Friday • January 10 • 2025
Vol.XVII • No.II
Manchester, N.H.
NH currently allows only one type of voting machine to be used in NH elections. Those voting machines use 1980s technology, and they are clearly at the end of their life.
NH’s Secretary of State, along with the Ballot Law Commission, have invited state legislators and members of the public to view a demonstration of four different voting machines this coming Wednesday, August 2, 2023 (Clear Ballot, Dominion Voting Systems, Election Systems & Software (“ES&S”), and VotingWorks).
“Attendees will be given the opportunity to feed ballots through each device and score and rate the devices against each other. The Secretary of State’s Office plans to compile the feedback and present it to the Ballot Law Commission. We encourage you to attend as your input will be invaluable.”
There will be two sessions in the Legislative Office Building, Second Floor, 33 North State Street, Concord, NH 03301. The first session will begin at 9 am, and the other at 1 pm. Each session is expected to be similar and last about 3.5 hours each. Consider attending and respectfully sharing your thoughts with Secretary of State Dave Scanlan and the members of the Ballot Law Commission.
You can register to attend by clicking here – but you need to register before 11:56pm tonight!
I appreciate the open and transparent process that the Secretary of State and the Ballot Law Commission are taking when seeking to replace NH’s nearly obsolete voting machines. But I respectfully disagree with their approach to evaluate potential replacement voting machines for New Hampshire.
To my knowledge, none of those in attendance who will represent NH’s interests on Wednesday (including myself) is qualified to properly evaluate and certify the security and accuracy of any voting machine. Not the Secretary of State nor anyone from his team, not anyone serving on the Ballot Law Commission, nor any state legislator or member of the public. None of the attendees will have the technical expertise that is necessary to certify which voting machines, if any, are safe and secure to count votes in NH elections.
I make that statement with the utmost respect for the Secretary of State, those who serve on the Ballot Law Commission, our State Legislators, and every member of the public who plans to attend.
There are very few people in the world who do not have a conflict of interest – AND – have the knowledge and expertise to perform a multitude of tests on electronic voting machines… but to my knowledge, none of those people are involved in the process of analyzing and certifying new voting machines for NH.
Professor J. Alex Halderman is an expert. He wrote a damning security analysis report over two years ago on the Dominion ImageCast X Ballot Marking Devices machines that Georgia is using. That report was so disturbing to the judge it was sealed from public view and just recently released.
Read the report before you vote below.
Now tell us what you think (three polls, open until Wed at midnight).
Regarding the Use of Voting Machines in New Hampshire Elections (Choose One):
Should NH purchase a voting machine if an unbiased expert like Professor J. Alex Halderman provides a report to NH that indicates that machine has flaws of any kind, including potential security issues?
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They’re flying so thick and fast it is amazing.
Take heart – there will be a Meme Overflow and almost certainly a Friday Meme Overflow-Overflow. Last week’s Overflow-Overflow.
Remember, ridicule and mockery are effective weapons:
Now, let the mockery and mayhem begin.
*** Warning, a few possibly off-color ones, in case tender eyes are about ***
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Pantry Shaming (FIXED! Sorry about that, gang)
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That’s why the Left works, so desperately, to change language.
I was thinking, in the wee hours as I am wont to do more often than I like, about this new push to criminalize not using a person’s preferred pronouns. There were two ripple effects that I see.
First… if you’re a convicted criminal, a felon (per Michigan’s proposed – passed into law? – law), what can you not do? That’s right, boys and girls, you can’t own a firearm. And what side of the political spectrum is more inclined to not accede to the trans psychosis and not use them? Ding ding ding – yes, that’s right, Conservatives. What a way to entrap Conservatives with yet another way to strip them of their guns! The Left may be insane, but they’re also fiendishly clever.
But there’s another effect, as excellently captured in this quote:
“Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is in some small way to become evil oneself. One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.”
― Theodore Dalrymple
By creating speech that’s criminal, it shuts down debate. It makes people afraid. And it bends peoples’ minds to accept what isn’t true for the sake of safety. Or, at least, a perceived temporary safety.
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Jim Caviezel’s Powerful Speech at Patriot Double Down
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PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA
https://gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/137/760/331/original/841285816404af4a.mp4
That cannot be accidental. The more I look and see, the more I am becoming convinced that the entire entertainment-industrial complex is utterly compromised by people who see evil as good. Remember what James Woods said:
There’s more here. There’s a Sowell quote, I don’t have it directly so apologies for whatever butchering happens as I dredge it from memory, but it’s to the effect that those who believe themselves to be superior – morally, educationally, intellectually, etc. – are compelled to believe something different than the common man. For how can they consider themselves better / superior if they believe the same thing the “seething masses of deplorables” believe?
Thus, for example related here, if the “common man” believes in G-d and worships Him to whatever extent they do, then to be superior one must worship something other than G-d. That leaves Satan.
And yes, Judaism has Satan too.
It explains so much. If the common person loves their country, is G-d-fearing, believes in stable male-female families… pick the topic… then the Leftist “superior intellect”
is compelled to differentiate themselves from that group by believing and thinking something else. Also read this:
Regurgitating the Apple: How Modern Liberals “Think” | The Heritage Foundation
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So… natural doctor Joseph Mercola had his corporate, as well as both employee and personal accounts of himself and family members, suddenly shut down by Chase Bank.
90 Miles From Tyranny : Chase Shuts Down Dissident Doctor’s Business Account and His Employees’ Accounts Without Warning or Explanation (ninetymilesfromtyranny.blogspot.com)
Don’t forget British politician Nigel Farage has likewise been “debanked”, as discussed on the Grok.
The Left Has Plans for You – Granite Grok
It is virtually impossible these days to function without a bank account. Yet another way to compel you to accede to The Narrative.
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Powder Keg Europe: Wagner Forces and Equipment Massing Near Polish Border – Warsaw and Baltic Countries May Shut the Whole NATO Frontier – New Brigade Is Formed To Fight Russian Military Contractors | The Gateway Pundit | by Paul Serran
No meme here. Just a realization that our US government, and what seems like most Western European nations, are push-push-pushing for an all out war with Russia. More:
Pentagon Approves Hazard Pay For US Troops In Ukraine, Paving Way For Possible Expanded Presence | ZeroHedge
Hazard pay… for those IN UKRAINE.
Read that again.
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Neil Oliver: ‘…they’re in our homes & minds!’
Speaking of being in minds… implanted ads that come up when you sleep?
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/dream-manipulation.mp4
This is real:
How Advertisers Serve Ads While You Sleep | Dream Implantation (popularmechanics.com)
As the guy in the video states, if companies are talking about it NOW… for how long have Globalists and their minions been doing it to you?
Most people sleep with their phones near them (I always put it on airplane mode, and generally it’s a good several feet away from me). What if… what if the microphone hears your breathing pattern and knows when you’re asleep. And then plays, juuuuuust ever so softly, some subliminal message? It could be an ad. It could be more dangerous. Obey The State. Take the Jab. Hate your country. And so on.
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Pick of the post:
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/ending-your-blood-line.mp4
This is probably one of the most insidiously vile, most disgustingly evil things I’ve ever seen. Convincing people to end their blood lines – for the plaaaaanet and such, of course. And, of course, this kind of ad will never, EVER, be seen in non-Western countries. Non-white blood lines are, apparently, just fine and dandy.
Considering the idea of an intentional “white genocide” plan has been, for years, one of the lines I simply refused to cross. I could not wrap my mind around it. No longer. I now firmly believe there are groups – some Jewish (alas) and many not (also alas) – who want to see all white people genocided. White people created Western Civilization, the greatest civilization that’s ever been. And people want it destroyed? People want the people that created it destroyed?
In The Name of Hashem Himself… why?
As I’ve mentioned, visually, I’m as pasty white as you can get. Absent my kippa I could stroll into a KKK rally and not get a second glance. Aside from one survey – on which, as a joke, I “identified” myself as Middle Eastern – I’ve always considered myself white. Guess I’m on the list.
But like I’ve told my kids: from the very first cell, until you, there is an unbroken chain of reproduction. You owe it to every being in that chain, human or not, to continue it. This is your obligation.
Genesis 1:28
Though I can’t resist this chance to tell this joke:
After the ark landed, Noah told the animals to go forth and multiply.
Some time later he saw two snakes in the grass, childless. He asked why they had not multiplied. They replied We can’t, we’re adders.
So an angel of the Lord whispered in Noah’s ear, and he quickly cut down some saplings and made a rough-hewn platform. He told the snakes they could now multiply as he’d made them a log table.
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Monday Musical Memory:
“The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” – Gordon Lightfoot (HD w/ Lyrics)
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Palate Cleansers:
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Parallel to the hottest heated hotness ever narrative are the ‘wildfires’ raging across the landscapes of countries where it is also hot. But much like many of the fires blamed on global warming, the culprit – while human influence – is arsonists.
This one was spotted by a drone in Calabria, Italy.
Oh look. Police drone caught a suspected arsonist in Calabria, southern Italy, during the widespread wildfires in Sicily and Sardinia. This is unstoppable global arson. pic.twitter.com/04KBUmuE8O
— David Vance (@DVATW) July 28, 2023
Roberto Occhiuto, the president of the Calabria region, expressed his determination to take strong action against arsonists. He disclosed that 22 such suspects had been apprehended last year through drone surveillance, according to the Independent.
The ongoing wildfires in Italy’s southern region have caused substantial loss of life and property. Sicily, the southern island of Italy, has been particularly hard hit. The regional president confirmed that three elderly individuals lost their lives in the fires. The Italian Fire Department reported that they battled nearly 1,400 fires between Sunday and Tuesday, including 650 in Sicily and 390 in Calabria.
Numerous fires named on climate change or global warming have been attributed to arson in California, Brazil, Australia, and Canada (to name a few).
HT | GP
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Every election is always said to be the most important of our lifetime. This claim is usually from lifelong politicians who want to hold onto their elected position because they would never last in the corporate world. I believe, no, I fear that the 2024 General Election will be my life’s most critical election.
America is at a tipping point. She has been pushed to the cliff’s edge, and it will only take one more election cycle for the Left to push it off to extinction. Hyperbole? I don’t think so. What the Left has done in the last two years to fulfill Barack Obama’s pledge to transform America is staggering and sad. It is sad for us who still believe in the American dream instilled in us as children. It is sad for us who truly love this country and the opportunities it has given us and our families. It is sad for us who still revere our young and brilliant Founding Fathers who envisioned this incredible country but warned us of its fragility. That fragility is being put to its test.
We hear from the Left that MAGA Republicans threaten our Democracy, which is ironic because Democracy is the last thing the Left wants for America. The Left has embraced the vision of a Socialistic America given to them by President Obama. The young people that Obama influenced with his plan to transform America have grown to be the young leaders of today who hate America as she has been and strive to tear her down. If they remain in power in 2024, they might just put the wrecking ball to the America we love.
This attack on America is not just at the National level, where we have seen factions of the government, like the IRS and the FBI, weaponized against its people, where we have seen our sovereignty destroyed and our history condemned. Not just in Washington, where our politicians replace our God-given rights with man-made restrictions. Who we elect as President in 2024 will decide the fate of America. If we return Biden to the White House or pass the baton to Gavin Newsom or Gretchen Whitmer, we will continue down this destructive path and end our great Republic. Suppose we can overcome the obstacles and put a Conservative Republican in the Oval Office. In that case, we may have time to correct the damage, get America back on the path to recovery, and restore its beacon of hope to the world.
We also need to look at our state and local elections, which are also at a very tenuous point. I split my time between New Hampshire and Maine. Both have interesting and crucial elections that the General Election will heavily influence. Outcomes are always challenging to predict when the turnout is high, which is usually the case every four years. New Hampshire will have two House seats up for grabs, but a tremendous amount of attention will be in Concord, where many will vie for the Governor’s office being vacated by Chris Sununu. With a state in flux between Red and Blue, it is imperative that the Republicans hold onto the Executive branch to protect against Sales and Income Tax. We also need to keep abortion under control. If a Democrat wins this race, the state could change forever.
In Maine, the two House seats are also on the ballot, but all eyes will be on the Senate race. Angus King, the Independent, will be running. He is the Junior Senator from Maine but will be 81 on Election Day and 87 if he serves his full term. Susan Collins is not on the ballot, and though only 70, she appears to be in declining health. The next two Senate elections will be significant for Maine and the balance of power in the Washington. Maine needs help, and the Democrats in charge are not supplying any. The economy is stalled, Marijuana sales is now the third-ranked industry in the state, the lobster industry is over-regulated, and illegal immigration is stressing the budget.
So much attention will be placed on the drama surrounding the election of our next President, but every race, up and down the ballot, will impact our future. Get educated, get involved, and make a difference in whether we save or lose America.
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The Vermont Public Utilities Commission has instructed Avangrid Renewables to no longer track and report bat and bird strikes (deaths) at its 15-turbine Deerfield Wind project in Searsburg and Readsboro. Why?
“The number of carcasses found near the turbines was on the low end of similar projects in the Northeast.”
The Public Utility Commission agreed to let the company stop measuring bird and bat mortality after the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources signed off on the 5-year report.
Permitting limitations require Wind Farm Project Developers and operators to reduce the turning speed of turbines during certain hours when wildlife might be active to reduce strikes or deaths of bats or birds. But if you do that, you deliberately decrease the electricity you might produce. Given how inefficient an unpredictable so-called green energy can be, anyone tooting its horn might have some incentive to report better numbers.
Removing those restrictions would help, and while I’m not saying that’s what happened at the Deerfield Wind project, the absence of actionable data makes me think that may be precisely what happened.
What exactly is the low end for similar projects in the Northeast? We don’t know, and I went looking. Any related links to reporting at Vermont’s PUC ended with “Page not Found.” A site search of the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) and the Agency of Natural Resources (ANR) sites produced little related to the Deerfield Project.
I did find a draft with some details that included a section on “incidental takings.”
That’s all I found, so we do not know how many bird or bat strikes occurred or if that is low for the Northeast. If someone can figure that out, we’d be well on our way to something that looks like transparency, but not without direct inquiries or phone calls.
Shouldn’t that sort of thing be easier to access online to avoid this sort of speculation?
The PUC and ANR have signed off on allowing the wind farm to operate normally regardless of bird or bat strikes because the number of reported carcasses is low. How do we know they are not underreporting the kills or hiding evidence?
Is the PUC or ANR doing the looking and counting, and if so, can you guarantee the operators don’t have people scooping up and hiding evidence before they can find it?
And where are the rabid environmentalists, some of whom support wind energy but are equally concerned about the impacts on wildlife? They continue to object before, during, and after development, including in the local press.
The Burlington Free Press Oct 7, 2016 Deerfield wind destroys.
Rutland Herald Sep 20, 2016 protest Deerfield wind project.
Rutland Herald Jul 28 2022.
They are out there but not likely readers of these pages, concerned about the foreign involvement and initial and ongoing environmental impact.
If anyone, pro or con, can find out more, please let me know. I’m very curious about the impact and the likelihood that the facts are being hidden to favor so-called renewable energy interests. It’s not like they don’t ignore the effects of mining, manufacturing, transportation, installation, and use.
There is ample reason to think skulduggery is afoot.
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After all, after years of commenting over at Treehugger, that was the normal response. Anyone not going along with the 1.5-degree lifestyle to save GAIA was a self-centered climate denier who is so selfish as to doom everyone to a fiery Hell on Earth. Thus, showing us that they hated themselves almost as badly as they do Normal people by rebuking modern lifestyles.
And China now responds with “Chumps – you really believed us? Hahahahaha!”. They only nebulously said “We’ll start lowering our carbon emissions somewhere twenty years down the line” and the West took it to heart TRUSTING that they do so. Stockholm Syndrome like, they ignored that China is a developed nation, second largest GDP, and pumping out a new coal-fired electrical generation plant weekly. Yet, all these Eco-Socialists, desiring to strip the rest of us of our Freedom (as this is all about who controls our choices – us or Government of which they have firm control right now) and energy usage, don’t have stars in their eyes but Chinese solar panels.
I’m wondering how much therapy they’re making appointments for (reformatted, emphasis mine): China has abandoned the Paris climate agreements.
China Abandons the Paris Climate Agreements; America Should Be so Lucky
… Now, in a move that should come as a surprise to no one, China has abandoned the Paris climate agreements.
It was a bad week for anyone who thought China would cooperate on emissions reduction. President Xi Jinping reiterated that his country would set its own path on the issue and not be influenced by outside factors, according to the Washington Post and Bloomberg. This contradicts Xi’s 2015 Paris Agreement pledges to reduce its carbon emissions at the latest after 2030.
Xi’s remarks came while climate envoy and former secretary of state John Kerry was visiting Beijing to reopen a dialogue. This was shortly after Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived, and just before former secretary of state Henry Kissinger, the architect of opening China to the West 50 years ago, came for a visit.
Bait and Switch. Same tactic, different issue. The Communist Chinese did this with Britain over Hong Kong in agreeing that if Britain “returned” their colony, the ChiComs would honor their agreement to allow Hong Kong to rule itself and, pretty much, leave it alone. We all know how well that worked out. Again, the West said “we’ll trust you and make that agreement” while it steals our intellectual property, puts its own Police on OUR sovereign soil, buying up our farmland, manipulates its currency against the Dollar, and intimidates its neighbors and takes their lands. And still, the West’s “intellectual elites” keep wanting to do business with Xi?
Xi: “Silly people – you ARE that stupid.
And in this, got all the Western nations to eviscerate their energy usage, reliability, and supplies while China keeps on making big smoke signals from their coal plants. And now, it’s clear it was all a con but the people that have gotten rooked are we, the people. Our “rulers”, who turned out to be so gullible, are morons. Can I start the naming with John Kerry (aka “Lurch) who does the Pollution Two-Step in a year more than I’ll make in my lifetime?
I almost never say this, but this time, the Chinese are right. And it puts the Western nations, which still adhere to the Paris Agreement, in an awkward spot. Why? Because, if it’s carbon emissions you’re worried about, there can be no reduction without China (and India) on board. Here’s what Xi had to say:
“Based on China’s energy and resource endowments, we will advance initiatives to reach peak carbon emissions in a well-planned and phased way, in line with the principle of getting the new before discarding the old,” he announced in an address to the Communist Party Congress, as reported by Time.
Xi’s remarks should resound in the halls of the Environmental Protection Agency, which is planning to impose billions of dollars of costs on Americans to reduce U.S. emissions. China has repeatedly stated that it has no intention of going along with the Western push to net-zero.
Even as the West are prostrating themselves energy-wise (enfeebling us all to do their own Virtue-Signaling preening with the Davos people who will NEVER suffer the impoverishness being wreacked upon us), Xi is doing “China First”. And, I will admit, as he should be. Meanwhile, OUR leaders, especially Biden, are implementing America Last. It’s clear that they believe we are guilty of some sin and, in their climate theology, are handing out penitences to be carried out as they lead us to our collective energy purgatory.
(HT: RedState)
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Although there are various strategies to “avoid” probate anywhere, there are two general situations in which New Hampshire residents may have to deal with probate matters in Florida. Those situations are (a) a NH resident dies owning Florida real estate, typically a vacation residence; and (b) a NH resident has a relative who dies as a Florida resident. In either case, what to do? The following overview might be helpful or informative.
In the first case, it is assumed that initial probate proceedings will be initiated in New Hampshire, making any Florida proceeding “ancillary” probate. In the other case, the probate proceeding in Florida is “plenary.”
Unlike New Hampshire, with its 10 counties, Florida is large, with 67 counties, divided into 20 judicial circuits. With 2 levels of trial courts, probate matters in Florida fall under the jurisdiction of the Circuit Court for the county in which the decedent owned property or in which the decedent died as a permanent resident. Some, but not all, judicial circuits in Florida have established probate divisions, or, alternatively, designated one or more circuit judges to handle probate matters, either exclusively or together with other matters within the court’s jurisdiction.
All probate matters in Florida are handled through the state’s “e-filing” (electronic filing) system. The Florida Bar has developed an extensive set of forms designed to cover almost every conceivable probate matter, the latest set of which number 201 different forms. Those forms are not available online but rather are only available for purchase from one of several authorized vendors, and the forms are typically updated each year. Since the forms have their form numbers and revision dates (typically annual revisions of some but not all forms) on their footers, it is believed that most judges prefer to see the standardized forms utilized, and some judges are known to have bounced submissions using forms that have not been updated by the latest revision.
Assuming that there are no conflicting claims as to a will’s validity or to any petitions for administration, the Florida proceedings will likely be handled on an ex parte basis (meaning one-sided without opposition and matters will be decided by the Judge alone without argument from anyone in opposition) and no in-person hearings will be required.
The Florida nomenclature for what is called an executor or executrix in other states is a “Personal Representative,” commonly referred to as the “PR.” And most (but not all) papers filed in the Florida proceeding are not required to be notarized, although they may expressly state that they are executed under penalties of perjury.
A probate proceeding in Florida is initiated with the filing of a Petition for Administration, typically by the PR named in the will, but if not available for any reason or if there is no will, a PR chosen by a majority in the interest of the beneficiaries of the estate. It is usual and customary for all beneficiaries to execute a joinder in the Petition, including a waiver of formal notice of the proceedings.
In an ancillary administration, “exemplified” copies (bearing certifications by the NH court clerk and applicable judge) of the NH probate proceedings must be filed electronically as well as filed in hard copy with the Florida Court. In any probate proceeding, a scanned copy of the death certificate must be e-filed and the original filed with the Court. And in any probate proceeding in Florida, a copy of the paid funeral bill and a Department of Revenue form attesting to the absence of any liability for estate taxes (if any is not due) must be e-filed.
If the decedent owned Florida real estate, a certified copy of the death certificate and the Department of Revenue form regarding estate taxes should also be recorded in the land records.
If any of the decedent’s Florida real estate is to be sold before the estate administration is closed, there is a procedure for obtaining Court authorization for such a sale, as well as applicable forms.
Florida law requires that the PR either be a Florida resident or, if not a Florida resident, within certain degrees of relationship with the decedent. The PR must designate a Florida resident as its agent for service of process, and if not a resident of the county in which the action is pending, the agent must be a member of The Florida Bar resident anywhere in Florida.
In a testate estate, even if the will waives the requirement of a bond for the PR, it is strictly up to the Court whether to waive the bond or not. In estates in which there are no liquid assets, it would be customary to file a petition to waive bond, joined in by the beneficiaries, whether there is a will or not and irrespective of what the will might say. If there are liquid assets, the Court will likely require the posting of a bond. Some probate judges will allow the use of a restricted bank depository in lieu of a bond if requested.
In an intestate estate, an Affidavit of Heirship will typically be required, setting out a detailed family tree of the decedent.
Proposed orders are drafted by counsel and submitted to the Court, usually in Word, either using the e-file system, or, in some counties, using a different specialized electronic system for use by the Judges specifically for orders.
After the requirements have been met, the Court will typically issue an order appointing the PR, and, if applicable, admitting the will to probate, as well as issuance of Letters of Administration evidencing the appointment and authority of the PR% to act for the estate. If a bond is required, the Order will state the amount of the bond needed.
Promptly after issuance of Letters, the PR must publish a Notice to Creditors in a newspaper in the relevant county, the first (of two) publication of which starts the running of a 3-month period in which creditors must file claims or be barred. Naturally, there is a procedure for disputing and resolving any claims that might be filed.
Unless expressly waived, the PR must also serve a copy of a Notice of Administration on a variety of persons who may have an interest in the estate; and the PR must also serve a copy of the Notice of Administration on the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration in Tallahassee unless the decedent was under age 55 at death.
The PR is required to file an Inventory within 60 days after issuance of Letters.
After expiration of the creditors’ period and assuming either no claims were filed or any filed claims have been disposed of, and assuming a nontaxable estate, a Petition for Discharge can be filed, usually with broad consents and waivers from all estate beneficiaries.
Waivers from all estate beneficiaries typically waive, among other things, any requirement that the PR must file a formal accounting of all transactions in the estate.
If the decedent owned Florida real estate, it would be appropriate for the PR to execute and record in the land records a release deed (documentary excise tax, essentially the Florida deed transfer tax, of $0.70, plus recording costs, must be paid, irrespective of the value of the property) indicating that the property was not required to be sold to cover administrative expenses and vesting title in the specific beneficiary(ies), before filing the Petition for Discharge.
If the estate was taxable (i.e. liable for federal estate tax) , an IRS Estate Tax Closing Letter and proof of payment of the tax specified in the Closing Letter must be filed with the Court prior to filing the Petition for Discharge. There is no Florida estate or inheritance tax.
Then, assuming no unresolved disputes, the Court would enter an Order of Discharge of the PR and releasing any bond that might have been posted.
So, if things proceed in the regular order and without complications, and if the estate is not taxable, the Florida proceedings can usually be completed in much less than a year.
Finally, there is a much-abbreviated procedure available for estates in which the value of the estate, less the value of property exempt from creditor claims, does not exceed $75,000, or that the decedent has been dead for more than 2 years.
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A little more information about Norm above the normal Grokster bio (below):
Norman was admitted to the Florida Bar in 1970 and the NH Bar in 2008. A Tampa native, he practiced in Miami for approximately 40 years before moving permanently to New Hampshire in 2012. Prior to practicing law in Florida, he served as a trust officer in a Wall Street trust company for nearly 3 years. He has served two terms as a New Hampshire State Representative from Belknap County. He can be contacted at njs@silbersnh.com.
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Back in March, I wrote that a new movement was starting to come into view. Instead of using “Trans-Authoritarians” (except in the title), I used “Trans-Bullies”. However, the message was clear: the LGBs aren’t groovin’ with the T’s (Transgenders).
Nothing but bullies with chips on their shoulders, trying to portray themselves as “victims”, and a penchant for aggressively trying to ruin other peoples’ lives that refuse to go along with their delusions.
From a post at RedState:
It should be understood that these activists do not speak for the entirety of the LGBT community. I’ve met too many from that community that thinks the activists are garbage and they, like most people, want to be left alone to live their lives. However, the [Transgender] activists are ironically making people wary of the community at large, and judging by the reactions to Pikamee’s bullying, they’re making it worse.
I’ve been saying for a while (right, LGBT Advocate Chris Erchull?) that we are now seeing Peak Trans. Like a firecracker that first goes slow as the fuse is lit and then goes BOOM! are we starting to see that end in sight of the tsunami that swept through our K-12 education system, transitioning it from concentrating on academic rigor to sexuality and emotions?
Look at this graph:
While the view is that homosexual marriage should remain legal, the LGBs are correct in that the Trans-Authoritarians have at least tarnished the movement (at best) or really turned people off with their vehement and emotional rhetoric (“do you want a dead son or a live daughter?”) and ultra-concentration of demanding only THEIR speech forms be used and pushing pornography reachable by young children, and pushing that “sexuality instead of academic rigor” in schools.
Because they’re “special victims,” dontcha know.
The graph shows that not only have the Trans-Authoritarians turned off the large swath of people (especially parents who are NOT happy that schools have decided that they are just breeders and that SCHOOLS have decided that THEY own children, not us, that anger is starting to affect the LGBs as a whole.
Sidenote let me repeat that; the State (e.g., government, which schools certainly are Government) is now demanding control over our children, and parents are irrelevant. Just see California, Minnesota, and Washington have all but stripped any agency by parents when it comes to transgender issues. ALL are Democrat “owned”. And our NH Federal Representatives are fine with that.
When you push degeneracy and deviancy to new heights and create a new sexual slur, “cisgender,” against normal people (straight folks make up 97% of the population), call we who try to live by Biblical standards “bigots,” and another made up term (“transphobes”), more and more are starting to, and now shoving back.
Good. They deserve it. ALWAYS punch bullies in the nose.
(H/T: Powerline)
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Canada, much like with deforestation, is all-in on depopulation. Medical Assistance in Dying is all the rage. Death by lethal injection is inhumane unless you’re the average troubled citizen ready to end it all, but not if you had your junk removed, added a fake vagina, regret it, and want to die.
A gender-confused Alberta man who says his life has been irreversibly changed by genital surgery is upset that he has been denied medically assisted suicide.
And mental health issues are not off the table when it comes to government-sanctioned-self-execution. The list of rubber-stamp reasons grows annually as ethicists float trial balloons for convincing people to kick their own bucket – like allowing the poor to commit suicide ‘cuz they are poor. Just a thought, but assisted lethal injections are up 35% in the Great White North, but no joy for Duchess Lois of Alberta.
Lois has suggested that his status as a First Nations Canadian, his sterility, and his identity as a “transsexual woman” have bearing in his attempt to be euthanized.
“I’m accessing M.A.I.D [sic] as a sterilized first nations person of treaty 6, who is also a post-op transsexual woman of 14 years,” he had previously announced in a January post.
“I qualify for it as someone who is sterilized and who has undergone vaginoplasty,” he added “Two things that cannot be reversed or relieved.” …
According to the doctor, Lois stated that his current health situation causes him to suffer “intolerable” physical or psychological suffering which cannot be relieved under conditions he considered “acceptable.” Lois claimed to have been struggling with inadequate pain control since his surgery.
The doctor said no despite choric pain after irreversible surgery. Lois can’t take it anymore.
Unfortunately, Lois’ post-operative pain is not unique. A recent study on the side effects of radical genital surgeries discovered that 81% of those who had undergone the cosmetic procedures in the past five years reported experiencing pain simply from normal movement in the weeks and months that followed. Many other side effects manifest themselves as well.
If the government or the medical experts were raking in money, they’d probably say yes, not that we want them doing that. Can you imagine what would happen if the government endorsed lethal injection as assisted suicide was a profit silo? No one would know the name of the Duchess Lois of Alberta, who will now, likely, be forced to commit suicide the old-fashioned way.
And guess who gets blamed for that unassisted suicide? Straight people, that’s who.
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Headlines at big corporate media outlets typically go through a process. So what process resulted in a headline by CNN that lead someone else to write this gem: “CNN Says Infant Deaths Could Be Solved With Abortion.”
In amazing fashion, CNN continues to display how beholden the outlet is to abortions. Just a couple of weeks ago, we covered how the channel was upset to learn that the toughened abortion law led to 10,000 more births than anticipated. Now comes this gem from the same brilliant outlet, where it is said to be tragic that there was an increase in infant mortality as a result of this law.
Their position is that these children did not need to die – if only they had been aborted. Of course, just ignore that over 9,700 babies are thriving.
Texas’ abortion restrictions – some of the strictest in the country – may be fueling a sudden spike in infant mortality https://t.co/XnXojxJlYM
— CNN (@CNN) July 20, 2023
ALL abortions result in a baby’s death—every single one. A baby is a developing human that requires nurturing all throughout pregnancy. Simply calling it gestation or using the Latin/medical terms of the different stages during pregnancy (e.g., fertilization, zygote, blastocyst, embryo, fetus), it is still a baby—a human being.
And a death is a death regardless of whether or not it is a natural one (bad genetics, problem pregnancy, illness, accident) or deliberate murder.
What we are seeing is yet another application of the Left’s redefinition of our common language – in this case, the substitution of “fetus” for baby so as to deny its humanness. EVERYONE cares about a baby; “fetus” not so much. A “fetus” is just a thing – a baby is like us.
In doing so, the Left has Otherized babies, so deliberately murdering them, under the other redefinition of “reproductive healthcare,” is no longer considered to be a sinful and mortal crime. So CNN’s reporting, ignoring the fact that abortion IS murder in that someone dies, is true to the Left’s morality.
The same tactic that’s applied to Conservatives, Libertarians, or anyone else that doesn’t accept or affirm the Left’s worldview – after all, we’re “domestic terrorists” and “extremists.” We are those that they wish to extinguish in one way or another.
HT | Townhall
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Right after the George Floyd protests, Alexander Prout posted a Tweet with a letter demanding reparations for black students at St, Paul’s School. He asked people to sign the letter. An alum posted under it that it was tied to China.
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I didn’t think much about it at the time, but then I found out that Chessy Prout was given a Gov Affairs PR person in 2015 who specializes in PR for DoD contractors (of which NHCADSV and RAIN are both) using stealth special ops tactics and so on.
In 2017 Chessy Prout got a speaking engagement agency based in Albany, New York, and Hong Kong. Then there was much fanfare that she was taking #MeToo to Hong Kong. #MeToo is an artificially created psy-op as far as I can make out. And it was tied to Creative Artists Agency (CAA), which represents the Bidens, the Obamas, Valerie Jarrett, Arne Duncan, Tina Tchen, and others. CAA also has offices in Hong Kong and Beijing.
Under the original NYT article about Harvey Weinstein in October 2017, a guy called Donald Barnatt posted a comment along the lines of “all those who have suffered like this in Hollywood say #MeToo.” That comment was ignored, but several days later, after the Obamas and Clintons hadn’t made any comments, suddenly, Alyssa Milano (married to a CAA agent) comes out with #MeToo, and the whole thing went viral.
Then in January 2018, Times Up was launched with a PR campaign run by SKDK (Anita Dunn and Hillary Rosen – Obama’s and Clinton’s PR people) and with $13 million out of CAA. Hillary Rosen has admitted that SKDK has bought fake social media engagement handles for likes etc. (admitted in 2016, I believe). And Chessy Prout’s #IhavetheRightTo organization measures its success by the number of #engagements but doesn’t record any income or expenses.
Patrice Cullors of BLM is repped by SKDK, and so is Times Up, and so is Its On Us, which protested, with NHCADSV and others, the interview with Owen Labrie on ABC in the middle of the Dartmouth settlement mediation negotiation, which ponied up $14 million.
$2.865 million of that went to the NHCADSV, and that money, I think, then went to “Every voice Matters coalition,” which is part of Its On Us, which is part of Civic Nation and Blue Crab Strategies, and thus the DNC who may have been completely taken over at this point by CCP interests.
In 2014 the State Department sponsored a delegation to go to China to discuss the feminist agenda. And in that delegation, Tania Tetlow JD was included, who spoke at Tulane University to administrators, telling them that it didn’t matter if Title IX and Sexual misconduct investigations were tainted but that they (feminists activists) had to get inside police departments, administrators offices, prosecutors offices.
Tania Tetlow, partnered with Sally J. Kenny, spoke at the Dartmouth Sexual Assault Summit in 2014, introduced by Congresswoman Ann Kuster. And I just discovered that not only was she involved in “Its On Us” but that she also worked with the Prout family and “I Have The Right To” to block Michael Delaney from the First Circuit Court of Appeals.
Due Process is a fundamental right to a democratic & free society. There’s only one reason I can think of as to why these feminist activists don’t want due process, and that has to do with being bought by CCP interests. And that’s why I think that UNH should be investigated since it all started there, and UNH was partnered with the Confucius Institute.
Dan Hill, the Government Affairs PR rep that represented Chessy Prout and “I Have the Right To,” is pretty ticked off with me, but now he’s backtracking and trying to maintain that he operated all alone with Chessy Prout – just him and her. I never asked him how many people he was working with, but it is telling that he spilled this because I think he’s clearly concerned that I’m onto them and the RICO of it all involving CCP interests behind it.
Why did Joe Biden choose UNH to introduce “Dear Colleague” in 2011?
Why did the Podesta leaks include mention of a China Agenda and women’s rights non-profit for Hillary backed by China (about conversations between Lyn Forester de Rothschild and Hillary).
And why did “Vital Voices” start spawning offices globally between 2012 and 2016? SKDK represents Vital Voices. The Prouts are ambassadors, and Alexander Prout is Chair of Vital Voices Solidarity. He also worked in Hong Kong, and Asia is his specialty.
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Five days ago, we reported on the untimely passing of Barry and Michelle Obama’s private chef. He allegedly drowned while paddle boarding off the coast of their sea-level mansion. The O’s press team initially reported that the power couple was absent, but that was a lie.
Related; Did The Obama’s “Clinton” Their Personal Chef?
The story has evolved, much like the tale of Nancy Pelosi’s husband and the alleged hammer-wielding intruder. The new account, which we can assume is also a story, is that they were on the island but not at the residence.
Somewhere, but not paddleboarding.
According to the Daily Mail, everyone is waiting on toxicology and other details from the autopsy to determine what factors may have played a role in the death: drugs, alcohol, a heart attack. I’m assuming that Tafari Campbell was fully vaccinated, but we can assume that any suggestion that he suffered from a vaccine related-injury will be hidden.
So, the Obamas were home, just not in the home, with binoculars, looking out over the water. This does not discount the unlikely but ever-amusing theory that Campbell was suicided (Clinton style) out of convenience to the political machine. Anyone close to power-people that dies suddenly will be considered at risk of knowing or hearing things that, were they to achieve escape velocity into the public domain, could be problematic.
And their deaths are always suicides or accidents.
A young, healthy, fit-looking married man with children, a dream job, and access to very influential people, likely more than capable of managing a paddle board in ten feet of water, just drowned.
It’s suspicious; that’s all I’m saying.
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We know that Joe Biden cannot tell the truth, but the bigger problem may be not perceiving the truth. Most politicians will tell you what they think you want to hear, but Joe Biden doesn’t care what you want. He will do what he wants, and the hell with the consequences. He will twist the facts, create his narrative, and the media will repeat it so that half the country believes it as the bible. The rest of the country knows it is to use Biden’s words, malarkey. Joe promised he would not raise taxes on the middle class and grow the economy from the ground up and the middle out. His promises are pure recycled garbage, like his two plagiarized speeches that forced him from his first two runs at the White House.
Biden has hit the road with pale campaign events touting the successes of the economy because of Bidenomics. The facts do not back him up. Joe came to Auburn, Maine, on Friday to brag about his economy, even saying the radical MAGA Republicans must impeach him now that they cannot complain about the economy. Sorry, Joe, but that is not a joke. We must impeach you for a lifetime of corruption on the backs of hardworking Americans. The economy in Maine is horrible. Gas prices are rising toward the $4.00 mark. A quick trip to the grocery store used to set you back $75, but now you better bring a C Note. The only things growing in Maine are the number of roadside pot shops and the number of illegals sleeping in the shelters in Portland. Joe has nearly killed our Lobster industry, and the rising cost of living keeps the traffic down on Rte 95. Times are not good in Maine or the rest of America.
The Fed raised interest rates for the eleventh time this week. Mortgage rates under Trump were 3%. They are 7% under Biden. Higher is not better, Joe. A $300,000, 30 year mortgage at 3% is $1,200 monthly. That same mortgage today at 7% will cost you $1,996. Bidenomics will cost you $800 a month or almost $29,000 over the life of the loan. Those are facts, Joe.
Joe brags about inflation coming down to 4%. Inflation was at 1.2% the day he took the oath, and he drove it up to nearly 10% in his first year. That is nothing to brag about. At the same time Biden is bragging, Kamala Harris is telling us that most Americans are a $400 unexpected expense away from bankruptcy. These two people are our Executive branch, and they are completely opposite in their message. The facts are that inflation is coming down, but real prices today are 16% higher than in 2020. That is Bidenomics.
Maybe they are not labeled as taxes, but the buying power of Americans has shrunk by $10,000. The lower and middle classes feel inflation the most, so how can he claim that he is growing the economy from the bottom up? He cannot, but he does. Lie, repeat, lie again, and repeat. That is what Bidenomics is. Joe is now on vacation for ten days. That is good news for America. Hopefully, he does not cause us any harm for the next ten days.
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I have to admit, my Jettiness series has had a lot of jet-powered stuff but I have NEVER come across a jet-powered barbeque grill. Your simple, ordinary home barbeque, normally using briquettes or propane, is now using a jet engine?
Yep, the British madman Youtuber, Colin Furze, surprised me with this choice of something to tinker with just to have some fun:
Now, before becoming a blogger, I was starting to concentrate on being a foodie. Though I never got the level of being on Gordon Ramsey’s show for home cooks (“MasterChef”) or even being a line cook in a local eatery, I was having fun and trying new stuff. THIS, however, was never in my dreams to have as a tool.
And it does look a wee bit hard to control, and I think that the “sear” on the bangers and burgers is more than most would want (or Ramsey). But hey, why not?
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Students in Dover, NH, have access to over 110 library books that feed young imaginations interested in careers in drug use, sex work, and sexual assault involving a minor. They’ve also got some how-to fiction on self-mutilation, suicide, child molestation, rape, explicit sexual battery, and graphic violence.
To that, we can add tasty mind-expanding examples of gore, sodomy, BDSM, child sex trafficking, excessive drug and alcohol use, bestiality, necrophilia, and even cannibalism. Yum!
Also – no, we’re not done yet – divergent gender ideologies, alternate sexualities, more violence, more drug abuse, and more sex and nudity, including masturbation, oral sex, explicit sex, profanity/derogatory terms, and even … controversial social and religious commentary. Everything a growing mind needs … to become a perverted deviant moron with limited reading and writing skills.
Let’s just say these are not well-written tomes.
Parents wondering why their once seemingly normal child has suddenly developed mental health issues can look no further than the public schools, libraries, and their online access reading portals, after all, who needs a school system that teaches you academics or even useful or productive skills or a foundation to build them when taxpayer money can instead feed garbage to young minds soon to be terribly wasted.
It’s like having Dover Career Day, every day or any day, where young minds can seek “learning opportunities” that help them become domestic abusers, rapists, drug addicts, or sex workers.
Math, reading, history (even re-written), science – what nonsense. These are just a cover for the systemic perversion of future generations. The diminishment of any ability to achieve outside the walls erected for them by the educational and political elite, a bow softened by the temporary and increasingly unfulfilling pleasures available through alcohol abuse, drug use, and casual or abusive sex, all learned – very likely – before their minds can even comprehend it.
And why not! There are, after all, plenty of kids in the elite and private schools to run things. And someone’s kids need to fill the ranks of the worker and welfare classes, so Dover is here to do its part.
There are more than one hundred examples of how to get them there from here, but let us pick just a few to whet your soon-to-be ruined appetite.
Graphic language and subject matter warning. Note: some paragraph breaks indicate a pull quote from a new section of the same book, while others may just be for formatting purposes.
From the Book ‘Scars,’ by Cheryl Rainfield: This book contains violence involving self-mutilation, inexplicit sexual activities, and profanity.
Pg 41 I slash again and again, flesh opening up to expose little white bubbles of fat until dark blood wells up to cover them and spills over my arm in wide, curling arcs, thin and hot. I barely feel the pain- just air rushing into my lungs, the thoughts slowing down. …She’s the only thing standing between me and the black endlessness of despair. She’s the only thing keeping me from using my knife for permanent relief.
From Boy Toy, by Barry Lyga: She taught me how to make love, and she taught me how to fuck, and she taught me the difference. We ended up doing more of the latter than the former. …One time, in the panting aftermath of our afternoon session, she lay on the bed in unconscious imitation of that Playmate from Zik’s Playboy an eternity ago.
Beloved, by Tony Morrison: All in their twenties, minus women, fucking cows, dreaming of rape, thrashing on pallets, rubbing their thighs and waiting for the new girl. …She waited a year. And the Sweet Home men abused cows while they waited with her.
19 “After I left you, those boys came in there and took my milk. That’s what they came in there for. Held me down and took it. I told Mrs. Garner on em. She had that lump and couldn’t speak but her eyes rolled out tears. Them boys found out I told on em. School teacher made one open my back and when it closed it made a tree. It grows there still.” …”They used cowhide on you?” …”And they took my milk.” …”They beat you and you was pregnant?” …“And they took my milk!”
Haunted, by Chuck Palahnuik: A collection of short stories told by a group of individuals locked inside a facility together. This book contains aberrant sexual activities involving minors; explicit sexual battery; graphic violence including gore; cannibalism; profanity and derogatory terms; sexual nudity; abortion references; drug and alcohol use; self-harm including anorexia and self-mutilation; and alternate gender ideologies.
96 Percodans. OxyContins. Vicodins. Glass vials of crack and heroin. …I bring a bottle of red wine spiked with Vicodin and Prozac. …My version is all about little Kenny’s long slide from the spotlight to the autopsy table. How he lost his innocence to a long list of network executives in his campaign to become Danny. To keep the sponsors happy, he was farmed out as a sexual plaything.
He took drugs to stay thin. To delay the onset of puberty. To stay up all night, shooting scene after scene. No one, not even his friends and family, nobody knew the depths of his drug habit and perverted need for attention. Even after his career collapsed. Even becoming a D.V.M. was just to get access to good drugs and sex with small animals. The more wine Ken Wilcox drinks, the more he says his life didn’t start until Danny-Next-Door was canceled.
203 They all looked, the firing squad and the uncles and the officer, and there in the dirt was half a cock. Shooo-rook and the officer had cut off his own erection stuck down the throat of this dead woman. The zipper in the officer’s pants was still erupting with his seed, exploding with blood. The officer reached one hand to where his cock lay coated with dirt. His knees buckled.
Heroine, by Mindy McGinnis: https://tinyurl.com/wxpfan33 A teenage girl becomes addicted to oxycontin and heroine after sustaining a sports injury. This book contains drug abuse; alcohol use; profanity; and sexual commentary.
232 I Stop cold. Jadine is pulling needles out of her purse. They’re on a roll like lottery tickets, and sealed in paper like a Band-Aid. It looks sterile and proper, like we’re playing doctor or something. But this isn’t a hospital, and Jadine is no nurse. Josie has gone white, but she does what her sister says, mixing the Oxy, I already crushed with water, then filling a syringe. “Okay, so,” Jadine says, as she flicks the syringe. “This is actually really simple. Look at my arm.” She holds it out, thin and white, her veins easy to spot when she makes a fist. She tells us how to find a good vein, how to make sure it won’t roll, how to tell if you’re in it or not. “Who’s first?” she asks, needle in hand.
Josie and I look at each other, and Jadine laughs. “Look, kids, all the needle does is take out the middleman. The Oxy goes Straight into your bloodstream; you don’t have to wait for it to get absorbed.” It’s pure logic, not taking into account the wicked edge of the needle, the slant of the tip and the drop of Oxy-infused water glimmering there. …
At least Jadine knows what she’s doing. I roll up my sleeve and do as she says, making a fist, then watching as she finds a vein. She shows us how to pull back on the syringe So we see the blood flowing into the water, proof we’ve hit a vein. I’m used to waiting for my Oxy, and I almost enjoy those ten minutes or so of anticipation, knowing that relief is on the way and all I have to do is relax and enjoy it. But then Jadine pushes the plunger and I get everything, all at once, pure bliss in a rush that almost lifts me right up off the ground.
Fuck waiting. One glance at my face and Josie is rolling up her own sleeve, though she doesn’t watch as her sister finds a vein and does the same for her, using a new needle. She makes a small noise, something in between either pleasure or pain, and I don’t know if it’s because of the poke or what comes after. “Better?” Jadine asks, rubbing the inside of her sister’s arm almost tenderly.
“Better,” Josie agrees automatically, her voice soft and dreamy. “How ’bout it, Edes?” Jadine asks, but at some point, our host has dropped Off to sleep in her chair. Jadine gets to her feet, tearing Off a few more needles from the roll in her purse. “I’ll leave you a few, sis,” she says. “Thanks for the ear, and let me know when you’re ready to graduate.” “Graduate?” Josie looks up from the string of needles tossed across the table. “To heroin,” Jadine calls over her shoulder.
A Stolen Life, by Jaycee Dugard: This book contains explicit violence; gore; nudity; inexplicit sexual activities; and mild/infrequent profanity. This book contains aberrant sexual activities involving child molestation, rape, and references to beastiality; sexual nudity; violence; drug abuse; references to animal cruelty; and mild/infrequent profanity.
needs to release the “monkey on his back.” I can’t help but cry, but they are silent tears. He fucks me as hard as he can it seems like. He uses that word a lot. My head is being pushed in between the couch and the pullout bed. I feel like I can’t breathe. He is calling me a fucking whore and a cunt and other things. I want to be somewhere else, but I am here and I must not panic. It hurts more when I try to struggle, so I try not to get away from him, but it’s hard not to want to push away from his sweaty disgusting body. Everything will be okay I tell myself. He will be the nice person soon.
Sometimes when Phillip stays up for days and days and goes on a “run,” he talks about bringing Nancy in to “party with us.” I do not like the sound of that at all. How could I look at her the same way if I had to have sex with her, too? …Phillip also wants to watch his dog, Cesar, have sex with me. He says a dog’s penis is not as long as his and it wouldn’t hurt me as bad. …Why would anyone have sex with a dog? How did Phillip get such crazy ideas?
When he took Katie Callaway, kidnapped and raped her, he used the same excuses he did on me. He had a sex problem he needed help with.
And she said she had caught him once torturing an animal, and I said was it one of my cats, and she nodded her head a few times in the affirmative and then said, “No, no it was a mouse I caught him torturing,” and I said, “A mouse?” …Yes, she didn’t want me to go through all that, but to turn a blind eye to what she knew he was doing to an eleven-year-old girl. How could she entertain little girls in the van and videotape them doing the splits and other things, all for her husband?
Tricks and Traffick, by Ellen Hopkins; Teenage prostitution, lap dancing, 3-way sex, going between hetero- and homosexual sex and heavy drug use.. Rates a 5, complete review: https://www.ratedbooks.org/product-page/tricks-by-ellen-hopkins
Tricks page 323 “Get the fuck away from me.”…The guy is right behind me, beer breath hot on my neck. Iris didn’t lie. You really are a knockout. His arms wrap around me, and his rough hands go straight to my boobs. I try to knock them away but am no match for his strength. You like it rough? ‘Cause I’m just the guy to give it that way No extra charge. The words burn into my ear. “What? What the fuck did you say?”
A sudden burst of will pushes him back, away. I turn to face him. He advances, a thin line of spit leaking from his mouth to his chin. I stare at evil. I said, no extra charge. Already paid two hundred dollars for a good time with you. Might as well make it very good. He’s on me, yanking my hair, pushing me to my knees. He flips me over. You’re even prettier from behind, know that? I hear his zipper lower. It is the loudest sound ever. “Don’t,” I try, but it sticks, pasted to disgust, lodged in my throat. Useless to plead. Useless to fight. He yanks down my shorts in a single swift motion. He is on me. Humiliating me in every possible way, right here on the kitchen floor.
As promised, he is rough. Biting. Pounding. Shredding. Ripping. “Please?” The word bounces off him, ping-pongs weakly in my ears. Trying to fight him only fuels him. For a fleeting second, I think maybe someone will come through the door to save me. And then, despite everything that’s happening to me, I laugh out loud. Save me? What did he say? I already paid for a good time with you. I’ve been sold. And just who would sell me? The answer is all too obvious: Iris. My mother. And as he finishes, all sticky and stinking and revolting, something else suddenly becomes crystal clear. This day was exactly like that other day.
…I use wet paper towels to clean the mess on the linoleum. Under the sink, I find the Pine-Sol, carry it to the shower. It stings, which means it’s working. I scrub my body over and over, washing away all evidence of this afternoon. On TV, they want you to call the cops. Tell. But what do say? “Hey. My mom took money to let some guy rape me.” Who’d believe that?
That’s only eight of the over 110 books available in this area of “study” (and not just in Dover). And this is not gender-affirming literature. It’s junk porn for kids, centered around heterosexual abuse, drugs, rape, sodomy, suicide, and violence. And you paid for it.
I suppose the question you’d like to ask next, assuming you live in Dover (or wherever such quality reading material – including some that have pictures- can be found), is who you should thank. Who can take credit for assembling this reading list and encouraging students to invest their time and brain cells in reading it?
You could start with the School Board; Carolyn Mebert, Jessica Rozzo, Kathleen Morrison, Michelle Clancy, Micaela Demeter, Maggie Fogarty, Robin Trefethen Michelle Muffett-Lipinski, Jack Gosselin, William Harbron; City Council; Robert Carrier, Dennis Shanahan, Lindsey Williams, Linnea Nemeth, Michelle Muffett-Lipinski, Robert Hinkel, Deborah Thibodeaux, Debra Hackett, Fergus Cullen.
And let’s not forget the Dover Book Review Committee:
And, of course, Book Committee chair Matt Mayberry, who I am told was instrumental in keeping the book Tricks, by Ellen Hopkins, in the High School!
Be sure to thank him as well, all of them. Thank you for realizing that what children in public school need is not math or reading skills but an innate lust for a tawdry lifestyle centered on drugs, violence, sex, and abuse. After all, no great civilization can exist without an underclass, and how kind of you to decide that it should be the children of others whom you are being paid to “educate.”
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The Biden Administration launched a new office of the president. Its official title is the Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response Policy (OPPR). Its offical purpose is to “Coordinate the Administration’s domestic response to public health threats that have pandemic potential.”
So yeah, there will be more pandemics, only this time, they tyranny will be pre-prepared.
Coordinate the Administration’s domestic response to public health threats that have pandemic potential, or may cause significant disruption, and strengthen domestic pandemic preparedness. This includes ongoing work to address potential public health outbreaks and threats from COVID-19, Mpox, polio, avian and human influenza, and RSV.
Drive and coordinate federal science and technology efforts related to pandemic preparedness. Specifically, OPPR will oversee efforts to develop, manufacture, and procure the next generation of medical countermeasures, including leveraging emerging technologies and working with HHS on next generation vaccines and treatments for COVID-19 and other public health threats. During the height of the pandemic, the Biden-Harris Administration made historic investments in COVID-19 vaccines, tests, and treatments that were made widely available. OPPR will continue to leverage these investments as it drives future progress in combatting COVID-19 and other public health threats.
Develop and provide periodic reports to Congress. As required by statute, OPPR will develop and provide to Congress a biennial Preparedness Review and Report and Preparedness Outlook Report every five years.
The head of the department is a retired Major General Paul Friedrichs, who “is currently Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Global Health Security and Biodefense at the National Security Council (NSC). Prior to joining the NSC, Dr. Friedrichs most recently served as the Joint Staff Surgeon and the medical advisor to the Department of Defense (DoD) COVID-19 Task Force.”
A Ministry of Medical Truth and Consequence funded and operated out of the White House. What could go wrong?
They did, after all, do such a bang-up job with COVID. A military-style national mobilization that tramples people’s rights as a means to inject hundreds of millions of Americans with a dangerous biological agent without transparency or accountability.
You can read the press release, but my sense is that the OPPR was created to shield the weaponized and politicized Public Health Industrial Complex from scrutiny. An added layer of military protocol with its own Pandemic DEF CON, hiding behind National Security.
Public entities were able to pry tens of thousands of pages of documents from the FDA and CDC, which have proven damaging. And while the corporate media hasn’t shown much interest in them, except to ignore them and continue their cries of conspiracy and misinformation, the government’s own records are out there.
They needed another bulwark even though the CDC, which answers to the Chief Executive, has had pandemic response protocol for decades.
Will FEMA answer to Major General Paul Friedrichs, who has many more credits to his name, including “As the United States’ representative to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Committee of Military Medical Chiefs, he worked closely with many of America’s closest allies and partners throughout the pandemic and in developing medical support to the Ukrainian military.”
So many questions the media will never ask or answer.
And is it just me, or does Major General Paul Friedrichs look like a creepy pedophile?
HT | Leo Hohmann
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Historically, Grand Juries, an institution inherited from England, were designed to act as buffers between over-zealous and/or overreaching prosecutors and anyone from the public who might be accused of a crime. In other words, it was originally designed to protect individuals. The members serving on a Grand Jury (the “Grand Jurors”) are lay people from the community.
A Grand Jury often meets for months at a time and usually considers multiple matters, while a trial jury, called a petit jury, only meets to hear a single case before it.
A petit jury is usually comprised of from 6 to 12 members, while a Grand Jury is usually comprised of from 16 to 23 members, depending on which federal or state law is applicable.
A Grand Jury will examine proposed criminal cases based upon presentations by the prosecutor and testimony of witnesses. In current practice, an accused who is the subject of a Grand Jury proceeding may not even know that he or she is the subject of the proceeding, and does not even have the right to appear and make his or her case for innocence before the Grand Jury votes on whether to issue an indictment (called a “true bill”) or refuses to issue an indictment (called a “no true bill”).
And anyone who does appear before a Grand Jury generally does not have the right to be accompanied before the Grand Jury by counsel- so one can often see the spectacle of a person testifying before a Grand Jury with their counsel outside in the hall and they must leave the Grand Jury room (where secrecy prevails) and step outside from time to time to consult with counsel.
An indictment only indicates that at least a majority of the members of the Grand Jury have determined, based upon the presentation by the prosecutor and the testimony of witnesses, that there appears to be sufficient evidence to bring criminal charges to trial, and that the prosecutor can proceed with a criminal case. It is definitely not a finding of guilt or innocence. Guilt or innocence is ultimately determined by a petit jury (or a judge if a jury trial has been waived by the defendant).
Not every criminal case is based upon an indictment from a Grand Jury. Some criminal cases may be brought by the issuance by the prosecutor of a charging document sometimes called an “information” or simply a criminal complaint.
Finally, many non-lawyers possibly have not heard what is common knowledge among lawyers: that a prosecutor directing the activities of a Grand Jury could indict a ham sandwich.
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The Northwood Republican Town Committee endorses James Guzofski in the Rockingham 1 Northwood Nottingham Republican primary special election on Tuesday, August 1, 2023.
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The Northwood Republican Town Committee normally doesn’t endorse in primary elections; however, we feel strongly in our support for James and have chosen to endorse him wholeheartedly. We have supported him in the past few years in his runs and wins onto the Northwood Select Board and are thrilled at the job he is doing serving on that board as well as all the other ways he serves the Northwood community.
Our economy is in great decline. We have record inflation and rising energy costs which are financially crippling us all. Our schools are failing our children, while parental rights are eroding, and our individual freedoms and liberties are being chipped away at. It’s truly a time of uncertainty, and we need a NH State Representative who will listen to us and be our voice in the NH State House.
In addition to the great work James Guzofski does on the Northwood select board, James also serves on the Northwood Fire Department as Chaplin, where he sees firsthand the dedication and commitment of our first responders. James has also served in the Ministry for 34 years and knows the importance of listening to people. James is regularly found around Northwood seeking out feedback and concerns from community members so that he knows how to better serve our community.
James wholeheartedly believes in our freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and our Second Amendment rights which he will protect and defend. James is a tireless fighter for truth and freedom.
The past few years, we have seen the great job James has done serving on the Northwood Select Board and how he has made such a positive impact in our community. This is why the Northwood Republican Town Committee is officially endorsing James Guzofski; we know he is the candidate we want and need as our New Hampshire State Representative and that he will be the best choice to be our voice in the NH State House.
This is a crucial special election that could determine the control of the New Hampshire House of Representatives. We need everyone in Rockingham District 1 Northwood Nottingham to come out and vote for James Guzofski on August 1, 2023.
Cheryl Dean
Northwood Republican Town Chair
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Democrats campaign on civility, holding political opponents to that standard but rarely any of their own and only under extreme circumstances. As in, when the “you took them out of context” BS won’t fly. So here’s one for the “adults” in the room who ran on unity blah blah blah.
A local school board president in California has been inundated with threats that left-wing activists will dismember her, kill her children, and slaughter her pets. Her crime? Saying that teachers should not keep parents in the dark if their children begin to “identify” as transgender. …
“The next morning, our district got a phone call” from an anonymous caller threatening “to kill me, and they said that they were going to dismember” school board president Sonja Shaw, the official revealed on “Washington Watch With Tony Perkins” on Monday. Police alerted Shaw to the threat shortly before a previous interview on the show last Friday.
… Shaw looked at her district email account, where she said she saw messages stating, “You’re going to die,” with a series of profane epithets. “Your children are going to die, and your animals are going to die.” For a “point of reference, they would name what kind of animals I had,” Shaw added.
“I also got notification that people who identify as being in the terrorist organization Antifa posted on their website, ‘We declare war on Sonja Shaw,’” Shaw told Perkins, adding that the group posted her address. “They said, ‘We know where you sleep,’” the same message an angry mob screamed outside the home of then-Fox News host Tucker Carlson in 2018. “They said things like, ‘Use all force possible to stop her.’”
There’s an awful lot in there for the Dems to denounce. We’ve got discrimination, hate crimes, criminal threatening, and doxxing – which should get at least a few of them uppity. Nothing gets NH Democrat women wound up like sharing their actual voting records … or being pro-choice, anti-grooming, pro-self-defense, pro-free speech, a tax cutter; the list is too long; I’ll stop there. My point is that his woman, in elected office, has been threatened with harm and death by reliably left-Wing pro-Democrat activists, as have her family,
And not a peep out of these pro-civility people before politics Democrats.
Shouldn’t there be lengthy debates on their social media or videos on Tik Tok or Instagram pleading with these activists to stop the H8?
No outrage.
Well, I suppose that once they’ve heard the story, they will be outraged … at Sonja Shaw. She is the head of a school board, elected by … parents and taxpayers, whose 4-1 majority was clear in its position. It happens to be a position they do not share; therefore, whatever passes for expression can’t possibly be called hate or incivility. Sharing her home address is not doxxing. It is necessary so the mobs threatening to dismember her can find her home and family.
But no worries. Come election or re-election time; they’ll be all about people over politics or civility or being the adults in the room.
It’s all complete bullsh!t, but it keeps working, so that thing about fooling some of the people some of the time might need an edit.
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There’s a lot of censorship of information about the corruption of America’s political system. The point is our system of government has been corrupted. If this assertion is true, we need to do something about it and do it now.
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Last week Laura Demlo, FBI Section Chief of the Foreign Information Taskforce, testified before Congress. She said the FBI knew in 2019 the Hunter Biden laptop was real. Even though the FBI knew it was real, the FBI advised social media companies it might be Russian disinformation.
You should care about this because polling done after the election shows a significant number of voters, enough voters to have reversed the results of the presidential election, would have changed their vote if they knew this or if they believed it was true… which it was. That makes what the FBI did both consequential and premeditated election interference.
October 14, 2020, was less than a month before the general election day, but we did not have an election day; we had a voting season. So a lot of people voted without the opportunity to have the information from the New York Post story. Worse, there was no way to change their vote.
On that day the FBI held an emergency meeting with Twitter to discuss the Hunter Biden laptop. It was an emergency because the New York Post released the Hunter Biden Laptop story earlier in the day. The story was before the public though not yet widely disseminated and accepted.
The New York Post story asserted: The Post had verified the laptop. And its contents were real, which was blockbuster information in and of itself. The story went on to say the device held evidence of a host of crimes including then-candidate Biden taking money from the governments of China, Ukraine, and Romania.
With the Post having broken the story, how would the rest of the media respond? We now know the FBI held a series of meetings with media outlets. It was a coordinated political damage control effort.
In the Twitter meeting, a Twitter manager asked the FBI directly, “Is the laptop real?” The FBI agents in the meeting initially said yes. Later, as the meeting progressed, another FBI member said, “No, we’ll offer no comment.”
From that point forward, the official FBI response became either “No, we offer no comment.” or “The laptop could be Russian disinformation; we aren’t sure so we are not going to comment.” But the FBI did know for sure. They knew the device was Hunter Biden’s laptop. The FBI knew the contents had not been altered.
The position of no comment, or we’re not sure, was used as justification to ban all mention of the laptop and its being real. That’s what the media did. They suppressed the story and censored the information. They were complicit, whether knowingly or unknowingly, in the FBI’s election interference.
Then on October 19, 2020, Politico ran a letter signed by 51 former intelligence officials that said the Hunter Biden laptop had all the classic earmarks of a classic Russian information operation. One might ask how such a letter sprang forth.
Perhaps we should ask Anthony Blinken. Perhaps he could help us understand how this letter originated. Perhaps he could help us understand how it got circulated for signature and then got disseminated to the media.
It turns out that the letter, the Politico story was false. It was generated by the Biden campaign. Have we ever had any other Democrat Presidential Candidate who made claims of Russian disinformation? How many repetitions, over how much time does it take to see a pattern? The idea of Russian disinformation regarding the laptop became “settled” proof in the media.
The FBI plus the Intelligence community plus the media, the team moved the ball across the goal line. Joe Biden is president as a direct result. Maybe that’s not stealing an election. Maybe there’s another name for it. But it does not change who the occupant of the Oval Office is, does it?
There was a poll from Harvard Harris in late October 2020 that showed a majority of Americans believed the laptop was Russian disinformation. It wasn’t. This is an American example of the “The Big Lie.” The FBI knew the truth. The FBI said nothing.
A separate poll from Tip Insights showed 60% of Americans were not going to follow the story of the Hunter Biden laptop; logically, why would they? It was fake news. In the Tip Insight poll was another conclusion: If the voters had known the laptop was real, and the information on it was unaltered, a majority of people would have voted differently. But people did not know, and the rest… is history.
The facts now show the 2020 election was not free and fair. Say what you will about voting irregularities, but the voters were knowingly manipulated by a government agency with the help of the press. That happened. We had a Presidential candidate engaged in corruption with our enemy China.
There is a long history of bias in the media. The media is slanted to the Left. They spread false information and suppress facts when they don’t like where they think it might take us. We can understand that. We all have a right to listen to the sources we put our trust in.
But why did the FBI do this? What exactly are we paying the FBI to do? They are a law enforcement agency. They are supposed to be apolitical. That’s what we pay them to be. But today, that’s not true. So what should we do about that?
Do you remember back in 2019 when the Inspector General of the Department of Justice (IG) came in with a report on the FBI? Well, he told us as a result of his investigation FBI Director James Comey leaked classified information to the press.
Comey leaked to damage then-President Trump. Did Comey get indicted for leaking classified information? The IG found The FBI director broke the law because he wished to harm Trump; he did not like Trump for personal political reasons. That’s from the IG report.
The IG also said in the report findings, “Comey set a dangerous example for the over 35,000 FBI employees.” The danger is that those employees watched their director engage in personal partisan politics and get away with it.
This makes them think, if he can do it, why can’t I? Do we want our FBI employees spending their time picking political winners and losers? That’s not what we hired them for… not why we pay them. What’s the purpose of the Hatch Act?
The problem is: When we have the federal government and executive branch employees engaged in such political activity, our republic is over. At that point, we live in tyranny. The deep state has taken control.
We the people, no longer matter. So the IG was correct. This is important. And it isn’t about Republicans or Democrats. This is about our freedom, our lives and yes, even our ability to pursue happiness as we understand it.
Isn’t what we are seeing now exactly what the IG pointed out as dangerous? There are credible allegations of Joe Biden and his family engaging in corruption. How can we have confidence in Biden’s decision-making? Is he acting in your best interest or is he working as directed by foreign actors?
The FBI leaders and employees chose to bury the information along with their media partners. We, as voters, were not allowed to give our informed consent in the 2020 election with respect to the choice for President. That’s tyranny.
The FBI changed the result of the election and maybe the fate of the country. The FBI decided for you who would occupy the oval office. This story is important; it is ongoing. The same players are still in place, in the same offices, at the same agency today. If anything, their arrogance has grown, and the threat has expanded.
It is vital that we fix this problem. The weaponization of our federal bureaucracy against us is exactly what caused those extremist founders to separate their colonies from the King of England to form our nation. We have to agree on whether or not we can govern ourselves.
Do we want the responsibility that comes with citizenship? If not, get out of the shackles and try to find some that you find comfortable. Once you are in them, getting out requires all your blood, your treasure, and your sacred honor. So, which side are you on?
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