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 – Thursday SITREP Edition.

 

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Also:

Whip knot:

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/whip-knot.mp4

 

 

 

I’ve bought a length of rope and am starting to practice these.  And teach them to the kids.  This is definitely a hands-on thing where practice-practice-practice is essential.

 

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Top of the fold:

Environmentalists Are Killing People | Power Line (powerlineblog.com)

The Roman era was warmer than today by something like two-odd C.  The Minoan period even warmer than that.

 

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Anyone think this will really work?  What about the welding wire?  But interesting nonetheless.

 

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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)

Purpose Driven Homestead – Our family is on a journey to rediscover the ways that we can be more self-sufficient in our own backyards. (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:

9 Things To Do Before The 2023 Economic Collapse (askaprepper.com)

Broad, but thought-provoking.

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Top 10 Survival Scout Articles of 2022 – My Patriot Supply

Lots of good info.

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The Most Realistic Prepper TV Series You Need To Watch (askaprepper.com)

I’ve heard of most, and used to watch Survivorman specifically.

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DIY Solar Water Heaters To Cut Down On Energy Bills (askaprepper.com)

IMHO the biggest two drawbacks are:

1. Hooking it into an existing house’s system.
2. Hiding it, as such a system – in most places – is a dead give-away there’s a prepper living there.

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Related to Spicy Time:

 

 

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Greed, Power and the Tantalizing Acceptance of Wokeism (substack.com)

If not that, and I agree that statistically it’s an impossibility, there’s a real bloodbath coming. The United States has remained afloat on the sea of deception for a long time. Part of that is self-deception that continues today in the “that’ll never happen here, not in America” belief. It already has happened here, in case one is unable to align the images to match that of America under the pandemic and the Soviet Union of the 20th Century.

RTWT.

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What Was the Most Insane Piece of Vaccine Propaganda You’ve Seen? (substack.com)

I’m including this here because if / when the FedGov decides we’re all to be officially named enemies of The State, what kind of absolute tsunami of agitprop will be deployed against us.

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(Link to AZQUOTES per their policy.)

 

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What Level of Tyranny Will You Accept? – The Burning Platform

How bad does it have to get?

 

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Wouldn’t air holes at the bottom help?  But then it wouldn’t be sealable.

 

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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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I just started a FORAGING group on Gab.  I’ll check a couple of times a week for people who have asked to join.

 

Foraging: One-up articles

Whatever You Do, Don’t Chop Down This Backyard Tree – Ask a Prepper

Slippery elm.

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Aztec broccoli?

Huauzontles Information, Recipes and Facts (specialtyproduce.com)

Wonder if this will grow near me.  OTOH, is it invasive and aggressive?

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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):

Dangerous Shortage of Ordinary Medicines – www.independentsentinel.com

Generally, the shortages are mostly an outcome of the U.S. outsourcing drug ingredient procurement and manufacture to China and India.  Many companies in both of those countries have been struggling with operational interruptions as a result of COVID-19.

To call this outsourcing of critical chemical production a crime is understating it.  More:

The Explanation for the Current Drug Shortage in America Is Far More Nefarious Than You May Think – POLITICAL MOONSHINE

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Remember the food crisis warnings?

My single biggest issue in prepping is my wife, who – despite growing up in the USSR and living through the shortages that resulted in its breakup – does not see anything on the horizon here and thinks I’m an idiot.  My prediction is that she’ll be more angry at me for having a “secret prep stash” and having our kids fed than at the coming situation where everyone is hungry.

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Food processing plants are under attack.

EcoHealth Alliance Whistleblower Dr. Andrew Huff (@AGHuff) explains what's actually going on here.

WATCH: pic.twitter.com/r4a1qaz65s

— The Absolute Truth with Emerald Robinson (@AbsoluteWithE) January 5, 2023

 

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Deep Stater Arrested for Sabotaging Nation’s Food Supply | Adina Kutnicki

It cannot be coincidence.

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The Disturbing Details Behind the Bird Flu and Egg Prices – American Thinker

Many factors.

 

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Gardening, Food Storage, and Related:

 

 

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How to process BACKYARD chickens – STEP-BY-STEP (rumble.com)

Please be advised that this is an educational video about how to process chickens [GRAPHIC at times]. While we do not show the dispatch of the chickens, we do show step-by-step on how to process and clean your birds.

And I’m adding them to the PREP site list above.

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Honey: its medicinal property and antibacterial activity – PMC (nih.gov)

The only food that won’t spoil.

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How Long Does Vacuum Sealed Food Last? – Ask a Prepper

Plus water and O2 absorbers!

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Planting cucumbers early can help farmers avoid downy mildew, reveals study – NaturalNews.com

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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:

 

 

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Muslims and Black Commit 81% of the Attacks on Jews in NYC – Geller Report

And yet we obsess over the Nazis in today’s world.  In general, and especially if you are a “person of pallor” – diversity is generally not a strength in your community.

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90 Miles From Tyranny : Boom: 5M new gun owners, with 58% black and 40% women (ninetymilesfromtyranny.blogspot.com)

GREAT image at the link.  And just like that, freedom takes a step forward:

 

 

 

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The Atlantic on the Mysterious Meaning of the 2nd Amendment (independentsentinel.com)

These people sure don’t give up. As Democrats and RINOs make the country far more dangerous and inhospitable, they want us unarmed; now, why is that?

What do you think?

Related:

“The Grotesque Lies That Keep America’s Phony “Gun Debate” Going” – GAT Daily (Guns Ammo Tactical)

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In NH it’s my understanding that you must inform the police if you are carrying.  Ayoob recommends always notifying under the “no surprises” principle.  A lot of good info on state laws here:

Handgunlaw.us

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5 Best Guns to Have Against Looting Rioters – Ask a Prepper

I will disagree on one thing.  If you’re at the point where you have to shoot, MHO is that you want the person not getting up again.  Because in a SHTF situation the person who gets up and gets away… almost certainly will be back.  With friends.  Again just MHO.

 

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Concluding thoughts if I’m moved to comment:

 

 

Violators will be turned in enthusiastically.  Remember this bit of wisdom from Huxley:

 

 

These people TRULY BELIEVE that if we don’t deconstruct, depopulate, and then completely remake society all life on earth is doomed.  Let me repeat: this is a matter of absolute faith for them.  Compared to life on earth, in their view, what is life, liberty, or the pursuit of happiness?

Column: ’60 Minutes’ Makes Fake News About Humans Ruining Earth | Newsbusters

 

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Palate cleansers:

 

 

Definitely.

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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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Unless we are willing to restrict the powers of government even in respects where it might be used for good purposes, we shall not succeed in preventing an indefinite growth of government powers. To allow everything which seems expedient for the achievement of a desirable end is to dispense with all moral principles. The submission to rules which must be observed irrespective of whether in the particular instance their infringement is harmful or not, is the main condition for the possibility of order in a free society. And to these rules the state should be no less subject than the individual.

-F.A. Hayek

To a fault, we have been conditioned to believe that Government is Good. Sure – but only to a point and I believe that point has been passed. Every time we run up to the national debt ceiling, I hear cries that we are about to descend into a living hell, that the credit and faith in the Federal Government is at risk, and that we must honor the debts that politicians and bureaucrats have run up…

…or all is lost.

What we hear is that we MUST pour burning financial coals upon our young ones (and those not yet born) is to again satisfy the demands of the past and present spending. Little is ever heard of the alternative:

How about CUTTING spending so as to not reach this point again?

Instead, those of us calling for fiscal sanity are the equivalent of terrorists as they mash their feet to go even faster in whipping money out of the Treasury.  And a little while later, the cycle repeats itself.

We saw this writ small this past week when we saw how the sausage-making, in the form of deciding on a Speaker of the House, showed the LARGE flaws in having such a large government whose just 1/3 of our Constitutional Republic being inoperative.  Not able to vote in the Speaker meant that the new Representatives weren’t legal and unable to do anything with ripple effects flowing downstream.

And EVERY point of “failure” was declared a disaster.

Never, however, is anyone in Power willing to push the idea that it IS that way because Government has taken on Powers at the Federal level to which they are not entitled. Instead of being small, distinct, and apart from Society, it has entangled itself far too deeply in making Society dependent on it.

This is the result of Progressive thinking that ALWAYS lifts Powers from the People and centralizes it.  There is NEVER the thought of devolving that Power back down the chain.

Even as it is now needed and necessary. The People should NEVER be held hostage because of a dysfunctional Government.

(H/T Cafe Hayek)

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Have you noticed how Sun-King Sununu … consistent with the Democrat that he actually is … ALWAYS resorts to calling people who disagree with him names? According to His Wokeness, if you disagree with him, that makes you an “extremist” or a “secessionist” or a “conspiracy theorist,” blah, blah, blah. In the case of the twenty House Republicans who initially opposed Kevin McCarthy’s bid to be Speaker it was “morons”:

Well here is a list of the REFORMS that Speaker McCarthy agreed to … which apparently His Wokeness would consider moronic:

These are the concessions Kevin McCarthy made to get the votes. Do keep in mind that 90% of the GOP pundit-class fought against these things for the last few days. You would have had none of this if they got their way.

Same people who supported “15 days to slow the spread”. pic.twitter.com/MsujoTLief

— Jesse Kelly (@JesseKellyDC) January 7, 2023

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At one o’clock today, I hit the pause button. I stood and watched the TV. I turned up the volume so I could feel the emotions. And I cried. The Buffalo Bills were running onto their field of play carrying banners with the number 3 displayed proudly. Cannons exploded, smoke rose, the crowd went crazy, and the near tragedy of last Monday night turned into a celebration. Buffalo, New England, the NFL family, and the country are united in the celebration of the life of Damar Hamlin.

Six days ago, Damar Hamlin got up from a seemingly ordinary tackle, collapsed to the turf, and died. We later found that Damar’s heart had stopped twice. It was only because of the incredibly talented trainers and EMTs that they were able to get his heart beating, put him on oxygen, and quickly get him to a nearby hospital that Damar had a chance to survive. The country held its collective breath, waiting each day for some positive news from Cincinnati. Remarkably, the word got better every day as Hamlin fought to regain his life and health. Damar’s conditioning and the prayers of millions willed him back from death.

The collapse of Number 3 brought out the best in the fans of the NFL, sports, and those who cannot tell a football from a basketball. Tweets, Facebook posts, and scoreboards in NFL stadiums all called for prayers for a young man who nearly lost his life playing a game he loves. The GoFundMe page that Damar set up to buy toys for needy children in Buffalo swelled to over $8 Million. The goal for the site was a paltry $125,000. Thanks to the outpouring of love for Damar Hamlin, there will be some happy children in Buffalo.

My Patriots are playing the Bills this week in Buffalo. It is tough to root against the Bills as many thought it impossible they could pull themselves together to play. The fact that the Bills ran back the opening kickoff for a touchdown was a fairy-tale opening to the game. It will be an uphill battle if the Pats are to pull off the upset. But does it really matter? Damar Hamlin was sitting up in his hospital bed, alive, well, and rooting for his brothers in Buffalo Blue. I almost found myself pulling for the Bills. I am not sure they need my support. But a young man recovering in Cincinnati still needs all of our prayers.

An irony of this week is that kneeling and praying are not under fire. When darkness came, and a young man was clinging to life, grown men cried, hugged, kneeled, and prayed. Even though many of these people turned their backs on him lately, God was there to answer the call. How else do you explain that Damar died twice last Monday night, and today we celebrate his recovery?

 

 

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“A plain reading of the statutory language, paired with close consideration of the mechanics of a semi-automatic firearm, reveals that a bump stock is excluded from the technical definition of ‘machinegun’ set forth in the Gun Control Act and National Firearms Act.”

Related: 97.8% of Mass Shootings Occur in Gun-Free Zones

Also, from Judge Jennifer Walker Elrod’s 13-3 majority opinion.

 

A rich legal tradition supports the “well known rule” that “penal laws are to be construed strictly”…(United States v. Wiltberger). As Chief Justice Marshall explained long ago, the rule “is founded on the tenderness of the law for the rights of individuals; and on the plain principle that the power of punishment is vested in the legislative, not in the judicial department. It is the legislature, not the Court, which is to define a crime, and ordain its punishment.”

 

The current Congress will not likely propose, act on, or pass any bump stock bans, and there’s no indication that ATF intends to appeal to the US Supreme Court, but I feel confident they want that.

I’ll take the win! And maybe we should figure out a better way to make emotional pleas in favor of good guys with guns who stop shooters.

The Las Vegas Mass shooter event, much like any similar incident, catalyzes gun grabbers to punish the law-abiding who, if present, armed and able, would attempt to save lives by returning fire. The Vegas shooter was elevated in a nearby building so shooting back was never an option, not that anyone targeted was armed. But that event continues to swirl with conspiracy and plenty of legitimate questions.

Most mass shootings happen at ground level in places where shooters believe they have a force advantage. But not one so-called common-sense gun law addresses these facts. The gun-grabbers remedy is to create more gun-free zones instead of fewer, with Chicago being the poster child for why this tack is an act of planned failure.

 

 

Cargill vs Garland (Bump stock ban)

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Happy New Year! I’ve been appointed chair of the Executive Departments and Administration (ED&A) committee. We deal with the state pension system, professional licensing, administrative rules, the state building code, and the organization of the state government – so it’s a busy committee. Almost none of our bills make headlines, though!

Since the House is so closely divided between parties, my committee (and most others) is evenly split. I’m planning to have two of the subcommittees (those on government organization and rulemaking) with Democrat chairs and majorities; the Republican majority subcommittees are the ones on licensing and pensions.

I was also elected chair of JLCAR, the joint legislative committee on administrative rules. This committee confirms that agency rules (which have the force of law) comply with the actual laws and are in the public interest. Fortunately, there’s a staff of attorneys who do most of the detail work.

On January 4, the House met, as constitutionally required, to confirm the elections of the Governor and Council (spoiler alert, Chris Sununu was elected!) We also introduced the first batch of new bills. ED&A has 21 so far; I scheduled nine easy ones for next week and asked to have two redirected to more appropriate committees.

More importantly, we adopted revisions to House Rules. New deadlines, supermajority requirements to special order a bill to a different time, and language cleanup all passed without comment. Then came some changes not already approved by the Rules committee: allowing proxy voting was debated and failed, 171-204. Allowing remote or hybrid committee meetings was also debated and failed, 180-195; I was strongly opposed to both because of the possibility of abuse and because my experience with hybrid meetings in 2021 was so horrible.

Another rule change, changing the procedure for bills that tied in committee from an automatic “ought to pass” motion to the recommendation of the committee chair, had a tabling motion brought out immediately. This failed on a 188-188 tie, so we debated the original rule. I supported it since, as a committee chair, I usually have a good idea of how a bill will fare in the House, even if the committee is divided.

The opposition was based on the idea that the chair would automatically move the Republican position; I don’t believe that because first, not all tie votes are purely partisan, and secondly, taking up and debating a failing position before going to the likely motion wastes time and energy. Also, more bills are killed than passed, so “inexpedient to legislate” (kill) would make more sense as the default motion. Nonetheless, the rule change died, 184-191.

Adding a ban on deadly weapons in the chamber was debated and failed, 177-197. The news media made a big deal about this, but in fact concealed weapons have been allowed for years, only being banned when there is a Democrat majority (after the elections of 06, 08, 12, and 18.) A change to requiring 10 members, rather than one, to remove a bill from the consent calendar was debated and passed, 206-167. This was a non-partisan debate for a change! A motion to replace “prayer” with “invocation” failed 183-190 after a short, dull debate.

Then we debated changes to unanimous consent. This is a period at the end of the session where any member can sign up to speak on any topic. Memorials to deceased members used to be included, but last term, we moved them up to the beginning of the day. History lessons are popular topics. The basic idea is that if someone does not consent to the speech, he can object and a vote of the House determines if the speaker can continue. Majority vote approves continuance. So, first, we had a change to a 60% vote to continue, which passed on a voice vote; another change to allow a second objection to be raised was explained and passed, 200-173.

Committee procedure was the topic of the next two rule changes proposed. First, a requirement for alternating pro and con speakers in testimony was debated and failed 114-256. This is usually the case, but the actual order of testimony is up to the chair’s discretion. (for example, if there are a lot more “pro” speakers than “con,” alternating should be 2 or 3 pros, then a con.) The other change was to codify good practice, which is that a committee member who testifies for or against a bill cannot go back behind the table and ask questions during the hearing. After a brief explanation, this passed 200-169.

At the end of the session, a member got up for unanimous consent to speak about the events of January 6 in Washington. I know this person, so I quietly went out to the anteroom, withdrawing my consent, when someone objected, and they called for a vote. I returned and started to vote to let him continue (I believe in free speech, even if I don’t want to listen to it) until Matt Santonastaso pointed out that he believed in free speech, too, but on the speaker’s own time… The vote to stop the speech was decisive.

Representative Carol McGuire

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The most famous fake Indian, Senator Lizard Warren, continues to lead “her people” onto the progressive reservation by making the whole nation her plantation. Less famous Susan Taffe Reed, a Pretendian at Dartmouth, was the director of the Native American Program when busted but got a full-time side hustle in administration.

Related: There Can Be No Indigenous People’s Day – The North American Continent Doesn’t Have Any

The newst Alumnus of Pretendian U was working at the University of Wisconsin.

 

“Two-spirit” Kay LeClaire (pictured), who called herself “nibiiwakamigkwe” and founded the “queer Indigenous artists’ collective” known as giige, was outed on a message board called New Age Fraud Forum, according to a January 3 article in Madison 365. 

LeClaire was a “community-leader-in-residence” for the public university who focused on “Indigenous craftwork” and tattooing.

 

Kay was big on tanning (most French and American “Indians” are), and it looks like she probably colored her hair a few shades darker than natural. Neither is a sin, but the report says she was sensitive when folks brought up how much she tanned, and then there’s that bit about lying.

Lying and being (most likely) an intolerable Social Justice harpy who did the so-called indigenous folks wrong by stealing their heritage for personal and professional advantage. Just like Liz Warren and Susan Taffe Reed.

And after reading her non-apology apology, she should run for the US Senate.

 

I am sorry […] A lot of information has come to my attention since late December. I am still processing it all and do not yet know how to respond adequately. What I can do now is offer change. Moving forward, my efforts will be towards reducing harm by following the directions provided by Native community members and community-specified proxies.

 

It’s Wisconsin. They’ll probably elect her in a landslide.

 

HT | Legal Insurrection

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On January 3rd, the progressive advocacy website called New Hampshire Bulletin posted, Housing, child care to get special attention this session. It could alternatively be titled, The NHGOP Is NOT Representing GOP Voters.

The gist of it is that Speaker has named two “special committees” because:

New Hampshire residents and businesses have struggled with shortages of both housing and child care in recent years. The state’s low housing stock helped drive home prices up during the pandemic, pricing out many first-time homebuyers and dissuading some new employees from moving into the state. And the scarcity of affordable child care has forced some parents to give up job opportunities in order to take care of their families, another barrier to hiring efforts.

In plain English, the New Hampshire UniParty wants more “workforce housing.” The NHGOP wants it because they want cheap labor for their corporate masters. The NH-Dems want it because it attracts more Tik Tok voters to the State … voters who tend to vote Democrat by a three-to-one margin.

I only have anecdotal evidence to go on, but I don’t know any GOP-voters who think New Hampshire needs more Tik Tok voters.  More importantly, NHGOP State Reps and Senators who support “workforce … i.e. Tik Tok voter … housing” are negating the votes of GOP voters. It is fair to say, therefore, that these NHGOP Reps and Senators are NOT representing GOP voters.

And, by the way, isn’t the free market solution to a deficiency of workers businesses RAISING wages in order to attract the needed workers? Apparently the free market works differently in New Hampshire … rather than raising wages to address an alleged worker shortage, businesses instead receive subsidized housing from state government.

Note also the arrogance of New Hampshire Bulletin … which reflects the arrogance of the New Hampshire UniParty … staying home to care for one’s family is seen as ignoble and demeaning: Good grief woman! Bad enough that you are not getting an abortion, but you plan to stay home and raise your children yourself! What is wrong with you!

How does importing a bunch of Tik Tok voters and encouraging parents NOT to stay home to raise their children make New Hampshire a better State?

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We spent a good bit of energy focusing on the 2022 hurricane season in part becasue the experts said it would be above average. Regular readers will know they were wrong. It was below average. But now we know how far below.

Related: It’s Not Getting Warmer …

 

 

 

2022 had the lowest cumulative global cyclone energy in 42 years. Global, as in the whole planet. Forty-two years go so far back that it predates the political mythology of global warming itself and one of its many bold lies. That more CO2 in the atmosphere means more storms and more severe storms. But the pattern is cyclic and trending downward.

Now, if we were like the New York Times, we’d be obligated to present the facts like this.

 

Global Cyclone Energy Continues 7-year Collapse to Record Low!

 

It is accurate, but we’re not blaming rising CO2 for the trend, short as it is. The odds are excellent, given the history, that 2023 or 2024 will bounce back, giving the climate Karens something to write about. And while we’d be good with the audience of a New York Times, on our pages, most of the climate reporting is to make sport of how bad they are at predicting or reporting what the consensus insists, despite it never happening.

This circumstance is not wasted by a faction that yells louder and demands more of what won’t do what they claim to fix what’s not broken because the true goal is money and power – controlling the energy markets to control the population.

Somewhere up the fraud ladder, they know what their agenda will bring. It will require them to have that control. And keeping it means the truth must be hidden, warped to fit the narrative. And sure, everyone does that, I suppose. No one wants to admit they were that wrong about everything. Picking cherries might be the only true “pandemic” in the internet age, but the climate cult has put itself in a unique position.

It has to prove its predictions are still valid despite never getting one right and that its prescriptions even address the problem were it real.

Neither is true, but they control the message we refuse to repeat, so they label us deniers which is correct in one respect. We deny that there’s a problem or that your solutions could solve it if there were one.

 

 

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J6 has come and gone, but not without President* Lying Joe Biden and Vice President* Kamala “what border” Harris opening their crooked little mouths and lying so blatantly that even Democrats should be embarrassed by it. They won’t, but they should.

Robert Spencer, writing about the fraud of J6 at PJ Media, notes that,

 

On Friday, Biden even canonized saints for this new religion, awarding the Presidential Citizens Medal to twelve (twelve, just like the apostles!) people who supposedly held the line against the vicious “insurrectionists.” These twelve, he declared, “embody the best before, during and after January the 6, 2021.” He claimed that “history will remember your names. They’ll remember your courage. They’ll remember your bravery. They’ll remember your extraordinary commitment to your fellow Americans.” Old Joe didn’t say anything, of course, about Ashli Babbitt or Rosanne Boyland, Trump supporters who were actually killed that day. He did mention Capitol Police Officer William Evans, whom he claimed died due to “threats by these sick insurrectionists.” Wow, those must have been some strongly worded threats indeed. But the New York Times, in a Thursday recap of those who died “in connection with the Capitol riot,” doesn’t even mention Evans.

 

Evans, as Spencer notes, dies three months later “when a Nation of Islam supporter named Noah Green rammed him with his car.”

 

The driver, Noah Green, 25, came out of the car with a knife and was shot to death by a third police officer after he lunged at him.

Investigators believe Green had been delusional and increasingly having suicidal thoughts.

 

But not an insurrection? There’s no April 13 committee? Nope, just lying, Joe, aped by his media homunculus (or is that homonculi?).

Not to be outdone, the ‘vice’ president said this, again, care of PJ Media.

 

“On January 6th, 2021, American democracy endured a violent assault. Armed with deadly weapons and animated by lies and hate, insurrectionists invaded the United States Capitol in an attempt to overturn a lawful election and silence the voice of the people.”

 

Armed with deadly weapons? What, mean tweets? Did they sue cross-language? Armed only with words, the protesters who passed theory the Capitol doors opened for them by the Capitol police hurling scathing epithets like deadly weapons murdering the officer’s confidence such that all they could do is give directions to the invaders.

The only armed individuals were the government agents, like the one who got off Scot-free (I’m Scottish, I can say that) after murdering Ashli Babbitt, who has been denigrated for standing there long enough to get herself killed.

It’s absurd.

If you’d like to talk about extremism, how about extreme falsehood peddled into the history books as truth? Not a new practice by any means, but has it always been this bad? I suppose it has, but for the American Constitution’s Free speech protections. They protect the right (theoretically) of other voices or observers present to offer alternative views.

The Dems hate free speech so much that they’ve labeled everything with which they disagree hate speech.

 

a : intense hostility and aversion usually deriving from fear, anger, or sense of injury

b : extreme dislike or disgust : ANTIPATHY, LOATHING

“Had a great hate for free speech.”

 

 

While they can say whatever they like and if you call them out on their lies… it’s hate speech.

 

 

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I am grateful to hear that you still refer to the January 6 protests of two years ago as “riots.” Grateful? Yes, because it serves as a reminder of the propaganda you spew.

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You called the events in Minneapolis, Seattle, Portland, and Wisconsin “mostly peaceful protests,” even though there were murders, arson, looting, and wholesale destruction of private property.

What makes the events of January 6 qualify as a “riot?” The only person killed was an unarmed female shot by a government agent.

Your bias is far too obvious to be accidental. It’s no wonder you are now referred to as the “Lamestream Media.”

Now, go back to broadcasting government talking points and pretending it is news.

 

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An act of congress is responsible for some good news that’s bad news. The Biden administration is required to file a report through the Department of Energy, whose result verifies an opposing narrative. They couldn’t have liked it that much.

 

The report, mandated by Congress and finalized by the Department of Energy (DOE) in December 2022, estimated that the Keystone XL project would have created between 16,149 and 59,000 jobs during its construction and had a positive economic impact of between $3.4 billion and $9.6 billion.

 

This contradicts the original position of the Biden administration when Sleepy Joe whacked it on day one. “It concluded there were limited job impacts, with approximately 50 permanent jobs estimated to have been created were  the pipeline operational.”  They counted jobs to maintain it, not build it. They left out the economic benefits of construction. That is what the new report reveals. These are some big numbers, but small, in my opinion, compared to the larger picture.

Biden didn’t just put a stake in the heart of Keystone XL. He ran roughshod over fracking, new oil leases, and all fossil fuels. Something he promised to do during his campaign. End them in those words. They account for hundreds of thousands of jobs whose wages end up everywhere in the economy. The one the Bidenistas inherited was swarming with energy jobs. Oil, gas, natural gas, and propane were all more affordable and abundant. We were leading the world in exports and reduced costs domestically. The extra pocket change found its way into the economy, boosting wages for teenagers, people of color, women, and everyone.

Don’t get me wrong. Biden’s green economy delivers lots of economic prosperity … to China.

And it makes us increasingly dependent on our enemies for fossil fuels when the green dream becomes a nightmare.

And it will.

 

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TMEW and I have been ill most of the week and we’re just getting back on our feet – really bad cases of the flu.  I generally don’t get sick often but when I do, it’s full beast mode. The typical aches, pains, low-grade temp – but no coughing for me. What I did get is that it “went” in the base of my spine and I got sciatica back that I have experienced in decades. So bedridden. Add in brain fog and I couldn’t string two sentences together and couldn’t sit at my desk.

So, in between sleeping a lot, I did a lot of watching of the US House Speaker votes. Pretty much what I expected in the first 10 votes and then the Freedom Caucus members’ insistence that the “system” be changed to be more “membership friendly” than Leadership “top/down/command” decries (sound familiar to other places?). They were vilified as being rebels, insurgents, traitors, not team players, and a whole other string of invectives.

But they wouldn’t budge. They got their agreement and they changed their votes for “others not McCarthy” to “Present” (which meant they were not voting but it did lower the threshold to get to the majority of those voting (finally down to Jefferies and McCarthy” and last night at 1 am (or so), McCarthy finally won on the 15th round. By two votes.

The rest was pure ceremonies the first of which was to have Jefferies give a short speech and hand the Gavel to McCarthy.  He had but one job to do.

He #FAILED.

What a sanctimonious, self-righteous, self-promoting, grievance-mongering individual. Jeffries couldn’t even muster a few moments to recognize that it wasn’t about him but should have been about the “House continuity”, traditions, and a bit of bipartisanship. Instead, he made it about him, boasting about what the Democrats had “given” to the People”.

And then he went all Nasty in comparing adjectives favorable to Democrats to using adjectives denigrating Republicans (yes, he went there and used “racism”). Instead of being a congratulatory event, he turned it into a Democrat Rally Speech.   While you can see it right from the get-go, if you are short on time, the worst starts around 11:00 (although to get the full import, listen to the whole thing).  Full shade:

“A moment of Transition. From a year of Accomplishment to a year of Ambiguity”.

And gets worse from there. Quickly. Oh it sounded good but then he went on a tear comparing “Democrat Principles” to “Republican ones” at 13:15”

Schmuck. He made Ray Buckley (NH Democrat Chair – but who knows for how much longer?) look like a choir boy.  And it was easy to see that he was enjoying this immensely.

“Maturity over Mar-a-Lago”. Yep, this was a full-on declaration of war. As Kurt Schlicter at Townhall has said “Now go crush them” (paraphrasing).  No mercy.

Yes, McCarthy lost the 14 times.  And then won the 15th.

Hakeem should now be known as the guy who lost 15 times straight.

Oh, and at 14:43, there’s Annie Kuster in a dark blue suit with her normal “Raise the Roof” hands in the air jumping up and down schtick, just eating it up.

NEVER be persuaded that she “bridges the divide” – that’s an act. In the wee hours of this morning, her true Progressive/Republican-hating self was there on display.

Yes, Chris Pappas was here – two rows behind her and to the right.

And Hakeem?  He sulked the rest of the time as McCarthy took his victory lap, gave his speech, and swore in the House members.

And no, WMUR didn’t give Hakeem’s insouciance any coverage at all this morning.

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I personally couldn’t be more proud of the courageous 20 House Representatives in DC who risked everything for their constituents AND for those of us who are also disgusted and appalled at the feckless weak Rs in our state and in the DC Swamp… Rs who’ve done little to nothing to “right” the course of the sinking American ship!!!

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I applaud ALL 20 of them and wish them well as they are destroyed by the egomaniac vindictive Kevin McCarthy, the rest of the DC swamp, and of course, the Communist MSM!

We in New Hampshire are very familiar with this type of blowback behavior as we have witnessed the same from our very own thin-skinned infantile vindictive Governor against countless patriots, both within the Legislature and beyond when questioned or disagreed with! (We all know this to be true, don’t we??) But I digress… In closing, I just want to express that I am forever grateful for the 20 courageous DC Representatives who risked everything over the last week… Sadly our written twisted history will not be kind to you, but those of us who witnessed your fight know the truth!! Thank You!

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There is legislation brewing to take power away from your county delegation and hand it to the county commissioners. It’s probably a response to the Gunstock situation, though it could be anything.

At first glance, these all seem like they have the potential for problems but HB43 specifically. Take a look, and if you can’t attend, send a polite email expressing your concerns (if you have them) to the committee. Support. Opposition.

Len Turcotte is the Chair.

Public hearings are Wednesday, January 11th, in the Municipal and County Government Committee.

1:45  HB 43 delegates all authority for county property to the commissioners and removes the delegation from ratification.
2:15  HB 75 increases the threshold for competitive bidding in the sale of county-owned property from $300 to $3,000.
2:45  HB 83 Removes the $5K limit to purchase or repair County buildings.
3:00  HB 87 Increases the monetary cap for purchase, sale, repairs etc. from $5K to 25K.

 

Update: This was a quick note I tossed up earlier, and I’m looking at the bills now.  …

Our own Judy Aron and several other Republicans are the sponsors of these bills.

HB 43 would eliminate the need for county commissioners to get a vote of approval from the county delegation.

I’ll admit I have concerns about removing layers of accountability when it comes to public property transactions (HB43), but I’ll reserve my judgment until I can talk to Judy or other sponsors about them.

 

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Sun-King Sununu thinks he is the proverbial “smartest man in the room” … although I am sure His Wokeness prefers “smartest person” …and that he can gaslight any issue. In a recent interview with FoxNews, His Wokeness claimed that he is in total agreement with America’s Governor, Ron DeSantis, about woke, BUT that DeSantis is wrong to use the power of state government to protect his constituents from woke corporations. Here is exactly what His Wokeness said:

Sununu agreed that “we need to push back on woke policy. There’s no question about it…. the woke policies that are culturally being driven are really driving a wedge through the United States and taking us to a place where we don’t want to be as Americans.”

However, he argued, “going after private business is a whole different story…. I come from the ‘Live Free or Die’ state, and private businesses can and should act like private businesses without the fear of being punished by people that might disagree with them.”

Sununu emphasized, “while I agree with a lot of those issues that Ron brings to the table,” he does not think it is wise “to necessarily punish private businesses because they don’t agree with a policy or whatever it might be. Those types of culture wars pushing their way into the private sector, that’s definitely not I think where we want to be as Americans.”

This is VERBAL DIARRHEA. If you are not going to use the power of state government to protect your constituents from woke corporations, then you are NOT really against woke. Rather, you are simply trying to give the appearance of being against woke to anti-woke voters, without jeopardizing the support of pro-woke voters.

This is also a GROTESQUE LIE. Sun-King Sununu has no problem forcing “private businesses” to go woke:

To be clear, what Sun-King Sununu is saying is that a corporation like Disney should able to GROOM … including trying to coerce legislators to allow grooming in public schools.

Florida is where woke goes to die. New Hampshire is where woke goes to thrive. Florida is turning redder and redder. New Hampshire is turning bluer and bluer. Both States are reflections of their respective Governors.

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 Camp Constitution will hold its 15th Annual Family Camp at the Singing Hills Christian Camp https://www.singinghills.net/ Plainfield, NH. from Sunday, July 16 to Friday, July 21, 2023

 Returning instructors include Pastor David Whitney of the Institute on the Constitution; Professor Willie Soon, world-renowned astrophysicist and climate realist; Catherine White of The Constitution Decoded; Alex Newman, author and host of the Sentinel Report, and Rev. Steve Craft, Camp Constitution’s chaplain.

First-time instructors include NH State Rep Valerie McDonnell, the youngest elected official in the United States, and Vincent Ellison and author Vince Ellison. Mrs. Edith Craft returns to direct the program for the Junior Campers. In addition to the classes, the camp will offer marksmanship courses, martial arts, hiking, basketball, volleyball, wiffleball, and optional field trip, and swimming, chess, gaga, and corn hole tournaments.  Campers and staff end the day with an evening campfire.

 Camp Constitution’s annual camp is a family camp open to entire families, unaccompanied minors, and adults. The cost for the week which includes lodging, meals and class handouts is $300 for those 13 and over. $200. For campers 12 and under, and three and under with parents are free.  The camp offers an “Early Bird” discount of $50, per person by registering by May 1.   A link to the camp registration:  http://campconstitution.net/camp-registration/

 

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Do You Know Someone Who “Died Suddenly?”

People are dropping dead. All-cause mortality for 18-59-year-olds is at a record high. Stories are breaking about people too young to die and ending up dead. Locally, three police officers in Massachusetts all passed within days of each other.

 

On Wednesday, December 28, 2022, Officer [ John F. ] Santos [Plymouth County Sheriff’s Department] passed away at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston after succumbing to a Brain Aneurysm. He was also a member of the United States Air Force, reaching the rank of Staff Sergeant, and served overseas in 2019. Officer Santos has a fiancé and an unborn son.

On Thursday, December 29, 2022, Officer Sean Besarick, a 24-year veteran of the Brockton Police Department, passed away suddenly at the age of 48-years-old. Officer Besarick was long-time member of the Brockton Community, graduating from Brockton High School in 1992 before serving in the United States Navy for six years. He became a member of the Brockton Police Department in 1998. Officer Besarick is married and has two daughters.

On Saturday December 31, 2022, Officer Christopher A. Davis, a 17-year veteran of the Stoughton Police Department, passed away at the Good Samaritan Medical Center in Brockton at the age of 42-years-old. He was a member of the Stoughton Police Special Operations Unit and was the department’s defensive tactics instructor. Additionally, he has served as a certified arson investigator, investigating fire incidents alongside the Stoughton Fire Department since 2011. He has been awarded numerous commendations from the SPD during his 17 years of service, including a Distinguished Service Award in 2012. Officer Davis has a fiancé and a daughter.

 

NFL player Damar Hamlin had a very public heart attack brought on allegedly by a one-in-a-few-million hit to the chest. He’s recovering, but thousands of athletes, healthy and in their prime, have dropped dead or had to retire for health reasons.

Students, teachers, EMTs, and regular folks.

 

Three Indiana University students died suddenly about a year ago.

So did a member of the Indiana University Board of Trustees.

So did two paramedics in the area and a couple of college students who attended other universities nearby.

Two of the deaths of Indiana University students were so close together, and so baffling, that the county coroner, Joanie Stalcup, says she turned to law enforcement and asked if they knew what could be happening.

One was IU undergraduate student Mia Roy, age 20, whose roommate found her dead on the couch in their apartment on Tuesday, September 14, 2021.

 

 

People are dying suddenly, and the only thing they have in common is the response to the pandemic. The vaccine response. But suggesting any correlation is wild conjecture or conspiracy theory. But if it’s something else, why are the unvaccinated not dying suddenly in the same proportion?

 

• Canadian Pandemic Health Response Leader Dies Suddenly at the Age of 35
• 48 yo Pro-Vaxx Soccer Journalist Dies Suddenly During World Cup
• Proudly Vaccinated Country Singer Dies Suddenly in His Sleep at the Age of 37
• Virologist Who Voted to Approve EUA Vaccines Dies Suddenly
• “Vaccinated” Pro-Vax Mandate Washington Post Editor Dies Suddenly…from a Heart Attack
• mRNA “Vaccines” are Safe? – Athlete Cardiac Arrests Rise to 292 with 167 Dead
• Are An Alarming Number of Athletes Dropping Dead After Getting the COVID Jab?
• More than 1 in 4 Adults Know Someone Whose Death (They Believe) Was Caused by a COVID-19 Vaccine
• The Myocarditis/Pericarditis Pandemic – Who Has to Die before You Believe?
• After the Rollout of COVID-19 Injections, There Was a 1000% Increase in “Unexpected” Deaths

 

The media can’t be trusted. The Public Health Machinery is corrupted, taking its place next to public education as another propaganda arm of the progressive political machine. So, who is going to speak for these people? It has to be us.

Do you know someone who has died suddenly? I know a few people suffered ‘death by hospital.’ Individuals who were put on the CDC COVID treatment protocol that, not even in hindsight becasue medical professionals called it out early and were ostracized, looked like a death sentence. State-sanctioned execution. I do not believe I know anyone who has just dropped dead.

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As we watch the GOP squabble over whether it wants yet another Speaker of the House from California, it’s worth taking a moment to remember Norman Thomas, six-time Socialist Party candidate for president (from 1928 through 1948).

Thomas is supposed to have said that by 1948, there was no longer any need for his party to run a candidate, since between them, the Democratic and Republican parties had already adopted the position of his party on every major issue.

Apocryphal?  Perhaps.  Premature?  Probably.

What were the positions that Thomas was talking about?  And have they actually been adopted by the parties, or more importantly, implemented by the government? You can find a list here.

Socialists aren’t batting 1.000, but they’ve left Ty Cob (.366 lifetime average) eating their dust.

But it’s easy to get lost in the details.  In a 1968 interview with Studs Terkel, Thomas noted that the entire Socialist Party platform could be summarized in a single ideal, which he expressed as ‘from every man according to his ability, to each man according to his need’

We know that Democrats are on board with that ideal.  (Although they might substitute ‘group’ for ‘man’.)

But how many current Republican office holders would publicly repudiate this as a legitimate guiding principle for American politics?   How many would openly call for the elimination — not just the tweaking — of government programs, at all levels, that implement it?

Isn’t from every man according to his ability the basis behind every progressive or flat rate tax?

Isn’t to each man according to his need the basis behind public schools, Social Security, SNAP, CHIP, LIHEAP, Section 8, and every other welfare program?

Apart from Ron Paul and John Valera — who are no longer in office — are there any Republicans who would call for an end to wealth redistribution programs, and the taxes that are used to fund them?

There aren’t.  Whether Thomas actually said it or not, both major parties have adopted — and not just grudgingly, but enthusiastically —  his central socialist ideal as the basis for their individual policy initiatives.

What we’re watching now on live television is like the punchline to the old joke:  The GOP has established what it is — one of two modern wings of the old Socialist Party — and now it’s just haggling over the details.

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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 41 hearings in the House, we are recommending support of 1 and opposition of 6 with 4 being of interest.
Of the 18 hearings in the Senate, we are recommending support of 0 and opposition of 0 with 3 being of interest.

Position	Bill	Title	Committee	Day	Time	Room	State Analysis
Oppose	HB101	relative to requiring voters declare a party affiliation prior to a state primary election.	Election Law	Tue 1/10	1:00 PM	LOB Room 306-308	This bill requires any undeclared voter who wishes to vote in a state party primary to declare a party affiliation at least 4 months prior to such primary.
Oppose	HB116	relative to fees and primary petitions required for primary ballot election access.	Election Law	Tue 1/10	2:00 PM	LOB Room 306-308	This bill increases certain filing fees and the number of signed primary petitions required for primary ballot candidates. This bill also removes the filing fee for state representative candidates.
Oppose	HB102	requiring high schools to include instruction on the nature and history of communism.	Education	Wed 1/11	10:40 AM	LOB Room 205-207	This bill requires school boards and governing boards of private schools to include at least one hour of instruction on the nature and history of communism for high school graduation.
Of Interest	HB170	requiring the teaching of cursive handwriting and multiplication tables.	Education	Wed 1/11	2:00 PM	LOB Room 205-207	This bill requires school boards to teach cursive handwriting and the memorization of multiplication tables.
Of Interest	HB83	relative to county commissioners’ authority on county buildings.	Municipal and County Government	Wed 1/11	2:45 PM	LOB Room 301-303	This bill removes references to expense thresholds for county commissioners’ authority to purchase real estate and repair, enlarge, or erect county buildings.
Of Interest	HB146	relative to the closure of state liquor stores.	Commerce and Consumer Affairs	Thu 1/12	10:00 AM	LOB Room 302-304	This bill requires the liquor commission to obtain the prior approval of the fiscal committee of the general court before closing a state liquor store.
Support	HB173	relative to toilet facilities provided by restaurants.	Commerce and Consumer Affairs	Thu 1/12	11:00 AM	LOB Room 302-304	This bill removes the requirement for restaurants or food establishments that are capable of seating 25 or more, or serve alcohol, from having to provide separate toilet rooms for each sex.
Oppose	HB39	relative to paper billing fees.	Commerce and Consumer Affairs	Thu 1/12	1:15 PM	LOB Room 302-304	This bill prohibits a person doing business in this state from charging an additional fee for receiving a paper billing statement, electing to make a payment by United States mail, or attempting to pay a bill in person.
Oppose	HB73	relative to the repair of home appliances.	Commerce and Consumer Affairs	Thu 1/12	2:15 PM	LOB Room 302-304	This bill requires home appliance manufacturers to make available to appliance owners and repair providers certain repair-related documentation, parts, and tools. The failure to do so would be a violation of the consumer protection act.
Oppose	HB61	relative to teaching on discrimination in the public schools and discrimination in public workplaces.	Education	Thu 1/12	9:30 AM	SH Room Reps Hall	This bill provides that no education law of this state shall be construed to bar any school employee from teaching the historical or current experiences of any group that is protected from discrimination. The bill also repeals provisions of the law relating to the right to freedom from discrimination in public workplaces and education.
Of Interest	CACR1	relating to the governor. Providing that there be a lieutenant governor who shall assume the duties of the governor if the governor is incapacitated.	Executive Departments and Administration	Thu 1/12	1:30 PM	LOB Room 306-308	This constitutional amendment concurrent resolution establishes the office of lieutenant governor and changes succession provisions in the event a governor is unable to perform the duties of the office.
Of Interest	SB14	relative to the use of game cameras.	Energy and Natural Resources	Tue 1/10	9:30 AM	SH Room 103	This bill adds a definition of “game camera” and permits the use of a game camera to take or attempt to take a game animal or fur-bearing animal.
Of Interest	SB15	relative to the use of tree stands and observation blinds.	Energy and Natural Resources	Tue 1/10	9:45 AM	SH Room 103	This bill amends the permissible uses of tree stands, observation blinds, and pit blinds.
Of Interest	SB1	relative to the Sununu youth services center.	Judiciary	Thu 1/12	10:00 AM	SH Room 100	This bill requires the closure of the Sununu youth services center, and sets out parameters for the contract for a replacement facility.

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