Here’s a quick decline of the American culture update. “In Fairfax County, Virginia, during the swearing-in ceremony, school board member Karl Frisch opted for a stack of books portraying explicit content and immoral behavior.”

I guess we could say that, at the very least, he’s standing up for or behind (perhaps with his pants down) his “convictions. And I’m willing to bet that it is an oath (to the books, at least) he will actually keep.

 

In Fairfax County, Virginia, during the swearing-in ceremony, school board member Karl Frisch opted for a stack of books portraying explicit content and immoral behavior instead of a Bible.

This choice reflects an attempt to normalize inappropriate behavior and challenge the… pic.twitter.com/eYWUM7c6T0

— I Meme Therefore I Am (@ImMeme0) December 14, 2023

 

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The Legislative Beer Caucus is hoping to sit down with all major presidential candidates over beers and have some serious, substantive discussions about NH PRIMARY  issues. And also have fun – starting with Chris Christie on Wednesday in Portsmouth.

December 15, 2024
CONTACT: Todd Cheewing
(todd.cheewing@gmail.com)

 

FORMER NEW JERSEY GOVERNOR CHRIS CHRISTIE SLATED FOR BEER CAUCUS LEGISLATIVE FORUM AT SEA DOG BREWERY IN EXETER ON DECEMBER 20

 

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. — Former New Jersey Governor and current Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie will be the featured guest at a legislative forum (at the Sea Dog Brewery in Exeter) at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, December 20th.

The event marks the return of the popular “Legislative Beer Caucus Founders Happy Hour” political confab. The Beer Caucus is an informal group of several dozen current and former New Hampshire legislators who socialize and network while addressing important Granite State issues.

The “Happy Hours” were started in 2020 by the Beer Caucus Founders during the COVID pandemic as on-line zoom events allowing GOP candidates to share perspectives and positions while concurrently enjoying libations. Hundreds of voters registered to watch these interactive events where significant and substantive issues were addressed in a format that also allowed for humorous and relaxed interaction.

The four Beer Caucus Founders include District 2 State Senator Tim Lang (Chair, Senate Ways and Means Committee), District 17 State Senator Howard Pearl (Chair, Senate Committee on Executive Departments and Administration), Merrimack District 4 State Representative Mike Moffett (Chair, House Committee on State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs) and the Honorable Reed Panisiti, former House Assistant Floor Leader. The December 20th event will be a hybrid affair, meaning that this time the Happy Hour will include a live audience as well as the on-line option.

“Elected officials have long connected informally over beers to communicate and figure out how to get things done,” explained Lang. “Ronald Reagan and Tip O’Neill for instance. We’re excited to engage Governor Christie and are very pleased to have him find time for us.”

The Happy Hours conclude with the popular “Lightning Round” where the candidates are given a succession of “either/or” options to respond to.

To watch on-line via “Zoom” voters can go to
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83234382709?pwd=bkNsRGFqYWJ1U2RBS1JudDB5MHFCQT09
Meeting ID: 832 3438 2709, Passcode: 685611

Voters can email suggested candidate queries to timothy.lang@leg.state.nh.us.

 

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‘GrokNote: ( … ) Changed from original to reflect a venue change after the press release was issued.

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In advance of a holiday season that could see record numbers of ancestry kits given as gifts, The Rutherford Institute is cautioning the public about the significant privacy risks associated with corporations, government agencies, and hackers possibly gaining access to one’s familial DNA.

As the Institute’s investigative report “We’re All Suspects in a DNA Lineup, Waiting to be Matched with a Crime” explains, a DNA print reveals everything about who we are, where we come from, and who we will be. By submitting one’s DNA to a genealogical database, individuals risk the police, corporations, and hackers potentially gaining access to the genetic makeup, relationships, and health profiles of every relative—past, present, and future—in their family, whether or not they ever agreed to be part of such a database. The Institute’s warning comes in the wake of reports that hackers may have gained access to the ancestry data of 6.9 million people through one of the leading genealogical sites.

“The debate over genetic privacy—and when one’s DNA becomes a public commodity outside the protection of the Fourth Amendment’s prohibition on warrantless searches and seizures—is really only beginning,” said constitutional attorney John W. Whitehead, president of The Rutherford Institute and author of Battlefield America: The War on the American People. “No longer can we consider ourselves innocent until proven guilty. Now we are all suspects in a DNA lineup waiting to be matched up with a crime.”

Police have used ancestry databases to solve cold cases that have remained unsolved for decades. Anyone who comes up as a possible DNA match—including distant family members—can suddenly become part of a circle of suspects that must be tracked, investigated, and ruled out. Although a number of states had forbidden police from using government databases to track family members of suspects, the genealogy websites could provide a loophole for law enforcement. For instance, in 2018, former police officer Joseph DeAngelo was flagged as the notorious “Golden State Killer” through the use of familial DNA, which allows police to match up an unknown suspect’s crime scene DNA with that of any family members in a genealogy database. Police were able to identify DeAngelo using the DNA of a distant cousin found in a public DNA database. A few states have started introducing legislation to restrict when and how police use these genealogical databases, with Maryland requiring that they can only be used for serious violent crimes such as murder and rape, only after they exhaust other investigatory methods, and only under the supervision of a judge.

Tens of millions of people have added their DNA to genealogical databases in recent years. Public, commercial DNA databases have grown so massive that they can be used to find you even if you’ve never shared your own DNA. One genealogy profile can lead to as many as 300 other people. All 50 states also maintain their own DNA databases, in addition to CODIS, the FBI’s massive DNA database. As part of the government’s mandatory genetic screening of newborns, some hospitals also take and store newborn babies’ DNA, often without their parents’ knowledge or consent.

 

| Rutherford Institute

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I have wonderful, fond childhood memories of Christmastime in Boston. It was a magical place in the 60s. Driving along the city streets was a kaleidoscope of lights and colors, as was the Boston Common. The window displays at Filene’s were masterful, and we were always in awe of the Enchanted Village at Jordan Marsh.

The holiday season always ended with a trip to Boston Garden for the Ice Capades. Only now do I realize what my folks must have sacrificed to give me and my sisters those memories? Apparently, the folks in charge of Boston these days do not share my memories or spirit for the holidays. The Presidents of some of Boston’s finest colleges cannot denounce antisemitism and then dare to show up at a Minorah lighting standing next to Jewish students they fail to protect.

The Mayor of Boston, Michelle Wu, comes from a Chinese lineage and is the first Asian woman to serve on the City Council and as Beantown’s Mayor. Wu was educated at Harvard, which may explain her role in an incredibly Racist, albeit stupid, incident that happened this week at City Hall.

Related: Busted in Boston – All The Racist Wu’s Down in Wu-ville!

Wu sparked controversy after mistakenly inviting all councilors to an “electeds of color” holiday party. The invitation was erroneously sent to all council members, and when the oversight was discovered, the White council members were sent an Un-Invitation. Whites were not welcome at Michelle Wu’s party. Wu claims it was an honest mistake that the invitation was sent to all members. Talk about compounding a disastrous lack of judgment and a stupid idea to begin with.

I apologize for the second use of the term stupid, but I cannot use any of the colloquialisms of the gutter that I would like to use to describe this entire incident. No, Michelle, the mistake was not the list of invitees but the idea of an Electeds of Color Holiday Party at all. Whoever had that original thought should resign or be fired immediately, including Michelle Wu. This Whites Need Not Attend Party is one of the most offensive ideas and actions I have ever seen by a politician, and there have been many others.

It amazes me that 160 years after the Civil War, we still get mired in incidents of Racism, and when anything excludes people of any color, in this case, White, then it is Racism. In the words of our illustrious Press Secretary, Karine Jeanne-Pierre, “full stop.”

Michelle Wu should be holding up her status as the first Asian Mayor of Boston as a testament to how far the American people have come to be color-blind to Race, Sex, and Color. But not Wu. She had to play identity politics with something so joyous as a Holiday Party, use the worst card in her deck, the Race Card, and turn a party into a national embarrassment.

I was fortunate for two things early on in my life. When my family traveled South every year in the sixties and seventies, I saw first the restrooms, water bubblers, and building entrances designated for Whites and Blacks. I also saw the evolution of Civil Rights and the elimination of these designations, and the mingling of Whites and Blacks in all walks of life. I had parents who didn’t turn our heads away from social injustices but taught us why they were wrong and how we could be better people to never see the world as Black and White. I was raised to be color-blind, and unfortunately, Michele Wu did not have the benefit of the same teachings from her parents.

This has not been a good week for Boston. Mayor Wu and Harvard President Gay have shown how ungrateful they are for the opportunity afforded them by living in the greatest, most diverse country on Earth. They have set Civil Rights back decades—shame on both of these women and on anyone who condones their actions or turns away from their responsibility to hold people like them accountable. To do so is to lower the bar on what is right and wrong with humanity.

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I’ve been participating in an email thread where the main idea is more or less that ‘special education is ruining everything’ in schools.

The craziness that has evolved around special education is certainly not helping.  But I believe the problems we’re seeing in schools are mainly the symptoms of using the wrong tool for the job.

Confucius said that the first step towards wisdom is to call things by their right names, i.e., to use the right words.

I think this is a special case of a more general idea: The first step toward success in any endeavor is to use the right tools.

School is the right tool for one well-defined task: If you have a bunch of people who (regardless of age) are ready to learn the same material (which includes intellectual readiness, behavioral readiness, and motivation), then it can be very efficient to have them synchronously share instruction in that material.

(Having said that, it used to be the case that school was where you could find the highest-quality instruction available in an area. That is no longer the case. In fact, it’s often the opposite — a kid who goes to school has access to lower-quality instruction than he could get at home, over the Internet.)

Here are some tasks for which school is not the right tool:

• Daycare
• Therapy
• Nutrition
• Transportation
• Hobbies
• Social development (SEL)
• Moral and spiritual development
• Political indoctrination (CRT, DEI)

And yet, those are the tasks where schools spend almost all their time and effort (and our money). If a school is a hammer, then what we are doing with that hammer at various times corresponds to

(1) treating everything as a nail, or

(2) assuming that if a hammer is good for driving nails, it must also be good for cutting wood, drilling holes, driving screws, grabbing items firmly, applying paint, tightening bolts, clamping items together, measuring distances and angles, and so on.

All of which is to say, by using schools to do things for which schools are not suited, we

(1) make it inevitable that we will do a terrible job at all the secondary tasks and,

(2) make it impossible to do a competent job at the primary task.

The only winners in this approach are the makers and sellers of the hammers.

But suppose we made ‘public schools’ into public schools, i.e., schools open to all members of the public, who can come to learn what’s being taught if they want to and if they are ready to.

That would free teachers to actually teach students who want to learn.  And it would allow all those other needs — like therapy — to be addressed through other more specialized, more efficient, and more competent channels — the right tools for those jobs.

 

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In the face of an unprecedented global challenge, our world demands a radical shift in approach. We no longer have any choice. The threats looming over humanity are no longer confined to local issues, rendering traditional practices inadequate. Now, more than ever, we must unite and leverage our collective resources to combat the complex and debilitating challenges that cast a shadow over our planet.

Our problems are not mere parochial concerns; outdated thinking won’t cut it. In this era of interconnectedness, every ounce of our energy must be directed towards solutions rather than wasted in petty disputes and personal conflicts.

But are we truly ready to acknowledge the urgency of this global call to action? Can we set aside our differences for the greater good?

The magnitude of today’s challenges is unlike anything we’ve encountered recently. Conventional solutions falter in the face of the formidably complex and unique situation that defines our world. To confront these challenges, civil disobedience alone is as futile as fighting off a pack of hungry wolves armed only with toothpicks.

We must keep asking ourselves – what innovative strategies can we employ to tackle challenges that defy conventional solutions? How can we foster a collective mindset that transcends outdated approaches?

The threat posed by the Islamic Republic’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei and his cronies cannot be underestimated. Their lack of interest in negotiation and compromise is evident as they barrel forward in their quest for nuclear weaponry, aiming to wield power and intimidate not just the region but the entire world.

Mullahs are ruling Iran with rock-solid resolve to carry out their “divine plan” of imposing their brand of Islam on the world with the help of the Bomb is a terrifying thought.

So, how can we effectively address regimes that seem impervious to diplomatic efforts? Is there room for negotiation, or is a more robust approach necessary?

The first step in addressing these issues is to acknowledge the reality of the situation. Iran’s regime has made significant advances in its nuclear program, which is a cause for concern for the international community. The country has been able to reverse engineer and further develop purchased technological advances, and its knowledge is irreversible. This means that any attempt to stop Iran’s regime from developing nuclear weapons could be futile.

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Mohammad Jafer Mahallati is on indefinite administrative leave. The former UN Ambassador from Iran (1987-1989) has been implicated in his crimes against humanity, but Oberlin College hired him anyway. Now, they are paying him to do nothing.

Not that this isn’t the ideal final form of every liberal college professor, but that wasn’t the original plan. Oberlin was OK with calling a Jew-hating anti-semite their Peace Professor. Still, after Oct 7, the College is officially on the hook and under Federal Investigation after ignoring years of Jafer Mahallati praising violence and assigning “anti-Israel readings to his students.”

 

[Mohammad Jafer Mahallati’s] ouster comes in the middle of a federal investigation of antisemitism at Oberlin based on charges brought by 1986 alumna Melissa Landa, whose story we covered here. Landa is president of the Oberlin Chapter of Alums for Campus Fairness, a non-profit group that fights antisemitism at the school. She filed her complaint against Oberlin with the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) back in 2019. On September 29, the OCR announced it is looking into her charges under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VI).

 

I’m sure Oberlin will do what it can to avoid complicity as it is still reeling from losing the Gibson’s Bakery case in which a Dean went on a hate-fueled intifada against a local business. The defamation suit cost the College tens of millions in ‘reparations’ owed the Gibson family. This Mohammad thing has a similar woke pit of hell stench to it. The reporting suggests that complaints have been amassed over the years only to be ignored by Oberlin’s enlightened masters until now.

Their Bias response team must have ignored numerous calls from the nearest courtesy phone. Lots of calls. It seems the Professor of Peace meant peace through genocide, and hey, once your enemy is dead, there is peace, or you are dead and at peace.

Then, there is the peace of collecting your salary to do nothing while Western elites rend their garments over being labeled racists for suspending you.

Yeah. I bet it’s like that.

 

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Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch recently pointed out that, according to Woodrow Wilson, “popular sovereignty” embarrassed the Nation because it interfered with “executive expertness.” From Wilson’s distorted view, the modern Democrat Party emerged as a dictatorial political and societal Leviathan.

The Obama-Biden monstrosity used these so-called experts to transform the most historically prosperous society and civilization into a racist, perverted, communist nightmare. So-called experts under these numbskulls have transformed “common sense” into “nonsense.” Our society is experiencing a perversion of sanity to destroy Western Civilization. These demonic experts disdain the fundamental basis of Western Civilization, the family unit, and work tirelessly to destroy the fabric that holds the Nation and, more importantly, our humanity together. The three women Ivy League presidents’ failure to condemn Antisemitism is a perfect example.

These pseudo-experts expect us to believe the entire span of human history, since Adam bit into Eve’s apple, was wrong in acknowledging there are two sexes: male and female. These modern-day alchemists propound a world populated with 72 genders, including transgenderism. The only possible purpose of this malarkey is: “If we can get the hoi-poi to believe in 72 genders and instruct our minor children that, despite their birth sex, they should deny their God-given gender, people will do whatever these perverted experts say.”

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Another principle of Obama-Biden dystopia is intersectionality: a racist and dogmatic diatribe (theory) designed and developed to divide and destroy American society and Western Civilization with jealousy, envy, and hatred based on turning races and nationalities against each other, especially against white people. Love of God and country is being replaced with hate and violent protests.

Finally, these “nonsense experts” tell us it is the gun’s fault when there is a mass shooting by a known criminal whose mental illness is well-known to local authorities. What these perverted experts want is to take away guns so they can control everyone without risk. Remember, 12 million people were murdered in Hitler’s gas chambers!

Putting Donald Trump back in the White House cannot happen soon enough!

 

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To all those who are sending in memes, thank you!  Keep them coming please, as it helps me gather weaponry to fight the Left.  Please do share this post, and if you share an individual meme, consider mentioning you saw it on the Grok!

Speaking of, from this week, Monday Edition and Wednesday Edition.  Also check out my latest Israel-focused meme & commentary post if this is a subject of interest to you.

 

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

 

 

And a large part of their egos – their vanity – is tied up with the idea that they’re “good people” because they believe certain things.  And, thus, admitting they were wrong not only challenges their view of themselves as superior beings, but… if their beliefs are wrong, then those beliefs that prove they’re superior and moral and all could be wrong, and therefore they’re not superior or moral.

Few have the strength for that level of introspection.

 

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Even in my atheistic days I could not – would not – every have slipped and said “My Muslim faith…” in a conversation.  Nor, as an atheist, would I nor did I ever say “My Jewish faith…”  The fact that he said that was revealing.  Also revealing was how the reporter rescued him.

 

 

 

 

In an actual science, when predictions fail, that weakens the theory.

 

 

 

 

Proving that it’s ONE rule for the proles, and ANOTHER RULE for the plebes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

IMHO were this any other company, this would have had pols screaming THIS IS FRAUD by now.  I have to admit admiration – when pharma buys politicians and regulators, they stay bought.  I wonder if there’s an “Or else…” clause.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Something very important to remember here.  They’ll back down… temporarily.  But then push forward again.  And you think you’re going to stop them by protesting or writing letters or voting?

Please understand, I am not advocating violence.  But I must also point out that these people are True Believers.  Like the Terminator, they will not stop, ever, until we’re Communists.

 

 

 

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PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA

 

Multiple signs “something” is coming, and soon.  Just look at the furor over the Obama-involved coming Netflix show (setting aside the anti-white stuff).

‘Leave the World Behind’ Trailer: Julia Roberts Confronts the Apocalypse – The Hollywood Reporter

Now, looming, are warnings about power outages:

 

Power Outages this Winter – But it’s WORSE than that – Get READY

 

 

and

 

 

Just like our “good and dear friend” Klaus predicted:

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/cyber-attacks-next.mp4

 

Like many things, I used to think that the whole idea of “predictive programming” and such were just more foil-hat nonsense.  But as the mood of the country darkens, along comes this preview… of an American civil war:

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Civil-war-predictive-programming.mp4

 

Also on my Rumble channel:

Preview: Movie of coming American Civil War (rumble.com)

And it could be a combination of things.  Cyberattack.  EMP.  Engineered false flags to create a race war, or civil war… migrants being mated up with the scads of weapons and ammo bought over the decades, particularly under Barackus – and then let loose on those who don’t obey.  They don’t even need specific orders.  Islamic terror cells already here, or Chinese cells, or Russians, or all of the above.

Pay attention to the movies that are about to come out.  Articles.  Online posts.  What’s said on the various talk shows, especially those aimed at the LIVs.  Get as prepped as you can.  Make alliances.  Things can go downhill surprisingly fast.

Remember, they want chaos, uncertainty, despair, fear, and even massive deaths.  All the better to then offer the “benevolent hand” of their one-world government socialist state as salvation.  I will not bet against finding our elections cancelled “temporarily”… and likely worse.

Al’s Conservative Political Views: Can a False Flag Event Cancel the 2024 Election? (alspoliticalview.blogspot.com)

 

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And the problem is so many still do.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Pick of the Post:

 

 

I’m getting to that point more and more often.

 

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Palate Cleansers:

 

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And don’t forget… come back Monday for another edition.  Same Meme Time.  Same Meme channel.

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Is sexual attraction or the absence of it the thing that defines you? To the Cultural Marxist Gender Side-Show, Circus Tent Ring Leaders it is. And like any good self-serving cartel, the more freaks, the better. So, they’ve introduced a new “gender” defining term.

 

 The Canadian Medical Association Journal has introduced the term “greysexual” as the latest so-called “sexual orientation” invented by LGBT activists.    

According to a paper published December 4, the Canadian Medical Association Journal, Canada’s top medical association, is now recognizing people who claim to be “greysexual,” meaning they are “experiencing sexual attraction rarely or under specific circumstances.”  …

The article, co-authored by Stella A. Schneckenburger, Michelle W.Y. Tam and Lori E. Ross, introduces “greysexual” as a subsection of “asexual.” 

The report divides asexual into “demisexuality (only experiencing sexual attraction after emotional bonds form) and greysexuality (experiencing sexual attraction rarely or under specific circumstances.)”

 

Jim Henson’s earlier known work was for Sesame Street, and one of the things that resulted from that was the anything muppet. A hand puppet you could get to which you might affix any number of characteristics—different eyes, noses, etc. Once you get past LGB, everything on the social construct we call the gender spectrum is an anything muppet. Most of it is contrived minor differences in personal preference related to sexual attraction. If you applied the same thinking to food across the whole of the human experience, the DSM would be larger than the average Congressional Omnibus bill or a manual on understanding women.

Put another way, and this is critical, medical experts are parsing the gender hairs with notions like greysexual to profit from another clinical diagnosis. This might be about mental health and how clinicians can corral another group of people into therapy dollars and drug treatment kickbacks.

Why else bother? Adding another flavor to the Queer Baskin Robbins menu isn’t going to divide us further though it might divide the alphabet sex squad another angstrom or two as they fight for dominance on the victim-class totem, which seems counterproductive at this juncture. Team unity doesn’t need its gender-blended troops sniping each other into fractious disarray. Not yet.

But because this is Canada, I did have another thought. What if this new “diagnosis” will inevitably be used to recommend more people for Medical Assistance in dying?

Killer Kanada and all that.

 

 

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President Biden, you insult us. You stand at a podium next to President Zelenskyy and tell us all the reasons that we must continue to send Billions of dollars to Ukraine to fund their battle against Putin and the invading Russians. Mr. President, you preach to us that we must continue to spend money to preserve the sovereignty of Ukraine while you have no concern for the sovereignty of America.

Our country is in decline in every measurable parameter, and that, Joe Biden is on you. America was not only a better place under Donald Trump, but it was growing stronger every day. Under your “leadership,” America has taken two steps back for every day forward.

Zelenskyy knows who the cash cow is in the world. That is why he comes to America every few months, wearing his battlefield green uniform, to tell us that all of Europe is in jeopardy if we stop funding Ukraine and let it fall. If true, why does he not go to Europe for their cash? It is maybe because they have already seen through the smoke and mirrors. If Putin even hinted at penetrating one of the NATO countries, he would have all of NATO to contend with. Ukraine is not in NATO. That doesn’t mean we should sit back and watch Putin destroy the country, but it should not be our sole responsibility to fund their battle that cannot be won. Instead of more money, we should use our power to get Zelenskyy and Putin to a negotiating table and find a diplomatic resolution to a never-ending, winless battle. After two months, Biden is ready to walk away from Israel, but after two years of funding Ukraine, it is carry on, and Americans should shut up and keep writing the check. Damn, I hope the House stays resilient and does not free up another dime for Ukraine until Biden changes direction and ends the assault by the world on our Southern Border.

It has been evident for some time that Joe Biden had no interest in closing the Southern Border. The rate of crossings is nearly two million a year and rising. For comparison, Joe Biden has allowed more illegal aliens to enter our country than there are people in two Nebraskas. If collected into one geographic area, that area would be the 14th most populated state in the union. There is no end in sight.

To view the footage of the border crossings, don’t bother looking at any of the network broadcasts; you would be hard-pressed to find a family unit. The current flow of humanity is almost exclusively military-aged single men from all parts of the world. We do not have the human resources or data available to vet this many people. Because of those circumstances, we have no idea who has entered and is now roaming our streets. This is safety and security in Joe Biden’s America, and it should worry every American because any of these crossers could soon be our next-door neighbor. That fear has nothing to do with Race or Color, but the person’s character. We have no idea who we let in through our front door.

The illegal immigration and support of a corrupt Ukraine are but two reasons Joe Biden should not be President. Forget Impeachment. Joe Biden should be tried for treason for what he has done in three years to destroy America. Age and mental competency are the least of the concerns we should have about another term of Joe Biden’s Presidency. It is Biden’s motive that we should really examine.

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Like any good grift, when the time comes to move along, you change your name and start over somewhere else to stay one step ahead of the law. But a College isn’t going to just up and move its campus. It can, however, get creative with names.

 

Kent State University has embedded DEI efforts throughout its academics and programming in recent years, creating a new Division of People, Culture and Belonging and adding administrators, faculty, and projects centered around the ideology, a College Fix analysis found.

The new division, established in September, merged the Human Resources department and the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion offices. The rebranding came as Buckeye State lawmakers considered legislation to ban mandatory DEI in higher education.

What’s more, Amoaba Gooden’s new title is vice president of the Division of People, Culture and Belonging, according to her faculty bio. She previously served as vice president of the Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion department.

 

Diversity Equity and Inclusion programs (along with Critical Race Theory and the gender studies basket weaving classes) are Divisive, unequal, and exclusive. They foster distrust, division, and even hate. But the Campus culture is inculcated with that. A process and program, underway for decades, infused with compelled speech components that a college or university accessing public money might have to remove.

Meet the Division of People, Culture, and Belonging.

It’s got a very Maoist ring to it, so I have a few questions. Will belonging apply to all people and cultures and find its way into every office? Old college interview and acceptance rules might need to be scrapped. Anyone with a pulse should be admitted to Kent State (so they feel like they belong) without regard to their ideological or fiscal culture or quantity of belongings.

Undergraduate tuition & fees at Kent State University are $11,373 for Ohio residents and $20,287 for out-of-state students. That’s an unjust class structure abusing people because they belong to another state.

Fini! No more.

What else? Grades have to go. We’ve seen it in progressive bivouacs like Oregon. Math and reading are racist. Grading and achievement are racist. Assigning ratings of any sort makes people feel left out. Team sports? Same problem. The ‘everyone gets a trophy’ generation needs more than a trophy. They need to feel like they belong. Put them on the team and not just on a bench.

Gotta ditch Tenure. You mixed HR and DEI, and nothing says white privilege culture like tenure.

I’m sure there are other opportunities, but you get the point. Not that anyone at Kent State would ever do anything other than protect the destructive agenda of DEI in whatever form they could manage, regardless of how it might contradict the actual operation or culture.

And hey, it is named the Division of People, Culture, and Belonging. Division is in the name, and that’s what we’ll get. So, more of the same.

 

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Grok readers should already be familiar with Nashua’s own private citizen, Laurie Ortolano, who has made many watchdog contributions over the years and has a court date next week, but there’s another pro se litigant, Paula Johnson, who also had a court date.

As an elected official in multiple capacities over the years (state rep, alderman, and school board member), she might have more name recognition, but her case might not. I’ve been asked by management to say a little something about Paula’s litigation, which has potential ties to Daniel Richard‘s current Supreme Court case. More on that later.

In preparing what to say, I thought a good idea would be to reread Paula’s petition, which is the document presented to the court outlining the complaint. There are four counts to her civil complaint, and they come from a November 18 school recount. I will pause here for a moment to include a link to a montage of 8 hours of multiple camera footage assembled with the same artistic license that NESN would use for the playoffs.

And another link, which is the aggregate (non ward specific) recount numbers.

To give a condensed synopsis, there were eight candidates running for five seats.  Paula Johnson was the winner with the least number of votes and the only incumbent not affiliated with the local Ruling Class. Shewanda Daniels Williams (“SDW”), coming in only six votes behind Paula on election night, was the loser with the biggest number of votes.  The recount, requested by SDW, flipped the seat to a 7-vote loss for Paula.  So, 13 “Emergency Democrat Votes” were found to create the recount results. Interestingly, lots of numbers changed in varying degrees for all the candidates, but that’s a topic for another article. My assignment was to write about Paula’s case.

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Complaint #1 has to do with substantive and procedural due process.  The school board is a separate and autonomous political subdivision from the City of Nashua. Article 74 of the city charter says, “the City of Nashua shall continue to constitute one school district and the school under the Nashua Charter, committee of said city, shall be ‘styled’ the Board of Education.”  City Clerk Healey, a named defendant, ignored a separate statute governing school recounts, which required recount oversight by the school board rather than the Board of Aldermen.  Also, a checklist was not provided to the plaintiff.  School Clerk Lamphier, another named defendant, was not present for the recount as required of her.

Complaint #2 has to do with ballot storage and chain of custody.  I will pause again here for a moment to share a video of Attorney Bolton, corporation counsel, lashing out at the plaintiff.

 

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The video is almost 6 minutes long, but the last 2 minutes are of most interest. Paula is seen asserting herself to her right to inspect things and Attorney Bolton has a meltdown.  Let’s just say that there were similar procedural shenanigans to what Mr Bean(of the seacoast, not the UK) complained to SoS Scanlan about during Lou Gargiulo’s senate recount last year.(boxes taped differently and labeled differently)

Complaint #3 has to do with the Equal Protection Clause.  City elections are supposed to be nonpartisan, and the plaintiff and her supporters were denied the opportunity for adequate cross-checking and observation during the recount process. There were numerous violations of this. They included but were not limited to, assigning the counting and recording to members of the Ruling Class and their minions.

I cited several examples of this in a long email to Senator Gray, the Election Law Committee chair, requesting a bill that moves city recounts to the archives.*  Sadly, he seemed significantly less interested in submitting a late senate bill to clean up election operations than the House Criminal Justice Committee chair was when it came to gun background checks exploiting two recent tragedies. Disappointing. However, being the engineer that he is, he did inquire about the data regarding the change in numbers for each candidate and wanted to see the ward-specific numbers, which seemingly nobody has been able to get their hands on!

Complaint #4 has to do with the handling of absentee ballots. Remember my reference to the Daniel Richard case in the beginning?  This complaint has his oral argument talking points of adjudication, verification, and processing of absentee ballots. Anyone seeking further details can refer to his case.

There’s plenty of opportunity for semi-related sidebar articles, follow-up articles, and other editorials.  Paula’s court date was to be Monday, December 18, the same day as Laurie Ortolano’s case against the City. When Paula received that date over two weeks ago, Laurie’s had already been on the calendar for quite some time. Furthermore, Judge Temple has allotted Laurie 3 days for her case. One does not need a law degree to have noticed the dates overlap immediately, but Attorney Bolton waited until just a few days ago to file a Motion to Continue. That’s a request to reschedule in non-legalspeak. Naturally, Judge Temple granted Attorney Bolton’s request, as he usually does, and a new date has not yet been chosen. Stay tuned, especially because swearing-in day is coming up soon, and Paula’s plan included a “motion to expedite” as the matter is time-sensitive.

And if you have already booked a vacation day or scheduled a sitter or whatever personal arrangement to make yourself available to attend, all is not lost. Laurie Ortolano could use some support by way of filling the bleachers. A summary of her case can be found here.

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Last week, one of the Legislative Service Requests (LSR) I sponsored received an actual House Bill number 1248, and boy, did it cause a squabble. Yes, it is a save-the-baby bill that limits abortions to 15 days. Dave Testerman is the sponsor and the cosponsors are myself and Senator Gendreau.

The Democrats took no time attacking how “the MAGA majority (it sucks if you’re not a Trump supporter because the democrats just lumped you all into the Trump majority) is going to new extremes in their radical agenda to take away reproductive freedoms” (this, of course, is a lie, no one is taking away anyone’s reproductive freedoms, no one is stopping you from having sex and reproducing).

Here’s an excerpt from Wikipedia “The female reproductive system has two functions: The first is to produce egg cells, and the second is to protect and nourish the offspring until birth.” Do you see the natural laws we live under? The reproductive system is there to protect and nourish the offspring until birth. Just like gravity, if we jump, we fall. Just because we have the know-how to kill our offspring does not mean that should be the norm.

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This bill had President Biden and many news outlets talking about it. I have to say, when you get the president, news outlets, and the democratic party’s attention, you know they are running scared and sending a message to all their minions.

What did we hear from the NHGOP, the national GOP, or presidential candidates running for office???? Crickets, not a peep. They all lost their chance to show how extreme that most Democrats want unlimited abortions.

Here’s the real issue: morals. Do we have any morals left in NH? Do we know right from wrong anymore? Do we cherish life over death? Why kill an innocent baby who has done nothing wrong? The man and woman made a choice to reproduce, and that is on them, not the baby. The people don’t want women getting abortions at six months, six months!

Let’s fight the lies and deception that have been sold to us over the years. Abortion is killing an innocent human life; a baby’s life starts at conception; we can’t arbitrarily make up when life starts. There is no excuse; we scientifically know when life starts. The sex, color of the hair, eye, and skin, how tall or short, and other characteristics of the baby have been determined at conception. It is beyond shameful we need an anti-abortion bill to stop killing innocent lives.

 

Representative John Sellers

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I wish I had more sympathy for liberals shocked by the apologias and celebrations of barbarity their progressive brethren have issued in response to Hamas’ slaughter of Israeli civilians on Oct. 7.

But liberals share great responsibility for the antisemitic eruptions on many college campuses and the streets of major cities by allowing left-wing ideologues to hijack their politics and their children – for turning conservatives into Cassandras by refusing to heed our warnings about the ongoing assault on truth and justice.

These same wounded souls offered no resistance as the Democratic Party tripled down on identity politics in recent years, assigning Americans to specific groups and then pitting them against one another. They stood by as the left falsely trashed America as a hotbed of hatred, white supremacy, and Christian nationalism. Now, Jews are also somehow the bad guys.

Liberals continue to subscribe to fearmongering publications such as the Washington Post, the Atlantic, and the New York Times, which routinely compare Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler and warn that he plans to rule as a dictator if he wins in 2024.

They have supported Democratic prosecutors who have weaponized the criminal justice system by filing 91 felony charges against the former president, most of which are flimsy, some of them absurd.

They cheered the Department of Justice’s years-long fishing expedition based on Hillary Clinton’s slander that Trump stole the 2016 victory by colluding with Vladimir Putin. Once that hoax was exposed, they were happy to see Trump become the third president in history to be impeached merely for asking Ukraine’s president to look into the Biden family’s shady dealings in that country.

They supported numerous other efforts to remove Trump from office, including two impeachments, on bogus claims of corruption – Saudis are staying in his hotels! – while willfully ignoring Joe Biden’s own longstanding involvement in his family’s lucrative influence-peddling schemes with corrupt and hostile nations.

They defined Trump’s hyperbole as an existential threat to democracy while dismissing President Biden’s incessant falsehoods, starting with the claim that may have secured his election: “I never talk with my son or my brother or anyone else in the distant family about their business interests, period.”

They have shrugged their shoulders at evidence that the government has been working with Twitter (now X), Facebook, and other big tech players to censor speech it doesn’t like. Many have joined the effort to demonize Elon Musk for the sin of supporting free speech on X.

The same folks shocked at the rise of antisemitic rhetoric and behavior stood by when conservative speakers were bullied on campus and cancel culture became a favorite tool of the left to punish dissent. They supported divisive efforts to spin smears into facts by refusing to push back on phony claims about book-banning or prohibiting the use of the word gay, by demonizing parents concerned about what their children are taught, and by attributing all disparities between blacks and whites to racism.

Now, they are shocked by the venomous responses to Israel’s actions.

It is easy to understand why liberals made this deal with the devil. As they became consumed by their fear of Trump and the tens of millions of Americans who support him, the left’s no-holds-barred tactics seemed to offer liberals a more effective way to crush their enemy than their traditional commitment to open dialogue and tolerance, democracy, and the rule of law.

Liberals were willing to suspend their values in the vain belief that they could control the forces they empowered. Like their naïve predecessors in Revolutionary Russia and 1930s Germany, American liberals are only beginning to realize their tragic mistake. In just the last few years, the left has largely captured the most powerful forces of American politics and culture once dominated by liberals, including academia, corporate media, and the government’s permanent bureaucracy. They now control the narrative and the tools to punish those who challenge their dogma. Resistance can seem like an effort to push back the tide. It’s one reason liberals just keep their heads down and their mouths shut.

By revealing the inhumanity at the core of leftist ideology – which always and everywhere sees people as eggs that must be broken to make their pipe dream omelets – Oct. 7 has shown liberals in clear and horrifying terms the price of their dangerous alliance.

I fear that this recognition has come too late for them and for America.

 

J Peder Zane | RealClear Wire

 

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“They keep on dragging me back in…” Last week, I reported here (“Night Cap: DCYF Court Case Got “Judge Canceled””) that “the Judge” canceled DCYF:

Yes, I am still in “semi-retirement” and not writing much, having to take care of TMEW, the Grandson, and the Granddaughter’s needs in a variety of very time-consuming ways. However, I am quite happy to report that one of “Life’s familial responsibilities” has just come to a good end:

Case DISMISSED – So Ordered

And my thought then was, “That was that.” But as we have seen more and more, when the Government gets snotty and has the Power to make you miserable, EVEN WHEN YOU’VE BEEN PROVEN RIGHT (or, in this case, innocent) and has a “hair across,” it will strive to multiply that miserableness.

DCYF is going to take a THIRD bite at the apple.

I got the call from my son stating that after DCYF’s case against him for abuse was thrown, and the “lesser” charge of Neglect was dismissed, DCYF is going to “join him” into the Daughter-in-law’s case that was already decided, shoving him into that case AFTER the Judge’s decision to apply the same penalties because “He is still considered a household member.”

Translation: “The judicial system found you innocent twice, but WE will have our revenge.” Rules? Who needs any stinkin’ rules?  The message, IMHO, is, “We expect parents to simply bend over and lay down, and if you don’t…” HOW MANY OTHER TIMES HAS DCYF USED THIS TACTIC??

Why not – how many Parents have the resources to fight them knowing that, worst case, their kids will be adopted out and they’ll never see them again?  How many Parents are willing to risk that outcome?  And as far as the child is concerned, DCYF is always talking about the wrongness of induced Trauma…how’s that gonna work in that worst case?

The DCYF case manager sent along their “Social Study” form, declaring that he now has to fill it out.

Again…Double Jeopardy?  Or Triple…

As one would guess, I was a bit miffed at the reaction of the Government being kicked to the curb and then deciding to kick the reason why they got kicked (er, the Eldest).  So, do you think I remained stoic, silently standing on the sidelines, gazing off and contemplating now-snow-capped Mt. Washington, believing, “well, that’s the system we have brought upon ourselves?”

I know, trick question (smirk!). Here’s what I returned after I saw the actual email thread:

—— Original Message ——
From “Skip” <Skip@granitegrok.com>
To <redacted as I know the case manager was TOLD to do this – the responsible people are further up the food chain>
Cc The Eldest
Date 12/8/2023 8:43:02 AM
Subject Re: Fwd: Social Study for <the Eldest>

Oh, so now we’re going to do the “tell the prisoner to put the noose on by himself and then pull the lever bit“?

My next RTK series will just about write itself.

-Skip

And so I got to work – first salvo:

—— Original Message ——
From “Skip” <Skip@granitegrok.com>
To “Cooney-Bilodeau, Stacey” <stacey.a.cooneybilodeau@dhhs.nh.gov>; “Donovan, Maygan” <Maygan.C.Donovan@dhhs.nh.gov>
Cc “Daniel Murphy” <necrone1985@gmail.com>
Date 12/8/2023 10:01:15 AM
Subject Re[2]: Fwd: Social Study for Dan

DCYF attempted to prosecute Dan on Abuse charges.  That was dropped
DCYF then attempted to join Dan to Sarah’s case – that was thrown out
DCYF failed to prove its latest case, that of Neglect, due to the insufficiency of the evidence.
DCYF wants to replay #2?
NH Constitution, Part 1 Article 16:

[Art.] 16. [Former Jeopardy; Jury Trial in Capital Cases.] No subject shall be liable to be tried, after an acquittal, for the same crime or offense…

Read that again, just to be clear.

Please also find attached my next RSA 91:A demand aimed at DCYF. It should be rather easy to fulfill.

I was going to strictly focus on SAU7 for a while as I started off with some easy ones for Jennifer Noyes (SpecEd Director) yesterday.  Now my gaze will turn back towards the Division ahead of schedule instead.

To be continued…

-Skip

Heh!

Sidenote: Jennifer Noyes is the Special Ed director of the Colebrook School District. I’ll be blunt – I believe, like in other rumors of Districts dropping dimes on “too-interested-and-uppity” parents to DCYF, that’s what’s happened here.  I’ll be writing about those Right To Knows later.

Here’s the Right To Know I sent to DCYF in its entirety:

December 8, 2023

Right to Know Request per RSA-91A: Double Jeopardy

To repeat the responsibilities of NH Government workers and Citizens:

[Art.] 8. [Accountability of Magistrates and Officers; Public’s Right to Know.] All power residing originally in, and being derived from, the people, all the magistrates and officers of government are their substitutes and agents, and at all times accountable to them. Government, therefore, should be open, accessible, accountable and responsive…The public also has a right to an orderly, lawful, and accountable government…

and a further proviso to protect the Rights and Liberties of innocents from an overbearing and overreaching Government that seeks retribution against a single citizen:

[Art.] 16. [Former Jeopardy…] No subject shall be liable to be tried, after an acquittal, for the same crime or offense…

Demand:

Pursuant to the Right to Know Law (RSA. 91-A), I am demanding access, within 5 business days, to the following Governmental Records for the Division of:

• The name and title of the Division of Children, Youth and Family Services (“DCYF”) employee(s) either making or assisting in this second decision to join the Eldest to the Daughter-in-law’s Neglect case after:
  • Judge <redacted> DISMISSED the FIRST “Join” petition by DCYF
  • Judge <redacted> ordered that the Neglect case brought by DCYF against Daniel was to be DISMISSED.
• Provide any and all communications related to this decision regardless of the mode of communications (e.g., email, voice mails, notes, phone texts but not to exclude other modes)
• Names of the communicants
• Titles of the communicants
• Date(s) of the communications

Note: If any such communications would fall into realm of RSA 91-A 5, XII exemptions (“Records protected under the attorney-client privilege or the attorney work product doctrine ), redact such privileged text but still provide (re: my precedent setting Right To Know that ended up with DHHS Deputy Legal Counsel John B. Martin):

And to hammer the point home in this Dillon’s Rule State in which subdivisions of the State MUST be explicitly delegated the Power to do ANYTHING by an Act of the State Legislature:

• State any RSA(s) that allows DCYF to override the Article 16’s Constitutional authority to bring a second action against Daniel after the failure of DCYF’s first “Join” petition.
• State any DCYF regulation that overrides any such RSA(s) or Article 16’s “safe harbor” protections against employing a mere subdivision of the State attempted preemption “double jeopardy” protections.

To that latter point – I want to see if DCYF has decided to give itself such Powers just School Boards, vis Policies on Transgenders, give themselves the ability to subvert the First Amendment and Article 22 (both dealing with Free Speech) to ignore the Right to be Free from Double Jeopardy.

If this cannot be fulfilled within that 5 business day mandated window per RSA 91-A:2, II, please advise when the Responsive Record(s) will be made available.

Per RSA 91-A:4 IV(c) If you deny any portion of this request, please cite the specific exemption (see RSA 91-A:5 – the ONLY enumerated exemptions allowed by RSA 91-A) used to justify the denial to make each record, or part thereof, available for inspection along with a brief explanation of how the exemption applies to the information withheld.

Additional: It is not up to the Requester to be made to look up the subjects or materials that are the focus of this Right To Know (e.g., from the Respondent: “here’s the URL so do the search yourself”). It is the responsibility of the Respondent to fully supply all demanded materials.

As you are aware, in 2016, the New Hampshire Supreme Court ruled that a governmental body in possession of Responsive Records is required to produce them in electronic media using standard common file formats: Green v. SAU #55, 168 N.H. 796, 801 (2016). Unless there is some reason that it is not reasonably practical to produce such, explain why it is not practical to comply.

Please also note, per RSA 91-A:4 III, III-a, and III-b, you are required to maintain the safety and accessibility of such Responsive Records. This also includes such responsive records (e.g., emails, query files, policies) which may have been deleted from respective local hardcopy or software systems but are still available on the applicable servers or in application or archival system(s) either in-house or hosted.

Please let me know when these records are available for inspection or you may email the records to me at Skip@GraniteGrok.com. If the volume is turns out to be substantial, I’ll be happy to supply a shared DropBox folder sufficient to hold all of the Responsive Records.

Thank you for your lawful attention to this matter.

Sincerely,

Skip Murphy
GraniteGrok.com

As I am writing this on Tuesday, the five business day limit has not yet been reached, nor upon this being published.

To be continued…

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We have readers in Norway, but none appear to be the “experts” making public transportation decisions in Oslo. The City spent €100 million on 183 Electric Buses that work great in the summer but not so much in the winter.

As we’ve reported on more than one occasion, electric vehicles lose reliability and range and might fail to work in the cold, and if the rumors can be believed, it gets cold in Norway for ‘several’ months out of the year. A fact the “experts” in Norway have just realized makes their new fleet of EV buses moderately to less than useless.

 

Oslo wants to make local public transport completely emission-free. This is why 183 new electric articulated buses were delivered in April 2023. The 100 million euro contract for this was signed last year. The buses are to run on Oslo’s busiest routes.

The new buses from Solaris were highly praised in advance and everything went well during the summer. But now, with the onset of winter, the weaknesses of the electric vehicles are becoming apparent: although a range of 250 kilometers is actually advertised, the buses sometimes simply break down.

 

If Mussolini were alive today, he would not have been able to make the EV buses run on time.

For the record, Norway was a recent source of research indicating that “the effect of man-made CO2 emissions does not appear to be sufficiently strong to cause systematic changes in the pattern of the temperature fluctuations.”

The experts in Oslo didn’t read that either if I had to guess, but there are at least a few sources online that have reported issues and risks related to EVs and winter weather. It should not have been difficult for someone with two brain cells to rub together to work it out. Cold weather, extreme cold, in particular, has a long known impact on current. Not new. Not recent. It’s old news. A problem that the imaginary benefits to the planet of adding thousands of pounds of battery weight to any vehicle cannot overcome. Pray all you want. The climate Cult gods cannot solve the problem.

You need politicians who are not climate activists – if you can find them. Just don’t take the bus when you go looking.

 

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As Americans wrangle over open southern borders swamped with “undocumented” visitors, another border incursion has quietly involved feral pigs. The problem of this destructive invasive species has long been witnessed in the American South, but the feral swine pressure is mounting at the northern border as Canadian “super-pigs” threaten US public health and agriculture.

In the daily barrage of bizarre realities for Americans, cross-bred wild boars disrespecting borders like fentanyl-dealing gangs is yet another surreal headline. But the threat is profound and growing exponentially. Feral pigs are an ecological train wreck – and the most prolific invasive species in North America.

The Scourge of the Razorback

I have raised and bred dozens of pigs in wintry Vermont. Pigs are incredibly intelligent: They defecate in one corner, can tell if an electric fence is charged, and are cleverer than most dogs. They are also thick-skinned and rugged, breeding two times annually with large litters that routinely exceed 10 or 12 piglets.

In wild hogs, these survival attributes have been crossed with heightened durability and aggressiveness. Feral “super-pigs” have smaller litters than domesticated swine, but can train their young to avoid hunters, forage where they have no natural predators, and travel in groups for security. Their long, sloping snout, shoulder structure, and tusks attract the Americanized moniker “Razorback.” They can reach five feet in length, grow to 400 pounds, and run 30 miles per hour.

Exterminating Pig Vermin

Some states classify feral pigs as vermin. In order to simply maintain the current numbers of feral US swine, 65% of them must be slain each year. Existing super-pig populations destroy an estimated $2.5 billion in crops annually. Efforts to hunt them include paid helicopter shooting, trapping, and baiting with poison – but still they expand in numbers and territory. The threat on the northern border creates a pincer attack on American agriculture.

Christopher Columbus and Juan Ponce de Leon are believed to have released pigs into the New World. With no natural predators and plentiful food, the animals have thrived. Powerful snouts furrow the ground for roots, grubs, and acorns, but recently planted corn seed is a culinary delight, as are birds (including grouse, turkeys, and woodcock) and their nests, reptiles, and small mammals such as whitetail deer fawns. Feral pigs have even attacked and killed humans.

The greatest threat from these animals, however, is not from digging in the dirt but from the potential to spread disease. Feral pigs can carry trichinosis and brucellosis, pseudorabies, leptospirosis, sarcocystis, and African swine fever (extinct in America since 1978). These can impact human as well as animal (and household pet) health. Feral swine can potentially transmit as many as 30 pathogens and 37 parasites. If these diseases infect US or Canadian swine operations, the impacts would be economically and ecologically devastating.

Invasive Pigs Spread

Feral pigs have steadily expanded their North American turf for decades, increasing by one estimate from 550 US counties in 1982 to 1,496 in 2023. Citizens in states where the pigs have not established themselves may perceive they are unaffected, but if feral pigs taint pork supplies in (for instance) North Carolina, Missouri, or Iowa, the price and availability of bacon and hams would be quickly jeopardized. Water supplies are also being tainted for animals and humans alike.

Efforts to staunch the swineherd hoof-hold in North America have included hunting for meat, assisted by dogs. Ironically, progressive animal rights initiatives in many states oppose hunting, trapping, and the use of dogs. As bears, coyotes, and other populations consequently expand, so too could feral pigs lacking these countermeasures.

Feral super-pigs have heightened senses of smell. They are aggressive, smart, and fast, requiring “scent dogs” (including coonhounds) to track them down and then “catch dogs” (such as American pit bull terriers and American bulldogs) to release and effectively hold down or corner a pig until the hunters can arrive to finish the job. This will pit animal rights idealists against the practical challenges presented by this super-survival species of Sus scrofa.

Winter-Rugged Swine

Canada’s super-swine are particularly resilient, adapted to bitterly cold temperatures and housing themselves in snow caves dubbed “pigloos.” Border states Minnesota, North Dakota, and Montana have implemented aggressive policies to keep these snouted miscreants in the Great White North, but there will be no border wall. Vermont has experienced periodic incursions by these crafty critters – they swim across the Connecticut River from neighboring New Hampshire! (They disrespect a state border as easily as national.)

Some farmers have resorted to excavating deep, steep-walled trenches around fields and crops to deter the crafty swine invaders. (This system might also thwart humans at the southern border.) But trenching creates dangers for humans who may fall prey in the pigs’ stead. Effective responses may entail unpleasant trade-offs: Feral pigs have demonstrated a willingness to attack humans as well as pets, so some risks (such as Kaput Feral Hog Lure, laced with rodenticide warfarin) may eventually be necessary.

Watchfulness at the Border

For now, America eyes its northern border for a Canadian super-pig invasion while watching its southern boundaries being overrun with opioids and starving masses. Unfortunately, there are only so many resources to go around for both.

 

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

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I just read (in Reason) that about half of Florida students are participating in some kind of school choice program. So I thought: Wow, things must be looking up in Florida, right? Academic achievement must be soaring because of all that freebie market competition.

I thought I’d go check out the NAEP site. For those of you who don’t know, the National Assessment of Educational Progress is the longitudinal test created by the education establishment to let us know how they’re doing at the job of educating kids.

(So far, what it’s told us is that since 1970, we’ve more than tripled spending — adjusted for inflation — while seeing no measurable increases in student achievement.  That’s how they’re doing.)

It turns out that in Florida, the situation after school choice is pretty much the same as the situation before school choice:  less than half of students are proficient in math and reading.  (The actual percentage has been virtually unchanged for the last 15 years.)

The thing is, this is exactly what we should have expected to see in Florida.  And it’s what we should expect to see in New Hampshire, as we start pouring money into Education Freedom Accounts.

So 15 years from now, when EFAs are being funded at $20,000 per student, and we still have fewer than half our kids reaching proficiency in reading and math, no one should be surprised.

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He owns 300 acres in the Berkshires, where he set up a commune. His “people” are engaged in protests and vandalism against Jews. He was behind the incident at Elbit Systems in Merrimack (my hometown). Heir to a fortune, he now lives in New Hampshire’s upper valley. He even has a NH Moose plate that reads ‘CCCP.’

His name is Fergie Chambers, and he and his money are on a mission. “[T] to tear down the mechanisms—capitalism, imperialism, liberalism, the rule of law, America.” And?

 

“Make Zionists afraid,” Fergie wrote in a post on his Instagram on November 15. In another he wrote: “We need to start making people who support Israel actually afraid to go out in public. We need to make all of white America afraid that everything they have stolen is going to be burned to the ground. That’s what makes them listen.”

 

Yes, Ferige is rich and white. The product of generations of support for Democrats while accumulating what most Marxists would consider obscene amounts of wealth. It’s OK. Fergie is good if you hate him for being rich. He’s more concerned with using his resources to advance the revolution.

 

Fergie Chambers, an avowed communist since the age of 13, wants everyone to hold it against him forever that he is heir to an enormous fortune. And he’s willing to go to enormous lengths to tear down the mechanisms—capitalism, imperialism, liberalism, the rule of law, America—that delivered it into his lap.

That struggle has taken him from the charming cobblestone streets of his Brooklyn childhood to the mountains of upstate New York to the lake country region of Georgia to the Donbas region of Ukraine and now, back to the woods of the American Northeast, where locals say that his radical political organizing has taken a menacing turn, especially when it comes to the Jewish state on which he’s uniquely fixated.

Where does all the money come from?

 

Until very recently, by dint of his birth, Fergie owned a percentage of Cox Enterprises, a planet-spanning megacorporation, and the third largest private cable provider in the U.S. Over 50,000 people work there. The fact the Coxes still own the company outright makes them the eighth richest family in America, with a net worth around $34 billion.

It’s like if the Murdochs had double the money. But instead of Australia, they’re from America, and instead of conservative, they’re all—except for Fergie and a lone Republican aunt that no one talks to—establishment Democrats.

 

A devoted communist who cashed out of his corporate Family to get involved in direct action.

 

In addition to Fergie and Anne, Stella Schnabel, 39—daughter of the painter Julian, sister of the art dealer Vito—Fergie’s on-off partner, lives here, along with the pair’s two-year-old son, Viktor Gonzo Cox Schnabel Chambers. They’re all still getting their bearings in New Hampshire. They only moved here from Alford this past January for its lax gun laws and low tax burden, after Fergie decided to cash out.

“I don’t want to pay taxes to Uncle Sam,” Fergie tells me. “Objectively, somebody like me should pay almost all of their money in taxes, but if I can legally evade giving that to the U.S. war machine, I will.”

The Free Press article is long and interesting. Fergie Chambers is, if nothing, honest about his motivations and goals, his family, and the long history of Democrat politics that led him ideologically and fiscally to where he is today.

 

James Middleton Cox, the original patriarch, was the Democratic nominee for president in 1920—FDR was his running mate—and two-time governor of Ohio. Fergie’s grandmother, Anne, the only Cox Fergie seems to have anything nice to say about—“She was a bad mother and an absent WASP, but she was not cold as a grandmother”—was the ambassador to Belgium under President Carter. She had a cardboard cutout of Obama in her living room, and she took her private plane to canvass for him in 2008.  …

<Fergie’s father, the eldest boy, is a progressive for his time and a black sheep in his own right. He was a dance major at Bard, and believes deeply, I am told, in the power of chiropractic medicine. He is also a vegetarian and a biodynamic farmer (his farm, Honey Dog, is 15 minutes down the road from Fergie’s Massachusetts outpost) and he is obsessed with bees. He’s married to Nabila Khashoggi, daughter of Adnan, the infamous arms dealer and once the richest man in the world. They have one son: Ulysses Layth Adnan Cox Khashoggi Chambers.

When asked …if he supported Hamas, Fergie answered in the affirmative: “Yes,” and added, “Hamas is an indigenous anti-colonial resistance group.”

 

And Fergie likes to mentor local college kids. Kids who also support names like Bernie Sanders and Liz Warren. What could go wrong? Oh, wait. We know. The whole campus protests domestic terrorism schtick.

More at The Free Press.

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