Saturday • January 11 • 2025
Vol.XVII • No.II
Manchester, N.H.
Please help us save women’s sports in New Hampshire. There are five bills that will help protect women’s sports from being dominated by men. Four of them have actions that you can take now!
Watch this video to learn more about what is at stake.
if a boy claims he has a girl’s gender identity, girls are expected to sacrifice their privacy, safety, and even their health to affirm him. Protesting an NHIAA meeting In Concord NH after a boy won the Division II girl's high jump at the track and field event. #NHPolitics… pic.twitter.com/GrcS3jISfG
— Sidewalk Steve (@Sidewalk_Steve) February 19, 2024
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In three short years, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and Alejandro Mayorkas have let enough illegal migrants breach our southern border that if we brought them all to one spot, they would total more than 36 states in our Union. If that is tough to grasp, we now have more illegals from over 150 countries than the residents of Massachusetts, Missouri, or Wisconsin.
The Democrats are on a mission to award statehood to D.C. and Puerto Rico to add Senators and Representatives to Congress that would give them an insurmountable edge forever. The 7 Million migrants represent ten members of the House if they could be brought to one location. You can bet the Democrats are trying to get this done. I have some state name suggestions: Bidenland and New Amnesty- rather simplistic, but you get the point. The number of people now scattered around America will change America’s complexion but also threaten every American’s safety.
If you remember Biden and Harris’s original assessment of the border surge, these people were predominantly from the turbulent Northern Triangle of Central America. This region is crime-riddled and poverty-stricken, which fed the sympathy and empathy the administration wanted us to have for these displaced families that needed the safety of asylum in America.
This whole scenario was a lie then and pure fantasy today. These seven million people are unvetted, and the majority of migrants are single men of military age. We do not know their history, gang affiliation, or how many have ties to terrorist groups. It took less than twenty men to bring down the Twin Towers on 9/11, and they came to America legally. We now have over seven million and have no idea where they have gone in the continental United States. There has been an increase of over 500% in Chinese migrants in 2024. These people are not hiking thousands of miles but flying from China to Mexico and crossing the Rio Grande.
Half the people in America who get their news on mainstream media or, God Forbid, The View, have no idea the magnitude of the crisis at our Southern border and now the Northern border, too. When they hear Conservatives voice alarm at the situation, the Left throws labels of racism at those who see the danger of being brought to America’s borders. This border fiasco is dangerous, wrong, and self-inflicted on our country by our President, who refuses to acknowledge the crisis or the damage.
With the House impeachment of Secretary Mayorkas will never be successful in removing this harmful individual from office. The process will force the Senate to hold an impeachment trial, and the Constitution requires all Congressional activity to cease while the trial is in progress. This focus by Congress will force the mainstream media to cover the first impeachment of a sitting cabinet secretary in over 150 years. The media will spin the proceedings as a Republican witch-hunt and persecution of a good and honorable man, but they will also have to cover the border crisis as background for their narrative or be guilty of negligence and political bias, both of which they have been guilty of for years.
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While the 2024 New Hampshire First in the Nation Presidential Primary has come and gone, the debate about which state should hold the first Primary continues. As usual, the metrics used to determine that have nothing to do with why New Hampshire is the best place to start.
The surveyWalletHub does a lot of national research, and we appreciate their keeping us on the mailing list. We get access to their work immediately and often report on the results. This week, “WalletHub sought to identify which of the 50 states are most representative of the US population and thus truly worthy of the top primary-election spot.”
If that was what truly mattered, New Hampshire ranks 36th. Illinois scored best, followed by Florida, Ohio, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Michigan. And to that bitter Vermonter who wrote about how NH doesn’t deserve it, you were ranked in the bottom five at 46th. Only Wyoming, Alabama, Mississippi, and Utah were less representative of America than Vermont, according to WalletHub.
And while I’m sure the seething mass of illegals will help your numbers next year, “demographics” is not why New Hampshire deserves to keep it, not that we’re likely to change the state law that mandates we be the first Primary.
Jeff Chidester, Mike Rogers, and I discussed this on Radio Row during Primary Weekend, the three days leading up to the date itself. That conversation starts at 3:25 if you want to listen in, but I’ll break it down for you.
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It is incredibly easy to file and get on the presidential primary ballot. There were 42 candidates on the NH Ballot in 2024, and there was a well-balanced mix between the Dems and the GOP. That means more people, with more ideas, issues, and perhaps more solutions, get an opportunity to meet and talk to citizens with a high political involvement. These regular people ask regular questions and challenge assumptions, and the media is following many of them around – sharing at least some of that debate with America.
Candidates must engage us in numerous small venues in New Hampshire, like bakeries, restaurants, diners, and dozens of places where you can’t escape their concerns. And they will vet you, from the flatlanders in the south to the North Country. Candidates cannot stick to a few large cities and hope to win the state – we don’t have any large cities. Manchester has just over 100,000 residents in a state of 1.35 million—people who are not all that different from anywhere else.
We have farmers, laborers, job creators, small and large businesses, a wealthy class, and work-a-day minimum wage voters. There aren’t as many people of color, but statistically, they have a significantly greater chance of engaging candidates one-on-one or in small groups in New Hampshire than they would in Illinois.
Is a large venue filled with African Americans who can do little more than hear what a candidate is promising the better experience for the National electorate than that candidate sitting in a booth at a diner? As Fran notes in the video above, “If you are a minority in New Hampshire, you have a stronger voice.” You will get dozens of opportunities not just to see but to meet and talk to top-tier candidates one-on-one—face-to-face.
You’ve got their undivided attention for a minute or five or whatever it is, and that happens daily over months in New Hampshire. People with no political access or party favoritism can engage with would-be future presidents and, thanks to the internet, can then share that with Americans, unfiltered by major media.
There is no large state where that can even begin to happen on the scale it does here in the Granite State, and I doubt anything like that would come close to happening in Illinois or even Florida. They are too large with too many large cities where it makes more sense for a campaign to spend time and money.
You can’t do that in New Hampshire, and we don’t let you do it, and America is invited to watch and learn at the beginning of the process. What happens here during the Primary doesn’t stay here and more than a third of our electorate … is registered independent.
We take pride in our role and take it seriously, so while we are not demographically “perfect,” we provide things to every demographic you won’t get anywhere else, and you are welcome to come here and help us vet all of them again in 2028. And if you don’t think this is where the first Primary is going to be, then you haven’t been paying attention.
The guy playing at being Leader of the increasingly less free world tried to take it away, and we told him to go to Hell!
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If I had to pick one word to describe the GOP, it would be … clueless. Apparently, most, not all, but most continue to bitterly cling to the wish/desire/fantasy that the 2024 election will not be rigged. Hell, there is even a subset that continues to believe, despite all the evidence and facts to the contrary, that the 2020 election was legitimate.
I recently posted about Tucker Carlson’s interview with Mike Benz, which discussed how the Deep State rigged the 2020 election and how that effort remains in place and active. Because it is a long listen and because the GOP, especially the NHGOP, only want to hear and believe that 2024 will be a legitimate election … Biden is done! We’re winning! Blah! Blah! Blah! I link here to an article in The Federalist that condenses the Benz interview into a relatively short read in the hope that the bitter-clingers in the GOP can rouse themselves from their complacency and denial:
But this isn’t a thing of the past. All of the censorship infrastructure described above is still intact, still functioning, and is firing on all cylinders right now ahead of the 2024 election. If anything, the censorship-industrial complex is more robust than it was four years ago. Just last week, Meta’s President of Global Affairs Nick Clegg boasted on CNBC that he currently has some 40,000 employees, which is nearly 60 percent of Meta’s entire workforce, tasked with censoring speech on Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. Clegg also claimed Meta has spent about $20 billion, including $5 billion in the last year, on its censorship efforts — or what he euphemistically called “election integrity.”
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To all those who are sending in memes, thank you! Keep them coming please, as it helps me gather weaponry to fight the Left. 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 & commentary post if this is a subject of interest to you. And a bonus piece about “Concentration Camp Gaza”.
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They’re getting desperate to squelch information flows they don’t like.
Supposedly from a UK kindergarten. What’s next, that it’s OK to get into a stranger’s car because refusing might make them upset?
The fact that most of his supporters can look at his / his administration’s deeds and see no problem with it is very revealing.
People with no actual loyalty to country or culture or the Constitution serving in the military? This does not bode well… especially if they’re armed and then told that the native population hates them and wants them deported.
Wait until you look at what NYC is trying to do with its debit card program.
Parasites always view themselves as essential.
Vitamin D! About a year ago I had a vitamin D test done and the test results were that I was not just high in the range, but over it. The doctor actually said he’d NEVER seen anyone over the recommended range.
More broadly, ALL mRNA.
At least a Roomba has a purpose and function.
The hormone injections and anti-depressants / etc. can’t be helping either. It’s my belief that, deep down, they know they’ve been betrayed by parents, schools, etc.
While I obviously need doctors for things, no longer do I hold them in esteem.
What a coincidence.
No mercy. No amnesty.
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PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA
This is a pile of cash that was found in Khan Yunis as IDF soldiers fight Hamas. The details of where are unimportant to my point, however.
We’ve seen massive quantities of cash accumulated by criminals (e.g., this Mexican drug lord). And this is only one example after the above. Expect the above image to be added to the impetus for global CBDCs under “fighting crime and terrorism”.
A comment & link from my Jarhead friend on this:
Trump has made a campaign promise “not allow an American Central Bank Digital Currency to see the light of day”. However, because there is a strong possibility of him being elected again, the bankers are being encouraged to bring out the currency BEFORE the election, so it will already be in place, and too costly for Trump to stop:
American Totalitarian “Crypto Dollar” May Come Before the Election ⋆ Brownstone Institute
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E. All of the above.
Brings to mind my essay about nudging:
The Fly on the Urinal – Urban Scoop
If the dad “did something” and I was on the jury I’d accept He needed a little killing! as a valid defense.
Be a fool if you did. Now that the Rubicon of political prosecution has been crossed…
I’ve worked with a M -> F trans person. The amount of medications they took daily to fight their body’s nature from re-establishing itself was massive.
Someone does that to my daughter they’d better pray I never find them.
No Decepticon logo?
Astute observation.
I’ve known more than a few uber-lib anti-gunners who’ve talked about confiscation. And I’ve replied “OK, strap on some body armor and come get them”. Oh, no no no, they’ll outsource that.
“Starvation”.
BWAAA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!
Pediatrician has started to push this for the daughter. Over my dead body.
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Link Section (some mine, some from my Jarhead friend):
Moonbattery Scientific American: No Sex Change for Kids = Nazism – Moonbattery
One reason why I no longer trust “science” or “medicine”.
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Pots, Kettles, And Corruption – Liberty’s Torch (libertystorch.info) (bolding added):
X Corp’s acceptance test procedure indicated that the system met its specification in all details. Even so, once installed at Z Casino, it seemed to fail more often than not: whether at recording the markers, or at tracking the payouts and paybacks, or when the batching / reporting system was triggered. Something was rotten in Denmark, but there appeared to be nothing wrong with the system itself.
What was wrong, of course, was that the system was preventing casino employees from stealing. So they worked hard to make it fail.
To shorten this story somewhat, everyone who worked at Z Casino was involved in stealing from the joint. The floor workers stole what they could; the supervisors demanded a piece of the floor workers’ take to remain complicit; and the top management took a piece of the supervisors’ rake-off as the price of letting the scam continue. The whole payroll was determined to see to it that X Corp’s marking system looked like a lemon to Jones and his inner circle of managers and advisors.
Sounds like every reform attempt of government, no matter what the level. Speaking of corruption:
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Destroying Democracy to Save Democracy – Vox Popoli (voxday.net)
Doubtless something similar coming to the US. IMHO, there WILL be a pretext found to “temporarily” suspend the 2024 election.
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Disposable Democrats
In a totalitarian government, everyone is a Kleenex. Once you serve your purpose, you are disposable. Oh, the ruler may keep you around for a while, but sooner or later, everyone gets thrown away.
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The Downside of Prosperity – Too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious – Flopping Aces
We have too many people who vote for a living, rather than working for a living.
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Wyoming Is The Epicenter Of America’s Fake ‘Red State’ Problem (thefederalist.com)
Too many “Red” pols just want to enrich themselves and hobnob at the “beautiful people” parties.
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The Cancelled Black Harvard Professor Who Found No Racial Bias in Police Shootings – Intellectual Takeout
Inconvenient analysis and results.
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Adam Montgomery was found guilty on all charges of murdering his daughter, Harmony Montgomery. Some have praised this as justice. There are others who must face trial as well for their own abhorrent failures. Making mistakes is one thing, hiding them is another.
Is Locking Up Adam Montgomery the Only Justice for Harmony Montgomery? We’ll See.
The state receives millions in grants for child welfare, to protect against child abuse, and for training programs. It has failed over and over and over again – for decades.
The State’s key witness against Adam Montgomery was Kayla Montgomery, who had lied to a Grand Jury and was offered a plea if she testified against him. Whether or not she was a credible witness is beside the point. Harmony’s life was put in danger thanks to a Judge in Massachusetts who ordered her to be sent to live with her father. Her life was further put in danger because New Hampshire’s DCYF didn’t vet her father or Kayla Montgomery. In 2020 the US DHHS OIG issued the following damning report on New Hampshire’s failures with child caregivers.
“By not ensuring that all current employees or household members who supervised or had routine unsupervised contact with children passed all criminal background checks, New Hampshire potentially jeopardized the safety of the children in the care of the 30 selected childcare providers.”
When the police finally announced that Harmony was missing and put out a reward to find her, the Manchester Police Chief maintained that his department had told the truth but that others were lying. I find that hard to believe, given a more recent account by Robert Tanguay, who recorded phone calls between him and Manchester Police, who refused to take a report from him regarding child abuse. Whether or not you believe Robert Tanguay, the point is that the police refused to write down child abuse claims. New Hampshire has a mandatory reporting statute for child abuse, so why would Manchester police refuse to take a report on child abuse? Is it because the mother of Robert Tanguay’s children left him for a member of the police department?
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Here is the statute regarding the reporting of child abuse. What part of it do NHPD, NHCADSV, and DCYF not understand, and why don’t they
“To suspect child abuse or neglect does not require that the reporter have proof or evidence that the abuse or neglect occurred. It simply means that the reporter has reason to believe that something could have happened. It is the role of DCYF and law enforcement to investigate the report and make a determination.”
Manchester Mayor Joyce Craig’s office failed as well. Contact was made in her office by a member of Harmony’s family seeking help as they were concerned for her welfare. AG John Formella’s office was supposed to look into what happened. Governor Sununu ordered an investigation into the state’s child agencies after the Harmony Montgomery incident. Of course, nobody was charged, and no fault was found. Recommendations were made, and like all the previous recommendations when it comes to NH DCYF, they were ignored. If they weren’t, Manchester Police might have taken Robert Tanguay’s report of child abuse seriously instead of brushing him off.
Anna Carrigan brought a Whistleblower suit against New Hampshire for failures of the DCYF and associated agencies when it came to children. She was brushed off, too. Why?
David Meehan et al. brought a suit against New Hampshire & DCYF for extreme child sexual abuse at the YDC. They were brushed off for “victim negligence.” Why?
There will be no justice for Harmony Montgomery or any other child who has been abused or killed under New Hampshire State supervision until the police, judges, and agencies are held accountable. They receive millions in grants. What happened to Harmony Montgomery is as much on them as it is on Adam and Kayla Montgomery, who were dependents of the State due to the welfare checks they received and the homeless shelters they inhabited.
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A Providence, Rhode Island whistleblower is back. Ramona Bessinger exposed the Critical Race Theory curriculum in her district along with the mistreatment, retaliation, and harassment that came from exposing it. This time, the whistle blows for DHS-backed ‘media literacy’ training.
Related: The New Civic Listening Corps is a Government Funded Society-Wide Network of Snitches
The training is not what it purports to be. It’s all about training teachers to teach students to become “disinformation” informers.
Starting in September 2023, I attended a twelve week online training through “Courageous Rhode Island” at the University of Rhode Island, funded by a DHS grant of over $700,000. The program is for K-12 teachers and is promoted as “media literacy.” But it’s so much more than media literacy, and the impact of the training turned to teacher interaction with students and how students could be utilized as reporting sources.
I’m about to tell you what I witnessed and what this taxpayer-funded “disinformation” training is all about. What follows are a lot of details. But the bottom line is that the is a direct track from media literacy theory to DHS goals and objectives to URI training to teachers to students, and back again up the chain in a feedback loop. It’s dangerous to our society, and shows how something claimed to protect freedom has the potential to damage freedom.
The overview is long and detailed, so if you are looking to get into the weeds, Legal Insurrection has plenty of that here. Summarized, the program is in-depth and very partisan.
According to one of the Courageous RI facilitators during the course, “disinformation” oversight is justified and comes in the form of classroom lesson plans and classroom activities intended to reduce media influence over children who may become future “domestic terrorists.” During the training, Courageous RI facilitators were hyper-focused on Donald Trump as their media literacy poster child. A great deal of classroom content centered around Trump and his alleged influence over individuals and “violent extremism,” Specifically January 6th. Violence from the left was largely ignored.
The Courageous RI facilitators often pointed to Trump as the root cause of all social media and media disinformation; they blamed Trump for influencing “MAGA Republicans” to commit violence and more. During the weekly online training sessions, I asked for evidence to support their claims that violent extremism and disinformation existed in K-12 schools. I was quickly dismissed or directed to chat conversations where conservative voices were singled out and suppressed.
I reached out to contacts in the New Hampshire Department of Education, and they have heard of this but have not seen it crop up in New Hampshire. I did some searching and could not find anything either, but it’s out there, so some universities could snag a DHS grant and then try to implement the “Media Literacy” training in the Granite State.
Those outside New Hampshire should do their own looking. Look for Courageous [state initials], Media Literacy, DHS+Media Literacy, or any combination of those. Be creative. Homeland is using campus-driven “training” to create a cadre of public educators who then use public schools to churn out little Stasi informants.
Not that this is new – the DHS deliberately funding it, however, is a thing. You’d expect them to use some CIA front group pretending to be an NGO, and maybe they are doing that, too.
Please loop us in if you find anything, no matter in which state you live.
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We learned that we were able to get through reconsideration of HB154 (reconsideration failed), 44 regular calendar bills and 1 bill pulled off consent, between 9 am and 5:30 pm, with an hour for lunch (thankfully provided by the NH Nurses Association). Everyone was prepared to stay much longer into the evening, but speeches were relatively short, and we had a nice amount of voice votes on bills, too!
Caucus members brought in snacks to share, and the anteroom was filled with all sorts of goodies to enjoy between votes, including snacks provided by the Republican Women of NH. As far as the day went, we had a mixed bag of lots of things, and Republicans managed to stick around until the end. You’ll notice a lot of “Indefinite Postponement”…. that is the ultimate kill motion.
We learned that HB1111 passed with a roll called OTP/A motion of 197-179. This bill provides for a penalty to folks who intentionally file false reports of child abuse and neglect. Some people are just nasty that way and try to make trouble for people by filing such false reports. This bill sends some aggravation back their way!
We also learned that HB1633, yet another cannabis legalization bill, passed 239-141 on a division vote (not roll call). It is now off to Ways and Means. This bill sets up 15 state-regulated retail outlets, prohibits sale to anyone 21 or younger, and ensures the safety and purity of the product. This was a bipartisan bill that was put together trying to incorporate favorable elements of past failed cannabis legalization legislation. It does not allow for home grow. If it does ever pass the House on the next shot, it’ll be interesting to see what the Senate does with, or to, it. Paging Sen. Lang….
We learned that HB1649, which came out of the Commerce Committee, passed on a voice vote. This bill would prohibit the production and sale of any product with intentionally added PFAs (aka poly fluoroalkyl substances – or “forever chemicals”) in an attempt to prevent said products from contaminating our landfills and water supply. Apparently, these products contain PFAs and will be banned from sale in NH after July 1, 2028. We’re talking about things like carpets, cosmetics, textile treatments, feminine hygiene products, food packaging and containers, juvenile products, personal protective equipment, upholstered furniture, and textile furnishings. I am not sure how that is going to work out, but manufacturers are going to have to figure out how to produce these things without toxic chemicals in them. Of course, there will be exemptions, including products made with 85% recycled content, products manufactured before the ban date, and replacement parts for products manufactured before the ban date. Again, we’ll see what the Senate does with this one… they get to pick their poison – so to speak.
Additionally, we learned that HB1050 was ultimately killed via Indefinite Postponement 204-177. This bill would have allowed a person to voluntarily put themselves on a list, waiving their rights to purchase a firearm. It would have authorized the NH Dept. of Safety to establish a voluntary ”do not sell list” ostensibly to allow folks who thought they were a danger to themselves or others, or who hate guns enough not to want to ever own one, to place themselves on said list. It was another dumb idea by Rep. David Meuse (D-Portsmouth) and cosponsoring Democrats to restrict 2nd amendment rights. These people just love lists. Of course there were issues of privacy of these lists and how they may be used or abused. We can just imagine therapists or doctors telling their patients that they would no longer be treated unless they put themselves on a list. There are all sorts of ugly things that can happen when lists are involved. As far as I am concerned, this bill can be put on the list of dumb anti 2nd amendment bills that need to be killed.
Speaking of gun bills, we learned that HB1186 passed OTP/A 203-174. This bill would prohibit a merchant category code from being used in NH that would denote a firearm or accessory was purchased. Citizens have a right to privacy. It’s no one’s business what you buy, especially as it relates to firearms. In 2023, seven states prohibited the use of these codes. Major credit card companies paused their plans to implement the use of these codes because states are making it illegal to do so. I’m glad we are following suit on this. In New Hampshire, we recently enshrined a citizen’s right to privacy in our Constitution… this is an extension of that right. It might be called the NUNYA Act… as in NUNYA business.
We also learned that another good gun bill, HB1339 passed on a voice vote. This bill creates a fair process to get firearms returned to their rightful owners following confiscation by law enforcement or court proceedings. It is a major improvement to the ambiguities and delays in firearms returns in the current law. Seeing as this was the 7th anniversary of the passage of Constitutional Carry in NH, it seems fitting this bill was passed in the House today.
We further learned that HB1128 was killed with Indefinite Postponement 191-187. This bill would have shut down the Education Tax Credit and Education Freedom Accounts by preventing the operations of the administering third party contractor, The Childrens Scholarship Fund, because it is not a NH registered entity. This bill was the brainchild of Rep. David Luneau (D-Hopkinton), who hates Education Freedom Accounts and is trying every angle he can find to kill this wildly successful and effective educational program. The Children Scholarship Fund is a non-profit organization registered in NY that works with 22 partner organizations in 19 other states. It has successfully managed our EFA program and has helped thousands of families and students in our state. This makes Democrats angry… so angry they want to dismantle its operation in NH. Thankfully they got an “F”, as in Fail, on this bill.
We also learned that HB1288 passed 192-185 in a roll call the vote. This bill establishes certain due process rights for students, student organizations and faculty members facing disciplinary actions by state institutions of higher learning. Due process is always a good thing. You can see the 185 who think it is not a good thing.
We learned that a $130 million education spending bill passed 228-150. HB1583 changes the education funding formula and increases per-pupil spending and staff salaries. As if $3.8 billion in education spending in NH is not already enough…. Rep. Mike Belcher (R-Wakefield) gave a great speech about education funding and how much money we are spending yet getting poor results in proficiency tests. His floor speech centered on how these enormous funds are now being spent. He said, “Money is being spent on divisive DEI programming, turning classroom environments in therapy sessions, and incorporating general healthcare services into schools. The path forward to a genuinely adequate education requires reversing course on these trends, cuts to these departments and staff, and returning to academics. The exorbitant funding is the problem and not the solution because schools have demonstrated time and time again that when we fund them in excess of what is necessary to deliver an adequate education, they will use those funds on programs that are objectively harmful to their mission.” He’s not wrong. Additionally, he’s not impressed with what is going on in the courts with regard to determination on education funding… Our job as a legislature is not to kowtow to the courts or the judiciary but to do our job as delegated to us by the NH Constitution. As far as I am concerned, this is not an issue of funding, this is an issue of whether or not we are doing the proper things in our schools to educate our students and producing proficiency in the subjects they are there to learn about. Class dismissed.
We learned that the perennial bill (HB1426) having to do with establishing an “independent” advisory redistricting commission was killed via Indefinite Postponement 192-186. Do people seriously think they can assemble an “independent, unbiased group of people” to decide these things? Pfft… right… and I have a bridge to sell ya too.
We learned that we will allow machines to capture the digital images of voting ballots. New digital ballot tabulating machines will allow voters to do their own audits, and check how their own ballot was tallied, and a whole bunch of other cool stuff. All election data will be under the control and auspices of the Secretary of State. Our vote on this bill, HB1577, passed 193-182, and you can check the accuracy of that Roll Call vote online.
We learned that the NH organic farm certification program will be defunded and will only continue until the end of 2024. Continuation of this program with HB1184 would have cost an additional $220,000 and would always be taxpayer-subsidized. Currently, there are 4000 farms in NH. Only 132 are certified organic, and of those, only 66 are NH certified. So, the current program only serves 66 farms. These farms can be certified by other agencies in VT, ME, and MA. The vote to discontinue the program was through a failed OTP motion of 187 NO to 185 YES then a voice vote in favor of ITL and a reconsideration motion of 193 NO and 182 YES.
We learned that the bill that would ban retail pet stores in NH died with an ITL motion 260 YES -117 NO. This bill would allow the six retail pet stores to stay in business for now but not allow new ones to be established. The reason proponents wanted this bill was to stop retail pet stores from getting their animals from “puppy mills.” Instead of dealing with the sourcing issue, they’d just like to shut down these stores altogether. It is an initiative by the Humane Society, who, of course, do not mind having these stores showcasing their shelter animals…. Nor do they mind getting a monopoly on the pet sales business. We’ve seen this bill in prior years. This anti-business bill barked up the wrong tree and ultimately was euthanized.
We learned that the Licensure and Regulation of Music Therapists bill was back again (HB1394) and passed this time with OTP/A 194-186. It’s the same old tune… license us so we can get insurance companies to pay for our services.
We also learned that the House passed, through a voice vote, a municipal disaster relief bill (HB1466), which will help municipalities get roads passable with quick funding from the state (up to $100,000) after a natural disaster. This now goes to Finance, and we hope there won’t be any roadblocks.
We learned that HB1322, the minimum wage bill, died with indefinite postponement 193-187. That was a good thing. Unfortunately, the Right To Work bill (HB1377) also failed with a roll called indefinite postponement 212-168. Opponents of the Right to Work bill keep claiming that it is a “Union Busting Bill”, but other states that have passed Right To Work have not experienced busted up unions.
Additionally, we learned that HB1709 passed on a voice vote. This bill establishes a commission to study the effects regarding taxing land that is used for carbon credits. The sale of carbon credits in place of harvesting timber is a relatively new concept. The commission will examine how this practice will affect the timber business, municipal timber taxes, and all the services surrounding timber harvesting in NH.
We also learned that HB1472 died on a voice vote to ITL after several other motions were made and voted on. We spent an hour on this bill alone. Rep. Michael Vose (R-Epping) declared this bill a “Reverse Robin Hood scheme.” What this bill would have done is taken money from the Renewable Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI – that ratepayers pay into and get rebates from), and given it to subsidize the purchase of Electric Vehicles for the rich people who are buying them. The whole idea is shocking.
Finally, we learned that in honor of Black History Month, Rep. Jonah Wheeler (D-Peterborough) gave a fabulous speech honoring past and current black members of the New Hampshire House. We are fortunate to have such a proud history and a spirit of diversity as part of our NH House. We thank Rep. Wheeler for reading the names and providing us with a worthwhile history lesson.
There’s more to come when we reconvene on March 7th!
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The reimaging of CO2 as a planetary poison (by Marxists bent on controlling people while destroying capitalism) is silly. Still, it presents opportunities to embarrass these systemic dumbasses that might not otherwise be possible when their wingnuttery gets the best of them in other ways.
For example, making the batteries to store wind and sun energy (more like coal, gas, and oil) ruins ecosystems and indigenous people, but that happens too far away to see. If you bring it up to these self-proclaimed defenders of ecosystems and indigenous people, they call you names and pretend it’s not true. It’s a common theme. Progressives must pretend a great deal to prevent reality from colliding with the fantasy of their politics.
The energy needed to “recycle” from cleaning to moving to processing to shipping it to China (where they dump a lot of it in the ocean) to recovering and prepping and then remanufacturing what can be used has a tremendous “carbon” footprint and even Green advocates have admitted it is neither beneficial nor a good use of our energy or effort. (Hint: burying it instead of shipping it to Southeast Asia would keep more of it out of the ocean, and doesn’t shipping emit emissions or something?).
Lab-grown meat. Fake meat from plants. Both have significant CO2-related impacts, greater than that which they are meant to replace, but we’re meant to ignore all of that, and right about now (roughly 200+ words into it), you’re wondering where the lactation bit from the headline comes in.
“…a leaked letter from a University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust medical director claimed that milk produced by trans women, with the help of drugs, is “comparable to that produced following the birth of a baby.” …
The letter went on to convey certain guidelines that allow trans women to produce milk through “induced lactation.” They must take the hormone progesterone to develop milk-producing glands. Other drugs, such as domperidone, which is given to biological women who are having difficulty breastfeeding, are needed to help stimulate the production of prolactin, another hormone that signals the body to produce breast milk.
Putting tits on a bull and lactating ones at that, and why not? We’ve got the technology, and it’d be like the #wokest thing ever—a culmination of time, energy, and chemistry for another completely unnecessary purpose (the actual women who gave birth are already lactating). It is an unnecessary purpose, which, I’d have to guess, comes with a significant carbon footprint.
All that R&D, manufacturing, distribution, storage, public health space, staffing, and record-keeping to make and track the injections (you can never stop or you’ll stop lactating), and you’d be right to wonder – the same way you look at that food container you have to wash before taking it to the recycling center – is this whole process really emitting less by the time it’s all done? It’s not, but just like the not-so-green movement it toto, you’ve missed the point.
The idea is that you are trying to do something the political left loves, and this is more important than anything else. Drugs won the war on drugs, crime is winning the war on crime, women’s rights belong to men now, and so on. The left is your shit-face cousin who has never had a real job but is somehow in charge of everything.
And it doesn’t matter that millions of women choose not to breastfeed (or have abortions), which means that men pretending to be women don’t need to feel weird about not needing or doing either. It’s that one woman, somewhere, chose to breastfeed, so it makes medical and mental health sense to find a complex chemical means to ensure that you can charge a man a fee (or, more likely, taxpayers a fee) to make them lactate (probably in prison).
Lottie Moore from the think tank Policy Exchange, which exposed the letter, told the Telegraph: “This letter is unbalanced and naïve in its assertion that the secretions produced by a male on hormones can nourish an infant in the way a mother’s breast milk can.”
Man milk is to actual breastfeeding as Bud Light is to beer. It’s not really beer. It just looks like it, and until Mulvaney started “lactating” Bud Light, there were a lot more people who thought it was (beer). They’ve since seen a different light, but there are still plenty (too many) folks who cling to the idea, probably because, in this economy, it’s a beer they can afford, unlike the treatments for man milk, which is not to be confused with … nevermind.
Anyway.
The quality of the lactation “product” isn’t even the point. It’s not about the children. This is about reputation enhancement. Look what we did. We killed 40 million unborn babies or made humanized mice, the (cough-cough) cure for COVID, and no lactating man boobs (Kramer’s going to be rich), which is an exciting goal given that most of what passes for gender justice is a little more than the century-old progressive sterilization agenda man-whore in a new dress.
You’ve ruined humanity and the planet, but hey, he’s Got Milk!
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When animal products are no longer made by animals, what do we call them?
When people invent new products it would be helpful if they renamed them.
There are plant-based “milks” – coconut milk, almond milk, oat milk, cashew milk, soy milk, etc. are helpful to those with allergies to cow’s milk.
They are not actually real cows milk or any mammal milk, they are plant based and advertised as such. These products are useful to those who are allergic to cows’ milk, but some are sensitive to plant-based concoctions as well. Now we have a new player “Remilk”!
Not from cows or plants but Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) by way of “microbial fermentation” and yeast.
Consumers deserve the truth about where our food comes from! Remilk calls it “real milk,” but is it? The new buzzword for the greenies is “animal-free” and “cruelty-free,” and the Precision Fermentation Alliance (PFA) is going to make intelligent purchasing more difficult. For example, a label may say a product is “animal free” but may have animal-based fats incorporated into the mix. Therefore, one may think they are buying vegan milk but in the creation, animal fats are used.
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The PFA is collaborating with the GFI (Good Food Institute), a nonprofit advocating for ethical and sustainable alternatives to industrialized animal agriculture on precision fermentation nomenclature, research that GFI is conducting. If the content of what you’re consuming is important to you, you may want to look deeper into how and what created it.
Remilk is not plant or mammal based. Remilk is an Israeli food company using microbial fermentation. They claim that the products are indistinguishable from “old-fashioned” dairy, “sporting the same taste, texture, and yumminess! And all that heavenly goodness is minus the lactose, cholesterol, hormones, and antibiotics.” They always add “antibiotics” as a scare tactic. When a dairy cow is treated with antibiotics, the milk is flushed/dumped. The hormones in cows’ milk are considered safe by the FDA and WHO. Yet, what health benefits does Remilk have that real dairy doesn’t?
Lab grown milk has the approval of the US, Canadian and other governments. Milk protein that doesn’t use any animals in its production is pitched as an eco-friendly alternative to milk, cheese, yogurt, and ice cream called “Remilk.” They copied the “gene” responsible for milk and added water and yeast, and they made what they call a milk replacement or milk.
Doesn’t stop at milk. General Mills is using similar technology to produce animal-free cheese. Startup company New Culture makes mozzarella with dairy proteins made by microbes.
During the ’90s, GMOs got a bad rap from consumers, and manufacturers have worked hard to normalize the practice in foods. The younger GenZ and millennials are more perceptive to using technology that is pitched to save the planet. But does it? Dairy and meat cows give us many byproducts besides food, such as; anti-aging creams, cosmetics, medicines, fertilizer, adhesives, textiles, leather, plastics, paint, lubricants, rubber, and much much more! They also provide us with beautiful green fields and byproducts that are part of the circle of life.
The lies spun by the globalists about livestock are absurd.
We should always demand transparency from our government with regard to our foods, yet much is being done to keep us in the dark under the use of GMO, bioengineered generic terms, saving the planet, eliminating livestock, and rewilding farms. How do we know it’s safe?
I’m not promoting this product as good or bad. I wouldn’t know I’m not a geneticist, and I was unable to find details on human testing. Besides, I’m perfectly satisfied with real milk and dairy products from cows and goats for many reasons. Knowing about Remilk is just one more reason we shouldn’t be coerced into GMO foods because we have to eat.
If you are concerned about where your food comes from, become informed and do your own research …Buy local, help save a farm.
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Atlanta, Georgia, is not only home to CNN, the CDC headquarters, and human trafficking, but it will be hosting the first-ever Crisis Actors Academy Awards this month.
After another year of lackluster participation from actual terrorists, school shooters, mass demonstrators, a recalcitrant climate, and the general public will create crises, the Federal Association of Kinetic Entertainment (FAKE) is set to honor the greatest performances from the quickly growing cottage-cheese industry of crisis acting.
What is crisis acting? In a world needing to be constantly prepared for the next false flag or staged tragedy, the rise of crisis acting firms, such as Crisis Cast, provide high-level lived experiences so real you’ll think you’re watching a movie. Using state-of-the-art Hollywood-level productions replete with casts, crews, scripts, and special effects, these teams of high-level fakers can create the most stunningly realistic scenarios, having the viewers, and even some participants, feeling like the blood is actually on their hands.
Who uses these services? Anyone needing a crisis or anticipating a crisis to justify their massive budget and authority needs to keep people in a constant state of terror so they can be easily manipulated. Does your town need a school shooting? Maybe climate alarmism isn’t quite catching on in your quiet Midwestern county? Slow news days have you worried the local station might get shut down? You’re just one well-oiled faux-calamity production away from putting you back in the driver’s seat of political persuasion.
Some critics of the crisis acting industry express concerns these tools could be used in the wrong hands to mislead the public into thinking actual children were shot when, in fact, it was just acting! A group of concerned homeschool moms has formed a group called Ladies Institute Against Reality Scenarios (LIARS), intent on exposing this dangerous trend. Founder Sandy Hooksett says, “If my child is going to be shot, I want it to be real, not some after-school performance that scares me half to death and makes me late to Yogalates.” Who can argue with that?
For the aspiring crisis actor who has yet to hone their chops, there are plenty of free opportunities to get into the minor leagues of social legerdemain by getting into some Beautiful Trouble. Here, you can team up with other pretend people by choosing from a variety of causes to crisis about. Not sure you want to pay for that smartphone? Yomango gives you license to lift while pretending you’re lifting others out of poverty. Are you rich and lazy but still want to give that rebel yell? Banner hanging a sign in your yard about people you’d never live next to mattering is a great way to dip your toe into the critical sea of change. Anyone can act, which is the point, because all the world is a stage, and if you want to get some of the limelight, you need to steal it from the next guy. As Keith Richard’s grandson sang – you can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you get what you need.
“Never let a crisis go to waste” are the words famously spoken by current President Obama’s former Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel, and with the budgets these companies are spending, we can see why. The average cost of a mass shooting scenario can run up into the hundreds of thousands of dollars when you factor in police uniforms, unmarked vehicles, helicopter sounds, blank rounds, special effects, scriptwriters, and the nearly 200 available cast members on retainer, including media personalities.
Thanks to the real-world results of these massive frauds, the industry is finally recognizing its talent with the coveted Fony Award, which looks identical to an Oscar yet is a cheap imitation. Genius.
Here are some of the categories:
Best Heart Broken Parent of a School Shooting Victim
Best Medical Examiner
Best Strange Neighbor Man Who Likes Dolls
Best Doctor Warning During A Pandemic
Best Writing of an Obituary
Best Writing for International Terrorist Attack
Best Make-up for a Foreign Crisis
Best Insurrection Ensemble
Best Tax-payer Funded Crisis Acting Program
Best Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Mass Shooting (*strong language warning*)
Best Ensemble In A Series of Crises
Best Female Lead in Ukraine-Russia War
Best Police Chief In A Series
Best Whistleblower Who Gets Martyred
Most Realistic Call for Gun Control Following A Mass Shooting
Best Animated Wounded Guy
Best Impassioned Speech Following A Shooting
Hosting the award show will be long-time crisis actor and host of CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360, who will also be giving a lifetime achievement award to Nayirah for her role in starting a war with Iraq.
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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 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 hatred of Jews and why that matters to today’s events.
Note that these posts do not repeat information – so there is a lot of stuff in prior posts. Please do check them out too if this is a topic of interest to you. In reverse chronological order:
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
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
Israel: More Memes, Links, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Even More Memes, Links, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: More Memes, Links, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Memes and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Memes and Commentary – Granite Grok
With some Israel-related materials here:
Meme Overflow – Granite Grok
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TOP OF THE FOLD
As much as I am suspicious of Bibi and, as I’ve said repeatedly, his star has fallen far, he is absolutely correct in this:
Netanyahu against Biden’s Palestinian State initiative:
“We will not submit to international dictates regarding a political settlement with the Palestinians. The settlement will only be achieved through direct negotiations between the parties without preconditions. We will not be ready for unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state. There can be no greater reward for terrorism.” .
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“Sharmuta” means wh*re or b*tch in Arabic – don’t mess with Israeli women pic.twitter.com/FInURUEsD4
— Israel War Room (@IsraelWarRoom) February 16, 2024
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/female-israeli-soldier-pushes-arab-back.mp4
He’s now been dishonored in public by being pushed around by a woman.
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‘Why Doesn’t Hamas Go to Hell and Hide There?’: Other Voices from Gaza :: Gatestone Institute
Voice of sanity. Too rare.
WAR & WHEN WILL IT END?
Reflections on Israel’s New Existential War – VDH’s Blade of Perseus (victorhanson.com)
Israel now knows there is no living with a precivilizational Hamas. It must destroy it, permanently block off Gaza from itself, and adopt a strategy of chronic disproportionate response from now on out.
Another reflection – by someone who should know Hamas very, very well.
Son of Hamas commentary (rumble.com)
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From here:
Meet Faisal Ali Mussalem Al Naami (in black). He’s a social worker for UNRWA by profession. On October 7, he took a road trip into Beeri with a friend.
I wonder if abduction of Israelis comes in the job description of an UNRWA social worker?
Damning evidence exposed by the Washington Post.Psychopaths!
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/faisal-in-black-vid.mp4
But Israel is supposed to trust the UN? ANY country is supposed to trust the UN?
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Succinctly put. So I echo this guy’s commentary about the casualty figure:
I echo this: Why I don’t care about Gaza casualties (rumble.com)
And one other video, from here today:
Can you count how many “civilians” are entering into Israel on October 7, assisting Hamas terrorists?
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/This_video_taken_during_the_invasion_of_Israel__by_HamasRapists.mp4
These are all REGULAR GAZANS pouring in to look, rob, rape, and murder. And celebrating when their fellows returned:
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/New_video_from_October_7th_show_Gazans_celebrating_as_Hamas_terrorists.mp4
To cite the example of Winston Churchill who replied, when someone asked about the innocent Germans being caught up in the bombing – “There are no innocent Germans”.
Should Israel Spare the Gazan “Innocents”?: Madeline Brooks | the “silent” majority no more! (thesilentmajoritynomore.com)
Hamas’ threats to “cut off heads,” slit throats,” and “slaughter every Jew on the planet” in 2019 were ignored
Hamas bodycam video shows early moments of massacre and tunnels under Gaza | CNN
Same here. There are no innocent Gazans.
Interview with Palestinian family – BEFORE Oct. 7, 2023 (rumble.com)
Hamas: Palestinian Civilians Are Also Terrorists :: Gatestone Institute
Down to children.
WATCH: Child in Gaza Pledges to Become Martyr for Hamas | United with Israel
What’s in the Palestinian text books? (rumble.com)
‘Palestinian’ Mother: I Will Happily Sacrifice My 17 Children, 65 Grandchildren for the Sake of Allah – Geller Report
‘Stab! Stab! Stab!’ Palestinian girl brandishes knife in Facebook video | The Times of Israel
Chilling footage of kindergartners re-enacting terrorist drills in Gaza
Another video about it being a “religion of peace”:
On Islam being a “religion of peace” (rumble.com)
War is an ugly business, and the harder and faster it’s done, the better. And yet, despite having the ability to carpet bomb Gaza into powder…
Urban warfare expert says Israeli military taking unprecedented steps to protect Gaza civilians | Fox News
ISLAM: PRACTICES, HISTORY, AND MENTALITY
From here:
The president of the country revealed at the security conference in Munich: the book “The End of the Jews” – the Guide for the destruction of the Jewish people written by one of the founders of the terrorist organization Hamas, Mahmoud al-Zahar – was found in a house in the al-Furkan neighborhood in Gaza.
“Peace partners”.
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From this post:
February 10, Bataclan music venue in Paris
Young people chant Free Palestine, voicing opposition against the IDF’s decision to eradicate the Islamist terror group Hamas.
November 13, 2015
Islamists from ISIS enter Bataclan and murder 90 concert-goers
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/bataclan-crowd.mp4
If you are a kaffir you need killing in their eyes. Period. Doesn’t matter if you’re supportive.
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Palestinian minister engages in fake crying at the ICJ ~ Elder Of Ziyon – Israel News
Understand this: lying in jihad is a highly-refined art to them. Related is this excellent series:
Hezbollah’s narrative on Al-Aqsa Flood: Tailored to appeal to specific Western sensibilities | FDD’s Long War Journal
Part II – Hezbollah’s narrative on Al-Aqsa Flood: Tailored to appeal to specific Western sensibilities | FDD’s Long War Journal
Part III – Hezbollah’s narrative on Al-Aqsa Flood: Tailored to appeal to specific Western sensibilities | FDD’s Long War Journal
I need to resurrect this video, below, about Vietnam and how the actual military defeat of the Communists Sin the Tet Offensive was “spun” by the Communists and their media allies to drive America to voluntarily lose the war.
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/analogies-to-the-tet-offensive.mp4
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About all that Muslim disinformation alleging Jews were very happy living under Islamic rule for centuries… (barenakedislam.com)
Also, excellent book on the “paradise” that is alleged about Islamic-ruled Spain:
The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise: Muslims, Christians, and Jews under Islamic Rule in Medieval Spain
ATROCITIES
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/bodies-talk.mp4
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Hamas didn’t just gang-rape, they forced the families to watch. Most rape victims of Hamas on October 7 were killed either before or during rape; several victims’ genitals were mutilated beyond recognition. – Geller Report
Hamas rapes Israel & related atrocities | Power Line (powerlineblog.com)
The report’s executive summary emphasizes the finding highlighted by the Times of Israel: “The report clearly demonstrates that sexual abuse was not an isolated incident or sporadic cases but rather a clear operational strategy.” It seems to me that the systematic evil of these atrocities — their brutality, degradation, and sickness — at least equals and may exceed that of the “Final Solution” implemented by the Nazis.
Horrors.
WATCH: ‘Hamas rapes were according to guidelines’ | World Israel News
Video.
ISRAEL releases shocking report about the sexual violence and genital mutilations committed by Hamas against Israeli hostages during the October 7th terror attack (WARNING: Graphic Content) (barenakedislam.com)
ON INTERSECTIONALITY / LEFTIST SUPPORT
What ever happened to “believe all women” and #metoo?
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https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/bill-maher-on-college-students.mp4
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How to hit your wife properly.
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/wife-beating-codified-in-islam.mp4
PALLYWOOD & MEDIA DISTORTIONS/LIES IN GENERAL
The official Arab media released a publication that went viral in which IDF soldiers begin to flood a tunnel with seawater when suddenly a Mujahideen squad from the Al-Qassam Battalions
Bomb the IDF soldiers!!!
But it didn’t really happen…
Hamas was desperate to show some success overall, and they put together two well-edited videos and managed to make even the media believe this Pallywood.
Watch the video in slow motion and decide for yourself!
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/pallywood-in-slow-motion.mp4
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If Hamas admits 6,000 terrorists killed, you know the real number is at least double that ~ Elder Of Ziyon – Israel News
So who are you going to believe, the Hamas health ministry that also claims 29,000 dead, or your own eyes? For some reason, reporters simply cannot believe that a smiling terrorist would lie to their faces. And this has been a problem for many years.From the same site: How to accuse Israel of the worst human rights abuses: a handy guide ~ Elder Of Ziyon – Israel News If Israel is attacking hospitals for no reason, why is it allowing so many field hospitals into Gaza? ~ Elder Of Ziyon – Israel News
All this information is freely available. And nearly all of it is ignored by the media.Speaking of the media: United States and Europe in decline as they accept lies of terrorists – The Jerusalem Post (jpost.com) The deliberate lies in the Washington Post (david-collier.com) Exposing the lie about Palestinian journalists (david-collier.com) —
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/enemedia-on-hallels-killer.mp4
A teenager in her bedroom.
Palestinian man who killed teenager Hallel Yaffa Ariel as she slept said he wanted to become a ‘Martyr’ | IBTimes UK
Remember, the media said this girl’s murderer was “killed by Israelis”.
TERROR COMING HERE? TO THE WEST?
Here already.
Open Jew-hatred is becoming common. And that makes it even more popular. ~ Elder Of Ziyon – Israel News
CAIR: A Muslim Brotherhood front group | Power Line (powerlineblog.com)
Around the world:
THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS: An imam in Belgium recited antisemitic verses from the koran at the parliament
Official imprimatur.
France’s Skyrocketing Threat :: Gatestone Institute
France: Knife-wielding Muslim threatens passersby and cops, refuses to drop knife and screams ‘words in Arabic’ (jihadwatch.org)
Islamists taking over.
Germany: North African Migrant Brutally Beats and Then Urinates on Train Conductor (jihadwatch.org)
I know, let’s bring them to America. Jewicidal Yidiots.
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TREADING ON THE POLITICAL
Spineless Joe Biden is inching toward a full betrayal of Israel (nypost.com)
Thomas Gallatin: Biden Placates Pro-Jihadi Base Over Israel | The Patriot Post
The Ultimate Guide to the Biden Administration’s Betrayal of Israel (substack.com)
Betrayed: Biden Regime Proposes Anti-Israel ‘Ceasefire’ Resolution at United Nations Security Council – Geller Report
It’s an election year. My prediction is coming true, particularly for the Left:
More, from the same site;
Joe Biden is playing with fire in the Middle East (nypost.com)
Although Biden ordered the military to strike back Friday at proxy groups in Iraq and Syria a week after a drone attack killed three American service members in Jordan, he is still letting Iran off the hook.
By saying repeatedly he is trying to avoid a wider war, the president is sending Iran a message that it has deterred him from directly punishing its aggressions.
Out of fear, he treats the symptoms rather than the disease.
It’s a form of appeasement that will end the way appeasement always does.
And if – when – The Potato betrays Israel, Saudi Arabia will know, as will every American ally, that America cannot be trusted to keep its word about support or protection. And:
Biden Regime Plans to Give Hamas a Grand Reward for Murdering 1,200 Israelis – PJ Media
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Israel’s Democrats Abroad board quits over umbrella group’s hostility – JNS.org
Some Democrats waking up.
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Trump Vows To Get Hamas Sympathizers The Hell Out of Our Country – Geller Report
Good. And I expect he will be fought tooth and nail.
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When Democrats Actually Defended Israel Without Reservation | Power Line (powerlineblog.com)
Back when they had at least something of a moral compass.
MISCELLANEOUS
From here:
Half a million Yezidis were facing Genocide by lSlS and the UN ignored them!
10,000 were killed,7000 were kidnapped and raped for refusing to convert to lsIam.
2703 still missing.
No one marched for them!
Not a single person protests for missing Yezidis.
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/yezidi-genocide.mp4
Genocide ongoing in Sudan by the Arabs. But not Jews, so not news.
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A CONCLUDING THOUGHT FOR THIS POST
Here’s a guy just wanting to talk. You cannot have a dialog; you cannot reach out as “team humanity”, to people that want you dead.
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Speaking of people trying to reach out. From here:
Today at noon in the Jordan Valley: a Jewish radical leftist pro Palestinian activist came to accompany Arab herders supposedly to protect them from “settler violence”. When she stopped at the Fatsael intersection, Arabs violently pulled her out of her vehicle, threw her on the road and hijacked car.
What do you think about that?
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What do I think? Honestly? I half think it’s a shame she didn’t get gang-raped. Harsh, yes. But seriously – Arabs openly state they want you dead, your nation destroyed, and you have to virtue-signal “heal the world” by helping people who want you dead??? She got off very, very light. Lucky. Remember what happened to all the peace activists on the Gaza border who reached out to their neighbors in friendship?
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How many times do they have to say DEATH TO JEWS! – and act on it – does it take before you get that they’re serious?
Trying to please your enemies does not turn them into friends.
How hard does this lesson have to be, how many times do they have to harm you, for you to get it?
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The President of the United States, and by extension, the Leader of the Free World, should be judged solely on their Presidency and Administration results. Policies should be the measuring stick; politics should not, but certainly does today more than ever, come into play when determining the results of a Presidency.
Today, we have new characteristics used by many to ascertain a person’s performance or qualification for the office. I think age must be considered, but not chronological age. Age and cognitive level have become synonymous, and that is just wrong. When a Biden supporter is asked if Joe Biden is too old at 81 to run for the office of President, they usually deflect immediately to the fact that Donald Trump is only three years younger than Joe Biden, so if Trump is capable, then to be consistent, Joe must be, too. No, this is not the place for consistent logic and a perfect example of why age should not be a factor. However, the cognitive level must be considered by the voters.
The cognitive level has rarely come up when discussing the merits of Presidential candidates. That is because, until 2024, we have never had an 81 year-old candidate brazen enough to think they are still sharp enough for the job. Joe Biden believes he is fully functioning and will be until he is 86 years old at the end of a second term. Joe Biden is not fully functioning today, but he will not admit it, nor is anyone in his family or circle of staff and consultants courageous enough to explain to Joe that his time is past and he should pass the baton to a more fit candidate.
Politics has become an emotional game. The typical voter does not do the homework necessary to understand the policy positions. These voters instead vote for who they “like” or who they “feel” will do the job. This is why the campaign ads are so important and why you may never see Joe Biden on a debate stage. Biden’s handlers will need to keep him sheltered and moot so that he will make as few mistakes as possible, and there is no opportunity for a visual comparison between the two candidates. The game plan to keep Biden in the basement worked in 2020 because he had the pandemic as an excuse. Unless the Democrats can manifest another global scare before Election Day, most Americans will see through this charade.
Donald Trump has a portfolio of accomplishments from his first term that he should be able to campaign on. Unfortunately, his personality does not allow him to tout his accomplishments quietly. Trump cannot prevent himself from saying controversial things that become the soundbites for the evening news. They are controversial because they evoke anger or frustration in many and allow them to label Trump as an out-of-control radical who will further divide our country. Even Nikki Haley calls Trump a disaster. She approves of many of his policies but not his demeanor. Well, Joe Biden ran in 2020 on the promise to be the adult in the room and heal the divisions Trump created. Three years later, Biden widened the division, and his harmful policies damaged the country in ways that may never be corrected. I will take the brash over destructive. I think the polls are starting to align with my choice.
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It’s amazing what you have to do these days to protect kids from obscene “literature.” Content that is inappropriate and offensive to adult legislators who insist it remains available and accessible to children.
Not in West Virgina, if lawmakers have their way.
The House passed House Bill 4654 – removing bona fide schools, public libraries, and museums from the list of exemptions from criminal liability relating to distribution and display to a minor of obscene matter – in a 85-12 vote Friday, sending the bill to the state Senate.
HB 4654 would lift criminal liability exemptions from schools in the presentation of local or state-approved curriculum, and public libraries and museums displaying obscene matter to a minor when the child is not accompanied by a parent/guardian.
Most cities, towns, and states have obscenity laws. The FCC heavily regulates the display of obscene content. But most od an entire political party and a few of their alleged opponents – while upholding those standards of ‘decency’ (no one is suggesting we repeal them) everywhere else – demand and defend access to it by children. They even obstruct and object to efforts to give parents the right to filter such content for their own children.
The message is mixed. Legislators are better judges of what is appropriate for children than parents, but obscenity laws are in no other way censorship or book banning.
Supporters of the bill said it does not ban books or stop the selling or distribution of books some consider to be controversial or obscene. It merely provides the same prohibition against knowingly providing obscene materials to children outside the supervision of parents and guardians that already exist.
“This bill is giving our students and children in the community the same protection that they receive from GoGuardian and the FCC,” said Del. Jeff Stephens, R-Marshall, a school teacher referring to a computer program that blocks students from accessing pornography online at school.
Opponents suggest that the legislation “would have unintended consequences for public and school libraries, resulting in increases in challenges to even classic books and attempts to criminally charge librarians over books not pornographic in nature, but books that include descriptions of sex.”
It almost sounds like someone is admitting there’s a difference.
I must be mistaken.
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Iran has been under the rule of Islam since 1979. The Iranian people have attempted on several occasions to end the practice of these barbarians. Still, each time, they were faced with the ruthless Islamic regime, and many of them were massacred while the world watched and did nothing.
This non-Iranian regime, via its mismanagement and incompetence, has turned Iran into a warehouse. In four decades of its existence, the Islamic Republic has managed, notably, to produce more hunger, more anger, more frustration, prostitution at a record pace, drug addiction beyond control, child execution without any regard for international human rights, and much more. There are many reports regarding cases of child sexual abuse and molestation reaching epidemic proportions. Prosecution and imprisonment of the innocent and the systematic and illegal abuse of detainees, and hundreds of gruesome acts of torture and rape in the prisons skyrocketed. Meanwhile, the United Nations stands by and does not blink.
Along with many acts of terror, this genocidal regime has been on a mission to wipe out the Baha’is in Iran completely. Since its arrival, the Islamic government has condoned and promoted every measure of oppression against a minority religious group called the Baha’is. The Islamic regime doesn’t even spare the dead. They bulldoze and even uproot the trees in Baha’is cemeteries.
Harassment of other religious minorities is also prevalent. They routinely hang dissidents and amputate their limbs for petty theft. They are responsible for the unmitigated poverty in an oil-rich country, sex slaves in the Persian Gulf region, and the rape of children as young as two years of age.
The US and its allies are aware that the Islamic Republic years ago started a nuclear program, not for peaceful purposes, as they claim, but only to strengthen its position in the region and prolong its existence long enough to get its hands on the bloody bomb so that they can feel invincible.
What is the likelihood that the ruling Mullahs will use their new toy? If they remain in power long enough to have it, they are very likely to use it in one form or another. At the very least, they will use the bomb for blackmail and intimidation in the region. Not even an all-out nuclear exchange can be ruled out. Islam is a religion centered on death, with faithful eyes fixed on the afterlife and its promised eternal pleasures. If the faithful kills, he goes to Allah’s paradise; if he gets killed, he goes to Allah’s paradise. An urgent warning to the people of the world: stop the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program now, or face eradication from the face of the earth, and this is not a joke.
When the regime is cornered, they will immediately use their propaganda machine to cover up their crimes against humanity. They create chaos and crisis. In other words, they create smoke and mirrors and then push the dust under the rug again, as they did when the Islamists took the American diplomats as hostages for 444 days. During the Iran and Iraq war, the IRI used their proxies, Hezbollah and Hamas, to attack Israelis to escape retaliation. They are masters in the business of distracting the world from their nuclear intentions, as they did during the Gaza crisis. They took the attention away from their nuclear program.
Since 1979, the regime has stigmatized, victimized, and murdered people without any due process of law. After 40 years in power, this regime still fears its own shadow. On the slightest suspicion, they will arrest, convict, and execute innocent people.
The Mullahs presently ruling Iran are faced with monumental threats. Internally, the great majority of the populace is against their misrule. Every segment of the Iranian population, including student groups, religious and ethnic minorities, journalists, and many others, has suffered and continues to suffer inordinate hardship under the heavy-handed Mullahs and their leads. After 44 years, they are using the slogans “Death to America” and Death to Israel” for interior consumption. It must be noted that not a single Persian has ever used the Islamic phrase of “Death to America.”
Externally, they are still engaged in brinksmanship with the United States and Israel as they try to wrestle the mantle of Islamic leadership from the Sunni Saudis and their Wahhabi cabal.
Many non-turbaned creatures are working as the mullahs’ agent frontmen and pawns all over the world — including their powerful lobbyists in Washington, DC.
They have hired non-Iranians, including disenfranchised Afghanis, Houthies, Iraqis, and Palestinians, as their proxies.
Going back to GWB’s era. For eight years, President Bush promised the Iranian people that America would support them in their struggle for freedom, but did he? The Iranian people stood up firmly only to be hanged by the Islamic Republic executioners, and President Trump only cheered and supported the Iranian people without any meaningful help. But everyone in the US administration rushed to help the Ukerainas—while Iran has been occupied for more than 44 years–a double standard.
Iranians also ask the community of nations to act, teach, and show some muscle in solidarity with them and to implement maximum pressure against this illegitimate government in occupied Iran.
There must not be, however, any compromise, any negotiation, or any deals with the Islamists in Iran before making sure that the Iranian people are part of the equation. The era of mass politics, propaganda, nebulous sloganeering, and magical solutions is over. It’s a do-or-die scenario for the Iranian people and perhaps for the people of the world.
The people of Iran wish nothing less than a complete regime change through the democratic process of a free referendum. They believe it is the surest, safest, and fastest way to achieve a democratic Iran and end the world’s nightmare of nuclear holocaust that is currently facing us all.
Iranians are no longer hopeful that America will help them; on the contrary, they believe America is in bed with the regime and has extended its life by supporting the Mullahs. After all, it was Jimmy Carter who installed Ayatollah Khomeini.
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Molly Brennan of Weare, NH testified in a hearing in the NH House Education Committee against HB1205, a bill to protect women’s and girls’ sports, on January 29.
In her testimony, Molly said:
The safety issue here isn’t … that [someone’s cis daughter] is going to be ruined for life by seeing a trans girl’s penis in the locker room. In fact, statistically, that won’t be the first penis she sees.
Watch her testimony below.
“The safety issue here isn’t . . . that someone’s cis daughter is going to be ruined for life by seeing a trans girl’s penis in a locker room.” Molly Brennan, HB1205 @NHPolitics pic.twitter.com/1mUzugabMe
— Sidewalk Steve (@Sidewalk_Steve) January 30, 2024
Related: Misogynist Anti-Science Trans Activist Featured by Derry High School Theater
That reminded me of this quote from Alok Vaid-Menon. an “internationally renowned gender non-conforming writer and performance artist” who was featured in a presentation hosted at Pinkerton Academy in Derry a few years ago.
The narrative is that transgender people will come into bathrooms and abuse little girls. The supposed ‘purity’ of the victims has remained stagnant. There are no princesses. Little girls are also kinky. Your kids aren’t as straight and narrow as you think.
If you are concerned about boys in girls’ sports and girls’ locker rooms please contact the NH House Education Committee and ask them to vote Ought To Pass on HB1205.
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IMPORTANT: OPPOSE HB1610: This bill requires all students to participate in standardized statewide assessments.
Make no mistake about this one: if this legislation is passed, it essentially allows the GOVT/STATE to control our private, religious, and home schools. HOW? By making the children who receive EFA funds take the STATE Standardized Test.
The Education Freedom Account (EFA) is one of the current school choice programs in NEW Hampshire. It would mean that children who use the school choice (EFA) money to go to a private, religious, or home school would be forced to take the STATE Standardized test.
THIS IS A THREAT TO EVERY PRIVATE, RELIGIOUS, and HOME-SCHOOL family in New Hampshire!!
It MUST be STOPPED!
Currently, students who participate in the school choice program(EFA) can take the standardized test offered at their private, religious, or home school. This legislation would change that. All of these EFA students would have to take the STATE standardized test, which is COMMON CORE ALIGNED.
In Indiana and Ohio, when children used their vouchers to attend private and religious schools and were forced to take the STATE standardized test, those schools began aligning their curriculum to Common Core. This is a de facto takeover of our private and religious schools!
There is NO authentic choice if everything is Common Core!! There is NO freedom of CHOICE when the STATE forces its Standardized TEST on the kids using the EFA program to attend a private, religious, or home school.
EVERY PARENT who utilizes the EFA program for their children NEEDS to attend this hearing! Their children already take a standardized test given by their private or religious school. They do NOT need to take the dumbed-down Common Core assessment.
LOOK at the ten dumbest Common Core math problems here. The private, religious, and home-school families will be forced to teach Common Core math. We already have a crisis of illiteracy in math and science !! This will only get worse.
ATTEND the hearing on 03/04/2024 at 12:30 pm Legislative Office Building room 205-207
SIGN in to speak and oppose HB1610
Tell the House Education Committee to ITL HB1610.
If you cannot make this important hearing, please send an email to the committee asking them to ITL HB1610.
HouseEducationCommittee@leg.state.nh.us
Also, please sign in here: https://gencourt.state.nh.us/house/committees/remotetestimony/default.aspx.
Put in your personal information
Click on March 4th
Click on House Education
Click on 12:30 HB1610
Click on I am a member of the public
Click on I am representing myself
Click on I oppose this bill
Add any testimony you’d like to send
HIT SUBMIT
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So here is a little secret … “Red States” are not really that “red.” More specifically, Wyoming, a State that is thought of as a Red State among Red States, just refused to protect girls sports.
TWENTY Republicans in the Wyoming legislature helped kill a bill that would have prevented biological males from playing girls sports.
Riley Gaines is absolutely right … HAVING AN R BY YOUR NAME DOESN’T MAKE YOU A REPUBLICAN. We see the truth of this statement all the time in New Hampshire. The NHGOP is not really that GOP. The mantra of “economic prosperity” is a smokescreen to hide that the NHGOP, despite controlling State Government for most of the last eight years, has FAILED to remove DEI in public schools to prevent biological males from competing in girl’s sports or to prevent radical-ideologues masquerading as educators from withholding information from and lying to parents.
TWENTY house republicans voted to kill a bill that would define & codify words like "woman" in state statute this week. No this isn't California, it's Wyoming.
Having an R by your name doesn't make you a Republican. A bunch of squishy cowards even in the reddest of states. https://t.co/bnxTDklvZj
— Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) February 19, 2024
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