Alexandria Ocasio Cortex, the recently minted millionaire (yes, it’s true) and former bartender, shared some keen-Cortez insight on the rising objections to boys being allowed to participate in girls’ sports. “Exposing,” if you like – not just the problem – but some of the contradictions in her argument.

 

.@AOC lays out the new Dem talking points on men in women’s spaces: “We are talking about opening up all women and girls to genital examinations when they are under age, potentially just because someone can point to someone and say, I don’t think you are a girl.” pic.twitter.com/zHPuwOyh6p

— Mary Margaret Olohan (@MaryMargOlohan) December 5, 2023

Aren’t genital exams the Dem Party’s bread and Butter regardless of age? Hello, abortion! I’m not sure how familiar you are with those, but to have one, you need your “genitals examined.” Too extreme? Well, there are several situations where a medical professional might examine girls or women in that vicinity. Women’s Health Care – as I understand the Democrat definition, is impossible without it. That vicinity is the center, the apex of health for women from the progressive side of every aisle. A strange development after decades of suffrage and women’s rights marches (even some with cute pink pussy hats) whose point was to have the world view women as something other than that.

You Could say that in preparation for a lifetime of being defined as a vagina by an entire political party, we should “open up all women and girls to genital examinations when they are underage.”  Good practice for when the world is run by tyrannical men pretending to be women.

So, is this a privacy issue? That would be ironic.

The one-time “physical” is standard practice in all school sports.

Your concerns would allow boys who are attracted to girls to get their creep on in bathrooms and locker rooms  -“examining girls’ genitals” frequently and potentially at length. Obviously, in this context, the words examination and genitals cover a lot of territory, not just in the number of girls or the frequency of observation but in various states of dress and undress.

The infamous Lia Thomas is alleged to have been – on occasion – visibly aroused in the ladies’ swim team locker room, which, adding to the Sandy Cortez narrative, reminds us that the girls in her world are being forced to “examine” genitals against their will. (Related: College Hack: Just Do This Guys, And You Can Parade Naked Through Women’s Locker Rooms …)

And if we understand correctly, the discomfort at being examined once by a medical professional is significant, while objecting to being examined regularly in various states of undress by a boy (who could be naked with an erection) is bigoted. Peeping Tom only needs to change his name to Tammy, and exhibitionism and peeping become a right; its rejection is an act of discrimination.

More unpunishable crimes on the streets of the naked city.

And while the odds of serious injury are less common among pre-pubescent athletes, allowing the comingling of sexes based on how one feels (as in, I feel like staring at girls in their underwear without fear of punishment) not long into puberty, boys pretending to be girls present a significant “women’s health risk.”

Again, defenders will insist that rights trump risks, and generally speaking, as a society, we police after the fact, but is that truly an argument you’d like to make in the wake of years of rape-culture rhetoric? Men pretending to be women who are transferred to women’s prisons have an alarmingly common tendency to rape actual women.

It seems like that’s the culture you’re looking for, in which case women had best think about changing their party of preference before their daughters find themselves examining male genitals in ways that would be inappropriate to explain on these pages.

 

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The New Hampshire Republican State Committee is “looking forward” to ABC News hosting a Republican debate. Have they ever watched the ABC Nightly News with David Muir? It is 30 minutes of schilling for the Biden regime and attacking actual Republicans.

Why would any institution charged with electing Republicans be “looking forward” to having a panel of activists posing as journalists asking GOP candidates questions that are not important to GOP voters and are intended to embarrass and weaken the GOP candidates?

 

 

Why? Because FITN is a grift. It is about the elites making money and feeding their egos. The Republican State Committee is a grift. No institution that actually had as its objective electing Republicans would be “partnering” with Fake News ABC, never mind “looking forward” to partnering with Fake News ABC. At best, the Republican State Committee is a joke. But you know as well as I do it’s a grift.

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And then there were four… The Republican national championship has been whittled down to its final four competitors, and not without controversy.

Despite having an undefeated polling season and walking away with gigantic lead after gigantic lead, Donald Trump was nowhere to be found as the season-ending playoff among GOP hopefuls saw four candidates all having at least one loss on their record – they weren’t Donald Trump.

Sweet home Alabama was the site for this last and almost best brouhaha, where the crimson tidal wave crashed on the stage like the 2022 election season.  Both contestants and moderators brought their A games, but in a country with the educational standards of a Mad-lib an A just isn’t what it used to be.

Hosting the event was media upstart News Nation, which, like the debate stage, has become a clearing house for also-rans.  Elizabeth Vargas, Megyn Kelly, and Eliana Johnson were the moderators, and these fiery vixens had carefully crafted questions intending to evoke the highest in journalistic inquiry since the nation was confronted with that timeless query, “What is a woman”?  Don’t bother asking these ladies because manning up was the soup du jour as two of the three men on the stage set out to make misogyny great again!

Megyn Kelly began the interlocution by suggesting one of them had the chance to become “leader of the free world” if only they could overcome a fifty-point deficit held by Grand Wizard Trump, who CNN and MSNBC reported was either harassing the next Miss Universe or holding another MAGA Klan Rally.  At this point what difference does it make, right Hillary?

Fixing her gaze on Florida Governor Ron Desantis, she reminded him he was trailing the aspiring dictator even in his home state of Florida.  Desantis quickly retorted by listing off the string of successes he’d had in combating leftist-woke ideologues in his home state before reminding Mrs. Kelly of her failed NBC show then pointing out Mrs. Haley’s eye-shadow was too dark for her dress, which would set the tone for the rest of the evening.

Haley was next to respond to a question about her entanglements with big banks and defense contractors and whether or not she would be beholden to them rather than the voters.  Still stinging from Desantis’ slight, she said, “Ron’s just jealous they want someone who actually knows how to wear heels,” which elicited thunderous applause from her high-paying cheering section.

Speaking of heels Vivek Ramaswamy wasted no time in turning his sights on Haley.  Fielding a question about his viability due to a recent drop in the polls, he suggested the stilettoed former governor from South Carolina couldn’t find Ukraine on a map before challenging her to play Are You Smarter Than A Third Grader with his nine-year-old son, who was recently accepted to his alma mater Harvard.  This elicited a cacophony of boos from the third-grade loving crowd of southerners, which quickly turned into cheers after he yelled out “Roll Tide!” while holding up a picture of Alabama football coach Nick Saban.

A game Chris Christie could be seen stewing on the sideline as he leaned against his podium in a three-point stance like an offensive lineman.  Clad in an oxygen mask and gulping down water with a look on his face that said, “Put me in coach,” Christie gamely came to the wounded Haley’s defense by calling Ramaswamy a “blow-hard” and then took a long drag from his mask before calling a time-out.

The half-time show featured 98 year-old Dolly Parton dressed in a cheerleader costume where she sang a few of the GOP favorites.  Mrs. Parton bravely tip-toed up and down the stage, accompanied by two midgets she appeared to have smuggled inside her bustier.  Also wearing seven-inch heels, which were the envy of more than one of the debaters, she belted out such conservative classics as “9 to 5”, “Take This Job and Shove It” by Johnny Paycheck, and “Money” by Pink Floyd.  Praise the Lord and pass the ridiculously overpriced ammunition, I say!

Desantis and Ramaswamy had been working on some plays during the break, then came out in another coordinated offensive set where both men set blocks for the beleaguered phantom menace Trump before running the ball up the middle again right at a defense-contractor-less Haley, who was performing CPR on a fallen Christie and his political ambitions.

Color commentators Tony Romo and Jim Nantz cried foul on behalf of the apparent abusing of a woman by two men in a competitive event but were silenced after Ramaswamy and Desantis emerged from the pile wearing wigs, lipstick, and sensible shoes while holding a sign that read “Queers for Palestine”.  This was clearly a play to gain votes from the crowd of collegial attendees but sadly for the panderers they failed to appreciate the context of the moment and after the jeering crowd of genteel southerners calmed down both were censured by the moderators for “harassing and bullying” a fellow candidate, which turns out is a big no-no.

Finally, the candidates were asked to choose a president from whom they drew inspiration.  A resuscitated Christie went first, choosing Ronald Reagan, then proceeded to pitch his new book titled “What Would Reagan Do?”  Clearly, in the holiday spirit, Christie then donned a Santa Claus costume and walked to the edge of the stage before casting dozens of WWRD bracelets into the mostly Reaganite worshiping crowd, just in time for Christmas.  Haley chose Hillary Clinton as her former president yet was reminded by Eliana she didn’t win back in 2016 and came dangerously close to calling her an election denier, also a no-no for conservatives.  Desantis made the unusual choice of Vermont’s very own silent Calvin Coolidge, then dared Mrs. Haley to name which state he hailed from.

Lastly, Ramaswamy paused briefly before waxing historically on the merits of yet another famous misogynist, Thomas Jefferson, who, he aptly pointed out, not only wrote the Declaration of Independence at a youthful thirty-three years of age but also “invented the swivel chair you ladies are sitting on” to the moderators, none of whom seemed to be as impressed as the seats themselves.

An exit poll was taken, and the results showed the candidates ranked as follows:

• Desantis 2%
• Haley & Ramaswamy tied at 1.5%
• Christie -14%
• Donald Trump 113%

 

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Facebook has been tossing up an alert asking if you are registered to vote. I ignored it when I saw it, as did a few other folks who noticed, but a Grok reader screen grabbed it, and it found its way to my inbox.

 

 

I’m waiting on Secretary State of Dave Scanlan to confirm this, but I had a secondhand conversation with someone who spoke to him. He said that his office has nothing to do with it, and he did not give anyone permission to use his name or office.

This is a big deal, and for our readers outside New Hampshire, please let us know if you’ve seen that yet or when you do. It seems likely this will be appearing either before your primary or just in general.

We will do a follow-up as soon as we have confirmation from the Secretary of State and any details about what his office has planned in response.

12/9/23 3:30 pm Update!

Secretary of State Dave Scanlan has responded to my email about whatever it is Facebook is doing.

Steve, Thanks for sending me this. This is the voter information lookup page on our website, however we do not contact voters in this manner. I will be alerting the attorney general. Dave

We will report any additional updates as we receive them.

 

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Monday this past week, State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said,  “One of the reasons that [Hamas] doesn’t want to turn over women that they’ve been holding hostage… is they don’t want those women to be able to talk about what happened to them during their time in custody.”

He later added he meant sexual violence. He also said that this issue played into why the ceasefire ended late last week.  It is why Hamas doesn’t want to re-engage in talks. Mr. Miller’s statement caught some people by surprise.

It caused media outlets to react with a degree of alarm. CNN interviewed Democrat Pramila Jayapal, who claimed that she and other Democrats condemn Hamas and their tactic of rape but that it is also important to “be balanced about bringing in the outrages against the Palestinians.”

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Hamas denies the allegations made in the State Department’s allegations.  They issued a statement Monday saying their fighters are Muslim. They would never engage in sexual assault. In that same statement, they also said they never attacked the music festival in Israel.

The music festival was where Hamas fighters paraglided in, slaughtered, and raped over 100 people. That’s on video. Also on video and retold by a survivor from that festival was a young woman assaulted by a gang of Palestinians who shot her in the head when they concluded their assault.

That story was published on Sunday by the Times of London.

Make of the warzone reporting what you will.  Just know there are facts somewhere.  They will vindicate one position and condemn the other, but is Hamas using sexual assault as a form of warfare?  Does Islam condone such a thing?  Have you heard condemnation by Islam of the tactics?  Why are many Democrats and Progressives not reacting to it?  Why aren’t they reacting, at least not negatively?

 

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Slavery is one of those topics, like abortion, that can’t just be brought up in casual company. – without knowing who stands where and on what,  you might as well drop a lit-match into a room full of black powder.

People with opinions will share them. Those without will flee to avoid being a casualty. But since no one is arguing that the company we keep here is polite, we broach these subjects often and enthusiastically with the hope that it will expand the debate and arm us with some options. These are tools for prying the crazy back long enough to inform the innocent bystanders who hung around the way people watch NASCAR for the collisions.

To do this, we often seek the observations of experts, and when talking about slavery, it is difficult to get a better expert than Thomas Sowell. The man is brilliant, well-spoken, and fearless.

@bobanderson77, responding to a July 4 Tweet from Cori Bush in which he demands reparations, shared some of the wisdom of Dr. Sowell in rebuttal, and it’s …well, brilliant. Not all of it is new to our readers, but it is worth your time to be reminded and, most certainly, a valuable set of observations to keep handy should you find yourself confronted online by some progressive asshat.

 

“Of all the tragic facts about the history of slavery, the most astonishing to an American today is that, although slavery was a worldwide institution for thousands of years, nowhere in the world was slavery a controversial issue prior to the 18th century. People of every race and color were enslaved – and enslaved others. White people were still being bought and sold as slaves in the Ottoman Empire, decades after American blacks were freed.

“Everyone hated the idea of being a slave but few had any qualms about enslaving others. Slavery was just not an issue, not even among intellectuals, much less among political leaders, until the 18th century – and then it was an issue only in Western civilization. Among those who turned against slavery in the 18th century were George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry and other American leaders. You could research all of the 18th century Africa or Asia or the Middle East without finding any comparable rejection of slavery there. But who is singled out for scathing criticism today? American leaders of the 18th century.

“Deciding that slavery was wrong was much easier than deciding what to do with millions of people from another continent, of another race, and without any historical preparation for living as free citizens in a society like that of the United States, where they were 20 percent of the population.

“It is clear from the private correspondence of Washington, Jefferson, and many others that their moral rejection of slavery was unambiguous, but the practical question of what to do now had them baffled. That would remain so for more than half a century.

“In 1862, a ship carrying slaves from Africa to Cuba, in violation of a ban on the international slave trade, was captured on the high seas by the U.S. Navy. The crew were imprisoned and the captain was hanged in the United States – despite the fact that slavery itself was still legal at the time in Africa, Cuba, and in the United States. What does this tell us? That enslaving people was considered an abomination. But what to do with millions of people who were already enslaved was not equally clear.

“That question was finally answered by a war in which one life was lost [620,000 Civil War casualties] for every six people freed [3.9 million]. Maybe that was the only answer. But don’t pretend today that it was an easy answer – or that those who grappled with the dilemma in the 18th century were some special villains when most leaders and most people around the world saw nothing wrong with slavery.

“Incidentally, the September 2003 issue of National Geographic had an article about the millions of people still enslaved around the world right now. But where is the moral indignation about that?”

 

 

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In truly Icarian fashion, the higher mankind has climbed toward the technological sun, the more arrogant and reckless the race has become.

Almost every scientific advance has carried hidden and profound costs unpredicted by the prophets of science. Consider that the EPA has only this year determined what exposures of “forever chemical” PFAS are acceptable: the stuff has tainted millions of Americans’ drinking water since its introduction in the 1940s. There are thousands of PFAS: how could the Teflon frying pan be anything but good?

This example extends to technological “marvels” such as lobotomies, transgender surgeries (and synthetic hormones) for minors, thalidomide, Agent Orange, DDT, PCBs, phthalates, BPA, neonicotinoids, glyphosate, hydrofluorocarbons, and a dizzying myriad of other manmade contributions to the environment that ultimately delivered evils to compliment the promised good. Medicines saved lives but increased overpopulation; cars and refrigerators are essential gadgets that damage the environment. Over and over, man’s vision outstrips reality; repeatedly, the promised gifts of technology obscure the Trojan horse results after the supposed gift is unleashed within the city gates.

Musk Is Genius Mr. Musk is undoubtedly brilliant, and his accomplishments are superhuman. But he has also proved his capacity for error, especially in his space exploration ventures: his rockets keep exploding, spewing pollution and space debris widely. But Elon is hardly alone in his guru promises: Steven Hawking famously claimed humanity had a mere 1000 years to escape the surly bonds of earth and populate a new world or perish. A few months later, he reduced his escape timeline to a single century: Which Hawking is correct?  

If it is true humanity is destroying Earth with technology and must use technology to flee its masochistic destruction, is humankind simply a chubby virus that flits from planet to planet, destroying the universe? Which science fiction character is America in this scenario – the savior of Earth in Armageddon, or the Death Star of Star Wars?

Elon Musk is more sober than many prophets of techno-rescue, allowing his 100×100-mile solar panel array suffer from a battery problem. But he is still intoxicated by his vain imaginings: where is the power grid to deliver this energy?

What of the profound problems of intermittency?

How much pollution and energy would be generated while Musk and Co are paid stellar sums to manufacture 10,000 square miles of solar panels, and where and how will those toxic panels be “renewed” when their useful life inevitably expires? Perhaps the entire pile of solar panel refuse can be jettisoned into space to drift around with the growing pile of Musk-launched flotsam and jetsom.

Hawking’s vision of interplanetary rescue is alive and well in Musk and NASA, which are now partners in flying a BIPOC American to the moon. The potential conflict of interest appears large: Musk and SpaceX are to supply NASA with its future spacecraft for its Artemis missions; Tesla manufactures residential and commercial solar panels. That profit motive might taint the visionary’s vision but does not hinder the rose-colored receptiveness of fellow profiteers or the technologically faithful.

Exploding Rockets

Musk’s SpaceX rocketships keep exploding shortly following blast-off, but he has more readied for launch. The environmental cost of detonating rockets in the Earth’s atmosphere to populate space takes stock of the damage it wreaks, much the same as Kim Jong Un’s military missile launches.

It is indisputable that these space missions (and the manufacture of rockets and fuels) spew massive quantities of toxins and greenhouse gases in their profit-driven execution.

Any logical risk-benefit analysis of the environmental costs of space exploration is simply side-stepped by NASA, much like the monumental externalized pollution costs of solar panel manufacture and disposal: the “see no evil, hear no evil” of the biggest polluters of all. Instead, NASA amplifies the Hawking-Musk promise of stellar deliverance:

Setting Humanity on a Sustainable Course to the Moon The Artemis program builds on a half-century of experience and preparation to establish a robust human-robotic presence on and around the Moon. ….America will lead the monumental shift that frees humanity from our innate bonds to Earth. This is the decade in which the Artemis Generation will teach us how to live on other worlds. … Under the Artemis program, humanity will explore regions of the Moon never visited before, uniting people around the unknown, the never seen, and the once impossible. We will return to the Moon robotically beginning next year, send astronauts to the surface within four years, and build a longterm presence on the Moon by the end of the decade. … The sooner we get to the Moon, the sooner we get American astronauts to Mars.

NASA gushes of its grand visions and sticks the trigger word “sustainable” as a title on its predictions without ever explaining what on earth is sustainable about landing a person “of color” on the sterile moon or how the massive amounts of rocket fuel are being minimized with Musk catalytic converters on his Starship rocket’s 33 booster engines (they aren’t).

The ships’ “flight termination system” explodes the rockets in midflight if they veer off course. In his most recent launch, that technology effectively blew up the rocket in mid-flight so it would not plummet to earth and do harm. It failed on the previous launch. But where is all this pollution being sequestered? SpaceX has lost a series of prototypes that have “collapsed, exploded, or crashed and then exploded,” but claims that “success comes from what we learn … And this flight will help us improve Starship’s reliability as SpaceX seeks to make life multi-planetary.”

As bizarre science strives to make men into women and transhumans immortal, the proposal of infecting the universe with human folly and toxic consumption in the name of “what we learn” demonstrates how little we ultimately have learned. Elon Musk may have saved free speech by purchasing X, but he will not save humanity by selling America 100×100 square miles of solar panels or ten spaceships for colored human explorers. George Lucas told a great story, but he and his air-conditioned audiences could still differentiate between reality and science fiction.

Space Religiosity 2023 The techno-colonization of foreign worlds will prove an elusive Holy Grail, but Elon Musk will enlarge his empire by billions in the trying. His fortunes may exceed those of fellow fantasy visionary Bill Gates. Most Americans, though, are strangers in an ever-stranger land, being lorded over by space-fantasy prosperity prophets for profit. Tithing is economically and environmentally compulsory in the Musk megachurch of the Space Cadet age—a small step for Elon, a giant step background for mankind. John Klar is an Attorney, farmer, and author. Mostly farmer… And Regular Contributor to GraniteGrok and VermontGrok.

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From the hottest hotness ever files. Look at that picture of the earth. Nearly everything is red—a dark, muddy-looking red. And red is bad. Red is hot. Red is…a color anyone can apply to fool people into thinking something that is not true.

This image, in particular, is interesting because of the accompanying text in the original tweet compared with reality.

 

We just observed the warmest November on record for the global average temperature.

We can still find areas of extreme cold in a warming world. pic.twitter.com/fkHGHhDdod

— Scott Duncan (@ScottDuncanWX) December 6, 2023

Tony Heller went and pulled the temperature data from the Danish Meteorological website.

 

 

The average temperature to which this scary red image related was somewhere between -15 and -20°C. The average of these averages, for you fans of Farenheight, is Zero degrees.

Have you ever been outside when it’s zero degrees Fahrenheit? Do you picture a muddy red map and the words ” warmest” anything?

Is it “warmer” than normal? Yes! Is it above the mean? It sure is. Is that graphic insanely misleading? Definitely.

As is the predictable hottest hotness ever narrative, which we’ve debunked more times than I can count or share. The Climate Cult lies so badly and so often that the truth becomes impossible to glean, and that’s the point. By systemically misleading everyone about everything, serial liars protect their narrative and muddy up the debate.

There is nothing red-hot about zero degrees, but that’s the picture they will paint if it will separate people from common sense so they can pry their money away from them for their ridiculous cause: the idea that, even if there was a man-made impact they would or could do anything about it but rob people blind.

 

 

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Joe Biden is making the rounds of the elites on both coasts this week, and it is not sitting well with the average American. Biden has not been very active on the campaign trail since launching his reelection bid, but he has not been very active on the Presidential trail either.

He has been busy announcing new daily restrictions on Americans that hit us in wallets that are getting very thin with more credit cards than cash.

Biden also has time to be in Boston and Hollywood this week. Biden was joined in Boston by James Taylor for an event that cost donors up to $7,000 to see and hear the two Octogenarians. The $7K is almost equal to the $11K that Bidenomics is costing the American family. Still, it is not even a drop in the bucket compared to the $930,000 the elites of California dished out to dine with the President. This exorbitant amount of money should be embarrassing, but these celebrities will spend it gleefully.

To not support Joe Biden would be UnAmerican in California. Prior to this week, Joe Biden’s Campaign has amassed a record-breaking amount of donations and has $91 Million in the bank. That is about $1 for every vote he received in 2020. Both are ridiculous and questionable amounts.

Joe Biden’s official schedule is very lean on events and contains virtually no official events beyond the daily briefing. He has one daily fundraiser, equating to the usual number of official events our part-time President can handle. There is nothing more important to the Democrat Party than to get Joe reelected for another term. Whoever is pulling the strings behind the curtain only has power if Joe is sitting behind the Resolute Desk. Now when he gets elected, if he gets elected, he can drive off to Reheboth and hop on his bike. He will have done his job.

Get out of the way and let the Mystery Team finish the job of destroying America.

We can joke about the money people are throwing at a President in his 80s, but this is serious business, and big money will go to great lengths to ensure Democrat control for four more years. Joe can brag every day that he is the President of the little people and all people. He can talk about his roots in Scranton, but he has been out of Scranton since he was a young lad.

He is disingenuous to still Chaim the Scranton connection, and the people of Scranton have severed ties with him. Joe Biden is an extremely wealthy man, and he achieved that status by being corrupt. That is the other reason he needs to be reelected. He and his family require the cover of the office, hope we disregard the polls, hold off on Impeachment, and let the 37% of the voters keep pulling for Joe, and put Scranton Joe back in for four more years.

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