The Manchester Free Press

Sunday • November 24 • 2024

Vol.XVI • No.XLVII

Manchester, N.H.

Progressives Duck as Pendulum Swings Back

Granite Grok - Sun, 2023-03-05 20:30 +0000

Signs are becoming evident that the sentiment on crime in this country is finally swinging back to reality. Republican Lee Zeldin was unsuccessful in unseating Kathy Hochul for the Governor’s office in New York. Still, his anti-crime platform was strong enough to sweep Republicans into many statewide offices. The performance in such a solid Blue state was far more successful than the soft results by Republicans across the country.

The firing of Lori Lightfoot after just one term as Chicago’s Mayor reflects the state of crime and lack of safety in the country’s fourth largest city. Crime rates exploded in her four-year term, and as a result, the people sent her packing. Recall efforts in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New Orleans are indicators that people have had enough of the soft-on-crime and defund-police thinking of the radical Progressive Left. People want safety and sanity in their neighborhoods.

Washington, D.C. is unique in America. The city has a council, but Congress has oversight, and though it does not happen often, the Federal government is stepping in on the crime bill passed by the city officials. Mayor Muriel Bowser vetoed the bill, but the council overrode her veto.

Washington, D.C. is already one of our most dangerous cities with an out-of-control crime rate. This bill would incentivize criminals to come to D.C. to take advantage of soft laws and a depleted Police force. The number of active officers has dropped to the 1970s level, which is inadequate to keep the city and the federal infrastructure safe.

The image below outlines the components of the crime bill, and none of the proposals will make the city safer for residents. It will make the city safer for criminals and beckons the question, who are these politicians serving?

This situation has caused confusion in Congress. The GOP House has passed a bill to eradicate this bill, and Joe Biden surprised the Left by saying he would sign the GOP bill if the Senate moves it to him. The Left is apoplectic. They see it as contradictory that Biden can support statehood for D.C. but choose to get involved in overturning a bill passed by their city council. These people on the Left cannot rationalize that the legislation is so destructive that even Joe Biden could not sit by and see it become law—a new law to morph D.C. into a lawless community.

To complicate matters, Schumer signed a Senate bill today to make D.C. the 51st state. This legislation should not get through the House, but Biden will sign it if it reaches the Oval Office. Biden’s views do not square with his intentions to sign the bill killing the D.C. crime bill. Confusing? Absolutely. The key takeaways are that the crime bill has to be squashed, as does the D.C. statehood.

This scenario is why it is so imperative that we never allow the Democrats to gain total control of the government. They could destroy this country in record time, and our enemies will never have to fire a shot.

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Parental Bill of Rights – Plus Floor Votes and SOE Reform

Granite Grok - Sun, 2023-03-05 19:00 +0000

This week: Parental Bill of Rights  – Plus Floor Votes and State of Emergency Reform.

Tuesday, March 7th, N.H. Senate
Education
LOB, Room 101
  9:00 a.m. – SUPPORT – SB 272, establishing a parental bill of rights in education. This is one of two bills being heard this week to ensure parents have no secrets between their children and public schools. Please read the bills as they are long and include many details. NOTE: both parental rights bills will be heavily opposed by vocal, far left, extremist groups because they discuss gender and sexual orientation. It is important you email and possibly attend the hearing to counter the narratives.
 Click here to register your disposition.
Ruth.Ward@leg.state.nh.us
Carrie.Gendreau@leg.state.nh.us
Timothy.Lang@leg.state.nh.us
Suzanne.Prentiss@leg.state.nh.us
Donovan.Fenton@leg.state.nh.us

 

Tuesday, March 7th, N.H. House
Children and Family Law
LOB, Room 206-208
  1:15 p.m. – SUPPORT – HB 10, establishing the parental bill of rights. This is one of two bills being heard this week to ensure parents have no secrets between their children and public schools. Please read the bills as they are long and include many details. NOTE: both parental rights bills will be heavily opposed by vocal, far left, extremist groups because they discuss gender and sexual orientation. It is important you email and possibly attend the hearing to counter the narratives.
Click here to register your disposition.
 Email Here

 

Wednesday, March 8th, N.H. House
ED&A
LOB, Room 206-208
  10:30 a.m. – SUPPORT – HB 127, relative to the declaration of a state of emergency. This is the common sense state of emergency reform bill that Governor Sununu vetoed last year that simply forces both chambers to agree to extend an emergency after three, 21 day renewals by the governor.
Click here to register your disposition.
 Email Here

 

Thursday, March 9th, N.H. House
House Floor Vote

SUPPORT OTP- HB 154, relative to the adoption of public health ordinances by a municipality. We have been trying to end town and city mask mandates for years by removing the authority to have a public health ordinance. While those bills have failed, this one attempts change law to require a majority of approval of any public health ordinance by the town legislative body, which is you, The People. This is the ultimate local control bill because it requires a vote by The People.
Please email your reps. 

 

Thursday, March 9th, N.H. Senate
Senate Floor Vote

SUPPORT ITL- SB 184, relative to the age at which a minor may receive mental health treatment without parental consent. This bill seeks to allow children as young as 16 years old to receive mental health treatment without parental permission or notification.
OPPOSE Re-Refer, SUPPORT OTP- SB 253, relative to parental access to children’s medical records. There is currently a push for medical facilities to cut off parental access to their child’s medical records at 12 years old. I’ve personally heard several reports of parents changing practices due to this policy. This bill requires that parents have access to their children’s medical records until 18 years old.
Please email the senators.
Carrie.Gendreau@leg.state.nh.us
Timothy.Lang@leg.state.nh.us
Jeb.Bradley@leg.state.nh.us
David.Watters@leg.state.nh.us
Suzanne.Prentiss@leg.state.nh.us
James.Gray@leg.state.nh.us
Daniel.Innis@leg.state.nh.us
Ruth.Ward@leg.state.nh.us
Denise.Ricciardi@leg.state.nh.us
Donovan.Fenton@leg.state.nh.us
Shannon.Chandley@leg.state.nh.us
Kevin.Avard@leg.state.nh.us
Cindy.Rosenwald@leg.state.nh.us
Sharon.Carson@leg.state.nh.us
Becky.Whitley@leg.state.nh.us
Keith.Murphy@leg.state.nh.us
Howard.Pearl@leg.state.nh.us
Donna.Soucy@leg.state.nh.us
Regina.Birdsell@leg.state.nh.us
Lou.Dallesandro@leg.state.nh.us
Rebecca.PerkinsKwoka@leg.state.nh.us
Daryl.Abbas@leg.state.nh.us
William.Gannon@leg.state.nh.us
Debra.Altschiller@leg.state.nh.us

 

 

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Remember When Biden Said He Had Cancer? Turns Out He Had Cancer

Granite Grok - Sun, 2023-03-05 17:30 +0000

Back when William Jefferson Clinton was (the first black) president, his vice president (Hillary, not Al Gore) ran an operation out of the West Wing that did a lot of things (many illegal), including the tamping down of bimbo-eruptions.

Bill’s roving penis was more of a problem for Hillary when Bill was president, so her staff had other duties than those typical of the average FLOTUS. It makes you wonder why none of that made it out to the public before that election – no, it doesn’t.

Teleport back to today, and Joe Biden’s the problem, not just for his wife, Jill. Sundown Dementia Joe is a deranged meat puppet who – now and again – when rolled out to be the front man for the cabal of backroom Dems running the country into the ground – blurts things out not meant for the public.

July 2022

 

 

Nothing to see here, folks, because c’mon, man – everyone knows wipers can’t remove cancer from a windshield.

A little less than a year later,

 

Joe Biden’s White House doctor has confirmed that the 80-year-old had a cancerous lesion removed from his chest in a surgery last month, less than one year after Biden appeared to inform a crowd of reporters that he had “cancer.”

According to a statement from Dr. Kevin O’Connor, the White House doctor and Biden’s longtime personal physician, “all cancerous tissue was successfully removed” during surgery on February 16.

 

Uncle Joe has healed from the surgery that removed the cancerous lesion, and all is well.

I don’t believe you. That man is crazier than a sack full of cats. Oh, and another one of his off-the-hip lucid moments was not a conspiracy theory. It was true. So, what about when he said they had a comprehensive voter fraud network (paraphrasing)?

It’s another sort of cancer and one we are having a much harder time trying to remove.

 

HT | Valiant News

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Survival Sunday – PREP Edition

Granite Grok - Sun, 2023-03-05 16:00 +0000

First, I am merely an “enlightened amateur”.  Please vet & check on your own.  Caveat emptor.  Consider these to be priming the pump for your own investigations.  I know this is a long post; I am attempting to put out a lot of information as a resource.  Read or skip sections depending on your interests.

Second, I fear spicy time is very close, but even a month of food, water, etc., puts you well ahead of most of the sheeple.  IMHO, set your minimum sights on a three-month period.

Third, two things will be critical for having the best chance of making it through:

  1. Mentality: first and foremost in survival is having a flexible mentality and cultivating the ability to adapt. Vanity has no place in survival.
  2. Develop a meatspace network of people that are likeminded: cultivate your community ties and build alliances with neighbors (note: don’t babble about the Jab or globalists or depopulation, or start pointing political fingers when doing this)… and remember, the first rule of PREP CLUB is that there is no prep club.

And please follow both me, Nitzakhon, on Gab… as well as my blog host Granite Grok and also on Telegram Tommy Robinson Official plus his Urban Scoop site.  And don’t forget posts sometimes get cloned on American Reveille as well, which is a good site to check out in general.

FYI, here’s a link to the last Survival Sunday – SITREP Edition.

 

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*** ANNOUNCEMENT ***

I have a crash work situation so while I will continue to do the PREP and SITREP pieces, they won’t be as comprehensive or as well researched as normal until this gets resolved.  Meme posts are suspended temporarily as well (unless I catch a break).

 

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Your mind-set is your primary weapon.

— Jeff Cooper

 

Other quotes by him here.

 

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Top of the fold:

The Most Important 90 Second Video You’ll Ever Watch

Milton Friedman.  Go and watch.

United Airlines Touts All-LGBTQ Flight Crew; Customers Not Amused | Power Line (powerlineblog.com)

Air travel is looking worse and worse.  Certainly, don’t choose an American airline.  Though Virgin (out of the UK) is also woke as f*ck, apparently.

TAINTED BLOOD: 80% of the blood supply contaminated with spike proteins from mRNA jabs, blood banks accidentally admit – DC Clothesline

Demand Pure blood.  Time to start writing the Red Cross.

 

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Oddments – random thoughts on prepping:

  1. When disposing of boxes and other packing materials that indicate a new firearm or survival thing, I shred any paper, and shred the cardboard boxes into pieces and toss them into different garbage bins as I do my daily business. E.g., am in the final stages of getting rid of a marked & branded box for a new “toy” by ripping it into small pieces and then – over the course of a week or so, a few pieces into the bin at Lowe’s, a couple into the bin at the grocery store…  I.e., no great big box or anything in MY trash showing I got something to the local garbage guy.
  2. I am reaching out to my synagogue (and another) to see if there are any members within who know about traditional canning, fruit preserve making, sausage making, etc. I’ve tried many of the local churches but no luck. Will let you know if I hear this path develops something.
  3. In parallel with the above, what other communities might be willing to share info? E.g., Koreans and fermented vegetables?
  4. If you have a smart phone – especially – start doing some driving during the course of the week, randomly, with it OFF and wrapped in foil. Even off, cell phones can be pinged by towers, and we need to start spoofing that system.
  5. Through a reader is this tidbit from Michael Yon about the dangers of lice (and, inferentially, fleas). Get some lice kits and laundry lice wash. We had lice a few years ago and they were a b*tch to get rid of… and that was with power, washing machines, etc.  Also read up on typhus and how to avoid it.  It’s a killer in unsanitary conditions.

 

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Prepper Site URLS:

Most have daily articles; revisit daily.  Please recommend others in the comments.

Ask a Prepper, how to prepare, survive and thrive, latest news

Mother Earth News

The Organic Prepper Home – The Organic Prepper

SurvivalBlog.com – The Daily Web Log for Prepared Individuals Living in Uncertain Times.

SHTF Blog – Modern Survival

Survival World – Everything You Need To Know to Survive

Homestead Survival Site – How to Live Off The Grid in Comfort and Style

Urban Survival Site | How to Survive a Disaster in the City

Mind4Survival – Survival and Preparedness

Gray Wolf survival

Sustainable Living (sustainablelivingideas.com)

The Classic Survivalist – Surviving in a Modern World

Primal Survivor – Practical and sensible prepping advice

Em Off-grid – We & Our Off The Grid Life – Em OffGrid

Resource for Practical, Daily Prepping Skills for SHTF & Survival (geekprepper.com)

Off The Grid News | Self Reliance | Off-grid Living | Grid Threats | Survival Gardening

And three aggregate sites listing their top favorite sites & links too:

TOP 50 SURVIVAL & PREPPER BLOGS

The 50 Best Survival Blogs

Prepper Website – Preparedness • Survival • Alternative News

Specific, one-up articles:

Best Canned Foods On The Market Today – Ask a Prepper

One of these days I need to try canned bread.  Just to try it.

30 Lost Ways of Survival from 1880 We Should All Learn – Ask a Prepper

And a rabbit-warren of links within.

8 Overlooked Survival Skills That Kept The Native Americans Alive (offthegridnews.com)

The problem is learning this stuff.

6 Places You Can Go Dumpster Diving For Your Prepper Stockpile (askaprepper.com)

As long as there are stores functioning, this could be a good resource.  Note that I’ve had VERY mixed success getting end-of-life meats from the local grocery stores.  Most of the time I’ve had to throw them out.

Now, as an interesting thought… if you save up some of these things in a freezer, you could use them as bait for a just-before-hibernation bear bait pile.  Again, not suggesting anything illegal.  But if the fit hits the shan, there ain’t no illegal.

DIY Tallow Emergency Candles – Ask a Prepper

A lot more efficient than the multiple dipping method I learned.

6 Signs Your Neighbor Will Become A Looter As Soon As SHTF (askaprepper.com)

Co-workers, fellow congregants, etc., too.

Why You Should Bury A Trash Can In Your Backyard – Ask a Prepper

Root cellar.

Related to Spicy Time:

We Are at War

It is not begging the question to state that the US government is at war against the people. I define “the people” as those who have and still are trying to build a better future for our children in a united States. The “government” of the United States does not represent us and as shown above, they want us dead.

How to Tell When Your Canned Foods Become Spoiled? – Ask a Prepper

Now, as I said in a prior post, botulin-contaminated foods do have a use.  Specifically, as contaminates for booby traps.  Again, this is a theoretical presentation, but… that soldier that steps on a trap that triggers the spring-loaded arm?  He’ll probably survive the injury… but if it’s coated with botulin, perhaps not.

Again, this is not a recommendation, but if it’s THAT BAD in a SHTF situation, it’s something to consider.

 

Are we tough enough for the challenge that is coming???…I do not think we are as a society.

 

 

As a society, I agree.

Power Shortages Coming Soon To America | ZeroHedge

This would certainly trigger it.

 

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Making Lye Soap

 

 

how to make soap from wood ashes (lye water and tallow/lard)

 

 

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Short of years and untold wealth, you cannot possibly be fully prepared for everything (I have to keep reminding myself of that).  But even some preparations, ideally at least 90 days of food, water / water purification, etc., puts you head and shoulders in front of the vast majority of the sheeple who will be in jaw-gaping astonishment when the SHTF.  The only relevant questions are:

  1. When does it start?
  2. How bad will it get?
  3. How long will it last?
  4. What will the aftermath look like?

 

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Brewing Mesopotamian Beer – 4,000 Years Old

 

 

And related:

 

Making Medieval Mead like a Viking

 

 

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I just started a FORAGING group on Gab.  I will check 2-3 times a week to see if people have asked to join.

Foraging: One-up articles

Edible Plants To Forage In Early Spring – Ask a Prepper

Fiddleheads, specifically, need to be boiled a few times to remove toxins from what I understand.

Foraging (permanent feature):

Foraging (practicalselfreliance.com)

Wild Harvests (arcadianabe.blogspot.com)

Southern Appalachian Herbs

Books (permanent feature):

Feasting Free on Wild Edibles (old but good)

The Lost Ways (much more than just foraging)

The Forager’s Guide to Wild Foods

THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO EDIBLE WILD PLANTS FOR BEGINNERS

 

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Shortages (broadly):

 

Boots on the Ground…Feb. 24th…Shortages of medicine still exist

 

 

On several medications now I’ve had to confirm to the pharmacy to make sure to have it in stock when the refill comes.  These are common meds – so common I can’t believe they need to ensure the supply chain delivers.

Reports from Cuba: Cuba faces shortages of rationed rice, dried beans, cooking oil, sugar, and salt – Babalú Blog (babalublog.com)

Not Communist enough, apparently.  From the same site:

Videos of the Day: A stampede at a Cuban store in Havana just to buy hot dogs

Communist Cuba’s state-run power company announces more blackouts coming

‘A wake-up call for the industry’: Meat production in France under scrutiny amid climate change (france24.com)

You will be denied the ability to farm.  You will sell your land.  You will eat the bugs.

“Rationing” Is the New Globalist Buzzword as They Normalize Scarcity Ahead of Manufactured Collapses – Flopping Aces

Haven’t heard it locally, but I suspect it’s coming.

US Beef Herd Drops To Lowest Since 1962 As Global Food Crisis Intensifies | ZeroHedge

Certainly I’m watching prices tweak upward.

 

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

Antibiotic Herbs And Plants To Grow Before SHTF – Ask a Prepper

Depends on where you live.  Related:

How to prepare medicinal pickled garlic (askaprepper.com)

 

How to deworm chickens naturally | Quick and easy recipe

 

 

 

 

 

 

How To Harvest These Seeds For SHTF – Ask a Prepper

Keep track of seeds and coordinate with neighbors to exchange – avoid inbreeding.

How To Pickle Beef (5 Years Shelf Life) – Ask a Prepper

I’m still trying to figure out my pressure canner.

 

Sailor, Soldier, & Explorer Rations: Food for the Commoner – Salt Pork

 

 

How to Make Your Own Seed Starting Mix and Start Seedlings (theorganicprepper.com)

Especially important for those in colder zones.

 

What Happens When You REGROW Vegetables From Kitchen SCRAPS in the Garden?

 

 

From the same site, links to videos:

6 TOP Crops to Grow at Home to Save You From STARVING – YouTube

How to Grow Ginger From STORE Bought Ginger in Containers – YouTube

5 Tips How to Grow a Ton of Sweet Potato in One Container or Garden Bed – YouTube

Tips and Tricks On Growing Sweet Potatoes – YouTube

And related to the second & third ones just above:

Two Signs That The Sweet Potatoes Are Ready To Harvest – YouTube

HOW DO YOU KNOW WHEN SWEET POTATOES ARE READY TO HARVEST? – YouTube

 

How to make salted cod

 

 

I’m currently trying this – without instructions.  Which reminds me I need to go change the salt out.  Next time I’ll definitely read the instruction book.

 

Links on old-time food storage (permanent feature):

Thanks to the Canning and Preserving group on Gab, I now have these links:

Preserving foods by drying | How to dry foods safely (uada.edu)

USDA-Complete-Guide-to-Home-Canning-2015-revision.pdf (healthycanning.com)

Canning | SDSU Extension (sdstate.edu)

Food Preservation– Canning | Consumer Food Safety | Washington State University (wsu.edu)

Canning Timer & Checklist App | OSU Extension Catalog | Oregon State University

National Center for Home Food Preservation (uga.edu)

Canning Recipes | Ball® Mason Jars (ballmasonjars.com)

Topical Books (also permanent):

Charcuterie: The Craft of Salting, Smoking & Curing

Salumi: The Craft of Italian Dry Curing

A Guide to Canning, Freezing, Curing & Smoking Meat, Fish & Game

The Prepper’s Canning Guide

Pickled Pantry

Fermented Vegetables

Hydroponics and Greenhouse Gardening: 3-in-1 Gardening Book to Grow Vegetables, Herbs, and Fruit All-Year-Round

Hydroponics for Beginners: The Complete Guide to Hydroponic Gardening, Designing and Building Inexpensive DIY Hydroponic Systems…

The Aquaponics Guidebook: Combining Aquaculture and Hydroponics Combining Aquaculture and Hydroponics

 

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Self-defense (broad) & Hunting:

 

 

What To Do When Stores Run Out Of Guns And Ammo – Ask a Prepper

Not advocating this, but… with something like one of these, you could organize a swarm attack or ambush on someone with a real gun.  Guerilla tactics and all.

Common Habits That Could Make You A Target For Looters (askaprepper.com)

It is vital that you speak to your family, especially children, about what they can and cannot speak to other people about.

Children like to talk and brag about how great they and their families are, so either ensure your children know that your preps are not to be discussed or keep them in the dark about the true scope of your supplies.

Does daddy own guns?  NO, they both know to answer.  Does daddy have preps?  Ditto.

Can’t keep things perfectly secret, e.g., my wife blabbing to all her friends about what an idiot I am for keeping food, etc.  But at least minimize it.  I still find it ironic that someone who went hungry during the break-up of the USSR is so anti-prepping.

Some Firearm Tips for New Preppers and/or Those Who are New to Firearms – Ask a Prepper

I’m certainly no expert, but as things start to seriously look dicey there will be a lot of rank amateurs.

Everything Matters in Armed Defense | SlowFacts (wordpress.com)

Having a plan is just as – if not more – important than having the hardware.

Every Day Carry Essentials To Increase Your Safety | rmactsc (wordpress.com)

A fully charged cell phone, a small pocket flashlight with a minimum of 100 lumens, a folding knife, a neck knife, your preferred handgun of choice with a quality holster and spare ammo attached to a sturdy belt, a paracord bracelet, and miscellaneous first aid items.  These should be a good starting point.  As always know your local and state laws and abide accordingly.

A little heavy for “normal” life, IMHO, but…

Using Night Vision to Procure Food – The Organic Prepper

Almost certainly not legal, but almost certainly viable if SHTF.  And defending against two-legged predators as well.  Prices are, well, steep.

Another Credit Card Company To Begin Tracking Gun Sales In April – 57 Million Impacted By The Change | The Gateway Pundit

Time to put it on the shelf.  If not outright cancel it.  The problem is that if you cancel it and tell them why… you’ve admitted you’re at least interested in guns, let alone a gun purchaser.  Related, at least to me, is their fanatic push:

Biden Promises To Ban Assault Weapons ‘Come Hell or High Water’ (freebeacon.com)

 

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Concluding thoughts if I’m moved to comment:

No time, sorry.

 

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President Reagan:

“How do you tell a communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin.” 

— Remarks in Arlington, Virginia, September 25, 1987

 

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Palate cleansers:

 

 

 

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Please check out my MEMES collections; last one here.  Mockery, ridicule, and the wrapping of uncomfortable truths inside humor can penetrate the cognitive shields of normies far more effectively – IMHO – than dry facts and figures.

 

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Private Christian School Goes Bankrupt After Embracing #Woke Agenda

Granite Grok - Sun, 2023-03-05 14:30 +0000

It’s time for another episode of go woke go broke; this time, broke means bankrupt. Out of business. Closed for good. Why? Christain donors stop donating after the

And no, I’m not happy about it. “Urban Christian Academy is a private, K-8 school with an enrollment of 100 that describes itself as providing “a tuition-free, high-quality, Christ-centered education for low-income students.”

One-hundred low-income kids in urban Kansas City just lost an opportunity to get a decent education because the so-called Christians running it couldn’t just teach whatever kids they had without diving into the shallow end of the culture gene pool. Jump they did, and the bottom found them quickly. Yes, they expected pushback, but not anything like where they ended up.

So, what happened exactly? They modified the mission statement.

 

The school’s mission statement has always stressed inclusivity in general terms, noting that following Jesus “opens up doors and makes room at the table.” But last year it added a paragraph to its website, which read in part, “We are an affirming school. We stand with the LGBTQIA+ community and believe in their holiness. We celebrate the diversity of God’s creation in all its varied and beautiful forms.”

 

Their donors, mostly devout Christians, and churches, have issues with the new language.

 

 

A lengthy letter from one church, which characterized the LGBQIA+ community as a “diverse collection of behaviors,” explained: “Our greatest concern about the Accepting and Affirming stance is that it denies the Biblical definitions of sin and identity and thereby renders the grace of God meaningless.”

 

Feel free to take sides. While the agenda can be toxic and hostile to Christianity and faith, individuals generally are not. Forgiveness and salvation in the face of true repentance is an obligation. Faith provides a degree of order that many people need or find can stabilize their lives and make them more productive and caring individuals. Christain schools can balance those needs alongside a quality education. In other words,  if Urban Christian Academy wrote this instead, they’d still be teaching poor kids how to learn and thrive.

 

“We are an affirming school that celebrates the diversity of God’s creation in all its varied and beautiful forms.”

And then you teach kids math, history, reading, writing, learning and debate skills, and the foundations of the Christain faith that lead to many of the first hospitals, universities, and other public services. Encourage the benefits of families with fathers and mothers with mountains of secular evidence that supports the positive outcomes alongside the foundational benefits of faith and family.

Did they have or were they considering #woke curricula? I have no idea, and now we’ll never know, but there is no reason to inject any of that into a classroom. You can celebrate the diversity of God’s creation without it.

There is nothing tolerant about the public school #woke curriculum. It teaches dependency instead of personal sacrifice—anger instead of peace, division instead of unity.

It didn’t have to be like this; now it’s too late. You literally went woke, and then broke.

It will close at the end of this school year.

 

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We Need People to Come to Concord on March 7th to Testify in Person

Granite Grok - Sun, 2023-03-05 14:30 +0000

For both the State House and the Legislative Office Building, enter through the front door. Fill out a pink card if you are testifying and hand it to the person or committee member collecting them. Sign in on a white or blue sheet if not testifying.

Parking info: https://www.concordnh.gov/844/Downtown-Parking.

Arrive early to have time to find parking and to walk to your destination. Pay for enough time to cover 3-4 hours for each hearing. Bring snacks and water.

For the Senate hearing at 9am, sign in on the sheet and indicate you SUPPORT SB272.

Testimony will be limited to 3 minutes.

Bring 21 copies of your testimony to give to the committee if you can. Put your name, the committee name, the bill number, and the date on your testimony.

Personal stories and factual information can be more persuasive than statistics.

Begin your testimony by stating your name, town of residence, and position on the bill. If you have particular expertise in the subject of the bill, give your credentials when you introduce yourself.

For the bills we support, we are asking for an “Ought to Pass” vote. For the bill we oppose, we are asking for an “Inexpedient to Legislate” vote.

You can email a committee before or after the public hearing.

Hearings for HB619 at 10 am and HB368 at 1 pm will be in Reps Hall in the NH State House, 107 N. Main Street, Concord NH, the building with the gold dome. The entrance to Reps Hall is up one floor. The committee hearing the bill is Health, Human Services, and Elderly Affairs.

The hearing for SB272 at 9:00 am and HB10 at 1:15 pm will be in the Legislative Office Building, 33 North State Street, Concord NH. The Senate Bill will be heard in Room 101. The House bill will be heard in rooms 206-208 Children and Family Law.

The bills:

Support: 9:00 am SB272, is the Senate Bill supporting parental rights.  This hearing will be held in the Legislative Office Building, 33 North State Street, Concord, NH. First Floor Room 101.

Support: 10:00 am HB619,  prohibiting gender transition procedures for minors, relative to sex and gender in public schools, and relative to the definition of conversion therapy. Representatives Hall in the State House.

Oppose: 1:00 pm HB368, relative to protections related to receiving gender-affirming health care or gender-affirming mental health care. Representatives Hall in the State House.

The sponsor on this identifies as transgender – MTF. It would effectively turn New Hampshire into a “sanctuary state” for physicians who play a role in gender-affirming care. If a doctor provides transitioning treatments in violation of another state’s law, the law would protect him from subpoena, arrest, or extradition.

Support: 1:15 pm HB10, establishing the parental bill of rights. This hearing will be held in the Legislative Office Building, 33 North State Street, Concord, NH 2nd Floor room 206-208

Advice from a legislator on the Health, Human Services, and Elderly Affairs committee hearing HB619 and HB368:

Testimony will be limited to 3 minutes, as we expect a big turnout. Please address the bill, and avoid any personal attacks or claims of ill intent from others. We will likely go through lunch to hear the bills.

If your testimony on HB619 also applies to HB368, please make that known in your testimony and then turn your attention to HB10, the parental bill of rights in the Children and Family Law committee.

If you are testifying on HB619 and not testifying on HB368, please fill out a pink card for HB619 and mark your position on HB368 on the blue or white sheet.

 

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The Problem With Education Freedom Accounts

Granite Grok - Sun, 2023-03-05 13:00 +0000

Remember the rationale we were given for trading with and investing in China? In case you forgot … supposedly, this trade and investment would lead to China becoming less authoritarian and more democratic. How did that work out? Rhetorical question, of course.

China remains as authoritarian as ever and has become much more powerful economically and militarily, while the United States’s position relative to China has eroded. But Wall Street and Big-Tech and the corporatists and the political-grifters, like the Bidens, have made a lot of money off China, so … GO FREE MARKET!

One of the rationales of school choice is that it would force the public schools to compete to keep students … to get better. That has NOT happened either. Instead, public education is a cesspool of race-based and “identity”-based socialism euphemistically called CRT and DEI. The communists … oh I am sorry I mean Democrats … are obsessed with killing Education Freedom Accounts NOT because they fear competition … EFAs will never be large enough to ever really threaten the scope of public education … but because communists need/want TOTAL CONTROL.

The problem with EFAs is that they cause or allow the GOP to ignore what is going on in public schools … the CRT and the DEI. As a result, public schools are generating wave after wave of new voters who will NEVER vote GOP … see twitter-thread below:

 

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The Morning Mail – March 5th, 2023

Granite Grok - Sun, 2023-03-05 11:30 +0000

On March 5th, 1770, British soldiers killed five men in a crowd on King St., in Boston, that were throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks at them. African American Crispus Attucks was the first to die, an early black martyr in the American Revolution.

We call it the Boston Massacre.

In 1946 Winston Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” speech in Fulton, Missouri popularized the term and drew attention to the division of Europe.

And on March 5, 1971 Led Zeppelin played “Stairway to Heaven” live -for the first time – at Ulster Hall, Belfast.

March 5th is also national cheese doodle day and potty dance day if you can work those two together. Wear an ak-kalpak is a Kyrgyzstan cap if you have one handy, and bring your invisible friends. It is also Kyrgyzstan National Hat Day and multiple personality disorder day.

Today also celebrates absinth, Cinco de Marcho (I’m not kidding), namesakes, and St Piran, the patron saint of tin miners.

The Morning Mail

 

 

CNN Suffers Lowest Ratings In A Decade In Key Demo – Truth Press

 

SCIENCE!
  • Among all the proposed detoxification agents (for mRNA, this holds the greatest promise… – Dr. Peter A. McCullough
  • Could future computers run on human brain cells? – Hub
  • Peer-reviewed scientific literature: “The mRNA vaccines are neither safe nor effective, but outright dangerous” – Steve Kirsch
  • Are We Medicating Millions of ADHD Children without Scientific Justification? – Dr. Robert Malone

 

CREEPY.GOV
  • California Lawmaker Introduces Bill To Fine Businesses That Use Certain Paper Receipts – Daily Wire
  • ICE and the Secret Service Conducted Illegal Surveillance of Cell Phones – EFF
  • Florida bill would require bloggers who write about governor to register with the state – WFLA
  • This AI Knows Who You Are and Who All Your Friends Are (And Is Telling the IRS) – PJMedia
  • Biden admin makes stunning admission on climate agenda in leaked internal memo – Fox

 

STATE OF AMERICA
    • Mississippi passes bill restricting electric car dealerships – AP News
    • Georgia’s SoS Opens investigation into “financial irregularities” at Stacy Abrams’ voting-rights charity – Free Beacon
    • Rhode Island Teacher’s Union Brought a lawsuit against the Mom for requesting a copy of the class curriculum – Twitter
    • Portland, Oregon Walmart is closing all remaining stores due to the rise of theft – Liberty One News

 

MISC
      • ‘Scary Poppins’ Nina Jankowicz Is Crowdfunding to Sue Fox News – Red State
      • TikTok Butterball: ‘You’re Being a Racist When You Start Promoting Weight Loss’ – PJ Media
      • NYT  – Equestrian helmets are racist – PJ Media

 

Steve Bannon’s Fiery CPAC Speech

 

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The Morning Mail is a selection of content emailed to me by readers, unsolicited newsletters, and other miscellaneous sources. It is content that I find of interest but lack the time to fisk properly. 

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Bananas: Dear Alien Overlords

Granite Grok - Sun, 2023-03-05 02:30 +0000

Dear Alien Overlords,

Let me be the first to congratulate you on achieving intergalactic space travel!  You guys (gals?) must be very excited.  I can only imagine how gigantic the solar panels on your super high-end ultra-efficient alien spacecraft must be.  I can’t wait to see it! 

Please tell me you’ll be giving rides.

I’m sure you were all incredibly eager to find another planet with intelligent life on it.  Which brings me to what do you consider “intelligent”?  I hate to disappoint, but your idea of intelligence is probably quite different than what you will find here on Earth.  Maybe fifty or so years ago we would have been worth the trip. However, SAT scores have plummeted, leaving our current generation still struggling to calculate two plus two (most of us know it’s four but many of these young idiots think it’s five – seriously).  It’s a shame you came all this way and spent all those light years just to find out we’re no longer the cat’s meow.  I don’t know what it’s like on your planet but we humans go through cycles, you see.  It’s just bad timing.  I’m sure in a couple millennia we’ll be right back on top, behind you gals (guys?) of course.

Now I understand you don’t want to give up that easily, as overlords, why would you?  I can imagine we have all kinds of appeal as slave labor. However, you are not going to find very many people willing to show up for slavery.  We can’t even get them to work at McDonald’s for $18/hour, so I’m not sure how you’re going to get them to bother at whatever you’re planning to not pay them to do.  At least here in America, that is, also, try not to use the word slave.  Americans are very sensitive to that.  The preferred nomenclature is “colonized laborer”.

We still have lots of slaves, though.  In fact, we currently have the most in all of Earth’s history.  Mostly for sex – please don’t ask me to explain.  If you really need slaves, I suggest you head on over to North Korea and see if you can’t work a deal with their head honcho Kim, who, despite the name and appearance, is a man.  He has plenty of slave labor; just ask the Chinese, who also would likely be willing to loan you out a couple thousand, maybe even a few million, slaves.  If not, I suggest you try the Middle East or Africa. Very reasonably priced slaves to be found there.

You’re also probably going to hear a lot about “climate change” and get some mean looks from people for flying around in your craft as if you’re adding to the problem.  Don’t worry; you’re not.  As I’m sure is the case on your planet the climate changing is nothing new, in fact a climate changing is its central characteristic.  You have to understand, despite what you might have heard around the galaxy about “evolution” on our planet we have managed to get dumber and weaker as a race, which explains how we come up with things to be unrealistically terrified about, like climate change.   We’re also scared of cars, insults, balloons, each other, our feelings, being alone, face-to-face conversations, responsibilities, babies, telling the truth, Republicans, Democrats, and a guy named Donald Trump.  It’s quite embarrassing, really.

This brings me to my next point…you will notice there’s a large number of younger humans who have difficulty identifying as either male or female.  We also have men who want to be women and women who want to be men, and a whole other group who don’t even know what a woman is.  No, really, they can’t even answer that basic question.  This is what’s known as a mental health crisis, and we’re still waiting for it to pass.  They’re big on flags and pronouns (I’d explain, but you don’t have the time, not even in light years).  We ask that you just play along so as not to hurt their feelings. They may have failed biology and English, but they are incredibly in touch with their feelings, so, please be considerate.

Speaking of weirdos, we have a group of people who are serious control freaks.  I mean LOVE it.  In fact, they have nothing better to do than makeup scenarios like, get this, faking an alien invasion so they can incorporate a one-world government.  The chances of you guys showing up at the same time they want to do this is like once in a blue beam!  Talk about awful timing on your part.

Before you go we do have a group of people who very seriously feel like they are able to run the galaxy.  Lucky you they are all together in Dubai (also the Middle East) right now at the World Government Summit this very week!  What…are…the…odds of that, right!?!  These folks are some real self-starters who are very ambitious and would be an asset wherever they go.  They are deeply concerned we have too many people on this planet, and, as far as they are concerned, the rest of us agree.  So, on behalf of my fellow Earthlings, we would like to offer them as a lovely parting gift for taking so much of your time to come all this way.  Seriously, feel free to take as many as you’d like.  Especially ask for Klaus and Bill.  Klaus comes with, as the kids like to say, a totally lit intergalactic wardrobe, so he will fight right in.  Bill is big on viruses so don’t be surprised if he tries to vaccinate your entire crew.  He means well.

Also, you’re probably wondering who Brandon is.  He’s a joke in every sense of the word, so don’t waste your time.

In conclusion, it’s been lovely having you stop by, and we’re sorry we weren’t more hospitable however we have quite a few in-house issues we’re working out.  If you want to circle back around in a few millennia, I’m sure we’ll have had it sorted by then, and if you’re ever in Vermont, please do look me up, and we’ll find a nice diner for some flap jacks and real maple syrup, not that crap you guys (gals?) are being served on other planets.

Til next time,

John K. Bananas

(P.S. Maybe you can settle this before you go: Pluto, planet, or no?)

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Now Look at Colleges Tracking Students’ Behavior …aka…Biases

Granite Grok - Sun, 2023-03-05 01:00 +0000

The College Fix reported on how colleges are now tracking the behavior of college students in “Meet the software company tracking students’ behavior.”  In the past, schools kept records on student behavior, but that information was kept private. 

The introduction of software and the removal of student privacy protections in the federal student privacy law, has opened up private data sharing. Software companies may include a privacy statement, but anyone who reads it can see that personal data is not protected.

How did this happen?

During the Obama administration, The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) law was weakened.

 

{FERPA} was a strong privacy law when originally enacted by Congress in 1974. It forbid any educational agency, institution or school from disclosing personally identifiable information (PII) from a student’s educational records to any non-school official — even other governmental agencies — without parental notification or consent.
But in 2008 and again in 2011, FERPA was radically revised by the US Department of Education – without any vote or authorization from Congress.

In 2008, the regulations were rewritten to allow states, districts and/or schools to share PII data from student records without parental notice or consent with any third party or company designated as a “school official,” including “contractors, consultants, volunteers, and other parties to whom an educational agency or institution has outsourced institutional services or functions it would otherwise use employees to perform.”

Then, in 2011, the regulations were revised to allow for the disclosure of PII, without parent consent, with organizations for the purpose of conducting conduct studies or audits of the effectiveness of an education program, allowing non-governmental actors to be defined as “authorized representatives” so they could access to student personal data. Previously, “authorized representatives” were entities over which educational authorities had “direct control,” such as an employee or a contractor. Now, an authorized representative could be nearly any individual or organization to whom an education agency wanted to assign that term.

When your child’s personal information is collected by the school district, software company or even another level of government, you may never know.

Is this ethical? In many instances the answer is NO. For instance, the sharing of your child’s health or mental health records require informed consent. But with this loophole in place, mental health PII is now being shared without informed consent. Some of this may be legal, but it is certainly not ethical. Just wait for the school based health clinics in the schools!

How will this technology impact college students? How many college students know how or where their PII is going?

With Maxient software, colleges have the capacity to track a student’s discipline records and academic integrity.” But as you can see from this report, the colleges and software company have the ability to collect a college student’s “biases” too.

According to the company website, Maxient receives 7,000 reports daily from client schools, which “range from small private liberal arts colleges to the nation’s largest public institutions.”

One process that may be facilitated by the software is bias reporting systems, which nearly 500 higher ed institutions in the U.S. have introduced over the past eight to 10 years to address student behavior perceived as “bias.”

“We usually help schools implement the software to their intended uses when we begin working with them, so over the years we’ve certainly had some (indication) they’ll be using it for ‘bias incidents,’” Watson told The Fix, adding that the term itself could vary in meaning depending on the school.

“But most schools end up expanding the different types of records and processes they manage in their software over time, and Maxient staff are not usually informed about that or kept up to date,” he added.

Determining how long to keep records — and when and whether to delete them — belongs to the client schools, according to Watson.

What do college students think about political subjects like climate, gender or race?  What biases do they have? 

Maxient was also cited in a Feb. 23 Wall Street Journal article headlined “Stanford Faculty Say Anonymous Student Bias Reports Threaten Free Speech.”

And a Feb. 20 op-ed in the Washington Times by Richard Rahn, chairman of the Institute for Global Economic Growth, wrote that “Maxient brags about having a national repository that receives about 7,000 tattletale reports a day from 1,300 client institutions. (Remember Lenin’s old quip: ‘The capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.’)”

“Students are often unaware that negative reports have been filed on them, and constitutional due process protections are ignored at many colleges,” he added. “A negative report, even one based on false information, can result in a student losing a scholarship or even being expelled — negatively affecting the rest of his or her life.”

One can certainly see how this technology is delving into our personal beliefs, values and behaviors. Until the FERPA loophole is closed, this kind of data mining and collection will continue.   Whenever possible, parents and students should reject this kind of data collection.

 

 

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Trump’s Achilles Heel

Granite Grok - Sat, 2023-03-04 23:30 +0000

What kryptonite is to Superman … COVID is to Trump. It stems from Trump’s inability … well, maybe not inability, but extreme intransigence … to admit he made a mistake. And he made a YUGE mistake in giving the keys to the car to Fauci and not taking those keys away when it became apparent that the “models” were total B.S.. The more the primary is about COVID … the better it is for DeSantis.

To the commentators … pointing out that Trump has an Achilles heel (actually I believe that he has several) is neither an endorsement of DeSantis nor is it saying that DeSantis does NOT have his own vulnerabilities. That is, the scope of this post is narrow … who was better on COVID, which is just one of may issues. I want to see Trump and DeSantis battle it out in the primaries … STEEL SHARPENS STEEL … and then I’ll pick which man to vote for … even though I do sincerely believe that it will be virtually impossible for anyone to beat Biden because elections are now ballot-harvesting contests, not actual elections.

 

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Rebuttal by NH Convention Of States to CNHT.Org letter of Feb 28th

Granite Grok - Sat, 2023-03-04 22:00 +0000

It is with great sadness I read your unbalanced commentary and misrepresentation of the facts on HCR1 in your Feb 26 article. (GOOD NEWS HCR1 defeated by Brave #22 Republicans ).

So now, what are you calling the 148 Republicans and 9 Democrats that support the OTP vote?

1st. HCR1 calls for a Convention of the States – “ Is NOT a Constitutional Convention (very different process and rules). It passed out of committee 13-5 in a very bipartisan fashion.

2nd. NH Convention of States Action is a grassroots, volunteer organization, no lobbyist; no one is paid here. Mr. Ferris, who spoke to educate the body on Article V, is one of the founders of the Convention of States.

3rd.Civics 101: We are not associated – as you claim – with any strategy or tactic to change, highjack, or implement three new constitutions. Tread lightly here now and in the future when making such outlandish claims. Nothing can happen outside the ratification process.

NH would have been the 20th state out of 34 required to come together under Article V of the Constitution – to simply make and discuss the following proposals- on the federal government under this petition. Fiscal responsibility, term limits, return to federalism – states’ rights. This proposal has strong national support, with over 68% of the voting population.
Ratification requires all but 13 states to stop any proposed amendment. There simply can be NO RUNWAY. Article V is an American Solution – Not a republican or democrat one!

Sadly I hoped you would have been more careful in your writing and allowed for a chance to educate. “Unfortunately, Fear & Ignorance of civics” prevailed on Feb 23 with your help!

State Republican or Democrat party nor your taxpayer coalition in NH has not put forth any solutions for the 34 Trillion debt or any of the other issues which will eventually lead to a loss of our children’s liberty and sovereignty. ( #34 Trillion = $1 dollar bill laid end to end… equals 8 round trips from the earth to the sun – “ Let that sink in”)

Please contact me so perhaps we can share a coffee – so I can help you understand more clearly what is at stake.

Respectfully

Al Brandano
NH State Director

Convention Of States Action.
Al.Brandano@CosAction.com

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If We Use The Democrat Rules … It is Long Past Time to Cancel The Democrat Party

Granite Grok - Sat, 2023-03-04 20:30 +0000

Using rules against political opponents is precisely the antics Saul Alinsky loved. Make them live up to their own book of rules. Dems try to do it all the time, but a Republican State Senator in Florida just that idea to a whole new level.

 

For years now, leftist activists have been trying to ‘cancel’ people and companies for things they have said or done in the past,” he said in a statement. “This includes the removal of statues and memorials and the renaming of buildings. Using this standard, it would be hypocritical not to cancel the Democrat Party itself for the same reason.”

Democrats were the party of slavery, Jim Crowe, the Ku Klux Klan, and they openly opposed civil rights legislation for years. Talk about a monument to racism and oppression that need to be toppled.

SB 1248, “The Ultimate Cancel Act,” would effectively cancel the Democrat party, what Chris Queen at PJ Media says might be “the greatest political trolling job ever.”

Democrats have reliably lost their minds, ranting about Democracy and pointing to anything they can claim makes Republicans look like fascists. It is a popcorn-worthy double feature. A tarp Democrats could not help but leap into head first.

If it is unreasonable, undemocratic, or even un-American (fascist, irresponsible, meanspirited, whatever…) to cancel something whose history is so integrated with chattel slavery, doesn’t that invalidate every other argument for canceling the rest of it?

There is no monument to that oppression greater than the Democrat party. If it wants to argue that it cannot be held responsible for its past mistakes, then reparations are dead.

You can’t punish people who never had slaves to reward people who never were slaves if Democrats can’t be canceled for their party’s past support for slavery.

Critical Race Theory has no legs. The 1619 project is political masturbation. And systemic white supremacy and white culture narratives are angry misguided children robbed of life by their own creators.

The statues must go back, the building’s names returned, and the confederate flag restored.

None of that will happen, and no one should expect it, but SB1248 has laid the Left bare and trapped them in their hypocrisy.

If Democrats or their party are not a trigger for slavery and racism, nothing is.

 

 

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LETS Barter – April 1

RiseUpNH - Sat, 2023-03-04 19:32 +0000
Saturday, April 1, 2023 – 10:30am to 1pm The Village Church 121 Cobble Hill Road – Swanzey, NH COST: Donation With the “Great Reset” coming, let’s learn to barter.   Space is limited, pre-registration is required! Please RSVP right away to Elena: artemis718@gmail.com LETS is a useful way to barter between members of a group. […]
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Why Do Democrats So Love Pornography in The Public Schools?

Granite Grok - Sat, 2023-03-04 19:00 +0000

Leftists complain about the “banning” (“like the National Socialists (Nazis) in the 1930s”) of books and expressions that never should have been in schools in the first place.

First, leftists object to removing sexually explicit, pornographic books from schools.

When did providing pornography to children become acceptable?  Parents didn’t demand that schools provide pornography to their children.  Society never debated and decided that providing pornography to young children provides a public benefit.

No sane person expected that school personnel would be so irresponsible as to surreptitiously bring immoral and potentially harmful pornographic materials into schools.

Second, leftists complain about the NH law outlawing discrimination in our schools (see the explanation).  Since discrimination was outlawed nationally about 50 years ago, no one expected that children would be discriminated against in school.

New Hampshire’s law doesn’t prohibit, as falsely alleged, teaching history, civics, or anything else.  All subjects can be taught without discriminating against or assigning blame or victimhood to today’s children for the sins of others.

Republicans certainly want a clear factual presentation of history including the Democrat Party’s horrible racist history and current oppression of black people.  Slavery, the KKK, Jim Crow Laws, and today’s refusal to provide decent schools and safe neighborhoods that provide economic opportunities are all oppression of blacks done by Democrats.

Why do leftists demand to be able to discriminate against children?  Perhaps to brainwash children into accepting the blame for Democrats’ evil racist actions.

Decent people who care about children wouldn’t allow pornography or discrimination in our schools, so there shouldn’t need to be laws against them.  When you hear people complaining about these laws/restrictions, you know who cares more about something other than what is best for America’s, and perhaps your, children.

 

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Choo Choo Pete Buttigieg’s Gay Mayor Buddy Arrested on 56 Counts Related To Child Porn…

Granite Grok - Sat, 2023-03-04 17:30 +0000

Choo Choo Pete Buttigieg just got rear-ended in another scandal. Not his, directly, but by association. College Park, MD, mayor Patrick Wojahn was just arrested on dozens of child porn charges. Buttigieg is alleged to have been something of a mayoral mentor.

 

The mayor of College Park, Maryland, was arrested Thursday on charges of possessing and distributing child pornography, according to authorities. The mayor has resigned from his position.

Prince George’s County Police charged Patrick Wojahn, 47, with 40 counts of possessions of child exploitative material and 16 counts of distribution of child exploitative material.

This keeps happening to prominent gay Democrats, which will elicit a manifold of responses from others to that fact. But these are the same people defending the right to expose children to gay porn in grammar school. Varying factions in the Democrat party and on the political left are working overtime to normalize adult sex with minors.

Major Dem donor Terry Bean was arrested multiple times for sex with minors, but he was rich and just paid his way out of jail.

But hey, all that LGBT agenda crap in the public schools..that’s not grooming.

Except it is.

And it needs to stop.

 

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This Explains Everything …

Granite Grok - Sat, 2023-03-04 16:00 +0000

Donald J. Trump will go down in history as the last Republican elected President of the United States … because NeverTrump and the GOP used COVID as a pretext to rig elections through among other means ballot-harvesting … and as a result States like Arizona, Nevada, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin no longer hold actual elections … they hold ballot-harvesting competitions.

And even if somehow the GOP candidate despite the interference of the Deep State, the bias and censorship of regime-media and Big Tech, the rigged rules in key swing States, etc. etc. etc. … manages to win … WHAT NEXT? The Biden-regime has filled the federal judiciary with communists who will block everything that President tries to do … the Deep State will undermine everything that President tries to do … the grifter Republicans, the Paul Ryans and Mitch McConnells will oppose everything that President tries to do, unless it pads their pockets.

America as we knew it is gone. It is never coming back. The ONLY hope short of expatriation is internal migration to Red States and then a peaceful national divorce.

But keep on telling me that the real problem is restrictive zoning laws and that massive Russian fleet shelling Hampton Beach.

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Bananas: Why Are So Many Plants and Animals Committing Suicide?

Granite Grok - Sat, 2023-03-04 14:30 +0000

A recent spate of mass plant and animal suicides is rocking the globe.

The number of food processing plants experiencing such disasters appears to be high, but In the U.S. there were approximately 1,410 warehouse (not just food processing) fires per year between 2014 and 2019.

According to the National Fire Protection Agency (NFPA), these fires caused an annual average of two civilian deaths, 20 civilian injuries, and $159 million in direct property damage.

However it’s not just plants and animals, even trains seem to be going off the rails from the madness. A recent episode occurred in East Palestine, Ohio just across the border from Jerusalem, Pennsylvania.  After years of tension between to the two cities a Northern Suffolk train appears to have ended it all as a message to the world.  Though the tracks were poorly cared for and the wreckage showed signs of an external explosive device the railway coroner ruled it a suicide.

On April 21 of 2022 A plane crashed into a General Mills plant in Covington, Georgia. The Federal Aviation Administration reported that an unidentified small plane crashed within a mile of the runway of the Covington Municipal Airport.  Local sources say the plant had been showing signs of depression recently giving away its entire collection of early edition Raisin Bran boxes to Captain Crunch.

“I had no idea the General was so upset.  He seemed like such a happy guy on the outside”, commented long time friend and former cereal killer Count Chocula.

Authorities still are unclear as to how the plant was able to steer a manned aircraft into itself dealing the fatal blow, however the local Sheriff is certain it was suicide.

Over 1 billion chickens have all died in a coordinated event that appears to be the result of their involvement in a mass suicide.  Several members of the bovine community were seen milling around the outside of the various chicken harvesting plants where the mass extinction events took place, although authorities say there is nothing unusual about cows dressed in black who can drive black SUVs.  A psycho-forensic analysis of the bird bloodbath reveals the chickens “just didn’t give a cluck any longer”, which is likely the result of too much time on social media.

On April 13, a major food California processing plant, Taylor Farms, burned itself almost completely to the ground after it realized it was not going to be able to flee California.

Also on April 13, a plane crashed into Gem State Processing in Heyburn, East Idaho at about 8:35 a.m.  Despite this being a potato plant in Idaho of all places, local officials have ruled it a copycat suicide stating the plant was driven insane after realizing its childhood hero Mr. Potatohead was now genderless.

On April 11 New Hampshire’s East Conway Beef and Pork experienced a “major plant fire”, which is another way of saying it snuck over the border to Vermont and smoked so much weed it asphyxiated itself.  Given the popularity of plant based suicides this year the East Conway police department has decided rather than create beef with the locals and cold case it, the hot thing to do is call it a suicide.  Many in the town say that’s a bunch of bologna.

Finally in an act of solidarity with plants and animals, Mark Middleton, a long-time aide to Bill and Hillary Clinton, was found dead on his property.  A family member found him hanging from a tree, clearly a symbolic nod to the plant deaths, and he lived in a town known to have both cats and dogs who are struggling with the will to live.  So as not to fail at his mission he courageously loaded a shotgun and, whilst hanging on for dear death, turned it lengthwise to his chest and delivered the fatal blast.

Authorities expressed consternation over the missing rifle only to discover it was sent to the Smithsonian’s new Suicide’s In American History exhibit, sponsored by a generous grant from the Clinton Foundation, where it can be seen encased in glass, rather than hanging like Jeffrey Epstein who didn’t kill himself.

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Biden, Fauci, and Weingarten are Destroying America

Granite Grok - Sat, 2023-03-04 13:00 +0000

I am convinced that no three people have done more harm to America, especially our children, in the last two years than these three individuals. Acting alone and in concert with each other, they sustained the COVID Pandemic far longer than was needed, set our children’s education back decades, and may have made decisions that will cause health concerns for a generation. The Left and the media worship this trio and credit them for how they guided us through the worst health crisis in a century. The facts tell a different story, and their ulterior motives are becoming more evident with time.

Joe Biden used the Pandemic to reach the White House. It gave him cover to hide from the public, the media, and Donald Trump. It minimized his exposure so that nobody could ascertain his level of mental incapacity. Biden and the media conspired to disparage the results that Trump had gained to give us a path out of the Pandemic and keep our economy sound. Once elected, he continued to parlay COVID as an excuse for massive spending and bills that would never have passed in more normal times. Joe teamed with Fauci to push the vaccine and booster myth and to block any efforts to blame the origin of the COVID virus on China. He and Weingarten worked hand in hand, including the Justice Department, to keep schools closed far too long and to quell any public pressure towards CRT or Gender Alternative Studies forced upon our children.

Fauci played us like a Stradivarius. He had both ends of COVID covered as he was funding the lab in Wuhan and exerting excessive power and restrictions on America. He was complicit with Biden in suppressing efforts to restart our economy. The Left and media want to elevate him to god-level when they should be investigating him for any potential role in developing the COVID virus. By forcing an ineffective vaccine and multiple booster shots into the arms of Americans, we may have caused severe heart conditions for many young adult males. We still have no clue as to the damage done to the reproductive capabilities of young women forced to take the jab.

Along with Weingarten, he kept our children masked and stuck in remote learning for far too long. Fauci, Biden, and the media set up a system where anyone who criticized their methods and restrictions was immediately debunked and canceled from Social Media. Fauci did all this while being the highest-paid Federal employee and setting a new high for the most significant yearly pension paid upon retirement. We will be paying for the decisions of Dr. Anthony Fauci for years to come.

Randi Weingarten may be the most dangerous individual in our country. Still, she could be considered an existential threat to America by teaming up with Biden, Fauci, and the Justice Department. As President of the AFT, American Federation of Teachers, the largest teacher’s union in the country, she was instrumental in keeping our schools shut and our children locked in their homes. She worked with Fauci, Biden, and Merrick Garland to close schools and the mouths of parents who dared to challenge local school boards. She bribed billions of dollars from the government, and much of that money has yet to be spent or allocated. Her efforts significantly negatively impacted test scores, drop-out rates, childhood depression and drug use, and even childhood suicides. She did nothing with the American money she stole to enhance our kids’ education process or results.

These three are like a trio of fine musicians. They sound great solo but are incredible on stage together. Unfortunately, the music these three played for America was dark and off key. It may be years before we know just how bad this band was for America.

 

 

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The Morning Mail – March 4th, 2023

Granite Grok - Sat, 2023-03-04 11:30 +0000

Today is a day to celebrate everyone that keeps voting for Democrats (It’s Brain Injury Awareness Day). It is also Fight Sexual Exploitation Day (where’s that list of visitors to Jeffy Epstein’s Island?).

March 4th used to be inauguration day in the US. The new President and congress (or the re-elected) were sworn into office on March 4th. The 20th amendment to the US Constitution changed all that, but before it did, many Presidents were sworn in today.

In a not-so-belt-tightening twist of irony, it is both National Snack day and World Obesity day (March 4th is also Pound Cake Day). The Waltz, Marching Music, Grammar, Game Masters, and Engineers also have a Day today.

It is also Hug a GI day in the US. Not Gibraltar (Country Code: GI) or Gastro-Intestinal, Ground Infantry, though the term can apply to any ground pounder if you happen to know one that you’d be willing to hug.

In 1801 Thomas Jefferson was the first US President to be inaugurated in Washington, D.C (as were the rest of them until the 20th Amendment was passed). 1936 saw the 1st flight of the airship Hindenburg on this day at Friedrichshafen, and in 1922 the first vampire film (an unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, “Nosferatu”), premiered in Berlin.

Republican Charles Curtis became the 1st Native American to be Vice President of the United States (1929) – Herbert Hoover was Inaugurated, President.

 

The Morning Mail

 

‘Make them use electric!’ –  Jill Biden cooking on a “gas” stove.

 

PUBLIC HEALTH?
  • Study confirms Xylitol nasal spray can prevent COVID infection – Dr. Peter McCullough.
  • UK could mass vaccinate chickens to prevent avian influenza spreading between humans – inews UK.
  • Insect proteins creeping their way into our snack foods in the US without the consumer knowing – Twitter.
  • Montana could make it a crime for the “vaccinated” for Covid-19 to donate blood. – Citizen news.
  • Rail unions tell Biden officials workers have fallen ill at Norfolk Southern derailment site – NBC.

 

LOCAL FLAVOR
  • Only A Third of NH Dems Want Biden to Be ’24 Nominee – NHJournal
  • Nashua Woman Indicted In Manchester Scissors Attack Case: Court – Bedford Patch
  • New Hampshire Ranks in Top 10 States to See a Supernatural – Seacoast Current
  • NH epidemiologist reflects on pandemic, 3 years after first NH COVID-19 case – WMUR
MISC
  • Trans Face of New Hershey’s Campaign Blasts ‘Transphobic’ Response, Sketchy Past – NewsWars
  • Councilmember Arrested: Dedicated Sheriff’s Office Pursues Election Fraud – Uncover DC
  • Worldwide Carbon Emissions Highest Level In History Despite Billions Spent On Green Policies – Daily Wire
  • What Secret Service agents REALLY thought of Jimmy Carter – Daily Mail
  • Ric Grenell: Susan Rice Acting as ‘Shadow President’ for ‘Weak’ Biden – Newsmax
  • Wealthy Democrat Voters Say Biden’s Uniting the Country; Majorities of Other Groups Disagree – CNS

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