• 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 24 hearings in the House, we are recommending support of 3 and opposition of 1 with 0 being of interest.
Of the 17 hearings in the Senate, we are recommending support of 6 and opposition of 6 with 0 being of interest.

Position	Bill	Title	Committee	Day	Time	Room	State Analysis
Support	HB367	relative to eligibility of students in the education freedom account program.	Education	Tue 4/25	9:00 AM	LOB Room 101	This bill increases the household income level based on the federal poverty guidelines for the eligibility of students to participate in the education freedom account program.
Support	HB464	relative to eligible students in the education freedom account program.	Education	Tue 4/25	9:30 AM	LOB Room 101	This bill expands the definition of who is an eligible student qualifying under the education freedom accounts program.
Support	HB174	relative to the filing of notice of intent to cut timber.	Energy and Natural Resources	Tue 4/25	9:00 AM	SH Room 103	This bill enables a land owner to cut timber in certain cases where they have not received a response to the notice of intent to cut timber. This bill also makes it a violation for assessing officials to fail to forward a notice to cut to the department of revenue administration in a timely fashion.
Support	SB162	relative to exemptions from rabies vaccinations for dogs, cats, and ferrets.	Environment and Agriculture	Tue 4/25	9:00 AM	LOB Room 301-303	This bill makes the initial period for an exemption from the rabies vaccination for dogs, cats, and animals annual with the recertification of a veterinarian.
Support	HB156	relative to misconduct by a law enforcement officer.	Judiciary	Tue 4/25	1:15 PM	SH Room 100	This bill adds intentional misrepresentation to the definition of misconduct by a law enforcement officer.
Support	HB491	relative to prohibiting the use of the prone restraint for minors.	Judiciary	Tue 4/25	1:30 PM	SH Room 100	This bill prohibits the use of prone restraint on a child in a school or treatment facility.
Support	SB119	relative to criminal background checks for charitable games of chance license applicants.	Ways and Means	Tue 4/25	2:00 PM	LOB Room 202-204	This bill exempts members of charitable organizations who do not participate directly in the operation of games of chance from background and criminal records checks.
Oppose	SB180	(New Title) relative to product labeling and information guide requirements for cannabis products and the prohibition of the sale of hemp products containing certain levels of THC.	Commerce and Consumer Affairs	Wed 4/26	10:00 AM	LOB Room 302-304	This bill empowers the therapeutic cannabis oversight board to regulate and review the labels and educational materials of cannabis materials. This bill also prohibits the sale of hemp products containing certain amounts of THC.
Support	HB337	relative to directing the office of professional licensure and certification to provide notice of public meetings and an opportunity for comment from the public.	Executive Departments and Administration	Wed 4/26	9:00 AM	SH Room 103	This bill directs the office of professional licensure and certification to provide to the public notice of its meetings and an opportunity to comment in such meetings.
Support	SB105	relative to information collected by the division of vital records administration as part of the live birth worksheet.	Executive Departments and Administration	Wed 4/26	11:30 AM	LOB Room 306-308	This bill removes the criminal penalty for information requested on the mother’s birth worksheet that is not required for the birth certificate; provides that only de-identified information shall be submitted on the facility worksheet for a live birth; and repeals the requirement that the birth worksheet be retained permanently.

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The Informed Consent Action Network has secured a significant win for Frist Amendment Religious exemptions to state-mandated vaccines for kids.” [A] federal court has ruled that … the State of Mississippi afford its residents a religious exemption for their children to attend school without one or more state-mandated vaccines!”

I know you probably don’t live in Mississippi, but in the weird world of constitutional rights, it has the potential to provide aid and comfort to those in the five states that do not allow religious exemptions from state vaccine mandates, including states that had them but reversed them in recent few years; Connecticut (Conn. Gen. Stat. § 10-204a), Maine (Me. Rev. Stat. Ann. tit. 20-A § 6355), and New York (N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2164).

Note that many states with religious exemptions do not allow personal or philosophical exemptions from their vaccine schedules, so that’s an issue. But to the matter at hand,

 

From and after July 15, 2023, Defendants Daniel P. Edney, in his official capacity as the State Health Officer … their officers, agents, servants, and employees, and anyone acting in active concert or participation with them will be enjoined from enforcing Mississippi Code § 41-23-37 [Mississippi’s compulsory school vaccination law] unless they provide an option for individuals to request a religious exemption from the vaccine requirement.

 

A federal court has recognized religious rights in the Frist Amendment. Yes, I feel stupid having to write that. As if we need the court’s permission to exercise a right with more legal power than any government body is permitted. But then, the Mississippi Constitution does not protect, whereas the US Constitution does.

Section 18 of the Mississippi State Constitution is murky on the matter of faith-based exemptions in matters of public health.

 

SECTION 18. Freedom of religion.

No religious test as a qualification for office shall be required; and no preference shall be given by law to any religious sect or mode of worship; but the free enjoyment of all religious sentiments and the different modes of worship shall be held sacred. The rights hereby secured shall not be construed to justify acts of licentiousness injurious to morals or dangerous to the peace and safety of the state, or to exclude the Holy Bible from use in any public school of this state.

 

The ‘safety of the state’ clause, for lack of a better term, is likely the vehicle by which Mississippi involved a mandate above and beyond matters of conscience, religious or personal. A siren song with which we are all familiar. The COVID Karens, Vaxasaurs, and tin-pot pandemic dictators were all in on non-stop do-it for the community messaging. Public Health Communitarians, many of whom were not so concerned when certain communities burned, looted, and took lives in their communities because, as with the pandemic and the alleged cure, politics always comes before people.

If we were to bind a book of denied religious exemptions, it would be thicker than the average Congressional omnibus bill. The default position of people in power was and is to abuse it. The past three years proved it with few or rare exceptions. So, while this little ruling by a local federal court in one state is a win we might dismiss, it is also a breeze that could signal a storm.

…

 

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Both sides are starting to fill in names on the list of candidates. Larry Elder is the most recent entry on the GOP side, joining an impressive list of patriots who have already thrown their hats in the ring. Nikki Haley, Tim Scott, and Asa Hutchinson have name recognition. Outsiders Vivek Ramaswamy and Perry Johnson have an uphill battle. Much attention and media advertising is aimed at Governor Ron DeSantis, who remains in the undeclared column. Former President Donald Trump still holds a comfortable lead in the polls, which is growing. Trump is also securing support from governors and DC politicians alike. Today, the GOP nomination appears to be Trump’s to lose.

We look to be heading toward a 2020 rematch that would probably set new vote total records. 2024 could be the first time we have two indicted individuals vying for the Presidency and the leadership of the Free World. The noose is tightening around the entire Biden family. As many as nine members of the First Family may be implicated by Congress as recipients of money from foreign adversaries due to the efforts of Hunter Biden to cash in on the power of the Biden name.

We also are getting information from the IRS whistleblower, who claims to have information that links Secretary Antony Blinken and Attorney General Merrick Garland to the letter from over 50 former Intelligence Community members claiming the Hunter Biden laptop was a misinformation campaign. If true, this would be considered collusion to influence an election. In this case, the 2020 and 2022 elections were both impacted.

I was initially a Ron DeSantis supporter for the 2024 nomination. I recently changed my support back to Donald Trump. I say back because I supported Trump in 2016 and 2020 but thought his running in 2024 would be too divisive for the country. With each day and more damage to this country created by Joe Biden and his inept administration, I not only support Trump, but think the country needs Donald Trump back in the White House.

I could support many of the GOP candidates in more traditional times, but we are far from traditional in today’s America. We are at a tipping point in this country where we are on the precipice of losing our Republic. We are witnessing a breakdown of society, and the lack of trust in our government is at an all-time high. Our banking industry and economy are unstable, and the battle between inflation and interest rates stresses everyone. The government is trying to gain more control over the people who are fighting back to hold onto our rights and freedoms.

We have a broken Border that will only get worse in May when Title 42 expires and an administration that appears to be accepting of the chaos and the accompanying influx of Fentanyl that is coming from Mexico and killing 100,000 of our young people a year. Young rioters are destroying our cities, and local and state politicians blame their actions on society, not the perpetrators.

Like Rome before us, America is burning. We need someone to win the 2024 election that can hit the ground running on Day 1. We do not have time on our side. There is only one person who can turn us around. Donald Trump proved to us during his first Presidency that he has the ability and the strength to reverse the damage Joe Biden inflicted on America. After eight years of Obama and Biden, Trump jump-started our economy and restored our place as a superpower on the world stage. He did it once, and we need him to repeat the feat. The only thing that brought Trump down was a global pandemic. If we fail to put this man in the White House, we deserve the dreadful fate we will face. Trump can restore this country to greatness with an uninterrupted term without COVID and impeachment attempts.

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Whereas the practice of slavery enslaves the body, the dogma of apostasy ensnares the mind. Whereas slavery is a shameful practice of the past, some shameless religionists still use the doctrine of apostasy to intimidate and severely punish people who elect to choose their own beliefs.

Islam is extremely possessive of its subjects. It is a religion that admits anyone into its fold by the person simply uttering a one-sentence statement of faith, shahada: I bear witness that there is no God but Allah, and Muhammad is Allah’s messenger. By so saying, one becomes Muslim for life and surrenders the right of ever leaving it. Anyone who leaves the Islamic fold is murtad (revert), apostate.

The notion of apostasy is best understood within the overall Islamic dogma. Islam forms a binding covenant with the believer. Once a person is Muslim, he and his issues are considered Muslim forever. In this covenant, Islam promises to bestow its beneficence on the faithful conditional on the person’s total and unquestioned surrender to it in all matters. Some of the rewards offered by Islam to the truly obedient believer, particularly the privileged males, are of this world as well as a great deal more promised to him in the next. If a Muslim faithful does not reap the rewards of his devotion in this world, Islam assures him of his inestimably cherished and limitless compounded rewards in the next world.

Islam demands the subjugation of the individual’s will to that of Allah and permeates the thinking, actions, and speech of Muslims by prefacing commitments they make contingent on the will of God (inshallah).

This total surrender and submission to the will and decree of Allah also absolve the individual from taking full responsibility for his conduct or honoring commitments he may make, for it is Allah who has the unquestioned authority to consummate or contravene any action or promise made by a faithful.

Within this overall framework of complete acceptance of Islam as the perfect living charter for the believer, the rules pertaining to apostasy can be better understood. Islam considers an apostate as a person who unilaterally breaks the covenant he has made with the faith. An apostate is condemned as guilty of turning his back on Allah’s immutable, eternal religion. Anyone born to Muslim parents and leaving Islam is stigmatized as murtad fitri (natural apostate) because he was born genetically Muslim and rejected his gift of birth. And anyone who converts to Islam and later leaves it is condemned as murtad milli (a person who has turned his back to the Ummah).

The severe stricture against leaving Islam is consistent with other main principle beliefs of the religion. Islam is a faith of surrender and not that of free will. A Muslim is to surrender his freedom of thoughts and actions to the will and dictates of Allah. The very principle of freedom is alien to the Islamic belief system.

With regard to apostasy, the two main branches of Islam, the Sunni, and the Shiite, are in considerable agreement. The great majority of Muslim scholars of both major camps agree that the Quran stipulates death for the apostate.

Islam, by its very nature, is an all-encompassing belief system that proscribes and prescribes every detail of the person’s and society’s conduct. The Sharia law, a comprehensive code of Islamic jurisprudence, purportedly is based on the Quran, and the Hadith (the reported enunciation of Muhammad and his conduct.)

Furthermore, Islamic societies rule by the Islamic laws of Sharia. Any new societal legislation must be harmonious with those of the Sharia which are conclusively anti-democratic. Sharia law is in explicit contradiction and violation of the foundation of democracy. Sharia law places Allah’s dictates and rules over the people’s sovereignty. It discriminates against non-Muslims to the extreme of disenfranchising them from their rights of citizenship of Baha’is, barring them from jobs, higher education, worship, etc., not only in Iran but Saudi Arabia and even Egypt.

It is blatantly discriminatory against women, Muslim or not.

Men have a greater claim to the inheritance, their testimony in the court of law is worth twice that of women, and they may marry multiple women at the same time. It stipulates even different rules and privileges governing free Muslim men as opposed to slave Muslims, implicitly condoning slavery. Saudi Arabia, the flagship of Islam, was finally forced by the free world to abandon slavery, I believe, only in late 1960, but it has been reported that it has not been completely abandoned.

Apostasy is defined both in the Quran as well as the Sharia, and its punishment is clearly stipulated. “Those who blasphemed and back away from the ways of Allah and die as blasphemers, Allah shall not forgive them.” [Qur’an 4:48]

Islamic law does not allow the freedom to choose one’s religion. “Let there be no compulsion in the religion: Clearly the Right Path (i.e. Islam) is distinct from the crooked path.” [Qur’an 2:256]

The Quran also specifically addresses the issue of murtad milli: “But those who reject faith after they accepted it, and then go on adding to their defiance of faith, never will their repentance be accepted; for they are those who have (of set purpose) gone astray.” [Qur’an 3:90]

The Hadith further restates the provision of the Quran regarding the punishment of the apostate.

The Sharia law stipulates that any Muslim who turns his back on Islam should be given a chance to revert to the religion. For an un-repenting male apostate, death is the punishment, and life imprisonment for a female apostate. “Kill whoever changes his religion.” __Sahih al-Bukhari 9:84:57

“The blood of a Muslim who confesses that none has the right to be worshiped but Allah and that I am His Apostle, cannot be shed except in three cases: In Qisas for murder, a married person who commits illegal sexual intercourse and the one who reverts from Islam (apostate) and leaves the Muslims.”__ Sahih al-Bukhari 9:83:17

At present, apostasy is illegal in most Islamic countries. Although execution of the apostate is not common, it does take place from time to time by frequently buttressing the “crime” with additional charges. The Islamic Republic of Iran, for instance, often adds the charge of mohareb (one who wars with God) to further legitimize its execution of apostates. A case in point pertains to the treatment of the religious minority Baha’is by the Islamic Republic. A number of Baha’is have been charged as apostates and mohareb, executed and some secretly buried in unmarked graves.

The late Ayatollah Khomeini in his Tahrir al-Wassilah adjudicates how a person’s apostasy is established: “Apostasy is proven in two ways: First, the person himself confesses to his apostasy twice. Second, two just and truthful men bear witness to the person’s apostasy. But women’s testimonies do not prove apostasy in any case; either they bear witness individually, in a group, or beside a man.”

The misogynistic nature of Islam is once again evident in Ayatollah Khomeini’s blanket disqualification of women’s testimony solely on the basis of gender.

“Apostasy — or the formal renunciation of religion — is already punishable in Iran with death. But now, Iran wants to make the death penalty for apostasy part of the penal code. The European Union is concerned and has asked Iran to reconsider.” Who is an apostate according to the legislation? Anyone in the world, not just Iranians, born to a Muslim parent; also, any convert to Islam who leaves it.

Only one parent needs to be a Muslim at the time of conception for Islam to own that child for life.

Islam is Ummahist. Islam doesn’t recognize nationalities and national boundaries. And these Islamist zealots are very serious and have no sense of humor. Some say they have no sense at all, and they may be right. They certainly have a thirst for blood, particularly for the blood of infidels and apostates.

It is noteworthy that Islam considers the world as its Ummah and overarches national boundaries. Hence, Islamic clerics feel free to issue fatwa and other adjudications regarding any person, group, or nation anywhere in the world. A celebrated case of this practice was the fatwa of Ayatollah Khomeini against the British author Salman Rushdie for his book The Satanic Verses. Hence, individual Muslims anywhere in the world take it upon themselves to carry out fatwa issued by Islamic high divines.

In another high-profile case, the killing of Theo van Gough, a Dutch film director, and the recent attack on the Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, clearly demonstrates this primitive practice that runs counter to the civilized world’s due process and has a seriously intimidating impact on the freedom of expression.

Free people and nations should not sacrifice their God-given liberty to please the Islamists by muzzling dissenters and even endangering their safety and their lives.

The concept and practice of apostasy are a shameful stain on the conscience of humanity. It is despicable for any belief system to stubbornly cling to the dehumanizing anachronism of apostasy while its counterpart, slavery, is already buried in mankind’s graveyard of past infamy.

 

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One could reliably ask when did our country start to become the lentiginous juggernaut that it is today because there was a lot going on just before and after 1970.  And one could ask if our society would be better know if they had, you know, become engineers instead?

Powerline points to 1970 when “The Administrative State” (law by technocrat bureaucrats) shifted out of first gear heading to double overdrive.

 

 

And would we have a more productive society if we had fewer regulations and laws (much to our benefit)?

And yes, I do believe that many of our issues are due to what I would consider a surfeit of lawyers, especially when they invade Legislatures – and then never leave. Almost worse than political science majors that have done the same thing.

But I can be persuaded the inverse is also true.

 

(H/T: Powerline)

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On April 20th, the U.S. House passed the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act, which prohibits biological males from competing against females in school sports:

JUST NOW → @HouseGOP passed the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act. It’s a great day in America for fairness, families, and female athletes. https://t.co/etmPFW6ssw

— Kevin McCarthy (@SpeakerMcCarthy) April 20, 2023

Every Democrat voted against the bill. New Hampshire’s Governor-in-Waiting, Chris Pappas, appeared ENRAGED:

The clip below shows what happens when biological males get to “participate fully,” to use Chris Pappas’ term, in school sports against females. There’s a word to describe someone who wants to see biological males run roughshod over biological females … MISOGYNIST. Pappas is a misogynist.

Watch the clip of Payton McNabb getting spiked in the face by a male competing with the women. Then watch her testimony she gave today for the first time publicly. I was honored to stand alongside her in NC to continue the fight to protect women's sports. pic.twitter.com/mvJmwprkaX

— Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) April 20, 2023

And where is the condemnation by the NHGOP of Pappas’ misogyny? I couldn’t find any. Perhaps that’s because Sun-King Sununu … under the sham pretext of supporting “local control” … holds the same position as Pappas, and we can’t contradict His Majesty. Or perhaps it’s because getting high is more important to the LOSERS who lead the NHGOP than protecting women and girls:

It’s likely a little of both, but mostly it’s because the NHGOP is just too low-T.

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Ed Driscoll amplifies what Jeff Goldstein says over at Protein Wisdom Reborn!:

Tyranny is already upon us. To defeat it, we must first learn to reject its premises. And to say so aloud.

Let me put it another way – get in the grills of the Totalitarians that wish to control our speech, our behaviors, and our lives and scream (bullhorn optional but really handy at times) in their faces “UP YOURS!”. I particularly like what he says because I, too, am tired of these wannabees and fool who believe they can take possession of me, my life, and my loved ones.

Some of the good bits (emphasis mine, reformatted, abstracted). Taken as a whole at the link, a manifesto for we Normal people against the Woke Mob.

•  I refuse to “unpack white violence.”
• I reject the idea that my existence “perpetuates white power structures.”
• I will not…“examine my implicit biases.”
• I’m not taking any “journey” to “discover” the impact of my “privilege” on “black and brown peoples.”
• I will not become “anti-racist” or “anti-fascist” to satisfy your demands.
• I’m not defined by my color, my religion, my sex.
• I will not “respect your pronouns” or “celebrate” your “queerness.”
• I am hostile to your sexualizing of children.
• I reject your neologisms, your “triggers,” and your desire to control my speech.

I know who and what you are: you are my presumptive master

• I reject “equity” because it is collectivism disguised as virtue.
• I reject “inclusivity” because it is inorganic, superficial, and contrived.
• I reject mandated “diversity”: I will not surrender to the Crayon Box Mafia, nor to the gender changelings who pretend I am a construct answerable to their whims.
• My whiteness is not “violent”; my sex is not “oppressive”; my religion doesn’t concern you; and my children are not yours to mold.

“Queer theory” is “critical race theory” is “critical consciousness” is the Marxist rejection of the individual as individual. Cultural Marxism is determined to raze norms, sow chaos, tear families asunder, and reduce being to collective conformity.

I reject its premises as fully as I reject its adherents. I will not comply.

• I reject your social hectoring. I find abhorrent your authoritarian urges.
• I laugh at your disingenuous outrage.
• From me you will receive no apologies.

I reject your premises entirely, and I hereby reclaim my time.

• I despise your presumption to protect me from myself.

I am your sworn enemy, as you are mine…I utterly reject your revisionism, your ahistorical impertinence, your presentism, your self-appointed expertise. I will not bow before your theorists, nor admire your social prophets.

• I am not a disease. My existence doesn’t “warm the planet.” I’m not interested in your “sustainability” concerns. I am not yours to manage.
• I won’t eat your bugs, live in your pods, surrender my cars, or without consent be packed into your cities.
• I unmask your intentions. I know what a woman is; I know that any member of any racial group can practice racism; I know that 2+2=4, regardless of how contingent you wish to make reality.
• I despise your ideology.
• I refuse your relativism.
• You are not the Elect, and I am not answerable to the various neuroses you wear as badges of honor.
• Your intolerance of “hate” is not a virtue. It’s a ruse. An excuse to practice your own intolerance and luxuriate in your own hatreds.

I see you. Clearly. And I aim to misbehave.

• I honor the founding ideals of my country, and I work to live up to their measure.
• I recognize the great fortune of my birth.
• History does not frighten me.

I am not responsible for that which I didn’t do, nor are you victims of what was never done to you. I will not proclaim your goodness while knowing your evil.

I am a free man. You wish to take me from me. You will fail. I will win. And God willing, I will live to spit on your graves.

If nothing else, Goldstein is giving us a quick view of how surrounding and enveloping their efforts are. Ask yourself – what parts of your “self” are being attacked by their values which are antithetical to your own?  Your ability to express yourself freely via speech? Nope, they insist on you using only THEIR words and their styling. Not just the stupid ones like “birthing people and “chest feeders” but inserting new words that posses their new nuances to replace what worked quite well: “cis” for “straight”. While straight people (it annoys me to know end to even have to state the definition: men who are attracted to women and women who are attracted to men) are by far the majority, the use of “cis” in the panoply of sexual irrationality is denigrated to make it seem that WE are the minority and should give way to sexual degeneracy and chaos.

And chaos, from the above and what I have been writing about now for years, is the intended endpoint. For once close-to-complete-chaos is achieved, we won’t understand or know what to believe anymore. 2+2=5 or even 2+2= a black dog.  What’s the difference since both are wrong and nonsensical to a rational being.  And there’s the rub – they wish to so alter the meanings of things is that there can be no rationality left to believe in or hold onto.

And that’s when they can “radically transform America” in the way that Obama wanted. The way that Progressive/Socialists have yearned for since the 1890s.  And they won’t stop pushing as they are starting to see their goal in sight because too many of us are dispirited by their “dense pack” efforts to overwhelm our traditional American mores.

Again, at each and every turn. Thus, we need to be those soldiers on the wall and on post to protect that which drives us – our families, our friends, and our values. We WILL be lost if we don’t don’t because appeasement never works. In fact, appeasement is nothing more than total surrender from you which they will see as abject weakness, and then will torture you by demanding more of and from you knowing that it will be impossible but it will make them happy. You see, your family will see you giving up on them in doing so.

They win if they are never shoved backwards onto their butts.  And it will take all of us acting in concert. Let us become the anti-Fascist-Antifa, the anti-BLM-racists, the anti-Trans-Authoritarians, and the anti-Socialist/Communists at each and every turn of our lives (for they are seeking to control every turn of our lives).

For all of us, this needs to be inculcated into our beings. It is a manifesto – at the link, it lists like a manifesto like the listings of the evil and harms that King George had visited upon the Colonists which they enumerated (“To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.”)

Make no mistake, this “cold” Cultural Civil War has gone hot in any number of ways.

What is your response?

(H/T: Instapundit)

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Vermont is a poster child for the level of stupid required to embrace the myth of Net Zero, not just rhetorically but actively. They are ramming through a heat standard that can’t be met and that almost none of Vermont’s citizens want.

None of it works, and most of it is impossible to achieve or sustain. Net Zero is Jabberwocky. A nonsense tale with a very real-world cost that Oxford University and Imperial College London decided to dissect and evaluate. If you are serious about this, what will be required?

 

The report states that all airports must close between 2020 and 2029 excluding Heathrow, Glasgow and Belfast airports, which can only stay open on the condition that transfers to and from the airport are done via rail.

All remaining airports must then close between 2030 and 2049 as to meet the legal commitment of zero emissions by 2050 every citizen of the United Kingdom must “stop using aeroplanes” for a significant period of time.

 

Not surprising. We saw this in the Green New Deal. A significant decline in mobility despite all those EV aspirations (see also lies, fraud, and misconduct).

 

The underlying point is that any asset which uses carbon will have essentially zero value in 2050. This in turn may encourage greater use in the run up to 2050 – for example, putting up new buildings at a much faster rate for the next 30 years, knowing that construction must then halt.

This might explain the mysteries of lost cultures and civilizations. After thriving for centuries or even millennia, some assh*le decided they needed to embrace net zero, and that worked. The net result was zero culture and civilization.

It’s a theory.

 

In addition to reducing our energy demand, delivering zero emissions with today’s technologies requires the phasing out of flying, shipping, lamb and beef, blast-furnace steel and cement.

[B]uildings will become much more expensive because the restrictions on building which generate substantial scarcities; second, transport will become much more expensive because the limits on air travel will generate excess demand for other forms of transport.

Thinking about what education is appropriate for a very different set of industries is a key question. Should we still be training airplane pilots? Or aeronautical engineers?

The alternative is that the government prohibits certain types of behaviour and regulates on production processes.

 

Finally, we get to the real goal of the mythological idea of Net Zero. The government will have to prohibit behavior and activity because that was what they wanted all along. Net-Zero is just the latest excuse from the carbon cults whose obsession with reducing CO2 is nothing more than political science to advance global socialism, which, once achieved, will pollute like mad to stay in power.

Vermonters are beginning to get a taste of that. A room is full of those chosen to represent their interest who think it is a mandate to impose their will regardless of what they are told. And it’s not just Vermont, is it?

 

 

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As some of you recall, In February, I filed a formal complaint with the Administrative Office of the Court (AOC) against the clerk’s office that handles criminal complaints. Then I filed a Judicial Conduct Committee (JCC) complaint against the Judge who could not handle his paperwork.

I was assigned an Attorney from the AOC, named Sarah Blodgett. Within a week, she set up a phone interview, and we discussed the matter. The conversation was professional, polite, and productive. In March, she helped close out the paperwork and wrote a letter accepting responsibility for what had happened. It was a refreshing and overall positive experience—no word on the JCC complaint.

For over 2 years, I have brought Right-to-Know cases through the Nashua Civil Court, and the experience has been harassing and stressful. The Clerks and Judges are mishandling the paperwork causing what are supposed to be priority hearings to be dragged out into lengthy Trials. This is done to dissuade citizens from Petitioning the Court for records violations. This process strongly favors the municipalities.

In 2013, Justice Nadeau signed an Administrative Order (AO 2013-08) permitting about 40 different types of civil matters to be exempt from 6 Trial Rules. This is done to expedite the process, reduce the burden on the Court and the parties as well as costs. Right-to-Know cases are exempt from these Trial rules unless a Judge specifically orders these rules to be enforced.

In Nashua, Judge Temple is enforcing all these Rules turning relatively simple cases into full trials. His Courtroom process has shut down all legal representation for Nashua citizens on RTK cases as no attorney wants to deal with this mess. Judge Temple’s process for these cases drives up the legal cost to the plaintiff’s rendering it financially impossible for people to obtain their records. My first represented case with Judge Temple (and now my last represented case) cost me over $250,000, and the case, which was filed in February 2020, is still awaiting rulings. It will take almost 4 years to move it out of Superior Court. The City is appealing my small victories to the Supreme Court; That process will add another 18 months to 2 years, and then it might be over. All this to access public records. More to come on this Judge. Judge Temple likes trials.

The Civil Court Clerk’s Office, which should be working hand-in-hand with the Judges, just seems to be doing its own thing. When you file an RTK lawsuit, it is accepted, and then documents are emailed to the Plaintiff to serve Notice to the City that a lawsuit has been filed. Most lawsuits require the defendant to file answers to the claims in the lawsuit, but AO 2013-08 does not require RTK lawsuits to be answered, thereby expediting the process which is afforded to the person filing under the Right-to-Know Law.

The Clerk’s office did not get the memo. They are scheduling expedited hearings that are almost always canceled because the dates on their paperwork allow the City to have almost a month more in time to provide answers. Yup, the paperwork is automatically printing out that Answers must be provided 30 days after the lawsuit is received. So, the City, typically a week or less before the hearing, files a motion to continue because they need more time to provide answers. I have never had a Right-to-Know case scheduled that was actually held. They are all postponed and delayed.

A couple of weeks ago, I went to the Civil Clerk’s Office at the Nashua Court House and spoke with the Supervisor. I informed her of AO 2013-08 and showed her how the dates printed on the Notices make no sense. I asked her if the Judge was ordering these lawsuits to be answered. The Clerk responded no; the computer just automatically prints the form. The Clerk later informed me that she knew the process was wrong but that she would keep processing them wrong until the AOC ordered her to correct her process. That is certainly a “go screw yourself’ response.

I connected with an Attorney at the AOC named Attorney Karen Gorham. She has been useless and unprofessional. I started this process six weeks ago and she has not picked up the phone or taken any corrective action to fix this mess. My emails are being ignored. Ms. Blodgett could fix a problem relatively quickly; Ms. Gorham is sitting on her hands.

This Nashua Court System, with 3 Judges removed in the last 5 years, is a mess. More people need to be removed. There is no due process and justice in this Court, and anyone involved with this system has to expect the worst and be grateful for anything better—more articles to come.

 

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The handling of the pandemic has resulted in a sorely divided population. Those in the camp who suspected something was amiss all along are now finding their suspicions confirmed by Dr. Wolf’s team of medical experts and their 58 reports culled from the Pfizer documents. Pfizer’s integrity is at an all-time low, as is the public opinion of politicians, media, and the CDC.

Despite objections from doctors and other medical experts, including the ever-changing advice from Dr. Anthony Fauci, we were told to wear masks even though they were known to not only not prevent viral transmission but are now known to disrupt children’s development, hamper breathing, and even cause oral diseases. We also found out well after it mattered that the “6 feet of separation” was an arbitrary number arrived at by a health advisor whose daughter used it in her school presentation without any peer review from professionals. The government forced millions to lock down in their homes, also shown to increase transmission by trapping the healthy with the sick, while governors and legislators violated their own lockdown edicts or vacationed to escape them.

Worse than all of that, the highly vaunted “vaccine,” as we were told by CDC Rochelle Walensky and former Vice President Joe Biden, would prevent infection. Not only did it not, but the CDC even admits they don’t provide as much protection as natural immunity, despite the media claiming for weeks it was a “pandemic of the unvaccinated.” The Pfizer documents show the number three side effect of the shots is COVID, and they knew this before distribution. Add to that the meteoric rise in heart conditions, sudden death among the young and healthy, and catastrophic reproduction abnormalities resulting in the miscarrying of hundreds if not thousands of babies, and the gun is smoking.

After a global crime like this, the first sensible question to ask is, who pulled the trigger? Another would be to ask, who loaded the gun? Still, others would wonder who built the gun or who made the bullets.

In a somewhat serendipitous turn of events this morning, I found myself listening to the testimony of an Irish-born physician, Dr. John Coleman, explain all of these things…from thirty years ago. As luck would have it, I was on Twitter this morning, taking and dishing out my fair share of abuse, when I saw a video posted of him.

It’s title? Wake Up America.

Over the course of an hour and twenty minutes, he lays out the plan-demic from the 1990s. Of course, this much time means he can give historical lessons, name names, and give dates, locations, and a host of other inside information he’s gleaned over the years. His sources include the English congressional library, the congressional library of the United States, members of the English, French, and American intelligence communities, and his own anecdotal accounts. That is primary sources and first-hand experience. His rude awakening came when he was on location in Sierra Leone to treat the nascent AIDS virus among the locals, only to realize they were sent there to infect and even kill them with the virus.

This experience led him to look into the history of viral warfare, which he discovered had been essentially mastered by his fellow countrymen. Accepted British history includes the use of smallpox to infect Native Americans, using opium to subdue the Chinese, and elite involvement in support of the Nazis despite ostensibly opposing them. He has a series of books that expose virtually every measure, institution, and individual that has or is conspiring to destroy America using tactics from propagandizing and corrupting the youth, creating economic crises, fomenting social unrest, and blackmailing politicians to wrest control from we the people. As a former member of the intelligence community, he backs his claims up thoroughly.

So where is the message of hope?

Returning to Dr. Wolf, she begins by telling us Pfizer has forty-five million vaccines they have that no one wants to take. After the applause from the Hillsdale crowd subsides, she tells us her team includes two hundred lawyers filing lawsuits against Pfizer and the other conspirators throughout the United States.

She also says this experience, forcing her to gaze long and hard at how evil mankind can be, shook her to rethink her view of God. A secular Jew most of her life, she now realizes the truths of both the Hebrew and Christian Bible that warns of man’s nature. She believes, as do I, that God has allowed us yet again to see what happens when a people turn away from Him and submit to the rule of man. This, too, is met with joyous applause.

As for Dr. Coleman, who is no longer with us, his assertion intersects with those in the Convention of States movement. Having taken it upon himself to study the source documents of the founding fathers in the US, he made himself a constitutional scholar boasting of knowing even more than the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court at the time. He asserts our most significant failing is allowing representatives and presidents to usurp power never given to them by the Constitution.

Dr. Wolf and Dr. Coleman see the problem in its seeming juggernaut array of governmental and supra-governmental enemies. The antidote to this bureaucratic and oligarchical virus is in a well-informed and freedom-loving people who, now knowing their enemy, its tactics, and plans, will be emboldened to acquire the necessary information and, more importantly, courage to fight like heaven when the rebellion reared its ugly head. For all intents and purposes, we are fighting the same legion of enemies. However, we also have the same Great Commander on our side.

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Biden Administration experts took a break from wrecking the country to devise another way to punish good behavior. They’ve announced rules that will require people with bad credit to get better home loan interest rates and those with good credit to pay higher rates.

 

On Wednesday, The Washington Times reported that starting May 1, Americans purchasing a new home or refinancing their existing mortgage can expect to pay higher mortgage rates and monthly fees if they have a higher credit score. Americans with lower credit scores and smaller down payments will be given better rates. In other words, Biden is essentially stealing from the rich to give to the needy by adjusting the fees on loan-level price adjustments.

No one thinks this is a good idea.

 

• “The changes do not make sense,” senior loan officer at Bay Equity Home Loans Ian Wright told the Times. “Penalizing borrowers with larger down payments and credit scores will not go over well. It overcomplicates things for consumers during a process that can already feel overwhelming with the amount of paperwork, jargon, etc. Confusing the borrower is never a good thing.”
• “It’s going to be a challenge trying to explain to somebody that says, ‘I worked my whole life for high credit and I’ve put a lot of money down and you’re telling me that’s a negative now?’ That’s a hard conversation to have,” one expert told the Post.
• “It’s unprecedented,” David Stevens, Federal Housing Administration commissioner under President Barack Obama, told the Post. “My email is full from mortgage companies and CEOs [telling] me how unbelievably shocked they are by this move.”

 

And no, this new rule will not punish the one-percenters, especially the political and donor class. Not only can they afford it, they have the means to bypass these sorts of rules leaving hard-working Americans, many of whom have good credit but are not the least bit wealthy, to pay an unnecessary price, not just on the interest rate.

Leveraging high-risk loans to people without the ability to pay them inspired the investment tomfoolery that crashed the economy in 2008. We’ve got the current fiat money situation, a recession disguised as nothing more than a downturn, and a domestic war on our infrastructure, resources, and supply chain. The impending financial doom could result in significant economic casualties.

But since it won’t be “them,” why would they care? Destruction is, after all, the goal.

Maybe history will be kind enough to label Biden it has Nero; Nero fiddled while Rome burned.

Biden licked his chocolate chip.

 

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Dear James Kennedy and the Office of Public Integrity for the State of New Hampshire, I noticed the below article on conflicts of interest for members of the City of Concord Council. I also looked at New Hampshire State Law requirements for lobbyists.

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I also looked at records for the Concord Police, NHCADSV, and lobbying returns for several people, including Amanda Grady Sexton, Chair of the City of Concord Public Safety Committee, Director of Public Affairs for the NHCADSV, married to Adam Sexton, political director of WMUR and a member of Senator Jeanne Shaheen’s re-election campaign committee since 2014.

There are extraordinary conflicts of interest and failures to report lobbying revenue from my research that has had very serious consequences.

1) In 2018, Amanda Grady Sexton received, per Marsy’s Law reports, $48,000 as Executive Director to lobby for Marsy’s Law. However, the lobby reports filed by Amanda Grady Sexton to the State for this period do not appear to reflect any of this income from lobbying for Marsy’s Law, only expenses for the NHCADSV, which are minimal.

Amanda Grady Sexton was not only Executive Director for Marsy’s Law, but she used Chessy Prout, State Witness in NH v Owen Labrie, as the face of Marsy’s Law to promote it. Further, Amanda Grady Sexton wrote an endorsement of AG Gordon MacDonald to become NH Supreme Court Chief Justice after he had appeared in a TV or online ad to promote “Marsy’s Law” – an ad honorarium appearance, I believe which smacks of an “I’ll scratch your back if you scratch mine” deal.

2) In 2017, Amanda Grady Sexton and Steven J Kelly Esq co-authored a guide to pretrial publicity in a document published by the NCVLI on whose board Steven J Kelly was a director. The NCVLI recognized Concord Police Detective for her work for “Justice for the victim” in NH v Owen Labrie despite very clear records that are in the trial transcript that Curtin did not follow protocols and tampered with records and witnesses. Amanda Grady Sexton stated in a meeting for the Governor’s Commission Against Domestic Violence in 2022 that the NHCADSV trains the police for intercept calls. The Concord Police budget is approved by the City of Concord and with Amanda Grady Sexton being Chair of the Public Safety Committee to whom Concord Police Chief reports in the monthly meetings, it would appear that she is involved, if not approving, police budgets for investigations and payments to witnesses for a Grand Jury. Indeed, Police Chief Bradley Osgood admitted that payments to witnesses for Grand Jury are approved by the City of Concord.

3) In 2017, Amanda Grady Sexton, Lynn Schollett, and the NHCADSV lobbied AG Gordon MacDonald for a Grand Jury Criminal Investigation into St Paul’s School. Additionally, they had lobbied and successfully lifted the restriction on the statute of limitations for civil claims in sexual abuse cases. AG Gordon MacDonald signed an order for the Grand Jury Criminal Investigation into St Paul’s School in July 2017. Concord Police Chief Julie Curtin and Officer Sean Ward were assigned to the investigation. During that investigation, Steven J Kelly Esq and Chuck Douglas Esq (who is Chair of the NH Judicial Selection Committee and was paid (in 2018) $17,000 for Marsy’s Law for which Amanda Grady Sexton was Executive Director) were in process with or filed several Doe v St Paul’s School lawsuits benefitting from discovery from the Labrie investigation by Concord Police Detective Julie Curtin who was working essentially at the direction of the City of Concord and therefore Amanda Grady Sexton. For her part, Amanda Grady Sexton was creating and controlling media for the Grand Jury Criminal Investigation for the AG (but also for Steven J Kelly & Chuck Douglas to leverage for civil suit settlements for them). She also worked with police and prosecutors (a violation of Rule 3.8 for Prosecutors in the criminal trial) to shape the message pretrial of NH v Owen Labrie. Per her own comments in the Concord Monitor in August 2015, she saw the trial as an “opportunity”. Her husband’s TV channel, WMUR, was granted exclusive access to the trial and she attended the trial not only to keep tabs on the media (per Concord Monitor) but she was communicating directly with the prosecutor (per Chessy Prout’s statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee in February 2023 when they were considering the appointment of Michael Delaney to the First Circuit Court of Appeals.

The NHCADSV garnered a contract with St Paul’s School out of the Grand Jury Criminal Investigation and the settlement which followed. Concord Police Detective Julie Curtin, per Lacy Crawford’s “Notes on a Silencing” memoir and an article in the Concord Monitor, obtained files from St Paul’s School without a warrant. She was working at the direction of AG Gordon MacDonald and Assistant AG Jane Young. I believe she was also working with Amanda Grady Sexton, the NHCADSV, and civil attorneys Steven J Kelly and Chuck Douglas on the one hand and Cathy Green, Shaheen & Gordon on the other. Amanda Grady Sexton’s and the NHCADSV’s attorneys are Timothy McLaughlin at Shaheen & Gordon and David Vicinanzo, who commended Judge Richard McNamara on ruling to keep the Grand Jury Criminal Investigation Report into St Paul’s School private despite the school’s waiver of privacy. The “Doe” witnesses who objected to the report being made public I believe were represented by Steven J Kelly, Chuck Douglas, and possibly David Vicinanzo – in other words, all attorneys either working with Amanda Grady Sexton and the NHCADSV or representing Amanda Grady Sexton and the NHCADSV.

Amanda Grady Sexton and the NHCADSV launched a social media campaign in July 2019 to block ABC/GMA from airing an interview with Owen Labrie (also reported in the Concord Monitor). Coincidentally, at the time the program was successfully blocked by her efforts, Steven J Kelly and Chuck Douglas were in mediation on Rappuano & Does v Dartmouth College which resulted in a $14 million settlement of which the NHCADSV appears to have received 20% or $2.865 million.

4) On June 1, 2016, Steven J Kelly & Chuck Douglas filed a lawsuit against St Paul’s School on behalf of Chessy Prout, Alexander, and Susan Prout (Prout/Doe v St Paul’s School). The lawsuit (per an affidavit signed by Michael Delaney) was given to Jeremy Bookman at the Concord Monitor, Susan Zalkind at Vice Media, and NBC Today Show. The courts had closed when St Paul’s School was asked to comment. Michael Delaney states that he received his copy from Jeremy Blackman, who received it from “a source” who I believe is likely to be Amanda Grady Sexton or an affiliate of hers (perhaps Howard Altschiller (Chair of NH Press Association) married to Debra Altschiller of HAVEN, a branch of NHCADSV).

5) In March 2016, Amanda Grady Sexton (Chair of Concord’s Public Safety Committee) wrote a statement thanking Judge Larry Smukler for revoking Owen Labrie’s bail and putting him in solitary confinement (“for his own safety” as a result of the media coverage which Amanda Grady Sexton had been instrumental in creating and controlling) after he had been accosted by Susan Zalkind on a Boston Subway who tweeted that she’d run into “New England’s Most Notorious Sex Offender”. Susan Zalkind was a journalist who was admitted to the trial and made TV appearances indicating that she was, in fact, working hand in hand with Amanda Grady Sexton, Police Detective Julie Curtin, Prosecutor Catherine Ruffle, and attorneys Steven J Kelly Esq & Chuck Douglas Esq. By contrast, Paige Sutherland of NHPR had her innocuous tweets included in a motion by Prout family attorneys (which included Steven J Kelly, Steven D Silverman, Laura L Dunn) to restrict media access which was granted. Paige Sutherland was unaware until 2021/2022 that her tweets had been included in a motion for media restriction.

6) In September 2015 (after the trial of Owen Labrie but before the sentencing), Amanda Grady Sexton wrote an op-ed in the Concord Monitor about how the Computer Felony was correctly applied in the trial of NH v Owen Labrie (refuting legal scholars and other journalists’ concerns). She used both her official title for the City of Concord and her title for the NHCADSV in the bio at the end of the article. She did not reveal (as she should have done and which should have prevented her from weighing in as a public official) that her own organization had a financial interest in the Computer Felony conviction because her own organization, the NHCADSV, is the recipient of funds under the Adam Walsh Sex Offender Registration Management Program. Since 2014, New Hampshire has received over $900,000 ( a marked increase from periods prior to 2014).

7) In July 2014, Concord Police made a public announcement about the arrest warrant for Owen Labrie while he himself was given no warning of this arrest warrant. Police had interviewed him 5 weeks before. The public announcement coincided with the Dartmouth Sexual Assault Summit introduced by Congresswoman Ann Kuster (July 14-17) at which Laura L Dunn (SurvJustice) and Sharyn Potter (UNH Prevention Innovation Research Center) spoke. Amanda Grady Sexton worked hand in glove with both of these. Laura L Dunn was introduced to Chessy Prout several months pretrial by Concord Police Detective Julie Curtin, and the Prout family flew to DC in Spring 2015 (per Chessy’s memoir “I Have the Right to” with an introduction by Congresswoman Ann Kuster and co-authored by Jenn Abelson who comes from the Boston Globe Spotlight Team which has a member on the NHCADSV’s Board of Directors). Laura L Dunn appeared on TV during the trial to announce “Survivor” before the jury had heard most of the testimony – thus an overt attempt endorsed by Amanda Grady Sexton, who was keeping tabs on the media to predetermine guilt and thus influence the public, jury, nationwide media. The net result of this was to deliberately paint the defendant in a false light and St Paul’s School, which did not have a “decades-old tradition of Senior Salute.” Why did Amanda Grady Sexton do this? Because her organization stood to receive a contract with St Paul’s School and part of the spoils of any civil claims against the school.

8) The NHCADSV is partnered with UNH Prevention Innovation Research Center, which was partnered officially with the White House “Not Alone” task force whose representative was Laura L Dunn Esq, who provided instruction to Concord Police Detective Julie Curtin on how to investigate sexual assault cases. Laura L Dunn has been featured in several articles on her stance against due process – a fundamental tenet to the criminal justice system. And Amanda Grady Sexton and the City of Concord Public Safety Committee were approving the budget (excessive for June 2014 per the records that I can find) for Concord Police to investigate St Paul’s School and Owen Labrie.

In other words, I believe that Amanda Grady Sexton was orchestrating a racket in which she and her organization were set to financially benefit.

The tragic consequence of this racketeering is not just the framing of Owen Labrie and the targeting of St Pauls’ School for an extortion enterprise but the suicide of Professor David Bucci at Dartmouth College. Professor Bucci was named 31 times in the Steven J Kelly Esq, Chuck Douglas Esq lawsuit Rapuano & Does v Dartmouth. He was denied the right to speak for himself despite his claims that he was not aware of sexual misconduct in his department. According to the Union Leader, the publicity for Rapuano & Does v Dartmouth College was paid for by Times Up Legal Defense Fund/National Women’s Law Center (NWLC). Both of these had Political PR Company SKDK as their PR reps. SKDK is a Democratic PR Company that also reps “Its’ On Us,” which joined Amanda Grady Sexton in the #SurvivorsOverRatings (“Its On Us” may have even created the #) to block ABC GMA from airing the interview with Owen Labrie while Amanda Grady Sexton’s friends, Steven J Kelly Esq & Chuck Douglas were in mediation with Dartmouth College yielding a settlement for which her organization was a financial beneficiary.

Amanda Grady Sexton is a publicly elected official. She is Chair of the Public Safety Committee. She has duties to the City, its courts, its schools, its citizens, its safety, and its integrity. There is substantial evidence and records that she has gravely violated her obligations as a publicly elected official:

a) creating publicity, controlling the narrative in a criminal investigation to advance her own career, and the financing of her non-profit
b) willfully endangering those attending a criminal trial (the NHCADSV and I believe Amanda Grady Sexton herself led a protest through which jurors and the defendant and witnesses had to pass through – see trial records)
c) aided and abetted prosecutorial and civil attorney misconduct by creating and controlling the narrative, restricting media, editing media to benefit prosecutors, civil attorneys, and her own organization
d) cyber stalked me and my business following my letter to the LEACT commission regarding my concerns about Concord Police Detective Julie Curtin.
e) I believe she created a copycat account @letsheartherea1 which then posted my letter to the LEACT commission, doxxing me, my family, making false statements and demands, stalking 83 of my clients – 3 of whom called me concerned for my safety
d) authorized Shaheen & Gordon to send me a letter threatening a defamation lawsuit for statements I had made regarding my beliefs in her and the NHCADSV’s involvement in a “Kids for Cash” and “racketeering” type scheme. This is witness intimidation. Shaheen & Gordon then told my attorney that they would go slow on filing a suit if I backed off while Amanda was running for re-election.
e) aided and abetted civil attorneys making claims against St Paul’s School, which is the City of Concord’s 5th largest employer. Creating and spreading smear media that painted the school and its community in poor light in order to leverage civil suits from which she and the NHCADSV, I believe, were beneficiaries and to leverage a contract for the NHCADSV.
f) violated the NH Constitution regarding the rights to a fair and impartial trial.
g) violated individual privacy rights
h) violated first amendment rights by using her status as a public official to shut down the rights of Owen Labrie to speak for himself on TV when invited
i) Knowingly misrepresented a criminal proceeding, a civil proceeding in order to promote her own political and financial interests
j) knowingly worked with a journalist to stalk Owen Labrie and to have that journalist act as an agent for the police by accosting him, asking him questions and then reporting those to the benefit of Amanda Grady Sexton, Concord Police Detective Julie Curtin, and Prosecutor Catherine Ruffle
k) used media and elected public official status to influence the outcome of a Criminal Trial
l) failed to comply with New Hampshire Lobby requirements both for reporting lobby income to the State for Marsy’s Law ad honorarium lobbying, which resulted in contracts for the NHCADSV or political promotion for herself. Failed to report lobbying on her behalf by her husband, Adam Sexton, who first reported the arrest of Owen Labrie during the Dartmouth Sexual Assault Summit when people from all over the nation and DC were present. Failed to report lobbying that benefitted the “Bystander” and “Know Your Power” training which the NHCADSV was involved with and partnered with Sharyn Potter of UNH Prevention Innovation Research Center – an entrepreneurial venture which was recognized as such for using federal grants to create a for-profit business.
m) colluding with police and prosecutors in a criminal investigation and trial

Had Amanda Grady Sexton not launched the social media campaign in July 2019 to block Amy Robach/ABC/GMA from airing the interview with Owen Labrie, I believe that Professor Bucci would not have been driven to suicide. I believe that the mediation in the Dartmouth suit would have collapsed along with the case and that the interview would have triggered a demand for an investigation into racketeering and fraud in NH v Owen Labrie and in Prout/Does v St Paul’s School.

I trust that you will all take a very serious look at this and take appropriate action. The public should not pay for unfair trials, unsafe juries, tainted media, secret deals, tainted investigations, or dishonest public officials.

Kind regards

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Here are two stories just begging to be put side by side. First, the People’s Republic of California has a bill that would turn objections about public school education into a potential crime.

In a press release last week, bill author Senator Anthony J. Portantino (D–Burbank) said he introduced SB 596 in response to a recent incident in which a teacher who had talked “to students about LGBTQ Pride Month” was relocated to another school after receiving threats.

“Teachers are being intimidated and harassed for doing their jobs,” Portantino stated.

I’ll take issue with the notion that we pay public school teachers to discuss broad variations in ideas about sexuality (or a month dedicated to it) with other people’s kids, especially when many of them still need to learn to read, write, and do the math. It is no more his job to teach them about pride month than Eid, Christmas, or Passover, especially if they are of the cult of separation of church and state. Each faith has different ideas about sexuality, including the gender-sex cult, none but one of which is approved for class time.

Was there any mention of the monkeypox pandemic-like results last year? No point in leaving out inconvenient facts.

Oh, and public school grooming is a conspiracy theory that looks a lot like grooming. Sexualizing kids is grooming. And while the UN, WEF, and all the other elitist organs work to normalize pedophilia so we can start calling it “love” instead of rape, California wants to protect the sexualization of children by other adults without objection from…I don’t know the child’s parents.

This dovetails nicely with the second headline, ‘At least six female teachers arrested for sexual misconduct with students over two days across the US.’

 

At least six female teachers were arrested in a span of two days this week for having sex with students — including a Kentucky staffer who allegedly had trysts with a pair of 16-year-old boys. … The bust was just one of at least six recent cases of female teachers engaging in sexual misconduct with their teen charges in recent days, according to reports from across the country.

 

I can’t think of any teachers with whom 16 or 17-year-old me would want to have sex, but we heard rumors about it in High School, and not just one. They were several and many, odds being a few were true, but it is typically a fraction of the sexual abuse, statutory rape, or something similar (pick your poison).

It is common, and not just with older kids.

What is uncommon (even rare) is reports getting a foothold in any national media. School districts, superintendents, School Boards, teachers’ unions, and public school advocates (politicians) tend to work harder to hide sex abuse in public schools than limit it unless they wantto get rid of someone. The stories that make it public are examples of the rule, not the exception.

It remains to be seen if California Democrats are willing to stomp on everyone’s first amendment rights over threats against a few teachers (I assume it was more than just the one), but it should not surprise us. Neither should their disinterest in making the same leap when the fringe lunatics in the Gaystapo roll out the threat and intimidation wagon.

Social Credit Scores are systemic threats to every aspect of living. The manifold of pandemic policy was a years-long threat not entirely abandoned. Antifa and BLM regularly threaten and successfully silence people or cancel events. The bill is a bad idea. There are laws on the books in every state to address legitimate threats not protected as free speech, which is why hate speech is such a ridiculous notion. An idea that allows prosecutors to pig-pile charges – which the left allegedly loathes, and that’s the giveaway.

Much like racism, hate speech is something the other side does. The same goes for pedophilia. It is only bad when Dems catch political opponents doing it.

 

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A few years ago, my blogger friend Erick Erickson said that of the Left about all of us on the Right: You WILL be made to care!!! Too tied up with your family? Too bad. Invested in your career? Doesn’t matter to them.

Doing “good civic works” and volunteering according to your precepts and faith? You scum – that’s not what we say is good, civil, or what you should be doing. ONLY what we demand is “good enough.”  We aim to make you care OUR way.

And that is how the last decade has gone – don’t toe their absolute philosophical Woke line, and they will hammer you at every point they can. They will bully you, hound you, scream at you, doxx you, and go after your friends, career, and family until you give up in abject misery. And all they will do is smile for a split second and wait just for a femtosecond to see if you will stray from your bondage to their causes.

Now, Erick has a bit longer one – about the Left’s DIE (Diversity, Inclusivity, and Equity) tactic to break your will another way:

 

We will never be diverse enough, inclusive enough, or equitable enough because if we were, all the DEI employees would lose their jobs. They will always find new grievance to keep their employment.

— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) March 26, 2023

 

He’s right, you know. Some do it because they are missionaries and true believers and will, like the Spanish Inquisition, do anything to “save your soul” (as in “we had to burn the village down to save it”). Other see a way to do what they want AND get paid for it.

And then the last, like the homeless schtick, the BLM and Antifa rioters, will ALWAYS tell us that WE aren’t good enough for them and, therefore, we must pay them more to get more out of us…and never solve the problem.

THAT is their career and their racket. That’s all they know how to do – as Obama said, “rub that wound raw” to get the Have-Nots to get more from the Haves. What a shame it would be if these grifters solved the problem they are “organized” for and got sweet paychecks for doing so.

Realize that they HAVE solved “the” problem. No, not for the oppressed, the assaulted, the hungry, the homeless – THEIR problem.

Getting money from you. And that means shoving themselves into a more extreme position…

…and shilling you to support it.

(H/T: Twitchy)

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I’ve been trying to express my concerns/complaints regarding the behavior of teachers, the Principal (of the Dr. Normal W. Crips Elementary school), the Nashua School District assistant Superintendent (Matthew Poska | Kimberly Sarde), and the curriculum at Dr. Crisp School for months now.

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In the fall of 2022, I was hearing reports from a 5th-grade student that a couple of kids wouldn’t stop talking in class when they should have been listening, therefore, the teacher shut down her teaching of STEM. The teacher and students just sat there for the remainder of the class.

This happened on several occasions so I spoke with this teacher outside the school while students were being dismissed. I asked her why disruptive students are not removed from the class. Her response was: “Then you’d have 15 kids in the principal’s office.” She was evading the issue which was a couple of kids…not 15.

I told this teacher that her shutting down teaching was not fair to the majority of her students who are there to learn. Her response was: “The disruptive students deserve an education too.” To me, this is insanity!

This same teacher asked a student that was with me, “Where were you today in class? I didn’t know where you were for one hour.” The student replied: “I was at the back of the room in the quiet area.”

This teacher claimed she did not know where one of her students was during class for one hour, but she never notified the office or the principal about it!

Another day the teacher cheated her students out of STEM by using that class time in spouting off an extremely long complaint about the disruptive students. Does any actual teaching take place at this school??

The issue of disruptive students takes place in 5th grade reading as well, and the solution is the same. Refuse to continue class instruction as scheduled, but give the entire class a 12th grade spelling test as punishment. Words the students never even heard of.

This is yet another example of a teacher that doesn’t have a plan or any knowledge on how to rightly and effectively run a classroom.

A teacher should never refuse to carry out that day’s lesson because of disruptive and disobedient students. That teacher needs to quickly and effectively deal with the troublemakers so she can continue with what she is being paid to do. TEACH!

On another day punishment was a SILENT LUNCH because ALL 5th grade classrooms had a few disruptive students. On this occasion, 6 kids insisted on talking during this silent lunch. All 80 students were punished by having heads down in their classrooms and NO RECESS! Another time the whole class was punished with no recess because a few kids threw snowballs on the playground. Recess is necessary for fresh air and physical exercise. It should not be taken from the whole because of a few.

In January 2023 it was reported that two students were having an argument that escalated into a physical altercation and they (were) removed from the classroom. Perhaps punishing the whole because of the few is actually inciting violence among students.

There should be no silent lunches. Meals are a time for good food and some conversation with your peers. There are sensible ways to handle the few problem students; this is not one of them. I recently heard a student say, “I officially hate my classmates. Everything is taken away from US because of THEM!”

The actions taken by these teachers are so unjust and abusive, and in the end, totally ineffective. They implement their own abusive ideas and their rules (do not comply with the Nashua Board of Education’s discipline policies). Plus, the teacher’s wrong actions affect not only the bad students, but the entire class harming their emotional well being and severe loss of education. In my opinion, these women should have no authority over children or education.

Other issues: PAJAMA DAYS!!! Who authorized such idiotic activity?? To my knowledge, there have been 3 PAJAMA DAYS thus far this school year. This is not only stupid…it is shameful and it teaches students that they should not take their education seriously!

Another time, students were told to come to school dressed like adults and the teachers would show up dressed as students.

In November 2022,  just before the Thanksgiving break, the teacher had the 5th grade students watch a LITTLE RASCALS movie to get them ready for Thanksgiving! Another ignoramus idea!

In January 2023, the teacher held a class party in advance of Martin Luther King Day and gave out candy to the students. This is inappropriate. Many parents do not want their kids eating candy, especially with no way to brush their teeth immediately after. No edibles should be given to students other than what is served by the cafeteria.

School is not for entertainment! Students are in school to gain a high quality education, but I guess that is not available anymore in ‘America’s public schools. It seems to me that students are being dumbed down with foolishness. All of this idiotic nonsense being carried out in schools, is devastating especially in light of the fact that students lost over two years of education due to the COVID-19 fiasco.

On February 8, 2023, a teacher gave an assignment that brought groans from the students. The teacher yelled out “STOP YOUR BITCHING AND COMPLAINING”!!! When the students expressed shock at her words, she yelled out “OH!! LIKE YOU DON’T SAY WORSE??

This kind of behavior by a teacher or any school personnel cannot be tolerated. Students are supposed to be able to look up to their teachers as a good example for themselves. In my eyes, there is a lot of mistreatment of students at the Dr. Crisp School. Education has been reduced to one big ugly, destructive joke. Heads should roll!!

I met with the Principal to no avail. First, I was stunned that her office is the size of a walk-in closet that had a small desk, a chair, and two rocking chairs. It also had a very large stuffed animal and every inch of wall space was covered with colored papers. It looked like her home away from home. The principal said,  “The kids love it”!  I thought students were supposed to have a healthy fear of being sent to the Principal’s office.

I relayed the issues to the Principal but in the end, she did nothing about it. She did tell the STEM teacher that I’d requested a phone call from her…which I never requested. I’d already had my talk with her. After receiving that call from that teacher I was so upset that I contacted the Principal again and she quickly pushed me off to the assistant Superintendent.

On 11/01/2022, I connected with the assistant Superintendent who was unprofessional, rude, haughty, condescending, and came across as an intellectual snob. I tried to explain my concerns to her making it clear that the disruptive students make a habit of talking when they should be listening or working silently. She continued to cut me off talking over me trying to CHANGE the issue into something completely different by referring to the students’ disruptions as ( academic discourse) which she insisted is encouraged by the school. She said that in today’s education, there are no silent classrooms! (Yet, the teachers are demanding silence and not getting it.) She claimed that on October 28, 2022, she had visited every classroom at the Dr. Crisp School and found not one case of disruptive student behavior. She threatened that if I didn’t lower my voice she would end the call, then she went into a fast paced, non-stop tirade about Common Core, brain research and government mandated S.E.L. Then she ended the call. This woman has no place in the public school system.

January 2023, I emailed a BOE member and was told that they cannot discuss any corrective actions taken regarding school employees due to labor laws.

In January 2023, I emailed BOE member Jessica Brown three times, but was completely ignored by her.

On February 19, 2023 I emailed the entire school board with all the information I’ve spelled out here. I received only one response and that was from member Neil Claffey who defended the assistant superintendent and told me that the board has never received any other complaints. I was ignored by the other board members.
To my knowledge, nothing at the school has changed. Whole classes of students are still being punished for the actions of a few bad students. I’m keeping my eyes on the other issues to see if they continue as well.

More and more parents are pulling their kids out of public schools and it’s easy to see why. SCHOOL CHOICE HAS NEVER BEEN MORE IMPORTANT THAN NOW!!

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Every one of us will face aging, and if lucky, we will have many years past our prime. We are unique individuals and age differently. Some of us may have physical challenges, while others may decline more quickly with mental capacities. Some may be blessed with no significant challenges and a long life.

We have an aging government primarily because so many members of Congress made D.C. a lifelong career rather than a short-term calling.

• Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) – 89
• Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) – 89
• Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) – 81
• Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) – 81
• Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD) – 79
• Sen. James “Jim” Risch (R-ID) – 79
• Rep. Grace Napolitano (D-CA-31) – 86
• Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-NJ-9) – 86
• Rep. Hal Rogers (R-KY-5) – 85
• Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA-43) – 84
• Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD-5) – 83

Two members have drawn attention to the challenge of staying involved yet serving their constituents. Sen. Feinstein has not been in session since February. Her office says the Senator is recovering from Shingles. Democrat lawmakers are trying to replace her temporarily so that they can maximize the effectiveness of her vote. That temporary fix is meeting opposition from Republicans. 

Conversely, Mitch McConnell has recently returned to work in the Senate. McConnell suffers from Muscular Dystrophy, but that is not what kept him away from his duties. He had fallen and sustained a concussion, and his recovery prevented him from participating. These maladies could happen at any age, but the fact that both Senators are octogenarians focused more on their recovery and absence. Of this group, only Feinstein has announced her retirement.

Age has become a significant concern with Joe Biden and his decision to seek re-election or not. We have been watching Biden decline, which is concerning for most of us, while others blindly deny any drop off in the President’s acuity. These deniers are more hopeful than realists. Joe Biden was in Ireland last week, and much of the video broadcast was alarming. The President’s walk shows stiffness and trepidation, while he had difficulty understanding simple questions posed to him. Most of the video clips showed the President accompanied by his son, Hunter, who was helping him navigate and was heard clarifying questions for his Father. This image was not a good look for the strength of our Leader. Upon returning to the States, his schedule indicated he was not adjusting quickly to the time change. A lid was in place early, and his agenda was weak for a few days suggesting the President was not at work.

Joe Biden recently turned 80 and will be 82 at the time of his second inaugural. With his current rate of decline and his potential issues with Hunter, the Democrats are ready to look to alternatives. Robert Kennedy Jr. jumped into the race on Wednesday and is already polling at 14%. Biden has yet to commit to running in 2024, but the only fact widely accepted is Biden is a weak candidate. Heck, by 2024, Biden might not remember being President, let alone campaigning for re-election.

How can the Democrats not see what we do when we watch Biden? They do. Biden is part of the plan. They have a feckless aging man in the Oval with a more feckless woman somewhere. Does anyone know where Kamala is from day to day, or really care? They are puppets, a smokescreen for the people running this country. John Kerry, Samantha Powers, Susan Rice? Take your pick. It could be any or all of them, but until we find a way to legitimately take back the White House, this cabal will continue its mission to destroy this country without ever firing a shot.

 

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The Camp Constitution  Speakers’ Bureau is hosting Mrs. Julie Wilkinson, a former abortion nurse turned Pro-Life activist. Julie Wilkinson, age 64, married 35 years, parents of three married daughters, and grandparents to four. Graduated as an R.N. in 1981. Raised in an intact but quite liberal home.

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In 1983 after breaking up with a boyfriend, moved to Boulder, CO, where a nursing school classmate and friend lived.  Accepted a position as an abortion assistant at a late-term abortion clinic run by Warren Hern, MD. Left after about 2 years there. Experienced a heart change by the grace of God, partly due to employment in a NICU in Denver. Married in 1987 and moved to Cheyenne. Did not share with friends her dark secret of working in the abortion industry for many years. Moved to Oklahoma in 1996.

Eventually made contact with Abby Johnson, who had managed an abortion clinic but left the business and went on to create outreach for abortion clinic workers. She gained the courage to share her sad story in the hope it might help women rethink their plans to end their children’s lives. Today, she shares her story with anyone that is interested.  She played the abortion nurse in the movie “UNPLANNED” (which was filmed in Oklahoma). It is Abby Johnson’s story of redemption.  Her prayer is that her story may convince others that ending innocent children’s lives is never the answer.

Where:  Community Church of Alton  20 Church St. Alton
When:   Thursday, May 8,
Time:     7:00 PM
Free Admission– Donations Accepted

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First, London and then the rest of the UK have been on a years-long experiment to end knife violence. And we’ve been making fun of them as criminals deprived of other means have taken to using knives on people their government has disarmed.

Related: 2018 –  What Gun Control Looks Like A few Years Down the Road

That’s gone as you’d expect, as is the government’s response.

 

Home Secretary Braverman argued that law enforcement “must go further” in preventing stabbings and deaths in UK, noting that police have taken 90,000 knives and offensive weapons off of the streets from 2019.

“These knives, which have no legitimate purpose they used simply to terrify and harm victims, are often sold and advertised on social media sites like TikTok and Snapchat.” Policing Minister Chris Philp echoed. “This simply cannot go on.”

 

No lessons were learned, though. I admit I am surprised they are not banning Snapchat.

This is the same nation that said banning personal firearms would stop the cycle of violence, but instead, they got more by other means. The solution to that is to continue to blame the tools. And we get that. It’s difficult to look at yourself as an utter failure, especially when it comes to one of the few things the government is expected to do. Protect everyone’s rights and liberties. And here they are – the people, I mean – still killing each other with edged weapons and absent anything approaching chivalry had to guess. Rouges and bandits, the lot of them.

In America, the leftish response to almost anything is to take things away. In the case of guns, it is because we have systemically racist and violent police to protect us. An inequitable arrangement whose solution is fewer police officers. Criminals are, not surprisingly, fans of this cultural shift in their favor.

In the UK, they’ve decided to expand the definition of knives you are no longer allowed to possess. A downward spiral of ridiculousness that I have, for years, insisted would result in mission creep and the banning of kitchen cutlery and, who knows, perhaps even sporks, none of which will make a bit of a difference in crime.

Were the UK to ban all edged metal tools (good luck cutting your government-approved meat substitute into small, manageable bites so you do not choke), emboldened criminals would use shivs, bats, clubs, sticks, or just fists, all still very popular among the thugs and near-do-well. Tendencies that explain why gun control fails to reduce violence and murder everywhere it is tried. When deprived of every legal means of self-defense, those disinclined to care about law and order – whose numbers always increase as lawful defense rights wane – commit more (and more violent) crimes.

That thoroughly beaten dead horse, Chicago, is the Left’s model for common-sense gun laws—a city where someone still gets shown every 3:47 seconds and is murdered every 15:57 seconds. That’s a lot of crime, but it is what the stop violence Left calls progress.

Meanwhile, back across the pond, in disarmed, increasingly knifeless England, five of the most dangerous cities in Europe (top 20 – or is that bottom twenty) for crime are in the UK, including London. France has six if that makes you feel better. Italy has three, and Greece has two. But it is obvious that what they are doing isn’t working, and whittling away at “knives” for which the government claims you’ve no legitimate use is only making matters worse.

 

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I am not a marijuana user and don’t think habitual users are high-quality conversation partners or employees. But I dislike the Legislature’s current effort to legalize marijuana.

It sets up a new industry totally dependent on government, organizes a new regulatory agency despite Republican leadership posturing as anti-regulation, imposes new taxes even as leadership boasts about low taxation, and collects even more loot to fritter around to the government education racket, which has us continually legislating to try to block their abusive practice of each new month.

It would only have taken a single sentence to achieve free trade with Mexico if that were really what people wanted; one could legalize marijuana if that were really what people wanted, with nothing but a strikethrough of existing laws.

However, I understand that when we elect a House that is only Republican when everyone shows up and stays awake, we are going to get weak gruel; and when the House Freedom Caucus resists a legislative campaign as anti-liberty, Republican leadership ironically replaces their votes with those of Democrats, and the price of their support is loot for hacks.

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The laws against marijuana, like the War on Drugs in general, have produced the same societal breakdown as did Prohibition for the same reason. Making a popular product illegal ensures that there are no providers except those who embrace illegality. Corporations that value reputation, purity, and correct labeling are excluded from the market. The ones that remain necessarily transact in secret, such as at midnight at highway rest stops, and provide armed enforcement where legitimate businesses use police and the judiciary. Occasionally, leaving the transaction with both the cash and the merchandise is appealing, and the life of the purchaser is irrelevant.

And the more we succeed in the War on Drugs, the more we find that the only effect of the heightened scarcity is to raise the street price. This attracts more resources to the industry on the part of those who don’t mind living outside the law, notably organized crime.

When legalizing marijuana, it depends on how you do it. Legalize by strikethrough, and you can grow it, share it, trade it, or buy it from established companies that assay and publish its potency and purity. California legalized it with rigid regulation of vendors and special new taxes. The consequence was that illegal marijuana was still a substantially better deal.

Legalization through bureaucracy also raises the risk of publicity for the buyers. New Hampshire’s legalization of medical marijuana sought to register each purchaser. If this is not included in the current push for recreational marijuana, it is certain that, when the state agent comes to the store demanding the customer list, the retailer will not say no; he could be shut down that day, and the explanation would not have to make sense. This is another inducement for buyers to stay outside the law even after legalization.

This means that, depending on what is in the enacted law and on how it is implemented, New Hampshire legalization might not end the societal harm.

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On 18 April, Sue Homola posted here to oppose legalization on superficial and defective grounds.

She begins by recounting the consequences of marijuana use. I was not aware that Cannabis Use Disorder was a thing, though it sounds like the same thing as Disagreeing With Me Disorder. As for her “mental health crisis,” crisis implies an effect so widespread that we must put aside the rule of law and take emergency action (like any of Joe Biden’s fake “existential threats”). It isn’t a crisis. (She doesn’t use the cliche “epidemic,” though some will, and you can’t have an epidemic where there is no contagion, and your use of a reefer in no way compels me to pick one up.)

Emergency room visits are clearly not “off-the-chart.” She cites small “upticks” but also “explosive increases” in societal malaises, a “public health train wreck.” (The public is not a body, and it does not have health.) The problem with all this is that correlation is still not causation. That marijuana is found in the bloodstreams of suicide victims does not prove that marijuana caused the suicide; more likely, an untenable situation caused the suicide, and marijuana was a mild and ineffective earlier attempt to cope. So “health professionals” in other states (translation: bureaucrats) “are sounding the alarm”? What that proves is that there are enough health professionals in state government that some have plenty of time for advocacy. We knew that already.

Continual smoking of marijuana is probably not a good idea. The problem is that that does not argue for laws against it. The annotations to our state constitution say the NH Supreme Court has often cited “police power” despite the phrase not appearing in the constitution itself. This power has nothing to do with police officers but is the notion that any government worth its salt must have the power to reorder our lives to achieve preferable results. Our dabbling with Covid should illustrate the government’s inability to measure risk, to sense when risk is just part of living on Earth, to devise optimal countermeasures, and to avoid the entire process being corrupted. (Chris Sununu, phone home.) The “police power” is essentially the cherished power to boss other people around and get them to live as though they shared our values.

(By the way, as Democrats use the “police power” to come after our cars, gas stoves, women’s athletics, and rice, it is election poison for Republicans to do likewise, albeit on a different set of issues.)

Sue Homola then trots out three legalization “myths” and for each, she has a “FACT:”.

1. Will legalization reduce black-market activity? It depends on how it’s done; see above. No one is eager to break the law if there is a reasonably good way to get what one wants legally. But the legislature’s heavy-handed approach will certainly not eliminate the black market. A lot of people are in the state in the first place to avoid taxation, and the legislature’s hunger to raise money for “education” is something I’d avoid if I needed a toke. Keeping people from finding out about your habit will likewise be furthered by buying from a pusher, despite the uncertainty as to what exactly you are getting.

2. Will the tax revenue pay for the costs of counteracting the resulting misbehavior? Sue’s “FACT:” here consists of “It is estimated” and of assertions with no sources at all. The problem is that the thing tax revenue has to exceed is government’s own hopes for mitigation programs. For example, “the need for youth mental health services”? Who can say how many millions our high schools could use to combat what they claim are the effects of marijuana use? And again, how do you measure whether the mental health problems are the result of marijuana, rather than of teaching that cross-dressing is wholesome and speaking your mind about it is not?

3. Is legalization inevitable? Sue is correct here. Although she cherry-picks five states that agreed with her and ignores the states that did not, New Hampshire remains able to decide for or against legalization. Unfortunately, New Hampshire does not have referendum, except on amending the state constitution. So, given a dodgy coalition of anti-liberty Republicans and centrist Democrats, it is not clear at all that the legislature will do what the people want.

All that is clear is that whether we sustain the laws against marijuana or replace them with a super-sized Parasite Sector, legislators will seek re-election in 2024 by wrapping themselves in Live Free Or Die.

 

 

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To all those who are sending in memes, thank you!  Keep them coming please, as it helps me gather weaponry to fight the Left.  Please do share this post, and if you share an individual meme, consider mentioning you saw it on the Grok!

Speaking of, from this week, Monday Memes and Meme Overflow.  Also don’t forget both complementary parts of my Survival Sunday feature: PREP edition and SITREP edition.

 

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

 

 

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PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA

 

Is it safe to eat?

 

 

From what I have been given to understand, this “Apeel” stuff can’t be washed off.  And, IMHO, anything associated with Bill Gates-of-Hell is double-plus ungood.

Hit pre-emptively.  WRITE to your grocery stores, whichever you use, and tell them you will NOT accept this cr*p.

 

 

Related:

Big Ag Panicking Over Bill To Require Labeling Of Gene-Altering Products – CDM (creativedestructionmedia.com)

 

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Just what info on Hillary did those cows have, anyway?

 

 

Seriously, per here, a cow’s stall is roughly – being generous and taking the larger numbers length and width – that’s 4′ x 8.5′.  Assuming one floor, no other space considerations like paths, etc., that’s 18,000 * 34 sq. ft. = 612,000 sq. ft.  There are 43.560 sq. ft. in an acre.  So… 14 acres… in a purely-random explosion?  For scale, that’s a square building – again, no space for anything else – that’s 780 feet on a side.  About 2.5 football fields in length and breadth.

A purely random explosion?  An accidental grain silo explosion?

Something doesn’t smell right to me here.

 

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Tucker: This is the end of the First Amendment

 

 

90 Miles From Tyranny : FDA Commissioner: We Need More Power to Keep People from ‘Being Harmed’ by Misinformation (ninetymilesfromtyranny.blogspot.com)

Remember, control the information flow and you control the electorate.

 

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The 7.3 Billion Dollar, er, Person Question – Liberty’s Torch (libertystorch.info)

Proverbs 16:18… and What’s Coming? – Granite Grok

Dark Thoughts in the Small Hours – Granite Grok

On this one.  A contact I have in Europe just had a grandchild, one of several as I understand.  That kid is like one of the dark-eyed kids in the video in the link just above.  Abnormally advanced.  Question for thought: Let’s assume this is an intentional effect of the gene therapy in some small number of kids – assuming they survive to adulthood.  Could they be the first-born generation of that Klaus-touted “Fourth Industrial Revolution”?

Borrowing from a Dog Food Ad – Urban Scoop

Remember… they want the world depopulated, and they want to force-evolve us.  Two birds with one stone?

Spiraling further down the rabbit hole.  Let’s assume this is true.  How many hundreds of scientists, thousands of techs, and millions of man-hours of work plus countless decades of planning would this have taken?

And we think we’re going to VOTE and/or PROTEST them out?  See the next section after the next bunch of memes.

 

 

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I don’t want this.  But it’s upon us whether I want it or not.

 

 

Find your steel.  The avalanche has started.  Soon…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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On the above:

Audrey Hale Manifesto A ‘Blueprint On Total Destruction’ Say Pols, Who Claim FBI Is Stalling Its Release

 

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Neil Oliver slams media outlets for keeping quiet on Covid lockdowns | Farage

 

 

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Pick of the Post:

 

 

No explanation needed.

Love Ozzy’s music… saw him concert once.  Awe-some!

 

 

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Neil Oliver slams media outlets for keeping quiet on Covid lockdowns | Farage

 

 

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Palate Cleansers:

 

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Sarcasm.  Just one of the services I offer.

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