Friday • April 4 • 2025
Vol.XVII • No.XIV
Manchester, N.H.
This post is simply a link to a Breitbart article about growing calls to boycott Kohl’s on account of Kohl’s targeting children with woke. And … yes I know that is the Target logo, not Kohl’s
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When SARS-CoV2 hit the streets, there was a pandemic of alleged research purporting all manner of insight into the virus, side effects, treatments, demographic impacts, everything. Surprise! Not all of it was terribly scientific.
Grødeland said that part of the reason this happened during the pandemic was that relatively more people suddenly started conducting research on a topic they really knew relatively little about.
Even prestigious journals such as the Lancet were publishing those articles.
One of Lancet’s studies even caused both the World Health Organization (WHO) and the national government to stop the comprehensive testing of hydroxychloroquine’s effectiveness against COVID-19.
The extensive Lancet study, allegedly based on research fraud, said that the drug increased the risk of heart arrhythmia and mortality for COVID-19 patients.
There were likely retractions across all “lack-of-disciplines” and subject matter, but the Lancet paper is of particular interest because we covered it. It was a political hit piece designed to give the media fear factor to disqualify Hydroxychloroquine. A Drug NIH researchers had long recognized as “ “… a potent inhibitor of SARS coronavirus infection and spread.” Like Ivermectin, if it were not discredited, even in contraction to decades of research proving safety and effectiveness, there could be no Emergency Use Authorization of the untested Pfizer/Moderna mRNA injections.
The Lancet published the hit piece as scientific research (probably under pressure), the media wrecking ball delivered the damage, and the politicians did the rest (restrictions, bans, threatening doctors and pharmacists). The paper’s claims collapsed quickly when made public. Ten days after publication, The Lancet pulled the paper, and two weeks later, the company that wrote the “research” vanished, but the damage was done.
Not all the retracted research will be the result of that sort of background or history – brief as it was – but what struck me as amusing was the notion that most of these papers lacked rigor, failed to obtain consent from subjects, or were reported in the media as fact when in fact, they failed to meet even basic requirements for publication.
“When you look at the articles that have been retracted, the vast majority were published in the less interesting journals. It is they who are mainly affected by withdrawals,” Grødeland said.
But there were a number of environments that do not normally carry out research, which suddenly started producing research after receiving funding from local hospitals.
“It may have caused things to get a little out of hand in some places,” she said.
And now we know why – or can speculate. The hospital funding was likely COVID blood money leveraged to keep the approved narratives afloat.
The feds had turned everything from testing, diagnosis, and treatment into an ATM if you did as they asked. Hundreds of billions of dollars were handed out, some of which undoubtedly found their way into what amounted to marketing disguised as science. That “science” fed the media propaganda mills keeping fear high along with the resistance to other lines of thinking.
COVID Karens, the pandemic’s political foot soldiers. Masked thugs who fed social media with shares of flawed or incomplete papers while dismissing or shouting down anyone who dared to consider other options, treatments, or outcomes. They even ratted out businesses and neighbors who violated unnecessary and harmful political interventions.
You know the rest. And here we are.
Here’s the list. I you have time, feel free to search it for things from either side of the COVID debate. I’ll be sifting it in the coming days and weeks as well. SOome of them are very strange but more than a few are attributing things to COVID of which COVID does not appear to be the cause – at least not based on the evidence used to justify the paper.
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Another week and another loser week for Sununu with respect to his place in the “podium crowd” – still at the bottom part of the pack:
Well, he did do a bit better than he did last week: 1% this week vs 0.7% last week (moving from Also Ran to Tier 3, barely).
Roughly for the others (rounded):
I know I was going to go to bi-weeklies but since Steve posted the interim results from our (unscientific) poll, it was worth a few words. Remember, our targeted audience is the thousands of activists on the Conservative/Libertarian Right, so our results skew differently than the above national results. And I was a bit surprised at how much:
Ramaswamy – 41.59%
DeSantis – 24.14%
Trump -17.60%
Sununu – 16.29%
Haley – 0.12%
Scott – 0.07%
Hutchinson – 0.07%
Noem – 0.07%
Pence – 0.03%
Christie – 0.02%
I’m not surprised at the top four – I AM surprised at Vivek’s lead at the time of his post! However, NH is THE Retail Politics State, and make no mistake, he’s putting in the effort, the time, and the money (those direct mailers ain’t cheap!). I do say that in meeting him twice, and watching reports of him in the blogosphere as I go surfing about, it’s clear that he has the pulse of the Base right now and is forming a strong bond with us.
I was also a bit surprised that DeSantis leads Trump by 4. And being a scion of the NH dynastic family, being an Executive Councilor and long-term (for NH) Guv, that has to be disappointing – being beaten three ways to Sunday by outsiders INCLUDING an “Unknown”.
In part, I think this is because:
It’s also clear that the campaign doesn’t see us as “necessary” so we have no internal pipeline to tap into. However, rumors are that IF it happens, Sununu’s announcement is imminent. We’ll see.
It’s still not a good look for him to be fourth in his own Stae.
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As the Western World drives mindlessly into the fantasy of a false green energy future, shortages are a common topic of discussion—blackouts in the frigid winter, brownouts in the heat of summer. You’d be right to ask.
What “leader” pushes a plan that puts demand before supply?
Finland, not known for its politically conservative nature (quite the opposite), was struggling with that problem. After Russia invaded Ukraine, available energy became a priority. You can’t run anything these days without it, and we’ll only need more.
But it is a problem Finland has solved, at least for now, with Nuclear.
Electricity prices in Finland plummeted into negative territory this week after the launch of a new nuclear power plant last month.
The development comes months after officials in the Nordic nation were raising the alarm over widespread energy shortages, a reality induced by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Energy producers are now discussing mechanisms to reduce production as power becomes so abundant that prices venture into negative territory.
“Production is high, consumption is low, and now we are in a situation where it is not easy to adjust production,” Fingrid CEO Jukka Ruusunen said in an interview with Yle News. “Last winter, the only thing people could talk about was where to get more electricity. Now we are thinking hard about how to limit production. We have gone from one extreme to another.”
I’m not sure why Finland can’t sell the excess to someone who needs it, but I’m not familiar enough with their grid arrangements or EU policy. But, they built a nuclear plan which seems out-of-character.
European thinking on Nuclear energy is bipolar at best. They are all dancing to the broken tune of the ridiculously flawed Paris Climate Accords and other EU green deals. The Daily Wire reminds us that Germany ended its relationship with Nucelar (so it could burn coal to keep warm) while Finland and Poland are adding capacity.
When Finland’s new nuke plant went online, “average …spot prices declined from $264 in December to $65 in April, according to a report from the National News.”
It is two months since this graph was published, and they have so much supply the price has dropped below zero. Power Plants have to make enough to operate, so the plan is to decrease production, but with an energy-hungry Europe at hand, why not sell it on the spot market to needy nations who have kneecapped their infrastructure?
I live in New Hampshire. We are at the mercy of the New England Grid as all the states around us announce green power plans, EV mandates, and race to replace fossil fuels with wind and solar. We can’t get new pipelines built to carry fracked Gas from Pennsylvania because States like New York and Massachusetts say none shall pass.
Federal Law prohibits domestic port-to-domestic port transport of domestic energy, so when we find ourselves chilled in January or February, we have to look off the continent in Africa or Asia for natural gas – while Joe Biden promises mountains of US NG to the EU as a favor for supporting his a proxy war with Russia.
The whole business is FUBAR, even in Finland.
“Operators in Finland and the surrounding areas are now monitoring the situation. If hydropower can’t be regulated, then it will probably be nuclear power next. Production that is not profitable at these prices is usually removed from the market,” Ruusunen continued. “Now there is enough electricity, and it is almost emission-free. So you can feel good about using electricity.”
Feel good? Did you miss the memo? That’s not the plan. You’re doing it wrong. The idea is to starve people of modernity as punishment for whatever the progressive narrative mills can imagine will scare you enough to go along. Not them, just you. But for a few heartbeats, Finland has a good problem that has exposed another problem. What to do with the idea of abundant, affordable electricity in a world committed to hating both?
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Abridged update:
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The Hubbers have not done enough homework to be granted the blank check they request they want for this upcoming Thursday’s vote. The regular Mountonborough Townfolk are concerned about the price of tickets to “their” game.
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The project is truly underpriced, and they will need to make another pass at our pockets to cover the shortfall.
Construction costs were estimated at $ 3.30 per square foot, a number from a questionable source. Watching other current large projects in New England, $ 5.00 PSF seems to be the prevalent cost.
This adds $ 6 million to the cost, but the real choker is INTEREST PAYMENTS ….. If the Hubbers raised private funding of $2 million to have some skin in the game, then a $ 20 million bond would be needed. It may be possible to offer a 30 yr bond at a 3 1/2% interest rate.
This adds $12,331,000 to the project cost, and puts taxpayers on the hook for $32 MILLION DOLLARS.
What else has been glossed over? The wetlands issue, and the money needed to tame that. The location should be re-examined as kids would be best served by being able to walk to the building from school. We have 80 acres in that school complex. Also note that the plan is missing provisions for seniors exercise equipment.
Still missing: annual operating cost, estimated to be $800,000 per year.
The town taxpayers also face a steep increase on our state aid to education tax. Any realistic increase in that will cost the town millions annually. It is really time to rethink and refine this issue, and NOT pay out a blank check downpayment.
Editor’s Note: The “Hub” is the latest iteration from the Elites at a Taj Mahal of a “community center. They’ve been at it since GraniteGrok’s origination.
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The following is a speech that one of The Liberty Block’s team members would like to see Governor DeSantis deliver in response to Trump repeatedly referring to him as ‘Ron DeSanctimonious’...I’m sanctimonious about locking up criminals and removing Soros-backed prosecutors who refuse to protect the innocent. And I’m sanctimonious about anyone who unleashed those criminals and rogue prosecutors on the American people....
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I was recently reading that the State of New Mexico has a bill going through its legislature to make chemical castration a condition of early release for pedophiles. The convicted pedo would have a choice of taking the injections or serving his entire sentence; the option is theirs.
Not that I know much, if anything, about this treatment’s effectiveness or all of the bill’s details, but it sounds like a reasonable first step.
Reading more about this turns out that this is nothing new as ten other states (Alabama, Calif., Fla., Iowa, Georgia, Louis., Montana, Oregon, Texas, and Wisconsin) all have this idea set in law.
Why not here in New Hampshire? It’s not like there aren’t enough perverts roaming around who could benefit from a dose or accountability. If any reader(s) would suggest this as part of a conviction sentence for repeat offenders, I couldn’t work up any strong argument against it.
Guess I just don’t have any compassion for these folks.
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Memorial Day Weekend is the unofficial “beginning” of summer and the day we honor our war dead. It is deeply meaningful, especially in the lead-up to choosing a commander-in-chief, so we thought it an excellent time to run our first 2024 pre-primary presidential poll.
The “turnout” was decent, with over 20,000 votes cast for one of the ten names on our list of Republican Primary hopefuls.
As I noted in a previous update, Chris Sununu took an early lead – dominating the first few hours and the first few thousand votes, but it would not last. Vivek Ramaswamy surpassed him by Saturday morning and never looked back. Trump held on to second place for a while but was eventually eclipsed by Ron DeSantis.
No one else broke one percent.
We want to thank everyone who participated during the holiday weekend. There will be future polls to compare to this one as the political season heats up with the summer. Until then, here are the final results from our Memorial Day Weekend Presidential primary poll*.
*This is not a scientific poll.
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In the face of an impending impeachment vote, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton symbolizes unwavering conservatism and a relentless fighter for our values. The allegations and articles of impeachment brought against him by a politically motivated committee led by a handful of Republicans cannot overshadow his exceptional track record and dedication to upholding conservative principles.
Upholding Conservative Principles
Attorney General Ken Paxton has built a legacy based on his unwavering commitment to conservative principles. He has fearlessly taken on the grave issue of voter fraud, defending Texas against the federal government overreach and the foundation of our Republic. The Heritage Foundation’s Election Fraud Database, which documents 730 cases of voter fraud in Texas since 1979, attests to the importance of Paxton’s tireless efforts in safeguarding the electoral process. By prosecuting these cases, he ensures that every lawful vote counts and that our democratic values remain intact.
Children’s rights
Paxton’s office stance on categorizing sex-change operations and puberty blockers as “child abuse” under Texas law demonstrates his unwavering commitment to protecting our children. By advocating for responsible decision-making and safeguarding their innocence, he upholds the rights prioritizing parental rights and the well-being of our most vulnerable. As Texans, we must support Paxton in his efforts to defend our children and ensure their future is filled with hope, happiness, and the chance to grow into the individuals they were meant to be.
Unyielding Opposition to Federal Overreach
Attorney General Paxton’s well-publicized feuds with the federal government, both under the Obama and Biden administrations, epitomize his unwavering commitment to keeping Texans safe. He is one of the most dynamic of the states’ attorneys general in opposing the unconstitutional overreach of the Biden administration. Paxton has boldly challenged policies that overstep the bounds of federal authority. His involvement in legal battles to scrutinize the 2020 presidential election results reflects his unwavering dedication to upholding the principles of democracy and ensuring that every legal vote is counted.
A person of his outstanding principles is urgently needed to continue the fight against Washington’s open border policy and unconstitutional vaccine mandates.
Unmasking the Motivations:
However, it is disheartening to witness a few unhinged Republicans spearheading this impeachment effort against Paxton. It raises questions about their true motivation and threatens to undermine the credibility of the Texas House. Are they blinded by personal vendettas or politically motivated? It is crucial to remember that the consequences of this deceitful impeachment attempt reach far beyond Paxton’s tenure. They taint the reputation of the Republican Party and cast doubt on its commitment to traditional values.
A Call to Action
In the face of these phony allegations, witch hunts, and innuendoes, let us not falter in supporting Attorney General Ken Paxton. Voters must rise to the occasion in defense of Ken Paxton. We, the Texans, elected him not once, not twice, but three times amidst these challenging times.
A Few Questions to Ask of Ourselves:
Is it not crucial to ensure that our pursuit of justice remains untainted by partisan interests? Will this sham of impeachment lose the credibility and unity of the Texas House and the Republican Party? Should we value the representation of these important perspectives outside our party? Can we afford to lose a strong advocate who has fearlessly fought against unconstitutional policies that threaten our liberties?
It is now imperative that we, true conservatives, pause and deeply reflect upon these probing questions. We must rise above the clamor of partisan politics and engage in thoughtful introspection. Let us explore the significance of these inquiries and seek the truth beneath the surface. Doing so can reaffirm our commitment to justice, integrity, and the law.
Conclusion:
The impeachment attempt against him, led by fellow Republicans, is a testament to the misguided actions of some within our party. We must rally behind Paxton, highlighting his exemplary record. As the impeachment proceedings against Attorney General Ken Paxton loom, a glaring truth emerges: this is another politically motivated fraud reminiscent of the baseless impeachment attempts against former President Trump. It is no coincidence that Paxton, hailed as one of the most conservative Attorney Generals Texas has ever seen, finds himself in the crosshairs of fellow Republicans who are determined to silence his unwavering support for President Trump. Tomorrow, they plan to orchestrate this impeachment charade. We ask the lawmakers to say no to this sham impeachment.
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Must read article at RealClearPolitics: A Lot Has To Change Quickly For Republicans To Have A Chance in 2024. Not what you want to hear, but you need to … AND TO “CHANGE QUICKLY” … if you don’t want 2024 to be a repeat of 2022 and 2020. Some highlights:
IGNORE THE POLLS because they grossly overstate GOP strength. Here is why:
Republican operatives … just assume that everyone knows their view of the news: that President Joe Biden is “cognitively challenged”; the economy is in decline; the border is flooded daily by undocumented immigrants; that crime is destroying the nation’s once great and revered cities; that the U.S. appears weak and unprepared for future aggressions by major foes. … But the average voter doesn’t [because of media and big-tech bias and censorship].
Polls asking voters about issues provide conservatives with the appearance that their issues are important to voters as well as the foibles of Democrats. But most issue-oriented polling questionnaires assume that their respondents are aware and have an opinion on the matter. And respondents rarely want to confess that they haven’t a clue. Put that same respondent in an unaided survey where they must articulate the issues of the day and one will find that those opinions on most issues dissolve into a mishmash of general concepts and less definitive answers.
So, while the NHGOP blithely assumes most parents have been closely following the parental rights issue, the reality is that most only know what WMUR, NHPR, etc. have told them, which is heavily biased in favor of the Communists … oh! Sorry! Meant “Democrats.”
ELECTIONS SINCE 2020 HAVE BEEN AND WILL CONTINUE TO BE BALLOT-HARVESTING OR BALLOT-CHASING CONTESTS. The problem is that the GOP will NOT accept this reality:
The failure of the GOP to flood nursing homes, bingo halls, and mortuaries (OK, that one is a joke, of a sort) in search of voters willing to cast early ballots remains, as of today, unaddressed, And it really is an “existential threat” to the Republican leaders. They must come to understand that in our post-COVID era, the rules for who votes when and where, and under the aegis of “voter outreach,” has changed forever. Democrats know how to spend buckets of money to advance what could best be termed “selective democracy.” They know just how to bump against the line of what is allowed and what is not, should anyone with any authority and objectivity care.
While we do not have early voting in New Hampshire, there is no intelligent GOTV by the NHGOP. Sending a glossy mailer of Sun-King Sununu standing next to candidate-X is the equivalent of throwing money out the window, expect it’s worse than that … the money goes to some grifter operative.
There is a lot more to the article than I have highlighted. Definitely worth the few minutes it takes to read it.
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They’re flying so thick and fast it is amazing. Take heart – there will be a Meme Overflow and almost certainly a Friday Meme Overflow-Overflow. Last week’s Overflow-Overflow.
Remember, ridicule and mockery are effective weapons:
Speaking of humor, two videos skewering the Covid narrative with comedy.
Why Weren’t We Allowed To Question The Covid Vaccines?
CNN Admits LYING About Joe Rogan & Ivermectin!
Now, let the mockery and mayhem begin.
*** Warning, a few possibly off-color ones, in case tender eyes are about ***
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The question is not about stopping talking about it. It’s how to fix it, when the system itself has a vested interest in it not being fixed.
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If they’re starting payouts, MHO is that they’re not doing it out of the goodness of their hearts. They’re trying to set a precedent that they’ll pay you something to avoid actual lawsuits that would lead to discovery going through everything they knew, and when. Do not doubt me when I say that receiving any payout from something like this has an iron-clad You can’t sue statement. For example:
A Pfizer Document the FDA Tried to Hide Shows LNPs from COVID-19 Vaccine Travel Everywhere in the Body (substack.com)
As I read this, the data that the LNPs biodistribute was known in a document dated November 9, 2020. This is before ANY EUA was issued. Yet they openly claimed:
“Most of the mRNA vaccine stayed in the injection site muscle—where you get the shot.”
This constitutes fraud. Blatant fraud. Fraud vitiates everything. All liability protections? Poof. So they need to get people to accept breadcrumbs and table scraps ASAP to forestall the lawsuits. Remember where, among other places, the LNPs go: the OVARIES.
Could your ovaries… be deadvaries?
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Memorial Day Tribute – “Thank You”
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And thus the logical conclusion will be “Why buy a car at all”? Which I suspect is the point.
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What Is Intersectionality?
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Virtue Bullying
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Pick of the post:
My kids are well aware that even though we have a piece of paper called a DEED that says we own our property… in reality, due to property taxes, we only rent it from the state government.
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Monday Musical Memory:
Ozzy Osbourne – Bark at the Moon (Official Music Video)
Saw him in concert once. High energy show! No bats though.
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Palate Cleansers:
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The minimum wage costs jobs, especially entry-level positions that help teach the young and unskilled about working for a living, having pocket money, an income, basic personal budgets, spending, and even paying taxes.
Reformatted, emphasis mine:
Instapundit Teaser:
The push to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour in both Minneapolis and St. Paul has successfully boosted the average worker’s hourly pay in both cities, but it has also led to sharp drops in the numbers of available jobs and hours worked, new research from the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis has found. Many economists have reached similar conclusions about minimum wage increases in the past. Still, the size of the impacts the researchers measured — by comparing Minneapolis and St. Paul to data culled from other Minnesota cities from 2017 through 2021 — were eye-popping, especially in low-wage industries.
Ayup, just consider it Government picking winners and losers. And, of COURSE, “low-wage industries” were hit – those ARE the entry-level jobs that require little in the way of knowledge or training. They are low-wage because the economic output (e.g., the resulting product or service) is low-cost, needing only the lowest-skilled workers. I’m not an economist, but I can do the math – if a job costs an employer more than the economic output of that job, that job isn’t going to stick around very long.
MinnPost Abstract:
A couple of lines caught my eye:
“Somebody who loses their job because of a minimum wage increase is going to find another job,” said UC Berkeley economist Michael Reich. “Probably not right away, they’re going to work fewer weeks per year — but they’re not going to be permanently unemployed.”
Well, that’s some condescending solace for the guy or gal that gets a pink slip – a lower standard of living. You’ll be working but poorer for it. And, of course, the economic ideological illiteracy is strong in this one:
“We need to always make sure the workers … are being paid wages that ensure their families can thrive,” said the AFL-CIO’s Burnham, “which is why we continue to be champions for raising the minimum wage and indexing it to inflation across the state.”
Excepting for the moment a severe recession or depression when any job is a boat in a roiling sea (been there, done that), minimum wages were NEVER supposed to “support a family”, especially with just one wage earner. Remember, it’s a floor, not a ceiling. Upskill yourself – sure, hard work to make it work, but help is there.
I am against minimum wage demands by Government. Look around, still, and see all the employers looking for workers. I doubt, as I drive around seeing help-wanted signs at the burger joints (for instance), anyone is offering minimum wage wages. The Free Market, built on supply and demand, has shot wages for even burger flippers past the old SEIU “Fight for $15” – the lowest I see is $16 and up (generally more up than $16).
The government, via the Pandemic’s policy of “getting paid to stay home,” ignited that “minimum wage by other means,” and it is still going strong for those who want the jobs. But there is a limit.
(H/T: MinnPost via Instapundit)
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We honor the brave men and women that gave their lives to protect our freedom. May we always be vigilant and worthy of their sacrifice?
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Please watch this video: A 100-Year-Old WWII Vet Issues Shocking WARNING To America:
Is he right? Should he worry? I believe in America, and I refuse to believe its people are less resilient than those that came before them. However, we must all commit ourselves to live up to the promise of the American ideal. Never give up! The best way to honor our fallen heroes is to carry the torch of freedom from one generation to the next. Our heroes DID NOT die in vain.
35 Years in AmericaOn May 11, 35 years ago, I left Communist China and arrived in Austin, TX. After a 23-hour trip with two stops, and after having gone through years of tyranny, poverty, oppression, and indoctrination, I was very excited and happy I finally made it to America, “The Land of Free, The Home of Brave.”
I did not have much when I arrived. I was skinny and weighed only 98 pounds. I had few possessions and only $100 in my pocket that I borrowed from friends and over $1200 in debt to my US sponsor for air ticket and graduate school fees. I could not speak English fluently, but I was determined to work hard to achieve my American Dream.
Today, I am living the American dream: I have a loving husband (whom I met on the first day), three great kids, and three home businesses, and I live in the Granite State and travel around the world.
I am so blessed in this country, and I am forever grateful. I think America still holds the same promise for people who come here for freedom!
Here is a picture of me arriving at Austin’s airport on Twitter:
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Target is having a Bud Light moment. The Media’s response claimed queer gear was removed because of threats to Target employees from the right. That was a lie, but this isn’t—at least one LGBT extremist has made bomb threats.
At least five Targets in multiple states received bomb threats Friday over company executives pulling the Pride collection section because of mounting boycotts, leading to multiple stores being evacuated as police and the FBI searched for explosive devices. …
One shopper told 19 News, “I know a lot of people around here are not a fan of LGBT that kind of stuff me personally I mean it’s whatever. I never thought someone would go as far as a bomb threat.”
In Utah, local media outlet KUTV said, “Bomb threats were made to Target stores in Layton, Salt Lake, Taylorsville, and Provo.“
Our position has been that consenting adults are free to live their lives as long as non-consenting adults have the same freedom. If you are going to go around saying ‘Be You,’ that applies to everyone, not just folks who agree with your worldview or bend to it. Coming for the kids, however, is a red line for many people, including many members of the LGBTQ.
Along the same line of thought, Target can offer whatever products it chooses, and shoppers are welcome not to shop there if they disapprove. Target “targeted” kids with queer gear, and whether they’ve always done it or not, someone noticed, and people are exercising choice.
Execs at Target chose to try and save their bottom line by moving or removing products, and the media blamed it on crazy right-wingers threatening employees, not loss of sales or rapidly declining stock price for which we have hard evidence.
The media made a choice, and now it has come to bite them in the partisan ass. There is tangible evidence of an unhinged LGBTQ activist threatening to blow up Target Stores.
Image Care of ZeroHedge
LGBT means Let’s Go Blowup Target!
Yeah, it’s one person, so the media will do something else it does. Dismiss it as a lone wolf crank if they cover it at all when we know that the original accusation of intolerant right-wingers threatening Target employees, if true at all, was likely a similar situation but with a difference. All five of these facilities had to be evacuated and searched.
And depending on how it was conducted, Target employees and their customers – including any who were LGBTQ! – were actually at increased risk of injury during any evacuation.
Excellent work, corporate media. You got a prediction half right and mostly left. Target employees were put at risk by one of your own.
As for Target, who is left that they haven’t pissed off?
HT | ZeroHedge
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is arguably the most conservative, most effective attorney general in America. So the majority-GOP Texas House just impeached him … for that very reason. It’s the illusion of GOP control, the illusion that it’s Rs versus Ds.
1/x What is happening to @KenPaxtonTX is a travesty.
For the last nine years, Ken has been the strongest conservative AG in the country. Bar none. No attorney general has battled the abuses of the Biden admin more ferociously—and more effectively—than has Paxton.
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) May 27, 2023
Statement on Paxton Impeachment Proceedings from Chairman @MattRinaldiTX#txlege pic.twitter.com/jePm4Z9WS3
— Texas GOP (@TexasGOP) May 26, 2023
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has led the fight against the corrupt Biden Administration, defended Texas election integrity, protected the lives of the unborn, and tirelessly fights to secure the southern border.
This Texas House led impeachment is a witch hunt.
— Marjorie Taylor Greene (@mtgreenee) May 27, 2023
Texas House Republicans just voted overwhelmingly to impeach Trump-endorsed Attorney General Ken Paxton after he took on Biden, Big Pharma, and our country’s Open Borders
Looks like the RINO Swamp in Texas may be deeper than the Swamp in DC
Texas voters deserve so much better
— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) May 27, 2023
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I was chatting with Skip about ticks (arachnids and Democrats), and he mentioned having a severe problem (in his yard) with the former. It got me thinking. Last year we had it bad where I live (Southern NH). This year – few to none.
Skip lives in the Lakes Region, a little over an hour away, so location and environment have a lot to do with it, even in the same state; the caterwauling of attention-seeking climate cultists, not so much. But Lyme disease is a nasty business, easy to treat in dogs but not so much in people. The threat of it serves the political left as an opportunity to rob people blind by blaming it on climate change: ticks, Lyme, everything.
I’m not immune to Lyme Disease (no, I don’t have it), but I am immune to the hyperbolic caterwauling of the Dems and progs that snap like twigs every time the weather changes. This is New England. Climate change could be every five minutes – in which direction is anyone’s guess. Yes, it changes, and so far, not in any way your climate models predicted.
Half the time, you can’t get next week’s weather right.
I also, as you likely know, have a shorthaired white Labrador (American Yellow Lab) who does everything in his power to wander everywhere in my yard he might find ticks. As such, he sets the baseline for the tick-related observations in my neck of the woods.
He’s on preventatives, so he’s not in danger. We are not, so we check him, dare I say religiously, and he likes the attention.
Last April, we picked two to four off the dog every time we went outside. That added up to – on some days – maybe a dozen a day. Every day. This year we saw a few a week—nothing like last year. The month of May has been a bit more frequent but nothing exceptional—one a day over one week, but fewer in any of the others.
It has been nothing like 2022.
Skip, on the other hand, appears to have had a lot of ticks in April but likely few, if any, in May – he treated his yard.
Absent the chemistry, there is no right or wrong rhyme or reason to it. Activity depends on many things in the biosphere, and none of them have anything to do with your corrupt Western lifestyle unless, by a tick, we mean a Democrat. Your comfort offends them, but that’s not the topic today.
Here’s another point of interest that I find interesting. Unlike previous years we have had few to no black flies. In a typical April/May, I can’t step outdoors without being swarmed. We’ve seen very few this year, and I’m not complaining. Black flies are a plague on all our houses. But I don’t know why we’ve had fewer this year by a large margin than any other year I can recall. Wait, Climate Change!
And while I’m at it, the mosquito menace is also less daunting this spring than in previous years.
That’s been my experience. Yours might be different.
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Where Canada goes, Vermont follows – remember, they did try to join Canada way back when – so it seems logical to wonder about this. For $700.00, a funeral home in Quebec offer “a space for assisted dying, providing care to the family and handling the body afterward.”
“It was a very nice room,” said Savoie. “It allowed us the time we needed to do what we had to do to say goodbye. Let him get comfortable.”
And who doesn’t want to be comfortable when someone they love commits suicide? Well, lots of people, I suppose. Suicide is not uncommon, but unless you are a friend of the Clintons, it is typically a private affair and often unexpected or inexplicable. Tragic.
The government killing people is not new and quite common, accelerating the further to the left you go on the political spectrum.
Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD), an invention of the political left, is not new but has evolved. It remains illegal in most places but has found progressive friends, which should concern people, especially when the practice finds commercial acceptance.
It starts with a room, a view, and soft music, and you might ask, why shouldn’t the soon-to-be departed have any or all options for their planned departure? Vegas- like Show Girls, a live band, The Canadian equivalent of the Blue Angels, maybe even sell tickets so people can watch you die.
Stream it all on Instagram. Hear emoji – we’ll miss you! And there are no apparent laws against that, so at least one funeral director thought it “was a natural step for the family-owned business, which has several locations in southern Quebec’s Brome-Missisquoi and Haut-Richelieu regions.”
The company has long strived to provide customized care that meets clients’ needs, he said. But meeting those needs is not easy, especially when it involves medically assisted death.
“There are a lot of emotions,” Baker said. “The person who made the decision is usually very convinced, but the kids, the siblings, or other family members aren’t necessarily on the same page.”
That’s a fair enough point, but the people deciding what things are legal and illegal had a mixed response.
Sarah Bigras, a spokesperson for Quebec’s minister responsible for seniors, said the minister is looking into the legality of offering assisted dying services in a funeral home.
“Several questions may arise, and we will take the time to validate,” she said in an emailed response to CBC’s questions.
“The important thing is to put people’s wishes first, while ensuring that the proposals are not part of a monetization of the practice.”
What’s not to like? Your euthanasia plan gets more normalized; everyone involved has a moment, and someone gets more followers on Instagram. And at some point, because your chosen form of government can’t afford not to kill people or make money on the practice when possible, I can charge the business hosting an event tax, a transfer tax, a profits tax, or even a carbon footprint or emissions tax if there are cremations, all passed down to the family, of course, as insurance companies modify the actuary tables to account for costs. Discounts are available if you are an organ donor and volunteer your remains to fertilize a tree.
Much like MAiD, it won’t happen in Canada overnight. It’ll need to be as ubiquitous as Tim Horton’s, and until then,
The public health authority for the region south of Montreal, CISSS de la Montérégie-Centre, said in a statement that it is not involved in any assisted dying services at funeral homes.
“This is a process that belongs to the person and the decision of the doctor who agrees to administer medical assistance in dying,” said Chantal Vallée, spokesperson for the CISSS. …
“Some people do not want to receive MAID at home, and some place should be made available,” Nguyen said. “I think it should be made available in the public health-care system.”
When everyone is on board, MAiD will become big business (Like Coronaviruses or COVID-19 Vaccines), as death always must among progressives. And reasons for allowing it will grow.
Researchers in Canada have already suggested MAiD for the poor. That will take some time to get wind beneath its wings, but it will. Mental Health experts will begin to adopt diagnoses that result in incarceration, which will strain the public health budget. It’s a great way to deal with people who won’t shut up about the corrupt, unaccountable murderous government.
No Show Girls or fighter jets or comfy couches for friends and family. People will disappear in the night.
Wait, sorry – this socialism is different. That’ll never happen … again.
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Out of the six common air pollutants, particulate matter measuring 2.5 microns [1/30 of a human hair – Skip] or smaller in diameter, or PM2.5, is accepted as the most harmful to human health. This is due to its prevalence in the atmosphere and the broad range of adverse health effects associated with its exposure, such as heart disease, stroke, lung cancer and chronic respiratory diseases.
With that context in mind, this visualization from Visual Capitalist’s Selin Oğuz and Miranda Smith uses IQAir’s World Air Quality Report to map out the 2022 average PM2.5 concentrations in select major cities around the globe, expressed in micrograms per cubic meter (μg/m³).
(H/T: ZeroHedge,
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