Many in the developed world -not t blinkered by “Social Justice” – have called the movement of millions of Muslim youths (families being a much smaller percentage, just like at our Southern border) “The Clash of Civilizations.” An invasion by non-military means. We were called stupid for doing so by those that we then called “Western Civilization Self-Loathers.”

I watched as the European Government leaders put those “asylum seekers,” many of whom became welfare squatters instead of the “new citizens” they were expecting to make up for their real Citizens’ crashing birth rates.

And guess what? We were right all along.

The Muslims aren’t there for a better life – it is a takeover of the country – and they are there now, sparked in a manner similar to how George Floyd’s death launched the Black Lives Matter movement.

 

A Muslim man gave a shocking answer amid ongoing rioting in France in a now-viral man-on-the-street interview, telling a reporter it’s now their “turn” to colonize a nation they deem racist.

Thousands have rioted since June 27, when a police officer shot and killed a 17-year-old who investigators say refused to stop for police.

 

And this “nice boy” had an existing rap sheet to boot. Just like George Floyd, but just like the “Hands Up” co-opters, had another agenda in mind – take down our system here in the US and now it’s being replayed in France under another pretext that doesn’t hold much water except as a man-made flash point.

 

Muslim immigrants, as well as critics around the world including the U.N., have blamed the riots on “institutional racism” in France.

 

Yeah, Critical Race Theory went international.  ALL Whites, ALL Europeans, and those of European descent are ALWAYS Racists. Balderdash – as we saw with BLM, it is always nothing but a scam that helped the self-avowed Marxists at the top “get theirs” with millions of bribes donations from corporations intentionally mismanaged and ending up in the pockets of very few. The true believers and foot soldiers got bubkis.

Most “migrating to a better life” Muslims in European countries are going to find out that will be their fate in life as well: cannon fodder for those at their top.

And someone finally said what we suspected all along – this is a play for REVENGE, just like BLM was here in the US:

 

With Marseille, France being recently filled with riots for nearly a week following a fatal police shooting of a Muslim teenager, Ezra went and spoke to members of the Muslim community.

FULL REPORT by @EzraLevant: https://t.co/DYWA6Y4bwM pic.twitter.com/wy0IgCxlR3

— Rebel News (@RebelNewsOnline) July 7, 2023

Sure thing with that “Religion of Peace” there, Baghdad Bob. Right up there with “mostly peaceful” by our media (with building burning in the background) during the BLM and Antifa riots that caused over $2 Billion in damages and killed many.

And we’re seeing the same thing here in the US under the Obama and now Biden Administrations – illegal aliens are given more stuff and privileges than we, who have to pay their freight for being here illegally. Consider it reparations by other means to atone for the Left’s self-loathing and guilt.

Certainly, nothing less and probably a whole lot more. If it is happening there, it will start happening here soon. Remember, “Islam” translates as “submit.”

HT | Daily Wire

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Recently, I saw someone complaining that the Biden administration’s attempts to suppress free speech on social media are inconsistent with promises that Biden made to ‘bring decency and morality’ back to government.

But wait — isn’t it widely accepted that the way to promote decency and morality is to suppress indecency and immorality?

Isn’t that the goal of progressive administrations when they try to curate speech?  To keep people from saying things that are indecent (for example, that you ought to be able to own an AR-15) or immoral (for example, that maybe not everyone should get vaccinated)?  So that the rest of us can be ‘protected’ from exposure to people with such horrid beliefs?

And isn’t that also the goal of conservative administrations when they try to curate behavior?  To keep people from doing things that are indecent (like using recreational drugs) or immoral (like paying for sex)?  So that the rest of us can be ‘protected’ from exposure to people with such horrid beliefs?

The cause of all the fuss seems to be that progressives and conservatives agree on the need to suppress indecency and immorality.  They disagree only on what constitutes decency and morality.

So when either group gets into power, it tries to force its views on the other group. And when either group gets out of power, it complains about having the other group’s views forced on it.

Probably the most important ‘constitutional principle’ that people tend to forget is that — as Ron Paul pointed out — you can’t give up less than 100 percent of a right. How many conservatives who are now complaining about government censorship would be willing to agree with Hugo Black?

Without deviation, without exception, without any ifs, buts, or whereases, freedom of speech means that you shall not do something to people either for the views they express, or the words they speak or write.

In my experience, most people — including most conservatives — agree in principle with Joe Biden when he says that ‘no rights are absolute.’ They just differ in which exceptions to allow. Which means they have to resort to politics to fight over those exceptions.

As with global nuclear war, the only way to win that game is to stop playing it — to stop thinking of rights as causing problems, and start thinking of them as having consequences:

https://granitegrok.com/blog/2021/03/problem-or-consequence

https://granitegrok.com/blog/2022/05/consequences-are-not-problems

The former view leads to one-size-fits-none government solutions.

The latter view leads to infinitely-customizable individual responses.  (It’s also consistent with the idea that governments are formed to protect rights and derive their just powers from the consent of the governed — an idea that, for more than 160 years, GOP platforms have said that the party exists to protect.)

What progressives and conservatives both need to learn is that the best way to get what you want is give up the idea that in order to get it, you have to force everyone else to go along with you:

https://granitegrok.com/blog/2019/03/the-js-have-it

Democrats could have a single-payer health care system for Democrats next year… if they would just leave non-Democrats out of it:

https://granitegrok.com/blog/2019/03/the-single-payer-party

Republicans could have a system that punishes Republicans, but not anyone else, for failing to live up to their own religious principles… if they would just leave non-Republicans out of it:

https://granitegrok.com/blog/2019/03/the-voluntary-exclusion-party

And everyone else could take advantage of what Justice Brandeis called the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men:  the right to be let alone.

As Jesus said, before worrying about the mote in your brother’s eye, remove the beam from your own.

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Like the [il]Liberal movement itself, it is narcissistic and shallow. Just like Critical Race Theory, transgenderism is skin deep – externalities only. What Walsh points out, and many of us understand, is transgenderism only treats the outward physical manifestations of another sex by those suffering from gender dysphoria (or those swept up the social contagion affecting many pre-teens and teens (and Moms with Munchausen Syndrome by proxy that states their two-year-old toddler understands what sex is and it isn’t what it observably is).

There is that saying that we men have no idea what women are or want. No, not in the way that Walsh’s now infamous (and HATED by the Left every time we on the Right ask it) “What is a Woman?”. He’s a hater, I’m a hater, you can be a hater, too, if you ask it – and demand an answer (Thank you, SCOTUS Justice and Harvard grad Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, for forever making it clear that the Left can’t define what a woman is – the phrase of unending and very deserving comedy).

But Walsh points out what almost all men (unless you are a Beta male, a simpering male feminist or the run of the mill Leftist) intuitively know – unless you’ve trudged miles upon miles in our shoes, you cannot know the burden that we have that women don’t (and he points out wonderfully, the reverse is true as well). He starts out with a clip from Libs of TikTok that we had previously used on GraniteGrok (Me? Steve?) where the transman James laments that being a man is just plain lonely:

 

This is really sad. Trans man realizes how hard it is to be a man when you’re really a woman.

Males and females are different and no matter what you do to your body, you can’t be the opposite sex. pic.twitter.com/Ib2in2vJrb

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) June 10, 2023

 

While I put Walsh’s email below for context (I’m on his distro list), here are the important bits (reformatted, emphasis mine):

Here’s what we’re witnessing in this video. A woman was driven, by her own self-loathing and confusion, to reject her womanhood and attempt to become a man. She did not succeed in this pursuit, and never will, but through the help of drugs and surgery, she has managed to create a semi-convincing costume of a man. It is convincing enough, apparently, that most people she encounters reflexively accept and see her as a man. She had imagined that being seen as a man would be a great relief for her, a source of peace and freedom, but instead she has found that manhood is not the utopian fantasyland she imagined it would be. Men in the modern world are, as she has discovered, often deeply isolated, alienated, and alone. It is lonely to be a man, she says. And she’s right.

She did not know this before she set out on the fool’s errand of transitioning, but she has now discovered that men carry a heavy burden,  a cross that is invisible to many women. Now she finds herself shouldering just a portion of it, and it has broken her. She wanted to be a man, but was not prepared for what that meant. How could she be? She wasn’t a man and therefore could not have possibly known what it was like to be one.

She still doesn’t know.

Of course, she doesn’t, as she fell for the Left’s belief that we are all just mere interchangeable cogs in their Social Machine. They believe, just like chess pieces, that we can be moved at their command, hither and thither, to further develop THEIR future utopia (at our disruption) via creating chaos. And in this case, how much more chaos can the Left create in greasing the skids by which a person loses all footing on their reality except the skin-deep changes only available by taking drugs (which should be a cautionary tale for other drug decriminalization efforts by the Left and silly Libertarians).

We’re not interchangeable – ALL of us are unique and not just physically, but Walsh covers that as well:

She says that women are deeper and more emotionally mature, which is why it is much less lonely to be a woman. But that isn’t true. Women aren’t deeper or more mature. They are just different. They are women. They are more relational by nature, more empathetic, more affectionate, more emotional, softer in many ways. Women are more fragile; it is easier to hurt them physically and emotionally.

This all can be a source of frustration for us as men, but it’s also what we love about women. We love women because women are women. They are not us. They are different. They have a different way of being, of existing in the universe. They bring another dimension into our lives, and we sense that we need that dimension to be truly whole.

A healthy man doesn’t want to be a woman; he doesn’t want to adopt her ways and her manner of thinking, much less her body but he does want to be with a woman. He wants not to become her, but to be united with her.

I can say this about the inner life of a man because I am one. “James” misses all of this because she isn’t. Instead she surmises that we are simply shallow and emotionally immature. Which is exactly the kind of patronizing, contemptuous anti-male cliche that contributes to the isolation and loneliness that she’s complaining about. It may be true of some men on an individual basis, but generally speaking it is not a lack of depth that causes men to be quieter, more stoic, more reserved, or more distant. It is not even the intentional alienation and marginalization of an aggressively anti-male, masculinity-hating culture, though that is part of the story.

Some of what “James” is tapping into, or at least for the first time noticing, has been an immutable aspect of manhood for as long as the human species has existed. There is indeed more to being a man than simply having male reproductive organs and chromosomes. There is also the actual experience of being a man; the inner life of a man; which runs much deeper than “James” understands, even now. A man tends to be more in tune with the harshest aspects of reality. He is uniquely called to confront the darkness in the world, and uniquely equipped for this calling. It’s not that we don’t feel anything. We do feel, and feel with great depth, but we carry those feelings differently, and often we carry them in silence, alone. This is how we are wired, and the world needs us to be wired this way. Women are also more oriented towards community. They build and depend upon relationships. Men are more solitary by nature. Again, these differences are hardwired.

When we say that men shouldn’t cry, it is not just a joke. There’s an important truth here. The world needs men to pick up their burdens, shoulder them quietly, and get on with business. The more that men become emotional and soft, the more that society ceases to function as it should. We need emotion and softness. That’s why we have women. We also need toughness and hardness. That’s why we’re supposed to have men. The men who fulfill this duty are accused of being unfeeling, of lacking depth, but the truth is that they have a depth that people like James can’t even begin to comprehend. And she probably never will. She has accessed only the surface level of the male experience, and she’s already fleeing for the hills. If she ever got the entire thing; I mean if she was actually able to fully inhabit the mind, the inner life, of a man, it would be torture for her. As it would be for any woman. That’s because women are not meant to carry the burden of manhood, any more than men are meant to carry the burden of womanhood. We are where we belong. Which is the identity we were born with. We cannot comprehend what it’s really like to have any other identity.

He’s right. Absolutely right. We are different, but starting with the now toxic Feminist movement that wishes to banish maleness altogether because they don’t realize the truth that Walsh brings, they simply dismiss that role with “toxic masculinity”.

What those “like a fish needs a bicycle” harridans don’t understand is that THEY are a big part of this problem. They changed the culture by attempting (and in large part, succeeding) to cut men out of the Culture completely. Let’s face it, even as females are glorified, have higher graduation rates in high school and college and are taking the majority of degrees, men are ALWAYS considered to be selfish rapists and layabouts.  And DANGEROUS.

You know, its rather serious – the Left is always saying how rotten and DANGEROUS and unequal America is – yet people still want to come here.

If men are so rotten, why is it that women still want to become men?

After all, we’re just not all that privileged anymore, even as we, as husbands, providers, and protectors, still uplift our wives – who ARE women. And after 42 years of marriage, like the insurance company ad, I think I know a thing or two about that – but maybe only a coupla things when I have to admit it. After all, ALL real men still don’t understand their wives completely – and that’s fine as they don’t completely understand us as well.

That’s why we’ve been made to be complementary and not just some cog in a Leftist dissonant Utopia.

 

Why Women Will Never Know What It???s Like To Be A Man

Anyone who has seen “What is a Woman?” and millions of people have now  knows that at the end we do provide an answer to the elusive question. My wife makes an appearance in the very last scene (spoiler) and delivers the correct biologically-sound definition: a woman is an adult human female. That answer is simple and accurate and obviously necessary to establish. But once it has been established, there is plenty more to say about the subject. “What is a Woman” both the question and the film that revolves around it, are meant to be the beginning of a discussion, not the end. A woman is an adult human female ; every woman is that, and must be that but there is so much more to womanhood than its basic biological definition. Just as a man is an adult human male, every man is that, and must be that.

This is a point made, rather accidentally, by a viral Twitter clip featuring a female who, some time ago, changed her name to “James” and attempted to transition into a man. James now calls herself “the trans coach” and offers life advice and motivational tips for other trans people. Yet in a recent video James revealed that she still has a lot to learn about the male identity she is attempting to assume.

What you???re about to watch is truly one of the saddest things you’ve likely seen in a while, but also quite profound in a few different ways. I???ll explain, but first watch:

 

Now, there’s a lot in that two-minute monologue that’s simply wrong, starting with her calling herself a man, of course but even the wrong parts reveal something essential, if accidentally, about manhood, about trans ideology, and about our culture.

Here’s what we’re witnessing in this video. A woman was driven, by her own self-loathing and confusion, to reject her womanhood and attempt to become a man. She did not succeed in this pursuit, and never will, but through the help of drugs and surgery, she has managed to create a semi-convincing costume of a man. It is convincing enough, apparently, that most people she encounters reflexively accept and see her as a man. She had imagined that being seen as a man would be a great relief for her, a source of peace and freedom, but instead she has found that manhood is not the utopian fantasyland she imagined it would be. Men in the modern world are, as she has discovered, often deeply isolated, alienated, and alone. It is lonely to be a man, she says. And she’s right.

She did not know this before she set out on the fool’s errand of transitioning, but she has now discovered that men carry a heavy burden, a cross that is invisible to many women. Now she finds herself shouldering just a portion of it, and it has broken her. She wanted to be a man, but was not prepared for what that meant. How could she be? She wasn’t a man and therefore could not have possibly known what it was like to be one.

She still doesn’t know.

She says that women are deeper and more emotionally mature, which is why it is much less lonely to be a woman. But that isn’t true. Women aren’t deeper or more mature. They are just different. They are women. They are more relational by nature, more empathetic, more affectionate, more emotional, softer in many ways. Women are more fragile, it is easier to hurt them physically and emotionally.

This all can be a source of frustration for us as men, but it’s also what we love about women. We love women because women are women. They are not us. They are different. They have a different way of being, of existing in the universe. They bring another dimension into our lives, and we sense that we need that dimension to be truly whole.

A healthy man doesn’t want to be a woman, he doesn’t want to adopt her ways and her manner of thinking, much less her body but he does want to be with a woman. He wants not to become her, but to be united with her.

I can say this about the inner life of a man because I am one. “James” misses all of this because she isn’t. Instead she surmises that we are simply shallow and emotionally immature. Which is exactly the kind of patronizing, contemptuous anti-male cliche that contributes to the isolation and loneliness that she’s complaining about. It may be true of some men on an individual basis, but generally speaking it is not a lack of depth that causes men to be quieter, more stoic, more reserved, or more distant. It is not even the intentional alienation and marginalization of an aggressively anti-male, masculinity-hating culture, though that is part of the story.

Some of what “James” is tapping into, or at least for the first time noticing, has been an immutable aspect of manhood for as long as the human species has existed. There is indeed more to being a man than simply having male reproductive organs and chromosomes. There is also the actual experience of being a man, the inner life of a man, which runs much deeper than “James” understands, even now. A man tends to be more in tune with the harshest aspects of reality. He is uniquely called to confront the darkness in the world, and uniquely equipped for this calling. It’s not that we don’t feel anything. We do feel, and feel with great depth, but we carry those feelings differently, and often we carry them in silence, alone. This is how we are wired, and the world needs us to be wired this way. Women are also more oriented towards community. They build and depend upon relationships. Men are more solitary by nature. Again, these differences are hardwired.

When we say that men shouldn’t cry, it is not just a joke. There’s an important truth here. The world needs men to pick up their burdens, shoulder them quietly, and get on with business. The more that men become emotional and soft, the more that society ceases to function as it should. We need emotion and softness. That’s why we have women. We also need toughness and hardness. That’s why we’re supposed to have men. The men who fulfill this duty are accused of being unfeeling, of lacking depth, but the truth is that they have a depth that people like “James” can’t even begin to comprehend. And she probably never will. She has accessed only the surface level of the male experience, and she’s already fleeing for the hills. If she ever got the entire thing ? I mean if she was actually able to fully inhabit the mind, the inner life, of a man, it would be torture for her. As it would be for any woman. That’s because women are not meant to carry the burden of manhood, any more than men are meant to carry the burden of womanhood. We are where we belong. Which is the identity we were born with. We cannot comprehend what it’s really like to have any other identity.

As for “James”, she will not allow herself to comprehend anything. She gets close to partially understanding, but then she makes a left turn and runs away. That’s why at the end she makes sure to clarify that women and allegedly marginalized minorities are still totally justified in treating “cisgender” white males like dirt. She was nearly on the verge of discovering that we are human beings, that we have feelings, that we suffer, but her ideology won’t allow her to finish connecting the dots.

It’s all futile. Just like her transition. It amounts to nothing in the end.

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The “leaders” of the NH-House GOP apparently believe that the voters in New Hampshire are Koch-bots, that their most important issue is cutting business taxes. Stated slightly differently, it’s as if the  goal of these “leaders” is not winning elections and gaining actual voting-control of the House, but rather getting a pat on the head and an attaboy from the local Koch organization.

It’s really not that complicated. Any voter who thinks cutting business taxes is the most important issue is already going to vote for the candidate with the “R” after his name. The best that focusing on cutting business taxes is going to achieve with the rest of voters … the vast, vast majority of voters … is NOTHING, and more likely will alienate voters being crushed by high local property taxes and who have seen the NHGOP fail to deliver real wins … not paper wins … on CRT and DEI.

So this is what inspired this post:

It’s also worth mentioning that the NH-House GOP leaders are speaking the language of the Democrats and the GOP-elite. Taxes are NOT “revenues.” Taxpayers, whether they are businesses or humans, are forced to pay taxes. There is no choice. Taxes are TAXES.

Essentially what the NH-House GOP leaders are telling voters is that they intend to, yet again, do absolutely NOTHING about stratospheric local school taxes (such as a HARD cap), because what really matters to them is getting a pat on the head and an attaboy from Koch-world.

 

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We’ve made sport of Ben & Jerry’s for years, with this past week’s foolishness offering up a cornucopia of opportunities for ridicule. In classic commie fashion, Limousine Libs Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield suggested “America” give back stolen land, just not their stolen land.

B&J no longer own the company, but they get to run a board of directors who cough up progressive hairballs on the brand’s social accounts and pretend it is social justice advocacy. The anti-Jewish Jews took July 4 as an opportunity to show more ignorance than usual. They’ve since been mocked and boycotted, their parent company has lost two billion in market share in just a few days,  and now an Abenaki chief has added to the merriment.

 

Don Stevens, chief of the Nulhegan Band of The Coosuk Abenaki Nation, which is descended from the nation that once controlled parts of modern-day Vermont, told Newsweek in a recent interview that the nation has always been “interested in reclaiming the stewardship of our lands.” …

However, the chief told Newsweek that, despite the ice cream company’s virtue signaling, the tribe “has not been approached in regards to any land back opportunities from Ben & Jerry’s.”

 

That’s the thing about virtue signaling. That’s all it is. No one in Ben & Jerry’s social justice star chamber is giving up their land, transportation options, or security if they have it. But they feel very deeply about someone else sacrificing in the name of their crusade. It is the social justice equivalent of the Mullahs that preach radicalism; put on this bomb vest and blow something up in the name of Allah while we watch.

The 2020 Summer of Love BLM riots were a great example of this. Mostly peaceful protesters burned out black-owned businesses terrorizing the locals. White liberals demanded we all donate to what turned out to be cash-for mansions for anti-Semites triad. Local Dems sacrificed local police forces to this false god, and the black community was further harmed and continues to suffer. The only Black Lives that Mattered were its board members who got rich on corporate donations.

Cohen and Greenfield are cut from the same progressive cloth. Their ideological agenda would inevitably reduce everyone else into wage slaves at the bottom of a two-class one-party state.

They aren’t giving up their homes or offices. No one on the left is returning anything to anyone. All they do is take, but kudos to Newsweek and Don Stevens for poking them in their ideologically cataract-covered eyes.

“[T]he tribe ‘has not been approached in regards to any land back opportunities from Ben & Jerry’s.'”

Brilliant.

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People are, with good reason, afraid to let Joe Biden continue in office, given some of the things that come out of his mouth when he goes off script. But here are a couple of recent quotations from his vice president, Kamala Harris.

1) “Culture is — it is a reflection of our moment in our time, right? And in present culture is the way we express how we’re feeling about the moment.  And we should always find times to express how we feel about the moment that is a reflection of joy, because as you know, it comes in the morning.  We have to find ways to also express the way we feel about the moment in terms of just having language and a connection to how people are experiencing life. And I think about it in that way too.”

2) “So, I think it’s very important, as you have heard from so many incredible leaders, for us at every moment in time — and certainly this one — to see the moment in time in which we exist and are present, and to be able to contextualize it, to understand where we exist in the history and in the moment as it relates not only to the past but the future.”

It’s possible that we’ve been thinking about the vice presidency in the wrong way.  Maybe the main job of the Vice President is simply to make the President look good by comparison.  In which case, Ms. Harris is perhaps the best Vice President ever.

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Representative Paul Tudor Rockingham 1 Northwood / Nottingham endorses Jim Guzofski in the Republican Primary Special election on August 1st, 2023.

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These are particularly difficult times for New Hampshire with skyrocketing electricity prices, record inflation, and out-of-control gas and heating fuel. We have also experienced the eroding of our personal freedoms and liberties, from parental rights in education to intrusive business regulations, as we saw play out during the Covid pandemic.

There is one candidate for State Representative in Rockingham 1 Northwood Nottingham who will put the people of New Hampshire first, stop government overreach and hold the line on taxes and spending. That candidate is Jim Guzofski. As a two-term selectman in Northwood, with 34 years in the ministry, he is a conservative Republican who understands we need to bring local values to Concord and to stop the politicians from taking more control over our lives.

I’ve known Jim for several years and observed his strong conservative approach to government in Northwood. He is a minority conservative voice on the very progressive Northwood selectmen board. He’s fought hard to toe the line on taxes and return surplus money back to town residents by using it to reduce town tax rates.

Jim strongly opposes any State income or sales taxes and is a strong steward of the taxpayer’s money. Along with being a selectman, he serves as a fire department Chaplain responding to many local calls in support of our Emergency responders and Veterans. To quote Jim,” The dedication and commitment of our emergency responders is astounding. They need our total support through financial funding and prayer as they deal with life-or-death issues. Our veterans, who have already done their service for all of us, need the same type of support.”

Jim supports Freedom of speech, Freedom of religion and is a strong 2nd amendment advocate opposing any restriction to our second amendment rights.

A seasoned professional with years of public service as a pastor and select board member, Jim is the person we need to take on the Democrat candidate in September. This is a very important special election and could determine control of the house. We need every conservative New Hampshire citizen in Rockingham 1 to come out in support of the Republican agenda by voting for Jim Guzofski.

I urge you to vote for Jim Guzofski for State representative on August 1st, 2023.

 

 

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On Tuesday, June 27th, Aria DiMezzo checked into the FMC Devens federal prison in Ayer, Massachusetts. Dimezzo faced multiple charges relating to her sales of Bitcoin over the span of a few years. She ultimately pled guilty to operating an unlicensed money transmitting business in September 2022. On April 25th, she was sentenced to 18 months in prison and fined $5,000. DiMezzo worked as a manager at Domino’s Pizza and a regular host of Free Talk Live, a widely syndicated libertarian radio show and podcast.

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District Court’s injunction from coordinating with social media companies; why did States have standing in this case but not in the election cases when courts said they did not have standing? SCOTUS decision on affirmative action; will legacy admissions be affected? Will universities train applicants how to circumvent the ruling by claiming adversity?

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As you all know, our schools have gone woke, school curriculum is written by Left-leaning (to the point of being Marxists), and media will mouthpiece anything their political Masters tell them to do (not that it takes all that much urging as we all know). So when Grokster Mike made me three offers, I jumped at them all. However, these first:

From GeekPress: Physical Encyclopedia

“I just bought the only physical encyclopedia still in print, and I regret nothing”. (Via H.R.)

…A World Book rep told Quartz in 2019 that the print encyclopedia sold mostly to schools, public libraries, and homeschooling families. Today, Evans says that public and school libraries are still the company’s primary customers. “World Book has a loyal following of librarians who understand the importance of a general reference encyclopedia in print form, accessible to all.”

…The 2023 version spans 17,000 articles spread over 14,000 pages in 22 volumes. The company says it features over 25,000 photographs, illustrations, diagrams, and maps…At a time when most information comes to us for free online (with strings attached, of course), it’s easy to have sticker shock at the $1,199 retail price for the 2023 edition of World Book

and

National Geographic magazine has laid off the last of its staff writers

National Geographic, the iconic yellow framed magazine that has chronicled the natural world for more than 100 years, laid off its last remaining staff writers this week, multiple departing staffers said. The latest round of layoffs at the magazine cut 17 editorial positions, including all of the publication’s staff writers, its entire podcast staff, and a group of editors, including one who’d been on staff for nearly 40 years, a former staffer affected by the layoffs told CNN. The layoffs, which were announced to the staff in April, were part of a wave of cuts from parent company Disney, which resulted in thousands of positions being axed across the media giant.

And the rest of the story…

What you didn’t know was that some long treasured times, in my youth, were spent with my Aunt Barbara and Uncle Larry. My Mom (single parent) would drive us from Brockton down to Mattapoisett to spend the weekend with them (she was my Mom’s older sister). First thing on Friday nights is that we’d make chocolate chip cookies (and yes, they were better than Mom’s (which were pretty good in their own right)). Then I’d head down to the finished cellar and dive into into the NatGeo magazines that spanned back to the early 1900s – you know, BEFORE “woke” was something we all did in the morning and got out of bed.

Sidenote: with the above layoff notice, please note that the National Geographic Society is separate from Disney. But I’m betting they are rather steamed at how their “joint-venture” just turned out.

Hours upon hours were spend down there, just soaking all that information up about all kinds of geography, culture, history, science, habitats; those memories remain with me to this day.

So when Grokster Mike offered the collection that he and Mar-Mar had gathered up over the years (with the backstory that Mar-Mar, being the self-appointed fairy grandmother to The Grandson, had ALWAYS showered him with books of all kinds), I said yes. Dunno where I’m going to put them yet, but as he is downsizing from his digs in the southern part of the State, but I’ll find a place for them such that the Grandson (and others, including ME!) can be sponges for all that material.

And for me, to relive some of those old memories.

As to the first, Mike also offered his hardcopy encyclopedia set (back in the late last century) as well so I snatched them up as well. After all, no wokeness there and it has HISTORY in there that the Left hasn’t corrupted yet. Mike also donated a set of bookcases in which to house them all as his new (transitory?) digs don’t have room for them.

For me, these written pages are solid gold even as I spent the majority of my time online hunting for stuff to write about. They will be treasured for years.

Again, Mike – MANY THANKS!  Especially for reawakening old and dormant memories of magazines and A.B. and U.L.

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My first question, after reading the headline “Court rejects Satanic Temple’s claim that Texas abortion ban violates ‘religious freedom,’” was, does the left want these folks playing so publicly on their team? Satanists are claiming that aborting babies is a religious right (by which they must mean rite).

 

[The Satanic Temple] is known for agitating against pro-life laws, sponsoring LGBT “pride” events, erecting Satanic statues on public property, and promoting “Satan clubs” on public school property, among other attention-generating antics in support of various left-wing agenda items.

 

What in the name of Lucifer’s cloven feet is this nonsense?

 

“SB 8’s ban on abortions after six weeks infringes upon our members’ rights to engage with their chosen religion and to participate in religious rites and rituals,” claimed TST Director of Campaign Operations Erin Helian. “In accordance with our Third Tenet, The Satanic Temple will push back against the Texas legislature’s violation of our members’ bodily autonomy and freedom of choice.”

 

Admitting that abortion is, or at least might be, a religious sacrifice could be a red-listed bridge too far, even for your average I-Stand-With-Planned-Parenthood T-shirt-wearing blue-haired trans-feminist. You say it is your body, but it is actually an altar to satan, and abortion docs are high priests performing ritual sacrifice. I feel certain they’d all be happy to claim the tax deduction (my body is a temple to satan!) but won’t this put a hitch in Big Abortion’s Gary Cooper step?

Maybe some enterprising new media reporter can ask the next time they take questions at a Press conference: and not just Big A, but ask any of their fully paid-for franchisees doing business as elected officials.

Excuse me, is abortion a religious rite (that’s R-I-T-E) protected by the first amendment?

And in related news, is it worth reminding you that Statan CON in Boston (back in April) required masks and proof of vaccination? That was amusing, but this is just hysterical.

 

TST is a secular-leftist group that purports to embrace Satan’s name as a “symbol of the Eternal Rebel in opposition to arbitrary authority” while not believing that God, the devil, or other supernatural concepts literally exist, but also promotes satanic rituals.

 

There is no God nor Satan, but they sued to protect abortion based on religious rights that, banded on their worldview, do not exist.

They are self-admitted lefties. Government is their god, as is satan.  That’s an accurate description of the Democrat party if you ask me.

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I started on this kick back in the late 1990s as I became more politically aware and conscious of how politicians were always on the hunt for my wallet – and there’s nothing wrong with my sense of self-interest in protecting that private property.

My voice got louder once elected to my hamlet’s budget committee when the Town and School Board kept saying, “But it’s Free Money.” All kinds of grants that I asked about and later found were an on-ramp for the Town and School District to spend OUR money  – “They’ll pay for one cop and two firemen now, but we must keep them on the payroll and pay all of it after the initial three years.”

It’s the same story with our “sidewalk to nowhere,”  for which a six-grade class’s students got a grant. Nothing ever financially ratchets downward – NOTHING.

And thus, we get into this situation:

The problem isn’t purely a function of more debt. The bigger issue is that this new debt comes with a much steeper price tag. Interest on the national debt is rising at an alarming clip. The trailing 12-month (TTM) interest on the debt clocked in at just under $600 billion in May. This was up from $350 billion at the start of 2022, less than 18 months ago. The government has added an extra $250 billion in expenses per year on just debt service.

This is just the beginning of an upward trend. Based on the current interest payments, the Treasury is paying less than 2% interest on the total debt. But a lot of the debt currently on the books was financed at very low rates before the Federal Reserve started its hiking cycle. Every month, some of that super-low-yielding paper matures and has to be replaced by bills, notes and bonds yielding much higher rates. That means interest payments will quickly climb much higher unless rates fall.

Looking at the Treasury sale on June 26 reveals the extent of the problem. The Treasury sold $162 billion in securities, with $120 billion in short-term Treasury bills with high yields.

• $58 billion in six-month bills at an investment yield of 5.45%
• $62 billion in three-month bills at an investment yield of 5.34%.
• $42 billion in two-year notes at a high yield of 4.67%, amid very strong demand. Longer-term yields are still far below short-term yields.

For comparison, the entire US military budget is $858 billion. If interest rates continue to rise, that National Debt Interest is going to soar and can very easily take over most of the Federal budget quickly (go ahead, do the compute exercise if rates go up 3% or 4% over the next few months.

The question then becomes, WHO is going to take the haircut financially? And when that happens, WHO and HOW will be blame apportioned and met out? I would like #HeadsOnPikes for any politician that voted for the policies that led us up to this point. Starting with our own Federal Democrat coven of financial witches…but I’m not averse to going back in time for others (regardless of party affiliation) to do the required “wash, rinse, repeat”.

Will we, the electorate, finally figure out that it is our elected representatives that need to have their political heads (e.g., removal from Congress and the White House) removed?

(H/T: ZeroHedge)

Add this:

Politicians claim their bills bring us good things. Free health care! Child care! A cellphone for all!

But government isn’t Santa Claus. Government is force.

Most every law takes away a little of our money or freedom or both.

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Yesterday, I scrabbled together a quick comment on Ben & Jerry’s ignorant indigenous Independence Day tweet, but when I saw Rob Roper’s take, mine went into the digital dustbin. I liked his more, but the fates have since blessed me with news that makes for a great follow-up.

Related: Ben & Jerry’s Says, “Hold My Bud Light!”

 

First, here’s the dopey tweet from Vermont’s socialist millionaires.

 

 

This 4th of July, it’s high time we recognize that the US exists on stolen Indigenous land and commit to returning it. Learn more and take action now: https://t.co/45smaBmORH pic.twitter.com/a6qp7LXUAE

— Ben & Jerry’s (@benandjerrys) July 4, 2023

 

Rob’s headline was prescient. Unilever, which owns Ben & Jerry’s but allows Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield to head a board that sends out stupid tweets, lost two billion in market cap since, as calls for a Bud Light Level boycott of B&Js takes root.

 

Unilever stock lost about $2 billion in market capitalization amid calls to boycott Ben & Jerry’s ice cream after the company posted a Fourth of July message saying the United States should hand Mount Rushmore over to Native Americans.

Shares of Unilever, the Anglo-Dutch multinational company, dropped about 0.5 percent on Friday, 0.8 percent on Thursday, and 0.5 the previous day. It’s not clear if the drop was due to the calls to boycott Ben & Jerry’s, which has been owned by Unilever since 2000.

 

That’s a pittance for them. A hiccup. But so was Bud’s before things got serious. We will know soon enough. Ben and Jerry not only stepped in it, they did it on Independence Day with a level of ignorance typically reserved for the corporate media. They picked Mount Rushmore and the Lakota Sioux as the first land we should give back to the indigenous people. Not the land on which sits every Ben & Jerry’s, or any retailer that sells it, or even under their own homes, but Mount Rushmore.

Corporate media-level ignorance.

We’ve written about this very claim, made by the Lakota Sioux who stole the land from the Cheyenne, and they from whomever, and so on back to the original colonization of North America 16,000 give or take years ago when it was land occupied by no one up to that point but has changed hands ever since.

Regular readers will also be familiar with my scores of pieces on the notion of indigenous people in America. There were none. If you were born here, you’re no less indigenous, and if having your property taken is the only other requirement, your government has taken some and is working diligently to steal everyone’s land. That sort of government never gives back, and that’s the same team for whom Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield play.

As for an official Ben & Jerry’s boycott, game on, stop buying it. Just understand that, like Anheuser Busch, which is owned by a foreign colonialist power, Unilever is another foreign multinational. The stock price is reflective of many influences, none of which have to do with you taking your umbrage with the Birkenstock Socialists from Vermont. And if that’s not a good enough reason, do it because of their religious devotion to left-wing talking points; from #MeToo to BDS to Reverse-Racism, they’ll ape whatever hate and ignorance the DC/Media narrative mill coughs up, even on Independence Day.

They sort of hate America and the government that made their wealth possible. You can’t take that away from them, but maybe you can put enough pressure on the brand to get Unilever to disband their social justice board and any future ability to use the brand to express their dopey ideas.

They can, after all, afford to tweet as themselves.

 

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It’s the second line:

IS SHE MENTALLY SLOW? SHE HAS TO ASK THAT?  ‘It Smells Bad’: Nikki Haley Asks Whether Biden Loves Hunter More Than He Loves America.

The Bidens would sell out America for a used condom and a pack of Twinkies. Arguably they already have.

While everything that has been popping up about Biden Shakedown Inc. consist only of allegations, I would like to say that we are starting to see the “swirling the toilet bowl” phase and none of it is good. I keep thinking back to that infamous line by Biden Sr.: “if that lawyer isn’t fired, I’m taking that billion dollars home with me” (the US, not his home but I wouldn’t be surprised if a bundle here or there made it to Delaware).

But knowing what we do about Junior (that would be Hunter, if you don’t know), I would not be surprised if the Blogline of the Day held true.

(H/T: Instapundit)

Also, this from Instapundit.

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In celebration of American Independence, a Louisiana Judge blocked the Feds from colluding with Big Tech to censor Americans on social media. This was meant to stop the FBI, CIA, CDC, and others from pressuring the platforms to remove content at their discretion. Biden Inc. was not amused.

 

The Biden administration is appealing a court ruling sharply limiting the ability of federal officials to interact with social media companies about the content contained on their platforms.

In addition, a Justice Department official said Wednesday night that attorneys there plan to act “expeditiously” to seek a stay of the unusual injunction issued on July 4 by U.S. District Court Judge Terry Doughty in response to a lawsuit filed by Louisiana and Missouri last year. …

The Justice Department filed a notice of appeal Wednesday evening that will send Doughty’s opinion and the accompanying injunction to the New Orleans-based 5th Circuit Court of Appeals for review. That court is considered one of the most conservative federal appeals courts in the nation, but previously ruled against Doughty on a couple of disputes about demands for depositions of federal officials in the same litigation.

 

They won’t find much joy at the Fifth Circuit. But as Politico suggests, an order to revisit the breadth of the ban might be possible. The question turns on this. Will the Fifth Circuit view the actions of the government through big Tech proxies as censorship in violation of America’s First Amendment Rights?

The Feds infiltrated and coordinated with private companies to control what people were allowed to publish or share. Censorship rebranded as stopping misinformation or disinformation. Actions that interfered (or meddled) with election communications.

I don’t think the Feds have a leg to stand on, but like Pooh Bear used to say, you never can tell with bees Circuit Court Judges.

 

 

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54% of Americans believe that Joe Biden is doing a lousy job as President. 51% do not approve of the performance of Kamala Harris. Only 34% approve of Biden’s economic performance, and those same people support Biden’s Border policies. A mere 39% polled think Biden has a grip on foreign policy. If your child came home from school with this report card, they might find themselves without certain freedoms for a few weeks. If you were generous, you would give Joe a solid D or about the same grade he got in law school. This Presidency is a disaster and the only reason Jimmy Carter is hanging tough. He wants to ensure he loses his worst rating ever to Joseph Biden.

Two facts Biden, Harris, and Karine Jean-Pierre fall back on when discussing the economy are job and pay growth. Both need asterisks and disclaimers. The 13 million new jobs include the 12 million lost during the Pandemic. You cannot claim new job creation when people return to their pre-COVID positions. When inflation falls back to Earth from a nearly double-digit high, the modest rise in hourly rates is not keeping pace with inflation. Much of the rate increase comes from continued jumps in the minimum wage. These minimum wage increases harm small business owners the most, resulting in rising costs or businesses closing. These added costs add to inflation, and the lousy cycle continues. This is life in the real world, and why nobody is buying into Bidenomics.

Biden went to South Carolina this week to promote Bidenomics. South Carolina is one of the booming Southern states pulling people and businesses from the Northeast and West. There is a boom in states like Texas, Tennessee, Arizona, Florida, and the Carolinas because they are more attractive for many reasons. The crime rates are lower, some of these states have no state income tax, real estate is more affordable, and many are right to work, meaning less union control. This migration is because of forces due to us being a Republic. States can create their economic environment and attract people from other states. Biden does not understand these forces and claims to be the reason for the economic boom. This is simply not true. The boom in these states is despite, not because of, Federal policies. That was not enough for Biden, who had to go even further in his lie. He claimed his policies were better for Red states than Blue states. He was okay with these results because he is President for all Americans, Red or Blue. Even going into his patented whisper, nobody buys what Biden is serving. Bidenomics will be more of a liability than a benefit for Biden in 2024.

Biden and Harris cannot deliver the message, which is why their approval ratings are falling. Bidenomics may have worked for Biden’s Dad, but it does not work for America. Biden claims he is for the middle and lower classes, but if he keeps penalizing the upper class, there will be no growth, and we will continue to be a service, not a production, economy.

 

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Okay… So, by now you have probably heard that Ben & Jerry’s, in a “Hold my Bud Light” attempt to see who can alienate the most customers with one Tweet, kicked off July 4th with the statement, “It’s high time we recognize that the US exists on stolen Indigenous land and commit to returning it.”

Please welcome Robert Roper, who will be joining us as an author/contributor when VermontGrok opens its doors.

The PR equivalent of blowing your fingers off with an M-80.

A more detailed press release explained, “Who doesn’t love a good parade, some tasty barbecue, and a stirring fireworks display? The only problem with all that, though, is that it can distract from an essential truth about this nation’s birth: The US was founded on stolen Indigenous land. This year, let’s commit to returning it.” The company, which was purchased by Unilever in 2000 for $326 million, then suggested that we start by giving the Black Hills, including Mount Rushmore, to the Lakota Sioux.

So, here’s my question. If the US government, having stolen this land from the Sioux, gives it back to them, will the Sioux then give it back to the Cheyenne, the Native American tribe the Sioux stole the Black Hills from less than 75 years before the US Government signed the first treaty granting the Sioux rights to the land? Who the Cheyenne stole it from is beyond this author’s knowledge of Native American history, but presumably, it was someone. Where are the Clovis people today?

Donning my Woke Hat for a moment, isn’t it a rather Eurocentric view of history and social justice to assign these theoretical ownership rights to whoever happened to be occupying the land at the time white men “discovered” it? Isn’t that a cultural devaluation of all Native American history before the arrival of Europeans on the scene?

 

The fact is that Native American tribes were constantly at war with one another, taking and occupying one another’s territory through brutal acts of violent conquest, often capturing the members of rival tribes into slavery – sex slavery if you were a young woman, which was the style at the time.

When the Pilgrims arrived at Plymouth in 1620, Massasoit, chief of the Wampanoag tribe, allowed them to stay (breaking a long-understood, universal Native policy toward Europeans of “trade then leave”) and gave them aid not so much out of charity, but because the Wampanoags were about to have their land taken away by the Narragansett tribe. Massasoit thought these new immigrants – and their guns – would be handy allies in preventing such an attack. It worked! At least in the short term. Long term, let’s just say there are lessons to be learned from the experience.

When Francisco Pizarro began his improbable conquest of the Inca empire, he was greatly aided by the fact that the Inca chief Atahualpa was in the middle of and distracted by his own war for imperial power, his armies away conquering distant lands and not immediately available to protect against conquistadors arriving by sea.

This is not meant to disparage the Indigenous peoples of the Western Hemisphere; it’s just to show that human history everywhere is the story of one people taking another people’s land one way or another since the beginning of time. We are “One Race, the Human Race,” and we all behave the same way, for good and bad.

On the other side of the Atlantic, the Saxons took the land of the Britons. The Vikings took the same land from the Saxons. The Saxons took it back until the Normans conquered England in 1066. The Romans conquered Europe. Mongol hoards swept through Asia. When Alexander does it, he’s Great. When Ivan does it, he’s Terrible. Historical juries are fickle.

If you’re going to start giving land back to its “original” occupiers, where do you start, and where do you stop? It’s an impossible task, complicated by the fact that the victims of any injustice have been dead for multiple generations, and those being punished today for those past transgressions are innocent of any crimes, which creates its own new set of fresh injustices and grievances sure to poison the present and future without actually healing the past.

If we all go far enough back in our 23 and Me profiles, we can assuredly find ancestors on both sides of the social injustice scale. Heck, someone calculated that 16 million of us are direct decedents of Genghis Kahn. Should these folks pay reparations for the actions of their ancestor? Or receive them given that their relationship was likely the result of great, great, great, great, great grandma being raped?

At some point, you have to accept that the past is the past. It is what it is. Learn from it and use its lessons to move on into a better world for all.  Let’s be glad – and eternally grateful – that we now live in a very unique time and place in human history where property rights are respected, and wars of conquest are generally frowned upon rather than glorified. It’s a good thing that we look at the history of how Native Americans were treated and conclude as a society that this was bad behavior that should not be repeated. You cannot fix history, but you can use it to build a better future.

So, how about we use our Independence Day to pledge to keep this new and fragile record of progress regarding human rights and the continued eradication of poverty and violence worldwide moving in the right direction for future generations to enjoy? Let’s thank the rise of capitalism and the evolution of governing philosophies embodied in our Constitution and Bill of Rights for their huge role in ushering in this unprecedented time of peace and prosperity where anybody from anywhere can be a success — even two ungrateful hippies getting rich selling luxury ice cream.

 

Rob Roper is a freelance writer with 20 years of experience in Vermont politics, including three years of service as chair of the Vermont Republican Party and nine years as President of the Ethan Allen Institute, Vermont’s free-market think tank.

Cross-posted | RobertRoper on Substack

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When I filed my last Right To Know with DCYF, I had tagged these last few items. Number of data breaches; Timestamp, and Number of records exposed/each incident. And I thought about that afterward, and I came to the conclusion that more needed to be asked of this area.

After all, I grow weary of seeing Government taking much (or TOO much) time in reporting their own breaches but hypocritically turning around and actively going after the private sector for the same thing. Every time I think, “Who are YOU to tell others how to manage their affairs but can’t do it themselves?”

Sidenote: funny, the Trump Administration decided to move in a direction that would leave us citizens alone to make our own decisions. Biden, on the other hand, has decided that we all are morons and must be told what to do – yet keeps on making a mockery of itself.  But I digress…

Anyways, given that it was MY information put at risk, I was curious as to how the NH government, especially DCYF, handles our personal affairs.

Right to Know Request per RSA 91-A: “Family Connections” Data Breaches

Article 2-b of the NH Constitution by which all agents of NH Government (elected and administrative workers) shall obey:

[Art.] 2-b. [Right of Privacy.]An individual’s right to live free from governmental intrusion in private or personal information is natural, essential, and inherent.

Pursuant to the Right to Know Law (RSA. 91-A), I am demanding access, within 5 business days, to the following governmental records:

From the DCYF system that aggregates putative contact information of family members of accused suspects of abuse or neglect of a child such that they are sent the contact information of care providers for that child:

• Provide the number of data breaches since the “Go Live” date (when the system/subsystem was vetted for use for certain DCYF personnel in the performance of their duties) accomplished by either by State personnel or external actors (regardless of the “breach size”):
  • Timestamp of each incident
  • Number of records exposed per each incident.
• Provide the “we screwed up” confirmation announcement utilized to communicate the breach to each affected person/entity.
• For each breach, provide:
  • the number of care providers affected.
  • the number of accused affected
• Provide the remedy/remedy’s offered by the State, to those affected by the breach for remediation of the loss of their identity information
• Provide the total cost to the State/the State’s insurance companies spent:
  • remediation costs
  • legal defense actions (either through pre-court agreements, plea deals, court actions, et al)

Per RSA 91-A:4 IV(c) If you deny any portion of this request, please cite the specific exemption used to justify the denial to make each record, or part thereof, available for inspection along with a brief explanation of how the exemption applies to the information withheld.

As you are aware, in 2016, the New Hampshire Supreme Court ruled that a governmental body in possession of records is required to produce them in electronic media using standard common file formats: Green v. SAU #55, 168 N.H. 796, 801 (2016). Unless there is a valid reason that it is not reasonably practicable for you to produce these records in the requested format, I ask that you either do so or explain why it is not practicable for you to comply.

Please also note, per RSA 91-A:4 III, III-a, and III-b, you are required to maintain the safety and accessibility of such responsive records. This also includes such responsive records (e.g., emails) which may have been deleted from respective In mailboxes/Sent mailboxes or local folders but are still available on the applicable email server or in your / email host’s backup systems or file server(s) or other archival systems.

Please let me know when these records will be sent to me for inspection. If you have questions, don’t hesitate to reach out. You may email the responsive records to me at Skip@GraniteGrok.com. If the volume turns out to be substantial, I have already set up a Dropbox folder for all of your responsive records to which they can be uploaded.

Thank you for your lawful attention to this matter.

Sincerely,

-Skip
Skip Murphy
Skip@GraniteGrok.com

 

 

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How does a person who is so feeble and lacking enough cognitive activity to complete a sentence cause so much damage to our fundamental rights and freedoms?

Joe Biden and his administration devise new and creative ways daily to curb our freedoms endowed upon us by God, not the government. A Federal judge issued a 150-page injunction slamming the Biden Administration for their activities during the Pandemic and putting a stop to dangerous practices and actions such as:

 

• Meeting
• Emailing
• Flagging
• Calling
• Collaborating
• Threatening
• Urging
• Following up
• Issuing BOLOS for censored content with social media.

 

In a preliminary injunction issued by US District Judge Terry Doughty, the judge ordered several federal agencies and more than a dozen top officials not to communicate with social media companies about taking down “content containing protected free speech” posted on the platforms. The ruling is significant as the injunction results from many facets of our government interfering with Free Speech, with the worst offender being Joe Biden and his Administration. Types of information censored were the Pandemic, Biden policies, campaigns, and election integrity.

Officials subject to the injunction include White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, Justice Department and FBI employees, Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, and Surgeon General Vivek Murthy. The case was brought forth by Republican Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry and former Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, now a GOP senator from the Show-Me State. Landry and Schmitt showed a plethora of examples of censored or suppressed social postings and, ultimately, social media accounts deleted at the request of the Biden Administration.

The most hypocritical part of this chapter in the Biden Presidency is his claim that this would be the most transparent administration in history and that he was bringing decency and morality back to the White House. I do not see how censorship of your opposition and an all-out assault on our First Amendment fits into any of Joe’s claims.

Instead of apologizing to the American people and assuring us that this practice is done and will not repeat, Biden has doubled down. The administration has appealed the injunction. This thinking can only mean they are convinced their work to shut down free speech is legal and justified. They have little respect for the Constitution, which is why Biden was confusing it with our Declaration of Independence. It angers me that nobody calls out the President when he makes an obvious mistake.

Joe Biden and his team of misfits are turning our White House into a frat house. Hunter lived there for weeks to avoid being served for the support case in Arkansas. Biden hosts a Pride Month celebration, and we have topless women on the North Lawn. This week we discover a bag of Cochin in the West Wing. If this is how Biden describes a moral White House, it is understandable why he makes mistakes daily. Biden is not in control of his faculties, so naked women, bags of drugs, and an assault on the First Amendment are just another day in the life of Joe Biden.

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The Bennington Banner has an article up applauding another bucket of someone else’s money. Vermont is allegedly getting 229 million for a broadband buildout.  The editors and the Banner left out a critical and necessary point in their headline.

 

You wrote: “Vermont to receive $229 million from Federal Government for broadband buildout.”

Should Be: “Vermont to receive $229 million from children and grandchildren robbed by Federal Government for broadband buildout.”

 

The Bennington Banner is most certainly stuffed to the gills with progressives who know better—the sort of people who whine about social justice and voting rights. The Feds are over thirty trillion in debt, with the interest on that debt rising. A mountain of responsibility piled on the backs of generations who have not been born and didn’t get to vote on it.

What happened to no justice, no peace?

 

“This country once made a historic effort to bring electricity to rural America,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. “Today, we must make every effort to do the same for broadband. In the year 2023, high-speed internet must be treated as the new electricity – a fundamental and essential public utility for every member of the community, no matter their income or geography. I look forward to seeing this historic investment from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, which we passed in the Senate in August 2021, bring quality broadband to hard-to-reach pockets of Vermont that have gone without internet for too long.”

“We have a real opportunity to transform rural America, in large part thanks to the Biden Administration’s commitment to rural broadband,” said Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vt. “This essential service – which is key to running a successful small business, connecting with family, and getting medical care in small towns – is also key to revitalizing our rural communities. We cannot be left behind in the digital transformation, and this funding will ensure that isn’t the case.”

 

The Political Elite is printing another 2.45 Billion for this pet project, and while I have no issues with improving connectivity, you should have the decency to admit who will pay for it.

Legions of gender-cult mutilated children who have yet to cast a vote or work a day in their lives. Every dime you spend, have spent, in at least the past few decades, has created an unfair and exponential commitment over which they had no voice. And it makes no difference what the object. Democrats applaud spending for the sake of spending, sending trillion to Ukraine while complaining about homelessness and crime, which is a byproduct not just of their policies but of their spending.

Locals (in Vermont, New Hampshire, or anywhere else) bragging about getting money from a nation over 30 trillion in debt who also claim concern over misinformation or disinformation might want to start writing more honest headlines to clarify who is paying for it in their copy.

It’s not free. It is not the rich who will pay. It is everyone else, and more than you’d like to admit, taxes due on labors, not yer performed because they have yet to be born to be taxed.

 

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