Sunday • November 24 • 2024
Vol.XVI • No.XLVII
Manchester, N.H.
Critical CareOn this day in 1530, English King Henry VIII‘s divorce request was denied by the Pope. Henry kicked Catholicism to the curb, created the church of England, and went on to have six wives total, in order, Catherine (divorced), Anne (beheaded), Jane (died), Anne (divorced), Catherine (beheaded), and Catherine(Outlived him).
On March 7th, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell received a patent for the telephone in the US. In 1912 Roald Amundsen announced his discovery of the South Pole (located on 14 December 1911). And in 1936, Adolf Hitler broke the Treaty of Versailles by sending troops into the Rhineland.
March 7th is also national Alexander Bell Day (guess why), national flapjack day, and sock monkey day. The latter is not to be confused with sock monkey-pox day, which is celebrated in June (not really).
The Morning Mail
THE SCIENCE
America’s Buried History of White Slavery – The Burning Platform
TOXIC
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We will know for sure that there is something in the works when Mayor Pete shows up in Kyiv, standing next to Zelenskyy as fake bomb sounds blast in the background. He should be there soon to ascertain what must be done to solve the pothole problem in Ukraine.
We have watched a parade of Biden’s team making the long trip to Ukraine; far more than have gone to East Palestine. Let’s look at who has cashed in on frequent flyer miles to have a photo op with President Zelenskyy.
Nancy Pelosi: This visit by the outgoing Speaker feels like Cher’s farewell tour. Nancy is no longer in a power position, so what could she possibly have to offer Zelenskyy? There have been rumors about funds being funneled from Ukraine back to the Democrat Party. Could she be there to ensure those funds are credited to the correct account?
Jill Biden: No reason for this waste of jet fuel.
Joe Biden: Joe made this surprise visit and had a chance to try the Ukraine rail system. He could have hopped the Delaware to D.C. Amtrak. He does have the master key! He claims he was there to make sure Zelenskyy knows the Americans will sacrifice everything to keep sending billions to Ukraine. It would be nice to know where some of the taxpayer money is actually going. Is that too much to ask? Apparently so.
Attorney General Merrick Garland: There has to be more to the story. The official line is that Garland is researching the case for war crimes against Russia for their invasion of Ukraine and crimes against humanity. This is the AG who said that the people creating havoc against birthing centers are not caught because they cannot be seen at night. The AG wants to take a shot at Putin on the stand. Maybe he should start with Hunter and work his way up the chain.
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen: In the day of electronic banking, Yellen thought it was essential to deliver a $1.2 Billion check and assure Zelensky that $8.8 Billion is yet to come. Ukraine is a long trip for a photo op, but when your country is single-handedly bankrolling the Ukraine government and military budget, getting the signed 8×10 is essential.
Finally, a group of Senators went to Ukraine to show the American people that this bottomless piggy bank being emptied into Zelenskyy’s account was bi-partisan. Mr. McConnell was joined by Senators John Barrasso of Wyoming, a member of his leadership team and the Foreign Relations Committee; John Cornyn of Texas, a member of the Intelligence Committee; and Susan Collins of Maine, who sits on both the Intelligence Committee and the Appropriations Committee, which oversees government funding. Both sides are stealing from Americans for Ukraine.
This dog and pony show to Ukraine is certainly reinforcing the America Last philosophy that many people feel. We all could use some attention from one of these parties if we were to give them the keys to the Oval in 2024..
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So some birdies have been tweeting in my ear that a bunch of meetings have been held without proper noticing, the public doesn’t know, “fast and loose” is a phrase that could be applied to these “Citizens for Belknap PAC (Democrat) Republicans”.
Starting to sound like a new project…guess I should go to the meeting tonite…
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Government officials issuing non-apology apologies is an epidemic all its own. Actual apologies are rare as albino alligators and no less dangerous. Politicians rarely do anything in any manner that cannot be spun to their advantage. This is the exception.
A town councilor in West Nipissing, Ontario, Canada, Anne Tessier, officially apologizes for vaccine mandates.
I want to acknowledge that this policy has caused a lot of unnecessary harm and animosity within our Workforce and community. I believe that this policy was mistakenly adopted 12 months ago. The general population knows today that the Covid vaccine does not stop the spread of the virus. 12 months ago, the municipal council was well aware that the virus spread did not correlate with vaccination status prior to this policy being adopted.
A constituent had presented to the council the Public Health Ontario data showing that by January 2022, more cases were reported per capita in vaccinated people versus unvaccinated people. Unfortunately, the outcome of the vote from the municipal council resulted in the implementation of this punitive policy. With all my heart, I extend my apologies to those who were affected negatively by this policy, and I hope that as a municipality and a community, we can move forward. Thank you.
Is anyone aware of any examples where someone in elected office, appointed or working for the alleged public health apparatus that pushed any of the approved narratives (quarantines, masks, lockdowns, vaccine mandates, safe and effective) has admitted publicly that this was all wrong? That the data we could see with our own eyes told a truth they all ignored.
I’m not expecting hospitals to admit they coded patients to get free money without regard for actual health. There’s no evidence corporate hospitals have ever operated in any manner that was not in their own best interests. But it would be refreshing, as time and evidence overwhelm the lies and fear used to sustain those false narratives if folks at least admitted they were scared and went along rather than do actual science and question everything.
I’m not expecting it, but a lot of people have been harmed unnecessarily in obedience to falsehoods peddled as public health that so-called knuckle-dragging idiots could see very clearly just weeks into each layer of bullish!t.
And apologies are nice, but we need more people with a healthy distrust of government in all its faces and forms. They let us down at every level, in some instances, tried to hold us down, from towns to counties to states, courts, and of course, the Feds and the Globalists. You all insisted that public health was your priority, but that was never true. The question now is if or when you realized what motivated you to go along to get along.
West Nipissing, Ontario, Canada, has a population under 15,000. Councilor. Anne Tessier apologizes for what her town did. It’s brave and honest.
Just a few billion more people waiting for their elected or public health officials.
Do not hold your breath.
HT | Igor Chudov – Substack
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Chairman Ager,
You notably stated at your acceptance speech upon being elected the NH GOP RNC Committeeman that “GraniteGrok will hold me accountable”. Now as NH GOP Chair, those words are even more important. And yes, we are holding you accountable to uphold the Party strictures on Republicans that have decided to disregard this specific ByLaw (emphasis mine):
Any registered Republican who, at the same time joins or allows his or her name to be used in support of a political committee or a defined group of individuals, that in title or effect is intended to be understood by the public to be a committee or group comprised in whole or in part of members of the Republican Party endorsing a candidate for elected office from another political party, when there is a candidate nominated by the Republican Party for that office, shall be disqualified during the then present and the next biennium from holding an office of the State Committee or any County or City Committee, from being a member of the Executive Committee and from being a member of the State Committee.
We expect swift action with respect to this ByLaw as Thad Riley has endorsed a Democrat in a race where there is a Republican also running. He is currently the NH GOP Assistant Secretary
It was rather surprising to see him standing with Eric Turer, current NH State Rep and prior Brentwood Democrat Committee Chair (who is WELL known to the ‘Grok) in endorsing that Democrat by the name of Paul Kleinman for Select Board:
Seems quite pleased with himself in doing so.
Please consider the following document that was sent to us. Those items marked as Thad are from his Facebook page. The “Jims” are Jim Johnson and Jim Berlo, conservative activists in Barrington Brentwood.
Brentwood resident Thad Riley is currently the New Hampshire Republican Party as Assistant Secretary. He has chosen to endorse a democrat friend over a proven conservative Republican for a crucial Select Board seat. We present Thad’s Facebook post with comments below. Emphasis mine:
Thad:
“Hi friends,
I want to share with you all that myself and Eric Turer, our Democratic State Rep, have together endorsed our mutual friend Paul Kleinman for Select Board here in Brentwood. I don’t think Eric and I can disagree more politically, so when we agree, we want to share this with you.”
Sidenote: I am told that a copy of the Barrington Brentwood checklist will be sent to me showing that Mr. Kleinman is, indeed, a registered Democrat.
Jims:
Can’t say we are surprised. Thad Reily, former head of the Brentwood GOP, failed NH Governor candidate, and current Assistant Secretary for the New Hampshire Republican Party has forsaken support for the only loyal Brentwood conservative Selectboard candidate Melissa Litchfield for Thad’s personal Democrat friend. This is the ultimate betrayal to all Republicans in Brentwood and the state of New Hampshire.
Thad:
“First, for context, there are 3 candidates vying for 2 positions, so that’s good for everyone to know. So my endorsement isn’t necessarily me standing against another candidate.”
Jims:
Context? There is only one perspective before the Brentwood Republican Party, electing the lone conservative voice to the Board of Selectmen. It is of paramount concern that Thad Reily has chosen to use his elected position in the NH Republican party to sabotage the Brentwood Republican candidate. NH Republicans are you paying attention? The laughter from the Left is at you, not with you. Thad. No joke!
Thad:
“Second, I’ve been friends with the Kleinman family for several years, and greatly appreciate them as great neighbors and humans. Character and the way you treat others matter, and this is a fantastic reason to vote for my friend.”
Jims:
Since you mention character, Thad, what do you think selling out the New Hampshire Republicans does for your character? You are a pariah of your own making, an outcast that cannot be trusted.
Thad:
”Third, my friend Paul has a very diverse voting record, and I respect his love for our country and the votes he has cast. Sometimes we agreed and other times we absolutely did not, but what matters here is that I know without a shadow of a doubt that Paul will always choose what he believes is best for Brentwood, and won’t be bound by party or politics. Boy, do we need to be electing folks who will just choose to do the right thing!”
Jims:.
None of what you have offered provides any insight into the ‘diverse’ political leanings of your friend but that’s not the issue. Your treachery toward the Republican party is the issue here.
Thad:
“Finally, no one else has asked for or spoken with me about an endorsement or asked me to be part of their campaign. I’m always open and willing and have contacted multiple candidates to sit down with me for our town elections. I’m not afraid to engage in real conversations, so I’m not going to blindly endorse anyone. As you know, our America, New Hampshire, and Brentwood will be facing serious issues in the next few years, so I don’t take it lightly one bit who I endorse. This is serious stuff to me!”
Jims:
Candidates are to come and kneel for an endorsement? That smells of narcissistic excrement. Thad, apparently you just don’t get it. You fail to comprehend your role as a NH GOP leadership member. It is the GOP you should be endorsing, not forming pacts with treacherous democrats. The fact that no candidate has reached out might be a sign of disbelief.
Thad:
“If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to me. I’m always willing to listen. Please vote for my friend Paul for SelectBaord and know you’ve made the right choice.”
Jims:
Brentwood: Vote for Melissa Litchfield, a true conservative.
Jim Berlo & Jim Johnson
The “Jims” are right – it’s about the strictures placed upon Riley as an elected member of the NH GOP Executive Board.
We interviewed Thad Riley for almost two hours during his “GrokGauntlet” during his run for Government. While talking a good game that many accepted, we found a severe lack concerning the office of the Governor and its duties. In it, he showed large gaps in his homework (or lack thereof).
He has repeated that lack of proper homework once again as he blithely has ignored / passed it over the ByLaw that should be holding his behavior in check. Failing to read it and abide by it should be “for cause” dismissal from his position.
And, I bet, the reason why Eric Turer is smiling and looking so jocular that is that Thad ignored Star Wars’ Admiral Ackbar admonishment:
It’s a trap!
And Riley gleefully ran to it instead of away from it.
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There’s some debate about whether Islam has already conquered Europe. The UK is damn close, so it behooves us to ask, what happens to Democrats if Muslims take over their party?
Was that a weird thing to say? Shouldn’t they be more interested in the so-called theocracy-driven neo-Christian conservative totalitarians? And why not? Easy. Sharia-driven Islam is an intolerant totalitarian political system, just like Democrat Socialism.
The political right has lots of constitution-defending, free speech loving, self-defense liberty folks. With few exceptions, Christians support free speech, religious liberty, and individual rights, including self-defense. You can have your religion as long as they can have theirs.
Fundamentalist Islam, the sort using culture to conquer the world, is the polar opposite which is why all the high-profile political Muslims in America tend to be Democrats. But do Democrats understand that they are infiltrating them like the left has infiltrated education, churches, music, Hollywood, and big tech?
They make for an odd couple until you ignore the window dressing and get on the carpet. They are both totalitarian. They allow you to ignore any law (religious or secular) to achieve a desired end. That end is systemic control of the population through centralized power.
Assuming these arcs do not change course, Muslim populations will eventually achieve critical electoral mass. When that happens, do they choose freedom, individual rights, and an open and promiscuous culture? Probably not. All the culturally progressive stuff will get rubbed out. There will be no grooming in public schools. Gay marriage will likely cease, existing unions annulled or decertified, and those couples forced apart – the children removed and put in the care of ‘the state.’ Assuming no one gets executed for blasphemy.
There will be actual censorship, not the fake fear-mongered nonsense we get from Democrats today. There will be books, movies, and music, that will be banned for real—things you are forbidden from saying.
The Islamification of the West is the goal, and the moderates will not be in charge.
The Gay Agenda, Green Agenda, and Women’s rights. All out the door. And here’s the unfortunate part. Democrats in power will not give a damn as long as Democrats are in control. That’s why Islam chose them as their vehicle. They will destroy the culture and the people so Islam can save them for Islam – or cleanse them from the Global Ummah.
There is no other explanation for why a fundamentalist theocratic faith system would piggyback a ride on everything they allegedly despise about American culture and human nature.
So, hate on Republicans or Christians all you want, Dems – but they are the defenders of the freedoms necessary for the culture you claim to defend to exist. Islamic theocracy is totalitarian and would end nearly everything your party claims to support in exchange for despotic control.
But if the women and the gays and the rest discovered this truth, they might stop voting for you, so you’ve done a fine job of dividing everyone further and blaming others to stay in power to do what?
Lose it all.
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That’s why I raised my eyebrows at some of the folks in the documentary, especially those who expressed fear that people like me, my wife, and my toddler would choose to make New Hampshire home. Throughout the nine available episodes, Free State Project supporters, myself included, were described as “dangerous,” “extremist,” and seeking to change NH. In short, FSP critics say they are afraid, and they argue that you should be afraid, too.
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Saturday was a magical night spent with special friends, fine food, good drink, and a long-time friend working his mastery on stage, creating the sound of beautiful music. I have known Bruce Marshall for twenty years and have heard him and his bands on countless nights in four states.
From Newport, RI, to a New Year’s Eve show in a barn in Maine, Bruce and his crew never sounded as good as they did last night on the shores of Salisbury Beach. The Bruce Marshall Group, Montgomery and Marshall, Bruce Marshall Solo, or, as we enjoyed last night, Bruce Marshall and the Shadow Riders; I never heard the band that tight and the music so sweet. In his many iterations, Bruce Marshall is a New England treasure, and I have been lucky enough to experience the Bruce Marshall experience for the last twenty years.
I wrote in my last article about the lack of competence in society, but that is not the case with Bruce. He has devoted his life to being a superb guitarist and songwriter, and he is fortunate to be surrounded by musicians that push each other to the limits. I am always amazed to see a new face on stage, yet never a beat is missed. That was the case tonight with a new sax and flute player. The solos on both instruments brought well deserved applause, and I hope that is not the last we have heard of this young musician.
Saturday’s show was a tribute to the Marshall Tucker Band and very personal to Bruce, the impact of Toy Caldwell on Bruce’s music and career. I listen to Marshall Tucker sometimes, and I think that Toy smiles down on Bruce as he and the Shadow Riders make the music sound better than ever. Toy was either a very good teacher, or Bruce is an amazing prodigy; or maybe a little of both.
It was a long time ago when I first heard the sounds of Kalispell coming up the stairs at the Grog in Newburyport. I was drawn down those stairs, and I have since been a fan of Bruce and his music. I have gotten to know Bruce along this musical journey, and he is as genuine as the sounds his fingers create as they ride effortlessly up and down the neck of his guitar. We are not as young as the first night we met, but the music never gets old, and I hope I will always have another Bruce Marshall musical event to look forward to. The bands of today come and go, and the old timers from our younger days try to hang on, but we are lucky in New England to have Bruce Marshall to enjoy, whether he is sitting alone on a stool or surrounded by one of his musical gangs, you know the music will make you smile, and you will hope there is no last call.
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Electronic voting has been implicated in several counting errors in recent elections, resolved by hand-counting ballots. Residents in three New Hampshire towns have proposed skipping the electronic middle-man and doing away with the machines.
Reformatted.
Residents in Pelham, Salem and Sandown will consider in March if their towns should exclusively hand count ballots in future elections. The issue is presented as a citizen’s petition in each community. The petitions look to stop and prohibit the future use of electronic ballot counting devices in town and school elections, instead requiring a hand count.
Sununu Stooge Joe Sweeney has sided with the machines. ” He stressed the burden of hand-counting on poll workers since they are obligated (to) get ballots counted in a single sitting.”
Sweeney said a local election with 3,000 to 4,000 voters would take over a day to count. A state election with participation from 17,000 voters would take even longer.
In some towns, it would take a lot longer, and there’s no guarantee they’d get it right. But machine issues are not a conspiracy theory, and absent clean and fair elections; there’s not much purpose to them. The result will be lower turnout in town elections – which is abysmal already – and fallout in statewide or general elections.
The Democrats like to say they want to count every vote or for every vote to count. Republicans, among others, say every legal vote. Machines screw up, and people screw up. What is the solution to a problem that hand-counting can address with adequate transparency when the alternative benefits grow-government power politicos on both sides?
To be clear, I’m not sure hand counting fixes the problems. We need better control of absentee ballots and make any other vote-by-mail illegal. No sane nation interested n preventing fraud allows it.
And while same-day registration is a problem, so is motor-voter.
Allowing people to vote who are here but whose legal address is outside New Hampshire is still a problem. Sure, we have an enhanced affidavit law that is supposed to sideline those ballots until legal proof of residency is obtained, but it’s also got holes and room for more. But it will prevent those votes from being counted for a few days to allow proof of residency or domicile, whichever word you prefer.
Maybe we should drop the instant election results gratification paradigm instead of insisting that a faster outcome is always better and focus on what raises trust and participation.
Stop allowing ballots or voters that arrive past the polling place closing time. Period. Maybe make election day a national holiday for everyone, not just government and union employees.
And I’m not saying hand-counting does what we need, but what does?
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Dear Frank … I would like to know what percentage of every dollar spent on education goes to Diversity-Equity-Inclusion, that lovely euphemism for “identity”-based socialism. Can you direct me to the pie chart on your website that shows a detailed breakdown of how all the money … and we sure do spend a lot on public education in New Hampshire … is spent? You see … I couldn’t find such a breakdown.
And to be clear, I am not talking about a meaningless breakdown with categories such as “administration,” “support,” blah, blah, blah. I wan to know in as great practical detail as possible … WHERE IS ALL THAT EDUCATION MONEY GOING. Show me the money, Frank.
You see … here is the problem: All that we really know about public education spending in New Hampshire is that we don’t know. More specifically, I believe that the average per pupil spending is $19,400.00 … and the average classroom size is seventeen. So that’s nearly $330,000 per classroom. So let’s assume the total compensation the teacher of that classroom receives is $100,000, which I am certain is on the high side. That leaves $230,000 per classroom unaccounted for. WHERE THE HELL IS ALL THAT MONEY GOING?
Again, to be clear, telling me all that other money … the $230,000 per classroom unaccounted for … goes to “administration,” “support,” etc. TELLS ME NOTHING. I want specifics …how much is being spent on “diversity” … how much on superintendents, assistant superintendents, assistants to the assistants of the assistants, etc.. … ETC., ETC., ETC. I would like both the state average and the information by individual school district.
And please don’t tell me that I can do a Right-to-Know if I want to know. Oversight and stewardship of how the public schools are spending the vast sums of money they receive annually is YOUR JOB.
I don’t expect a response … and that’s the point. Not only do we have NO IDEA how most of the money is being spent … apparently nobody in a position to shed some light on this matter gives a damn.
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The Dems culture war is at odds with their party-of-women talking points. An issue on which Democrat women are increasingly divided. Good. The rose-colored glasses need to come off because they’ve never cared about you, and the Smithsonian’s latest leap proves it.
Interim [American Women’s History Museum] director Lisa Sasaki told The New York Times that “transgender women” — AKA men pretending to be women — will be included in the potential new museum which has already received millions in funding because its “inclusivity” defines what the homage to American women is all about.
Will there be a special exhibit featuring the first time a biological male robbed an actual woman (XX) of a job, opportunity, small business loan, government grant, cabinet position, or trophy?
How about beauty pageant losers – that’s destined to start happening soon enough. Nothing espouses the talent and beauty of women more than a biological man winning such a competition.
Literally, anyone can claim a place…
They simply have to “identify” as a woman while having made some contribution to American society deemed historic by the powers that be with this museum.
Nonetheless, the museum has yet to receive congressional approval, but it has raised $55 million in donations from benefactors such as Melinda Gates, Bill Gates’ ex-wife, The Alice Walton Foundation, and more wealthy philanthropists.
The group already has online features up and running. It features the likes of “Sylvia Rivera” who co-founded “the militant group and youth shelter STAR (Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries).” A search for conservative icon and actual woman Phyllis Schlafly yields nothing.
…unless they are actual women who accomplished things the American Women’s History Museum (or its progressive director) finds ideologically distasteful.
Does the museum require these men who are women to have had surgery to remove their man parts, or is this a standard culture war op? If they felt like a woman when they did it, that counts.
And no distinctions? Right, is there a section for women who aren’t even American or, better yet, non-American men who identify as women that happen to be in America? Anything for the men identifying as women who rape biological women in the ladies’ bathroom, locker room, or prison laundry? You might not be able to find the firsts, but there are likely to be some who are more prolific than others.
And no, none of this is transphobic. No one I know is afraid of transgenders. The few with legitimate issues can easily earn our compassion. Mental health issues suck and on an individual basis, it’s no different than accepting a preferred nickname or form of address.
The concern centers on the danger to actual women from predators abusing the progs system and the consensus that not being able to accept yourself gives you a right to get the government to force others to conform to your worldview.
As Rick likes to say, you can invite me to your princess party, but I don’t have to go.
The Smithsonian has decided you do, at least you will if you walk through the doors of the as-yet-approved institution. It only exists online for now and in the near future.
Perhaps if it set up shop in Ukraine it would already be fully funded and emitting carbon to celebrate men making women’s history. Wait. That wouldn’t work. Ukraine is intolerant of the LGBTQ agenda.
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This country thrived and grew for years on a system of meritocracy. Excellence was not only what most people strived for but what most expected in every aspect of our lives. We went to restaurants that had five-star reviews. We bought the cars named best of the year.
We bought appliances given the highest ratings by Consumer Reports. We wouldn’t even get a haircut from someone who didn’t have rave reviews. We sought people to fill positions, not by the color of their skin, the origin of their family, or their sexual preference. But by their proficiency and whether they would be a good fit for the team.
That philosophy served us well as we were usually satisfied with the services we used, and the items we purchased lasted longer than it took to pay for them. We let that thinking slip away slowly to be replaced with what we have today. Meritocracy has been replaced with diversity, and I am not sure anyone has been served well with that metamorphosis. When was the last time you could say you were satisfied with a purchase or service to the point of telling others?
We have sold our souls for cheap material goods. The once proud “Made in America” is rarely found amongst the plethora of products with labels claiming “Made in China.” We have evolved to a service-based economy; no economy can thrive by exchanging one service for another. We need to produce, and there are sad stories about the quality of what we do manufacture.
Look at our military machine. We used to brag about the quality and might of our military equipment. We are still sailing ships and flying planes from decades ago because of the technology and quality of their construction. Recently, our Navy introduced the littoral combat ship, and thirteen have been commissioned since 2014. Half of those ships have been retired due to hull and other significant system failures that rendered these units unsafe for combat use. These ships cost $360 Million each to build, and now the fleet costs $70 Million per year per ship to operate and maintain. We should have bought the extended warranty.
Politics is awash with people who do not represent the best we have to offer. We have settled for mediocrity and continue to return these folks for multiple terms. Once entrenched, these people are almost impossible to replace. Look at the 2022 election cycle and the state of Pennsylvania. They elected a man to the Senate who had suffered a nearly deadly stroke months before the election. He could not understand oral questions, but when given to him in text, his answers were incoherent. He is now in a hospital bed suffering from depression and deserves our prayers for recovery but not his return to the Capital. If not bad enough, the same voters elected a man who was deceased. Rep. Tony DeLuca died months before the election, but the voters still saw him as their best choice.
As part of America’s resurgence, we must cast aside equity and diversity and again insist on the best—the best of products and the best of people. Getting back to excellence and America first will elevate all Americans and make us ready to face and conquer our next challenge
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On this day in history, 1836 -Mexican soldiers overwhelm the Texan defenders, killing hundreds at The Alamo, including William Travis, Jim Bowie, and Davy Crockett.
In 1857 the US Supreme Court’s Dred Scott Decision ruled Africans could not be US citizens.
In 1869 Dmitri Mendeleev presented the first periodic table of the elements to the Russian Chemical Society. And in 1899, Felix Hoffmann patented “Aspirin” (acetylsalicylic acid) for the German company Bayer.
It is Dentists, Dresses, Frozen Food, Oreos, and white chocolate cheesecake day. It is ‘report general services administration fraud day.’ It’s also no homework day, world tennis day, The Alamo Day, and the day of the dude.
So, we need a dude dentist in a dress with frozen oreos (no homework) and some aspirin who shouts remember the alamo…or something.
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Highlights from Trump’s CPAC 2023 Speech: We Will Finish What We Started – Trump 2024
Pfizer Paraody – Babylon Bee:
Russel Brand: “If you have an economic system in which pharmaceutical companies benefit hugely from medical emergencies, where a military industrial complex benefits from war, where energy companies benefit from energy crises, you are going to generate states of perpetual crisis”
Russell Brand Rips the Pharmaceutical & Military Industrial Complex.
“If you have an economic system in which pharmaceutical companies benefit hugely from medical emergencies, where a military industrial complex benefits from war, where energy companies benefit from energy… https://t.co/1mIwWdu8QT pic.twitter.com/E9x208nHPv
— I Meme Therefore I Am (@ImMeme0) March 4, 2023
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So this is a bit dated … but unlike Mikey Graham I am not compensated for this. One of the major knocks against Trump … besides his handling of COVID; i.e., letting Fascist Fauci run the country … is the many, many horrible personnel decisions he made as POTUS. Before we continue, a few words and some advice for some Trump supporters (NOT all, but some). … Yes, I fully understand I’m not supposed to criticize anything about Trump … that I am supposed to say he never made a mistake … that it was all Trump playing four-dimensional chess, while the rest of us are struggling with checkers … that you can’t say someone is less than perfect, that he made mistakes, and yet still decide to vote for that person in the primary … etc. etc. etc. … SORRY but that’s ridiculous and if you feel that way I suggest you stop reading now. Also, I don’t think that you help Trump’s cause by reflexively going scorched earth anytime there is any criticism of Trump.
So with those prefatory comments made, and again let me emphasize those comments are directed at some, NOT all Trump supporters, let’s proceed. … Back on January 23rd, when Trump keynoted the State Party meeting, he announced that the outgoing Chairman of the NHGOP would be a senior advisor. For example, from Politico:
In New Hampshire, Trump recently made an appearance before the state GOP and has hired the former state party chairman, Stephen Stepanek, as a senior adviser.
Stepanek was … as I knew he would be, having seen him in the House up close in 2011-2012 … a dismal failure as the Chairman of the NHGOP. What’s next … John Endless-Wars Bolton back as head of the NSA? … James Nato-First-America-Last Mattis for a return engagement as Secretary of Defense? … Elaine Chou? … the list of really bad personnel choices is a long one.
Trump hitching Stepanek to the wagon may not be disqualifying … but it certainly is NOT encouraging … if you are worried that Trump would repeat the mistakes of his first administration in a second administration. It certainly makes you question whether Trump has learned anything.
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This is an interesting result from Rasmussen. A majority believe the ‘Authorities’ incited the January 6th riot, which means that they would be guilty of fomenting an insurrection, a complete 18o degree flip from the media/machine messaging.
If it was an insurrection, then it was started by forces inside the government, not by citizens being detained or incarcerated.
Sixty-one percent (61%) of voters believe it is likely that undercover government agents helped provoke the Capitol riot, including 39% who think it’s Very Likely. Thirty percent (30%) don’t think it’s likely undercover agents helped provoke the riot, including 18% who say it is Not At All Likely.
And nearly everyone wants to see most or all of the J6 video unedited, including 78% of the Democrats surveyed.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 80% of Likely U.S. Voters believe it is important that the public be able to view all the videos of the Capitol riot, including 58% who think it’s Very Important. … Eighty-six percent (86%) of Republicans, 78% of Democrats, and 75% of voters not affiliated with either major party believe it is important that the public be able to view all the videos of the Capitol riot.
This last set of results puts the entire political establishment in a bind. Everyone wants to see the evidence, and yes, many will be looking for and insisting that what we see proves the side we’ve chosen. But what if it doesn’t? What if that majority who insist people were incited by the government has a strong case after it’s all out there?
Will it be good for anything back pats and attaboys? Is anyone going to free citizens detained or pursue the organizers in the government? And what happens if not?
I’ve seen enough clips to think that 61% will be proven right but I can’t help but wonder if this evidence, when viewed, might not start an actual insurrection and if that is the reason for letting it all hang out there.
Is the nation so thoroughly partisan and on edge that this becomes a match to a fuse? Are the conspirators who plotted the government’s decision to try and incite a riot going to use it to start more of them?
It needs to be out there, but I have doubts about the end result. Kevin McCarthy released access to Fox News and the Tucker Carlson show first. At some point, all the media will get that same access.
Why Fox first? Why now?
I know being a cynic has its downsides, but I strongly believe it all needs to be out in the public domain. But if the government incited the riot, and it rises as we’ve been told to insurrection, there is very little evidence that the government is going to do anything meaningful about its own treasonous acts.
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Emphasis mine:
:In April 2021, after thirty years as a Fellow in good standing in the American College of Surgeons (ACS), I was banned for life from the ACS Communities, the online discussion forum for ACS Fellows.
“In addition to this, I was banned from access to the membership directory of the ACS and from my own private messages.
Why was such an extreme action taken against me? It was because I objected to the characterization of the ACS as a systemically racist organization, of surgeons as implicitly racist, and of surgery itself as a racist discipline in which non-white patients do not fare as well as white patients when operated upon by white surgeons. In their own words, the ACS “recognized its responsibility to address the issue of structural racism within the American College of Surgeons (ACS) and within the profession of surgery.” What was the basis for such an incredible claim? The only evidence offered was the existence of disparities in representation of blacks in surgery, in the leadership of the ACS, and disparate outcomes in surgery. Structural racism was accepted without question as the cause of these sufficient to justify a radical restructuring of the ACS.”
The above is from a petition, on a tip from a lead from a friend, on Change.org. Yes, I know, a fairly Left learning organization, but was put it up and is getting a number of signatories (yes, I have signed it). The tip was this:
My friend Rick was banned from the American College of Surgery’s online Communities forum for respectfully questioning DEI initiatives and the presumption that the specialty of surgery is systemically racist. He wrote a WSJ op-ed regarding his ban, which the college refuses to reverse. Please consider signing this petition to have him reinstated.
With many thanks,
Rick would be Dr. Richard T. Bosshardt, MD, FACS.
Well, it’s clear that the American College of Surgery (“ACS”) is NOT all that welcoming, not all that INCLUSIVE, and certainly has its snootiness showing by only believing in the Woke definition of Diversity. This is to say, you either are in lockstep with holdings that you MUST be part of our philosophical monoculture that Diversity is only skin deep. It has been totally captured by a political movement, and having watched this for years, know that the George Floyd event was a “crisis not to waste” by both the BLM and CRT missionaries being the leading waves of this movement (re: the mansions that the BLM founders have bought with the gazillions of donations by individuals & Corporations who decided that Virtue-Signaling is a great way to go!)
Soon after the George Floyd murder in June 2020, the ACS assembled a Task Force on Racism, which reported its recommendations in the Bulletin of the ACS in November 2020. Among its recommendations were adding antiracism to the values of the ACS. It added a sixth pillar, Diversity, to the pre-existing five (Advocacy and Health Policy, Communication, Education, Member Services, and Quality, Research, and Optimal Patient Care). A new Staff Office of Diversity was added with its own Executive Director and new leadership position of Clinical Director of Diversity. The Task Force recommended implementation of such initiatives as mandated courses for ACS leaders and staff on microaggressions, ally and active bystander, and implicit bias.
Translation: you WILL be indoctrinated because if you reject the statement by Ibram Kendi that if you are not an “anti-racist”, you ARE a racist! And if you disagree, you ARE a racist! Nice to see that these “highly educated folks” couldn’t bother to see that this is one of the poorest debating tactics ever (think “heads I win, tails you lose, and you CANNOT question me on it!”).
In June 2021, the ACS hosted a leadership retreat for leaders of all of the surgical societies with invited speaker Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist and advocate of, among other things, reverse discrimination as the answer to past discrimination.
And they FELL FOR IT! Discrimination against ANYONE is both unethical and morally wrong simply on the visual superficiality of the color of someone’s skin. But when you’re Woke, every other serious attribute is discarded.
And being that Kendi is a Professor at my alma mater (B.U.), I can easily say that I am ashamed of my alma mater. For years, I walked by the art installation in front of the Marsh chapel on Commonwealth Ave in Boston that honored Dr. King:
You remember him, right? Does his speech that focused on “the content of their character” ring a bell? Kendi can’t hold a candle to King’s intellectual, moral, or spiritual heft. You’d think that a bunch of MDs with a whole host of acronymed degrees would have seen right through it. Seems like King couldn’t hold a candle to Kendi BS under cover of Floyd. And the whole rest of the snake oil salesmen that have turned “racism” into a racket.
Kendi is the antithesis of King. /rant.
My objection took the form of a post in the General Surgery Forum in April 2021 in which I objected to the characterization of the ACS as systemically racist and to the installation of critical race theory in the ACS under the guise of diversity, equity, and inclusion. That post garnered nearly one thousand comments, most of which expressed the same concerns as I. I was invited to a Zoom call with the ACS leadership in March 2022 to discuss this. Shortly thereafter, the rules for the Communities were changed and all posts on DEI were relegated to a new Diversity Forum. I and other Fellows objected in that we felt DEI/CRT clearly had clinical implications per the ACS’s own stated concerns. Our posts to this effect were deleted by the General Secretary, Tyler Hughes.
…I asked for examples of my disrespectful language and improper posts and this request has never been granted. I appealed to the Board of Regents, again asking for examples of my posts justifying this ban and was again refused. I demanded reinstatement and was informed by Executive Director Patricia Turner that my lifetime ban would stand. I was also assured that I had received “due process”. I appealed to Douglas Wood, the Head of the Central Judiciary Committee seeking a hearing and he informed me that my ban had not come before the Committee, therefore this did not qualify as a disciplinary action meriting a hearing! I pointed out the violations of the ACS Bylaws dealing with disciplinary matters in banning me in this fashion and received a single sentence response essentially refusing any further discussion on the subject.
No one can be allowed to vary from The Narrative. And no, they will never tell you why (just like Facebook and (formerly) Twitter) as that would expose them to ridicule, derision, and falling on cement nose first.
Sidenote: I thought this on “Restrictive Covenants” was rather amusing. While it is about contracts and no-competes, isn’t this really what the ACS did to Dr. Bosshardt by effectively restricting him out of their lives? Nice to see that these old white guys decided to “erase” him (as the Trans-Authoritarians accuse others of doing).
Speaking of the old White guys in the ACS leadership suite, 25 of the Regents are White out of a total Regents/Current Regents listing of 31. They are only Virtue-Signaling as NONE OF THEM RESIGNED THEIR high perches in order to allow Black and Brown people to take their places (re: Hypocrites Supreme!)
I also will say that ANY group that wants to infringe on my Second Amendment Right and Dr. Bosshardt’s First Amendment Right needs to be shamed as hard and as often as possible.
So sign the petition, please.
I also have a suggestion for Dr. Bosshardt – start a competing group. Your revenge will be accomplished (rapidly if there were thousands of comments agreeing with you) by leaving them in the dust membership-wise.
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Two important Bills will be heard in Concord this week supporting parental rights, so who can oppose that? You can bet there will be a line of people waiting to testify against parental rights. They will use the excuse that parents cannot be trusted with their own children.
Keep in mind we have laws that are aimed at parents who are abusive or neglectful. Those who support parental rights also support strict laws against parents who put a child in harm’s way. That will not change, and we should strengthen those laws when necessary.
But now we have school policies in place that tell staff members to lie to parents. In school board policy JBAB, it says that school personnel are to lie to parents if their children change their name to one that is of the opposite sex. A child who may be struggling with their gender needs parental love and support, but how do they offer that if school staff has been instructed to lie to parents? Policy JBAB says:
III. GUIDANCE A. Privacy
The Board recognizes a student’s right to keep private one’s transgender status or gender nonconforming presentation at school. Information about a student’s transgender status, legal name, or gender assigned at birth also may constitute confidential information. School personnel should not disclose information that may reveal a student’s transgender status or gender nonconforming presentation to others, including parents and other school personnel, unless legally required to do so or unless the student has authorized such disclosure.
This policy was first introduced by The New Hampshire School Boards Association several years ago. Many schools in New Hampshire adopted this policy even though it conflicts with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) law that says:
FERPA gives parents certain rights with respect to their children’s education records. These rights transfer to the student when he or she reaches the age of 18 or attends a school beyond the high school level. Students to whom the rights have transferred are “eligible students.”
In addition to this gross violation of parental rights, we are now discovering that school personnel have been sharing students’ mental health records with outside sources. Not only does this violate a parent’s right to keep their child’s mental health records private, it goes against ethical guidelines a school counselor must follow. Research on children always requires privacy protections and informed consent. Sadly, we’ve moved beyond ethical practices to a place where there is disdain and contempt for supporting parents as they raise their children.
The last time Parental Rights Legislation was introduced in the legislature, we heard from several organizations painting parents as abusers. What happened to due process? What happened to innocent until proven guilty? That doesn’t exist in their world.
We are now seeing these same organizations start their battle against parents. You should know who they are, and you should make sure that your voice is heard too.
The hearings are scheduled on March 7th at the Legislative Building behind the State House.
The first one is at 9 am in Room 101 before the Senate Education Committee. SB 272 – Establishing a parents’ bill of rights in education.
The second hearing is at 1:15 pm, Room 207-208, before the House Children and Family Law Committee. HB 10 – Establishing the parental bill of rights.
Parents need to show up and let the committee know that they are not a criminal. We do not give up our parental rights when our children walk through the door of their public school.
Here are a few organizations that oppose parental rights in New Hampshire.
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Mr Bitcoin Tours NH Liberty Forum 2023
Did you miss New Hampshire Liberty Forum 2023- the premier liberty conference put on by free staters taking part in the largest migration of folks looking to create a freedom friendly environment somewhere in the world? Mr Bitcoin didn’t miss it and it was a blast. People from all over the US and some even from around the world attended New Hampshire Liberty Forum 2023. Free staters got to meet new movers and greet those working on moving. Mr Bitcoin did a tour of the exhibit hall before crashing a talk on, lets be honest, who remembers on what now. I guess that’s what happens when Mr Bitcoin enters a room!
Mr Bitcoin Tours NH Liberty Forum 2023
There were lots of vendors and exhibitors attending from around New Hampshire including the New Hampshire Independence PAC, Porcupine Real Estate, a bunch of porc vendors like freestate.app (a directory of porcupine businesses) which had a great set of porc-merchandise, ThinkPenguin (a free stater led computer retailer selling GNU/Linux systems that put you back in control), Goldback (not gold-backed, but an actual gold infused bill), a learning resource center (showing off awesome 3d printing tech), and many many others.
A short list of the many well known activists, reps, and leaders attending Liberty Forum in 2023:
Carla Gericke is an author, activist, and attorney. Born in South Africa, she immigrated to the United States in the 1990s after winning a green card in the Diversity Visa Lottery. She became a U.S. citizen in 2000. Gericke practiced law in South Africa, and California, working at Apple Computer, Borland, Logitech, and Scient Corporation. Gericke is President Emeritus of the Free State Project. In 2014, she won a landmark First Circuit Court of Appeals case that affirmed the First Amendment right to film police officers.
Jeremy Kauffman is an American entrepreneur and political activist known for founding and leading LBRY. LBRY is blockchain-based decentralized solution to file-sharing and payments. It’s a potential threat to censorship and a YouTube killing alternative that the SEC has been aiming to kill through civil litigation for the past ~5 years. Jeremy Kauffman also ran for US senate in 2022 with various humorous advertising campaigns such as corruption for the people, war is gay, and other similar slogans. He is a vocal supporter and activist within the Free State Project, a migration movement designed to move 20,000 libertarians to New Hampshire. Jeremy Kaufman is also on the board of the Free State Project.
Ian Freeman Is a leading activist in the greater libertarian migration movement to New Hampshire. He co-hosts the leading nationally syndicated libertarian ran radio show Free Talk Live. Ian Freeman is well known for his activism in New Hampshire and most recently cryptocurrency activism educating people on how peace can be achieved through undermining government fiat currencies and thereby violence around the world. He’s faced off against the governments on numerous occasions, but more recently been targeted by the feds for calling them out on recent atrocities on air. Ian was indirectly targeted through co-host and activist Nobody (formally Rich Paul) in a 2012 FBI led “drug” investigation, in 2016 via a smear campaign and FBI raid intended to allude to heinous crimes despite no charges or evidence, and then again Ian and Free Talk Live’s studio was raided in 2021 over the bastardly crime of selling crypto without a government permission slip (humorously legally according to the lawyers, after 20+ charges were dropped a several convictions are to be appealed).
Jason Sorens In July 2001, Sorens published an essay titled “Announcement: The Free State Project”, in which he proposed the idea of a political migration, where 20,000 libertarians would move to a single low-population state (New Hampshire was selected in 2003) to enable a stronghold for libertarian ideas to gain a foothold. Participants then signed statement of intents declaring that they would move to New Hampshire within five years of the drive reaching 20,000 participants. As of February 3, 2016, 20,000 people had signed this statement of intent—completing the original goal. As of the 2022-2023 term 50 free staters have been elected to the 400-member New Hampshire House of Representatives and each year more and more liberty-activists move strengthening free stater representation. Free staters are those people who moved for the Free State Project, but traditionally not including those who did not sign and those who already lived in the state. Another ~50 or so liberty or liberty-leaning representatives are also represented in the New Hampshire state house.
Mark Warden Mark has nearly 20 years of experience in the real estate industry and markets his business Porcupine Real Estate to free staters looking to move to New Hampshire. Mark not only donates a percent of all his commissions to the Free State Project and other liberty-oriented organizations, but he also is a property owner, investor and landlord with multi-family properties in New Hampshire and he invests in other small, New Hampshire-based businesses. Mark is also a liberty activist, working to bring “Liberty in Our Lifetime” to New Hampshire. Mark is on the board of the Free State Project and was a state representative from 2018-2022.
Matthew Santonastaso Matthew Santonastaso a free stater, state rep, and activist who sponsored House Bill CACR32- a bill that would let the people of New Hampshire vote on and declare independence from the United States and proceed as an independent nation. Matt is also the Political Director for the New Hampshire Liberty Alliance.
Jason Gerhard A man with one of the most inspirational stories. Jason moved to New Hampshire over a decade ago and for his support of tax protesters Ed and Elaine Brown he served over a decade in a federal penitentiary. Upon release Jason moved back to New Hampshire to partake in the Free State Project and in 2022 got elected. Jason is well known for introducing bills that could help protect those in New Hampshire against violent gangs calling themselves the state.
Yury Polozov Yury grew up in Russia and came to the US legally, in search of the American Dream and earned citizenship. Having seen the devastating effects of socialism, Yury is dedicated to vigorously defending economic and civil liberties for all New Hampshire residents.
You can find many more leading activists, representatives, would be representatives, and other speakers at:
https://www.nhlibertyforum.com/speakers