Friday • May 1 • 2026
Vol.XVIII • No.XVIII
Manchester, N.H.
Pinedale, Wyoming, is a cozy piece of nowhere nestled near the Wind River Mountains with a bustling population of just over 2000. It is also the county seat (Sublette), which might be why the holes running it fined a 13-year old 400.00 for selling cookies on the side of the road.
The story captured international attention. The UK Daily Mail Covered it. I went with Cowboy Daily for my source (since it was theirs, too), and while both do a fine job of outlining the particulars (relevant ordinances, mom’s refusal to relocate up the road when instructed), the real outrage goes unreported. First, the “particulars.’
In a report filed with the city, the officer claimed that she had instructed Emma and her mom to pack up the cookie boxes and move everything over to the old town hall parking lot at 210 W. Pine St. where it would be safer and legal.
The first was for unlawful obstruction of the road and sidewalk without receiving permission of the Pinedale City Council. The second citation was for “exception,” meaning that McCarroll didn’t leave 5 feet of unobstructed, continuous passage on the sidewalk as allowed by WYDOT.
The third citation was for parking a vehicle on the sidewalk.
Grand total of the fines: $400. But then came the legal bill.
Mom parked her car in her parent’s driveway while her daughter set up shop along the sidewalk of a “busy road.” I’m not sure what busy means in a town of 2,030 people, but I’d bet money it’s not. A confused discussion later and a city employee (how much taxpayer money did he waste doing this) captured photographic evidence, filed a complaint, and issued a fine (along with all the paperwork involved).
I’d like to assume it cost less than $400.00 to capture and process the violation and issue the fine,; otherwise, what’s the point of the fine? But where the government is concerned, you shouldn’t.
The 13-year-old’s mom hired a lawyer for more than the fine to argue the particulars, after which she still ended up paying the city $150.00.
This all seems excessive to me: the local ordinance, the code enforcement officer, the paperwork, the record-keeping, the lawyer, and the fine. Here’s how it should have gone down: Nothing should have happened except for Emma selling some cookies. If that’s too “free” for y’all, how about this instead?
Excuse me, do you live here?
No, my parents do, and this is my daughter.
If you could please make sure you’re not blocking the sidewalk, you can have a great rest of your day.
[Table leg stretching sound as Mom and daughter move the table back onto the driveway a bit more]
Thank you.
Thank you. Hey, would you like ot buy some cookies?
Am I asking too little?
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Many of us have offered repeated warnings about the focus on action civics in our schools versus a focus on academic content knowledge. The violence and anger directed at Jews we are seeing on college campuses, is what students across America have been taught.
Civics illiteracy is a big problem, and we know that in New Hampshire. New laws have been passed in an effort to improve civics literacy among the student population, but a better solution would be to develop quality academic standards, and test students on their knowledge.
New Hampshire does require students to pass the U.S. Citizenship test prior to graduating high school, so that was a step in the right direction. But there are still organizations like NH Civics, that continue to push the narrative that we need federal law to push more “civics action” in our schools.
Action Civics is CODE for, let’s turn your kids into illiterate political activists.
The Daily Signal picked up on this here:
Parents asking why their college student’s graduation is canceled this year need only remember when their child was in high school.
K-12 schools have been training students to disrupt the systems around them for years through the teaching of “action civics,” which primes students to be activists even if it deprives them of understanding if, when, or why a demonstration would be necessary.
This has been an agenda of Nellie Mae for many years. Nellie Mae has been instrumental in our own New Hampshire Department of Education, and in many of our schools. They offer schools grant money, school administrators respond by taking the money, and implementing the agenda from Nellie Mae. Money talks. Here you can see that they’ve awarded grants to Pittsfield public schools.
They even include a reference to Saul Alinsky at the end of page 1 (Introduction)
Who funds Nellie Mae? The federal government and the Gates Foundation. This is another way state and local communities lose control over their local public schools. They are paying public schools to turn kids into political organizers.
ScreenshotNo one should be surprised by the disruption and violence coming from the trained Marxist calling for the “Final Solution.” Many of them interviewed cannot answer simple questions about why they are protesting. Illiteracy is common among trained Marxist activists.
When you refuse to demand better from your local public school, don’t be surprised by what they are turning out.
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A local political activist is scheduled to appear in court on June 3rd. He is accused of a handful of charges stemming from an event at Porcfest (August 2022), including simple assault and sexual assault of a minor and false imprisonment.
Patch has all the details.
Elliot “Alu” Axelman, 31, of Heather Drive in Hooksett was charged by Lancaster police in August 2023 with false imprisonment, two counts of simple assault, and four counts of sexual assault, all misdemeanors. The charges stem from an incident at Porcfest in June 2022, an event he reportedly attended. The victim, a girl who was 14 at the time, was also at the event with her family.
According to complaints filed against Axelman, he was accused of “purposely (engaging) in sexual contact” with the girl “by touching her buttocks with his body, where such contact can reasonably be construed as being for the purpose of sexual arousal or gratification” and there was an age difference of more than five years between them. The filing also accused him of applying physical force by holding her and pulling her toward him while touching her buttocks and “having her body touch his erect penis.” Axelman was also accused of kissing the child’s neck and holding her by her waist.
Axelman has been active in local politics for years and runs the website LibertyBlockNH. Axelman ran the NH House as a Republican a few years back, losing by 40 votes.
After the charges were filed, an arrest warrant was issued against Axelman in September 2023, and he was released on $5,000 bail. As a part of his bail, he was ordered to stay at least 1,000 feet away from the child, was not to be at the Roger’s Campground & Motel in Lancaster, where Porcfest is held, and needed to refrain from excessive use of alcohol.
More details here.
We’ll try to keep you updated if new information becomes available and when the case gets heard in June.
Correction: The alleged assault happened in August of 2022. The original article referenced last August (2023). It has been corrected.
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As promised in Monday Memes, I have an overflow. My meme cup runneth over. And yes there will be a Friday edition too.
Let the mayhem, mockery, and ridicule resume:
*** Warning, a few possibly off-color ones, in case tender eyes are about ***
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Reminds me of this:
Where are the DADS? More:
A group of middle school girls in West Virginia protested the fact that a biological male was allowed into their coemption.
In response, the board of education banned them from ever taking part in the competition again.
MHO of course. Board, tar, feathers. Some assembly required.
People DO NOT WANT to see the dark side of reality.
Many in my circles are exactly that.
No amnesty.
I’m still leery of Vivek in general, but that’s a great point!
Are Guns the Problem? – Walter E. Williams (walterewilliams.com)
I am very honored to have his picture, autographed to me, framed and on my wall at home. And, parenthetically, years ago I saw a correlation between the introduction of TVs widely in society and an uptick in violence. It wasn’t the programming per se; it was the mere fact of the “idiot box” in a majority of homes. And while correlation does not equal causation, the data looked compelling nonetheless.
A lot of people have no problem with panels 1-3; they somehow believe that being appointed or elected or hired into governmental jobs somehow erases human weaknesses. Same with having a MD or PhD after your name… suddenly they become transformed into beings made from finer, more noble clay.
Wow!
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PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA
I misplaced the text that goes with this, but basically it’s a chart of what percent of males & females loved their first intimate partner (not sure what language that is). Not only is it disturbing that the trend goes down… to the point where half the people are giving themselves physically to people they don’t love or that, at least in this latest data point instance, more women than men now don’t love their first partner, there are other implications:
The Myth of Sexual Experience
Why Sexually Inexperienced Dating Couples Actually Go On to Have Stronger Marriages
Why, it’s almost as though Hashem’s wisdom of being chaste until marriage, and faithful within a marriage, works best. Hmmm. Related:
Understand this: There is a push for more and more casual sex hookups – the “hookup” culture – because the more partners you have, the less distinct each one becomes. I’m not saying that you, whether male or female, will forget individuals, but when early sexual life becomes a quest for the next one, the next thrill-of-the-new, then you get bored with the same-old, same-old. Marriage and the ruts you can get into become tiresome. And it sets up comparisons to prior partners. On “performance”. On fun, on height, on wealth, on various bodily attributes (male or female), on all sorts of things.
Stability, dull stability and sameness, create a burr to do something “fun” again in the minds who have had multiple partners, especially the thrilling casual encounters. And thus, marriages fall apart. Partners cheat, looking for that thrill of the new. The term is monkey branching – always reaching to the next thing. And not only marriages fall apart, but harm to the children ensues. They see, with their own eyes and feel, without a mature brain’s ability to handle it, the dissolution of their family – the one thing they should be able to count on. With the subsequent dissolution of a sense of stability and anchoring.
All deliberate. A strong nuclear family is one of the foundational elements of Western civilization. Of course it’s under attack. Just as is having a posterity. Consider, as a concluding thought, the tale of these two women:
Who, on their death bed, is going to look back and think they had a more fulfilling life? And who, on that same death bed, will have more people there… and more people who care when they’ve passed? Let alone, in ten years, people who still remember them?
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Links (some from me, some from my Jarhead friend):
Pro-Hamas Protesters Want Amnesty, Records Wiped To Avoid Future Consequences – Pirate’s Cove » Pirate’s Cove (thepiratescove.us)
Cancel culture works both ways, buttercup. How’s it taste?
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Does The CIA Run America? | ZeroHedge
All credit to my brilliant father who speculated along these lines at the time. I was very young with only the vaguest clue about what was happening. But I recall very well that he was convinced that Richard Nixon was set up in a trap and unfairly hounded out of office not for the bad things he was doing but for standing up to the Deep State.
If my own father, not a particularly political person, knew this for certain at the time, this must have been a strong perception even then.
You hear the rap that these agencies—the CIA is one but there are many adjacent others—are not allowed by law to intervene in domestic politics. At this point and after so much experience, this comes across to me like something of a joke. We know from vast evidence and personal testimony that the CIA has been manipulating political figures, narratives, and outcomes for a very long time.
Frank Herbert, author of DUNE (one of the top five sci-fi books I’ve ever read), said:
“Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.”
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CONFIRMED: Federal Government Giving Voter Registration Forms to Non-Citizen Refugees | The Gateway Pundit | by Cristina Laila
Treason.
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“Do Not Disclose This Is An Ad”: OnlyFans Creator Says Biden Admin Paid For “Full On Political Propaganda” | ZeroHedge
To paraphrase Andrew Breitbart, if you need T&A to sell your agitprop, your agitprop sucks.
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Breaking JAMA study (Hu et al.) shows that the mRNA technology gene-based mRNA injection (Bancel Bourla Malone Weissman et al.) causes heart failure & seizures in children (FDA) aged 6 mths-17 years) (substack.com)
Kids, who were at a functionally-zero risk of fatality from Covid, were injected with something with substantially more risk – not just to hearts, but potentially fertility, plus myriad other possible adverse reactions. Not to mention the incorporation of the mRNA gene sequence into their reproductive DNA.
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Loving your nation is now being a Nazi?
Yoram Hazony | The Virtue of Nationalism
It’s not “just” a job. It’s not “just” following orders. In many – most – instances, it’s a chance to be bad while being told you’re good:
This is, IMHO, an incredible insight into human nature.
Yet another seemingly-accurate prophecy of when the end is near. From another culture.
But… but… but the Great Replacement is a myth. Our intellectual and moral superiors have assured us so.
No. Only with Israel, because everyone understands all these other places have zero care about what “the world” thinks.
Two things. First, when in the history of America has it been proposed to forbid questioning the official story on anything? And second, do these geniuses at the ADL and AIPAC not grasp that most people, including myself alas, will question the motivation… and, parenthetically wonder at Jews-behind-everything in that? Jewicidal Yidiots.
Here we go again.
Remember, pre-WWII the “Progressives” and the Fascists were kissing cousins.
Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning
The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left
And that it was the KKK, founded by a DEMOCRAT, that attacked blacks.
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Pick of the Post:
Do I believe this? Sadly, yes. And if I were nabbed by that, I’d tell everyone I could about that restaurant’s deed. But more broadly, this is an indictment on the general ethics and character of our society, that someone thinks this is a good idea to do. Apparently enough someones that it’s a noticed.
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Palate cleansers:
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Come back on Friday for more memes. Same meme time. Same meme channel.
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For the entire sweep of my Jab-related cartoons, see here:
CARTOON: We Trusted the Science – Granite Grok
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