Thursday • December 12 • 2024
Vol.XVI • No.L
Manchester, N.H.
The Frankfurt School and Antonio Gramsci are still relatively unknown by the vast majority of Americans yet they are the ones that are the answer to “How did we get here?” (and here, too; additional stuff here, here, here, here, and here).
Then this lecture I gave back in 2013 to the Merrimack Republicans – Part 4 here and that links to Parts 1-3)- here is a a snippet from it:
Why should you?
And for the record, to those that say we should only be engrossed is fiscal issues and leave the social issues alone: so why should we cede the social issues to the Progressives? Look at our budgets – they are sky high and the reasons are not for the limited functions that government was to carry out but to service the social issues that the Progressives have successfully moved from the Civil Society realm that the Framers envisioned being the strength of America into the Government realm – and moving our participation from the voluntary and local to the coerced and faceless.
Back to the Culture War (the Frankfurt School and Gramsci) – we are now subjected to the 1619 Project (the US is founded on Slavery) and Black Lives Matter (ditto) and Wokeness supplies even more of a push in using Culture War in re-establishing the Marxist economic class warfare tactic but now over skin tones and re-writing history. And now that faux history is being taught to our children, not just in our captured school systems (that are the nexus point of the Left’s Culture War). After all, “we have your children” from the last century still holds true, and just like Germany in the 20s and 30s that embraced it, we see our Culture being used for the same thing.
When I used to think of Disney, I used to think of the Magic Castle ablaze with fireworks with Tinkerbell and Micky and Minni. Now, this is what we get from Disney. YES! LISTEN TO IT ALL, and if you are a red-blooded American Patriot who learned our real history, FORCE yourself to listen to it until the end:
Imagine paying money to Disney to teach your kids to hate themselves and hate their country pic.twitter.com/cZBBCwVd7l
— Jack Posobiec (@JackPosobiec) February 5, 2023
Is this, Mom and Dad, what you want your children to learn? To sing themselves? To believe it forever? That “Lincoln Didn’t Free The Slaves“??? From Legal Insurrection:
Nate Hochman writes at National Review:
Disney+ to America’s Children: Lincoln Didn’t Free the Slaves
“Proud Family: Louder and Prouder,” a recent Disney+ reboot of the original “Proud Family” children’s cartoon (2001–05), was always going to be a social-justice routine. The franchise’s addition of new characters such as “Maya Leibowitz-Jenkins, a 14-year-old activist who isn’t afraid to use her voice for good” (per Seventeen) and singer-activist Lizzo — playing, for some reason, herself — had all the trappings of the ongoing effort to politicize even the most innocuous and innocent cultural products. As the Disney Channels Worldwide president said during an interview in early 2020, the company wanted the reboot to renew the original show’s “brilliant social commentary on our life and times,” delivered “under the guise of a family comedy.” Parents may be surprised to hear that “family comedy” needs to be a “guise” for anything at all, but such is the state of American culture.
In plain language – a ruse. Keep the Parents happy that their kids are watching “the Disney of old” as Disney serves up the “Woke and Critical Race Theory of NOW.” These Woke Missionaries at Disney DEPEND on your Parents being asleep at the gateway door that gives them access to your children’s core.
More from the Daily Wire:
In the cartoon, that last line was punctuated by four black students glaring while the only white student on the stage with them held a sign that read “still has not atoned for.”
This mirrors what is going on in a lot of schools – that due solely to the color of your skin, you are an Oppressor of us, the Oppressed. And to be sure, that “still has not atoned for” is a psychological debating trap in which there can NEVER be any atonement. It’s all about instituting guilt in our children.
We have experienced, for years, that no amount of groveling and apologizing can NEVER be atonement enough. Look at San Francisco – they wanted to pay around $250K to individual blacks in reparations. Now, that “atonement” has been reset, by activists, to be $5 million apiece – with other benefits forever.
“Slaves built this country,” they shouted again, claiming, “We made your families rich,” as they listed plantation owners, northern bankers, New England ship-owners, the Founding Fathers, and current senators among those who had profited on the backs of slaves.
The cartoon even included the debunked “Hands up, don’t shoot” claim that originated after the Michael Brown shooting in Ferguson, Missouri.
And all that 1619 dreck has been debunked repeatedly, yet, like any Fundamentalist religious sect, facts don’t matter. It’s all about the Guilt.
Are you going to let them do this to your children?
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A group of House Republicans is supporting legislation that would replace federal income, payroll, estate, and gift taxes with a 30 percent national sales tax. The bill also eliminates the Internal Revenue Service, giving states the responsibility to collect the sales tax and send the revenue to DC.
This deputizing of states to act as federal tax collectors violates the principles of federalism, especially since the plan forces states that have chosen not to make their residents pay sales taxes create a mechanism for collecting sales tax.
A 30 percent sales tax on all goods with no exceptions and no deductions will increase taxes imposed on millions of Americans. The sales tax legislation provides a way Americans can receive a monthly “prebate” payment to help offset the cost of the sales tax. Still, many taxpayers would be paying more under the new national sales tax system.
If the sales tax becomes law, Congress may never have to increase the rate above 30 percent. This is because it can rely on the Federal Reserve to increase the sales taxes via inflation. Consequently, this inflation tax will increase the pain inflicted by the sales tax on the American people.
The imposition of a national sales tax will lead to a flourishing black market for many goods. This will cause the government to increase surveillance of our purchases. It could also lead to government bureaucrats keeping lists of our purchases. This information could be abused by government officials to embarrass and punish political enemies. The surveillance could track whether an individual is complying with government dietary recommendations or is consuming “extremist” content. The need to ensure compliance with the tax laws may also be used to justify replacing cash with government issued and managed digital currency.
The proposed national sales tax rate is set at a high level because the bill’s sponsors did not want to reduce the federal government’s revenue. A big problem with tax reform occurs when it fails to include reductions in federal spending.
Unfortunately, even some libertarians get sucked into the DC game of ignoring the need to tie tax reform to reducing government spending. Instead, they focus on making the tax code more efficient. Even worse is if they make the supply-side argument that certain taxes should be cut to increase government revenue. Libertarians should view increasing government revenue as an unfortunate consequence of otherwise sound tax policy. They should advocate for tax cuts that are far beyond the point where tax cuts increase government revenue.
Some people support sales taxes because sales taxes discourage consumption and encourage savings and investment. While savings and investment are crucial to a free market, government policies should, to the greatest extent possible, be neutral between savings and consumption. Policies favoring savings distort the market just as do policies that encourage consumption.
Supporters of the free market who pursue various tax reform schemes without also working to cut spending are putting the cart before the horse. The American people will not be free from tax tyranny until government is returned to its constitutional limitations. This will not occur until enough people reject the welfare-warfare state and embrace the moral, as well as the practical, case for peace and liberty.
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James Tour “is an American chemist and nanotechnologist. He is a Professor of Chemistry, Professor of Materials Science, and Nanoengineering, and Professor of Computer Science at Rice University in Houston, Texas.” He also makes an excellent case for how rare “life” is!
It’s controversial because Tour also believes in intelligent design, so take that with you as you watch what follows.
And while we are surrounded by life, it is abundant; Tour challenges the effort to duplicate the idea that all of this just happened at random in some goo because it seems so incredibly unlikely.
He makes a good case. So much so that I did something I rarely do. I sat through an entire hour of something to which I had to pay at least moderate attention. That’s uncommon – and should be noted if you like to send me stuff “to watch.” If it’s more than ten or twelve minutes – except in rare instances – I won’t, sorry. My days are full, and time is a rare commodity – though not as rare, I’d gather, as life forming at random (or even in a controlled clean room lab with pure chemicals in the hands of brilliant scientists, which still hasn’t happened).
It’s a fun video to watch. James Tour is very animated.
Anyway, as I said, I found this fascinating, and no hurt feelings if you look at it and go, nope. But Tour lays out the chemistry of life in a way that makes its existence at random a complete mystery.
I’ve also included links to a criticism of this presentation (blog page here) and his response (here -pdf). I have skimmed both, and there is a lot of chemistry that you’ll need a chemist to verify (that’s not me). I will note that the linked criticism calls James Tour’s lies” as Trumpian, which I tried to ignore in measuring the value of the critique.
Here’s the presentation (2019 -Per-COVID). Ignore the German subtitles unless you speak German, I suppose.
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Since we decided that the ‘Grok was going to return to Twitter, I had been looking forward to tweeting out during President Asterisk’s (ahem, Biden) State of the Union speech. Unfortunately, my main laptop’s browsers were throwing errors so I missed doing my mission (firewall issues, I think). But one piece of fecal matter that launched from his oral cavity caught my attention during his verbal diarrhea of what he wanted to accomplish which was to pass the Pro Act:
I’m so sick and tired of companies breaking the law by preventing workers from organizing.
Pass the PRO Act because workers have a right to form a union. And let’s guarantee all workers a living wage.
Yeah, Our Ruler has declared that anyone wants to work where a union is ensconced will have to JOIN that union – no freedom to choose for you! Workers DO have the right to form a collectivist union if they so desire – it’s just not guarenteed that they can persuade enough of their fellow workers to go along with it. Companies have the right to resist as well but the PRO Act severely tilts the process towards the union organizers. Commentary here. A great reaction via Instapundit:
That’s right – by telling workers that they can’t work for themselves in what we know as the “Gig economy” (some forced into it and some LOVE controlling their own time), not only Biden a “shill for thugs”, he IS a THUG for taking away that freedom from them just because UNIONS! I bet it warmed the cockles of NH State Reps Mike Bordes, Travis O’Hara, and Doug Trottier and NH State Senators Tim Lang and Howa
When Biden said that, I had images of all of them standing up in front of their devices, a fist in the air, yelling “WAY TO GO!”
Yet, What does the Republican Party believe?
And there they stand, with Biden in forcing free workers into a Democrat supportive union. No freedom to choose for you!
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There’s been a lot of COVID-Fail news this week from the “experts” ignoring known harms to today’s story. The bivalent peddled as good against the variants (that Biden spent billions on so it would be “free”) doesn’t work against variants.
Related: Moderna, The FDA, And Some Mice Walk Into a Bivalent Booster Drug Trial …
Unless by “variant,” you mean another revenue silo at Pfizer as people get wise to their sh!tty “cure.” Uptake is down all over (vaccine deniers!), and while I’m sure Big Pharma will recoup some of that with the new drugs to treat the myocarditis caused by the COVID Jab, they’ve been relying on Biden’s handlers to hand them buckets of billions.
Is Pfizer aware that they’ll toss them under the bus and take it all back if the polling suggests they should?
That’s the thing about despotism by committee. If using you helps them, they use you. If destroying you helps them, then they do that. And you’ve only got yourself to blame for thinking that escalating socialism might end any other way. That’s why they want all the guns, silly.
Bivalent Fail
The new booster that almost no one wants can’t get the job done. “In one of the papers, researchers found the vaccines boosted neutralizing antibodies, believed to be a measure of protection, but that the antibody levels declined to previous levels within three months.”
Compared to the antibody responses to BA.5, the responses to XBB.1.5 were reduced 20-fold.
Put more concisely, like the original jab/booster, the only thing it is good at is making you more susceptible to infection, transmission, and severe disease. Or at least that is the likely result. See also the end game? Making people ill. If they are legitimately trying to weaken the nation by repeatedly dosing its citizens with poison, then at least they’ve done what they set out to do. Evil but capable. Own it.
Otherwise, are they a bunch of white-coated clueless rubes? Disingenuous cranks profiting on the misery of others? Medically partisan vaccine ideologues with no interest in any narrative but the one spoon-fed to them by political paymasters?
Stooges!
Have some self-respect. Carve your spot in stone as part of the greatest act of medical malpractice in public health history, or you could admit that you were lied to, embraced the lies despite the risks to save your ass, or were in some other way forced to ignore the truth and let it happen.
Those who genuinely repent are forgiven if they demonstrate fidelity to their transformation through words and actions.
And I get that some people will make time and energy to hate you for that, but I’m not one of them. Life’s too short. I don’t hate anyone despite what the clown car of New Hampshire Dems claim. And not just because they are not worth the effort. It isn’t good for your spirit, soul, or you. Getting that worked up is no less poison than The Jab.
So, here’s the deal. We’ll give you a forum for your mea culpa. Doctors, nurses, administrators, public officials, politicians even jabbed Joe or Jane twelve-pack. Become a born-again citizen freed from public health tyranny.
Tell us your story no matter how far down their rabbit hole you went. It might inspire others, and we need that. This medical disaster isn’t over. We’re still in a hot war with casualty numbers (both mental and physical complications) we may not know for years.
That doesn’t mean we can’t begin healing.
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Dear Honorable Councilor Wheeler, In the entirety of the Covid epidemic, we have had one child die from Covid in New Hampshire. Meanwhile, we have FOUR cases of children dying from the so-called “vaccine.”
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Per official CDC data, children under 18 have a 99.997% infection survival rate from Covid. This is not a crisis for children (indeed, per that same CDC data, the Infection Fatality Rate for all people under 60 is well under one percent). Meanwhile, per Pfizer’s own data, the fatality rate for their injection is over 1%. Multiple analyses globally are showing a negative benefit-harm ratio. For example, in the first three months of trials, out of 42,086 trial participants, 1,223 died. DIED. The death toll from these shots, just in the US, is estimated north of 200K.
As a constituent I am demanding that you pause all expenditures to the Department of Health and Human Services until they cease recommendations of these shots to children. One child dead is too many. This is a tragedy that didn’t have to happen:
VAERS Shows 2-Year-Old NH Girl Died Within 24 Hours After Getting COVID Vaccine – Granite Grok
Additionally, there are concerning data regarding the potential for decreased fertility or outright sterilization, let alone the documented possibility the mRNA could transcribe back into cells’ DNA. Were you aware of this potential side effect? Nobody I know, whether Jabbed or not, understood that they could potentially be genetically engineered. That’s called FRAUD. And I can point you to documentation of each of these items.
Were you aware that these shots were sold to the public under the pretense they would stop transmission, which we now know – both empirically and by Pfizer admission, does not happen? You can still catch it, get sick from it, give it to others, and even die from it (most people dying now are fully vaccinated if not boosted as well – as seen in multiple countries, e.g., both the UK and Australia, where over 90% of the people dying of Covid have been fully vaccinated if not vaccinated and boosted).
Transmission is not stopped. Deaths have not stopped. And there are credible accusations against Pfizer of outright fraud in data collection and trial conduct.
If you continue to permit these shots you are complicit in mass harm to our children.
Image from here.
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Steve Kirsch has been a pitbull when it comes to challenging the public health industrial complex challenging them, rubbing research in their face, and offering huge sums as bets to debate him on a series of topics.
The latest told-you-so comes courtesy of The Cochrane Study, which analyzed “Physical interventions to interrupt or reduce the spread of respiratory
viruses.”
To assess the effectiveness of physical interventions to interrupt or reduce the spread of acute respiratory viruses.
We searched CENTRAL, PubMed, Embase, CINAHL, and two trials registers in October 2022, with backwards and forwards citation analysis on the new studies.
They did science with a pile of science and the results (and thanks to Kirsch for highlighting these in his copy).
Pooling of nine trials conducted in the community found an estimate of effect for the outcomes of influenza/COVID-like illness cases (risk ratio (RR) 0.95, 95% confidence interval(CI) 0.84 to 1.09; 9 trials; 276,917 participants; moderate-certainty evidence; Analysis 1.1) suggesting that wearing a medical/surgical mask will probably make little or no difference for this outcome. Two studies in healthcare workers provided inconclusive results with very wide confidence intervals: RR 0.88, 95% CI 0.02 to 32; and RR 0.26, 95% CI 0.03 to 2.51, respectively (Jacobs 2009; MacIntyre 2015). Laboratory-confirmed influenza/SARS-CoV-2 cases Similarly, the estimate of effect or laboratory-confirmed influenza/ SARS-CoV-2 cases (RR 1.01, 95% CI 0.72 to 1.42; 6 trials, 13,919 participants; moderate certainty evidence; Analysis 1.1) suggests that wearing a medical/surgical mask probably makes little or no difference compared to not wearing a mask for this outcome.
Six trials were cluster-RCTs, with all participants in the intervention clusters required to wear masks, thus assessing both source control and personal protection. In two trials the clusters were households with a member with new influenza; neither of these studies found any protective effect (RR 1.03 in 105 households (Canini 2010); RR 1.21 in 145 households (MacIntyre 2009)). In two trials the clusters were college dormitories during the influenza season; neither study found any reduction (RR 1.10 in 37 dormitories (Aiello 2012); RR 0.90 in three dormitories (Aiello 2010)).
The research also could not find evidence that N95 masks performed any better than regular medical masks, which, as noted above, makes little or no difference compared to not wearing one.
There are 326 pages in the report if you are brave enough (I know I don’t have that much free time). But that’s all fine print, and maybe there’s a nugget in there to appease the just-in-case crowd, but I doubt it. Even the CDC and NIH knew years ago that these things could not stop the flu virus. They also know there are health risks associated with use, especially long term. Both physical and psychological, and the latter appears to be the reasoning behind the mandates.
As Mr. Kirsch notes, “Whoever is advising people to do this is not basing their decision on any scientific evidence.”
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One of the primary goals of the American President is to keep Americans safe. Safe from threats within the country and outside adversaries. With the rise in crime in every corner of America and the many ways China is assaulting us, President Joe Biden is not doing his job.
He is failing Americans, and many no longer feel safe in their cities and towns.
Defunding police was a mission of Progressives, and little has changed with Biden in the White House. We have not only lost veteran members of the law enforcement community as cities trimmed police budgets, but we have also lost the most trained and experienced personnel. With the current stigma hanging over law enforcement, recruiting and academy attendance are not keeping up with the attrition that local and state police have experienced. We are trying to control rampant crime with depleted police forces.
It is not a battle we will win with the forces we have today.
The porous Southern Border allows drugs and cartels to enter America in record numbers making every state in the country a border state. The cartels are present in every state where they recruit our younger generations, creating a crime epidemic. Fentanyl poisoning is now the number one cause of death among people in the 18-45 age range, and more drugs are intercepted daily. We have no idea how much gets past what Border security we do have.
China is our most dangerous adversary and is getting more creative in threatening and infiltrating our society. COVID, Fentanyl, stealing intellectual property, creating a Chip shortage devastating our auto industry, buying American farmland, controlling our supply of medicines, especially antibiotics, buying charter schools, building their military and nuclear arsenal, and violating our airspace. Not long ago, we were only concerned with China owning most of our debt. Now we worry about our President being compromised by the Chinese government. How else can you explain Biden ignoring all these threats posed by China?
There is frustration on both sides of the aisle with the lack of action on the part of Joe Biden towards China. Frustration is morphing into fear, which should never be a part of American lives, especially when fostered by our President. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was to travel to China this week but canceled his trip due to the Chinese Airship incident. Sadly, none of the issues I listed were on the agenda for U.S. and China talks. The sole purpose of Blinken’s trip and meetings was Climate Change.
The Chinese Airship traversing the continental United States is the latest example of Biden’s lack of concern and leadership regarding our security and China’s impact on America. The Pentagon claims to have known about the Chinese balloon since January 28, though Biden did not authorize the military to shoot it down until last Wednesday. These orders came after journalists in Montana saw the balloon with their naked eyes and made the public aware of its flight. We do not know how much info or pictures were transmitted back to China, but the flight track brought the balloon over more than twenty of our military bases.
The House has started hearings into numerous issues with the Biden Administration. These include the Chinese Balloon incident, the Southern Border, the Biden Cartel money laundering scheme, and the source of the COVID virus. Biden and his spokespeople continue to tell America how great a President he is. These hearings may start to shed some light on the truth. Hopefully, the mainstream media will open their eyes and report the facts. We have to get all Americans to see behind the Biden Curtain.
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One of my “research assistants” sent me this link – these are the fans who funnel scores of links to me daily – and with it the subject line, “Statistically beyond coincidence.” I’d have to agree.
Related: Does It Make Sense Now? Egg Yokes May Protect You from SARS CoV2 …
Much like the strange phenomenon known as dozens of US food processing plants combusting in a statistically impossible succession (right after we kneecapped the supply chain and Klaus and Bill said we should eat bugs), this seems a bit improbable, so close to the Hillandale Farm fire that is estimated to have killed 100,000 egg laying chickens.
The latest major food supplier to go up in flames, after decades of food suppliers not going up in flames, is New Zealand’s largest egg producer – after a blaze broke out on Monday, killing around 75,000 hens.
Given how many New Zealanders have been inoculated with The Jab, we can’t imagine why they’d need eggs (which allegedly help you resit the Wuhan Flu), but if you want to make a New World Order Omelette, I guess you need to kill tens of thousands of chickens. Or something.
Another flanking maneuver in the war on eggs and chicken started mid-pandemic when someone decided that the world was also suffering from rampant bird flu. So rampant that chicken and chicken thighs, drumsticks, and now chicken wings have become one of the only affordable meats aside from pork. However, I do recall someone attempting to establish some sort of swine catastrophe though its exact nature slips my mind.
Meanwhile, we’ve got Bill NWO Gates buying up farmland so the folks at Impossible Foods can’t grow their “meat.” And Klaus ‘Let them eat bugs’ Schwab – side note, that bit about the WEF banning Eggs was spun up from a parody piece; please stop sending links from people who think it is real – is dressing up Hitler’s solution in a new dress for almost everyone to wear.
I’m sure it’s all tied to the depopulation fanatics, ideological ancestors of the early 20th-century Eugenicists who – ironically inspired Hitler – but here’s the thing. Who’s gonna fix your private jets and escalades if you only teach gender studies and kill off everyone else?
Sure, your lawns will still look nice until the yard equipment breaks, but if you burn down the egg farm, where the eggs are the folks without whose skills the world stops working, you’re left with a pile of ash.
I know. The Marxist/Fascist template that informs your NWO requires both a cleansing of the populace and the destruction of every institution because ruling ashes is better than whatever this is (in your mind). But are you going to shovel the ashes?
Probably not.
Maybe you’d better learn how to raise some chickens then because you’ll need the eggs to fight off the COVID you invented since, according to your experts, it’s never going away, ever.
Impossible eggs, anyone?
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From one Republican to another at a Republican event – and Larry Hogan (rumored to have looked in a mirror and said to his image “YOU could be President!“):
“I didn’t know you were going to have Lockdown Larry when I bought a ticket to RINOfest. Good job finding the ONLY Republican governor in the country that makes Sununu look like Goldwater!”
They shall remain anonymous to protect the semi-semi-guilty…heh! I will admit, I had a hard time in stopping my guffaws.
There is a bit of truth in that – Hogan went far further during the COVID Pandemic in shutting down his State than other Republican Governors, even Chris “Public Health trumps EVERYTHING) Sununu (and by EVERYTHING, that included the US & NH Constitutions as we Groksters have written about the last few years).
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The Koch Network is NOT America-First. The Koch Network is corporatist/globalist … open borders, out-sourcing American jobs, etc.. So … not surprisingly … the Koch Network has gone all in on NeverTrump … Koch calls it “moving on” … how original … NOT. Reported in FoxNews:”
… So the best thing for the country would be to have a president in 2025 who represents a new chapter,” Americans for Prosperity, a Koch-funded political action group, said in the memo. “The American people have shown that they’re ready to move on, and so AFP will help them do that.” …
Koch has adopted the disingenuous “bad candidate” mantra we heard from the NeverTrump RINOs to rationalize their refusal to support … and in some instances, e.g., Alaska, to undermine … America-First candidates:
… “The Republican Party is nominating bad candidates who are advocating for things that go against core American principles,” the memo stated. “And the American people are rejecting them. …
These principles that Koch finds “un-American” are America-First policies … secure borders, using tariffs to protect American workers from unfair trade, investing in America rather than China, etc..
Koch and the other globalist/corporatists would rather have four more years of the globalist/corporatist Biden-regime than return to the America-First policies they despise.
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Very interesting, what a little birdie whispered in my ear…
True to his word, newly chosen NH GOP Chair Chris Ager did what he said he would do – get a vote as to his replacement (he’s not going to hold both the Chair and RNC Committeeman positions – setting an example that should be followed going forward) at last night’s NH GOP EBoard.
Sidenote: yes, a signal to those who, in the past, decided that having a “double-dipping two votes” on the EBoard by holding two positions should be no longer.
It didn’t end as expected. A nominating committee was quickly assembled with Chris Buda, JR Hoell, and Chris Maidment (all three supporters of Chris Ager). Those that were analyzed and put forward by the committee to the EBoard were:
First up in the docket was Lewandowski – again, I come back to that phrase “It didn’t go well”. While Chris Ager said that Corey was his nominee over the other four (with words from my sources but haven’t verified them yet of “uniquely qualified,” a “man’s man,” and able to immediate getting “$40,000 checks” alongside preferred “green room seats” with major donors at Republican events [perhaps a bit of paraphrasing going on there]).
Yeah, that didn’t go over well at all as I was told that quite a few members of THIS EBoard started to “voice concerns” over not just Lewandowski (to be “kind” hasn’t had a lot of favorable press lately) and the methodology that had been put into place. I was informed that Thad Riley said that “any press is good press” (I’m not so sure of that, Thad), and a political icon was needed for the position. Er, not so fast on that “icon” bit, too.
And then the thunderstorm opened up. A number of folks sent the lightning bolts down stating how Corey had treated them (no, not with kid gloves to be sure). Given Lewandowski’s history with women, they certainly had stories. However, some men also chimed in as well. While I wasn’t there and don’t know how many were pushing back, Ager did try to “save” Lewandowski’s nomination by asking for support on this candidate. He even told the attendees that RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel approved of Lewandowski. Sure, she won by a 2-1 (3-1?) to keep that RNC Chairmanship over Harmeet Dhillonbut it was clear that she was having her own problems with grassroots types in the run-up to the vote as well. That wasn’t persuasive and the little birdie just said “a bazooka of unforced errors”.
He did not get the 2/3rds majority needed to become the new NH GOP RNC Committeeman.
However, it was reported that none of the others were considered last night and that another meeting will have to take up those nominations. It’s also clear that the makeup of this new EBoard has brought a new philosophy with it that will need to be assauged and taken into account by this new Chair.
Minds of their own – ALL of them.
Well, I said that GraniteGrok was going to continue to watch Chris Ager and the NH GOP going forward. Now being closer to home, rather than at the RNC, will make that much easier.
Corey Lewandowski’s Letter
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ICYMI – NH Dems “Officially” Lost Their First in the Nation New Hampshire Primary (And It’s Still their Fault).
A few days ago, news broke that made it official. The Democrat National Committee called NH Dems out for their systemic racism by taking away their first in the nation primary.
Related: Can Democrats Overcome “Systemic Racial Inequality” When They Can’t Manage it in Their Primary?
The Democratic Party on Saturday approved the reordering of its 2024 presidential primary, replacing Iowa with South Carolina in the leadoff spot as part of a major shake-up meant to empower Black and other minority voters critical to its base of support.
New Hampshire would share a primary with Nevada three days later. It is a problem NH Dems had years to address but, as we’ve noted previously, ignored.
Not once did Democrats in that district pick a person of color over the pasty white incumbent. And at no point in any congressional race in NH history have NH Democrats nominated a person of color in a primary or elected one to higher office. White women, check. Gay white guy, check. People of color?
When super-white Carol Shea-Porter retired and left the NH CD-1 seat open in 2018, ten Democrats stepped up in that primary, all white.
In the 2012 contest, when Carol vied to get the seat back from Republican Frank Guinta, Caroll Dowdell announced she wanted a shot at the seat, but the state party convinced her to drop out to clear the way for pasty white Carol Shae-Porter. Carol won, but at what price?
The white price. Instead of building an inclusive and diverse bench to elevate candidates of color, they went all white all day and night. At the same time, those “racist” Republicans were nominating people of color almost every cycle, while Democrats were defending pasty white incumbents even when polling suggested it was time for a change on the Democrat side.
Joann Dowdell has risen in the state party apparatus, but she’s one of few, and the Dems can’t even fall back on the truth. It might be that people of color are not all that interested in New Hampshire. It’s cold half the year, the ticks and black flies suck, they can’t get enough natural vitamin D because of the latitude, and it’s mostly rural. According to the experts in attracting people of color, they prefer a more urban setting with accessible government services.
“Prior to now, there has not been any specific driving force for people of color, doesn’t matter which color, to move to New Hampshire. There has not been a reason to do so,” said Rogers Johnson, a former state representative and the president of the Seacoast NAACP. “The reasons (for migration) in the past have been economic development, centered on large cities … nobody of color thinks of Manchester, Burlington, and Portland as a large city. There’s not a social infrastructure in any of those states.”
Social infrastructure?What the hell is social infrastructure? I had to look it up.
Social infrastructure can be broadly defined as the construction and maintenance of facilities that support social services. Types of social infrastructure include healthcare (hospitals), education (schools and universities), public facilities (community housing and prisons) and transportation (railways and roads).
And when NH Dems had the chance to do just one thing in New Hampshire that is popular with people of color, they shot it down and stomped all over it—proving, as with their candidates, that for all the talk about color and discrimination and equity, at the end of every day, it’s about politics and power.
And it cost them their first in the nation primary. It cost them the status, prestige, attention, networking, the influx of campaigns, and money from which the first primary uniquely benefits.
And yes, they will still have to hold their presidential primary when the Republicans hold theirs. State law requires ours to be first, and we are not doing two of them. It will be before anything on the Democrat calendar, and yes, the DNC will punish them for it. Even though it will happen before South Carolina, it won’t be the same for them (peer pressure).
And the NH Dems are stuck with it unless pasty white Ray Buckley, the NH Dem Party Chair, resigns (my speculation), taking this legacy with him, and they anoint a person of color to replace him.
Maybe Joanne Dowdell?
Would it be enough to get the primary back? That depends, ironically, on Democrat politics.
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Like almost all developed nations, America’s fertility rate has gone below “replacement” which is 2.1 births/woman (and NO, it’s not “birthing people” or “people who give birth” or “people with uteruses”). Lots of theories have been put forward with one example being all of the manmade chemicals interfering with hormonal processes. Another is that as education rises, family formation goes down yielding “later-age marriages”.
This factor, Land Use Regulations, was one that I never would have thought of:
We’ve mentioned the “birth dearth” here before, but here’s an interesting take on the effect of land use regulation that tends to drive up housing costs, and therefore slows family formation:
That Index can be found here and here). Cato has another one here. Boiled down? More GOVERNMENT regulations increases land and housing costs.
And look at the positioning of NH (lower right end of that sloping line). We ARE an aging State and that would have in “spiraling” effect on the birth rate and that should be considered a factor as our younger adults go elsewhere (and presumably have their babies elsewhere as well).
Adding to the cost of having babies, which I’ve mentioned before, has been “safety activists” forcing child seats into cars and for longer periods of time (increasing size and weight measures before they are not needed – I know this right now!). And then you have even MORE Government regulations dealing with the safety of vehicles (raising their costs) and then making them more “energy efficient” – mostly making them smaller.
Go ahead – try putting three child seats into a sub- or compact car. And the MPH Karens wonder why families have increasingly moved to bigger SUVs and pickups (hint more room!). For instance, Ford (in judging this movement) only has one “sedan” in its lineup (the Mustang which is a sports coupe rather than a 4-door family sedan) – SUVs, cross-overs, trucks, and vans make up the rest.
Left hand, right hand – and the Government is concerned with the falling fertility rates? It ought to be looking at itself in a mirror (somehow)…
(H/T: Powerline)
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Patricia Tulley is the Director of the Division of Public Health Services at the NH Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). She recently testified before a New Hampshire House Committee, and I’m unsure how to describe it.
Before we get into that, Ms. Tulley is scheduled to appear before the Executive Council tomorrow (Wednesday, 2/8/23) to ask for more dollars (details below*). Rebuild NH touched on it in an alert we published yesterday: Covid Spending Spree. The wasting of your money on the public health industrial complex, which, as COVID proves, needs some pruning and added oversight. You can find contact information for your Executive Councilor here.
And back to the Tulley testimony.
You can watch it below, but I wanted to highlight two things that pinged my BS meter, beginning at around 3 hours and 30 minutes of a 4-hour hearing.
She says aloud (and I am paraphrasing) that she tries to keep all the accounting below 900,000.00 dollars so they don’t have to come to the budget committee for hearings. This is not anymore surprising that regular Americans limit bank transfers to 500.00 to avoid institutions pinging the IRS, but in both instances, it’s your money. Fudging the line items to keep them under a threshold that exists for the sake of accountability is offensive.
She also calls the inflation-exacerbated bags of fiat money doled out under the false flag of a public health emergency – too many things, not all health-related – as the federal pennies that fell from heaven.
The whole conversation is very cordial, and Tulley insists that federal grants cover the current funding until the end of 2024, but my sense – and it should be yours because this is how bureaucrats think – is that this is a staging process. The goal is to insist these programs are essential and should be funded from the general fund when the pennies from heaven stop.
*To that point, I have it on good authority that Tulley is expected to ask the Executive Council for 2.5 million to continue contact tracing. It is entirely unnecessary. It also violates the State Constitution.
[Art.] 2-b. [Right of Privacy.] An individual’s right to live free from governmental intrusion in private or personal information is natural, essential, and inherent.
December 5, 2018
No offense to Patrica, by the way. I get that you are doing her job and seem bubbly about it all (so good on you), but that doesn’t change the cold, hard facts. No matter where it comes from, this is someone else’s money. It comes from the pockets of people under more economic stress from more directions than at any point in their lives. That money isn’t coming from anywhere but their pockets, and increasingly those of generations into yet born. The people are not the only ones who should be cutting corners.
It is up to us to ensure the temps we elect to represent us understand our priorities when career bureaucrats come looking for cash.
The COVID response wanted trillions, and so far, what we’ve gotten for all of that is terrible testing, harmful protocols, intrusive and dangerous mandates, totalitarian edicts (inspiring intolerant mobs), a propaganda camping that hid the truth, and a “cure” that makes you more susceptible to infection, spread, and severe disease. You don’t even reward that. You certainly do not give them more money.
Tulley’s testimony is lengthy, so click this link to jump to hour three and at about 31 minutes to hear the bits I mentioned and more if you have the “constitution” for it, or you can find it in the hearing video below.
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They’re flying so thick and fast it is amazing, but given the weekend – sick wife, close friend passing – the next one will be the Friday Meme Overflow-Overflow (technically just overflow but go with it). Last week’s Overflow-Overflow.
Remember, ridicule and mockery are effective weapons:
On mockery & ridicule… and their effectiveness in combating the Left:
The Moral Case for Mockery
and
Killing Comedy
Now, let the mockery and mayhem begin.
*** Warning, a few possibly off-color ones, in case tender eyes are about ***
A hat-trick of past essays:
The Jab: A Rite of Passage – Granite Grok
The Technological Golden Calf – Liberty’s Torch (libertystorch.info)
And three-in-one at Tommy Robinson’s place:
Civilizational Collapse and Biology (Part 1) – Urban Scoop
Civilizational Collapse and Biology (Part 2) – Urban Scoop
Civilizational Collapse and Biology (Part 3) – Urban Scoop
The above trilogy about civilizational collapse are, IMHO, one of my most insightful.
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What is ‘C40 Cities’ about and how does it link ULEZ Expansion with The Clinton Foundation?
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But first, a random sampling of three of my cartoons. Please note these are my concepts but I pay a professional to do them.
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What scares me is that there will be a surprising number of people will go for, and prefer, this over reality with flesh-and-blood people.
Saaaaay, wait a minute – why am I seeing this ad??
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Excellent. Going to have to use that.
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Another recipe from My Tree in Israel. I’m working my way through the olive oil from the trees I adopted (annually); but it’s not just cooking oil. I love a spoonful, just plain. Definitely the best olive oil I’ve ever had.
Full disclosure: one of the founders is a friend of mine but note that I get no compensation for plugging the company. It’s just darned good oil, and I’m trying to help a friend’s business.
They also have an adopt-a-grape-vine program, and I’m eagerly awaiting my six bottles of wine later this spring.
They appeared on Mike Huckabee’s show:
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Start checking ingredients, people. It’s coming. And if you find them, make your displeasure known. To the store. To your friends. On all social media. And write the company – snail mail, not emails.
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Pick of the post:
Literally whitewashing the event.
What was worse about this? Seeing all those kids either do nothing, or a couple seemed to help out in the beat-down.
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Palate Cleansers:
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Impossible foods are having an impossible week in the impossible EU over their Impossible burger. The European Patent Office (EPO) has revoked the Impossible patent.
The EPO’s reasoning has not yet been published online, but GMWatch has long argued that GMO developers cannot tell patent offices that their product is novel, non-obvious and has an inventive step — all requirements for a patented invention — yet tell regulators and the public that the same product is natural, nature-mimicking or able to arise in nature or from natural breeding.
GMO developers can’t have it both ways; if one of these statements is true, the other must be false. If it’s patented, it can’t be natural, and if it’s natural, it can’t be patented.
Impossible Foods still plans to launch a wide range of fake products across the continent as soon as the appropriate Food Safety Authority gives them the green light.
Children’s Defense League argues that they are unsafe. The product includes GMO yeast derived from soy leghemoglobin. This gives the fake meat the appearance of having natural juices or appearing uncooked or undercooked. I don’t know anything (yet) about GMO yeast derived from soy leghemoglobin except that, based on the name, it is genetically modified, and that’s supposed to be a problem. Not for me, for the sort of people who are likely to insist that fake meat is better for the environment than the real thing. But that’s just not true.
Emphasis in the original.
The environmental footprint of producing pea protein isolate, soy protein concentrate, canola oil, sunflower oil, coconut oil, and potato starch is MASSIVE compared to that of a (single ingredient!) grass-fed beef burger.
As a farmer and soil scientist, it humors me to see the “statistics” on the carbon footprint of real meat versus plant-based meat.Where the hell do they get the stats for Impossible burgers using “96% less land, 87% less water and 89% less greenhouse gas emissions” than real meat? What farm did they come from? With what growing practices? With what inputs? And what meat production are they comparing it to?
Regardless of their statistics, the reality is: annual crops grown in monoculture (corn, soy, wheat, peas, sunflower) are among the most environmentally destructive form of agriculture.
Fake climate benefits and fake nutrition, but you have a right to be faked out or to virtue signal, and Impossible Foods wants to fake you out, but it’s been an impossibly lousy year for them. Their stock is down by half, and the news that they may not be helping anyone but themselves is starting to seep out of the impossible beef like the GMO yeast derived from soy leghemoglobin.
That is GMO veganistas. The Darth Vader of Corporate food processing. An evil thing added to a deceptive thing. But maybe that’s your thing.
And if you don’t force it on the rest of us, we’ll get along just fine.
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Some people do not know that the Ku Klux Klan has been vehemently anti-Catholic. Its quest to eliminate Columbus Day began years ago because of Columbus’s religious beliefs.
Today, many carry out this mission without having any background knowledge of what Columbus actually did. Read more about that here.
Religious bigotry oftentimes comes through veiled comments or attacks on religious institutions. Some of those who oppose tax dollars going to religious schools hate this idea because they don’t want your children learning the religious tenets included in the curriculum. Many people will simply say that they don’t want their tax dollars going to religious schools, and leave it at that. They won’t explain their disdain for the religious views of those who subscribe to that particular faith.
I’ve been following the school choice initiative for two decades now. I’ve watched how the courts have weighed in when it comes to public tax dollars funding private or religious schools. The courts have been consistent in that you cannot discriminate against religious schools simply because of your hatred or bigotry against them. I may disagree with everything taught in a religious school, but if a parent chooses that education for their children, we cannot discriminate against them.
Recent court decisions have struck down discriminatory practices and upheld a parent’s right to choose a religious school for their children. In Espinoza v Montana Dept of Revenue, the Montana Department of Revenue promulgated an administrative rule prohibiting scholarship recipients from using their scholarships at religious schools. Much like the arguments used to stop local tax dollars from leaving SAU90 to pay tuition on behalf of the students at Sacred Heart, the Justices ruled against discriminatory practices and laws.
On June 30, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court decided one of the most important education reform cases in the past half-century. This landmark case, Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue, held that the U.S. Constitution does not allow states to discriminate against religious parents or schools if policymakers choose to enact a private educational choice program to empower parents to choose the educational environment best suited to their own children. In his majority opinion, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote that while a “State need not subsidize private education[,] . . . once a State decides to do so, it cannot disqualify some private schools solely because they are religious.”
The case was argued on the basis of discrimination. The ruling states clearly that taxpayer funds can be used at religious institutions and that discrimination against religious parents or schools is not allowed under the U.S. Constitution.
Hampton residents have been paying tuition to Sacred Heart Catholic School located in Hampton for decades. Some residents want that to change. They want to end the funding to Sacred Heart, but why?
Is it because they don’t like public dollars going to a religious school? Some have indicated that on social media. They’re not comfortable with public dollars going to religious schools. That’s not a good enough excuse. I personally don’t agree with the tenets of many religious schools that receive public tax dollars, but it is up to the parents to decide what kind of education their children should receive.
SAU90 had a discrimination problem a few years ago when parents filed a complaint after their child had been bullied for several years. As a parental rights advocate, I worked with the family and the NAACP to see how this could best be resolved. How tough is it to stop a bully from tormenting a little girl? Sadly, they proved it was an impossible task. So the parents pulled their daughter out of the public school and sent her to a private school.
HAMPTON, NH — An administrative review of bullying incident against an African-American student in the Hampton School District has prompted officials to make changes to policies and procedures to prevent future incidents in the school system. The independent review was commissioned after a number of incidents, both inside and outside of school, between 2016 and 2018, according to School Superintendent Kathleen Murphy. SAU 90 commissioned the report last year.
Was she supposed to endure bullying because some of these aren’t comfortable with their tax dollars going to a religious school? Do these parents have some pent-up hatred towards what the religious school is teaching children? Was the family supposed to be punished if they chose a religious school?
That’s been my question to the petitioners. Why not work on improving public schools, so parents aren’t forced to remove their children in the first place?
What are the problems that exist in SAU90 since enrollment is declining? What draws families to Sacred Heart? In the bullying case, a child was tormented over the color of her skin. What is the solution? Wouldn’t it be better to make sure that these issues are resolved so parents aren’t forced to flee the public school they are in?
After repeated questions on the problems in SAU90, no one (on social media) said that they wanted to identify the problems that drive families out. No one said that they wanted to figure out how to keep families in the public school. They just wanted to make sure that those families can’t escape. Or if they escape, they are going to have to pay for it!
This appears to be a classic case of religious bigotry, and discrimination. Does it mean that everyone who signs the petition hates religious people? I wouldn’t say that. I would question their intent. I would question what they have done to fix the problems in the public school. I’d want to know why they are opposed to public tax dollars used to successfully educate a small portion of the students in the district.
Not all bigots wear white hoods. Some are very vocal moms and dads who can’t stand the thought of your children receiving any kind of religious instruction with YOUR tax dollars. Many of them are ok with your kids being bullied, and receiving a subpar education.
In this case, I hope that the current school board members will NOT support this type of bigotry and discrimination that plagued this district in the past. Let’s find ways to improve the public school without punishing some of the families who live in Hampton. Let’s make sure that the academics are the best, children are in a safe learning environment, and all families feel welcome.
This action is NOT a good way to overcome the discriminatory practices that have happened in the past. In fact, it doesn’t move the district forward at all. I hope the school board members understand that this kind of message that the petitioners are driving, is one that looks like discrimination in nature, and this kind of action will further cast a shadow of bigotry over the towns people.
To the current State Representative in Hampton who put herself in the middle of this town/ political battle, Candice O’Neil:
You serve all of your constituents in Hampton. Taking sides in a battle that divides the community over what appears to be a move to discriminate against some of the families residing in Hampton, doesn’t look good for an elected politician. It would be better to listen to all sides, and then look for ways to unite the community in an effort to improve the public schools. I hope in the future, instead of taking sides in a political battle such as this one, you will instead be that voice of reason that supports our public schools, while supporting all families who reside in the district.
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