Federal Government Ambassador to New Hampshire Jeanne Shaheen (or is the more proper term, the older version of Satrap?) used her perch in the US Senate to override local voters and reverse the fiscal decisions of their duly elected representatives.

Sidenote: note how often (snark) she discusses the almost  $35 Trillion national debt that she has helped to run up with her Morally Superior sense of “largess by other peoples’ money”?

She seems to believe that by showering people with Federal dollars, she makes herself the female version of Santa Claus, coming down from the Senate version of Mt Olympus to “save” the mortals so far beneath her (yes, I’m mixing metaphors here, but stay with me). As the NH Journal pointed out back in March, she spent $2.5 million in tax money that we would have spent of our own volition (reformatted, emphasis mine):

Shaheen’s Tax Splash: Sinks $2.5M in Kayak Park Rejected by Voters

When Congress passed the $1.2 trillion spending package in the dark of night on Friday, Fox News noted some of the pork barrel projects inevitably included in these omnibus (or in this case “minibus”) budget bills.

One spending shoutout went to $2.5 million for a “new kayaking facility in New Hampshire.”

In this case, it’s a proposed whitewater park in downtown Franklin, N.H. — a project local taxpayers overwhelmingly rejected when asked to fund it themselves last year. So, why are America’s taxpayers paying for it now?

Just ask Sen. Jeanne Shaheen…That’s what Shaheen did, according to Franklin City Manager Judith Milner. Shaheen asked her political friends in Franklin if they wanted some “free” money from the federal government.

<snip>

Shaheen declined to respond to questions about the funding from NHJournal.

As if it was really a gift or even the Federal Government’s. A mere cuppa coffee. As I used to say when I was on my hamlet’s Budget Committee, every time someone came in looking for more spending, it was always justified as “it’s only th price of a cup of coffee a day” for everyone. They were never happy when I said:

“I’m already pulling two tankers worth of coffee behind me – why don’t you get together with your friends, fund it, and then gift it (and the required maintenance for it) yourselves if it’s such a hot idea?”

They always thought I was being rude until I pointed out that they were being more rude in demanding citizens give them money to make themselves feel better about themselves. Was that rudest?

No, it wasn’t. Jeanne Shaheen didn’t have a vote on spending this money. She didn’t bother to accept that Franklin voters didn’t think the idea was worth it—she just blithely overrode their votes, just like any normal Authoritarian (but with a grandmother’s smile).

About questions from NH Journal – what were they thinking as she NEVER does? When the Executive Council funded community health centers but not baby abbatoirs, she immediately directed the Federal DHHS to fund them.  So much for local control, eh, Jeanne?  So much for respecting local elected officials, eh witch (rhymes with…well, y’all know I don’t use that kind of language)?

The interest the US is now paying on its National Debt is over $1 trillion a year. With higher interest rates by the Federal Reserve, that will rise. And remember, that is more money spent (much of which does not fall into Constitutional Powers) on our national defense.

She has nothing but scorn for us all.

The post Authoritarian Jeanne Shaheen Did It Again – Overrode Local NH Decisions With Federal Monies appeared first on Granite Grok.

If you hear a politician or one of their fanatical followers mouthing off about net zero, the energy transition, or achieving some arbitrary reduction in emissions by a date earlier than, say, 2150 CE or 130 ACE (after the covid era), call bullsh!t. Don’t worry, we’ve got receipts.

They are lying, stupid, perhaps both, or if you lean toward being less bombastic, grossly misinformed, and misguided individuals misled by Marxist corruptocrats. I know, I said less bombastic. Calls for achieving levels of electrification, regardless of whether you believe this is to reduce emissions (whatever those may be), are irrelevant. We are wasting time, money (not nearly enough of it) and energy on something that can never be achieved, even if we dropped wind and solar for nuclear and hydro.

Past installments of Why Net-zero is Impossible focused on inadequate access to rare earth metals and the hypocritical offshoring of emissions to places that extract them. Vermont, for example, would need to cover most of its picturesque landscape to meet its “climate goals” while it is, at the same time, sequestering a third of that space as protected from development. Their plan is to make others sacrifice their space. To emit elsewhere, then claim to be clean and green. A Climate cult gated community safe space with sprawling vistas because they are buying dirty green energy from outside the state.

None of that matters. We’ll never get there from here, so they should stop lying to you and wasting your money.

Not only is there not enough known copper, but even if there were, it could not possibly be mined in time to reach even the least offensive of the target dates proposed.

Replacing today’s 1.35 billion light-duty gasoline and diesel vehicles with EVs and supplying the expanded market (estimated at 2.2 billion cars by 2050) would thus require nearly 150 million tons of additional copper during the next 27 years. That is an equivalent of more than seven years of today’s annual copper extraction for all of the metal’s many industrial and commercial uses…Copper offers a stunning example of these environmental externalities. The metal content of exploited copper ores from Chile, the world’s leading source of the metal, has declined from 1.41 percent in 1999 to 0.6 percent in 2023, and further quality deterioration is inevitable. Using the mean richness of 0.6 percent means that the extraction of additional 600 million tons of metal would require the removal, processing, and deposition of nearly 100 billion tons of waste rock (mining and processing spoils), which is about twice as much as the current annual total of global material extracted including harvested biomass, all fossil fuels, ores and industrial minerals, and all bulk construction materials. Extracting and dumping such enormous masses of waste material exacts a very high energy and environmental price.

That’s just EVs without taking into consideration that we’d have to stop using copper for everything else.

Copper is needed for gold alloys and sterling silver, non-EV motor parts, other wiring, piping, and plumbing, machinery to facilitate heat exchange, roofing, finishes, artwork, public health, food and beverage, and use in any other application would necessarily cease. We would need all of it, and it still wouldn’t get us anywhere near where the experts say we need to be.

Net Zero would also require a host of other transitions.

In terms of final energy uses and specific energy converters, the unfolding transition would have to replace more than 4 terawatts (TW) of electricity-generating capacity now installed in large coal- and gas-fired stations by converting to non-carbon sources; to substitute nearly 1.5 billion combustion (gasoline and diesel) engines in road and off-road vehicles; to convert all agricultural and crop processing machinery (including about 50 million tractors and more than 100 million irrigation pumps) to electric drive or to non-fossil fuels; to find new sources of heat, hot air, and hot water used in a wide variety of industrial processes (from iron smelting and cement and glass making to chemical syntheses and food preservation) that now consume close to 30 percent of all final uses of fossil fuels; to replace more than half a billion natural gas furnaces now heating houses and industrial, institutional, and commercial places with heat pumps or other sources of heat; and to find new ways to power nearly 120,000 merchant fleet vessels (bulk carriers of ores, cement, fertilizers, wood and grain, and container ships, the largest one with capacities of some 24,000 units, now running mostly on heavy fuel oil and diesel fuel) and nearly 25,000 active jetliners that form the foundation of global long-distance transportation (fueled by kerosene)… On the face of it, and even without performing any informed technical and economic analyses, this seems to be an impossible task …

At present, no amount of math makes building our way into the proposed energy transition possible. We lack the material or know how to get there. There aren’t enough rare earth metals or copper to get us there, which means there isn’t enough material to replace all of that if we could when it wears out.

Net-Zero is a dead end unless its purpose is something else (which we know it is). Any politician unwilling to admit it is impossible or unwilling to admit other motivations will need your help finding another hobby or occupation. And here’s the rub: It makes no difference if you believe CO2 or any other man-made emission is manipulating the climate. The math doesn’t work.

This is not the path and staying on it is wasting time and money. So get off it.

The post More Bad News for The ‘Energy Transition’ – There Isn’t Enough Copper for EVs, Forget The Rest of It appeared first on Granite Grok.

Hunter Biden will NEVER step foot inside a prison. The Big Pedophile Guy, our Imposter/Figurehead President, Joe BidenX will pardon Hunter or commute his sentence. And Hunter escaped prosecution … because the corrupt BidenX DOJ let the statute of limitations run … on far more serious crimes: tax evasion, money laundering, sex trafficking, influence peddling.

The crimes were displayed and celebrated on Hunter’s laptop … yes, that laptop, the one our “free press” covered up at the behest of our real government, the “intelligence community.”   Excellent summation by David Sacks:

 

The post The Hunter Biden Conviction Proves There Is No “Rule of Law” In America appeared first on Granite Grok.

Through the latter half of the 20th century, George Soros became a sovereign force on the international stage. He became well-known for representing and empowering minority groups in their national political spheres. This was a boon for democracy globally, and Soros became widely known as a champion for human rights.

However, sometime in the opening decades of the 21st century, good ol’ George tacked a new direction. He moved sharply away from cultivating democracy in a new direction. What was that?

Soros’ age may have gotten to him. Or perhaps he spent too much time with Gates in Davos conferences. Either way, he took a new direction promoting global authoritarianism, transhumanism, and the destruction of the USA.

What prompted such a shift we can only theorize on, but the reality is striking. George and his son Alex have steered directly along the course currently tracked by the US far left. Marked by defunding the police, championing black supremecist ideas and demonizing whites, and going so far as to call for racial genocide. Promoting tyrannical, police stare measures surrounding coronaviruses, and participating in massive electoral fraud to ensure continued political representstion and power in Washington.

The Soros bloodline has become a vertiable threat to world peace. Their branded foundation Open Society has twisted the magnificent ideas of Karl Popper into a hellish direction towards global chaos. Where Alex and George do not activrly intervene, when leftist agendas coincide with supporting their power positions, they are happy to stay silent.

Most concerning is Alex Soros’ new captaincy of Open Society Foundations. He is a spoiled trust fund child, a pure elitist, and he has no consideration for individual citizens. He is an idealogue largely lacking in business experience building capital or in communicating actoss socioeconomic spectrums.

Alex relies on the fanatics and sycophants who surrounded his father for decades. Does he have the intellectual inquisitiveness or enlightened mindset to lead effectively given his massive financial capabilities? We can only pray that he does, but by all appearances, he does not.

We are on a precipice. The US populations is being goaded into a 2nd American Civil War. The USA is being primed for incrediboy destructive internal strife. It can be avoided with wise and steady leadership, but the US Democrat Party with its extremely radical focus on destroying white society is clearly not capable of the task.

The only thing the US Democrats will do is gleefully profit from the carnage. The billionaires will hide in their bunkers while the underclasses conflict. This is not the best path forward, nor should we allow it to be.

The solution is to immediately act to take power positions away from US Democrats— they are all compromised by ties to the globalist-communist forums where plans are structured for the downfall of the USA. US citizens must organize and chart their own path.

No other country will help or support in this endeavor. On the basis of self-interest, US citizens must ensure their own country’s strong and resilient sustenance.

Do not trust blindly the self-interested bureaucrats in DC. Do not allow the Soros clan to continuously enable wonton destruction.

The post Decoupling from the Soros Agenda appeared first on Granite Grok.

The international federation that manages elite competitions in water sports told Lia’ William’ Thomas he couldn’t compete with the gals in the pool. Thomas appealed on the grounds that women can have a penis (I’m paraphrasing). World Aquatics said, Sorry, Billy, you’ve still got a willy and all the sporty benefits that come with it.

These are natural, biological advantages that you can’t escape. Therefore, it would be unfair to women athletes (also still paraphrasing).

Great news! Lia Thomas won’t be able to compete in women’s category at the Olympics or any other elite competition.

He has just lost his legal battle in Court of Arbitration for Sport ruling.

This is a victory for women and girls everywherehttps://t.co/fEZc47K0FA

— Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) June 12, 2024

World Aquatics rule is no “women” who transitioned after the age of twelve. William was a ranked Men’s Swimmer before he “switched teams” to rise to…number one. If that sounds fair to anyone, you either hate women or are suffering from an undiagnosed case of mental illness.

Interestingly enough, the majority of mentally ill Willy Thomas supporters are also self-proclaimed defenders of women’s rights (as you already know). And while it is a victory for women when a global regulatory body arrives at what appears to be the only sensible conclusion, remember that the Democrat party has yet to pay any price. World Aquatics is (also) still open to “women” who were born male if they started their life-long course of dangerous hormone therapies as a child.

I have to wonder: could World Aquatics be playing a bit of tri-level chess? Assuming the child survives the transition drugs, the potential loss of bone density and other common medical complications will likely make them incapable of participating in aquatic sports at any level, let alone elite.

More Bad News for Willy and the Gang

I say, I Say, a judge in Texas, a Federal Judge, that is, has ruled that the Bidenista’s rewriting of the Title IX rules is unlawful.

This case involves an immensely difficult policy issue: balancing the protection of personal privacy and rights in school classrooms, bathrooms, locker rooms, and other intimate facilities while, at the same time, ensuring that no student is marginalized in an educational setting. But the resolution of this difficult policy issue is not for the Court to decide. Instead, the Constitution assigns such major policy choices to the appropriate elected officials, who must follow the proper legal procedures to initiate any desired change. Defendants failed to follow the proper procedures here. Rather than promote the equal opportunity, dignity, and respect that Title IX demands for both biological sexes, Defendants’ Guidance Documents do the opposite in an effort to advance an agenda wholly divorced from the text, structure, and contemporary context of Title IX.

In other words, “Title IX pertains exclusively to biological sex, with no references to “gender identity,” “gender expression,” or any other weird concept radical left-wing gender ideology creates out of thin air.”

Sporty lesbians (without a willy) should be excited on both accounts, but we should expect the usual pushback. Dems are nothing if not persistent, but there is some evidence of sea-change in opinion, more rightly defined as “people have stopped putting up with this bullsh!t” and are standing up for girls and women. It’s good to see, but if you’d like that to mean more, get more traction, and result in more meaningful results, you’ll need to step up at the ballot box.

Find and remove the gender-bend from office. Please do it for the children.

As for (I’ve Still Gotta) Willy Thomas, he can still compete for a spot on an Olympic Team—the Men’s team.

I wish you the best of luck, William.

The post Lia ‘Willy’ Thomas Banned from Competing in the Olympics…As a Woman appeared first on Granite Grok.

Here is Jason Bonilla … sans cowboy hat, but still wearing a hat … while sitting as a member of the Manchester School Board … talking about how the School Board needs more people who look like him. According to Bonilla, it is not good enough that there are “allies” … a lovely euphemism for whites … on the Board who advocate and vote the same way he does. NO .. his “gente,” the “Latine community” (Latina being the “gender neutral” of Latino/a) MUST be represented by someone like him.

How profoundly and thoroughly un-American. It’s easy to imagine the outrage from Bonilla and his fellow woke-communists if someone said exactly what Bonilla is saying, but just flipped it … “we need more WHITE faces on the Board; yeah I appreciate our Latine allies, but it’s not the same.” The woke-commies would be screaming RACIST at the top of their lungs. But in today’s America, SADLY, nobody thinks anything of it when Bonilla calls for the Board to be divvied up by skin color.

If you peruse Bonilla’s X, you will notice that he uses the term “mi gente” repeatedly. That term literally translates to “my people” and refers to Latinos … people born in or with ancestors from the geographic region known as Latin America. So, in other words, when Bonilla looks around … he does NOT see Americans. He sees disparate peoples or communities.

The peoples or communities that are not “mi gente”  may contain “allies.” But think about what the term “ally” denotes. The Soviet Union was our ally during World War II … because we had a common-enemy, Germany. So think about it … Bonilla views you and me, those who are NOT his allies, as the ENEMY. He is indirectly saying so, when he calls some of the non-Latinos on the Board his “allies.”

This is Woke-Communism. We are divvied up into groups and identities and woke-commies like Bonilla gain and maintain power by convincing some groups that the other groups are the ENEMY and that they need “leaders” like Bonilla to fight for them.

The post Morning View: You Don’t Need “Allies” Unless You See Enemies appeared first on Granite Grok.

After my article’s initial release, Steve from the GraniteGrok was kind enough to republish my work to spread it to his audience as well. We were able to ignite a small local protest, which resulted in the protestors being banned from entering the Conway Public Library in Conway, NH, where the event was being held.

Editor: Content Warning

On June 23rd, 2023, the Drag Queen, going by the name Reverend Yolanda, performed for a crowd of clueless children and sick parents, all too keen to sacrifice their children to the altar. Protestors showed up and were barred from entering the public library by the local police department. (Below is the video from Granite Grok’s YouTube channel.)

I thought that Conway’s local government would understand that we, the people, would not stand for this. However, I underestimated their pride and outright commitment to harming children. I also failed to alert enough people and should have dedicated everything I could have to spreading the word. I tried but failed, although I won’t fail this time.

We want to thank Samara for this Contribution – Please direct yours to Steve@GraniteGrok.com.
You can review our ‘Op-Ed Guidelines‘ on the FAQ Page.

The event was organized by the infamous White Mountains Pride, which organizes Pride events throughout parts of New England, though primarily in NH. This year, the Conway Public Library decided to re-invite this drag performer with a checkered past. So, I decided to dig back into Reverend Yolanda’s life and see what else I could find.

Remember when I said Reverend Yolanda was in the Radical Faeries? Well that’s going to become a central theme for this article and you’re going to be shocked with what I found.

Would you trust your kids around this man? Conway, NH’s local government does.

Roger Anthony (Tony) Mapes, now referring to himself as Reverend Yolanda, was born in 1956 in the city of Muscle Shoals, Alabama to a religious Methodist family. However, his life took a radical turn which has increasingly devolved through the years. To illuminate this, I will use Mapes’ own words.

During an interview with NYCITY NewsService titled “Helping Boys and Girls Feel Comfortable” Mapes was asked about this question, “But you knew you were not Tony?” And Mapes responded:

“Since I was a kid, I was really aware of myself. At least by fourth grade. But probably before that I knew that I was different. I was raised as a boy but I never felt like a boy. Back then we didn’t have words to describe gender identity. So I assumed I was a gay boy. That was the closest I could think I was.”

“I came out in elementary school, I think I was around 10. Which, actually, now that I work in Drag Story Hour, I meet a lot of kids who know they’re trans by the age of 10. They do. So I was right on track.”

“Of course it was really rough for a long time. So when we moved to a different state I decided I would start all over again and would go back in the closet. That didn’t work because I started falling in love with all these boys…I later decided to study theater and move to New York.”

Then Mapes was asked, “So it was then when you really discovered Yolanda?” And he answered:

“So at that point I got really discouraged…Then around the 1990s (1993), I met a group of people called the Radical Faeries. We were queer people that played with gender (…) I was exploring a new age of spirituality. I moved to another Radical Faerie commune in Vermont and that’s when I started calling myself Yolanda.”

And this is where Mapes would become a full-time Radical Faerie, where he started to identify as a trans femme genderqueer individual. To this day, the name Yolanda, which originated with the Radical Faeries, has now become Mape’s legal name.

The first question is, what are the Radical Faeries? But more importantly, who started the Radical Faeries?

The Dark History of the Radical Faeries A brief description:

The Radical Faeries are a worldwide network and countercultural movement seeking to redefine “queer consciousness” through “secular spirituality.” The Radical Faeries reject classical understanding of men and women and the heterosexual relationship. They instead seek to destroy what they see as “hetero-imitation” by grooming children from an early age. But that’s not all they were created for as you will see in the article. They were born from the from the Sexual Revolution and grew rapidly under the supervision of Marxist pedophile Harry Hay, Don Kilhefner, and Mitchell Walker.

The Father of the Modern Gay Movement:

Harry Hay was born in 1912 to a American Catholic family. As a child Hay learned about homosexuality from reading Edward Carpenter’s “The Intermediate Sex,” which espoused Carpenter’s views on homosexuality becoming the new sexual liberation movement. Around the same time, Hay was introduced to communism and the work of Karl Marx.

By the time he was 14 years old, Hay convinced a union worker that he was actually 21 years old, so that he could find employment on a cargo ship. While employed on the cargo ship, Hay was molested by a 25 year old sailor, who also convinced Hay that there was a “secret global brotherhood” of homosexuals. From this experience and from his Marxist ideology, Hay began a life-long mission to pervert the youth.

By 1948, Hay founded the Mattachine Society and worked to create a network of gay men that would help spread the LGBT ideology that we see today. Mattachine’s structure was based partly on that of the Communist Party and partly on fraternal brotherhoods like Freemasonry. Hay stepped down in 1953 after he was outed as a communist by the press.

By 1963, he was influenced by the growing counter-culture. Hay ceased to wear suits, instead favoring brightly colored clothing, earrings and necklaces, also growing his hair long. In doing so, he stated that:

“I never again wanted to be mistaken for a hetero.”

In June 1969, the Stonewall riots in New York City marked a move toward a more radical and militant approach among gay rights activists; Hay however stated that:

“I wasn’t impressed by Stonewall, because of all the open gay projects we had done throughout the sixties in Los Angeles. As far as we were concerned, Stonewall meant that the East Coast was catching up.”

The Radical Faeries:

The riot led to the emergence of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF), with Hay involving himself in the early development of its Los Angeles chapter in December 1969. In 1978, Hay teamed up with Don Kilhefner and Mitchell L. Walker to co-host a workshop on “New Breakthroughs in the Nature of How We Perceive Gay Consciousness” at the annual conference of the Gay Academic Union, held at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

From here all 3 of them decided to form a new movement that would further pervert the youth. Their conference, set for Labor Day 1979, was to be called the “Spiritual Conference for Radical Faeries,” with the term “Radical Faerie” having been coined by Hay.

Describing the first Radical Faerie get together, the Independent wrote in 1998:

“The first Radical Faerie gathering of some two hundred gay men took place on the Labor Day weekend of 1979 in the Arizona desert near the little town of Benson. Local people, including Sheriff Waldo Pruitt, were perplexed. The Sheriff first became aware of the event, according to a report in The Farmers’ Arizonan Gazette, ‘through reports about cattle displaying unusual behavior in the vicinity… Informants also claimed that large groups of men were engaged in orgiastic rituals.’ ‘They said that all the animals in the area started to act real strange,’ ruminated the Sheriff. ‘I guess I don’t mind what you do so long as you don’t do it in public. But when you start in on plants and animals, well, then you’ve gone too far.’”

Sheriff Pruitt is referring to some of the Radical Faeries having sexual intercourse with animals, just another depraved act that is often found in sexual deviants.

The movement grew quickly and steadily, however, the 3 would get into a power struggle (which is common among cultural Marxists) and soon Kilhefner and Walker would leave the Radical Faeries, though that didn’t stop Hay from being considered the Faeries’ elder figurehead and actively influencing their perversion while developing their operations.

Harry Hay, North American Man/Boy Love Association Spokesman:

Hay was an ardent supporter of the North American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA), a gay organization that advocates for pedophilia, and in a 1983 article, titled “A Quest for Knowledge,” that Hay wrote for NAMBLA, he makes the parallel of the word “faeries” to his organization that he founded, the Radical Faeries:

“Between thirteen and fourteen, I had begun to hear about the fact that there are men who sometimes like boys, and I want very much to know about these things. I’d heard about this from the men who worked in the fields the year before. They told me about them; they called them ‘fairies.’”

Hay also explains how he become a pedophile by being molested by an adult:

“I get a job on the freighter. It took two and a half days for the freighter to go from San Francisco to Los Angeles in those days, and they break at San Luis Obispo. They go in for the night to San Luis Obispo proper. I’m checking it out with the fellows because in one of the places they had some rotgut—remember, this is Prohibition—and then get all looped with the queers. I decided, I don’t want to go with the queers, but I might go out and watch the fellows go in and out and watch everything else. But the point is that I had perfect choice. I had the right to make a choice. I am fourteen; I am earning a man’s board, a man’s labor, I’m being treated as a man at fourteen, and I’m making all kinds of decisions at fourteen. But from the point of view that you are hearing, I am a child.”

Hay then tries to say that he was the molester and not the 25 year old man:

“The point is that I was perfectly capable of handling myself and knowing exactly what I wanted. But this year I knew that I wanted to find a man to tell me what I wanted to know. So, at fourteen, you realize, I’m a child molester. I’m a child, and I’m molesting an adult till I find out what I want to know. And I found him, and he was shocked. Then he discovered that, rather than being a man, as he suspected that I was from the way I looked—my callouses on my hands, and the way I handled myself, and my clothing—that I was only a fourteen-year-old kid, and if anybody found out about it he’d be in jail for life, or, at least in California twenty-three years in that period.”

It is because of this molestation that Hay bases his whole ideology and begins the demonic task of trying to normalize your children being molested so they too can become like him and so that older men like him can enjoy your children:

“I’m telling you this story, and I’m saying it tonight, in memory of a man—all I can remember is that his name was Matt. And I send to all of you my love and deep affection for what you offer to the boys, in honor of this boy when he was fourteen, and when he needed to know best of all what only another gay man could show him and tell him.”

Hay then tells the world that you’re not truly a gay ally if you don’t let pedophiles rape your children:

“I also would like to say at this point that it seems to me that in the gay community the people who should be running interference for NAMBLA are the parents and friends of gays. Because if the parents and friends of gays are truly friends of gays, they would know from their gay kids that the relationship with an older man is precisely what thirteen-, fourteen-, and fifteen-year-old kids need more than anything else in the world. And they would be welcoming this, and welcoming the opportunity for young gay kids to have the kind of experience that they would need.”

“So, again, as I said, my offering is not as a member of NAMBLA, but in memory of that fourteen-year-old boy who was handled by Matt so long ago. And in memorial to Matt, I offer you my love.”

This wasn’t the first time that Hay had been molested, in fact, early on in his life he was molested by an older man at a swimming pool. Speaking at a NAMBLA conference on Oct. 7, 1984, Hay recounted an experience from his childhood where he was molested by the gay man:

“So I’m about twelve years old and I swim very well at this point—very good swimming underwater and various other things. And so I don’t go into the kids’ pool, I go in the big pool. And I had this experience probably five or six times. Some man comes up to me, wants me to see how long he can stay underwater. And it’s important for me to understand just how long he stays underwater. He’s going to go way down to the other end of the pool and he’s going to come up between my legs and he’s going to come out the other end. So he goes down to the other side, he swims through my legs, and he [does?] my cock out of my bathing suit and he caresses it a couple of times and comes out the other end. And then he is going to come back. So he comes back through again, and this time spends a little more time.”

The Revere Sex Ring, the Horrific Beginning of NAMBLA:

In December of 1977 in Boston, Massachusetts, police received information from several gay men that they had arrested in public bathrooms and parks while “cruising,” a term that describes actively looking for gay sex. This information led to 24 men being accused of being members of a sex ring that used a Revere, Massachusetts, apartment to molest teenage and preteen boys (the youngest being 12). Few of these cases went to trial, with only one resulting in a trial conviction, but the ensuing chaos created NAMBLA and introduced Harry Hay to their cause.

Earlier in the summer of 77, Boston police arrested Richard Peluso. His arrest being the first step in establishing and prosecuting what came to be called the “Revere Sex Ring.” The prosecution and the media both reported that Peluso’s home was the site of numerous sexual assaults. A search of Peluso’s apartment uncovered a collection of Polaroid photographs of child pornography. Police, aided by the Suffolk County Investigations and Prosecutions Project, were able to identify 63 of the young people featured in the Polaroid collection.

Testimonies from 13 of the victims led to 24 men being indicted for over 100 felonies including:

“rape and abuse upon a child under 16, sodomy, unnatural acts, open and gross lewdness, and indecent assault.”

On December 8th, twenty of the indicted men were arrested.

The arrest of Richard Peluso, the seizure of his photographs and the cooperation of some of the individuals featured in those pictures led not only to indictments and arrests but also to a moral panic.

The Revere Sex Ring stirred up public fears about the safety of children, political battles over the nature of homosexuality, and media coverage that heightened the pitch of unrest.

Participating in this panic Suffolk County District Attorney, Garrett Byrne, announced his “crack down” on child molesters and implemented a city-wide hotline that recorded anonymous tips about the sexual exploitation of children. Openly lesbian Representative Elaine Noble was quick to endorse the hotline, to denounce the accused men as deviant and to deny their claims to homosexuality.

In response, pedophiles from the Fag Rag, a radical gay magazine organized quickly to shut down the hotline and protect the accused pedophiles. They would go on to form the Boston/Boise Committee (B/BC) in an effort to stop the moral panic and advance the pedophile agenda.

The events surrounding the arrest of several homosexual men in 1955 Boise, Idaho became a precedent for the panic in Boston.

In 1955, the gay underworld of Boise was purged. The vice campaign was a power struggle between the city’s political and business elites and was touted as a necessary measure for the protection of children.

Marxist and friend of Che Guerra and Fidel Castro, John Gerassi, author of The Boys of Boise.

B/BC members explicitly reference what occurred in Boise when they named the group. Employing Boise was more than a rhetorical move, however. Marxist, John Gerassi, author of The Boys of Boise, was a featured speaker at B/BC fundraising and public awareness events. Moreover, his analysis of the “witch-hunt” tactics employed by Boise’s business and political establishment would all be echoed in the writings of B/BC and NAMBLA members.

Intent on revealing the political motivation behind the persecution of the Revere ring, the B/BC framed the 1977-78 panic as part of a broader narrative of oppression. The group adopted a three part agenda:

1. Investigating the facts behind the hysteria.
2. Contacting the accused, making sure they had proper counsel and were not being pressured into deals against their wills.
3. Working with the media to check their rampant homophobia and try to correct some of their more egregious errors. […]

Though the B/BC, along with the Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, was able to bring sufficient pressure to bear that the hotline was stopped, the group remained divisive. Group members encountered opposition from other leftist activist groups, the mainstream press, law enforcement, and legislators. This conflict did little to halt the B/BC’s continued development of an agenda that brought it into direct conflict with elected officials and many aspects of the judicial system.

Finally, in December 1978, they hosted an international conference where a new name (North American Man/Boy Love Association) and a new mission statement were adopted; the promulgation of pedophilia in the United States.

NAMBLA founder David Thorstad

With the restructuring of the B/BC into NAMBLA by Marxist pedophile David Thorstad, it brought with it Thomas Reeves, an anarchist gay activist/organizer, author, professor, and prolific pedophile activist that quickly expanded the group and ingratiated itself into many different previously existing groups.

Soon Harry Hay joined the organization and became a top ranking member. Hay would go on to influence NAMBLA to adopt certain tactics to keep themselves clear of persecution and further their political agenda.

The True Purpose of the Radical Faeries:

At a NAMBLA conference in Los Angeles on November 8th, 1986, Hay explained to his fellow pedophiles that they were going to have operate unground covertly to make sure they can continue to enjoy pedophilia:

“I find this particular situation that we’re coming into, in a way, a sort of replay of things I’ve seen before in my life, and I would suggest that it’s very possible that we are moving into a period where, as the speaker [Dan Tsang] pointed out, we may find ourselves being moved against on all fronts.  Which would suggest, then, that we’re going to have to go back to various forms of underground activity. I would say that in my life, I’ve spent more time being an outlaw than being an in-law. And consequently, I would say that I know a good deal about how you operate as an outlaw, how you operate underground, how you operate in defiance, how you operate, presumably, almost in parallel, but actually in opposition to it.”

Next Hay talks about advancing pedophilia in America by ingratiating themselves into government and the Progressives of the Left that we see today:

“One of things that I think we have to be concerned about—and here again, I think this is where we begin to see what we can do and how far we can advance ourselves—is the march on Washington that comes up next October.  I think this is a place where we have to find very imaginative ways to reach all kinds of elements of the community that we up to now haven’t thought of touching.  Not only to reach all kinds of elements of our own community, but to find the weak spots, shall we say, within the left, within the progressive forces in the hetero community who might find themselves in parallel with where we are, or in parallel with the way that we feel we are going to go, and make of them willing—or even unwilling—allies in this whole regard.  I think, as a matter of fact, we can count on the fact that we’re probably going to see far more repression on the part of the government for a while.  I don’t think we’ve peaked.  I think we’re seeing ourselves on the beginning of a rising tide.  And we’re going to have to fall back on our inventiveness and our creative imagination.”

Lastly, Hay tells the world what the Radical Faeries actually are and what they are designed to do for pedophiles:

“And here, honeys, I might say that the Radical Faeries are way ahead of you, because don’t forget that faeries can always vanish.  This is one of the things that we’re going to have to learn to do again.  We have to learn to remember that when people lean on us too hard, we just simply aren’t there anymore.  There are ways and means by which we can do that.  I do pass on to you the remark that was passed on to the revolutionaries by Maksim Gorky long ago:  He who fights and runs away will live to fight another day.”

And it was Walker that proclaimed in a 1997 article on the White Crane Institute’s website:

“Celebrating paganism, feminism, free love and revolution is always welcome. But, in my opinion, Harry Hay’s strand of essentialist Gay Spirit is far more accurate to history and, in being experienced, vastly more fundamental and encompassing.”

“In taking this step to psyche, we come to the edge of a next stage in Gay Liberation, a politics of the homosexual mind, its oppression and fulfillment. As shown by the spread of the Radical Faerie movement, gay men today long for authentic awakening to our inner roots, source of the numinous, of gay eros and wholeness, of those magic initiations and liberation that come only from there. Sacred Spirit is not to be found “outside,” in groups or leaders, but in relation to one’s own unconscious.”

“There are gay men today trying to explore and fulfill an authentic Gay Spirit tradition like that espoused at the origin of the Radical Faerie movement, a tradition going back before Plato which will likewise stretch into the distant future.”

These quotes relate to Hay’s idea of a “queer soul” which is just waiting to be awakened at an early age. In order to do that, you need someone to get you to believe that you have “awakened” and start participating in deviancy as if it was natural thing for your soul. The ultimate way to do this by Hay’s thought process was to awaken children like how pederasts did in the time before Plato.

In order for NAMBLA’s mission be successful, the pedophiles had to adopt a new sense of being. In order for them to succeed in perverting the youth and the minds of their “allies,” Hay had to transform NAMBLA into the face of pedophilia. Meanwhile, the people actually promoting it would be the Radical Faeries.

NAMBLA, even in their foundation in 1978 was massively opposed by those in the gay movement. The “Father of the Gay Movement,” Harry Hay understood this and created the Radical Faeries along with Mitchell Walker and Don Kilhefner in order to create a decentralized organization that could promote the same ideas as NAMBLA but in a different package without the threat of being persecuted by the broader gay community while slowly taking over the community.

However, that’s not the only way that Hay thought of promoting pedophilia, in fact he came up with a new way to subvert Christianity and promulgate his ideology in the form of a religious order.

The Radical Faeries Demonic Church:

The Sister’s of Perpetual Indulgence were founded on Easter of 1979 (officially 1980), when three gay men going by the names Sister Vicious PHB, Sister Missionary Position, and Baruch Golden, decided to mock the Catholic church by wearing a heretical form of traditional habits worn by 14th century French nuns through a San Francisco nude beach, carrying a prop machine gun for protection.

This act was meant to mock Catholics across San Francisco while also proclaiming a new a religious cult inspired by Harry Hay’s ideology that laid the ground work for the Radical Faeries.

Sister Mary Media, an original member of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence and member of the Radical Faeries, stated in an interview with FolkLife, that Harry Hay’s:

“point is that queer people have a consciousness distinct from that of hetero people. So that filter affects the whole way we see the world.”

Sister Mary Media, was so eager to explore these ideas that he joined the Radical Faeries and attended their Spiritual Conference for Radical Fairies in the fall of 1979.

Sister Mary stated:

“We were celebrating our difference, we were celebrating what is unique about being queer. It was kind of a mind-blowing experience for so many of us. Then, when we went back to San Francisco, it was like, ‘Wow, what do we do with this?’”

Inspired by the three who wore nuns’ habits on the nude beach, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence was founded, a demonic order of nuns that would be used as vehicle to promote Hay’s ideas of pederasty and “queer consciousness” while working to turn many away from God.

According to Sister Mary, the initial order saw four founders and twelve members. One of those founders was Sister Hysterectoria, who explained that he was only interested in being involved if the Sisters were a genuine spiritual order.

Hysterectoria stated:

“I told everyone I was not going to be in a group of just a few people. I wanted it to be a legitimate order.”

Some members of the organization, referred to as guards, lend their efforts to security. One guard, aptly named Guard HOOOO?!, which stands for Holy Order‘s Organizer of Ontology?!, adds context:

“We do a lot of work in the community that originally would have been done by a religious order. During the AIDS crisis, so many people were being turned away by their churches, turned away by their families. They could not be open to anybody about their spirituality because they were gay. And they were excommunicated.”

Today, there are four phases in the process: Aspirant/Volunteer, Postulant, Novice Sister, and Fully Professed Sister. An Aspirant or Volunteer is one who aspires to become a Sister. In this stage, there is no requirement other than indicating interest. Once a prospective Sister is approved to become a Postulant, they must meet a dedicated set of guidelines and minimums before being voted to become a Novice Sister. A Novice Sister is not fully professed, and this is indicated in their appearance. A Novice Sister will wear a pure white veil and is not yet allowed to speak for the order. Finally, once requirements are met, a Novice Sister will petition for a vote to elevate to Fully Professed Sister, finally donning the infamous black veil. Guards, in their role, do not wear a veil.

Guard HOOOO?! stated:

“As much as people may think that we are poking fun or mocking religion, we are a spiritual Order. And you’re a member for life, so it’s not something we take lightly.”

One way that the Sisters uphold the satanic influences is through false confession. Guard HOOOO?! stated:

“You may have heard that Marco Rubio said that we flaunt and mock religion because we tell people to go forth and sin some more after they confess to us. “I like to say that when people come to me to give confession, I tell them, ‘Your sins are forgiven. Go forth and sin some more,’ because that’s the reality of the human condition. People come to us, and they feel the need to unburden themselves, and to be validated, and to be told that they’re not wrong. We absolve them of that and tell them so.”

“Historically, there was a lot of anti-gay rhetoric coming from religious communities. It was a question of whether to ‘accept’ gay people, or whether gay people should reject their own identities in order to conform to the religious vision of what a good person looks like. So we presented ourselves as religious figures. We were poking at the hostility of religious institutions toward gay people and saying, ‘No, we did this. We can be religious too.’”

Sister Tilda NextTime, the San Francisco Mistress of Propaganda, was drawn to the order because it allowed him to indulge in sin. He stated:

“I’ve always been fascinated by this whole holiness about being queer. Our religion is basically just making people realize that you are important. You are loved and you are necessary to this world. And you should flaunt this in front of everyone.”

Sister Serena Severe is the abbess of the Austin house, a relatively small house within the organization. Like any member of the organization, Sister Serena leads her own ministry, pursuing community service as she sees fit. Like Reverend Yolanda, Sister Serena also reads at Drag Queen Story Hours so he can indoctrinate children.

The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, like Hay, also have a history of promoting pedophilia.

In 1989, Pope Dementia put on a music show during a parade titled Pope Dementia’s Alter Boys, where grown men were called alter boys in a parallel to the Catholic Church, however, they sexualized a role that would normally be considered for a child. You can find that at the 1:24 minute mark of the video I placed below.

In 1997, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence also put on PROMSTiTUTE an alternative queer youth prom where the youth were encouraged to wear very short skirts and drink to excess.

In the year 2000, at San Francisco’s pride parade, $10,000 from their Community Grants Fund is presented to local non-profits and several more worthy individuals including Saint Harry Faerie Godfather (Harry Hay) and Saint N’John (his partner) are Sainted.

In 2003, celebrating the 2003 PRIDE theme, the Sisters paraded the slogan “We gotta give ’em Pope” by displaying their own Pope Dementia in a cage where he could just barely reach out to fondle a young acolyte.

Reverend Yolanda, the Child Predator

Hopefully by reading the previous sections you can clearly see why I do not want anyone like Rev. Yolanda near children.

Yolanda, having taken that name during his time with the Radical Faeries is still a member. And as I have demonstrated quite well, the Radical Faeries were created in order to promote pedophilia in exactly the way that we are seeing today. NAMBLA was the face of pedophile advocacy to draw attention away from the Radical Faeries, so that they could ingratiate themselves into other facets of the gay community and spread Hay’s pedophilic ideology to broader society.

Mapes would go on to start working in Drag Story Hours in NYC and eventually he would begin to perform throughout the country under his drag persona. Spouting his ideological views while grooming young children and converting parents.

In the video below during one of his Drag Story Hours, Mapes talks to a young boy and encourages him to dress up in his mother’s clothing.

Below is the opening song to one of Mapes’ Drag Story Hours where he sings to the small children, “When you want to be a drag queen come to Drag Queen Story Hour.”

Now Yolanda and Hay’s students are using his ideology to promote the acceptance of the “queer conscious” which contains acceptance of pedophilia. Yolanda has already groomed one famous example of a child that is emotionally and mentally stunted, “Desmond is Amazing.”

Yolanda’s Most Infamous Target:

Desmond Napoles was just a child when introduced to the world of Drag Queens and Harry Hay’s “queer consciousness”. And because Desmond didn’t have a strong father in the house and because his mother is quite possibly Lilith incarnate, they encouraged his curiosity. Desmond would soon fall under the grooming of Yolanda, and with his help, Desmond would go on to become the first “drag queen kid” and appear on network T.V.

This feature on Good Morning America would prove to become very unpopular with 93.8K dislikes against 5K likes. This feature would also go start the counter-culture movement that woke up a lot of parents to what Pride was actually all about.

In the video above you can see Desmond, a child, performing with Yolanda. Yolanda is grooming Desmond to join Hay’s “queer conscious” cult. In the video below you will see the product of the grooming as Desmond dances to a room of grown men as he is being handed dollars bills, as if it were a strip show.

The results are sad because now he purposely tries to speak with a higher pitch voice than he had when he was a child. The way Desmond pronounces words is because he wasn’t given a proper education or had anyone correct his way of speaking. It’s almost as if he is stunted as a child. He may have become older but he can’t handle the world and the cruelty of life.

He was never given the chance to live a Christlike life and for that his parents and Yolanda have committed a sin against God.

Matthew 18:6;

“But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.”

Yolanda the Satanist:

Mapes joined the heretical One Spirt Interfaith Seminary to become a music minister and he began preaching his heretical faith to the masses. One Spirit is a heretical church that offers services to any religion. In 2011 he was officially ordained as a reverend.

Below is an quote from their site:

“The greatest learning and growth occurs in safe environments that also challenge us to ask meaningful questions, engage in honest self-reflection, and move beyond our current ways. In seminary, we invite you to bring your own particular experiences and challenges. We’ll nurture and support you as we encourage your own spiritual growth. Your radical transformation, with the support of your peers and our experienced faculty, enables your ability to be of loving spiritual service. The One Spirit Seminary ‘Deeper Curriculum’ has helped many seminary students like you fulfill their deepest and highest aspirations.”

Rev. Yolanda started a musical ministry called “Rev. Yolanda’s Old Time Gospel Hour,” which is a heretical take on the Gospels performed across the country in clubs, churches, “spiritual centers,” and LGBT centers.

Like the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, Reverend Yolanda also shares Satanic views. In the music video below, Yolanda sings the song “Queero” which is originally from a children’s book that he wrote. In this song Yolanda calls for the death of Christians and for children to practice Satanic witchcraft.

Queero” is about a 4th grader and his friend that go on to practice witchcraft and curse the “bullies and bitches” to eternal damnation while also calling on the death of Christians by the goddess of destruction in the Hindu faith, Kali. Also it ends with Kali smiling at the two main characters as they burn in a rainbow colored eternal fire. Honestly, you can’t make this up.

Yolanda would go on to preach with his partner, Rev. Glen Morton Ganaway, a disgusting and vile man that preached Marxism and Hay’s “queer consciousness” at the ministry that Yolanda and him would eventually set up, Church With A 2 Drink Minimum. Fortunately, Ganaway passed recently and was unable to continue his false preaching.

Including the ideas summed up in this pictures:

Yolanda is a seriously messed up individual. During Ganaway’s funeral service, Yolanda treats it as a musical gig and remains the center of attention the whole time that the service goes on. This just shows the cult of personality that Hay’s “queer consciousness” religion exemplifies.

I Need Your Help Stopping This Monster

This year, Rev. Yolanda was re-invited by the Conway Public Library. The White Mountain’s Pride company has him listed on their event planner and the Conway Public Library is ecstatic to have him back.

After last year’s protest I had figured that the organizers and Conway, NH’s public library would think twice before having this monster come back and perform for children, but I underestimated those that would harm our children. A mistake I will not make ever again.

The truth is that these demons will never stop trying to indoctrinate our children unless we stand up and fight against them. And if you stand aside, as to pretend what isn’t happening is malicious and demonic, then you too are complicit.

This animal preys on children in hopes of convincing himself that his misdeeds and fetishes aren’t disgusting. These people will try to destroy your children in the hope that they can feel something human again, but they never will. If you let you children be victim to these monsters, then they too will never feel whole again.

How many children must suffer before you do something? How much innocence must be lost before you start protecting God’s little ones?

Would you stand by while your own children were groomed to become servants to a false master?

Mark my words, this won’t stop until they control your children. These are not people anymore, they are loyal followers to a master that would like nothing more to fill your children with deceit, so that they come to reject you, to loathe you.

On June 28th, 2024 at 10:30 am, I will personally be heading up to the venue to protest and shut down the event. I am bringing with me some powerful friends and I hope you too will show up and help stop this madness.

If you would like to know more about what I have planned, please reach out to me at LibertyMagazine@proton.me or you can follow me here on Substack, or you can also follow me on Twitter, @libertyzine.

Samara | Liberty Magazine

The post Night Cap: Conway, NH Asks Member of Pedophile and Bestiality Group to Host Drag Queen Story Hour (Again) appeared first on Granite Grok.

One of the reasons why our Education System is so pathetic is that our children are not being correctly taught our own American history and philosophy. Then they grow up listening and believing whatever the manipulators behind pop culture are seeding throughout our citizens and young ones.

It is to break our wills. To make us believe we are not in charge of our government.

Rights are not gifts from government
It’s not really “liberty” if it requires a government permission slip.

This view is almost totally lost among the general public today – but it was common among the founders and old revolutionaries. Thomas Jefferson may have summed it up best:

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

This “natural rights” view is the foundation for all the rest. And getting the foundation right is essential for getting the solution right too – that is, going from where we are today to a real “land of the free.”

That’s why we focus so much time and energy on teaching people about these foundational principles from the American Revolution.

And they will continue to do so IF WE LET THEM.

Doubt me?

For those paying attention to the idiocy on college campuses, they are protesting the “genocide” that Israel is meting out to the Palestinian savages that killed over 1,200 Israelis at a music festival. Yet, how great can that be when 20% of Israeli citizens are Arabs? How can that be when the population in Gaza exploded from 91,000 in 1960 to 2,200,000 in 2023? And while Arabs remain in Israel and are 20% of the citizens, all Jews were kicked out of Gaza when Israel left Gaza in 2006.

Here, ask a young person (and many older people), what is a Right as an American citizen? And if it IS a Right, WHY is it a Right, and can the Government ever take it away?

Certainly, the Gilford School Board, as many regular readers know, tried to take away our Right to Free Speech when they made it mandatory that a young child could force anyone on school property to be called by pronouns established by a child. They also pulled another ” ideological rabbit out of their hat” by forcing their staff to lie to parents (TO PARENTS!!!)  concerning the gender dysphoria status (“transgender” – yet another made-up word by the Left) of their children and deleted the Right (affirmed many times in judicial decisions) for parents to raise their children in the manner in which THEY determine – not schools. It took 2.5 years of fighting them to win that battle.

Yet, the lowest subdivision of the State decided, amongst five school board members, that they had the power to do so.

Shame on us ALL for not keeping our school systems from straying from what they should be doing, education, and letting them be ideological centers…

All because too many of us don’t know what a Right is?

So,, quick question for you, dear readers: How many of you know what a negative Right is compared to a positive Right? And why is it important?

 

The post Citizens MUST Be Reminded of This Truth appeared first on Granite Grok.

You remember COVID, don’t you, bitter-clingers? I know you don’t want to … because despite all the “tough talk” we’re hearing today, you COMPLIED, OBEYED, etc., etc., etc.. Remember how BLM and its “allies” were able to – indeed, encouraged to and praised for holding massive public protests for Saint George Floyd, but you weren’t allowed to go to church?

This disparate treatment of Americans based on their political views and identity status has NOT gone away.

The “rule of law” in today’s America is APARTHEID. The Woke-Communists do NOT have to abide by the rules that apply to you. You are a second-class citizen. But keep pretending that we can find “common ground” with people who despise and loathe you and think nothing of imprisoning you.

The post The Apartheid States Of America … You Are Second-Class Citizens appeared first on Granite Grok.

Before beginning a discussion of ethics in municipal government, we must understand what ethics entails. Ethics, by definition, is the discipline dealing with what is good and bad: a set of moral principles or values, the principles of conduct governing an individual or a group, a guiding philosophy based on right and wrong.

The public rightfully expects its elected officials to conduct themselves with honesty and integrity. Working for the common good and representing democracy, demand these standards to function effectively.

Trust is the key word to describe the appropriate relationship between elected or appointed officials and their constituents. An elected official gains the privilege to serve only by earning the trust of a majority of the electorate. Each official must be careful not to compromise that trust in any way once he or she has been inducted into office.

The topic of open meetings and open records is one of central importance to the public’s perception of how government operates. (Freedom of speech). A government that functions in secrecy by meeting behind closed doors restricts public access to full information about its operations. Such actions alienate and discourage those citizens who wish to participate in the process. Therefore, it is the duty of the people to openly communicate between citizens and with their government. Simultaneously, provisions must be allowed for reasonable constraints where necessary for the efficient operation of government.

We want to thank Londonderry Times for this Contribution – Please direct yours to Steve@GraniteGrok.com.
You can review our ‘Op-Ed Guidelines‘ on the FAQ Page.

The occupation of public office requires the public’s trust. A fair balance of communication must be struck between protecting the integrity of government while maintaining transparency with the public. The people have responsibilities as well. They must stay informed and be vigilant. After all we “the people” are the protectors of our local government.

The duties of town officials may seem complex at first glance, but in reality, they boil down to a single idea: fair representation of the public interest. The goal is to ensure that the public is fairly represented by themselves or a person whom they have freely chosen to do so.

This is both an honor and a burden, as ethics tend to constrain the personal actions of elected officials in many ways. A careful balance must be struck to encourage competent individuals to serve in public office. The problem of finding qualified citizens to hold office is exacerbated by many possible constraints, the simplest being those of time, work, family life, health, well-being, and happiness. The most complex may be experience or the possibility of conflict of interest. Ethics can allow for optimal conflict-free action in the town while protecting the people from potential misuse of government. Additionally, voters should be allowed to raise their concerns and participate in the town process at every level. It is here where the voice and influence of the individual citizen is strongest. Preserving and encouraging local self-governance and accountability is critical to securing public participation in government and safeguarding our democratic institutions.

The post Ethics in Government – Charting the Right Course appeared first on Granite Grok.

Last week should have been a coming together of the world in Normandy to pay homage to the brave men and women who stormed the beaches and fell from the sky 80 years ago to begin the end of the German plan to dominate the globe.

Very few of our Greatest Generation are still with us, and there may not be any when we mark the 85th anniversary. These brave heroes, many of them pushing or already passed the century mark, traveled to Normandy to say goodbye to their fallen brothers buried at what is now a sacred place. Unfortunately, these men are probably still haunted in their sleep by visions of the day the ocean in France turned red with American blood. These days of remembrance, sorrow, and joy should have been all about them, but politics has a way of injecting itself into any moment.

President Biden was in Normandy to mark the day, and unfortunately, he looked as old and feeble as the survivors being celebrated. Volodymyr Zelenskyy was also there, and his hand was out for more of America’s money to fund the never-ending battle between Ukraine and Russia. He looked into Joe Biden’s aviators without batting an eye and asked for a cool hundred billion. Since the Biden Family and the DNC are getting kickbacks from every dollar sent to Ukraine, Joe looked at Volodymyr and said is that all you need?

We have had no accountability for where Ukraine spends our money. But this is the first time Biden has made stipulations regarding the donation. -None of the weapons or arms can be used for offensive measures within the Russian boundary. Biden’s commitment to Ukraine is for defensive measures only, or the money stops. This policy change is consistent with Biden’s pressure and restrictions on Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel.

It is as difficult to determine the amount of funds pledged to Ukraine as it is to ascertain how Ukraine spends our money. Since 2022, nearly $100 billion has been given to Ukraine through bills passed through Congress. Joe Biden has also executed 54 drawdowns.

The USAI is a Defense Department-led program focused on increasing Ukraine’s defenses against Russian aggression through military training, equipment, and intelligence support. The USAI has allocated approximately $18.9 billion for Ukraine since Russia’s February 2022 invasion.

While the data below represents most of the security assistance sent to Ukraine, only some transactions are publicly available, meaning some funds are unaccounted for.

The bottom line is we have sent billions of dollars with no idea when this conflict will end. Then, Ukraine will be looking for funds to rebuild a war-torn country. There also have been no reports of Biden trying to get Putin and Zelenskyy to a negotiation table. These two countries are in a stalemate, with Russia wanting to get Ukraine back into Russia and Ukraine fighting for its freedom. Military personnel and civilians on both sides continue to suffer injury or death, and Ukraine is incurring damage to its countryside daily. The longer this conflict goes, the more will need to be rebuilt. Before another dollar of American money is pledged to Ukraine, we need an accounting of where our money has gone and when the two sides will sit and end this fruitless battle.

The post A Hundred Billion Doesn’t Buy What It Used To appeared first on Granite Grok.

Iowa has become the latest state to signal hostility toward fake meat food products, imposing fines of up to $10,000 on manufacturers who mislabel protein-based products as meat.

Other states, including Florida, have banned meat-simulating products outright rather than require labeling. Meats “cultured” from plant proteins in a laboratory are not available for sale on Americans’ grocery store shelves. Still, the growing culture wars over their future reveal much about the products themselves.

Advocates for restricting or labeling these nouveau meat substitutes argue that confusing labels deceive consumers, meat-copied products are unsafe to eat, and globalists seek to compel human dependency on alternatives to nature’s provision. Those opposing such restraints invoke free markets, consumer choice, and unfair favoritism for industrial agriculture as their rallying cries. These voices claim fake meat will save the world from existential climate doom, end animal suffering, and offer people healthier eating choices.

Food is now fair game in the culture war crossfire, especially manmade food versus “natural” food grown and processed traditionally.  There is no evidence that cell-grown meats carry a cancer risk. There is, however, ample evidence that the three main drivers of fake meat consumption – animal welfare, human health, and ecological impact – are not served by processed meat alternatives. It also is increasingly evident that, despite billions of dollars in investment, fake meat cannot be grown at scale or cost-effectively, meaning the entire brouhaha over labeling and banning may prove to be a red herring dispute over products that will never actually exist.

Left-wing media has pounced on red-state bans and labeling initiatives of fake meat as culture war paranoia, often gushing about how these nouveau foodstuffs will stave off animal cruelty, rescue humanity from climate-destroying agriculture, and provide cheap, healthy food to the world’s poor. In the rush to distort science to advance political notions, such dreams are popular – just not scientific. Using animals for food is not cruel if they are slaughtered humanely after a life of conscientious husbandry. Advocates of plant-only diets call to eliminate all animals from the food chain because of the alleged abuses of industrialism, ignoring that millions of livestock enjoy balanced lives with no suffering, as has been the case for eons.

Similarly, cows and other animals rotationally grazed rather than confined in feedlots are not the destroyers of the ecosystem but its saviors. Cows on grass sequester more carbon dioxide and methane in the soil with their manure than they ever belch out, improving water retention and soil health in the bargain. Synthetic fertilizers used to grow plant-meat (or vegan) diets destroy soils and the microbiome. GMO crops dependent on glyphosate and fossil fuels for production and harvesting compromise human and ecosystem health.

Fake Meat Opponents Bashed

Nevertheless, the usual cow-bashing suspects have proliferated to criticize those who oppose fake meats as ill-informed, unenlightened attackers of consumer liberties (or, as one opinion claimed, “low-IQ red state denizens”). Popular Science unscientifically claimed that “Republican lawmakers opposed to cultivated meat, broadly, have attempted to connect the industry to a larger supposed culture war.”

There is most certainly a broader culture war at play, in which newfangled science partnered with venture capitalist profiteers seek to impose their products on unsuspecting consumers. Republicans are faulted for invoking a “culture war” over transgenderism, yet, like fake meat, that “supposed” conflict is a recoil against novel surgeries and hormones for children touted as lifesaving. So, too, are changes in America wrought by critical race theory and new vaccine technologies.

Vox characterizes challenges to fake meat as an unscientific attack against farmers by corporate profiteers:

“On the surface, bills aiming to ban cell-cultivated meat could be waved away as mere political theater, a ratcheting up of the culture war by attacking alternatives to factory-farmed meat as a cheap way to own the libs during an election year.

“But there’s something more troubling at play here. The proposed bans are part of a longtime strategy by the politically powerful agribusiness lobby and its allies in Congress and statehouses to further entrench factory farming as America’s dominant source of protein.

“If lawmakers are really concerned with deceptive labeling, they may want to focus their efforts in the meat and dairy aisle, where consumers have long been misled by warm and fuzzy terms like ‘sustainable’ and ‘humanely raised,’ both of which have no legal definition.”

Vox is advocating for a multi-billion-dollar food processing industry hellbent on profiting from meat-simulating GMO plants as a cheap way to own the food supply. Pointing fingers at the “politically powerful agribusiness lobby” hardly excludes the fake meat industry: Many of the world’s largest meat producers and processors are also heavily invested in the fake meat market. GMO labeling requirements enable consumers to make informed purchasing decisions: Why should meat buying be any different? If the terms “sustainable” and “humanely raised” are suspect, then what of the ubiquitous clamor over the warm and fuzzy term “renewable”?

Fake meat fantasies closely resemble renewable manufacturing boondoggles. That vague term conceals the simple truth that supposedly “renewable” products end up in landfills, generate massive quantities of chemical pollutants in their manufacture, are heavily subsidized, enjoy regulatory favoritism. GMO crops are favored with massive federal subsidies, then used to fabricate fake meat in huge vats in climate-controlled factories, polluting the planet far more than cows munching grass. And so Americans are quite right to scrutinize the claimed benefits, as well as implicit shortcomings, of meat imposters.

The fake meat debate will fade faddishly into the rearview mirror. Cultured meats cannot be produced at scale, cost-effectively, or without creating more environmental harm than benefit. They will not succeed in a free market any better than EVs, even if they do taste like that which they seek to copy. A ban of fake meats is unnecessary, but protecting buyers by clarifying what is in their foods is fundamentally just. Ensuring fake meat products are clearly labeled will sufficiently inform consumers to avoid them.

John Klar is an Attorney, farmer, and author. Mostly farmer… And Regular Contributor to GraniteGrok and VermontGrok.

The post The Furor Over Fake Meat appeared first on Granite Grok.

If we’ve said it once, we’ve said it hundreds of times: When the government interferes in the marketplace, bad things happen. Minimum wage mandates are not the least of these worries, but meddlers will meddle and, in the face of facts, still think they know better.

Related: Gov. Nuisance Chokes on His Minimum Wage Hike

Gov. Nuisance and the California legislature scheduled a series of wage hikes for the good of the people (natch!). That was their story, and they stuck to it. Enough fools believed them, but these mandates predictably harmed the state and the people they claimed they would help.

“California businesses have been under total attack and total assault for years,” said Tom Manzo, CABIA president and founder in a statement to Fox Business, adding “It’s just another law that puts businesses in further jeopardy.”

According to Manzo, nearly 10,000 fast food jobs have been cut across the state since Newsom signed Assembly Bill 1287 into law last year.

“You can only raise prices so much,” he said. “And you’re seeing it. People are not going to pay $20 for a Big Mac. It’s not going to happen.“

So, why do it? Why make changes to wage laws that every law of economics and common sense tells us will result in more harm than good? Union bosses. By jacking up base pay, the unions can raise dues and reap more money to spend on themselves, Democrat campaigns, and boots-on-the-ground activism.

Meanwhile, all over California,

“Restaurants are struggling to stay above water, and Democrats just threw them an anvil,” California Assembly Republican leader James Gallagher told FOX Business. “We warned Democrats this new mandate would cost jobs. They ignored us, and here we are with the highest unemployment rate in the country poised to get even worse.”

The “digital options” that many fast food franchises are referring to are automated ordering systems as well as robot workers which are slowly but surely becoming more cost effective than human laborers.  At least one fast food location in California is testing a fully robotic restaurant with no human workers.

And that’s not even the moral of the story. That would be how Democrats in your state and mine want to be like California. They probably propose minimum wage hikes every session or nearly advertised as good for workers but that’s backward.

It is up to you (and us) to ensure people know the truth. If you need a real-world example of why not to do it, remember to thank Gov. Nuisance and California.

The post Gov Nuisance and The Job Killers – Wage Hike Erases at Least 10,000 Entry Level Positions appeared first on Granite Grok.

This is an email I sent to the whole NH House. I met with the Speaker yesterday and the clerk. This motion will take place early in the day. Please email your state representative and ask them to support the motion.

Good evening,

As many of you know, the People have been asking us legislators to get to the root of the problems and fix them when it comes to DCYF and Family Court.

The current special committees have laid ground work for this, yet there seems to be pressure on them to only utilize some of the tools they possess but not others, and to only analyze some of the issues, but not others. Certain actions that would procure needed information are highly discouraged, and consequences may result if one digs too deep. The policies on these committees is to listen to the people, gather information about issues with the laws, and recommend legislation to fix those laws, but do not name names of those perpetrating abuse against the people.

It is true there are serious systems issues, as well as constitutional issues, that the special committees are looking into and working on bringing legislation for, and I commend that for that work.

However, there are also allegations of personnel issues, conflicts of interest, even racketeering, and outright repeated abuse by specific officials. Such claims have been brought up repeatedly over the years in testimony before various committees on these matters, yet the problems remain, more victims are made each year, and they are told not to name names.

No one from DCYF has been questioned by the Special Committee on DCYF, and only one family court judge was questioned by the Special Committee on Family Court.

The legislature is a check on the other two branches of government. We are the Peoples’ branch. Given the number of lawsuits resulting from failures of the state to protect children, and the short time children have to live out their childhoods, we cannot spend any more time only hacking at the branches of this thorny bush without also working on digging up the rotten root.

It is not only our job to hear grievances and make bills to change statute for the future in hopes it fixes the policy problems.

We also are the Grand Inquest of the State.

Where repeated offenses are occurring against the People, namely children, at the hands of our State government, and where lawsuit after lawsuit results in damages awarded but no substantive changes in the policies or personnel involved, the legislature has a duty to investigate, utilizing every tool it has to get to the root of the problem.

Therefore, this Thursday, before regular business and after the introductory ceremonies, there will be a motion to suspend House Rules in order for the House to appoint a Special Investigative Committee with full powers of investigation, including subpoena power, for the purpose of investigating allegations of maladministration concerning the state of New Hampshire, its political subdivisions, and its contractors, in the handling of child abuse and neglect cases, divorce cases, child support, domestic violence, and juvenile justice. The committee shall issue a report of findings by November 1, 2024, with recommendations for remedy, up to and including whether to recommend articles of impeachment for the next legislature.

Again, please support the motion to suspend the rules to form this committee. There are representatives willing and able to serve on it and do this work. If you want to keep children safe, good families whole, and stop the abuse, support the motion.

If you won’t support it, I ask that you please vote against any motion to table, so that I may at least speak to the motion. I know we have a lot of business to get through, and I will not talk for an excessive amount of time, but I do want the body to know the harm done and why real investigation is needed. What you hear may shock you.

Respectfully,

Leah P. Cushman, RN BSN

State Representative

Hillsborough County District 28- Weare

New Hampshire General Court”

The post A Request to Suspend House Rules And Create a Special Investigative Committee … appeared first on Granite Grok.

I am not a fan of the phrase you can’t make this stuff up … but you can’t make this stuff up. Here is Terry Roy endorsing Woke-Communist Alissandra Murray. They/elle Murray gave Roy a little pat on the head on her X, and Roy responds by effusively praising they/elle Murray and declaring he wants Murray back on his committee:

Isn’t that wonderful … a little pat on the head is all it takes for Roy to endorse the chemical castration of children, the abortion of seven-eight-nine month old unborn children, CRT, DEI, etc., etc., etc.. What a FOOL.

And speaking of fools, let’ not forget the FOOL who made Roy the Chairman, the one-and-only loser-extraordinaire, Sherm THE WORM Packard:

The post “Useful Idiot” Continued … Terry Roy Endorses Alissandra Murray appeared first on Granite Grok.

A little Joe Friday homage on Wednesday to remind you that what you see is what you get. Memes. Memes. Just the memes, Ma’am. Just the memes (and these trite little openings because our WP theme requires something in the front end for you to look at)!

Memes! That’s all they are. You may have seen some before, perhaps not but if you feel the need to fact-check them, you’ve missed the point.

All memes … and this video (which is like a bunch of memes played together in succession).

 



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A few memes – hijacked from Patriot Post.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And back to the regularly hijacked Memes (borrowed from everywhere else).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And this video!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The post Midweek Memes – Just the Memes Ma’am appeared first on Granite Grok.

As a taxpayer and parent of a graduating senior at the Hartford Area Career and Technology Center, I was sent a questionnaire last week with the following email announcement of Hartford’s newly adopted “inclusivity” policy:

Dear Members of the Hartford School District,

At the end of 2023, you received an email sharing our approach to health education, which reiterated the Hartford School District’s mission to provide a caring and dynamic learning community that is welcoming and ensures that everyone is seen for who they are. In line with this mission, we are pleased to share that earlier this year we passed a new policy, the Gender Inclusivity Policy, that compliments the 2018 Race and Equity Policy (  EL 10 ) and strengthens our commitments to our District members. The Gender Inclusivity Policy can be found in the Policy section of our District website here . The Hartford School District Statement regarding this policy, which can be found on the  Equity and Inclusion page, states:

“The Hartford School District is committed to providing a safe, orderly, civil, and positive learning environment for all students and staff, regardless of perceived or actual gender identity, gender expression, sex characteristics, and/or sexual orientation. It is the position of the Hartford School District that transgender, non-binary, and intersex individuals deserve the same inclusion and acknowledgement that cisgender individuals receive.”

We are writing today to share this policy with you-and we also want to hear from you! We invite you to fill in  this brief survey to help us gauge our district member’s alignment with this policy. The survey is also an opportunity to ask questions and/or suggest further opportunities for engagement and learning that you think would be helpful to you/our community. Our goal is to contribute to a community in which people of any gender identity or expression are equally included and respected; we ask that input be provided with this in mind (e.g., this is not the place for hate speech denying the existence and/or rights of transgender and nonbinary people).

Who should fill out this survey? All parents, caregivers, guardians of students in the Hartford School District, AND all teachers and staff of the district.

See below for a summary of what we mean by “gender inclusivity” and the two main human rights the policy is based around:

What is “gender inclusivity”?

Gender Inclusivity is the equitable and fair treatment of children and adults of all gender identities and expressions.

This policy upholds the right to:

Privacy and confidentiality. This means that every person has the right to choose when, with whom, and how much information about their gender identity and/or gender status is shared with others. This right to privacy is recognized within the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) of 1974.

The right to be known and seen as who one knows oneself to be. This means that every student and staff person in our district should be able to feel comfortable, safe, and included when they self-present in their own gender identity and when they dress or present in a gender expression they prefer. Sex-based discrimination in the form of harassment, mockery, exclusion, or any other form of differential treatment of transgender and non-binary people is prohibited.

Again, you can fill in the survey  here . We always welcome respectful conversations about how our equity and inclusion practices play out in different grades. Thank you for trusting our professional staff with providing thoughtful, caring, respectful, and age-appropriate learning experiences for your children.

Tom DeBalsi

Superintendent of Schools

You’ll notice the tone of the letter is typical Marxist language, appearing to be the kind and considerate thought leaders while pushing mystical pseudo-science that has been routinely exposed as quackery generated from fake academic journals citing other fake academic journals offering fake legitimacy.  The reality is transgender and gender-affirming care are being exposed as massive failures as clinics are shutting down due to horrible outcomes such as increased rates of suicide and de-transition regret post-transition.  Were the staff at Hartford to come outside of their ideological silos and echo chambers, they would know this, but they remain a town behind the times, trying desperately to appear cutting-edge and relevant.

Rather than genuinely be about the health and well-being of the children, this masquerade is about the adults, many of who are functional groomers either deliberately pushing sex identitarianism or have been co-opted due to institutional capture thanks to the handful of activists who are on mission to push the agenda, be they at the federal, state or local level.

Note in the letter the outgoing superintendent, Tom Debalsi, asks for feedback, questions, and concerns: “We are writing today to share this policy with you-and we also want to hear from you! We invite you to fill in  this brief survey to help us gauge our district member’s alignment with this policy.” while limiting the parameters to acceptable speech stating “this is not the place for hate speech denying the existence and/or rights of transgender and non-binary people.”  Essentially, they only want to hear from you if you agree with the agenda, which is confirmation bias and intentionally insulates them from disapproval by any members of the community who disagree – thus, inclusion doesn’t extend to dissent.  This flies in the face of both science and our fundamental rights as citizens, given the school is a government institution upheld by the will of the people.  Activists adopting a policy is not democratic and the questionnaire is a thin illusion pretending to represent democratic input.

Having worked in market research where I conducted similar surveys, the obvious leading questions and bias aimed at confirming what they want is yet more pseudo-science designed to appear authoritative with one of the very first questions:

“Please share the gender identity you most closely identify with” (sic – note the ironically poor sentence structure ending the phrase with a preposition): cisgender woman, cisgender man, transgender, non-binary, gender-fluid, agender, I’m on a gender journey, and I’m not sure at this time, prefer not to answer, other.

This biases the survey by adopting the controversial policy’s language.  This is the game of Marxism in a nutshell – change the language.  Words are the root of society’s communication infrastructure, and Marxists know that if they can alter the lexicon, they can control the speech, which is precisely the goal of this agenda.  It’s not about inclusivity or kindness or journeys but reframing the very way we see the world through language.  Marx referred to this as “mystification”, which is a type of Gnostic wizardry.  This is the stuff of secret societies and cults where words have double meanings, one for those inside the cult and another for the uninitiated.

The goal of this survey is similar.  The ostensible purpose is to appear democratic and inclusive while the hidden goal is to announce this is the new order – your school has been captured by cultural Marxists.

Never mind the science of gametes is fundamentally binary, which trumps gender expression and feelings.  Or that babies are born expressing only those two, even the intersex, which proves the binary.  No.  These social quacks believe, thanks to Marxist theorists, that gender is a social construct, not a biological fact, and we need to let children, yes children, decide what they are.  Of course they will be guided (re: groomed) by the activists, through the power of suggestion, they can identify however they want, including as an animal (which they call furries).  At no point in time has a person thinking they are an animal not been a sign of full-blown mental illness.  A school in Utah just had a mass of students walk out in protest of “furries” who were being allowed to bite and scratch them with impunity as teachers allowed them to express their identity.  Yes, this just happened.

Hartford is in the grip of woke insanity, and it’s leveled at the children who are being groomed into breaking from reality, ultimately aimed at being useful for one thing: cultural revolution.  We saw it with the BLM/George Floyd riots and again with the Israel protests and, of course, the pride parades.  This is nothing new, it was tried and failed in 1920s Hungary, however it was also the pretext to the rise of Nazi Germany where Hitler’s brown shirts first order of business was to burn books on transgenderism and shut down a transgender clinic following years of economic failure where young people couldn’t afford housing.  Sound familiar?  Probably not to people in Hartford, where faculty no longer teach sound history, instead promoting the unsoundness of one’s mental faculties.

Herbert Marcuse, the Marxist philosopher of the 1960s, stated clearly the goal of Marxists is to used easily manipulated youth, queer, and ghetto black populations as revolutionaries to overthrow Western culture:

“Very different from the revolution at previous stages of history, this opposition is directed against theh totatliy of well-functioning, prosperous society – a protest against its Form…This new consciousness and the instinctual rebellion isolate such opposition form the masses and from the majority of organized labor, the integrated majority, and make for the concentration of radical politics in active minorities, mainly among the young middle-class intelligentsia and among the ghetto populations (re: LGBTQ+ black, etc.). Here, prior to all political strategy and organization, liberation becomes a vital, “biological” need.” 

In other words, Marcuse and the Marxists have purposefully targeted youth and “ghetto” populations to manipulate for their revolution.  The town of Hartford and its children have become their playground.

Here is the link to take the survey and let the town know what you think of their Marxist agenda for children.

The post High School Pushes DEI & Failed Pseudo-Science In School appeared first on Granite Grok.

You’ll likely have heard that the Canadian Cancer Society had to apologize for using the word ‘cervix’ in the context of cancer screenings for … (get this) cervical cancer. [Hit it, Greta!]. The problem? They didn’t want to alienate men from getting the screenings.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words?

“Barriers that can make participating in cancer screening challenging for people in the trans community include transphobia and discrimination, limited healthcare provider knowledge about issues affecting trans people (such as gender dysphoria), a lack of trans-specific resources, and concerns about physical and emotional safety,” it said.

“But getting screened for cancer is an important part of regular medical care for everyone because the earlier cancer is found, the better the outcome and treatment options will be.”

Wait for it!

It said anyone with a cervix can get cervical cancer. Almost all cervical cancers stem from HPV infection.

If people’s medical records indicate they are men, it pointed out they might not get cervical cancer screening reminders. In response, they should talk to their healthcare providers about screening.

The funny thing about that (odd, not Ha-Ha) is that if a man has vaginoplasty and survives the procedure (severe pain, infection, and suicide post-op are not uncommon because it doesn’t nor will it ever work like a vagina), they still don’t have an actual cervix. You might as well mention how important it is for women to get tested for prostate cancer, which is just billing insurance or (someone) for the cost of looking for a cervix on a man.

There isn’t one. We’re just cranking up the cost of healthcare with pointless and unnecessary tests, even though I remember this one time at Obamacare Camp when they said we had to socialize medicine to prevent evil doctors from performing unnecessary tests and procedures.

YES, people should get screened for cancer, especially if they have or are taking puberty blockers or gender-changing hormone therapy. Those drugs increase the risk. What they should not do is take the gender-bender’s advice and call it a front hole or bonus hole. Bonus hole? Who came up with that patently loathsome reference?

Women should be offended. How Dare you [Greta Again] pretend to have one and then not even have the courage to call it that.

Transgenders should be offended. How Dare you [Greta Again] refuse to refer to whatever this is by its proper name when I went to the trouble to get one (even though that’s not what it is, nor is it capable of any of the things typically associated with the genuine article which is why there’s no ‘Bonus’ about it.

I think the Canadian Cancer Society and whoever created or uses those terms it has claimed it must adopt are all a bunch of Front Holes.

That’s what I think.

 

 

The post The Canadian Cancer Society is a Bunch of “Front Holes” appeared first on Granite Grok.

A custom order ring is more than just a piece of jewelry; it’s a reflection of your unique style, personality, and love story. Whether you’re searching for the perfect engagement ring, wedding band, or statement piece, opting for a custom design allows you to bring your vision to life and create a one-of-a-kind treasure that will be cherished for a lifetime. In this comprehensive guide, we will explore the process of ordering a custom ring, from initial inspiration to the final creation, and everything in between.

Understanding Custom Order Rings

A custom order ring is a piece of jewelry that is designed and crafted according to the specific preferences and requirements of the customer. Unlike ready-made or mass-produced rings, custom-order rings offer unparalleled flexibility and personalization, allowing you to choose every aspect of the design, from the type of metal and gemstones to the overall style and aesthetic.

The Process of Creating a Custom Order Ring

The process of creating a custom order ring typically involves several steps:

• Consultation: The first step is to consult with a professional jeweler or designer to discuss your ideas and preferences.
• Design: The designer will create a custom design based on your input, taking into account your metal preferences, stone choices, and design style.
• Materials: The materials used in the ring will be selected based on your preferences and budget.
• Manufacturing: The ring will be crafted using traditional techniques and high-quality materials.
• Finishing: The ring will be polished and finished to ensure a high-quality finish.

Types of Custom Order Rings

There are many types of custom order rings, including:

• Solitaire Rings: A classic design featuring a single stone set in a simple band.
• Three-Stone Rings: A design featuring three stones set side by side, often representing past, present, and future.
• Pave Rings: A design featuring small stones set closely together to create a sparkling effect.
• Halo Rings: A design featuring a stone surrounded by a circle of smaller stones.
• Mosaic Rings: A design featuring multiple stones arranged in a mosaic pattern.

Key Elements of Custom Order Rings:

1. Design: The design of a custom order ring is entirely customizable, allowing you to create a piece that is uniquely yours. Whether you prefer a classic solitaire, a vintage-inspired design, or a modern statement piece, the possibilities are endless. You can work with a jeweler to sketch out your ideas or provide inspirational images to guide the design process.
2. Materials: Custom order rings can be crafted from a variety of materials, including precious metals such as gold, platinum, and silver. You can choose the type of metal that best suits your style and budget, as well as the quality and size of any gemstones that will be incorporated into the design.
3. Gemstones: Gemstones play a crucial role in the design of custom order rings, adding color, sparkle, and personality to the piece. You can select from a wide range of gemstones, including diamonds, sapphires, rubies, emeralds, and more, in various shapes, sizes, and cuts. Whether you prefer a traditional diamond or a unique-colored gemstone, the choice is yours.
4. Setting: The setting of a custom order ring refers to how the gemstones are secured and arranged within the piece. Popular setting styles include prong, bezel, pave, channel, and halo settings, each offering its own unique aesthetic and level of security for the stones. You can choose the setting style that best complements your chosen gemstones and overall design.

The Custom Order Process

Ordering a custom ring is a collaborative process that involves several key steps:

• Initial Consultation: The first step in ordering a custom ring is to schedule an initial consultation with a jeweler. During this meeting, you will discuss your vision, preferences, and budget for the ring. The jeweler will ask questions to understand your style, lifestyle, and any specific design elements you have in mind.
• Design Development: Once the jeweler has a clear understanding of your vision, they will begin the design development process. This may involve sketching out design concepts, creating computer-aided design (CAD) renderings, or providing inspirational images to help visualize the final product. You will have the opportunity to review and approve the design before any work begins.
• Material Selection: After finalizing the design, you will select the materials for your custom ring, including the type of metal and gemstones. The jeweler will guide you in choosing high-quality materials that fit within your budget while still achieving your desired look and style.
• Fabrication: Once the design and materials are approved, the jeweler will begin the fabrication process. This may involve handcrafting the ring from scratch or using CAD technology to create a precise 3D model. Skilled craftsmen will then carefully assemble the ring, setting any gemstones and adding finishing touches such as polishing and engraving.
• Final Inspection and Delivery: Before the ring is completed, it will undergo a final inspection to ensure that it meets the highest standards of quality and craftsmanship. Once approved, the jeweler will present you with your custom ring, ready to be worn and admired for years to come.

Benefits of Custom Order Rings

There are several benefits to ordering a custom ring, including:

• Personalization: Custom order rings allow you to create a piece of jewelry that is tailored to your style, preferences, and personality. Whether you prefer a classic, timeless design or a bold, contemporary statement piece, a custom ring gives you the freedom to express yourself and make a truly personal statement.
• Uniqueness: One of the most significant advantages of ordering a custom ring is the opportunity to own a piece of jewelry that is unique and one-of-a-kind. With a custom design, you can be sure that no one else will have the same ring, making it a truly special and meaningful treasure.
• Quality and Craftsmanship: Custom-order rings are crafted with the highest level of care, attention to detail, and craftsmanship. Skilled jewelers use only the finest materials and techniques to create rings that are not only beautiful but also durable and long-lasting. When you order a custom ring, you can rest assured that you are investing in a piece of jewelry that will stand the test of time.
• Emotional Value: Custom order rings often hold significant emotional value for the wearer, whether they are purchased to commemorate a special occasion, celebrate a milestone, or symbolize a meaningful relationship. The process of designing and creating a custom ring is an intimate and personal experience that adds to its sentimental value and significance.

Conclusion

Ordering a custom ring is a truly special and rewarding experience that allows you to create a piece of jewelry that is as unique and beautiful as you are. From choosing the design and materials to witnessing the craftsmanship and attention to detail that goes into creating your custom ring, the process is a journey of self-expression, creativity, and love. Whether you’re celebrating a milestone, commemorating a special occasion, or simply treating yourself to something extraordinary, a custom ring is a timeless treasure that will be cherished for generations to come.

The post Crafting Your Vision: The Art of Custom Order Rings appeared first on Granite Grok.

The original Tory preference for remaining British subjects rather than free American citizens has been recycled into a mindlessness that prefers the collective abyss of socialism over remaining as free Americans.

If nothing else, this foolishness highlights the extent to which these mind games have elevated today’s irrelevant but dangerous reasoning. While our basket teems with examples, how about our “melting pot” logo? Americans are by their individual relocation efforts a mongrel breed; which then her “melting pot” transforms into one identifiable being; that of an American!

Given our history of success, how can this chant for “diversity” be supported, and for what purpose? For these inherently un-American thoughts to become so universally embraced, the presence of multiple antagonistic influences deserves both our suspicion and ridicule.

This issue of demanding racial equality is typical of the brand of public antagonism and division that is at work today. Would someone please be bold enough to suggest just how out-of-date this racial crusade actually is? The most recognizable example of this non-issue comes from the life story of Dr. Ben Carson. His life began as part of a single-parent family, amid tenement-living poverty and being on the troubled streets with the wrong crowd. From the loving efforts of his mother, coupled with his own initiative, he lifted himself up to the heights of being one of America’s top neurosurgeons! All this was possible in our opportunity-laden and racially-balanced America!

The annoying call for socialism over capitalism defines the public’s defiant and persistent ignorance! The same holds true for the more common belief of “democracy” rather than appreciating our Constitutional Republic. This democracy chant is a product of repetitive messaging, which probably aligns with similar family mindsets, both from being infused by school curriculums! In reality, socialism is a dead-end street leading to despair and poverty versus our Republic’s offerings of individual rights and endless opportunity. Actually, neither socialism nor a democracy acknowledges any individual right, much less our listing of ten!

The supposed igniter of today’s rebellion was supposedly in retaliation for an act of police brutality, which turned out to be another pipedream. As time passed and protest destruction increased, other causes/reasons surfaced to justify further. Again, as with the original anti-police claim, all were baseless and mostly centered upon emotions from earlier times, ala George Floyd, rather than actual and more current injustices.

Feeding this chaos is this consistent and obvious BS factor! Is America perfect? No! However, what other country sacrificed so much to free other nations? What other country generously responds to natural disasters around the world? And what other country grants the opportunity and freedom to a yearly number of foreign immigrants entering into and being accepted as part of America’s famous “melting pot” of citizens?

We all should be aware of this dangerous attempt to divide our people and to reduce our living standards. Such venues originate and support the corrupt and evil enemies of all civilized societies. Also, today’s Americans are at a crossroads since too many refuse to accept the fact that this enemy element has been elected into our Country’s highest governing positions.

At least back in the day, those Tories were mainly reacting to the comfortable “old shoe” excuse—or simply, what is already known versus what is unknown and iffy. Today, it’s a different equation. This upheaval is being tutored in closed sessions. When one adds the recent excursion into gender selection, any skepticism of injustice, social or racial imbalance, white supremacy, etc., are just the enemy’s thrusts to divide further.

Time to objectively scan our countryside. How was all this possible if America was so immoral and unjust? America has been great and can be again. If this thought annoys, without any politics involved, then what is reflected in your morning mirror is not that of an American!

Lastly, there is but one reason for this collectivism mantra, this ‘team player’ concept or this awarding of a ‘participation’ trophy. It’s to erase any lingering memories of competition or of being an individual who can excel. This American bedrock of an individualistic “can do” belief stands in their way! One’s conversion to communism is easier if being a team player is the norm. When comparing this slack in effort and zeal to excel to the limitless horizon afforded by an independent-thinking American, the puzzle is no longer. America needs to not only be great again but also be free again!

The post Morning View: What We Are Made Of appeared first on Granite Grok.