The Truth Ministers at the Comrade Broadcasting System (CBS) have issued a media fatwa. Thou shalt not use the word ‘transgender’ when reporting on the carbon-based life form that shuffled off the mortal coils of six (including three children) at a Christian School.

Call Aiden (Audrey) Hale what you like, just not transgender. It makes no difference that Audrey was proud to be trans or that this may be relevant to the shooting (as in, it’s one of those hate crime things).

 

Hale left behind a “manifesto” and had studied the school and its entrance points, according to police. Hale was getting treatment for an unspecified “emotional disorder,” said Metro Police Chief John Drake.  The shooter’s parents thought Hale had recently sold his only gun, but Hale had in fact legally purchased seven firearms from five different local gun shops, Drake said.

Was Hale a bit unhinged? Is this where the red flag folks say, “see, protective orders!”? Except that the same lot would probably call it a hate crime to request one on a guy who thinks he’s a woman. Discrimination! Bigot!

I’m not sure if CBS has any thoughts on that, but according to the NY Post, staffers had unhappy thoughts about the Fatwa passed down by their Media Mullahs.

 

“This is absurd because the police identified Hale as transgender,” a CBS insider said. “If the cops didn’t address it, maybe you could avoid it, but withholding information is not journalism.” …

The Tuesday call with the CBS News execs left the network’s roughly 150 staffers stunned into awkward silence, according to a source who was on the call.

The source noted that the two CBS News execs appeared to be “twisting themselves in knots” by censoring the reporting over their own “liberal bias,” which is ultimately a “disservice” to the network’s audience.

Well, that opens up some possibilities.

• Were you all opposed to CBS News airing footage from a crowded Italian Hospital (during COVID) as if it were an overwhelmed New York City Hospital (while anecdotal evidence suggested they were not even busy)?
• You’re good with all the years of breathless fainting spells over every lie Democrats fed you about Donald Trump that was reported as fact without batting an eye or doing any actual research?
• Are there any past selective-editing controversies you’d like to revisit?
• No takebacks on Covington kid Nick Sandmann or Christine Blasey Ford’s false testimony (or any of the Judge Kavanaugh smear)?
• Michale Brown never said, “Hands up, don’t shoot.”
• Trayvon Martin (not a child) assaulted George Zimmerman (who was not a light-skinned Hispanic).
• Then there were the mostly peaceful protests (arson, assault, theft, murder), and since it was the same season, just about everything regarding COVID, you aped without blinking.
• Declaring war on and then occupying Law Enforcement and federal buildings was not an insurrection, but people touring the US Capitol is?
• Is Anyone rethinking the coverage of the Pulse Nightclub shooting in Orlando and registered Democrat Omar Mateen?
• Kyle Rittenhouse.
• What about all the attacks you and your media pals tried to blame on the Tea Party or some faction of the political right that were committed by lefties, Islamists, or undeclared with liberal leanings?

Don’t get me wrong. I like the idea that there are staffers barfed out of progressive modern J Schools inside CBS that think omitting “Transgender” from the reporting on “Audrey’s” mass murder is unethical. I don’t buy it.

There’s also this unpleasant fact. Transgenders and their political and media advocates get winded complaining about how the trans community needs to be accepted by the culture. Disregarding that we are talking about people incapable of accepting themselves for who they are, where’s the pride? These brave trendsetting glass-ceiling breakers get a special mention until one of them shoots up a Christian School. Then they are just a shooter.

Does anyone recall the attempted mass shooting by Floyd Corkins II?

And – most importantly – do they plan to apply this new policy to adjectives that would have described other shooters or just those that might lean left politically?

 

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After finding out that the Raymond school district was tracking children with digital badges, it appears as if they are going to go forward with this PBIS program. This time it looks like they will at least follow the law. They’ve been using the digital badges for a while now, but the administrators did not follow state regulations on digital tracking devices. You can read more about that here.

As I reported, this is government surveillance that includes the sharing of personal information with a 3rd party vendor.

There are no real privacy protections in place to secure the data because in December 2011, the U.S. Department of Education changed the regulations governing the release of student data to the private sector. President Obama did this without Congressional authorization.

Ed Tech vendors have profited since then by keeping parents in the dark when they mine their child’s data. Administrators have been too lazy or unwilling to protect the privacy of your children too. School administrators could be notifying parents about the potential to data-mine your child’s personal information without a law in place. Prior to 2011, school officials would have had to notify and receive consent by parents and guardians in order to use these kinds of software programs in the school.

All of this data mining by vendors and other outside sources, violate the The New Hampshire Constitution:
An individual’s right to live free from governmental intrusion in private or personal information is natural, essential, and inherent. It may take someone  willing to sue the schools to settle this in court.

The privacy policies tech vendors use, do not protect your child’s data. Instead they exploit the loophole in the federal student privacy law (FERPA). If you read the privacy policies that are supposed to protect your child’s data, because they follow the FERPA law, you assume that the tech vendor protects the student’s privacy. But there are now exceptions to which schools and vendors can share your child’s personal data without your knowledge or consent. The privacy policies are not private.

 New Hampshire law RSA 189:68-II requires school districts to do the following when using digital badges in schools:

II. No school shall require a student to use an identification device that uses radio frequency identification, or similar technology, to identify the student, transmit information regarding the student, or monitor or track the student without approval of the school board, after a public hearing, and without the written consent of a parent of legal guardian of an affected student which may be withheld without consequence. 

Why wouldn’t parents want this type of digital tracking devices on their children? There are many reasons including the data mining of information on their children by the tech vendor. In addition to their right to live free from government intrusion, this type of device grooms children into thinking that they should be monitored at all times.

Since this is a positive rewards system, I asked some teachers and school counselors what they thought of this approach to addressing behavior. Here are some of the problems they saw with it:
1) This can be demoralizing to many children, especially children with special needs
2) Contrary to what counselors believes helps children
3) This rewards behavior that they should already be doing
4) The screen shown in class includes their face and behavior points
5) Whoever has the right number of points gets the toy.
6) Violates the counselor ethics when children are demoralized
7) Data collected in the teacher’s cell phones

What should be provided to all school board members and parents?
The whole contract, and look at the encryption, and security protections to see if they match the individual district security requirements.
What about security breaches? Have there been any? Would parents be immediately notified?

Has data from the PBIS system been shared with Keene State BHII? If so, were parents notified and did they consent?

Are parents given the right to opt out of this project?

 Why or why not? Where are schools using the digital badges with PBIS? Which schools? 
Did they let parents know their kids can opt out? 

Were kids forced to wear the digital badges?

There will be a school board hearing on April 5th. This is when parents can object to this tracking device. Parents also have the ability to not consent.

 

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For years I’ve been using that phrase to describe most school boards both here in NH and around the nation. They run to be elected to represent us in managing the education systems in our local areas on our behalf but once seated, they deign not to speak to us again.

Especially during the pandemic, I watched people go up to the mic to address their school boards only to get an icy, silent response to their concerns. I can’t tell you how many times single Moms, doing everything they can to keep their families working, address those SBers about their disabled kids only to start crying and turn around in shame because none of their representatives were listening and certainly not addressing their concerns.

I’ll be honest, I grew to just taunt mine of this to make them see the pain they were creating for others simply because once being elected, they collectively believed that they didn’t have to respond to the public.

I sent the following to another education activist because you take the wins that you can when you can them – it looks like the EISFMSs, at least here in Gilford, are starting to realize what is expected of them:

Persistence pays off – but it took 2.5 years to get it done.  Was just perusing the new and revised policies for SAU73 for Monday night’s School Board meeting.  School Board members will now answer questions from interested people during Public Input:

BEDH – PUBLIC PARTICIPATION AT BOARD MEETINGS

PUBLIC PARTICIPATION AT BOARD MEETINGS The Board encourages citizens of the district to attend its sessions so that they may become better acquainted with the operation and programs of the schools and that the Board may have the opportunity to hear the comments and suggestions of the public…

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Members of the Board are without authority to act independently as individuals in official matters. With the approval of the chairperson, a question may be answered by an individual Board member or administrator

Heh! – “They know not what they do” – or have done or about to do”. Maybe. As I said during my first term on the Budget Committee, when the Town Administrator and Finance Director (Evans Juris and Debbie Shackett) tried to force a “Code of Ethics” upon us as elected officials, the attempt was really to shut up myself and another person. My response was “I didn’t hang up my First Amendment Rights once I got elected, AND I sit in my BudComm chair” – I wasn’t going to sign it.

Sidenote: Years later, I now know that neither of those dunderheads had the Power to do that, as there is no RSA (NH Law) that allowed them to do so. Didn’t hurt that I caught them plagiarizing that CoE even as they boasted it was their work, so they dropped it.

Finally, “interested people” will not only be able to speak to have ” …the Board may have the opportunity to hear the comments and suggestions of the public”, the public is going to have the chance to figure out what school board members know and are thinking as well.

This should be interesting Monday night.

 

 

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So Sun-King Sununu brought his look-at-me, look-at-me, everybody-look-at-me, quixotic Presidential campaign to Bill Maher … and, of course, went along with Maher’s and the Left’s J6 was an insurrection LIE:

This reveals who Sun-King Sununu is … a creature of the Left who cares more … much more … about being liked by Leftists like Bill Maher and Kevin Landrigan than about the truth or about what matters to actual Republican voters.

And have you heard Sun-King say anything about the insurrection in Tennessee? Me neither. But that’s to be expected … as a creature of the Left he believes in different rules for different people. Such as it’s okay for BLM to parade through working and middle-class New Hampshire neighborhoods, but don’t you dare … DON’T YOU DARE … protest in front of Sun-King’s palace.

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What a parade of hypocrites we had to listen to as the news of the indictment of former President Donald Trump. These people meant no Republican is above the law, and let every Democrat skate free! These Democrat blowhards obviously never heard of let he who has not sinned throw the first stone.

The person who pushed me over the edge was California Congressman Adam Schiff, who is hoping to replace the retiring Diane Feinstein as Senator from California. Schiff spent the four years of the Trump administration impeaching the President. He was on the Sunday talk shows every week, building up the lie of Russian collusion. Schiff probably should have had his Congressional salary subsidized by MSNBC or CNN. He lied to the American public that he had proof of the conspiracy but could not produce it. His failure was because the Russian Collusion between Trump and Putin never existed. He lied to Congress and the American people, but apparently, he was above the law.

Hillary and Obama were found guilty of campaign finance violations, similar to what they indicted Trump for. Clinton and Barack paid fines, and all was good. They were not indicted, fingerprinted, or mug-shot. Guess they are above the law, too. Hilary paid for the bogus Russian Dosier with campaign funds and destroyed thousands of emails designated as evidence. Nothing to see here. All Democrats are above the law.

Diane Feinstein had a Chinese spy driving for her for years, and Eric Swalwell slept with a Chinese spy. Swalwell helped Fang Fang escape the country before the FBI could question her. Did anything happen to either of these Dems from California? Of course not, because they are held to a different level of the law.

Cortez, Omar, and Tlaib were all found to have used campaign money for personal expenses. Please remind me what happened to these three. Oh, nothing. Nobody would touch these three corrupt women of color for fear of being canceled as racist.

And then we have Joe Biden. As Vice-President, he transported his alcoholic, drug-addicted son, Hunter on Air Force II to Ukraine, China, and probably Russia. The purpose of these trips was so the young Biden could shake down individuals and governments alike for millions of dollars to be funneled back to the Biden family. We have the laptops, pictures, emails, and pictures documenting the embezzlement of foreign entities and the bank receipts for the Biden deposits of this money. Do you see any action being taken against the Bidens. Of course not, but you knew the answer before I asked.

We also have five different stashes of Confidential, Top-Secret documents in possession of Joe Biden and “Blow-Art” pieces done by Hunter with one of his cocaine straws selling to Chinese individuals for hundreds of thousands of dollars. No story here. Just look away.

These are just a sampling. We have insider trading by Pelosi and billions going to Ukraine, with proof of some of that coming back to this country but to the Democrat National Campaign Committee. I guess George Soros must have run out of checks. But that’s okay. Nothing to see here, right?

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Electronic voting systems results have often been scrutinized (ask Democrats after Trump won in 2016), but not like they did after the  2020 elections. Mathematical improbability amplified common irregularities as election integrity came under intense scrutiny.

The issue persists, and efforts have been made at the local level across the increasingly less fruited plain to shore up voter confidence. In my state of New Hampshire, a handful of towns have had measures brought forward to drop the Dominion electronic machine counted ballots to switch to paper. None of them (to my knowledge) has survived turn out to oppose them. But one county in California has managed it.

 

The county supervisors ultimately voted 3-2 in favor of switching to paper ballots. The vote came after the county terminated its contract with Dominion Voting Systems, which had been providing the county’s electronic voting machines. The termination of the contract left the county without any replacement for their current system, making it necessary for them to find an alternative solution.

 

Trend-setters, way-pavers, trailblazers, forerunners, pathfinders, torchbearers, and breakers of glass ceilings. No, not ditching Dominion for hand counting, but how they did it. They canceled the contract. Absent that agreement, there had to be a way to count ballots, and the best and only immediate solution was to do it the way it had been done before technology nosed its way in, along with all the uncertainty that followed.

If you can’t get enough citizens to come out and support hand-counting, cancel the Dominion Contract. That forces a debate on what you will do in its absence, the immediate answer to which is hand counting.

It is a crude and Leftist(ish) tactic, and it might be your last term as an elected official, but it has a lot of backbone.

And true, you could end up with another contract with Dominion or someone similar. Still, the journey from hand-counting back is an opportunity to negotiate more protection for election integrity and to debate the problems and concerns of the electorate. A conversation that might light up a few dim bulbs.

We could only hope.

 

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First, I am merely an “enlightened amateur”.  Please vet & check on your own.  Caveat emptor.  Consider these to be priming the pump for your own investigations.  I know this is a long post; I am attempting to put out a lot of information as a resource.  Read or skip sections depending on your interests.

Second, I fear spicy time is very close, but even a month of food, water, etc., puts you well ahead of most of the sheeple.  IMHO, set your minimum sights on a three-month period.

Third, two things will be critical for having the best chance of making it through:

1. Mentality: first and foremost in survival is having a flexible mentality and cultivating the ability to adapt. Vanity has no place in survival.
2. Develop a meatspace network of people that are likeminded: cultivate your community ties and build alliances with neighbors (note: don’t babble about the Jab or globalists or depopulation, or start pointing political fingers when doing this)… and remember, the first rule of PREP CLUB is that there is no prep club.

And please follow both me, Nitzakhon, on Gab… as well as my blog host Granite Grok and also on Telegram Tommy Robinson Official plus his Urban Scoop site.  And don’t forget posts sometimes get cloned on American Reveille as well, which is a good site to check out in general.

FYI, here’s a link to the last Survival Sunday SITREP.

 

Please recall – slammed by work deadlines – so these are not as “full” as I’d like to put up.

 

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tilapia fish pond preparation

 

 

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Top of the fold:

Operation Sand Man and Ramifications… | Capitalist Eric (wordpress.com)

This echoes quite a number of other red flags I’ve been seeing / being told.  E.g., a good friend of mine had his financial advisor tell him to get out of the system as “something big” was coming.

OOH, and this is a good thing, people are trying to get cash.  I suspect a lot more people are paying attention than TPTB want.  OTOH, there isn’t enough cash in the system to handle that kind of demand, and people who are glimmeringly-aware and go to get money will find their ability to withdraw limited.  Potentially, to meet that demand, they’ll run the presses.  And so there’s hyperinflation.

That… will be the gateway to a CBDC and digital ID.  And the doors slam shut.

Top off what you’ve got, as best as you can.

Central Bank Digital Currencies Must Be Rejected (bitchute.com)

 

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Oddments – random thoughts on prepping:

 

1. Teach your kids situational awareness. Here, for example.
2. Tasks for this week:

• Get new glasses ordered
• Lice kits
• More food
• More ammo
• Top off propane tanks (at least, get it ordered)
• Use older gasoline and refill containers
• Make sure both garage doors are lockable from being pried open

 

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Prepper Site URLS:

Most have daily articles; revisit daily.  Please recommend others in the comments.

Ask a Prepper, how to prepare, survive and thrive, latest news

Mother Earth News

The Organic Prepper Home – The Organic Prepper

SurvivalBlog.com – The Daily Web Log for Prepared Individuals Living in Uncertain Times.

SHTF Blog – Modern Survival

Survival World – Everything You Need To Know to Survive

Homestead Survival Site – How to Live Off The Grid in Comfort and Style

Urban Survival Site | How to Survive a Disaster in the City

Mind4Survival – Survival and Preparedness

Gray Wolf survival

Sustainable Living (sustainablelivingideas.com)

The Classic Survivalist – Surviving in a Modern World

Primal Survivor – Practical and sensible prepping advice

Em Off-grid – We & Our Off The Grid Life – Em OffGrid

Resource for Practical, Daily Prepping Skills for SHTF & Survival (geekprepper.com)

And three aggregate sites listing their top favorite sites & links too:

TOP 50 SURVIVAL & PREPPER BLOGS

The 50 Best Survival Blogs

Prepper Website – Preparedness • Survival • Alternative News

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Specific, one-up articles:

 

What You Need to Live off the land! #shorts

 

 

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Related to Spicy Time:

ADL professor is a chicken-sh*t moron – Gun Free Zone

Language.  But correct.

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Natural Camouflage: Disappear in the Wilderness | The Art of Manliness

Warm weather needed, but… mosquitoes!!!  Still, interesting.  I wonder how this works for IR-fitted drones, though.  Mud in contact with skin will get warm, after all.

 

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Neil Oliver – ‘TYRANNY OR REVOLUTION, ITS COMING – A STORM IS COMING!’

 

 

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Short of years and untold wealth, you cannot possibly be fully prepared for everything (I have to keep reminding myself of that).  But even some preparations, ideally at least 90 days of food, water / water purification, etc., puts you head and shoulders in front of the vast majority of the sheeple who will be in jaw-gaping astonishment when the SHTF.  The only relevant questions are:

1. When does it start?
2. How bad will it get?
3. How long will it last?
4. What will the aftermath look like?

 

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Nothing to Worry About!

 

 

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I have a FORAGING group on Gab.  I will check 2-3 times a week to see if people have asked to join.

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Foraging: One-up articles

Building Confidence in Your Wild Edible Foraging Skills (willowhavenoutdoor.com)

Books are great, but there’s no substitute for learning hands-on from someone who knows.

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Foraging (permanent feature):

Foraging (practicalselfreliance.com)

Wild Harvests (arcadianabe.blogspot.com)

Southern Appalachian Herbs

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Books (permanent feature):

Feasting Free on Wild Edibles (old but good)

The Lost Ways (much more than just foraging)

The Forager’s Guide to Wild Foods

THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO EDIBLE WILD PLANTS FOR BEGINNERS

 

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Shortages (broadly):

Note: We have a well and it’s a frickin’ deep one.  I’ve been looking into some kind of hand pump or other… found this as one example.

Lehman’s Own Galvanized Well Bucket, Emergency Supplies – Lehman’s (lehmans.com)

And it’s out of stock.  Interesting.

 

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Gardening, Food Storage, Animals, Food Preservation, Health, and Related:

The Kratky Method – Grow Food The Passive Hydroponic Way (Step by Step Guide) | Trees.com

Now, if only I had space, and a wife who’d let me try this.  Sigh.  I do know that hydroponics is yuuuuuge in Israel and the next time I go I want to see if I can arrange to visit such a farm or two.

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Container Garden Peas – Growing And Caring For Peas In Pots (gardeningknowhow.com)

Not everyone has a few acres.  Or even an acre.

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Don’t Make THIS Tomato Growing Mistake

 

 

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DIY cheap vertical garden idea for beginners using plastic bottles, indoor or outdoor

 

 

I think, based on comments I’ve gotten and watching this, what my mistake was this past summer: I didn’t shield the dirt from the sun, so the roots got too hot.

Other gardening-related videos, links only:

Why You Should Water your Vegetables Less | The Secret to Better Yields – YouTube

10 Smart Watering Tips for Your Vegetable Garden – YouTube         

DIY Self-Watering Pot for the Garden (Olla Update) – YouTube

Foolproof Mushroom Farming: Your Secret Ticket to Serious Money – YouTube

Top 10 Business Mistakes That Mushroom Growers Make | GroCycle – YouTube

How I Double My Blackberries Every Year! – YouTube

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Foods You Can Regrow From Scraps – Ask a Prepper

I wonder how many times you can cycle through a plant doing this.

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Videos on food preservation (links only):

Rediscovering A Lost Method Of Preserving Strawberries – YouTube

The Top 6 Historical Egg Preservation Techniques! – YouTube

A 240-Year-Old Recipe for Pickling Eggs – YouTube

Long Term Potato Storage – Q&A – YouTube

18th Century Lemon Preservation – Q&A – YouTube

Ship’s Bisket – Hard Tack: 18th Century Breads, Part 1. S2E12 – YouTube

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Links on old-time food storage (permanent feature):

Thanks to the Canning and Preserving group on Gab, I now have these links:

Preserving foods by drying | How to dry foods safely (uada.edu)

USDA-Complete-Guide-to-Home-Canning-2015-revision.pdf (healthycanning.com)

Canning | SDSU Extension (sdstate.edu)

Food Preservation– Canning | Consumer Food Safety | Washington State University (wsu.edu)

Canning Timer & Checklist App | OSU Extension Catalog | Oregon State University

National Center for Home Food Preservation (uga.edu)

Canning Recipes | Ball® Mason Jars (ballmasonjars.com)

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Topical Books (also permanent):

Charcuterie: The Craft of Salting, Smoking & Curing

Salumi: The Craft of Italian Dry Curing

A Guide to Canning, Freezing, Curing & Smoking Meat, Fish & Game

The Prepper’s Canning Guide

Pickled Pantry

Fermented Vegetables

Hydroponics and Greenhouse Gardening: 3-in-1 Gardening Book to Grow Vegetables, Herbs, and Fruit All-Year-Round

Hydroponics for Beginners: The Complete Guide to Hydroponic Gardening, Designing and Building Inexpensive DIY Hydroponic Systems…

The Aquaponics Guidebook: Combining Aquaculture and Hydroponics Combining Aquaculture and Hydroponics

 

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Self-defense (broad):

Are You a Gun Owner? Biden Could Put You Behind Bars! – Tactical Sh*t (tacticalsh*t.com)

A man who has run afoul of no law cannot be controlled.

 

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Hunting / Fishing:

Dealing With Venomous Snakebites – WillowHavenOutdoor Survival Skills

Not many around where I am, fortunately, but good to know in general if you’re outdoors.

 

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Concluding thoughts if I’m moved to comment:

Time!

 

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Palate cleanser:

 

 

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Please check out my MEMES collections; last one here.  Mockery, ridicule, and the wrapping of uncomfortable truths inside humor can penetrate the cognitive shields of normies far more effectively – IMHO – than dry facts and figures.

 

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You know, for a guy who appears to be warming up his engine for a run at the white house (as a Republican), he is missing a lot of free meals. By that, I mean opportunities to hook Republicans from a primary voting base that shies away from CNN or CNBC.

Missouri General Andrew Bailey has filed a brief with the US Supreme Court to support a first amendment case in the hope that SCOTUS will hear it. Eighteen other AGs have signed on. It’s not precisely earned media, but it is low-hanging fruit, but this is not the first time in recent years when “my” AG, who works for ‘my’ Governor, took a hard pass on a clear-as-vodka matter of constitutional rights.

• 21 State Attorneys General Question Federal Overreach in Democrat “Rescue Bill” – NH is Not One of Them
• Twelve States Support Camp Constitutions SCOUTS “Free Speech” Case – NH, Is Not One of Them!

This time around, we’re talking religious liberty.

 

College of the Ozarks sued the Biden administration in 2021 after an executive order banned housing discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. The institution and the Alliance Defending Freedom filed suit on the grounds the order forced religious schools to violate their views by prohibiting same-sex dormitories, including rules allowing a transgender person who identifies as female to live in a female residence hall. …

“The College’s pre-enforcement suit raises serious challenges to expansive and careless executive action that tramples religious liberties,” the brief states. “The courts have failed to recognize that HUD’s Directive is a legislative rule.”

Joining Missouri are Alaska, Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, and West Virginia.

 

We can agree that the Biden EO has nothing to do with discrimination. It is a culture war flanking maneuver to normalize an unchristian sexual proclivity that undermines religious conscience and freedom. And it is an issue that Republican primary voters care about, so it makes sense for a toe-dipping RINO like Sununu to sign on to it, mainly because his record on the culture war is so abysmal.

And no, I don’t think he hung back as a matter of principle. He is a stooge for the transgender agenda. A deep-state tool. He has every reason to be disingenuous if it gets him a rung or two closer to any brass ring. But here we are. Low-hanging fruit. The opportunity to stand up for religious liberty and New Hampshire is a wallflower.

If SCOTUS takes it, there’s the opportunity for a media free lunch. If SCOTUS doesn’t, there is an opportunity for a media free lunch. It’s hard to see some way in which he loses, at least with Primary voters, and based on his lousy polling, he needs all the help he can get.

And no, I’m not saying I want him to run or win the GOP primary. And I don’t want him running for the VP consolation prize, which I’ve posited elsewhere is the only thing he could gain from running. However, a cabinet position in any resulting Republican administration could be on his radar. But it’s on the table and whispered in the dark corners of the GOPe. If he is serious, shouldn’t he act like it?

And yes, I did notice that South Dakota (Noem) and Florida (DeSantis) were also conspicuously absent.

 

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The following bill is word for word, the bill that was vetoed by the Governor last year. It has passed the House already and has now hit the Senate. Let’s push it back to the Governor’s desk.

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Thursday, April 6th, N.H. Senate
Executive Departments and Administration
Room 103, State House  10:20 a.m. – SUPPORT – HB 127, relative to the declaration of a state of emergency. This is the common sense state of emergency reform bill that Governor Sununu vetoed last year that simply forces both chambers to agree to extend an emergency after three, 21 day renewals by the governor.
 Click here to register your disposition.
 Howard.Pearl@leg.state.nh.us
Sharon.Carson@leg.state.nh.us
Carrie.Gendreau@leg.state.nh.us
Rebecca.PerkinsKwoka@leg.state.nh.us
Debra.Altschiller@leg.state.nh.us

 

Save the Date! Parent’s Bill of Rights Hearing

Just a reminder that this large hearing will be on April 18th at 10:00 a.m.

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It is essential for everyone, regardless of their political preference or affiliation, to understand something. The people pursuing power by any means possible do not see any power in heaven or on earth greater than themselves.

A few hundred years back, men of faith understood what this meant. They lived under absolute rule or some variation of it—subject to the will of men in positions of authority who answered to their spleen and nothing else.

These days, their ideological descendants do not even fear eternal torment in the afterlife. These Secular humanists are godless powerbrokers who claim the right to create rules and laws they do not need to follow.

Who in their right, left, or center mind – especially in a nation founded on the rule of law and separation of powers meant to limit the chance of such abuse – would allow it to continue? How about ignorant undereducated masses or those cowed into submission by pimps in the media and their talking-head prostitutes?

It’s gotten seriously out of control.

If you object to public schools counseling children to pursue castration or mutilation without parental consent, you might get canceled. It’s not okay to object to sexually explicit content in grammar schools, including books that normalize teachers raping students. If you object, the United States Attorney General might file charges. The FBI could show up at dawn to raid your home and take you away over a Facebook post.

This is not a conspiracy theory. These people are not afraid of you and have no intention of allowing the law they enforce to apply to anyone they deem essential to their cause.

They will come for you, even if you think you are on their side, and they will do anything to keep their positions. What remains is the question of what can be done about it. You can’t vote your way out of rigged elections, and if there is no check or balance in the judicial system, what then?

It is the corner they want us trapped in, and the response they are hoping for is violence, but does it have to end that way? Can the states, at least a few of them, coalesce to resist the encroaching doom of an imperious centrally planned despotism?

And what does that look like?

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Vivek Ramaswamy believes that we are headed toward a national divorce AND that a national divorce is a bad thing. WRONG … so, so, so WRONG. We are headed toward one-party rule and the only way to stop that is a national divorce. Here is a tweet regarding Ramaswamy’s view on the question:

GOP Rival @VivekGRamaswamy on "Un-American" @realDonaldTrump Indictment: "We May Be Heading" to a "National Divorce" pic.twitter.com/WcbA3xm56D

— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) April 1, 2023

America changed in 2016. Very powerful people in both parties, the tech moguls, the media moguls, the globalists, and the Deep State refused to accept the results of the 2016 election. They engaged in a stealth-insurection over the four years of Trump’s Presidency … such as a Republican-controlled Congress conducting sham hearings about Russia-collusion, Trump’s own DOJ appointing Mueller to investigate allegations of Russia-collusion that were cooked up by Hillary Clinton and that same DOJ, the Secretary of Defense (Esper) refusing to withdraw troops from Syria, to name but a few examples.

This stealth-insurrection became a stealth-coup in 2020, when States changed voting rules … under the bogus pretext of protecting voters from COVID … to allow mail-in voting, the “harvesting” of ballots, the “curing” of ballots, and the counting of untimely received ballots … Zuckerberg poured half a billion into harvesting votes from BLUE voters in swing States and Big-Tech and the regime media censored the laptop from hell.

It is now virtually IMPOSSIBLE for a Republican to win the Presidency. Voting in swing Sates such as Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Nevada, Wisconsin … the States that determine Presidential elections … is RIGGED. The Left elected a vegetable to the U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania by “harvesting” ballots. Glenn Beck recently said that the Bragg prosecution would result in 100 million voters walking over broken glass to vote against the Biden-regime. Won’t matter … the Left will simply “continue” the vote-count in the States mentioned above until the regime has 101 million votes … corrupt Big Tech and the regime media will denounce anyone who challenges the steal as conspiracy-theorists … and the FBI will arrest anyone who dares protest the steal.

The Senate GOP is merely a controlled opposition. On the big issues … Ukraine, the border with Mexico, deficit spending … Mitch and his minions are in lockstep with the Biden-regime. Even if we could somehow elect a non-RINO GOP President, Mitch and his minions would work with the Democrats to block that President’s agenda … don’t forget it is because of SPEAKER Paul Ryan and SENATE PRESIDENT Mitch McTurtle that Trump’s border wall was not built when the GOP controlled the federal government from 2017-2019.

The mission of the permanent government in Washington, DC is to maintain the power of the ruling class; that is their power and the power of the politicians who feed them … peacefully protest a stolen election and the corrupt FBI will arrest you and a corrupt DC judge will put you in prison for years __ storm the Whitehouse when the President is named Trump and you’ll get, at the most, a slap on the wrist; post an obviously humorous tweet encouraging Hillary supporters to vote by text and you go to prison for ten years __ post basically the same tweet aimed at Trump voters and that’s alright; expose Twitter’s censorship and the IRS will come knocking at your door __ I could go on and on and on.

We are already living in a police-state and it’s only going to get worse. You cannot persuade the Left. You cannot coexist with the Left. They don’t believe in the Bill of Rights. They don’t believe in the rule of law. They believe in power … their power. The choice is either to accept living in a system of apartheid where the Left plays the role the white-minority did in South Africa or a national divorce.

 

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My first thought when I saw the headline, “A new flu is spilling over from cows to people in the US. How worried should we be?” was ‘ if we find the flu spilling over from horses, will you encourage people to take Ivermectin?

My second thought, which was tripping over the first for the chance to be first, was so what? Zoonosis and seasonal flu go hand and hoof, paw, claw, or whatever.

Other thoughts challenging the first two for primacy included “we are ‘animal’ reservoirs” and “why would we trust anything that anyone claiming expert knowledge had to say about it or from the media filter (in this case NPR) through which it had been broadcast?”

My brain was a busy place in the microseconds after reading a headline about how the cow flu might jump over to people. But if the SARS CoV2 WIV (Wuhan virus) debacle has taught us anything, it is that the Public Health Industrial Complex does not consider public health its priority. Fear, power, and money trip over each other to be first, and somewhere downstream, there is an asterisked footnote about people and how they help achieve the other three.

Given those sobering observations, the World Health Organization, and if you can’t trust the WHO, WHO can you trust (/sarcasm), says,

 

There are four types of influenza viruses: types A, B, C and D:

Influenza A viruses infect humans and many different animals. The emergence of a new and very different influenza A virus with the ability infect people and have sustained human to human transmission, can cause an influenza pandemic.
Influenza B viruses circulates among humans and cause seasonal epidemics. Recent data showed seals also can be infected.
Influenza C viruses can infect both humans and pigs but infections are generally mild and are rarely reported.
Influenza D viruses primarily affect cattle and are not known to infect or cause illness in people.

The apparent genesis of fearmongering (like killer bees, death hornets, or another Trump Presidency)  is that Influenza D is not known to infect or cause illness in people. But what if it did?

The NPR piece is concerned about cow flu crossing between animals and maybe to us, and guess what? More than half the US cattle population has antibodies for Influenza D. OMG! Could it be because it is cattle flu, and they’ve had it? It’s not a head-scratcher. Nor is evidence of it in other mammals, including cattle workers, who also have shown evidence of antibodies to this strain. Again, so what?

Please repeat the words “not known to … cause illness in people.” I’m no immunologist, and thank God because most of them appear to be terrified of getting infected (at least with COVID), but there are gazillions of things our immune systems have adapted to address between heartbeats however many years you believe Homo Sapiens (heh – he said Homo) have been meandering across the surface of the earth. Most of them barely register (like COVID for many), and no one spasmodically tests for it because there’s no responsible medical reason. But a headline that reads “People get influenza D from cattle, and so what?” doesn’t captivate much like “there’s been no measurable sea level rise on the New Hampshire coast for twelve years.”  That fescue doesn’t feed the right narrative cows. But the fear of a crossover flu pandemic does, and if you have the constitution to wade through NPRs 1500+ words to get to the end, you are rewarded with this.

“The USDA, along with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said in emails that, at this point, there isn’t any evidence that Influenza D is causing significant harm to livestock, so there aren’t currently any surveillance systems in place for livestock or workers.” BUT! “… officials and scientists had a similar view of coronaviruses for a long time – that they weren’t a major concern because they only caused a cold.”

For a super-majority of the planet, that was all COVID ever was. And if the experts had encouraged doctors to prescribe the widely available and inexpensive human drugs Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin, there would have been no WIV SARS pandemic or any of the policies it fomented.

It would have been like any other flu season from forever until today, as might Cow Flu EVEN IF someone at NIH is funding gain of function research in a “leaky” foreign bio-lab on Influencez D. And if they are, can we get it released in Anus, France or Weiner, Arkansas? Bitch Mountian, New York? Dickshooter Idaho? Boogerhole, West Virginia?

Anus Flu? Who doesn’t want to call out for work and tell their boss they tested positive for that?

 

 

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It really is going to be a moral issue for the militant self-righteous ones (I’m thinking about PETA and not the “People Eating Tasty Animals” kind) that keep telling us that we Normals should never be able to eat meat or use any animal derived products. Seriously, what will they consume now that some researchers have found that plants can actually make noises that have been spoken about as “speech”?

Stressed plants ‘scream,’ and it sounds like popping bubble wrap
A study of tomato and tobacco plants suggests they emit ultrasonic popping sounds when dehydrated or physically damaged.

When deprived of water or snipped with scissors, plants emit a flurry of staccato “screams” that are too high-frequency for humans to hear, a study suggests. When lowered into a range that human ears can detect, these stress-induced pops sound like someone furiously tap dancing across a field of bubble wrap.

Although humans cannot hear these ultrasonic pops without technological assistance, various mammals, insects and even other plants may be able to detect these noises in the wild and respond to them, researchers reported Thursday (March 30) in the journal Cell(opens in new tab). (The same researchers first shared their popping-plant discovery in 2019 on the preprint database bioRxiv, but the work has now been peer-reviewed.)

…On average, healthy plants let out less than one pop per hour, but the stressed plants emitted about 11 to 35, depending on the plant species and stressor. Drought-stressed tomato plants were noisiest, with some plants emitting more than 40 pops per hour.

…Although the researchers gathered these recordings by setting microphones about 4 inches (10 centimeters) away from the plants, they suggest that these ultrasonic sounds could potentially be heard by mammals and insects with great hearing from 9.8 to 16.4 feet (3 to 5 meters) away.

Now, the report talks about how this new knowledge may help in cultivation and how farmers can better tend to their crops. NOTHING in the post, however, talks about plants being sentient and that these plants are just having a gay old time party going on like neighbors at a porch party. However, like at a porch party, signals are being sent out and not all of them are good ones.

The ‘Grok is a politics/culture blog and when I read about this, I instantly drifted to that corner of politics dedicated to Vegans and their constant mantra that everyone “Not Them” are killers of other beings. In their minds, after all, a catepillar is the moral equivalent of a human. Congrats guys, for after all that crying about me loving a tender, juicy, and tasty prime rib, it looks like you’ve been doing the same to plants – harming plants by harvesting them (like animals are harvested) and those plants have been screaming about it since forever.

It seems that all of the Eco-socialist types want to remove animal protein from our diets because raising animals causes too many greenhouse gases.  The Vegans tell us that ANY animal, once raised, can feel pain so it is unethical to kill them for our diets.

It’s that latter part that is going to put them onto the point of the needle of a moral dilemma of their own making. Now that they know that plants know when they are under attack and can tell the environment that, shouldn’t they now forego both animal and plant-based foods?  What does this mean – a diet free existence? Ha!

THAT’S when it is going to be fun to watch the self-justification and deer-in-headlight howling begin.  No matter what they decided, based on their ethical/religious beliefs they’ve been yammering about for decades, they’re boxed into…nothingness. That’s right – there’s nothing left for them to eat, is there? And nothing left to hammer us with.

No matter which they they turn, they will run into their self-erected moral walls.

I can sit here and laugh like a fool in watching them, being dumbfounded, that their major jabbing against we Normals has just disappeared into a deep maw of their own making. Their “we are better than you because we don’t eat meat” has turned into “we eat plants and now we’re as bad as the rest of you”.

Good times, good times.

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What is apartheid? Well … in South Africa, arguably the most well-known example, it was a political system that kept the white minority in power and maintained a separate and unequal society where the white minority enjoyed a privileged status.

The Nashville shooting reveals that there is a de facto apartheid in America against Christians. The real victims … according to the Biden regime, the regime media, and our corporate masters… are not the Christians murdered by the trans-killer or the Christian community worrying about what place of worship or school will be targeted next. Oh no … the real victim is the trans community:

KJP: "Our hearts go out to the trans community, as they are under attack right now." pic.twitter.com/lHvV3InFNf

— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) March 30, 2023

And the regime’s figurehead-President … to remind Christians just how worthless their lives are to those holding power in today’s America … was led out mere days after the Nashville shooting to proclaim a Transgender Day of Visibility:

.@JoeBiden issues a statement hailing transgender Americans and declares March 31, 2023 to be Transgender Day of Visibility. https://t.co/iIouxL2RYH pic.twitter.com/3A5IroSVdt

— Fox News (@FoxNews) March 30, 2023

 

America as we knew it is dead. And it is not coming back. We need a national divorce and the sooner the better.

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Innocent before proven guilty? What a quaint American notion!  But this is where we are from the person that was #3 in line if President Asterisk and Veep Toes Up were shoved deleted no longer able to serve:

Pelosi confirms malicious political prosecution by suggesting Trump is guilty until proven innocent! https://t.co/5mhcP0GD7v

— Tom Fitton (@TomFitton) March 31, 2023

As I write this yesterday, this is circling the Right blogosphere at an accelerating rate.  EVERYONE, not just we on the Right, should be taking close note that Pelosi, and those like around her and of her ideological ilk, are no longer Americans. This is one of the most bedrock ideals of our Republic – that our Judicial system protects the innocents and that means EVERYONE is to be held innocent until the evidence to found a defendant to be labeled guilty by a jury of their peers.

This is not crossing the Rubicon – it is breaching its banks and running it dry.  We are in third world territory and a confirmation that the Left has decided that the only morals left in our politics is that of gaining Power – and keeping it.  Then punishing their opponents with their new twisted form of “Justice”…

…that exists soley to keep them in Power. Do I need to enumerate all of the regimes in our past history, and that “history” occurring when our country was being born to remind you that was the norm?  And this is what she and all of the Socialist Democrats want?

Apparently so. They want Power and, perhaps even more, Revenge.  And Pelosi just made that perfectly clear.

They hate him with not just a white hot flame, not even that of the Sun. No, those are too cool. Try imagining a supernova – and that still isn’t burning enough.

And our problem is that while she is no longer the Speaker of the US House, there are too many like her at that pinnacle. The other problem is that there are people like them here in NH – and locally.

I will say it – they do not love America as it was cast.  More of us should have listened to Obama when he said “We are five days from transforming America”. Well, it wasn’t done in 5 days but that was the ignition point.  Absolute corruption.

I cannot get past, nor forget, what Ronald Reagan warned us:

“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”

As I write this, I am listening to the Grandson downstairs, playing on his Kindle; a reason, THE reason as to why I do what I do in my way. Others can do things that I can’t – but there aren’t enough given that the Left is getting closer and closer to their end goal.  How do we know?

Just listen.

So, what are you doing to throw sand into their gearworks?

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This story is not an April Fools joke, but Alvin Bragg may go down as the biggest fool in politics ever. In the most narcissistic move in political history, Bragg coerced a Grand Jury to indict Donald J. Trump, a former President, to a trumped-up felony charge. This action makes Trump the first former President to be indicted, and Alvin Bragg, the District Attorney, who destroyed his career by filing the indictment. Whether Bragg was working alone or as a Soros plant, his ill-advised action may be the ticket back to the White House for Trump. This fiasco will explode in the Democrat’s faces.

We do not know what the indictment says at the time of this writing, but it does not matter. The integrity of our government, which for years was the envy of the world, has been destroyed forever. Alvin Bragg has opened Pandora’s Box for the future. Every President will now be at the mercy of the President’s opposing party. This move by Bragg is the latest example of political weaponization by the Democrat Party. The Democrat play, which some say began with the January 6 Committee and climaxing today with the New York indictment, is the most extensive attempt at election manipulation.

What we are witnessing is lawlessness to the Nth degree. Whether it is Congress, the FBI, Justice Department, IRS, or a bush league New York District Attorney, the Democrats are showing no limit to the power they will exert to retain the White House in 2024. Trump is the biggest threat to that scenario, so he needs to be eliminated at any expense.

Many times today, we heard references that the day’s actions are more consistent with a third-world country than the most respected Democratic Republic in history. This farce is not about Trump but about every patriot seeing this for what it is, a blatant effort to keep the political outsider down and not allow him to gain the seat where he can effectively tear down this house of cards.

It is not a coincidence that the day the former President of the United States was indicted, they released from prison the image of the January 6 “insurrection.” Jacob Chansley, the convicted January 6 rioter dubbed the “QAnon Shaman,” was released because previously suppressed evidence was made public proving Chansley was innocent of all charges. He was framed by the same corrupt government that has taken a sledgehammer to the Constitution and indicted Donald Trump.

The Left is trying to goad the Right to strike back with violence. We cannot give them that satisfaction. We need to dig deep and rely on our strong faith to take steps to overcome the Left’s movement to turn this great country into a Communist, Marxist, Godless shadow of its former greatness. We have right on our side, and the Left is underestimating the strength and fortitude of the Right and the length we will go to preserve this great nation.

The one fact anyone needs to point to that sums up the Democrat’s use of power is that Donald Trump is indicted for personal payments to individuals. At the same time, Hunter Biden is untouched for extorting foreign entities and countries for millions to enhance Biden’s fortunes.

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The head coach for Men’s Team Canada Powerlifting felt it necessary to make a point – that men should not be competing as women. To bring it home and hard, he showed up at a women’s powerlifting event in Alberta, identified as female, and beat the women’s bench press record by more than 100 pounds.

Related: The End of Women’s Competitive Power Lifting … in Minnesota?M/p>

A women’s record previously held by a man identifying as a woman.

 

There was a powerlifting tournament in Alberta, Canada, on Saturday where history was made. Avi Silverberg, the head coach for Team Canada Powerlifting for more than 10 years, entered Saturday’s Heroes Classic tournament after identifying as a female.

Silverberg then casually stepped up and bench pressed 370 pounds, beating the old record by more than 100 pounds — a record held by trans athlete Anne Andres.

Do you think he made his point? No biological woman will likely ever beat his record.

 

Team Canada powerlifting coach, Avi Silverberg just broke the Alberta WOMEN’s bench press record in the 84+ kg category at the “Heroes Classic.”

Former record holder, trans-identifying male, Anne Andres had a front row view as Silverberg mocked the discriminatory CPU policy… pic.twitter.com/ajhUJPB4gc

— ICONS Women (@icons_women) March 27, 2023

[Anne] Andres volunteered at the event and was seen watching Silverberg when he made his historic lift. Andres won eight of nine competitions entered in the women’s category over the last four years, according to the Independent Council on Women’s Sports (ICONS), which supplied the video of the event.

The only requirement to compete in the tournament was that the athlete declare their gender. Canadian Powerlifting Union (CPU) policy allows competitors to register for events under their “gender identity and expression, rather than their sex or gender,” vowing “no consequences” for doing so.

Another man (Andres) made it his mission to steal things from Real Women. Seriously, eight of nine competitions, including the record lift that Avi showed up to Transjack from a Transjacker. The competition policy is just nuts (see what I did there?).

It’s not fair. It doesn’t matter what surgery or hormones you take; any man who went through puberty before they “changed teams” can make it unfair to biological women, which means it can be reduced to a competition between men with girls’ names or men’s names or just a bunch of men who start as B or C team men’s competitors and lift their way into the record books by identifying as women.

They’ll even get a princess party from the progressives for robbing women of athletic accomplishment or even glory.

Not Avi. He planned to save the sport for women, and if you don’t like it, go ahead and cry.

 

 

 

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Well, it is exciting to report to our friends that Raymond has had some wins from the recent town elections. There has been a group of us that have been working to maintain traditional values in our town and right now we have been concentrating on our library. Last year I won a seat on the school board.

We want to thank Cindy Bennett for this Op-Ed. If you have an Op-Ed or LTE
you would like us to consider, please submit it to Editor@GraniteGrok.com.

Honestly, I have had a lot to learn. I am still on the learning curve. I do see things in a different light being on this side of the proverbial fence. I am listening and learning and hoping to be a voice for good in my town.

I have also realized that there is a lot going on at the public library. A small group of concerned taxpayers/ concerned parents have been conversing with the local librarian and current trustees as to some of the adult content topics that are in the children’s section of the library. Two of the folks attending these meetings include Mike Drago (a current state representative) and Julie Laughner (budget committee member and author of articles on GraniteGrok and long-time pro-life activist).  Several parents have gone to monthly meetings between the trustees and the librarian.

Since this was the only public meeting that has been untelevised by the local cable station, we have requested to have this meeting recorded and put up on RCTV as of last November. This has been great for the town’s people to ask questions, and we have been able to send the link of videos around so that more citizens were able to see the questions and answers personally.  The conversations have been difficult and sometimes debate has occurred. We have had to bring out polar opposite views and discuss them. We have found that the opinion of the current board is very close to the American Library Association and the modern agendas that, in traditional and moral opinion, are damaging to children.

We are specifically concerned about the sexualization of our children. Our group has been supporting Viriginia Fernold who has volunteered to join the board of trustees of our library and she has some great ways to help ensure the safety of children from the sexualized topics that are being put out in the open for children. I personally supported her by creating her campaign video which we put on RCTV and spread around social media, I collected money to help make signs to put around town and we all helped to place those signs all around town. Along with our candidate, who has now won the seat, we proposed 2 citizens petition warrant articles for the ballot. We were surprised at the opposition that we endured.  Article 43 states:

“The Citizens of Raymond hereby declare, from this point forward, that the downstairs children’s library room in the Dudley Tucker Library will be free of any books with content containing nudity, gender identity, sex or sexual references in writing or illustrations”.

We have been scoffed at by local citizens and we have even endured ridicule from the Union Leader. We were called book banners and other names by those who opposed us. At the Deliberative Session in Raymond, our librarian countered our warrant article with some potty training books and other books that she felt would be terrible to do without and that our warrant wording would make it so that they would have to get rid of 93% of the books in our children’s collection. It was a very weak argument because everyone on both sides knew what the article was concerned about. In my opinion….even in potty training books we don’t need nudity. It seems to be trivial to feel like we won big as a town that our Warrant article 42 passed. And this is where we are at.

It’s a win to keep damaging content out of the children’s section of the library. It’s hard to imagine we are here.

We also had another article which requested to pull out of the ALA (American Library Association); that article did not win. However,  I hope that as we proceed, more people will realize that our library is owned by the citizens, and we do not want to support an entity such as ALA which is against parents, and even against the innocence of the minds of children. The truth is, the reason that we are in this difficult place, is that conservatives have taken our hands and eyes off the public libraries .

WE have not been involved and we did not speak up sooner. I hope that seeing the extremes that the library is going to, into the realms of immorality and modern agendas, will get the attention of many taxpayers that do not agree with this. I have heard from many conservatives that “nothing works,” or “ we have to accept this because it’s the current trend.”

This sounds like giving up to me. For a true American Patriot, giving up is not an option. Protecting children should be our highest priority.  I hope that more taxpayers take part in their communities and get back some control of their towns by standing up for their constitutional rights and freedoms. The best way to deal with what is flooding our country is to get to the root of the trouble. We need to restore love for God and our Country. Love for humanity and respect for the human race and the Almighty God who created us.

Not only do we warn about damaging content, we need to also suggest good content that will encourage and strengthen our youth. Our library has purchased the Tuttle Twins books as we have also recommended many other excellent resources that kids can grow by.  We also  need to find the forums available to us. We pay into this system and it’s time to speak life into it. Speak up at the library, school board meetings, town meetings and whatever meetings are open to public comment. Do it with grace and dignity. Don’t go in mad and angry at anyone. We can’t expect those who hold the seats to do what we want them to do if we have been unavailable and unseen up to this point. We can do better .

The most important thing…we need to do something. Get off the couch, cancel an appointment, meet up with a fellow Patriot, speak up in person. Right IS right and WRONG IS wrong and we need to stop acting like nothing works. Edward Everett Hale wrote:

“I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.”

I am very excited to see this progress to do what is right in our community. I hope that it encourages you and inspires you to also get involved. Face to face is really the best way. If you are doing your thing, please be encouraged to stay faithful and don’t give up. Seek for the small ways to find real progress. Don’t stop trying to inspire others. Thanks for reading.

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The Baby Killers in the Lump of Cells Collective just took a shot to the head. A young lady named ‘Winner’ just went home with her family. She was born prematurely at  Maine Medical Center. At 22 weeks and one pound, two ounces, she is the youngest survivor on state record.

 

Medical professionals credited technological advancements for Winner being able to survive.

The NICU team at Maine Medical Center, including 140 nurses, decreased stimulation in the room to give Winner a comfortable environment.

MaineHealth says Winner will continue to need specialized care, but they say they’re excited to see her grow up with her loving parents by her side.

 

Talk about a conundrum.

Party of Science vs. viable human life. Twenty-two weeks. Happy and home with her family. Born less than six months into a pregnancy. And New Hampshire Democrats just did widdershins around the abortion bonfire over passing a bill in the NH House that would make killing babies like Winner a ‘gimme.

Nothing to see here. It’s not human (except for organ harvesting, but they like to wait until 30+ weeks for those if they can).

Nice party you’ve got there. Be a shame if you all burned in eternal damnation for the millions of lives you sacrificed in exchange for campaign contributions.

I know, you keep insisting it’s about women’s rights or health or some such thing, but we know that’s a bin full of crap. You came for women’s babies, and thanks to the trans-agenda, now you’ve come for them and their living children.

 

 

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There are growing concerns about the appearance of John Kerry, one of the Democratic Party’s premier politruks, former presidential standard bearer, George W. Bush’s burr under the saddle, and Joe Biden’s Climate Tsar, er, without portfolio.

We want to thank John Burtis for this Op-Ed. Please submit it to Editor@GraniteGrok.com.

It has been reported that the former Winter Soldier “looked terrible” in a recent public appearance, with fears that he was “suffering from some illness that has been or must be kept secret,” such was his unhealthy pallor.

First of all, Mr. Kerry has been an excessively busy lad, jet-setting back and forth between Washington D.C. and his beloved Europe, decrying the ongoing and permanent collapse of the Earth’s ecosystem, the melting of the Earth’s ice, the decreasing pressure on the Earth’s crust, while conveniently forgetting the increasing number of dead cetaceans clogging beaches already suffering from erosion from the robust ocean currents which carry heat away from the tropics to locales like Iceland and Ireland and make them liveable.

Mr. Kerry has recently enquired about the purchase of vast swaths of the Arabian desert, especially the Nafud region which is jocularly called the ‘Sun’s Anvil’ in the works by T.E. Lawrence and is plagued by miles of hot red sand.  Mr. Kerry believes that gigantic sea-going vessels powered by electrical screws and steered by AI should soon be silently crossing the increasingly vast oceans due to the ceaseless melting of ice while bulging at their welded seams from their hundred thousand tons of sand.  These costly untested and yet-to-be-constructed leviathans should be preferred by every one of us instead of the use of Arabia’s destructive petroleum, if not our own, because they represent the future electric.  They are needed to rebuild God’s own Cape Cod beaches and those on the island where both he and Barack Obama each occupy an incredibly opulent chateau totally beyond the price range of even Brentwood – Nantucket.

But all this policy wonking and calculator button pushing is fatiguing for Mr. Kerry, a man not used to sitting down and hammering out the smallest of ecological details, the everyday hurly-burly which is usually left to his operatives, his swelling personal staff and his pilot.

Nope, being on the road, ensconced in cheap five and six star hotels without the services of dedicated wonkeroonies like Br’er Pete Buttigieg to explain things and get the stuff needed to remain a gentleman, is doubly taxing on a man who is used to farming out all of the menial assignments.  Now, having to learn the intricacies of governmental involvements, internal rates of return, paybacks, quid pro quo’s, all about a big sister and the he/she/it/me ragtime, and the exceedingly treacherous working Catholic families who prefer the liturgy in Latin–the latter an anathema to Mr. Kerry and to his confrere’s in Davos and the White House.  Managing these expectations is just plain stultifying to the very man who put the word stultifying on that “auld” map of the island hanging on the interior wall of the Shell station on Sparks Avenue on Nantucket.

But it is tiring for a man of his advanced years with all those miles on his well-worn and highly buttressed chassis and on his perfect hair which requires the treble wash made famous by studious Gwyneth Paltrow wannabes.

The highly onerous task of convincing, and later ordering, dukes and paupers alike to give up everything that he never will is fatiguing and a waste of time because as the sworn appointee for the protection of the entire planet, he should be believed about everything he says and never questioned. After all, he IS  John Forbes Kerry. After all, he’s a Boston Brahmin aristocrat and a peer of the realm who has moved, from sheer dint of will, from sleeping in his car while keeping ahead of those street cleaning tickets and those equally surly Boston meter maids to slumbering on the cool pressed silk sheets in the AlpenGold Hotel in Davos, where a personal assistant irons his skivvies, his sheer black hosiery and garters, his NY, LA, and London Times and buffs his bespoke cap toe oxfords to a high gloss.

Of course, it’s also extremely exhausting to watch the incredible worship heaped on poor old Biden despite Joe’s gaseous eruptions before the dreaded Camilla Parker Bowles and how Mr. Biden really embarrassed the free world by breaking wind loud enough to cause noticeable tittering in the fawning crowd of high borns from whom Joe aspires to receive that exclusive invitation.

Imagine a man from Scranton garnering that many kudos from the Pelosi side of the aisle. It’s an affront to a man with Mr. Kerry’s accomplishments at sea, at home, in preparatory school in the same state where the damnable GHW Bush attended Exeter, in front of the camera, in the marriage aisle, and once or twice upon the floor of the Senate. It has to be a put-up job by the turncoat media the way they slaver over Joe and petulant Dr. Jill who are just grifting plebeians who must depend on Uncle Sap’s jets for travel to the hot spots instead of Kerry’s oh-so-plush Gulfstream IVG with the Windsor leather pilot seats, personal vanity mirrors and heated towel racks.

Then there’s the Mr. Smallweed business. People chuckled about it because of his past traipsing around Boston, throwing himself in front of any live camera he could, being called “Live Shot” for his troubles, passing off grave comments on any inconsequential situation he could locate, then doing exactly the same thing nationally when afforded that capability.

But what do they know?  Nothing!

He’s tried his damnedest to get felons the vote. He’s pontificated on the prolonged follies of the Afghan War and the crying need for electric autos. He’s supported Honest John Murtha in his endeavors and John’s jump to war crimes investigator, judge, and jury. He’s worked hard to make illegal aliens instant citizens and Democratic voters just as he has kept them off Nantucket. He’s toed the unpopular lines to make America smarter and more survivable. He’s exposed America’s sins first to Boston and then to the whole world. He’s called President Bush a fool of a man and President Trump an irredeemable lout. And Mr. Kerry has always offered to cut and run on a specific timetable to give our enemies a date certain for their victory.  Though it now appears that old Joe Biden beat him at that game in Afghanistan.

Then again, the prolonged and excessive use of botox is said to be unhealthy with those frozen facial muscles, squinting eyes, and that manic deer-in-the-headlights look.

Who can really say why Mr. Kerry is looking so poorly lately? Maybe he is ailing. But if he is, I suspect one of the real reasons is due to the prolonged exposure to the hogwash he is continually prancing through in the name of Democrat politics. That stuff’ll give you the grippe and things even botox can’t fix or hide.

 

[and of course, my favorite – Lurch!  -Skip]

Or, with all his surgery | Botox, how’s this comparison with Star Trek’s Deep Space Nine Security Chief Odo. Same flat and smooth face?]

But only one is unabashedly wearing make-up…

 

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