Vivek Ramaswamy believes that we are headed toward a national divorce AND that a national divorce is a bad thing. WRONG … so, so, so WRONG. We are headed toward one-party rule and the only way to stop that is a national divorce. Here is a tweet regarding Ramaswamy’s view on the question:

GOP Rival @VivekGRamaswamy on "Un-American" @realDonaldTrump Indictment: "We May Be Heading" to a "National Divorce" pic.twitter.com/WcbA3xm56D

— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) April 1, 2023

America changed in 2016. Very powerful people in both parties, the tech moguls, the media moguls, the globalists, and the Deep State refused to accept the results of the 2016 election. They engaged in a stealth-insurection over the four years of Trump’s Presidency … such as a Republican-controlled Congress conducting sham hearings about Russia-collusion, Trump’s own DOJ appointing Mueller to investigate allegations of Russia-collusion that were cooked up by Hillary Clinton and that same DOJ, the Secretary of Defense (Esper) refusing to withdraw troops from Syria, to name but a few examples.

This stealth-insurrection became a stealth-coup in 2020, when States changed voting rules … under the bogus pretext of protecting voters from COVID … to allow mail-in voting, the “harvesting” of ballots, the “curing” of ballots, and the counting of untimely received ballots … Zuckerberg poured half a billion into harvesting votes from BLUE voters in swing States and Big-Tech and the regime media censored the laptop from hell.

It is now virtually IMPOSSIBLE for a Republican to win the Presidency. Voting in swing Sates such as Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Nevada, Wisconsin … the States that determine Presidential elections … is RIGGED. The Left elected a vegetable to the U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania by “harvesting” ballots. Glenn Beck recently said that the Bragg prosecution would result in 100 million voters walking over broken glass to vote against the Biden-regime. Won’t matter … the Left will simply “continue” the vote-count in the States mentioned above until the regime has 101 million votes … corrupt Big Tech and the regime media will denounce anyone who challenges the steal as conspiracy-theorists … and the FBI will arrest anyone who dares protest the steal.

The Senate GOP is merely a controlled opposition. On the big issues … Ukraine, the border with Mexico, deficit spending … Mitch and his minions are in lockstep with the Biden-regime. Even if we could somehow elect a non-RINO GOP President, Mitch and his minions would work with the Democrats to block that President’s agenda … don’t forget it is because of SPEAKER Paul Ryan and SENATE PRESIDENT Mitch McTurtle that Trump’s border wall was not built when the GOP controlled the federal government from 2017-2019.

The mission of the permanent government in Washington, DC is to maintain the power of the ruling class; that is their power and the power of the politicians who feed them … peacefully protest a stolen election and the corrupt FBI will arrest you and a corrupt DC judge will put you in prison for years __ storm the Whitehouse when the President is named Trump and you’ll get, at the most, a slap on the wrist; post an obviously humorous tweet encouraging Hillary supporters to vote by text and you go to prison for ten years __ post basically the same tweet aimed at Trump voters and that’s alright; expose Twitter’s censorship and the IRS will come knocking at your door __ I could go on and on and on.

We are already living in a police-state and it’s only going to get worse. You cannot persuade the Left. You cannot coexist with the Left. They don’t believe in the Bill of Rights. They don’t believe in the rule of law. They believe in power … their power. The choice is either to accept living in a system of apartheid where the Left plays the role the white-minority did in South Africa or a national divorce.

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My first thought when I saw the headline, “A new flu is spilling over from cows to people in the US. How worried should we be?” was ‘ if we find the flu spilling over from horses, will you encourage people to take Ivermectin?

My second thought, which was tripping over the first for the chance to be first, was so what? Zoonosis and seasonal flu go hand and hoof, paw, claw, or whatever.

Other thoughts challenging the first two for primacy included “we are ‘animal’ reservoirs” and “why would we trust anything that anyone claiming expert knowledge had to say about it or from the media filter (in this case NPR) through which it had been broadcast?”

My brain was a busy place in the microseconds after reading a headline about how the cow flu might jump over to people. But if the SARS CoV2 WIV (Wuhan virus) debacle has taught us anything, it is that the Public Health Industrial Complex does not consider public health its priority. Fear, power, and money trip over each other to be first, and somewhere downstream, there is an asterisked footnote about people and how they help achieve the other three.

Given those sobering observations, the World Health Organization, and if you can’t trust the WHO, WHO can you trust (/sarcasm), says,

There are four types of influenza viruses: types A, B, C and D:

Influenza A viruses infect humans and many different animals. The emergence of a new and very different influenza A virus with the ability infect people and have sustained human to human transmission, can cause an influenza pandemic.
Influenza B viruses circulates among humans and cause seasonal epidemics. Recent data showed seals also can be infected.
Influenza C viruses can infect both humans and pigs but infections are generally mild and are rarely reported.
Influenza D viruses primarily affect cattle and are not known to infect or cause illness in people.

The apparent genesis of fearmongering (like killer bees, death hornets, or another Trump Presidency)  is that Influenza D is not known to infect or cause illness in people. But what if it did?

The NPR piece is concerned about cow flu crossing between animals and maybe to us, and guess what? More than half the US cattle population has antibodies for Influenza D. OMG! Could it be because it is cattle flu, and they’ve had it? It’s not a head-scratcher. Nor is evidence of it in other mammals, including cattle workers, who also have shown evidence of antibodies to this strain. Again, so what?

Please repeat the words “not known to … cause illness in people.” I’m no immunologist, and thank God because most of them appear to be terrified of getting infected (at least with COVID), but there are gazillions of things our immune systems have adapted to address between heartbeats however many years you believe Homo Sapiens (heh – he said Homo) have been meandering across the surface of the earth. Most of them barely register (like COVID for many), and no one spasmodically tests for it because there’s no responsible medical reason. But a headline that reads “People get influenza D from cattle, and so what?” doesn’t captivate much like “there’s been no measurable sea level rise on the New Hampshire coast for twelve years.”  That fescue doesn’t feed the right narrative cows. But the fear of a crossover flu pandemic does, and if you have the constitution to wade through NPRs 1500+ words to get to the end, you are rewarded with this.

“The USDA, along with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said in emails that, at this point, there isn’t any evidence that Influenza D is causing significant harm to livestock, so there aren’t currently any surveillance systems in place for livestock or workers.” BUT! “… officials and scientists had a similar view of coronaviruses for a long time – that they weren’t a major concern because they only caused a cold.”

For a super-majority of the planet, that was all COVID ever was. And if the experts had encouraged doctors to prescribe the widely available and inexpensive human drugs Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin, there would have been no WIV SARS pandemic or any of the policies it fomented.

It would have been like any other flu season from forever until today, as might Cow Flu EVEN IF someone at NIH is funding gain of function research in a “leaky” foreign bio-lab on Influencez D. And if they are, can we get it released in Anus, France or Weiner, Arkansas? Bitch Mountian, New York? Dickshooter Idaho? Boogerhole, West Virginia?

Anus Flu? Who doesn’t want to call out for work and tell their boss they tested positive for that?

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It really is going to be a moral issue for the militant self-righteous ones (I’m thinking about PETA and not the “People Eating Tasty Animals” kind) that keep telling us that we Normals should never be able to eat meat or use any animal derived products. Seriously, what will they consume now that some researchers have found that plants can actually make noises that have been spoken about as “speech”?

Stressed plants ‘scream,’ and it sounds like popping bubble wrap
A study of tomato and tobacco plants suggests they emit ultrasonic popping sounds when dehydrated or physically damaged.

When deprived of water or snipped with scissors, plants emit a flurry of staccato “screams” that are too high-frequency for humans to hear, a study suggests. When lowered into a range that human ears can detect, these stress-induced pops sound like someone furiously tap dancing across a field of bubble wrap.

Although humans cannot hear these ultrasonic pops without technological assistance, various mammals, insects and even other plants may be able to detect these noises in the wild and respond to them, researchers reported Thursday (March 30) in the journal Cell(opens in new tab). (The same researchers first shared their popping-plant discovery in 2019 on the preprint database bioRxiv, but the work has now been peer-reviewed.)

…On average, healthy plants let out less than one pop per hour, but the stressed plants emitted about 11 to 35, depending on the plant species and stressor. Drought-stressed tomato plants were noisiest, with some plants emitting more than 40 pops per hour.

…Although the researchers gathered these recordings by setting microphones about 4 inches (10 centimeters) away from the plants, they suggest that these ultrasonic sounds could potentially be heard by mammals and insects with great hearing from 9.8 to 16.4 feet (3 to 5 meters) away.

Now, the report talks about how this new knowledge may help in cultivation and how farmers can better tend to their crops. NOTHING in the post, however, talks about plants being sentient and that these plants are just having a gay old time party going on like neighbors at a porch party. However, like at a porch party, signals are being sent out and not all of them are good ones.

The ‘Grok is a politics/culture blog and when I read about this, I instantly drifted to that corner of politics dedicated to Vegans and their constant mantra that everyone “Not Them” are killers of other beings. In their minds, after all, a catepillar is the moral equivalent of a human. Congrats guys, for after all that crying about me loving a tender, juicy, and tasty prime rib, it looks like you’ve been doing the same to plants – harming plants by harvesting them (like animals are harvested) and those plants have been screaming about it since forever.

It seems that all of the Eco-socialist types want to remove animal protein from our diets because raising animals causes too many greenhouse gases.  The Vegans tell us that ANY animal, once raised, can feel pain so it is unethical to kill them for our diets.

It’s that latter part that is going to put them onto the point of the needle of a moral dilemma of their own making. Now that they know that plants know when they are under attack and can tell the environment that, shouldn’t they now forego both animal and plant-based foods?  What does this mean – a diet free existence? Ha!

THAT’S when it is going to be fun to watch the self-justification and deer-in-headlight howling begin.  No matter what they decided, based on their ethical/religious beliefs they’ve been yammering about for decades, they’re boxed into…nothingness. That’s right – there’s nothing left for them to eat, is there? And nothing left to hammer us with.

No matter which they they turn, they will run into their self-erected moral walls.

I can sit here and laugh like a fool in watching them, being dumbfounded, that their major jabbing against we Normals has just disappeared into a deep maw of their own making. Their “we are better than you because we don’t eat meat” has turned into “we eat plants and now we’re as bad as the rest of you”.

Good times, good times.

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What is apartheid? Well … in South Africa, arguably the most well-known example, it was a political system that kept the white minority in power and maintained a separate and unequal society where the white minority enjoyed a privileged status.

The Nashville shooting reveals that there is a de facto apartheid in America against Christians. The real victims … according to the Biden regime, the regime media, and our corporate masters… are not the Christians murdered by the trans-killer or the Christian community worrying about what place of worship or school will be targeted next. Oh no … the real victim is the trans community:

KJP: "Our hearts go out to the trans community, as they are under attack right now." pic.twitter.com/lHvV3InFNf

— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) March 30, 2023

And the regime’s figurehead-President … to remind Christians just how worthless their lives are to those holding power in today’s America … was led out mere days after the Nashville shooting to proclaim a Transgender Day of Visibility:

.@JoeBiden issues a statement hailing transgender Americans and declares March 31, 2023 to be Transgender Day of Visibility. https://t.co/iIouxL2RYH pic.twitter.com/3A5IroSVdt

— Fox News (@FoxNews) March 30, 2023

America as we knew it is dead. And it is not coming back. We need a national divorce and the sooner the better.

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Innocent before proven guilty? What a quaint American notion!  But this is where we are from the person that was #3 in line if President Asterisk and Veep Toes Up were shoved deleted no longer able to serve:

Pelosi confirms malicious political prosecution by suggesting Trump is guilty until proven innocent! https://t.co/5mhcP0GD7v

— Tom Fitton (@TomFitton) March 31, 2023

As I write this yesterday, this is circling the Right blogosphere at an accelerating rate.  EVERYONE, not just we on the Right, should be taking close note that Pelosi, and those like around her and of her ideological ilk, are no longer Americans. This is one of the most bedrock ideals of our Republic – that our Judicial system protects the innocents and that means EVERYONE is to be held innocent until the evidence to found a defendant to be labeled guilty by a jury of their peers.

This is not crossing the Rubicon – it is breaching its banks and running it dry.  We are in third world territory and a confirmation that the Left has decided that the only morals left in our politics is that of gaining Power – and keeping it.  Then punishing their opponents with their new twisted form of “Justice”…

…that exists soley to keep them in Power. Do I need to enumerate all of the regimes in our past history, and that “history” occurring when our country was being born to remind you that was the norm?  And this is what she and all of the Socialist Democrats want?

Apparently so. They want Power and, perhaps even more, Revenge.  And Pelosi just made that perfectly clear.

They hate him with not just a white hot flame, not even that of the Sun. No, those are too cool. Try imagining a supernova – and that still isn’t burning enough.

And our problem is that while she is no longer the Speaker of the US House, there are too many like her at that pinnacle. The other problem is that there are people like them here in NH – and locally.

I will say it – they do not love America as it was cast.  More of us should have listened to Obama when he said “We are five days from transforming America”. Well, it wasn’t done in 5 days but that was the ignition point.  Absolute corruption.

I cannot get past, nor forget, what Ronald Reagan warned us:

“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”

As I write this, I am listening to the Grandson downstairs, playing on his Kindle; a reason, THE reason as to why I do what I do in my way. Others can do things that I can’t – but there aren’t enough given that the Left is getting closer and closer to their end goal.  How do we know?

Just listen.

So, what are you doing to throw sand into their gearworks?

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This story is not an April Fools joke, but Alvin Bragg may go down as the biggest fool in politics ever. In the most narcissistic move in political history, Bragg coerced a Grand Jury to indict Donald J. Trump, a former President, to a trumped-up felony charge. This action makes Trump the first former President to be indicted, and Alvin Bragg, the District Attorney, who destroyed his career by filing the indictment. Whether Bragg was working alone or as a Soros plant, his ill-advised action may be the ticket back to the White House for Trump. This fiasco will explode in the Democrat’s faces.

We do not know what the indictment says at the time of this writing, but it does not matter. The integrity of our government, which for years was the envy of the world, has been destroyed forever. Alvin Bragg has opened Pandora’s Box for the future. Every President will now be at the mercy of the President’s opposing party. This move by Bragg is the latest example of political weaponization by the Democrat Party. The Democrat play, which some say began with the January 6 Committee and climaxing today with the New York indictment, is the most extensive attempt at election manipulation.

What we are witnessing is lawlessness to the Nth degree. Whether it is Congress, the FBI, Justice Department, IRS, or a bush league New York District Attorney, the Democrats are showing no limit to the power they will exert to retain the White House in 2024. Trump is the biggest threat to that scenario, so he needs to be eliminated at any expense.

Many times today, we heard references that the day’s actions are more consistent with a third-world country than the most respected Democratic Republic in history. This farce is not about Trump but about every patriot seeing this for what it is, a blatant effort to keep the political outsider down and not allow him to gain the seat where he can effectively tear down this house of cards.

It is not a coincidence that the day the former President of the United States was indicted, they released from prison the image of the January 6 “insurrection.” Jacob Chansley, the convicted January 6 rioter dubbed the “QAnon Shaman,” was released because previously suppressed evidence was made public proving Chansley was innocent of all charges. He was framed by the same corrupt government that has taken a sledgehammer to the Constitution and indicted Donald Trump.

The Left is trying to goad the Right to strike back with violence. We cannot give them that satisfaction. We need to dig deep and rely on our strong faith to take steps to overcome the Left’s movement to turn this great country into a Communist, Marxist, Godless shadow of its former greatness. We have right on our side, and the Left is underestimating the strength and fortitude of the Right and the length we will go to preserve this great nation.

The one fact anyone needs to point to that sums up the Democrat’s use of power is that Donald Trump is indicted for personal payments to individuals. At the same time, Hunter Biden is untouched for extorting foreign entities and countries for millions to enhance Biden’s fortunes.

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The head coach for Men’s Team Canada Powerlifting felt it necessary to make a point – that men should not be competing as women. To bring it home and hard, he showed up at a women’s powerlifting event in Alberta, identified as female, and beat the women’s bench press record by more than 100 pounds.

Related: The End of Women’s Competitive Power Lifting … in Minnesota?M/p>

A women’s record previously held by a man identifying as a woman.

There was a powerlifting tournament in Alberta, Canada, on Saturday where history was made. Avi Silverberg, the head coach for Team Canada Powerlifting for more than 10 years, entered Saturday’s Heroes Classic tournament after identifying as a female.

Silverberg then casually stepped up and bench pressed 370 pounds, beating the old record by more than 100 pounds — a record held by trans athlete Anne Andres.

Do you think he made his point? No biological woman will likely ever beat his record.

Team Canada powerlifting coach, Avi Silverberg just broke the Alberta WOMEN’s bench press record in the 84+ kg category at the “Heroes Classic.”

Former record holder, trans-identifying male, Anne Andres had a front row view as Silverberg mocked the discriminatory CPU policy… pic.twitter.com/ajhUJPB4gc

— ICONS Women (@icons_women) March 27, 2023

[Anne] Andres volunteered at the event and was seen watching Silverberg when he made his historic lift. Andres won eight of nine competitions entered in the women’s category over the last four years, according to the Independent Council on Women’s Sports (ICONS), which supplied the video of the event.

The only requirement to compete in the tournament was that the athlete declare their gender. Canadian Powerlifting Union (CPU) policy allows competitors to register for events under their “gender identity and expression, rather than their sex or gender,” vowing “no consequences” for doing so.

Another man (Andres) made it his mission to steal things from Real Women. Seriously, eight of nine competitions, including the record lift that Avi showed up to Transjack from a Transjacker. The competition policy is just nuts (see what I did there?).

It’s not fair. It doesn’t matter what surgery or hormones you take; any man who went through puberty before they “changed teams” can make it unfair to biological women, which means it can be reduced to a competition between men with girls’ names or men’s names or just a bunch of men who start as B or C team men’s competitors and lift their way into the record books by identifying as women.

They’ll even get a princess party from the progressives for robbing women of athletic accomplishment or even glory.

Not Avi. He planned to save the sport for women, and if you don’t like it, go ahead and cry.

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Well, it is exciting to report to our friends that Raymond has had some wins from the recent town elections. There has been a group of us that have been working to maintain traditional values in our town and right now we have been concentrating on our library. Last year I won a seat on the school board.

We want to thank Cindy Bennett for this Op-Ed. If you have an Op-Ed or LTE
you would like us to consider, please submit it to Editor@GraniteGrok.com.

Honestly, I have had a lot to learn. I am still on the learning curve. I do see things in a different light being on this side of the proverbial fence. I am listening and learning and hoping to be a voice for good in my town.

I have also realized that there is a lot going on at the public library. A small group of concerned taxpayers/ concerned parents have been conversing with the local librarian and current trustees as to some of the adult content topics that are in the children’s section of the library. Two of the folks attending these meetings include Mike Drago (a current state representative) and Julie Laughner (budget committee member and author of articles on GraniteGrok and long-time pro-life activist).  Several parents have gone to monthly meetings between the trustees and the librarian.

Since this was the only public meeting that has been untelevised by the local cable station, we have requested to have this meeting recorded and put up on RCTV as of last November. This has been great for the town’s people to ask questions, and we have been able to send the link of videos around so that more citizens were able to see the questions and answers personally.  The conversations have been difficult and sometimes debate has occurred. We have had to bring out polar opposite views and discuss them. We have found that the opinion of the current board is very close to the American Library Association and the modern agendas that, in traditional and moral opinion, are damaging to children.

We are specifically concerned about the sexualization of our children. Our group has been supporting Viriginia Fernold who has volunteered to join the board of trustees of our library and she has some great ways to help ensure the safety of children from the sexualized topics that are being put out in the open for children. I personally supported her by creating her campaign video which we put on RCTV and spread around social media, I collected money to help make signs to put around town and we all helped to place those signs all around town. Along with our candidate, who has now won the seat, we proposed 2 citizens petition warrant articles for the ballot. We were surprised at the opposition that we endured.  Article 43 states:

“The Citizens of Raymond hereby declare, from this point forward, that the downstairs children’s library room in the Dudley Tucker Library will be free of any books with content containing nudity, gender identity, sex or sexual references in writing or illustrations”.

We have been scoffed at by local citizens and we have even endured ridicule from the Union Leader. We were called book banners and other names by those who opposed us. At the Deliberative Session in Raymond, our librarian countered our warrant article with some potty training books and other books that she felt would be terrible to do without and that our warrant wording would make it so that they would have to get rid of 93% of the books in our children’s collection. It was a very weak argument because everyone on both sides knew what the article was concerned about. In my opinion….even in potty training books we don’t need nudity. It seems to be trivial to feel like we won big as a town that our Warrant article 42 passed. And this is where we are at.

It’s a win to keep damaging content out of the children’s section of the library. It’s hard to imagine we are here.

We also had another article which requested to pull out of the ALA (American Library Association); that article did not win. However,  I hope that as we proceed, more people will realize that our library is owned by the citizens, and we do not want to support an entity such as ALA which is against parents, and even against the innocence of the minds of children. The truth is, the reason that we are in this difficult place, is that conservatives have taken our hands and eyes off the public libraries .

WE have not been involved and we did not speak up sooner. I hope that seeing the extremes that the library is going to, into the realms of immorality and modern agendas, will get the attention of many taxpayers that do not agree with this. I have heard from many conservatives that “nothing works,” or “ we have to accept this because it’s the current trend.”

This sounds like giving up to me. For a true American Patriot, giving up is not an option. Protecting children should be our highest priority.  I hope that more taxpayers take part in their communities and get back some control of their towns by standing up for their constitutional rights and freedoms. The best way to deal with what is flooding our country is to get to the root of the trouble. We need to restore love for God and our Country. Love for humanity and respect for the human race and the Almighty God who created us.

Not only do we warn about damaging content, we need to also suggest good content that will encourage and strengthen our youth. Our library has purchased the Tuttle Twins books as we have also recommended many other excellent resources that kids can grow by.  We also  need to find the forums available to us. We pay into this system and it’s time to speak life into it. Speak up at the library, school board meetings, town meetings and whatever meetings are open to public comment. Do it with grace and dignity. Don’t go in mad and angry at anyone. We can’t expect those who hold the seats to do what we want them to do if we have been unavailable and unseen up to this point. We can do better .

The most important thing…we need to do something. Get off the couch, cancel an appointment, meet up with a fellow Patriot, speak up in person. Right IS right and WRONG IS wrong and we need to stop acting like nothing works. Edward Everett Hale wrote:

“I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.”

I am very excited to see this progress to do what is right in our community. I hope that it encourages you and inspires you to also get involved. Face to face is really the best way. If you are doing your thing, please be encouraged to stay faithful and don’t give up. Seek for the small ways to find real progress. Don’t stop trying to inspire others. Thanks for reading.

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The Baby Killers in the Lump of Cells Collective just took a shot to the head. A young lady named ‘Winner’ just went home with her family. She was born prematurely at  Maine Medical Center. At 22 weeks and one pound, two ounces, she is the youngest survivor on state record.

Medical professionals credited technological advancements for Winner being able to survive.

The NICU team at Maine Medical Center, including 140 nurses, decreased stimulation in the room to give Winner a comfortable environment.

MaineHealth says Winner will continue to need specialized care, but they say they’re excited to see her grow up with her loving parents by her side.

Talk about a conundrum.

Party of Science vs. viable human life. Twenty-two weeks. Happy and home with her family. Born less than six months into a pregnancy. And New Hampshire Democrats just did widdershins around the abortion bonfire over passing a bill in the NH House that would make killing babies like Winner a ‘gimme.

Nothing to see here. It’s not human (except for organ harvesting, but they like to wait until 30+ weeks for those if they can).

Nice party you’ve got there. Be a shame if you all burned in eternal damnation for the millions of lives you sacrificed in exchange for campaign contributions.

I know, you keep insisting it’s about women’s rights or health or some such thing, but we know that’s a bin full of crap. You came for women’s babies, and thanks to the trans-agenda, now you’ve come for them and their living children.

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There are growing concerns about the appearance of John Kerry, one of the Democratic Party’s premier politruks, former presidential standard bearer, George W. Bush’s burr under the saddle, and Joe Biden’s Climate Tsar, er, without portfolio.

We want to thank John Burtis for this Op-Ed. Please submit it to Editor@GraniteGrok.com.

It has been reported that the former Winter Soldier “looked terrible” in a recent public appearance, with fears that he was “suffering from some illness that has been or must be kept secret,” such was his unhealthy pallor.

First of all, Mr. Kerry has been an excessively busy lad, jet-setting back and forth between Washington D.C. and his beloved Europe, decrying the ongoing and permanent collapse of the Earth’s ecosystem, the melting of the Earth’s ice, the decreasing pressure on the Earth’s crust, while conveniently forgetting the increasing number of dead cetaceans clogging beaches already suffering from erosion from the robust ocean currents which carry heat away from the tropics to locales like Iceland and Ireland and make them liveable.

Mr. Kerry has recently enquired about the purchase of vast swaths of the Arabian desert, especially the Nafud region which is jocularly called the ‘Sun’s Anvil’ in the works by T.E. Lawrence and is plagued by miles of hot red sand.  Mr. Kerry believes that gigantic sea-going vessels powered by electrical screws and steered by AI should soon be silently crossing the increasingly vast oceans due to the ceaseless melting of ice while bulging at their welded seams from their hundred thousand tons of sand.  These costly untested and yet-to-be-constructed leviathans should be preferred by every one of us instead of the use of Arabia’s destructive petroleum, if not our own, because they represent the future electric.  They are needed to rebuild God’s own Cape Cod beaches and those on the island where both he and Barack Obama each occupy an incredibly opulent chateau totally beyond the price range of even Brentwood – Nantucket.

But all this policy wonking and calculator button pushing is fatiguing for Mr. Kerry, a man not used to sitting down and hammering out the smallest of ecological details, the everyday hurly-burly which is usually left to his operatives, his swelling personal staff and his pilot.

Nope, being on the road, ensconced in cheap five and six star hotels without the services of dedicated wonkeroonies like Br’er Pete Buttigieg to explain things and get the stuff needed to remain a gentleman, is doubly taxing on a man who is used to farming out all of the menial assignments.  Now, having to learn the intricacies of governmental involvements, internal rates of return, paybacks, quid pro quo’s, all about a big sister and the he/she/it/me ragtime, and the exceedingly treacherous working Catholic families who prefer the liturgy in Latin–the latter an anathema to Mr. Kerry and to his confrere’s in Davos and the White House.  Managing these expectations is just plain stultifying to the very man who put the word stultifying on that “auld” map of the island hanging on the interior wall of the Shell station on Sparks Avenue on Nantucket.

But it is tiring for a man of his advanced years with all those miles on his well-worn and highly buttressed chassis and on his perfect hair which requires the treble wash made famous by studious Gwyneth Paltrow wannabes.

The highly onerous task of convincing, and later ordering, dukes and paupers alike to give up everything that he never will is fatiguing and a waste of time because as the sworn appointee for the protection of the entire planet, he should be believed about everything he says and never questioned. After all, he IS  John Forbes Kerry. After all, he’s a Boston Brahmin aristocrat and a peer of the realm who has moved, from sheer dint of will, from sleeping in his car while keeping ahead of those street cleaning tickets and those equally surly Boston meter maids to slumbering on the cool pressed silk sheets in the AlpenGold Hotel in Davos, where a personal assistant irons his skivvies, his sheer black hosiery and garters, his NY, LA, and London Times and buffs his bespoke cap toe oxfords to a high gloss.

Of course, it’s also extremely exhausting to watch the incredible worship heaped on poor old Biden despite Joe’s gaseous eruptions before the dreaded Camilla Parker Bowles and how Mr. Biden really embarrassed the free world by breaking wind loud enough to cause noticeable tittering in the fawning crowd of high borns from whom Joe aspires to receive that exclusive invitation.

Imagine a man from Scranton garnering that many kudos from the Pelosi side of the aisle. It’s an affront to a man with Mr. Kerry’s accomplishments at sea, at home, in preparatory school in the same state where the damnable GHW Bush attended Exeter, in front of the camera, in the marriage aisle, and once or twice upon the floor of the Senate. It has to be a put-up job by the turncoat media the way they slaver over Joe and petulant Dr. Jill who are just grifting plebeians who must depend on Uncle Sap’s jets for travel to the hot spots instead of Kerry’s oh-so-plush Gulfstream IVG with the Windsor leather pilot seats, personal vanity mirrors and heated towel racks.

Then there’s the Mr. Smallweed business. People chuckled about it because of his past traipsing around Boston, throwing himself in front of any live camera he could, being called “Live Shot” for his troubles, passing off grave comments on any inconsequential situation he could locate, then doing exactly the same thing nationally when afforded that capability.

But what do they know?  Nothing!

He’s tried his damnedest to get felons the vote. He’s pontificated on the prolonged follies of the Afghan War and the crying need for electric autos. He’s supported Honest John Murtha in his endeavors and John’s jump to war crimes investigator, judge, and jury. He’s worked hard to make illegal aliens instant citizens and Democratic voters just as he has kept them off Nantucket. He’s toed the unpopular lines to make America smarter and more survivable. He’s exposed America’s sins first to Boston and then to the whole world. He’s called President Bush a fool of a man and President Trump an irredeemable lout. And Mr. Kerry has always offered to cut and run on a specific timetable to give our enemies a date certain for their victory.  Though it now appears that old Joe Biden beat him at that game in Afghanistan.

Then again, the prolonged and excessive use of botox is said to be unhealthy with those frozen facial muscles, squinting eyes, and that manic deer-in-the-headlights look.

Who can really say why Mr. Kerry is looking so poorly lately? Maybe he is ailing. But if he is, I suspect one of the real reasons is due to the prolonged exposure to the hogwash he is continually prancing through in the name of Democrat politics. That stuff’ll give you the grippe and things even botox can’t fix or hide.

[and of course, my favorite – Lurch!  -Skip]

Or, with all his surgery | Botox, how’s this comparison with Star Trek’s Deep Space Nine Security Chief Odo. Same flat and smooth face?]

But only one is unabashedly wearing make-up…

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The left’s culture war against women has been troublesome for many, including progressive feminists (TERFs) and even Democrats, who can’t see a way to get these two victim-class war “ends” to meet. The so-called party of women erased their safe spaces and robbed them of accolades while undermining Title IX.

It’s as if they defaced their relief on the victim class totem with some facial hairs and Adam’s apple. Any man who says he is a woman gets top billing at their expense. How could this happen?

A 2019 article from The Standard may hold the answers. Millionaires and billionaires, all Lefties, and all biological men fund the entire transgender agenda.

Who Is Funding the Transgender Movement?
I found exceedingly rich, white men with enormous cultural influence are funding the transgender lobby and various transgender organizations. These include but are not limited to Jennifer Pritzker (a male who identifies as transgender); George Soros; Martine Rothblatt (a male who identifies as transgender and transhumanist); Tim Gill (a gay man); Drummond Pike; Warren and Peter Buffett; Jon Stryker (a gay man); Mark Bonham (a gay man); and Ric Weiland (a deceased gay man whose philanthropy is still LGBT-oriented). Most of these billionaires fund the transgender lobby and organizations through their own organizations, including corporations.

Why are gay, trans, and straight men so invested in wiping out safe spaces for women and denying them opportunities their party of preference has claimed to defend for decades? How about money?

What if you found out that the catalyzing force that pushed the transgender agenda past a cultural tipping point was not compassion or discrimination but wealth? That’s the case Jennifer Bilek makes.

• The first gender clinic for children opened in Boston in 2007. In the past ten years, more than 30 clinics for children with purported gender dysphoria have arisen in the United States alone, the largest serving 725 patients.
• Over the past decade, there has been an explosion in transgender medical infrastructure across the United States and world to “treat” transgender people. In addition to gender clinics proliferating across the United States, hospital wings are being built for specialized surgeries, and many medical institutions are clamoring to get on board with the new developments.
• Doctors are being trained in cadaver symposiums across the world in all manner of surgeries related to transgender individuals, including phalloplasty, vaginoplasty, facial feminization surgery, urethral procedures, and more.
• Puberty blockers are another growing market. The plastic surgery arm of medicine is staged for an infusion of cash as well as organ transplants, especially womb transplants for men identifying as women who may want future pregnancies.
• Biogenetics is poised to be the investment of the future, says Rothblatt, who has headed a massive pharmaceutical corporation and is now heavily invested in biogenetics and transplants.

“This can hardly be a coincidence when the very thing absolutely essential to those transitioning are pharmaceuticals and technology.”

Bilek goes on to explore the big names and their connections, which you should browse in your free time. You’ll be amazed (or not) by the depth of connections to political power and money that is behind this endeavor which brings me back to the critical point. This machinery is not investing in a disenfranchised minority of the population. To quote Bilek, “only a fraction of [the hundreds of millions spent] trickles down to assist people who identify as transgender.

The massive medical and technological infrastructure expansion for a tiny (but growing) fraction of the population with gender dysphoria, along with the money being funneled to this project by those heavily invested in the medical and technology industries, seems to make sense only in the context of expanding markets for changing the human body.

The children are being groomed, drugged, mutilated, and castrated to launder money into the hands of 0.01 percenters who funnel some of it to politicians who protect their profit model (most of them Democrats).

I’ve been saying they are using the transgender agenda to facilitate the progressive depopulation agenda, and that’s still true – but they are doing it and making a fortune simultaneously. And the price is not just tax dollars or lost liberties. It is women’s rights, accomplishments, safe spaces, and their children’s lives.

All in service to wealthy leftists who don’t give a damn about gender, women, or children.

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(The Center Square) – New Hampshire features one of the lowest tax burdens in the nation, according to a new report. WalletHub released its report, “2023’s Tax Burden By State,” which shows only two states have a lower tax burden than the Granite State.

New Hampshire ranked 48th in the study that takes property tax, individual income tax, and sales and excise tax burdens into consideration.

The report, which uses data from Tax Policy Center, scored states on how those taxes affect residents’ income. It illustrates how the tax burden measures the proportion of what residents pay in state and local taxes.

Michael Simkovic, professor of law and accounting at the Gould School of Law at University of Southern California, said the relationship between state tax burden and economic growth is dependent on what is taxed and how that revenue is put to work.

“You tend to get less of what you tax,” he said. “Income taxes are generally thought to be more harmful to economic growth than property taxes. Spending on education, infrastructure and public safety tends to do more to promote economic growth than spending on retirement, disability or unemployment benefits.”

New Hampshire has a 6.14% total tax burden, according to the report. The state came in third in property tax burden at 4.94%; ranked 42nd in individual income tax burden at 0.13%; and came in last with a 1.07% total sales and excise tax burden.

Simkovic went on to say that income taxes, “especially on capital gains or focused on very high-end bonuses, tend to be more cyclical than sales taxes or property taxes.”

| By Brent Addleman – The Center Square – Mar 24, 2023

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The Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority at the University of Wyoming has a problem. “Guidelines set by the National Panhellenic Council … state that a sorority should be composed of ‘women and individuals who identify as women.” Have you guessed the problem?

A biological male asked to be admitted, and they didn’t want to be called bigots for refusing.

[T]he sorority admitted a biological male, Artemis Langford, into its ranks in October 2022. … Unfortunately, this decision has had serious repercussions for the sorority sisters. The complaint alleges that Langford has been “watching” girls undress around the sorority house, and that communal bathrooms do not lock. It also mentions that Langford has been seen to have an erection while watching women undress, and has refused to leave the house until “after you fall asleep.”

What Langford is doing could get him arrested if he were doing it from outside the sorority as a non “member.” As a peeping Langford. But the problem is not limited to Artemis. Lia Thomas, the C team men’s swimmer who became an A-Team women’s swimmer overnight, shares a locker room with an entire college women’s swim team and admits to being attracted to women. Young, healthy, athletic women, if I had to guess. And what better way to see and be with them than to be them?

William Lia Thomas is alleged at times to have exposed his male bits around these healthy young ladies (it is a locker room), but since he claims to be female, it is not illegal, and if you complain, you might be labeled a bigot or worse. There’s not much you can do that won’t get you kicked off the team or out of school.

The sorority girls at Kappa Kappa Gamma have decided to do something. They have filed a lawsuit against the University, Langford, and the national Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority.

The plaintiffs allege the national Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, the sorority’s national council president, and the new member all pressured the local chapter to breach sorority rules. The women said they felt “intimidated” to induct Langford into the house. ..

The lawsuit also alleged that Langford behaved inappropriately around her sorority sisters on numerous occasions, including once when she “had an erection visible through his leggings,” the suit alleges.

“Other times, he has had a pillow in his lap,” the lawsuit adds. “Smith [Langford] repeatedly questioned the women about what vaginas look like, breast cup size, whether women were considering breast reductions and birth control.”

The plaintiffs also alleged that the sorority ignored official bylaws when inducting Langford, and instead referred to a 2018 “Guide for Supporting Our LGBTQIA+ Members” that says Kappa Kappa Gamma is a “single-gender” organization.

I can’t say how that will turn out, but one report suggests the National Sorority is having none of it, so we’ll see. Until then, Langford is getting his jollies and ruining the college experience for a house full of women who should consider this a hard lesson learned about the gender front in the culture war.

A war that is being waged against them.

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“We are our beliefs,” it is said. Beliefs steer people in life. Some beliefs are harmless, some are the motive force for good, and yet others are delusional, misguided, and even outright dangerous. Every version of the belief called “Islam” ranges from the delusional to the dangerous.

Islam is a Grand Delusion, birthed by Muhammad’s hallucination he relayed to his first wife and employer, Khadija. Greatly frightened, he told Khadija that he was visited by a jinn (devil) in the Hira cave. Khadija comforted the distraught man by assuring him that the episode was Allah’s way of choosing him as his messenger. Muhammad believed his rich wife-employer who was 15 years his senior and the delusion became a belief—Islam.

Remarkably enough, under the early tutelage of Khadija, Muhammad succeeded in attracting a number of influential followers. Before long, the movement gathered more and more power through violent campaigns, and the faith was taken to new people and alien lands. This grand delusion, Islam, presently has in its stranglehold over a billion humans, posing an existential threat to all non-Muslims.

Islam is rooted in the primitive tribal mentality of “We against Them,” “We the righteous against the heathens,” and “We the servants submissive of the Great Allah against the rebellious enemies of Allah.” Islam is a polarizer. Islam is an enemy-maker. To Islam, a non-Muslim is a combatant against Allah, and he is fair game to be subjugated and killed.

When some billion and a half adhere to the pathological belief of Islam and use it as their marching order of life, the rest of humanity can ignore the threat only at its own peril.

Once again, a resurgent Islam is on a campaign of conquest throughout the world. Hordes of life-in-hand foot-solider fanatical Muslims are striving to kill and get killed. All they want is the opportunity to discharge their homicidal-suicidal impulse, on their way to Allah’s promised glorious paradise. And in the background granting the foot soldiers wishes are their handlers, the puppeteers, who pull the strings and detonate these human bombs. Those who cherish life must recognize these emissaries of death, what makes them, what motivates them, and how best to defend against them.

The campaign of death waged by the Islamist jihadist, be he a puppet or a puppeteer, is energized by the belief in delectable rewards that await the faithful implementer of Allah’s dictates. Through highly effective indoctrination, the jihadist has come to believe firmly in Islam’s grand delusion. He believes that Allah is the one and only supreme creator of earth and heavens; that it is his duty and privilege to abide by Allah’s will and carry out his plans at all costs; he believes firmly in a gloriously wonderful immortal afterlife in paradise, for which a martyr’s death is the surest quickest admission. Although the dominating theme of the delusion is quasi-spiritual, the promised rewards of the afterlife awaiting the martyr are sensual and material. All the things and activities that the jihadist desires and cannot attain or practice and rejects in his earthly life will be purified and proffered to him in the paradise of the next life. Thus goes the delusion.

It is important to understand that the human mind is not a perfect discerner of objective reality. In actuality, the reality is in the mind of the beholder. The outside world only supplies bits and pieces of raw material that the mind puts together to form its reality. Depending on the type and amount of bits and pieces that a given mind receives, its reality can be very different from that of another mind.

The more prescribed and homogeneous a group, the greater the group’s consensual reality since the members share much in common experiential input and reinforce each other’s mindset. Thus, members of a given religious order, for instance, tend to think much more similarly to one another than to members of other groups with different experiential histories.

Various approximations of the objective reality, therefore, rule the mind. The degree to which these approximations deviate from the larger group’s consensual reality determines their delusional extent and severity.

A cocaine mainliner, for instance, under the influence of the drug, may become convinced that a bug is burrowing under his skin. In his absolute, although clearly false, a certitude of the reality of his perception, cocaine users are known to take a knife to their own body to dig the burrowing bug out before it has penetrated too deeply.

A methamphetamine user’s reality is often distorted in a different way. Under the influence of the drug, intense paranoia overtakes him. His reality is dominated by the belief that one or more people are lurking about to harm or kill him. He may wield a deadly weapon, going from room to room, from closet to closet, in search of the assailants.

If you believe that a bug is camping deeply inside your body, then you might go ahead and try to dig the non-existent bug out. If you believe that people are lurking around the house to harm or kill you, you go after them before they get you. If you believe that all the troubles of the world are due to the evil-doings of the non-Muslims who war against Allah, then you do all you can to fight and kill them, particularly since Allah tells you to do so in the Quran.

The drug-induced delusions are hallucinations. They are dramatic and usually transitory, while religiously-based implantation of ideas programs the mind with lasting delusions.

Delusions, even when they are at great variance from the objective reality, can rule the mind without the need for drugs or as a result of neurological dysfunctions or other factors. The young and the less educated are most vulnerable to believing the claims of charlatans, con artists, and cunning clerics as truth and reality.

A tragic example of the young’s susceptibility to induced delusion is the case of thousands of Iranian children who were used as human minesweepers in the last Iran-Iraq war. The mullahs issued made-in-China plastic keys for paradise to children as an enticement to go forward and clear the minefield with their bodies ahead of the military’s armored vehicles. The children believed the murderers and rushed to their death, thinking that they were headed for Islam’s glorious paradise.

The repeated intense indoctrination of the children even changed the perception of some of the charlatan mullahs so that they, themselves, believed their own lies, took their own keys to Allah’s paradise, and rushed to their death, clinging to the plastic trinkets. Hence, some of the puppeteers, in this instance, became puppets themselves. Such are the follies and fallibilities of the human mind.

It is, therefore, understandable that many of the higher-up Islamic puppeteers, who are usually brainwashed from early childhood, devote their fortunes and persons to the implementation of their deeply engrained delusions.

Deluded by the threats and promises of Islam, Muslims, poor or rich, vie with one another in furthering the violent cause of Allah.

Many non-Muslims are also victims of a different, yet just as deadly, delusion. They believe that Islam is a religion of peace, that only a small minority of Muslims are jihadists, and that Muslims can be reasoned to abandon the Quran-mandated elimination of non-believers. These well-meaning simpletons are just as deluded as the fanatic jihadists by refusing to acknowledge the fact that one cannot be a Muslim and not abide by the dictates of the Quran.

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BusinessNH magazine recently ran a cover story on the wonders of DEI—Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. While the education establishment has been foisting highly-paid DEI coordinators on us for years, businesses are now foisting. Unfortunately.

The BusinessNH cover featured an African-American man and two women. Conspicuously—but typically—absent were the increasingly reviled OWGs (Old White Guys). You know, like our nation’s increasingly reviled founders. OWGs are now targets of a trifecta of prejudice based on age, color, and gender. But that’s seemingly okay with many DEI folks.

The magazine’s puff piece reminded me of a gender diversity panel session I attended at a legislative conference last year. All six panelists were female. OWGs need not participate. Google “DEI and White Males” and you’ll find countless examples of discrimination against OWGs. And YWGs. Lawsuits are coming.

The DEI craze conflicts with Martin Luther King’s dictum about people being judged on inherent merit and character content as opposed to skin color.

Quotas are inevitable. DEI people need stats. If a group is “underrepresented” in an institution’s personnel profile, action is required to address discrepancies. If there are too many OWGs on the payrolls, then good luck to any WG seeking opportunities there, regardless of qualifications. Google “reverse discrimination.”

Diversity staffers don’t market, sell, or build anything. But they do create problems.

It’s one thing to now stack the deck against white guys in academia. Naming a lesser-qualified person as a department head usually won’t kill anyone. But the DEI craze is now putting lives and national security at risk.

In “American Thinker,” Tom Harvey described how our government is plagued by DEI hurdles. Air traffic controller hiring has moved away from merit-based to gender/race-based. Because 86% of Air Force pilots are white men, its recruiting head has identified this as a major crisis. And United Airlines reportedly promised that 50% of their pilots will be women or people of color.

As a nervous frequent flier, I could care less about the gender or race of pilots or air traffic controllers. I just want to put my life in the hands of the most competent people when I’m helplessly aloft in a 737.

Consider how President Biden kneels at the DEI altar. His picks for vice-president, supreme court justice, press secretary, and other positions were driven by identity politics, not competency. So was his choice to replace New Hampshire with South Carolina as the site of the First in the Nation Primary.

The need to promote DEI is an affront to generations of parents, mentors, and teachers who’ve long promoted fairness, diversity, equity, and inclusion without hiring government approved specialists or deploying discredited 1619 Projects or Critical Race Theories.

Orwellian exploitation of the concepts of “diversity, equity, and inclusion” basically reflects “progressive politics.” Can a single conservative DEI coordinator please step forward?

Light needs to be shined on DEI policies and mandates that marginalize OWGs, YWGs, traditionalists, and others. Such policies create backlash and ironically hamper progress towards natural and organic diversity, equity, and inclusion.

I somehow think Martin Luther King might agree.

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(State Rep. Mike Moffett of Loudon chairs the House Committee on State-Federal Relations.)

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The students of George Mason University in Virginia are protesting the appearance of Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin on campus. Youngkin is scheduled to deliver the commencement speech to the 2023 graduates. Of the 36,000 students at GMU, approximately 6,000 have signed an online petition organized by Change.org demanding the invitation to Youngkin be rescinded.

As of this writing, GMU President Gregory Washington says he has no plans to cancel the Governor’s appearance, but he recognizes the student’s right to protest the scheduled speech. In a statement released on Monday, Washington said, “That being said, I don’t believe that we should silence the voices of those with whom we disagree, especially in this forum where there is no imminent threat present as a result of the disagreements.” Washington is GMU’s first Black president.

In a stroke of irony, the same students who want to celebrate diversity and inclusion are the most vocal in their desire to keep the Virginia Governor off the campus. We see this consistently with similar protests before or during a conservative speaker appearing on campus.

With their current mindset, these students are in for a rude awakening when they morph from student to employee. The workplace is filled with many people of differing thinking. And you will not find petitions to sign when faced with thoughts that do not align with yours.

I am pleased that Washington is not yielding to student demands. Some of the student’s characterizations of Youngkin are unwarranted. Youngkin and his Black, female, veteran Lieutenant Governor have been consistent since the campaign. Youngkin and Winsome Earle-Sears ran on a platform of restoring the parent’s place in their child’s education, eliminating Critical Race Theory and sexually themed books from elementary and middle schools. They are also pro-life and against counseling young students on gender issues. These beliefs are not filled with hate or indications of racism and homophobia. The Lieutenant Governor is Black, in case the students are unaware.

This protest of a commencement speaker may be the first of the year, but it definitely will not be the last of the graduation season. Today’s college students, not all of them, want to only hear from people of their ilk. This is narrow-minded and anything but diverse. This is not how people learn. This is not a healthy debate.

It is imperative that President Washington of George Mason University and any other president or dean who is challenged by the student body stay firm with their decisions and not yield to these immature graduates. These graduates, and all college students need to be informed that they are at a college or university to get an education, not to leave their mark on the institution by trying to change the make-up of the institution.

We are witnessing the harvest of the DEIJ efforts by our education system over the last few decades. The educational system has been in the indoctrination business for one hundred years. Now, with the support of Progressive Democrats, learning basic skills of math and reading have taken a back seat to diversity, equity, and inclusion. This focus has given us lower math scores every year, and the majority of students in college can only read at a seventh-grade level. We are failing our children, and we need people like President Washington to teach the hard lesson of life.

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President Joe Biden has disappointed us numerous times in his long career and two years in the White House. He hit an all-time low this week, even for Joe, when he had two opportunities to address the Nashville shooting. The first was when he went to the podium soon after the shooting. The country needed a calming voice and some words of comfort after another taking of young lives by a senseless shooter. What the nation got was a lousy comedy improv about ice cream.

“I’m Joe Biden and I am Dr. Jill Biden’s husband. I came down here because I heard there was ice cream. I have freezer full upstairs, really, no joke. Chocolate Chip is my favorite.” And he then makes a silly face that would make Red Skeleton cringe. End of the show, try the veal!

This approach is what Joe and his staff thought was appropriate in a time of national tragedy. I agree with Senator Josh Hawley when he said this was so below the office of the President. If Biden was 25, you could chalk it up to immaturity and bad decision making. His only defense is he is 80, and the dementia is worse than any of us could imagine.

The second opportunity was when Joe Biden walked from Marine 1 to the White House. A reporter asked if Joe would designate the Nashville shooting as an anti-Christian hate crime. His first response was that he had not thought about that option. When the reporter rephrased the question saying that Senator Hawley said it was a hate crime. This question made the President laugh and decide that if Hawley thought it was a hate crime, then it must not be. Again, an opportunity to calm the nation and our President is laughing. Bad form, horrible form, Joe.

There was so much a serious leader could have said about the Nashville shooting. He could have lamented about the loss of three nine year old students. There are now three families that will never be the same. He could have talked about the three adults shot dead and denied the rest of their lives. Three more families changed forever.

He could have praised the brave police squad that showed they were prepared and trained for such a situation. These police officers, that are maligned by many, did not hesitate to walk toward the shooting, put their lives on the line, and neutralize the shooter ending the danger of the moment. These police officers only took fourteen minutes to arrive at the scene, ascertain the situation and walk selflessly into a deadly situation to save others.

Instead, the President immediately went on the offense against guns and Republicans. He spoke as if the guns had walked in and killed six people. Nothing about the deranged shooter who held the weapons and pulled the trigger. Nothing about the woman who posted her intentions on Social media. Nothing about the killer who divulged her intentions to a friend, who called Police, but was late with the information. BTW, the female shooter identified as a male on her social media profiles.

Joe Biden had a chance to be Presidential and unite the country as we again mourned another senseless shooting. Instead, he ordered two scoops on a waffle cone. Sad, very sad.

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The headline sounds promising. “COVID vaccines are not needed for healthy kids and teens.” It’s something that at least a few of us knuckle-dragging Deplorables have been saying since April of 2021. Kids didn’t become vectors until after the ‘Experts’ insisted they got The Jab.

Prior to implementation, there were no COVID deaths in the 20 and under age group in our state or most states. The masking and remote learning did more damage, followed by Jabs that killed more kids than COVID, including making them more susceptible to it. And here’s where we get the mixed messaging from the WHO’s down in Whoville.

On the one hand (reformatted):

Healthy children and teens likely don’t need COVID-19 vaccinations, according to updated guidance posted on the website of the World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday. WHO’s Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization (SAGE) met last week to create a revised roadmap for COVID vaccinations. The new roadmap defines three priority groups — high, medium and low — based on the “risk of severe disease and death” when contracting the virus.

Healthy kids between 6 months and 17 years old are now deemed low priority.

The WHO wants to focus on “immunizing” those at high risk of severe disease, like the elderly or adults with comorbidities. And “Children who have compromised immune systems or existing health conditions should still get the COVID vaccine due to the higher risk of severe disease, the agency said.”

No mention of how scaring parents or guardians or people who jabbed kids without consent compromised their immune systems and created health conditions. In other words, according to the World Health Organization, you don’t need to Jab kids anymore, but if the Jab they didn’t need made them a high-risk candidate by compromising their immune system or causing a health condition, jab them again.

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Deja vu all over again!  Let’s just say that the thought went through my mind when I scanned through the email was “Remedial Reading time again?”. Yep, my RSA 91-A demand, for one thing, was auto-magically translated into something else. I’ve heard of New Math but now I must deal with New English? Or is reading comprehension the issue here? Perhaps just a vocab lesson for the word “obstinate”?

Anyways, this seems to becoming the Districts’ first salvo to my demand: “You do the work, not us”.

—— Original Message ——
From “Jodie Holmquist” <jholmquist@hnhsd.org>
To “skip@granitegrok.com” <skip@granitegrok.com>
Cc “Kim M. Caron” <kcaron@hnhsd.org>; “Maria A. Webb” <mwebb@hnhsd.org>
Date 3/28/2023 3:45:06 PM
Subject Right-to-Know Request

Dear Mr. Murphy,

Pursuant to your Right-to-Know request of March 22, 2023, the information you requested can be readily found at our school library websites which are accessed through the school websites and are available to all interested parties.

The Hinsdale Elementary School card catalog is at: HINSDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LIBRARY

The Hinsdale Middle High School card catalog is at:  https://hmhslibrary.weebly.com/

Thank you,

Jodie

Jodie Holmquist
Business Administrator
Hinsdale School District #92
Hinsdale, NH
603-336-5728 x7682

Yep, been through this before. But manners require that, in which schools that have little ones, it sometimes is needful to distract, correct,  and then redirect them. Now, I’ll admit, there may be some that won’t like that sentence construction. If so, ask yourself this – would I have to write that if they had simply taken the few minutes to push a button, run the report and export it to a spreadsheet? And then be done with me by emailing it to me?

—— Original Message ——
From “Skip” <Skip@granitegrok.com>
To “Jodie Holmquist” <jholmquist@hnhsd.org>
Cc “Kim M. Caron” <kcaron@hnhsd.org>; “Maria A. Webb” <mwebb@hnhsd.org>
Date 3/29/2023 12:45:32 PM
Subject Re: Right-to-Know Request

Good afternoon,

I am contacting you to thank you for responding within the mandatory five day limit.  Unfortunately, the District has not supplied the demanded Responsive Records as mandated by RSA 91-A:

This request is for the Hinsdale / SAU92 School District library “card catalog”. This is for any and all books located in the following:

• District-wide “main” library
• Each school within the District’s “main” library
• If a school has multiple “main” libraries (such as Brockton High, Brockton, MA)
• All classrooms with cataloged books that are tracked by the District.

The information for each Responsive Record shall include:

• Name of the book
• Name of the Author(s)
• Content Summary
• ISBN identification (or other such designated ID)
• Name of the School
• If a School has multiple libraries, a designation of which library is being referenced (in the case of Brockton High, the five libraries: Red, Azure/Blue, Green, Yellow, and the Science libraries)
• Name/designation of the Classroom within a School

You also are out of compliance with the Law in not specifying what the exemption that is permissible under NH’s Right To Know Law that allows you to not deliver those Responsive Records:

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

Merely sending links to look up individual materials is not supplying the District’s card catalog is insufficient.  It is the lawful responsibility of the Responder to fully supply the Responsive Records and not shift that burden to a Requester.

Or is it the sense of the District that it can refuse to honor a valid Right To Know demand?

I await your lawful compliance in this matter.  And yes, I do know that the Destiny library system has the ability to deliver the Responsive Records in the spreadsheet format as previously outlined.

-Skip

At the time of this writing, I have yet to hear back. The saga continues

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So here are some more videos of the J6 insurrectionists … except the videos are in the Tennessee Statehouse just his week. Hurray for me for calling out the hypocrisy of the media, the Democrats, the blah, blah, blahs, right? WRONG … the media, the Democrats, etc., etc., etc., don’t give a damn about being called hypocrites. In fact, they probably think “mission accomplished” and LAUGH every time the Right screeches “hypocrites,” or “call them out,” etc., etc., etc. … INSTEAD of actually doing something to fight back.

And the fighting back that needs to be done is for those on the Right to leave Blue States and make Red States … such as Tennessee … even redder. We need RED State governments that will do onto the Left’s foot soldiers and the people backing and bankrolling them exactly what the USDOJ has been doing to the “J6 insurrectionists” … put them in jail for a long, long, long time. And if your reaction is “WE’RE BETTER THAN THAT” …  then you are a loser and part of the problem.

Every Republican vote cast in New Hampshire is a wasted vote. It’s a Blue State. It’s going to get even bluer once Chris Pappas is elected Governor. And it’s never going to be a Red State again.

Want to know what kind of people tried to storm the Tennessee Capitol today? They had a moment of silence where most of them held up 7 fingers to signify they the trans mass murderer was a victim too. Evil. pic.twitter.com/uWsGSRrI67

— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) March 31, 2023

There’s something all of you should know about the attempted takeover of our state Capitol in Tennessee. Those folks you see taking over the well of the legislature are Democrat reps. One of them @brotherjones_ was a hardcore left wing activist/organizer pic.twitter.com/JXeEgWFbIt…

— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) March 30, 2023

CHAOS! Leftist activists and protesters created havoc on Thursday by occupying the Tennessee State Capitol. During the chaos, many tried to block the paths of legislators in the hallways, all while yelling pro-gun control chants. pic.twitter.com/b9aqJKpG3l

— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) March 31, 2023

MAYHEM: Protesters in the Tennessee Capitol blocked a bathroom doorway, preventing a legislator from exiting.

Then the state troopers got involved. My footage with @BreitbartNews: pic.twitter.com/nvus4962XE

— Spencer Lindquist (@SpencerLndqst) March 30, 2023

A group of insurrectionists just stormed the Tennessee Capitol pic.twitter.com/GlWqFkctjB

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) March 30, 2023

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