Monday • November 25 • 2024
Vol.XVI • No.XLVIII
Manchester, N.H.
With an enforcement deadline looming at the end of May, potentially affecting millions of stabilizing braces, the new ATF rule is – as the founders told us – a test or an “experiment of your disposition.”
The Department of Justice (DOJ) submitted its “Final Rule” on pistol stabilizing braces to the Federal Register on January 13, 2023. This new gun control rule by executive order could turn millions of previously legally-owned firearms with a brace attached into NFA-regulated short-barreled rifles (SBRs), and the people that possess those weapons into felons – with the stroke of a pen.
The penalties they’re threatening are significant – federal felony charges carry up to 10 years in prison and $250,000 in fines for each firearm in violation.
But, as the Founders and old Revolutionaries told us – any act beyond the limits of the Constitution is an act of “usurpation,” or a theft of power from the sovereign people of the several states. All such acts are void, and in the words of even big-government-loving Alexander Hamilton – they “deserve to be treated as such.”
Just a quick overview of some of their writings tell us exactly what that means.
In response to the Stamp Act of 1765, for example, John Dickinson urged the people to refuse to comply with the act. He wrote:
“IF you comply with the Act by using Stamped Papers, you fix, you rivet perpetual Chains upon your unhappy Country. You unnecessarily, voluntarily establish the detestable Precedent, which those who have forged your Fetters ardently wish for, to varnish the future Exercise of this new claimed Authority”
Like so many others of the time, the “Penman of the Revolution” understood that mass compliance just encourages government to take more and more…and more. He continued:
“THE Stamp Act, therefore, is to be regarded only as an EXPERIMENT OF YOUR DISPOSITION. If you quietly bend your Necks to that Yoke, you prove yourselves ready to receive any Bondage to which your Lords and Masters shall please to subject you”
Compliance with unconstitutional acts just guarantees more of the same in the future. And in the other direction, James Madison told us that non-compliance and “a refusal to cooperate with officers of the Union” is an essential part of how to keep the federal government in check – without relying on the federal government to somehow, magically limit itself.
Yet, some people want us to “wait for the federal courts to sort this out” – as if potentially years of waiting for one part of the government to tell another part of the government to stop doing what the government never should have been doing in the first place is anything close to what a “free people” would do.
In fact, it’s the opposite. As Thomas Jefferson wrote, “A free people claim their rights, as derived from the laws of nature, and not as a gift of their chief magistrate.”
When you get down to it, waiting on the federal government to stop itself is not a people living in a “land of the free.” It’s a population on its knees, begging for permission.
When it comes to the right to keep and bear arms, we’re definitely talking about the “laws of nature.”
Mercy Otis Warren put it this way, “Self defence is a primary law of nature, which no subsequent law of society can abolish.”
James Wilson took it a step further, “The defence of one’s self, justly called the primary law of nature, is not, nor can it be abrogated by any regulation of municipal law.”
That’s part of why we take the position that the number of federal gun control measures that are authorized by the constitution is ZERO.
This includes the National Firearms Act (NFA) of 1934, which the ATF claims is where many firearms with stabilizing braces will now be regulated as SBRs.
While following Madison, Dickinson – and even Hamilton – to treat this latest act of usurpation as it deserves to be treated is not without risk, ultimately, it’s up to the people to protect and defend their own constitution and their own liberty – whether the government likes it, or not.
Thomas Paine may have summed it up best:
“The strength and powers of despotism consist wholly in the fear of resisting it.”
Michael Boldin | The Tenth Amendment Center
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With a generous grant from global pharmaceutical giant Pfizer the University of Vermont announces plans to break ground this summer on a new School of Sorcery.
Eager to capitalize on a generation still under the spell of Harry Potter, UVM plans to be the first to offer a Bachelors in Divination, Sorcery and Magic (BDSM). Applications for the school have already been flooding in as competition for the limited number of thirteen spots intensifies.
Some concern over the claims made by applicants has the registrar’s office working over-time to verify them. One hopeful student reports they have already defeated multiple dragons in the Forbidden Forest behind their house in downtown Los Angeles while others claim to have conquered entire armies of trolls – not on the internet, actual trolls. Another hopeful matriculator says they have a gnome farm.
“We take our jobs as witches and warlocks very seriously, so it’s a little unsettling to read some of these outlandish assertions” states incoming Headmaster Molgrom Ridiculi. “One does not simply defeat a dragon in Los Angeles without years of blood, sweat and magic rituals practiced under the guidance of proper wizardry!” This has led the staff to require video evidence of “extraordinary claims” while raising some concerns students will use A.I. to generate them.
Among the courses offered will be A Guide to Magic Mushrooms, Summoning the Dead to Vote, Warlock Robes and Wardrobes and Hexes, Curses and Writing in Cursive. The course with the most applicant interest is in Black and White Magic, however UVM’s D.E.I. board chair Sha’Karen Finkelworthy (she/her/shay/sho) says the name is problematic.
“Why black magic gotta be the evil one? Can’t nobody tell me!” Miss Finkelworthy crows as she waves her finger back and forth at the new staff, who appear to take the gesturing as a challenge. We reached out to Miss Finkelworthy for comment but were told she was unable to report to work after waking up covered in boils.
Still the excitement over the new school has many wondering about the forthcoming building. The architectural plans look to be early 14th century gothic in design, which has other area residents complaining.
A recent letter to the editor included the following statement from Sandy Plumbottom, board chair of a nearby subdivision:
“We have a Home Owners Association (HOA) covenant and this violates the building code for our neighborhood. It strictly prohibits non-eco friendly structures and the color code only allows earth tones, with the exception of yellow and blue paint if you stand with Ukraine. Or rainbow décor if you have a pride member in your family.”
Bananas Media reached out for a follow-up interview with Miss Plumbottom and were told she had been committed to a nearby sanitarium after being spotted crawling around her front yard clucking like a chicken.
Despite the hotly contested venture the school’s opening date is set for this fall. The magical staff has agreed to respond to concerns via old fashioned mail requesting all letters include a locket of hair and be addressed to:
UVM School of Sorcery
33 Maleficium Way
Burlington, VT 05405-0666
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Losing a family member, especially if they are a part of your immediate family, is something that, despite the overused cliché that ‘time heals’ is something that never gets better, just farther away.
Although the process of grief and acceptance is an entirely individual and personal journey, it would certainly help to focus your mind on looking for ways and means of memorializing them.
With that being said, here is rundown on how to easily keep the memory of your treasured loved one alive in a practical way.
Plant a Tree SaplingFirst and foremost, one of the most beautiful and, indeed, most popular ways of memorializing your loved one who has passed away, whether that be fairly recently or else many years ago, is to plant a tree sapling.
Representative of new life, you could even choose to add an inscription on a plaque underneath the tree, dedicating this new life to the memory of your loved one.
Garden FurnitureIf your deceased loved one was someone who loved everything related to the great outdoors and, indeed, you are fortunate enough to have a good-sized backyard and garden attached to your property, then you could consider an engraved plaque.
Garden furniture, from individual chairs to benches and other garden equipment, that uses beautifully and professionally engraved memorial bricks is both a functional and thoughtful way to remember your loved one during a break from potting flowers.
Regularly Donate to Their Favorite CauseFor those people who have always been charitable of nature, another lovely idea to carry on the memory of your loved one and, indeed, positively impact other people’s lives is to set up a regular donation schedule to their favorite charity or cause.
You could even donate each month through a direct debit and always give the name of the donator as your loved one who has passed away rather than your own.
Dedicate a Local Event to Their NamePerhaps your local town or neighborhood regularly arranges block barbecues, or else a charity fun run whereby each runner asks for sponsorships for a variety of different causes?
Regardless of the event, you could either choose to organize, arrange, and promote your own, or else contact the organizers of an existing one, to see if you are able to dedicate the next one to the memory of your loved one.
Create a Website in Their MemoryThe final suggestion for ways to help keep the memory of your loved one alive in very much a practical manner is to create a website in their memory.
Particularly applicable in the cases of individuals who have lost partners or other family members more recently, the website page could become a safe place to share photographs, videos and written memories of time spent with them.
One of the main benefits for you personally should you choose this option is that there is a high chance you may well be sent photographs and videos that you have never before seen.
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At its root, Democrats are mutilating mentally ill kids to fill the ranks of their army of gender warriors. Children who show no signs of gender dysphoria are confused by the Left and pressured by peers until they have it.
Disney uses cartons to normalize it.
Target sells them queer gear to celebrate it.
Parents who object are pilloried or shunned.
Local School boards notify child and family services, who may investigate the parents for abuse.
The Federal government creates profiles and watchlists inside the FBI.
Someone is probably feeding these names to the IRS.
If parents or relatives speak out, they are accused of hate.
And at some point, if allowed to continue, they will be separated from their children, detained, questioned, and perhaps even incarcerated, all so progressives can castrate or neuter other people’s kids in the name of human rights.
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Democrats have unjustly criticized the Republican Party as one of old white men who do not reflect the tapestry of America. You can look at the diversity of the field of Republican candidates for President to know how false that statement is.
Former Press Secretary Jen Psaki was on the air this week defending her former boss. She described Joe Biden as old, white, and comfortable. Those are not adjectives I want to hear when referring to the United States President and the free world’s leader. We do not need a comfortable older man sitting in his easy chair on the beach in Delaware. We need a President who will not hesitate to stand up to aggression from any of our adversaries. Joe Biden is too comfortable to show strength.
Three situations are hot spots and require our President’s firm stance and strong statement. Our Border with Mexico, Iran’s movement toward nuclear power, and China’s goal of global dominance are on most people’s radar screen. Will we find them on Joe Biden’s? I’m afraid Joe’s is a test signal from MSNBC!
We know the Border is not one where we will see action from Biden. The Democrats have not only destroyed our sovereignty, but they are impacting the makeup of every city and town in every state. The incredible flow of humanity is precisely what Biden and the Left want. Municipalities use any structure available to house illegal immigrants transported from Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona as these aliens wait for housing, jobs, and school for their children. The demographics of America are changing forever, and there is no plan for this insanity.
Iran is on the verge of possessing nuclear weapons. This weaponizing of Iran is the work of Barack Obama and Joe Biden. Donald Trump stopped the process and kept Iran in check. Joe Biden restarted the process immediately when he took office in 2021. What could possibly motivate Obama and Biden to create instability and danger in the Middle East by arming Iran? There is no logical explanation, and it questions whether Israel can count on an America under Democrat control.
China has been attacking us for years, but never as they have since Biden took office. They have been working with the cartels in Mexico to supply the raw fentanyl that the cartels process and ship to America. There are 100,000 Fentanyl poisonings yearly from this illegal drug, but not enough deaths to get the attention of Joe Biden. China has been complicit in destabilizing our economy for years. They are enticing American businesses to China and flooding our country with cheaply made Chinese products. China floats a balloon into our airspace. Biden lets it traverse the country flying over numerous military bases before finally shooting it down when it is over the Atlantic. The damage was already done. China got the info it needed before the balloon was destroyed. China has been buying American property, some surrounding our military bases. Biden has not done anything to deter this, but fortunately, some Governors have. Biden has done nothing to hold China accountable for the leak that became the COVID Pandemic, and the United States is still sending money to the Wuhan Lab for research. Why???
The Left loves to talk about existential threats and always points to the climate as our biggest threat. China is far more of a threat than the climate, but not if you look at the actions of Joe Biden. While the evil players of the world are testing America, America is wasting our energy changing the names of our forts. Fort Bragg lost its name today and became Fort Liberty. God help us if the names of our military bases are the most critical threat our leaders can see.
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The family is the enemy of Communism. Family members, in healthy families, live for each other; belong to each other … NOT for the State; to the State. In the Communist State, the ruled class are merely worker bees … indistinguishable, interchangeable, always replaceable. Family is just the opposite … you are an individual … unique and irreplaceable.
In Communist New Mexico, the family is being canceled. The Communists are winning.
New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signs law that will permit minors access to sex-change care and abortions without parental knowledge or consent. https://t.co/K8YWj9jexe pic.twitter.com/58rVNs7YLl
— NEWSMAX (@NEWSMAX) June 3, 2023
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This is the kind of info that seems to have been suppressed for a very long time in this Transgender Culture War. We’ve been told, over and over, that it is “child abuse” to not allow a child to do the drugs and surgery that will cause them to be sterile along with a ton of other health ramifications. We’ve known for years that such kids BEFORE they get the Jabs and the Knife are already in bad shape from a mental illness standpoint (with gender dysphoria being NOT the only one). And the Trans-Authoritarians make sure that we know it with their emotional blackmail of “Would you prefer a dead son or a live daughter” and then they trot out the suicide rates with the nuance that if Parents don’t do what they’re told to do, they’ll end up paying for a funeral. Don’t doubt me on this – I’ve heard it too many times.
And now we know the truth – it ain’t matching up with the Trans Propaganda. As in all cases for these snippets, reformatting and emphasis mine:
The head of a facility that carries out so-called “gender-affirming care” has published a study confirming that transgender surgeries do not improve mental health and make people feel lonelier than those who avoided surgical intervention altogether.
“In our study, the level of life satisfaction in transgender people was not increased in transgender people who had undergone gender-affirming surgery as compared to those who were unoperated,” says a study published Tuesday in BMC Public Health, a peer-reviewed scientific journal.
“[O]ur data indicate that transgender and gender-diverse people, who have undergone gender reassignment surgery feel lonelier” than transgender-identified people who have not elected to have surgery, finds a separate study by the same four researchers, originally published online May 11 in the journal Healthcare (Basel).
The researchers also reveal that people who identify as members of the opposite sex experienced greater isolation if they played sports. “[H]igher loneliness levels were significantly associated with … already having a gender-reassignment surgery [and] more than 4 [hours] a week of sports activities,” as “compared to no sports activity.”
…The most recent study finds that people who identify as transgender have lower overall life satisfaction than the general population — and young people suffering from gender dysphoria have worse mental health than older people. Blessmann, et al., found 31% of transgender-identifying people felt “dissatisfied” or “extremely dissatisfied” with life, while 17% said they were “satisfied” and just 1% felt “extremely satisfied.” People who identify as transgender were 1,290% more likely to describe themselves as “extremely dissatisfied” than “extremely satisfied” with their lives.
…The latest conclusions come as no surprise to experts. “This finding is sadly consistent with other studies,” Mary Beth Waddell, director of federal affairs for family and religious liberty at the Family Research Council, told The Washington Stand. “One study showed that the suicide completion rate for those that had undergone surgery was 19 times higher than the general population.”
As many of us have thought for years, if the root problem are other mental illness, getting sliced, diced, and pumped isn’t a longer term cure. And as a bonus, the post references a Swedish study as well:
A study taken in transgender-friendly Sweden concluded, “Persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behavior, and psychiatric morbidity than the general population.”
So, don’t let them gaslight you to believe what they want you to believe. And they try, HARD, to do that with linguistic manipulations. Remember, women don’t have prostates but transwomen do (unless they REALLY do a thorough bottom surgery):
…In 1946, George Orwell wrote his classic essay, “Politics and the English Language,” in which he argued “political speech and writing are largely the defence of the indefensible”. Because political speech so often justifies the irrational and inhumane, Orwell wrote, “political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness.”
The sinkhole of vagueness Orwell described has now swallowed up the word “woman.” Instead of meaning “adult human female”—or the half of humanity who have ovaries—politicians such as Fentiman now say a woman is anyone who feels like a woman, even if they come with penis and scrotum. The attempt to change the meaning of the word “woman” is justified by politicians such as Fentiman because it is argued that being a woman is a social role and not a biological category. Any person can become a “woman,” just as any person can become a police officer or a nurse. When it comes to social roles, biology is irrelevant.
It’s one reason why I ALWAYS demand, when in a debate with a Lefty, to define their definition. Do a pregnant pause, then smile broadly, and let loose your broadside. We cannot allow them to redefine our common language out from underneath us all – or they win in putting “their truth” as the accepted definition. Change the meanings of words and you change everything. After all “Free Speech” is now defined, for many young people, as “violence”.
In a free society, trans activists and their allies can use the word “woman” to refer to anybody in a dress or wig, but they have no right to coerce the rest of us to share in their alternative language. Yet this coercion is exactly what is happening across the world and across the states of Australia.
WE are not allowed to have Free Speech but they demand they have free reign to muck up the debate to control the debate. But of course, their dim-witted attempts to do so are meant to accomplish one thing – HURT their opponents that defy what they wanted us on bended knee. Like here – they are trying to claim that only THEY can define what a normative version of “democracy” looks like (so we just say “Republic” to tick them off). Add to it, just like “hate speech” is just speech they don’t like and “extremists” are people that refuse to agree with their worldview – they cannot brook any form or amount of dissent:
The Washington Post is receiving pushback for publishing an article painting conservatives who support the Target boycott as “extremists” and opponents of democracy. The Washington Post published an article titled: “Target gets caught in cultural crossfire over Pride month items.” The article about supposed right-wing extremism stemming from a retail boycott begins with the account of a female customer allegedly upset because Target was “carrying Pride month merchandise.” The woman reportedly using her own scissors to cut her Target credit card in front of the guest services at a Target location in South Florida, and informed employees, “I am never shopping here again.”
The article touched upon bomb threats that targeted several Target stores in multiple states. However, local news reports said the bomb threats were made by an individual who claimed to be angry that Target was cowardly for turning their back on the LGBTQ community and “decided to cater to the homophobic right-wing redneck bigots who protested and vandalized their store.”
…However, the article did not mention that the boycotts really took off after it was revealed that the big-box chain was selling “tuck-friendly” bathing suits, LGBTQ onesies for babies, and products from a transgender designer promoting Satanism, violence, and drug use.
Yeah, that reference to “domestic terrorist” was a nice touch – and par for the course: we GOOD and YOU BAD, EVIL, and should be put out of their society. Seriously – we’re terrorists and extremists because we don’t want to buy what you are demanding that we should? Even with the cacophony of names from the Left to demonize us as “undesireables”, most of America Society is still Normal and still trying to keep their kids’ innocence intact. A chocobloc amount of polling info here. To summarize, most people want to keep Trans-Authoritarians from infesting their childrens’ lives:
Across the board, majorities of American adults reject gender ideology, when it comes to the number of genders, school indoctrination without parental consent, and transgender surgery and hormone replacement therapy (HRT) for minors, a new Rasmussen survey reveals.
Self-identified Democrats are the least likely to oppose gender ideology, according to the survey of 1,116 U.S. adults, conducted May 24-25, 2023. But, even for Democrats, majorities agree that there are two genders and support laws prohibiting transgender surgery and HRT for minors. And, while not a majority, more Democrats say schools and teachers should not be allowed to counsel students on their sexual and gender identities, without parental knowledge or consent, than disagree.
Married adults and those with children are particularly supportive of measures to protect children from HRT, surgery, and school indoctrination regarding sexual and gender identity without parental knowledge or consent. Even significant percentages of those who believe there are more than two genders oppose legal surgery and hormone replacement therapy for minors.
By a three-to-one margin, Americans agree that “there are two genders, male and female.” Fully 71% of adults agree, including 57% who “strongly agree.” Conversely, 23% disagree that there are just two genders, including 10% who strongly disagree. Four in five (83%) Republicans and two-thirds (67%) of Democrats believe there are two genders. Among married adults (78%) and those with children (76%), three-fourths agree that all people are either male or female.
…Fifty-nine percent (59%) of Americans approve of laws making it illegal to give hormone replacement therapy to minors, including 43% who strongly approve. Regardless of whether they have children at home (70%) or are married (66%), Republican (70%) or Democrat (54%), majorities support these laws protecting children. Thirty-one percent (31%) disapprove of laws against HRT for minors, with 18% voicing strong opposition to such measures.
…Americans are strongly supportive (62%) of legislation making it illegal to perform sex-change surgery on minors. Nearly half (46%) “strongly approve” of these laws, more than the 30% who disapprove (18% strongly). Majorities in every political category also oppose sex-change surgery for minors, with 73% of Republicans, 56% of Democrats and 59% of the unaffiliated at least somewhat approving of legislation making it illegal. Americans who are married (72%) and those who have children at home (73%) are most likely to approve of laws prohibiting sex-change surgery of minors. More than a third (36%) of those who somewhat disagree there are only two genders approve of laws prohibiting sex-change surgery for minors. Even 30% of those who strongly disagree that the only genders are male and female approve of laws protecting minors from undergoing sex-change surgery.
Only 26% of American adults think schools and teachers should be allowed to counsel students on sexual and gender identity without parental knowledge or consent, while 60% are opposed to such school practices, and 14% are not sure.
And then there are those that don’t care about Parents feelings as they are ALL IN that Parents only are interested in “oppressing” their children so they are all in about making sure that “accessories” are available to college kids that have been transed. Ayup, forget about clothes via “Transition Closets”, this is a whole ‘nother matter:
The “OUTfits Clothing Closet,” a project of the university’s “Pride Alliance” office, “is a donation-based resource” that is accessible to students year-round, according to a description on UNT’s website. Among the available items are chest binders, which women use to constrict their breasts in an attempt to appear less female, as well as “packers,” bra inserts, makeup, and other “personal care products.” “Packers” are prosthetic objects resembling male sexual organs that women wear beneath their undergarments.
And yes, the Trans-Authoritarians have infested Government to MAKE us accept sexual mutilation or suffer the results of “child abuse”. Who knew that throwing away perfectly good organs from minors is “abuse”. And they want to implement such HRC’s “Love your LGBT Index” at the state level:
The Massachusetts Commission on LGBTQ Youth recommends parents be held liable for child abuse if they do not allow their children to receive transgender medical procedures…The LGBT Commission’s recommendations for the fiscal year of 2024 include extensive coverage for sex changes in order to “incentivize care,” as well as anti-bias and racial “equity” trainings for public hospital staff.
So those normal people (see poll, above) that don’t go along with this will be forced out of hospital employment – such a way to quash dissent from the Trans-Narrative, eh?
“With the significant rise in transphobia across the state, the Commission has serious concerns about the wellbeing of trans and gender expansive youth in the home, and advises that the state examine current laws around child abuse and welfare to ensure the unique situations faced by LGBTQ Youth are being addressed,” the group’s recommendations read. “In particular, the Commission recommends that the state examine the possibility of codifying gender-affirming child welfare protections in state law to better support youth and families.” The report asks the Massachusetts state government to “explicitly” classify “the withholding of gender-affirming care” as child abuse under state law.
Yep, they are definitely in the lane that says “YOUR children belong to US”. And not this next snippet addresses the “redefinition” of what child abuse is:
A new battle line has emerged between transgender activists and those who oppose sex change procedures for minors. The winner will get to decide what constitutes “child abuse.” Should the term become codified according to either side’s definitions, doctors could end up in jail and kids from parents on either side could end up in state care, some experts tell the Daily Caller.
Transgender activists argue that without medical intervention to change a child’s sex, or at least delay their puberty, gender dysphoric children could commit suicide. Advocates on the other side of the issue argue that children do not have the mental maturity to make the decision to change their sex, citing medical research indicating that such procedures are irreversible and do not have the mental health benefits some activists claim they have. (RELATED: Texas Children’s Hospital CEO Announces ‘Heart-Wrenching’ Plans To Discontinue Child Sex-Change Program)
…A growing number of individuals who transitioned as children are warning of the dangers of providing sex change procedure to children. These “detransitioners” argue that the medical professionals who treated them did not sufficiently evaluate them for co-morbidities which may have led to their feelings of gender incongruence.
And the Trans-Authoritarians are PERFECTLY fine with totally cancelling people – lost their jobs, their livings, their homes, and their families. And then smile over it.
‘Chilling Effect’: States Are Cracking Down On Therapists Who Don’t Affirm Kids’ Trans Identities
State laws have made it effectively illegal for therapists to help children with gender identity issues come to terms with their natural bodies and biological sex in much of the country by labeling the practice an illegal form of “conversion therapy.”
“If someone tells you what their gender identity is you must affirm them; you must accept it at face value,” Joseph Burgo, a psychotherapist and vice director of Genspect, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “It has a chilling effect on the whole profession. I know therapists who avoid gender altogether because they’re afraid of activists coming after them.”
Free Speech, much? Nope – none at all. And now Sesame Street is all in and rammng this ideology down your kids throats. Parents, you MUST watch and vet what your kids are watching!
On Thursday, iconic children’s TV series “Sesame Street” went all-in once again for June’s “pride month” with several tweets celebrating the sexuality-based month of recognition. And the gay lobby claims they aren’t targeting our kids? While the show did not refashion its logo in rainbow “pride month” colors like so many other entities have, the show did post several tweets pushing the left-wing celebration onto its tiny fans.
Firstly, we must remember that “Sesame Street” is supposed to be aimed at tiny tots from ages 2 to 5. This should be an age where sexual activities should not even be part of a discussion. But here is the most iconic kids’ TV show pushing “pride month” on little ones, anyway. The first “pride” post was made on Thursday as “pride month” kicked off. It featured actress Ariana DeBose, who claims to identify as “queer,” in a video in which she explained the show’s “pride” celebration.
“Hi, Elmo and I wanted to share that everyone is always welcome on ‘Sesame Street,’” DeBose said in the video. “This month and every month, we want to uplift and celebrate our LGBTQIA+ family, friends and communities.” Elmo added, “From our ‘Sesame Street’ family to yours, happy pride.
Elmo loves you.”
Tiny kids – well, if ELMO agrees with this, my parents must be wrong, right?
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He fell! He fell! Biden has fallen! All we “Republicans” need to do is put up an acceptable alternative and HAPPY DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN. Biden has fallen! He’s fallen! Or so goes the Establishment narrative. For example:
So … according to the Michael Grahams … Biden was totally in command of his facilities in 2020; no cognitive or physical decline; an acceptable, “moderate” alternative to Trump. And over the course of just two years has turned into a semi-senile, semi-invalid. Or so Graham and his ilk would have us believe.
The truth of the matter is that, even with the basement-campaign, it was clear to anyone paying attention that Biden was already in steep cognitive and physical decline in 2020. For example, look at the clips of the Democrat primary debates … where, for example, Biden rants about record players. And yet Graham and his NeverTrump cronies supported Biden because all they wanted for Christmas was to cancel Trump and put themselves back in charge of the GOP.
Biden’s falls, gaffes, etc. do NOT matter as much as Graham and his ilk believe because … as I have said so many times before … elections in the key swing States, thanks to the COVID “rules” that are now permanent, are about chasing/hunting/harvesting ballots, NOT persuading voters. By the time the GOP has the ad up showing Biden falling, the voter who would be moved by that ad has already been contacted by the Democrat ballot-harvesting machine and voted during “election-month.” Ask Dr. Oz how that works.
But keep pretending you can put that rigged-election genie that you supported in order to cancel Trump back in the bottle, Mikey.
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Despite the lack of reporting, Monkeypox (MPOX) has still been on a few people’s minds. It was a year ago that the Gay Pride Festivals in Africa and Europe served as ground zeroes for the global spread of the disease, almost exclusively in men who have sex with other men. Well, guess what?
Related: Pride Month is Still a Week Away, But Monkey Pox Season Started Three Weeks Ago
That continues to be the case. According to the WHOs External Situation Report 23, published 26 May 2023 on the Multi-country outbreak of Monkeypox, while it no longer constitutes a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC), 84.1% of those infected – when the information was given or available – “have self-identified as gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men.” The real number is higher as many men will not be in countries where that is something you can openly admit.
Another interesting detail from the same report in which “the WHO Director-General accepted the advice of the committee members that mpox no longer constitutes a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC)” is this tidbit.
As of 22 May 2023, 24 of the 111 affected countries reported new cases within the last 21 days, the maximum disease incubation period, highlighting the fact that the multi-country outbreak is not over. Nine of them are in the Americas, six in the European Region, six in the Western Pacific Region, one in the African Region, one in the Eastern Mediterranean Region, and one in the South-East Asia Region. Some of these countries continue to have sustained community transmission of mpox, while others only report sporadic cases.
The massive global Gran Canarian and Belgium pride festivals went on as planned this year as well or have any number of similar expressions that lead to last year’s news-worthy outbreak—followed by all that fancy dancing to avoid the most common factor in the spread. The WHO will issue its first pride month monkeypox report next week and then again two weeks later in late June. We may see some interesting numbers if we look.
A spike, perhaps, not in media coverage, of course, but that’s why you read GranitGrok. Actual public health news you can use. For what? I have no idea. That’s up to you, but if you have friends who like to have sex with men, remind them that the monkeypox isn’t gone, and it is in their best interests to proceed with caution.
While rarely fatal, it appears to be very unpleasant. You probably don’t want to spend the summer with the pox.
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So I filed three NH Legislative Ethics Complaints against NH State Reps Harry Bean, Travis O’Hara (below – I guess I forgot to post it earlier), and a third Rep who did not waived his Confidentiality (so I can’t discuss that Rep).
You’ve also seen the oral testimonies as well (again, see below if you haven’t).
As I mentioned before, I hadn’t seen the written responses from the accused to my complaints before the actual hearing – TMEW handed them to me when I returned from the State House when all was said and done (well, at least for that round). Thus, I was at a disadvantage, to a point, during that preliminary hearing (which determines if the Ethics Committee doesn’t believe there’s a basis for anything or does think that a full hearing should be held with other people piping into the process).
Remember, the first sentence out of Harry Bean’s mouth upon sitting to testify were “Well, I guess I did it”. Sounded like an admission of guilt to me – you? However, this isn’t a court in the legal sense of the word – this committee is a political entity so who knows “who heard what”? All I know were my impressions afterwards:
Sure – but if WE ALL break a law he gets passed, can we claim those same things and get away using those same excuses? Sorry, willfully breaking the law is, by definition, unethical. However, we’ll have to wait and see if the Ethics Committee agrees with that.
Anyways, here are the responses by Attorney Paul Fitzgerald – the attorney that the county hired (who also is Bean’s personal attorney) to defend all three State Reps.
Bean:
NH Leg Ethics Committee – Paul Fitzgerald for Harry BeanO’Hara:
NH Leg Ethics Committee – Paul Fitzgerald for Travis OHaraI’ve been through them once. However, before I comment on either of them, I’m going to reread them a couple more times.
Ethics Complaint against NH State Rep Travis O’Hara:
Legislative Ethics Committee Complaint – Travis OHaraEthics Complaint against NH State Rep Harry Bean:
Skip Murphy Ethics Complain – Harry BeanMy oral testimony:
Bean’s testimony:
O’Hara’s testimony:
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Today, New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu announced he would not seek the Republican nomination for President. I guess he looked at the polling and discovered that he’d reached his ceiling on electability (but won’t admit it). It’s a lesson he should have learned from not running for the US Senate.
From Joe Sweeney,
“Governor Chris Sununu shows Republicans how to win in purple states that are becoming harder to win due to petty games & craven personality fights – GOP candidates would be wise to learn from his style & approach if they want to appeal to a broader electorate and win.”
That’s a strange thing to say about a guy who bailed on a US Senate seat because his numbers against the incumbent Democrat were too close to call. He then dipped his toe in the presidential prospects pool but couldn’t get much above one percent in national polls, and now he’s bowing out of that.
But locally, you say, he’s the guy from whom the GOP could learn a thing or two. No, not really. His victories have been getting slimmer, though – to be fair – he crushed Dirty Dan Feltes a few years back, so almost anyone could have done better and did. Democrat Tom Sherman got closer but still lost.
Sununu magic doesn’t translate to the legislature, whose Republican margins grow thinner yearly. I’m sure he’ll blame that on petty games and craven personality fights, but I think we can blame the declining coattails of the guy who pokes the party platform in the eye every chance he gets.
Example?
To win, Republicans need our message to appeal to new voters, and we can do this without sacrificing classic conservative principles of individual liberty, low taxes and local control. But we must abandon the issues that are solely made for social media headlines, such as banning books or issuing curriculum fiats to local school districts hundreds of miles away from state capitals. Republicans should re-embrace local control and let parents within their own communities decide what’s right.
Governor Groomer is doubling down on porn in schools, systemic racism against white kids, and using the Left’s narratives. Good boy, Chris. Hey, can you be a character witness in Democrat Chairman Buckley’s defamation trial?
What a ****!
This time around (governor’s race-wise), he’d be facing who knows which Democrat loser the left coughs up. So far, we’ve got Cindi Warmington and Joyce Craig. Warmington is an Executive Councilor, and Joyce Craig has overseen the systemic decline of the State’s largest city (Manchester). I think Warmington has the edge in the Dem primary, assuming Sununu is interested in doing more than just ensuring Donald Trump doesn’t win the nomination. His focus will be “Not that guy!,” which is a noble pursuit, or perhaps, it is just petty and craven. What do I know?
I will not seek the Republican nomination for president in 2024.
The stakes are too high for a crowded field to hand the nomination to a candidate who earns just 35 percent of the vote, and I will help to ensure this does not happen.
Read my full op-ed:https://t.co/biZOzhV8K6
— Chris Sununu (@ChrisSununu) June 5, 2023
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A professional career in medicine and healthcare can be as rewarding as it can be challenging and as such, regardless of the stage you are at in your medical career, choosing to work in such a demanding field requires a great deal of thought and study.
So, in an effort to help you differentiate between the different fields of the medical and healthcare sector, continue reading to learn of the five main specialisms.
1. Surgery
As you will already have noted, the surgical field encompasses myriad professional job roles, from surgeons in a more usual hospital setting to those specializing in eye care and cataract surgery.
Surgeons are highly qualified medical professionals who diagnose many injuries and illnesses, develop post-op plans for treatment and rehabilitation for individual patients and use specialized surgical tools to mend or remove parts of the body.
Surgeons need to be exceedingly well organized, able to stay calm and measured in a potentially stressful situation, and have unparalleled attention to detail.
2. Oncology
Another incredibly interesting medical specialism, which is, quite rightly, given a high volume of time, money, and energy, is the field of oncology.
Essentially, oncology deals with anything and everything associated with all forms of cancer and cancerous tumors. From doctors and nurses administering radiotherapy and chemotherapy to patients to innovative carcinoma research using the 7860 renal cell process, there are many career pathways within the field.
3. Internal Medicine
The third major, umbrella, specialism within the field of medicine, is covered by the term internal medicine. Essentially, internal medicine covers everything relating to the inside of the body, from the long intestine to nerves in the end of the finger, with different experts concentrating on one organ or another.
It would also be pertinent to point out that internal medicine does not include anything related to the brain as, as the most complex organ of the body, the field of neurology concentrates solely on the brain.
4. Emergency Medicine
If you have ever had to take a last-minute trip in the middle of the night to the local accident and emergency department of the nearest hospital, you will know firsthand the huge variety in emergency cases doctors, nurses, and other medical professionals deal with.
Emergency medicine involves the immediate assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of patients with immediate, life-threatening injuries. More than that, doctors and surgeons need to quickly and accurately prioritize patients to first treat those with the most severe conditions.
5. Hematology
The fifth and final largest specialism within the huge field of medicine and healthcare relates to one specific substance in the human body; blood.
Hematology is the medical study, diagnosis, and treatment of blood disorders and also includes individualized patient treatment plans to treat and improve issues with blood flow, consistency, health, and pressure.
Finally, if there is any way that you can donate a pint of blood, the deficit of which will be quickly and fully replaced by your own body, you yourself could be responsible for saving more than one life.
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They’re flying so thick and fast it is amazing. Take heart – there will be a Meme Overflow and almost certainly a Friday Meme Overflow-Overflow. Last week’s Overflow-Overflow.
Again, apologies for no Survival Sunday yesterday, but… time’s been at a premium lately. Here’s the last one.
Remember, ridicule and mockery are effective weapons:
Now, let the mockery and mayhem begin.
*** Warning, a few possibly off-color ones, in case tender eyes are about ***
I’d been to any number of parties with my (now late) mother where she’s begged me to not talk politics – knowing that she and I were opposites on virtually everything (and with her also knowing the general orientation of the crowd where we were going). And I didn’t… until someone started in with hating anyone to the Right of Stalin, especially when they expect everyone to agree with them, and doubly-especially when they wouldn’t let go of the conversation bone they’d just taken up.
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For Soros’ betrayal of America… for his attacks undermining Western Civilization on multiple fronts… for his using his Plopping Jew status as a shield and thus besmirching Jews universally (let alone his singular attacks on Israel)… I want to be the one to pull the lever on this POS myself.
Home – Jews Against Soros
Need to vet them some more… but looks interesting!
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The first step in eliminating people,” said Hubble, “is to erase their memory. Destroy their books, their culture, their history. Then ask someone to write new books, create a new culture, invent a new history. Soon the people will begin to forget what it is and what it was. The surrounding world will forget even faster”
– Milan Kander
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PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA
It is my firm belief – stated in multiple posts over the last few months – that there is a deliberate push to ignite WWIII using Ukraine as the spark point. Not just for the depopulation that would, calamitously, result… but for the mask it will place over what I truly think is an impending explosion in Jab-related deaths and other consequences.
If you add in the drops in birth rates that are starting to be discussed (I hate being right all the time), the damage to women’s fertility resulting in the same, plus the damage to male fertility as well, you get a calamitous drop in children; again, we’re already starting to see this. The latter impact on male fertility is so pronounced that it prompted this comment during a pathology post-mortem presentation (bolding in the original):
So, if I may make a personal comment, this is not a scientific comment. If I were a woman in fertile age, I would not plan a motherhood from a person, from a man, who has been vaccinated. I think these pictures are very disturbing for me.
Video of him talking:
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/burkhardt-on-spikes-and-sperm.mp4
And while he was clearly an older man, I find this rather coincidental timing given the above autopsies (also see here) and comments he’s made about the Jab’s effects – with both comments and data getting increasing attention. RIP.
We already have polling data indicating that more than 1-in-4 think they know someone who died from the Jab. I think humanity as a whole is on the verge of noticing both Dying Suddenly and the rising Birth Dearth in a preference cascade. More on that:
People tend to hide unpopular views to avoid ostracism or punishment; they stop hiding them when they feel safe.
This can produce rapid change: In totalitarian societies like the old Soviet Union, the police and propaganda organizations do their best to enforce preference falsification. Such regimes have little legitimacy, but they spend a lot of effort making sure that citizens don’t realize the extent to which their fellow-citizens dislike the regime. If the secret police and the censors are doing their job, 99% of the populace can hate the regime and be ready to revolt against it — but no revolt will occur because no one realizes that everyone else feels the same way.
This works until something breaks the spell and the discontented realize that their feelings are widely shared, at which point the collapse of the regime may seem very sudden to outside observers — or even to the citizens themselves. Kuran calls this sudden change a “preference cascade,” and I wonder if that’s not what’s happening here.
As people start opening up, I believe there will be a unified, dawning awareness of the widespread damage these Jabs have caused:
We All Put the Yeast In.
The Globalists cannot afford this, at least not before things are completely irreversible. Thus, for example, the new push to supply Ukraine with F-16s and other fighters, something Russia has warned against with gravest terms. Something even The Potato and the UK said would not happen just months ago. A la Sun Tzu, we must understand the Russian mentality: tremendously fatalistic. They may well decide that since the West is against them, since the West is dead-set to destroy them as a nation & culture, they have nothing to lose by going for the brass uranium / plutonium ring. They’re already stepping things up; Gloves Are Off: Russian Officials Ramp up the Nuclear Rhetoric – Nightly Bombing Campaign Against Kiev Enters Its Second Week – Intelligence Service HQ Hit | The Gateway Pundit | by Paul Serran. Meanwhile, NATO has war games planned; As Russia tensions simmer, NATO conducts massive war games (militarytimes.com).
More on the above image here.
The chances for an OOPS! multiply exponentially. And could there be a Sam Adams moment? (I.e., it has been rumored that at the famous Battle of Concord Bridge, firebrand Sam Adams was so determined to see things start off that he had a rifleman staged in hiding to fire the first shot and make each side think the other had fired, as an agent provocateur to light off the Revolution. I remember reading that on the internet – so it must be true – but IIRC the article, which I can’t specifically find, had some references seeming to support that claim. YMMV.)
If WWIII kicks off, with nukes, everything following will be attributed to that. And in the civilizational collapse that would result – with hunger, disease, crime, etc., all stalking the whole world – the harms done by the Jab would be completely masked by these other things.
Remember, these people want to answer the 7.3 billion person question. And do not doubt that you are not in their planned surviving short list.
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In general, don’t use your phone or any other electronics for anything truly sensitive. Ultimately, the only truly-secure communication is face to face, in private, with no electronics around at all.
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In this video, Bill Whittle describes the power of Iconography and how icons (and, related, memes) can be devastating to the Left… even as, in the past, he notes how the Left has used them to enormous effect.
PJTV: The Power & Danger of Iconography
So consider the power of this meme:
Devastating. Or consider this one:
As are these two to both McCarthy and MTG, to a lesser extent:
As to MTG specifically. I try to cling to Reagan’s dictum:
(Link to AZQuotes per their policy.)
I like that she’s actually filed articles of impeachment, not that I think they’ll ever gel into anything real (and I am cynical enough to think that perhaps she knows it and is doing it for uniparty show). But it’s not a straight-up rule. There needs to be some factors in what constitutes the 80-20 split.
The J6 tapes are critical. Hiding them because of a fear of the “heckler’s veto” does a disservice to the search for truth. If we shirk from protecting the innocent, if we shy away from uncomfortable truths out of fear… then the enemy has already won.
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As an aside, note something about the Golden Axiom of Research: Results will be biased towards those that provided / continue the funding.
I love eggs.
I remember one day hearing one of those “trivia question of the morning” features on a morning commute: “The average American eats 200 of these a year” and immediately screamed EGGS! at the top of my lungs. Yup. Then I got to thinking… and doing math… and that if the average was 200 a year there had to be at least five people who ate no eggs to make up for my consumption rate.
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I am very proud to have Lady Thatcher’s autographed picture framed and on my wall at home, among other notables.
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Cloward-Piven, like so many things, discussed here with the refrain “Oh that’s just not possible”.
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Another recipe – monthly – from My Tree in Israel. I’ve already renewed one tree’s adoption, and have three more to go (one for me, one for Bill Whittle (see above video on Iconography), one for a good friend in Israel, and one with my business’ website on the label as promotional handouts). Plus one grape vine. Excellent olive oil, bar none. Note that while I’m friends with one of the founders, I receive no compensation for plugging them – it’s just great olive oil and helps a friend’s business.
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I’ve had it with banks!
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Pick of the post:
It’s not just that you can be an idiot. You can be a smug, vain idiot. And being such, your resistance to information that contradicts what you “know” is true approaches adamantium.
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Monday Musical Memory (new Monday feature):
Duran Duran – Hungry like the Wolf (Official Music Video)
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Palate Cleansers:
I do that. Then again, I’ve gotten well past caring what most people think of me.
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So let’s play the way the Communists … oh! I’m so, so sorry! I mean Democrats … play. The chart below establishes that we are facing a CRISIS … and that we need to act IMMEDIATELY. The planet is getting cooler despite the increase in CO2 … we need, therefore, to produce even more CO2 because OBVIOUSLY otherwise we are facing an ice age within decades, if not years.
WE CAN’T WAIT! We need to ban electric cars and require everyone to drive a gas-guzzler and force the car manufacturers to start producing 1960s era muscle-cars IMMEDIATELY! We need more CO2 … the planet is cooling … COOLING … COOLING! That’s how the game is played right?
Well … that’s how the Communists play the game. The “Republicans” just play along … because they are essentially controlled opposition.
Just in… NASA satellite data for May.
May 2023 much cooler than May 1998, despite 66% more industrial era CO2.
Emissions-driven warming is a hoax. pic.twitter.com/xOiimubyfu
— Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) June 3, 2023
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Democrats, the Party of the disadvantaged? When did that happen – if ever? I look at our nation now and fail to see any changes other than the messages of that Party. They claim Republicans are anti-minority and they are the champions of the underclass. Let’s consider.
What have the Democrats done for minorities when in power? We know that public schools in minority districts, controlled for decades by Democrats, are grossly underfunded and underachievers. Yet DC Democrats filibustered school choice recently. They also voted against a bill to stop Government from throwing 40% of Black kids out of schools for refusing their vax mandate. This was because of Government’s history of using Blacks as fodder for fatal medical experiments. One example, decades ago, involved syphilis but still hangs in the cultural memory of Blacks.
These “mandatory COVID vaccines have since been shown to be ineffective, even dangerous, so seems those 40% were justified after all.
So far here in the 21st century, the Democratic Party has done nothing besides promoting a culture of entitlement and resentment among minorities. They vilify as racists, all Whites (epically devout Christian Catholics and Protestants), pit women against men, and work hard to divide children against parents. Then, laughably, they claim to be the Party devoted to bringing people together.
We need to look no further than our economy and our unsecured borders to know that the Biden administration is indifferent to our citizens’ well-being, safety, opinions, our laws, or our Constitution. All of these, Democrats have “thrown under the bus” to advantage themselves and their billionaire supporters.
The lesson of French King Louis XVII comes to mind and might be one to consider for those promoting a Marxist/socialist based one world government. You will never disarm millions of military trained gun owning patriots; be very careful how you tread.
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Victor Davis Hanson is considered one of the most plain-speaking but brilliant minds on the Right. This manifesto/observation is dead nuts and spot on.
Reformatted, emphasis mine:
…Traditionalists often feel they have no time for politics. They prefer to focus on their families, jobs, communities, and churches. Until recently they shunned organized boycotts. They abhor massing outside the homes of left-wing politicians and judges. They shrug and concede that universities, teachers, government unions, the corporate boardroom, Wall Street, Silicon Valley, the media, entertainment, and professional sports are hopelessly activist and left-wing. The environmental, social, governance (ESG), diversity, equity, and inclusion, and LGBQT+ agendas were unfathomable acronyms to Middle America and thus mostly ignored.
So conservatives often slept through the woke revolution. Yet suddenly they realize their apathy allowed the country to descend into something the nation’s founders never imagined or intended, and antithetical to what most knew as America just a couple of decades ago.
So conservatives are awakening from their slumber. And they are discovering that they too can boycott, agitate – and roar…
Bud Light, Target, Kohl’s, Ford, Walmart – and a whole host of other corporations have taken sides in the Culture War. Our School System, too, has taken sides and is pumping our children with vile worldviews – what Conservative would have EVER thought that Pornography in school libraries was as necessary as reading, writing, and arithmetic?
PLEASE, go read the entire piece: Is The Sleeping Conservative Dragon Finally Waking Up?
From his keyboard to God’s ears. After all, the Left, mostly, is godless, so we might have a direct pipeline for once.
(H/T: Daily Caller)
Additional:
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Those standing in opposition to school choice fail to understand the reason parents decide to remove their kids from the public school system. It is not because these parents want to abuse their children in secret, it is not because they are helicopter parents, it is not because they desire to run and buy a giant TV with the EFA funds, it is not because they desire to rid public education from all of their funding, either.
I propose the reasons most parents decide to make the choice to find an alternative to public education right now for their children can be explained by logical reasoning: they have witnessed public schools that have largely fought back when parents express concerns such as why they have to ask for a bill in order for the school system to recognize and respect parental authority so they may know what their child is experiencing while in the schools, and why is there pushback?
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Parents have the God-given mandate to provide the best education they can for their children do they not? Why, as Americans, must they explain to the school system that they must be free to educate their children in the best method possible for the child? Education funding that all taxpayers pay that is per child, earmarked for Billy should follow Billy, should it not?
Or is our tax money for administration purposes only? Public education systems still receive money for children, even though they are choosing another method other than public school, do they not? Is it the institution that is the focus when taxpayers are serious about guarding the future of America or is it the knowledge, virtue, and truth the student is receiving from their education that is on their minds?
Noah Webster On The Education Of Youth In America 1788:
“It is an object of vast magnitude that systems of education should be adopted and pursued which would not only diffuse a knowledge of the sciences but may implant in the minds of American youth the principles of virtue and of liberty and inspire them with just and liberal ideas of government and with an inviolable attachment to their own country.” .
Noah Webster along with our Founders recognized how important it was to educate on Principles of Virtue and of Liberty. Are our schools today concerned with instilling such virtues in our kids? My eyes tell me “not so much”. While catering to the unvirtuous voices, the public education machine gambles on losing those who take our Founders’ advice seriously. They should not be alarmed when people choose another way. A Republic such as ours must be run by people of virtue and knowledge. As Franklin said,
“You have a Republic, if you can keep it.”
I would recommend the public schools change their methods and curricula to match our Founders’ wise advice if they are concerned about losing more money to private schools and home education.
Originally posted at the Union Leader.
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I’ve been a bit tied up lately with the NH Legislative Ethics Committee and DCYF (yes, they are doing things that have caught my gaze – both in general and personally), and again, a bit of Citizen for Belknap, and helping others with Right To Know demands. You know, you’d think that being retired, my pace of life would have slowed down. No such luck and most of it (to be intellectually and ethically honest), I have brought much of it upon myself (but with some major exceptions popping up). If anything, it has speeded up.
So, I “tab” stuff that caught my interest but then haven’t done anything with (story of my life – my eyes are FAR bigger than my time or writing speed). So, this will be a quick (and perhaps FAR too early to mean much) poll on who our readers would pick between three rumored Republicans thinking to replace Sununu in the NH Corner Office from this in the Union Leader (abstracted):
So, with all that in mind:
So here is the poll:
Snap Poll - Which Of These Three Republicans Would You Support for NH Governor?
Thanks for playing along!
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