The Biden-regime has been relentlessly imprisoning its political opponents … supposedly for the “J6 insurrection” (hoax) … but in reality to intimidate its political opponents from engaging in free speech AND to set the stage for indicting and imprisoning (pretrial detention) Trump. It’s happening AND it will be tacitly supported by many of the supposed “conservatives” who have been incessantly telling us that we have to “move on” (notable that these “conservatives” use the same language as the Left) from Trump … yeah, eyes on you, Sun-King Sununu … in order to “save” the GOP.

The Seditious Conspiracy case against the Proud Boys was crucial to the Gov’s pursuit of Donald Trump.

With the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys behind them, there is only one target left. Donald Trump and everyone around him.

It’s going to get really ugly folks.
Pray for America. pic.twitter.com/3Ces3sQMVj

— Joseph D. McBride, Esq. (@McBrideLawNYC) May 5, 2023

They’re going to charge Donald Trump with seditious conspiracy too. That’s why the Democrats aren’t worried about Biden running again. Their plot is in motion. Too many on the right are in denial about this. https://t.co/NVWpjjWP7k

— Buck Sexton (@BuckSexton) May 5, 2023

As bad as you think a Trump indictment, arrest will be, I told Jesse today how it can be much worse.

And I’m so grateful for his coverage when so many on the “Right” are ignoring this travesty https://t.co/BuQHNYtQpy

— Julie Kelly (@julie_kelly2) May 4, 2023

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Joe Sweeney is supposedly one of the NHGOP’s “leaders,” “young-guns,” “the future of the Party” etc., etc., etc., … he’s much, much, much smarter than those boomer-GOP’rs … he knows how to win in New Hampshire … OR so he would like you to believe. Actually, Joe is simply regurgitating the failed, losing mantra of the Establishment GOP … stay away from the “social issues”; focus on the fiscal issues, blah, blah, blah.

Joe thinks he’s anti-communist. He does NOT want to honor dead Communists. But Joe is apparently unaware that his “good friend” Rosemarie Rung … Cackling-Rosie … is a Communist:

Cackling-Rosie wants to disarm law-abiding Americans. That’s what Communists do, Joe, they disarm the opposition:

Cackling Rosie thinks children should be raised by the State, not their parents. That’s what Communists believe ,Joe. For example, Lenin said something along the lines of … give me four years to teach your children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Needless to say, Cackling-Rosie’s stance on guns and parental rights is just the tip of the Communist-iceberg. And she’s also just a really, really horrible person. For example, she has implied that Melissa Blasek is a biological male:

And, OF COURSE, she retweets the obligatory “Republicans are Nazis”:

Considering Cackling-Commie-Rosie your “good friend,” Joe, makes you a DISGRACE.

And if the future of the NHGOP is people like Low-T Joe Sweeney and Ross Berry and D.J. Bettencourt … then the NHGOP has NO FUTURE.

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“Spank’em when they’re wrong but thank’em when they do right.”  So yes, I have to be nice to NH Governor Chris Sununu (on a preliminary basis – the NH House hasn’t voted on SB272 yet but has passed the Senate) on this news:

Gov. Chris Sununu this week came closer to embracing controversial parental rights legislation, saying he’s “generally in favor” of a bill that faces a showdown vote soon in the House of Representatives.

“I give the (state) Senate a lot of credit, they listened, they heard a lot of the advocacy, there were concerns, they have made sure their bill addresses a lot of that. I am generally in favor of it in its current form,” Sununu said on Monday.

However, while he may be indicating that he’s willing to pick up his pen and put his John Hancock on SB272, what about the House Republicans that have consistently voted against such bills but have made it clear during election seasons that they are BIG coattail riders of his?

“This is a better bill; it has legal standing and is on firmer ground,” said Sununu, who is considering a presidential run in 2024.
“I strongly believe conceptually in a parental bill of rights.”

And why the switch in his stance?  I think the reason why is obvious, given his running around the nation to get his face in front of every network camera he can in advance of a possible 2024 Presidential run:

While some confirmed and potential GOP White House rivals cite parental rights as a pivotal national issue, Sununu said he is looking at it solely through the lens of whether the change is right for New Hampshire.

I’m not convinced about that last bit. First, all this is doing is consolidating into one place the Rights that the Supreme Court has already confirmed. I think it is finally registering that, along with all of the other Left-leaning actions he’s done here in NH (the “smack’em” bit), those aren’t helping him. Pivoting from last year’s stance is part of an effort for him to gain the traction that, thus far, he’s failed to get.

I know he and his cohort are looking at the polls going “what else do I have to do to start getting some recognition???”. He’s not learning the very public lesson that Vivek Ramaswamy is demonstrating as Vivek is doing the same running around – and running circles around Sununu in campaigning around NH like a speed demon where Sununu is Governor. While Sununu is still talking both sides of the mouth, Vivek is saying the the stuff about the critical Culture War that IS the battlefield of the upcoming election and it now beating him in the polls at 5% to 1%. Both Youngkin (who won his Governorship on the Culture War but not running for Prez) and DeSantis (who got a larger margin of victory by fighting Wokeness but odds are his IS running for Prez) are other examples that are already showing Sununu he’s loosing out.

Back to “His Ardent State Rep Supports Do That Keep Voting Against Parental Rights?” bit in the title.  Sununu’s pivot is going to put them into a bit of a bind (IF the behind the scenes arm twisting by Sununu is absent this time around) – vote like they have in the past? Will the latter continue to put Government over Parents, contra the NH GOP Platform?

We believe that the liberty of parents to direct the upbringing, healthcare, education, and wellbeing of their children is a fundamental right. Decisions in regards to the upbringing, healthcare, education, and wellbeing of children should be the free choice of parents, acting on the children’s behalf, unimpeded by intrusive government regulation and control.

We do have history to the contrary.  Last Year, Steve did a deep dive on those Republicans that either voted against HB1431 or “took a walk” (meaning the voted against it by not voting at all. The “took a walk” means that they either weren’t present or were outside the Hall of Reps when the vote was taken).

This Year on HB10 (the House version of Parental Rights), the following Republicans voted against it. The first two (from Belknap County) each gathered thousands of Union based PAC money via Brodie DeShaies:

• Mike Bordes (R-Laconia)
• Travis O’Hara (R-Belmont)

Add to those two, other Parent haters:

• Mark Proulx (R-Manchester)
• Dan Wolf (RINO – Newbury. In fact, THE RINO of the NH House – why does he run as a Republican???

The current Republican majority is only 4 seats. You can do the math to figure out how just 1,2, or 3 votes will do to Parents – and continue to put Government/Teachers unions over Parents?

The dilemma for them, especially in the case of Bordes who has made it VERY clear that he’s buddy-buddy with Sununu. Will these folks, especially Bordes and O’Hara pivot their votes to Yay to stay in Sununu’s good graces? Or are they will be part of a continuing subterfuge to torpedo Parents again?

 

(H/T: Union Leader)

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• These are the most liberty-critical hearings for the week
• Click on the bill number to read the bill.
• Click on the committee name to email the committee your thoughts.

Of the 4 hearings in the House, we are recommending support of 0 and opposition of 0 with 0 being of interest.
Of the 3 hearings in the Senate, we are recommending support of 1 and opposition of 1 with 0 being of interest.

Position	Bill	Title	Committee	Day	Time	Room	State Analysis
Support	HB281	relative to least cost integrated resource plan of utilities.	Energy and Natural Resources	Tue 5/9	9:00 AM	SH Room 103	This bill: I. Repeals the requirement for electric and natural gas utilities to submit least cost integrated resource plans with the public utilities commission and have the commission evaluate the plans and maintain them on file. II. Removes the requirement that a municipal host under the limited electrical energy producers act be located in the same municipality as all group members. III. Requires the public utilities commission to provide an estimated annual cost of compliance with electric renewable portfolio standards in customer’s electric bills. IV. Repeals the establishment of the energy efficiency and sustainable energy board and transfer some of the board’s responsibilities to the department of energy. V. Makes various changes to the energy facility site evaluation committee and permitting process.
Oppose	HB532	relative to the licensure and regulation of music therapists.	Executive Departments and Administration	Wed 5/10	9:00 AM	SH Room 103	See State website. Two proposed amendments will be heard.

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First, I am merely an “enlightened amateur”.  Please vet & check on your own.  Caveat emptor.  Consider these to be priming the pump for your own investigations.  I know this is a long post; I am attempting to put out a lot of information as a resource.  Read or skip sections depending on your interests.

Second, I fear spicy time is very close, but even a month of food, water, etc., puts you well ahead of most of the sheeple.  IMHO, set your minimum sights on a three-month period.

Third, two things will be critical for having the best chance of making it through:

1. Mentality: first and foremost in survival is having a flexible mentality and cultivating the ability to adapt. Vanity has no place in survival.
2. Develop a meatspace network of people that are likeminded: cultivate your community ties and build alliances with neighbors (note: don’t babble about the Jab or globalists or depopulation, or start pointing political fingers when doing this)… and remember, the first rule of PREP CLUB is that there is no prep club.

And please follow both me, Nitzakhon, on Gab… as well as my blog host Granite Grok and also on Telegram Tommy Robinson Official plus his Urban Scoop site.  And don’t forget posts sometimes get cloned on American Reveille as well, which is a good site to check out in general.

FYI, here’s a link to the last Survival Sunday SITREP (from a week ago; missed this Thursday from having no time).

 

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The US is collapsing…More evidence our government does not care about American citizens.

 

 

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Top of the fold:

All these illegals coming in.

Shared post – Incoming Disease — Serious Diseases… (locals.com)

Gonna be bad.

 

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Oddments – random thoughts on prepping:

None this week.  Got to buy more seeds and more fertilizer.  Not for this year, but in anticipation of a scorched-earth situation next year.

 

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Prepper Site URLS:

Most have daily articles; revisit daily.  Please recommend others in the comments.

Ask a Prepper, how to prepare, survive and thrive, latest news

Mother Earth News

The Organic Prepper Home – The Organic Prepper

SurvivalBlog.com – The Daily Web Log for Prepared Individuals Living in Uncertain Times.

SHTF Blog – Modern Survival

Survival World – Everything You Need To Know to Survive

Homestead Survival Site – How to Live Off The Grid in Comfort and Style

Urban Survival Site | How to Survive a Disaster in the City

Mind4Survival – Survival and Preparedness

Gray Wolf survival

Sustainable Living (sustainablelivingideas.com)

The Classic Survivalist – Surviving in a Modern World

Primal Survivor – Practical and sensible prepping advice

Em Off-grid – We & Our Off The Grid Life – Em OffGrid

Resource for Practical, Daily Prepping Skills for SHTF & Survival (geekprepper.com)

And three aggregate sites listing their top favorite sites & links too:

TOP 50 SURVIVAL & PREPPER BLOGS

The 50 Best Survival Blogs

Prepper Website – Preparedness • Survival • Alternative News

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Specific, one-up articles:

Throw It Out! – Ask a Prepper

I found a few cans of fruit salad that were actually bulging.  Then again, I don’t like the stuff, and neither does anyone else.  So why did I buy it??

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Related to Spicy Time:

 

Learn 10 Advanced Bushcraft & Survival Skills!

 

 

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How to Find Water in the Wilderness | The Art of Manliness

Critical!  Related:

How Long Can You Store Water Before It Becomes Unsafe To Drink? – Ask a Prepper

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10 Military Stealth Survival Skills!

 

 

Other escape / evade videos (links only):

How to escape from pursuers in the woods (an evasion skill-building game) – YouTube

Which Materials can hide you from THERMAL DEVICES? – YouTube

Thermal Camouflage Part 1: Setting the Stage – YouTube

Avoiding detection from your enemies. Mountain Recce (visible, IR, Thermal) – YouTube

INFANTRYMAN’S GUIDE: Individual camouflage techniques & field discipline – YouTube

How Army Snipers Create Camouflage Ghillie Suits For Combat | Boot Camp | Insider Business – YouTube

Camo Face Paint – How to Apply Correctly – YouTube

I’m strictly amateur hour, but I’ve taught my kids that the human eye looks for OUTLINE, CONTRAST, and MOVEMENT.

 

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20 Wilderness Survival Tips!

 

 

More videos (links only).

20 Bushcraft Tips: Heavy Rain & Wet Weather Conditions – YouTube

10 Bushcraft Axe Skills in 10 Minutes – YouTube

Learn 10 Beginner Bushcraft & Survival Skills! – YouTube

Learn 10 Advanced Bushcraft & Survival Skills! – YouTube

Make Fire Even in the Wettest Weather WITHOUT a Match! Friction FIRE! – YouTube

10 More Military Wilderness Survival Skills in 10 Minutes! Vol. 3 – YouTube

How to Make A Survival Bow | 1 Hour Build – YouTube

Question: Is it worth creating a separate Bushcraft section?

 

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Short of years and untold wealth, you cannot possibly be fully prepared for everything (I have to keep reminding myself of that).  But even some preparations, ideally at least 90 days of food, water / water purification, etc., puts you head and shoulders in front of the vast majority of the sheeple who will be in jaw-gaping astonishment when the SHTF.  The only relevant questions are:

1. When does it start?
2. How bad will it get?
3. How long will it last?
4. What will the aftermath look like?

 

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I have a FORAGING group on Gab.  I will check 2-3 times a week to see if people have asked to join.

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Foraging: One-up articles

4 Ways to Eat Maple Seeds – wikiHow

Young maple leaves are also edible from what I read.

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10 Types Of Seaweed And How To Eat Them (tastingtable.com)

I like sea lettuce.  And kelp’s also good as an addition to compost for the iodine.  More:

Edible Seaweed: 8 Edible Seaweeds to Cook With (finedininglovers.com)

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Foraging (permanent feature):

Foraging (practicalselfreliance.com)

Wild Harvests (arcadianabe.blogspot.com)

Southern Appalachian Herbs

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Books (permanent feature):

Feasting Free on Wild Edibles (old but good)

The Lost Ways (much more than just foraging)

The Forager’s Guide to Wild Foods

THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO EDIBLE WILD PLANTS FOR BEGINNERS

 

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Shortages (broadly):

Inflation causes deflation. Wait – what?

I’ve seen things.  Deflated things.  And sometimes it’s really subtle in terms of the decrease – but it’s there.

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Biden’s America: Guy Who Works 30 Hours A Week Sees Big Shortage Of Penicillin

Wait until the power goes out at the hospital.

 

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Gardening, Food Storage, Animals, Food Preservation, Health, and Related:

How to Plant Date Seeds (with Pictures) – wikiHow

If you live in a climate that works.

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15+ Wild Edibles You Should Can This Spring – Ask a Prepper

Combines with foraging (see above).

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Rapid-fire on having multiple different kinds of animals – chickens and more:

Raising Farm Animals Together: What Works And What Doesn’t! – Family Farm Livestock

Interactions with other animals | Chicken Wiki | Fandom

Keeping Chickens & Ducks Together (chickenkeepingsecrets.com)

Compatible Livestock: Which Animals Go Together? (backyardhomesteadhq.com)

What Are the Best Animals to Keep With Chickens? – Know Your Chickens

Farming Other Animals with Free-Range Chickens – dummies

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Links on old-time food storage (permanent feature):

Thanks to the Canning and Preserving group on Gab, I now have these links:

Preserving foods by drying | How to dry foods safely (uada.edu)

USDA-Complete-Guide-to-Home-Canning-2015-revision.pdf (healthycanning.com)

Canning | SDSU Extension (sdstate.edu)

Food Preservation– Canning | Consumer Food Safety | Washington State University (wsu.edu)

Canning Timer & Checklist App | OSU Extension Catalog | Oregon State University

National Center for Home Food Preservation (uga.edu)

Canning Recipes | Ball® Mason Jars (ballmasonjars.com)

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Topical Books (also permanent):

Charcuterie: The Craft of Salting, Smoking & Curing

Salumi: The Craft of Italian Dry Curing

A Guide to Canning, Freezing, Curing & Smoking Meat, Fish & Game

The Prepper’s Canning Guide

Pickled Pantry

Fermented Vegetables

Hydroponics and Greenhouse Gardening: 3-in-1 Gardening Book to Grow Vegetables, Herbs, and Fruit All-Year-Round

Hydroponics for Beginners: The Complete Guide to Hydroponic Gardening, Designing and Building Inexpensive DIY Hydroponic Systems…

The Aquaponics Guidebook: Combining Aquaculture and Hydroponics Combining Aquaculture and Hydroponics

 

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Self-defense (broad)

 

Kent Hovind – Gun Control Genocide (Mirrored)

 

 

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Doubling Your Pistol’s Effective Range – Mason Dixon Survivalist Association (wordpress.com)

On braces.

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ATF At Your Door? NEVER Do This Or You’ll Regret It…

 

 

And two related videos, links only:

The BIGGEST Legal Trap For Gun Owners EVER?! – YouTube

Carry Concealed? Know THIS Rule (The 21-Foot Rule/Reactionary Gap) – YouTube

 

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Hunting & Fishing:

The Best Place to Set Up For Turkey Hunting | Pyramyd Air Blog

I had a friend who was an enormous turkey hunter.  Said the birds were enormously shrewd.

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Do you know when you have a “BITE”? (Fishing Tips for Beginners)

 

 

Also:

How To “Feel” Fish When They Strike – YouTube

This is always my problem.  I take my kids deep-sea fishing and, routinely, think I feel nibbling, try to set, nothing gets hooked… but my bait is gone.

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HOW TO BUILD NATURAL GROUND BLINDS FOR HUNTING!

 

Also:

Why You Should Hunt From a Ground Blind – Deer Hunting – YouTube

Bushcraft Deer Hunting Blind (Quick And Simple) – YouTube

And I remember reading that you hit the jackpot with a deer, but lots of people will be going for deer.  So:

 

5 Survival Traps and Snares that WORK! – Primitive Traps

 

 

Also (link only):

BEST Primitive Meat Gathering Trap – YouTube

 

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Concluding thoughts if I’m moved to comment:

From the host of my former blog home prior to here, Liberty’s Torch, comes this proposal.

A Proposed Federal Law: “Any sitting legislator, whether at the federal, state, or local level, who is found by a jury of private citizens to have voted for an infringement or abridgement of a Constitutionally guaranteed right shall be hanged by the neck until dead.”

I’m in!

 

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Things They Want To Learn

 

 

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Palate cleansers:

 

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There’s good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.

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Please check out my MEMES collections; last one here.  Mockery, ridicule, and the wrapping of uncomfortable truths inside humor can penetrate the cognitive shields of normies far more effectively – IMHO – than dry facts and figures.

 

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Do you believe that masturbation should be taught to students in public schools? Please see below- May is masturbation month, according to Planned Parenthood.  They’d like schools to teach your kids to masturbate so they can “relieve stress.”

Here is a reminder from The Rainbow Room that May is masturbation month.

 

 

The Rainbow Room is a Planned Parenthood LGBTW+ youth club for kids and adults ages 12-21.

 

 

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Some call Joe Biden weak, particularly in terms of his foreign policy. He has been as vacillating and indecisive a person who always opts to run away from problems and questions rather than take a stand and solve them. Many believe Joe Biden’s cognitive decline damages America.

Please note that there is a good measure or parody in this piece – enjoy

Now, these are all perceptions. In the interest of fairness, we should go with facts. A good case that clearly refutes these allegations about Biden is the way he is handling the Ukraine crisis.

President Trump calls Joe Biden “Sleepy Joe.” There is a good reason for that. Joe always seems to be asleep, whether in his office, during a meeting, or just in his basement.

A little background of Putin’s aggression. Putin, a murderer, and former KGB colonel, rose through the ranks of that dreaded organization and got away with his stunts and his suddenly newfound role that abides by the United Nations Security Council guidelines for settling disputes.

This duplicitous lowlife is the same person who presided over the killing of tens of thousands in Chechnya. Then, he sent his army into the independent nation of Georgia, occupying and basically annexing two provinces of that nation. What happened, Colonel Putin? Now, with America at its weakest point, he intends to swallow Ukraine, and before Biden leaves office, the Old Soviet Union is back.

Then we have China which may well devour the rest of the Far East, including Taiwan. This could very well be a plan by globalists. Do you really think an Alzheimer’s patient at the helm can stop either the KGB thug or President XI of China? Not to mention, the Chinese own him and his son, along with dozens of current US governors and politicians.

The minute Biden was informed of the Russians’ invasion of Ukraine, he came up from his basement and yelled, “That damned Putin. I’ll learn him a lesson.” His entourage became really alarmed. Even the tough Secret Service guys looked at each other with visible apprehension.

“Yeah, I’ll learn that son-of-o-bitch a lesson he won’t ever forget,” he then screamed, “Ouch. That god damned wheel. I think it broke my toe.”

Two Secret Service guys rushed forward, and each grabbed the fuming and cursing man’s arms and gently put him on his lazy chair.

“Where’s Kamala? Where’s my Vice President? Where is she when I need her? I bet someplace giving a speech, with that hyena laugh and getting her damned foot in her mouth and saddling me with the chore of taking it out for her.

Damned, do I need a helper like her? Like I need this darned broken toe, I do.”

“Mr. President, here is the Vice President,” a Secret Service man hands Biden a phone. He was a bit groggy and sounded very agitated when he was awakened. He yelled at our man, “Don’t you know this is my nap time? Couldn’t you have the decency of waiting until I woke up? Just another lousy hour?”

“Hey Kamala, get your ass over here, on the double. Hear me? On the double,” screams the still highly agitated Chief Executive as he throws the handphone in the sand trap next to the putter.

By this time, a couple of medical people, headed by a doctor, arrived and got busy taking his shoe off to immediately minister to the victimized toe.

“Ouch, damn it. Easy taking the sock off,” the injured president yells at the nurse, who was a bit rough in doing his job.

“Yes, sir. Sorry sir,” sheepishly apologizes the offending nurse, holding his breath as he keeps on trying to remove the sweaty sock that seemed determined to continue cradling the Chief’s foot. The clinging sock reminded the nurse of some of the Leader’s adoring public who love him so much that they never want to be separated from him.

“Sir, it’s your pinkie.”

“What?” Yells the chief.

“Your small toe, sir. Not broken. It is a bit swollen. Do you want me to give it a shot of painkiller, sir?

“No. Save that damned shot, triple the dose, and give it to Kamala if she ever shows up. He is the big pain I need to get rid of, understand?”

“Yes sir,” replies the doctor grinning.

Suddenly two helicopters materialize overhead. One was a medivac, just in case the Chief needed hospital care. The other copter disgorged the still groggy Vice President.

“Where the hell are you, Kamala, when I need you?”

“You know darned well where I am at this time of the day, just as I know where you are. To each his own. Me, giving speeches, you are taking a nap.”

“Crap, Kamala, get serious. We are in deep doo-doo again.”

“What do you mean, ‘again,’ never knew we were out?”

“Get serious, Kamala, I said. This is serious. That damned Vladimir is at it again.”

“Who’s Vladimir, BB (Big Boss)?”

“How many damned Vladimirs do you know?”

“Come to think of it, none.”

“Well think. Think hard.”

“Okay, Joe, but give me time. To think, I need time.”

“Yeah, you always say give me time to think. Is that why they call you ‘crazy Kamala’?”

“Well, people call you all kinds of names too, Joe. “Let’s go Brandon” cracks me up. But, I admit it. I am not the sharpest knife in the drawer and I am not all that dumb either. But, help me out. Give me a hint. Who is this damned Vladimir who has gotten you so agitated?”

“Putin. Putin, that’s who.”

“Well, why didn’t you say so? You mean the Russkie guy? Is his first name Vladimir? What is he up to now?”

“He has sent Russian forces into the Ukraine this time.”

“Did you say the Arabian Peninsula? No, no, we can’t have that. You want me to call Admiral Johnson, at Okinawa, next door to the Arabian Peninsula, to take on the damned Russkies and expel them?”

“Kam, Kam. Don’t want you do any damned thing. Just stick around and give the impression, public consumption you know, that we are right on the job together dealing with this crisis. The press is already here. Just look pensive and grit your teeth from time to time. But, Kam; be careful. Don’t overdo it gritting your teeth. You might drop your dentures. Just do what I told you, I’ll do the rest. Okay?”

“Yes, Joe. Whatever you say.”

“Get that damned Putin on the phone,” yells the President at one of his dozens of hangers-on.

A half dozen suits scurry like rats that have seen a big cat to do what the Boss wanted done.

“Here you are, Mr. President,” a beefy guy hands him a secure phone line saying, “President Putin is on the line.”

“Hello, Vladimir, this is Joe.”

“Da” a belligerent-sounding voice assaults the President’s ear.

“I mean, this is President Biden calling.”

“Da?”

“No, it is not dad, it is Joe Biden.”

“Da?”

“God damn it, it is not dad, it is President of the United States of America. Your dad wouldn’t be calling you on this secured line, would he? So, stop fooling around and talk sense.”

The President hears some loud chuckles and a bunch of garbled talks that he surmised to be Russian, then “Yes, President Putin hears you. He wants to know what you want. He is in the midst of stalking a tiger that he wishes to trap personally. He is not in the mood for any lengthy conversation. Can you call tomorrow?”

“Tomorrow? Okay, tell him to pull his goons out of Ukraine by the time I call back tomorrow, Okay?”

Big laughter hits the President’s ear, so harshly that he forgets the pain of his little pinkie.

Foaming profusely at the mouth, he suffered one of his dementia attacks and seemed to be debating about something. Should he slam the phone on Kamala’s head standing next to him? That’s what he really seemed he wanted to do-just by the way he was looking at Kamala’s head. But the television cameras were already rolling and the nation was glued to radios and televisions to see what the Commander in Chief was going to do about this naked aggression of the Russians.

So, he reached a compromise and flung the phone into a puddle ten yards to his left.

Tomorrow came none too soon for the President with Putin luxuriating in his tiger-hunting lodge on the phone.

“Hello, Vladimir. I hope I am not messing up your tiger hunting. Hope you did get the cat, the way you wanted it. But, I want you to do what I want also.”

“Da?”

“Get your military out of Ukraine. You and I are buddies. We work together trying to keep the big bosses happy. You know what I mean? So, why start something like this? I mean, why in the hell you want to take over the darned place? It’s a basket case and you know it. Why, why, why?”

The Chief was stuttering again.

“See, I charitable. Vee like help basket case. We helped Georgia not long ago, nyet? Vee try help Afghanistan. No goodofsky people. No vant our help. Vee leave. You also trying help them, they kick your behind for thank you, da?

“Hey Vladimir, don’t shit me, da? Get the hell out of Ukraine or else…”

“You make me do things in my pants, fearing,” followed by roaring laughter that sounded like the bark of a Husky with a bad case of laryngitis.

“Hey, not funny. I mean it. Get the hell out or costs to pay.”

“Vaat costs? Vanting to know. Vaat costs? Give me indication. I may change my mind if costs heavy.” Again, a big laugh.

“Okay, no, no violence. I am a man of peace. I am not going to order our military to shove your boys into the isthmus. Sanctions. Sanctions are my trump cards. I will use them against you. I have already started them…”

“Da, tell me vaatyou already doing. How you like my English? Ha? You speak no Russian. I speak English, ha ha ha.”

“No, I don’t speak Russian and I don’t intend to learn it. But, I want to learn you a lesson. I have already started the sanctions.”

“Vaat?”

“I have issued an executive order limiting the White House staff from eating Russian Caviar and Vodka with their daily dinner to only four days a week. If that doesn’t persuade you, I will completely ban the Caviar from the White House.”

“Nyet. That is no big. Vee sell Caviar to others. Vaat other sanctions you thinking, big-sanction President?”

“Well, there are a number of Russian restaurants in Washington. I personally patronize them from time to time. I will talk with the mayor and see if we can close three of them for failing to comply with our required sanitary standards.”

“You close three Russian restaurants, da?” You must convince mayor to so doing? No problem. Vee close all McDonald grease spoons in all of Russia. I no have talk to any mayor doing this.” A huge roar of laughter.

“I told you Vladimir. These are for starters. I have ordered my staff to draw a list of other sanctions. They already have. We are going to sanction your cronies. The speaker of your parliament, your vice prime minister, and four others. Their assets will be frozen and they will not be permitted to travel to this country.”

“No problem Presidente! For every person you make black list, vee do two or maybe more. Ukraine is Russia. Vee stay. Da? God judge the Bolsheviks. Giving Ukraine back to Mother Russia.”

“Listen Vladimir. Don’t give me historical justifications for your adventurism. I am not interested in the past. Let’s deal with the present. I am also getting our NATO allies to impose sanctions. How’s that?”

“First. No call me Vladimir. I am Mr. Putin and Mr. President. Your NATO allies live on my energy giving them. They sanction Russia, they freeze and the factory stops. Da? Goodbye. Have more important work. Must go hunt tigers.”

“The goddamn sonofabith.” Joe fumes.

“Who?” asks Kamala.

“My uncle Fudge, Kamala. That’s who.”

 

Postscript.

The Russians indeed started their tit-for-tat game of sanctions. For one, they blacklisted Senator Linsey Graham. When the Senator was informed of it, he mused, I guess that ruins my spring vacation in Siberia.

When Ronald Reagan, the no-nonsense candidate, replaced the indecisive illusionary Carter, the mullahs released the Americans.

America needs Trump back now. We don’t have any leaders to challenge these mass murderers. Two more years of Biden will result in an Armageddon.

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As promised, here is the second tranche of videos from the NH Executive Council that will vote to accept or deny NH Governor Chris Sununu’s nominee for a Superior Court Judgeship, Anne Edwards who has spent decade-plus working in the NH Attorney General’s office in the Elections Division. So here are a few more. Again, thanks to Chau Kelley for providing them to GraniteGrok!:

Linda Brown:



 

Julie Smith:

 

Heather Mullins:

 

NH State Rep Kelly Potenza:

 

And then supporters:

 

Dick Tracy

 

NH Attorney General John Formella:

 

Supporter #3:

 

There will be a third tranche posted soon…

 

 

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Those unreliable COVID-19 home test kits have been available for a while, and I know people who swear by them, but most folks swear at them or have sworn never to use one. That last bit might not be a bad idea. The FDA just issued a recall on over a half million of the things.

 

More than a half million home COVID-19 tests from Roche and SD Biosensor should be thrown out immediately, the Food and Drug Administration is warning, citing “significant concerns” over bacteria that could infect users of the tests.

The FDA says the recalled “Pilot COVID-19 At-Home Tests” can be identified by lot numbers listed on this page. 500,000 were distributed to CVS and 16,000 to Amazon. …

“SD Biosensor Inc., the manufacturer of the Pilot COVID-19 At-Home Test, informed Roche that this issue was identified during routine quality assurance testing. Potentially harmful bacteria were found in the liquid buffer solution,” Roche said in a statement.

 

What bacteria? According to CBS News, “Enterococcus, Enterobacter, Klebsiella, and Serratia, which can lead to potentially dangerous infections, especially in people with compromised immune systems.”

I did a bit of searching for buffer solutions. There are more than a few stories instructing people not to drink them or put them in their eyes, but I can’t recall hearing about those before today. We heard about the guy from Arizona (March 2020) who died after taking fish tank cleaner (it had chloroquine in it), though not so much how he and his wife (she had some, too) were both Democrats that voted for Hillary.

Remember horse paste? That was huge, and not just because the FDA lied about it on Twitter. And we heard a lot about Misoprostol, a common veterinary ulcer medication that could induce an abortion if your state decided to prohibit them. But the FDA never found time to tell us that (ironically) it was also horse medicine with a people dose, just like Ivermectin.

COVID-19 antigen test buffer solution consumption seems not to have risen to that level. Stories did not go wide because they might have scared people away from the system-crashing, panic-inducing tests. So, is this one of those turning-over-a-leaf moments? CBS News has a story about a COVID-19 test recall. Did they have to ask permission before they ran it?

And if it matters, or the news can be trusted, no illnesses have yet been attributed to the recalled tests. These are, of course, the same people who still insist the COVID-19 injections are safe and effective, even though Pfizer and the FDA knew that was a lie before they rolled them out.

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His Excellency just signed into law a bill that requires public schools to ‘provide instruction in cursive writing’ and ‘provide instruction of the multiplication tables’ by the end of fifth grade.

Let’s ignore for the moment the size of the loopholes in this bill. For example, a school that sets aside ten minutes per year for instruction in each of these subjects has met its legal obligation. And even if a school just ignores the RSA, there are no penalties for non-compliance.

What I find really interesting is that those same schools are already required to provide instruction in reading and math, starting much earlier.  Yet, fewer than half the kids in the schools are learning those things.

How will this be any different?

Think about how things would change if schools were required not to teach various subjects but to make sure that kids learn them.

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We are approaching the deadline for our debt ceiling. This deadline is a moving date. Janet Yellen estimates the checkbook balance will be red on or about June 1. Experts and Yellen is not in that group, think June 8 is more realistic.

When that happens, certain parts of the government, like defense, Medicare, and Social Security, will be funded, but non-essentials and our debt payments will stop. The United States Government will be broke and in default.

Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy has the checkbook on his desk. He has leverage at this point over Biden and the Democrats, and he has to hold onto that leverage and not bend a knee to the Left. It is our only Ace in the stacked deck that is the Washington Swamp. We have to get spending concessions from the Democrats as a part of the process, or we never will. If we fold and extend the Debt Ceiling, the Democrats will never negotiate on spending limits.

Joe Biden met with Kevin McCarthy months ago and said he would negotiate with Republicans on a realistic budget. He lied. What a surprise. Not only has he not negotiated, but he has refused to speak with McCarthy, and Biden has used the media to do his speaking. Every opportunity he gets, Biden claims the MAGA Republicans are holding the country hostage. Even his mouthpiece, Karine Jean-Pierre, uses the MAGA catchphrase whenever possible, though she includes all House Republicans under the MAGA umbrella. It gets old for us, but it plays well with liberals watching CNN or MSNBC.

It is against their DNA for Democrats to discuss spending cuts, but any sane person knows we cannot stay on this spending trajectory. Joe Biden erroneously said today there is no connection between the budget and the debt ceiling. That comment shows how little Biden knows of economics. There is a direct correlation. If you keep spending and do not grow the economy, the national debt increases and we are back to square one. How could the President say something so bizarre? He then announced a press conference this afternoon, which his staff had to pull back immediately. It was a bad day for Joe, but aren’t they all?

Kevin McCarthy and the Republicans passed a budget resolution through the House capping future spending increases at 1%. It is a plan that funds existing commitments but limits runaway spending. It is a smart approach, but Chuck Schumer says the Bill will never see the Senate floor. That is how the Democrats negotiate. It is a sad abuse of power. Biden wants the debt ceiling covered, and then he will talk about spending. Sorry, Joe. You have burned your credibility. If you get your debt ceiling, you will never sit and negotiate.

McCarthy has to hold his cards, even if it pushes us over the edge when the debt ceiling expires. My money is on Red. I believe that Blue will blink, and we will extend our ceiling, but with constraints. Constraints are something this government needs like a toddler needs training wheels.

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The Newmarket School District, along with School Board Chairman Gary Swanson and School District Superintendent Todd Allen, are all currently being sued in Rockingham Superior Court for alleged violations of Right-to-Know Laws.

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According to School Board Chairman Gary Swanson, he never discussed these legal claims with anyone, and the School Board never discussed or took any votes regarding these legal claims.

Swanson also denied he was ever advised, cautioned, or warned, nor was it ever suggested, nor did he participate in any conversation or meeting in which it was discussed that providing any of the public documents or admitting truthful facts complained of in the lawsuit against the district could / would place the Newmarket School District in legal jeopardy.

Making Mr. Swanson’s sworn testimony less likely is the fact the School District, Superintendent Allen, and Gary Swanson collectively filed a 65-page Counterclaim in Court, all, according to Swanson, without School Board approval.

Newmarket School Superintendent Todd Allen likewise stated under oath that he never discussed or made any decisions regarding any of the allegations against him, Swanson, or the District with anyone except conversations he had with legal counsel and that all recommendations regarding the allegations came from legal counsel.

Allen also stated, under oath, that he was never advised, cautioned, or warned, and that it was never suggested, and he did not participate in any communication, conversation, or meeting in which it was discussed that providing any of the documents complained of in the lawsuit could / would place the Newmarket School District in legal jeopardy.

Somehow (I can find no record), the school district hired the law firm of Shaheen and Gordon to supplement the law firm of Soule, Leslie, Kidder, and Loughman in defending the lawsuit against the district and to file their Counterclaim. These law firms are undoubtedly costing Newmarket taxpayers vast sums of taxpayers ‘funds, all while the School Board is left in the dark.

Of course, the School Board was never really left in the dark; the good people of Newmarket, those paying the bills, these are the ones who have been left in the dark. Swanson, Allen, and the rest have all acted unethically, immorally, and criminally in their ongoing attempt to cover up violations of Right-to-Know Laws by the district and all of the crimes committed in this pursuit and all at taxpayer expense.

 

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So PresidentTrump recently released a list of 51 NHGOP State Reps who have endorsed him. In response, Governor DeSantis’ campaign arranged for Majority Leader Jason “Legalize It” Osborne to release an endorsement of DeSantis. 51 to one, you say? Not so fast. Per the NHGOP Establishment, Osborne’s endorsement “matters,” which obviously implies that the endorsements of the Trump-51 do NOT:

… And, notes New Hampshire political veteran Greg Moore, he is one of the few Republicans in the state whose endorsement is likely to make an impact.

“As the leader of the largest state legislative body in the nation, Osborne’s endorsement matters. This is definitely a coup for DeSantis, assuming he decides to run,” said Moore, head of Americans for Prosperity – New Hampshire. …

And here is Majority Leader Osborne … ANY RESEMBLANCE AT ALL TO PETER TOSH IS TOTALLY IN YOUR IMAGINATION, AND IT’S SEXIST TO SAY I AM TRYING TO PASS OFF TOSH AS OSBORNE … with the DeSantis endorsement:

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I must admit that I am fed up and tired of reading about how these schools continue to disrespect students and parents. Also, to the same extent, how women and girls are bullied and abused in competitive athletics. Where are the women who burned their bras in the sixties?

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Did you not teach your children how to resist bullying?

I have a simple and effective solution: Parents, keep your student home!

No students, no money. You should know that October 1st, at least in New Hampshire, is the day state and federal aid is set based on attendance on that day. If you don’t get what you want from your district, simply tell them no students in school on October 1st. This will impact everything at the school district. Give them a test run on a specific day. See what response you get. The second and third time it’s done, the school will get the message.

As far as women’s sports, same thing. There is no competition or abuse of women and girls if they don’t compete. I suggest the female athletes appear at the event, take their starting position and then sit down, or better yet, take a knee!

Let the event coordinators and commentators try and figure out what do and what to say. Let them explain at a nationally sponsored event what is going on. Let them explain to the sponsors why there is no competition and no audience!

Both of these things are driven by money.

Eliminate the participants (students in one case and athletes in the other), and it all comes crashing down.

If participants simply say they are not going to participate, the abuse ends.

I’m sure the organizations impacted would declare themselves victims, but everybody else would know their abuse has just ended.

It’s time to bring this abuse to a screeching halt.

 

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So … a historical marker was erected in Concord to commemorate a long-dead Communist and the NHGOP is outraged … OUTRAGED. Here is one of the NHGOP leaders bravely, courageously, defiantly taking a stand against the dead Commie:

I am so, so, so glad that we don’t honor dead Communists in New Hampshire. But why do we countenance living Communists? As I have posted many, many times the Democrat Party’s agenda is Mao’s cultural Revolution come to America. For example:

Every NHGOP State Rep and State Senator should be forced to read and re-read and re-read … as many times as it takes for it to sink in … Lilly Tang Williams’ tweet below that demonstrates how today’s DEI … Diversity-Equity-Inclusion … is simply Mao’s Cultural Revolution by another name. The top legislative priority of the NHGOP should be fighting DEI … that the NHGOP’s “leaders” instead ignore DEI and in some cases … like Sun-King Sununu … actually embrace it shows that they are either ignorant or cowards … or worse.

And this:

Your “Democrat friends” overwhelmingly support DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) and CRT (Critical Race Theory). DEI and CRT are simply euphemisms for anti-White racism. DEI involves discriminating against White males. It is an ideology that maintains one’s race, or “identity” is defining and determinative. That is, DEI sees people not as individuals, but merely as part of a tribe, or group, or identity. CRT is the dishonest rewrite of history intended to justify DEI … America was founded by White males in order to exploit everyone else and benefit White males, so DEI is simply redressing centuries of systemic discrimination and exploitation by White males. Those who support DEI and CRT are not “good people.” They are the real racists, the real bigots.

Your “Democrat friends” overwhelmingly support abortion up to birth. At some point well before birth, the fetus has developed sufficiently that it is absurdly dishonest and indeed depraved to deny its humanity. Yet your “Democrat friends” do exactly that … they deny that seven, eight and nine month old unborn babies are human. Those who support late-term abortions are not “good people.” They are evil.

Your “Democrat friends” overwhelmingly support “gender affirming care” for children. “Gender affirming care” is another lovely Communist euphemism … to camouflage the sterilizing and removing of body-parts of children. Those who support sterilizing and removing the body-parts of children are not “good people.” They are monsters.

There is much, much more I could add … grooming, censorship, biological males taking over female sports, etc. etc. etc. Suffice it to say … the NH-Democrats’ agenda is Mao’s Cultural Revolution come to America. And they are winning because the GOP refuses to see them for what they are.

Has Ross Berry, or any of his fellow “leaders,” “young-guns,” blah, blah, blah, ever called out any of the Communists in the New Hampshire legislature? Sorry all you Red-teamers … the NHGOP … especially House “leadership” is a JOKE.

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The Left invented the term fake news to target alternative media, and then Donald Trump stole it and beat them with it mercilessly. Next up was deep fakes, “news” like video or similar that was so fake you needed corporate media or Big Tech to find the truth.

No, not like Anderson Cooper in Waders in a Ditch or the entire Steele Dossier, or the Covington Kid smear, not light-skinned Latinos, Hands up don’t shoot, the heap of lies about COVID, those mostly peaceful protests, or mass shootings by a Muslim in a gay nightclub. I’m referring to the CDC’s recent news about teens and gender.

“According to the CDC’s latest data, roughly one out of every four high school students in America now identifies as LGBTQ,  …”

 

Identifies?

 

In 2021, 75.5 percent of high school students identified as heterosexual, the CDC’s Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS) found.

Among high school students, 12.2 percent identified as bisexual, 5.2 percent as questioning, 3.9 percent as other, 3.2 percent as gay or lesbian and 1.8 percent said they didn’t understand the question.

 

In other words, they are saying you are gay or queer, or Bi, but are they, or is this like that buddy who insisted he had a girlfriend in Canada?

 

One clue about what’s going on here is provided by the fact that a lot of today’s “queer youth” don’t seem to be very gay in practice. As noted above, only 3.2 percent of today’s young people say they are primarily same-sex attracted — a figure very much on par with many recorded in the past. That group is outnumbered about four to one by the self-declared bisexuals. For that matter, a surprisingly large chunk of today’s heavily female cohort of “bisexuals” seems to be spaghetti-straight in practice. According to data from the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology, 55 percent of self-declared bisexual women under age 30 have had only heterosexual sex (if sometimes quite a lot of it) in the recent past. …

Further complicating this picture is the fact that sexually active people of any kind are rapidly becoming a minority among the young. According to the 2021 YRBSS report, the percentage of American high-school students who have ever had sex fell from almost 60 percent in 1991 to 30 percent in 2021.

Saying you identify as this or that is more self-marketing than the reality. A sop to peer pressure. An affectation to avoid looking like a cisgender stooge pandering to the sexual mores of the patriarchy (see also biology and human nature).

The media went wide with the CDC’s report. Look how gay everyone is, but like their other “sciences,” this is also political. It is a partisan perception. Many of these kids are just saying what they must to “fit in.” That’s not a crime, kids and teens and adults – hell, everyone who isn’t secure in their own skin has been doing that forever. And no one denies that gender dysphoria is a thing, but not all of these kids are confused about their gender. Many of them are pretending for attention-seeking sympathy by claiming fellowship with a victim class. Or they’ve been herded by rainbow warriors whose growth plan requires aggressive recruitment into their cult, and this inculcation has created the dysphoria that, in the absence of pressure, would either not exist or resolve itself.

And there’s nothing wrong with being something other than heterosexual. Consenting adults have been engaging in all sorts of activities in pursuit of sexual pleasure for millennia and should be free to do their thing. But most kids who claim to be on the LGBT** have never had sex or even intimate contact. Like with that girlfriend your buddy has in Canada.

 

HT | NR

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We’ve all heard the phrase damning with faint praise, which is the use of insincere or half-hearted praise to indicate that someone doesn’t deserve praise at all. The idea is, if you’re supposed to be praising someone, to do such a lousy job that you leave the listener asking:  Is that the best you can do?  Is that the nicest thing you can say? 

I wonder if something like the reverse of that — praising with faint damnation — might be going on with the steady stream of behind-the-scenes featuring Tucker Carlson that are being ‘leaked,’ presumably to justify the recent cancellation of his show by Fox News.

With each new video, I find myself asking:  Is that the best you can do?  Is that the worst video you can find?

The impression one gets is that if there are years of such footage to comb through, and the most damning thing anyone can find is a joke about whether women have pillow fights in the women’s room… this guy must be a saint.

The more of these videos I see, the more I find myself thinking that Tucker is the kind of guy I’d like to have as a friend and certainly the kind of guy whose thoughts about what’s going on in the world I would like to hear.

Is it possible that Tucker himself is the one leaking them?  I’m having trouble coming up with an explanation that makes more sense than that one.

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Time got away from me – Life, elections, illnesses, and other and sundry reasons as to why I didn’t keep up on this. However, it’s time to restart this project and Colebrook needs to be prodded. Like with a number of other Districts, SAU7 Superintendent decided that to satisfy my RTK from October was to “look them up yourself” and sent links to their library management system to do so.

Again, look at the date – back from October of last year:

—– Original Message ——
From “Debra Taylor” <dtaylor@sau7.org>
To Skip@granitegrok.com
Date 10/13/2022 2:56:55 PM
Subject Response to Right to Know Request

Hello,

Please see the attached letter.

Sincerely,

Debra J. Taylor, Ph.D.
Superintendent
School Administrative Unit 7
21 Academy St.
Colebrook, NH 03576
603-237-5571

And the PDF that was attached to the email:

SAU7 Colebrook Debra Taylor Response to Right to Know Request – S.Murphy October 11, 2022

The important bit from that document:

The card catalogs for the Colebrook School District schools are maintained digitally and can be found at the following hyperlink: https://sau7.follettdestiny.com/common/welcome.jsp?context=saas121_2800084

Yeah….no. So yesterday, I decided to start tapping on my keyboard and let her know that was inadvisable – a Respondent can’t tell a Requestor to do the work, that’s HER job to supply the Responsive Records. Sorry, this is not a grocery store where everyone has to check themselves out. This is a “cashier only” type of deal – I ask, you send.

And I am getting tired of what I am seeing over and over – School District websites listing the School Board members but without any contact information available. Thus, my updated RTK now demands their contact information:

—– Original Message ——
From “Skip” <Skip@granitegrok.com>
To “Debra Taylor” <dtaylor@sau7.org>
Date 5/5/2023 3:19:59 PM
Subject Re: Response to Right to Know Request

Good afternoon,

I have to apologize for this VERY late reply to your email to me from October of last year. However, work should never be left uncompleted and my NH School District Library card catalog project is restarting.  In your response to me, your attempt to deflect your legal responsibility was this:

The card catalogs for the Colebrook School District schools are maintained digitally and can be found at the following hyperlink: https://sau7.follettdestiny.com/common/welcome.jsp?context=saas121_2800084

That response from you is insufficient and is not a proper response to my legal demand which was for the contents of the SAU7 card catalog. It is for the entire card catalog that makes up the Responsive Record that must be returned to me.  A Respondent cannot fluff off their duty under RSA 91-A to the Requester to do the work themselves; this is not how it works.  Sorry but this is not a grocery store where everyone has to self-check themselves out. Thus I am reissuing my RSA 91-A / Right To Know demand to the District for the  District’s card catalog.

If your library staff does not have the requisite skill set to accomplish this task (which should take no more than 3-5 minutes), I can send them the exact instructions to follow to have your Destiny library management system quickly put that together and output to a spreadsheet file as demanded.

Please note that this Right To Know is being sent with an addition: Contact information for the School Board members (re: email addresses, phone number). Upon review (https://www.sau7.org/colebrookschoolboard), there is no way for Colebrook residents / voters to directly reach their Elected Representatives via the District’s website.

Thank you for your legal attention to this matter.

-Skip

Skip Murphy
Founder, co-owner
GraniteGrok.com | Skip@GraniteGrok.com
Dominating the political Bandwidth in New Hampshire

The saga continues again…

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In one of the finest examples of backward thinking Progressivism, the fuel responsible more than anything in the past two decades for lowering American emissions (if you still think that’s a thing we should do) was just banned by NY Democrats.

Related: Ohio Law Defines Natural Gas As Green Energy – Requires Regulators to Grant Leases

Increased reliance on natural gas has led the way and the world when it comes to cutting so-called carbon or CO2 emissions. It only makes sense that Democrats are in a mad rush to ban it, beginning with the chatter about gas stoves. You recall. News leaks, the claims are denied, the alleged harms are debunked, and a few months later, the Feds have rules to end gas stoves. States are jumping the gun and rushing to be the first to make energy more expensive and options fewer.

New York State Wins.

 

New York has become the first state in the country to ban natural gas stoves after the state Legislature approved a new state budget that includes a prohibition on fossil fuel combustion in most new buildings starting in 2026. …

The measure prohibits the installation of fossil fuel equipment in new buildings under seven stories by 2026 and by 2029 in taller ones, effectively requiring all-electric heating and cooking.

There are exemptions for places such as hospitals, manufacturing facilities, and restaurants. Existing buildings are also exempt from the ban.

Exemptions are nice and meaningless if Democrats continue to rule the roost. And while the new rules grandfather in existing infrastructure, use, and appliances, it won’t be long before they come for those. They will sunset legal sales just like they have with fossil field power cars. A handful of states are working out how to make that happen, even if it makes no sense.

Related: Too “Green” California Has to Build Five Natural Gas Power Plants to Prevent Blackouts…

California, the tip of the stupid progressive spear, announced a ban on Diesel trucks after 2036 with nothing on the table to replace them or infrastructure to charge their planned EV replacements.

 

California regulators voted Friday morning to implement a ban on new combustion truck sales after 2036, and mandate all trucks be zero emission vehicles by 2042, significantly tightening the state’s already strict trucking emissions rules.

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) finalized the Advanced Clean Fleet rule, which would mandate that 50% of all state and local government vehicle fleet purchases be 50% zero-emissions by 2024, and 100% by 2027, and create a registry for drayage trucks. The rule — which comes one day after the board voted to implement the state’s first-ever rules to limit train emissions — would go even further than recent California rules approved by President Joe Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency, which would cut diesel truck sales in half by 2035.

 

It’s a lot like COVID. The cure is worse than the diseases, but they mean for you to have it, and dissent will not be tolerated.

That’s your cue to object, and often.

 

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We find ourselves today living in a post-George Floyd world of Wokeism where talk of equity, environmentalism, and social governance (ESG) have replaced accusations of microaggressions and discussions about the extent to which White privilege exists, if at all.

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And while there is still plenty of racism making the news headlines, by and large, it’s been supplanted by the next liberal social injustice de rigueur—that of transgenderism “rights.” The issue, however, is that they demand Joe Q. Public willingly endorse an untenable lie.

During the early and mid-20th century—and continuing right on up through 2008’s Robert Downey Jr. spoof film “Tropic Thunder”—several notable Hollywood actors and actresses made cameo performances using Black minstrelsy, better known as blackface (Native American or other BIPOC minstrelsy notwithstanding).

Over time, especially after the passage of the landmark Equal Rights Act of 1964, theatrical blackface eventually was shunned due to its overt racial insensitivity—and rightly so, as defense of the practice, today has been relegated solely to philosophical discussions of its historical use when racial opportunities were not what they are today. Regardless of its racist undertones (and disregarding its use as far back in time as the days of Shakespearean performances at The Globe in England), absolutely no one would ever take seriously an actor wearing blackface who professed with all sincerity to being, in fact, Black. If an actor had professed thusly, they would’ve been laughed out of the movie studio’s front office and permanently (pardon the pun) blacklisted.

Hollywood may be one of the most progressive cities on the planet, but even they would draw the line at such ludicrousness.

The reason for this is simple: despite donning theatrical makeup and a costume, external changes do not legitimize a white actor’s claim of being Black because legitimacy is dependent upon establishing genetic, physical, and genealogical evidence to verify the claim.

Yet here we are today, in 2023, staring into the abyss of state legislatures around the country attempting to codify transgenderism “rights” into law without respect to the more fundamental affirmation of the extent to which biology determines gender. These Progressive legislators insist on gendered terminology like woman or man must necessarily be divorced from their respective biological constraints because—as radical trans activists love to point out—”gender and biology are two different things.” Well, yes, that’s true, but not in the way they pretend it to be.

The fallacy of their reasoning lies in them divorcing themselves from the fact that gender is derived from biology and is not just an arbitrary psychological construct unknown to anyone but the individual.

As a clinical laboratory scientist, I know a few things about the human body and anatomy. There are fundamental biological differences between the sexes; in addition to the XX and XY chromosomal foundation embedded into every cell of the human body, men have a different Q angle—the lateral line of pull of the quadriceps muscle relative to the patella, affecting the downward force through the leg and knee. This is one reason why men are faster than women when sprinting or running. The Q angle is reduced in men, providing a more linear piston-like movement in the leg.

The pelvis is fundamentally different between men and women as well; a female pelvis is larger and wider than a man’s and has a rounder pelvic inlet, while male iliac crests are higher than females. Men have larger larynxes than women and thus deeper voices, more muscle mass, greater bone density, and—literally—thicker skin. A simple Google search on the physiological differences between men and women yields a staggering 121 million returns. Yet despite an overwhelming amount of long-established scientific evidence, we’re seeing reports of educators claiming forensic anthropologists cannot tell the difference between a male and female skeleton!

This is insanity beyond that of Orwell’s “1984” doublespeak. It is insidious, insistent, irresponsible, and indefensible.

What Progressive legislators and academic (I use that term loosely) zealots are engaging in is what I refer to as biological blackface. Biological blackface is the purposeful delegitimization of the opposite sex from which you were born using hormonal therapy, cosmetic surgery, theatrical makeup, and fashion.

I refer to transgenderism as biological blackface not only because it is physically impossible to change one’s biology (male to female, or vice versa) but because such ambiguity of long-established fact is offensive, dehumanizing, and delegitimizing to women who were born biologically female. Regardless of a whole litany of “treatments” meant to align the outward physical appearance with one’s perceived inner identity, no treatment can undo the biological foundation for gender that a conjoined sperm and egg create.

A man who uses any or all of those means of biological blackface to convince himself and others he’s a woman has no more scientific legitimacy than would Marjorie Reynolds in the 1947 movie “Holiday Inn” had she claimed she was Black because she donned face paint and fake braids. Likewise, the same is true of a woman who insists she’s a man because she injects testosterone into herself to spur facial hair growth. Externalities are not what makes a man a man or a woman a woman, but rather it is biology.

• If I were to darken my skin using black walnut extract, doing so would not make me Black.
• If I were to change my hair color and style, they would not make me Black.
• If I were to talk in Ebonics, listen to rap music, and play for the NBA, those things would not make me Black.

Being Black means you possess certain genetic, physical, and cultural characteristics that are the same as for people existing in or descending from Africa. It is not dependent upon the extent of melanin in one’s skin (although to a large extent that is true), nor one’s nose width, lip thickness, musculature, or hair follicles, and it certainly is not governed by the wearing of African tribal clothing.

No amount of skin-based melanin modification or elective surgery can ever negate the reality of my Northern European heritage; I could replace my entire wardrobe with nothing but kente and dashiki fashions, and yet I would be no more racially identifiable with James Earl Jones than any other Caucasian. And if I did those things, I’d be mercilessly scorned, mocked, ridiculed, and abused if I claimed— with conviction —that because those things make me feel Black, I, therefore, am Black.

Yet this is the very rationale that trans activists demand of society writ large, as well as demanding we disregard biology as having any relevance to determining one’s gender. They believe taking hormone suppressors and undergoing cosmetic surgery (and that’s what it is, little more than superficial body modification) are sufficient forms of external validation for convincing others to suspend their sense of reality as they seek validation for what they feel themselves to be. It’s madness, unrooted in science or possibility.

In clinical terms, transgenderism is known as gender dysphoria. Gender dysphoria is defined by the American Psychological Association, American Medical Association, and other medical organizations as a mental health disorder—the key word being mental. It is demonstrably not a physical, genetic, or biological condition that can be “corrected” by changing one’s outward appearance. It is fundamentally a disorder of the mind, a conflict between one’s biological reality and a self-perception of being something else. Yet reality lies in the physical; the psychological is malleable and unknowable.

For the sufferer of gender dysphoria, therapy and reconstructive surgery may be of use in assisting them in addressing their perception of innate femaleness or maleness, but that no more makes them an actual woman (or to a far less common extent, man) than my dressing in a “furry” costume and wearing a prosthetic tail makes me an actual cat.

Affirming a lie does not make it truth, regardless of how many times it’s repeated.

The belief that one’s internalized mental conflict supersedes and negates biological identity—and worse insists upon the law to force me into compliance with endorsement of said internal conflict—is not only false but scientifically indefensible. We do not normalize schizophrenic or multiple personality disorder behavior, just as we don’t normalize pedophilia, necrophilia, or bestiality. Those, too, are all mental health disorders—but it does not serve the greater societal good to indulge the whims of those suffering from their condition in an attempt to normalize their mental health issues.

Transgenderism is unmitigatedly offensive to the biological woman who must compete against biological men and all their inherent biology-derived advantages. As a society, we changed our collective tolerance to and use of blackface once we understood how degrading and dehumanizing it was to Blacks, and we now must stand up against those who advocate in favor of the degrading and dehumanizing effects against biological women by those in the radical transgender movement.

 

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