Everyone in your office should be ashamed of themselves for not taking the porn in our schools and public libraries’ children’s section seriously! Mr. Formella, you need to pay attention to your constituents and step up and follow/uphold the laws on child porn now before more children are ruined.

Dover New Hampshire Adult Content City Ordinance

I am formally requesting an investigation and want an explanation for why you won’t investigate. The last request was sent to the governor’s office and dismissed.

Follow LA AGs lead… So far, over 50 +books have been identified in Dover that meet the legal definition of adult content. There are hundreds more. This is all over the state!!!!! If you’re not stopping this, then you’re enabling it.

Here’s a partial list of School Board and library-approved books. There are over 50 located mostly in the teen section of the library and schools. More are added every day!

The shortlist, rating and location. DPLT is Dover public library teen section. Ratings are based on movie ratings, with 3-5 recommendations for those over 18.

Look them up on ratedbooks.org for details on content…

Reference: Applicable Laws in NH

Gender queer, DPLT R4 Flamer, DHS, DPLT, R3 Let’s talk about it, DPLT, R4 Here and queer, DPLT NYR Sold, Patrick McCormick, DPLT R5 Sex is a funny word, DPL children’s R4 Last night at the telegraph, DHS, R4 This one summer, mariko tamaki, DMS, underage sex /oral sex R3 Lucky, By Alice sebold DPL, R5, explicit details of an adult raping a child It’s perfectly normal, Robbie Harris* DMS, NYR, Images of people in the middle of masturbation and homo- and heterosexual sex. Fun home, DPLT, R4 All boys aren’t blue, George Johnson, DHS R4 Jack of hearts and other parts, R5 We are ants , Shaun Hutchinson, NYR, sexual content, rape masturbation, pornography Melissa/George, Alex Gino DMS r2 What girls are made of , Elena Arnold R4 Lawn boy, Johnathan evason, DPLT R3 Out of darkness DHS, R3 L8r g8r, R3 Weird girl NYR Bone, HSS, GES, DMS, NYR violent, killing parents The bluest eye, tony Morrison DHS, R4 Seeing gender DMS, NYR, chapter on sex work “is not a bad term” The hate you give DMS, DHS, r3 The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie DMS, DHS The author Sherman Alexie was accused of sexual harassment in 2018 and did not deny the charges. There is alcohol abuse People are burned alive. A man is shot in the face. There is a lot of fighting and getting beat up Characters frequently swear and use racial slurs. The “N” word is used. The main character gets an erection while hugging a school counselor. Asking for It by Louise O’Neill DHS, NYR Burned by Ellen Hopkins, DPLT R3 Crank by Ellen Hopkins, DPLT R4 Fallout by Ellen Hopkins DHS, R3 Impulse by Ellen Hopkins DHS, R3 People Kill People by Ellen Hopkins, DPLT R4 Perfect by Natasha Friend DMS, DHS, R4 Tilt by Ellen Hopkins DHS, R4 Traffick by Ellen Hopkins DHS, r5 Tricks by Ellen Hopkins DHS, R5, The book Tricks is all about 15-year-old prostitutes. You’re not disturbed by the fact that it encouraged kids to be OK with their fathers molesting them and then becoming prostitutes. A Court of Mist & Fury by Sarah J. Maas DHS, R4 Living dead girl, Elizabeth Scott DHS, R3 The haters, Jesse Andrews DHS, NYR Push, sapphire, DPLT R5 This book is gay, R3 Heartstopper vol 1-4, DMS, DHS, NYR Fade, Lisa mcmann DHS, R3 date rape between teachers and students. Fallout (Crank #3) – Ellen Hopkins DHS, R3 Almost Perfect – Brian Katcher, DPLT, R4 Forever… – Judy Blume , DHS, R4 Breathless – Jennifer Niven, DHS, R4 Twisted – Laurie Anderson , DPLT R4 My Friend Dahmer – Derf Backderf , DPLT, R3 Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging – Louise Rennison DPLT, R4 Red Hood – Elana Arnold , DPLT R4 TTYL – Lauren Myracle , DPLT, R3 The Art of Racing in the Rain – Garth Stein , DPLT R4 Impulse – Ellen Hopkins DPLT R4 Neanderthal Opens the Door to the Universe – Preston Norton Nineteen Minutes – Jodi Picoult DPLT R3 The Carnival at Bray – Jessie Ann Foley DPLT R3 The Haters – Jesse Andrews, DHS, R4 The Midnight Lie – Marie Rutkoski DHS, R3 The Nowhere Girls – Amy Reed DPLT Julie P. Dover NH

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They’re flying so thick and fast it is amazing.  And take heart – there will be a Meme Overflow and I will back-edit to include the link.  And there will likely be a Friday Meme Overflow-Overflow.  Last week’s Overflow-Overflow.

Remember, ridicule and mockery are effective weapons:

1. Ridicule cannot easily be fought
2. Ridicule makes the enemy angry, and angry people make mistakes
3. For those in the “squishy middle” a Thought Splinter (and Part II and Part III and Part IV) can often be hidden inside humor.

Now, let the mockery and mayhem begin.

*** Warning, a few possibly off-color ones, in case tender eyes are about ***

 

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But first, a random sampling of three of my cartoons.  Please note these are my concepts but I pay a professional to do them.

 

 

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Buy the T-shirt!

 

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As we edge in towards spicy time, please do look at my PREP-oriented posts.  The latest:

Survival Sunday – PREP Edition – Granite Grok

 

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https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/war-zone-girl.mp4

 

Coming soon to a neighborhood near you.

 

 

 

Functionally, we have no border:

 

NEW: Thermal drone video from our team in Eagle Pass, TX shows a large group of migrants crossing illegally into private property early this morning.
Per CBP source, there have been over 1,400 illegal crossings in the Del Rio sector in the last 24 hours & 69,000 since 10/1. pic.twitter.com/N1FjKVVuDa

— Bill Melugin (@BillFOXLA) November 17, 2022

 

BREAKING: A huge migrant caravan of over 1,000 people crossed illegally into El Paso, TX last night, making it the largest single group we have ever seen. The city of El Paso reports Border Patrol now has over 5,000 in custody & has released hundreds to city streets. @FoxNews pic.twitter.com/ewUQX757Lt

— Bill Melugin (@BillFOXLA) December 12, 2022

 

Slimy NGOs Sent Tens of Thousands of Illegal Aliens to All 50 States  – Big League Politics

Remember, long term, this GREAT REPLACEMENT is the plan to create a forever-majority for the Left.  Added bonus: the chaos that ensues will be fertile loam for the globalists to offer the “benevolent” hand of Socialism as the savior.  Socialistopia needs its foundation.

 

 

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Who remembers that video of that little girl – 3?  4? – staring at that almost-nude drag show freak in Florida who takes her hand and parades her around?  To the cheers of the oh-so-woke crowd?

Now do every other state.  Great idea.  Related:

 

 

 

Hear my prayer, oh Saint of San Andreas.

 

 

 

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Now we just need sheriffs with the stones to enforce this.  And governors and legislators too.

 

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The Apartheid Libel to Destroy Israel :: Gatestone Institute

Let’s hear from people who actually lived under apartheid:

 

 

 

More, topical:

 

 

You must understand… hatred of Jews is hard-coded into the Koran (more here).  This is not about “sharing”, it’s about reconquest.  Per the Koran, even one square inch that once belonged to Islam MUST be recaptured for Islam.  And then onward.  “Christian Nationalists” who like the Arabs because of their Jew-hatred better understand… you’re next.

First Saturday, then Sunday.

 

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Pick of the post:

 

 

Wait… wait… corruption in the EU?  Piles of cash stuffed in drawers you say?  Say it ain’t so, Joe Nigel!

A short video from Nigel about this:

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/16-MEPs-caught-2022.mp4

 

I don’t recall where I saw it, years ago, but it was a new take on the old proverb that power corrupts.  It was to the effect that power attracts those that are corruptible.  More and more it looks like governments today, globally, are one big money laundering scheme.

 

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A Bill Whittle video on the Twitter revelations.

Let the Hearings Begin! Elon Musk Drops ‘The Twitter Files’ (Should House GOP Issue Subpoenas?) – Bill Whittle

Yes, absolutely.  But let’s suppose there is absolute confirmation of Dem and FBI and other corruption in this… like we already know, but it’s in the open.  Then I ask SO WHAT?

Will the FBI be disbanded?  Will the election be undone?  Will the vast majority of the sheeple even care?

No, no, and no.

 

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Palate Cleansers:

 

 

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With the rise of impossible foods like fake meat, we are getting much less than advertised. The phony meat, its fake benefits to the climate or the planet, and now, according to new research, phony nutrition.

Related: Fake Meat-Fraud Prediction – They’ll Market it Like COVID Vaccines and Hide What’s Bad About It.

From Science Daily.

 

‘Among these products, we saw a wide variation in nutritional content and how sustainable they can be from a health perspective. In general, the estimated absorption of iron and zinc from the products was extremely low. This is because these meat substitutes contained high levels of phytates, antinutrients that inhibit the absorption of minerals in the body,’ says Cecilia Mayer Labba, the study’s lead author, who recently defended her thesis on the nutritional limitations of switching from animal protein to plant-based protein.

 

I’m guessing that the FDA is too busy trying to regulate vitamins and supplements to keep people from self-treating or embracing homeopathic medicine (which they are) to take up the suspicious nutritional claims of fake meat mongers. But Chalmers University and Dr. Cecilia Mayer Labba, Ph.D., think they should.

 

‘It is clear that when it comes to minerals in meat substitutes, the amount that is available for absorption by the body is a very important consideration. You cannot just look at the list of ingredients. Some of the products we studied are fortified with iron but it is still inhibited by phytates. We believe that making nutrition claims on only those nutrients that can be absorbed by the body could create incentives for the industry to improve those products,’ says Ann-Sofie Sandberg, Professor of Food and Nutrition Science at Chalmers and co-author of the study.

 

I agree as long as we add that the processing is far from “green,” as is the product. Making “meat” from plants requires increased agriculture, which has been on the CO2 naughty list for decades. From earth-churning releases of CO2 to machinery emissions to fertilizer algae bloom and issues with storage, transportation, and processing, the level of framing needed to replace real meat is anything but green.

The sudden embrace of plant-based meats stinks like yesterday’s (and today’s) green energy addiction. The latter is less about saving the planet and more about crippling the fossil fuel energy industry, which leans right politically. By green, they mean money; more for theirs and less for yours. Using fear to wipe out revenue streams to their political opponents comes with the territory.

Real meat is not a health risk (certainly not the one they advertise) and provides proteins and nutrients you can’t get anywhere else. But if the result of the push toward fake meat means lower nutrition, the Dems don’t care – unless requiring better nutrition from faux meat gets them something else they want.

 

 

HT | Science Daily

 

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Senator Bradley,

I just watched your 10-minute conversation with Adam Sexton and was taken by a comment you made in the very last minute:

“as we have done in lowering property taxes…”

The way I understand those words is that you implied that lowering property taxes has been done. I am looking at my current bill, due December 20, and it is more than three times that of any previous bill! Please explain to me how you (presumably meaning the previous legislature) LOWERED property taxes. Clearly, there is a mismatch between what you said has happened and what has actually happened! I would like an answer please, not just for myself but for the whole city, Rosenwald’s people included.

Julie Smith
Nashua

 

 

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Religious conscience won another victory in Federal Court last Friday. Following a Fifth Circuit Court ruling in August, the Eight Circuit has declared that Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act could not force religious doctors or hospitals that receive federal funding to perform gender transitions.

The courts permanently blocked enforcement of the Team Biden interpretation.

 

Catholic nuns, clinics, a university, and hospitals were among the plaintiffs in the case, represented by the Becket Fund. The plaintiffs all provide medical care for transgender patients but refuse to provide gender-transition surgeries because they believe them to be harmful. Their grant of permanent injunctive relief from the lower court was preserved Friday.

 

The case is “The Religious Sisters of Mercy; Sacred Heart Mercy Health Care Center, (Alma, MI); SMP Health System; University of Mary; Catholic Benefits Association; Diocese of Fargo; Catholic Charities of North Dakota; Catholic Medical Association vs. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of the United States Department of Human Services (etc.).

The question relates to enrolled anti-discrimination protections provided in Title IX into an interpretation of rule 1557 from the Affordable Care Act (prohibiting discrimination in health care), balanced against the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

Long story short, this debate has been ongoing for six years, but the Biden Admin’s interpretation led to the most recent ruling. They wanted to control federal funding for Medicaid/Medicare-type coverage based on whether facilities were willing to perform gender transitions. If the answer was no transitions, the Feds might or could deny any federal money or coverage for treatments at the facility and follow with litigation.

HHS determined that just about everyone in the medical community was bound by Rule 1557, filtered through Title IX and Title VII, and could decide if violations on a case-by-case basis. Given the government’s hostility to religious conscience (with the exclusion of Muslims), Catholic Medical Centers could see the crosshairs. They would find themselves forever wrapped up in litigation if a case were ever brought, and we know they would.

Ask Christian Bakers, Photographers, Wedding Planners, Artists, or even Dating services. The Gaystapo repeatedly targets these in search of a favorable ruling, and if the legal process ruined the business owner, it was a victory for the militant Left.

From the decision, “HHS … would evaluate “individualized and fact specific” RFRA claims “on a case-by-case basis.” Id. “To obtain an exception, in other words, a provider objecting on religious grounds needed to convince HHS that the regulation circumstantially violated the RFRA.”

In other words, yeah, we know there are religious exemptions, but we’ll decide if they apply. I think we understand what that means. Do the surgeries, or we yank all your Federal money, including Medicaid or Medicare coverage. Assuming the legal fees don’t wipe you out.

The Religious Sisters of Mercy, Sacred Heart Mercy Health Care Center was right to preempt that course by challenging the new interpretation of 1557.

Without getting into the weeds, and there are weeds (other cases and ruling – read the decision for details), the government lost in part on the merits of its dismissal claim.

 

As the Fifth Circuit explained, the government’s assertion that “it ‘has not to date evaluated’ whether it will enforce Section 1557 against [the plaintiffs]” is actually a “conce[ssion] that it may” do so. Just as in Franciscan Alliance where the HHS “repeatedly refused to disavow enforcement against Franciscan Alliance,” id., so, too, has it refused in the present case. In fact, HHS has promised (1) “robust enforcement of Section 1557” in the 2016 Rule,  and (2) to “vigorously enforce [Section 1557’s] prohibitions on discrimination based on . . . sex” in the 2020 Rule (citations removed).

 

Claiming “it might not” infers that it might, giving the Sisters standing and ultimately a decision in their favor.

The permanent injunction against the rule is affirmed. At least until some other judges who work for the same government decide differently – which is itself the real problem and unresolved.

We’ll take the points but with an understanding that under our current system of government, victory is fleeting at best.

 

 

And my apologies if the title seems click-baitish. Disections of court rulings – even short attempts – are not sexy. I wanted a funny lead because I found the case compelling.

HT | NR

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When Raphael Warnock delivered his victory speech after he was declared the winner of the Georgia Senate Run-off Election, he stated that “the people have spoken.” He said emphatically that these are the four most important words in government. But what does it mean to have the people speak? Does it mean a straightforward one-vote win, or does it need an overwhelming majority? Does it mean it took two elections to achieve over 50% of the votes, or does it require a clear mandate? In today’s political world, I believe the people do not speak, that they no longer have a voice, and the race in Georgia proves this theory.

Georgia elections have come into focus of late because of intense criticism of state voting laws and the fact that nobody appears able to win a clear majority on the first ballot. Because of the split in Congress, additional attention has been placed on Georgia to determine the balance of power in D.C. The run-off election between Warnock and his Republican challenger Herschel Walker became one of the most heated and divisive elections in history. Did it really show that the people had spoken? I think not. Warnock won by a slim 3% difference, but that only tells part of the story. The election maps tell a bigger story.

The Georgia map is very similar to the country map for the mid-terms. Our government today is being chosen by the heavily populated regions. In the case of Georgia, the votes from Atlanta, Augusta, Albany, and Savanah determined the victor. On the national map, the West Coast, Northeast, and for some reason, Arizona and New Mexico are dominated by Democrats. The rest of the country is painted in solid red for the Republicans. So are the people speaking, or do just the urban dwellers have a voice?

The voters in the suburbs and rural areas are not represented unless they align with the Democrats. The same goes for the middle of the country, which is primarily Conservative. The big cities of their state choose their representatives. They have to live by that ideology. Politicians love to say they will go to Washington to represent all of their constituents. We know by their actions, as they only represent their voters or donors. That is how divided we are. The word bipartisan is thrown about far too often. Nearly every vote is cast along party lines, period. People cannot even see the other side of the aisle lest they crossover to vote with the opposition.

Over $400 Million was spent by Warnock and Walker, making this race the most expensive Senate seat in history. That is $400 million for 3.5 million voters. Have the people’s voices been heard, or just that of George Washington? Elections have ceased being about issues and character. They are all about money. Just ask John Fetterman in Pennsylvania or Kathy Hochul in New York. Neither deserved to be elected, but the money they raised said otherwise. And the Liberal voters that occupy the significant cities put them over the top. It is not a sound system, but even cynics say it is still the best in the world. Many more years like the last two, and I may want to debate those cynics.

 

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You can thank someone acting trollish. After warning about the behavior, I had to delete comments and accounts. Since the troll decided to rotate through guest accounts, I’ve turned off that privilege. To re-acquaint people with our few rules:

As LaShawn Barber says, “On this blog, your speech is a privilege. On your blog, your speech is a right. Learn the distinction.”

Comments (Again, but with more feeling)

UPDATE (2/7/2018): Needed because of trolls

Rule #1 – Adult themes, kid-friendly.  Don’t post something that would cause little Johnny and Janie to run to Mommy and Daddy to ask, “what does this mean?” because I’m the guy who gets the call or the email, and I have better things to do.

Rule #2 – Write what you want. Sure, we are a site, for the most part, focused on politics and culture, but if something amuses you, have at it.

The troll problem.

• Rule #3 – Don’t be a troll.  If I judge that you are, I will ban you.  You might get a warning but you might not – that is at my whim.  The decision to ban is final.
  Rule #4 – We need to be able to see your DISQUS home/account page.  I have disabled GUEST commenting.  If you wish to comment here, you will need to open a public DISQUS account first.  Apologies to our regular commenters – you may now need to verify your email addresses with DISQUS before continuing; blame the trolls.

Once the original “guest troll” problem passed, I turned guest commenting back on. We’ve had the problem a couple of times since. We have it back again so I’ve had to disable that privilege again. Apologies to you guests that DO behavior themselves – at some point, I will be able to turn them back on.

I will also be giving “Zero Day” DISQUS account greater scrutiny – no choice.

But as necessary, I can delete troll comments and ban troll accounts all day long. It’s not a big deal – it’s just a part of the business.

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Stacie Laughton made national news recently when she was arrested (again) for stalking a woman in violation of a protective order. Laughton, a Democrat, and the first Transgender elected to the NH House (to then also resign and un-resign) has a history of running for public office, criminal complaints, and arrests.

Stacie, born Barry Charles, Laughton Jr. is alleged to have an array of mental health issues, not the least of which is being a registered Democrat. Recently, someone sent me a list of incidents associated with Laughton.

We make no specific claim to the accuracy of the details and present them as provided for the record.

 

-When Stacie-Marie was Barry C he ran for city council in 2005(18%of the vote at age 21) and 2009 (10% of the vote) and school board in 2006 (2% of the vote) while living in Laconia but was not successful in his bid. Additionally, he lost his bid in a primary race for the NH house in 2010. – 7/2006 Stacie-Marie was Barry C and now ex-wife Lisa were arrested in 2006 due to contacting 911 3x from 2:13 am-3:45 am the 1st of 2 calls were because they were stranded with the last call stating that Lisa had fallen and that Stacie-Marie was suicidal and they requested 2 ambulances. During the intake at the hospital it was determined that there was no need for treatment, and a taxi was called to transport them home. Stacie-Marie refused to pay for the taxi, and this resulted in a felony charge for calling emergency services and for theft of services. The county Atty did not prosecute the felony and Stacie-Marie plead guilty to theft of services. – 2006 Stacie-Marie was Barry C was convicted of a misdemeanor criminal mischief for slashing the tires of another resident in her apartment building and was ordered to pay $647 in restitution. – 2007 Stacie-Marie was Barry C following an investigation and was arrested and charged following an identity theft investigation with a local resident being the victim. The ID info was used to obtain a credit card and more than $3,000 was charged to this card. Barry and Lisa were released on $15,000 PR bail each pending their arraignment in Laconia District Court. – When Stacie-Marie was Barry C after pleading guilty 7/2008 he was sentenced in 2008 to 7 1/2-15 years in prison for conspiracy to commit credit card fraud and 3 1/2-7 years for falsifying physical evidence. These sentences ran concurrently and were later reduced to 1 year in Belnap County DOC. It is unclear if Stacie-Marie was still Barry C when he/she/they were released after service only 4 1/2 months under the condition of 10 years of “good behavior” and ordered to pay $1,991 in restitution. During the proceedings, an Atty for the defense requested a competency evaluation, and the primary diagnosis of ADHD with some associated learning disabilities as well as Anti-Social Personality Disorder” and it was concluded that Stacie-Marie was a malingerer (as defined by Webster’s Dictionary). – In 2010 he/she/they were listed on the ballot as Barry “Stacie” Laughton but lost the primary race for 1 of the 5 seats as a Democrat. – 12/2010, Barry C officially changed her name to Stacie Marie Laughton -In 2012 she ran and won her race for state representative, but because she was a convicted felon and had not received her “final release” on 11/27/2012, she issued a statement resigning her position as state representative-elect. – 12/2012 she announced that she would run in the election to fill the seat she resigned from but on 1/2/2013 she abandoned her candidacy the day before the election commission held a hearing on the matter. – 3/2015 A warrant for her arrest was issued stemming from a bomb threat to Souther NH Medical Center. She was initially charged with the felony of making a false report of explosives, but a judge reduced the charge to a misdemeanor and sentenced her to a six-month suspended jail term. – 2019 She paid $2,000 restitution to be cleared to run for public office again and formed an exploratory committee in hopes of returning to city government. She ran for, and won, her former selectman seat in Nashua that year. – 2020 she once again ran for the NH House of Representatives, ultimately winning the seat – 2021 she was re-elected to her seat as selectman in Nashua – between 5/21/2021 and 7/19/2021 she was charged with 12 counts of penalty for false 911 information, was arrested on 7/27/21 and was released on PR bail 7/30/21. – Between 7/11/2022 – 7/15/2022 there were 2charges of E-911 false information and 2charges of harassment – 7/25/2022 there was a protective order requested and approved against her – 8/22/2022 9 of the 12 counts were Nolle Prossed and she pleaded nolo Contendere on 3 of the 12 counts, but was found guilty on these three counts with a sentence of 1. Good Behavior for 1 year. 2. Participate in Heats Peer Support Center. Confinement maximum 9mos deferred for 1 year with community service 25 hours with proof to be submitted to the state in 6 months. Case status pending as of 10/26/2022   – Between 8/25/2022 – 8/28/2022 a charge of criminal defamation and 2 charges of stalking was imposed and on 9/8/2022 a $200.00 cash bail was imposed and posted Case status pending as of 9/5/2022 – 9/2022 she ran for re-election for her seat as NH House of Representatives and won her primary. – 9/12/2022 Nashua PD filed a motion to impose deferred sentence. – 10/6/2022 Notice of decision was filed and request for a lawyer was filed and attorney was appointed. – 11/8/2022 she was successful in her bid of re-election for the NH House of Representatives – 11/12/2022 she was arrested by the Hudson PD on a charge of stalking. Case status pending as of 11/14/2022 – 11/14/2022 an arraignment and bail hearing was held and it appears from the case summary that she is being held without bail unitil Case status hearing 12/1/2022 @ 9AM Nashua District Court   – 12/1/2022 Motion Hearing to impose suspended sentence on Case#459-2021-CR-02498 (2021 charges). Case status hearing on Case#459-2022-CR-01963. Case status hearing on Case#459-2022-cr-02509.

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Another set of hate mail. Now, is it REALLY hate mail? Dunno, but I’m rather sure that they weren’t “happy thoughts”, either.  It’s very obvious that there is a difference of outlook/morality between the Parties. 

Porn is fine and they aren’t going to hold their elected representatives accountable for it.  What IS more troubling is that this small number of returns are just not exercised by the knowledge that porn is freely available – even in schools with little kids.

And yes, I do remember the time when “men’s magazines” (and PlayGirl as well – right, former PG centerfold Scott Brown?) were first put into brown paper wrappers out of the reach of children in convenience stores, pharmacies, and grocery stores.  Now, I haven’t looked for them recently, but I believe they are gone. So out of “places of public accommodation” but in “of “public school places”?

First up was one from Milford – Hillsborough District 23. Since I have already set a pattern, the envelope:

 

Now, it does seem that there was something to the left of “BOSTON MA 020” but it looks like it was erased.  And it definitely backs up what I said – I let a bunch of these returns sit around for a while.  But the inside had a bit more to say:

So let’s examine what she’s (a little less sure due to the handwriting but I’m going to go with it). On the mailer, this is what her note covered up:

Actually, this is a good summary of what has actually happened and we have blogged about this a number of times in the recent past. A girl went trans male while in school and the District’s policy has made it clear that such a change would be kept from their parents. Unfortunately for the District, a teacher who had called the parent slipped up and used this girl’s “male” name and catching the Mom by surprise. She made it clear to the District that she had not given them permission to do so – they told her, effectively, to pound sand and that they would stick with that policy. THE BOARD CONDONED LYING TO PARENTS – and in fact, made it clear to Parents that they WILL lie to Parents. Period.

She sued. Long story short, the Judge in the case, Amy Messer who was appointed to the bench by Maggie Hassan when she was NH Governor, ruled in favor of the District. Thus, NOTHING in the above is incorrect – it is entirely factual.

So, to the person who wrote this: YOU ARE ENTIRELY GULLIBLE if someone told you otherwise. The court case is public knowledge and the Judge’s decision/order is a public document – a little bit of homework will show you that your are wrong. Heck, just search GraniteGrok!  It was also

But this is what happens when people either get locked into a Narrative or locked into Partisan politics. Even when there is a clear indication that an assertion is wrong, some pople keep going down that path, fingers in ears, and going “na, na, na, I can’t hear you!”. And in this case, I wasn’t all that surprised at the reaction.

And a note was sent along:

Ah!  Government should supply all your needs – including kiddie porn?  No, we were not telling you, as a Parent, what your children should or should not read. Perhaps you’d love it if that crazy uncle of theirs that just “a bit off” read that porn while sitting in his lap.  I also have this vision of her going to her local bookstore and asking “please direct me to the age-appropriate pornography section, please” – ugh!  And yes, I DO expect you to pay for YOUR kids porn – why are you demanding that others who do NOT share your sense of morality pay for your children getting excited?

But she does admit what is of importance: “…under my supervision, of course”. Well, ma’am, do you want them accessing it when you have no idea that it existed  That you have NO CONTROL over their reading it (or worse, others reading it to them that might not have their best interest at heart. You have no idea, do you – or that you do not wish to contemplate that idea?

At least she made it clear – her decision and not mine. That’s fine.

However, it ISN’T her decision to have porn in schools. and she doesn’t even approach that point. We aren’t telling anyone what their kids can and cannot read – what we did do is:

• Spotlight that such books exist in public schools – with the tacit ok by public school librarians, public school Administrators, and school boards.
• That tacit ok means that the public schools have taken that decision OUT OF PARENTS hands – and authority over their children
• Maggie Hassen appointed a judge that decided that Government owns your children – not you – while in school.  THEY are preeminent and you are pointless.
• That Ray Buckley, the NH Dem Chair, thinks that any Parent that has a trans child can and will beat them to death (tells you what the Democrat Party thinks of Parents)

And that the candidates listed on the mailers vote against NH House bills that would have protected Parental Rights. Including her’s to have that “under my supervision, or course“.

So she missed the point entirely.  I should write her.

Next one was from Cheshire District 10 (Richmond, Swanzey) – the envelope:

Why people just reuse the envelope and NOT cancel out their name is beyond me – unless they WERE trying to make a statement. Now, she (and yes, it is a she) decided to start off with a message: “I DID! I was not shocked, except by you”. How  moral standards have fallen – previous generations would never put up with porno books in schools. *I* certainly don’t believe that such graphicly illustrated / written books belong where young children can access them – especially in schools.  Without Parents knowing about them and they don’t – this issue has just surfaced over the last couple of years.

But there’s more – the Religion card was thrown:

 

Last time I knew, pornography wasn’t listed among any Christian sacraments that I know of.  You?  I’d be hard pressed to find anything that would – you?

I hate it when someone throws any kind of “Card” to shut down debate. Worse is when they try to use my values against it. Happens a lot.

Fortunately, porn isn’t one of my values so this was useless.

Well, I know that he voted against YOUR Rights.  Twice.  Does that make him an “excellent legislator”?  Last time I looked, a legislator is supposed to represent you – NOT vote against your Rights concerning your children.

Is this really what you believe what Barrett Faulkner did in your best interest? In the best interest of your children?

And she didn’t say anything about the school system overriding her Rights, either…

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So … the Chris I am referring to is NOT our narcissist Sun-King Chris Sununu. It is Chris Ager who wants to be the next captain of the Titanic … er, sorry, the Chairman of the New Hampshire GOP.

To cut to the chase, I sure hope that Chris’ remedy for the NHGOP is just for the consumption of the NHGOP “activists” who have a vote on the next Chairman, and NOT how he really believes GOP candidates should approach the 2023 and 2024 elections. Why? Because … in case you haven’t noticed … it’s 2022, NOT 1982.

Here’s what I am referring to:

“I am excited to announce my candidacy for Chairman of the New Hampshire Republican Party. I have and will continue to fight to protect our First in the Nation Primary and tirelessly advocated for our principles of lower taxes, smaller government, individual responsibility, and local control as outlined in the platform. As we approach 2024, it is imperative we unite as a party behind these conservative principles and continue to build a well-oiled machine focused on achieving electoral success.”

If NHGOP candidates campaign on the “principles of lower taxes, smaller government, individual responsibility, and local control,” expect even worse results than in 2022. These principles were appropriate for 1982 … BUT THE WORLD HAS CHANGED.

For example, how is “smaller government” going to protect us from Big Tech interfering … to assist the Democrats … in our elections? How is it going to stop the Big Banks from canceling your credit card or closing your account if they deem you a threat to wokeness? The Left controls all our institutions, and as Alfie told Tommy Shelby, “big f**** small”:

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“Local control” … in 2022 … means skyrocketing local property taxes, grooming, and the anti-white racism euphemistically called “CRT” in our public schools. Maybe … just maybe … it’s time to update the message and start talking about state laws capping the growth of local property taxes, preventing school districts from hiring “diversity” directors, and stocking school libraries with books intended to sexualize first-graders?

“Lower taxes” … in 2022 … means businesses pay no taxes, and the burden is “downshifted” to the local property taxes. And don’t give me, “tax revenues rise when business tax rates are cut.” The voters believe otherwise, and that is what matters. Campaigning about cutting the BPT and the BET will get you a pat on the head from AFP and Josiah Bartlett. What it won’t get you are actual votes.

As I have said elsewhere, I think it is much too late to save the NHGOP. But for you bitter clingers, maybe start living in 2022, not 1982.

 

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ANNOUNCEMENT

Survival Sunday is now being broken up into two pieces, one today – Sunday – and one on Thursday.  This is because these things are becoming so long and unwieldy that it seems to make sense to me to split it into two.  Please be patient with me as I work through this but the plan is that:

Sundays: All prep stuff, no world sitrep stuff.

Thursdays: All world sitrep stuff, no prep stuff.

I am hoping this will make sense and work out.  Each will, however, have a “Top of the Fold” section wherein I place things that I think are hot-hot-hot and need-to-know-now stuff.

Please let me know in the comments if this is working, but give it a few weeks while I feel this out.

 

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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, links to my last two Survival Sundays:

Survival Sunday – November 27, 2022

Survival Sunday – November 20, 2022

 

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https://youtu.be/jJL0XoNBaac

 

Interesting.  I remember reading something about this, ages ago, but nice to see an explanation.  Especially if, in SHTF times, you have undesired house guests that “insist” on being fed, etc.  Musing… I wonder where I could get one.

 

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Top of the fold:

Damn, hoping it goes hot! A game changer. Sent in by a frequent gearhead.

This would be yuuuuuuuge.  And while I’m not downplaying the hope, imagine if this goes through.  Every person on the Left would be screaming, and likely rioting, that Trump somehow stole it.  Imagine the tantrum over 2016, times a million.  If this happens, lock and load.  And if it happens, Trump better have damned good security.

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BREAKING: Maricopa County Response to AZ AG Materially Conflicts with Instructions on Election Day – But They Announce They Will Certify Rigged Election TOMORROW Anyway

71% of Americans Say Our Elections Are Rigged – Congrats to America’s national security state for destroying the credibility of our republic – Flopping Aces

And you REALLY think things will get fixed by 2024?  TINVOWOOT.  The Dems have been at this for a long, long time.

Democrat Voter Fraud: A Brief History – American Thinker

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None so deaf as those who will not hear…

This experience, as related and concluded, echoes so many conversations I have.  It’s not possible, or it’s so unlikely I won’t worry about it…

 

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Related:

How to Make DIY Activated Charcoal for Prepping and Survival (primalsurvivor.net)

How to Make Activated Charcoal (with Pictures) – wikiHow

4 Steps To Make Charcoal At Home (emoffgrid.com) and 8 Steps To Make Activated Charcoal (emoffgrid.com)

How to Make Activated Charcoal: A Prepper’s Guide (geekprepper.com)

 

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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 (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:

SURVIVAL HOW TO:DIY FISH TRAP (VIDEO) (theclassicsurvivalist.com)

From the same site:

DEADFALL TRAP BUILDING FROM START TO FINISH (VIDEO) (theclassicsurvivalist.com)

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The First Thing You Should Do If An EMP Strikes – Ask a Prepper

My belief is that any follow up EMP would be a few weeks down the road.  That would be because the survivors would be coming out and reactivating things – and then those things would be gotten by the follow-on hit.  And if they’re smart and plan ahead, they’d do it a third time in another couple of months.

Oh please, not like they haven’t thought of the above.  I’m not giving anything away to actors with EMP capability.

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Read This Before You Store Anything In A 5-Gallon Bucket (askaprepper.com)

Mostly aimed at food storage.  On food storage:

What I Wish I Knew Before Building A Root Cellar In My Backyard (askaprepper.com)

 

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Related to Spicy Time:

 

 

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BREAKING: Corrupt Obama Appointed Judge Who Banned TGP Reporter From Maricopa County Press Briefings Sanctions Kari Lake And Mark Finchem Over Lawsuit Banning Voting Machines

When there is no legal recourse, people will resort to illegal recourse.

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Focus | NC Renegades

Imagine ten attacks on substations around the country. No electric in winter. No sewer lift stations. No water treatment or pressure. No replacement parts. God works in mysterious ways and we certainly are living under an evil government.

Understand that I am not advocating this.

But if such a thing were to happen if IT kicks off – hypothetically – the US government would have divided attention between preserving the urban centers and fighting any insurgents.  Plus if insurgents got into the urban centers, protecting their own precious hides.

 

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I have to say that looks like an enormous amount of work for one person.

 

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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.  Does anyone know how to open it up for people to join?  I’m stumped.

 

Foraging: One-up articles

None found this week.

 

Foraging: Permanent sites:

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):

“80 times that of CO2”

This will be another excuse to attack beef production.

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Bird flu prompts slaughter of 1.8M chickens in Nebraska (phys.org)

I do not trust this.  At all.

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Gardening, animals, food preservation, overall health, etc.:

 

 

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44 Sustainable Gardening Tips – The Plant Guide

Background.

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28 Vegetables That Grow in Shade For Gardens Without Full Sun (littleyellowwheelbarrow.com)

I sure as heck don’t have full sun on a lot of my property.  My bigger problem is my lawn is built over gravel landfill.  Not much topsoil, it’s all acid like crazy from the pine trees… and my wife will not support my turning the back yard into a garden.

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How I Finally Got Rid of Pantry Moths! – Susiej

I think I’ve finally gotten rid of the little SOBs.  I haven’t seen one in several weeks.

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25 Crops You Can Grow In Buckets All Year Round – Ask a Prepper

Still requires / takes up indoor space.  And requires light.

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Stop shouting!: SELF SUFFICIENCY SUNDAYS: Guerrilla Gardening

Some scary points.  From the same site:

Stop shouting!: SHTF Self-Education: Introduction to Pressure Canning

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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:

Lawfare and the PLCAA

Lawfare against RKBA.  Related:

The Remington settlement gave precedent to suing Daniel Defense

I said the holders of Remington who settled the Sandy Hook lawsuit were going to f*ck us over.

They did.

Now every grieving parent will be targeted by the blood dancers to file a lawsuit that is engineered to be a runaround the PLCAA.

Give them an opening a femtometer wide, they’ll pry it open.  Speaking of:

FedEx and UPS Help Feds Track Gun Sales, State Attorneys General Say (theepochtimes.com)

They will never ever ever ever EVER stop until they have a federal registry.  And:

Banks Are Now Creating Systems To Track Gun Purchases… – Tactical Sh*t (tacticalshit.com)

I only pay cash for guns and ammo.  Speaking of, there’s a sweet shotgun I’m saving up for – please go buy my bumper sticker to help me get it.

 

 

And the .223 version.

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Dry Firing – Area Ocho

I’ve heard of this thing called “Mantis X”.  Any good?

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The “Crazy, Right-Wing Shooter” Myth | RealClearPolitics

I like Lott.  He signed my copy of his book.

 

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Concluding thoughts if I’m moved to comment:

 

I’ve been reflecting on the sheeple.

It’s my belief that when SHTF – and I truly believe it will to some degree – they will be livid with us.  Not just because we have food and other supplies and won’t shaaaaaare like we were taught in kindergarten.  No, they’ll be white-hot at the fact that we saw what was coming and took action, thus they’ll be angry at our perceptiveness and initiative.

 

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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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America’s Forcefeed (us) Drugs Administration (FDA) approved the New and Improved bivalent boosters (OMG, they’re “Bi?”) after reading about the reimbursement check potential from big Pharma. Could we expect better for injecting 6-month-old babies? Nope.

Talk about adding a new definition to the term ‘booster seat.’I have no idea what motivated FDA to issue an emergency use authorization for BA.4/BA.5 Bivalent boosters (OMG, they’re “Bi?”). There were no human trials, and even the rat trial was underdone. And we only have their word they tested it on a handful of rats which, after the past two years, isn’t worth a thing.

But here we are, adding babies to another human test trial for an experimental pharmaceutical product descended from the deformed mRNA family tree. From Dr. Nass.

 

FDA authorized bivalent booster for 6 month olds after only a 3 day review of Pfizer documents – It seems FDA is not even trying to pretend it is following any of its standards, let alone following the Science.

Talk about redefining the term “booster seat.”

Actually, FDA authorized both the Moderna and Pfizer bivalent boosters for kids 6 months through 5 years today. It had already authorized them for everyone else. Don’t expect the new boosters to work, however.

 

One thing the FDA has learned. If there’s little to no evidence to hide, you do not have to keep it hidden because no one can find what does not exist.

There is the matter of public health, but we can say without much fear of contradiction that this is no longer why the CDC or FDA exists. Their new role is to maximize revenue opportunities for connected individuals and organizations (including political parties) regardless of the health risks, so I think a few edits to the “about FDA/what we do page” are in order.

Here’s the current bullshot.

 

The Food and Drug Administration is responsible for protecting the public health by ensuring the safety, efficacy, and security of human and veterinary drugs, biological products, and medical devices; and by ensuring the safety of our nation’s food supply, cosmetics, and products that emit radiation.

 

Are they doing any of this, and (to be honest) have they ever? It seems like a dereliction of duty is job one, and they have only recently behaved like some unemployed 45-year-old divorcee who gave up trying to hide the decline.

The current FDA mission isn’t even close to what they do, so I invite our readers to craft a new one.

If we like them, we’ll publish a few.

 

 

 

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The fact that Stephen Stepanek’s job is open has made me wonder what the state and local R leadership positions are all about.  I plead ignorance. I always assumed the GOP has a function but have never given it any thought.

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During my thirty years in Australia (1980-2017), I was always annoyed that my Party had monthly meetings at which the MP came to talk to us. It was never supposed to be for us to talk to him! He and his colleagues were called “the parliamentary wing” of the Party. A real disgrace, if you ask me. But now I am wondering what the RNC is a wing of.

It is well established that Republicans (including me) believe: 1. that the 2020 election was stolen, and 2. that the Jan 6 invasion was arranged by Pelosi et al.

So let me ask this: What did the RNC or GOP do about this? Why did Mike Lindell and Sidney Powell have to take the bull by the horns? Did the RNC even sponsor or publicize Dinesh D’Souza’a Twenty Million Mules?

Did Stephen Stepanek make a stink about the wrongful impeachments of Trump? Maybe he did; I don’t read all the pertinent papers, but I never saw a word from him at GraniteGrok, for example. Did he file any lawsuits against Twitter?

And at the state level, is the Party Person supposed to inspire others to work at, say, getting rid of unconstitutional state legislation? Is there someone who could now fill that job or acknowledge that responsibility?

I hear you saying, “Mary, don’t be daft. It is for the legislators to do that” (i.e., the parliamentary wing of the R party). OK, I do realize it is their job, and it’s our job as journalists, and it’s the job of everyday members of the Party, dues-paying or not. But should the paid leader of the R’s steer clear of all issues? Does it suffice for him to recite a few pieties such as “I hate Democrats; I oppose abortion; I believe in a balanced budget”?

And what is the salary? And how much obedience does he/she have to show to the Men at the Top Table? What do the everyday members, even just the dues-paying ones, want him or her to do?

Have the applicants for the job now held by Stepanek announced their position on vaccines? On censorship? On the coming food shortage? On our payments to Ukraine?

What do you want him or her to say? And did I hear that “Water St” supported the Sun King during the primary? Was any other candidate, such as Karen Testerman, entitled to any support? I suppose I am making a fool of myself, admitting how little I know.

Did you attend the Victory Breakfast at the Grappone Center on September 15, 2022? I recognized only a handful of the 400 suit-and-tie wearers. Whom would they pick for Water St? Are they entitled to more consideration than the plaid-flannel shirt types?

For the record: December 23, 1776:

Thomas Paine:
“These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated. Britain, with an army to enforce her tyranny, has declared that she has a right (not only to TAX) but “to BIND us in ALL CASES WHATSOEVER” and if being bound in that manner, is not slavery, then is there not such a thing as slavery upon earth. Even the expression is impious; for so unlimited a power can belong only to God.”

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Another healthy adult has died suddenly. Forty-eight-year-old sports reporter Grant Wahl fell back in his chair during “the World Cup match between Argentina and the Netherlands.”

Medical teams attended him as he was moved to an ambulance and then to Hamad General Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. But the media isn’t saying much else. We know he felt unwell earlier.

 

“My body finally broke down on me. Three weeks of little sleep, high stress and lots of work can do that to you,” Wahl wrote. “What had been a cold over the last 10 days turned into something more severe on the night of the USA-Netherlands game, and I could feel my upper chest take on a new level of pressure and discomfort.

“I didn’t have Covid (I test regularly here), but I went into the medical clinic at the main media center today, and they said I probably have bronchitis. They gave me a course of antibiotics and some heavy-duty cough syrup, and I’m already feeling a bit better just a few hours later. But still: No bueno.”

 

He was clearly misdiagnosed. He died from a heart attack. But some reports claim there was something going around among the media most of whom, like Wahl, were probably vaccinated. But were they all proudly vaccinated?

 

 

Wahl’s wife, Dr. Celine Gounder, could be classified as a vaccine extremist, according to this report.

 

[Grounder is] a rabidly pro-vaccine medical doctor who recently called on Facebook, Twitter, and Google to “deplatform” media outlets and citizens who spread “anti-vaccine disinformation” online.

Grounder’s bio at Wikipedia states that she “is an American physician and medical journalist who specializes in infectious diseases and global health. She was a member of the COVID-19 Advisory Board transition team of then-incoming U.S. president Joe Biden in 2022, she joined the Kaiser Family Foundation as senior fellow and editor-at-large for public health at Kaiser Health News.”

 

Given who his wife is, we have to assume he’s gotten all his shots and boosters, though there is no information available about that. He does not appear to have bragged about that on Twitter. But she was who she is, and her husband Grant may be another casualty of that war.

 

 

HT | Leo Hohman

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I recently watched a YouTube video that promised to show Ben Shapiro ‘destroying’ Piers Morgan in a discussion about gun control.

But a few minutes into it, I realized that Shapiro had already conceded the larger argument in order to score a few technical points.  In particular, he said his answer to gun violence was to make sure that ‘the wrong kinds of people’ didn’t have access to guns.

As I’ve pointed out before, this is basically an invitation to people like Joe Biden to claim that ‘no rights are absolute’, and that ‘common sense’ trumps constitutional prohibitions on government power.

That is, what Shapiro is arguing is that you have a right to self-defense, and to own the tools required for self-defense, unless you’re the ‘wrong kind of person’, in which case you don’t.

Okay, this isn’t new.  What’s new is that this is the same kind of reasoning that will ultimately be used to justify the federal government’s use of social media companies to censor ‘the wrong kinds of opinions’ put forth by ‘the wrong kinds of people’ — as currently being exposed in the ‘Twitter Files’.

If you support the argument that ‘the people’ in the Bill of Rights really means only certain kinds of people, then you necessarily support the argument that ‘arms’ really means only certain kinds of arms, and that ‘speech’ really means only certain kinds of speech.

And who will decide which kinds?  Democracy itself!

So if you’re one of those people who thinks that it’s a legitimate function of government to limit who can own what kinds of guns, then you have no grounds to oppose those people who think that it’s a legitimate function of government to limit who can express what kinds of thoughts.  They’re the same edge of the same sword.

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I am beyond understanding why there are those that are EXCITED to have porn in youngsters’ public school libraries. In addition to the first set, we got even more hate mail with respect to our mailers dealing with porn books in public school libraries and the politicians that choose NOT to affirm Parental Rights in keeping it away from young and impressionable students.  So, I’ve got more – this one from Amherst.  The envelope:

And of course, they also sent back the mailer inside like at the previous post. Now, I have to admit – I’m not completely sure that I am reading this correctly.  Reason is that when someone writes in a thick Sharpie, it’s hard (at least for me) to fully get it right.

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I THINK it says “Parents should read these AND they are ok for children”.

Now, I think ALL parents should be reading what is in their child’s curriculum as well as what’s in their school’s library.  I’m betting that MOST parents are NOT going to agree that minor children should be reading them.  I should ask, beyond the excerpts on the mailers, have ANY of these folks actually read the books themselves?

Backside: “Read as Parents and children should not read”

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So I’m confused – which is it?  Ok for kids or not?  Is she hedging her bet?  I have no idea.

Oh, for those that sent their return addresses in sending back the mailers? Yeah, I’m going to send something back.

And still more, along the same lines, to post later.

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The most famous, most significant, and first National Park in America, Yellowstone was never meant to be. The U.S. Government sent a team of explorers, geologists, and engineers to ascertain the feasibility of building railroad tracks through Montana, Colorado, and Idaho. The goal of these men was not to preserve the natural characteristics of the region but to cut through it to ease the railroad connection from East to West. It did not work out as planned, but the National Park System was born.

The first organized exploration of the territory was by a team of Army Civil Engineers in 1860. The venture was cut short by Mother Nature and the winter snow cover. The Civil War prevented any future attempts at surveying the area. Ferdinand V. Hayden, head of the U.S. Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories, led the next scientific expedition in 1871, simultaneous with a survey by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

What Hayden and his men saw and experienced during the trip led them to convince President Ulysses S. Grant to rethink the railroad construction. Their mission was to find a way to destroy the land in the name of progress. Their experience told them they needed to preserve the nearly two million acres of natural beauty and wildlife. They were overwhelmed by the scope of the land and the natural interaction of the various species that call this area home. Through journals, letters, photographs, and drawings, they told their story to President Grant.

Apparently, these men sold their story well as any Railroad plans for this region were scrapped. On March 1, 1872, President Ulysses S. Grant signed the Yellowstone National Park Protection Act into law. The world’s first national park was born. This was just the beginning, as in the 150 years since the birth of Yellowstone, 423 parks have been designated, and added to the National Park network. The National Park Service manages over 80 million acres in all 50 states, the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Guam, and American Samoa.

There are various types of National Parks. National battlefields, Military Parks, Historical Parks and sites, National Monuments, and Memorials are some classifications. These areas must be placed into the National Park Authority so they can forever be protected from encroachment and their natural resources and wildlife can be maintained and prosper. I believe the National Park Service is one of the best uses of a government authority.

The popularity of television series like Yellowstone and 1883 shows a thirst for the Midwest’s beauty, toughness, and nature. We still have a connection to our country when it was still forming. That is true Americana. It is not Times Square or the sidewalk dwellers of San Francisco. The pioneers who challenged the elements and natural predators of the midlands are still the heroes and backbone of this country. There is no Woke in Montana in the middle of winter. Just a will to survive, which true Patriots have shared for over two centuries.

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Fraudulent Michael-Mann Made Global Warming has only lasted this long because it is well-funded (by you through your government) and broadly advertised by State-Run media. It has almost nothing else going for it, and now it has even less.

 

According to researchers from the University of Cambridge and University of Coppenhagen, the northern peninsula of Greenland – which is now a polar desert – once contained boreal forests of popular and birch trees that were teeming with wildlife.

 

These conclusions are the product of a 16-year research project examining DNA recovered from a 100-meter-thick sediment deposit from Kap København at the north end of Greenland, well inside the Arctic Circle.

 

 

Scientists are telling us that two million years before there were SUVs, oil or gas-heated homes, western government, capitalism, private jets, or even CO2-emitting people, Kap København Greenland was a lush, verdant, wooded landscape.

 

Once they pieced together the fragments, a picture emerged of forests teeming with reindeer, rabbits, lemmings and mastodons – the latter of which have previously only been found in North and Central America.

No carnivores were found, most likely because they were fewer in number, however the researchers speculated that there were likely ancient sabre-toothed tigers, wolves or bears.

 

 

This is a problem for the tipping-point party and their outrageous abuse of taxpayers not yet born to fund “solutions” to the presumption that your lifestyle is killing the planet.

For the record, here’s the current weather forecast for Kap København, Greenland.

 

 

What if it is warmer in the summertime, Steve? It is!

 

 

It is at or around freezing in July. So, it is warmer, but not “boreal forests of popular and birch trees that were teeming with wildlife” warmer. In other words, there are other more complex drivers of changing climate (notice I did not say ‘Climate change) than the ranting Marxists accounted.

And we knew that. The politics of climate change has always been about changing the world’s economic climate, not the weather. But for the folks pushing the latter, this research is a vicious kick in the McNuggets.

A warmer planet is not only not a bad thing, it’s good for mother nature, something else we knew but that the Marxists must protest, perhaps too much.

But respected scientists, experts in their field, are telling us that the planet has been a lot warmer (which we also knew) and wildlife thrived in places that are currently polar deserts, long before the Michael Mann-made global warming was even conceived.

It’s a bad look for the Climate Cult, and their relentless push to insist that your “not freezing to death” with the lights on is killing the planet.

No, it’s not. Go away.

 

HT | The Burning Platform | The Guardian | Nature

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So I’m a bit behind on posting up what is now Court paperwork in the case of Douglas Lambert [allegedly] assaulting Erica Golter during a Belknap County Republican meeting and was stripped of his General Membership by the Members for it. He has been charged with Simple Assault and the victim is looking to have a Restraining/Stalking Order placed against him as his actions were not just a one-time deal.

Sidenote: you can see the previous posts on this by clicking here).

Anyways, the first time she filed for the Order, it was denied as more specifics were needed:

Order on Stalking Denial - need specifics - 2022-11-07 Golter v Lambert Laconia District Court

However, the victim quickly filed an amended complaint/additional material including the video from GraniteGrok of the meeting.  Michael Garner, Circuit Court Judge watched the video and the materials and decided that a hearing was to be set by another judge. In other words, there was enough “there” to warrant additional action by the court system (e.g., this was not a baseless case):

Order for a Hearing for the Stalking petition given the video 2022-11-08 Laconia District Court

Note what the judge wrote (emphasis mine):

“I agree that Respondent stood in front as Petitioner in an effort to obstruct her view, and when she moved past him to his right, he leaned in with that direction and initiated contact with her.

Corroboration of what I saw, what the victim underwent, what the BCRC Executive Committee saw, what the Gilford Police determined, and now observed by a Judge. Deliberate action – not an accident.  Of his own volition. 

Validation.

Accordingly, an Order was written for a hearing on November 29 at 11am in Laconia District Court in case 450-2022-CY00223:

Notice of Hearing on Stalking Petition 2022-11-08 Golter v Lambert for 2022-11-29 Laconia District Court

Yes, I showed up with my camera early (always need time for setup).  An additional item to the checklist was to check in with the Clerk of the Court. While GraniteGrok is a registered media entity with the NH Judiciary (with paperwork attesting to it), I’ve learned twice before that such paperwork doesn’t automatically gain one access to the hearing courtroom. Must check in first.

And then I found that Lambert, instead of doing the right thing and “manning up” and taking his lumps responsibility for his actions, had lawyered up.

Things went sideways (a bit).  We’ll talk about that in the next post. However…

…Methinks he knew all along that he was in deep sneakers even as he was trying to do the “oh gosh, nothing happened, this is a lot about nothing” schtick during the BCRC meeting where he had to be told, several times:

You are no longer a member, please leave the room.

And that’s when I was the receiver of “The Bony Finger of Lambert” Award. ‘Cept now, there’s a bit more to it:

Deep sneakers. You know, I should go back to the video and fisk what he really said to the General Members and then compare it to the paperwork thus far.

And now we know why people don’t want to be videoed at the Belknap County Republican meetings – they do stupid stuff and don’t want a record of them being stupid. I really don’t have a better explanation.

You?

UPDATE: My friend John Hawkins has another SubStack post out (I’m on his email list and it came in just as I was finishing this post) and this was entitled “The 40 Best Quotes About Politics” where the first one was from Sam Adams (the Patriot, not the beer maker); emphasis mine:

1) “A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy. While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued, but when once they lose their virtue then will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader.” — Samuel Adams

Methinks Lambert has spent too much time with the Citizens of Belknap PAC (I saw him cavorting in their booth during Gilford’s Old Home Day) and he’s lost both his Principles and his Manners – I would never have believed that he would have attacked a lady for no reason at all. Some manners (or actually, none at all).

Ditto, his virtue.

He needs to resign from the Gunstock Area Commission. Does he have the manners and virtue to realize that he’s done wrong to someone that was just standing there minding her own business?  And are the two “feminist” Gunstock Area Commissioners, Jade Wood and Denise Conroy going to put up with his behavior?

How about the Belknap County Delegation – is this cause for “removal for cause”.  How about it, former Judge (and now Representative) David Huot?

Oh Wait!  The Belknap County Administrator hasn’t seen fit, a month after the election, to update the Delegation listing?

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New Hampshire’s RINO/NeverTrump Sun-King Chris Sununu appeared on Fox News’ Neocon/NeverTrump Cavuto show yesterday to discuss South Carolina being awarded FITN by the Democrat Party. It is stunning how uninformed the Sun-King is.

Cavuto, who despises Trump, naturally asked Sun-King if Trump was to blame for the GOP’s miserable performance in the midterms. Sun-King, who obviously loves to hear himself talk, said essentially Trump was part of the problem, but the major problem was candidates who could not win.

Sun-King evidently is unaware that in Nevada, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Georgia, etc. elections are now ballot-harvesting contests. Democrats win these contests because in the weeks leading up to “Election Day” they bank so many votes that the GOP has already lost by Election Day. For example, there had been weeks of “early voting” in Pennsylvania BEFORE the debate where voters finally got to see that Fetterman was as much a vegetable as Biden. In Arizona, the Democrat candidate for Governor refused to debate because she knew that she didn’t need to persuade, but to “harvest.”

And speaking of “bad candidates” Lord Sun-King, your boy Chuckie Morse couldn’t even win a primary where the majority of voters are NOT real conservatives … because he campaigned like it was 1982, not 2022: low taxes, small government, blah, blah, blah.

Sun-King also claimed that the Democrat “liberal elite” would mount a primary challenge to Biden in New Hampshire. So, apparently, Sun-King is also unaware that the “liberal elite” are actually running the Biden administration.

Sun-King is such a clueless narcissist.

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