Thursday • January 9 • 2025
Vol.XVII • No.II
Manchester, N.H.
We are bombarded daily with a cesspool of disinformation from the media, the White House, and Democrats in Congress. Their constant false accusations, invented scandals, investigations, and public persecution of a former president is tedious.
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Their manufactured new justifications into their attempt to keep President Trump out of the White House in January 2025 are nothing short of illegal election interference.
If you’re a Democrat reading this, you probably enjoy the excitement of the witch hunt. Maybe you don’t realize – or care – that the talking heads on the liberal news and talk shows are manipulating and shaping your attitudes based on their opinions rather than reporting the truth and the facts.
If you’re an Independent or a Republican, you have a clearer head, and you refuse to be influenced by the mainstream media.
The same media who portrayed the sham J6 Commission as a court of law and tried to give them false credence with their unfounded accusations. Without a shred of evidence. Their constant erroneous claims that Trump tried to “overturn” the election are misleading. He was challenging the vote, not trying to overturn it.
The Electoral Count Act of 1887, a U.S. federal law, allows a provision to challenge the certification of votes. “Objections to individual state returns must be made in writing by at least one Member each of the Senate and House of Representatives. If an objection meets these requirements, the joint session recesses, and the two houses separate and debate the question in their respective chambers for a maximum of two hours.”
In the last 20 years, Democrats have objected three times to electoral college certifications in 2001, 2005, and 2017. Their objections were thrown out because they could not find a senator who was willing to certify their challenge.
Were they wrong for objecting? Not necessarily. Was it legal? Yes. They were all within their rights to object. Interestingly, one of the congressional objectors in 2017, Sen. Barbara Lee (D-CA), cited “malfunction of 87 voting machines” in her challenge.
Riddle me this: How was that acceptable for Democrats in 2017 to challenge the vote, and yet the same objections were labeled as “overturning the vote” for Republicans in 2020? There is only one word for that: Deception.
But, the people are coming to a new realization. Finally, Democrat operatives (think: CNN, MSNBC, and their other media pals) are being exposed for their disinformation and censuring machine and for going after those who don’t agree with them. Now with this new realization, the power is coming back to the people.
I see this awakening every day when talking to ordinary voters in the grocery store, the post office, and out in the neighborhoods during my daily activities. When I wear my MAGA hat, people tell me they love my hat.
I tell them that Make America Great Again is not just a movement. It’s Truth. And it’s growing.
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OK, I hope that partial quote from Patrizia Mirigliani, who runs the Miss Italy beauty pageant, is yet another clue that the Transgender Mafia is losing both steam and has run out of most peoples’ patience with the constant “Do you want a dead son or a live daughter” emotional blackmail schtick. Add to that, that “trans rights are human rights” except THEIR “rights” include taking away others’ true Rights like Freedom of Speech (“We declare you WILL use our pronouns – even if we change them three times a day and you’ll be in a world of hurt if you don’t get them right the first time”) and that Parents are in charge (and are responsible for) of their children and not the children themselves OR The State when it comes to “trans children”.
But I digress (reformatted, emphasis mine):
Italian beauty pageant Miss Italy has banned biological males from entering its competition. Patrizia Mirigliani, who oversees the nation’s beauty pageant, said “only women since birth” are welcome to compete while she is in charge of the event. Mirigliani told Radio Cusano in a recent interview that there will be no trans at Miss Italy, the most popular beauty contest in the country, and that any beauty competitions that allow biological male competitors only do because they want to create media buzz.
“Lately, beauty contests have been trying to make the news by also using strategies that I think are a bit absurd,” Mirigliani said. “Miss Italia, on the other hand, will not jump on the glittery bandwagon of trans activism.”
Brava! Huzzah! Bazinga! Womens’ Rights and all that – and if ya got a prostate, ya not a woman.
Therefore, as long as Mirigliani is at the helm of Miss Italy, “only those who are women, biologically speaking, can participate, and not those who perceive themselves as such,” Il Primato Naziomale reported.
So, straight guys (after all, “cisgender” should now be considered to be a slur like honky and haole, while the gal on the left isn’t wearing Italian colors, would you want the real thing or the fake one on the right? Isn’t it misogynist for someone of the Patriarchy (hee-hee!) waltzing into a women’s competition and beating them at their own game? Isn’t that what Feminism was supposed to oppose? Yet, I see too many “femisnists” going along with the falsehood that guy pretending to be a woman (and a poor one at that, looking at Mulvaney) and basically dissing other women in trying to be “inclusive” even a you are excluding women from their own competitions?
But, that’s what the Trans-Authoritarians are all about – the redefining of our common language to create chaos and for political gain.
And norms. Don’t let me forget norms. After all, and ask yourself this: if there are no more norms, then anything is permissible, right? And I do mean anything?
Still kinda thinking that the gal on the left could beat the wimp on the right even if he is a guy. Odds, anyone?
Oh yeah, Bud Light has now dropped to 15th place; WINNING!
(H/T: Brietbart)
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One of the many pages of documents pried from the FDA and Pfizer by court order explains a process that includes Graphene Oxide. Some have jumped on this as proof it is in the vaccines themselves. Is it? Let’s take a look.
Graphene Oxide appears once in the 14-page document, which you can review here. Expose’ news has more here. And that leads us to the Graphene Oxide in the COVID Vaccines conspiracy theory. Or perhaps I should say the narrative that its presence is a conspiracy theory.
I’ve read the Expose report but am not convinced of their conclusion. They say it is proof that it’s in the vaccine, but I could not tell if the citation regards manufacturing or a testing process, but my initial gut sense was the latter.
To help that debate along, I found a DEC 2020 research paper published by the NIH, titled “Potential of graphene-based materials to combat COVID-19: properties, perspectives, and Prospects,” which appears to prepare the battle space for how graphene “may contribute to fighting against COVID-19.”
Graphene and graphene-related materials (GRMs) exhibit extraordinary physicochemical, electrical, optical, antiviral, antimicrobial, and other fascinating properties that warrant them as potential candidates for designing and development of high-performance components and devices required for COVID-19 pandemic and other futuristic calamities. In this article, we discuss the potential of graphene and GRMs for healthcare applications and how they may contribute to fighting against COVID-19.
The paper is not, in fact, about sneaking Graphene into vaccines but how it could prevent the spread of SARS CoV2 or other viruses on contact surfaces or used in materials that make up PPE.
In the present pandemic situation, where the COVID-19 cases are exponentially increasing each day globally, the development of efficient anti-SARS-CoV-2 protective surfaces/coatings can play a significant role in controlling the viral spread through high touch components, products, and systems.
Graphene is also considered a potential component in virus detection devices, but nowhere does it indicate its use in vaccines.
Additionally, Fact Checkers – who can’t typically be trusted, appear to confirm that this “document in question describes a validation process in the lab that uses graphene oxide, but that process is not part of the manufacturing process.” …
The document describes a validation process in a lab, according to Dr. Thomas Russo, chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University at Buffalo’s Department of Medicine.
“That shows an evaluative process, not how it is made,” he said of the document.
Call it confirmation bias, but that – as noted above – was my initial gut feeling. So where does that leave me on the question?
A million things are wrong with the political and public health response to COVID-19 and as many or more as regards the “vaccine.” We’ve documented most of them and will continue to try and report on each again – especially when the media or the Public Health Industrial Complex is forced to admit defeat. That what they labeled a conspiracy theory has turned out to be true. The Expose piece, however, is not adding truth, as far as I can tell, given the context of the document cited.
If doctors, researchers, or scientists from around the globe have reported traces of Graphene in vaccines or blood samples, those need to be addressed individually with an unbiased eye. The Machine has, after all, been known to use the internet to catalyze false ideas to make people who have made otherwise cogent observations about the failure of the response to COVID (as one example) look like cranks whose corpus is then labeled as disingenuous by association.
I’m not here to deny any claim that might be legitimate but to point out that the Pfizer Doc in question is not proof that they put it in the juice, and you should avoid suggesting otherwise. But I will add that the Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN) produces zero results for a search of Graphene. And a search of Daily Clout.io (Naomi Wolf’s website) for graphene oxide also has zero results.
Both sights have done a rigorous review of the many documents pried from Pfizer and the FDA, and its absence in my mind is telling.
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Dear Dennis, Deborah, and Ed: Thank you for taking the time to reach out to me and Reps Cambrils and See, as well as Senator Pearl. I appreciate anyone who takes the time to engage in public discourse, and I want to similarly take the time to respond in detail.
On Tuesday, July 18, 2023 , D and D <********@gmail.com> wrote:
Gents NH has dropped to 40th place in a CNBC poll for business-friendly states. This is concerning, and one must wonder if priorities need to be adjusted here in NH to reverse this precipitous decline. Thank You Dennis and Deborah From: Ed <********@yahoo.com>
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Get ready for the next phase of the government’s war on thought crimes: mental health round-ups and involuntary detentions.
Under the guise of public health and safety, the government could use mental health care as a pretext for targeting and locking up dissidents, activists, and anyone unfortunate enough to be placed on a government watch list.
If we don’t nip this in the bud, and soon, this will become yet another pretext by which government officials can violate the First and Fourth Amendments at will.
This is how it begins.
In communities across the nation, police are being empowered to forcibly detain individuals they believe might be mentally ill, based solely on their own judgment, even if those individuals pose no danger to others.
In New York City, for example, you could find yourself forcibly hospitalized for suspected mental illness if you carry “firmly held beliefs not congruent with cultural ideas,” exhibit a “willingness to engage in meaningful discussion,” have “excessive fears of specific stimuli,” or refuse “voluntary treatment recommendations.”
While these programs are ostensibly aimed at getting the homeless off the streets, when combined with advances in mass surveillance technologies, artificial intelligence-powered programs that can track people by their biometrics and behavior, mental health sensor data (tracked by wearable data and monitored by government agencies such as HARPA), threat assessments, behavioral sensing warnings, precrime initiatives, red flag gun laws, and mental health first-aid programs aimed at training gatekeepers to identify who might pose a threat to public safety, they could well signal a tipping point in the government’s efforts to penalize those engaging in so-called “thought crimes.”
As the AP reports, federal officials are already looking into how to add “‘identifiable patient data,’ such as mental health, substance use and behavioral health information from group homes, shelters, jails, detox facilities and schools,” to its surveillance toolkit.
Now, through the use of red flag laws, behavioral threat assessments, and pre-crime policing prevention programs, the groundwork is being laid that would allow the government to weaponize the label of mental illness as a means of exiling those whistleblowers, dissidents and freedom fighters who refuse to march in lockstep with its dictates.
Of course, this is all part of a larger trend in American governance whereby dissent is criminalized and pathologized, and dissenters are censored, silenced, declared unfit for society, labelled dangerous or extremist, or turned into outcasts and exiled.
Red flag gun laws (which authorize government officials to seize guns from individuals viewed as a danger to themselves or others), are a perfect example of this mindset at work and the ramifications of where this could lead.
As The Washington Post reports, these red flag gun laws “allow a family member, roommate, beau, law enforcement officer or any type of medical professional to file a petition [with a court] asking that a person’s home be temporarily cleared of firearms. It doesn’t require a mental-health diagnosis or an arrest.”
With these red flag gun laws, the stated intention is to disarm individuals who are potential threats.
While in theory it appears perfectly reasonable to want to disarm individuals who are clearly suicidal and/or pose an “immediate danger” to themselves or others, where the problem arises is when you put the power to determine who is a potential danger in the hands of government agencies, the courts and the police.
Remember, this is the same government that uses the words “anti-government,” “extremist” and “terrorist” interchangeably.
This is the same government whose agents are spinning a sticky spider-web of threat assessments, behavioral sensing warnings, flagged “words,” and “suspicious” activity reports using automated eyes and ears, social media, behavior sensing software, and citizen spies to identify potential threats.
This is the same government that keeps re-upping the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which allows the military to detain American citizens with no access to friends, family or the courts if the government believes them to be a threat.
This is the same government that has a growing list—shared with fusion centers and law enforcement agencies—of ideologies, behaviors, affiliations and other characteristics that could flag someone as suspicious and result in their being labeled potential enemies of the state.
For instance, if you believe in and exercise your rights under the Constitution (namely, your right to speak freely, worship freely, associate with like-minded individuals who share your political views, criticize the government, own a weapon, demand a warrant before being questioned or searched, or any other activity viewed as potentially anti-government, racist, bigoted, anarchic or sovereign), you could be at the top of the government’s terrorism watch list.
Moreover, as a New York Times editorial warns, you may be an anti-government extremist (a.k.a. domestic terrorist) in the eyes of the police if you are afraid that the government is plotting to confiscate your firearms, if you believe the economy is about to collapse and the government will soon declare martial law, or if you display an unusual number of political and/or ideological bumper stickers on your car.
Let that sink in a moment.
Now consider the ramifications of giving police that kind of authority in order to preemptively neutralize a potential threat, and you’ll understand why some might view these mental health round-ups with trepidation.
No matter how well-meaning the politicians make these encroachments on our rights appear, in the right (or wrong) hands, benevolent plans can easily be put to malevolent purposes.
Even the most well-intentioned government law or program can be—and has been—perverted, corrupted and used to advance illegitimate purposes once profit and power are added to the equation.
The war on terror, the war on drugs, the war on illegal immigration, the war on COVID-19: all of these programs started out as legitimate responses to pressing concerns and have since become weapons of compliance and control in the government’s hands. For instance, the very same mass surveillance technologies that were supposedly so necessary to fight the spread of COVID-19 are now being used to stifle dissent, persecute activists, harass marginalized communities, and link people’s health information to other surveillance and law enforcement tools.
As I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People and in its fictional counterpart The Erik Blair Diaries, we are moving fast down that slippery slope to an authoritarian society in which the only opinions, ideas and speech expressed are the ones permitted by the government and its corporate cohorts.
Reprinted with permission from The Rutherford Institute.
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You have to wonder if #woke women’s sports athletes are putting up with men in their sport because it improves the odds someone will care enough to watch it. Being athletic or good doesn’t seem to matter. It’s never enough.
Women’s basketball doesn’t draw much of a crowd in the US, but you’d think World Cup Soccer could everywhere else. It does when it’s the men. But FIFA is begging people to buy tickets for the Women’s World Cup tournament Down Under.
With the Women’s World Cup getting underway Thursday, CNN reported Wednesday that FIFA was still struggling to sell tickets to the monthlong event, which is being co-hosted by Australia and New Zealand.
In an effort to turn that around, FIFA President Gianni Infantino implored New Zealanders to purchase tickets for the women’s soccer showcase.
“New Zealand, we want you. We need you,” Infantino said during a news conference Wednesday in Auckland.
“It’s never too late to do the right thing. Come to watch the matches. We need full stadiums to warm us all up,” he added, emphasizing the significance of enthusiastic support from the home crowd.
Warm us up? Yes, it’s winter in New Zealand, which begs the question, why there. The same report notes that the local women’s team stinks and Soccer isn’t all that popular. What was FIFA thinking? Let’s find the worst place to hold a Women’s World Cup and then complain when no one shows up.
And New Zealand might not be the worst place for Women’s Soccer. They could have picked Qatar, Saudi Arabia, or Iran, where women are more property than people, but they at least like Soccer.
New Zealand sounds like a top ten worst place to do this, and they are doing it, and it’s not going well. And it’s not just because it’s cold. So the problem might not just be women’s Soccer. It might be the folks at FIFA. And it wouldn’t be the first time the world has had a problem with them.
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From a “Continuity of the Nation (e.g., WE) to the Continuity of Government (NOT we the people):
…Within the very brief discussion period that led up to the 10-26-01 Patriot Act [pdf here], literally a structural reform of the entire domestic terrorist apparatus that created the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Transportation Safety Administration (TSA), a bill only debated for a few weeks, the baseline was the enhanced ‘continuity of government‘ in the event of an emergency.
As we have exhaustively outlined on these pages, the outcome of the Patriot Act was to create a system where every American was now viewed by our federal government through the prism of the citizen being a potential terrorist threat. The federal government aligned all of our institutions and systems accordingly.
DHS was created to monitor American behavior, the TSA was created to scan American travelers, and the FBI was enhanced with resources to conduct surveillance despite our Fourth Amendment protections within our Constitution. Instead of the U.S. Govt protecting U.S. citizens from foreign threats, the Patriot Act changed the mission of government to protect itself from potential citizen threats.
In essence, We the People became the suspects, and all of the constitutional viewpoints within the FBI and Dept of Justice were modified to create monitoring systems…
…The continuity of a very specific construct of government…The continuity of a view within government of how government should operate.
By the time the 2016 election arrived, We the People had already been defined by the Patriot Act outcome as a threat to government. If we the people did not select the right kind of candidate who would be approved by the continuity system, then our selection would be rejected by all of the operators of that administrative system. That’s what happened.
…We the People are the threat, and those who control the DC power centers that determine the continuity of government, will not accept any modification or diminishment of their mission.
-Sundance
We were founded to be a People that happened to have a government. However, as I wrote out here, Government is now separating itself from We The People being in charge as the Progressive Governor has realized that, for all of the Left pointing the bony finger at the Right yammering “threat to Democracy!”, he can bypass Democracy because The Administrative State has become too powerful and is unaccountable.
Here, too, Sundance is making the case that Government has become its own VERY Special Interest Group and is dissuaded that it is taking on all of the regalia of a Monarchy. Our question must be, in following the admonition of “If you are going to kill the King, KILL THE KING!”, how can we do so?
The bureaucracy has rapidly become, not the courtiers and the other members of the feudal aristocracy, but the multiheaded King themselves.
(H/T: The Conservative Treehouse)
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The Constitution was supposed to create a general government limited to a few specific listed powers. Instead, we ended up with the biggest, most powerful government in the history of the world.
What happened?
And who’s to blame?
James Madison outlined the limited scope of federal authority in Federalist #45, writing that its powers would be “few and defined.” The powers left to the state governments and the people themselves would be “numerous and indefinite.”
Madison went on to explain that federal power “will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce; with which last the power of taxation will, for the most part, be connected.”
“The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people, and the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the State.”
Today, Madison’s description has been flipped on its head. The federal government reaches into every nook and cranny of our lives. It even tells us how much water we can have in our toilet and what kind of health insurance we must carry. Meanwhile, the states have been turned into administrative wards of the federal government with virtually no independence or authority.
Things clearly didn’t go as Madison and other supporters of the Constitution envisioned.
A lot of people blame the Constitution itself, citing the famous quote by abolitionist Lysander Spooner, who wrote that the Constitution either authorized the government we got or it was powerless to stop it and is therefore “unfit to exist.”
But even at the time of the founding, people generally understood that constitutions were powerless to restrain a government. After all, they’re just words on paper, or as James Madison and others described them, “parchment barriers.”
Madison warned against relying on parchment barriers alone in Federalist #48.
“The conclusion which I am warranted in drawing from these observations is, that a mere demarkation on parchment of the constitutional limits of the several departments, is not a sufficient guard against those encroachments which lead to a tyrannical concentration of all the powers of government in the same hands.”
Parchment barriers need enforcement.
And that’s where we’ve had a breakdown.
John Dickinson was known as the penman of the Revolution. He also wrote in support of ratifying the Constitution under the penname Fabius. In the third Fabius essay, Dickinson tells us exactly who we should blame for this runaway federal government.
Just as Madison did, Dickinson argued that the authority of the federal government would be limited under the proposed Constitution, writing, “In short, the government of each state is, and is to be, sovereign and supreme in all matters that relate to each state only. It is to be subordinate barely in those matters that relate to the whole.” [Emphasis added]
And he tells us exactly who to blame if it doesn’t work out that way.
“It will be their own faults if the several states suffer the federal sovereignty to interfere in things of their respective jurisdictions.” [Emphasis added]
Supporters of ratification weren’t counting on the Constitution to keep the federal government within its limits. They were counting on the states (and the people) to enforce the Constitution and keep the federal government within its proper sphere.
In fact, Dickinson was convinced that the states would do their jobs.
“An instance of such interference with regard to any single state, will be a dangerous precedent as to all, and therefore will be guarded against by all, as the trustees or servants of the several states will not dare, if they retain their sense, so to violate the independent sovereignty of their respective states.” [Emphasis added]
Dickinson expected that the states would guard their sovereignty and resist if the federal government invaded it. Roger Sheman held similar expectations, writing’ that “when the government of the united (sic) States acts within its proper bounds it will be the interest of the legislatures of the particular States to Support it, but when it leaps over those bounds and interferes with the rights of the State governments they will be powerful enough to check it.” [Emphasis added]
During the Massachusetts ratifying convention, delegate Fisher Ames expressed a similar viewpoint, asserting that the states were “the best security” against the subversion of the Constitution.
“The State Governments represent the wishes and feelings, and the local interests of the people. They are the safeguard and ornament of the Constitution; they will protect the period of our liberties; they will afford a shelter against the abuse of power, and will be the natural avengers of our violated rights.”
James Madison even provided a blueprint for resisting federal overreach in Federalist #46.
In a nutshell, we can’t blame the Constitution for not enforcing itself. And the mechanism for preserving the Constitution and keeping the federal government within its limits was in place from the beginning. The states didn’t do their job.
But when you get to the root of things, there is another culprit.
The people.
After all, the states are merely a society of people. And it’s the people’s job to guard their own liberty.
In his Fabius IV, Dickinson revisited the idea of holding government in check. He noted that “a good constitution promotes, but not always produces a good administration” but that “a bad administration may take place.”
“What is then to be done?” Dickinson asked.
His answer was that it’s ultimately up to the “supreme sovereignty of the people.”
“IT IS THEIR DUTY TO WATCH, AND THEIR RIGHT TO TAKE CARE, THAT THE CONSTITUTION BE PRESERVED. Or in the Roman phrase on perilous occasions—TO PROVIDE, THAT THE REPUBLIC RECEIVE NO DAMAGE.[Emphasis original]
And that brings us back to Spooner.
In response to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, he penned a pamphlet titled “A Defence for Fugitive Slaves.” He argued that the “right and the physical power of the people to resist injustice” are the only security they have for their liberties.
“Practically no government knows any limit to its power but the endurance of the people.”
He also asserted that “the right of the people, therefore, to resist an unconstitutional law, is absolute and unqualified, from the moment the law is enacted.”
Ultimately, we can’t count on the federal government to limit itself, and parchment barriers are insufficient. And we can’t count on state governments to do their job checking the feds. It’s up to the people to resist and stop submitting to illegitimate federal actions. As John Hancock put it, “the powers reserved by the people render them secure.”
But as James Otis Jr. warned, “So long as people will submit to arbitrary measures, so long will they find masters.”
Mike Maharrey | The Tenth Amendment Center
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Don’t expect anyone to learn any lessons from this, but the Department of Defense has been forced to admit that there was a spike in Myocarditis after the military mandated covid-19 injections for all services.
Cases of myocarditis soared among U.S. service members in 2021 after the COVID-19 vaccines were rolled out, a top Pentagon official has confirmed.
There were 275 cases of myocarditis in 2021—a 151 percent spike from the annual average from 2016 to 2020, according to Gilbert Cisneros Jr., undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness, who confirmed data revealed by a whistleblower earlier this year.
The default assumption being peddled by the DoD is that this spike was caused by SARS-CoV2 and not the COVID-19 vaccine, but ‘”It is unclear whether or how it accounted for service members who had a prior COVID-19 infection and received a COVID-19 vaccination,’ Mr. Johnson wrote to Mr. Cisneros.”
It hardly matters. We can ‘name that tune’ in two notes. Myocarditis was at the top of the list of mRNA side effects before the vaxx was even given EUA approval by the FDA.
Two months before Emergency Use Authorization was granted (Oct 2020), Dr. Tom Shimabukuro, a member of the CDC COVID-19 Vaccine Task Force and the Vaccine Safety Team, released a slide deck explaining the tools and safety protocols being deployed in advance of a COVID-19 vaccine rollout. The 31-page presentation includes a list of Adverse Events of interest related to the rollout.
The Public Health Industrial Complex prepped the battle space in advance to blame SARS, then doubled down when cases began to multiply. The DoD picked up their fiddle and kept playing.
Dr. Peter McCullough, a cardiologist and president of the McCullough Foundation, looked at the newly disclosed data.
“The large increase in myocarditis cases in our military in 2021 was most likely due to ill-advised COVID-19 vaccination,” he told The Epoch Times via email, pointing to a study from Israel that found no increase or myocarditis in COVID-19 patients.
McCullough’s confirmation of the issue is nice, as are the numerous research reports confirming spikes in this and other, Adverse Events (AEs), but there should be no escaping two key points. First, Pfizer, Moderna, the FDA, and CDC knew about the risks, and second, they mandated them anyway. They mandated them. You take the risk without fully informed consent, or you’re out on your ass.
I’ll concede that there is plenty of deniability at many levels. The truth was withheld and continues to be denied by large segments of the political, public, private, and military health apparatus’.
The military medical data has since come under scrutiny after the produced results failed to match reports from whistleblowers.
The DoD didn’t want you or Congress to see a problem and denied it until they no longer could because it, like nearly every other part of the Federal government, has been weaponized by political partisans.
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In years past, I used to do a lot of “Jettiness” posts: bikes with jet engines, couches with jet engines, roller skaters with jet engines, trikes with jet engines, and of course, who could forget the Portapotty with a jet engine in it?
Well, it’s been a long time since I last put up a Jettiness post, but I finally found something that I’d not seen before – a jet-powered vacuum cleaner!
Colin Furze is a British plumber turned YouTuber of “strange inventions.” I’ve seen his stuff before (I think I posted a couple), but who would think of taking Britain’s favorite home vacuum cleaner, removing its electrical motor and guts, and shoving a turbojet into it?
Sure, it’s more for show than effectiveness (I’ll stick with that other British vacuum cleaner – Dyson), but it’s clear he does have FUN in doing all this.
Watching his desktop laser cutter and 3-D printer was kind of amusing as well.
Sidenote: I do watch a British reality show called “Inside the Factory” (Gregg Wallace, Cherry Healey, and Ruth Goodman), where the point is to go through the entire process of producing some widget (a hard good or food). It’s a bit campy but better than most American network shows, IMHO. One of the factories was the Henry vacuum cleaner factory, and they followed the “Henry” vacuum through the creation process.
No, a jet engine is not an option. You can see it on the Smithsonian Channel. And yes, I have it DVR’d.
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In Iranian politics, few groups have sparked as much controversy and animosity as the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) and its leader, Maryam Rajavi. With claims of terrorism, human rights abuses, and allegations of collaboration with foreign powers, the MEK and the Rajavis have become a subject of intense scrutiny and contention both within Iran and on the international stage. MEK also began a multiyear, multimillion-dollar lobbying campaign to remove itself from the terrorist list, including possible financial rewards to American political figures like Rudy Giuliani, Newt Gingrich, Howard Dean, MG Paul E. Vallely, John Bolton, and others.
The MEK: An Overview of Controversial Figures
The MEK, founded in the 1960s as a militant leftist organization, played a significant role in the Iranian Revolution. However, its ideology and tactics evolved, leading to its designation as a terrorist group by several countries, including the United States, until 2012. The MEK’s association with violence and its history of attacking both Iranian and Western targets have contributed to widespread condemnation.
The Rajavi Couple: Leaders and Controversial Figures
After the deceased of Masoud Rajavi, the founder of the MEK, his wife, Maryam Rajavi, they presumed a leadership position within the organization. Their hold over the MEK and its political arm, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), has been criticized and controversial. Critics argue that the Rajavis maintain tight control over the group, stifling dissent and suppressing internal power struggles.
Many former high-ranking US officials – who represent the entire political spectrum – have been paid tens of thousands of dollars to speak in support of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) or MEK. Ironically, these heavy-weight politicians never talk about MEK’s violent and anti-American history, but they refer to them as ‘freedom fighters’ with “values just like us,” as democrats-in-waiting ready to serve as a vanguard of regime change in Iran. Why?
But the MEK, led by Maryam Rajavi, has collected some influential American friends. They played an important role in lobbying the Obama administration to take the MEK off its list of terrorist organizations last year. Now, they are focused on the Camp Liberty massacre. It’s not an issue that can be wished away; it is one that enemies of the nuclear negotiations can exploit.
Allegations of Human Rights Abuses and Terrorist Activities
One of the most contentious aspects of the MEK and the Rajavis’ legacy is the alleged involvement in human rights abuses and acts of terrorism. Former members and critics have accused the MEK of employing cult-like tactics, including forced marriages, isolation, and torture. Additionally, claims of the group’s involvement in assassinations and bombings have persisted, further tarnishing its reputation.
Controversial International Connections and Collaborations
The MEK has garnered attention for its alleged collaborations with foreign entities, particularly the United States. While the U.S. officially removed the MEK from its list of designated terrorist organizations, critics argue that America’s association with it raises concerns about double standards in counterterrorism efforts. Claims of U.S. support for the MEK as a potential replacement for the Iranian government after Khamenei’s tenure add fuel to the fire, heightening tensions within Iran.
Public Perception in Iran
The MEK is almost universally denounced by Iranians worldwide and is still regarded as a terrorist group. After aiding the Islamic Revolution in 1979, bloody street battles occurred against Iran’s eventual leadership. As a result, the MEK waged war against Iranians. The group took refuge in Ashraf, Iraq, where they aided Saddam Hussein in the Iran-Iraq War. Saddam Hussein employed this special brigade in his deadly operations against Kurds and in repressing the Iraqi Shia.
The MEK and the Rajavis’ controversial legacy continues to divide opinions and generate intense debate. Accusations of terrorism, human rights abuses, and collaboration with foreign powers have contributed to their negative image, particularly within Iran. After Khamenei’s departure, the alleged aspirations of installing the MEK added further complexity to an already contentious situation. As the MEK’s influence and international connections persist, the controversy surrounding the group will likely endure, shaping Iran’s domestic politics and relations with the international community.
Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) is known for its cultish Foreign Terrorist Organizations represent a critical threat to Iran’s indigenous democratic movement. Unlike Iran’s democratic opposition, which advances through nonviolence the principles of democracy and human rights, the MEK is an undemocratic organization that pursues its agenda through violence.
The Western world must realize that this group has almost zero popularity in Iran and stop wasting their money to propagate a cultish group that will never have a chance to be involved in Iranian politics.
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Maybe you heard? Sound of Freedom is blowing the doors off the box office as Demcorats and progressive water carriers yell “Qanon conspiracy” to anyone who will listen – while the Feds are charging a local NH Democrat and his former girlfriend with child sexploitation.
Related: Sex Offense Attorney Arrested While Viewing Child Porn in His Bedroom
The Laughton arrest is not news, not now, not at any point in the past decade or more. Laughton, who currently identifies as a woman, has an extensive criminal history as well as an admitted preference for biological females as young as whatever. It’s kind of ironic, really, and should be the default go-to response to any lefty or nutjob who badmouths a movie about rescuing an immigrant child from human traffickers.
Sound of Freedom is a Qanon conspiracy.
Stacie Laughton.
None of that child trafficking stuff is true; that doesn’t happen.
Stacie Laughton.
Related: Democrats Need to Make Up Their Minds About Child Trafficking
Just keep at it until they block you, which will happen quickly because Laughton wasn’t just arrested for naughty behavior.
Stacie Laughton, 39, has been federally charged with one count of sexual exploitation of children and aiding and abetting by the US Attorney’s Office District of Massachusetts. Lindsay Groves, Laughton’s former girlfriend, was the alleged teacher at the center who helped Laughton, a former NH lawmaker, gather the images and has been charged with child exploitation.
Groves allegedly used bathroom breaks for the children, such as diaper changes, to take pictures of the children in the bathroom and would send the photos to Laughton.
There were over 2,500 text messages between Laughton and Groves on the phones obtained by the prosecution. These included at least four sexually explicit pictures of children between three and five years of age.
According to the Boston Herald, in one alleged text from Groves, she said to Laughton, “I want to do this with you with one of my kids.” The text was in conjunction with a picture focused on the genitals of a prepubescent boy.
Laughton allegedly responded, “I also need to be honest I mean yes that picture was hot of that little boy but you probably have gotten the picture by now that I prefer little girls (sic), but he is cute.”
One count seems to be a few thousand counts shy to me, given the volume of traffic between them.
The teacher and alleged ex-girlfriend of transwoman Stacie Laughton [Laughton also has an ex-wife (also biological female)] was taking pictures of kids with their pants down in the bathroom and texting them to him her.
You could easily make the case that Laughton changed his gender to gain access to women and girls which we now know includes very young girls, and yes, Laughton still has his her penis. There is a text floating around in which he she wishes he she could violate a young girl with it.
Related: Women’s March Bemoans Shutdown of Prostitution and Child Sex-Trafficking Site
But hey, none of that stuff is true. No one does that. It’s all a conspiracy fomented by bigots, and that movie about human trafficking is BS, except that, as I noted here, the Demcorats and their blessed government spend a lot of money on investigating the human and sex trafficking of children.
Are you gonna tell me that’s actually CIA black ops money? And what about the 85,000 immigrant kids the Biden administration misplaced?
HT | AoSHQ
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Beijing has told our leadership: Nope, we don’t want to. But thanks for asking. Our Climate Envoy, John Kerry, arrived in China last Sunday. The purpose of his trip is to ask China to redouble its efforts on climate change emissions.
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China’s economy produces more carbon dioxide in a year than all of the industrialized economies of the world combined. The problem is getting worse, not better, in China despite their utterances to the contrary. China is opening two new coal-fired electric generation plants per week.
Western countries are shutting our coal plants down. That is what Mr. Kerry is going to be negotiating for three days. Don’t expect any change or concessions. China is all about what’s best for China.
China’s response to Mr. Kerry is China installs more solar and wind capacity than all other countries in the world. Last week, however, the South China Morning Post reported President Xi’s comment, that“… While solar and wind are important. It is more important that the country has reliable energy. China will get that from oil and coal…” China believes it has become too reliant on energy harvested from solar and wind. The use of those sources is too unpredictable, too unreliable, and has led to power shortages.
Last week the Chinese outlet The Global Times said, Beijing wants the oil and coal, but it might be willing to make a deal, but they will need a sweetener to motivate them to change their plans. Experts are pessimistic about Mr. Kerry’s mission yielding results unless the U.S. shows sincerity in improving ties with China.
China is telling America and the West they will play ball. But… they are only going to do so if they get reductions in tariffs, more favorable trade terms, and removal of the U.S. military from the South China Sea.
Okay, so riddle me this. If China thought climate change was a man-made, real, immediate, urgent threat, that’s what Biden tells us it is, what European leaders tell their citizens. If China believed the climate narrative, wouldn’t they work to stop or reverse it?
Think about it. Isn’t that what they did with the one-child policy when they thought overpopulation was a real threat? The Chinese act is based on self-preservation. Nobody would have to tell them to act. Bargaining would be unnecessary.
But the Chinese don’t want to act on the climate narrative. Instead, they are building coal plants at a record rate. They have been doing so for a long time and plan to continue.
What if the Chinese are looking around and seeing the rest of the world harming their own economies because of climate change? What if China is amused by what’s going on? What if everyone else weakens their own economies, trying to operate more cleanly? Troubling, no?
What if the Chinese focus on growing their economy so they can dominate the future? What if their strategy is to become the dominant economic force so they can build dominant military strength? What if the Chinese have a stranglehold on solar panels and chips and AI in the future? What if we all learn Mandarin?
Or maybe we could wake up and fly right. We can be energy independent. We can make our own weapons. We can feed ourselves. Commonsense doesn’t cost a nickel, and it can keep us free and self-governing. Just saying… What if?
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The Vermont Press is “flooded” with stories about the heavy rain and damage to livelihoods and lives as a result. Residents are sharing stories pun by the media with the typical bias, ignorance, and incomplete research we’ve come to expect, especially on weather events.
Eric Worrall, at Watts Up With That, shares a tale of woe and hardship from The Atlantic, with all the necessary hyperbole (if you’re interested), and then brings receipts to demonstrate the media’s deceit.
Megan spins a great narrative but ignores the reality that Vermont, like other landlocked mountainous regions of the world, is prone to severe flooding.
The following is from Worst Flood Events in Vermont’s History.
I’m guessing Vermont is full of houses which probably should never have been built due to flood risk. FEMA bought out 90 homes in Vermont in the wake of the 2011 floods and demolished them, but this is likely the tip of the iceberg when it comes to poorly sited housing developments. Perhaps the apparent break between severe flood events from 1938 – 1973 lulled politicians and planning officials into a false sense of security.
In other words, as usual, someone is distorting the events and history to advance a current political priority. But if you do even a little bit of research, the approved narrative doesn’t hold water.
HT | WUWT
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Yesterday, as I write this on Friday for publishing on Saturday) was a complete sinkhole. Got absolutely nothing done in any aspect. Yes, there were reasons, and all of them led to one thing – I was in no mood to write. Hey, it happens.
And given how Life is throwing challenges at us, I’m just surprised that it isn’t happening more often while other stuff keeps dropping on the floor. So, I surfed a bit (and only had time for a little bit of that), and this popped up:
New Jersey Governor Seeks to End All Gas-Powered Vehicle Sales by 2035
No surprise there – most Democrat governors are all in with the “keep it in the ground” and hating on the fossil fuels that have made modern life possible. It’s just one more example of elected officials starting to RULE rather than doing the Representative GOVERNING that our Constitutional system set up. We fought a Revolutionary War to cast off a Ruler (King George) and to be able to self-govern and no longer be subjects and serfs.
The first paragraph under the title was what set me off (emphasis mine):
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy proposed rules this week requiring car manufacturers to increase the sales of electric vehicles and would mandate a total ban of all gas-powered vehicles over the next 12 years.
Rules? Really, rules? Er, what about doing your job and creating legislation? After all, you’re supposed to be the unitary leg of our three branches of government in NJ, right? Your Legislature creates bills, you sign them into Law, and the Judiciary is supposed to play umpire, right? Rules aren’t Law except…well, this first:
In a news release on Monday, the Democrat governor announced the Advanced Clean Cars II proposal was submitted to the state’s Office of Administrative Law that would mandate more sales of zero-emission vehicles. The proposal has to be approved by that office before it can take effect.
“By filing the ACCII proposal, we build upon our nation-leading record of bold climate action while delivering on our promise to utilize every tool at our disposal,” Mr. Murphy said in the release. “Our commitment to bringing the ACCII proposal to fruition is a commitment to every New Jersey family and the air they breathe, air that will be cleaner and healthier tomorrow thanks to the steps we’re taking to reduce emissions today,” he added.
Ta-Da! Welcome to the Administrative State – the goal of Progressives since the early 1880s! We rubes are just too dumb to know what is best for us – we’z needs Expoits to tell us what to do. You know, like we wuz chil’ren.
He just announced himself to be the elected King of New Jersey. Who needs a silly Legislature when I now have my own fiefdom of bureaus, commissions, boards, and “Offices” that can do what he commands out of the eye of the public and not have to go through that long-drawn-out affair of lots of hot air, draft after draft, hornswoggling and trading tit-for-tat by people elected to do that kind of thing. And further, he doesn’t have to worry about it failing. And the big lament (and attitude):
I want what I want and I want it NOW! How DARE you say no!
Never happens this way. No stubborn Democrats to get in his way and those obstructive Republicans that would stop this by saying “No, PEOPLE should decide for THEMSELVES and not Government!” can go pound sand.
And by this, it ends up that the people of New Jersey are cut out of the loop. They have lost “self-governorship” both of their Government and of themselves. Welcome to the Soviet Union, Communist China, and the Stasi East Germans.
But boy, he only wants “the best” for you all. Isn’t that just nice and dandy?
And of course, the DUFUS Republicans start yammering about the wrong thing:
Mr. Murphy’s proposal has drawn flack from state Republican officials, including Senate Minority Leader Steven Oroho, who described the proposal as unrealistic. A number of New Jersey households rely on cheaper, used gas-powered vehicles to get around, and the proposed rules would drastically increase prices.
“It seems the governor was serious when he said he wants to turn New Jersey into the California of the East Coast,” Mr. Oroho said in a recent statement. “Somebody should tell him that’s not a good thing when people and businesses are fleeing California in droves as the Golden State declines under liberal policy failures.”
Did you see what just happened there? What the proper response SHOULD have been – and is completely missing?
Oroho, with his answer, essentially assented that he and the other legislators are irrelevant. They are no longer part of the process. With “described the proposal as unrealistic”, he showed he disagreed with the premise (govt WILL take away your preferred mode of travel) but is in complete agreement that the Administrative State should be in control.
And Oroho wasn’t the only one:
On Monday, other Republican lawmakers said that the rule would make living in the state far less affordable, adding that stopping gas-powered vehicle production “only caters to the rich” who can afford EVs. “When you have people that are living on fixed incomes, they simply cannot afford to replace their affordable gas-powered vehicle with a more expensive electric car,” said state Sen. Robert Singer, a Republican.
They ought to just quit now as they’ve already given up their Power.
In fact, the NH Republicans are similar – by going along with the Democrats in creating and preserving the Executive Branch making its own “regulations as Law” (re: JLCAR), our same stage has been set.
In both cases and CERTAINLY at the Federal level, the Executive Branch has been larded up for two reasons:
They half-ass the jobs of writing bills, tossing it over the wall, and let the Executive Branch write the actual Law that rules us all. Here in NH, they ought to be writing each bill to outline the small details that they believe they are “above” doing. Or have gotten used to bureaucrats doing it for them.
And no, don’t tell me that you have to process 1,000 bills every season so Doing The Job Right can’t be done because of lack of time.
Make the time. Review your processes and streamline out the stupid bills. Concentrate on the important bills.
Like the first one is to required to DO Your Jobs Right.
(H/T: Epoch Times)
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I’d like to make fun of Governor Nuisance for this, but I can’t. I can only disagree. He wants to use the process of amending the Constitution. That’s the right way to do it. But that’s the only right thing about his proposed 28th Amendment.
The 28th Amendment will permanently enshrine four broadly supported gun safety principles into the U.S. Constitution:
Additionally, the 28th Amendment will affirm Congress, states, and local governments can enact additional common-sense gun safety regulations that save lives.
Newsom never offers the actual language, just a handful of ideas common to left-Wing gun grabbers that have never made anyone safer.
We also have to assume that the definitions of terms like “truly dangerous,” “reasonable,” or “assault weapon,” “common,” or “sense.” After all, when it comes to public safety, I think a reasonable person with common sense should consider Gavin Newsom to be truly dangerous to public safety.
Newsom is also calling for an Article V convention.
Passage of the 28th Amendment will require a convention to propose amendments to the United States Constitution, also known as an Article V Convention or amendatory convention. Working in partnership with members of the California State Senate and Assembly, California will be the first state in the nation to call for such a convention with a joint resolution being introduced by California State Senator Aisha Wahab and Assemblymember Reggie Jones-Sawyer. The Governor will work with grassroots supporters, elected and civic leaders, and broad and diverse coalitions across the nation to fight for the passage of similar resolutions in other state legislatures to ensure the convening of a constitutional convention limited to this subject. 33 other states, in addition to California, would need to take action to convene such a convention.
Is Newsom doing this to hijack the effort already underway to convene just such a convention to advance gun-grabbing progressive priorities? Or is he hoping to undermine the effort by the Liberty Amendment folks hoping an Article V convention can be convened to restrain abuses by the federal government?
The risk of his proposed Article 28 will have to enter any discussion by state legislatures courted for an Article V convention could undermine the effort to achieve the states needed.
There was a heated debate on our pages this past session over the good or bad (real or perceived) of such an endeavor. It is actually quite good with both sides, including lobbyists, lawyers, and others, adding their thoughts. The same debate occurred in grassroots groups, GOP committees, and the debate is good. It should not be mistaken for division but often is, by one side or the other, in an effort to get their way. The question was whether New Hampshire should add its name to the list of states needed to hold such a convention.
The New Hampshire Legislature rejected the 2023 proposed measures to enter into such an agreement. HCR 1 failed to pass the NH House 156-192. HCR4 died in the same chamber 224-145. Not exactly close, but how does Newsom’s proposed gun-grabbing amendment play when the Article V folks rally for another shot?
Does it rally Democrats to support it? Enough to push it through? Do Republicans use that and try to pass it despite this new risk, or do more of them shift or balk? Is that what Newsom wants, or does he truly think he can scratch his gun-grabbin’ itch with a constitutional amendment?
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The Florida State Board of Education recently approved new guidelines for teaching black history in public schools. There were eruptions from critics who pointed to one of the guidelines included in the 215-page document you can find here.
Literacy in any academic subject, in this case, history, is always a benefit to public school students. However, when politicized critics enter the picture, this can start a political battle. That’s what seems to have happened here.
If you read the document, there is quite a bit of academic content that students will have to learn. This kind of historical information benefits children. You can read the document, and decide for yourself if this ONE guideline is worthy of criticism.
According to Reuters, critics gave the new guidelines a poor grade and reported this:
July 20 (Reuters) – Florida’s board of education has approved new guidelines for teachers on how Black American history should be taught despite sharp criticism from some educators and civil rights groups.
Among the new guidelines for educators are “benchmark clarifications,” including one for middle school students that states “instruction includes how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.”
The board of education approved the new teaching guidelines for kindergarten through high school on Wednesday. Florida’s Education Commissioner Manny Diaz Jr. said during the board meeting in Orlando that the guidelines go into the “tougher subjects” of slavery and racist violence, as appropriate by age.
“Nothing was removed, including what we continue to say was the good, the bad and the ugly,” Diaz said at the board meeting.
William Allen and Frances Presley Rice, both members of the working group that developed the new guidelines, said in a statement Thursday that the new language regarding slaves learning specialized skills was meant to show they were not merely victims.
“Florida students deserve to learn how slaves took advantage of whatever circumstances they were in to benefit themselves and the community of African descendants,” according to the statement from Allen, a political scientist, and Presley Rice, an author who co-founded a non-profit dedicated to raising awareness about the roles African Americans have played in the nation’s history.
Critics are charging that the guideline explains how the slaves also learned specialized skills while they were enslaved. If anyone has been following the political battle on Critical Race Theory, this may sound familiar. Critics of CRT have argued that CRT paints all blacks as “victims.” You can see that in this interview with Condoleeza Rice when she appeared on The View:
Rice criticizes how the discussion on race has meant that black people have to feel disempowered, ie..believe that they are victims. She goes on to say that she would like black kids to be completely empowered to know that they are beautiful in their blackness. She criticizes the radicalized CRT message that she believes hurts black children.
Critics of the Florida guidelines seem to be concerned that explaining how slaves acquired some skills while enslaved somehow diminishes the impact of slavery on those who were enslaved.
Who is right, and who is wrong?
Let’s take a look at who developed the guidelines. Are they white supremacists ? What kind of people would mention the skills slaves acquired while they were enslaved? Does that try to diminish the evils of slavery? Or does it show the resilience the slaves had during that time in American history?
You need to at least scan through the document to see what students will be learning. In the past, critics have charged that history has been whitewashed. Information has been left out so that students weren’t learning authentic facts and information on slavery in America. Scan through the topics to get a good idea about what and how slavery will be taught to the students in the Florida public schools. You decide if they will be learning a great deal of information, or not.
In addition, look at who is defending these guidelines. Who wrote them? Do they have some kind of white privileged background? Are they part of some white supremacist group? NO!
WILLIAM ALLEN
William Allen was part of the working group, and defends the guidelines. Who is William Allen, and what kind of background does he have that qualifies him for working on these guidelines?
William Allen is described in Wikipedia as:
William Barclay Allen (born 1944) is an American political scientist. He has been Professor of Political Philosophy and dean of James Madison College at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan. He was a member of the National Council on the Humanities from 1984 to 1987 and chairman of the United States Commission on Civil Rights from 1988 to 1989.
Allen’s fields are political philosophy, American government, and jurisprudence. He is considered an authority in matters of a liberal arts education.
You can watch an interview about the State of Black America with William Allen here:
https://www.c-span.org/video/?521141-3/william-b-allen-the-state-black-america
Francis Presley Rice
Francis Presley Rice is a Retired U.S. Army Lt. Col. who serves on the board of trustees of Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium in Florida. Rice served in the Army for 20 years, and then retired as a lawyer with the Judge Advocate General. She also worked for the McDonnell Douglas Corp. as a government contract adviser on the law of space exploration. As a U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel with 20 years of active service, she received several distinguished medals.
Rice was raised in poverty, overcame bigotry, and took advantage of opportunities in America to become one of America’s top 100 Black Business and Professional Women.
One can certainly argue that their viewpoint may differ from those who see black Americans as victims, but are they worthy of this kind of criticism?
I would suggest looking past the inflammatory headlines. Read the guidelines. Look at the people who developed them, and then decide for yourself.
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Dear NHGOP Candidate: A simple question: Do you want to win, or do you want to make an ideological statement? If the former, then you need to go to your local Koch-organization and tell them, “thanks, but no thanks.” The voters who are going to vote for you because of “cut business taxes,” slash regulations,” “limited government,” blah, blah, blah, are already going to do so because of the “R” you are running as. As for the rest of the voters … that is, the majority of voters … they not only don’t care about that sh*t, they associate with “extremism.” So, the last thing you want is to be associated with Koch-world or to put out your own similar campaign literature.
Instead … BE LIKE JUNE. No, not the month. The candidate. June Trisciani is running for Mayor of Manchester. June Trisciani is a COMMUNIST. But you would never know it from her campaign literature. Indeed, you would … if the only thing you knew about June is what you read on her literature … believe that she is a very reasonable, measured, middle-of-the-road, centrist, moderate … okay you get the idea.
Check it out:
June has a plan! She’s going to streamline the permitting process! She’s a friend of business! She’s all about safe streets, and will implement “new technology that … proactively addresses our challenges! Hip, hip hurray! Hip, hip, hurray! And she’s going to fight for “increased investment” in our schools!
June, as I believe I mentioned above, is a COMMUNIST. But you would never know it from reading her campaign literature would you? She doesn’t give a damn about a “pathway to home ownership;” will grow government, not the economy; believes in Illinois/California style public safety and thinks schools exist to indoctrinate children with CRT and DEI. But you would never know it from reading her campaign literature would you?
June and her ilk do it the right way. They run as reasonable, pragmatists and then … once elected … govern like the rabid Communists they are. Republicans run like ideologues and then govern like p*ssies.
My advice to GOP candidates. Just substitute your picture for June’s and adapt it for the office you are seeking. And then once you get elected … if you want to thank me … do so by NOT governing like a p*ssy.
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Assuming you are not a regular reader of the Laconia Daily Sun, which I typically call” Pravda on the Lake,” attached is a letter to the editor in which the writer attacks, among others, Larry Arnn, Hillsdale College President, the new charter school being established in the Lakes Region, our beloved Commissioner of Education Frank Edelblut, our Majority Leader in the NH House Jason Osbourne, and our NH House Rep Glenn Cordelli.
Of course, when you are taking flak, it is a sign that you are over the target.
I assume that the letter writer, like most who write to the paper, is a Lefty-wingnut lackey for the public school and school union establishment. My response is this:
To The Daily Sun,
The recent letter from Janice Michaud [reproduced below – Editor] attacking the new public charter school in the Lakes Region, North Star Academy, and some of its supporters, fails to provide the rest of the story.
North Star Academy is a public charter school — emphasis on “public” — being established under applicable state law. It is another public school — one that gives parents in the area a choice in how their children are to be educated.
We have a few public charter schools in New Hampshire. Most have been successful, but a few have actually closed, whether because of insufficient enrollment, insufficient finances, or otherwise. That is what happens in the free market: competition.
Public charter schools are only one of several education options open to parents who may not want their children indoctrinated in our ordinary public schools, many of which are simply mediocre. If our ordinary public schools are doing such a great job, they will survive by competing and without compelling parents to utilize them as their only option.
The amount of taxpayer funding allocated to public charter schools is actually tiny compared with the per-pupil cost for our ordinary public schools throughout the state that is borne by our local property taxpayers.
Putting unused or under-utilized public buildings to use by public charter schools makes sense to everyone involved, especially the taxpayers.
Hillsdale College is a bastion of freedom. It is among less than a handful of colleges in our country that accept no federal funding or any federally sponsored student loans. It is supported exclusively by private sources. And its president, Larry Arnn, is a distinguished, articulate professor and Churchill scholar.
Only time will tell whether the North Star Academy will be successful, but clearly it will be of benefit to parents in our area and their children.
The LtE that I mentioned:
Janice Michaud: Hillsdale College president claims anyone can educate children
To The Daily Sun,
The North Star Academy proposed for Ossipee is an attempt to destroy public education in New Hampshire. That was confirmed a year ago by remarks made by Dr. Larry Arnn, president of Michigan’s Hillsdale College, which developed the North Star Academy curriculum.
Arnn didn’t know someone was secretly making a video when he told the governor of Tennessee that “education destroys generations of people” and “teachers are trained in the dumbest parts of the dumbest colleges in the country.” (Source: https://tinyurl.com/5n8r6jf9).
One would assume he would include our own Plymouth State and University of New Hampshire, among other schools in New Hampshire.
His solution: “We are going to try to demonstrate that you don’t have to be an expert to educate a child because basically anybody can do it.”
If anyone can do it, why are Frank Edelblut, Gov. Chris Sununu’s appointed commissioner of the New Hampshire Department of Education; Jason Osborne, GOP majority speaker of the state House; and Rep.Glenn Cordelli (R-Tuftonboro) giving away our former Carroll County Courthouse plus $1 million in taxpayer dollars to jumpstart North Star Academy in Ossipee? In the state of New Hampshire, where its education is ranked sixth in the nation, this plan would be a travesty to public schools across our state. (Source: U.S. News and World Report.)
Since North Star Academy is not a done deal, let’s give them the boot like school districts across Tennessee did after hearing Arnn’s disgusting remarks aimed at denigrating our smart, dedicated and hardworking public school teachers.
Janice Michaud
Tuftonboro
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Senator Chuck Grassley has released the 1023 of a trusted FBI source that confirms that Burisma paid millions in secret bribes to Hunter and Joe Biden. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy should initiate an impeachment IMMEDIATELY. In case you make the horrible mistake of relying on NH-NeverTrump Journal, WMUR and/or some other enemy-media for your “news”, some real news:
I’ve released the 1023 I’ve been working on getting from the FBI for a yr. Now u can read it for yourself thx to patriotic whistleblowers pic.twitter.com/ooGYR7fU02
— Chuck Grassley (@ChuckGrassley) July 20, 2023
Burisma's top executive told a confidential source for the FBI that he funneled money to the Biden family in ways that would take investigators "10 years" to unravel the money laundering scheme used to provide "illicit payments to Joe Biden."
Joe Biden's name is all over this… pic.twitter.com/pOQ8yI8KWr
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) July 20, 2023
2015: Burisma pays a $10,000,000 bribe to VP Joe Biden and Hunter Biden to have prosecutor Viktor Shokin fired
2018: Biden brags publicly about getting Shokin fired.
2019: Trump gets impeached over a phone call with Zelenskyy asking him what happened to the prosecutor. pic.twitter.com/3LCMffERk0
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) July 20, 2023
This makes Watergate look like child's play:
– Burisma CEO Mykola Zlochevsk paid the Biden's $5,000,000 to get Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin fired according to an FBI source.
– Zlochevsk hired Hunter Biden despite thinking he was dumber than a dog.
– Burisma admitted the… pic.twitter.com/BqJMD2LLvE— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) July 20, 2023
BREAKING: Senator Chuck Grassley released the FD-1023 form, alleging that Mykola Zlochevsky, Burisma's founder, paid a $5,000,000 bribe each to Vice President Joe Biden and Hunter Biden to have Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin fired.
Hunter was reportedly hired by Zlochevsky… pic.twitter.com/TVHVISXtPe
— KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) July 20, 2023
The FBI (aka Friends of Biden Inc.) LOVED LEAKING that Phony “Steele Dossier” but COVERED UP this SMOKING GUN DOCUMENT. (It says JOE BIDEN took Bribes from Burisma to have that Prosecutor Fired) and there are TAPES!!!!!!! pic.twitter.com/TwMrCMj25X
— Greg Kelly (@gregkellyusa) July 20, 2023
Today's New York Post headline.
"Ukrainian big said Hunter is dumber than my dog but was coerced to bribe the Biden for Joe's help." pic.twitter.com/biHKYugcw6
— Catturd (@catturd2) July 21, 2023
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