For at least the past few months, Dan Bongino has been flirting with the idea of a state seceding from the union and governing itself as an independent nation. Bongino is among the most popular conservative talk show hosts, and he is the only conservative podcast that I listen to daily.

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Twitter may not be for everyone. At its core, it is a platform made for short tempers, short ideas, and short language. On a good day, it is full of tribalism with black-and-white narratives and political pontificating. At its worst?

It is a morass of human cesspool-level dialogue and videos exposing people at their lowest.  Like a theme park full of real-time car accidents, the ride is made for gawking at the wreckage. In order to get in, you don’t have to be tall enough, it prefers you remain short.

This is why the MVCS Girls’ story (of taking a principled stand against enabling insanity) going viral on Twitter was so uniquely special.

Despite its rhetorical flaws, the social media app is a measuring stick of cultural opinions for the latest controversies.  Thanks to Twitter, the MVCS girl’s story was shared by an account titled “boysvswomen.com,” which is followed by a world-famous psychologist, NY Times best-selling author, and culture commentator Dr. Jordan Peterson. Known more for verbosity, Dr. Peterson re-tweeted the story to his 3.7 million followers, stating simply, “It’s about time,” and within 24 hours, the story reached over 1 million views.

The tiny school in Quechee was being lauded around the globe as fast as it spun on its axis.

As the attention grew and the comments rolled in, the support was overwhelmingly in favor of the Eagle’s stand for girls/women’s sports to remain free from male athletes identifying as girls/women participating at the expense of the fairer sex’s safety. Here are a few:

• Solveig283 @solveig283 “Brave. Especially in New England.”
• Gary Cook @orak100 “Finally. People brave enough to say no.  I salute you.”
• Abbie M @AbbieM16 “This is the way! All teams should follow suit to protect their girls.”
• Bighats @bighats61 “Well done, we’ve got to stand up to these woke bully’s.  Good luck!”

As of this morning, the boysvswomen.com tweet has 1.2 million views, 7,941 likes, 1,325 re-tweets, and 220 comments. Our Vermont Daily Chronicle article, which broke the story, also shared by boysvswomen.com, has been seen 18.3K times, liked by 277 accounts, and re-tweed 32 times.

The story since has been picked up by the Daily Wire, the Daily Caller, the Daily Signal in the UK, Sportskeeda, the Blaze’s Glenn Beck podcast, and a variety of other online personalities.  Virtually all of those commenting or covering the story support the school’s decision.

A call to help out the small school with donations to bless their courage has been made by many if you’d care to throw your weight behind these big-time little women.  You can make donations via their website: https://www.mvcs.info/resources/support-mvcs/

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Alinsky’s rules demand that Democrats blame perceived threats to their power for whatever ails them, from their failed economy to the border, supply chains, and Ukraine. They blamed Donald Trump for the disaster in East Palestine, but that narrative just got derailed.

 

Washington Post fact checker Glenn Kessler dispels these claims, finding that none of the regulatory changes made during the Trump administration can be linked to the accident.

 

What did he find? According to this report,

 

Kessler found that the Trump administration was not responsible for the lack of electronically controlled pneumatic brakes on the train, as the Biden administration made no effort to reinstate them. He also noted that the brakes would not have helped, as by the time the crew activated them, the train had already derailed.

• …brakes would not have prevented the derailment.
• …there is no evidence yet that the braking system played a role in the accident.
• When it came to the amount of crew present,… the train had two crew members as well as a trainee.
• …the impact of Trump’s decisions ranged from “none” to “minimal.”

 

None of this, even coming from as liberal a landscape as the Washington Post, will end the smears. Remember, “Neither truth nor facts nor light of day will stay them from the swift implementation of their approved narratives.”

 

WATCH: NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy says the brake rule Buttigieg and Joy Behar blamed President Trump for repealing ‘would not have prevented’ the East Palestine derailment.

“The wheel bearing failed on car number 23. So even with ECP brakes, the derailment would have occurred.” pic.twitter.com/AECPta0T5F

— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) February 24, 2023

 

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So only 22 percent of Stanford’s freshman are white … which makes it impossible to claim that Diversity-Equity-Inclusion is about making institutions “look more like America.” Stanford’s freshman class does NOT resemble America at all.

So it’s about redressing past wrongs? You know the argument that white people have historically oppressed people of color and continue to benefit from that oppression, so it’s simply balancing the scales of justice to discriminate against white people in order to benefit people of color. If you nodded yes, then please explain to me how D-E-I is morally different from the Nuremberg laws in the mid 1930s in Germany that began the process of de-individualizing an dehumanizing Jews.

Rhetorical question … the woke Republicans will  simply robotically respond with, “it’s different because DIVERSITY IS OUR STRENGTH.”

For decades, we’ve been told that affirmative action was simply an effort to make colleges “look more like America.” But only 22% of Stanford’s incoming freshmen are white — less than half the share of white adolescents in the national population. @NROhttps://t.co/ADEOV3Wszn

— Nate Hochman (@njhochman) February 25, 2023

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I am sharing my public comments this week at a meeting of the Nashua Board of Alderman in regard to an anti-Catholic vote by Democrat Nashua Alderman-at-large Melbourne Moran, Jr. that was made when he was serving as my NH state representative in 2022.

Related: “God-Fearing Catholic” Nashua Alderman Says Fly Satanic Temple Flag With Save Women’s Sports Flag

Moran identified himself as a “God-fearing Catholic” at a previous Board of Alderman meeting when he attacked me about my raising of the Save Women’s Sports flag on the Citizen Flag Pole on the Nashua City Hall plaza.

Moran never misses a chance to criticize New Hampshire Republicans, including Governor Chris Sununu.

 

I am here to talk to you Aldermen Moran about your vote as a state rep on bill HB1625 that would have repealed the unconstitutional buffer zone law. Although you are vocal in your opposition to Governor Sununu’s agenda on many issues, you showed solidarity with him for giving private abortion businesses control of public sidewalks when you voted to uphold his veto of the bill.

As a Catholic, you know that Christians are called to serve the most vulnerable and who is more vulnerable than a pregnant mother and her child? Your fellow Catholics are on the public sidewalks outside abortion facilities to offer help to pregnant mothers in their hour of most desperate need when they are considering ending the lives of their precious preborn children. 

You may ask what good your fellow Catholics are doing on the sidewalks outside abortion facilities. They are reaching out with offers of help to women who are there under threat of being thrown out of their homes by abusive partners or angry parents, women who are being sexually trafficked, and women who are addicted to drugs. They are reaching immigrant women, documented and undocumented, who feel like strangers in a strange land and who don’t know who to turn to for help. 

One of the mothers who was recently helped was an immigrant from Brazil who was pregnant with twins who was being physically abused by her husband. Her husband told her she must have an abortion or else. Your fellow Catholics were there for her on the sidewalk and offered her help, which she gratefully accepted. They threw her a baby shower. She was so grateful and she gave birth to her beautiful twins.

They have saved many more babies with equally heartwarming stories.

These are happy stories that everyone should be celebrating.

And yet you voted with Sununu to allow private abortion businesses to force your fellow Catholics off the public sidewalk and deprive these vulnerable women and their babies of lifesaving help. You accuse Sununu of not caring but where is your compassion?

On a related topic, I am looking forward to candidates challenging potential presidential candidate Governor Sununu about his opposition to freedom of speech as detailed in NH Governor Chris Sununu Whacks the First Amendment and Takes All His Credibility With It. If you are working on a presidential campaign, please share this with your candidate.

 

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For many years, there has been an initiative to make Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico states. This has been a goal of Democrats because the benefit to statehood for these two entities is a more secure hold on Congress. This logic is based on the assumption that both new states would be solid Blue.

Each new state would add two Democrat Senators and one Congressman. The D.C. area has a population of just over 700,000. It would not be the least populated state, but would be a very important state for the Left. Securing statehood for D.C. is more important to the Democrat Party for the power it would bring than the benefits it would bring the people of D.C.

D.C. is one of the most dangerous cities in the country and an embarrassment to the country to be our National Capital. D.C. is a unique piece of America carved out of Virginia and Maryland to host our Capital. The oversight was that the residents were not given federal representation. This has gone unresolved for over two hundred years. One of the solutions would have been having the residents decide which state they wanted to be absorbed by. They then would have been represented without the addition of another state. That does not benefit the Democrats. They need more.

The increase in the number of states is part of a larger plan. The Left wants to reduce the voting age to 16, knowing that the new younger voters will be primarily left-leaning. They want to give illegal aliens the right to vote in local and state elections. The same logic as the voting age reduction drives this. The Dems want more absentee and mail-in voting because there is less control and accountability of these votes. Similar thinking explains the Left’s disdain for Voter ID and why they want to allow vote harvesting. It is apparent the Left wants to skew the voting process in their favor. Why can’t they work on getting on board with policies that will better Americans and fight for their seats on an honest playing field? Because it is far easier to cheat and bribe to retain power.

In addition to these procedural attempts to secure power, the Left has control of most of the media machine. They also have a grip on the Intelligence community and social media. This is why Elon Musk scares the hell out of the Left because Twitter is an open forum that is a dent in their arsenal. The incredible spending spree we have witnessed in the last two years is the frosting on the cake. The redistribution bill disguised as a infrastructure bill, the inflation reduction act, which was a climate control bill, and the student loan forgiveness executive order was nothing but a $20,000 check to secure votes. All are payouts for votes. If the Left would concentrate on pro-American policies, they could save us a boatload of money, because one thing that Liberals never do is spend their own cash.

 

 

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42% big. From Visual Capitalist:

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It seems paradoxical that only 4% of the world’s population is so productive that it is still responsible for a plurality of the world’s Gross National Product. Note, too, that while Japan may have more companies listed on the Nikki, each of the US markets, NY Stock Exchange and the NASDAQ, dwarf its value. More productive and a higher value?

Yet, we see the Progressives working on killing “the Golden Goose that lays the Golden Eggs”. They never seem to care that the results of their actions never seem to match the ideology spawning those actions.

 

 

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

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

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

 

 

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Announcement!

Due to a crash thing work-wise I won’t be doing anything meme-wise next week.  I will do the Survival Sundays but probably not at the same level of detail.  I’m already on the work thing so – forgive me – these are just dumped memes without my normal commentary inserts.

 

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Pick of the Post:

 

 

For all his flaws, I agree.

 

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Palate Cleansers:

 

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Have you heard the name, Michael Hugo? The Framingham, Massachusetts Democrat Committee Chair suggested that misdiagnosed disabilities in the womb translate to huge added costs to public education.

 

“if an unqualified sonographer misdiagnoses a heart defect, an organ defect, spina bifida or an encephalopathic defect, that becomes a very local issue because our school budget will have to absorb the cost of a child in special education, supplying lots and lots of special services to children, who were born with the defect.”

 

There’s been some outrage about the implications. It sounds like his belief is that such a diagnosis should result in aborting the unborn child to save taxpayers money. That is a safe assumption for someone whose ideological ancestors were eugenicists and depopulation fanatics. Given recent narratives from progressives about the overcrowded planet, the 21st-century Democrat apple does not fall far from that tree.

His party has history, past, and present to suggest that is precisely what he meant.

For the record, the comment was made weeks ago, and they had no plans for him to step down. Local Dems didn’t want him out, but then the story went national, and yesterday, Hugo stepped aside as committee chair.

 

“Recognizing my unfortunate misstatement at a recent City Council meeting, and upon discussing the issue with my wife, family, Senate President Karen Spilka, and various members of the Framingham Democratic Committee, I have decided that my resignation is necessary to eliminate any distraction from the important work of the local Democratic Committee, as well as the State Party,” Hugo said in a prepared statement.

He stepped down, but I don’t think he ended the distraction. Michael Hugo’s quoted remarks include what ought to be at least two deal breakers for Dems and should have them calling for his political head.

First, from his February remarks, any “school budget [that] will have to absorb the cost of a child,’ implies that it is a child, just one that has not yet been born. This is anathema to the political left.

Second, what if ‘an unqualified sonographer misdiagnoses a heart defect, an organ defect, spina bifida, or an encephalopathic defect’? It sounds like he just institutionalized the probability of a medical misdiagnosis that ends the life of “a child.”

That’s hardly a game changer for Dems, they support killing healthy unborn children as often as you please, but by stepping down, Hugo has added value to the outrage over his original “unfortunate” remarks.

Unborn children have value. It is a child.

I think Framingham Dems had better get rid of this guy before he becomes more of a liability (or distraction) to the party of death.

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• These are the most liberty-critical hearings for the week
• Click on the bill number to read the bill.
• Click on the committee name to email the committee your thoughts.

Of the 22 hearings in the House, we are recommending support of 2 and opposition of 4 with 2 being of interest.
Of the 8 hearings in the Senate, we are recommending support of 0 and opposition of 0 with 1 being of interest.

Position	Bill	Title	Committee	Day	Time	Room	State Analysis
Oppose	HB249	non-germane amendment #2023-0697h to HB 249 relative to establishing regulatory standards for the pet insurance industry	Commerce and Consumer Affairs	Tue 3/7	9:45 AM	LOB Room 210-211	The amendment establishes regulatory standards for the sale of pet insurance, allows the restaurant owner to bring their companion dog to the restaurant premises, and removes the option for restaurants to allow patrons to bring dogs to outdoor dining areas.
Oppose	HB402	relative to prohibiting false statements against candidates.	Election Law	Tue 3/7	10:30 AM	LOB Room 306-308	This bill prohibits the publication of false statements by any candidate, political committee, or political party regarding another candidate’s positions on issues.
Oppose	HB463	relative to the establishment of an election information portal.	Election Law	Tue 3/7	11:00 AM	LOB Room 306-308	This bill authorizes the secretary of state to develop an election information portal.
Support	HB496	relative to the delivery of ballots to nursing homes and elder care facilities.	Election Law	Tue 3/7	1:30 PM	LOB Room 306-308	This bill establishes a new procedure for delivering absentee ballots to voters in nursing homes and elder care facilities.
Of Interest	SB270	relative to appropriations to the department of transportation.	Finance	Tue 3/7	1:00 PM	SH Room 103	This bill appropriates $20,000,000 to the department of transportation for municipal bridges, and $20,000,000 to the department of transportation for additional “Apportionment A” distributions.
Of Interest	HB609	relative to energy facility siting.	Science, Technology and Energy	Tue 3/7	9:00 AM	LOB Room 302-304	This bill establishes the regulation of energy facility siting within the public utilities commission and establishes new procedures to replace the site evaluation committee.
Oppose	HB142	relative to the operation of the Burgess Biopower plant.	Science, Technology and Energy	Tue 3/7	10:30 AM	LOB Room 302-304	This bill allows the public utilities commission to amend its orders as necessary to protect the continued operation of the Burgess Biopower plant.
Support	HB127	relative to the declaration of a state of emergency.	Executive Departments and Administration	Wed 3/8	10:30 AM	LOB Room 306-308	This bill revises the authority of the governor and general court to declare, renew, or terminate a state of emergency.
Of Interest	HB533	Public Hearing on amendment #2023-0705h to HB 533-FN, relative to public school human rights complaints	Judiciary	Wed 3/8	9:00 AM	LOB Room 206-208	The amendment gives the commissioner of education the authority to issue subpoenas related to violations of the code of ethics and code of conduct for licensed or certified personnel.

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Nothing but bullies with chips on their shoulders, trying to portray themselves as “victims”, and a penchant for aggressively trying to ruin other peoples’ lives that refuse to go along with their delusions.

From a post at RedState:

It should be understood that these activists do not speak for the entirety of the LGBT community. I’ve met too many from that community that thinks the activists are garbage and they, like most people, want to be left alone to live their lives. However, the activists are ironically making people wary of the community at large, and judging by the reactions to Pikamee’s bullying, they’re making it worse.

The back story:

After Bullying VTuber ‘Pikamee’ Into Retirement Over Hogwarts Legacy, People are Souring On Woke Mobs

I didn’t know much about the VTuber (streamers and YouTubers with virtual avatars) going by the name of “Pikamee” but after watching her name trend on Twitter more than a few times recently I decided to dig into the situation and what I found was something of a tragic story involving the woke mob and a sweet Japanese woman…

…Like most streamers, Pikamee would often play games while interacting with her chat. Apparently, she had plans to play the game “Hogwarts Legacy,” and all at once the trouble started.

As RedState previously reported, “Hogwarts Legacy” became the new front in the culture war. The game was boycotted by members of the LGBT activist community for its connections to Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling, a person the activist community has labeled as “transphobic” for her unwillingness to embrace the narrative that gender is interchangeable and a man is a woman if he says he is. While it’s been proven that Rowling isn’t actually transphobic, the woke mob refuses to see her any differently.

Once again, Identity Politics came to fore. The Trans-Authoritarians demanded that Hogwarts Legacy, a spinoff game of the Harry Potter movies, HAD TO HAVE Transgender characters in this game about magic BECAUSE! So fearing the backlash if they didn’t, the developers put one in. Satisfied that we bowed down to you?

Not.A.Freaking.Chance.

Not liking how the character turned out, the TBs (Trans-Bullies) went on yet another rampage against J.K Rowling (who has blown them off to my great delight) and then decided to ruin those people who make their living by streaming their game playing.  Like Pikamee.

There’s a lot more detail at the post and I’d suggest that you mosey on over and read it. I am convinced that:

What is being documented is true – most transgenders have more mental issues than just gender dysphoria and this is a PERFECT example of these activists demonstrating several of them at the same time (er, anger management, doesn’t play well with others, fragile egos such that they HAVE to be right all the time, narcissistic, obsessional behavior, and psychopathic modalities to want to ruin someone else for their own well being – and yes, they’ve tried it on me).

Now, Normal people are turning on these folks and telling them to stuff it.

There’s a reason why there is an “LGB without the T” movement and “Gays Against Groomers”. I doubt that these Trans-Authoritarians even have any sense of self-awareness to realize that the pushback is really starting to roll.

 

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This speaks for itself. The Biden-regime and its allies and supporters get comic relief from Americans dying of fentanyl … and I’m sure the reason why is that they believe most of the deaths are working-class white voters.

Those of you who continue to believe that it’s possible to share a country with these people are such fools.

President Joe Biden reacted to a mother who spoke out about her two sons being killed by fentanyl poisoning by saying that happened "during the last administration" — with a chuckle. pic.twitter.com/Zqfs7RxJ63

— NEWSMAX (@NEWSMAX) March 2, 2023

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Older people need to make sure they have all the resources they need to stay happy and healthy well into their 70s, 80s, and beyond. Depending on their health, seniors may find it difficult to live solo.

Sometimes a helping hand is necessary for very elderly people to get food, take walks, and go to doctor’s appointments.

If a senior has a disease like Alzheimer’s or dementia, living in an assisted living facility might be the best course of action. On the other hand, some seniors are happy and healthy and still capable of taking care of themselves. People like this might need to know how to move into a new home in their golden years, or they can choose to live in the same home.

Finding strategies for saving money is helpful. Senior discounts for homeowners insurance are available depending on the type of house that is bought. What can adult children do to aid their senior parents during this time of possible upheaval? What can seniors do to help themselves during home shopping? 

Keep the Home Simple

Getting older can make getting around the house more of a chore. Modern technology advancements have made the future of home appliances complex and difficult for older people to use if they are inexperienced with such items.

Perhaps look into buying a one-story home if climbing stairs is becoming more of a struggle due to physical limitations. Don’t buy a home with a large property in need of maintenance, as this adds to your inconvenience.  

Mowing the lawn, clipping trees, and watering the plants can be healthy activities for retired people who are in good health, but some people are not capable of doing these things in their 70s and 80s. Buying a large property is going to require some sort of guarantee from loved ones that they will help take care of all the chores that go into living in a big house. 

Don’t install fancy new appliances you can’t understand. Moving into an older home with familiar items inside is a good way for seniors to feel comfortable with their living space. 

Move to a Retirement City

Some retired people may want to move somewhere sunny and upbeat. Living in the rain of Seattle is not for everyone. The shiny brightness of San Diego might be better suited for those who get seasonal depression during gloomy seasons. 

It’s important for these people to think about how to move into one of these bright cities to combat these blues and whether they have the money to afford the cost of living. Seniors who have a large savings may have the money to pay for luxurious homes they didn’t have when they were younger. 

The real estate market reacts by pricing the homes higher if they are in an area of affluence. Homeowners’ insurance may also be higher on homes in an area attracting a lot of retirees. The more expensive the house, the higher the insurance is priced for it. Luckily, many seniors can get great discounts just for being over 55 years old. 

Get Senior Insurance Discounts

Companies like Allstate and AARP’s Hartford products are priced specifically for seniors. Allstate has the aforementioned 55 and older discount of over 10%. AARP has always been intended to help seniors manage their money and credit. 

The discounts bring the price of insurance down immediately upon purchase due to the intended customers being senior citizens. Safety is the utmost concern for older people and their loved ones. Children sometimes worry their parents and grandparents are going to be in danger of being victimized by home break-ins and other crimes in lower-income areas. 

Seniors could move to an expensive area, but the price of housing makes it more difficult to pay for daily expenses. This creates a tough situation. Cheap homes are more likely to be in areas with higher crime rates. It could mean the final decision may just be to move senior-aged loved ones in with children or grandchildren.

Think About Live-In Caregiving Situations 

If a senior is in poor health, it could be better for a caregiver to be living with them at all times. Running a house by themselves can lead to complications and consequences. What if they fall and have nobody to help them recover from the fall? 

How about Alzheimer’s causing memory loss? Seniors with mental health diseases may leave their homes and not return. This calls for younger people to move their parents or older loved ones in with them so they can keep an eye on them. This also saves both parties a tremendous amount of money. 

A senior’s older house can be sold, and no money has to be put into buying another home. Younger homeowners may even be able to get a tax write-off from their older parents if they are living with them by claiming them as a dependent. This gives money back to adult children to alleviate any expenses incurred because of a live-in caregiving situation.

Moving Into Assisted Living Facilities

If a senior’s health problems are too much for an adult child, then moving them into a nursing facility or senior living home may be the best option for their safety. Professional nurses and caregivers are able to assist elderly patients. It should be made clear these situations can get very expensive, though.

Living in a nursing home can be very stressful for seniors if friends or family don’t visit them frequently. Seniors and their relatives should keep in touch often to avoid homesickness. 

All in all, seniors may just want to live in the home they raised their family in if at all possible. If they do choose to live in this situation, they can still get discounts on homeowners insurance by switching policies. Seniors can also be happy knowing they may have paid their home off in full and can enjoy financial freedom in their familiar place of dwelling. 

 

Shawn Laib writes and researches for the insurance comparison site, ExpertInsuranceReviews.com. He wants to help seniors understand the choices that can make retirement living more pleasurable.

 

 

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It’s National “If Pets Had Thumbs Day.” I know. What the … It’s also ‘World Wildlife Day’ and ‘Canadian Bacon Day,’ eh? Do you like Irish Whisky? Today is International Irish Whiskey Day and the first day of The Iditarod.

You could grab some whisky and bacon and pets with thumbs (if they have them), Cold Cuts, thank Moms in Georgia, caregivers, and celebrate The National Anthem. March 3rd is their day too.

It is also the birthday of the US Navy Reserves.

On this day in 1857, the Second Opium War Began. Thirty years later, in 1887, Anne Sullivan began teaching 6-year-old blind-deaf, Helen Keller. Mahatma Gandhi began a fast in Mumbai (Bombay, 1939) to protest against autocratic rule in India. And Los Angeles police officers were recorded (1991) beating motorist Rodney King which later led to riots when the police officers were acquitted.

The Morning Mail

 

And don’t you know it!

 

CULTURE

• Mississippi Bans Genital Mutilation, Chemical Castration – Breitbart
• Pro-Life OB-GYN Group BANNED From American College of OB-GYNs ‘Building Bridges’ Conference – PJ Media
• New children’s book hails transgender Biden official ‘Rachel’ Levine as inspirational ‘woman’ – LifeSite
• Drag Queen Forces 11-Year-Old to Leave Class for Denying 73 Genders – PJ Media
• Justice Department Can’t Arrest Pro-Abortion Vandals Because They Firebomb Pregnancy Centers at Night – Daily Signal
• Hershey’s Hates Women (Chose Transwoman to honor International Women’s Day) – Twitter
• Eradicating Joe Biden’s Sinister “Equity” Executive Order/Woke Takeover of the U.S. Government – Watch
• 7.2 Percent Of US Adults Identify As LGBT – ZeroHedge

 

AROUND THE WORLD

• Two Honduran Nationals Killed an American Bald Eagle in Nebraska and Planned to Eat It – GP
• Iran investigates the poisoning of hundreds of schoolgirls with toxic gas – BBC
• Taliban Using Fingerprint and Gun Records to Hunt Down Afghans Who Worked for the U.S. – PJMedia
• UK grocery price inflation rises above 17% for the first time – Grocery Gazette
• Trans teacher with prosthetic Z-cup breasts is FINALLY put on leave for not wearing the fake boobs outside of school – Daily Mail

 

MISC

• Discover to enable tracking of purchases at gun retailers from April – Reuters
• State Department Funded Group that Punished Conservative Websites For Circulating Lab Leak Theory – NewsWars
• “Have you brought a single case against any of these protesters threatening [Justice Brett Kavanaugh]?  – Steadfast Clash
• Columbus OH City Council Passes 30+Round Magazine Ban, …– NewsWars
• Future Ford Vehicles Could Repossess Themselves – ZeroHedge

 

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Newly elected Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) may be both dead and alive, according to various pundits, nurses, seers, and medical men. As a fellow who enjoys physics, this reminds me of one of the greatest thought experiments of all time – the tale of Schrödinger’s cat.

We want to thank John Burtis for this Op-Ed. Please submit yours to Editor@GraniteGrok.com.

 

Nitro the cat is placed in a steel cat box along with a Geiger counter, a vial of poison that becomes an easy-to-breathe aerosol if its container is shattered, a ball-peen hammer, and a radioactive substance. When the radioactive substance finally decides to decay, the Geiger counter detects it and triggers the hammer to fall, smashing the vial and releasing the poison, which subsequently kills Nitro the cat. Radioactive decay is a random process, and there is no way to predict when it will happen. Physicists say the atom exists in a state known as a superposition—both decayed and not decayed at the same time, as does Nitro and perhaps once mighty Mr. Fetterman.

Until the box is opened, an observer doesn’t know whether the cat is alive or dead—because the cat’s fate is intrinsically tied to whether or not the atom has decayed and the cat would, as Schrödinger put it, be “living and dead … in equal parts.”

In other words, unless that box is opened, the cat’s state is completely unknown, and therefore, the cat is considered to be both alive and dead at the same time until it is observed by someone outside the enclosed system.

 

“If you put Nitro in the box, and if there’s no way of saying what the cat is doing, you have to treat it as if it’s doing all of the possible things—being living and dead—at the same time,” explains Eric Martell, an associate professor of physics and astronomy at Millikin University. “If you try to make predictions and you assume you know the status of the cat, you’re [probably] going to be wrong. If, on the other hand, you assume it’s in a combination of all of the possible states that it can be, you’ll be correct.”

Upon looking at the cat, an observer would immediately know if the cat was alive or dead, and the “superposition” of the cat—the idea that it was in both states—would collapse into either the knowledge that “the cat is alive” or “the cat is dead,” but never both.

So, physics brings us to the man who crushed Dr. Mehmet Oz, the Republican, for Pennsylvania’s open and proud US senator’s seat.

It has been suggested of late, on a growing number of news blogs far outside of the perpetual prevaricators posing on the mainstream press, that Senator John Fetterman, following two strokes, the latter being pretty serious, punctuated by that sad bit of his starring in the old “Lost at Sea” vaudeville show when he was sworn in with the terminally jocose Vice President Harris in attendance, is both alive and dead.  In this state of superposition, it won’t matter about his voting.  No, the Democrats have relied for years, in tight races all across our land, on those inviolate absentee ballots culled from the faithful Democrat dead who come to life for every election and then scurry back beneath the sod before dawn, and the votes are counted.

The Democrat stool, it has often been pointed out, is supported by three sturdy legs: one for the voting dead where the dead vote Democrat in over 85% of the cases examined, another for the ever more mollycoddled criminal class with tips of the hat to lily-livered DA’s who ran on Georgi Soros’ dime and were elected before being recalled, with the last leg representing that latest tranche of the three million illegal aliens who have caused such a ruckus for Governor Abbot (R-TX) and Mayor Adams (D-NYC) because Joe Biden has waived them home with the same storied success of a Yankees third base coach or the landing signal officer on a US aircraft carrier.

There is that famous meme featuring a Democrat filling out absentee ballots using names on tombstones in an ancient cemetery.

Despite the orders from numerous judges across America to rid the voting lists of the voting dead, they slither back onto these same lists and keep on voting as Democrats in the best Stephen King tradition.  Sometimes a Republican corpse is hijacked by the Democrat side of a family and their post-mortem votes will appear in the latest voters’ rolls.

So, John Fetterman, if he’s lying in a coma being kept alive by machines, or if he’s playing liar’s poker with the nurses in intensive care, will cast his ballots Chuck Schumer’s way every time, alive or dead.  And if Fetterman can remain both alive and dead through August 18th, then a special election for the Senate seat won’t be required to fill his then vacated seat and instead it would come time to let Governor Shapiro, who did away with required college degrees for 92% of the fabled Commonwealth’s positions and is said to have as many questionable miniatures on his kitchen shelf as Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), to appoint his replacement from Harrisburg’s array of highly educated and qualified hacks now that neither college or common sense is required in Ben Franklin’s and William Penn’s once dignified state.

Oh, yes, what about Nitro the cat?  If you look closely at the photo you’ll note that Nitro’s sporting a George HW Bush button on his collar.  Did that tough little cat, the closest I ever came to Schrödinger outside of physics classes in college, vote?

Having scanned the voting roll at my polling place near my last Massachusetts home in Brighton, when I voted for that female communist  instead of Thomas “Tip” O’Neill shortly before moving to our less onerously taxed and far better-led Granite State, I found no cats or dogs registered.  But I always wondered just how many loyal Democrats dead voted for the “Tipster” in that moment of his greatest need?

As for the dearly departed Nitro, it would break my heart if he was now voting Democrat.

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Swedish Climate Muppet Greta Thunberg is making news in Norway, where she and some activist muppet buddies blocked access to the Ministry of Energy to protest a proposed wind farm project. The reasoning: “indigenous peoples who live in the area.”

 

“We cannot use the so-called climate change as a cover for colonialism,” said Thunberg, according to TV2, outside the ministry’s doors. “A climate transition that violates human rights is not a climate transition worthy of the name.”

 

With those two sentences, Greta opened a Climate-sh!t-sandwich shop, but is she prepared to serve them to everyone who needs to take a bite? The Net-Zero, electrification, solar, wind, and EV energy transition is built on human rights violations of indigenous populations.

China, a long-time human rights violator before this windfall came their way, is the world leader in both mining rare earth metals and manufacturing components, parts, and equipment for this farce. Nearly everything “green” has CCP fingerprints on it. China owns many of the mines in Africa and South East Asia, where local low-wage or slave-level laborers work in criminally unhealthy conditions with massive environmentally damaging footprints. Not the fake damage used to sell the agenda but real, generational harm with long-term impacts on human health, land, water, and wildlife.

Can we expect Thunberg to visit the Congo, Indonesia, or the Mother Ship in China? What about CCP climate ‘colonialism’ and human rights violations? Will Greta stand before the UN and say, “How Dare You” support an energy transition under these circumstances?

And what about the rest of it? I mean, all of it. Are all the groups milking the colonialism schtick going to shoot their narrative or climate cash cows because the NWO energy transition depends on climate change colonialism and the harmful offshoring of emissions to third-world nations for the benefit of wealthy globalists?

Not a chance. It’s full Green-catastrophe ahead! So, Greta might want to hire some security. If she keeps this up, Thunberg may find herself having committed “suicide” from a wind turbine in the Swedish backwoods with a story that changes as quickly as Paul Pelosi’s home invasion hammer assault.

 

 

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The self-proclaimed elites have, over the last couple of decades, been proving they are not all that elite: “There is a perception that the multiple ladders of success which have existed in American society are increasingly being collapsed into a single ladder, with access tightly controlled via educational credentials.

“There is a perception that the multiple ladders of success which have existed in American society are increasingly being collapsed into a single ladder, with access tightly controlled via educational credentials. It is increasingly observed that these credentials actually have fairly low predictive power concerning an individual’s actual ability to perform important tasks and make wise judgments about institutional or national issues. The assumption that school-based knowledge generally trumps practical experience seems increasingly questionable as the sphere of activity for which this assertion is made has expanded, and is indeed increasingly viewed with suspicion or with outright disdain.”

-David Foster (“What, Precisely, is the Issue with “Elites”?“

In short, a Neo-Aristocracy that is both self-selected, self-appointed, and based on which Ivy League school issued their diplomas, believe they have the self-given knowledge and power to boss the rest of us around. And like the Middle Ages” royal Aristocracy, their view of everyone else is little better than serfs. Thus, they don’t care about how they affect OUR lives.  “YOU DON’T NEED THAT!” is their mantra: you don’t need a gas car, you don’t need to have steak for dinner, you don’t need to fly in a plane, you don’t need lots of new clothes every year, you don’t need to live outside a “walkable city”, and you certainly don’t need always-on electricity any time you want.

But you shall know them by their actions – as THEY will have apportioned to themselves everything they would deny you.

Including Freedom.

 

(HT: Instapundit)

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NOAA Predicted a Mild/Drier Winter as Record Snowfall Closes Yosemite Natl. Park For Foreseeable Future

Grant-hungry Climate Cultists can code computer models that auger global conditions years or decades from now, but they can’t predict this. Yosemite got so much snow this winter they closed the park on Feb 25th and for the foreseeable future.

 

The historic snowfall in the Sierra Nevada from back-to-back winter storms has closed the world-famous park indefinitely while rangers and park staffers work to respond to the epic snowpack.

“In all of my years here, this is the most snow that I’ve ever seen at one time,” said Scott Gediman, a spokesperson for Yosemite and ranger for 27 years. “This is the most any of us have ever seen.”

 

Snowfall records have been bTheythe Pacific Coast all season (better them than us), but why didn’t they see this coming?

They did see something, but they were wrong. NOAA, so-called scientific experts on such things, made these now-laughable 2022-2023 winter predictions for California, which includes Yosemite. Normal to above average temperatures and normal to below normal precipitation.

California got the opposite in spades: record precipitation and cold weather, including plowable snow (but with no plows) down to Southern California.

If it makes NOAA feel better, The Farmer’s Almanac missed it too. They predicted drier weather with mild temperatures.

 

Here’s some local news on the closing of Yosemite National Park.

 



 

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So I put up this facetious post pointing out the hypocrisy of the self-proclaimed “fiscal conservatives” in the NHGOP who are railing (pun intended) about commuter rail to Boston … while ignoring all the waste, fraud and corruption in funding public education and the blank check to the Ukraine … Damn Right We Should Build A Choo Choo To Beantown. The commentators, however, missed the point and let me know yet again that if we don’t stop Putin now the Russian Navy will be shelling Hampton Beach by June and that it’s just not free market to subsidize commuter rail (but apparently it is free market to subsidize “workforce housing”) … YAWN. Nevertheless, I intend to follow up on that post by taking the proverbial “deeper dive” into education funding to underscore the hypocrisy of the NHGOP’s faux fiscal conservatives.

Remember Chucky Morse’s failed U.S. Senate campaign … more specifically the slogan … “603-way not DC-way”? Well … when it comes to funding public education, there really is no difference between the “603-way” and how DC funds the war in Ukraine. We have virtually no idea how the money is being spent.

Let me say that a different way … all that we really know about public education spending in New Hampshire is that we don’t know. Apparently, 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?

Where is the pie chart on the Department of Education website showing me a meaningful breakdown of  spending on public education? I couldn’t find it. CALLING MR. EDELBLUT … CALLING MR. EDELBLUT.

Can any of our “fiscally conservative” NHGOP State Reps and State Senators give me that breakdown? I doubt it. They are far too busy cutting business taxes and subsidizing workforce housing … which clearly is far more important to them than knowing how much of every education dollar is spent on Diversity-Inclusion-Equity.

I am sure that these “fiscal conservatives” would tell me that I can do a Right-to-Know if I want to know. NO … NO … NO … oversight and stewardship of how taxes are spent is YOUR JOB … DO YOUR DAMN JOBS.

All that we can say is that we really have no idea how approximately two-thirds of every dollar spent on public education is actually spent.

I know … I know … I know … what I really should be worried about is that Russian fleet steaming full speed toward Hampton Beach.

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Much has been written recently about the nearly 850% increase in illegal border crossing apprehensions along the New York, Vermont, and New Hampshire border with Canada (Maine, too, I expect). Not so much about who.

Nearly two-thirds of the 1,513 apprehensions since October of 2022 are Mexican. Does that seem odd? The US has a border with Mexico. It is long, porous, and far from Canada or the American North East. It is also not nearly as unpleasant this time of year as its longer Canadian counterpart.

January in Nogales (Mexico or Arizona) is 65F during the day and 39F degrees at night (average). I expect any deserts you cross along the way are worse, and we know many folks never make it that far but it’s temperate in Nogales. In Laredo, the temps run 65F /45F, and again, depending on the method of entry, you might not make the walk or die in the back of a truck trailer, but you’re Mexican and in Mexico.

In contrast, on the northern border, Swanton, Vermont doesn’t get much warmer than 25F on average when the sun is up and hovers near zero at night (without windchill). A trek through Canada to the US border is chilly, especially if you are not used to the cold. It is also nowhere near Mexico.

The Burlington Free Press recently published a piece with some weather cautions and comments from Border Patrol about illegals choosing this path. A number, as noted above, that has risen 850% during the Biden tenure. They’ve even got this awesome graph showing us where the illegals come from based on their self-declared nationality.

 

 

Sixty-two percent are Mexicans. We’ve also got Haitians, Guatemalans, Venezuelans, Columbians, Ecuadoans, Cubans, Peruvians, and Brazilians (the people, not the wax job). There are plenty of off-continent nationalities and even a handful of Canadians, all of whom might consider illegal entry along the northeastern US border a sensible entry point for lawbreakers.

Anyone south of Mexico might do better on a boat ride to Canada, to which you might add stops in Cuba or Haiti. But just Mexicans? Crossing in Canada? Who is moving them up the coastline and down the St. Lawrence Seaway before they hop on land and make a cold-snowy break for America?

My awesome drawing of likely ways for Mexicans to get to the Swanton Sector.

Cartels? Who else can afford it with the southern border saturated with invaders, which includes a few asylees, a lot of opportunists, and an army of gangs with drugs? Maybe VT, NY, and NH look like more accessible points of entry. Instead of moving drugs up to Lawrence, MA, and then into New Hampshire, they can move them down and in from Canada. And why not if they don’t get caught in Canada?

Vermont is a Sanctuary state. Burlington has effectively legalized human trafficking (you cannot prosecute prostitution there). Its door is already open, except for the Border Patrol, working at skeleton crew levels. And they’ve caught 1,513.

The rest are here among us.

But it’s not couch cushion money to take a boat from the Gulf up the coast and then down toward Montreal. Is someone paying that freight, or is there another explanation for why Mexicans are marched at great risk to their lives across the wintery Canadian border into the US?

The racist, sexist, bigoted, xenophobic, colonialist, white supremacist United States, or so I’ve heard). A place colder than the water in January.

 

 

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