The Seabrook school board has been dealing with frustrated parents for a while now. Many of the complaints seem to center around the district’s poor proficiency scores and unresolved behavior problems.

From what I can tell, the board members have begun challenging administrators on some of the decisions they’ve made in the past. This is exactly what a school board should be doing under these circumstances.

Board members are elected by the people, and if the people are bringing them problems, board members need to turn their attention towards those who are in charge.

According to Seacoast Online, Seabrook Elementary’s Principal just resigned. Bryan Belanger began working for Seabrook Elementary School in January 2022, but will be leaving this school year. Seacoast Online: (emphasis mine)

In January 2022, Belanger’s career came full circle, he said, when he signed on to become Seabrook Elementary School’s principal. At the time he said he couldn’t be happier to return, adding he enjoyed every day at SES.

In his resignation letter, Belanger said his primary goal at SES “has been to create an environment where every student and staff member can thrive, and I have dedicated myself wholeheartedly to that mission each day.”

That might be a lovely goal for him, but that doesn’t seem to be the problems that everyone wants fixed.  Here are the biggest problems:

 

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As you can see, the parents and school board members have different goals from Belanger. They are focused on improving academic outcomes, Belanger is focused on school climate.

Belanger took some parting shots at the school board, as if they are to blame for all of this. Belanger said he, ” believes the School Board’s behavior in recent months has been unethical and detrimental to the students and families. Belanger also mentioned that he didn’t agree with, “the board’s decision on April 16 to turn down more than $1.3 million in two grants. Those grants would have supported student mental health.”

It appears as if the latest excuse for poor performance is to blame it on the students’ mental health. Where is the proof for that? Parents HAVE NOT been coming to school board meetings begging the district to become a mental health provider for their kids. They want their kids to be able to read and write.  They want kids to be accountable for their actions. Students need boundaries and consequences for their behavior.

A child’s mental health is important to everyone, parents included, but they send their kids to school to learn academics. That has to be the priority, and parents are now demanding this.

We know that personally identifiable mental health data (PII) on children has been shared by school counselors without the student’s or parents knowledge or consent. That violates the School Counselor’s Code of Ethics and is a gross violation of a student’s privacy rights. The PII was shared by some New Hampshire schools that received Project Aware Grant money. Why wasn’t Belanger bothered by that?

Charter School to the Rescue? 
The Seacoast is about to see another Charter School open in the Fall. Seacoast Classical Academy is the result of poor performance in SAU16. Parents there were fed up with the declining performance, and dismissing parental concerns. A few parents decided to open up a Charter school focused on academic excellence. The demand for parents to get their children into this school is growing, and they haven’t opened the doors yet.

Seacoast Classical Academy will be incorporating the Scope and Sequence from Core Knowledge. It’s free, and rich in academic content. I sent the link and information to the Superintendent in SAU21 a short time ago. This is what parents want for their children–a quality academic education.

Parents see that their children are struggling to become literate in the core subjects, and they are demanding better. The Seabrook board is responding by refocusing resources on academics. If the school administrators cannot fulfill their main mission, how do they expect to become experts in treating a child’s mental health?

It’s unfortunate Belanger didn’t rise to the occasion, and show the board proof that he would now be focused on academic excellence to reach the important goal of literacy. Instead he appears to be a disgruntled employee who was ok with the status quo, and was bothered that the board was listening to parents, and expecting better.

 

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A Mother’s Day party in Northboro, Mass, turned deadly when some “young men” with firearms shot and killed a 16-year-old. Several others were injured. A follow-up headline in the Boston Herald was particularly telling. It should have read ‘Welcome to Bide’s America.’

“Deportation hangs over suspects after fatal Northboro shooting.”

Wallisom Texeira Da Silva, 20, of Hyde Park; Arnoldo Nogueira Filho, 19, of Marlboro; and Pedro Desouza-Passos, 27, of Rockland, each appeared hidden behind a board in Westboro District Court on Monday.

Da Silva, the only defendant charged with felony possession of a firearm in addition to illegal possession of ammunition, was ordered held pending a dangerousness hearing later in May. Filho and Desouza-Passos, each charged with illegal possession of ammunition, were ordered held on $45,000 and $25,000 cash bail respectively.

Desouza-Passos has a criminal record with multiple defaults in court but no convictions, attorneys said Monday. Da Silva and Filho both had ICE detainers lodged against them, and all three used a Portuguese translator in court.

A few observations.

If they can be deported, then they are not of “Hyde Park,” “Marlboro,” or “Rockland.” They are here illegally. Massachusetts gave them sanctuary in violation of Federal Immigration law. They illegally obtained firearms in a Blue State with all sorts of ‘Common Sense Gun laws.’ At least one of them has a criminal record and has been arrested and released more than once). A 16-year-old is dead. They might be deported … for illegal possession of firearms.

And this one is going to hurt. Massachusetts residents voted for this. You embraced the Democrat Party line, its candidates, Joe Biden, and everything that comes with it. The crowded rec centers, hotels, and other facilities (I heard they are looking to put “migrants” up in school buildings). You voted for this, and if you say you didn’t know, why didn’t you? We did, and last time I checked, we’re not supposed to be smarter than the progressives.

Da Silva, Filho and Desouza-Passos were found in a vehicle several hours after the shots just before 3 a.m., according to their criminal complaints.

The car was being driven by a young woman, who had the party hosted in honor of her 21st birthday, and all three defendants were in the back seat, police said. With them, they allegedly had two purses with one partially empty 9mm 30-round magazines and two loose 9mm bullets. Da Silva’s passport was found in one bag, police said, and he claimed ownership of the bag, which held one of the 9 mm bullets.

When a 9mm firearm was later found in the grass near the house, Da Silva also claimed ownership of the gun, police said.

Neither Filho nor Desouza-Passos claimed ownership of any of the bags, ammunition or the single firearm, the report states.

There is so much wrong here, but what exactly are we to do or say? A 17-year-old got shot, and a 16-year-old is dead. Were they here illegally as well? How many individuals were illegals at this house party, at which there may have been more than 100 people?

Drugs, cartels, trafficking, illegal possession of firearms, criminal records, rap sheets, and maybe someone gets deported, which looks a lot like letting them go so they can return.

In Biden’s America, they can’t stop them. Both borders are overwhelmed, but Democrats shouldn’t let that affect how they vote. It never has in the past.

This appears to be the America they want to live in.

 

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Remember the Ashley Biden diary … in which she wrote about being sexualized and having to take inappropriate showers with her daddy, JOE BIDEN? Well Ashley has confirmed that the diary is hers … which means that anyone supporting Biden is supporting a pedophile. Yes, the President of the United States (albeit an imposter/figurehead who “won” a very rigged election) is a PEDOPHILE.

Joe Bidens daughter Ashley Biden has now confirmed that the famous diary is 100% real!
This also makes it 100% clear that Joe Biden is a sick pedophile and his fake Doctor wife Jill Biden, is an enabler. pic.twitter.com/iGjKozWEcT

— Vince Langman (@LangmanVince) May 12, 2024

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Ms. Banfield, fellow Grokster, thank you for riding herd on SAU16 and keeping us up-to-date on its numerous outrages, from Sharpie-gate to making athletic participation contingent on following Woke orthodoxy in private communication.

Regarding towns leaving SAU16: When Secretary Edelblut spoke in Brentwood last fall, our tireless pro-taxpayer activist Liz Faria asked him about Brentwood leaving SAU16.

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The unfortunate bottom line is that Brentwood can do whatever it likes, but there is no way for us to recover the capital we have invested over the years in various SAU16 programs. “You can check out anytime you want,” but your money will never leave.

Further frustrating this is that dozens of new Brentwooders who have borrowed half a million to live in MacMansions here participate in Town Meeting for the sole purpose of proving that they will do what it takes to Fit In.

 

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When Ed wrote this (Yes, “They Are The Fascists” … But It Has Little To Do With Censorship), my first thought was that he would be referring to what I wrote here (They Are The Fascists).

The latter was about systematized government suppression of speech and the Fascist relationships between the government and Big Tech that facilitate it. Ed’s piece wasn’t about that at all. He shares some important facts, like how Fascism is just another type of socialism and how much Fascism looks like the current Democratic party agenda—that thing they sometimes refer to as Democratic Socialism.

Not anything most of us don’t know, but a refresher is often necessary, especially when you bring receipts. Not every reader will rasp the details or have read connections that add meat to the bones of the conversation.

Totalitarianism By Another Name

They are the same socialist whore in different dresses, which is timely because it all looks like what filmmaker Richard Jeffs describes as Stakeholder Communism. A top-down command-and-control economy that does business as a government because you need a police state to keep everyone in line. Something Klaus Schwab and the Davos globalists are working to develop across the globe. They call it many things, including a Great Reset, but what it is, is   Stakeholder Communism or just communism.

The government (local or global) controls the means of production without owning it. Oligarchs, who serve at the pleasure of The State, manage ‘industries,” projects, or sectors, and wealth is not prohibited among these proxies unless or until they find themselves out of favor. In Frank Herbert’s Dune, if you are useless, they kill you and take your water. Under the Chinese model, they kill you and take your organs. There is no freedom, no free speech, and mobility, and individual activity is monitored or controlled by the state to ensure everyone serves the state.

The political class includes the economic class, and everyone else serves their needs.

Schwab et al. are after a parallel system that is effectively global fascism, and the Chinese, if they don’t like it, will call it that. If you recall (or if you missed it), last Summer, I shared some reading I’d done explaining how, until Mao, Fascism was seen correctly and proudly as a kissing cousin of Communism.

During Mao’s Cultural Revolution, Chinese Communists and their water carriers in the West adopted the idea that everything to the Right of Mao was fascism, including Soviet Communism. Who knew there was something further Left until Mao?

Self-proclaimed Western Intellectuals were smitten with the Marxism of the early 20th century, Mussolini’s Fascism, and Maoist doctrine after it adopted the idea. Failure, poverty, and pogroms were just necessary “ingredients” then as they are now. But it was at this point (more or less) that all capitalism became Fascism. If it was not Mao, it was Fascism, and while future generations of Marxist thinkers in China may have moved past that internal designation (at least openly), American socialists doing business as the Democratic Party can still be heard shouting it from every rooftop.

If it is not what theirs is, it is Fascism.

As is often the case, they are not admonishing the system but projecting their erstwhile desire for it to be the manner in which Americans and the West conduct themselves.

Stakeholder Communism is Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics, which is simply a different version of National Socialism. Control of the memes of production without having to own all of it, but the owners exist only at the pleasure of the State or those who answer to it. Everything else is an affectation. A feudal arrangement, none of which has ever been anywhere near the individual small government liberty side of any political spectrum.

American Democrats calling us Fascists doth protest too much.

 

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The world’s most notorious state exponent of anti-Semitism, the Islamic Republic of Iran, is on a path to uproot not only all that is perceived as civilized but to annihilate the greatest threat to its existence, the Iranian people. The mullahs and their mercenaries are wasting precious human lives in order to maintain their power by terrorizing.

The Iranian people are simply hopeless and helpless. Even the United Nations does not come to their rescue. From its past performance, rather than its absence of performance, we know that the UN watchdog is a true disgrace to dogs since all it does is eat, sleep, and look the other way. Furthermore, the dog has no teeth. The vet had to pull all its teeth before the dog became acceptable to the crafty cats that constitute the UN itself.

The Islamic Republic is a unique creature – it is best described as a theocratic aristocracy. The “divinely ordained” rulers maintained themselves in power through an elaborate system of patronage. Lucrative positions, contracts and valued privileges are distributed in this way. The result is that the ruling mullahs enjoy a significant number of supporters in all strata of society – the civil service, the military, the powerful Revolutionary Guards, and the hooligans and thugs who are ready to unleash their vicious attacks on anyone or any group that dares to challenge the in-charge men of Allah.

The illegitimate government of the Islamic Republic is a quisling entity that has betrayed its people, its tradition, and its glorious pre-Islamic achievements and is incessantly working against Iran’s national interest. Iran, under the stranglehold and machinations of the mullahs, has been transformed, in less than three decades, into the lead perpetrator of all that is abhorrent to humanity.

The supreme leader of the Islamic Republic, Ali Khamenei, like his predecessor, Ayatollah Khomeini, whose callous disregard for human life was matched only by his consuming paranoia, allegedly has issued a decree to hang Iranian dissidents publicly in all the towns and villages with a population that exceeds 1,000 people. For Ayatollah Khamenei, dissident viewpoints represent an unacceptable threat. Anyone found questioning the Shari’a law – and many hundreds of thousands were – had to be “weeded out.” The Islamic Republic is on a mission to end human life in Iran.The Islamic Republic has the dubious distinction of executing more children, those under the age of 18, than any other country in the world. Such is the plight of the Iranian people.

Iran’s ruling mullahs are clustered around major factions such as the fundamentalists, the moderates, and the so-called reformists. Yet, the differences among these factions are tactical rather than strategic. One and all share the same overarching goal of defeating the “Crusader-Zionists” by any and all methods possible, bringing about the “end of the world” Armageddon, and thereby creating the requisite conditions for the appearance of the Hidden Imam, the Mahdi, to assume his rule of the world.

“What is the likelihood that the ruling mullahs will actually use the bomb?” you may ask. “If they remain in power long enough to have it, they are very likely to use it, in one form or another,” you are told. At the very least, they will use the bomb for blackmail and intimidation in the region. You may ask how you can help prevent this catastrophe. “Support the Iranian peoples’ struggle for freedom by at least petitioning,” you are told.

In order to achieve total control, the Islamic Republic and its lackeys spawned a series of immense internal purges, beginning in 1988 and known as the “Massacre of Political Prisoners of 1988.” They have intensified their domestic terror in recent months and weeks.

A society that is intense in its struggle for change has a flip side to its idealism: intolerance. This totalitarian regime sees enemies everywhere, enemies who want to destroy the Islamic Revolution and diminish the results of its hard work of creating an Islamic utopia in the land of Cyrus the Great.

The regime seems to be panicking with hyper-suspiciousness. They have installed watchdogs in schools, universities, factories, and all offices across the country and are urged to be vigilant against sabotage, against those who crave freedom and democracy. Many innocent Iranians are being victimized, and the saying has gone around that “when you chop wood, the chips fly.” As with Khamenei, it is believed that some who are innocent will have to be victimized if all of the guilty are to be apprehended.

In fact, they stigmatize, victimize, and murder people without any due process of law. On the slightest suspicion, they arrest, convict, and execute. Few people would deny any longer that Islam and its variants mean, in practice, bloody terrorism, deadly purges, lethal actions, forced hijab, fatal deportations, extrajudicial executions, show trials, and genocide. It is killing hundreds of thousands of innocent people.

Today, the Islamic Republic of Iran is one of the greatest threats to the stability of the civilized world and humanity at large. It continues to impose this horrendous ideology called Islam on the Iranian population. The world must file legal charges against the leaders of the Islamic Republic for their wanton violation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights for their crimes against humanity and genocidal actions against religion. 

The regime seems to be panicking.

and political groups; for support of international terrorism; for demolition of religious sites and cemeteries; for rape, torture, and summary executions of prisoners of conscience; forgery of documents; for acts of blackmail and fraud; and much more.

To those misguided advocates of negotiation with the mullahs, beware. The mullahs are on an Allah-mandated mission. They are intoxicated with petrodollars and aim to settle for nothing less than complete domination of the world under the Islamic Ummah. It is precisely for this reason that they consider America and the West as Ofooli, a setting, dying system, while they believe their Islamism is Tolooi, a rising, living order. They are in no mood to negotiate for anything less than the total surrender of democracy, the very anathema to Islamism. This is only one reason, but perhaps one of the greatest reasons, for fostering democracy.

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If the global goal of the globalists was to use COVID to kill people and make them vaccine-hesitant, it did both of those things. But pharmaceutical executives and their investors don’t stay rich on government laundromat money alone. They need to keep innovating, so this strikes me as a step in the wrong direction.

And by step, I mean if the goal is to protect people and keep them alive, so you can keep charging them for things you claim will keep them alive. You need people to do that, and more people equates to more potential profit.

The goals of the depopulationists and these fascist-corporatist capitalists appear at odds. My guess is someone has the math worked out on the back of a cocktail napkin. The perfect number of the right sort of people to keep in their controlled environments ensures they can continue to live well at the expense of others.

And they will be burning fossil fuels. You can’t make and maintain 15-minute cities without them.

That Perpetual Vaccination Intervention

The opening paragraph begins with, “Scientists have created a vaccine that has the potential to protect against a broad range of coronaviruses, including varieties that are not yet even known about.” Before 2020, this would have aroused curiosity and a healthy amount of skepticism. We’d like to see the research, please, and let’s hope it is as promising as people looking for more free money to do more research claim it to be.

The experimental shot, which has been tested in mice, marks a change in strategy towards “proactive vaccinology,” where vaccines are designed and readied for manufacture before a potentially pandemic virus emerges. The vaccine is made by attaching harmless proteins from different coronaviruses to minuscule nanoparticles that are then injected to prime the body’s defences to fight the viruses should they ever invade.

Because the vaccine trains the immune system to target proteins that are shared across many different types of coronavirus, the protection it induces is extremely broad, making it effective against known and unknown viruses in the same family.

The magic, not ever again in your life words, are harmless, proteins, and nanoparticles. Nowhere are the letters m, R, N, or A in proximity, but that platform is the one with which we are familiar when the subject of harmless proteins and nanoparticles rears its uncontrollable side-effect-rearing head. Would those be “spike” proteins? They never say.

Has The Guardian banned the use of the term “spike protein”? A casual search did not produce any results in 2024 that included the two words together in that order.

If that is not enough to scare you away, perhaps this will do the trick.

Prof Mark Howarth, a senior author of the study, said: “Scientists did a great job in quickly producing an extremely effective Covid vaccine during the last pandemic, but the world still had a massive crisis with a huge number of deaths. We need to work out how we can do even better than that in the future, and a powerful component of that is starting to build the vaccines in advance.”

The senior author thinks the jab was extremely effective, which brings me back to my opening. Effective at doing what?

 

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The 2 party system is not what the founders planned for, and I believe it is totally corrupted. My Litmus Test is being able to vote for someone without having to hold my nose. In my first several elections, I was third party and independent.

After Clinton started attacking outdoorsmen and stealing fishing and hunting funds, I became an Anti-Democrat. My first vote for a major party was for a Democrat, Tom Laughlin, who was an actor who played “Billy Jack”. He did not make it past NH.

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It was not until Trump, whom I could not stand personally but loved what he had to say, that I voted for him twice without holding my nose. He has blown it now.

Either way, this election ends, there is going to be turmoil. When maybe 30 to 40 percent of the people suffer from TDS, it does not look good. My other belief is to Let It Fail. It may be the only way in which we can start over.

 

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There’s a lot of chatter right now about Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., even though he won’t even be on many states ballots this fall, let alone actually scoring one single electoral vote in November’s election.

And while they may know his name, many voters know little about him or his policies to make an informed decision one way or another. True patriots should know that despite expensive advertising and lofty promises, his ideas are downright dangerous, and anyone who identifies as a conservative, or simply as somebody who loves their country, best steer clear.

Here’s what we know about him, from his very own statements. (RELATED: JASON LEWIS: The ‘Deep State’ Is Far Deeper Than Anyone Imagined)

In 2019, Kennedy shared an article defending Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s proposal for a 70% top tax rate, saying that there’s research to “back her up.”

Where would this money go? Not back to the people, because if he wanted this, he’d be in favor of tax cuts. Instead, a huge tax increase would feed an ever-growing, ever-overreaching federal government. This is something he has in common with President Joe Biden and defies our Founders’ vision of empowered people and states, and a specific, limited role for the federal government.

In his heart, Kennedy is a proponent of dangerous Big Government Socialism — where liberal elites have one size fits all ideas — their ideas — for every American, their families and their businesses. Yet history has proven that socialist ideas have destroyed once great countries and are now tearing at the very fabric of America under Joe Biden.

Kennedy has called for governments to divest from fossil fuels. He wants to put a carbon tax on all emissions, which would saddle all hard-working American families with even more inflation when they are already burdened by the failed policies of the Biden administration. The hallmark of Biden’s inflation and all things Bidenomics are high energy prices.

RFK’s policies — in fact, his dream — would have gas prices at $10 a gallon. Energy is a component of everything from heating our homes to the food we eat.

These policies would bankrupt American families and businesses, enrich our advisories like Iran and Russia and HURT the global environment by displacing clean U.S. energy production with foreign sources.

Further, Kennedy has held troubling and problematic relationships with people he not only considers his friends, but also a “truly great partner” — an example includes virulent Antisemite Louis Farrakhan. At a time when Israel is fighting on every front, and with a historic rise of antisemitism on our college campuses, this should be a disqualifying in and of itself.

Liberals know this, which is why they’re so frightened of him. He’s more AOC than AOC is and has described himself as a big proponent of the inflationary and economically unsustainable Green New Deal-he’s called it “huge” and “important.”

He’s more than an anti-Second Amendment gun-grabber, he’s literally called the National Rifle Association “a terror group.” He’s more than an enabler of spending your hard-earned money, he supports Biden’s actions to “cancel” student debt if they were to be approved by Congress. He has endorsed or contributed to every major Democrat in recent history-Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton.

When you look at his record, when you look at what he’s spoken about and what he continues to say, it reminds me of the old saying: If he talks like a liberal, and he walks like a liberal, don’t let it fool you. He’s a liberal.

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President Joe Biden advertised himself as a uniter of Americans but instead seems to have embarked on a crusade to unite government with industry. His disregard for the rule of law parallels an equally dangerous abandonment of fundamental free market principles via government fiat. The latest example is displayed in the administration’s emissions mandates for EV cars and trucks.

EV Fiasco

Biden’s newly proposed EV regulations are just one more straw on the camel’s back of economic reality. Electric vehicles resemble the Biden administration more and more: They do not deliver as advertised, cannot compete without being propped up, take money from the poor to give to the rich, divide the nation, and are used to sabotage the economy. If this sounds extreme, please read on.

The EPA’s long-awaited tailpipe emissions standards are a bureaucrat’s dream and a nightmare for taxpayers and car manufacturers. The 1,184-page rule does not mandate the manufacture of EV cars and trucks; it merely makes compliance with its strictures impossible without doing so.

Like Captain Ahab, Biden doesn’t care if every sailor (or auto worker) is forced to jump ship in his pursuit of the Great White Climate Utopia. Auto emission laws have historically set targets for individual vehicles, leaving manufacturers free to allocate resources to produce models desired by free consumers. The new EPA rules instead set limits on manufacturers’ total fleet emissions, essentially commanding Ford and Chevrolet to produce vehicles that meet stringent diktats, regardless of consumer demand, corporate profitability, or union job security.

Ford Motor Company has cut back plans to ramp up EV production after losing an estimated $64,731 per vehicle in 2023 despite massive state and federal subsidies. Losses would be far greater if not for profitable gas-powered vehicle sales. It seems taxpayers are not being price-gouged by corporations so much as by a government enacting state control of entire industries by regulatory fiat. Dictating what car dealers may offer as inventory may not jibe with consumer desires, and there is no indemnification clause by the EPA to purchase unsold goods.

EV trucks are a particularly bad sell for consumers concerned about range anxiety, failure to function in cold weather, lack of adequate charging stations, and staggering repair bills. Commercial buyers are uninterested in fleets of EV trucks that necessitate work crews taking multiple trips to transport a load that a single gas-powered pickup could handle. Ford is reportedly already cutting back its workforce in Dearborn, MI, due to declining sales of its Lightning EV, powered by dual “in-board” electric motors.

Unconstitutional Overreach

State-owned and state-run entities have a bad track record. The latest EV rules are just one more layer of regulatory “taking” of profits (and restrictions on capital allocation) implemented using dubious, if not blatantly unconstitutional, Biden edicts.

Biden used the Centers for Disease Control to impose a national moratorium on the eviction of renters, though he later recognized that any new order to extend it would be unconstitutional. The Supreme Court struck down his effort to mandate vaccines and testing for employees of large businesses. A federal district judge found that Biden’s race-based policies through the Minority Business Development Agency “flagrantly violated” the Equal Protection Clause. His student loan “forgiveness plan” was held to have abridged Congress’ legislative authority and was “an unconstitutional exercise of Congress’s legislative power and must be vacated.”

A US District Judge ruled that the $1.7 million Inflation Reduction Act was unconstitutionally enacted without the required congressional quorum; another ruled that Biden’s use of the Federal Highway Administration to set climate targets for vehicles “lacked a statutory basis and was invalid.” EPA rules impacting farmers, SEC rules burdening businesses with environmental reporting, and the allegedly illegal cancellation of Alaskan oil leases have all attracted similar criticisms. So much for supporting the rule of law.

Economics Matter

Times have changed under Biden. Social justice “theories” have eclipsed business management with fantasy policies of “universal equity” that threaten universal downfall. Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez burdened that once-prosperous nation with massive social spending “to finance educational, health, food, and housing programs,” which, along with economic mismanagement and corruption, sparked hyperinflation. Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe crippled a well-diversified economy with galloping inflation and bankruptcy through mismanaged state-owned enterprises and debt incurred for education and social services.

The president’s recent EPA rules for tailpipe emissions constitute yet more “preferential access to public procurement and government guidance of investment” through regulatory overreach. Dreams are nice, but somebody has to pay the bills. Rights are dandy, but someone has to take responsibility. The Biden administration chisels away at constitutional safeguards like Woody Woodpecker, imposing impossible dreams on businesses and taxpayers, leaving an economic, environmental, and constitutional disaster zone that America’s grandchildren will be repairing long after Biden has left office.

 

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Every few years, we hear about someone who is convinced they can travel by sea to the North Pole. Depending on which source you consult, that hasn’t happened for over five million years, but thanks to the media charlatans hawking the prognostications of quacks, some are convinced it can be done.

Take a Number and a Seat

There were arboreal forests in northern Greenland 5.3 million years ago, so it can happen, but you’ll have to swallow a big reality sandwich. No one was burning fossil fuels back then unless you could tree, and you’d need to wait another four million years until the best guessers postulate common use. This ‘suggests’ that anthropogenics has nothing to do with it, and it “might be” celestial mechanics.

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Similar expeditions include the privately funded search for the floating island of plastic debris in the ocean. It’s a big ocean, but neither Google Earth (which only exists thanks to DARPA and the CIA) nor well-meaning investors have been able to find it. Likewise, there isn’t much evidence of accelerated sea level rise, an increase in the frequency or severity of weather events, or that increased funding is capable of either finding some? More money can heighten awareness of the lies and, at some future date, claim that all the things it said that were happening (that were not) have been fixed. Just stop lying, and ta-da!

Global Fascism, led by the WEF, WHO, and UN, fixed it (and stop asking how that happened while India, China, and Africa exponentially expanded their coal-burning economies). Some coal is more equal than others – and I ranted about that to wonder about this.

Stranded Hikers Rescued

New Hampshire Fish and Game had to rescue a pair of hikers in the White Mountains. They call the Mountains that (not because of racism But) because well into the Spring, they are covered with stuff children were not supposed to have known or seen for going on two generations. Snow. It snows up there as late as June and as early as September.

I don’t recall any July snowstorms on Mt. Washington, but I suspect they’ve had a few, even in the fairy tale era of cataclysmic anthropogenic climate disruption.

“The hikers did not take into account winter conditions with below-freezing temperatures and rain,” the release said. “They also were not prepared to deal with deep snow.”

Conservation officers reminded visitors that winter conditions persist in the White Mountains, the release said.

They were from Canada, Eh? Nice folks, I’m certain, who may have been convinced that in mid-May, way down south in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, it has to be warm enough to hike without an adequate understanding of the risks.

The hikers, who were wet and tired, called for rescue after they couldn’t continue in the deep snow at 5:18 p.m. Thursday, May 9, New Hampshire Fish & Game said in a news release.

Three conservation officers met the hikers at 10:10 p.m. and guided them to a road, where they were driven down the mountain, the agency said.

About two dozen hikers get rescued in the Whites annually, and every now and again, someone dies on a mountain in New Hampshire, but Climate Change didn’t kill them. Being unprepared is typically the culprit. You need to do a bit of research. Actual research.

They have mountaintop forecasts, live webcams, and current and expected conditions. But just like the rest of New England, the weather can change quickly, and there’s nothing you can emit (or stop emitting) that will change that

Live MWO Web Cam: Observations Deck

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