If you search any variation of “Bud Light Sales down,” the results will look like a drunk guy peeing in an alley, as in, all over the place. Down 30%, 69%, and 80%. You will find fact-checks by major media outlets whose relationship with the truth is spotty at best. But are they wrong?

The center-right is taking a victory lap, claiming scalps in the culture war, but if you look at BUD’s numbers, there’s not much to cheer about. Sure, the initial outrage coincided with a dip in both the stock price and market cap, but Anheuser Busch (AB) is a massive global company with, as I noted here, a lot of moving parts.

The first casualty (for the sake of appearances, IMO) is Alissa Heinerscheid, vice president of marketing. She is credited with the decision to pick a man to represent women. Alissa (a woman who identifies as a woman) is on a leave of absence but not for the Mulvaney thing, exactly. She was “dismissive” of the product’s customer base and whatever this is.

 

“I had a really clear job to do when I took over Bud Light. It was, this brand is in decline, it’s been in decline for a really long time, and if we do not attract young drinkers to come and drink this brand, there will be no future for Bud Light,” she said.

The brand overhaul she was driving, she said, would require “having a campaign that’s truly inclusive and feels lighter and brighter and different and appeals to women and to men.”

 

Instead of building a new customer base, she pissed off the old one. How about you use up some of that vacation time you’ve been banking, Alissa?

BUD has also asked a guy who identifies as a guy “who oversees marketing for Anheuser-Busch’s mainstream brands” to step away. Daniel Blake will be using up some of his vacation time as well, so no one is going without pay or benefits. And if either needs to change jobs, this will look great on a resume at any number of #woke corporations.

But why are they stepping away?

The initial reports were that AB had lost up to 5 billion in market Cap in the first few weeks of the “controversy,” but that is no longer true. BUD’s Cap was at 132.38 billion when the outrage began. The stock price was 66.92. Before the Bell rang Monday, April 24th, Market Cap was back to 130 (129.72), and the stock closed on Friday at 65.52.

 

Past 30 days 6 Months

The off Hours trading had it opening at 66.08 (and it did). And while a 2.5 billion shift in Market Cap is not “nothing” – on this playing field, it looks like nothing.

So, what about the reports from bar owners and beverage distributors that there is a glut of products on the shelves that people are not buying? I bet some of that is true but a handful of anecdotal reports from neighborhood bars are not changing the big picture.

And so we are clear, I’m not saying you should not vote with your feet. If you like Blight and want to stand up for real women, do that. Drink PBR, Stroh’s, Keystone, Natural, Milwaukee’s Best, Rolling Rock, Narragansett, Old Milwaukee, and Schlitz; there are plenty of weak American beers to replace it with (Rainier, Lone Stare, Ultra Deluxe Yellow Dog Water, etc.). Some are not terrible if you are already drunk on good beer, and for the price of a four-pack of something worth drinking, you can get 18 or 24 of those.

Keep the party going!

And assuming none of those are brewed by BUD or have fallen into the CEI trap (your due diligence is required), have at it. Free markets are only free if you choose the products and services yourself for reasons entirely your own. But before you knee-jerk share-re-share or promote a headline about how far mighty BUD hath fallen, understand that they have not.

Not yet.

Stumbled might be a better word. And the difference might be a matter of March Madness ending and the NHL and NBA playoffs beginning.

Sure, a few Bud Light ad peeps tripped over Mulvaney’s swelling social following as part of a lighter and brighter campaign that appeals to … men who act like women, but Human Rights Campaign was (I’m sure) happy with the effort and fundraising off of the protesting beer-drinkers response.

So, what if Mulvaney appeals to a sliver of confused ‘youtes’ who aren’t old enough to drink legally and a few rubberneckers who don’t care what gets pitched on that feed? He’s a social media influencer, and if you want to appeal to women who are not sure what shitty beer to drink, a man in a dress who behaves like a shallow caricature of a woman – might be a mistake.

But it should come with a higher price than a few Execs getting paid vacation time to burnish their resumes, so we need to be realistic about the problem and the solution – and relentless about the response. The situation on the Right has always been stamina. The Right can muster the numbers but rarely for the long haul, and the Left knows that. They wait us out or beat us down to speed up the process.

If the brand was already a damsel with a prostate in distress, just excise Bud Light from your lives.

Drink something else (please), and don’t go back. Ever. Don’t serve it at your house or bring it to a friend. If they offer, politely pass. Life is too short to drink Blight, and you deserve better than that. As I said here, “Mulvaney thinks he’s a girl. Bud Light thinks it’s a beer. A guy who thinks he is a girl drinking Bud Light should be the perfect fit.”

Whatever is happening hasn’t made much of a difference for the beverage giant, but it could. It might take months or years, but this is Bud Light. It shouldn’t be hard to give that stuff up.

 

 

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Tucker Carlson keynoted the recent Heritage 50th anniversary event. Every NHGOP State Rep, State Senator, etc. etc. etc. should have to listen to his speech. My words, not his: We are NOT engaged in a battle of ideas with the NH-Democrats; we do NOT share common goals with the NH-Democrats but differ on the means to get there; they are NOT our “friends;” they do NOT share … indeed they despise … our values. To cut to the chase, the NH-Democrats are EVIL.

And, NHGOP, every day that you maintain the charade that the NH-Democrats are “good people” that we share “common ground” with and our differences are about the means, not the ends (presumably because some “insider,” some “operative,” etc. who has NEVER won anything tells you that “this is the way” to get the white women in Bedford back in the fold)  … they get stronger and you get weaker.

Tucker Carlson During Speech At @Heritage Explains How To Understand What The People Wrecking Our Country Are Doing

"None of this makes sense in conventional political terms."

"When people. . .decide that the goal is to destroy things, destruction for its own sake, 'hey let's… pic.twitter.com/qFZOZtjAvg

— The Columbia Bugle (@ColumbiaBugle) April 22, 2023

 

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Update at the bottom and sets up “context” for this sordid Mulvaney marketing fiasco: especially his bankroll and his lust for fame. I am a bit behind on this topic, but it’s clear that the Trans-Authoritarian crowd was having a field day with the rise of Mulvaney and his “365 days of Womanhood” celebration.

And the large sponsorships showered upon him by large corporations looking to boost their Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index standing by being pro-LGBT. Including Anheuser-Busch thinking, they could ride that Transgender Train for millions more in sales.

And hit the proverbial broken bottle in the road by alienating its normal customer base, who generally don’t like Culture War / Virtue Signaling rammed down their throats by having an “influencer” that is about as 180 degrees from them as possible.

And A-B is surprised at the massive backlash for condoning the misogynist behavior of this LGBT “star” (pretend “starlet) in pretending to be something that he can never be in portraying a skewed version of what a woman really is. And can’t even play the part right.

Twerp full of derp.

And I have thoughts…

 



Remember, it was the Marketing Director for Bud Light, Alissa Heinerscheid, who believed that Bud Light’s customer base, mostly blue collar works, needed a shakeup.  Of course she did, bless her heart. So, instead of those workaday folks doing the jobs that she never would (or could – see Dirty Jobs), she decided to hire LGBT TransFace “influencer” Mulvaney.  She sure did change the “marketing buzz”.  Bud Light now has a new nickname: “Tranny Fluid“ (and for those who have decided that following the LGBT culture scene because they don’t believe it affects them, it’s a play off “genderfluid” – a term that basically means “I can be any sexual being I want, anytime I want, and if you don’t like it SHUT UP!”). And with that, with a snap of her fingers, Heinerscheid lost her audience in an attempt to win the 0.01% customer share that transgender (or, as I am starting to see more and more, a return by many to the older adjective, transvestite) drinkers).

One of her biggest problems is that we who are NOT of the Trans / DIE persuasions, the word used by those folks and their sympathizers, “inclusive“, actually translates to “not YOU folks, just ours”.  They say they are inclusive but we really know it’s a bastardization of the definition of “exclusive” as in “you’re not our types because you won’t accept what we tell you to accept”.  Thus, the resulting pics and vids of Mulvaney prancing around like the roleplaying little girl wannabee have resulted in deep losses of marketshare, dollar losses, volume shipment losses, and a tarnished reputation:

Bud Light posted a 7 percent decline in off-premise dollar sales, a 10.7 percent decline in volume, and a 3.7 percent decline in dollar shares, he wrote. The company saw a 1.6 percent decline in dollar sales, a 6.4 percent decline in volume, and a 0.7 percent decline in dollar shares for the prior week.

And A-B has lost, reportedly, $6 Billion in market capitalization (stock value). Changes?  Ayup:

Breaking: Woke Bud Light marketing chief takes leave of absence after transgender influencer disaster

Alissa Heinerscheid, the marketing director of Bud Light, has taken a leave of absence and has been replaced after a damaging marketing disaster promoting the transgender agenda. The development was first reported by Beer Business Daily. Heinerscheid will be replaced by Todd Allen, the global marketing VP for Budweiser, the company confirmed to Ad Age.

“A leave of absense” is code for “we forced her out”.  Now, I don’t drink alcohol so I don’t have a direct “dog in this fight” from that aspect. I could care less about Budweiser other than it was the beer that my Dad used to drink (constantly). I DO have a dog in this fight in that it is part of the Culture War that is working to “transform” us to their image instead of just selling beer. Doubt me?

Another Budweiser marketing exec was also quoted (and I’m trying to re-find it) that because of Budweiser’s clout (paraphrasing here) and involvement in Diversity, Inclusivity, and Equity (heh! -> DIE), it has the perfect ability to “lead its customers” towards those goals. As if it was Bud’s purpose to re-educate and get Borg’d into their acceptance of Woke culture, one Bud at a time.  I HAD the post, somewhere, so I’ll update this when I can find it.

But image the gall of Budweiser, believe that their mission is no longer to just make beer but to “transform” their customers without revealing that.

UPDATE: Found it! Emphasis mine:

Though it is finally cooling, lingering effects are still seen with the cultural furor surrounding the beer brand Bud Light. There were a number of missteps regarding the poor decision to involve transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney, and one of the aspects that have come to light is how those in charge of the brand have been engaging in corporate woke culture.

Many have seen the video of Alissa Heinerscheid, the VP of Bud Light, laying out her intentions for the beer brand to use a lexicon of woke culture and insult her out-of-touch customer base. But she is not alone. Also involved in things was Anheuser-Busch’s vice president of communications, Jennifer Morris. In a prior interview, she laid out some of the goals for the company as she envisioned things:

Anheuser-Busch is in a unique position to bring attention to DE&I issues in a way that brings consumers along on the journey to drive positive change and create a more equitable world…we can leverage our scale and resources to further conversations around DE&I and help consumers understand the difference they can make as individuals.

As I said above, WHO THE HECK ARE THESE PEOPLE TO BELIEVE THEY CAN “bring consumers along on the journey” on DIE?

It’s obvious that this whole Wokeness has infested everything and everyone “in charge” now must be missionaries.  It’s almost that they have forgotten their primary mission which, in this case, is to sell product (e.g., beer). Instead, they are turning around to use their product merely as a delivery mechanism so as to “save the unwashed, infidels, and heretics”.

And if you missed my drift, that means both you and I.

THIS is much worse than some goofy guy prancing around…

Tangent: I DO so much love “prancing” with respect to Mulvaney. Especially in his ad for Nike for their sports bra which is flatter than most pre-teen girls’ training bras. It just fits (the prancing bit – there’s nothing to fit inside the bra).

…in alienating Bud’s customers.

And now I know that I haven’t been cynical enough about things…

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Fox News and Tucker Carlson had a quickie divorce over the weekend. Carlson’s top-rated show will no longer air on the network beginning immediately.

 

“Fox News Media and Tucker Carlson have agreed to part ways. We thank him for his service to the network as a host and prior to that as a contributor,” the company wrote in a statement.

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While the reason for Carlson’s departure from Fox is unknown, many conservatives have observed that his on-air coverage often appeared to be at odds with the headquarters and other media divisions within the firm. For example, there have been long-standing tensions between Carlson and 26-year Fox veteran and network CEO Suzanne Scott, Mediate reported. However, Carlson’s show continually landed at the top of the charts, raking in viewers and high ratings.

This is a massive loss for cable news and Americans who liked the content but can’t figure out how to get information anywhere but newspapers and the idiot box. Carlson, who founded The Daily Caller, has other means of delivering content at his immediate disposal so I don’t expect he’ll be away from video for long. Whether he creates a Glenn Beck-Like Blaze TV (another former FOX host shown the door) remains to be seen.

It’s only been a few hours since the announcement, but it will be a day remembered for lying libs and whiney rhinos across the ideological swamps of DC. They are glad to see him gone.

Unrelated and nowhere near the seismic a change as Carlson’s departure represents, CNN has announced that the troublesome Don Lemon has worn out his race card.

 

“I was informed this morning by my agent that I have been terminated by CNN,” Lemon said in a statement posted to Twitter. “I am stunned. After 17 years at CNN I would have thought that someone in management would have had the decency to tell me directly. At no time was I ever given any indication that I would not be able to continue to do the work I have loved at the network.”

 

Lemon had a show on CNN but got demoted to the third wheel on a morning show that didn’t need him. I don’t expect they will be looking for a replacement unless someone else misbehaves.

As for Lemon, maybe MSNBC has room for him on their sh!t wagon.

 

 

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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.

Remember, ridicule and mockery are effective weapons:

1. Ridicule cannot easily be fought
2. Ridicule makes the enemy angry, and angry people make mistakes
3. For those in the “squishy middle” a Thought Splinter (and Part II and Part III and Part IV) can often be hidden inside humor.

Now, let the mockery and mayhem begin.

 

 

 

Just the other day I saw plane after plane with looooong trails that persisted.  I address chemtrails in the Thought Splinters 4 essay, link above.

 

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

 

 

Remember that other expression, “To take no action, is an action”?

 

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Senator Cruz slammed Senator Jeanne Shaheen for not letting Dem.Nominee to answer questions #shorts

 

 

Shaheen is, IMHO, such a POS Commie stooge.

 

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I love his anti-Jab activism and now, as I have become an anti-vaxxer – and proudly-  his skepticism on vaccines in general.  But he’s also a climate change doom monger as I understand it.  Still better than The Potato of course.

Now, having said this… OOH, RFK Jr. will rile things up on the Left.  Good.  Confusion and distraction and infighting amongst our enemies.  OTOH, in general, I dislike political family dynasties.  And his one ad I’ve seen leverages the heck out of his father and uncle.  Having former relatives in office is not a qualifier IMHO.  (I had the same objection to “W” actually.)

 

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Data Scientist DESTROYS Racist Police Narrative with Real Data | The Larry Elder Show

 

 

I am very honored to have Larry Elder’s autographed-to-me picture framed and on the wall of my office.  I also have the late Walter E. Williams:

 

 

Williams had multiple good books.  He sent me this one during the course of our very limited correspondence:

American Contempt for Liberty

 

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This is an excellent Prager video:

 

Why Isn’t Communism as Hated as Nazism?

 

 

Also, not mentioned, the starvation of the Kazakhs.  Good site here:

Victims of Communism | Keep the flame of liberty alive

And don’t forget the grim history of Islam either:

The Greatest Murder Machine in History – American Thinker

Both Communism and Islam put The State (whether secular or religious) above the individual.  That’s why they’re natural – albeit unlikely – allies.

Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left

United in Hate: The Left’s Romance with Tyranny and Terror

 

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Look, I don’t approve of the whole LGBTQ+ crap.  But I acknowledge the right of people to be so if they, as consenting adults, choose to participate in such activities.  That’s their business, and is between them and Hashem when they die.

My objections to all this really started when they decided to start pushing this into kids’ minds and targeting kids s*xually.

 

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Pick of the post:

 

 

As if there’s any doubt what their reaction would be.

 

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You Must Be Crazy: Election Fraud Claims Debunked with Democratic Media Bunk

 

 

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Palate Cleansers:

 

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OK, a month and a half in. My expected loss, due to illness last week, showed up. However, now I’ve been stuck at that weight for a few days now no matter what I eat – or don’t. I’m feeling better to the point of feeling normal (TMEW and the Grandson are still suffering the lingering effects, though) but getting “stuck” is a bit worrisome. Seems like my body has done the “reset” I knew would happen – just a few pounds too soon!  And all I can think of is going out for a nice Chinese dinner (sheesh!  Stop already!).

Tom is continuing on and broke a milestone weight for him – congrats! I’m hoping that it will put a hop in his step and the determination to “beat Skip!”.

Reminder that while we both have differing weight loss goals, we’re competing on percentage loss in trying to “normalize” things – it was clear that I could never lose as much as Tom just on pounds but we both knew that it’s going to be harder for me to lose that lesser weight as my “easy” weight started a couple of years ago.

As least my wallet is safe for a little while longer. I had promised myself a brand new wardrobe once I broke 185 and which I have now done. I’ve noticed that the double chin I once had has disappeared and my belts are no longer holding up my pants – I need all new belts as I’m on the last hole on all of them and they are still “wiggly”. That said, I’m going to put off that spending spree until this contest is over which will probably take a few more weeks.

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The entertainment industry is filled with Winston Smiths. Those tasked with – obsessed with – reimaging details to fit a BIPOC worldview in the name of social justice. A world where the color of the skin matters more than anything else.

Ironically, this is a considerable step backward: race, religion, skin color, and ethnicity have defined people for millennia. And we’d made good progress getting away from that – at least in America – until Barry Obama systematized the modern race war in the name of social justice. Everything has become about race, and the progressive entertainment industry, whose gig is to play house or make-believe in exchange for money, had taken this cue as an opportunity.

In the name of undoing a past injustice with which most of the people currently alive had nothing to do, they are balancing the scales no matter who they piss off. NETFLIX, a leader in the trend, has an ongoing docuseries that “educate(s) audiences on the fearless, captivating lives of [African] queens who were likely not part of their Western academic curriculum.” Do you know what else wasn’t part of the Western academic curriculum? A black Cleopatra.

And to be frank, I don’t care. As the actress chosen to portray Cleopatra reminds us, if you don’t like the casting, don’t watch, but won’t that harm my social credit score? Approved versions of history will be required viewing in the New World Order. One that, for now, has Egyptians annoyed.

Adele James, who is black, is cast as Cleopatra. She’s a fine actress, and I’m sure she’ll do the role justice, but is it social justice? According to “Zahi Hawass, a prominent Egyptologist, and former antiquities minister, … “This is completely fake. Cleopatra was Greek, meaning that she was light-skinned, not black.”

 

Mr Hawass said the only rulers of Egypt known to have been black were the Kushite kings of the 25th Dynasty (747-656 BC).

“Netflix is trying to provoke confusion by spreading false and deceptive facts that the origin of the Egyptian civilisation is black,” he added and called on Egyptians to take a stand against the streaming giant.

NETFLIX has been color-washing history for years. And not just human history but fiction as well. And again, I don’t care. HBOs House of the Dragon has prominent roles described as fair-skinned in the source material with incredibly light hair portrayed by blacks, and I think they did a fantastic job. Top-shelf. I’m sure Adele James will do an excellent job as well. But Cleopatra is a historical person whose story is an integral part of the national culture, and you’re messing with it.

NETFLIX is projecting its liberal guilt onto the heritage of another nation. Or is that the point? Greeks should have never been there in the first place. Or they are as stupid as the average corporate media reporter. Egypt is part of the African Continent, so Cleopatra has to be black.” You know, to make up for all the white or light-skinned women who played a role in the past. This is a pendulum swing in the other direction to balance the scales.

I have no issue with that if the parts played are fictional, even if the fictional character would have likely had a different skin color from the actor portraying the role. But they either can’t help it or – like Anheuser Buch – there’ are some Soros-funded fanatics at a supposedly non-governmental organization who will give them a bad “score” if they don’t colorize or genderize everything.

And now the Netflix Series – independent of the acting – is not about the “captivating lives of [African] queens who were likely not part of their Western academic curriculum.” It is reimaging how history should be taught in Western curricula, which is undoubtedly what they were always after.

Exit question: Does the Netflix Docuseries on African Queens delve into that continent’s extensive history of slavery, or did they Netflixwash that too?

 

 

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I have painfully slogged through a number of Right-to-Know Court challenges and the process should have been much easier. Most Judges do not like citizen Right-to-Know cases as they are boring and burdensome.

But the only recourse is to seek the remedy through the Court. (The newly opened Ombudsman Office is starting up, but bringing Nashua’s mess into a start-up operation is a bad idea.) The Attorney General’s Office will not offer any assistance for matters involving municipal issues. Citizens have to stay within the Court system, and the Nashua Court system is a trainwreck lacking in due process.

My intentions through all of my work were to try to improve records access for the public and hold the government accountable. I failed miserably at this. The Mayor, the Legal Office, and the Board of Alderman have taken no responsibility to correct record deficits and process. The Mayor bellows out a cadenced-public message openly blaming me for employee departures, staffing increases to handle Right-to-Know matters, and increased costs to the taxpayers. In truth, his process has destroyed reasonable records access for all citizens. The Mayor publicly denounces Judge Temple’s ruling in my favor calling the orders unfair and claiming the Court is picking on the City. The one thing I have come to learn about this Mayor and legal office, they cannot permit the “enemy” to experience a single victory.

In Nashua, questioning the government is considered an act of hostility. Attorney Donchess and Attorney Bolton take challenges very personally, which prevents any effective negotiation. My work started off as a “mind my own business” effort. I wanted to fix our bad property assessment. I won that effort, but the Mayor started a war.

The Mayor is extremely effective in picking his Board of Alderman, funding and campaigning for his candidates. He has held a stacked single-party chamber for 8 years. When he engages in a war, he is, for the most part, effective and uniting his Board and State Representatives behind him. From his leadership position, he leads in establishing confirmation bias that is almost impossible to overcome.

But, if you go to City Hall and walk around, it is no longer a public building. The offices are locked, signs are posted “by appointment only,” and phone numbers are listed that ring to nowhere or, more typically, no one answers. People are still working remotely on a COVID protocol. Citizens, particularly those in opposition to the City, can no longer go to city hall and speak to folks in a department about records. We should all be concerned when such a basic right to access our public information and understand what our government is doing is being so easily taken away.

I cannot recall a single executive order or memorandum from the Mayor that would improve public access to information for citizens and recognize the need for change. The Mayor is the master of blame.

So, after more than three years, what did my sincere efforts bring? I lost my reputation and my freedom, all to accomplish nothing. Please reflect on your rights being taken away from you.

A lack of transparency is a symptom of dishonesty.

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We know that the Second Amendment doesn’t exist simply for self-defense but there are too many evil people out there that believe they can do bad things to you without retribution. Being closer to 70 than 60, there are a lot of younger men out there against whom I’d never stand a chance in a physical confrontation. Especially in the dark of night in MY home where and when these folks are not invited. So when I see a story like this, I smile (reformatted, emphasis mine):

Homeowner turns the tables on 2 armed crooks who cops say broke into his residence — shooting one dead and wounding the other

New Castle County police were called to the first block of Clipper Court in Glasgow just before 9 p.m. over reports of a shooting, New WindowDelaware Online reported. Detectives learned that two men — a 25-year-old who will be identified once his family is notified and 20-year-old Nadir Everett — broke into the victim’s house, the outlet said. A third man, 24-year-old Malik Dennison, remained outside the home as the getaway driver in the “targeted” attack, Delaware Online added, citing police. Investigators said one of the suspects knew the victim, WPVI-TV reported.  Everett and the 25-year-old male threatened the victim with a gun and “began removing miscellaneous property” from the house, police told the outlet.

Police told Delaware Online that the break-in victim got a gun of his own and shot at Everett and the 25-year-old male.

The 25-year-old male died at the scene, the outlet said, adding that Everett ran from the home after being shot “multiple times,” after which Dennison took him to a hospital. Police arrested Dennison and Everett at the hospital, Delaware Online said.

The homeowner had been shot in the “lower extremity,” the outlet said, adding that police began first aid on the homeowner before paramedics arrived. Police told WPVI he was taken to a hospital in stable condition.

“…Male died at the scene”. It’s clear that right and wrong played no role in the deceased and cronies thought processes. It was all about selfishness: I want something that isn’t mine. However, we are “stronger” and therefore have the right to take what is someone else’s. If the Civilian Disarmament Groupies get their way, that victim could have died.  It’s clear, though that the criminals didn’t think that anyone was going to fight back.

I still believe what Heinlein stated holds true: “An armed Society is a polite Society”. It is because the “unpolite” generally do not run into those that would enforce “politeness”, they can get away with their boorish behaviors.

The problem isn’t total disarmament, it’s the threat of being on the receiving end and being “being beaten to the trigger” by those who simply want to be left alone but are forced by evil people like Dennison and Everett to take action.

(H/T: The Blaze)

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Al Capone was a gangster and a businessman who lived and ruled over the streets of Chicago for the first half of the twentieth century. He grew up in organized crime, took over the Windy City Mob during prohibition, and amassed his wealth through bootlegging and enforcement.

His relationship with Mayor Thompson and the Chicago Police afforded him protection. That was until he called for killing seven mob rivals in broad daylight in what became known as the Valentine’s Day Massacre. The public turned on him and demanded he be taken down. The only offense that Al Capone was convicted of and imprisoned for was tax evasion.

Hunter Biden may not be a gangster, but he is an extortionist and manipulator and has used his family name for the last two decades to shake down foreign companies and governments. He has amassed millions for the Biden family, and evidence surfaced that as many as nine family members have shared in his money laundering campaign. This system of trading power for money only works if his father, President Joe Biden, remains in office. That is why the Biden family is pushing Joe for another term in the White House even though it is evident that he is not physically and mentally fit for the job.

Hunter Biden has a well-documented life of depravity and has no apparent skills to support the positions and contracts that he has been able to negotiate. Companies have paid him millions to sit on their boards, and countries have given him considerable sums to invest for them. All of his activities are a sham. He was selling exposure and influence with his father when Joe Biden was a Vice President and now as President. Hunter Biden is just the tip of the sword for the Biden Cabral, and the impact on the American political system is the actual crime to be answered for. It is safe to say that Joe Biden would not be sitting in the Oval Office without the concerted effort of the government to protect Hunter Biden. There appears to be a plan to sacrifice Hunter with tax evasion crimes rather than let the system expose the sins of the father and many high-ranking operatives in many facets of the D.C. political world. This is the comparison I make between Hunter Biden and Al Capone. The American people cannot let this American Crime Family, the Bidens, off on a simple tax code violation.

It has come to light that Antony Blinken, now Secretary of State, and Merrick Garland, now Attorney General, conspired to protect the Bidens by coercing fifty former members of the intelligence community to sign a letter acknowledging the claims of Hunter Biden’s activities and the infamous Hunter Laptop as Russian misinformation. The plan worked, attention was directed away from Hunter and Joe during the 2020 election, and Joe Biden went on to defeat Donald Trump for the Presidency. Unfortunately for the Bidens, the Republicans took control of the House of Representatives in 2022. Behind the efforts of Jim Jordan and James Comer, House Committees are bringing the sins of the Bidens and the government to light. The evidence is mounting and clear, and the case against the Bidens is becoming too strong for the mainstream media to ignore. The media has been as complicit with the Bidens and as guilty as the government officials who played a role. And, by the way, the Hunter Laptop does exist.

The Bidens are guilty of embezzling millions worldwide to influence and compromise the man who has held the two highest offices in the land during their crime spree. They have influenced elections and have corrupted our Justice Department, Intelligence Agencies, and the White House with their actions. They have jeopardized our National Security because relationships with Joe Biden and our adversaries have been compromised by payoffs to the Bidens. It would be the crime of the century to allow these people to escape justice by letting Hunter Biden take the fall for cheating on his taxes. I fear our government may not be strong enough to police its own. The corruption goes so deep. We may be unable to find enough honest people to soil themselves to take down the Biden Crime Family.

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House Bill 639, to legalize the sale of recreational marijuana in New Hampshire, is being considered by the NH Senate Judiciary Committee and the following was my testimony this week in opposition to the bill.

I am a huge fan of Americans for Prosperity. They truly care about helping marginalized people succeed like the single mom struggling to pay the rent and the young man with a criminal record looking for work without success.

AFP believes that they can help these less well-off New Hampshire residents by supporting the legalization of recreational marijuana, but the truth is that those people they want to help are the ones that will be hurt the worst by it. 

From the study “Sociodemographic Characteristics Associated With and Prevalence and Frequency of Cannabis Use Among Adults in the US” published in JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association on November 30, 2021:

In this survey study including 387,157 US adults residing in 21 states conducted in 2016 through 2019, young, male, Black, and Native American individuals and individuals with low educational attainment and income were more likely to engage in higher frequency cannabis use.

Cannabis use, in particular use at least 4 days per week, is associated with neurocognitive deficits and poor educational and other social outcomes, especially in adolescents and young adults.

When I was handing out flyers to parents dropping off their children at our local elementary school recently in a neighborhood with a high density of impoverished families, I encountered a mom with slurred speech and her car wreaking of marijuana smoke. She was obviously not safe to drive. It frightens me to think how often she drives her young daughter while she is high.

From Alex Berenson’s 2019 book “Tell Your Children: The Truth About Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence.”

Dozens of well-designed studies have linked marijuana with psychosis and schizophrenia. Researchers have found marijuana users are much more likely to develop schizophrenia. People with the disease suffer more frequent and severe relapses if they smoke.

Most people will never have a psychotic episode while using marijuana. Some will have temporary breaks from reality. But an unlucky minority of users will develop full-blown schizophrenia. At this point, doctors have no way of predicting who they will be.

In “How Weed Became the New OxyContin, published August 30, 2022, Dr. Christine Miller, an expert on psychotic disorders is quoted: “One out of every 20 daily users can expect to develop schizophrenia if they don’t quit.”

Related: On Recreational Marijuana Legalization

My brother started smoking marijuana at a young age and developed full-blown schizophrenia. 

I haven’t had contact with him since before my youngest was born 27 years ago. We searched for him online and found a mug shot from when he was arrested for squatting on someone’s property. He can’t take care of himself, and he has been in and out of homeless shelters for decades.

On my drive to work in Massachusetts I go by multiple billboards promising me improved mental health, relaxation, and happiness if I shop at their cannabis stores. When I’m on my laptop at work I get digital ads from a nearby cannabis shop suggesting I stop in for a purchase. In Boston’s Financial District I saw ads on almost every street corner offering to deliver cannabis to my door.

Its horrifying. I know from painful, personal experience how much destruction Massachusetts has invited into their state. 

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Mike Moffett has a post up at NH-NeverTrump Journal regarding the ConVal education funding lawsuit. I don’t disagree with the gist of his post … that how and how much to fund public education are questions of policy, not questions of law, that are supposed to be decided in the ballot-box, not the courtroom. What I do disagree with … strongly disagree with … is his characterization of the Communists (aka NH-Democrats) as “good people.”

These philosophical differences were on full display in New Hampshire’s House Education Committee. Our Democrat friends there are good folks whose perspectives simply reflect progressive leanings that just don’t resonate with conservatives.

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.

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This morning, I received numerous E-mails from companies- national and local- from Best Buy to Miles Kimball to the Monadnock Ledger -pushing Earth Day. I flipped on my TV to see that even Fox News is also in on the Earth Day hustle. No surprise. Fox News also promotes “Pride Month.”

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But instead of going along with the fraud, we at Camp Constitution will expose it.

The first Earth Day was observed on April 22, 1970, which just so happened to be the 100 Anniversary of the birth of Lenin, a syphilitic, mass-murdering psychopath that members of the American Left loved and admired.

Gary Allen, author, and journalist wrote an expose of Earth Day titled “Ecology Government Control of the Environment,” which was published in the May 1970 edition of “The American Opinion”: Here is an excerpt:

Nobody is willing to admit who selected the date of April twenty-second for the “Earth Day” teach-ins. That is, after all, the one-hundredth anniversary of Lenin’s birth. A coincidence you think? The student activists just picked a convenient weekend? Hardly. April twenty-second falls on a Wednesday. For months the radical and Communist Press has been detailing plans to celebrate Lenin’s centennial birthday with worldwide demonstrations.

April twenty-second is as familiar a date to these people as Washington’s Birthday is to real Americans. The selection of this date as “Earth Day” provides an excellent indication of who is running the campus ecology movement. I telephoned the Teach-In’s national coordinator, Denis Hayes, to ask him how April twenty-second happened to be selected for the ecology festivities. Mr. Hayes, late of Harvard‘s Graduate School of Government, had obviously memorized his answer: “It also happens to be William Shakespeare’s birthday, Queen Elizabeth’s birthday, Maryanna Kaufman’s birthday, and her Aunt Ann’s birthday, but I am sure that none of those entered into Gaylord Nelson’s thoughts when he and the steering committee or whoever it was chose that date .”

Mr. Hayes should avoid lying about matters so easily checked. The date settled upon as the natal day of William Shakespeare is April 23 , I564 ; Queen Elizabeth was born on April 21 , 1926. Which leads one to suspect that even Hayes’ friends Maryanna Kaufman and her aunt (if they exist) might well have been born on some Friday the thirteenth for all he knows. What else do you suppose Mr. Hayes lies about?

 

Here is a link to the article in its entirety.

The greatest polluters are governments, especially in communist countries where there is no private property. An excellent read on the subject is Troubled Lands The Legacy of Soviet Environmental Destruction.

Camp Constitution believes that we are stewards of God’s Earth, and we have a duty and obligation to be good and wise stewards of God’s Earth, but we do not worship the Earth nor do we think that allowing governments unlimited powers over property will insure a clean and healthy environment. Last year, we became a sponsor of two miles of highway in Alton, NH where we organize two clean-ups a year.

 

We encouraged local left-wing groups to do likewise but they have not risen to the challenge. Perhaps they are too busy holding signs at the local rotary on Saturday morning urging the killing of unborn babies.

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One of the many lies Sun-King Sununu has been disseminating as part of his make-believe, look-at-me, look-at-me Presidential campaign is that he is forward-looking while Trump is backward-looking, more specifically that Trump is obsessed with the 2020 election and has no agenda but revenge. Trump, however, recently laid out his agenda at an RNC event in Nashville. As reported by Politico:

Trump vowed to “totally obliterate the Deep State,” directing the Department of Justice to go after local prosecutors deemed as “Marxist” or “racist-in-reverse.” He pledged to sign an executive order cutting federal funding from schools that teach critical race theory or “inappropriate” sexual content, as well as for schools and colleges implementing mask or vaccine requirements. And he said he would sign a federal law forbidding sex-change procedures on children.

So let’s consider where Sun-King Sununu stands on these matters:

… a federal law forbidding sex-change procedures on children: Sun-King would OPPOSE such a law under the sham pretext that it is “big government” to protect children from being sterilized and having body-parts removed.

… cutting federal funding from schools that teach critical race theory or “inappropriate” sexual content, as well as for schools implementing mask or vaccine requirements: Sun-King would OPPOSE such an executive order, again under the sham pretext that it is “big government” to not fund educational institutions teaching anti-white racism or that engage in grooming or that are still pushing the COVID-hoax.

… totally obliterate the Deep State: Sun-King would oppose. Like the Democrats (aka Communists) he does NOT believe in the First Amendment. For example, BLM can march through your neighborhood, but conservative protesters are not welcome in his. And you may recall Sun-King’sJ-6 mini-me moment, that Executive Council meeting where Sun-King had his opponents arrested.

 

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Riding a bicycle can be a fun and convenient way to navigate busy roads. However, cyclists are inherently more vulnerable to accidents than drivers of cars and other motor vehicles, and bicycle accidents can lead to severe injuries. Therefore, cyclists must take certain precautions to stay safe while biking on a busy road. This article will discuss some crucial strategies that can help prevent bicycle accidents on busy roads.

Wear Proper Safety Gear

One of the primary steps to staying safe while riding a bike is always to wear proper safety gear. This includes a bicycle helmet, reflective clothing or accessories, and good shoes. A helmet is the most critical equipment to save a cyclist’s life in an accident. It is also important to wear reflective clothing or accessories, especially when biking at night or in low-visibility conditions. Proper shoes can also provide the necessary support and grip to the cyclist.

Use Hand Signals

Using hand signals is another critical strategy for staying safe while biking on busy roads. Cyclists must use hand signals to communicate their intention to turn, slow down, or stop to drivers and other cyclists. For example, a cyclist must use an extended left-hand sign to indicate a left turn and a downward-pointing left-hand signal to mean slowing down. These signals can help prevent accidents and ensure the safety of cyclists and other road users.

Be Alert and Aware

Being alert and aware of your surroundings is essential for staying safe while biking on busy roads. Cyclists must constantly scan the road ahead and be mindful of potential hazards, such as potholes, debris, or other obstacles that may cause an accident. Staying alert and focused is vital, even when listening to music or using a smartphone. Distractions can cause accidents and lead to severe injuries.

Follow Traffic Rules

Following traffic rules is another strategy for staying safe while biking on busy roads. Cyclists should always follow the same traffic laws and regulations as drivers, such as stopping at stop signs and red lights. Cyclists must also know road signs or markings, such as bike lanes or no-entry zones. By following traffic rules, cyclists can avoid accidents and ensure the safety of other road users.

Stay Visible

Staying visible is another crucial strategy for preventing bicycle accidents on busy roads. Cyclists must always ensure they are visible to drivers and other road users, especially in low-visibility conditions. This can be done by wearing reflective clothing or accessories, using lights or reflectors on the bike, and avoiding blind spots. By staying visible, cyclists can reduce the risk of accidents and ensure their safety on the road.

Plan Your Route

Another essential strategy for staying safe while biking on busy roads is planning a safe route. Cyclists should avoid busy streets, highways, and intersections with heavy traffic. Instead, they should choose routes with bike lanes or dedicated bike paths. Cyclists can also use apps or maps that show the safest and most bike-friendly routes. Planning a safe way can help prevent accidents and reduce the risk of injuries.

If you want to learn more about bicycle accident claims, consult a personal injury lawyer who can help you understand your rights and options in case of an accident. Stay safe, and enjoy your rides!

Conclusion

In conclusion, staying safe while riding a bike on a busy road involves taking certain precautions and following essential strategies. This includes wearing proper safety gear, using hand signals, being alert and aware of surroundings, following traffic rules, and staying visible. These steps can help prevent bicycle accidents, reduce the risk of serious injuries, and ensure the safety of both cyclists and other road users.

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“I Will Not Co-Parent With the Government.” That sign and others like it appeared in abundance in Concord on Tuesday. That was the prevailing sentiment of the strong and positive crowd assembled in front of the Capitol in Concord this past Tuesday, April 18, 2023, as a prelude to the House hearing on HB272, a bill codifying parental rights of school children.

We want to thank Matt T. for this Op-Ed. Please submit it to Editor@GraniteGrok.com.

 

I attended the parents’ rights demonstration that morning, and I was pleasantly surprised. Despite the threat of rain and a chilly breeze, there was an impressive crowd of an estimated 200 people of all types, most clearly parents, some with their children and toddlers in tow.  Fortunately, the rain held off.

On my way to the front steps of the Capitol, I passed by the pro-transvestite group on the corner. Their signs were limited to protecting transvestite students from injury and death by their parents and the need to keep students’ secrets safe from parents. There were not many children in that group, which contained mostly female (presumably born so) adults who desperately want to conduct experimental, life-altering surgeries on kids to flip their genders. I don’t recall seeing anything about education or working with parents to educate and protect their students. My eyeball estimate of that crowd size was around 100.

There was a different vibe altogether at the parents’ right group close to the front steps. The group of around 200 was mixed male and female, with many parents with kids, and a noticeable presence of some younger folks who took an interest. The speakers were well-received by an enthusiastic crowd, and everyone was relaxed and attentive. I noticed several legislators, recognizable by their official black name tags, on the edges of the crowd speaking with people. (Please pardon my lack of detail, as I was not expecting to report on the rally and wasn’t taking my usual copious notes on the event.)

Before going into the building, the MC told everyone that a prior agreement had been made between the two groups not to confront or interact with each other, so we were asked to avoid the anti-rights participants, even if they tried to strike up seemingly friendly conversations. The pro-parents group entered through the front doors, and the anti-rights group walked around the building and entered in the rear.

One oddity I noticed was about fifteen “Peace Keepers,” regular folks in white safety vests who were positioned around the Capitol but mostly kept near the pro-teacher/pro-trans crowd. In my previous times at the Capitol, I’ve never seen them. Since the two groups were kept separate and we were asked not to approach them, I did not ask any of the Peace Keepers who they were, with whom they were affiliated, and who their sponsors were. In the photos below, you can see that the vests were professionally made and customized. Not seen in the photos was a peace symbol on each right front breast area.

I took their presence to be imagery promoting the fact that all pro-transvestite/transgender people were victims and live in fear, and they had to have a presence there to protect them against violence from the parents who only demand to know what their children are doing in school. Laughable. Checking the internet, the Peace Keepers are part of New Hampshire Peace Action in Concord, a 501 (c)(3) organization, and is an affiliate of Peace Action based in Silver Spring, MD.

 

[Note from Skip: I checked that group out, and it is clear that the “Peace Keepers” are not a non-Partisan group as those in charge are Left-of-Center.]

Inside the House chamber, it was packed, and everyone had their say. Unfortunately, I had to leave after a short time and cannot relate to what the rest of the day was like in the hearings.

I hope others are encouraged to attend future rallies on parental rights and other pro-liberty issues, even if it means sacrificing a work day to attend. Your presence, your signs, and your relaxed but serious attitudes speak volumes more than you realize.

Additional Images:

 

 

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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.

And please, if you find this useful, forward it to others.

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.

 

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Nuclear Disasters: Should You Get Iodide Now?

 

 

Radioactive iodine has a half-life of about eight days.  Assuming a single exchange, the threat from this isotope is more-or-less over 40 days or so after it hits your area.  Other isotopes are far more problematic; e.g., Strontium 90, which has a half-life of over 30 years and which your body thinks is calcium.  So it’s not just radioactive bones, it’s bones that irradiate your bone marrow / stem cells.

 

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Top of the fold:

Total Nuclear Death – by Paulos – Myth Pilot (substack.com)

RTWT.  And then pray.  More:

NATO Sends Patriot Missile Defense Systems to Ukraine | The Libertarian Institute

So what happens when an American missile, from a launcher likely crewed by Americans, shoots down a Russian plane?  Related:

 

BREAKING! The UNTHINKABLE is About to Happen: A 2023 Timeline of Nuclear War

 

 

On that:

 

 

My speculation is this.  Not just the depopulation that comes from such a war – the Globalists having the hubris to think such a thing is controllable / plannable* – but it’ll be done to mask the coming tsunami of Jab deaths.  With radiation around, with starvation stalking the earth, nobody’s going to notice a growing surge of “died suddenly”.  And then, in the chaos, hunger, and breakdown of nations… the “benevolent hand” of one-world Socialism will be offered as the savior.

 

(Link to AZQUOTES per their policy.)

 

* I’m only an amateur historian, but I know that many battles – and even entire wars – have hinged on blind luck or small, overlooked things.  Or things not foreseeable.  For example, something I learned in history about Napoleon’s incursion into Russia and hitting the infamous Russian winter.  Many of his  army’s harness buckles were made from tin, which turns very brittle in the cold (phase change).  Thus his army’s belts and horse harnesses literally snapped in the cold, thus hampering his army’s ability to move and fight.  Nobody could have foreseen this.  The same here: chance and things that can’t be predicted determine battles, and there’s no way to game them all out.  Again, if the globalists are engineering this war – and I believe they are – things will happen on the battlefield and political world that will bring true this saying:

 

 

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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:

What To Do If They Find Out You Are A Prepper – Ask a Prepper

Good advice, especially for the “I’ll just come to your house” people.

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Buying garden tools to hedge against inflation, protect wealth, barter and needed items in SHTF

 

 

I was talking with someone the other day about prepping; how NOBODY can do it all alone.  I mentioned trade items, and this looks like a very good idea!
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7 Delicious Ways to Use Up Stale Bread – The Frugalite

This is definitely the time – in the lead up – to learn stuff like this.  From the same site:

Valuable Vaseline: More Than 55 Frugal Ways to Use It (thefrugalite.com)

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The American Dunning-Kruger Epidemic – The Organic Prepper

My observations back this up.  I know people who – despite knowing NOTHING about The Jab and the actual information about it – believe themselves to be quite knowledgeable.  Same for climate change.

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YOU MUST KNOW THIS About Stockpiling…

 

 

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Related to Spicy Time / SHTF:

 

You are going to DIE…All your food is gone…Do you have the skills and resources…Prove me wrong

 

 

Will I die?  Probably.  But I have a better shot at it, IMHO, than most normies.

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We Survived the Ferguson Riots – The Organic Prepper

Lessons.

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13 Things Not To Do During SHTF

 

 

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When you grow vegetables in China

 

 

Remember that drive to have you register your garden?  Remember that the Left Joneses at China’s basic tyranny.

 

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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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3 Months Is All You Need As A Prepper – Here’s Why

 

 

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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

Wild Garlic and Nettle Soup- simple vegan recipe

 

 

Other videos, links only.  UK based, but I’m sure there’s global applicability:

New to Foraging? Start Here! 5 Plants for Absolute Beginners – YouTube

October Mushroom Foraging UK – YouTube

How To Get Started Foraging – Practical Guidance For Absolute Beginners – YouTube

Can Plant Identification Apps Be Used for Foraging? – YouTube

10 Wild Edible Greens to Harvest- Foraging Plants – YouTube

New To Mushroom Hunting? Start Here! – YouTube

Can Plant Identification Apps Be Used for Foraging? – YouTube

Short answer?  No.

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Survival Foods You Need To Forage This Spring (selfsufficientprojects.com)

Just never ever strip an area clean.

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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):

Beware the vegan elite are stepping up their War on Meat, by Joanna Blythman | HeraldScotland

It all comes from this:

 

 

And a belief one is doing good.

 

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

 

Common questions about propagating plants

 

 

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How to Plant and Grow Strawberries – Harvest to Table

And from the same site:

Care and Feeding Vegetables in Containers – Harvest to Table

Asparagus Growing Calendar (harvesttotable.com)

Six Tips to Grow Peppers for Flavor — Harvest to Table

How Big Should Your Vegetable Garden Be? – Harvest to Table

Making Compost – Harvest to Table

Clouds and Predicting the Weather – Harvest to Table

Grow Bags: Best Vegetable Varieties to Grow – Harvest to Table

Balcony and Rooftop Vegetable Garden Basics – Harvest to Table

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A few links-only videos on chickens not laying eggs:

Chickens not laying eggs!! Here’s what you can do about it. – YouTube

Chickens Not Laying Eggs For Months! The Causes – YouTube

This is WHY Your Chickens are NOT Laying Eggs – YouTube

Our Chickens aren’t laying Eggs. We hope this helps. – YouTube

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WAR ON FARMERS Could Lead To Mass Starvation | Learn How To Protect Your Family

 

 

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Big Ag Panicking Over Bill to Require Labeling of Gene-Altering Products • Children’s Health Defense (childrenshealthdefense.org)

Announcing that you are mRNA free should be a market differentiator!

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Other gardening videos (links only):

Sweet Potatoes are Easy: How to grow Sweet Potatoes? – YouTube

Ultimate Vegetable Grow Guide (Free Downloads) (pt 6) – YouTube

Start NOW To Grow Ginger From Store Bought Even In Colder Climates – Yes You Can Do It – YouTube

I think I’m too late this year based on this video.  Damn.  Hashem willing I will have better luck next year when I try it.  (I am going to see if I can at least get a plant growing, even if – based on this video – I don’t expect to get an actual ginger root.)  From the same channel:

Top 10 Crops You Can Actually Survive On – YouTube

Preserving Cucumbers The Ancient Way – Lacto Fermented Cucumber Pickles – Probiotic Superfood – YouTube

Ultimate Seedling Fertilizer – This Homemade Elixir Is All Your Baby Plants Need – YouTube

20 Crops You Can Direct Sow A Month BEFORE Your Last Frost – YouTube

The Beginners Guide To Gardening – YouTube

20 Foods To STOCK UP NOW – This Video Will Give You Peace Of Mind – YouTube

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Smoked meat quick-hit links:

Basic guide on how to preserve meat by smoking (lakesidesmokers.com)

The Scientific Reason Smoke Preserves Food (tastingtable.com)

How to Preserve Meat (13 Best Ways to Extend the Shelf Life) (carnivorestyle.com)

How to Preserve Meat (With Salt, Smoke, Fat) | Eat Cured Meat

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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) & Hunting:

Father posts family photo on social media before going on vacation, muggers murder his 9-year-old son minutes after their arrival – TheBlaze

I used to see, back in the days when I was on LinkedIn, people announcing their travel plans.  Even then, I thought that this was a burglar’s dream.  I have to say I could not foresee something like this.  Sad.

 

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Concluding thoughts if I’m moved to comment:

 

Actor Dennis Quaid’s documentary GRID DOWN takes a hard look at the still-existing vulnerability of America’s electric grid.

GRID DOWN, POWER UP (griddownpowerup.com)

(Sign up required, but it’s free.)

This echoes Bill Whittle’s warning, video below. And now we have hundreds of military-age men streaming into this country every day – day in, day out – alone, no women or children…

 

In the long term, estimates are that 90% of the US population will die without electricity.

 

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7 Medical items you need for everyday emergency and will be hard to find in SHTF…Get them NOW.

 

 

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Palate cleansers:

 

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I’ll show myself out after that one.

 

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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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Earth Day was yesterday – after already having 53 of them since 1973, did anyone notice #54 other than a few platitudes on the news?  WMUR (NH’s only TV station) “greenwashed” it with a package that was more normal “pick up the trash” than anything else. Even the now-pablum-filled TreeHugger could only roust up a meaningless few paragraphs.

Sidenote: I just went over to TH to grab the URL for it and it is gone.  So I left this comment on another post knowing that the moderators would see it:

I just noticed that yesterday’s obligatory Earth Day post (with comments turned off) is now missing? Seriously, has the Movement become so embarrassing that even TH is dumping it?

Heh!

Time Magazine, however, is still full bore on it, letting the rest of us know it’s alive and well and worthy to be an actual religion. A secular religion but with all of the trappings of a God-fearing one (reformatted, emphasis mine):

The Case For Making Earth Day a Religious Holiday

Earth Day is upon us—that forlorn little non-holiday that some years sandwiches itself between Easter and Passover, or other years trails in the wake of those “real” holidays. If the Super Bowl is America’s unofficial national day of celebration, Earth Day is the collective yawn that brings a shrug. No recipes offer Earth Day chips and dips to serve when friends and beloveds gather in celebration of the miracle of a living planet. Because they don’t. Not even ours.

For the two of us environmentalists—one of us nominally Jewish, the other a recovering Catholic—we find the ill-defined nature of the only day honoring the place that makes life itself possible more than a little sacrilegious. So, on this 53rd Earth Day we thought it useful to pose what a real Earth Day should represent and how it could form a central time for a new approach to worship.

New approach?  And the question being begged is worship WHAT?  Never fear, mes amis, they are willing to tell us and want us to adopt:

…So, what would an earth-reverent belief system look like with Earth Day at its center?

To begin with, let’s take a look at what established religions get right and where we might take a cue. Perhaps the first step might be, um, unearthing the nature-centered origins of our existing religious holidays. Most of us know in the back of our minds that Christmas and Hanukkah fall around the time of the winter solstice; that Easter and Passover are celebrated in tandem with the arrival of spring; that Sukkot and Diwali mark harvest and summer’s last warmth, and Eid follows the path of the moon. These holidays have origins in gratitude. Gratitude for the sun returning. Gratitude for the harvest that could avert the starvation winter might bring. Thanks for when it did avert it. We could conceivably reframe these holidays as days of thanks for what the natural world gives and reminders that our responsibility for what remains is an ongoing covenant.

Next, we might look at what religions do to help us form community and mark life’s important benchmarks: birth, maturity, marriage, and death. What if we were to come to celebrate these benchmarks for what they are biologically?…What if a book like that [the Torah] existed for the Earth? What if it were replete with hymns to this world of the living? What if it contained the stories of the prophets of natural earth knowledge—Darwin and Carson, Galileo and Humboldt? What if we came to mark those discoveries as the gradual opening of consciousness to the laws of nature. What if our Bible of the Natural World reenforced that a multiplicity of processes and phenomena still remain to be discovered? What if we used that book not to scold our children into following commandments but rather to light a path forward that encouraged discovery and reverence, and gratitude for the relationships that are this planetary spaceship’s life-support?

Sorry, now they’re sounding like many churches that have abandoned God and have decided to become a country club without the tennis courts, golf courses, and pools.  Sorry, this is nothing more than “self-worship” bordering on an old religious type that has existed for centuries and is still around today: Paganism dressed up in green clothes.  I would say that they even tried to co-opt America’s past events of religious fervor when they try this

…Likewise a whole new continent of scientific knowledge has been revealed to us since America’s first and second religious Great Awakenings. It seems perfectly reasonable and spiritual to us that in a New Great Awakening this new knowledge-continent be incorporated into a progressive wisdom of life, death, and the universe.

As expected, do you see any mention of GOD in that (and yes, go read the whole thing)? When they earlier used the word “gratitude”, did you notice that they never mentioned to WHOM gratitude was to be directed?  And they have the gall to put themselves at the same level as God in this as both Awakenings were about worshipping God and not themselves (e.g., other humans) and their gnostic leanings here.

And the authors wrap it up with this:

…In short, we must make nature central to our belief system with Earth Day or any number of earth-focused ceremonial days serving as regular reminders of what we owe our home planet…We’ve got to convey to everyone that the planet whose rotation and revolution creates all 365 days is worthy of a recognition that spans all 365. Recognition of the planet was born in protest. Going forward it must be about reverence, about respect for the living world that makes human life, too, possible. Celebrating the whole world as a living miracle really should be more fun—and more win-win—than even the most-watched football game.

Sorry, I have my own belief system and no, I don’t own anything to our home planet” that is as inanimate as the rocks that the Grandson picks up to play with waiting for the school bus in the morning. And if our planet “was born in protest”, who or what was “our planet” protesting against?  Again, this is ancient philosophy – trying to anthropomorphize something that isn’t by those that have rejected God (or as our Founders put it, “Nature’s God”).

But it shows that when one rejects God, they are open to believing in almost anything else. Including their own ideas.

But Skip!  What about all this from Government about saving emissions (and falsely telling us they will save us money by FORCING us to do things their way and screwing with our appliances and cars again)?  Yeah – don’t believe them. Again, we keep warning people that THESE kinds of people, in government with the power to boss us around and make our lives more and more miserable, are Watermelon Environmentalists: Green on the outside but Red on the inside. You know, like the Chinese Communist flag. They are greenwashing as well but not with products but demanding control over every speckle of our lives with “environmentalism and Save The Planet” as a cover.

It is always about control – and getting more and more of it by any means possible.

(H/T: Time)

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According to Presidential supposed wanna-be Chris Sununu the key to “winning” in 2024 is to simply pretend that there is no DEI, there is no CRT, there are no late-term abortions, that changing your gender is the equivalent of changing your shoes. In other words, the Sun-King wants us to accept the Democrats’ LIES and talk about … wait for it; wait for it … CUTTING TAXES.

So Sun-King Sununu definitely would NOT want you to see this testimony from the State Senate hearing on a Parental Bill-of-Rights:

“I thought that in the end I could become a man but all I became was a mutilated and abused version of myself”

Detransitioner Katie Lennon who transitioned at 18, including hormones, a double mastectomy, and a full hysterectomy at 21 years old, testifies in Concord, NH in favor… pic.twitter.com/IwjW3ZpJOJ

— Chloe Cole (@ChoooCole) April 19, 2023

 

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For years, former ACLU-NH Trans Justice Organizer Palana Belken, who changed his name to Palana Hunt-Hawkins when he took his wife’s last name after his marriage in July 2021, was front and center at all New Hampshire events that promote the medical transition of gender-confused children and the taking away of women’s rights to our own private spaces and sports. He never missed an opportunity to represent the extremes of radical gender ideology.

Related: Book-Burning ACLU-NH Trans Justice Organizer Axed

Palana founded the organization 603 Equality to continue the fight for “transgender rights” after ACLU-NH canned him after I exposed him for being a book burner.

All of his “trans rights” activism appears to have come to a halt in August 2022 when he found a voodoo doll on the hood of his car with a pin stuck through it. The doll had “breasts and male private parts,” apparently an attempt to represent Palana’s anatomy as a man who takes hormones and grew breasts to make himself appear female.

This incident made Palana very concerned for his safety. However, the Rochester, NH police threw the doll out and declined to do an investigation. Boston WBZ News thought it was newsworthy enough to send a cameraman and reporter to interview him.

It’s a bizarre story all in itself but it’s even weirder that what seems like such an innocuous event seems to have caused Palana to abandon his 603 Equality organization and his beloved “trans rights” activism, although he has reappeared recently in his role as Director of Operations for the NH Harm Reduction Coalition. The leadership of 603 Equality was assumed by Linds Jakows.

He stopped using his wife’s last name after the voodoo doll incident and he has now returned to his original last name of Belken.

Did the voodoo doll break up his marriage? Is he fearful of another voodoo doll appearing if he continues his activism? Enquiring minds want to know.

Watch the news coverage of the voodoo doll incident:

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