Thursday • April 25 • 2024
Vol.XVI • No.XVII
Manchester, N.H.
Apologies for no Sunday Survival. On vacation. Given my workload I’ll just resume it next weekend.
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They’re flying so thick and fast it is amazing. And take heart – there will be a Meme Overflow and I will back-edit to include the link. And this week I do expect to have a Friday Meme Overflow-Overflow (link to last one).
Remember, ridicule and mockery are effective weapons:
Now, let the mockery and mayhem begin.
*** Warning, a few possibly off-color ones, in case tender eyes are about ***
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I am no legal expert. How to deal with this? A certified, return-receipt letter to the school cc the school nurse? Requesting a signed reply?
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But first, a random sampling of three of my cartoons. Please note these are my concepts but I pay a professional to do them.
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Once again… point out that the pharma companies cannot be sued and nobody blinks. Astonishing!
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There are multiple people I know who are only alive today because I’ve figured it’s not worth it.
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Please understand that I’m not advocating anything. I abjure violence. But… I fear it’s coming. And not just to facilities, but to the homes of pharma employees who knew, or should have known, and said nothing. LinkedIn / mewe are your friends, as are places where you can look up their addresses.
Again, I don’t want this. How many have seen this video, from Oz, and thought “That doctor is lucky to have escaped with his life”?
The comments, though, are fascinating. Virtually nobody is talking about the fact that the doctor was attacked after the man’s loved one died from the Jab.
Again, I am not-not-not encouraging this. But when enough people have an AHA moment about the damages the Jabs are doing, they will go to lawyers, who will tell them nothing can be done. Ditto for their politicians. And then, barring silent acceptance, people will start planning…
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Remember, something you have a “right” to must be provided to you by taking from someone else, taken by force most often.
(Link to AZ Quotes per their policy)
Very honored to have his picture, autographed to me, on my wall at home.
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Otherwise called “hypochondria”. And the experts are ENABLERS.
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Pick of the lot:
Rule 1: It’s not what’s true, it’s what you can get people to believe.
Rule 2: Control the information flow, control what people believe.
Rule 3: When you convince them emotionally, facts / logic / evidence will not unconvince them.
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Col Richard Kemp: “Palestinian” Movement Invented by the KGB (pulseofisrael.com)
Interesting insights into the situation in Israel. On both my (recent-ish) trips there were whites, blacks, and every color in between. There were no “Jewish only” water fountains. Arabs moved freely. Arabs can vote, be judges and other officials, soldiers, and more. And… :
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Palate Cleanser:
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Especially now that they were successful in forcing former GAC Chair Peter Ness to resign (he could no longer take the political bullying they were heaping on him) who started the Audit Committee because of rumors of financial malfeasance? And that they are STILL trying to get Commissioner Dr. David Strang to resign (who headed up the Audit Committee)? Won’t NH State Rep Harry Bean, who took it upon himself to call an illegal meeting of the Belknap Delegation to remove Strang “for cause” figure out that in doing so, he’d be helping to cover up both the misdeeds and those that, if the rumors hold true, committed them?
Note: NH State Rep Mike Sylvia, the ACTUAL Chair of the Delegation (and not Harry Bean) had written an Op-Ed concerning just this issue – I requested a copy and just received it (below). Emphasis mine.
Remember, there is a rumor that Tom Day wrote a second check to the Sununu campaign for $1,000 in June
Commissioners Doug Lambert and Jade Wood have remained silent on both investigations – what are they hiding?
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Belmont, NH
On Sept. 18, 2020, without a public hearing or approval by the Gunstock Area Commission, Gunstock General Manager Tom Day, a former employee of the Waterville Valley ski area, owned or controlled by the Governor and his family, signed a check “donating” public Gunstock money to the “Friends of Chris Sununu,” the Governor’s 2020 re-election campaign.
Since Gunstock is owned by Belknap County, all of its funds are public monies, and using public dollars to support a political campaign is clearly improper and possibly violative of the law.
It has been confirmed that the check was signed by Mr. Day and cashed by the Sununu campaign.
As the Gunstock Area Commission is now in the midst of an audit, its very first with an Audit Committee, as well as an internal legal investigation, authorized by ALL of the Gunstock Commissioners, this and other financial irregularities are coming to light.
At 3 pm on Wed., July 20, Mr. Day and others at Gunstock, received a letter from the attorney conducting this investigation, instructing them to turn over documents and make themselves available for an in-person interview. Three hours later at the July Gunstock Commission meeting, Mr. Day publicly resigned along with others from the Gunstock management team, under the excuse that the Commission had created an intolerable work environment.
Since then, Governor Sununu has come to Mr. Day’s defense. Within the last week, he has called for the removal of all members of the Gunstock Commission, the very people who have uncovered this financial malfeasance. This is an ethical quandary for the Governor as it interferes with the leadership of a competing ski area, whose closure stands to benefit his family and his pocketbook. Additionally, he has publicly offered a job to Mr. Day in the NH Parks and Recs. Dept.
Making such an offer after receiving a campaign contribution is the definition of quid-pro-quo. What makes this revelation all the more disgusting is that this campaign donation was made with the money that belongs to the taxpayers of Belknap County.
Representative Mike Sylvia
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So are Doug Lambert (of DGF Industrial) and Jade Wood (NH GOP Area 5 Vice-Chair) going to allow both investigations to continue forward unimpeded? Or are they going to politically bully both into the ground?
And if so, WHY are THEY hiding something?
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Finding sources of good news in today’s world can be a daunting task. It seems the more we look for it the more difficult it becomes to find. Countries all over the world are seeing stunning rises in civil unrest, protests, violence, and even war. Politicians are being exposed the world over for being bought and paid for by agents of a global elite with designs on a one-world government run by and ostensibly for the “Illuminati”, that is, those with secret and superior knowledge. Drugs are flooding U.S. city streets, as are illegal immigrants fleeing even worse cities. Videos show teens and twenty-somethings acting with bold disrespect toward their fellow man fighting in restaurants, cursing out law enforcement and teachers, and participating in protests turned riots that have destroyed billions of dollars in private property. From the beginning of life to the end we see turmoil and madness. Innocent babies have been aborted by the millions, murder rates are up, human trafficking rates are skyrocketing, and elder care has turned into for-profit eugenics in many instances. Humanity has become inhumane on a global scale. The news, it seems, is almost universally bad.
Scanning the community and political landscapes for answers to why all of this is happening there seems to be both symptomatic and source explanations. Simpler views will say people are unhappy because of (fill in the blank) therefore they act out (fill in the blank). Taking this view it seems if we could just figure out a way to keep people happy then these horrible problems would go away. Here in the U.S. hundreds of thousands of people are flocking at risk of great personal peril for a slice of the American pie that offers many millions of sources of potential happiness. From homes to giant televisions to video games to massive food supplies to more shots at becoming a millionaire or billionaire than virtually anywhere else in the world, it would seem if abundance brought happiness we’d be the happiest people on earth here in the states. Sadly that is not even close to being a reality. The U.S. steadily ranks in the top ten globally in cases of depression. Eight of the other nine are also western countries that enjoy abundant economic advantages. It seems all of the benefits in the world can’t buy happiness.
So what is the source of our misery? The two prevailing cultural views offering an explanation are Christianity versus Progressive-Woke-Marxism. Christianity, founded on the teachings of the Bible, tells us the source of our problems is in our very nature. The word used to describe this is “sin” which occurs some 450 times, even more than the Bible talks about love (300 times). Despite the modern emphasis on love and tolerance, it seems the most bought, read, sold and published book of all time, the very will and word of our Creator, acknowledges we don’t just have problems, we are the problem. Our nature is corrupt and the result is a world full of bad news.
Woke-Marxism offers a different view, one that attempts to “liberate” humans by making us “critically conscious” or “woke” to the systemic problems, not caused by sin, but caused by religion and historical inequities that cover the gamut from class to race to sex to sexual preference. Similar to the Bible telling us we “are blinded by the god of this world” (2 Corinthians 4:4), progressive-woke-Marxist tell us we are blind to the systemic racism, sexism, homophobia, and privileges afforded by that system and the only way to end human suffering and inequity is to 1) get woke and 2) tear down the systems. Progressives believe if we do this long enough the natural “progression”, as Marx taught, will lead to communism and ultimately Utopia where man lives in peace with one another forever and ever. Why? Because once we abolish religion, the family, private property, nation-states, and so on, man’s true nature will emerge as a socialist man who is woke and will inherently live in solidarity with his fellow man without a hint of corruption. This new world will manifest itself with a new order, hence the talk of the New World Order. To have the new world we need to destroy the old one, and anyone who looks back at it like Lot’s wife longing for Sodom needs to be discarded.
By comparison, Christianity offers hope but not one tied to this world. It is a hope of a kingdom that exists beyond this world and is only briefly experienced by those who put their faith in Jesus with the assurance of today’s salvation through Christ eternally realized with His second coming. This faith is in Jesus alone, not us or our good works or our knowledge or our popularity or prosperity or diversity of church or any of that. The perfect life and sacrifice of Jesus, who is God made in human flesh, and recorded in the New Testament, offers eternal salvation to anyone who puts their faith in Him alone. It begs the question if you are the problem how can you also be the solution? Simply put, you can’t.
Conversely, woke-Marxists tell us our nature is good we just need salvation from the oppressive systems. Though lying, robbing, raping, murdering, slavery, sexism and selfishness have been with us since recorded history, and in every culture, it’s not because of us, it’s because of the systems we create. The virus in the software of life is just bad code written on our part, but if we put our trust and faith in Marx or Marcuse or DeAngelo or Hillary or Obama or Bernie we can re-write both history and our future with new, perfect progressive-woke-Marxian code and we can achieve Utopia – trust us. Never mind the authors of the code have gotten it wrong since the beginning. This time we’ll get it right.
This dichotomy lies at the heart of our current societal unrest. The lines have been drawn and the walls put up, it’s time to pick a side. Luckily, these teams can be put to the test, and I have done that. As tempting as it is to believe my problems are external, honest self-examination left me no doubt that my real problems are in me to the very core. Systems don’t make me lie, my poverty wasn’t because of “the man” other than my dead-beat dad, my identity crisis wasn’t because of an uncertain sexual preference, and my self-centered and often victim-claiming character that loved to elevate myself while blaming others wasn’t informed by the world around me. I live in America, and despite a lower-class upbringing I brought my rotten nature to the middle class and beyond, white privilege and all.
I grew up with as diverse a friend group as you can imagine, raised by a feminist mom, picketed for a union, reached out to the poor and oppressed, did the drugs, and the yoga, and meditation, overcame homelessness, bought the clothes, bought the cars, ate the finest foods, and slept with as many women as would let me, and none of it brought happiness or peace. I’ve read the progressive-woke-Marxist literature and understand it enough to call myself woke but won’t because I know that won’t solve the problems either. I didn’t need to be woke, I needed something much greater that the world and its wisest teachers can’t offer.
I needed a new life, literally. I needed to be raised from the dead by the only one who can – Jesus. This spiritual transaction and the holy life insurance that offers eternity is what many call “the good news”. It is, but there is even better news. Jesus, Himself is the better news, not just what He did to save my soul. As wonderful an assurance as that is, He offers to be with me in this life, to provide peace in hard times, blessings when I ask, and answers to prayers that show me He hears me and knows me and will meet my needs. He has even made His will for my life available in book form more abundantly than any other book ever written, in every language, and on every continent, and even tells me at the end what the world is going to look like right before He comes back. How will it look? Almost exactly as it does today.
Marx and the priests of woke-progressivism tell us we need to accelerate the contradictions, smash the system, and not worry about some killing and robbing and lying, as morals are merely social or religious constructs. Don’t bother worrying about one man-one woman marriage, or families, or freedoms, or your private property, there is a much bigger goal – Utopia – even if we have to lie, cheat, kill and steal to achieve it, by golly that’s exactly what we’ll do. Sure, we need to create a lot of bad news, but that will lead to the good news. Never mind the chaos, it will, despite the laws of logic that say otherwise, lead to order. Trust us.
Marx and his followers had the benefit of looking back at Jesus and the Bible to formulate their New World vision. However the Bible does what no other book can – it predicts the future, and with stunning accuracy. Consider these words from Jesus:
Therefore Jesus said again, “Very truly I tell you, I am the gate for the sheep. All who have come before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep have not listened to them. I am the gate; whoever enters through me will be saved. They will come in and go out, and find pasture. The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full. (John 10:7-10)
The good news is, that His promise still stands and will see anyone through the darkest of times, who puts their faith in Him, to the real land of promises only the One with the power to resurrect from the dead could achieve.
Time in this life is short, and there is more bad news than you can shake a stick at. Yet it’s not the stick but the one holding it. I hope you’ll see you’re your real problem is you? Not the LEFT or the “woke” or progressives who are merely deceived about the world and its problems. There is only one policy that ever works – repent and receive the good news from the only One who can save us all, and the life of abundance that comes with it.
I have, and I say this without an ounce of pride, but only by the grace of God. I know me, and I know what I did with my freedom to choose. I ended up dead inside. I know how dead I would be without the power of God to save my soul.
Thank you, Jesus!
He went to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath day he went into the synagogue, as was his custom. He stood up to read, and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. Unrolling it, he found the place where it is written:
“The Spirit of the Lord is on me,
because he has anointed me
to proclaim good news to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners
and recovery of sight for the blind,
to set the oppressed free,
to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”
Then he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant and sat down. The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fastened on him. He began by saying to them, “Today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.”
(Luke 4:16-20)
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I have crunched the numbers – i.e. the voting records of the last dozen years – to determine objectively which members of the New Hampshire House are RINOs – Republicans In Name Only.
I looked at every vote where (a majority of) Republicans voted opposite (a majority of) Democrats. I ignored votes where both sides voted the same. A RINO vote is when a Republican votes with Democrats against a majority of Republicans.
Almost every Rep, at one time or another, casts a vote the same as the Democrats. One example is when a Republican votes against the budget because it is too large while the Democrats vote against it because they think it is too small. Thankfully, such votes are not common.
Most Republicans only rarely vote with Democrats against other Republicans. Looking at the 194 Reps running for election this year, the median RINO score was 6%, meaning that on average, they voted with Democrats only 6% of the time. Anyone who voted as much as 15% of the time against fellow Republicans is a bit out of the mainstream. Anyone with a RINO score above 20% is definitely outside mainstream Republicans.
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Of the 105 current or former Reps in this year’s primary, 16 scored worse than 20%, seven were worse than 30%, and three were above 40%. Those three voted very nearly as much with Democrats as with Republicans.
RINO score
48.2% Cardon, G. Thomas (R, Derry)
46.7% Wolf, Dan (R, Newbury)
46.1% Willis, Brenda (R, Derry)
37.1% Ham, Bonnie (R, N Woodstock)
36.1% Bickford, David (R, New Durham)
35.5% Gonzalez, Carlos (R, Manchester)
34.8% Crawford, Karel (R, Ctr Harbor)
29.0% Deshaies, Brodie (R, Wolfeboro)
28.1% Mason, James (R, Franklin)
25.9% Umberger, Karen (R, Kearsarge)
22.9% Allard, James (R, Pittsfield)
21.5% Gay, Betty (R, Salem)
21.4% Sytek, John (R, Salem)
21.2% McMahon, Charles (R, Windham)
21.0% Khan, Aboul (R, Seabrook)
20.3% Janvrin, Jason (R, Seabrook)
Dishonorable Mention goes to two who are very near to 20%:
19.8% Milz, David (R, Derry)
19.4% Richardson, Jon (R, Allenstown)
In the coming days we will report the RINO scores on a district-by-district basis. E.g., in Derry, with 16 Republicans vying for ten seats, the RINOs are Cardon, Willis, and Milz.
If you want Republicans to vote like Republicans, vote against these RINOs in the September 13 primary. But if they survive the primary, they will vote better than their Democrat opponents so please vote for them in November.
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Our Daily Sun (Pravda on the Paugus) has jumped both feet into the Gunstock issue. It has sided is siding with, no surprise, the big money fat cats who were running it like it was their plaything and ignoring the laws governing its oversight.
Gunstock’s Commissioners, in which Gunstock Mountain Resort, is owned by the people of Belknap County and not these rich cats. The Belknap Delegation, was correct to remove them for cause (overstaying their terms of office) in being right, and legal by Law. The money men, not to be thwarted, teamed up with a George Soros-funded professional PAC from Manchester, and the mountain was temporarily closed. We all read all about it so no more on that. But here we see just what these big shots think of average people here in this county teaming up with Soros Leftists to do harm.
Enter The Daily Sun which has been turning Left like a corkscrew ever since Ed Engler got too sick to run his paper. At the “walk out” resignation performance the young Sun reporter, taking the side of the Left, of course, performed his biased political activist routine. Everything other than a 5-year-old falling to the floor and holding his breath. What a disgrace, no pretense of objective reporting at all.
The lies and smears flow freely down on the Paugus, chief among them Leftist “cartoonist” Mike Luckovich. Drummed off a couple of years ago he’s been back pumping his hate since earlier this year. In his space last week, he was trying still to convince readers President Donald Trump committed some crime. After six years and six investigations, not even a parking ticket but Mike keeps trying. It must pay well to be pushing hatred.
This is all about turning our county blue in November; you’ve seen the disasters socialists are doing.
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For many people, the thought of the most powerful people in the world, entrusted to lead our countries, major corporations, and even religious bodies, as psychopathic predators are either too unbelievable or too uncomfortable to consider. No one wants to believe the reins of power are in the hands of people who not only fail to live up to their public servant calling but have and will use their power to target vulnerable children or facilitate the criminal human trafficking market. Sadly most people are unaware of the history of heads of state in the west who either were or are connected to, child predators.
England
Former UK Prime Minister (1970-1974) Edward Heath was accused by at least 42 people of having sexually assaulted them as minors. Heath, most famous for leading the UK into the EU, would die at the age of 89 before any investigation brought charges against him. Like Jeffrey Epstein’s victims, they would not get justice other than posthumously.
Also in the UK around that time was a man named Jimmy Savile who most Americans have not heard of. Savile could be likened to the Dick Clark of England as he hosted a dance and music show for teens and twenty-somethings. Savile also was not exposed until after he died and the things he was known to have done are so far beyond the pale we won’t go into them here. However, the power Savile had come largely from his tight relationships with the royal family. He was one of the few visitors who didn’t need a security clearance when he would drop by Windsor Palace to hang with his buddy Prince Charles. Savile was such a fixture it’s said Queen Elizabeth recommended Charles and Diana seek his counsel when they began to have marital problems. Diana knew Savile’s character and was disgusted by the suggestion. She would die of mysterious circumstances not long after her divorce.
The most powerful royal family in the world has another son, in Prince Andrew, currently being investigated for his trysts on Epstein Island.
Time magazine also wrote this article detailing the network of child abusers in Margaret Thatcher’s administration which, despite massive incriminating evidence gathered by Scotland Yard, was covered up by a complicit media apparatus.
Outside the halls of power, the UK has a massive problem with Muslim grooming gangs that grew thanks to aggressive immigration policies fostered by many of those in Parliament.
Canada
Justin Trudeau is more famous among Americans for his metro-sexual good looks and political pedigree. However, since the pandemic, he has shown his tyrannical teeth with a cold disregard for Canadian citizens’ freedoms. Perhaps most demonstrably by having bank accounts of truckers, who were legally participating in a vaccine mandate protest, frozen with a wink and nod to Orwell’s Big Brother. A global media apparatus has a way of suppressing stories that expose the power elite, thanks now to social media giants who can bury both headlines and political ads, which is why most of us haven’t heard about Trudeau’s pedophile scandals both in and outside of his family. Trudeau has more than one underage accuser and is said to have settled out of court to the tune of $2.25 million at least once. This story was confirmed by the Buffalo Chronicle. Add to that his best friend was busted on possession of child porn and the picture gets darker. A cousin of Trudeau’s wife has been vocal about a cover-up of Liberal Party MPs and their predilection toward children.
Canada, part of the British Commonwealth, also has an alleged history of abusing native children in church-run schools that has never been given a proper investigation.
Australia
The island nation is no stranger to a similar political and church-linked power elite of predators. Recently the mega-church Hillsong has come under scrutiny for the handling of its founder’s son, Brian Houston, known concealment of child sexual abuse. The largest and most powerful evangelical church in the world was begun by Houston’s father, also found guilty of child abuse only to be allowed back into the pulpit by his son and a team of elders, as detailed in this documentary.
Shane Dowling, an investigative journalist covering Australia’s court system, has written a book about the ongoing protection racket that allows pedophiles to go unpunished. Dr. Reina Michaelson, the founder of Australia’s Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Program, published a 2005 article about her experience that led to a discovery of a powerful political protection racket also involving police.
The United States
There is now so much information on the problem of child sex-ploitation here in the U.S. one book alone couldn’t do it justice let alone this two-page article. From the Super Bowl to Hollywood the paths of child predators are well worn and their reach is growing, as seen in this HHS chart, thanks in large part to the Biden Administration’s open border policy. Joe Biden, we’re told, was voted in to become the most popular president in history, and is suddenly now the least popular president in history. Virtually all of his policies are not just bad but seem to actively work against the best interests of the American public, including children. Biden, now famous for his child sniffing and groomer-like commentary to children has a son, Hunter, who has the odd combination of narcissistic video journaling and criminal behavior. Investigative journalists Project Veritas recently suffered the first ever FBI raid of a journalism group for merely possessing Ashley Biden’s diary wherein she says she took inappropriate showers with her dad as a child.
Prior to Biden, the presidency saw Bill Clinton famously groom a young female staffer in Monica Lewinsky. Despite the public outcry and shaming, he would go on to appear on the Epstein flight log over twenty times and Epstein visited the Clinton White House some seventeen times, though Clinton claims none of it is true. Pictures are more honest than the former president as can be seen in this photo of Ghislaine Maxwell taken at Chelsea Clinton’s wedding.
As much as the political Right wants to believe this issue comes from the Left, Heath was a member of the Conservative party, and Republican Senator from Nebraska John W. Decamp detailed the child trafficking during the Reagan and Bush administration that went directly to the White House via Boys Town.
Is this all coincidental activity by the psychopathic opportunists who manage to make their way to the highest levels of global power? Or is there a global power elite that grooms the groomers to do their bidding for fear of public humiliation from blackmail, the kind being gathered by Jeffrey Epstein? This audio from one-time Broadway playwright Myron C. Fagan goes into great detail describing the latter. Never mind his miscegenistic comments and unpopular opinions of historical heroes, he seems to connect the dots as to where the Power really lies and why our leaders lie about their connection to the human trafficking and child sex-ploitation rackets that operate above the law among the global elite. Upon listening, it would explain why our world seems to be in the unbreakable clutches of a power elite who get pervert politicians to do their political bidding on the way to a global, some say Satanic, one world government.
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Maggie “The Budget Hawk” Hassan’s latest ad explains that she is busily reducing the prices of oil and gasoline that are plaguing us. She is portraying herself as having “fiscal responsibility” in another one and being praised as a budget hawk.
That’s great, Maggie, but does anyone believe that these two items are going to solve all the terrible problems visited on us by the Biden/Democrat axis?
A July 5, a Monmouth University poll showed that 63% say either inflation, gas prices, the economy, or everyday bills/groceries are their family’s top concern (inflation and gas prices alone combined for 47% with the panacea of them all, abortion, at 5%).
Inflation is a result of too much money chasing too few items to be purchased. 40% of all our printed money in circulation has been printed by Joe Biden and his administration. Imagine that 40% of your pocket change appeared since Biden said that he would protect and defend the US Constitution instead of working to destroy it and us.
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Where was Maggie, the budget hawk, when word was spread that Biden and his tool, Br’er Mayorkas, were flying illegal aliens all over America and putting them up on our dime? Crickets.
Where was Maggie, the budget hawk, when Biden started throwing hundreds of millions of borrowed money at Ukraine without a nod to or from the House, which is supposed to handle expenditures or the Senate? Crickets?
Where was Maggie, the budget hawk, when Biden and his confreres announced his glorious plan to give non-citizens, who broke federal law when they illegally crossed the southern border, federal ID cards which will enable them to start scooping up our limited benefits, which were hidden behind “Door # 3”, once the Democrats realized that these often illiterate people could be draped in emoluments they never dreamed they’d get, will vote for them keep them in power? Crickets.
Related: Maggie Hassan’s Latest Ad Says She’s Fiscally Responsible – That’s a Big A** Lie.
Regardless of what the far left media swears are possible, men will never get pregnant, it’s a biological impossibility any more than a guy telling you he is a woman is now, presto, a woman like Lia Thomas is a “woman.”
Where was Maggie the hawk when Biden just signed something, some sort of Executive Order of the type that made Barack Obama famous – the pen and the phone caper – which allows Biden to steal Medicaid funds, which are normally reserved for children, pregnant women, parents, seniors, and individuals with disabilities? Biden is stealing these funds from our most vulnerable to pay for the airline, train, and bus tickets for folks in states where the voting majority has said no to abortion and send these abortion seekers to other states? Does anybody have a clue about the price of this insanity? Didn’t we once foot our own medical bills? Crickets from our own Maggie, the budget hawk.
While we’re at it, the Democrats and some RINOs have just passed a tremendous bag of insanity, the Inflation Reduction Act, which will throw rocket fuel onto our roaring inflation bonfire. NBC says there’s $430 billion in new spending along with taxes – read taxes on every one of us putting an end to Biden’s talked about $400,000 limit, below which he said we wouldn’t be taxed. Suddenly the Moon is made of green cheese.
Under the Inflation Reduction Act, the IRS would receive $80 billion in funding to hire as many as 87,000 additional employees and future Democrat voters. The increase would be more than double the size of the IRS workforce, which currently has 78,661 full-time staffers, according to federal data. The Internal Revenue Service will now employ more bureaucrats than the Pentagon, State Department, FBI, and Border Patrol combined. The IRS has 5 million rounds of ammunition and recently purchased another 4,500 weapons. Where’s Maggie, the budget hawk on this bit of chicanery? Crickets.
Included in this act is $4 billion in new federal drought relief funds to help the re-election campaigns of Democratic Senators Catherine Cortez Masto in Nevada and Mark Kelly in Arizona. And just for the dim but mouthy AOC and her buds, this gargantuan bill aptly named the Inflation Reduction Act, which will do absolutely nothing to curtail the inflation that’s eating up every dime we own, contains $369 billion, a $1,000 dollar future bill for every American, just to help change the weather. What, nothing from Maggie the budget hawk again? What? Crickets.
The Tax Foundation estimates that the insanity contained in the Inflation Reduction Act will reduce long-run economic output by about 0.1 percent and eliminate just about 30,000 full-time equivalent jobs in the United States. It would also reduce average after-tax incomes for taxpayers across every income quintile over the long run and reduce capital stock valuations by .3%.
This worthless bill, for us in New Hampshire and for folks all over the USA, will cause no end of damage possibly meted out at the hands of armed IRS agents. But when you’re a budget hawk at Maggie Hassan’s level, you need never investigate the fallout from not reading the bills you blindly vote for, and if you do see a contrarian piece from a non-partisan economic source, stop, read no further than the troubling headlines then discard it. Just vote for any kind of bill that’ll shake us down like a boot full of quarters turned upside down, just so long as you garner Chuck Schumer’s kudos and nods at far-left luncheons and soirees and are praised by Chris “Flap Jack” Pappas and the likes of Annie Kuster, two other exceedingly keen budget hawks.
If somebody dares grill Maggie the budget hawk, about the full-blown insanity called the Democrats since 2021, or how vast monetary expenditures will limit drought by changing the weather, you’ll get the same species of insect you always get from US Senator Maggie Hassan:
Crickets.
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NH-NeverTrump Journal recently held a debate for the candidates in the CD-1 GOP primary. I did not watch the debate. Any debate hosted by a NeverTrump organization like NH-NeverTrump Journal is a waste of time as far as I am concerned.
I was curious, however, about how far NH-NeverTrump Journal would go to shill for the Establishment choice, Matt Mowers. Naturally, NH-NeverTrump Journal declared Mowers the winner even though, even according to NH-NeverTrump Journal, he was not the actual winner … which strikes me as a variation of the NH-NeverTrump Journal position that we should all take COVID-vaccines that are not really vaccines and provide no protection against infection or transmission to protect ourselves from getting and transmitting COVID.
But I digress. This is what I really want to talk about:
The candidates again disagreed on aid to Ukraine, with Mowers and Prescott coming out in full favor of helping Ukraine fight Russia’s invasion, though both said the money needs to be accounted for.
At this point it is inarguable that Ukraine is NOT anything remotely resembling a democracy. Back in March, Zelensky banned opposition political parties and nationalized television news. Government corruption is so rampant and obvious that even the regime-media … albeit temporarily; that is until forced to self-censor by the domestic and foreign grifters getting rich from U.S. spending on Ukraine … pumped the brakes on its cheerleading for Zelensky:
And to top it all off, Breitbart has reported that Zelensky … after all the military aid and support he has received from the West … is trying to get into bed with Communist China.
And yet Mowers wants to keep the grift going. Disqualifying … unless you believe the purpose of the Republican Party is to keep the country constantly at war in order to enrich the defense contractors.
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At what point was it decided that $3 million more dollars would need to be pumped into less than a half acre of roadway for a Traffic Roundabout? I’d say it was “Round a Bout” the time of the initial planning stage.
I was at one of those meetings, where a Contracted Development Specialist (CDS) (I made up the title, as everyone has a variation on this) was explaining the benefits of such a roadway to the City Council and Citizens.
At one point in this hearing, this person was looking around the room and prompted questions. I asked if rebuilding the Main Street Bridge to the narrow specification of the needs of a “Hundred Years Ago” would hinder the goals of this Roundabout. The gentleman replied, “This was a good question.”
At this time, the Mighty Verbal Axe of former Mayor T.J. Jean quashed questions from the public. It was job “one” of the council to ask questions.
The Council undoubtedly heard my question, and it was soundly ignored by all. This is the pattern of a well-greased “Dog ‘n Pony Show,” the Done Deal. Served routinely to city residents on a platter of “Hot Tongue and Cold Shoulder..” “Nothing to see here.” I would be remiss if I concluded that the overall shenanigans of these board members over the years did not turn my stomach.
This community is and has been plagued by a governmental body suffering from an Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm,(AAA). Sorry folks, this is not referring to the “triple A” that shows up with jumper cables to start your car. Citizens will need to find incontestable ways to get straight answers to rational questions.
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You may remember a few weeks ago, I wrote about Johnny Joey Jones in my Sunday Spotlight. J3 is an amazing human being whose life changed in an instant years ago in the desert of Afghanistan. Instead of spiraling down the rabbit hole of depression, anger, and self-pity, Joey Jones straps on his legs each morning and works hard to bring meaning to his life and enrich ours. I hope you can tell by my original post and the intro to this how much I admire this inspirational human being. Yesterday, August 6, was a big day in Jones’ life, and today, I will share an update on his story.
In case you missed my first spotlight on Joey, Here is a quick refresher:
Joey is a former Marine, although they say you are never a “former” Marine who was a bomb tech in Afghanistan. He had already spent eight years in Afghanistan when in 2010, his life changed forever when he took a step and landed on an IED. That ordinance took his legs but never touched his spirit. He endured the surgeries to save his life, rehabbed his body, got onto his mechanical prosthetic legs, and got on with his new life.
For most of Joey’s adult life, he had served his country as a proud Marine. With his new legs, he had to find a new purpose, and he has found many and is using his mind and voice as his new weapons of war.
He is no longer fighting terrorism in the sands of Afghanistan but is fighting for veterans and all Americans in Washington, on FOX News and FOX Nation, and through his consulting and speaking. JJJ may not be college educated but was schooled by life, and he is a master at sharing his knowledge and experience.
I am in awe whenever I see Joey on my favorite FOX News shows. I know he will bring an honest and straightforward twist to any conversation, regardless of the topic. He co-hosted Fox and Friends Weekend yesterday and the feature story on why the day was so important to Joey brought me to tears.
August 6 is the day J3 calls “Alive Day.” That is the anniversary of the day that he took on an IED in Afghanistan, and like far too many bomb techs, he lost. Joey walked us through the events of that day including actual videos from his helmet cam and many others of his brothers who were quick to come to his aid after the blast. For twelve years, he has celebrated Alive Day, not as the day he lost his legs, but the day he was lucky enough to still be alive after the sounds of the exploding bomb dissipated into the desert air. That may be the ultimate example of a glass-half-full mentality that is the make-up of this individual.
The video was terribly graphic, but the story was even harder to listen to. His commanding officer told about the minute he got to Joey after the blast, and the first thing Joey said was, “I am sorry I let you down.” That simple quote speaks volumes for Jones. He was lying on the hot desert ground as the smoke was still clearing. He was aware that he no longer had legs to stand on, but his thoughts were about others and how he had disappointed them. He says that August 6, 2010 isn’t the day I lost my legs. It’s the day I lived. It’s my “Alive Day.”
His good friend and fellow bomb tech, Cpl Greer, was not as lucky that day. Greer paid the ultimate cost of war with his life. Jones has lived his life these last 12 years partly to honor his fallen brother. He has done that very well.
I enjoy that Joey’s career at FOX continues to grow, and his appearances are more frequent. Wearing his usual shorts to expose his prosthetics and listening to his humorous quips about his lack of real legs makes his journey more amazing. He is an inspiration to those who suffered his fate serving in the deserts of the Middle East, but more importantly, to everyone. Regardless of the hardships you may endure, celebrate your life and not the event. The event does not define your future, but how you handle it does. We should all be as strong and stand so tall as Johnny Joey Jones. May God continue to bless him.
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But that’s what our younger generations are being taught/led to believe (re: Black Lives Matter):
In a world largely free of slavery today, it may seem hard to realize that slavery was an almost universal institution for thousands of years. Despite widespread misconceptions in the United States today that the institution of slavery was based on race, for most of the millennia in which slavery existed around the world, it was based on whoever was vulnerable to enslavement and within striking distance.
-Prof Thomas Sowell (Wealth, Poverty and Politics)
America was established as a series of colonies, often on the basis of religion with much of it coming from European settlers looking for a better life in the New World. Most were Christian, read the Bible as their foundational theological text, and were well acquainted with the enslavement of the Jewish people over the ages – thousands of years ago. Now, all we hear about in pop culture were Blacks that were imported into what is now America without the context that America was NOT the largest percentage, destination-wise, of the slave trade originating by Blacks and Arabs from Africa. Our Educational system, just by dint of what we DON’T hear, doesn’t teach that slavery has been universal in human history and location.
The problem was, and still is where slavery is STILL practiced, the result of Strong Man governance (by the failure of government; our Southern border has become a haven of human trafficking as the Biden Administration has refused to “faithfully execute” our immigration laws with the result of the cartels schlepping human chattel in and out of our “free” country).
But BLM was a great play for political game for a couple of years – and, as we have recently seen, degenerated into a mere financial racket. Just like the George Floyd death started a movement based on Oppressor/Oppressed, that turned into a pretense of slavery, I see a similar political play in the works here with the Gunstock politics. No, the latter has nothing to do with the former but the structure and performance has been similar even as the focal point is far different (people versus a rock pile but using OTHER people to shaft for that political stance).
The common thread is that certain, very distasteful people will use any tool or advantage they can muster up in order to achieve their political end – which generally (when one is being objective) the use of politics to enslave others to a particular idea that promotes themselves over others.
(H/T: Cafe Hayek)
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Wealthy one-percenters with private jets are miffed that their flight plans and travel are public. Thanks to the internet machine, the comings and goings of the climate cult elite are being shared with people who actually think any of that matters, and the backlash has been beautiful.
Not everyone can pretend to be John Kerry. He of the “well, I have to do this to help save the planet while you scrounge enough for one vacation a year in coach.” It’s his job!
He’s a hypocrite and an a-hole, but he was like that before he married into real money and the Heinz fortune. Wealth has been a magnifying glass through which his flawed character has only been more greatly revealed.
As it turns out, this applies to most of them and the celebrity class in particular. They don’t know a thing about emissions or climate except that pretending to give a damn might gain them more followers. And then they get on their private plane (Kylie Jenner) for a three-minute hop and can’t understand why their climate groupies are upset.
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It’s gotten so bad that some would like that information to be private. In other words, rather than walk the talk, they’d like their elitist buddies in politics to flip a few switches to help hide their hypocrisy.
The Dems did just cram through a large climate kickback bill inappropriately named something Inflation reduction something. It’s got taxes but not for the private-jet flying class, and most of it is subsidies, kickbacks, and handouts for so-called green energy things that most folks still won’t be able to afford to buy or use.
I’m not sure how spending more money we don’t have on things that won’t work can lower inflation, but it will make a nice poster boy/girl/something for economic failure. And no secret flight provisions for one-percenters.
Such a shame.
Related: Bronze Statue of Greta Thunberg Mimics Green Movements Messed Up Priorities
Would you like some advice? No, too bad.
Stop pretending you know of or give a damn about “emissions” or carbon footprints. You only support this voodoo because you are convinced your lifestyle will never be impacted by the demands placed on everyone else.
Instead of pandering, just tell the truth. You have no intention of living a lifestyle other than what your fame or fortune affords, and thank you for that.
If that makes you look like a rich bastard, at least you’d be an honest one. Then do something useful. Instead of pandering to the climate BS, donate to help women in crisis pregnancies. Help stop human trafficking. Plant a forest. Start private charities that teach trade skills to the homeless, unemployed legal immigrants, or veterans.
Private plan mechanics will be in short supply soon, as will plumbers, electricians, bricklayers, metalworkers, and framers. It’s a long list.
Or, if you’d like to keep working the climate angle, buy some of your fans an electric vehicle. Or maybe a coupon for one replacement battery (worth about 12-20K) in an existing EV. Or some carbon offsets for when the Lithium pack lights up, and the smoke from the car fire emits more noxious emissions into the atmosphere than would the life of the average combustion vehicle.
Or do nothing. Just admit you’re who you are and hop a flight to somewhere no one gives a damn, like China.
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SHOT: Rainbow Haired Doc: Parents Who DON’T Chemically Castrate Children Are Abusers
(Reformatted, emphasis mine): On today’s episode of ‘I wish I gauged my eyes out,’ a family doctor with rainbow tie-dye hair just pitched a fit about parents who don’t give their children puberty blockers or surgically remove their genitalia. Ms. Crayola Box called this decision “child abuse.” Yes, this whack literally just said that parent’s who DON’T help their children transition are committing “child abuse” and even insisted that parents who “ignore” their kids’ “needs” push kids to commit suicide.
…“You know what’s abusive? Ignoring the needs of your child when your child is telling you what they need,” the alleged “doctor” insisted. Sorry girl but nobody “needs” to cut little Timmy’s wedding tackle off. It’s fine where it is. You know, if your child tells you he needs to jump into a fire pit, try not to ignore his needs. Affirm his childlike delusion and allow him to do as he pleases, no matter the consequences. That’s the psychotic logic Dr. Rainbow espoused.
CHASER: ‘Completely Reversible’: FDA Warns Puberty Blockers Cause Vision Loss, Brain Swelling
Reformatted, emphasis mine:
The leftist prelates of transgenderism have been insisting that the puberty blockers used to ‘transition’ children are ‘completely reversible’ and ‘safe’. Of course, this is a lie, and the FDA has confirmed that by warning of potential vision loss and brain swelling for children that take puberty blockers, as Daily Wire reported July 27. Puberty blockers, such as Lupron (which is used to castrate sex offenders) and others, are used to suppress the natural onset of puberty in children. They are referred to in the medical field as gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) substances. Recently, their use on children that are supposedly ‘trans’ has come under scrutiny. And, for the record, they are most certainly not ‘completely reversible.’
The FDA officials, according to their report, said “Five were undergoing treatment for central precocious puberty and one for transgender care,” and “the onset of pseudotumor cerebri symptoms ranged from three to 240 days after GnRH agonist initiation.” According to the Daily Wire, symptoms included specifically, “visual disturbances, headaches, and vomiting.” In addition, “Other effects GnRH agonists caused were an increase in blood pressure, brain swelling, and abducens neuropathy.”
Wait, WAIT! Aren’t we always being lectured by the Left that we are supposed to be “Follow The Science” type of folks? Or is it that Science, the latter, is now showing that the former is merely about Transgender POLITICS/Ideology and NOT about the Science? Throw in osteoporosis, the unknown effects of long term artificially induced hormonal imbalances, stunted height and weight growth, and infertility.
By deliberately injecting your child with such drugs that would cause them to have these symptoms is supposed to be “affirming” your child?
Has our society lost its collective mind?
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Politicians do nothing unless there is a direct personal benefit to their actions. To believe they are genuine and have sacrificed personal gain to serve the people of their districts is the thinking of a fool. I thrive on being that fool sometimes.
When I see Jim Jordan, John Kennedy, and Ron DeSantis, I have a momentary thought that there are some good people in government. Please do not burst my bubble.
Nancy Pelosi is not one of the good people in politics. She comes from a bloodline of corrupt politicians, the daughter of a former Mayor of the fine city of Baltimore. Ironically, her father oversaw the decline of Baltimore while Nancy watched the beautiful city of San Francisco turn into the Club Med for the homeless street dweller. Seriously, how do these people look at themselves in the mirror? Apparently, they check their net worth and then look in the mirror and see the fruits of their labor. A freezer full of gourmet chocolate frozen treats helps, too.
Nancy Pelosi’s motivation for her current Pacific road trip has been puzzling. There is no political or strategic reason for her trip, but the photo ops have been plenty. There have been no strategic policy announcements; some say this may simply be Pelosi’s swan song. It is evident she will not be Speaker come January, and she will not play the second violin. She will win re-election but may resign rather than step down and pass the gavel to Kevin McCarthy.
The inside word was that Biden was furious about her trip, especially her stop in Taiwan, which had set off the Chinese. But, he was powerless to intervene and pull the plug on any step of her journey. At every opportunity Joe Biden has to exhibit strength, he falls short. Weakness and ineptitude are the mantras of the Joe Biden Presidency. Even though the purpose of her trip remains unclear, she won the battle between the Speaker and President. Maybe that was her intent.
The irony of the Speaker’s journey was it garnered more support from Republicans than from her own Party. She probably would have had a less volatile event had she invited Republican members of Congress to join her. Her need for the spotlight apparently prevented her from sharing the international stage. This looks more like her farewell tour as the days unfold.
The other event during Pelosi’s adventure was her husband, Paul, arraignment on his DUI arrest. This, too, showed the power and privilege of the Speaker. The facts presented about the arrest would indicate Paul Pelosi should be charged with a felony. He was charged with a simple misdemeanor. So many elements showed preferential treatment, including the two-hour wait to administer a blood alcohol test.
Nancy Pelosi is one of the longest-standing members of Congress, but like most, her accomplishments do not match her tenure. One thing she is known for is her ability to raise funds. Not only for her campaigns, the Democrat National Committee coffers, and her family’s net worth. Where Nancy goes, money follows. She may not have had a successful career for America but certainly for Nancy. That leads me to think this trip was for her benefit and not for anyone else. She will not be missed if this is the end of the road.
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Remember that time at Climate Camp when they told us the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) was doomed? Doomed! It’s a common theme among cultists as they wander the digital streets of the internet with their cataclysmic sandwich boards.
DOOMED!
The loss of this thing in the ocean near Australia would begin unraveling the world as we know it. At the very least, it indicated negative human influence on the biosphere from excess production and emission of carbon dioxide.
Sorry, wrong again!
In 2021 we reported on record reef size. Earlier this year, we shared evidence that the seawater temps around the GBR were no different than they were 130 years ago. Now we have reports of the highest coral cover in 36 years.
In 2022, widespread recovery has led to the highest coral cover recorded by the LTMP in the Northern and Central GBR, largely due to increases in the fast-growing Acropora corals, which are the dominant group of corals on the GBR and have been largely responsible previous changes in hard coral cover.
There’s more reef than ever, but don’t let that fool you.
Coral cover in the southern region of the reef decreased, however, and the reef is vulnerable to increasingly common disturbances like mass bleaching events, the group said.
The key to this deception is that it can’t be natural. It has to be your fault that the southern regions declined due to warmer water, but it’s not your fault that other parts of the reef grew at a record pace – according to the experts who said the thing was doomed. Doomed!
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Experts that all got together a few years back and predicted something else.
December 2013. “Climate Catastrophe Will Hit Tropics Around 2020, Rest Of World Around 2047, Study Says.” I know we’ve been distracted by the rise of public health authoritarianism, but it’s August of 2022. The only catastrophes I’ve seen since 2020 were the response to the release of a man-made virus in China that few needed to fear, the political response to that, and everything Joe Biden has done since the gropey doddering turd stumbled into the Oval Office without Barry.
Climatologically speaking, the “tropics” are the same as they were and have been for centuries. They’ve still got slavery, despotism, human trafficking, and the drug trade. Those are all man-made, but the Climate hippies don’t seem too concerned about their impact to life on the planet.
Nor are they all that interested in India, Africa, or China (in particular), which produce most of the world’s CO2, pollution, and ocean plastic. All three of them are nearer the Great Barrier Reef and ‘the tropics’ than America.
But that’s the game. One that the Dems have given away repeatedly. It’s all about the redistribution of western wealth, not to the victims of their carbon totalitarianism but to each other.
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NH-NeverTrump Journal recently held a debate for the candidates in the CD-1 GOP primary. Of course, given that the debate was hosted by Ultra-NeverTrump Michael Graham, one of the questions was intended to get the candidates to delegitimize the thoroughly legitimate position … Zuckerbucks, censorship of the Hunter Biden laptop, illegal changes to state election laws to help Biden, Wisconsin nursing-homes, etc. etc. etc. … that the 2020 election was rigged.
Only one candidate had the cojones … figuratively speaking … to state the obvious. THE ELECTION WAS RIGGED. That candidate was Karoline Leavitt. The other candidates gave pathetic, spineless non-answers designed to avoid answering.
Here is the Union Leader’s political-reporter’s coverage of Karoline Leavitt:
“Election denier” is a term used by the Left and NeverTrump to prevent any discussion of Zuckerbucks, censorship of the Hunter Biden laptop, illegal changes to state election laws to help Biden, Wisconsin nursing-homes, etc. etc. etc.. You are, according to the people who sling the term, the moral equivalent of a Holocaust-denier if you acknowledge any of the myriad improprieties and irregularities that marked the 2020 election.
Implying such an equivalency, needless to say, is totally ridiculous and totally disgusting. Kevin Landrigan should be ashamed of himself.
The NH-GOP have nobody to blame but themselves for the brazen, shameless partisanship of the “press” in New Hampshire. Rather than standing up to and exposing propagandists like Landrigan and Adam Sexton, they try to appease. And appeasement simply encourages the “press” to act less and less like actual press and more and more like propagandists.
I did not watch the debate. Any debate hosted by a NeverTrump organization like NH-NeverTrump Journal is a waste of time as far as I am concerned. BUT this clip is well worth watching because it tells much about the candidates’ cojones or lack thereof:
I am the only Republican Candidate in #NH01 to speak the cold hard TRUTH about the 2020 election — Joe Biden did NOT win 81 million votes!
Watch for yourself. #NHPolitics pic.twitter.com/gma5ICCDOU
— Karoline Leavitt (@kleavittnh) August 5, 2022
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Peter Welch will be the Democrat primary winner for the open US Senate in Vermont. He is a Democrat Machine politician, big government, big spending, and more federal intrusion. Very popular on the Left. But who is on the Republican side, and what do you need to know before Tuesday?
We’ve mentioned Myers Mermel regarding his well-meant but IMO idiotic ski resort welfare idea. But a recent UNH poll has him at a paltry 3% with little name recognition and a primarily neutral or unknown favorability. He’s long odds at 3%, but 42% of those polled are undecided, not that this will likely help him before Tuesday’s August 9th primary.
The predicted favorite on the Republican ballot is Christina Nolan, endorsed by the likes of Susan Collins from Maine. That may be all you need to know, but if you need more, Nolan favored recent federal gun restrictions and supports a national solution to the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v Jackson decision that returned sovereignty to the states.
She is still the on-paper favorite, but she’d be more likely to align with our Democrat Senator Shaheen than Kentucky Senator Rand Paul.
Gerald Malloy, the other “viable” contender on the Tuesday ballot, got 30% of the vote in the poll compared to 24% for Nolan, within the 7% margin of error, so they are statistically tied. But remember, 42% of those polled were undecided, and this is Vermont. We could call it the Blue Mountain state instead of Green. And Malloy is running like an actual republican.
He says enough with the federal spending, and it’s time to address the debt. He supports domestic energy production, defends the Second Amendment, and is 100% pro-life. He’d build the wall to stop illegal immigration and put a hitch in the step of the China-fed fentanyl cartels.
Malloy is running an America-First Save America campaign.
Nolan is running a third-way campaign littered with progressive pablum hiding under a patina of independence from “business as usual DC politics.” Nolan is the “republican” that we’d expect Vermont to send to DC if she could beat the actual Democrat in a general election, but why go for the generic when you can have the name brand?
And this is Vermont.
So, what is to become of the seat vacated by long-time Democrat Senator PatrickLeahy, who had held it for over 40 years?
Is the likely Republican primary voter in Vermont going to show up and vote for an actual Republican? Will the “independents” go with the third-way progressive republican or vie for something different and choose Malloy?
If they do, Malloy could pull off the upset primary win. If not, they’ll get Nolan, who will probably vote the right way on meaningless legislation and the wrong way on the important stuff. And that is assuming a majority of Vermonters don’t take the real Democrat in November.
Gerald Malloy would give voters an alternative, and, in the current climate, people are looking for something other than what they see down in DC and both Nolan, and especially Welch, are just more of the same.
HT | VT Digger
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The media and the general public have been led to believe that the effort to either get Peter Ness dumped from the Gunstock Area Commission or get him to resign was just a recent event. It’s been quite the man-made PR attack against him by the “front men” Doug Lambert (of DGF Industrial) and Jade Wood (NH GOP Area 5 Vice Chair) doing the yelling, screaming, and demanding Ness’s head on a political pike. Those two have become really awful people with their incessant Two Minute Hate during GAC public and non-public meetings. Calling their behavior “extremist browbeating sessions” is way too mild. Wood most likely has no idea what the reference is (the Two Minute Hate) but Doug Lambert absolutely does – and has had no problem in ginning it up.
But to show that they are the Johnnies-come-lately, here are the real people pulling their puppet strings – and they’ve been at this since 2020:
Why? He was asking hard questions that THEY didn’t want to be answered. They have felt that it was THEIR Mountain (in fact, I’ve seen a sign that says exactly that – need to take a snap of it) – the sense of entitlement just keeps dripping onto the floor.
So Tom Day is NOT A VICTIM – but a WILLING PARTICIPANT – since 2020. Gary Kiedaish as well as he ran up an over $110K bill trying, in turn to either get Ness thrown off the GAC in any way possible. Then Started in on going against NH State Rep Mike Sylvia, then Norm Silber, and the list goes on.
I need to repost ALL of those unredacted legal bills from Devine-Millimet.
And since Kiedaisch has resigned, it is up to Doug Lambert and Jade Wood to explain all of those expenses. They wanted the Big GAC seats, now they are the responsible ones to answer for what has happened. Especially since NO votes of the Commission were taken to permit this to be done.
And there is much, MUCH more!
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There are rich people that are kind, helpful, and down to earth. Former Gunstock Area Commissioner (resigned) Gary Kiedaisch is not one of them in my humble opinion – and humble is not an character that can be attributed to him. On multiple ocassions, he lets people know that he is “of money”, smarter than everyone in the room, and that no one should be on the GAC unless they meet or better his accomplishments in disparaging the NH ideal of the value of the citizen-politician. He has used his money (and influence with the Sununu family) along with what Lenin called “useful idiots” to totally rip it apart as well as the Belknap County Delegation with the Friends of Gunstock and now with Citizens of Belknap – those expensive multi-colored campaign road signs don’t pay for themselves nor the multiple large ads in the local media. Or paying for campaign strategist Brian Beihl from Soros linked Open Democracy (and NH Rebellion) that gives Lefty organizers millions every year.
So, color me unsurprised at what a reader sent in this image of a campaign sign with this explanation:
Look whose sign’s posted at Kiedaisch’s house. The 100 Meredith Neck Road on the letter you posted has this sign at the end of the driveway. Revealing his other irons in the fire as we suspected…
During the selection for the newest GAC Commissioner in filling a vacancy, I oft saw Creteau-Miller colluding with Kiedaisch at meetings which tagged her, in my mind, as his pick. Doug Lambert was selected by the Delegation instead. From my standpoint, did it even make a difference? But I digress.
So, is this to take out Jon Mackie, the current State Rep from Meredith?
The result is that a money tsunami is about to be unleashed against any candidate who crosses him. By stacking the deck in the Belknap Delegation, he will then control the GAC which means that he’ll be one of those monied people that will benefit from turning Gunstock Mountain Resort from a facility that is still based for Belknap County residents to being a micro-version of Loon or the other big mountains and raising the cost of tickets beyond the average families. After all, new facilities, especially that hotel he wanted built on land he didn’t own won’t pay for themselves.
He doesn’t care about y’all – just himself. And his cronies that will be exploiting local government.
BTW, Creteau-Miller isn’t the only candidate aligned with Kiedaisch, Rusty McClear, Brian Gallagher. More later.
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Along with my fellow NH voters, I received an email this week from Senator Shaheen on the current state of abortion access in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
The Senator correctly noted that the Supreme Court’s decision has had absolutely no impact on access to abortion in New Hampshire, which remains legal up to the 24th week. However, I was disappointed to read Senator Shaheen’s clear misstatement on the substance of the state’s Fetal Life Protection Act as it relates to the ultrasound requirement.
She states in her email, “In response to public outcry, the ultrasound mandate for abortions was reversed and is no longer in effect.”
This is wrong and apparently a parroting of Planned Parenthood’s own false statements on the topic of ultrasounds in the law.
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These are the facts:
There was no “reversal,” and it is simply false that the ultrasound requirement is “no longer in effect.” The ultrasound requirement is still in effect, as it always has been. It is, in fact, necessary to the state’s ability to implement and enforce the 24-week limit, with exceptions for fetal fatal anomalies and the physical health of the mother. I would also note that 24 weeks is the generally accepted point at which the baby a woman is carrying is in fact viable to survive independently outside the womb.
It is rather surprising that a United States senator from NH would get such a basic fact wrong concerning a NH law she was writing about to her constituents. Hopefully, it was not purposeful deception. But purposeful or not, we shouldn’t tolerate or ignore this false, misleading statement from an elected official in a position of public trust. Where are the media fact checkers when we need them?
I hereby call for Senator Shaheen to correct her misstatement publicly in a follow-up email to NH voters.
Sincerely,
Pastor Brian Abasciano, Ph.D.
Hampton, NH
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