The New Hampshire Supreme Court has just heard the appeal of Rep. Jon Stone regarding his request to keep private the records of police misconduct when he was a police officer.  Gordon MacDonald and Barbara Hantz Marconi heard the oral arguments.

Gordon MacDonald should have recused himself, and Barbara Hantz Marconi arguably should have had to as well.

As AG, Gordon MacDonald argued to keep the list of police officers on the Laurie list from public view. He took his argument to the Supreme Court. He should not now be on the Supreme Court listening to appeals of those who wish to have their police corruption files kept private.

As AG Gordon MacDonald stated in August 2018, the Laurie List should not be private. He knew at the time that Police Detective James F McLaughlin (documents show he was added in June 2018) was on the list, but instead of saying anything, he continued working with him and Concord Police Detective Julie Curtin on the Grand Jury Criminal Investigation leading to the settlement agreement with St Paul’s School.

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As AG Gordon MacDonald upheld former St. Paul’s School student Owen Labrie’s convictions in September 2018 to the Supreme Court (on which Barbara Hantz Marconi presided) in full knowledge that Concord Police Detective Julie Curtin was working under him. While working under his direction, Julie Curtain obtained files without warrants from St Paul’s School; made cold calls to the alumni/students whose files she had obtained; trained those to become “victims” of sex abuse and then trained them for intercept calls to wealthy targets. These targets could hear Julie Curtin training the women on the end of the phone.

As AG Gordon MacDonald/Assistant AG Jane Young wrote to the publishers of Lacy Crawford’s “memoir” “NOTES ON A SILENCING” because they claimed the publishers should have checked with his office first before publishing chapters that document Julie Curtin’s activities obtaining student files from St Paul’s School. He/Jane Young did not mention in the letter, nor did Alyssa D’Andrea at the Concord Monitor (now at NHCADSV) mention that, in fact, Julie Curtin was working under his direction when she obtained the files without warrants—in the case of Lacy Crawford, Concord Police refused to hand her files, which they’d obtained without a warrant.

As AG Gordon MacDonald also did not believe that Merrimack County Sheriff Scott Hilliard should be on the Laurie List after a DWI.

As AG Gordon MacDonald dismissed the class action lawsuit brought by Russ Rilee on behalf of David Meehan et al against the State for Youth Detention Center abuse for “victim negligence” despite the fact that the AG’s office has millions of documents that have been hidden over the years documenting complaints. At least one of those victims has stated that he was sodomized by a police officer before he even reached the youth detention center. Julie Curtin has been appointed to investigate Nicholas Huppe’s (aka Niko Roswell’s) claims that his mother, Armida Geiger, took payments from Father Leonard Foissy to sex traffic him and other children to his father, a police officer in Rochester, priests, and his grandfather, a marine.

Julie Curtin now works for Gordon MacDonald’s old client, the Diocese of Manchester, and is apparently paid by Shaheen & Gordon for her services.  She no longer works at Concord Police Department for unexplained reasons. Deputy AG Geoffrey Ward ignored and stonewalled multiple requests for an answer about concerns regarding her misconduct from myself (John Scippa of Police Standards & Training forwarded my complaints to Gordon MacDonald’s office, and Jane Young said Geoffrey Ward would reply, but he never did.

Rep. Susan Homola of Hillsborough County followed up as well. She, too, was stonewalled. Then Geoffrey Ward deleted the files of 28 police officers on the Laurie List with no explanation and became a federal prosecutor with Jane Young as US Attorney. Scott Murray is another federal prosecutor working with them. He took Julie Curtin’s sworn affidavits and investigation to prosecute Owen Labrie, knowing that it was a dishonest prosecution and that he himself lied when he stated in May 2016 that police and prosecutors had done a thorough investigation and found nothing else to prosecute).

As AG Gordon MacDonald had to recuse himself regarding Purdue Pharma for conflicts of interest since he repped Purdue when he was at Nixon Peabody. Rep. Jon Stone “was a member of the Claremont Police Department’s Drug Investigation Unit around the time of his termination.”

As AG Gordon MacDonald did nothing to stop Publicly elected officials Amanda Grady Sexton, Congresswoman Ann Kuster, and other officials from violating citizens (Owen Labrie’s) First Amendment rights because he had a conflict of interest:  his own interest in blocking ABC/GMA from airing a program which would have exposed Concord Police corruption in the St Paul’s School cases.  Had the program aired, another suit in which he was also compromised Rapuano & Does v Dartmouth Board of Trustees (on whose board is Governor Sununu, who appointed him as AG & who approves the budget for the NHCADSV – beneficiaries of the suit brought by Chuck Douglas, Chair of the NH Judicial Committee), might have collapsed.  Dartmouth Professor David Bucci, who’d been denied the right to defend himself, might not have been driven to suicide.

As AG Gordon MacDonald allowed former Monsignor Edward Arsenault to have the remainder of his sentence for defrauding the Diocese of Manchester (Gordon MacDonald & David Vicinanzo’s client at Nixon Peabody), the Catholic Medical Center and a dead priest’s estate- vacated.

Public corruption is presided over and protected by Gordon MacDonald, New Hampshire’s Supreme Court Chief Justice.

Racketeering and profiteering should have no place in courts, in the judiciary, in prosecutors, police departments, or with lawyers and non-profits. Why does it happen in New Hampshire?

I continue to speak up because I am inspired by the British journalist Clare Rewcastle Brown, who bravely reported on the 1MDB scandal, which became perhaps the biggest global scandal in recent US history, leading to US v Pras Michel earlier this year.  She faced threats of defamation suits by the law firm Loeb & Loeb, just as I have faced threats of defamation from Shaheen & Gordon on behalf of Amanda Grady Sexton and the NHCADSV.

It’s not defamation if it is true. And New Hampshire has constitutional First Amendment protections.

 

This is an email to a long list of folks in the NH government and the alleged criminal justice system.

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The Public Utilities Commission (PUC), which is charged under the Clean Heat Standard (Act 18/S.5) with operating the “carbon credit” system created by the law, is now soliciting ideas for how to fund said operation.

Keep in mind that the carbon credits on their own are estimated to add at least 70¢ to every gallon of fossil-based home heating fuel (oil, propane, kerosene, natural gas) purchased by Vermonters. This amounts, on average, to over $500 per household per winter. Just the cost of the credits.

The bureaucratic cost of operating the credit system is, well, extra. And the leading suggestion for how to cover that extra cost is – guess what – ANOTHER TAX ON HOME HEATING FUELS! On top of the coming carbon credit “tax” and the existing excise tax on same.

The PUC’s Order Seeking Recommendations for Funding Report of November 3 ends with, “The Energy Action Network’s [a truly awful conglomeration of special interests] Clean Heat Standard whitepaper identifies a small surcharge on fossil-fuel sales to provide the funding necessary to support the Department’s role in verification of compliance and evaluation.” “Small,” of course, is different in the eyes of the person forced to pay the tax than those of the ideological zealot proposing it.

Not surprisingly, the PUC leaves out one key detail regarding what might allow for an informed suggestion for where the money should come from to run their carbon tax program: how much revenue they need to do so. For some reason they don’t say. For some reason our legislators didn’t want to be associated with such a number either and made no effort to find out before they passed the law. Maybe – just maybe – that’s because they know it’s going to be a very unpopular number.

The current excise tax on fuel oil, kerosene, propane, and other dyed diesel fuel is $0.02 per gallon and raises between $4 to $4.5 million per year.

Advocates for these carbon taxes often point to the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), a regional credit system for large-scale electrical generation as an example. In 2023, RGGI reported an operating budget of $3,118,019 (RGGI website). Let’s take that as a base cost. But RGGI is a far simpler a program, and therefore far cheaper to run, than the Vermont Clean Heat Standard.

The number of credits in RGGI are determined and issued by the single entity, RGGI, and then auctioned off on a quarterly basis to the small handful of major utilities required to buy them. “Verification of compliance and evaluation” in this case is not particularly complicated. Vermont Clean Energy Carbon Credits, on the other hand, will be generated, not issued, literally by thousands of individuals performing hundreds of thousands of “clean heat measures” — a wide variety of activities from installing heat pumps to replacing appliances to insulating buildings – at just as many locations all around the state, each of which needs to be independently verified and assigned a credit value by someone, either directly or indirectly, on the state’s payroll. This is complicated. Way complicated. Probably impossibly complicated. It will take an army of bureaucrats to do this work if you don’t want to open the program up to massive fraud and abuse. (Important possibility: maybe they do!)

Equally if not more complicated than generating Vermont’s carbon credits is keeping track of them. RGGI, as mentioned above, just auctions them off on a quarterly basis and that’s it. Vermont’s system requires setting up what is essentially a commodities exchange – that will, by the way, be subject to federal financial regulation – where these financial instruments (credits) are expected to bought, sold, and kept track of until ultimately retired.

Establishing and running this exchange will require highly skilled (read expensive) oversight and a very sophisticated (read expensive) IT system. How much this will cost? I don’t pretend to know, but the IT upgrade that the Vermont DMV just got cost something like $45 million. No IT intensive program is cheap to set up or properly maintain.

In conclusion, operating the Clean Heat Carbon Tax will be a massively complicated and grotesquely expensive bureaucracy to run. It will be much more labor intensive than RGGI, the cost of which is, unlike the Vermont program, shared by multiple states. More people equals more salaries, plus more sophisticated technology equals much higher overall costs. I can easily see these costs far exceeding $10 million per year, not including start-up costs. That’s admittedly just a gut guess, but whatever the number is, look for it to come out of your even higher heating bill.

So, I do have a suggestion for the PUC and the Energy Action Network, and the lawmakers who passed this monstrosity of a law and their never-ending appetite for other people’s money. Not a suggestion of how to pay for it, but where they can stick it.

 

Rob Roper is a freelance writer with 20 years of experience in Vermont politics, including three years of service as chair of the Vermont Republican Party and nine years as President of the Ethan Allen Institute, Vermont’s free-market think tank. He is also a regular contributor to VermontGrok.

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On August 22, the DHHS announced its allocation of an additional $1.4 billion toward the development of new Covid treatments and vaccines. If good health is their purpose, that’s like pouring gasoline on a fire.

President Biden lit the match to ignite his brand of healthcare with these words: “I signed off this morning on a proposal to present to Congress requests for additional funding for a new vaccine.” With all due respect to the office of the presidency, the CDC’s surveillance system, the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), indicates that as of September of this year, 1,593,415 adverse events were attributed to the old vaccines, including 36,231 deaths.

We are confronted with a strange irony here. Look at it realistically. The disease of a government that can’t balance its own budget, accumulating deficits running over $33 trillion, continues to force its agenda on the people as the best cure for COVID. Consider BlackRock analyst Edward Dowd’s revelation presented by Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wis) to Senate hearings: “From February 2021 to March 2022, millennials (ages 25-44) experienced the equivalent of the Vietnam War, with more than 60,000 excess deaths. The Vietnam War took 12 years to kill the same number of healthy young people you’ve just seen die in 12 months.”

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Furthermore, a red flag for young athletes should be a warning to youth of facts that indicate the potential danger of the experimental vaccine: “Starting in June 2021, not a single month has passed with fewer than 29 reported deaths of athletes worldwide. The tally surged to 90 reported cases in December 2021 alone.” What caused NBA star LeBron James’ son, Brawny James, to go into cardiac arrest during practice? This continuous “one size fits all” jabbing the world remedy also has many other disturbing consequences, including myocarditis, Turbo Cancer, auto-immune, neurological, and God only knows how many other health problems. The truth is the federally funded, highly advertised vaccine cure is a killer worse than COVID-19.

Why does DHHS ignore the fact that the new Covid variants are very mild? And why do they continue to ignore the fact that they are easily managed by the proven drug Ivermectin? It’s because their goal, enforced by the intimidating power and wealth behind DHHS/UN/WHO, is to take our God-given personal healthcare rights away with the promise, “You’ll be safe; just do what we say.” The bottom line is that it’s common knowledge that Party loyalty very seldom appoints the most competent bureaucrats. Is there any reason to believe DHHS appointments do not also owe their jobs to the politics-as-usual system?

It’s simply a fact. You can’t trust a healthcare system that continues to operate as if continuously spending more money will promote good healthcare. Americans who love liberty should ask why in the world it is wise and good for our health to have our personal healthcare decisions transferred from ourselves and our doctors — to both federal and international government agencies such as the DHHS and the WHO.

For an overview of how bad the governments performance in healthcare, please check out this link https://thenewamerican.com/print/the-vax-premature-deaths/

 

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To all those who are sending in memes, thank you!  I do end up using many of them.  Also, please do share this post, and if you share an individual meme, consider mentioning you saw it on the Grok!

Speaking of, from this week, Monday Edition and Wednesday Edition.  Also check out my latest Israel-focused meme, link, and commentary post if this is a topic of interest.

 

*** Warning, a few possibly off-color ones, in case tender eyes are about ***

 

 

I’ve occasionally had conversations where this has happened… where, instead of incuriosity, someone leans forward with wide eyes and a genuinely eager look and says “I hadn’t heard that – tell me more”!

 

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What I found very curious is how defense stocks jumped – and significantly – BEFORE the October 7 attack in Israel.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It still amazes me that there are LGBT people who are pro-Hamas.

 

 

 

 

 

 

What’s that meme?  Something like “I don’t care who you are… nobody has 50+ people in their life that ‘commit suicide'”.

 

 

 

Something far too few people recognize.

 

 

 

 

People simply don’t think things through.  Consider this enthusiastic advocate of an all-cashless society.  The idea that his cashless payment could be vulnerable to power outages or a government turning you off because they don’t like something you do is doubtless beyond him.

 

 

 

 

 

That’s a good point.

 

 

I have to wonder if they have internal project names, like the T-1000…

 

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I so want this to be satire.  I really do.

 

 

 

 

 

If reparations are truly on the table, then I want all whiney-*ss little b!tches to be repatriated back to the ancestral motherland.  Because without slavery that’s where you’d be.  The below meme is a repeat, but accurate:

 

 

 

 

 

In a book I got for my Bar Mitzvah – a treasury of Jewish stories, jokes, proverbs, etc. – there were numerous mentions of the Rothschilds.  All in a good-humor way.  The more I learn about these snakes, the more I think they’re an utter shame & embarassment to us.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In my journal for my kids, I have one entry discussing the top ten things that I’d do differently were I back in my 18-year old body knowing what I know now / being who I am now.

 

 

 

Well done!

 

 

 

I do not expect 2024 to be a legitimate election, assuming one is even held.  MHO, some pretext for “public safety” will be found to cancel it entirely.  Purely a “temporary” thing, of course.

 

 

 

He had me at “mass deportations”… just, if he somehow gets in, expect both the Left and Right to fight this tooth and nail.

 

 

 

No.  Do not just turn and walk away.  Walk in, ask for the manager, and then TELL THEM why you’re leaving the store…

 

 

 

 

 

The problem is that Islam is an aggressive, expansionist ideology.  They want the whole world.

 

 

 

 

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Pick of the Post:

 

A tie:

 

 

Very true.  And this one:

 

 

Note something: This is – and I’m guessing here – someone who was likely pro-Jab before this tragic injury.  This is the kind of thing that haunts… and will be shared to multiple people.  NOBODY who was a Jab skeptic switches to being for it – the flow is one way only: from Covidian True Believer to skeptic.  Already, and I don’t recall which polling agency, something like 25% of people believe they know someone who died from the Jab.  The know-someone-injured has to be higher.  What happens when that hits 50%?  60?

 

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American Exceptionalism isn’t or shouldn’t be the idea that because we are American, we are better. It is that, in America, we have left the door open to the opportunity to be exceptional, to be better, no matter what that means to any individual.

What is exceptional, or was, is the palette. The American canvas on which you could – if you chose to do the work – create your own exceptional experience despite the risk or danger. Freedom offers great opportunity but requires taking on risks. Nothing is guaranteed, but it is a unique opportunity to find your sense of accomplishment, even in failure—on the path to your exceptionalism. You do the work, follow a few rules, and we’ll do our best to stay out of your way.

To suggest we’ve wandered away from that is an understatement. What was once a destination to find one’s place with whatever skills you had or could accumulate on your own is an opportunity to line up, for lack of a better term, to get free sh!t. The discontent on both sides of the equation has replaced the promise of that blank palette. The caravans of people herded here for a better life – the ones who are not here to make mischief – will find ghetto life as bitches on the federal teat less than inspiring. The people paying for it even less so.

New York Mayor Adams finds himself on the side of “less so.” While being investigated for receiving alleged foreign campaign contributions (which I’ve suggested is a result of all his bitching about the Migrant Crisis), Adams has announced significant cuts to the New York City budget to offset these unanticipated costs. “It” is straining local resources. He has recommended a hiring freeze on police. He is cutting one billion from public education. Child care, food assistance, closing libraries on Sunday, and limiting access to other public spaces are also options. But it won’t be enough.

The progressive caucus and plenty of Democrats blame Adams, shouting, “How dare you?” Eric Adams blames the federal government.

 

“No city should be left to handle a national humanitarian crisis largely on its own, and without the significant and timely support we need from Washington, D.C., today’s budget will be only the beginning,” he said.

 

They are all to blame.

Decades of virtue signaling about the need to openly embrace illegal border jumpers without regard to the actual cost are chickens that have come home to roost. A crisis over which Mr. Adams could have cared less while it was thousands of miles away on some Red State border. But Eric Adams voted for this. That progressive caucus and all of those Democrats chose this. Many New Yorkers whose lives have been impacted by the masses or the consequences that brought them will pay the price in lost services and higher taxes—and in return, get a more crowded, dirty, and dangerous city.

They eschewed the law and did the crime but have no interest in doing the time. But this is progressive policy, and the sh!t sandwich you ordered is only getting bigger. Without a course change, perhaps a change in how you vote, this is your new reality, and it does not go away if you stay on this course.

It sounds dismal and tragic, and it is, but it is the storm you summoned. Lightning, you called down upon yourselves. But it is not one without hope. This is still America. For a sliver of the sum Mayor Adams claims he needs to cut, you could stick them on a plane and send them home. It would be a one-time expense, even if it were more than a few pieces of silver (though I suspect you’d save a lot more not paying local hotels to house them).

Screen them, vet them, and unless they are a tremendous value add, offshore them the way you do climate emissions.

And don’t be afraid to say something like, we are a nation of immigrants, but we are also a nation of laws. If the Federal government cannot be bothered to enforce them, we must because the people who did it properly have rights, too, and we are obligated to protect them.

It’ll hurt at first. The Marxist press you pretend is unbiased news might take a few bites out of your ass. But you might get to keep your Library Sunday, your not-quite-so-poorly policed streets, the food assistance, and open public spaces, but not if you keep voting for Democrats or until you force Democrats to change their priorities or be more honest about the price they make you pay.

You can blame someone else, but you voted for this. Quit your bitching and own it. Then, do something different. And wouldn’t that be exceptional?

 

Apologies for any typos – most of them (I believe) have been corrected post-publication.

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The TSA has been promising to end its boneheaded ways for more than 20 years. Flying out of Dallas International Airport last week, I ruefully recognized that all TSA reform promises are malarkey.

As I neared the end of a TSA checkpoint line, I saw two women loitering behind a roped-off section for CLEAR, a new biometric surveillance program that works with 35 airports and coordinates with TSA. CLEAR involves travelers standing in photo kiosks that compare their faces with a federal database of photos from passport applications, driver’s licenses, and other sources. The Washington Post warned that airport facial recognition systems are “America’s biggest step yet to normalize treating our faces as data that can be stored, tracked and, inevitably, stolen.”

Though the CLEAR program is purportedly voluntary, TSA agents at Washington National Airport recently threatened long delays for any passenger who refused to be photographed by CLEAR, including U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR). Merkley said that TSA falsely claimed there were signs notifying people that the facial scans are optional. But the clock is ticking down on seeking voluntary cooperation. TSA chief David Pekoske announced in March that “eventually… we will require biometrics across the board.”

“Idle hands are the tool of the devil,” as the old saying goes, and the same is true of cell phones. I raised my phone camera, snapped a few shots of the women, and the howling commenced.

“What are you doing?” screamed a young woman wearing a CLEAR jacket. “You can’t take my photo!”

“But you’re scanning people’s eyeballs,” I replied. What could be more intrusive?

“That doesn’t matter because you can’t take our photo – it’s not allowed!” She sounded as if I had desecrated a federal temple.

I gave her a Cheshire cat smile. With her three-inch artificial fingernails, I wondered if she planned to audition for a Dracula movie. Her colleague speedily exited, perhaps to summon police to end my assault. But if airport officials had sought to seize those photos, they would have faced a legal ruckus.

The queue finally reached the stern middle-aged TSA dude sitting behind plexiglass who checked identification and boarding passes. He stared at my driver’s license and then gave me an intense look. TSA considers a “cold, penetrating stare” a terrorist warning sign, but I assumed this guy was above suspicion. I was tempted to ask how many TSA Watch Lists included my name, thanks to TSA bashes I wrote for the New York Times, USA Today, the New York Post, the Washington Times, and other publications. Was this TSA dude reading about how the TSA chief denounced me in 2014 for “maligning” TSA agents?

TSA protocols make flying vexing without making travelers safe. As I approached the luggage scanner, I removed my wallet and stuffed it in the bottom of my carry-on bag. More than 500 TSA agents have been fired for robbing passengers. In July, three TSA agents at Miami International Airport were arrested because they pilfered property “while the passengers were distracted with their own screenings and not paying attention to their items,” the New York Post reported. A TSA agent admitted to partnering with another TSA employee to steal a thousand dollars a day, including grabbing cash from wallets sent through TSA x-ray systems.

TSA decrees are wildly inconsistent, but every command is presumed sacrosanct. Flying out of Washington Dulles Airport the prior week, I was told to keep my laptop in my courier bag. Fine by me. In Dallas, a TSA drill sergeant wannabe barked orders for everyone to remove their laptops and lay them out before sending them through the x-ray machines. TSA agents have been caught selling stolen laptops on eBay, so I tried to keep an eye on my computer.

TSA lunacy also obliged me to modify my attire. Instead of good ol’ blue jeans, I was, wearing Dockers. Prior to entering TSA’s Whole Body Scanner at Washington National Airport for a recent flight, I did everything right – emptied my pockets, removed my belt and boots, and sported a friendly smile (ok, not that friendly). But as I exited the scanner, a TSA supervisor grimly announced, “We have to do a supplemental patdown.”

“What the heck are you talking about?” I groused.

He pointed to the large screen next to the scanner that showed the problem: an illuminated thin line directly in front of my groin.

“That’s the zipper on my pants,” I exclaimed.

“Sir, we have to do a supplemental patdown. If you want it conducted in a private room, we can do that,” came the rote TSA reply.

“Hell no. Let’s do it where the TSA surveillance cameras record the search.” Never, ever go into a private room with TSA agents.

A tall, heavyset TSA agent with his hair tied in a bun atop his head came up and began vigorously grappling my ankles. Did TSA agents have a daily quote for groping or what? As I left the checkpoint, I muttered about TSA standing for “Too Stupid for Arby’s.”

Dockers were slightly less likely to trigger this boneheaded alert than blue jeans. But it wasn’t my fault that TSA screeners failed to detect 95 percent of the test bombs and weapons during covert tests by federal inspectors.

I had no trouble in the Whole-Body Scanner in Dallas last week, but my carry-on bag failed the TSA inspection.

A beefy young female agent hoisted my bag and carted it to the end of the checkpoint area. She was the final participant in the gauntlet of village idiocy that I had to pass before reaching my plane. She summoned me to explain its contents and my depravity. “Is there anything sharp in this bag?”

“No,” I replied. Geez, how much did TSA pay for x-ray gizmos that were more obtuse than a presidential speechwriter?

She unzipped my bag and began pawing through it. In lieu of a machete, she found a small half-full jar of peanut butter. “You can’t take liquids on a flight,” she announced solemnly.

“It’s peanut butter. It’s not liquid.”

“It’s liquid, and it’s prohibited,” was her decree. Did TSA covertly classify peanut butter as a bioweapon, or what?

“Ya, whatever,” I said as I abandoned the jar to federal custody.

Chatting with another jaded traveler as I put my boots back after clearing the checkpoint, he asked if I was upset about losing my peanut butter.

I smiled: “I’ll settle accounts with TSA later.”

James Bovard is the author of ten books, including 2012’s Public Policy Hooligan and 2006’s Attention Deficit Democracy. He has written for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Playboy, Washington Post, and many other publications.

 

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Last weekend, I took a trip to Claremont, New Hampshire, for the Trump Rally. He was one of three candidates I’d not yet heard this cycle. The others were Haley and Scott. Scott dropped out, so I won’t see him, but I caught up with Trump: long drive, sunny day (if only about 39 deg.), and some interesting observations.

Trump was, of course, Trump. There’s no escaping that. But he knows his audience and took several opportunities to tweak the media. They obliged by swallowing the bait, hook, lure, and several dozen yards of fishing line. Some things never change. But some do. Regular readers will know I’ve been on 45 for years to back away from all his warp-speed talk. To accept that he was snowballed like many of us and took longer than some to realize it – or, at least, his speech writers took too long.

 

 

He didn’t talk about it at all except to say that as president, he would (and I’ll add, try to) block funding to schools that teach CRT, that gender-bending grooming business to young kids, and that impose any mask or vaccine mandate.

Lots of applause.

He may have been saying this while “on tour” for a while, but it is the first I have heard of it, and that’s good news.

He also mentioned the need to clean out the bureaucracy, which includes the healthcare industrial complex. Again, good to hear, though it is a sentiment he shares with Ron DeSantis. As we reported here a few weeks ago,

 

As President DeSantis says, he will lead a major overhaul of the FDA, CDC, and NIH. Push for term limits for bureaucrats. Address the power of the CDC, FDA, and NIH abuse with their grant writing. End the revolving door and kickbacks between CDC, FDA, NIH, and big pharma. And require more rigorous research before government agencies issue reports making medical claims.

 

How dare you put a DeSantis thing in a Trump Rally post! I know, but it’s relevant, and we have readers who support both, and you’ll all have to deal with each other eventually, or we’re looking at more Bidenomics and all that other garbage, no matter which Dem is pulling whose strings.

All that talk about unity, coalescing, and the 11th commandment when it means only getting behind your guy … is none of those things.

Trump was also, as I noted, Trump. He picked on everyone and, at one point, had to remind an audience member who’d shouted it out that you can’t call Chris Christie a fat pig. He must have told him four or five times that you can’t call Chris Christie a fat pig.

On the way in, I saw one protester. A guy on a bicycle (bring-bring) with a makeshift mini-sandwich board that read “lock him up” on one side and “shame on Claremont” on the other. The dope in the vehicle in front of us with the Bernie sticker taped into their back window honked. Taped. Talk about a lack of commitment. No wonder Sanders kept losing the nomination. Wait. That’s right. The Democrats stole it from him. Twice.

Much like the last Rally I attended in Manchester (2018 as media), the people were friendly, patriotic, energized, and there were a lot of them. I saw plenty of people I knew or recognized. And the High School in Claremont was ill-suited to the draw. A lot of people could not get in, but here are a few of the ones that did (people were still coming through the Secret Service Screening line when I took these).

 

 

By the time Trump spoke, the upper gallery was packed, and we could see people outside trying to peer through the glass doors.

It was a fun event to cover, but next time, I’d like to do it a bit closer to home than Claremont (though I’d never been there, so that was one of several reasons to make the 90-minute trip).

As for getting to candidate events, that left me with Tim Scott (who dropped out a few days ago) and Nikki “no Hate Speech” Haley; with two months to go, I should be able to get to one of her events at the very least, so I can say I heard and reported from all of them in person.

And yes, I am covering the visit by Kari Lake next month for a Hillsborough County Republican Committee event, so check back for that in the future. And no, she is not running for President, but she is Kari Lake.

 

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Remember Ted Kennedy? The Massachusetts senator was a progressive icon—a liberal lion who endured the tragic killings of his three older brothers, all in their respective primes.

Ted ran for President once, in 1980, when he challenged our sitting 39th President, Jimmy Carter, a fellow Democrat. This, of course, required him to run in the New Hampshire Primary, something expected of any prospective President—at least up until Joe Biden just blew us off.

That mid-February of 1980 saw Ted’s Granite State campaign come to Groveton, N.H., where he toured the paper mill and then met with a few Groveton High School folks—including me, then a GHS history teacher.

The Lake Placid Winter Olympics were ongoing, and Ted modestly compared his campaign effort with that of the miracle U.S. ice hockey team. Then he took questions.

Always a sports guy, I immediately followed up on his Winter Olympic reference with a query about Taiwan’s exclusion from that competition.

(The International Olympic Committee wouldn’t allow a small contingent from the Republic of China/Taiwan to compete unless it forsook its name and national flag, out of deference to the Communist People’s Republic of China—the PRC—which was competing in its first Winter Olympics.)

Ted glared at me.

“Well, er, ah, we perhaps should consider how both the USA and Puerto Rico have separate Olympic teams, even though we’re all Americans,” replied the Massachusetts senator.

I quickly responded.

“But Puerto Rico’s never been prevented from completing under its own flag, unlike Taiwan.”

“Ted Kennedy became a Crimson football standout after he returned to Harvard University during the 1950s.” He’d earlier been expelled for cheating.”

The liberal lion further glared at me, perhaps regretting that the road to the White House required him to travel through Groveton, N.H., to be hassled by an impertinent jock like me over an issue that certainly wasn’t then as important to most Americans as inflation or the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

Ted then came back with what I believe was a very honest reply.

“I frankly don’t care whether Taiwan competes in the Olympics or not,” he snapped. “Next question.”

I resurrect this old sports story because I was recently privileged to visit Taiwan with a New England legislative delegation as guests of the ROC’s Foreign Ministry. The trip was timely and informative, given current international geopolitics. And the Taiwanese were wonderful hosts on their island of freedom—surrounded by hostile waters dominated by a PRC committed to conquering the ROC.

For the record, the Republic of China/Taiwan did eventually return to the Olympics in 1984 as “Chinese Taipei,” a compromise the Taiwanese reluctantly agreed to so as to allow their athletes opportunities to compete.

Fast forward to 2021, and an international swimming and diving competition in Cyprus involving 40 countries. Bullied by the PRC, officials there wouldn’t allow Taiwan’s flag to be shown on displays or scoreboards. Taiwanese divers could compete under an Olympic flag or under no flag at all. The ROC athletes chose to compete under no flag.

Then came one of those inspiring “I am Spartacus” episodes where the sports world commendably separates itself from the political realm. The Japanese athletes issued a statement of support for the Taiwanese and indicated they, too, would compete without their flag being displayed anywhere. Subsequently, divers from other countries voted likewise to have their flags removed to show their solidarity with Taiwan.

Australia, Croatia, Germany, the USA, and others soon followed Japan’s lead—even the French.

Even the Russians!

The shows of support were the results of impromptu athlete actions, not government policy directives. That’s what made it all so inspiring to so many—except for the elephant bully in the room: the Communist PRC.

Carpe diem!

And I want to believe that even Ted Kennedy—from wherever he may have then been watching—was similarly inspired!

 

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November 13, 2023 – The Stratham Republican Town Committee will be hosting its Third Annual Fundraising Event – “What a Crock! (of Soup),” on Thursday evening, November 30th, from 6:00 to 8:30 p.m. at the Stratham Municipal Center’s Main Meeting Room, at 10 Bunker Hill Avenue in Stratham.

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With at least 18 different homemade soup choices from which to choose, along with multiple desserts, two candidates for offices in the November 2024 elections have committed to attending and making presentations. First, our former 5-term NH Senate President and Candidate for Governor, Chuck Morse, will speak.

Following that will be North Dakota Governor and Presidential Candidate Doug Burgum, who has quite an amazing story concerning what his leadership has meant to that state. Tickets may be purchased on the Stratham Republican Town Committee website, strathamnhgop.com.

Click on the “Events and Meetings” tab at the top, then scroll down to the “Get your online tickets here” link. They can also be purchased at the door on the day of the event with cash or check payable to “Stratham Republicans.”

 

 

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The Department of Justice recently charged 371 people with stealing a combined $836 million in funds that were meant to be used for Covid 19 relief, according to The New York Post.

The charges came after a three-month investigation by various law enforcement agencies, which led to 63 of the 371 people charged to be deemed gang members and others with connections to violent crime. Some of the funds were even used in murder-for-hire plots, prosecutors say.

Much of the misused funds comes from pandemic unemployment insurance as well as funds from Small Business Administration programs including the Paycheck Protection Program and economic injury disaster loans, according to the DOJ.

These charges are in addition to the 3,000 individuals already charged by the DOJ, with the agency seizing $1.4 billion in misused pandemic-era relief funds. Some of the most fraudulent programs include the Paycheck Protection Program and the Economic Injury Disaster Loan Program, both administered by the Small Business Administration.

These programs have been rife with fraud. The PPP program alone had about $200 billion in fraudulent payments, equaling about 17% of the loans awarded.

The criminals have spent stolen funds on luxury cars, private jet rides, vacation homes, and designer jewelry, according to The Post. Just last week, a real estate broker was sentenced to three and a half years in prison for using $381,000 in fraudulently obtained funds to buy a Bentley, a luxury apartment and pay for cosmetic procedures.

Of those charged in this wave, 119 pleaded guilty or were convicted, and 117 cases were handled in civil court. The DOJ says $231.4 million of the stolen funds have been recovered so far.

COVID-19 stimulus programs continue to be some of the most fraudulent programs in history, with record amounts of taxpayer money used for self-enrichment by criminals thanks to insufficient oversight and controls.

 

 

Adam Andrzejewski | Real Clear Wire

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A recent decision by Planned Parenthood New England to shut down four of its Vermont clinics has many lawmakers in Montpelier ready to hop into the sack to save them.

The Parody is strong with this one. Snowflakes and the easily triggered should turn around now.

In a bid to raise funds to keep the clinics from closing their reproductive doors for good, progressive legislators who championed sex work in Vermont are putting their money where their mouths are by volunteering to raise funds ala the world’s oldest profession. They are calling the event State House Full of Ho’s.

Co-sponsors of HB 569 (569 dude!) State Rep. Selene Colburn (P-Burlington), former Rep. Diana Gonzalez (P-Winooski), Rep. Maxine Grad (D-Moretown), and Rep. Emilie Kornheiser (D-Brattleboro) will be dropping their law-writing pens, among other things, to do the hard work of raising funds, eyebrows, and the hopes of many of their fellow legislators looking to support the worthy cause.

“We are more than happy to get behind our colleagues in a show of solidarity,” a winking Brian Cina declared (P/D-Chittenden).  Cina, who one senator said is “gayer than Elton John driving a rainbow Prius,” is so concerned with a woman’s right to choose he’s going to be the only male on the menu.  A natural activist he recently convened the ad hoc Committee for Singles In the VT Legislature that was quickly filled by his other single colleagues.

“I get to play doctor in real life, so this won’t be a stretch for me,” Dr. Hal Colston quipped as he signed his name multiple times to the roster of donors.

Senator Becca White (D – Hartford), who also sponsored the bill, is chomping at the bit to “do the work.” White, who grew up in tiny Wilder, VT, where nary a prostitute could be found, is eager to see the streets of her town bustling “with well-paid high-class ho’s.”  Though sex work is criminalized, White argued on Thursday that the act itself is “not inherently dangerous when it is consensual.”

“Then she ain’t doin’ it right!” exclaimed Vermont’s longest active pimp and general store owner Elijah Lefleur. Lefleur has run the Broke Back Love Shack, a local favorite, out of the top floor of his general store in Barre, VT, for going on thirty years. Lefleur’s illicit business is known for meeting the needs of Vermonters looking to spice up their sex lives by having risky, unprotected, and often dangerous types of intercourse.  “My b****’s will do anything, and I mean anything.  Ever tried it hanging upside down in a maple?  What about playing Canadian Chicken in traffic? I got one Betty that only does it if Fox News is playing in the background. You wouldn’t believe how many people get off listening to Tucker Carlson.  That’s where the real money is.”

Concerned that legalization will cut into his profits, Lefleur says Senator White’s bill will decimate the pimp population in Vermont.

“What happened to diversity and inclusion? If this bill passes, you can say goodbye to pimpin’ in Vermont,” an emotional Tyrell Janikowski says, choking back tears. Mr. Janikowski is one of only a handful of BIPOC pimps still in business in Vermont. “I hear all this talk about Vermont being diverse and inclusive. What about me?  What about Tyrell Janikowski?  Don’t hate the player. Hate the game y’all.”

Janikowski and Lefleur recently banded together to form Pimp Lives Matter (PLM), which already has nine members who plan to protest the charity event.  Also joining the protest are the sisters from Our Lady of Perpetual Chastity, who’ve started their own MAGA movement – Make Abstinence Great Again.

More critics of the proposal look at other decriminalization efforts as indicators of its future. “Abortion, for example, was intended to be safe and rare; however, legalizing turned it into a form of birth control. It’s also racist – over 20 million black babies have been aborted since Roe v. Wade!” roared pro-life pastor Clarence Stillwater. When asked to respond to the claim of abortion as a form of racism, Senator White reminded the pastor, “Vermont has made it a constitutional right for all citizens, including black people – we don’t discriminate.” A little tone deaf, but word to your mother all the same.

Despite the many voices crying foul against the legislation and the event, the popularity with the law-maker’s colleagues is unbridled. So far, every single male representative and senator has signed up as donors, some as often as five times. It may be passé to be a lady in Vermont, but don’t tell these gentlemen!

“It’s not often we get this kind of community-building opportunity, and I want my colleagues to know they have my full support.  Especially Senator White, whoo-we!  Am I right?” an excited Senator Peter Welch stated after hearing of the event.  With his wife’s permission and the help of Viagra, the senator hopes to make a sizeable donation.

Banana’s Media reached out to the office of Senator Bernie Sanders, who has declined to participate due to a bad back, however, he said he loves the idea and hopes the bill passes with a reasonable living wage.

Governor Phil Scott, who recently signed bill H.746, which repeals Burlington City Council’s power to “restrain and suppress houses of ill fame and disorderly houses,” is reportedly also interested in helping the cause. A spokesperson for the governor told Banana’s Media, “When the governor is not laying the lumber down to help Vermonter’s from flood damage, he’s more than happy to lay some down for a worthy cause like this.  It’s for the children.”

 

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In May, Dominic Osmund, a paid lobbyist for 350NH, harassed me as I was handing out flyers in the NH State House to state reps, asking them to support a parental rights bill.

Dominic held his “I Love My Trans Friend” sign inches from my face, taunted me, blocked me from handing out the flyers, and ripped up one of the flyers, and it was all recorded on my bodycam.

I wrote about it for GraniteGrok in June, and according to his LinkedIn profile, which had shown him as employed by 350NH before my piece was published, he lost his job that same month. (Related: Aggressive Climate Justice Lobbyist Harasses and Obstructs Parental Rights Activist)

Previously, Palana Belken lost his job as Trans Justice Organizer for the ACLU-NH after I wrote about his burning of Harry Potter books and bragging about it on Twitter. He was mad at JK Rowling, the author of the books, for speaking out in defense of women’s rights to our own spaces and sports. (Related: Book-Burning ACLU-NH Trans Justice Organizer Axed.)

That is two-for-two for trans rights activists behaving badly and being exposed on GraniteGrok and losing their jobs.

 

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We have completely lost our minds and moral compass. When I say we, I don’t mean the collective we. I mean the Biden Government “We.” Weeks ago, Biden freed $6 Billion of Iran’s assets. Biden, Blinken, KJP, and the rest of the sordid cast have repeated ad nauseam that Qatar was in control of the funds and it could only be released for humanitarian purposes.

I surmise that Biden thinks Iran will order vast amounts of medical supplies from Amazon, and Qatar will pay the bill. How stupid is this Biden team, and how ignorant do they see Americans?

Now, we are five weeks into the Israeli/Hamas battle. We know that Iran is funding Hamas and Hezbollah and is controlling the rogue countries surrounding Israel. It is countries like Syria and Libya that are taking sporadic shots at our military installations and hurting our troops. Biden and his Team continue to claim we will retaliate for any attack on our forces, but so far, that has proven to be lip service and idle threats. We moved two carrier groups into the area and an Ohio class submarine. The Navy does not usually advertise the location of our subs, but they wanted all parties in the Middle East to know we were prepared to act in a big way. But we haven’t, which is a weakness and indicates poor leadership.

On a day when Biden is placating Chinese President Xi Jinping in San Francisco, making numerous concessions, including relaxing sanctions, in exchange for a promise of China cutting back on Fentanyl shipments to America, Biden releases $10 Billion in frozen Iranian funds. The obvious response is why. Why in the world would you pad the wallet of a country that is orchestrating the attack on Israel and the multi-headed attack on Israel and our facilities in the region? This move is proof of how dysfunctional our current military leadership is.

In one day, Joe Biden weakened America with a country that wants to be the sole superpower and another that wants to obliterate Israel and the United States. What did we get for the concessions made by Biden? Nothing. We got no movement on the hostages held in the tunnels of Gaza, and our troops are still in the crosshairs. China made promises on Fentanyl, but there is no way to hold them accountable for their commitment. Xi and Biden may have dined on ravioli and chicken, but Xi ate Biden like a cheap egg roll on the noon-to-three buffet.

Biden, Xi, and their teams met for four hours on Wednesday. The official readout indicates that Xi dominated the time and was very guarded in his answers to Biden’s questions. On Wednesday evening, Biden held a solo press conference where he recapped the day’s meeting. Biden claimed the two leaders agreed on Fentanyl, AI, and stability in the Taiwan region. There were no significant announcements of agreements, but the two sides are now talking. He talked about the high-level diplomacy over the last year, but we only got an agreement to communicate. That is a failure. This is an Administration that cannot be given a second term. Every decision weakens America and favors our adversaries. That is not a President with America in mind. That is a President on the take, and today is ugly, vivid proof that these foreign countries are calling the shots. That is what money buys.

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New Hampshire is having an excellent week. It announced its First in the Nation Primary, while CATO and the Fraser Institute declared the Granite State the most Free. CATO ranked NH #1 among US States. Fraser chose NH as the freest place economically in North America.

Kudos to all involved, including our authors and readers who have worked at the grassroots level to keep us here. This is a circumstance that New Hampshire Democrats would rapidly undo if allowed, and we know that to be true. Since the Dems took it over, it has taken the inevitable slide associated with Democrat rule.

Crime is up, as are regulations, taxes, and the centralization of authority. And when it comes to freedom, they have descended and appear mired at the bottom of the pack.

From the Fraser Institute:

 

In the United States, the most economically free state on the subnational index was New Hampshire at 7.96, followed by Florida at 7.80, Tennessee at 7.73, Texas at 7.64, and South Dakota at 7.59. (Note that since the indices were calculated separately for each country, the numeric scores on the subnational indices are not directly comparable across countries.) The least-free state was again New York at 4.09, following California and Vermont at 4.27, Oregon at 4.56, and Hawaii at 4.58.

 

Vermont has been emulating New York and California for years, and look how well that worked.

CATO has very little good to say about Vermont. It is ranked 42nd (not its worst score, but it has languished in the bottom ten for years).

 

Vermont is the second-highest-tax state in the country. It also looks extremely fiscally centralized, with state government taking a whopping 10.8 percent of adjusted personal income and local government taking just 2.0 percent. However, this statistic is overstated, because Vermont counts the property tax as a state tax, even though towns have some discretion over the rate at which it is set locally. Vermonters would benefit from decentralization of tax and spending authority, as they have 3.5 effective competing jurisdictions per 100 square miles, well above the national average. Government debt is below average, but so are cash and security assets. Government share of GDP is slightly below average, but public employment is slightly above the 2022 average.

 

CATO is not precisely a Conservative think tank, and it offers praise for Vermont’s Social Policies without mentioning defunding the police, open borders, sanctuary cities (Vermont is a sanctuary state), and illegals voting in municipal elections, all of which are social policies speeding the State’s economic decline.

I would, therefore, disagree with CATO on that. Social policy in a progressive state has economic consequences. You can’t, nor should you separate them.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the Connecticut River (also from CATO).

 

New Hampshire’s overall tax burden is well below the national average at 7.4 percent. The state government taxes less than any other state but Alaska. We show a decline in state taxes as a share of adjusted personal income from a high of 3.8 percent in FY 2002 to 3.1 percent in FY 2022. Meanwhile, local taxes have risen from 3.7 percent of income in FY 2001 to 4.3 percent in FY 2021. However, this measure has been trending down from a high of 5.6 percent in FY 2012. New Hampshire is, therefore, a highly fiscally decentralized state. Granite Staters have quite a wide choice in local government, with 2.8 competing jurisdictions per 100 square miles.

 

Regulation, zoning laws, and the State’s liquor store monopoly are a few of the things CATO views and negatives. Still, overall, the Granite State continues to rule the roost on “freedom,” ranking first or second every year since 2000 and first every year since 2012.

The lesson is that Vermont should try to be more like New Hampshire. The reality is that NH Dems want the Granite State to be more like Vermont. The only thing standing between them and that is you.

And if you are looking for an example of why Democrats don’t deserve someone’s vote because of what they will do to New Hampshire, point to Vermont.

It’s just a step to our left., but there is a steep drop in freedom that keeps getting worse.

 

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This is an attempt to “break out” memes, links, and my commentary about the situation in Israel / the Middle East so as to not overload the standard meme posts that I do.  My last “normal” meme post.  In these Israel-related posts I don’t just have memes as such, but lots of informative links as well as hopefully-insightful commentary.

Note that this is not meant to be a day-by-day update about what’s going on.  Rather, to highlight uncomfortable truths about the actual nature of the conflict, deep-history background, and so on, as well as to show the at-present immutable nature of Islamic Jew hate and why that matters to today’s events.

 

 

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I attempt to populate each post with new material; thus, older posts have information that’s not in this one.  If this is a topic of interest to you I strongly urge you to go back through and peruse my older ones.  I do not focus on minute-by-minute updates but rather attempt to provide background and information relevant to this latest battle in a 1,400 year old war.  Reverse chronological order.

Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok

Israel: Still More Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok

Israel: Ongoing Memes, Links, and Commentary – Granite Grok

Israel: Ongoing Memes, Links, and Commentary – Granite Grok

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Israel: Even More Memes, Links, and Commentary – Granite Grok

Israel: More Memes, Links, and Commentary – Granite Grok

Israel: Memes and Commentary – Granite Grok

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With some Israel-related materials here:

Meme Overflow – Granite Grok

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Iran says expansion of Israel-Hamas war ‘inevitable’ – Insider Paper

Not just this.  All around the world conflict areas exist, with the potential for a spark in the Middle East to spread as the world descends into WWIII.  Now, relevant to Iran, understand that to a believing Shiite Muslim WWIII is not a bug, but a feature, for their version of the Messiah, the “Twelfth Imam”, cannot come until there is a global conflagration.  Though this is encouraging… unless they’re lying as a feint:

Iran to Hamas: ‘We won’t go to war for you’ (israelnationalnews.com)

Let me repeat this: for their messiah to come, a world war must happen which will – obviously – result in the deaths of billions.  This war is a necessary precondition.  Thus, their desire to precipitate WWIII will lead to the single biggest human sacrifice in history.

Iran’s enriched uranium stockpile over 22 times limit of 2015 deal: IAEA – Insider Paper

 

 

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FLYING PIGS MOMENT! (barenakedislam.com)

Contrast with the above.  Good news.  Note that I still don’t trust the Abraham Accords, but they do – at least for now – seem to be having a positive influence.  And this video by a Bangladesh Muslim:

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Bangladesh-muslim.mp4

 

 

WAR & WHEN WILL IT END?

Staring Into the Abyss | Frontpage Mag

We’ve taken the enemies – plural – into our very center.  The hour is late, and we’re in dire straights.

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Hamas Hiding Vast Amounts of Fuel Under Shifa Hospital | Frontpage Mag

To a Westerner, that’s insane.  To a Muslim, that’s permissible.  Because – and I keep repeating this – any Muslim who dies in jihad gets an automatic ticket to the highest level of paradise.  They truly embrace death.  Such a person cannot be deterred, they can only be killed.

Hamas’ Hospital Hideout « Lawrence Person’s BattleSwarm Blog

Take a look at what’s being discovered under Rantisi hospital:

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Rantisi-hodpital.mp4

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/inside-the-hospital.mp4

 

Surprise, Surprise! Guess What Was Found in Yet Another Gaza Hospital (townhall.com)

Proceeding through the hospital, Conricus pointed out how security cameras had been covered or obstructed before arriving at a disused MRI machine. Behind it, a “grab bag” for Hamas terrorists containing an AK-47 and ammunition, grenades, and uniforms. All stashed behind an MRI machine which, had it been used when the grab bag was there, would have sent the weapons and ammunition flying into the machine by its powerful magnets.

I did not realize AK-47s and grenades were standard hospital gear.  And take a look at this old man in the hospital who gives the reporters what-for about Hamas… and is quickly silenced as the “journalist” turns away from him: Gazan man: Why does Hamas hide in the hospital, why don’t they go hide in hell? (israelnationalnews.com) (bolding added):

 

“What is happening is a crime!” said the man. “Why is the resistance (Hamas) hiding among us? Why don’t they go to hell and hide there? They are not the resistance.”

The interviewer quickly cut the man off and began walking away as soon as he started to criticize Hamas.

 

HamAss, Hospitals and the MSM by Francis Turner – According To Hoyt

The AP at work today | Power Line (powerlineblog.com)

Memo to the AP | Power Line (powerlineblog.com)

Note how brazenly the media are taking Hamas’ side in covering this up.

In parallel, a note about Hamas’ use of civilian clothing – even guerillas are required to wear insignia or some other means to distinguish them from civilians.  And who remembers the Battle of the Bulge when German infiltration units were dressed in American uniforms?  Those Germans were summarily executed – with no repercussions or anything:

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Civilian-clothes.mp4

 

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Why a humanitarian ceasefire will bolster Hamas | JNS.org

Remember that, in war against the infidel, a hudna is allowed – but not to establish peace, but simply to rearm, reload, and reposition.  Speaking of humanitarian issues:

Hamas Shooting Civilians to Prevent Evacuation – HotAir

Gazans against Hamas do exist.  And the lesson of Abraham arguing with Hashem about the fate of Sodom and Gomorrah comes to mind if even ten good people be found.  I wrestle with this as I view videos like this two:

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Leave-us-alone-hamas.mp4

 

I read this article about comments on a NY Slimes Times piece on the Gaza tunnels and grasp that there’s widespread understanding of the problem of Hamas, even in New York Times-Traitor’s readership:

Tunneling is one of the most expensive and resource intensive enterprises known to man, the cost of the “Gaza metro” must reach billions of dollars. Imagine how much better the life of the Palestinian people would be if Hamas would have spent those billions of dollars of foreign aid on hospitals, schools, desalination plants, solar panels etc.

Hamas is absolutely the worst thing to have happened to the Palestinian people, similar to the equally ethnocentric and fanatical regimes of Germany and Japan during WW2, the life of the Palestinian people will never improve while Hamas exists, keep in mind that even if Israel where to cease to exist Hamas would blanket the middle east with a fundamentalist, corrupt and oppressive regime equal or worse to the Taliban in Afghanistan, where human suffering knows no bounds.

 

The video that Hamas doesn’t want the world to see (barenakedislam.com)

On tunneling:

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/hidden-tunnel-entrance.mp4

 

But then I read things like this:

‘Palestinian’ Mother: I Will Happily Sacrifice My 17 Children, 65 Grandchildren for the Sake of Allah – Geller Report

And recall – I can’t find the link as this was 10+ years ago – a Palestinian woman whose son was being operated on by Jews in an Israeli hospital to save his life for a heart condition that the local hospital couldn’t handle, and who said as she was interviewed waiting during the surgery, that she hoped he’d grow up to become a shahid and kill Jews.  This was one of my lynchpin shifts of perspective on the situation: Jews are saving her son’s life, but she’d rather see dead Jews.  Death cult.

That boy, getting treated by Israel hospitals, is not alone:

3,000th Palestinian child has heart operation in Israel through Save a Child’s Heart | The Times of Israel

The child has not enjoyed a normal, carefree childhood. He has been unable to perform simple tasks and he has not been allowed to run around, or even walk for long periods, lest the exertion prove too much for his fragile heart. Instead, his entire life, he has been under constant medical supervision.

When Amir’s family found out about the option of getting him heart surgery in Israel during a check-up in Gaza, they jumped at the opportunity.

“When the doctors told us there was a possibility for Israeli doctors to carry out the complicated operation Amir needed, we were so happy. Everyone here in Gaza talks about how Israeli doctors are the most professional in the world and that they can be trusted completely,” Amir’s mother said.

Some “genocide”.  Add in this:

Gaza Children as Young as 10-Years-Old and Women Participated in Massive Slaughter of Jews in Israel on Oct. 7 | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft

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To Defeat Hamas, Emulate the Destruction of the Tamil Tigers :: Middle East Forum (meforum.org)

Must read.  Good strategies, though remember – Hamas welcomes dying in jihad (video, 13 minutes).  And while there are similarities, there are also differences (links in the original, bolding added):

After Velupillai Prabhakaran was killed at the Anandapuram junction, Sri Lanka released a grisly photograph of him with bullet holes in his head, likely under the assumption that cults tend to dissipate when the cult leader dies. That tactic won’t work with Hamas. After its founder and “spiritual leader,” Ahmed Yassin, was killed in an Israeli strike on March 22, 2004, he was quickly replaced with Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi who was killed in an Israeli strike on April 17, 2004. Others have followed. Since Hamas is more than a cult, it will not be defeated by killing only the leaders. The infrastructure, middle-managers, recruiters, and financiers will also have to be either killed or forced to accept their defeat and face consequences.

Finally, at the Battle of Puthukkudiyirippu, the LTTE used the civilian Tamil population as human shields, refusing to let them flee the advancing Sri Lankan military. Similarly, Hamas is very proficient at using civilians, both Palestinian and Israeli, as human shields.

In the aftermath of their victory, the Rajapaksa brothers came under even more scrutiny from the U.N. but refused to cooperate with international investigations looking to substantiate rumors of war crimes perpetrated by the Sri Lankan military and the “unnecessary” civilian deaths. Once Hamas is totally defeated, Israel should do the same.

I still argue that the Jack Pershing treatment should be applied.  Screw “proportionality”:

The Idiocy of the Theory of ‘Proportionate Response’ | Frontpage Mag

And cut off their money:

PA will pay $2,789,430 to families of 1,500 dead Hamas terrorist murderers, this month | PMW Analysis (palwatch.org)

NOT JUST HAMAS! Palestinian Authority (FATAH) also says Muslims will “exterminate all the Jews” (barenakedislam.com)

 

 

ISLAM: PRACTICES, HISTORY, AND MENTALITY

Watch Chilling “Hamas-In Their Own Voices” (substack.com)

Video, less than three minutes.  All – every one – aired before the October 7, 2023, attacks.

They state, clearly, their aims and plans.  Note what the guy says about Rome.  Not Israel.  ROME.  Rome is to be an advance outpost for the conquest of Europe.  Then to the Americas.  Death to every infidel.  Why do so many not have the moral courage to take them at their word?

And what they did on Oct. 7 – graphic material alert:

HaShabbat HaShachora – The Judean

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Islamic Nazis | Frontpage Mag

If a subject of the Palestinian dictatorship on the West Bank sells land to a Jew, for example, the official penalty is death.

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Far-Left ‘Fact-Checker’ NewsGuard Denies Facts on Hospital Bombing, Covers For Jihadis | Frontpage Mag

The war is not just military, but a war of information.

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There is No Moderate Jihad | Frontpage Mag (bolding added):

Coexistence is death, resistance is life. Until we learn to stop coexisting with our killers, they will go on killing us. All else is an illusion. A fantasy that we keep feeding ourselves. There is no moderate Islam because there is no moderate Jihad. And there is no moderate Jihad because there is no moderate way to conquer and enslave non-Muslims. Islam is a state of perpetual war. To know Islam is to never know peace. We coexist with Islam and so we are at war.

Savagery: The True Nature of the World | Frontpage Mag

We are the same brutal, cruel, and warlike creatures we have always been. Every headline, every act of hideous violence, and every pro-genocide cheer by the grad school sociopaths who fetishize Third-World savages, proves it. What we have to do is lift the scales from our eyes, understand the situation we are in, and accept it.

For the last couple of generations, we in the West have told ourselves that we have changed. We told ourselves that we are beyond violence. And we told ourselves that everyone else was too. But that was a lie.

The Gates of Gaza | Frontpage Mag

Civilization is a set of borders that men once carved out of the wilderness. On one side the village, on the other the wolf and the savage baying for blood. The capitals of civilization have all been blinded. They hold up signs welcoming refugees and wonder why bombs go off. They accept the rationales, capitalism, colonialism, zionism and imperialism, for these horrors, and convince themselves that this time they can trust Delilah… because what is the alternative?

Not just Israel.  The entirety of Western Civilization.

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Israel Prepares for Possible Fentanyl-filled Rockets from Hamas, Hezbollah (breitbart.com) Hammer it home in your mind: to a Muslim in jihad there are no civilians on the other side.  They’ll cheerfully kill millions and not lose a second’s sleep over it… even as they use our own values against us complaining about “civilian deaths”.  Rockets, or drones.

 

 

ON INTERSECTIONALITY / LEFTIST SUPPORT

 

 

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How any woman in the West can be for Hamas after reading something like this is beyond me:

‘She was gang-raped, then executed’: Testimonies from Oct. 7 – JNS.org

The detectives have been processing statements of perpetrators and survivors. One of them is a chilling testimony of a young woman who hid with her boyfriend in a shelter, where she witnessed the rape and murder of another Israeli woman.

“I saw them forcing her to bend forward and then someone rape her,” the testimony reads. “They were dressed in olive-toned fatigues, she was alive, and then she fell silent. She was raped and then killed.”

From another article about the same incident:

‘Hamas terrorists gang-raped Israeli woman before one shot her in the back of the head as he was still having sex with her’: Horrifying account revealed as police gather evidence of sex assaults during October 7 attack | Daily Mail Online

The witness says the victim was ‘alive’ and ‘on her feet and bleeding from her back. But then the situation was that he was pulling her hair. She had long, brown hair.’

The woman told officers one of the Hamas gunmen ‘shot her in the head while he was raping her… didn’t even lift his pants’.

Something else in the first article caught my eye (bolding added):

One of the Hamas operatives who was captured said in his interrogation that each cell had a mission, and the terrorists were divided into squads for training. He described how they trained for years. Each cell received a battle plan, and to prevent leaks only the cell leaders were briefed on the actual missions.

The terrorists had ambitious plans, one of which was to take over a community and hold the residents hostage.

So what’s one of the lessons?  That Hamas planned this for years and years.  All the planning, all the training, took place while there was an extant ceasefire.  Hudna, remember?

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The Mindset of Our Anti-Semites | Frontpage Mag

Excellent – must read.  Don’t bother people with facts or call out their hypocrisy.  Related:

The Left’s Cheerleading for Hamas’ Terror | Frontpage Mag

The Left and Islam are more alike than not.  Both are totalitarian.  Both are expansionist.  Both brook no rivals.  And both see Western Civilization as the enemy.  And not for nothing is there the Arab proverb “The enemy of my enemy is my friend”… until, somehow, they defeat us.  Any takers on who wins the Islam – Leftist slugfest?

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PALLYWOOD

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/pallywood-baby-makeup.mp4

 

A little touch up before the cameras do “real” filming.

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‘Palestinian’ victim: ‘Mom, I’m fine, it’s just for the camera!’ (jihadwatch.org)

Fakery at its finest.  More on this, with a bunch of other topical links:

“PALLYWOOD” The widely discredited Hamas media propaganda arm is back spewing its usual lies (barenakedislam.com)

 

 

 

TERROR COMING GLOBALLY; ANTISEMITISM

Slouching Toward Kristallnacht | Frontpage Mag

Shoot back.  When threatened you cannot be passive.  Related:

One Sick War | Frontpage Mag

But the best way of understanding this sick war is that Israelis are Jews and the ancient plague of antisemitism is again sweeping the globe.

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Around the world:

French Jews face surge in hatred – JNS.org

Skyrocketing antisemitism in Britain is ‘perhaps no surprise’ – JNS.org

London: ‘Death to all the Jews!’ (jihadwatch.org)

South African chief rabbi slams government: ‘You are Iran’s useful idiots’ – JNS.org

Head of Germany’s Jewish Community Fears ‘Hunt for Jews’ – Geller Report

NYC: Violent Jihadi Rioters Beats Jewish Man In The Head With Chair, Taunting, Laughing – Geller Report

Pro-Hamas demonstrator in London: ‘Hitler knew how to deal with these people’ (jihadwatch.org)

Montreal Jewish community targeted again as shots fired at yeshiva | World Israel News

Barbarism Is Winning – HotAir (image and quote from this article):

It goes far beyond politics and college campuses. At the pro-Palestinian protests you see people explicitly endorsing hatred and violence against Jews. Not just sly references to eliminating Israel, but open antisemitism and embrace of Hitlerian tactics.

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It’s not just in America. It is an illness that has struck the entire West. Wherever you turn–France, Britain, Australia, New Zealand–you see a rottenness in the culture. It’s not that everything is rotten–far from it. But once the rot has spread far enough it eats away at the healthy tissue.

 

 

What’s the sum total of all the above?  The campfire of civilization is dying, whether from domestic strife and machinations, or from enemies outside.  The campfire of civilization is dying, and the wolves are closing in.  Hey, I wrote about that:

Hungry Wolves and Darkened Campfires – Granite Grok

Written specifically about America, but it applies globally.

WATCH: Muslim and Leftist Terror Mob Attacks Jews Outside Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles – Geller Report

Springtime for Hitler at MIT | Power Line (powerlineblog.com)

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Gaza Strip’s Arabs enjoy spin classes, fine dining, private beaches, theme parks, luxury hotels | JTF

Just found this article in my favorites file.  Some “concentration camp”.

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TREADING ON THE POLITICAL

Muslim Dems ‘Horrified’ by Plan to Halt Palestinian Immigration to U.S. (breitbart.com)

Heaven forbid we slow down the importation of potential terrorists!

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Biden admin isn’t sanctioning Hamas for use of human shields, drawing bipartisan ire | World Israel News

Time to understand Biden is not on your side, American Jews.  Related:

Biden giving tax money to mosques that seek total annihilation of Jews (wnd.com)

‘JIHADI’ JOE BIDEN considers waiving additional sanctions on Iran which will free up $10 billion more to fund the Hamas war against Israel (barenakedislam.com)

American Jews… you’re seriously still considering voting for this guy again?  Or “D” in general?  More:

US Jews Should Deploy Ultimate Weapon – The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

Past time.  More:

What to Do to Win the War – PJ Media(bolding added):

While Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) is virtue signaling at a self-serving rally about anti-Semitism in Washington, this hypocrite refuses to let the House-passed bill to send financial aid to Israel even come before the Senate floor.

 

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MISCELLANEOUS

 

The Untold Exodus of Jews from Arab Lands

 

 

The speaker wrote the book UPROOTED.  Excellent book.

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Melanie Phillips Video: What the Media isn’t Telling You About Israel’s War on Hamas | Frontpage Mag

Speech and transcript.

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Dalia Al-Aqidi, Muslim Candidate for Ilhan Omar’s Seat in Congress, Visits Israel – The Media Line

I saw death. I saw torture. But let me take you to 2014. I was covering… I was a journalist by then. In 2014, ISIS entered the city of Mosul and started persecuting Christians. I was born as a Muslim, and I launched a campaign, an international campaign and I went on air.

I said I am the Sunni Muslim [and] I am going to wear that cross to stand with the Christians of Iraq and to stand with the Christians of the Middle East. And I won’t take it off until every Christian goes back to their villages and cities. Yesterday, I put [on] the Star of David and I say I am a Sunni Muslim that I would wear the Star of David until of the hostages come back.

Hope.

 

 

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A CONCLUDING THOUGHT FOR THIS POST

An addendum in my critique of the person who said “Violence is taught” to what she must believe are the noble savages before they are corrupted to become violence-doers.  Here:

In forming tribes, we are like our closest living relatives, chimpanzees. Chimpanzee troops have been observed, for example in the Gombe Chimpanzee War, massacring another troop. To increase access to resources, chimpanzees may beat to death every member of an opposing tribe.

So, who taught the chimps this?

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The mythical advanced human society

For my high school American History project I did my term paper on the stock market crash of 1929.  One of the things that I read was that economists of the time, prior to the crash, kept saying that the economy had reached a “new plateau” and that things only looked up from here.  That crash shattered that claim.  So a quote to warm up:

The Thinnest Veneer of Civilization – PJ Media (bolding added):

So the great achievement of Western civilization — consensual government, individual freedom, rationalism in partnership with religious belief, free market economics, and constant self-critique and audit — was to liberate people from daily worry over state violence, random crime, famine, and an often-unforgiving nature.

But so often the resulting leisure and affluence instead deluded arrogant Western societies into thinking that modern man no longer needed to worry about the fruits of civilization he took to be his elemental birthright.

As a result, the once prosperous Greek city-state, Roman Empire, Renaissance republics, and European democracies of the 1930s imploded — as civilization went headlong in reverse.

We in the modern Western world are now facing just such a crisis.

We are now faced with the civilizational cycle, as discussed by Bill Whittle (long but absolutely worth it):

 

Bill Whittle The Assault On Civilizational Structures

 

 

Or my cycle:

 

Success breeds confidence

Confidence breeds complacency

Complacency breeds distraction

And when distracted one becomes vulnerable

 

Distracted by all the wonderful gadgets and endless entertainment and apparent unending plenty, we have indeed become vulnerable.  People do, indeed, have stability privilege these days thinking things cannot backslide to savagery:

Try to remember that Sarajevo once hosted an Olympics. Remember that Beirut used to be called “The Paris of the Middle East.” Remember that women used to wear lipstick and miniskirts in Tehran.

Try to remember that, prior to October 7, 2023, Israel viewed Hamas as “maturing” and benefitting their people from the calm of the ceasefire.  Meanwhile, they were planning and rehearsing for years.  So now the West is faced with the horrors that our stable, peaceful civilization thought they’d left behind in that New Civilizational Plateau.  Stability is an illusion:

 

 

As the sage Thomas Sowell said:

 

 

Be willing to do violence to those who do violence to you.  Be the ruder breed, or be consigned to extinction:

“The curse of every ancient civilization was that its men in the end became unable to fight. Materialism, luxury, safety, even sometimes an almost modern sentimentality, weakened the fibre of each civilized race in turn; each became in the end a nation of pacifists, and then each was trodden under foot by some ruder people that had kept that virile fighting power the lack of which makes all other virtues useless and sometimes even harmful.”

― Theodore Roosevelt

And concluding with this truth-hidden-in-fiction cold splash of reality:

“Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and their freedoms”

― Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

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If Dartmouth Health is right that administering puberty blockers and hormones to boys and girls to try to make them look like the opposite sex is medically necessary, safe, and well-researched, then systematic reviews that say otherwise by France, the United Kingdom, Norway, Sweden, and Finland are wrong.

Dartmouth Health’s written testimony against New Hampshire bill HB619 which would end child transing, signed by 21 clinicians including head pediatrician Dr. Keith J. Loud, asserts that “All gender-affirming care (GAC) is safe, age-appropriate, medically necessary, and well-researched.” However, every country that’s conducted a systematic review of the data has concluded that the evidence for these treatments is low and the risks are great.

As a result of its systematic review, Sweden’s National Board of Health and Welfare issued a warning about GAC’s dangers:

These treatments are potentially fraught with extensive and irreversible adverse consequences such as cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis, infertility, increased cancer risk, and thrombosis. This makes it challenging to assess the risk/benefit for the individual patient, and even more challenging for the minors or their guardians to be in a position of an informed stance regarding these treatments.

The UK conducted a review of the data for gender-affirming care as part of their investigation of the Tavistock, the world’s largest gender clinic which was shut down this year. The resulting report, the Cass Review concluded that “At this stage, the Review is not able to provide advice on the use of hormone treatments due to gaps in the evidence base.”

The Council for Choices for Health in Finland concluded from its study that “Research data on the treatment of dysphoria due to gender identity conflicts in minors is limited.”

The Norwegian Healthcare Investigation Board stated:

The knowledge base, especially research-based knowledge for gender-affirming treatment (hormonal and surgical), is deficient and the long-term effects are little known. This is particularly true for the teenage population where the stability of their gender incongruence is also not known.

The two studies Dartmouth Health provided to the NH House Health Human Services and Elderly Affairs Committee to support their claim that GAC is evidence-based are fundamentally flawed.

The University of Washington study Mental Health Outcomes in Transgender and Binary Youths Receiving Gender Affirming Care explored the effects of hormonal interventions on mental health after only one year of treatment. They didn’t find statistically significant improvements among the subjects who received hormone therapy.

The researchers based their claims of the benefits of GAC on the fact that while the treated patients didn’t get much better, those in the control group got worse. They ignored the fact that only 7 of the 92 members of their control group remained until the end of the study, making any inferences of causality irresponsible. The UW knew the study didn’t find causality, but covered up this information.

The other study Dartmouth Health submitted to the committee, Puberty Suppression for Transgender Youth and Risk of Suicidal Ideation was mined data from the 2015 US Transgender Survey, which used mostly online convenience sampling created for lobbying purposes. How accurate was the survey? Among the study’s significant flaws, 73% of those who claimed they had taken puberty blockers reported that they had done so before they were available for puberty suppression. Although the survey excluded those subjects from their final count, why assume the responses from younger participants are accurate?

Not only does Dartmouth Health brush aside consistent and compelling evidence that GAC isn’t safe or evidence-based, but they also blackmail lawmakers with the trans suicide myth recently denounced by a leading expert in gender care: “Our multi-disciplinary program includes pediatricians who understand that banning surgical care to gender-diverse individuals is harmful, and, according to data, can be life-threatening.”

Related: Detransitioner Sues American Academy of Pediatrics for Fraud and Conspiracy

Whether Dartmouth Health’s claims are deliberate deceit or willful ignorance, the consequences are the same. Children are having their fertility destroyed and their health permanently damaged with experimental treatments.

 

Dartmouth Health Testimony HB619

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I don’t expect anyone at CBS to know how this works, but the story annoys me. It is clickbait from people in a business that pretends to know more than our knuckle-dragging morons (and their bloggers) about the NH primary and claims that “we” are defying Joe Biden. And it’s not just CBS.

Here’s that report shared at Gateway Pundit.

 

New Hampshire is defying President Biden and the DNC by remaining the first primary in the nation, rejecting their plan to put South Carolina first. “Republicans and Democrats up here were just not having it,” CBS News’ @JakeMRosen reports. https://t.co/DOT2Jnp0aZ pic.twitter.com/NCbvkizXaK

— CBS News (@CBSNews) November 15, 2023

 

There are a few obvious points for the cheap seats. The DNC is a private corporation. They do not define what states can or cannot do (I know, it depends on the state). President Biden is not the head of the Republican Party, another private corporation acting (when it chooses) without regard to Uncle Joe’s opinion (or the will of voters). None of these individuals or entities has any authority to circumvent state law unless they get elected to office and change it. The law states that New Hampshire will have the first ‘Primary’ independent of which or how many political parties want candidates on that ballot.

All you have to do is pay the registration fee to be on the First in the Nation Primary ballot.

The Secretary of State is not allowed to change this. He or she must set the date seven days before the next scheduled primary. It is not something anyone can debate except in the legislature, should they desire to change it, and no one wants it changed. Not even New Hampshire Democrats.

In other words, no one is defying anyone unless you’d like to argue that Biden and the DNC have defied tradition to make their weak president look better in a primary process whose outcome they will “fix” if needed so none of it truly matters.

What is news is how amusing the process of getting from there to here has been—a few examples from our pages.

 

• Why NH Democrats Should Be Proud to Lose Their Primary
• 3,542 Democrats Switched to Independent So They Could “Interfere” in the NH Republican Primary
• New Hampshire Dems – We Won’t Be Following the DNC Primary Schedule ‘cuz Reasons …
• DNC Gives NH Dems Another Yard of Rope to Rhetorically Hang Themselves
• The DNC Just Screwed the NH Dems, and It’s Glorious
• What Will NH Dems Do If the DNC Dumps Their First in the Nation Primary?
• Could DNC’s Latest Draft Proposal Kill NH’s First in the Nation Primary?
• Can Democrats Overcome “Systemic Racial Inequality” When They Can’t Manage it in Their Own Primary?
• Will the Democrat Presidential Primary Please Pick Up the Nearest Bias Response Team Courtesy Phone?

 

NH Dems have no choice. They can’t have their primary until March (DNC rules), but New Hampshire isn’t doing this twice, not that it would. The law is clear.

So, Biden is not on the NH primary ballot, but many other “democrats” are, as are independents and Republicans, so the local Dems are running a write-in Biden campaign. Why? Because they hate jobs, prosperity, medical freedom, open and unregulated internet, national security, low energy prices, global peace, secure borders, and economic stability. (I’ve suggested they write in Hunter Biden, but we’ll have to wait to see if that got traction.)

The results of that write-in campaign will mean nothing to the DNC until their official Democrat primary date for the Granite State, weeks later.

To summarize. No one is defying anyone.

Joe’s puppeteers deciding to start their circus tour in South Carolina is irrelevant to New Hampshire law. We were always having our primary first, and until the law changes, we always will.

There will be ballots with names on them, and citizens will be encouraged to show up and vote in defiance of tyranny (we would hope), though there is no guarantee.

That’s how this all works.

 

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Ya gotta wonder why there are so many Americans siding with Muslim extremists and why the Biden administration is deeply bowing both to them and massive numbers of Palestinian “supporters” here in the US.

If I were a conspiracy theorist, I’d guess it goes much further than payoffs to Biden: I’d guess that there are some major pockets of Muslim terrorists – and maybe some nukes – that are being used to blackmail the US into anti-American policies and the weakening of anti-American interests around the world.

If I was a conspiracy theorist, that is…

But then, we’ve been allowing (and practically importing) anti-American immigrants into the US and allowing them to settle here, and then standing by while they use Constitutionally guaranteed American freedom and liberty to undermine American freedom and liberty.

MIT has recently backed down from expelling violent Muslim protesters on campus because… well – because they’d lose their education visas and would have to leave this country and return home, which the MIT administration wants to prevent. So, by only suspending them for a short time, those Muslim protesters can stay here and continue to disrupt classes and intimidate non-Muslim students for the foreseeable future.

When John Adams said, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other,” he was referring to those who would want to destroy this country…

…such as the descendants of the Barbary pirates from Algiers, Tunis, and other Middle East nation-states who were attacking American ships and taking prisoners as slaves in the early 16th century. We even fought a war – the Tripolitan war (ever heard of “Tripoli”?) against these Muslim invaders. (Related: The 1.5 Million White Slaves in North Africa.)

And yet, today, we welcome them in and then wonder why there are so many anti-Americans of Muslim descent here in the US.

We have learned nothing in the past 300 years…

 

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As Tom Renz rightly notes, no one is saying definitively that the DoD was providing one or more service members with a Moderna COVID-19 (ish) vaccine in 2014, but given the information from the whistleblower and the Medical record obtained via court order, shouldn’t someone (in Congress) be asking some questions?

Renz is also curious about details related to developing a pathogen (SARS CoV2) in a lab in China (a sworn enemy of America) as part of American gain of function research (and why aren’t we all, I’d add). That could not have happened – he says – without DoD and or CIA knowledge. The DoD knew. CIA knew. Fauci knew. CDC. Who else knew? And what does it have to do with the 2014 medical record or patent documents showing the COVID-19 “vaccine” has been around a long time and that warp speed was smoke and mirrors? (Related: Dr. David Martin and Rasmussen Poll Reveal COVID Crimes Against Americans.)

COVID used to mean something more general, but check out the remarks and the context and let us know what you think.

 

@RenzTom

• Evidence suggests that COVID-19 was developed in the mid-2010s, with a Moderna patent from 2016 indicating a connection.
• A whistleblower provided military medical records showing a soldier receiving COVID-19 immunization by Moderna in 2014.
• Attorney Renz has developed a legal case against EcoHealth Alliance, alleging their involvement in creating SARS-CoV-2 with the CCP and Wuhan Lab.
• He then asked: “Does anybody believe that we transferred that sort of [bioweapon] technology to a CCP lab without an okay from the DoD or CIA? I’ve got news for you. They knew exactly what was going on.”

 

Attorney Accuses the CIA and DoD of Being Deeply Involved With COVID-19

“When someone got this [COVID] shot. They didn’t get it from Pfizer or Moderna. They got it from the DoD. The DoD distributed this,” testified attorney @RenzTom.

• Evidence suggests that COVID-19 was… pic.twitter.com/hSfk1GrdPr

— The Vigilant Fox (@VigilantFox) November 15, 2023

 

HT | Vigilant Fox

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When the Biden Administration recently announced a record $42 billion investment in broadband internet, it was pitched as an investment in rural and underserved communities. A new study, however, found many of these funds went to wealthy, urban areas because of a questionable allocation methodology, according to Fox News.

The Broadband Equity Access and Development program was marketed as a way to “ensure that everyone in America has access to affordable, reliable high-speed internet,” with an emphasis on underserved areas with spotty or expensive internet coverage.

A new report from Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), however, found that not all of these funds went toward these goals. To decide how much each state would receive in these funds, the White House identified areas that lacked broadband internet in each state, with more areas lacking internet meaning more funding for the state.

Washington, D.C. was assessed as having 184 areas lacking internet, but 58 of them, almost one-third of the locations, were located in the Smithsonian National Zoo, raising questions about D.C.’s funding. In Delaware, a location designated as lacking internet was the Biden Environmental Training Center, a conference and retreat facility near President Biden’s home.

Funding in these dense, urban areas flies in the face of the original intent of the program, which was to bring internet coverage to rural and underserved areas. D.C. and Delaware were allotted over $547,000 and $52,000, respectively, for each location without broadband access, while the national median allocation for areas without connectivity averages $5,600 per location.

In other cases, wealthy areas received funding. Tuckernuck Island in Massachusetts will receive federal funding for broadband, despite mansions in the area selling for over a million dollars. Additionally, the area already receives ample internet coverage, just not of the kind this program aims to promote.

Making taxpayers in Kentucky and South Dakota pay for internet investments in D.C. and Delaware is unethical and counterproductive, but that’s exactly what this program seems to have accomplished.

The #WasteOfTheDay is brought to you by the forensic auditors at OpenTheBooks.com

 

Adam Andrzejewski | Real Clear Wire

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