Friday • December 13 • 2024
Vol.XVI • No.L
Manchester, N.H.
The Democrats united on Friday in opposition to the Parents’ Bill of Rights. The Bill passed in the House of Representatives but will probably die in the Democrat-controlled Senate.
This contrast in support is a travesty of infinite proportions and spells out how much the Democrats hold dear their control over our kids. The COVID Pandemic blew the cover over the partnership between the Democrats and the Teacher’s Unions to indoctrinate our children and prevent parents from participating in their children’s education. Terry McAuliffe lost his bid for reelection as Governor of Virginia when he claimed that parents had no place in the educational process. He instantly became the poster child of what is wrong with Democrat thinking regarding our children.
The Parents’ Bill of Rights will keep parents in the education process of their kids and aware of what their children may be divulging to their teachers. These Democrats, who went to the floor in opposition to the Bill, could not have looked more foolish and out of touch with reality. Representative Cortez, who has no children and will probably have none for the sake of the environment, called Republicans fascists for wanting to return control of children back to their parents. Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee embarrassed herself by claiming this Parents’ Rights Bill enslaves children. How do you even begin to explain that ludicrous statement made for its sound bite value? Hakeem Jeffries said this Bill proves the Republicans don’t want their children to know about the Holocaust. These are the same people who did remove references to the Holocaust and 9/11 from curriculums and supported the 1619 Project.
Other than working to develop a following of young people that will grow into a Democrat voting block, there is no logical explanation for their motives and actions. There appear to be two focal points to the Left’s agenda. One is to further insulate children from their parents and parents from the process. The other is this obsession with gender neutralization. Neither of these is healthy for children or society. How can the Party that claims to be for the people be so divisive to the family unit?
The bald-faced lies are disconcerting and are at the highest levels. We know we cannot trust anything coming from Biden’s White House, but to see Hakeem Jeffries lie on the House floor is disrespectful. He holds up a book about baseball great Roberto Clemente as an example of an out-of-control book banning by the Right. He knew it was a lie because it had already been debunked, but with complicit media that questions nothing, the stunt and sound bite go unchallenged.
I called it an obsession, but it goes beyond that. The need to protect the effort to influence the gender choices of children through explicit materials in school libraries and counseling by unqualified “therapists,” this concerted effort by Democrats and educators is evil and dangerous.
Parents are calling out their school boards, but it is not enough. The media turns the public against these confrontations by making these parents look to be crazy combatants abusing the local boards. These Democrats need to be called out and the education hierarchy broken. Some Republicans are running on a promise to abolish the Department of Education, and this needs to be supported. Eliminating Randi Weingarten and the rogue teacher’s unions will be a more difficult challenge. The money they pledge to Democrats is their hook, and it is deeply set.
Recovering and protecting our children will not be swift or easy. The Left has a one-hundred-year head start, but we have an ace in the hole. We have the well-being of our children, not the government’s children, as motivation for our fight. There is no more potent cause.
The post Hey Dems, They Are Our Kids, Not Yours appeared first on Granite Grok.
Sometimes we ‘break’ a story before almost anyone else, like how a radical green group funded the research used to propose Gas Stove Ban. Both got legs. The alleged ban and the research funding issue, but the response from the Left was mixed.
Some tried to justify the proposed ban by claiming gas stoves had harmed (people of color, children, or maybe children of color). Others said the ban was a Right-Wing conspiracy (I mean, who would ban gas cooking when the ruling class loves them so much).
As it turns out, the noise about them harming (any) people was the conspiracy theory, and the ban was legit. In testimony before Congress last week, Jennifer “I Love China’s commitment to Climate Change” Granholm admits the truth.
“There’s been an awful lot of misinformation that’s been floating around about this,” Granholm told Newhouse.
Granholm acknowledged, however, that half of gas stoves could be impacted under a Department of Energy proposal.
“Half of the gas stoves that are on the market right now wouldn’t even be impacted,” she said.
That’s the bureaucratic way of saying, yes, we’d be banning half the gas stoves (as in the other half). But back in January, when the story broke, the same Jen Granholm said,
“the notion of a gas stove ban was “so ridiculous” and “just not true,” echoing White House comments on Jan. 11 downplaying talk of a ban.”
I don’t think that word (ridiculous) means what you think it means, Secretary Granholm. Ridicule: … absurd, preposterous, laughable; unworthy of serious consideration. However, it appears to apply to Joe Biden’s Secretary of Energy.
As for the research upon which the rule was based, it’s still garbage, and so is the rule, along with the irony of why they are even considering it. Democrats ignore rules all the time.
That consent decree, which stemmed from a lawsuit against DoE by the Sierra Club, other environmental groups, and several states, requires DoE to address gas stoves by Jan. 31, 2024, either through new energy conservation standards or by deciding not to alter the current energy conservation standards.
Granholm claimed “high-end gas stoves” were the ones at risk, due to their heavier grates and oval-shaped burners.
The Sierra Club infers environmental harm, and the Feds hop to it because the dark and cold energy future needs less gas. Where were the regulators when the Sierra Club said Biomass energy plants were terrible for the planet? The Dems pushed back hard on that one.
Again we see the correct and proper application of the word ridiculous.
And one more point. The State of New York is not waiting for the Feds.
New York state is reportedly close to enacting the nation’s first legislative ban on gas stoves for most new construction, including single-family homes and commercial buildings.
Amid a statewide uproar over the plan, the Democrat-led state legislature is set to advance the move as part of Democrat Gov. Kathy Hochul’s $227 billion budget blueprint, which heavily focuses on phasing out the use of fossil fuels with a commitment to creating a “cleaner, healthier environment for future generations.”
Hochul ‘misspelled’ “offshoring emissions to third-world countries where people of color work for slave wages (if they get paid at all) in toxic environments that poison local communities to enrich the Chinese and local warlords doing business as politicians.”
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This week 189 New Hampshire Democrat state representatives joined with 16 Republicans to gut the Fetal Life Protection Act with the goal of making abortion legal up until birth in New Hampshire.
They voted to pass HB224 which would remove all legal penalties for abortions performed after six months of pregnancy on healthy, viable babies. Cornerstone dubbed the 16 Republicans the “Bloodthirsty Sixteen.”
One of those Bloodthirsty Sixteen is Rep. Mike Bordes, representing Laconia, who is the prime sponsor of HB231, a bill to ban the declawing of cats.
The Laconia Daily Sun quoted Bordes about this bill:
HB231 Prohibiting the removal of claws from cats came out of committee 9-9 with no recommendation. I urge all common-sense animal lovers who don’t want animals barbarically mutilated to email and tell your State Rep to vote yes on OTP (ought to pass). It’s time we stand up for our pets!!
In the same article:
The bill says a person could be subjected to escalating fines for removing a cat’s claws without a reason that the procedure is medically necessary. Penalties range from $500 for a first offense, to $1,000 for a second offense to $2,500 for subsequent offenses
Rep. Bordes knows the importance of having a penalty for this procedure or he wouldn’t have included a penalty in the bill. He understands that without a penalty declawing would continue and the law would be useless. And yet he wants to strip all penalties from the Fetal Life Protection Act.
Rep. Bordes decries the barbaric mutilation of cats and yet he wants to enable the barbaric mutilation of babies in the last three months of pregnancy with zero risk for the doctor performing it, not even a nominal $500 fine.
Many other reps agreed, voting to pass his declawing ban 225-147 and a week later these same reps voted 205-178 to gut the law protecting babies from being brutally killed in the last three months of pregnancy.
We have a lot of NH state reps that have twisted morals. We know the NH Democrats have serious problems and now we know we have at least 16 Republicans who are in the same disturbed state of mind, as well as Gov. Chris Sununu who is eager to sign this bill if the NH Senate passes it.
Related: Sununu vs. Babies, Contact Your Reps ASAP
I commented on Rep. Bordes’ Facebook page under his most recent post about his declawing bill.
Rep. Bordes, I’m quite shocked that you voted to remove the penalties for painful, dangerous late-term abortions on healthy viable babies when you are so concerned about painful procedures for cats. How do you square that? Late-term abortions cannot be used to save the life of the mother and are much more dangerous than giving birth so the only purpose is to ensure a dead baby.
My post was deleted within five minutes.
If you are Rep. Bordes’ constituent in Laconia please challenge him to explain this to you. Ask him to justify his concern for the humane care of cats vs. his total lack of concern for the humane care of babies just weeks from being born. His email address is mikebordes@bordesfornh.com or you can comment on or message him on his Facebook page.
Ask Bordes about his role as Vice Chair for Brigid’s House of Hope, a safe home for survivors of human trafficking, and what he thinks of the role abortion plays in keeping sexually trafficked women available for being prostituted.
Please contact your state senator now and ask him or her to stand against HB 224 to protect vulnerable moms and babies.
To learn more about the Fetal Life Protection Act visit nhabortion.com.
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DeSantis is falling in the polls … following a major unforced error: joining the seal-chorus calling Putin a “war criminal.” Memo to DeSantis … when it comes to border-wars, the vast majority of GOP voters care about, and want to hear the GOP Presidential candidates talk about, defending our undefended Southern border, NOT Ukraine’s border.
Further memo to DeSantis: the Republican-controlled New Hampshire House just voted to de facto repeal the State’s ban on abortions after six months. Sixteen Reps who call themselves Republicans joined all the Democrats to pass a bill that gets rid of civil and criminal penalties for these late-term abortions. I can only speak for myself, but I am sure that many others feel the same way … are you going to address this when you visit New Hampshire next month, or will you avoid the subject because that’s what the NHGOP “insiders,” “leaders,” etc. want you to do and probably already are telling you to do?
A word of warning to DeSantis: the NHGOP “insiders,” “leaders,” etc. are grifters who will turn you into McCain 2.0. Ignore them … condemn the de facto repeal of the ban on abortions after six months.
The post Will Ron DeSantis Have The Courage To Call Out The NHGOP’s Hypocrisy On Late-Term Abortions? appeared first on Granite Grok.
The climateer’s nuisance lawsuits against energy companies continue as woke activists get cities or counties to claim climate damages and then sue for compensation. The cases end up in court for years, but there may be a simpler, cheaper, less carbon-intensive solution.
Related: Dirty Secret: The Green Energy Utopia is an Oppressive Carbon-Intensive Mess
It is a strategy that was worked up back in 2016 when ‘stakeholders’ met at Harvard.
Back in 2016 UCS hosted a secret event at Harvard. Many State’s Attorneys General and staff got free freight to and fro. The purpose of the event was to strategize how to sue climate deniers. Jackpot justice scenarios (like this one). Where states could collect big payouts from oil or gas companies. Free national earned media for the issue and the suit. Significant exposure for AG’s and their offices. With the aid of private climate-justice attorneys strategically placed in AG’s offices.
This plot goes back further, but the 2016 meeting implicates a frequent presence in New Hampshire. The UCS. And you already know this story. Well, some of it.
The March 2016 Harvard meeting was followed by the now infamous March 29th publicity stunt by NY AG Eric Schneiderman. Al Gore was there as were other AG’s including the AG from Vermont. States suing major oil companies and others for aiding and abetting evils against the globe. Issuing subpoena’s for records of donations to determine who they may have paid off to promote their denier narratives.
That plan didn’t have the legs they’d hoped, but climate loons in copycat counties and cities have since picked up the green baton and tried to run.
The case, brought by Boulder County, Colorado against Suncor Energy and Exxon Mobil, seeks monetary relief for the companies’ decision to burn fossil fuels and allegedly “conceal” the associated dangers, which the county argues “caused, accelerated, an[d] exacerbated the impacts of climate change.” While the companies have appealed the case to the Supreme Court, it still has to decide on the question of jurisdiction, and whether or not the case should be heard in state or federal court.
Regardless of what the US Supreme Court decides, the suits will be tried somewhere, favorable or not, and if there are enough of them, the odds are good somewhere a city or county will win. Good for them. Now make them live up to the green promise. Stop providing these so-called planet-killing fossil fuels to your accusers. Cut them off.
You’d have to get your competitors to buy in (or out) and to blockade the green weenies, but if you could, how long before the people they claim to represent kick them all out of office and beg for natural gas and motor fuel?
I know that hypothetical will never happen. It’ll take government interference to make dry fossil fuel counties a reality. Not to save the planet. It’ll be incompetence or malfeasance.
Marxists don’t care about anything but money and power, comrade, which is ironic. There is a lot of money in Oil. Real money, with value – the kind of money they don’t want in the hands of their political opponents. So maybe they should become Big Oil’s best friend. Make them an offer they can’t refuse. Decalre fossil fuel use as a form of social justice or a shadow of a penumbra of something like reproductive rights.
It’ll never happen. Cheap, abundant energy – at least in America, comes with the risk of prosperity, an enlarged middle class, more disposable income that might find its way to political opponents, and less ability to exert top-down control.
Marxists love money and power, but they love control more.
Big Oil cutting off a county would be branded as irresponsible, immoral, and perhaps illegal. Meddling corporation But when the Marxists in Gov. Inc. do it intentionally or as a by-product of bad policy, it will be for the common good, Comrade.
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First, I am merely an “enlightened amateur”. Please vet & check on your own. Caveat emptor. Consider these to be priming the pump for your own investigations. I know this is a long post; I am attempting to put out a lot of information as a resource. Read or skip sections depending on your interests.
Second, I fear spicy time is very close, but even a month of food, water, etc., puts you well ahead of most of the sheeple. IMHO, set your minimum sights on a three-month period.
Third, two things will be critical for having the best chance of making it through:
And 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.
FYI, here’s a link to the last Survival Sunday SITREP. Also, the last PREP edition.
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HT SelfSufficientCommunity channel on Telegram. Ignore the prices as they’re well out of date, but it’s a good list for planning purposes. And related:
100 Items You Need, That DISAPPEAR FIRST During War – Granite Grok
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Top of the fold:
DEVELOPING: Deutsche Bank Stressed… Shares Tumble | The Gateway Pundit
It’s my opinion that this is the first few dominoes in a system that’s been artificial and propped up for so long, when it comes down it’s going to come down hard. Be warned. More:
186 More Banks “Are At Risk Of Failure”, And That Could Push Us Into The Next Great Depression (theeconomiccollapseblog.com)
“The Banks Are Melting”, And Signs Of A Major Credit Contraction Are Already Starting To Emerge
Financial Stability Oversight Council Releases ‘Nothingburger’ Statement | ZeroHedge
Hypothecation Equals $1.5 Quadrillion in Debt | NC Renegades
I really don’t want to be “gloom and doom” on this, but I fear that this will snowball.
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Oddments – random thoughts on prepping:
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Prepper Site URLS:
Most have daily articles; revisit daily. Please recommend others in the comments.
Ask a Prepper, how to prepare, survive and thrive, latest news
Mother Earth News
The Organic Prepper Home – The Organic Prepper
SurvivalBlog.com – The Daily Web Log for Prepared Individuals Living in Uncertain Times.
SHTF Blog – Modern Survival
Survival World – Everything You Need To Know to Survive
Homestead Survival Site – How to Live Off The Grid in Comfort and Style
Urban Survival Site | How to Survive a Disaster in the City
Mind4Survival – Survival and Preparedness
Gray Wolf survival
Sustainable Living (sustainablelivingideas.com)
The Classic Survivalist – Surviving in a Modern World
Primal Survivor – Practical and sensible prepping advice
Em Off-grid – We & Our Off The Grid Life – Em OffGrid
Resource for Practical, Daily Prepping Skills for SHTF & Survival (geekprepper.com)
And three aggregate sites listing their top favorite sites & links too:
TOP 50 SURVIVAL & PREPPER BLOGS
The 50 Best Survival Blogs
Prepper Website – Preparedness • Survival • Alternative News
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Specific, one-up articles:
Oddly, not much hit me as worthy, though remember I’m still slammed work-wise so my time is less. But I did find this. Take heart – you are descended from survivors:
Here’s How I Know You’ll Survive This – The Organic Prepper
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Survival Archives – Skillset Magazine
Useful to browse through. For example:
How To Open A Can Without A Can Opener (skillsetmag.com)
How To Season A Cast Iron Pan: Dishwashers Are A No-No (skillsetmag.com)
I’ve told my family that if they put the cast iron in the dishwasher there will be hell to pay.
How To Escape Zip Ties: Without Chewing Through Your Wrists (skillsetmag.com)
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Related to Spicy Time:
People Change (it’s bad) During Economic Depression. Things You Should Do and Expect in SHTF
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Top 10 Vehicle Preps to Buy At AUTOZONE | The Urban Prepper (gab.com)
Video, about 10 minutes.
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Reality is cold, harsh, and tends to be uncooperative (coldfury.com)
Language. But spot-on. We underestimate the globalists and their Antifa minions at our peril. Remember, Antifa went and trained with al Qaeda. Related, and I’ve posted this before – understand what they have planned:
What the Progressive Socialist Liberals have in store for Conservatives (part 1) – Metallicman
A series not for the faint of heart – but KNOW YOUR ENEMY and what they’re planning / capable of. And a prescient warning from an American hero:
I brought up the subject of what’s going to happen after we take over the government: we become responsible then for administrating 250 million people. And there was no answers. No one had given any thought to economics, how you’re going to clothe and feed these people.
The only thing that I could get was that they expected that the Cubans and the North Vietnamese and the Chinese and the Russians would all want to occupy different portions of the United States.
They also believed that their immediate responsibility would be to protect against what they called the counter revolution and they felt that this counter revolution could best be guarded against by creating and establishing reeducation centers in the Southwest where would take all the people who needed to be reeducated into the new way of thinking and teach them how things were going to be.
I asked, well, what is going to happen to those people that we can’t reeducate that are diehard capitalists and the reply was that they’d have to be eliminated. And when I pursued this further they estimated that they would have to eliminate 25 million people in these reeducation centers. And when I say eliminate I mean kill – 25 million people.
I want you to imagine sitting in a room with 25 people most of which have graduate degrees from Columbia and other well known educational centers and hear them figuring out the logistics for the elimination of 25 million people and they were dead serious.”
This is an uncomfortable truth about the Left:
But then, Socialistopia always has this foundation:
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18 Urban and Wilderness Survival Hacks | The Art of Manliness
These actually look really useful! From the same site:
How to Suture a Wound | The Art of Manliness
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5 Safe and Effective Home Remedies for Head Lice in Children
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CRITICAL TO UNDERSTAND AND PONDER
Short of years and untold wealth, you cannot possibly be fully prepared for everything (I have to keep reminding myself of that). But even some preparations, ideally at least 90 days of food, water / water purification, etc. – my target is six months – puts you head and shoulders in front of the vast majority of the sheeple who will be in jaw-gaping astonishment when the SHTF. The only relevant questions are:
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I just started a FORAGING group on Gab. I will check 2-3 times a week to see if people have asked to join.
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Foraging: One-up articles
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Big Yellow Morel Mushrooms……hunt the Sycamore Duff Fluff in 2023
More mushroom videos (links only):
HOW TO GROW MOREL MUSHROOMS, SLURRY METHOD #morels #wildfood – YouTube
September Mushroom Foraging Course Highlights – YouTube
Shiitake Mushroom Harvest and Cultivation Tips | Southwest Mushrooms – YouTube
How To Grow Lion’s Mane Mushroom From Start To Finish – YouTube
7 Common Poisonous Mushrooms You Should Know – YouTube
16 Wild Edible Mushrooms You Can Forage This Autumn – YouTube
Chanterelle & Jack O’Lantern — Mushroom ID – YouTube
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Try Burdock Root… 3 Delicious Recipes!
Not foraging in terms of finding, but in terms of preparation.
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Stinging Nettle — The Most Nutritious Plant On Earth?
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When the weather is reliably above 50-55 degrees (F) I plan to start sowing my purslane, elderberry, and chokeberry seeds. And plant some Jerusalem artichoke bulbs.
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Other foraging videos, no sorting, links only:
Wild Food Foraging- Season 1 – YouTube
Wild Food Foraging- Season 2- Grape, Raspberry, Clover, Morel, Cedar, Ramps, Birch – YouTube
25 Edible Plants, Fruits and Trees for Wilderness Survival – YouTube
Wild Edible Plants With Alan Kay – YouTube
10 Wild Edible Greens to Harvest- Foraging Plants – YouTube
Five Common Backyard Wild Edibles – YouTube
Foraging For 3 Overlooked Wild Edible Fruits – YouTube
Is The Healthiest Part Of Dandelion Its Flower? – YouTube
3 Weeds You’re Probably Not Eating – YouTube
Foraging (permanent feature):
Foraging (practicalselfreliance.com)
Wild Harvests (arcadianabe.blogspot.com)
Southern Appalachian Herbs
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Books (permanent feature):
Feasting Free on Wild Edibles (old but good)
The Lost Ways (much more than just foraging)
The Forager’s Guide to Wild Foods
THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO EDIBLE WILD PLANTS FOR BEGINNERS
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Shortages (broadly):
US Cattle Inventory Forecast Falls To Lowest Level In Nearly A Decade: USDA | ZeroHedge
Beef prices are definitely going up! Also see my comments below towards the end.
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Retailer egg prices continue to rise amid ongoing shortages – FarmingUK News
So not just in the US.
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Gardening, Food Storage, Animals, Food Preservation, Health, and Related:
How to Start Your Own Meal Worm Farm to Feed Your Chickens (Part 1)
Related videos on mealworms, other larvae, and feeding your chickens in general (links only):
Feeding Our Chickens for FREE with Black Soldier Fly Larva (BSFL) – ProtaPod – YouTube
Update on the Mealworm Farm we started to Feed our Chickens (Part2) – YouTube
How to build a mealworm farm! – YouTube
HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN DIY HEALTHY HOMEMADE CHICKEN FEED – YouTube
MEALWORM FARMING FOR BEGINNERS – Moving Beetles In Your Mealworm Colony – YouTube
7 Hacks to Cut Your Chicken Feed Bill – YouTube
How to Farm Mealworms 2022 [ Saving Hundreds Per Year While Keeping Reptiles, Chickens and More] – YouTube
MEALWORM FARMING FOR BEGINNERS – How to Maintain a Healthy Mealworm Farm – YouTube
Here’s how I feed 2 million hungry worms with homemade worm chow and sprouted greens! – YouTube
What Kitchen Scraps Your Chickens Can And CANT Eat! Some Are Toxic For Chickens! – YouTube
Mealworm 101 || 5 Simple Steps to Starting a Mealworm Colony! – YouTube
And a few more general chicken videos:
Raising chicks 101 – Avoid these fatal beginner mistakes! – YouTube
Top 10 “Chicken Beginner” MISTAKES You DON’T Want To Make! | How To Raise Chickens! – YouTube
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Miscellaneous gardening videos (links only):
How to Grow Beets All Year – YouTube
How To Collect And Save Beet Seeds – YouTube
The TRICK To Saving Seeds For Next Year – Cucumber, Tomato & Pepper Seed Harvest – YouTube
How To Save And Store Carrot Seeds – YouTube
How to grow and Harvest Oats on a Small Plot – YouTube
Growing Wheat – small scale – YouTube
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25+ Ways To Keep Food Cold Without Electricity – Ask a Prepper
Amazing how creative people were. And can be again.
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12 Perfect Vegetables To Grow In A Shady Garden Space – Off-Grid
Not everyone gets lots of sunlight in their garden.
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Bushcraft: How Native Americans Preserve Food
Other videos of food preservation (links only):
Amind 435 Final: Native American Food Preservation – YouTube
Native American (Diné) Food Storage – YouTube
You Can Live Without Refrigeration – Here’s How – YouTube
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Planting Grapes – How To Grow Your Own Grape Vines With Ease! (oldworldgardenfarms.com)
I have three concord grape plants that I hope (!) survived the winter. This year I plan to plant several more.
Question: Any suggestions for an organic pest-control spray since I noticed “something” that was eating the leaves?
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Links on old-time food storage (permanent feature):
Thanks to the Canning and Preserving group on Gab, I now have these links:
Preserving foods by drying | How to dry foods safely (uada.edu)
USDA-Complete-Guide-to-Home-Canning-2015-revision.pdf (healthycanning.com)
Canning | SDSU Extension (sdstate.edu)
Food Preservation– Canning | Consumer Food Safety | Washington State University (wsu.edu)
Canning Timer & Checklist App | OSU Extension Catalog | Oregon State University
National Center for Home Food Preservation (uga.edu)
Canning Recipes | Ball® Mason Jars (ballmasonjars.com)
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Topical Books (also permanent):
Charcuterie: The Craft of Salting, Smoking & Curing
Salumi: The Craft of Italian Dry Curing
A Guide to Canning, Freezing, Curing & Smoking Meat, Fish & Game
The Prepper’s Canning Guide
Pickled Pantry
Fermented Vegetables
Hydroponics and Greenhouse Gardening: 3-in-1 Gardening Book to Grow Vegetables, Herbs, and Fruit All-Year-Round
Hydroponics for Beginners: The Complete Guide to Hydroponic Gardening, Designing and Building Inexpensive DIY Hydroponic Systems…
The Aquaponics Guidebook: Combining Aquaculture and Hydroponics Combining Aquaculture and Hydroponics
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Self-defense (broad) & Hunting:
Their Plan To Confiscate Our Guns. That’s What Is Hiding in Their “Orders”
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1% of Democrat Counties Make Up 42% of America’s Murders – Daniel Greenfield / Sultan Knish articles
The CPRC study showed that while 2% of counties populated by Democrats were responsible for 56% of the country’s murders, 52% of counties had no murders and 68% of counties had at most one murder.
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Keep you and yours safe. That’s your ONLY job.
Yup. And understand that in many jurisdictions, or countries, even defending yourself – let alone others – can be problematic and run you afoul of the law.
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Concluding thoughts if I’m moved to comment:
I’ve mentioned before that my kids’ favorite lunch meat is nowhere to be found at “usual places”. Their favorite box juice is back, but supply is sporadic and usually only one flavor, not the 4-5 varieties that they used to have.
I’ve also seen a return of “front of shelf” loading – not universal, but there – whereby the products are arranged right up front to cover up the empty shelves behind. Supply of other things, here and there, results in absences where I come home empty-handed on that particular thing – definitely not something that used to happen pre-Potato.
Even one of my wife’s favorite chocolates seems to be spotty. And – horror of horrors – the Contadina basil pesto is not on the shelf half the time. Which, of course, only prompts me to work on making some from scratch this year.
Prices, too, are visibly creeping up on virtually everything.
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we will NOT survive this.
Japan, as a nation, is predicted to completely collapse within a few hundred years. Many will, I think. I know that one reason China reversed it’s ONE CHILD policy is a realization this would lead to demographic collapse… particularly as parents, wanting boys, would abort baby girls.
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Palate cleansers:
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Took me a moment.
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Please check out my MEMES collections; last one here. Mockery, ridicule, and the wrapping of uncomfortable truths inside humor can penetrate the cognitive shields of normies far more effectively – IMHO – than dry facts and figures.
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Browsing though SB 272, the so-called Parents’ Bill of Rights, I came across this little gem:
The right to exempt a public-school student from participating in required statewide assessments in English, language arts, mathematics, and/or science, as set forth in RSA 193-C:6.
Sorry, but no. First, note that RSA 193-H:2 requires that
schools shall ensure that all pupils are performing at the proficient level or above on the statewide assessment as established in RSA 193-C.
By definition, you can’t ensure that all pupils are performing at proficiency if some of them are exempted from the assessment.
Second, if a student is attending a school paid for by taxpayers, those taxpayers have a right to know whether their money is being wasted. If you don’t want your kid to provide that essential feedback, then you can educate him yourself, on your own dime.
There are lots of problems with this bill, but the overall problem is that it’s not helpful to express the goals of the bill in terms of rights.
First, the enumeration of rights belongs in a constitution, not in a statute. Rights are to be claimed by the people, not handed out by the legislature.
Second, the current judicial environment treats rights as little more than suggestions. Any court can ‘interpret’ any ‘right’ in the bill to ‘mean’ anything it wants. So if passed in its current form, the bill will have failed in advance.
Third, people can’t exercise rights that they don’t know about. And this bill requires parents to go to court to seek redress. Together, these ensure that the vast majority of violations will go unchecked. And even when violations are punished, it’s the taxpayers who will end up paying the judgments.
It would be much simpler, much more direct, and much more justifiable for the bill to express what schools may not do — a Schools’ Bill of Wrongs, so to speak.
After all, schools are creatures of the state. There is no need to discover new rights, or claim new powers, for the state to tell schools what they are prohibited from doing.
To take just a couple of examples, instead of saying that parents have
The right to inquire of the school or school personnel and to be truthfully and completely informed if their child is being identified by any name other than the name under which the child was enrolled in the school or any nickname that a reasonable person would understand to be commonly derived from such name, including under circumstances which a reasonable person would understand to be for the purpose of facilitating a change of gender or gender transition.
why not just prohibit schools from using any name other than the one under which a child is enrolled? If they want to use a different name, the parent would have to re-enroll the child under the new name.
Or instead of saying that parents have
The right to opt out of health or sex education and any other objectionable material, as set forth in RSA 186:11, IX-b and IX-c.
why not just prohibit schools from teaching those subjects without written permission from parents?
But this raises an interesting question: Why should only parents be able to declare that material is objectionable, when it’s taxpayers who are footing the bill? As Jefferson observed, ‘to compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical’.
That is, why not prohibit schools from teaching objectionable subjects (also known as divisive concepts) at all? If the kids can read, they can learn the subjects on their own. If they can’t read, they should be working on learning to read.
Finally, you have to wonder sometimes if the people who propose and pass bills even bother to read them. The preamble of this bill says:
The general court further finds that it is a child’s parents who have the responsibility, means, and resources to ensure that a child receives appropriate health care, …
Really? If that were actually true, it would mean that there should be no socialized or subsidized health care for children, inside schools or anywhere else. Is that really what the general court ‘finds’? Or is it just tossing words around for emotional effect, hoping that no one is actually paying attention?
Ultimately, the state should have the same relationship to schools as it does to towns: Dillon’s Rule. If a school isn’t given explicit permission to do something, it has no power to do it.
If schools aren’t given explicit permission to collect biometric scans or DNA, or to immunize a child, or give a child counseling or psychological advice, then they can’t do those things.
If schools are required to make all curriculum materials available for inspection by parents and taxpayers, then everyone will be able to see them — without having to make a separate Taxpayers’ Bill of Rights.
The state can make acceptance of a set of strictly enumerated tasks a condition of employment by any school district, and make failure to abide by them grounds for immediate termination (with no opportunity for any union to override this condition).
This would be simpler, cleaner, better aligned with the state constitution, better aligned with the goals of the bill, and easier to enforce — and therefore much more likely to actually accomplish something.
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On Thursday, March 23, the New Hampshire House voted to pass HB 224, a bill to return New Hampshire to unrestricted abortion until a child’s head crowns. Although the House is virtually tied between Republicans and Democrats, the bill passed 205-178, with a group of 16 Republican representatives joining the Democrats.
This is a historic moment, not just for New Hampshire, but for America. Although there have been other narrowly-divided state legislatures in the US, this is the first time that any Republican-led legislative body has voted to authorize unlimited abortion until birth in a final vote. These legislators are also the largest group of Republican officials anywhere in the US to vote for unlimited abortion.
Under current New Hampshire law, the only abortions that are prohibited are those which knowingly kill a viable child six months or older. Let’s be clear about what HB 224 will do: its sole purpose is to allow the execution of children who are so well-developed that they could be delivered and would live.
Almost everything about the abortion industry in New Hampshire is shrouded in secrecy, making it impossible to know what will happen within the walls of New Hampshire abortion clinics if this bill is signed into law. But that doesn’t mean we don’t have a good idea.
In Washington, D.C., where abortion clinics do not bother to hide their practices from the public, 5-star, upscale abortion clinics like the DuPont Clinic boast openly that they perform abortions of healthy children after 26 weeks. Last year, when the corpses of five full-term children were discovered in D.C., police announced there would be no criminal investigation because there had been no crime.
As our Executive Director, Shannon McGinley, has observed, “The House’s vote for HB 224 today was a bloodthirsty act. Make no mistake: voting to allow the execution of viable, late-term children is on the same moral plane as a wartime atrocity.”
The sixteen Republicans who voted to bring this kind of deep sickness to New Hampshire are:
Who are these sixteen legislators? Many have connections to Governor Sununu, who has promised to destroy New Hampshire’s six-month abortion ban. And a few, like Sununu ally Dan Wolf, are well-known as pro-abortion fanatics.
But what is most striking about this group of sixteen is the lengths that most went to obscure their pro-abortion extremism from voters and constituents. Judging from the campaign materials of these representatives, Republican voters in most of these districts did not know they were electing people who believed in elective abortion at nine months.
Of those with available campaign websites, none has a website listing their pro-abortion stance. In fact, Karel Crawford’s campaign promised voters they were electing a “conservative Republican.” Dick Thackston had a campaign website which—despite listing no actual policy positions—called himself a man of “conservative principles.”
Some representatives were less ambiguous. As recently as January of 2023, Josh Yokela simply lied to constituents who contacted him about New Hampshire’s law, telling them he would not support repealing or changing it.
Perhaps most noxious is David Nagel, whose campaign not only gave no hint that he supported bloody atrocities, but was largely focused on Jesus. Nagel said that he supported “traditional Republican values,” was pro-family, and was most importantly “a Christian” whose “core belief” was the Golden Rule of Matthew 7:12: “Do unto others as you would have them do to you.”
Nagel’s version of the Golden Rule apparently does not prohibit methodically murdering a fully-developed, healthy baby ready to be born by stabbing it in the head. Later in Matthew 7, of course, Jesus also says: “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. You will recognize them by their fruits.” Nagel, in particular, would do well to see what Jesus had to say about serpents, vipers, and millstones.
Notably, eleven of these Republicans voted together as a strategic bloc on multiple bills. Although HB 271 was a functionally identical bill to HB 224, only five of the representatives also voted for 271: David Bickford, Mark Proulx, Susan Vandecasteele, Dan Wolf, and Josh Yokela.
It is not hard to figure out what the remaining 11 representatives have in mind. They believe that, when constituents contact them, they will be able to hide behind their vote on HB 271 despite passing another bill—HB 224—that did exactly the same thing.
In other words, these eleven believe New Hampshire voters, and especially pro-life voters, are too stupid to recognize what they are openly doing. We think they will soon learn that they were mistaken.
Find out if your representative is one of the sixteen and contact them. Then tell your state senator now to stand against HB 224. Most importantly, prayerfully prepare yourselves and your communities for a zealous fight to defend the least of these from the bloodthirsty work of these sixteen legislators.
Remember, both in preparing your own churches and praying for these legislators, the words of Jesus in the parable of the sheep and the goats.
In Matthew 25, Jesus tells the goats: “Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.” He explains that the goats failed to help the weakest, most vulnerable among us, and concludes: “Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.”
| Cornerstone
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I’m betting that Ronnie Abbott will either have a cow over Spec’s post and this OR, perhaps (a “slight” perhaps?) a brightening bulb will appear over his uppermost? He’s the commenter that is unhappy with me because I continue to write Republicans that won’t talk, act, and legislate like Republicans here in Belknap County. After all:
The Tennessee Star picked up something that I had written at the very end of this post:
If the NH Republican Party wants to win, and win Consistently, act like you believe in the Platform. Speak like you do and at each and every turn. Vote like you do at each and every opportunity. And Legislate like there’s no tomorrow because two days ago was that “no more tomorrow” – and you blew it.
Accountability. I’ve been doing so for the Belknap County Republicans that are part of the Belknap Convention (or “Delegation” if you prefer) in how they’ve broken NHs Open Meeting / Records Law, RSA 91-A, holding three illegal “Budget Review subcommittee” meeting such that they now have to pack everything into a single meeting – a budgeting process that normally takes a number of meetings. Three months wasted thanks to the ditherings of Delegation Chair Harry Bean and Subcommittee [unelected Chair Steven Nagel.
Sidenote: final Delegation Budget meeting is this Wednesday at the County Complex (34 County Drive) in Laconia starting at 6:30pm
Thanks, Citizens for Belknap (“CfB”), with your massive PR campaign in which political mud, “FREE STATERS!!!”, “EXTREMISTS”, and other political epithets, that you aimed at the Conservative / Liberty minded (since when did “Liberty” and “Freedom” become negatives?) over the man-made disaster called Gunstock. What a smoke screen that turned out to be! And what will be the expensive outcome of that campaign that put incompetents in charge?
Yep, an inability to overrule the MASSIVE increase in the County Commissioners’ proposed budget that will cause a 35.4% rise in taxes to be raised by taxation. Instead of protecting we taxpayers, who are having financial issues ourselves, they have put Government over taxpayers.
Tax us FAR more, right CfB? Isn’t that “the Democrat way“?
But even worse – now we know that these self-righteous, self-indulgent Republicans, endorsed into office by Citizens for Belknap, are doing the same to us down in Concord. You expect when you vote for Republicans that they’d ACT like your idea of what a Republican should be doing. Especially in major issue items.
A Watcher who is open about his methodology in analyzing the voting records of NH State Reps, he’s showing us how bad the damage is and how it has skewed Belknap to Democrats. Sure, they only got two Democrats elected to the Delegation (David Huot and Charlie St. Claire) but in putting in controvertible designated RINOs by their voting records, the Citizens of Belknap multiplied the Democrat presence here in the County. In crunching his numbers, those that SHOULD be held Accountable can be. After all, Interesting what Spec’s number-crunching has brought to light here in Belknap County. A quick recap:
Most Republicans only rarely vote with Democrats against other Republicans. Looking at all Republicans, the median RINO score was 5.1%, meaning that on average they voted with Democrats only 5.1% of the time. Anyone who voted as much as 10% of the time against fellow Republicans is a bit out of the mainstream. Anyone with a RINO score above 15% is definitely outside mainstream Republicans.
Dispassionately, Spec gave summary in Belknap County; from being one of the most solidly Republican Counties, we no longer are:
For most of the last 10 years, Belknap Reps had the best voting records of all counties. This year, they have one of the worst.
Citizens for Belknap is laughing all the way through your ballot box. They have also said that they are going to finish the job in 2024 as there are still some Conservatives that stood up to them (not Harry Bean as it seemed he was supporting their election efforts hard): Peter Varney, Paul Terry, Barbara Comtois and Nikki McCarter).
For instance, last session, the Fetal Life Protection Act was passed that prevented abortions after 24 weeks of gestation (life in the womb).
That latter bill is just one in a years long process by which Legislators have abandoned their Powers and Responsibilities “over the wall” with a “the Secretary shall establish Rules” instead of doing their complete job. You know, the Democrats’ end game of the “Administrative State” that started back in the early 1900s by which we would be ruled by “non-partisan” expert technocrats rather than as a Republic. Seems like Nagel learned that lesson quick (as a freshman).
There are other bills in which they showed they aren’t with the Republicans and that will come out next week.
Afterthought:
I got asked the question: Does Ronny Abbott pay property taxes?
Response: everyone does!
Asker: While they may not know it, renters pay property taxes through their landlords. As the owner of many rental properties in Belknap County, Chair Harry Harry will be increasing rents on his tenants to cover his 35% tax hike.
Response: To keep profit margins up, I would not doubt it.
Asker: Who is Abbott carrying water for?
Yes, the “Asker” is not fond of the Citizens For Belknap and what they have done to turn Belknap from Red to Blue.
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One of the if not early, then alarming reports to surface after the Jabbernauts began the ‘needle-in-every-arm’ crusade was a rise in miscarriages. Pregnant women were losing babies almost as fast as if they’d taken that horse medicine (Misoprostol) feminists ranted about after SCOTUS un-penumbra’d Roe. v. Wade.
The Dobb’s decision put choice back in the hands of the states and the people (as the US Constitution intended), and the Libs lost what passes for their collectivist minds. They all but forgot about the FDA Ivermectin horse-past lie they repeated like a post-modernist Gregorian chant. Or that most abortion states would simply keep killing babies because it was existing state law.
But it turns out they didn’t need the Misoprostol. All you had to do was get a “free” COVID shot or booster, which had been killing pre-born babies for months. Enough that I think the folks at Planned Parenthood should consider suing Pfizer for reparations.
In January 2022, one report suggested a 279% increase in miscarriages. This past week Dr. Simone Gold from America’s Frontline Doctors tweeter the number 4070%. That’s increased miscarriages. I have no idea where she got the figure, but any number over none is tragic and bad for Planned Parenthood.
That alleged vaccine is cutting into their business. Unexpected pregnancy? Get a COIVD booster. And make sure they mark your passport. After five of those things, if you are still alive, you can get the sixth for free. That’s a joke. They are all free. Just ask the Federal Government. Ka-billions spent on doses almost no one wants anymore, but has DHS considered picking up the blood red phone to call Planned Parenthood?
Sorry, we encroached on your territory. Here’s some Ukraine Money. The margin notes say it’s to teach gay bears to perform like drag queens, but that’s what we like to call a laundry ticket. You can spend it on whatever you want. Lawyers, maybe, in case someone brings up that illegal baby-part side hustle, you may or may not still be running. But you’ll get a lot more mileage if you “donate” it to a DA or an AG in New York or California.
Anyway, (Pfizer, the CDC, and the FDA) knew it was bad for babies. Pfizer printed a package insert you never see that suggests “vaccinated” men wear condoms during sex. Why?
“Male participants are eligible to participate if they agree” to “remain abstinent from heterosexual intercourse with a female of childbearing potential” or “agree to use a male condom when engaging in any activity that allows for passage of ejaculate to another person” during “the intervention period and for at least 28 days after the last dose” as a way to “eliminate reproductive safety risk … ”
Is reproductive safety another word for reproductive health because if women were at risk from unprotected sex with men who got The Jab, it sounds like some people knew something that explains an exponential rise in miscarriages among women who got The Jab too. And we don’t have to hold our horses (or their paste).
Dr. Michael Yeadon, a former vice president at Pfizer, has corroborated the claims, saying that the jabs pose a “severe risk” of infertility. Yeadon cited scientific research specifically on lipid nanoparticles, found in the shots. “Do not take these vaccines,” he warned. “There’s a severe risk to your ability to conceive and carry a baby to term.”
That’s another way of saying you’ll probably have a miscarriage.
So everyone but pregnant women or men (or women born with penises who have sex with women who were not born with a penis) knew The Jab was an abortifacient whose powers and abilities could put a dent in Planned Parenthood’s core mission. And it has, though we can’t say definitively how many of the miscarriages were wanted pregnancies. The term miscarriage connotes an unwanted interruption in the life cycle of a human being, whereas abortion presumes the opposite. Like when your “favorite” uncle (or maybe Bill Clinton) says you have to get one.
That shouldn’t stop PP from seeking compensation.
The current reparations hysteria pivots on the progressive idea that people who never had slaves should pay people who never were slaves. Using that twisted little progressive template, Planned Parenthood ought to be able to demand money from people who had babies (which they already do), but that’s not the focus of this particular parody.
As far as PP is concerned, Pfizer’s COVID vaccine is a miscarriage of reproductive justice, and making other people pay is an integral part of their profit model. Reparations are in order.
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This is a preview of the RINO Report that will come out after the votes of April 6 (Crossover day – when the NH Senate’s bills go to the NH House and the NH House’s go to the NH Senate).
We want to thank Spec Bowers for this Op-Ed. Please submit yours to Editor@GraniteGrok.com.
I have crunched the numbers – i.e., the voting records of the first half of this year – to determine objectively which members are RINOs – Republicans In Name Only.
I looked at every vote where (a majority of) Republicans voted opposite (a majority of) Democrats. I ignored votes where both sides voted the same. A RINO vote is when a Republican votes with Democrats against a majority of Republicans.
Almost every Rep at one time or another casts a vote the same as the Democrats. One example is when a Republican votes against the budget because it is too large while the Democrats vote against it because they think it is too small. Thankfully, such votes are not common.
Most Republicans only rarely vote with Democrats against other Republicans. Looking at all Republicans, the median RINO score was 5.1%, meaning that on average they voted with Democrats only 5.1% of the time. Anyone who voted as much as 10% of the time against fellow Republicans is a bit out of the mainstream. Anyone with a RINO score above 15% is definitely outside mainstream Republicans.
Here are the ten worst RINOs so far this year:
Sadly, four of the ten worst RINOs are from Belknap county. For most of the last 10 years, Belknap Reps had the best voting records of all counties. This year, they have one of the worst.
At the other end of the scale, there were six Reps with perfect RINO scores of 0%:
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EVs are a miserable experiment. Not green, not affordable, not efficient, and an uncontrollable fire hazard, they can cost almost 30% more to insure, and even minor damage could mean repairs exceed the vehicle’s value, so it gets scrapped.
There’s no recycling or upcycling, and the battery packs are still a hazardous fire risk with no reliable end-of-life processing path.
As Reuters reports, insurance companies are writing off more and more low-mileage electric vehicles that have only minor damage, because any harm to the battery packs can’t be accessed or repaired. With some Tesla models, for example, the battery packs are actually glued into the car’s structure, making them difficult to remove, replace or repair
“A Tesla structural battery pack is going straight to the grinder,” one industry analyst told Reuters.
This is terrible news for a mode of transportation being mandated by governments and politicians as earth-friendly. On average, reports suggest you need to drive an EV at least 60,000 miles before you offset the carbon cost of making it compared to a combustion-powered vehicle. (No amount of driving can offset the human rights violations, you virtue signaling tool.)
To their credit, manufacturers like Tesla offer a warranty on the battery to 100,000 miles. If it wears down or conks out before that, you probably won’t have to drop 15K+ dollars for the new battery (and another 60,000 miles to offset its carbon footprint). But if the vehicle is damaged in a collision, you and your insurer might be looking at scrapping a low-mileage car that took a lot of carbon to make.
The cost to replace a battery pack can constitute up to half of the price some consumers paid for their electric vehicles, prompting them to incur the financial burden of buying a new vehicle.
If you bought in and sucked up the added costs to reduce the carbon impact on mother earth, that collision just made it worse if you didn’t get more than 60,000 miles on it. And we’re not just talking battery production, use, and end of life. The entire manufacturing carbon footprint to build and transport the car is at your feet.
On a brighter note, the CO2 carbon footprint mythology has no scientific basis (nor do the alleged “cures”), so the premature death of your virtue-signaling EV is little more than a significant waste of time and money for a car that was probably running on natural gas and coal.
All this time, you were signaling something. It just wasn’t what you thought.
This is something for states like Vermont and Massachusetts (in my neck of the woods) to consider. They are passing laws to mandate EVs and ban combustion engine sales by 2035. A year by which millions of useless EV batteries will already be rotting in salvage yards and landfills, waiting to catch fire and turn a not-green device for a not-green vehicle into a toxic cloud of harmful emissions.
The cost of your political virtue-signaling is not just generational. It is economically debilitating and environmentally irresponsible.
Stop. Now. Please.
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I assume that by the time this is posted, Cornerstone’s post regarding the passage of HB 224 … the de facto repeal of the ban on post-six-months abortions … will have been posted. The point of this post is that there will be NO consequences for the “Republican” Reps who voted with the Democrats to allow abortion-up-to-birth … NHGOP “leadership” will simply go on with business as usual. And that should disqualify New Hampshire from hosting the First-in-the-Nation GOP Presidential primary.
NHGOP “leaders” will … as they always do … tell us that the majority of the House GOP voted against HB 244. The same tired refrain we have been hearing for at least the past 30 years … it was the RINOs; it was the RINOs; it was the RINOs. NOT good enough.
The failure to take any action against these Reps (names below) … for example, loss of committee assignments, loss of funding from the State Party … indicates that preventing late-term abortions is NOT a priority for the NHGOP. And that shows that the NHGOP is hopelessly out-step with the Republican Party as a whole on abortion, as well as a host of other issues. New Hampshire is not a barometer of the Republican Party or the country … it has no business hosting the First-in-the-Nation GOP Presidential primary.
Lex Berezhny of Grafton 11
David Bickford of Strafford 3
Mike Bordes of Belknap 5
Carroll Brown of Grafton 10
Karel Crawford of Carroll 3
Tanya Donnelly of Rockingham 25
Oliver Ford of Rockingham 3
John Lewicke of Hillsborough 36
David Lundgren of Rockingham 16
James Mason of Merrimack 3
David Nagel of Belknap 6
Mark Proulx of Hillsborough 15
Dick Thackston of Chesire 12
Susan Vandecasteele of Rockingham 25
Dan Wolf of Merrimack 7
Josh Yokela of Rockingham 32
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Did you know that more than 25% of traffic deaths are related to alcohol impairments? Drunk driving is very dangerous due to how alcohol slows a person’s reflexes and influences their behavior. A drunk driver could easily injure or kill someone.
What should you do if you see a drunk driver on the road? Should you call the police? Should you try and pull the driver over?
Keep reading and learn more about what you can do to help.
Don’t Try to Stop the Drunk Driver’s CarMany people think that they should take a direct approach and try to stop a drunk driver’s car. But this is a bad idea. Drunk drivers are reckless and might not have any control over their cars.
They may not know how fast they’re going or how to slow down. They may make turns that are too wide or too tight. They may try swerving into other lanes to avoid the cars ahead of them.
Some drunk drivers may fall asleep at the wheel and crash into a telephone pole or another car. A drunk driver is an immediate danger to everyone around them. The signs of a drunk driver include swerving, going too fast or too slow, and driving off the road.
Find out more here if you want to know more about DUI drivers.
The DetailsBecause drunk drivers are so dangerous, you should stay far away from them. It is best to move your car behind them. This keeps you out of their line of sight, and they are less likely to hit you.
Avoid driving in front of them or to the side. They may not be paying attention to the road and may crash into your car from the back or side. If the drunk driver stops and gets out of the car, don’t confront them.
Drunk drivers may become violent if you try to talk to them or stop them from driving. Yelling or honking at the driver may also startle or distract them. This could cause them to get into an accident.
If you make the driver angry, they may purposely try to cause an accident. They may try to drive their car into yours or tailgate you. This is a sure way to get yourself into a dangerous situation.
It is better to hang back and assess the situation from afar.
Memorize the Car’s Model and Plate NumbersJust because you should hang back doesn’t mean that you can’t do anything useful. If you think there is a drunk driver on the road, pay attention to the car they’re driving. What model is it?
What about the color? How old does the car look? Is the car worn down or covered in dents and rust?
Any visual details can help you identify the car if it gets out of your line of sight. You can then call the police when you are in a safe location and tell them about the car you saw. You should also consider whether the car looked stolen or not.
If the windows were broken, the driver may have broken into the car. You should also check if there is more than one person in the car. It may be a group of college students who drank too much and are putting themselves in grave danger without realizing it.
What You Need to KnowYou should also pay attention to the car’s plate numbers. Be careful when getting these numbers. You may have to get very close to the car to see them.
The car may slam on its brakes, which could send you crashing into the vehicle. It is best to stay as far away as possible when collecting the plate numbers. Memorize the numbers in your head first before writing them down so you won’t forget.
You can then give these numbers to the police. If you can’t get close enough to get these numbers, don’t worry. Your visual recount of the car may be enough for the police to find the drunk driver.
Identify the area where you saw the drunk driver and where the driver was headed. This will make it easier for the police to find them.
Call the PoliceCalling the police is very important because they are the ones who will stop the drunk driver. This is not your responsibility. Your responsibility is instead to collect important information to give to the police.
Once you collect enough info from the driver, pull over and call 911. Tell the police about the car you saw, who was driving, what the car looked like, and so on. You should also tell them where you think the car was headed and where you last saw it.
You should also tell them why you think the driver was drunk. Was the driver swerving or driving off the road? Were they driving too fast or too slow?
It is important to have your answers ready once the police start asking you questions. The police need as much information as possible to find the driver and pull them over. If a drunk driver hits you, make sure you call a lawyer as well as the police.
What to Do When You See a Drunk DriverA drunk driver is a danger to themselves and everyone around them. Alcohol will slow their reflexes and make them drive more recklessly. You can solve the problem by gathering information about the car and calling the police.
The police will take it from there. To learn more about it, check out the other content on our site.
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Amusing, but given today’s political atmosphere and totalitarian ways by those using “The Environment” and “Safety” and “We’re only here to do the best for you!” lies, there is certainly a serious message here:
Do you see it? CAN you see it?
Yes, the above is a Dodge Challenger when they brought it back. It’s going away because of “Green!”. This week, too, we got the news that GM has pulled the plug on the last Camaro – no more at the end of this year. While it IS going out with a bang (a firebreathing 1,024 horsepower, 1.6 seconds to 60 miles an hour at hundreds of thousands of dollars less than supercars), our unelected, unassailable, and unaccountable bureaucrats (I think I’d be correct in saying they’re all down with restricting our freedom by whatever means possible) have regulated it out of existence.
I’m said to see it go – my second car, when in high school, was a ’67 Camaro. Red with black stripping and black interior. Four speed. I still miss it.
The invention of the car was one of the greatest tools for individual Freedom as it allowed the ordinary person to travel to anywhere at any time for any reason in a reasonable time. No longer were people constrained by time (walking, riding a horse) and by distance. No waiting to travel according to someone else’s schedule (trains, subways and other public transportation).
IMHO, the forced reduction of the use of fossil fuels is a method to constrain travel by the common man. Doubt me?
If every gas vehicle was immediately replaced by a shiny new Electric one in your driveway, do you think our grid could take the load? Who then gets to charge their cars?
Hint: it won’t be we, the common folks. The rich and powerful, however, will have little problem.
We losing our cars. They are taking our Freedom(s).
(H/T: Tony)
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Reports are saying Rep. James Comer R KY, chairman of House Oversight Comm., is getting cooperation from unnamed individuals as the committee is investigating Hunter Biden and the Biden family’s financial business connections to China. Fourteen years of banking records have been subpoenaed but Janet Yellen is stonewalling on records of bank violations still Rep Comer says he has records in hand to make the case to court to force Yeller to produce those records.
Meanwhile, Democrats are trying to calm this investigation is nothing but a “dragnet” of political research on behalf of former President Trump. Isn’t it interesting how Democrats with zero evidence of wrongdoing by Trump carry on years of political vendetta against him but with clear overwhelming evidence and history of the same against the Bidens are angry and outraged they should be the subject of an investigation?
I have no idea if this investigation was designed to benefit Trump or may only be a side effect. Neither do I believe that anyone else does either. It just sounds good too good to be true but they are still trying to tie the two together. After all, there is an ever lusting apatite on the left to smear and slander the former President.
Following this line of thought, should we be expecting an arrest warrant to be issued for the former President based on his pay off to Stormy Daniels as hush money? At least that seems to be the media reporting as I read it. If they are indeed correct (which we can never be sure with MSM) I can’t ever recall hush money being a crime unless it involved a crime having been committed in the first place. Oh yes, Trump’s a (fill in a slander or lie here) and they hate him because he stands for MAGA (Make America Great Again) and he was doing it, too.
The more I think on this attempted legal lynching, the more I suggest it could trigger the biggest backlash these Leftists might ever see. But they do tend to believe they are immune to being held accountable for their actions.
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The people must Elect a Man or Woman who understands the Constitution of New Hampshire and is faithful to their oath of office, by upholding and defending said Constitution.
The Constitution of N.H. Part II, art. 41 requires that the governor shall be responsible for the faithful execution of the laws. He may, by appropriate court action or proceeding brought in the name of the state, enforce compliance with any constitutional or legislative mandate, or restrain violation of any constitutional or legislative power, duty, or right, by any officer, department or agency of the state.
Part II, art. 50. The governor, with advice of council, shall have full power and authority, in the recess of the general court, to prorogue the same from time to time, not exceeding ninety days, in any one recess of said court; and during the sessions of said court, to adjourn or prorogue it to any time the two houses may desire, and to call it together sooner than the time to which it may be adjourned, or prorogued, if the welfare of the state should require the same.
Upon election, the Governor should exercise such powers by doing the following:
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Really? Using the word “ma’am” is now verboten simply because I’m oppressing you because you’re not ready to accept that we all age with the passage of time? That you can even get upset by our perception of you EVEN AS we’re trying to be nice, show manners, and be polite?
Gosh, I remember the first time I was called “sir”. You know what my reaction was? Simple: quick little eyebrow raise – “I’m surprised it took this long”. And the grace to accept that someone had been taught some manners.
The post that spurred this edition was here (yes, I do read CNN from time to time) – I just had to see why “ma’am” is now offensive. Mom would have been horrified if I failed to use that honorific when called for. Now, I’m now the one that could be called “offensive”???
For quick background, some snippets for my Snippet:
How ‘ma’am’ went from being a respectful word for some — but polarizing for others
…I was completely unaware of how much women were outraged by this word until it started getting directed at me as I hit my mid-20s. Like the first time you aren’t carded at the bar, I remember being called “ma’am” by a waiter and realizing, “Yes, he is talking to me.” As someone from Seattle, this term sounded foreign and out of place. It was like society had decided without my permission that my youth was behind me.
…It’s an identity shift when you realize people look at you and no longer see a young person.
…When I hear “ma’am,” I feel my youthful privileges slipping away — like the assumptions that you’re interesting, open-minded and up-to-date
…”It rattled me the first time I was called ma’am,” one 23-year-old shared on Reddit. “I thought I wasn’t quite old enough for that yet.”
…”Ma’am” is generally considered to be a polite term to address a woman, but depending on the region or context, it can mean the exact opposite.
and this next part is the stupidest of all:
…”You can’t control how people see you, but you have a right to assert how you’d like to be seen,” said Wright, who notes that she is trying to use the word less after discovering many hear it as offensive and not inclusive. “The only way these things move forward is through constant reassertion.”
Are you thinking of “preferred pronouns” and the associated demands to control YOUR speech to make THEM feel better about how they are perceived?
Yeah, that. Go read the rest and laugh. We all get old and unless a medical breakthrough happens, that isn’t going to change. Do say other is to deny reality – to yourself.
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I have gone on the record, on this site, that I did not want Trump to run in 2024. Though I supported him in 2016, I still think his Pre-COVID term will be considered one of the most successful administrations in history. But, and that is with a capital “B,” I felt a third Trump run would be too divisive for the country.
I felt comfortable with the many qualified Republicans who want to run that we would elect a strong Republican President in 2024. I have changed my mind. I think this country needs Donald Trump. We need him to come in and correct all of the mistakes made by Joe Biden, get this ship righted, and set the table for DeSantis in 2028. I am buying my ticket on the Trump Train!
Let’s look at what needs to be done, and after you review the list, I think you might be sitting next to me in the Club Car.
Give Trump four years without a Pandemic and phony impeachment trials, and he can get America back. Biden made me do it. I have my MAGA hat out, and it looks beautiful.
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