I have absolutely no empathy at all for this mid-wit. Here she is, ASU Senior Breanna Brocker, lamenting how tough her life has turned simply because she didn’t think these through.

Well, what do you expect from a member of the Participation Trophy / Self-Esteem / You’re Special generation? And now she’s found out that Society doesn’t think that she’s special. That it doesn’t care about her misbegotten self-esteem. But she certainly has received yet another Participation Trophy. Just not the kind that she thought she deserved.

Anti-Israel student protester cries over missing graduation after she was arrested, suspended

An Arizona State University senior who was arrested and suspended after trespassing during an anti-Israel protest broke down in tears over missing graduation as a consequence of her actions.

“I’m being restricted from a lot of things right now that I didn’t expect to be for standing up for something I believe in,” Breanna Brocker told ABC15 as she choked up.

…“You know I have family coming in who I have to let them know not come to my graduation ceremonies.”

WATCH: We spoke with ASU senior Breanna Brocker outside the courthouse, who said she will not be able to graduate because the suspension will cause her to miss her final exam pic.twitter.com/FKGaMuzOt7

— Ben Brown (@bdbrown473) May 4, 2024

Did this sad twit learn anything? Does she have a better handle on that old truism that my grandson understands implicitly: “Decisions have Consequences”?  Let’s just say I look forward to seeing Breanne’s name again in the press for all of the wrong reasons:

“I was doing what I believed was right and I still believe it to be right. I would stand up for the cause again, even if it means something negative for me,” she said.

Rush’s old adage still comes to mind: “young skulls full of mush”. I do wonder if there even three brain cells firing against all of the other dead weight in her cranium that are begging her “THINK FIRST, then do” as her no-longer future employers will be giving her the consequences she hasn’t wargamed out.

Her parents must be SO proud of her, spending 10s of thousands of dollars in putting her through four years of school to which they’ll not see that graduation ceremony. SHE might not care but wait until those parents lit into her…

She has learned nothing. Nothing at all.

If she only knew:

 

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I did not have this on my Friday Bingo card!  As we New Hampshirites know, the Free State Project had people who put Liberty as the highest Civics value and moved to NH as it was selected to be the State where a few committed people could make a difference according to the Declaration of Independence’s purpose…:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

…and also running for elected office. Why not, as the Democrats have made it clear that they are the Party of Government (that Government is the highest value and have embedded themselves into Government to make that happen)? As it has turned out, ANYone that disagrees with that is subject to all kinds of opprobrium, scorn, and fearmongering (THEY ARE DANGEROUS to Our Democracy!!!!). Democrats desire nothing less than single Party Rule. Problem is, as we are seeing in California, their socialistic totalitarian ways that are bereft of any concern for Individual Liberty  their subjects are unable to make decisions for their own lives.

So, with all that said, I was really amused and bemused to read this:

A “Free State Project” Inspired Gun Owner Migration Strategy to Win Elections

The FSP has had a noticeable impact. As of late 2021, 40 Free Staters had been elected to the New Hampshire legislature, including the House Majority Leader. Besides the electoral wins, the FSP has also had an ideological impact on the Republican Party, making it more libertarian…If you loosely define libertarianism as “fiscally conservative but socially liberal,” that’s only about 16% of the electorate according to Nate Silver. Clearly, the FSP has punched above its weight class, using a thoughtful strategy combined with persistence spanning two decades.

The proof is in the pudding:

New Hampshire entered 2021 with more liberty representatives than ever before.

– 69 of @YALiberty 2020 wins were in NH (25% of their wins)
– 74 @RebuildNH candidates won
– 91 @nhliberty endorsed candidates won
– ~40 Free Staters were elected, including to House Majority Leader pic.twitter.com/Sq83HmxjUZ

— The Free State (@FreeStateNH) December 31, 2021

And I don’t think that I am overstating the fact that NH  Socialists / Progressives / Democrats hate them with white hot passion (right, Jeanne Dietsch?? And add in no small number of GOPe-ers and RINOs that have hated any Libertarian/Conservatarian as well) in keeping them from duplicating California here. Like it was a God-given right to rule or sumptin…

But I digress. So here’s the thought – what if gun owners were willing to uproot themselves in defense of THEIR value of “…keep and bear arms.”?  While one can put forward the supposition that while gun ownership is only a subset of Liberty, the Left has made it a lighthouse to shoot at (yes, pun intended). So what if the 2A-ers did what the FSPers have done (reformatted, emphasis mine):

In my previous article, I talked about how the migration of just 2% of New York gun owners to Pennsylvania can change presidential elections. What if a similar strategy of concentrated fire is replicated nationwide? In other words, what if Second Amendment advocates do what Free Staters have done nationally?

There is an advantage that gun owners have: there are a LOT more of us – close to 100 million – than there are committed libertarians. Since the last presidential election, around 22.3 million people have become first-time gun owners. That gives us a lot of power nationally although our power within states varies. Some states have a higher concentration of us resulting in “wasted votes,” while others have too few of us resulting in our rights getting trampled.

For the four decades I’ve been in NH, we’ve seen the likes of Zandra Rice-Hawkins, David Meuse, and Deb “Hip Check Assault Weapon” Altschiller move into NH while assaulting Freedom type folks with great alacrity – and never admitting their hypocrisy in doing the exact. same. thing. in getting “their” people to move here. Plan?

Taking a page from the Free State Project, Second Amendment voters can embark on a political migration project as follows:

1. Find swing states with the narrowest margins of victory.
2. Migrate disenchanted gun owners from adjacent anti-Second Amendment states.
3. Migrate some “wasted votes” from adjacent strong Second Amendment states.

And the purpose of the Plan?

This strategy should make it harder for an anti-Second Amendment presidential candidate to win an election. Candidates will need to soften their infringement proposals, stop weaponizing the executive branch, and give us a better judiciary if they want to win.

Might it work in Vermont? Maine?  Dunno but it certainly wouldn’t in Massachusetts, NY, Rhode Island. Unsure about Connecticut.  However, here is some musings on a couple of targets: Where?

So, which states should be targets for migration? Starting with the closest states from the past 2 elections, I narrowed it down to those that: 1) had a <5% margin of victory, 2) switched parties between 2016 and 2020. These states, ranked in the order of narrowest margins, are:

• Wisconsin (2016: R 0.77% → 2020: D 0.63%)
• Pennsylvania (2016: R 0.72% → 2020: D 1.16%)
• Michigan (2016: R 0.23% → 2020: D 2.78%)
• Arizona (2016: R 3.50% → 2020: D 0.31%)

And those are all battleground States as well. Snipping out the detailed examples, the results:

It won’t take much to swing these states in a pro-2A direction. For example, Illinois and Iowa have almost 5 million gun owners combined. Just 20,000 of those gun owners migrating to Wisconsin can change presidential elections.

…The Free State Project has shown that organized political migration can have a positive impact. It’s time for gun owners to think and act on a similar strategy.

That’s a gun owner population shift of just 0.4%. And indeed, for all of the Democrats’ caterwauling, the FSP movement has been a positive  here in NH.

So, does this have any merit?  I think so but what’s more important is do YOU think so?

(Note: Porcupine with AR-15 generated by Perplexity AI)

(H/T: Bearing Arms)

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Albert Einstein says, “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.” That is how I see our political system, especially in Maine and New Hampshire. Looking back 40 or 50 years, both states were traditionally conservative. Still, a migration of people left Massachusetts to the less expensive Granite State or the tranquil and beautiful Pine Tree State.

Unfortunately, many of these people forgot why they left Massachusetts, brought their progressive views with them, and worked to make their new home resemble their old. If the system didn’t keep you in the Bay State, why would you think it any better north of the border? But that is what they did. They elected liberal representatives and morphed their new homes into an extension of the old. They took two systems that were working well and broke them—sheer insanity.

People get caught up in their old habits. I was born in Massachusetts, where everyone is born a Kennedy Democrat. I left when I started a family and moved to New Hampshire. I had concluded that I was actually a conservative, and New Hampshire was the place I felt more comfortable for my children. I left my Democrat roots behind and embraced the “Live Free or Die” life of New Hampshire. Unfortunately, Massachusetts followed me up Route 93, and I feel like I am back where my journey began.

Two situations in the last few years show how habits and ignorance of the truth can blur our vision. In 2022, the voters of Pennsylvania re-elected Tony DeLuca, and in 2024, New Jersey re-elected Donald Payne Jr. to another term. The problem is that both candidates were dead. They had died close to Election Day, and the ballots had already been printed to include their names. The voters robotically went to the polls, pulled the D lever, and never checked the pulse of their candidate. Joe Biden is still with us, but in November, millions of Democrats will cast their vote for Joe, and anyone can see he is as effective as DeLuca or Payne.

It may be disrespectful to compare Biden to two men who are deceased, but it is equally insulting for people on the left trying to convince America that Biden is as sharp as ever. This effort to hoodwink the voters starts with the First Lady, who should be charged with elder abuse, and goes right through the staff, stopping at the worst Press Secretary of all time, Karine Jean-Pierre. The Bidens have also gotten the legacy media to abandon their principles and credibility once more to be complicit with this charade.

The Dems will turn out in November. Not the 81 million who put Joe in office, but there will be a good turnout. Real or not will be the question. He will have the Pro-Choice crowd and the Anti-Supreme Court fanatics, but he has lost a lot of the female, Black, and Spanish votes. They are the smart ones who realize the Dems have left them behind for their new love, the illegals. Can they get enough of the old-school Democrats to offset the momentum of the Trump Train? I don’t think so, and I pray not.

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Join us for this week’s Manch Talk, where we take a deep dive into the most recent Manchester NH crime stats. We haven’t been keeping an eye on the local po-po, and it shows!

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Originally braodcast Apr 5, 2024

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Bitter-clingers … you’ll never learn, never figure it out, will you? Next week’s CNN “debate” is RIGGED. The coverage has already been written … Joe Biden put to rest the claims he is too old for a second term. It was Trump, not Biden, who looked confused and fatigued. Biden answered the critics. BLAH, BLAH, BLAH.

Expectations for Trump are impossibly high. While expectations for Biden are so low that they are virtually subterranean … indeed, all Biden need do is show up and not sh*t or p*ss himself and he will be declared everywhere (including the Faux News that you bitter-clingers continue to desperately believe is NOT regime-propaganda) to have “done what he needed to do” and any number of other stupid cliches.

The Regime is giving BidenX an entire week of rest. He’ll probably be off his feet for 20 hours per day and sleeping (under the influence of drugs, of course) for 16 hours per day. And he will be jacked up on amphetamines for the debate. You are going to see a pharmaceutical superman … not the bumbling, mumbling REAL BidenX.

Also, BidenX will already have rehearsed answers to all the questions. Do you really believe, bitter-clingers, that CNN is NOT going to RELEASE THE QUESTIONS TO BIDEN BEFOREHAND? Are you really that naive, bitter-clingers?

Trump, on the other hand, will be asked … maybe … a few disingenuous questions about the economy, inflation, etc., in order to allow the Regime-media to tell you that the debate was NOT rigged. But the emphasis will be on “J6,” “convicted felon,” “democracy is on the ballot” and whatever other themes the Regime wants “debated.”

It is a RIGGED debate … part of a RIGGED election … in a country that has NOT been a functional democracy (or Republic, if you prefer) since the Deep State assassinated JFK.

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Following years of marketing hype proclaiming that fake meats would transform the food industry and modern diets, sobriety has descended on the industry as manufacturers wrestle with declining sales, dissatisfied customers, and difficulties achieving profitability. As the remaining plant-based-meat players scramble to bolster sales and preserve a dwindling market share, meat substitutes are shaping up to be a short-term fad that could not meet expectations. Fake meats will likely remain in stores and some restaurants as a vegan consumer niche but will unlikely displace the animal livestock industry anytime soon.

A Tale of Two Fakes

Fake meats include simulated meat products fashioned from plant and other substitute ingredients (plant-based proteins) and animal cells cultured or lab-grown from plant matter (“cultured” meats, or cell-based proteins). The three chief selling points for both categories have been animal welfare, climate rescue, and improved human health. The products have run aground on issues of affordability and taste. Meat substitutes cost more than real meat but don’t stack up on taste or health benefits. Cultured meats may taste like natural ones but offer no health improvements for their higher price. They are currently more harmful to the climate than cows or chickens because of technological hurdles that require massive energy and enormous externalized environmental costs.

Impossible Foods, a maker of cultured meats, has thus far found profitability impossible. Beyond Meat, a leader in fashioning meat substitutes from plant ingredients, has faced consumer and industry pushback on company claims its products are healthier than natural meats. In response, it has reformulated many of its products to attract consumers with improved taste and nutritional content but continues to suffer a dramatic loss of sales. Its stock price reflects this shift, down from $234.90 a share on July 26, 2019, to $7.19 on May 17, 2024, a nearly 97% drop.

The Fading Novelty of Fake Meats

As one commentator said, fake meats seem “less a world-changing innovation than another food trend whose novelty is wearing thin.” Making plant proteins taste like animal flesh involves additives for flavoring and texture that concoct not an alternative meat but an alternative processed food. Even vegans are turned off by high prices and dubious health benefits. Meat lovers, meanwhile, are passionately resistant to products that seek to ape mother nature, leading several US jurisdictions to prohibit misleading advertising of fake meats or ban the sale of the stuff outright.

The struggles of these bellwether manufacturers of fake meats bode ill for the sector, which broke out with massive venture capital funding and Utopian marketing promises but have crashed on the shoals of dubious health claims, high pricing during a period of sharp food inflation, concerns about claims of sustainability, and consumer taste buds. Promises of widespread fast-food restaurant consumption of meat alternatives have fallen flat as national chains have found sales anemic. Grocery stores and restaurants have pared back shelf and menu space for meat substitutes.

In the long run, fake meats have already passed their brief zenith in consumer popularity. Product novelty has waned while claims of fraud and unhealthiness wax along strongly. Once turned off to products by glowing promises that turn out dim, consumers are not likely to be easily lulled into a repeat expenditure. They may not even sample new products when the taste of the failed ones still lingers on the tongue. Vegans are not enamored with fake blood; meat lovers are not enamored with fake anything.

Health, Cost, Taste

Fake meats, whether cell-grown or plant-processed, have failed to deliver on promises of improved health, environmental benefits, cost, or taste. This leaves perceptions of animal welfare benefits as the sole remaining selling point. But most consumers will not pay extra money for bad-tasting, unhealthy, processed substitutes that hurt the environment in order to spare cows and chickens from perceived hardship.

Beyond Meats is in the fourth ingredient iteration of its burgers, having reduced the salt content, switched out canola oil for healthier avocado oil, and replaced environmentally destructive soy with a mixture of peas, red lentils, brown rice, and fava beans. Still priced higher than a real burger, the factory alternative will have to be mighty tasty and healthy to woo consumers who are determined not to be fooled again.

The world has surpassed Peak Fake Meat and must begin to look beyond faux foods for real solutions.

 

 

 

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

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The National Weather Service has issued a tornado watch for the entire state of New Hampshire from now until 8 pm this evening.

Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Gray ME 110 PM EDT Sun Jun 23 2024 .SYNOPSIS... A stationary front lifts northward into New Hampshire today as a warm front. There is a slight to enhanced risk of severe thunderstorms across the area today, especially in New Hampshire, with the risk of a few tornadoes and damaging winds being the primary concerns. A cold front will then cross Sunday night and Monday with additional unsettled weather before high pressure builds in by Tuesday, bringing drier conditions. Temperatures moderate through the middle of the week, with another cold front bringing showers and storms late Wednesday. High pressure then builds in late in the week, bringing drier and cooler conditions.

The entire state of Vermont is also part of the watch as are portions of New York, Maine, and Massachusetts. Severe storms are expected and the potetnail for rotation (tornadoes) is estimated to be around 10% but still there is potential. We’ve had a few touch down over the years.

According to this reckoning (Burlington Free Press), there have been 110 tornadoes in NH since 1950. Sorry, no evidence that CO2 or emissions or warming have increased the frequency.

Most years have at least one if this data is correct. There were nine reported in 1963 and eight in 1972.

Year	# of Tornadoes	Direct Injury	Indirect Injury	Direct Fatality	Indirect Fatality	Property Damage	Crop Damage
All	110	30	0	1	0	$12,649,000
2023	1	0	0	0	0
2022	2	0	0	0	0	$8,000
2020	2	0	0	0	0	$5,000
2018	5	0	0	0	0
2016	1	0	0	0	0
2015	1	0	0	0	0
2014	2	0	0	0	0
2012	2	0	0	0	0
2011	2	0	0	0	0
2010	1	0	0	0	0
2008	5	2	0	1	0	$2,027,000
2006	2	2	0	0	0	$3,000
2004	1	0	0	0	0
1999	5	0	0	0	0	$100,000
1998	1	0	0	0	0	$30,000
1997	2	1	0	0	0	$750,000
1995	1	0	0	0	0
1994	1	0	0	0	0
1993	1	0	0	0	0	$5,000
1991	1	0	0	0	0
1988	1	0	0	0	0	$250,000
1986	4	0	0	0	0	$3,250,000
1984	4	0	0	0	0	$775,000
1981	1	0	0	0	0	$2,500,000
1980	1	0	0	0	0	$250,000
1978	3	0	0	0	0	$27,750
1976	2	5	0	0	0	$250,000
1974	1	0	0	0	0	$2,500
1973	2	0	0	0	0
1972	8	7	0	0	0	$330,250
1970	4	0	0	0	0	$325,000
1969	2	0	0	0	0	$27,500
1968	4	1	0	0	0	$77,500
1967	1	5	0	0	0	$25,000
1966	4	0	0	0	0	$257,500
1965	3	0	0	0	0	$52,500
1964	1	0	0	0	0	$25,000
1963	9	0	0	0	0	$855,000
1962	2	0	0	0	0	$27,500
1961	4	1	0	0	0	$257,500
1960	1	0	0	0	0	$2,500
1959	1	0	0	0	0	$25,000
1957	1	1	0	0	0	$25,000
1956	2	0	0	0	0	$25,250
1955	1	0	0	0	0	$25,000
1954	1	0	0	0	0	$25,000
1953	2	5	0	0	0	$25,250
1951	1	0	0	0	0	$2,500

 

Here is WMUR’s more recent update if you want to give them the clicks.

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Let’s look at the place “Absolute Immunity” holds in the Rule of Law in the United States: Every judge, whether that person sits on the local district court, any State or Federal court including the trial court, the intermediate appellate court and the State or United States Supreme Court is immune from a civil lawsuit or a criminal indictment regardless of their conduct on the Bench in the pursuit of their official duties.

That immunity explains the clownish and criminal conduct of Erdogan and Juan during the Trump trials. It also explains the malicious indictments of President Trump by the Soros-financed county attorney.

Every U.S. Senator and Representative has absolute immunity when they rant, rave or defame from the Senate or House floor.

So, when POTUS acts in accordance with official duties of the Presidency absolute immunity should attach. Otherwise, the Presidency becomes a meaningless, impotent position.

Clearly, the judicial conclusion of the Federal District Court and the Federal Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit that Presidential immunity does not exist defies historical precedent, is nonsense, and borders on judicial criminality. Nevertheless, these judicial clowns are clothed in “Absolute Immunity”.

Let us hope that SCOTUS has the political courage to recognize that President Trump acted in accordance with his official duties to protect the integrity of the 2020 election and, therefore, absolute immunity attaches.

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With a straight face and without blinking – as if this was some well-regarded scientific practice and not an outlandish conspiratorial Alt-Righ bugbear – the UK Guardian has a piece exploring research about the effects of geo (or climate engineering).

Reminiscent of the Persian-Cat-stroking evil mastermind whose quest for a global paradise (new world order) goes horribly wrong.

A geoengineering technique designed to reduce high temperatures in California could inadvertently intensify heatwaves in Europe, according to a study that models the unintended consequences of regional tinkering with a changing climate.

The paper shows that targeted interventions to lower temperature in one area for one season might bring temporary benefits to some populations, but this has to be set against potentially negative side-effects in other parts of the world and shifting degrees of effectiveness over time.

The authors of the study said the findings were “scary” because the world has few or no regulations in place to prevent regional applications of the technique, marine cloud brightening, which involves spraying reflective aerosols (usually in the form of sea salt or sea spray) into stratocumulus clouds over the ocean to reflect more solar radiation back into space.

Didn’t anyone warn them that it isn’t nice to fool Mother Nature?

We’ve gone from conspiracy theory to mad scientism in need of government regulation, which seems like a bad idea given that, like COVID, the government did this.

“Our study is very specific,” said Jessica Wan, who is part of the research team led by UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography. “It shows that marine cloud brightening can be very effective for the US west coast if done now, but it may be ineffective there in the future and could cause heatwaves in Europe.”

Heat waves are a side effect of US geoengineering, which was meant to create cooling. Another progressive idea produced the opposite effect. Who is surprised by that? And that opposite effect, regardless of any local positive changes, are important.

Heat waves can cause wildfires, which can cause destabilization. What else did the scientists learn? What didn’t make it into the published study?

In the Guardian’s article, as in every other article following the unexpected disclosure of the San Fransisco project, salt-blinded journalists failed to ask the most important question that every single reader wants to know: Where else in the world are they testing weather modification technologies by spraying chemicals into the air?

Besides chemtrails and salt sprayers, what other kinds of ‘solar geoengineering’ are going on?

There’s also a piece in the New York Times that mentions how there is no government regulation over geoengineering, which is also interesting. In New Hampshire, we had a bill this past session that would regulate geoengineering. HB1700 would prohibit “the intentional release of polluting emissions, including cloud seeding, weather modification, excessive electromagnetic radio frequency, and microwave radiation and making penalties for violation of such prohibition.” It came out of a committee inexpedient to legislate and died on the floor of the State House. I have not looked, but I expect there was a fair amount of ridicule and ranting about crazy conspiracies.

Not so crazy. And now “researchers” are suggesting that someone needs to regulate it, but that’d have to be the international, which is, as we saw with dual-use research to weaponize – oh, let’s say viruses – didn’t stop anyone (the US since GW Bush, for example) from pursuing biological weapons in foreign countries under the pretense of looking for cures to things our enemies might one-day produce.

Like heat waves in Europe?

All to mitigate a problem they created that doesn’t even exist.

And geoengineering is not a conspiracy theory. That is real.

 

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We are heading into the celebration of our country’s birth. July 4th is fast upon us! As we reflect on this great day, let us remember the men who sacrificed so much to give us birth as free people.

Let’s continue with the Declaration of Independence signers. Dr. Benjamin Rush was a very famous signer and distinct American on many levels.

He was born in Philadelphia and was an American physician, scholar, and political leader. He took a medical degree from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.

After graduating, he returned to America, began a medical practice, and was also appointed professor of chemistry at Philadelphia College.

He published the first American textbook titled, “Syllabus of a Course of Lectures on Chemistry.”

His practice grew to a substantial and significant impact. The American Medical Imprints lists that he has 65 publications under his name.

His influence was truly significant due to the large number of private apprentices and students from all over the country. It is estimated he taught some 3,000 students during his tenure as a professor at the University of Pennsylvania. His lectures were considered one of the leading cultural attractions of the city at the time.

In psychiatry, he labored among insane patients at the Pennsylvania Hospital, advocating humane treatment for them on the grounds that mental disorders were as subject to healing arts as physical ones. His Medical Inquiries and Observations upon the Diseases of the Mind, published in 1812, was the first and, for many years, the only American treatise on psychiatry.

He was an active patriot in the cause for freedom from British rule. He drafted a resolution urging independence and was soon elected to the Continental Congress, ultimately signing the Declaration of Independence.

He also served as a field surgeon for the Continental Army. He also served as the treasurer of the U.S. Mint by appointment of President John Adams.

He pioneered clinical research and instruction in medicine and chemistry. His unfortunate weakness was found in his insistence on the practice of bloodletting. This was an unnecessary treatment on many levels particularly in regard to yellow fever.

He had a strong and unwavering faith: A few quotes of his will clearly show his ardent love for God.

“My only hope of salvation is in the infinite transcendent love of God manifested to the world by the death of His Son upon the Cross. Nothing but His blood will wash away my sins. I rely exclusively upon it. Come, Lord Jesus! Come quickly.”

“The great enemy of the salvation of man, in my opinion. never invented a more effective means of limiting Christianity from the world than by persuading mankind that it was improper to read the Bible at schools.”

Christianity is the only true and perfect religion; and in proportion as mankind can adopt its principles and obey its precepts, they will be wise and happy.

Finally,

“Without religion the can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all republican governments.”

As you can see he was a definite proponent of faith in Christ and lived his life in that light.

Until next time….

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A Petition to Protect Fairness and Dignity for Women and Girls



To the legislature of New Hampshire;

New Hampshire is a centrist state. Yet, on gender issues, our state Department of Justice has the views of the DOJ of California.

For years, the New Hampshire DOJ has vigorously advocated for the forced inclusion of biological males in women’s athletics, restrooms, and locker rooms.

In fact, the DOJ has falsely claimed that it is always illegal to separate people based on biological sex in athletic competitions and places of intimate privacy.

Even Biden’s Department of Education admits that separating athletes based on biological sex, rather than gender identity, is perfectly legal.[1]

Although New Hampshire has a Republican executive branch, the DOJ’s lobbying against women’s sports is far to the left of the Biden administration.

New Hampshire taxpayers do not pay the DOJ to take far-left advocacy positions and lobby to deprive their daughters of athletic opportunities, privacy, and dignity.

As our legislators, we ask that you use the power of the purse to reign in the DOJ from engaging in partisan, progressive lobbying activities.

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[1] Section 106, point 31, subsection

2. https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/t9-unofficial-final-rule-2024.pdf

(H/T: Defend Our Kids)

Full Disclosure – I am on the Board for Defend Our Kids.

 

 

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Do you know who Davi Sacks is, bitter-clingers? He is a tech entrepreneur who was a contemporary of Elon Musk’s at PayPal. The Biden-Regime’s policies have been so ruinous … intentionally so … that sometimes it seems impossible to summarize the breadth and depth of the damage. That is why you have me, bitter-clingers.

Below is Sacks’ post on X explaining why he is going against the tech orthodoxy and supporting Trump. It is as comprehensive and irrefutable as it is courageous.

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Voter ID for ME is a petition initiative driven by The Dinner Table to get the Voter ID question on the ballot so the people of Maine can decide the fate of requiring an ID to cast your vote in The Pine Tree State. On June 11, over 350 volunteers manned the voting locations across the state to gather signatures on the petition and had an amazing, successful day. Those hard-working patriots gathered 40,163 signatures in one day. That number of signatures is nearly half the 100,000 needed to get the question on the ballot.

I had the pleasure of watching this initiative grow and gather momentum, and I am proud to have been a member of the team. Working the phones behind the scenes, I was amazed at how receptive people were to the petition drive and also to volunteer their help. The tools and support the leadership group gave us paid off, and we were rewarded with incredible results.

The Dinner Table (TDT) is Maine’s largest and most active grassroots conservative PAC. The goal of TDT is to flip the Maine statehouse red by recruiting conservative candidates and focusing on initiatives like Voter ID for Me. The name, The Dinner Table, was inspired by Ronald Reagan, who said, “All great change in America begins at the dinner table.” The founders, Alex Titcomb and Maine State Rep Laurel Libby are staunch conservatives committed to ending the liberal stranglehold on the state and returning common sense and traditional Maine values to Augusta.

My primary residence is in New Hampshire, but I spend every summer in central Maine. Having witnessed the direction of the state over the last few years prompted me to get involved with The Dinner Table, and not just with a donation. I wanted to get involved and help recover this beautiful state. Maine has the worst education system and the third-highest individual tax burden. The current group of politicians is destroying the lobster and fishing industries with excessive regulations. They are committed to making Maine the marijuana capital of the northeast. They are bowing to Planned Parenthood and passed the most liberal abortion bill in the country. They also have made Maine a sanctuary destination for juveniles seeking abortion and transgender services. The children and taxpayers deserve better, and Alex and Laurel are motivated to deliver results.

The Republicans are at a disadvantage in every election. The mainstream media will play up the Dems regardless of the record, and they will use scare tactics to turn people off to any Republican. Rachel Maddow, the one-day-a-week star of MSNBC, will not play the audio of any Trump event, claiming it is her responsibility to keep misinformation from the public. Is that censorship, election interference, or both? The Republicans also play by the rules, while Dems will stretch the rules to their advantage whenever possible.

It is because of this disadvantage that we need groups like The Dinner Table to stir up the base and conservative writers to flood the internet with the truth. If you want more information on the Dinner Table and to join the movement, click here: The Dinner Table
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For the last nine years, we have witnessed the evolution of the social pathology known as Trump Derangement Syndrome, or TDS. Numerous memes have circulated on the web featuring TDS victims in various stages of the ailment, from the motor and verbal tics, more commonly associated with Tourette syndrome, to the violent behavior most widely associated with sociopathy.

As the frequency and intensity have not lessened in response to the Biden presidency, it is clear that simply removing Trump from office provided no palliative effect for many TDS victims. In the absence of any positive accomplishments and the presence of numerous policy failures, they continue to attribute all negative aspects of the current condition to Trump and use him as their pole star in analyzing any new events.

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As we approach the next presidential election, it is clear that another variant of this syndrome has appeared amongst the American electorate. Victims of this variant exhibit very different symptoms. These symptoms include the embrace of visual icons that imply that Trump is an agent of God, that Trump bears no responsibility for the mishandling of the pandemic, or that one’s purity is substantiated by having no history of criticizing Trump.

Examples include declaring oneself as holding an America First ideology thoroughly opposed to the Deep State while at the same time stating that one supports a strong military-industrial complex. Usually, the “-industrial complex” portion of that construct is not voiced as our current military-industrial complex is at the heart of the Deep State.

While these two variants of TDS are related, they occur in very different sorts of people, and in my experience, they don’t co-occur in one person. How can we distinguish between them in casual conversation? Traditional English provides two prefixes that might prove helpful, although, in recent years, they have become abbreviations of other terms. Those prefixes are cis and trans. Prior to the current phase of the gender-culture wars, cis and trans were harmless words with simple definitions. Examples include trans-Atlantic, meaning the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, as compared with cis-Atlantic, meaning this is of the Atlantic Ocean, or transalpine, meaning across the Alps from Rome, as opposed to cisalpine, meaning on the side of the Alps closer to Rome.

Applying cis and trans to TDS gives us trans-TDS for the original variant, where Trump is viewed as other, and cis-TDS for the more recent variant., where Trump is viewed as one’s messiah. The best part of introducing this terminology is that it allows one to offend extremists on both sides of a contentious issue.

 

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More Activist Soft on Crime Judiciary Appointments

Three clips.

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Bureaucrats in all of the various agencies that make up the Federal, State, and local governments are getting over their ski tips. No, not all of them. I’ve met a number of government employees who really do consider themselves to be public servants and conduct themselves accordingly.

These are the types of folks who need to be praised and held up as models for others.

Like those who seem to believe that because their paychecks have another government employee signing the front of their paycheck, they can have an elevated sense of themselves. And often, this means that they can go above and beyond what their statutory authority allows them to do. They seem to believe (or have forgotten) that it is their Legislature that has given them whatever Powers they have – and not a smidge more.

Sure, a Governor must sign such legislation that is delegating those Powers under the Constitution(s) (or let it become law by not vetoing it), but just as the Constitution, either at the Federal or State levels, acts as a barrier to what Legislatures and Executive Branches can do, such legislation is also a barrier to agency employees.

Or, as Moses, passing as Gandalf in the Lord of the Rings said on the bridge, made clear:

Well, we have no Gandalf nor Moses, but we do have the Judiciary.

Reformatted, emphasis mine:

Federal Judge Blocks Rule Requiring Employers to Accommodate Employee Abortions

A federal judge in Louisiana has blocked enforcement of a rule in two states that required employers to provide accommodations to employees who want to undergo elective abortions, with the judge siding with plaintiffs who argued that abortions aren’t “medical conditions” that employers must facilitate. U.S. District Judge David Joseph announced the ruling in an order filed on June 17 at the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, granting a preliminary injunction in a lawsuit against the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), which he found exceeded its authority in implementing the rule. 

The EEOC “exceeded its statutory authority” in issuing the rule and “unlawfully expropriated the authority of Congress and encroached upon the sovereignty of the States Plaintiffs,” wrote Judge Joseph.

There’s more at the post about the injunction, but that last line is the crux of this ongoing “deliberately straying out of your lane” push, push, push. It’s either a case where:

1. I work here, and I know what is best – we’ll just do it (the “full of themselves syndrome”)
2. I work here, and let’s see if we can sneak this past the rubes.
3. I work here, but I don’t WANT to read some old legislation to see if we can do this – we’ll do it and let the lawyers sort it out.

They tried #3 and got caught; the judge jerked their chain. Note this next part – its ruling was made (assumed) to the ideology of the employees of the EEOC plus the comments:

…The EEOC said that its decision to keep the abortion provision was consistent with its own interpretation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, a federal law that prohibits an employer from discriminating against employees based on sex, race, religion, national origin, color, and pregnancy.

The EEOC decided to redefine pregnancy (originally, this was to protect any woman that was pregnant!) to be “making pregnant women be UNpregnant”. Gee, was THAT part of the Legislation? Er, nope, you dopes. But this is what was done – the redefinition of our common language to make something clearer but to forward an ideology (e.g., that babies, as Obama once said, are burdens). And they got caught:

The attorneys general of Louisiana and Mississippi, as well as the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and other groups, sued the EEOC over the rule, which was slated to go into effect on June 18. They argued that inclusion of abortion under the definition of pregnancy-related medical conditions was an attempt to hijack the provisions of the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act to impose a national abortion exception.

 

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Don’t we have the right to know who really is running the country? It’s NOT this decaying, decrepit, concupiscible curmudgeon. BidenX is a figurehead, as well as an imposter. Who is really in charge?

 

Look how long it took Joe Biden to get into his car last night.

Notice how the Secret Service stands behind him too.

It took Biden over 15 seconds just to climb one step and sit.

This is not a deepfake or a “cheap fake.”

Biden is clearly falling apart.

It’s undeniable. pic.twitter.com/SDU17OQNZC

— Paul A. Szypula (@Bubblebathgirl) June 19, 2024

 

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New Hampshire Attorneys General, past and present, have actual knowledge of the link between William Glasser’s Theory and the abuse of children. New Hampshire paid pedophiles working as state employees to conduct William Glasser’s Theory Experiments. The pedophiles then weaponized William Glasser’s Theory to rape and torture New Hampshire children. The link between William Glasser’s Theory Experiments and state-funded abuse of children is not just found in New Hampshire. William Glasser’s Theory Experiments were and are used worldwide to abuse children.

The Laws of Unintended Results by Hon. W. Don Reader 1 is one of the most fascinating documents amid Sen. Jon Ossoff’s inquiry into the federal oversight of Youth Detention Centers. In 2024, The U.S. Senate Human Rights Subcommittee Chairman Jon Ossoff launched an inquiry with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) into alleged abuse of youth in juvenile detention facilities in Georgia and nationwide. He has requested the GAO review the state of federal oversight.

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Honorable W. Don Reader 1 states.

“In the 1960s, when we hung out our dirty wash as a nation and social activism and permissiveness were on the rise, the country saw activism among legislative bodies. By July 1974, Congress enacted the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act, which allocated funds for programs that emphasized community-based treatment and prevention. It established the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention to oversee these programs.”

“Federal incentives were inadequate to induce the states to implement these legislative reforms. However, many states nonetheless enacted enabling legislation to receive what little federal monies were available. What this legislation really said was, “Parents, you owe to your children the duty to care for, protect, house, feed, and educate.” Then we said to the child, “You don’t have to obey your parents, you don’t have to go to school, you don’t have to stay at home, and there is no one that can make you do any of these things.” When the court lost its authority over status offenders, buttressed by the freedom cry of the sixties, we saw an explosion of runaways in the seventies and eighties.

A zealous preoccupation by the administrators of the Office of Juvenile Justice was forcing states and communities to accept and implement untested, unproven, and costly theories, which created havoc in the administration of juvenile justice throughout the seventies. Recent research suggests these policies were disruptive, counter-productive, and, to a large extent, unnecessary. It appears that the modus operandi of the Office of Juvenile Justice was the following: We have a theory. We believe it is correct. Your states and cities must accept it, or you will not get any federal money. If you accept it, we Feds will pay for a small part of the cost of your programs. We will also pay for research that demonstrates that we were right. Now, we are told by researchers that we were wrong, or they still don’t know if we were right. But you still have to do it our way if you want the money.”

https://www.uakron.edu/law/lawreview/volumes/v29/docs/reader.pdf

As New Hampshire residents cough up 160 million to the victims of its own Youth Detention Center, William Glasser’s Theory Experiments, I am left perplexed. No federal investigations have been launched into William Glasser, William Glasser’s Institutes, and/or William Glasser’s Trusts. New Hampshire, via its Youth Detention Center Friendship House, was ground zero for the experiments of William Glasser’s Theory implemented on children. Why do New Hampshire taxpayers feel they should pay victims and mastermind Dr. William Glasser, who claimed to have the solution of the nation to juvenile delinquency, should not be investigated? The assets of all things William Glasser are not small. One could even argue that the assets of the William Glasser Institutes were acquired via its failed experiments on juvenile delinquents nationwide.

One of William Glasser’s practitioners, Barnes Boffey, is linked to Dartmouth College in New Hampshire.

“He has been a counselor in private practice since 1977. Since 1978, he has been a consultant in Choice Theory and Internal Control Psychology.”

Consultant is an interesting word. Barnes Boffey mentions on his website that he has consulted with corrections professionals. New Hampshire’s Youth Detention Center Pedophile Corrections Professionals?

Barnes Boffey was friendly with Dr. William Glasser and, according to his website, still implements Control Theory and Reality Therapy on his patients. This is the same Control Theory and Reality Therapy that was implemented on the victims of New Hampshire’s Youth Detention Center.

Barnes Boffey is also mentioned in the Investigation of The Aloha Foundation based in Vermont, which oversees the operations of Camp Lanakila for 8–14-year-old boys. Aloha hired former New Hampshire Attorney General Michael Delaney to investigate the sexual abuse of children at Camp Lanakila, where Barnes Boffey was director. The Investigation by former New Hampshire Attorney General Michael Delaney began in 2016. According to Valley News:

“Alden Hall, who is now a physician, said he told then-camp director Barnes Boffey about the assault after running into John Hall at an Upper Valley event in 2010. And while Boffey was apologetic, Alden Hall said there was no follow-up.”

I find it interesting how New Hampshire, via its resident’s tax dollars, is paying 160 million to victims when past and current New Hampshire Attorneys General are aware of the link between child abuse and the very dear friend of First Lady Nancy Reagan, Dr. William Glasser. I accept that this pseudoscience has, at a minimum, contributed to the abuse of thousands of children worldwide. A child is not likely to report abuse when they are brainwashed into thinking they choose what happens to them via Choice Theory.

You can find more about William Glasser and New Hampshire’s Youth Detention Scandal via a previous article.

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As a follow on to my recent essay, Israel: The Lesson of Sudenteland Applies – Granite Grok, I want to highlight more statements and other information to point out the dangers of radical Islam, in many cases as voiced by their own preachers or ex-Muslims.

Understand two things before I begin:

First, I take no joy in this.  I don’t want to be screaming about any group of people willy nilly.  Believe it or not, despite multiple essays like Grid Teetering – Coming Sooner Than You Think? – Granite Grok and Cultural Rot: More examples – Granite Grok and Depopulation Speculations – Granite Grok (and I’m glad to say that we seem to – for now – have escaped this though the excess death situation appears to be still ongoing and I’m still worried about genetic consequences), I don’t want to be crying Danger, danger! continuously, especially on so many topics; it’s overwhelming, actually.  It’s costing me time and mental health to be on edge like this all the time, let alone a lot of money to try and prep as best I can.  But for good or ill, Hashem has seen fit to have me “awake” to what I see as clear and present dangers to our stable civilization and country.  Having given me these insights, I believe it would be criminal negligence, at the least, to not try and share this information with others.

Oh Lord, don’t lighten by burdens.  Broaden my shoulders.

Yiddish Proverb

Second, I believe fully that there are, in fact, “moderate Muslims”.  My wife for one.  Recently, somehow, we were discussing Gaza and she said that if she were in charge she’d carpet bomb the place; she said “Send me there and I’ll shoot them all”!  During our trip to visit her all-Muslim family, everyone was welcoming and extraordinarily hospitable despite knowing I’m Jewish.  In fact, while there, I visited the local Chabad – smack in the middle of a Muslim-majority country.  My guess, given the admission by the Rabbi of the small size of the congregation contrasted with the very nice, free-standing building with grounds and all, that there’s government funding.  Assuming this is true, consider it well: a Muslim government funding a Jewish place of worship.

As a warm up in the spirit of my prior post, ask yourself this:  Just what does Israel have to do with this Muslim attack on a bus of Hindu worshippers?

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/hindu-bus-attacked.mp4

 

 

IN THEIR OWN WORDS – TAKEOVER AND SLAVERY

In that prior topical essay I showed multiple examples – links and videos – of Islamic doctrine highlighting the supremacist nature of Islam.  There can be no “misinterpretation” of this video with translation by MEMRI (incredible resource, as is the ME Forum):

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/only-infidels-may-be-enslaved.mp4

 

Also available on my Rumble channel.  They talk about takeovers when they think they’re private:

Undercover Mosque exposes the planned secret takeover of Britain and the implementation of Sharia Law

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/undercover-mosque.mp4

 

“In 10 Years Europe Will Be Completely Muslim” (youtube.com)

Video, 10 minutes.  And about Britain:

A World-Historical Transformation is Taking Place in Britain | Frontpage Mag

Lawrence Fox continued: “Today there are over 3,000 mosques in England. There are over 130 sharia courts. There are more than 50 Sharia Councils. 78 percent of Muslim women do not work, receive state support + free accommodation. 63 percent of Muslims do not work, receive state support + free housing. State-supported Muslim families with an average of 6 to 8 children receive free accommodation. Now every school in the UK is required to teach lessons about Islam. Has anyone ever been given an opportunity to vote for this?”

From here (formatting in the original):

Ask Hamas, the West is next
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A map of Italy was found at the house of a high-ranking Hamas commander in Gaza.

An Islamic flag sits atop the Vatican. The inscription reveals their ultimate plan:

“???????? ???????????????? ???????????????????????????? ???????????????? ???????????????? ???????????????? ???????? ???????????????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????.”

???????????? ????????????????????????????? ???????????????????????????? ???????????? ???????????? ???????????????? ???????????????? ???????????????????? ????????????????????????????????????. ???????????? ???????????????????????????????????? ???????????????? ???? ???????????????? ???????????????????????? ???????????????????????????????? ???????????? ???????????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????????????????: ???????????????????????????????????????? ???????????? ???????????????? ???????????? ????????????????????????????.

???????????????????? ???????????? ???????????????????????????? ???????????????? ???????????????? ???????????????????? ???????? ???????????? ???????????????? ???????????????? ???????????????? ???????????????????????????????? ???????????? ???????????????????? ???????????????? ???????? ???????????????????????????? ???????????? ???????????????? ???????????? ????????????????????????????.

“???????????????????? ???????????????????? ????????????????????????????????, ???????????????? ???????????????????? ????????????????????????.” ???????????????????? ???????????? ????????????????, ???????????????? ???????????? ????????????????????????????????????????.

 

“The reason you fight them and kill them is because they are Christians and Jews” (barenakedislam.com)

Nor does Israel have anything to do with this scene from Pakistan where Muslims are shouting ALLAHU AKHBAR! while tearing down a cross from a church.

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/muslims-in-pakistan-tear-down-cross.mp4

 

Speaking of that war cry, understand what it really means:

Allahu Akbar is Why Muslims Kill – Daniel Greenfield / Sultan Knish Articles at DanielGreenfield.org

Remember sex slavery of kaffir women, and the “rationalization” of it.  Here:

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/interview-on-islamic-sex-slavery.mp4

 

How, hearing the below, does any woman possibly consider converting to Islam, or even supporting it?  Or looking at the images of gruesomely damaged women in “honor attacks” below the video (link only – content warning).

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/islamic-view-of-women.mp4

 

Women grievously injured in honor attacks

Islam has rules for beating your wife:

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/islam-beating-rules.mp4

 

How does ANY woman that values womanhood think this is acceptable?  Or this:

Women eating under Sharia (rumble.com)

 

 

And pedo is alive and well… and officially sanctioned:

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/pedo-in-islam.mp4

 

Same question of women also applies to the pro-Gaza Rainbow Coalition.

 

 

The Hamas Role in the Worst Massacre of Gay People in America | Frontpage Mag

Reality Check for ‘Queers for Palestine’ Delivered Directly From Palestinian Leaders-“Homosexuals Should Be Thrown Head First From The Rooftop Of The Tallest Building:” | The Gateway Pundit | by Margaret Flavin

Useful idiots everywhere, aiding jihad:

 

Woke Useful Idiots HELPED Islamists Take Power – Apostate Prophet (4K) | heretics. 65

 

 

 

CLARION WARNINGS FROM EX-MUSLIMS

‘Wake Up! The Global Existential Fight Against Radicalism’ Mosab Hassan Yousef #shorts (youtube.com)

Mosab Hassan Yousef, the “Green Prince”, is the author of this book, among others.  He was the son of a Hamas leader.  He knows, intimately and well, what Hamas specifically, and Islam generally, is about.  Others have written books too:

Why We Left Islam: Former Muslims Speak Out by Joel Richardson | Goodreads

One day, an American on the verge of converting to Islam said to one of the editors, Please, I fear I am about to make the biggest mistake of my life. Please give me one solid reason not to convert. This is the book Joel Richardson wishes he had at that moment. Powerful, often shocking but always heartfelt, these essays from over a dozen individuals who have left Islam — often in fear for their lives — are remarkable for their honesty. The stories of how these men and women freed themselves from this repressive and brutal religion are not just inspirational, but present a searing challenge to those Westerners determined to perpetuate the Islam is a religion of peace myth at all costs.

And they speak out:

Ex-Muslims: They left Islam and now tour the US to talk about it (bbc.com)

“There was one guy in particular,” says Muhammad. “I knew him through high school.

“We were in the same college. We were similar people – he was liberal like me. Then he grew this foot-and-a-half long beard.”

…

“I wanted to show my friend his perspective was wrong. But when I went through it, it was very clear that his perspective was actually the Islamic perspective.

“He was right and I was wrong.”

Another is:

Unveiled: How Western Liberals Empower Radical Islam: 9781999240509: Mohammed, Yasmine: Books

Supported by more:

Infidel

Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law

But Sharia isn’t staying in majority Muslim nations. Darwish now lives in the West and brings a warning; the goal of radical Islam is to bring Sharia law to your country. If that happens, the fabric of Western law and liberty will be ripped in two. Under Sharia law:

• A woman can be beaten for talking to men who are not her relatives and flogged for not wearing a headdress
• Daughters, sisters, and wives can be legally killed by the men in their family
• Non-Muslims can be beheaded, and their Muslim killers will not receive the death penalty
• Certain kinds of child molestation are allowed
• The husband of a “rebellious” wife can deny her medical care or place her under house arrest

Another book by her:

Now They Call Me Infidel: Why I Renounced Jihad for America, Israel, and the War on Terror

And a Muslim woman converted to Judaism:

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/rebekah-converted-from-islam-to-judaism.mp4

 

Which has earned her the death penalty for being an apostate.  And a late addition, a 1 hour, 45 minute conversation with an ex-Muslim women’s rights activist by Tommy Robinson:

Episode 37 – SILENCED with Tommy Robinson – Nuriyah Khan (rumble.com)

 

 

PLUS WARNINGS BY SCHOLARS OF ISLAM

Robert Spencer, founder of Jihad Watch:

Fairy-tale Islam: Deceptions Masking a Dark Reality

Religion of Peace?: Why Christianity Is and Islam Isn’t

Confessions of an Islamophobe

The Myth of Islamic Tolerance: How Islamic Law Treats Non-Muslims

The History of Jihad: From Muhammad to ISIS

Among many other books he’s written.

Dr. Bill Warner of Political Islam / CSPI has also written extensively.

And another, among legions:

Raymond Ibrahim – Middle East and Islam Specialist

Clarion call after clarion call about the dangers of Islam and Jihad.

Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis

Londonistan

While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within

The Suicide of Reason: Radical Islam’s Threat to the West

The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam

And the rabbit hole goes very deep if you start looking.

 

 

WAR IS DECEIT

 

 

So said Mohammed himself.  Deception of the infidel is hard-coded into their beliefs, to the point where they actually classify different types (above graphic, below link):

Taqiyya: Deception and Lying in Islam (thereligionofpeace.com)

Bill Warner has two excellent short videos about taqiyya and tawriya (respectively):

Bill Warner, PhD: Sacred Deception — Taqiyya (youtube.com)

Bill Warner, PhD: Deception in Political Islam (youtube.com)

So consider this essay, written by one of the above noted scholars – and note the clear intent to deceive and divide the infidels.  Eliminate Israel, Eliminate Islamic Terrorism? (raymondibrahim.com) (bolding added, formatting preserved as best I can, links in the original, italics in the original replaced by underlining):

Back in 2009, Bin Laden said:

You [Americans] should ask yourselves whether your security, your blood, your sons, your money, your jobs, your homes, your economy, and your reputation are more dear to you than the security and economy of the Israelis….  Let me say that we have declared many times, over more than two and a half decades, that the reason for our conflict with you is your support for your Israeli allies, who are occupying our land of Palestine [emphasis added].

Translation: Feed Israel to us and we’ll stop attacking you.

Needless to say, this message was (and continues to be) swallowed hook line and sinker by many Western analysts—even as bin Laden was stressing to fellow Muslims (in Arabic) the “real reason for our conflict”:

Our talks with the infidel West and our conflict with them ultimately revolve around one issue — one that demands our total support, with power and determination, with one voice — and it is: Does Islam, or does it not, force people by the power of the sword to submit to its authority corporeally if not spiritually?  Yes. There are only three choices in Islam: [1] either willing submission [conversion]; [2] or payment of the jizya, through physical, though not spiritual, submission to the authority of Islam; [3] or the sword — for it is not right to let him [an infidel] live. The matter is summed up for every person alive: Either submit, or live under the suzerainty of Islam, or die [The Al Qaeda Reader, p. 42].

More emboldened jihadis have of late dropped the façade.  In an article unambiguously titled, “Why We Hate You & Why We Fight You,” the Islamic State confessed that “We hate you, first and foremost, because you are disbelievers.”  As for any and all political “grievances,” these are “secondary” reasons for the jihad:

What’s important to understand here is that although some might argue that your foreign policies are the extent of what drives our hatred, this particular reason for hating you is secondary, hence the reason we addressed it at the end of the above list. […]  The fact is, even if you were to stop bombing us, imprisoning us, torturing us, vilifying us, and usurping our lands, we would continue to hate you because our primary reason for hating you will not cease to exist until you embrace Islam. Even if you were to pay jizyah and live under the authority of Islam in humiliation, we would continue to hate you [emphasis added].

This threefold choice, then—conversion, subjugation/jizya, or the sword—is the ultimate source of conflict between Islam and everyone else; it’s why prudent non-Muslims have always found the question of achieving permanent peace with the Islamic world an unsolvable problem.

RTWT.  A recent example of Pallywood (or specific to the situation, Gazawood) – deceptive stuff for the useful idiots:

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/An_Israeli_airstrike_hit_a_family_home_and_injured_an_elderly_woman.mp4

 

The Pallywood Oscars:

The 2019 Pallywood Oscars – Israellycool

And don’t forget this excellent piece:

 

Pallywood

 

 

About that “famine”, from here:

Ahmed and Mahmoud take us for a tour around the wartime markets of Deir al-Balah, Central Gaza Strip.
Uploaded to YouTube on 9 June 2024.
English subtitles.
Fake nation, fake genocide and fake hunger!

Also:

Market pictures

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/june-2024-food-in-gaza.mp4

 

With two more videos.

#gazawood #pallywood Deir El Balah market, June 20th, 2020 (rumble.com)

#gazawood #pallywood Shawarma in gaza (rumble.com)

The Gaza famine that’s been found to be… wanting:

 

 

There is no Gaza famine, but the pro-Hamas crowd is silent about this great news (nypost.com)

And all those “uninvolved Gazan civilians”:

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/uninvolved-gazan-civilians.mp4

 

This is an interesting tidbit of international law (Geneva Convention) regarding “civilians” who actively get involved in the conflict:

Customary IHL – Practice relating to rule 6 Civilians’ Loss of Protection from Attack (icrc.org)

You do not have a tunnel in your home and not know about it:

Gaza’s Rafah is filled with tunnels, top IDF commander tells ‘Post’ – The Jerusalem Post (jpost.com)

And one last, the Gazawood / Pallywood prop department.

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/gazwood-prop-department.mp4

 

My view of the problem is this: So many “useful idiots” want to believe it, because they can’t believe that little brown people could be so deceptive as to fool their uber-educated superior intellects.  I.e., racism.

 

 

A CULTURE OF DEATH & DEPRAVITY

So take a look at this video from here.  Content warning (hence the link-only):

Kid shoots tied up man and screams Allahu Akbar

This short snip is seen in this preview:

Kids: Chasing Paradise – The Clarion Project

Another charming kid (note, video starts off somewhat blurry – it’s not your eyes!):

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/baby-isis-and-teddy-bear.mp4

 

How old is that kid?  And this kid, below, can’t be 10 years old, pressing the button to blow up a car filled with execution victims.

Muslim child – can’t be 10 – presses button to blow up prisoners (rumble.com)

Understand what ALLAHU ACKBAR means:

Allahu Akbar is Why Muslims Kill – Daniel Greenfield / Sultan Knish Articles at DanielGreenfield.org

School punishment in a Madrassa:

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/madrassa-beating.mp4

 

Brutalized from birth.  Embracing death in jihad.

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/they-love-death.mp4

 

Take a look at this girl wanting her brother to be a martyr:

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/child-wants-her-brother-to-be-a-martyr.mp4

 

Again, the rabbit hole goes deep here.  But only when you grasp – to your core – that they are eager for death in war against the infidel will you start to understand what they do.  Their eyes are set on the eternal, whose highest reward is to be found in combat against the House of War.  No wonder they love death.

 

 

SHARIA LAW

People talk about Sharia Law as though it’s just another form of jurisprudence, like a Hebrew Beit Din, a religious court.  My two experiences with that are when my kids were converted to Judaism.  Here’s a Sharia guide on stoning adulterers:

 

 

Lest you think the above is a fluke:

Green lane mosque Birmingham UK.
Cleric explains the correct way to stone women to death, totally legal under Sharia

@No_More_Islam

To chit chat join here:
@ISLAMNOMORE

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/correct-way-to-stone-a-woman.mp4

 

Wonderful folks.  Let’s admit them to the West by the metric f*ckton.

 

 

CONCLUDING

Bill Warner in a 44 minute video:

 

Why We Are Afraid, A 1400 Year Secret, by Dr Bill Warner

 

 

I was recently accused of “Islamophophia”.  Hah.  To quote Bare Naked Islam:

It isn’t Islamophobia when they really ARE trying to kill you.

As a coda, Islamic migration to Sweden is not a case of “diversity is a strength”:

The Warning From Sweden : The Other McCain

As just one of myriad examples.  Remember, these are the people whom the Left is embracing.  And know your enemy.  Because Left and Islam are allied.

Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam And the American Left (2006-02-17) [Paperback]

United in Hate: The Left’s Romance with Tyranny and Terror

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If an enterprising teacher looked at their District’s cost per student and then created their own micro-school with even 20 students, they’d be earning far more than at their static union wage ladder.

Seeing that those “negotiated” wages are sticking to the newly minted teachers, I offer my unsolicited advice to work a couple of years “inside the system,” find out how you can improve on the teaching methodology demanded “by the system,” and strike out on your own. Why?

The Democrats’ only solution to the fact that our public schools are awful is to spend more money on them. But that is precisely the policy we have been following for decades, with terrible results. This chart, from the Committee to Unleash Prosperity, tells the story. In constant dollars, spending on education has skyrocketed, while student achievement has stagnated.

You can capture some of that rise in the cost of that system for yourself.

Sure, a coupla/few years to provision your classroom and then it’s more for you – reaping more of the rewards of your labor.

For Parents – would you accept the same results for your child with only higher costs eating at your bank account? I have two great questions for you to ask your elected School Board representatives:

1. What is the overall rise in spending for the District over the last 10 years, including all Warrant Articles (stuff not in the regular budget)?
2. Why aren’t our childrens’ achievement levels increasing at the same rate?
3. What percentage of each class, K-12, is at the Proficient level or above?

Now, GOOD school boards will try to get an answer back to you. BAD school board members will ignore you under the rubric of “we only wanted your votes but keep your questions and comments to yourselves, you rubes”. Vote those kind of school board members out.

Oh, as to #3 –  flip that percentage around to see how many children are being failed in the government school system. Then starting asking them REAL hard questions.

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