Friday • March 27 • 2026
Vol.XVIII • No.XIII
Manchester, N.H.
On the morning of March 26, the Francis Scott Key bridge across the Patapsco River in the upper Chesapeake Bay suffered critical damage after a cargo ship, the Singapore-owned Dali, crashed into one of its key support struts. This noteworthy incident has captured international headlines and dominated US political conversation since. The key question swirls: Who did it?
The answer is simple once you consider all of the potential culprits. First, establish what actually happened. A single review of the video footage makes it clear that the incident was a cyber attack. The ship lost power multiple times. During the power issues, it drastically changed course and veered directly into the strut. No ship captain onboard would make such a maneuver. It’s a career-ending mistake. Such a steering action could only be intentional and could only have been done by special operatives hijacking the ship or by remote control through a cyber-attack.
Whether it was a cyber attack or spec-ops is irrelevant because both point to the same conclusion– it was actors within the government of the United States of America itself who committed the attack.
Let’s do a quick review to confirm this by asking the simple question necessary in all geopolitical analysis: Cui bono? Who benefits?
Among all countries capable of remote cyberattack—the United States, the United Kingdom, Israel, France, Germany, Russia, China, and Japan—which would care about Baltimore Harbor? And which would care about an attack right now? What is the context of this attack?
Baltimore is in a state of decay. The city badly needs revival and direction. Nationally, in the US, Trump just received a windfall reduction in a key court case being waged against him for the 2024 presidential election. Another key candidate, RFK Jr, just announced his VP pick and it does not look like a good call for Team Biden. On the international scene, Israel ignored the Biden administration’s advice to delay or defer an attack on Rafah, the last part of Gaza that has yet to be cleaned out by its military operations following the October 7 events. Russia just suffered a humiliating and devastating terrorist attack on civilians in the Moscow suburbs. So, ask again, cui bono?
Of course, the Biden administration benefits from this attack. First, it distracts from the Trump and RFK campaign moves with a clickbait event– a negative event that forces Biden to act positively. Second, it provides a platform for Biden to make positive infrastructural promises for a solidly Blue area in Baltimore. Third, it provides Baltimore with a positive infrastructure project that will generate economic activity for the city. This economic activity is regionally a boon for the US economy as a whole– there will be more requests for permits in new locations due to rerouted transportation, other ports will receive boosts in shipping activity, and shipping routes will be longer so overland US shipping companies will see higher revenues. This is all in line with Biden’s general policy platform, which has favored corporations over citizens and sought consistently to boost government and corporate profits at the expense of citizens.
Ultimately, the FSK bridge is an inconsequential target, despite Lara Logan’s assertions otherwise, in the sense that the US transportation infrastructure in the Baltimore area is quite strong. There are many other routes for key overland shipping. There are also many other ports that can accept large freight cargo ships and transportation networks that can reroute deliveries. It does not pose a major problem. If anything, it protects Baltimore from the risks associated with an open shipping lane. It is defensive to shut shipping lanes there and effectively close Baltimore harbor.
And what about Israel? Netanyahu and Biden have sparred publicly on the international stage in the run-up to the Rafah ground offensive, which is starting this week. A large-scale international event like the FSK bridge attack provides cover in US domestic media and some international media channels for the Rafah offensive. Many people will focus on Baltimore and forget about Rafah, at least until it is too late and Israel has already achieved its objectives there in rooting out the last Hamas tunnel terrorist networks.
Finally, there is the Moscow theater terror attack. It seems that the FSK bridge attack could potentially be a response to the Moscow attack. The USA said that it was ISIS-K that conducted the attack, which means it was an organization with US links. The assailants fled towards Ukraine, which means they were likely Ukrainian or seeking NATO shelter. So, for Russia to strike back at the US seems like an expected occurrence. Yet, the twist is that for the Biden administration, in attacking Baltimore itself, it allows the US to remain in control of the conflict. Since the US is the assailant, others will not conduct attacks, thinking that the Moscow theater counterattack has already occurred. Russia might even think someone else has acted on their behalf.
This is a classic full spectrum dominance move, if it were the US. Not only does it provide a positive platform for Biden to act upon with strength, but it also allows the US to remain in control of the conflict, on its own terms. No other country has an interest in Baltimore bridges. Any such action from Russia, China, Israel, or another country, would have been aimed at a much more serious target and intended to do much more damage.
Why would the attack occur at 1:30 am? Well, to reduce casualties. That’s why this was a carefully calculated move of self-sabotage. A move meant by the US to protect its own interests, to provide cover, and to make it seem as if the country is under attack.
This is why the FBI came out almost immediately, saying the attack was not a terrorist incident. It’s why Biden says he doesn’t want insurance companies investigating and why he moved so quickly to announce the repair packages.
Such is the nature of geopolitical events.
Here’s the kicker and the giveaway that the Chinese-influenced Biden administration was behind this– the name of the container ship, Dali, means ‘big knife’ in Chinese. If any country other than the US did it, it was China and Biden’s Chinese connections.
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Maine politics is not dull in this new Liberal era for The Pine Tree State. Every week, we see a different Progressive attempt to outdo the previous outlandish piece of legislation. When you look at the range of laws passed, starting with the legalization of Marijuana in 2016.
This law did not take effect until 2020, when the way was cleared for recreational pot dispensaries. Maine has 218 licensed dispensaries. In comparison, there are only 159 Dunkin’ Donuts in Maine.
We have talked about some of the more controversial laws passed, such as:
These are just a few examples, but they give you a good look at the trend line for the powers-to-be in Augusta. The trend line is straight down. There is no idea too Progressive for these elite Libs. The problem is they are not destroying themselves alone. They are dragging Conservatives down into their cesspool with them.
Maine House Speaker Rachel Talbot Ross (D-Portland) has introduced a bill to establish a state “social equity program” and advisory board to push affirmative action business development initiatives for disproportionately incarcerated populations. That is a typical word salad. Let’s reword. Ross is introducing a WOKE bill to give $12,000 to people who have been convicted of marijuana-related charges so they can set up a business for themselves in Maine’s marijuana environment. We will also set up a board to seek out and identify these lucky folks who law-abiding Mainers will fund their new business venture. So, it is not only a way to waste your tax dollars but sets up a new bureaucracy at the same time. Excellent job, Speaker. Is anyone in the family high on the list to get the $12,000 check? This thinking is tantamount to taking pedophiles with DWI convictions and making them school bus drivers.
So, in the epitome of Democrat philosophy, we are going to play identity politics. We are going to single out people who have already been convicted of crimes, and then we are going to single out minorities within those ranks. Then, we will take tax dollars from everyone outside the box to benefit the few. So, who is benefiting from this ridiculous bill?
We have over 300 illegal, Chinese-owned pot facilities in the state. Yes, the state and local police have been raiding these facilities, but none seem to be put out of commission. We also have an Attorney General in Merrick Garland and a nonresponsive Department of Justice that has ignored calls for help from members of Congress since last August. We have a State Justice Department that has produced a list of crimes that will no longer be recognized for arrest or prosecution. Rather than direct efforts and resources in a direction, the elected of Maine have opted for identity politics. Rather than help every Mainer by creating a state that is a positive environment for all business owners, we are singling out past offenders. This decision is beyond reason and comprehension. It is terrible pieces of legislation, such as the social equity program, that prompt the question of whether anyone who votes to put these WOKE liberal hacks into office ever makes themselves aware of the actions of these people. I would have to say no. There is no way a person can justify this stupidity unless they have a vested interest in the foolishness.
I asked the question in a previous article if we have passed the point of no return. People like Maine House Speaker Rachel Talbot Ross (D-Portland) are on a mission to ensure we have gotten to the edge of the cliff and are taking our turns to jump.
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Last September, we reported on a class action lawsuit filed by a handful of Democrat-run warzones (doing business as cities) that blamed rising car thefts on automakers whose vehicles are easier to steal. Isn’t that like saying it’s okay to punch someone because they look like they won’t punch back?
Violent thug: Did you see the look on that guy’s face? He was begging to get beat up.
Democrat DA: You’re right. Let’s sue his parents.
Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle, and New York sued Kia/Hyundai for making cars people don’t want to steal but can’t help themselves. It’s just so darn easy, like blaming someone else for a problem created by decades of democratic rule and deliberate policy choices (like not prosecuting theft). However, prosecutors aren’t going to get jackpot justice from former Kia and Hyundai owners, so the Democrats are blaming the car maker.
Minnesota AG Keith Ellison wants in on this action.
“But we have to go upstream, and we got to make sure that the automobiles are not so easy to steal that they are a tempting, attractive nuisance for young people. Right now we are investigating two major automakers because their cars are dramatically too easy to steal for young people.”
What happens when you take that statement and replace “automobiles” with retail goods?
“But we have to go upstream, and we got to make sure that the retail goods are not so easy to steal that they are a tempting, attractive nuisance for young people. Right now we are investigating retailers because their inventory are dramatically too easy to steal for young people.”
Or personal property.
“But we have to go upstream, and we got to make sure that the personal property is not so easy to steal that they are a tempting, attractive nuisance for young people. Right now we are investigating homeowners because their belongings are dramatically too easy to steal for young people.”
Or, what the heck, election!
“But we have to go upstream, and we got to make sure that elections are not so easy to steal that they are a tempting, attractive nuisance for young people. Right now we are investigating local precincts because their votes are dramatically too easy to steal for young people.”
You can plug almost anything in there, and what you end up with is a so-called criminal justice system whose purpose is not to protect people from loss of property (or life). It is to distract victims while it profits from their misery.
Neither Ellison, his state, nor any of the municipal crime lords doing business as AGs or prosecutors will spend a dime of any settlement on improving public safety because they aren’t in that business.
Why do you think they want you disarmed? Yes, it is impossible to advance to actual tyranny in a land with armed citizens, but it is also true that if citizens were allowed to gun down criminals, it might have a deleterious impact on achieving that tyranny. Deliberate crime creates chaos, and the goal is to so unsettle the middle class that they demand the government take more freedoms for the promise of safety they never intend to deliver.
And that lawlessness and mayhem is always someone else’s fault, and that is a lesson that victims of Democrat rule can’t seem to learn. They have controlled everything for decades but are responsible for nothing.
You’d never tolerate that BS from a friend or family member, so why do politicians and bureaucrats get a pass?
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This is in response to Ann Marie Banfield’s Hudson” Alvirine High School Calls In Black Lives Matter to Meet with Students, which exposed that under the pretext of “diversity” and “inclusion,” Black Lives Matter would be indoctrinating high school students regarding “microaggressions” and “privilege.”
In other words, anti-white racism. But don’t worry … I know just what to do! I have a plan!
It’s really quite simple. We elect a Republican legislature and Governor, and then we ban DEI in public schools (including the university system) just like other States have. What’s that? Huh? You’re telling me that we already have a Republican legislature and Governor, and they passed a law banning “divisive concepts”? Really?
Well … your “divisive concepts” law OBVIOUSLY is sh*t since the unelected permanent government that actually runs the public schools had no problem bringing BLM to Hudson to spew anti-white racism. And OBVIOUSLY and UNDENIABLY, if you want to ban anti-white racism from New Hampshire’s public schools, you need to do just that … actually ban DEI, just as other States have.
Kudos to Ann Marie Banfield for being willing to battle the unelected permanent government that actually runs New Hampshire’s public schools, and winning that battle in this instance. But this whack-a-mole approach is unnecessary and nowhere near as efficacious as actually banning DEI, just as other States have.
But don’t hold your breath waiting for the supposedly “Republican” legislature to actually act like Republicans. They have far, far, far more important things to do … such as turning New Hampshire into an endless stream of apartment complexes. And the very “Republicans” whose priority is making New Hampshire look like Massachusetts are running around like chickens with their heads cut off, clucking, “Don’t Mass up New Hampshire,” “Don’t Mass up New Hampshire.” Like this clown:
New Hampshire Advantage! Slava Ukraine! Slava Ukraine! Mask up! Vax up! Workforce housing! Slava Ukraine! Cluck, cluck, cluck, cluck, cluck.
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I’m sure the grapevine has reached all corners of NH and cyberspace with Annie Kuster’s retirement announcement earlier today. I was at the state house and wearing my “Chuck Morse’s voting record matters” shirt when I received the news just before the executive council was called to order. Readers ought to be familiar with his 11/19/21 crime against NH.
However, I’m here to talk about what happened AFTER all the commotion in the LOB following that unfortunate roll call, and what fellow committee member and former Senator Giuda said as he addressed the unhappy crowd across the street behind the state house. Chau Kelley took a video of him, but she was later unsurprisingly kicked off YouTube, and 15 years worth of citizen journalism disappeared as a result. I reached out to her in hopes that a copy was available through another account, but I am not going to keep you waiting for that, nor will I keep you waiting for what I have to say about Senator Giuda’s words.
He called money the “mother’s milk” and emphasized the importance of donating directly to the candidate rather than a middle entity, such as the NHGOP or an activist group. I’m going to pick on 10 Water Street for a moment. I use the address because it has a “10 DOWNING Street sound” to it; I just need to get Grokster Di Lothrop to say it out loud.
When I returned from Concord, I found a 1:31 pm email from info@nhgop.org in my inbox announcing Annie’s retirement, which also had its routine request for donations. I want to remind everyone that regardless of their current thoughts about General Bolduc, he announced his 2022 candidacy shortly after losing to Corky in 2020. Corky, as most people know, was “the chosen one” despite being a bought-and-sold carpetbagger. In the next election, General Bolduc was essentially ignored as Chuck Morse and a handful of others appeared shortly prior to filing time.
Do NOT allow Chris Ager and the 10 Water Street influencers to do to Lily Tang Williams what they did to General Bolduc! You can help by following Senator Giuda’s advice and donating to her directly.
No donation is too small. In fact, what’s not stated enough is how important it is to have a hearty number of donors from NH, so please, even if it’s just a dollar, do it. If you visit her link, you will find a variety of ways to get your donation to her campaign and choose the method that best suits you.
I’ll also add that when Elise invited Karoline and seven other women running for Congress to a Newsmax panel, I noticed Lily’s absence. While I was happy for Karoline, I emailed Elise’s office, politely, of course. I pointed out that we are the 50% and we had one woman running for Congress and requested that she show her some love. Of course, my email was ignored, which was no surprise.
I later mentioned that to Lily because I previously remember Steve Negron being snubbed in a variety of ways that the darling Mowers didn’t experience. Lily pointed out that she had not met the fundraising requirements to be considered by Elise. Fair enough, I’ve been educated.
I will close with a final talking point: Lily deserves access to the opportunities that (dare I say Dr Chan’s favorite word)ROBUST fundraising provides. So again, if you could pitch in even just a dollar(or more), it would be very helpful, and now, right on the heels of a current event, is a good time. Don’t wait.
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Congressman Ken Buck (Republican-CO 4th), when resigning early from Congress, has let the cat out of the bag. There is the Demolitioncrat/Uniparty plan for your children and grandchildren.
Buck claims that three more Republican Representatives (now Mike Gallager of Wisconsin has resigned) will soon exit the House of Representatives. That would flip the House majority to Democrats, and Hakeem Jeffries would become Speaker of the House.
That would flip all the Chairpersons of House Committees to Demolitioncrats, who would shut down all House investigations into the Biden bribery scandals. Why would I suspect that former Speaker McCarthy is sabotaging Republican control of the House?
If living in 2024 has taught anyone to pay attention to anything, it is that conspiracies are real and, as Steve Bannon of “War Room” fame says, there are no coincidences!
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Buck’s resignation has also forced an election to replace him in Colorado 4th at the same time as Republican Lauren Boebert is running in a primary for that seat in the House. Boebert would have to resign her current seat in Colorado 3rd to run in the election to replace the traitor Buck in Colorado 4th. To her credit, Boebert refuses to resign because of the current slim majority in the House. Does anyone smell an odor of McCarthy sabotage?
As for the Electoral College, the invasion of 15 million illegal aliens added to the Census will likely result in an additional thirteen Demolitioncrat seats in the House of Representatives. Recent polls show that 57% of Demolitioncrats would support the House refusing to confirm Trump’s 2024 election. Demolitioncrat strategist Marc Elias’ plan is to retain control of the House and refuse to confirm Trump’s election as the 47th POTUS.
Psychics tell us Demolitioncrats, helped by Mitch McConnell RINOS, who promulgated the J6 2021 insurrection lie, will cause the same on J6 2025.
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Neutering children is all the rage in Western democracies, or it was. A few weeks ago, the UK banned the public health service from allowing gender transition drugs (and therefore surgeries) on minors, following a four-year study that showed the practice had no mental health benefit or made matters worse.
This announcement came on the heels of an undercover report featuring internal communications from doctors who prescribed hormone blockers and who mutilate children for money, admitting the drugs are dangerous, leading to cancer or death. In other words, they are neither safe nor effective, an opinion shared by regulators in France, who “want to ban gender transition treatments for under-18s, after a report described sex reassignment in minors as potentially “one of the greatest ethical scandals in the history of medicine.”
Thus the title.
The report, commissioned by the opposition centre-Right Les Republicains (LR) party, documents various practices by health professionals, which it claims are indoctrinated by a “trans-affirmative” ideology under the sway of experienced trans-activist associations.
The report, which cites a “tense scientific and medical debate”, accuses such associations of encouraging gender transition in minors via intense propaganda campaigns on social media.
Jacqueline Eustache-Brinio, an LR senator who led the working group behind the report, concluded that “fashion plays a big role” in the rise of gender reassignment treatments.
The French Senate report warns that diagnosing children with “gender dysphoria” results in the premature medicalization of their anxiety
— “The diagnosis of ‘gender dysphoria,’ as shaped by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), seems to accelerate the… pic.twitter.com/1Y7O9djBvq
— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) March 24, 2024
European nations are taking a serious look at the benefit-to-harm ratio as well as the bullying from gender warriors.
The French report explicitly points to the militant ideology promoting gender reassignment surgeries.
The report, which is detailed and well-argued, points to a number of abuses by health professionals, indoctrinated by a “trans-affirmative” ideology and subject to the influence of experienced trans activist associations. The report’s authors accuse these associations of unreasonably encouraging gender transition in minors via an intense propaganda campaign on social media.
The scandal has been brewing for several months, thanks to the mobilisation of psychologists, psychiatrists, educators, and parents, who have denounced the ravages of this militant ideology among fragile and suffering young people, to whom gender transition is proposed as a miracle solution to the psychological problems they may be experiencing.
Someone call Dartmouth Medical. The French are revolting against the preferred ideology.
Do not expect the American gender mills to go quietly into that goodnight. There is money, power, and influence in the gender-transition laundromat, much like abortion (which is also knee-deep in this scam). Almost no one thinks on earth it is reasonable to end a pregnancy after 24 weeks, even in extenuating circumstances, except the American left. Most of Europe and the world prohibit the sort of thing Democrats demand – conception to live-birth abortion.
Gender transition strikes me as a little different, and that door has been open long enough for them to realize the benefits of their agenda: indoctrination, sterilization, depopulation, and the medical industrial complex to campaign coffers laundromat. Europe’s position on abortion is in line with a supermajority of Republicans and independents, so it’s wrong, so their opinions about hormone therapy and surgery on minors won’t (likely) move the needle either.
You and I will need to do that with help from the UK, France, and a growing number of countries across Europe.
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I was forwarded the below statement on Rep. Annie Kuster’s “retirement” by a journalist who had been investigating the framing of Justin Fairfax, who was “MeToo’d” in Virginia.
At the same time, it is now becoming apparent that Charlotte Bennett, one of former NY Andrew Cuomo’s accusers, is also a fraud who has a history as “Sally Smith,” a false accuser at Hamilton College who got successfully sued by a John Doe that was framed by her and other mean girls.
Rep. Annie Kuster spent a fair amount of the last 12 years pretending to be pro-women, standing up for “survivors,” claiming to be a “survivor” herself. It was always a lie. Political propaganda always relies on short-term memories. Before Kuster announced she was not going to run for re-election, someone spent a fair amount of time disabling inconvenient links to articles on her Wikipedia Page. Among these were articles about her work as a lobbyist for Rohypnol and statements she had made after women begged for it to be made into a class-A drug because they had been gang-raped under its influence. She discredited their testimony because she was trying to keep the contracts and revenue for the drug maker which was paying her handsomely for her lobby efforts.
Another article that had its link disabled was one about Rep. Annie Kuster as an “Angel” lawyer in adoption cases. Kids in New Hampshire end up being adopted after being put in foster care. They end up in foster care after DCYF removes them from their parents without due process – something that has come to light in the most recent hearings held by a committee convened as a result of the decades of failures by DCYF.
There are records and testimonies of parents who have had their children taken from them, never to see them again. Parents who have paid into child support only to find out that the State never gave the child support to the other parent to look after the children because the State didn’t bother to go looking for the children. Rep. Annie Kuster had a nice business between pharmaceutical lobbying and adoption law. Let’s not forget that New Hampshire is one of the worst states in the nation for drugging kids in care with opioids and similar.
For all the money Kuster made in private practice as a lawyer, she couldn’t find the time or resources to pay her property taxes on time. Had she not run for Congress in 2012, one wonders if she would have gotten away with it for longer.
It wasn’t until 2014 that Rep. Annie Kuster decided she was going to stand up for campus sexual assault survivors. Why? Because there was a ton of money to be had under the Violence Against Women Act and Susan Carbon, who’d been on Governor John Lynch’s Domestic Violence Commission, had been appointed by Obama to oversee a handout from the Department of Justice Office of Violence Against Women. Hundreds of millions of dollars were there on offer. All you had to do was create an excuse to get them. Create “survivors”.
Thus, Kuster stood up on the house floor in September 2016 to declare Chessy Prout “a survivor”. She took her to Capitol Hill in January 2017. Chessy Prout showed her a documentary about sexual assault in school called “Audrie & Daisy,” which aired on Netflix and was sponsored by PAVE, for which Chessy was an “ambassador.”
She took Chessy Prout to UNH in April 2017. She wrote the introduction to Chessy’s book in March 2018 and that book was promoted by Dan Hill – A Government Affairs PR representative whose company boasts the use of stealth and special ops tactics to secure Government Contracts. The book compared Owen Labrie, a scholarship student at St Paul’s School who should have gone to Harvard on a full ride, to an “Al Qaeda terrorist” and “Donald Trump.” It was all sensationalist and absurd political propaganda.
Kuster was nearly caught out in July 2019 by ABC/GMA who interviewed Owen Labrie. He was finally going to have the chance to speak for himself on national TV with Amy Robach, who flew with a team to Burlington, Vermont, to interview him on July 15, 2019. A copy of the program was sent to the Prout family representatives for comment. The program never aired because Dem Caucus Rep Amanda Grady Sexton and the NHCADSV launched a social media campaign called #SurvivorsOverRatings to block it, and her pal Rep. Annie Kuster had her office contact ABC/GMA to block it from airing.
What was at stake, apart from the exposure of corruption in which Rep. Annie Kuster had been complicit? $14 million to be sucked out of Dartmouth College, of which $2.865 million was on the line to go to the NHCADSV to pour into new lobbies to support the Every Voice Matters coalition, which is part of Its On Us and thus part of Civic Nation.
Yes, the Rapuano & Does v Dartmouth suit (filed by the same attorneys who sued St. Paul’s School in the wake of NH v Owen Labrie) was in mediation when the ABC/GMA interview would have aired. Kuster had come out swinging to support Rapuano & Does against Dartmouth. Times Up had put up the PR money for the plaintiffs. The Concord Monitor had covered it in favor of the plaintiffs and the settlement. Who didn’t cover the suicide of Professor David Bucci, who’d been smeared in the suit but denied the right to speak for himself? The Concord Monitor. The same paper that seems to be looking after Congresswoman Ann Kuster and Councilwoman Amanda Grady Sexton by disabling or deleting links that are now inconvenient to them on these matters.
DCCC Chair Statement on the Retirement of Rep. Annie Kuster
Today, DCCC Chair Suzan DelBene released the following statement upon the announcement that Congresswoman Annie Kuster (NH-02) will not seek re-election:
“Annie Kuster has been a tireless champion for the people of New Hampshire. During her time in Congress and as chair of the New Democrat Coalition, she’s been a beacon for common-sense solutions to create good jobs, fight the opioid epidemic, and expand access to mental health care. She’s a leading voice in Congress for survivors of sexual assault – fighting for legislation to support them and ensure that collectively our nation continues to have the important conversations that center the fight for the safety and wellbeing of survivors.
“Her record of public service and delivering for New Hampshire is unmatched. I am constantly in awe of and inspired by her courage and will miss her as a colleague and friend. With her help, I’m confident that this seat will remain in Democratic hands so that Granite Staters can continue having a fighter for them in Congress.”
For Immediate Release: March 27, 2024
CONTACT: Viet Shelton | (206) 719-8598
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Usually, when you hire someone to do something, and they don’t or can’t do it, you do not then give them more responsibility or reward them with additional revenue. But let’s say you do, and they fail again and again. At what point do you stop rewarding failure?
In my town of Merrimack, the school system is swirling the drain. Proficiency scores are not great and, in some cases, not even good. The message here is simple. No matter how much money we spend, they cannot teach the kids to read. The other subjects aren’t doing any better, so what does the school do? It asks for more money to play therapist to your kids.
Social-emotional Learning is public school head-shrinking as an on-ramp to full-blown in-house mental health services.
This is a school with teachers who, after decades of practice and an exponential increase in fiscal resources, are less able to teach all the kids to read to grade level than they did with more students and less money. In what world does that justify more funding for anything, especially an expansion into mental health-related surveys, sessions, or actual one-on-one engagement?
None, and asking for it is looking in the wrong direction. Public Schools that don’t cherish teaching kids to read, write, add, and subtract have failed not just the children but also the parents and taxpayers funding them.
You can decide when academics stopped being a priority or even a function of public education, but the idea wasn’t born yesterday, and neither, I hope, were you.
Do not reward schools that can’t teach kids with new things they are even less capable of doing, especially when the odds are high that the only reason a child might need such services is because the school that wants to offer them screwed up your kid’s head in the first place.
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As promised in Monday Memes, I have an overflow. My meme cup runneth over. And yes there will be a Friday edition too.
Let the mayhem, mockery, and ridicule resume:
*** Warning, a few possibly off-color ones, in case tender eyes are about ***
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Waste of the Day: Debt Held By The Public Will Be “Unsustainable” By 2050 | The Gateway Pundit | by Guest Contributor
IMHO this is an overly-optimistic appraisal of the situation. We’re already at $100 trillion added every 100 days, and that’s a death spiral that can’t be stopped.
This is REAL privilege.
And yet, amazingly, there are people who just TRUST BLINDLY. I had my own piece about that:
A Crisis of Trust – Urban Scoop
This is the cost of loose sex women (and men as well, let’s be fair). It used to be that to gain access to sex – almost always through marriage – a man had to court a woman and demonstrate his suitability as a mate. Now, it’s “swipe right” and off you go to date, with the deed almost expected on the first date, and practically mandatory by the third or fourth date.
While I wish I had bought Bitcoin when it was less than a dollar, and envy those who did, I’m still skeptical. First, it’s late in the game. Second, to alter Arthur C. Clark’s rule, “Any technology, sufficiently advanced, is indistinguishable from a brick when the power’s off”. All those bitcoins are useless if we’ve been EMPed or otherwise had the grid go down.
Are you f*cking kidding me? PAIN BIAS?
I make a “spirited attempt” to keep kosher, so no pork for me and the family. That doesn’t, alas, prevent my Covidian (not Jewish) wife from occasionally sneaking to let the kids buy something with bacon in it at a fast food place.
IIRC it was a SCOTUS ruling that, because someone’s homegrown tomatoes could potentially impact interstate commerce, even in a marginal way, that the government gained power to regulate home gardens, etc.
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PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA
Project 2025 and Republican Domination (aknextphase.com)
I don’t normally link to liberal bloggers, but this post rises to the very quote attributed to Nazi propaganda minister Goering: “Accuse others of that which you do”.
Understand that a good 30-40 percent STILL BELIEVE The Potato in Thief is doing a good job. Like Covidians vis a vis The Jab, like Warmists about the dangers of CO2, you can shower them – a la Yuri Bezmenov – with information and facts and statistics and logic, and they’ll slam their mental gates shut. (See my newly-coined quotation at the end of this post too.)
Cue my three essays “Teflon Intellects” from my old blog:
E Teflon Intellects 1
E Teflon Intellects 2
E Teflon Intellects 3
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Links (some from me, some from my Jarhead friend):
Google and Meta Function as Extensions of the US Intelligence Community – Geller Report
Duh.
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Mike Benz: Deep State – Foreign Policy Establishment Could Go Full Authoritarian – “I Believe They Already Have” (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft
James, Engoron Turning U.S. into ‘3rd World’ Nation, Commentary Warns | The Gateway Pundit | by Guest Contributor
Turning into? No, IS.
Dirty Obama Judge Amy Berman Jackson Upholds DC Law That Allows Non-Citizens – AND ILLEGAL ALIENS – to Vote in Municipal Elections | The Gateway Pundit | by Cristina Laila
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Enemies of the People | Power Line (powerlineblog.com)
There’s a reason I call them the ENEMEDIA. And an absolute majority agree with me.
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The Era of Informed Consent is Over ⋆ Brownstone Institute
For what the government considers “negligible risk” trials, there’s no need to inform the lab animals trial participants. More:
FDA is trying to legalize its illegal approvals of COVID vaccines without human trials. Now one animal trial will do the trick to “prove” efficacy? (substack.com)
More FDA stuff:
LUPRON: dangers of this drug yet it persists! Lupron is linked to large increase in fatal heart attacks & diabetes & is even worse IMO than Statins; Lupron as a PUBERTY BLOCKER? IVF? GENDER CHANGE? (substack.com)
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War Correspondent Michael Yon Warns Russian Style Terror Attacks Coming to America (infowars.com)
Without a doubt. I have hated going to local malls for years because of this possibility.
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Corrupt Chicago Democrats Suddenly Pull 10,000 Mail-In Ballots Out of Thin Air in DA Race – Clever Journeys
OMG. Of course. Not surprised. The only thing that’s surprising is that anyone’s actually surprised. And you really think you’re going to vote your way out of this?
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Tennessee lawmakers look to ban geoengineering; Critics argue bill ‘based on conspiracy theories’ (wkrn.com)
The measure was opposed by Nashville Rep. Justin Jones, who said a lot of the purported evidence for Fritts’ bill was “based on conspiracy theories.”
So if there’s no actual cost to the state to pass the bill, and no evidence that the threat actually exists, then where’s the problem with passing it, hmmm?
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While you were distracted by the “Where’s Princess Kate Conspiracy”, Deagel’s Depopulation Forecast was confirmed by Heavily Censored Pfizer Documents – The Expose (expose-news.com)
For the vast majority of Jabbed people in my circle, I’ll mourn. For some few, I’ll celebrate, and for a selected subset of the latter, the sooner the better!
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The Potato is Barackus’ third term. Anyone with three brain cells that talk with each other understands this.
“She”.
In every polling station. As a condition of getting a ballot. In addition to an ID of course.
NOTHING says “Trust the science” like a 148 page report with, literally, every word blanked out.
OOH, I’m sure he could use the support. OTOH, is this a trap to ID people inclined to support him?
MHO, they’d start WWIII, globally, to prevent this. AND to hide the accumulation of Jab effects.
Boycotts are appropriate. But you need to let them know WHY.
Funny how research results often seem to align with the desires of who is paying for it.
I make beautiful, healthy hamburgers for the kids. I make delicious air-fried, crispy breaded organic chicken for the kids. I have all sorts of wonderful and healthy recipes… and what do they want? Wendy’s, McDonalds, KFC, etc. ARGH! About my only consolation, at least for the boy, is that he’s bought hook, line, and sinker my telling him that adding greens like spinach is essential to the homemade meat sauce. That, and the grated carrots add a dimension of flavor.
So far neither of them are aware I add “super-mushroom” powder to a number of the dishes I make for them.
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Pick of the Post:
Shot…
And chaser…
Say, Barackus has a house on Martha’s Vineyard. What’s that maximum elevation? 311 feet. That passes Tyson’s test. Barackus paid almost $12 million for his house. How high above sea level?
Sea Level Rise Dooms Obama’s New Martha’s Vineyard Mansion – Watts Up With That?
Eyeballing the contour map, it’s about 13 feet above sea level. To quote Instapundit:
I’ll believe it’s a crisis when those who say it’s a crisis act like it’s a crisis.
Leave us not forget eco-loon Leonardo DiCaprio’s real estate portfolio:
Leonardo DiCaprio Builds an Eco-Resort – The New York Times (nytimes.com)
Blackadore Caye – while I can’t find an elevation on it, the pictures here are revealing as to its elevation above sea level.
Leonardo DiCaprio’s Luxury Eco-Resort Blackadore Caye Proves an Impossible Dream – autoevolution
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Palate cleansers:
Assuming I’m feeling snarky, my favorite comeback to being told that I’m talking with myself is “Yes, and when I finally find someone intelligent to talk with, you butt in”.
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If you didn’t have the song pop into your head…
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One of many demotivational posters available at
Home of Demotivators® – The World’s Best Demotivational Posters (despair.com)
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Come back on Friday for more memes. Same meme time. Same meme channel.
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I’m going to “mine” my old essays for some of the (hopefully worthwhile) quips and quotes I’ve coined. And, currently, here’s a new one for you:
I would much prefer talking to a brick wall than the typical sheeple. At least a brick wall doesn’t put on a preening air of intellectual, educational, and/or moral superiority as they ignore the evidence and logic I present them.
(c) 2024, NITZAKHON
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