I have no idea why these things pop into my head to the tune of Rawhide, but they do. In April of last year, I had a similar epiphany. An inspired opportunity to make fun of the grooming cult that had decided it was time to come out of the closet.

 

“…, per the headline, my rarely idle mind coughed up the theme to Rawhide this morning (for no reason), and things started clicking. Movin’ sounds like groomin.’ Rawhide sounds like Gay Pride.”

 

Groomin,’ Groomin, Groomin’,
Groomin,’ Groomin, Groomin’,
Groomin,’ Groomin, Groomin’,
Groomin,’ Groomin, Groomin’,
Gay Pride!

Keep Groomin,’ Groomin, Groomin’,
Disney’s Gay Cartoonin’
Keep them teachers Groomin, GayPride!

We’ll get help from the unions,
School Boards are all tuned in,

Hide that curr-ic-ulum, Gay Pride!,

Cuz’ Johnny won’t need that penis
At school we call him Venus
So what if he commits suicide!

This time, the inspiration was less controversial unless you’re gassed up about lawnmower emissions melting polar bears. Between the schedule of my life and the persistent precipitation we’ve enjoyed, I have been unable to mow my lawn for a few weeks. Looking out the bathroom window, I could see my grass had grown tall enough to go to seed.

I’m not a lawn guy. I don’t care what’s green as long as it is. One side of my yard is well-manicured horsetail that looks like ‘lawn’ when short, and it’s green. It tolerates heat and drought, rain or flooding, and beats the other weeds back. And as long as it doesn’t get long enough to look like its name, I’m good. But tall grass has other downsides: ticks, mosquitos, and dew.

While we’ve seen very few ticks this year, some of those little bastards climb up that tall grass and hitch a ride when you walk past. Mosquitos also like to sit on tall grass and, as you wander, sneak up and stab you. I have a skeeter racket and enjoy listening to them snap as the scent of roasted insects permeates the air, but I’m not Ash Ketchum. I’m not gonna catch ’em all. With shorter grass, there are fewer targets on which to practice my backhand.

Then there’s the dew. With short grass, the dew collects on the souls of your boots. With tall grass, dew soaks your pants or your legs, and after 15 minutes, the dog is good and wet. I don’t mind wet dogs, but I live with my lovely wife and a few adult-aged children to whom I was clearly too kind, or they’d have fled the intolerant tyranny of which I am so often accused. They don’t care for wet dog, so this adds a toweling-off event after the morning euphemism.

We don’t want to do the dew, and no, the rain does not help.

You also run out of dry shoes after a few too many trips over successive days, and winter boots in June with shorts and no socks are what you expect to see in those carousels of “found at Wal-Mart” pics.

Yes, I was thinking about mowing, and for reasons I (again) can’t explain, this popped into my head fully formed.

 

Mowing Mowing Mowing
Keep that mower going
Keep that grass from growing
Too High!

 

I did not labor to complete the song as with “Gay Pride!” above, but I don’t think it would be too tricky if anyone wants to share the writing credit, assuming someone doesn’t already have it – I didn’t look. I might have heard it 30 years ago (or at some point in between) and was reminded by the view out my bathroom window. But I liked it. And since I’m in that mood, not long after the Gay Pride Rawhide gag (that sounds edgy), I came up with more ridicule using Groovin’ by the Young Rascals, but after readers suggested I’d ruined Rawhide for them, I was reluctant to release it. I’ve decided, what the heck?

It’s not the whole song.

 

Groomin’ on a School Day Afternoon
I couldn’t make you gay too soon.
I can’t imagine anything that’s better.
The world is ours whenever we’re together
There ain’t a place I’d like to be instead of

Groomin’ in a school classroom
Doing anything I can to you

There are always lots of games that we can play
You can be anyone as long as its gay
And all those happy people we could meet

Just groomin’ on a weekday afternoon

 

It needs work, but I did manage to get most of the lawn mowed before it started raining again, so there’s that.

 

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We hear this all the time about Government Schools: “Get your kids out and run for the hills!”  Forget the school’s bit – now it’s the entire Government of California. If your kid even so much as makes a peep about being transgender, you’d better start saying “Yes, dear,” or you’ll get a knock on your door from Child Protective Services.

“Pack a bag – we’re taking them away.”

Government Totalitarianism via transgenderism. First, they want to control your speech, tell you what kinds of books (pornography) your kids WILL read in school, indoctrinate your kids in Government approved forms of sexuality, and if you don’t agree, they will take your children from you. Yes, they are redefining “Child Abuse” in a state statute. And not only for foster parents but for ALL parents – you WILL “affirm” your minor child’s desire to demand they are pumped up with sterilizing drugs and surgical mutilation to perfectly good organs because they have been indoctrinated to believe they can be something they never can be:

A recently amended California bill would add “affirming” the sexual transition of a child to the state’s standard for parental responsibility and child welfare—making any parent who doesn’t affirm transgenderism for their child guilty of abuse under California state law.

…Originally, AB 957 required courts to consider whether a child’s parents were “gender-affirming” in custody cases. Wiener’s amendment completely rewrites California’s standard of child care.

AB 957 post-amendment “would include a parent’s affirmation of the child’s gender identity as part of the health, safety, and welfare of the child,” altering the definition and application of the entire California Family Code. California courts would be given complete authority under Section 3011 of California’s Family Code to remove a child from his or her parents’ home if parents disapprove of LGBTQ+ ideology.

This is the Government’s complete control of your children. At the fault of breaking Godwin’s Law, this is worse than Nazi Germany or the Communist nations that made it clear that children do not belong to their parents – they belong to the State. Is this where the US is now heading? If you think that schools secretly hiding their process of transitioning your kids into the transvestite version of themselves was awful, now we see CA being blatantly and boldly making that decision – and blaming YOU for not obeying. Californians, are you REALLY going to put up with this?

California courts would be given complete authority under Section 3011 of California’s Family Code to remove a child from his or her parents’ home if parents disapprove of LGBTQ+ ideology. By changing the definition of what constitutes the “health, safety, and welfare of [a] child,” schools, churches, hospitals, and other organizations interacting with children would be required to affirm “gender transitions” in minors by default—or risk charges of child abuse.

And this will give FULL ACCESS by Drag Queens and the militant Alphabet Mafia to be at the trigger point. The Trans-Activists are now smiling as they DO have your children – not you:

AB 957 could also expand which organizations provide “evidence” of gender “nonaffirmation” to California’s courts. Because of the addition of “gender affirmation” to the qualifications of California’s standards for “health, safety, and welfare,” California’s courts would now be able to accept reports of gender “abuse” from progressive activist organizations—as long as they claim to provide “services to victims of sexual assault or domestic violence.”

In essence, a boy could report his parents to his local school’s Gay-Straight Alliance club or other LGBTQ+ organization, who could then report the boy’s parents for child abuse. Incredibly, the bill provides no definition whatsoever of what would qualify as “nonaffirming” to a child’s gender. 

Silly us – and we were only worried about Government schools doing this behind our backs.

For any made-up reason at all. Watch the uptick of all such organizations boasting that’s exactly what they do – even if they’ve had no prior history of doing such.

This means that if you, as a Parent, have made the best decision for your own child that they just need to “grow out of it” (like most studies are showing, they do), you will lose your liberty and freedom because CA will jail you. It’s what they do to Parents that abuse their children. Rethink that – you will spend years with “Bubba” as your roommate in the Iron Bar Hotel and he looks like he’s been lonely for a good long time. And not just for Dad; with transgender “women”, Mom could be in the same situation (but Bubba might like it even more).

And of course, there’s the “TAEB” (Trans-Authoritarian Emotional Blackmail”) that goes along with this by some Legislative Twit (Assembly Member Lori Wilson (D-Suisun City):

She spouts some truly toxic points here, basically saying that she knows better than you do how to raise your child.

So this particular bill adds the very important factor that affirming a child’s gender identity is in their best interest… Because if you have a 7-year old who’s talking about having a potential… to articulate that they believe that they are not the same gender as they are biologically, then it should be affirmed and through care, it should be determined…

That’s what we did with our own child, and that would give the ability for a parent who wasn’t sure to affirm and get their child the care they need.

But by saying and rejecting it… then you’re essentially rejecting your child.

Catch that? I say no to our legal son (aka “the Grandson”) all the time. Does that mean that I’m “rejecting him”? That’s what Wilson is saying. What nonsense!

I, and TMEW, say “no” all the time to him because he doesn’t know better. He doesn’t know better and doesn’t have the knowledgebase, discernment, and wisdom to decide things correctly.  HE’S A MINOR, for gosh sake – that’s why he cannot give consent to ANYTHING.

Except in California, I guess – on the most life-changing procedures that we now know on the planet short of the Death Penalty.

And if you think I was doing a “rhetorical flair” in talking about Bubba, think about this:

Child abuse charges can carry stiff punishments for those who are convicted, with the possibility of prison time and hefty fines:

If the defendant is convicted of a misdemeanor child abuse case, the penalties can include a sentence of up to one year in the Los Angeles County jail and a fine of up to $6,000. If convicted of a felony offense, the defendant could face a sentence of two, four, or six years in state prison and a fine of up to $6,000. If the defendant has a prior child abuse conviction, the jail sentence can be increased by four years.

Translation:

Whaddya in for?

Oh, I refused to cut off my [daughter’s breasts | son’s penis off] and shoot them up with unnatural hormones.

The Left has truly weaponized Government against us and now is fully aware that using your own kids as hostages against you is perfectly ethical.

And to think that our forefathers started a war with the most powerful nation ever over some lousy teabags…

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Explanatory Note from Rob Natelson:  In early 2020, I published what might be one of those “breakthrough” insights. It pertains to how much authority Congress may delegate to executive branch agencies—a very hot topic right now.

Critics of delegation point out that the Constitution vests “legislative powers” in Congress, not in administrative agencies. Supporters of delegation point out that government would be impossible without some delegation to the executive—and that even the First Federal Congress, which was filled with leading Founders, delegated some authority to executive branch agencies.

My insight was that perhaps the degree of permissible delegation might vary according to the specific power Congress is using. The Framers drafted each power carefully, and amid unique circumstances. The amount of permissible delegation of the postal power, for example, might be different from the permissible delegation of power to regulate commerce or impose taxes.

About a year after my proposal, a law professor published an article reaching the same conclusion. He did not credit my earlier work, so I have no idea whether he reached the same conclusion independently. (I’m a little sensitive about this, because I’ve seen my ideas appropriated a number of times without credit being given.)  Anyway, I agree with his main conclusion, but his article did show a misunderstanding the Necessary and Proper Clause. So I wrote the following essay to correct that part. The essay is somewhat technical. – RGN

* * *

In 2019, Julian Mortenson and Nicholas Bagley made public their widely-discussed article (formally published in 2021) in which they concluded that there was no Founding-era non-delegation doctrine. They found no bounds to the extent a Founding-era legislature could delegate its power, so long as the legislature did not permanently alienate that power.

In January 2020, I responded on this site. I noted some problems with their research and their conclusions. But I added that perhaps non-delegation advocates were misguided in seeking a single non-delegation principle for all of Congress’s powers. I wrote:

It is fundamental that the Constitution does not delegate to Congress “the legislative power.” Rather, it delegates about thirty discrete legislative powers . . . . Specific words and phrases define the scope of each of these powers. The framers were careful drafters, and most of these words and phrases were borrowed from contemporaneous legal or governmental practice. For example, to “regulate Commerce” was an Anglo-American legal phrase embracing the law merchant, protective tariffs, governance and facilitation of navigation, and certain related subjects. Similarly, the framers borrowed the phrase “establish Post Offices and post Roads” from British postal statutes. It encompassed building post offices and intercity roads, designating postal routes and tolls, hiring employees, enacting criminal penalties for misuse of the postal service—everything necessary and customary to develop a working postal system and an intercity highway system.

The extent to which each enumerated power authorized Congress to delegate to executive sub-agents depended on the constitutional words describing the power.

In 2021, Professor Chad Squitieri published a law review article reaching—independently, I assume—a similar conclusion. As Professor Squitiri wrote in his Abstract:

When discussing the nondelegation doctrine, courts and scholars frequently refer to Congress’ “legislative power.” The Constitution, however, speaks of no such thing. Instead, the Constitution vests a wide variety of “legislative powers” (plural) in Congress . . .

As I had, Professor Squitieri advocated that the extent of permissible delegation for each legislative power should be ascertained from the relevant text and surrounding circumstances.

We are indebted to Professor Squitieri for thus furthering the debate. I do, however, wish to address what I see as a shortcoming. That shortcoming is his use of the Necessary and Proper Clause as a sort of omnibus delegation vehicle for each enumerated power. He writes:

This Necessary and Proper Clause provides the text-based standard for determining how Congress can delegate its Article I, Section 8 powers. The key nondelegation question for the legislative powers enumerated in Article I, Section 8 is therefore as follows: Whether an objective reader in 1788 would have understood a particular delegation to be a “necessary and proper” means of “carrying” a particular Article I, Section 8 power “into execution.”

As some readers know, I concluded long ago that—contrary to prevailing modern orthodoxy— founding generation lawyers construing a document usually preferred the parties’ subjective understanding over the document’s objective meaning, for Qui haeret in litera, haeret in cortice. (pdf)  Because the Constitution was drafted to be construed by then-prevalent interpretive methods, I likewise think we should apply the ratifiers’ subjective understanding when available and coherent. But that is not the point I wish to make today.

In statements such as the one just quoted, Professor Squitieri effectively treats each legislative power as having two components: (1) a general description of the power and (2) the Necessary and Proper Clause authorization to legislate in that area.

I will admit that the framers sometimes drafted in that manner. In Article III, Section 2 they first listed the components of “the judicial Power” and afterwards formally granted those components. (I do not subscribe to the theory that the first sentence of Article III itself vests authority (pdf).) However, the first 17 clauses of Article I, Section 8 (and Congress’s other powers) are not merely recitals to be carried into effect by congressional action under the Necessary and Proper Clause.

The Nature of the Necessary and Proper Clause

In 2004, I published “The Agency Law Origins of the Necessary and Proper Clause” (pdf). Since then, my work has been supplemented and confirmed by a substantial amount of published research on the subject—not just by me, but also by Gary Lawson, Guy Seidman, and Geoff Miller. (See, for example, this book.)

Our underlying findings are pretty much consistent:

• During the Founding Era the term “necessary” in this context was a synonym for “incidental.”

• As several leading Founders pointed out, the Necessary and Proper Clause granted no additional authority to Congress. It simply told the reader that the doctrine of incidental authority, which usually inhered in enumerated-power documents, also applied to the Constitution. This distinguished the Constitution from the Articles of Confederation, which had explicitly excluded incidental authority.

• Incidental powers were those both (1) “less worthy” than those mentioned explicitly (“principal powers”) and (2) tied to their principals by custom or reasonable necessity.

• The meaning of “proper” is less certain. It appears to mean that congressional legislation exercising incidental powers must be consistent with then-understood duties of public trust. For example, regulating an incidental activity must be done for the bona fide purpose of governing an activity within Congress’s explicit authority to govern. It must not be a pretext to serve some unenumerated purpose.

Unfortunately, Professor Squitieri’s article shows no awareness of those research findings.

Application to Non-Delegation

Because the Necessary and Proper Clause is merely a rule of construction, the scope of each power the Constitution grants should be determined from the wording and ambient history of that power alone. There is no need to consult the Necessary and Proper Clause except as a reminder that Congress may regulate incidents in a good faith effort to regulate principals. In exercising the Commerce Power, for example, surely Congress may require labeling standards, even though labeling is technically production or packaging rather than “commerce.”

Assuming that Professor Squitieri and I are correct about the hypothesis we hold in common, we originalists have some work to do. To be sure, some of that work already has been done: An example, as I mentioned in my 2020 entry and elaborated here (pdf), is the scope of the power to “establish” post offices and post roads. The breadth of that scope (see above) suggests that the Congress’s ability to delegate in that area is limited—because the Constitution grants only to Congress, not to any other entity, the power to “establish.”

On the other hand, the enumerated power to “provide and maintain a Navy” contemplates Congress as playing principally a funding role, delegating extensively to executive-branch officers—a conclusion fortified by the Constitution’s designation of the President as commander-in-chief. (I address the Founding-era meaning of “provide” here (pdf).)

For other powers, however, the research has not yet been done. For example, to what extent does the “Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises” comprehend power to delegate that authority to the President? And does the answer differ according to the nature of the financial exaction?

In short, I believe Professor Squitieri is likely correct in his most important conclusion: The scope of permissible delegation must be determined from the text of each power and the surrounding context. But there is no need to insert the Necessary and Proper Clause into the equation, except as a useful reminder.

 

Rob Natelson | The Tenth Amendment Center

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It is a sad tale of living with the consequences of an ideology that created the problem with which you find yourself. A young liberal woman is fed up with dating liberal men. She wants to find a Real Man, but they are all conservatives.

 

She opened the video, talking about “one of the saddest realizations” she has ever had, which she claimed was, “as a liberal woman, it is really hard to find a man who is willing to play the more traditional masculine role in the relationship in today’s day and age who is not a conservative.”

 

Ouch.

What are her gripes about the liberal men for whom the ideology to which she clings is responsible? “[S]he’s looking for “a man who wants to pay on the first date, who wants to open your door, who has that want and desire to take care of you and to provide” but can’t find one “who is not a conservative.”

So, she is a typical liberal?

 

Multiple users left her frank responses in the comments. One observed, “All of the benefits, none of the responsibilities.” Another mocked her logic, saying, “Why can’t I find a man with conservative values who’s not a conservative! Like what?”

Yet another made the same point, replying, “’I want a traditional man without being a traditional woman’ lol.”

 

I know a fair share of traditional conservatives, and not one of them tells their wife to stay home and bake cookies. Both the man and woman do what brings value to their lives and relationships, assuming responsibilities that make the most sense for their circumstances and adapting when the circumstances change. The value is creating a safe home and a strong family because strong families make strong nations.

TikTok user @ms_petch is a victim of her own talking points on many levels, not the least of which is this.

 

In subsequent videos posted to her account, ms_petch addressed her critics. In one, she insisted that she just wants a man who has some “traditional values while also being very progressive in social issues.”

 

Your progressive social issues paradigm is the problem. It exists to destroy the family and masculinity. The two are incompatible, and if you can not escape your progressive paradigm, you will continue to be disappointed.

 

 

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America has a new flag. We will wave the old flag on occasion, as long as it is clear that the old flag … the one with the stars and the stripes … is subordinate to the new flag. But just keep kidding yourselves … either that all that is needed is to nominate Trump or, alternatively, all that is needed is to nominate DeSantis (or someone else) … and the ballot-harvesting will magically no longer matter; the Regime-media/Big-tech censorship will be no more; the USDOJ/FBI/CIA/etc. will not interfere in this election like they’ve interfered in 2016, 2018, 2020 and 2022. America’s institutions are irreparably rotten; they are rife with Communists … but just keep pretending we are just one more tax-cut away from restoring America.

Today, the People's House – your house – sends a clear message to the country and to the world.

America is a nation of pride. pic.twitter.com/ZZS9oTpDww

— President Biden (@POTUS) June 11, 2023

“What does it mean when my nation places a new flag in a position of primacy on the building that houses the president?” you might be saying to yourself pic.twitter.com/UTULYNy7Th

— Auron MacIntyre (@AuronMacintyre) June 11, 2023

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As regular readers know, I am beyond the coerciveness of being told to use “preferred pronouns” with respect to those suffering from gender dysphoria. And with respect to “respect”, what the Freedom-weak people don’t understand, it’s a tactic to impress upon you your “language enslavement by proxy and repetition” if you use them to “show respect”. After all, that “respect” suffers a major failure – it’s only a one-way term when it comes to this issue (thus, the word “enslavement”).

I refuse the “demand to respect me” demand because, when you really examine “enslavement”, it shows ME no respect at all. Respect is only a one-way street – they demand and I must do. It doesn’t matter to them what my conscience says, it doesn’t matter to them what I believe, it doesn’t matter to them what English grammar rules are,

Sidenote: go ahead and start writing a couple of paragraphs using only the incorrect and made-up pronouns demanded of you for a conversation concerning five trans people (three of them use “they/them”.  Then read it back and see if it makes any sense at all. Then give it to a friend to read and get their opinion. I’m betting it will be utter nonsense.

…it doesn’t matter to them what your Free Speech Rights are; all that matters is that you bow to their demands.

All that does matter is that you give them what they demand. Nothing less, but think of that as a launching point for more demands. It is their version of Orwell’s ‘1984’ version of 2+2=5; makes you believe in something that isn’t true.

And “respect” came up with Fox News “The Five” panel (I continue to watch that show and Gutfield but no other Fox News programs – not even as “background noise”) when they discussed Riley Gaines complaining about William “Lia” Thomas destroying womens’ swimming and displaying himself full Monty in their lockerroom knowing that there was nothing the rest of the team could do about it.

The co-hosts on a Fox News panel had a heated exchange about whether it would “hurt” to use someone’s preferred pronouns. During a segment of “The Five” Thursday, liberal co-host Jessica Tarlov brought up attacks targeted against transgender people. “It is important to treat people with dignity and respect when you are talking about these issues,” Tarlov began, adding, “And part of that is using the correct pronouns…”

Co-host Jeanine Pirro quickly interjected to say, “No.”

“Yes, it is. It doesn’t hurt you at all to call Lia Thomas ‘she,’” Tarlov shot back.

'The Five' lose their shit when liberal host Jessica Tarlov says it doesn't hurt them to refer to Lia Thomas as she/her.

"No!"

"It makes me a liar!"

"You have NO RIGHT to compel me to say ANYTHING!" pic.twitter.com/PkG83K3o8k

— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) April 27, 2023

The money lines for me:

Guest Joey Jones said, “It makes me a liar.”
“You have NO RIGHT to compel me to say ANYTHING!”

I’m tired of being told what to do, especially by children (either by age, mentality, or lack of truthfulness). I’m tired of people telling me my eyes are lying to me. I’m tired of realizing that the Bio degree I earned and paid for is of no account. I’m tired of being told that my faith values are disgusting. I’m tired that they believe and hold that I should go quietly “into their good night” and excoriate me at the same time.

You want to try to “coerce” me on this? No, “quietly” will not be a word to apply to THAT situation.

And NO, there are no attacks going on the way that the Trans-Authoritarians want you to believe is. When the Democrat run parts of Government are constantly in our faces with the Alphabet Mafia suite of flags, changing laws and ordinances to give them special rights not meant for others, there’s no problem. You want attacks? Look at the FBI stats on attack on Jews…I’ll wait while you do.

And no, I will NOT stand for the transgender attempt to redefine “attack” to include any criticism against their movement as the clip shows.  Guttfield is absolutely right about this yet it is happening.

As I have said many times before, if you think you are something that you can never be, fine – have at it. If your friends and family want to go along with it, more power to you. But DON’T force me (and a lot of others) to cooperate, respect, affirm, or be co-opted by what your demands are.

Not happening. Tarlov says to “treat people with dignity and respect” – why should I when they aren’t respecting me? She can be led by leash if she wishes but I refuse to wear that dog collar.

(H/T: IJR)

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They wonder why.

If there’s a problem, they want to fix it. Without an obvious explanation such as family, friend, pet, or growth-related problem, parents seek input from anyone they think might help, e.g., siblings, teachers, coaches, doctors, et al.   Parents assume that everyone will want to help fix their child’s problem.

Unfortunately, that may not be true.  New Hampshire Democrat legislators stopped the Parental Rights Law (SB272) that would require school employees to provide honest and complete responses to parents’, except known abusive parents, inquiries.

Democrats have all decided that some people (i.e., school officials including teachers) can withhold information from parents including about a student’s gender confusion or inclinations.   People who may barely know your child.  People who often poorly do the job for which they were trained.  People who may be introducing your child to sex or gender ideas for which he/she is not mature enough.   People who may be confusing your child about his/her gender by asking your son or daughter if he/she is really a boy/girl.   People who may be taking advantage of your child and telling your child to keep secrets from you.

Democrats decided that these people can withhold information from you, your child’s loving parents.

The Democrats who stopped the Parental Rights bill say that you (who gave birth to this child, feed this child, clothe this child, protect, teach, encourage, and love this child whom you would sacrifice your life to protect) don’t have a right to know about every issue your child may be having.

They don’t trust you.

Did you vote for Democrats so they could make you parents worry, watch your child suffer, and struggle to identify the problem your child is having while schools withhold the information you need to help your child?

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Senator Tim Scott and Former Governor and UN Ambassador Nikki Haley of South Carolina have incredible life stories that should bring hope to every American. They are genuine American tales of how anyone can rise from the lowest to the highest levels of success if they have the mindset to do so.

They are the epitome of everyone in America having the opportunity to reach their highest potential, only challenged by their self-doubt. As these two strive for the highest seat of office in the free world, they should be embraced, except for one common fact. These two people of color are Conservative. They are Republicans. If they were Democrats, they would be canonized, but the Left cannot, and will not, accept their stories, and both are ridiculed and told they are exceptions and not American success stories. How terribly sad that we cannot come together and celebrate the lives of Tim Scott and Nikki Haley.

They have different beginnings, but both histories are impressive. Scott was the grandson of a cotton picker who lived during the Jim Crow era in America. Tim grew up in a fatherless home, raised by a strong mother who worked tirelessly for Tim to have a better life, and he rewarded her with an incredible life story. Tim became the first person of color to serve in both the House of Representatives and the United States Senate. Scott is still a young man, and his story is still being written. As he likes to say on the campaign trail, his family has gone from picking cotton to the United States Congress in one generation.

Nikki Haley’s parents were both successful in their native India. Her father had been a professor at Punjab Agricultural University, and her mother received her law degree from the University of Delhi. Haley has been known by her middle name, Nikki, a Punjabi name meaning “little one,” since her earliest years. Though successful in India, they came to America for an even better life for their family. Settling in South Carolina, they saw their daughter graduate from Clemson University and go on to become the first female Governor of the Palmetto State. She later served two years as the US Ambassador to the United Nations during the Trump administration. Haley is now the first woman of color to seek the Republican nomination for President of the United States.

The Left has attacked Haley and Tim in an incredible show of jealousy and contempt. The anger comes from the fact that two people of color, especially from the South, should be Democrats. They certainly have no place to be Conservative Republicans. They are told they are exceptions and are wrong to say to the American people that they are examples of how anyone can aspire to succeed in this great country.

The women of The View have been especially critical of the two candidates. It is a travesty that these women have such power in our country. Though viewership is down, millions still tune in daily to listen to these women attack America and blame the Republican Party for all of its woes. Too many people derive their daily news from these self-appointed keepers of Democracy. Scott actually ventured into the pit of The View to challenge the comments of its star, Joy Behar. She had labeled him as an exception as she sits daily with two co-stars who are women of color. Behar chose to take the day off rather than confront Scott showing her cowardice in backing her statement. But that is what the Left does. It makes rash, often untrue statements. The media picks them up, which validates them, and then they back away when challenged about their words.

I do not think either can win the nomination, but in our wild world of politics, who can say anything is impossible? Even if running for the second seat, it will write an incredible new chapter in either biography.

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Another Human Rights Commission – this time Washington State – told the Christian owners of a women’s Spa that they could not refuse service to transwomen who had not had surgery (discrimination!), even though several services required customers to be naked.

 

The spa was described by its owners, who are Christian, as being designed based on the belief that “a male and a female should not ordinarily be in each other’s presence while in the nude unless married to each other,” according to a complaint filed by the owners.

Many services provided by the spa require patrons to be fully naked, and the employees who work on-site are all female.

 

The owners challenged the “anti-discrimmination” law claiming it discriminated against them. The Judge didn’t see it.

 

The constitutional rights of the owners, employees, and patrons of the Olympus Spa in Washington state were not infringed when officials in the state ordered the facility to provide services to “transgender women” with male genitalia, Washington District Court Judge Barbara Jacobs Rothstein said in a June 5 ruling. …

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“The Court does not minimize the privacy concerns at play when employees are performing exfoliating massages on nude patrons. Aside from this nudity, though, there is simply nothing private about the relationship between Olympus Spa, its employees, and the random strangers who walk in the door seeking a massage,” she said. “Nor is there anything selective about the association at issue beyond Olympus Spa’s ‘biological women’ policy. “The Court therefore has little difficulty concluding that the personal attachments implicated here are too attenuated to qualify for constitutional protection.”

 

And there is some debate as to whether the individual who filed the discrimination complaint was ever at either of their facilities.

 

Haven Wilvich, a male who identified as a woman yet has not undergone sex change surgery …  alleged that the spa “denied me services and stated that transgender women without surgery are not welcome because it could make other customers and staff uncomfortable.”

Spa policy dictates only admitting females older than 13.

An investigation by the spa owners found no evidence that Wilvich had ever been to the spa, which has facilities in Tacoma and Lynnwood and has been operating for more than 20 years. Myoon Woon Lee, one of the spa owners, also expressed concern that exposing female customers, especially minors, to male genitalia could open the spa up to criminal penalties based on state laws governing lewd conduct and public indecency.

 

At issue then is not if you are trans but if you genuinely are trans and not just a guy who might want to wave their junk around in front of women and girls as young as thirteen.

I’m sure the state would have been happy to oblige by repealing the indecency statute, or maybe not – being charged with that would be a doozy of a thing and probably ruin the Spa. That’s not to say that the publicity and likelihood that women might encounter man parts based on this ruling won’t cut into their customer traffic and ruin them anyway.

Ladies, we have this unique spa experience and look, pensis, at no extra charge. And hey, maybe they do more business as the clientele shifts, but what are the odds this doesn’t hurt their business? And it is a familiar pattern. From Bakers to Photographers to artists to dating services – Christian businesses are targeted, not so that gender warriors can use their services but to put them out of business.

Remember Sweet Cakes by Melissa. Or how about Jack Phillips and Masterpiece Cake Shop? Phillips got his case to the US Supreme Court and won. Still, the state and the Gaystapo came at him again (and again)—lawfare to destroy the man, his business, and his way of life even though there were dozens of places a gay couple could go to get a wedding cake and he had a protected right under the First Amendment.

Cultural assault and battery.

This sounds like that.

 

 

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Earlier this year, the NH House of Representatives passed an amended version of HB 315, prohibiting provocations based on a victim’s actual or perceived gender, gender identity, gender expression, or sexual orientation from being used as a defense in a criminal case. 

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While the original text of this bill was framed as a prohibition against the so-called, “gay panic defense,” in reality, it would have promoted sexual harassment by removing any ability for a woman on trial for murder to claim that she acted in self-defense against unwanted romantic or sexual advances. Thankfully, the amended version of the bill remedied this while serving the bill’s stated purpose. However, this past week, the Senate amended and passed the original text of the bill, returning it to its pro-sexual harassment form. The bill will now return to the House to be voted on once again in its original form.

If this bill were truly about protecting homosexual men from hate crimes, then the bipartisan version passed by both the House Criminal Justice Committee and by voice vote in the NH House would have been acceptable, as it contains language prohibiting provocations based on sexual identity from being used as a defense in cases of manslaughter. However, the bill was amended to again contain language which protects and facilitates aggressive “sexual advances.” As a consequence those who would be most hurt if HB 315 passed in its present form would not be heterosexual men who killed homosexual men, as those pushing the bill would have you believe, but women who defended themselves from the predatory behavior of straight men. It is evident that the impetus behind the bill is to erode the safety and dignity of women, and to promote sexual harassment.

In light of this, Cornerstone strongly opposes HB 315 as amended by the Senate. Please call or email your representatives and urge them to vote against HB 315 as amended by the Senate.

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Former Democrat Senator Jeff Woodburn has had himself an odd few years. And not COVID. He was accused and convicted of being a bad boy, admitted to that, but then decided to get the State Supreme Court to overturn what he admitted to doing in pursuit of the truth.

Related: Did Jeff Woodburn or His Attorney Leak an Image (In his Domestic Violence Case) Under Protective Order?

Which truth?

In May 2021, former Democrat State Senator Jeff Woodburn bragged about how he was ‘believed’ by a Coos County Jury after they convicted him.

 

 

Sure. So why go to the NH State Supreme Court, and convince them to overturn those convictions based on a procedural error?

 

Writing for the court, Justice James Bassett said that “because the record contains some evidence supporting a rational finding that the defendant acted in self-defense, the trial court’s refusal to instruct the jury on that theory of defense was unreasonable.”

Woodburn’s case will now be sent back to a lower court for a new trial, where he will be allowed to present his self-defense arguments.

 

I’m not a lawyer, nor do I play one on the internet, but to what did he admit of which he is no longer guilty?

 

In a statement, Woodburn said, The Supreme Court confirmed that I was unfairly treated and wrongfully convicted. As I said from the beginning more than 4 years ago, that this process would and will continue to reveal the truth, underlying politics, and injustice. I know what happened in this relationship, my mistakes and that I defended myself and never abused anyone.”

 

If the Judge erred in his trial, Woodburn deserves to have that corrected in a new proceeding, but he isn’t exonerated. The lower court has to re-hear the trial with Woodburn’s self-defense argument included in the proceedings. He is still alleged to have perpetrated acts of domestic violence, and he admitted to doing something for which a Jury convicted him.

Now he’s saying that’s not the case.

I’m a huge fan of the right to self-defense, but Woodburn (who has some problem with his) has admitted to anger issues and doing something wrong for which a jury convicted him. How does he explain admitting guilt with conviction and then claiming he is innocent and in pursuit of the truth?

Which truth, Jeff?

 

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They’re flying so thick and fast it is amazing.  Take heart – there will be a Meme Overflow and almost certainly a Friday Meme Overflow-Overflow.  Last week’s Overflow-Overflow.

Remember, ridicule and mockery are effective weapons:

1. Ridicule cannot easily be fought
2. Ridicule makes the enemy angry, and angry people make mistakes
3. For those in the “squishy middle” a Thought Splinter (and Part II and Part III and Part IV) can often be hidden inside humor.

Now, let the mockery and mayhem begin.

 

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

 

 

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A brief thought before I dive into the memes.  I’ve written several times about the depopulation agenda:

The 7.3 Billion Dollar, er, Person Question – Liberty’s Torch (libertystorch.info)

Proverbs 16:18… and What’s Coming? – Granite Grok

Dark Thoughts in the Small Hours – Granite Grok

Borrowing from a Dog Food Ad – Urban Scoop

As well as less officially – e.g., see one of the sections in last week’s Monday Memes.  Now, not from me, this:

Report 74: Lipid Nanoparticles Corrupt Nature – DailyClout

Dr. Naomi Wolf Uncovers Pfizer’s Depopulation Agenda, as Evidenced by Its Own Documents; “This is a mystery novel in which the question is, how do we stop women from having healthy babies?” – DailyClout

Which got me to thinking in the wee hours that the Covid Jab is non-sterilizing against the virus; many immunologists and virologists, let alone the raw data, have said this.  But then it occurred to me: it’s not sterilizing vis a vis the virus.  But it is sterilizing… for humans.

So, in reality, it IS a sterilizing agent.  So then, what is the point?  The Final Solution to the Human Problem.  To what end?  “Just” to benefit the Elites?  Or is there more?  Just throwing this out there – not saying this is the answer, but in my own twisted thought process, possibly related:

NewsNation special: UFO whistleblower speaks (newsnationnow.com)

The interviewer wrote this book, which I read: In Plain Sight.  Good book.  Not, IMHO, breathlessly insane but very methodical and a good mix of skeptical and open-minded.

FREAKY: What Is Going on With Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla’s Neck During This Interview? (Video) – The Washington Standard

And look at the dates and predicted timeline here:

 

 

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Islam’s treatment of homosexuals is pretty clear.  And yet homosexuals are for mass migration?

 

 

 

It’s perverse.  Taking the side of people who would cheerfully throw you off a rooftop after binding and beating you, or drag you behind a motorcycle, or just hang you… and wanting more of this kind of person to migrate to your country?

 

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https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/emigrating-because-homosexuality.mp4

 

Funny.  But also prescient.

All “pride”-related memes this entry:

 

 

 

And in boycott news:

Bud Light Is Sponsoring An ‘All-Ages’ Drag Show’ Despite Massive Loss In Sales (trendingpoliticsnews.com)

Bud Light also sponsored the Boston Pride event.  And take a look at this video compilation about Target, specifically.  If there is an “innocent” explanation for the images, shirts, and mannequins, I’d like to hear it.  Because to me, there is none.

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/target-goats.mp4

 

And note the teacher’s threat here: Watch the pedo agitprop or come in Saturday:

 

https://media.gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/140/111/710/original/cff05e8bec1f40a9.mp4

 

And then they turn around and say there’s no indoctrination or grooming.

Idaho residents thwart “Pride Month” Drag Queen event (massresistance.org)

This is a good group!

 

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Seven Hairy Hells.

There are no curse words in English or any other human language sufficient to capture my raw, seething anger at this.

Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy.  And consider it well: think of all the praise the parents get for being so brave and courageous and open-minded, etc.

 

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Tell HR to SHOVE IT, I Aint Workin’ Here No More!” | Buddy Brown | Truck Sessions

 

 

BEAU-TI-FUL!

 

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I need to check this out; get a copy of the book from the library and read it.  But I’ve read this alleged excerpt in multiple places and it keeps coming up.  Certainly no big reveal of this being fake has been forthcoming in my feed.  So I make an assumption: it’s true.

People like this always broadcast their intent, confident that the vast majority of people will not just not read it, but if they read it will think “Oh, that’s just not possible”.

Winston Churchill knew who – and what – Hitler was.  Churchill had read his book, and had the moral courage to take him at his word.  Why are we so scared to take people at their word, when they state – clearly – what their plans are?

 

 

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Didn’t Take Long: WHO Global Vaccine Passports Go Live In Europe (technocracy.news)

I remember how our side crowed and celebrated when governments around the world “backed down” from this.  Fools!

Your Papers, Please | Gates of Vienna

The Globalists have been planning this for at least a century.  They’ve poured billions, if not trillions, into this.  This is their dream, their utopia – at least for them.  Did you really think they’d abandon those plans in the face of some protests?  They have plans – a needle in every arm.  And IMHO the consequences need to come faster – I can think of a few Covidians who need to do the death spiral pretty quick.

 

 

Look, I don’t want things to go kinetic.  Not just for the raw fact of it, but for the fact that I know I’ll probably not live through it.  But TINVOWOOT.  Things look to get very… “uncomfortable” soon.  The avalanche has already started…

 

 

Related, at least to me:

 

 

Said it before, will keep saying it: this is one of the main reasons Rome fell (link in original):

This is how Rome fell.  When the average Roman finally understood how corrupt-to-the-bone the Rome they knew, loved, and would have fought and died to protect had become, they turned inward towards their community and even closer to their families… no longer willing to fight or die for that greater entity now that they understood that greater entity no longer represented them or their values.

Well, that and the biological consequences of a comfortable existence – “good times” – coming to fruition:

Civilizational Collapse and Biology (Part 1) – Urban Scoop

Civilizational Collapse and Biology (Part 2) – Urban Scoop

Civilizational Collapse and Biology (Part 3) – Urban Scoop

 

 

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Neil Oliver: ‘…diets, food & the ‘Grocery tax’ that’s coming down the line…’

 

 

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Pick of the post:

 

 

Observant, and prescient.  Note the date.

 

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Monday Musical Memory:

 

Baltimora – Tarzan Boy

 

 

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Palate Cleansers:

 

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For years we have been watching the Left systematically dismantle this great country. They have used education, the media, and the press to spread their word. They have embraced a Socialist from Vermont who condemns Capitalism while deciding which of his three homes to spend his weekends.

They have taken advantage of Pandemic lockdowns to create a new lifestyle and work mode. They have gone from protesting a stay-at-home order to making it their Constitutional Right. They have worked to destroy the family unit by replacing parental with government control. It takes a village has morphed to they are all our children. It appears the Left is working from a singular playbook, but that would be giving them far too much credit. This effort by the Radicals is more like pushing the limits with each new thought and seeing if it attracts a following.

They have created a legion of non-thinking young people thirsty for the next glass of Kool-Aid. Liberty, Freedom, and Opportunity for all be damned. Please tell us what we need and how we should think, and make us dependent on the government to survive, and the process is nearly complete. America is almost defeated, but there is one final obstacle: the millions of Conservatives who are not ready to take down the flag and pledge our allegiance to the new Socialistic order.

If a foreign regime incorporated the political tactics and double standards we have witnessed from the Left, America would have risen up in defense of Democracy and possibly intervened in the name of freedom. Spying on our political opponents, creating false narratives, weaponizing our intelligence agencies to promote them, and discarding the fair application of the law to investigate, indict, and potentially jail your political foes. These are the acts of Third World Countries and oppressive regimes that we have fought against for decades. Now, we are one of them.

The one element that the Left was not prepared for was a political outsider with a “give me your best shot” attitude and a legion of followers in the millions standing in their way. For nearly seven years, the Left has been working in unison to eliminate Donald Trump from the political landscape. He has weathered every shot and seen his popularity rise with every victory.

This week, the Left has circled the wagons and is taking their ultimate shot at slaying the orange monster with the bright red MAGA hat. With total disregard for the potential crimes of Hillary Clinton, Hunter Biden, Joe Biden, and the leaders of the FBI and CIA, the ruling class of Leftists has destroyed over 200 years of Constitutionally by pointing their biggest guns at Donald Trump. They have put together a litany of Federal charges against the former President that could imprison him for life and eliminate his political threat to their efforts to transform America.

This effort will unify MAGA Nation and all Conservatives recognizing this assault on America. I predict a surge in Trump’s popularity this week and a continued erosion in the President’s ratings. This will infuriate the Left, but they underestimated their foe. They do not understand that those of us who back Donald Trump are doing so out of an intense love of our country, the country we grew up with, not the one the Left is pushing on us.

There are stats to back that millennials are moving toward the Right. The Left is failing them, and they yearn for the opportunities of the Right. Some see this coup that the Left is attempting and it is not for them. If there is one thing that this coup will accomplish, it is a boldening of the MAGA Movement, not because of Trump, but because we are not ready to surrender, and we will continue to watch our flag of liberty wave.

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Arranged marriages and matchmaking are still a thing despite it seeming odd to us in the West. Iran was once much more free; women had more rights and were not required to wear hijab. My point is that culture matters and is defined by what we accept or reject as a community.

There are plenty of places in America where a T-shirt with coarse language will get you asked to change it or wear it inside out. The same can be said for pubic (not a misspelling) schools these days that will let you wear a BLM shirt, but the Thin Blue Line Flag will get you sent home or suspended. Culture, shared interests, and goals for children define where your town, state, and nation are headed.

Ours is headed for the toilet.

 

Parents at the Wells Road Intermediate school say their 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders were shown the video, in which children discuss identifying outside the gender binary and wave pride flags around. … Many parents believe their children are too young to be learning about these topics and claim they were not warned about the Pride month programming in advance.

One parent shared that their child were given puberty kit[s], and also claimed her son had been sent home with pantiliners and maxi pads.

 

And as a reminder, pads and panty liners are not typically flushable, so that toiled we’re for is clogged.

And what do you do either as a parent or a taxpayer who paid for the “supplies” handed out to boys when girls aren’t even thinking about any of this at that age? Wondering what the hell would be an understatement, and we know that Wells Road Intermediate School isn’t the only one doing this.

The parents are spun up in Granby, CT, and the politicians and bureaucrats are lined up to do whatever it takes to suppress any opposition. And this is not a new problem, but it relates to an old one. The elections most likely to affect the culture in the pubic schools are local, but these contests consistently have the lowest turnout. It would be a surprise if you get 25% of the federal election crowd.

Andrew Breitbart said politics is downstream from culture, but parents and taxpayers could flip that maxim. If you use politics and the ballot box to advance and elect good candidates for School Board, you can change the culture in your pubic schools. But you have to want that and do it, and then you need to support those candidates in elected office.

The Left will never give up. If you want your school, town, county, state, or country back, you can’t give up either.

 

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In Men vs. Women: The Boys From Wrexham Wrecked ‘Em! from June 8th, the takeaway was that the men (some much older than the women) beat them 12-0. A blowout – and the men hardly looked like they were trying.

While surfing around, I ended up on YouTube at a channel called Nate The Lawyer, which had an even deeper dive on this “biology doesn’t matter because we’re all equal” beatdown “US women’s Soccer Team LOSE 24 – 1 to Mens Team to Prove a Point. He had the point that made that US Women vs. Wrexham 12-0 final score even worse than it looked: the shots on goal count was 31 to 4. Translation: the women shouldn’t have even been allowed to walk onto the pitch; the men scored on one of every three shots.

Not only that, every other game the US women’s team played, whether, against all men or co-ed teams, they lost. Badly:

 

 



 

Once again, Biology DOES matter even as the Left continues to try to Cancel the Science.

And he ended up with THE question in all this: What would happen if the US women’s Soccer Team played the US men’s team – for real?”

Doubt it would ever happen, but does anyone really believe the women would win?

 

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It’s hard to deny that our nation is currently under relentless attack from evil forces. More and more frequently, we read in the news about issues and events unheard of before. Yet, we seem not to understand the severity of the situation.

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We are seeing a coordinated Marxist-oriented tyrannical subversion of our Nation’s very foundations. And we are at the inflection point: the gradual hundred-year infiltration has “switched gears” to the rapid-speed disestablishment of our fundamental national institutions. Think “fundamentally transforming the United States of America.”

Without immediate, powerful resistance to this subversion, our children and grandchildren will not enjoy the life of freedom and prosperity that we have.

Ronald Reagan reminded us that life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are “never more than one generation away from extinction.”

Today we are that “one generation!”

It is up to us, now, to take a stand against this tyrannical insurgency — not just with words, but with actions.

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Many of us profess to be Christians. We try to do good. We are charitable. We even go to church on Sundays. We trust in God.

What does it mean to trust in God?

Recently, Christians celebrated the feast of Pentecost, commemorating the Holy Spirit’s manifestation to the Apostles, imbuing in them the power and grace they needed to “go forth and teach all nations.” God’s plan was for them to spread Christianity.

God indeed has a plan, and part of His plan involves us taking action!

There is a danger in passively assuming God will do it all — He wants His people to do their part.

A lesson of Pentecost is that we must balance our trust in God with doing our part to advance His plan. As the traditional motto tells us, “God helps those who help themselves.”

God was instrumental in the founding of our great Republic. We believe that He has a plan for our Nation. Our nation, however, has been gradually falling away from Him.

The United States of America could be entering a “death spiral” from which we might not recover. God’s purpose is being thwarted by the forces of darkness, so the forces of light need to step up!

Remember, “the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men and women to do nothing.”

Current events are proving this true. Things that once would have been so abhorrent that they would never stand are now commonplace. They are occurring with such rapidity that we soon forget, and life goes on.

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Don’t be one of those doing nothing! Here is what you can do to get involved:

• Attend local Select Board & School Board Meetings. You don’t have to speak, just watch and learn.
• Join your town’s Republican Committee. Attend their meetings. Meet other like-minded citizens. Learn about the issues and the Republican positions.
• Meet the candidates running for office. Learn why they’re running and for what they stand. New Hampshire is the home of “retail politics.”
• Talk with your friends and neighbors about what you’re learning.
• And of course, vote in every election. Following the above steps makes you an informed voter, a rare breed indeed!

If you’re already involved, here’s how to step up your involvement:

• Get active in your local Republican committee. Their Executive Committee is always in need of active members.
• Write a Letter to the Editor in your local newspaper explaining your take on issues and candidates.
• Consider running for local office: Library Trustee, Selectman or School Board member.
• The First-in-the-Nation NH Presidential Primary is on the horizon. Attend candidate town halls and house parties. Don’t remain on the sidelines. We in New Hampshire have a unique opportunity to influence the 2024 Federal Elections.

Now is the time for action!

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The Trump indictment in Florida is only the warm-up act. Next the “special counsel” will indict Trump over J6:

As my friend @julie_kelly2 is warning everyone, you’re mad about the baby charges Trump is facing in Florida next week when you should really be concerned about the big boy felonies they’re gonna charge him with in D.C. next month. That’s the coup de grâce.

Scary times.

— Jesse Kelly (@JesseKellyDC) June 9, 2023

I told you all of this back in April:

Perhaps the worst take I’ve seen on the Bragg indictment was on this site: Alvin Bragg Just Elected Donald Trump. Take off the rose-colored glasses and look around you … half the voters in this country, the Blue half, want their political opponents put in jail.

The Bragg indictment is just the beginning. Georgia is going to indict Trump … you know the grand jury headed by that woke forewoman who told the regime-media that she fantasizes about personally serving a subpoena on Trump … on bogus charges too.

And the Biden-regime’s totally corrupt DOJ is going to indict Trump on bogus charges too.

And if somehow Trump … despite all these political prosecutions, and despite elections in the crucial swing-States: AZ, GA, NV, PA being rigged … manages to win the general election, the Left will ASSASSINATE him. They will kill him rather than allow him to become President again.

But this post is not to say “I told you so” (although I just did) … it’s to note how disgustingly and pathetically shortsighted and self-serving certain “GOP” are in giving this latest salvo of mud from the USDOJ any legitimacy whatsoever. They are also deluded if they believe that the political prosecutions will stop with Trump. Indeed, the delusion is such that they probably also have convinced themselves that “there’s a lot of good stuff” in the disastrous excuse for a budget just passed by the supposedly GOP-majority NH-legislature.

 

 

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Under a post over at LifeHacker is this title: The Out-of-Touch Adults’ Guide to Kid Culture: What is ‘Bed Rotting’?

I’ve heard of the young Chinese doing “laying flat” (rebelling against the notion that they MUST STRIVE to do their best to help The State!). I have heard about “quit quitting” by the young (as opposed to “retiring in place” by those close to that age in merely “going through the motions”) that they only do the least amount necessary to keep from getting fired – never striving to do their best.

And the subtitle to the post just made me angry: It’s a little like “wasting away,” but as a self-care strategy.

Sure thing, you twits for children – that’s just plain lazy. But notice the self-justification of trying to call it something else to make themselves feel better. This is the Self-Esteem and Participation (or is it NON-participation?) Trophy movements meant for children but now employed by the Twenty/Thirty-something twits?

Emphasis mine, reformatted:

This week, all children and young people are rotting in their beds, but it’s not due to illness, disgust, or unemployment. It’s the “new” trend of just not wanting to do anything because that takes effort. (Relatable.)

Bed rotting, JOMO, and the rise of cosy [sic]
I may be a crusty old bastard, but I feel a kinship with Generation Z when it comes to “bed rotting.” These young people are making doing nothing into a lifestyle and I am fully onboard. Bed rotting is big on TikTok and the practice is part of a larger movement that includes JOMO (joy of missing out) and an appreciation for all things cozy.

Bed rotting differs from “hiding from the world” or “suffering from overwhelming depression” in the intentional way it’s practiced. When you’re bed rotting, it’s not that you’re unable to face the world; you’ve chosen not to. It’s about happily saying “f*** all that” to the outside world and instead, choosing to lay down, eat your favorite food, binge a TV show, and pet your cat instead. Whether it’s done for a few hours after work or school, or for days at a time, bed rotting is not being lazy. It’s practicing self-care.

NOTHING in that explanation makes much sense to me other than we are now seeing a bunch of over-aged entitled adults believing that they can do nothing for themselves.  And I bet there’s a host of “enablers” behind them, patting them on the head like 4 year olds going “There, there, dears, you keep staring at the ceiling and thinking that you are the greatest in the world”.

Not being lazy?  It is the EPITOME of laziness!!!    Self-care?  No, self-delusion. It’s feeling sorry for your lazy A$$ for probably not much more than “Hey, Life’s is not what I thought it should be”. Welcome to the real world, you lay-a-bout.

Absolute rubbish and if it were my son or daughter, I’d be marching them down to Parris Island (US Marine Corp Boot Camp) in quick step, throwing them over the wire with a scream of “Rot, this! You lazy son of a sun-basking lizard. Do you think you’ve had a hard life?  Look at that Drill Instructor Sgt staring at you with a gleaming eye thinking to himself “THIS is gonna be fun!”.

In a way, bed-rotting is an aspect of JOMO, or “joy of missing out” in which one experiences fulfillment from consciously rejecting the demands and expectations of the outside world. The quietness of Gen-Z is also seen in the rise of coziness. Gamers are making best-sellers out of “cozy video games” like Stardew Valley and Animal Crossing , and online spaces like Reddit’s “CozyPlaces” board are full of people fetishizing the coziest and most comfortable places on earth. Who wouldn’t want to bed rot here, am I right?

Yep, the young(er) parents that decided that being their kids “friends” are at fault for this instead of instilling into their child that most of the successes in life are motivation and willingness to forego instant gratification. Work Ethic?  What’s that (Mike Rowe of Dirty Jobs fame must be fuming over this). Just the fact that the word “adulting” is a thing should drive the rest of us that know better absolutely livid.

Look, I get it – everyone needs a vacation once in a while but this is next level stupidity as it engenders an attitude of “Meh?  Who cares – nothing else is more important than what I’m feeling about myself” that eventually takes over for good

We first saw this rise up during the Obama era when unemployment became “funcation”. The Pandemic had Government become everybody’s sugar daddy and paid everyone to stay home and do nothing. This is just yet the next extension of that absolute soul-rotting nonsense.

And they haven’t realized that ramification yet.

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Apparently, former President (and current GOP presidential candidate) Donald Trump said that his poll (and fundraising) numbers have increased as a result of his being indicted for various supposed crimes.

I’m inclined to believe him.  I don’t really want Trump to be president — I don’t really want anyone to be president, with the possible exceptions of Ron Paul or John Valera– but the way all these career politicians and bureaucrats are losing their minds at the very possibility of his being elected makes him by far the most interesting candidate out there.

The more he’s indicted on obviously political charges, the more I feel like voting for him.  And if he’s convicted, that will probably clinch it.

My dream scenario is that Trump campaigns from prison in an orange jumpsuit with a campaign slogan like ‘If they can get me, they can get you.’  Then he wins and immediately pardons himself while still in prison.  And then sets about dismantling the federal agencies that helped land him there.

 

 

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Dear Friends –

As you may know, service and sacrifice for our nation is something that’s deeply personal to me. It is more than just wearing a uniform. Our nation’s Purple Heart recipients are a community of heroes bound together by the scars, both physical and emotional they carry as a result of their service.

We want to thank Don Bolduc for this Op-Ed. Please submit yours to Editor@GraniteGrok.com.

Their stories need to be told and they deserve to know America remembers their sacrifice.

Today, I’m writing to ask for your support for a special program that pays tribute to their contribution to American freedom.

 

Later this year, the National Purple Heart Honor Mission, a fantastic nonprofit organization devoted to paying tribute to our Purple Heart recipients, will be hosting their 2023 Purple Heart Patriot Project Mission. This unique event brings together Purple Heart honorees from across the nation for an all-expenses-paid trip to visit the historic birthplace of the Purple Heart, the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, the deeply moving National Purple Heart Hall of Honor, and other historic sites associated with the Purple Heart.

We want to thank Don Bolduc 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.

These emotional Patriot Project missions provide a unique opportunity for our Purple Heart heroes to connect with each other, share their stories, create new bonds and experience the appreciation of a grateful nation. Honorees have called it “a trip of a lifetime,” and “the homecoming we never had.”

Each Patriot Project mission costs about $250,000. That’s why I’m asking you to join me in helping make this happen for our Purple Heart heroes by CLICKING HERE and donating today.

My words cannot truly reflect the profound impact these events have on our heroes.  Click here to see for yourself  how these missions impact our Purple Heart recipients and hear first-hand the stories of valor they share on these missions.  I need your help to ensure this mission is funded.

For more than 25 years the National Purple Heart Honor Mission has been dedicated to paying tribute to our nation’s combat wounded through special outreach and educational programs. The organization was the driving force behind the establishment and later the expansion of the National Purple Heart Hall of Honor, it played a significant role in the creation of the Purple Heart Forever stamp and in 2020, they led the effort to pass through Congress the creation of the nation’s first U.S. Minted coins honoring our Purple Heart heroes.

They need your help today. Please give our heroes an incredible salute to their service and sacrifice. Donate today to support the 2023 Purple Heart Patriot Project by visiting www.PurpleHeartMission.org.

Sincerely,
Brigadier General Donald C. Bolduc (USA Ret.)

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