Wednesday • December 25 • 2024
Vol.XVI • No.LII
Manchester, N.H.
It’s a good day in New Hampshire for Dunkin Donuts! Chris Christie … whose appearance suggests that he starts every day with three dozen donuts … is back in town. And New Jersey Fats is here to educate us about the Forever-War in Ukraine. You thought it was a proxy war against Russia … but New Jersey Fats is here to tell you that you were so wrong. We are actually in a proxy war with China!
So just ignore all the facts indicating that Joe Biden and his family are de facto agents of China … and Mitch McConnell’s China-grift. The Fat Man is here to tell you that Biden and McConnell are actually at war with China!
They think we are so stupid. Have another donut … Fat Man.
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Depending on the fear-mongering, the difference in predicted catastrophic warming you’d get if we saw a rise of 1° C or 1.5° C for any reason would be between 1.8° and 2.7° Fahrenheit. Do you realize that most people wouldn’t be able to feel the difference?
And the planet could care less.
Our planet has seen a lot worse during human habitation without you and your reliable, affordable fossil fuel energy. But we are told the earth would spin into a death spiral if the temperatures rose that wee bit. It’s BS, but not BS you have to wait for because you’ve been living the proof—no Tipping point.
Did you know the ‘Earth’ has warmed 4° C since 1750 and nothing? But back in 2005, climate mullahs warned us that as much as a degree (1° C) rise in global temperatures would be a tipping point.
And in a manner of speaking, it was. We passed that tipping point, so they moved the world’s end to 1.5° C. The media skipped that big story or how, by the IPCC’s demented fearmongering estimates, we’re almost at the next world-ending benchmark (1.5° C). Can you feel it? The climate tipping point.
The newest IPCC report laments the fact that Earth will soon pass the 1.5°C level of temperature rise, seen in the projection in Figure 1. The current extrapolation is to reach 1.5°C by April 2035.
It’s already too late. We’ve seen both the 1.0 C and the 1.5 C tipping points (2017), and nothing happened.
The fact that the IPCC says we are at 1.2 already invalidates the 1.0 lie, and the peak to 1.5 on the graph resulted in no tipping of any sort unless you count the end of the recent warming with the end of a Solar Maximum. There’s no warming from 2016/2017 to 2023 on the IPCC’s graph ‘cuz the glop isn’t getting warmer (oddly, since the end of a solar maximum).
We’ve reported on it a few times.
Reality is an inconvenient truth, so it goes unreported.
Global surface temps have been flat with a bit of a downward slope since that peak, and locally (NH Coastline), we’ve had no measurable sea level rise in the past decade.
If word of that got out, you’d see a tipping point, but not the one they are after
So, spread the word.
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Spec’s RINO Report is here and it listed the top 10 RINOs (Republicans In Name Only) using a formula that picks out Republicans (ahem!) State Reps that vote counter to the majority of Republicans on a given bill. It’s not emotional, it’s just about the numbers. Bordes had a reaction to my posting and I thought this was “precious” of him: he wants to be the top RINO:
“I’m just upset I got the bronze and not the gold.”
Really? Taken at his plain words, he wants to be worse than Dan Wolf concerning the NH GOP Platform? I wonder what his constituents think about Bordes’ response given they thought they were voting for a good Republican.
Otherwise, it seems like he’s not happy about being outed about his vote, especially on major items like abortion and Parental Rights.
Accountability
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Drug relapse prevention is an important aspect of recovery for individuals who have struggled with substance abuse. Relapse refers to the return to drug use after a period of abstinence, and it is a common challenge for people in recovery.
There are a number of factors that can contribute to drug relapse, including stress, trigger situations, and social pressure. It is important for individuals in recovery to be aware of these potential triggers and have strategies in place to cope with them.
Strategies for preventing drug addiction relapseOne key strategy for preventing relapse is to develop a strong support network. This can include therapy, support groups, and participation in recovery programs. Building a network of supportive friends and family members can also be helpful, as they can provide emotional and practical support during difficult times.
Another important strategy is to learn coping skills to deal with stress and negative emotions. This can include activities such as exercise, meditation, and deep breathing, as well as seeking support from others when needed.
It is also important for individuals in recovery to have a plan in place for how to handle high-risk situations, such as being around people who are using drugs or being in a place where drugs are easily accessible. This might involve finding alternative activities to do in these situations or finding a way to remove oneself from the situation altogether.
Drug relapse prevention planA drug relapse prevention plan is a comprehensive approach to preventing a return to drug use after a period of abstinence. It is an important aspect of recovery for individuals who have struggled with substance abuse and can help to reduce the risk of relapse.
A drug relapse prevention plan typically includes a number of different strategies and activities, such as:
1- Identifying triggers: Triggers are things that can increase the risk of relapse, such as certain people, places, or situations. Identifying one’s own triggers can help individuals in recovery to be more aware of high-risk situations and to develop strategies for coping with them.
2- Developing coping skills: Coping skills are strategies that can help individuals in recovery to manage stress, negative emotions, and other challenges that may arise during recovery. These can include activities such as exercise, meditation, and deep breathing, as well as seeking support from others.
3- Building a support network: A strong support network is an important component of a drug relapse prevention plan. This can include therapy, support groups, and participation in recovery programs, as well as supportive friends and family members who can provide emotional and practical support.
4- Having a plan for high-risk situations: It is important for individuals in recovery to have a plan in place for how to handle high-risk situations, such as being around people who are using drugs or being in a place where drugs are easily accessible. This might involve finding alternative activities to do in these situations or finding a way to remove oneself from the situation altogether.
5- Ongoing therapy and support: Continuing to work with a mental health professional and participating in recovery programs can help individuals in recovery to address the underlying issues that may have contributed to their substance abuse and to maintain their long-term recovery.
By following a drug relapse prevention plan, individuals in recovery can significantly reduce their risk of relapse and increase their chances of long-term recovery. It is important to remember that relapse prevention is an ongoing process and that it requires effort and commitment.
Who can help me build a relapse prevention plan?At Genesis House, a licensed treatment facility, we recognize the importance of relapse prevention and have developed a comprehensive program to support our clients in this effort.
Overall, our goal at Genesis House is to provide our clients with the knowledge, skills, and support they need to overcome their addiction and achieve long-term recovery. Through our comprehensive relapse prevention program, we strive to help our clients develop the resilience and self-management skills they need to maintain their sobriety and live a fulfilling, sober.
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Got to love this crazy mixed-up world we live in now. Democrats in New Hampshire unanimously voted against the NH House Parental Bill of Rights legislation. But even the Library gets a “Bill of Rights.”
Weare parents plan to address their school board on March 28th at 6 pm during a school board meeting about the pornography available to their children in the school library. Parents across New Hampshire have tried to get the obscene books removed from the school library but have come into resistance from those in charge of the schools.
Since giving children access to pornography is considered sexual abuse of a child, you have to wonder what these people are thinking. Have we completely abandoned protecting children for political purposes? Are your politics more important than trying to protect the innocence of a child?
Why does the library get a Bill of Rights but not Parents? Especially since the library distributes pornography to children?
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S B272 “Establishing a Parents’ Bill of Rights in Education” is the Senate version. The New Hampshire House Education Committee will have a hearing on SB272, which passed in the State Senate but will need the State House to advance.
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It is sad that we need a Bill of Right for Parents, but Democrats and Leftists have forced us into passing laws to protect our kids in school. Please come to testify on Thursday 3/30/23 at 1PM in the NH Legislative Office Building (LOB) -33 N State St, Concord (right behind the State House) in room 205-207or email your support by using this link: The New Hampshire House of Representatives (state.nh.us)
My Interview of Katerina From The Former Czechoslovakian Socialist Republic
“I Thought Communism Was Done but It Is Back” – Katerina
Katerina was born in Prague in the Czechoslovakian Socialist Republic. She studied at the Prague College of Economics. Like thousands of others, Katerina took part in the Velvet Revolution in 1989 and saw the fall of the communist regime. Katerina was twenty-five at the time. For her, it was an unforgettable and exhilarating experience.
I interviewed Katerina about her life in Czechoslovakia under Communist rule, and her concerns for today’s America as she observes the specter of communism looming on the horizon.
Immigrants Speak Week 11: Katerina from Czech: I Thought Communism Was Done but It Is Back – YouTube
My ThoughtsDEI training reminds me of Struggle Sessions of Mao’s Cultural Revolution.
This is a clip from my first appearance on @timcast in 2021. “We see the writing on the wall.”
DEI Training Reminds me of “Struggle Session” – YouTube
Save Our Children!
Lily
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It was brought to my attention a little while ago that there is a rumor making the rounds that I wrote Karen’s “Dilemma for Whom?” and then attached her name to it and posted it as hers. Didn’t happen. Do you know why?
My writing style is nothing like hers, and the converse is also true. Any regular reader, if presented with a post of Steve’s or one of mine, could tell who wrote it without ever seeing the byline. Ditto Karen and me. That’s one reason – a big reason. Do you know what a bigger one is?
This! WordPress is the “engine” that GraniteGrok uses so that we can write and display the content that you come to read (and we thank you VERY much for doing so). It has features that make our “blogging life” a lot easier. And for the first time, I’m about to use a feature that I never thought I’d have to use: Revision History.
It’s a simple purpose – to track who writes a post, the date it was written, and a time stamp. Also does the same if anyone does an EDIT on the post. So who set up Karen’s post? This guy:
Steve MacDonald, 5 days ago (March 22, 2023 @ 10:10:33)
Steve MacDonald, 5 days ago (March 22, 2023 @ 10:10:22) [Autosave]
Steve MacDonald, 6 days ago (March 21, 2023 @ 09:40:59)
I get it – there are some that confuse me with him (more often, it’s the case of folks confusing Mike Rogers and me – heh!). And we oft laugh when we get (Yes, Liz -> you!) called Steve Murphy and Skip Mac Donald. All in good fun.
But this is serious – I’m not him and he’s not me. We have different user IDs here in WP land.
So we can put this rumor to bed. T’wasn’t me. And Steve only took what Karen sent and put it up on GraniteGrok.
If someone tells you otherwise, laugh at them and THEN send them my way (rubbing hands together over the prospect).
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We reported on the other BLM in 2020. A group called Black Lives MAGA (#BlackLivesMAGA). “Amidst the scorn, and despite being called c**ns and Uncle Tom’s, a few of us black Trump supporters took to the front to head a collective march thru the streets of Los Angeles, as we all showed support for America, Trump, and our police.”
I’ve not seen a lot from them since then though that could be as much my fault as anyone. Until Elon took over Twitter, I wasn’t spending much time there. And I forget some of this stuff and never – to borrow from Jen Psaki – circled back.
But circle back, I have, as the internet has dropped things into my lap which have captured my attention. Things shared recently, but whose actual age is unknown. These clips were posted to Twitter recently, and while I can’t say when they were recorded, I’m not sure that matters. For our purposes, these will still trigger libs, progs, and Dems regardless.
It’s also great to have something to share when they call Trump supporters white supremacists or racists. You drop one of these on them and ask, so are you saying these folks are racist white supremacists?
They want to say yes, but that reminds us of what we already know. Diveristy, to them, is a room full of people who might look different but are all expected to think the same. And if you do you get the Liberal Privilege.
Wait. I know. These are Russian Bots, right!
We The People!
BLM #BlackLivesMAGA #WeThePeople pic.twitter.com/5jhEANaXF6
— KC (@KCPayTreeIt) March 27, 2023
Black Lives MAGA! pic.twitter.com/HavI2OYdRm
— Conservative Memes (@Cons_Memes) March 27, 2023
And since we’re in the neighborhood,
Attention
According to the news if you use a GIF with a black person in it that is now considered using “digital blackface”
Here is my contribution to that
#DemocratsDestroyEverything#DemocratsHateAmerica #democratsareevil #digitalblackface #Republicans pic.twitter.com/oxgorWF1EW— Random Thinkin (@random__thinkin) March 27, 2023
If you’d like to read a bit of Twitter pushback on that one, look here.
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I’ve been saying Peak Woke and Peak Transgender for a few months now – and the pushback against Critical Race and Transgenderism (both manifestations of Cultural Marxism and whose only purposes are to sow chaos and division.
In the case of those little kids, lifelong misery). As always, as I abstract from the posts I’ve collected, expect reformatting and emphasis mine.
First, a short but magnificent rant demanding what DIE (Diversity, Inclusion, and “Equity”) has wrought
These DEI deans are malignancies on the body academic, absolute poison. They get paid boatloads of money collected from overblown tuition, which saddles students and their parents with debt for life, to provide an ostensibly valuable service that my law degree, rabbinical degree, advanced history degree, and other educational attainments still leave me unable to fathom. What do these noxious DEI warts do to better society other than to promote reverse racism, divide people by ethnicities and skin color, in many cases promote anti-Semitism, and preach virtue-signaling effluvium that, once analyzed objectively between the lines, promote nothing but hate, the good woke kind of hate, hate for the values that once made America great?
I would have loved to see the first faces of those DIE missionaries/grifters upon hearing of this!
And, just like in Manchester’s (NH) school district, yet another California district got caught severing the bonds between students and their Parents
Another school district has been caught helping children suffering from gender dysphoria “transition” to the opposite sex. Amid a national backlash against the move to push transgender ideology on children in K-12 schools, a new report shows that a school district in Orange County, California, has been facilitating the social transition of a number of students to the opposite gender.
A parental rights group in Orange County, Calif., claims 23 students—eight of them elementary age—began social gender transitioning at a local school district without informed parental consent from January 2020 to October 2022.
…The group, California Alliance for Education, obtained hundreds of pages of emails and documents from the Newport-Mesa Unified School District, which oversees pre-K through grade 12 schools for Newport Beach and Costa Mesa.
A parental rights advocate involved with the alliance who goes by the pseudonym Kim Davis for fear of retaliation told The Epoch Times that in all 23 cases, parents were either not informed about the initiation of their child’s Gender Support Plan, known as a GSP, or were told and did not consent.
…The report noted that public records show how district counselors and psychologists were given teaching materials called Gender and Sexuality Galaxies by Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights, a far-left organization.
After all, according to former NH State Senator Jeanne Dietsch, who ARE these Parents getting in the way of highly educated school staff? Some Parents are dropouts – trust the experts (paraphrasing here)!
And who ever thought otherwise about this next snippet? After all, when you look at the cost / student at Government Schools, you might as well just send them to private schools to save some money and getter better student achievement outcomes:
Data released by the National Center for Education Statistics, which is a part of the U.S. Department of Education, shows that Catholic school teachers, on average, work slightly more time each week than pubic school teachers–but get paid less while producing better results than public school teachers.
In NCES’s 2022 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reading test for fourth graders, public school students had an average score of 216, while Catholic school students had an average score of 233. Among eighth graders, public school students had an average score of 259 on the reading test, while Catholic school students had an average score of 279. In the NAEP reading test given to 12th graders in 2015, public school students scored an average of 285, while Catholic school students scored an average of 311.In the 2022 NAEP math scores, Catholic school fourth graders scored 246 while public school fourth graders scored 235. Catholic school eighth graders scored 288 in math while public school eighth graders scored 273.
We need more competition to Government Schools, not more money for Government Schools, until the latter can show consumers (Parents, taxpayers) they can provide a better Value Proposition. And I’m not Catholic.
And on the Gender Dysphoria front, the front man for the “glory” of being transgender and trading that in for fame (and I presume for some other “considerations”) comes Jazz Jennings. He now realizes, without directly stating it, that thinking that his efforts in being a girl/woman hasn’t solved his mental / self-image issues:
He was pushed into “transitioning” to be a girl by his mother at the age of five or six and went through all of the steps associated with that process as a child. Cross-dressing led to hormones. He was put on puberty blockers for most of his life, leading to full genital mutilation surgery before he was even an adult. And now, in a video clip where he’s talking to his mother, he tearfully confesses, “I don’t feel like me ever.”
Born Jared Jennings in 2000, Jennings gained fame at a young age, barely 6, when he publicly identified as trans and received all the positive reinforcement from his mother and even celebrities like Oprah that any child could ever crave…Jared chose the female name Jazz after Jasmine from Disney’s Aladdin, his favorite Disney princess. But now he says on his current TV show, I Am Jazz, “All I want is to be happy and feel like me, and I don’t feel like me, ever.”
…Following the initial surgeries, Jennings gained over 100 pounds through binge eating and experienced a range of mental health disorders. Jennings’ mother, Jeanette, deflected theories that those difficulties were caused by the penile inversion vaginoplasty and argued that Jazz had long experienced mental health issues.
How COULD, how CAN he know what he is – that part of growing up normally was taken away from him before he got to the age when he could have figured that out. And this is a grand (as in large, not as “good”) admission that those suffering from gender dysphoria also suffer from what is now coming to light the problem isn’t “I’m in the wrong body” but underlying mental issues. Severe ones This from that post sums it up and I fully agree with it:
…what was done to this young man as a child should have been illegal and his mother should have been locked up. I’m not going to go into the full depths of the specific medical procedures and the horror show that followed. But if you have the stomach for it, Megan Fox delivers the truly disturbing specifics [GO READ IT! -Skip]. You’ve been warned in advance if you choose to click on that link. I’m going to have nightmares after reading it.
And the rate of detransitioning (which many trans-activists claim doesn’t exist) is accelerating and with worse stories of hopelessness. I agree – Parents that deliberately shove their young kids, who barely are past potty training and have no idea what they want to be, much less who they are now, into part or full transitioning to something they are not are committing child abuse through endocrine sabotage and sexual organ mutilation, should be arrested and labeled as “Munchausen syndrome abusers by proxy”.
The physical damage done to Jennings as a child can never be reversed. He has no sex drive because of all the hormones he was given. He has never experienced an orgasm. He will never father children nor will he bear children…
(Because he’s still a male.)…Meanwhile, his mother has become famous and wealthy because of the reality TV show she launched. The abuse of her child was displayed for all the world to see.
More here on this poor child:
Fortunately, level-headed Legislators are starting to take notice and take action:
Republicans in Kentucky have passed Senate Bill 150, which will ban surgeries and hormone therapies on minors for the purpose of gender transitioning.
The bill, which also includes provisions regarding mandatory sharing of information between schools and parents, along with banning forced use of preferred pronouns by teachers in school, has been delivered to Democrat Governor Andy Beshear. According to CNN, Beshear is opposed to the bill; however, a Republican majority can likely overrule the governor’s veto…
Tennessee is starting to do the same action.
This is GREAT – a turnabout on the BLM / SJW tactic of trying to ruin anyone that has ever appeared in “blackface” (unless that person is a Democrat – then only a small “stiff breeze in a teacup” is raised for political reasons):
Walter Wendler, the campus president of West Texas A&M University, criticized drag shows as an event that demeans and diminishes women while canceling an event on campus. Wendler sent out an email to the school on Monday announcing that the college would not be hosting a planned drag show charity performance titled “A Fool’s Drag Race” on Mar. 31. The performance was originally meant to raise money for the transgender crisis management non-profit organization The Trevor Project.
While Wendler supported donating money to the organization itself, he denounced drag shows as demeaning to women under the subject headline “A Harmless Drag show? No Such Thing.”
“Does a drag show preserve a single thread of human dignity? I think not. As a performance of exaggerating aspects of womanhood (sexuality, femininity, gender), drag shows stereotype women in cartoon-like extremes for the amusement of others and discriminate against womanhood.
And the hammerblow:
Any event that diminishes an individual or group through representation is wrong.
He’s absolutely right – if it isn’t not good for one group, that group can’t go and do the same without being hypocritical.
And The Trevor Project. In part, the trans-activist group that flooded the nation with the transgender policy that subverts our Free Speech and got districts to lie to parents about their child transitioning (see first snippet, above). So, in taking blackface to the next level, is dragface right or wrong?
Can we also start using “TransFace” (pretending to be what one isn’t)?
Sidenote: like Dylan Mulvaney? An ultimate example of the Patriarchy further grinding the matriarchy under his bootsteps. Hey, if the Left keeps doing this kind of stuff to us, we SHOULD turn the tables on them!
And pushing back on Critical Race Theory / BLM. Wish my school board would do this:
A newly elected majority-conservative school board in California recently approved a resolution to hire an anti-critical race theory consultant. On March 13, in a 3-2 decision, Temecula Valley Unified School District voted to allocate $15,000 to anti-CRT initiatives, including hiring a consultant to hold “discussion groups” at an after-school board workshop.
The discussions would cover the history of critical race theory and the board’s December resolution to ban CRT. The district, which enrolls approximately 28,000 students, plans to host six two-hour sessions. Christopher Arend, former school board president of Paso Robles Joint Unified School District, was hired by the district to host the discussion groups and serve on the workshop’s six-member panel, which will be held at James L. Day Middle School. All of these panelists are reportedly against teaching CRT in classrooms.
I don’t think that I’ve ever heard of a lesson plan that reads “Kids will eat bugs to save the planet”. Parents, you ok with this?
But of course, there are those who have been baptized into the First Church of Climatism. Some, if not most of these folks I think, enjoy the power that comes with posturing, hectoring, and bossing people around under the banner of saving the planet. In fact, I am convinced that 75% of climate outrage is the product of people getting in touch with their inner totalitarian.
With that in mind, we take you to Spring Canyon Middle School in Springville, Utah. As part of an English assignment, teacher Kim Cutler purchased bugs approved for human consumption from a website and gave them to her students. It was part of an assignment on–what else? Climate change. The premise was that cows, which produce methane, are depleting the ozone layer and should be replaced with ze bugs. According to Fox News, the school issued the following statement, “Middle schoolers loved the ‘ewww’ factor, many of them gave bugs a try (and even a few staff members!). Many thanks to our English teachers for creating fun and engaging lessons.” And the kids may have had a fine time since middle school students are still young enough to enjoy icky stuff and it was probably a fun change of pace from the usual lesson plan.
However, there was also an essay assignment. For the essay, students were told that they could only argue for eating bugs and against eating beef, since cow flatulence poses a dire hazard to said ozone layer and life on Mother Earth. According to Ms. Cutler, there is no evidence to support eating beef over bugs and thus any pro-beef argument cannot exist.
English lesson or Climate Indoctrination (methinks the latter is easy to see)? And then there’s this – again, without Parents knowing about it:
Gender theory has been prioritized in most Vermont public schools, and children are taught newly-created gender terminology as a consequence. However, most parents are unaware of the types of materials being read to their children, and may be surprised to find out that administrators aggressively defend the new gender curriculum. In an interview with True North Reports, Tara Ferf Jentink said she was unaware of ANWSD’s gender curriculum until alerted by her young child, and she took steps to address the issue with administrators — and was stunned by their response.
…“My daughter explained the health teacher had taught them new universal terms for extended family members who were LGBTQIA+. For example, if a niece or nephew does not know their gender the universal name is now ‘nibling,’ and if an aunt or uncle is unaware of their gender identity they are called an ‘auncle.’”
…“The principal responded, ‘Well, from my opinion it is too heavy if they don’t know.’”
And did this one talk with former (and present) NH State Senators Jeanne Dietsch and Debra Altshiller?
During a Monday Georgia House Education Subcommittee on Policy meeting, a Democrat lawmaker argued that parents are not qualified to influence and direct their child’s education because many of them “did not finish high school.”
The subcommittee passed the Georgia Scholarship Act in a 7-5 vote this week, which would create a state-funded $6,000-per-year scholarship that could be used to cover approved education expenses for each student. The bill already passed in the Senate in a 33-23 vote along party lines.
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TikTok CEO Shou Chew testified before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Thursday. Chew’s remarks and answers were an excellent example of why we cannot trust the Chinese government or any company associated with China.
Chew’s prepared opening statement painted TikTok as a privately owned application that was not only designed to educate its users but is a public service to the American people. He built a case to show how TikTok respects the privacy of its users and that none of the information garnered by TikTok is ever given to or used by the CCP. Nobody, not a Republican or Democrat, in the room was buying what Chew was selling.
I do not support government intervention in business, but TikTok is not a private company, as they claim. ByteDance LTD, a Chinese technology firm, owns TikTok. At the same time that Chew was perjuring himself to Congress, claiming TikTok had no connection to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the CCP released a statement that they would not agree to the sale of TikTok. How do you have a say in the sale if you are not part of the ownership? A direct contradiction, and you have to side with the CCP claim. This example was not the only mistruth by Chew, who was ill-prepared for his testimony. It would not be a surprise if Chew were replaced as CEO and never seen again. That is how China deals with incompetence.
Chew did his best to assure the Congressmen on the committee that TikTok was an up-and-up operator with the operator’s well-being in mind. He was not successful. Data handling, access, sales, and push content were non-existent, and China did not have access. He only accomplished unifying both sides of the room, which never happens, to go on the offense against the TikTok AP and company.
There is inconsistency in Washington and across the country with how to control TikTok. The decision has already been made to restrict the app from every federal government phone and computer. Yet, you have the President participating in a Tik Tok video on St Patrick’s Day. Rep. Cortez created her first TikTok account and video this week after the hearing. Both actions were ill-advised—a mistake by the President and a sign of immaturity by Cortez.
There are 150 million TikTok accounts in the United States. Children are the heaviest users, but adults make big money on the app as “content creators.” Many of these adults are making a significant income and will not be pleased should the app disappear. There are no good options here for Congress. There are no adequate changes to render TikTok safe in the hands of the Chinese but to prohibit access to Americans sets an unwanted precedent for Congress. We do not need the government to become censors of computer applications. With TikTok, I do not see it as censoring a Social Network app but as eliminating a threat to Americans by a foreign adversary. It is a move that must be made, and an American company has to fill the void so everyone can put TikTok in the rearview mirror and forget it.
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Yeah, this is my long-late response to Alexa Carpenter’s Op-Ed “NH’s Housing Crisis: a Product of Vocal NIMBYs and a Silent Majority“. I agreed to put that Op-Ed up back in February even though I disagreed with it. I emailed her back at the time that she’d get blowback about it and she basically said she didn’t care (“I’m used to the backlash…”). She got some – from our commenters so go read them. This one struck me. While Kevin, I believe, hits it on the head for a bunch of folks “why can’t I help my “own folks” instead of being forced to help those I don’t know?”. A good point but it wasn’t mine in responding to her Op-Ed.
“Affordable” housing is a euphemism for subsidized housing, and the subsidies come from the other property tax payers. I pay to live here and I do not want to pay even more so that someone else can pay less.
No, my point is that Gov Sununu has paid back a large contingent of his political donor class, real estate developers, with new laws that help to override local communities’ sense of themselves and the nascent land use court system that very much tilts the teeter-totter to developers. Sununu and his sycophants have basically brought into the Live Free or Die State the worst of Obama’s AFFH housing policies (which Biden just revived) and what is happening in California and New York.
I hate it. Passionately. The message that Sununu and his proxies, including Alexa Carpenter and her funders “The Residences at Epping Station” went even further. Nice of them to pose with these platitudes:
Helping our teachers to live where they teach, medical personnel to live where they heal, and police and service workers to live where they save lives
Translation: you’re an ugly person if you don’t want them here. And some genius thought that doing a Change.org petition was going to seal part of the deal for them – nice of a commercial entity in demanding permission to despoil a community that doesn’t want it. Low bar, they set for themselves – thus far, “supporters” could only muster up 258 signatures of the paltry 500 they thought would be a show of force.
Yep, this proved what she complains about below – lack of support. The only thing they didn’t outright say is RACIST!
But what’s even uglier is what she wrote if you view it from the respect of who she quoted and how her “My argument trumps those that live in those towns – those selfish people!” was a pile of steaming you know what (reformatted, emphasis mine):
…Considering NH is short of 20,000 units needed to balance the market, this finding should not come as a shock.
However, what is shocking is how much the other third limits development across the state. That’s right, often it’s the minority of opponents who sway a town’s decisions over development, no matter how much broader support exists. Why? Because decisions are made by those who show up, and typically, those who show up for project approvals are homeowners who refuse changes to their neighborhood’s status quo. In fact, 85% of development meeting attendees are opponents, and this leaves a small opportunity for support to shine through, despite its existence. The problem with this is how much it skews the picture of community perception toward development. Despite its distortion, this picture influences the outcome of housing projects all the same.
Let’s discuss this for a few moments even as what came next is worse. So she, and her bosses, don’t like those that take enough time to get involved in their town’s well-being, its character, and its sense of community? The undertone she nuances is that these are selfish people who are only concerned with their own well-being – and their investment in their homes. Sense of the Left, in my opinion, as I have seen that attitude FAR too often from the Left (especially at the newly castrated and pablum-filled Eco-Socialist site called Treehugger. I may not have agreed with their posts but it certainly held rousing discussions! I do miss it). Carpenter goes all flank speed from there in trying to cut off any reasonable comeback that such pushback isn’t “selfish” but IS “self-interest”.
There’s nothing wrong with “conserving” what one has and as I’ve been saying, more and more since Sununu and Carpenter’s cohorts started in with the Royal “We should do what we want” in bullying local towns and townfolks, people in their towns have an unspoken and unwritten right (notice lower case) to covet the existing sense of community without the “buttinsky” attitude whose only end goal is money. They saw a place to either continue to stay in or move in because they loved the place, its look, its feel, and the community bound up in that.
Carpenter doesn’t care.
Sidenote: if they really cared, developers would be using the Habitat for Humanity model of real charity instead of just financial transactions.
And if she really cared, she wouldn’t have made me hate my alma mater even more by quoting the slanted bias of using “privileged” as if she was a snot-nosed college feminist SJW Leftist. Insulting those that count – those that vote in that town – and whipping out the Race Card doesn’t help. Her bolding, not mine
New research from Katherine Einstein, a Boston University political science professor, reinforces these findings. According to Einstein, a distorted picture of public consensus is a staple of the housing approvals process in New England. And recognizing the sway that homeowners have over the development process, Einstein set out to identify the demographics of those who typically attend project meetings, specifically where affordable or multifamily housing is proposed. What she found was that those “who show up are privileged, whiter, older, homeowners, who also overwhelmingly opposed development, with only 15% who showed support.” And this crowd has no problem influencing decisions that impact the wider community.
Sure thing – and she’s quite proud of herself. So I’ll answer with the Leftist Socialist permanent protesters’ anthem “THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE!” (repeat 100s of times for effect). She’s upset that those who are more motivated have more cause and interest in influencing the making of such decisions. And if only 15% support such development, they SHOULD lose. That’s what direct democracy looks like. And I’m betting that’s what she and Carpenter are upset about as well.
Too bad.
Do you know what this really wassupposed to accomplish Denigrate those that CARE, about their town and themselves, MORE than those that don’t. Yes, we are older – it wasn’t until I GOT older that I had the time and concentration level to get involved locally (and beyond). Before that, I had my family, young boys and their needs and activities, a career, and older parents to tend to. Younger people, correctly, have other priorities to tend to.
And yes, I’m white – SO WHAT! It’s not like I had any control over it but thank you, Alexa, for quoting someone who used it, not to be accurate, but as a slur.
So what’s the end result of all of this? Land use boards often yield to the wishes of the outspoken, meaning development proposals (outside the scope of single-family homes) are squashed and the inventory remains stagnant.
So you want them to ignore this contingent that cares? That sounds like a real lack of support on your part (unless you bring in your Astroturf mob like many Leftist organizations do), right? And this was just a GREAT capstone in trying to “persuade” people like me – that my main motivation is that I’m FEARFUL!
Sorry, you really want to know what I’m motivated by, Ms. Carpenter? You. Sununu. His hangers-on like Joe Sweeney, Joe Alexander, and Ross Berry support themselves in interfering with other people’s lives and communities via The Law that benefits them and not us.
You see, we want to Live Free – from coercion and bullying. We have an innate Scots-Irish (even if not of that lineage) attitude, dislike and distrust of Government trying to push us around. And that is what is happening here in NH once again – government turning against us.
That dislike and distrust goes to a higher gear when we see the rent-seekers like you trying to use the power of government against us.
Up Yours!
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If you haven’t already, please take 1 minute and register your support for the Senate version of the Parental Rights bill; if you already did register, thanks. Take an extra couple of minutes and pass along for others to register their support. Our kids need to be protected!!!!
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We lost the House version because of a few bad votes, and we really, really, really need everyone’s support to help make sure parents have a say over their kids in our public schools. Opinion as of now is 141 support and 173 oppose…
Here is the link to show your support for SB272, which is being heard on 3/30 by the Education committee. https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/house/committees/remotetestimony/
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They’re flying so thick and fast it is amazing. Take heart – there will be a Meme Overflow and almost certainly a Friday Meme Overflow-Overflow – depends on work and how I can manage that… I’m into the gagillion meticulous detail phase. The last meme post is HERE.
Remember, ridicule and mockery are effective weapons:
Now, let the mockery and mayhem begin. Still slammed for time so “just” a meme dump, absent commentary.
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Help a guy out and buy a bumper sticker:
Build Back Better – the hidden message Bumper Sticker | Zazzle
The distance between Socialism and Freedom Bumper Sticker | Zazzle
Also available in .223.
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Earth is an incredibly complex system, within a constantly-changing solar system and energy flux. To have our climate boil down to ONE VARIABLE is beyond simplification… and, of course, how conveeeeenient that said variable is the one thing that we can affect, and that control of gives politicians power. Related:
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Palate Cleansers:
This is actually a marvelous picture and a testament to long-lasting friendships.
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Oh, this is going to be a slog – slow and steady for both of us. Percentage-wise, it looks like I’m doing well but as I thought, the slight poundage lost each week is already starting to show a downward trend for me. It’s going to get harder from here for me. The bright news for Tom is that he’s staying consistent and has now broached the 10% loss milestone (congrats!). So, the tally of the tape thermometers:
Let’s see what happens next week.
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The Democrats united on Friday in opposition to the Parents’ Bill of Rights. The Bill passed in the House of Representatives but will probably die in the Democrat-controlled Senate.
This contrast in support is a travesty of infinite proportions and spells out how much the Democrats hold dear their control over our kids. The COVID Pandemic blew the cover over the partnership between the Democrats and the Teacher’s Unions to indoctrinate our children and prevent parents from participating in their children’s education. Terry McAuliffe lost his bid for reelection as Governor of Virginia when he claimed that parents had no place in the educational process. He instantly became the poster child of what is wrong with Democrat thinking regarding our children.
The Parents’ Bill of Rights will keep parents in the education process of their kids and aware of what their children may be divulging to their teachers. These Democrats, who went to the floor in opposition to the Bill, could not have looked more foolish and out of touch with reality. Representative Cortez, who has no children and will probably have none for the sake of the environment, called Republicans fascists for wanting to return control of children back to their parents. Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee embarrassed herself by claiming this Parents’ Rights Bill enslaves children. How do you even begin to explain that ludicrous statement made for its sound bite value? Hakeem Jeffries said this Bill proves the Republicans don’t want their children to know about the Holocaust. These are the same people who did remove references to the Holocaust and 9/11 from curriculums and supported the 1619 Project.
Other than working to develop a following of young people that will grow into a Democrat voting block, there is no logical explanation for their motives and actions. There appear to be two focal points to the Left’s agenda. One is to further insulate children from their parents and parents from the process. The other is this obsession with gender neutralization. Neither of these is healthy for children or society. How can the Party that claims to be for the people be so divisive to the family unit?
The bald-faced lies are disconcerting and are at the highest levels. We know we cannot trust anything coming from Biden’s White House, but to see Hakeem Jeffries lie on the House floor is disrespectful. He holds up a book about baseball great Roberto Clemente as an example of an out-of-control book banning by the Right. He knew it was a lie because it had already been debunked, but with complicit media that questions nothing, the stunt and sound bite go unchallenged.
I called it an obsession, but it goes beyond that. The need to protect the effort to influence the gender choices of children through explicit materials in school libraries and counseling by unqualified “therapists,” this concerted effort by Democrats and educators is evil and dangerous.
Parents are calling out their school boards, but it is not enough. The media turns the public against these confrontations by making these parents look to be crazy combatants abusing the local boards. These Democrats need to be called out and the education hierarchy broken. Some Republicans are running on a promise to abolish the Department of Education, and this needs to be supported. Eliminating Randi Weingarten and the rogue teacher’s unions will be a more difficult challenge. The money they pledge to Democrats is their hook, and it is deeply set.
Recovering and protecting our children will not be swift or easy. The Left has a one-hundred-year head start, but we have an ace in the hole. We have the well-being of our children, not the government’s children, as motivation for our fight. There is no more potent cause.
The post Hey Dems, They Are Our Kids, Not Yours appeared first on Granite Grok.
Sometimes we ‘break’ a story before almost anyone else, like how a radical green group funded the research used to propose Gas Stove Ban. Both got legs. The alleged ban and the research funding issue, but the response from the Left was mixed.
Some tried to justify the proposed ban by claiming gas stoves had harmed (people of color, children, or maybe children of color). Others said the ban was a Right-Wing conspiracy (I mean, who would ban gas cooking when the ruling class loves them so much).
As it turns out, the noise about them harming (any) people was the conspiracy theory, and the ban was legit. In testimony before Congress last week, Jennifer “I Love China’s commitment to Climate Change” Granholm admits the truth.
“There’s been an awful lot of misinformation that’s been floating around about this,” Granholm told Newhouse.
Granholm acknowledged, however, that half of gas stoves could be impacted under a Department of Energy proposal.
“Half of the gas stoves that are on the market right now wouldn’t even be impacted,” she said.
That’s the bureaucratic way of saying, yes, we’d be banning half the gas stoves (as in the other half). But back in January, when the story broke, the same Jen Granholm said,
“the notion of a gas stove ban was “so ridiculous” and “just not true,” echoing White House comments on Jan. 11 downplaying talk of a ban.”
I don’t think that word (ridiculous) means what you think it means, Secretary Granholm. Ridicule: … absurd, preposterous, laughable; unworthy of serious consideration. However, it appears to apply to Joe Biden’s Secretary of Energy.
As for the research upon which the rule was based, it’s still garbage, and so is the rule, along with the irony of why they are even considering it. Democrats ignore rules all the time.
That consent decree, which stemmed from a lawsuit against DoE by the Sierra Club, other environmental groups, and several states, requires DoE to address gas stoves by Jan. 31, 2024, either through new energy conservation standards or by deciding not to alter the current energy conservation standards.
Granholm claimed “high-end gas stoves” were the ones at risk, due to their heavier grates and oval-shaped burners.
The Sierra Club infers environmental harm, and the Feds hop to it because the dark and cold energy future needs less gas. Where were the regulators when the Sierra Club said Biomass energy plants were terrible for the planet? The Dems pushed back hard on that one.
Again we see the correct and proper application of the word ridiculous.
And one more point. The State of New York is not waiting for the Feds.
New York state is reportedly close to enacting the nation’s first legislative ban on gas stoves for most new construction, including single-family homes and commercial buildings.
Amid a statewide uproar over the plan, the Democrat-led state legislature is set to advance the move as part of Democrat Gov. Kathy Hochul’s $227 billion budget blueprint, which heavily focuses on phasing out the use of fossil fuels with a commitment to creating a “cleaner, healthier environment for future generations.”
Hochul ‘misspelled’ “offshoring emissions to third-world countries where people of color work for slave wages (if they get paid at all) in toxic environments that poison local communities to enrich the Chinese and local warlords doing business as politicians.”
The post Granholm: Lots of Misinformation About Gas Stove Bans, But Yeah, This Rule Would Ban Half of Them appeared first on Granite Grok.
This week 189 New Hampshire Democrat state representatives joined with 16 Republicans to gut the Fetal Life Protection Act with the goal of making abortion legal up until birth in New Hampshire.
They voted to pass HB224 which would remove all legal penalties for abortions performed after six months of pregnancy on healthy, viable babies. Cornerstone dubbed the 16 Republicans the “Bloodthirsty Sixteen.”
One of those Bloodthirsty Sixteen is Rep. Mike Bordes, representing Laconia, who is the prime sponsor of HB231, a bill to ban the declawing of cats.
The Laconia Daily Sun quoted Bordes about this bill:
HB231 Prohibiting the removal of claws from cats came out of committee 9-9 with no recommendation. I urge all common-sense animal lovers who don’t want animals barbarically mutilated to email and tell your State Rep to vote yes on OTP (ought to pass). It’s time we stand up for our pets!!
In the same article:
The bill says a person could be subjected to escalating fines for removing a cat’s claws without a reason that the procedure is medically necessary. Penalties range from $500 for a first offense, to $1,000 for a second offense to $2,500 for subsequent offenses
Rep. Bordes knows the importance of having a penalty for this procedure or he wouldn’t have included a penalty in the bill. He understands that without a penalty declawing would continue and the law would be useless. And yet he wants to strip all penalties from the Fetal Life Protection Act.
Rep. Bordes decries the barbaric mutilation of cats and yet he wants to enable the barbaric mutilation of babies in the last three months of pregnancy with zero risk for the doctor performing it, not even a nominal $500 fine.
Many other reps agreed, voting to pass his declawing ban 225-147 and a week later these same reps voted 205-178 to gut the law protecting babies from being brutally killed in the last three months of pregnancy.
We have a lot of NH state reps that have twisted morals. We know the NH Democrats have serious problems and now we know we have at least 16 Republicans who are in the same disturbed state of mind, as well as Gov. Chris Sununu who is eager to sign this bill if the NH Senate passes it.
Related: Sununu vs. Babies, Contact Your Reps ASAP
I commented on Rep. Bordes’ Facebook page under his most recent post about his declawing bill.
Rep. Bordes, I’m quite shocked that you voted to remove the penalties for painful, dangerous late-term abortions on healthy viable babies when you are so concerned about painful procedures for cats. How do you square that? Late-term abortions cannot be used to save the life of the mother and are much more dangerous than giving birth so the only purpose is to ensure a dead baby.
My post was deleted within five minutes.
If you are Rep. Bordes’ constituent in Laconia please challenge him to explain this to you. Ask him to justify his concern for the humane care of cats vs. his total lack of concern for the humane care of babies just weeks from being born. His email address is mikebordes@bordesfornh.com or you can comment on or message him on his Facebook page.
Ask Bordes about his role as Vice Chair for Brigid’s House of Hope, a safe home for survivors of human trafficking, and what he thinks of the role abortion plays in keeping sexually trafficked women available for being prostituted.
Please contact your state senator now and ask him or her to stand against HB 224 to protect vulnerable moms and babies.
To learn more about the Fetal Life Protection Act visit nhabortion.com.
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DeSantis is falling in the polls … following a major unforced error: joining the seal-chorus calling Putin a “war criminal.” Memo to DeSantis … when it comes to border-wars, the vast majority of GOP voters care about, and want to hear the GOP Presidential candidates talk about, defending our undefended Southern border, NOT Ukraine’s border.
Further memo to DeSantis: the Republican-controlled New Hampshire House just voted to de facto repeal the State’s ban on abortions after six months. Sixteen Reps who call themselves Republicans joined all the Democrats to pass a bill that gets rid of civil and criminal penalties for these late-term abortions. I can only speak for myself, but I am sure that many others feel the same way … are you going to address this when you visit New Hampshire next month, or will you avoid the subject because that’s what the NHGOP “insiders,” “leaders,” etc. want you to do and probably already are telling you to do?
A word of warning to DeSantis: the NHGOP “insiders,” “leaders,” etc. are grifters who will turn you into McCain 2.0. Ignore them … condemn the de facto repeal of the ban on abortions after six months.
The post Will Ron DeSantis Have The Courage To Call Out The NHGOP’s Hypocrisy On Late-Term Abortions? appeared first on Granite Grok.
The climateer’s nuisance lawsuits against energy companies continue as woke activists get cities or counties to claim climate damages and then sue for compensation. The cases end up in court for years, but there may be a simpler, cheaper, less carbon-intensive solution.
Related: Dirty Secret: The Green Energy Utopia is an Oppressive Carbon-Intensive Mess
It is a strategy that was worked up back in 2016 when ‘stakeholders’ met at Harvard.
Back in 2016 UCS hosted a secret event at Harvard. Many State’s Attorneys General and staff got free freight to and fro. The purpose of the event was to strategize how to sue climate deniers. Jackpot justice scenarios (like this one). Where states could collect big payouts from oil or gas companies. Free national earned media for the issue and the suit. Significant exposure for AG’s and their offices. With the aid of private climate-justice attorneys strategically placed in AG’s offices.
This plot goes back further, but the 2016 meeting implicates a frequent presence in New Hampshire. The UCS. And you already know this story. Well, some of it.
The March 2016 Harvard meeting was followed by the now infamous March 29th publicity stunt by NY AG Eric Schneiderman. Al Gore was there as were other AG’s including the AG from Vermont. States suing major oil companies and others for aiding and abetting evils against the globe. Issuing subpoena’s for records of donations to determine who they may have paid off to promote their denier narratives.
That plan didn’t have the legs they’d hoped, but climate loons in copycat counties and cities have since picked up the green baton and tried to run.
The case, brought by Boulder County, Colorado against Suncor Energy and Exxon Mobil, seeks monetary relief for the companies’ decision to burn fossil fuels and allegedly “conceal” the associated dangers, which the county argues “caused, accelerated, an[d] exacerbated the impacts of climate change.” While the companies have appealed the case to the Supreme Court, it still has to decide on the question of jurisdiction, and whether or not the case should be heard in state or federal court.
Regardless of what the US Supreme Court decides, the suits will be tried somewhere, favorable or not, and if there are enough of them, the odds are good somewhere a city or county will win. Good for them. Now make them live up to the green promise. Stop providing these so-called planet-killing fossil fuels to your accusers. Cut them off.
You’d have to get your competitors to buy in (or out) and to blockade the green weenies, but if you could, how long before the people they claim to represent kick them all out of office and beg for natural gas and motor fuel?
I know that hypothetical will never happen. It’ll take government interference to make dry fossil fuel counties a reality. Not to save the planet. It’ll be incompetence or malfeasance.
Marxists don’t care about anything but money and power, comrade, which is ironic. There is a lot of money in Oil. Real money, with value – the kind of money they don’t want in the hands of their political opponents. So maybe they should become Big Oil’s best friend. Make them an offer they can’t refuse. Decalre fossil fuel use as a form of social justice or a shadow of a penumbra of something like reproductive rights.
It’ll never happen. Cheap, abundant energy – at least in America, comes with the risk of prosperity, an enlarged middle class, more disposable income that might find its way to political opponents, and less ability to exert top-down control.
Marxists love money and power, but they love control more.
Big Oil cutting off a county would be branded as irresponsible, immoral, and perhaps illegal. Meddling corporation But when the Marxists in Gov. Inc. do it intentionally or as a by-product of bad policy, it will be for the common good, Comrade.
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First, I am merely an “enlightened amateur”. Please vet & check on your own. Caveat emptor. Consider these to be priming the pump for your own investigations. I know this is a long post; I am attempting to put out a lot of information as a resource. Read or skip sections depending on your interests.
Second, I fear spicy time is very close, but even a month of food, water, etc., puts you well ahead of most of the sheeple. IMHO, set your minimum sights on a three-month period.
Third, two things will be critical for having the best chance of making it through:
And please follow both me, Nitzakhon, on Gab… as well as my blog host Granite Grok and also on Telegram Tommy Robinson Official plus his Urban Scoop site. And don’t forget posts sometimes get cloned on American Reveille as well, which is a good site to check out in general.
FYI, here’s a link to the last Survival Sunday SITREP. Also, the last PREP edition.
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HT SelfSufficientCommunity channel on Telegram. Ignore the prices as they’re well out of date, but it’s a good list for planning purposes. And related:
100 Items You Need, That DISAPPEAR FIRST During War – Granite Grok
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Top of the fold:
DEVELOPING: Deutsche Bank Stressed… Shares Tumble | The Gateway Pundit
It’s my opinion that this is the first few dominoes in a system that’s been artificial and propped up for so long, when it comes down it’s going to come down hard. Be warned. More:
186 More Banks “Are At Risk Of Failure”, And That Could Push Us Into The Next Great Depression (theeconomiccollapseblog.com)
“The Banks Are Melting”, And Signs Of A Major Credit Contraction Are Already Starting To Emerge
Financial Stability Oversight Council Releases ‘Nothingburger’ Statement | ZeroHedge
Hypothecation Equals $1.5 Quadrillion in Debt | NC Renegades
I really don’t want to be “gloom and doom” on this, but I fear that this will snowball.
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Oddments – random thoughts on prepping:
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Prepper Site URLS:
Most have daily articles; revisit daily. Please recommend others in the comments.
Ask a Prepper, how to prepare, survive and thrive, latest news
Mother Earth News
The Organic Prepper Home – The Organic Prepper
SurvivalBlog.com – The Daily Web Log for Prepared Individuals Living in Uncertain Times.
SHTF Blog – Modern Survival
Survival World – Everything You Need To Know to Survive
Homestead Survival Site – How to Live Off The Grid in Comfort and Style
Urban Survival Site | How to Survive a Disaster in the City
Mind4Survival – Survival and Preparedness
Gray Wolf survival
Sustainable Living (sustainablelivingideas.com)
The Classic Survivalist – Surviving in a Modern World
Primal Survivor – Practical and sensible prepping advice
Em Off-grid – We & Our Off The Grid Life – Em OffGrid
Resource for Practical, Daily Prepping Skills for SHTF & Survival (geekprepper.com)
And three aggregate sites listing their top favorite sites & links too:
TOP 50 SURVIVAL & PREPPER BLOGS
The 50 Best Survival Blogs
Prepper Website – Preparedness • Survival • Alternative News
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Specific, one-up articles:
Oddly, not much hit me as worthy, though remember I’m still slammed work-wise so my time is less. But I did find this. Take heart – you are descended from survivors:
Here’s How I Know You’ll Survive This – The Organic Prepper
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Survival Archives – Skillset Magazine
Useful to browse through. For example:
How To Open A Can Without A Can Opener (skillsetmag.com)
How To Season A Cast Iron Pan: Dishwashers Are A No-No (skillsetmag.com)
I’ve told my family that if they put the cast iron in the dishwasher there will be hell to pay.
How To Escape Zip Ties: Without Chewing Through Your Wrists (skillsetmag.com)
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Related to Spicy Time:
People Change (it’s bad) During Economic Depression. Things You Should Do and Expect in SHTF
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Top 10 Vehicle Preps to Buy At AUTOZONE | The Urban Prepper (gab.com)
Video, about 10 minutes.
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Reality is cold, harsh, and tends to be uncooperative (coldfury.com)
Language. But spot-on. We underestimate the globalists and their Antifa minions at our peril. Remember, Antifa went and trained with al Qaeda. Related, and I’ve posted this before – understand what they have planned:
What the Progressive Socialist Liberals have in store for Conservatives (part 1) – Metallicman
A series not for the faint of heart – but KNOW YOUR ENEMY and what they’re planning / capable of. And a prescient warning from an American hero:
I brought up the subject of what’s going to happen after we take over the government: we become responsible then for administrating 250 million people. And there was no answers. No one had given any thought to economics, how you’re going to clothe and feed these people.
The only thing that I could get was that they expected that the Cubans and the North Vietnamese and the Chinese and the Russians would all want to occupy different portions of the United States.
They also believed that their immediate responsibility would be to protect against what they called the counter revolution and they felt that this counter revolution could best be guarded against by creating and establishing reeducation centers in the Southwest where would take all the people who needed to be reeducated into the new way of thinking and teach them how things were going to be.
I asked, well, what is going to happen to those people that we can’t reeducate that are diehard capitalists and the reply was that they’d have to be eliminated. And when I pursued this further they estimated that they would have to eliminate 25 million people in these reeducation centers. And when I say eliminate I mean kill – 25 million people.
I want you to imagine sitting in a room with 25 people most of which have graduate degrees from Columbia and other well known educational centers and hear them figuring out the logistics for the elimination of 25 million people and they were dead serious.”
This is an uncomfortable truth about the Left:
But then, Socialistopia always has this foundation:
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18 Urban and Wilderness Survival Hacks | The Art of Manliness
These actually look really useful! From the same site:
How to Suture a Wound | The Art of Manliness
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CRITICAL TO UNDERSTAND AND PONDER
Short of years and untold wealth, you cannot possibly be fully prepared for everything (I have to keep reminding myself of that). But even some preparations, ideally at least 90 days of food, water / water purification, etc. – my target is six months – puts you head and shoulders in front of the vast majority of the sheeple who will be in jaw-gaping astonishment when the SHTF. The only relevant questions are:
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I just started a FORAGING group on Gab. I will check 2-3 times a week to see if people have asked to join.
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Foraging: One-up articles
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Big Yellow Morel Mushrooms……hunt the Sycamore Duff Fluff in 2023
More mushroom videos (links only):
HOW TO GROW MOREL MUSHROOMS, SLURRY METHOD #morels #wildfood – YouTube
September Mushroom Foraging Course Highlights – YouTube
Shiitake Mushroom Harvest and Cultivation Tips | Southwest Mushrooms – YouTube
How To Grow Lion’s Mane Mushroom From Start To Finish – YouTube
7 Common Poisonous Mushrooms You Should Know – YouTube
16 Wild Edible Mushrooms You Can Forage This Autumn – YouTube
Chanterelle & Jack O’Lantern — Mushroom ID – YouTube
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Try Burdock Root… 3 Delicious Recipes!
Not foraging in terms of finding, but in terms of preparation.
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Stinging Nettle — The Most Nutritious Plant On Earth?
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When the weather is reliably above 50-55 degrees (F) I plan to start sowing my purslane, elderberry, and chokeberry seeds. And plant some Jerusalem artichoke bulbs.
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Other foraging videos, no sorting, links only:
Wild Food Foraging- Season 1 – YouTube
Wild Food Foraging- Season 2- Grape, Raspberry, Clover, Morel, Cedar, Ramps, Birch – YouTube
25 Edible Plants, Fruits and Trees for Wilderness Survival – YouTube
Wild Edible Plants With Alan Kay – YouTube
10 Wild Edible Greens to Harvest- Foraging Plants – YouTube
Five Common Backyard Wild Edibles – YouTube
Foraging For 3 Overlooked Wild Edible Fruits – YouTube
Is The Healthiest Part Of Dandelion Its Flower? – YouTube
3 Weeds You’re Probably Not Eating – YouTube
Foraging (permanent feature):
Foraging (practicalselfreliance.com)
Wild Harvests (arcadianabe.blogspot.com)
Southern Appalachian Herbs
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Books (permanent feature):
Feasting Free on Wild Edibles (old but good)
The Lost Ways (much more than just foraging)
The Forager’s Guide to Wild Foods
THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO EDIBLE WILD PLANTS FOR BEGINNERS
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Shortages (broadly):
US Cattle Inventory Forecast Falls To Lowest Level In Nearly A Decade: USDA | ZeroHedge
Beef prices are definitely going up! Also see my comments below towards the end.
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Retailer egg prices continue to rise amid ongoing shortages – FarmingUK News
So not just in the US.
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Gardening, Food Storage, Animals, Food Preservation, Health, and Related:
How to Start Your Own Meal Worm Farm to Feed Your Chickens (Part 1)
Related videos on mealworms, other larvae, and feeding your chickens in general (links only):
Feeding Our Chickens for FREE with Black Soldier Fly Larva (BSFL) – ProtaPod – YouTube
Update on the Mealworm Farm we started to Feed our Chickens (Part2) – YouTube
How to build a mealworm farm! – YouTube
HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN DIY HEALTHY HOMEMADE CHICKEN FEED – YouTube
MEALWORM FARMING FOR BEGINNERS – Moving Beetles In Your Mealworm Colony – YouTube
7 Hacks to Cut Your Chicken Feed Bill – YouTube
How to Farm Mealworms 2022 [ Saving Hundreds Per Year While Keeping Reptiles, Chickens and More] – YouTube
MEALWORM FARMING FOR BEGINNERS – How to Maintain a Healthy Mealworm Farm – YouTube
Here’s how I feed 2 million hungry worms with homemade worm chow and sprouted greens! – YouTube
What Kitchen Scraps Your Chickens Can And CANT Eat! Some Are Toxic For Chickens! – YouTube
Mealworm 101 || 5 Simple Steps to Starting a Mealworm Colony! – YouTube
And a few more general chicken videos:
Raising chicks 101 – Avoid these fatal beginner mistakes! – YouTube
Top 10 “Chicken Beginner” MISTAKES You DON’T Want To Make! | How To Raise Chickens! – YouTube
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Miscellaneous gardening videos (links only):
How to Grow Beets All Year – YouTube
How To Collect And Save Beet Seeds – YouTube
The TRICK To Saving Seeds For Next Year – Cucumber, Tomato & Pepper Seed Harvest – YouTube
How To Save And Store Carrot Seeds – YouTube
How to grow and Harvest Oats on a Small Plot – YouTube
Growing Wheat – small scale – YouTube
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25+ Ways To Keep Food Cold Without Electricity – Ask a Prepper
Amazing how creative people were. And can be again.
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12 Perfect Vegetables To Grow In A Shady Garden Space – Off-Grid
Not everyone gets lots of sunlight in their garden.
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Bushcraft: How Native Americans Preserve Food
Other videos of food preservation (links only):
Amind 435 Final: Native American Food Preservation – YouTube
Native American (Diné) Food Storage – YouTube
You Can Live Without Refrigeration – Here’s How – YouTube
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Planting Grapes – How To Grow Your Own Grape Vines With Ease! (oldworldgardenfarms.com)
I have three concord grape plants that I hope (!) survived the winter. This year I plan to plant several more.
Question: Any suggestions for an organic pest-control spray since I noticed “something” that was eating the leaves?
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Links on old-time food storage (permanent feature):
Thanks to the Canning and Preserving group on Gab, I now have these links:
Preserving foods by drying | How to dry foods safely (uada.edu)
USDA-Complete-Guide-to-Home-Canning-2015-revision.pdf (healthycanning.com)
Canning | SDSU Extension (sdstate.edu)
Food Preservation– Canning | Consumer Food Safety | Washington State University (wsu.edu)
Canning Timer & Checklist App | OSU Extension Catalog | Oregon State University
National Center for Home Food Preservation (uga.edu)
Canning Recipes | Ball® Mason Jars (ballmasonjars.com)
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Topical Books (also permanent):
Charcuterie: The Craft of Salting, Smoking & Curing
Salumi: The Craft of Italian Dry Curing
A Guide to Canning, Freezing, Curing & Smoking Meat, Fish & Game
The Prepper’s Canning Guide
Pickled Pantry
Fermented Vegetables
Hydroponics and Greenhouse Gardening: 3-in-1 Gardening Book to Grow Vegetables, Herbs, and Fruit All-Year-Round
Hydroponics for Beginners: The Complete Guide to Hydroponic Gardening, Designing and Building Inexpensive DIY Hydroponic Systems…
The Aquaponics Guidebook: Combining Aquaculture and Hydroponics Combining Aquaculture and Hydroponics
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Self-defense (broad) & Hunting:
Their Plan To Confiscate Our Guns. That’s What Is Hiding in Their “Orders”
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1% of Democrat Counties Make Up 42% of America’s Murders – Daniel Greenfield / Sultan Knish articles
The CPRC study showed that while 2% of counties populated by Democrats were responsible for 56% of the country’s murders, 52% of counties had no murders and 68% of counties had at most one murder.
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Keep you and yours safe. That’s your ONLY job.
Yup. And understand that in many jurisdictions, or countries, even defending yourself – let alone others – can be problematic and run you afoul of the law.
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Concluding thoughts if I’m moved to comment:
I’ve mentioned before that my kids’ favorite lunch meat is nowhere to be found at “usual places”. Their favorite box juice is back, but supply is sporadic and usually only one flavor, not the 4-5 varieties that they used to have.
I’ve also seen a return of “front of shelf” loading – not universal, but there – whereby the products are arranged right up front to cover up the empty shelves behind. Supply of other things, here and there, results in absences where I come home empty-handed on that particular thing – definitely not something that used to happen pre-Potato.
Even one of my wife’s favorite chocolates seems to be spotty. And – horror of horrors – the Contadina basil pesto is not on the shelf half the time. Which, of course, only prompts me to work on making some from scratch this year.
Prices, too, are visibly creeping up on virtually everything.
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we will NOT survive this.
Japan, as a nation, is predicted to completely collapse within a few hundred years. Many will, I think. I know that one reason China reversed it’s ONE CHILD policy is a realization this would lead to demographic collapse… particularly as parents, wanting boys, would abort baby girls.
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Palate cleansers:
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Took me a moment.
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Please check out my MEMES collections; last one here. Mockery, ridicule, and the wrapping of uncomfortable truths inside humor can penetrate the cognitive shields of normies far more effectively – IMHO – than dry facts and figures.
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