Monday • November 25 • 2024
Vol.XVI • No.XLVIII
Manchester, N.H.
Weare, New Hampshire, an allegedly Republican and pro-liberty bastion, has been putting a local pastor through the bureaucratic meat grinder for daring to hold religious services in his barn.
The barn is fully renovated. Pastor Howard added pews, a pulpit and a heater to make sure his congregation can worship comfortably. It’s usually no more than 30 people gathered at once. ..
Here’s what’s really outrageous: The Pastor has previously held other gatherings at the property for years—such as weddings, board-game tournaments, local events and even hosted political candidates who wanted to speak to the community.
The town placed no restrictive zoning demands on those meetings. But apparently, it’s a problem now that the gathering is a church.
The town is reported to have insisted they stop holding religious services, demanding site plans, showing up for repeated inspections, and being a general nuisance.
You have to admit, it looks like discrimination, and the town is also alleged to have threatened legal action. Fair enough, First Liberty is suing the town of Weare in the name of Grace New England Church for religious discrimination.
I’m sure the town thinks it has a pressing public interest, and they will get the opportunity to explain in court, as will citizens, to hear an explanation and then consider what, if any, changes need to be made (to any local ordinance or perhaps the constitution of local boards).
We’re not talking about another Pine Tree Riot, but how about, instead of calling it a service, every Sunday morning, you meet for a peaceful protest of the Town of Weare’s war on religious liberty—something like that.
Julie Smith contributed to this article.
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As a follow-up to our earlier post on the nomination of Belknap County Attorney Andrew Livernois to the NH Superior Court, we have received the official Nomination packet and some additional links and commentary from a reader.
The hearing is less than an hour, so this is last minute, but if you see it and can do anything with it, we’ll consider the effort well made. I have no idea what if any, value there is in it. I leave that up to you.
Here’s our previous post: Lawyer Whose Advice Probably Got a County Commission Sued is a Sununu Nominee for Superior Court.
It was based in part on this one from Skip, to which we can add this, from a reader – a misconduct grievance filed against Livernois.
The “nomination packet” or application can be viewed below. Do with these as you like, given the time allowed (almost none), but we did receive these because of the earlier concern about the nomination, which we’d like to see deferred, delayed, rescheduled, or simply rejected.
Nomination Packet Livernois, Andrew 01-31-2024The post Breaking: Nomination Packet for Attorney Andrew Livernois – The EC Hearing is Today! appeared first on Granite Grok.
As promised in Monday Memes, I have an overflow. My meme cup runneth over. And yes there will be a Friday edition too.
Let the mayhem, mockery, and ridicule resume:
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My first and second cartoon concepts – ably drawn by a pro.
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A step further than George Zimmerman being a “white Hispanic”.
Your tax dollars at work.
And then nobody finds that sus.
I saw the video from which the stills on the right side were taken. The girl and her mother are bouncing up and down, giddy they’ve murdered the life inside her.
They’ve made murder into a celebration.
I am reminded of the original Hearst sending a telegram to one of his people right after the USS Maine blew up. “You provide the pictures, I’ll provide the war”.
Cool wall. That should go on our southern border. (It’s the new border wall Egypt put up.) And I still want a minefield and lasers too.
The logic makes sense, Mr. Spock, when you understand that crime and chaos are the goals of those who did it.
Saw a short video of Ann Coulter saying that the fact that nobody was revealing the race of the shooter(s) was a clear indication that he wasn’t white. Accurate.
If I’m ever at an event where they play that, I’ll do this.
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PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA
I have a bunch of links below, but if there’s ONE you read from this post, read this one. It’s long; allocate some time.
Just How Far Will the FDA Go To Protect A Bad Drug? (midwesterndoctor.com)
Now, reread it again. From SSRIs to the Jab to pharmaceuticals across decades, apparently, the entire system is corrupt and rotten to the core. The pharma companies themselves. Government agencies that are supposed to be watching them. Doctors and psychiatrists and broadly all medical industry people.
Rotten. To. The. Core.
TV Drug Ads Are Not About Selling More Pharmaceuticals, They’re About Big Pharma Buying off the Media – The Liberty Daily
And a comment on another Grok post about pharma whistle-blowers meeting oddly convenient deaths, I’ll add in: there are untold billions of dollars at stake here. If you’re already ethically compromised enough to permit shoddy research, etc., that you know will cost lives, it’s not such a large step to being willing to permanently shut someone up.
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Like a friend of mine once said, “First against the wall after the main shooting stops”.
I was just trying to explain to my boy – after he asked – what “body count” means and why it’s bad. And I tried to make the simple explanation that physical intimacy was one of the things that truly connects a man and a woman. When it becomes purely physical pleasure, especially serially, the specialness of it diminishes; it becomes the pursuit of the pleasure hit, which means jumping from one to another to get the thrill of the new. And I’ll opine that it not only just becomes about physical pleasure, but it transforms to “What’s in it for me”? (as in the climax) rather than a giving of oneself to another. Instead of generosity of the ultimate gift of intimacy to your special someone, it’s turns into a selfish focus.
From what I understand, lots of people are starting to pull business – and future business – from there.
I’m not advocating violence. But should it begin… it needs to be ongoing and relentless.
Public hangings are called for IMHO.
Consider this one:
And why? Because not only would they have to admit they were wrong… but they’d have to concede that the people they looked down on were right.
I love eggs.
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Links (some from me, some from my Jarhead friend):
Does Anyone Believe This?… New York Governor Tells Businesses “They Have Nothing to Fear” After Democrat State Leaders Fleece Donald Trump of $355 Million | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft
Just don’t get uppity or cross TPTB and you’ll be OK. More:
Private Equity Fund Manager Announces He “Will NOT Waste Time” Researching New Business Opportunities in New York After Engoron Ruling | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft
There’s a great scene in the movie A Man for All Seasons in which one of the main characters lectures another about the cutting down of all of man’s laws to get the Devil Orange Man.
A Man for All Seasons – The Devil Speech – YouTube
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How Would A Post-Apocalyptic Society Function Without Electricity And Running Water? (There were many people in America who didn’t have electricity and running water well into the 1940s.) (madgewaggy.blogspot.com)
A lot of people are going to die.
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Fluoride Has Its Day In Court – by Josh Walkos (wrongspeakpublishing.com)
Every day, it seems, I am learning more about lies I’ve been told for decades. Every day, it seems, institutions that I’ve trusted have proven to be not worthy of that trust. (See above PSA.)
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New study finds that CO2 is increasing the rate by which the globe is greening, even under drought | Just The News
CO2 is plant food and the base of every biological pyramid aside from geothermal vent locations. These maniacs are going to destroy all life on earth with “carbon capture” and blocking out the sun.
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First Look at the ‘Free-Text’ COVID Vaccine Safety Data the CDC Wanted to Hide (infowars.com)
I suspect this will be laborious go to through, but… I also suspect there will be a lot of info TPTB don’t want us to see. On the Jab:
Massive International Study Concludes That Covid-19 Vaccines Have Numerous Adverse Side Effects – Becker News
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The End of Democracy: “What I’m Describing is Military Rule” (substack.com)
Tucker interview / discussion.
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Don’t be shocked if Michelle Obama sneaks her way into 2024 race (nypost.com)
Would not be surprised at all. Of course its being denied, which brings to mind:
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Inside Mayor Adams’ migrant debit card boondoggle — no-bid bank gets $50 million, border crossers up to $10,000 each (nypost.com)
You get more of what you reward.
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TL Davis with a great article on how the Military Industrial Complex (now abetted by Big Pharma) was planning a coup in 2016, and got upstaged by Trump because he got more legit votes than they could fraudulently create in time. But they came back stronger, and (aided by Covid) staged an actual coup in 2020, and their efforts since then to hold onto and consolidate their power have been draconian. This ends one of two ways: They win, and we become a totalitarian dictatorship (or more likely an oligarchy), or we HAVE to fight back. There is no other option, and at this point, it’s not politics anymore, it’s WAR:
The Military Junta Called “The Democracy” – by T.L. Davis (substack.com)
Related: Tucker Carlson has an interview with Mike Benz, who lays out a pretty good case that we are already living under a military dictatorship, as they censor everything that goes against the narrative:
2024 Is Already Being Stolen Through Mass Gov’t Censorship (thefederalist.com)
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Breast milk is one of the best things a baby can have, right? Well that depends on the source, as woke doctors are now saying that it’s OK for a baby to get breast milk from a transgendered man. This means that HE has enough hormones, meds, and other drugs in his body to force his (normally NON-lactating) “breasts” to give milk. But whatever is in HIS body is also in the milk, so these doctors are literally sacrificing the long-term health of these babies on the alter of “wokeness”:
Woke Doctors Are Insane and Dangerous – HotAir
Uh, wut? The manufacturer explicitly says DON’T DO THIS BECAUSE IT WILL HARM THE INFANT, and the NHS Health Trust say “N’ah, it’ll be fine.”
Infants. Heart damage.
Geez, these people deserve a hot place in hell for eternity.
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Jeff Bezos sells over $2 billion in Amazon stock third time this month (cnbc.com)
Just saw a short video that a multiple people are selling off mass quantities.
Six billion in sales in a month.
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Is Your Food….FAKE? (rumble.com)
Shudder-inducing, IMHO. Who comes up with these experiments, thought?
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Lastly, some spicy time related reading material:
Total Resistance Swiss Army Guide To Guerilla Warfare (1965) : H. von Dach Bern : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
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Pick of the Post:
Pushing, pushing, pushing for WWIII.
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Palate cleansers:
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You cannot tell me the song didn’t pop into your head.
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Come back on Friday for more memes. Same meme time. Same meme channel.
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When I was a school-age child in the sixties, patriotism had a massive influence on our lives—our day started with the Pledge of Allegiance and the Our Father. We will talk about the former today and leave the Our Father for another day. There was no question about participation. Only Jewish kids were allowed to pass on the prayer.
Every sporting event started with the anthem, and the sight of Old Glory brought a comforting sense of pride. We were all first or second-generation Americans whose grandparents made the dangerous journey across the Atlantic. Europe had been their home, but America had the potential of a better life for their future generations. They were incredibly proud of the fact they came to America to be Americans. Citizenship was a badge of honor.
I grew up in a city that was a patchwork of neighborhoods with different nationalities. Each had their own church, specialty food stores, and restaurants. This wasn’t done to isolate people but to allow people, many of whom did not speak English (yet), to feel comfortable in their new home. One thing each of these neighborhoods had in common was the American flag, which could be seen everywhere. The system was working well, but things started to change dramatically in the sixties, and not necessarily for the good.
The change started after the Vietnam War. People from the Asian-Pacific Region, Haiti, and Central America began to emigrate to America and disrupted the demographics and balance in our cities. The significant difference between these immigrants and the post-WWI group was these folks were not here to assimilate. This new group was much more willing to live on the dole. They loved the American welfare and social services, and they were not ready to leave their culture behind. They looked for America to assimilate with them.
The new Biden migrants are more like the post-Vietnam era immigrants on steroids. These new migrants, we cannot call them immigrants as they have not come here legally, are not family units but primarily young to middle-aged single men who have their hands out for whatever the Progressive Americans will give them. Free is key to this new group of “Americans.” New terms have been coined for this new block of people- amnesty and path to Citizenship are synonymous with the Obama/Biden migrants. The government is selectively locating these folks into Red states with the hope they will change these Conservative states to Purple or even Blue.
The Progressives are diluting the concept of Citizenship. Starting with an attack on our Sovereignty, Progressives now see us as citizens of the world, not our nation. They write laws that allow these non-American nationals to vote in local elections. Voting had always been the right and privilege of Citizenship, but no longer. The U.S. Constitution does not confer any innate right to vote based on Citizenship, but it does delegate the responsibility to manage elections to states.
Cities in some states have seized this loophole and have given non-citizens the right to vote in their town/city elections. Vermont, New York, California, Wisconsin, and Massachusetts are on the list of the states that are changing voting rights. San Francisco has just installed the first non-citizen on their election board. The logic was to allow all members of the community to form the future of San Francisco.
This watering down of Citizenship by Liberals/Progressives does not sit well with any Conservative who loves this country and respects the legacy of those who have died fighting to keep this great country free. This process is part of the mission for those pushing for non-citizen voting rights. That mission is the destruction of America as we know her, and they seem committed to their cause.
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HB1050-FN, which claims to wish to establish a voluntary waiver of the right to purchase firearms, is up for a floor vote this Thursday and needs your immediate attention. This bill poses a significant threat to our rights and freedoms, introducing measures that could potentially impact gun ownership and individual liberties broadly.
HB1050 is a restriction on Second Amendment rights, creates precedents for further restrictive measures, and impacts individuals’ rights to self-defense without adequately addressing the underlying issues related to firearm misuse. It creates a sneaky avenue for so-called ‘red flag’ attempts and is a backdoor gun registry attempt.
We strongly urge all NH Firearms Coalition members to take immediate action by reaching out to your state representatives. It’s vital to express your opposition to HB1050-FN and communicate the importance of protecting our rights.
You can find your state representative’s contact information [here].
Emailing or calling your representative is a direct way to make your voice heard and influence the outcome of this legislation. Please ask your legislator to vote Inexpedient to Legislate on House Bill 1050.
The New Hampshire Firearms Coalition emailed legislators on your behalf, you can see that text below if it’s helpful in crafting your message. We need as many members writing legislators as possible to prevent this backdoor registry attempt.
Our letter to legislators:HB 1050-FN, a bill to create a so-called ‘voluntary waiver for people who don’t want to purchase a firearm’ recently came out of the Criminal Justic and Public Safety Committee with a split recommendation.
The New Hampshire Firearms Coalition urges you to support the minority report of Inexpedient to Legislate when the bill comes to the floor for a vote. What need is there of the state wasting taxpayer dollars to support a list for people who don’t want to purchase a firearm—when all they have to do is just not buy one?
Frankly, such a list is not only expensive, but doesn’t make any sense. It doesn’t even include a funding mechanism.
More troubling, HB 1050-FN has a crafty clause in paragraph V, section II, which clearly indicates that a third party could place another person on this list.
II. Any person who knowingly gives any false information or makes any false statement with the intent of enrolling or removing another person onto or from the list shall be guilty of a class B misdemeanor.”
This bill would open up the floodgates of harassment of the many by the few who wish to interfere with a person’s 2nd amendment right to keep and bear arms.
This would make the state vulnerable to extensive litigation, which would constitute another waste of taxpayer dollars.
Again, NHFC urges you to vote Inexpedient to Legislate on HB 1050-FN.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.”
Help us oppose HB1050-FN by calling your State Representative today before Thursday’s floor vote and urging them to vote Inexpedient to Legislate! Together, we can safeguard our freedoms and ensure our rights remain intact for future generations.
Thank you for your dedication and support.
JR Hoell, Secretary
New Hampshire Firearms Coalition
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Genesse Ivonne Moreno was an El Salvadoan “immigrant” with a history of criminal conduct known to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). A woman (pretending to be a man named Jeffrey Moreno) who tried to shoot up a church in Austin, Texas, has since been described by authorities as … white.
Genesse Ivonne Moreno from El Salvador is documented as a White non-Hispanic.
BREAKING: Lakewood Church shooter identified as a transgender, legal name Genesse Moreno but went by the name “Jeffrey.” pic.twitter.com/0gmgybgOLC
— Sara Gonzales (@SaraGonzalesTX) February 12, 2024
Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t that shooter-bias appropriation? They want “Jeffrey” to be white, but it just ain’t so. Moreno might even be descended from the ancient Mayan culture, whose history, language, and heritage were colonized by the Spanish, whose language and culture her family was forced to adopt. In other words, she’s not a he; she might be Mayan, but she’s definitely not white.
The same thing happened to Geoge Zimmerman, a Hispanic man who shot Trayvon Martin in self-defense. An incident that turned him into a white Hispanic and the fully grown Trayvon into a child. Media magic and its growing a culture of distrust among Americans. It is no longer advisable to trust anything the legacy media reports. You’ll get more reliable news on the stall door of a public bathroom.
And as Ann Coulter noted on Bill Maher’s show recently – regarding another shooter – we don’t know a lot, but what we do know is that it was not a white male. If it were a white man shooting, we’d know.
Ann Coulter stuns the Bill Maher crowd with a simple heuristic: “If it were a white male shooting, we’d know.”
Maher: “We don’t know who did this shooting. The Superbowl shooting”
Coulter: “If it were a white man shooting, we’d know.”
Maher: “You think they’re repressing that… pic.twitter.com/qbE27hU5QD— Eric Abbenante (@EricAbbenante) February 17, 2024
The speculation in KC is gang-related (yutes of color, perhaps), so that will disappear faster than you can say Genesse Ivonne Moreno (or Jeffrey) because there is no suitable narrative even after they’ve warped the truth. As for Moreno, that story comes with bonus opportunities to say WTF. Sara Gonzales, who is also not white, shared some interesting news about Moreno.
Sara Gonzales with a bombshell of a story:
The Lakewood Church shooter was an El Salvadorian immigrant who was detained by ICE. Genesse Moreno (Who also went by the alias Jeffery Escalante) had a voting record in the 2020 election.
When people ask: “Where is evidence that… pic.twitter.com/lIBBYp0oCO— Eric Abbenante (@EricAbbenante) February 13, 2024
I think we can safely say she did not vote for Trump and that she is not the only illegal border jumper “known to ICE” who “voted” in the 2020 election—a known illegal with a criminal history who somehow obtained firearms and targeted a Christian Church.
Meanwhile, back in DC, the J6 persecutions continue…
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First, in case you have not been paying attention, Mitch McConnell and his allies backed the so-called “bipartisan” border bill NOT to secure the border (which it did not), but to take the issue away from Donald Trump and Republicans who support Trump.
That is, Mitch and his allies would rather continue to control the Senate GOP under a Democrat President and a Democrat majority in the Senate than lose control by having Trump in the White House and Republicans who support Trump in the majority in the Senate.
Kelly Ayotte’s politics are much, much closer to Mitch McConnell’s than to Donald Trump’s. But will she be collateral damage of the failed “bipartisan” border bill?
Ayotte’s campaign has been focused like a laser beam on the issue of illegal immigration and the support of her anticipated opponent, Joyce Craig, for “sanctuary” policies. And now … pre-primary … is the time to do it because Craig is in a bind. If she moves to the middle she cedes the issue to her primary opponent, which might be fatal considering how far Left the New Hampshire Democrat Party base is on this (and other) issues.
So Craig is doing the only thing she can … hiding behind the “bipartisan” border bill. When gently pressed by Adam Sexton on whether she would make New Hampshire a “sanctuary State,” Craig’s repeated answer was: bipartisan border bill. Not surprisingly, WMUR tendentiously titled the interview, Joyce Craig questioned on welcoming migrants as governor.
Will this strategy work in the general election? I don’t know … but if Ayotte loses to Craig, Craig should send a thank-you card to Mitch.
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Northwood School Board Member Gary Caron has some interesting social media posts. We published some of them yesterday in advance of a meeting on that content scheduled for Wednesday. Rather than face the public and defend his exercise(s) of free speech in person, Gary has decided to resign.
However, that’s not his fault. He didn’t create the distraction that was those MAGA people (sharing his own words and stuff).
As a reminder, we explained that Gary always had a right to express himself freely, which he did, but that the townspeople who elected him might not think it was the sort of thing they thought appropriate for an elected representative…let alone a school board member.
And while Gary has resigned, acknowledging correctly that he broke no laws, he continues to demonstrate the complete disconnect between reality and his having internalized the approved anti-Trump narratives of the establishment uni party left (complete with a raging case of Trump Derangment Syndrome) and (remember) that’s not his fault. He has to be like this.
Smear campaign. Out of context. Private Twitter posts (publicly visible on the platform). A distraction. Autocracy – talk about projection, jeesh.
Again, in case you missed what “this” looks like – look here: content warning.
It’s a very amusing resignation, but having seen his X feed, I’m sure he believes all of it. Sadly, this will distract from the opportunity for Caron to be confronted publicly over his constitutionally protected expression by (now) former constituents or to defend it.
As for smearing him, he did that to himself. We merely shared his words and stated that he had a right to them but that Northwood parents and voters might have a different opinion. Rather than hear that and respond, he ran away.
At least he had already admitted to the double standard he both promotes and enjoys.
That’s not something you see every day.
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So the New Hampshire House’s ludicrous “debate” over sexually explicit materials in middle school libraries went “viral” … and deservedly so. For example, Libs of TikTok is an X (Twitter) account with 2.8 million followers. See the post below. My comments follow.
UNREAL. At a hearing in NH, State Rep Glenn Cordelli attempted to read from inappropriate books in school libraries. He gets shut down because it’s too graphic. The Democrats freak out and then all vote to not let him continue speaking.
Too graphic for a room of adults… pic.twitter.com/DWjgSiYCN2
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) February 16, 2024
Obviously, the Democrats come across as groomers, hypocrites, and thugs. Of course, it is likely that more people outside New Hampshire than inside New Hampshire know about this particular incident because WMUR, NHPR, etc., are mouthpieces for the New Hampshire Democrat Party. For example, this “reporting” by Ray Brewer keeps viewers/readers totally in the dark about the nature of the sexually explicit material being foisted on school children in New Hampshire. And here is some deflection by Adam Sexton … the “news” is that things are going sideways, NOT that the Democrats are trying to cover up the sexually explicit material in public schools:
And the Speaker, a Republican, comes across as a complete and utter buffoon … telling Rep Cordelli that he cannot read from a book available to middle school children if it is “graphic in any way,” calling the availability of the sexually explicit material in middle schools “a very sensitive situation for both sides,” Really? Seriously? We cannot talk about the specifics of sexually explicit material in public schools because it may hurt the feelings of the Democrats. What a BUFFOON. And what would you call the New Hampshire House Republicans for making this buffoon the Speaker?
But perhaps the best part is that the House apparently has a rule against “reading from a paper” (3:44). I hate this phrase, but … YOU CAN’T MAKE THIS STUFF UP.
And the grand finale to this FARCE. The House voted to keep sexually explicit materials in public schools. Again … YOU CAN’T MAKE THIS STUFF UP. The New Hampshire House is a national CLOWN SHOW a LAUGHINGSTOCK, and deservedly so.
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The Southern border is where most of the action is, but the Swanton Sector (NY, VT, NH) has seen a 240% spike in illegal crossings. None of them Canadians (who increasingly have good reason to escape the wrath of Trudeau). A border problem a local hunter discovered and captured on his game cam.
[Chris] Feeley recalled being in his tree stand one morning when a startled group of deer unexpectedly ran by — followed by two men “of Mexican descent” with backpacks and walking sticks, one of whom was poring over the screen of his smartphone.
“He stopped right underneath me and was looking at his iPhone and was following a trail, so obviously somebody gave him a route of which way to go,” Feeley said.
“I was just stunned, I didn’t know what to do. I just let them walk off, I gave them 10 minutes before I went back to the barn to call Border Patrol.”
That call to border officials soon became a regular event for Feeley, who began spotting groups of migrants on his automated trail camera with increasing frequency.
“The receptionists know it’s me when I call,” he said. “They’re like, ‘Oh, hey, Chris, how’s it going?’ and I’m like, ‘Hey, I had some more just walk by my camera, if you want to send the boys up there.’ “
Mexicans entering from Canada. Map Apps on iPhones.
The New York Post reports that for $350.00, “migrants” can fly to Toronto or Montreal and then march south across the US border. Why is Canadian Customs even letting them out of the airport? Didn’t Tyrant Troodough promise to put a stop to that? I may have misremembered, but how subtle is a winter-time spike in Mexican “tourists” to the Great White North? And why don’t they just stay?
Because they have been instructed to go to America.
We’ve already reported on the South/Central American conveyor that moves millions on trains and buses to the Southern border. The UN and our own government are doing this to us. Now we’ve got Customs and Border Patrol warning residents near the Canadian border to carry a firearm.
Residents living near the United States-Canada border in Vermont have been told to watch out for illegal immigrants with criminal records amid an increase in crossings via unofficial ports of entry.
Customs and Border Patrol agents urged locals to carry a firearm just in case, noting that while the vast majority of undocumented newcomers are peaceful and simply in search of a better life in the US, there will be some who have a propensity for violence.
I’m not sure about the Swanton Sector of New York or Vermont, but in New Hampshire, that’s not going to be a problem.
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It isn’t Zionists conflating Hamas with Gaza civilians. It’s the “pro-Palestinians.” ~ Elder Of Ziyon – Israel News
Video from the above link – RTWT:
Come Visit Gaza!
Another video – not sure of the provenance; I’ve been told this is atypical for the typical Gazan but still worth seeing:
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/we-had-a-great-life-in-gaza.mp4
Remember that Gaza journalist who misses life in pre-war Gaza?
Gaza journalist misses pre-Oct 7 Gaza (rumble.com)
Breezy terraces with what appears to be an excellent ambiance. Beaches with people enjoying the sea. And take a look at these market pictures.
Where is this open-air prison I keep hearing about?
Here’s another video with material from just before Oct. 7:
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/gaza-just-before-oct-7.mp4
Another collection of marketplace stills:
Can anyone please tell me how the above align with either Open Air Prison or Concentration Camp? Do concentration camps have spin classes, theme parks, and hotels?
Gaza Strip’s Arabs enjoy spin classes, fine dining, private beaches, theme parks, luxury hotels | JTF
Or plastic surgery? Or obesity, particularly among women? And a bunch more info here:
Pre-October 7th terror attack on Israel by Hamas, Palestinian Arabs and their useful idiots in the West accused Israel of turning Gaza into a “concentration camp” a.k.a. “the world’s largest open air prison” (barenakedislam.com)
Including a “cat café” and horseback riding lessons???? The above post also has an assortment of videos showing the horrific deprivations in Gaza. And some videos pulled from a prior post of mine here:
Shopping mall opens in Gaza (youtube.com)
Ramadan: Gaza’s green markets are alive with colour (youtube.com)
First luxurious resort opens in Gaza Strip (youtube.com)
Gaza City 2022 | Palestine | Cities Around the Globe |Travels with Imam (youtube.com)
A Stroll Through Gaza | Islamic Relief Canada (youtube.com)
Gaza Palestine Walking Tour | Gaza Strip Before The Attack 2023 | فلسطين غزة (youtube.com)
Not one bomb would have fallen either. All the buildings in the “before” part of these picture-pairs would still be as they were. NONE of these “before” images comport with either open air prison or concentration camp. None.
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Concentration camp? Nope.
Open air prison? Nope.
Weep at the loss of the Gaza that could have been…
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/the-gaza-that-could-have-been.mp4
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So let me wrap up with a picture of people in a REAL concentration camp:
You DO see the difference, don’t you?
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There are certain prerequisites to a functional democracy. Among these are limiting the vote to only legitimate voters, ensuring that the vote-count is legitimate, having an election-day as opposed to “early voting” for weeks prior to when the actual election is supposed to take place, and not allowing local election offices to be used as get-out-the-vote tools for the Party in power.
Equally important is that the voters get fully and fairly informed.
Stated somewhat differently, you can have voter ID, paper ballots, get rid of “early voting,” etc., etc., etc., and still not have a functional democracy if the government can censor the information available to voters (e.g., Hunter-laptop) and plant false information (e.g., Russia-bounties, the military are “suckers and losers”). America does NOT have a functional democracy because of government censorship.
Yes, it is a long listen. But if you don’t, then you are choosing to be uninformed and live in an alternative reality.
If you have not listened to this yet, you need to do it ASAP. Extremely important description of how our government is censoring speech in horrific fashion. You need to understand what they’re doing to fight it. https://t.co/i6nyt47ttU
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) February 17, 2024
damn. this is the clearest description i've ever heard of the events of the last ten years. Will the legacy media even try to debunk any of this? that's the dog not barking. https://t.co/wm8Kv56ffJ
— GregGutfeld (@greggutfeld) February 17, 2024
As Attorney General I filed Missouri v Biden and it exposed a vast censorship enterprise between Big Government and Big Tech.
This is a must watch interview between @TuckerCarlson and @MikeBenzCyber on @TCNetwork re government censorship.
The right to Free Speech is… https://t.co/gTm8ufDMtu
— Eric Schmitt (@Eric_Schmitt) February 17, 2024
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You can’t have a proper tyranny without a vast network of informants ratting out friends and neighbors, but the Twitter files and interviews with folks like Mike Benz have put a hitch in the surveillance state’s steps. Encrypted chat apps are another problem, but the uniparty is nothing if not persistent.
Under the brand of “Civic Listening,” informant networks are now coming to the West. The concept has been embraced by the censorship industry’s network of nonprofits, research institutes and private companies that work to shut down disfavored political speech online. Spurred by concerns about the growth of private discussion groups on platforms like WhatsApp and Telegram, the censorship industry has turned to the cultivation of snitches to gain access to U.S. citizens’ private conversations.
One of the organizations at the forefront of creating this snitch network is Meedan, a San Francisco based nonprofit. The organization has received one of the largest federal grants ever awarded for a censorship program: $5.7 million in taxpayer dollars was awarded to it by the National Science Foundation (NSF) for its work to tackle “hate, abuse, and misinformation with minority led partnerships.” Meedan also received a smaller ($144,850) grant from the government-funded Open Technology Fund for a “claims and memes database” to monitor “fact-checked claims and debunked visual misinformation from internet repressive countries.”
These groups operate in at least two spheres. The first is as a tip-line to which the snitch sends the offending content or commentary. The AI-powered engine then generates a response the snitch can share to counter the misinformation.
Another function of the Civic Listening propaganda project is prebunking “the censorship industry’s plan to brainwash the public at scale by feeding them weakened versions of disfavored narratives before they encounter the real thing, biasing them ahead of time.”
Funding so-called NGOs helps them get around the more direct action we saw revealed in the Twitter files with the combined result of chilling speech and making it more difficult for the average citizen to filter the noise they create.
It is devious and sinister, and you should be on the lookout for local evidence of it. That might require some folks to sign up and use these apps and tools to filter for responses that we can then look for in the digital universe. When you see them, we can say hey, that sounds exactly like the response coming from the government-funded censorship industrial complex.
Provide a screenshot, call them out, and maybe ban them from your Telegram, Messenger, Signal, or WhatsApp channel. Your call. We’re just here to let you know that this is out there, and I bet we’ll see it rear its head everywhere conversations are allowed, perhaps even in our comment section.
I do invite them to try. Our readers are not easily moved by watered-down arguments meant to pre-bunk or debunk. And they will bring receipts. But not every forum will be so well informed.
And please, let us know if you see any evidence of the pre-bunking apps especially applied locally.
One more. Trusted Messengers looks like another effort in the same vein. More on that here.
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Maine is the “whitest” state in the country, but the demographics of The Pine Tree State have been changing significantly in the last thirty years. Legal and illegal immigration is driving this change, and the percentage of foreign-borns in Maine has increased by 20,000 in those three decades.
Asians account for 20% of the 56,000 immigrant residents. Unfortunately, not all those folks calling Maine home are here for the state’s beauty but more for the opportunities afforded by a Progressive environment and understaffed law enforcement. Many are fueling the growth of the illegal marijuana farming industry, which is threatening the safety of all Mainers.
There are close to 300 illegal Chinese-owned pot farms known in Central and Northern Maine. The rural regions of the state are conducive to these clandestine operations. The Local and State Police are ill-equipped to combat the scope of this problem, and the Federal officials of Maine have been asking for help from Merrick Garland, the DOJ, and DHS since last August. Their efforts, including the letter below, have gone unanswered.
The text of the letter sent by Senators Susan Collins and Angus King and Representatives Chellie Pingree and Jared Golden:
Dear Attorney General Garland:
We write to express our concerns about recent reports of a memo produced and circulated by Border Patrol officials regarding alleged illegal Chinese marijuana growing operations in the state of Maine.1 According to that memo, law enforcement in the state have identified 270 suspected properties that have been used as illegal Chinese growing operations, producing an estimated $4.37 billion in revenue. These illegal growing operations are detrimental to Maine businesses that comply with State laws, and we urge the Department of Justice (DOJ) to shut them down.
Maine state law permits marijuana use in certain circumstances, and the Maine Office of Cannabis Policy (OCP) provides oversight. OCP is responsible for licensing, compliance, and general oversight of both medical marijuana use and recreational use, and it consults with other state agencies—including the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry; the Department of Health and Human Services; the Department of Labor; and the Department of Public Safety—on rulemaking related to their areas of expertise.
These reports of illegal growing operations within the state are alarming, and we are writing to request additional information about what the DOJ is doing to address this situation. We request answers to the following questions:
Thank you for your attention to this important matter.
Sincerely,
It seems like an appropriate letter that will evoke a response from the Attorney General, and help will be heading northeast to save the day. But you would be wrong. The Attorney General has yet to respond to this letter or the next from 51 Federal officers. The AG seems unconcerned with the Chinese Cartel setting up business in Maine, the Dakotas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, or California. Can we assume, at this point, six months from the first letter, that because the illegal pot farming situation is connected to the CCP and Joe Biden is in the pocket of the Chinese, the Chinese have free reign in Maine or anywhere else they want to operate?
Nobody in China leaves without the CCP knowing their intent or destination. The 30,000 Chinese Nationals who have crossed our southern border illegally are here at the direction of the CCP. Setting up illegal pot farms, human and sex trafficking, and using American tax dollars to bankroll them is on the CCP. The results of what these people do is on Joe Biden. The President is either directing the DOJ to disregard the situation, or he is complicit. Joe Biden is selling out rural America, which is key to China’s takeover of America. Too simplistic? Then, give another hypothesis.
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Every protagonist in Greek tragedy is expected to have some fatal or tragic flaw. A weakness that compels toward their demise. If the ATF ever had a higher purpose, its modern obsession with control over a constitutionally protected right, at least in the current court climate, could be their undoing.
Anti-2A wins have been few and far between, but the progressives are nothing if not persistent. As our new tagline states (or will when we complete the next site rebuild), Tyranny never rests, so neither shall we. And you can’t have a proper despotism while the people retain not just the right to self-defense but an ability to meet or even counter the State’s force advantage.
They will not rest until they have the guns.
With that mission statement in mind last year, ATF issued a complex and convoluted pistol brace rule in its latest effort to bureaucratize the Second Amendment into a maze that is impossible to navigate. The rule got a lot of attention on our pages but has since been stayed pending a handful of legal challenges over which ATF has not fared well. In a last-ditch effort to save their Rube-Golbergian masterpiece, ATF now insists that if you evade or ignore the rule, you are evading taxes (or something), and you can’t sue them for that.
My best guess is that they are convinced this will end up at the US Supreme Court, and Chief Justice Roberts will roll over on the tax issue the way he did with Obamacare. But it is a risky bet. If the courts are forced to decide the question of ATF’s capacity to generate revenue on an enumerated and protected natural right, the result could be the partial or total loss of that ability, which could have nationwide implications.
Liberal states have long used fees (taxes) to inhibit the exercise of the right to self-defense.
No one bringing lawsuits is challenging the National Firearms Act’s empowerment of ATF to collect these taxes, so that may be why ATF is throwing the Hail Mary. It is little more than an argument for the defense, so it seems unlikely to go much further than that, but it does appear that ATF has run out of excuses.
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An MS-13 gang member, a thug, and a known killer brutally raped Kayla Hamilton. How do we know he was a killer? All MS-13 members have to kill someone to be accepted into that criminal organization. Kayla fought with all her strength and ability but died anyway, just unable to resist the larger, stronger man.
Kayla’s mother, Tammy Nobles, has filed a 100 million dollar lawsuit against the Biden administration’s Dept. of Homeland Security and the Dept. of Health and Human Services for operational negligence, specifically for Mayorkas’ running of his department.
I urge those who care to watch Mrs. Noble’s testimony before the House Homeland Security Committee, while those who don’t care should be made to watch it. (That’s every pompous liberal Biden supporter.)
(A written copy of her testimony can be found here)
Tammy Nobles is not politically active, only a grieving, heartbroken mother seeking the justice of holding those responsible for allowing this vicious MS-13 brute into this country to account. She charges proper screening by DHS employees who would have seen his MS-13 gang-related tattoos, and a phone call to the El Salvador government could have confirmed his criminal standing and would have prevented Kayla’s horrific murder.
Do you reader and I have to suffer this kind of loss of a beloved child, wife, or mother before we call out Biden and all his supporters for the criminal supporters they are? In any reasoned examination of the facts, these people are aiding and abetting before the fact, after the fact, and in fact, the violent crime wave responsible for not only Kayla Hamilton’s death but hundreds of thousands of violent crimes being inflicted on law-abiding American citizens.
This horror is at the hands of leftist Democrats. Vote them all out.
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Republican loss in the special congressional election in NY yesterday; how much may have been due to snow? How much due to Mazi Pilip being a registered democrat? How much attributable to Trump being the nominee? How much to the backlash against Santos having won an election there? What is being done to recruit another candidate in November to run against Suozzi in November, or will they run the same candidate? Can Long Island be saved?
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Australia’s Parliament has finally passed a motion saying Assange should be returned to Australia. The vote was 86 Yes, 42 No. Andrew Wilkie, MP was the ringleader. Barnaby Joyce abstained from voting.
Apparently, the London Home Secretary will make the decision. Do you recall when the Home Secretary (Jack Straw) decided that Augusto Pinochet need not be sent to Spain, per extradition, as he was too old or infirm to cope?
Human Rights Watch wrote:“The House of Lords, in its second decision on March 24, 1999, ruled that the only crimes for which General Pinochet could be extradited were torture and conspiracy to torture after December 8, 1988, when the U.N. torture convention took effect in the U.K. Magistrate Bartle specifically ruled, however, that Pinochet’s conduct before 1988—which would include the creation of the secret police and the establishment of Operation Condor targeting Pinochet’s opponents abroad—could be examined by the Spanish courts in proving the existence of a conspiracy which continued after December 1988. This ruling is in line with the language of the House of Lords decision.”
In other words, Pinochet got off despite a court (House of Lords) saying it was legal to extradite him.
I entitled this article “Where Do I Stand,” meaning “What Does My Americanism Think Should Be Done?”
I enjoy mocking those who say the US would mistreat him. We have a great system of justice in the Great Republic. Really, it’s flawless — if there weren’t a bunch of criminals (e.g., Merrick Garland) running it.
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I suspect that all the lengthy delays in getting Assange to travel across the pond reflect a desire by the Powerful to NOT let him into the US, as his criminal charges would not hold up for a minute here.
The charges are for several counts of espionage and one count of messing with a computer. The original downloading of the classified documents was done by a Private in the army named Bradlee Manning, later Chelsea Manning. She was tried and convicted and served seven years (I think) in jail, but her sentence was then commuted by Obama.
There will be no way for a foreigner, namely Julian Assange, a citizen of Australia (born in Townsville!), to be found guilty of espionage. It would open up the whole subject of extra-territorial jurisdiction. God knows, the US government would not relish that. It would suggest that every country and its dog could bring charges against Americans.
(Help!)It would also bring Abu Ghraib into the forefront again. You may recall that the late US Sen Diane Feinstein “led” the Senate report on torture, taking 12 years to present the findings, which then got back-burner’d.
Back to Human Rights Watch again“The conspiracy charge goes to the heart of the case because it alleges that Pinochet used torture as a weapon of intimidation and political persecution. By allowing evidence of conduct that occurred before 1988, Bartle’s ruling clearly permits the Spanish prosecutors to prove that General Pinochet built a state apparatus that relied on torture and that he was fully aware that torture was practiced systematically.”
Wow. Can’t have that!On the subject of the US, or the cabal, wanting to keep Julian out of sight, recall that the cabal must have been behind the cooked-up sex charges against him in Sweden. Likely, the cabal also oversaw the hospitality of the Ecuadorian embassy in London.
Stella Assange claims in the above interview that Mike Pompeo, a member of the Trump Cabinet, was planning to assassinate her husband. This, too, is quite a reason for the US to wish Julian would go back to Oz, so we don’t have to deal with the Mary Maxwells of this world making a federal case out of Pompeo’s sins.
Note to Readers, I have now been excommunicated by Disquis and all the other platforms, so I won’t be able to respond to criticisms of this post, but try anyway! Thanks.
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The fraud case against Donald Trump and the Trump Enterprise by the City of New York will be seen more as a made-for-TV drama than an exercise in American Jurisprudence. The Trump Family and company were found guilty and levied with damages totaling over $375 Million.
What started as a campaign pledge by a bitter and vindictive Democrat lawyer to get herself elected as the Attorney General of New York became one of the many cases designed to prevent former President Donald Trump from a successful campaign to regain the White House. Stopping the MAGA movement is the primary mission of the Democrats, but the destruction of Trump, his family, his company, and his legacy is the icing on the cake.
During her campaign, Letitia James said nothing about what she would do to clean up the crime-ridden city of New York or make the state of New York safer for its residents. The only focus of her campaign was to prosecute and destroy Donald Trump. This personal mission may have had no bearing on her election, as being a Democrat virtually guaranteed her victory. Still, it was a clear message to Trump and Republicans that the Democrat Machine is prepared to attack you at every opportunity.
This case was not litigated in a jury trial, and Judge Arthur F. Engoron was the Judge and Jury. At the beginning of the trial, he went on the record that Trump was guilty, and the only question to be determined was how significant to make the penalty. He unreasonably ruled the courtroom, and this case will probably be overturned on the Judge’s performance. Letitia James, though the Attorney General for the entire state of New York, apparently has little to do as she was present for every minute of the trial and had daily comments for the press. This case was her moment in the spotlight, and she abused that time.
According to most legal and Constitutional experts, this case was brought against Trump with little basis in law. There is no fraud crime if no harmed party or money is lost. None of the many banks that did business with the Trumps claimed damages. This case is purely political theater. It was to destroy Donald Trump and the company that had become synonymous with The Big Apple.
Before Trump came down the Golden Escalator in 2015, every celebrity, businessperson, and politician wanted to be seen with Trump. He was a fixture on TV for over a decade, and being on The Apprentice was a ticket to stardom. Declaring as a Republican presidential candidate and winning made Trump a pariah with the Democrats and the influential people of New York City and the country. He became Enemy #1 for the Liberal/Socialist movement. The New York Billionaire had become the People’s President and pledged to Make America Great Again. These qualities are like fingernails on a chalkboard for Democrats, and they will do anything to keep him out of the White House in 2024.
James and Engoran exposed the Democrats and their monetary penalty, and forbidding Trump and his sons from operating in New York for years will send New York businesses heading for Florida, Texas, and Tennessee. They set out to crush Trump but put another nail in the coffin of what used to be the greatest city on the planet. This fiasco lends fuel to the question of the goal of Democrats as they systematically destroy America. If the destruction of our Republic is their mission, they are on target.
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