During the coming week, committees within the New Hampshire House will hold public hearings on numerous bills that could have positive impacts for liberty. Individuals who wish to share their opinions on these bills will have the opportunity to speak to the legislators on the committees during the hearings. Those who cannot attend the hearings may also submit their testimony to the committees online and they could email the committee members. 

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All human groups live by codes of conduct and beliefs. The codes are far from uniform, either in context or formality. Yet they all serve the critical function of being a prescription of behaviors that enhance the welfare of the group and proscribe those that undermine it.

In tandem with the emergence of the code of conduct is the practice of rituals. While the code of conduct secures order within the group, rituals give it a sense of identity, essential for the solidarity of the “in-group” against the ever-present threats of the “out-group.”
Over time, the code of conduct and rituals merge, to various degrees, to serve the group. Some examples are religious ceremonies, secular observances, and a mixture of the two.

A code of conduct requires enforcement. The physically strong, and perhaps more cunning, emerge as group leaders and enforcers — Chiefs, Sheiks, Earls, Lords, and Kings are continuations of this line of authority. Yet all along there was a realization that authority or authorities with much greater powers transcend that of human beings. The ancient Greeks’ various gods and the pre-Islamic idolaters of the Arabian Peninsula represent this line of thinking.

Among some human groupings, the utilitarian value of prescriptions and proscriptions for the group evolved in the belief of opposing superhuman powers. Good things, such as bountiful rain, great harvests, and plentiful game, for instance, were seen as the offerings of the benevolent superhuman, while famine, earthquakes, plagues, and so forth were attributed to the actions of the malevolent superhuman. The Zoroastrians’ concept of Ahuramazda, the god of good, and Ahriman, the lord of evil, represents this line of belief.

At some point, monotheism appeared on the scene. The Abrahamic religions represent this line of development. One Supreme Being was posited as the all-powerful, all-everything author of the universe. It simplified things greatly. No need to supplicate many gods, or please one and antagonize another. This Supreme Being communicated with humans through intermediaries of his choosing, or so some claimed. And through these intermediaries, he prescribed laws and ordinances.

Obedience to his laws attracted his blessings and disobedience incurred his wrath, often administered by human agencies in this world, with more to come in the purported next world.

The God of the monotheist is a hands-on God. And Islam’s Allah is extremely hands-on. He leaves virtually no room for anything or anyone to do anything without his full knowledge and authorization.

Sigmund Freud

In more recent times, another form of evolution appeared on the scene. The work of Sigmund Freud represents this line of development. God was marginalized. God was reduced to a hypothetical father figure, a figment of man’s imagination, who would reward or punish his children depending on their actions. And the duality superhuman dual deity of Ahuramazda and Ahriman were personalized within each person. The Id, a version of Ahriman, was posited as representing the impulsive, the ungoverned by the code of conduct, the amoral, devoted exclusively to self-gratification. The Superego, a version of Ahuramazda, was invoked as the law-abiding, moral, and caring for others.

As I studied philosophy, and religion and delved more deeply into these subjects, I became deeply attracted to the inexhaustible treasure of Iran’s exquisite history, fine arts, and poetry. Along the way, I learned about and revered Cyrus the Great and a host of other Iranians who personified all that is good and in line with the great benevolent God, Ahuramazda. The more I learned and witnessed Islam, the more it repelled me, for it is much more in accord with that of the agent of evil, Ahriman.

Islam’s effect

Islam glorifies death by calling its killers soldiers of Allah. Islam preaches superiority of the in-group, and the inferiority of the “other.” It is a creed steeped in a superstition that demands blind obedience to authority and prohibits just about every form of freedom — the very precious gift of the Creator Ahuramazda that makes us human. Everything in Islam is black and white. One is either Muslim — good — or non-Muslim — evil. Men are superior, and women are subservient. This life is worthless and should be offered for the pleasure of Allah as defined by the clergy.

I could not believe that this life is worthless. The Creator did not create anything worthless. Every last one of his creations, down to subatomic particles, is worthy in the grand scheme of things. To me, the idea of human life as worthless made the claim itself worthless.
The more I studied Islam, the more I became convinced that Islam is a creed of ignorant people in a primitive age. It is fixated on time and place; it harbors the ambition of taking the 21st-century world back fourteen centuries and ruling it by its dogma of intolerance, injustice, and death. Yet Islam is not only an obsolete vestige of a defunct era but is an infinitely fractured belief that can hardly put its own house in order. The numerous Islamic sects are at each other’s throats. Subjects and schools despise one another as much as they hate non-Muslims. Hatred, not love, drives Islam.

I came to the realization that the root cause of all Muslims’ degradation and suffering is Islam itself. It is distressing to witness Islam making headway in traditionally non-Islamic lands. Masses of brainwashed faithful semi-literate Muslims, badly underserved in their own native lands, are moving to countries where “infidels” welcome them with material benefits denied them in their own homeland, as well as the liberty to subvert the very societies that provide refuge.

Even more distressing are those good-hearted simpleton non-Muslims who are up in arms defending the rights of Muslims to practice their religion in free societies such as the United States of America. These well-meaning, badly misguided folks don’t realize that practicing Islam fully requires subverting and destroying any and all non-Islamic beliefs and practices. All one needs to see this deadly aspect of Islam is to examine how Islam is practiced in places such as Saudi Arabia, Iran, Afghanistan, Sudan, Somalia, and even the so-called more moderate Islamic states such as Egypt.

There is considerable allure in submission to a powerful god that is willing and able to take care of the person. It is not a bad arrangement. The problem is that all past claimants have invariably been proven to be either frauds or failures in honoring their part of the bargain. Islam is no exception. A cursory glance is enough to show the condition of Muhammad’s flock. In spite of huge material wealth, Muslims in oil-rich countries are imprisoned in the paralyzing mentality of submission and all the terrible ancillaries that go with it.

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What a way to NOT provide a contrast. What were these three erstwhile “NH GOP Elitists” thinking? From a tactical and strategic standpoint, none of you should have opened your mouths.

Instead, you three decided to test the idea that “Awe, the RNC will NEVER take the First In The Nation Primary” away from us here in NH! So self-assured, these three.  And make no mistake; they just showed a lot more hubris than they know.

Now, they couldn’t leave well enough alone.  Instead of making it EASIER for Republican candidates, these youngster Repubs, all full of themselves, decided to BE the DNC effectively in making sure that only THEIR KIND of Republican candidates could reach the ballot thresholds they wanted to set with HB116. They actually thought they could get away with this nonsense:

(a) For governor and United States senator, [$100] $10,000.
(b) For a representative to Congress, [$50] $5,000.
(c) For executive councilor, $25.
(d) For state senator, $10.
(e) For county officer, $10.
(f) For state representative, [$2] $0.

Still discriminating against a person’s color, just like the DNC, except it’s in your wallet and not the skin over your body. After all, we just can’t allow ANY rabble run for Governor, Senator, or Congresstwit, can we? Oh, and to be “gracious,” if you don’t have green skin for our game, let’s stymie them the other way by making it all but impossible for them to get petition signatures in place to get on the ballot:

• The number of primary petitions to be filed for each office shall be as follows: for governor and United States
  senator, [200] 25,000;
• for representative in Congress, [100] 12,500

Yep, and lest I forget the other comic book Mouseketeer, Alexander, who decided that THEY have the absolute right to determine who are the “correct” candidates for the NH Grassroots to pick from.

Manipulators. Elitists. How are they any different in results than the DNC? It’s clear that they decided that ONLY THEY know who the “right kind” of candidates are right for NH. And they think the rest of us are stupid:

Sweeney said voters are often confused on primary day to learn that while only three or five candidates actively campaigned for an office, as many as 12 or more got their names on the ballot due to the low filing fee.

“Running for office is not a vanity project,” Sweeney said.

That’s NOT your mission nor your responsibility, Sweeney – that’s up to the voters to decide!  And so WHAT, if it is a vanity project?  That’s your call as a lowly State Rep to make?  As a former NH GOP Exec Dir (so, how’s that record of yours in cracking the lock of the Dems’ witches coven on the Federal Delegation?), was THAT your role as well – determining who the Party should or shouldn’t allow to run?  You, too, Berry – you were an Exec Dir.

‘Cept now you both can bend the Law to your own purposes.

Tell you what, BOYS, instead of making it free to run for State Rep, how about you lead from the front and voluntarily pay that $10,000 – each? Show people that none of the High and Mighty amongst us is exempt from your financial shenanigans.  Remember, there is that phrase “don’t ask others to do what you’re not willing to do yourselves’; you ARE familiar with that, right?

No, I don’t think so, and I think that, in no small measure, why all three of you have skulked away with your tails between your legs on this one. You decided to slip this one through, thinking that the DNC was giving you larger cover (“snicker, they’ll never take notice of our trying to punish the Ordinary Joes and Janes thinking they could run.”

Totally opposite to the ethos of the State, where anybody could try and beat the odds. This is known at the little State where people COULD upset the Establishment apple cart and win.

You didn’t like that, did you?  You tried to make yourselves the Gatekeepers and patted yourselves on the back for doing so.

Ray Buckley will finish the year as the Biggest Political Loser. But you three will be holding up the corners of his cape as second in line.  NOBODY, except a few GOPe-ers like yourselves, liked this. At all.

Which tells the rest of us exactly who you are and where you stand.

Obnoxiously so.

Glad to see that someone beat some sense into you. After all, making it harder for Republicans to run just might have caught the eyes of the RNC, and they just MIGHT be starting to listen to the bigger states that have been gunning for the NH GOP’s position.

Stability. S-T-A-B-I-L-I-T-Y. An offshoot of “stable” – “it ain’t gonna move.” These three are like novice skiers at the top of Tuckerman, pounding their ski-boot-clad feet into the snowpack and going “looks good to me” and not worrying about the underlying structure of that rather unstable snow ledge. Couldn’t leave well enough alone, eh?

It seems to me that with the racist views of the Democrat National Committee (yes, they are discriminating against the NH DP on the grounds that NH’s population isn’t melanin sufficient). Sure, it doesn’t help that revenge in politics is a thing, and it’s not like Ray Buckley & Co haven’t been giving the rest of their Party angina for years and shaking them down to set themselves up for this fall. But really, having the DNC do to the NH Democrats, instituting a racial quota system, wasn’t enough for Sweeney, Alexander, and Berry?  Sure, laugh all you want at the DNC’s antics of publicly embarrassing the NH Dems by instituting impossible demands upon them to change the NH First in the Nation Law and essentially vote-by-mail, KNOWING that the Republicans in the majority wouldn’t lift a finger to help them.

After all, the RNC wouldn’t DARE to do the same to the NH GOP that the DNC was doing to the NH Dems, right?  RIGHT?

Sidenote: I’m not as convinced as Michael Graham that the NH GOP FITN is as firmly ensconced in Granite as King Arthur’s sword in the stone was.

Er, yeah, they would – and may well do so sooner than later with the Sweeney/Berry idiocy. At the same time that the DNC is making it all but impossible for the NH Dems to HAVE a primary (most likely the loss of their delegates AND punitive retaliation against those candidates willing to disobey their masters and campaign in NH – even if only by proxy?

You didn’t help. At all.

 

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Konstantin Kisin, in remarks credited to an Oxford University debate, has some life-changing truths for #woke university students and a lot of other folks on the issue of lowering emissions in the name of climate change.

Who, you’d be right to ask, is Konstantin Kisin. I had to look it up.

 

Konstantin Kisin is a Russian-British comedian, podcaster, writer and social commentator. He made international headlines in 2018 by refusing to sign a university “behavioural agreement form” which banned jokes about religion, atheism and insisted that all humour must be “respectful and kind”.

 

A commenter at the source link suggested that this “needs to be required material in every classroom in the world.” I don’t disagree. In just under 7 minutes, Kisin lays bare some unpleasant truths about the climate cult if, in fact, they are serious about lower global emissions and why… it’s never going to happen.

He proposes a solution, and it is not to destroy western civilization by banning fossil fuels.

 

Some adult language.

 

 

HT | RCSB

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This is yet more information for we Normal folks that the Left (re: Democrats) can’t stand the idea of losing any Power that voters take away from them as a result of elections. Thus, they are all in for idea that the British Labour Party started in on: change the electorate.  Two mainstays of this tactic:

• Open borders so that ANYONE can come into the US – especially those that have NO idea of how our system of Civics and Governance works and what is the underlying Philosophy of both are. All they know is that they expect Government to “do stuff for them, preferably for free” and that the Democrats want to do exactly that for them.
• Change the voting age. Which is to say, exactly what I just said in that these 16 year olds have NO idea of how our system of Civics and Governance works and what is the underlying Philosophy of both are. In this case, it’s because of our lousy education system (generally made up of teachers and unions that support only Democrats).

I think this from Instapundit both shows the issue AND what the Republicans should do in response:

SHOT: THEY NEED GUILLIBLE, UNINFORMED VOTERS: Democrats push to amend Constitution so 16-year-olds can vote.

CHASER: I would tie the drinking and gun-owning age to the voting age.

Indeed – and I’d add breaking the Obamacare “you’re a child until age 26 on Mommy and Daddy’s health insurance plan. After all, VOTING is “adult behavior” – there is nothing “adult-ish” about it. Either you are an adult or you are a child – don’t let the Democrats “blend” the two. I really do want to hear, however, their arguments that 16 years old would never vote to give themselves the right to keep and bear arms, get rid of any restrictions on driving, the ability to now sign contracts, buy drugs, and and other such type of activities now denied them.

And you know who and what (here in NH) this would go after and make illegal?

Yep, that would be Cassandra Levesque‘s (D-Barrington) banning of child marriages. After all, if you can vote at age 16 (the mark of a adult), drink at age 16 (hey, the Democrats are ALWAYS yammering that we should be more like Europeans, yes?) and own guns (the mark of a voting and drinking adult – heh!). Being an adult means you should be able to love the one you want, according to the Democrats, right? I REALLY wanna see how that baby is cleaved in two, but I digress.

Let the stupidity begin! Emphasis mine, reformatted:

Democrats push to amend Constitution so 16-year-olds can vote
House Democrats did nothing to advance similar proposal when they controlled Congress last year

More than a dozen House Democrats this week proposed an amendment to the Constitution to allow 16-year-olds to vote in an apparent attempt to make it easier to enact left-leaning policies like gun control and pro-environmental measures. Democratic Rep. Grace Meng of New York introduced a resolution that would do away with the 26th Amendment to the Constitution, which allows U.S. citizens to vote if they are at least 18 years of age. The resolution would replace that with new language that says:

“The right of citizens of the United States, who are sixteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age.”

Meng hadn’t released a statement on her proposal by early Thursday afternoon. But she released a statement in the last Congress, indicating a belief that lowering the voting age by amending the Constitution would let younger people have a say on many of the positions supported by Democrats.

And that last bit is EXACTLY the point – a new constituency for Democrats. That’s all this is about.

The 26th Amendment lowered the voting age from 21 to 18 and was ratified in 1971, in part due to pressure from the Vietnam War that saw a large number of teenagers drafted to fight overseas even though they could not vote.

And now we have The Science that says that these new constituents brains aren’t mature enough until age 26 for such types of adult decisions making  activities. This isn’t going to be all that easy for them to square that circle.  From that, this is a laugheroonie:

Another supporter, the Next Up Action Fund, argued that “16- and 17-year-olds are engaged, smart, and capable of casting informed votes…”

There is no evidence that most 16/17 year olds are anywhere near having the knowledgebase, reasoning, experience, and wisdom to be capable of such. Heck, just look at Berni-Bro Jan Schmidt for an example that such wisdom may never be attainable!

No matter what, this will be a years long process to make happen:

Amending the Constitution requires passage of the resolution by a two-thirds vote in the House and Senate and then ratification by three-fourths of state legislatures.

Now, never underestimate the Power of the Stupid Party to give the Democrats what they want but I can’t see a 23rd positive vote for this in either chamber.  And really, given the partisanship out in the States, all you need is 13 states to vote against it.

(H/T: Instapundit, Fox News), Liberty Unyielding)

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In 1933 Moselm leaders in Syria blamed the nation’s drought on yo-yos. Our archive also has a story about how Pokemon is a Jewish plot to subvert Arab youth.

Not to be outdone, on Friday, Mohammad-Mehdi Hosseini Hamedani blamed the lack of precipitation on women not wearing hijab.

 

The Supreme Leader’s representative in the city of Karaj says the reason for low precipitation in the country is a lack of hijab observance of hijab, after many women took off their veils following months of protests.  …

Describing anyone who unveils in public as an enemy, he emphasized that all such people must be confronted by the state. “It is not possible to imagine that we are living in an Islamic country when we enter some institutions, shopping malls, pharmacies, etc.!” he said, calling on the authorities to warn shops and malls that serve women who have removed their hijab and close them down if warnings did not suffice.

 

This sounds familiar. Warnings do not suffice, so businesses that do not enforce a specific type of head or face covering should be shut down.

I know I’ve heard of that somewhere much closer to home. /sarc.

 

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If you listen to Democrats, they will always decree that they are the Party of the people. They are convinced that every thought they have is to find ways to enhance our lives.

Related: Pappas and Kuster Vote to Kill Born, Breathing, Babies

They believe they are the Party of freedom and rights, but their actions show they are about control and restrictions. Democrats are the Nanny Party that feels Americans are incapable of making any significant life decision and that the elected elite know the answers to how you should live. With the country in an absolute quagmire the last two years, how is their thinking working for the masses? It’s not. Drop the mic!

We know that the Democrats do not look upon the unborn as living beings, but this week, they showed, almost in unison, that they have no concern for survivors of abortions. The Democrats are now the Party of infanticide, the willful killing of newborn babies. The minimum age for the Democrats to be concerned for your well-being is eighteen. Until you can vote, you are of no use to Democrats. Maybe that is why they are trying to lower the voting age to sixteen. They are feeling a modicum of guilt about their disdain for the young.

We know they do not care about school-age children or would not be complicit in destroying our education system. They would not be pushing LGBTQ+ or transgender counseling on young children if they cared about their best interests. They would allow parents to be involved in the education process if they cared for children. They would not be exploding our national debt, destroying our Southern Border, or allowing unlimited amounts of Fentanyl into our country if they were pro-kids. But the killing of newborn infants is beyond the pale. When have they gone too far?

There was a vote this week in the House on H.R. 26: Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act. The bill passed the house on a vote of 220-210-1-3. All 210 NAY votes were cast by Democrats, with the only AYE vote by a Democrat cast by Henry Cuellar of Texas’ 28th District. Cuellar is a moderate Democrat from a district on the Southern Border. He is also not in favor of the Biden Border policy. Every other Democrat Congressperson voted NAY for H.R.26. Let’s see what they voted to stop.

H.R. 26: Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act Should not be necessary for a civilized, first-world country. The Democrat’s votes make you question the civility of our country. The bill is to amend title 18 of the United States Code to prohibit a healthcare practitioner from failing to exercise the proper degree of care in the case of a child who survives an abortion or attempted abortion. In other words, it is forcing medical personnel who were performing an abortion, and the aborted fetus is extracted alive, must do what is necessary to save that baby. Saving the lives of the newborn does not work for the Party of the People, the Democrats.

It is hard to believe that nineteen states, nearly half of the country, have laws that protect infanticide. Alaska, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Idaho, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Utah, Vermont, and West Virginia do not protect the born-alive survivors of abortions. This is immoral and incomprehensible.

This bill passed through the Republican-controlled House but will probably die in the Senate, where the Democrats will squash saving infants. This bill is not about abortion or women’s reproductive rights. This bill is about protecting the life of an innocent abortion survivor. Democrats prefer that that baby be left unattended until it passes away. God bless you the next time you vote for one of these callous people. The Democrats are about power, not life. Shameless.

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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:

1. Mentality: first and foremost in survival is having a flexible mentality and cultivating the ability to adapt. Vanity has no place in survival.
2. Develop a meatspace network of people that are likeminded: cultivate your community ties and build alliances with neighbors (note: don’t babble about the Jab or globalists or depopulation, or start pointing political fingers when doing this)… and remember, the first rule of PREP CLUB is that there is no prep club.

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:

Survival Sunday – Thursday SITREP Edition – Granite Grok

If you find this useful, please share!

 

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Give this guy some serious chops for zero waste!

 

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Top of the fold:

mRNA Vaccines in Livestock and Companion Animals are here now. (substack.com)

Gonna be in your food.  Whether you want it to be or not.

I had a realization on this.  They’ll “Jab up” your food – meat, engineered vegetables, additives (potassium metathorinate, anyone?), so people will be forced to go to the Whole Wallet Foods stores for organic stuff (never mind questioning whether they’re really organic)… and then you’ll have to QR code to get in so every purchase is tracked anyway.

As the late Maharushie would say, Do not doubt me on this!  Do not forget – the Globalists are insane, but they’re not stupid.  They’re astonishingly well-funded and have been planning this for decades, if not centuries.

 

 

Aside: I’ve been predicting, for years (if not a decade) the normalization push for pedos.  And now a friend sent me an email with a subject line of “You were right.  Again” with the enclosed link:

World Economic Forum Declares Pedophiles ‘Will Save Humanity’ – News Punch

My reply, what this guy said:

 

 

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BREAKING NEWS! This Might Just Start Civil War 2! #prepping

 

 

Bill filed in Washington State.  If this passes, look out.

 

 

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The Truth About Canadian Healthcare

 

 

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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)

Modern Survival Online: Survival and Preparedness from A to Z (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:

I Hate Being A Prepper (And You Should Hate It Too) – Ask a Prepper

I agree.  I don’t want to be going through my day wondering if I have enough, if I’m prepared enough (I know I’m not), whether today will be the start of SHTF…

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From the new site in the prepper site list above:

20 Survival Books and Military Manuals PDFs (modernsurvivalonline.com)

Load up the printer…

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30 Survival Uses For Coffee Filters – Ask a Prepper

OOH, cool.  OTOH, who does these experiments to find these things out?

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LESSONS FROM HISTORY: WW2 RATIONING & MEALS THEY CREATED (VIDEO) (theclassicsurvivalist.com)

Getting creative.

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I Lived Without Running Water For One Year. Here’s What I Learned – Ask a Prepper

Reminds me, I need to get a solar shower bag.

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Related to Spicy Time:

How to Start Prepping Right Now (modernsurvivalonline.com)

The best time to start prepping was 10+ years ago.  The second best time is now-now-now.  Time is short!

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Bryan Kohberger’s ‘amateur’ mistakes that led to his arrest (nypost.com)

Understand that I am absolutely, positively not condoning stalking, murder, etc.  But… on a hypothetical basis, this is some useful info.  Do understand that electronics – e.g., cell phones – can be location-pinged even when OFF.

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State of NEW CALIFORNIA Seeks To Secede And Create New State, Convention Held Calling For Secession

 

 

Parts of CA to secede?

The DS / Globalists cannot permit this to happen.  It would remove an enormous amount of political power that comes from California being so big.  Same for Oregon and Idaho.

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“People just can’t know that.” McCaskill Hides Agenda from Voters, “semi-automatic rifle ban”

 

 

More:

 

SAY WHAT?!? Bill To BAN ALL Semi-Automatic Firearms Submitted

 

 

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The Rules of Surviving a Black Market Economy (theorganicprepper.com)

And if spicy time truly arrives, everything will be a black market.

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I understand very clearly that in a true SHTF situation, I won’t live through it.  But if I can be the shield that takes the hits so my kids do, it will be enough.  Dayenu.

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This is why I own guns and so should the rest of the Jewish community

Not just us Jews.

To the Islamists, if you are not a Muslim you are a target.  Anywhere.  Anytime.  For the simple reason that you are not a Muslim.

 

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The other night I was showing my daughter the slip knot and alpine butterfly – see prior PREP post – and she’s off and running and wants to learn more.

 

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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:

1. When does it start?
2. How bad will it get?
3. How long will it last?
4. What will the aftermath look like?

 

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Hollywood Bomb: Industry Lost More than $500 Billion (40%) of its Market Value in 2022

 

 

I feel bad… for the line workers.

 

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I just started a FORAGING group on Gab.  I need to approve membership and will check every few days.

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Foraging: One-up articles

 

Wild Food Foraging – Tree Bark – Cambium – Emergency Food

 

 

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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):

 

10 Items To HOARD NOW! Things You May NOT THINK Of – Before It’s Too LATE.

 

 

This guy has quite a few videos – I’ve browsed a few and they seem on target.  Though in the few I’ve seen, IMHO, a tad repetitive.

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Farmland WARS: The Global TAKEOVER of America’s Land

 

 

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Gardening, Animals, Food Storage, Health, and Related:

 

 

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10 Breeds of Chicken That Will Lay Lots of Eggs for You – (thehappychickencoop.com)

A Chicken Feeding Guide to Balance Diet at All Ages – Backyard Poultry (iamcountryside.com)

Should You Buy Chickens This Year? – The Organic Prepper

Someday… related to animals broadly:

 

 

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Installing bee packages in a new bee yard! – Björn’s Colorado Honey (bjornscoloradohoney.com)

The boy wants to be a beekeeper.

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How To Make Bread Last For Up To 5 Years – Ask a Prepper

Interesting idea!!!

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Study Links Popular Food Additive to Colon Cancer (resistthemainstream.com)

I just noticed that the iron pills I take have this stuff in them.

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Jerusalem Artichokes Growing – Planting Jerusalem Artichokes (gardeningknowhow.com)

Jerusalem Artichoke Companions: Tips On Jerusalem Artichoke Companion Planting (gardeningknowhow.com)

Jerusalem Artichoke Control – Tips On Managing Jerusalem Artichoke Plants (gardeningknowhow.com)

They can be invasive and grow aggressively.  Which, in a small garden, can be a bad thing.

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Seed Starting for Beginners – Everything to Know Before You Start Seeds – Gardening Know How

Collection of articles.  One thing I read elsewhere is to have an oscillating fan on them to strengthen the seedling stems.

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Tips & Information about Sweet Potatoes – Gardening Know How

Good nutrition source!

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If I Had To Pick ONLY Three Crops For A Survival Garden…

 

 

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Chokecherries: Care and Growing Guide (thespruce.com)

Another potential one for abandoned field growing.

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How to Safely Store Homemade Broth for 6 Months (No Canning or Freezing Required!) – Ask a Prepper

I’m saving up bones to try another batch of bone broth.  Will have to try this.  And if it does go bad – rancid?

8 Ways to Use Your Rancid Oil for Survival – Ask a Prepper

There’s another use for rancid fat, especially rancid meat fat.  This comes Mexico, where – in fighting the French – the Mexicans would fill a bag full of rotten meat, rancid fat, and other things like fecal matter… bury it and let it ferment.  Then the paste could be painted onto shrapnel or other sharp items to be used as projectiles or booby-traps against enemy soldiers (e.g., if you’re a reloader, take your 00 buck, drill a hole, fill it with the stuff, dry, and put back into your shells for instant-implantation of disease-riddled materials).  Yes, today’s antibiotics will stop the infections, but it’s an incapacitation nonetheless as the soldier’s body has to fight the infection, not just the wound.

Useful as an intellectual exercise and odd historical tidbit.  Not that I’m advocating this, but remember… if spicy time truly arrives, there will be no rules.  Alas.

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Maximize Your Garden’s Carbon Collecting Capabilities | Craig Schaaf (gab.com)

Video, about 4 minutes.

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Companion Planting Herbs: Best Herbs to Plant Together | The Old Farmer’s Almanac

Synergy.  I like that!

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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:

 

USCCA vs US LawShield vs CCW Safe: Which Concealed Carry Insurance Is The Best?

 

 

You’ve got to have something like this if you carry, IMHO.  In a lot of places where – theoretically – it’s legal to carry, the law establishment doesn’t like that, and will try to punish you.  Just look at the grief that guy in Texas is about to go through for that extra shot or two after the guy in the restaurant went down.

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7 Signs You’re Going To Be Attacked By a Bad Guy

 

One sign from one book I read is where they mirror you, e.g., their footsteps fall into rhythm with yours.  Related:

 

We Asked Prisoners 11 Questions About Who They Target (Are You One Of Them?)

 

And on carrying:

 

Carrying With One In the Chamber: Good Thing Or Bad Thing?

 

When Is It Really Legal To Draw Your Gun?

 

Beginners Guide To Concealed Carry – “Warning” – Don’t Make These Two Mistakes – Empty Chamber & FMJ

 

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https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/bird-trap.mp4

 

In one survival book I read, you need to wring the neck, but then do the slaughter / butchering well away or the smell will make the trap useless after a while.

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‘A Free Society Must Know How to Defend Itself’ — Poland to Invest Further in Firing Ranges, Says PM

Ooh-rah Poland!

 

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Miscellaneous:

EV Owner Needs Replacement Battery, Told She’ll Have to Wait Four Years to Get It (westernjournal.com)

Sucks to be her!

 

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Concluding thoughts if I’m moved to comment:

 

I am watching the slow-motion drip-drip-drip of classified documents in unsecure places, and like many have concluded that someone is determined to get the Potato out of office.  Now, MHO is that there will be no trials or messy impeachments – rather, Joe will be Arkancided sadly pass in his sleep soon from the strain of the office and the damage being done to his family.

 

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Need a water bottle?  Consider this one:

 

 

 

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Palate cleansers:

 

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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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BlackRock® invests other people’s money and a lot of it, but not everyone is happy about how. Its commitment to “Environmental, Social and Governance” (ESG) has become an albatross around the company’s neck.

 

BlackRock plans to dismiss some 500 workers as the asset management company seeks to contend with heavy losses.

The company’s assets under management declined from $9.5 trillion in the third quarter of 2021 to $8.0 trillion in the third quarter of 2022, according to the firm’s most recent earnings report. The reduction in headcount, which represents less than 3% of the BlackRock workforce, occurs after one of the worst years for the stock market in history and similar layoffs in other industries.

 

That’s not money lost due to a declining market. This is money that got up and went someplace else. You can add market losses to it, and as Ace notes, there are probably some FTX losses hiding in the balance sheets as well.

Net-Zero Climate Woke “banking” has not had a great year.

In October, nineteen states joined a lawsuit to investigate a who’s who of banks that might be basing lending or investment on commitments to the ideologically driven notion of ESG. States (primarily red) have also announced their intention to reallocate their assets of public money (like pensions) away from firms like Black Rock.

It’s good advice.

 

The losses come amid BlackRock executives’ promulgation of the environmental, social, and corporate governance movement, also known as ESG, by which managers commit themselves to pursue green energy, appointing minorities to serve as managers, or otherwise blending profitability with activism. BlackRock has taken “voting action on climate issues” against dozens of portfolio firms, according to a company stewardship report.

Critics say the recent poor performance of ESG funds discredits the movement.

 

Translation: you will invest in sh!tty poorly-performing funds or else!

Or else what?

Or Black Rock will have to fire 500 employees. That’s 3% of their workforce. And while BlackRock plays woke, how will they decide who stays and who goes? Will it be color-blind based on performance, or is race or gender more important?

 

 

HT | AoSHQ

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Next Friday is Day 90, which means 90 to go. We are at the halfway point in the school year and a good spot for reflection. Let’s take a look inside the iconic school bus. Everyone knows what they do, but there is much more when you look behind the curtain. That is what we will do with this week’s Sunday Spotlight.

I marked my third anniversary working at First Student driving a school bus this week. Not a day goes by that the competence and professionalism of our drivers are not tested. I have a greater appreciation and respect for my teammates each day. Every day we turn the key, turn on the lights and hope for a seamless run. Most of the time, our wish is granted, but when the unexpected arises, we call on our training, experience, and sound judgment to bring normalcy back to the bus.

I was training and testing for three months before meeting my first student. At the time, I thought it was excessive. Now I wonder if it was enough, but you can never prepare for every challenge. That is life, and the unexpected can always mess with a good plan. The training and life experiences must blend to make you a successful driver and guardian of parents’ most prized gift; their children. That responsibility makes this job daunting and stressful, but both are calmed by each of us just doing our job. Let’s look at an example

This week, a routine bus run turned anything but routine. A young girl being brought home from school had a seizure, collapsed, and fell between the seats of the bus. One of the students alerted the bus driver, and a cool-headed individual did her job. The driver called the dispatcher with precise details. The school, police, and parents were called. An ambulance was dispatched. The young girl was transported to the local hospital for tests and then released to her parents. A young girl went home because a bus driver did her job.

Every driver has a unique story. Every man and woman has their reason for putting on a reflective vest and heading off each morning to fill their bus and deliver their students to their school. We do not need to stoke our egos to dispel the belief that we are simply drivers, but our daily actions do that for us. We are professional, trained, and dedicated guardians of your children, and despite the inherent stress, we love our job,

There are significant changes in our post-COVID America. The ridership is down as habits have yet to revert to pre-Pandemic norms. The long lines of cars in the parent drop-off and pick-up lanes are obvious. There also is a significant drop in public school enrollment. Charter and home-school are becoming more popular alternatives as parents are not happy with how public schools made physical improvements, and public school education results are forcing students elsewhere.

The noticeable changes on the bus are the interactions between riders. I have all high school riders, and you can meditate on my bus. There is virtually no communication between students, and this means those who may be neighbors. Earbuds are as standard as backpacks, and personal interaction has been replaced with text, IMs, and DMs. It is sad because social skills are disappearing quickly.

Some people think of us as just people driving for a part-time job. They could not be more wrong. I have only been driving for three years, but it did not take long to realize the incredible responsibility in what we do. Every day we transport dozens of kids, your children, to and from school safely and efficiently. In the dark of morning and the bright sun of afternoon, we are guardians of your children, your most precious belongings. We pick them up in the morning and deliver them home in the afternoon. Safe and sound. It is not just a job. It is serious business for us, and we love what we do. We do it for you, and we do it for your children. We do it because we love the job and the kids.

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We could call this putting other people’s money where your mouth is. A German physician was found guilty of violating German Law for issuing 4,287 mask exemptions to patients, none of whom had any medical records with the accused.

Translated by Google

According to the prosecution, the background to the certificates issued was the political attitude of the doctor from Weinheim in the Rhein-Neckar district. The 59-year-old considers the statutory corona-related restrictions to be inappropriate and unconstitutional. In particular, the accused had repeatedly spoken out publicly at demonstrations and the video platform YouTube against the obligation to wear a face mask. She also confessed to this in court.

The doctor has been sentenced to two years and nine months in prison for, according to LifeSite News, “selling mask exemptions and issuing false medical attestations.”

Well, that’s a thing. Is the German Government going after Pfizer, Moderna, itself? If issuing a mask exemption when there is plenty of peer-reviewed evidence that they do not do what advocates claim is a crime, when will the vaccine* extremists find their way onto the docket?

The FDA Advisory Committee is upset that facts were withheld from them. Serious health risks that until recently were labeled as conspiracy theories are accepted side effects. Million of Germans get The Jab based on lies from their government, public health officials, politicians, and if it was anything like America, the media, and celebrities.

They are all guilty of false medical attestations, but no one is holding their breath, waiting for justice to find them.

 

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Historical precedent aside, present Shiite Iran is home to over 300,000 Mullahs. The most descriptive term for “Mullah” is “parasite.” A Mullah begins his career as a parasite, lives as a parasite, and dies as a parasite,

simply because he contributes absolutely nothing to the necessities of life, yet gobbles disproportionately more of whatever resources he can grab.

As a true parasite, a Mullah’s very survival depends on others. It is critical for a Mullah to procure and maintain a docile, obedient host. A flock of gullible ignorant fanatics makes excellent hosts and the Mullahs’ main task is to keep the sheep in their pen by hook or crook. They scare the flock with horror stories of hell and entice them with the promise of unimaginable glorious paradise – if and only if they behave and keep on supplying them with milk, wool, and meat.

The ruthless mullahs of Iran are plenty evil without the bomb. With the bomb, the end is truly at hand. Some influential pundits pontificate that we can live with nuclear Islamists in Iran if it comes to that. They argue that the Islamists would never use the bomb. Because the mullahs, the fanatic zanies as they may be, are not going to risk Iran becoming a radioactive parking lot by the massive U.S. retaliation. Wrong. Civilized people cherish and celebrate life. The Islamists relish death as stated in their ideology and practiced daily.

Once again, these well-heeled know-it-all pundits are seeing things through their own spectacles. The mullahs have no compunctions about killing tens of thousands of their own people. They have set up a “Special Court of the Clergy” to try and imprison any of their own clerics who dare to oppose their doomsday designs. They even arrest and torture the ordinarily untouchable ayatollahs for speaking up for the rule of law and tolerance.

The time is ripe and the time is now. History will record this. The Western world must rid itself of the “happy talk” as we tranquilize ourselves by reasoning that these doddering old-world religious fools may be mischievous, but they could never do real harm. Oh, sure, they might be arming some Iraqi Shiites, killing a few US soldiers, providing a little support for Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas terrorists in Palestine, building several bases in South America and Africa, murdering Iranian people, and calling for the eradication of Israel—but they have no global destructive capacity. After all, we pacify ourselves that we’re not exactly talking about criminal masterminds like Hitler, or are we?

Islamic clergy, the parasitic prime beneficiaries of Islam, are master practitioners of the carrot-and-stick strategy. By drawing heavily from the Quran and the Hadith, the conniving mullahs and imams have assembled a potent arsenal of threats and promises to keep the faithful in line. They have little trouble in so doing, by shooting at peaceful demonstrators, killing a large number of unarmed people, and arresting tens of thousands of protesters for the past 5 months.

I REPEAT: The U.S. and its allies have, in secular Iranians, their best friends in the entire world. It is imperative for the U.S. to help these Iranians to dislodge the vicious doomsday Mullahs, not as an act of altruism but as a prudent measure of enlightened self-interest.

 

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December 23, 1913 was the founding of the Federal Reserve. Here are the results so far … US dollar purchasing power down 97%

(click to embiggen)

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Some people go to arcades to waste some time and have some fun. Others are deadly serious in that they want to win hundreds (if not thousands) of “tickets” to trade in for crappy prizes at “the counter” when your time in the arcade is done (Mom, Dad, Grammy, Grandpa are threatening to leave you behind).

And of course, ex-NASA engineer Mark Roper as a different take on things – how to beat some of the rigged arcade games at their own scam. Although one has to think “how much time and money did he spend to win some essentially worthless tickets”?  Enough to make you watch his video – heh!

It’s almost enough for me put political blogging aside for a while….almost.  It’s what drives engineers.

Just thinking about things…solving problems that need not be solved….but it’s fun!

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The latest manifestation of Sun-King Sununu’s insatiable narcissism … His Wokeness fostering the impression that he may run for President. The dipping of the royal toe toe in the Presidential waters, however, is all about “look at me!; everybody look at me!” At the most, Sun-King would play the role of hatchet-man for NeverTrump, with the hope of securing a cabinet post or perhaps a larger stipend from CNN or MSNBC to be a “contributor.” As he revealed in declining to run for the U.S. Senate, His Wokeness is too lazy to fundraise and too thin-skinned to actually run for higher office.

True to form, Sun-King’s Presiential campaign is based on gaslighting. One particular whopper he has been pushing is that he is all about local control:

This a BRAZEN lie. In 2020, Sun-King signed into law a bill that effectively ended local control of zoning by creating a HOUSING APPEALS BOARD empowered to overrule the decisions of local land-use boards.

The purpose of this Housing Appeals Board was to grease the skids for developers to build large apartment complexes, i.e., so-called “workforce housing.” In other words, the purpose was to end LOCAL CONTROL of land-use decisions.

Needless to say, these complexes not only destroy the rural character of the State, they are intended to attract “young voters” who by massive margins vote Democrat. So … because of the Housing Appeals Board … New Hampshire will not only look more like Massachusetts; it will vote more like Massachusetts.

And yet the Sun-King … who effusively supported the Housing Appeals Board … has the chutzpah to tell us that he is all about local control.

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So, is part of your “RESIST” schtick, Chris Pappas?  And is that mask hiding a broad smile, Annie Kuster?

Leading up to and after the SCOTUS Dobb’s decision (that corrected the wrong decision that abortion was not part of the Constitution), there were a lot of attacks on churches and pro-life/pregnancy care establishments, many by either a group called “Jane’s Revenge” or allied pro-abortionists. While I did put up a post stating that we’ve seen what the Republicans have done in the past, I have to admit that part of what the Rs are doing is putting Democrats “on record”.  Like on this (emphasis mine):

Majority of House Dems Vote Against Resolution Opposing Violence Against Churches and Pro-Life Centers

…But you have to give the Republicans credit for fighting the good fight and for making the Democrats say all of the quiet parts out loud.

For example, this week, the House passed a measure that condemned attacks on pro-life facilities and churches. According to Just the News, the resolution “condemns recent attacks of vandalism, violence, and destruction against pro-life facilities, groups and churches” and “calls upon the Biden Administration to use all appropriate law enforcement authorities to uphold public safety and to protect the rights of pro-life facilities, groups, and churches.” The vote was 222-219 and was, as usual, split along party lines. But three Democrats—Vicente Gonzalez of south Texas, Chrissy Houlahan of Pennsylvania, and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington—supported it.

And note that none of them were named Annie Kuster or Chris Pappas. They had the chance to let their constituents know that they abhor violence simply because of the religious faiths of those being targeted by the pro-abortionists.

They couldn’t even be bothered to put up a facade. But it IS nice of them, via the “speech of their vote” to let the rest of us known that they hate people of faith and what we stand for. That they have no problem with our houses of worship and outreach missions being destroyed. I can only believe that it is because they cannot stand the idea that we treat other things to be far more important than their god of government mentality.

Our heresy, in their eyes, must be punished. After all, poll after poll, study after study, have shown the Democrat Party being far more godless than Society at large.

From the post:

The report notes that there were 342 incidents of vandalism, 58 incidents of arson or attempted arson, 12 incidents involving guns, 11 bomb threats, and 19 incidents that fell into the “other” category, which consisted of assaults, interruption of services, or threats. Twenty incidents involved a combination of offenses.

And these incidents were making the news until, suddenly (like the Antifa attacks in Portland and Seattle), they weren’t anymore. It was like some master-Hive minds in the Left said “nope, no more reporting on this!”.

So we do have to ask “does violence against churches rate the same as the violence against unborn babies, Congresswoman Kuster and Congressman Pappas?  I understand that NH is one of the most unchurched States in the country, but does that factoid give you sufficient cover to give credence to physical violence?  That you can ignore it because if your ideological makeup that “we don’t matter to you”?

We shall remember.

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The rhetorical dust has settled on the business of choosing the new Speaker of the US House of Representatives. It was not exactly what you’d call business as usual, and the usual suspects were quick to feign outrage, and we should not forget.

The alternative to what we saw is lockstep acceptance of business as usual which, given how perennially unpopular the body is, seems like a bad idea.

Terrell Clemmons, the Deputy Editor of Salvo Magazine, had an interesting take or turn to explain why what we saw was – as I and many others noted – how things should work.

 

Last week, political news was all about the battle for the Speaker of the House that played out over several contentious days and took fifteen votes to settle. Mainstream commentators criticized the “chaos” and “division” and characterized the drawn-out process as a dysfunctional “clown show.”

Without commenting on the political minutiae of it all, I would just ask a question: was that really what it was? Every mother knows that when the toddlers are quietly “getting along” in some other part of the house, she should drop what’s she’s doing right away and find out what they’re getting into.

We might do well to take a similar approach toward elected officials.

 

This strikes me as precisely what the Founders intended, and these are points made here and across the conservatarian firmament. Getting nothing done at the Federal level has historically prevented more harm than help, with the caveat that it also prevents action to undo previous harms. And that’s critically important. The elites are forever claiming a need to fix what is broken when it is they who broke it. Some would argue, myself included, that this is their entire reason for living.

And we can debate whether any given example is deliberate but simply put, they do use their authority to break things they can then claim to “fix” or that they intend to “fix” if you’ll give them a bit more of what is yours (rights, property, etc.). They’ve flipped the relationship.

The nation was started on the premise that public servants worked for the general populace. The government got its power from the people. These days it is more a matter of codependence. Politicians overstep to perpetuate self-destructive behaviors among the people, who are blamed for whatever they claim ails us. A deficit that has become multi-generational.

Congress has spent so much that does not yet exist that your children’s children’s children will likely have to pay a significant price for it. Fruits of labors not yet borne. Something I have called the true voting rights problem in America. A tax upon ancestors who had no vote in the matter. The result of congress “quietly” getting along.

It’s a dangerous thing, and there are few examples of it that have not benefited “members of congress” at the expense of the people for whom they are supposed to work.

 

 

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

Of the 119 hearings in the House, we are recommending support of 18 and opposition of 24 with 13 being of interest.
Of the 32 hearings in the Senate, we are recommending support of 2 and opposition of 2 with 2 being of interest.

Position	Bill	Title	Committee	Day	Time	Room	State Analysis
Support	HB108	relative to the confidentiality of reports made to the division of children, youth, and families and requiring guardians ad litem be appointed in certain instances.	Children and Family Law	Tue 1/17	11:00 AM	LOB Room 206-208	This bill provides that reports of suspected abuse and neglect may include the name of the person making the report and provides that the person’s identity shall be fully confidential unless such a person makes such a report in bad faith or maliciously and with intent to cause harm, in which case the person may be subject to civil and criminal penalties.
Oppose	HB115	relative to changing the date of the state primary election.	Election Law	Tue 1/17	10:00 AM	LOB Room 306-308	This bill changes the date of the state primary election to the second Tuesday in June.
Oppose	HB333	relative to changing the date of the state primary election and adding a run-off election if necessary.	Election Law	Tue 1/17	10:45 AM	LOB Room 306-308	This bill changes the date of the state primary election to the second Tuesday in March. This bill also creates a run-off election in the event no state primary election candidate reaches 50 percent of the total vote.
Of Interest	HB345	enabling ranked-choice voting for state party primary elections and municipal elections.	Election Law	Tue 1/17	1:00 PM	LOB Room 306-308	This bill establishes procedures for ranked-choice voting and allows state parties and municipalities to opt into such procedures.
Of Interest	HB350	relative to ranked-choice voting.	Election Law	Tue 1/17	2:00 PM	LOB Room 306-308	This bill establishes procedures for ranked-choice voting for federal and state offices.
Oppose	HB402	relative to prohibiting false statements against candidates.	Election Law	Tue 1/17	3:00 PM	LOB Room 306-308	This bill prohibits the publication of false statements by any candidate, political committee, or political party regarding another candidate’s positions on issues.
Of Interest	SB12	relative to the leasing of seasonal camp lots by the fish and game department.	Energy and Natural Resources	Tue 1/17	9:00 AM	SH Room 103	This bill allows the executive director of fish and game to lease certain seasonal camp lots on fish and game lands, and changes the requirements for approval of short-term leases and contracts of the department.
Of Interest	SB54	relative to purchased power agreements for electric distribution utilities.	Energy and Natural Resources	Tue 1/17	9:30 AM	SH Room 103	This bill requires electric distribution utilities to issue requests for proposals to provide more diverse and longer term options for providing default energy service to customers in purchased power agreements as directed by the public utilities commission.
Support	HB252	exempting agricultural operations from certain municipal noise ordinances.	Environment and Agriculture	Tue 1/17	1:30 PM	LOB Room 301-303	This bill exempts farming and agricultural operations from municipal noise ordinances.
Support	SB48	relative to the definition of “way” for the purposes of driving after revocation or suspension.	Judiciary	Tue 1/17	1:15 PM	SH Room 100	This bill clarifies laws related to driving after revocation or suspension by prohibiting persons with revoked or suspended licenses from driving a motor vehicle upon a way, removing the prohibition on operating motor vehicles while not on a way.
Oppose	SB58	relative to arrests without a warrant while in the care of a medical professional on the premises of a residential care or health care facility.	Judiciary	Tue 1/17	1:45 PM	SH Room 100	This bill authorizes a law enforcement officer to arrest a person without a warrant for interfering with the provision of medically-necessary health care services.
Oppose	HB260	prohibiting the operation of motor vehicles by drivers with animals on their laps.	Transportation	Tue 1/17	3:00 PM	LOB Room 201-203	This bill prohibits operation of a motor vehicle while the driver has an animal on his or her person.
Of Interest	HB121	relative to worldwide combined reporting for unitary businesses under the business profits tax.	Ways and Means	Tue 1/17	10:30 AM	LOB Room 202-204	This bill repeals the water’s edge combined group provisions of the business profits tax.
Oppose	HB303	relative to insurance coverage for pain management services.	Commerce and Consumer Affairs	Wed 1/18	2:15 PM	LOB Room 302-304	This bill requires insurance coverage for pain management services.
Of Interest	HB97	establishing an additional penalty for a violation of privacy.	Criminal Justice and Public Safety	Wed 1/18	10:45 AM	LOB Room 202-204	This bill increases the penalty for certain offenses that constitute a violation of privacy.
Oppose	HB107	relative to employment restrictions for registered sex offenders.	Criminal Justice and Public Safety	Wed 1/18	11:45 AM	LOB Room 202-204	This bill prohibits a person convicted of certain sexual assault offenses from hiring or otherwise engaging in any employment or volunteer service which provides direct services to a minor, or supervision or oversight of a minor.
Oppose	HB420	relative to the availability and funding for the dual and concurrent enrollment program by the community college system and making an appropriation therefor.	Education	Wed 1/18	10:10 AM	LOB Room 205-207	This bill amends the purpose and course eligibility for the dual and concurrent enrollment program withing the regional career and technical education program and makes an appropriation therefor.
Oppose	HB429	requiring the offering of breakfast and lunch in all public and chartered public schools.	Education	Wed 1/18	2:00 PM	LOB Room 205-207	This bill requires school districts and chartered public schools to offer both breakfast and lunch programs to students.
Oppose	HB327	prohibiting the state from requiring the public use proprietary software when visiting state websites.	Executive Departments and Administration	Wed 1/18	1:15 PM	LOB Room 306-308	This bill prohibits the state from requiring the public use proprietary software when visiting state websites.
Support	SB35	relative to RSV vaccine administration.	Health and Human Services	Wed 1/18	9:15 AM	LOB Room 101	This bill authorizes pharmacists, pharmacy interns, and licensed advanced pharmacy technicians to administer an RSV vaccine to adults.
Support	HB164	relative to prohibiting towns from criminalizing the right to peacefully and orderly assemble.	Judiciary	Wed 1/18	11:00 AM	LOB Room 206-208	This bill creates an exemption from the criminal code for orderly and peaceful assembly.
Of Interest	HB169	relative to termination of guardianship.	Judiciary	Wed 1/18	11:30 AM	LOB Room 206-208	This bill changes the burden of proof for termination of guardianship proceedings.
Of Interest	HB63	relative to religious use of land and structures.	Judiciary	Wed 1/18	3:00 PM	LOB Room 206-208	This bill prohibits zoning ordinances and local land use regulations from burdening religious land and structures in their use as residential housing.
Support	HB256	prohibiting cities and towns from discriminating in the use of public facilities.	Judiciary	Wed 1/18	3:30 PM	LOB Room 206-208	This bill prohibits a municipality from unlawfully discriminating against any individual or group based on their speech or purpose.
Oppose	HB95	enabling municipalities to adopt rental practice regulations.	Municipal and County Government	Wed 1/18	10:00 AM	LOB Room 301-303	This bill enables municipalities to adopt bylaws to regulate the period of notice required prior to a rent increase on residential property and the permissible amount of such rent increases.
Oppose	HB422	to create a public county registry of the monthly rent charged by landlords for each owned unit.	Municipal and County Government	Wed 1/18	10:45 AM	LOB Room 301-303	This bill creates a public registry of rents.
Oppose	HB295	relative to requiring all selectboard and school board meetings to be recorded and broadcast live online.	Municipal and County Government	Wed 1/18	2:00 PM	LOB Room 301-303	This bill requires public sessions of the boards of selectmen and school boards to be video recorded and live-streamed.
Of Interest	HB416	relative to membership on certain local land use boards.	Municipal and County Government	Wed 1/18	2:30 PM	LOB Room 301-303	This bill prohibits certain persons from being elected or appointed or sitting on any zoning board of adjustment, planning board, or board of selectmen of the town in which they reside.
Support	HB434	relative to flying drones in state parks.	Resources, Recreation and Development	Wed 1/18	11:15 AM	LOB Room 305-307	This bill allows for the commercial and recreational use of drones or small unmanned aircraft in state parks subject to exceptions and limitations. The bill also establishes fees and authorizes fines to be assessed for violations.
Oppose	HB143	relative to wiretapping to record conversations related to domestic violence.	Criminal Justice and Public Safety	Thu 1/19	10:00 AM	LOB Room 202-204	This bill allows a person to make an audio or video recording, or both, without the consent of the person being recorded for the purpose of obtaining evidence of domestic violence. Such recording shall be admissible as evidence.
Support	HB201	relative to changing the penalties for driving without a license.	Criminal Justice and Public Safety	Thu 1/19	11:30 AM	LOB Room 202-204	This bill changes the penalties for driving without a license to a violation, unless the individualis convicted for second time in a 12-month period.
Support	HB464	relative to eligible students in the education freedom account program.	Education	Thu 1/19	9:30 AM	LOB Room 205-207	This bill expands the definition of who is an eligible student qualifying under the education freedom accounts program.
Support	HB367	relative to eligibility of students in the education freedom account program.	Education	Thu 1/19	11:00 AM	LOB Room 205-207	This bill increases the household income level based on the federal poverty guidelines for the eligibility of students to participate in the education freedom account program.
Oppose	HB380	relative to non-academic surveys administered by a public school or a chartered public school to its students.	Education	Thu 1/19	1:00 PM	LOB Room 205-207	This bill makes changes to the requirements for school district or chartered public school policies governing the administration of non-academic surveys or questionnaires.
Of Interest	HB399	allowing for a testing exception for graduation from high school.	Education	Thu 1/19	1:45 PM	LOB Room 205-207	This bill requires the department of education to design and administer a high school diploma equivalency test which would except students age 13 or older who pass the test from school attendance requirements. The bill also provides a private right of action to enforce the provisions of the bill.
Oppose	HB45	establishing a committee to study student loan forgiveness in New Hampshire.	Education	Thu 1/19	2:30 PM	LOB Room 205-207	This bill establishes a committee to study student loan forgiveness in New Hampshire.
Oppose	HB258	establishing a certification for animal chiropractors.	Executive Departments and Administration	Thu 1/19	1:30 PM	LOB Room 306-308	This bill establishes a certification for animal chiropractors.
Support	HB409	relative to nonresident licensure by the board of barbering, cosmetology, and esthetics.	Executive Departments and Administration	Thu 1/19	2:15 PM	LOB Room 306-308	This bill modifies the requirements for nonresident licensure by the board of barbering, cosmetology, and esthetics.
Oppose	HB320	relative to free speech in interactive computer services.	Judiciary	Thu 1/19	9:00 AM	LOB Room 206-208	This bill prohibits, with limited exception, censorship of speech on interactive computer services social media platforms. The bill establishes a civil right of action for violation of the statute.
Support	HB314	relative to the expectation of privacy in the collection and use of personal information.	Judiciary	Thu 1/19	10:00 AM	LOB Room 206-208	This bill regulates the collection, retention, and use of personal information and establishes a cause of action for violations of an individual’s expectation of privacy in personal information.
Support	HB149	relative to the handling of requests made under the right-to-know law.	Judiciary	Thu 1/19	10:30 AM	LOB Room 206-208	This bill requires periodic updates to the requestor when a request is made under the right-to-know law.
Of Interest	HB254	relative to remote participation in public meetings under the right to know law.	Judiciary	Thu 1/19	11:00 AM	LOB Room 206-208	This bill modifies the requirements for remote participation in public meetings under the right to know law.
Support	HB289	relative to consultation with legal counsel under the right to know law.	Judiciary	Thu 1/19	11:30 AM	LOB Room 206-208	This bill prohibits a public official from retaining legal counsel for the purpose of evading compliance with the right to know law and makes violation of the requirement a misdemeanor.
Support	HB307	relative to attorney’s fees in actions under the right to know law.	Judiciary	Thu 1/19	1:00 PM	LOB Room 206-208	This bill requires the court to issue a final judgment in favor of the requester before attorney’s fees are awarded under the right to know law.
Oppose	HB308	relative to a quorum for meetings open to the public to include remote presence.	Judiciary	Thu 1/19	1:30 PM	LOB Room 206-208	This bill removes the emergency exception requirement for remote presence of members to constitute a quorum for meetings open to the public.
Of Interest	HB321	relative to minutes from nonpublic sessions under the right to know law.	Judiciary	Thu 1/19	2:00 PM	LOB Room 206-208	This bill requires public bodies to review meeting minutes withheld from public disclosure at least every 10 years to determine whether they should continue to be withheld. Minutes not reviewed after 10 years shall be made public.
Of Interest	HB347	establishing a superior court land use review docket.	Judiciary	Thu 1/19	2:30 PM	LOB Room 206-208	This bill establishes the land use review docket in the superior court.
Oppose	HB57	relative to the state minimum hourly rate.	Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services	Thu 1/19	10:00 AM	LOB Room 305-307	This bill increases the minimum hourly rate, increases the base rate for tipped employees, and adjusts both rates annually based on the most recent 12-month average of the consumer price index. The bill also requires a youth minimum wage for employees under 18 years of age.
Oppose	HB48	relative to employee protections from COVID-19 in the workplace.	Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services	Thu 1/19	1:00 PM	LOB Room 305-307	This bill establishes COVID-19 related workplace rights for employees.
Oppose	HB74	relative to an employee’s unused earned time.	Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services	Thu 1/19	1:30 PM	LOB Room 305-307	This bill requires an employer to pay an employee for unused earned time.
Oppose	HB82	relative to employment protection for participants in the therapeutic cannabis program.	Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services	Thu 1/19	2:30 PM	LOB Room 305-307	This bill prohibits an employer from refusing to hire, or terminating the employment of a qualified patient of the New Hampshire therapeutic cannabis program solely on the basis of a positive drug test.
Oppose	HB118	prohibiting employers from engaging in certain anti-union activities.	Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services	Thu 1/19	3:00 PM	LOB Room 305-307	This bill prohibits employers from requiring employees to attend or participate in anti-union training.
Support	HB44	relative to permissible residential units in a residential zone.	Municipal and County Government	Thu 1/19	1:30 PM	LOB Room 301-303	This bill requires that local legislative bodies permit by right certain single-family lots in residential districts to be used for up to 4 residential units.
Oppose	HB90	relative to the municipal planning master plan.	Municipal and County Government	Thu 1/19	2:15 PM	LOB Room 301-303	This bill adds the authority for local planning master plans to contain sections on transition to renewable energy and other relevant topics.
Of Interest	HB292	establishing a criminal penalty for theft by a public servant.	Criminal Justice and Public Safety	Fri 1/20	10:00 AM	LOB Room 202-204	This bill establishes a criminal penalty for theft by a public servant who authorizes payment for legal actions against the municipality, and creates a right of action against such public servants.
Support	HB216	exempting dimethyltryptamine from the controlled drug act.	Criminal Justice and Public Safety	Fri 1/20	1:30 PM	LOB Room 202-204	This bill exempts dimethyltryptamine from the controlled drug act.
Support	HB144	restoring firearm ownership rights to ex-felons.	Criminal Justice and Public Safety	Fri 1/20	2:15 PM	LOB Room 202-204	This bill provides that a non-violent felon who has completed the term of incarceration, and all other conditions of the sentence, shall have the right to possess and use a firearm.
Support	HB31	repealing the prohibition on the possession or sale of blackjacks, slung shots, and metallic knuckles.	Criminal Justice and Public Safety	Fri 1/20	2:45 PM	LOB Room 202-204	This bill repeals the prohibition, penalty, and exceptions relating to the carrying and possessing with intent to sell a black jack, slung shot, or metallic knuckles.
Support	HB229	relative to requiring an official declaration of war for the activation of the New Hampshire national guard.	State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs	Fri 1/20	10:00 AM	LOB Room 206-208	This bill limits the activation of the New Hampshire national guard to only those times where the United States Congress has passed an official action pursuant to Article I, Section 8 of the United States Constitution.
Of Interest	HB269	relative to limiting the authority of New Hampshire delegates to policymaking conventions.	State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs	Fri 1/20	10:30 AM	LOB Room 206-208	This bill: I. Establishes a procedure for the selection of delegates to an inter/intrastate policy-making convention. II. Limits the authority of delegates to policymaking conventions to only those granted by the New Hampshire legislature. III. Creates a procedure for recalling and replacing delegates to policymaking conventions who act outside of the scope of the authority granted to them by the New Hampshire legislature.

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There are places, almost all of them in America, where it is “legal” to kill babies up to or even at the time of birth. Advocates sell this practice, everywhere else labeled accurately as infanticide, as women’s health – regardless of its effect on women or their health.

Some Republicans in the US House advanced legislation that suggests that a living breathing baby outside the womb, whether it happens to have been born deliberately or survived an attempted murder, has a right to live.

H.R.26 – Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act in summary,

“…establishes requirements for the degree of care a health care practitioner must provide in the case of a child born alive following an abortion or attempted abortion.

Specifically, a health care practitioner who is present must (1) exercise the same degree of care as would reasonably be provided to any other child born alive at the same gestational age, and (2) ensure the child is immediately admitted to a hospital. Additionally, a health care practitioner or other employee who has knowledge of a failure to comply with the degree-of-care requirements must immediately report such failure to law enforcement.

A health care practitioner who fails to provide the required degree of care, or a health care practitioner or other employee who fails to report such failure, is subject to criminal penalties—a fine, up to five years in prison, or both.

An individual who intentionally kills or attempts to kill a child born alive is subject to prosecution for murder.

The bill bars the criminal prosecution of a mother of a child born alive under this bill and allows her to bring a civil action against a health care practitioner or other employee for violations.”

Killing the newborn is murder. Denying it care can result in fines, prison, or both. The mother cannot be prosecuted.

New Hampshire’s congressional rehires, Annie “Kill ’em” Kuster and Chris”Hand me the Forceps” Pappas (not that he would ever even watch such a procedure), voted against protecting the living, breathing infants. They had to protect their big-dollar donations from international global interests like Planned Parenthood.

Money is more important than life, including the lives of girls who would one day be women if it had been illegal to murder them.

The bill did pass despite their dissent, 220-210. It moves on to the US Senate, where DCs other “ambassadors to New Hampshire” are expected to vote the same way, not that it will ever see daylight on that side of Capitol Hill.

 

 

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We should never again expect to live in an America that is not in a state of emergency when a Democrat occupies the Oval Office. It is the moral equivalent of war all the time. A footing from which the Left can perform outrageous feats of graft and tyranny.

Woodrow Wilson, the leading left-wing light, is regarded as the founder of war fascism. His resulted in progressive advances upon the US Constitution and American culture. Years later, Roosevelt used crisis as an excuse for the exponential growth of government, and we’ve never looked back.

These days, it’s the COVID emergency, which Herr Biden has just extended again; and will again (and again). He won’t be allowed to end it even if he were inclined or mentally fit to imagine it. There is a slim chance he’d end it as a campaign flourish in 2024 but were he to “win*” it would be promptly reintroduced, but this seems unlikely.

There will be some crisis of their own making. They’ll use it to justify buy-in on more Biden. We can’t change chief executives during this crisisisisisisisisisisisis…

The pandemic emergency works well for them. I do not believe the emergency use drug authorizations can continue if there is no emergency. No EUA vaccines or any other failed Emeregneyc Authorized money laundering after-vaccine “supplements” to enrich favored interests in the pharmaceutical industry and their bureaucratic or political pals.

They seem smitten with medical socialism and the control it offers.

Those are not the only reasons. There is a manifold of diabolic advantages to this continuous state of “war” doing business as a public health emergency. It created an emergency caused by the state of emergency—the genuine public health emergency resulting from the policies and practices since being introduced.

The party of death and depopulation can’t be losing sleep over any of that. And with millions still wrapped in the blankets of fear the democrats provided, a measurable breakwater still exists to repel the rising tide of concern. A wall to must the sound of dissent.

In Canada, they plan to make dissent illegal (fines, loss of professional licenses). American Marxists do not have that option, though they are making inroads by labeling debate as hate. The censorship thing was going gangbusters as well until the Musk fellow began exposing the shotgun marriage between federal censors and social media.

Keep that one handy the next time some groomer starts squawking about banning books you can read online or get shipped anywhere in the country in a day or two. Banning? Seriously. That’s what the Frist Amendment is supposed to do to the agencies and actors who violated the actual right to free speech which does not protect giving minors access to pornography.

Talk about a state of emergency.

 

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