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Thursday • December 26 • 2024

Vol.XVI • No.LII

Manchester, N.H.

The Twelve Days of Global Warming

Granite Grok - Wed, 2022-12-28 04:00 +0000

I’m not sure we’ve ever shared this – my being unable to find it is, sadly, no indication either way. And yes, a better site search engine is still on the t0-do list. So, if we have shared it, apologies: It’s called the Twelve Days of Global Warming.

It’s from 2008, but much like the song it parodies, it may deserve a place in the holiday rotation and a spot in our growing library of content (not all of which is accessible – we know, another thing on the list).

 

Here you go! And notice how little things have changed since the chaos of 2008, from fuel prices to climate scare mongering.

 



 

I actually like this one better, truth be told, but it’s old too.

 

 

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Greenwald: How the Media and Government are Propagandizing the Ukraine/Russia Conflict

Granite Grok - Wed, 2022-12-28 02:30 +0000

If all you know about Ukraine is what you’ve heard in the past year, this is a MUST WATCH. There is a reason so many Americans do NOT want our government handing billions of dollars over to one of the most corrupt governments in the world, and it’s not because they are pro-Putin or pro-Russia.

Regardless of how you feel about the U.S. Government’s involvement, you deserve to know the truth that the media is no longer telling.

Glenn Greenwald lays out nicely (with verifiable facts) how the media and our government have been spreading absolute propaganda about Ukraine, Russia and U.S. involvement. For years, the media reported on truths about Ukraine, only to suddenly shift gears when the Biden Administration chose to get involved in the ongoing conflict.

The segment starts at 18:00.

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So, Tim McGough Has Circled ‘Round Now That He’s a New NH House Rep – A Website in Chinese? Some ‘Splaining to Do in Your Future?

Granite Grok - Wed, 2022-12-28 01:00 +0000

Yeah, this is the guy, I’m told, that was making the claim on the campaign trail that he was going to be the new Vice-Chair of the NH House Commerce Committee.

Keith Ammon is not amused (heh!).

But that’s just an aside. A tipster sent me some information that I just can’t make heads or tails of WHY McGough thought that this was normal for a first second time Rep (lucky Merrimack voters!).  It starts here with his email signature:

Now, the first part of it, the PO Box part is fine. The wild goose chase, however, starts with the second part – where his official Concord office is located. A tipster to my tipster decided to follow that Patriot Building address down the yellow brick road to see where it.  No, it wasn’t to Oz but more like Alice Through the Looking Glass:

 

So not being familiar with NH Voices of Health, I googled it and found mentions here (describes what NHVoH does), here (US HHS describing that NHVoH got an OMH Award for $241,166 in 2015) and here (being a news organization, it was listed as one by Newswise).

Now, that’s all and good but here’s where the problem goes through that proverbial Looking Glass.  Each one of them list NHVoH’s URL: https://www.nhvoicesforhealth.org/.  Well, I went there from all three mentions and ended up here:

Yep, a Kanji represented language – Chinese?  I dunno but hey, diversity?  But what seems to be storage lockers?  A “micro-tel”?  Again, I’m confused by a NH State Rep that would have this easily hidden in plain site (literally, a site). But that’s the website.

I also note that NHVoH Facebook page’s last entry is from 2016.

How about the actual address in the email signature? Yeah, this:

I WILL point out that it at least has the words “New”, “Hampshire”, and “Health” in it, right?  Does that count?

Or is Tim just being playful and trying to be funny?  Has he decided to play a joke on his constituents?

Or is this a joke on everyone?

This is starting to sound like a corollary to the “Where in the world is Dan Eaton” story that was brought to our attention.  Guess I need to check back in on that…?

 

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We Cannot Get Numb to Drug Deaths & Homelessness

Granite Grok - Tue, 2022-12-27 23:30 +0000

We are bombarded with bad news every day, and it feels like it has worsened since the onset of COVID in 2020. We incessantly hear how bad our economy is, how high our home-heating oil will be, how many illegals have crossed the Border today, how bad the weather will be, and if we will be back in masks after the holidays.

Many have turned away from the daily news, feeling that not knowing is more manageable than dealing. We are in information overload and losing our sensitivity to major issues that need our attention. This is a dangerous place for our minds to occupy. We are getting numb, and we cannot allow that to happen.

Two issues that I feel we are beginning to overlook because we have heard about them so often are drug deaths or poisoning and homelessness. Only certain media outlets cover these stories, which means that large blocks of our population are unaware of the magnitude of these issues. Our government officials ignore them, which keeps the media from covering them. This is precisely why you will not see Biden or Harris make the journey to the Border. To do so would force the press that is avoiding the crisis to bring their cameras to the scene,
and then the curtain is pulled back. Ignorance is far better than accountability for politicians.

We all know the source and route Fentanyl takes to arrive in our country. Drug cartels are getting more creative and daring every day to get this poison into the United States. Seeing the intercepted quantities is proof, but understanding that we are only capturing the tip of the mountain should scare every American. The Southern Border states are not unique to the plague of Fentanyl deaths as once it clears the Border, it spreads quickly to every state, making every state a Border State. With now, over 100,000 deaths of young adults between 18-45, Fentanyl is now the leading cause of death for that age group. Fentanyl is not a drug addiction problem but a drug poisoning problem. Treating it like another opioid is the wrong approach. We must cut the head off the Fentanyl snake and eliminate it at the source. Either stop the shipments from China before they hit Mexico or destroy the drug labs and the cartels producing the final product. This crisis is a terrorist attack on our country, and we need the government to have the cajones to solve it.

The homelessness epidemic is another complex issue. It is twofold: for some, it is economic, and for others, it is drug-related or a mental health issue. Either way, the solution that cities like Los Angeles use are wrong. To take the homeless off the street, carte Blanche, and give them free housing in hotels or motels is wrong and will only encourage more people with similar issues to relocate for a free roof over their heads. Boston is dispensing free needles to homeless addicts. These are lazy and costly ways to sweep the matter out of sight and hopefully out of mind. Their thinking is to promote safer drug use rather than solve the problem. The mental health issue is exacerbated by closing clinics and facilities where these people can get help. Now they are a danger to themselves and the neighborhoods they land.

These problems are not going away by ignoring them, but if society is complicit with the methods of government and we numb ourselves to the point where they are accepted as normal, then we have lost. The problems will become generational and another reason we are quickly losing the inner cities. We can stop and deal with them now or earmark them as another reason for the collapse of this great country.

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