Thursday • May 2 • 2024
Vol.XVI • No.XVIII
Manchester, N.H.
You can call it “The hubris of high office”, the “Insolence of a long-term office holder”, or “Progressives on Parade”. Or all three at once but these two short paragraphs show that these folks have no interest in governing, they believe that you are ruled by them. And they have no problem in letting you know that, one way or another.
So Elon Musk, who makes Progressives’ heads explode simply by breathing, went to DC and met with a number of Republicans but happened to run into House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y). And that was the only Democrat he talked with while he was there.
Snubbed, SNUBBED, I say! How DARE he not talk to me and me! After all, doesn’t he report to ME?
Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill., told the news outlet that Musk’s failure to meet with congressional Democrats is “seriously a mistake and I think it would be a good thing to have him come in and explain himself.”
When asked about Musk, Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., said: “I am deeply concerned with how he’s running that company into the ground. It seems like a vanity project that is going wrong with an explosion of hate speech on that platform.”
Well, maybe not but it’s clear that they have it in their minds, hearts, and souls that he should if he doesn’t.
I’m sorry, but the last time I remembered what I learned in elementary school, we elect people and they work for us. Here, we see Schakowsky and Schiff both with the ‘tude that’s something they never learned (or if they did, have tossed that onto the same pile as “limited government”, Federalism”, the US Constitution, and Liberty.
WHY, Jan, does Musk have to explain ANYTHING to you? He doesn’t live in Illinois, didn’t vote for you, has probably never even met you. So WHY is it, with respect to the First Amendment’s Freedom of Assembly (and conversely, not having to “assemble” with anyone you don’t want to) is it a mistake? Is she thinking she’s the female version of Don Corleone and Musk has to kiss your ring?
Hey, Adam, so WHAT if he actually runs Twitter into the ground? YOU don’t own it, the Government doesn’t own it, and it IS (along with investers) his to do with as he pleases. So if he tanks it, all that happens is that no more taxes are taken by the Fed Govt. And, like all control freaks, while he complains about “hate speech”, Musk has already rolled out stats that speech that Schiff doesn’t like (hate speech which is merely “speech Progressives don’t like, mostly from Conservatives lips).
And again, Twitter is Musk’s business. He owns it and if it IS a “vanity project”, who cares? Certainly Schiff is sticking his government nose shouldn’t belong – in a private person’s life and business.
But this is how Progressives roll – EVERYTHING should be Government’s business. And they certainly live and act as that’s true.
Up Yours! Both of you!
Oh, do you think that “totalitarian” is a word that fits their outlook?
(H/T: Hot Air, Newsmax)
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If you surf (or troll) meme sights, you’re likely to observe a rise in sh!t posting about the prices of eggs. It was getting out of hand before the Connecticut egg farm burned down and took 100,000 chickens with it.
Eggs are about to get more expensive.
More from iFunny in a minute because the latest egg news circling the internet is that their power to fight SARS, especially COVID, is a known scientific quantity.
The National Institute of Health’s own studies shows that Chicken Egg Yolk antibodies actually block the binding of multiple SARS-COV-2 Spike protein variants to human ACE2.
PubMed Jan 2021
The SARS-CoV-2 virus is still spreading worldwide, and there is an urgent need to effectively prevent and control this pandemic. This study evaluated the potential efficacy of Egg Yolk Antibodies (IgY) as a neutralizing agent against the SARS-CoV-2. We investigated the neutralizing effect of anti-spike-S1 IgYs on the SARS-CoV-2 pseudovirus, as well as its inhibitory effect on the binding of the coronavirus spike protein mutants to human ACE2. Our results show that the anti-Spike-S1 IgYs showed significant neutralizing potency against SARS-CoV-2 pseudovirus, various spike protein mutants, and even SARS-CoV in vitro. It might be a feasible tool for the prevention and control of ongoing COVID-19.
PubMed Nov 2022
Coronavirus disease (COVID)-19 caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection has become a global pandemic disease that has social and economic chaos. An alternative mitigation strategy may involve the use of specific immunoglobulin (Ig)-Y derived from chicken eggs.
There are more like this. It is not fringe science or conspiracy theory, but if you’re looking for a conspiracy theory, acts of domestic terrorism against the food supply are on the radar. We can add egg farms because, hey – egg yokes might be an accessible prophylactic to COVID, so let’s make them more expensive or just inaccessible to anyone but the jet-setting climate conference-crashing global elite.
Or something like that.
Here are a few more memes.
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Again, if you believe that our Constitution is our most foundational Law (and our Social Contract – see what I did there SJWs?), this is actually needed. Landrigan has the story.
Reformatted, emphasis mine.
New Hampshire mothers of newborns face criminal penalties if they don’t truthfully answer questions about personal habits ranging from their weight during pregnancy to their use of tobacco, alcohol and illegal drugs and any history of sexually transmitted diseases.
A bipartisan group of lawmakers wants to remove those penalties and permit mothers to opt out of having to provide personally identified information. Current law allows state government to keep these paper records indefinitely. This bill would also repeal that provision.
After all:
[Art.] 2-b. [Right of Privacy.] An individual’s right to live free from governmental intrusion in private or personal information is natural, essential, and inherent.
December 5, 2018.
Right now, there is information that is gathered not for medical records but for the NH Division of Vital Records Administration (which isn’t covered by HPPA restrictions). So I DO agree with NH Sen. Rosenwald (emphasis mine) that,
“These questions are none of state government’s business if she doesn’t want to share,” said Sen. Cindy Rosenwald, D-Nashua. Her bill (SB 105) is the product of a study committee that worked on the issue last year.
If it is only going to a state bureaucracy that keeps records, it IS the correct question to ask if whether or not that information is wanted or needed. Especially if there are no special protections to keep that individual info safe. It also gets hoovered up by that stellar Fed agency known by three letters: CDC.
And I then I had to smile – bureaucrats are complaining their “THEIR” data is being taken away from them:
State health officials and a representative of the New Hampshire Hospital Association raised concerns over permitting mothers to opt out of providing the information.
“It is one of the busiest and challenging times for a woman’s life, but our members have said this (opt-out) is going to be a challenge,” said Paula Minnehan, senior vice president of government relations for the hospital group. HHS officials said public agencies and research groups rely on this information to produce reports and form strategies, such as how to reduce high rates of illegal substance abuse or STDs.
Obviously, none of the above have read Article 2-b (er, EVER read the NH Constitution, period?). No, it should NOT be a challenge at all – you just can’t ask. Any work you do either has to be done by getting the data by other means. How about offering MONEY to the Mom to buy that personal data? Instead of assuming it should be free to you? After all, if you are making the signals that such data has value, why won’t you pay for it?
Again, I have to agree with Rosenwald:
“It’s the job of hospitals to convince the mother the public good gained by analysis of this information in de-identified form is a good reason to agree to the release of this data,” Rosenwald said. She predicted the rate of mothers opting out would be low, but they should have the option.
Exactly right – if the Mom wants to share, great. If not, no go. Oh, and there’s the money – and the State wants its self-interest to have priority over these mother’s data:
Deputy Secretary of State Erin Hennessey said it was unclear whether permitting the opt-out would jeopardize an annual $169,000 grant the Centers for Disease Control gives New Hampshire to gather the information.
Sorry, justifying obviating the Constitution with a mere $170K is a bad argument. Are you that entitled, ma’am?
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Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms should be the name of a chain of convenience stores in Florida, not a federal agency.
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Are you amazed by the fine artistic carvings in your furniture set? Such art requires patience and skill before it can be properly created. It is natural for humans to be artistic and creative. Meanwhile, not all creative people are born with existential gifts.
However, commitment and dedication to the task can gradually improve your carving skills. Although this is a difficult and risky task, it has the potential to enhance your creativity.
Since accuracy and precision are the keys to ensuring that your products are durable and of high quality, you need to use an engraving machine. This will help you decide what and where to trim. It allows you to simplify your work and you can save more of your time. It can also prevent accidents during your work. You only need to monitor the machine during the carving process.
This type of machine is also called a wood router or virmer. This type of router has the characteristics of being a computer numerical control machine and is capable of precise carving in wood. It usually spins faster than a metal router. It usually uses fine tools for carving wood but is also capable of handling heavy materials.
Generally, a CNC wood router is a machine used to shape or cut wood by routing specific sections of wood. You can adjust its speed according to the result you wanted to achieve. To fully operate or use this machine, you must be very familiar with its structure and functions.
Its structure usually consists of a flat plane with a rotating shaft attached to a wooden base. Electricity powers the shaft, causing it to rotate rapidly. The flat part of the CNC wood router acts as a base during the carving process. It grips the wood firmly to prevent it from moving. This allows the router to detect the finer details of the design being used. Designs are usually drawn on wood before a CNC wood router machine traces it.
There are several types of CNC wood routers that will usually suit your taste. Its design and size will depend on how much power it can accommodate. The brand name of the CNC wood router will also greatly affect its performance. It is good to choose a CNC wood router that is widely used by most people.
A CNC woodworking machine is very helpful in making exact replicas of furniture. It is prominently used in making modern-style wardrobes. This makes the difficult part of the edges and scrolling easier. You are assured of its precise cutting action. A CNC wood router started with hand-operated tools that later evolved into the present-day electronically operated spinning routers.
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Forewarned is forearmed. Thus, this is intended to be a compilation of articles, with my commentary, to try and get like-minded people to grasp what’s coming. Even merely being aware of events in the world will make you better prepared than the hordes of sheeple. Note that these compilations are catch-as-catch-can, and presented as is. I make no guarantee of accuracy or complete coverage of the world.
Please follow both me, Nitzakhon, on Gab… as well as my blog host Granite Grok and also on Telegram Tommy Robinson Official plus his Urban Scoop site. And don’t forget posts sometimes get cloned on American Reveille as well, which is a good site to check out in general.
For prep materials, please see:
Survival Sunday – PREP Edition – Granite Grok
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Toxic Cost of Going Green | Unreported World
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Top of the fold:
Aide who may be to blame for Joe Biden’s files fiasco ‘got the job through HUNTER’ | Daily Mail Online
If Hunter, who has blackmail material on him by multiple countries, had access to the car, he had access to the garage. And the documents.
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Deep State / Coming Tyranny / WEF / Globalists (broad):
Norway Pushes Ahead With Digital Currency, Ignoring Privacy Concerns
Cash will vanish, except for the black market. Expect MASSIVE penalties for using cash, or bartering. Looking broadly at the WEF-driven future:
Here’s What They’re Planning Now: 2023 World Economic Forum (theorganicprepper.com)
THE PLAN – WHO plans for 10 years of pandemics, from 2020 to 2030 (rumble.com)
Video, 31 minutes.
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Pint-sized tiny house packs in plenty of home comforts (newatlas.com)
This site has, at least weekly, a piece praising tiny houses. Now, it’s got some interesting stuff, but they’re starry-eyed in this, and their mRNA write-ups.
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Protecting Children:
MassResistance
Excellent group!
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Disturbing Burberry Ad Campaign Doesn’t Showcase Products, Instead Shows LGBTQ Couples Making Out… Sparks Major Criticism on Social Media [VIDEO] (100percentfedup.com)
Rating 9 out of 10 on my yick-o-meter.
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Parents: Take Charge of Your Children’s Education – Intellectual Takeout
You cannot trust the good intentions of The System.
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Children Submersed in Depravity at Texas Drag Show
Don’t click through with sensitive eyes around. Wood chipper therapy. Stat. Not just the freak in question… but anyone involved in arranging the event.
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WIN: Utah Bans Puberty Blockers, Hormones and Surgical Sex Change Procedures for Minors (thegatewaypundit.com)
Excellent!
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National Security (specifically):
US Monitoring Iranian Bid To Establish ‘Military Presence’ in Panama Canal (freebeacon.com)
The long view to encircle us. Patience is a virtue, especially dealing with democracies where the focus only ends at the next election.
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WH: Says It’s A “Non-Issue” That Biden Sold U.S. Strategic Oil Reserves To Communist China… | Weasel Zippers
How these people can say this with a straight face… related:
EMAIL BOMBSHELL: Hunter Biden Offered to Sell Intelligence on Russia To Alcoa Inc. for $55,000 – Geller Report
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NATO Calls the Shots
If a nation isn’t able to decide when and where to deploy its own military forces, it isn’t a sovereign nation anymore. This is why signing up for all of these supranational organizations was always short-sighted and foolish, as they intrinsically necessitate giving up sovereignty and democracy.
What was it Washington said about entangling alliances? Now let’s be real: alliances are important, but as Lord Palmerston once said, Nations don’t have friends, they have interests.
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US Air Force General Mike Minihan Predicts China War in 2025, Tells His Officers To Prepare – Geller Report
This never would have happened if the Democrat party of treaason hadn’t stolen the election and Trump were President. We are already at war, China will just finish it off.
Very much afraid China will finish US off… an EMP is certainly on their minds, and doing an EMP a month for a few months would rapidly eliminate anyone who had hunkered down through the first one.
Oh come on. Not like they haven’t thought of that already.
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On The Jab (and Covid)
Nothing found that I haven’t posted before, and I’m pressed for time.
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Inflation:
Australia’s Cost of Living Crisis Worsens With Inflation Hitting a New ‘Unacceptable’ 32-Year High — Making Another Interest Rate Rise Within Weeks Almost a Certainty
Business and Banking Elites Call for Australians to Take an Even Bigger Pay Cut as Inflation Soars to Levels Unseen Since the Early 1990s
So, it’s global.
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How Are People Surviving Hyperinflation In Turkey? (Boots On Ground Intel)
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Money Magic
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(HT here)
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Enemedia:
History class takes a holiday at The Washington Post – American Thinker
About Israel specifically, but understand: there’s a reason I call them the ENEMEDIA. Good video about “Pallywood” and the unskeptical acceptance of it by Leftists:
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Pro-life:
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Know your Leftist / Globalist & Islamic enemy:
Louis C.K. is an Idiot
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Assisted Suicide Could Become a ‘Cost Saving’ Measure for UK Healthcare System, Church Leader Warns
How soon before we get to a Logan’s Run scenario?
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Immigration / Migration:
‘Bullsh**’: Biden’s new border policy using ‘loophole’ to fastrack migrants in (wnd.com)
New voters.
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90 Miles From Tyranny : Salvadoran Gang Member Charged with Murder Entered U.S. as Unaccompanied Minor (ninetymilesfromtyranny.blogspot.com)
Dreamers? More like nightmarers. Speaking of nightmares:
NEW HAMPSHIRE: 7-year-old boy, savagely beaten and burned by his Muslim father, has died from his injuries (barenakedislam.com)
And related:
“What Is Immigrant Mass Murder Syndrome”? | Articles | VDARE.com
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Economy at large:
Ignore the White Noise (link in original):
(Link to AZQUOTES per their policy)
The United States has been going bankrupt gradually since the Johnson administration. There is no need to discuss this further: people either know how much the country is in debt or they are unwilling to hear the truth.
The Hemingway quote above brings us to our current state: bankruptcy suddenly. The petrodollar is being replaced by the petroyuan/petroruble backed by commodities that have value, not the full faith and credit of a Deep State failed empire. As outlined in a previous article (A Dollar Collapse Is Now In Motion – Saudi Arabia Signals The End Of Petro Status), the second option of going bankrupt suddenly is now here.
“Markets Are Tense”: Futures Slide As Central Bank Jitters Rise
The above information is a small snippet from a long list of financial information across the world. The word “suddenly” definitely comes to mind after reading the entire article. As I read it, I kept thinking “how much of this information is manipulated?” I suspect the financial section is much worse as all Western governments are suppressing the real news.
It’s going to be suddenly; very suddenly. And an email from a friend, contents withheld, confirms & relates expert opinions that something’s going to happen this year.
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Here Are The Most Shorted Companies: They Are All Exploding Higher | ZeroHedge
Why The End Of The Petrodollar Spells Trouble For The US Regime | ZeroHedge
Double from ZeroHedge.
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Political War
Company caves, fires manager after trans activist troll complains she follows ‘transphobic’ Twitter accounts (bizpacreview.com)
Cancel culture is a prelude to mass genocide
Related, at least to me:
Tony Perkins: Policeman’s Resignation Shows the Fallout Over Marriage Has Begun | The Patriot Post
It was his personal opinion, shared as such.
The perfect example of Frankfurt School Discourse theory: Making opposition to govt. policy illegal
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High school ‘White Power’ graffiti came from Hispanic gangs: police | The College Fix
At this point I’ve resolved that any such incident is fake until proven true.
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Wealth Tax: The Marxist Taxman Cometh – Bookworm Room
And there is little more Marxist than a “wealth tax.” Such a tax does not focus on profits or salary, such as an income tax or capital gains tax, nor is it tied to consumption like a sales tax. Nor is it limited to ownershp of real estate, a basis for taxation with a long history. Instead, a wealth tax looks at the entire value of a person’s property and says that the individual must transfer the value of some portion of that property to the state. It is, taken to its logical conclusion unlike taxes on wealth creation or on spending, A wealth tax is a means by which to transfer all private property into government hands.
Related:
Welcome to the Hotel California, Where You Can Check Out, But You Can Never Leave | Frontpage Mag
It’s not your money, you see.
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Harmeet Dhillon Says Republicans Ignore Grassroots Base at Their ‘Peril’
The Left loves their base. The Right hates theirs. E.g.:
RNC is Dead: Ronna McDaniel Wins RNC Chair Race Despite Being a Despised Failure With Ratings in The Toilet – Geller Report
Just a slush fund at this point IMHO.
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These are the Republicans Protecting Ilhan Omar (jihadwatch.org)
Not engaging in tit-for-tat, better known as not fighting back, has worked brilliantly for Republicans thus far.
Not. For all Trump’s slip-ups, and they are legion, at least he has a set. He fights!
He Fights (townhall.com)
And on fighting:
Dems Don’t Do Defense, They Do Offense | Frontpage Mag
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US Stability (broad catch-all):
Brandon Admin Blocks Another Mine Necessary To Make EVs And Green Energy Projects – Pirate’s Cove » Pirate’s Cove (thepiratescove.us)
Mandate green energy and then block all access to ways to make it possible. Like mandating solar and wind, then blocking the sun’s rays with particulates. It’s like they want to shut down civilization or something.
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Poll: 1 in 4 Millennials Say Parents Cover Their Rent (breitbart.com)
This could be in ECONOMY, but I put it here because it represents a culture becoming accustomed to permanent care by parents. And absent parents… government steps in.
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Yet another example of BETRAYAL TRAUMA.
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World Stability (broad catch-all):
Sweden’s NATO Membership Goes Up in Smoke
Ooopsie!
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Ukraine ‘Expects’ Tank Deal Will Lead to Western Delivery of Long-Range Missiles Capable of Striking Russian Supply Lines as Zelensky Begs for More Heavy Weaponry — While Angry Kremlin Brands German and US Aid to Kyiv ‘Extremely Dangerous’
What Happens After Ukraine Gets M1 Abrams and Leopard 2 Tanks? – 19FortyFive
But this is interesting:
We Don’t Have Enough Tanks to Send to Ukraine, Pentagon Admits: Biden’s Promise to Send 31 Abrams Could Take Up to a Year — Because the US Has to Buy More
The process of delivering sophisticated new Abrams tanks to Ukraine will take months, with the Pentagon saying it does not have any excess tanks ready for transfer.
So we’re going to, potentially, strip our own capabilities to feed Ukraine. And then Ukraine wants F-16s.
And Now Ukraine Wants Fighter Jets – Pirate’s Cove » Pirate’s Cove (thepiratescove.us)
And long-range missiles? And then what, ships and subs?
I am certainly no international expert, but I’ve got a number of people in my life that have a Russian origin and mentality. They’re tremendously fatalistic, overall. Given the west’s increasing push to openly state Russia – and its culture and power – need to be dismantled, they may well say Since we’re going down if they win, let’s make sure they go down too.
And then things get very, very hot.
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The Most Egregious Mistake — Strategic Culture (strategic-culture.org)
Interesting perspective on the Russian economy and the conflict against it.
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WARNING: USA Surrounded? Russian & China Nuclear Warships & Sub | SHTF
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Specific to energy:
California’s plan to power EVs has one glaring shortcoming – HotAir
In order to reach that goal, California would need to immediately begin constructing enough solar and wind plants to literally triple the amount of electricity that is currently being generated. That means that they would need to put up new wind farms and solar plants at roughly five times the rate they have been able to build them over the past ten years.
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Big Tech in general:
Scientists invented a melting liquid robot that can escape from a cage (msn.com)
“I don’t see any possibility of injecting something into somebody, and then the microbots swim into their brain and take over their thoughts, or something crazy like that.
“The technology isn’t there, and I don’t see it going there,” Nelson says — adding that were the technology to be tested in clinical settings there would be safeguards in place to protect against such risks.
Safeguards. BWAAAA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!
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AI will take their jobs and it’s well deserved
Every single one of those women is an AI creation. None of them are real.
WARNING – cheesecake alert at the twitter link in the above link.
However, when you can, do take a look at those pics (PG-13 IMHO… maybe a soft R?). Had I not KNOWN they were all AI-generated, I’d have sworn they were real. We are approaching a singularity moment when what we see beyond our own eyes IRL cannot be believed. Many deep fakes are there already; this adds another layer to the situation.
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Catch-all miscellaneous:
YouTube removes Project Veritas video on Pfizer vaxx for breach of “consensus”
Thou Shalt Not Shatter The Consensus.
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“Tragedy … Might be Triggering”: British Universities Add Warnings for Greek and Shakespearean Plays
Censoring Shakespear? A civilization in decline when it spurs its greatest achievers. I have on my to-be-read-before-I-die list the entire sweep of the Harvard Classics series. Related, at least in my mind:
Who’s More Irrational – The Religious or the Irreligious? | Frontpage Mag
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Concluding thoughts if I’m moved to comment:
Romance In 2023: 1 In 6 People Run Background Checks On Online Dates | ZeroHedge
As a part of her moving to the US with a K1 visa, my then-fiancee had to do a background check. I suspect if, somehow, I were on the dating scene again I would do this too. And given how many M to F trannies are out there, maybe even a DNA test.
Why American Women Are Undatable – by Mark McDonald, M.D. (substack.com)
This tragedy harms not only men but women. Men need women, but so do women need men, despite what feminism has taught. American men today have largely decided they would simply rather be alone than continue to feel battered and exhausted by an unending stream of bad dates with unpleasant women. No healthy person wants to play with a porcupine.
And this is funny. Back in my dating days I used to “be confused” in the produce aisle and would ask for help:
Women starting to avoid soy
I guess women are starting to figure out that the ability to fix things is a much more useful trait in a man than putting platitudes about how they love to travel in their dating apps.
Not that I want to re-enter the dating game. But… I’m getting to the point where I’m scared to should the possibility arise. Short of finding a traditionally-minded woman in an Orthodox shul, which is where I’d focus anyway, what would I find in the common dating market?
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Neil Oliver ‘…if you thought that was scary just wait & see what’s coming now’
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Palate cleansers:
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Please check out my MEME collection. Here’s the last one.
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The January 10, 2023 Special Presentation to the Board of Alderman by City leaders and developers on the development of this EPA Superfund property into 537 housing units left many unanswered questions. There was no public input permitted.
As usual, Dir. Cummings chose his words carefully and was unclear about the costs to taxpayers. About two weeks later, a citizen sent a very well-researched letter to the Board of Alderman and Mr. Cummings with questions on the project. No one responded or offered answers.
Citizen Email re MohawkI, too, have a number of questions, so I sent an email on January 22, 2023, requesting a meeting with anyone willing to discuss the project. Friday, I received a response from Dir. Cummings;
“I would recommend you attend public meetings to attain public information and participate within the forum. Alternatively, you could contact your elected officials and share your ideas and concerns with them directly.”
This is taunting. Mr. Cummings knows that the City will not answer questions in public meetings. He also knows that the Tannery Project has not been on the agenda since January 10th. Citizens don’t participate in Board meetings and there are no “forums.” His response gives no indication of when “forums” will be held.
The Board permits 3 minutes to speak, even if you are the only one there and you’re rudely interrupted with “one minute, thirty seconds, and times up (because the City can see the clock but the citizens cannot)” I have contacted the Board of Alderman and Alderman at Large. They are non-responsive.
The most unprotected speech in Nashua is political speech, and constitutionally, it is supposed to be the most protected. Say something the Mayor, legal office or Board disagrees with, and they will collectively gaslight you. I have not attended a Board meeting since October 13, 2022, when Alderman Moran called me out as a Child predator, using his professional training as a licensed social worker and child protective worker. I literally threw up for weeks over this and didn’t go anywhere. I am a lightning rod for abuse, and I can’t tolerate it anymore. The City knows this.
Through my attorney, I filed a defamation lawsuit in Superior Court against Mr. Moran and his therapy company, “Wanderlust”. His attorney, Charles Bauer is claiming this was just his opinion and normal everyday speech that Mr. Moran has a right to use against citizens coming forward to express their opinions on the operation of their government. So, now the Board and Mayor are empowered to just call everyone any names they wish. It’s open season on citizens and constitutional rights mean nothing.
The Mayor published one of his personal newsletters last week, acting as if the Mohawk Tannery is a done deal. The Aldermen are all on board.
Do you want the city spending an undisclosed amount of your tax dollars undertaking the cleanup of the Toxic chemical EPA Superfund property under the cover of darkness?
Don’t go to meetings, avoid the gaslighting and write to your Alderman about your position on a project of this nature. Send me their responses. They won’t respond to me.
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A Portland, Maine, substitute teacher was fired after they directed them to “‘potentially inappropriate’ TikTok posts, with one student reportedly claiming that the sub encouraged a class to check out her profile on the social media site.”
The school let the sub go after an internal investigation and apologized a lot, but they never admitted the truth; that this was grooming.
“The account potentially contained inappropriate content,” Principal Caitlin LeClair wrote in an email to parents. “As the day unfolded, it became apparent that a lot of students were talking about the TikTok account. The account was immediately blocked, thereby discontinuing access for students.”
“We were thorough in our investigation, and the situation has now been addressed, completely resolved, and will not recur,” LeClair added, calling it an “unfortunate incident.”
Lydia Moon, who appears to be a man transitioning to a woman, “encouraged a class to check out her profile on the social media site,” according to Fox News.
One of the videos, obtained by the Maine Wire, showed Moon in a towel and posing provocatively. Parents heard that another video may have included Moon’s discussion about her experience undergoing hormone treatment therapy. One student told her parents that Moon had listed her TikTok handle on a whiteboard and encouraged kids to check out her posts, the Wire reported.
In other words, the Portland School district hired a groomer who was grooming, and now they are in duck and cover mode because it is one thing to insist your obsession with teaching the gender culture has nothing to do with grooming and another when a groomer gets caught grooming. An act that is the direct result of what can only be a refusal to properly vet a man in a dress before giving them access to students.
And that’s not bigoted. A man in a suit should receive the same treatment, especially from a control-freak culture like public education which claims it doesn’t check a prospective teacher’s social media before hiring them but would punish a student for social media content posted away from (or not even about) school if they thought they could get away with it.
Here are a few more warning signs dug up by The Maine Wire and available online until just after the story broke.
The teacher has also gone by Chris Lamere, Lydia Moon, Clodagh Moon, and Clodagh Lamere, and has identified variously as non-binary, as a transgender woman, and as a transgender lesbian, according to a review of public social media.
So … based on the reporting, Lydia is a creepy guy in a dress who is sexually attracted to girls and women and encourages middle-school girls to check out “her” journey online.
A quick note to parents. If your administrators, boards, or educators insist that the kids are theirs and they know better (should be their guardians), maybe you can call child and family services on them and demand your custody rights back.
Fox News | The Maine Wire
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Governor-in-Waiting Chris Pappas may get a new sacrificial lamb to slaughter in 2024. NH-NeverTrump Journal … a/k/a mouthpiece for the NHGOP-Establishment … has a puff-piece up on Attorney General Johnny-Woke a/k/a John Formella.
Typical of the FakeNews you get from NH-NeverTrump Journal, Mikey Graham portrays Johnny-Woke as anti-woke based on his joining an initiative by other State Attorney-Generals to push back against the Biden-regime’s push for ESG investing. No mention, OF COURSE, of Johnny-Woke’s recent opposition to a bill in the New Hampshire House that would prohibit biological males from competing in girls’ schools sports.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (Jan. 24, 2023) – A bill introduced in the Missouri Senate would ban state cooperation with the enforcement of federal regulations that interfere with farming and ranching in the state.
Sen. Jill Carter (R) introduced Senate Bill 84 (SB84) on Jan. 4. Titled the Freedom to Farm Act, the legislation would limit government regulation of farming and ranching in Missouri. The bill includes provisions addressing federal regulations.
“The right of farmers and ranchers to engage in farming and ranching practices for sale or personal consumption shall be guaranteed free from government intervention and such practices occurring within this state shall not be infringed upon by the federal government under the regulation of interstate commerce.”
SB84 goes on to prohibit state and local government agencies from enforcing any provision of law, order, ordinance, rule, regulation, policy, or other similar measures that restrict farming or ranching practices. Any state or local agency could be held civilly liable in state court for violating this provision.
In practice, the proposed law would create a process for farmers and ranchers in Missouri to challenge the enforcement of federal regulations on farming. Any farmer or rancher who believed a state or local agency helped enforce a federal rule or regulation that infringed on their right to farm could sue that state agency in state court. If the court finds in their favor, it would effectively ban any future state or local enforcement of that particular federal regulation.
At the least, the passage of SB84 would create a chilling effect on state and local cooperation with the enforcement of federal regulations on farming and ranching. In the best-case scenario, it would stop cooperation with the enforcement of some specific federal regulations.
EFFECTIVE
Based on James Madison’s advice for states and individuals in Federalist #46, a “refusal to cooperate with officers of the Union” provides an extremely effective method to render federal laws, effectively unenforceable because most enforcement actions rely on help, support, and leadership from the states. This legislation could effectively end the enforcement of some federal rules and regulations that infringe on the right to farm.
Fox News senior judicial analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano agreed this type of approach would be extremely effective. In a televised discussion on federal gun laws, he noted that a single state refusing to cooperate with enforcement would make federal gun laws “nearly impossible” to enforce.
The federal government relies heavily on state cooperation to implement and enforce almost all of its laws, regulations and acts. By simply withdrawing this necessary cooperation, states can nullify in effect many federal actions. As noted by the National Governor’s Association during the partial government shutdown of 2013, “states are partners with the federal government on most federal programs.”
LEGAL BASIS
The provisions prohibiting the state from enforcing or implementing certain federal acts rest on a well-established legal principle known as the anti-commandeering doctrine. Simply put, the federal government cannot force states to help implement or enforce any federal act or program – whether constitutional or not. The anti-commandeering doctrine is based primarily on five Supreme Court cases dating back to 1842. Printz v. U.S. serves as the cornerstone.
“We held in New York that Congress cannot compel the States to enact or enforce a federal regulatory program. Today we hold that Congress cannot circumvent that prohibition by conscripting the States’ officers directly. The Federal Government may neither issue directives requiring the States to address particular problems, nor command the States’ officers, or those of their political subdivisions, to administer or enforce a federal regulatory program. It matters not whether policy making is involved, and no case by case weighing of the burdens or benefits is necessary; such commands are fundamentally incompatible with our constitutional system of dual sovereignty.”
No determination of constitutionality is necessary to invoke the anti-commandeering doctrine. State and local governments can refuse to enforce federal laws or implement federal programs whether they are constitutional or not.
WHAT’S NEXT
SB84 was referred to the Senate Agriculture, Food Production, and Outdoor Resources Committee, where it must get a hearing and pass by a majority vote before moving forward in the legislative process.
Mike Maharrey | The Tenth Amendment Center – Republished with Permission
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We can debate 232 years later whether accepting Vermont into the union was a good idea, but there have been a few positives, Calvin Coolidge being one of them. But recent decades have seen a significant decline as the Democrat Socialists have turned it into a Right-Coast California without the coast.
Related: More of Our Coverage on the Decline and Fall of Vermont
If there’s a stupid left-wing idea, they are all ears, eyes, and your wallet, eager to waste other people’s money in its pursuit without regard to the cost.
Jonathan Lesser’s commentary at VT Digger on the state’s climate plan encapsulates this. To summarize, Vermont’s global emissions are minuscule. China or India erase any alleged ‘reductions’ in the blink of an eye. You could do more for the planet for a lot less if that were the goal by influencing them or any number of third-world countries that need fossil fuels to claw their way out of poverty.
Help them reduce emissions instead of pretending you’ve done it by offshoring yours.
But it is easier to lie to guilty liberals and tell them that kneecapping western prosperity is the answer, and that’s Vermont. Their plan would spend 15 billion, costing Vermonters a Billion (assuming other costs are covered by the DC fiat-money tree). Estimated benefits and savings are as suspect as the need, but the details needed to prove anything, either way, are not available.
One might think that before imposing the Climate Action Plan on Vermonters and asking them to spend over $1 billion of their money, getting answers to these basic questions and allowing the public to independently review the assumptions and conclusions would be reasonable.
Except it’s not. …
The Ethan Allen Institute’s recent open records request to the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources turned up nothing. According to the agency, the data used for all of the modeling and the detailed results were not part of the “deliverables” from the consultants who wrote the action plan. Thus no independent review of the costs and supposed benefits is possible.
The Climate Cult’s Pharisees expect you to take it all on faith that it is necessary, that it will work, and that you’ll barely feel a thing. None of which appears to be the case.
[T]he action plan calls for installing over 96,000 residential heat pumps by 2025 — two years from now — and more than 177,000 by 2030. The action plan claims these installations cost $4,000 “plus or minus about $1,000 depending on the house layout and other particulars.” Where is that number from? Who knows?
A 2021 study by Diversified Energy Specialists in Massachusetts looked at the actual costs of installing residential heat pumps in that state between 2019 and 2021. The median cost for whole-house retrofits was $20,000, four times larger than what the action plan claims.
Like everything related to Climate Cult Dogma, the fairy tale threat is the least of our worries. The solutions do more damage and are incapable of delivering on a lie that Democrats in New Hampshire are eager to embrace.
Sometimes Republican Governor Chris Sununu never met a bag of federal money he didn’t like, but much like the climate threat and the supposed solutions, the money is fake too. What’s real is the damage going “green” will cause to the planet and whoever embraces it. The only thing we’ll pass down to our posterity is generational debt to pay for an elitist money-laundering scheme.
Calvin Coolidge would have never let it happen. Vermont – which can’t print its own money – is ready to put its children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren in hock to the Feds for a ‘solution’ to a non-problem that solves nothing even if the problem were real. Something progressives in both parties on both sides of the Connecticut river will embrace for no other reason than “free money.”
But it’s not just not free and not real; the costs to our economies and quality of life are so significant we might never escape them. Not as a state or a nation.
How about we not do that?
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I want the messiest, meanest, most arduous Presidential primary imaginable … because I want, and the GOP needs if it is going to win in 2024, a political-killer for the nominee. The idea that … THAT’S JUST HELPING THE DEMOCRATS, IF WE TEAR EACH OTHER APART …is, at best, hopelessly naive.
No matter who the nominee is, the Left will declare him or her the next incarnation of Hitler and, by implication, anyone who would vote for this next Hitler a Nazi.
I want, and the GOP needs, a Presidential candidate who can deal with all the sh*t the legacy media, Big-Tech, the RINOs and the rest of the Left is going to fling. And the way you locate that person is by having a truly competitive primary.
Stated somewhat differently, not having Trump run in the primary makes it much more likely that the nominee will be, at best, unprepared for the general election and, at worst, some milquetoast, groveling mediocrity … another Romney or McCain.
It is extreme hubris to, at this point in time, declare either that DeSantis should defer to Trump or that Trump should make way for DeSantis. Let them go head to head, and let the voters decide.
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Gender-bending is all the rage. Sure, it’s unhealthy, causes depression, increases the odds of suicide, and the drug therapy can kill you, but prog groomers would HAND THEM OUT at Halloween if we let them. Do you know what’s not safe for tweens?
Facebook, and I can’t disagree. Social media is the cliff off which the culture has fallen (and it can’t get up). So why the contradiction? It is the primary driver of a culture that leads to gender dysphoria directly through the child or Muchhauseon by proxy via their parent(s). Why would Sloppy Joe’s Surgeon General open his yap and cut this cord?
U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy believes children 13 years old are too young to join social media platforms, citing kids are still “developing their identity,” and such engagement can create a distorted sense of themselves. …
“It’s a time, you know, early adolescence, where kids are developing their identity, their sense of self,” Murthy said. “It’s a time where it’s really important for us to be thoughtful about what’s going into how they think about their own self-worth and their relationships, and the skewed and often distorted environment of social media often does a disservice to many of those children.”
Again, no arguments from me on the age limitation. Might I suggest 18? The world could be significantly improved absent its influence. And that is what strikes me as odd. Did Dr. Murthy have clearance to land this? It undermines the reprogramming regiment. Are the recruitment numbers coming out of the government schools that good? Are they meeting quota by converting so many of your kids to the cause that there was room to pinch this vector in the bud?
“Our findings suggest that checking behaviors on social media in early adolescence may tune the brain’s sensitivity to potential social rewards and punishments,” Dr. Eva Telzer, co-author of the study and a professor in developmental psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, said. …
“It tells our brains to keep using that,” Stacey said. “For teenagers in particular, this part of their brain is actually hyperactive compared to adults. They can’t get motivated to do anything else.”
Ah, I see. They are afraid they won’t vote Democrat or pursue a gender studies degree. That makes sense.
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In late 2021, school officials in Brattleboro, Vermont, hosted a clinic at which the COVID vaccine was administered to a 6-year-old child against his parents’ expressed wishes. Last month, a judge dismissed the family’s lawsuit against the school district and the State of Vermont.
Why? Because no one is responsible. In this case, the federal PREP Act offered blanket amnesty to everyone involved.
The official message is, “We can vaccinate your child against your wishes, and NO ONE IS RESPONSIBLE.”
Unfortunately, the Brattleboro incident was not an isolated event. These kinds of things are continuing to happen. If you’d like to help put a stop to it, read further.
In 2022, we heard about an incident in a Nashua public school where a 7-year-old student was given the flu vaccine without parental consent. In testimony before a legislative study committee, NH state epidemiologist Benjamin Chan referred to this as a “never event.” That’s a medical term of art describing situations that should simply never, ever happen, like amputating the wrong limb, operating on the wrong patient, or leaving a surgical sponge inside a patient following surgery.
We were assured that this was an isolated incident and that NH health officials were doing everything in their power to make sure it didn’t happen again.
Except that it DID happen again.
Just a few weeks after Dr. Chan’s testimony, it happened at another school-based vaccine clinic in Rochester, NH. In this case, the parent made it overwhelmingly clear that she did NOT want her child to get the flu vaccine. Nevertheless, it happened.
These are just the cases that we know about.
If public health officials can vaccinate your children at school without your consent, and if no one is responsible for screw-ups, then what’s a parent to do?
I have spoken to numerous parents who recommend keeping a child home on days when vaccine clinics are scheduled to take place at their school. I can’t necessarily disagree with that advice, but there is a better solution: Let’s eliminate the possibility that these “never events” can occur at all.
House Bill 539 would prohibit K-12 public schools in our state from hosting vaccination clinics on school property during school hours. If a school chooses to host a clinic outside of school hours, the bill would require that a parent or guardian be present with their child.
The House Education Committee will hold a hearing on HB539 next Tuesday at 1:45 PM in LOB Room 205-207.
Here’s how you can help:
SPREAD THE WORD! If you know someone who cares about informed consent, share this article with them.
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Damn, I hope so. If you live long enough, you see many social phases come on strong, only to fade away to make room for the next fad. Fifty years ago, when I was walking the corridors of my high school, transgender was a word decades away from being invented, and even gay was a rarity.
Back in the late sixties and early seventies, being a hippie or flower child was on its way out, and grunge had not yet taken hold. Back then, we had the pressures of the war in Vietnam and social unrest at home. One thing we did have going in our favor was we still had face-to-face interaction and the support of friends we could see and touch. Fifty years is a long time, but I am not sure we have progressed in some areas, and interpersonal relationships may be failing us.
We have become a plugged-in society. iPads, iPhones, Androids, and earbuds have replaced conversation. See someone walking their dog and talking to the dog? Nope, they are on their cell. See two people sitting in a restaurant having a quiet moment? Nope, they are both texting. Cards and letters have been replaced by SMS or DMs. We are slaves to our electronics, and our best friend is now a touchscreen. It is sad, but it is also taking a toll, and that is with our children.
I was speaking with a close friend over the weekend. He is a high school teacher, and I drive a high school bus. The conversation got around to the number of trans students, and I was shocked when he replied that it was a number far higher than you could fathom. He felt that though these kids were in various stages in the process, they all had one thing in common. They were “fringe” kids. They were not into sports or extracurricular activities. They were loners who lacked a support group. They doubted themselves and were seeking their true identity. What a mess. These kids need help.
I asked about the motivation of teachers or counselors to get involved to coach these kids but cut the parents out of the loop. He felt their motives were sincere, and they were not doing it out of power but compassion. I listened and wanted to understand because this did not align with my thinking. He was convincing and may have changed my perception.
My concern, however, goes to school boards taking the initiative to shield school personnel from parents. There appears to be a movement to encourage the process, which in many cases, leads kids to seek body-changing surgery without parental consent. These are minors for whom schools cannot administer aspirin without consent but are now aiding in the sexual mutilation of minor children. Who can justify this?
Well, apparently, a group of teachers and counselors in Midcoast Maine can. When Amber Levigne discovered a breast binder in her 13-year-old daughter’s bedroom, her daughter divulged it was given to her by teachers at her school. Amber’s daughter told these educators that she was meant to be a boy. They agreed to help her transition but insisted that the young girl not inform her mother of the efforts to grant her wish to become a boy. The Maine legislature is acting on the matter but not in the way they should.
Maine is prepared to adopt a state law that protects teachers and counselors against legal repercussions and allows them to keep these situations secret from the parents. The State of Maine is complicit in these vile acts against minor children. They are driving a wedge between children and parents. To what end and for what motivation? It does not matter. These people, and now the government, must be stopped.
There will be much more to come regarding the school or state’s role, but logic and moral compass support the parents in this battle. We must force this issue and win battles, and the war, on our children. There can be no more important reason to fight back.
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The Wall Street Journal has an editorial that may, if that is possible, wake Americans up! Amazingly, the title is “THE US CONSUMER IS FREAKING OUT!”. Here is a brief summary of the major points that the WSJ editorial board makes about the coming catastrophic calamity known as the Demolitioncrat Biden economy:
We want to thank Charles Bradley for this Op-Ed. If you have an Op-Ed or LTE
you would like us to consider, please submit it to Editor@GraniteGrok.com.
In addition, Mark Spitznagel, a famous hedge fund manager, sees a financial “ Mega-Tinderbox Timebomb” on the horizon.
Finally, according to Steve Cortes, an esteemed economist and former Trump advisor, a tsunami of two million US households have had their electric or gas power shut off in 2022.
Welcome to the Wonder World of Demolitioncrats and Joeflation Biden!
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When I taught English as an adjunct college instructor, one literary genre that I considered extremely interesting was that of the slave narrative. Hundreds of slaves, overcoming unimaginable obstacles, not only learned how to read but also wrote down their stories which revealed the truth about the horrors of slavery.
We want to thank NH State Rep. Arlene Quaratiello for this Op-Ed. Please submit yours to Editor@GraniteGrok.com.
The publication of these inspiring testaments hastened the end of this egregious institution. Frederick Douglass, famous for saying, “Once you learn to read, you will be forever free,” wrote the best-known slave narrative, The Autobiography of Frederick Douglass. In my classes, I highlighted the theme he conveyed of literacy providing a pathway to freedom not only literally for slaves but figuratively for all human beings. The truth of this theme revealed in slave narratives is timeless and needs to be appreciated by all students. That is why I was dismayed when I learned that many educators are now uncomfortable teaching about slave narratives, slavery, and many other race-related historical topics because they fear that by doing so, they will break the law and be fired.
As a member of the State Legislature’s House Education Committee, I recently had the opportunity to hear the testimony provided by dozens of teachers regarding HB61, a bill which would, if it were passed, repeal the “Anti-discrimination Law” (RSA 193:40) currently in effect. Although the emotional testimony I heard seemed sincere and heartfelt, it was ultimately misguided because the law, which HB61 seeks to repeal, does not prevent teachers from covering the topics they fear teaching. Several times, testifiers were asked how RSA193:40 would prevent a teacher from covering historical topics related to race, but no one seemed able to provide a satisfying answer citing the legal text. Surprisingly, it appeared likely that some of those who spoke in support of the bill had an inadequate understanding of the law that HB61 seeks to repeal.
If you read the text of RSA193:40, you will find that it simply prohibits teaching that one’s inherent characteristics (sex, race, religion, national origin, etc.) make a person inherently superior or inferior. Many of those who testified against this law criticized its “vagueness” that led to their discomfort in the classroom, but the New Hampshire Department of Education has provided clear guidelines available on its website which define what is prohibited under this statute and what is not. The NH-DOE asserts, “Nothing prohibits the teaching of historical subjects” (and even goes on to say, “Nor does anything prohibit discussions related to current events”). It further clarifies that the intent of the law is to prohibit schools “from teaching that one identified group…is inherently superior or inferior to people of another identified group.”
Therefore, teachers can say, “Slave owners abused slaves.” They can describe the horrors of the institution of slavery and have discussions in which students share their thoughts about this topic. Teachers cannot, however, insinuate that students in their classrooms belonging to a particular racial group should somehow feel guilt and shame over these events of the past which were in no remote way their fault. To put it bluntly, a teacher cannot imply that “white people oppressed black people.” Considering that numerous people who happened to be white helped slaves learn to read and get their stories published, the latter statement would be historically inaccurate.
What is prohibited by RSA193:40, the law that HB61 seeks to repeal, is stereotyping based on skin color or any other inherent characteristic such as sex, religion, or national origin. For this reason, the aptly named “Anti-discrimination Law” should never be repealed. Please contact the members of the Education Committee (see https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/house/committees/links.aspx?x=2&id=1 ) and urge them to oppose HB61.
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A gender-fluid boy and his friends who identify as furries are being allowed to use the girls’ facilities at Milford Middle School. They are leering at girls in the locker room and exposing themselves in the restroom.
Related: NH School Boards Association Transgender Policy is Harming Girls in School
A mother testified at the New Hampshire State House Thursday that school administrators are doing nothing to stop them- because of their transgender policies.
Samia DeMarco told the NH House Judiciary Committee:
Our young girls were exposed in the locker room when this transgender individual and their friends, some of who also identify as animals, came in and watched them inappropriately, then over the following weeks, continued to bully them and make rude comments about their bodies in retaliation for these victims making a complaint to the school’s administration.
DeMarco was testifying for HB 396, which, If signed into law, would recognize biological reality and allow public facilities to differentiate between the two sexes in athletic competitions, prisons, locker rooms, and restrooms.
DeMarco said the young man claims he’s gender-fluid but usually identifies as a girl.
“The same transgender student was urinating in the girls’ bathroom with the stall door open when my daughter and her friend entered the bathroom, but their complaints to the guidance office were brushed off,” DeMarco said. Although she told her daughter to use the unisex bathroom and to advise her friends to do the same.
I’m struggling greatly with the idea that once again I have to tell my daughter that she needs to change her behavior to protect her innocence and modesty.
We are exposing other little girls to potential danger or discomfort. Our state needs clear guidance that addresses genitalia, not gender identity. If you have male body parts, you should utilize the male facilities or an available unisex bathroom. We can’t expect an entire female student population to use a couple of single-stall bathrooms also shared with the teaching staff while a small group of kids have free reign of the other facilities.
A victim of sexual trauma herself, DeMarco said she has “deep empathy for anyone struggling with self-loathing and suicidal thoughts.” And though she respects freedom of choice, “I strongly believe that your rights should not infringe on anyone else’s rights or safety.”
She’s concerned not only about exposing children to danger, but also that the Milford School District is sending the girls the message that their collective comfort and safety comes second to helping trans-identifying boys feel affirmed.
By allowing this to continue, we are telling our little girls that their bodies aren’t sacred, there are no repercussions for these offenses, and we won’t be doing anything to ensure their safety and comfort. Please consider the damage this is doing to our pubescent daughters’ already fragile self, and work to put something in place that makes all of our students feel safe at school.
Watch Samia’s testimony:
Watch the entire hearing at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lK3Dk18hml0&t=27535s.
Send your testimony in support of HB396 to the House Judiciary Committee at mailto:HouseJudiciaryCommittee@leg.state.nh.us. They are scheduled to vote on the bill on February 8.
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In an earlier piece on charter schools, I suggested that we need to start asking school districts: How much is enough?
That is, if we want to get 100% of our educable students to proficiency in reading and math, how much would it cost?
If $15,000 per student isn’t enough, how about $20,000? Or $40,000? Or $100,000?
Last year I learned that the district wasn’t interested in spending less money to ensure an adequate education for Croydon’s kids. So I thought maybe it would be interested in spending more money to do that.
So last night, at a budget hearing held by the Croydon school board, I took my own advice. I asked the superintendent of the Croydon Village School (CVS) how much it would take to get all of the kids there reading at proficiency.
Here’s how I asked it:
If you were offered a budget of $1 million per student, you’d be able to teach all of the kids at CVS to read, right? So somewhere between the $30,000 we’re spending now, and $1 million, there’s some smallest number that would let you get the job done. What is that number? What would it cost to get the job done?
I wasn’t really prepared for his answer, which was that $1 million wouldn’t be enough.
Now, this is a guy who makes about $80,000 per year for one to two days of work per week. This translates to a full-time salary of at least $200,000, making him one of the highest-paid superintendents in the state — who, nonetheless, is running a school where half of the kids are below proficiency in reading and math.
And he’s not just a superintendent but a special education coordinator as well. So presumably, he knows a little about things like individualized instruction.
In trying to get him to come up with a number, I was very clear that the $1 million didn’t have to be spent during the course of regular school days. It could be used for programs outside of school. It could be used to teach each a kid’s parents to read if that was necessary. It would be enough to hire a reading specialist to live at a kid’s home if that’s what it would take.
But he admitted, in a public forum, that he wouldn’t be able, for $1 million per student, to teach the 21 students in CVS to read.
This all happened, by the way, just a few minutes after he had described himself as a ‘big idea guy.’ But apparently, the idea of teaching every kid to read is too big an idea, even for him. (By ‘big idea,’ he seems to mean things like getting a federal grant to buy violins and snowshoes for use by kids at the school or spending a few thousand dollars on a new reading assessment program that is already in wide use throughout the state.)
Sadly, the principal of the school agreed that it couldn’t be done for $1 million per student. As did a former member of the school board, whom I’ve written about before.
Now, what makes all this especially interesting is that RSA 193-H:2 says that,
Schools shall ensure that all pupils are performing at the proficient level or above on the statewide assessment.
So in a sense, I was just asking him: What would we have to spend to get you to stop breaking the law?
Now, maybe I’m being unfair, but I have trouble seeing any significant difference between $1 million isn’t enough money to teach a kid to read, and I don’t know how to teach a kid to read.
If you’re wondering why school costs keep going up and why that will never stop, here’s a big part of your answer right there. There is no amount of money so large that the people who are supposed to be teaching kids to be literate, numerate, and rational will not hide behind excuses for why they can’t really be expected to do that job.
District Meeting season is almost upon us. I hope some of you will try asking the same question at your budget hearings and annual meetings and report back with the answers you receive.
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