The COVID News Network (CNN) has a breathless expose on an “until now” unrealized inequity. Researchers, always a suspicious term when applied by the MSM, report that ‘People of Color’ are more likely to experience “inequities seen in sleep health” than white folks.

The article mentions Daylight Savings versus Standard Time but exerts most of its effort on how badly we sleep. Yes, it admits that the white folk suffer from adverse health outcomes that can follow “poor sleep,” but certain “social and environmental factors” disproportionately affect non-whites.

 

“Among those are housing conditions, noise pollution, light pollution, air pollution, stress from different sources – including perceived racial discrimination – and jobs or working conditions,” he said, adding that the convergence of all those factors may explain why getting the recommended amount of sleep “may be less common among Black adults than among White adults.”

 

Let’s see. Democrats want us all crammed into cities with more “noise pollution, light pollution, air pollution,” and the more of us there are, the more we will have.

We can add crime to that as well. Dem-run urban areas have some of the highest crime rates on earth, much of it black-on-black crime, so I could see that making folks a bit restless.

And the left creates discrimination out of thin air in their pursuit of political power and can’t shut up about it to the degree that actual racism gets lost in the noise.

In other words, most of the environmental factors affecting sleep are a product of Democrat priorities, regardless of color. However, I suspect Democrat leaders like Sharpton and Jackson, Patrisse Cullors, or Maxine Waters sleep very well. Those folks make their living selling racism and corralling people of color into these sleepless Democrat urban paddocks.

Sleep is important. Truth is important.

And yes, I think the Daylight Savings Time flip-flop needs to go away, but it’s not racist, CNN. That – as usual – is the Democrat’s fault.

 

 

 

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Do you know what is really happening behind NH prison bars? To find out what goes on there, you would need to talk to someone who was on the inside. Frank Staples could help you with that. He was there and is willing to share his story with us.

We want to thank Megan Davis for this Op-Ed – Please direct yours to Editor@GraniteGrok.com.

Frank Staples is a freedom fighter who stands up for the oppressed and is not afraid to ruffle a few feathers. While sitting silently, he was one of the nine people arrested for disorderly conduct on October 13, 2021, at an Executive Council meeting.

Frank’s story started in foster care. Then because he got into some trouble, he was forced to live in the Sununu Center. After that, he was apprehended for selling drugs, and he was put in the county jail while he waited to go to trial.

In jail, the guards came up with many reasons to give Frank a lot of punitive segregation time, which landed him in solitary. He spent a year and nine months there.

Frank kept asking why he was there, and eventually, they told him that he asked to go to the hole.

After he told me that, Frank found a probable reason for his solitary. He was using the jail’s kiosk to report and document abuse. Then, he was banned from using the kiosk.

Next, Frank refused to go to court, so while handcuffed and shackled, Frank was beaten, dumped in his cell on his face, and left there for five days before he was sent to medical.

After that incident, Frank started to fight back more inside the jail, destroying sprinklers and irritating the staff.

Although there weren’t any legal grounds to send Frank to the state prison, one day, he found himself being sent to prison. To warrant prison before a trial, the guards said that he had been assaultive towards staff.

At the state prison, he spent five years in solitary.

I asked Frank how he got through those years, and he said that books were important to that. But, for a time, the guards weren’t allowing any of them to have any books. Frank fought that because it was in the prison policy that they could have books. He ended up being tasered and kicked in the face.

Frank said that the warden probably didn’t know about what was going on. He let the guards do whatever they wanted unless it caused him trouble.

 

 

 

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So I just perused the twitter feed of NH-NeverTrumpJournal … not a peep about the protests in China … which begs the question, WHO FUNDS NH-NEVERTRUMPJOURNAL. Globalists who are heavily invested in China like Apple?

You know who is also silent about China? His Majesty, Sun-King Sununu … the same Sun-King who wrapped himself in the Ukranian flag:

Silence also from the NHGOP lobbyist-elite:

DO YOU GET IT YET?

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Actually, several of them. And of course, being Elon Musk, it has to be in the form of tweets.

Sidenote – He’s a brilliant guy – Telsa, SpaceX, Boring Machine, StarLink, and now Twitter. And with the latter, who knew he could be an insightful and amazing great comedian? He takes on all sorts of stuff-shirts and hands their heads back to them on a silver platter with just a word or short phrase. It’s glorious!

From this post at RedState, he takes a more serious side though. HE GETS it. While so many Republicans just keep prattling on about lowering taxes and getting rid of regulations, he shows how brilliant of an engineer/entrepreneur he is when he switches to politics. He goes right to the root cause as an engineer and as an entrepreneur, figures out a solution. In this case, the war against Free Speech so he buys Twitter and starts to remake it. But that’s just a tool in what really matters – the regressive repression that the Democrats, Progressives, Totalitarians, and other regressives (like most of the Mainstream Media, but I repeat myself) that demand a single fealty to their ideology (as Steve wrote about the Burlington, VT’s Gardening Loyalty Oath).

Anyways – the quotes from Nick Arama and Elon Musk. Hate to quote most of the post but it all “hangs together” as a single piece (reformatted slightly, emphasis mine).

Quote One:

Elon Shows Just How Much He Gets the Culture War in a Stunning Thread

…When Musk asked, “What do you think of the culture war?” Musk revealed in his responses that he understood things far better than even some people on the right do. He noted that the media is only allowing one narrative.

Go ahead, ask some of the NH GOP Establishment what their take on the Culture War is doing to Republicanism; I’m betting you’ll get a look of disgust and simply walk away (re: former Republican Speaker of the NH House Doug Scammon (who was elected by Democrats and abortion) never having a clue about Breitbart’s observation of “Politics is downstream from Culture” meaning that if the Culture changes, it also changes the Politics in that culture. Most Rs have not clue one that the Left has worked hard for decades (since the 60s) to change the culture right out from underneath the underpinnings of Republican blatherings.

Quote Two:

Accurate

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 25, 2022

“Accurate” – acceptance of a root cause. And Quote two realizes the legitimacy of Brietbart’s observation.

I am neither conventionally right nor left, but I agree with your point.

The woke mind virus has thoroughly penetrated entertainment and is pushing civilization towards suicide.

There needs to be a counter-narrative.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 25, 2022

BTW, next time you see your Elected Representative, ask him/her (yes, the ONLY correct pronouns!) if they can tell you Breitbart’s words. If they cannot, you’re screwed because they don’t understand the root cause.

“…pushing civilization towards suicide…counter-narrative”.  Not only in just providing a media outlet for that counter-narrative as he has done with the purchase of Twitter but telling the REST OF US to develop and express what that counter-narrative must be. You know, as we do here at GraniteGrok each and every day with every post – you all need to do the same!

Quote, Three – from Arama:

…That’s a pretty amazing response if you think about it. He gets that this is an existential fight, that our civilization as we understand it, is at risk in this fight. That’s a huge point to get when we see folks in the Republican establishment not seem to understand that (1), when we see folks who claim to have been on the right or “conservative” helping the left (2), thus helping that movement toward chaos. Would we even have imagined a few years ago that the Democrats would refuse to even define what a woman is? But here we are, with them denying even that order in life, that there is nothing you can point to that defines a woman. That’s chaos.

Although I would add there is a counter-narrative. We saw it being pitched perhaps prominently for the first time in Virginia during Glenn Youngkin’s race last year — that’s we’re on the side of sanity, the parents and the kids, of not indoctrinating children. That we support freedom and the individual, not the chaos. I suspect Musk means that counter-narrative needs to be heard more.

The above was going to be THE Notable Quote all on its own but the more I kept staring at it, the less sense it made IF the entire context was not presented at the same time. Sure, the gestalt of it is there but details count.

“(1)” – added by me to point out that I’m not the only one believing that the Republican Establishment just doesn’t get it. At all.  And if they don’t get it soon, it’s lights out on the GOP. Fortunately, there is so much grumbling that just like when the Whigs died out because THEY became irrelevant (and the GOP took its place), the GOP is trending down that same path. No, I don’t think that the Libertarian Party would take its place as it is currently constituted (some great ideas but extremely lousy campaign execution) but something will take the GOP’s place. After all, the Dems aren’t going to be able to fill that vacuum on the Right and the Good Lord above knows that, like Nature, Politics abhors a vacuum.

And because I’ve been on a tear about our sorry state of Education, I HAVE to put this up as it, too, is a root cause problem that if we don’t fix it, it’s lights out – permanently:

pic.twitter.com/mhNMuEwumh

— Déborah (@dvorahfr) November 25, 2022

Look at who this depicts defending the ramparts (in a manner of speaking).  Yes, the Parents. Why else would the Left be doing all it can to cancel them and the idea of the Traditional American Family?

From “Screw DC, save New Hampshire” to “Screw Wokeism, save Civilization”. I guess that pretty much covers the gamut.

BTW, how many Woke TEACHERS would know what that image stands for? I’m betting they have no idea of history that far back. Can they even identify who the warring civilizations were at the time? And what was the purported reason for the conflict?

I doubt it.

Your thoughts?

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It’s always sad when someone passes, especially when it is because they were lied to by the establishment. This tale, not quite as damning as the sudden death of Doug Brignole, involves a proudly vaccinated country music singer who died suddenly at the age of 37 – just hours after his wedding.

Related: Virologist Who Voted to Approve EUA Vaccines Dies Suddenly

 

On Sunday morning, Hosty got word that Flint had died in his sleep, just hours after exchanging vows with his bride.

“He was a singer-songwriter, through and through, and just a big personality, a big heart, and (he’d) bend over backwards to do anything for you. When any musician asks you to play at their wedding, it’s one of those most important days … and it’s always an honor,” Hosty said.

Jake Flint is gone but not forgotten. He left behind a social media post bragging about how vaccinated he was of which folks have since made note.

 

 

 

This really sucks. Guy gets married, has a great reception with family and friends, and dies overnight.

We can’t discount the obvious connection between a guy who bragged about getting vaxxed and boosted and the astronomical rise in sudden adult deaths, including his own. Sure, it could be something else, but how many times can you say that when the number of bodies piling up continues to grow?

There is no statistical explanation other than a mass-vaccination campaign with an experimental product without fully-informed consent.

I mentioned Doug Brignole. He was a competitive bodybuilder and health and fitness guy who famously said, “those of you who think the vaccine kills people can use me as a test. If I die, you were right. If I don’t die and have no ill effects, you were wrong and should admit it…”

He died suddenly, and he’s not the only one. A rising number of high-profile people who should be with us are gone, and I’m wondering (not for the first time) who has to die before people accept that this was, at the very least, a huge mistake.

A Kardashian?

That would be a sad statement about the culture. Sad but accurate.

And what of the many, thousands, tens of thousands, or millions who have or will die suddenly as a result of a government-driven vaccination campaign based on the lie that these were safe and effective?

They were neither unless by effective, you mean sudden adult death syndrome.

 

 

 

ICYMI – Watch Died Suddenly: Stew Peters Network

 

HT | Gateway Pundit

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Is anyone else getting tired of Dementia Joe’s schtick as he seems to pivot to be the mouthpiece of every Left-leaning trope that has ever existed?  Part of me wants to believe that he really believes in all of this but his speechifying makes me think, like many others, that he’s being fed lines that he immediately mangles. Badly.  But that’s part, I believe, of what his handlers depend on. After all, after decades of malapropisms, it seems that most people are now immune to them and just go “Hey, it’s just Joe Biden. Again.” and move on to other things.

But this is what he said a few days ago now?

The idea we still allow semi-automatic weapons to be purchased is sick. Just sick. It has no socially redeeming value. Zero. None. Not a single solitary rationale for it except profit for the gun manufacturers.

There are three basic kinds of firearms (hey, stay with me here – just trying to simplify things a bit because the Left DEPENDS on the ordinary person knowing little to nothing about firearms):

1. Single round, single shot. Shoot a round and then have to manually load a new round (think many precision rifles)
2. Semi-automatic – a firearm that has a limited round carrying capacity (a revolver with a round cylinder or a pistol/rifle with a box magazine) that will automatically feed a new round after every SINGLE pull of the trigger
3. Burst or fully automatic – pull and hold the trigger and the firearm continues to fire until the box magazine or the belt feeding the firearm runs out (or the barrel “melts” from the heat of continuous firing).

So in Joe’s eyes, there is no need (“you don’t need that” being the ‘tell’ of Socialists and Civilian Disarmament totalitarians everywhere) for anyone to have anything but a single-shot firearm:

• target shooting is not socially redeeming
• hunting to feed your family is not socially redeeming
• defending you and your family from a house invasion from multiple ne’er-do-wells is not a socially redeeming activity.

And of course, how would you ever fight off your tyrannical government that has F-15s and atomic bombs with just guns – even if civilians have over 410 million of them? I think that Afghanistan should rip that argument to shreds, right?  What wins wars is the determination to break your opponent’s will to fight – and you’d be more than halfway there on the losing side by declaring war on Americans.

So guess what, gun-owners (and I assume that if you have a single-shot, you also have a semi-automatic pistol or rifle in your collection. Several, I bet. And in some cases that I know, several SAFES full of them (and in a couple of instances, several rooms full), you are SICK individuals.

Obama called you clingers, Hillary called you deplorables, and now Biden has called you sick.

How does it feel to have your “Leaders” think of you so condescendingly? It’s almost like they feel free to let you know they HATE you and your traditional American Values – and believe in the philosophy of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Speaking of which…

…even as you can point to the Second Amendment and say “there’s my permit/license to own and use my Arms”. Special word there – “arms”. As in:

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

In an originalist definition, arms mean military arms and just not guns. All KINDS of military equipment and such. Civilians back then owned the equivalent equipment that the militaries of the day owned. Sometimes, better. And contrary to what President Asterisk holds, private citizens could also own what are now called “destructive devices” -> cannons. Lots of them if one had the money (think a privateer with a Letter of Marquee roaming the seas looking for British ships to take or sink). Hey Lefties – just shove that thought that “we don’t need that” because you might see something being shoved right back – in your faces if Joe really tries to back up his words.

Or one of his minions with the puppet strings entangled in their hot little hands.

The Left keeps trying to convince us that times have changed and that you have nothing to fear from your government EVAH! Think “YOU DON’T NEED THAT” anymore.  I think there are a few Native Indians around that would be willing to dispute that claim and I bet many of us can point to other “problems” in history and even in current events. After all, Congress, the President, and government, in general, are usually at the bottom of most “who do you trust” polls (think Gallup).

Sorry, Joe, you aren’t going to ban the sales of new semi-automatics, whose technology has been around for 150 years or so, especially after the SCOTUS Bruen decision. Oh, you may TRY, you may SAY the words, you may SIGN such an Executive Order – but you won’t be able to say “Mission Accomplished” at the end.

Again, going to war with a civilian population that now has more firepower than when Yamamoto (purportedly) told the Japanese High Command before the start of WW II:

“You cannot invade mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind each blade of grass.”

Also don’t forget, since he studied in America before WW II, he also said:

“I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.”

Unfortunately, I think Biden may well go down the road of “Play stupid games, get stupid prizes”.

(H/T: RedState)

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Joe spent the holiday on Nantucket Island with “the regular people.” To facilitate his transportation needs, the US Secret Service rented five vehicles. The day after Joe departed (probably for his twenty million dollar beachfront home), all five cars reportedly burst into flames.

 

The five vehicles had been rented to some of the dozens of Secret Service agents on the island providing security for President Biden and his family during their annual Thanksgiving visit, two sources confirmed to the Current.

The fact that the fire consumed the rental vehicles just hours after President Biden left the island has prompted widespread national media coverage of the story. Cranson said he had been inundated by calls from reporters on Tuesday.

 

The fire marshall says the cause is not suspicious, which is probably what the WH or Secret Service told him to say. So, I have two working theories. One is that one or more of these vehicles was electric, and it spontaneously combusted (as they are known to do), taking those nearby with it. The second is arson to hide (to paraphrase Rep. Ilhan Omar) something someone did in one or more of them.

Neither is all that credible and mostly fanciful, but not impossible given the notion that people still want us to believe that 81 million Americans “voted” for Joe Biden or that the COVID vaccine stops COVID. Neither of those things is true.

Alternatively, was anyone visiting from Ukraine or China? And can anyone say “Global Warming” (that’s a lot of emissions)?

The lies are still developing…

 

Video care of The Nantucket Current.

 

 

HT | PJ Media

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As promised in the last Monday Memes, I have an overflow. My meme cup runneth over.  Almost certain about a Friday Overflow-Overflow.  We’ll see.

Now, let the mayhem, mockery, and ridicule resume:

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

 

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This, Brave New World, Fahrenheit 451, Frankenstein… all are warnings.

 

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I see things like the above IMHO principled stance, and have hope that Musk is, overall, on our side.  And then something like this, below, comes into view:

 

 

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I think it was the Greeks who said “Eat small amounts of a wide variety of foods”… and I don’t recall who said “Always leave the table a little hungry” but I do know it’s an old, old saying.  Truth.  Interestingly, so much of the angst about saturated fats comes from the Seven Countries study, discussed here:

 

 

The near-gospel level adoration for this is a critical lesson on groupthink.  It’s also extensively discussed in this excellent book: The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet

I’d argue a lot of health issues have to do with our sedentary lifestyle.  We’re idle, but too busy to exercise.  Guilty.    That, and the increasingly targeted flavors of processed foods to hit the addition centers in our brain.  So we eat more of the highly-processed food.

 

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Aaaaaand, it’s gone from the news.  Nothing like not conforming to The Narrative.  Speaking of:

 

 

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I was honored to have a correspondence, albeit infrequent, with this great man.  His framed picture, autographed to me, hangs on my wall at home.

In parallel, there’s a fantastic video by Milton Friedman discussing capitalism:

 

 

In which he said:

So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.

In a very interesting bit of serendipity, I have been discussing capitalism with an internet friend and how capitalism / the free market is great… so long as the behaviors & decisions are moderated by morals and human compassion.  Consider the H1B fraud, where companies game the system to replace American workers with lower-wage foreign workers.  And lawyers hold seminars on how to do this.  All purely legal, but not right.

 

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Pick of the post:

 

 

Indeed, what a stunning coincidence.

 

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Hysterical!

I’ve worked at some very “relaxed” places, and I’ve often wondered how some of these people would fit in at a more conventional company.  One company had an engineering manager (male) who was “built” and, objectively, very good looking.  His attire was more suited to trawling the meatmarket bars than a workplace setting.  At the same place a female coworker liked to wear low-cut, or open, blouses, and several times had a one-piece dress “sl*tware” dress that was, as above, more suited to going out to a bar than a workplace.  A different employer saw a guy, always in Bermuda shorts, zipping up and down the halls on a two-wheel scooter.  Back in the Cambrian, when I was young, it was dress clothes, ties, etc., even for co-ops and interns.  In many ways I miss that; it gave a professional atmosphere to the place which, IMHO, elevated behaviors.

 

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I’ve already told my kids that, if asked at school or by the doctor, to lie: Daddy doesn’t own guns.

 

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Palate cleansers:

 

 

 

 

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Democrats in DC are in the minority this time around, and look what they did. “In a Wednesday vote, Democrats unanimously voted to make Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) the leader of the party in the House.”

In case you were wondering…

 

Given the current political climate it seems rather newsworthy that he’s also an election denier, no? pic.twitter.com/8mwIP3SS2w

— I was there. It was great. (@BringBackErk54) November 30, 2022

 

The minority leader is also an election denier.

But Nancy will have more time for her husband Paul, who clearly has some issues to hammer out at home.

 

HT | IJR

 

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The “American revolution” was about much more than the war for Independence. In fact, as John Adams noted, the revolution was “effected before the war commenced.”

A “radical Change in the Principles, Opinions, Sentiments and Affection of the People” was the “real American Revolution.”

If we’re going to go from the largest government in history today – to a true “land of the free,” we’ll need to lean in on some of the wisdom and strategy of the founders and old revolutionaries.

Here are 4 essential principles to help the people set the foundation for the Constitution and liberty – whether the government wants us to, or not.

Rights are not gifts from government.

It’s not really “liberty” if it requires a government-issued permission slip.

When it comes to the founders and old revolutionaries, that means we’re talking about natural rights.

Samuel Adams put it this way in 1772:

Among the natural rights of the Colonists are these: First, a right to life; Secondly, to liberty; Thirdly, to property; together with the right to support and defend them in the best manner they can. These are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature.

In 1776, John Dickinson reminded us that “our liberties do not come from charters, for these are only a declaration of pre-existing rights.”

And Thomas Paine noted that “it is a perversion of terms to say that a charter gives rights.”

Constitutions don’t enforce themselves.

They never did and they never will.

Writing in support of ratification, Dickinson, who was a primary author of the Articles of Confederation, acknowledged that even the best constitution can only “promote” a “good administration,” but it cannot guarantee it.

In Federalist 48, James Madison lamented that many seemed to rely on the ability of documents to restrain government power. But he wrote that such a “parchment barrier” could never do the job on its own.

“A mere demarcation on parchment of the constitutional limits of the several departments, is not a sufficient guard against those encroachments which lead to a tyrannical concentration of all the powers of government in the same hands.” 

In short – something else is needed to keep a government in check beyond pointing them to the rules they’re supposed to follow.

It’s up to the People to defend their own constitution and their own liberty. 

Whether the government wants them to, or not.

Dickinson emphasized that enforcement of the Constitution is ultimately up to “the supreme sovereignty of the people.”

IT IS THEIR DUTY TO WATCH, AND THEIR RIGHT TO TAKE CARE, THAT THE CONSTITUTION BE PRESERVED; Or in the Roman phrase on perilous occasions—TO PROVIDE, THAT THE REPUBLIC RECEIVE NO DAMAGE. (all caps in original)

Thomas Jefferson put it this way:

“A free people claim their rights, as derived from the laws of nature, and not as a gift of their chief magistrate.”

And future supreme court justice James Iredell summed it up like this during the North Carolina ratifying convention:

“The only resource against usurpation is the inherent right of the people to prevent its exercise.”

Not just a mere good idea, or something to try after everything else fails. The ONLY resource.

Here’s the “but”

It’s not going to be easy. Or fast.

To go from the largest government in history to an actual “land of the free”

In a 1790 letter to his friend, the Rev. Charles Clay, gave us the strategy:

“The ground of liberty is to be gained by inches.”

Each step forward needs to be relentlessly followed by another, and another, and another.

“we must be contented to secure what we can get from time to time, and eternally press forward for what is yet to get.”

There is no silver bullet to take down the empire – it will take tireless fortitude and perseverance, because, as Jefferson knew, it takes time to persuade the people “to do even what is for their own good.”

Facing the monster state of today isn’t going to be easy – we won’t, as Jefferson noted, go “from despotism to liberty in a feather-bed.”

But as the old saying goes, duty is ours.

A lot of people seem to prefer sugar-coating how bad things are, especially at a time like this when every message we get is about choosing team A over team B (or vice versa) for the fate of everything under the sun.

But we prefer to be straight-shooters.

When it gets down to it, Thomas Paine summed it up best:

“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.”

 

 

Republished with Permission from The Tenth Amendment Center

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Some new and disturbing statistics have been published about California. Nancy Pelosi’s home state has a thing for pedophiles. Child sex crimes, when punished, receive unusually light sentences, or the convicted are set loose with limited (if any) surveillance.

 

Analysis of a California database of sex offenders shows thousands of child molesters are being let out after just a few months, despite sentencing guidelines.

“More than 7,000 sex offenders were convicted of ‘lewd or lascivious acts with a child under 14 years of age’ but were let out of prison the same year they were incarcerated, data from the California Megan’s Law database says,” reports the Daily Mail.

“Others who committed some of the worst child sex crimes on the statute books served similarly short sentences, including 365 pedophiles convicted of continuous sexual abuse of a child who spent less than 12 months in prison, 39 cases of sodomy with a child under 16, and three cases of kidnapping a child under 14 ‘with intent to commit lewd or lascivious acts’, according to the data.”

 

But what an excellent learning opportunity.

You undoubtedly have Democrats doing business as child sex-grooming advocates in your area. Local libraries are fond of sexualizing kids with Queer Clowns. Books on the shelves of school libraries describe sex acts between older and younger kids or kids and adults. Some have drawings of the act.

Advocates of these odd “educational” priorities label anyone who questions the appropriateness of access to such material “book banning.”

So, what about convicted sex predators? People who – often using manipulation, fear, intimidation, or force – attempt to act out the things described in those books with children. In California, they are getting off easy in the name of protecting people who identify as LGBT that might otherwise be wrongfully persecuted.

I’m trying to picture a scenario where someone older sexualizes the potential child victims of their predation and is wrongfully persecuted. I guess you’d have to want adults to have sex with kids, and that seems to be the goal in Pedofornia and the Democrat party.

Ask the folks who are okay with kids having access to these books before the age of majority if they are okay with sex predators having similar access to their kids.

While you’re at it, there is plenty of adult material in the world for which children are unprepared. Things that will disturb them emotionally. Ask what material is inappropriate for kids, and if there is, why is that not “Book Banning” or censorship?

Do you plan to advocate for 100% access regardless of age? If not, why not? Should the government be able to ignore or override your concerns?

And finally, if you are okay with normalizing the idea of adult-child sex, is that out of personal interest?

If so, can we help you relocate to California?

 

 

HT | PJ Media

 

 

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We’re still close to the elections just held and many of the grassroots Conservatives and Republicans are still seething from the perception of poor results. From my perspective, there are certain points to be made.

Further, with failed NH State Senate candidate Levesque (D-Nashua) now pivoting to run for NH Secretary of State against the incumbent, Scanlon (who has only been the head honcho for 10 months) under the banner of “we need new leadership” (and promising just LOVELY ideas of no longer needing ID to vote + the regular host of Progressive tactics along with that), who knows what would happen. Reformatted, emphasis mine:

So commenter Hunter caught my eye as I’m back to assuming hard-core moderating.  Here’s the setup from Steve’s post “Election Denying Democrats Drop Appeal To Overturn Recount“:

Yeah, it wouldn’t do at all for MORE people to realize that the Democrats are hypocrites representing “a criminal conspiracy masquerading as a political party.” The results in Florida reinforce my long-standing suspicion that if American elections were truly free of corruption, the Democrats would cease to exist as a political force. Guess I’ll have to move to Florida if I ever want to see fair elections, it’s certainly not going to happen in the Granite State any time soon.

Yeah, given the slimmest of margins that the Rs will hold in the Legislature, who do the electing of the SecState, if RINOs consort with the Ds, Levesque could be the next person overseeing all elections.  Given how George Soros loves him Progressive Secretaries of State that hold such views, she’s prime for gaining some of his green bucks for lobbying the legislature.

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I wish it weren’t true, I really LIKE New Hampshire, and thought it was about the only bright spot in New England. But when even long time political commentators and activists I’ve looked up to for years are throwing up their hands and conceding defeat, it’s time to seriously consider getting the hell out.

I added a comment to try to bolster his spirits:

I’ve looked up to for years are throwing up their hands and conceding defeat

Not US, Hunter. Trust me on that.

Besides, it’s fun to be obstinate curmudgeons!

And the payload comment:

Eh, one of the immediately post election opinion pieces by one of your long-time writers I’ve followed with great interest since before GraniteGrok happened was really discouraging, not that I hadn’t figured that out all by my own self. No sense calling out one of you in particular, especially since I’ve avidly followed pretty near ALL your contributors as long as I’ve known about them. Besides, nothing to critique; I don’t at all disagree with that prognosis that the situation is pretty grim. Been writing similar screeds myself going back decades.

I escaped to New Hampshire from behind the New Iron Curtain down on our southern border specifically to get away from this tyrannical BS back before the turn of the millennia. Ups and downs of election cycles I’m used to, but events in the past decade or so look suspiciously like “a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism”. Never thought I’d see this sorta thing in the Granite State of all places.

Damn kids anyway, get the hell off my lawn. I’m completely with you on being “obstinate curmudgeons”. But, damnit, we’re losing the war. On something so fundamental and provable as ELECTION FRAUD, for crying out loud. This is the second election where there’s massive evidence of wide scale fraud – IN NEW HAMPSHIRE, where for GENERATIONS we’ve prided ourselves on clean elections. It’s not like we haven’t seen signs of this building for many cycles before. And most of the establishment Republicans have their head firmly up… er, buried firmly in the sand. When, of course, they are not up to their eyeballs in the corruption themselves.

I’m sick and tired of the “corruption deniers” among us. On another thread I suggested we need to bring back tar and feathers and running gutless weasels outta town on a rail. Or maybe take a lesson from the 1946 “Battle of Athens”. Bring back blanket parties. Get in their faces like people did/are in Canada, Brazil, and CHINA, for crying out loud. Something… ANYTHING. What the hell are we waiting for? Neil Oliver has been pointing the way for months if not years, and he’s hardly the only one. Some of us ‘obstinate curmudgeons’ have been writing and agitating on this topic since some of our recent candidates who had their races stolen from them were climbing their mother’s drapes. Yet here we are, lamenting ANOTHER widespread series of stolen elections.

We have GOT to do something besides just sit around and wait for the ANTIFA thugs to burn us out or other regime goons to start herding people into camps, which is EXACTLY where the arc of current events is headed. Turning the other cheek begins to get a little old when the other guy beats BOTH to a pulp then starts eating your face, all the while calling us names and telling wretched lies. At the very least we need to SERIOUSLY start ostracizing anyone who keeps spouting happy talk and denying what’s right in front of our eyes. I’ve got a zero-tolerance policy for quislings, collaborators, and by now even the willfully clueless. See above endorsement of the ‘obstinate curmudgeon’ meme.

All our other safeguards and carefully designed checks and balances have been subverted. Elections are a sick joke at this point, the courts come up with any and every excuse they can to avoid applying the law as written, other than a handful of outlets like GraniteGrok media are nothing but cheerleaders and mouthpieces for “the Men Who Would be Kings”. That’s the soapbox, the ballot box, and the jury box to all appearances largely neutralized. Doesn’t leave a lot of options left in our toolbox, huh? <shrug>

Yeah, there’s signs of ongoing resistance here and there, But overall the picture is pretty grim, and shows not a lot of sign of getting better any time soon. Leastways up here in the Granite State, and sure as hell not on a national level. <sigh> I’m not bailing right yet, but for the first time in right at 25 years up here seriously exploring an exit strategy. Would much rather stand and fight – but that’s simply not happening at the moment here in New Hampshire, and there ARE other parts of the country where it IS. I wasn’t yet tired of winning, and would like to get back to it.

He’s right.  But here’s my question to ANYONE in that same rut: How active were you in candidate races leading up to November? There a spectrum of folks running from “not even voting” to “going 24/7 for months for several months doing anything that no one else would do to get their candidate over the finish line“.

Most of you aren’t at either end of that spectrum (well, maybe a few more to the latter than the former, given that a normal Bell curve doesn’t apply to most of us). But can you do more? Can you help coax more people to even get started away from that “do nothing” attitude?

If you are looking for ideas, trust me, we/I have plenty of ideas that can incrementally help our side (all you have to do is ask – and yes, that’s a HINT, folks).  And no, it’s not too early to get started now. After all, I know that one Democrat PAC that is already working on getting results in two years.

You willing to put in the effort to throw a set of steel bars across their railroad tracks?  Gotta start now, folks!

Activism – it should be what’s for YOUR dinner!

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The headline reads, “New Hampshire charter school enrollment increases 14% in past year” which is good news for parents and students, but is it bad news for public schools?

 

The department reported there were 4,912 students enrolled in the state’s 28 charter schools as of the start of the 2022-23 school year. That represents 599 more students than the previous school year, when there were 4,313 students overall.

 

Democrats oppose funding charter schools. They object to tuitioning programs that help our most vulnerable students find the right educational fit. They are not found of Learn Everywhere. Dems also despise the Education Freedom Accounts and, if they had the votes, would undo all of it in a single House session.

They also cling to the lie that allowing some of a town’s education tax dollars to follow the students harms public schools. That it diminishes them in some way.

This is total rubbish.

The School budget gets funded, and even if a student leaves for a charter school, the District keeps most of the money it took from taxpayers to educate a child who is no longer occupying a seat. But it is a lie with a grain of truth. The missing student is a threat of sorts.

If you allow a child to learn outside the corrupting influence of Social Justice influencers, they might learn something. Math, science, history, how to read, critical thinking. These are all a threat to the education establishment and its monopoly. A brand that appeals primarily to progressive partisan politics.

Four thousand nine hundred twelve free-thinking graduates are enough votes to flip a few local races, and those numbers are growing. The current approach at the state level is to add more charter schools. To create more competition. And if you know anything about Democrats and their predisposition, competition is the last thing they want.

So, the Party of choice opposes parental rights and school choice because a mind is a terrible thing to lose to Liberty.

Here’s to hoping those charter numbers grow even more next year.

 

HT | Valley News

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Joe Biden has obliterated our Southern Border with Mexico in just two years. Under Donald Trump, we had the most secure Border in decades, and the number of illegal crossings was under control.

The Border Patrol and ICE were supported, and the Wall was funded and being built. From day one of the Biden Presidency, Biden has negated every positive action President Trump had enacted, and it had the desired effect. The Border no longer exists, our sovereignty has been destroyed, and millions of unknown, unvetted aliens have flowed into our country. Some say there are 11 million undocumented illegals in the United States. Some say that number may be as high as 30-40 million. To Biden and the Democrats, it is only a number and is not a big deal. There is no limit to the flow of humanity in their mind, and therefore the Border Crisis does not exist.

The Democrats do not see the issue, but the rest of us do, and we know this influx of people from all over the world will change America forever. This unfettered migration is no longer impacting just the Border States. The uncontrolled travel of these people after they are “processed” means that every state has become a Border State. These people are impacting housing, schools, the burden of social welfare programs, and crime. They are destroying any semblance of a plan states had for their future. This is changing the demographics and identity of the United States, not in a good way.

We who are opposed to the Biden “immigration” policy are not being hypocritical. We know that this country was built on immigration and people from every corner of the globe. The merging of these cultures created the patchwork quilt country we love. The number of people allowed to relocate to America each year was controlled. That number depended on Americans’ birth and death rates and how many foreigners we could absorb without taxing our infrastructure and social budgets. Take away those controls, and you have the Biden plan. Open the faucet and let the human flow go. That is Joe’s take on immigration. The Biden Plan is no plan. It is about to get worse.

Depending on how the Courts can stop Biden’s plan, Title 42 is about to end. Title 42 was put in place by Donald Trump to force illegals back into Mexico until they could be vetted and processed. With the end of Title 42, the flow of people will increase and overwhelm our shrinking security forces at what was once our physical Border that defined the geography of America. Our forces are shrinking in two ways. The sheer number of border agents is decreasing, but also is the authority of these men and women. This puts them and our country in danger.

Contrary to Democrat claims, these illegal migrants are not all fleeing from oppressive countries where they are in immediate danger. It is documented that these people come from over 150 countries worldwide. One thing we know is that the vetting process does not exist. We do not know the health of the people crossing or their backgrounds. We know there have been people listed on the terrorist watchlist caught attempting to enter America. We do not know how many have made it through our security. This should scare every American.

Finally, aside from the number of people crossing is the millions of tablets of Fentanyl getting into our country. We know how much is stopped but not what is now in the underbelly of America, killing over 100,000 young people each year. The uncontrolled flow of immigrants and drugs is more than any sovereign country should ever experience. Unfortunately, we are no longer a sovereign country, thanks to Joe Biden.

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If you rely on the corporate-media for news, then you probably have no idea that over the past few days massive protests swept China in response to the Party’s Zero-COVID policies. Shamefully, Apple has been helping the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) suppress these protests:

In 2019, @Apple removed an app that helped Hong Kong protesters track the police and they just limited the use of AirDrop in China that anti-lockdown protesters were using to communicate and now they're threatening to de-platform Twitter as videos of protests in China go viral.

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) November 28, 2022

Read that again, please. Apple is threatening to de-platform … essentially cancel Twitter … because Twitter won’t censor what’s going on in China.

Shame on Apple and shame on our “leaders” … you know the ones who wrapped themselves in the Ukrainian flag … for not condemning Apple.

In the interest of balance, I will present what the rebuttal from the Koch/Josiah Bartlett crowd would look like … APPLE IS A PRIVATE COMPANY AND IF THEY WANT TO SUPPORT THE CCP THEY HAVE EVERY RIGHT TO.

Do you get it yet? I’ll spell it out for you. There is no “free market” if a handful of essentially omnipotent corporations can control the narrative. There is no freedom if a handful of essentially omnipotent corporations can control the narrative.

 

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We have heard dozens of times in the last couple of years that one thing or another was going to destroy our Democracy. It started with Donald Trump, whose sheer existence was the ultimate threat to our Democracy.

I have to point out that we do not have a democracy in the United States but a republic. There is a tremendous difference, one that is lost on most Democrats. Democrats have no comprehension of the complexity of the Republic and how it allows for every citizen to be of equal importance. The Left would love to see the Republic crumble, the Electoral College abandoned, and the country dominated by the Northeast and Gold Coast elite. That is the Democracy they yearn for with no concern for the middle class or the middle of America. For the Party that always claimed they stood for the little guy, they certainly seem comfortable with their new association with the rich and famous.

Trump was not a big or broad enough target. Hillary set the parameters in 2016 when she included all Republicans in her “Basket of Deplorables.” Some think that may have cost her the election, but it endeared her to her base. You can say that Hillary is a lousy candidate and a miserable manipulative human being, but she is brilliant and knows how to please her followers. That was her goal. Joe took a page from Hillary’s playbook for the midterms and created the Mega MAGAs. He may have stumbled with the phrase and occasionally mispronounced it, but it didn’t matter. The Left loved it, and it worked. Sad, very sad.

Trump has already declared for 2024. Biden has too, but most recognize this will never happen. Trump is not getting the attention I envisioned when he committed. This shun may be due to a new villain on the Democrat list. Elon Musk, a brilliant innovator and darling of the Left with the Tesla, space travel, Space Link, and tunnel-building technology, dared to cross the line by buying Twitter and vowing to return it to its uncensored roots. This man scares the hell out of Democrats. He will reveal the algorithms and the internal memos regarding what and how to censor specific stories that would benefit Democrats. He is going to take us into the sausage factory.

Celebrities are going apoplectic. The White House, specifically Karine Jeanne-Pierre, says they are keeping a close eye on Twitter and will intercede if they get out of line. Out of line means transparent. A transparent Twitter is the latest and most significant threat to Democracy. You can see the panic in their actions and words. The wealthiest man in the world should not have a hand on a social platform. The Justice Department is looking into Musk’s ties with foreign governments. Biden’s ties are not an issue to National Security, but Musk’s are.

The Left had no problem with the Hunter Biden capers being suppressed in 2020. They had no problem with a sitting President being banned from Social platforms. They had no issue with stories about voting irregularities being hushed by msm. Democrats had no concern about the Justice Department and FBI being weaponized against parents who wanted involvement in their children’s education. These hypocrites wish for a controlled flow of information. They want no light shined on the education system that has brainwashed children for decades. These are the things that will kill Democracy. The Left wants Democracy replaced with a controlled, filtered flow of information to the people. When you pull down the shades and prevent the light of transparency, you will bring about a quick death to Democracy. It is pretty clear that this is the plan of the Left. Will the country sit back and let this happen? Only time and the future of our country will tell.

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Climate Fraud and its perpetrators (benefactors) continue to insist that they follow the science. Good for you, except for this small problem. There’s nothing scientific about what you do, and science can prove it.

Almost any level of scrutiny unravels the Climate Cult’s fraud, but there’s nothing quite as enjoyable as when someone compares the expert’s testimony then to the same expert testimony now, only to discover it’s not the climate they are interested in at all.

 

During the 1970s climate scientists blamed the polar vortex on global cooling, but now they blame it on global warming.

 

 

HT | RCSB

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The recount between State Senate Candidates Republican Lou Gargiullo and Democrat Debra Altschiller has been going on for about a week now. Debra Altschiller won the election by 11.4 percentage points or 3,683 votes for District 24.

We want to thank Megan Davis for this Op-Ed – Please direct yours to Editor@GraniteGrok.com.

If you notice the above tally sheet, taken from Debra Altschiller’s Twitter, you will find that Lou Gargiullo was justified when asking for a recount for the election.

If Gargiullo is winning the vote at the time of this photo, I assume that is how the election went.

In the above snapshot from the recount in Hampton, Gargiullo has 118 votes, and Altschiller has 114 votes. That means that Gargiullo is winning by 1%.

How did these two candidates do in the town of Hampton on Nov 8? Altschiller got 1,480 and Gargiullo got 1,299. That means that Altschiller won by 1%.

Thank you, Lou for contesting this vote.

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Loyal reader Matt is always sending me stuff – posts from elsewhere as well as a lot of memes; I can only use a small fraction of it but enjoy seeing it come in.

Seeing that I am going to a court hearing a little bit (at the time of this writing, 9 am), I only have a bit of time and this should speak volumes to all of us.  President DementiaJoe is now on record in demanding that all semi-automatic weapons be taken away/no longer sold.  That would be the majority of the estimated 410 million firearms in the hands of law-abiding citizens.

Note that he NEVER (along with other gun-grabbers and the Civilian Disarmament crowd) ever talks about the amount of gun CRIME that Democrat leaders allow (re: see Chicago) in their controlled urban areas.  Take away the five topmost counties for that wonton behavior and the US would be one of the safest nations in the world (subtracting suicides at the same time).

But they always use a bit of Critical Race Theory on us all – we are only a “group” and not Individuals. Thus, whenever anyone in the “group-that-has-a-gun” commits a crime, we ALL must be punished.  This is not American jurisprudence in action – it is tribalism and it is about revenge against we who have done no wrong. Note that this is only permissible in one direction – we are not “allowed” to use that same tactic/technique towards them on other issues. If we do, we are the nut-cases, the crazies, and the conspiracy theorists.  One way “Otherizing”.

Sidenote: I dryly note that even as Democrats are pro-euthanasia and infanticide-after-abortion murders, they decry only the murders committed with guns…and it’s not the murders they really care about.

Methinks that if Biden was to get his way, “Molon Labe” would come back into style again.

Thanks, Matt!

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The City of Nashua, New Hampshire, took down a “Save Women’s Sports” flag flying on a government building. Even after being notified of the Shurtleff v City of Boston verdict, which clearly upholds equal access under the law, they refused to reinstate it, flagrantly violating the constitution.

Related: Hal Shurtleff on His Free Speech win at the US Supreme Court (Shurtleff v. City of Boston)

 

Beth Scaer joins Hal to discuss actions from “no puberty blockers for children” to saving women’s sports and wonder out loud —  “Where are the women?” “Why are they applauding men winning female beauty contests and competing in women’s sports?”

 

 

The audio-only version is available here.

 

HT | Hal Shurtleff- Catching Fire News

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