at the hands of evil men like the poor souls I was seeing on my screens.

Around the time I moved to New England was also when I became a Christian. Despite my belief that Christians were the perpetual other-cheek-turning pacifists who laid down their lives; I met many men, and women, who taught me otherwise. Confirmation bias happens when you read the Bible, too, apparently, and these folks were nice enough to help me understand the same God who teaches us love and peace also instructs us to do battle and protect. The book of Ecclesiastes explicitly states “there is a time for peace and a time for war”, not just as a matter of course, but at times when one needs to engage in self-defense against those whose intentions are evil. If you read all the way to the end even loving Jesus meek and mild returns not to pass out hugs but to exact revenge on a world given over to evil. Sure, He’s going to use a sword, but He’s Almighty and I’m not. I am certainly not mighty enough to take on a bad guy with a gun, so it was time to reconsider yet again.

As for my boys, I never found the time to get my hunter safety license but I was lucky enough to meet one of the best hunters in the area. The entryway to Kevin’s house has more animal body parts mounted on his wall than museums have paintings. If he likes you he’ll show you the issue of Hunter magazine he made the cover of for a prized turkey. Kevin grew up in the hills of Vermont hunting and trapping as a young boy. His sharp sense of humor and ebullient personality gave me confidence my boys would be in good hands. They were and they were lucky. My nephew, for whom we were legal guardians, got his first deer on a youth weekend thanks to Kevin and the story is better if you hear him tell it. Like Kevin, it’s a one-of-a-kind tale.

A series of armed robberies and some shootings in my hometown of Hartford, one of which was close enough to my house I could hit a golf ball into their front yard, and my obligation to protect my family was staring me in the face. I bought a Walther .380 MP circa 1950s Germany, almost as much for nostalgia as anything. This wasn’t like so many other person to person purchases where you show up and exchange money for goods. The person who sold it to me was ex-military and took the time to explain its history, how to break it down and clean it, store it, where to buy ammo, practice range options, and even threw in a couple of boxes of ammunition all after taking me out to shoot it and make sure it was comfortable. I found out along the way, oddly, that he’s an atheist, yet his love for America, its Constitution, and its values embodied the spirit with which it was founded. The notion of freedom and the need to protect it transcends so many of our differences, and even enshrines them.

Gun and ammunition sales in the United States have exploded since Barrack Obama became president. The politics of firearms in the U.S. has too. As I’ve realized my duty to bear arms is tied to my duty to keep an eye on my government I’ve begun to notice the same people who clamor for gun control are surrounded by them and in control of billions of dollars in weaponry. I was in Oregon when the now-famous Kip Kinkel shooting started us down this now bloody road of school shooters. Other than guns, what they all have in common are mental health issues and government-regulated pharmaceuticals. Most of them are young men and many of them either have no father or were estranged from theirs.

Having also been abandoned by my father, I know all too well what that does to a young man having watched my brother end up in prison. I should have; I just never got caught. Some horrible life decisions later and a few evangelical Christians found me face to face with a different Father. One who would stay and who would never be unavailable, who’s Will I could know at all times if I bothered to get to know Him. This renewed in me the desire to not only be the father I never had but to also reassure young men without fathers to not give up hope. There is a better Father who will fill in the holes left by the ones who either didn’t know how or didn’t bother. This also was why I was dedicated to not only raising my son but felt the need, like the two avuncular men mentioned, to show them what it means to be a man in America. Taken seriously, it is an awesome privilege and it offers a role coveted by people worldwide.

These school shootings are becoming more and more common, and sadly our abhorrence at the thought is becoming numb. What once caused us to recoil in horror now has become a predictable script:

• Breaking news,
• Active shooter,
• Kids killed,
• Shooter dead,
• AR-15,
• Mental health problem.
• Daddy issues,
• Celebrity and politician outrage.
• Blame the gun.
• Rinse,
• Repeat

This outrage is from the same crowd who has no problem killing innocent babies even after they’re born. The same crowd who encourages mental illness and the desecration of both biological and spiritual norms then ignores the tragic consequences that abusing women and killing children. Who one week sends billions of our hard-earned tax dollars to buy guns for a corrupt Ukrainian regime to defend themselves while bleeding our earnings dry at the pump and telling us we can no longer afford to have guns.

Am I to believe this same government, who claims it can listen to every phone call, track every disease, note every purchase, and has the most vast and well-funded intelligence community in the world, can’t prevent these shootings even when they have foreknowledge of the shooters, is going to defend me? A government that couldn’t keep the most high-profile prisoner in the country from killing himself? A government that has made gun-free zones like Chicago and schools turn into mass shooting zones?

Luckily I learned that guns prevent over a million violent crimes each year, and school shootings, however tragic and horrifying, still number in the very few. The outrage doesn’t match the data.

I thank fellow gun-owning, freedom-loving Americans like Steven Crowder for doing the research I don’t have time to do. However, I strongly recommend you listen as the real story, surprise, is not what you’ll hear on your propaganda devices.

It used to be I thought I would need guns to defend myself from ISIS. Now I keep them to defend myself from my government, which is exactly the reason for the Second Amendment.

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Between 2016 -2021 WMUR has published more than 150 articles about drought in New Hampshire. The headlines cry out for relief or predict doom. But yesterday, that same WMUR posted a tweet with this headline.

 

Flooding is an ongoing worry in New Hampshire and there are concerns that climate change will exacerbate it. In recent times, Concord experienced some of the wettest years on record. Learn more on why flood risk is expected to grow in the Granite State: https://t.co/eeHn2aMCO3 pic.twitter.com/5CWbkJe6XZ

— WMUR TV (@WMUR9) May 26, 2022

 

So, 2005 to 2010 are “recent years?”

It’s 2022. Why is DoubleYouEmYouAre fearmongering precipitation when they’ve published scores of articles on drought over the past few years?

Is it because they’ve published more articles warning about flooding?

WMUR posts an average of 40 articles a year with the word flooding in them. Drought gets about 25-30. So the answer is what?

It’s whatever gets eyeballs.

If we look at the tweet, they suggest that these decades-old precipitation numbers mean something today, and if you click the link, you get to this report. “Flood risk expected to grow in New Hampshire as temperatures rise.”

But the lead is rainfall numbers from 13 years ago. To borrow from Hilarity Clinton, at this point, what difference does it make? It’s a fair question.

Here are the total rainfall rankings according to NOAA from 2011 to 2021.

Year	Rank
2011	124
2012	77
2013	80
2014	102
2015	69
2016	27
2017	99
2018	117
2019	108
2020	48
2021	82

 

Not scary at all.

And I was unable to duplicate WMUR’s wettest years’ numbers, but two things become apparent when looking at NOAA’s graphed data. First, most of New Hampshire’s “wettest years” were between 2005 and 2011.

 

 

And second, it’s been less wet since 2011. So much so that WMUR regularly writes stories about drought, water restrictions, and so on.

Regular readers will know that we follow the Climate Cult’s Rube Goldbergian narratives on droughts and precipitation with a keen eye and have frequently deconstructed their nonsense, and here we are at it again.

Let’s isolate precipitation from 2005-to 2021.

 

And the headline was what, again? “Flood risk expected to grow in New Hampshire as temperatures rise.”

Do rising temperatures mean more wetness? In meteorological theory, sure, but not based on real-world evidence.

 

 

Average temp trends since 2005 are up slightly. The trend is warmer. But that did not result in more precipitation. We have less.

So what’s up with that? Looking back across 120 years, NH has gotten wetter as the solar maximum peaked at the beginning of this century. Warmer was wetter, and we are still slightly warmer than in 2005 to 2011, but we are not wetter.

There’s no there, there.

But that doesn’t matter. WMUR is using one of the Climate Cult’s favorite weapons. No, not the soft cushions, extreme weather, and more modernity. More people. They say this, but the difference between 2005 and 2021 is about 6000 humans. Tht’s about one person per 1.6 square miles.

But more homes and roads mean more hard surfaces, which equal rain runoff and more potential flooding, and oh, the weather’s been more extreme. That too!

Has it, or are they just saying that? I’d go with the latter.

And WMUR’s report is not absent facts, but it is misleading. And yes, it’s ABC, so that’s baked in, but they should have to include a disclaimer. We’ve arranged these details to create a perception that, based on past reporting, is probably not likely or even accurate.

While we’re at it, the Union Leader could use one too. Their tagline is “There is nothing so powerful as the Truth,” but anybody who reads it knows, “There’s nothing so powerful as deciding what truth to report.” 

That’s what WMUR did, and the UL does it all the time. They all do. We do it, but we’re honest about that. A handful of unpaid opinion bloggers who, as it turns out, find themselves calling out the corporate media for their half-truths, deceptions, and outright omissions.

Someone has to do it.

 

 

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I am sure you would have difficulty finding anyone not touched by the senseless shooting inside the classroom of the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. Whether you have children, grandchildren, or are just a feeling human being, you probably had difficulty sleeping on Tuesday night.

I was choked to tears often as I watched seasoned reporters do the same as they tried to tell what little was known about the tragedy. Many of these folks have been down this road before, and I think it gets more difficult with each occurrence. There have been far too many.

There are always more questions than answers whenever there is a mass shooting, especially when the animal who perpetrated the evil act is killed. Except for the unanswered questions, I think the evil monster should never draw a breath of air again. I do not want to hear the feeble excuses or listen to years of testimony and court proceedings as defense attorneys try in vain to get their clients exonerated. There are no valid excuses, and the person deserves to burn in hell.

There have been events like the Uvalde shooting that have been extraordinarily difficult to understand. Sandy Hook, Columbine, and Parkland are three that always come to mind. But Uvalde is the 27th school shooting in just the last five months. That fact boggles the mind, but the ages of the children stolen from us this week make this shooting even more devastating to accept. Nineteen innocent souls and two teachers in the prime of their lives were snuffed out by an 18-year-old deranged individual named Salvatore Ramos.

I do not want to remember his name, and the images of the 21 dead souls will haunt us for a long time. It was excruciating for the parents who had to pray through the night, not knowing the fate of their missing sons or daughters. They had a sickening feeling of what news awaited them in the morning, but they still prayed for intervention. It did not come, and the death toll rose.

Like everything else in today’s world, this calamity took no time to become political and divisive. Depending on which channel you watched, the question still arose. Was it the gun or the shooter who was the villain this day? The President, and most Democrats, immediately called for stricter gun controls and the elimination of “assault” rifles. The term assault is in quotation marks because there is no such gun as an assault weapon. Every gun can be deadly, and each can be used in an assault. But the phrase is key to their argument. It makes it sound more ominous.

The Right calls for more attention to mental health evaluation and treatment and the focus on Red Flags that all of these evil people put up before their crimes. Neither side will concede to the other, so the chasm of divisiveness widens.

This is such a bogus argument, for the gun is an inanimate piece of metal incapable of carrying out a heinous killing on its own. The blame falls on the person holding the weapon when the bullets are turned into projectiles of death by a finger on the trigger. The type of gun does not matter, but the person who procures and uses the weapon does.

We always seem to piece together the puzzle after the fact. We need to invest in ways to uncover these harrowing scenes before they become news. To never hear of a shooting that almost happened would be sad but far less so than the shooting itself. To those of you who still want to point to the weapon, you are wasting time and energy. If you’re going to bridge the divisiveness, band together to make this country more mentally healthy and use the tools we have to hunt down evil before it becomes the only story on 24/7 news stations.

Don’t point to me as a charlatan pro-life member of the NRA and a Republican whose party has done nothing to solve the problem. I believe in the sanctity of all life from conception to death. I side with the NRA for wise gun laws that protect our Second Amendment but keep the guns away from evil animals and people who want to harm others. And I am a proud member of the Republican Party who supports police, ICE, Border Patrol officers, and the rule of law. I believe in harsh penalties for people who commit crimes and incarceration if necessary to keep evil away from good. I believe that our safety is the number one role of government and that until we find a way to get God and country back into our culture, we will be a damaged society lamenting events like Tuesday’s.

 

 

Ray Writes for GraniteGrok.com and the Liberty Loft

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I wrote back on the 18th that while the Left, Never-Trumpers, and the Media are all casting shade on Trump and his role in the Republican Party primaries, he’s actually been very good at endorsing candidates.  The problem is that these latter political dumpster divers are all trying to focus on what he hasn’t gotten right and trumpeting those failures, they’ve remained silent on what he’s getting right:

I wish I had this kind of track record. Reformatted, emphasis mine:

EXCLUSIVE: President Trump’s Endorsements Matter – Last Night 23-2-1 (TBD-Oz) – Overall 81 Wins, 3 Losses, 1 TBD (Oz)

President Trump’s endorsements are golden.  After last night, President Trump’s results to date are 81-3-1 (Oz).

The Dr. Mehmet Oz race is still not decided. Personally, I hope he loses, given his previous political stances.  But with most of the Republican primaries over, what’s his record now? From the Epoch Times (reformatted, emphasis mine):

‘A Very Big and Successful Evening’: Trump Welcomes 100-6 Endorsement Record”

Former President Donald Trump applauded for a 100-6 primary endorsement record in the run-up to the 2022 midterms, following a mixed result—including a series of setbacks—in Georgia on May 24.

“Overall for the ‘Cycle,’ 100 Wins, 6 Losses (some of which were not possible to win), and 2 runoffs,” Trump wrote on May 25 on Truth Social.

It came after Pence-Backed Republican Gov. Brian Kemp, Secretary of State Brian Raffensperger, and Attorney General Chris Carr defeated Trump-endorsed opponents in Georgia by huge margins, surpassing the 50 percent support needed to avoid runoffs. The three GOP officials have drawn criticism from Trump for allegedly not doing enough to investigate allegations of illegal voting after the 2020 election.

Such setbacks have so far appeared to be largely confined to Georgia.

…The six who lost their races so far are: Nebraska gubernatorial candidate Charles Herbster, Idaho gubernatorial candidate Janice McGeachin, Georgia gubernatorial candidate David Perdue, Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.), Georgia Secretary of State candidate Rep. Jody Hice (R-Ga.), and Georgia attorney general candidate John Gordon.

No one is perfect, not even Trump. But you have to admit – that’s REALLY an impressive record.  I have to admit that I don’t know that has come even close to that winning percentage.

It shows a combo of picking the right people in the right races as well as his pull/gravitas with the Republican base. And he has only gotten better at it:

According to Ballotpedia, in 2020, 141 of the 183 candidates that Trump endorsed triumphed in their races.

If you only look at this small snapshot, he’s more of a Power Player than after elections 2 years ago.

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Michael Moore is calling for the repeal of the Second Amendment:

“Who will say on this network or any other network in the next few days, ‘It’s time to repeal the Second Amendment’?” Michael Moore asked MSNBC host Chris Hayes today.

Whatever else you may think about Mr. Moore, at least he recognizes that in order to pass even ‘common sense’ measures that involve punishing gun owners who haven’t done anything wrong, changing the Second Amendment is a necessary first step.

And an effort to repeal it would give people in every state an opportunity to re-introduce the most essential, and most ignored, idea about guns back into the conversation:  That the right to keep and bear arms is about being able to fight your own government.

In fact, if conservatives are looking for a way to stop the introduction of new bills, all they would have to say is:

We will start considering these bills when the Second Amendment has been changed to keep the bills from conflicting with the plain language of our constitution.  So get to work on that, and get back to us when you’re done.

In other words:

We may be open to limiting the right to keep and bear arms, if that can be done in a way that preserves its purpose and its benefits.  What we are not open to is pretending that the Constitution doesn’t say what it so clearly does say.

If there are limits that should be placed on the right to keep and bear arms — and limits that should not be placed on it — let’s take the time and care necessary to figure out exactly what they are, so we can limit ourselves to enacting statutes that are consistent with the Constitution.

And as we do that, let’s keep in mind that while amending a constitution is generally a lot more trouble than just pushing a bill through a legislature (or extracting an opinion from a court) with a bare majority vote, it’s meant to be more trouble, so that short-sighted, momentary passion can be restrained by measured, thoughtful, forward-looking consideration; and so that we will, when feelings are in danger of overwhelming reason, be firmly reminded that governments are formed in order to protect rights, and that constitutions are written precisely to place out of the reach of government those ‘solutions’ that would undermine that purpose.

So let’s get that conversation going, shall we?

Or in still other words:

We all want the same ends, but only one side of this debate seems to recognize one of the earliest lessons that we teach to even our youngest children:  The ends do not justify the means.

What Republicans are willing to say that?

 

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