Remember that time on Twitter when a Federal Agency publicly stated that Ivermectin was for horses and cows, not people? That was The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). They now claim that calling it horse paste wasn’t meant to prevent people from taking Ivermectin.

 

“The cited statements were not directives. They were not mandatory. They were recommendations. They said what parties should do. They said, for example, why you should not take ivermectin to treat COVID-19. They did not say you may not do it, you must not do it. They did not say it’s prohibited or it’s unlawful. They also did not say that doctors may not prescribe ivermectin,” Isaac Belfer, one of the lawyers, told the court during the Nov. 1 hearing in federal court in Texas.

 

It reminds me of the tale of the murder of Thomas a Becket. Four knights killed the Archbishop after overhearing their king being distraught by Becket’s actions. It was never Henry’s intention that the Archbishop be killed, but there it was, and there was no taking it back. All a misunderstanding.

And so it goes with the US Food and Rug Administration. “You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously, y’all, Stop it.”

 

 

“Why you should not use Ivermectin to treat or prevent COVID-19.”

News and media sites went all-in with stories about how the FDA declared that Ivermectin was for horses and cows, not people. Our local ABC news affiliate did a biased, unbalanced, and incomplete report that included a picture of the Ivermectin horse paste. Yours probably did too.

The Local and national COVID Karens went wild, as CNN, MSNBC, and all the alphabet networks went to war based on Ivermectin based on one tweet.

Efforts to improve access to Ivermectin with legislation at the state level were met with resistance based on the FDA and the mountain of media lies that built up around it.

I guess they were kidding around.

But to my knowledge, the FDA never attempted to correct the record, not in any meaningful way, and that assault continued until they were sued this year in Federal court. In the interim, doctors and pharmacists came under assault by state and local boards of health and licensing over the off-label use of Ivermectin to treat patients at risk or with COVID-19.

A use that was permissible under FDA rules as the FDA long ago licensed Ivermectin for humans until politics stepped in to interfere. A politics the FDA deliberately invoked with their tweet.

I guess they were kidding around, but the FDA never came to the defense of doctors or Pharmacists being threatened by state or local boards of health or practice. Folks who may have had to lawyer up to defend their livelihood based on the perception of the FDA’s position, which it is now defending in court, as noted.

“The cited statements were not directives. They were not mandatory.” You might want to tell that to Democrats in Congress. They are framing Donald Trump over J6 based on even flimsier perceptions of his use of language.

Two other problems come immediately to mind. First, many people who could be alive if the FDA had never started the war on Ivermectin died.

Second, suppose the FDA gets the case dismissed. I think they may be throwing a lot of folks under the bus, like every state and local board of health or legislative body (and more than a few hospitals) that acted to infringe on the doctor-patient relationships based on the Tweet and the Media broadsides that followed.

 

[EpochTimes] The hearing was held in a case brought by three doctors who say the FDA illegally interfered with their ability to prescribe medicine to their patients when it issued statements on ivermectin, an anti-parasitic that has shown positive results in some trials against COVID-19. …

Plaintiffs in the case include Dr. Paul Marik, who began utilizing ivermectin in his COVID-19 treatment protocol in 2020 while he was chief of pulmonary and critical care medicine at Eastern Virginia Medical School and director of the intensive care unit at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital.

After the FDA’s statements, Marik was told to remove the protocol from the school’s servers while Sentara issued a memorandum to hospitals telling them to stop using ivermectin against COVID-19, with a citation to the FDA.

Marik was forced to resign from his positions because he couldn’t prescribe ivermectin due to the FDA’s statements, the suit alleges.

 

Did the FDA step in and correct the error made by Norfolk General Hospital (or any hospital?)? Not to my knowledge. Quiet as a church mouse until they needed to ask a judge to dismiss a complaint against them for actions directly resulting from their behavior.

Actions that should have significant downstream consequences no matter which way this goes.

 

 

 

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Science used to be about comparing reality to your theory. These days it is about reshaping the perception of reality until it proves your theory. Global Warming (dba: climate change) is an excellent example. With the earth refusing to satisfy any of their predictions, the experts have taken to tampering with data.

Related: Have You Tried NASA’s New “Fudge”

One of the champions of exposing this fraud is Tony Heller at the Real Climate Science Blog. I’ve followed his work for years as he continues to launch broadsides into the climate establishments’ leaky hull.

He recently published a video explaining NOAA’s temperate tampering fraud and debunking their excuse for the tampering in the first place. And while we’ve cored bits and pieces of this here and there over the years, this puts it all in one place with graphs and a relatively easy-to-follow explanation.

We would be remiss in our mission if we did not share it with our readers.

 

 

You can get more great stuff from Tony, Here.

 

 

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This seems to be becoming an ongoing series of pondering topics that have made, are in the process of making, or may make, fundamental shifts in my thoughts about, and perspectives of, the world. 

Thus, I attempt to be a living testimony to the quote, purportedly by John Maynard Keynes (which is in dispute; see here); regardless of who said it, it’s a good quote:

“When the facts change, I change my mind – what do you do, sir?”

Or, quoting Bill Whittle in one of his videos… “I want to be where the truth is”.  Me too.  And if that means I change my position, then based on evidence & logic, I do so after suitable reflection.

These essays are premised on the concept of a “thought splinter” – a concept that penetrates cognitive shields against dissonant information to fester until a person’s consciousness has to turn and address it.  Previous entries:

Thought Splinters Part 1

Thought Splinters Part 2

Thought Splinters Part 3

Yes, there will be a Part 5 as I’m removing two topics from here so I can finish this one in something less than an eon.

 

CHEMTRAILS

For years I’ve heard people babbling about planes spraying chemicals into the atmosphere.  I’m an engineer.  I understand, intellectually, why jet engines flying at high altitudes have their hot steamy exhaust from burning hydrocarbons turn to clouds in trails.  The physics & thermodynamics of this process are plain and simple.  Thus, for decades, I’ve dismissed these chemtrail claims outright.

 

 

But then I started to see pictures of planes with tanks fitting into the passenger compartments.  Now, these are not tanks on pallets being shipped hither and yon and merely strapped down – which I could understand for cargo purposes.  I can even see some kind of bolt lagging for heavy tanks.  But these are tanks that look to be permanently, hard point installed IMHO.  I mean, really bolted down.  Some appear to have plumbing attached, headed somewhere.

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Chemtrail-video.mp4

 

WTAF?

Now please understand: I don’t want this to be true.  I’m not sitting on the couch in my foil hat salivating at every conspiracy theory that comes by, hoping the mothership takes me soon.  I. Do. Not. Want. This. To. Be. True.

But assuming the photos are real, and the multiple eyewitness testimonies (including a couple of pilots!) are real… and citing Occam’s Razor for the pictures… I see the simplest explanation being that there is a significant effort to spray something into our atmosphere.  What, possibly, could the innocent explanation be for planes with hard-plumbed tanks in plane cabins be?

Again, I want to be proven wrong.  But things like the above, and this, and more below, are making it increasingly difficult to dismiss a priori:

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Contrails.mp4

 

Spanish Meteorological Association says Spain is being sprayed.

The Thought Splinter of tanks hard-point attached, sometimes with plumbing, piqued my curiosity… and my very reluctant conclusion, therefore, is this: there is a significant, global effort to spray the entire planet with something.  Or several somethings.

Full disclosure.  I have not watched more than a few minutes of the almost two-hour video, below.  But something struck me watching it, as it struck me in general on this topic: the sheer HUBRIS to think that this can be controlled and fine-tuned without enormous ripple effects.  The earth is a system of feedback loops within feedback loops interacting with multiple other, similarly nested, feedback loops.  One cannot muck with one – the amount of sunlight coming down and hitting the surface – without staggering risk to the others.  And certainly not do it without a long period of open debate in which the public, who will bear the brunt of any potential negative effects, having the final say.

 

 

And:

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/chemtrail-whistleblower-woman.mp4

 

Thought splinter: The pictures of container tanks, hard-point mounted with what looked like permanent plumbing attached.

 

ALIENS ARE HERE

 

(Image source)

 

Given the enormity of the universe, I would be floored if Earth was the only planet to have life on it.  Heck, I’d be surprised if there weren’t other life islands even in our solar system (albeit not intelligent / technological life).  Given that enormity and long sweep of time, I would be likewise astonished if we were the only intelligent and technological civilization to have arisen.  But despite multiple claims at visitations and abductions, I’ve been highly skeptical of such claims.  After all, citing paranormal skeptic and debunker, the late James Randi, “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof”.

My skepticism is being weakened.  It started crumbling as the US Navy declassified videos of encounters with craft with beyond-human capabilities emerged.  My skepticism got hit very hard when I heard a radio segment – I don’t recall what radio show it was, perhaps this Glenn Beck segment? – where one of these Navy whistleblowers recounted how a carrier had multiple radar traces from UAP encounters and, when it docked, a team came on board and confiscated the entire set of recordings of the event – to my understanding never to be seen again.  Huh?  Since when does that happen?  Since then we’ve had multiple other reveals, like these:

UFO sightings: Canada’s defence minister briefed | CTV News

Navy Intelligence Deputy Director Explains Bizarre UFO Sightings In Historic Hearing | (dailycallernewsfoundation.org)

And based on this interview, video below, I bought his book.  Full disclosure, I am reading but not yet finished, though his account of the USS Nimitz UAP encounter and aftermath is convincing and revealing; In Plain Sight: An investigation into UFOs and impossible science.

 

 

Taking his word at face value for he seems quite sincere, and his narration of things so far in the book don’t sound like someone foaming at the mouth crazy.  He appears quite cogent.  He’s also not rushing to validate what he wants to believe… right now I’m reading his very-skeptical  discussion of the so-called “Art’s Parts” artifacts.  Others are also moving towards this view (image from this link):

 

 

So the question, asked by Paul Joseph Watson, is why now?

 

 

And IMHO he’s right.  The threat of alien invasion would absolutely be a rationalization for One World Government to unite us against the threat.  Now I’ve read that the promised alien invasion will be staged; I’m not so sure given the above.  But then, assuming the pre-WWII reports are correct (let alone some of the primitive art stuff that is, admittedly, very subjective), they’ve been here for a long time.  If they truly wanted us dead, that would have been easy peasy by now.

So if they are here, and I’m far-far-far more open to that idea than even a few years ago… what do they want?

 

 

And an added thought.  I’ve commented to friends on the Globalist push, after the “flier” election of Trump interrupted the plan, to rush to get back onto some kind of fixed schedule.  Schedule for what?  They’re rushed, they’re panicked, they’re push-push-pushing to get back to their milestone dates.  Why?  Are the alien colonists on the way and they need to have the earth depopulated & subjugated in time for their arrival?

And an interesting diversion about aliens being here:

The missing plan for alien first contact – BBC Future

Building off the above article… if aliens do, indeed, arrive, and by dint of their being provably sentient beings thus have civil rights, how do we grant them?  And if sentience is the determining factor, what happens to agricultural farming if cows, sheep, chickens, etc., are shown to be sentient?  Lab meat, anyone?

Thought splinter: The revelations about Navy pilots (in particular) seeing UAPs aplenty.

 

>>>>>=====<<<<<

 

Happy Thanksgiving!

Now to work on Part 5.

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Ads are a pain, and I get that sometimes they interfere with the site experience. I’m not a fan of that, so we are always looking for ways to keep the ad revenue and improve the experience. Ads help pay the bills but mostly allow us to bank money for bigger projects, needs, or site improvements. However!

We do not want ads that run contrary to our mission.

I received a message from one of our authors that they were seeing planned parenthood ads on page. I emailed the service that manages that stuff for us, and they very promptly blocked them, so if you did not see them, you will not (or should not).

They were very polite and prompt, resolving it for me overnight so homework time.

If you see ads on GraniteGrok that, like Planned Parenthood, are just way off our plantation, we’d like to know about them. The faster way for us to address concerns is for you to email me. Let me know whose ad it is and if possible right click on that ad and send me the link.

Right-click, not left. A left click will send you to the ads landing page, which you are free to do for ads that interest you.

I will take a look, and if it is something we do not want to promote on our pages, I will have it blocked.

One more note. While it may take a while, our to-do list includes a VIP/subscription model that would create an ad-free experience. Those of you who donate monthly will eventually – no timetable yet, sorry – be able to visit and enjoy either premium subscriber-only stuff or the content without any ads mucking things us. Possibly both.

It’s on the list.

And, as always, thanks for reading!

 

 

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The FBI had inserted players “to look like Trump supporters,” inside the Capitol Building on January 6, 2021, before the invasion began. How do I know this?

I know it because FBI director Wray could have said NO when Senator Rand Paul repeatedly asked him, at a hearing, if the FBI had players inside the Capitol Building to appear as Trump supporters before the invasion began.

So simple. If the answer were actually NO, Wray would have uttered it. Instead, he began by saying, “It is policy not to give away the locations of agents (etc, etc.).” He finally told Paul he would get back to him later with more detail.

No need to get back, Mr. Wray. We got it. It’s under control. Clear as crystal. Thank you for telling us. This is extremely important information. It colors everything.

Everything.

Thank you, too, Senator Paul. Thanks for putting the question in such a way. God knows you are always on the case.

Signed,

NH Layperson, future Speaker of the House

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Aspen Hoffman is a boy. In Boy’s High School track, he’s ranked 56th at best and possibly 72nd, according to this report. But as a girl, he’s number one. And thanks to the State having no requirement for trans surgery or even hormone therapy, “Aspen” can keep his junk and his first-place finish.

Washington’s Seattle Academy High School girls’ cross-country team qualified for the state championship thanks to trans student, Aspen Hoffman.

 

I’d expect a few folks to look at this and say, ‘hey, this is a big opportunity for all the biological girls on that team who might not have made states without Hoffman.’ To that, I’d respond, so you are saying that these young women cannot succeed without help from a penis?

I can hear both factions of feminista’ losing their minds. The Trans-Feminists who support men parroting the female stereotypes they claim to abhor are pissed, as are the feminists who oppose allowing men to pretend to be women, especially where they put girls or women at risk or deny them an opportunity for success.

But they’re not the only ones with a grievance.

 

“[Hoffman] is larger than any of the girls, and shamelessly takes 1st place on the podium. Now my daughter is competing against a male for scholarships. And we can’t even say anything. You can’t even approach it in a nice way without being labeled a hateful bigot. You will get threats against you,” said one father.

 

Not to worry, he might be ogling them in “their” lockerroom the same way that “Lia” Thomas does.  And no, you can’t say a damn thing about it.

 

Parents are terrified to even raise concerns about Hoffman’s presence on the girls’ team. Another parent noted, “parents are upset but they know it has to go to the state committee, which isn’t politics, it’s the state high school board, and unless there’s any kind of pressure put on them to change the rule nothing’s going to happen.”

 

What is the rule? There isn’t one. None.  Washington followed the IOC’s watered-down walk backs on the question of men competing as women.

 

In 2007, the Washington Interscholastic Athletic Association (WIAA) adopted the International Olympic Committee’s position, which stated that trans individuals could participate in sports in their reassigned gender, provided they had undergone surgery and a minimum of two years of hormone treatments. Then in 2018, WIAA updated its policy lifting the surgical component, “an MTF [Male to Female] student must have one calendar year of medically documented testosterone suppression therapy to be eligible to participate on a female team, consistent with WIAA policy.” However, in 2021 they disregarded all scientific reasoning and eliminated all requirements related to medical evaluation and hormone therapy.

 

Hoffman’s victory can only encourage more mediocre males to gender-bend their way onto female teams in search of stolen athletic glory. And they don’t even have to stop being sexually attracted to their teammates to do it.

And it is a hill on which Democrats are willing to die.

Did anyone with a wife, sister, or daughter want to rethink their votes on November 8th?

Anyone? Bueller?

 

 

HT | Libs of Tik Tok

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At first, it reads like an innocent, happy event. “Join Emoji Nightmare and Katniss Everqueer, two of Vermont’s favorite drag queens, as they [as they] share stories and do a craft. Fun for the whole family!” [Warning: Adult Langauge/Topic]

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So reads the glowing event coverage written by a Kilton Public Library employee about a visit by Vermont man Justin Marsh who appeared in the drag persona he calls Emoji Nightmare.

“See more about Emoji and Katniss on InstaGLAM: @dragstoryhour.vt.”,

It’s not all happy rainbows and exclamation points after this. If you search for Emoji Nightmare on Instagram or you will see the most misogynistic, grotesque and hateful representation of a woman that can be imagined. If a professor were to ask their class to draw an image to convey the most extreme hatred and disrespect towards women, they could do no better than the cartoon character Justin Marsh created called Cumsterella, who is part of a musical project he created called Cum Dumpster.

Cumsterella depicts a crawling, naked woman with a trash dumpster for a head who has been ejaculated on (considering how she is shown to be dripping with semen and her dumpster head is overflowing) by what appears to be hundreds or thousands of men.

If the Justin Marsh/Emoji Nightmare wanted to tell the world how much he considered women to be trash and nothing more than a receptacle of male bodily fluid, this is the way to do it. Don’t tell me it’s just a joke. I’ve had it with jokes where women are the butt of the joke; this is no joke. It’s classic textbook misogyny. Where is the outrage?!

This is the artist who was invited by the Kilton Public Library in Lebanon, NH to read to children. Where are the feminists? Why are they silent?

In the new culture wars battling all around us, they seem to have been muted by a kind of battered women’s syndrome. Everyone is afraid to speak up and say something about Mr. Marsh/Ms. Nightmare being an obviously nightmarish choice for someone to read to children. Everyone that is but the brave Robert Nied, a former library trustee in Chester, Vermont who confronted this issue in May 2022.

Mr.Neid, who prides himself in carrying himself in the increasingly rare attributes of acting in a reasonable, calm, and professional manner, urged that an event featuring Mr Marsh/ Ms Nightmare reading to children in his community library simply be paused while the trustees took some time to think about it.

In his comments about it, he alluded to the Cumsterella cartoon displayed on the performer’s social media page. After that, he was attacked in ways he never expected. Neid soon after described them in his resignation letter as “unprecedented in their hostility, baseless, uninformed, untruthful and some are motivated by personal malice. In the last several days, I have faced insults shouted from a passing car and several public comments that cross the line into defamatory.”.

Neid was not alone in resigning from the Whiting Library Board. Five other trustees, nearly the entire board, and a librarian also resigned amid the fallout of his one suggestion that the library pause the proposed event, an entirely appropriate and responsible concern, and one that any good library trustee would advise.

But wait, there’s more;

“The Lebanon Public Libraries are dedicated to creating a culture of inclusion for every attendee, regardless of age, race, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability or spiritual belief.”

You can have a culture of inclusion in Lebanon, NH, unless you are a woman deeply offended by Mr. Marsh/Ms. Nightmare’s disgusting “art”. No culture of inclusion for you! You don’t matter, not to the performer or the people running the Kilton Public Library in Lebanon. They probably think they are kind and super aware and well-educated people but in reality, their actions are tone deaf and cruel, and they are too arrogant to consider otherwise.

So cruelly arrogant and blind, they see no hypocritical irony in reminding the public that they will not allow any discord or disagreement of any kind that could be considered biased language.Try it and you will be expelled immediately. Never forget, ladies-we do not matter to the powers that be who run the Kilton Public Library in Lebanon. Kindly be a lady and shut up and go along with (and pay for via taxation) this abuse happily or else you will be kicked out.

“Please note, any homophobic, racist, sexist, or otherwise biased language will not be tolerated. Any attendee who uses such language will be immediately removed from the event.”

 

Location: Kilton Community Room Event Type: Children’s Programming“ This is a ridiculous farce. It’s bullying and forcing silence in the face of disgusting insults to all women. Its bullying that is also the heihght of cowardise, of hiding behinda sexual minority group that cannot be critisized. Enough. It’s time to evolve beyond this societal dysfunction that allows abuse to fester unchecked. Years ago, people would have known this innately without needing it pointed out to them by me or anyone else but now, we are not just being told to be silent, we must pretend not to notice being made into the worst possible kind of sexualized joke. Don’t continue going along with it like it’s nothing. Wake up! Be courageous! Say something! Nobody should get a pass for making offencive epiteths against women simply because they personally belong to a sexual minotrity but that is exactly what happened in Lebanon this past weekend. Do not leave this kind of world to our daughters and granddaughters!

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The Stew Peters Network has officially launched the documentary movie “Died Suddenly,” and you can watch it here.

Related: Sudden COVID Vaccine Death Syndrome (SCVDS)

Why do we never believe them? For centuries, the global elite have broadcast their intentions to depopulate the world – even to the point of carving them into stone. And yet… we never seem to believe them.

The Stew Peters Network is proud to present DIED SUDDENLY, from the award winning filmmakers, Matthew Skow and Nicholas Stumphauzer.

They are the minds behind WATCH THE WATER and THESE LITTLE ONES, and now have a damning presentation on the truth about the greatest ongoing mass genocide in human history.

[This film is not suitable for children]

 

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Joe Biden has been talking about the “fair share” for years,

usually when he talks about the rich paying their Federal taxes. Nobody defines fair share because there is no number to define such an abstract variable. Is it 15%, 25%, or 40%? Who knows because Joe does not know himself? There is no answer, but Biden knows that bringing up the subject gets his side riled up because “fair” is one thing they love. Joe never mentions that 50% of the population pays no taxes, but they are the recipients of the bulk of the social benefits. Maybe while we are talking fairness, how about Joe Biden disclose all of the monies that were funneled to him through his Son, Hunter? The Biden Cartel received millions in the last decade, yet none has been reported as income. So that harkens to the question: What is your fair share, Joe?

Taxes are not the only situation where fairness should be considered. For the last year, Joe Biden has been pledging billions of dollars in weapons and aid to the Ukraine government battling for its life and sovereignty. Nobody will argue that Ukraine and her people do not deserve our support, but let’s look at how countries worldwide are stepping up to give their “fair share.” Biden has claimed that he has used his years of experience and influence to unite the world, especially the NATO members. The irrational actions of Vladimir Putin directly threaten them. Yet, as usual, the United States is carrying the world on its back.

With the $39 Billion that Biden requested last week, the United States has given Ukraine nearly $100 Billion in military equipment and monetary aid. The rest of the countries combine for less than $40 Billion. See the image below and look at how much the rest of the free world thinks of Ukraine and its struggle for existence. There is very little accounting for where are dollars have gone or are used for, which is a serious problem and will probably force the new Congress to halt future funding. This sets up a battle between the Biden Administration and the House. This is especially true after General Milley announced last week that the United States was in for the long haul, and there was no limit to what it will cost.

This comment by Milley was wrong and should not have come from someone in the Pentagon. He is talking about spending our money as if the amount is trivial and the supply unending. This discussion of finances went on while Biden was pledging our money to the Climate Culture crowd like a drunken sailor on leave. He is talking about $100 billion dollars for a cause that most of America do not believe is a crisis. A good portion of these funds would go to underdeveloped countries as reparations. Why do countries that have grown and bettered themselves owe countries that have been content living in the past? It isn’t very smart, and the new Congress in January will not let Biden make good on these pledges. Thank God for even a slim majority in the House.

While world leaders are throwing money at Ukraine and Climate Change, people will be freezing to death in the United States and Europe because the cost of fuel and food is forcing them to make a decision; food or fuel. This winter brings a real existential threat to these people while our politicians are too busy to deal with reality. It is past time to reel these faux leaders in. January 3rd is when we start.

 

 

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New Hampshire’s Executive Council will vote today on whether to launder tax dollars into the pocket of a well-heeled Republican donor.

This story is developing, but here are the basics from a reader.

 

Steve Duprey purchased a vacant building called Granite One in Concord for  about 2.9 million in June ’22. The parking garage was in horrible shape so it needed a new one.

The best place to build it is where the Attorney General’s office is, so we spend $1 million to tear down a building worth $ 4.8 million and now need to relocate the NH DOJ .

Duprey *offers* to lease the state his building for $3.5million/year for a 20 YEAR LEASE ($70M) or to sell it to the state for $15 Million.

The lease is a triple net lease which means the state pays all maintenance all repairs and all taxes in addition to rent.

 

Duprey is a wealthy former NH RNC Committeeman and a long-time RINO donor to suitable candidates (mostly Republicans, but he’s donated a few bucks to Dems like Dan Feltes and Andru Volinsky). And not all RINOs, if you care. But if the Executive Council approves any version of this plan, Steve Duprey will be rewarded for his commitment to the Granite State’s crony politics laundromat. Your tax dollars to donors through (in this case) what appears to be unnecessary and very expensive development.

And if this is all correct, and this story is still developing, the only winner, in my opinion, is Duprey.

 

Link added: https://patch.com/new-hampshire/concord-nh/duprey-acquires-brady-sullivan-holdings-granite-place-concord

 

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It was Stephen Scaer’s post about Elle Gallo that got her “copyright demand panties” in a wad. Once again, we see that yet another “transgender activist” can’t STAND that someone has an opinion that varies from theirs.  Go ahead and read Stephen’s post and then come back. I’ll wait…

So now, having read Stephen’s post, you know that Elle Gallo censored his speech a first time by “canceling” his billboard “speech” about the issues surrounding transgenderism of minor children.  So she “stalked” him (see, two can play this game!) and followed him from the billboard to GraniteGrok. She then found me and decided to submit a demand of me – to censor Stephen a second time (emphasis mine):

—— Original Message ——
From: “Elle Gallo” <elle@ellegallo.com>
To: “skip@granitegrok.com” <skip@granitegrok.com>
Sent: 11/21/2022 7:04:18 PM
Subject: Copyright/article 11/21

Dear Skip,

Steven Scaer has copied information and images from my website that are subject to copyright restrictions.  Please immediately remove his opinion piece dated November 21, 2022 “Derry Dem Saves Citizens from Dangerous Book”.

I look forward to your response.

Thank you,
Elle Gallo

Silly person – she failed to read our FAQs concerning emails sent to any of we Groksters:

…Anything you send us is fair game and may be used on the site. Exceptions to this policy include if you ask us not to; however, if we judge the email to be nasty, we may still publish it to skewer poor judgment or lack of critical thinking.

And so I have. And in my judgement as the Beneficent Dictator of GraniteGrok, I judged it’s intent to be “nasty” given that I am a Free Speech supporter – demanding that someone be censored isn’t in my wheelhouse except for a very few reasons (e.g., Adult themes but kid friendly).

So I decided to send a response – and to be technically correct, a commentary on both her email above and on Stephen’s post’s commentary:

—— Original Message ——
From: “Skip” <Skip@granitegrok.com>
To: “Elle Gallo” <elle@ellegallo.com>
Sent: 11/22/2022 1:48:10 AM
Subject: Re: Copyright/article 11/21

Dear Ms. Gallo,

I have reviewed your email below as well as Mr. Scaer’s post (he is BCC’d on this email) and I have a few thoughts.

It is clear that he has commented about information located on your NH House campaign site (from Derry) that you put out for public review. Thus, his actions are a valid expression of protected Speech under the First Amendment as well as Articles 22 and 30 of the NH Constitution. It is called “public discourse” – a fundamental part of American civics and governance. While you do have a copyright notice at the bottom of your campaign website (now, only a single page), do you know anything of what is known as the Fair Use doctrine when it comes to such material?

In essence, it is legal for others to extract/abstract limited parts of a larger work (e.g., your public political page) with the intent to report upon your words and/or to formulate any kind of commentary upon your speech. In this case, your political stances and actions. Just because the material is copyrighted does not mean that an iron dome now surrounds it that prevents any commentary by others, either in support of or against it. Others are allowed to express their opinions on it.

If you look at the totality of his post, his limited abstraction of your speech pales in comparison to his commentary upon it. It passes muster.

Please also remember that as you voluntarily decided to run for public office, you became a “public person” making it much more likely that others would comment on your political ideas and stances. Thus, it is also legal for him to use your image in identifying you and to further identify you with your own speech.

Reverse the position – the part of your website that mentioned his copyrighted speech (the billboard). Should he have brought a demand that you erase any mention of your “erasing” his speech?  Of course not (although he might be able to bring an action for other reasons).

However, you took it upon yourself not to debate his speech, as he has done, but to “silence” his speech. You didn’t just comment upon his speech as he did on yours – you had him CENSORED.  Is this what an NH State Representative is supposed to do (even though you were not successful: https://www.derrynh.org/sites/g/files/vyhlif3026/f/news/returnofvotes11.8.22.pdf) – and then boast about it? And how would you have justified your action given the Oath of Office you would have had to take (NH Constitution, Part Second, Article 84) in which you would have sworn allegiance to the Constitution before taking your House seat:

I, A.B. do solemnly swear, that I will bear faith and true allegiance to the United States of America and the state of New Hampshire, and will support the constitution thereof. So help me God.

You admit his post was an “opinion piece” – again, protected Constitutional speech. You silenced him once and now you are demanding that *I* be your instrument by which you would strip Mr. Scaer of his Free Speech a second time?

So what is my response to your demand (far better than what you did to Mr. Scaer)?

UP YOURS!

He caught you red-handed and embarrassed you with your own words about your own actions.  You admitted to what you did to him – and now you want to hide it? Oh, WAIT!  You have!  Why DID you remove that part of your campaign website that he screenshotted?

(click to embiggen)

I searched your website – and it is gone. Ashamed of what you did?

Man up and own up to what you did to him – or does “responsibility” not exist in your vocabulary?  In fact, you ought to be apologizing to him.

And to be sure, I WILL be posting this response on GraniteGrok in the morning.  Welcome to the Streisand Effect (you can look it up on GraniteGrok), Ms. Gallo.

Oh, one last thing – nice linking to DerryUnited from your website. I dryly note that it, too, is copyrighted yet you used all of its information. Should they be demanding that you take down your use of their information for campaign purposes (heh!)?

-Skip

Skip Murphy
Founder, co-owner
GraniteGrok.com | Skip@GraniteGrok.com

No, as a public person, she can’t just say that you cannot quote what I have put out there for all to see. You ran on it so ANYONE gets to comment on it.

Yes, I stand behind Stephen and his right to comment on Elle Gallo’s stances, ideas, and speech. This is the ESSENCE of our democratic process (seeing that “our democracy” [as the Democrats kept yammering about all during this election cycle as if America would be only a burning husk if they didn’t keep their political power] – and this Democrat wants to have it both ways at the same time:

*I* can talk but you can’t.  That’s saving Our Democracy.

Sorry, that makes HER the dangerous and extremist person in all this.

So, Elle Gallo – when did you decide that your mission in life was to be “Karen the Censor”?

And yes, snark and satire is a vital part of Free Speech, Ms. Gallo.

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I give thanks every day, but every November, we set aside a day to do it as a nation. Part of this tradition involves lots of food. Turkey, Stuffing or dressing, cranberry, potatoes, yams, squash (pretzels, popcorn, toast, and jellybeans).

You may also have a friend group that celebrates yearly, and no, that’s not Friendsgiving. It’s Thanksgiving. The Indians and pilgrims celebrated the harvest as friends despite being quite different so please call it what it is.

Some folks (families or friends) will also have a special side dish or two that is traditional in their family. Maybe it’s something they make for their table or bring to someone else’s as a guest.

So what is it? Is it a side dish, a certain type of dessert, a snack platter, or even a beverage?

We’d like you to share yours with our readers, including the recipe if you want. You can leave it in the comments or email it to me, and I’ll add it to a comment for you. It should be something you have to make not buy prepared.

At my house, we try to do a different extra dish every year so that it’s never the same thing twice in a row. I do not know what that is yet for this year (even though I do the majority of the food shopping for our family.

 

 

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