The newest Trump indictment in Georgia: “when democrats challenge an election it’s free speech; when republicans challenge an election it’s a criminal act”. Seemingly a State conviction would not be pardonable by a President. Did Nixon claim to have the power to reject electors in 1960? Have not similar actions challenging elections been taken in the past? Compare this to the treatment of Hunter Biden;

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Most Democrats, except for the Radical Squad members, have worked very hard to distance themselves from the Defund the Police movement that started back in 2017. In those early days, it was fashionable to call for not only defunding the Police but dismantling the Police forces in America.

According to the brilliant minds of Sandy Cortez, Tlaib, and Omar, our Police forces were racist, and their very existence prevented justice. Police forces were evil, targeted anyone of color, and only protected the white elite. They needed to be dismantled along with cash bail and indictments. With the help of large sums of cash from George Soros and now his son, any District Attorney who believed in the rule of law and incarceration was targeted to be replaced by Liberal thinking DAs who did not believe in indictments, incarceration, recidivism, or accountability in any form. The Democrat efforts have taken hold in many Blue cities like New York, Baltimore, Chicago, and Los Angeles, resulting in the demise of big cities in America. People and businesses are leaving these iconic cities in droves, and the city budgets will not replace the tax dollars heading out of town.

Austin, Texas, is not a big city on par with Los Angeles or Detroit, but they are feeling the effects of the Defund movement, and they are feeling the pain. Austin is a Liberal city in a still Red state. The town government got caught up in the Progressive vortex in 2017 and pulled the plug on the Police budget. Beginning in 2018, Austin has lost more officers through retirement or cutbacks than recruited, resulting in 800 fewer officers today than in 2017.

Obviously, this shortage of Police in the city has resulted in tremendous gains in crime and a drop in service levels. It is not uncommon for a one-hour wait for a response to a 911 call, and that is if the call is even answered. A shortage of 911 call operators also leaves many businesses and people in Austin feeling vulnerable. As has happened in the bigger cities throughout the country, more traffic is leaving Austin before entering the city.

One of the hidden problems with these Police forces going through restructuring is the loss of experienced officers. A retiring officer has far more knowledge and experience on the job than a recruit. This drop in the quality of the Police force only exacerbates the decline in numbers.

Add this shortage of Police to the bad decisions of city management, and you have a perfect storm for an increase in crime and violence. Chicago has negotiated a program with the gangs in the city to call for a moratorium on gang activity from 9 AM-9 PM daily. I cannot believe I typed that sentence, but it is true. Mayor Brandon Johnson is bargaining with gangs to give the people of Chicago a twelve-hour break from violence and killing daily. And we thought Lori Lightfoot was a whack-job. The people of Chicago have gotten what they deserve by going as far Left with their vote as possible.

Like 2024 is critical for the future of America with our choice of President, these major cities better get their act together, or anarchy will be the rule of law going forward. These big cities were once our prized jewels. Those jewels have been replaced with compost piles, and you can point to your favorite Progressive if you need to pin the blame.

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For the last 29 years, Father Gordon MacRae has been denied justice, relegated to Concord men’s prison in New Hampshire. Despite an ex-FBI agent’s 3-year investigation, a Pulitzer prize-winning Wall Street Journalist’s expose, and even a current investigation into the police officer who framed him, nothing has moved the needle.

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Finally, in 2023 the pieces of the puzzle have come together to explain why this might be: The New Hampshire Department for Children, Youth & Families (DCYF), New Hampshire Police, local attorneys, the “compliance officer” in the Diocese of Manchester and the Attorney General’s office have been involved in a racket. For Father Gordon MacRae to get justice, they would all risk being exposed in an organized crime to frame him in order to extort the insurance for the Diocese and trigger an expansion of business that spreads to the Catholic Medical Center, schools, nursing homes, daycare centers, clinics, addiction recovery centers, banks, insurance companies, and media.

An enterprise that is worth billions and stretches far beyond the borders of New Hampshire across the US and internationally.

While Father Gordon MacRae has been incarcerated, New Hampshire has covered up horrific child sex abuse by its very own employees at the State’s Youth Detention Center.

The NH DCYF has failed multiple audits by the US Department of Health & Human Services Office of Inspector General (DHHS OIG).

It has downplayed Medicaid fraud. Opioids and fentanyl overdoses have skyrocketed.

Children have died, children have disappeared, drugs have been trafficked, arms have been trafficked, money has been laundered, billions have been made, and a monopoly without accountability has blossomed. That monopoly is tied to the interests of the US Government and its three letter agencies.

Framing Father Gordon MacRae to get inside the Diocese of Manchester looks like it was a strategic plan that has had catastrophic consequences not just for MacRae but for anyone who has become a tool for, or victim of, the Government infiltration of Catholic organizations.

1994, the year that Father Gordon MacRae was prosecuted and convicted, is the year that the Clinton Crime Bill (authored by Joe Biden) was enacted. It is also the year that the Violence Against Women Act was passed, enabling $9 billion in grants from the Department of Justice to police, prosecutors, and Non-Government Organizations (NGOs). Creating crimes that didn’t exist (while hiding those of state employees or friends of law enforcement and the courts) in order to access the grants has undermined the integrity of the state’s justice system.

“Justice for the Victim” has been a rallying cry in New Hampshire which has deliberately and consistently failed to ascertain the validity of claims of domestic & sexual assault, pre-determined who the victims and predators are without doing anything that could remotely be called due process.

Lots of people are denied justice each year, and decades later, a few of them go free after prosecutorial, police misconduct, or other flaws in the original investigations and trial are revealed.

Some years ago in Pennsylvania, a “Kids for Cash” scheme was unraveled. It involved police, prosecutors, judges, and private attorneys.

In California, a local journalist came across a series of gatherings in which judges, prosecutors, private attorneys, and the media conspired to rig cases in civil, family, and criminal courts.

What has transpired in New Hampshire bears all the same markings as these. A few breadcrumbs here and there have provided clues to an epic scandal that has been carefully hidden from the public for decades – in large part due to a small “club” who are vested in the profits from it. That club comprises law enforcement, non-profits, local councils, DAs, elected representatives, justices, other members of the NH Bar, and certain media outlets. They figured out that by controlling the news, they could control the narrative. And by controlling the narrative they could leverage the outcomes of criminal trials and civil suits.

Father Gordon MacRae is a victim of this corruption which even includes local “investigative” reporters who have no critical thinking skills but are determined to reinforce the court corruption in their coverage – presumably due to the sponsorship of their outlets.

In 1995, a prosecutor in New Hampshire failed to let the defense know that a police officer who arrested the man on trial for murder had a dishonest track record. The state dropped the case. The defendant’s name was “Laurie.”

The 1963 US Supreme Court case Brady v Maryland requires the prosecution to provide any and all exculpatory evidence to the defense in a timely manner before trial. Somehow New Hampshire ignored the rule, and for decades judges and prosecutors have been ok with that. Most likely because there isn’t really a division between police, prosecutors, judges, and media in New Hampshire. So a lie that works for one finds its way up the ladder to work for all.

Elected DAs who have challenged the ethics of this have been voted out from office (Robin Davis, DA of Merrimack County) or have been undermined by the AG taking over prosecutions (Michael Conley, DA of Hillsborough County). It is easier in New Hampshire to promulgate a lie than it is to defend the truth because there’s a waterfall of money to be made in the lie – federal grants, civil settlements, contracts, promotions, and rewards.

In June 2018, the police detective who investigated Father Gordon MacRae in the late 1980s had his name added to the list of corrupt police officers – the “Laurie” list – also known as the Exculpatory Evidence Schedule. James F McLaughlin, New Hampshire’s top child sex crimes detective, was brought out of retirement in 2017 to work on a Grand Jury Criminal Investigation into St Paul’s School following the framing of scholarship student Owen Labrie by Concord Police Detective Julie Curtin. Attorney General Gordon MacDonald brought him onto the investigation to supervise Detective Julie Curtin and Lieutenant Sean Ford.

The report into the school and alleged cover-ups of sex abuse from 2009 to 2017 was completed in August 2018, and a settlement agreement was reached with the school in September 2018 requiring a “compliance officer” and a contract with victims advocacy organization the New Hampshire Coalition Against Domestic & Sexual Violence (NHCADSV).

The agreement mirrored one that had been entered into in 2002 after James F McLaughlin’s investigation into Father Gordon MacRae triggered the circumstances for a Grand Jury criminal investigation, a “compliance officer,” and settlement with the Diocese of Manchester.

The NHCADSV had brought on board Brian Harlow of SNAP in 2012. He had been one of the original “victims” to come forward for the Diocese of Manchester investigation in 2002. NHCADSV wanted him to help them expand their business, and they had a contract with the Department of Defense as well as with the University of New Hampshire which had a strategic agreement with the White House 2014 “Not Alone” task force to combat sexual assault on campuses. The Chair of the University System in New Hampshire is Alex Walker. He just so happens to be the CEO of the Catholic Medical Center and the Diocese of Manchester as well.

Alex has been actively involved in the community for many years. He currently serves on the Board of Trustees of the University System of New Hampshire and on the New Hampshire Business Committee for the Arts. In 2019 and 2020, he co-chaired the Bishop’s Charitable Assistance Fund with his wife, Lisa. He was Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Palace Theatre and past Chairman of the Board of Directors of Granite United Way. He has also served on the New Hampshire Bar Association’s Board of Governors, the New Hampshire Supreme Court’s Access to Justice Commission, the Board of Directors of City Year—New Hampshire, the Board of Directors for the Business & Industry Association of New Hampshire, and Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors where he served as Chairman of the Board in 2011.

Alex Walker provided counsel to the Diocese alongside Nixon Peabody, which was formed in 1999 in Boston and Manchester. Gordon MacDonald, an attorney at Nixon Peabody, became Attorney General and is the current New Hampshire Supreme Court Chief Justice. Before he took office as AG, he successfully managed to block an audit of his client Purdue Pharma.

New Hampshire’s opioid crisis has been one of the worst in the country. Catholic Medical Center was fined $3.8 million recently for a kickback scheme. The Boston Globe has exposed cover-ups of medical malpractice by CMC’s administrators, headed by Alex Walker. Curiously however, the Boston Globe Spotlight team, which covered the Catholic priest sex abuse scandal, is only interested in exposing a portion of the story that benefits ambulance-chasing civil attorneys and is guilty of removing comments under articles that smack of the newspaper’s own compromised position, preventing its journalists from seeking the real truth as opposed to the monied subjective “his/her/their truth.”

With the addition of James F McLaughlin to the Laurie list, AG Gordon MacDonald was suddenly compromised. He’d hired James F McLaughlin because of his history with the Diocese, and now he had to hide the fact that he knew he was dishonest in the middle of the investigation into St Paul’s School, which he had ordered. Instead of coming clean, Gordon MacDonald kept McLaughlin’s dishonesty secret because he was part of the club that had profiteered from James F McLaughlin’s misconduct. His success as an attorney is deeply tied to his representation of the Diocese of Manchester.

The “compliance officer” in the Diocese was Father Edward Arsenault, who became a Monsignor before being defrocked by the Pope after he pled guilty to defrauding the diocese, a dead priest’s estate, and the Catholic Medical Center in 2014. Among the expenses Edward Arsenault had clocked up using church funds were the purchase of cell phones, computer equipment, trips to Boston, meals out, and work with journalists as well as travel expenditures on his teenage lover.

Recent articles in the last few weeks have revealed that the FBI had planned to infiltrate and undermine the Catholic Church. Christopher Wray, head of the FBI, has tried to toss this off. But the case of Father Gordon MacRae and those of the police officer, James F McLaughlin, and Monsignor Edward Arsenault should force a wider inquiry into the Government’s involvement in Catholic Institutions going back to the 1980s when Sylvia Gale made up the rumor about MacRae and shared it with McLaughlin.

I have long suspected that Edward Arsenault was never really a priest but actually an FBI operative who got inside the Diocese of Manchester to increase the business of Catholic Risk Management and Catholic Charities in such a way that they would become intertwined with Maximus Inc – a for-profit enterprise acting on behalf of the Government for the People. His background is in accounting, and he also seems to be heavily involved in big pharma-adjacent enterprises: health/mental health non-profits.

Around the same time (1975) that the Senate “Church Committee” Inquiry revealed the CIA’s work with 186 educational institutions and non-profits for MK Ultra experiments, Maximus Inc was founded by a Vietnam vet involved with DARPA: David Mastran. Since then, Maximus has grown to become an enormous outsourcing company for the Governments of the US, Canada, Australia, the UK, Israel, and Saudi Arabia. Its tentacles have reached into pretty much any Government program you can think of, from the IRS to Medicaid, from Student loans & to Title IV funds, from Department of Defense contracts to Covid vaccination tracking. To all intents and purposes, Maximus has taken over where the CIA and FBI left off when their clandestine and abhorrent human experiments got exposed by the Church Committee. It would be hard to imagine that the CIA just stopped its experiments in its tracks with so many organizations involved.

In the 1980s in Keene, New Hampshire, Sylvia Gale, an employee with Catholic Children’s Services & DCYF, created a rumor about Father Gordon MacRae. She told Keene Police Detective James F McLaughlin that Macrae had been involved in a crime involving sex abuse and murder in Florida. Sylvia Gale cited that the source of the fake Florida murder molestation that became McLaughlin’s “probable cause” was Msgr. John Quinn who was at the time Director of Catholic Charities for the Diocese of Manchester.

The crime didn’t exist, and Father Gordon MacRae had not been in Florida. James F McLaughlin was known in 1985 for dishonesty, but for some reason, it took until June 2018 for his name to appear on a State list kept by the AG and until December 2021 for his name to appear publicly on the “Laurie List” for a few hours before it was removed. Whether Sylvia Gale knew of McLaughlin’s dishonesty when she spread this rumor will forever be an unanswered question, but since there were rewards being bandied about by McLaughlin, I believe she probably did know, and that money was involved as a reward to her as a “witness” for creating the rumor.

In the time frame from 1985 -2018, James F McLaughlin rose to be New Hampshire’s most revered child & internet sex crimes investigator who instructed others in his tactics which included making false statements, procuring and coercion of “victims,” deleting exculpatory evidence, working with media to shape the message, federal entrapment (sending unsolicited images of minors), working with civil attorneys and non-profits/victims rights advocates in kick-back schemes. He was given a lifetime achievement award in 2016. At the same ceremony, Concord Police Detective Julie Curtin was given an award for her work in investigating St. Paul’s school, singling out and framing Owen Labrie, and working with domestic and international agencies to censor social media for the “victim” who had been recruited in June 2014 for the latest sick experiment. She was carrying the McLaughlin torch forward while he was supposed to retire.

James F McLaughlin’s crooked enterprise yielded millions in grants, increases in police budgets, non-profit budgets, and grants for the DCYF, UNH, and other affiliated agencies. What did it matter if a few people had to be framed when so much money could be extorted, and former federal prosecutors working at Nixon Peabody are on the side? The law firm’s business grew, turning it into a giant in representation for the healthcare industry. Particularly that tied to Catholic healthcare institutions and the opioid industry. Nixon Peabody represented Purdue Pharma when it was sued by New Hampshire. Creating sex offenders, extorting Catholic establishments, creating drug addicts, and claiming Medicaid for medical treatments and facilities has been a sustainable business in New Hampshire for over two decades.

James F McLaughlin’s enterprise is reminiscent of that of Tom Coleman, aka “T.J. Dawson,” the Police Officer in Tulia, Arizona, who built a business, with accolades along the way, framing members of the black community for drug offenses they didn’t commit. Drugs would be planted on unsuspecting targets. Instead of drugs, for James F McLaughlin, it was sex crimes. He would fabricate whatever story he could pull off to get plea deals and convictions. In New Hampshire, it was easy because the statutes for sex crimes require no corroborating witnesses or evidence. Add qualified immunity for police officers to that and sovereign immunity for prosecutors, judges, and non-profits tied to the courts such as CASA, NHCADSV, or agencies such as DCYF, and they had the perfect racket: collect the federal grants; fabricate the crimes; hide the exculpatory evidence; train the witnesses; use media to garner public outrage to leverage civil settlements with attorneys at the ready to profiteer and non-profits to train victims & write impact statements. Wash, rinse, repeat.

Gordon MacDonald, now New Hampshire’s Supreme Court Chief Justice, has a lot to thank James McLaughlin for. He joined Nixon Peabody to represent the Diocese of Manchester in the early 2000s. Together with his partner David Vicinanzo (a former federal prosecutor for Massachusetts who’d spent time working in the NH AGs office), they settled dozens, if not hundreds, of claims against the Diocese of Manchester. Monsignor Edward Arsenault was the appointed compliance officer – nominally. Actually, he was in charge of the financial affairs of the Diocese and increasing its reach. He had a business to run, a business to grow.

Meanwhile, James F McLaughlin’s father had been a member of the City of Concord Council for 25 years. The Council approves the budget for police investigations, including the payments of witnesses for Grand Juries. Although Concord only has 43,000 residents, it is the capital of New Hampshire and is home to the 2nd largest Statehouse in the US after DC and the 4th largest in the world. There are 400 elected representatives. It’s an important first stop for any presidential candidate, making it a magnate for dark money and a perfect place for three-letter agencies involved in clandestine operations to experiment.

Concord Police are not accredited. The current police chief, Bradley Osgood, stated that his department didn’t have the time or the resources to get accredited. The cost is under $20,000. Bradley Osgood was trained in Virginia by the FBI. His predecessor, Timothy O’Malley, left the job to join Vanguard Securities in the fraud department. Dartmouth College and other institutions have accounts with Vanguard Securities. These institutions also have accounts tied to the “Pandora Papers,” as does Maximus.

In 1996 Maximus went public. It was the same year that Father Gordon MacRae was denied his appeals. Bill Clinton was in office. He and Hillary were friends with Jeanne & Bill Shaheen. AG Phil McLaughlin, who ordered the investigation into the Diocese in 2002, had been appointed by Governor Jeanne Shaheen, who achieved her position with the help of the Clintons.

John Sununu, the father of current Governor Chris Sununu, was close to George Bush senior and worked in his administration. The State opened a “Youth Development Center” named after him. Youths in the detention center were subjected to sexual, physical, and mental abuse. The state has hidden millions of documents pertaining to this abuse. Maximus and DCYF are front and center of this, but local news organizations have not scrutinized this relationship or that of Catholic charities and New Hampshire’s police department.

In 1999, Nixon Peabody formed in Boston and Manchester, New Hampshire, bringing together a law firm comprising 450 attorneys across New England. The Diocese was their client, and Maximus was a generous donor to Catholic Charities and started to get contracts with Catholic institutions. But Maximus was a for-profit wing of the federal government that was now weedling its way into the vast array of businesses that fall under Catholic charities.

Edward Arsenault headed up the Catholic insurance wing for these: Catholic Risk Retention Management. David Vicinanzo had been a federal prosecutor who joined Nixon Peabody. Vicinanzo & Nixon Peabody were thus connected to the FBI, and so, by association at least, was Edward Arsenault and the Diocese of Manchester, Catholic charities & their insurance.

The Diocese refers children to the Children’s Trust Fund nowadays for claims of child sex abuse by priests. Children’s Trust Fund shares the same address as Maximus and Virtus LLC, founded in 1999 by Edward Arsenault. Virtus is owned by Catholic Risk Retention Management Group. Also located at 10 Ferry Street is Policy Studies Inc, which Kathleen Kerr (on the board of Maximus) joined after she received a letter from US DHHS regarding the failures of NH DCYF in 1999. She was legal counsel for DCYF and was there for 12 years before she segued into Policy Studies Inc and Maximus, which bought it after it was taken over by Veritas. She would have been working with DCYF when the MacRae case took place involving members of the DCYF and their families.

Coincidentally, Sylvia Gale, who created the rumor about Father Gordon MacRae back in the 1980s, successfully appealed a complaint against her for conflicts of interests that arose between her work for the Nashua DCYF and other non-profits. Sylvia Gale died in 2020 and left behind a legacy for her work in children’s advocacy, judging by the reports on New Hampshire’s Youth Detention Center, Foster Care System, failures of the DCYF, and drugging of children in care. I’m not sure that’s a legacy to be proud of. It was her colleague Patrica Grover (who’d adopted eight children) whose son Thomas Grover became a drug addict before he was convinced by James F McLaughlin that he could make some money if he agreed to be a witness/victim of Father Gordon MacRae. The Diocese coughed up $200,000. Years later, he admitted he was bribed.

A therapist sat at the back of the courtroom, motioning for him to cry during his testimony against the priest.

The Catholic links of Maximus go all the way to the Vatican. Edward Arsenault appears to be the conduit between the Diocese, the FBI, and the Vatican.

When he went to jail in 2014, Assistant Attorney General Jane Young shook his hand. She even allowed him to continue consulting from behind bars. He was sentenced to prison, but he never made it there because he was released on home confinement. Ultimately he had the remainder of his sentence vacated, and his restitution paid off in full. And he appeared with a new name: Edward Bolognini. This time, he claimed he was married – to Francesco Bolognini-Arsenault. They own a Sicilian ceramics import shop together, a luxury condo, and he works for ReServe non-profit, which received a $10 million contract from New York during the pandemic. His current boss doesn’t seem remotely bothered that he had defrauded another non-profit before joining ReServe. Is he just the FBI infiltrating/controlling another business related to the Government? Does his sales pitch include promises to increase profits and provide access to Catholic charity databases in return for immunity for his own crimes?

In September 2018, Laura L Dunn, an advisor to the White House “Not Alone” task force, which was partnered with the University of New Hampshire and the NHCADSV, tweeted congratulations on the settlement agreement reached by AG Gordon MacDonald (David Vicinanzo’s ex-partner from Nixon Peabody) with St Paul’s School following the grand jury criminal investigation. She’d actually been introduced to the trial of NH v Owen Labrie by James F McLaughlin’s protegé, Concord Police Detective Julie Curtin, sometime between June 2014 and March 2015, five months before the high-profile high school sexual assault trial. Laura Dunn had lied about her own case on NHPR in 2010, but the White House, Vice President Joe Biden, the DoJ, and DoE didn’t mind. She was a useful tool. She helped plant the Rolling Stone UVA “A Rape on Campus” fake story by Sabrina Erdeley, who’d previously written a story about a Catholic priest’s sex abuse – which also turned out to be untrue.

The settlement agreement was identical to the one arranged for the Diocese of Manchester in 2002. David Vicinanzo commended the Judge on keeping it private. His client, the NHCADSV, got a contract out of it, and the AG got to install a “compliance” officer (ex-police officer) at the school’s expense. News surrounding this arrangement was lauded by the NHCADSV and others. Allowing the Government to get inside a private Episcopal School was praiseworthy and novel. It would set an example for other private schools around the nation.

The compliance officer implemented a behavior reporting software called maxient.com which has been criticized by many as being something the Stasi would have approved of. AG Gordon MacDonald knew that James F McLaughlin was on the dishonest police officer list when he was carrying out the grand jury criminal investigation into the school, but he never revealed that knowledge to the public. Instead, he released the settlement agreement just hours after Owen Labrie’s first supreme court appeal was argued and later denied. In September 2019 – the same month Judge Richard McNamara ruled that St Paul’s report should remain private, the NHCADSV published a report which asserted that Gordon MacDonald wanted to increase the number of prosecutions for sexual assault.

Gordon MacDonald also knew about a thriving false accusations industry for lawyers in New Hampshire because, according to Father Gordon MacRae, he’d asked the priest to confess to the sexual assault of males he’d never heard of nor met just so Nixon Peabody could reach a quick settlement.

In November 2019, I ran into S. Daniel Carter, who had been a partner with Laura L Dunn in her non-profit SurvJustice tied to the White House “Not Alone” task force. He admitted to me that the real interest in NH v Owen Labrie was in St Paul’s School as opposed to the framed scholarship student himself. The real interest was in the Diocese of Manchester, not Father Gordon MacRae. Both cases were about power, money, control, and politics.

On reflection, with the news regarding the FBI’s memo about its plans within the Catholic Church, I believe the real goal behind NH v Gordon MacRae and NH v Owen Labrie was a Government goal to get inside the Catholic and Episcopal Institutions. To undermine their religious principles and force them to be subjected to corrupt and greedy Government operatives hiding behind NGOs or Maximus for-profit enterprises. The police didn’t bother going after the State employees at the Youth Detention Center. They didn’t bother going after sex abusers in local public schools. There was no money in those, and they were already under Government control, whereas the private institutions weren’t. But Government-tied extortionists wanted a piece of those pies.

The FBI in Bedford, New Hampshire, and Boston, Massachusetts, seem none too bothered by the extortion rackets of these institutions. Why would they be? Their members might even be complicit in them. Robert Mueller was head of the FBI in 2014 when St Paul’s School was targeted, and Owen Labrie framed. He’d expanded the definition of rape in 2011. He also happened to be an alum of St Paul’s School in the same class as Senator John Kerry.

Neither the Diocese of Manchester nor St Paul’s School seem to have benefitted from the fake “independent” compliance officers who are actually spies. Donald Sullivan, the current compliance officer at St Paul’s School, wrote in a recent report that the information from maxient.com on student conduct is now entering the ‘analysis phase.” The information is shared with RAINN, which has a contract with the Department of Defense, as does the NHCADSV. It is also shared with the AG’s office. Data on kids in a private religious school. Not exactly what anybody might be interested in except the FBI, the DoD, and the DOJ?

Virtus LLC, started by Edward Arsenault, is used in every Catholic institution for “Protecting God’s Children,” and yet priests undergoing the training program are instructed not to report the use of pornography by other priests. Are the Government’s MK Ultra programs still alive and thriving behind Maximus, Virtus, maxient.com, and “compliance” officer police state spies?

Thomas Grover was offered financial rewards to accuse Father Gordon MacRae. He was a drug addict, and he was the son of a DCYF employee.

Chessy Prout was offered financial rewards to accuse Owen Labrie. She’d taken “health” leave for downing nail polish remover in an attempt to self-harm.

Like Thomas Grover, she was coached in the courtroom. Useful and malleable tools to frame disposable assets to get at the money and control of Catholic & Episcopal institutions.

 

DCYF: https://www.dhhs.nh.gov/division-children-youth-and-families

Joe Biden & the Crime Bill: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/6/20/18677998/joe-biden-1994-crime-bill-law-mass-incarceration

Violence Against Women Act: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violence_Against_Women_Act

VAWA $9 billion in grants: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/senators-strike-bipartisan-deal-domestic-violence-bill-rcna15681#:~:text=The%20original%20bill%20created%20the%20Office%20on%20Violence,and%20legal%20assistance%20to%20victims%2C%20among%20other%20programs.

Kids For Cash Scandal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_for_cash_scandal

California Bench, Bar, Media Scandal: https://www.davisvanguard.org/2023/01/tainted-trials-tarnished-headlines-and-stolen-justice/

Article mentioning the “club” in New Hampshire’s Bar/judiciary from 1999: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1999/03/15/a-splitting-headache/671f88ec-cce0-4ed0-b622-653d34ef9eeb/

Controlling the Narrative: “Pretrial Publicity Friend or Foe: Advice from the Experts Amanda Grady Sexton (NHCADSV, City of Concord Council member) & Steve Kelly Esq – lead attorney in multiple Does v St. Paul’s School suits & Rappuano & Does v Dartmouth which yielded $14 million of which the NHCADSV was a financial beneficiary to the tune of $2.865 million)
https://law.lclark.edu/live/files/25195-ncvli-newsletter—pretrial-publicityfriend-and

Laurie List – https://indepthnh.org/category/dishonest-police/

Brady v Maryland/Brady Rule: https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/brady_rule

Robin Davis: https://patch.com/new-hampshire/concord-nh/hostile-work-lawsuit-against-former-county-attorney-settled

Michael Conley: https://indepthnh.org/2020/06/08/ag-ends-supervision-of-hillsborough-county-attorneys-prosecutions/

James McLaughlin caught in lies

Records Show Keene Police’s Famed Ex-Detective Caught in Lies

Diocese of Manchester & St Paul’s School Agreement mirror each other:
https://beyondthesestonewalls.com/blog/gordon-macrae/grand-jury-st-pauls-school-the-diocese-of-manchester#:~:text=Judge%20McNamara%20explained%20that%20he%20is%20blocking%20publication,%E2%80%9Call%20sorts%20of%20false%2C%20damaging%20and%20one-sided%20information.%E2%80%9D

White House strategic partnership with UNH for “Not Alone” task force
https://www.unh.edu/unhtoday/2014/05/unh-tapped-help-white-house-task-force-end-campus-sexual-assault

Alex Walker tapped as Chair of New Hampshire University System

Alex Walker tapped as University System of NH board chair, new trustees named

Gordon MacDonald defended Purdue Pharma
https://www.concordmonitor.com/sununu-attorney-general-pick-represented-purdue-pharma-in-opioids-case-8844904

$3.8 million CMC Kick-back scheme fine
https://www.natlawreview.com/article/doj-announces-38-million-settlement-to-resolve-allegations-false-claims-act-and-anti

Boston Globe exposes CMC cover ups for medical malpractice
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/03/22/metro/nh-licensing-agency-launches-investigation-into-former-administrators-catholic-medical-center/

FBI targeted Catholic Church & Christopher Wray lied about it
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/2023/08/14/fbi_targeted_catholics_-_and_wray_lied_about_it_605309.html

Maximus Inc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximus_Inc.

Edward Arsenault – defrocked former priest
https://nypost.com/2023/03/11/defrocked-ex-con-priest-who-stole-300k-heads-nyc-nonprofits-with-city-contracts/

Senate Church Committee
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Committee

MKUltra
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MKUltra

James F McLaughlin

POLICE MISCONDUCT IS WRONG WHEN THE VICTIM IS WHITE BUT IT IS IGNORED WHEN THE VICTIM IS A CATHOLIC PRIEST

Concord Police Detective Julie Curtin receives award
https://www.facebook.com/nhpfef/posts/1751985978364921:0

Tulia Drug Bust Revisited

The Tulia Drug Bust revisited

https://www.myplainview.com/news/article/5-million-settlement-reached-in-Tulia-lawsuit-8757623.php

Diocese of Manchester pays for dozens of claims
https://beyondthesestonewalls.com/blog/gordon-macrae/in-the-diocese-of-manchester-transparency-and-a-hit-list

Dark Money in NH Politics
https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2016/09/dems-in-new-hampshire-supported-by-the-secret-money-they-rail-against-nationally/

AG Phil McLaughlin, mentor to Jeanne Shaheen
https://www.bishop-accountability.org/news2017/07_08/2015_04_28_Sun_PHIL_MCLAUGHLIN.htm

YDC Abuse Lawsuits survive State’s attempt to dismiss
https://www.nashuatelegraph.com/news/local-news/2023/08/17/ydc-abuse-lawsuits-survive-states-attempt-to-dismiss/

Attorney who represented church abuse victims (Chuck Douglas) defends State’s YDC settlement plan

Attorney who represented church abuse victims defends state’s YDC settlement plan

10 Ferry Street

More Information for you on Child Trafficking In New Hampshire

1999 US DHHS OIG complaint sent to Kathleen Kerr at NH DCYF
https://www.oig.hhs.gov/oas/reports/region1/19802503.pdf

Maximus links to the Catholic Church
https://emmakatherine.substack.com/p/s2e39-jack-pendergrass-maximus-incs-070#details

Laura L Dunn

Laura Dunn Is an Evil Liar

NH v Owen Labrie
https://empowerinnocent.wixsite.com/website/post/the-scandal-of-owen-labrie-and-the-metoo-movement

maxient.com Stasi like
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/feb/20/as-colleges-become-more-stasi-like-students-live-i/

Virtus LLC

UPDATE: VIRTUS® same-sex porn encouragement? That would be right.

David Vicinanzo: WASHINGTON (June 5) — Attorney General Janet Reno announced Friday career federal prosecutor David Vicinanzo of New Hampshire will head the Justice Department’s campaign finance task force.
https://edition.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1998/06/05/finance.taskforce/
https://www.nixonpeabody.com/people/vicinanzo-david-a

 

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Oliver Anthoy’s online viral success must be driving the progressive elites out of their collective mind. Some hick ginger singing about rich men and sh!t wages and how the system doesn’t give a damn about what it’s doing to regular folks. They thought that was their message.

But the last decade, give or take, has seen a paradigm shift. Republicans once thought to be the party of the rich (and still are if you ask your average woke white privileged, latte-drinking, Ivy League liberal), have become the working-class party. It’s awkward, like puberty, but Donald Trump set a flag in the ground when he took trade by the throat and shook it until he’d managed better deals with a few of our “partners.” Made some recalcitrant allies pay their fair share. He kept us out of any new wars the working-class folks pay for with more than just their hard-earned dollars and brokered peace deals instead.

The result was a surge in optimism, jobs, and rising wages across the board. Kids, minorities, women, and even the evil white guys caught a break.

The Democrats dismantled that with their all-in support for COVID fearmongering because politics and power are more important than people, and Donald Trump threatened their machinations. The fallout of Biden’s ascension and the renewed top-down meddling continues to rob everyday Americans of their quality of life, and Oliver Anthony seems to have tapped the vein. Rich Men North of Richmond rocked the internet and the music world (it’s closing in on 40 million views), but Anthony continues to cling to his simple life, at least for now. And maybe that’s for the best. He appears poised to be the voice of a generation, and his most recent release, Brink of War, won’t hurt that ascension one bit.

 

Well, if it won’t for my old dogs and the good Lord
They’d have me strung up in the psych ward
‘Cause every day livin’ in this new world
Is one too many days to meSon, we’re on the brink of the next world war
And I don’t think nobody’s prayin’ no more
And I ain’t sayin I know it for sure
I’m just down on my kneesBeggin’, Lord, take me home
I wanna go home
I don’t know which road to go
It’s been so long
I just know I didn’t used to wake up feelin’ this way
Cussin’ myself every damn day
There’s always some kind of bill to pay
People just doin’ what the rich men say
I wanna go home

Now four generations farmin’ the ground
Grandson sells it to a man out of town
And two weeks later the trees go down
Only got concrete growin’ around

And I wanna go home
I wanna go home
I don’t know which road to go
It’s been so long
I just know I didn’t used to wake up feelin’ this way
Cussin’ myself every damn day
People have really gone and lost their way
They all just do what the TV say
I wanna go home

If it won’t for my old dogs and the good Lord
They’d have me strung up in the psych ward

 

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The President and Dr. Jill interrupted their second vacation this month to travel to Maui to witness the devastation caused by the wildfires two weeks ago. Since the fires, Biden has drawn much criticism for his lack of compassion and interest when asked for comments on the loss of life.

His response of “No Comment” when boarding Marine One on his way to vacation in Delaware drew the ire of many. When he arrived in Maui yesterday, he was met by many lining the streets with “No Comment” signs to echo his words. The residents of Maui were also upset it took two weeks for the President to visit and the lack of Federal response and aid. Biden and his FEMA Secretary claimed every asset available was sent to Maui, but this was rebuked by officials and residents on the island.

Joe made some comments to the media and residents, and this is when he may have gone off script and got himself in trouble with the victims. These people have lost everything, their city reduced to ruins, over 100 confirmed dead, and still hundreds are missing, so the last thing they needed to hear was one of Joe’s fictional stories of personal woe. But that is what he gave them.

Nearly twenty years ago, Biden’s home in Delaware was struck by lightning. A small fire ignited in the kitchen area. Firefighters responded, and the fire was extinguished in twenty minutes with no individuals ever in harm’s way. There have been many Biden iterations of this story over the years, but none come close to the real story.

He attempted to identify with the Maui victims by telling his tragic tale. In his version, the house was nearly burned to the ground, he almost lost his wife to the flames, his cat was nearly killed, and the clincher, his ’67 Corvette, was practically destroyed. But apparently, Joe keeps his beloved Vette in the kitchen along with boxes of Confidential documents!

Even this exaggerated version does not equate to the losses incurred by the residents of Lahaina. Many of these people still await word on missing loved ones, and hearing Joe’s cat was in danger was not comforting. Nor were the comments that he wished he had worn boots as the heat from the charred turf was burning through his shoes.

Joe and Jill are now back at Lake Tahoe to resume their vacation. Many in Maui wish the President had given them the same treatment he gave to East Palestine or our Southern Border and stayed away. Their fear is this was a photo-op for the President and not a serious mission to see the damage and commit federal aid to get these people’s lives back in order. They cannot replace the lost property and are still wondering about the extent of lost lives, but they know the $700 per household promised by the President better not be his best effort at aid. That is not aid but an insult.

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As you ponder why they expect you to get “vaccines” for fast-mutating COVID variants that will make them as equally ineffective as previous “strains” of vaccine, Karen Covidiot is also raising the specter of mandatory back-to-school masking.

Rutgers has a mask and vax mandate for the fall, and others are certain to follow. They can’t help themselves.

Mask-mandate fever has also struck Hollywood, which has no writers, so I guess they need to pretend at something, and it is a progressive  “virus” that will spread.

 

Lionsgate is requiring employees who physically work at its headquarters in Santa Monica to wear masks at all times when in the building, effective immediately, except when alone in an enclosed office or large open workspace. In addition, employees are required to submit to daily COVID testing and to report the results to the company, according to an internal memo obtained by Deadline.

 

Before we get too far down the rabbit hole, is this a good time to ask Governor Sununu to take a break from trying to narrow the Republican field for President to draft a few Emergency orders? He was fast and loose with the things when they took rights away; this might be a good chance to repair some of that damage. Leave office looking like a Republican instead of some left-wing fear-mongering stooge.

Prohibit mandatory masking statewide.

Sadly, that won’t happen. His Excellency will lean on his very selective local control narrative to avoid controversy, and since you can’t get the AG or a judge in this state to put your constitutional rights above the collective power of COVID mob rule, places like Hanover (Dartmouth), Durham (UNH), Plymouth (Univerity of) and Keene (State College) will line up to follow Rutgers.

A mind of your own is, after all, a terrible thing.

I’m sure there is a plethora of hand-wringing and chin-stroking underway as the fall semester looms. How many masks should they wear?

Hospitals, which control nearly every corner of Health Care in the Granite State, and possibly your state too, will embrace the fear and mandates (if they ever gave them up). Casual office visits from primary care to specialty and even dentistry will require your embrace of pandemic virtue signaling. No mask, no service.

Biden Inc. is printing another billion or two to pay for “free vaccines” that the Public Health Industrial Complex has had to admit are not effective (like masks aren’t either), but money doesn’t launder itself.

On a brighter note, booster uptake had declined precipitously, and if you’ve been out and about, the number of masked outlaws decreased to perhaps less than one percent. You still see the odd elder or dopey young person wearing them in the summer heat, no less, but they are few and far between. The side-effects of policy are still, if not fresh, lingering as less than happy memories. It won’t be as easy as the first time, but admissions by experts of policy and prescriptive failures will be quickly swept under the nearest rug when the time comes.

And you won’t get much help from the machine media. They’ve got very little in the way of actual truth in their archives or an inclination to share it. Most of them were too busy cashing ad checks to do any real reporting, but you’ve got options. We’re still here, and “old Satan Claus, Jimmy, he’s out there.” And he’s just getting stronger. Be prepared.

Election integrity is the thing they want to mask, and they mean to do it.

 

 

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After a lengthy and thorough investigation of the mysterious bag of cocaine found at the White House the Department of Justice has fallen under scrutiny for their lack of success in finding either DNA or fingerprints on the contraband.

The “dime bag” of narcotic substance was found in a “non-working” area of the White House that has been under construction for some time.  After discovering it during a routine sweep of the area the Secret Service immediately inspected the bag for identifying markers.  Initial lab reports came back positive for cocaine hydrochloride, however the plastic bag it was contained in yielded neither finger prints nor any traces of DNA.

“It must have fallen out of the sky” asserted long-time Secret Serviceman Stevie Wondersaloud.  After several hours of investigating the theory it was concluded the roof of the White House as well as the first, second, and third floors along with the basement ceiling in the room where it was found make it physically impossible.

Another of the agents suggested an examination of that day’s five hundred visitors to see if any were named Tony Montana, Michael Irvin or known Pixie’s.  After their new $4.5 billion A.I. robot ran through the illegal database developed by the National Security Agency for spying on Americans yielded no results the world’s finest and most well-funded investigative apparatus was dumbfounded.

A member of the press suggested the cocaine perhaps belonged to one of the residents, son of the current President and long-time cocaine user, Hunter Biden who was living there at the time.

When asked “Has anyone thought maybe Hunter might have left it there?” White House press talker-person Karine Jean-Pierre answered ironically “That is an irresponsible question that I won’t dignify by answering”.  She then defended the first family by pointing out they were away the day it was found and remained on vacation the three days thereafter in order to pad Joe Biden’s lead for most vacation time taken by a sitting president.

Thinking outside of the box of normal ethical practices has become a calling card of the current DOJ, which is why they decided to ask Hunter Biden directly if in fact it was his cocaine.  After snorting some of the sample offered to him by the agents he assured it absolutely was not his cocaine as it was clearly cut with baking soda, not the pure Colombian Bam-Bam he buys, and they should “go see Shady Pete on 17th and Commerce street who is known for pulling that crap.”

Incredulity from the press, politicians and the public mounted as they pointed out the intelligence communities ability to find Osama Bin Laden in the nether regions of Pakistan, can contact trace a virus in a third grader on their way to piano lessons, and use camera footage to find every suspected insurrectionist at the January 6th stolen-election party.  One person who pointed out there are security cameras in every room in the White House was told they were the same ones used by the Manhattan prison where Jeffrey Epstein didn’t kill himself.

In an effort to redouble the department’s investigative efforts the DOJ has announced they will be requiring all personnel to commit to weekly training videos featuring “Where’s Waldo” “Dora the Explorer” and old episodes of “The Pink Panther”.

 

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First, let me say that this is not a decision for an unelected body. This is a decision to be made by the citizens of the state of Maine in a state-wide referendum.

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This issue is so critical that not even the governor or legislature should make the final decision. This issue deserves to be decided by Maine voters, who will have to live with the consequences of their decision. Government should then implement the will of the people.

As a Maine resident, taxpayer, and property owner, I am completely opposed to both of these proposals. I chose to live in Maine because of its lifestyle. I didn’t come here to be told what technology my vehicle has to use.

I wonder if you realize that you are being used as political bait, as someone who is expendable, disposable, and considered collateral damage by the self-serving people who placed you on the commission. A quick observation: in life, as in film, all bait is either discarded or eaten.

Politicians and bureaucrats have granted themselves “plausible deniability” and “arms-length” involvement in the decision-making process because of your participation, goodwill, and intent.

They will now say, “The Commission recommended it. I am only following their lead.” In this way, they will experience minimal political consequences and let the expendable commission members suffer the guaranteed-to-be consequences. Remember, no good deed goes unpunished.

Elected officials have indemnification against acts they perform in their official capacity. I know this to be true from my time serving on a school board. I introduced the standardized and commonly used policy myself. It was one of the few unanimous votes our board ever had.

I am not sure if indemnification extends to you as a commission member. I encourage you to personally verify how limited your exposure is politically, legally, professionally, and financially.

You do realize that whatever your decision, it will likely be litigated, and you will become involved in a time-consuming and expensive legal process. Just ask Trump!

Your best choice is to deny the proposals for the many safety reasons cited below.

Your smart and best political choice that protects your integrity and credibility is one that recommends no action until a ballot question is decided by Maine voters. I ask that you enable our democratic process and not allow the clever use of a citizen petition process to force another lifestyle mandate upon the citizenry. Mandated EVs are not in Maine’s best interest.

Here are my seven reasons why I am opposed to mandatory EVs in Maine.

1. The existing regional grid cannot support the existing electrical load,

– let alone the substantial increase in demand required by EVs. Without significant investment in electric power generation capacity, any mandate to EVs will fail.

Living in rural Maine as I do, I have found the existing electrical service lacking in reliability. So much so that I have had to purchase a standby generator. Just two weeks ago, my generator must have engaged two or three times in one day. This was in the summer, not after a major snow or ice storm that often causes infrastructure damage. Outages of two or three days are common.

Power grid failure results in a loss. Combined with proposals to prohibit the use of wood stoves, oil, natural gas, and propane, these increasing and substantial demands on the electric power grid will collapse the infrastructure. People will die, property will be damaged, businesses will fail and people won’t be able to work, and schools will be closed – again.

2. Maine is a very large state.

Piscataquis County, where I live, is larger than the State of Connecticut! Such a large area cannot be served by battery-powered vehicles. Just about everything up here is transported via diesel-powered trucks. The engine torque required to haul equipment, logs, and food simply cannot be accomplished with battery-powered vehicles, especially given the differentiating elevation and topography. Life, as we know it, will end.

This situation further degrades in cold weather when batteries simply cannot maintain their charge. This has been a long-term issue with any battery. The colder it is, the less time the charge is maintained, and the sooner the battery, in this case, a vehicle, loses power and stops.

The following article was published on Saturday, August 19th, 2023. The beginning of the article is below. This article highlights the reality that Ford electric pickup trucks, as currently built, are inadequate to replace their gas-powered predecessor vehicles. Here is the link to the full article.

3. The dirty little secret about EVs is that they rely on fossil fuels for their electricity.

While EVs claim to have no tailpipe emissions, the fact, and dirty little secret, is that the electricity they consume is generated by fossil fuels, hydropower, or nuclear power. A grid powered by solar and wind is still in its infancy and is not reliable, especially here in Maine.

Texas wind energy producer article on massive price increases due to low wind conditions.

Nebraska solar farm destroyed by a hailstorm.

4. Electric Vehicles are not safe and at high risk of fire and extensive property damage.

EV fires are not easily extinguished and can start in stationary or moving vehicles at any time.

The batteries used in EV’s are lithium-based. Essentially there is a lithium solution contained in each battery cell that makes up a battery. Depending on the battery capacity, there could be 2,000 individual cells in a single battery.

If one cell leaks, ruptures, or gets damaged, the risk of fire is extremely high. If the vehicle is involved in an accident, there really is no way of knowing the extent of damage to the battery.

The Felicity Ace was the first cargo ship carrying EVs that caught fire in February 2022. It was intentionally sunk to put out the fire. The cargo ship and its cargo were a total loss. How do you measure the environmental impact? The monetary loss was 500 million dollars.

In July of 2023, a second ship transporting electric vehicles caught fire.

I can tell you, as a volunteer firefighter who has been briefed on lithium battery fires, that our policy is to contain the fire and prevent the fire from spreading and let the vehicle burn. Towing companies don’t want to transport EVs because of the risk of the fire restarting.

EV fires require an enormous amount of water to contain. And even when you think the fire is out, they are at risk of burning again without warning, even days later.

For perspective: our fire truck is called a “pumper.” We bring approximately 1,000 gallons of water to every fire call. This sized truck is typical for rural volunteer fire departments as they can navigate two-lane and dirt roads. The pumps can move 1,000 gallons a MINUTE! Without a steady supply of water, they empty very quickly and put the entire area at risk. It’s the brush/ground fires that rural firefighters fear the most. An EV fire on a remote road away from water presents a catastrophic situation for any fire department.

Here is an article that states up to 30,000 to 40,000 gallons of water are needed to put out a burning Tesla automobile in a parking lot. That is the equivalent of 40 truckloads of water to a remote road.

Why would anyone mandate electric vehicles knowing that this is likely to happen based on documented past experience? It makes no sense to require EVs, especially in rural areas.

In a training session, we were shown a video of an e-bike parked in a garage that burst into flame from likely being overcharged. The entire house was engulfed in flames in just about two minutes. This was an e-bike battery, not an electric vehicle or truck, which could start a fire of a much larger scale, especially in a garage, shed, or under an inhabited space.

Here is a video of an e-bike fire in The Bronx, New York.

 

 

5. EVs cost more to buy and insure compared to equivalent gas-powered vehicles.

Consumer Reports published this article in April 2023.

The higher insurance cost is largely due to the expense of battery replacement which causes the vehicles to be considered total losses and deemed not repairable. EV’s also take longer to repair and therefore have hight labor costs for repairs.

6. EV battery disposal and recycling is not an easy task and has the likely consequence of severe environmental impact.

Unlike lead-acid batteries, the chemistry and components of EV batteries differ from manufacturer to manufacturer. This presents a complex recycling situation. It gets more complex if an EV battery is damaged and at risk of fire.

The following article in the Washington Post of June 18, 2023, discusses this issue.

7. Lithium is the new oil and is subject to political and economic issues and the inherent instability that goes with it.

Here is an article that addresses the impact in Latin America.

This article addresses the lithium mines in China and their local environmental impact. It should also be noted that mining lithium is similar to open-air pit mining of coal. Huge holes in the ground are constructed, and the earth is hauled away for processing. Lithium shares similar environmental issues to coal mining.

In closing, the decision to mandate EVs will change our way of life. It will fundamentally alter our economy, but not for the better. The risk of a car bursting into flames will be next to you in a supermarket parking lot. Not a good idea. What could go wrong? We already know the answer!

I moved here to enjoy the four-season experience in Maine. I came here to retire and live a life in a remote area without a dense population and government overreach. The 2020 census in my town was 132 people.

I can tell you that a decision to mandate EVs will cause many to leave the state, myself included. Your decision will force me to alter my retirement plans and negate the investments I have made in my property and my community.

EVs are not ready for prime time. To mandate them is to doom the future of Maine for our children and their progeny.

 

Howard Coffman
Bowerbank, Maine

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There are times when I wander around some non-political sites just to see if I can find anything interesting to use here. Most of the time, actually the vast majority of the time, it’s a resounding “No!”.

However, this caught my interest as who would have thought that a rather low-tech establishment would be using high-tech to surveil its customers and employees?

A loop:

 

 

I’ve known that high-tech firms will monitor keystrokes and screen flips, time on the phone, time on other sites, and watch web traffic, but I never knew that they would use such to count coffee cups.

And those pesky customers like right in front of the coffee prep area – an hour and a quarter sipping a cup? OK, I know – I’m assuming that which is not in evidence. But what happens when it goes to 2 hours – a James Bond-style ejection seat? The bottom half of the electric chair?  After all, this seems like a rather small shop from this angle, and that’s several “turns” that the owner will never get back.  Is this like the overweight dude that stays at the local buffet for four hours?

I do wonder, however, how the employees get “jump-started” at the start of a shift. Do they have to stare up into the camera so that the system gets its “morning fixation,” Or do their lovely name badges now have RFID chips? Or just some guy marking a screen and then letting the system do the later heavy lifting? It’s hard to tell which but it is clear that the employee movement is being tracked carefully.

And do the employees know it? And are the customers giving their consent

(HT: 9Gag)

 

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I’d rather eat glass than sit through a debate, so I won’t be providing cutting-edge commentary on tonight’s circus. I will, however, be happy to post your thoughts and comments if you send them to me.

Short, long, send an op-ed, or just a quick email. Let me know how you’d like to be identified in your email, or I’ll just use your email handle (nothing after the @).

I’m sure it’s going to be great fun, but I have a burning desire to descale my Keurig, and I have a feeling that’s going to take a while.

I look forward to your observations, which we’ll publish together, assuming anyone sends them.

Maybe you’d rather eat glass, too.

Note: Post-debate commentary on post-debate commentary is something I will do if I feel compelled to do so.

 

Emial: steve@granitegrok.com

 

 

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Here is what should be obvious … painfully obvious … by this point. The GOP-swamp, the GOP-elites, the GOP-establishment … whatever you want to call them … have much, much more in common with the Biden-regime than they have in common with GOP voters. Stated slightly differently, the GOP swamp-creatures … Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan, Sun-King Chris Sununu, Kelly Ayotte, etc., etc., etc. … despise, detest, loathe GOP voters just as much as the Biden-regime does. THEY HATE TRUMP BECAUSE THEY HATE US.

The GOP-swamp’s imperative, mission, cause is wresting control of the GOP from Trump (and thereby from us) and returning it to themselves. So they can return to their grift. Defeating the Biden-regime with “their” nominee is merely extra icing on the cake.

But just keep pretending that we are all on the same team. Keep pretending that there are only two parties … when the reality is there are three because the GOP is really two parties: the GOP-swamp and the GOP voters.

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I was sitting at home Sunday afternoon with the TV on while preparing my Sunday sermon to be uploaded onto our church’s YouTube channel. Then all of a sudden, I see Hal Rafter, my Democratic opponent on my TV screen.

I did a double take, and sure enough, it was a political commercial addressing our General Election on Sept. 19th. During the next round of commercials, sure enough, Hal was back on, and this time I was able to record it on my phone. Let me share with you this, and I quote:

“All the issues that you care about are on the ballot: reproductive choice – climate change – and education. We came within ten votes in November, so every vote really does count.”

What I find concerning about this ad, and it should also concern the voters of Northwood and Nottingham, is this. Nowhere in this ad does Hal say that he wants to represent the people of District 1 at the State House in Concord. Hal’s implication is that he will represent a political agenda in the State House rather than the people of our great community of District 1. I am committed to representing the principles and values of the fine people of our community. I will be YOUR voice at the State House in Concord.

Yes – I am pro-life, and “reproductive choice” is not on the ballot. There is already a law on the books concerning abortion. I am against the “new green deal.” I do not believe all of our vehicles ought to be electric, and we need to remove our gas stoves and heating systems from our homes. I believe our educational dollars ought to follow our children, and parents have “rights” concerning the education of their kids. I also believe these are the common-sense values and principles held by those who reside in Northwood and Nottingham. It is clear from this ad that Hal Rafter will support a political agenda and not the principles and values of our community. I do agree with one thing Mr. Rafter said – every vote will count on September 19th. I want to remind our Northwood residents that our polling location has changed for this election. Northwood’s voting location will be the Town Hall in the main hall. If you are unable to vote in person, please get an absentee ballot from the Town Clerks’ office.

Are outsiders trying to influence our district’s election? Well, if you are a resident of Northwood, you may have received political postcards from New Jersey and Georgia. One of the fundamental principles of an election is that the people of that district get to choose a local resident to represent them. For too long, outsiders have been trying to impact and sway our district’s election. It is time we all stand up – get out and vote – and elect a representative of and for the people. I would consider it an honor to serve and represent you as your next State Representative for Rockingham District 1.
Humbly
James Guzofski

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Someone asked me to look into this a bit ago – another School District believing it could override the US and NH Constitution and numerous court decisions. It’s the same problem I fought for over two years and finally won in having my School Board.

That they couldn’t simply do what some Transgender Activists groups (The Trevor Project and GLSEN) demanded and make people “accept and confirm” their sexuality as adults and indoctrinate children as young as kindergartners.

Seriously – kids who are still potty-training in some cases and the Trans-Authoritarian set want to sexualize them at the K-3 ages? That’s grooming – and complacent school boards appear no longer willing to protect the innocence of the children placed into their care by unsuspecting Parents.

So, another Right To Know was launched based on the same Principle: where, in Law, can they do such things?

August 22, 2023

RE: Right to Know Request per RSA-91A: Legal basis for Milford’s Policy JBAB

[Art.] 8. [Accountability of Magistrates and Officers; Public’s Right to Know.] All power residing originally in, and being derived from, the people, all the magistrates and officers of government are their substitutes and agents, and at all times accountable to them. Government, therefore, should be open, accessible, accountable and responsive…The public also has a right to an orderly, lawful, and accountable government…

Background:

In order to hold such “officers of government are their substitutes and agents”, there are incidents of outright lawbreaking and incidents of ethics complaints by which normal citizens are held responsible to use to “at all times” keep such people “accountable to them.

It is clear that SAU40’s Policy JBAB (https://www.milfordk12.org/apps/pages/JBAB-R) is unconstitutional and illegal in two areas:

1) IV. GUIDANCE C. Names/Pronouns

“A student has the right to be addressed by a name and pronoun that corresponds to the student’s gender identity.”

2) IV. GUIDANCE A. Privacy

School personnel should not disclose information that may reveal a student’s transgender status or gender nonconforming presentation to others, including parents and other school personnel, unless legally required to do so or unless the student has authorized such disclosure.

New Hampshire is a Dillon’s Rule State as opposed to a Home Rule State. The latter means that a subdivision of the State, in which a school board is a mere subdivision of the State, can enact rules, regulations, and ordinances as long as they don’t violate any State or Federal laws.

The former, however, strictly proscribes what a subdivision of a State can or cannot do. Thus, a subdivision’s actions must comport with enumerating / authorizing Laws duly passed by the State. Multiple court cases have affirmed this point of Law.

Demand:

Pursuant to the Right to Know Law (RSA. 91-A:4 (I) ), I am demanding access, within 5 business days, to the below enumerated governmental records for Citizen complaints against NH State Government staff members:

• To Item #1, above, that declaration concerning compelled speech, can be translated as:

In this Dillon’s Rule State, where does this mere subdivision of the State gain the Power (governments have Powers, Individuals have Rights) to grant a new Right to a minor child to coerce the speech of others and that it has the Power to subvert the First Amendment’s Freedom of Speech as well as the NH Constitution’s Article 2

Thus, given that many of the District’s other Policies cite specific NH State Statutes (“RSAs”) and/or Department of Education Rules (having the force of Law) and that your Policy JBAB has no such citation(s) allowing this Dillon’s Rule State subdivision to act in such a manner, produce such Governmental records (e.g., RSA(s) supporting the District’s actions in this matter.

• To Item #2 above, given that a “lie” can be accomplished either by commission (deliberately stating an untruth to deliberately mislead others) or by omission (withholding information so as to mislead others), Item #2 can be translated as:

In this Dillon’s Rule State, where does this mere subdivision of the State gain the Power to force/mandate that its Staff either directly lie (“commission”) to its students’ Parents about their child’s gender dysphoria/transgender status simply to make the Board members feel good about themselves? Or by withholding information (“omission”) so as to deflect, misdirect, or misinform a student’s Parents?

Thus, given that that your Policy JBAB has no such citation(s) allowing this subdivision to act in such a manner, produce such Governmental records (e.g. State RSA(s) supporting the District’s actions in this matter.

If this cannot be fulfilled within that 5 business day mandated window per RSA 91-A:2, II, please advise when the Responsive Record(s) will be made available.

Per RSA 91-A:4 IV(c) If you deny any portion of this request, please cite the specific exemption (RSA 91-A:5) used to justify the denial to make each record, or part thereof, available for inspection along with a brief explanation of how the exemption applies to the information withheld.

Additional: It is not up to the Requester to be made to look up the subjects or materials that are the focus of this Right To Know (e.g., from the Respondent: “here’s the URL so do the search yourself”). It is the responsibility of the Respondent to fully supply all demanded materials.

As you are aware, in 2016, the New Hampshire Supreme Court ruled that a governmental body in possession of records is required to produce them in electronic media using standard common file formats: Green v. SAU #55, 168 N.H. 796, 801 (2016). Unless there is some reason that it is not reasonably practical to produce such, explain why it is not practical to comply.

Please also note, per RSA 91-A:4 III, III-a, and III-b, you are required to maintain the safety and accessibility of such Responsive Records. This also includes such responsive records (e.g., emails, query files, policies) which may have been deleted from respective local hardcopy or software systems but are still available on the applicable servers or in application or archival system(s) either in-house or hosted.

Please let me know when these records are available for inspection or you may email the records to me at Skip@GraniteGrok.com. If the volume is turns out to be substantial, I’ll be happy to supply a backup drive sufficient to hold all of your responsive records.

Thank you for your lawful attention to this matter.

Sincerely,

Skip Murphy
Founder
GraniteGrok.com

I really hope that this isn’t going to take another two years but, you know…

 

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Many Donald Trump supporters I have had conversations and interactions with share an intense feeling of being cheated over what took place in 2020 that can only be assuaged by running – and this time winning – a Trump/Biden rematch in 2024.

While I share the anger and frustration stemming from the multiple injustices inflicted on the former president (and Republicans in general) over the past seven years, I respectfully disagree as to that remedy. A Trump candidacy in 2024 is not the best thing for the country, the Republican Party, or, for that matter, Donald Trump.

In order for justice to be meted out, Republicans need to re-claim all of the internal administrative levers of power necessary to reform the DOJ, the FBI, and other problematic areas of the federal bureaucracy, as well as, from the former president’s perspective, having someone in place to pardon him should that become necessary. This, of course, requires winning the presidency.

And let’s be honest, a man who is a 100 percent known commodity, who the voters have long ago made up their minds about, who lost his last bid for the same office, who is spending all of his campaign donations on legal expenses instead of campaigning, who has an approval rating in the 30’s, and a recent poll showed 53 percent of voters would not vote for him under any circumstances does not represent our best chance to win the upcoming presidential election.

Moreover, in addition to the presidency, Republicans must win back the Senate (as well as increasing – and not losing — their bare majority in the House), which is critical for confirming key presidential appointments, controlling the committees that have the power to investigate the crimes and potential crimes that have been perpetrated over the past several years, and passing any kind of a conservative legislative agenda.

And, again, let’s be honest. Donald Trump does not have a stellar track record when it comes to picking winning candidates and/or helping others win elections. With Trump as the head of the Party, Republicans lost the House in 2018, lost the Senate and the presidency in 2020, and in what should have been a wave Republican year in 2022, woefully underperformed, especially in Senate races. Another round of Hershel Walkers, Blake Masters, Dr. Ozs, etc. would be a disaster for the Party, the country, and the former president.

In 2020, Republicans lost the Senate largely because Donald Trump allowed his feud with the Georgia governor and secretary of state to overshadow, spill into, and negatively impact the two special runoff elections we needed to win to keep the US Senate in Republican control. The consequences of that failure were humongous.

It delayed, for example, any serious investigations into the Hunter Biden laptop scandal and hence the Biden family bribery scandal by two years until the Republicans were able to re-claim a house majority – barely – in 2022.

It also killed any chance of investigations into the very voting irregularities Trump was upset about to begin with, as well as the “Russia-gate” fraud, censorship of conservatives by social media companies, etc. It made it impossible for Republicans to stop the Biden Administration and the Democrats from passing their own devastating slate of legislative priorities, such as extended Covid lockdowns, the fraudulently named Inflation Reduction Act, and undoing Donald Trump’s own positive legacy on issues like border control and energy independence.

Too often the man gets in his own way and is his own worst enemy. Trump did, after all, appoint Christopher Wray to run the FBI taking advice from Chris Christie, no less! If there is any evidence that he has learned from these mistakes, that his judgement has improved, or that he has grown more disciplined as a result, I have not yet seen it.

I want to see the people who have abused the law and our institutions to mistreat Republicans, our agenda, and our country brought to justice. But, like the lawyer who has himself for a client, I am not convinced at this point in time Donald Trump is the right person to do this job.

So, as the other Republican candidates take the stage tomorrow night, I will be looking to see, first and foremost, who has the potential to appeal to a majority of American voters and win. Additionally, who has shown the ability to bring coattails to elections and help other conservatives win as well. Who can think and operate strategically not just for themselves but as the leader of a team. Who has a vision for the country that will turn us back toward small, constitutional government, and the managerial abilities to execute this vision through a series of policy successes.

Too much is at stake for this election to be about anything other than winning a broad mandate for a conservative policy agenda. If Republicans lose the House and fail to win the Senate in 2024 because the nominee for president drags down the ticket, all the investigations into the crimes of the past seven years go away, probably forever, and justice will never be served. Worse the agenda our country needs to heal itself will never have a chance to be implemented. In fact, quite the opposite — as we have witnessed over the past three years.

 

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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As promised in the last Monday Memes, I have an overflow. My meme cup runneth over.  And there will be a Friday Overflow-Overflow.

Let the mayhem, mockery, and ridicule resume:

 

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

 

 

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From a Telegram contact:

German advertising billboard reads: “Future or climate killer?”

They’re encouraging the native to stop breeding and importing millions of third world men.

You still think it’s all a “conspiracy theory”?

 

 

More on the Great Replacement and migration in general:

 

 

About Sweden in particular:

Swedish rape crisis – INSANE court ruling! (substack.com)

 

 

It was observed that this girl may also be an illegal.  That doesn’t mean she deserved to be raped or murdered.  MHO?  Execute this vermin by decapitation, then mount the skull on a pike at the border.  Lather, rinse, repeat.  Until there’s a forest of skulls, gleaming in the sun blindingly, as a lesson to the next illegals what happens when you break our laws to come in.  And MHO again?  Add in the skulls of the government officials and NGO staffers that are aiding this.  And a personal request: Can I please please please be the one who “does” Barbara Spectre?

 

 

My reaction when I first heard her words here.  And my taking my fellow Jews to task on their pro-migration stance:

An Open Letter to Pro-Migration / SJW Jews – Urban Scoop

A little more about Spectre (bolding added):

If she’s a Leftist, then her work for multiculturalism won’t really be done as a Jew; but as a Leftist or Left-Liberal. Most Leftist Jews are not Jews in a religious sense or in a cultural sense. And, obviously, they aren’t pro-Israel either. Thus they are only Jewish by blood — just like Chomsky. And if blood doesn’t matter, as Leftists claim, then they have no right to speak for Jews, when they talk about Israel. They are contradicting their own anti-racism and their criticisms of other people’s focus on race or blood. Chomsky and Norman Finkelstein are no more or less Jewish than George Bush or Mike Tyson. Most Leftist/Marxist Jews have rejected — despite what the Nazis claim — just about every aspect of Jewish culture, religion, and history, as well as Israel.

IF she’s a Leftist?  I’ll bet every penny I have that she is.

And while this article is from 2019, the comments are spot-on: Jews helping to import people from anti-Semitic parts of the world.  Jewicidal Yidiots!

 

Immigration has to stop!

 

 

 

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If Hawaii, which typically votes “D”, continues to do so – you get what you deserve IMHO.

 

 

 

Already writing The Potato out of the script, I see.  And this is an interesting take on the Dem future:

WaPo columnist: If Biden retires and Harris doesn’t get nominated, watch out – HotAir

 

 

 

 

So what to make of this shipping bottleneck?

Huge backlog of 200 ships are stuck trying to enter the Panama Canal as they wait WEEKS amid slowed traffic due to drought: Delays set to wipe $200M off profits and cause spike in US grocery and parcel prices | Daily Mail Online

 

 

 

Back in the 2007 time frame I was at a NH GOP event with Dr. Paul as one of the candidates, with him actually present.  Now let me state that from an ideological standpoint I like him a lot, though I do believe the capital-L Libertarian doctrine is more than a little naïve in terms of national defense, for one example.  But he failed to say even a single word of reproach to his enthusiastic fans who were loud & quite frankly quite boorish, interrupted other speakers, etc.  From that I came away as distinctly uninterested in him politically – can’t even control a small group who would have listened to him with rapt attention.

 

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PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA

 

Are you to the Right of Stalin?  Understand that the Left views you as an enemy… and potentially soon, an enemy to be harassed and punished by the legal system.

MSNBC Says The Quiet Part Out Loud: “This is an indictment of the people who voted for Trump” – Pirate’s Cove » Pirate’s Cove (thepiratescove.us)

This is saying to you Americans “vote the way we tell you or face the consequences. If we can come after a former president this hardcore, we could come after you, and you stand no chance.”

The Trump Indictments Are Blunt Demonstrations Of Power (thefederalist.com)

This is about power — who has it, and who doesn’t. The people at the top are trying to tell you, the masses under them, that they can do whatever they want to you, at any time, and there’s nothing you can do to fight back. Just look what they’re doing to Trump, a former president. If they can do that to him, imagine what they can do to you.

Why do the words of JFK Jr. come to mind as the Left systematically thwarts millions of people from having a say?

 

 

Now understand, I am not advocating violent revolution.  I just fear that – more and more – it’s becoming inevitable.  The switch is getting close to being thrown…

 

 

And for no other reason than because we all wanted to be left alone, and they said no.

 

 

Actually, it’s not just being left alone.  They really do believe themselves to be on a higher level, made from “finer clay”, and thus entitled to tell us what to do.

 

 

Remember how easily the sheeple turned on you because you didn’t wear a face diaper or refused an experimental gene therapy.  They’ll do the same once you are tarred with “MAGA”.

 

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And we STILL don’t have the manifesto from the Nashville shooter made public.

 

 

 

Sorry if this is a bit of an “eye chart” – I’ve got it as big as it gets.

 

 

Well played, that last one!

 

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Covid, Jab, etc.:

 

Requirement to wear masks in hospitals may have had little impact on COVID-19 transmission during omicron wave (medicalxpress.com)

Don’t forget the 2 boys (Gill et al.) who were found dead in their beds, 3 & 4 days after receiving 2nd dose of Pfizer’s mRNA technology COVID vaccine; “Autopsy Histopathologic Cardiac Findings in 2 (substack.com)

The Vax-Gene Files: Have the Regulators Approved a Trojan Horse?  ⋆ Brownstone Institute

 

 

 

Why so hard to resist?  Dopamine and the pleasure hits you get when you comply.

Civilizational Collapse and Biology (Part 3) – Urban Scoop

 

 

 

 

 

 

On this last one, also a video:

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/covid-ramp-up.mp4

 

With the text from the Telegram channel where I got this saying (bolding added):

The promotion of the new 793 variant of CONvid is gaining momentum across the planet. The number of publications on this topic has been growing exponentially in recent days. Information appears on the network that new lockdowns and other “sanitary measures” are waiting for Europe in mid-September. The population of the planet will again try to intimidate with a runny nose so that it agrees to put on muzzles again and stay at home. And when we remember that in less than a week (August 25) the law on disinformation on the Internet comes into force in the EU, which will oblige the media, social networks and platforms with video content to remove all publications that contradict the main narrative, we can conclude that we are waiting for a new rich round of intimidation and propaganda. As the saying goes, forewarned is forearmed.

On that last… another Telegram contact told me that a bitchute channel they regularly follow – they’re in Europe – is now blocked.  Only by VPN setting to the US can they see it.

So, basically, prepare to be bombarded endlessly about the need for more Jabs, and masks, and lockdowns… and depending where you live, anything you post to the contrary will be removed by force of law.  And now, consider one variant’s name:

 

 

They NEED chaos to hit, and hard – whether a virus, war, economy, etc.  For only then – desperate and starving – will these words be prophetic:

 

(Link to AZQuotes per their policy.)

 

 

Don’t just have another Jab.  Get two for good measure.  And eat a choline-rich diet for at least a month before you do.  Better: take choline supplements too.

 

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Plopping Jews

 

 

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The Coming Tyranny / Great Reset (Broad) – links and memes

 

 

 

UK government’s nefarious chemtrail programme EXPOSED – The Expose (expose-news.com)

How to Prep for a Cyberattack (theorganicprepper.com)

 

Avoiding a cashless society

 

 

I make it a point to pay cash whenever possible.  The only time I use my card is when I don’t plan well and run out.  Speaking of CBDCs:

The Brazilian Central Bank Goes LIVE with a CBDC (theorganicprepper.com)

 

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

 

“It’s absolutely catastrophic. Nobody ever voted for this. People are not allowed to use their cars outside of their 15 minute ‘zone’ more than 100 times per year. The idea is essentially to stop you travelling wherever you want.”

Red Meat Allergies from Tick Bites Are on the Rise (theorganicprepper.com)

How… convenient.  Do not doubt me on this: maggot burgers, cricket chips, and sustainable algae cakes – not to mention their 3D-printed lab-grown tumor meat – will not be affected by this new “allergy”.

 

 

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“Climate Change” – links and memes

 

 

Note the date.  Don’t forget the CNN guy caught on secret camera saying that “climate” would be the next scare.  And now…

 

 

 

 

This one is important.  It shows how measurements are differing from models.  And I remember – but alas didn’t save – a NASA scientist saying that the data needed to be tweaked to make it comport better with the models.

No.  No no no no no.  That’s not how science works.  Observations trump models.  Period.

Also note the start date.  The earth was noticeably cooling from the 1930s (very high points in the data) to the mid-1970’s.  So they’re starting the graph precisely when the decline in temperatures turned around and started up again.

 

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Pick of the post:

 

Many good ones this entry, but this is the winner IMHO.

 

 

They never think it will come for them.  Until it does.  This happens time after time after time in history.

 

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Larry Elder SCHOOLS Woke Liberals | Larry Elder

 

 

And another by him (link only):

Debunking The ‘Trump is a Racist’ Myth | Larry Elder – YouTube

 

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Palate cleansers:

 

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We still believed in sovereignty and securing our Borders when Donald Trump was President. The equipment was purchased to build a Border Wall, the materials were delivered, and the contracts were signed. Illegal Border crossings were at an all-time low, and the Border Patrol and ICE Agents were respected.

Then came January 20, 2021, and President Joe Biden took office and began to dismantle America. One of the first actions by President Biden was to stop the construction of the Wall and cancel the signed contracts. The materials were stored in the Texas Desert to rot, and the locks were taken off the locks to open the floodgates of millions of illegal immigrants. On his first day, President Biden canceled our sovereignty and dashed the future hopes of most Americans.

Texas Governor Abbott has been evaluating all possibilities to ease the pressure and danger of illegal immigration on his state and residents. One of his options was to purchase the abandoned equipment from the Federal Government and for Texas to complete the Wall. It seemed like a good idea for all. The equipment would be used. The Federal government would recoup their expense, and the Border would be recovered. To which the President cried out, Not so fast there, folks. I’m having a flea market sale this weekend and selling all that surplus material.

The House of Representatives and the State of Texas are working on a transfer of the equipment and Texas cash so Texas can resume the Wall construction. Biden is selling off the abandoned fence components for pennies on the dollar as a preemptive move. If the material disappears, then no entity will be building the Wall, which is precisely what Biden and the Democrats want. The geographical Border states are under attack, and they have the right, and the obligation, to protect their territory and people.

One of the tools used by Governor Abbott is the floating fences running down the middle of the Rio Grande. These large armored rubber “balls” create a barrier above and below the surface, making them very effective in preventing illegal river crossings. These effectively prevent illegals from physically touching Texas/United States land. This tool works for Texas, so the Biden Administration is suing Texas for illegally blocking territorial waters. Texas must stop using this floating barrier and remove all existing sections if successful.

Can it be any clearer that Joe Biden and most Democrats do not want a secure Border or any obstacles preventing illegals from entering the United States? Like the bogus Inflation and Employment numbers, Joe Biden is manipulating the Immigration numbers. Biden claims there has been an enormous drop in crossings since the death of Title 42. It is a lie. The Biden Administration implemented a phone app that migrants could use to register before they reach the Border. Anyone who successfully uses the app is given unrestrained entry and is not included in the illegal entry count. They are still entering our country. They are just not counted in this sham former Southern Border.

Cities and states impacted by Biden’s immigration policies must band together and sue the President and the Federal Government for not protecting America’s Border and damages for the billions of dollars cities and states are spending to house and educate illegal immigrants landing in their area. The legal path is the only way to divert Biden’s effort to saturate our country with unvetted, unchecked, and unvaccinated people worldwide.

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Back in 2020, many months into the Left’s presidential campaign strategy doing business as the COVID pandemic and Peaceful Protests,  GraniteGrok predicted it could be the beginning of the end of big cities like New York.

 

What bad Democrat policies began, Covid-19 accelerated, Democrat lockdowns exacerbated, and Democrat-encouraged riots put into high gear: Productive citizens are fleeing the big cities, especially the Democratic Party’s strongholds, and even those who initially meant to return are finding that life is better in the suburbs, or even in rural America.

 

Weren’t we clever?

 

Nearly 160 Wall Street firms have moved their headquarters out of New York since the end of 2019, taking nearly $1 trillion — yes, that’s trillion with a “T” — in assets under management with them, according to data from 17,000 companies compiled by Bloomberg.

Looking to dodge rampant crime, stiff taxes and an increasingly exorbitant cost of living, 158 fed-up financial firms representing a whopping $993 billion in assets have packed up and left the Big Apple, taking thousands of high-paid employees with them, the data shows.

 

The lockdowns and rise of remote everything from learning to working brightened a light bulb (probably LED in earth-friendly packaging) over the pointy heads of corporate boards and small businesses alike. Why am I paying top dollar on office space for employees who can do the same job from home? As Mike Rogers noted back in September 2020,

 

When New York became unsafe in the 70’s and 80’s, there was no reasonable way for collaborative work, or trading which required lightning-fast responses, to be done from a home in the boondocks, but today, and indeed for more than ten years now, internet speeds have made it possible for anybody who does not need specialized machinery to work from anywhere a desk, a computer, and an internet connection can be set up.

The big cities have become increasingly expensive for high earners to live in, and people have been gradually making the choice between living comfortably for less versus crowded and expensive living conditions balanced by a lively social scene. The gradual walking away became a brisk trot with the Covid lockdowns, as anybody who had the option left the cities for quieter and less infected locales, but it became a stampede as the BLM/Antifa riots and looting wiped out large swaths of what made downtown worthwhile.

 

The housing crisis in many states these days started when urbanites tucked tail and ran as far from the monster they’d help create as possible. Biden’s open borders invasion has not helped, nor have the Demcorats’ economic priorities, which are littering vast swaths of America with Bidenvilles; homeless camps punctuated by rising property crime, violent crimes, sexual assault, and overdose deaths adjacent to high-rise hotels filled with illegal aliens.

A Democrat Socialists Normal Rockwell.

These Democrats have hardly had to do a thing to ruin America’s cities but be themselves a lesson for everyone everywhere who will listen as the people in them with the means are heading for the hills. Good for them, but not for the rest of us. While they are quick to abandon the results of decades of Democrat rule grasping how things got so bad is less common. Like a virus, they spread that progressive contagion to sleepy bergs or smaller states with quaint pastoral character, little bureaucratic burden, low crime, and high quality of life.

These fragile blessings crumble quickly under the marching boots of leftists who had the sense to get away from failure only to lack the reason not to duplicate it in their new environment.

Vermont invaded years ago and went down with very little fight. Maine is headed that way. And we’ve been fighting it in New Hampshire for decades, clinging bitterly to our liberties, low crime, high quality of life, low poverty, and above-average incomes. All the things you’ll lose if the Left gets its fangs in deep enough.

The added weight of urban refugees who don’t know how things got so bad where they were or stayed so good where they went can tip the scales to the Left, so it is left to the locals to get them with the program.

New Hampshire, the lone holdout in New England, is increasingly under outside pressure to give in to the progressive impulse.

The outsiders have been pouring in since before COVID, but the game is still afoot. House prices are high, but deep-pocketed urban Wall Street or Tech types have the money to free themselves from the inevitable decline that follows Democrat rule and, as it turns out, funds the campaigns of the same where they land.

Repeating lessons they’ve not yet learned. A different kind of invasion from which escape seems increasingly less likely. But that’s why we fight the fight, yes?

“The battle against tyranny is eternal, as is the desire for liberty, but tyranny never rests, so – like them – neither shall we.”

 

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Many people live highly stressful lives and find it tricky to switch off and get a sense of calm and serenity in their lives. There are plenty of different techniques for unwinding that you can practice, and the following blog post will check out just a few of the main options you have in front of you. This way, you can ensure that your mind and body get the recharge that it so badly needs.

Detox from tech

Many people think that the best way to unwind is to lose themselves in the latest boxset they have been watching, but this can have the opposite effect if you are not careful. Therefore, you should look to detox from tech as much as possible. You could simply curl up on the sofa with a good book. Perhaps you could listen to some music instead. If you want to unwind, there is always the option to create your own chillout zone complete with jumbo bean bags and anything that will help you to unwind.

Get some fresh air

Many people spend all day cooped up indoors, and this is bound to have an overall negative impact on their mental well-being. Therefore, why not look into getting some fresh air instead? Whatever you are doing, you are bound to be getting your body moving at the same time. This could range anywhere from a short stroll to a gentle jog. If you need that extra motivation, it could help to get outside with a friend.

Speak to a friend or someone close

A lot of people live their lives in a way that is quite isolated from one another. While texting is all well and good, it doesn’t give you the same feeling as actually being able to interact with someone close to you. Therefore, speaking with a friend, family member, or someone close to you is worth regularly. Giving a call is going to be better than texting, but if you can see them in person, this will obviously be better.

Indulge in something mindful

One of the main reasons so many people struggle to switch off is that they are either consumed by past events or paralyzed in fear about what is going on in the future. Therefore, indulging in mindful activities could be the ideal way to give your brain the break it needs.

This could include something more traditional such as yoga or meditation. Having said that, anything has the potential to be mindful. For example, cooking can be a very mindful activity, but it lets you be in the zone over a period of time, and you end up with a nice meal at the end of it all.

All of these are different techniques that can help you unwind at the end of a long day. They are all worth indulging in to see what works for you, and have the potential to leave you feeling recharged.

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The 2024 presidential campaign is well underway, and New Hampshire voters certainly appreciate the unique and crucial responsibility we have in selecting the next President.

We want to thank Rep James Soti for this Contribution – Please direct yours to Editor@GraniteGrok.com.

 

 

As a conservative, I have searched for a GOP candidate who best embodies our state’s “Live Free or Die!” motto, someone who understands our deep commitment to individual liberty, personal responsibility, and the rule of law.

After examining an ever-growing list of candidates and meeting many of them, I’m proud today to endorse Larry Elder for the Republican nomination for president.

Larry isn’t a billionaire or a career politician. Like many New Hampshire residents, he’s from humble origins, the son of a hardworking small business owner who inspired him to chase the American Dream. His success story embodies that dream. Through a commitment to personal responsibility and hard work, Larry became one of the most influential voices for liberty in the country by using his various media platforms over the last 40 years to educate millions of Americans about limited government and public accountability.

In an election where the stakes are higher than ever before, we need a candidate who is battle-hardened. Perhaps no recent candidate understands this better than Larry Elder. As a black conservative running in deep blue California, his success positioned him as an imminent threat to the radical left-wing politicians and pundits who want us to believe that the American Dream is a myth. During his gubernatorial campaign, Democrats derisively referred to Larry as an Uncle Tom, a sellout, and, incredibly, “the black face of white supremacy.”

Despite these shameless attacks, Larry never wavered in his commitment to the enduring principles that make America great. This took extraordinary courage and dignity. Even as he has withstood unthinkable smears, Larry remains a true unity candidate with a plan to discredit and dismantle the DEI industrial complex that rejects our founding principles and regularly tells us that Larry’s story is simply an impossibility.

Larry’s candidacy is about empowering Americans to pursue the American Dream by expanding economic and educational opportunities and limiting the role of an out-of-control federal bureaucracy. That’s why he has signed the Taxpayer Protection Pledge to oppose and veto any proposed tax increase while in office. More than any other candidate in this race, he has expressed a commitment to tackling the runaway spending that fuels the inflation crisis that’s making it harder and harder for young families in New Hampshire to get by. He also supports the expansion of school choice programs that would empower parents and level the playing field for families of all socioeconomic programs, giving them the freedom to choose the sort of education that works best for their children.

Larry understands that a free society requires a firm commitment to the rule of law. He is committed to securing our border and putting an end to the cartel-driven flow of dangerous drugs that are gutting our small towns and rural communities. His “Enforce the Law Act” is a bold legislative model that would protect American families by creating a system that holds ideological district attorneys and prosecutors accountable when they refuse to enforce the law.

We live in the greatest country in the history of the world. Here, we are free to be and do what we want and to achieve great things. But there are those who seek to weaken us, insisting our best days are fading into the past.

We must not squander what so many generations have toiled to preserve. With Larry Elder, we can forge the future of a Golden Age for America, where liberty and opportunity spark peace and prosperity for us all.

That’s why I’m proud to endorse him for President of the United States.

Julius Soti is a 2-term State Representative from Rockingham County District 35 Londonderry/Windham, New Hampshire.

 

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The summer season brings warmer weather and longer, brighter days, so being outdoors is far more pleasurable. A weekend walk to a local park or beauty spot can be a real joy when the sun shines, and there is no cloud in the sky.

Summertime also provides the perfect opportunity to enjoy your property’s outdoor and garden spaces. True pleasure can be gained by enjoying a favorite book in the shade on a hot day or even simply by tending to the garden or mowing the lawn.

This time of year provides the perfect opportunity to improve your garden’s and outdoor areas’ key parts. With a little bit of time and effort, you can make some meaningful improvements that will increase your enjoyment of being outside. This article will explore three top tips for improving your garden areas.

Consider the perimeter

While many gardens have key focal points such as vibrant flower beds or an interesting path area, it is easy to overlook the perimeter of this space. Over time, fences can grow old and may sustain damage after years of exposure to the elements.

An old or damaged fence can really detract from the overall appearance and appeal of any garden, and it is important to consider replacing your fencing when it gets to this condition. Search online for fence builders to find suitable professionals who will be able to advise you on the ideal materials and styles of fencing that will complement your garden.

Choose treated wood as your material of choice if you are looking for a traditional feel to the garden, or consider composite materials if you are seeking a modern finish. Take a range of quotes from suppliers to ensure you are getting the best value, and look for customer feedback that will indicate the satisfaction of previous customers.

Build a fire pit

It is relatively easy to construct a fire pit in your garden and this will become the focal point for enjoying freshly cooked food outdoors in the summer season. There is a wide range of fire pit designs you can choose from, and ideally, you will want to make one that matches your DIY skill level. Most firepits can be constructed in a day or less and are usually made with non-combustible bricks to form the perimeter of the structure. They are easy to maintain and allow you to enjoy al fresco dining and barbecued food whenever desired.

Get the perfect lawn

As a final key improvement to your garden, it is important to consider the condition of your lawn. The lawn can quickly become spoiled when moss or weeds develop between the grass, which can detract from the overall appeal of these areas.

Thankfully, multipurpose lawn feeds can kill weeds and moss while improving your lawn’s quality. If you have pets at home, it is important to pick a lawn product that is not harmful to them if ingested. Always read the product description to ensure that the product you choose is pet friendly.

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