Sunday • November 24 • 2024
Vol.XVI • No.XLVII
Manchester, N.H.
Forewarned is forearmed. Thus, this is intended to be a compilation of articles, with my commentary, to try and get like-minded people to grasp what’s coming. Even merely being aware of events in the world will make you better prepared than the hordes of sheeple.
Note that these compilations are catch-as-catch can, and presented as is. I make no guarantee of accuracy or complete coverage of the world.
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.
For prep materials, please see:
Survival Sunday – PREP Edition – Granite Grok
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Climate Science: What Does it Say? | Dr. Richard Lindzen | EP 320
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Top of the fold:
WEF wants to be able to remote-turn-off your appliances. Hence one of the drives to have wi-fi in everything. It’s not enough for them to send broadcasts; heck, if I got such a broadcast I’d look to try and turn stuff off as I could. But this is a step further: master control:
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/wef-wants-to-control-your-appliances.mp4
Again, OOH I understand the finite nature of the grid and the need to ask people to shed loading. But OTOH the idea of taking over and just doing it heedless of what’s going on? Consider the example of people baking a turkey for Thanksgiving and having their connected ovens switch off for an hour. And IMHO related:
The World Economic Forum’s ‘AI Enslavement’ Is Coming For You! | ZeroHedge
It seems as if not a generation goes by when some megalomaniac does not rise to proclaim, “If only the world does exactly as I demand, I will deliver you paradise here on Earth.” Usually, these same narcissists go down in history remembered as either vainglorious buffoons or bloodthirsty tyrants — often both.
Remember: they TRULY BELIEVE themselves to be superior beings. They TRULY BELIEVE themselves entitled to rule. And they have only the best of intentions.
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U.S. food additives banned in Europe: Expert says what Americans eat is “almost certainly” making them sick – CBS News
What’s in your food? Don’t just check for insect powder.
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PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA
If things get “spicy” and you have to be out driving, be aware of these bad guy techniques. Ditto for if you’re beside a road. Even more than normal, heads on a swivel.
WATCH: Hamas video details how to carry out drive-by shooting attacks | World Israel News
Be situationally aware:
How to Develop Situational Awareness | The Art of Manliness
Speaking of being alert:
Bayou Renaissance Man: “Our society has devolved. Get a gun. Train hard. Shoot first.”
And this poor woman:
Alligator kills Florida woman walking her dog… – CITIZEN FREE PRESS
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System Failure: What’s Coming & Actions You Can Take
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Deep State / Coming Tyranny / WEF / Globalists (broad):
It’s true – the climate fanatics are coming for your car – spiked (spiked-online.com)
I agree, but it IS the handiwork of the WEF. Those “enlightened suuuuupergeniuses”. Related:
Minnesota Democrats propose ban on gas-powered lawnmowers, chainsaws, and Zambonis | The Post Millennial | thepostmillennial.com
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Ambitious 170-km-long Saudi skyscraper city gets construction go ahead (newatlas.com)
That LINE city is getting started.
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Losing our future by destroying our past (wnd.com)
(Link to AZQUOTES per their policy)
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Physical driving licence could become ‘history’ as EU proposes digital option (msn.com)
Some US states are working on this too. And of course… “option” becomes “mandate” pretty quickly.
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Protecting Children:
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/school-notice-for-overnight-stays.mp4
Now, why would they need this?
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Jen Martinez: I Joined Gays Against Groomers Because I Don’t Recognize My Community Anymore
Good for her, good for them. I wonder if there’s JEWS AGAINST JEWICIDAL YIDIOTS.
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Mississippi Becomes Seventh State To Outlaw Sex Change Surgeries for Minors (freebeacon.com)
Good!
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National Security (specifically):
China Far Outpacing US in Warship Production, Navy Secretary Warns – Geller Report
Disaster. While our military goes woke under the Biden Administration, China is building a Navy that is superior to ours. If America loses it’s Naval dominance to China than it’s a different world. Does the Biden Administration even have a strategy to compete with China? Dangerous times.
Related to production:
One Year in the Russo-Ukrainian War: the Big Pixels (substack.com)
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90 Miles From Tyranny : Biden Pentagon Orders Military Chaplains To Bless Putting Male Soldiers In Female Showers And Bedrooms (ninetymilesfromtyranny.blogspot.com)
Driving away our soldiers.
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The Folly of Ukraine – Vox Popoli (voxday.net)
IMHO he’s not wrong. We’re definitely late-stage.
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On The Jab (and Covid)
More vaccines -> higher infant mortality (substack.com)
Not just the Covid Jab, but all vaccines. As to releasing the data, all the data? If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth. Related:
Why is everyone so afraid to talk about the elephant in the room? (substack.com)
Letter To A Mainstream Straddler: Live Not By Half-Lies | ZeroHedge
The unJabbed are not dying. Related:
Pfizer’s fraudulent COVID mRNA technology gene injection that FDA approved with EUA: 20 deaths in vaccine trial arm versus 14 in placebo trial arm; yet FDA approved the vaccine with EUA! Did you know? (substack.com)
So 42% more deaths in the vaccine arm than in control arm. Did you know that? They reported 95% relative risk reduction but did you know there were 42% more deaths in the vaccine arm?
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The FAA has very quietly tacitly admitted that the EKGs of pilots are no longer normal. We should be concerned. Very concerned. (substack.com)
Getting scared about getting on a plane. Meanwhile the uber-rich want unJabbed pilots. Doesn’t that tell you everything?
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Dr. James Thorpe shocking data on the devastation of the mRNA technology gene injection on the pregnant woman & developing child; I have said before, proper legal trials & if shown they caused deaths, (substack.com)
Pfizer Confirms It Ended COVID-19 Vaccine Pregnancy Trial Early | ZeroHedge
EXCLUSIVE: Whatever happened to Pfizer’s covid vaccine trial in pregnant women? (substack.com)
Gallows.
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Inflation:
U.S. Credit Card Debt Soars in Era of Disastrous Bidenflation – The Lid (lidblog.com)
“A lot of people may not have enough income coming in to support day-to-day expenses, so it lands on the credit card. That becomes a very persistent cycle of debt, unfortunately,” said Ted Rossman, a senior analyst at Bankrate.com.
And then bankruptcies start.
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Here’s How Much the Price of Food Has REALLY Gone Up (theorganicprepper.com)
It’s not going away any time soon, that’s for sure. More:
Key gauge watched by Federal Reserve shows January inflation surged (wnd.com)
Inflation Isn’t Going Away… | ZeroHedge
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Coles, Woolworths, Aldi: Higher supermarket prices after Scott’s Refrigerated Logistics collapse | news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site
UK Food Inflation Hits Record High of 17.1%
International.
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Project O’Keefe
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Enemedia:
WHAT A SHAME: NPR Laying Off 10 Percent of Workforce Citing Drop in Ad Revenue | The Gateway Pundit
HA HA HA HA HA HA! Related:
Chris Hedges: Russiagate Spells Journalism’s Death | ZeroHedge
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https://media.gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/128/448/587/playable/c5c91a92c3e3251f.mp4
It’s not just that the census did this. It’s the absolute silence about it.
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Pfizer’s unpunished confession – American Thinker
All those years, I wondered why Pharma spent so richly on advertising.
It’s because I had the target wrong. The money wasn’t meant for prescriptions.
It was for media influence. And it worked.
Yes. Yes, it did. What’s that saw? He who pays the piper calls the tune.
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Media orgs demand ALL the J6 footage they didn’t care about until Tucker Carlson got access – twitchy.com
They’re not curious. They’re now furiously doing research to head off the bad news that’s inevitably coming. Related:
90 Miles From Tyranny : Media Demands Darkness, Not Sunlight, on January 6 Tapes (ninetymilesfromtyranny.blogspot.com)
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https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/lara-logan-question-everything-on-ukraine.mp4
THIS… is what a journalist should be.
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Pro-life:
Leading Physician Confirms Unborn Children Feel Excruciating Pain During Abortions – LifeNews.com
OMG.
People wouldn’t sentence a puppy to this fate. Yet they cheer this for a baby.
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Democrats Will Keep Chairman Who Said Disabled Babies Should be Aborted to Cut School Costs – LifeNews.com
A local Massachusetts Democratic committee voted not to remove its chairman, Michael Hugo, after he suggested unborn babies with disabilities should be aborted because they are a drain on public school funding.
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Instead, the committee told the newspaper that its members approved a statement “repudiating” the chairman’s “recent harmful comments.” The committee did not say if Hugo will face any consequences, according to the report.
Perhaps he should just call them “life unworthy of life” and be done with it. Or Untermensch. And he was not removed? Just “reprimanded”. I wonder what would have happened if he’d said blacks, not disabled people.
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Know your Leftist / Globalist & Islamic enemy:
To her I state without apology: When an Islamic migrant group gang-rapes you… you got what you voted for.
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SURPRISE! It turns out they really ARE coming for your gas stove – twitchy.com
Of course. Can’t have you have a stove that’s connected to your propane tank, and not the grid they control. Or worse – and reference the WEF section above – a connected stove they can just remotely disable.
Speaking of, we just finished remodeling our kitchen. Finding ANY appliances that weren’t wifi enabled was difficult.
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Immigration / Migration:
Overwhelming number of UK residents agree that immigration numbers are TOO DAMN HIGH! (barenakedislam.com)
Too high everywhere.
These Numbers Are Incredible
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Teachers told my 15-year-old daughter to cover her ANKLES because they were sexually attractive | Daily Mail Online
No. You move to another country, you assimilate to that country. It is not up to that country to assimilate to you.
Short story: I make a “spirited attempt” to keep kosher. Now, that’s difficult enough living where I live, especially with a non-Jewish wife. But I try. For example, if I’m at a restaurant I’ll order things in such a way to try to not have pork, or will only order free-swimming fish (e.g., has fins and scales), not knowingly mix milk and meat, etc. (I miss bacon cheeseburgers!) But it’s a tip of the hat because, technically, the kitchen is not kosher. But I have neither pull or arrogance to make the kitchen clean itself just for my sake.
So when I was in Louisiana on a business trip some years ago, I had to specifically order “No shrimp” which, down there, get put on everything. My request was tantamount to heresy. But I’m not asking the kitchen to scrub down or inconvenience others, just to not add something to my particular order… and when I explained it was a religious restriction, and keep in mind I do wear a kippa, nobody blinked. In fact, it did start a few interesting conversations.
The above is something else entirely.
And where are the feminists, who used to say that how someone dressed was not a reason to harass them?? Related:
Austria: Syrian father threatened to kill and rape 14-year-old daughter because he suspected she had a boyfriend – Allah’s Willing Executioners (medforth.biz)
Charming culture. Let’s import them by the metric f*ckton.
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Economy at large:
What happens to a consumer-driven economy when consumers are tapped out?
A healthy economy ultimately depends on having discretionary income. Which is being squeezed out of existence for an increasing number of people. Or when the central banks are:
End of Bank of England £800bn bond buying is a headache for Treasury (cityam.com)
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EU’s largest economy shrinks — RT Business News
The German economy shrank by 0.4% quarter-on-quarter in the final three months of 2022, the country’s Federal Statistical Office reported on Friday. The contraction came in larger than the previously estimated 0.2% GDP drop.
Analysts attribute the worse than expected reading to persistently high inflation and lingering concerns over energy supplies, which are weighing heavily on household consumption and capital investment. Data showed that German household spending was down 1.0% in the fourth quarter, while investment in construction was down 2.9% and in machinery and equipment down 3.6%.
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The Real Roots of the Financial Crisis (substack.com)
Not just a foreseeable crash. A foreseen crash. And there are signs now:
Sign, sign, everywhere a sign…
There are shortages, delays and difficulties all over the place in business and commerce, and they’re getting worse, not better. How are you finding it, dear readers? Please let us know in Comments, so we can get a better feel for whether this is a general problem, and if so, how widespread it’s become.
Analysts Warn That Stocks Are In ‘Death Zone’ And Ready For A Collapse – The Lid (lidblog.com)
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Political War
Media Says Americans Should Just Skip Meals To Cut High Grocery Bills – Geller Report
First against the wall when the main shooting stops.
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Government Targets Conservatives: The Matt Gaetz Witch Hunt – Intellectual Takeout
Another case study in this ongoing harassment of conservatives involves Congressman Matt Gaetz, who has been under an extended investigation. Lawyers for Matt Gaetz recently revealed that the Department of Justice has concluded its investigation into the congressman and will not be charging him with a crime.
It’s not that. It’s that now the enemedia can refer to him as the “formerly investigated for sex trafficking” Congressman.
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90 Miles From Tyranny : Biden Judicial Nom Argued for Outlawing Offensive Speech, Suggested ‘Microaggressions’ Can ‘Kill You’ Meet Maria Araujo Kahn, Biden’s nominee for the Second Circuit Court of Appeals (ninetymilesfromtyranny.blogspot.com)
They want you silenced.
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America Cannot Survive If Its Citizens Lack Pride – American Thinker
No nation can survive a loss of confidence in itself and its past.
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US Stability (broad catch-all):
TIA: This Is Africa? No, This Is America – American Thinker
I remember being in Russia, meeting my now-wife. For two days the apartment I’d rented had no hot water. “This is Russia” she said with a resigned shrug.
We take so much of our functioning society utterly for granted.
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Twitter Admits That It Received “Legal Demands” from the US Government to Censor Covid Information – Cafe Hayek
And thus, nobody with three brain cells capable of firing at once trusts the government any more. See my commentary at the last PREP edition post.
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“The Future of American Policing”
Deliberately degrading the effectiveness of, and trust in, the police. Speaking of police:
Nike Begs Portland Mayor for Police Protection to Reopen Shuttered Community Store Plagued With Retail Theft
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The National Divorce has begun – Don Surber (substack.com)
Whether by official policy or not, people are moving.
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World Stability (broad catch-all):
“Xi Jinping and Putin Know, There Are No Consequences Under the Joe Biden Presidency” – Kash Patel on Why the Word “Nuclear” Is Now in the Mainstream | The Gateway Pundit
Yesterday Kash Patel was on the War Room and Bannon noted that you never heard Reagan or Trump talk about using nuclear warheads as tactical weapons yet here we are under Biden discussing the possibility of a nuclear war.
Edging closer and closer.
Report: US Sending Hundreds of Troops to Taiwan as China Threatens Invasion (freebeacon.com)
Beijing To Fast-Track Taiwan ‘Reunification’ Plans After “Extraordinary” Year Of Tensions | ZeroHedge
About another potential flash point:
Is An Attack on Iran Imminent? Rogue Nation is Close to Uranium Enrichment Level Required for Nuclear Weapon – The Jewish Voice
While Joe Biden dillydallies around Iran’s advancing nuclear enrichment program, Benjamin Netanyahu prepares for military strike (barenakedislam.com)
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Here’s How Fast Things Have Changed in Brazil Since the Election (theorganicprepper.com)
Things can shift. And fast.
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WWIII Watch: Zelensky Now Playing Games With Moldova – Pirate’s Cove » Pirate’s Cove (thepiratescove.us)
Oy. And more:
U.S. Army, NATO. A huge number of M1A2 Abrams tanks arrived in Eastern Europe.
Comments are that looks like a whole battalion. On tanks:
Scrounging For Tanks For Ukraine, Europe’s Armies Come Up Short
Related:
19th Ward Chicago: Is the Ukraine war just a BS job?
So Ukraine is losing on the battlefield and the U.S.-led sanctions regime against Russia has failed. The only U.S. response is to escalate the conflict.
But RTWT. And a little more:
NATO Yields to Ukraine: Promises Membership ‘In the Long Term’
Basically translated: Russia, everything you were afraid of vis a vis Ukraine, we’re doing. This is NOT how you calm things down.
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Color Revolution? US Funneling Millions Into Hungary’s Left-Wing Opposition Media
Orban is for Hungary First. Thus, he needs to be gone.
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EAT THE RICH!
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Specific to energy:
Grids Can’t Handle All the Solar and Wind Dems Want to Hook Up | Frontpage Mag
Grid Capacity Issues Threaten Net Zero | Watts Up With That?
The fact that it can’t work doesn’t deter them. Related:
America’s Largest Power Grid Faces Worsening Reliability Risks | ZeroHedge
A significant problem with the ‘green transition’ is adding renewable power, such as solar and wind, are unreliable forms of power generation. Combining this with rapidly retiring fossil fuel power generation units will reduce generating capacity by about 21% through 2030. The report pointed out that the current pace of adding new power generation wouldn’t compensate for the retirement of coal- and natural gas-fired generation amid soaring demand.
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Power grid attacks up 71% and Biden acolytes tell us it’s all those white supremacists – American Thinker
Our grid is staggeringly vulnerable. Not that I’m planning anything, but routinely I go by transformer substations with a chain link fence as its sole security feature. Miles and miles of high-voltage transmission lines, side by side, with the ability to walk right up to the bases of the towers.
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Why South Africa’s Collapse Finally Came Down to Eskom – The American Conservative
A herald of America’s future?
Lights Out! The Chaos When Our Grid Goes Down | Bill Whittle
Related:
WSJ CONFIRMS OUR WARNING: The power grid infrastructure is being deliberately dismantled to collapse America
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Dark money group pushing gas stove crackdown has significant financial stake in green energy | Fox News
Surprise surprise. I remember when the incandescent bulb was pushed out – by corporate lobbying for increased efficiency standards.
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Puffin Publishing Tried To Burn Classic Children’s Books
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Big Tech in general:
How Deepfake Videos Are Used to Spread Disinformation – The New York Times (archive.is)
Detectable, for now. Give it a few years, and unless you’re in the same room you won’t be able to tell if it’s a person or a deep-fake AI. And that’s a problem, especially for news sources. What happens when, in real time, such technology can put out a statement by a publicly-known figure?
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British journalist shows how the CIA played a ‘direct’ role in the creation of Google – Blazing Cat Fur
Not really a surprise. Now… take a look at Amazon’s rise to success. Could it have been a plan to get you to buy your stuff online and then track it?
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Catch-all miscellaneous:
Not just ivermectin: New FDA authority to ban off-label uses alarms doctors | Just The News
This is huge. If the FDA blocks off-label use, especially if it’s done selectively and people know it, that undermines – even further – any trust in the medical establishment. “OK, doctor, you can prescribe X for an off label use but you can’t prescribe Y for a different off label use”?
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Concluding thoughts if I’m moved to comment:
The Population Crash › American Greatness (amgreatness.com)
Contrary to Paul Ehrlich’s predictions, the late 21st century will bring with it unavoidable turmoil as nation after nation confronts not too many people, but instead, an aged dependent population dying en masse, with almost no youth left to replace them.
The demographic Titanic is going to hit the iceberg. We may be thankful that some people on the ship are building lifeboats while there is still time.
Longish. Read anyway. Never mind the Jab specifically – in general entire countries will collapse and vanish. Entire cultures will vanish.
On a personal note – a couple of them.
First, I wish I could have more kids, but I’m definitely getting up there… and certainly not with my Jabbed wife. In my case, if something happened to her – Hashem forbid – I’d likely be looking for a Jewish woman, ideally Orthodox. Pureblood. Going to be a pretty short list on that, I think.
Second, I wish I’d started a lot earlier. I remember a classmate from the snobby private high school I attended who left after her first year. She came to the graduation ceremony… married and very pregnant. Considering she was very Catholic, her kids now doubtless have kids… while I’m still on just my kids who are nowhere near breeding age.
As Mark Steyn said, the future belongs to those who reproduce to be there. Or something close to that.
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Don’t forget: prep prep prep! But not just buying canned food, etc. Learn for the long haul. Just in case.
Salting, Curing and Smoking your own meat
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Palate cleansers:
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Please check out my MEME collection. Here’s the last one.
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The Supreme Court will decide on the Constitutionality of the Joe Biden Student Loan Payout. This should be another defeat for the Biden Team, but they got the mileage they needed from the proposal.
After all, the carrot that Biden hung in front of everyone with an outstanding Student Loan balance was done to secure votes in 2020. Biden was willing to spend upwards of $1 Trillion in taxpayer dollars to buy enough votes to secure his election over Donald Trump. If the loans are not forgiven now, Biden can point to the Trump Court for blame and still take credit for the effort. Biden knew all along that this payout would not fly. Even Nancy Pelosi went on the record to say that the President had no Constitutional right to forgive these loans. Joe can tell you that he knew that too.
But he also knows the value of the empty promise he made to millions of students and their parents. He pushed the button, made the promise, cashed in on the votes, and knew it would never come to fruition. Even the failure is working out for him. He can now stand before the American people, claim what he did for them, and blame the evil Republicans, and Trump’s Supreme Court for saying no. He will be loved for the effort, and the blowback on the Right will be lasting. The protests outside the Court today were loud and emotional.
Elizabeth Warren, Pressley, Tliab, Pressley, and Omar played for the crowd. They all claimed the President is within his rights to cancel student loan debt. Unfortunately for them, Nancy Pelosi explained last fall that the suspension of debt is available to the Executive Branch, but forgiveness is not. The one person who came unhinged and delivered the most passionate speech was Randi Weingarten, President of the AFT, the largest teachers union.
Weingarten was out of control, jumping and yelling and, unfortunately, lying. She ranted that the President was within his rights to forgive the outstanding student debt. Nobody addressed the two most important questions like the others who spoke out of hand. If the debt is forgiven, who pays the balance. The other question is, what happens with students coming into the cycle and starting to accumulate loans?
This forgiveness looks to be a four to five-year process and the beginning of free college in America. The entire process of student loan payout, or forgiveness, is a disguised wealth redistribution scam. We have about 13-15% of the population getting a $20,000 gift from the other 85% of Americans. If the package comes in as planned at $500 Billion, the debt to each paying American is $2,500. Most economists predict the cost to be closer to $1 Trillion, raising the debt to about $6,500 per American. That is just for this round. If this is repeated every 4-6 years, the tab per taxpayer will be out of control.
Fortunately, I think even some of the more progressive Justices will not want to give this President and future Executives to follow, the power to spend a trillion dollars with the stroke of a pen.
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A few days ago, Auntie Vaquser remarked on the “suicide” death of former Clinton Crime Family Associate Mark Middleton. A day or so later, the County Sheriff issued updated details, including a claim that a gun was located at the scene where none was previously found.
Related: Modern American Oligarchs Should Heed the Message in Clinton’ Advisor’ “Mark Middleton’s “Suicide”
Middleton allegedly moved a bench under a branch, tied his electrical cord noose, put it around his neck, pointed the shotgun at his chest, and pulled the trigger. The noose was back-up to make sure he died. Another rouge satellite, once in the Clinton orbit that, needed to be dead-dead. But this is odd. According to the Sheriff, the shotgun was found 30 feet away, propelled there from the resulting recoil.
Thirty feet is quite the distance. I am not convinced it could travel that far under the best conditions if it fired itself -with no obstructions (picture a smooth, greased downward slope) after freeing itself from whichever digit “Mark” used to pull the trigger. Any entanglement would make ten feet a stretch unless his killer dropped it there.
No ballistics, and if only common sense can refute the notion, this will be the story people are expected to tell their children one day.
Remember that fellah who worked for Governor – sorry – President Clinton. He knew all about Jeffrey Epstein and the White House visits, some of those Lolita express flights to pedophile-fantasy-island (de plane! de plane!), and probably a lot of other Clintonian business—that guy. Well, right after we got word that the flight logs were going public, he shot himself off a park bench with a shotgun with an extension core noose wrapped around his neck. And wouldn’t you know, that firearm flew thirty feet away into some ground cover and hid so good the police couldn’t find it until someone told them they’d better?
Swear to god!
Maybe Mark died of COVID. Having failed to get his bivalent booster, the trauma of putting “the community” at risk drove him to commit self-inflicted shotgun strangulation.
Whoever does the autopsy should be able to see that from thirty feet away.
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The NeverTrump-faux-Republicans’ mantra … CANDIDATE QUALITY, CANDIDATE QUALITY, CANDIDATE QUALITY. Really? Fetterman is a quality candidate? Katie “Cartel” Hobbs? Their “candidate quality” mantra is LAUGHABLE. It exposes their hubris … we, NOT THE VOTERS in GOP primaries, know who has and who does not have candidate quality; so vote how we tell you.
Trump lost in 2020 because the election was RIGGED. Legacy-media and Big-Tech censorship, Zuckerbucks and ballot-harvesting. That’s unarguable … so the question raised by the tweet below is: IS LARRY HOGAN AN IDIOT OR A LIAR?
Unless the Republicans can match the Democrats’ ballot-harvesting in Arizona, Nevada, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, NO Republican has a shot at beating Biden, or whomever runs for POTUS as a Democrat, in 2024.
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How about a national Egg McMuffin Day? Yup, that’s today. It’s also Banana Cream Pie Day, Rescue a Cat day, and American Citizenship Day, which sounds xenophobic to Lefties. So sorry. There was no trigger warning.
It’s also Walter Day, Old Stuff Day, and National Read Across America Day.
On this day in 1791, the semaphore machine was unveiled in Paris. Napoléon Bonaparte was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the French Army in Italy in 1796. And in 1807, the US Congress banned the slave trade within the US, effective January 1, 1808.
In 1962 Philadelphia center Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 points, the most ever by an NBA player in a single game.
And one of the most popular musical films of all time premiered on this day in 1965; “The Sound of Music,” starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer.
The Morning Mail
COVIDIA
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What are the watchwords of Progressive / Democrats / other assorted Leftists? In their own Wokeness, they are all about “tolerance,” “inclusive | inclusiveness,” “affirmation,” and “community.” They bandy them about as if they believed them as the highest attributes in the world. If only they acted and spoke in concert with them.
Unfortunately, like many Democrats (especially those that have power over others), we have a shining example of yet another to whom the notion of “graceful” is an unknown quantity. May I present to you one NH Democrat Party Communications Dude, Colin Booth. He makes it clear that the above virtue set is only a collection of words to be used to further a political agenda when an opportunity presents itself. Otherwise, they just get in the way:
This was his level of “communications skills” in responding to the NHJ piece about Melissa Litchfield, Tim Baxter, and Karoline Leavitt running to be the Chair (and RNC Committee folks) for the NH Young Republicans (link below). I just reviewed Booth’s Tweets, and I’m not surprised it was deleted.
Sidenote: All three should be voted in – I’ve known Melissa for years now and spent a lot of time talking with Baxter and Leavitt.
Now, there are always key phrases that Democrats will apply to anyone, not them. Reaching back into history, everyone that had an R after their name was a TEA Partier (what, Jeb Bradley was one? Hahahahahaha. Chuck Morse? Ditto). Now the epithets of choice” are Christo-facist (even if someone is Jewish), a KKK member (even if Black), xenophobic (even if a LEGAL immigrant).
And now, Tim Baxter is anti-LGBT. Funny, he willingly went through our two-hour GrokGauntlet to vet his run for Congress this last cycle (although we did finally endorse Leavitt), but it was a very close call as all of us thought well of Tim. I’ll be honest – at no time did his sexuality come up. He was just another politician running for a higher office. He knows where I (and GraniteGrok) stand on lots of issues. And we put him through the wringer.
But hey, Collin Booth works for Ray Buckley, who doesn’t have a nice word for anyone who either isn’t a Democrat or someone who can’t (or won’t) help in, in some fashion, or crosses him in any small way. The little acorn didn’t fall far from the root.
What Booth put out on full display is who the Democrats really are – nasty and brutish. For all their calls for civility (that really was a “thing” a few years ago), they accuse everyone “not them” of being uncivil when their own words belied what they were preaching.
It is ALWAYS the politics of personal destruction with them – and Tim Baxter was the brunt of it this time. I’ve been there, others have been as well. Simply because we aren’t them or share their worldview and are seen to be impediments to either their keeping ahold of power and stopping them from gaining it (or more of it).
It is ALWAYS, and fundamentally about Power.
And Tim Baxter is seen, from that point of view, as a large threat indeed.
Doesn’t he look rather condescending at everyone?
(H/T: NH Journal)
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SB256 will award more money ($1 MILLION) dollars, to continue the national Multi Tiered System of Support Behavior (MTSS-B) in our local schools. But how is this money, spent on the students’ mental health, working?
At a recent hearing before the Senate Health and Human Services Committee, a few lobbyists agreed that they needed to continue the MTSS-B program because they were able to reach children who needed it. Children are in crisis and their mental health needs are greater than ever before. That may be true, but how a school district responds maybe backfiring.
Not all bad behavior stems from a mental health problem. What about all of those kids who are pushing boundaries? As parents we all know that from time to time, kids are going to push to see what they can get away with.
Several years ago, New Hampshire was awarded grant money from the federal government to institute solutions to this mental health crisis among our youth. Some of this may have been helpful, but much of it seems like it’s not working.
A few years ago teachers from Nashua spoke before the board of education about the escalating behavior problems. In Keene parents have been invited to special meetings to discuss the escalating behavior problems in the school. One of the Keen student’s, posts their videos on YouTube showing all of the fights that are occurring in the restrooms. I have written extensively about the teachers leaving the profession based on these problems.
At the public hearing on SB265, no one mentioned any of this but me. One former teacher did offer testimony opposing SB265 based her personal reasons. So why continue to spend more money on this program?
Plymouth State, Antioch and now Keene State, have all been tasked with developing a report on how well MTSS-B is working in our public schools. I flipped through this report from Keene State BHII, but it looked more like a marketing report for a product they want to sell. This wasn’t an in-depth peer reviewed and independent study.
Where are these stories that have been reported in Manchester Union Leader? The UL reported that Winnisquam planned a vacation week training amidst behavior problems.
TILTON — The Winnisquam Regional School District will offer a two-day training workshop during vacation week to help address disruptive student behavior.
Superintendent Shannon Bartlett said grant money will allow the district to bring in representatives from Connecting Our Resources Educationally, or CORE, Methods and William J. White Educational and Behavioral Consulting Services, Inc. to work with parents, teachers, special educators and administrators across the district. Bartlett plans to offer a similar professional training workshop during April vacation.
“We have [special trainers] embedded in our schools throughout the week, but we really just feel like the more training we can get for our staff, the better,” she told the Winnisquam Regional School Board.
During the public comment period on Feb. 20, Bette Hammond placed blame for the disciplinary problems on the school board.
“To me, the school board is the foundation of our school district,” Hammond said, “and right now, it’s crumbling. You’ve hired behavioral specialists to help with students that are struggling, and it doesn’t seem to be working at this point. … I see classrooms being evacuated, profanity, staff being punched, kicked, things being thrown.
“What concerns me with all of this interruption,” she continued, “is that test scores are down. Are you going to blame the teachers? And how do you think it affects the staff, as well as the students?”
How is MTSS-B working so well when we know there have been serious incidents in our local schools? What is going on?
Bravo to the parent willing to speak the truth to the school board. If they don’t want to deal with these problems, they shouldn’t run for these positions. They need to start asking questions of the administration. The Superintendents are failing, and you are the ones who hire them. Parents are going to hold you accountable until you decide to hold your school administrators accountable.
This parent explained exactly what is going on in the classroom…it’s a CHAOTIC MESS.
What will it take to realize that a disciplined environment, where children are safe and can learn, should be the goal. Expecting schools to become mental health centers will cause even more problems. Will it take a teacher who is brutally assaulted to wake everyone up? Look at the violence this teacher had to endure at the hands of a violent student:
This district was implementing the PBIS system of positive behavior support. How did that work for the teacher who took his Nintendo switch away from the student? PBIS is part of the Multi-Tiered System of Support.
Remember when disruptive children were removed from class, and sent to the Principal’s office? They faced consequences~ No wonder behavior problems are escalating. When classrooms become a group therapy session for children, it doesn’t work well for those involved.
In an article from the Fordham Institute, they point out the problems with turning circle time into group therapy.
Restorative circles are unethical and have no place in schools
In the past decade, the role of the teacher in schools has slowly shifted from pedagogue to therapist. Perhaps the most glaring example of this shift is the practice called “circle conversations.” These circles are cousins of the non-punitive approach to discipline called restorative justice, and are intended to be community-building prophylactics.
We should all want mental health care and structured, emotional support for students who need it. But deputizing teachers into a role far beyond their expertise runs into several problems that violate the American Psychological Association’s “Code of Ethics.” And it could lead to disastrous outcomes.
Finally, and perhaps most importantly, psychologists must acquire “informed consent” from any patient before administering services. Be it medicine or therapy, a patient must understand what services they are to receive and to what end. Yet the guidance from San Francisco encourages teachers to allow students “little or no passing” in response to prompts. In other words, participation is mandatory.
Much of these practices amount to psychological dabbling, to which neither parents nor students consent.
From the poor pedagogy fads that have teachers working as facilitators instead of instructors, to the complete breakdown in disciplinary practices–your children will suffer. This is what happens when you turn a school district into a mental health facility run by people who are not educated or trained in this specialized field. Even when all of this is administered by school counselors, we know ethical codes on informed consent by parents are not followed.
Schools are there to educate children in academics. That means you remove the disruption from the classroom and/or school when necessary. You stop placing this burden on teachers, and let them teach.
There are children who are struggling with mental health issues that may need additional attention. But you cannot expect a teacher to manage a classroom when their expertise is in teaching math, not in administering mental health services.
As we continue to flush money down the toilet, fooling ourselves that the schools can assess and treat a child’s mental health, remember that this contributes to the low proficiency rates. You cannot administer mental health services to the children, and expect that the school will be focused on elevating a child’s academic performance.
If you are tired of another social experiment in our public schools, then cut the funding. There are children throughout New Hampshire who need mental health assistance right now. This is not the job or the duty of the local public school. The Governor and our legislators need to prioritize spending. Find out where this money is most needed and redirect funding so that it can have a real impact on children who need it.
Contact the State Senate Committee and tell them NO on SB265 Tell them that this experiment (MTSS-B) is not working in our schools.
Regina.Birdsell@leg.state.nh.us, Kevin.Avard@leg.state.nh.us, Jeb.Bradley@leg.state.nh.us, Becky.Whitley@leg.state.nh.us, Suzanne.Prentiss@leg.state.nh.us, cameron.lapine@leg.state.nh.us
Read more here.
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I cannot say I am surprised in the least. The biggest difference between the Democrats (the Communists) and the Republicans is that the Democrats USE power.
Check out the twitter thread below (you must click on it).
The House-GOP are simply treading water. Contrast that to what the Democrats did during the first two years of the Biden regime. This is why their side is winning, and our side is losing. This is why the focus should be on laying the groundwork for a peaceful national divorce.
Oh, I can hear the response from the bitter-clingers … NO, NO, NO, I AM NOT GIVING UP AN INCH OF MY COUNTRY. You poor, poor clingers … you have already lost vast swaths of your country … California, New York, New England, etc. … and you will never get it back. Focus on saving what’s left.
House Republicans have been in power for nearly 2 months.
They’ve known they won power nearly 4 months ago.
Where the hell are the subpoenas and oversight hearings on the politicization and weaponization of the Biden Justice Department and intel community?
COVID scam?
China?
— Mike Davis (@mrddmia) February 28, 2023
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As promised in the last Monday Memes, I have an overflow. My meme cup runneth over. Almost certain about a Friday Overflow-Overflow.
Also, for those prepper-minded, my last two Survival Sundays:
Survival Sunday – Sunday PREP Edition – Granite Grok
Survival Sunday – Thursday SITREP Edition – Granite Grok
Now, let the mayhem, mockery, and ridicule resume:
*** Warning, a few possibly off-color ones, in case tender eyes are about ***
A hat trick of past essays:
An Open Letter to Neil Oliver and Glenn Beck – Granite Grok
If anyone has an “in” with either of them I’d greatly appreciate your sending this to them.
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Dark Thoughts in the Small Hours – Granite Grok
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The Next Pandemic – Granite Grok
And a follow-up:
Citing a Yiddish Proverb – Granite Grok
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PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA
If things get “spicy” and you have to be out driving, be aware of these bad guy techniques. Ditto for if you’re beside a road. Even more than normal, heads on a swivel.
WATCH: Hamas video details how to carry out drive-by shooting attacks | World Israel News
Be situationally aware:
How to Develop Situational Awareness | The Art of Manliness
I will repeat this in the next PREP Edition post as well under SPICY TIME.
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Not sure how this might work if you’re in another state. I suspect you could enter but the transfer – for more $$ – would have to go through an FFL. But I’m not sure.
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Bill Whittle’s Hot Mic | Fake Feminist March – 7/17/17
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I’m seeing this speculation in a number of places. To wit, that the Kung Flu was not, in fact, developed in Wuhan, but in a Ukraine-based biolab, and released near Wuhan for “plausible deniability”. Certainly the timing of it was spot-on perfect to have an entire year to build up fear porn and – with the nightly death count with “from” Covid being hyped in every newscast, Trump was a goner. Remember, it’s not what’s true, it’s what you can get people to believe… and when you own the information flow lock-stock-and-barrel, you control what most people believe.
Don’t forget Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats encouraging people to go out and mingle, let alone the death toll from the nursing homes. Do you think that Socialists, who have murdered over 100 million civilians in various attempts to create Socialistopia, wouldn’t do the same to Americans to get rid of their impediment Trump?
I’m not alone in speculating about where it was developed.
I am not sure I believe it being developed in Ukraine, but it does fit much of the data – some speculative, i.e., the biolabs and what was going on there – that’s available. Certainly I would not put ANYTHING out of bounds for the Globalists to do. And I am 100% sure it was released intentionally. Again, the timing was too precise in terms of the electoral cycle. Also notice how eagerly the enemedia jumped on it, though that didn’t necessarily need to be by command from a central agency.
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Another recipe from My Tree in Israel. Again, not cheap, but simply the best olive oil. Period. I’m always sad when I finish my last bottle and have to wait months for more. Note that while I’m friends with one of the founders – so, full disclosure – I receive no compensation for promoting them.
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IMHO, pay per view – I’d pay to watch that, with the proceeds going to those harmed. And in the case of those at the top, like Fausti… have an internet raffle where people could administer the doses after buying a chance to press the button.
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“It is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth – and listen to the song of that syren, till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be of the number of those, who having eyes, see not, and having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it might cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it.”
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Pick of the post:
Pretty much sums up my attitude at this point.
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The Black Book of the American Left: The Collected Conservative Writings of David Horowitz
Good books by a great man. And not just the Black Book series, but lots of other good ones too. His book Radical Son details his migration from “Red Diaper Baby” to being a conservative, and while I was not that far Left as he was, his journey and mine have many similar elements.
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Palate cleansers:
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I love my kids with all my heart. But I think that I, and they, could benefit from a life less… complex. No, not less demanding, but definitely simpler.
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Vermont’s policy of allowing boys to compete as girls in school sports just notched another victory in defeat. A Christian School’s basketball team forfeited a game at the state championships over concerns for player safety and fairness.
Parody: Randolph Girls Volleyball Team Stripped
“We withdrew from the tournament because we believe playing against an opponent with a biological male jeopardizes the fairness of the game and the safety of our players. Allowing biological males to participate in women’s sports sets a bad precedent for the future of women’s sports in general,” a senior administrator at MVCS told Fox News Digital in a statement.
Last October, our own Ann Marie Banfield reported on the situation in Randolph, Vermont, where “a courageous girl revealed that she and her teammates have been banned from the girl’s locker room for feeling uncomfortable changing with a biological boy who identifies as a girl.” The coach was also suspended for misgendering a trans student.
At least 18 states have some prohibition or ban preventing biological males from competing as girls or women in school athletics. #woke Democrat Vermont is among them, nor ever shall it be, so the Christain School – worthy of attending state championships – can’t expect that problem to go away.
It’s sad. They are accomplished enough to get to States and conscientious enough to know that the girls matter more.
Athletics has many benefits for young girls and women, but not just young women. Older “women,” too. A Canadian man who “transitioned’ in 2017 has “won four different female running competitions” in the last year.
50-year-old Canadian Tiffany Newell ‘transitioned’ into a woman in 2017 and began competing in women’s sport in 2020 after claiming to have met World Athletics guidelines on testosterone levels.
Newell scooped first place at the 3000 meter for women aged 45-49 event at the Winter Mini Meet on January 8 and then also ranked first in the women’s 5000 meter for women aged 45-49 event just days later.
On February 5, Newell repeated the achievement by winning the the 1500 meter for women aged 45-49 competition.
After he turned 50, the athlete then won first place at the 1500 meter for women aged 50-54 competition held from February 23 to February 26 in Toronto.
BREAKING
New World #1 in women’s 50-54 age 1500m is a male athlete.Qs to @WorldAthletics & @WMA_Social :
WHY are you not protecting the integrity of the female category?
WHY do you insist on showing such blatant sex-discrimination?#SaveWomensSports #WorldAthletics pic.twitter.com/T5zLl6Sdiv— International Consortium on Female Sport (ICFS) (@ICFSport) February 27, 2023
Newell says ‘she’ is uncomfortable running against men. Hmmm. Is that because you lose? Or is it because you win when you run as a woman, and who exactly wins? Not women.
“Despite protests from trans activists, studies have consistently affirmed that trans-identified male athletes retain a significant edge over their female counterparts, even after starting hormone therapy,” reports Reduxx.
And if the guy who’s a girl with that advantage gives your team a winning edge, why should you complain? As for those who do, maybe you should be robbing a few biological girls of a spot on the team. And if Title IX is a paper tiger, steal all the girls of spots on all the teams. Replace them with boys who say they are girls. You’ll win everything, all the time.
A school sports transgender arms race that ends with transgirls sports and no biological girls sports.
Or would that take all the fun out of it?
It would for biological girls, sorry – has.
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Former Clamshell Alliance Seabrook Nuclear Station Protester (and now the Federal Government Overlord for NH) Jeanne Shaheen is trying desperately trying to conjure up a caldron of spells to reverse this Japan/EU NukeExpansion project.
I blame her for personally seeing to it that Seabrook was years over schedule, way over budget, and that (especially now in our time of expensive electricity!) Seabrook II (the second reactor) was never built.
Yet, she’s the one all over the environment? IMAGINE how much less fossil fuel we would be using today if she had kept her yap shut and did the “follow the Science” two-step back then?
From Hot Air: (emphasis mine, reformatted):
13 EU countries join nuke energy pact and Japan says it’s glow time
What a day in the news for nuclear power. I’m pretty sure it won’t be getting the red-headed-step-child treatment for much longer. France is leading the charge on this one and, ho boy. Hard core Green heads have to be ‘sploding.
Eleven EU member states vowed on Tuesday to “strengthen cooperation” on nuclear energy, which they said would help Europe move away from carbon-emitting fossil fuels. Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Hungary, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia agreed “to support new projects” alongside existing nuclear plants, according to a statement released during a meeting of EU energy ministers in Stockholm.
“Nuclear energy is one of many tools for achieving our climate targets”, to produce electricity to meet consumer demand and “for security of supply”, they said.
Translation – their citizens have made it clear that they WILL NOT go back to the Stone Age for their and their kids and their grandkids lifestyles. As much as most of the EU has been doddering towards a state of being-monarchies-without-Royalty, they realize that their serfs citizens still have votes. They understand that while nuclear energy must be handled carefully, the technology and procedures are well known. France, to remind you, gets 70% of its electricity from nuclear.
Sure, Russia had its Chornobyl, but that wasn’t a “root cause” nuclear failure – it was a poor Governmental design, poor Governmental procedures, and bad oversight by poor Governmental workers (starting to get my drift here?). Japan’s Fukushima was a result of poor siting and BAD luck for both earthquake-prone areas (which they had successfully planned well for THAT) and a HUMONGOUS tsunami that couldn’t be planned for. Three Mile Island here in the US hurt or hurt NO ONE. And that’s it. The US Navy has operated dozens of nuke-powered ships (mostly aircraft carriers and subs) without serious accidents (again, Russia, not so much).
And Japan, even with their knee-jerk shutting down their nukes, has realized that renewables are pie-in-the-sky for a few more decades and have been quietly restarting their nukes as well. I believe that Germany is trying to restart at least two of theirs, but there is much consternation about it.
Ministers from the 11 countries also considered the opportunities for further scientific cooperation on nuclear energy and to share best practices to address safety issues.
If you look at the list of countries, though, it’s not a surprise at all – who are they? For the most part, they are smaller, less economically powerful EU states who have taken it in the chops thanks to the fanatic adherence to renewables of major players like Germany.
fuel and electricity from closer Russian or Ukrainian sources prior to the conflict. No doubt they do not want to continue in such positions of vulnerability any longer. As far as those big Brussels players go, they’re sniffing in disdain at the pretensions of the small bloc. Completely ignoring the fact that their own energy resources
And have American “leaders” on the Left learned from Germany’s skyrocketing electrical costs BEFORE Putin invaded Ukraine? So far, no. They are trying to kill off all fossil fuels but not paying attention to how vulnerable our electric grid already is. And renewables won’t be able to pick up the loads from shutting down normal plants. Heck, even Gov. Newsom of CA realized that they couldn’t shut down Diablo Canyon when previous law had set a shutdown date.
Often, too, many of them were importers of both are a shambles, it sounds like they’ll take comfort in their black-out prone, renewable superiority…Austria, Germany and Luxembourg reaffirmed their opposition in Stockholm to the development of nuclear energy in Europe.
And get the guy letting the cat out of the bag:
“If we want to win the race against climate change, we need to be fast,” Luxembourg Energy Minister Claude Turmes said on Monday, adding that new nuclear stations would take 15 years to build. “It’s much more about ideology than being practical,” he added.
And the writer adds that Italy has now joined that group.
Oh boy, I think that the game has just been changed! So what will the US / Biden do now – having been left out in the cold? Especially as there is a decades-long R&D effort to create “modular” reactor designs, and a couple of them have been approved (it took longer than needed because GOVERNMENT regulators aren’t agile and adept at adopting updated views as these can safely power towns and small cities rather than the giga-sized plants that Shaheen was against. Their designs are such that they’ll dump down and shut down in ways in that there can’t be a meltdown making them FAR safer than, well, a train carrying a bunch of hazardous material cars blowing up in a small town.
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The Dems and their media troglodytes went nuts when worked broke that the Speaker of the House was giving Tucker Carlson’s program all the video the Capitol Police had from January 6th, 2021.
So, to address the outrage, some much-needed detail has been provided regarding Tucker Carlosn’s access.
“It’s basically controlled access to be able to view tapes. Can’t record, can’t take anything with you,” Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.), the chairman of the House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight, told The Hill Tuesday, …
Elaborating, Loudermilk told CBS News that Carlson’s staff “may request any particular clips they may need, then we’ll make sure there’s nothing sensitive, nothing classified, including escape routes … we don’t want al-Qaeda to know certain things.”
No one has anything, but staff can view it all and ask for clips … which is still unacceptable for the left in all its forms. These clips could, well – let me allow the media to explain that problem in the context of their request for access (emphasis mine).
A group of outlets—Advance Publications, ABC News, Axios, CBS News, CNN, Scripps, Gannett, the Los Angeles Times, Politico, and ProPublica—wrote a letter to McCarthy and other congressional leaders to grant access to the footage.
“Without full public access to the complete historical record, there is concern that an ideologically-based narrative of an already polarizing event will take hold in the public consciousness, with destabilizing risks to the legitimacy of Congress, the Capitol Police, and the various federal investigations and prosecutions of January 6 crimes,” attorney Charles Tobin wrote on behalf the media outlets last week.
The bolded bit is obviously what they’ve been doing for the past two years but they insist on access to prevent … what? Would they’d like to see how much trouble they are in after leaping off another cliff with a Democrat narrative cradled protectively in their arms?
Talk about hypocrisy on steroids. It’s so bad that we can paraphrase the pull quote into a very passable mainstream media corporate mission statement.
“To reinforce ideologically-based narratives of polarizing events that will take hold in the public consciousness.”
– With the goal of destabilizing political opponents or their proxies –
It’s a bit much to sew on a pillow, but it would fit nicely on a wall in the press room or above the producer’s couch in their well-appointed multi-billion-dollar global media conglomerate office. And if transparency, truth in advertising, or even a lightly veiled effort at transparency were the goal, you could hang it in front of the camera or as part of the masthead, depending on the medium.
I think the EPOCH Times missed the real story there but we’re happy to carry that water.
They will, the media outlets, get that access in due time, per the same linked report.
During an interview with the New York Times earlier this month, McCarthy said he was releasing the footage to Carlson by saying: “I promised.” Like Loudermilk, McCarthy said that the footage would be made more widely available at a later date, although it’s unclear when.
“I was asked in the press about these tapes, and I said they do belong to the American public. I think sunshine lets everybody make their own judgment,” the California Republican told the NY Times.
So, not worry machine-media (with the long track record of selective editing to create and reinforce ideologically-based narratives). You’ll get your chance but odds are good you won’t be able to pull the Marxist wool over anyone’s eyes. If all the video that is safe to share is accessible to anyone, your effort to take hold of the public consciousness will be quickly undermined.
But we look forward to watching you try.
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It’s been over a month since my last edition and a lot of stuff has been stacking up – and fast! So, let’s get started! Pornography is in our Public / Government Schools – that is incontrovertibly true. I sent out a number of Right To Knows here in NH (gotta restart that investigation!), and it is happening all over the country.
Hardly anyone in the public knew that School Boards were condoning this by their staff, but here we are. The most often heard reason can be summarized by “these are needed by ‘marginalized communities. Funny, gays, trans, Blacks, Browns, and other minorities need to have access to pornography without their parents knowing it, in order to learn? In order to learn their ABCs, simple math, reading, and history, they have to learn all about different sexual techniques and be titillated by books paid for by taxpayers (or, as I have found out, “granted” to school libraries by “sexual special interest groups”).
WHY the rush to sexualize youngsters by those in Government? NH State Rep Glenn Cordelli has a bill, HB371, to stop this action. Everything is reformatted and emphasis is mine.
Freedom of speech collided with individual outrage during a hearing on legislation to compel school boards to create a process for any parent to charge that school materials are obscene. The legislation also would insert the state Department of Education into the enforcement of what constitutes obscenity. “I realize that our state obscenity laws exclude education from those laws,” said Rep. Glenn Cordelli, R-Tuftonboro, the bill’s (HB 371) prime sponsor, at a House Education Committee hearing last week.
I note that one of the critics, NH State Rep David Paige (D-Conway) took exception to this but, right away, refuted WHY he’s off base:
Rep. David Paige, D-Conway, said attempts to limit materials available to students at school miss the reality that young people often can get access to pornography through their phones and social media apps outside of the classroom…“They aren’t doing it by going to their library stacks; they aren’t getting it from a language arts course.”
And the other complaint (“that it could more easily subject educators to criminal prosecution.”) is rather weak – if you get RID of obscene materials in schools (including “graphic illustrated books” showing actual sex acts by minors), then there can be no allegation of providing pornography to children, right?
So even as Government Schools are adamant about providing porn to kiddies, how well are they accomplishing what we DO pay them to do? In many cases, not well at well. At least in NH, we just want to make sure Parents can object. It WOULD be, in Florida, a jailability offense.
Recent test scores found that there were 23 schools in the city where not even one child was doing math at grade level. These included Elementary Schools, Middle Schools and High Schools. Those were the extreme low end but the numbers also showed that city-wide just 7% of 3-8th graders were doing math at grade level…In this case, there were 53 schools where not one child could do math at grade level…
This column focuses on schools where zero percent of kids are able to read or do math. But we could have just as easily looked at the 622 schools where only 1 out of 10 kids or less can read at grade level. That’s a whopping 18 percent of the state’s 3,547 schools that tested students in 2022.
And only 1 out of 10 kids or less can do math at grade level in 930 schools…that’s more than a quarter of all schools in the state.
And thats just one State. Detroit is also well known for churning out illiterates. But you can bet that they know “preferred pronouns” like the back of their hands! And oh, the post names names as one school is spending $52K / student/year, and not ONE student is proficient in math. But, you know, White Supremacy!:
Department of Education Fights the White Supremacy of Math
Major University Professor Fights Math’s ‘Harbor for Whiteness’
Math Professor Says Math Education Is Racist — and Sexist and Homophobic
School District Hosts Year-Long Anti-Whiteness Training to Fight ‘Curricular Violence’ in Math
Yet, we keep hearing that teachers are underpaid…try doing that in the private sector…glad to see that the topic of School Choice is increasingly making the rounds. If Government schools are failing WHY shouldn’t Parents have alternatives?
Deerfield residents packed the basement community room of the town office building with one topic on their minds – the future of Deerfield’s high school age students. The event, a panel discussion on school choice, was put on by a citizens’ group that wants to expand high school options for the town. Education Commissioner Frank Edelblut was a speaker along with Republican State Rep. Glenn Cordelli and N.H. State Board of Education member Richard Sala.
The discussion is the latest installment of a decades-long conversation over which high school is the best fit for the town of Deerfield. The town educates its children in grades pre-K-8, but does not have its own high school. For the past 19 years, Deerfield has maintained a tuition contract to send its students to Concord High School. Now, faced with the choice of whether to renew the contract with Concord for another 20 years, some parents are saying they want more choices.
And, once again, proving that Democrats want TOTAL control over everything in Education, they CRY over a bill that would make using “preferred pronouns” voluntary??
A Kentucky bill recently passed the state Senate that prohibits school districts from requiring teachers to use the preferred pronouns of their students and requires school officials to notify parents if they are providing certain services to students, covering topics such as “human sexuality” or “family planning.” Kentucky Democrats Senate Bill 150 “discrimination,” “horrible,” and “destructive,” with one state senator reportedly having “sobbed,” according to Kentucky.com.
…Regarding teachers being compelled to use a student’s preferred pronouns, the bill states that it shall “prohibit a school district from requiring school personnel or pupils to use pronouns for students that do not conform to that student’s biological sex.”
And, of course, the usual emotional blackmail ensued when the bill was passed:
Those words are DISGUSTING, and we all need to start pushing back on those that believe that only gonads should be the most important distinguishing feature. No, upholding the Constitutional Right of Free Speech is not going to kill kids. And trying to guilt folks doing so by the use of their political use of erasing / existing is both untrue and madness. But this is what happens – the Tyranny of the Minority in which ACTUAL Rights are to be withdrawn when any of those gender dysphoria sufferers are present or during their absence.
But this whole movement is set up to remove Choice and Freedom. And when you do that, what’s the only status left? Yes, that’s right – enslavement to a sexual ideology/belief. Is this how we, supposedly a Free People, to be?
And we’re back to pornography again:
The school superintendent in Abington, Massachusetts, has put back into kids’ school libraries a book that promotes sexual kinks and orgies. The book is titled “This Book is Gay” and, as noted by Fox News, it discusses “orgies, kinks, fetishes, sex apps,” among various sexually explicit topics. Fox News asked Superintendent Peter Shafer if he was “aware that the book discusses the following, among other things: orgies, kinks, fetishes, sex apps, bath house, [a] casual hookup, [and] detailed information on how to have anal sex, as well as other sexual activities.”
“After reading the entire book and understanding it in full context, I decided to put it back in the library,” Shafer said in response.
…Grindr, an LGBTQ dating app, is featured in the book…The book describes author Juno Dawson’s use of Grindr, saying, “The benefits are obvious: quick, easy, and uncomplicated sex.
The only conclusion that I can come to is that the Superintendent is fine with First Graders read this book…
Let’s switch to DIE (Diversity, Inclusion, and “Equity”) for a moment. The results of implementing this at Texas A&M is JUST what these DIE missionaries WANT:
Universities adopt Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) plans with a host of promises. Advocates pledge, for instance, that, through reforms, the university will come to approximate the racial composition of the local community or state. Yet “equity” has proven to be an elusive goal, selectively pursued. It is sought only when it advantages supposedly underrepresented minorities. There are no “Men in Elementary Education” programs and few dedicated to “Men in Nursing.” The inconsistency between the stated goals of equity and its implementation reveals that equity is about disrupting and dismantling more than achieving any kind of parity.
And what is the result that the missionaries don’t want to admit to:
When both Whites and Blacks, by a large margin, decided that a University doesn’t want them (especially where DIE is supposed to be “supportive” of a “marginalized Black community”, isn’t that a problem. And given that males have been a Higher Education whipping boy demographic for decades, you think you’d believe they’d see that they’ve created a problem rather than solved a problem? Or is this actually achieving a result they wanted?
And after that small interlude, we’re back to teachers shoving sexuality into our kids:
A private school in Pennsylvania is employing a “sexuality curriculum” that includes graphic images and video of genitals and sexual acts. Teacher Al Vernacchio is an English teacher at Friends’ Central School in Wynnewood, PA. He also coordinates programs and assemblies centered on sexuality. The content goes far beyond the biological aspects of sexual education. Vernacchio says children are inherently sexual beings and he thinks sex education classes should be “transformative.”
No mention of any Parental role in this, btw…oh, this being a PROGRESSIVE private school, they are fine with this. I’m not going to quote any more except for the admonition at the end
To anyone reading Vernacchio’s own quotes it should be obvious that his intent isn’t education, but sexualization. While parents at his private school may be in favor of the curriculum, this story should encourage parents seeking alternatives to government schools to always look closely at an institution’s curriculum and agenda before committing.
Flip back to DIE – and WHERE do all the young teachers get indoctrinated that DIE is supposed to be in our schools and in their classrooms? Well, in teachers’ colleges
As an assistant professor of literacy studies in the College of Education at UT Arlington, Daly teaches the state’s future elementary school educators how to manage their classrooms. In her article, she writes elementary school teachers “need to be talking about race.”
In particular, such conversations should take place “while reading and discussing literature to empower students of color and white students with knowledge and tools for under-standing, analyzing, and disrupting racism.” Such race talk “must be ongoing in order for students to develop the knowledge and skills needed to interrogate how racism and whiteness are perpetuated through texts, language, and social norms,” Daly’s article added.
However “Classroom race talk is often difficult to sustain, especially for white teachers whose racial identities influence how they resist or comply with dominant social and political discourses that silence conversations about race.”
Let me interject here – if teachers are being taught that the only things that matter are the color of your skin and what is between your legs, well, like Government subsidies, you’re going to get MORE of it. And I agree with this:
Teaching that white people are bad because of whiteness is racism, straight up.
And if you are a straight person, you are being told you are bad as well. Yet, this kind of discrimination, we are told, are because we are too thin-skinned. Tell you what, when all you hear from your figure of authority, your teachers, that you are bad, why are we surprised when every one has mental issues from the constant bombardment?
But sometimes, good news appears and this one comes to the favor of Parents – it’s at least a start even if a bit ambigious and I disagree with the ending:
A Colorado school district has agreed to stop concealing the transgender identity of students from parents unless it deems the child to be facing a “safety threat,” according to documents obtained by The Daily Signal. The Cañon City school district hosted a Transgender Student Policy Work Group on Nov. 28, at which stakeholders decided schools can only withhold information about a child’s gender identity “where a credible safety threat is of a concern.” The district does not provide guidelines, however, for determining whether a threat is “credible.”
The best approach for notifying parents and guardians about their child’s transgender identity is to “work collaboratively with the student and family to meet the needs of the student,” according to a summary of the work group meeting shared on Wednesday with The Daily Signal.
But the District WILL continue a “transition” with the child even if the Parent says NO:
If the parent refuses to use the gender communication and support plans, the school will continue to “support the student in their social transition within the school.”
Parents need to keep the heat on. After all, WHOSE child is it? Certainly with this, the District is saying “ours”. Is this REALLY what School District have done – on their own? However, the District is, like all Districts adopting this, has decided it can contravene the US Constitution (I peeked at their policy):
A student has the right to be addressed by a name and pronouns that correspond to the student’s gender identity
And back to that damned word “Equity” which is NOT “Equality” but a euphemism for the Communist notion (wrongly) that everyone MUST be the exact same. In short, because of racial quotas that DIE and Critical Race Theory DEMANDS, those kids that are smarter than others NEED TO BE PUNISHED. A Harrison Bergeron moment:
Parents are fighting back after a California high school eliminated honors English classes, ostensibly to foster racial equity, the New WindowWall Street Journal reported Friday.
“We really feel equity means offering opportunities to students of diverse backgrounds, not taking away opportunities for advanced education and study,” Culver City parent Joanna Schaenman, who helped spearhead the effort, told the WSJ.
So STOPPING honors classes ISN’T “taking away opportunities for advanced education and study“?? Please, will someone square this circle or me? Otherwise, this is just self-righteous blather. And can you see the logic “hole” in the following?
Those honors classes, which are no longer available, failed to enroll enough black and Latino students. That, in turn, the district reasons, could be part of the reason black and Latino students are also underrepresented in Advanced Placement classes. AP classes are the very classes that can give students a leg up in the college admissions process.
It isn’t just about intellectual capacity for Honors programs. Sure, I knew kids in high school that were FAR smarter than I taking every AP class possible and breezing through them all with almost no time studying. He just had it. We were surprised that he only got an 780 (out of 800 those days) on the Math SAT. What astonished us all is that he knew WHICH problem he got wrong – and why. He ended up with a bio-engineering degree from MIT and an MD from Harvard.
Which brings up the other part: motivation, or the lack thereof. Another kid, David M., was almost as smart as Kenny. Got into an Ivy League school – and then flamed out. Ended up in a series of menial jobs that were WAY below his capability.
I bring him up as an example to that last quoted bit – did they not sign up because they knew Honors were too difficult (perhaps some) or that they didn’t have the motivation to strive and do the work. After all, for most of us, brain power and motivation/stick-to-it-iveness are required to be successful.
So Culver City decided to kill off both reasons in one fell swoop. In doing so, what are they going to do about the kids that are now BORED because nothing is sufficiently challenging to keep their attention?
And I’ll end with this overbearing, full of herself, “credentialed expert” dissing the parents that pay her salary. People like her in the Educational-Industrial Complex have forgotten who the REAL customer is – those Parents.
“I have a masters degree! What do the parents have? Are we vetting the background of parents?”
Crazy teacher gone wild hates parents. The scary part is she is not an anomaly, she’s the norm in public schools.pic.twitter.com/6Fl61kvPFz
— Liz Wheeler (@Liz_Wheeler) February 19, 2023
Glenn Reynolds (Law Professor) adds something that escapes this Luminary with an obvious truth:
The truth is, the parents have something no educational credential can match: Skin in the game. They’ll live with the consequences of their parenting decisions for the rest of their lives. The teacher will send this year’s kids off and replace them with next year’s kids, and will have no stake in — or even usually knowledge of — how those kids do later. There’s no comparison, and to pretend there is is moral idiocy at best.
And the more teachers act like this one, the more Parents WILL create more school choice for them and their children. Thus far, this seems to be a concept that is very foreign to educators like her – competition is coming whether you like it or not.
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Not long from now, Chicagoans won’t have Mayor Lori Lightfoot to kick around. Our own Ray Cardello predicted it yesterday, and before the night ended, he was proved right. Lightfoot didn’t get enough votes to advance to the runoff election in April.
Related: Say Goodbye to Lori Lightfoot
Chicago mayoral candidates Paul Vallas and Cook County Commissioner Brandon Johnson are projected to advance to the April runoff election, according to the New York Times.
Lightfoot’s tenure was marred by significant crime concerns, an issue that stood at the forefront of the mayor’s race. Vallas, in particular, campaigned on addressing the city’s crime levels and earned the support of
Vallas claimed 34.9% of the vote in a nine-way race while Johnson claimed 20.2%. Lightfoot trailed in third place with 16.4% of the vote.
Lightfoot has had an exciting tenure which we’ve documented to some degree on these humble pages.
As well as Chicago under her watchful eye.
We’ll miss Lori but feel confident that whichever machine politics Dem replaces her will be just as bad and worthy of the same attention.
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I had a guest on my Immigrants Speak weekly show a few days ago: Xi Van Fleet, who has appeared previously on Fox News calling out how Critical Race Theory is being used to divide American citizens; much like how Mao used Critical Class Theory.
After fleeing China, Ms. Xi studied in the US and obtained a Master’s degree in library science and has been passionate about book collections in our public libraries. On my show, Xi showed us children’s books that she has found in her local public library and discusses how these books are used to push “woke” ideologies on children.
We see today trends in US schools and public libraries promoting ideological and age-inappropriate books and events for children that we saw in the Mao era.
We have discovered similar books being used in my own town of Weare town school district as well. We must inform the parents and get them engaged in their kids’ schools. Local elections are coming up in New Hampshire. Make sure you vote for the people who represent your values to serve on your local school boards and selectmen boards.
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I was interviewed by One America News Monica Paige last week. Is America following the Chinese Communist Blueprint? (rumble.com)
I have been warning people about this Chinese Blueprint for years, but my political posts seem to be slow-rolled and shadow-banned on social media. Even my video below disappeared from the Bing search engine for over a week. Was it because my co-host exposed how AmeriCorps, funded by the Federal government, provides woke training to employees like her? All she wants to do is help tutor in elementary schools. Help us spread the truth by sending the following video to your network. Censorship is the enemy of a free society.
Immigrants Speak Week 4: Woke Training in Education – YouTube
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On this day in 1692, Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborne, & Tituba were arrested for witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts. Tituba confessed and turned informant, her charges eventually dismissed.” Goode was hanged for witchcraft. Osborne died in jail.
In 178o, Pennsylvania became 1st US state to abolish slavery (for newborns only).
In 1781 the Continental Congress officially adopted the Articles of Confederation. In 1803 Ohio became the 17th state of the Union. In 1845 US President John Tyler signed a resolution annexing the Republic of Texas. And in 1867, Most of Nebraska became the 37th US state (expanded later). In 2014 US President Barack Obama warned Russian President Vladimir Putin over involvement in Ukraine.
It’s also National Dadgum That’s Good Day, National Peanut Butter Lover’s Day, Sage day, Pig Day, Peace Corps Day, Women of Color Day, and US Asiatic Fleet day (in honor of the sinking of the USS Houston).
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I want to address a comment to The Ghost Of New Hampshire Future Visited On February 23rd. Here is the comment:
My response: NO … BECAUSE THERE IS NO PLAUSIBLE CASE … which is precisely the point of my post. New Hampshire has been trending blue since 1992 … 1988 was the last time a GOP Presidential candidate got more than 50 percent of the vote … not a straight line, but the overall trajectory was LEFTWARD HO!
The rate of blue-ification was increased exponentially by Sun-King Sununu’s COVID tyranny. I provided the example of Hassan receiving 55,000 more votes in 2022 than in 2016. You want more … Pappas had the same margin of victory during the “Red Wave” of 2022 as during the “Blue Wave” of 2018.
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Republicans in South Carolina (SC) have proposed a bill that adds $250.00 to the cost of vehicle registrations for people who move to the state. They claim it is meant to cover infrastructure costs (wear and tear), but I’m calling BS.
Before the pandemic mistakes, SC scored about 24 billion in estimated annual tourism revenue (2019)—beneficiaries of the Trump Economy. That was a lot of people using roads and bridges that “paid their way” at hotels, venues, restaurants, and retail outlets while also paying gas, sales taxes, and tolls, and then left. But the state is struggling to get back to that number, and the Biden economy has hit people hard, so that’s not coming back as soon as they need it.
Big hole, that. But people are moving to South Carolina in droves.
South Carolina was one of the top ten states to move to in 2022, alongside Arizona, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Texas, according to a recent report. In the last ten years, South Carolina has grown by roughly 500,000 people with many people coming from nearby North Carolina and Georgia.
Why not tap into that shift by charging newcomers a ‘small’ relocation fee?
The tax, proposed by Republican State Sen. Stephen Goldfinch, would add on an additional $250 fee to the $250 already paid by new transplants to register their vehicles. The money would go toward infrastructure in the state.
I’m offended on several levels. These new residents will, like tourists, add revenue by paying your gas and sales taxes daily. Their employers will pay more taxes for their productivity, and they will pay the state’s graduated income tax. The Palmetto State benefits from their stable permanence, and in return, you fine them $250.00 for showing up, more if they have additional vehicles.
“We in South Carolina don’t require a capital contribution of anybody that moves here from out of state, although they take advantage of our roads, our bridges, our schools, and our green spaces immediately on day one,” Goldfinch said.
Just like tourists who spend and leave, except that you’ve been a bit short on tourism lately, and if people love the state that much, what’s a few hundred bucks at the beginning of the relationship for people from high-tax cities and states?
Except that you’re supposed to be Republicans. When revenues fail to meet expectations, you look for ways to reduce spending – something you should do anyway. Nothing is as attractive as a lean government that gets it done without all the excess fat associated with bloated Democrat bureaucracies.
So I think you’ve got it backward.
You should offer people a discount on their vehicle registrations for the first year and maybe lower some taxes while you’re at it. More revenue from lower taxes is real, and with the Biden economy weighing us all down, the folks that already live there will find themselves with a few more dollars to make ends meet.
And you might attract more tourists too.
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And that would be this:
Hangover: An “Evergreen” statement by Sununu himself on low-rated wannabes:
Mr. Sununu also warned minor candidates not to carve up the field.
“I think there’s a lot of hope and opportunity for good candidates to get in, drive the message where it needs to be,” he said. “But the discipline is getting out, too. The discipline and saying, ‘Look, you’re only polling at 5%, you got to get out.’ We don’t want a crowded field here.”
So, I’m going to hold him to it. So, how is he doing? The phrase “5%, you got to get out” is going to haunt him. Sure, within the small fishbowl that is NH, he’s a big fish but out in the pond, if you take these polls correctly, he isn’t even at tadpole level:
From Fox News Sunday with Shannon Bream – is Sununu there?
Er, no, not even close. Maybe here?
Here's the full memo on the South Carolina GOP Poll
N=300 LV Live Callers 2/7-10, 13-14. Weighted DataTrump 35.1%, DeSantis 21.8%, Haley 16.4%, Scott 1.6%, Pence 1.5%. Undecided/Other 23.7%.
Trump strong Upstate, DeSantis wins Low Country, Haley base around Columbia. pic.twitter.com/flXcOL1Uut
— Rick Shaftan — Neighborhood Research and Media (@Shaftan) February 15, 2023
Er, no. You’d think that since he’s already been out on the hastings/circuits for well over a month, he’d show up on some poll SOMEWHERE, right? Well, it isn’t here, either:
Q5: If the candidates in the Republican Presidential Primary were Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis, Mike
Pence, Nikki Haley, Mike Pompeo and Tim Scott, for whom would you vote?
Donald Trump: 30%
Ron DeSantis: 17%
Mike Pence: 9%
Nikki Haley: 9%
Mike Pompeo: 9%
Tim Scott: 2%
Someone else: 6%
Undecided: 19%
Obviously the pollster didn’t think he matters (at least at this point). Rassmussen? Dissed again. How about Morning Consult?
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Nada on BetFair or Election Betting Odds. Looks like Sununu is not getting love yet…
…but it’s clear he has no love for Trump:
“And look, my message to, about President Trump is we thank you for your service. Great, but we’re moving on. Americans are not in the mode of just settling. Right? We’re never going to say, ‘The best opportunity for tomorrow’s leadership is yesterday’s leadership.’ We want the next generation. We want the next big idea.”
Sununu added, “The former president is kind of baked in. Either you are with him, or you are not. I don’t think anything’s going to get his poll numbers up. And as this race actually heats up and people start paying attention, there’s just going to be a lot of other options on the table.”
And again, he’s setting up The Sununu Rule – and we will hold him to it:
Anchor Bret Baier [Fox News Special Report with Bret Baier said, “And for the people who say the more candidates get in – if you choose to – the more the chances are that the former president shoots the gap and becomes the nominee?”
Sununu said, “So here’s the key. I don’t care how many get in. You got to have the discipline to get out. And that’s what a lot of folks did not have in ’16.”
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Your garage and outdoor living space can be some of the most important areas of your home. The garage serves as a functional space for storage and protection of vehicles and other items, while outdoor living spaces provide a relaxing and entertaining area for family and guests. If you want to improve your garage or outdoor living space in Edmonton, several design and improvement ideas should be considered.
Garage Improvement Ideas Garage Door ReplacementOne of the most common garage improvement projects is garage door replacement. A new garage door not only enhances the curb appeal of your home but also improves functionality and security. With the advancements in technology, you can choose from a wide variety of materials, styles, and colors to match your home’s exterior. Additionally, insulation and weatherstripping can be added to reduce energy costs and improve comfort.
Garage Storage SystemAnother garage improvement project is a garage storage system. Many homeowners in Edmonton use their garages as storage areas, which can result in clutter and disorganization. A garage storage system can help you to maximize storage space, increase organization, and improve functionality. There are many options for garage storage systems, including overhead storage racks, wall-mounted storage systems, and custom cabinetry.
Garage Lighting UpgradeUpgrading your garage lighting can make a significant difference in your overall garage improvement project. Many garages have poor lighting, making it difficult to work or find items. Upgrading to LED lighting can improve visibility and reduce energy costs. You can also consider adding task lighting or accent lighting to highlight specific areas of your garage.
Workbench or Workspace AdditionAdding a workbench or workspace is another idea for a garage improvement project. If you enjoy DIY projects or have hobbies that require a workspace, adding a workbench can be a valuable addition to your garage. You can also add cabinets or shelving to store tools and supplies.
Outdoor Living Space Improvement Ideas
Patio or Deck InstallationOne of the most popular outdoor living space projects is a patio or deck installation. A patio or deck can create a functional outdoor living area for dining, entertaining, and relaxing. There are many materials to choose from, including wood, composite, and concrete, and a variety of designs to fit your style and budget. You can also add outdoor furniture, such as tables, chairs, and lounge chairs, to make it a comfortable and inviting space.
LandscapingLandscaping is another outdoor living space improvement project to consider. A well-designed landscape can enhance your home’s beauty and value while providing a relaxing and inviting atmosphere. Consider adding features such as plants, trees, flowers, lighting, and water features to create a natural and inviting environment. You can also add pathways, retaining walls, or a gazebo to create a unique and personalized space.
Outdoor Kitchen or Bar AreaOne popular trend is to create an outdoor kitchen or bar area. This can be a great addition if you enjoy hosting outdoor parties or barbecues. You can include a grill, refrigerator, sink, and other features to make it a functional and inviting area. You can also add outdoor lighting, heating, or sound systems to make it a comfortable and entertaining space.
Fire Pit or Outdoor FireplaceAnother outdoor living space improvement idea is to add a fire pit or outdoor fireplace. This can be a great addition to cool evenings or nights spent with friends and family. You can choose from a variety of materials and styles, including gas or wood-burning options. You can also add seating, such as chairs or benches, to make it a comfortable and cozy area.
Choosing the Right ContractorWhen it comes to improving your garage or outdoor living space, it is important to work with a contractor who has experience and expertise in these types of projects. Look for a contractor who specializes in garage door replacement, garage storage systems, patio and deck installation, landscaping, and outdoor living space design. Canadian garage door repair Edmonton offers these services and is a reputable contractor in your area. You can also ask for recommendations from friends, family, or neighbors. Make sure to read reviews, check credentials, and ask for references before hiring a contractor.
Planning Your ProjectBefore starting your project, it is important to plan and budget accordingly. Make a list of your goals and priorities, and determine what aspects of your garage or outdoor living space you want to improve. You should also consider the size of your garage and outdoor living space, your budget, and your timeline for completion. Working with a contractor or designer can help you to create a plan that fits your needs and budget, and ensures that your project is completed on time and within budget.
Permits and RegulationsWhen making improvements to your garage or outdoor living space, it is important to consider permits and regulations. You may need to obtain a permit from your local government before starting your project, depending on the scope of the work. You should also ensure that your project complies with local building codes and regulations to avoid any fines or legal issues down the line.
Maintenance and UpkeepOnce your garage or outdoor living space improvement project is complete, it is important to keep up with regular maintenance and upkeep. For your garage, you should regularly clean and organize your storage system, replace any damaged or worn components, and lubricate your garage door to ensure smooth operation. For your outdoor living space, you should regularly clean and maintain your furniture, plants, and other features, and ensure that your lighting and heating systems are in good working condition.
In addition to regular maintenance, it is also a good idea to periodically assess your garage or outdoor living space to determine if any additional improvements or upgrades are needed. For example, you may want to add more lighting or storage to your garage or upgrade your outdoor furniture or heating system.
Finally, don’t forget to enjoy your newly improved garage or outdoor living space! Whether it’s spending time with family and friends on your new patio or deck, working on DIY projects in your organized and functional garage, or cooking and entertaining in your new outdoor kitchen or bar area, your improved spaces are meant to be enjoyed.
ConclusionImproving your garage or outdoor living space in Edmonton can be a rewarding and valuable investment in your home. By choosing the right improvements, working with a professional contractor, and keeping up with maintenance and upkeep, you can create functional and beautiful spaces that enhance your quality of life and add value to your home. With the many improvement ideas available, including garage door replacement, garage storage systems, patio and deck installation, landscaping, outdoor kitchens, fire pits, and more, the possibilities are endless. Start planning your project today and enjoy your improved spaces for years to come.
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