Those of us who have committed ourselves to living in the sausage factory of politics are keenly aware of the dynamics, so we know we need good people in elected office we can support. We need them now.

And while General John Stark may not be rolling over in his grave about what we’ve done with the liberty for which his men fought and died, he would want us to do whatever we could to defend what is left and (certainly) work to improve on it. He would want you to step up and fight for freedom.

To live free or die (rhetorically, in this case).

It is a battle worth fighting because the Democrats will not waste time raising taxes, grooming kids, taking freedoms, and adding strings to DC if they take the majority. They will undermine health freedom, go after our Second Amendment rights, and try to undermine free speech further. Energy will get more expensive, and illegals will get more rights than actual citizens. They will also destroy the economy.

We can’t leave seats uncontested. We need to fight to hold the seats we have and peel a few away (a few dozen would be better), or the slim pickings worth of improvement made in recent years could be gone in one session or less.

We want You! to run for state rep, and you don’t have to do it alone. Email the 603 Alliance and let them know you want to attend the upcoming May 18th Candidate Training. You can also attend the Issues Briefing Summit, a free evening event (with food) that will help you grasp the things voters are likely to ask you when you engage them and what you’re likely to see coming up in Concord when you win.

Class candidates can also get access to campaign resources and past instruction, as well as invitations to future Zoom calls throughout the campaign season to help with questions and issues or connect you with resources.

The 603 Alliance is your primary source for candidate campaign training in NH in 2024 (the NHGOP will be offering training for Poll Watchers on May 2).

When you register for the one-day training, you will have access to experienced candidates and activists all the way to election day.

We need you to run. If you are thinking about it or know someone who is, share this message or Email today and ask to register for the May 18th training in Concord.

 

 

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Last Week, the coordinated media made noise about accelerated sea level rise. That’s nothing new. They do it all the time, though, not as often as the hottest thing ever. Both lack evidence and rigor, neither of which are required to snap coastal elites like a twig.

Related: Sea Level Rise Blamed for Increasing Coastal Property Values Instead of Depressing Them

Hotter than when? Higher than when? The earth has been both hotter and the sea level higher in the absence of humans or any anthropogenic influence. In my geologic neighborhood, the East Coast is sinking. Paying three times as much for heat and twice as much for gas won’t stop the land moving. And how are EVs, which weigh a lot more than traditional transportation, supposed to do anything but make that worse? Isostatic change is never in the press releases, but fears of accelerated rise are, despite past predictions failing to produce the scaremongered result.

But why give up on a good thing?

 At Grand Isle, Louisiana, the big red arrow in the Gulf of Mexico, the relative sea level is rising at 9.2 mm per year … while only a short distance away, the green arrow to the right of Grand Isle shows that Pensacola, Florida has a relative sea level rise less than a third of that, 2.7 mm per year.

Why different sea level rise rates? Again, it has nothing to do with the ocean. It’s because Grand Isle is a silty barrier island in the Mississippi Delta, and like all such islands, it’s slowly sinking into the briny blue.

You find differences all over the map. Some locations are seeing seas recede. Do they get to keep their money and drive combustion-engine vehicles without the climate cultists’ side-eye? How do you explain the differences in variables from storms to temperature to sea level while still arguing the problem is global? They can’t explain any of it except to say they believe without a doubt (faith) that we all must repent (whether we believe or not), and their expensive, half-baked penance will fix everything.

Related: While Scaremongering CO2 NOAA (Unintentionally) Admits No Correlation to Sea Level Rise … or Fossil Fuels

There is net-zero evidence that any of that is true, but it is difficult to convince a zealot of anything, especially when it affects their paycheck.

But there’s nothing any of us can do about Sea level rise (or fall). Much like the atmosphere, there are more variables than are accounted for because to consider them would end the scam, and what then?

Some additional reading, if it interests you.
14,600 Years Ago Prehistoric SUV’s Melted Ice Sheets Causing 60 Feet of Sea Level Rise<
Another Atoll Endangered by Sea Level Rise Has More Land Mass than it Had in 1943
And another 720 more …

 

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This is interesting news.  A New Hampshire State Supreme Court Justice has disqualified themself from deciding matters regarding Daniel Richard v. Gov. Chris Sununu.

This just in:

THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE SUPREME COURT

In Case No. 2023-0097, Daniel Richard v. Governor, State of New Hampshire & a., the clerk of court on May 7, 2024, issued the following order:

This order is being issued to notify the parties that Justice Anna Barbara Hantz Marconi has disqualified herself from this case

That’s one of the four appointed by Sununu.

And no, I’m not yet clear on why she recused herself, but if we learn more, we’ll update.

Catch up on Daniel Richard v. Gov. Chris Sununu here.

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Last year, “Republicans” in Concord did a victory lap when they budgeted $18 million in state general fund capital for the maintenance of the Cannon Mountain Tramway. Was that enough?  Nope!

They now want $33 million for a redundant, low-capacity lift that only runs a few days a week and for only a couple of months per ski season.  A lift that was closed for the better part of two years during the Covid scare.

But wait, there’s more!

The state’s new general manager announced an “urgent need for substantial capital” beyond the tramway replacement.

Where does this money come from? Take a look in the mirror. Despite endless claims that Cannon is a “self-funded, self-managed, state-owned success story,” it has required millions in subsidies from other state parks and the general fund. Even with all of these millions of dollars in subsidies, Cannon has not been able to maintain its existing infrastructure.

The swells in Franconia will execute their tried and true strategy to take more of our money. Float a trial balloon in the friendly press, get someone in Concord to throw it into a bill, and then fill a hearing room with trust fund skiers crying about how we need to protect this state treasure. Rinse and repeat.

Taxpayers are already facing unprecedented pressure in New Hampshire.  Now is not the time to be spending tens of millions of dollars to upgrade the life of leisure for the beautiful people in Franconia.

Tell your legislators that you don’t want any more money going to Cannon Mountain.

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I still remember George W. Bush being called a fascist, etc. by the Left when he was President. Now it is so different. He is one of the “good ones.” What changed? Not W.

What changed is that someone named Donald Trump came along and exposed the Republican Party as controlled opposition … that most of the “Republicans” holding elected office represented the UniParty, not Republican voters.

Donald Trump represented and represents an existential threat to America’s post World War II pseudo-democracy. As much of a threat to traditional (i.e. controlled opposition) Republicans as to the Democrats. That’s why the Left no longer calls W and his ilk, fascists … there is a real enemy to be dealt with: Trump.

Excellent post by Western Lensmen. W was a make-believe threat that Obama, Inc. used to mobilize legions of shallow-thinking Commy-bots. Of course, there were and are differences within the UniParty, but those differences are minor compared to the differences between Trump … who represents real, not pseudo-democracy … and the UniParty.

In 2008, Barack Obama cast George W. Bush as a uniquely radical, ideological leader who had “kidnapped” the “sensible” Republican party.

Sound familiar?

“…if I can describe it as the Republican party kidnapped by an incompetent, highly ideological subset of the Republican… pic.twitter.com/I22qOQIjgQ

— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) April 29, 2024

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Julie Smith wrote on Sunday a retrospective on Jeb Bradley’s career in the New Hampshire Senate — essentially, a place where “good House bills go to die.” It’s also a place where legislators go to retire. (So too Digital Equipment Corporation in its latter years.) Boston’s Howie Carr often quips that anyone who has been in a State House for six years has proven his uselessness.

These accumulate in the Senate. What Senators actually prove is that they have self-selected for acting as a herd versus speaking bluntly or analyzing the likely effects of a bill that the herd favors — or supporting a bill that the herd opposes. For evidence of this, peruse the annual rankings of roll calls by the New Hampshire Liberty Alliance. While every Republican is rated higher than any Democrat, the Republicans bunch up around the C+ grade, essentially a coin flip on questions of individual liberty.

The Democrats have flaming Marxists, but the Republicans have no brilliant Constitutionalists, emphatically including Jeb.

Well, what shall we do about that?

New Hampshire’s founders patterned our General Court after the federal Congress that arose after the Connecticut Compromise. The lower house was apportioned by population; the Senate was apportioned roughly by land area. As with Congress and the Electoral College, the explicit point was thereby to inhibit government action unless it was acceptable to both urban and rural Granite Staters. There is nothing wrong with that.

The Supreme Court broke that in 1964 with Reynolds v. Sims, which ruled that both houses of state legislatures had to be proportional to population. Earl Warren wrote that “legislators represent people, not trees or acres.” Of course, rural and urban interests are different. This was a pioneering decision of Substantive Due Process; that is, someone is being denied Due Process unless my opinion prevails.

The Warren Court was wrong. Legislators representing numerical majorities don’t need the power to enact law; they need the power to block enactments — which they have if either house is proportional to population. (No Supreme Court has taken Reynolds to its logical conclusion — that the Constitution contradicts itself, and the only “just” solution is 100 interstate U.S. Senate districts, each with an equal population. But the Democratic Party is moving in this direction on several fronts apart from its dream of court-packing.)

But, fine. We’re stuck with Reynolds. That doesn’t mean the Senate has to be a miniature carbon copy of the House, with a membership that is older and drained of spark. The Senate should either be gotten rid of (as Nebraska has) or constituted differently from the House.

One method, which is still proportional to population, is Party List voting, as is used in several other countries, including partly in Mexico’s lower house. People vote for a political party, and based on the result, the party executives pick some number of Senators. (I acknowledge the risk of having any political party’s executives make any important decision.)

My town has one State Rep, plus a “floterial” Rep for a group of three adjacent towns. They defend any unique needs we might have based on our location in the state. In the other house, why don’t we vote by ideology rather than again by geography? Assuming they invite the adults back in, I would vote Libertarian for Senate — the name of the Senator not on the ballot. We might only get one Senator appointed by the State Committee, but joining with 55,000 Granite Staters based on philosophy beats joining with 55,000 residents based on living nearby, which we already do in the House. And the Senate would instantly have more diversity of thought.

No, this idea is not going anywhere. You don’t get major reform without a groundswell. Moreover, this certainly requires amending the state constitution, which takes a supermajority of voters, and Granite Staters are far too suspicious of their government even to repeal the office of Register of Probate, even after all its functions have been repealed. A far more pressing amendment is to repeal the first half of Part 2, Article 83 (on the attitude of future legislators) — the platitude our mischievous Judiciary has used for decades to dictate that we are constitutionally required to throw ever more loot at the welfare schools.

So, I’ll leave the idea of Senate by Party List here to perhaps plant a small seed.

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I lack confidence that very many legislators will even read, let alone heed, this legal opinion as to why Proposal 4 is a complete waste of taxpayer resources, and so I am writing this opinion directly to Vermonters. This Proposal, which purports to expand existing constitutional rights to a list of novel protected classes, is not about enhancing the Rule of Law but dismantling it.

I am not engaging in an ideological social justice battle here – our progressive legislators are. Using the Legislature and our State Constitution as political footballs has become common sport for the Progressives – such antics don’t actually DO anything, as Vermonters see. But it does do one thing very clearly – it reveals that those making our laws don’t understand, or else seek to undermine, the integrity of established laws. This has gone beyond virtue-signaling: it is a breach of fiduciary duty and public trust.

Vermont seeks to increase property taxes 20 percent, as well as income taxes, and Progs want to institute a new tax on unrealized gains. These are children playing clubhouse, but they don’t know the rules.

While Vermont’s economy plummets, and the standard of living drops while its retirees become homeless, “Progressives” are out to save Vermont from evil “rights violations.” But here’s the rub – no advocate for Proposal 4 has actually furthered a need for the legislative change aside from a feel-good virtue-signal. Not one example of what this law change would do to improve a single person’s life or counter the dreaded “white supremacy” used to legitimize it has been offered. Proposal 4, then, is simply a platitude. (Similarly, Proposal 2, which pretended to end indentured servitude in Vermont, had no real purpose – no on in Vermont is being enslaved, are they?).

But hidden within this farcical game of Nero fiddling while Vermontistan burns, are hints of the real threat to Vermonters from the very people weaponizing our constitution for their personal protection. Jay Greene, a transgender carpetbagger who recently moved here to get paid to condemn Vermonters for not being sufficiently woke, gave this very revealing testimony:

Greene stated (@59:45): “Repairing historical harm sometimes requires equitable treatment, not equal treatment, and equity sometimes means targeting programs to populations based on need rather than absolute equal treatment,” that religion is protected under the First Amendment of the United States Constitution, and according to his personal opinion, not necessarily the opinion of the Vermont Human Rights Commission, “I have concerns with some people using ‘freedom of religion’ as an excuse to deny the human rights of people like myself, transgender people and other people of the protected classes that are listed in Proposal 4.”

So Proposal 4 is being enacted because newly-arrived Jay Greene “has concerns” about people using “freedom of religion” as “an excuse to deny the human rights of people like myself, transgender people and other people of the protected classes that are listed in Proposal 4.” I am not aware that a single legislator followed up on this to ask what that hinted evil consists of – what is it about a person’s faith that “deprives another of human rights”? The hazy allegation was made, but not even a hypothetical example was employed. Is that because Lyons, Greene and the others know exactly who it is they are out to protect, and who they seek to attack, and that they HAVE NO evidence or foundation to offer for this initiative?

Reverend Mark Hughes, Executive Director of Vermont Racial Justice Alliance, offered a similar clarity @47:30: “We need to double-down to include the protection of every vulnerable category – Mr. Chair – respectfully, that’s everybody that’s not a white cis man.” This is a patently, overtly racist statement, but race-hustler Hughes has not even offered a single hypothetical instance of why this new legislation is necessary.

Creating separate classes of people for government benefits, treatment, or protection is facially unconstitutional. It violates, for instance, the Equal Protection Clause. If I allege Jay Greene is a woman (because she is biologically female, feigning to be male), have I “denied human rights”, or do I have a human right to my own opinion? Does the scriptural statement “He made them male and female” become hate speech under Proposal 4? Funny, the Vermont legislature seems unable to even discuss the most obvious questions raised by this bill – is that intentional, or just incompetent?

Jay is an advocate but lacks a law degree. Blatant prejudicial statements on the legislative record only substantiate my claim that this Proposal is unconstitutional on its face, and also unconstitutionally vague. Vermont’s Legislature solicited Professor Peter Teachout and the Office of Legislative Counsel to affirm the bill, but these witnesses have not raised any concerns that 1) there is no actual stated, factual purpose for this change – it won’t actually DO anything; 2) creating disparate treatment for people because of their gender delusions or sexual desires will violate existing federal laws.

Proposal 4 will thus accomplish nothing except expose the state to more lawsuits. Vermont’s politically compromised Attorney General will spend Vermonters’ money defending no matter how unconstitutional the law was ab initio – right from the beginning. As Senator Lyons testified (@ 6:25):

“This doesn’t grant any additional rights to any group or individual. It simply allows for a contemporary look of who we are as a society, and guarantees the rights of those groups that have emerged over time and have demonstrated a need for equal treatment.”

Have any groups in Vermont demonstrated that they have not been treated equally, and thus that they need protection? This conclusion is repeatedly assumed but never established in even the most rudimentary way. If a Vermont baker refuses to bake a transgender cake, will existing law serve all equally? Why or why not? Vermonters are never told, because there is nothing to tell.

The proposal claims it grants no new rights but just issues a “reaffirmation,” we are told. So according to its own proponents, the law either does nothing or does something illegal (allocate wealth or privileges to certain classes). This platitudinal waste of taxpayer resources while Vermonters struggle is evidenced by Lyons’ declaration of the purpose of her petty law (a product of this nouveau social justice attack on American liberties and constitutional foundations):

“It seems rational to change the constitution and put a baseline in place to demonstrate equal treatment. Article 7 does say equal treatment but it was written at a time when we didn’t’ have some of the social groups in our country, or racial and ethnic discrimination we see at our time.

“We know how quickly the culture can change: 2016 – 2020 we saw a radical change in expressions of beliefs around individuals in our country and groups within the country.”

Here we go again. What is she talking about? What is our Progressive legislator saying when she talks of “2016-2020 we saw a radical change in expressions of belief….”? Those of us standing by ironclad constitutional precepts designed and interpreted to guarantee justice and equality are apparently being labeled here as the source of the need to undermine and weaken those protections. Again not a lawyer, Lyons is too ignorant of what leaves her mouth to see Marie Antoinette in the mirror. She and the progressives she serves are the Americans who have forced radical changes in expressions of beliefs” on the majority.

Where are the lawyers? You know – the real ones, who have litigated cases, not the bureaucrats who never have to defend their puffery. Legislative Counsel Eric Fitzpatrick comically claimed

“…the fact that it is in the Vermont Constitution makes this the final say as to how that language is interpreted, would be by the Vermont supreme court, the federal court I mean the United States Supreme Court don’t have any jurisdiction to interpret state constitutional law. So, I think that including language that expands upon, provides more detail on the protections of the Vermont constitution and therefore would be interpreted by the Vermont supreme court having the last word, by more aligned with what we want to see in Vermont as opposed to deferring to the federal courts of the united states constitution because those interpretations will depend on the makeup of the united states supreme court and the composition of the justices on that court. Put it in the Vermont constitution and you can rely on the fact that the last words of the state will be by the court in this state. (@ 14:08).

This is an attorney paid a lot of money by Vermonters to advise the legislature “impartially” on Constitutional matters. Echoing Lyons, Fitzpatrick is clearly seeking to position the state to counter perceived intrusions of conservatives at the federal level. This is quite laughable from an attorney – giving a political opinion veiled as a legal one. But more, Vermonters do not need a law degree to witness how absurd this statement is. OF COURSE federal law trumps state laws that violate the federal Bill of Rights. Allocating state benefits or rights to people based on their sexual desires or delusions of gender identity runs afoul of federal constitutional protections that apply to all fifty states – it is called federal preemption. Fitzpatrick talks as if Vermont can act with complete impunity. (Law Professor Peter Teachout does correctly state the law at p. 5 of his testimony: “Since federal law is supreme, all such programs would be vulnerable to challenge under the federal Equal Protection Clause on grounds they constitute impermissible discrimination on the basis of race.”

Professor Teachout also claims that Vermont must change its laws to protect itself from a federal government overtaken by conservatives: “We live in a world where we can no longer count on the U.S. Supreme Court or the federal government to provide adequate protection against discrimination.” I’m very curious how such a claim can be credibly made – does Professor Teachout refer to Roe v Wade, which Ruth Ginsberg saw as a horrible law? What on earth is he talking about?

This pattern of bypassing basic constitutional liberties of Vermonters on the taxpayer tab is getting old – and much too common. Current attacks on our Fish and Wildlife Department seek to undermine and bypass decades of excellent wildlife stewardship, initiated by extremist activists allowed too much power in Vermont. In 2022, Vermonters watched the liberal dog-and-pony show about amending the state constitution to “protect women’s rights,” which were already fully protected legally. The true purpose of that Alinskian subterfuge was always to advance a sanctuary state status for transgender children to flock to Vermont and hide from their parents to get life-destroying mutilations and drugs at taxpayer expense. Using the public body to further extremist political initiatives was done under the ruse of women’s rights. Vermonters will see how challenges to that legal sleight of hand pan out. In the interim, Proposal 4 seeks to add another scandalously idiotic amendment while the economy tanks.

Progressive legislators have not yet figured out that if they pass unenforceable, unconstitutional laws over and over, citizens will one day just ignore their “Ginny Cried Wolf again” histrionics. A legislature that exceeds its authority loses all authority. But more dangerously, since the Constitution apparently has no hold on our legislators, why on earth would any American follow laws made by criminals? Many of the progressives in this legislature are a disgrace to the Rule of Law, have no regard for the Constitution or established precedent (and actually regard our state and federal Constitutions as white supremacist and seek to undermine both), and display contempt for many of the Vermonters they were elected to serve. This is both malfeasance and nonfeasance, on full naked emperor display.

The further Vermonters look, the more they will see a lack of substance. In one statement, non-attorney Jay Greene claims:

“Our office supports Proposal 4 because it creates an explicit commitment in the state constitution to the work of dismantling systemic racism,” said Greene who urged legislators to consider protections “based on equitable treatment and not just equal treatment.”

Greene shared an example of a program giving free bicycles to everyone who shows up. But if it only offers adult-sized, foot-powered bicycles, it leaves out, and consequently discriminates against, children and wheelchair users. “So equity is when you give people (the kind of) bicycles they need,” Greene said, noting that this may cost more or take more effort.

The question for the legislature is: is there a factual finding of “systemic racism”? That bogeyman is tossed about constantly but has zero teeth – it is just assumed and never proven. The visible problem that is apparently invisible to social justice ideologues is that the Constitution already guarantees EQUALITY and that most initiatives to reallocate wealth or rights based on “equity” by definition are unequal; unjust; and unconstitutional. It is telling that the absurd example of children’s bicycles is used: no real-life example – or even hypothetical – could be proffered.

And that’s what I want Vermonters to see and learn through this farcical charade: what the Constitution says, and how Ginny’s dreams and Jay’s absurdities seek to dismantle it. The evidence is here, jurisprudentially: to be constitutional, every law must at least serve a legitimate government purpose. The advocates for this bill, and the shills recruited to endorse it, cannot collectively provide a single factual justification for the bill, while explicitly proposing it would be used to transfer benefits to “protected” classes. This is just an ideological proclamation with nothing but a symbolic purpose – abusing legal process, the laws, and taxpayer funds for a personal moral display.

I do not oppose fairness, or advocate for discrimination against any group. However, Vermont’s progressive uni-party is already doing so – against the people of faith deliberately omitted from the language of Proposal 4. How about the persecution of a Christian school for forfeiting a basketball game due to a male “identifying” as a girl? How about the Randolph girls being sexually ogled by a trans-boy in their locker room? Vermont has already demonstrated an inability to equitably balance competing beliefs – now it reveals its plans to tighten the noose against people of faith, whom it has already failed completely.

Vermonters can see the marginalization in their midst, by emperors with no clothes, no facts, and no law. This is why I don’t bother writing to a deaf, destructive Progressive legislature determined to undermine and dismantle our laws and economy but directly to voters.

Vermonters, you are being governed by law-breaking ideologues. Proposition 4 is a political stunt with no substantive purpose, which may also run afoul of federal law. Get ready for world depression and local food shortages: your Legislature is out to lunch and will only pour gas on those fires.

Note: I am an attorney admitted to the Connecticut Bar in good standing since 1989. I am not admitted in Vermont. 

John Klar is an Attorney, farmer, and author. Mostly farmer… And Regular Contributor to GraniteGrok and VermontGrok.

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As I said in part I, “When policies are at the forefront of an election, we win big.” I mentioned the huge win nationwide in 2010 but did not specifically mention our big wins here in NH. I suspect we all remember winning the House 298-102 and the Senate 19-5.

We may never again see such a huge landslide.

As one of the winning Reps, I can say that it was only because I had an R after my name, not because I had great name recognition or a long history of service to the town. That is what can happen when policy drives an election – not just an election but all elections statewide and even nationwide.

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This year, let’s try to make the elections at all levels more about policy and less about personality.

Conventional wisdom says that it is difficult to persuade voters to make their decisions on the basis of policy, but the rewards are worth the effort:

• We get bigger wins, which can give us a mandate to pass our agenda.
• There is great synergy among our candidates when they all contrast Republican policies vs Democrat policies rather than person Fred vs. person Sue, etc.
• Because we don’t need to know the names of the Democrat opponents, only their policies (which we know will be practically the same), we can campaign against them from the beginning instead of waiting for the September primary.
• We may finally defeat the Congress critters who have great name ID, but vote for terrible policies.
• The message accumulates from year to year. If each year we get just a few more voters to choose on the basis of policy, that will add up to large numbers.
• Everyone, not just candidates or activists, can help spread the message to vote for policies, not personalities. They don’t have to know the policies or the candidates to spread that idea.

This year it will be easier than usual to persuade voters that policy matters much more than personality. That is because millions of people have learned on their own that, no matter what they thought of Trump or Biden as persons, Trump’s policies made their lives better, Biden’s policies have made their lives worse.

Polls have shown that many blocs that voted strongly for Biden in 2020, have moved toward Trump. They include blacks, Latinos, young people, etc. The economy, inflation, immigration, and crime are policies that have moved voters.

One story I particularly like is about a “Long-time Dem billionaire does an about-face on Trump, admits the left has been blinded by TDS.”

“Silicon Valley venture capital investor Chamath Palihapitiya, who voted for Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden, admits that he now “appreciates” what former President Donald Trump was able to accomplish during his time in the White House.

“The work on the border wall, we didn’t like the messenger, so we killed the message. Turned out it was right,” Palihapitiya noted. “Issuing long-term debt to refinance when rates were at zero. We didn’t like the messenger, so we killed the message. A structural peace deal in the Middle East. We didn’t like the messenger, so we killed the message. When are we going to stop shooting ourselves in the foot? When are we going to actually take the time to look past who was saying things and actually listen to them word for word?”

Let’s spread the word. Let’s encourage everyone to vote for policy, not personality. Elections should not be popularity contests, nor should they be rewards for past service to a community. The job of a representative is to vote. The most important question ought to be how well they will do that job – not their personalities. The best way to determine how they will vote is to compare and contrast the candidates’ policies and vote for the one with the better policies.

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Joa and I have filed a Motion For Continuance due to not being finished collecting evidence for his defense.

Interestingly, these are a sample of the “Advance Notice Forms” that were approved by the Goffstown District Court where Joa signed things other than his name.  He was approved each time to film anonymously…  but the Hillsborough District Court ordered him to leave and had him arrested for filming doing the same thing.

Our defense lies in a theory called “Entrapment By Estoppel” and RSA 626:3 II.

The New Hampshire Courts should not have a disparity in how they authorize people to film court proceedings.  In having one, it creates situations like this.

The original trial date of 5/21/24 at 1:00PM will hopefully be rescheduled to July sometime.

From the “I finally got to it” pile, Colonel Douglas Macgregor gave an hour of his time to chat with Russell Brand last week. As with most of Brand’s content, it was a great conversation. One portion in particular stood out to me as something we could dig into.

Russell often asks long, complex, multi-faceted questions. They’ve got lots of layers and lots of questions. In this case, the question is no different and includes allusions to national elites, revolution, and the military being asked to suppress any uprising at home or possibly participating in a revolution against the government (question begins at 14:40 is you’d like to hear it in total).

Col. Macgregor provides an instructive response, equally layered, with bits of input on everything from why the US military isn’t ever likely to fight its own government or in that government’s name against its own people to recruitment issues, US provocation, forever wars, Border Security, Child and drug trafficking, and China’s Military problems (it’s not a threat).

It was an interesting response with a lot of launch pads for discussion.

 

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The screenshot below speaks for itself. But because I love to hear myself talk … Packard and his ilk are controlled opposition grifters. The “real enemy” to this crowd is NOT the Democrats; it is those who point out how the “Republicans” in the NH House do NOT represent Republican voters.

But just keep pretending it’s R vs. D … and that voting for this crowd is “the New Hampshire Advantage,” even as your once picturesque single-family-zoned neighborhoods are turned into shanty-towns and open-air-drug-markets via ADUs, and public schools teach students that they should see and treat each other NOT as individuals, but according to skin-color and gender.

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Mobile gaming has become increasingly popular in recent years, with smartphones revolutionising the way players access and enjoy online slot games. As mobile technology continues to advance, more players are turning to their smartphones to experience the thrill of spinning the reels anytime, anywhere. In this article, we’ll explore how smartphones have transformed online slot play, the benefits of mobile gaming, and key considerations for players looking to dive into the world of mobile slots.

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The rise of mobile gaming has revolutionised online slot play, offering players unprecedented access, convenience, and flexibility to enjoy their favourite games anytime, anywhere. With advances in mobile technology and the proliferation of mobile casinos, players can experience the thrill of spinning the reels on their smartphones with stunning graphics, immersive gameplay, and generous bonuses. By understanding the benefits of mobile slot play, considering important factors such as internet connection, battery life, screen size, and data usage, players can maximise their enjoyment and make the most of their gaming experience on mobile devices. As mobile gaming continues to evolve, the future looks bright for players looking to embark on their slot-playing journey from the palm of their hand.

 

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Time and again, we are told by the politically correct “experts” not to worry about Islam posing a threat to our way of life. We are repeatedly lectured that only a very small minority of Muslims are troublemakers who are giving the peaceful masses of Muslims a bad name. We are also informed that the terrorists, who happened to be Muslims, are the disaffected and the young. And not to worry, since as the fire of youth turns to ashes of old age the rebellious will mellow, as they always have.

With heavy assurances like this, coming from so many know-it-all authoritative figures, we can sleep soundly without the aid of sleeping pills. After all, people reason that these pundits are “experts” whose job is to know and tell it like it is. Those who voice contrary views must be a bunch of racists and alarmist hatemongers. Who is right?

Wouldn’t it be more prudent to let the facts settle the matter rather than blindly accepting either position? Of course, it would, except for one huge problem. In the face of threats, people tend to go to the mind’s medicine cabinet and take a few denial and rationalization pills, in the same way, that it is the aspirin bottle they turn to when a headache strikes. Why not? We are the Easy Species. We love effortless, quick, and simple solutions. And that’s not invariably bad. It has given us all kinds of labor and time-saving devices.

Yet, the Islam problem is very real and deadly. Neither the pronouncements of the experts nor the tranquilizing pills of the mind can make it go away. It is here, and it shows every sign of imposing itself on us. Let us look at some of the facts.

* Not every Muslim wears an explosive vest ready to detonate amid a crowd of innocent civilians, yet there are more volunteers for the mission than there are explosive vests. The Islamic Republic, for instance, hasn’t even officially joined this form of jihad. Yet, by its own admission, it has over 10,000 volunteers trained and ready to be deployed, and thousands more are queuing to join in. This time around, the jihadists heading for Allah’s heaven might come fitted with nice little suitcases of dirty bombs instead of the bulky explosive vests. Recall that it took only 19 of these killers to launch the aerial mass murder of 9/11 that killed 3,000 people, shattered our open, trusting way of life, and cost us billions of dollars.

* The jihadists are not confined to a minority of disaffected Muslim youth. How young were Bin Laden, his deputy doctor of death Al Zawahiri, Mullah Omar of the Taliban, Khamenei, and the late Rafsanjani of Iran, to name a few? How disaffected are they? Muhammad Ata, leader of the 19 airborne thugs and the decapitator of Wall Street Journal reporter Pearl, was somewhat younger yet well-healed and Western-educated.

* Just coin some terms such as the “Melting Pot” or “Multiculturalism,” and you have the problem solved? Roll out the red carpet for the immigrant Muslims, treat them as you would your own citizens, give them stipends, medical care, and free education and they will integrate seamlessly into society. No such thing at all. The idea of Melting Pot may work with people who come from different lands to make the new country their home. The Islamists, on the other hand, come with the belief that they already own the place and want to make it part of the Ummah. Some forty percent of second and third-generation Muslim Britons reject British democracy, express their allegiance to Islam, and want to live under Sharia. So much for the Melting Pot comfort pill.

* The new Islamist arrivals take advantage of the provisions of the most benign system known to humanity, democracy, to implode it from within. Muslims, by sheer numbers, will soon be in a position to vote out democracy in many countries. They are already doing that in bits and pieces. They are imposing many of their values in a number of societies, even while they are in the minority. Politicians, hungry for votes and devoted to the practice of political correctness, bend backward to accede to Islamists’ demands.

* As for Multiculturalism, it is even more of a delusion than the Melting Pot myth. It is a second-generation Comfort Pill. Since the Melting Pot proved to be worse than a placebo, the politically correct gave us the new pill. A glance at Europe shows how Multiculturalism in fact has served as the incubator of Islamism in no time at all. Europe’s Multiculturalism is rapidly birthing a Uniculturalism if the Islamists’ medieval way of life can be dignified as a culture.

* Respect for diversity, separation of religion and state, and freedom of belief and expression are pillars of democracy, yet anathema to Islam. In no Islamic land do you find an ecumenical organization. It is only in non-Islamic countries that the shameless duplicitous Muslim, be he an imam, a mullah, or a regular run-of-the-mill faithful of Allah, meekly participates in ecumenical feel-good gatherings.

* To Muslims, no other religion is deemed worthy of recognition, much less accommodation. There is not a single church, synagogue, or Buddhist temple in all of Saudi Arabia. They are barred. The Islamic Republic of Iran’s raft of genocidal pogroms includes the heinous practice of bulldozing even the cemeteries of its Baha’i religious minority. The Islamic tyranny of the mullahs imprisons Christian Iranians for celebrating Christmas. Egypt denies its own citizens identity cards for refusing to lie and fake their religious beliefs or disbelief. The ID cards are required for education, securing work, receiving medical care, and just about every right of citizenship. Without it, a citizen is literally subjected to slow death.

* In Islam, only Muslim men and, to a lesser extent, Muslim women are entitled to certain rights. All non-Muslims, including the so-called people of the book, namely Christians and Jews, are at best second-class subjects, subjects who must pay the back-breaking Jizya, poll tax, for their “sin” of not converting to Islam. So, as Islam makes its inroads in new lands, as its membership swells through explosive birth and conversion, secular democracies will be inevitably replaced by Islamism with its stone-age Sharia laws. The best offer that Islam will make is to spare the non-Muslim’s life if he puts on the heavy yoke of Jizya for the rest of his living days.

* Not to worry about the horrific things that are happening on the other side of the world? If Muslims act heinously toward non-Muslims, it is just the way things are in those countries and it is hardly any of our business. This is the same attitude that set the Islamization of Europe on a seemingly irreversible track. One European country after another is rapidly buckling under the weight of Islamism.

* Most importantly, not to worry about the Islamization of our country? After all, Muslims are about 6-7 million minority in a population of nearly 300 million, you reason? That even a smaller number of these Muslims are hothead radicals, while the majority is just like everyone else? However, small minorities can overwhelm the majority by use of coercion and deadly force. Islamists are notorious for their dedication to the use of force to achieve their aims. The Taliban were a very small minority in Afghanistan; the Islamists were a tiny faction in the 1979 Islamic Revolution of Iran. Both overwhelmed the masses and imposed their reign of terror. The terrorist Hamas is also a “minority” in number, yet it rules the Palestinian Territory. Hizballah of Lebanon is a minority, yet it has taken the country to the verge of destruction.

* Islamists are Islam’s locomotive that takes the wrecking-ball Islamic train on its demolition course. Islam and democracy are incompatible. As democracies practice their magnificent accommodating belief, they knowingly or unknowingly lay the track for the advancing wrecking train of Islam. We, in the United States of America, must resist Islamism while it is still gathering momentum unless we wish to end up in the same fix as the Europeans. ,

* We, in the United States, further need to embark on a comprehensive legal, educational, and social campaign to eradicate the deadly plague of Islam. By effective action, we even save those peaceful Muslims from their own affliction. I am not hatemongering. I would love to see all Muslims become ex-Muslims and full-fledged members of a diverse, tolerant, democratic society. It is a statement of fact about what Islam is. Islam is a highly communicable pandemic-violent disease that demands urgent and serious containment.

Europe is already badly infected with Islamism. It is the coal miners’ canary. It tells us that the next stop is America. We must act and act now. We must not sacrifice our cherished way of life and the lives of our children at the altar of political correctness: the incubator of Islamofascism.

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When the New York Times publishes something, it is a sign to the coastal elites that it is okay to discuss it. Here are some guidelines, what you are to believe and disbelieve, none of which should be mistaken for reporting. These are instructions. They expand the narrative bubble to control the messaging.

Especially if the content substantiates something previously labeled by the Left as a right-wing conspiracy, like people harmed by the COVID injections, but here we are, three years and some months into a massive experiment, and the Paper of Record (at least for progressives) is opening the door just enough to allow its readers to broach the subject at the water cooler.

People of the Left. Vaccine injuries are real, with conditions.

Provisos, Restrictions, Limitations…

You are officially permitted to acknowledge COVID vaccine injuries (including yours) on the following terms. They exist. People suffer. Some of those people are progressives (more than average, given the uptake demographics). And they’ve been suffering in silence. Serious side effects are rare. Death from a COVID vaccine is still tied up in the stall. We’re not discussing it. I also saw no mention of mRNA, not that it matters. This story is not about how the Public Health Industrial Complex fast-talked a gazillion people into rolling up their sleeves for something that was neither safe nor effective. It is about how when harm happens, as rare as that is, the system isn’t very good at helping.

It is a “yes, vaccine injuries are real” smokescreen for a “government should do more” screed.

The Times thinks that corporate immunity (PREP) protections are the problem – which they are – but in this admission, the relationship is little more than an abused spouse who refuses to tell the police anything but how clumsy she is. I fell down the stairs. Again.

She has two left feet.

The NYT remedy for that “problem” is the same system that didn’t listen during the Pandemic and isn’t listening after it. As Jeff Childers notes, the cure is more of what didn’t work to fix what’s not working.

How could all this anti-progressive gaslighting and illiberal lack of sympathy have possibly happened? How can the Times reconcile this long period of denial and deception? Because it’s just so darn difficult to track vaccine injuries, and because we need even bigger government, that’s how:

The nation’s fragmented health care system complicates detection of very rare side effects, a process that depends on an analysis of huge amounts of data. That’s a difficult task when a patient may be tested for Covid at Walgreens, get vaccinated at CVS, go to a local clinic for minor ailments and seek care at a hospital for serious conditions. Each place may rely on different health record systems.

There is no central repository of vaccine recipients, nor of medical records, and no easy to way to pool these data. Reports to the largest federal database of so-called adverse events can be made by anyone, about anything. It’s not even clear what officials should be looking for.

Remember that time during the Pandemic when everyone who hates privacy and freedom insisted we should all have to carry around passports to move about in public? They thought paperwork to ensure you were inoculated with the government-approved serum that did not stop the infection from spreading would stop the spreading. More of them are the cure for this.

Yes, please, may I have another (the government punches Liberty in the face).

Hard Pass

Times readers might be doe-eyed by it all. A lover softly whispering I’m sorry, let’s work this out, along with a soft-sell story about people like them suffering from their blind embrace of everything wrong with what went wrong. We weren’t all in this together, but some of us are in this together, so let’s dust off the wife beater and grab the largest bottle of Knob Creek we can find and see how long it takes for me to “fall down” the stairs again?

But what about the revelation? COVID “vaccines” did cause injuries. That has to mean something!

You see, covid vaccine injuries are brand new types of injuries, so what can you expect from busy, hardworking scientists? Dr. Woodcock explained, “I mean, you’re not going to find ‘brain fog’ in the medical record or claims data, because it doesn’t have a good research definition.” The former FDA Commissioner insisted, “It isn’t, like, malevolence on their part.”

It’s not like malevolence. It is malevolence. It’s like deliberate institutional neglect. But they meant well. “Federal officials,” the Times explained, “worry that even a whisper of possible side effects feeds into misinformation spread by a vitriolic anti-vaccine movement.” But health agencies’ duty is to pursue the truth, even when it’s complex or inconvenient, not to curate a simplified narrative for their perverse perception of an infantilized general public.

They should be more concerned with letting the government do stuff (any stuff), but maybe that’s just me. And perhaps that has something to do with the Times poon-feeding its audience a taste of reality. It’s a sampler narrative. Take a sip or a bite, and if you know someone with inexplicable post-Jab complications or someone who knows someone, it’s okay to say that out loud to someone other than your therapist. But don’t get too carried away.

The issue isn’t how the government lied to you and hurt you and how the media helped cover it up to prevent people from avoiding the potential for harm; it is how the government is going to help us next! It’s risky. This snowball at the top of the Matterhorn could gain both size and momentum, but maybe that’s a good thing. An out-of-control problem of that scope can only ever be handled by the government, right? So let’s agree on that (hopes, the Times).

Hard Pass (Again)

Let’s agree that the response to the Pandemic was Pandemicm of scope so poorly handled that it created this problem with the help of the New York Times.

That if you let people go about their business and take Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin if they wanted to instead of engaging in medical witch trials, a lot of people might still be alive and healthy, and this Times article never gets written.

You’d (of course) have had no excuse for vote-by-mail, and Biden wouldn’t be president. No war in Ukraine. Peace in the Middle East. Russia, China, and Iran would still likely be cowed. Our economy would be stronger, gas cheaper, and there would be no Federal EV mandates or rapid transgendirification of the military. Neither the Taliban nor China would have many billions of dollars worth of US military hardware (abandoned in Afghanistan). The National Debt would be lower, still too high, but not like it’s risen under Uncle Joe. The Blue States and cities would not be underwater with the swarms of invaders because the border would have stayed secure, and immigration laws would have been enforced. The drug overdose and drug gang problem that had receded under Trump would not have reemerged, so more friends and loved ones would be alive. Crime would likely be lower, wages higher, and we’d have real job growth instead of the fake-Biden- government jobs-growth-Potemkin-village.

And the number of vaccine-injured would be a lot lower.

But that’s not what we got, nor what they want. Democrats vote for decline, even when faced with it, then vote for more of it, dragging everyone else along for a ride whose only allowable response or cure is more of what made things worse.

But they did admit there were vaccine injured.

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The reason the DemocratsWoke-Communists use “democracy is on the ballot” as one of their elections mantras … is because most voters don’t understand/refuse to believe that America has NOT really been a democracy since the “intelligence community” killed JFK. The ignorance and manipulability of Americans is appalling.

Even if you have no knowledge of history prior to 2016, the Trump presidency is sufficient to understand that we have a permanent, unelected government that works hand-in-hand with globalists, corporatists, and the “media” to manipulate Americans. Excellent synopsis below regarding the actual insurrection/soft coup that began the instant Trump was elected … which most Americans, because they have been so manipulated by the Media, big tech, etc., etc., etc. consider normal behavior and NOT a soft coup.

And the soft-coup of 2016 was quite bipartisan. The GOP controlled Congress from 2016-2018. The GOP could have shut down the phony Congressional investigations, but chose not to. Why? Hint … the GOP’s leaders were named Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan. Mueller was appointed by a DOJ that was supposed to be working for Trump. Why was that?

But just keep pretending bitter-clingers … Republicans, good; Democrats bad. Republicans, good; Democrats, bad. Slava Ukraine. Slava Ukraine. Slava! Slava! Slava!

Russiagate Was Always The Real Insurrection

It would not be an exaggeration to say that Russiagate was the greatest disinformation campaign of the 21st century.

The Steele Dossier, the Alfa Bank story, and the infamous 'peepee tape' were all fabrications.

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— KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) May 2, 2024

 

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It’s weird what you remember. I distinctly remember being at my friend Phil’s house in the late 70s (early 80s?) and seeing a copy of Yankee Magazine. The featured article was about a proposal to put a dome over Winooski, Vermont.

Numerous examinations of the why, where, and what-for exist, but Winiooski gained fame and infamy, and it only cost someone else 55,000.00 dollars in federal grants to explore the idea. The Feds proposed it; Winooski said yes to the exploration but no to that dome.

Years later, the town, more woke than ever, has achieved a different kind of dome. One that protects exorbitant public school spending at great expense, which commenter Jay Eshelman noted a few weeks ago in comments.

Jay Eshelman

Consider Winooski, VT. Winooski just passed a $31,970,907 school budget serving approximately 764 Pre-k through 12th grade students. That’s $41,846 per student, for a kindergartner or a high school senior. And for that investment only half of VT students are academically proficient, suicides for 18–24-year-olds tripled last year, and drug overdoses have quadrupled over ten years.

Meanwhile, for perspective, parents can send their kids to VT State University for a full year of standard undergraduate college programs for $22,882 – and that includes room and board.

‘Suicide mission’ is a reasonable characterization for Vermont’s future (if one can call it a future). Forewarned is forearmed New Hampshire.

I don’t recall if it was a contender for comment of the week, but it shows us what happens when we lose sight of the point of public education. It is not sports, music, grooming, anti-racism theory, or – now – mental health care or indoctrination. All it was supposed to do was teach math, reading, and history (maybe ethics or debate). We get lip service to academics but plenty of the other stuff.

You’d be right to ask, but what about math and reading? And maybe we need a new institution for that? Something that isn’t training acolytes to some progressive god-state. You can try. Its defenders have crafted a narrative dome around the corruption of public education. The organized missile defense system of Union flunkies and local water carriers often shoots down locals who try to get inside. Those who make it in are bullied into a quick exit. It is rare to see any other outcome, and these are expensive losses, not just financial ones.

‘Public schools’ are not preparing children for much of anything. These kids, on whom more money is spent than perhaps at any time in the arc of public schooling, know less and are less capable than almost every previous generation, none of which had the modern tools or access to potential learning.

Dropouts from decades past likely left with more skills and learning than today’s graduates, while places like Winooski charge a premium for the decline.

Talk about shrinkflation. Joe’s worried about people paying more money for fewer chips in the bag while unions and administrators in Public Schools are demanding more taxdollars for an education that churns out kids a few cans short of a six-pack.

 

 

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Yes, that’s what I said and it’s the harsh and unpleasant truth, as truthful as saying that Melanie voted for an income tax.  No member is exempt from blame so each one gets their rightful 1/24th, but some are definitely more deserving of rebuke than others, according to my report, but let’s first make it known that Commander Sharon put HB1002 on the consent calendar when it received a 5-0 committee blessing.

What that meant was that there was to be no floor discussion in the Senate chamber on Thursday.  About 17 minutes into the video of that day, she motions to Jeb to adopt the bulk batch of bills, and he asks the body, “all in favor, say ‘I’.”  And he almost forgot to do that, but the clerk reminded him to.  That, dear readers, was the very LAST window of opportunity before the Corner Office to fight back, when Jeb followed with an “anyone opposes?”  Sheeple!  Sharon’s sheeple, and I hold them to a higher standard than Donna Soucy’s sheeple because the latter is nothing but enemies of NH.

I spoke at April 9’s Judiciary Committee hearing against the RTK Tax and was followed by Laurie Ortolano, a local mentor and advocate who no longer needs an introduction.  The Grok Faithful should know that the Senate, as a government body, miserably failed at doing the People’s Work in a manner that serves the best interest of the people they’re elected to serve.  I will not close with any further editorial, just a summary of my activism and how it was responded to, so without further delay, here’s my report in the same order that the clerk calls the roll:

1) She was Included in two emails with nine others sounding the alarm on this impending train wreck. On Wednesday morning, I had a 5-minute in-person talk about my own local RTK experience with the assessor’s office, considering that she’s the daughter of realtors.

2) Cosponsor.  Signed into the Judiciary committee hearing register in support, though allegedly by someone else when I showed him a picture of it.  Played stupid on the idea of an amendment(exempting locals doing RTKs at their own city halls) along with his buddy, #17, in the presence of a District 17 constituent witness.

3) Senate President.  He had the opportunity to use his power in a variety of good ways, but he didn’t want to disrupt his big retirement announcement in the chamber while his wife was visiting.

4) Enemy camp, I don’t email them.

5) Enemy camp, I don’t email them.

6) Election Law and Municipal Affairs chair from a city aspiring to be “Nashua Jr.”  Emailed twice with 9 others(see #1), but at least he said thanks for the email both times.

7) Included in two emails with nine others.  No reply or in-person contact.

8) Included in two emails with nine others.  Discussed in person at last Saturday’s Pine Tree Riot event and got the “we’ll see about that” shrug.

9) Included in two emails with nine others.  No reply or in-person contact.

10) Enemy camp: I don’t email them.

11) Enemy camp, I don’t email them.

12) Cosponsor and senator in the most corrupt city in NH.  Much could be said, and a detailed timeline of communication could be built on communication attempts and dialogues with him.  He had multiple reminders and opportunities to apply the brakes, and he chose to let the train wreck happen.  It’s like someone watching a kid or blind adult about to get hit by a semi-truck and doing nothing.  If he’s expecting a “get out of jail, free” card because he’s MY senator, he’s in for a surprise because he was “just following orders”(from #14) instead of actually serving his constituency.  Also claims he’s proud of his record.  Is he now?

13) Enemy camp, I don’t email them.

14) Cosponsor, Judiciary chair, and 2nd in command, presumptive heir to the gavel.  Moved OTP in committee with minimal words said and the four other members went along without any resistance as seen in the April 18 executive session video.  Lives in same town as the Speaker of the House.  Coincidence(regarding where the power nucleus is)?  You tell me.

15) Enemy camp, I don’t email them.

16) Included in two emails with nine others.  No reply or in person contact.

17) Included in two emails with nine others.  Answered first email last Saturday morning with a “thanks Julie, I’ll take a look at the bill, have a great weekend.”  I had an unexpected encounter with him and #2, and he played stupid when I asked about the amendment.  Councilor Prescott appeared mid-conversation, and Nurse Terese observed the whole thing.  #s 17 and 2 are seemingly joined at the hip, freshmen who were ushered into their seats, along with #22 and with the blessings of the establishment elite.

18) Enemy camp, I don’t email them.

19)Included in two emails with nine others, both receiving auto-replies saying “Thank you for your email.  If you are writing about a particular piece of legislation, please know that I review all of my emails and I appreciate you taking the time to contact me.  However, due to the volume of emails I am receiving, it is no longer possible to respond to each one in a timely fashion.  The thoughts and opinions of my constituents are very important to me, and I will certainly consider your input.”  Unexpected in-person encounter Wednesday morning and had very little to say.  Also played stupid and clearly did not want to talk.

20) Enemy camp, I don’t email them.

21) Enemy camp, I don’t email them.

22) Included in two emails with nine others.  Also a Judiciary member and a lawyer.  Emailed numerous additional times before the hearing along with another Judiciary member and the chair and therefore very familiar with Laurie Ortolano’s story.  Packed up and walked out on the April 9 hearing instead of taking advantage of an opportunity to cross examine her with questions while at the mic.  Encounter Wednesday near kitchen elevator and started talking about his cats when I called out his name and said “I am disappointed in you, VERY disappointed.”  Often seen with Kuttab, who wants to go to law school and is the prime sponsor.  Friendly, but must think I’m stupid because I’m not a lawyer.

23) Included in two emails with nine others.  Also a cosponsor, Judiciary member and a lawyer and shares a secretary with my senator.  Emailed numerous additional times before the hearing along with another Judiciary member and the chair and therefore very familiar with Laurie Ortolano’s story.  No reply or in person contact regarding HB 1002, but promptly and cheerfully replied to a few emails about his sanctuary city bill and a higher office candidate he supports.

24) Enemy camp, I don’t email them.

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They’re flying so thick and fast it is amazing.

Take heart – there will be both a Wednesday and Friday Edition.  Last week’s Friday Edition.  And if Israel is of interest, my last topical post here.  (Note that I’m taking a week or so break on the Israel posts, and may need to drop to a Monday-Friday schedule on memes for a while.  I do have a couple of essays in progress, so stand by for those.)

Remember, ridicule and mockery are effective weapons:

1. Ridicule cannot easily be fought
2. Ridicule makes the enemy angry, and angry people make mistakes
3. For those in the “squishy middle” a Thought Splinter (and Part II and Part III and Part IV) can often be hidden inside humor.

Now, let the mockery and mayhem begin.

 

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I was very lucky to get her autographed to picture (alas, not personalized).  Framed and on the wall.

 

 

 

Less than 20 years.  When it happens, it can happen surprisingly fast.

 

 

 

And welcomes little fishes in, with gently smiling jaws… and promises of free stuff.

 

 

 

 

They want them all.  Period.  My reply?  Here (may have to go to PG-13 settings).

 

 

 

 

 

No words except for “Bullet.  Brain.  Assembly required”.

 

 

 

 

 

Proverbs 22:28

King James Bible: Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.

 

 

 

The more I learn about feminism, the less I think it was about equal rights, etc., with which I would agree – and more about pushing women into the tax base and destroying the family through “entitlements” and an “I deserve…” mentality.

 

 

Skipping the whole Oath of Allegiance to the US thing.

 

 

 

 

One of the enormous weaknesses of the Left is the need to be LIKED.

The Right Way: The Leftist Sense of Self (obamasez.blogspot.com)(formatting and link in original):

Ultimately, for the Leftist, it’s not about what they think, it’s about what others think about them. Read this essay by a psychologist whose work and essays I really like; alas, she’s gone dark after Obama’s re-election. And then READ IT AGAIN – it’s that good. They’re not strong enough to stand on their own convictions.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

That’s really a good point.  And it brings to mind this quote about forcing people to comply with untruths:

“Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is in some small way to become evil oneself. One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.”
― Theodore Dalrymple

 

 

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PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA

 

 

I remember seeing a video of the above event.  The two women, mother and daughter, are cheering and jumping at the “BORTED” sign.  Screaming together like fangirls having just gotten hugged by their favorite pop star.

Think about that.  The girl, having gotten pregnant through her own voluntary act, is celebrating the murder of her child.  But the mother is celebrating the murder of her grandchild.  Now, imagine in ten years when her daughter is married and announcing she’s pregnant.  Will there be even a frisson of regret or realization?

 

 

The ghoulishness of this is staggering.  But it’s of a piece: the denigration and diminishing of human life.  If they’ll celebrate this, the murder of an innocent – what will they do when they come to get you, a MAGA deplorable, who stands in their way of creating Socialistopia?

 

 

Think that can’t happen?  Here’s just one example, among myriad examples, of that exact mentality:

 

 

I know I keep hammering this theme, but you must assimilate it to your core.  If you are not one of the herd, you are a threat.  And one last Thought Splinter:

If mankind’s CO2 emissions are a threat to the entire biosphere, i.e., to all life on earth, what would they NOT DO to save the biosphere?

Remember what John “F*cking POS traitor” Kerry’s daughter said:

 

 

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I like my hamburgers.  I’ve even had bean burgers once in a while.  I will, no way Jose, have a fake meat burger.

 

 

 

I remember in grad school, one of my fellow engineering students had a cartoon up of two garbage men at work; the caption was Liberal Arts majors after graduation.  One of them was saying “I love the way the trash surrenders to the compactor, as if making way for its fellow refuse…” and the other said “That reminds me of an ancient Japanese haiku!”

 

 

 

 

But… but… but we’ve been assured by our intellectual and moral superiors that there is no war on white people.

 

 

 

 

Eye chart; can’t read that.  But the context / stuff you can read is damning nonetheless.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Link section (some mine, some from my Jarhead friend):

 

10 Lies Democrats Tell About Elections (And How To Refute Them) (thefederalist.com)

There is almost no subject the left won’t lie about. Whether it’s denying basic biology or fabricating “bloodbath” hoaxes about their top Republican rival, no topic is off limits for the Democrat “disinformation” police — and that includes elections.

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Unredactions Reveal Early White House Involvement in Trump Documents Case | RealClearInvestigations

Is there any actual surprise at that?

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Why Don’t Media Care About The Man Who Killed Four Cops? (thefederalist.com)

Not meeting the required Narrative.

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A Secret Finally Revealed: Americans Can Know the U.S. Cities Receiving Hundreds of Thousands of Immigrants Flying from Abroad (cis.org)

Whatever you think you know, my bet is you don’t know a fraction still.

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GERMANY: Donald Trump warned you about this and you mocked him for it (barenakedislam.com)

I remember how he was mercilessly ridiculed for this.  But…

GREAT NEWS! New German poll reports there is now widespread opposition to mass Musim immigration (barenakedislam.com)

Related:

They Lied to You: Biden Regime Issues Rule Change to Give Taxpayer-Funded Obamacare to Illegal Aliens – Obama Promised This Would Never Happen | The Gateway Pundit | by Cullen Linebarger

More on migration:

Is London now a Muslim majority city? (barenakedislam.com)

Pretty clearly.  More:

Still buying that far-left crap sandwich about “diversity being our strength?” (barenakedislam.com)

Broadly, on migration (for any nation):

 

 

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The Vast Pharmaceutical Conspiracy to Silence Online Dissent (midwesterndoctor.com)

If vaccines in general, not just the so-called “vaccine” for Covid, actually were truly SAFE AND EFFECTIVE they wouldn’t need to do this.

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The End Approaches – Vox Popoli (voxday.net)

Short of actual involvement by NATO, Ukraine will fall. Or, at least, the part Russia wants.  Speaking of NATO involvement:

France sends combat troops to Ukraine battlefront – Asia Times

Hungarian Foreign Minister Warns Macron Risks Sparking World War III – modernity

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Hamas Fangirls Are Hurting The Feminist Cause – Victory Girls Blog

Feminists.  Leftists.  IDIOTS.  Related, at least to me:

Glazov Gang: Daniel Greenfield on ‘Domestic Enemies’ | Jamie Glazov Productions

Lots of videos, not just the one referenced.  And… airborne HIV?????

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Biden Scheme To Spy On Trump Supporter Bank Accounts Even Wider Than Reported – Great America News Desk

All this is doing is accelerating distrust in the financial system.  Which many be a feature; the more people pull out, the lower things go, the worse things appear, and the more incentive they have to seize ever more control.

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In closing, here’s an encouraging sign – among many private discussions I’m having with a lot of politically-conservative Jews who DO NOT LIKE that new “anti-Semitism” bill:

Jews Must Not Let Politicians Curtail Free Speech – Tablet Magazine

This is a Jewish magazine, with what is – IMHO – a forceful denunciation of the bill.

 

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Pick of the post:

 

 

That revolving door has to be closed.  Whether in pharma or defense or anything else.

 

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Palate Cleansers:

 

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