The media are abuzz with billionaire Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement that he is raising gourmet beef from wagyu cows on his Hawaiian “ranch,” feeding them beer and macadamia nuts. This contrasts sharply with fellow billionaire farming dabbler Bill Gates, who uses conventional chemical technologies and fancies himself the creator of a new synthetic factory meat.

Pundits are attacking Zuckerberg from both sides of the political aisle: The right calls him an elitist dining on fine foods; the left says he’s a climate destroyer. But what if he is, in fact, neither? Perhaps instead of insulting Farmer Mark, we should thank him for highlighting agricultural truths that are common knowledge for most farmers.

Elitist Farmers

This is not to say Zuckerberg is not an elitist. Worth an estimated $130.6 billion, dining on beef fed better than most humans, and owning 1,500 acres on a small Hawaiian island, he displays the pinnacle of exclusivity. But even elitists need to eat, and he should perhaps be credited with undertaking the challenges of farming rather than just using hirelings – he claims he is involving his family in the actual dirty work, which would be the very best possible thing he could do as a father (billionaire or no).

It is a simple enough American liberty to raise one’s own food – anyone can raise a wagyu (if zoning and space permit), though they might be short on macadamia meal and cow-beer. Zuckerberg’s venture is a gift: It exposes the lies being leveled against cows and farmers alike, contrasting the Gates/World Economic Forum messaging about bovines and fake meat with the traditional farming methods that nurture soils with local agriculture. Zuckerberg’s farm is a poke in the eye to the likes of AOC and recently dethroned climate “envoy” John Kerry.

Farmer Bill Versus Farmer Mark

Bill Gates displays a very different billionaire’s farm. Gates did not buy property to try his hand at eating well; he bought up over two hundred thousand acres of US farmland across 18 states as an investment. Mr. Gates does not advocate organic farming, either. Instead, he embraces the unsustainable GMO technologies and accompanying chemical saturation of soils that causes erosion, water loss, and pollution. He invests billions in synthetic factory meat, which will be “cultured” from destructive monoculture crops like corn and soy, requiring saturation of millions of acres with synthetic fertilizers, herbicides, and bee-killing pesticides.

Zuckerberg’s undertaking contrasts sharply with the Gates vision and has attracted the ire of Mark’s would-be liberal supporters, who attack him (and all farmers) for destroying the climate by raising cows. Multiple news outlets reported the words of Mitch Jones, deputy director at Food & Water Watch, who argued, “Raising cattle on water-hungry macadamia nuts and beer showcases the excesses of the wealthy. What we need is genuine agricultural reform, which addresses the inequalities in our food system and the reality of a warming climate.”

PETA representative Shalin Gala posted on social media, “Mark Zuckerberg announces he’s now ‘started raising cattle’ on his Hawaiian estate, feeding them beer, then slaughtering them. Mark, the Dark Ages are calling and want you back.”

Farming Disconnect

The attacks on cows as “climate-damaging” have mainly gone unchallenged except by Irish and Dutch farmers. Whether or not it was his intention, Zuckerberg is now a vitally needed cow apologist. His farming methods are not necessarily climate-destroying. Well-managed water resources for both nuts and cows can be part of a soil-building, climate-healing agriculture.

Hawaii imports some 85-90% of its food. Raising produce locally, whether for himself or others, is how Zuckerberg can support the region’s economy and culture (agriculture) as well as the climate – his beef will not be grown in faraway nations and then shipped to his island. He is not employing synthetic fertilizers or herbicides (unless for the nuts or beer inputs). He is not raising his cows on delicate open ranges or crammed into a concentrated animal feed operation (CAFO).

Instead of praising him, climate warriors across the internet are zeroing in on a number of questionable statistics regarding the dangers of the Meta CEO’s farming methodology. Some cite Vice’s 2014 article that says cows produce 132 gallons of methane gas daily. Others that “cattle farming contributes 3.7 percent to global greenhouse gas emissions,” as Essa News reports in response to Zuckerberg’s farming practices. “Methane is a harmful greenhouse gas, causing about 85 times more warming than carbon dioxide,” the site adds.

This is the Big Cow Lie. The relative impact of methane versus carbon dioxide is an arbitrary measure, but even per the Environmental Protection Agency, methane is only 30 times more potent over 100 years than carbon dioxide, not 85. Notably, the EPA also calculates nitrous oxide is 273 times more potent over a century than carbon dioxide. Nitrous oxide is released in significant quantities by the synthetic fertilizers Bill Gates favors and that Mark Zuckerberg is avoiding by pasturing cows.

Praising Zuckerberg?

Pastured cows sequester both carbon and methane in the soils upon which they dine and defecate. Their manure rebuilds depleted soils and feeds the microbial soil life upon which plant and animal (and human) health depend. There is no technological replacement for cow manure: only soil- and climate-destroying industrial agricultural processes like those endorsed by Bill Gates and the WEF.

The Facebook founder should be praised for raising and eating his own cows. Sure, he’s an elitist, but the more he raises and learns about gentle bovines, the more he may also raise a voice to truly save the world – with cows, not by culling them from the food chain as rival faux farmer Bill Gates advocates. Growing his own food in Hawaii will educate Mark Zuckerberg and others, defend traditional farmers, and bring the discussion of cows back down to earth.

 

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

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In 2021 a woke school board decided their school logo – a Susquehannock warrior – was offensive and ignorant. They erased it and, with it, the visible history of the people it honored. Since then, the locals replaced those board members with seven new ones (there are nine members on the board).

I’m guessing this wasn’t the only straw on the proverbial camel’s back. Masks, lockdowns, quarantines, vaccines, emote learning – I didn’t look, but if you were a betting man or woman, if they were moved to erase the native history, then the rest was already the new normal.

As noted, the citizens did what not enough citizens do and made a few changes. According to the reporting five of the seven new members were elected last November. When the motion came to return the Susquehannock warrior to its place of honor, those seven voted yes – the other two voted no.

“It took a lot of bravery for people in York County to stand up and fight back against the agenda, like David against Goliath, and the difference they made is incredible,” Billeaudeaux said.

“The SYCSD school board stands as a role model and blueprint for other communities fighting for their Native names and imagery,” the Native American Guardians Association said in a statement after it presented its case last week at the board meeting.

“This movement was about erasing Native American culture and I wasn’t about to stand for it,” said Jennifer Henkel, who has three children in the district and serves on the board.

Not everyone was happy, but then those people are rarely happy, so why ruin everyone else’s fun?

And there’s a lesson to be learned. Keep finding and supporting candidates for school board and defense, and support those you get into office. Then, find some more until you have the majority. At that point, you then remain the superintendent and all the excessive numbers of administrators that they work at your leisure and will do as instructed, or you remove them and replace them.

Or, just remove them. In New England, we have SAUs, and there is no practical reason for them but to waste money and launder cultural Marxism into the curriculum. Anyone who wants to lower local property taxes who doesn’t address excess administrative overhead has another agenda.

They are also more likely to erase all evidence of recent native history if you still have any. I won’t revisit the reasoning here, but you are encouraged to do so in the comments.

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The Debt Clock does not have much impact on Americans and appears to not have much effect on politicians. The digits keep spinning, the numbers keep climbing, and there seems to be no number large enough to garner concern.

At the turn of the century, just 24 years ago, the National Debt stood at $5 Trillion, and we wondered what we were doing to our future generations. We were strapping them with a debt they would never be able to repay. After 9/11 and the pandemic, the debt exploded to $34 trillion, and nobody has a plan to stop the spinning wheel or pay down the money owed. It is irresponsible, and the guilt falls on both Parties.

To put this number into perspective, the debt equals $103,000 for every man, woman, and child in our country. Biden wants to forgive Student Loans; maybe he should forgive our share of the National Debt. Biden often claims that he has reduced our debt when, in fact, his administration has added $9 Trillion in three years. Over $900 billion a year in interest, yet nobody seems concerned. Forget irresponsible. It is criminal. America and Americans do not seem phased, but the rest of the world is, and they are taking steps to protect themselves.

The dollar has been the gold standard for international trading for decades. For example, petroleum has been valued in dollars per barrel, but that is changing. The Russians, Arabs, Chinese, India, and even Brazil are joining forces to create an international currency to replace the dollar. This will render the dollar worthless. This action by our allies and adversaries alike indicates a loss in credibility of the American monetary system and a conception that the United States may not be capable of paying its bills. This negativity is virgin territory for America and should concern us all.

BRICS is putting pressure on the U.S. monetary system, but what is more of a concern for anyone paying attention is the lack of urgency on behalf of Washington to change its habits. Every time we get to a debt ceiling decision, the minority Party folds, and a continuing resolution is voted on, which kicks the can down the road for later action, or the Parties reach a compromise and raise the debt ceiling. Nobody and neither Party has the guts to hold their position, let the government shut down, and negotiate a serious bill that will fund the government, not the pork, and hold the debt ceiling where it stands.

Just like we do with our household budget, we have to trim expenses. We need to get realistic about what we have coming in and not outspend it. The pork has to stop, and when your reps brag about funds they are bringing back to the state, you have to ask at what cost. It is not their money they are generously giving us; it is our money, and we need people in office who will be better stewards of our money. Foreign governments know we are not being wise with our tax dollars, so it is time to insist our reps get the message.

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Investigative journalists are dropping like a congressional aide’s pants across the U.S. as main stream media lays-off thousands.

Fake news powerhouse the L.A. Times has nearly emptied its Washington D.C. bureau just months before what many consider the biggest election year in American history.  This shocking move has many of the journalists questioning the real reason behind the mass exodus.

“I had no idea this was coming” a shocked Alexandria Ortega-Churchill bemoaned as she placed her remaining office items into her 100% organic hemp Lululemon grocery tote.  Despite being an investigative journalist neither she nor her colleagues had caught wind of the company’s declining readership and ad revenue.  Explaining they just wrote the stories they were told to write and preferred to get their news from Tik-tok, the group of journalists admittedly didn’t bother to read their own publication, let alone any of the others forecasting news media’s burgeoning climate change.

Never ones to get off message the rumors of systemic racism as the cause began to circulate among those given their parting papers.  “I don’t see too many white people leaving the office, do you?” complained Tykesha Barnes whose most famous piece “Being On-Time Is White Supremacy” won a Poo-lister Prize.  Poo-lister Prizes are awarded to journalists whose contribution to the field is considered on par with bathroom tissue.

Also stunned by the news was Washington bureau reporter Tayler Lorentz who appeared inconsolable after hearing her fans would no longer be able to read her feminist opinions.  Consistently identifying white men as the problem in society and calling them racist may be popular with her Millennial and Gen Z audiences but not with the old white guys signing her paychecks apparently.  A besotted and benighted Lorentz barely managed to Tweet / X an image of her weeping hysterically while holding up her resume.

Speaking of resumes the Vermont Daily Chronicle, despite the national trend of losing journalists, has seen record growth over the last year doubling its number of employees and adding a social media department.  It remains atop the list of conservative publications in Vermont thanks in part to having zero competitors.  Despite running the risk of anti-trust litigation as a monopoly, Chief Editor In-Chief Guy Page remains undaunted.

“Our readership makes up less than 1% of the state where fewer and fewer people are learning to read, so I’m not that worried about it” a resolute Page told Banana’s Media via a now unlocatable email.  Page also informed us he has seen a record number of resumes come in from the sea of jobless journalists recently let go.

“The pool is incredibly wide but not very deep” he noted.  When asked whether or not he was able to find any good hires he answered simply “no”.  Pressing him to explain why he told us about the key questions he asks potential candidates, such as “Is America a democracy or republic?” “Can you identify fake news from the real thing?” and “Would you put real maple syrup on your pancakes if Aunt Jemima was on the bottle?”

“Most of them are so confused they don’t even bother to answer.  If I have any doubt I simply hold up a picture of Donald Trump and note their reaction, which is almost always to flail into a raging conniption fit.”  So far not one of the over twelve hundred applicants has received a follow up interview with the cagey editor.

Not wanting to sully his outfit’s reputation by adding infamous purveyors of fake news beyond his lone Truly Professional Fake News Reporter (Johnny Bananas), seems like a sound business decision given the recent trend in avoiding such problematic employees.  Page wanted to make clear that, although Mr. Bananas is a regular contributor to the Chronicle, he is not a paid employee.

“I can’t imagine anyone would pay that guy – he just makes things up. Take this article for example” Page commented before rushing off to do real journalism by talking to people even less trustworthy than members of the media, namely members of Vermont’s legislative body.

When asked to respond to his editors comments Mr. Bananas declined stating he was too busy working on unionizing his fellow employees.

 

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Grokster Ian is fond of reminding us that we should call things what they are – “As Confucius said, the first step towards wisdom is to call things by their right name.” That is sage advice, so I’ll use it here. Maine has a bill that allows the state to take children from their parents. Kidnapping.

There’s nothing new about that, you say – which is true. States kidnap children every day, and not always in the best interest of the child, but this legislation’s kidnapping provision has a defined focus. It claims the state is acting in the interest of the child. It empowers them to abscond with other people’s children so it can provide access to transgender medical services.

If the state decides the child is leaning away from their biological sex, HP1114 (An Act to safeguard gender-affirming health care) would clear the way for kidnapping and mutilation not just in Maine but from other states.

The bill would have allowed the state to take emergency temporary custody of children who want but are unable to obtain transgender medical services, including genital surgery, puberty blockers, and cross-sex hormone therapy.

Law enforcement would also be prohibited under the bill from arresting or extraditing a person based on a warrant from another state that has laws against transgender medical interventions for children.

Courts would also be barred from considering the abduction of a child from a parent “if the taking or retention was for obtaining gender-affirming health care or gender-affirming or gender-affirming mental health care.”

Children who want? Is the state going to get them the toys they want but don’t have or ice cream for dinner or cake for breakfast (which Bill Cosby Fans -pre-date rape scandals – know has eggs, milk, and wheat in it). Words are missing. Adults who think children want and know better, but they have a provision for that as well. Adults with arrest warrants illegally transporting children into Maine (to access the drugs or mutilation) shall not be arrested.

They want to legalize kidnapping and mutilation. It’s a thing in California, so why not Maine? I can think of several reasons, but this is progressive legislation. Children are a lot like a business. You didn’t build that or couldn’t without the auspices of the government, which, ironically – at least until the FED came along and started printing money – couldn’t build anything without you creating wealth for them to take. But, in their heads, since you belong to them, so do your offspring. You can’t have a proper despotism without brainwashed children, and while we’re at it, let’s poison them, neuter them, remove some body parts, and then offer them state-funded mental health services until they can be convinced to kill themselves (MAiD).

The peasants will have fewer children, and those born won’t be able to reproduce. It’s first-world progressive master-race thinking, and do not kid yourselves. The uni-party ruling class isn’t worried that such a bill would be leveraged against them. This sort of thing is for provincial bumpkins or would have been had the judiciary committee in the Maine Legislature not voted unanimously to kill it.

Before the vote, Maine State Sen. Eric Brakey (watch our radio row interview with him here) was quoted as saying, “There are certain lines that I think need to be respected as far as the authority of the family vs. the authority of the state.”

“I feel like this legislation takes a great leap over that line, potentially empowering the state to even take custody of minors in a way that does not feel appropriate to me,” Brakey said.

Encouraging the trafficking of children from other states for treatments or surgeries, they can’t begin to understand does not feel appropriate either. Still, Democrat legislators are sponsoring bills to do that. The public school indoctrinates them. It then gives them mental health assessments without their consent. Then uses that as a basis for ‘abduction.’

That’s just a theory, but I think it sounds. And I’d applaud the rejection by the legislature, but for this. The bill will be back, and if Mainers don’t turn from the left-leaning course upon which they’ve set the state, the next time, it will pass.

 

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I have just been made aware of a change to HB 1002 that has been proposed in order to charge taxpayers $25.00 an hour for any 91a request that goes over 10 hours. This would cost citizens a minimum of $250 and perhaps more to file for information that they are otherwise legally entitled to, with virtually no oversight as to how a municipality would determine the possible time frames needed to support such costs.

I would like to respectfully request that this Bill be KILLED.

It is my understanding that many of you from our Londonderry delegation recently met at Town Hall and although the town of Londonderry did not broadcast this, I’m willing to bet 91a was no doubt a topic of conversation.

As you are no doubt aware, 91a has largely been used to circumvent providing information to Citizens unless they file such a request and compel the town to release it. If the burden of 91a requests on our municipality is a concern to you, perhaps the town of Londonderry should set up an online repository where citizens can easily access documents that are requested or of interest to other citizens.

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I believe I specifically discussed this issue with speaker Packard and Senator Carson at a sit-down dinner at the Coach Stop Restaurant back in September of 2023, in which both of these parties expressed more concern over my accountability efforts jeopardizing their re-election as opposed to any concern over the lack of transparency issue that I have raised and am raising again. It was disheartening to hear that you were not on the side of Citizen transparency back then, and it is disheartening to see that you are not on the side of Citizen transparency now.

Article 1 Section eight of the New Hampshire state constitution clearly enumerates that the operations of government should be transparent accessible and responsive, and this bill places an unconstitutional burden to government fulfilling that constitutional requirement.

This is uniquely and particularly a concern for Londonderry, as a court of law recently declared the town and town manager to be frivolous in regards to their compliance with 91a; this was specifically highlighted by the case from former Town Councilwoman Deb Paul in which she had to sue to get a document released that the Town maliciously withheld while skirting the legal requirements of 91a. It is without a doubt that this cost burden will be weaponized in a manner just barely skirting the law to withhold as much information that they believe is damaging to the town as possible.

In addition to the unique concerns relevant to the town of Londonderry, I have spoken with citizens in Hudson, Hollis, Chester, Raymond, Derry, and other surrounding municipalities who also feel that this bill will have a chilling effect on citizen access to the workings of governments.

There are already many questions among citizens as to why we should continue to re-elect the same representatives and Senators when we are often dissatisfied with their outcomes on our behalf. Not being on the side of Citizen transparency is an issue that we will no doubt have to address in the public sphere as we get closer to the fall election if you do not turn from this course.

Please remember that you are a representative and a servant of the people and not the manipulative special interests in the town of Londonderry and the state of New Hampshire. Please kill this bill.

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How many times have Democrats labeled Donald Trump a fascist and a tyrant? How often do they compare him to Stalin or Hitler? They’ve been doing it for so long that they don’t even think about it anymore. In fact, they never gave it much thought to begin with; their words were spawned out of pure hate.

Yes, Trump is an arrogant man full of bluster. He can be abrasive, loutish, and often petty. Even his staunchest supporters would probably agree that he’s not a perfect human being.

But a dictator?

Throughout Trump’s presidency, he played by the rules. He issued no unlawful edicts, no unconstitutional mandates, and no unilateral decrees to benefit himself or his party. All of his policies and Executive Orders were legal, constitutional, and intended to benefit the American people. Even his harshest critics, if they were honest, would have to admit that he gave the country four years of peace and prosperity.

Compare that to his successor.

Joe Biden abrogated his duty and violated our Constitution and his oath of office on his very first day on the job. His EO 13993 was followed up with policy changes that essentially erased our border with Mexico. That was done without consulting Congress and in defiance of both existing immigration laws and the will of the people. No U.S. president has ever before engaged in that kind of anti-American despotism. His immigration policy has resulted in more than 10 million unidentified foreign citizens and untold quantities of illegal drugs flowing into our country.

Then in August, 2022, Biden announced a plan to forgive up to $20,000 in college debt for low-to-middle-income borrowers. He tried to use the HEROES Act to justify that decree. That legislation was intended to benefit members of our military. While some undoubtedly saw Biden’s plan as a magnanimous gesture, others understood the reality. It would probably buy Biden a few more votes, and it wouldn’t cost him one red cent. It would cost taxpayers, though – roughly $400 billion.

In June 2023, the Supreme Court rejected his plan, ruling that his Department of Education lacked the authority to cancel those debts under the HEROES Act. Most Americans agreed. According to a CATO Institute poll, nearly two-thirds of Americans, 64 percent, oppose college debt forgiveness if it means higher taxes. Seventy-six percent oppose it if it leads to increased college tuition.

But tyrants aren’t dissuaded by courts or public opinion. Biden forged ahead with his plan through a series of incremental policy decisions, all arbitrary and unilateral. By January 20th of this year, Biden had decreed that more than 3.7 million borrowers were relieved of their student debt. Taxpayers would be responsible for the more than $136.6 billion owed by those borrowers.

And we can’t forget Biden’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic. He, and scores of petty tyrants across the country, viewed the pandemic differently than most. They saw it as an opportunity. Biden himself used those exact words, proclaiming that it was “an incredible opportunity to fundamentally transform the country.” To him and all those wannabe dictators, it was gold on a gurney, a real opportunity to exercise their authority. They issued mandates and edicts like we’ve never seen in America before – surgical masks were required for everyone, including young children. Arbitrary social distancing was mandated, and workplaces, schools, and churches were closed indefinitely. The right to peacefully assemble was suspended. Biden even decreed that all service members and government employees either accept an unproven vaccine or find a new career. All of it was in response to an illness that only posed a serious threat to elderly patients.

Eventually we learned what many suspected all along. It was all mostly theater. The mandates provided little to no protection against the virus, and were sometimes dangerous. They did reveal, however, just how easily our freedoms can be rescinded.

But when a political party turns its government against the citizens, that is perhaps the greatest threat to freedom and democracy. It’s how tyrants around the world stay in power.

It’s no surprise that those who despise Donald Trump see his two impeachments and 91 indictments as vindication of their hatred and proof of Trump’s malfeasance. But objective, clear-thinking Americans see a problem with the ruthless and relentless attacks on Trump. They recognize political zealotry and injustice when they see it. They see selective prosecution – Democrat prosecutors charging Trump with crimes they scoff at when Democrats commit them. Open-minded people see brazen election interference and ham-handed efforts by Biden and the Democrats to eliminate the greatest threat to his presidency.

While the Left is busy bellyaching and obsessing about the “dictatorship” that another Trump presidency would bring, Biden and his henchmen are systematically eradicating our republic – one freedom at a time.

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In our follow-up media reviews of the Tuesday dumping of Nikki Haley by 10 to 12%, depending on who’s count, it’s been confirmed many Democrats didn’t write in Biden as requested but voted on the Repub ticket for Haley as suggested. All in the failed attempt to pull off the upset and stop Trump.

Dem’s were recorded giving interviews after voting confirmed this and said they would switch to Biden over Nikki in a general election. Getting a chuckle here seems the spin is on over at Nikki’s place touting how well above predictions she did. In any other election, that double-digit drubbing would be called a landslide for the winner, but remember, we’re dealing with anti-Trump media these days.

And then you get independants likely splitting 60/40 max, who knows which way? Funny, this is supposed to be a vote for and by Republicans, but our party leaders just can’t seem to grasp this fact. Regular everyday Republicans want and deserve to select whom they want, not what a general public wants, but our “leaders” just will not have it; why? Every election cycle, this merry-go-round goes on and on. What the heck is wrong with these folks? Do they want to lose?

As for the modern left-liberal, it is a melding of fascist and communist (Fascicom), and they despise those of us who refuse to be corrupted by them. Hatred is strong in them, they hate Christians, whites, black conservatives, Jews, well anyone not them and only the them’s who never, ever stray from what ever the current flavored perversion it is.

Why? Because half of all Americans who know Biden is a faker, a straw man President without any real power, it’s those behind the curtains pulling his strings who are the real power, and they have no intention of giving up their stranglehold on it. Shadow organizations with great-sounding names like Black Lives Matter, Antifa, and others are actually exact opposites of their labels and which create the chaos they accuse Trump and those others mentioned above as being.

Look, it was white European Christians who ended all slavery in the western world so how can we be inherent racists, our modern history and culture belie this label. Fascism was rejected when we fought a vicious world war to end it, but now we see Antifa using the exact kind of tactics and violence as Hitler’s “brown shirts” the SA used.

Why does the left do these things? For power and control over our lives for their advantages and comfort.

Deny them their victory, reject their lies, and speak out against them. MAGA Vote Donald J Trump for President.

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We know the Border Crisis is a purposeful, manufactured situation by the Biden Administration, with the only question being why. The quick answer is always votes, which may be the reason for the long game, but that process will take years to bear fruit.

For the illegals to become votes would mean them going through the lengthy legal process to become a citizen or a blanket amnesty be given to the millions of illegal migrants with a pathway to citizenship. The propensity of either of these scenarios is slim, and the Democrats need quicker results. There is one, and it should have been obvious.

Many changes are impacting the demographics of our country and each of the fifty states. The population of Americans has been decreasing for decades as we do not have a birth rate to overcome our death rate. The number of births per woman in 1960 was nearly four and dropped to 1.6 in 2023. The percentage of citizens in America is also falling, and the Democrats have turned to illegal migrants to supplement our decreasing population trend.

The nation’s population is interesting to analyze, but the demographics of each state determine the balance of power in Washington. We have seen the results of change in the last few years as people leave the Blue states of New York and California for the Red states of Florida and Texas. This change resulted in the Blue states losing a Representative and the Red states gaining one each. This will never work for Democrats, so something drastic had to be done, and soon.

One play the Democrats have been working on for years is to give Washington D.C. and Puerto Rico statehood. Since these two areas are predominantly Democrat, the Senate would gain four Democrat Senators, and the House would gain Democrat Representatives based on the population. There is a Representative for every 750,000 residents, with residents being the keyword. Illegals are counted in the census to determine the number of Districts and Representatives. This is where the Southern Border comes into play.

The census count determines the number of Congressional Districts for each state. The National Census is taken every ten years, and the purpose is to get an accurate count of all of the residents of the states, not just the citizens. This distinction is how we loop back to the Border. New York and California will not attract back the people who left for other states. Democrats are not going to convince women in any Blue State to build up the population. So what do Democrats do to run up the count to maintain their power base and possibly grow it? They open up the Southern Border and let 300,000 illegal migrants invade our country every month. They then use NGOs like the Catholic Church to transport these people to predetermined locations and swell the population in the Blue States, thus securing their political power.

There have been 7 million documented crossings and getaways during the Biden Presidency. That is more people than in 34 states and just fewer than in Massachusetts. More importantly, those people represent 10 Congressional districts, which is music to the Democrats. These people never have to become citizens or vote. They have done their job. They have secured the seats of Jerry Nadler, Alexandria Cortez, Ilhan Omar, and more, and that is just what the Democrats wanted. The cost, crime, drugs, and illegal weapons that come with these migrants are what the rest of us get.

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Today, the Granite State finds itself at a crossroads with the introduction of House Bill 1283, new legislation that seeks to legalize physician-assisted suicide (PAS). The bill effectively gives physicians permission to prescribe drugs that result in patient suicide.

We have serious concerns about the bill’s potential impact on New Hampshire’s at-risk population if this bill passes.

Undermines suicide prevention efforts and normalizes suicide

New Hampshire has seen a nearly 50% increase in suicide rates over the past decade. Rather than addressing this with compassion and enhanced prevention efforts, HB 1283 takes us in the wrong direction by normalizing suicide as an acceptable medical option. It sends a message that suicide can be a legitimate treatment choice, contradicting the very core of our efforts to prevent suicide.

Opens the door to expanding assisted suicide to other vulnerable populations

In other states, nearly every assisted suicide law has been expanded by reducing or eliminating the waiting periods, allowing non-doctors to participate in assisted suicide, allowing assisted suicide approvals by telehealth, expanding the meaning of terminal illness, and removing the state residency requirement.

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Devalues Lives of People with Disabilities and Chronic Illnesses

House Bill 1283 raises significant ethical questions about the value we place on the lives of individuals with disabilities and chronic illnesses. By endorsing PAS, we risk sending a message that some lives are not worth living. Instead of offering support and compassion through palliative care and other essential services, this bill proposes a dangerous alternative that devalues the inherent worth of those facing health challenges.

In contrast to the well-established principles of the medical profession, House Bill 1283, if passed, would turn physicians into enablers of suicide, undermining the sacred trust within the doctor-patient relationship. It will degrade public trust in healthcare, which has already fallen during the pandemic.

We cannot ignore the recent legislative strides made in New Hampshire to bolster suicide prevention efforts. Instead of offering death through laws like HB 1283, let us continue to work toward building a “help-seeking” culture that offers support and care for those most vulnerable and at risk for suicide.

 

Steven Wade
NH Coalition for Suicide Prevention
https://zerosuicidesnh.org

 

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The January 4th raid on Amish farmer Amos Miller’s Pennsylvania establishment reflects a growing tension between government regulation of food safety and liberty-minded individualists distrusting industrial food production.

Pennsylvania State Police secured Miller’s farming premises for search by the state’s Department of Agriculture for “illegal raw milk and raw milk products, including eggnog,” following reported cases of E. coli in New York and Michigan, allegedly linked to Miller’s products.  This curious dispute has far-reaching implications for Americans’ food rights.

Miller déjà vu?

Farmer Miller has been in and out of the food rights limelight since 2015 when the USDA alleged his raw milk products sickened a person in California and caused another person’s death in Florida by listeria (which Miller denies).  Miller has negotiated fines and regulatory conformance to appease the Feds for his past transgressions, but the recent cases have brought Pennsylvania authorities to his door, where they seized eggnog and sour cream, chocolate milk, and ice cream.

Miller’s Amish traditions inspire his belief that it is not merely his right but his duty to provide nutrient-dense foods to his multistate customer base as a defense against untrustworthy industrial food products.  Miller and his customers seek to operate under federal and state regulatory radar as “Private Member Associations” or entities that privately enter into contractual relations and are not engaged in public commerce.  They know the risks of raw milk and farm-processed meats and deliberately seek these and other farm-direct products for their perceived health benefits.

Unfortunately, Mr. Miller has held a somewhat unsteady legal course, switching counsel and representing himself pro se, including invoking vague and unhelpful sovereign citizen claims. Still, his head-butting with government regulators highlights a broader battle forming between food rights activists (such as those who successfully passed a food rights amendment to Maine’s Constitution in 2022) and an ever-expanding federal/state food inspection apparatus.

Food Rights Firebrands

Kentucky’s Thomas Massie co-sponsored the PRIME Act, which would expand regulatory liberties for intrastate meat sales and bolster small farms and their direct sales to consumers and restaurants.  Massie wasted no time tossing a shot across the political bow in support of Amos Miller, posting this on X:

Looks like Amos Miller’s farm is being raided.

With all of the problems in society today, this is what the government wants to focus on?

A man growing food for informed customers, without participating in the industrial meat/milk complex?

It’s shameful that it’s come to this. https://t.co/pWwjp6cgPh

— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) January 4, 2024

The most significant tension lies in the balance between appropriate government oversight of commerce, especially regarding health and safety, and personal food choice sovereignty.  This push and pull has increased over the last century, intensifying as toxic food additives and mass production of less nutritious produce and processed foods cause health-conscious consumers to do without government “protections” that too often protect corporate profits over human health.

As attorney David Berg poignantly predicted in a 2013 article in the Journal of Food Law & Policy:

If liberty is the freedom to make one’s own choices in life, why can we not make those choices with respect to our food?….

Food choice is not a new right; it is a right and a practice as old as civilization….

However, it was not until industrialization and regulation that citizens felt the need to assert such a right, and now courts and legislators will increasingly have to take this right into account.

Berg argues that the right to purchase food directly from a farmer, sans mandatory government inspection, is a fundamental right.  The federal government has failed to halt atrazine, glyphosate, neonicotinoids, and other chemicals and subsidizes corn (and thus high-fructose corn syrup) and other questionable foods.  More recently, public trust has been compromised by dubious claims about the “safety and effectiveness” of certain medications that proved to be neither.  It is not unreasonable that public views about the necessity of government food inspection fluctuate with levels of trust.  As public trust in government and food safety continues to deteriorate, farmers like Amos Miller are sought out as food gurus.

Women have been granted the “right” to an abortion, gays the “right” to marry, and transgender-identifying citizens the “right” to “gender-affirming” surgery at public expense.  Concurrently, zoning laws increasingly compel citizens to eliminate chickens from their backyards or cease and desist from milking or raising a cow.  In this milieu, do people have the “right” to shape their identity around food (as Berg persuasively argues)?  May Americans who prefer an Amish sovereign citizen’s barn-processed foodstuffs over the fare of the food conglomerates simply enter freely into a contractual and informed “assumption of risk” of the potential harms from uninspected meals?

Hard-working, hardscrabble farmer rebels like Amos Miller are a preview of the growing movement to push back against government overreach.  Americans prefer their independence and personal food sovereignty over compelled servitude to Big Brother in the name of security, whether the Police State protection is proffered against nebulous climate change, dehumanized foreign enemies, a sketchy disease from China, or alleged food-borne illness from raw Amish eggnog.

 

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

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So.  Many.  Memes.

Note that, with an exception here and there, I’m posting them in the order I download them.

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

Remember, ridicule and mockery are effective weapons:

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

Now, let the mockery and mayhem begin.

 

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

 

 

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A real pity we can’t have DEI airlines for them, and merit based ones for us.

 

 

 

 

 

These things used to be normal.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

One of the first things I learned when pursuing an MBA and taking management-oriented classes: You get more of what you reward.

 

 

 

 

 

I remember, some years ago so I don’t have the link, alas, reading about a NASA scientist who said that the data needed to be adjusted to match the models.

I’d been suspicious of climate change for a while, for multiple reasons (e.g., here) but this was one of the hold-the-phone, WTF did a scientist just say moments for me.

 

 

 

 

Some time ago, on my old blog, I mentioned a liberal migrant to Austin, TX; she was complaining about the high taxes, going higher.  She said that she’d voted for every community improvement, every bike path, etc.  Sowell once said the most dangerous person is one who gives advice but pays no price for being wrong, I’d argue a very close second is the person who does not connect the price they pay with the actions they took.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA

 

 

Last time I was checked into the ER I had them print out the thing that you normally sign electronically.  On each page I put NO COVID  VACCINE, signed, dated, and took a picture of each page before I gave it to them.  Not 100% foolproof but at least they’re on notice.

Now, of course, it’d be NO VACCINES AT ALL, PERIOD!

 

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This is actually very insightful.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I have trouble wrapping my mind around this.

 

 

 

 

 

MHO, a gibbet comes to mind.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A true, classic liberal – willing to investigate and change their mind when new evidence comes to the fore.

 

 

 

 

“Be it so. This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile. But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them, and confiscate all their property. My carpenters shall therefore erect gibbets on which to hang all concerned when the widow is consumed. Let us all act according to national customs.[To Hindu priests complaining to him about the prohibition of Sati religious funeral practice of burning widows alive on her husband’s funeral pyre.]”

― Charles James Napier

 

 

 

 

 

Though I have to admit… Fetterman does seem to be actually thinking these days.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bought, compromised, or both.  That’s what I think is happening around the world, and at most levels from national on down.

 

 

 

 

 

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Selected link section:

 

Shocking Audio Admission: Parents Not Warned About Myocarditis Risk ‘Because It Might Scare Them’ (deeprootsathome.com)

No words exist for the depths of this treachery.  Related:

The CDC Doctor Responsible for Hiding Myocarditis and Promoting Vaccines ⋆ Brownstone Institute

What We’ve Learned From Hundreds of Vaccine Shedding Reports – The Burning Platform

About two years ago I suddenly went diabetic; Type 1.  That’s a Jab side effect.  So too is tinnitus, which I have from the moment I wake up to the moment I pass out in the evening.  I am 99% sure I picked up mRNA from my triple-jabbed wife as both started roughly in 2021-2022 as my wife was getting her shots and, later, a booster.

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No Cash Accepted | Armstrong Economics

They’re pushing.  Push back.  Speak to the manager of your local stores and tell them you’re a cash customer.

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It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like 1776 – PJ Media

America desperately needs a recalibration. The Texas border battle is the precursor to the 2024 presidential election, which is also about rejecting tyranny, punishing criminal bureaucrats and politicians, and restoring America by preventing further and future abuse of the citizenry by our own government.

If America is to continue its uninterrupted run as the nation with the longest standing and continuous “democracy” in world history, we must force our tyrannical federal government to stand down one way or another.

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Bombshell report: UN handing out $1.6 BILLION through NGOs, helps give debit cards to illegal immigrants | Law Enforcement Today | lawenforcementtoday.com

UN Budgets Millions for U.S.-Bound Migrants in 2024 (cis.org)

Denationizing the United States – American Thinker

Orchestrated at the highest levels.

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Citing one of my favorite proverbs:

A smart man learns from his mistakes.  A wise man, from the mistakes of others.

Words from a Bosnian Survivalist.pdf (powersfirearmstraining.com)

The problem I’m finding in planning groups and allies ahead of time is that so many people just think “Oh that’s just not possible here”.  And this though I still prefer paper printouts.  Because without power, your data is useless.

Storing Valuable “How to” Digital Data, by Slate Creek. (survivalblog.com)

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You won’t believe the crap that Ivy League “elites” believe, according to Scott Rasmussen’s polls… – Revolver News

Because they’ve never truly had to experience the consequences of their beliefs.  Reality can be a very harsh teacher.

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NSA Confirms Purchasing Data on American Citizens’ Internet Behavior, Circumventing the Need for Warrants (reclaimthenet.org)

They want to view everything.

 

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Pick of the post:

 

 

 

Sure does look like him.  And this is who is coming in through our border.  We doubtless have multiple cells here – Islamic, Chinese, Iranian, Russian… I predict things will get very spicy, within the year, and focused on the cities where the most damage can be done.

 

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Palate Cleansers:

 

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Come back Wednesday for another edition.  Same Meme Time.  Same Meme channel.

Please do consider buying me a coffee.

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A parent in New Hampshire described how the SORA School Library app many children now have on their school-issued Chromebook includes hyperlinks to a website where children can access child sexual predators.

This online library also makes pornographic books available to school children too. You can listen to her testimony before The New Hampshire House Education Committee here.  (1:38:06)

In order to provide this online library to children, the school district must pay a subscription fee. Where does this subscription fee come from? The school budget.  This means that you are probably paying for child sexual predators to access children.

If this isn’t bad enough, your district also pays dues out of the school budget to the New Hampshire School Administrators Association. (NHSAA) The NHSAA then employs lobbyists (District superintendents) to fight against legislation to prohibit these kinds of books and materials in the schools.

A lobbyist (Superintendent from the Plainfield School District) from the New Hampshire School Administrators Association. (NHSAA) OPPOSED prohibiting schools from making pornographic content available to children. Esther Asbell, Superintendent of SAU16 (easbell@sau16.org), is the Executive Director of the NHSAA. Why are they not speaking out against this dangerous content that is now available to children in our schools? Why are they opposing good legislation that will protect our children from pornography and child sex trafficking?

Sydney Leggett, from the NHSAA Equity Committee, essentially says that students have a right to access pornographic materials in the school. This Bill would infringe upon their rights and deny them access to porn and materials that show them how to connect with sexual predators. You can listen to her here. (1:08:00)

Not only are you paying for the subscription service, but you are also paying a lobbyist to fight against prohibiting this kind of content from ending up in your child’s hands.

Here are some of the emails exchanged between administrators who were discussing this legislation. In other words, instead of discussing how to teach children to read and write, they are using EQUITY as a reason to stop legislation that would prohibit the most obscene content from reaching children in our schools.

They even had a Michael Bessett, Assistant Superintendent from Kearsarge, take time out of the school day to add his opposition to prohibiting obscene content. According to documents requested through a 91-a, the 8 hours were unpaid. When will they put this kind of effort into improving math and science scores?

legislative help needed

The school budgets will be presented to your community in a few weeks. Whether you have children in the school district or not, you are paying for all of this. Ask about the dues you are paying to the NHSAA, and then make a motion to remove that item from the proposed budget. Taxpayers need to stop funding an organization that represents a biased political viewpoint that is anti-parental rights and puts children in harm’s way.

 

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Have I said it too often? You guys are awesome. The engagement is top-shelf and growing steadily, and the comments themselves, with rare exceptions, are relevant and add to the debate. This, of course, makes my job more difficult.

My problem, not yours. I’m not whining. I’m excited and look forward to sending someone some swag every week. So what about this week?

JeffersonVoltaire engaged in a series of comments with Nhnative that struck me as informative and eye-opening, and NHnative was pleased with the results. I had to pick one, so I picked this one.

Was going to say; I Have to play devil’s advocate here… but, not really. More like I have to explain some very fundamental points of law that people seem to be determined to just pretend don’t exist, the difference between private and public. Apologies if that sounds pointed but I’ve been trying to get this across for years now. I continue to feel like I’m talking to the walls. And now I’m sounding like my father… The Supreme Court didn’t make any ruling on “free speech in New Hampshire”. They made a ruling, about trying to exercise your private free speech rights in somebody else’s private commercial organization. The “schools” and the boards that run them, are owned and part of a municipal corporation, being run as a private, for profit commercial entity dealing in private corporate paper (Federal Reserve Notes) as well as securities. They are not, by any definition a public governmental organization. If your kids are “registered” there, you know, like a membership… they & you are subject to their rules. No different than if you have a membership at the gym and you signed their membership contract and paid their fee, inside their building, you are subject to their rules, period. If you try to hold a political demonstration in the gym, they have the right to throw you out. You can’t bring your private rights into their sandbox. And as an adult, you really should know better. It says this very clearly in the beginning of court ruling. If you know how to read it. 1) She was charged with Trespassing… You can not trespass in a building that belongs to the people. 2) The action was a civil action – used when there is a contract at play as the governing rules. 3) The “law” was held to be the RSA, private, corporate rules known as Administrative Law, operating in a jurisdiction foreign to the constitution, coming out of a De Facto “government” that is running because people refuse to learn basic law and pick up the reigns of the true De Jure government, that were dropped by fraud and deception over 100 years ago.

Congrats to this week’s winner. I will need you to email me your mailing address and a way to confirm you are JeffersonVoltaire – and I will then send you your ‘GrokSwag!

 

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Wherever you have a majority of Democrats, you will hear lots of words about supporting various demographics: women, minorities, blue-collar workers, and small business owners. Talk, as they say, is cheap, while everything else under Democrat rule is expensive.

The Putney Paper Mill has been around for a good long time. Paper production began in the area in the early 1800s, and the current mill is reported to have been built in 1869. But its parent company has announced that it has to close the mill, not because the cost of energy has gotten so high it is no longer possible to do business.

“Despite our best efforts to sustain operations at this historic paper mill, we had no choice but to shut down operations,” said [Soundview Vermont President Rob] Baron in a prepared statement.

“The high cost of energy in the region has made it unaffordable to keep our doors open. Our top priority moving forward will be supporting our incredible employees and their families throughout this difficult transition.”

There is no shortage of news or opinion on these pages about the cost of electricity in New England, but recent efforts to replace affordable, reliable sources with intermittent wind and solar have driven up costs. Decommissioning Vermont Yankee didn’t help, and the Vermont Dem’s war on coal and gas has only made matters worse. Add to this a myriad of bureaucracy-building carbon and emission schemes that make it cost more to do just about anything, and you can feel Putney Paper’s pain. Their officers are eating out their substance at the dwindling margins with increased fixed costs.

News reports say 127 people will lose their jobs. In a town of 2630, and they may not all live in Putney, that is not a small number of jobs.

The ironic bit is that the so-called party of the working man and woman (Democrats) will gnash their teeth and pound their chest at the injustice or indignity of the dissolution of not just another business but one like Putney Paper, without ever admitting it was their fault. Vermont Democrats and the Biden Presidency have made it too expensive to do business, and Putney isn’t the only casualty.

Every industry in the state except for the government is at risk; according to USA Facts, the government is the biggest business in Vermont and is only likely to get bigger as it offers its gold standard subsistence lifestyle alternative to the former employees at Putney Paper Mill: unemployment checks, welfare, Medicaid, housing assistance (or not), and teaching them to code probably won’t help.

Six score and seven have been let go, and there isn’t much call for what they do around these parts anymore, but I bet the government is hiring. Or, you could run for public office. The legislature is working hard on making that into a more meaningful and profitable career choice, which will only make the Vermont government an even bigger “business” than it already is, and you know what Skip always says. The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen.

 

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In the 1970s, the moral wit of Tom Anderson precisely describes today’s rush toward economic suicide in Washington, DC: “Changing Nelson Rockefeller for Hubert Humphrey is like changing the pins on a soiled diaper without changing the diaper; you continue to get the same mess.”

The first step to changing the soiled diaper is still our citizens voting for the candidate of their choice. But let’s stop right at the choices we make. Unfortunately, too many times, they resemble Einstein’s definition of insanity: we continue to pass judgment on each candidate for office based on what the chief mouthpieces of both parties say and expect different results. Too often, the will of party leadership has become the moral premise that forgets about the Ten Commandments and serves a higher loyalty — you vote the party line to get reelected.

We have a Constitution that was created to limit the ambitions of politicians in seats of power. Our framers knew their history and were obviously familiar with Cicero: “For out of an ungoverned populace, one is usually chosen as a leader, someone bold and unscrupulous who curries favor with the people by giving them other men’s property.” Does that not describe the process of the Marxist con game that enables the majority of our leaders today to be reelected? The majority of our people do not know how our Constitution limits “bold and unscrupulous” politicians, so they continue selling their votes for other men’s property. Cicero goes on to describe how the con game motivated by greed repeats today, perpetuating criminal acts of government he opposed: “To such a people, a man the protection of public office is given, and continually renewed. He emerges as a tyrant over the very people who raised him to power.”

This history has been forgotten, or more accurately, never taught, and is screaming at the choices we continue to make at the ballot box that continue to practice “insanity.” Alexis de Tocqueville tells us in the 1830’s that the American people were not always so ignorant of the Constitution and our history “…Every citizen is taught… the history of his country and the leading features of it’s Constitution…. It is extremely rare to find a man imperfectly acquainted with all these things, and a person wholly ignorant of them is sort of a phenomenon.” If this were true today, do you think our people would continue to tolerate congressional representation and presidents who have accumulated a 34 trillion dollar debt? If we had an electorate that knew the Constitution, do you think Americans across the nation would insanely continue to employ such irresponsibility?

Our New Hampshire delegation to Congress in Washington proves they are part of the game that depends on constitutional ignorance each term to get reelected. As constituents, we need to address them as honorable representatives. However, as Americans who are anxious about the liberty of our children and children’s children, we need to be concerned about how they continue to vote contrary to their oath of office, against constitutional limits that control government spending, buy votes, and steal our freedom. Go to thenewamerican.com and click on the Freedom Index to view their score and also view state legislators’ fidelity to the constitutional limits.

Americans need to be as informed as our forefathers were about the document that the framers of the Constitution designed to protect our freedom and control politicians who lust for power. Contact Mathew Rhodes, Field Coordinator of The John Birch Society, at mrhodes@jbs.org to ask about our Constitutional Seminar called, The Constitution is the Solution class. The American electorate must become acquainted with the Supreme Law of our land as the American people were in the early decades of the 19th century.

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The coven of witches doing business as The View took the celebration of the life of Martin Luther King Jr. (this is a bit late, so apologies) as an opportunity to crap on white kids and show the world their ignorance about slavery.

 

• [Sunny] Hostin herself had a very warped perspective on what oppression actually was. Despite being a multimillionaire who brags about not needing to shop for groceries in years, Hostin insists she’s “oppressed” and demands her reparations.
• Sara Haines proclaimed that it was “important” for white kids like her own to be made to “feel bad” in history class, particularly about slavery.
• Ana Navarro went off about how Republicans had “weaponized” black history and books “for political purposes to drive people to the polls based on outrage” and the perception that “my poor little white kid is feeling bad because he’s learning about slavery.”
• Navarro actually provided pushback, telling Haines: “I don’t think it should make you feel bad. I don’t think a white child that’s had nothing to do with slavery should feel bad about slavery. I think we need to learn so we don’t repeat the same mistakes of history.”

 

The joke writes itself. What do you call five women who know nothing about the history of slavery? The View.

Last December, on these very pages, I read a piece that shared some history from a black man named Tom Sowell. Has he ever been on the view? Can you imagine what that would look like? I’m imagining it now, and it just made my day without having happened. Sowell has said much on the subject including how universal the practice and later the condemnation. We know that blacks owned black slaves in America and continue to do so elsewhere. That white slaves were common before and after the US Civil War and how no one seems all that wound up about the million or so people still living in slavery.

Maybe we could make some time to feel bad about them, and oh, by the way, none of them are here in America. That’s not to say we don’t have slavery. Everywhere sex work is “protected,” you will likely find young Asian women held as sex slaves of older Asian women and men. Child trafficking or child sex trafficking looks a lot like slavery, and it affects children without regard to race. I have heard catty things like those seated around the table at The View claim it is a horrible thing without considering how our open borders encourage the practice, and they don’t seem to feel bad about that.

And that’s bad for them, their audience, and the people still living in slavery because in some parts of the world it isn’t just their history its their everyday and no knowing that seems like a much bigger mistake to me.

 

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In the aftermath of the New Hampshire primary and the double-digit beating suffered by Nikki Haley, we received all sorts of tips and details, one of which was a query. Do you have any idea who is behind the group Independents Moving the Needle?

Their name is at the bottom of all the Independents for Nikki signs you may have seen near polling places. These were out along the NH Seacoast town, I believe – And yes, I figured it out – the headline gives it away. And no, I am not surprised, though I am that it didn’t catch our eye sooner.

I did some digging at the behest of a reader, and while this isn’t always the case, it was easy enough to discover what the group was about. FEC Records identify Jonathon S. Bush as the custodian and treasurer with an address of PO Box 202 North Hampton, New Hampshire 03862. with PrimaryBank 207 Route 101 Bedford, New Hampshire 03110 as the bank of depositories.

The name Bush raised an eyebrow; yes, he is related to George Bush and the Bush Family. I ran down a pic that happened to look like this guy in a Fox Biz report titled Nikki Haley, getting backing from Wall Street Billionaires. We knew that, so it all fit together very nicely. Another Trump-Hating uniparty Bushie (who lives in Massachusetts) meddling in NH Elections.

ABC News reported all that back in November, and think about the precious minutes I could have saved had I landed there first.

Led by five entrepreneurs — including Jonathan Bush, the cousin of former President George W. Bush, and billionaire CEO Frank Laukien — the PAC, called Independents Moving the Needle, says it will focus its efforts on New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation primary. About 40% of voters in the state are registered as undeclared.

Gov. Chris Sununu, whose dad worked for and is presumably still tight with the family, was kind enough to let slip the deeper goal. Get their Trump-Hating allies in the Democrat party to vote for Haley as well – and some did. Haley’s path to the Republican nomination is paved – as thin as it is .. would be paved with … Democrat votes.

Related: Did Haley-Homer Chris Sununu Just Help Us Close the NH Republican Primary?

More from ABC.

The PAC is chaired by five relative outsiders to the world of dark money politics. Laukein and his wife, Tamra, who lead companies in life sciences, are joined by Bush, CEO of a healthcare data company, and Bonnie Anderson, CEO of PinkDx, a private cancer-testing company. Robert Fisher, a white-collar attorney and a former federal prosecutor, also helped to found and is now leading the group.

Tamara was the first link that led me to Bush family backing, which is one of several RINO spigots used by the uniparty to flush out non-globalist candidates for higher office. We’ve seen that up close at work in New Hampshire. When the state Delegates elected Jack Kimball as party chair, the Sununu Klan – taken entirely by surprise – went to work locking Jack out from any big donors. In other words, they were happy to see the state party and its candidates fail rather than allow someone they could not control to lead the apparatus.

And we see it with Haley and Trump, which should make anyone who thought Haley wasn’t somehow someone they thought they could control accept the likelihood that she has to be.

Or, and this is still a possibility, their Trump derangment syndrome is so advanced she is merely a beneficiary of their uniparty largess. A candidate that could lose and not bitch about how the same people that got her nominated made sure someone more to their liking won the crown, even if it was a Democrat.

Related: Does Haley’s Second Place NH Finish Need an Asterisk*

There’s nothing independent about Independents for Nikki. It is a very partisan operation focused on uni party dominance, and it will do anything to avoid speed bumps, especially named Trump. Luckily for us, the peasants are not so easily bought, and what happened in Iowa and New Hampshire will continue across the country, and the Bushes and Sununus and the rest can’t stop it.

I’m sure it affirms in their minds how incapable we are of self-governance.

And yes, you would be right to wonder what they’d be willing to do next because they don’t care what America wants. When you’ve reached that point – and we are long past it – anything (as we have seen) is possible.

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From the Women’s Defense League:  On Wednesday January 31st at 3:15 PM there will be a gun control hearing in the House Judiciary Committee.

The bill is House Bill 1037 – AN ACT relative to repealing limited liability for manufacturers, distributors, dealers, or importers of firearms or ammunition.

This legislation tries to hold firearms and ammunition manufacturers liable for the actions of humans who use their products.

Firearms manufacturers manufacture inanimate objects. The objects themselves can do nothing without human interaction. Somehow, the gun control crowd at the State House feels manufacturers should be held responsible for what a human does with their inanimate product after they purchase it.

Of course, this bill makes zero sense. What’s next, holding automobile manufacturers liable for the actions of drunk drivers? Holding knife manufacturers for the actions of a criminal who stabs someone? Holding match manufacturers responsible for a person who commits arson?

You can email or call the House Judiciary Committee members below:

First Name	Last Name	Email	Phone
Joe	Alexander	Joe.Alexander@leg.state.nh.us	(603) 856-5227
Louise	Andrus	Louise.Andrus@leg.state.nh.us	(603) 648-2510
Shelley	Devine	Shelley.Devine@leg.state.nh.us
Charlotte	DiLorenzo	Charlotte.DiLorenzo@leg.state.nh.us	(603) 659-2140
Jeffrey	Greeson	Jeffrey.Greeson@leg.state.nh.us
Timothy	Horrigan	Timothy.Horrigan@leg.state.nh.us	(603) 868-3342
Cam	Kenney	Cam.Kenney@leg.state.nh.us	(508) 677-5141
Katelyn	Kuttab	Katelyn.Kuttab@leg.state.nh.us
Judi	Lanza	Judi.Lanza@leg.state.nh.us	(603) 361-2657
Bob	Lynn	rjlynn4@gmail.com	(603) 598-1899
Zoe	Manos	zoe.manos@leg.state.nh.us
Ben	Ming	Ben.Ming@leg.state.nh.us
Mark	Paige	mark.paige@leg.state.nh.us
Kristine	Perez	Kristine.Perez@leg.state.nh.us
Marjorie	Smith	msmithpen@aol.com	(603) 868-7500
Walter	Stapleton	Walt.Stapleton@leg.state.nh.us	(603) 542-8656
Dave	Testerman	dave@sanbornhall.net	(603) 320-9524
Richard	Tripp	richard.tripp@leg.state.nh.us
Eric	Turer	Eric.Turer@leg.state.nh.us	(603) 642-4888
Scott	Wallace	Scott.Wallace@leg.state.nh.us

You can send testimony opposing the bill or just sign in to oppose the bill online here: https://gencourt.state.nh.us/house/committees/remotetestimony/default.aspx

Example of the online sign in:

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To set the stage: Town meetings are dominated by the people who receive, benefit from or massage taxpayer loot. The “official ballot referendum town meeting” or SB2 procedure took away from town meetings the power to make final budget decisions for the upcoming year.

It became a “deliberative town meeting” and merely decided the wording of budgetary questions. These went onto the secret ballot, along with the selection of municipal officials.

Deliberative town meetings involved fewer voters than the old style had. However, Election Day involved many more voters than town meetings ever did – including the infirm, snowbirds, people with jobs who vote absentee, and deployed members of the military services. Limiting spending finally became feasible – and the big spenders began scheming.

Those managing deliberative town meeting first turned to sabotage. Warrant articles “To see if the town will appropriate $1 million” were amended to read “To see,” but we now have a law against that. Unfortunately, we cannot legislate against every bad-faith tactic. In one notorious Exeter meeting, a motion of No Confidence in the Superintendent was amended to be a “motion of Confidence”? Yawn!

Adopting or rescinding the SB2 procedure required a 60% vote. In 2019, a Democrat legislature finally hit upon the solution, amending RSA 131 so that the vote to switch to a secret ballot was made not by secret ballot but at *town meeting itself*. Advocates said this would produce a more immediate result, but the obvious intent and the result was to break SB2. No town meeting is going to marshal a 60% vote to give up some of its own power! And indeed, it seems no town in New Hampshire has adopted the SB2 procedure since 2019 Chapter 131 became law.

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House Bill 1175 would reverse this change and put the decision to adopt the SB2 procedure back on the secret ballot. It will still take a 60% majority to adopt or rescind, but will throw the question open to all the town’s voters, rather than those who can devote an entire evening to town meeting, no matter how you feel about being hissed at by schoolmarms and wondering if they will retaliate against your kids.

House Bill 1175 is the biggest game-changer, in terms of citizen control of government overspending, that has a chance of being passed this year. It was assigned to the Municipal and County Government Committee but does not yet have a hearing date. My town’s library has a message on the marquee that suggests that the insiders understand the threat and are organizing to defeat it. Grok readers ought to understand the promise and contact their representatives.

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