Tuesday • May 14 • 2024
Vol.XVI • No.XX
Manchester, N.H.
This is a follow-up to multiple reports and discussions surrounding the Uvalde shooting on May 24, 2022. There is much public discussion in the United States about this incident and consternation.
The event has enflamed debates on gun laws and incited political divisions in the run-up to the midterms. Let’s consider several important aspects of this tragic event that should not be overlooked. Specifically, we should pay attention to the potential for black hand interference.
The timing geopolitically is crucial. Last weekend, the WEF began its annual meeting in Davos. One of the key takeaways from the meetings was Henry Kissinger’s comments on the war in Ukraine. The elder American statesman noted that the best resolution would be for Ukraine to cede territory to Russia and declare neutrality. This effectively would involve realizing the sovereignty of the people of the Donbas region and recognizing their right to self-determination, which has been publicly announced to be accession into the Russian Federation.
The syndicated global media’s narratives surrounding Ukraine have characterized it as a beleaguered, innocent country and encouraged fanatical support from audiences in the US and EU. Kyiv has been portrayed as an ally in need of help, bullied by a bellicose Moscow. This is not entirely the reality, as it ignores NATO’s role in sabotaging regional stability and development, as well as the weaponization of Ukraine against Russia. These media narratives have completely collapsed, and Kissinger’s comments risked completely exposing their fraudulence.
A new distraction was called for. Enter Salvador Ramos, a troubled young 18-year-old. Where did Ramos get USD$6000 to buy weapons and gear for this attack? Most likely he either stole it or earned it in gang-related activity involving smuggling humans and drugs over the US-Mexico border. His mother said that he had reasons for what he did. Those reasons are irrelevant in the context of the shooting.
Let’s take a minute to understand black hand interference. This is a term covering a range of techniques and tactics used maliciously to create a destructive and devastating event in such a way that the real instigator is able to avoid notice and attention. It is typically malicious in nature. A black hand operation typically takes several years or months to plan and involves feeding information to specific individuals, then outfitting them with equipment and reaction patterns so that when they are put into a specific situation, the outcome is destructive and usually deadly.
Reports indicate that a teacher at Robb Elementary had propped open the door on the side of the building closest to where Ramos had crashed his truck on arriving. That was a breach of school policy, but it is common for teachers to step outside briefly during the school day for a breath of fresh air. What is important to point out is the timing.
This is where orchestrated signals intelligence comes into play. The timing of these events indicates that there may have been black hand interference. First, why did the school’s security guard fail to identify the shooter heading toward the building? He did not hear the gunshots and did not engage the threat. There may have been communications interference involved that prevented him from reacting appropriately.
Secondly, why did the teacher who propped the door open leave the door open? Electronic warfare techniques can be effective in capturing and controlling an individual’s attention in order to achieve a specific objective. In this case, the teacher was distracted and pressured enough to fail to close the door. A simultaneous barrage of electronic signals combined with the sound of gunshots outside may have such an effect.
Finally, Ramos himself was somehow instigated into committing this act. What caused him to have these ideas? The set of actions and the planning necessary to conduct such an attack requires a certain degree of planning. It is not an off-the-cuff event. For an individual to do this, they must be fed information. Specifically, they must be fed ideas and encouraged to buy the necessary weapons and gear.
Uvalde’s mayor has made public comments that the town suffers upwards of 15 police chases a week due to illegal immigrants. Was Ramos involved in illegal human trafficking activity? Quite possibly. Was he targetted via the internet, fed specific information to pressure him into doing what he did? Extremely likely.
Who was the black hand? By the nature of such a conspiracy, it is difficult to be sure. It may not have been instigated by Americans. It could have been conducted by Russian, Chinese, Israeli, or British government/military units. Or it could have been another organization altogether.
How to defend against such an attack? We must be vigilant. Individuals must be very aware of what information they are consuming on a day-to-day basis, and what positions they are putting themselves in. We must be on guard when we are in our places of work and have precautionary safety measures practiced in the case of such violent attacks.
We must also be compassionate to our fellow citizens. It is the government’s duty to care for the people. The local, county and state governments must be able to account for citizens and help to support their well-being. There is no excuse for individuals who have written on the internet publicly that they want to commit violent crimes. That is a massive red flag. If there are algorithms in place to censor certain comments about COVID, there should be algorithms in place to identify potential violent criminals. These should directly flag authorities, who should act to contact the flagged individuals and help them, support them, provide care for them, and assist them to improve their lives.
Then again, it may have just been a perfectly natural occurrence. A product of American society in the 21st century.
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New Hampshire’s parental bill of rights, HB1431, didn’t have to fail. Yes, there were 15 Republicans who voted to kill it. There’s no excuse, but there are also those Republicans who were not excused and did not vote at all.
Twenty-Two Republicans in the NH House did not cast a vote on HB1431. Of those, thirteen were absent for legitimate reasons. The Speaker is listed as presiding (not voting), but seven other Republicans were present and refused to cast a vote.
The bill failed by seven votes.
In the event of a tie, the Speaker can then cast the tie-breaking vote which would have been to reconsider and pass the legislation. Given that leadership advanced the bill, passage would have likely been assured.
This does not absolve the fifteen republicans who voted no of any blame. They stabbed parents in the back. But this list of cowards deserves special attention. And yes, they could have voted no, and then they’d be on the previous list.
By refusing to support or oppose parents rights get their own list.
So here they are.
| Kelsey, Niki(R) Hills. 7 |
| Not Excused |
| Kilanski, Ben(R) Ches. 13 |
| Not Excused |
| McKinney, Betsy(R) Rock. 5 |
| Not Excused |
| Nelson, Jodi(R) Rock. 6 |
| Not Excused |
| O’Hara, Travis(R) Belk. 9 |
| Not Excused |
| Umberger, Karen(R) Carr. 2 |
| Not Excused |
| Vandecasteele, Susan(R) Rock. 8 |
| Not Excused |
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The Bidenistas have decided. If you refuse to allow boys into girls’ bathrooms or locker rooms, then no federal lunch money to feed poor kids. So, is this another one of those “choices” my body things, like – you will take the experimental pharmaceutical or else?
Maybe require them to put that in the lunch and almost literally kill two little birds with one Federal stone. We’re not there yet, and it sounds far-fetched, but then so does this.
Under this new demand, establishments that accept any federal food funding, including food stamps, must also allow males who claim to be female to access female private spaces, such as showers, bathrooms, and sleeping areas. Such organizations must also follow protocols such as requiring staff to use inaccurate pronouns to describe transgender people and allowing male staff to dress as women while on the job.
So, it’s not just schools. Will this include battered women’s shelters, prisons, homeless shelters, and halfway houses?
Religious institutions, however, qualify for a waiver exempting them from these requirements, said Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Greg Baylor in an interview Monday. According to the 1972 Title IX law, he said, religious institutions don’t have to file any paperwork to be exempt, although they can if they wish.
That’s unexpected, but will it survive?
The rule-making gets pounded out this summer. Who and how to punish. Regulatory oversight. Expansion of the bureaucratic state. Funding – you always need more funding.
All to allow the misogynistic racist offspring of so-called white supremacist bigots access to girls in vulnerable places. Women and children will be hit hardest. Predators will take advantage.
Two words. Bag lunch. Three more words. Fund it locally if it needs funding at all. I know, such harsh language. What government entity wants to give up “free money.” How dare you suggest it, but we suggest it all the time.
Federal funds, federal strings, it’s a big deal, and in New Hampshire, the Feds have us in a noose thanks to governors and legislatures past, present, and (no doubt) future.
Live Free or Die is a mirage. New Hampshire is little more than another gold-digging DC trophy wife, and our so-called “leaders” work diligently to keep it that way.
And now we must comply with 100% trans-parency, or someone might go hungry, not that they should. Feeding kids who can’t afford a school lunch should be a local matter, but I bet NH Gov. Chris Sununu will love it. He’s Mr. local control when it suits him. and this is as anti-local control as you can get. And Governor Groomer is all in on transgender bathrooms, so just like a Democrat, he’ll be giddy.
It’s exciting when someone else takes the heat off you for policies you support—no political price to pay. You can pretend there’s nothing you can do even when you can.
States have rights, but Sununu is unlikely to complain because he has increasingly become just another authoritarian…tick.
Let’s see if I’m right.
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This isn’t the quiet part yet, but sets the stage:
“Meg Tuttle, president of the NEA-NH, the state’s largest teacher’s union, said it is dangerous to let parents get between teachers and students when it comes to talking about sex.”
Got that?
Parents are dangerous, only teachers are kind and nurturing. ONLY teachers, with a Government mindset on sexual mores, should be the only ones to be talking to YOUR children about the physical and emotion intimacy of sexual relations. Thanks for letting us know that being a School Groomer is GREAT, Meg!
And that our children really aren’t ours. What’s your next step – having school boards build dorms to have them all the time (and adding more dues paying employees to “care” for them)?
“HB 1431 disregards these well-tended relationships, substituting them with rules that make our schools and classrooms less safe for every student, risk their mental and physical health and well-being, and undermine the state’s obligation to provide an adequate and inclusive education for all students. Today, for the sake of a radical political agenda, the committee put the lives of children at risk,” Tuttle said.
And the quiet part that recognizes what the aims of Teachers and Teacher Unions really is – and it isn’t being in the tradition role of teachers with the 3 R’s:
Tuttle has previously said teachers in the classroom should be activists, especially when it comes to teaching subjects like sexual identity.
Is this what we are paying them for? To be “activists”? Indoctrinators? And the kids “graduate” after 12 years being non-proficient in the subject areas that we expect them to be excellent in? Not able to read to grade level, can’t do multiplication in their heads and can’t solve a simple quadratic equation, have no idea of our real history (but that made up white guilt inducing 1619 “everyone white is a slaver under their skin”, they’re BOFFO, and have no idea of simple civics?
And you wonder why approval ratings are approaching that of CongressTwits and homeschooling and charter schools are starting to clean your clocks.
So when teachers screw up the kids, like that 12 year old girl in Clay County, Florida that tried to commit suicide after her school “counselor” convinced her that she was transgender TWICE before the school notified her Parents because of their Christian faith, are YOU TWO BOZOS going to take responsibility (especially financially?) for what you have done?
And now, TWO, for the price of one! NH State Senator David Watters is of the same ilk.
NH State Senaor David Watters Union Leader
Opponents of the bill, like Sen. David Watters, D-Dover, suggested that children should be able to explore their sexuality with a trusted teacher, without telling their parents.
Yet another Government Groomer. What is WRONG with you, Watters???? I have no idea but thanks for letting us know, as a “trusted” member of the Democrat Party, that Parents don’t matter. That they shouldn’t be in charge of their kids, that you believe they don’t care about their kids.
NO, NO, NO – teachers should NEVER be inserting themselves into the middle of the Parent-child relationship in this kind of aspect of Life. How DARE you intrude into this area without permission. Look at all the stuff that a school must obtain permission from parents in order to do, and you two believe that one of the most important parts of these kids future lives MUST be foisted upon them too early just to be “activists” and take that precious moment and training away from Parents??
No, you’re not teachers, you’re not “activists” – you are MONSTERS, you are Groomers – you’re sexual predators. And I have posted up enough example to easily say “I have receipts”.
No, because Democrats never say they’re sorry and they never take responsibility for their policies that cause harm.
They’ll just keep saying “Oh, this is the parents’ responsibility” and demand that the parents now take care of the mess that they just created.
Just like Governor Groomer Chris Sununu and his band of Establishment Republicans that decided to be Democrats for the day when they voted against HB1431 (Parental Bill of Rights).
You’re no better.
Anti-Parents, all of you.
(H/T: NHJ)
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The trial lawyer knows his client, Michael Sussmann, is guilty as sin.
The evidence is overwhelming Sussmann lied to the FBI, but the barrister has been very careful to not ask his client if he did it. If the client ever confessed to his trial lawyer; the lawyer would have to inform the court, and that just couldn’t be allowed to happen. The trial lawyer knows the system and there are still ways to get his guilty client off. He looked for technicalities, and errors on the prosecution side but there were none to be found. The trial lawyer is lucky President Obama appointed the judge assigned to the case, and the judge’s wife is associated with Hillary Clinton. He will be biased and true to form many pretrial motions that have already gone in the trial lawyer’s favor. The Washington DC jury pool heavily favors progressive Democrats. They voted for Hillary Clinton 95 to 5. The Barack Obama judge allows three probably biased individuals to be seated on the jury. Sussman’s lawyer knows he has life where there should be none. As the old lawyer saying goes; “if you have the facts on your side, pound the facts; if you have the law on your side, pound the law; if you have neither the facts nor the law on your side pound the table”. Sussman’s lawyer knows his client is guilty but has the most favorable jury possible, a sympathetic judge and he is going to pound as hard as he can. All it will take is one member of the biased Washington DC jury to turn its back on the evidence and Sussmann walks.
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The mood at the meeting of the Democratic power brokers was dreary.
They could not understand how things could have gone so wrong. How their progressive ideas had turned into a national catastrophe. Inflation was ravaging people’s savings, the stock market was crashing, and the southern border was a catastrophe with thousands of illegal immigrants along with human trafficking and American youth killing fentanyl crossing daily. Joe Biden’s cognitive dysfunction resulted in a hasty withdrawal from Afghanistan leaving Americans and American assets behind. Never before had America abandoned its own. Ukraine was on fire. George Floyd’s murder had allowed the progressives to solidify the black vote but the repercussions of the massive violent protests had been devastating. Inner cities were no longer safe and in progressive cities black on black crime/murders were epidemic. President Biden’s Chief of Staff Ron Klain had been quoted as saying “the boss sometimes gets things mixed up in his head”. Everyone knew the extent of the understatement and the reality Biden was in cognitive decline. VP Harris was a cackling embarrassment.
The midterms were looming and by all measures, the Democratic Party was going to be massacred.
Progressives had tried to blame all of America’s problems on President Putin and it didn’t work. Blaming greedy oil companies for increased gas prices also flopped. They had tried to promote the “wins” of naming a black Supreme Court Judge, a cabinet full of equity appointments, and even a black gay press secretary. The public didn’t notice. Biden’s 1.9 trillion-dollar COVID give-away relief bill and trillion-dollar infrastructure bill along with his war on fossil fuels had backfired and ignited inflation. Six months of expensive consultant-driven focus groups which lead to labeling conservative Americans MAGA supporters failed miserably. Turns out most Americans want a great country.
The American public was angry and appropriately not impressed. The progressives and the media Titians had lied to them, and their chance to show their displeasure was rapidly approaching.
There was only one thing to do.
The unscrupulous trial lawyers were loyal progressives and the techniques used in the ongoing Michael Sussman trial showed the way. Unlinked from the Justice System there was no limit to how low the progressive trial lawyer tactics would go. It was time to pound the table, and there were no rules on how hard to pound or who was to be pounded.
The progressive Democratic Party was clearly guilty of mismanaging America and with the midterm elections approaching the far-left loons and the radical elites were about to go on trial.
The jury was the American people and they could not be allowed to clearly see the truth. Emotion must be made to rule the day because informed people would never vote for a continuation of the Biden administration catastrophe. The election judge, in this case, was supposed to be an unbiased media; but the progressives owned the judge{media} and there would be very little honest objective discussion of the issues. Progressives needed something to force antirepublican emotion on the people.
The leak of the probable overturning of Roe versus Wade was just what the doctor ordered.
Activating the feminist brain conditioning from years ago could be decisive. Perhaps a few violent riots, bra burning and hopefully the reemergence of vagina hats would help. The biased media will fan the fire as they portrayed nasty white Republican men taking over the bodies of helpless women.
Putting the icing on the cake a mentally deranged white man killed black people in Buffalo.
It couldn’t be better for the progressives. It did not matter the killer was clearly psychologically unstable. It didn’t matter thousands of blacks were being killed in progressive cities by other blacks. All Republicans were racist white supremacists and conservative media’s replacement therapy was their mantra.
The progressive Democratic power brokers took heart.
The American voter had been fooled before and using these trial lawyer techniques, it could happen again. They had gotten Bernie Sanders out of the Presidential race and were able to get a cognitively impaired Joe Biden elected President. The General public had bought the media’s lies about Russian collusion and Hunter Biden’s laptop. The 50 intelligent agents who said the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation was the best scam ever. The Internet Judges, Google, Facebook and Twitter had suppressed not only the Hunter Biden story but systematically suppressed conservative speech. It would be hard, but it could be done again.
All across America progressive lawmakers are returning to their districts and States with nothing to offer.
They have no wins, but they really believe the American people are so foolish they can be blinded to what they’ve seen with their own eyes {CRT/groomers in their schools, empty store shelves, crippling energy/gas prices} and swayed by emotion. After all, the election court has been stacked with corrupt Judges {media/Tech Titans} determined to push their progressive agenda.
The progressive candidates will plead their case and be allowed to break every rule. Any small mistake from the Republican candidate will be blown out of proportion. Republicans will be called racists, misogynist, climate change deniers and much worse. Conservative social media accounts will be shut down and progressive vitriol will be all over Twitter and Facebook. Google will do its best to make sure conservative fundraising’s emails end up as spam.
And despite all the corruption and a biased election justice system;
Americans must overcome the progressive Kangaroo election court and pronounce sentence on the guilty progressives by doing one thing.
Voting!!!
2022 is here and 2024 is around the corner!!!
Both General Michael Flynn and Attorney Michael Sussman were accused of lying to the FBI.
General Flynn was set up by a corrupt FBI/DOJ, had his family threatened with imprisonment, a judge who was so bad he wanted a trial even though the DOJ withdrew its case, and Gen. Flynn had to be pardoned by the President to escape a politically contrived conviction. Several other Trump officials endured FBI Swat Team raids [one was conveniently filmed by CNN} and despite being no threat, themselves and their family were intimidated at gun point. Once again Presidential pardons were required to prevent political imprisonment.
Clinton operative Attorney Michael Sussman was treated with kid gloves, a sympathetic Obama Judge and given a defense lawyer dream jury. Even if convicted most likely the Obama Judge will go light on Sussman’s sentence. Sussman’s family is resting in the comfort of their home with no fear of a FBI Swat Team or imprisonment.
Readers are encouraged to come to their own conclusion which political party is best fit to run America.
Read more from James Betti on his Substack publication, Jamesabetti.substack.com
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Old story, but new to us and indicative of the culture with which we find ourselves wrestling. A tale from the people’s Republik of Wokeistan and one of its purveyors of the progressive pestilence, the public libraries.
Libraries.
There was a time not long ago when people predicted that brick and mortar libraries were vestigial structures not long for the modern age. But much like the paperless office or sea-level rise, the prognosticators got it wrong, though libraries have tried to commit suicide repeatedly in recent years.
They have become warehouses for all manner of perversion, from inappropriate books for kids, tweens, and teens to cross-dressing displays and drag-queen story hours that normalize sexualizing children.
Over in Britain, this phenomenon reached new levels of stupid last year.
Redbridge Libraries hired Mandinga Arts to provide entertainers for their Summer Reading Challenge event on July 10 when video footage from the day went viral.
One of the entertainers – who was described as, you guessed it, a “rainbow dildo butt monkey” on Twitter — was dressed, well, exactly how you’d expect a rainbow dildo butt monkey to look: A person in a multi-coloured monkey costume with nipples exposed along with a fake penis and butt cheeks hanging out.
The library apologized, which is surprising, but that did not manage to protect them from well-deserved scrutiny.
Writer Janice Turner tweeted, “I would really love a detailed breakdown of the commissioning process whereby Redbridge council commissioned the Rainbow Dildo Butt Monkey as a means to teach children to read.”
We all know that Rainbow D!ld* Butt Monkey’s role is not to teach children to read. It exposes them to an adult lifestyle choice wholly inappropriate for all “butt,” a few, and none of them children.
“Butt” the culture has poisoned its watering hole. People in the system who might want to prevent that mistake or question the relevance or appropriateness are so terrified of appearing intolerant that they let what should seem unlikely, if not impossible, proceed.
Like the library that approved the “entertainment.”
This new normal continues the slide down the not just rhetorical but very real slippery slope. Sexualizing children at an early age coincided with life-long mental and physical health issues long before the gender spectrum began to expose itself. It is why objects of this cult are more likely to attempt suicide and succeed even in communities deemed tolerant and welcoming.
You are messing with people’s mental wiring and, in some instances altering their bodies chemically and physically before they can consciously consider the ramifications. And that’s the crux of the debate. Very few people care what an adult does to themself these days (with a few exceptions). They are assumed to have thought it out and made a choice.
The problem is adults turning government schools into Gender-Transition Black sites with ideological waterboarding. And politicians and activists are pretending this isn’t harmful to kids. But it is dangerous. An agenda driver re-education camp that occasionally spills over into the general public’s view.
Mandinga Arts Group, the company hired by the library that provided the characters, also apologized on their website, stating that while the monkey was previously well-received at carnival events, “it was entirely unsuitable for a children’s event and should never have been used.”
That’s not the only thing that’s unsuitable, but that doesn’t stop the library or the culture from fostering environments that will inevitably result in four out of ten of these kids trying to end their lives before they are old enough to be called adults.
If that’s the role libraries want to play in the 21st century, perhaps it’s time to defund these institutions and let them wither away, and I don’t say that lightly. I love books and learning, but terrorists have hijacked that vehicle, and we should not negotiate with terrorists.
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It has been nearly four weeks since the Washington Post reported the leak from the Supreme Court, and we still are nowhere closer to the truth. That is four weeks of protests by groups favoring Roe v. Wade and the ongoing saga of our Supreme Court justices being in danger from overzealous radicals.
I am not sure which is worse and more volatile for the country. The decision on Roe v. Wade published by the Court, the name of the leaker, or the assignment of permanent protection for the Justices which is sure to set off more protesting.
Like everything in Washington, the search for the person or persons responsible for destroying over 200 years of credibility in our Judicial Branch has to be a monumental process. The job of heading up the investigation goes to Gail Curley, Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Court and head of the Court Police Force.
People who know Curley, 53, described the former Army colonel and military lawyer as possessing the right temperament for a highly charged leak investigation: smart, private, apolitical, and unlikely to be intimidated. The last trait is probably most important in the politically charged and divided Capitol. She must work quickly as this needs to be resolved before the Court releases the Opinion.
There is a very small pool of people in the Court from which the leaker needs to be extracted. There are roughly eighty people that would have had access to the leaked document. Those eighty include the Justices, clerks, and staff. With the security protocols, you would think the guilty individual would be easily uncovered. Not so. One strategy may be to use perjury as a tool to unmask the person who destroyed the credibility of the Supreme Court.
If the Marshal, at the Chief Justice’s direction, asks each person to sign a statement saying they did not leak the document and sign it under penalty of perjury, and it turns out someone lies, then they’re guilty of a [18 USC §] 1001 violation,” Smith told the DCNF, referring to a law against making false statements to certain government officials during investigations. “It’s a felony. The charges would be fairly significant.”
The expected Opinion will be released soon and will create its own firestorm of protests across the country. It would be best if the leak situation were resolved and allowed to work its way through the news cycle. The Opinion does not need any more fuel thrown on its fire.
The other element is that nobody in Washington ever gets held to accountability. Some situations may border on or cross the line into criminality. People will be investigated. There will be hearings in both houses. Time will pass, and so will the story until it is forgotten.
Lois Lerner is a perfect example. She was integral in the IRS targeting certain political groups. Everyone knew Lerner was guilty, yet she was allowed to retire with her pension. She helped crush legitimate political action groups because they did not align with the Democrat dogma, and she is enjoying a nice retirement on our dime.
We do not need a dead-end investigation or another Lois Lerner. We need someone to do time for violation against us, the people. Let’s find and put away the leaker for a long time.
Ray Writes for GraniteGrok.com and the Liberty Loft
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I grew up in a city neighborhood where when gunshots were heard it was never a good thing. My parents were both relative pacifists and we were poor so the thought of owning a gun was antithetical to how we lived. Toy guns, on the other hand, we had plenty of those. Like most kids, we fashioned our hands into one for a quick game of cowboys and Indians, back when that was still socially acceptable. Even my Native American friends Lloyd, Jason, and Bryan didn’t mind playing and didn’t mind being a cowboy when it was time to change roles. Kids back then weren’t easily offended and when you live in the same neighborhood with the same relative conditions the idea of social justice was a nonstarter.
I moved to New England in 2007. I was in my early thirties and still unarmed. However, once I arrived, I heard more gunshots out here than I had ever heard in the city. I learned gunshots out here meant someone was either practicing or putting food on the table. Now a full-grown man, and father to a son, I felt it my obligation to purchase a firearm and learn the ins and outs in case my son becomes, like so many of the local boys who go hunting with their dads and carry on the family tradition.
I purchased a Ruger 10-22, which I was told was the right small-caliber rifle with which to start. One of my friends had a spot up in Thetford, Vermont where we could practice. The slightly louder than a firecracker report from the barrel was intimidating enough to someone like me who had never held or shot any type of gun other than a summer when paintball guns first came out. The skill necessary to hit the target excited the competitive athlete in me, and the etiquette necessary to keep everyone safe also struck a chord. Unlike chasing each other around on foot as we played, or on horseback like they did in the movies, the seriousness with which gun owners conducted themselves commanded my respect. Gun ownership was not a game, nor was it about killing your enemy. Guns are tools, just like a lawnmower, and like a lawnmower, if you don’t handle them with respect, you can do some serious damage.
Something changed in my perspective after that day. I felt an obligation to learn more about guns, the history of their use, their many uses, and our right and responsibilities as Americans to own them for the good of our homes and communities. I re-read the Second Amendment and realized it was speaking to me, although I wouldn’t have known a well-regulated militia had I been invited nor was I looking to join one. At the time, I had total confidence in both my government and our military to defend me, my family, and our country.
Around the time ISIS started terrorizing western countries and videos of them beheading people who looked like me or people I knew is when I realized gun ownership for personal protection wasn’t just for police or ex-military types. Though Vermont seemed like a far stretch for a terrorist attack the number of attacks and school shootings was on the rise. Like with cars, you don’t notice them until you own one – I didn’t notice the amount of gun violence against ordinary citizens until I understood I may be in that situation someday, but owning and knowing how to use a gun could mean I don’t suffer at the hands of evil men like the poor souls I was seeing on my screens.
Around the time I moved to New England was also when I became a Christian. Despite my belief that Christians were the perpetual other-cheek-turning pacifists who laid down their lives; I met many men, and women, who taught me otherwise. Confirmation bias happens when you read the Bible, too, apparently, and these folks were nice enough to help me understand the same God who teaches us love and peace also instructs us to do battle and protect. The book of Ecclesiastes explicitly states “there is a time for peace and a time for war”, not just as a matter of course, but at times when one needs to engage in self-defense against those whose intentions are evil. If you read all the way to the end even loving Jesus meek and mild returns not to pass out hugs but to exact revenge on a world given over to evil. Sure, He’s going to use a sword, but He’s Almighty and I’m not. I am certainly not mighty enough to take on a bad guy with a gun, so it was time to reconsider yet again.
As for my boys, I never found the time to get my hunter safety license but I was lucky enough to meet one of the best hunters in the area. The entryway to Kevin’s house has more animal body parts mounted on his wall than museums have paintings. If he likes you he’ll show you the issue of Hunter magazine he made the cover of for a prized turkey. Kevin grew up in the hills of Vermont hunting and trapping as a young boy. His sharp sense of humor and ebullient personality gave me confidence my boys would be in good hands. They were and they were lucky. My nephew, for whom we were legal guardians, got his first deer on a youth weekend thanks to Kevin and the story is better if you hear him tell it. Like Kevin, it’s a one-of-a-kind tale.
A series of armed robberies and some shootings in my hometown of Hartford, one of which was close enough to my house I could hit a golf ball into their front yard, and my obligation to protect my family was staring me in the face. I bought a Walther .380 MP circa 1950s Germany, almost as much for nostalgia as anything. This wasn’t like so many other person to person purchases where you show up and exchange money for goods. The person who sold it to me was ex-military and took the time to explain its history, how to break it down and clean it, store it, where to buy ammo, practice range options, and even threw in a couple of boxes of ammunition all after taking me out to shoot it and make sure it was comfortable. I found out along the way, oddly, that he’s an atheist, yet his love for America, its Constitution, and its values embodied the spirit with which it was founded. The notion of freedom and the need to protect it transcends so many of our differences, and even enshrines them.
Gun and ammunition sales in the United States have exploded since Barrack Obama became president. The politics of firearms in the U.S. has too. As I’ve realized my duty to bear arms is tied to my duty to keep an eye on my government I’ve begun to notice the same people who clamor for gun control are surrounded by them and in control of billions of dollars in weaponry. I was in Oregon when the now-famous Kip Kinkel shooting started us down this now bloody road of school shooters. Other than guns, what they all have in common are mental health issues and government-regulated pharmaceuticals. Most of them are young men and many of them either have no father or were estranged from theirs.
Having also been abandoned by my father, I know all too well what that does to a young man having watched my brother end up in prison. I should have; I just never got caught. Some horrible life decisions later and a few evangelical Christians found me face to face with a different Father. One who would stay and who would never be unavailable, who’s Will I could know at all times if I bothered to get to know Him. This renewed in me the desire to not only be the father I never had but to also reassure young men without fathers to not give up hope. There is a better Father who will fill in the holes left by the ones who either didn’t know how or didn’t bother. This also was why I was dedicated to not only raising my son but felt the need, like the two avuncular men mentioned, to show them what it means to be a man in America. Taken seriously, it is an awesome privilege and it offers a role coveted by people worldwide.
These school shootings are becoming more and more common, and sadly our abhorrence at the thought is becoming numb. What once caused us to recoil in horror now has become a predictable script:
This outrage is from the same crowd who has no problem killing innocent babies even after they’re born. The same crowd who encourages mental illness and the desecration of both biological and spiritual norms then ignores the tragic consequences that abusing women and killing children. Who one week sends billions of our hard-earned tax dollars to buy guns for a corrupt Ukrainian regime to defend themselves while bleeding our earnings dry at the pump and telling us we can no longer afford to have guns.
Am I to believe this same government, who claims it can listen to every phone call, track every disease, note every purchase, and has the most vast and well-funded intelligence community in the world, can’t prevent these shootings even when they have foreknowledge of the shooters, is going to defend me? A government that couldn’t keep the most high-profile prisoner in the country from killing himself? A government that has made gun-free zones like Chicago and schools turn into mass shooting zones?
Luckily I learned that guns prevent over a million violent crimes each year, and school shootings, however tragic and horrifying, still number in the very few. The outrage doesn’t match the data.
I thank fellow gun-owning, freedom-loving Americans like Steven Crowder for doing the research I don’t have time to do. However, I strongly recommend you listen as the real story, surprise, is not what you’ll hear on your propaganda devices.
It used to be I thought I would need guns to defend myself from ISIS. Now I keep them to defend myself from my government, which is exactly the reason for the Second Amendment.
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Between 2016 -2021 WMUR has published more than 150 articles about drought in New Hampshire. The headlines cry out for relief or predict doom. But yesterday, that same WMUR posted a tweet with this headline.
Flooding is an ongoing worry in New Hampshire and there are concerns that climate change will exacerbate it. In recent times, Concord experienced some of the wettest years on record. Learn more on why flood risk is expected to grow in the Granite State: https://t.co/eeHn2aMCO3 pic.twitter.com/5CWbkJe6XZ
— WMUR TV (@WMUR9) May 26, 2022
So, 2005 to 2010 are “recent years?”
It’s 2022. Why is DoubleYouEmYouAre fearmongering precipitation when they’ve published scores of articles on drought over the past few years?
Is it because they’ve published more articles warning about flooding?
WMUR posts an average of 40 articles a year with the word flooding in them. Drought gets about 25-30. So the answer is what?
It’s whatever gets eyeballs.
If we look at the tweet, they suggest that these decades-old precipitation numbers mean something today, and if you click the link, you get to this report. “Flood risk expected to grow in New Hampshire as temperatures rise.”
But the lead is rainfall numbers from 13 years ago. To borrow from Hilarity Clinton, at this point, what difference does it make? It’s a fair question.
Here are the total rainfall rankings according to NOAA from 2011 to 2021.
| Year | Rank |
| 2011 | 124 |
| 2012 | 77 |
| 2013 | 80 |
| 2014 | 102 |
| 2015 | 69 |
| 2016 | 27 |
| 2017 | 99 |
| 2018 | 117 |
| 2019 | 108 |
| 2020 | 48 |
| 2021 | 82 |
Not scary at all.
And I was unable to duplicate WMUR’s wettest years’ numbers, but two things become apparent when looking at NOAA’s graphed data. First, most of New Hampshire’s “wettest years” were between 2005 and 2011.
And second, it’s been less wet since 2011. So much so that WMUR regularly writes stories about drought, water restrictions, and so on.
Regular readers will know that we follow the Climate Cult’s Rube Goldbergian narratives on droughts and precipitation with a keen eye and have frequently deconstructed their nonsense, and here we are at it again.
Let’s isolate precipitation from 2005-to 2021.
And the headline was what, again? “Flood risk expected to grow in New Hampshire as temperatures rise.”
Do rising temperatures mean more wetness? In meteorological theory, sure, but not based on real-world evidence.
Average temp trends since 2005 are up slightly. The trend is warmer. But that did not result in more precipitation. We have less.
So what’s up with that? Looking back across 120 years, NH has gotten wetter as the solar maximum peaked at the beginning of this century. Warmer was wetter, and we are still slightly warmer than in 2005 to 2011, but we are not wetter.
There’s no there, there.
But that doesn’t matter. WMUR is using one of the Climate Cult’s favorite weapons. No, not the soft cushions, extreme weather, and more modernity. More people. They say this, but the difference between 2005 and 2021 is about 6000 humans. Tht’s about one person per 1.6 square miles.
But more homes and roads mean more hard surfaces, which equal rain runoff and more potential flooding, and oh, the weather’s been more extreme. That too!
Has it, or are they just saying that? I’d go with the latter.
And WMUR’s report is not absent facts, but it is misleading. And yes, it’s ABC, so that’s baked in, but they should have to include a disclaimer. We’ve arranged these details to create a perception that, based on past reporting, is probably not likely or even accurate.
While we’re at it, the Union Leader could use one too. Their tagline is “There is nothing so powerful as the Truth,” but anybody who reads it knows, “There’s nothing so powerful as deciding what truth to report.”
That’s what WMUR did, and the UL does it all the time. They all do. We do it, but we’re honest about that. A handful of unpaid opinion bloggers who, as it turns out, find themselves calling out the corporate media for their half-truths, deceptions, and outright omissions.
Someone has to do it.
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I am sure you would have difficulty finding anyone not touched by the senseless shooting inside the classroom of the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. Whether you have children, grandchildren, or are just a feeling human being, you probably had difficulty sleeping on Tuesday night.
I was choked to tears often as I watched seasoned reporters do the same as they tried to tell what little was known about the tragedy. Many of these folks have been down this road before, and I think it gets more difficult with each occurrence. There have been far too many.
There are always more questions than answers whenever there is a mass shooting, especially when the animal who perpetrated the evil act is killed. Except for the unanswered questions, I think the evil monster should never draw a breath of air again. I do not want to hear the feeble excuses or listen to years of testimony and court proceedings as defense attorneys try in vain to get their clients exonerated. There are no valid excuses, and the person deserves to burn in hell.
There have been events like the Uvalde shooting that have been extraordinarily difficult to understand. Sandy Hook, Columbine, and Parkland are three that always come to mind. But Uvalde is the 27th school shooting in just the last five months. That fact boggles the mind, but the ages of the children stolen from us this week make this shooting even more devastating to accept. Nineteen innocent souls and two teachers in the prime of their lives were snuffed out by an 18-year-old deranged individual named Salvatore Ramos.
I do not want to remember his name, and the images of the 21 dead souls will haunt us for a long time. It was excruciating for the parents who had to pray through the night, not knowing the fate of their missing sons or daughters. They had a sickening feeling of what news awaited them in the morning, but they still prayed for intervention. It did not come, and the death toll rose.
Like everything else in today’s world, this calamity took no time to become political and divisive. Depending on which channel you watched, the question still arose. Was it the gun or the shooter who was the villain this day? The President, and most Democrats, immediately called for stricter gun controls and the elimination of “assault” rifles. The term assault is in quotation marks because there is no such gun as an assault weapon. Every gun can be deadly, and each can be used in an assault. But the phrase is key to their argument. It makes it sound more ominous.
The Right calls for more attention to mental health evaluation and treatment and the focus on Red Flags that all of these evil people put up before their crimes. Neither side will concede to the other, so the chasm of divisiveness widens.
This is such a bogus argument, for the gun is an inanimate piece of metal incapable of carrying out a heinous killing on its own. The blame falls on the person holding the weapon when the bullets are turned into projectiles of death by a finger on the trigger. The type of gun does not matter, but the person who procures and uses the weapon does.
We always seem to piece together the puzzle after the fact. We need to invest in ways to uncover these harrowing scenes before they become news. To never hear of a shooting that almost happened would be sad but far less so than the shooting itself. To those of you who still want to point to the weapon, you are wasting time and energy. If you’re going to bridge the divisiveness, band together to make this country more mentally healthy and use the tools we have to hunt down evil before it becomes the only story on 24/7 news stations.
Don’t point to me as a charlatan pro-life member of the NRA and a Republican whose party has done nothing to solve the problem. I believe in the sanctity of all life from conception to death. I side with the NRA for wise gun laws that protect our Second Amendment but keep the guns away from evil animals and people who want to harm others. And I am a proud member of the Republican Party who supports police, ICE, Border Patrol officers, and the rule of law. I believe in harsh penalties for people who commit crimes and incarceration if necessary to keep evil away from good. I believe that our safety is the number one role of government and that until we find a way to get God and country back into our culture, we will be a damaged society lamenting events like Tuesday’s.
Ray Writes for GraniteGrok.com and the Liberty Loft
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I wrote back on the 18th that while the Left, Never-Trumpers, and the Media are all casting shade on Trump and his role in the Republican Party primaries, he’s actually been very good at endorsing candidates. The problem is that these latter political dumpster divers are all trying to focus on what he hasn’t gotten right and trumpeting those failures, they’ve remained silent on what he’s getting right:
I wish I had this kind of track record. Reformatted, emphasis mine:
EXCLUSIVE: President Trump’s Endorsements Matter – Last Night 23-2-1 (TBD-Oz) – Overall 81 Wins, 3 Losses, 1 TBD (Oz)
President Trump’s endorsements are golden. After last night, President Trump’s results to date are 81-3-1 (Oz).
The Dr. Mehmet Oz race is still not decided. Personally, I hope he loses, given his previous political stances. But with most of the Republican primaries over, what’s his record now? From the Epoch Times (reformatted, emphasis mine):
‘A Very Big and Successful Evening’: Trump Welcomes 100-6 Endorsement Record”
Former President Donald Trump applauded for a 100-6 primary endorsement record in the run-up to the 2022 midterms, following a mixed result—including a series of setbacks—in Georgia on May 24.
“Overall for the ‘Cycle,’ 100 Wins, 6 Losses (some of which were not possible to win), and 2 runoffs,” Trump wrote on May 25 on Truth Social.
It came after Pence-Backed Republican Gov. Brian Kemp, Secretary of State Brian Raffensperger, and Attorney General Chris Carr defeated Trump-endorsed opponents in Georgia by huge margins, surpassing the 50 percent support needed to avoid runoffs. The three GOP officials have drawn criticism from Trump for allegedly not doing enough to investigate allegations of illegal voting after the 2020 election.
Such setbacks have so far appeared to be largely confined to Georgia.
…The six who lost their races so far are: Nebraska gubernatorial candidate Charles Herbster, Idaho gubernatorial candidate Janice McGeachin, Georgia gubernatorial candidate David Perdue, Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.), Georgia Secretary of State candidate Rep. Jody Hice (R-Ga.), and Georgia attorney general candidate John Gordon.
No one is perfect, not even Trump. But you have to admit – that’s REALLY an impressive record. I have to admit that I don’t know that has come even close to that winning percentage.
It shows a combo of picking the right people in the right races as well as his pull/gravitas with the Republican base. And he has only gotten better at it:
According to Ballotpedia, in 2020, 141 of the 183 candidates that Trump endorsed triumphed in their races.
If you only look at this small snapshot, he’s more of a Power Player than after elections 2 years ago.
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Michael Moore is calling for the repeal of the Second Amendment:
“Who will say on this network or any other network in the next few days, ‘It’s time to repeal the Second Amendment’?” Michael Moore asked MSNBC host Chris Hayes today.
Whatever else you may think about Mr. Moore, at least he recognizes that in order to pass even ‘common sense’ measures that involve punishing gun owners who haven’t done anything wrong, changing the Second Amendment is a necessary first step.
And an effort to repeal it would give people in every state an opportunity to re-introduce the most essential, and most ignored, idea about guns back into the conversation: That the right to keep and bear arms is about being able to fight your own government.
In fact, if conservatives are looking for a way to stop the introduction of new bills, all they would have to say is:
We will start considering these bills when the Second Amendment has been changed to keep the bills from conflicting with the plain language of our constitution. So get to work on that, and get back to us when you’re done.
In other words:
We may be open to limiting the right to keep and bear arms, if that can be done in a way that preserves its purpose and its benefits. What we are not open to is pretending that the Constitution doesn’t say what it so clearly does say.
If there are limits that should be placed on the right to keep and bear arms — and limits that should not be placed on it — let’s take the time and care necessary to figure out exactly what they are, so we can limit ourselves to enacting statutes that are consistent with the Constitution.
And as we do that, let’s keep in mind that while amending a constitution is generally a lot more trouble than just pushing a bill through a legislature (or extracting an opinion from a court) with a bare majority vote, it’s meant to be more trouble, so that short-sighted, momentary passion can be restrained by measured, thoughtful, forward-looking consideration; and so that we will, when feelings are in danger of overwhelming reason, be firmly reminded that governments are formed in order to protect rights, and that constitutions are written precisely to place out of the reach of government those ‘solutions’ that would undermine that purpose.
So let’s get that conversation going, shall we?
Or in still other words:
We all want the same ends, but only one side of this debate seems to recognize one of the earliest lessons that we teach to even our youngest children: The ends do not justify the means.
What Republicans are willing to say that?
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So Government has decided, in the form of School Boards, Teachers Unions, and Democrats, that it has the Power to stand between Parents and their children. That Parents count less than both Government and their own Children. Isn’t this a form of “Taking”?
Oh Wait! Republican have sided with them! Whose Party Platform states:
And they violated those planks. And acted repugnantly against the NH Constitution:
[Art.] 2-b. [Right of Privacy.] An individual’s right to live free from governmental intrusion in private or personal information is natural, essential, and inherent.
So here are the Republican Groomers in league with the Democrats who just put Government over Parents, that thought its a great idea for Government to stay between Parents and their children instead of righting the wrongs that Government has been doing in keeping secrets from parents:
Chief amongst them is the Speaker Pro Tem, Kimberly Rice (R) of Hillsboro 37 (Hudson, Pelham) who should have known better and voted better. But she failed to protect Parents against an intrusive and overreaching Government. You go, girl! Really – just go!
But now I have hijacked YOUR thread. Berate me for doing so, berate them for being Democrat-Lite. Your call!
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Gov. Chris Sununu obliterated his own credibility today by going against his word that he would support further emergency powers reform as an extension of the 2021 budget deal with Freedom Caucus lawmakers.
“The one rule in politics is that your word is your bond,” said Andrew J. Manuse, chairman of RebuildNH. “Gov. Sununu has proven himself a dishonorable man who is willing to lie to get his way.”
In June of 2021, Gov. Sununu struck a deal with House Leadership to secure the votes of N.H. House Freedom Caucus members for the budget in exchange for his support of additional emergency powers reforms [view PDF from Gov. Sununu to Majority Leader Jason Osborne].
This year, the House and Senate quickly passed these agreed-to reforms in HB 275, which would have codified that our state government is a Constitutional Republic by default and that both the House and Senate would need to vote to continue a State of Emergency or it should automatically end. The governor, going back on his verbal and written word, vetoed this bill today, despite the fact that it passes Constitutional muster and was the exact language discussed with him last year.
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“Chris Sununu has proven he is a deceitful man drunk on power and his own ego,” said Rep. Melissa Blasek (R-Merrimack), executive director of RebuildNH. “This is the pattern of a scoundrel consistent with his lust for power that he exhibited during the State of Emergency when he unconstitutionally controlled the lives of everyone in this state.”
With mask mandates resuming in other states and the governor’s recent veto of HB 1131, which would have prohibited masks in public schools, as well as swirling soundbites about monkeypox, Granite Staters ought to pray the governor will not declare another life-altering, job-killing, State of Emergency with limited Legislative oversight.
Despite recent losses due to the governor’s veto pen, liberty activists are more determined than ever to roll back tyrannical tendencies within the Executive Branch.
“Gov. Sununu has shown that he can’t even be a team player with those in his own party,” said JR Hoell, treasurer of RebuildNH. “Short of replacing the governor, we encourage activists to make the governor irrelevant by electing a supermajority of liberty-minded lawmakers.”
We strongly encourage everyone who values our natural and constitutional rights to sign up to run for state representative, state senator, executive council or governor positions when the filing period opens on June 1.
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The so-called Parental Bill of Rights (HB 1431) just went down to a narrow defeat (171-176) in the House, after passing the Senate (14-10).
RebuildNH’s recommendation? Run for office. Get politically active. Try again next session. Keep trying to put one over on the other side, while they keep trying to put one over on you. Keep treating the public school system as a political football, in a game where three different bodies (the legislature, the executive, and the judiciary) are constantly moving the goalposts in unpredictable ways.
Yeah, that approach has worked really well so far, hasn’t it? Why do liberals seem to be so much better at this game than conservatives? Consider that, like Calvinball, the game itself operates largely without principles, which means that people who believe in principles aren’t likely to be the ones who win it.
Trying to get your child an education by reforming the whole public school system is like trying to cover the world in leather to avoid stepping on stones. It’s simpler to wear shoes.
If you’re fighting for your own children, there is a much simpler way to win this fight, and the next one, and all the ones after that: Get your kids out of public schools.
There’s nothing you can do to stop the inevitable implosion of the public school system. The most you can do is slow it down — cut some spending here (even as it grows overall), block a radical program there (even as new ones are springing up). But while you’re working on that, your kids aren’t being educated, they’re being indoctrinated.
Every year, there are new and better options for working families who realize that for their own children, public schools are less likely to provide an opportunity than they are to impose an opportunity cost. Get to know some homeschooling parents in your area, and find out what you’re missing. You’ll be astonished.
Your kid’s mind is a terrible thing to waste.
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Let’s face it, your kids need to be safe when they go to school. I don’t know what all of the answers are, but I’m seeing that a lot of elite private schools have a strong security presence in their schools. I can’t even walk into the federal court without running into security guards, and having my purse examined. Why are we not protecting children?
As much as I actually hate this idea, until we get to the root of these school shootings, for now, kids in public schools need to be protected.
Whether it be poor parenting, a society that no longer knows right from wrong, medication, violent video games, or the poor quality of discipline in the public schools, kids need to be protected.
I wish there would be a national debate on what is driving people to commit such heinous crimes. Maybe it’s the media coverage? It’s hard to say, but it does make the murderer famous. Whatever the reason, and maybe there are several factors that contribute to all of this, school administrators are responsible for the safety of the children in their care. If they can find $150,000.00 to pay a DEIJ director to chit-chat with children about race and gender, they can certainly find funding for a security officer who is willing to protect these children.
Yes, you read that right, $150,000.00+ benefits for the DEIJ Director in SAU16. I think an ex-military officer or police officer who probably makes half of that, would be willing to take the job and appreciate that kind of pay.
Take a look at this:
CONFIRMED FACTS from Texas Rangers in a live news conference just aired: – The school was unlocked. – There was no armed officer inside the school. – Officers did not enter the building until an hour after the shooter entered the building. Every school in the nation needs to follow Florida’s example! – Armed deputies and/or private security on EVERY campus. – Armed teachers and staff – Locked buildings – Single point of entry – Hardened buildings and fenced-off properties. Had the doors been locked and an armed officer was in the building, this could have ended differently! I also suggest that Texas Rangers go to PIO school. Their press conference was embarrassing for them.The post FIRE the “Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice” Director and HIRE a Security Guard at Schools appeared first on Granite Grok.
When he first ran for office in 2016, NH Governor Chris Sununu promised in a letter to pro-life voters that he would sign a bill to repeal the buffer zone law, and yet he recently said that he is planning to veto HB1625, the Sidewalk Free Speech Act which would repeal the buffer zone law.
He hasn’t given an explanation on why he is reneging on his promise or even acknowledged that he made that promise.
Last week he vetoed HB1131, a bill that would have banned schools from imposing mask mandates on students. In his veto message, he claimed he vetoed it because he is concerned about government overreach. The buffer zone law is a huge government overreach because it allows private businesses to take control of public sidewalks and unconstitutionally restricts freedom of speech and assembly.
Related: NH Governor Chris Sununu Threatens Freedom of Speech Then Claims to Be Against Overreaching Government
Sununu also said he would veto HB1431, the Parental Rights Bill if it got to his desk because he is concerned that it could put a school at risk of a lawsuit. The buffer zone law is a huge risk for a lawsuit because it is unconstitutional and yet as long as it is the law the State has to defend it.
The State of NH has already had to defend the buffer zone law against a legal challenge in Reddy v. Foster. That case ended when a judge ruled that the plaintiffs had no standing because no buffer zones have ever been posted.
Any NH abortion facility can legally post a buffer zone without permission from anyone and that would immediately put the State on the hook again to defend the buffer zone law and the State would lose because the law is unconstitutional.
In 2014, Massachusetts had to pay out $1.2 million dollars to the plaintiffs’ attorneys in McCullen v. Coakley on top of the state’s own legal fees after they lost the case against their buffer zone law.
If Sununu is worried about government overreach and liability then his #1 concern should be signing HB1625.
If he vetoes HB1625 then his opposition to HB1131 and HB1431 are hypocritical and his concerns about government overreach and liability should not be taken seriously. He is gaslighting us when he pretends that there is any consistency in his stance on these bills.
Call Governor Sununu at 603-271-2121 and ask him to keep his promise to repeal the buffer zone law and sign HB1625, the Sidewalk Free Speech Act.
Learn more about the buffer zone law at Top 10 Reasons Why the NH Buffer Zone Law Must Be Repealed.
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How about this for a publicity stunt with a mission. Intimina, a feminine care brand, is offering you a box of cereal. It consists of crunchy red bits shaped like the female reproductive system. Why? They want to normalize conversations about menstrual bleeding.
Start your day with a spoonful of uteruses and some chit-chat about the discharge of mucosal tissue and accompanying blood.
Are we descending into a crazy realm? Surely this is not normal behavior…https://t.co/9KGzNyokIG
— Obianuju Ekeocha (@obianuju) May 25, 2022
Yum!
When can we expect the aborted fetus cereal because that’s a conversation people want or need to have?
The raspberry-flavored ‘Period Crunch’ was born because the Swedish company claims that talking about menstruation is not “truly normalized.” Arguing that “’periods are normal and talking about periods should be normal.” …
Dr. Shree Datta, a gynecologist at King’s College Hospital, sided with the company and it’s [sp] efforts, saying: ‘I’m delighted Intimina has taken the bull by the horns and developed Period Crunch to help raise awareness of the ongoing social stigma around periods.”
She continued: “Periods are a natural part of who we are, so it’s deeply concerning to hear that so many people remain uncomfortable discussing them, when they are just another part of our health.”
How about Hemorrhoids? Wait, the polyps they collect when you get a colonoscopy! Why not a box of cereal called buboes. They could rename corn pops or Captain Crunch Oops! Just Berries, and market it as a way to explore conversations about lymphogranuloma venereum, plague, syphilis, gonorrhea, chancroid, tuberculosis, or maybe even Monkeypox.
These are all just parts of our health. Who doesn’t want to talk about normalizing conversations at breakfast—no reason not to broach any number of subjects, including genital mutilation or chemical castration of children? How about anal bleeding! Who is not embarrassed by that!
The company is Swiss (by the way), and this is supposed to be an awareness campaign – see also a PR stunt – to garner attention to the brand. Being outrageous is an excellent way to attract interest, but it also invites conversations about just how far people will go in that pursuit.
Down in Texas, a lunatic decided to shoot up a grade school to get attention. It worked. It also brought forward a wide range of issues that have only gotten worse since the Broward County Parkland shooting. After which, by the way, a commission recommended arming teachers and staff.
The cops didn’t charge in to rescue kids from the shooter (just like in Parkland). Parents were denied the chance to do it for them (one apparently did get in and got her kids out). They had to wait an hour for backup law enforcement. And all (probably) because of people who would applaud ‘Period Crunch’ cereal as a conversation starter while shutting down conversations about the systemic failure of “government” to protect the citizens it would disarm, not that it ever had the obligation or ever will.
You are your only first line of defense in any situation.
It’s all connected to the culture and who destroyed it, Democrats. Grab a bowl or some hot java, and let’s have a conversation about that.
And kudos to the UK Daily Mail on their lead for this story Make womb for breakfast. That’s just awesome.
Edited after publication.
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So, have all of their plaudits for Biden turned out to be true? Or just virtue-signaling from NeverTrumpers who hated “mean tweets” even though the vast majority of his policies and legislation (again, no one’s perfect and he certainly was closer to lousy than good when it came to staffing).
And look at the list – either they were Establishment Republicans (“A Republican’s Republican for the sake of the Republican Party or they’ve lost their minds in hatred that a brash outsider, uncontrollable by them, took their brass ring away from them as if they were toddlers.
Which, I add in retrospect, they now sound like. I have a mix of NH and national “Luminaries” that decided that Trump had to be stopped by any means possible. And they, to be perfectly honest, were successful. However, it’s clear that they put themselves and their FEELINGS first; are they now willing, given what the Biden Administration has done, to do a big Mea Culpa and start apologizing to the rest of us who KNEW that Biden was (and is) barely a sock puppet?
So, of course with every election, we have Republicans (I’m not even sure that “In Name Only” goes far enough??) that decide that any Democrat that turns their Feelz on or allows them to rant against those Republican that, you know, have a decent level of fidelity to Conservative Principles / Party Platform. Because if you are willing to vote for someone IN THE OTHER PARTY that holds stances antithetical to them, you’re either lazy in doing your political homework, really have no Principles at all, or just plain stupid.
Or can’t play 3D Chess to save their life – or ours. From a bunch of places, I want to remind you of your distaff family, friends, or other Republicans that lost their minds and souls over “ANYBODY BUT TRUMP” and turned to Biden who has turned out to be a lead pipe of a life ring as I can’t fathom ANYTHING that he’s done right.
From WMUR: NH Primary Source: Biden campaign rolls out group of NH Republicans backing former VP for president
— Woullard Lett, former president of the Manchester NAACP, who backed Democrat Dan Feltes for governor in April;
— Former Reagan Administration official Claira Monier, who was co-chair of former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld’s presidential campaign in New Hampshire;
— Former Executive Councilor Peter Spaulding, who in 2000 and 2010 chaired the New Hampshire presidential effort for the late Sen. John McCain;
— Former Executive Councilor Bill Cahill, who is now an undeclared voter;
— Businesswoman and community activist Pamela Diamantis; and
— Community activist Ken Moulton.
— former Sen. Gordon Humphrey…known nationally as a leader of the “Never-Trump” movement.
“I served with Joe Biden for 12 years in the United States Senate. I know him and trust him. No one comes close to his experience or his ability to achieve bipartisan consensus,” Humphrey said.
At this point, the only bipartisanship I see is Biden uniting folks AGAINST him. And from Biden’s campaign, here’s a list of 100 Republicans for Biden. Is your friend, acquaintance, or family member on this list?
nh independents for biden-1578279237Union Leader: reformatted
Time Magazine:
A lifelong Republican in New Hampshire has explained in a video interview why he is voting for Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden, attracting the attention of over one million viewers.
Les Otten, from Dixville Notch, took to Twitter and explained his reasoning for voting against the Republican incumbent President Donald Trump. “I am a lifelong Republican and I am voting for Joe Biden,” said Otten. “I don’t agree with him on many issues but I think it’s time to find what unites us and not what divides us.”
… “It’s time to rebuild the heart of what makes us a good country—that starts with electing leaders who have good character and are truthful and will put the country’s welfare above all else; who will show respect to all people regardless of their gender, their race, their religion or their political beliefs.
Yeah, I’m a Domestic Terrorist – nice “showing respect”. You know: this guy who has no problem in trying to get Government to be his Venture Capitalist.
And let’s not forget Steve Duprey, Tom Rath, and (again) Gordon Humphrey.
From Issues & Insights at the national level (and a bit of fisking again from me):
John Kasich: “I’m sure there are Republicans and independents who couldn’t imagine crossing over to support a Democrat. They fear Joe may turn sharp left and leave them behind. I don’t believe that because I know the measure of the man.”
Yeah, you sure did, didn’t you? That fear turned out to be true as he has not just turned Left but also in deciding that he can further the “transformation” that Obama demanded.
Christie Todd Whitman: “We need to elect a leader matched to the moment, someone who can restore competence to the Oval Office and unify the country. Joe Biden is that leader.”
Competence and Unity – how’s that working for the rest of us, eh?
Bill Cohen: “We are in serious need of a leader with optimism and competence who gives us hope. Joe Biden is that leader.”
Yeah, hoping to get all these Dems thrown out and Biden retired. You, as well – I don’t think you know what the meaning of optimism and competence really means, dontcha?
Rick Snyder: “Biden is the clear choice to put our country back on a positive path.”
Please define your usage of “positive” because, as just an ordinary schlub from central NH, I’m not getting it.
Cindy McCain: “There’s only one candidate in this race who stands up for our values as a nation, and that is @JoeBiden.”
Your values are certainly not Republican in mind or in any Republican Party Platform that I know of.
Meg Whitman: “Joe Biden … has a plan that will strengthen our economy for working people and small-business owners. For me, the choice is simple. I’m with Joe.”
Wanna reconsider that economics lesson, there Meg? A 1.5% drop in GDP this quarter and inflation rate that we haven’t seen in 40 years. Hate to see what you’d call “bad”? Those in the know are fearful that Recession is around the corner.
43 Alumni for Biden: “We need someone who will quickly course correct and show us the path forward.”
Well, he certainly changed his course from how he campaigned, right? I dryly note that every time I hear “forward” from either the Left or these Leftist-Lite, I still have no idea where that path is leading to.
Colin Powell: “What a difference it will make to have a president who unites us, who restores our strength and our soul.”
That happen yet? And if Biden has restored “our soul”, I’m wondering what kind of hell you’ve put us into?
Jeff Flake: “We need to elect someone … who will stop the chaos and reverse the damage.”
I’d love to hear his explanation for that. Wonder which “damage” he was referring to as all I see around me is damage to the county.
Twenty U.S. attorneys: “We firmly believe that Vice President Joe Biden is the candidate who can – and will – provide the leadership we need to … to address the deep-seated societal issues that are roiling our country today. We give him our strongest endorsement.”
And I&I has a great line:
Notice how no “Republicans for Biden” are currently bragging about how they helped get Biden elected.
Nope, they aren’t. And this is why (reformatted, emphasis):
U.S. President Joe Biden’s public approval rating fell this week to 36%, the lowest level of his presidency, as Americans suffered from rising inflation, according to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll completed on Tuesday. The two-day national poll found that 59% of Americans disapprove of Biden’s job performance. His overall approval was down six percentage points from 42% last week.
In a sign of weakening enthusiasm among Democrats, Biden’s approval rating within his own party fell to 72% from 76% the prior week. Only 10% of Republicans approve of his job in office.
How’s it feel, you dweebs, to be in the bottom 10% of your Party? We can blame you for ALL of this.
I just figured I’d remind you all – and ask the if they are willing to repent and ask forgiveness from us all.
From me, nope.
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So the Russian military continues the war in eastern Ukraine, inching slowly forward, while Putin forces Europe to continue to buy his oil. Russia has accused Ukraine prisoners of being Nazis and threatens to try them for war crimes. Pot calling the Kettle Black, it seems to me, especially with no specific “crimes” other than Ukrainians fighting back having charged. This could degenerate quickly into a take no prisoners war. How that would go? Makes one wonder; badly I suspect?
What military experts make of the failure of the previously supposed powerful Russian juggernaut has to be a surprise. What Putin planned as a three-day walk-through has become three months of heavy losses in Russian lives and equipment. The hoped-for collapse of NATO also went bad as Europe nations suddenly found common cause. Now, even Sweden and Finland want NATO membership now – exactly what Putin didn’t want. Ukrainian officials have said they believe if they can hold out in the East for another week, they can move more troops into that region and stop in the invasion.
Here in the U.S., Biden has the ability to impact the situation greatly in favor of Ukraine by lifting his moratorium on oil and natural gas production. It would also provide relief to many Americans, too. It would take some time to get back up and running but seems to me the very threat of U.S. fuels pouring into Europe allowing Europe to shut off all import of Russian oil would have a major impact. I will not be holding my breath, however, as the Biden administration has as yet shown no indication that it can make any kind of reasoned decisions, plans, or actions other then failed or destructive ones. Nor can we expect Biden to make any such strong move against Putin; he just doesn’t have the stomach for it. Thus, it looks like the war will drag on over there with Russia destroying cities, killing women and children and threatening all the rest of Europe by extension.
How’s that for “Build Back Better”? Is this the best the American people of either Party can do? Biden is no leader; he has always been a go along/get along politician.
Certainly not a good choice for a President.
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