Good Morning. I’m Samuel Safford from Pelham, NH. At age 4, I was diagnosed with a rare genetic defect called Duchenne MD. It is fatal and has no cure. The doctors told my parents that my brother and I would not live long enough to graduate high school, never mind go to college or get a job. But they were wrong.

My life has not been easy. My father passed away when I was 13. I was the only kid in a wheelchair in High School. I used to sit alone at lunch, I was sad, lonely and depressed.

Back in 2021, after a hospital stay, I was diagnosed with a brain bacteria called Bartonella. This illness is an opportunistic pathogen from a tick or flea bite that causes brain inflammation leading to psychiatric issues. My physical disability was nothing compared to the psychiatric symptoms of Bartonella. It was unbearable. My depression turned into despair, and I began waking up every morning wanting to die. These suicidal thoughts became too much for me.

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Fortunately, my mom found me a helpful counselor and a homeopathic doctor who helped treat my Bartonella. Three years later, I can say that I am well and enjoy a rich, abundant life. I am part of a Toastmasters group in Windham and enjoy giving motivational speeches. I am a writer, singer, and artist, and I’m active in my church and community. My life has value and dignity.

I urge you to oppose Assisted Suicide. The medical community and insurance companies will only use it to end the lives of people like me. Instead, let’s provide compassionate care. No matter how you look at it, there is no dignity in suicide.

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We’ve had many high-ranking and number-one honors over the years (many of them year after year), but I’m not sure we’ve ever gotten this number one. We consistently rank high, in the top three at worst, but Ammo.com has ranked New Hampshire as the best State in the nation for firearms owners in 2024.

New Hampshire is a permitless carry state with incredibly relaxed gun laws (and low crime rates). Any citizen over 18 years old who is lawfully permitted to possess a firearm can open and conceal carry. New Hampshire residents can travel to 29 other states with a pistol and revolver license[110]. The state also honors all 50 states’ permits.

Residents won’t need to attend firearms safety courses, go through a fingerprinting process, or any other stringent tests to obtain a permit. The state also issues permits[111] to out-of-state residents (although they’re only valid in NH). Purchasers are required to pass federal background checks in accordance with federal law.

But what’s better is that New Hampshire currently doesn’t have a state sales tax[112]. So you won’t pay additional taxes on firearms purchases. Those finding themselves in a self-defense situation may be protected from prosecution if they are protecting life or property, with no duty to retreat[113].

Governor Chris Sununu recently signed into law a bill[114] that restricts the state’s law enforcement from enforcing federal laws that infringe on an individual’s right to gun ownership. Essentially, New Hampshire seems to be the best state for gun owners, with low crime rates and minimal restrictions on firearms and purchases.

You can see how your State fared here or check out their visually stimulating map with big, friendly numbers. California ranked 50, New York 49, and Vermont – how far it has fallen – is 31.

Ammo.com provides its methodology (ranking factors) along with footnotes to links on which it bases its research.

So, congrats to NH. Another number One.

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As promised in Monday Memes, I have an overflow. My meme cup runneth over.  And yes there will be a Friday edition too.

Let the mayhem, mockery, and ridicule resume:

 

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

 

 

Please understand that I don’t want to be right on my Depopulation Speculations – already late on the timing, so there’s hope – but at the same time…

Caddyshack – Well? We’re Waiting (youtube.com)

 

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There would, doubtless, still be people who – despite the pain at the pump and inflation in general – would still cheer that “Orange Man” is not in power.  My belief is this, captured in a cartoon, that people could be in a collapsed society, but still be grateful that Trump is not in.

 

 

 

 

 

Simple: to keep those citizens from defending themselves against those armed illegals.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

More generally, liberals evade facts that don’t support their view of their moral (and intellectual) superiority.

 

 

 

 

 

For Hollyweird, trans kids are a trendy fashion statement.  Burn. It. All. Down.

 

 

No, no they don’t.  Reality imitates art.

 

 

I’d argue it’s much worse than that.

 

 

 

 

 

Why am I somehow reminded of Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation?

 

 

 

 

 

There’s a scene in the movie “Devil’s Advocate” where Satan (Al Pacino) is talking about using the law to get acquittal after acquittal after acquittal until the universe fills up with darkness – or something like that.

 

 

What hath feminism wrought?  Same with porn for men – the expectations are set that cannot possibly match reality.

 

 

Is Trump “salvation”?  I doubt it; certainly he’s not a deity.

 

 

I know I’ve mentioned it before… in one of Bernard Goldberg’s books he described how a reporter, on the scene as an eye witness to a massive chemical spill / release (in India IIRC – possibly the Bhopal incident) where he called his editor to describe it.  That editor declined to run what would have been a career-making scoop… until he saw it coming across “the wires” so it was officially news.

 

 

 

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PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA

 

Yes, they are coming for your kids.  It’s Communist doctrine to do so.

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/children-and-indoctrination.mp4

 

This about the video: a woman abandons her family – children! – to become a missionary for Communism in Russia.  Thus proving my oft-asserted point – that this is a RELIGION.  And that the fight against the Left is not a war of ideas per se, but a religious war against fanatics who believe they can create paradise on earth.  See Bill Whittle’s review of the Frankfurt School.

Two different Socialists agree with indoctrination:

 

 

 

Incidentally, while I do attempt to guide my kids, I do so by the Socratic method, not brow-beating.

 

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Links (some from me, some from my Jarhead friend):

 

Biden Signs Bill Gates’ Pact to ‘Combat Future Pandemics’ – Slay News

Who the living F is Bill Gates so connected with that he has this kind of pull?  It can’t JUST be money IMHO; just what info is Microsoft gathering?

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Dr. Aseem Malhotra’s Explosive Court Testimony on COVID “Vaccines”(UPDATED) (aussie17.com)

Courtroom testimony – thus I infer under oath – censored by youtube.  Because “misinformation”.  Transcript at the link.  Every time I want to believe that the censorship is ending, I see things like this.  They’re determined to control your thoughts through the information you have available.

sHeEp BrAiN – Top Molecular Geneticist Warns mRNA Jabs are ERASING Memories & HIJACKING Personalities (substack.com)

There’s a longstanding joke about people being idiots.  “You sound vaccinated”.  Looking more and more like this might actually be a thing.

Multiple COVID Shots Linked to Higher Mortality Rates in 18- to 39-Year-Olds • Children’s Health Defense (childrenshealthdefense.org)

Non-sterilizing (does not stop infection, replication, transmission) vaccines: they knew (vaccine makers, vaccinologists) that if you MASS vaccinate into a population across age-groups, in the MIDST (substack.com)

It means that mechanically, there was NO way that the COVID mRNA vaccine could have ever even worked.

It was DOA. Day one.

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‘Democrats Got Everything They Wanted’: Rep. Hakeem Jeffries Hailed as House ‘Shadow Speaker’ After $95 Billion Ukraine Bill Passes (infowars.com)

Uniparty.

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How we know that the sun changes the Climate. Part I: The past – Watts Up With That?

Great graphs plus other info.  More – destroying wealth and civilizations, in the name of climate:

The War On Cars | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT (wordpress.com)

How Many Billions of People Would Die Under Net Zero? – Watts Up With That?

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Bayou Renaissance Man: Some inflation is nothing more than deliberate price-gouging by businesses

‘Something Will Have to Give’: IMF Issues Dire Warning to Biden Administration (westernjournal.com)

Economy sucks canal water.  And this is deliberate.

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U.S. Troops Forced Out in ANOTHER Humiliating Biden Diplomacy Fail. (thenationalpulse.com)

Remember, these are the people who said they were the experts – the “adults in the room” compared to Orange Man.

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NYC Man Convicted Over Gunsmithing Hobby After Judge Says 2nd Amendment ‘Doesn’t Exist in This Courtroom’ – RedState

She told us, ‘Do not bring the Second Amendment into this courtroom. It doesn’t exist here. So you can’t argue Second Amendment. This is New York.’

Police Website Reveals CDC Suppressing Defensive Gun Use Data – The Truth About Guns

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Blaze News investigates: The truth about raw milk the government doesn’t want you to know: ‘Close to a perfect food’ | Blaze Media (theblaze.com)

I’m still leery, but at this point if “government” says X, I’ll default to believing NOT X until more data come in.

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Surveillance Need Not Be Governmental – Liberty’s Torch (libertystorch.info)

In the UK.  But doubtless coming here.

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Smithsonian, America’s Top Museum, Worried it Can’t Hold Drag Shows Any More – The Lid (lidblog.com)

Our tax dollars at work.  Related:

 

 

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Trump is busy in New York dealing with BS “trials”, which is what they want (so he’s not out campaigning).  Here are two articles (both by lawyers) showing that these charges are bogus, and the trial is a sham just designed to waste Trump’s time & money (and the taxpayers money also):

The lawfare against Donald Trump hits new heights today (substack.com)

Related:

https://www.declassified.live/p/another-defense-against-braggs-sham

Among all the bills being voted on (that give our money to foreign governments), one that slipped under the radar is the REPO bill, which aims to take seized Russian money and give it to Ukraine.  Gee, let’s give some MORE money to Ukraine, I mean it’s not like we need it here, right?  Also, it’s another way to “poke” the Russian bear.  These people WANT to start WW3, and the American citizen can go to hell:

https://pomp.substack.com/p/geopolitical-chess-meets-economics

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Major banks are being called on the carpet for de-banking Christian organizations.  But the government is not stopping them.  Imagine the hue & cry if they de-banked a Muslim organization:

Major Banks Debanking Christians | Armstrong Economics

Related:

Largest Christian University in America Gets Fined $37 Million. Coincidence or Targeted Attack? (dailysignal.com)

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This short video (2 minutes) sums up 25 things that are actively being used to destroy America:

Diogenes’ Middle Finger: For Those Who Haven’t Been Paying Attention….. (diogenesmiddlefinger.com)

Related:

https://twitter.com/CynicalPublius/status/1782569668462477545

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BRM with another good “you need to think about this” article.  What happens when critical infrastructure goes down due to enemy action.  And you have no water, no heat (or AC), no electricity, no access to banks, etc.  And not for a few days, like after a big storm, but for MONTHS, maybe YEARS:

Bayou Renaissance Man: About that critical infrastructure…

Related:

Bayou Renaissance Man: More about our fragile global Internet

 

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So here’s a question: How was it that these were bought and handed out ahead of time?

 

 

 

 

Increasingly, Magic Eight Ball says NO.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I would love to go to visit Australia.  Nope, not now.

 

 

 

 

 

Towards a permanent-majority voting block.  They’ve been working on this for DECADES.

 

 

 

About the only thing I trust government to do.

 

 

 

YouTube still at it.

 

 

Unverified, but very possible.  Slowly, slowly, slowly the constrictor tightens its coils.

 

 

Remember, conquest by migration & demographics – Hijra – is a real thing in Islam.

 

 

 

OOH, I am grateful America is supporting Israel.  OTOH, it only shows that Israel MUST work to cut the financial dependency on America.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Pick of the Post:

 

Understand that I post this reluctantly; there’s enough Jew hate around as it is.  “Circling the wagons” is a natural reaction.  But if we, as a people, cannot and do not call out our own, others will take that as tacit approval.  To take no action is an action in and of itself.

Grooming is real – after all, since LGBTQP don’t reproduce biologically, their ongoing numbers MUST come from other sources.  And this denial by the ADL only fuels the fires of those who hate us for their perception that “all Jews” are for this.  Like my open letter calling out pro-migration Jews, this too must be called out and criticized.  Primarily, of course, for the children affected by this, but also to show that Jews are nowhere near united behind this perversion.

 

 

Just look at the open and outright denial – gaslighting – of what people understand is implicitly and obviously true through simple logic: that LGBTQP+ increases because of grooming and indoctrination.

What is “Grooming?” The Truth Behind the Dangerous, Bigoted Lie Targeting the LGBTQ+ Community | ADL

This calling-out-our-own applies not just to this, and to migration, but to the perceived unity in Jewish advocacy of Communism.  Except:

Socialism and Passover: The Holiday Of Freedom – The Lid (lidblog.com)

 

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Palate cleansers:

 

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Been learning Morse code and trying to teach it to my kids (without much luck).  I can send – very slowly – messages but would have to see them written down to decode them.  Practice, of course…

 

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Come back on Friday for more memes.  Same meme time.  Same meme channel.

 

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Amazingly, the colleges and universities where you think you would find the brightest thinkers of the next generation of leaders are dens of lemmings. Columbia, Yale, MIT, and Emerson College are some of these schools.

The media focuses on East Coast schools, but West Coast schools like UCLA and UC Berkeley are also protested. Thousands of young students are taking to the campus courtyards to chant, beat drums, burn flags, and harass their Israeli classmates. They are protesting against Israel and American support for Israel. They are supporting Palestine and Hamas. These are not spontaneous, organic gatherings of intelligent, well-informed students united by a cause. These planned and funded statements by wealthy outside forces using these students as pawns in their chess game against the establishment. These organizers stay anonymous in the background, but they all share one thing: they hate America.

Signs, audio systems, and tents are the obvious signs of financial support for these uprisings. Sad accounts by Jewish students tell of the harassment they are experiencing, but worse is the threat to their safety. These students are urged to leave campus and return home. The school administrators, campus security, or local police cannot guarantee the Jewish student’s safety. These targeted students are afraid to leave their dorm rooms, and if they choose to stay, they attend their classes remotely.

These protest groups are very similar to the Holocaust deniers. They refuse to admit that Hamas is a terrorist group or that these thugs invaded Israel on October 7. They do not recognize the 1,200 tortured and killed Israelites or the over 100 hostages held by Hamas. These students are jeopardizing their status at the institutes they are paying dearly to attend by condemning the global stands or connections the schools have. Obviously, few of these students investigated these schools before agreeing to become a community member. They wear hijabs or surgical masks to protect their identity. Many of the overzealous protestors are being arrested or expelled by the institutions. This lapse in decorum will have a lasting impact on their future.

Many of these student protestors show little knowledge of the people or groups they support or the history of the Middle East. These female protestors deny the horrendous treatment of women by Hamas, Hezbollah, and many of the countries surrounding Israel, where women have equal rights as men. These LGBTQ groups screaming “We are Hamas” do not understand they would be put to death by the terrorist group they claim allegiance to. Students at Yale sing Black Civil Rights hymns, conflating the two issues.

These protests are going to have the adverse effect that these students want. They are forcing the school administrators to swing the schools to the Right and away from the WOKE or DEI influences that have brought them to these crossroads. These student protestors are showing their immaturity in being sucked into these gatherings and their ignorance of the facts and truth about the issues. These protests will lose momentum and dissolve as more students face accountability for their illegal actions. Unfortunately, the effect of a lifetime of indoctrination will not change as quickly. These children have been compromised, and only life’s experiences will show them the errors in this Progressive philosophy.

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