The Manchester Free Press

Friday • December 13 • 2024

Vol.XVI • No.L

Manchester, N.H.

Fracturing Identity at the Altar of Transhumanism

Libertarian Leanings - Fri, 2023-04-07 10:34 +0000
By Simplicius The Thinker, Dark Futura Many people still cling to outmoded concepts of the independent newsroom, where senior editors simply make their editorial choices based on some personal journalistic principles, or what ‘the people’ (customers) are actually clamoring for.... Tom Bowler
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Gun -Grabbin’ Hogg Shoots Clay Pidegeons With a Biden Boomstick

Granite Grok - Fri, 2023-04-07 10:30 +0000

Failed pillow entrepreneur and occasional gun-grabbing loud-mouth David Hogg has come out as pro-gun (sort of). He posted a short video on Twitter, using it as an opportunity to 1) remind us he’s a hypocritical two-faced  a**hole and 2) pretend he’s not.

To his credit, Hogg does not look as ridiculous as the awful PR shots of Barry Soetero pretending to shoot skeet with his weapon parallel to the ground with photo-shopped smoke leaking out of the business end (this one is more realistic). That, for the record, is how former Clinton aids commit suicide.

Here’s Hogg cracking one off for the same reason ‘cuz David Grab your Guns Hogg likes to shoot him sum skeet or sum’tin.

 

For the record, I know a lot of folks who say F the NRA all the time. The organization doesn’t speak for them either. But they are not famous for using the blood of children to elevate your Q rating as a mouthpiece for the final form of what you’ve been selling since the Parkland debacle. An epic failure of a gun-grabbing government to interrupt the trajectory of a potential shooter. Which, ironically, is one of the very reasons why we need the right you’d happily nibble or gulp away.

 

We have the video here if the tweet ever goes the way of David.

 

HT | Newswars

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Blue Merle French Bulldogs

Granite Grok - Fri, 2023-04-07 09:30 +0000

French bulldogs are one of the most popular dog breeds in the world due to their adorable looks and charming personalities. Blue merle French bulldogs, in particular, have been gaining popularity among dog lovers in recent years. These puppies are known for their unique coat pattern, which features a marbled mix of blue, grey, and black hues.

Blue merle French bulldog puppies are born with a solid coat, but their distinctive pattern starts to develop within a few weeks of birth. The marbling effect is created by the presence of the merle gene, which causes random patches of color to appear on the dog’s coat. This gene is dominant, so a blue merle French bulldog will always pass it on to its offspring.

In addition to their striking appearance, blue merle French bulldogs are known for their affectionate and playful personalities. They are social animals and thrive in households where they receive plenty of attention and affection. French bulldogs, in general, are known for their loyalty and devotion to their owners, and the blue merle variety is no exception.

If you’re considering adopting a blue merle French bulldog puppy, it’s important to do your research and find a reputable breeder. French bulldogs are prone to certain health issues, such as hip dysplasia and breathing problems, so it’s essential to choose a breeder who conducts health screenings on their breeding dogs.

Once you bring your blue merle French bulldog puppy home, be prepared to give them plenty of love and attention. These puppies love to play and interact with their owners, so be sure to provide them with plenty of toys and activities. They also enjoy snuggling up with their owners and are known for being excellent lap dogs.  In conclusion, blue merle French bulldog puppies are a unique and charming addition to any household.

Their marbled coat pattern and affectionate personalities make them an excellent choice for families and individuals who are looking for a loyal and loving companion. As with any pet, be sure to do your research and find a reputable breeder to ensure that your puppy is healthy and happy.

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Matt Mayberry and Dirty Dover Perform Some “Tricks” They Say Are For Kids

Granite Grok - Fri, 2023-04-07 03:00 +0000

On March 23, a clandestine book review committee met in the Communist City of Dover. There is supposedly a recording of the meeting, yet no one can access it. The agenda, time, and date were secret, and released to the Dover squad and the person filing the complaint a day prior.

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To date, nine books have been submitted to the review committee, one in January, and eight in February. The lengthy forms, one for each book, were submitted to the principal, superintendent, School Board, assistant Superintendent, City Council, and city attorney. Silence followed.

Apparently, they never had books challenged in the schools, and therefore, they had no idea what to do with them!

After the long silence, the school board and administration decided their minion, the superintendent, would pick the committee members to review the books:

Voting members:

  • Karen Berg (parent/guardian)
  • Matthew Cox (parent/guardian)
  • Susan Spence (community member)
  • Matt Mayberry (community member)
  • Charles Reynolds (community member)

In addition, the following School District employees are assisting the committee as advisory participants:

  • Facilitator – Christine Boston
  • Principal – Peter Driscoll
  • Librarian –Kristin Whitworth
  • Co-CIA Director – Siobhan Mehalek
  • Teacher – Eric Schlapak
  • Teacher – Steve Coco

The School Board’s current policy on general book reconsideration is policy KEC, available here.

When pressed about the process, the following was explained by the city attorney.

“The policy is open-ended about the process and, so, my understanding is that the committee is likely still mapping that process out. I do expect it will likely take some time to work through each individual book review request filed, as the committee members are (or are likely) going to read each separate book in its entirety as part of the process. Right now, the committee is reading the book for which reconsideration.”

“No SAU employees will be voting members of the Book Review Committee, but appointed by the school board and superintendent”, who have made their position clear, pornography is a-ok with them.. “The committee is also going to be posting notices of meetings in accordance with RSA 91-A.”

No notice ever happened. One could search the heavens and not find one notice on the first review. And the “certified letter” to the person filing for the review never came!

It’s a bit like the fox guarding the hen house, but it was decided, without any input from parents actually concerned about the content of over 100 books that meet or exceed federal, state, and city laws on sexual adult content. By the way, our laws are not a consideration for the review process or even referenced, even though the filer brought up the city ordinance on adult entertainment during the review meeting.

These are not stories that have occasional minors drinking or fornicating. They are violent depictions of adults preying on children, sex, drugs, pedophilia, and crime written by sick adults making a buck off our taxes.

The first public review was set for March xx, with no notice on the city website (as the review process mandates) as per 91-A rules; nothing online or by email, nothing.  The person who filed the complaint was not sure what was going on until she was told it was a public forum, not a review. Forum?

The time was set, and a group from the LBGTQ community was there to protest, apparently, these adults love pornography! This is where confusion goes on steroids. Mr. Mayberry, chair, (he of the failed Congressional bid against Matt Mowers) chaired the happy group. He was empowered to chastise Dover citizens confused about the conundrum surrounding this strange informal but formal meeting that did not follow one iota of formal committee rules in the city code.

He bit off heads and barked about Roberts’ rules. A so-called “conservative,” his alliances were clear from the start. They were pro-porn.

A retired police officer, with online credits as follows …

  • Consent Decree Auditor and DoJ consultant
  • Former Chief of Police, Mayor, and City Manager, Dover, NH
  • Past President, International Assn. of Chiefs of Police.

…explained how suicides are up, and other teen problems are increasing daily. But he defended porn in schools. It’s OK. Apparently, he could not put 2+2 =4 together and maybe identify root causes from the school library books that glorify such behavior!?

A brief pause from “books” to online access, another problem in schools, ended sharply by Co-CIA Director – Siobhan Mehalick, who went on the record that it was “impossible” for school children to access porn sites from school Chromebooks and then said if they do, IT would know about it and immediately contact parents.

Mayberry refused to look at the screenshots from a student’s Chromebook and mansplained the person with the actual screenshots (evidence). Btw, the student’s parents with the screenshots were never notified. Ignorance is bliss!

There was lots of banter from the LBGTQ representative (I am grateful only one stood and spoke of their personal trials and tribulations rather than listen to all of their pity me stories) about how removing porn hurts the LBGTQ children!? I guess the crimes of pedos towards their children are ok by them.

At the end of almost 2 hours, Chairman Matt Mayberry asked the school advisers if they would allow their tween-age children to read this book. All of them said they would allow most of their 14 yr old children but not others. Poor kids. What’s stopping the “others” from reading them as well?

The first book challenged is Tricks, by Ellen Hopkins.  It chronicles five teens through various horrific journeys. It is “Tricks,” as in ‘turning tricks,’ sex, for money. There is pedophilia, rape, underage sex work, drugs, alcohol, and suicide. These children are sadly damaged without any hope of being productive adults.

This book contains explicit sexual activities including child rape and abuse; drug abuse; violence; alcohol use; and adult and child prostitution.

Even when the author tries for something positive, she manages tragedy. Not a book for the faint of heart, especially a child.

This author has made a fortune writing many similar sexually explicit books victimizing children(15 in Dover schools), and now Dover is adding to her juicy profits by acquiring more of her books for the School Board and review folks! Guess they haven’t figured out how to use free downloads or to just take copies from the library. I would love to know how many students are victims of such crimes as the head librarian, Ms. Whitworth, said this book is needed in the schools to help and support children in such situations!!

What children? What happened to “let’s contact the parents”?

The librarian went on to state all the schoolchildren come to her with every book they are interested in! Ok, there’s an oceanfront lot in Arizona for sale, too.

According to the committee, it is the ending of all these horrible stories, not the journey, that matters. Living as preyed upon, adult raped, abused, drug overdosed, sex trafficked, alcoholic is okay if the ending isn’t so bad? It was bad for someone. Tricks was so daunting the newly created group will apparently be replaced by a newer group selected exclusively by the School Board.

Before that happens, this review committee unanimously voted to keep Tricks! A proud moment for review board chair Mr. Conservative Mayberry!! He finally got to be a politician. Here here!

One has to wonder if the pornography titillation in these books is filling a void in these sad adult people’s lives. Consenting adults can do whatever they want. Children under 18 should not be exposed to such violations at taxpayers’ expense! It’s the law. What happened to protecting a child’s innocence, DARE, all the angry parents protecting their children from evil? All you hear from them is that removing these books will harm LBGTQ children. When keeping them accessible in schools does just that. Harm.

And did any of these ‘reviewers’ even think to ask if the book TRICKS and other redeeming topics are in the Dover Public Library so minors intent on reading them can find them there?? YES, it is there, and MORE!!!! 102 and counting.

At some point, a child will take one or more of these books seriously. A guide to improper behavior or the acceptance needed to have an affair with a pedophile, rape, drink alcohol as a minor, and do drugs.

These are not books that have moral values or outcomes; they are full of racial slurs, bigotry, and slang, and are poorly written. So, it’s not literature. They are not teaching morality, so what is it? Why are some adults saying, “kids will find sex and drug use online” or “it will help them navigate hardships”? Ok, but if one in 10 are using this book as a self-help guide, what about the other nine? What happens to the one child after reading it that truly needs help? I guess we’ll find out.

 

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Decouple From China

Granite Grok - Fri, 2023-04-07 01:30 +0000

Here is my most recent interview on Fox & Friends to comment on the University of Virginia using taxpayer dollars to partner with a Chinese-controlled school.

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“Former New Hampshire congressional candidate Lily Tang Williams says she wants the U.S. to ‘completely decouple’ from China.”

University of Virginia using taxpayer dollars to partner with Chinese-controlled school | Fox News Video

Added New Shorts (short videos) to my YouTube channel Lily Tang Williams – YouTube

If you have not subscribed yet, please do so and watch this clip from my first appearance on Timcast in 2021: Fellow Citizens Are Not Our Enemies – YouTube.

Support Parental Bill of Rights

Please read my op-ed to the Union Leader supporting Parental Bill of Rights: Lily Tang Williams: CCP lesson in parental rights is why we need SB 272 | Op-eds | unionleader.com

If you live in New Hampshire, please show up to support SB272 on April 18th at 10am at Representatives Hall in Concord.  If you can’t make it, e-mail your support at HouseEducationCommittee@leg.state.nh.us and urge them to vote Yes.

White Presenting

Another video clip is with my co-host, a Chinese American, when she was accused of “White Presenting” at her training as a K-3rd grade tutor. She was shocked by the “Wokeism,” a Marxist struggle technique used by CRT and DEI promoters.   Identity politics will only divide our citizens, making America susceptible to authoritarianism.

Here is a clip from Immigrants Speak Week 4: A Chinese American was called “White Presenting.” – YouTube.

IMMIGRANTS SPEAK WEEK 12:
Escape from Eritrea

Our guest this week is very special. Philemon Sm was born and raised in Eritrea in the Horn of Africa, known as the North Korea of the region, where the current president, Afwerki, has been ruling as a communist dictator since 1991. Philemon fled Eritrea in 2008, crossed the desert on foot, escaping bullets and starvation to reach the Sudanese border.

Today Philemon shares with us his life story of being indoctrinated as a young man with Marxism and enslaved by the Eritrean government, his awakening and harrowing experience of escaping Eritrea only to be persecuted again in Sudan and Egypt, and his major concerns for America, as he sees the specter of Communism taking over the media, educational system and major institutions here.

Immigrants Speak Week 12: Philemon From Eritrea: Communism Is Enslavement – YouTub

Please like and share our videos to get these incredible immigrant stories out.

 

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Sex Offense Attorney Arrested While Viewing Child Porn in His Bedroom

Granite Grok - Fri, 2023-04-07 00:00 +0000

Michael T. Dolce, a Sexual Abuse, Sex Trafficking, and Domestic Violence attorney, was arrested at home, in bed, with “an open laptop containing nearly 2,000 images and photos of child pornography in front of him, according to his arrest affidavit.”

 

WEST PALM BEACH — FBI agents arrested a Palm Beach Gardens lawyer known for representing victims of sexual abuse after they found him actively downloading and viewing child pornography on his laptop, federal prosecutors announced Wednesday. …

Prosecutors say Dolce used a BitTorrent network, which are built for peer-to-peer file sharing, to anonymously download pornography depicting children between 5 and 11 years old in sexually explicit positions. Authorities have not said what led to them to obtain search warrants of Dolce’s home and car.

Michael Dolce, the kiddie porn guy (and a mostly Democrat party donor), spent his professional time advocating for women and children who were sex trafficked and even “… served on the advisory board of Florida’s Children First, a nonprofit legal-aid organization devoted to representing children in “at-risk” situations, according to a now-deleted entry on its website.”

We could say you never really know people, but it seems increasingly like you can. Democrats (as a political party) have chosen to groom children in public schools as a hill to die on while Democrat donors and voters continue to get arrested or implicated in child-sex trafficking or pornography rings.

These two things are very much connected.

 

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Watch Jesse Kelly Demolish Ronna Romney McDaniel … Because What He Says Applies To The NHGOP

Granite Grok - Thu, 2023-04-06 22:30 +0000

What did the Republicans in the New Hampshire House do after they lost seats in the 2022 midterms? Keep the same “leaders”. If ever there were a time for soul-searching, a time for making a change, it would have been then … the Party out of power is NOT supposed to lose midterm elections; they are supposed to make gains, especially when the President of the Party in power is as unpopular as Biden.

Keeping the same leadership shows that the House Republicans are content with being losers. The same can be said of the NHGOP as a whole. The entire State Party should have resigned after the debacle in 2022. At a minimum Stepanek and Tucker should have resigned the day after the midterms. But they didn’t … and nobody with a real bully pulpit was demanding that they do. The NHGOP is a Party that is resigned to and content with losing.

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Country Music Woke Up…..Say It Ain’t So

Granite Grok - Thu, 2023-04-06 21:00 +0000

The Country Music industry held its annual celebration on Sunday evening. The CMA showcased its 57th annual awards ceremony. I confess I do not watch any of these narcissistic, self-indulgent, made-for-TV events. I choose not to elevate these people above who they are. They are gifted performers lucky enough to have been given their chance at success and fortune, and they grabbed it.

In addition to the typical individual and group awards, there were tributes to legends who are still with us or have unfortunately left us too soon. The careers of Leonard Skynard and Naomi Judd were celebrated. But then the show went off track, which is sad to write about.

The Country music industry has traditionally been conservative and patriotic. There were exceptions, like the Dixie Chicks and their assault on George Bush. That faux pas forced the group off the mainstream and restricted them to tours outside America. Kelsea Ballerini is one of the younger members of the Country Music family, so maybe she has not been coached on the heritage and connection between Country and Americana. Kelsea Ballerini embarrassed herself and the genre Sunday night.

Ballerini performed the song, “If You Go Down (I’m Going Down, Too),” backed by a quartet of “Drag Race” stars — Manila Luzon, Kennedy Davenport, Jan Sport, and Olivia Lux — dressed as glam midcentury housewives lounging on a lawn in front of a white picket fence. This performance was in bad taste on several counts. It did not have a place on the CMA.

Nashville is the home of Country Music, and we are all familiar with the recent tragedy that took the lives of six innocent souls at the hands of an unstable armed individual. The three children and three adults have recently been buried, and Nashville, and the country, are still feeling the pain. That shooting has a connection with the transgender community, as the female shooter openly identified as a male. Dancing and celebrating with a group of four transvestites or transgender performers was uncalled for and a poor decision.

The country is divided on the issue of transgender children. Some states have either passed or are in the process of designating themselves as sanctuary states. Not a sanctuary for illegals but for people who find themselves meeting resistance to fulfilling their transgender process. This harboring also protects children from their parents who do not want their minor children to modify their gender. In effect, these laws can facilitate the separation of children and their parents. Ballerini’s performance only fuels this divide.

Reaction to this performance shows how divided we are on the subject. Ballerini was blasted by those who saw the number as offensive. At the same time, she was praised by those who thought she was brave and heroic to follow through with the act. I see nothing brave or heroic. Those terms should be reserved for warriors, not for a singer surrounded by Drag Queens.

I hope this was a one-off for Country Music. I have been a fan of the genre for years, specifically for their patriotism and love of this country. I hope this performance does not indicate the genre is going in another direction. If so, I will be taking a different road.

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NH Ballot Law Commission – Dominion / LHS AccuVote Voting Machine Testing

Granite Grok - Thu, 2023-04-06 19:30 +0000

Having previously posted on Lou Gargiulo’s report concerning ballot irregularities observed and researched during the November 2023 NH State Senate District 24 election, there was another element to the NH Ballot Law Commission meeting.

A discussion concerning testing done with other than Dominion / LHS AccuVote voting machines in several districts. While the tests appear to have been completed successfully (methodology, results, standards of measurements), there will be more done.

 



 

Not only did these representatives from the company give their testimony, but so did the moderators from both Londonderry and Milford (two of the test sites):

 



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Alvin Bragg’s “Blank Indictment” Never Mentions What Laws Trump Broke

Granite Grok - Thu, 2023-04-06 18:00 +0000

Much has been said about the precarious nature of Alvin Bragg’s Trump indictment, and I won’t pretend to have read it all. But a reader sent me this. It’s not long, but here’s the crux. Alvin Bragg’s indictment of Trump never identifies a specific crime.

He’s been arrested for not breaking any laws under the presumption that they can come up with something along the way or not.

 

The defendant, in the County of New York and elsewhere, on or about February 14, 2017, with intent to defraud and intent to commit another crime and aid and conceal the commission thereof, made and caused a false entry in the business records of an enterprise, to wit, an invoice from Michael Cohen dated February 14, 2017, marked as a record of the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust, and kept and maintained by the Trump Organization.

 

There two elements to this offense:

  • The entry made in the business records is false.AND
  • The entry is made with intent to commit or conceal another crime.

BOTH elements have to be present.

The alleged “indictment” only states one of the two elements of the offense.

I’ll take the author (who hates Trump, by the way) at their word. This is effectively a blank indictment—a laundry list of allegations absent any enumeration of the law(s).

Note: here’s some corroboration.

 

Here is the indictment that was just released this afternoon.

And here is the statement of facts.

The Manhattan DA came up with a long list of things that his office claims Donald Trump did or were done in his name but never cites any law that was broken as a result of the cited activity. In other words, here’s a bunch of records, and we’re going to arrest you for that even though we’ve failed to state why this broke the law.

This is not an insignificant detail.

Emphasis in the original.

Understand what is at stake here: It is entirely reasonable that if “blank” indictments can issue in this nation against Trump that they can issue against anyone at any time for any reason without stating the elements of an actual criminal offense the accused allegedly committed.

Fascism, baby. Random charges, an indictment and arrest, and no mention of the laws that were violated, probably because there are none. But they did it anyway. And a long list of politicians, pundits, and celebrities have shared thoughts about the impending indictment and the arrest and arraignment of Donald Trump. Most of them spoke without access to any material evidence of a crime, and it looks like none exists, so here’s your opportunity.

Would you like to retract or recant your verbal or written indictment of Trump, or do you support the government using force with blank indictments against your constituents, neighbors, non-citizens, randos with different opinions, or anyone anywhere that results in their arrest or detention at any time, for unspecified crimes?

Before you answer, remember that the people enforcing the blank indictment may not always be on your side of the aisle. That you could still be swept up on a similar indictment for not breaking any law.

Are you still good with this? If you are … you might be a fascist.

Call to action: Get out there and ask. Find people or politicians who mouthed off on social. Send an email to your elected officials. Ask them if they are good with this, and let us know if you get a response and what that is.

 

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Survival Sunday – Thursday SITREP Edition

Granite Grok - Thu, 2023-04-06 16:30 +0000

Forewarned is forearmed.  Thus, this is intended to be a compilation of articles, with my commentary, to try and get like-minded people to grasp what’s coming.  Even merely being aware of events in the world will make you better prepared than the hordes of sheeple.

Note that these compilations are catch-as-catch can, and presented as is.  I make no guarantee of accuracy or complete coverage of the world.

Please follow both me, Nitzakhon, on Gab… as well as my blog host Granite Grok and also on Telegram Tommy Robinson Official plus his Urban Scoop site.  And don’t forget posts sometimes get cloned on American Reveille as well, which is a good site to check out in general.

For prep materials, please see:

Survival Sunday – PREP Edition – Granite Grok

 

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Schools close across rural Japan as birth rate plummets

 

 

Demographic collapse.  Brought on by multiple factors – the Jab, yes, but also a culture of electronics & pron addiction.

 

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Top of the fold:

Europe Pushing the ‘Criminalisation’ of Physical Cash, MEP Warns (breitbart.com)

Unless stopped – SOMEHOW – cash has a shelf life.  And then it’s barter.  Related:

 

Major Changes Are Coming From the Gov’t Limiting How You Access Your Money to Prevent Bank Runs

 

 

Could It Happen Here? It Is Happening Here › American Greatness (amgreatness.com)

And most people still intone “But that’s just not possible”.  Related:

The Great Financial Reset (sendinblue.com)

Listen to the recent speeches given by Russia’s President Putin and China’s President Xi and then try to tell me that the United States of America is not taking a back seat to the two largest communist countries on earth. I recognize both the strategy and the tactics behind their goals and objectives, as I spent much of my military career preparing for and fighting against the rise of communism.

The View: MTG Doesn’t Matter Because Her Constituents Don’t, ‘Super Small’ District | Newsbusters

Hey enemedia – just call us Untermensch.  Your ideological ancestors did.

 

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Judge Jeanine: This indictment is ‘garbage’

 

 

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Deep State / Coming Tyranny / WEF / Globalists (broad):

The Most Dangerous International Treaty Ever Proposed Brownstone Institute

For any of these sweeping powers to be invoked, there would be no requirement for an “actual” health emergency in which people are suffering measurable harm; instead it would be sufficient for the DG, acting on his or her discretion, to have identified the mere “potential” for such an event.

Canadian Public Not Buying Into EV Scam ‘Increased Indoctrination’ Required if Electric Vehicle Mandate Is to be Met: Federal Report – Blazing Cat Fur

Electric cars. So magnificently great that Trudope will “re-educate” you if you don’t agree.

A Cry For Help From a French Doctor | Gates of Vienna

Western Europe has fallen.  America has fallen.  The avalanche has started, it is too late for the pebbles to vote.

The Avalanche Has Already Started… – Granite Grok

 

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Protecting Children:

Emmy Griffin: Cultural-Induced Madness | The Patriot Post

In other words, these kids were being told that disagreements with their thinking was equivalent to hate, that their emotions were the best guides in a situation, and that words can literally kill. It is reverse or counter-cognitive behavioral therapy. Because these thinking patterns are nurtured, it sends the thinker deeper into depression.

 

 

New study supports social contagion theory for surge in teen girls identifying as transgender | The Post Millennial | thepostmillennial.com

Not just this.  It’s all the praise and attention kids get.

Speaking of trans bullshit(and this mess is, at the least),

Say, remember when Barackus talked about surgeons doing procedures just for the money?

 

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National Security (specifically):

Betsy McCaughey: China Controls Your Meds | The Patriot Post

That ANY foreign power should have such a lock on critical materials like this is an abomination.

NSC Admits China Spy Balloon Was Able to Gather Substantial Sensitive Information from Several US Military Bases – Contradicting Joe Biden’s Previous Lies | The Gateway Pundit

Is there anyone with three brain cells that talk with each other that is not surprised?  Related:

Biden Hands The Middle East To China

Is there any more proof needed that Biden is wholly-owned by China?

As China War Looms, Navy’s Priority is Going ‘Green’ | Frontpage Mag

While our military brass obsessed over diversity, equity and inclusion, the PRC turned the South China Sea into its own private backyard, enabling it to potentially cut off traffic to the United States. China has built up chains of islands studded with its naval outposts so that its fighter jets and ant-ship and anti-aircraft missiles now encompass not only the coasts of Taiwan and China, but much of the coastlines of everything from Thailand to Malaysia to the Philippines.

Related:

Preparing for War With China, U.S. Shrinks Its Navy – Geller Report

Fatter recruits now welcome as Air Force revises its rules (airforcetimes.com)

China and Russia quaking in their boots.

China Controls Your Meds | Frontpage Mag

Insane.  Brought to you by short-sighted businessmen who wanted cheap labor and cheap materials.

 

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On The Jab (and Covid)

Over 100M Americans May Now Have ‘Seriously Damaged’ Hearts, Top Cardiologist Warns

A leading American cardiologist has warned that over 100 million Americans may now have “seriously damaged” hearts after receiving mRNA shots.

According to Dr. Thomas Levy, Covid vaccines are causing heart injury in at least 2.8% of people who receive the injections.

Levy warns that at least 7 million Americans now have hearts that have been “seriously damaged” by the shots.

However, the top cardiologist says he fears over 100 million people in America have some degree of heart damage from the injections. He asserts that the injuries are not myocarditis but heart damage that will be detectable with a troponin test.

The Jabs were an IQ test.  Many failed.

 

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Inflation:

BREAKING: Inflation Nightmare Intensifies As Saudi Arabia Announces Surprise Cuts In Oil Output (trendingpoliticsnews.com)

As goes energy, so goes everything else.

Bayou Renaissance Man: Inflation and the US money supply: mixed signals

Looks like my collection of hyperinflationary currency is about to add a new one: the US dollar.

 

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A Divorce is not the Solution

 

 

Yes and no.  See the late Walter E. Williams’ essay Parting Company.  And another here.  But there’s a practical problem with a divorce – never mind all the logistics, laws, etc., and outside actors eager to take advantage.  Remember, the Leftists are like the Terminators:

 

 

Assume that such a thing could actually be done and “reasonably” settled.  They’d look across that border the way Jihadists look at the West: unconquered territory just waiting to be seized.

 

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Enemedia:

CBS News Told Staff to ‘Avoid Any Mention’ of Nashville Shooter Being Transgender (informationliberation.com)

Control the information flow, control what people believe.

New Report on Motive of 2017 Las Vegas Shooter is Raising Eyebrows | The Gateway Pundit

Yeah, right.  And I question the timing of the release of this too.

 

 

NPR Panders to Audience at Indictment Time: Sorry If We Haven’t Been Anti-Trump Enough! | Newsbusters

And yet the GOP still votes, in the main, to keep funding them.

 

=+=+=

Pro-life:

Nothing this week that caught my eye.

 

=+=+=

Know your Leftist / Globalist & Islamic enemy:

The Greatest Murder Machine in History – American Thinker

Phenomenal reference.  More:

Islam – Deception, Jihad & Stages of Take Over [Mirrored] (bitchute.com)

And Dr. Bill Warner is a must follow / read / etc.

#WalkAway Founder Brandon Straka Asks Screeching Lawyer With Vulgar Sign Standing In Front of Mar-a-Lago What She’s Protesting… Her Uneducated Responses Are HILARIOUS! [VIDEO] (100percentfedup.com)

BUSTED! Anarchist and Professional Leftist Riot Trainer Lisa Fithian, Is CAUGHT Working In NYC To Incite Trump Supporters, Hoping To Catch Violent Reactions On Camera [VIDEO] (100percentfedup.com)

INTOLERANT TRANS MAN Assaults Innocent Dad, Repeatedly Shouts Vulgarities in His Face For Protesting Against Radical Gender Ideology Being Pushed on His Kids [VIDEO] (100percentfedup.com)

BREAKING: Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Vehicle Surrounded By Angry Mob of Screaming Leftist Agitators in NYC [VIDEO] (100percentfedup.com)

AOC CAUGHT Using Secret Twitter ‘Burner’ Account To Incite Violence Against Conservatives – enVolve (en-volve.com)

Hate is all they have.  And when you don’t bend to their beliefs, they get violent.

College Student Arrested After Making Death Threat to Rep. Matt Gaetz: “We will kill you if that’s what it takes” (100percentfedup.com)

Video shows ‘transgender mafia’ assault Alex Stein, douse him with hot coffee, and spit on him during NYC trans event, but NYPD does nothing – Conservative Review

Prof ‘Admires’ Murder Of Conservative Campus Speakers — CAN He Be Fired? – The Lid (lidblog.com)

 

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Immigration / Migration:

Northern Border Sees Overwhelming Surge Of Illegal Immigrants (freebeacon.com)

A two-front invasion.

Over 60,000 “Got-Aways” in March, 6 Month Total Nears Half-Million | NumbersUSA

Most of these will get away with it.  A 100% certainty every female of childbearing age is open-legged to get an anchor baby.  And if voting patterns hold, the US becomes not just a minority-White country, but a forever-Democrat-rule country.

 

 

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Economy at large:

State and Municipal Democrats Will Stick Us for the Bill

Embedded quote:

A report by the research shop Equable estimated that the 228 largest public retirement systems were running a $1.4 trillion unfunded liability at the end of last June.

What comes after trillion?  We’re heading there.

 

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The USA Is About To ‘SOFT LAUNCH’ Their Digital Currency (CBDC INBOUND)

 

 

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Political War

Goodbye, Blue Monday | Animal Magnetism (frombearcreek.com)

(Warning, cheesecake pic at the link.)

I’m more concerned about the precedent this sets.  It takes national politics down a whole new dark, ugly path that we as a nation have not trodden before – although plenty of other nations have, allowing us to see where it leads.  And where it leads, True Believers, ain’t a pretty place.

Nancy Pelosi, Election Denier Hillary Clinton Re-Hash Collusion Conspiracy Theory…

Video.  And this is why we lose.  No matter how many times the facts contradict their little pipe dreams… they keep on keeping on.  E.g.:

MUST WATCH: Trump-supporting black woman SCHOOLS anti-Trump zombies outside Trump arraignment | The Post Millennial | thepostmillennial.com

Note the part how these people truly believe the parties switched sides.

 

 

What’s to like, really? (coldfury.com)

You just go right on telling yourself that Voting Harderer! at them will suffice to head off what’s coming at us.

TINVOWOOT.

Top 11 PRIORITIES for America in order to save the Republic – DC Clothesline

All good ideas.  Now… bell that cat.

 

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US Stability (broad catch-all):

Chicago: Meet the new boss, possibly worse than the old boss.

The quote from H.L. Mencken comes to mind:

“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it goo

With friends like these, who needs enemies? – Big Blue City edition

Coming to your neighborhood soon.

If ‘No Is Above The Law,’ These Democrats Would Be Arraigned (thefederalist.com)

Remember what I said:

Lessons from Candle Smoke – Urban Scoop (link in the original):

Again and again, I say this: This is how Rome fell.  When the average Roman finally understood how corrupt-to-the-bone the Rome they knew, loved, and would have fought and died to protect had become, they turned inward towards their community and even closer to their families… no longer willing to fight or die for that greater entity now that they understood that greater entity no longer represented them or their values.

And:

Daughter of Judge Overseeing Trump Case Works With Biden-Harris Campaign

 

=+=+=

World Stability (broad catch-all):

Live: Zelensky, European leaders visit Ukraine’s Bucha on first anniversary of massacre (france24.com)

Lavrov told a televised meeting of the Kremlin’s Security Council that the new concept would outline how Russia could take “symmetrical and asymmetric measures in response to unfriendly actions against Russia”, referring to “unprecedented pressure” being placed on Russia by its Western foes.

 “The existential nature of threats to the security and development of our country, driven by the actions of unfriendly states is recognised” in the policy, Lavrov said, describing the United States as the driving force behind “anti-Russian sentiment”.

Every country is taking every logical step… and responding to every step with its own logical steps.  Related:

NATO Secretary General: “Ukraine will become a member of the alliance” | Not the Bee

Every time I think “How stupid can they get”? it seems like our so-called “leaders” read my mind and take it as a challenge.

 

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Trump’s Arrest PROVES We Live Under Democrat TYRANNY | Glenn TV | Ep 266

 

 

Beck and/or Levin may not be your cup of tea, but what they have to say is important.  See my concluding thoughts.

 

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Specific to energy:

EPA approves California rules phasing out diesel trucks (ktla.com)

Hope Californians like hunger.

 

=+=+=

Big Tech in general:

Twitter Will Never Stop Censoring Conservatives (thefederalist.com)

Obviously MHO.  I think Musk is trying… but he’s one man at the top, while the entire culture is opposed to him.  In many ways this echoes Trump in 2016.  One man at the top cannot fix an entire entrenched system opposed to him.

 

=+=+=

Catch-all miscellaneous:

Very Unusual Solar Eruption: Extremely Strong CME Ejected From the Far Side of the Sun

All we need is one of these to hit earth directly, and it’s…

 

Lights Out! The Chaos When Our Grid Goes Down | Bill Whittle

 

 

=+=+=

Concluding thoughts if I’m moved to comment:

I got an email from a good friend of mine the other day.  It was a collection of comments he’d collected from different online sources; the theme was that the Left in America is determined to prove to the little guy that there is no hope.  That they’re in control.  And looking at the 2020 and 2022 elections, one can easily grasp this.  Seriously – how does anyone think that 2024 is going to be different?

The System will not permit effective challenges to The System.

As that friend points out, The System is making clear that Trump simply will not be permitted to run, let alone return to the White House.  Even if he were – by some miracle – to evade the (pardon) trumped up BS against him, and somehow to run and somehow win, the entirety of the government would stymie him.  And this, of course, is assuming that they don’t just outright assassinate him.  Because, like the IRA, they know they only have to succeed once.

I said:

I am an American, and do not wish for violence in this country or indeed any country, whether on a local scale, regional, or national. I do not wish to see people hurting others, nor arson, or beatings, or any asymmetric warfare techniques to be used against anyone, Left or Right, or Hashem forbid an actual civil war. I state, clearly, that such things are the last thing on my mind.

They may be the last thing on my mind, but… they are on the list.  I fear we are being pushed into the situation outlined by JFK:

 

 

With the outcome highlighted by Churchill:

 

(Link to AZQUOTES per their policy.)

 

Are You Ready for the Knock on Your Door? – PJ Media

We’ve all seen the movie with the Red Sea parting after Moses lifted his staff.  But there’s an element that, per the Sages, we don’t see.  According to my recollection of a discussion at shul, Moses lifted his staff and nothing happened.  A man, moved by faith, strode into the water.  And it was only when he was about to go under completely that the waters then split.

Hashem will help us.  But first we must do our utmost.

 

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Palate cleansers:

 

 

I don’t speak Romanian, but that name and job function.

 

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Please check out my MEME collection.  Here’s the last one.

 

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Bud Light, The Queen of Beers!

Granite Grok - Thu, 2023-04-06 15:00 +0000

I know a few folks who are big fans of Bud Light. I don’t think it’s the calories. I think they like the taste. It must be something you need to acquire, but I’ve had a few over the years, and I’ve acquired a taste of my own when it comes to being offered a Bud Light.

Related: Alienating Your Biggest Consumers to Go Woke

I say no thanks. I’ve already got water.

It makes the recent agreement to have gender-confused Dylan Mulvaney as a spokesmodel the makers of this tasteless swill – while dangerous for business – the perfect fit.

Mulvaney thinks he’s a girl. Bud Light thinks it’s a beer.

A guy who thinks he is a girl drinking Bud Light should be the perfect fit.

Is this the result of the ill-considered and not well-thought-out marketing campaign from 2015?

 

“The perfect beer for whatever happens,” the slogan reads. It is accompanied with the twitter hashtag “#UpForWhatever.”

 

So, you make yourself look like a chick on the outside but inside … still a dude. Whatever!

But it’s appropriation, man. You’re just a white man colonizing another gender.

So, does that make Bud Light the Queen of Beers?

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FDR's Other ‘Day of Infamy': When the U.S. Government Seized All Citizens' Gold

Libertarian Leanings - Thu, 2023-04-06 14:03 +0000
by: Larry Reed, Money Metals News Service Ninety years ago, Franklin Roosevelt told Americans they had less than a month to hand over their gold or face up to ten years in prison. December 7, 1941 will forever be remembered... Tom Bowler
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“Trading Credibility and Potential for Spiteful Self-indulgence.”

Granite Grok - Thu, 2023-04-06 13:30 +0000

During the Obama years, professional progressives could afford a certain smug magnanimity, confident that demographic change had bequeathed a permanent lock on power. It was smarter to nudge the great unwashed toward what was decided than boil the frog too quickly.

 

So the populist reaction of 2016 struck many as profound betrayal: perpetrators had to be punished, examples made, and push brought to shove. What began as institutional resistance amid the Trump interregnum has become actively vengeful governance under the Biden regime—a policy agenda nonsensical as to most of its official objectives but coldly strategic as retribution against structural opposition, not just punishing saboteurs but putting subjects in their place.

Whether wrecking American energy to wreak far worse environmental damage elsewhere, printing enough funny money to substantially devalue the dollar, insisting on demonstrably harmful Covid mandates, or ushering in millions and millions of unvetted migrants, it amounts to a sort of shock treatment to corral and humiliate an unruly electorate that has been found wanting.

Yet the crass opportunism only guarantees greater backlash and further delegitimizes the actual progressive project, or whatever’s left of it. Generations of hard work and good faith have been squandered in just a few short years, trading credibility and potential for spiteful self-indulgence.”

-The Ivy Exile (Vulgar Display of Power) [Emphasis mine]

Found it on Instapundit, which adds:

Well, that’s the epitaph for our ruling class: “Trading credibility and potential for spiteful self-indulgence.” At least I hope it’s their epitaph.

For decades, the Left has convinced itself that America is broken, bad, and needs to be transformed and rebuilt in their image. To do so, they have to break those of us that actively disagree and work against them.

Well, no, that last bit is wrong. As we saw with the Floyd rages/riots and with the DIE (Diversity, Inclusion, and Equality) crew’s anthem of “If you’re not an anti-rascist, you ARE A RACIST!” and must be punished, so the Progressives are telling us and showing us that they ARE and WILL CONTINUE to punish us.

They DO believe that we are mere serfs and not able to reason and decide for ourselves. With that in mind and over the years, their “entitlement to Power” is ruining the American Experiment, American Exceptionalism, and the RADICAL American Idea that we, each Individual is Sovereign.

Instead, the Democrats/Progressives are trying to turn back the clock to a time when were were mere subjects (at best), serfs (middling), and slaves (at worst).

They believe that they ARE our new Royal Aristocracy and expect us to behave according to their New World Order.

So, whattyagonnadoaboutit??

 

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Poseidon is Laughing at Your Puny Emissions

Granite Grok - Thu, 2023-04-06 12:00 +0000

Manhattan is not underwater, Florida and its Keys look the same, the Maldives have changed (they added more oceanside hotels), and your paltry emissions aren’t going to change that. The Earth is far more complex than the political scientists milking you on its behalf.

Related: Read This, and You’ll Know More About “Sea Level” than 99% of Climate Cult Alarmists.

But the fear emoted by the idea of an oncoming unstoppable ocean is intense. The left sells it like an inexorable tidal wave of water. A diluvian catastrophe of biblical proportions. One they can stop with your continued “donations.” None of which is true. It’s not coming, and they couldn’t stop it if it were.

And it’s not coming.

And not just because sea level rise has been very post-ice age predictable. Part of that complex system the modelers can’t see or ignore to promulgate cataclysmic headlines has been addressing changes throughout Earth’s history and most definitely during these few and rare eras during which human habitation and expansion have been possible.

The arctic sea ice can melt all it wants, and that won’t change a thing. Realizing this has become more common knowledge, the climate cult has settled its sea level science on ice and snow on land – If that melts, we’ll see six feet of sea level rise. And if it all melted? Maybe. Many of the places we live were once underwater. For thousands of years, perhaps millions. And it wasn’t dinosaur farts, and it’s not you today, but I digress.

Greenland is the poster child for landbound snow and ice-melt doom. But Greenland was much warmer 1000 years ago, and there was no catastrophic sea level rise (oops).

Northern Greenland was covered with wildlife roaming a vast arboreal forest two million years ago. Again, warmer, and you weren’t cooking with natural gas, and why wasn’t that coastline underwater?

Good question.

Imaginary Tipping Points.

Dave Burton, writing at Climate Alarmism, explains some of the natural changes that are part and parcel of Earth’s complexity.

 

[I]n a warming climate, there are factors which both increase and decrease sea-level trends.

On one hand, ice which is near 0°C can melt, and if it was grounded (rather than floating) that would raise sea-level. Also, thermal expansion at the ocean’s surface can increase sea-level rise locally, though it doesn’t affect sea-level elsewhere. Those are things which raise sea-level.

On the other hand, warmer temperatures increase snowfall accumulation on glaciers and ice sheets, sequestering water, and thereby lowering sea-level, in two ways:

● Warmer air carries more moisture, increasing snowfall on glaciers & ice sheets. For each 1°C of warming the moisture-carrying capacity of the air increases by about 7%. That’s why the heaviest blizzards occur when temperatures are not far below freezing.

● Reduced sea-ice coverage increases Lake/Ocean-Effect Snowfall (LOES) downwind, some of which accumulates on glaciers & ice sheets.

The fact that global warming has not been accompanied by significant sea-level rise acceleration strongly suggests that the factors by which a warming climate increases sea-level and the factors by which a warming climate reduces sea-level are similar in magnitude, and largely cancel.

Other factors include subsidence or vertical land motion, which are the primary drivers of sea level change along the Eastern Seaboard (sorry, it’s not oil or gas heat, Vermont). And why does Betio Island, part of the Tarawa Atoll, have more land mass than it had in 1943? Because there are more variables on Earth (or in the atmosphere) that the computer models can or try to account for, understand, or explain.

They understand grants and continued funding but not much else.

They can’t predict sh!t about the climate, so how could they possibly predict the impacts of their alleged prescription? They can’t. They don’t ever try because, as you already know (‘Grok Readers), those schemes have nothing to do with the weather, the climate, warming, or sea level.

It is about control, including message control, and they are (sadly) getting better at both.

 

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When You Alienate Your Biggest Set of Consumers To Go Woke …

Granite Grok - Thu, 2023-04-06 10:30 +0000

Did “they” not learn from Gillette who made sport of their loyal customers (Steve: #Woke Gillette Has to Write Off 8 Billion Dollars After SJW Toxic Masculinity Ad?)?

Bud Light: The Drag Queen Of Beers

Anheuser-Busch thought that sponsoring “notable” gender-confused Dylan Mulvaney was going to get them some “good karma” by showing how inclusive they are investing in a guy that is mentally ill (the definition of gender dysphoria). Who has spent thousands on cosmetic surgery (e.g., you know, only the “skin deep” kind of diversity) to make himself appear to be more feminine?

 

 

Yep, Budweiser has done it to itself, just like Gillette. Did anyone compute how pandering to this infinitesimal number of potential new consumers would make others can their cans and go elsewhere?

And is paying a guy participating in “Transface“? Would Bud be doing that to a White guy doing blackface?

Doubtful – so why give tons of money to a guy that’s making sport of real women? And he’s celebrating his “365 Days of Womanhood” as if he’s actually become female.

I’m betting he still has a prostate.

Derek Hunter described Bud Light this way:

If you’re a normal human being you’ve likely had a Bud Light at some point in your life. You probably thought it was crap, but you choked it down anyway because people buy it because it’s cheap and known. It’s the melba toast of beers – non-threatening alcoholic drink that, after you suck down a couple of them, the taste doesn’t matter anymore.

Being the son of an Irish drunk, I don’t drink alcohol, but it certainly doesn’t seem to be of “high quality.” Neither is a guy pretending to be a woman that isn’t in “Mrs. Doubtfire,” which took pretty good acting from Robin Williams, with whom Mulvaney ain’t in the same league.

This is the best that Bud can do.  A know-nothing?

 

I’d rather see the Clydesdales…at least they’re “authentic.”

 

(H/T: Townhall)

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Article V Misrepresentation

Granite Grok - Thu, 2023-04-06 01:30 +0000

Lobbyist Ken Quinn failed, once again, to convince State legislators to call for a Constitutional Convention. Instead of realizing he has a losing argument, he blames legislators for not voting the way his polls predicted they should on HCR 1 & HCR 4.

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Both resolutions wisely voted down the Article V Conventions to address fiscal restraint and term limits.

Each Resolution has the same goal to force the US Congress to call for a Constitutional Convention,  the second method to amend the Constitution. Since the 1787 Convention, there have been 27 Amendments passed into law by the first and safe method in Article V:  2/3 of each House pass the Amendment, which is submitted to the states for ratification.

After my testimony at the HCR 1 hearing on Jan. 27, Quinn came to the microphone as the last speaker,  using the advantage that no one could follow to counter his words. By not using my name, he referenced my testimony that I quoted from Madison’s letter of November 2, 1788, to George Turberville, saying that Madison’s letter did not contain my claim. On the contrary, this is my quote from the 1/27 testimony: “ that he trembles for the results of a second Convention.”

On Feb 24, 2023, he again misrepresented Madison by telling Montana Representatives, at the hearing on his “term limits” application (HJ 5), that Madison never said he trembled at the prospect of Article V Convention. Joanna Martin pointed him to this.

Read for yourself; he again misrepresented Madison by telling Montana Representatives, at the hearing on his “term limits” application (HJ 5), that Madison never said he trembled at the prospect of an  Article V Convention. See for yourself. You’ll find the source of my quote of Madison when you read Joanna Martin’s full quote. How can one disagree with Martin’s conclusion “that he is not a truthful person?”

Time and again, Mr. Quinn is consistent in misrepresenting what his political adversaries say. For brevity, I’ll just stick to this one example of his strategy to use a “fraudulent claim.” Don’t you think one who stoops to deception is like the one apple that spoils the whole barrel? This moral dilemma brings to mind the survivor of the Soviet Gulag, Alexandr Solzhenitsyn. He keenly pointed out: “The line between good and evil runs through the human heart.”

History reveals that the safe method to amend our Constitution from Article V gave us the Bill of Rights.  Consider the fact that the Bill of Rights is similar to the Ten Commandments. God gave mankind his rules to limit man’s behavior at Mount Sinai. In both, they start with almost identical commands. The Bill of Rights targets the behavior of government with the words: “Congress shall make no law….” And The Ten Commandments words are, “Thou shall have no….” Consider the fact these eternal foundations of liberty limit individual morality and put limits on government behavior. In both cases: they are not the “Ten Suggestions.”

 

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Chris Sununu Sides With Nancy Pelosi on Alvin Bragg’s Trump Indictment?

Granite Grok - Thu, 2023-04-06 00:00 +0000

Recap: Nancy Pelosi, former Speaker of the US House, infamously said that Trump will have to prove his innocence in court – turning our judicial philosophy upside down by telling us he’s guilty BEFORE his trial:

And now NH Governor Chris Sununu, who harbors dreams of becoming POTUS (or at least a talking head position on MSNBC), has said basically the same thing on Bill Maher’s Real Time show on HBO (H/T: NHJ):

During an appearance on HBO’s “Real Time With Bill Maher,” New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu said he “assumes” former President Donald Trump is guilty in the case being brought by the Manhattan district attorney, but he will back the former president if he becomes the GOP presidential nominee.

Always trying to split the difference by trying to leave a bigger negative nuance than a positive. Yep, wishing Trump well.

Translation: “Can’t wait to see him in jail, but I’ll be magnanimous and say that I’ll vote for him.”

And while waiting to catch the weather on WMUR the news guys had the latest NH-based poll from St. Anselm on the 2024 Republican Prez race. I have to admit that Sununu DID beat his 5% polling result with 14%, but being third in your home State isn’t anything to brag about given all the name recognition you have here with people having seen (and lived) through your record:

  • 42% – Donald Trump
  • 29% – Ron DeSantis
  • 14% – Chris Sununu (Emerson has him at 7% and UNH has him at 4%)
  • 4% – Nikki Haley
  • 3% – Vivek Ramaswamy
  • 2% – Liz Cheney
  • 1% – Mike Pence

So what does Sununu have to do to win his own State?

Two other surprises – that newcomer Vivek Ramaswamy is at 3% only after being in the race just a few months (a decent ROI), and former Veep Mike Pence is a laggard at 1%.

It’s still a long time before the race really starts to heat up, but one would think that Sununu would be closer to second rather than 50% behind DeSantis – at leas in the state he allegedly governs.

 

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Presentation to The NH Ballot Law Commission on State Senate District 24 Ballot Irregularities

Granite Grok - Wed, 2023-04-05 22:30 +0000

Today, the NH Ballot Law Commission met to listen to the results of voting machine audits as well as a presentation on NH State Senate District 24 Ballot Irregularities (Press release here).

NOTE: It seems that YouTube is taking more than an inordinate amount of time to “process” the video. Please be patient, but I bet it’s because of “Ballot irregularities.” Should have been done by now.

The latter was from a number of the towns in the District assembled by Lou Gargiulo and his volunteers. Compiled from voting machine testing, watching results afterward, issuing numerous Right To Know demands, as well as watching the results of the recount of the November 2023 election where Debra Althshiller’s win was re-affirmed.

The report was given as a non-partisan view of irregularities that were found that violated various RSAs and established “chain of custody” norms from when ballots were run through the voting machines (mostly LHS / Dominion’s AccuVote machines) all the way through the recount. It was stated, up front, that the election was NOT being contested, that Altschiller won the election, and requested actions to either have election officials comply with State Law or for new State Law / Secretary of State / Attorney General to address these irregularities was not part of the presentation.

 



 

I have the voluminous paper-based report that was handed out; I have asked for and will be receiving a PDF of the report for publication.

There is also a more detailed addendum that was given to the Commissioners but has not yet been released to the media that contains all of the foundation observations that led to the presentation itself.

Since no other media outlet has the time or space, or willingness to do so, I have offered GraniteGrok to be an open repository of each element of data (e.g., machine tapes, issued Right To Knows, responses to those RTKs et al.) so that it can be “open source” for anyone to review and,

1) try to shoot holes in the conclusions or
2) let people know what can be done in their towns and cities to ensure that “Follow the Law” is not just a platitude.

I’ll be putting up other camera angles later on.

Agenda:

BALLOT LAW COMMISSION
April 5, 2023 10:00 a.m.
STATE ARCHIVES BUILDING
9 RATIFICATION WAY
CONCORD NH 03301

AGENDA

1. Authorize the minutes from the meeting of January 11, 2023.
2. Discussion on results of tests from municipal elections.
3. Appeal of Lou Gargiulo from District 24 Senate Election Recount – presentation of issues of concern as allowed at pre-hearing conference.4. Discussion on what devices, if any, to send for further examination and
consideration.
5. Other Business.

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Yesterday (April 4th) Biden Won Wisconsin’s Ten Electoral Votes … 2024 Is Going To Be A Blue Tsunami

Granite Grok - Wed, 2023-04-05 21:00 +0000

Yesterday, April 4th, Biden won Wisconsin’s ten electoral votes. And it wasn’t even close. He won by a blowout margin of 55 percent to 45 percent. If you don’t know what I am talking about … then you are part of the problem.

A GOP that refuses to accept that the nature of American elections fundamentally changed in 2020 and that continues to bitterly cling to the delusion that everything is just going to go back to normal.

What I am talking about is the Wisconsin Supreme Court. It now has a four to three liberal majority. The repercussions for the 2024 election include that court reversing itself and holding that ballot harvesting is legal and voter ID is not legal … in other words, Wisconsin is now out of reach for the GOP Presidential candidate. From NBC:

Janet Protasiewicz, a judge on the Milwaukee County Circuit Court, has won a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, NBC News projects, giving liberals their first majority on the state’s highest court in 15 years.

Protasiewicz defeated conservative Dan Kelly, a former state Supreme Court justice, on Tuesday in what became the most expensive state Supreme Court race in U.S. history and one of the most closely watched elections of 2023.

Protasiewicz’s victory will allow the court’s new liberal majority to determine the future of several pivotal issues the bench is likely to decide in the coming years, including abortion rights, the state’s gerrymandered legislative maps and election administration — including, possibly, the outcome of the 2024 presidential race in the battleground state.

With 85% of the expected vote counted, Protasiewicz had the support of 55% percent of voters, while Kelly had 45% percent. …

… the Protasiewicz campaign, as well as groups supporting it, widely outspent Kelly’s campaign and groups supporting it.

This election … not Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine … should have been the top priority for the GOP. It obviously wasn’t:

Jesse Kelly’s tweet is super-applicable to the NHGOP. The House has a functional Democrat majority and yet the “Republicans” in the House kept the same “leaders” that lost their majority. 2024 is going to be a bloodbath for the NHGOP. Governor Chris Pappas, a solid Democrat majority in the House and a better than 50 percent chance that the Democrats take the Senate and Executive Council too.

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