Friday • November 1 • 2024
Vol.XVI • No.XLIV
Manchester, N.H.
They’re flying so thick and fast it is amazing, but given the weekend – sick wife, close friend passing – the next one will be the Friday Meme Overflow-Overflow (technically just overflow but go with it). Last week’s Overflow-Overflow.
Remember, ridicule and mockery are effective weapons:
On mockery & ridicule… and their effectiveness in combating the Left:
The Moral Case for Mockery
and
Killing Comedy
Now, let the mockery and mayhem begin.
*** Warning, a few possibly off-color ones, in case tender eyes are about ***
A hat-trick of past essays:
The Jab: A Rite of Passage – Granite Grok
The Technological Golden Calf – Liberty’s Torch (libertystorch.info)
And three-in-one at Tommy Robinson’s place:
Civilizational Collapse and Biology (Part 1) – Urban Scoop
Civilizational Collapse and Biology (Part 2) – Urban Scoop
Civilizational Collapse and Biology (Part 3) – Urban Scoop
The above trilogy about civilizational collapse are, IMHO, one of my most insightful.
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What is ‘C40 Cities’ about and how does it link ULEZ Expansion with The Clinton Foundation?
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But first, a random sampling of three of my cartoons. Please note these are my concepts but I pay a professional to do them.
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What scares me is that there will be a surprising number of people will go for, and prefer, this over reality with flesh-and-blood people.
Saaaaay, wait a minute – why am I seeing this ad??
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Excellent. Going to have to use that.
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Another recipe from My Tree in Israel. I’m working my way through the olive oil from the trees I adopted (annually); but it’s not just cooking oil. I love a spoonful, just plain. Definitely the best olive oil I’ve ever had.
Full disclosure: one of the founders is a friend of mine but note that I get no compensation for plugging the company. It’s just darned good oil, and I’m trying to help a friend’s business.
They also have an adopt-a-grape-vine program, and I’m eagerly awaiting my six bottles of wine later this spring.
They appeared on Mike Huckabee’s show:
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Start checking ingredients, people. It’s coming. And if you find them, make your displeasure known. To the store. To your friends. On all social media. And write the company – snail mail, not emails.
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Pick of the post:
Literally whitewashing the event.
What was worse about this? Seeing all those kids either do nothing, or a couple seemed to help out in the beat-down.
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Palate Cleansers:
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Impossible foods are having an impossible week in the impossible EU over their Impossible burger. The European Patent Office (EPO) has revoked the Impossible patent.
The EPO’s reasoning has not yet been published online, but GMWatch has long argued that GMO developers cannot tell patent offices that their product is novel, non-obvious and has an inventive step — all requirements for a patented invention — yet tell regulators and the public that the same product is natural, nature-mimicking or able to arise in nature or from natural breeding.
GMO developers can’t have it both ways; if one of these statements is true, the other must be false. If it’s patented, it can’t be natural, and if it’s natural, it can’t be patented.
Impossible Foods still plans to launch a wide range of fake products across the continent as soon as the appropriate Food Safety Authority gives them the green light.
Children’s Defense League argues that they are unsafe. The product includes GMO yeast derived from soy leghemoglobin. This gives the fake meat the appearance of having natural juices or appearing uncooked or undercooked. I don’t know anything (yet) about GMO yeast derived from soy leghemoglobin except that, based on the name, it is genetically modified, and that’s supposed to be a problem. Not for me, for the sort of people who are likely to insist that fake meat is better for the environment than the real thing. But that’s just not true.
Emphasis in the original.
The environmental footprint of producing pea protein isolate, soy protein concentrate, canola oil, sunflower oil, coconut oil, and potato starch is MASSIVE compared to that of a (single ingredient!) grass-fed beef burger.
As a farmer and soil scientist, it humors me to see the “statistics” on the carbon footprint of real meat versus plant-based meat.Where the hell do they get the stats for Impossible burgers using “96% less land, 87% less water and 89% less greenhouse gas emissions” than real meat? What farm did they come from? With what growing practices? With what inputs? And what meat production are they comparing it to?
Regardless of their statistics, the reality is: annual crops grown in monoculture (corn, soy, wheat, peas, sunflower) are among the most environmentally destructive form of agriculture.
Fake climate benefits and fake nutrition, but you have a right to be faked out or to virtue signal, and Impossible Foods wants to fake you out, but it’s been an impossibly lousy year for them. Their stock is down by half, and the news that they may not be helping anyone but themselves is starting to seep out of the impossible beef like the GMO yeast derived from soy leghemoglobin.
That is GMO veganistas. The Darth Vader of Corporate food processing. An evil thing added to a deceptive thing. But maybe that’s your thing.
And if you don’t force it on the rest of us, we’ll get along just fine.
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Some people do not know that the Ku Klux Klan has been vehemently anti-Catholic. Its quest to eliminate Columbus Day began years ago because of Columbus’s religious beliefs.
Today, many carry out this mission without having any background knowledge of what Columbus actually did. Read more about that here.
Religious bigotry oftentimes comes through veiled comments or attacks on religious institutions. Some of those who oppose tax dollars going to religious schools hate this idea because they don’t want your children learning the religious tenets included in the curriculum. Many people will simply say that they don’t want their tax dollars going to religious schools, and leave it at that. They won’t explain their disdain for the religious views of those who subscribe to that particular faith.
I’ve been following the school choice initiative for two decades now. I’ve watched how the courts have weighed in when it comes to public tax dollars funding private or religious schools. The courts have been consistent in that you cannot discriminate against religious schools simply because of your hatred or bigotry against them. I may disagree with everything taught in a religious school, but if a parent chooses that education for their children, we cannot discriminate against them.
Recent court decisions have struck down discriminatory practices and upheld a parent’s right to choose a religious school for their children. In Espinoza v Montana Dept of Revenue, the Montana Department of Revenue promulgated an administrative rule prohibiting scholarship recipients from using their scholarships at religious schools. Much like the arguments used to stop local tax dollars from leaving SAU90 to pay tuition on behalf of the students at Sacred Heart, the Justices ruled against discriminatory practices and laws.
On June 30, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court decided one of the most important education reform cases in the past half-century. This landmark case, Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue, held that the U.S. Constitution does not allow states to discriminate against religious parents or schools if policymakers choose to enact a private educational choice program to empower parents to choose the educational environment best suited to their own children. In his majority opinion, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote that while a “State need not subsidize private education[,] . . . once a State decides to do so, it cannot disqualify some private schools solely because they are religious.”
The case was argued on the basis of discrimination. The ruling states clearly that taxpayer funds can be used at religious institutions and that discrimination against religious parents or schools is not allowed under the U.S. Constitution.
Hampton residents have been paying tuition to Sacred Heart Catholic School located in Hampton for decades. Some residents want that to change. They want to end the funding to Sacred Heart, but why?
Is it because they don’t like public dollars going to a religious school? Some have indicated that on social media. They’re not comfortable with public dollars going to religious schools. That’s not a good enough excuse. I personally don’t agree with the tenets of many religious schools that receive public tax dollars, but it is up to the parents to decide what kind of education their children should receive.
SAU90 had a discrimination problem a few years ago when parents filed a complaint after their child had been bullied for several years. As a parental rights advocate, I worked with the family and the NAACP to see how this could best be resolved. How tough is it to stop a bully from tormenting a little girl? Sadly, they proved it was an impossible task. So the parents pulled their daughter out of the public school and sent her to a private school.
HAMPTON, NH — An administrative review of bullying incident against an African-American student in the Hampton School District has prompted officials to make changes to policies and procedures to prevent future incidents in the school system. The independent review was commissioned after a number of incidents, both inside and outside of school, between 2016 and 2018, according to School Superintendent Kathleen Murphy. SAU 90 commissioned the report last year.
Was she supposed to endure bullying because some of these aren’t comfortable with their tax dollars going to a religious school? Do these parents have some pent-up hatred towards what the religious school is teaching children? Was the family supposed to be punished if they chose a religious school?
That’s been my question to the petitioners. Why not work on improving public schools, so parents aren’t forced to remove their children in the first place?
What are the problems that exist in SAU90 since enrollment is declining? What draws families to Sacred Heart? In the bullying case, a child was tormented over the color of her skin. What is the solution? Wouldn’t it be better to make sure that these issues are resolved so parents aren’t forced to flee the public school they are in?
After repeated questions on the problems in SAU90, no one (on social media) said that they wanted to identify the problems that drive families out. No one said that they wanted to figure out how to keep families in the public school. They just wanted to make sure that those families can’t escape. Or if they escape, they are going to have to pay for it!
This appears to be a classic case of religious bigotry, and discrimination. Does it mean that everyone who signs the petition hates religious people? I wouldn’t say that. I would question their intent. I would question what they have done to fix the problems in the public school. I’d want to know why they are opposed to public tax dollars used to successfully educate a small portion of the students in the district.
Not all bigots wear white hoods. Some are very vocal moms and dads who can’t stand the thought of your children receiving any kind of religious instruction with YOUR tax dollars. Many of them are ok with your kids being bullied, and receiving a subpar education.
In this case, I hope that the current school board members will NOT support this type of bigotry and discrimination that plagued this district in the past. Let’s find ways to improve the public school without punishing some of the families who live in Hampton. Let’s make sure that the academics are the best, children are in a safe learning environment, and all families feel welcome.
This action is NOT a good way to overcome the discriminatory practices that have happened in the past. In fact, it doesn’t move the district forward at all. I hope the school board members understand that this kind of message that the petitioners are driving, is one that looks like discrimination in nature, and this kind of action will further cast a shadow of bigotry over the towns people.
To the current State Representative in Hampton who put herself in the middle of this town/ political battle, Candice O’Neil:
You serve all of your constituents in Hampton. Taking sides in a battle that divides the community over what appears to be a move to discriminate against some of the families residing in Hampton, doesn’t look good for an elected politician. It would be better to listen to all sides, and then look for ways to unite the community in an effort to improve the public schools. I hope in the future, instead of taking sides in a political battle such as this one, you will instead be that voice of reason that supports our public schools, while supporting all families who reside in the district.
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This week, my committee met for a day of public hearings. HB 519 creates the position of a chief information security officer in the department of information technology.
The commissioner pointed out that the position already exists (and is filled) so the bill is to establish how this person fits into the department, and what the duties and responsibilities of the position are. After a bit of discussion, we voted unanimously to recommend the bill to pass.
My HB 285 was next, which authorizes the department of revenue administration (DRA) to incorporate the equalization manual into its rules. The manual is created and updated by the assessing standards board, which is attached to the DRA; the rulemaking process requires any document under the control of the rulemaking authority (here, the commissioner of DRA) becomes an actual rule. However, the attachment of the assessing standards board is due to last year’s HB 1552, which moved the certification of assessors from DRA to a new board under the OPLC, and the equalization manual is a well-known document that assessors understand. Converting it into a rule would require using legal language, rather than assessing terminology, and most likely confuse the users. The JLCAR recommended that it be exempted from these requirements. I also presented an amendment, also a request of the DRA, which allowed all their forms to be signed under the penalty of perjury, without requiring specific authorization in the rules for each signature. Again, an exception to the rulemaking requirements that made sense to
me. The committee agreed, and we voted unanimously to recommend the bill to pass, with the amendment.
My HB 358 is a request of JLCAR to clean up a lot of rulemaking language. The committee was concerned about how to implement the section that called for notice of a new rule, created by a new law, to be sent to the policy committee chair for review, during the usual public comment period. The bill is going to subcommittee; after the hearing, someone suggested an email notice to the entire House and Senate, which seems to me to address the concerns – everyone who cares will be notified and can respond with comments.
HB 274 is a broader revision of the rulemaking process, intended to get more legislative involvement in approving rules. I cosponsored it, in agreement with the principle if not the details. The director of the administrative rules office testified that many of the provisions of the bill were unconstitutional, as a committee cannot speak for the whole body. Several agencies testified that various provisions were unworkable or onerous. This bill went to subcommittee with HB 258, since the two address the same sections of law and are not necessarily compatible with each other.
The House met in session to deal with a very short calendar – we finished within an hour. The consent calendar of non-controversial bills, including six from my committee, was approved on a voice vote. HB 33, polycystic ovary awareness, and HB 94, eczema awareness, were quickly and quietly killed. HB 230, directing the department of agriculture to use an electronic registration system, passed without discussion and was sent to Finance. HB 445, on the OPLC fund, also passed and was sent to Ways & Means.
All the activity was with bills from Municipal and County Government! HB 95, which would allow municipalities to adopt rent controls, was not tabled, 180-186, and then debated. It was killed, 301-63. The tabling vote was largely party line; the vote to kill it had most Democrats, including Representatives Schuett from Pembroke and Turcotte from Allenstown, joining the Republicans. HB 295, requiring all selectboard and school board meetings to be recorded and broadcast live online, was tabled, 322-45. Everyone thought this was a good idea, but mandating towns take on new programs or expenses is unconstitutional. Tabling it allows the sponsors to consider how to implement it without costing any towns that don’t already have the capability to do this – most towns and cities that have the capability already do this.
HB 412, re-establishing a study commission on alternatives to the gas tax for funding road maintenance and improvements, passed without comment. My HB 330, on the national guard recruitment fund and its rulemaking, also passed without discussion and was sent to Finance.
HB 140, Granny D day, was debated and killed on a voice vote. HB 148, raising the minimum for competitive bidding on county purchases, was tabled on a voice vote. This had been recommended to be killed by the committee only because nobody showed up to testify (in their defense, the committee was running very late that day) and the counties were concerned that this would make their operations more difficult. At least while it’s on the table, its contents can be incorporated into another bill. (and a member of my committee is working on it!)
HB 422, requiring the county registrars of deeds to develop and publish a database of each rental unit in the county, had been recommended to be killed as an unfunded mandate. A motion to table it instead failed, 163-200, it was killed on a voice vote, then indefinitely postponed, 206-158. Indefinitely postponed is a condition that doesn’t come up very often: it kills, not only the bill, but also the concept of the bill for the entire 2-year session. So a related bill cannot be introduced in the House, nor an amendment on the concept; and Senate bills with that position are rejected.
All in all, a very educational session to start the year off! We had various procedural motions, an indefinite postponement, and a debate on a minor bill pulled from consent (Granny D). The next session will be on February 14, around the governor’s budget address, and I hope we will have more bills ready to vote on.
Representative Carol McGuire
carol@mcguire4house.com
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Since “day one,” the narrative has been that individuals must sacrifice to stop the spread of COVID-19. Do it for your family, school, community, nation, and the world. And carry a “passport” so we can protect at-risk community members, who, as it turns out, are THE VACCINATED!
The COVID-19 injection increases the odds of infection and serious illness.
Both Moderna and Pfizer knew it, as did the FDA when they approved them. It seems appropriate, as a followup to this morning’s piece, to ask the next relevant question based on the other parts of the pandemic narrative.
If you received two or more injections of the COVID-19 “vaccine,” you are at the highest risk for infection, spread, and severe disease from SARS-CoV2. This represents a significant potential burden on public health resources not just from COVID but scores of vaccine-related harms.
The vaccinated among us are at increased risk of exposure to other vaccinated members of the community. Does it make sense to require all COVID-19 vaccinated to notify people that they represent a flu risk in workplaces, public spaces, events, or just out in the community?
Should there be punishments if the vaccinated lie and say they are unvaccinated? Should it cost them their jobs, access to public services, or public places? Do we need fines or warrantless searches of homes or businesses to determine their vaccine status?
Perhaps an electronic database tied to smartphones and facial recognition software that identifies them as vaccinated so we can protect the community?
The pro-vax community of political and public health leaders should sit down and discuss it. How are you going to protect the vaccinated from each other and not just from COVID but an increasingly wide range of flu and other potential health harms to which their damaged immune systems are increasingly susceptible?
And don’t do it for me. I have natural immunity. I’ve never been inoculated with a COVID-19 vaccine. Do it for each other because you are all in this together.
Just send me the press release with the bullet points, and I’ll be happy to share it.
The post COVID Vaccinated Officially the Biggest Flu Threat to the COVID Vaccinated – How Do You Plan to Protect Them from Each Other? appeared first on Granite Grok.
BUMPED from Jan 19th, 2023:
“The Revival of American Identity – ESG and the Threat to American Democracy” with Vivek Ramaswamy
Fox News contributor Vivek Ramaswamy will discuss his thoughts on Wokeness in corporate America as outlined in his New York Times Bestselling Book “Woke, Inc.”
This lecture series is hosted by the NH Leadership PAC and RNC Committeeman Chris Ager
Saint Anselm Institute of Politics 50 Saint Anselm Drive, Manchester, NH
Wednesday, February 8, 2023
6:30 pm Doors Open & Refreshments Served (Pizza, chips, cookies, water)
7:00 pm Lecture
7:45 pm Q&A
8:30 pm Conclusion
Sign up for free tickets: EventBrite
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…his email has now been posted up on GraniteGrok. as it wasn’t clear that it had been posted already (I left a voice mail for Mike asking him as we generally put up hate mail sent in so our readers can chortle over it and make sport of them.
Which I saw was already happening. Here’s what I sent (and I do love doing this kind of thing – I don’t put up with others going after my Groksters for stupid reasons).
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From: “Skip” <Skip@granitegrok.com>
To: “Charles Everett” <itkilvu@netscape.net>
Cc: “Michael Moffett” <Michael.Moffett@leg.state.nh.us>; “nhsbaoffice@nhsba.org” <nhsbaoffice@nhsba.org>; “info@nhsaa.org” <info@nhsaa.org>
Sent: 2/6/2023 12:26:01 PM
Subject: Making the nuance that Mike Moffett, a decorated prior Lt. Col Marine officer, is a Nazi???Well, Mr. Everett – a VERY stupid move. We can write about you for a while now.
You are now getting LOTS of attention from Mike, the NH School Board Association, and the NH School Administration Association. Why you decided to send your email to those latter two groups is irrelevant to the below but if you wanted more attention, guess what – you DID!
And now you can add GraniteGrok.com (NH’s largest and oldest political blogsite) to that list.
You see, we have this FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) area of GraniteGrok that states hat if you send an email to any “Grokster” (that would be an duly authorized writer at GraniteGrok, as Mike Moffett is, we can do with it as we wish:
Sharing
All communications with us, unless otherwise specified, may be made public at our discretion, including text and email.<snip>
Look in About or Contact Us to reach us by email.
Anything you send us is fair game and may be used on the site. Exceptions to this policy include if you ask us not to (off the record); however, if we judge the email to be nasty, we may still publish it to skewer poor judgment or lack of critical thinking.And Mike is a Grokster. You inferred he was a Nazi (or sympathizing with them). We don’t like it when someone attacks a fellow Grokster – especially me. Very Stupid Move.
So with your email now posted at “The Next Time You Come to New Hampshire from New Jersey I will Happily Kick your Apparently Sorry Ass“):
From: Charles Everett <itkilvu@netscape.net>
Sent: Sunday, February 5, 2023 12:19 PM
To: Michael Moffett <Michael.Moffett@leg.state.nh.us>
Cc: nhsbaoffice@nhsba.org <nhsbaoffice@nhsba.org>; info@nhsaa.org <info@nhsaa.org>
Subject: HB102-L: commies bad, MAGA goodIt’s only natural that such a measure is sponsored by a politician from the Republican Party, an organ that promotes MAGA uber alles and believes the Nazis are swell chaps.
My father was with the US Navy in World War II and if he ever found anyone thinking like a Nazi he would have kicked their ass.
Charles Everett, Bridgewater, NJ
908-552-8032Your email qualified on several points. And while we are in a very small State here in NH, we get THOUSANDS of visitors to read our material every day –
CONGRATULATIONS, you made yourself an Internet semi-sensation!
Have a GREAT Day – you’ve given all of us a great chuckle!
-Skip
Skip Murphy
Founder, co-owner
GraniteGrok.com | Skip@GraniteGrok.com |
So I await to see if Charles Everett responds. Only one in the past ever has but it will be “interesting” if he does. But I really hope he does – I want him to talk, talk, and talk some more!
But it is interesting that there was rather very little “intellect” in his email – like many on the Left, Charles Everett went DIRECT to an ad hominem attack to which there is rather little to debate. Which, however, means he most likely has a very thin skin so maybe Mike and I WILL hear back from him.
If he dares..
Heh!
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Well, I thought that the posts I put up over the past few days made some points and let our readership why they didn’t see any live reporting from the NHGOP annual meeting or afterward. I figured that was that – that event was over. Then I got a surprise call.
This past Saturday, the Grandson went to a Birthday Party at the Summit (Laconia) with a LOT of first grade and younger kids to celebrate one of his classmates’ 7th birthday. And with three indoor pools, I followed the Grandson around, so I got wet, especially when he wanted to go down one of the slides and wanted me to catch him. All in an afternoon’s work.
The party part happened afterward and that’s when I saw I had missed a call. I called the number, but on the second ring, the fire alarm went off. So all the adults and about 40 kids went, “Really?” No screaming, no running around, no panicking by kids – parents quickly collected their offspring, got them quickly into their jackets (remember, it was -17 F outside due to that artic blast), and filed out calmly but with steady speed.
And THEN we were told that while it was a real alarm, it was a “humidity problem” with the sprinkler system – all back in. The party resumed, and I called the number back again.
It was Chris Ager, the new NH GOP Chair. He called to let me know (and found out he had called Steve as well when Steve and I talked) that we should never have been kept out. He also said that it would never happen again – any event that the NH GOP has, GraniteGrok can always enter to cover like any other media or press, local or national. We discussed how it happened.
It was a quick call (I was at a kid’s birthday party, after all), but Chris Ager also followed it up with an email (emphasis mine):
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From: “Chris Ager” <chrisager@aol.com>
To: “Skip” <skip@granitegrok.com>
Sent: 2/4/2023 11:18:04 AM
Subject: Saturday NHGOP meetingI heard Grok was not allowed into NHGOP meeting last week. I can assure you that as long as I am Chairman, the Grok will be treated the same as all other press and given press passes to all NHGOP events that are open to the press.
If there is an issue, please call me directly.
Chris
You know, he didn’t have to do either – reach out by phone or by email. Standup guy, and it was appreciated.
Thanks!
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For the meeting on February 8th, here are the following item the Executive Council is set to approve related to Covid-19 spending:
Please Submit Group communications or Press Releases to editor@granitegrok.com.
Submission is not a guarantee of publication.
Grand Total: $121,161,202
Action ItemAccording to government databases, one child under the age of eighteen years old has died with Covid in New Hampshire, while there are VAERS reports showing four children in the same age group died subsequent to Covid-19 vaccination in New Hampshire. These are horrific statistics.
Please email your Executive Councilor and demand that they pause Covid-19 related expenditures to the Department of Health and Human Services until the department retracts their recommendation to vaccinate children against Covid-19 and stops state distribution of these shots to minors.
Joseph.D.Kenney@nh.gov
Cinde.Warmington@nh.gov
Janet.L.Stevens@nh.gov
Ted.Gatsas@nh.gov
David.K.Wheeler@nh.gov
Not sure who your Executive Council member is? Check here.
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Apologies for this being late. My triple-Jabbed wife was sick (Covid – so much for “effective”) and while she’s on the upswing, I’ve been running around like insanity. Also, yesterday I got the news that my best friend from high school died suddenly. It’s not been a good weekend.
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First, I am merely an “enlightened amateur”. Please vet & check on your own. Caveat emptor. Consider these to be priming the pump for your own investigations. I know this is a long post; I am attempting to put out a lot of information as a resource. Read or skip sections depending on your interests.
Second, I fear spicy time is very close, but even a month of food, water, etc., puts you well ahead of most of the sheeple. IMHO, set your minimum sights on a three-month period.
Third, two things will be critical for having the best chance of making it through:
And please follow both me, Nitzakhon, on Gab… as well as my blog host Granite Grok and also on Telegram Tommy Robinson Official plus his Urban Scoop site. And don’t forget posts sometimes get cloned on American Reveille as well, which is a good site to check out in general.
FYI, here’s a link to the last Survival Sunday.
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Who holds ULTIMATE POWER in Britain? Constitution expert explains the country’s current situation
Here in the US it’s called Jury Nullification. Learn about it here.
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Top of the fold:
Nothing this week hits this category. And I’m rushed – see the header above.
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Prepper Site URLS:
Most have daily articles; revisit daily. Please recommend others in the comments.
Ask a Prepper, how to prepare, survive and thrive, latest news
Mother Earth News
The Organic Prepper Home – The Organic Prepper
SurvivalBlog.com – The Daily Web Log for Prepared Individuals Living in Uncertain Times.
SHTF Blog – Modern Survival
Survival World – Everything You Need To Know to Survive
Homestead Survival Site – How to Live Off The Grid in Comfort and Style
Urban Survival Site | How to Survive a Disaster in the City
Mind4Survival – Survival and Preparedness
Gray Wolf survival
Sustainable Living (sustainablelivingideas.com)
The Classic Survivalist – Surviving in a Modern World
Primal Survivor – Practical and sensible prepping advice
Em Off-grid – We & Our Off The Grid Life – Em OffGrid
Resource for Practical, Daily Prepping Skills for SHTF & Survival (geekprepper.com) (new)
And three aggregate sites listing their top favorite sites & links too:
TOP 50 SURVIVAL & PREPPER BLOGS
The 50 Best Survival Blogs
Prepper Website – Preparedness • Survival • Alternative News
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Specific, one-up articles:
Off-Grid Tools You Need To Have On Your Property – Ask a Prepper
Have some. Got to get others. Just remember… you cannot do everything on your own!
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Related to Spicy Time:
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Here’s What Happens to Society When the System Fails (theorganicprepper.com)
Learn from the experiences of others.
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Boots on the Ground…Jan. 30th… Homemade explosive was found at a gas transmission facility.
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Cartoonist doesn’t understand reality
That have no idea what war is like when the people doing and cheering on the deaths of Americans send their kids to the same school as the people they want dead.
Things get ugly under those circumstances.
Yes, they do.
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Short of years and untold wealth, you cannot possibly be fully prepared for everything (I have to keep reminding myself of that). But even some preparations, ideally at least 90 days of food, water / water purification, etc., puts you head and shoulders in front of the vast majority of the sheeple who will be in jaw-gaping astonishment when the SHTF. The only relevant questions are:
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E.M.P. STRIKE IMMINENT! Record Freezing Cold! ~ Rex Reviews
Very relevant:
Timeline Of Events Following A Long Term Grid Down Catastrophe (modernsurvivalblog.com)
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I just started a FORAGING group on Gab. I will check 2-3 times a week to see if people have asked to join.
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Foraging: One-up articles
None this week.
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Foraging (permanent feature):
Foraging (practicalselfreliance.com)
Wild Harvests (arcadianabe.blogspot.com)
Southern Appalachian Herbs
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Books (permanent feature):
Feasting Free on Wild Edibles (old but good)
The Lost Ways (much more than just foraging)
The Forager’s Guide to Wild Foods
THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO EDIBLE WILD PLANTS FOR BEGINNERS
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Shortages (broadly):
Firefighters Continue to Assess Damage After Large Fire at Bozrah Egg Farm – NBC Connecticut
How… convenient. Related:
Chicken Egg Yolk Antibodies (IgYs) block the binding of multiple SARS-CoV-2 spike protein variants to human ACE2
Could this be why egg plants are being attacked so hard?
Does It Make Sense Now? Egg Yokes May Protect You from SARS CoV2 … – Granite Grok
The War on Chickens
Also:
Tucker: This is a matter of national survival
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Fertilizer Shortage Puts World On Verge of Food Crisis – The Lid (lidblog.com)
I personally cannot buy enough for an entire farm, but… if I accumulate some, that’s input to a farm for compensation in food.
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https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/dumping.mp4
I weep – not just for the revenue, but that milk – perfectly good milk that could feed people – being dumped. Because of government.
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Gardening, Food Storage, Health, and Related:
What is Electroculture?
Found through this group on Gab about gardening.
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Atomic bread from a jar – lasts 12 months – survive hard times without electricity, yeast, flour
Sent to me. Thanks “A”. More on her channel. Not in English though, so make sure to take notes about what’s presented. And from the sidebar:
6 TOP Crops to Grow at Home to Save You From STARVING
Also a good channel.
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Antibiotic Herbs And Plants To Grow Before SHTF – Ask a Prepper
Slowly going through the dried herbs I grew this past summer. From the same site:
Making Raw Apple Cider Vinegar at Home – Ask a Prepper
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Links on old-time food storage (permanent feature):
Thanks to the Canning and Preserving group on Gab, I now have these links:
Preserving foods by drying | How to dry foods safely (uada.edu)
USDA-Complete-Guide-to-Home-Canning-2015-revision.pdf (healthycanning.com)
Canning | SDSU Extension (sdstate.edu)
Food Preservation– Canning | Consumer Food Safety | Washington State University (wsu.edu)
Canning Timer & Checklist App | OSU Extension Catalog | Oregon State University
National Center for Home Food Preservation (uga.edu)
Canning Recipes | Ball® Mason Jars (ballmasonjars.com)
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Topical Books (also permanent):
Charcuterie: The Craft of Salting, Smoking & Curing
Salumi: The Craft of Italian Dry Curing
A Guide to Canning, Freezing, Curing & Smoking Meat, Fish & Game
The Prepper’s Canning Guide
Pickled Pantry
Fermented Vegetables
Hydroponics and Greenhouse Gardening: 3-in-1 Gardening Book to Grow Vegetables, Herbs, and Fruit All-Year-Round
Hydroponics for Beginners: The Complete Guide to Hydroponic Gardening, Designing and Building Inexpensive DIY Hydroponic Systems…
The Aquaponics Guidebook: Combining Aquaculture and Hydroponics Combining Aquaculture and Hydroponics
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Self-defense (broad) & Hunting:
What’s Up With Primer Production? What MAJOR Ammo Manufacturers WOULDN’T Say On Camera!
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Concluding thoughts if I’m moved to comment:
Just, in light of my news at the top… cherish those in your life.
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ThePatriotNurse – YouTube
Good channel!
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Palate cleansers:
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Years ago, when I could take food much hotter than I can now, I told the waitress at a Thai restaurant to tell the cook to make it spicy. In retrospect, I’m sure her order form looked like this one. Ooof.
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Please check out my MEMES collections; last one here. Mockery, ridicule, and the wrapping of uncomfortable truths inside humor can penetrate the cognitive shields of normies far more effectively – IMHO – than dry facts and figures.
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This is the testimony I recently submitted to the NH House Judiciary Committee.
“I am writing in support of HB396, Relative to the State Recognition of Biological Sex.
As a law, HB396 would allow state agencies to use biological sex as a consideration when setting policies that impact women’s safety and privacy.
As Ian Huyett of Cornerstone said in his testimony at the hearing for HB396, biological sex is already being considered by our state prisons as a factor in what facilities to assign inmates to. Housing a male rapist who identifies as a woman with female inmates would be very dangerous for those women.
If New Hampshire continues down the path of ignoring biological sex we could end up like other states where males who identify as women are housed with female inmates without consideration for their crimes or how dangerous they are for the women they are housed with.
Women’s Liberation Front wrote about the danger women are facing in these situations:
Female inmates are all too often assaulted by guards, wardens, and other male staff, including, in at least one facility, a pastor. Briane Moore was subjected to recurring sexual assault by a prison official during her incarceration in a West Virginia facility. In a shocking case of abuse, cruelty, and corruption, 28 female inmates in Indiana were raped, beaten, and intimidated for hours by two male inmates who had purchased a key to the women’s section of the jail from a male guard. Although they had access to live camera feeds, the officers on duty at Indiana jail did nothing to stop the attacks or put an end to what the women described as “a night of terror.”
Gender Self-Identification policies also put women at increased risk of sexual assault, as well as unwanted pregnancy, and emotional distress. In several states, male inmates who “self-identify” as women are housed alongside female inmates in women’s facilities. Most of these males have intact male genitalia and a high percentage have been convicted of sexual offenses and/or violent crimes against other people. One female inmate described the situation as “the most malicious way to tell an abused woman what we went through wasn’t important. That despite our trauma we will be forced to live, shower, and coexist with our pain by bringing men into our only way of living safe to be able to rehabilitate.”
Please vote OTP on HB396 to protect women and girls in New Hampshire.”
Related: Gender-Fluid Boy and Furry Friends Terrorize Girls at Middle School
You can also submit your testimony in support of this bill by emailing the NH House Judiciary Committee at HouseJudiciaryCommittee@leg.state.nh.us and asking the committee members to vote Ought to Pass on HB396. They are meeting on Wednesday, February 8 to vote on the bill.
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Exile. Persecution. Torture. The riveting story of one man’s escape from Sudan. By the banks of the Kulo-jobi River, a young Sudanese boy is faced with a decision that will shape the rest of his life.
William Levi was born in southern Sudan as part of a Messianic Hebrew tribal group and spent the majority of his growing-up years as a refugee running from Islamic persecution. He was eventually taken captive for refusing to convert to Islam and suffered greatly at the hands of his captors.
After escaping Islamic forces, William eventually came to the United States where he has been sharing his story nationwide.
Where: Community Church of Alton 20 School St Alton
When: Saturday February 18– 6:30 PM
Admission is free. Donations accepted. For more info call (857) 498-1309
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One of the earliest schemes to ping my radar as a political blogger was the green movement’s idea of buying indulgences for emitting. Even in 2008, Carbon offsets had all the makings of a confidence scam.
Related: Math is Hard, But Net Zero Emissions Math is Harder – It Can’t Be Done by 2050
Comparisons to medieval papal dispensations were common. Bad behavior was forgiven if the donation was large enough. When organized crime does this, it’s called extortion. When the world’s elites do it, they strive to achieve their net-zero goals.
Net zero is not real, but the term has arrived to prop up the decades-long fraud of the climate cult and carbon credits (or offsets), which recently got some bad press.
From the UK Guardian: “Revealed: more than 90% of rainforest carbon offsets by biggest certifier are worthless, analysis shows.”
The forest carbon offsets approved by the world’s leading certifier and used by Disney, Shell, Gucci and other big corporations are largely worthless and could make global heating worse, according to a new investigation.
The research into Verra, the world’s leading carbon standard for the rapidly growing $2bn (£1.6bn) voluntary offsets market, has found that, based on analysis of a significant percentage of the projects, more than 90% of their rainforest offset credits – among the most commonly used by companies – are likely to be “phantom credits” and do not represent genuine carbon reductions.
Talk about fitting the Climate Cult money-laundering template. Verra makes claims about the volume of deforestation which researchers suggest are inflated by as much as 400%, which Verra then takes credit for preventing while pocketing billions.
The one thing missing from this piece (worth the read), in my opinion, is what Verra does with the money it makes. Their offices are located in the middle of Washington, DC. While they claim the funds go to protect jungles from deforestation if they are over-projecting anticipated damage by 400% and collecting on their vaporware estimates, that leaves a lot of extra offsets.
According to Guidestar, Verra has hauled in gross receipts of over 40 million. Their 2020 990 includes a handful of green groups who benefit from their generosity (investment). APX Environmental Markets (NY, NY), Globalization Partners (Boston, MA), HBW Construction (Rockville, MD), Climate Focus (DC), Rainforest Alliance (NY, NY), the Climate, and the Community and Biodiversity Alliance.
I’m not digging into them or Verra’s executive officers, but I’m sure there’s plenty there for those with the time because very little about anything to do with the Climate Cult is above board. It’s a massive money laundering operation funding the advance of Democrat Socialism.
According to the Guardian,
The investigation found that:
- Only a handful of Verra’s rainforest projects showed evidence of deforestation reductions, according to two studies, with further analysis indicating that 94% of the credits had no benefit to the climate.
- The threat to forests had been overstated by about 400% on average for Verra projects, according to analysis of a 2022 University of Cambridge study.
- Gucci, Salesforce, BHP, Shell, easyJet, Leon and the band Pearl Jam were among dozens of companies and organisations that have bought rainforest offsets approved by Verra for environmental claims.
So what do the folks paying for these credits or offsets have to say about this research?
- Shell told the Guardian that using credits was “in line with our philosophy of avoid, reduce and only then mitigate emissions.”
- Gucci, Pearl Jam, BHP and Salesforce did not comment, ..
- Lavazza said it bought credits that were certified by Verra, “a world’s leading certification organisation,” as part of the coffee products company’s “serious, concrete and diligent commitment to reduce” its carbon footprint. It plans to look more closely into the project.
- The fast food chain Leon no longer buys carbon offsets from one of the projects in the studies …
- EasyJet has moved away from carbon offsetting to focus its net zero work on projects such as “funding for the development of new zero-carbon emission aircraft technology.”
Barbara Haya, the director of the Berkeley Carbon Trading Project, has been researching carbon credits for 20 years, hoping to find a way to make the system function. She said: “The implications of this analysis are huge. Companies are using credits to make claims of reducing emissions when most of these credits don’t represent emissions reductions at all.
Will there be any fraud investigations? Probably not.
Exit Question: Since the COVID Cult and the Carbon Cult are mostly the same folks, how about a COVID offset system? A way to buy dispensations for your lies, smears, and fealty to that false god.
For comparison’s sake, imagine if Tony Fauci set it up.
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An important hearing before the House Education Committee is scheduled for this Wednesday, February 8th, at the Legislative Office Building (behind the State Capitol) in room 205-2o7 at 9:45am.
HB514 will require local school boards to develop a policy for responding to parental complaints of obscene material in schools. Please sign in and speak in favor of HB514, letting the committee members know that pornographic and obscene material has been found in some of the school libraries in New Hampshire. When you arrive, fill out a PINK CARD and give it to a State Rep. on the committee so they know to call your name during the hearing.
If you cannot make this public hearing, please send an email to all of the State Representatives on the House Education Committee letting them know you support HB514:
rick.ladd@leg.state.nh.us
glenn.cordelli@leg.state.nh.us
rep.alicia.lekas@gmail.com
lynchford@comcast.net
Mike.Belcher@leg.state.nh.us
Margaret.Drye@leg.state.nh.us
Valerie.McDonnell@leg.state.nh.us
Kristin.Noble@leg.state.nh.us
Katy.Peternel@leg.state.nh.us
Arlene.Quaratiello@leg.state.nh.us
Mel.Myler@leg.state.nh.us
patricia.cornell@leg.state.nh.us
RepTanner@gmail.com
dluneauNH@gmail.com
Art.Ellison@leg.state.nh.us
stevewoodcock.rep@gmail.com
Muriel.Hall@leg.state.nh.us
Peggy.Balboni@leg.state.nh.us
Corinne.Cascadden@leg.state.nh.us
Hope.Damon@leg.state.nh.us
You can also sign into the General Court’s web site to register your support here: https://gencourt.state.nh.us/house/committees/remotetestimony/default.aspx
1) Type in your name, etc.
2) Click on Weds. Feb. 8th
3) Select a Committee: House Education/ Select a Bill: 9:45 am HB514 / Select an Option Below (Member of the public)/ I’m representing (myself) / Indication your position on this Bill (SUPPORT)
4) Upload testimony (If you want to write testimony, upload it here or write it in the box
5) Submit
We need as many people as possible to ATTEND this hearing, or submit testimony in support of HB514.
Please attend and share this information with others!
FOR ADDITIONAL EXAMPLES of Pornography in NH Schools:
https://granitegrok.com/blog/2022/12/warning-sexually-explicit-and-obscene-material-available-to-children-in-school
Parents in SAU34 Calling On Superintendent and School Board to Stop Teaching Children to Have Sex With Adults
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Mr. Everett:
I read your message below and noted you’d copied NHSBA and NHSAA.
I remain convinced that requiring high school grads be exposed to 60 minutes of instruction on the history and nature of Communism to be a good thing (HB102).
I have to take issue with your assertion that Republicans feel that Nazis are “swell chaps.”
I also take exception to your assertion that Republicans promote MAGA “uber alles.” I and many other Republicans have often expressed dismay re: some of the actions and excesses of our 45th president.
And finally, I’ll infer that your reference to your father’s military service means that you, yourself, have never donned your country’s uniform. FYI, I was a Marine Corps infantry officer who proudly went into harm’s way in the Persian Gulf and Afghanistan. This message has my contact information. Please advise re: the next time you come to New Hampshire from New Jersey, and I will happily kick your apparently sorry ass.
MOST sincerely,
-MIM
Michael I. Moffett (LtCol, USMCR)
Professor/Author/N.H. State Representative
From: Charles Everett <itkilvu@netscape.net>
Sent: Sunday, February 5, 2023 12:19 PM
To: Michael Moffett <Michael.Moffett@leg.state.nh.us>
Cc: nhsbaoffice@nhsba.org <nhsbaoffice@nhsba.org>; info@nhsaa.org <info@nhsaa.org>
Subject: HB102-L: commies bad, MAGA good
It’s only natural that such a measure is sponsored by a politician from the Republican Party, an organ that promotes MAGA uber alles and believes the Nazis are swell chaps.
My father was with the US Navy in World War II and if he ever found anyone thinking like a Nazi he would have kicked their ass.
Charles Everett, Bridgewater, NJ
908-552-8032
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The COVID Vaccine “safe and effective” tagline has suffered headshots, and body blows, with the chorus coming back with “vaccine denier!” Science Denier! But we’ve known for a while they were the ones who killed grandma.
Related: The CDC Lied About COVID Vaccine Safety Surveillance
And I take no pride in this. But the lines were drawn early, primarily ideological, and that set the stage for what everyone should have realized was about political science, not public health. And without those blinders (could we say masks?) worn by the public health and media industrial complex, millions would have realized that COVID alone was less of a threat than the vaccines. That no one under 20 years of age needed the EUA injection (even if it did work), and almost no one under 50 needed it either.
Thousands of scientists, thinkers, and experts stood up early and often to suggest that lockdowns, quarantines, distancing, and masks might do more harm than good, just as many stepped out to question the so-called (it’s still not a) vaccine. There was evidence early in that it was not effective and that it sometimes had fatal side effects.
It was all heaped into the “not” pile, the speakers systematically slandered, canceled, and labeled. But they were right. We were right. The data wasn’t lying, but the FDA, CDC, Moderna, and Pfizer knew that. And that’s not news, certainly not to our readers or writers. But the hole keeps getting deeper, or the pile of inconvenient truths higher, and Emily Oster isn’t the only one launching trial balloons to find a path out from under it.
Because an increasing number of Americans are siding with the so-called vaccine deniers, from skipping the second shot to the boosters to the bivalents, and that mistrust is deserved.
If you recall, when they announced the rushed, warp-speed “cure,” I announced that you could get it you wanted, but I was going to wait for the human test trials to run their course (see also the vaccine mandate campaigns). And we have authors who got jabbed or boosted for their own reasons, but we’ve all watched that human trial unfold, and the results are terrible. Not just the stories but the details clawed from the FDA and CDC, contradicting everything we were told.
My question is, ‘If a vaccine can not reduce the risk for a viral infection, how can it reduce the risk for the severe disease that is caused by that viral infection?’
Karen Kingston answered her question; it can’t. And it never could. Not ever. It was never safe or effective. Kingston reports:
The FDA approval documents state that VAERD is an IMPORTANT POTENTIAL RISK for both the Pfizer and Moderna mRNA injections (because the injections increase the risk for both COVID-19 infection and severe disease).
VAERD is vaccine-assisted enhanced disease, a known “side-effect” right along with Myocarditis and Pericarditis, which have killed unknown numbers but appeared first (at least in a very public and undeniable manner) among athletes who, after a second shot, began dropping dead in the summer of 2021 (Image credits: Karen Kingston).
They knew it probably wasn’t safe, and they knew it wasn’t effective. And they didn’t know much else, but the FDA approved them anyway (with some members of that approval board claiming they were misled).
In August of 2021, we shared reports from Dr. Dan Stock, who had observed immune systems compromised by these injections and how they made patients more susceptible to infection and disease. He was speaking at a school board meeting, a thumb drive filled with data in hand for them, about why kids didn’t need masks or The Jab. That it was not working as advertised.
He wasn’t the only one. You may have been one of many who shared that and more to educate people who were being denied informed consent, which by law is required for any treatment, especially an emergency use treatment.
It became a partisan political fight, and all sides went to war. You may know people who were casualties. We do. And now, the vaxxers would like to walk away without consequence.
… to have their cake (say something nice that makes everyone happy) and eat it (not have to actually admit what they did wrong or relinquish any of their power by changing the core problematic policies they put forward).”
A lot went wrong, but almost all of it can be traced back to money, politics, and power. People who should have known better were leveraged or silenced by politicians and bureaucrats (remember, hospitals are just businesses, and death is a balance sheet line item).
It all went sideways, but we don’t need apologies. We don’t require you to say we were right. We need as many people as possible to grasp that this happened, why it happened, and that it could happen again.
That it is the response to COVID for which we need a cure.
| Cleveland Clinic COVID Vaxx Study (pdf)
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I wanted to share some information with Granite Grok readers about The Patriot Initiative that was sent to me. Please check it out when you have a minute,
https://nhpatriothub.org.
The NH Patriot Hub is a website that was designed to connect and share information with the citizens of NH. We aim to keep you educated, inspired and called to take action in your community to protect and keep your Constitutional and God-given rights.
We are excited to share some new initiatives, constitutional classes and documents with you.
We have 3 new additions to the website:
First, we updated our home page. We added a video of Kirk Cameron and Marshall Foster. They give a 15-minute explanation of our Forefathers Monument in Plymouth, MA. We are hoping all of you connect with the history of this monument and eventually get a chance to see it in person. We also included the famous speech by Ronald Reagan. He is saying a lot of the same things that we see happening today. All of us need to do our part to keep the freedoms our forefathers fought so hard to give us; for ourselves, our children, and our grandchildren.
We created a list of patriots who are ready to help you get connected. Please reach out to them. Remember, we are better, stronger, and louder when we work together.
Second, we have our Resources Page. We have three new initiatives here. We are looking for a team leader for every SAU district in NH, a team leader for every town/city selectman/alderman meeting in NH, and a Know your Rights initiative with resources for everyone to learn about their Constitutional and God-given rights.
AnnMare Banfield is heading up the School Board initiative. We currently have 8 SAU team leaders:
SAU 5 – Lee, Strafford, Madbury
John MCCaffrey: (978) 382-2586 or mccaffreyj@outlook.com
SAU 10 – Derry
Butch Timpe: 603-845-8108 or ButchTimpeforDerrySchoolBoard@gmail.com
SAU 11 – Dover
Sally Staude: 603-490-6971 or shstaude@comcast.net
SAU 30 – Laconia
Dawn Johnson: staterep@dawnjohnson4nh.com
SAU 34 -Hillsboro, Deering, Washington and Windsor
Betsi Harrington: betsiharrington@comcast.net
SAU 37 – Manchester
Joanna Brown: 603-440-3236 or jberardi2@hotmail.com
SAU 41 – Brookline, Hollis
Aaron Penkacik: 603-566-1550 apenkacik@gmail.com
SAU 46 – Andover, Salisbury, Webster, Loudon, Boscawen, Penacook
Louise Andrus: 603-648-2510 or louiseandrus00@gmail.com
Please check out the School Board page and join one of these teams, become a team leader in your school district, or start your own team here:
https://nhpatriothub.org/schools/
Regina Barnes is heading up the selectman/alderman meeting initiative. We would like a team leader from every town/city to commit to going to their meetings and share what is discussed with other members on their team. Check out the details here
https://nhpatriothub.org/board-of-selectmen-and-aldermen/
Know your Rights initiative; we want everyone in NH to know what their Constitutional and God given rights are. Here we have opportunities for Constitution and Biblical Citizenship classes as well as links and copies of the NH Constitution, Declaration of Independence, US Constitution, and the Bill of Rights. You need to know your rights to be able to protect them.
Third, Is our new events calendar. Please check it out to see what is happening in NH!
https://nhpatriothub.org/events/
Anyone who has a great idea for an event can email events@nhpatriothub.org or as a super awesome new feature, you can add your own even here https://nhpatriothub.org/events/community/add.
We need to build up our community, and we all have such unique interests and backgrounds there is surely something each one of us can contribute. Please challenge yourself to come up with a gathering you think will benefit others in their skills, knowledge or just as a positive community-building experience. We can volunteer together, eat together, learn together, and laugh together. Let’s make 2023 the year to make new friends and better ourselves!
Helpful tip: You can bookmark the events calendar page to your phone. It will give you quick access to our calendar as new events are added daily.
We are hoping to add more initiatives as more people step up and volunteer to lead these initiatives. Please let us know if you would like to lead an initiative by emailing Deb at deb@nhpartiothub.org
If you would like to join our team at the NH Patriot Hub, we would like to talk with you. As we continue to grow, we need more volunteers to help us reach more people in NH. Please contact Deb Roux at deb@nhpatriothub.org if you are interested.
We look forward to working with each one of you this year. Thank you for your support and God bless,
The NH Patriot Hub Team
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Many of us were transfixed to our television screens, watching a 125′ balloon navigate its way across our country. Many of us were angry that our airspace had been violated and our President was too timid and compromised to shoot down a balloon that the Chinese were using to spy on our most essential military bases in the Midwest. As the story unfolded and the facts became clear, this was another case of the Biden Administration keeping America in the dark. It turns out the White House and Pentagon knew about this balloon for nearly two months and did nothing to stop its progress. The government was forced to come clean when an observant citizen saw the balloon with their naked eye. If not, we may never have been told we had been violated by our number one adversary.
Wednesday and Thursday were highlighted by China and Washington battle ing for who was the superior liar. The White House deflected to the Pentagon, and the Pentagon was frustrating the media with more denials than disclosures. Monitoring and weighing our options was the new taking classified documents seriously. Transparent? Like a brick wall. The Chinese tried to deny any culpability. Then they admitted it was a weather balloon and, finally, to surveying our mainland. China saw no problem or violation of international law. They claimed it was adrift in the jet stream as they navigated it over our military bases. Every bit of the news now needs to have a fact checker across the bottom of the screen.
The Pentagon claimed they had disarmed the equipment on the balloon, which is quite a trick as they had no idea what equipment was on the airship. The nose keeps growing. The balloon was finally destroyed by a missile fired from an F-22 as it drifted off the South Carolina coast but still in our airspace. Immediately, the President claimed he gave the order to eliminate the airship on Wednesday. Apparently, the Pentagon doesn’t listen to our President either. Have you noticed how many “claims” there are in this story?
So this incident may be over, and, of course, Biden is using Trump to take the edge off his actions. He claimed that balloons had been over our airspace during Trump’s term. Many quickly shot down the accusation, including Trump, people in his administration, and pentagon personnel. Sorry, Joe, you are on your own. What have we learned this week?
First, we should never use Biden and transparency in the same sentence. Whether it is Karine Jean-Pierre or any spokesman from the Pentagon or State, you will not get a straight answer to any question. We have learned that whether our Southern Border and now, our airspace, Joe Biden has no concern for our boundaries or sovereignty. We learned that Joe takes protecting classified documents as seriously as our airspace. Please don’t bother me unless my Corvette is in danger. We finally realized that our Commander in Chief has little control over our military. What does all of this mean in the future? It showed weakness on the part of America, specifically our President. If this was a test balloon sent to America by the CCP, then they learned a great deal about how far they can push our buttons. Experts predict a military conflict involving China in the next two to three years. God help us if those experts are correct and if Joe Biden is still behind the Resolute Desk.
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On January 17th,2023, I published an historic interview entitled “An “interview” with Margaret Sanger on DOBBS V. JACKSON(ABORTION). There were a few problems (sanger died years ago), but despite that minor glitch, the interview was a rousing success.
The number of likes reached an all-time record (3 versus the previous record of 1-thanks, mom!). My phone was ringing off the hook (not really-cell phones don’t work t like that, but it sounds good, eh?).
I received laudatory comments like ” incredible!” “mystifying,” “ostentatious.”
As a result, I have commissioned BUZZ BUZBY to do a follow-up interview. Let’s join him now as he enters Margaret Sanger’s offices:
BUZZ: “Evening folks. Glad to have you aboard. Unfortunately, due to the short notice I received for this interview, I was not able to contact the subject ahead of time. I just decided to show up her, at her offices and see if I cannot get an interview. I can see into her front office thru the glass doors, but so far, I have not seen Margaret. I do see somebody, though. Let’s just go in and try to get lucky.”
PEDRO JUAN TON: “May I help you?”
BUZZ: I sure hope so. I am BUZZ BUZBY from radio WTF here to interview Margaret.
PEDRO JUAN TON: Very Sorry. She is not here. She had an emergency and had to leave.
BUZZ: Really? Wow. too bad for me. What kind of Emergency?
PEDRO JUAN TON: I am not sure I can tell you. I can only say that she is the President and founding member of the “LOOK AT THE PRETTY BALLOON” Society. She and her two fellow members were off to South Carolina to grieve over the loss of the Chinese weather balloon. Can you believe that our horrible government shot down such a beautiful balloon? My friends back home are so upset. It just defies belief what has happened.
BUZZ: My condolences. It is horrible. I heard that Joe Biden was particularly distressed over the loss of the balloon. Somebody said he found out it was in Montana, and he flew there so he could run and jump and play with it–like at his birthday party.
PEDRO JUAN TON: I KNOW! THE HONORED LEADER EVEN TOLD THE MILITARY THAT THEY WERE GIVING US A BALLOON LIKE AN ADULT GIVING A BALLOON TO A SMALL CHILD. WHY DID THEY HAVE TO SHOOT IT DOWN? THEY RUINED EVERYTHING? POOR, POOR JOE!
BUZZ: Say-you seem like a really smart person. Do you work here? Can we interview you on the Dobbs decision?
PEDRO JUAN TON: Interview me? Sure. I am a law student, you know, out in California. That is such a wonderful place. My dad was from Mexico and was trying to cross the border to seek asylum. My mom was from China. She was a corporal in the “PEOPLES ARMY” and was sent to the border to cross over to spy on the U.S. to get top secret info on chicken eggs production. Trump was President, and he instituted the stay in Mexico program, so they had to spend over a year in a five-star hotel-paid for by the U. N. When they finally got permission to enter, I paid them each $5000 to say I was their child so that I could enter too. I wanted to be a lawyer, but I flunked the exam in my native Peru. California allows illegals to become lawyers. I KNOW I CAN PASS NEXT YEAR–MY FRIENDS IN THE BLOODY CRYPTO GANG SAID THEY WOULD ARRANGE IT.
BUZZ: Great. What do you know about Dobbs? Have you read it?
PEDRO JUAN TON: Read it? Naw. But I read your article. Isn’t that good enough?
BUZZ: ABSOLUTELY. What I really want to ask is-has Margaret’s predictions come true? Have the states enacted laws allowing unlimited abortions?
PEDRO JUAN TON: Gotcha. Funny but I know the answer to that. I am working here for Margaret as an intern, but she pays zero. So, I got a job as an “ABORTION TRAVEL AGENT.” Business is booming. My employer provides me with up-to-date advisory on where people can go to get the abortion they need. They got a great motto: “WORK ON THAT TAN, WHILE WE WORK ON YOUR FIGURE.”
BUZZ: SO, TELL ME- What is your number 1 destination? I bet it’s California.
PEDRO JUAN TON: Good guess, but nope. They do have great weather, but actually, the best and easiest place to get an abortion in Minnesota. They have zero limits on abortion. You can get your abortion anytime, anyplace (in Minnesota), from anyone you want. The Government cannot stop you. Your parents cannot stop you. Your husband cannot stop you. Here is what the Minnesota law says:
“145:409 REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH RIGHTS
SUBD 3 REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM(a) Every individual has a fundamental right to make autonomous decisions about the individual’s own reproductive health, including the fundamental right to use or refuse reproductive health care.
(b)Every individual who becomes pregnant has a fundamental right to continue the pregnancy and give birth or obtain an abortion and to make autonomous decisions about how to exercise this fundamental right.
SUBD 5. LOCAL UNIT OF GOVERNMENT LIMITATION A local unit of government may not regulate an individual’s ability to freely exercise the fundamental rights set forth in this section in a manner that is more restrictive than that set forth in this section.”
Understand what this means: there are no Government or society-imposed limits on abortion. A woman who is pregnant (actually, it says an individual who is pregnant to accommodate our Trannie friends) can have her abortion right up to and including the moment of birth. Actually, even birth is not a limit.
Consider: suppose the pregnant “individual “has a spouse who is a biological parent. Too bad. That person has no rights to the child and can do nothing to interfere with the pregnant person’s decision to abort.
Consider: The pregnant person is 14. It’s her third abortion. Her parents have no right to know or to consent to the abortion. Moreover, under recent rules issued by the federal Department of Education, the pregnant student has absolute confidentiality, has a right to counseling, an attorney if needed, and her abortion must be funded by her health insurance without notice to her parents.
Justice Alito said that any state law with any reasonable basis will be upheld. He even said the “health ” of the mother is a reasonable basis. The Minnesota law specifically says that abortion is “REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH.”
BUZZ: Interesting. But how does a young lady – excuse me, an individual -in, say, New Hampshire who is 40 weeks pregnant get access to this abortion in Minnesota?
PEDRO JUAN TON: Easy. That is my business. I can get her an all expenses included three nite stay at a luxury hotel, arrange the medical appointments, and even put a chocolate on her pillow at nite. I can even arrange payment if she cannot or does not want to use her credit card. How? I won’t disclose my sources, but let me just say that the first place to check is her employer, as a lot of them pay the entire sum. If that fails, then…well, again, I cannot say, but if you look at who contributes to PLANNED PARENTHOOD, HERE IS WHAT IS REPORTED: As of January 2018, Planned Parenthood had $1.8 billion in assets. It did an average of 312,000 abortions a year. It received over $500 million from the government and another $500-600 million from private donors:
FROM 2010 to 2013 WARREN BUFFET (THRU HIS SUSAN BARRET FOUNDATION) GAVE $231 MILLION.
WILLIAM AND FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION: $ 22.8 MILLION (2010-2013)
OPEN SOCIETY INSTITUTE (GEORGE SOROS): $18,3 MILLION. (2010-2013)
PACKARD FOUNDATIION: $14.7 MILLION (2010-2013)
BILL AND MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION: $14.521 MILLION (2010-2013)
I am not saying these folks fund …
… trips. I am just saying I can find the money.
Oops! I forgot. A group called “ACCESS Reproductive Justice” and “National Network of Abortion Funds “say they will pay all travel expenses. I am sure there are others, but I am still working on that.
BUZZ: WELL, Minnesota is still kind of far away. Anything closer to New Hampshire?
PEDRO JUAN TON: You betcha! Vermont has almost identical laws.
HERE IS WHAT VERMONT PROVIDES:
On November 8, 2022, VERMONT VOTERS, by more than a 3 to 1 margin, approved “Proposal 5,” which provides an amendment-adding article 22- to the Vermont constitution. It says almost the same thing as Minnesota:
“THAT AN INDIVIDUAL’S RIGHT TO PERSONAL REPRODUCTIVE AUTONOMY IS CENTRAL TO THE LIBERTY AND DIGNITY TO DETERMINE ONE’S OWN LIFE COURSE AND SHALL NOT BE DENIED OR INFRINGED UNLESS JUSTIFIED BY A COMPELLING STATE INTEREST ACHIEVED BY THE LEAST RESTRICTIVE MEANS.”
The Vermont law, like the Minnesota law, gives total control over the decision for abortion to the one pregnant: the father has no say; the parents have no rights-even to be notified. There is an appearance of a restriction at the end. The state can try to challenge the decision to abort, but it must show a very high burden, ” A COMPELLING STATE INTEREST”. Such a result is like the chances of winning the super-lotto.
Want to know about CALIFORNIA?
In California, a pregnant person has total autonomy to have an abortion up to the point of “viability,” which the aborting Doctor must decide. Viability means that the child could live outside the womb.
It’s totally subjective, but even that can be skirted if the aborting doctor determines that the continued pregnancy adversely affects the life or the health-including mental health -of the one pregnant.
New York has pretty much the same laws.
Not to worry. My travel agency can counsel any client on how to state the health problems of the pregnancy and can find the right doctor. It costs a little more, but I think I can get anyone an abortion anytime during their pregnancy.
The nice thing about California is that they advertise nationally for abortion clients. They will provide abortions to anyone-nonresidents, even illegal aliens. They can arrange payment for all transportation costs-food, lodging, transportation, and even childcare-take a look at their advertising program.
BUZZ: Fascinating. Just one more question. Should people from a state that outlaws abortion be afraid of going for an abortion in another state? I mean, if New Hampshire says it’s a crime to have an abortion after 24 weeks, what happens to a resident of Manchester who goes to Vermont and aborts at 25 weeks? Or 40 weeks?
Pedro Juan Ton: I am not a lawyer yet, so I cannot give legal advice. I would just say: Go look at the New Hampshire law-it does impose a criminal penalty-a class B felony- but on the HEALTH CARE WORKER doing the abortion. It is silent on criminal charges against the pregnant person.
RSA 329:46 provides that any “HEALTH CARE PROVIDER” (WHO KNOWINGLY VIOLATES NEW HAMPSHIRE LAW RE ABORTION) IS GUILTY OF A CLASS B FELONY.
Sooo… I don’t see where it is crime under this statute for a pregnant person to go cross state lines to Vermont to affect an abortion. But, if you are worried, California and probably every one of the states I referenced will hook you up with a free lawyer to answer your questions and help you skirt any state laws. JUST CALL THE ACLU.
BUZZ: WOW! THANK YOU. YOU HAVE BEEN TERRIFIC. Please give my best to Margaret. I guess she was right. Looks like we can rest easy tonight knowing that somewhere out there, Judge Alito’s dream of STATES’ RIGHTS ON ABORTION is saving the life of some PREGNANT PERSON WHO WOKE UP AFTER 9 MONTHS TO SAVE HERSELF FROM DIAPERS, VOMIT, AND MIDNITE FEEDINGS.
GOD BLESS!
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Despite what the so-called experts want you to believe – the American Revolution was not the War for Independence. And the root cause wasn’t merely “taxation without representation.”
Understanding the history of colonial opposition and resistance to the largest government in history – can provide us with a foundation to advance liberty against the same today.
Writing to Thomas Jefferson in 1815, John Adams asked, “What do We mean by the Revolution? The War?”
The answer, of course, was that the Revolution happened before the War for Independence:
“That was no part of the Revolution. It was only an Effect and Consequence of it. The Revolution was in the Minds of the People, and this was effected, from 1760 to 1775, in the course of fifteen Years before a drop of blood was drawn at Lexington.”
Jefferson, for his part, seemed to agree. In a letter to Henry Lee, he noted that the object of the Declaration of Independence was “not to find out new principles, or new arguments, never before thought of, not merely to say things which had never been said before; but to place before mankind the common sense of the subject.”
He called the Declaration an “expression of the American mind,” that was based on “the harmonizing sentiments of the day.”
That’s similar to how Adams described the “real American revolution” as well:
This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the people, was the real American Revolution.
While some might point to the Stamp Act as the spark, this radical change can be traced back to James Otis, Jr’s powerful 1761 speech against the Writs of Assistance.
Here, Otis railed against broad-reaching “general warrants,” and argued that the only legal warrants were “special” warrants to search houses or places specially named.
Otis also rejected the notion of government holding sovereignty, or final authority. Instead, he pointed out that “an act against the constitution is void.”
Think of it like this. If government has final authority – then government gets to decide if it has gone beyond its limits.
Sounds familiar, doesn’t it?
On the other hand – the foundation from Otis – that some other entity holds sovereignty. Years later, Thomas Paine described it this way:
“A constitution is a thing antecedent to a government, and a government is only the creature of a constitution. A constitution is not the act of a government, but of a people constituting a government.”
So the start of the “controversy between the colonies and Great Britain” included a view that the people hold final authority.
And that’s just how George Mason put it in 1775:
All power was originally lodged in, and consequently is derived from, the people. We should wear it as a breastplate, and buckle it on as our armour.
An essential question, of course – if the people hold final authority and government power has limits, what must be done when government goes beyond those limits?
Patrick Henry gave us the answer in his 1765 Virginia Resolves against the Stamp Act, the people “are not bound to yield Obedience.”
Months later, John Dickinson made the same case, noting that compliance with the act would establish “the detestable precedent” for more and more power in the future.
It was obvious to the Old Revolutionaries that government had no reason to withdraw from enforcing unconstitutional acts – if the people merely complied.
He continued, all caps and emphasis in the original broadside:
THE Stamp Act, therefore, is to be regarded only as an EXPERIMENT OF YOUR DISPOSITION. If you quietly bend your Necks to that Yoke, you prove yourselves ready to receive any Bondage to which your Lords and Masters shall please to subject you.
This is the same argument that Otis had made a few years earlier, “So long as people will submit to arbitrary measures, so long will they find masters.”
We find the same principles carried forward to the Suffolk Resolves of 1774, which called for non-compliance, disobedience to courts, tax resistance and more. In writing the resolves, Joseph Warren used the same language, “no obedience is due” in response to the Coercive Acts.
Later in 1774, the First Continental Congress unanimously supported this position. Starting with opposition to the unlimited centralized power of the Declaratory Act of 1766, which claimed power over the colonies “in all cases whatsoever,” it went on to list a number of ways Parliament exercised this claimed power, including taxes.
John Hancock also made this point, that “taxation without representation” was just a result of this claimed power of parliament. In his Massacre Day oration, he made this clear:
They have declared that they have ever had, and of right ought ever to have, full power to make laws of sufficient validity to bind the Colonies in all cases whatever. They have exercised this pretended right by imposing a tax upon us without our consent.
Back to Congress. At the end of their Declaration and Resolves, they endorsed the approach of Henry, Dickinson, Otis and many others, “To these grievous acts and measures, Americans cannot submit.”
Months later, when Gen. Gage marched on Lexington and Concord to enforce a gun control plan, the colonists bravely held the line, as promised.
After just under 2 months of conflict, Gage made an offer of amnesty and peace. Lay down your arms, and you will get a full pardon. Everyone – except Samuel Adams and John Hancock, that is.
So, in response to a message of “give up your guns and give up your friends” – the Second Continental Congress, with Hancock as president – passed the Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms on July 6, 1775.
Authored by Thomas Jefferson and John Dickinson, the Declaration asserted “our attachment to no Nation upon earth should supplant our attachment to liberty.”
And how about that offer from Gage? No deal.
In our own native land, in defence of the freedom that is our birth-right, and which we ever enjoyed till the late violation of it; for the protection of our property, acquired solely by the honest industry of our forefathers and ourselves, against violence actually offered, we have taken up arms. We shall lay them down when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, and all danger of their being renewed shall be removed, and not before.
To understand the “real American revolution,” Adams continued in his letter to Jefferson, we must understand what happened from 1760 to 1775.
He wrote:
The records of thirteen Legislatures, the Pamphlets, Newspapers in all the Colonies ought be consulted, during that Period, to ascertain the Steps by which the public opinion was enlightened and informed concerning the Authority of Parliament over the Colonies.
In just these few short passages above, we can quickly locate some of the core principles underlying the “radical change” in the views of the people. They include:
Once-again facing a government that essentially claims federal supremacy in all cases whatsoever, patriots of today should follow the approach of those before us – and put a heavy emphasis on these foundational principles.
As Hancock put it, “Remember, my friends, from whom you sprang.”
Going from the largest government in history to a true “land of the free” won’t be quick, and it won’t be easy. But as Samuel Adams put it, “The truth is, all might be free, if they valued freedom, and defended it as they ought.”
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