Jane Fonda is a Liberals Liberal. Far left would be a far cry from how far she is in that direction. She’s also a high priestess of the church of Mann-Made global warming, but she stopped binging on Goreos long enough to bless us with this wisdom.

 

“This is serious – we’ve got about seven, eight years to cut ourselves in half of what we use of fossil fuels, and unfortunately, the people that have the least responsibility for it are hit the hardest – Global South, people on islands, poor people of color,” the Barbarella star explained, insisting, “It’s a tragedy that we have to absolutely stop.” … 

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“There would be no climate crisis if there was no racism. There would be no climate crisis if there was no patriarchy. White men are the things that matter and then everything else [is] at the bottom.”

“If we solve the climate crisis, and we haven’t solved all those other things, we’re gonna be in trouble,”

Jane Fonda is … confused, but I get the sense she believes what she is saying. This is also the woman who, without a drop of irony, claimed that women would murder to protect abortion rights. No kidding, millions of times over decades.

As for the climate, if Jane believes we have seven or eight years left, she’s the fossil we need to lose. The current doomsday climate apocalypse calendar timebomb is not the first, nor will it be the last. It is a goalpost built to be moved. So, she is confused and gullible.

Next up, brown people. The climate cult icons who told you about the doomsday calendar are destroying the environments of people of color in Africa and Asia in pursuit of the so-called solution to the made-up problem of cataclysmic climate catastrophe. You seem to understand that and object to it. However, much like the same-skinned ancestors who sold their own into slavery (and some still do), the so-called rulers of these people of color are getting rich while the local environment is destroyed, and their citizens remain trapped in the second and third-world.

We can add a side-order of “there is no escape from this for them if we follow the climate cult’s new age energy agenda.”

In other words, the racists are not JUST the Captains of the Green Industry. China is top-heavy, with people of color wrecking the planet in the name of green, as are India and Africa. Most of the pollution, emissions, and plastic in the ocean (what of it there is) originate outside the Western world. From places where they profit from the rare-earth metals mining necessary to advance the green nightmare. Few, if any, of them are white, but many of them are rich and dirty.

Finally, what happens if these “men” declare themselves to be women? Gender is fluid (like doomsday climate apocalypse calendars) and shalt not be predicted. Anyone suspected of climate crimes, as determined by the Jane Fonda’s of the world, need only announce that they are a woman, and arresting them would be a crime: social justice and all that.

Climate Justice has a new problem that we can add to the old problem. Jane Fonda’s multiple homes and extra-large carbon-footprint lifestyle. A New Mexico Ranch. Mansion in LA. A loft in Atlanta. Flying around in private jets to get arrested at climate events.

Maybe you should stay in jail for the good of the planet?

 

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So, as regular readers know, I covered a lot of the “Gunstock Incident,” in which the Democrat founded, funded, and led the political action committee, Citizens for Belknap, tore asunder the Conservative Belknap County Delegation. Sadly, there were a number of Republicans that merrily joined in with that effort for a political purpose.

Sure, they disavowed, by word, that they were a part of that PAC, but they surely carried out the mission. Even after the Incident came to a conclusion, the CfB and its Republican allies (mostly RINOs, and I have the stats to back that up, including Mike “Hate Parental Rights” Bordes along with Travis O’Hara).

Harry Bean is certainly one of them, IMHO. He deliberately broke many of the friendships he once had as he “shifted” his political alliances for mere political gain (and complained when they would no longer talk with him – a self-made victim).  Then he decided to break our friendship in the Belknap County Superior Courthouse parking lot – the last in his string.

Fine, such as it is but in doing so, he became just another politician to me, as decisions have consequences. And he’s made a few whoppers with respect to those decisions, thus my filing of an Ethics complaint against him, with additional posts on the complaints here, as well as my oral testimony before the NH Legislative Ethics Committee hearing last Friday (my written testimony is here).

Harry Bean was called to speak next:

 



 

If you don’t have the time to listen to it (21 minutes), let me summarize this self-victimization by the Chair of the Belknap County Delegation:

• Right off the bat, he admits that he broke the Law as he laughed it off. Like I said in my testimony, isn’t deliberately breaking the Law unethical by definition? Even in his off-handed way, it was an admission of guilt. What will / what did the Committee think of that?
• My new name is “him”  (no big surprise).
• He perverts the meaning of his oath, which does NOT state that he represents the people. Here is that oath again:

“I, Harry Bean, do solemnly and sincerely swear and affirm that I will faithfully and impartially discharge and perform all duties incumbent on me as STATE REPRESENTATIVE according to the best of my abilities, agreeably to the rules and regulations of this constitution and the laws of the state o New Hampshire. So help me, God.

It means that what he does is proscribed in Law. But, knowing Harry, I don’t think he give it much thought.

• Takes solace (and “blame deflection”) in that he’s a high school dropout and tries to use that as a chit.
• Then he referenced the Belknap County Attorney Andrew Livernois in trying to blame him for his “calling the Gunstock meeting” troubles. I submitted the email thread I had with Livernois concerning “that advice” to the Ethics Committee – it can mostly be seen here. where it was clear he deliberately left out the most important pieces of RSA 91-A and 24:9-d.  I had also told Harry about those missing pieces and repeated that during my testimony.
• Paraphrase: “I had to get something DONE” (re-opening Gunstock)
• A conflict of interest? From his testimony, now know that Bean’s personal attorney, Paul Fitzgerald, is also the attorney for the County when earlier, he refused to tell us.
• He admits to having “serial communications” with other Delegation members, thereby breaking RSA 91-A AGAIN; see 91-A:2-a Communications Outside Meetings:

I. Unless exempted from the definition of “meeting” under RSA 91-A:2, I, public bodies shall deliberate on matters over which they have supervision, control, jurisdiction, or advisory power only in meetings held pursuant to and in compliance with the provisions of RSA 91-A:2, II or III.
II. Communications outside a meeting, including, but not limited to, sequential communications among members of a public body, shall not be used to circumvent the spirit and purpose of this chapter as expressed in RSA 91-A:1.

But then, again, Harry admits he doesn’t read the Law that governs his behavior (and apparently, doesn’t listen, either). It is also clear that Harry looked at hearing from constituents not agreeing with him as “intimidation.”

• NH State Rep (and former NH State Supreme Court Justice) Bob Lynn asks Harry about the advice.  Did Lynn actually read the Law concerning Meetings?
• “Not my job” with respect to making sure that the Budget Subcommittee meetings were properly noticed.
• Dumped on Deb Schakett for not doing it.
• Dumped on Travis O’Hara for not seeing that those meetings weren’t properly noticed, and he dumped on her as well, even as the Law requires him to:

24:9-d Notice. – The clerk of the convention, or his or her designee, shall mail to each member of the convention a notice stating the time, place and purpose of further meetings at least 7 days before the day of the meeting and shall cause to be published a like notice at least 7 days before the day of the meeting in a newspaper of general circulation in the county. Mailing such notice is not required during any session of the general court, if the notice is printed for 2 legislative days in the journal of the House of Representatives.

Not the County Administrator. The Clerk of the Delegation.  More on this later.

• Again, the “cabal” didn’t advise him in advance of the failed meeting notices (“I didn’t know” defense).
• Back to Gunstock’s illegal meeting – the end (300 people showed up) justifies breaking the law (political expediency). I enjoyed the revisionist history in that Harry didn’t correct the Ethics Committee when asked that he was NOT legally able to call the special (Aug 1) meeting and then happily stated that he had expected that the Delegation Chair Mike Sylvia was going to run the special meeting. Again, only Sylvia had the statute authority to call an emergency meeting not Harry. Mike Sylvia correctly saw that this was a manmade political event not rising to the level of an “emergency” and didn’t call it.
  Why would Harry then tell the Committee that he was surprised when Sylvia declined to go to a meeting that Sylvia didn’t call but that Harry did contra RSA 24:9-d’s plain words that it had to be a seven day notice?You know, if Harry had bothered to read the actual Law and not done a mashup of the two, I would have never filed the complaint containing the Gunstock Incident part. Simple as that.

Let me end with two things:

• Harry believes that I am part of some cabal that is just out to get him. He’s wrong – all I care about is that our elected representatives Follow The Law regardless if it is Friend or Foe. Screw up, and I’ll do something.
• He starts a common theme in his testimony that was followed by the Delegation Clerk, Travis O’Hara, and the person I can’t name due to Confidentiality strictures: I’m not responsible because I know nothing so I can’t be held accountable.

Years ago, when I started my third term on the Gilford Budget Committee, he was on it. He introduced himself as a [redneck] hillbilly. I objected to that a number of times that it was wrong, and I didn’t believe it. Do you know something years later? I was the one that was wrong about him being a hillbilly. He was right, after all.

 

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By Jon Forrest Little, Money Metals News Service Last week, Citigroup analysts published a report calling for silver to reach $30 per ounce within 9 months. Could Citigroup be exaggerating or on target? Today's silver spot price is about $23.50... Tom Bowler

Sun-King Sunnu, as you may recall, was a big fan of BLM … DURING … the BLM/Antifa riots of 2020. Not surprisingly, Sun-King holds the same position as the LEFT on the disparate treatment of J6 protesters and BLM/Antifa rioters.

The former should rot in jail for decades, while the latter should get … at the most … a slap on the wrist. Sun-King Sununu stands out as garbage among garbage.

TAPPER: DeSantis said on day 1 as POTUS he would consider pardoning people convicted of crimes in connection with January 6. Is that disqualifying?

SUNUNU: No, it's not disqualifying … I think in this day and age there's nothing disqualifying for any candidate, unfortunately pic.twitter.com/g7DpQrULtV

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 28, 2023

 

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Dear Richard Tracy,

I bring to your attention the following notice regarding Election Law Complaint Status for the period September 1, 2016-May 24, 2018.  It is signed by then AG Gordon MacDonald.

I also bring to your attention the following paragraph of RSA 15 in particular:

15:5 Prohibited Activities. –
I. Except as provided in paragraph II, no recipient of a grant or appropriation of state funds may use the state funds to lobby or attempt to influence legislation, participate in political activity, or contribute funds to any entity engaged in these activities.
II. Any recipient of a grant or appropriation of state funds that wishes to engage in any of the activities prohibited in paragraph I, or contribute funds to any entity engaged in these activities, shall segregate the state funds in such a manner that such funds are physically and financially separate from any non-state funds that may be used for any of these purposes. Mere bookkeeping separation of the state funds from other moneys shall not be sufficient.

It is documented and extraordinarily egregious that public officials in New Hampshire, whether elected or appointed, should ignore RSA 15 and not only fail to abide by several paragraphs of the Statute but undermine a criminal trial to promote their own lobby interests, fail to report these and then use the State witness in the criminal trial (Chessy Prout) to promote their next lobby interest: Marsy’s Law.

Let me be very clear – there are victims of these crimes whose lives have been lost and/or endangered, and whose rights have been deprived. The public has paid for these public officials to defraud the public for the enrichment and political goals of the public officials involved.

According to filings by Marsy’s Law for New Hampshire, several public officials and others received payments for Marsy’s Law in the first quarter of 2018, and yet, per the requirements under RSA 15, the recipients do not appear to have filed their lobby earnings to the State. Most noticeable among these is Amanda Grady Sexton of the City of Concord Council and NHCADSV, who filed a report for the first quarter of 2018 for $2339 relating to her work with the NHCADSV but not the $15,000 plus expenses she received in the same quarter for Marsy’s Law.

RSA 15 also stipulates the requirement for Ad Honorarium reporting. AG Gordon MacDonald appeared in a streaming/internet/TV ad to endorse Marsy’s Law. Amanda Grady Sexton then wrote an endorsement for Gordon MacDonald to become New Hampshire Supreme Court Chief Justice. I see no record of this ad honorarium lobbying. Similarly, I see no reports for Debra Altschiller, whose family member Marina Altschiller was also paid for Marsy’s Law. I see no lobbying reports for other members of the NHCADSV (Lyn Schollett, for example) for Marsy’s Law payments—Ditto, Concord Mayor Jim Bouley, who was also paid.

Chessy Prout, the State witness in NH v Owen Labrie, appeared as the face of Marsy’s Law in New Hampshire. There are no reports of Chessy Prout or her family as lobbyists for New Hampshire State interests or those of the NHCADSV or Congresswoman Ann Kuster or Senator Jeanne Shaheen or Children’s Advocacy Centers or Concord Police. Yet there are very clear records from Chessy Prout herself that she was recruited several months pre the criminal trial in August 2015 and that Concord Police Detective Julie Curtin recommended Laura L Dunn of SurvJustice to her for the upcoming criminal trial.

Chessy Prout and her family flew to DC to meet with Laura L Dunn (who also has not filed lobby returns in New Hampshire to my knowledge), who introduced Steven J Kelly and her parents, according to her memoir “I have the Right To” with an introduction by Congresswoman Ann Kuster, “sorted out the details.” Those details I believe, involved bringing a team of attorneys, advisors, lobbyists, publicists, and journalists to the criminal trial of NH v Owen Labrie and training witnesses, and prosecutors for the trial, which was used to promote a product “Bystander” and “Know Your Power” training for the NHCADSV/UNH who’d received money for this product development from the Department of Justice Office of Violence Against Women.

Where is the lobby return from UNH/Sharyn Potter or NHCADSV for this? I do not see it.

Yet, the product was implemented at St Paul’s School immediately following the trial of NH v Owen Labrie (per a statement published on the day of the verdict in August 2015). UNH went on to create Soteria Solutions to trade the product and was recognized for entrepreneurship using a federal grant. Yet there has been no lobby return or ad honorarium lobby return relating to the use of NH v Owen Labrie to lobby for the product. Why not?

Where is Congresswoman Ann Kuster’s lobby return for her introduction to the memoir “I Have the Right to” used in order to get more VAWA funds for the State of New Hampshire ($2.3 million, I believe)? She took Chessy Prout to Capitol Hill in January 2017, discussed working with PAVE (for which Chessy Prout was an ambassador and her father, Alexander Prout, was on the board of directors), took Chessy Prout to UNH Franklin Pierce Law School in April 2017 as an ambassador for PAVE. A few days later, Owen Labrie’s retrial hearing was denied. This is not a coincidence.

According to Lyn Schollett, the NHCADSV lobbied AG Gordon MacDonald for a Grand Jury Criminal Investigation into St Paul’s School, which AG Gordon MacDonald ordered in July 2017 and completed in August 2018 involving Concord Police Detective Julie Curtin. The NHCADSV received a contract with St Paul’s School as a result. Where is the lobby return reflecting this? I do not see it.

Where is Concord Police Detective’s lobby return denoting gifts, kickbacks, etc., for her work in NH v Owen Labrie and “Justice for the victim”? She was rewarded by the NCVLI (who published the guide to pretrial publicity by Amanda Grady Sexton and Steve Kelly, who also happened to be a board member of NCVLI) – she wasn’t working for the benefit of the public. She was working for the benefit of the NHCADSV and Steven J Kelly and his lawsuit against St Paul’s School. Where is her lobby return?

Where is the return for the NHCADSV denoting the $2.865 million reward they got for Rapuano & Does v Dartmouth College – a reward they would not have gotten if they did not use social media and make phone calls to block ABC/GMA from airing an interview with Owen Labrie in July 2019 when the Rapuano & Does v Dartmouth was in mediation? It is a violation of the law for a publicly elected official to block a citizen’s right to free speech. It is a worse violation of the law when that public official seeks to block a program from airing because she knows it contains content that will expose the malfeasance of Concord Police Department; attempts to bribe a state defendant (Owen Labrie) while he was waiting for his appeals in return for access to exculpatory evidence including police evidence which the civil attorneys with whom Amanda Grady Sexton was colluding with were in possession. It is even worse when you consider that Amanda Grady Sexton is Chair of the City of Concord Public Safety Committee which approves the budget for police investigations and payments to witnesses.

Stonewalling, ignoring, and deleting files is not the answer. If New Hampshire public officials, including Gordon MacDonald, Amanda Grady Sexton, Congresswoman Ann Kuster, Concord Police Detective Julie Curtin, Chuck Douglas (who also received payment for Marsy’s Law while he was also representing Chessy Prout who was the face of Marsy’s Law) then there is no point in having RSA 15 at all.

Why are public officials, guardians of the law, and guardians of law enforcement exempt from RSA 15?

 

Orignal Email above, dated May 27, 2023

From: Claire Best <claire@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: NH Public Officials Lobbying violations or RSA 15 for Marcy’s Law & NH v Owen Labrie
To: richard.c.tracy@doj.nh.gov <richard.c.tracy@doj.nh.gov>
CC: <5 recipients redacted>.

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As promised in the last Monday Memes, I have an overflow. My meme cup runneth over.  Fairly certain about a Friday Overflow-Overflow.

Also, for those prepper-minded, my last Survival Sunday:

Survival Sunday – Unified – Granite Grok

Now, let the mayhem, mockery, and ridicule resume:

 

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

 

 

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https://media.gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/139/124/327/original/ac964629eab3f409.mp4

 

“All this for a damned flag”.  The lip reading confirms.  And Barackus’ nod in agreement?

Do I think Clinton loved America?  No.  But then, on the flip side, I don’t think he despised it either – as Barackus and Michael clearly do.  He was – IMHO – the first President who loathed the country.

 

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Another place I don’t go often – and won’t again.  But that’s not the point.  It’s NOT ENOUGH to simply boycott.  They must know WHY their sales are dropping.  Explicitly.

And if you find an acceptable substitute, you need to tell THEM why you’re switching as well.  Positive reinforcement works as well as negative.

 

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Pick of the post:

 

 

Still wonder why six states “spontaneously” stopped counting, all at about the same time?

 

 

Other 2020 / election memes:

 

 

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Gay Man Just Gave The Best Rant You’ll Hear Today

 

 

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Palate cleansers:

 

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Lily Tang Williams Announces Candidacy for US House — Brings Inspirational American Dream Story to New Hampshire’s 2nd Congressional District

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May 31, 2023
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Lily Tang Williams, a passionate advocate for individual liberty, parental rights, free markets and free enterprise, has declared her candidacy for the United States Congress in New Hampshire’s 2nd Congressional District. With a unique background that includes overcoming poverty and the horrors of communism in her native country China, Williams embodies the American dream and is ready to fight for the people of her district.

“I am living the American dream,” affirms Williams. “I have experienced firsthand the transformative power of freedom, opportunity, and hard work. The radical leftists rooted in Marxism who use identity politics to divide our people, destroy American values, weaponize our children through indoctrination remind me of the same tactics that Mao used when I was growing up. I fear the country I love is becoming like the country I left.”

Williams is a staunch defender of individual freedom and constitutional rights. Her own experiences have instilled in her a profound appreciation for the principles enshrined in the United States Constitution, including the protection of freedom of speech, the right to bear arms, equal protection under the law and the preservation of privacy rights. She is a true believer of the Granite State motto: LIVE FREE OR DIE.

Lily Tang Williams’s candidacy brings a unique perspective and an inspirational American dream story to the forefront of New Hampshire’s 2nd Congressional District and the national stage. Her unwavering commitment to freedom, prosperity, parental rights and her own firsthand experience of the struggles currently faced by many in our society make her a powerful advocate for positive change.

 

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Ross Berry is so NHGOP. Under the “leadership” of Berry and his faux-Republican ilk, the NHGOP LOST seats in the House in the 2022 midterms.

Berry and his ilk supported a budget that makes the spending in DC look like fiscal discipline … to top that, they then failed to pass a parental rights bill … and then they had the arrogance to spin their failure to pass a parental rights bill as a “win.”

Yet … despite his record of LOSING and being hopelessly out-of-touch with GOP voters, he has been picked to head DeSantis’ major PAC:

Ross Berry, the state Republican Party’s former executive director, was named state director of the Never Back Down PAC, where he’ll run its ground-game operation for DeSantis and help secure the endorsements needed for a presidential campaign in the retail politics-focused state.

DeSantis is making it awfully hard to support him.

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The US Centers for Disease Control had a Klan bake at an Atlanta hotel last month. On the last day of the conference, several attendees informed the brass that they’d tested positive for COVID-19. In a surprising move, CDC turned it into a learning experience.

 

On April 27, the last day of the conference, several people notified organizers that they had tested positive for COVID-19. The CDC and the Georgia Department of Public Health worked together to survey attendees to try to figure out how many people had tested positive.

“The goals were to learn more about transmission that occurred and add to our understanding as we transition to the next phase of COVID-19 surveillance and response,” the CDC said in a May 26 statement. …

 

There were 1800 attendees, over 1400 of whom took the survey – 181 say they tested positive for COVID, and all were ‘Vaccinated.”  That means what? None of the COVID-positive participants in the CDC’s Super spreader event were unvaccinated, although most had received at least one shot.

So, what does the CDC think it learned?

 

The CDC said the survey results “underline the importance of vaccination for protecting individuals against severe illness and death related to COVID-19” because none of the people who said they tested positive reported going to a hospital. …

 

The only severe illness in this situation is where a known dangerous biologic treatment is continuously pimped as safer than a virus from which it continually fails to protect people.

The CDC even admits this indirectly. The people who got sick have had at least one or more shots of the magic elixir. No one was hospitalized for “severe disease.”  But job one for avoiding severe disease is not to get infected. The flawed Plandemic response was centered on restricting movement and access to do what? Prevent infection.

Your response to this clear signal?

 

The CDC said the survey results “underline the importance of vaccination for protecting individuals against severe illness and death related to COVID-19”

 

Sorry, I do not see that, but you be you. Leave me out of it.

 

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The most recent release from the federally funded Nation’s Report Card shows that 40 percent of eighth graders lack even a basic understanding of US history, while only 14 percent are proficient or advanced in history.

This score from 2022 showing so many students lack basic understanding is bad. It also indicates a continuation of a decline that started in 2018, the last time the score was previously reported.

This report should frighten everyone who wants to restore limited, constitutional government and a true free-market economy. Students who graduate high school without basic knowledge of how the government is supposed to work and why the drafters of the Constitution designed it the way they did, as well as the history of the US, are more likely to fall for the lies of authoritarian demagogues who promise economic and personal security in exchange for the people’s liberty.

Even scarier is the fact that many government schools have replaced history and civics with critical race theory, transgender ideology, and other forms of cultural Marxism. Contrary to claims of its defenders, opponents of critical race theory do not object to teaching students the truth about America’s racial history. Instead, critics object to teaching students that the free market is irredeemably racist and thus must be replaced by rule by the “woke.”

Similarly, critics of promoting transgender ideology in schools are not motivated by a desire to punish adults who decide they wish to identify as a different gender. Instead, the motivation is a desire to protect children from being exposed to these and similar topics at an inappropriate age. There are also legitimate concerns over allowing children to have life-altering gender reassignment medical treatments. How is it rational to tell a 13-year-old he cannot choose to have a beer but he can choose to alter his gender? And how is it rational or fair to allow boys to play on girls sports teams simply because the boys have switched pronouns?

The good news in all this madness is that it is encouraging more parents to look into alternatives to government schools such as homeschooling. I have long believed that future leaders of the liberty movement will come from the ranks of homeschoolers. This is a reason why I have started my own homeschool curriculum.

My Ron Paul Curriculum provides students with a well-rounded education that includes rigorous programs in history, mathematics, and the physical and natural sciences. The curriculum also provides instruction in personal finance. Students can develop superior communication skills via intensive writing and public speaking courses. Another feature of my curriculum is that it provides students the opportunity to create and run their own businesses.

The government and history sections of the curriculum emphasize free-market economics, libertarian political theory, and the history of liberty. However, unlike government schools, my curriculum never puts ideological indoctrination ahead of education.

Interactive forums ensure students are engaged in their education and that they have the opportunity to interact with their peers outside of a formal setting.

I encourage all parents looking at alternatives to government schools — alternatives that provide children with a well-rounded education that introduces them to the history and ideas of liberty without sacrificing education for indoctrination — to go to RonPaulCurriculum.com for more information about my homeschooling program.

 

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By Clint Siegner, Money Metals News Service Fiscal hawks weren't optimistic when Kevin McCarthy was elected Speaker of the U.S. House. The California Republican's track record was dismal when it comes to spending restraint. Nearly 5 months into his term,... Tom Bowler

We have a volunteer military, and the men and women who opt to serve deserve our thanks, but so much more. Whether they choose the military as a career or put their job on pause while they spend a few years in service, we are all indebted to these special people who put their love of country above their personal goals. How, in this great country, can a person who served in the armed forces find themselves without adequate medical attention or a roof over their head? It is unconscionable and a scar on the soul of America.

There are over 630,000 homeless people in America. Sixty-seven thousand four hundred ninety-five are veterans. It amazes me that in today’s society, over 1 in 10 homeless people in America are veterans. They deserve better, and we should ensure every veteran is living in adequate housing before a dime is spent giving illegal immigrants a cell phone or free education.

The other serious condition facing our veterans is suicide. In 2020, there were 6,146 Veteran suicides, which averages to 16.8 Veterans dying by suicide every day. Additionally, in the two decades between 2001 and 2020, the prevalence of mental health or substance use disorder (SUD) among participants using Veterans Health Administration (VHA) rose from 27.9% to 41.9%. We need to do better with our VA Hospitals and counseling services for all veterans. We cannot have them defend us and our lives anywhere in the world, only to be forgotten and fall through the cracks when they leave the service. They deserve far better.

Finally, a huge thank-you to the Greatest Generation. Every day, memories of World War II—its sights and sounds, its terrors and triumphs—disappear. About 70 million people fought in World War II between 1939 and 1945. There were 16 million Americans who fought in the European or South Pacific theaters. Yielding to the inalterable process of aging, the men and women who fought and won the great conflict are now in their 90s or older. They are dying quickly—according to US Department of Veterans Affairs statistics, 167,284 Americans who served in World War II were alive in 2022. We are losing 180 of these incredible men and women each day. At this rate, we will have none of these heroes with us by 2035. This is sad, but we still have time to thank them and honor their heroic efforts.

Regardless of the circumstances, our veterans deserve better. Whether it is active duty pay, housing, counseling, or medical treatment, our veterans deserve whatever they need. They sacrificed for us. It is our turn to do right by them.

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Who knows more about bovine emissions and climate science than a French Administrative Court? Before we answer that, the Cour des Comptes has declared that France cannot achieve its climate goals with all these cows mulling about emitting Methane.

 

The court asked the Ministry of Agriculture to “define and make public” its strategy “to reduce methane emissions…[which] necessarily requires a significant reduction in the herd”.

The court admitted that the ministry had already communicated its aims to reduce the number of cows in France from 17 million today to 15 million in 2035 and 13.5 million in 2050.

The number of cattle has already dropped by 10% in the past six years, the court noted, but said that this has “not been done due to any real scheme from the state, and is also happening to the detriment of farmers.”

 

Funny thing about that. The research I’ve done indicates that Methane has a very short atmospheric half-life (6-9 years, depending on whom you believe). That matters because, for successive decades, Methane’s atmospheric concentration was nearly flat (in some years negative) without any measurable change in human activity (or farting French Cows) to account for it.

 

NOAA annual change in CH4 – Image Credit WUWT

 

Before anyone else decides to do something dramatic, shouldn’t you work out why that was? The years 1992 to 2013 were peak climate alarmism years (they all are now), but the so-called gas that’s x times more dangerous than C02 went on an atmospheric holiday.

And no comment from the climate cult fair trade peanut gallery? No science to explain the science from the hockey stick-waving Mann-Made Warming camp?

Nope, and they’d rather you not bring it up, so I had to go on the hunt for more methane facts.

David Archibald, at WUWT, reminds us that rising CO2 results in a significant increase in plant life—the greening of the earth. It is super fertilizer for plants. Its rise coincides with once-thought inhospitable landscapes seeing a 30% increase in plant life. That’s a lot more green. As those plants die, they release Methane: more plants, more Methane – not man caused at all.

The second point he makes is that Methane’s arch-nemesis is ozone, whose rise and fall are linked to increases or decreases in solar activity. As the sun cycles through its natural processes, ozone levels rise and fall, and Methane is more quickly depleted from the atmosphere when there is more ozone.

Professor Myles Allen, a lead author of IPCC SR 1.5 (2018), indicated, “Traditional greenhouse gas accounting ignores the impact of changing methane emission rates while grossly exaggerating the impact of steady methane emissions.” And –

“Climate policy the world over has traditionally treated every tonne of methane as supposedly “equivalent” to 28 tonnes of carbon dioxide… It isn’t.

If it ever were a concern, and I doubt it is, nature is more than capable of managing without us culling herds.

And I need to do more reading on this, but I can’t escape that twenty-year methane drought. Absent a human explanation, there’s no sensible reason to cull cows or cattle unless your war is on meat, and Methane is just a poor excuse.

And there is a war on meat, and neither of their plans to replace it with plant-based alternatives or lab-generated fakes is better for the environment

 

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This past Friday, 5/26, was my hearing(s) at the NH Legislative Ethics Committee. I had brought NH State Reps Harry Bean and Travis O’Hara to the Committee as they willfully and knowingly broke NH RSA 91-A (NH’s Right To Know law) and NH RSA 24:9-c & D (which governs how County Delegations (all of the NH State Reps from a given county) how to act. Both laws make it mandatory that all meetings of such public bodies MUST be publicly noticed (ad in the local paper, noticed on their website, et al) with specific “days ahead of the meeting” announcements. Each of those laws has different specifications and in Harry Bean’s case, he tried to mash them both together in order to get a specific political outcome.  This was ethical?

While I had sent in my complaint earlier (“Just the facts, ma’am” – who gets THAT reference??) that listed the fact of my complaint, I decided to go philosophical with what I wanted to say – that written testimony is here. Here is how it went along with some of the questions that the Committee asked:



And it’s quite clear that Harry Bean is not liking this at all (10:48). Questions from the Committee start at 13:44

• I do dryly note that former Speaker of the House, Donna Sytek, Vice Chair, held up a book (14:31) and asked me if my complaint about the Reps should have gone to the Right To Know Ombudsman.  Well, given that the meetings were well over, what would the RTK Ombudsman do?  No Power to do a redo as a budget was voted on. Even if a redo was ordered, State statute rules that if a Delegation doesn’t perform its duties, the County Delegation’s proposed budget is automatically adopted.
• I also found out that the lawyer that Belknap County hired, Paul Fitzgerald (who is also Harry Bean’s personal attorney – no conflict of interest there, eh?), had responded to my complaint. This, I found out AFTER I returned home and TMEW handed me this envelope.  I’ve glanced at it but haven’t studied it yet – I’ll have my opinions even though, as Bean exclaimed several times (“I’m not a lawyer – but either is he!” as if that clears him of knowing a necessary law being Chair of the Delegation)., I told the Committee what I am – a retired software engineer, a political blogger, and a former elected budget committee member that upon being elected, did my due diligence and studied the applicable law.  So why didn’t they?
• There was a legitimate question from the Chair as to who was the Chair of the Budget subcommittee (27:35) – “Who Chaired the subcommittee?”. I didn’t take the bait.

Never said I was a lawyer – just that I read NH Law on a frequent basis as being a political blogger and prior elected official, I had/have to know it. Sadly, all of the Reps made it clear that they didn’t – yeah, that “ignorance of the Law” bit. If we violated a law of theirs, how well would it go with us if we tried that same tactic?

But those videos will come later.

 

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A few years back, there was a debate in the Granite State about police body cameras. We thought, sure, but how about putting them on Teachers? A few years later, look at what a great idea that would have been.

More than ever, parents are concerned about what happens in classrooms. Body cams on teachers should still be a thing. They are public employees. But so far, not joy. Unions, schools, and even the Department of Education appear concerned about surveillance when it comes to classrooms.

 

In a newly released report titled “Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Teaching and Learning,” the DOE warned that such surveillance could make teachers’ jobs “nearly impossible” and emphasized that AI should never be a replacement for human teachers.

While acknowledging the potential benefits of AI in enhancing teaching efficiency and tailoring lesson plans to individual students, the report also highlights the risks of increased surveillance of teachers associated with AI implementation.

 

What exactly are public employees doing with public dollars in public buildings with the children of “The Public” paying for it that makes knowing what happens so dangerous?

 

Drawing a parallel with voice assistants in households, the report cautions that while AI systems can assist with tasks, they may also inadvertently access private information. The same dilemma, it argues, could arise in classrooms, posing challenges for teachers.

“When we enable a voice assistant in the kitchen, it might help us with simple household tasks like setting a cooking timer,” the report said. “And yet the same voice assistant might hear things that we intended to be private. This kind of dilemma will occur in classrooms and for teachers.”

 

Public employees using public equipment do not have privacy rights during the work they are paid to do. The dilemma is why that is of a more significant concern than the right of parents to have transparency. That brings me back to body cams which I admit would be a bit cumbersome, so how about cameras in public classrooms instead?

And if not, why not, and what are you afraid of?

 

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Education is a battleground in the public realm.  This is true for a very good reason.  Education is worth fighting for because it is the way we pass on our way of life.  It is how we prepare the next generation to assume the burdens of responsibility and leadership.

We want to thank Marc Abear for this Op-Ed. Please submit Yours to Editor@GraniteGrok.com.

What is success in education?  Do we really have free will?  Is life but a quest for power after power?  Can we escape the conventions of our time? Is there a God … and if there is, what does He require of us?  Does education depend on our moral formation?  What is the effect of education on life?

Does good education translate into better public discourse?  If it does, how do we explain the battle America is engaged in today?  What is education?  Do we need to be instructed by others to take a full part in human life?  Is there something in human nature that urges some to instruct?  Are the instructors tolerated or necessary?  Are there parts of the soul of the individual in need of guidance?

Then there are the questions of the best means to use to provide instruction.  What is the goal of education?  Is it the accumulation of mountains of facts?  Is it the organization of facts?  Maybe it is an analysis of organized facts?  But what good is there in any of that sans communication?

How do we put education into perspective?  Is that something best left to education experts?

I think not.

Education is nothing more or less than a social tool.  It is the common acceptance of the premise:  Aiding the young in acquiring skills is beneficial to us all.  Is the industrial model viable?  How about optimal?

Like all tools, education can be used for good or for evil.  Education, for all the faux expertise it shrouds itself with; it is nothing more and nothing less than what we make it.  It is more dependent on curiosity than dollars.   It is aided more by interest than by organizational theory.  Education today is a battleground…

Ask yourself: why?

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How to describe the debt deal negotiated by Kevin McCarthy and his team? Lipstick on a pig, perhaps. Whatever you want to call it … it represents another betrayal of GOP voters:

Fake conservatives agree to fake spending cuts. Deal will increase mandatory spending ~5%, increase military spending ~3%, and maintain current non-military discretionary spending at post-COVID levels. No real cuts to see here.

Conservatives have been sold out once again!

— Rand Paul (@RandPaul) May 28, 2023

THREAD: There are members of the GOP claiming Democrats got nothing from the “deal.” Oh really? 1) An uncapped debt ceiling with an expiration date – worth approximately $4 trillion…? 2) basically no cuts – a freeze at bloated 2023 spending level? #DebtCeiling (1/3)

— Chip Roy (@chiproytx) May 28, 2023

Punting at your opponent’s one-yard line isn’t a winning strategy.

— Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) May 28, 2023

Eliminating $1.8 billion for Biden’s new army of IRS agents is great until you realize that Democrats appropriated $80 billion for them.

As I’ve said since the draft agreement came out, this is NOT a win for the American people!

— Lauren Boebert (@laurenboebert) May 28, 2023

Kevin says we can fight again NEXT year to rescind another year of the IRS $80 billion … but he simultaneously prevented that “fight” by agreeing to suspend the debt ceiling for TWO years.

So there will be 85,260 more IRS agents rather than 87,000 to eat you alive. Big win. https://t.co/CHRRIxFI4j

— Rep. Dan Bishop (@RepDanBishop) May 28, 2023

.@SpeakerMcCarthy defends offering a higher debt ceiling in exchange for increased govt spending: "We let government grow, but at a slower rate" pic.twitter.com/ZErpivTNhY

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) May 28, 2023

WATCH: @RonDeSantis slams the “massive amount of spending” in the debt ceiling “deal.”

“Prior to this deal our country was careening towards bankruptcy. And after this deal, our country will still be careening towards bankruptcy.” pic.twitter.com/331Q0AcRab

— DeSantis War Room (@DeSantisWarRoom) May 29, 2023

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I looked at this headline and laughed my fool head off at both suppositions. “8 Hours of Loneliness Can Be as Draining For Some People as Going Without Food.” No, neither of these apply to me and haven’t for quite some time.

After all, I’m really an introvert that has to push hard (sometimes too hard) to be social. With the weight loss, I don’t get as hungry as I used to as I’ve “shrunk my stomach,” and getting older has “helped,” too, slowing down my metabolism (dagnabit) so I require fewer calories (which stick around if I do the “more calories in than out” bit).

Anyway, that headline – Emphasis mine, reformatted:

8 Hours of Loneliness Can Be as Draining For Some People as Going Without Food

Being the social animals that we are, humans need company almost as much as they need water, air, and nourishment. Past studies have shown enduring isolation puts us at risk of physical harm in more ways than one. A new study by researchers from the University of Vienna in Austria and the University of Cambridge in the UK has now found eight hours of loneliness can sap energy and increase fatigue as much as going eight hours without food in certain people.

The team’s lab test and field experiment showed people who live alone or who particularly enjoy social interactions are the most likely to be affected by a lack of company. What’s more, it seems as though the reduction in energy is the result of changes in the body’s homeostatic response: a sort of balancing act, where the lack of social connection triggers a biological reaction. The first authors of the study, psychologists Ana Stijovic and Paul Forbes from the University of Vienna in Austria:

“In the lab study, we found striking similarities between social isolation and food deprivation. Both states induced lowered energy and heightened fatigue, which is surprising given that food deprivation literally makes us lose energy, while social isolation would not.”

For the lab study, 30 female volunteers were examined on three separate days of eight hours each: one day without social contact, one day without food, and one day without either social contact or food. The participants gave feedback on their stress, mood, and fatigue, while heart rate and salivary cortisol levels (standard stress indicators) were also measured.

ONLY female volunteers? Well, sure – women (and not womyn, womynx, or faux women) ARE more social, on average, than men. Frankly, men want to “get things done” (drives TMEW nuts all the time, looking at my task list), while (stereotypically) women are more apt to interact. This is not rocket science-type stuff.

The field experiment involved 87 participants living in Austria, Italy, or Germany, and covered periods of COVID-19 lockdown measures between April and May 2020. Those involved had spent at least eight hours in isolation, and were asked to answer questions via a smartphone app similar to those asked in the lab test: on stress, on mood, and on fatigue.

While the field experiment didn’t involve food, its results – lower levels of energy after isolation – match up with the lab work, suggesting that the comparison between going without social interaction and going without sustenance is a valid one. The real-world test was also where those living alone and the more sociable were shown to be most affected. Their reported energy levels dropped on days where they interacted with no-one compared to days with some brief social interactions – an effect not seen in less sociable participants.

“The fact that we see this effect even after a short period of social isolation suggests that low energy could be a ‘social homeostatic’ adaptive response, which on the long run can become maladaptive,” says psychologist Giorgia Silani, from the University of Vienna. So as the time in isolation extends, the damage is likely to get worse: previous studies have compared loneliness to public health problems such as obesity, suggesting that there’s a significant risk of premature death due to being isolated socially.

<snip>

We also know that spending time alone can be beneficial for certain people in terms of their well-being. Future research across larger and more diverse groups of participants will be able to examine these associations further.

Yes, there is a reason why solitary confinement will drive you crazy to the point of a psychotic state of being; humans ARE social animals. We do require human contact. There’s a reason why some babies end up with diagnoses of Failure to Thrive and Failure to Attach – both of which were given to the Grandson, given the circumstances of his birth.

I also admit that there ARE longer-term issues when a social guillotine comes hurtling down (certainly more than for 8 hours). There’s a reason that “shunning” has a similar effect on those that have been deemed unworthy either by breaking a serious social norm (or “Mean Girls” Syndrome).

However, I “identify” (smirk) as one of that second group of “certain people”: I CRAVE peace and quiet and have for years. If TMEW and the Grandson go to his Dad’s for a week (summer vacation is coming up), I know that my pace of life will slow, and I see that time as one for rejuvenation. Why?

Most of my career was ALWAYS interrupt-driven to the point that I lost all control over my time. It was always running from one crisis to another and mostly multiples at the same time. Nice to be needed, and there was satisfaction that I had skills that were in high demand, but the constant run from one urgent task to another took its toll – I just wanted to be left alone.

And sometimes, with GraniteGrok and family stuff, that hasn’t changed as much as I might have wanted. But this is on me rather than my bosses and clients.

So no, loneliness is not one of my issues. But that ice cream brownie with lots of hot fudge (no whipped cream, nuts, or cherry on top, thank you -I’m a purist)?

Yeah, that’s still a problem.

 

(H/T: Science Alert)

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This post is simply a link to a Breitbart article about growing calls to boycott Kohl’s on account of Kohl’s targeting children with woke. And … yes I know that is the Target logo, not Kohl’s

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When SARS-CoV2 hit the streets, there was a pandemic of alleged research purporting all manner of insight into the virus, side effects, treatments, demographic impacts, everything. Surprise! Not all of it was terribly scientific.

 

Grødeland said that part of the reason this happened during the pandemic was that relatively more people suddenly started conducting research on a topic they really knew relatively little about.

Even prestigious journals such as the Lancet were publishing those articles.

One of Lancet’s studies even caused both the World Health Organization (WHO) and the national government to stop the comprehensive testing of hydroxychloroquine’s effectiveness against COVID-19.

The extensive Lancet study, allegedly based on research fraud, said that the drug increased the risk of heart arrhythmia and mortality for COVID-19 patients.

 

There were likely retractions across all “lack-of-disciplines” and subject matter, but the Lancet paper is of particular interest because we covered it. It was a political hit piece designed to give the media fear factor to disqualify Hydroxychloroquine. A Drug NIH researchers had long recognized as “ “… a potent inhibitor of SARS coronavirus infection and spread.” Like Ivermectin, if it were not discredited, even in contraction to decades of research proving safety and effectiveness, there could be no Emergency Use Authorization of the untested Pfizer/Moderna mRNA injections.

The Lancet published the hit piece as scientific research (probably under pressure), the media wrecking ball delivered the damage, and the politicians did the rest (restrictions, bans, threatening doctors and pharmacists). The paper’s claims collapsed quickly when made public. Ten days after publication, The Lancet pulled the paper, and two weeks later, the company that wrote the “research” vanished, but the damage was done.

Not all the retracted research will be the result of that sort of background or history – brief as it was – but what struck me as amusing was the notion that most of these papers lacked rigor, failed to obtain consent from subjects, or were reported in the media as fact when in fact, they failed to meet even basic requirements for publication.

 

“When you look at the articles that have been retracted, the vast majority were published in the less interesting journals. It is they who are mainly affected by withdrawals,” Grødeland said.

But there were a number of environments that do not normally carry out research, which suddenly started producing research after receiving funding from local hospitals.

“It may have caused things to get a little out of hand in some places,” she said.

 

 

And now we know why – or can speculate. The hospital funding was likely COVID blood money leveraged to keep the approved narratives afloat.

The feds had turned everything from testing, diagnosis, and treatment into an ATM if you did as they asked. Hundreds of billions of dollars were handed out, some of which undoubtedly found their way into what amounted to marketing disguised as science. That “science” fed the media propaganda mills keeping fear high along with the resistance to other lines of thinking.

COVID Karens, the pandemic’s political foot soldiers. Masked thugs who fed social media with shares of flawed or incomplete papers while dismissing or shouting down anyone who dared to consider other options, treatments, or outcomes. They even ratted out businesses and neighbors who violated unnecessary and harmful political interventions.

You know the rest. And here we are.

Here’s the list. I you have time, feel free to search it for things from either side of the COVID debate. I’ll be sifting it in the coming days and weeks as well. SOome of them are very strange but more than a few are attributing things to COVID of which COVID does not appear to be the cause – at least not based on the evidence used to justify the paper.

 

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