Someone turned me on to this series, so I thought I’d take the opportunity of a missing podcaster slot to use it as filler.

There is no New England Take this week, so we’re grabbing some filler. This is the first of five parts.

In February 2021, millions of Texans lost power, and the state’s grid came within four or five minutes of a total failure that would have resulted in tens of thousands of deaths. It’s hard to overstate the importance –– and complexity –– of our electric grid. But how did our most important energy network get weakened? And what can we do to fix it?

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As a tax payer and parent of a graduating senior at the Hartford Area Career and Technology Center I was sent a questionnaire last week with the following email announcement of Hartford’s newly adopted “inclusivity” policy:

Dear Members of the Hartford School District,

 

At the end of 2023, you received an email sharing our approach to health education, which reiterated the Hartford School District’s mission to provide a caring and dynamic learning community that is welcoming and ensures that everyone is seen for who they are. In line

with this mission, we are pleased to share that earlier this year we passed a new policy, the Gender Inclusivity Policy, that compliments the 2018 Race and Equity Policy (  EL 10 ) and strengthens our commitments to our District members. The Gender Inclusivity Policy can be found in the Policy section of our District website  here . The Hartford School District Statement regarding this policy, which can be found on the  Equity and Inclusion page states:

 

“The Hartford School District is committed to providing a safe, orderly, civil, and positive learning

 environment for all students and staff, regardless of perceived or actual gender identity, gender expression, sex characteristics, and/or sexual orientation. It is the position of the Hartford School District that transgender, non-binary, and intersex individuals deserve the same inclusion and acknowledgement that cisgender individuals receive.”

 

We are writing today to share this policy with you-and we also want to hear from you! We invite you to fill in  this brief survey to help us gauge our district member’s alignment with this policy. The survey is also an opportunity to ask questions and/or suggest further opportunities for engagement and learning that you think would be helpful to you/our community. Our goal is to contribute to a community in which people of any gender identity or expression are equally included and respected; we ask that input be provided with this in mind (e.g., this is not the place for hate speech denying the existence and/or rights of

 transgender and nonbinary people). 

 

Who should fill out this survey? All parents, caregivers, guardians of students in the Hartford School District, AND all teachers and staff of the district.

 

See below for a summary of what we mean by “gender inclusivity” and the two main human rights the policy is based around:

 

What is “gender inclusivity”?

Gender Inclusivity is the equitable and fair treatment of children and adults of all gender identities and expressions.

 

This policy upholds the right to:

Privacy and confidentiality. This means that every person has the right to choose when, with whom, and how much information about their gender identity and/or gender status is shared with others. This right to privacy i

s recognized within the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) of 1974. 

 

The right to be known and seen as who one knows oneself to be. This means that every student and staff person in our district should be able to feel comfortable, safe, and included when they self-present in their own gender identity and when they dress or present in a gender expression they prefer. Sex-based discrimination in the form of harassment, mockery, exclusion, or any other form of differential treatment of transgender and non-binary people is prohibited.

 

Again, you can fill in the survey  here . We always welcome respectful conversations about how our equity and inclusion practices play out in different grades. Thank you for trusting our professional staff with providing thoughtful, caring, respectful, and age-appropriate learning experiences for your children.

 

Tom DeBalsi

Superintendent of Schools

 

You’ll notice the tone of the letter is typical Marxist language appearing to be the kind and considerate thought leaders while pushing mystical pseudo-science that has been routinely exposed as quackery generated from fake academic journals citing other fake academic journals offering fake legitimacy.  The reality is transgender and gender affirming care are being exposed as massive failures as clinics are shutting down due to horrible outcomes such as increased rates of suicide and de-transition regret post transition.  Were the staff at Hartford to come outside of their ideological silos and echo chambers they would know this but they remain a town behind the times trying desperately to appear cutting edge and relevant.

Rather than genuinely be about the health and well-being of the children this masquerade is about the adults, many of who are functional groomers either deliberately pushing sex identitarianism or have simply been co-opted due to institutional capture thanks to the handful of activists who are on  mission to push the agenda, be they at the federal, state or local level.

Note in the letter the outgoing superintendent Tom Debalsi asks for feedback, questions and concerns “We are writing today to share this policy with you-and we also want to hear from you! We invite you to fill in  this brief survey to help us gauge our district member’s alignment with this policy.” while limiting the parameters to acceptable speech stating “this is not the place for hate speech denying the existence and/or rights of transgender and non-binary people.”  Essentially, they only want to hear from you if you agree with the agenda, which is confirmation bias and intentionally insulates them from disapproval by any members of the community who disagree – thus inclusion doesn’t extend to dissent.  This flies in the face of both science and our fundamental rights as citizens given the school is a government institution upheld by the will of the people.  Activists adopting a policy is not democratic and the questionnaire is a thin illusion pretending to represent democratic input.

 

Having worked in market research where I conducted similar surveys the obvious leading questions and bias aimed at confirming what they want is yet more pseudo-science designed to appear authoritative with one of the very first questions:

 

“Please share the gender identity you most closely identify with” (sic – note the ironically poor sentence structure ending the phrase with a preposition): cisgender woman, cisgender man, transgender, non-binary, gender-fluid, agender, I’m on a gender journey and I’m not sure at this time, prefer not to answer, other.

 

This biases the survey by adopting the controversial policy’s language.  Which is the game of Marxism in a nutshell – change the language.  Words are the root of society’s communication infrastructure and Marxists know that if they can alter the lexicon they can control the speech which is precisely the goal of this agenda.  It’s not about inclusivity or kindness or journeys but reframing the very way we see the world through language.  Marx referred to this as “mystification”, which is a type of Gnostic wizardry.  This is the stuff of secret societies and cults where words have double-meanings, one for those inside the cult and another for the uninitiated.

The goal of this survey is similar.  The ostensible purpose is to appear democratic and inclusive while the hidden goal is to announce this is the new order – your school has been captured by cultural Marxists.

Never mind the science of gametes are fundamentally binary which trump’s gender expression and feelings.  Or that babies are born expressing only those two, even the intersex, which proves the binary.  No.  These social quacks believe, thanks to Marxist theorists, that gender is a social construct not a biological fact and we need to let children, yes children, decide what they are.  Of course they will be guided (re: groomed) by the activists, through the power of suggestion, they can identify however they want, including as an animal (which they call furries).  At no point in time has a person thinking they are an animal not been a sign of full blown mental illness.  A school in Utah just had a mass of students walkout in protest of “furries” who were being allowed to bite and scratch them with impunity as teachers allowed them to express their identity.  Yes, this just happened.

Hartford is in the grip of woke insanity and it’s leveled at the children who are being groomed into breaking from reality ultimately aimed at being useful for one thing, cultural revolution.  We saw it with the BLM/George Floyd riots and again with the Israel protests and of course the pride parades.  This is nothing new, it was tried and failed in 1920s Hungary, however it was also the pretext to the rise of Nazi Germany where Hitler’s brown shirts first order of business was to burn books on transgenderism and shut down a transgender clinic following years of economic failure where young people couldn’t afford housing.  Sound familiar?  Probably not to people in Hartford where faculty no longer teach sound history instead promoting the unsoundness of one’s mental faculties.

Herbert Marcuse, the Marxist philosopher of the 1960s, stated clearly the goal of Marxists is to used easily manipulated youth, queer and ghetto black populations as revolutionaries to overthrow western culture:

“Very different from the revolution at previous stages of history, this opposition is directed against theh totatliy of well-functioning, prosperous society – a protest against its Form…This new consciousness and the instinctual rebellion isolate such opposition form the masses and from the majority of organized labor, the integrated majority, and make for the concentration of radical politics in active minorities, mainly among the young middle-class intelligentsia and among the ghetto populations (re: LGBTQ+ black, etc.). Here, prior to all political strategy and organization, liberation becomes a vital, “biological” need.” 

In other words, Marcuse and the Marxists have purposefully targeted youth and “ghetto” populations to manipulate for their revolution.  The town of Hartford and its children has become their playground.

Here is the link to take the survey and let the town know what you think of their Marxist agenda for children.

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I must confess that I was fuming as I watched The Five on Monday, and these were the featured stories. If you want to understand what motivates Liberals, these stories will sum it up for you.

A violent “peaceful protest” where an unarmed park ranger was assaulted and two stories where we are bending over to accommodate illegal migrants while ignoring homeless veterans and impoverished Americans were the topics for debate. Let’s break them down.

Lafayette Park is directly across the street from the White House and is known as a campground for protesters who show their disdain for the sitting President daily. This weekend, it was a mass of Pro-Palestine protesters who worked very hard to destroy the statue of Comte de Rochambeau, who came to America to help George Washington defeat the British troops. They covered the statues with anti-Israel and anti-Biden slogans. When an unarmed Park Ranger stood alone protecting the statue, he was pelted with signs, bottles, and verbal degrading. There were no police coming to his aid. This protest continued for hours, including a red ribbon surrounding the White House. No arrests were made for the destruction of property or the assault of the ranger. These protesters are a disgrace and hell-bent on destroying our history and country.

In Los Angeles, a highrise apartment complex is under construction. The 278-unit, 19-story tower will open in a matter of weeks and is meant to be a “self-contained environment that will insulate its formerly homeless residents from the squalor and hopelessness around them,” the Los Angeles Times reported. Los Angeles, like all of the large cities in California, has been overrun by the homeless for years with no resolution. This project comes with a price tag of $165 million in a state that is not only broke but also billions in debt. This highrise will have a gym and cafe, and once the migrants find their way in, why should they ever leave? This program is a slap in the face to everyone in LA who is living on the streets or check to check under pressure from Bidenomics and lousy liberal California policies.

The initiative in San Francisco is even more radical if you can believe it. San Francisco opened a city market Sunday where qualifying residents could receive their groceries for “free,” a program costing city taxpayers $5.5 million. The Food Empowerment Market aims to ease burdens for food stamp holders who may run out of resources toward the end of each month. Geoffrea Morris, who pushed the legislation through city government in 2021, argued that the market is “supplemental” and not meant to be the sole method of feeding people. The people who dream up these programs are not wired correctly. Prequalified individuals can come to the market, fill their cart, proceed to the checkout, and then take their groceries home free of charge.

That is free to the customer, but somebody has to absorb the cost. In this case, the people of San Francisco have absorbed the foolish decisions of the local government. That has become the biggest fault of the government; they spend money like it is their money. The government at all levels has lost the fact that their constituents and businesses fund every initiative, and no funds should be spent without consent. This country is broke, and cities, towns, states, and the federal government all operate on credit. That philosophy doesn’t work for households and is unsustainable for the government. The day of reckoning will come soon, and this country is not ready for the pain that day will bring.

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It is with great sadness that I write this open letter. As a life-long Republican, I can’t tell you how disgusted I am with NHGOP leadership, which has allowed this corrupt voting practices to continue in this state.

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I can tell you that we the people are sick and tired of being lied to and gaslighted. It’s time to expose the rats. Chris Sununu, the Governor has a Constitutional and fiduciary duty; Part II, article 41:

“The governor shall be responsible for the faithful execution of the laws. He may, by appropriate court action or proceeding brought in the name of the state, enforce compliance with any constitutional or legislative mandate, or restrain violation of any constitutional or legislative power, duty, or right, by any officer, department or agency of the state.” 

John Formella, the Attorney General of the State of New Hampshire, is also a constitutional officer, and his duties are defined by RSA 21-M:5 Duties of the Attorney General:

“In addition to the powers, duties and functions otherwise vested by law, including RSA 7, in the attorney general, he shall:
I. Represent the public interest in the administration of the department of justice and be responsible to the governor, the general court, and the public for such administration.”

David Scanlon the Secretary of State of New Hampshire, is also a Constitutional Officer, Part II, article 67, and his duties are defined by the state legislature.

Sununu, Formella, and Scanlan, have violated their oaths of office and chosen to act in a wanton and reckless manner by knowingly defending unconstitutional acts of the legislature and installing unconstitutional unsafe voting practices across the state, rather than upholding the laws of land to which they have sworn an oath to faithfully defend and preserve the Constitution of New Hampshire and the United States Constitution.

The Attorney General’s Office is not a private law firm to defend the unauthorized actions of public officials. A.G. Formella has chosen to defend defective changes to our election laws, which he and his team of Attorneys knew or should have known were unconstitutional. By all accounts A.G. Formella is a smart Attorney, therefore he can-not claim ignorance of the law, as we all know is know excuse. Under NH RSA 99-D: In order to use tax-payer dollars to defend the unauthorized actions by state actors, the A.G. must examine the complaint and determine whether the allegation against a state actor was wanton or reckless.

Taxpayer dollars cannot be used if the A.G. finds that the state actor acted outside his authority,

Therefore, the person accused would have to obtain their legal counsel at their own expense. If the A.G. is named in the complaint, he has to recuse himself, and the Executive Council must decide whether to authorize the use of tax-payer dollars for legal defense.

Why did A.G. Formella not recuse himself? And why did the executive council not do its job? That has not happened in my election law challenge (NH Supreme Court case #2023-0097). How much of your tax dollars have they spent defending bad statutes that they know to be unconstitutional?

Asst. Attorney General Matthew Conley recently quoted by the NH Journal, “that ignorance of the law is no excuse”.

Well, let’s look at what the same Asst. A.G. had to say when he tried to mislead the NH Supreme Court on his brief in my case on pages 23, 24, 25, 26, where he cited The Opinion of the Justices, 44 N.H. 663 (1863) and the Opinion of Justices, 80 N.H. 595 (1921). Absentee voting was declared un-constitutional because their constitution of N.H. at that time required you vote in-person.

Absentee voting was ultimately established for only two reasons (absence from your voting district or because of physical disability.) So, in 1942, during WWII, absentee voting was established for the general elections, and it was amended again in 1956 to include primaries. The point is, the legislature under our State Constitution, the legislature can only propose amendments to the Constitution of N.H., and it CANNOT make changes to the State Constitution by legislative fiat.

So, in 2020 and now, the legislature and these state officers must follow the law. They are acting illegally and beyond the scope of their authority. Without rule of law, our country is anarchy! Our state leaders are acting like imperialists – ignoring the constitution and assuming personal power to make new unconstitutional voting practices to suit themselves. They forget we have rights.

The following are quotes are from the A.G. Supreme Court brief in my case. The case quotes make it plain to see that the State Actors, in my case, knew better, knew what they were doing was wrong, and what is worse, they conspired to deprive the people of this state of free, fair, and equal election process and that they plan on doing it again in the next election. It is time stand up and demand accountability. These are bad-faith actions by bad state actors.

(1). Copp v. Henniker, Mar 1, 1875:

Since 1863 it has been understood (as said by Ladd, J., in Copp v. Henniker, 55 N.H. 179, 193) “that the right of suffrage, established by the constitution, could not be exercised by proxy.” We are not able to answer the considerations by which the conclusions of the justices were supported in 1863. Counsel who have appeared before us in behalf of the proponents of the bill concede that it is beyond legislative power as to state officers. We, therefore, are constrained to advise the House of Representatives that the right of suffrage given by the Constitution cannot be exercised by proxy, i.e., by electors not present at the meeting. The occasion for legislation of this character in 1863 was the absence of many voters in the service of the army or navy of the United States during the Civil War. The difficulty was met in some states by constitutional amendment. Similar amendments have since been adopted in other states. Bulletin Mass. Const. Convention, Vol. 2, pp. 213, 214, 219-223.

(2). Opinion of the Justices (1921), cited 12 times most recently in McLinko v. Commonwealth Aug 2, 2022.

Decided March 29, 1921.

The legislature has no power to authorize the exercise of the right of suffrage, at the biennial elections of state officers, by electors who are not present at the polls either because of absence from the municipality in which the election is held or because of physical disability. The foregoing limitation has no application to legislation providing for the election of presidential electors. The duty of the supreme court to furnish advisory opinions is not limited to questions which may be adjudicated by the courts of the state. The validity of an election of a senator or a representative in congress which depends upon votes given by proxy is so doubtful that the court is unable to advise that legislation so providing would be valid.

The inquiry submitted is whether in the absence of power expressly given by constitutional amendment the legislature has power to provide as proposed. That such power does not exist was settled nearly fifty years ago not only in this state but in others with similar constitutional provisions as to all offices created by the several state constitutions.

My pending supreme court case question is—the courts have determined over a dozen times in earlier cases that legislature cannot alter or amend the mandatory election law provisions of the Constitution of N.H.

[this includes by expanding absentee voting, use of unreliable voting machines, 2024 purchase of non-secured electronic voting machines, doing away with voter-official inspections of absentee envelopes, and student and non-inhabitant inclusion with or without proper identification, AND whatever hanky-panky these career politicians can think up along with their Dominion, Accu-Vote and other corporate affiliates) …

These practices and patterns to improperly alter fair and equal voter rights – all require Constitutional amendment.  So, does the legislature now have the power to alter state voting law by legislation? They claim before the NH Supreme Court that they may exercise “permissible legislative judgment.” Quoting Chief Justice Gordon MacDonald:

“I don’t understand what that term means. How is a permissible legislative judgement permissible if it exceeds the authority of the Constitution?

(See oral arguments starting at the 17min. mark): https://livestream.com/nhjb/events/10715419/videos/238780602

I submit the legislature has no such authority or power. This question has long been settled in various ways that the legislature and the state politicians may not ‘work around’ the mandatory constitutional requirement. Their power does not exist, and this question was settled more than one hundred fifty years ago — not only in this state but in others with similar constitutional provisions as to all offices created by the several state constitutions.

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Allyson Renneau has 11 biological children, let’s just get that out of the way.  How do I know?  From her website to every article written about her it’s spoken of like it’s her last name: Allyson Renneau-eleven-biological-children.  When Mrs. Superwomb isn’t parenting the next cast of cheerleading hopefuls her hobbies include going to Harvard, joining NASA, saving the Afghan girls rocket team from the Taliban and bringing porn to the Amazon.  I know, the last one is a bit odd for someone who “starts her day with an energy drink and reading Joel Osteen”, but we can’t all live our best life all the time. Sorry Joel.

Now of course her stated goal was not to bring porn to the Amazon but this thirteen time world champion baton twirler has obviously never done an internet search for “baton twirling” with the safe search feature off.  Otherwise she would have known the internet is made for two things: propaganda and porn.

Hi on energy drinks, ambition and the need to save people from seclusion the princess of fertility kindly donated multiple Starlink setups to the indigenous people of the Marubo tribe known mostly for living off the land and minding their own business.  However, despite their ability to leap into water and spear a fish with ambidexterity they had yet to make the leap to full connectivity, that is until Allyson found out about them and decided they needed her help.  Armed with an Ivy League education and a savior complex the size of a space station she brought the first world to the third world and, well, all hell broke loose.

Tribe elder Enoque said “It’s already saved lives” by allowing locals to reach out for emergency services, like the time one of the tribesman had a heart attack from walking in on one of his kids looking at BDSM videos.  “When it arrived everyone was happy” explained 73 year old Tsainama Marubo “but now things have gotten worse.”  By worse he means the tribe’s youth have gotten sexually aggressive spending much of their time online rather than hunting, farming and working in order to survive. “Young people have gotten lazy because of the internet” Tsainama said.  “They don’t spend time with family.  They’d rather be on their phones. They’re learning the ways of the white people.”  Just what white people need, another tribe of colored people hating them for trying to help.  Way to go Allyson.

Bananas Media sent staff to survey the development of the tribe and are sad to say the whiteness appears to be metastasizing.  The village’s first Karen seems to be in the making.  Karen has already instituted am and pm internet hours and was seen chewing out one fellow tribesman for leaving his ass too close to the designated yoga area.  First world problems in the third world – who’s ready for the apocalypse!

However none of that was going to stop Mrs. Renneau from single-handedly saving the Afghan girls rocket team from certain beheading by repeatedly posting on Instagram her communication with the girls to get to somewhere safe – anywhere other than Afghanistan that is.  Believing her heroic online messaging was the catalyst that brought the girls to freedom she was sorely rebuked by their legal representatives with a “cease and desist” letter chastising her for her litany of posts which only enlarged the target on the girls backs as they made their way to safety.  This stinging “get away from us we never knew you” was only a minor setback for Allyson who is so high on Red Bull and Osteen-isms she’s like the Amy Winehouse of missionaries.  Did we mention she has eleven biological children she can parent whenever she tires of playing super nanny to the world’s needy?  She does.  Eleven. Every one of them biological.

Another prodigious breeder with a penchant for porn is world’s wealthiest bachelor Elon Musk who’s social media company X decided to upgrade to XXX enacting a policy for the “marginalized” who are not able to “express their sexuality on other forms of media”.  Really Elon?  Aside from social media sites porn sites are the next largest category of the top 50 most used sites in the world.  Those are some pretty big margins exxxpressing themselves sir.

Brooke Erin Duffy, associate professor of communications at Cornell University says “X is unapologetically provocative and has sought to distinguish itself from ‘brand safe’ competitors”.  Kind of like Cornell has from the rest of the Ivy League when you look out your windows eh Brooke?  You’ve got more tents full of co-eds on your campus than Elon has Russian bots on his platform.

Of course since Christians and sexularists are making porn great again it wouldn’t be right unless a rabbi threw his tiny hat into the ring.  Rabbi Solomon Friedman, like Allyson, is on a mission.  To what you ask?  To save Pornhub, the 17th most visited site in the world with the help of his pals at Ethical Capital Partners (sic).  Like Elon and Allyson the good rabbi has a heart for the little guys and gals who are being exploited by the oppressive world of online porn and need someone to champion them for equity’s sake.  Friedman wants to “give the performers a voice” by helping them join the conversation circle centering their unmet needs as sex pots.  One can only imagine the scene where a banquet hall full of porn stars, directors and producers discuss the finer points of making porn a respectable industry with paid time off, a health plan, and a 401k for that day when the back can’t take it anymore and it’s time to move on.

Jenn Clamen, national co-ordinator of the Canadian Alliance for Sex Work Law Reform, said the past problems at Pornhub have been used to malign the industry as a whole, causing one to wonder when was the industry not maligned as a hole?

“What we can only hope is that [Ethical Capital Partners] have a respect for working conditions,” Clamen told CBC. Freidman vows to offer memberships to Planet Fitness, Planned Parenthood and install cameras on site for safety.  L’chaim!

Maggie MacDonald, a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto’s faculty of information who studies porn platforms, was asked to join the firm’s advisory board a few months back. Upon learning such a job exists every single internet hiring site crashed the next morning and continues to be down at of the time of publishing.

She said it’s the first time a private sector pitch convinced her, as Ethical Capital Partners impressed upon her that they have the interests of pornography workers at heart.  Of course they do honey britches.

Rabbi Freidman has stated he will also be working on a new line of Kosher porn products with fellow rabbi Schmuley Boteach, both of whom are particularly jazzed about yarmulkondoms.

 

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Federal Government Ambassador to New Hampshire Jeanne Shaheen (or is the more proper term, the older version of Satrap?) used her perch in the US Senate to override local voters and reverse the fiscal decisions of their duly elected representatives.

Sidenote: note how often (snark) she discusses the almost  $35 Trillion national debt that she has helped to run up with her Morally Superior sense of “largess by other peoples’ money”?

She seems to believe that by showering people with Federal dollars, she makes herself the female version of Santa Claus, coming down from the Senate version of Mt Olympus to “save” the mortals so far beneath her (yes, I’m mixing metaphors here, but stay with me). As the NH Journal pointed out back in March, she spent $2.5 million in tax money that we would have spent of our own volition (reformatted, emphasis mine):

Shaheen’s Tax Splash: Sinks $2.5M in Kayak Park Rejected by Voters

When Congress passed the $1.2 trillion spending package in the dark of night on Friday, Fox News noted some of the pork barrel projects inevitably included in these omnibus (or in this case “minibus”) budget bills.

One spending shoutout went to $2.5 million for a “new kayaking facility in New Hampshire.”

In this case, it’s a proposed whitewater park in downtown Franklin, N.H. — a project local taxpayers overwhelmingly rejected when asked to fund it themselves last year. So, why are America’s taxpayers paying for it now?

Just ask Sen. Jeanne Shaheen…That’s what Shaheen did, according to Franklin City Manager Judith Milner. Shaheen asked her political friends in Franklin if they wanted some “free” money from the federal government.

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Shaheen declined to respond to questions about the funding from NHJournal.

As if it was really a gift or even the Federal Government’s. A mere cuppa coffee. As I used to say when I was on my hamlet’s Budget Committee, every time someone came in looking for more spending, it was always justified as “it’s only th price of a cup of coffee a day” for everyone. They were never happy when I said:

“I’m already pulling two tankers worth of coffee behind me – why don’t you get together with your friends, fund it, and then gift it (and the required maintenance for it) yourselves if it’s such a hot idea?”

They always thought I was being rude until I pointed out that they were being more rude in demanding citizens give them money to make themselves feel better about themselves. Was that rudest?

No, it wasn’t. Jeanne Shaheen didn’t have a vote on spending this money. She didn’t bother to accept that Franklin voters didn’t think the idea was worth it—she just blithely overrode their votes, just like any normal Authoritarian (but with a grandmother’s smile).

About questions from NH Journal – what were they thinking as she NEVER does? When the Executive Council funded community health centers but not baby abbatoirs, she immediately directed the Federal DHHS to fund them.  So much for local control, eh, Jeanne?  So much for respecting local elected officials, eh witch (rhymes with…well, y’all know I don’t use that kind of language)?

The interest the US is now paying on its National Debt is over $1 trillion a year. With higher interest rates by the Federal Reserve, that will rise. And remember, that is more money spent (much of which does not fall into Constitutional Powers) on our national defense.

She has nothing but scorn for us all.

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If you hear a politician or one of their fanatical followers mouthing off about net zero, the energy transition, or achieving some arbitrary reduction in emissions by a date earlier than, say, 2150 CE or 130 ACE (after the covid era), call bullsh!t. Don’t worry, we’ve got receipts.

They are lying, stupid, perhaps both, or if you lean toward being less bombastic, grossly misinformed, and misguided individuals misled by Marxist corruptocrats. I know, I said less bombastic. Calls for achieving levels of electrification, regardless of whether you believe this is to reduce emissions (whatever those may be), are irrelevant. We are wasting time, money (not nearly enough of it) and energy on something that can never be achieved, even if we dropped wind and solar for nuclear and hydro.

Past installments of Why Net-zero is Impossible focused on inadequate access to rare earth metals and the hypocritical offshoring of emissions to places that extract them. Vermont, for example, would need to cover most of its picturesque landscape to meet its “climate goals” while it is, at the same time, sequestering a third of that space as protected from development. Their plan is to make others sacrifice their space. To emit elsewhere, then claim to be clean and green. A Climate cult gated community safe space with sprawling vistas because they are buying dirty green energy from outside the state.

None of that matters. We’ll never get there from here, so they should stop lying to you and wasting your money.

Not only is there not enough known copper, but even if there were, it could not possibly be mined in time to reach even the least offensive of the target dates proposed.

Replacing today’s 1.35 billion light-duty gasoline and diesel vehicles with EVs and supplying the expanded market (estimated at 2.2 billion cars by 2050) would thus require nearly 150 million tons of additional copper during the next 27 years. That is an equivalent of more than seven years of today’s annual copper extraction for all of the metal’s many industrial and commercial uses…Copper offers a stunning example of these environmental externalities. The metal content of exploited copper ores from Chile, the world’s leading source of the metal, has declined from 1.41 percent in 1999 to 0.6 percent in 2023, and further quality deterioration is inevitable. Using the mean richness of 0.6 percent means that the extraction of additional 600 million tons of metal would require the removal, processing, and deposition of nearly 100 billion tons of waste rock (mining and processing spoils), which is about twice as much as the current annual total of global material extracted including harvested biomass, all fossil fuels, ores and industrial minerals, and all bulk construction materials. Extracting and dumping such enormous masses of waste material exacts a very high energy and environmental price.

That’s just EVs without taking into consideration that we’d have to stop using copper for everything else.

Copper is needed for gold alloys and sterling silver, non-EV motor parts, other wiring, piping, and plumbing, machinery to facilitate heat exchange, roofing, finishes, artwork, public health, food and beverage, and use in any other application would necessarily cease. We would need all of it, and it still wouldn’t get us anywhere near where the experts say we need to be.

Net Zero would also require a host of other transitions.

In terms of final energy uses and specific energy converters, the unfolding transition would have to replace more than 4 terawatts (TW) of electricity-generating capacity now installed in large coal- and gas-fired stations by converting to non-carbon sources; to substitute nearly 1.5 billion combustion (gasoline and diesel) engines in road and off-road vehicles; to convert all agricultural and crop processing machinery (including about 50 million tractors and more than 100 million irrigation pumps) to electric drive or to non-fossil fuels; to find new sources of heat, hot air, and hot water used in a wide variety of industrial processes (from iron smelting and cement and glass making to chemical syntheses and food preservation) that now consume close to 30 percent of all final uses of fossil fuels; to replace more than half a billion natural gas furnaces now heating houses and industrial, institutional, and commercial places with heat pumps or other sources of heat; and to find new ways to power nearly 120,000 merchant fleet vessels (bulk carriers of ores, cement, fertilizers, wood and grain, and container ships, the largest one with capacities of some 24,000 units, now running mostly on heavy fuel oil and diesel fuel) and nearly 25,000 active jetliners that form the foundation of global long-distance transportation (fueled by kerosene)… On the face of it, and even without performing any informed technical and economic analyses, this seems to be an impossible task …

At present, no amount of math makes building our way into the proposed energy transition possible. We lack the material or know how to get there. There aren’t enough rare earth metals or copper to get us there, which means there isn’t enough material to replace all of that if we could when it wears out.

Net-Zero is a dead end unless its purpose is something else (which we know it is). Any politician unwilling to admit it is impossible or unwilling to admit other motivations will need your help finding another hobby or occupation. And here’s the rub: It makes no difference if you believe CO2 or any other man-made emission is manipulating the climate. The math doesn’t work.

This is not the path and staying on it is wasting time and money. So get off it.

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Hunter Biden will NEVER step foot inside a prison. The Big Pedophile Guy, our Imposter/Figurehead President, Joe BidenX will pardon Hunter or commute his sentence. And Hunter escaped prosecution … because the corrupt BidenX DOJ let the statute of limitations run … on far more serious crimes: tax evasion, money laundering, sex trafficking, influence peddling.

The crimes were displayed and celebrated on Hunter’s laptop … yes, that laptop, the one our “free press” covered up at the behest of our real government, the “intelligence community.”   Excellent summation by David Sacks:

 

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Through the latter half of the 20th century, George Soros became a sovereign force on the international stage. He became well-known for representing and empowering minority groups in their national political spheres. This was a boon for democracy globally, and Soros became widely known as a champion for human rights.

However, sometime in the opening decades of the 21st century, good ol’ George tacked a new direction. He moved sharply away from cultivating democracy in a new direction. What was that?

Soros’ age may have gotten to him. Or perhaps he spent too much time with Gates in Davos conferences. Either way, he took a new direction promoting global authoritarianism, transhumanism, and the destruction of the USA.

What prompted such a shift we can only theorize on, but the reality is striking. George and his son Alex have steered directly along the course currently tracked by the US far left. Marked by defunding the police, championing black supremecist ideas and demonizing whites, and going so far as to call for racial genocide. Promoting tyrannical, police stare measures surrounding coronaviruses, and participating in massive electoral fraud to ensure continued political representstion and power in Washington.

The Soros bloodline has become a vertiable threat to world peace. Their branded foundation Open Society has twisted the magnificent ideas of Karl Popper into a hellish direction towards global chaos. Where Alex and George do not activrly intervene, when leftist agendas coincide with supporting their power positions, they are happy to stay silent.

Most concerning is Alex Soros’ new captaincy of Open Society Foundations. He is a spoiled trust fund child, a pure elitist, and he has no consideration for individual citizens. He is an idealogue largely lacking in business experience building capital or in communicating actoss socioeconomic spectrums.

Alex relies on the fanatics and sycophants who surrounded his father for decades. Does he have the intellectual inquisitiveness or enlightened mindset to lead effectively given his massive financial capabilities? We can only pray that he does, but by all appearances, he does not.

We are on a precipice. The US populations is being goaded into a 2nd American Civil War. The USA is being primed for incrediboy destructive internal strife. It can be avoided with wise and steady leadership, but the US Democrat Party with its extremely radical focus on destroying white society is clearly not capable of the task.

The only thing the US Democrats will do is gleefully profit from the carnage. The billionaires will hide in their bunkers while the underclasses conflict. This is not the best path forward, nor should we allow it to be.

The solution is to immediately act to take power positions away from US Democrats— they are all compromised by ties to the globalist-communist forums where plans are structured for the downfall of the USA. US citizens must organize and chart their own path.

No other country will help or support in this endeavor. On the basis of self-interest, US citizens must ensure their own country’s strong and resilient sustenance.

Do not trust blindly the self-interested bureaucrats in DC. Do not allow the Soros clan to continuously enable wonton destruction.

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The international federation that manages elite competitions in water sports told Lia’ William’ Thomas he couldn’t compete with the gals in the pool. Thomas appealed on the grounds that women can have a penis (I’m paraphrasing). World Aquatics said, Sorry, Billy, you’ve still got a willy and all the sporty benefits that come with it.

These are natural, biological advantages that you can’t escape. Therefore, it would be unfair to women athletes (also still paraphrasing).

Great news! Lia Thomas won’t be able to compete in women’s category at the Olympics or any other elite competition.

He has just lost his legal battle in Court of Arbitration for Sport ruling.

This is a victory for women and girls everywherehttps://t.co/fEZc47K0FA

— Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) June 12, 2024

World Aquatics rule is no “women” who transitioned after the age of twelve. William was a ranked Men’s Swimmer before he “switched teams” to rise to…number one. If that sounds fair to anyone, you either hate women or are suffering from an undiagnosed case of mental illness.

Interestingly enough, the majority of mentally ill Willy Thomas supporters are also self-proclaimed defenders of women’s rights (as you already know). And while it is a victory for women when a global regulatory body arrives at what appears to be the only sensible conclusion, remember that the Democrat party has yet to pay any price. World Aquatics is (also) still open to “women” who were born male if they started their life-long course of dangerous hormone therapies as a child.

I have to wonder: could World Aquatics be playing a bit of tri-level chess? Assuming the child survives the transition drugs, the potential loss of bone density and other common medical complications will likely make them incapable of participating in aquatic sports at any level, let alone elite.

More Bad News for Willy and the Gang

I say, I Say, a judge in Texas, a Federal Judge, that is, has ruled that the Bidenista’s rewriting of the Title IX rules is unlawful.

This case involves an immensely difficult policy issue: balancing the protection of personal privacy and rights in school classrooms, bathrooms, locker rooms, and other intimate facilities while, at the same time, ensuring that no student is marginalized in an educational setting. But the resolution of this difficult policy issue is not for the Court to decide. Instead, the Constitution assigns such major policy choices to the appropriate elected officials, who must follow the proper legal procedures to initiate any desired change. Defendants failed to follow the proper procedures here. Rather than promote the equal opportunity, dignity, and respect that Title IX demands for both biological sexes, Defendants’ Guidance Documents do the opposite in an effort to advance an agenda wholly divorced from the text, structure, and contemporary context of Title IX.

In other words, “Title IX pertains exclusively to biological sex, with no references to “gender identity,” “gender expression,” or any other weird concept radical left-wing gender ideology creates out of thin air.”

Sporty lesbians (without a willy) should be excited on both accounts, but we should expect the usual pushback. Dems are nothing if not persistent, but there is some evidence of sea-change in opinion, more rightly defined as “people have stopped putting up with this bullsh!t” and are standing up for girls and women. It’s good to see, but if you’d like that to mean more, get more traction, and result in more meaningful results, you’ll need to step up at the ballot box.

Find and remove the gender-bend from office. Please do it for the children.

As for (I’ve Still Gotta) Willy Thomas, he can still compete for a spot on an Olympic Team—the Men’s team.

I wish you the best of luck, William.

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Here is Jason Bonilla … sans cowboy hat, but still wearing a hat … while sitting as a member of the Manchester School Board … talking about how the School Board needs more people who look like him. According to Bonilla, it is not good enough that there are “allies” … a lovely euphemism for whites … on the Board who advocate and vote the same way he does. NO .. his “gente,” the “Latine community” (Latina being the “gender neutral” of Latino/a) MUST be represented by someone like him.

How profoundly and thoroughly un-American. It’s easy to imagine the outrage from Bonilla and his fellow woke-communists if someone said exactly what Bonilla is saying, but just flipped it … “we need more WHITE faces on the Board; yeah I appreciate our Latine allies, but it’s not the same.” The woke-commies would be screaming RACIST at the top of their lungs. But in today’s America, SADLY, nobody thinks anything of it when Bonilla calls for the Board to be divvied up by skin color.

If you peruse Bonilla’s X, you will notice that he uses the term “mi gente” repeatedly. That term literally translates to “my people” and refers to Latinos … people born in or with ancestors from the geographic region known as Latin America. So, in other words, when Bonilla looks around … he does NOT see Americans. He sees disparate peoples or communities.

The peoples or communities that are not “mi gente”  may contain “allies.” But think about what the term “ally” denotes. The Soviet Union was our ally during World War II … because we had a common-enemy, Germany. So think about it … Bonilla views you and me, those who are NOT his allies, as the ENEMY. He is indirectly saying so, when he calls some of the non-Latinos on the Board his “allies.”

This is Woke-Communism. We are divvied up into groups and identities and woke-commies like Bonilla gain and maintain power by convincing some groups that the other groups are the ENEMY and that they need “leaders” like Bonilla to fight for them.

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