Sunday • November 24 • 2024
Vol.XVI • No.XLVII
Manchester, N.H.
I can’t think of a better reason to get this firearm accessory than that owning it would trigger the average Birkenstocked latte-drinking liberal stooge. What is it? It’s the Pluse Fire UBF (Under-Barrel Flame Thrower).
If we’re being honest with each other, and we are, there’s very little else in the way of practical application for adding this flamethrower to an AR-15. It adds too much weight to the firearm. It’s bulky. It makes it difficult to maneuver or bring to bear. But, the Pulse Fire is designed to be a handheld device.
You could walk around and burn whatever suited your fancy, and speaking of; you might fancy any number of reasons (excuses) to justify spending over $600.00 to spit burning fuel at things. Weeds, wasp nests, or ice removal are some of the suggestions in the video below.
Crowd control? Pepper spray is nasty, but the threat of being set on fire will make people rethink how badly they’d like to break some windows or introduce your face to blunt-force trauma.
And yes, it you mount it and use it on a rifle, that’ll look badass, garner cheers and perhaps envy from your shootin’ buddies, though I’m not sure how many gun ranges are going to let you run it or wives (at home) if you are so blessed.
We do not recommend you buy this “for her” for Valentine’s Day unless it is for her and you know how much she will love and use it – with the understanding that you have to have a lot of confidence in a relationship and perhaps some familiarity with their relationship history to give them a flamethrower.
Or hey, maybe you want one because the very idea of it will make Liberals crap their twisted hoplophobic panties. It’s all about perceived value, yes?
There’s value in that.
Here are two of the vendor’s promotional videos.
Please check state and local laws before getting too excited about this or any personal-use flamethrowers. Handy thing fire, just ask any peaceful protesters, but we don’t encourage illegal behavior, so that’s on you.
Note: GraniteGrok does not benefit in any way if you purchase one of these.
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From my friend John Hawkins (Culturcidal), a post named “Is This Liberal Right That It’s Wrong to Own Pets?“. The relevant part from his post (emphasis mine):
…The piece is obviously building up to what I like to think of as a “standard authoritarian liberal approach” to the whole issue that you see over and over again. It’s an approach that goes something like this, “I am a good and compassionate person and to prove that, I am proclaiming that I have no interest in owning or using (fill in the blank here with cars/SUVS/Bitcoin/gas stoves/pets/meat/the police/cross country airplane flights/oil, natural gas and coal/incandescent light bulbs/etc., etc.), so, therefore, it’s bad for society and should be banned because it takes up unnecessary resources, which therefore means it’s bad for the environment.
Simplified, it looks something like this. “We don’t need this” (which, by the way, often turns out to be pure hypocrisy) becomes “No good people need this,” which eventually turns into, “We need the government to make this illegal.”
Bazinga! Go read the whole thing – there are a couple of parts where I chuckled because he was so honest about his “self-interest.”
Now, I think pets are really great, and I have two dogs currently and love’em to death, so I totally disagree with the Guardian post he quotes. However, what John says in the abstract really is important, is very useful for Conservatarian purposes in strategy and tactics, and lays out what I was fighting over at Treehugger for years and years.
That last sentence is EXACTLY the mindset that has taken over. It used to be a stepping-stone process over time in times past.
No longer. As our political polarization has increased, that “stepping stone time” has shortened. Most stock cars off the lot have a “0 to 60” time as a way to judge how fast a car could accelerate (faster being better). Muscle cars (e.g., Camaro, ‘Cuda, Mustang) were always faster than the family sedan or minivan). Nowadays, an electric Tesla can turn in 2-3 seconds times at an upper-middle-class price range that normally would have taken a rich man’s bankroll to buy a gas-powered supercar (starting around $300,000) to come close to that speed.
So, too, has the normal Progressive going from “You shouldn’t” to “Government mandate.” All because of their perceived Moral Superiority over you stemming from that first step of:
Well, I don’t have one, don’t need one, or ever would do so in the future
That’s the initial surge off the line. Nowadays, that’s the “slow” part of their thinking/reasoning/ ideological bent. The rest (I’m good, so you’re not – lose your liberty) happens at faster and faster speeds, almost to the point of being reflexive.
And then what happens is that their ears shut down, and the blinkers go up. They won’t listen, can’t be convinced to debate, and they will work hard to take x, y.z away from you because you ARE a bad person.
This brings me to my last point: Progressives are selfish. And they have no or to little sense of freedom or liberty that can or should be ascribed to anyone but themselves.
They want what they want when they want it and are not about to let anyone opposite of them deny what they want. If something is good enough for them, it will be good enough for anyone else (regardless of circumstances). The converse also holds true:
If I don’t want it, I’ll see to it that YOU won’t have it either.
Go ahead – as Crowder says: Change my mind.
Or John Hawkins’ mind as well.
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As they do nearly every year, anti-freedom legislators in New Hampshire have once again proposed numerous bills that would restrict the natural right to self-defense and the natural right to privacy. On February 8th, the House Criminal Justice & Public Safety Committee held a hearing for the bills in Representative Hall due to the large turnout. The majority of people who testified on the bills were pro-freedom and opposed the gun control bills.
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Tom Rath … Mr. GOP in New Hampshire, who if there were a GOP Mount Rushmore in New Hampshire, would no doubt have his bald head hanging there along with other faux-Republicans like Old-Man Sununu, Judd Greg and Warren Rudman … thinks it would be funny if Representatives Gaetz, Greene and Boebert all drowned. And let’s not forget that Rath is a rabid NeverTrumper … you know the people who told us that Trump’s “mean tweets” rendered him unfit for the Presidency.
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To all those who are sending in memes, thank you! Keep them coming please, as it helps me gather weaponry to fight the Left. Please do share this post, and if you share an individual meme, consider mentioning you saw it on the Grok!
Speaking of, from this week, Monday Memes. Also don’t forget both complementary parts of my Survival Sunday feature: PREP edition and SITREP edition.
*** Warning, a few possibly off-color ones, in case tender eyes are about ***
A hat trick of prior essays:
Creating a Preference Tsunami – Granite Grok
Lessons from Candle Smoke – Urban Scoop
Our Children: The Hill to Die On – Granite Grok
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A funny collection, stand-alone worthy:
sudden malign creativity – by el gato malo – bad cattitude (substack.com)
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I’d pay money to see that happen!
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Anyone who clings to the historically untrue-and thoroughly immoral-doctrine that, ‘violence never settles anything’ I would advise to conjure the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler could referee, and the jury might well be the Dodo, the Great Auk and the Passenger Pigeon. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedom.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Get squared away, now…
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HA HA HA HA HA HA! Well done! So many pokes in one meme.
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https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/greek-tv-presenter-collapses.mp4
TV Presenter Konstantina Klokotara collapsed on stage. I can’t find anything about her fate after that, but… in the midst of tragedy comes hope. For along with having this video sent to me was the motto “Another ‘Pfizer flop’”. Pfizer flop. Excellent. Now, set it to music (music video here):
She did the flop… the Pfizer flop…
Or, “And another one gone, another one gone, another one bites the dust…” Music video here.
Or just simply “Brought to you by Pfizer”.
Inside such grim, gallows-humor needed messages can be implanted.
An idea for some enterprising soul… a compilation of such collapses, set to a karaoke version of Monster Mash, with someone singing “They did the flop… they did the Pfizer flop… they couldn’t stop… the Pfizer plop…”
Or at the end of the compilation, “Brought to you by Pfizer”… or the Queen song superimposed. Or all variations plus others – limited only by imagination.
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Pick of the Post:
MHO this needs to be printed and mailed to every doctor and pharmacist you know. And to every politician in your state that doesn’t sign on to stop these Jabs.
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BILL WHITTLE: WHY BENGHAZI MATTERS
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Palate Cleansers:
Took me a moment.
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His Tweets, now since deleted (probably because of no shame on his part for what he wrote but simply because he got caught) was in responding to this RebuildNH tweet:
People try to justify vaccine mandates as “you had a choice”. It’s a mandate and isn’t choice.
Don’t pat yourself in the back people because we didn’t hold people down and force a needle into their arm.
No one should have to choose between feeding themselves and a jab.
— RebuildNH (@RebuildNH) February 7, 2023
To which he responded (screenshot – he deleted his Tweet ):
So…
You didn’t care in 2020, 2021, 2022, or today @MikeBordes. And your record is clear as day. You opposed practically the entire republican caucus on the covid issue and seemed to take a sick pleasure out of it.
— RebuildNH (@RebuildNH) February 7, 2023
Followed by:
Just as he did over Right To Work and Parental Rights legislation. Guess he has to keep on the correct side (as he has little of a Right side) Baby Huey’s NH Governor Chris Sununu looking for that future Brass Ring of an Administration job:
He was definitely a defender of the covid agenda and Sununu’s covid response. And now that people like him have been proven irrefutably wrong, he just wants us to “move on” with out anything being rectified
— RebuildNH (@RebuildNH) February 7, 2023
And the beatdown continued:
He’s still going. Asking for a constitutional republic and medical freedom is “nonsense”. https://t.co/TOUUHbXzJN
— RebuildNH (@RebuildNH) February 8, 2023
And in case he deletes that tweet, here’s a screenshot:
No, he doesn’t and I’ve been told by several State Reps, present and past, that he’s like this in the NH House. And if you search here for BCRC, you can see Mike Bordes really acting like a jerk.
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A few comments on the post from Cornerstone. First, if it wasn’t Testerman, it would have been some other GOP-Wokester who sided with the Democrats to maintain grooming in New Hampshire schools. Of course, Testerman should be called out as a faux-Republican, but the bigger picture is that the NHGOP really is NOT that GOP at all … unless you believe that corporatism/crony-capitalism is the be all and end all of the GOP.
Next, there will be NO consequences for Testerman. The so-called “leadership” of the House NHGOP … that useless mannequin called Sherm Packard and that libertarian Jason Osborne and their minions … will do nothing … NOTHING … about Testerman. Protecting school children from grooming is NOT important to them … and by extension NOT important to the House GOP.
Next, pretend-Presidential candidate Sun-King Sununu’s loyal lapdog Attorney General Johnny-Woke sided with the Democrats. There is no real Republican Party in New Hampshire.
New Hampshire should NOT be hosting the first-in-the-nation GOP Presidential primary. The NHGOP is totally out-of-step with the GOP in Red States and real, not self-proclaimed, Purple States.
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It was beginning to look like the 2020 BLM Summer of Love after Tyre Nichols died from a beating (allegedly) involving five Memphis cops. The BLM/Antifa Marxists got dressed up, but was it for nothing?
Related: Uncomfortable Fact: More Black Americans are in Prison Because of Democrats
There was damage, chaos, and destruction, but within days rumor and fact cut the legs out from under the mostly peaceful protests. Tyre’s beatification by the lefty elites was in danger. News broke that several officers might have been members of an influential gang.
Several of the “Cops” who beat Tyre Nichols to death might be Vice Lords Street Gang Members who were embedded into the Memphis Police Department after it allegedly lowered its standards in a desperate need to get bodies into uniforms.
In other words, it might be a gang hit.
A few days later, Newsweek (of all places) reported that “The Memphis Police Department is currently investigating rumors regarding a possible connection between Tyre Nichols and the ex-wife or ex-girlfriend of one of the Memphis cops arrested and charged in Nichols’ death.”
The ex-wife/ex-girlfriend narrative is still unconfirmed, and Nichols’ parents deny he had any such relationship, but would they know? Maybe, but let’s look at the action and reaction.
Nichols was tased, pepper-sprayed, and beaten to death at length after a traffic stop by a cadre of black officers with alleged connections to street violence. The traffic stop and the number of “officers” present suggest he was targeted. Why? No other motives have arisen, so it was another black-on-black hate crime, or they had a reason to meet and coordinate this “message.”
Was this street memo meant for someone besides Nichols, or was death not the intended outcome?
It looks Like a Conspiracy.At least thirteen officers are under investigation concerning the beating death, either terminated or relieved of duty. Two EMTs working for the Memphis Fire Department (who triaged Nichols) have been fired. Two county sheriff’s officers have been let go.
Related: Another Black Mayor Fires Another Black Police Chief over Systemic Racism in Another City Run By Democrats for Decades
This appears to be precisely the systemic institutional police racism that BLM and Democrats used to light the nation on fire in the Summer of 2020.
What happened to the parades, Democrats lining up at the nearest microphone, or renewed calls to defund more city police departments?
Is there some validity to the relationship revenge angle? Was it the unconfirmed connections to a street gang and a potential hit for other reasons? Or, and this is more likely the truth – whether any of those matters turn out to be fact – it was a black-on-black crime – the single most significant cause of injury and death for black Americans.
The democrat media never yanks a narrative rug out from under their political pals unless it advances some other progressive narrative. Distraction or redirection. It is just as easy for the nationals to ignore local outrage as to turn a blind eye to the inhuman disaster at the southern border or all of its domestic tranquility-disrupting side effects.
If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it does it make any noise? If we don’t report it, did it happen? Their answer is no, it did not, and anyone who shines a light – at least these days – gets the Stasi fact check boot on their neck and labeled as a purveyor of disinformation.
It’s a digital hit, the virtual attempt of what was done to Trye Nichols, whose murder is becoming ancient history, the coverage sanitized by the gatekeepers.
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Part 1 is here. This past Wednesday night at St. Anselm’s Institute of Politics, Vivek Ramaswamy gave an address to a packed (actually, “standing room”) crowd. I’ll tell you, it was well worth spending the travel time down and back to listen to him. Smooth, problem domain knowledgeable, and spoke from a point of view (an “insider’s” one) that was interesting because I’ve never been such an “insider” as well as from his given industries).
In Part 2 (and more), he starts to go into the interweaving of how BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street (the behemoths in the financial world) are very interlinked and use their stockholder positions in other huge companies to push their ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) philosophy onto everyone – and how it affects you (think: the Communist Chinese “Social Credit Score – but run by “capitalist” companies):
Part 3:
More coming…
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Over the past weeks, families and churches around New Hampshire have engaged in tireless advocacy and negotiation to protect the dignity and privacy of women and girls in New Hampshire by working to get HB 396, State Recognition of Biological Sex, to the House floor. On Wednesday night, their efforts were single-handedly demolished by Republican representative Dave Testerman, who joined with Rep. Marjorie Smith and other Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee in a cynical ploy to quietly kill the bill with a so-called “study committee.”
Parents from school districts around the state had desperately contacted the Judiciary Committee to inform them that their daughters are being bullied and harassed—right now—by biological males in locker rooms and restrooms. Rep. Testerman chose to stop the House from urgently protecting the most powerless people among us—our children—and block parents’ concerns from even being debated on the House floor.
On a committee split evenly between Democrats and Republicans, Testerman was the only Republican to vote for Democratic Rep. Marjorie Smith’s motion to “retain” the bill, giving the Democrats the majority they needed to block the bill from coming to the House floor. In the minutes immediately before Testerman’s vote, the Democrats made almost no attempt to disguise the fact that their retention motion was merely a naked attempt to stop the House from voting on the bill—with Rep. Smith joking that they might agree on an amendment for the House to consider “in 10 years.” In other words, Rep. Testerman and the Democrats brazenly used the “retention” mechanism to thwart a bill they did not want to pass.
HB 396 was urgently necessary because school districts—and New Hampshire’s Department of Justice—currently falsely claim that New Hampshire law prohibits all separation on the basis of biological sex. These claims have deceived many schools and other public entities into bowing to gender ideology. Most now use self-declared gender identity alone to separate athletics and private areas, without regard to whether someone has even received medical transitioning.
It is only a matter of time before these same authorities extend these beliefs to our prisons as well. In California, this has already led to a scenario where multiple men with male genitals are the cellmates of incarcerated women.
This bill, introduced by Rep. Jim Kofalt, would have stopped these misrepresentations by clarifying that public entities are not forbidden from using biological sex to separate athletics, private spaces, and prison facilities. This would not even have required any school board or state agency to change their current policies.
Rep. Testerman has reiterated that he voted to “retain” the bill because he plans to eventually send it to a “study committee”—an even worse mechanism than retention, used almost exclusively to kill bills—but has refused to give any further explanation for his vote or lay out his position.
In our advocacy in New Hampshire, we’ve repeatedly seen that backroom dealmaking can often be the order of the day. We do not hesitate to say that this is likely what happened here. Given the circumstances, there is every reason to conclude that Rep. Testerman chose to sell the dignity and privacy of women and girls in return for an unknown political favor.
In May of 2021, a female student was raped in a Loudon County, Virginia bathroom by a biologically male but self-declared non-binary student. When the female student’s father was arrested at a school board meeting for protesting his daughter’s rape, the National School Boards Association cited the arrest in asking the Department of Homeland Security to stop the “domestic terrorism and hate crimes” facing school boards. Rep. Testerman has chosen his side: not wronged fathers and their violated children, but the powerful people who threaten them.
If a similar event occurs in New Hampshire in the coming years—as HB 396 languishes in Rep. Testerman’s bad faith “study committee”—Granite Staters will know who is responsible.
Rep. Testerman’s constituents can contact him through his information provided on the General Court website.
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It couldn’t get any better than this: No, not JUST what Biden said, and not the totally dead-panned delivery either.
Republicans laugh hysterically when Biden says “we’re gonna need oil for at least another decade!” pic.twitter.com/KSXctTDyti
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) February 8, 2023
So here he’s been genuflecting to the Green New Deal crowd (“KEEP IT IN THE GROUND! Electrify everything!”) for these last two years. And campaigned on killing off the oil companies. What, some semblance of his cognitive abilities just decided to land in between his ears again?
I’ll tell you, I can’t remember the Republicans, sans ANY Democrat, laughing as hard as they did after the delivery of that line (“we going to need oil for at least another decade..and beyond that…production…”). Talk about self-imposed mockery that just can’t be walked back.
Funny, but not the BEST part. What was that? Watching Kamala’s face trying as hard as anyone can to keep from bursting out loud.
After some of the Kamala-isms and malapropism of her own that we’ve listened to the last two years (and just shook our heads at), it was wonderful. You aren’t allowed to laugh at this heresy against the Enviro-authoritarian theology (they have no sense of humor – just revenge). You certainly better not laugh at your boss lest you lose your political future…
…even as it is very unlikely she doesn’t realizes that it’s already gone. But her frozen face (ok, a bit of twitching at the corners of her mouth and some chin quivering) will live forever.
More Biden follies at the link.
(H/T: Powerline)
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We are well on our way into the New Year, and we’ve got things that need upgrading. Our search feature is lousy, and we’ve got some site redesign and upkeep issues to address, so we’re running a fundraiser to help offset some of these costs.
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I was honored to attend a presentation and Q&A with Vivek Ramaswamy at Saint Anselm College in New Hampshire on Wednesday evening. Vivek may be the son of immigrants, but he is as Red, White, and Blue as any American could be.
It was one of the most dynamic and inspirational ninety minutes I have ever experienced in the political arena. The night’s topic was what we need to do to battle WOKE, Inc, and I guarantee everyone in that hall left motivated to take action.
To battle WOKE, we need to identify the source, and you can point to our number one adversary to answer that question. China is our number one existential threat, and eradicating that threat must be on the mind of every American. Existential is such an overused term, but in the case of the Chinese, it may not be a strong enough descriptive. The Chinese government has infiltrated every aspect of our lives. From the phone at our ears to the shoes on our feet, the Chinese control us from head to toe.
The battle to eliminate the Chinese-sponsored WOKE philosophy will be a painful initiative. We rely on China for virtually everything from pharmaceuticals to computer chips used in every piece of technical equipment we touch daily. We rely on the CCP to finance our debt, and much of our processed food travels through Chinese plants. We allowed American companies to move their facilities to China to take advantage of what amounts to slave wages. America stopped manufacturing goods and became enamored with the “Made in China” label. They have stolen our intellectual property and defense technology to build a formidable military force they are threatening to use against us in two years.
We have built China into a superpower and need to cut the cord. One of the thoughts Vivek brought to us was the need for a second Declaration of Independence. The first was to separate us from an oppressive King who taxed us but refused representation. We now need to separate from an oppressive China dominating our lives with goods and ideas while invading our thoughts with TikTok and violating our sovereignty with spy airships.
Just as the Patriots banded together to defeat a superior British army and win independence for the colonies, we need to unify to stop the take-over of America by a Chinese government hellbent on world dominance. This situation we find ourselves in has morphed under both Democrat and Republican Administrations. There is plenty of blame to go around. The focus now has to be on reversing our ills and reclaiming America.
What we need to do in our lives is educate and speak our minds. We cannot rely on the government to educate us, as evidenced by our failing department of education. We must learn and have the power to make the changes necessary to divorce ourselves from China. We also must shed our fear to speak our minds and share our opinions. Voicing my opinion is what I have done for the last two years. In over 750 published articles, I have taken off the mask and written from my heart and soul. This process has cost me dearly with damaged or broken relationships, but I refuse to compromise my convictions. We will win this battle, but not if we continue to widen the divide between us. In 2024, we need to choose leaders who believe in the American experiment, not the WOKE movement.
I have been a fan of Vivek Ramaswamy for some time and always felt I learned something each time I saw him on FOX. Last night, he elevated himself to a hero in my eyes, giving us a blueprint to bring America back to greatness. Vivek is a young man to listen to; he walks the walk and shares his thoughts with anyone who listens.
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It’s Friday and what better way to start your weekend eve than to smile? And while I am not sharing a stand-up comic, you might find it just as funny as Rep Nancy Mace asks former Twitter Lawyer Vijaya Gadde some questions about medical expertise and censorship.
A few three minutes to give you some small sliver of hope that this will all lead to something useful or – at the very least – a smile.
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I’ll go find his tweets but now that the DNC has made their final ruling, Ray Buckley will forever be known as the Chair that lost the First In the Nation Primary for NH Democrats. Go Ray!
And his immutable characteristics didn’t help at all – with the Democrats idiotic obsession that someone is no better than their skin color, this guy’s gay identity couldn’t hack the heavy lift over color of pallor. And the entire Democrat Federal coven (two Senators, two Representatives), having seen the writing on the wall that said “Strong Horse? Nay (smirk), just a little pony now”), have only given him the support that could be kindly called “limp”.
Have I piled on enough yet? Spotlighted his culpability yet? No one else is blaming him – especially himself and for the policies / philosophies of the Democrat Party that led to this.
I am not privy to the internal politics of the NH Democrat Party but from the outside, it really seems like he’s almost past desperate and dispirited and reaching depressed. Or dejected at his fate. No amount of pontificating that “we will always be the First In The Nation” rings hollow if everyone at the DNC is shrugging their shoulders with the thought “yeah, without delegates and 100 pound hammers over any candidate’s head in disobeying us”, Buckley only has a self-serving “We’ll always be First!” echoing the White Mountain range – no one in DC can hear it…
…or cares.
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Since 2013, out-of-state lobbyists on both sides of the political spectrum have spent much time and money attempting to get New Hampshire to pass resolutions applying for an Article V Convention. Thankfully, they have been unsuccessful. However, they are back with two resolutions, HCR 1 and HCR 4.
Related: GrokTALK! – Hal Shurtleff on Opposing the Constitutional Convention
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What is an Article V Convention?
Article V of the US Constitution lists the two ways to amend the Constitution. The first way is where 2/3rds of the U.S. House and Senate pass proposed amendments, and then these proposed amendments go to the states for ratification, where 3/4ths of the states must ratify them by state legislators or by state ratifying conventions. Congress decides which mode of ratification to use. The other way, which we have wisely never used, is where 2/3rds of the states apply for a national convention for the purpose of “proposing amendments,” delegates to the convention propose amendments, and then these proposed amendments will go to the states for ratification.
Here are a few reasons against an Article V Convention:
1, There are currently no rules or laws guiding an Article V Convention. There have been some “wayward delegate” bills introduced in some states, but they are unenforceable and unconstitutional. It is the job of Congress, under the “necessary and proper” clause of the U.S. Constitution, to make laws guiding a convention. Over the years, numerous bills to govern an Article V Convention have been proposed by Congress but never passed.
2, We have no idea who the delegates will be. Will the majority be made up of conservative constitutionalists who love the U.S. Constitution or “progressives” who tend to hate the U.S. Constitution and see it as an anachronistic racist relic? Will delegates include members of Congress who Article V supporters rightfully see as part of the problem?
3, We have no idea how delegates will be chosen. Will they be elected by the people, appointed by state legislatures, or by governors? If they are to be elected, will out-of-state money be used to influence the outcome? Will we have to suffer another season of mind-numbing attack ads?
4, A convention cannot be limited to a single issue or topic. State legislators have no Constitutional power to limit a convention.
5, Will the votes of the delegates be one state, one vote as Article V supporters content, or will it be based on electoral votes? I do not know, and neither do supporters of an Article V Convention. If votes are based on electoral votes, New Hampshire will have four votes, California 55, and New York 29.
6, Bad amendments can not only pass a convention but can be ratified by 3/4th of the states. The 16th Amendment gave us an income tax, and the 17th Amendment, which radically changed the state-federal balance of power, was passed by the 3/4ths of the states. Mike Farris of Convention of States, who recently testified before a New Hampshire committee, is calling for structural change of the Constitution, including a 50-member Supreme Court-something he failed to tell committee members. Professor Larry Lessig, a colleague of Convention of States founder Mark Meckler, called for a rewrite of the U.S. Constitution. I actually videotaped an interview with him and Wolf PAC founder Cenk Uygur where he hoped for a “runaway convention.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEJWeLab8Ao
8, A term limits amendment proposed by “conservative” Article V supporters may “get the bums out” after 12 years but will also limit good members of Congress. It will also give us a permanent “lame duck” Congress.
Article V Convention supporters incorrectly content that the Founders gave us the convention method to rein in an abusive federal government. The Founders gave us the convention method if Congress was unwilling to correct defects in the Constitution. Our problem is not a defective U.S. Constitution but defective elected officials and voters many of whom support an abusive federal government.
Without realizing it, Mark Meckler, founder of the Convention of States, made an excellent argument against an Article V. In a statement made to an entity called Living Room Conversations, https://livingroomconversations.org/about-us/team/ where he is listed, along with Van Jones, as a “champion,” he said: “I have come to realize that the largest divide in this country is not between the citizens of one party or another but between the citizens and the Ruling Elite in Washington, D.C and the state capitols.”
Mark Meckler with Joanne Blades of Living Room Living Conversations and the Soros-funded MoveOn.orgIn my opinion, he is playing into the hands of the elites he claims to be against.
Readers who would like more information on the subject are welcome to contact me at campconstitution1@gmail.com
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Sun-King Sununu’s unofficial publicist … NH-NeverTrump Journal’s Mikey Graham … is “reporting” on Sun-King’s new 501(c)(4) … “Live Free or Die”. Yes, you read that right … one of America’s worst COVID-tyrants has named his grifting-organization, “Live Free or Die.”
Grifting-organization? Yes, grifting-orgaization … here is how it works: if you or I want to travel to, let’s say, South Carolina, we have to pay for it with our own money. Sun-King, in contrast, has it paid for by his “Live Free or Die” grift … uh, I mean 501(c)(4).
In other words, Sun-King … who like Hunter Biden has never had a real job, but rather has made his money by cashing in on his last name and familial connections … gets to use his pretend Presidential-candidacy to travel around the country free of charge.
It takes a lot of chutzpah to call yourself a “principled free market conservative” at the very time you are doing an end-around the free-market, but that’s our Hunter … I mean Sun-King:
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Last night, GraniteGrok was invited to #5 in the Beyond The Soundbite Lecture Series (sponsored by the NH Leadership PAC and RNC Chairman Chris Ager). I was happy to see fellow Groksters Rick Olsen, Beth and Steven Scaer, Don Ewing along with Ray Cardello (and meeting him in person for the first time after writing for the ‘Grok for some time now!).
The speaker of the night was Vivek Ramaswamy – a first generation American, son of legal immigrants from India. A serial entrepreneur, he was the CEO of a large biotech company and is now the head of Strive, a financial services company he founded a year ago. Add to that, his book named “Woke, Inc” that blows the whistle on “Inside Corporate America’s Social Justice Scam”.
Sidenote: for full disclosure, I had the chance to chat with Vivek for a few minutes before the event started. He offered, and I accepted, a signed copy of his book. I haven’t begun to read it YET but will be putting up some quotes later on.
So here are Parts 1A and 1B along with an introductory video for Vikram supplied by his staff member Tricia.
Part 1A – newly elected NH GOP Chair Chris Ager calls the event to order, the Pledge of Allegiance:
And then introduces a “video introduction” to the speaker – Vikram Ramaswamy:
And the rest: Part 1B (jump to 5:40 to skip the segments shared above)
Subsequent Parts will be available soon along with the Q&A session.
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Does anyone who still has a grasp on their mind still reads the Laconia Daily Sun? Well, mostly I just read the Letters to the Editor. Yea I know, everyone’s entitled to an opinion but as the saying goes, “not to their own facts”. What has been burning my biscuits lately is that the so called Editors of that paper insist on printing the cartoons of Mr. Mike Luckovich. Pure lies and trash from beginning to end. The Sun was forced to stop printing his stuff a couple years ago after a particularly egregious cartoon but apparently after the heat went down they decided to renew printing him. I’ve commented to them a couple of times to no avail. I’d stop altogether if I though it would do one wit of good but it wouldn’t.
It seems that theEditors there are fully Woke, Leftist and have no shame at printing any provable trash by Luckovich or any other Leftist.
I’m short of any ideas how to effect or counter this trash. Anyone out there have a plan?
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The Climate Cult won’t like this news much. NOAA recently updated its Tide Gauge data. What post-ice age rise in sea level there is, continues at a mere few millimeters per year. There is no evidence of the tipping point acceleration nonsense peddled by the Planeteers.
Related: Reminder: The Weather Was Worse When We Had Less Atmospheric CO2 …
The fifty-year trend shows a rise of 2.04 (Fort Point, NH) or 2.07 (Seavey Island, NH) millimeters per year through 2022. A statistical nothingburger measured against the Climate Cult’s apocalyptic rhetoric.
Fort Point NH
Seavey Island
But something is alarming. When we isolate the last ten to twelve years of NOAA data, we get what looks like flat or declining sea level trends for the NH coastline.
Climate Rent-Seekers will be as quick to dismiss this pause as they are to ignore the latest decade-long temperature pause. They must, their way of life depends on government grants, and it’s not like they can ask Russia to invade them. But this is real, and it is a problem.
The rhetoric has again failed to live up to the facts. I’ve written hundreds of articles over fifteen years that include cultist prognostications that are not aging well.
Here are a few examples with a more local flavor.
And it is a global problem.
The data and projected trends for these ten well-documented coastal cities point to three conclusions:
Woodshole near the Massachusetts cape has looked flat for the past five to seven years, while Boston has been flat for over a decade. That’s not just not accelerating; it’s not rising, so their lie will need to transition, but it won’t be so easy. Unlike the temperature pauses or more snow, each of which they have declared as proof of their unassailable hypothesis, rising seas need to rise.
The Left-wing activists at the Union of Concerned Scientists warned us in 2018 about what was needed to put a dent in the problem of rising seas.
The list of what would need to be done by 2020 — a little over two years from now — includes: Boosting renewable energy’s share to 30%. Pushing electric cars to 15% of new car sales, up from less than 1% today. Doubling mass transit use. Cutting air travel CO2 emissions by 20%. And coming up with $1 trillion for “climate action.”
It’s 2023, and we’ve done none of that. We’re not even close, while New Hampshire’s coastline has seen not an acceleration in rise but a decline bordering on sea level recession. CO2 and spending on things that are not green and don’t help are the only things on the rise.
It’s all a scam.
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