Thursday • December 12 • 2024
Vol.XVI • No.L
Manchester, N.H.
TMEW and I have been ill most of the week and we’re just getting back on our feet – really bad cases of the flu. I generally don’t get sick often but when I do, it’s full beast mode. The typical aches, pains, low-grade temp – but no coughing for me. What I did get is that it “went” in the base of my spine and I got sciatica back that I have experienced in decades. So bedridden. Add in brain fog and I couldn’t string two sentences together and couldn’t sit at my desk.
So, in between sleeping a lot, I did a lot of watching of the US House Speaker votes. Pretty much what I expected in the first 10 votes and then the Freedom Caucus members’ insistence that the “system” be changed to be more “membership friendly” than Leadership “top/down/command” decries (sound familiar to other places?). They were vilified as being rebels, insurgents, traitors, not team players, and a whole other string of invectives.
But they wouldn’t budge. They got their agreement and they changed their votes for “others not McCarthy” to “Present” (which meant they were not voting but it did lower the threshold to get to the majority of those voting (finally down to Jefferies and McCarthy” and last night at 1 am (or so), McCarthy finally won on the 15th round. By two votes.
The rest was pure ceremonies the first of which was to have Jefferies give a short speech and hand the Gavel to McCarthy. He had but one job to do.
He #FAILED.
What a sanctimonious, self-righteous, self-promoting, grievance-mongering individual. Jeffries couldn’t even muster a few moments to recognize that it wasn’t about him but should have been about the “House continuity”, traditions, and a bit of bipartisanship. Instead, he made it about him, boasting about what the Democrats had “given” to the People”.
And then he went all Nasty in comparing adjectives favorable to Democrats to using adjectives denigrating Republicans (yes, he went there and used “racism”). Instead of being a congratulatory event, he turned it into a Democrat Rally Speech. While you can see it right from the get-go, if you are short on time, the worst starts around 11:00 (although to get the full import, listen to the whole thing). Full shade:
“A moment of Transition. From a year of Accomplishment to a year of Ambiguity”.
And gets worse from there. Quickly. Oh it sounded good but then he went on a tear comparing “Democrat Principles” to “Republican ones” at 13:15”
Schmuck. He made Ray Buckley (NH Democrat Chair – but who knows for how much longer?) look like a choir boy. And it was easy to see that he was enjoying this immensely.
“Maturity over Mar-a-Lago”. Yep, this was a full-on declaration of war. As Kurt Schlicter at Townhall has said “Now go crush them” (paraphrasing). No mercy.
Yes, McCarthy lost the 14 times. And then won the 15th.
Hakeem should now be known as the guy who lost 15 times straight.
Oh, and at 14:43, there’s Annie Kuster in a dark blue suit with her normal “Raise the Roof” hands in the air jumping up and down schtick, just eating it up.
NEVER be persuaded that she “bridges the divide” – that’s an act. In the wee hours of this morning, her true Progressive/Republican-hating self was there on display.
Yes, Chris Pappas was here – two rows behind her and to the right.
And Hakeem? He sulked the rest of the time as McCarthy took his victory lap, gave his speech, and swore in the House members.
And no, WMUR didn’t give Hakeem’s insouciance any coverage at all this morning.
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I personally couldn’t be more proud of the courageous 20 House Representatives in DC who risked everything for their constituents AND for those of us who are also disgusted and appalled at the feckless weak Rs in our state and in the DC Swamp… Rs who’ve done little to nothing to “right” the course of the sinking American ship!!!
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I applaud ALL 20 of them and wish them well as they are destroyed by the egomaniac vindictive Kevin McCarthy, the rest of the DC swamp, and of course, the Communist MSM!
We in New Hampshire are very familiar with this type of blowback behavior as we have witnessed the same from our very own thin-skinned infantile vindictive Governor against countless patriots, both within the Legislature and beyond when questioned or disagreed with! (We all know this to be true, don’t we??) But I digress… In closing, I just want to express that I am forever grateful for the 20 courageous DC Representatives who risked everything over the last week… Sadly our written twisted history will not be kind to you, but those of us who witnessed your fight know the truth!! Thank You!The post “What a Historic and Wonderful First Week of 2023” appeared first on Granite Grok.
There is legislation brewing to take power away from your county delegation and hand it to the county commissioners. It’s probably a response to the Gunstock situation, though it could be anything.
At first glance, these all seem like they have the potential for problems but HB43 specifically. Take a look, and if you can’t attend, send a polite email expressing your concerns (if you have them) to the committee. Support. Opposition.
Len Turcotte is the Chair.
Public hearings are Wednesday, January 11th, in the Municipal and County Government Committee.
1:45 HB 43 delegates all authority for county property to the commissioners and removes the delegation from ratification.
2:15 HB 75 increases the threshold for competitive bidding in the sale of county-owned property from $300 to $3,000.
2:45 HB 83 Removes the $5K limit to purchase or repair County buildings.
3:00 HB 87 Increases the monetary cap for purchase, sale, repairs etc. from $5K to 25K.
Update: This was a quick note I tossed up earlier, and I’m looking at the bills now. …
Our own Judy Aron and several other Republicans are the sponsors of these bills.
HB 43 would eliminate the need for county commissioners to get a vote of approval from the county delegation.
I’ll admit I have concerns about removing layers of accountability when it comes to public property transactions (HB43), but I’ll reserve my judgment until I can talk to Judy or other sponsors about them.
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Sun-King Sununu thinks he is the proverbial “smartest man in the room” … although I am sure His Wokeness prefers “smartest person” …and that he can gaslight any issue. In a recent interview with FoxNews, His Wokeness claimed that he is in total agreement with America’s Governor, Ron DeSantis, about woke, BUT that DeSantis is wrong to use the power of state government to protect his constituents from woke corporations. Here is exactly what His Wokeness said:
Sununu agreed that “we need to push back on woke policy. There’s no question about it…. the woke policies that are culturally being driven are really driving a wedge through the United States and taking us to a place where we don’t want to be as Americans.”
However, he argued, “going after private business is a whole different story…. I come from the ‘Live Free or Die’ state, and private businesses can and should act like private businesses without the fear of being punished by people that might disagree with them.”
Sununu emphasized, “while I agree with a lot of those issues that Ron brings to the table,” he does not think it is wise “to necessarily punish private businesses because they don’t agree with a policy or whatever it might be. Those types of culture wars pushing their way into the private sector, that’s definitely not I think where we want to be as Americans.”
This is VERBAL DIARRHEA. If you are not going to use the power of state government to protect your constituents from woke corporations, then you are NOT really against woke. Rather, you are simply trying to give the appearance of being against woke to anti-woke voters, without jeopardizing the support of pro-woke voters.
This is also a GROTESQUE LIE. Sun-King Sununu has no problem forcing “private businesses” to go woke:
To be clear, what Sun-King Sununu is saying is that a corporation like Disney should able to GROOM … including trying to coerce legislators to allow grooming in public schools.
Florida is where woke goes to die. New Hampshire is where woke goes to thrive. Florida is turning redder and redder. New Hampshire is turning bluer and bluer. Both States are reflections of their respective Governors.
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Camp Constitution will hold its 15th Annual Family Camp at the Singing Hills Christian Camp https://www.singinghills.net/ Plainfield, NH. from Sunday, July 16 to Friday, July 21, 2023
Returning instructors include Pastor David Whitney of the Institute on the Constitution; Professor Willie Soon, world-renowned astrophysicist and climate realist; Catherine White of The Constitution Decoded; Alex Newman, author and host of the Sentinel Report, and Rev. Steve Craft, Camp Constitution’s chaplain.
First-time instructors include NH State Rep Valerie McDonnell, the youngest elected official in the United States, and Vincent Ellison and author Vince Ellison. Mrs. Edith Craft returns to direct the program for the Junior Campers. In addition to the classes, the camp will offer marksmanship courses, martial arts, hiking, basketball, volleyball, wiffleball, and optional field trip, and swimming, chess, gaga, and corn hole tournaments. Campers and staff end the day with an evening campfire.
Camp Constitution’s annual camp is a family camp open to entire families, unaccompanied minors, and adults. The cost for the week which includes lodging, meals and class handouts is $300 for those 13 and over. $200. For campers 12 and under, and three and under with parents are free. The camp offers an “Early Bird” discount of $50, per person by registering by May 1. A link to the camp registration: http://campconstitution.net/camp-registration/
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Do You Know Someone Who “Died Suddenly?”
People are dropping dead. All-cause mortality for 18-59-year-olds is at a record high. Stories are breaking about people too young to die and ending up dead. Locally, three police officers in Massachusetts all passed within days of each other.
On Wednesday, December 28, 2022, Officer [ John F. ] Santos [Plymouth County Sheriff’s Department] passed away at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston after succumbing to a Brain Aneurysm. He was also a member of the United States Air Force, reaching the rank of Staff Sergeant, and served overseas in 2019. Officer Santos has a fiancé and an unborn son.
On Thursday, December 29, 2022, Officer Sean Besarick, a 24-year veteran of the Brockton Police Department, passed away suddenly at the age of 48-years-old. Officer Besarick was long-time member of the Brockton Community, graduating from Brockton High School in 1992 before serving in the United States Navy for six years. He became a member of the Brockton Police Department in 1998. Officer Besarick is married and has two daughters.
On Saturday December 31, 2022, Officer Christopher A. Davis, a 17-year veteran of the Stoughton Police Department, passed away at the Good Samaritan Medical Center in Brockton at the age of 42-years-old. He was a member of the Stoughton Police Special Operations Unit and was the department’s defensive tactics instructor. Additionally, he has served as a certified arson investigator, investigating fire incidents alongside the Stoughton Fire Department since 2011. He has been awarded numerous commendations from the SPD during his 17 years of service, including a Distinguished Service Award in 2012. Officer Davis has a fiancé and a daughter.
NFL player Damar Hamlin had a very public heart attack brought on allegedly by a one-in-a-few-million hit to the chest. He’s recovering, but thousands of athletes, healthy and in their prime, have dropped dead or had to retire for health reasons.
Students, teachers, EMTs, and regular folks.
Three Indiana University students died suddenly about a year ago.
So did a member of the Indiana University Board of Trustees.
So did two paramedics in the area and a couple of college students who attended other universities nearby.
Two of the deaths of Indiana University students were so close together, and so baffling, that the county coroner, Joanie Stalcup, says she turned to law enforcement and asked if they knew what could be happening.
One was IU undergraduate student Mia Roy, age 20, whose roommate found her dead on the couch in their apartment on Tuesday, September 14, 2021.
People are dying suddenly, and the only thing they have in common is the response to the pandemic. The vaccine response. But suggesting any correlation is wild conjecture or conspiracy theory. But if it’s something else, why are the unvaccinated not dying suddenly in the same proportion?
The media can’t be trusted. The Public Health Machinery is corrupted, taking its place next to public education as another propaganda arm of the progressive political machine. So, who is going to speak for these people? It has to be us.
Do you know someone who has died suddenly? I know a few people suffered ‘death by hospital.’ Individuals who were put on the CDC COVID treatment protocol that, not even in hindsight becasue medical professionals called it out early and were ostracized, looked like a death sentence. State-sanctioned execution. I do not believe I know anyone who has just dropped dead.
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As we watch the GOP squabble over whether it wants yet another Speaker of the House from California, it’s worth taking a moment to remember Norman Thomas, six-time Socialist Party candidate for president (from 1928 through 1948).
Thomas is supposed to have said that by 1948, there was no longer any need for his party to run a candidate, since between them, the Democratic and Republican parties had already adopted the position of his party on every major issue.
Apocryphal? Perhaps. Premature? Probably.
What were the positions that Thomas was talking about? And have they actually been adopted by the parties, or more importantly, implemented by the government? You can find a list here.
Socialists aren’t batting 1.000, but they’ve left Ty Cob (.366 lifetime average) eating their dust.
But it’s easy to get lost in the details. In a 1968 interview with Studs Terkel, Thomas noted that the entire Socialist Party platform could be summarized in a single ideal, which he expressed as ‘from every man according to his ability, to each man according to his need’
We know that Democrats are on board with that ideal. (Although they might substitute ‘group’ for ‘man’.)
But how many current Republican office holders would publicly repudiate this as a legitimate guiding principle for American politics? How many would openly call for the elimination — not just the tweaking — of government programs, at all levels, that implement it?
Isn’t from every man according to his ability the basis behind every progressive or flat rate tax?
Isn’t to each man according to his need the basis behind public schools, Social Security, SNAP, CHIP, LIHEAP, Section 8, and every other welfare program?
Apart from Ron Paul and John Valera — who are no longer in office — are there any Republicans who would call for an end to wealth redistribution programs, and the taxes that are used to fund them?
There aren’t. Whether Thomas actually said it or not, both major parties have adopted — and not just grudgingly, but enthusiastically — his central socialist ideal as the basis for their individual policy initiatives.
What we’re watching now on live television is like the punchline to the old joke: The GOP has established what it is — one of two modern wings of the old Socialist Party — and now it’s just haggling over the details.
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CONCORD, NH (Jan. 6, 2023) — New data shows that New Hampshire’s average cost per student is shifting closer to typical trends following a substantial spike during the pandemic, however the costs are still rising more quickly than they have historically.
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“This week, the New Hampshire Department of Education released its newest cost per pupil data for the 2021-2022 school year. The new statewide average cost per pupil of $19,399.97* is a 5.24 percent increase from the year prior,” said Frank Edelblut, education commissioner.
Total operating expenses for the 2021-2022 school year were about $3.5 billion in New Hampshire.
Pre-pandemic, the cost per pupil in New Hampshire increased, on average, about 3.1 percent (1.5 percent adjusted for inflation) each year from 2012 to 2019. However, for the 2020-2021 school year, the state average cost per pupil was $18,434 – a 9.57 percent increase from the year prior – reflecting an increase associated with federal and state COVID-relief funds.
With the newest cost per pupil increase of 5.24 percent, it is important to note that student enrollment across the state, as previously reported here, is steadily declining with 161,755 students now enrolled in New Hampshire’s public schools. As schools prepare their future budgets, local school districts will be grappling with high inflation costs, as well as the expiration of extraordinary levels of COVID-relief funding.
The statewide average for New Hampshire’s cost per pupil has increased by 78.4 percent since 2000; during this same time frame, public school enrollment dropped by an average of 21 percent statewide.
Included in this press release is an attachment that compares student enrollment for individual school districts and their cost per pupil throughout the past 20 years. Also attached is a summary of the cost per pupil for each district.
*The cost per pupil represents, with certain adjustments, current expenditures from all funding sources (local, state and federal) associated with the daily operation of schools. Payments to other school districts and private schools have been subtracted, as well as capital items, bond interest and facility construction. Revenues from the sales of lunches have also been excluded.
Cost Per Pupil and Enrollment Changes Per District (pdf).
CPP Increases By District 2000-2022 (pdf).
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If you looked through the haze and smoke from all those peaceful protests back in 2020, you saw some things. The Democrat Cop haters running Burlington, Vermont, for example, defunded the city police force. Before that, they had 92 sworn officers. Today, they are down to sixty-three, twenty-two of whom are on actual patrol. Why yes, crime is up.
We’ve been along for the ride, reporting on the slow-motion disaster that is Democrat rule in Burlington. A case study in progressive policy unfolding before our eyes. Yes, Burington has been a hippie haven for decades, but only recently have those decades piled up like snow and fallen over the back of the plow blade.
Democrats cannot accept that policy failures in other Democrat dumps doing business as urban plantations could produce similar results under their caring and thoughtful watch. Or perhaps they see them less as failures and more as opportunities to grow the government. Bureaucrats are like sandbags that hold back the swell of discontent. More is better, but not when it comes to public safety.
Burlington binged on BLM rhetoric, rushing to virtue signal alongside other Democrat-run cities. Places where a rise in property crime, assault, or murder might not move the needle when added to the hundreds already counted annually. But in Burlington, one extra murder is a big deal, as is the more significant rise in property crime. Illegal border crossings into the sanctuary State of Vermont have risen exponentially, even in winter. And they invited all of this upon themselves.
Burlington has had to authorize more cops, rolling back its promises to BLM. They approved a signing bonus and are looking everywhere to add bodies.
For example, on December 16, three new BPD officers graduated from the Vermont Police Academy and started their fifteen-week field training. Five more officers are anticipated to be hired to attend the next Academy class, which begins in February. The BPD is also hiring Community Service Officers, Community Support Liaisons, Dispatchers, and more.
Community what?
Community Service Officers (CSOs) are unarmed, unsworn officers who answer quality-of-life calls for service. Historically, the BPD had two; Chief Murad’s plan expanded the number. There are 10 at present, and the FY23 budget allocates for 12. The role is also a stepping stone to becoming a police officer.
Community Support Liaisons (CSLs) are embedded social workers with expertise in mental health, substance use disorder, and houselessness who help address social service issues. There are three CSLs in the hiring pipeline, and BPD hopes to add six by early 2023.
That’s all well and good. Maybe they can add human resources, but can any officer in Burlington, knowing the city will always be run by narrative-chasing progressives, have any expectation of support?
Are they the next Derek Chauvin, tossed to the media wolves and left to the mercy of Antifa or BLM? It has to be in the back of everyone’s mind, and that will impact every interaction.
Chauvin is in prison for murdering George Floyd, but Floyd had an overdose equivalent of Fentanyl in his blood. The symptoms linked to Chauvin’s restraint of Floyd are similar to that of an overdose. Maybe Chauvin or the other officer a the scene should have suspected. But neither a CSO nor a CSL is prepared to deal with a career criminal like Floyd, which doesn’t keep him from dying from a drug overdose.
I guess we’ll never know. But if you’re a cop, you know that, so why, unless you’re as ill-informed as most Americans, would you go to work for a Democrat city council and Democrat mayor who might toss you under a busload of cameras and microphones at the first chance to virtue signal to their Democrat pals across the increasingly fruitless plains.
They don’t have your back, and the people of Burlington who elected them are to blame.
Ironically enough, they are also the ones who will pay the highest price, for which – if history is any guide – they will continue to reward Democrats and support even bigger budgets while crime rises and public safety declines.
Hey, it’s not all bad news. Traffic stops are down in Burlington. Can you guess why?
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Joe Biden held a Cabinet Meeting on Thursday. After having to get directions to the Cabinet meeting room in the White House, he addressed his inept, diverse team and the media. The President had a lot to say, but not much was good for America.
One surprising announcement was that he would go to the Southern Border on Sunday. This Biden trip to El Paso will be his first visit to the Border in the fifty-plus years that Joe has been in Washington. He has been President for two years, and neither Biden nor his Vice President-Border Czar Harris has found time or reason to visit the point of entry of nearly five million illegals on their watch. He blamed Republicans for the crisis on the Border for blocking resources. If you had listened carefully, the resources would have gone to processing and not preventing the assault of illegals every day.
Let’s be clear. The President and his Administration have no plans to secure the Southern Border. Their only objective is to allocate and spend our money on more efficient means to process these illegal immigrants and get them into our country. This plan is dangerous to our National Security. He is convoluting security and efficiency. That rhetoric serves him by assuaging his base, which doesn’t listen to the minutia and places blame on the Republicans. It is a two-for-one bonus for his followers. This act is beyond frustrating and goes directly to infuriating. The number one purpose of the President is to keep the citizens safe. Biden is failing miserably, and what is worse, he does not care.
Biden wants no impediment to the flow of illegal humanity crossing the Border into all four states that share a border with Mexico. An example of his disdain for anyone trying to bolster Border security is his battle with the State of Arizona. The Governor of Arizona was so frustrated by the Federal government ignoring the unfettered flow of illegals into Arizona that he built a makeshift wall using empty storage containers. The Governor did this because he knew the Wall works and the material already paid for with American tax dollars was rusting on a Texas desert. The Biden administration proceeded quickly to sue Arizona and, by court order, forced the state to remove the Wall.
It is infuriating that our government has developed a cellphone app that migrants can use to schedule an asylum meeting when they reach the Border. This app makes entry into our country as easy as ordering McDonald’s take-out. Maybe he can modify the app to facilitate these illegals registering to vote. After all, isn’t that his purpose? Millions of illegals flood into our country each year that he is in office, waiting for the President to pave their path to citizenship and padding the Democrat voting base.
All the time Biden pats himself on the back and degrades anyone on the Right, his prop, Kamala Harris, stands motionless at his side. He once again refers to the Vice President as President Harris. Biden does that purposely to send shivers up the spines of Republicans who quake at the thought. He paints the VP as a hero for curbing illegal migration. He cited that she could pull together $3.2 Billion from four Central American countries to create new jobs to keep people at home and away from our Border. First of all, the amount is laughable. It is a pittance and will do nothing to keep significant numbers of men and women from remaining and not fleeing for America. Secondly, if that is the fruit of her two-year effort on the Border Crisis, then shame on her for even standing on the stage. She is a failure.
If not treasonous, Biden is derelict in his duties for what he is doing to harm our National Security. These actions by Biden are all a charade, and our only hope is that people pay attention to his visit. Some news agencies are also making their first trip to the Border, and if the news is accurate, it will be the first taste of the crisis for their viewers. They will be given a sterilized version of the reality, but it may be just enough to get some folks angry. It may help to expose the actual efforts of this Administration, which is to harm this country further. At some point, the Democrats will have to answer for their actions. Hopefully, we can stay intact as a country until that day arrives.
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This week the American public is seeing in full colors how our country has been taken over. It’s quoted that this hasn’t happened until the last civil war, which could be a foreshadowing of things to come
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The press has us focused on the two sides battling and the 20 “insurrectionists” or “terrorists”. They have our countrymen fighting each other because when they are enemies, they are easy to control. Yet we see people who are supposedly mortal enemies on the floor talking with each other in jovial, business, friendly manners. See they all have the same boss, the uniparty, which goes by many names.
The people of the United States elected 432 people to represent them in congress, yet even before they start their first day at work they are completely controlled, unable to vote their conscience or the for the people who voted them into office. They must vote the party line.
Now a husband and wife going out to dinner may discuss where they go for several minutes, and this is two people who live together and know what each other like. Get a small condo association of 4 people and you’ll likely have trouble getting everyone to agree. If you’re president of a 30 unit condo association and you are going to paint the building, the only thing you know is somebody isn’t going to be happy. Now we look at known hostile completely controlled dictatorships and what do we see? Voting with 93% to 98% of public approval. Yet here we are in America, home of the free, land of the brave and look what’s happened in the peoples’ house.
11 Times…..11 Times the representatives voted exactly how their handlers told them too. 100%!!!!
Even the 2o “troublemakers”, have changed their votes, as would happen with anyone looking for a sane solution, not controlled by their slave master and realizing they are democratically elected to defend our republic.
Our two choices given make us think we have a choice in our future. This is also a tactic used by second grade teachers with their students. They give the student two choice, both of which they want. We get stuck with the lesser of two evils once again. In Vermont we are a bit more sophisticated. We’ll have planners offer the town to vote on 3 proposals, on doesn’t work, the other is too expensive and the one they want makes the most sense, but nobody really wanted that in the first place, it was the free money, the free grant money that paved the way for a stupid idea that nobody asked for or wanted, nor would any sane person spend their own money on it!….Yet it gets passed and the administrators, elected officials, crony capitalists all fill their pockets. The same Is going on in Washington D.C. on a grand scale.
We have been given by the Uniparty, two choices for speaker of the house, both of which don’t work fo the people, and most certainly are under the complete control of their handlers, just like the 412 people we elected in congress that keep voting the exact same way, 100%, 11 times in a row!
Sadly what this shows today is we don’t have a democracy or a republic, cept for 20 people sent to congress. No this is plain for all to see, our elections are rigged, our government in Washington D.C. is clearly rigged. This is pretty major, do we need a civil war? Most definitely NOT!
We the people only need to change our direction. When we all love our neighbor as ourselves things come into harmony. When we realize we are all flawed, all terribly broken, that we are not right, that pride has not taken over all our senses, we won’t fall. Pride is the route of 99% of all fighting. When we make power, money and fame our God, we lose track of our work, our direction in life and our souls. When we go against the natural laws, God’s laws and God’s supernatural laws we find ourselves……doing what we are doing on January 5th, 2022
When the people of the United States submit themselves to a higher power, when they realize they are not in control, that we don’t know everything, when ask for help and assistance, from where and whom everything is controlled, only then by his Grace will we see a change. We are not in control and God does not need anyone of us to help him run the world he created.
Until then, let us hope our necks are not stiffened, and our hearts aren’t so hardened that we can’t change our direction, see our mistakes, and repent. There is a parable, Luke 6:43-45 – New King James Version
A Tree Is Known by Its Fruit
43 “For a good tree does not bear bad fruit, nor does a bad tree bear good fruit. 44 For every tree is known by its own fruit. For men do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather grapes from a bramble bush. 45 A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good; and an evil man out of the evil [a]treasure of his heart brings forth evil. For out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.
By their actions we have some very bad fruit in Washington D.C. Lord please forgive us, we know not what we are doing, might you show grace and mercy on your people in this country. I ask in Jesus’ name, Amen.
By their actions we have some very bad fruit in Washington D.C. By their actions they have shown he world and our country they are a rigged, uniparty dictatorship. Lord please forgive us, we know not what we are doing, might you show grace and mercy on your people in this country. I ask in Jesus’ name, Amen.
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At some point in our lifetimes, somebody decided that legislation proposed in congress must weigh at least 50 pounds, printed; Porkulus, omnibus, in nomine patris et fili et spiritus sancti. Amen. Hidden, like the Holy Spirit, are hordes of provisions or rules that go un advertises. Like a mandate to put kill switches in every new vehicle sold in America.
According to an article written by former U.S. Representative Bob Barr, hidden away in the recently passed infrastructure bill, the very one I warned before would negatively impact drivers across the country if it were to pass, is a measure to install vehicle kill switches into every new car, truck, and SUV sold in this country. The regulation likely won’t be enforced for five years, so maybe there’s time to do something about this.
Law enforcement would have the ability to shut your vehicle down at their convenience. And maybe that doesn’t bother you. You abide by the law. You enjoyed speeding during COVID, but you are usually only a few miles per hour over the posted limit. You use the turn signals, stay between the lines, and have no plans to rob banks or succumb to road rage. What’s the big deal?
It gets even better: Barr points out that the bill, which has been signed into law by President Biden, states that the kill switch, which is referred to as a safety device, must “passively monitor the performance of a driver of a motor vehicle to accurately identify whether that driver may be impaired.” In other words, Big Brother will constantly be monitoring how you drive. If you do something the system has been programmed to recognize as driver impairment, your car could just shut off, which could be incredibly dangerous.
How do you feel about that? Different? Do you want to reach out to your state rep and find out if that’s even legal in your state?
I have not done so yet, but one individual with whom I shared the article suggested that this might be an interstate commerce sort of thing and that there wasn’t much the locals could do, but I disagree.
Yes, the vehicles were made in another state or nation and sold here, that’s interstate commerce, but I rarely leave the state; hence no interstate anything. I have a right to privacy enshrined in the NH 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
Is my vehicle calling the cops on me, or will this infringement be automated and internal? In other words, is my new theoretical 2028 Biden Pulse two door three cylinder EV (that’s all they sell now) going to strand me in the middle of nowhere at night ( in the rain) becasue I had to swerve multiple times to avoid hitting some deer whose standing weight is greater than that the car?
If a kill switch feature includes an AI that “passively monitor9s) the performance of a driver of a motor vehicle to accurately identify whether that driver may be impaired,” does the AI get a pass becasue it’s not technically the government invading my privacy? Not yet.
These are not questions of passing fancy or some new conspiracy theory. Rep. Barr says the kill switch is real, and the reporting suggests we’ve got time to address the implication or repeal it in other legislation. And, of course, there’s the potential for legal challenges but not without standing; by then, they are standard equipment.
What’s the next step?
Learn more, and reach out to some folks while we still have time.
And yes, I realize everyone with a smartphone is already being tracked, and by all accounts, the government has unlimited access to this without your knowledge, but you can put your phone in a faraday cage to stop that.
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I kid you not. Apparently, our narcissist, self-aggrandizing Sun King gave a speech yesterday in which he proclaimed that the State government protecting people from local and business mask mandates and vaccine mandates is NOT freedom.
This is next level gaslighting … even for the Sun-King. And can you believe he is still pushing COVID-“vaccines” when it is inarguable that they neither prevent infection or, once infected, transmission?
The icing-on-the-cake is that the Sun-King has worked tirelessly to prevent local control of zoning. He calls it work-force housing. I call it Tik-Tok voter housing. But whatever you call it, Sun-King does not believe that the peasants out in the provinces have any right to have a say as to whether the big-developers destroy the character of their town by building apartment complexes.
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I’ve weighed in on this US House Speaker thingamabob at NHJournal and on these pages, and I’m not in the minority. Not among Groksters or rank-and-file Republicans. It’s not only not embarrassing, but most don’t believe McCarthy should be the House Speaker. This means they are standing with the holdouts in Congress or at least the idea of them.
Business as usual is not unusual, this is, and it’s got people paying attention to something that typically happens with a wink and a nod and barely any media.
My take, and you can read it or reread it here, can be summed up like this. “Remember the rules. Whatever the Dems and the media are saying, the opposite is often the case.” And,
Washington needs to change. This is just a snapshot of what that should look like. A handful of holdouts refuse to budge on something in principle even if it means nothing else gets done, which is a win when it comes to Washington.”
If you watch machine-controlled media, this is a disaster (Tucker has a bunch of clips that give you the flavor of their narrative). It, therefore, must be the opposite.
Washington likes what Washington likes becasue it is good for the politicians and bureaucrats who work there. And I’m sure the Machine has the FBI building dossiers as we speak on those who dared to do in DC what they told the people back home they would do if they elected them.
I wonder how many said they’d not go for McCarthy as Speaker but have. That sounds like a better story to me. Until then, Tucker Carlson has some thoughts and that Lefty outrage montage I mentioned. There’s also a nice clip with Machine Stooge Jonah Goldberg, who was good before someone tattoed never-trump on his brain stem back in 2016. I’ll never buy another one of his books.
So it’s all fun and games until someone stands up on principle, so here’s Tucker.
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Yesterday, Gov. Sununu was sworn in for his fourth term. His inaugural speech (watch the video here) was laughable in its lack of self-awareness. Among other things, he claimed that NH “said no to mandates,” “puts individuals ahead of the system,” “kept the lights on” when other states shut down businesses, and more.
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He even claimed that they “threw politics out the window” and “followed the data” regarding COVID policy.
Gov. Sununu’s memory seems to be as short as Joe Biden’s these days. He hilariously even claimed: “It’s not right to tell a private business what they can or cannot do.” That’s apparently only true when it fits his authoritarian agenda – because he spent MONTHS telling private businesses what to do. Down to the minutia. We have the receipts. Check out our thread exposing Sununu’s hypocrisy:
In addition to the anti-science statewide mask mandate, Sununu prohibited hair dressers from blow drying their customers’ hair and even controlled how they can be paid, dictated how outdoor campers could be checked in, “discouraged” dancing at weddings, banned reusable bags at grocery stores, limited restaurants to only 6 people per table (even if they were in the same household!), mandated 10ft between cars at drive in theaters, demanded every store have an employee dedicated to “monitor compliance,” and more neo-fascist control over the “private businesses” whose “rights” he claims are so sacrosanct that they supersede the individual liberties of the People.
Governor, it’s time to make amends for your poor decisions bending to federal bureaucratic pressure and buckling to public panic. It’s time for humility and grace rather than lies and distortions to whitewash your past actions. The People of New Hampshire deserve to move forward knowing that these bad actions against a free people will never be perpetrated again, and the only way that happens is to humbly acknowledge your mistakes and ask for forgiveness from the People.
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Grigory Potemkin is famous for allegedly erecting fake towns that appeared accurate when viewed from a distance. As the new governor of Crimea, he wanted to please his empress (with whom he was intimately engaged). Fast forward about 140 years, and we find ourselves with something similar.
Massachusetts intends to finance up to 40% of a wind power project in far northern Maine, potentially giving the state the partner it needs to make the project a reality.
The partnership comes as states in the Northeast are struggling with surging energy costs. The region is heavily dependent on natural gas and feeling a crunch from tightening global energy supplies.
Tight why? Democrats.
Democrats are responsible for the high price of natural gas, its inaccessibility to this region, and the global rise in energy prices. We’ve got plenty of domestic supply, but it has been pinched until it got so expensive that wind and solar could begin to compete. It looks like damning the river and then charging people downstream double for water from your wells.
And we are going to do what Germany did. Erect costly wind machines (likely made in china) that work poorly in the cold and never deliver anywhere near the amount of electricity promised. It was Deutschland’s chosen path to independence from Russian gas. They even began to decommission their nuclear plants. But Germany discovered a few inconvenient truths when the Russkies turned off the tap. It’s never windy enough, and when it is, that’s still not enough. They need to burn coal to fill the widening gaps. And no one mentioned that in going “green” the brochure?
Meanwhile, in New England, where hard lessons remain unlearned,
“Massachusetts’ commitment to provide financial support for the proposed Northern Maine Transmission Line marks a critical step in the right direction,” he said, adding that the project “can unleash the economic potential of Aroostook County and provide affordable and reliable homegrown renewable energy to the good people of Maine.”
They got the “critical” bit right. As for the economic potential, that’s a Potemkin village too. These projects are backed with taxpayer money. More Potemkin Energy may please the green “empress” from a distance, but upon scrutiny, it is a virtue-signaling boondoggle. Planned failure whose price will be borne and felt by many when it can’t keep the lights on or the hearth warmed.
And let’s not forget about all the dead bats and birds.
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To all those who are sending in memes, thank you! Keep them coming please, as it helps me gather weaponry to fight the Left. Please do share this post, and if you share an individual meme, consider mentioning you saw it on the Grok!
Speaking of, from this week, Monday Memes and Meme Overflow. Also don’t forget Survival Sunday feature, now in two parts: PREP edition and SITREP edition.
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He stinks of corruption and the WEF. Hold the line. More:
Bayou Renaissance Man: Indeed
And the tweet image from Sebastian Gorka alone is worth clicking over.
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17,000 doctors and scientists state that the Jabs must end.
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The “Not yours to give” speech. The problem is government charity has become a vote pump:
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For me the question is simple: You KNOW, because you see the data, that babies are overwhelmingly dying… but you don’t say anything because that paycheck and those “royalties” are soooooooo much more important than your honor, your decency, and your balance sheet in the world-to-come?
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What’s the going rate these days, Pence? That’s definitely higher than 30 pieces of silver.
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I don’t know about that any more. We still believe that we have something left to lose. We’ve become so accustomed to our plush – and historically it’s unprecedented how much we have – lives that we’ll tolerate what our ancestors would already have been shooting over.
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First video – Andrew Tate. Language warning.
90 Miles From Tyranny : Visage à trois #693 (ninetymilesfromtyranny.blogspot.com)
This is correct. The average American, so I’ve read, commits three felonies a day. If The State wants you behind bars, they’ll find a pretext to put you behind bars. Actual guilt does not enter the picture. Some more on this:
When powerful globalist leaders at the World Economic Forum thrust Sri Lanka into famine with their climate agenda, spiraled Europe into a dangerous food and energy crisis with their “net zero” goals, and convinced these same struggling Western countries to redistribute their wealth to foreign nongovernmental activist organizations at the COP27 conference, is it really hard to believe that these same powerful actors could find a way to put Tate, a social media star who criticizes their evil machinations, behind bars?
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Palate Cleansers:
Just magnificent. Now, so much stuff is just slapped together.
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Electric Vehicles are expensive and not green, but an even bigger insult is the taxpayer-backed incentives to get one. EV buyers are high-income earners, which makes them high-income emitters looking to buy a bit of virtue signaling.
Related: RI Transportation Initiative – Let’s Use Your Money to Help More Rich People Buy EVs
And I don’t care about that bit. Good on you and your good-paying job or high-income lifestyle. These are the people who take risks or invest and create jobs for everyone else. If they want to pretend we’re not offshoring emissions or charging EVs with fossil fuels, be you! And they will. The Inflation Reduction Act includes tax breaks to help them get more EV for the money.
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is inviting consumers to share comments on the electric vehicle tax credit qualifications. Tesla and electric vehicle supporters have been vocal about the Inflation Reduction Act’s qualified cars for the EV incentive. Some variants of the Tesla Model Y and the Ford Mustang Mach-E will not receive any incentives from the IRS at all, yet some vehicles that use fossil fuels will. Those vehicles are classified as electric vehicles because they are plug-in hybrid EVs.
The inclusion or exclusion of a model is likely political, and the work of lobbyists encouraging politicians to bend the ears of bureaucrats. So, I’ll agree, in principle, that if you’re handing out tax credits, you must decide which electric vehicle qualifies. EV incentives during the Obama years increased the sales of golf carts and mobility scooters, though the latter was mostly milking Medicaid rules to convince people to get them (for free).
If there is a trough, there will be pigs.
The Dems and Biden are like the Dems and Obama. Only they have been laying out troughs the size of which we’ve never seen. And no, as then, in the case of EVs, almost no one below the upper and upper middle class can ever afford one, even with a 7500.00 tax credit. And maybe that’s not such a bad thing. The Biden economy has made electric vehicles more expensive, putting them further out of reach of all but a few. A destination that, given the promise of an EV-only future, will remain unreachable to most voters.
I know, that’s the point, but rural America isn’t rolling up their sidewakes and hiking into the cities by 2035 or even 2050. Nor are the electrical demands or technology likely to make the transportation future promised by Dems more achievable.
People are more likely to vote for something else or someone else.
At least, I’d like to think that’s what would happen.
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The circus that ensued at the last SB meeting was ridiculous to watch the public pity party about personal choices that had little to do with people concerned about pornography in our schools and library.
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Someone pointed out the last five minutes were of interest, and I decided to grin and bear it. So without further delay.
Mr. Harbron and your speech about the book “it’s perfectly normal” and other statements. You mentioned that book on the poster (none of you even looked at) was an older addition as if it made it better, somehow, for children K-5. I’ve attached content, pics at the end, of both, and they each violate our laws on adult content.
You also mentioned that this book is in some kind of restricted section of the elementary schools for parents!? Here’s where it gets weird. Since parents are not allowed in the school libraries, what, where, and how do we have a restricted section that we don’t know about to take an obscene book out to share/read to children? This in itself is outrageous. Why are our tax dollars, you complain you never get enough of, going toward buying books, we don’t know about in a section we cannot access? Who is reading these books, and to whom are they being read?
Besides that, if parents want to buy crap for their children, they can spend their money at Moonlight reader or Amazon, not my tax dollars!
He also mentioned the “list of porn books,” which at the time of the meeting was 75 in all libraries. And that only 45 of the books we’re in the schools as if to make it right!? I attached the latest list which is up to 77 in schools over 100 in all libraries.
Not sure what woman at the end decided to make a speech on individual thoughts and how they may not be what others feel or think. Yes, we all have a right to our opinions and, as of today, a right to voice concerns at SB meetings to our elected servants. You all are supposed to be “impartial” elected officials. Not biased as you continue to show your support for special interest groups, unions, and your friends rather than listen impartially to the collective.
Then she goes on to poke fun at the “science boards and project poster boards” and that there is a protocol for complaints. In other words, be quiet, you taxpayer!
If that wasn’t bad enough, the whole board snickered and laughed!!! How juvenile. Even if people who object to pornography in the schools filled out your complaint forms, you are the review committee! Besides, over 75 pornography books in schools, and still counting, is criminal and beyond a form, thus requiring immediate action.
So let’s review. You are all defending pornography books in the schools rather than getting to the bottom of why on earth they are there at all. They violate federal, state, and local laws. They are NOT sex ed books. They have absolutely no literal or artistic value. They send a message to children that the horrors in these books are “normal.” Want examples? Look at the list, and read the books. Stop depending on third-party awards or publishing companies who are profiting off my taxes, thanks to this city’s obsession with buying porn for children’s libraries.
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The New Hampshire House Republican majority is razor thin, so you might expect NH Dems to peel off a few wins on crucial votes. Wednesday, they had their first opportunity as the chamber voted on rules changes, but it wasn’t their best day.
At least a few Granite State Lefties wanted to ban the concealed carry of firearms in the Statehouse (of course, they did). They like banning guns, and David ‘GOP=Taliban‘ Meuse is a persistent left-wing gun-grabber, so he stepped up and made the case.
David Meuse (D-Portsmouth) requested that the ability of no one, except for on-duty law enforcement officials, should be able to carry or have a weapon in their possession in the House chamber, gallery and nearby rooms. …
Terry Roy (D-Deerfield) and J.R. Hoell (R-Dunbarton) said that judicial precedent indicating that constitutional rights to bear arms supersede House rules and in emergencies, law enforcement officials may be too far away to provide protection where it is needed.
It failed 197-177, so concealed carry continues to be protected as a matter of state and constitutional law and in House rules.
Cam Edwards, at Bearing Arms, wrote, “This is a good sign for the start of the New Hampshire session, and hopefully, it portends more defeats for the anti-gun lobby in the months ahead… not only in the Live Free or Die State but in statehouses from coast-to-coast as well.”
Another sore spot for progs is in-person attendance. They’ve still got a fever for the flavor of the lockdowns. The COVID Boogeyman is around every corner, and it’s coming to get you. Picture the McCarthy Era commies behind every bush but replace commies with COVID.
They wanted to blacklist the unvaccinated, if you recall.
So, the hard-core Left wants the option for remote voting or something similar. They brought a rules amendment for proxy voting (allowing someone else to show up and vote in their stead). If you’ve never been a NH House rep, studied the process, or even if you have, voting can prove troublesome, especially if there is a pile of motions for this or that. It makes a proxy a questionable alternative that is not required to vote the same way as the Rep for whom they are filling in, nor to vote at all. And while that might be fun to watch, the House killed it, 204-177.
The Dems also proposed remote committee hearings. In NH, the heavy lifting happens in committee. The yea or nay on the house floor is for or against the committee recommendation. Some Dems wanted the participation from home waiver (COVID!), but the same case was made as with the proxy. Your constituents elected you to show up. Show up. That result was closer, but it failed 195-180.
I’m not sure if, in the course of debate, anyone mentioned the equity or social justice in forcing Dems to drive to the state house given the gas prices their Party policies have foisted on everyone (expected to rise again this year), but that would have been fun to watch too. A bit crass, perhaps, but relevant if anyone wants my opinion.
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