Although I admit, Steve’s post about biology trumping silly sexuality identity propaganda came close (yes, I’ve had that tabbed to put up – GREAT fun!): Men vs. Women: The Boys From Wrexham Wrecked ‘Em! – I think this edges it out, even if in a tweet:

“Gender-affirming care” is to health as “Elizabeth Warren” is to Indian.

 

https://twitter.com/xenophonrocks/status/1666470495271755776

Yep, that 1/2024th of an Indian was just GREAT in taking an old, rich, white Progressive to the heights of Harvard Law (otherwise known as “affirmative action hire” and onward to a self-righteous Senatorial campaign that allows her to thrust her ideology (“You didn’t build that” meaning you’re just stupid to do anything without Government) onto the rest of us. Translation – nothing to do with Warren at all. TMEW is orders of magnitude more Indian than Warren.

Euphemism – the Left would blink out of existence faster than a proton meeting up with an anti-proton if they didn’t have euphemisms to call and change a horribleness like voluntary human mutilation by Parents of their children by slicing off perfectly good body parts for the sake of being part of the “cool kids” they missed out on being part of in Jr. High School (yes, I am of that age and so is Warren. Older, she is, truth be told).

That’s all that “gender-affirmative” means in this case – and now the studies are starting to show that it is all for naught – WORSE outcomes, mentally, than before being drugged and knifed into some simulacrum of attempting to be the other sex that you can never be.

Even the concept of doing so completely wrecks the illusion that gender is a spectrum item – if you’re a guy, you’re trying to get fixed (like a dog being neutered) to be a girl.  Isn’t that demonstrating that sex is binary – you know, real life and real biology without the idiocy of attempting to redefine what “gender” means simply to fulfill a political agenda???

One last point before I leave. Before “transgender” became a thing, there used to be another word that described a guy wearing girls’ clothes (and visa-versa):

Transvestite

Glad to see that word is coming back into use as it more correct in describing what is now happening. No child-body mutilation can result in a boy/girl becoming a girl/boy.  Clothes do NOT make the man. Or girl.

 

(H/T; Instapundit)

 

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Listening to the White House talk about jobs would lead you to think everything is rosy in the economy. Yes, there is a lot of hiring going on. Sure people are going back to work now that we are officially past the pandemic. Some part of the hiring is still rehiring as opposed to new job creation.

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But there is a deeper issue.

Productivity growth is down. The Bureau of Labor Statistics is reporting the productivity of American workers decreased by a revised 2.1% annual rate in Q1 2023 versus Q4 2022. Productivity was down 0.8% in the first quarter from a year earlier.

The important point here is: This marked the fifth consecutive quarter of negative year-over-year productivity growth. That is the longest streak of declining productivity since records began in 1948. And why do you care?

In the US, GDP per hour worked is set to fall −0.7% in 2023 after declining −1.1% last year. Declining productivity means we are putting out a smaller amount of goods and services per hour worked. Putting out a smaller amount of goods and services per hour worked means the price of those goods and services will rise.

Now, add to declining productivity the effects of increasing the number of dollars in the money supply. The money supply is up about 650% since 2008. Can you feel the pressure from the rise in inflation?

According to Statistica, U.S. GDP was $14.4742 trillion in 2007 and $25.4613 trillion in 2022. If the money supply went up 650% and GDP, the goods and services in the economy, went up 75%: Where did the rest of the money go?

The White House wants you to think all is well, but somebody is playing with the numbers.

 

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This story is a trifecta of progressive outrage. An Obama insider is erecting a sea-level compound in a heavily-native-Hawiann community. The developer needs an old seawall repaired to protect their investment, but such projects are banned – just not for them.

 

The shoreline permit, issued by Honolulu’s Department of Planning and Permitting on Monday, clears the way for the controversial multimillion-dollar renovation of a century-old seawall in the heavily Native Hawaiian community of Waimanalo.

Under state and county laws, such projects are typically banned. Scientists and environmental experts say seawalls are the primary cause of beach loss throughout the state, and officials expect older ones to fall into obsolescence.

But the property owners, including Marty Nesbitt, chair of the Obama Foundation, argued they needed an exemption to protect the sprawling compound they are building in eastern Oahu.

While the 100-year mean rise in sea level for Oahu is listed at 3.11 mm/year, the sea level trend for the past fifty years has been flat except for a bump that has since become a downward trend.

 

 

Wait. I know. You have to protect it from your narrative.

After Barry and Shelly bought the multi-million-dollar Martha’s Vineyard manse, the credibility of the rising seas scare has been a harder sell. Gotta get that sea wall rebuilt, even if it means calling in a favor from His Excellency, Barack I, to get the local government to ignore native land interests, the “primary policy of the city to protect and preserve the natural shoreline, especially sandy beaches,” and their local prohibitions.

Friend of Barack I, so, proceed.

Oh, and seawalls in Hawaii are directly connected to beach erosion (it’s not your SUV) and limiting public access to the shoreline.

 

The consequences are stark. Oahu has already lost about a quarter of its beaches to seawalls, which essentially cause beaches to drown. Future projections are more dire, with scientists warning that most of Hawaii’s beaches could be lost if hundreds of homes, condos, hotels and roads that line the coasts aren’t moved inland.

 

One of the developers is Barry’s buddy, and Barry is like a son of Hawaii, so that’s that. Screw the locals and the environment.

I’m not surprised by any of it but will anyone center left see this for what it is? This is how the Left will rule if they ever achieve their one-party state. All that garbage about protecting the planet or the people disappears once they don’t need you anymore.

 

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With his finger pointed at the questioner for effect, Joe Biden said: I have never, never had a conversation with the Justice Department about the investigations into Donald Trump. I am Honest! I am sorry, Joe, but you can point both fingers and yell you are honest from the top of a mountain, and nobody with a modicum of common sense will believe you. You are a crooked, corrupt individual and the head of an American Crime Family. If that disrespects the Presidency, so be it, as you have destroyed the respect of the United States President.

On Thursday night, Joe Biden’s Justice Department announced the indictment of Former President Donald Trump. Trump is now the first former President to be charged with Federal law violations. Joe Biden has now used the power of the United States legal system to impact a national election by having his administration levy bogus charges against his rival, who is beating Biden in every poll. This weaponization of the Justice Department and the FBI goes unnoticed by the mainstream media, as they are cheerleading the President’s effort.

The response from the Left and the media is not worth reporting or discussing. They sing in unison that Trump is guilty and getting his just due. Comments from the Right are mixed. Most in the GOP are disgusted by the weaponization of the Government against Trump in an effort not only to impact an election but to destroy a former and potential future President. Candidates Ron DeSantis and Vivek Ramaswamy both condemned the duplicity of the indictments. Nikki Haley called it vindictive Justice. Asa Hutchinson may have killed his campaign by prematurely stating that Trump should end his campaign.

Americans are frustrated by the unequal use of the law by our Government. In a matter of months, the FBI executed a pre-dawn search warrant on the home of Donald Trump, and the Justice Department has come down with Federal indictments that are reported to involve charges ranging from the mishandling of confidential documents to obstruction of justice by Trump not cooperating in the recovery of classified documents. On the flip side, the FBI has been investigating Hunter Biden’s business dealings for five years, and there is no indication of the end of the investigation or the status of any charges. The FBI found classified documents in three of Biden’s homes around the same time as the raid on Mar-a-Lago. Still, there is no indication of any ongoing investigation, let alone legal ramifications for the President.

This legal conundrum with our leading candidates for Presidency is not a fair fight. Biden has the full support of the Justice Department, The FBI, and the mainstream media, while Donald Trump has FOX News and the conservative internet on his side. Trump has already been found guilty in the media, while most of the public is unaware of the potential crimes of Joe Biden and the Biden Cartel. But they do not have to be informed. Joe has told them he is honest. What else do they need?

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I’m trudging through a book on Marxism and Fascism. It’s a good read. I’ve just been doing a lot of other things. Picking at it. But what I’ve gleaned so far reinforces details from other sources. Fascism isn’t just anything to the right of Socialism, which is everything.

During Mao’s Cultural Revolution, Chinese Communists and their water carriers in the West adopted the idea that everything to the Right of Mao was fascism, including Soviet Communism. Who knew there was something further Left until Mao?

I’m still wading through the debate to see where it evolved from there, but put simply, any system that was not Mao’s was fascist, and Mao might not like where things went after him. His ideological ancestors have adopted profit-driven production with “Chinese Characteristics.” In other words, fascism.

But before that, when China was Mao and Mao was China, Russian Communists were bleeping fascists despite having no private property and total government control of the means of production. The whole lot of them were little Hitlers corrupted by the allure of capitalism. In fact, capitalism in any form is fascist, which, if you survey the 21st-century narrative battlefield, explains a lot (except the Chinese Characteristics).

Most of us knew that or suspected it. Antifa was born in Germany of socialists and nationalists to court leftists as far left as they. The breadcrumbs are not difficult to follow. But origin has often been a sticky point. Not Antifa’s, but the idea that Fascism is a right-wing construct which is only true if you think like Mao.

The American left has adopted the same notion. Everything that is not their thing is Fascism which is amusing because they are about as fascist a thing as one can be.

 

 

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The second biggest disaster of the George W. Bush presidency … after the Iraq War … was elevating John Roberts to the Supreme Court. Roberts is the equivalent of Daddy’s choice of Souter … a weak man, whose strongest conviction was to please his liberal friends like Tom Rath and Warren Rudman, and get pats on the head and attaboys from the New York Times.

Roberts’ latest assault on the Constitution is his ruling that the Voting Rights Act requires Alabama to create two “minority-majority” districts. Democrats are celebrating … as they should … because the ruling seems to require Louisiana, Georgia and North Carolina to also create “minority-majority” districts, which is a lovely euphemism for  a rigged map that guarantees Democrats seats. From Atlantic:

Many Democrats believe that the ruling will have a domino effect on other pending cases and ultimately force three southern states—not only Alabama but also Louisiana and Georgia—to each add a new majority-minority district before the congressional election, which would almost certainly flip seats currently held by Republicans. Texas might have to add as many as five majority-minority districts to its map. “

Justice Thomas, in dissent:

The question presented is whether §2 of the Act, as amended, requires the State of Alabama to intentionally redraw its longstanding congressional districts so that black voters can control a number of seats roughly proportional to the black share of the State’s population. Section 2 demands no such thing, and, if it did, the Constitution would not permit it.

… the plaintiffs here demand that Alabama carve up not two but three of its main urban centers on the basis of race, and that it configure those urban centers’ black neighborhoods with the outlying majority-black rural areas so that black voters can control not one but two of the State’s seven districts. The Federal Judiciary now upholds their demand—overriding the State’s undoubted interest in preserving the core of its existing districts, its plainly reasonable desire to maintain the Gulf Coast region as a cohesive political unit, and its persuasive arguments that a race-neutral districting process would not produce anything like the districts the plaintiffs seek.

 

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Last year some racist a**holes, while exercising their first amendment rights, were arrested and charged with violating 354-B:1 New Hampshire’s Civil Rights Act. A judge threw the case out, but the AG says his office will file a motion to reconsider.

 

Two members of the group, known as NSC-131 or the Nationalist Social Club, had asked the court to dismiss the trespass complaints. The judge agreed Monday, saying prosecutors’ interpretation of the state’s Civil Rights Act was unconstitutionally overbroad.

The New Hampshire attorney general’s office had said the two men were motivated by race and trespassed on public property when they draped the banners off the highway overpass in Portsmouth. …

New Hampshire prosecutors will be filing a motion for reconsideration within the 10-day deadline, said spokesperson Michael Garrity. “The Attorney General feels this is a critical case,” he said by email on Tuesday.

 

Critical how? Disregarding how offensive we may find white nationalists, neo-nazis, anti-semites, BLM, Antifa, or anyone else willing to use racism, intimidation, or violence to advance an agenda in the absence of incitement (an expression directing immediate acts of violence – a challenging standard to meet), there’s no there there.

You can’t have a civil rights law that infringes on the First Amendment, nor can you pretend it capable of such a thing when the legislature never intended it. What are you after, and why do you think you can get it? I’m opposed to anti-semitism and race-hating white purity movements but not at the expense of free speech.

Is this some veiled effort to get a shadow of a penumbra of a hate-speech ruling squeezed out of 354B:1, and if so, to what end?

 

    354-B:1 Civil Rights Enforcement. –
I. All persons have the right to engage in lawful activities and to exercise and enjoy the rights secured by the United States and New Hampshire Constitutions and the laws of the United States and New Hampshire without being subject to actual or threatened physical force or violence against them or any other person or by actual or threatened damage to or trespass on property when such actual or threatened conduct is motivated by race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, sex, gender identity, or disability. “Threatened physical force” and “threatened damage to or trespass on property” is a communication, by physical conduct or by declaration, of an intent to inflict harm on a person or a person’s property by some unlawful act with a purpose to terrorize or coerce.
II. It shall be unlawful for any person to interfere or attempt to interfere with the rights secured by this chapter.

 354-B:2 Civil Action by Attorney General. –
I. Whenever the attorney general has probable cause to believe that any person has violated any provision of this chapter, the attorney general may bring a civil action for injunctive or other appropriate equitable relief.

Does anyone aside from me see the problem with this statute? It is the major flaw with the entire hate speech and hate crime agenda, and the AG’s critical concern is proof. Motivation based on “race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, sex, gender identity, or disability” is irrelevant. This is the justice is blind version:

 

All persons have the right to engage in lawful activities and to exercise and enjoy the rights secured by the United States and New Hampshire Constitutions and the laws of the United States and New Hampshire without being subject to actual or threatened physical force or violence against them or any other person or by actual or threatened damage to or trespass on property.

 

The word “persons” defines everyone without regard to any other metric. We all have these rights because the Constitution is blind to every other detail. Anyone who tells you otherwise is injecting demographic division for some political perversion. It creates crevices into which government can chip away at fundamental liberties.

If the AG insists on proceeding with this “critical case,” he is violating the statute he claims justifies the prosecution. The assholes with the “Keep New England White” sign … have the right to engage in lawful activities and to exercise and enjoy the rights secured by the United States and New Hampshire Constitutions and the laws of the United States and New Hampshire without being subject to actual or threatened physical force or violence against them,” by the government.

And they know that. Why doesn’t the Granite State’s top cop know that? There’s no law limiting speech based on civility, nor should there be,

 

Given the inherent vagueness of the concept of “civility,” and the resulting discretion it vests in enforcing authorities, the enforcement will be at best arbitrary and unpredictable, and at worst discriminatory, targeting disfavored speakers or ideas. Consistent with historic patterns, authorities are likely to enforce any such discretionary standard in accordance with their own subjective values, or those of powerful interest groups. …

In today’s context, any civility code would no doubt be enforced against people who are protesting current government policies and actions, ranging from police practices to pandemic measures. Similarly, campus officials would likely enforce such codes against critics of their policies. On all sides of controversial issues, individuals with strong views are unlikely to confine their communications to those that other people, including officials, consider civil – nor should they be required to do so.

 

They could still be charged with trespass for hanging a sign without a permit, but when asked by the local PD, they willingly removed the offending sign without protest. It is thin gruel and a citation and fine at best. It’s a frikkin parking ticket. Trying to make something more of it reeks of political interference whose only objective can be fishing for a judicial interpretation that might be used to further harass the population at the whim of the AGs office or his boss, Governor Sununu.

Given that the Governor nor his AG can be trusted with that sort of latitude, we hope the court will remind the State again that they have erred in their interpretation and send them on their way.

 

 

 

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A bipartisan budget! We passed a bipartisan budget! And we speak about it in the language of the Communists … oh! so, so sorry! I mean “our friends” the Democrats. Check out the tweet from Senator “Jeb.” The word “spending” is so missing … there is no longer such a thing as “spending” in New Hampshire; there is only “investing,” “strengthening,” “safeguarding,” blah, blah, blah.

That’s because there is no Republican Party in New Hampshire. Not even a same-but-less Republican Party. It’s same-but-same … that is, it’s capitulation, surrender, etc., etc., etc.. Did you go to the polls in 2022 to elect “Republicans” to vote for a budget that garnered unanimous Democrat support?  And what’s the point of voting Republican for State Senate and State Rep in 2024?

Today the NH House joined the NH Senate with an overwhelming, bipartisan approval for the state's 2-year budget, HB1 & HB2!

Check out the highlights of our Family First Budget below!#nhpolitics #nhsenate #nhhouse #hb1 #hb2 #nh pic.twitter.com/6nN56eu8tx

— The NH Senate (@TheNHSenate) June 8, 2023

From @NHHouseofReps Majority Leader Osborne:
“We delivered a fiscally responsible spending plan that meets the needs of our state and addresses many of our top priorities, without raising taxes. We made reforms to the emergency powers statute, included a sunset for the Granite…

— NH Journal (@NewHampJournal) June 8, 2023

This budget is a win for kids, families, taxpayers, state employees, and the entire state of New Hampshire. I would like to thank @NHSpeaker, @Osborne4NH, @SenJeb @DonnaSoucy , and @RepWilhelm for working together to get this budget across the finish line.

— Chris Sununu (@GovChrisSununu) June 8, 2023

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Last October, dispensaries in Vermont opened their doors to allow any adult with the need, medical or otherwise, to buy marijuana. In the months since, State Police have responded to 60 DUI calls where cannabis was “involved.”

 

Cannabis sales are ahead of expectations in Vermont, but smoking weed behind the wheel continues to be a concern.

Unlike some other states, Vermont does not have a legal, quantifiable amount of cannabis in your body that permits you to drive or conversely guarantees you a DUI in the same way that there are BAC rules for alcohol.

 

Vermont has again put the cart before the horse, and it is filled with Twinkies, so a few points. There are states with blood test limits, but there is no practical roadside test for a level of influence. We also lack a scientific standard that accurately balances use with impairment. They don’t correlate, not precisely. If the goal is to keep compromised drivers off the road, blood tests might not be the droid you’re looking for.

Back in ancient internet history, circa 2016, the president of AAA noted that,

 

There is understandably a strong desire by both lawmakers and the public to create legal limits for marijuana impairment in the same manner we do alcohol. In the case of marijuana this approach is flawed and not supported by scientific research.

 

I’m not sure how The American Automobile Association feels about that today, but it’s not a new problem, and increased access and use have made it more common. What is a legislature obsessed with either appearing to care about public safety or, more likely, one with a strong enough authoritarian tick to run with it as an excuse to impose more controls?

Mandate munchies or remote munchies.

I’d bet a bailout to Ukraine that many of these calls for impaired drivers are folks searching the wilds of modern America for convenience stores or grocery stores—quick story. Many years ago, I worked at a McDonald’s on a road that ran out of a city with a large concert venue. Depending on the attraction, people would show up craving food on certain nights—people who looked and smelled stoned. And there’s a test for that.

Have you heard of upselling? The old, would you like an apple pie with that? How about, would you like a 20-piece McNugget with that?

They’ll say yes to both and then some. Munchies are a powerful force. And while I’m joking, you’d go a long way toward your goal if you could find a way to get people to buy that crap while they were out buying their cannabis. And that’s not as easy as it sounds. While once stoned, some folks will eat anything, in many cases, there are specific cravings that cannot be appeased without a certain something.

In other words, there is almost nothing a legislature can do once it has decided to milk legal weed for revenue except what it should do. Nothing. You have laws for impaired and distracted driving. There are consequences for incidents and accidents. Invest a little in education and hope for the best.

And maybe, suggest to State Troopers that as a possible roadside test for the cannabis-impaired, they ask if they’d like some McNuggets.

 

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Because when The State is no longer going to protect the Right to Private Property, NO one can own anything at all.  And if you no longer own your property, there can be no private Freedom. In fact, no freedom at all as the linchpin of freedom is to both own, control, and protect one’s property.

This is one of the fallouts of the Left’s Critical Race Theory that is tearing our Society apart – this is both reparations at the micro-level and retribution against “The Oppressors” at the macro-level. And note the newest euphemism by the Left concerning your property (italicized below):

California Senate Passes Bill Preventing Employers from Requiring Staff to Stop Shoplifters

The California State Senate passed a bill last week that would prevent employers from requiring employees to intervene to stop shoplifting — a growing scourge in the state since the enactment of criminal justice reforms.

SB 553, introduced by Silicon Valley’s State Sen. Dave Cortese (D-Cupertino), is described as a bill to prevent and monitor “workplace violence.” But it also includes a provision that “every employer shall establish, implement, and maintain, at all times in all of the employer’s facilities, a workplace violence prevention plan for purposes of protecting employees and other personnel from aggressive and violent behavior at the workplace” that “shall include … [p]rovisions prohibiting the employer from maintaining policies that require employees to confront active shooters or suspected shoplifters.”

And another Right is the Right to Self-Defense. Look at how that redefinition is handled!  Just like how gun crime is now “gun violence”, your self-defense and defense of your property is now lumped under “workplace violence” in which YOU are the aggressor while the actual criminal is the “victim” simply because you want to keep your property to yourself (SELFISH of you to demand that they pay for it – evil capitalist!).

As San Francisco Bay Area Fox affiliate KTVU reported, retail associations are furious, believing that the bill will tell potential thieves that they can steal goods at will:

[O]ver 50 organizations, including the California Retailers Association, (CRA) don’t support the bill.

“This bill goes way too far, number one, where I think it will open the doors even wider for people to come in and steal from our stores.”

…

The CRA says if SB 553 becomes law, it will need to apply to all industries and not just retail. They also say most retailers already prohibit regular employees from approaching anyone about stolen merchandise and have some employees who are trained in theft prevention.

“It says no employee can approach someone who is shoplifting. So even if someone is trained on how to deter someone from doing that, now they’re not allowed to approach someone. So, what does that mean? We are opening up the door to allow people to walk into stores, steal and walk out,” Michelin said.

Retail theft has caused a growing number of major retailers to leave downtown San Francisco, and pharmacies in Los Angeles and other cities have begun placing ordinary household goods, such as toiletries, behind locked glass doors.

Some store employees have successfully confronted shoplifters. However, such confrontations can be deadly: a Home Depot employee in the state was fatally shot while trying to stop a shoplifter in April.

Note that this applicable to ALL industries – basically any commercial place of business. Waltz in, put something under your arm, and off you go.  Electronics, furniture, tools, fixtures, supplies, vehicles – and how about doing a massive “squatting” effort? How can any economy withstand this stressor? This is legalizing lawlessness on a massive scale.

Once again, we see a lack of Civics as well as an inability (refusal to play?) to wargame out consequences of note. Why stick to a traditional norm of morality (“Thou shalt not steal”) when no one else abides to that same norm?  And the rational outcome of this irrational legislation?

Intentional Societal breakdown. WHO in their right is going to start a new business if a social media Flash Mob decides to wipe you out in an hour and you can’t stop them.  What happens, in a large city, when hundreds or thousands of these happen simultaneously?  Now lay into that equation the Progressive cities that fell for the “defund the police” stupidity and no longer have the means to stop this?

I’ll be honest – if they do this, I may well think “they deserved the results”. Even the normal folks because they put this yahoo, Dave Corese (D-Cupertino), into office.  The mush about “workplace violence” is a mere smoke screen – it is to define that anything is everyone’s. That is, isn’t it, the “equity” of Communism?

If one of our enemies (e.g., Russia, China, Iran, et al) wanted to vanquish the US without firing a shot, can you think of anything slicker than this?

And then the next step engages – the Rise of the Strong Man after a brief interlude of massive vigilantism vs armed gangs. Imaging the field day that Antifa, who has been honing its street tactics for years and now openly carry firearms, will unleash the rest of us.

And then the real violence will kick in.

And our enemies will just smile.

(H/T: Breitbart)

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The Southern Poverty Law Center has released its latest list of hate and extremist groups in the United States. The usual listing includes the KKK, Neo-Nazis, The Proud Boys, and a new, surprise addition this year, Moms for Liberty.

This addition shows how extreme the SPLC is; maybe they should be added to their listing.

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is an American nonprofit legal advocacy organization specializing in civil rights and public interest litigation. Based in Montgomery, Alabama, it is known for its legal cases against white supremacist groups, its classification of hate groups and other extremist organizations, and for promoting tolerance education programs. When it comes to civil rights and public interest, the SPLC is very selective, and its interests do not include children.

Moms for Liberty is a grassroots organization of concerned mothers who came to the end of their patience with the current WOKE philosophies and have banded together to take action. These women do not just bitch and moan and hope for better days ahead. Moms for Liberty is taking an active approach to making positive change.

Moms for Liberty is an American conservative nonprofit organization that advocates against school curriculums that mention LGBT rights, race, critical race theory, and discrimination. Multiple chapters have also campaigned to ban books from school libraries that address gender and sexuality issues.

This labeling of Moms for Liberty shows how hypocritical and twisted the thinking of the Left has gotten. These people have no issues and celebrate events like Pride Night hosted by the Los Angeles Dodgers that, included Drag Nuns. These “Nuns” were offensive and insulting to many groups like mothers, fathers, children, and anyone who respects the religious connection of real nuns. To protect the minute percentage of LGTBQIA+ supporters, these Leftists have no concern or respect for the feelings of the majority who find these demonstrations abhorrent. But have a group of mothers call out a local school board for the content of the curriculum their children are exposed to, and these moms are labeled Domestic Terrorists and subject to potential investigation by the Justice Department and the FBI.

The Moms for Liberty organization was formed during the COVID Pandemic. At the same time, Moms and Dads were pushing back against the school boards and the Governor of Virginia, who stated their opinion that parents had no position in their children’s education. The process of remote schooling because of the COVID lockdowns allowed parents to see behind the curtain, and what they saw awakened a fury. That fury is what the government, school boards, teacher’s unions, and groups like the SPLC are targeting. These groups are part of the movement intent on separating the family unit. The same group believes children should have the right to be transgender without parental consent. These groups believe children in Canada have the right to end their lives with the approval of a government-approved doctor and without parental consent. These groups feel the government is better suited to parent children than biological parents.

These groups, like the Southern Poverty Law Center, are wrong and twisted and should be labeled dangerous and hateful to families, especially children.

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This sounds like the Democrats who believe they “own” the Black, Brown, Gays, and the rest of the insolent Democrat Identity Political Totem Pole groups (“How DARE you leave us!”). But as always, the goal is to always embrace and surround and then absorb their allies. Then DEMAND that those allies can never leave – or else.  And we are now seeing that occur in real-time.

However, a foundational question to “frame” the rest of this post: is a company in business to make a return for its owners/stockholders or does it exist to be a front group for a small percentage of the US Population pushing a sexuality identity?  Does a willingness to make a quick buck with some lip service mean that a small percentage of a tiny group is entitled to demand ANY kind of “ally support” forever even if it results in bankruptcy?

The title of the post gives it away – and yes, any of us that rise up against THEIR NARRATIVE are Extremists.

Sidenote: Hey, LGBT, thanks for helping to burn out yet another word. Now that you’ve called the majority of Americans “extremists”, its value is zilch. Instead, it now has most “extremists” starting to think “WHO are the real extremists”?  Yeah, we’re all looking at you and I think you’re starting to fight a rear guard action. After all, if we “extremists” can make $36 BILLION of market cap to evaporate into the ether over a small number of weeks, what ELSE do you think we can (or should) do?  Emphasis mine, reformatted:

Over 200 LGBT groups demand Target restock all Pride merch and denounce ‘extremists’ speaking out against children’s apparel, ‘tuck-friendly’ swimsuits

More than 200 LGBT organizations and allies released a statement this week demanding that Target restock all of its Pride merchandise and denounce “extremists” speaking out against the controversial items. Consumers called for boycotts after it was revealed that Target’s Pride collection included LGBT-themed apparel for children.

Parents hate it when groups proselytize values other than their own to their children. When they continue to press, it is seen to be an attempt to take control of children, not theirs. And WE are the “extremists”??

Two weeks ago, Target announced that it would be moving its Pride section from the front of its stores and removing some items from its inventory altogether. In a statement released May 24, Target stated that “volatile circumstances” and “threats impacting our team members’ sense of safety” forced it to stop selling “items that have been at the center of the most significant confrontational behavior.”

Designers who had their merchandise pulled from Target’s shelves criticized the retailer for caving into the backlash.

I’m sorry – am I missing something here? If the consumers that are paying for items no longer wish to purchase them, shouldn’t a store react in its own self-interest AND in protecting the interests of its stockholders?  And why SHOULDN’T Target now allow itself to be “Bud Lighted” for a limited sexualized ideology?

Erik Carnell, a clothing designer who identifies as a transgender gay man, told Reuters:

“It’s a very dangerous precedent to set, that if people just get riled up enough about the products that you’re selling, you can completely distance yourself from the LGBT community, when and if it’s convenient. If you’re going to take a stance and say that you care about the LGBT community, you need to stand by that regardless,” Carnell added.

Seriously – you want them to “go down with their [economic] ship” simply to make you feel good about yourself? Are you that selfish? Through thick and thin, eh? Sounds like Carnell is looking to run a grift by using the old “all or nothing” logic to influence the tactic of guilt (“completely distance yourself….convenient”).

 

The Human Rights Campaign, GLAAD, GLSEN, Family Equality, National LGBTQ Task Force, and approximately 200 other LGBT-allied groups signed a joint statement on Monday laying out a list of demands for Target.

Hmmm, is a demand list from groups that represent a tiny fraction of Target’s consumer base going to be valued over the billions of market capitalization already lost by conservative consumers voting with their dollars?  WHO has the ability to do more damage to Target? One of these demands is rather amusing:

Doubling down on your values is not only the right thing to do, it’s good for business.

Snort.  What does Bud Light think about their “good for business” right about now?  And why should Target believe it now?

The groups insisted the retail chain “release a public statement in the next 24 hours reaffirming their commitment to the LGBTQ+ community,” restock all Pride merchandise in-store and online, and “ensure safety of team members who are on the front lines.” They urged Target to “speak out against anti-LGBTQ+ extremism going into Pride Month.”

According to the organizations, retail employees have been forced to endure “horrendous, unhinged attacks” due to the controversial merchandise.

And this next part is the most insidious of all – the elimination of all Free Speech concerning “their” issue:

The groups accused anyone speaking out against the Pride items, which include “tuck-friendly” swimsuits for transgender-identifying individuals and LGBT apparel for infants, of fueling “hate” against the gay, lesbian, and trans community.

Really?  This is the normal stock in trade of always accusing those THEY hate of the very thing they are actually doing. Throw the dirt first in hopes it sticks in a Public Relations war in which they desperately think they should win. Actually, desperation is the word to use as they understand that if their Big Box takes its own self-interest first, the gig is up. They understand that that first blocks in their wall won’t be the last – and they are terrified at that prospect.

They urged Target to double down on their diversity, equity, and inclusion values, claiming that “there is no such thing as neutrality” and unequivocal support would be “good for business.”

Urge? When they issue a demand to take a knee, it’s not a voluntary move. It’s about the only negotiating point they have.  What will they do – what CAN they do to punish Bud Light, Target, and others who have seen what happens when the other side’s (that would be us) toleration has been pushed to far.

The Alphabet Mafia demands us to be “tolerant” of them even as they refuse to respond in kind that others don’t agree with their aims. However, these groups only goal is to use these businesses to forward (“leverage”) as cudgels

“Target, and all businesses, can leverage the support of LGBTQ+ organizations to navigate this hate, so that together, we can let extremists know unequivocally that, just as with every other failed anti-LGBTQ+ campaign of the past, fear will not win,” the group’s joint statement read.

This is like the Spanish Inquisition going after those they believe to apostates. It IS a religious cult to them – they will not brook any dissent. In this, they are like the Chinese Communist Party who have had secret police stations (until lately) hunting down THEIR runaways and leavers and trying to make sure they “will not win” their freedom.

And yes, these Trans-Authoritarians are employing tactics right in line with other totalitarian regimes to get their way.

If they can bully Bud Light and Target, they’ve already proven my point.

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Tucker Carlson returned to Twitter yesterday after his lawyer told Fox News to go and stuff itself. Fox pulled him off the air but won’t release him and claims it has exclusive rights to his speech.

Fox claims what he is doing is a violation of the contract from which they refuse to release him until after a certain Tuesday in November 2024 (if you’re a bettin’ man or woman).

His lawyer disagrees. He’s just a citizen using the internet to express some opinions. Lawsuits will light up the intervening space over what words mean. Until then, here’s citizen Tucker Carlson who is just someone who did something … on Twitter.

 

Here is Episode 2 and the non-twitter version for the Twitter-averse.

Ep. 2 Cling to your taboos! pic.twitter.com/45AeVdtwOu

— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) June 8, 2023

 

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Again, the arrogant marketers at Anheuser-Busch thought they could diss their blue-collar consumers by “educating them” to accept that which is anathema to most

Sidenote: Why is it that no matter what the issue is, the Left ALWAYS says “If you were better educated, you’d be less obstinate and agree with us”?

by the use of transvestite “dis-influencer” Dylan Mulvaney in their ill-chosen walk to the consumer guillotine. Steve has followed this a bit but I figured I’d put this up as I kept seeing “If this doesn’t turn around before Memorial Day, Bud is doomed” as a prediction.

Has it now happened?

Jaw Dropping Stats – Reports of Bud Light Memorial Day Sales Dropping -60% as Brand Boycott Continues

Memorial Day customarily kicks off summer and the beer beverage industry generally looks forward to the enhanced sales that come from summer.  However, if the recently published reports of Anheuser-Busch sales are accurate, which includes a stunning 60% sales drop during the holiday, the brand position of Bud Light is in freefall.

While the impacts do have a regional trend based on consumer boycotts and patterns, when the Daily Mail reports,

“numbers are suffering primarily due to a decline in Bud Light sales that reached as high as a 60 percent drop off over the week that ended on Memorial Day,”

we can be certain the executive offices of A/B are watching closely. The feedback from wholesalers and distributors to the parent company must be something beyond alarm.

AB’s marketing effort was actually SUPERB – actually VERY successful.  Good Lord, Skip, have you lost your mind in stating this? No, not more than usual.  But look at it from the other side – those that hired the transvestite Mulvaney actually achieved what they presented far, FAR better than they ever thought would happen:

It is safe to say the Bud Light brand is now firmly connected to the image of transgender ideology. As a result, it would appear that anyone who holds a Bud Light beverage is essentially identifying themselves as a transvestite pickle-puffer, and that could potentially draw considerable side-eyes from anyone in a public place outside the region of San Francisco, California.

And that’s what previous observations have shown – if AB wanted to identify with the Trans-Authoritarians, well, they have excelled in doing exactly that. Yet, AB has done nothing but put out explanation after excuse after story to say “Hey, you misunderstand us”.  No, you made it really, REALLY clear.

What they should have done was to say “We screwed up – sorry” no more than a millisecond after the original backlash started – that’s the hubris in not recognizing it (aka, “we’ll ride this out, it’ll only last a couple of weeks”).

Well, guess what happened…

 

(H/T: Conservative Treehouse)

 

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The very same team who received praise for exposing sexual abuse in the Catholic Church are behind this article regarding the Catholic Medical Center in New Hampshire and cover-ups of medical malpractice.

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Under the article’s comments section, I posted a note which included the names of former CMC board member Edward Arsenault, New Hampshire’s Supreme Court Chief Justice, and former legal counsel to the Diocese of Manchester during the Catholic Priest Sex Abuse Scandal — Gordon Macdonald; US Attorney Jane Young who shook Edward Arsenault’s hand after he took a plea deal in 2014 for, among other things, defrauding a Catholic Hospital (CMC I believe); Chuck Douglas Esq (Chair of NH Judicial Selection Committee) who filed dozens of lawsuits against the Diocese of Manchester and who worked closely with Edward Arsenault; David Vicinanzo who was Gordon MacDonald’s partner at Nixon Peabody representing the Diocese of Manchester.

The Boston Globe was quick to block my comment. Why? Who is paying the Boston Globe to block an expose of public corruption at the highest levels in New Hampshire with players who are intertwined with the corruption at the Catholic Medical Center, which hid medical malpractice?

The article in the Globe mentions Alex Walker as Chair of the Catholic Medical Center, but it doesn’t mention that Alex Walker was legal counsel for the CMC before he became chair. He is listed as the agent on “Alliance Enterprises Inc,” alternatively known as “Catholic Medical Enterprises Inc,” founded in 1984 with a Derek MacDonald on its board of directors. Is he related to Gordon MacDonald per chance? “Alliance Enterprises” is a for-profit company.

Edward Arsenault was on the board of both the Catholic Risk Retention Management Insurance company and the Catholic Medical Center, where, per his resume, he was in charge of increasing profits for the Center. Gordon MacDonald represented Purdue Pharma and managed to prevent an external audit right before he became the Attorney General of New Hampshire. He then decided not to join 44 other Attorneys General around the country in a landmark drug price-fixing lawsuit that includes over 20 companies and 112 generic drugs.

Around New England, you will see bill boards saying “Public Corruption Kills”. Yet, the Boston Globe Spotlight Team will not expose the corruption at the top which is not “Protecting God’s Children” as Edward Arsenault’s Virtus LLC (founded in 1999) claims. Catholic Risk Retention Management Insurance is the parent company of Virtus LLC. The current New Hampshire Supreme Court Chief Justice, US Attorney for New Hampshire and Alex Walker should be required to explain their roles in this racket.

The Boston Globe’s Spotlight Team is complicit in protecting the enablers of those killing our children for profit.

Claire Best

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Part 1 is here and you can see the Right To Know that I sent to a DCYF worker for a specific manual that I knew existed. Should have been rather simple:

Pursuant to the Right to Know Law (RSA. 91-A), I am demanding access, within 5 business days, to the following governmental record:

• Provide, as documented in RSA 169-C:34-a (therefore, public knowledge of its existence), the manual known as “Standardized Protocol for the Investigation and Assessment of Child Abuse and Neglect Cases”

Please note that this Governmental Record does not appear in RSA 91-A:5 Exemptions that enumerates specific governmental records that are not subject to the rest of RSA 91-A. Thus, the expectation is that this will be provided.

And I was patient until the 5 days were over.  I emailed her again to remind her that she was now out of compliance with the Law and quoted RSA 91-A:4 that told her she was supposed to respond. She said that her lawyer told her that I could, effectively, look it up myself. Per my other RTKs that I’ve done: not acceptable as it obviates the entire RSA. I demanded to know who her lawyer was AND that I’d be bringing it to the Judge that we’d both be seeing a little while.

I think that last bit PLUS getting that name, Amanda Knifeton, set off another sequence of events within DHHS / DCYF.  Why do I say that?

This escalated rather quickly! This afternoon, I had a very nice email thread with Dept. of Health and Human Services Deputy Chief Legal Counsel John Martin (DCYF is part of DHHS). Very gracious doesn’t begin to describe it:

—— Original Message ——
From “Martin, John” <John.B.Martin@dhhs.nh.gov>
To “skip@granitegrok.com” < skip@granitegrok.com>
Date 6/9/2023 12:58:52 PM
Subject RSA 91-A Right to Know request

Good afternoon.  In response to your Right to Know request, please see the/ links below to two DCYF protocols:

https://www.doj.nh.gov/criminal/victim-assistance/documents/2021-ca-protocol.pdf

https://www.courts.nh.gov/sites/g/files/ehbemt471/files/inline-documents/sonh/Abuse-and-Neglect-Protocols.pdf

John B. Martin, Deputy Chief Legal Counsel
Department of Health and Human Services
Office of Legal and Regulatory Services

Bureau of General Counsel
129 Pleasant Street
Concord, NH 03301

Well, THAT was unexpected. Not so much what was sent but WHO sent it. Someone that didn’t have to send anything to this lowly blogger; I had to respond (note my emphasis now):

From: Skip <Skip@granitegrok.com>
Sent: Friday, June 9, 2023 2:56 PM
To: Martin, John <John.B.Martin@dhhs.nh.gov>
Subject: Re: RSA 91-A Right to Know request

Good (if rainy) afternoon in turn!

Thank you for sending those links – just in time. I was starting the process of submitting my petition to Belknap Superior Court per RSA 91-A:8; the filing fee check was already filled out.

Mr. Martin, glad to see that somebody either talked some sense into her OR tipped you off to save her bacon.

I AM someone who holds Government to account (NH Constitution, Article 8) and I don’t care what one’s title is or the letter that appears after someone’s name (if holding elective office) if it appears they have disdain for the phrase “Follow The Law”.  Just ask the three Republican Legislator chuckleheads that are now in front of the NH Legislative Ethics Committee as well as suing my school board for enacting a Policy that was blatantly unconstitutional.

She owes you at least a cuppa coffee.

THANK you for your lawful attention in this matter. I consider this Right To Know fulfilled and now closed.

-Skip

And yes, I now have in my possession the document that I had requested. It SHOULD have been just that easy right from the get-go with my first email to Amy Fortin. The fact that it rose to #2 Legal Dude at the Department showed how wrong this went.  Then this was even more unexpected (again, emphasis mine):

—— Original Message ——
From “Martin, John” <John.B.Martin@dhhs.nh.gov>
To “Skip” <Skip@granitegrok.com>
Date 6/9/2023 3:00:53 PM
Subject RE: RSA 91-A Right to Know request

Yes, I am very sorry about this.  That was very poor public service on our part and you deserve better.  I apologize.

John B. Martin, Deputy Chief Legal Counsel
Department of Health and Human Services

Followed by:

From: Skip <Skip@granitegrok.com>
Sent: Friday, June 9, 2023 3:15 PM
To: Martin, John <John.B.Martin@dhhs.nh.gov>
Subject: Re[2]: RSA 91-A Right to Know request

Appreciate the sentiment.  I also agree with your statement.

However, while I thank you for your words, you were not in error – the required apology should have been from a different person.

-Skip

Followed by another unexpected offer:

From “Martin, John” <John.B.Martin@dhhs.nh.gov>
To “Skip” <Skip@granitegrok.com>
Date 6/9/2023 3:30:36 PM
Subject RE: Re[2]: RSA 91-A Right to Know request

If I can be of assistance in the future, please feel free to reach out to me.  You can also feel free to reach out to Caitlin Sittig.  She is the Legal Assistant for the Bureau of General Counsel.  She is very, very nice and very, very helpful and responsive.  She can be reached at:

DHHS.legal@dhhs.nh.gov

John B. Martin, Deputy Chief Legal Counsel
Department of Health and Human Services
Office of Legal and Regulatory Services
Bureau of General Counsel

Heh! “Thanks for the offer and I most likely will take advantage of it.”   And I will, indeed. In fact, I already know of two things – one of which HE won’t expect. The other might, however, make him grimace a tad.

But all in all, a good conclusion.  I got my documents, an apology, and an Object Lesson was served.

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Yesterday I wrote about the impossible odds that all these fires in Canada were wild, implicating a human hand. My first impulse was eco-terrorists. They love to create catastrophes and blame Climate Change.  Man-made by their hand, not your lifestyle.

If you agreed, you were right; at least, it looks that way in Quebec.

Geological watchdog YouTuber Dutchsinse observed and shared what looks like innumerable coordinated fires erupting in South Quebec at the same time. You’ll see it all by 2 minutes into the video (keep watching at your leisure).

 

 

This is statistically improbable and maybe even impossible.

Suspicious might be a good word. Another is eco-terrorism.

So, there’s nothing wild about these fires unless you’re like, dude, what’s wild is it’s not just Quebec. Every province but Yukon and Nunavut have them, and it’s worse in Alberta and Saskatchewan.

Given the new observations over Quebec, it is reasonable to suggest coordination could apply to every Province where forest fires are currently raging if not every fire. Remember, the Canadian Mounted Police have been arresting arsonists whom they have tied to some of these fires.

 

And now it is “note to the eco-terrorists or the government” time, or whoever it is that is doing this. First, this is releasing a significant amount of stored CO back into the atmosphere, which – if I recall – makes you very angry. Very angry indeed.

You have reduced the CO2 sequestration potential by burning hundreds or thousands of acres of woodland.

AND … the plumes of particulates will likely reduce the measured global temperature at a time when you can’t shut up about how hot it is, even when it’s not.

I’m sure none of that matters as long as you get your unaffordable electric vehicles, solar panels, and wind machines, none of which – say it with me – are green. But there is a bright side. Some dufus at the New York Times just pointed out that while you may need to wear a mask due to the crappy air quality, almost none of them will do the job (which confirms they couldn’t do a damn thing during COVID, just like we said).

 

Oh, and this just in before publication. “Solar farms that power New England, for example, were generating 56% less energy at peak demand times compared to just a week before, according to data from ISO-NE per Bloomberg.”

ISO New England is a non-profit, independent regional transmission organization that provides services to the six states of the New England region: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.

The same damn thing will happen when volcanoes erupt. So, what’s the plan for preventing those? Bwahahahah!

 

 

HT | Greg Reese Substack

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Both the U.S. government and OPEC are making price increase noises about crude oil. CNN and Morning Star Research are saying OPEC+ announced a cut in production of about 1.4 million barrels per day this week. The Saudi’s, by themselves, plan to cut 1 million barrels per day.

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It’s another Biden foreign policy success.

Look for the Saudi cut to start on or about July first. The planned duration is at least one month and maybe longer, meaning into the fall. The motivation for the Saudis to drive oil prices up is the Saudis have domestic spending to pay for. They have engaged in a fair amount of infrastructure spending, airports, “The Line” and assorted projects in their cities.

The Saudi goal is to move oil prices from about $75 per barrel to $87 per barrel. They really want $95 dollars a barrel which is an increase of crude price by more than 25%. The U.S. Energy Information Administration says there shouldn’t be much impact on you and me immediately, but by the New Year look for retail increases of about 10%. Trust that assessment at your own risk.

The Saudis say they are not worried U.S. producers will step up and pump more. Their expectation is the Biden regime will limit any expansion of U.S. fossil fuel production due to the Biden regime’s commitment to tilting with windmills and solar panels.

China is the world’s largest importer of fossil fuels. Did you know that? Why is it okay for China to use huge and growing amounts of fossil fuels? Something just isn’t logically consistent in the application of our regime’s policy. We are committing economic suicide to advance China’s interests.

You can’t be too reliant on China. They are such a good, trusted trading partner and ally. There’s nothing to worry about there… right? Remember Biden’s deft handling of Afghanistan, the supply chain disruptions, etc…

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Weeks Memorial Library in Lancaster, New Hampshire, was to be the location of a drag queen story hour. Regular readers will have heard – we’ve covered it a few times. One of the featured “queens” was Emoji Nightmare (Justin Marsh), the creator of Cumpstrella.

Related: They Took the “Queen” Out of “Drag Queen Story Hour” (Are They Hiding “Her” in a Closet?)

First, yes. They are still hiding the ‘Queen.’ From the sponsors to venues to the reporting, it’s Drag story hour or “A couple of presenters in drag.” They are massaging the thing to try and make it less likely to raise red flags.

It’s not working (Boston Globe).

 

People brought complaints to the trustees, then they urged the town’s selectmen to intervene; they circulated petitions online, had posts all over social media, and began calling for people to travel to Lancaster to protest. Some reportedly invoked concerns about “grooming,” a term that’s often used to smear LGBTQ people as sexual predators.

Library staff, meanwhile, received an onslaught of harassing phone calls with vile messages that seemed to be coming from well outside the local community, Hutchins said.

 

It is difficult to say where the line is drawn when snowflakes tell you what made them melt. History suggests that the alleged outrage was less likely intimidating than suggested, but I feel obligated to remind our readers. We say it all the time. You should express your opinion, frustration, disagreement, and distaste, but do not intimidate or threaten.

I did suggest that folks reach out to the event’s many sponsors and ask them where the “queen” went. Drag story hour. No queen. Not sure if that happened, but something did.

And yes, I’d bet more than a bit of the discontent came from outside the community, but so did the Drag Queens. What’s your point?

It is common practice on the Left and a flanking maneuver you should bring up reluctantly. To do so invites reminders about how Antifa and BLM were moving people from city to city to “protest” locally and, in more than a few instances, engage in theft, assault, arson, and other forms of property damage—all to advance their preferred message via intimidation, the threat of violence, and actual violence.

Parody: Dartmouth To Offer DQSH Degree

We don’t do that, nor should we. Shouting down speakers is also verboten – feel free to inject opinions between their words. That isn’t very pleasant, but it protected speech. And so it is with the canceled event in Lancaster. People spoke on both sides, and someone got spooked. Local PD and the venue decided they could not control a peaceful protest outside a public building (also protected speech).

I don’t think they had anything to worry about, but the optics were likely unfavorable, so someone pulled the plug.

So, congrats on taking a page out of the progressives’ manual. You have successfully prevented at least one disgusting human being from having access to children and their idiot parents.

They can use the time to figure out where they hid the Queen in Drag Queen Story Hour.

 

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Everyone is forgetful from time to time, which is why it is as important to exercise your brain as it is to exercise your body. Some of the main reasons people find it hard to recall information are being overwhelmed with information, feeling tired or getting older. These games are the perfect way for people of all ages to stimulate their brain as well as being fabulous fun!

Kim’s Game

A popular game for children’s groups such as Scouts as well as for reputable organizations such as the military, Kim’s Game is easy to play. One person is the leader, the other(s) are the guesser(s). Set several random objects on a tray or table for the guesser(s) to memorize. After a set amount of time, the leader covers the items with a blanket, removing one or more. The blanket is then removed, and the guesser(s) must name the missing object or objects. The more items there are on the tray, the harder it is!

Simon

Pocket Simon was a must-have gift for 80s children, with the electronic toy a favorite with all ages. The device has four light-up colored sections in blue, red, yellow and green. The machine plays a pattern for the user to repeat back, adding one color at a time until a mistake is made. This popular toy has been modernized for today’s kids but follows the same familiar rules, making it fun for those who had a ‘Simon’ first time around.

Pairs

This simple memory game is always well-received. Players take it in turns to match an upturned piece with its partner. Pieces guessed incorrectly are turned back over but stay in in the same spot so players must use their memory to find the pairs. Games like these are popular with senior living facilities offering memory care for seniors as they can help improve recall.

Brain Training Games

Brain training apps and games are extremely popular as they are a fun way to exercise the brain. The opportunity to better your previous score also appeals to the more competitive senior. Although these apps might not improve memory, they can help strengthen the connections between brain cells, a sign that you are learning something new.

‘I Went Shopping…’ Game

A long-time favorite of parents traveling with young children, this memory game is great because it doesn’t require a board, pieces or anything more than your voice and memory! A person starts by saying, ‘I went shopping and I bought [something beginning with ‘a’]’. The next person responds by saying ‘I went shopping and I bought [the object beginning with ‘a’ named by player one and something beginning with ‘b’]. Working through the alphabet and adding to the list can be a challenge and bring up some surprising suggestions of items bought!

Improving memory through games can be entertaining and give plenty of fun moments to the whole family; however, if you are concerned about the memory of a loved one, encourage them to seek medical advice.

 

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