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Tuesday • May 5 • 2026

Vol.XVIII • No.XIX

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Who Knew A Whistle Was A Deadly Weapon

Mon, 2024-05-06 10:00 +0000

Of the 7,309 aircraft in the U.S. commercial inventory, 3,173, or 43 percent, were manufactured by Boeing. As the world’s largest aerospace company and leading manufacturer of commercial jetliners and defense, space, and security systems, Boeing supports airlines and U.S. allied government customers in 150 countries.

It is acknowledged that air travel is one of the safest means of transportation. No mode is 100% safe, and it is comforting to know the efforts spent on ensuring the plane we board is as secure as humanly possible. The maintenance and safety inspections are integral to the airline industry’s safety record.

Recent incidents have focused our attention on the credibility of information supplied by Boeing about the quality and safety of the airplanes it manufactures. Admittedly, there are few incidents, but the facts behind the headlines are disturbing. Two in particular are alarming. The first is the door that fell off the Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 in mid-flight in January. The fortunate element is that nobody was severely injured or killed in this incident. Unfortunately, the airline may have known the problem; therefore, the plane was restricted to overland versus overwater routes. This plane was at a low altitude when the door was displaced, which was a Godsend, for at cruising altitude, passengers may have been sucked out of the plane. A tire fell off a United Airlines Boeing 777 in March as it departed from San Francisco International Airport. The reasons for these two accidents were very simple. The door was missing a bolt, and the tire had missing nuts.

Boeing has come under close scrutiny and investigation because of these and other incidents. During these investigations, many whistleblowers came forward with disturbing information about alleged practices at Boeing that put airplanes and passengers at risk. Two of those whistleblowers are now dead. I have a difficult time believing this is a coincidence, but I hope to God these men were not killed to prevent damage to a major corporation. I am also not naive enough to believe it is impossible.

There is a core cause of quality issues at Boeing and other companies with similar problems in different industries: DEI. The emphasis on filling quotas and checking boxes in lieu of competence is causing devastating dynamics. I do not care about the color of the skin or the sexual preference of the mechanic, whose job is to put the bolt in the hinge to keep the door on the plane. I want them to understand and perform the job without error. We have abandoned excellence for teamwork and employee feelings that we are paying the price by putting ourselves at risk of injury or death. Had that door fallen off at 40,000 feet over the Pacific, we would have been talking about a major disaster.

People are beginning to understand that DEI is harmful for many reasons and are taking action. Even in my hometown, parents have spoken up and forced the school board to terminate the DEI coordinator who had been placed by the local BLM chapter. People are taking back our country, which had been restricted and modified by the Radical Left and exacerbated by COVID.

There will be investigations, and Boeing will be held accountable for their actions and issues. Hopefully, the death of these two men who bravely came forward to point out issues at Boeing will be found to be natural. If not, we have far deeper problems to address.

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Affordable Solutions: Finding Interior Doors Cheap

Mon, 2024-05-06 09:00 +0000

When it comes to home renovation or improvement projects, finding affordable solutions is key. Interior doors play a significant role in the overall aesthetic and functionality of your space. Fortunately, there are plenty of options available for those seeking interior doors cheap without compromising on quality or style. In this guide, we’ll explore various avenues for acquiring budget-friendly interior doors and tips for making the most of your investment.

Budget-Friendly Options for Interior Doors
  1. Stock Doors: Many home improvement stores offer a selection of stock interior doors at affordable prices. These doors come in standard sizes and designs, making them a cost-effective choice for budget-conscious homeowners.
  2. Unfinished Doors: Opting for unfinished interior doors allows you to save money upfront and customize the finish to match your decor later on. You can paint or stain the doors yourself, creating a personalized look without breaking the bank.
  3. Composite Doors: Composite interior doors are made from a combination of wood fibers and synthetic materials, offering a durable and budget-friendly alternative to solid wood doors. These doors mimic the look of real wood at a fraction of the cost.
  4. Online Marketplaces: Browse online marketplaces for gently used or surplus interior doors at discounted prices. You may find quality doors being sold by individuals or businesses at a significant discount compared to retail prices.
  5. Wholesale Suppliers: Wholesale suppliers often offer interior doors at discounted rates when purchased in bulk or as part of a larger order. Consider partnering with a wholesale supplier for your interior door needs to secure competitive pricing.
Tips for Saving Money on Interior Doors
  • Compare Prices: Take the time to shop around and compare prices from different retailers and suppliers to ensure you’re getting the best deal on interior doors cheap.
  • Consider Material Options: Explore alternative materials such as MDF or composite for cost-effective alternatives to solid wood doors.
  • DIY Installation: Save money on installation costs by installing the interior doors yourself or enlisting the help of friends or family members with DIY experience.
  • Look for Sales and Discounts: Keep an eye out for sales, promotions, and clearance events at home improvement stores and online retailers to score even better deals on interior doors.
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Transform Your Space on a Budget

In conclusion, finding interior doors cheap doesn’t mean sacrificing quality or style. With a little research and creativity, you can source affordable interior doors that enhance the beauty and functionality of your home. Explore your options, compare prices, and consider alternative materials to stay within budget without compromising on your vision. Visit Trio Doors online door store in Toronto and discover how you can achieve affordable elegance with their selection of interior doors. Don’t miss out on the opportunity to transform your space without breaking the bank.

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Zoning (In Nashua) is FUN!

Mon, 2024-05-06 08:00 +0000

Nashua residents and defenders of liberty are encouraged to attend Nashua Code Week, May 6-10. Nashua is a member of the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI).

This cheerful, sustainable “environmental” organization is globalist in scale and nature, with over 2,500+ local governments as its members.

A global agenda with high-level events? Like… Davos perhaps?

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Code Week will generate manufactured consent for globalist agendas like “inclusionary zoning” and smart cities and codify these sustainable development goals into Nashua’s zoning ordinance. ICLEI encourages municipal governments to take their directives from un-elected, unaccountable foreign consortiums rather than their own taxpayers.

The first session is Monday, May 6, 7- 8:30 p.m., at City Hall’s 3rd-floor auditorium. Doors open at 6:30. Come learn what’s coming down the pipeline from the UN. The week-long series will conclude on Friday, May 10th.

One may wonder how Nashua is going to co-create a new zoning code in collaboration with the public in the span of 6.5 hours over four days. If what is being discussed is actually new, why is there already a new zoning map ready to be presented on Friday?

Nashua residents are encouraged to attend these public sessions and learn what is going to be done to their city. Grok readers are encouraged to support efforts to withdraw the United States from the United Nations.

Schedule and details for Nashua Code Week can be found here: https://www.nashuarecode.com/

 

Editor: The author’s identity has been confirmed, but they have asked to remain anonymous.

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Night Cap: What Squatters Can Teach Us about Juries

Mon, 2024-05-06 02:00 +0000

I recently spent an evening watching videos and reading news articles about a problem I hadn’t known existed:  Squatters are moving into houses that are temporarily empty and then using the courts to delay their removal, using laws designed to protect renters from unfair treatment by landlords.

In a typical story, a homeowner returns from vacation, finds people living in his home who claim to have a lease, calls the police to get them out, and ends up getting arrested himself.

The squatters have learned—and shared on social media—that since the police can’t determine the validity of a lease on the spot, everything has to go through the courts. That takes months, which is exactly what the squatters are relying on. The renter-protection laws require the courts to treat the leases as valid until they can be proven to be invalid.

But one video in particular caught my attention.  In this case, a guy was alerted to the presence of squatters on a property that he owns.  He showed up to throw them out. One squatter pointed a BB gun at him, which he didn’t know wasn’t a real gun. So the owner shot the squatter.

I don’t know how this will all play out in the criminal justice system. But when the news station was interviewing residents of the neighborhood where this happened, their attitude seemed to be:  Man, you break into someone’s house like that, you deserve what you get.

And it occurred to me that there would be at least one person like that on any randomly selected jury — that is, a jury that hasn’t been diluted in order to prevent it from fulfilling its primary obligation, which is to represent a cross-section of views in the community.

That is, a judge is perfectly competent to decide what facts are relevant and allowable and to come to a conclusion about whether a defendant broke the law.  We have juries to find out whether some reasonable number of people in a community, put in the same position as the defendant, would conclude:  Hell, I’m not going to convict this guy, because I would have done the damn same thing.

Look at how long it took to seat a jury for Trump’s current Manhattan show trial.  Jury selection was essentially a process designed to remove people who would have this reaction: Hell, I’m not going to convict this guy because I would have done the damn same thing.

Which is to say, a process designed to suppress the views of a significant part of the community. Next time you hear about the outcome of any criminal trial, keep this in mind.

Some day you might be the one on trial for doing something that any perfectly normal person would have done in your position.  In that case, what kind of jury would you want?

 

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Want to Stop Offshore Wind Maine and New Hampshire?

Mon, 2024-05-06 00:00 +0000

Despite the collapse of the market, rising costs and prices, and the threat to wildlife, the powers that be are moving forward with offshore wind development off the coast of New Hampshire and Maine.

Related: Wind and Whales

Part of that process involves a public comment period before offshore leases will be sold for development. If you have questions or comments, this is the time.

During the 60-day public comment period (May 1 – July 1, 2024) on the Proposed Sale Notice (PSN), BOEM will hold a series of in-person and virtual public meetings to describe the different elements of the PSN, answer questions, and collect public comments.

Agendas will be posted in the coming weeks

In-Person Meetings

Open House Meetings: BOEM will host three “open-house” style meetings to allow the public to talk with BOEM’s scientists and other personnel. This informal format allows people to ask questions and share information directly with BOEM employees on the Proposed Sale Notice.

At the meetings, there will also be official presentations followed by an opportunity for questions and answers focused on the Proposed Sale Notice. While the meeting will not be recorded, the Q&A session will be summarized thematically and later entered as a meeting summary on the Proposed Sale Notice docket on Regulations.gov. The majority of the meeting time will be focused on providing the public with opportunities to engage directly with BOEM subject matter experts at poster stations.

Attendees can submit official public comments for Regulations.gov, either in writing or via oral recording and transcription at a Comment Station

    • Open House – Portland, Maine
      • Date: Tuesday, May 28, 2024
      • Time: 5-8pm
      • Location: Holiday Inn Portland-by the Bay (88 Spring Street Portland, ME 04101)
      • Registration
    • Open House – Portsmouth, New Hampshire
      • Date: Wednesday, May 29, 2024
      • Time: 5-8pm
      • Location: Urban Forestry Center (45 Elwyn Rd, Portsmouth, NH 03801)
      • Registration
    • Open House – Danvers, Massachusetts
      • Date: Thursday, May 30, 2024
      • Time: 5-8pm
      • Location: DoubleTree by Hilton, North Shore (50 Ferncroft Rd, Danvers, MA 01923)
      • Registration

Gulf of Maine Intergovernmental Renewable Energy Task Force Meeting: BOEM will host the fourth Gulf of Maine Task Force in Plymouth, MA. This meeting will be in-person and also livestreamed; however, virtual attendees will only be able to watch and listen, and not actively participate.

As with prior Task Force Meetings, agenda sessions will include time for facilitated dialog among Task Force members, both in plenary and table discussions. Members of the public are invited to observe all plenary discussions. The agenda will include significant time for public input. Comments or questions during public input opportunities will be captured in a high-level meeting summary that is entered on the Proposed Sale Notice docket on Regulations.gov.

Members of the public interested in submitting individual public comments on the Regulations.gov docket will have the opportunity to do so (in writing or via oral recording and transcription) at a Comment Station.

    • Task Force Meeting – Plymouth, MA
      • Date: Friday, May 31, 2024
      • Time: 8:30am-4:30pm
      • Location: Hotel 1620 (180 Water St, Plymouth, MA 02360)
      • Registration

Virtual Meetings

BOEM will host a series of virtual meetings for various target audiences, ranging from the general public to specific ocean user and stakeholder groups. Members of the public are welcome to attend any of the meetings below, however, user specific meetings will focus conversation on the stated topics and prioritize participation by those from the sector of focus.  All virtual meetings will be recorded, with recordings later posted on this web page. There will be an opportunity for questions and answers focused on the Proposed Sale Notice. Comments or questions during public input opportunities will be captured in a high-level meeting summary that is entered on the Proposed Sale Notice docket on Regulations.gov; however, we will not be transcribing individual comments during virtual meetings.

    • General Public
      • Date: Thursday, May 23, 2024
      • Time: 6-8pm
      • Registration
    • Commercial Fishing (Mobile & Fixed Gear)
      • Date: Thursday, June 6, 2024
      • Time: 5-7pm
      • Registration
    •  Recreational Fishing and Highly Migratory Species
      • Date: Tuesday, June 11, 2024
      • Time: 5-7pm
      • Registration
    • Environmental Non-Governmental Organizations (eNGOs)
      • Date: Monday, June 10, 2024
      • Time: 1:30-3:30pm
      • Registration
    • Commercial Maritime (Shipping)
      • Date: Monday, June 10, 2024
      • Time: 4-6pm
      • Registration

Governor Sununu has long been in favor of developing wind off the coast of New Hampshire, and his commission can’t be expected to do anything but nod its collective head.

If you object, or think you do, it’s up to you.

 

 

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Manch Talk: What Your Number Two Says About You

Sun, 2024-05-05 23:00 +0000

Gardening to poop? Sounds about right in this week’s edition of Manch Talk. We sing the praises of the volunteers helping to clean our parks, and talk about other crap (literally). Want to improve your health? Start here!

Editor: Lost track of these, with apologies – we’ll get back on our schedule this week.

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Voter ID Means I’ll Cast Mine, You Cast Yours

Sun, 2024-05-05 22:00 +0000

I have had my driver’s license ready when I go to the polls to cast my vote for some time now. Longer than it has been required in New Hampshire to vote in any election. I have always believed that the opportunity to vote is one of the most significant rights afforded to citizens in America.

I am proud to present my ID to ensure that my vote is cast by me. It takes so little effort to secure the integrity of my vote.

For generations, there were few options to vote. You showed up in person on Election Day, or if there were extenuating circumstances, you cast an absentee ballot. No electronic voting. Just paper ballots and black pencils. In those days, we felt confident in the election process and knew that only in Chicago did dead people vote!

Voting has become so casual in recent years and only exacerbated by COVID. Absentee ballots are now available for people away from home and anyone who doesn’t want to wait in line on Election Day. Election Day has morphed into Election Week or Month for no significant reason but just because you can. You don’t need to turn your early ballot in at town hall when there are drop boxes all over some towns, like mailboxes. If filling out and delivering your ballot is too taxing, you can call a party worker to help you vote and deliver your ballot for you. This procedure is called ballot harvesting and helps to ruin the election’s credibility.

Many of these voting modifications arose during COVID when people’s mobility was restricted. With COVID in our rearview mirror, there is no need to ease the voting process; ballot harvesting should be stopped, and access to absentee ballots should be rolled back. We need controls on our election system, not rampant opportunities for fraud and abuse.

The Left claims that Voter ID is racist and election interference. These are two separate situations, but both are bogus. There is no foundation that minority groups have more difficult access to legal ID. The Left goes so far as to say that Black people have to travel further to obtain an ID. That is a ridiculous stretch. Adults need ID in America for a plethora of situations. Driving, buying alcohol or tobacco products, cashing a check, and traveling by air are but a few. Blacks use these services as much as their White counterparts. Stop the lousy excuses and get the ID.

The argument for election interference is even a bigger stretch. The number of Black and Brown voters has been increasing exponentially over the last few election cycles. There is no evidence to support that Voter ID inhibits minority voting. None. But there is plenty of evidence supporting voter fraud because of states that do not require IDs to cast your vote.

How about we coalesce and spend our energy on legitimate elections, not ways to bend the rules? If your candidates and policies are strong, you have no need to attack attempts to ensure a fair outcome.

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Jeb’s Senate

Sun, 2024-05-05 20:00 +0000

By the time this reaches the readers, most people will have already known that Jeb announced his retirement, so calling this piece “Jeb’s Senate” is appropriate.  Adam Sexton called Jeb the Architect of Medicaid expansion, which is NOT a moniker to be proud of, and the senate voted 24-0 for 2023’s SB 263, a Uniparty item, and Jeb is known for pushing their agenda.

Never forget 2022’s SB 400, that housing bill that got shoved into the parking garage House bill.  Jeb said the Damn Emperor requested SB 400.  Jeb also loves his CMS money, and it’s sacred, as we know from 2022’s HB 1210 debate on 5/5/22.  There’s plenty of material on such things for readers to see, both as Grok pieces and internet search results, so let’s move on.

Mr Sylvia, a former rep from the “Impeachment 7,” told some Florida radio show host that the Senate is a place where good House bills go to die.  He also said something like, “The senate, yeah, they’re a problem.”  JJ Valera, a former rep, called the senate the “country club.”  Because I have no representation in the House, I won’t apologize for being extra demanding on the Senate, and the Senate let me down—Jeb’s Senate.  I’ve written plenty of stuff on the RTK Tax(HB 1002), so anyone late for dinner is encouraged to read it, as well as many fine pieces by RTK guru and martyr Laurie Ortolano and various others.  Please talk to current and former reps if you would like examples of the Senate being a place where good House bills go to die.  I want to add that the Senate is a rubber stamp for instead of firewall protection from BAD House bills, such as HB 1002.

Another thing the Senate is known to do is transform House bills, pervert them, denature them, and make them nongermane to the original agenda the sponsor sought to accomplish.  Just ask several reps and election security reform activists about their anger against Senator Gray, the Election Law committee chair, and what happened to a bill that was supposed to address covid tyranny at the local level.

Going back to 2021, during the Damn Emperor’s Mask Madness and when “Jeb’s Senate” was “Chuck’s Senate,” the budget bills (HB 1&2) were being crafted.  Many incoming freshmen reps had some desperately needed contributions that could only get past the Damn Emperor if shoved into an omnibus bill such as the budget.  A few of them included but were not limited to ending COVID-related tyranny, and State of Emergency reform was the one I remember best.  When HB 2 entered “Chuck’s Senate,” they gutted it and watered it down.

I complained to my Senator, whom I voted for, about my extreme disapproval of what his peers were doing.  Though he’s not a Finance Committee member, he defended the whole body’s reputation against my attack and said something like, “The House always gets stuff wrong, and we have to fix it.”  Note that I said “something like” because I am unable to quote him word for word, but you get the picture. During our brief phone call, which was a return call from my text to him, he was definitely more interested in talking about how pleased he was with inserting anti-choice language into HB 2 as well as EFAs and banning CRT.  I won’t say that I don’t care about addressing the hot mess that Gov-Ed is, but my central issue(reason for texting him) was that the Damn Emperor needed to be hog-tied, and the rare window of opportunity wasn’t being taken seriously by the senate.

Someone made a comment in a private group that was an analytical observation. The comment was that Jeb’s retirement might not be in the best interest due to his constituency being a purple district and concerns related to that. Such concern does merit some practical discussion on who is to replace Jeb in Seat #3, but not at the podium. Unfortunately, the harsh reality-based prognostication (mine, at least) is that “Sharon’s Senate” will carry on the bidding of Jeb’s Senate. Don’t expect any accomplishments of significance next year, but many great minds preach to us to have an attitude of gratitude.  At least Sharon’s Senate is still better than that abomination against Granite State values known as “Donna Soucy’s Senate.”

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Is It Time For Schools In the Exeter District To Leave the SAU? How About Others?

Sun, 2024-05-05 18:00 +0000

Parents and taxpayers in SAU16 have been engaged in many battles in the last few years. Much of it started during COVID when they were one of the last districts to reopen. It actually took the Governor to step in and force the reopening. Then, parents were frustrated that they forced every child to wear a mask without any regard for students who had mental or physical challenges.

Parents and taxpayers have been engaged in additional battles to get the administrators to focus on academics.

It was just announced that the DEIJ Director, who is also the Vice Chair of Black Lives Matter Seacoast, was resigning. This is welcome news to many parents and residents who didn’t see any benefit from a political activist working in their school. In the announcement by the Superintendent, Esther Asbell, she indicates that they will be looking for another DEIJ Director.  Clearly, the Administrators are good with flushing tax dollars down the toilet.

Let’s look at ways this money could be spent that would actually help students succeed. (Or, God Forbid, returned to taxpayers)
1) Hire additional tutors for kids who are struggling
2) Quality professional development for teachers to support them in the classroom. (Focused on academics and pedagogy)
3) Bonuses or raises for teachers and paras. The ones who are doing the most to educate children in the school.
4) Lower the school budget which will help taxpayers who may be struggling during this period of high inflation.

The DEIJ Director was hired, making more money than many of the teachers in the district. Wasn’t that a slap in the face to the ones who are there doing the important job of teaching children?

Seabrook school board members have been discussing a withdrawal from SAU21. They even put a warrant article on the ballot asking residents if they should study withdrawing from the SAU. The voters said YES.

What do you get for your money by paying the SAU?
1) Inflated administrative salaries. The SAU16 Superintendent is making close to $200,000.00.
2) Dues paid to lobbying organizations that lobby against parental rights.  Don’t forget that Superintendent Esther Asbell is the Director for  The New Hampshire School Administrators Association.(NHSAA)  SAU16 funnels money to the NHSAA through dues paid out of the budget. Talk about a scam on taxpayers.
3) Administrators instead of educators

It was a lobbyist from the NHSAA, who testified before state legislators, and opposed prohibiting schools from making pornographic content available to children. Providing pornography to children would get you arrested, but the NHSAA says it’s ok for schools to provide obscene books to your children.

The materials now provided to children in schools also include information to connect students with child sexual predators.You can listen to that here.  (1:08:00) You can also read more about that here and here.

Maybe the taxpayers in Exeter do not mind offering their children up to child sexual predators. Maybe they don’t mind wasting their money on a DEIJ director who is more about dividing children versus teaching children how to read. But the parents in the other schools may have a different opinion on all of this.

If so, maybe it’s time to look at removing your school from SAU16. There is absolutely no reason any school has to be part of an SAU, especially one that continues to turn a deaf ear to the residents, and wastes a lot of taxpayer money.

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And Another “You Can’t Make This Stuff Up” … NHGOP House Leader Blames Democrats For GOP Failure To Ban Sanctuary Cities

Sun, 2024-05-05 16:00 +0000

On May 2nd, a bunch of GOP Reps failed to show up for work. On the day that Kelly Ayotte’s signature issue, illegal immigration, was up for a vote. The bill, HB 563 LOST by eleven votes. Eight “GOP” Reps voted with the DemocratsWoke-Communists to allow sanctuary-cities, while eleven GOP failed to show up (versus seven DemocratWoke-Communist no-shows).

File it under, you-have-no-shame or you-can’t-make-this-stuff-up … NHGOP “Leader” Jason Osborne then issued a statement blaming the DemocratsWoke-Communists for the bill’s failure.

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Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary

Sun, 2024-05-05 14:00 +0000

This is an attempt to “break out” memes, links, and my commentary about the situation in Israel / the Middle East so as to not overload the standard meme posts that I do.  My last “normal” meme post.  In these Israel-related posts I don’t just have memes such, but lots of informative links as well as hopefully-insightful commentary.

Note that I’m going to take a break from these for a week.  The demands on my time are overwhelming me.  Back in two, maybe three weeks.

Amongst many news sources that I peruse, are these selected ones among many from which I pull.  While I’m taking a break, please do visit these regularly:

BARE NAKED ISLAM – It isn’t Islamophobia when they really ARE trying to kill you

Elder Of Ziyon – Israel News

FrontPage Magazine | Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out

Home – Geller Report

Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion (legalinsurrection.com)

Gates of Vienna

Israellycool: Radical Truthtelling – Israellycool

Among a cast of many…

 

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Note that this is not meant to be a day-by-day update about what’s going on.  Rather, to highlight uncomfortable truths about the actual nature of the conflict, deep-history background, and so on, as well as to show the at-present immutable nature of Islamic hatred of Jews and why that matters to today’s events.

Also note that these posts generally do not repeat information (e.g., specific links or memes) – so there is a lot of stuff in prior posts.  Please do check them out too if this is a topic of interest to you.  In reverse chronological order:

Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok

Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok

Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok

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Israel: More Memes, Links, and Commentary – Granite Grok

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Israel: Memes and Commentary – Granite Grok

Israel: Memes and Commentary – Granite Grok

With some Israel-related materials here:

Meme Overflow – Granite Grok

Don’t forget my special report on the *cough cough* hardships of pre-Oct 7 “Concentration Camp Gaza”:

Pre-War “Concentration Camp” Gaza – Granite Grok

 

 

 

 

 

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Muslim Bedouin ambushed and used for bait on Oct. 7

Dr. Tariq Abu Erar, a Bedouin Muslim Israeli, has a harrowing tale of being ambushed, shot, and used as bait by Hamas on October 7. He stopped to help what he thought was a wounded man, only to be tricked and trapped by the terrorists.

When he told them he was a Muslim, they spoke to him in Arabic. “They asked me verses in the Koran. What are the people of the Prophet Muhammad? Then they said: ‘Shut up, you traitor, you are working with Jews.’”

He then witnessed multiple murders, in case anyone wanted more testimony from the massacre. “They are very barbaric. Not people! They shoot without hesitation, without emotion, they had a clear goal and knew what they were doing.”

Fortunately, he was rescued by the IDF. He’s a living testament to beautiful coexistence between Jews and Muslims in Israel.

U. Wisconsin Anti-Israel Protesters Chant ‘Heil Hitler’ at Jewish Students (legalinsurrection.com)

Seething with hate.

 

 

WAR & WHEN WILL IT END?

Peter Beinart vs. Israel and the Jews – American Thinker

It certainly won’t end with Plopping Jews like this taking, essentially, the enemy’s side.

Is Peace Possible in the Middle East? – American Thinker

Diplomacy is the art of the possible. The enemy of the possible is always the ever-elusive perfect solution. We either realize that or continue down the rabbit hole.

Peace is possible, but IMHO only truly possible when Islam’s anti-Semitism and violence has, somehow, been reformed out.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY Poll finds overwhelming support from Americans for Israel to completely decimate Hamas (barenakedislam.com)

Palestinian math lesson:

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/pali-math.mp4

 

But they’re totally responsible and good neighbors, right?

 

 

ISLAM: PRACTICES, HISTORY, AND MENTALITY

 

 

The truth about Arab population in “Palestine” before Israel’s establishment!

1785: Constantine Francois Volney paints a bleak picture of Jerusalem, describing it as “ruined” and “desolate,” with a tiny population estimated at only 12,000 to 14,000 people struggling in what barely resembled a city.

1843: Alexander Keith reflects on Volney’s observations, noting that even in Volney’s time, the land had not yet reached its ultimate state of prophetic desolation and depopulation, implying even greater emptiness was to come.

1816: J.S. Buckingham’s travels reveal Jaffa as little more than a “poor village,” and Ramleh as mostly ruins, indicative of the broader state of decay and abandonment that characterized much of Palestine.

1835: Alphonse de Lamartine recounts his stark encounter with Jerusalem, comparing its desolate state to the dead cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, experiencing an eerie silence and a complete absence of life both inside and outside its gates.

1857: James Finn, the British consul, reports back to England about the extensive emptiness of the land, emphasizing a dire need for a population to fill the vast, uninhabited spaces of Palestine.

1867: Mark Twain documents his journey in “The Innocents Abroad,” encountering no villages for thirty miles in any direction around the valley, describing Galilee, Judea, and the area around Jerusalem as barren deserts, devoid of any population and lamenting over a land that seemed cursed and hopelessly desolate.

1881: Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, mapping the region, notes that miles and miles of Judea appeared completely devoid of life or habitation, reinforcing the narrative of an overwhelmingly vacant landscape.

By the third quarter of the 19th century, the total population of the entire country, comprising both Arabs and Jews, amounted to only 400,000, less than 3% of today’s population, highlighting the dramatic transformation and revival led by the establishment of Israel.

Palestinian Jamil Ziyada says the quiet part out loud.

When someone, especially someone with money, power, and influence, says they want to kill you, believe them.

“Radical islam has cleansed so many minorities around the world”

Remember what Islam is:

The Greatest Murder Machine in History – American Thinker

 

 

ATROCITIES

From here (video on my Rumble channel):

Screams Before Silence

A must-watch documentary. #ScreamsBeforeSilence (https://m.youtube.com/hashtag/screamsbeforesilence) sheds light on the unspeakable sexual violence committed on October 7. As heartbreaking as these stories in the documentary are, we cannot afford to look away.

@CherokeeOwl

Movie: Screams Before Silence (rumble.com)

About 55 minutes.

Bolding added:

Shani Gabay, 25, was a law school graduate who loved dogs, traveling, and singing. She lived in my neighboring town, Yokne’am. On October 7th, she escaped the Nova Music festival and took shelter in a bomb shelter nearby. After Hamas terrorists threw grenades into the shelter, she was severely injured but managed to escape. After being treated by a medic, she tried to take cover inside an ambulance with other festival-goers, but terrorists launched an RPG and burnt the ambulance down, killing everyone inside. Shani was initially considered missing, and her brother Aviel said “She knows everyone. We keep meeting people at the rallies who see her photo and know her from Costa Rica, or the army, or their studies. She cleans beaches and saves cats and dogs. I want to believe she’ll continue doing all of that.” However, 48 days after October 7th, her DNA was found at another girl’s grave, as their bodies had melted together. The remains were separated as much as possible so she could be buried alone and in dignity.

 

 

Never forget.  From here:

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/gazans-celebrate-oct-7-collage.mp4

 

Innocent Gazans my ass.

 

 

ON INTERSECTIONALITY / LEFTIST SUPPORT

Un-Informed Anti-Israel Protestors Have No Idea Gays are Routinely Killed in Palestine. Just Listen… | The Gateway Pundit | by Grant Stinchfield

Absolutely no clue.  It’s just “the latest and most current thing”.

To all the Jews protesting and wanting to help the Islamists win, here’s what you’re in for:

What Do You Know? Dhimmi, Jewish Legal Status under Muslim Rule | Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies (upenn.edu)

 

 

MASSACHUSETTS: ‘Fatties for Palestine’ join forces with ‘Faggots for Palestine’ calling for boycotts, divestment, and sanctions against Israel (barenakedislam.com)

 

 

PALLYWOOD & MEDIA DISTORTIONS/LIES IN GENERAL

From here – remember, they’re really good at recycling:

This girl’s name is Ghufran Ahmed Awny Naim.

I contacted Mohammed Fayq from Gaza who took the original video. He confirmed that Ghufran has Ichthyosis (genetic), a skin disorder that lead to dry, itchy skin that appears scaly, rough, and red.

I contacted two Israeli dermatologists who confirmed, by looking at the video, that it appears to be Ichthyosis and that she needs topical emollients.

So why there’s a woman whose name is Dr. Anastasia Maria Loupis who shows a picture of Ghufran and writes “Israel burns children alive.”?

Garnered hundreds of thousands of views and is being circulated all over.

(Matan Uziel)

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/skin-condition-video.mp4

 

As stated in the pulled text, this is being presented as a case of Israeli attacks.

 

 

Except it’s not.  Pallywood is a whole industry.

The 2019 Pallywood Oscars – Israellycool

Pallywood Reporting – Winds of Jihad (sheikyermami.com)

Ridiculous Pallywood of the Day – Israellycool

And don’t forget this one:

 

Pallywood

 

 

 

From here:

Palestinian kids throwing rocks at Egyptian bus driver bringing humanitarian aid into Gaza through the border crossing at Rafah

Proof the Palestinians are the same as terrorists! They train their children from birth to hate all who aren’t one of them! Therefore there are no innocents in Gaza.

X (https://x.com/visegrad24/status/1785283823497793715?s=46)
@CherokeeOwl

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/pal-kids-throw-stones-at-trucks.mp4

 

So let me see if I have this right.  You’re desperate, there’s no food, no medicine, little power, little water… but you’re throwing stones at the trucks bringing these things to you?

Elder Of Ziyon – Israel News: Search results for apartheid posters

Lots of posters across multiple posts showing the utter absurdity of the Apartheid charge.

Is Israel Committing Genocide in Gaza? (ezrafoundation.org)

Short answer: no.

Raquella Raiz on LinkedIn: When you read sensationalized headlines with “Settlers” I want you to…

I remember reading, a few years ago, about this – how the kids were primed, organized, with photographers ready.

 

 

TERROR COMING HERE?  TO THE WEST?

From here:

Students chant “Kill the Jews” at the Northeastern University campus last night.

This Is Happening In America

X (https://x.com/olilondontv/status/1784320906866610344?s=46)
@CherokeeOwl

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/northeastern-kill-the-jews.mp4

 

Related:

 

 

Here is what the NYPD found in Hamilton Hall at Columbia University after we were able to arrest the protestors and agitators for commandeering and barricading themselves inside the building. Gas masks, ear plugs, helmets, goggles, tape, hammers, knives, ropes, and a book on TERRORISM.  These are not the tools of students protesting, these are the tools of agitators, of people who were working on something nefarious.
They have training; it’s clear from the uniformity of stonewalling, of tactics, and lots of funding.  These people are serious.

Why is the Pro-Palestinian Encampment Craze Sweeping Our Colleges? | Frontpage Mag

‘Somebody Is Radicalizing Our Students’: NYPD Finds Weapons, ‘Death to America’ Poster in Pro-Terror Encampment – Geller Report

 

 

TREADING ON THE POLITICAL

The Neo-Nazi Left | Frontpage Mag

The Neo-Nazi Left cannot be negotiated with. There is no living alongside it. Either Americans defeat the Neo-Nazi Left or the Neo-Nazi Left defeats America.

RTWT.  More:

Biden Launches Investigation of Columbia U for Discriminating Against… Hamas Supporters | Frontpage Mag

How Hamas Bought Joe Biden | Frontpage Mag

 

 

Moonbattery Democrats Plan to Bring Gaza to USA – Moonbattery

And WHO will they be angry at?

 

 

MISCELLANEOUS

Glazov Gang: Miracles that Saved Israel in War | Frontpage Mag

Hashem is great.

 

 

GIVING SUPPORT TO ISRAEL

You can’t go wrong with a donation here:

Connections Israel

And please share this post far and wide.  There’s a lot of info here that many people don’t know.  Post it, email it, share widely.

Also, if you’re willing:

Buy Me a Coffee

 

 

A CONCLUDING THOUGHT FOR THIS POST

U.S. Campus Chaos: A New Oct 7 on the Way? | Frontpage Mag (link in original):

It took just 50 terrorists to infiltrate the Tribe of Nova music festival, an Israeli music festival attended by young adults about the same age, or a bit older than, the young adults on America’s college campuses. In one day, they terrorized the event, killed 260, and took hostages. This hostage-taking brought Israel into a bloody war that has destroyed its prestige internationally; brought about the deaths of thousands upon thousands of Gazans (more than 34,000, according to AP) and more than 1200 Israelis; and that has not ended yet.

Now imagine just 100 terrorists in the US. At a signal, they can take hostages among the naive young adults who are in the campus encampments. At a signal, ten campuses can turn into a hostage situation.

This attack on our nation’s campuses could be followed by a second internal strike, against other targets — strategic targets such as airports, food processing plants and energy grid operations — by terrorists who are now embedded in these many barracks-type housing locations that have been distributed throughout our nation.

Western Civilization stands on the edge of a knife.  One misstep and it could fall, calamitously.

We Dare Not Tempt Them With Weakness | Frontpage Mag

 

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Wake Up and Laugh: “You Know What Happened With Dumb Kids? They Didn’t Make It!”

Sun, 2024-05-05 12:00 +0000

It seemed like a good time to laugh, and I stumbled across a few minutes from Comedian Brad Upton, who always makes me laugh. I thought of you. You could probably use a laugh, too.

Millennials, Old People, good times.

Nothing triggers a Gen-Z snowflakes like a boomer with a lot to say, and trust us, Brad Upton has a lot to say!

 

 

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What We Learn at EVERY Week’s House Session

Sun, 2024-05-05 10:00 +0000

Looking at a recent installment in Judy Aron’s series of posts about ‘What we learned from this week’s House session’, it occurs to me that it would be nice if instead of trying to make sure the gun is pointed in ‘the right direction,’ Republicans would focus on unloading it, and even disassembling it.

That is if they would live up to their claim to be the party of smaller government instead of the party of righter government.

To take just two of many examples from the post:

(1) Why is the state involved in marriage at all? Anything that can be accomplished with marriage (sharing of assets and custody, power of attorney over medical decisions, and so on) can be accomplished without it, with one exception: There are situations that involve taking money from some people (who are judged to have a surplus) to give it to other people (who are judged to have a need, or just an entitlement) that can’t be exploited without marriage.

In other words, we have made marriage a gateway to participation in certain Marxist redistribution schemes. When you get married, you commit taxpayers to your future support in various situations.  So suddenly, they have to be concerned about who can or can’t line up at the trough.

If we just eliminate the schemes themselves, there would be no reason to fight over marriage. It would be a completely private affair, a commitment that two (or more) people make to each other, and no one’s business but their own.

(2)  Why is the state involved in sports at all? It’s because sports are one more thing that we drag under the umbrella labeled ‘school’, so that parents can have their children’s hobbies subsidized by everyone else. That means taxes are involved, and that turns sports into a branch of politics.

Get sports out of schools, and who plays on what teams is no longer a subject for politics, but something that is determined by the choices of individual athletes and their parents.

This seems to be the GOP playbook: Set up state control over an institution or activity where it is inappropriate to begin with, and then spend eternity fighting over whose ideology should be imposed on that one-size-must-now-fit-all situation.

That’s what we learn at every week’s House session.

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