Monday • November 25 • 2024
Vol.XVI • No.XLVIII
Manchester, N.H.
America’s first constitution, the Articles of Confederation (AOC), was adopted by the Continental Congress on November 15, 1777, but did not take effect until ratified by all 13 states on March 1, 1781.
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It quickly became apparent that this “firm league of friendship” among the States was utterly inadequate to govern our new nation. The impetus to replace the Articles of Confederation with a new Constitution began long before the commissioners met in Philadelphia in 1787.
Let’s see how things unfolded on the road to the 1787 Federal Convention, and along the way, we will answer the following questions, such as;
The Efforts to Replace the Articles of Confederation with a Better System of Government
In his Vices of the Political System of the United States, April 1787, James Madison provided a few reasons why the Articles of Confederation were unsustainable and needed to be replaced. Madison was preparing a new system of government by studying ancient confederacies to learn from their experience in order to avoid their mistakes. Notes on Ancient and Modern Confederacies , April-June, 1786
The main reason for the failure of the AOC was Article XIII, which made it virtually impossible to amend the Confederation;
“nor shall any alteration at any time hereafter be made in any of them, unless such alteration be agreed to in a congress of the united states, and be afterwards confirmed by the legislatures of every state.”
This provision required that any amendment be agreed upon by Congress and approved by all state legislatures. This was found to be impossible as the tiny state of Rhode Island refused to concur on all amendments.
The push for a convention of the states to adopt a new constitution was being advanced within the Continental Congress and with some state legislatures. The following quotes provide irrefutable evidence that a new constitution was the goal of the Framers to preserve the Union.
From Alexander Hamilton to JamesDuane, September 3, 1780
“The first step must be to give Congress powers competent to the public exigencies. This may happen in two ways,…the other by calling immediately a convention of all the states with full authority to conclude finally upon a general confederation,…that the delegates may come possessed of proper sentiments as well as proper authority to give to the meeting. Their commission should include a right of vesting Congress with the whole or a proportion of the unoccupied lands, to be employed for the purpose of raising a revenue, reserving the jurisdiction to the states by whom they are granted.
“The reasons for which I require them to be vested with plenipotentiary authority are that the business may suffer no delay in the execution, and may in reality come to effect. A convention may agree upon a confederation; the states individually hardly ever will. “
Resolution of the New YorkLegislature Calling for a Convention of the States to Revise and Amend theArticles of Confederation, July 20 20, 1782
“Resolved, That it appears to this Legislature, that the aforegoing important Ends, can never be attained by partial Deliberations of the States, separately; but that it is essential to the common Welfare, that there should be as soon as possible a Conference of the Whole on the Subject; and that it would be adviseable for this Purpose, to propose to Congress to recommend, and to each State to adopt the Measure of assembling a general Convention of the States, specially authorised to revise and amend the Confederation, reserving a Right to the respective Legislatures, to ratify their Determinations.”
Henry Knox to Gouverneur Morris, Feb 21, 1783
“In my former letters I mentioned that men of reflection and principle were tired of the imbecillities of the present government—but I did not point out any substitute. It would be prudent to form the plan of a new house, before We pull down the old one—The subject has not been sufficiently discused, as yet in publick, to decide precisely, on the form of the edifice. It is out of all question, that the foundation, must be of republican principles; but so modified and wrought together, that whatever shall be erected thereon, should be durable, & efficient—I speak entirely of the federal government, or what would be better one government instead of an association of governments.”
George Washington to Rev.William Gordon July 8 1783
“It now rests with the Confederated Powers, by the line of conduct they mean to adopt, to make this Country great, happy, and respectable; or to sink it into littleness; worse perhaps, into Anarchy and Confusion; for certain I am, that unless adequate Powers are given to Congress for the general purposes of the Federal Union that we shall soon moulder into dust and become contemptable in the Eyes of Europe, if we are not made the sport of their Politicks; to suppose that the general concern of this Country can be directed by thirteen heads, or one head without competent powers, is a solecism,… great part of which has arisen from that want of energy in the Federal Constitution which I am complaining of, and which I wish to see given to it by a Convention of the People,…
For Heavens sake who are Congress? are they not the Creatures of the People, amenable to them for their Conduct, and dependant from day to day on their breath? Where then can be the danger of giving them such Powers as are adequate to the great ends of Government, and to all the general purposes of the Confederation…”
Continental Congress UnsubmittedResolution Calling for a Convention to Amend the Articles of Confederation,July 1783
“Therefore Resolved that it be earnestly recommended to the several states to appoint a convention to meet at __on the__day of__with full powers to revise the confederation and to adopt and propose such alterations as to them shall appear necessary to be finally approved or rejected by the states respectively—and that a Committee of be appointed to prepare an address upon the subject.”
Henry Knox to Gouverneur Morris, Feb 21, 1783
“The army generally have always reprobated the idea of being thirteen armies. Their ardent desires have been to be one continental body looking up to one sovereign. This would have prevented much heart-burning at the partialities which have been practiced by the respective States. They know of no way of bringing this about, at a period when peace appears to be in full view. Certain it is they are good patriots and would forward anything that would tend to produce Union, and a permanent general constitution;…but they must be directed in the mode by the proper authority.
It is a favorite toast in the army, ‘A hoop to the barrel,’ or ‘Cement to the Union.’ America will have fought and bled to little purpose if the powers of government shall be insufficient to preserve the peace, and this must be the case without general funds. As the present Constitution is so defective, why do not you great men call the people together and tell them so; that is, to have a convention of the States to form a better Constitution? This appears to us, who have a superficial view only, to be the more efficacious remedy. Let something be done before a peace takes place, or we shall be in a worse situation than we were at the commencement of the war.”
George Bancroft, History of the Formation of the Constitution of the United, Volume II, New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1885, page 187-189
On March 13, 1786, Charles Pinckney of South Carolina was deputed by Congress along with members Gorham and Grayson to the New Jersey Legislature for their refusal to comply with the requisition of the former Congress. Pinckney delivered the message in which he stated: “If New Jersey conceives herself oppressed under the present confederation, let her, through her delegates in congress, state to them the oppression she complains of, and urge the calling of a general convention of the states for the purpose of increasing the powers of the federal government and rendering it more adequate for the ends for which it was instituted;”
A few months later, Pinckney continued his drive in Congress for a convention to revise the powers of the Confederation, but to no avail:
“Congress must be invested with greater powers, or the federal government must fall. It is, therefore, necessary for congress either to appoint a convention for that purpose, or by requisition to call on the states for such powers as are necessary to enable it to administer the federal government.”
Pinckney had no success in calling a convention and requested a grand committee to begin working on amendments to the Articles of Confederation. He was appointed chairman of the sub-committee, and drafted seven amendments which were reported to Congress on August 7
Henry Knox to George Washington, January 14, 1787“Notwithstanding the contra[r]y opinions respecting the proposed convention, were I to presume to give my own judgement, it would be in favor of the convention, and I sincerely hope that it may be generally attended—I do not flatter myself that the public mind is so sufficiently informed and harmonized, as that an effective government would be adopted by the convention, and proposed to the United States,, or that if this were practicable, that the people of the several states, are sufficiently prepared to receive it—But it seems to be highly important that some object should be held forth to the people, as a remedy for the disorders of the body politic—were this done by so respectable a set of men as could be sent to the convention, even if it were not so perfect in the first instance, as it might be afterwards, yet it would be a stage in the business, and mens minds would be exercised on the subject, and appreciated towards a good Constitution—were strong events to arise between this and the time of meeting, enforcing the necessity of a vigorous government, it would be a preparation which might be embraced by the convention to propose at once efficient system.”
Our next stop before we arrive at the Convention in Philadelphia to adopt a new Constitution will be at the Annapolis Convention of 1786. A convention limited to the subject of commercial trade.
Kenn Quinn | All Things Artiel V
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“Rules for thee and not for we” became a cultural critique during the pandemic. A mask-less governor Gavin Newsome was seen eating at an elite restaurant within twenty-four hours of issuing a stay-at-home order under a state-wide mask mandate. A gubernatorial sibling and CNN celebrity host Chris Cuomo was seen mask-less and belligerent outside his vacation home after sanctimoniously scolding watchers for selfishly not getting vaccinated and reminding them to stay locked-down in their homes. The former president Barack Obama held a birthday party at his mansion in Martha’s Vineyard where the staff were forced to mask while the celebrity political crowd was not. This list isn’t even close to exhaustive as much as it is exhausting to realize these high society hypocrites actually exist and wield power over so many of us.
More recently we’ve seen the unspoken and asymmetrical rules of the culture clash in two of the biggest stories of 2023. The first, former award winning Rolling Stone contributor, turned independent journalist Matt Taibbi, was given access by Elon Musk to report on the collusion between government agencies and Twitter executives. The Twitter Files revealed the DOJ, members of congress and even the White House issued directives to Twitter for violating American’s first amendment rights, while also obfuscating apparently criminal activity conducted by major pharmaceutical companies who had withheld important data regarding vaccine safety and efficacy. The ad hoc congressional sub-committee looking into the weaponization of the government called Taibbi to testify regarding his reporting on the Twitter files. In a moment of unparalleled irony Taibbi suddenly got a house call from the I.R.S. The other irony? Taibbiis a self-proclaimed progressive who votes Democrat. Here he was in the cross-hairs of the machine that is willing to eat its own if only to save face by intimidation. They left doesn’t care if lady justice is blind, they want you to pretend you are instead.
This week we’ve seen perhaps the most egregious instance of lady justice no longer being blind. Forty-fifth president Donald Trump has been indicted on what even many on the left are seeing as a weak legal case by a Manhattan District Attorney who is famous for not prosecuting actual crimes. D.A. Alvin Bragg is reportedly dropping 52% of all felony charges to misdemeanors yet is seeking to take a previously failed misdemeanor account and increase it to a felony charge for president Trump. This lopsided approach to applying the law has many wondering why the favoritism toward even violent criminals but preferential punishment toward, in Trump’s case, an essentially victimless crime if it was a crime at all?
If lady justice can see at all she has a jaundiced left eye scrutinizing every movement of her right eye. Her scales have been made to lean heavily in favor of the sinister side heralding a punishing disadvantage to its dexterous counterpart. If her good side was her left side which famously called for tolerance why does it seem to only be offered to all things on the left? Why are BLM riots that destroy billions called “mostly peaceful protests” yet a mostly peaceful protest at the capitol is called an “insurrection”? Why are libraries opening their doors for drag queen story hour yet refusing Kirk Cameron or Matt Walsh’s innocuous children’s books? The ghost of Rod Serling wants to know.
Meet 1960s critical theorists and Marxist social philosophers Herbert Marcuse, Barrington Moore Jr. and Robert Paul Wolff. In 1969 the Boston Beacon Press published a book of essays titled “A Critique of Pure Tolerance” featuring musings from each in regard to how their Marxist revolutionaries should view tolerance.
As is typical of Marxist writings each essay takes many thousands of words to say what could easily be said in a few sentences. This deliberate tactic of these narcissistic sophists is how they essentially hypnotize the reader through linguistic legerdemain using a few key phrases and ideas wrapped in hyper emotional or hyper intellectual word salad to essentially manipulate the reader into feeling oppressed while also feeling called to champion the cause of taking down the oppressors.
Recognizing the need to clarify the boundaries of tolerance and establish favorable rules of engagement the writers set about explaining why tolerance should be granted to the left – even at the level of tolerating criminal activity, like riots, assaults, or theft posing as reparative equity. Conversely they maintain virtually all political activity from the right should be vehemently opposed with what Marcuse describes as “repressive tolerance”. Essentially, they want tolerance for we but not for thee.
Consider Marcuse’s opening paragraph:
“THIS essay examines the idea of tolerance in our advanced industrial society. The conclusion reached is that the realization of the objective of tolerance would call for intolerance toward prevailing policies, attitudes, opinions, and the extension of tolerance to policies, attitudes, and opinions which are outlawed or suppressed. In other words, today tolerance appears again as what it was in its origins, at the beginning of the modern period–a partisan goal, a subversive liberating notion and practice. Conversely, what is proclaimed and practiced as tolerance today, is in many of its most effective manifestations serving the cause of oppression.”
In other words “Blah, blah, blah…tolerance is oppression” when it allows conservatism to continue to have influence over public policy.
Don’t believe me? His friends on Wikipedia clarify:
Marcuse argues that genuine tolerance does not permit support for “repression”, since doing so ensures that marginalized voices will remain unheard. He characterizes tolerance of repressive speech as “inauthentic”. Instead, he advocates a form of tolerance that is intolerant of repressive (namely right-wing) political movements:
“Liberating tolerance, then, would mean intolerance against movements from the Right and toleration of movements from the Left. Surely, no government can be expected to foster its own subversion, but in a democracy such a right is vested in the people (i.e. in the majority of the people). This means that the ways should not be blocked on which a subversive majority could develop, and if they are blocked by organized repression and indoctrination, their reopening may require apparently undemocratic means. They would include the withdrawal of toleration of speech and assembly from groups and movements that promote aggressive policies, armament, chauvinism, discrimination on the grounds of race and religion, or that oppose the extension of public services, social security, medical care, etc.”
In another word game he refers to it throughout the essay as “liberating tolerance” rather than “repressive tolerance”. This allows him to put his reader’s focus on what they need to do to be liberated or set free from the repressive policies of conservatism. Which policies exactly? We have to read his essay “Eros and Civilization” to find it’s those that limit his erotic fantasies:
“He regarded the realization of man’s erotic nature as the true liberation of humanity, which inspired the utopias of Jerry Rubin and others.”
In case you wondered why the big push to assimilate BLM, LGBTQ, DEI and ESG agenda’s into culture, this is why. Marcuse is referred to as “the father of the new left”. He also wrote about fomenting revolutionary activity in “the ghetto population”:
“The ghetto population of the United States constitutes such a force. Confined to small areas of living and dying, it can be more easily organized and directed. Moreover, located in the core cities of the country, the ghettos form natural geographical centers from which the struggle can be mounted against targets of vital economic and political importance; in this respect, the ghettos can be compared with the faubourgs of Paris in the eighteenth century, and their location makes for spreading and “contagious” upheavals.”
It’s writings like these that inspired his student Angela Davis from Brandeis to aid and abet the murder of superior court judge Harold Haley. This too was tolerated because, hey, it’s part of the revolution.
It’s a putative revolution that uses lofty language and calls for social justice to essentially justify its progenitor’s sexual desires and deviancy.
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Suburbia? Rural? You ARE the problem. You are preventing “Nature” from returning to its “natural” state (no mention that people are part of Nature as well as flora and fauna). Why else would NH Governor Chris Sununu (heh!) side with Democrat CA Gov Gavin Newsom and Democrat NY Gov Kathy Hochul (and lest I forget, the UN as well) that advances higher density living? Oh, they won’t all say the quiet part out loud – it’s always about “workforce / affordable” housing, but it is the same thing.
So what’s the reality about “urban sprawl,” which means we all should be “cityfied”?
Urbanization by State
The share of land in the United States that is urbanized grew from 2.90 percent in 2010 to 2.94 percent in 2020, according to data recently released by the Census Bureau showing how many square miles of land in each state was urbanized as of 2020. This can be compared with 2010 data and the total land area of each state to calculate what percentage had been urbanized in each of the two years.
Oh, about that affordability that is supposed to come with higher density? Any Ec-101/102 student should immediately say “Supply and Demand” and “Government is artificially constricting the Supply of Land,” resulting in this:
Thanks to its strict land-use regulation, including urban-growth boundaries that are nearly impossible to adjust, California still has the densest urban areas of any state in the nation. In fact, the state packs more than 94 percent of its population into just 5 percent of its land area, an urban concentration found in no other state.
Despite claims that increasing densities are the solution to housing affordability problems, the states with the densest urban areas tend to be least affordable and their affordability declines as they get denser. California has the least affordable housing in the country, and other states with dense urban populations, including Hawaii, New Jersey, New York, and Oregon, are also among the least affordable. Few if any urban areas whose densities are below 3,000 people per square mile have problems with high housing prices.
There’s a chart at the link with more details.
(H/T: The Antiplanner (Dedicated to the sunset of government planning) )
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The Wearehouse recently hosted a well-attended debate featuring advocates for cryptocurrency, precious metals, and fiat currency. Jeremy Kauffman from LBRY represented crypto, Silver Dave from Local Silver Mint represented precious metals, and Jay Noone represented fiat currency with his tongue firmly planted in-cheek. Here’s the full video:
The John Fetterman saga is not one to take lightly. This man has many demons in his life, yet his wife, family, and supporters selfishly pushed him on to campaign and win the open Senate seat in Pennsylvania. This man should concentrate on getting well, not going through the motions of serving the people of the Keystone State in Washington.
John Fetterman was 37 years old when he became Mayor of Braddock, Pennsylvania, in 2006. Braddock is a run-down version of its former thriving blue-collar town in Southwest Pennsylvania. Braddock is a town of 2,100, far from the 21,000 who called it home when it was a bustling mining and manufacturing town. Fetterman was never a savvy politician, but when you listen to videos from his early days, he was unpolished but could formulate coherent thoughts. He can no longer string together a complete sentence.
Fetterman ran unsuccessfully for the Senate in 2016 but was successful in his quest for the Lieutenant Governor job in 2019. He held that position until the day that he took the oath as Senator in January 2023. The Associated Press investigated Fetterman’s commitment to the Lt Governor job and found that he could only account for thirty percent of his workdays in six months. His primary focus was on the legalization of marijuana and the commutation of sentences of many Pennsylvania inmates. He started his campaign for the Senate in 2021.
Fetterman suffered a near-fatal stroke on May 13, 2022, just four days before the Democrat Primary, which he won handily. He did not pull out of the general election. Fetterman limited his campaign activities and only agreed to one debate with Mehmet Oz. He got through the debate with the aid of a computer reader to help him comprehend the questions. He had the same technology installed at his spot in the Senate chambers to help him keep up with debate and comments on the floor. Fetterman’s performance was abysmal, but over one million voters had already cast their votes.
Shortly after the State of the Union address this year, Fetterman was thought to have had another stroke. He checked himself into Walter Reed Army Medical Center to be treated for depression and anxiety. Fetterman remained at Walter Reed until last Friday, when he was released. He plans to return to the Senate the week of April 17.
Fetterman’s comments upon his release are disturbing. He claims he was indifferent to life and had suffered from clinical depression for some time. “I had stopped leaving my bed,” he said. “I had stopped eating. I was dropping weight. I had stopped engaging some of the things that I love in my life.”
There are two sides to this story. On one side, we are all empathetic to his plight and wish Fetterman well in a long recovery from the mental and emotional challenges. He will be battling these while still recovering from his stroke. On the flip side, these issues were not presented to the people of Pennsylvania while they were deciding on who would fill the vacant Senate seat. Objectively, he should resign and concentrate on his health. His wife should explain why she let him endure the rigors of the campaign, knowing how he was suffering.
One thing is for sure, the people of Pennsylvania deserve better representation, but they should have seen the writing on the wall before they cast their vote. If not, they were not paying attention and got what they deserved.
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The improbability of Net Zero as achievable or as a means to prevent the climate cult’s world-ending apocalypse mythology (were it even true) has done little to slow the progressive pursuit of it. They seem almost giddy at the thought of how many lives could be lost.
If not giddy, then indifferent.
We’ve reported on the inhuman, almost slave-like conditions at mines in third-world countries. The environmental damage from these projects is generational. But the Climateers dismiss it and forge ahead. Industry oligarchs are happy to reap the whirlwind of financial rewards without fear of being labeled racist human traffickers or polluters. And generations not yet born can’t punish today’s politicians for a life of debt and taxes for which they had no chance to vote.
None of this concerns the Left. So, what about this?
Net Zero policies will significantly reduce global food production.
The recent experience in Sri Lanka provides a red alert. “The world has just witnessed the collapse of the once bountiful agricultural sector of Sri Lanka as a result of government restrictions on mineral fertilizer.”5 The government of Sri Lanka banned the use of fossil fuelderived nitrogen fertilizers and pesticides, with disastrous consequences on food supply there. If similarly misguided decisions are made eliminating fossil fuels and thus nitrogen fertilizer, there will be a starvation crisis worldwide.
The early estimates are that 40-60% of the world could starve absent fossil-fuel-derived fertilizers, pesticides, and farming. Does anyone doubt that 40-60 percent of those starved would be brown people? Human beings do not want to be poor. They want cheap, reliable energy and the ability to use it to improve and lengthen not just life but its quality. If not for them, then for their children.
Irony AlertThe leading global lights behind this man-caused mass extinction of brown people also wear the mantle of their protector. And how ironic is it that the same people that rant endlessly about the evils of colonialism are projecting it from The West, into their lives, through energy policy?
Related: If Climate Change “Colonialism” is a Real Thing Greta, Your Whole Movement is Doomed
Millions, if not billions, could starve due not to the environmental damage of net-zero-industry but the absence of agricultural capacity, which is only possible with the tools and technology the Green insist we must abandon.
All because a few Marxist-minded Western globalists, primarily rich white men and women, wrecked the supply chain and the food supply in the name of a phantom boogeyman (CO2) without which life on earth – especially agriculture – is impossible.
And you thought we were joking when we said you were the carbon they want reduced.
If Net-Zero is allowed to move forward as policy and then in practice, energy will become unaffordable, agriculture will become impossible on the scale needed to feed us, and many people will die of starvation.
Hungry people deprived of food don’t stay put.
The promised mass migrations alluded to because of “man-made” climate change will occur instead in response to man-made policies like Net-Zero imposed to mitigate it. There will be violence, war, instability, chaos, a breakdown of modern society, and a lot of death. More dead in fewer years than all of the misery and death attributed to colonialism.
Thanks to progressive anti-colonialists pursuing an impossible goal to solve a non-problem.
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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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Journalists Reveal True Self to Undercover James O’Keefe at Trump Arraignment
Note the raw, open enthusiasm for the political persecution & Soviet-style show trial of a hated politician. A politician who is beloved by millions of people… who own guns. Lots of guns. The question, though, is the will to use them as outlined here in a very pessimistic piece.
We Deserve What Is Coming! We Allowed This To Happen! You Can’t Vote Your Way Out Of Tyranny! | NC Renegades
Understand, I don’t want this. But I fear one of two fates is coming: a blow-up, or a resigned extinguishing of the Great Experiment.
Speaking of guns – help me buy a new one. Get a bumper sticker or ten. You may need to change your content filter – this comes with a PC 13 warning.
On trusting Democrats Bumper Sticker | Zazzle
As do the below:
Show why you own guns! They’re TYRANT VACCINE. Bumper Sticker | Zazzle
With another version:
Show why you own guns! They’re TYRANT VACCINE. Bumper Sticker | Zazzle
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Yes. Yes it is.
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PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA
mRNA is coming to your steaks and hamburgers.
American Farmers To Begin Injecting Livestock With mRNA Shots This Month (substack.com)
And gag on this puff piece “oral servicing” of the mRNA shots in – horrors! – a Wyoming news outlet.
We KNOW the mRNA & LNPs spread systematically.
We KNOW the mRNA can get reverse transcribed into the DNA.
We KNOW the mRNA is synthetic & more durable, and IMHO likely will survive cooking.
We KNOW mRNA gets expressed in milk.
Seek out sources of untainted beef & dairy products. Demand – for whatever effect it will have – that your local supermarket / butcher only provide clean meat. Write to your elected officials about this – again, hoping it might just have an effect.
Demand USA Beef – Connecting You to Your Local Producer
I am not endorsing any of the providers above; but presenting informationally. More as I learn it.
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I’d call this hypocrisy out except there’s no point. To the Left, they cannot be shamed because they only value views from their own side. Still, essential to point it out.
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And this is why they censor so much. A bit of a personal story (formatting & links in the original):
This is, by the way, why the Left so nastily attacks conservative ideas – for fear that the above revelation, as happened to me, might happen to others. Take their utter hatred for Rush Limbaugh (and Conservative talk radio in general). For years I had heard only the worst about him. Racist. Misogynist. Selfish. Hater!!!!!!!!! I very deliberately avoided listening to him because of what my peers said about him. One day I was radio-channel surfing in my car and I stumbled across a man talking. I didn’t know who he was, but he had a nice voice and what he said intrigued me. I listened to him, agreeing with most everything and accepting the well-laid-out persuasiveness of his argumentation on the remainder, when he identified himself before a commercial break.
I was utterly floored. I had been assured that Rush was one small step away from the Devil Himself, but I’m agreeing with him. Again, that’s weird…; Rush had two books out – The Way Things Ought to Be and See, I Told You So – so I bought them at a used book store and devoured them. Wow. Even, at the time, still believing myself a liberal I found very little to disagree with him. It was then that I realized: maybe I’m not a liberal.
Leftists cannot handle dissent, because it would introduce thoughts that might call into question their beliefs. It might cause people to think.
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Now… I have said for years, and it’s in my bio/blurb, that I am a Zionist Jew. But it is time, I believe, for the umbilical cord to be cut. For several reasons.
First, America cannot afford it.
Second, it’s a sore point for the ethno-nationalists.
Third, it creates an apron-string dependency and makes Israel a client state of America.
IMHO, Israel is strong enough to stand on its own given some period of weaning. For both Israel’s sake and America’s sake, this needs to happen.
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We are in a war for the future of America, and for the very idea of liberty and self-governance itself – a no-holds bar brawl in which the Left continues to smash beer bottles for gut-stabbers, and the Right continues to put up its dukes and sagely intones “Marquis of Queensbury Rules, of course”.
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Of course, it’s the birds!
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Pick of the Post:
Hard-hitting mockery on multiple levels.
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Cowards
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Palate Cleansers:
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The pressure parents face from Dartmouth Health to medically transition their gender-confused children was brought to light in a guest editorial by endocrinologist Francis Lim-Liberty, MD.
Related: The Trans Suicide Myth and Blackmail Politics
“I see a patient whose parent has been refusing to sign a consent form for gender-affirming hormone therapy for three years,” she writes. Although she promises to administer hormones as soon as her client turns 18, “my biggest fear manifested, would she make it to her 18th birthday just three months away? I worry I won’t see her again.”
In her February 17 Concord Monitor op-ed, “But what if you’re wrong and they’re right? Listening to our trans kids,” Lim-Liberty appears so immersed in Transgenderism that she’s unable to weigh the consequences of administering opposite-sex hormones or to question whether children with gender dysphoria really are at immediate risk of suicide without them.
Although child-transing advocacy group The Trevor Project provides astronomical suicide rates from self-report surveys solicited on social media, if Lim-Liberty dug deeper she would know that suicide among trans-identified youth is rare. Dr. Riittakerttu Kaltiala, Finland’s leading child gender expert, has warned physicians that telling parents their children are in immediate risk of suicide without hormone therapy or that medical transitioning relieves suicidality is “purposeful disinformation.”
Lim-Liberty shares another trans-or-die story about Nick, who had been scheduled to start hormone therapy, but whose parents are reconsidering consent. “His parents worried about Nick changing his mind.” Although she concedes that she has “little data” on how often children later regret their transitions, she flips the question, “But what if he doesn’t change his mind? What happens then?”
With a little research, she could better answer her own question: Children who are spared puberty blockers and hormones will also be spared “extensive and irreversible adverse consequences such as cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis, infertility, increased cancer risk, and thrombosis,” According to a policy statement from Sweden. “This makes it challenging to assess the risk/benefit for the individual patient, and even more challenging for the minors or their guardians to be in a position of an informed stance regarding these treatments.”
Contrary to Lim-Liberty’s reassurance, the rate of regret appears to be accelerating since gender-affirming care has become popular. A 2021 study from an adult gender clinic found that 10% of those receiving gender-affirming care detransitioned or showed a pattern of detransitioning within 16 months. Another 22% disengaged without completing the treatment. The authors concluded “detransitioning might be more frequent than previously reported.”
A 2022 study from a UK primary care practice showed that 12% of patients who started hormonal therapy either detransitioned or expressed regret, while a total of 20% stopped the treatment for a wider range of reasons.
Lim-Liberty offers parents a false dichotomy: The vast majority of children who aren’t affirmed in their belief that they are the opposite gender outgrow their dysphoria. In the most recent and largest study of gender dysphoric youth, 87% were content living as their natal sex when they reached adulthood.
She doesn’t seem to see a downside to hormone therapy. Citing one of the two Dutch studies that serve as the foundation for Dartmouth Health’s puberty-blockers-to-hormones regiment, she asserts that “We know that transgender individuals who received gender-affirming hormone therapy earlier, rather than waiting until completion of puberty . . . had better outcomes in adulthood.” If she had read the actual studies instead of just the abstract she cited, she would know that they proved no such thing.
Among the significant flaws in the studies, the subjects received psychotherapy as well as hormones, but there was no control group. Consequently, we don’t know if their modest short-term improvements in mental health were due to psychotherapy or hormones. Also, those studies didn’t take into account the significant medical consequences of opposite-sex hormones.
Aside from these shortcomings, the Dutch studies aren’t applicable to Lim-Liberty’s practice because they focused on an entirely different population. In contrast to the gender affirmation model practiced in the US, the Dutch researchers selected children who had gender dysphoria from early childhood and who had “no serious comorbid psychiatric disorders.” They also screened out children with autism whose dysphoria might have evolved “from a general feeling of just being different.”
The gender affirming care model assumes that coexisting mental health problems are caused by “minority stress,” and will improve with hormones and surgery. This means that even mentally-ill children are qualified to diagnose themselves and decide their treatment path. As Dartmouth Health Gender Clinic Director John Turco has said, “There is only one test I know of to determine gender identity, and that is to ask the person.”
Lim-Liberty’s unqualified enthusiasm for child transing raises the question as to whether she and her colleagues have even considered why, after systematic reviews of the research, Norway, England, Sweden, and Finland have dropped the affirmative care model as dangerous and ineffective.
Lim-Liberty ends on a happy note by describing transgender siblings. “They are both on gender-affirming hormone therapy, doing well.” Given the long odds of two trans-identifying children in one family, a curious physician might want to explore whether there were environmental factors at play, but Transgenderism isn’t open to scrutiny.
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Kathy Sullivan is a former NH State Democrat party chairman and a former Vice-Chair of the Democrat National Committee. It is safe to say that she is plugged into that count every vote narrative.
Given all the noise over the years from the Democrat Party about disenfranchising voters, you’d think Sullivan would WELCOME efforts to ensure votes cast by Democrats are rightfully and lawfully counted. Isn’t that how “the game” is supposed to be played? A lawful resident goes in and votes, and of course, it SHOULD be counted correctly.
Then why the NO vote, Kathy? Even Kevin Landrigan of the Union Leader gave the hearing a positive report (“spank’em when they’re wrong and thank’em when they’re right!).
Reformatted, emphasis mine:
Gargiulo claims that election officials made numerous errors in the handling, reporting and the counting of ballots in his District 24 election race. He stressed he wasn’t appealing his loss by more than 3,700 votes to Stratham Democratic Sen. Debra Altschiller, but wanted the Ballot Law Commission to see the analysis of his volunteers who spent 700 hours uncovering what he said were numerous problems. “This tells me we have a fundamental issue that nobody is addressing,” Gargiulo said after a one-hour presentation of his report from his lawyer, Corey MacDonald.
“If a town continues to fail, (it) needs to be penalized, maybe financially, maybe criminally but they need to be penalized.”
Here is the report:
Lou Ballat Irregularties Election Voting Presentation April 5, 2023
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Landrigan pointed out what my video of the reporting laid out about all the mistakes and all the different kinds of mistakes that were made. Go read his enumeration of the tales, but I will provide a couple of conclusions from the NHBC members:
Back to Kathy Sullivan.
Ah, but I’m a cynical kind of guy that, after over a decade and a half of listening to their nonsense, knows that she (and the rest of the Democrat “Disenfranchisement Decriers”) is playing a different kind of game. It isn’t that HER voters are getting disenfranchised (well, their actions may be doing it to some of their voters, but they don’t care). It is that their Opposition voters should be disenfranchised by whatever means. Sorry / not sorry, but failure points can be used for “opportunities.”
My analogy for when I was writing software still stands – 20% of time and effort to achieve the purpose but 80% spent on defending against stupid people and people with bad intentions. Listening to the report findings, there were certainly a lot of exploits of the system (whether by stupidity, laziness, or deliberate is beyond my ken – they just were there) found by the volunteers.
Remember, it isn’t WHO votes. It’s who COUNTS the votes. What the report showed is that there were numerous failure points from the time that the ballots entered the machine (some done by voters themselves) through to the recount.
So, she voted NO to sending the findings onward to the AG and SecState. One would think that a reasonable person, one that treasures accurate, reproducible, and transparent results, would be happy to have those two offices “plug the holes” and monitor to see that any “upgrades” were meticulously followed.
Nope, not Kathy Sullivan, and she said so herself – a one-word answer: “NO.”
One only has to ask her a one-word question: “Why?” If I were to ask that of her, she’d run away (like she did during the TEA Party movement when I caught her on the field and approached her with my then-new FlipCam to ask her what she thought about TEA Partiers. I got the same one-word answer then as her Ballot Commission answer:
NO.
‘Nuff said. My interpretation is that she, as a proxy for the Democrat Party, LIKE all those failure points and is RATHER steamed that some “nobodies that should have stayed out of her business” discovered them with Bright Flashlights.
And that last quote from Lou about punishment for those involved in the ballot process who refuse to mend their ways? I think that was the point that she knew the jig was up.
I agree with Lou – just look what happened when (Belknap County) NH State Rep Mike Bordes voted to repeal any criminal charges stemming from performing an abortion after 24 weeks. Without the penalties, the entire bill has been neutered, and its purpose nullified. Didn’t have to repeal the entire bill, just the part that punishes wrongdoers. Just think of San Francisco and all the “legal” (less than $900/incident) shoplifting.
No punishment means that there is nothing to fear for consequences. Decisions SHOULD have consequences. Removing consequences such as these create Lawlessness.
Thanks, Kathy!
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We learned that India and NH have good business relations. The Ambassador from India, Taranjit Singh Sandhu, was warmly welcomed to House chambers at the start of House Session, with members of the Senate in attendance. He spoke about the great work India is doing in many sectors of the economy and that NH is a great working partner with Indian run and Indian owned businesses.
We learned that after passing the committee amendment for HB2 (The Budget Trailer Bill) we took all morning to vote on 17 other amendments on that bill. A good amount of NH trees were used to make paper to print out all those amendments (plus more that did not come up for a vote) for 400 state reps to have in their seat pockets. Much time, taxpayer money, and effort was spent to print up so many pages that ultimately ended up in recycle bins at the end of the day.
We learned that of those 17 amendments, only 7 of them passed. The most important one was the bi-partisan deal struck by Majority Leader Osborne and Minority Leader Wilhelm (1336h) which included Emergency Power Reform language from HB127, made $15 million appropriation to the Affordable Housing Fund, removed some Education Funding Account language, added in the Ladd/Luneau education formula language, increased Medicaid provider rates, added $5 million to System of Care and $2 million for family resource centers. That amendment passed 326-63. We’ll see how all that fares in the Senate.
We learned that other amendments that passed were 1288h (247-Yes 139-No) to require law enforcement agencies provide public notice of immigration checkpoints, 1299h (241-Yes, 143-No) deleting a section of the budget bill relative to Northern Border Patrol program funding and appropriation (proponents claimed that should be paid for by the Feds), 1295h (249-Yes, 136-No) deleting a section of the budget bill that would have deleted the 16 person cap on the number of auxiliary state police forces. I understand we don’t want a police state, but if NH has an illegal immigration problem then we can look to these votes to see why.
We learned that 1292h passed (199-Yes, 187-No) that deleted the section in the budget bill that limited the retirement system eligibility for full time community college system employees to only those participating prior to January 1 2024. Those employees will be happy to learn that their retirement benefit will not change with this budget.NH taxpayers may not be as happy.
We learned that 2 other amendments both passed on voice votes having to do with a changes to civics education bill language (1272h) and the historic horse racing implementation date (1328h). Both made minor changes to bill language for bills that were already passed in the House.
We learned one of the amendments that did not pass was 1290h which would have eliminated the accelerated phase out of the Interest and Dividends tax (190-Yes,199-No). House Democrats are very upset that they couldn’t stop the retirement of this tax on old people and their investment savings.
We also learned that 1313h died (191-Yes, 197-No) that would have changed the language in the budget bill regarding how money is appropriated to the department of education from the education trust fund and the general fund and it changed the percentage of receipts coming to the trust fund from the Business Profits Tax and Business Enterprise tax.
We also learned that 1273h, the amendment to legalize the possession and use of cannabis for persons 21 years and older did not pass as the House. It failed 160-Yes, 214-No. Rep. Verville (R-Deerfield) thought it was “high time” we passed this reform and send some green back to NH citizens. The House did not agree with this amendment but went on later in the day to pass HB639 with a roll call vote (OTP 272-Yes, 109-No). This bill legalizes, regulates, and taxes cannabis in NH. Rep. Spilsbury (R-Charlestown), speaking for the Ways and Means committee, said he did not want to get into the “weeds” of the bill but all aspects of dealing with legalization in NH was baked into this brownie. We’ll see what the Senate thinks of this brownie.
We learned that after all the presented floor amendments to HB2 were done, the House passed the budget bill with a voice vote, and so it was with HB1 as well. It was quite a palate cleanser to pass this bi-partisan House budget after all the amendments we considered. It was almost as if the Red Sea parted on this Passover day with the House budget now marching dry shod off to the Senate.
We learned that once our budget work was done, the remainder of the calendar could be tackled. We killed many of the bills that the House Democrats previously managed to pass. Remember when they held a momentary majority in the chamber and sent some bills off to Finance? Well, some of those came back and were killed today. HB234 – The one about renewable energy credits died by a slim 193-191. HB430 – which would have made kids attend public school for a year before being able to apply for Education Freedom Accounts – died by a slim 194-192. HB626 – requiring the Department of Education to administer Education Freedom Accounts – died 195-194. Today, House Republicans managed to successfully defend EFA’s from continued House Democrat assault.
We learned that HB250 passed 328-53. That bill increased accidental death benefits for Group II pension members. An amendment to the bill insured that with this change, no costs would not be passed down to the municipalities.
We learned that one bill today had full House support and that was HB337. That bill directed the Office of Professional Licensure and Certification to provide notice of public hearings and opportunity for public comment. That passed 387-0. Apparently everyone desires transparency from OPLC.
We learned that I was able to attend today’s House Session, despite it being Passover, because of changes in my family’s plans to celebrate at my home. I much appreciated Passover snacks being provided in the ante chamber of the House by members of the House. I wish everyone a healthy, happy, and joyous Holy week, no matter what you are celebrating!
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Failed pillow entrepreneur and occasional gun-grabbing loud-mouth David Hogg has come out as pro-gun (sort of). He posted a short video on Twitter, using it as an opportunity to 1) remind us he’s a hypocritical two-faced a**hole and 2) pretend he’s not.
To his credit, Hogg does not look as ridiculous as the awful PR shots of Barry Soetero pretending to shoot skeet with his weapon parallel to the ground with photo-shopped smoke leaking out of the business end (this one is more realistic). That, for the record, is how former Clinton aids commit suicide.
Here’s Hogg cracking one off for the same reason ‘cuz David Grab your Guns Hogg likes to shoot him sum skeet or sum’tin.
Fuck the NRA. I shoot. My family owns guns. They do NOT speak for us. pic.twitter.com/jqCqwbwRZO
— David Hogg (@davidhogg111) April 3, 2023
For the record, I know a lot of folks who say F the NRA all the time. The organization doesn’t speak for them either. But they are not famous for using the blood of children to elevate your Q rating as a mouthpiece for the final form of what you’ve been selling since the Parkland debacle. An epic failure of a gun-grabbing government to interrupt the trajectory of a potential shooter. Which, ironically, is one of the very reasons why we need the right you’d happily nibble or gulp away.
We have the video here if the tweet ever goes the way of David.
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French bulldogs are one of the most popular dog breeds in the world due to their adorable looks and charming personalities. Blue merle French bulldogs, in particular, have been gaining popularity among dog lovers in recent years. These puppies are known for their unique coat pattern, which features a marbled mix of blue, grey, and black hues.
Blue merle French bulldog puppies are born with a solid coat, but their distinctive pattern starts to develop within a few weeks of birth. The marbling effect is created by the presence of the merle gene, which causes random patches of color to appear on the dog’s coat. This gene is dominant, so a blue merle French bulldog will always pass it on to its offspring.
In addition to their striking appearance, blue merle French bulldogs are known for their affectionate and playful personalities. They are social animals and thrive in households where they receive plenty of attention and affection. French bulldogs, in general, are known for their loyalty and devotion to their owners, and the blue merle variety is no exception.
If you’re considering adopting a blue merle French bulldog puppy, it’s important to do your research and find a reputable breeder. French bulldogs are prone to certain health issues, such as hip dysplasia and breathing problems, so it’s essential to choose a breeder who conducts health screenings on their breeding dogs.
Once you bring your blue merle French bulldog puppy home, be prepared to give them plenty of love and attention. These puppies love to play and interact with their owners, so be sure to provide them with plenty of toys and activities. They also enjoy snuggling up with their owners and are known for being excellent lap dogs. In conclusion, blue merle French bulldog puppies are a unique and charming addition to any household.
Their marbled coat pattern and affectionate personalities make them an excellent choice for families and individuals who are looking for a loyal and loving companion. As with any pet, be sure to do your research and find a reputable breeder to ensure that your puppy is healthy and happy.
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On March 23, a clandestine book review committee met in the Communist City of Dover. There is supposedly a recording of the meeting, yet no one can access it. The agenda, time, and date were secret, and released to the Dover squad and the person filing the complaint a day prior.
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To date, nine books have been submitted to the review committee, one in January, and eight in February. The lengthy forms, one for each book, were submitted to the principal, superintendent, School Board, assistant Superintendent, City Council, and city attorney. Silence followed.
Apparently, they never had books challenged in the schools, and therefore, they had no idea what to do with them!
After the long silence, the school board and administration decided their minion, the superintendent, would pick the committee members to review the books:
Voting members:
In addition, the following School District employees are assisting the committee as advisory participants:
The School Board’s current policy on general book reconsideration is policy KEC, available here.
When pressed about the process, the following was explained by the city attorney.
“The policy is open-ended about the process and, so, my understanding is that the committee is likely still mapping that process out. I do expect it will likely take some time to work through each individual book review request filed, as the committee members are (or are likely) going to read each separate book in its entirety as part of the process. Right now, the committee is reading the book for which reconsideration.”
“No SAU employees will be voting members of the Book Review Committee, but appointed by the school board and superintendent”, who have made their position clear, pornography is a-ok with them.. “The committee is also going to be posting notices of meetings in accordance with RSA 91-A.”
No notice ever happened. One could search the heavens and not find one notice on the first review. And the “certified letter” to the person filing for the review never came!
It’s a bit like the fox guarding the hen house, but it was decided, without any input from parents actually concerned about the content of over 100 books that meet or exceed federal, state, and city laws on sexual adult content. By the way, our laws are not a consideration for the review process or even referenced, even though the filer brought up the city ordinance on adult entertainment during the review meeting.
These are not stories that have occasional minors drinking or fornicating. They are violent depictions of adults preying on children, sex, drugs, pedophilia, and crime written by sick adults making a buck off our taxes.
The first public review was set for March xx, with no notice on the city website (as the review process mandates) as per 91-A rules; nothing online or by email, nothing. The person who filed the complaint was not sure what was going on until she was told it was a public forum, not a review. Forum?
The time was set, and a group from the LBGTQ community was there to protest, apparently, these adults love pornography! This is where confusion goes on steroids. Mr. Mayberry, chair, (he of the failed Congressional bid against Matt Mowers) chaired the happy group. He was empowered to chastise Dover citizens confused about the conundrum surrounding this strange informal but formal meeting that did not follow one iota of formal committee rules in the city code.
He bit off heads and barked about Roberts’ rules. A so-called “conservative,” his alliances were clear from the start. They were pro-porn.
A retired police officer, with online credits as follows …
…explained how suicides are up, and other teen problems are increasing daily. But he defended porn in schools. It’s OK. Apparently, he could not put 2+2 =4 together and maybe identify root causes from the school library books that glorify such behavior!?
A brief pause from “books” to online access, another problem in schools, ended sharply by Co-CIA Director – Siobhan Mehalick, who went on the record that it was “impossible” for school children to access porn sites from school Chromebooks and then said if they do, IT would know about it and immediately contact parents.
Mayberry refused to look at the screenshots from a student’s Chromebook and mansplained the person with the actual screenshots (evidence). Btw, the student’s parents with the screenshots were never notified. Ignorance is bliss!
There was lots of banter from the LBGTQ representative (I am grateful only one stood and spoke of their personal trials and tribulations rather than listen to all of their pity me stories) about how removing porn hurts the LBGTQ children!? I guess the crimes of pedos towards their children are ok by them.
At the end of almost 2 hours, Chairman Matt Mayberry asked the school advisers if they would allow their tween-age children to read this book. All of them said they would allow most of their 14 yr old children but not others. Poor kids. What’s stopping the “others” from reading them as well?
The first book challenged is Tricks, by Ellen Hopkins. It chronicles five teens through various horrific journeys. It is “Tricks,” as in ‘turning tricks,’ sex, for money. There is pedophilia, rape, underage sex work, drugs, alcohol, and suicide. These children are sadly damaged without any hope of being productive adults.
This book contains explicit sexual activities including child rape and abuse; drug abuse; violence; alcohol use; and adult and child prostitution.
Even when the author tries for something positive, she manages tragedy. Not a book for the faint of heart, especially a child.
This author has made a fortune writing many similar sexually explicit books victimizing children(15 in Dover schools), and now Dover is adding to her juicy profits by acquiring more of her books for the School Board and review folks! Guess they haven’t figured out how to use free downloads or to just take copies from the library. I would love to know how many students are victims of such crimes as the head librarian, Ms. Whitworth, said this book is needed in the schools to help and support children in such situations!!
What children? What happened to “let’s contact the parents”?
The librarian went on to state all the schoolchildren come to her with every book they are interested in! Ok, there’s an oceanfront lot in Arizona for sale, too.
According to the committee, it is the ending of all these horrible stories, not the journey, that matters. Living as preyed upon, adult raped, abused, drug overdosed, sex trafficked, alcoholic is okay if the ending isn’t so bad? It was bad for someone. Tricks was so daunting the newly created group will apparently be replaced by a newer group selected exclusively by the School Board.
Before that happens, this review committee unanimously voted to keep Tricks! A proud moment for review board chair Mr. Conservative Mayberry!! He finally got to be a politician. Here here!
One has to wonder if the pornography titillation in these books is filling a void in these sad adult people’s lives. Consenting adults can do whatever they want. Children under 18 should not be exposed to such violations at taxpayers’ expense! It’s the law. What happened to protecting a child’s innocence, DARE, all the angry parents protecting their children from evil? All you hear from them is that removing these books will harm LBGTQ children. When keeping them accessible in schools does just that. Harm.
And did any of these ‘reviewers’ even think to ask if the book TRICKS and other redeeming topics are in the Dover Public Library so minors intent on reading them can find them there?? YES, it is there, and MORE!!!! 102 and counting.
At some point, a child will take one or more of these books seriously. A guide to improper behavior or the acceptance needed to have an affair with a pedophile, rape, drink alcohol as a minor, and do drugs.
These are not books that have moral values or outcomes; they are full of racial slurs, bigotry, and slang, and are poorly written. So, it’s not literature. They are not teaching morality, so what is it? Why are some adults saying, “kids will find sex and drug use online” or “it will help them navigate hardships”? Ok, but if one in 10 are using this book as a self-help guide, what about the other nine? What happens to the one child after reading it that truly needs help? I guess we’ll find out.
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White PresentingAnother video clip is with my co-host, a Chinese American, when she was accused of “White Presenting” at her training as a K-3rd grade tutor. She was shocked by the “Wokeism,” a Marxist struggle technique used by CRT and DEI promoters. Identity politics will only divide our citizens, making America susceptible to authoritarianism.
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IMMIGRANTS SPEAK WEEK 12:Our guest this week is very special. Philemon Sm was born and raised in Eritrea in the Horn of Africa, known as the North Korea of the region, where the current president, Afwerki, has been ruling as a communist dictator since 1991. Philemon fled Eritrea in 2008, crossed the desert on foot, escaping bullets and starvation to reach the Sudanese border.
Today Philemon shares with us his life story of being indoctrinated as a young man with Marxism and enslaved by the Eritrean government, his awakening and harrowing experience of escaping Eritrea only to be persecuted again in Sudan and Egypt, and his major concerns for America, as he sees the specter of Communism taking over the media, educational system and major institutions here.
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Michael T. Dolce, a Sexual Abuse, Sex Trafficking, and Domestic Violence attorney, was arrested at home, in bed, with “an open laptop containing nearly 2,000 images and photos of child pornography in front of him, according to his arrest affidavit.”
WEST PALM BEACH — FBI agents arrested a Palm Beach Gardens lawyer known for representing victims of sexual abuse after they found him actively downloading and viewing child pornography on his laptop, federal prosecutors announced Wednesday. …
Prosecutors say Dolce used a BitTorrent network, which are built for peer-to-peer file sharing, to anonymously download pornography depicting children between 5 and 11 years old in sexually explicit positions. Authorities have not said what led to them to obtain search warrants of Dolce’s home and car.
Michael Dolce, the kiddie porn guy (and a mostly Democrat party donor), spent his professional time advocating for women and children who were sex trafficked and even “… served on the advisory board of Florida’s Children First, a nonprofit legal-aid organization devoted to representing children in “at-risk” situations, according to a now-deleted entry on its website.”
We could say you never really know people, but it seems increasingly like you can. Democrats (as a political party) have chosen to groom children in public schools as a hill to die on while Democrat donors and voters continue to get arrested or implicated in child-sex trafficking or pornography rings.
These two things are very much connected.
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"It's a slippery slope… No other medical procedure is considered a crime! Medical decisions should be private!"
“People should be free to choose medical procedures affecting them and their loved ones without worrying about the government punishing them!”
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What did the Republicans in the New Hampshire House do after they lost seats in the 2022 midterms? Keep the same “leaders”. If ever there were a time for soul-searching, a time for making a change, it would have been then … the Party out of power is NOT supposed to lose midterm elections; they are supposed to make gains, especially when the President of the Party in power is as unpopular as Biden.
Keeping the same leadership shows that the House Republicans are content with being losers. The same can be said of the NHGOP as a whole. The entire State Party should have resigned after the debacle in 2022. At a minimum Stepanek and Tucker should have resigned the day after the midterms. But they didn’t … and nobody with a real bully pulpit was demanding that they do. The NHGOP is a Party that is resigned to and content with losing.
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— Jesse Kelly (@JesseKellyDC) April 5, 2023
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The Country Music industry held its annual celebration on Sunday evening. The CMA showcased its 57th annual awards ceremony. I confess I do not watch any of these narcissistic, self-indulgent, made-for-TV events. I choose not to elevate these people above who they are. They are gifted performers lucky enough to have been given their chance at success and fortune, and they grabbed it.
In addition to the typical individual and group awards, there were tributes to legends who are still with us or have unfortunately left us too soon. The careers of Leonard Skynard and Naomi Judd were celebrated. But then the show went off track, which is sad to write about.
The Country music industry has traditionally been conservative and patriotic. There were exceptions, like the Dixie Chicks and their assault on George Bush. That faux pas forced the group off the mainstream and restricted them to tours outside America. Kelsea Ballerini is one of the younger members of the Country Music family, so maybe she has not been coached on the heritage and connection between Country and Americana. Kelsea Ballerini embarrassed herself and the genre Sunday night.
Ballerini performed the song, “If You Go Down (I’m Going Down, Too),” backed by a quartet of “Drag Race” stars — Manila Luzon, Kennedy Davenport, Jan Sport, and Olivia Lux — dressed as glam midcentury housewives lounging on a lawn in front of a white picket fence. This performance was in bad taste on several counts. It did not have a place on the CMA.
Nashville is the home of Country Music, and we are all familiar with the recent tragedy that took the lives of six innocent souls at the hands of an unstable armed individual. The three children and three adults have recently been buried, and Nashville, and the country, are still feeling the pain. That shooting has a connection with the transgender community, as the female shooter openly identified as a male. Dancing and celebrating with a group of four transvestites or transgender performers was uncalled for and a poor decision.
The country is divided on the issue of transgender children. Some states have either passed or are in the process of designating themselves as sanctuary states. Not a sanctuary for illegals but for people who find themselves meeting resistance to fulfilling their transgender process. This harboring also protects children from their parents who do not want their minor children to modify their gender. In effect, these laws can facilitate the separation of children and their parents. Ballerini’s performance only fuels this divide.
Reaction to this performance shows how divided we are on the subject. Ballerini was blasted by those who saw the number as offensive. At the same time, she was praised by those who thought she was brave and heroic to follow through with the act. I see nothing brave or heroic. Those terms should be reserved for warriors, not for a singer surrounded by Drag Queens.
I hope this was a one-off for Country Music. I have been a fan of the genre for years, specifically for their patriotism and love of this country. I hope this performance does not indicate the genre is going in another direction. If so, I will be taking a different road.
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Having previously posted on Lou Gargiulo’s report concerning ballot irregularities observed and researched during the November 2023 NH State Senate District 24 election, there was another element to the NH Ballot Law Commission meeting.
A discussion concerning testing done with other than Dominion / LHS AccuVote voting machines in several districts. While the tests appear to have been completed successfully (methodology, results, standards of measurements), there will be more done.
Not only did these representatives from the company give their testimony, but so did the moderators from both Londonderry and Milford (two of the test sites):
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