We have an event coming up on October 28th, and there is some confusion I’d like to clear up. This is a ‘Grok event; the 603 Alliance is only helping plan and execute the Event. The Event’s sole purpose, besides fun, is to raise money to pay staff to run and grow GraniteGrok.com.

GraniteGrok is at a point where it cannot grow influence, reach, or content without full-time staff.  The funds raised will pay that staff to complete projects, do reporting, engage local activists and groups, moderate comments and content, and work with vendors to update the site and add new features that improve the reader experience.

We need to raise at least 60,000.00 dollars a year, which will pay me as a full-time employee, working seven days a week, 365 days a year. We are at 45% of our first-year goal but have a way to go.

We hope the event will raise awareness and inspire attendees to subscribe as monthly donors or commit to a donation to help us reach our goal, but this is not required to attend.

The cost of the ticket ($35) or a vendor table ($25) is to cover Event expenses: food, drink, staging, equipment, and entertainment. Diane Bitter is contacting groups about getting a table on our behalf.

We aren’t paying any speakers or organizers; they are all volunteering their time. Corey was very excited, by the way, as were others, to speak and support us at no cost.

If we cover the event costs and have money left over from ticket sales and tables, any balance will go directly toward our fundraising goal.

I apologize if none of that was clear, and I’ll take a moment to add one more point. If we cannot raise the money, GraniteGrok will likely “change” in the wrong direction. We will have less content, engagement, influence, improvement, or impact.

Some folks might like the idea of a diminished ‘Grok, but I suspect most of them would be Democrats or RINOs. More reason than ever to continue to push back on the establishment in all its forms, but we need your help.

We’d love to see you, meet you, and hang out with you at the Londonderry Fish and Game Club on October 28th from 1-4 p.m. (We are raffling off a Ruger 10-22 if that’s any incentive, so please bring some cash to buy raffle tickets).

If any of this is still confusing, please email me at steve@granitegrok.com.

We hope you can help us reach the next level by purchasing a ticket and joining us on October 28th or donating via the ticketing platform or – if you prefer, our GiveSendGo page.

And thank you again to all our readers and supporters. I hope I’ve cleared up any confusion.

 

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In a world where narratives are crafted and pushed upon people who just want to live their lives in peace, we suddenly find these recently divided United States uniting around the cries to “stand with Israel.”

Of course, there are the requisite looping videos of atrocities dutifully paraded across our screens intended to stoke the necessary righteous indignation desired by the powers that be to manufacture more consent to advance the “war on terror,” as if that’s even winnable. Ironic, too, coming from a media known to build an industry from the axiom “if it bleeds, it leads.” To wit, the war on drugs has left us with more drugs and addicts; the war on poverty finds us more impoverished than ever; the war on racism seems to have only created more of it. Whoever is waging these wars apparently sucks at winning them. One has to wonder why.

Despite years of being encouraged to sympathize with Israel’s plight in the Middle East, where they were attacked by five neighboring Arab nations the first day they declared statehood, there are always two sides to every story. As a Christian, I take God at his word that “those who bless Israel will be blessed,” however, that blessing doesn’t extend to violating His other commandments, including loving one’s enemies and using discernment.

Rather than believe everything my attractive and articulate television personalities tell me, I’ve lived long enough to learn we need to question everything, including what appears to be an obviously unjust attack on Israel.

The first question is: how did Hamas manage to slip past the most advanced intelligence group in the world despite warnings from Egypt and elsewhere they were about to be invaded? Footage of para-gliders and motorcyclists reveals the method chosen by the poorly funded and poorly equipped terrorists who managed to basically walk through a front door normally secured by drones, cameras, armed guards, wired fencing, and checkpoints with impunity. Some reports from within Israel state the IDF took 3-6 hours to respond when they can do so in 30-45 minutes.

Call me crazy, but these facts seem to mirror what happened on September 11th, 2001. We were told a small band of relatively unskilled men from the Middle East had managed to outwit the other most advanced intelligence community in the world. Also, having been warned from within and without of an imminent attack, they commandeered advanced aircraft, despite recorded aviation incompetence, took over gigantic planes, and flew them into American skyscrapers and the Pentagon.

Upon further review, we learned the maneuver to crash a plane into the Pentagon required the same suspension of the laws of physics as Lee Oswald’s magic bullet. The cameras around the Pentagon must have also been installed by the same company that equipped Epstein’s jail cell, as they somehow managed not to capture a plane hitting the building. Of course, this was overcome by the plane’s inability to leave any fuselage as evidence. Oh well. We later learned the culprits, supposedly devout Muslims, were seen partying and drinking in Las Vegas, some were on known watch lists, and Saudi Arabia even threatened to sue the United States for implicating their citizens, who not only didn’t die in the attack but still walked the streets of Saudi Arabia? Somehow, that never made the news cycle.

Out of those ashes came a group of over 1,000 architects and engineers who, to this day, question the official narrative that the Twin Towers, literally built to withstand impacts from airliners, failed and collapsed upon themselves, strangely reminiscent of controlled demolition. I’m neither an architect nor an engineer. I am, however, willing to listen to those who are and tell us something isn’t adding up.

As for the slow response time by the IDF, it reminds one of the similarly sluggish response from the American Air Force who we are told was positioned to deal with such an event within minutes, yet were inconveniently detained that day by an offshore exercise where they were war-gaming…wait for it…a scenario where planes were hijacked over America. This incredible coincidence gave the planes enough time to fulfill their mission while giving our military the plausible deniability it needed to explain their incompetence. Oops!

Last night, Jesse Waters on Fox News harangued the public with the necessary vitriol aimed at the “animals” who did this. Meanwhile video of a young woman being kidnapped played in a constant loop as he interviewed a despondent boyfriend and a former special ops expert, giving us their take on the attacks. His outrage may be valid, as well as theirs. However, combined with the video barrage, it still acts as propaganda. No time for questions – it’s time for vengeance was the message. Never mind the apparent incompetence of the IDF and Mossad; we need to turn Gaza into a parking lot. Really? The only solution to the murder of innocents is to murder more innocents. Why does this dehumanizing logic sound familiar?

If you still weren’t convinced, then you needed to be told about the babies that were beheaded. If this is true, and it may be, it is absolutely horrific. However, I am struck by the hypocrisy of the Biden administration, which champions killing defenseless American babies in the womb, suddenly championing those a few months older and in another country. Excuse me if I question the change of heart, but I am again reminded of a similar story used to gin up outrage. You may recall the “killing of the babies in incubators” girl from the Gulf War. We later learned that was a lie and she was a niece of one of the warmongers; however, it served its purpose.

Turning to the complaints from those who support Palestine in this, we are told Israel is an apartheid state. Is it? If so, why does Israel allow Palestinians to have seats in the Israeli parliament, the Knesset? Why does Israel allow them to hold positions such as doctors and lawyers, yet Lebanon, an Arabian ally, will not? How was Donald Trump able to broker a peace deal between Israel and several of its previously hostile neighbors?

Just when you quit worrying about climate change, pandemics, the war in Ukraine, and your latent racist tendencies, you now have a new and super-righteous cause upon which to focus your patriotic and even global duty. Don’t ask questions, idiots, you wouldn’t want to be un-American when we need you to support the latest thing, would you?

 

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Every Sunday, the UL’s Landrigan does a “State House Dome” wrap-up. As I scanned through the column, the word “domicile” caught my eye. No, Landrigan didn’t use it extemporarily on his own; he was quoting Dem Minority Leader Matt Wilhelm’s own words.

He was irate that Republican NH House Rep Merner didn’t resign immediately didn’t after moving out of his district.

Do you know what thought immediately went through my mind (such as it is lately)?  Reformatted, emphasis mine:

Dems try to revive bills

Wilhelm and other Democratic activists have not hidden their disgust that it took Attorney General John Formella’s office months to inform Rep. Merner that he was not legally living in his district and had to resign. “We need a fair debate and a fair vote,” said Wilhelm, who vowed to try to bring back bills that died because Merner took part in the votes. Wilhelm wrote Formella last week that legislation may be necessary to ensure state prosecutors take prompt action on these matters.

“A 20-week gap between admission of wrongful domicile + communication to the House is unacceptable. Credible info regarding member qualifications must be promptly and confidentially communicated to the Legislative Ethics Committee to ensure the NH Constitution is upheld,” Wilhelm posted on X.

Wait…WHAT? Domicile? Did I read that right? That one’s domicile is the place at which someone considers, above all other locations, to be their residence/home. You know, the same word that Democrats for DECADES have tried to spin/redefine/denigrate concerning a person’s VOTING address?

As GraniteGrok has shown in the past (Again, RIP Ed Naile), Democrats downplay, at every turn, the importance of that word.

Here is Wilhelm making a HUGE deal about Merner voting from and carrying out his duties in the NH House to the point of throwing out all of the votes on bills in which Merner participated. ALL bills.

Can we do the same for ANY voting incident on legislation or offices in which someone else WAS living at a wrong or fraudulent address? After all, if 400 Reps vote on a bill, that is a lot of people. So is a legislative or executive office by a given District. Wilhelm just gave us the ultimate definition – he’s a Democrat, and we’re supposed to take Democrats for face value, right? In the spirit of collegiality, for UNITY!, aren’t we supposed to take them at their word? Amiright? Isn’t he absolutely right?

The meaning of a word should be precise within a given context (excluding the fact, for now, that many words can be “overloaded” by which their definition is also by context: “I lead from the front”; “Lead sinkers are not allowed on Squam Lake”) ALL the time. Voting, as Wilhelm, would be a single context.

So your address is EXTREMELY important to Democrats nowadays? This ought to be fun going forward, linking arms with those who never wanted to stand with us before!

Nice to know that Matt has now obviated any further court cases concerning this matter. No longer will Democrats be contesting that domicile can be as flexible as they want it to be and as a given situation requires that benefits them.

 

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As I said in Wednesday’s Meme Overflow, I’m getting enough on Israel – memes and articles plus my desire to add my own comments and references / breaking news – and stuff that’s related – that I’m pulling them out into a standalone post thread.   I figure that not everyone is as interested as I am in the situation concerning Israel and to maintain readership of the memes, it’s time to separate them out.

A truly excellent book for background:

The Palestinian Delusion: The Catastrophic History of the Middle East Peace Process

 

WHEN WILL IT END?

Only War – Daniel Greenfield / Sultan Knish articles

RTWT.  Wars and conflicts only end when one side is totally defeated.

Israel, like America, doesn’t win wars anymore. It has operations. It takes out terrorist leaders and occasionally terrorist cells. And then it goes home. But when home is within a stone’s throw of where monsters live, then there’s no way to go home. Home is where the monsters are.

A war ends with victory. The destruction of the enemy. The Islamic terrorists have been waging a war meant to end in victory since Israel was reborn. Unless Israel fights to win, it will be lost.

Another voice rhyming:

Minds Of A Feather: Time for a clean slate (italics replaced by underlining):

It is time for Israel to wipe the slate clean, take back all of the land it granted to Palestinians in the name of a peace that will never happen, and tell the remaining Palestinians that they are no longer welcome in the State of Israel.  If they wish to stay, then they may stay.  But no longer as citizens with the right to vote (which was always granted to Palestinians who lived in Israel – look it up for yourself).  And if they wish to leave, Israel should provide them safe conduct to its borders.

Finally, I will say that Hamas needs to be wiped off the face of the earth along with their most vocal supporters, whether they claim to be “civilians” or not.  Those who offer support to Hamas, whether it be by fighting with arms or hiding Hamas insurgents are as guilty as those members of Hamas who started this war.  None of them have clean hands, and those with unclean hands can not be permitted to exist within the borders of Israel.

True Justice For Israel Is Executing All Members Of Hamas (thefederalist.com)

How Does Israel Fight Savages Who Want to Die? Oblige Them – PJ Media

 

(Link to AZQuotes per their policy)

 

The good general has another quote:

If you are going to use military force, then you ought to use overwhelming military force. Use too much and deliberately use too much; you’ll save lives, not only your own, but the enemy’s too.

Curtis LeMay

Or make the price they pay in other ways so high they don’t want to pay it:

How American Soldiers Used Pig’s Blood and Corpses to Fight Muslim Terrorism | Frontpage Mag (bolding added):

General Pershing however wrote in his autobiography that, “These Juramentado attacks were materially reduced in number by a practice that the Mohamedans held in abhorrence. The bodies were publicly buried in the same grave with a dead pig. It was not pleasant to have to take such measures, but the prospect of going to hell instead of heaven sometimes deterred the would-be assassins.”

(I remember one terror attack in Israel had a woman putting pieces of pork – gotten from where in Israel? – into a dead terrorist’s mouth as she cited this exact thing: a Muslim touched by pork cannot get into paradise.)

One of the issues is that the Arabs know that they can count on the “world community” to jump in and pressure Israel to stop before they’ve really been defeated.  We’re seeing it already from multiple sources, including The Potato (bolding added; link on “a truce may be made for ten years if necessary” also added):

For Hamas to be asking for a truce on Monday evening Gaza time, it must have had an extremely bad Sunday and Monday. For Islamic law only allows for a truce if Muslims are weak and need to gather strength to fight later more effectively, or if they’re fighting non-Muslims whom they think may accept Islam. “If Muslims are weak, a truce may be made for ten years if necessary, for the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) made a truce with the Quraysh for that long, as is related by Abu Dawud…Interests that justify making a truce are such things as Muslim weakness because of lack of numbers or materiel, or the hope of an enemy becoming Muslim…” (‘Umdat al-Salik, o9.16). This idea is founded on the Qur’an itself: “So do not falter and cry out for peace when you have the upper hand…” (47:35).

Western authorities never, ever demonstrate even the slightest understanding of this point, but this means that when a jihad group asks for a truce, it is admitting that it is losing and needs time to recover. The last thing that its non-Muslim foe should do at that point is actually grant it a truce. What it should do instead is press on toward final victory.

This has happened numerous times in the past: Israel makes headway against the jihadis, they ask for a truce, and the American government pressures the Israelis into accepting. The Netanyahu government should stand firm against all such pressure from the Biden regime. It should understand Hamas’ interest in a truce as a declaration of weakness, and destroy this evil organization’s power to terrorize innocent people once and for all.

I remember a cartoon from years ago where one person asked another “What does ‘cease fire’ mean in Arabic”?  The answer? |RELOAD”.

And while I agree with total defeat for Hamas, this – plus the now-discussed broader look at Iran, while IMHO absolutely justified – is a very fine needle to thread:

How Neocons Could Sleep-Walk Us Into World War III – PJ Media

But total victory is the only option.  There’s a reason why, after the shock of the second Punic War and the Roman’s astonishment at how fast the Carthaginians managed to re-arm after what the Romans thought was a crushing defeat in the first one (never mind a treaty that the Carthaginians interpreted differently than the Romans), they went for the whole enchilada after the third one:

 

 

Will Israel Do What it Takes to Secure Peace? | Frontpage Mag

One of the moral lessons we learned from bombing Dresden, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki, is that war is not just about vanquishing the enemy. It is also about inflicting generational damage. Future generations are deterred from enacting a war of vengeance at a much later time or, just as importantly, of repeating the errors of their predecessors. The collective memory of Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Dresden is an important reason why other nations will think twice about starting a war with the United States.

But in being merciful to the cruel, the world ends up being cruel to the merciful.  Consider that, even until just recently, Israel continued to warn Gaza residents with texts, emails, leaflets, and their for-this-purpose developed micro-munitions that gave a Thump! warning that a building was about to be targeted.

No other military in the world takes steps like this to try to minimize civilian casualties.

 

British Colonel: “IDF is most moral army in the history of warfare”

 

 

 

THE ISLAMIC MENTALITY

 

 

Understand something about Hamas and its view of Israel / Jews (links in the original, bolding added):

In July 2005, Mahmoud al-Zahar, the most senior Hamas member in Gaza, stated that his organization would “definitely not” be prepared for long-term coexistence with Israel, even if the Jewish state were to agree to return to the borders it had in 1967 — i.e., before Israel had repelled the invading armies of Egypt, Syria, and Jordan and taken control of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. “It [coexistence] can be a temporary solution, for a maximum of 5 to 10 years,” said al-Zahar. “But in the end Palestine must return to become Muslim, and in the long term Israel will disappear from the face of the earth.”

Note well that the Hamas Charter contains this:

“We do not leave any part of the Palestinian’s land, under any circumstances, conditions or pressure, as long as the occupation remains. Hamas refuses any alternative which is not the whole liberation of Palestine, from the river to the sea.” (New Charter 2017, Article 19)

Which exactly reflects the Law of Reconquest in the Koran: that any land once controlled by Islam must be retaken (bolding added):

Bin Laden opened his videotaped statement with this sentence: “Let the whole world know that we shall never accept that the tragedy of Andalusia would be repeated in Palestine. We cannot accept that Palestine will become Jewish.” The “tragedy of Andalusia” refers to the conquering in 1492 of the Muslim Kingdom of Granada by the Catholic monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella. It was a central moment in the Islamic empire’s quest for political and military power: Muslim expansion was not just checked; it was reversed.

From later in the article above (“Hamas and its view of Israel”):

“We do not and will not recognize a state called Israel. Israel has no right to any inch of Palestinian land. This is an important issue. Our position stems from our religious convictions. This is a holy land. It is not the property of the Palestinians or the Arabs. This land is the property of all Muslims in all parts of the world.”

…

After his organization had launched some 150 missiles against Israel during one particular week in mid-May 2007, Hamas official Nizhar Riyah declared that “Hamas is determined to wipe Israel off the map and replace it with the state of Palestine.” He vowed to persevere “until the last Jew is expelled” from “all of Palestine.”

An organization dedicated to your entire annihilation.  Sounds like “coexistence” to me.  Not.

 

 

And on their use of human shields – who, if they are killed in the service of jihad, are guaranteed instant paradise (links in the original):

Many of the rockets that Hamas (and Hezbollah) fired into Israel were launched from civilian areas, making it impossible for Israel to retaliate without causing civilian casualties; the terror groups then exploited those casualties for propaganda purposes. This has been standard procedure for both Hamas and Hezbollah in every military conflict they have ever had with Israel. In many cases, these organizations deliberately plant civilians, including children and the elderly, in locations likely to be targeted by the Israeli military — so as to manufacture atrocities. (Hamas’ willingness and even eagerness to use such “human shields” was articulated in 2008 by its interior minister, Fathi Hamad: “For the Palestinian people, death has become an industry, at which women excel, and so do all the people living on this land. The elderly excel at this, and so do the mujahideen and the children. This is why they have formed human shields of the women, the children, the elderly, and the mujahideen, in order to challenge the Zionist bombing machine. It is as if they were saying to the Zionist enemy: ‘We desire death like you desire life.’”)

And:

Ahead of airstrikes against targets belonging to the terror groups, and out of a desire to minimize civilian casualties, the Israel Defense Force (IDF) has been sending warning messages to the residents of the Gaza Strip urging them to evacuate areas that are about to be targeted in strikes. In response to these messages, media outlets operated by Hamas and PIJ have been instructing residents of the Gaza Strip not to heed these warnings and not to share them or forward them to others.

There’s only one reason to tell people not to leave.  You want more dead bodies to show off.

With one more addition from a previous article:

Lastly, the [IDF-discovered Hamas] manual emphasizes that when the homes of Palestinian civilians are destroyed, Hamas benefits in terms of propaganda and world opinion: “The destruction of civilian homes: This increases the hatred of the citizens towards the attackers [the IDF] and increases their gathering [support] around the city defenders [i.e., Hamas].”

Hence my term CAMERA FODDER.

 

 

It’s a RELIGOUS WAR.  And has been since Mohammed.  History matters:

This is Not About Israel, It’s About Islam (jihadwatch.org)

The History of Jihad: From Muhammad to ISIS

Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West

Defenders of the West: The Christian Heroes Who Stood Against Islam

Concluding, let’s recall that beheading is an ancient thing, not done today.  Right?  Right?  These next links have extraordinarily-gruesome videos – NOT for the faint-hearted so warning warning warning!  But it highlights the Koranic doctrine of “Strike at their necks”:

BEHEADERS-IN-TRAINING: Muslim children’s division (barenakedislam.com)

Before you consider going hiking in a Muslim country like Morocco…..watch this. (WARNING: Very graphic) (barenakedislam.com)

Remember, this is done in modern times by Muslims to infidels.  To terrorize.  (I remember some American Muslim being interviewed years ago, and he said “It’s a command from Allah to terrorize the infidel”.)  And it’s in the Koran itself:

Beheading in Islam – Political Islam

When you hear of beheading, do you assume that Islam is involved? Beheading is an integral part of Islam. Mohammed repeatedly ordered people beheaded and the Koran even includes beheading. Beheading is threatened to settle arguments about Islam. Men were threatened with beheading if they did not become a Muslim. Beheading is mentioned nine times in the Hadith of Bukhari, once in the Koran and 41 times in the Sira. Beheading is recommended and common in the doctrine of Islam.

 

MORE ON INTERSECTIONALITY / LEFTIST SUPPORT

 

 

One of the great mysteries to me is the support by gays of a religion that, in Islamic / Sharia run societies, throws them bound and gagged from rooftops, or crushes them under walls pulled onto them.

 

 

Beating your wife is approved in Islam:

ANOTHER ISLAMIC ‘SCHOLAR’ confirms that wife-beating in Islam is an approved disciplinary practice (barenakedislam.com)

The same for feminists who rush to embrace Islamic migration.  How’s that mass migration – particularly from Islamic areas – worked out for countries that have done it?

The truth about the Swedish rape crisis. (substack.com)

Iraqi migrant arrested for rape of 11-year-old Greek girl (rmx.news)

Just a couple of examples from many nations’ experience with mass migration.  Also see Tommy Robinson’s series The Rape of Britain.  (Very disturbing image and story at this link about a woman feeling the full force of Islamic / migrant diversity – be warned.)  But “progressives” are natural allies with Islam – they’re both authoritarian, missionary, and expansionist.  And will remain allies until the possibility that Western Civilization itself falls… any takers on who wins between the Left and Islam?

Terry Glavin: As Israeli innocents are hunted and murdered, certain Canadian ‘progressives’ celebrate | National Post

But there’s another question that has never been properly answered in all the years since the Six-Day War of 1967. That’s when the Jews of Israel committed an unpardonable offence against Euro-American high society decorum: they refused to remain merely the plucky kibbutzim of folk songs and maudlin caricature. Instead, Israelis defended themselves against a war of encirclement and beat the stuffing out of Egypt, Jordan and Syria in less than a week.

Israelis will never be forgiven for that.  Jews are supposed to be servile, and just lay down and die.  Except the lessons of the Shoah, and other events even more recently, highlighted the need for strength.

 

 

 

Nor will founded-to-be-Socialist Israel be forgiven for its act of apostasy in rejecting key elements of Socialism to become a free-market / capitalist powerhouse.  A Start-Up Nation, even.

Funny how the SJWs love identity politics… except for:

 

 

 

PALLYWOOD

Deception is foundational in Islam in the jihad against the infidel.

Taqiyya: Deception and Lying in Islam (thereligionofpeace.com)

Deception in Islam: Taqiyya, Tawriya, Kitman and Muruna – Trevor Loudon’s New Zeal Blog

Consider these two videos by the founder of Political Islam (links only):

Bill Warner, PhD: Sacred Deception — Taqiyya – YouTube

Bill Warner, PhD: Deception in Political Islam – YouTube

As I addressed in a prior meme post’s section on Gaza being an “open air prison”, I noted the plenty found in its markets.  Here’s another example:

 

 

Wow that sure looks like desperation and crisis.  Not.  More on the utterly horrific conditions in Gaza:

Gaza Strip’s Arabs enjoy spin classes, fine dining, private beaches, theme parks, luxury hotels | JTF

Funny how an “open air concentration camp” has obesity being one of the primary health issues, specifically among women.  And last time I knew Auschwitz et al had no plastic surgery industry:

In Gaza, demand grows for a plastic surgeon’s services (yahoo.com)

Remember that all the casualty figures come straight from Hamas-controlled ministries.  You think they are totally impartial?  But wait, there’s more!  A very famous picture – widely circulated – gives an example of a cruel Israeli soldier stepping on a child and it sure does look bad:

 

 

And while it’s a bit of military trivia to note that the boots are not IDF issue, the fact that the guy is holding an AK47 – definitely NOT IDF issue – is more telling.  As is this broader picture:

 

 

People calmly watching some street theater – I believe in Bangladesh.  But presented as an actual event – repurposing with selective editing and all.  Like this:

Ridiculous Pallywood of the Day – Israellycool

And:

 

 

Pallywood is famous for recycling too:

 

 

 

But the creme de la creme of Pallywood, IMHO, is this image.

 

 

Which, after some investigation, is actually a screen capture from one of the Final Destination movies.  For more on Pallywood see this piece:

The 2019 Pallywood Oscars – Israellycool

And this report:

 

Pallywood

 

 

It’s my opinion that one of the reasons such deception is so widely accepted is the racism of so many of the elites in thinking that “little brown people” couldn’t possibly be so deceptive and shrewd to fool the uber-educated, uber-elite set.

 

TERROR COMING HERE?

War in Israel: Mayor, NYPD warn of potential lone wolf attacks in aftermath of Hamas-led massacre | amNewYork (amny.com)

Ben Bergquam: Border Patrol Confirms Significant Numbers Of Syrians And Pakistanis Pouring Into Arizona (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by David Greyson

Thousands of ‘special interest aliens’ from Middle East countries stopped at southern border since 2021: data | Fox News

Thousands of “special interest aliens” from numerous countries, including the Middle East, have been arrested by Border Patrol agents while attempting to cross the U.S. southern border illegally over the last two years, according to internal Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data leaked to Fox News.

…

That data, confirmed by multiple CBP sources and reflects apprehensions between ports of entry between October 2021 and October 2023, shows that agents encountered 6,386 nationals from Afghanistan in that period as well as 3,153 from Egypt, 659 from Iran and 538 from Syria.

Agents also encountered 13,624 from Uzbekistan, 30,830 from Turkey, 1,613 from Pakistan, 164 from Lebanon, 185 from Jordan, 139 from Yemen, 123 from Iraq and 15,594 from Mauritania. The data does not include information on how many of those migrants were removed or who were released into the U.S. with a court date.

I’ve read reports – doing some searching – of Syrians attempting to cross the border as far back as 2015.  Likely before. Hamas Raping and Killing Women – by Michael Yon (substack.com)

Meanwhile uncategorized Arabs flow through Darien every hour. Including “Palestinians” I personally encounter.

Others might join in too if things kick off here in a serious way:

BLM Grassroots Aligns Itself with Palestinian Terrorist Group, Advocates for DECOLONIZATION of America | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hᴏft

I just saw a video on Telegram by a black guy talking about how they’re going to “get rid of” all the colonizers.  And if spicy time does start, we’d better do what’s necessary to win.  Or else.

Savages | Frontpage Mag

Savages and decadent civilizations have no firm concept of right and wrong. Everything is subjectively opportunistic and there can be scenarios in which raping a woman, killing her and then posting a photo of her body to social media so her family can see is actually right.

That is why civilization has to defeat savagery, without equivocation, apologies or sympathy, not only to win, but to revive its own soul. Negotiations and laws of war are for peer civilization. Savages offer nothing and so are owed nothing. They keep no agreements except when it suits them. Their word is worthless and their morality is non-existent.

A civilization that does not understand all this will learn it the hard way.

 

GIVING SUPPORT TO ISRAEL

You can’t go wrong with a donation here:

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I’ve contributed to them for almost 20 years.  And please share this post – and the following ones – far and wide.  There’s a lot of info here, that many people don’t know.

 

A CONCLUDING THOUGHT FOR THIS POST

As I noted above, Hamas wants dead bodies and destroyed cities, all the better for camera fodder.  The lives of their people mean nothing.

But as Israel has turned off power and water to Gaza – a dual-edged blade; effective militarily but a disaster-in-the-making PR wise – understand that the leadership and Hamas soldiers likely have stocks and food and water.  Their people don’t… and now, understand this to your core, THEY DO NOT CARE.

Every dead child, every starved person, every person dead from thirst or exposure is a weapon against Israel.  Ever soul lost is, in the Islamic way of thinking, a soldier killed in action against the most-hated infidels of all, Jews.  Thus these dead – to them – have been blessed with martyrdom.

Understand your enemy.  Understand what motives them.  Understand how they think.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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It’s not enough any longer for some on the Left to simply jail their political opponents. Now it’s assassinations. See how fast this is moving? And NOTHING will happen to CIA Director “General” Michael Hayden.

If the shoe were on the other foot if a former Trump official had said something similar about a Democrat Senator, for example, FBI SWAT teams would already have kicked down his doors, broken his windows, and arrested him and everyone in his family.

America is a POLICE STATE.

 

Former CIA Director Michael Hayden calls for the assassination of Sen. Tuberville because the senator is performing desperately needed oversight of the U.S. Military. Hayden, a renowned civil liberties violator, promoted the Biden laptop coverup and the Russia collusion scam. pic.twitter.com/MpwOSxJkPj

— Mollie (@MZHemingway) October 10, 2023

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I requested that the Nashua Library move the picture book “Grandad’s Pride“, which features an image of half-naked men wearing bondage gear, to the parenting shelf where small kids won’t have access to it without a parent’s permission. My request was denied.

Related: Book Promoted by Nashua Library to Small Kids Features Bondage Gear

In her response, Director Jennifer McCormack says:

The illustration that you have questioned is an accurate representation of the kinds of people and costumes seen at a Pride festival and the text of the book focuses on the community’s collaboration on a local celebration and a family’s love for Grandad.

She believes that because men are parading around half-naked in gear that demonstrates their sexual fetishes at Pride events then that makes it appropriate to portray such attire in a picture book for small kids.

This summer men paraded completely naked at Pride events in Seattle and Toronto. Will we be seeing images portraying naked men in picture books at the library as well? Where is the line for what is appropriate for children? Haven’t we already crossed it?

A few years ago a topless woman marched in the Nashua Pride Parade. There have also been sexualized performances by drag performers in the Nashua Pride Drag Show in a public park. With adults celebrating their sexuality, you never know who is going to show up wearing something offensive or doing something offensive and that is why many parents of small children don’t bring them to Pride events because they want to protect them from adult behavior they are not ready for. Why should those same parents have their small kids exposed to adult themes in picture books at the library? The library is betraying these parents’ trust.

After I submitted my request to have the book moved, an even more horrific fact came out about the book. On X/Twitter it was pointed out that the book shows Grandad’s trunk containing sunglasses from the movie “Lolita” next to a paper labeled “MAP” and a Polaroid camera.

Lolita is a famous fictional story about a man who has a consensual sexual relationship with a 12-year-old girl. MAP stands for “Minor Attracted Persons,” in other words pedophiles. Polaroid cameras were used to make child porn back when having film developed risked exposing the photographer to prosecution. The juxtaposition of these items is obviously promoting pedophilia. The “LOVE IS LOVE IS LOVE” message in the trunk shows that the author believes that pedophilia is just another sexual orientation in the LGBTQIA+ rainbow.

Will the Nashua Library director and the trustees finally notice that this book is not appropriate for kids? They all seem to be under the spell of Queer Theory pushed by the American Library Association and I have no idea what will wake them up.

 

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I’d say this is something you don’t hear every day, but a more accurate description is something you’ve only heard once. At least one provincial world leader stepped up to a microphone and apologized for the rampant discrimination during the “pandemic.”

On October 12th, 2022, exactly one year ago today, Danielle Smith, having recently won the job as Alberta’s premier, apologized for the vaccine apartheid imposed on those who chose not to get the COVID-19 injection.

And she seems genuine here, and it is encouraging, especially as we watch tyrants eager to scratch that totalitarian itch.

I’ve included the tweet making the rounds (with or without clarification of the original date of the remarks) and a news report from a year ago.

They are brief enough that you should watch both. The latter includes the predictable blowback from minority groups who are (to paraphrase their point) discriminated against regularly.

It is worth noting that in a rare moment in history, COVID discrimination was genuinely blind. It made no difference your age, race, faith, gender, ideological inclination, or occupation. Being uncomfortable with that one vaccine, daring to question ‘The Man” – once a right of passage for the up-and-coming Left – you were branded a denier and systemically punished.

If not for the efforts of people in all those groups working together to claw back our health freedoms, we’d have adopted the Islamic practice of dhimmitude, required to wear yellow or perhaps simply lacking the approved “passport” or “papers” that would permit us access to everyday goods and services.

People too soon forget how awful things were or may have gotten and how quickly many in power, including judges and the courts, abandoned their oaths to protect natural rights and uphold the constitution crafted to prevent the government from infringing upon them.

Perhaps Oct 12th should be Danielle Smith Day.

 

First Major World Politician Apologizes To the Unvaccinated: ‘You Were Right, We Were Wrong’

Danielle Smith, the premier of Alberta, Canada, is the first major elected politician in the world to issue a heartfelt apology to the unvaccinated for crimes perpetrated against their… pic.twitter.com/l0Tf0MyKRU

— DiedSuddenly (@DiedSuddenly_) October 10, 2023

 

 

 

HT | X, The Conversation, and Global News CA

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The takeaway here isn’t that “it’s for the kids.” We hear that every time a school budget comes up or another teacher union contract comes due. It is that IT is for the Union. Period. Full Stop.

Baltimore City is facing a devastating reality as the latest round of state test scores are released. Project Baltimore analyzed the results and found a shocking number of Baltimore City schools where not a single student is doing math at grade level. “We’re not living up to our potential,” said Jovani Patterson, a Baltimore resident who made headlines in January 2022, when he filed a lawsuit against Baltimore City Schools. The suit claims the district is failing to educate students and, in the process, misusing taxpayer funds. “We, the taxpayer, are funding our own demise,” Patterson said at the time.

…The Maryland State Department of Education recently released the 2022 state test results known as MCAP, Maryland Comprehensive Assessment Program. Baltimore City’s math scores were the lowest in the state. Just 7 percent of third through eighth graders tested proficient in math, which means 93 percent could not do math at grade level.

 

You would think that with the resources a major city can bring to bear to help their “precious children,”(yes, a DEMOCRAT-run city, mind you) the results could be better but across 150 schools  – that 7% proficiency rate for math is GREAT compared to this.

 

Project Baltimore found, in 23 Baltimore City schools, there were zero students who tested proficient in math. Not a single student…Among the list of 23 schools, there are 10 high schools, eight elementary schools, three Middle/High schools and two Elementary/Middle schools.

Think of it – 12 years of schooling by the Government in union-owned schools and NOT A SINGLE STUDENT is at grade level. Yet, these unions keep demanding more and more money.

FOR WHAT??  NOTHING!  Who is defending all those kids???  Where is the SHAME on the part of the teachers, on the unions, of the School Boards?

Oh but not ALL is lost – 20 more had at 1 or 2 students that were proficient. But JUST 1 or 2:

…And it’s important to note, another 20 Baltimore City Schools had just one or two students test proficient in math.

• Baltimore City Schools with just 1 or 2 students proficient in Math
• Bluford Drew Jemison STEM Academy West
• Carver Vocational-Technical High
• ConneXions: A Community Based Arts School
• Dickey Hill Elementary/Middle
• Digital Harbor High School
• Dr. Bernard Harris, Sr., Elementary
• Edmondson-Westside High
• Eutaw-Marshburn Elementary
• Frederick Elementary
• Gwynns Falls Elementary
• Lillie May Carroll Jackson School
• Mergenthaler Vocational-Technical High
• National Academy Foundation
• Patterson High
• Reginald F. Lewis High
• Robert W. Coleman Elementary
• Sinclair Lane Elementary
• Stadium School
• Tench Tilghman Elementary/Middle
• Westport Academy

The response (sans the mostly ever-present “Gimme more, gimme more, gimme more!”) – was the usual moronic “we’ll do better” platitude:

Governor Moore’s office did not respond. But City Schools did send Project Baltimore a statement with steps it’s taking to improve math scores, including professional development for teachers, summer learning and an extended learning period at the end of the day.

The statement said in part, “We’re confident these instructional strategies will help us regain the momentum and progress we experienced before the pandemic.”

Sorry, the Baltimore schools were incompetent before the Wu Flu – they HAD no “momentum.” That’s what the clueless, having nothing else to say, give out to the plebes, HOPING that someone might take them seriously.

Professional Development? That’s “the reason”? So ALL those teachers, in all those schools, who went through 12 years of public/Government schools, then 4 more at a college or university, CAN’T teach math? And a few sessions of “Professional Development” lessons (on yet, I bet, the “newest, latest math Fad) is going to unwind decades of utter failure?

But I’m willing to bet that each and every kid knows all the “preferred pronouns” mandated by the Social Emotional Learning ever thought of.

 

HT | Fox 5 News

 

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The U.S. Forest Service is allocating more than $100 million for grants meant to achieve “tree equity,” according to a Daily Caller News Foundation analysis.

The Forest Service announced on Sept. 14 that it had allocated over $1 billion toward expanding “access” to trees, including 17 grant proposals that promote “tree equity” with a total value of $101,096,371. “Tree Equity” is a term first coined by American Forests, a conservation nonprofit, that blames the lack of trees in minority neighborhoods on “redlining and other discriminatory policies,” according to the organization’s website.

The Forest Service argues on its website that planting trees will reduce crime and improve health outcomes. The grants are funded through the Inflation Reduction Act, Biden’s signature climate law.

While trees cover nearly half of Atlanta, the most coverage in the nation according to Trees Atlanta, the Forest Service approved a grant to the city for $10 million to “address issues related to tree equity” and develop a “sustainable, diverse nature-based workforce.” Similarly, San Francisco had 14,543 trees per square mile as of 2021, and the Forest Service allocated $14 million to plant more trees this year, the Daily Caller News Foundation reported.

This year, we mark the second observation of #Juneteenth as a federal holiday. It took 2.5 years after the Civil War for the people of Texas to be told they were free. pic.twitter.com/EK4Dxr12vq

— USDA Forest Service (@forestservice) June 20, 2022

The push to achieve tree equity was part of a broader initiative undertaken by the Forest Service involving more than $1 billion spread across 385 grants intended to make America greener, according to a Forest Service press release. Every dollar of funding allocated through this initiative is set to flow into “disadvantages [sic] communities.”

A grant to the Oregon Department of Forestry worth $22,857,196, one of the biggest individual grants approved by the Forest Service, promises to use “Indigenous ecological knowledge” to train people in planting, maintaining and monitoring trees. Another grant to the Ebiil Society for $740,000 will also use “Indigenous ecological knowledge” to teach people about trees.

Aurora, Colorado’s Department of Parks, Recreation and Open Space received $5,000,000 to plant trees in neighborhoods with “high immigrant and refugee populations”  in order to “prioritize equity, social justice and sustainable urban forest management.”

The Biden administration has adopted an all-of-government approach to pursuing racial equity. On Jan. 20, 2021, the day he took office, President Biden issued executive order 13985, titled “Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government.”

Through the order, Biden asserted it is “the policy of my Administration that the Federal Government should pursue a comprehensive approach to advancing equity for all, including people of color and others who have been historically underserved, marginalized, and adversely affected by persistent poverty and inequality. ” As part of the order, all federal agencies were audited to gauge whether they were sufficiently committed to equity.

“Urban and Community Forestry is a covered program under the Agency’s Justice40 Initiative established through Executive Order 13985,” the Forest Service said in response to a Daily Caller News Foundation inquiry regarding the tree equity initiative.

“To advance the mission of Justice40, the UCF program delivers 40% of the program’s investments through established and new partnerships working to support disadvantaged communities experiencing low tree canopy and environmental justice issues.”

 

Robert Schmad | Daily Caller News Service

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There is a lot of talk just now about the difficulties that the GOP is having in keeping its primaries ‘closed’.

If I understand the issue correctly, the party leadership thinks that only people who have registered in advance as Republicans ought to be able to get a GOP ballot on the day of the primary.

The state government thinks that anyone ought to be able to become Republican for a Day in order to meddle in the party’s nomination process.

But the very existence of a dispute like this raises an important question: Why does the GOP let the state handle its nomination process? The GOP (like any political party) is a private group.  It can and should be setting up and paying for whatever process it wants to use to nominate candidates for office.

This isn’t 1890. It’s not even 1990. There is no reason why the GOP can’t maintain its own membership rolls (instead of delegating that to the state) and use 21st-century technology to poll its members in any way it wants, over any interval it wants (instead of forcing everyone to go to a polling place on an arbitrarily chosen day).

Using the state primary system is like going to McDonald’s every night because you’re too lazy to cook and then complaining about the declining quality and increasing expense of the food.

Also, there are a couple of excellent reasons why the GOP should abandon the traditional primary process altogether.

First, it’s unconstitutional.  To see why, imagine the response you’d get from the Secretary of State if you tried to get the state to open polling places, pay employees, and do all the things it does for primary elections… but for the purpose of letting members of your book club vote for the best book of the year.

Probably, he’d just laugh.  And then tell you to pound sand because it’s not the state’s job to subsidize elections for private groups.  Doing so would violate several articles of the state constitution.

And he’d be justified, right?

Second, it’s just inane to put your group (the GOP) in the hands of an institution (the state government) that actually opposes the goals and principles of that group.

Should you put government in charge of making sure that citizens are armed and trained well enough to resist overreach by the government?

Should you put government in charge of making sure that citizens are educated well enough to resist overreach by the government?

Should you put government in charge of making sure that a political party whose stated purpose is to reduce the size of government can pursue that goal without interference from those who would like to undermine it?

Well, when you put it that way, …

If the GOP wants to keep control of its nomination process, it’s completely within its power to do that.   All it has to do is start acting like a private party instead of like a public accommodation.

 

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Israel is under a constant barrage of incoming missiles, and the Iron Dome is tested like never before. The Iran Parliament is seen yelling Death to Israel and America in unison. Videos on X (formerly Twitter) show Hamas militants thanking Ukraine for the weapons they are using against Israel.

The intelligence communities of the Free World failed to see the attack on Israel coming, and the country and world are looking to the White House for the leadership needed to retaliate appropriately to the terrorist attack. Still, the President called a lid at 11 AM. Instead of going to the microphone and rallying the world against the animals bombing Israel and pillaging its people, President Joe Biden has called it a day.

Donald Trump told us last month that this would happen. When Joe Biden released $6 Billion of Iran’s frozen funds on September 11, of all days, Trump predicted Iran would use those funds to attack America or our allies. He pointed to the $60 Billion Iran has because Biden relaxed Trump’s sanctions, and Iran could sell oil on the open market. Because of the bad decisions by Joe Biden, Iran has the resources to fund the murderous attack on Israel.

The story that broke today on X may be one of the reasons Biden went into hiding today. If the videos are accurate, the militants driving their trucks, riding their scooters, or hang-gliding into Israel may be armed with weapons supplied by Ukraine. The weapons used by Hamas to kill our allies in Israel may be made in the USA—a slap in the face to Israel and Americans by the Joe Biden administration. As Biden hid, he sent Jake Sullivan and John Kirby out with their Gas-lights to lie to the American people. Denying that we did not push Iran to this point and that we will support Israel with whatever she needs-Full Stop. These people lie just like their boss. That is a full stop-and-drop-the-mic comment.

To add insult to the day, Antony Blinken went to X with the comment he has urged Turkey to work with the United States to negotiate a cease-fire between Israel and Gaza. Blinken is another genius from the Administration on the wrong side of the reality of a solution. We have a complete lack of leadership in this Administration, and the only relief we got today was that KJP did not hold a briefing.

The only semblance of leadership came today from Benjamin Netanyahu, who spoke to the world today and pledged Israel would unleash fury on those who did them harm. And Kevin McCarthy, who was removed from the Speaker’s seat last week, went to the House floor today and showed why he should still be the Speaker of the House. Unlike Biden and Harris, the third person in line for the Presidency, McCarthy was Presidential as he addressed the House and the world about what Israel and its allies should do to put Hamas and any other group that attacks the free world back in its place.

Biden and Harris may have sealed their fate today as a one-term Administration and are now lame ducks for the next fourteen months. They deserve this fate. They have earned it.

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It seems that all the Pro-Abortion Activists (mostly Democrats but let’s not forget former NH GOP Chair and RNC Committeeman Steve Duprey in giving money to Planned Parenthood contra the NH GOP Platform) are bound and determined to make us all use “FETUS!!!!” when talking about a woman’s pregnancy.

Sidenote: and that would be any human that wasn’t born with a prostate, right? See, that’s another way in defining “What Is A Woman” as well as the swelling of the midriff, changes in hormonal levels, and complaining at the end, “please be over” until the just born baby is laid on her chest in the birthing room.  Then it is “my BABY!!”.

By calling it the Latin word for “the unborn young of a viviparous vertebrate having a basic structural resemblance to the adult animal” (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition), while being technically and medically correct, it serves but one purpose:

To dehumanize that which is, by dint of conception, a newly forming human being so as to desensitize others in assenting to its early killing by abortion.

Why else use that word? WHY do they shy away from calling it what everyone else does – a baby – except to forward their own political and profit gains?

Just ask yourself, how often do you EVER see people talking like this if their viewpoint was the correct one?



It isn’t, most people don’t, and the pro-abortion folks can’t be honest with the rest of us. They have to keep the grift going one way or another.

And now that Planned Parenthood has taken on shoveling out hormones/endocrines to make boys think they are girls and girls believe they can become boys, it shows that only one thing is important to them:

Profit over People

Isn’t that right, Acting CEO Nicole Clegg of Planned Parenthood Northern New England?

(HT: Focus on the Family)

 

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Despite recent victories, the war on health freedom has not yet been won, but things are looking up. New efforts to impose mandates are met with significant resistance as fresh intelligence surfaces concerning old battles.

Ivermectin has been the beneficiary of increased praise as researchers continue finding new and unique ways to show us how well this stuff may work on a wide range of conditions. And we can imagine, some years from now, a COVID Karen, faced with something horrible that Ivermectin could treat, refusing it because CNN called it horse dewormer. That’s on CNN’s red sheet, not that they much care.

The other whipping boy of the COVID-19 left is Hydroxychloroquine, which raised its head in the first few weeks and months of SARS CoV2 inspired medical tyranny. Many early treatments outside the “approved” death-by-hospital protocol included HCQ with or without Azithromycin, passing under the radar until then-President Trump mentioned the drug.

You would have gotten a less reactionary response from sprinkling holy water on a demon. HCQ is an affordable, well-tolerated treatment with millions of human doses to support its safety. And now we’ve got new research showing that it saved the lives of COVID-19 Patients.

 

A brand-new scientific study compared hundreds of hospitalized recipients of hydroxychloroquine (and azithromycin) with thousands of controls who received standard hospital care. …

It looked at very sick, hospitalized patients with COVID-19 and tried to see if hydroxychloroquine, given with or without the antibiotic azithromycin, would help save lives. …

After adjustment for these variables the OR for mortality was 0.635 (95%CI 0.464–0.875). Patients who did not receive HCQ had a 57% higher risk of mortality.

 

That is not a tiny number – from the Researcher’s conclusion.

 

Treatment of COVID-19 using a combination of hydroxychloroquine plus azithromycin was safe and was associated with a statistically significant mortality benefit in the treatment of COVID-19 infection in hospitalized patients. Our findings do not support the current negative recommendations regarding this treatment.

 

Hold on to this news as traditional flu season peaks from January to March. HCQ is not – to my knowledge – recommended for ordinary flu, and you certainly wouldn’t use it for the head colds making the rounds after school was back in session. However, COVID is still out there (as are the approved narratives), but research is piling up that proves severe cases can be treated with HCQ and Ivermectin.

COVID can get nasty in the right person, but it doesn’t have to kill you if you are that susceptible.

There is also the issue of doctors clinging to the failed CDC protocol. Many of these same do-no-harm professionals won’t prescribe HCQ and Ivermectin, even if it makes sense, probably becasue the Hospital they work for will spank them.

You could find a new doctor, but when you are already feeling lousy, that’s not the best time, so telehealth might be the way to go. It is legal and recognized almost everywhere these days, one good thing (or bad if abused) that came out of the Pandemic politics.

That is, as always, up to you and your family, but there is a growing mound of supporting research, with admittedly too few media outlets sharing it. We’ve been sharing it, to borrow from Obama, since day one. We will continue to do that with your help. We get a lot of leads from readers and encourage you to do the same.

Crowdsourcing works, and so does Hydroxychlorqunie, according to these researchers.

 

HT | Igor Chudov

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A preliminary note that Mike Pence may have “walked back” or “clarified” by the time this is posted, but as of the time I am writing this (October 10, 9 AM-ish), he has not. Pence went on CNN on Sunday and essentially blamed Hamas’ attack on Israel on Trump, DeSantis, and Ramaswamy because they have not been sufficiently pro-Zelensky.

What an idiot! If anything, the blank check to Zelensky emboldened Hamas because we stripped our reserves of ammunition stored in Israel to fund the military-industrial/Wall Street war against Russia. Here is the clip:

 

This is what happens when we have leading voices like Donald Trump, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Ron DeSantis signaling retreat from America’s role as leader of the free world. When I’m President of the United States, we’ll lead from American Strength. pic.twitter.com/gW3HaN4fIp

— Mike Pence (@Mike_Pence) October 8, 2023

 

Pence and others are trying to link aid for Israel to aid for Ukraine to force the House GOP to continue funding Zelensky and the company. Not to be outdone by Pence, Nikki Haley wants to go to war with Iran. Here is Tucker discussing Haley and other GOP warmongers advocating … indeed practically salivating at … armed conflict with Iran:

 

JUST IN: Tucker Carlson blasts Nikki Haley, Lindsey Graham and Dan Crenshaw for being warmongers with their responses to the Israel-Hamas war.

Carlson specifically blasted Graham for “not caring” about lost lives because he is nearly 70 years old with no kids.

“What exactly… pic.twitter.com/3tUaSbjbYz

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) October 9, 2023

 

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When the government meddles, things get messed up. The market – whichever it is – no longer works correctly, nor can it – and as you can see in the chart below, it is you that pays the price, typically in two directions.

The subsidy or regulators force and the end cost. So here’s the chart. Tell us in comments if you know what PART the Government has played in the observable meddling.

 

 

 

If you don’t have the time to do that (moment on the meddling), click over to see what the WSJ had to say about it, especially colleges.

As for Healthcare, the Government has owned that market ever since Medicare and Obamacare came to be and when the Government controls a marketplace, we see implemented Socialism, one slice at a time, like the Fabian’s in Britain.

Look at how bad their National Health Service backups are – rationing by time but not by over-the-counter price (but their taxes give away the tale).

Go ahead, change my mind.

 

HT | Powerline)

 

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As promised in Monday Memes, I have an overflow. My meme cup runneth over.  And yes there will be a Friday edition too.

Let the mayhem, mockery, and ridicule resume:

 

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

 

I’m putting in more commenting and “breakout” memes with very specific themes.  No long diatribes, but IMHO some things need focusing on and highlighting.  Hopefully striking a balance between the desire by some for “pure” memes and more info & comments as communicated to me by others that liked that other format.  Happy medium somewhere.  Please comment as to where that line should be.

Speaking in depth of certain things – the goings-on in Israel, and related to Islam in general:

 

 

 

This is a real worry.  Consider Dearborn, MI.  My wife and I were there in the late 00s; Arabic signs everywhere, men and women in Middle Eastern clothing.  I learned that my favorite restaurant from when I lived out that way had been closed because the owner was sending money to terror groups.  I’m sure it’s worse now… and many of them are US citizens.  As are the Socialists in love with the terrorists.  Consider this:

 

 

Note, there’s some dispute over whether this is photoshopped but I would hope that the NYPost vetted it.

The Left, too, has weighed in on the side of terror.

 

 

Remember, this sign came from well before recent events.  From American Socialists:

 

 

But then the Left and Islam have a long alliance:

Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam And the American Left

United in Hate: The Left’s Romance with Tyranny and Terror Hardcover

 

 

This is 100% true.  How any female can support Islam is beyond me.

 

 

And while all the “usual suspect fact checkers” deny that prayer rugs and other Islamic materials have been found on the southern US border, we know for a fact that people on terrorist watch lists, and people from “Other than Mexico” countries have been caught for decades down there.  It defies belief or even just a healthy survival instinct to not think this is likely.  On that:

Bayou Renaissance Man: Stand by for squalls

What this means is that there are almost certainly multiple terrorist cells already inside this country, and by now they’ll be armed and equipped to do their job. They didn’t have to smuggle weapons or explosives into the USA; there are enough already here, and sympathizers enough to buy them (legally or illegally) or steal them, and make them available to terrorists. What’s more, many of those sympathizers will by now have been trained by the terrorists to be as effective as they are.

 

 

Be aware, people.

Now, some history… including some choice bits, and a reference to an excellent book, here:

The Biden Regime Should Admit the Real Causes of the Jihad Against Israel | Frontpage Mag

And here:

America’s Betrayal of Israel – Tablet Magazine

Iranian Influence Operation Is Deep Inside the U.S. Government

 

Debunking the Palestine Lie

 

 

You might recognize the voice.  This guy:

TERRORIST NATION – YouTube

You’ll hear about Israeli apartheid being used as justification:

 

 

Except a couple of words from people who should know, you know, real apartheid (video links only):

A Black South African on Israel and Apartheid – YouTube

Does Israel Discriminate Against Arabs? – YouTube

You’ll also hear a lot about Gaza being an “open air concentration camp”.  It has hotels and hotels, restaurants and restaurants.  Malls.  Some “concentration camp”.  And odd how in a concentration camp the population is growing:

 

 

Desperation everywhere:

 

Ramadan in Gaza

 

 

 

And while this is dated, it depicts utterly stark and horrific conditions:

 

Gaza Water Park and luxury restaurants Arab Palestinians enjoy

 

 

And you’ll doubtless be bombarded by Palestinian land loss:

 

 

(Parenthetically, note the refugee status.  Insofar as I am aware, the Palis are the only refugees where that status transfers to the kids and grandkids.  Weird how there’s this strange exception to the normal rule when it comes to Israel.)

From where I got that image (links in the original):

This has been debunked so thoroughly that textbooks and news networks that showed it apologized afterwards because they didn’t want to be associated with such a blatant twisting of the truth. This version is even worse than most by calling the area that the UN proposed as “The Arab State” “Palestine” as well as the areas that were under Jordanian and Egyptian control before 1967, as obvious a falsification of history as can be imagined.

And from the first link in the quoted paragraph, this:

 

 

This map shows that Israel gave up control of the Sinai, Gaza, Southern Lebanon and much of the West Bank over the years. Rather than falsely accusing Israel as a land-grabbing rogue state, it accurately shows Israel as perhaps the only state in history that has voluntarily given up more than two-thirds of the areas it controls in exchange for nothing more than a paper agreement – or sometimes not even that. All at the risk of serious security concerns for her people, no less.

I don’t want this section to become too long, so I’ll continue Israel-related stuff below (and depending on how much more I get daily, may create separate postings just on this topic).  On to pure memes.  But first, consider a T-shirt:

 

 

From the river to the sea, Fakestine will never be T-Shirt | Zazzle

 

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1.1 million views.  Some, of course, will scoff and deride.  But others will be prompted to investigate.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Again, I’m not advocating for vigilante justice.  But I understand it.  And from the link where I got this, this conclusion:

All across the West, people have lost faith in their government to maintain order. And now they are beginning to realize that there is no cavalry, and that if anyone is going to protect their family, if anyone is going to protect their nation, it’s going to have to be themselves.

Truthfully, I’m surprised we’re not having this kind of thing happen more often given how invaders in Europe are beating, raping, and even murdering the native Europeans.  In America too.

 

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More Israel-related things (and yeah, I think I’ll put these into a separate post from now on):

CONFIRMED: Weapons Left Behind By Biden In Afghanistan Are Being Used To Attack Israel (trendingpoliticsnews.com)

 

 

 

Bayou Renaissance Man: The brutal reality facing hostages in Hamas’ hands (link in original, italics replaced by underlining):

You may also have seen pictures of several schoolchildren captured by Hamas at Kibbutz Be’eri, being led through the streets.  More pictures show bodies found by Israeli forces at the kibbutz after it was recaptured.  The images show the same people.  The fact that the victims were children meant precisely nothing to their captors.  They were prisoners who proved to be “inconvenient”, probably because there was no way to take them back to Gaza . . . so they were murdered.

UNBELIEVABLE! Hamas official claims they have not killed one single Israeli civilian (barenakedislam.com)

Warning, graphic images.  Also graphic images here:

GRAPHIC IMAGES of slaughtered Israeli soldiers and civilians posted across social media (barenakedislam.com)

Stilton’s Place: War in Israel (stiltonsplace.blogspot.com)

“Young Women Raped Next to the Dead Bodies of Their Friends” – Geller Report

Gaza: Muslim terrorists refer to kidnapped Israeli girls as ‘sex slaves’ – Geller Report

I’ve been commenting in a few groups on Telegram to the effect that to a Muslim in war, there is no such thing as a non-Muslim civilian.  Because anyone not a Muslim is in the “House of War” so every single non-Muslim is a soldier against Allah.  And therefore fair game.  Another thing to consider as Hamas moves people into harm’s way to become camera fodder, is that any Muslim killed in the service of Jihad is considered a martyr, and thereby gets an automatic ticket to paradise.  Thus, by placing people into the line of fire, these people killed by Israel’s attacks are not just human shields, they’re heading to the greatest gift of all – paradise.

Know the enemy.  Know how they think, and what they’re capable of doing.  Like this:

In Israel: “40 Babies Discovered With Their Heads Cut Off” – Geller Report

Remember, Hamas and jihad against Jews has widespread support in that part of the world:

With Palestinians, there is no need to exaggerate: they really support murdering random Jews ~ Elder Of Ziyon – Israel News

These are people who celebrated the murderers of Hadas Fogel, stabbed to death in her crib in the Itamar massacre.  She was missed, you see, by the killers and they were exiting the house, but she started to cry… so the murderers went back in to get her too.  Feted and cheered by Palestinians everywhere.  And now people cry that the water’s been cut off?  Cry about “Geneva Convention” violations???

And concluding, about that church that Israel allegedly bombed:

FACT CHECK: Israel Bombs and Destroys Oldest Church in Gaza? * 100PercentFedUp.com * by Danielle

With one last tidbit on my understanding of the “rules of war”… any normally-forbidden protected structure, like a church or mosque or such, or a hospital, etc., has its protections removed when it’s used as a munitions storage or troop center.   And a bit more history:

 

 

One other thing that I understand the KGB did.  From 1948 until about 1967 it was “small Israel” against all the Arab states.  But after about then, the KGB pushed to change the perspective to “big Israel” against “hapless Palestinians”.  It worked.

And a coda emailed to me from our friend Surak:

 

 

Gaza has a great location and climate.  Beautiful beaches.  A strategic trade location.  Geographic close access to sites in both Egypt and Israel.  They could be wealthy and prosperous.  A pity they have other priorities.

 

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Pick of the Post:

 

 

Winner, hands-down.  Make this one go viral!

Though I do recall a Reagan speech recalling when someone was talking with him – not sure if it was before his first election or after – and said to Reagan “I’ll be with you through thick”!

Reagan countered with “What about thin”?

“Welcome to Washington” was the reply.

 

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Happy Columbus Day – a little late!

 

 

 

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Palate cleansers:

 

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Come back on Friday for more memes.  Same meme time.  Same meme channel.

 

 

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In New Hampshire, you can vote in either party primary if you switch your party Registration to Independent. Democrats are forever meddling, and this year, there was an enthusiastic push to do exactly that.

According to a Democrat insider, NH Dems pushed hard to get their political brethren to become Indys.

One train of thought says they will vote for Trump becasue they think he is easier to beat in the general. That’s what AFP Action thinks, too. But that makes very little sense to me from an interference perspective. Even in New Hampshire, Trump is crushing the field.  It is wasted meddling.

The other, more likely reason, is they plan to vote for someone like Chris Christie to give him momentum. A Never-Trumper of RINO proportion whom polls show is the most disliked candidate and for whom fewer people will vote under any circumstance than Trump.

They are, of course, Dems, so who knows what might happen in those mental-health-addled brains, but the switch is on. The Sec of State’s office has released the registration numbers (the deadline for the January primary was last week), and Republicans have the edge over Dems – becasue 3,542 Democrats changed their registration to independent.

 

3,542 Democrats -> independents
719 Republicans -> independents
408 Democrats -> Republicans
78 Republicans -> Democrats
41 independents -> Democrats
132 independents -> Republicans

Totals:
269,766 Republicans
265,159 Democrats
344,212 independents https://t.co/nzK0mYQEaO

— Jon DiPietro (@jondipietronh) October 11, 2023

 

If you add the Dem. to Repub. switch (another 408), nearly 4,000 New Hampshire Democrats engage in election interference in the Republican Primary. We’ll assume that’s the plan since that is what we’ve heard from insiders. And why not? We let them. And Democrats in New Hampshire have no primary (they have Biden), so in a way, I’m surprised more Dems didn’t switch.

Our understanding was that the pressure was high to do that. There were third-party ads on television directed at Granite Staters telling them they could switch. That’s no coincidence.

And they will meddle becasue they can, but there is a hitch to all of this. You’ve read all the articles about the NHGOP resolution to close the Primary to anyone not registered Republican. That request was to have been sent to the Secretary of State just before the deadline.

If it has the problems claimed all along, nothing will change. If there was no issue with the request, the Primary could be closed, and all those Dems switched for nothing.

Not holding my breath, but damn, that would be funny.

 

 

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What was the reaction of certain Harvard student leaders to Hamas’ attacks on Israel? Blame Israel. The Jews had it coming. See the tweet below. Harvard – and I am sure its peer colleges and universities- are apparently places where it is considered normal to condone killing Jews.

Simply because they are Jews.

And yet the people at these “elite” institutions have the temerity to call Trump and his supporters Nazis?

But it’s much, much, much worse than just hypocrisy. Harvard and its peer colleges and universities generate the future leaders of America. The men and women who will sit on the Supreme Court, Presidents, Senators, the CEOs of major corporations. Imagine what the future will look like in twenty or so years when they take power.

Germany under Hitler? China under Mao? The Soviet Union under Stalin?

What wouldn’t people who support Hamas’ evil do to anyone they deem an enemy of their State?

America is doomed. Destroyed from within.

 

A group of @Harvard students released a statement that begins, "We, the undersigned student organizations, hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence."

The statement continues, but that’s all you need to know.

Israelis – young and old – were… pic.twitter.com/h2hHJuBaou

— Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) October 8, 2023

 

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Joe Biden used a prisoner swap with the crazy Mullahs running Iran (into the ground) as an excuse to pay the world’s leading sponsor of Terrorism 6 billion (of your) dollars in reparations. Was it for the sanctions, the killing of General Qassem Soleimani?

A gratuitous gratuity?

Pocket change to buy weapons from the Taliban?

Is the Biden Crime Family getting a kickback, or is the invasion of Israel by Hamas the reward? (I don’t believe Biden when he says terrible things about Hamas.)

Sen. Marsha Blackburn says, “Hamas and Hezbollah members say not only did Iran help plan for months, they gave the official green light in Beirut last week.” She wants the money train to stop. The Biden Admin says they haven’t sent Iran the money yet and won’t negotiate unfreezing the funds.

Giving the Mullahs access to billions on top of an even prisoner exchange is a strange choice from a regime that imprisons Americans without due process for walking around inside the US Capitol taking selfies. The former is a self-proclaimed enemy of America and a world sponsor of Terrorism. The latter is a US citizen Democrats view as a sworn enemy of their post-American empire.

Are the Bidenistas mad at Israel for liking Trump’s efforts at Peace in the Middle East?

And can we add to this the other rumor? Hamas is also getting weapons from Ukraine, for which we’ve also paid, or did we send Israeli weapons to Ukraine, leaving them open to attack? So many theories

Enough!

Whatever is going on, it’s important to understand only one word. Fungible.

 

If only someone could have predicted what was going to happen after the deal Biden made with Iran. pic.twitter.com/G0wSc6TM1a

— MAZE (@mazemoore) October 9, 2023

Mullah Mullah, Oh, Baby, Here we go now. Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb-bomb-bomb!

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One thing I have learned over these past 17 years here at GraniteGrok is that there is a descending value placed on professionals being held responsible.

Certainly, we get to hold politicians to account every 2, 4, or 6 years, depending on the office and that office’s length of term.

As an example (sidenote), I am VEHEMENTLY against the growing trend of legislating the changing of NH County offices from 2 to 4 years. Face it, you’re just not that special. I might reconsider IF a bill was passed and signed that allowed we Citizens to recall any such politician at any time for any cause, political or otherwise, at a time of our choosing BEFORE the next election.

Politicians hate to be held accountable for their votes – both Parties. Especially the NH State Senate, where it always seems that for important votes, only a voice vote is called.

Much better in the NH House, but even then, too many “Representatives” refuse to muster up the courage to be on the record by casting a vote. We’ve chronicled those “walks” and “unexcused absences” many, many times.

Journalists are not fans of being held accountable for what they write or say, either. With their puffed-up chests hiding behind that hackneyed phrase “Comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable.” Poseurs, IMHO, as many have become nothing more than mouthpieces for the Left. (Think I’m kidding? Why, then, do their political donations to politicians, PACs, and Parties rarely end up with the corresponding Right-leaning entities?)

Trust me, they have not liked it once, finding out that when they have berated me or one of my writers, their names and organizations show up on Google results pages.

They then say that Journalism no longer has to be “objective.” That both sides of an issue do not have to be shown; that does not make you news-people – that’s an activist.

And now we see it with lawyers. Specifically, government prosecutors that refuse to hew to the Law and do their job. In their case, by way of some Gordian Knot reasoning containing a mishegoss mashup of Social Justice, Anti-Racism, Critical Race Theory, and various and sundry other Progressive malapropisms, all of which serve as excuses as to NOT doing their job – holding those alleged perps accountable for their alleged crimes against property or people.

They have decided not to be accountable to the Law AND complain when others attempt to hold them accountable by way of throwing the Race Card, the Class card, the extremist card, or whatever other XXXX Card they can think of.  To make themselves victims instead of Society’s Legal enforcers (in which they were either appointed or RAN to be elected to do such).

Georgia Prosecutors File Challenge to Block Law That Holds Prosecutors Accountable.

You know, just like my “No Means NO!” bill that would have forced appointed (i.e., Town Administrators, School Superintendents, Selectmen, and School Boards from transferring monies into zeroed General Ledger accounts (by both Budget Committee and vote of town residents) because of loopholes in the NH Depart. of Revenue and Administration). FORCE them to have to Follow the Law. Of COURSE, they did (especially the “Soros-funded” prosecutors who were specially selected for their willingness to use “prosecutorial discretion” not as a tool for individual cases with specific situations but as a blanket for ALL crimes of a certain type. Because Society has so oppressed these now “victims,” it is outrageous to hold them responsible for crimes that Society forced them to commit…

…or some other form of Stupidness.  It’s the Left’s continued shove push to remove Society’s definition of Personal Responsibility to a “group one.” Which, as we can all reason out, means no one is responsible for anything – and can then make the Stalinist “Show me the man, I’ll find you the crime’ come true far beyond their wildest expectations. Reformatted, emphasis mine:

Back in May, we reported about a new law in Georgia that seeks to hold prosecutors who don’t do their jobs accountable. The General Assembly passed the bill essentially along party lines — the one Democrat who voted in favor of it has since moved over to the GOP — and Gov. Brian Kemp signed it into law at a ceremony in Savannah, Ga.

“I am not going to stand idly by as rogue or incompetent prosecutors refuse to uphold the law,” Kemp said at the time. “Today we are sending a message that we will not forfeit public safety for prosecutors to let criminals off the hook.”

The law, which requires district attorneys to look at every case for probable cause and prevents the blanket dismissal of cases, took effect on July 1. The law also set up a commission that has the power to discipline or remove prosecutors who don’t prosecutes crimes thoroughly and fairly.

It sounds like Society is attempting to defend itself. After all, they found against my “No Means No” that would have allowed regular citizens to hold those officials to be accountable (btw, it was defeated after these same folks decided to fight back. Like these bozos:

 

Naturally, Democrat district attorneys leaped from their fainting couches in the highest of dudgeon over the new law, calling it “excessive and unnecessary” and even “racist” for suggesting that prosecutors should actually prosecute or face discipline. Now, a group of district attorneys has filed a challenge to the law, asking a judge to block it on the grounds that it undermines their ability to choose which cases to prosecute.

 

Well, when you act like children by only doing what you want vs. what you are SUPPOSED to do, why are you surprised when adults step in and correct you? When crimes are not equally gone after, the people hurt are the actual victims, not the criminals recast as criminals. And Society as a whole is harmed. But like children, there is always self-justification for their need to be independent from oversight by ANYONE (am fighting that ongoing battle with the Granddaughter right now).

…Spearheading the effort is DeKalb County District Attorney Sherry “I Can’t Prosecute Domestic Terrorists” Boston, who has twice recused her office from prosecuting Antifa thugs who have targeted the future site of a public safety training center for the City of Atlanta. In typical Democrat fashion, Boston framed the case in the most dramatic terms, pointing out to the AP that it’s “bigger than Georgia.”

“We are talking about prosecutorial discretion and prosecutorial independence, both of which have been solidly under assault the last few years,” Boston said.

Have you noticed that when Democrats don’t like something, that means that the opposite of that thing is “under assault”?

Democrats and their [in]actions are always portrayed as victims. Always. I’ll end with this:

…“All Georgians deserve to be safe, and all crime victims deserve justice,” Carr also tweeted. “Like everyone else, DAs who choose to violate their oaths of office are not immune from accountability, and we will vigorously defend this law in court.”

It’s astonishing the lengths that prosecutors — including one Republican — will go to get out of doing their jobs.

Accountability – another centuries-old, time-honored American trait that is under attack everywhere. Glad to see that someone had the stones to defend it.

 

HT | Instapundit

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