“And perhaps why Mr. Martin quickly responded to me?  I didn’t know – and I still don’t know but I’m hoping to find out soon enough. How?”

Inquiring minds want to know. Well, at least my mind wants to know: beside DCYF Investigative Specialist Amy Fortin and her lawyer Amanda Knifeton, there was also DHHS Deputy Chief Legal Counsel John Martin (who was put into the unenviable position of cleaning up the mess that the prior two folks created).

To recap: my initial Right To Know was simply to ask for the Standard DCFY Operating Procedure manual that all investigators are supposed to follow. First she just blew me off by not answering at all. Upon reminding her that she was now out of compliance as she missed the mandatory five biz day response period, Fortin basically stated that her lawyer, Amanda Knifeton, said that it was a public document and that it could be found on the Internet. Translated to the vernacular, she told me to do that anatomically impossible thing to do (especially at my age where “flexible” is now an unknown term). Not cool and I told her such (in reasonable language, if you read that link).

However, out of the blue, DHHS Deputy Chief Legal Counsel John Martin popped in and not only gave me the responsive records requested but apologies as well.

But it got me to wondering – how did it get from Fortin to Martin and do it so quickly after I correctly let her know “not cool”? Perhaps it was this that I wrote as part of my “not cool” email:

I will also forward this to <redacted> to bring this matter to the Judge at <redacted> hearing as to how DCYF handles such legal requests as it is germane to there case.

Maybe that’s one reason why I was told I couldn’t go into said courtroom?  And perhaps why Mr. Martin quickly responded to me?  I didn’t know – and I still don’t know but I’m hoping to find out soon enough. How?

This (just the “payload” without the normal boilerplate that’s used for those that have no idea, like Amy Fortin, what their responsibilities are):

This request is for certain DYCF emails messages with the time frame starting May 25, 2023 to June 17, 2023 inclusive based on the email from Skip@GraniteGrok.com to Amy.Fortin@dhhs.nh.gov concerning my previous Right To Know demand, which she “blew off” and the situation had to be rectified by DHHS Deputy Chief Legal Counsel John B. Martin.

The demanded email responsive records will include the following information:

• Email Header info (origination, routing, destination, sender, all recipients, et al)
• TO fields – all addresses
• FROM fields – all addresses
• CC fields – – all addresses
• BCC fields – all addresses
• DATE fields
• SUBJECT field
• The BODY of the email itself
• Attachments for each email (as applicable)

NOTE: While an individual email client (e.g., web based, local application) may not show any associated BCC email addresses directly, the email server has such information as discreet data fields in its database associated with a given email message. These BCC email addresses, on a per email message as applicable, are mandatory to be human readable for this request to be lawfully fulfilled. This is the main concern for this Right To Know in obtaining, per NH Constitution Article 8, full transparency in this matter.

Filters:

• Subject field: The initial Subject was “RSA 91:A Right To Know demand”. It is highly likely there are other SUBJECT variants depending on the main email thread and any such subthreads my RTK demand went through from initial sending to Amy Fortin through from Mr. Martin sending both his apology and the Responsive Record URLs to me to “cure” the disaster Ms. Fortin created. I’m betting there were subsequent emails after that last subthread between myself and Mr. Martin that should be part of the Responsive Record set as well with “other” Subject field data.
• TO or FROM or BCC fields to include one or more of the following:
  • Amy.Fortin@dhhs.nh.gov
  • Christy.L.Lavigne@dhhs.nh.gov
  • The NH Government assigned email address for Amanda Knifeton (unknown to me at this writing, being unable to find her in any State of NH staff directories)
  • John.B.Martin@dhhs.nh.gov
  • Skip@GraniteGrok.com

Knowing that there is most likely “Privileged Communications” (per RSA 91-A:5, XII) contained within some of the email bodies, please know those portions of an email body are not being requested (in fact, not desired) so redaction of just those small portions (unless Confidentiality is waived) is acceptable. The above email header information, however, is still demanded as they are not subject to such exclusion.

Now, I didn’t send this to Mr. Martin or Fortin (or her boss). Instead, because of the desire to see any and all BCC email addresses (which I expect happened), I sent it this morning to Commissioner Denis Goulet of the NH IT department. It wouldn’t be far to send to the “line folks” when the IT folks know EXACTLY what kind of information can be found in the email header information that most people have never looked at. I also know that email servers also track BCC information – the heart of my RTK – I want to construct that directed digraph of all those that ended up in this.

So we’ll see how this goes.

Oh, and I put in another RTK this morning as well…

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In an attempt to stay ahead of the rapidly advancing race wars and other social unrest they’ve been planning, the F.B.I. has announced the development of two new elite units called the Storm Troopers.

When asked about the inspiration for the new crime-fighting team F.B.I. Director Christopher Wray explained they were an homage to one of his favorite historical memories, the movie “Star Wars.”

“We all know about the coming race wars and mass shootings, so I figured what better way to be prepared than to train up some of our most capable agents and pay tribute to the greatest movie franchise of all time?” the director explained over Zoom while donning a shiny new helmet gifted to him by Nike.

When asked about the other historical context for Storm Troopers, namely the German Socialist Workers Party (a.k.a. The Nazis), and whether or not the name might be considered insensitive, the director peered deeply at the questioner from his icy blue eyes, responding “Nein, uberhaupt nicht, what a silly question!” turning to his lovely who was shaking her beautiful blonde hair in disbelief.

The room, full of reporters, was then shown a short promotional training video featuring footage of live-action drills the teams have conducted around the United States. In an attempt to give the super troopers real-life opportunities to test their skills, the teams were unleashed on various public individuals who, though not posing a threat nor committing any crimes, offered the kind of scenarios the teams expect to face in the weeks ahead.

One unit was asked to bravely confront a father of seven who had the audacity to participate in a pro-life event with his son, setting a poor example for children everywhere. The unit was able to surprise the dad in his home at breakfast time before he could go out for another day of terrifying free speeching.

“There are a lot of bad people out there, and it’s getting worse. One nut was standing near a pride parade reading the Bible! We knew it was only a matter of time before he started thumping people with it – innocent people just trying to do a little bump and grind for the kids, y’know? That kind of aggression will not stand, man” said new recruit Helmut Von Schnitzelnasi.

Other successful raids on dangerous persons carried out by the units included the televised assault on the home of Donald Trump’s advisor Roger Stone. When asked about the tactics used to take down the sixty-six-year-old promoter of misinformation Storm Trooper Block Leader Aryan Tempertantrum explained they utilize an N.F.L. football maneuver called a “blitz.”  This worked surprisingly well against Stone’s offense which likes to run everything to the right, with his wife using her man hands as his lead blocker.

With a recent increase in funding from their friends in the I.R.S. allocating part of their big payday to the new units, the Storm Troopers will be donning both home and away jerseys. Rather than the classic all-white with black trim, the Troopers will wear environmentally friendly earth tones when on the road while opting for a rainbow pattern “pride-o-flage”, custom designed by Balenciaga, while at home.

Some concerns over the historically bad shooting performances by the Star Wars special forces are being addressed by the agency. To the surprise of the attendees, they were able to secure the services of long-time gun expert and cinematic marksman Alec Baldwin.

Also contributing to the high-level weaponization of America’s top domestic law enforcement agency will be Elon Musk, who is donating one dozen light sabers and another one hundred flame throwers in anticipation of the next Waco full of wackos.

Following a recent press conference President Joe Biden summoned the Reich spirit again, speaking in front of a diverse and inclusive audience of all black people at Howard University, where he warned the listeners the number one terrorist threat we face as a nation is white supremacy.

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Maple Syrup is a warmist bellwether—one of those things climate change has on its kill list. Ice in the Arctic, snow, and Maple Syrup are but a few. They are all doomed and have been for decades, yet they all seem much the same to anyone who’s been around.

Related: But, But, You Can’t Even Make Maple Syrup Without Climate Change!

‘Round these parts, Maple Syrup is a big deal, so we have to discuss it a few times every season. It is also a big business, especially in Vermont, the nation’s largest producer and the final numbers for the 2023 Maple Syrup Season are out. There is a lot of chatter about the impact of the “warm winter.” You’ll see headlines like production down 17% from 2022, but without context, that doesn’t mean anything.

Vermont did have a weird year. While some folks had plenty of sap, and it was overly sweet increasing yield, others – just down the road a piece – had a crappy season. All-tolled Vermont is still the king (or is it queen?) of maple syrup, but total US production was down from 2022. That’s what the media will tell you, especially if they mention a warm winter or the climate. Production was down!

It is fair to say that the winter and spring could have been better for tappin’ sap, but was it bad? Like, “global warming” bad? Nope, and you need sites like ours to tell you that so you can tell other people on the odd chance it comes up.

Total US Production for 2023 was 4,179 thousand gallons. Is that a lot, a little, and how does whatever “it” is compare to what passes for normal? To help us find the answer, I added a red line to represent 2023 on this graph from Statista, showing production from 2012 to 2022.

The year 2022 was an outlier whose success included 560,000 more taps than in 2023 and slightly more sap per tap. Granted, the weather made all those extra taps worth tapping and sap worth … sapping, but there’s never been a year like 2022 despite all the alleged warming and accumulated carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

It should never have happened, or maybe it should.

This is what CO2 concentration looks like overlayed on maple syrup production—a sloppy but serviceable effort. The CO2 scale is on the right, and the data (Mauna Loa) is stretched to fit. Remember, 2023 is still the red line.

You could make a case that CO2 has been good for Maple Syrup which would make some sense. This trace gas is an airborne plant fertilizer. More of it greens the planet, and more trees make for more tapping potential, weather permitting.

And since we’ve been told the CO2 controls the weather, you can work out the rest.

As for 2023, Maple Syrup production was about average compared to the past decade. You might find a few headlines that acknowledge that. Not every source of info on this topic is captured by the Climate Cult and its media allies, but it’s not as big a story as the “warm winter” and lower production.

Who clicks on a headline that reads ‘Maple Syrup production about the same as it has been?’

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Life is a struggle. With age, the struggles get more challenging and more numerous while the ability to cope falters. One thing is sure. This physical life is a journey with a beginning and an inevitable end.

Is there anything else after we each reach the end of this journey, other than returning the material components we have borrowed from the earth back to earth — to be provided for other life forms to start their ending journeys?

The Persian prophet Baha’u’llah says that after we finish our stint in this physical realm, our true essence — our soul — enters the INFINITE spiritual worlds of God. Infinite? Infinity is a mathematical postulate. We wonder if everything must have an end, no matter how huge.

Yet, science has already established that infinity is reality. For one, the universe is infinite and continually expanding. Think about that.

So over 150 years ago, when Baha’u’llah, a Persian prophet, told us about infinity, he was not just using hyperbole. The worlds of God, as unfathomable to us as it sounds, are indeed infinite. And we are headed that way.

No matter what we do, we will be done here. Is it not wise to go with the belief that Baha’u’llah is right? We will arrive at a new home, and we should prepare ourselves best to be suited for it. Betting against what Baha’u’llah says is a guaranteed loss while listening to him could be true, and we do not lose anything?

As for me, I am a lone ranger, a maverick. I believe in the First Amendment and the freedom of the press. To me, freedom means just that, freedom. Not only do I select what I report, but I also pass judgment freely.

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We looking for great people to come and fill up all the seats, be on the grounds, praying, etc., during these scheduled Drag Queen Story Hour events.  Outside, we can observe who from the community is actually present.

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Most times, they bring in gay activists and their kids from other areas to go to these things.

We need an outpouring of people. This is some stronghold, and we need to change the direction of that place and let them know that this is not going to continue in Conway.

We are in our perfect legal right to arrive early and fill up the seats as it is open to the public.

The events scheduled are:

Drag Story Hour – June 23, 2023, at 9 am at Conway Public Library at 15 Greenwood Avenue in Conway,  NH.  –  Drag Queen Story Teller will be Reverend Yolanda 

Drag Story Hour – June 23, 2023, at 4 pm at Pope Memorial Library at 2719 White Mountain Hwy in North Conway, NH.  –   Drag Queen Story Teller will be Reverend Yolanda 

Here is a link to some background on “Reverend” Yolanda and his mission:  https://johnstarknews.substack.com/p/heretical-drag-show-preacher-has

I encourage you to come to the 9 am one if you have to choose, as that is the one that has become bolder and “prideful” in their perversions.

However, IF you can do both, that is excellent.

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We’ve been documenting Vermont’s decline for years, but not the National Rifle Association is getting in on the gig. They’ve got an article titled “Is Gun Control Making Vermont Less Safe?”

The answer is yes, but the NRA brought receipts.

According to CDC fatal injury data, the total number and crude rate of “violence-related firearm deaths” (which includes suicides) increased from 2017 to 2021. Both the total number and crude rate of “violence-related firearm deaths” fell during the same period in neighboring New Hampshire. In Vermont, from 2017 to 2021 “violence-related firearm deaths” among kids ages 0-26 increased 40 percent.

According to FBI data, the violent crime rate increased in Vermont from 2017 to 2020. From 2017 to the first full year of Vermont’s 2018 gun control measures (2019) the violent crime rate rose by nearly 20 percent. Over the same period, New Hampshire’s violent crime rate fell by 19 percent. Maine’s violent crime rate also fell over this period. For 2021, Vermont slipped to 48th in violent crime, with New Hampshire taking the 49th slot and Maine taking 50.

There is plenty of other good stuff in there, including an analysis of analysis involving researchers, bias intentional or accidental, or how “Much of social science is of dubious value, even before trying to account for political bias.”

The point of laying out this information is to draw attention to how political advocates and the media can manipulate data to construct whatever preexisting narrative they want. While in this case accurate statistical information was used to concoct a pro-gun narrative, gun control advocates and their media lapdogs employ the same tactics to argue the reverse.

Two things are not in dispute. Vermont Democrats have embraced the same laws that have turned Chicago into a gun-crime mecca, and those laws are having a similar effect in Vermont: crime and gun crime are up.

As with all Democrat interventions, you get the opposite result of the advertised benefit.

HT | True North Reports

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Cancel culture and censorship are not about fairness or justice. They are the opposite of protecting yourself from the predations of the powerful. They are not about protecting minorities from abuse or offense. Rather, these things, cancel culture and censorship, are about accumulating power for the elite.

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The elite is the graduate class, the professional-managerial elite who are in control of the media, academia, the political sphere, and our cultural institutions. We are at a point where the elite is consolidating this new technology-based power.

Censorship always protects the powerful. The idea cancel culture would have you swallow is: Censorship is a way to protect the vulnerable from predation. The very idea is racist from inception and paternalistic in application.

The idea the responsibility falls to well-educated, largely white, young Leftists to protect blacks, Muslims or gays is itself offensive. Why is it a good thing for the various identity groups to never have to hear an offensive word or to never have to respond to a difficult idea? Think about it.

The effete arrogance is repugnant in its ignorance. The very concept is deeply illiberal. Yet, too many have accepted the ideology. What we should all understand is that cancel culture and censorship are about Leftists protecting their own ideological beliefs from criticism, discussion and argumentation.

When an ideology cannot stand rigorous discussion and debate, it must become intolerant, stilted, and intransigent. Time and again, Leftist regimes the world over have trodden this path. From Stalin to Mao to Pol Pot, the world has witnessed the results of Leftist ideology in power.

More than 100 million people were buried under it in the 20th century. Yet, here we are, once again, chasing a Leftist utopia. We know full well it is an ideally perfect social, political, and amoral place, a fictitious place of fairy dust and unicorns.

Isn’t it time to discard the hypocrisy of the Left? For this, they intend to sacrifice the lives of others to preserve their own power. This is not America’s finest moment. What are you doing about it?

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BUD Stock rebounded (a bit) in June, as Bug Light sales continue to flounder. You can buy that swill for a song after the Mulvaney mishap, which overshadowed another woke move we all missed. Bud Light might be gender neutral Bud Light “Next” is climate neutral.

Bud Light NEXT is proud to announce it has completed the process to become Climate Neutral Certified. By measuring and offsetting last year’s carbon emissions and implementing reduction plans for future emissions, Bud Light NEXT has met the independent certification standard from Climate Neutral, a nonprofit organization working with brands and consumers to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions. The new designation comes just two months after hitting store shelves as Anheuser-Busch’s first-ever zero carb beer.

In case you missed it, there have been a number of scandals involving carbon offset scams (here and here). And there is no shortage of literature on how and why most carbon offset programs are scams. They have little or no effect and, in some cases, are worse, which should matter if you think this carbon fairy tale is true.

Or is it like saying something is American-made because all the foreign parts happen to be assembled in a two-car garage in Deadhorse, Arkansas? You don’t really care. You want the credit for virtue signaling.

Big business exists to put on airs and use the government to crush the competition. They buy out anyone they can who innovates in ways in which they are no longer able. And they pander to narratives to make them look like stewards, in this case, of the planet.

As for Next (the beer), I’ve never seen it, and I spend some time in the beer aisle. It’s got a lot of zeroes in it, which fits Bud Light to a Tee. It already had zero flavor; this is just the next obvious iteration.

HT | WUWT

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Camp Constitution’s 15th Annual Family Camp at the Singing Hills Christian Camp https://www.singinghills.net/ Plainfield, NH is one month away. It will run from Sunday late afternoon July 16 to Friday July 21, and we still have space available.

Returning instructors include Pastor David Whitney of the Institute on the Constitution; Professor Willie Soon, world renowned astrophysicist and climate realist; Catherine White of The Constitution Decoded; Alex Newman, author and host of the Sentinel Report, and Rev. Steve Craft, Camp Constitution’s chaplain.

First time instructors include NH State Rep Valerie McDonnell, the youngest elected official in the United States, and Vincent Ellison, and author Vince Ellison. Mrs. Edith Craft returns to direct the program for the Junior Campers. In addition to the classes, the camp will offer marksmanship courses, martial arts, hiking, basketball, volleyball, wiffleball, an optional field trip, and swimming, chess, gaga and corn hole tournaments. Campers and staff end the day with an evening campfire.

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Camp Constitution’s annual camp is a family camp open to entire families, unaccompanied minors, and adults. The cost for the week which includes lodging, meals and class handouts is $300 for those 13 and over. $200. For campers 12 and under, and three and under with parents are free. A link to the camp registration: http://campconstitution.net/camp-registration/

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This is more of a public service than a blog post, but we’re all about the public and the service, and unlike the left, it won’t cost you any hard-earned dough or deny you your individual liberty—quite the opposite.

Care of LifeSite News.

ProtocolKills.com started as an awareness campaign, a place for people to share stories of being caught in the hospital—including of people who never came back out before death. Together with HospitalHostageHelp.com, the website presents a solution to the problem of people dying due to hospital protocols that violate their religious beliefs. 

The two sites are now connected via link extensions, enabling people both to share their testimonies and gather the necessary tools to prevent similar tragedy from striking them or their loved ones. 

“Our goal is to get information to the people so that the people can be empowered themselves to not depend on any specialist organizations or anything else other than their own knowledge, because knowledge is what’s going to save people,” Greta Crawford, founder of ProtocolKills.com, told LifeSiteNews in a phone interview. 

This is near and dear to our hearts as we’ve had a friend suffer “death by hospital.” John Irish was trapped in the COVID protocol in a Massachusetts hospital. They wouldn’t deviate from the CDC death protocol, and once they vented him, they refused to move him to another facility. It killed him.

He wasn’t the only one, and none of it needed to happen.

Check out the “Patient Caregivers and Consent document” and visit both sites for more information.

The system has never been perfect, but a tangible threat to your life is baked into 21st-century medicine. The more you know, the better your ability to navigate their system to protect yourself or your family moving forward.

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Attention Upper Division Undergrads and Grad Students! We realize that many of you are just getting the hang of summer, and perhaps the last thing on your mind, as it warms up, is exercising your mind, but we have a great opportunity for you at the end of summer that you will want to apply for right now!

The Ron Paul Institute is pleased to announce its fourth Ron Paul Scholars Seminar.

The Seminar will take place on September first at the Hilton Washington Dulles Airport in Herndon, Virginia 20171.

What is it?

The Ron Paul Scholars Seminar is a one-day, interactive foreign policy and civil liberties “boot camp,” with lectures from some of the most thoughtful pro-liberty/pro-peace professors and professors-of-practice. Past lecturers have included US Rep. Thomas Massie, former CIA officer Phil Giraldi, former US Diplomat and Senate Staff Member James Jatras, Future of Freedom Foundation founder Jacob Hornberger, bestselling author James Bovard, and many more.

While the lectures are delivered by recognized academics, these are not dry sessions of theoretical material. There is plenty of give and take and Q&A involved. Most of all, as Dr. Paul always admonishes, they are a lot of fun and a great opportunity to meet and develop connections with like-minded peers.

RPI 2023 Scholars will also be invited to attend the Ron Paul Institute’s annual Washington DC conference the following day and will also be invited to mingle with conference speakers and Dr. Paul at the VIP post-conference reception.

Hang on…How Can I Afford This?

The Ron Paul Institute will book a hotel room (double occupancy) for Thursday and Friday night and will provide a $500 scholarship for each scholar to cover travel and related costs. Additional expenses may be considered on a case-by-case basis.

The Most Important Part…

Successful applicants will understand that this is a program demanding a high level of independence and self-reliance. Scholars are expected to make their own travel arrangements and act very quickly. Think of it as a “pop-up” internship.

Interested students are asked to fill out an application form and submit it by August 9th. Successful applicants will be notified by August 12th and will be expected to make travel plans very quickly.

Plan to arrive by Thursday afternoon on the 31st of August and to attend our pre-event dinner with a special speaker.

There are only ten available places in this year’s program, so interested students should waste no time applying.

Apply now!

This Sounds Great! How Can I Support A Scholar?

Attention Generous RPI Followers: You can sponsor a student and help us make a difference in a young scholar’s life! Contact Daniel McAdams at: dmcadams@ronpaulinstitute.org. All seminar student sponsors are invited to attend the seminar and hear the lectures!

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Every now ans then something like this catches the internet’s attention. And why not. The world is a crazy place and sometimes you need a break form that. So there’s this, one very amusing obituary for a guy from Kentucky named James Loveless.

Born and raised in Kentucky in 1963-a state that has been recently leaning toward more liberal values, we might add–Jamie, a divorcee, father, grandfather and proud owner of a few lots in the trailer park, had had enough and up and died on us on June 14th in order to avoid another Presidential stolen-election mishap in the near future.

As a gluttonous eater of fried foods and snack cakes, as well as the occasional chili cheese dog, James, tried in vain to give up the ghost by clogging his arteries and having a stroke in 2015. His twin boys, Rocky and Rodney, had other plans and made him go to the hospital. While waiting in the ER at the hospital, he was heard saying, “Let’s make a break for it!”, only to be heard by one of the hospital staff and forced to go through the procedure. He wasn’t too excited about the prospect, but went anyway.

On many occasions in life, James was seen in his back yard at the trailer park during the early hours of the morning, hammering beers, standing over country-style ribs, and yelling, “It’s got a head like a cat on it!”, while nearby neighbors would peek out their windows bearing looks of disgust and amazement, as his party guests were slurring remarks about needing to speed up his cooking style. “We’ve been here since 5 o’clock,” they would say. “I’ve got work in the morning.”

We don’t know if he was married, but he definitely was a lady’s man. There was Kathy, Mary Lou, Tammy, Debra, Carrie, Tina, etc., etc. “It’s the bones”, he told us as proudly pointed his skinny, pasty-white legs. “Women love a good shin”. We think he might even have some females waiting for him on the other side. Jamie loved his family more than anything else in the world…except ice-cold Busch, room-temperature Busch, T-bones, New York strip, prime rib, shrimp, swimming, poker, hatch-back Mustang GTs, tank-tops, Kentucky Men’s basketball, and his personal copy of Eddie Murphy’s Raw.

He leaves behind his second-favorite son, Rocky(and Lizeth) Loveless of Arizona City, AZ, his favorite son, Rodney Loveless of Science Hill, KY, a younger brother, Joey, and unofficial daughter Melissa(and Coy) Vance of the trailer park, as well as a pair of old boxers which have ‘Buttweiser the King of Rears’ printed on the design. He will be moderately missed.

Pulaski Funeral Home is honored to assist the family with arrangements.

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The proverbial axiom “the only certainties in life are death and taxes” is no truer than in Vermont. Having become only the second state to pass a “right to death” bill since leftist penal colony Oregon did it back in 1994, Vermont is quickly becoming an end-of-life getaway for those wishing to fall into the arms of Morpheus for all of eternity.

The “End of Life” Act 39 was put into law in Vermont in 2013, but with such a low turnout to hasten death, the legislature and Governor Phil Scott decided to extend the courtesy to the rest of the country. With only one other state willing to kill its citizens for the good of the community and too many people overpopulating other parts of the country, Vermont has decided it’s time to act.

“Have you seen California?  Its population is still growing!  Fentanyl, free needles, fewer police, and forest fires just aren’t getting the job done fast enough,” lamented state senator and climate affirmer Becca White.

Echoing her concerns was Governor Scott.

“There’s a time to live and a time to die, you know?  It’s in that song from the 60s, and I couldn’t agree more.  Here in the verdant pastures of Vermont, we want to help you die, especially if you’re becoming a tax burden,” said the robust executive sitting atop a custom carbon fiber bicycle where he took first place out of all the current Vermont state governor’s in that day’s race.

Despite being the picture of health, Governor Scott is just as concerned with the picture being painted by Vermont when it comes to suicide, which is why he simultaneously signed H.230 into law.  Citing the heading from the state website, this (Act 45) is “An act relating to implementing mechanisms to reduce suicide and community violence.”

“The message we want to send here in Vermont, not just to our people, but the rest of America is – don’t kill yourself, let us do it for you” a concerned Scott told the room full of state-approved reporters.

This message is consistent with that put out last year when Vermont became the first state to make it a constitutional right to kill the youngest of its citizens – defenseless babies.

“That bill passed itself, really,” commented Representative Gabrielle Stebbins (D – Chittenden 13).  “We believe in a woman’s right to choose.  I didn’t choose to get pregnant. Besides, babies are expensive!   How am I supposed to afford one of those and a Venti mocha frappuccino with a double shot of espresso after my Peloton class?”

Totally.

Vermont has now bookended its suicide solution into a cradle-to-grave, soup-ladle-to-grave cottage industry.  The strategy appears to be making money on the front end and the back end while keeping the earning class alive long enough to pay taxes.

“It’s a real stroke of genius.  Babies don’t make the state money if they’re alive, and neither do old people,” commented Daisy Berbeco (D – Chittenden 21).

She continued, “In Vermont, our government model is a for-profit business that allows us to pay for helping people who are struggling.  Technically ‘Marxist-socialism’ if you want to give it a name.”

Finally, adding, “If we don’t get enough tax money, older people might freeze to death without the heating supplement.  Vulnerable citizens might starve, and addicts might accidentally overdose.  This allows us to save them from those tragedies by strategically killing those more fortunate and having healthy taxpaying Vermonters pay for it.”

Who wants to argue that kind of logic?

In a time of national economic woes, the state of Vermont, the healthiest state in the nation, remains ahead of the pack by culling the herd for the entire country.

“We are literally making a killing out of making a killing!” said an ebullient Governor, countenanced by his grinning face.

As they say in Canadia – c’est la vie.

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Episode 4 of Tucker on Twitter was released June 15th, and like those before it, it does not disappoint. Listen and THINK. Unlike the propaganda/drivel, you get from Hannity, or Mikey Graham, or “GoodMorningNH,” Tucker’s product is thought-provoking.

As much as most people want to deny it – and do deny it – America has more and more become a Police State since 2016, when powerful people in both Parties, the permanent government, and the major corporations decided that they did NOT have to accept the results of the 2016 election.

One of the attributes of a dictator is NOT relinquishing power. More specifically, the 2024 election will be even more rigged than 2020. We’ve already seen it, the barrage of supposedly criminal, but in reality political, prosecutions against Trump.

And just as many powerful people in the GOP played along with the “changes” to voting … supposedly to protect us from COVID, but in reality to make it easier to rig the election in favor of Biden – so too they are playing along with the political prosecutions. Mike Pence, in that tiresome sonorous voice he uses to try to mask the emptiness of his words, tells us that he can’t “defend the former President.”  Chris Christie, in between swallowing jelly donuts whole, tells CNN, etc., that it’s “deeply disturbing.”

STOP burying your heads in the sand. America is a Police State.

Here’s Tucker:

Ep. 4 Wannabe Dictator pic.twitter.com/MDcs5g0gxB

— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) June 15, 2023

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An American town run by an all-Muslim city council with a Muslim mayor has found a diplomatic way to keep the Pride flag off public property. They passed a neutrality resolution prohibiting all but five flags from being flown on town property.

The proposal called for the ban of all but five flags from being flown on city properties — including the American flag, the state of Michigan flag, the Hamtramck flag and the Prisoner of War flag. The fifth one is known as the nations’ flag, one that represents the countries from which the city’s immigrant residents hail and reflects the community’s international character.

Ultimately, the council said the decision was not about discriminating but heeding the city’s 2013 resolution about reflecting “the international character of the city.”

No BLM, no “LGBTQ+, religious, ethnic, racial, and political flags.”  … “On your property, you can do what you want to do,” Councilman Khalil Refai said.

Some attendees traveled from around Metro Detroit to express their feelings about the measure ahead of the vote.

“This is America. We don’t fly heterosexual flags,” Stephanie Butler said. “…This doesn’t mean people are not free to exist.”

Many told the council they believed limiting the types of flags allowed was a way to criticize the LGBTQ+ community and defied Hamtramck’s reputation as an inclusive place.

Of course, they did. Everything, everywhere, all the time, it’s about you. Your feelings, your priorities, and everywhere has to be your safe space. (conquered is more like it). Your politics, your agenda, your flag. Sorry, that’s not always going to fly.

And wasn’t this inevitable?

The LGBT*** lifestyle is anathema to devout Muslims. We have said for years that it was only a matter of time before growing Islamic communities pandered to by the Left ran headlong into their sex and gender cult despite the sex and gender cult going out of its way to keep that from happening. They don’t challenge Muslim bakers or artists or photographers or dating services (not sure they have one, but you get the point).

When Muslim drivers refused to transport alcohol, the default response was, well, that’s what they believe.

Christians and Jews get sh!t on, and Muslims get their way. That’s how it looks from here, and I’m not saying there is no anti-Islamic animus or that Muslims looking to mind their own business and benefit from America are not harassed. But this victim-class totem poll conflict was as inevitable as the clash between women and the transgender agenda.

Women are still losing that battle.

How the Islam vs. LGBT*** thing progresses is anyone’s guess, but devout Muslims are not likely to back down, and it is unclear whom the political Left will side with if one-day flags are not the only thing on the docket.

HT | The GatewayPundit

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When Barack Obama took office in 2009, he embarked on a worldwide tour to apologize to all for the imperialistic actions of our young nation. The irony in that statement is that the United States never entered into armed conflict with any country to take territory from a foe.

The other is that no other country on earth has ever come to the aid of others or lost more sons and daughters for the sake of others than the United States. We had nothing to apologize for, but our President was bowing down to European and Middle Eastern leaders. It was a defining moment in the Obama tenure that damaged our standing and respect around the globe.

President Trump earned some of that respect back, but respect is not something that ebbs and flows. Respect is not something that you can turn off like a switch. Under Trump, America was not feared, but with a rebuilt military and a commitment to defend ourselves regardless of the foe, we had a renewed sense of security and four years void of conflict.

Biden followed Obama’s model, and we quickly regained a supine position. The abysmal exit from Afghanistan set the tone for our role as a world power, and we opened the door for China to assume a dominant position as the alpha country that dominates all others. This new world order is why China threatens Taiwan and moves into the Middle East. It is why Russia felt no resistance to invading Ukraine. It is why Iran is close to possessing offensive nuclear weapons. And finally, it is why over five million unvetted illegal aliens have entered our country through a porous unprotected southern border.

In Biden’s Administration’s most recent show of submission, Secretary of State Blinken is in China being schooled by the Xi regime on what China expects of us. We are no longer calling the shots. Biden stunned the country on Saturday by apologizing to China for assuming the balloon that traversed America in February was an intentional action by the CCP. Biden is now telling the world it was an accident and the Chinese government did not control the balloon’s path. To use one of Biden’s favorite words, malarkey.

We know that Biden is compromised by China, Russia, Ukraine, and who knows how many other regimes, and Xi may as well have written this apology. What could be the purpose of this uncalled-for statement by our President other than doing the bidding for China? First, the Administration tried to convince the American people that the Chinese have been using surveillance balloons since the Trump term, and now we are to believe that this balloon was caught up in the jet stream and the Chinese could not direct its flight. Incredible luck that the jet stream brought this balloon over many of our most critical military bases.

If we buy this malarkey, we may believe the COVID Pandemic was caused by a bat, that Fentanyl doesn’t originate in China, and that the Chinese police stations in our major cities were take-out kiosks. This Administration cannot be straight with the American people, and they are not working on our behalf. We are not in a position to successfully impeach both Biden and Harris, but we have to create a strong enough case that the media cannot ignore. We cannot sit back and hope for a win in 2024. We can no longer count on fair elections. We have to get down on their level and beat them their way. Losing is not an option.

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Government-managed demise has a long and storied history to which we’ve recently added the idea of chemically assisted suicide. What was once cruel and unusual punishment for capital criminals is compassion and care for people who are a burden to the system.

And Hawaii has just changed its law to allow for a quicker death.

Under previous law, individuals seeking to end their lives had to make two oral requests to their physician for a lethal prescription 20 days apart. Bioethics news service BioEdge reports that the state’s Democrat Gov. Josh Green, who is a retired oncologist, signed a law reducing that period by 75%, to just five days. The new law also lets doctors waive that period entirely if a patient is terminally ill and expected to die sooner than five days.

If I read this correctly, under the correct circumstances, your doctor – the one who probably could not prescribe affordable Hydroxychloroquine or Ivermectin, can order a chemically induced suicide to hasten a human departure at a cost of up to $20,000.00 even if you are likely to die in less than five days without his suicide assisting intervention.

I guess we’ve abandoned the argument against allowing people to “do themselves in” because of the cost. A round of 9mm ammunition runs under 0.30 cents. Carbon monoxide poisoning is a section of pool hose and a tank of gas. Or you could get to know the Clintons, and they might end your life at no cost to you.

I’m joking, sort of, but there are a lot of problems, not the least of which is incentivizing pharmaceutical death to the benefit of pharmaceutical companies. While politicians call for Medically assisted death to be covered in full by the taxpayer (you) or private insurance, the cost of the cocktail – typically, a self-administered overdose of barbituates – has skyrocketed.

As the practice becomes more politically popular on the Left, the price to execute has risen.

It is a death that is not necessarily pleasant or painless, and Hawaii just made it easier for them to make more money on people who would die on their own or who might not die were they not counseled that it was for the best by a public health industry in bed with political tyrants beholden to big pharma.

HT | LifeSite News

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Skip’s post Race For Governor: Can Kelly Ayotte Get Past Her Never-Trump Baggage proved quite popular. But Ayotte has a bigger problem than her virtue-signaling, Hillary-enabling alleged write-in vote for Mike Pence in 2016. Ayotte represents a GOP that no longer exists.

The GOP base does NOT support endless-forever-wars. The base is not as dumb as the Establishment thinks it is. The base knows the Establishment LIED about WMDs in Iraq. They don’t believe that “Putin is Hitler,” and that if we don’t “stop Putin” in Ukraine he’s going to roll his mighty Tiger tanks … oh! I’m sorry! T-90s … all the way to the Atlantic Ocean because Russia lacks “living space.”

How does being an endless-forever-war Neocon, which is Ayotte’s image, make one a “good candidate” … to borrow a phrase fro the NHGOP-Establishment … for Governor of New Hampshire? It doesn’t. It puts you at odds with the base and doesn’t offset that by attracting “unaffiliated voters.” An Ayotte candidacy would be a candidacy without a constituency, except for the Establishment grifters and the die-hard all-Rs-good-all-Ds-bad crowd.

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Underneath the banner of struggles and the joys of family responsibilities, a nefarious scheme has worked to take advantage of those who think government education is free and good.

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Today, this results in an infinite number of Americans who deserve the ugly word drawing that English philosopher John Stuart Mill’s prophetic quote paint:

“He who lets the world make his plan of life for him has no other use for any human faculty than the ape-like one of imitation.”

These words are a warning, not quoted to offend. Gone are the days of teachers using their expertise to teach. Teachers must now teach the state curriculum or be fired. The hijack of the schoolroom is rooted in an 18th-century rogues gallery of brutal mass murderers who told us exactly what they intended to do. The result of government control has influenced widespread views of the purpose of government.

Ever since American blood liberated Europe in WWII, without parental notice, this evil Marxist programming of children’s minds to believe what the Marxists want them to believe has had a powerful effect. Carefully study Hitler’s words:

“The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people, as long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and any deprivation.”

This tactic covers an evil intent to disarm parents who would otherwise confront state abuse of parental control. Sadly, Hitler’s response to opposition echoes today boldly through UNESCO and the Department of Education, essentially saying, “Your child belongs to us… you will pass on… in a short time, they will know nothing else but what we want them to know.”

Is today’s woke cancel culture rooted in this Marxist strategy that graduated from disobeying parents to disowning them? The first public schools required study of the Bible because the concepts were foundational to the Constitution. Supreme Court decisions gave cover for the government to divorce God from our public school curriculum and replace biblical ideals with the philosophy: There is no God, there is no innate right or wrong, and man is a graduate beast. Could the root cause of the violence and anarchy in hundreds of cities in 2020 be the result of this godless teaching?

Cultural Marxist strategist Antonio Gramsci reveals the obvious target: “Socialism is precisely the religion that must overwhelm Christianity… in the new order.” It is frightening to contemplate the endgame of this “new order” when we consider the divisive programs called education today: “CRT, LBGTQ+, and Agenda 21 & 30.

Yes, the seeds of tyranny channeled through the vanguard of educators have run wild. Stealing the minds of the children of each generation has been the strategy. Today, the “fruits of evil” we inherit all divide us to conquer us.

It is only by frantically grasping onto the biblical roots of Christian-style American civilization founded on the Gospel of Jesus Christ that will enable our people to see through this revolution of perverted thought that feeds the “cancel culture” with obsessions of hate for all that is decent and good about America. We must oppose these evil, deceptive tactics dressed up as love and concern for our children in the schoolroom.

Joseph Stalin’s promised the death of liberty, literally saying, “Education is like a weapon, it depends on who holds it.” Further saying. “Ideas are far more practical than guns. We don’t let them have guns. Why should we let them have ideas?”

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“Kevin McKernan, a scientist with 25 years experience in the genomic field and a leading expert in sequencing methods for DNA and RNA,” found something in the Pfizer COVID vaccines that wasn’t supposed to be there.

Someone sent him samples of the Pfizer/Moderna vaccines “to act as mRNA controls.” “… thinking, this is the perfect control… It should be pure.” Should be.

Umm, no.

In addition to the expected mRNA, he also found mRNA fragments, other pieces of RNA, and two forms of DNA: linearised and circular.  The significance of the circular – or plasmid – DNA is important.  The plasmid DNA is the ‘complete recipe’ used to program bacterial cells to mass produce the mRNA.  This DNA should not be there.  Further investigation by McKernan showed the plasmid DNA contained in the vaccines was indeed viable and capable of transformation in bacterial cells.

So, the Pfizer and Moderna vials of bivalent vaccine that McKernan tested were contaminated with DNA.  DNA encoding the spike gene and potentially capable of inserting into the genome of an organism.

According to the report, the maximum allowable DNA should be zero, but regulators allow a maximum of 0.033%. Kevin McKernan found 35% in the Bivalent (“This is up to 1,000 times higher than deemed to be ‘acceptable’ by the regulating authorities.”). Tests on the monovalent found 18-70% more DNA than the regulatory limit.

These results are in the process of being further verified by the scientific community.  In the essence of speed, McKernan published his findings and methods publicly on Substack and online.  He explains, ‘The publication system, during the pandemic, is politicised. So, that’s probably not going to get the word out very quickly. I had to do my best to document this all and make the data public.’

If McKernan’s findings are verified, the implications are serious. Widespread DNA contamination would bring into question the quality of the entire mRNA injection manufacturing process, safety systems, and regulatory oversight. In addition, DNA might not be the only contaminant.

An expert with 25 years of experience found “plasmid DNA contained in the vaccines [that] was indeed viable and capable of transformation in bacterial cells,” and you likely won’t have heard this anywhere outside of vaccine safety and public health accountability circles. You know, medical conspiracy and disinformation websites.

This news does not rise to a level of public health concern that would trigger interest among the corporate media, which begs the question. What would? People dropping dead didn’t do it, so why should an expert analysis identifying cell mutating DNA in your COVID vaccine be news? The one that doesn’t stay at the injection site.

They leave that reporting to websites like this one, and while I’d like to thank them for ceding the field, we’d give it all up for even an ounce of integrity from so-called journalists in the name of public health.

But if you’re interested, this piece is very informative, with links, but less junk than the mRNA injections. It might be worth a look.

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