Saturday • January 11 • 2025
Vol.XVII • No.II
Manchester, N.H.
Many Americans who are receptive to the possibility that human activities are warming the globe may invoke the motto of the Show Me State when asking alarmists to share what is never shown – evidence.
Greta Thunberg (self-appointed Lorax of the carbon molecule), AOC (grand inquisitor of cow burps), and John Kerry (Joe Biden-appointed climate envoy and nouveau regulator of American farms) are not scientists but politicians who employ histrionics in lieu of data. The recent eruption of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai (HTHH), a volcano in the South Pacific, exposes the endless stream of lies from these and other climate charlatans.
Underwater Volcanoes = Vaporized Ocean Hunga Tonga exploded deep on the ocean floor in 2022, a once-in-a-lifetime massive geological event that spewed incomprehensible volumes of water high into the Earth’s atmosphere. Never have satellites observed such; never have layers of the atmosphere been studied for chemical and other impacts caused by the volume of atmospheric water and aerosols. Climate scientists warn that this volcano will warm the planet and disrupt rainfall patterns. Amid record temperatures and flooding in 2023, climate politicos howl about human-caused calamity while avoiding the impacts of Hunga Tonga.This volcano is such an elephant-in-the-climate-change room that NASA seeks to ignore inconvenient truths. Of course, science instructs that volcanic sulfur, water, carbon dioxide, and organic matter can all impact climate dramatically (even unto the extinction of dinosaurs). A political ideology blindly focused on greenhouse gases has no time to set aside dogmatic blinders for critical scientific assessment. That assessment is extremely revealing.
The impacts of HTHH were so substantial that scientists were required to develop a new technique simply to measure its height. It caused “puzzling ripples” through the atmosphere that have never before been observed, “leaving experts stumped,” according to Nature. The volcano’s water plume increased stratospheric water mass by 13% and stratospheric aerosol loads five-fold.
According to Space: “[T]he Hunga Tonga cloud burst not only through the troposphere but also ascended through the entire stratosphere, only plateauing at the altitude of 35 miles (57 km), way into the freezing and dry layer known as the mesosphere. This makes the Hunga Tonga volcanic cloud the highest ever observed.”
Volcanoes, Climate Science, and NASA Volcano and weather scientists are unsure how this blast will impact the planet, but climate ideologues have looked right past it, like snarling dogs after a rabbit. However, numerous scientific journals have hinted at Hunga Toga’s potential to warm the Earth’s surface:These are scientific publications, yet these sensible inquiries are shunted aside in favor of the end-of-the-world cult narrative. People might be happy to know that current climate disruptions may be temporary and volcano-caused. Yet NASA is completely mum about even the possibility. These people are volcano deniers!
Yet NASA reported last year that Hunga Tonga could cause global warming based on assessments that underestimated its size. Luis Millán, an atmospheric scientist at Jet Propulsion Laboratory, speculated that “the water vapor could start having a warming effect on the planet’s surface temperature once the accompanying cooling particles dissipate in about three years … It’s not going to exacerbate climate change.”
Science magazine reported in September 2022: “Atmospheric water vapor absorbs solar radiation and re-emits it as heat; with tens of millions of tons of Tonga’s moisture now adrift in the stratosphere, Earth’s surface will be heating up — though it’s unclear by how much … But because the vapor is lighter than other volcanic aerosols and is less affected by gravity’s pull, it will take longer for this warming effect to dissipate, and surface warming could continue ‘over the months to come,’ the scientists said.”
Nature Climate Change noted in January 2023: “This large water vapour perturbation means that HTHH will probably increase the net radiative forcing, unusual for a large volcanic eruption, increasing the chance of the global surface temperature anomaly temporarily exceeding 1.5 °C over the coming decade.”
Heatwaves, Floods, and Climate ‘Science’Scientists who don’t know how much Hunga Tonga has impacted current conditions are trying to learn by observation; most climate alarmists register warming by human hand through their fear prism, and so turn away from this volcano like a (real, not anthropomorphic, gain-of-function) plague. NASA connects current warming to human activity with no scientific links whatsoever. The agency should stick to polluting space recklessly with techno-detritus rather than gaslighting an epic volcano. Hunga Tonga does provide a scientific connection to support a causative explanation for both current warming and flooding trends: extraordinary amounts of water in the atmosphere, like a giant terrarium, together with a five-fold amplification of stratospheric aerosol loads.
Net-zero emission “standards” are applied to cows, cars, and gas stoves but not to jet travel, ski chalets, and golf courses. Elites dictate the activities to be targeted in the nebulous name of climate change and indicate the cause for which these stoic measures are irrationally rationalized: human and no other.
Americans are told current warming and flooding are caused by working-class commuters, not a (net-zero?) war in Ukraine, (net-zero?) missions to land BIPOC people on the moon, or a never-before-seen volcanic eruption that scientists are still trying to fully fathom. Thus, climate “warriors” scuttle with ragged claws to re-bury Hunga Tonga on the ocean floor of the establishment media.
John Klar is an Attorney, farmer, and author. Mostly farmer… And Regular Contributor to GraniteGrok and VermontGrok.
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Two weeks ago, news broke that the New Hampshire Secretary of State was investigating whether Donald Trump should be removed from the NH primary Ballot next year.
The Uniparty is promoting lawsuits in states nationwide in a last-ditch effort to derail his likely nomination.
That is not a statement of preference. It is what the polling has been telling us all year. Candidate Trump has been blowing the doors off the competition since day one. His challengers are trying to stop it. The Biden administration is out to get him. Democrat Prosecutors are bringing indictments. Third parties are filing lawsuits. The non-partisan Americans for Prosperity continue to run ads and send mailers claiming Trump is the only candidate Biden could beat, and please choose someone else.
It’s quite the spectacle. Huge sums are being leveraged, and to what end? He’s more popular among primary voters than ever.
Amid that three-ring circus comes the rise of 14th Amendment challenges to Donald Trump’s eligibility. He’s not been convicted of treason, so on its face, they are shadows of penumbras of the desires of never-Trumpers and the Democrats who fear another four years of his snooping around in their swamp. I understand their compulsion, but not everyone agrees this is how things should be conducted. Something about Democracy and counting every vote, which – silly rabbit – only applies to uniparty-approved candidates and policies.
And the swamp wants what the swap wants.
Enter Wyoming Secretary of State Chuck Gray. After hearing about Dave Scanaln’s investigation, he ‘penned’ a letter to the man asking him to stop this crazy thing.
On Thursday, Gray sent a letter to New Hampshire Secretary of State David Scanlan urging him to put Trump on The Granite State’s 2024 presidential election ballot. Gray, who was endorsed by Trump in his 2022 Secretary of State campaign, urged Scanlan, a Republican, to resist partisan politics and “grievances” and to not abuse his power by removing Trump from the ballot. ..
Gray told Cowboy State Daily he met with Scanlan earlier this year and remains concerned he is considering removing Trump from the ballot.
“It is crucial to communicate concerns with states like New Hampshire, as removal of a candidate from early primary elections will not only affect those states, but will have far-reaching ramifications in other states with later primaries, like Wyoming, and in turn the entire election process,” he said.
Any individual opinion about applying the 14th Amendment to the circumstances surrounding President Trump, real or contrived, appears to center on feelings. If you hate the guy or have been convinced he needs his train derailed for the good of the country, you are likely inclined to go with whatever makes that happen. Supporters will be predisposed to think the opposite.
I’m willing to give it all a fair shake but with an understanding much like that in SoS Gray’s closing paragraph to SoS Scanlan.
“We cannot allow authoritarian election officials to use outrageous legal theories to remove their political opponents from the ballot,” he wrote. “To so is not only un-American, it is also shocking to the conscience and utterly sickening.”
Until the man has been convicted of treason, he is innocent. Clause 3 of the 14th Amendment does not apply to feelings or preferences. Until the court case(s) have worked through the entire legal process, including appeals, if Mr. Teump met the requirement for a state to be allowed on the ballot, he should remain there. Efforts to alter laws at any level to remove him will have wide-ranging implications for Democracy and elections. On that point, I am reminded of my written testimony to the NH House Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee regarding HB 1159.
I am deeply honored to be the target of Democrat Sponsored speech suppressing legislation. The effort confirms what I have long claimed. A point that Noah Rothman just made in Commentary Magazine. Free Speech is a threat to the authoritarian tick.
That’s an amalgam of his thesis. He’s referring to a politician’s urge ” to criminalize the forms of expression [they] find distasteful.” What he calls “an old idea…that your freedom of expression is a threat to the public good.”
But HB1159 is more than that. It is a political test for speech defined by partisan lawmakers.
They decide when an interaction with a constituent is offensive to them and when they have had enough. This could be the third interaction or the tenth, the first, or never. The decision to claim you are being bullied stalked, or harassed (and when) is not only entirely subjective and decided by the lawmaker, the potential object of HB1159’s force has no way to know what or when they will have broken the law.
Perhaps I can frame it another way, in terms that might elicit the opprobrium suited to this effort. If you would not want this power in the hands of President Trump, then you had damn well not, under any circumstance, give it to yourselves.
Because while you feel like it may at this time serve some purpose that is, in reality, nothing more than personal interest (not for the good of the people), imagine that same power in the hands of your political opponents when you are the citizen and they are the public official.
I would oppose it regardless of who proposed it, you should as well.
Be careful what you do with political power. Abusing it can, in all likelihood, come back to bite you in the ass.
HT | The Cowboy Daily
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Don’t quote law to men with swords … or something to that effect … attributed to Pompey. One of the leading characters in the transformation of Rome from a Republic to a dictatorship. It is happening right now in plain sight in America … the FBI is a domestic terror organization, the USDOJ a political tool of the Democrats, the Biden-Regime’s unlawful open-borders policies, etc., etc., etc.. But what do we get from the GOP’ “leaders”? PUTIN, PUTIN, PUTIN … PUTIN’s the real threat … PUTIN, PUTIN, PUTIN. Indeed, it is almost as if GOP “leaders” are complicit in the transformation of America from a Republic to a Police State:
At risk of stating what should be obvious, deliberately violating the Constitution is next-level illegal.
How soon can this person be removed from office?
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 9, 2023
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A literal power vacuum—that’s what California Senate Bill 233 proposes. And what is to be sucked? Your electric car.
The bill—which has passed the Senate and is now winding its way through the Assembly—states that all new electric vehicles to be sold in California after 2030 be “bidirectional.”
Because the state has decided to essentially go all electric without having the ability to actually provide enough electricity, the climate warriors have gotten a bit creative and now see the millions of electric vehicles (EVs) in the state as tiny batteries to make up for their incompetence.
Currently, not every EV can send power back to the grid (like home solar panels that ship excess power to their local utility.) The bill—almost certain to pass because this is California—would change that.
The bill, however, is only the first step in the process of being able to drain your EV, as the technology to get the electricity back onto the grid does not actually exist. As with so many other Golden State climate-related projects, it is based on being able to do it someday . . . probably . . . maybe.
While this approach allows solons and nabobs to tout their green-a-fides, set even more absurd future goals by assuming things will work eventually, increase state spending to fund such projects, and create an excuse to not actually do anything practical—like build natural gas generators—to shore up the state’s extremely wobbly grid, it does nothing to address California’s self-imposed “energy insecurity.”
The idea becomes even more absurd when one considers that shortly after announcing all new vehicles sold in the state by 2035 must be electric, the state asked the public to not charge their EVs after work because the grid couldn’t handle it. In theory, this bill raises the specter of electricity being drained out of your full Tesla to power your neighbor’s empty Volt.
Furthermore, the concept is extremely dangerous. Imagine an emergency situation in which you have to leave your home immediately but you cannot because the state drained your car. The implications for fire evacuations, earthquake response, etc. are terrifying.
And its not terribly clear if you would get paid for your power and/or if you would have to buy it back.
Beyond the impracticalities, the concept does shine a light, as it were, on how easily the electrical power supply can be controlled and—if the grid is your only power option (no gas cars, no gas stoves, no propane, etc.)—how easily the public can be controlled through it.
From “The Psychology of Electricity”:
Now, a person can go to a gas station, put solar panels on their roof, buy propane at the hardware store, use natural gas in their home, even cut down trees to burn for heat. In other words, there are options other than electricity; there are literally millions of ways to not need to use electricity.
But imagine a literally all-electric world—you are reduced, confined, required to get the energy you need to live from one source, one centrally (by necessity) controlled source that everything you own runs on, one centrally controlled source that can cut the power to your specific home anytime it wants.
Conceivably—see China/social credit systems/central bank digital currency/“you’ll own nothing and be happy” and smart city concepts—[the] reasons for the power being cut will move beyond just being bill-related but conduct-related.
The power of energy as a social control lever is nearly limitless.
And that’s another reason why this legislative initiative is a very bad idea.
Thomas Buckley | Mises Wire
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Sorry to put a bad taste in your mouth at breakfast time, but this was cringeworthy and in need of being shared. His Excellency, NH Governor Chris Sununu. was on ProgTV again last weekend, and he had some wisdom to impart to the GOP candidates for President.
WATCH: @GovChrisSununu (R-N.H.) applauds Chris Christie going “nuclear” on Trump but calls out the other 2024 GOP candidates.
“They have to be a little tougher on Trump. …What we saw on that debate stage last week, I think there was a little too much kowtow into him.” pic.twitter.com/v60XRBF9qM
— Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) September 3, 2023
Back when Mr. Sununu was teasing a run for the Office himself, he said this.
“You know, he’s probably going to be the next president,” Sununu said of Trump, musing about his “experience,” “passion,” “sense of integrity” and the “rationale” he brought to his tweets. As the room quieted to see where he was going with this, he paused, then yelled: “Nah, I’m just kidding! He’s FUCKING CRAZY!” The ballroom roared with laughter. “ARE YOU KIDDING?! Come on. You guys are buying that? I love it … He just stresses me out so much! … I’m going to deny I ever said it.”
It didn’t stop there: “The press often will ask me if I think Donald Trump is crazy. And I’ll say it this way: I don’t think he’s so crazy that you could put him in a mental institution. But I think if he were in one, he ain’t getting out!”
He’s not running, but his experience at not running for President has taught him wisdom. Do not call Donald Trump names. And the reasoning seems obvious. Trump gives everyone nicknames. Unflattering endearments his supporters are to embrace and repeat. Doing that would be lowering yourself to his level, and if you want to win, don’t be Donald Trump.
Is that good advice?
Trump is 30-50 points ahead in most polls of Republican primary voters. The people you need to win the Republican primary? This is not to say that insults are the foundation of electability for a GOP nominee, but given the current state of America and the way the government is waging war on its people, there are things you might need.
A backbone and a record of success in that or a similar environment. The ability to understand the political double tap. An uncompromising commitment to winning the war against our government from within. I’m not sure who that person will be but we know it’s not Chris Sununu, so I’d be cautious about taking the advice of a guy whose father is about as deep a deep-state stooge as there is and didn’t fall far from the tree.
HT | Daily Wire
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In seeking a fifth term as mayor of Nashua, Mayor Donchess cites the city’s rankings as one of the best-managed and most livable cities in America, as well as its highest-possible municipal bond rating. These are real achievements that benefit us all, and it’s right that the mayor should take a bow for his part in them.
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I’m grateful for these significant milestones, and I applaud the mayor and others who have worked for them.
Elections are about the future, and there can be no mistake that this election will impact what it means to live in Nashua for years to come. Several major issues are on the table in Tuesday’s primary – Main Street congestion, commuter rail costs, and rising residential property taxes. But no issue trumps that of the constitutional rights of citizens.
The City has recently been rebuked in two court decisions in its Right To Know (RTK) battle against a very determined citizen who seeks to review the City’s property tax assessing standards and how they are applied. New Hampshire’s RTK Law, RSA 91-A, is embedded in the state’s constitution [Bill of Rights, Article 8]. A citizen’s constitutional rights are not dependent upon their individual priorities, politics, or personalities. The right of all citizens to access public records is carved in granite and must be respected.
Some see Laurie Ortolano as a champion for taxpayers. Others see her as a boat rocker. In the end, it does not matter – her constitutional rights are the same as yours and mine. The City has spent tens of thousands of tax dollars in its effort to avoid complying with Laurie Ortolano’s lawful RTK requests. The City’s stonewalling left her little choice but to take her case to the Superior Court, where, against the odds, she fought City Hall and won.
The prudent thing for the City to have done at that point would have been to fold up its tent and turn over the records. In so doing, the City could have shown it has nothing to hide. Instead, the City – not Laurie Ortolano – chose to take the case to the state Supreme Court. Again, Laurie Ortolano prevailed over the City, its four-term mayor, and their legal team. Without even the benefit of an attorney present in court to make her case, Laurie Ortolano was fully vindicated in a 5-0 ruling. The Supreme Court even urged remedial RTK instruction for City Hall staff.
Still, the last word was yet to come. In the recent mayoral debate, the mayor offered voters the very same excuse the City had argued unsuccessfully in court – that City Hall is simply too busy with routine tasks to uphold a citizen’s constitutional rights. The Supreme Court explicitly and unanimously rejected this specious argument after hearing testimony from multiple City employees, but it’s still the mayor’s position as he seeks a fifth term. There is no credibility to the argument that complying with Laurie Ortolano’s RTK request would be too time-consuming, while the City found time to fight the matter in court twice. The City owes Laurie Ortolano an apology and the documents and records she requested months ago not more excuses.
I have spoken up when the mayor has been blamed for “allowing” cars illegally parked on private property downtown to be towed to Pepperell, a hot topic on social media. I have pointed out that the mayor has no authority over the maintenance of the Main St. railroad tracks. I’ve discussed that despite costly construction projects, the single largest driver in the recent residential property tax spike was the historic rise in residential property values compared with commercial property values, not anything the mayor did or failed to do. Due to the bond rating and quality of life rankings, I held a mostly favorable toward the current administration and was an undecided voter in the mayoral race prior to the Superior Court ruling on the RTK case.
Every municipal official in the state takes an oath to uphold the N.H. Constitution. The Supreme Court found that the current administration, led by a mayor with 16 years in office, violated a citizen’s rights. Every Nashua voter needs to ask why the City is unwilling to disclose records related to spending and taxes. For these reasons and more, I urge a vote for a highly qualified candidate, Mike Soucy, on Tuesday, Sept. 12 to restore trust in City Hall.
Mark Johnson is a 24-year New Hampshire resident, including the last nine years in Ward 4, Nashua. He previously held municipal office in Hollis, including zoning board, budget committee, highway safety, historic district, and was twice elected to the Board of Selectmen, Assessors, and Overseers of the Poor (Chair, 2006-08).
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Former president Donald Trump is facing ninety-one criminal charges as he seeks to win back the White House in 2024. The indictments are the latest battle in a roughly six-year crusade against Trump that first sought to remove him from power through the Twenty-Fifth Amendment, then with espionage charges and impeachments, and that now aims to block him from becoming president again.
The mantra we hear from those in politics and media who support these efforts is that nobody is above the law.
But there’s an entire class of people above the law. Or who at least act like they’re above the law—the political class. The hypocrisies of their effort to convict Trump and block him from holding office again reveal that the motivations are purely political—not born of some commitment to a higher moral or legal principle.
Two broad schools of thought make up Western legal philosophy. They are natural law theory and legal positivism. Natural law theory says that law exists regardless of the dictates of states. That justice is derived from nature and common to all humans. Simply put, natural law theorists argue that a crime is a crime regardless of what the state says. That makes killing another human with malice aforethought murder, for example, even when it’s done with the blessings of government officials.
Many libertarians, such as Murray Rothbard, ground their moral opposition to state power in appeals to natural law. There is no special status that someone can attain that allows them to commit crimes.
The idea that nobody, not even the president, is above the law is right in line with this view. But, taken to its logical Rothbardian conclusion, equality under the law is a denial of political authority. So, it’s bizarre to hear the political class use this slogan as a rallying cry when all their wealth, power, and status is built on political privilege. And they can’t rightfully go after Trump for how he used his political authority because that’s not unique to Trump.
The political class prefers legal positivism, which separates law from morality. According to legal positivists, law is what the sovereign political authority says it is. There may be just laws and unjust laws. But they are all valid laws in this view. Legal positivism enshrines the political class’s privileged legal status above the rest of us.
Therefore, the way to get Trump is not to show he did anything immoral or wrong but to prove he technically broke some rule made up by members of an earlier political class. That way he can be driven out of public life without threatening the regime’s authority. But the problem hasn’t been finding crimes committed by Trump but finding crimes unique to Trump. Because all recent presidents have broken the law.
President George H. W. Bush launched a war on Iraq without congressional authorization. That is illegal according to Article 1, Section 8, Clause 11 of the Constitution, the set of rules Bush swore an oath to uphold. President Bill Clinton did the same, overseeing illegal military operations in Somalia, Serbia, and Iraq.
President George W. Bush conducted warrantless surveillance on American citizens, which is illegal according to the Fourth Amendment, and committed torture, which is prohibited by Section 2340A of Title 18 of the United States Code. His administration also launched undeclared, and therefore illegal, wars in Afghanistan, Somalia, and Iraq.
President Barack Obama conducted more illegal wars in Libya, Syria, Pakistan, Mali, and Yemen. In many of those wars, Obama expanded George W. Bush’s policy of giving support to al-Qaeda, which is treason according to Article 3, Section 3 of the Constitution. Obama also ordered the assassination of an American citizen in Yemen who had not been tried or even convicted of a crime. The Sixth Amendment makes that illegal.
Combined, these illegal wars have killed millions of people. They are appalling crimes of which Trump is also guilty. His administration continued the wars in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, and Yemen despite his running on a more isolationist foreign policy. Yet he’s not being charged for any of that. The crimes he’s facing charges for are far less serious, but they are more unique to Trump.
In New York, Trump is charged with mislabeling some business expenses during the 2016 election. In Georgia, he’s charged with conspiring to overturn an election prosecutors claim he knew he’d lost. Federally, he’s charged with claiming to have won an election he allegedly knew he’d lost, which prosecutors say incited the riot at the Capitol on January 6, 2021. He’s also charged with keeping classified documents after leaving office and conducting a “scheme to conceal” them from the federal government.
By refusing to bring charges against Trump that could also be brought against the presidents they like, the political class has shown that its aims are political. If they were committed to the rules that they swore an oath to uphold, they’d have to indict many of their own. And if they genuinely believed that nobody exists above the law, they’d have to give up a whole lot more.
Connor O’Keeffe produces media and content at the Mises Institute. He has a masters in economics and a bachelors in geology.
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The actions of the District Attorney and the Grand Jury in Fulton County, Georgia, should alarm every citizen in this country. This Grand Jury convened in 2022 to investigate any criminal activity involving the 2020 Presidential election. The Jury finalized its report in December 2022.
The District Attorney did not act on the recommendations until recently when the DA indicted Former President Donald Trump and 17 staff members and associates. The Grand Jury also recommended charges against Senators Graham and Perdue. This runaway jury was motivated to recommend charges against as many people as possible. This Jury was drunk on power, and District Attorney Willis is using this Jury to indict Trump and members of his staff to influence the upcoming 2024 Presidential Election. That may seem like a rash statement or assumption, but the proof is in her actions and scheduling of trials to coincide with the scheduled Republican Convention and Primaries. These trials would take Donald Trump away from these critical events as he runs for President of the United States.
I have not served on a Grand Jury but was called to Jury Duty for a month at the Massachusetts State Supreme Court and served as a jury member on three trials. I enjoyed the experience, but it was an eye-opening event and an excellent study of human nature. You would expect to be among various personality types and political-leaning individuals, and you would not be disappointed. The disappointment came in the level of seriousness that the members had. Some took their role seriously, paid attention to the testimony, weighed the evidence, and debated their stance. Others were there strictly against their will, did not take the procedure seriously, and voted with no conviction. This would not be my choice of a jury of my peers, and I fear this is what we saw in Georgia.
Fulton County, Georgia, is a predominantly Democrat area of Georgia and voted overwhelmingly for Joe Biden. They are not just for Joe Biden, but they despise Donald Trump. With their newfound power as members of a Grand Jury, they saw and seized an opportunity to harm the Former President. The like-minded DA is using this Jury to make a name for herself on the National level. A District Attorney should be as blind as Lady Liberty, but in this case, DA Willis is far from blind. She is opportunistic in filing the indictments but will overplay her hand should she pursue charges against United States Senators. She may trade her perception of power into the reality of embarrassment in front of the Supreme Court, which will not take lightly the weaponization of the Court against a Former President and sitting Senators.
Our Judicial system is the envy of the Free World, but like much of Government, the system is broken. It does not need to be dismantled, but it does require repair, and it could start with a better relationship between the DA and Jury. The role of the DA is not to manipulate the Jury, but they do need to guide and educate the Jury on the law and their role. Unfortunately, being unbiased in today’s Justice Department at every level is nearly impossible, which makes anyone’s fate in a Jury Trial a crap shoot and not one of blind justice.
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GraniteGrok.com is organizing an event with musicians, a few high-profile speakers, and maybe even a comedian. So, it will not be a conventional “political event,” and why would it? This is GraniteGrok!
But yes, we will discuss politics, as will many of our speakers (between the music, guests, and – maybe – the comedian). It’s a pretty big deal (we think) with a lot of moving parts, and we have three requests from our readers out of the gate.
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It so happens I am in Seattle, Washington, this week helping my son settle into a new living/job situation, and one of the first things you notice when driving around this city is how absurdly expensive gasoline is.
$5.30 per gallon of regular as opposed to the national average of $3.80 – a $1.50 difference, according to AAA. What I see with my own eyes is closer to $5.50.
That’s $88 to fill a sixteen-gallon tank. It’s the highest cost for gas in the nation, vying with California for that dubious distinction. But, if our policymakers in Montpelier have their way, California and Washington will soon have another competitor in that race: Vermont.
The reason for Washington’s astronomical prices at the pump is the passage in 2021 of a “cap and trade” program (aka a Carbon Tax), forcing certain businesses that generate greenhouse gas emissions (according to the state website: “business types include (but are not limited to) fuel suppliers, natural gas and electric utilities…”) to purchase carbon allowances in order to sell their product to consumers. This is much like the one our legislature just passed for home heating fuel (S.5) and just like the one the Vermont Climate Council is urging on our little state for motor fuels such as gas and diesel.
Washington’s carbon tax went into effect in January of this year. The first quarterly auction of “carbon credits” took place on February 28, and since then, its impact on per-gallon gas and diesel prices is estimated at somewhere between 41 and 55 cents — and steadily rising. It will be interesting to see what happens to home heating fuel prices when that market gears up as cold weather sets in. Some here are already raising that alarm.
Like Vermont, Washington lawmakers passed their own version of our Global Warming Solutions Act (theirs is called the “Climate Commitment Act”), mandating greenhouse gas reduction with targets starting in 2035 and reaching “net zero” by 2050. And, like Vermont, they did so under a smokescreen of misinformation and outright lies about what the program would do. The big lie – just as we’ve been hearing here in Vermont about the Clean Heat Standard carbon tax on home heating fuels – is that the cost increases resulting would only amount to “pennies.” That’s a clever spin, I guess, as there’s no limit to the number of pennies they’re really talking about.
But that’s not the only complaint. As a story in Climate Wire summarizes, “[A]nger is rising among other groups, including some that had supported passage of the climate law, which say Democratic officials did not prepare the public for the costs.” That’s a nice way of saying the politicians deceived the public about the policy in order to pass it.
Among those aggrieved are Native American tribes who say the high prices are regressive and thus disproportionately hurting the poor. The farming and fishing communities claim that even though fuel for their industries was exempt from the law, obligated fuel dealers are adding the cost of the credits onto their bills anyway. The fuel dealers counterclaim that the onerous $10,000 per day fine for selling un-credited fuel is so onerous, coupled with the complicated nature of selling fuel to customers for whom you can’t ultimately know what they use the fuel for, means dealers can’t afford to make a mistake about who they charge and who they don’t. Vermont farmers and foresters should take note of this when similar promises are made to them by our own politicians and activists.
The impact of all this on Washington State residents’ cost of living and quality of life doesn’t look pleasant. Again in reference to that Climate Wire article, “The Department of Ecology recently drew criticism after quietly editing its webpage describing the climate law’s impacts: First, it said the program was expected to affect Washington’s gas prices by 1 to 3 percent; it was changed to say the department expects an impact of 1 to 3 percent on the entire state economy (emphasis added).”
Oops. Not an insignificant typo there! Conveniently corrected after the law passed, of course. Vermonters can expect similar oopsie “typo” corrections when our Clean Heat Standard goes into full effect. But we can learn from Washington and avoid a carbon tax on gasoline. Our legislature hasn’t done it yet. Let’s make sure they cross it off their wish list.
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What have we gotten from Republicans since the Biden-Regime seized power? Tough talk … but empty words … because NO ACTION to back up the talk … indeed, just the opposite. For example, here is Lisa Murkowski talking tough, literally hours after acting in concert with the Biden-Regime. It’s a put-on. The GOP is controlled opposition.
Murkowski 1 pm, saves Biden NLRB nom
Murkowski 6 pm, fumes about Biden Alaska energy policy: "These decisions are illegal, reckless, defy all common sense, and are the latest signs of an incoherent energy policy from President Biden"
— Burgess Everett (asapburgessev on ) (@burgessev) September 6, 2023
And here we have Kelly Ayotte talking tough on the border. But the Biden-Regime is NOT “sitting on their hands.” America’s open-borders are INTENTIONAL, not incompetence. Biden said he was going to open the border during the 2020 Democrat primary. But did “border-hawk” Kelly Ayotte support Donald Trump in 2020?
Sorry, I know it is really, really, really important to so many of you to believe that Ayotte is a conservative … that she really means what she is saying about border security. Question … do you still believe that all the GOP politicians railing against Obamacare ever intended to repeal and replace Obamacare? Even after the NHGOP wrote Obamacare into State law?
“It is clear that we have a serious problem unfolding along our northern border – and the Biden administration is sitting on their hands while dangerous criminals and drugs flow into our state.” https://t.co/PPqBaQpSXG #nhpolitics #nhgov
— Kelly Ayotte (@KellyAyotte) September 8, 2023
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I was going to do a detailed fisking of this, but I’m short on time and long on the need for content (this morning). And the truth is, while you probably come here to get our take, sometimes the thing speaks for itself, and in the case of Victor Davis Hanson, does it well.
Rather than muck it up too much beforehand, I’m going to leave this right here with you and let readers and commenters fill in the blanks.
This is excellent if you’ve not yet seen it and excellent after multiple views. It is at the very heart of how the left has undermined America since Barack Obama was elected in 2008.
The black man who destroyed decades of progress on race on purpose – and why.
Check it out.
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Many Americans are shocked by proposals to reduce police protection while opioid deaths skyrocket, borders are flung wide, and urban businesses are trashed and ransacked on national TV as political protests.
Yet increasingly, public safety servants are not investigating rape, burglary, and drug use but are enforcing social justice codes.
Police Protect PrideIn New York City, for instance, CNN recently reported that the Hate Crime Task Force is investigating “a criminal mischief pattern” of vandalism against Pride and transgender flags. This despite a 22% surge in major crimes in the city in 2022, including robbery and burglary, according to The New York Times.
Progressive dogma calls for simultaneously defunding and reprogramming police departments. A key ideological initiative is to “decarcerate,” to soften the enforcement of laws and undermine police authority. The kingpin of this jurisprudential experimentation in New York City is Alvin Bragg. According to Daily Signal writer Jarrett Stepman, “One of the crimes his office won’t prosecute is armed robberies of businesses. Suspects in those cases who make off with less than $1,000 in stolen goods will now be charged with the lesser crime of petty larceny, a misdemeanor. Among the other crimes his office will no longer prosecute are resisting arrest, fare beating, prostitution, and trespassing.”
The Pride flag destruction in NYC is part of a national spate of such incidents during Pride Month, even as San Francisco and other major cities succumb to a scourge of drugs, gang activities, and related crime. A recent burnout by a car on a Pride-flag crosswalk in Kirkland, WA, garnered national attention, as the once speech-tolerant left called for criminal sanctions for “hate speech.” USA Today reported on June 8:
“In the past week alone, Pride flags have been stolen, slashed or burned in at least five states, including California, Utah, Arizona, Nebraska and Pennsylvania. That’s on top of similar incidents in California and New York in May, including a man that defecated on a pride flag in Manhattan.”
Those defacing Pride and BLM insignia are expressing their political discontent with the government-imposed domination of the ideologies those symbols represent. This is free expression, clearly protected from government criminalization by constitutional law (unlike burglary, armed robbery, and business burning).
Ironically, when it comes to torching flags in political protest, the American flag has featured prominently as a controversial symbol. The Nazi flag is legally protected political speech, unquestionably hateful though it be. But the same liberties that permit the display of a Confederate or Nazi flag also permit the burning of Old Glory. Government is restricted in the United States from regulating citizens’ religious and political expression, and this includes extending special favor to the national flag.
As Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy observed in his concurrence in Texas v. Johnson: “I agree that the flag holds a lonely place of honor in an age when absolutes are distrusted and simple truths are burdened by unneeded apologetics. Though symbols often are what we ourselves make of them, the flag is constant in expressing beliefs Americans share, beliefs in law and peace, and that freedom which sustains the human spirit. The case here today forces recognition of the costs to which those beliefs commit us. It is poignant but fundamental that the flag protects those who hold it in contempt.”
Penalizing those who disagree with the symbols of rainbow-gay pride, trans-rights, LGBTQ2+, or skin-color-focused sloganeering displays intolerance. It is “poignant but fundamental” that these flags do not protect those who dare whisper discontent.
This was similarly expressed by the Supreme Court in United States v. Eichman: “Punishing desecration of the flag dilutes the very freedom that makes this emblem so revered, and worth revering.” Just so, punishing desecration of Pride and BLM flags dilutes the very freedoms symbolized by the American flag.
The government is bound by First Amendment shields from regulating expression, yet that is exactly what government protection of social justice symbols constitutes. In a recent case of Pride flag desecration in New Jersey, Harrison Township Mayor Lou Manzo exhibited the dangers of government censorship. In a Courier Post report: “’This incident also serves as a reminder that hateful minds still exist and simply ignoring it actually enables this behavior,’ [Manzo] continued … Township police have started a ‘full investigation,’ which includes contacting the Gloucester County Prosecutor’s Office and filing a bias incident form, the mayor said in a statement.”
A bias incident form is not likely to be seen for publicly burning an American flag. Burglars are not pursued or imprisoned, but stolen gay flags merit “full investigation.” The government now regulates “hateful minds.”
Social Justice or Real Justice?In words that apply to Pride flags (even when burned hatefully), the 1989 Johnson decision warned: “If we were to hold that a State may forbid flag burning wherever it is likely to endanger the flag’s symbolic role … [w]e would be permitting a State to ‘prescribe what shall be orthodox’ by saying that one may burn the flag to convey one’s attitude toward it and its referents only if one does not endanger the flag’s representation of nationhood and national unity. To conclude that the government may permit designated symbols to be used to communicate only a limited set of messages would be to enter territory having no discernible or defensible boundaries.”
New Jersey, New York, Vermont, and other states enforce woke orthodoxy in a nation that permits its own flag to endure burning as a symbol of liberty. These other state-erected, protected, or endorsed ideological flags are symbols of political oppression, of freedoms denied. To say so by objecting to their public display by burning them is verboten.
America’s police are being employed as Taliban-like enforcers of the state woke religion, replete with criminal investigations of anyone who defaces the reverence extended to the rainbow flag. This while rising numbers of burglaries, rapes, and robberies go uninvestigated or are unpunished once proven. In this upside-down woke world, law enforcement is policing citizen expression to enforce the woke cult at the expense of public safety and free speech. Perhaps this new face of police abuse merits defunding.
John Klar is an Attorney, farmer, and author. Mostly farmer… And Regular Contributor to GraniteGrok and VermontGrok.
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It is naive of us to hope that we or they learned any lessons after the debacle of the original response to COVID. They aren’t reading the docs forced out into the public from Pfizer, the FDA, or the CDC. They don’t know what the experts had to admit was true.
That information needs to find its way into the hands of those who might listen because there is no debate about whether or not New Hampshire’s towns and cities have the authority to prohibit mandates. The governor refused to deny them that power during the last dance, claiming it was a matter of local control. No emergency orders were issued to protect your medical autonomy or health freedom. And there was no specific legislation to prevent towns from mandating masks (of which I am aware).
So, if you can mandate masks, you can also mandate that there shall be no mandate. That’s what happened in Huntington Beach, California. Yes, California.
Mayor Pro Tem Gracey Van Der Mark, who agendized the item, said during the council’s meeting that there have been reports of a possible COVID-19 resurgence, which could lead to more mandates.
“The City Council of Huntington Beach should take a stand against government imposing on individual liberties and broadly imposing response measures on individuals that have been proven to have little or no effectiveness,” Ms. Van Der Mark said while reading from the agenda item during the meeting.
The opposition responded with what I can only call an absurd response.
“None of us are public health experts, none of us are research experts. I’m the only person up here with a science and engineering background. For us to be making public health determinations when we’re a public policy board is wild,” he said.
The political reaction to COVID included elected or public officials (many) with no public health experience or expertise who openly disdained credentialed health experts who challenged or contradicted their approved response. More than a few of those elected officials went out of their way to call the testimony or public statements of experts on epidemiology, virology, and even air quality misinformation.
It was a very political response to an alleged public health issue because nothing about what happened after the first few weeks in March of 2020 was anything but political. Public health had nothing to do with it, so prohibiting top-down mask mandates in their jurisdictions is a critical act of local governments.
They exist to keep power closer to the people to protect them from tyranny if they are willing or able. Sadly, most are neither.
But individuals, and even business owners, should be free to decide if they want to mask up and let consumers and employees choose whether or not to take their “business” there or elsewhere.
It will become apparent, very quickly, how the people feel when they are allowed to vote with their feet, and anyone who trumpets the notion of local control needs to accept that this applies to every political unit down to families and individuals. And that by passing any mandate, you are denying them that.
HT | Epoch Times
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Every child who arrives into this world is a helpless infant at the mercy of others, not only to be fed, cleaned, and protected but also to be informed about the bewildering life we face. The parents, caretakers, and immediate family can teach the newborn only what they know and believe in themselves, which was handed down to them by the adults who raised them.
The development of a newborn in any family is influenced by many factors, among them how hands-on the parents are, how religious they are, and how they manage him to make him a good person, but also a person better than they are.
From its inception, Islam discovered the crucial secret of getting to the young mind early by adhering to the dictum: instruction in early childhood is akin to carving in a rock. Similarly goes the Jesuit saying: “Give me a child until he is seven, and I will give you the man.” The immense importance of getting early to the young mind is also emphasized by non-religious doctrines as diverse as the Freudian psychoanalytic theory and Watsonian behavioral psychology.
Thus, millions of infants annually end up in the care of people who themselves are imbued with a pathological Islamist belief system rooted in the mores and practices of the primitives of the Arabian Peninsula.
From very early on, the young child is indoctrinated in the belief that there is an omniscient, ever-vigilant Allah who observes everything a person does and even everything he contemplates. Nothing whatsoever escapes this omnipresent, all-knowing being. Allah keeps tabs and bestows incredibly desirable rewards if one behaves as told while dispensing unimaginably tortuous punishment if one strays.
The very young Muslim begins with questions at every step, with fears and hopes entangled with the need to survive and thrive. He is curious to know who he is. What is this world all about? What is he supposed to do, and how? Where is he headed? People die. Where do they go? And on and on. The information booths available to him in the fairground of life provide answers that may help relieve his innate existential anxiety. Here, the Islamic religion plays a critical role and holds great appeal. Muhammad’s religion offers a surefire answer for those willing to take it on faith.
These are precisely the kind of people Western countries, including the United States, have brought from the 7th century to 21st-century America and settled across the land without any consideration for the safety and security of the American people. What did they expect would happen once they rejected the West and declared jihad against all infidels? In no time at all, America, the greatest superpower on the planet, loses its power from within to these future jihadists, and out of fear of the racist label, Americans look the other way and remain silent.
Islam is a powerful magnet for the masses who are unable to deal with the uncertainties of life and death on their own. It is from this population, many already thoroughly indoctrinated from birth, that most die-hard jihadists emerge.
According to his religion, it is the bargain the jihadist makes. He surrenders totally to the religion of surrender in exchange for blanket security. Islam gives him all the answers he seeks for dealing with this world and promises him a lush and eternal paradise of Allah once he leaves it. It’s a bargain that some buy-in whole and some in part. Some refuse it and seek other means of dealing with their questions and unrelenting existential anxiety.
It is foolish to underestimate the dangers of Islamic mental manipulation. All Muslims share an Islamic cognitive repertoire with considerable variations. As with any population distribution, a significant majority forms the middle while minorities populate the extremes. Islamic apologists and many Muslims point to the middle as true Islam, thereby disassociating themselves from the two extremes and may even denounce those extremes as not being Muslims.
At one extreme are the nominal Muslims. These Muslims adhere loosely to the Islamic precepts and practices that ordinarily pose little threat to non-Muslims and may even reject some aspects of the religion.
At the other extreme are the die-hard fanatical jihadists, who present severe threats to non-Muslims, the so-called moderate Muslims (Muslims in name only), and the nominal Muslims.
Nothing is out of bounds to this extremist group in furthering its cause. Dissimulation, deception, and all manner of violence are their Quran-sanctioned tools. As part of their scheme, this evil group has adopted highly effective strategies for subjugating the West, its people, and its culture. In keeping with their supremacist racist cult, their god, Allah, is proclaimed the greatest god — Allah-o-Akbar. Yet, in English, one hears only the deceptive translation: God is great, and not the actual Arabic; Allah is the greatest.
History documents the pivotal role of small groups, even individuals, in precipitating monumentally important events. It is the energized, dedicated militant minority that often sparks movements and directs the course of human events. And it is the minority of Muslims, militant and highly motivated soldiers of Allah, are on the march to defeat the non-believing world and establish the Islamic caliphate.
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About a decade ago, give or take, smart meter “upgrades” caught the attention of many. Some folks said this was all in preparation for throttling your energy use, typically when you needed it most, and they were right.
Then came smart appliances accessible via Bluetooth or WiFi; many said these are not conveniences but contrivances. If you hook everything in your home to the internet, the powers that be, licit or illicit, could control anything they wanted. From thermostats to stoves, fridges, and dishwashers to home security (including cameras), it’s all wired together—even your TV.
Feel free to decide whether that’s likely to pose a problem for you, but in the UK, ‘Ministers’ are talking about mandating smart appliances so the Government can better manage the electric grid they’ve wrecked with unreliable wind and solar. An effort by The State to force you to make their failed policy “work.”
Years from now, much the way NZ PM Chris Hipkins insists that getting the COVID vaccine was your choice (or you could be quarantined in an armed detainment camp), UK MPs will laugh over cigars and brandy about how you were not made to ration electricity. It was your choice to have Smart appliances they could control … or none.
As Jo Nova notes.
Are they your appliances or the state’s? If you don’t control the power switch you know the answer.
When they call something “smart” we know it’s stupid — and the mind-boggling complexity of central agencies switching on and off ovens and heaters across the country to “fit” with the weather is a dystopia we don’t need to have. Do you need 90 minutes to roast a chook, or 120? It depends on the wind strength in Scotland. If the kids can’t get to bed early, or you can’t wash their clothes, they can just miss the first hour of school right?
You paid for them with money the Government let you keep, so we know whose appliances they think they are. It is also the Government’s infrastructure (even though they make the utilities pay for it) and their electricity (because they allowed generators to tap it and sell it, which the government taxes).
It sounds increasingly like communism with Chinese Characteristics, which works well if your home security, baby monitor, or pet peeping cameras are wireless. Big Brother will be able to snoop on you while Alexa, Google, and Facebook listen, and if you try to stop them, they’ll turn off your fridge or lower your thermostat a few degrees too many in January.
So, how does the beginning of that look? A lot like this.
“ERCOT entered emergency operations tonight due to a drop in both operating reserves and frequency. By entering EEA 2, ERCOT was able to utilize additional reserve resources to protect the reliability of the grid. No power outages associated with the ERCOT power grid were necessary. The Weather Watch remains in effect through Sept. 8 due to continued higher temperatures, high demand, and the potential for lower reserves.
Over-reliance on wind power in Texas during a heat wave. The wind stopped blowing, as it often does, especially where it gets hot. Frantic providers begged homeowners and businesses to use less, or there would be blackouts. With a bit of motivation from “regulators” or ‘bureaucrats,” or the right sort of politicians, the Government could tap into networked home appliances and make adjustments for the good of the community. Or, better yet, in the name of public health or something.
Mark my words, if we stay on the current trajectory, not long from now that’ll just happen, and you won’t be able to do a damn thing about it.
I wonder what the fine will be for turning off your router, and will they send a Bearcat and a SWAT team to your home to turn it back on?
Both?
HT | WUWT
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Alejandro Mayorkas is supposed to be our Secretary of Homeland Security. By his title, you would think his job might be to keep illegal aliens out of our country, but not the inept Secretary. He is now offering the six million illegals who have crossed our borders during the Biden Presidency a work permit.
By their title, these people are in our country under illegal terms, but Mayorkas has told them to come on in, he would give them work permits, and the kicker assured them he would find them a job. Our Homeland Security Department is now a job placement agency for law-breaking non-citizens who should not have been allowed into the United States. Sometimes, I feel like a fiction writer, but you cannot make this stuff up.
Now, I cannot call these people asylum seekers; if they were, they would have applied for asylum in the first country they entered when they left their homeland. They did not because these people are not oppressed or threatened in the over 150 countries they have come from. They want to come to America, and a bogus asylum claim is their ticket. Biden, Harris, and Mayorkas are just the ticket-takers at what used to be our Southern Border.
There are currently six million Americans and hundreds of thousands of people who have given up and fallen off the list of unemployed. Mayorkas has not promised to place any of these Americans in paying jobs, but he has the illegals. These illegals have registered with that government to seek asylum. The backlog for these people to have a hearing is now three years. These people will be floating around the country, but now with a paying job, for years before they know if they can stay or be returned to their homeland. Does anyone think for a minute that any of these people will be deported? Of course not. They are now permanent inhabitants of America and overloading our social services, housing, and schools. They will drive down the wages of low-skilled labor and compete with Americans for a job. They will have the advantage here because they are proud customers of the Mayorkas Employment Agency. This insanity needs to stop.
The debacle situation at our Border is impacting every state in our union, and even Blue states are criticizing Joe Biden’s flawed immigration process. New York Mayor Adams is throwing his fury at the “Madman Governor” of Texas but is furious at Joe Biden. On Thursday, he falsely claimed he had turned the city around in his short term, but the influx of illegals is destroying his city. He says the city has been taking in over 10,000 illegals per month, and 21,000 non-English speaking students showed up at New York schools this week. Washington (Biden) is telling New York it is the teacher’s responsibility to bridge the language gap.
This action by Mayorkas will be tested in the courts, but he has all but assured his impeachment. He may be out of office before he ever has to place an illegal alien in their new job at McDonalds or Burger King.
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Parental control, along with teachers, have long been victims of “government force” used as tools to target our children minds with anti-America, bureaucratic curriculums created by the U.S. Department of Education and UNESCO.
The Dangers of K-12 Public Education will be exposed by Shawn McBreairty at the Marion Gerrish Community Center, 39 West Broadway in Derry, NH on September 28th, 2023 – 6:30pm to 8:30pm.
A great book that challenges government schools called “Crimes Of The Educators” co-authored by Alex Newman and Sam Blumenfeld, reinforces McBreairty’s facts that back up witty cultural critic Henry L. Mencken’s prophetic statement (1880-1926):
“The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.
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McBreairty has appeared on Tucker Carlson, the Ingrahm Angle, and Steve Bannon’s War Room, among many other TV and radio engagements. And look for his podcast called the “Maine Source of Truth.” He’ll be covering many of the crimes of the educational establishment, such as hyper-sexualization grooming in the classroom and CRT. Do they think parents are so naive that these will replace Godly – family disciplines, and core values needed to educate?
For more information, contact Matthew Rhodes at 207-319-0970 or at rhodesmatthew431@gmail.com. Attendees must register at https//form.jotform.com//232328201086044.
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I confess that the title is a bit hyperbolic only in that it will set a certain set of individuals who are themselves election deniers in denial (Democrats) into a rage, and that’s never a bad thing. But it’s true. Joe Biden is a crook and a thief, and it’s not just money or public office.
Related: Candidate Joe Biden Caught Plagiarizing Again and Again and Again
He is notorious for lying (sometimes referred to as embellishment when it is a Democrat) as well as lifting the work of greater men and women and claiming it (always accidentally and without malice) as his own. Until 2020 it was one of many flaws that left Joe Biden in a different basement with his own primary voters. He never managed more than 4% of their support prior to the great awakening.
Sadly, much like Biden, it was all bullsh!t. The man has committed more crimes of various sorts than perhaps any elected official in recent memory (perhaps only becasue the Clintons are better at choosing associates who like to commit suicide). One of which is plagiarism, an academic crime, one also of copyright violation, bad form, and poor judgment.
Not the well-known incidents chronicled here, nor the more recent ones recounted here, but a new one.
“Cite-checking involves formatting case citations under highly prescribed rules and searching Westlaw to make sure the cases haven’t been overruled or superseded,” Severino explained. “Because I was interested in the article’s topic (civil rights), I read a bunch of the cited cases all the way through.”
Severino said that at this point, he noticed that “a certain turn of phrase” in one of the opinions he was reading sounded “oddly familiar.”
“So, I turned back to Biden’s article, and there it was,” he said. “He had lifted language straight out of a [Supreme Court] opinion, changed a couple words, and called them his own. There were no quote marks and no footnote or anything else attributing the court as the source.”
“I then read the piece through again, and multiple other phrases sounded familiar,” he continued. “Turns out they, too, were plagiarized from opinions. I believe this merited rejecting the article outright for plagiarism, so I emailed the lead editor and presented the indisputable proof.”
The Harvard Journal on Legislation’s editors “covered for Biden,” according to Severino.
People have been covering for Joe Biden for 50 years, and we can’t help but wonder what else has managed to slip past or been massaged for then-Senator, later VP, and now President* Biden. You don’t suppose any of that was in Jonathan Alan’s latest Biden book, ‘Luckey.’ You’d think it might be but sales of the thing have been, much like the President’s* head, a bit soft.
The author of Joe Biden’s book “Lucky” sold so few copies that he did not even tour with it. Recent books about Joe Biden and his wife have failed to sell at all.
Jonathan Alan, the author of “Lucky” how Joe Biden won (stole) the 2020 election was only able to sell 10,000 books and skipped his tour.
Yet, they want us to believe this groper got 81 million votes!
Sorry, we’re still not buying it.
And neither is anyone else, the book, I mean. That other thing (the election) is still up for debate, though not open for it. The Left has done such a bang-up job ensuring that, much like racism, sexism, tokenism, elitism, and hypocrisy (to name but a few), election denying is something only they are allowed to do—just one more example of them covering for Joe Biden.
HT | The Daily Signal
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Young girls are growing up in a time where love and beauty are confused for sexual gratification. Rather than dream of their future husband and four children, they post videos dancing to songs about orgies. These girls have no idea what the lyrics mean, but all their favorite people are participating, so they do, too.
It is the same when puberty hits like a ton of bricks.
Overnight, they notice that boys and men change how they look at them. These girls are confused and nervous about the new attention and will naturally look for other women as role models. It’s easier to navigate the new playing field when you have virtuous women around you to guide your decisions or even celebrities who hold themselves to a certain standard in public that can be emulated. That’s not what is happening anymore.
audrey hepburn for vogue feb 1959 // grace kelly for vogue april 1962 pic.twitter.com/eeBfPEOW5K
— audrey hepburn enthusiast (@darylandfilms) February 18, 2023
The best modern women have to offer is Doja Cat invoking demons and Cardi B bragging about how she lured men with the promise of sex before drugging and robbing them.
Cardi b “a hoe never gets cold” is an iconic vine. https://t.co/cwmzmTl3m3 pic.twitter.com/dip6XSUGMq
— Benny Bey Heated (@iShotWakaFlocka) September 5, 2023
this doja cat era will never be forgotten, what do you think about demons? pic.twitter.com/wqTJ3K97Lu
— songs that changed history (@iconiksongs) September 1, 2023
With no female guidelines to follow, these girls will look to men. They’ll watch what men find funny, attractive, repulsive, etc., and use the data to model themselves as a suitable mate. Unfortunately, modern men have just as little to offer these girls as their counterparts. What are these girls to think other than that men find slutty women attractive after witnessing them spend their days lusting after Instagram models, subscribing to OnlyFans accounts, and consuming copious amounts of porn?
We should ask ourselves why we see the women being shamed but not the men.
This is a problem.
— The Mrs (@igarglewithfire) September 4, 2023
Our oversexualized society has warped the idea of feminine sexuality. The vapid hook-up culture is constantly pushed over love and marriage, leading women to believe that casual sex has no consequences. Almost no mainstream voices tell them there is another way to live that doesn’t involve sexualizing themselves for the enjoyment of strangers. Movies, music, and influencers are all selling women the same narrative – saving yourself for marriage is not a realistic goal. (ROOKE: Selfish Delusions About Purity Lead Men And Women Down A Lonely Rabbit Hole)
Not only are women incapable of containing their sexual urges, but men would never date a virgin even if they were. Instead, they encourage women to have sex with every Tom, Dick, and Harry in the bedroom until they find the right fit. Then, when men are done consuming these women like an all-you-can-eat buffet, society laughs and calls them used.
The cycle must stop. The women led into porn and OnlyFans don’t need to be mocked or denigrated. They need to be redeemed. Society, as a whole, needs to be “slut” shamed into caring about how we hold ourselves around the next generation of women. If not, we risk allowing them to join the others who have been oversexed and unloved.
There is an opportunity to show young girls that a different life is available to them. Life does not have to be marred by one-night stands. Good and honorable men are out there looking for the same in a wife.
We can teach them to be virtuous women by demanding high standards in our approach to sex and marriage — and it starts with simple things, like how we dress.
Mary Rooke | Daily Caller News Service
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