Burning Man is an annual event that attracts some interesting people. It’s like an Elite-secular-cultist-hippy gathering (Vermont has a very progressive local version). Three days ago, traffic to the event was backed up because some elite hippy climate cultists had blocked a Nevada road on Tribal Land. The Native American Tribal Police responded.

You’ve likely seen the video. These indigenous peace officers were none too kind about the miles-long emissions-generating convoy of cars, trucks, and campers despoiling their native lands. But their response makes for an excellent example of how this sort of thing should be handled anywhere it happens.

 

This is how the police deal with climate protesters in Nevada. That’s how you do it. pic.twitter.com/y8Qy1nkG7H

— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) August 28, 2023

 

Breitbart has more, including a video of the climate cult being confronted by displeased motorists, the traffic backup, and (of course) the clearing of the blockade by Tribal police.

There is no stopping to say “Excuse me sir or Mame,” just deliberate, decisive action.

 

 

#BREAKING: Nevada Rangers has rammed their truck through climate protesters as they attempted to shut down the Burning Man Arts and Music Festival

#Blackrock | #Nevada
⁰Climate activists attempted to halt a significant music and arts festival known as Burning Man, which is… pic.twitter.com/ormnHYIPgy

— R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) August 28, 2023

 

“The Rangers arrested the protesters for “trespassing on tribal land.”

 

That’s got to hurt. Elite Hippies and Native American police ganging up on Climate Cultists opposed to Burning Man’s assemblage using “private jets and single-use plastics, along with addressing various other environmental issues.”

More popcorn, please.

 

 

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Most politicians are clueless when it comes to education policies and research. Will Stewart, Democrat candidate for Mayor in Manchester, proved that with a recent post on his Facebook page.  Will Stewart is beating the drums to get kids into pre-school. He cites getting children ready to learn in Kindergarten so they can be reading by 3rd grade.

Most politicians have no idea what they are talking about when it comes to teaching children how to read. He has no idea that pushing children to perform academically before they are cognitively ready can have a negative impact on young children.

 

 

Pre-school should be fun, but there is no need for children to go to pre-school. In fact, experts are telling parents the opposite of what Stewart is selling.

In an article in the Atlantic titled: The New Preschool Is Crushing Kids, they are saying, “Today’s young children are working more, but they’re learning less.”  They go on to say:

A child who’s supposed to read by the end of kindergarten had better be getting ready in preschool. As a result, expectations that may arguably have been reasonable for 5- and 6-year-olds, such as being able to sit at a desk and complete a task using pencil and paper, are now directed at even younger children, who lack the motor skills and attention span to be successful.

They wisely point out that this attitude towards early childhood education is harming children, not helping them.

Much of this began after the release of the Common Core Standards. If Stewart actually read them, he would have noticed that the early childhood standards are developmentally inappropriate for young children.

A Joint Statement of Early Childhood Health and Education Professionals on the Common Core Standards Initiative
was issued by the Alliance for Childhood. www.allianceforchildhood.org  In the document they raised “GRAVE CONCERNS” about the Common Core Standards for young children.  They warned:

The draft standards made public in January conflict with compelling
new research in cognitive science, neuroscience, child development, and early childhood
education about how young children learn, what they need to learn, and how best to teach them
in kindergarten and the early grades.

And

There is little evidence that such standards for young children lead to later success. While an introduction to books in early childhood is vital, research on the links between the intensive teaching of discrete reading skills in kindergarten and later success is inconclusive at best.
Many of the countries with top-performing high-school students do not begin formal schooling until age six or seven.

There is science to back this up. Stanford researchers say we are sending children to school way too early.

A new study from Stanford University shows that Danish kids who postponed kindergarten for up to one year showed dramatically higher levels of self-control.

“We found that delaying kindergarten for one year reduced inattention and hyperactivity by 73% for an average child at age 11,” Thomas Dee, one of the co-authors and a Stanford Graduate School of Education professor, said in a release.

All of this was reported here.

Stewart isn’t taking into account any of the research that has been done on Common Core and its impact on young children. He hasn’t taken into account how children succeed in foreign countries when delaying the start of formal education.

If he really cares about children being able to read, then he should pay close attention to the reading programs used in our public schools. Many students are not receiving quality reading instruction. That’s where he should focus if he wants our kids to become good readers. Stewart’s vision includes policies and spending on programs that have been proven to harm children instead of helping them.

 

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The internet threw traditional news and media for a loop, a change that many have weathered but which has metastasized – or perhaps systematized is a better word – the media’s role as the propaganda arm of the Federal government. When we say The Media, we mean Pravda, and WashPo is as reliable a mouthpiece as it gets.

The Washington Post exists to be a stenographer for the inside-the-beltway-Georgetown-uniparty-deep-state message while clinging bitterly to a tagline it has worked hard to contradict. Democracy Dies in Darkness.

In its truest sense, Democracy to them means mob rule and WashPo (WP) may have begun its final descent.

In a recent piece in the technology section, WP bemoans a BLM-like decline in policing on platforms like Facebook and YouTube with X (pronounced “Twitter”) more than just a lost cause. Musk helped expose the government’s use of socials to suppress speech with which the Post disagrees. That webby, vaporous thing they call “misinformation,” whose proper spelling is “c-e-n-s-o-r-s-h-i–p.”

The Feds got busted silencing speech, and it has the information gatekeepers at The Washington Post wondering how they might get Adam and Eve back into the Garden where they can try to control their knowledge of good and evil. The act itself is evil, unconstitutional, and should be considered professional misconduct. But a modern American press quick to bemoan monopolies wants very much to secure one for itself.

The secret to saving Machine Media is to break as many of its competitors as possible by whatever means necessary. A cartel on information, knowledge, and ideas. To control what people think and believe. All the things the First Amendment exists to prevent and under whose rubric the Post operates its campaign for an information oligarchy that oversees acceptable speech. It’s all very Animal Farm as the corporate press feasting at Farmer Jones’ table, in his house, wearing his clothes, and pantomiming his mannerisms while squawking about how not all information is equal.

But what is it, this misinformation? No one knows (least of all the authors of the piece in WaPo), but I’d guess it is a lot like pornography to Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart. They’ll know it when they see it, and if it falls outside the tunnels that already control its vision, they’ll be sure to consult sources inside the government for confirmation.

It is everything you ever wanted in a free press, just without the freedom.

I wonder if they do not grasp, like many of the factions on the fractious left, that the water they carry for them now will be used to waterboard them later. Maybe even drown them. The history is clear on how this goes, and it’s not even old. Mao was a few decades back with tactics not much different from those of Chavez when he wrecked Venezuela.

But I suppose they are too busy rewriting history or erasing it to take time to learn from it. Or they assume they’ll still be there after the Revolution, but then, that’s what they all think until someone puts them up against a wall.

 

 

HT | Reclaim The Net

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The Vermont Futures Project (VFP), a spinoff of the Vermont Chamber of Commerce, is conducting a statewide tour of what they call “community conversations, and … strategic stakeholder visits in all fourteen counties” to gather input for their 2024 Economic Plan for Vermont.

(Side Note: I didn’t think I could loathe the term “stakeholder” any more than I do. It’s a nauseating euphemism for “special interest” used by special interests. But “strategic stakeholder” takes the prize.)

The prime objective of the VFP is to increase Vermont’s population from where it is now at 645,000 to 802,000 by 2035.

Are they serious?

I don’t say that to mock the objective. I am seriously asking if these people are serious about achieving such a goal. And, after looking through VFP’s recent presentations, videos, and press releases, sadly, my conclusion is NO, they are not serious. They are not serious because they are unwilling to identify and call out the root problem causing Vermont’s decades-long economic and population stagnation, which is our radical leftist political establishment and the policies they are putting into practice.

VFP boasts that it is data-driven. “How can we use data to support the evolution of Vermont’s economy toward a thriving future full of opportunity for all?” they ask. Well, as I have previously written (See: Vermont’s Legislature Is Blowing Big Bucks on Failed Experiments), there is plenty of data pointing to the fact that the states that are gaining the most population, such as Florida, Texas, the Carolinas, and Tennessee are Red States implementing low tax, entrepreneurially friendly policies that give their citizens more freedom to make their own decisions.

The data also shows that the states losing the most population, such as California, New York, Illinois, and Massachusetts, are Blue States that are raising taxes, driving up the cost of day-to-day living with expensive, nanny state regulations, and micromanaging every aspect of their citizens’ lives from telling them what kind of bags they’re allowed to use in the grocery store, to banning the kinds of vehicles they like to drive. These are states that look an awful lot like Vermont.

 

 

So, if you are truly data-driven, VFP, and are truly committed to increasing Vermont’s population with an eye toward building a healthy growing economy, how about pointing that out? Loudly.

Beyond the data, use your common sense.

VFP rightly notes that the biggest obstacle to population growth is a severe lack of any, let alone affordable, housing. If you can’t find or afford a place to live in a state, odds are you’re not going to live in it. So, what political party’s policies are making it difficult and expensive to build housing in Vermont? Hmmm….

Moreover, productive workers in their prime earning years are simply not going to choose to pay some of the highest property taxes in the country (on the property they can’t afford in the first place) when other states deliver more municipal services for a fraction of the cost. If they’re choosing between a state with a high-income tax plus a new payroll tax on their earnings versus one with low-income tax rates and no payroll tax, which one do you think they’re going to pick? A state that bans the kind of vehicle you need to do your job or one that doesn’t? A state that forces you to register and pay a fee to engage in your livelihood versus one that has no such requirement? One with abnormally high health insurance costs versus one with more affordable options? The list goes on and on.

So, instead of pussyfooting around the countryside saying stuff like, “I am looking at the Vermont Climate Action Plan, and seeing a bit of language that really stands out to me, which is Vermont needs to prioritize helping the people who will be most affected by climate change,” per Kevin Chu, VFP’s executive director (Seriously, BARF!), how about an aggressive campaign explaining that no young (or any age for that matter) worker is going to choose to migrate to state that has no affordable housing due primarily to that very climate change-oriented governing philosophy and document you just cited.

I understand and, to some degree, sympathize with members of the Vermont business community’s timidity in this regard. The Democrat/Progressive ruling class is vindictive, and they do, at present, control the game. The folks behind VFP have some very nice businesses, and it would be a shame if something were to, you know, happen to them. But at some point, if you want the bully to stop taking your lunch money, you’ve got to punch him in the nose.

VPF’s website says the next stops on its statewide info-gathering tour will be in Windsor County on September 13 and Caledonia County on September 21. Weirdly, they don’t say where or what time. But should that information ever come to light, I encourage readers to show up and give them an earful. In the meantime, they are asking for input via this survey. Take a minute to look at it and fill it out. Something along the lines of “time to grow a pair.”

 

Rob Roper is a freelance writer with 20 years of experience in Vermont politics, including three years of service as chair of the Vermont Republican Party and nine years as President of the Ethan Allen Institute, Vermont’s free-market think tank.

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On August 25th, 2023, a group of approximately 100 gathered in Concord to demand a federal investigation into the cover-ups of abuse at the Youth Detention Center. They blamed the Attorneys General and others for the cover-ups. They are right.

Each Governor appoints the Attorney General, and each Attorney General has never addressed but covered up the misconduct of police and others who are involved in enabling, encouraging, and hiding the abuse. When David Meehan brought a class action lawsuit against the State on behalf of hundreds of abuse victims, the State, under AG Gordon MacDonald, with Geoffrey Ward as his Deputy and Jane Young as Assistant AG, dismissed them for “victim negligence.”

The US Attorney’s office has declined to state whether a federal investigation will take place. That US Attorney for New Hampshire is Jane Young. She was very likely involved in drafting the State’s “victim negligence” response to David Meehan’s class action suit. Her federal prosecutors are Geoffrey Ward (who was head of public integrity under Gordon MacDonald but failed to respond to emails from Rep. Susan Homola regarding police misconduct. This was after John Scippa of Police Standards & Training had forwarded my concerns to the AG’s office and after Jane Young had promised me that Geoffrey Ward would respond. We were ignored, and files got deleted, and then Jane Young and Geoffrey Ward got rewarded by failing upward to become US Attorney and federal prosecutor, respectively. The relationship between the NH AG’s office and the US Attorney’s office in New Hampshire makes it impossible for a transparent investigation to take place because everyone is complicit, whether passively or actively. It is the same pattern we saw in the cover-ups of the FRM Ponzi scheme, which also involved the AG’s office’s failures. That was over a decade ago, and nothing has happened. All the same, people preside over how the state’s business is run – it’s just musical chairs.

Even the current messaging requesting an investigation involves someone who might be compromised: Charles Glenn.

Charles Glenn is the former stepson of Thomas Grover. Thomas Grover was adopted by Patricia Grover of DCYF. He was a drug addict who was offered money (substantiated in statements) to accuse Father Gordon MacRae, who was framed by Police Detective James F McLaughlin, whose name was hidden on the Laurie List but known about by AG Gordon MacDonald.

“Reportedly (and I understand that the AG’s office has been aware of this since 2012), Charles Glenn once approached Father Gordon MacRae in Concord men’s prison library where Macrae was a clerk (around 2008 or so). ” He allegedly said to MacRae, “You know the case against you was bogus, right?”. MacRae allegedly told him that he did know this but wanted to know how Charles Glenn knew it. Charles Glenn told him that his mother, Trina Ghedoni, was married to Thomas Grover during the years that Charles Glenn was in the Youth Detention Center. Later, Charles Glenn allegedly approached a friend of Father Gordon MacRae’s – Edward Silva (deceased). Silva relayed that Charles Glenn had information that could undo the case against Father Gordon MacRae but that he wanted money to provide that information. MacRae told Silva that this would render the information useless, and so it went no further.

Jim Abbott- a former FBI special agent- who was investigating the case against Gordon MacRae, interviewed Trina Ghedoni five times. She told him that she and Thomas Grover were visiting Charles Glenn at the YDC. The case against Father Gordon MacRae had exploded in the local media by then so Charles Glenn was well aware that Thomas Grover was his primary accuser. During a later visit with Thomas Grover alone at YDC, Grover allegedly told Charles Glenn that Father Gordon MacRae had never actually touched him but that he was about to “get a lot of money for this story”. Trina Ghedoni told Jim Abbott that she learned of those conversations between Thomas Grover and her son only after she divorced Thomas Grover. She also told Jim Abbott that James F. McLaughlin and therapist Pauline Goupil (who motioned for Thomas Grover to cry during his testimony from the back of the courtroom observed by witnesses who wrote to the judge about it but were ignored) were Thomas Grover’s primary coaches as he developed this scam.

Trina Ghedoni told Jim Abbott that she would ask her son, Charles Glenn, to cooperate. By that time, her son was in the NH State Prison. Apparently, Charles Glenn was in constant trouble at the prison, and not long after his first conversations with Father Gordon MacRae, he ended up in punitive segregation. Jim Abbott visited him at least three times and was able to elicit a signed statement that Thomas Grover admitted on numerous occasions that his charges against MacRae were “a total fraud for money.”

This became the basis for the “new evidence” that put Father Gordon MacRae’s habeas corpus petition into state and federal courts in 2012. But the state courts declined any hearing. Charles Glenn’s and Trina Ghedoni’s statements were attached to the habeas corpus. While Charles Glenn languished in and out of punitive segregation, he tried to talk to Father Gordon MacRae, but the latter stopped him, advising him that it would be seen as witness tampering. When he ended up in segregation again, he was angry with his mother for some unknown reason. He wrote a letter to the NH AG (Michael Delaney at the time or Joseph Foster) in which he accused Jim Abbot of having an affair with his mother (baseless, I understand). He said that his prior signed statement was not true. He wanted to get out of segregation and start over somewhere else. Mysteriously he was moved to a Connecticut prison after revoking his exculpatory statement against Father Gordon MacRae. Charles Glenn is now back in New Hampshire’s state prison and told Father Gordon MacRae recently that he was cooperating in order to get a federal investigation going.

On 30th August 2018, AG Gordon MacDonald was noted in the Concord Monitor to have argued against the release of the Laurie List, which had James F. McLaughlin’s name added to it in June 2018 for crimes dating back to 1985.

The investigation into James F. McLaughlin is being dragged out. He’s working in DA Chris McLaughlin’s office currently, which raises questions as to why a DA would hire a dishonest police officer at all unless it is to be complicit in going through and deleting more files.

AG Gordon MacDonald claimed “victim negligence” when he rejected the class action lawsuit against the State & YDC. No. Gordon MacDonald is involved in a racket that involved the extortion of the Diocese of Manchester and cover-ups of other priests’ sexual misconduct and abuse of position off the back of James F McLaughlin’s framing of Father Gordon MacRae; the extortion of St Paul’s School and cover-ups of sexual abuse there off the framing of scholarship student Owen Labrie. That involved one of James F. McLaughlin’s proteges: Police Detective Julie Curtin and James F. McLaughlin himself, who Gordon MacDonald brought out of retirement.

Jane Young as US Attorney for New Hampshire, is never going to investigate Governors, AGs, local attorneys, or non-profits because she is a gatekeeper, not a truth seeker.

I wrote a petition over a year ago to seek an investigation from the Senate Ways & Means Committee and the US DOJ’s office regarding the Youth Detention Center. Maybe now there has been a protest and national news organizations are picking it up, this will gain some traction. You can read it and sign it here.

 

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Have you ever had a few things you thought were worth sharing but not worthy of, say, 600 words? I’m not saying I couldn’t write 600 words for each, but that would be wasting words, and I’d rather just share them together and save 1800 words (minus these).

First up, some hilarious pandemic 2.0 fearmongering pushback. “How about No!”

 



 

Next! Tucker Carlson delivers some remarks in Hungary, which are what you’d expect from a guy who is still hitting his stride. Watch the first few minutes and you’ll want to watch all of it.

 



 

And finally, we have shared cuts of Democrats as Election Denires. President Trump just shared one on Truth Social and now we’re sharing it with you.

 

 

 

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The President of the United States has been on vacation for most of the summer, and we have not had the pleasure of a Karine Jeanne-Pierre for two months. You would think that with that time off, KJP would have come to the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room with a loaded binder.

And the media reps would have done their homework and come up with meaty questions to which Americans want to hear the answers.

We were disappointed on both fronts.

One of the most profound questions for the hapless press secretary was regarding the ownership by China of all the panda bears in American zoos. With all of the issues on the Federal Government level, why are we wasting time on panda questions? Pandas are cute, but the person who asked that question should have their credentials taken back.

Peter Doocy asked a couple of questions and even snuck in some follow-up queries, but none warranted answers from Karine. Her job has evolved to deflecting and referring all questions to other departments. Why does her job exist? He threw her a softball question about the new guideline from the Alcohol Czar suggesting two beers a week. She knew nothing about it. He then pivoted to questions about Hunter’s art sales, home in Malibu, the Biden Brand, and Hunter’s selling access to the White House. She would not touch any of these and deflected to Hunter’s lawyers.

Doocy got her very flustered, and her subsequent few responses were disjointed. She did not and does not handle pressure well. If the answer is not in the binder, it does not exist in her head. For the Administration that claims to be the most transparent, they may be the most opaque. It is no wonder they keep a vice on Biden’s lips, but this country is getting no insight or answers from Biden and his team. It is also clear that the Biden campaign plan will be to minimize his appearances, no debates, no interviews, and let the corrupt Democrat machine do its job.

Americans deserve better than what we are getting from Biden. We can blame Joe, but much of the blame sits with the media. They must insist on access and, if denied, report on why. There is no digging. There is no one held accountable. There is no story that has legs unless it is negative about Donald Trump.

This shielding of America from the truth about the Biden Administration has been part of the game plan since 2019. The less Americans know about Biden, the easier it is to manipulate him and the public. Biden ran his campaign from his Delaware basement, and this mess our country is in was the result. We must change course and correct the mistakes of the Biden term. We have said it many times, but we have one chance to save this Republic: to replace Joe Biden with a solid Conservative Republican. It is time to let the adults drive the bus.

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Democrats are seeking to cement permanent control of America. The modus operandi is the criminalization of the political opposition while they are hard at work, crippling the authority to which the opposition might appeal in defense of its rights.

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Thomas Jefferson had words for this behavior.

• “All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.”
• “Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.”
• “When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.”
• “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”

We are watching as American politics becomes a slow-motion car crash. Leftists in control of the Democrat party are attempting to criminalize their political opposition and weaponized the government against the people. We have Soviet-style show trials scheduled back to back to back, to back as they play“Show Me the Man, and I’ll Show You the Crime.”  Cases brought against not only Donald Trump but anyone who has surrounded him.

It is very dangerous to the rule of law when we start allowing lawyers to be charged for interactions with their clients.

These zealous prosecutors may have differing motives for twisting and reaching with the law to hang a defendant, but when they have to reach and twist to bring a prosecution, especially a political prosecution, they are nearly always wrong. Attacks on a former president, the current GOP front-runner, in the middle of his campaign for office is grandstanding.

These cases effectively criminalize seeking office by anyone who holds views contrary to the Uni-party. Frivolous and vengeful prosecutorial efforts are pursued in violation of laws, norms, and core principles of justice. But the message is clear, “You can go to jail if you disagree with us. If you threaten our power and privilege, there is a cost.”

Americans can longer be trusted to choose leaders within a narrow set of regime-approved bounds. The result is they must force their selections on us by whatever means, even though locking up the opposition has always been the definition of tyranny.

Jan. 6, 2021, served as a pretext to escalate the war and used to punish those with the “wrong” views. They were made political prisoners over questionable decisions made by unarmed citizens who have since been treated as hardened criminals.

The Justice Department tried to add terrorism enhancements to some Jan. 6 sentences, and “obstruction of an official proceeding” felony charges.  That’s preposterous. It had never before been applied to protesters. Now Special Counsel Jack Smith has thusly charged Trump.

This regime is threatening our most fundamental rights. When is enough too much, and how long will you stand for what’s going on?

 

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Just four and a half months since President Biden declared an end to the Covid “emergency,” the media is suddenly full of stories about the return of Covid. This time a new “variant” is being rolled out and the media, in collusion with big Pharma and the fear-industrial complex, are churning out stories about how forced masking is making a comeback.

Also, the “unvaccinated” are again to be denied basic human rights in the name of fighting a virus that the vaccine demonstrably does not protect against.

In short, they are desperately trying to revive the tyranny, insanity, and utter irrationality of the two-year Covid scare. And they are pretending none of us remembers how they destroyed society with their lockdowns, mask mandates, and vaccine mandates. They are hoping that none of us will remember the suicides, lost jobs, broken marriages, increased alcoholism and drug abuse, and the rest of what went along with the world’s experiment with global lockdown.

Even Fauci himself is back – like a moth drawn to the light of publicity. Despite all the scientific evidence that the lockdowns were a disaster, that they did far more harm than good, Fauci has re-emerged with his trademark arrogance and claimed that they were the right thing to do and should be done again if that’s what it takes to force people to take the vaccine. A vaccine that does not work.

They won’t even allow us to mention the spike in all-around mortality or the millions who may have been vaccine-injured the first time around. They want us to think that 20-year-old world-class athletes have always just dropped dead of heart attacks out of the blue. It’s all normal! Don’t question it! What are you, some kind of conspiracy theorist? Are you a science-denier?

Yes, look for a renewal of all those old hollow phrases used to attack those of us who can see with our own eyes and hear with our own ears. Their slogans are meant to silence any debate. The same “experts” like Fauci who claimed “I am the science” are back and they shamelessly demand to silence us again.

The big question is…why? Why are they doing this and how do they think they can get away with it a second time? One reason they believe they can get away with it again is that no one has ever been punished for what they did the first time. The Federal Government made sure that the pharmaceutical companies would not be liable for vaccine damages.

The public figures who openly became monsters, demanding the unvaccinated be drummed out of society and maybe even off the face of the earth have not been shamed or shunned. Politicians who displayed cowardice and worse have not been voted out of office for their treachery.

Why are they coming back around for another round of Covid tyranny? Fear is a weapon to gain control. Last time around they generated fear to radically change how America voted. Suddenly everyone was mailed ballots. How closely were they checked? No one knew and no one dared ask. The people who did ask about the election are now facing jail terms.

They want us to shut up while they do it again. Will we?

 

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So I came across this. One of Sun-King Sununu’s minions boasting that His Majesty has a 91 percent approval rating among Republicans:

Yet the polls simultaneously show that President Trump … the anti-Sununu … is trouncing the field in FITN:

There are several explanations for these seemingly irreconcilable results. One is that UNH polling STINKS.

The other is that GOP voters in New Hampshire, to sort of paraphrase General Patton, really love a winner, and they see both Silver-Spoon-Sun-King and President Trump as winners.

Another explanation is that both of the above are true.

Whatever the explanation … the polling suggests that political cognitive dissonance is rampant in New Hampshire.

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The legal weed industry is in crisis. Black market competition is driving down prices, making it difficult for approved growers and dispensaries to maintain their profits. They say the market will collapse ” if common sense, practical reforms are not enacted urgently.”

 

According to Isaac Foster, co-founder of wholesaler Portland Cannabis Market, when legal sales in Oregon first started, a pound of marijuana would have cost $3,000 at wholesale, but today it might cost $100 to $150.

 

So weed was overpriced, and the free market works? That’s great news. Let’s try that with prescription drugs, energy, and – well, everything. Hundreds of billions of dollars would be freed up annually to find more productive uses in the real economy.

Granted, extra money in the hands of someone who is stoned is going to end up in the pocket of the nearest convenience store owner in exchange for Twinkies, Doritos, an Ice Cream Cake, cans of Chef Boyardee, skittles, and beer, but it expands the economy in legitimate ways.

 

According to a poll performed by Whitney’s consultancy company, Whitney Economics, only 24 percent of cannabis-related businesses nationwide are profitable, a significant decline from 42 percent last year.

 

I think you can guess what the preferred solution to that is—government subsidies, which is ridiculous. The folks in the black market are making money hand over fist. The problem isn’t the cost of production and delivery. It is – as it always is – government interference and regulation.

And this is not a call for blanket decriminalization or a wide open, unregulated market for weed, but as I noted here in 2019,

 

I could care less if you smoke pot. I have cared a great deal about the effort by various factions to get the state’s permission to grow or use the stuff. That was always going to come with strings and taxes. More government not less. A regulatory system, inspectors, and more enforcement. California is proving me right.

 

The government wrecks just about everything it touches, which is why we advocate limited government and free markets. Legal markets with limited oversight will always have hiccups, but they are the best way to match price with demand with some measure of safety and quality control.

Keep customers safe and happy, and they will return.

State legalization has nothing to do with compassion or caring or a libertarian tick. They saw it as a taxable cash cow to support profligate spending, in some cases taxing the product to such a degree, making the black market so successful that approved vendors couldn’t survive.

If legal weed dies, it is because of the government. Then where will they go to replace the taxes they’ve already spent, or will they price fix and tax you more to prop up the new cartel while increasing enforcement against the black market to protect the cartel?

Irony laert, anyone?

Legalization was supposed to reduce enforcement, but we already knew that wouldn’t work.

California’s dance with legal use presaged this problem. Illegal growers dominated , resulting in more policing, not less.

 

I’d like to believe that the legal-weed lobby was always after a smoke-em-if-you-got-em outcome. But I know better. It was always going to be a deal with the government devil. A trade-off. A tiny bit of liberty in exchange for a massive expansion of government. Which in California must include a larger enforcement mechanism.

 

What’s next?

 

[S]ome people in the sector are still holding out hope that the Biden administration will open the door to marijuana sales across states that have legalized the drug. They contend that would enable the West Coast to assist in supplying the rest of the nation due to its advantageous environment and inexpensive, clean hydropower for indoor cultivation, according to the outlet.

 

Sounds like weed utopia, but I can’t see the Feds giving in on any of that. The rise of “legal” weed at the state level gives them a mandate to disarm Americans who are violating federal law if they use marijuana and own or try to purchase firearms. They are far more likely to let states figure out the problem or not than give that up.

But the Feds might be more than happy to tap into a cartel for fun and profit while keeping the restriction on ownership of firearms.

 

 

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U.S.-India relations present a complex tapestry woven from the threads of shared interests and divergent values. While the two nations may not align perfectly in terms of values, there are compelling reasons to collaborate on common interests. The U.S., a mature liberal democracy, contrasts with India, an emerging second-world nation, fostering a relationship marked by both cooperation and contention.

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India’s immense parliamentary body doesn’t guarantee equitable representation for all citizens, raising concerns about its commitment to pluralism. The nation’s ethno-nationalist tendencies have sparked human rights violations against its Muslim population, particularly near its border with Pakistan, warranting international attention.

India’s stance on global issues, like its silence on the Ukrainian crisis, raises eyebrows. Its reliance on Russian liquid natural gas does indirectly support Russia’s economy and its role in Ukraine. Furthermore, India’s participation in the BRICS banking system, alongside authoritarian regimes like Russia and China, potentially undermines the Western financial system’s stability.

While Western nations have shown cautious criticism of India, a more open and candid dialogue is imperative for cultivating a true alliance. Rather than condescension, the West should approach India with respectful advice, acknowledging India’s immense population and significance. However, India must also take steps to clarify its geopolitical stance, moving beyond neutrality towards a clear alignment with liberal democracies or authoritarian powers.

As both nations tread this intricate path, fostering friendly relations will require the U.S. to address India’s shortcomings while adjusting its communication style. India, on the other hand, needs to make a decisive choice, embracing a role that aligns with its aspirations rather than drifting in neutrality’s uncertain waters. The potential for a meaningful partnership is within reach, but it necessitates a delicate balance between shared interests and the pursuit of common values.

 

David M. Lovlien II is a Merrimack County Commissioner.

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As promised in the last Monday Memes, I have an overflow. My meme cup runneth over.  Let the mayhem, mockery, and ridicule resume:

 

*** Warning, a few possibly off-color ones, in case tender eyes are about ***

 

 

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https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/15-minute-interview-1.mp4

 

15 minute cities ghettos.  More on that – repeating the below video.

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/chris-sky-on-toronto.mp4

 

Consider what he’s saying: they’ll tear down existing, presumably perfectly functioning buildings and replace them with new, custom-designed buildings that are a world-in-themselves.  That’s serious money, just for one city.  But don’t forget The Line (video).  That’s mega-serious money.  Around the world, we’ve gone to ludicrous speed (video) on how much money is being sunk into this rearrangement of all of human society.

And you seriously believe – with this level of money invested in this kind of thing, let alone the power it will give the Globalists – that you’re going to vote your way out?  Protest your way out?  Appeal to the better side of their nature to realize what they’re doing and repent?  Remember, these people truly believe they’re made from finer and purer clay than you.

 

 

If yes, you think you can get through this peacefully and change things – and please note, I am not advocating violence but merely observing I thing it’s inevitable (HT JFK Jr.) – I have some prime self-irrigated land in southern Louisiana to sell you.

 

 

I’d comment what I really think, but I’d get into trouble.  But… TINVOWOOT.  Time – past time – to find your inner steel.

Alas.

 

 

 

 

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PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA

 

Know your enemy on the Left.

 

 

 

That Biden is a child-abusing pedo is obvious to anyone with even three brain cells that talk with each other.  So understand something, down to your core:

To the TDS Left, their hatred of “Orange Man Bad” is so strong, they prefer a child predator to Trump.

 

 

Recall that one of six Democrats said that had they known the laptop was real, that’d have changed their vote.  Think about that.  It means that for five out of six, that level of fetid corruption, let alone the drugs and sex and pedo sex – with more being exposed daily – is not enough to make them rethink.  So assimilate this to your core as well:

To the TDS Left, a man who auctions off his influence to the highest foreign bidder is their guy, so long as he beats Trump.

I hate Barackus for what he’s done to my America.  The same for The Potato.  But I don’t lock up in a spit-producing rictus grimace; I’ve seen libs I know do precisely that when I say I’m a Republican (well, technically – at least on my voter registration).  We’ve called TV “programming” for decades; that, plus maybe things in the food and the water?  IMHO they’ve been clearly messed with psychologically.  Nobody truly sane locks up in near-quivering rage like I’ve seen people do at the mere mention of Trump’s name in a positive light.

We may share the appellation of “American”.  We share legal citizenship in the same nation.  We share land-mass of residence.  But I have precisely nothing in common with them aside from being of a common species.

 

 

Along these lines, read this – and then understand that to this day there are those on the Left who say Alger Hiss was innocent:

The hunt in Red August, 1948: The case of Alger Hiss, Soviet spy | The Hill

 

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“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.”

— Winston Churchill

 

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On the climate scam:

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/climate-scam.mp4

 

Related:

You’ll Own Nothing and Be Happy: 14 U.S Cities Planning to Ban Meat, Dairy, Private Cars by 2030 (substack.com)

Get ready to be squeezed into a very small life.  See the above video, especially Chris Sky’s video.

The USDA’s War on Small Farms | Mises Wire

 

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I was born in the city.  My heart resonates with the above meme.  In my soul, I belong in the country.

 

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Specifically on Covid / medical – because it’s that important to highlight:

Vaccine mRNA-carrying lipid nanoparticles (LPNs) spread after injection throughout the body according to available animal studies & vaccine mRNA (naked or in LPNs or in natural exosomes) is found (substack.com)

This in particular reminds me of a conversation I had a couple of weeks ago with a Covidiot.  I walked them through biodistribution especially to ovaries & testes (citing the Japanese study among others), microclotting (referencing Dr. Charles Hoff), asking what they think happens to ovaries (specifically) when they are deprived of oxygen & nutrient flow; I also mentioned the Barnhardt talk about testes and his comment about a woman not choosing a vaccinated man for pregnancy.  I mentioned the declining birth rates globally.  How the immune system ruthlessly attacks cells that manufacture non-human proteins including how CD8 killer T-cells kill infected cells and causing inflammation (at the least) while doing so.  Everything was laid out step-by-step, in an easy to grasp logical progression.  And they refused the end conclusion – that the Jabs are dangerous (in the first three months of the Pfizer trials, 1,223 people died from 42,086 participants per Pfizer document 5.3.6 page 7), and that they may have sterilized their children, or at the least shortened their lives, while thinking they were doing good for them.  And they walked away from me furious at me.  Not curious at the very least.  Not angry even at the possibility that I could be right despite – to the hypothetical objective observer – my having facts, figures, data, citations, and logic behind me.  Not angry at those who may have done this to them or their children.  Angry at me… because I overwhelmed them with facts, citations, and logic to drive them to a conclusion they cannot accept.

 

 

You can’t save these people.  Maybe nibbling around the edges?  Yes.  Onesie-twosie, yes.  But in the main, they cannot – CANNOT – make that final step because then it would mean their consciously understanding:

1. Their superior intellects got massively bamboozled, and by people they trusted implicitly.
2. They’ve potentially done enormous harm to their children, and possibly ended their bloodline.
3. And – possibly the worst in their eyes – that we, the deplorable antivaxers, were not just right, but in point of fact were more educated, aware, informed, and perceptive than their super-genius selves.

And #3 is why, once circumstances truly dictate that they do actually grasp it, their greatest fury will be with us.  Because we’re going to live.  Because our children will have our grandchildren.

 

Wile E Coyote, Super Genius

 

 

 

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Shocking FOIA Results: $11 Million to Bribe OB-GYNs to Lie to Mothers About Safety of mRNA-Vaccines. – The Expose (expose-news.com)

Video interview with text loaded with good stuff.  Related:

Pfizer drip feeds data from its pregnancy trial of covid-19 vaccine (substack.com)

Even with the Lowest Distribution in 2023, COVID “Vaccines” are Still the Deadliest Vaccines Accounting for 70% of All Vaccine Deaths – Vaccine Impact

“VACCINES ARE SPREADING COVID-19” – Dr. Christina Parks Testimony For Michigan House Bill 4471 (rumble.com)

mRNA Vaccine Toxicity – Doctors for COVID Ethics (doctors4covidethics.org)

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CDC Now Refusing New COVID Vaccine Adverse Event Reports in Its V-Safe Program ⋆ Brownstone Institute

How convenient they turn this off right as they’re ramping up for another Jab-a-thon drive.

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Mask study published by NIH suggests N95 Covid masks may expose wearers to dangerous level of toxic compounds linked to seizures and cancer | Daily Mail Online

Don’t forget the fibers off the regular surgical masks getting into your lungs:

Study finds plastics found in masks present in patients’ lungs | Features | westernstandard.news

Understand that for the most part I view the kids – and obviously the small ones in particular – as innocents.  But I’d find it truly ironic, in a schadenfreude way, that in a few years those kids were having lung cancer from those inhaled chemicals.  And again, horrific for the kids and I’m certainly not wishing it on them, but can you imagine the faces and guilt the parents would have being told that it was the fibers and chemicals from the masks they made their kids wear that had done it?

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I can’t help but think this will be the case for The Jab.  There are those who have been Jabbed that I will miss.  Family.  Friends.  And some… not so much.

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The 10 BIGGEST and Most Dangerous Lies (They’ve told since early 2020) (bitchute.com)

Dr. Vernon Coleman

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https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/masks-and-particle-size.mp4

 

 

 

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THEY LIED ABOUT EVERYTHING

They lied about the origins of Covid
They lied about covid death statistics
They lied that there was no treatment (go home and if you turn blue then go to hospital)
They lied about the ventilators & Remdesivir
They lied that the hospitals were overflowing (while they choreographed Tiktok dance routines)
They lied about the masks
They lied about the lockdowns
They lied to prevent family visiting dying relatives
They lied about outdoor transmission
They lied about Ivermectin, HCQ, Zinc & Vit D
They lied about the efficacy of the vaccines
They lied about the safety of the vaccines
They lied to try and hide their data for 75 years
They lied to hide the extent of the vaccine injuries
They lied by even calling the shots ‘vaccines’
They lied about the need for “vaccine passports”
They lied to try and justify human rights abusive vaccine mandates
They lied about the rates of myocarditis
They lied about the excess deaths

 

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“What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic”

— (Carl Sagan)

 

Reminds me of what I wrote here about the invention of writing allowing knowledge to accumulate.

 

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Microchip implants for payment becoming reality

 

 

Like so many things, sold as “convenient”.  Or “to fight crime”.

 

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Government Files About “Remote Mind Control” | The Vigilant Citizen

I don’t want to go totally foil hat, but many of my friends and e-friends have commented that it sure seems like there’s a spate of “conveniently timed” mass shootings when there’s a desired push for gun control.  Among other things.

 

 

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Pick of the post:

 

 

 

Very honored to have her autographed picture on my wall at home.

 

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Collected links with commentary, no subjects (too much time in that):

Texas school tried to force mom to sign NDA to get on campus (nypost.com)

Wrap your mind around this.  I can’t.  And NDA to be able to visit your child’s school campus???  Maybe this kind of thing is why?

Radical “health” curriculum for all grades – coming to your school? (massresistance.org)

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German Cabinet passes bill to make ‘deadnaming’ trans-identified people a criminal offense, $10,800 penalty | Human Events | humanevents.com

Basically, making not honoring mental illness a criminal offense.  Brings to mind this quote:

“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

And also in Germany, a “fashion” show.  Warning: images are disturbing.  And let me make something crystal clear: I’m not a Christian, and I find this mocking of Christianity vile.

This 2023 Berlin Fashion Show Was All About Mocking Christianity in the Trashiest Way Possible | The Vigilant Citizen

And on this degeneracy in general:

EXCLUSIVE: Dildo ring toss, ‘pin the clit on the vulva,’ and ‘family friendly’ drag show featured at Ottawa’s Pride fest | The Post Millennial | thepostmillennial.com

What’s next?  “Family friendly” sex shows?

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Something Economically Is Terribly Off In America With Poverty Spreading As Quickly As Stores All Across The Nation Are Experiencing Record Shoplifting And It’s About To Get Worse – Gazetteller

Entirely predictable.  And what’s more:

 

 

As I wrote here, humans crave stability.  Even a miserable existence is often tolerated when it’s uniform and predictable.  Humans hate uncertainty.  It’s one of the lessons I learned when studying quality professionally: people are far, far more sensitive to variation in performance than in the actual level of it.

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U.S. Military Will Train Ukrainian Pilots to Fly F-16s at Arizona Base | The Gateway Pundit | by Anthony Scott

Pushing pushing pushing.  Sooner or later IT will start.  I can’t help but think that they’re pushing this hard to do two things:

First, hide the global corruption levels.  If cities are vaporizing nobody’s going to care about Biden’s bribes.  Or all the wealth that’s been siphoned off in general.

Second, hide the impending demographic collapse from the Jab.  Again, vaporizing cities takes precedence over “died suddenly” and “Susie can’t get pregnant”.  (And nukes, etc., plus the following privations, would be a handy excuse for both.)

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Lowest Burn Acreage Of The Millennium | Real Climate Science

Inconvenient data.  From the same site:

Contaminating Good Data With Bad | Real Climate Science

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Biden Allowed Major Donor to Hand Advanced Military Tech to China – Daniel Greenfield / Sultan Knish articles

Just like the Clintons.  See the book Year of the Rat.

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Free Speech Suppressed Everywhere You Turn — Manhattan Contrarian

Control the information flow, control what people believe.

 

 

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Full Gun Confiscation Illinois + NO Cash Bail September. Magazine Ban Loophole. ISP Registration.

 

 

 

How the ATF is Deceiving Media in their War on Gun Dealers (ammoland.com)

To this day I get asked why American Jews are so hostile to gun ownership.  This is a good answer:

The Shtetl Mentality (jpfo.org)

Part of it is that “the police will protect us”.  Uh huh.

 

 

Don’t forget how the police “protected” the kids at Uvalde.

And that American Jewish hostility towards guns is one lever for people to hate us.

 

 

But not all of us are Jewicidal Yidiots.

Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership

And a few articles from there:

ATF’s director says the quiet part out loud and refers to inalienable rights as a ‘privilege’ (jpfo.org)

Lessons From The Ancients (jpfo.org)

Don’t forget:

Homepage | Jews Can Shoot

And from / through there:

Florida sheriff investigating racially-motivated Dollar General shooting challenges anti-gun narrative | Jews Can Shoot

The Torah and Self-Defense (Shmirat Ha Gouf) — David Kahn Krav Maga

The above reminded me of this paper by David Kopel:

The Torah and Self-defense (davekopel.org)

And lastly, on guns:

the munchkin wrangler.: why the gun is civilization.

This is a MUST READ.

When I carry a gun, I don’t do so because I am looking for a fight, but because I’m
looking to be left alone. The gun at my side means that I cannot be forced, only
persuaded. I don’t carry it because I’m afraid, but because it enables me to be unafraid.

It doesn’t limit the actions of those who would interact with me through reason, only the
actions of those who would do so by force. It removes force from the equation… And
that’s why carrying a gun is a civilized act.

 

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Palate cleansers:

 

 

Serious too, but I LOLed!  So I put it here.

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Come back Friday for another edition.  Same Meme Time.  Same Meme channel.

 

 

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There is a big difference between Governor DeSantis and Governor Sununu when it comes to improving public education.  Democrats will claim that Republicans do not care about public education because they are the party of tax and spend.

All of that spending hasn’t helped public education when you look at how the United States compares to the top-performing countries. You can scroll through the TIMSS results to see that.

What would it take to improve public education in America?

We know the recipe because we saw students in Massachusetts rise to the top of the nation when they developed high-quality academic standards and tests. That recipe also included teacher training that was focused on academic quality versus the low-quality training many teachers receive in professional development today.

All of that was done prior to the national movement during the Obama administration, where academic standards were dumbed down, and dumbed down workforce training began. (Competency Based Education)

Governor DeSantis took this failed model and turned it around. Not only did they develop higher quality academic standards in Florida, they also now use one of the best tests to determine if your child is learning quality academic content. This is how you improve public education. You don’t ignore what children are learning.

 

In New Hampshire, Governor Sununu was never in support of Common Core when he first ran. He even hired Commissioner Frank Edelblut to run the Department of Education. So what went wrong? Why, after Governor Sununu’s tenure, are we still saddled with Common Core and Next Generation Science Standards?  Why did Governor DeSantis prioritize public education while Governor Sununu ignored it? That’s a good question.

When Democrats in New Hampshire claim that Republicans do not care about our public schools, they have a point. How will Republicans claim they care about this important issue?

We did get some good legislation passed by some of our Republican legislators. Students must now pass a U.S. Civics test before they graduate high school. There was legislation highlighting the importance of cursive writing and multiplication tables. But all of this came from Republican legislators who were trying to do something while the Executive branch failed to prioritize the most important tasks in front of them. FIX the ACADEMIC STANDARDS and TESTS!

None of this is easy, but DeSantis got it done. DeSantis and the rest of the Republicans in Florida can make the argument that they care about the quality of education their students receive in their public schools.

Not only did Governor Sununu fail the kids in our public schools, but he also failed the rest of the Republicans in this state who could have taken those accomplishments and shown the rest of the country that the failing public schools created by Progressive policies were addressed and fixed.

I hope Republicans will learn a lesson from Governor DeSantis. He took a lot of hits on his education policies and legislation, but in the long run, he’s helping to return public schools to a focus on academic excellence versus dumbed-down indoctrination centers.

Republicans can take the issues in public education and WIN moms over across the country. They can make this issue a Republican success story. It takes leadership.

As Joan Jacobs wisely points out in her article, Death wish: Contempt for parents will destroy public ed: “Public schools are trouble. Trust is low. Enrollment is falling. Parents are embracing new alternatives.”

Democrats are now the party that is helping to destroy public schools across the country. They are the party that is hostile to parental rights. Their solution of funneling more tax dollars into a failed system has left us in trouble on the world’s stage.

When you have to wait months to see your doctor or your care in the hospital is of poor quality because there is a shortage of medical staff, remember who was okay with sticking with dumbed-down public schools and who fought to provide a better public education for those enrolled in our public schools.  We need highly educated graduates from our public schools, or we will suffer.  Don’t believe me? Jacobs also wrote in her article titled: The path to nursing starts in 9th grade: Girls from lower-income families all want to be nurses, the community college dean told me. Few make it. They fail the science and math pre-reqs.

The Democrats have been failing public schooled children for years. We now have an example of someone willing to fight those powerful forces to improve public education.  Hopefully, Republicans running for Governor in New Hampshire to replace Governor Sununu will learn from this failure. We already know that Democrats will do nothing to improve our public schools.

 

 

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At an Aug. 14 news conference, NASA and other experts proclaimed that, according to “clear science,” current record-high temperatures are attributable to human activity. Yet NASA did not present any scientific evidence to demonstrate a connection between current warm temperatures and greenhouse gas emissions and ignored the massive non-anthropomorphic impact of last year’s record-breaking under-ocean volcano.

Related: NASA: Water Vapor from Massive 2022 Underwater Eruption Could Warm Earth’s Surface for Years

Is NASA just another Biden/Harris social justice agency spewing unscientific climate fears to accrue more power.

A press release made plain the agency’s position: “NASA data confirms what billions around the world literally felt: temperatures in July 2023 made it the hottest month on record. In every corner of the country, Americans are right now experiencing firsthand the effects of the climate crisis, underscoring the urgency of President Biden’s historic climate agenda,’ said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson. ‘The science is clear. We must act now to protect our communities and planet.’”

The same release incorporated a similar conclusion by NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies Director Gavin Schmidt: “This July was not just warmer than any previous July – it was the warmest month in our record, which goes back to 1880. The science is clear this isn’t normal. Alarming warming around the world is driven primarily by human-caused greenhouse gas emissions.”

These two statements share an obfuscation: The science is very much not “clear.” They both rely on a presumption that all planetary warming is caused by anthropomorphic climate change and thus violate the fundamental scientific-statistical maxim that “connection does not prove causation.” No scientific evidence suggests that there is an anthropomorphic connection between this heat wave and climate change — let alone proof of causation.

NASA in Political Lockstep

There is a pattern of labeling fuzzy climate-crisis claims as “clear” science. If temperatures dropped to record lows this winter and some conservatives pointed to that as evidence against climate change, the left would dismiss it as an aberration. Now there is a heat wave, and the left screams that the sky is burning. This double standard of extrapolating anecdotal evidence to conjure broad ideological certainties — while impugning the credibility of anyone who does so in chilly times — is evident in NASA’s current posture.

The lockstep dogmatic coordination between Joe Biden and Bill Nelson has been consistent since the president appointed him to make over the polluting NASA into a magic climate-solution techno-agency. Over-specialized technocrats and out-of-touch academics have overtaken common sense and accountability, and NASA, too, has fallen.

Right out of the political gate, in April 2021, NASA gushed about its environmental prowess and what a savior of the world the Biden/Harris team had become. It praised POTUS for specific policies, which include adding NASA to his White House Climate Task Force, committing to the Artemis program (staying on schedule for moon landings in 2024 and 2025 despite the heat), putting a person of color on the moon, and displaying a moon rock at the Oval Office. But what does this have to do with the (environmental) price of tea in China? How does polluting the ecosystem with more moon landings save the universe from global warming?

NASA claims it seeks “green aerospace technology,” and that its observations from space will assist in responding to global warming. Yet it is hard to imagine a solar-powered rocket launch to the moon. What is NASA’s expertise and strategy to reduce warming or pollution, and what is the carbon footprint of the Artemis program?

Volcano Impact

 

Tonga underwater volcanic eruption water vapor plume

 

It seems plausible the cause of current heat records is a record-setting under-ocean 2022 volcano eruption that NASA tracked as environmentally impactful but now excludes from any scientific consideration in the latest “clear, incredible science” that informs the agency’s “critical policymaking decisions.” If NASA is to credibly speak to planetary warming, surely it must express a clear scientific opinion about not only record-breaking heat waves but also record-breaking volcanoes. Yet it seems to have completely ignored a momentous meteorological event in its recent claims of an anthropomorphic climate crisis: Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai.

In August 2022, NASA reported that the eruption “blasted an unprecedented amount of water into the atmosphere”:

“When the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano erupted on Jan. 15, it sent a tsunami racing around the world and set off a sonic boom that circled the globe twice. The underwater eruption in the South Pacific Ocean also blasted an enormous plume of water vapor into Earth’s stratosphere – enough to fill more than 58,000 Olympic-size swimming pools. The sheer amount of water vapor could be enough to temporarily affect Earth’s global average temperature.

“Th[is] not only injected ash into the stratosphere but also large amounts of water vapor, breaking all records for direct injection of water vapor, by a volcano or otherwise, in the satellite era … The excess water vapor injected by the Tonga volcano … could remain in the stratosphere for several years. This extra water vapor could influence atmospheric chemistry, boosting certain chemical reactions that could temporarily worsen depletion of the ozone layer. It could also influence surface temperatures … since water vapor traps heat [emphasis added].”

However, Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai was many times more powerful than NASA assessed. One study concluded: “[D]ue to extreme altitude reach of the eruption, volcanic plume circumnavigated the Earth in only one week and dispersed nearly pole-to-pole in three months. The observations provide evidence for an unprecedented increase in the global stratospheric water mass by 13% as compared to climatological levels … The unique nature and magnitude of the global stratospheric perturbation by the Hunga eruption rank it among the most remarkable climatic events in the modern observation era.”

These clear scientific facts don’t align with NASA’s unequivocal attribution of current warming events to anthropomorphic causes. The agency watched an epic volcano with negligible climate comment, then raised a histrionic ruckus over a heat wave as human-caused without weighing the possible impact of Hunga Tonga. So much for “clear, awe-inspiring science.” Hunga Tonga’s absence from NASA’s assessment suggests the agency is not as good at looking down at the planet as it is looking up to ideologues for direction.

 

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

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The number of outdoor out-of-control fires set by arsonists worldwide could lead you to believe that there was a coordinated global eco-terrorist strategy to forcefully advance a false agenda about climate change. Man-made, sure, by arsonists.

Related: Yeah, So … About Those Wildfires (Revisited)

Eco-Arson has resulted in considerable damage in the US, Australia, the Amazon, Canada, Italy, Sicily, and now Greece, where at least 20 people have died.

 

Greece has strongly condemned the actions of “arsonist scum” after the police apprehended 79 individuals suspected of arson in connection with the devastating wildfires sweeping the country. Vassilis Kikilias, the Civil Protection Minister, revealed that there have been multiple attempts by arsonists to ignite fresh fires on Mount Parnitha, located northwest of Athens. The nation is currently grappling with hundreds of wildfires that have tragically claimed the lives of at least 20 people this week.

Eco-arsonists are becoming a bigger threat than lone-wolf military-aged Muslim mass shooters. It could also put a crimp in the eco-terrorist’s direct action to advance climate change policy. The optics in Greece are terrible.

 

Tragically, the bodies of 19 people believed to be migrants, including children, were found in the Evros region earlier this week. Additionally, a shepherd lost his life in the fires in the Boeotia region on Monday.

 

You killed migrant children. That’s a bad look, and it’s murder, not that eco-terrorist mind a bit of depopulation from direct action. But it should twist the panties of climate cultists yanking either the climate justice or climate refugee claim. You say they were displaced by man-made warming only to die as a result of man-made wildfires.

On the flip side, all that particulate matter released into the atmosphere as a result of the arson could have a counter-effect to the warming created by the water vapor ejected into the atmosphere by the Tonga undersea eruption. Arson as direct action could help lower the global average temperature, which has not been rising as advertised.

Despite the media-presented perception, the global average temperature, even using their rigged data stations, has been flat for the past seven or eight years.

 

 

The 2023 US burn average is also at historic lows despite the very wet winter priming the southwest and west for the massive wild grass fires that have inspired arsonists in other countries.

 

This suggests we need a new category and tracking for fires and burn average, much the way a death might be reclassified as murder after new evidence comes to light. These are not wildfires. They may run wild after being set by arsonists, but the cause is arson, not lighting or Westerners driving SUVs. It isn’t even an unintentional act like a campfire not properly extinguished or a lit cigarette flung from a passing motor vehicle.

Deliberate forest and grass fires need their own classification, and while eco-terrorism works for me, I think that needs to be institutionalized as a criminal designation and reported accordingly alongside or as a factor of charts like total burn acreage.

But I’m not holding my breath.

 

 

 

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I am not ready to hop on the DeSantis train, but he drew a clear contrast this week of what a President and a leader should look like. I am not referring to the outward appearance of a young, vibrant DeSantis standing next to his beautiful wife versus the mumbling Joe Biden forced to wear soft-soled shoes to remain upright standing next to his elder-abuser wife with the dresses that remind me of Nana’s old curtains. Before anyone accuses me of taking a cheap shot at the First Lady, let me call a spade a spade. Anyone who lets their aging spouse embarrass himself daily abuses their loved one.

I am looking at the places these men choose to visit, the message they deliver, and the connection they have with their audience. Ron DeSantis’ state of Florida is facing an assault from a potential Category 4 Hurricane this week. He could have chosen to go to the beach for vacation or maybe to the mountains, but instead, he pulled himself from the campaign trail to be in Florida, where he could react as needed to the storm and its damage. When a town in Hawaii was burning to the ground, our President first went to the Delaware shore for some beach time and then to Lake Tahoe for some quality time with his son, Hunter, in a $13 million mansion owned by a donor. Joe and Hunter had a whole week to discuss the weather—such quality family time.

Ron DeSantis went to Jacksonville to address the senseless gun violence that shook that city over the weekend. The Governor was booed loudly by angry residents who blamed DeSantis for the loss of life. To his credit, he did not acknowledge the jeers and spoke right over the yelling. Joe Biden was asked recently for his thoughts on the unfortunate wildfire that leveled Lahaina, to which he replied, “No comment.” One hundred confirmed dead, images of people leaping into the sea to avoid the flames, and still over 1,000 souls unaccounted for, and our President has no words of comfort, just no comment. This must be why he has not gone to the Border and East Palestine. He just couldn’t find the right words.

There is no stereotype for what our President should look like. He could look like Jimmy Carter, Barack Obama, or Donald Trump, but not Joe Biden. Our President must exude strength and inspire a country, not trip up the stairs of Air Force One, not once, but three times, or check his watch as he receives flag-draped coffins of fallen military heroes.

77% of Americans think Joe Biden is too old to serve as President. The fact is, he is not too old. He is too aged. His mental acuity has deteriorated, and it will not improve six years from now. Obviously, Joe Biden is a puppet President. He visited a grammar school on Monday and told the kids how hard it is to return to work after two months off. Joe just came from an entire summer off, and on his first day back, the only item on his agenda is a trip to a grammar school. He is not working at being President. Yet, the Democrats want to return Joe to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue for another four years. Not because they like Joe but because they hate Trump. Joe Biden is not the image of America, and we need to hold him accountable for the damage he has done to America and send him to jail or Delaware Beach for a permanent vacation.

 

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Within the past 24 hours, I learned of numerous instances in which a Federal Court of Appeals Judge has demonstrated that he supports life, liberty, and due process - and that he is willing to stand up to the radical leftist authoritarian death cult. James Ho is a new conservative hero. Current federal law prohibits any person who is the subject of a restraining order from possessing a firearm.

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Trump being processed at Fulton County Jail tomorrow; should he not comply at all? Does Trump believe that his compliance with the several indictments is good for him and his campaign? Jeffrey Clark petitioning the Georgia State court to remove the cases to Federal Courts per Federal laws; Is there a reason that Trump’s team did not come up with this argument? Is Vivek only running to take DeSantis down and in some sense collaborating with Trump?

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