Tactical Sh!t News reports that the AFT has published their new pistol brace trap rule. If they think you have one that qualifies under the rule, you have 120 days to license it, which you can’t possibly do (as explained here), or you will be a felon.

Related: How to Make Felons Out of Millions of Law-Abiding Citizens with the Stroke of a Pen

Here are a few highlights from the previous piece if you missed them.

 

• The rule is complex and poorly written but includes a grace period for you to license your firearm under the new rule.
• You have 120 days after it has been published in the Federal Register, and here’s where the trap comes in.
• ATF is now handling all firearms background checks.
• The process for required licensing of a qualifying firearm prior to the writing of the new rule could take a lot longer than 120 days.
• Filing requires you to provide the ATF with your name, address, and all sorts of stuff, including fingerprints.
• Any request that goes unapproved for 88 days is automatically declined.
• ATF’s default response is (to a declined request is) to engage in an enforcement action against you, and you’ve sent them all the information they need to find you, arrest you, and confiscate your property, because you tried to comply with their rule.

 

From Tactical Sh!t.

The new rule will be published in the Federal Register on January 31st for those who wear stabilizing braces. This officially begins the 120-day countdown to the effective date. Of course, this is assuming (you know how that goes) that it is not overturned in court.

*Yes, there are lawsuits.

The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty filed the suit immediately after the ATF unveiled Tuesday’s new rule; see also here and here.

 

A group of military veterans is suing the Biden administration over a new gun rule that they say dramatically expands the definition of “rifle” to include certain pistols, putting millions of gun-owning Americans at risk of criminal liability, according to a complaint filed in federal court on Tuesday morning. …

The suit asked the court to block the new regulation, arguing that the ATF rule is “arbitrary, capricious,” and “invalid.”

 

New Hampshire has also passed HB1178, which prohibits any publicly funded state agencies or agents from helping the feds enforce such rules, but it also permits them to assist if a law is broken. This is not a law. It is a rule. And “not helping” is not the same as protecting and defending our rights, the only reason for which governments are instituted by men.

Yeah, I read that somewhere. And I think it’s a safe bet that the 120-day clock will get hung up while the case works through the courts. It might be years. But men with guns coming to deny the rights of men with guns has some history in America. It started a revolution a few years back.

Perhaps the Live Free or Die State and its allegedly pro-gun Governor could make some public statement about New Hampshire’s commitment to protecting the natural rights of law-abiding citizens from tyrannical federal overreach. Or something.

Or would it be a bad look for Chris Sununu when he runs for President?

 

 

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It seems that by publishing that first post on “NH GOP Annual Meeting Observations”, Pandora’s Box got opened – and keeps getting wider:

Hi Skip

I cannot agree more, with your comments on Maya Harvey’s role in choosing the press outlets covering the annual NH GOP mtg on Saturday. I sat in the front row (Strafford Co assigned section) and watched her prance around during the whole meeting (her dress left nothing to the imagination as it was skin tight. I had the distinct impression that she was a very favored person, to high-level folks in that auditorium, as she never stopped scampering along the front row with a very amateur-looking camera (compared to all those ‘officially there’)!

The other part I noticed (other than Sun-King not bothering to show up!) was that OAN was the only press group with any identification on their cameras. Was this done specifically so that we would not know who WAS or WASN’T there?

I responded to the question:  “OAN mic flag – yes for a purpose – to advertise who they are. Wouldn’t read much into it – GraniteGrok has them as well.”

At the beginning of the meeting, Steve Stepanek announced the attendance (@415 there out of 475+ members)- there were empty seats in almost one whole back section and many near the front in ours. So, the room wasn’t full and we had no idea which press groups were/weren’t there. Had I known that GraniteGrok wasn’t welcome, I would have gone to Chris Ager and asked why…..the philosophy he shared in his acceptance comments implied that the NH GOP will be a big tent for all!!

Can he actually pull that off with so many RINOs working to keep us conservatives out of the party?? As a delegate as well, I will personally keep this front and center when we meet to vote on the platform later this year! I can tell you that all those in my circle are very conservative and we will NOT vote for watering down our NH Constitutional Rights!!

Thank you for All you do!!

I also have two more to post up. I also recorded a Skip’s Sauntering Snippets installment about the Meeting. No, I was not there but was watching for the “after actions” and folks called in as well.

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Not to keep beating this dead donkey, but we’ve got another cabal of misinformed Libs launching a strike in the name of the pandemic Narrative. And this time, it’s an actual strike.

Related: VAERS Shows 2-Year-Old NH Girl Died Within 24 Hours After Getting COVID Vaccine.

A group of liberal Hollywood celebrities are threatening a “massive, all-round Hollywood strike” until every last one of us is vaccinated. Describing Hollywood as “the base of the entire modern American culture”, the group also claims to be speaking on behalf of “humanity’s better nature.”

Rosie O’Donnell, Jennifer Aniston, Gwyneth Paltrow and Gene Simmons are among the dozens of artists, entertainers, and activists who have attached their names to an effort calling for a month-long strike to encourage people they are calling “vaccine dodgers” to succumb to the jab.

In the wake of several very mainstream admissions that COVID death numbers were rigged, Minnesota Democrats are trying to strip a doctor of his license because he has, since April 2020, suggested (with proof) that they were rigged. It is not a conspiracy theory. They were rigged. These Hollywood liberals have a similar problem but with added dramatic irony. It is a well-known fact that The Jab does not prevent infection or stop transmission, making it as meaningless as a few dozen Hollywood celebrities going on strike until everyone gets juiced up.

Related: Satanists Require Proof of COVID Vaccination, and You Must Wear a Medical Face Mask

Good luck with that.

More recent admissions of inadequacy include its complicity in the rise of myocarditis, pericarditis, and stroke, as well as a long list of other difficulties, including death. Adding insult to vaccine injury, the CDC has acknowledged that they missed hundreds of safety signals from the vaccine harm reporting system they ignored.

 

 

Supervillain Bill Gates admits they don’t work, the UK has banned boosters for healthy people under 50, and kids can’t get jabbed because the risk outweighs any benefit. Oh, and Hollywood celebrities think we’ll be motivated to ignore all of that and more to get Jabbed so they can get back to work.

Bwahahahahaha!

 

 

Is this one of the most disconnected statements ever made, at least until you read this one?

 

 

Too much irony. I can’t take it anymore.

Kidding.

This is so amusing that it is absurd. Either Hollywood has a top-heavy hand in shaping culture, or culture has a hand in shaping Hollywood. Whichever you believe, can we agree it has already destroyed or at least caused severe damage to one the other or each to both? An indefinite strike might be precisely what we need. A void is quickly filled by existing or new online content creators to whom the un-entertained will flock if they are worthy.

Null effect on vaccine uptake, I’d guess, but a strike could affect a culture. The rich, entitled”ones with the power” and money will be fine, but the folks who work behind the scenes – the little people – could suffer severe financial harm, and I’d guess most or all of them are already vaccinated.

Your audiences do not serve you. You serve them. And that employs thousands who might be out of work if you go on a vaxx or abuse hiatus. So, do it, but I have to warn you. I do not need you for anything, nor does what you do exceed a desire to avoid myocarditis, stroke, or death from an intervention that doesn’t do any of the things promised, and I’m not alone.

 

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It’ll Cost You $95 to Hear Bernie Sanders Tell You Why Capitalism is Bad

Yeah, right. This is the guy that has always advocated for Government to be bigger and more intrusive, has said that if he had the power, he’d get rid of all charities (Government should do EVERYTHING), and honeymooned in Moscow. Oh, and did I mention that everything that Govt does should be free to you and me?

But the worst is that for years against millionaires and billionaires – until he became a millionaire by “serving his customers with his book”. That’s right – he filled a niche in the marketplace and sold enough to become one of those hated millionaires. His excuse was that ANYone could be a millionaire by selling a best seller as well. But don’t call it capitalism even as it IS the essence of capitalism – give people what they want and you can get rich.  And there’s nothing wrong with that – he didn’t steal anything, he didn’t cheat anyone

Now he only rails against billionaires.  Can a whole bunch of people buy his book (which now allows him to own three dachas!) to make him a billionaire and cause him to rail again…..no one as scapegoats?

Riding in on his white horse to save the left from itself — yet again! — is perma-candidate Bernie Sanders and his new, super-preachy book, entitled, “It’s OK to Be Angry About Capitalism.” The list price of the book is $28, and here’s what’s in store for those who are foolish enough to shell out their hard-earned cash to hear a pseudo-socialist, octogenarian millionaire pontificate on why capitalism is bad:

Reflecting on our turbulent times, Senator Bernie Sanders takes on the billionaire class and speaks blunt truths about our country’s failure to address the destructive nature of a system that is fueled by uncontrolled greed and rigidly committed to prioritizing corporate profits over the needs of ordinary Americans.

But wait, there’s more. Bernie is taking his act on the road! For a mere $95, you can hear Bernie Sanders, who’s never created a job in his life and has amassed a fortune on a government salary, preach to you about the evils of America — live and in person!

The evils of capitalism – as he uses capitalism in his own self-interest. Like AOC who sells her own merch but won’t agree that she’s participating in capitalism. Like BLM that wanted to tear down the system (these trained Marxists!) and end up buying multi-million dollar estates.

Yet, fools keep falling for this nonsense.

$95?   SMH. More at the link.

(HT: RedState)

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This week, my committee met for two days of public hearings. HB 445, on the OPLC fund, was a request of the study committee on OPLC operations.

It keeps all license fees within the OPLC, rather than being lapsed into the general fund, and restricts anything above normal operating expenses to capital projects (software, most likely) and reducing license fees. The agency testified that the first effort on fees was to ensure that each board pays its own way, and then reducing the fees for the over-paying ones. After some discussion on how we were to ensure the OPLC did not use excess fees to build up its operations (the same way we do with any agency – budgeting, the fiscal committee, and the oversight committee), the committee voted to recommend the bill. A limit on the total amount in the fund was discussed, but we agreed the next committee would be better able to deal with it.

HB 341, establishing a license for massage establishments (not the therapists; they are already licensed) had a lot of testimony about human trafficking. Apparently a massage business is easy to set up with trafficked (labor or sexual) workers, and they can re-establish a similar business almost immediately if one is shut down. Law enforcement – both federal homeland security, which has a trafficking task force set up in New Hampshire, and a detective from the Merrimack County Sheriff’s Office, who supports the smaller towns and has worked with the task force – testified that finding these businesses isn’t too hard, since they need to advertise somehow to bring in customers. The problem is getting evidence against the owners and traffickers rather than the trafficked victims. The OPLC testified that this is a regulatory control, rather than criminal, since with a facility license they can enter the business and inspect for licensing violations (including sanitation and fire code violations) rather than waiting for a problem. Many massage therapists in small, legitimate businesses are opposed to this license, since it’s an added cost and bother for them. I’m concerned that we’re burdening legitimate businesses simply to make it easier for law enforcement to convict the bad actors. The bill went to subcommittee for further analysis.

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HB 105, on registration of medical spas, had the hearing shortened when the sponsor declared she wanted to retain the bill in committee, to work on it through the year. The committee agreed, since the bill in its current form is opposed by much of the legitimate industry, and I do not believe it will solve the problems they identified as the need for regulation: mobile Botox vans, laser treatments in the back of beauty salons, etc.

HB 620, establishing a department of early childhood education, also had extensive testimony, much of it not very relevant to the bill. I never heard a good reason why they wanted to create a new department rather than allowing the department of education to deal with preschool, if it had to be a state function! I was also concerned that the bill created a pilot program, but there’s already one in process… The Manchester school board testified in favor, even though they have a preschool program that sounds (to me, at least) very like what this department is aiming to do. It was clear, though, that they wanted state funding. The bill went to subcommittee.

Thursday, we heard six pension bills, all intended to improve benefits for Group II (police, fire and corrections.) HB 250 doubles the accidental death benefit from 50% to 100% of salary. “Accidental” in this context means “work related” and in fact the retirement system lets the workers’ comp department determine if a death is “accidental.” This change would be fairly inexpensive, as right now only six beneficiaries are receiving this benefit. HB 571, granting a cost of living adjustment to Group II (only) retirees, gives a 5% increase to those retired 10 years, and 10% to those retired more than 20 years, on the first $50,000 of pension only. This is a true COLA, in that it is a permanent increase in their pension and it would be compounded if a future COLA were to be granted. Those testifying pointed out that Group I has received multiple COLAs in their social security payments, and Group II is not eligible for SS. These bills went to subcommittee for analysis.

HB 436, HB 449, HB 525, and HB 579 all changed, in slightly different ways, the transition provisions for Group II that were made in 2011, and affected employed but not vested employees. We heard a good number of GII employees testifying that the varying pension benefits are hurting employee morale and harming recruiting and retention efforts, with most of them emphasizing that these changes were made to what they believed was a contract with their employer, destroying their trust in the state. These bills are all costly, with a range up to several hundred million if paid for immediately, or a significant increase to employer payments if spread out over 20 years (as the legislature usually chooses to do!) We sent two bills (HB 436 & 449) to subcommittee to consider the ideas in all four bills, with the idea that one would be amended and sent on shortly, and the other retained for future work. HB 525 and 579 were killed because they duplicated so much of the content of the other two.

Representative Carol McGuire
carol@mcguire4house.com

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I need to stipulate that I am a supporter of President Donald Trump. I guess that makes me one of Biden’s enemies. I am a proud MAGA Republican.

If historians are honest, they will give him his just due and describe how effective Trump was as a one-term President. Despite unprecedented investigations by the Democrats, multiple impeachment hearings, a Pandemic, and a hostile media that did the bidding of the Democrats, he had a successful Presidency on many levels. Economic gains and the rebirth of respect on the Global Stage are but two of the highlights. He kept our adversaries at bay while being one of the first Presidents since WWII that did not engage America in new hostilities. He exposed the swamp that is Washington, D.C., and this is why he is public enemy number one for the likes of Adam Schiff, Jerry Nadler, and the rest of the political establishments. He was the outsider that politicians feared, and he needed to be destroyed. Two years out of office and Trump’s MAGA followers are the greatest fear of Joe Biden.

With all of the good accomplished by Donald trump, I say today, as I have in the past, that I wish he would reconsider his quest to return to the White House. His campaign will further divide the country, and the negativity and investigations will engulf the country. This is not a generational statement, but it is time for Donald, Joe, Hillary, Pelosi, and Schumer to step aside and let a new generation step into the batter’s box and take a swing at directing the future of America.

The disparity in the depth of talent between the two parties could not be more obvious. The Left has Hakeem Jeffries at the top, and then there is a massive drop to the second tier. When you point to Kamala Harris and Alexandria Cortez as legitimate candidates for the Democrat nominee, you are not playing in the major leagues. And this is if you can convince Biden not to run for reelection. He is hell-bent on running, and only the document scandal or the Hunter Biden story exploding may persuade him otherwise. There is no way the American public will elect a man hiding at his beachfront property again. Fool me once, but never again.

The Republican bench is deep, and many have made it clear they want to sit in the Oval Office. Some have announced, like Trump and Nikki Haley, while others are hitting the talk show circuit testing the water. DeSantis is the early favorite but has not declared. Mike Pompeo, Mike Pence, Glenn Abbott, Glenn Youngkin, and Chris Sununu are hinting strongly. All are strong Conservatives, though Sununu may be more of a Centrist.

Trump made two appearances this weekend in New Hampshire and South Carolina. Reports are he may be lacking his old passion, but he made one statement that rubbed me wrong. He proclaimed that DeSantis would never be Governor without Trump’s support. He believes that De Santis, Haley, Pence, and Pompeo disrespect him by considering a run. He is out of line. Trump has no claim to the Presidency, and these others are worthy candidates. This is precisely the division the Party and country do not need. I do not see Trump playing fairly with the field, so I think it best for Trump to abandon his thoughts of running. This move would be in the best interest of Trump, Republicans, and America.

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As a traditional feminist and a female business owner who has long stood up for women’s rights, disability rights, and against racial discrimination in the film and TV industry, I am relieved that Time’s Up is over. I also feel duped and angered by the entire #MeToo movement and this organization.

Time’s Up was a global branding enterprise, falsely selling itself as a supporter of women when in fact, it was using women.

#MeToo was a hashtag that most likely only became viral with the help of bots (Bot Sentinel and Chris Bouzy perhaps?) to push its visibility.

Bouzy, who has been labeled “an expert” by journalists in several major newspapers, including the NY and LA Times, appears to actually create bots to support himself or his clients, thus manipulating social media and public perception. He came out of the New York Department of Education IT department and has a background in a crypto scam as well.

Meghan Markle is apparently one of his clients (he appears in the Netflix documentary series about Prince Harry & Meghan Markle).

She was an “ambassador” for Times Up/#MeToo in the February 2018 edition of Vogue Magazine. Her victimhood ignited in January 2020 when the World Economic Forum decided she was a victim of British media on their site. I checked the British media for 2019 and believe that this WEF narrative was entirely fabricated to make money off victimhood virtue-hoarding altruism.

Coincidentally recent news articles about executives departing Archewell mention that they were creating stories for the zeitgeist — now that #MeToo, Time’s Up & BLM have been exposed, they will be looking for a new bandwagon.

I was invited to an early meeting of Hollywood executives to meet about Time’s Up in the Spring of 2018. I quickly realized that this was an exercise to use us and our networks rather than to help anyone. My and others’ 20+ years of promoting women’s, disability, and minority rights were irrelevant because Time’s Up had arrived. Tina Tchen was running it, and it had a trademarked global brand name. It was political, and we were to be used as minions.

A global brand such as Time’s Up comes with a financial brand value, and this is why, I believe, the MSM has been defending Amber Heard and co. Protecting a lie is protecting a brand label. L’Oreal, for whom Amber Heard is an “ambassador,” is worth $32 billion. It has 17 ambassadors. It’s represented by SKDK who also represented “Time’s Up,” “NWLC,” “UN Women,” “It’s On Us” and “Vital Voices” for whom Amber Heard was a VIP guest at a special event.

The controversies surrounding “On The Record” documentary, are a clear indicator that propaganda for politics and global branding was really at the core of Time’s Up, #MeToo and #BLM. These are commercial ventures. Not philanthropic as the rest of us might have naively believed them to be.

“On The Record” came from the filmmakers of “The Hunting Ground”, one of whom — Amy Herdy — was involved in the documentary “Justice” — about Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

Doug Liman, the director of “Justice” stated that he financed the documentary himself but IMDB Pro lists CAA Media Financing. CAA is where Time’s Up started with Tina Tchen in January 2018….SKDK promoted Time’s Up. SKDK also represented Christine Blasey Ford, Kavanaugh’s accuser. Who sponsors the Sundance documentary section where both “The Hunting Ground” and “Justice” premiered? George Soros’ Open Societies Foundation.

Neither Time’s Up nor The Women’s March ever criticizes George Soros and his relationships with women who could be his granddaughters (and who physically hit him in court). Yet they are fast to criticize Johnny Depp for his age difference with Amber Heard. Soros was in his 80’s with a girlfriend in her 20’s, while Johnny Depp was in his 50’s with a wife in her 20’s. Sixty years age difference is fine. Twenty-five is not.

George Soros is the money spigot. Johnny Depp’s global value could be sucked from him in smear campaigns under social justice for George Soros’ political interests.

I was in DC and on Capitol Hill in September 2018, the week before the hearings for Brett Kavanaugh. I saw first hand how DC theatrics work. It’s high school — or middle school — or maybe even kindergarten in some cases. Members of Congress and Senators like having their photos taken with celebrities. Get a celebrity to make an impassioned speech (possibly scripted for them by lobbyists) that yields an opportunity for federal grants for a member of Congress and you’ll be celebrated. That’s not to say that members of Congress don’t care about real issues — they do. But the money game is real for their re-election, for their states and the federal grants are important. Story is everything, even if it’s not true. Major networks keep offices as close as possible to the White House — for a reason. It’s backscratching. NBC and CBS became particular friends to the #MeToo movement. Time’s Up did well out of CBS, but where did the money go?

George Soros is affiliated with Arabella Advisors as well as Open Societies. Connections can be found to various other organizations — one of which is the Narrative Initiative. How many #MeToo, Time’s Up, and BLM stories were created with its help?

Who created SKDK client Christine Blasey Ford’s letter? Early indications are that it was Stanford Law Professor Michele Dauber. It could have been Narrative Initiative’s as well. Blasey Ford was not in the “Justice” documentary. I believe she was used, and abused for politics as others have been before and after her.

It smacks of an orchestrated political stunt. I’m not out to defend Brett Kavanaugh because I don’t think he should have made it to the Supreme Court, but I am critical of the use of media for mob justice which Time’s Up and its affiliates have used to push bills, change laws, extort and lead to life endangerment and suicides.

How many of the people questioning Kavanaugh (male & female) got up to the same kinds of sexual misconduct he did in the early 80s? If the Democrats can be so angry about Brett Kavanaugh, why are they so kind to Ketanji Brown for giving a lenient sentence for sexual abuse? None of it makes sense unless you follow the money. None of this is about equal rights, social justice, or black lives. It’s about money and politics. Brett Kavanaugh shouldn’t be on the supreme court, but I’m not sure that Ketanji Brown should be either.

If we are going to get serious about addressing sexual assault, domestic violence and justice for all then we have to get rid of qualified immunity and police corruption. We have to ban the use of media to frame whoever the latest Salem witch trial target is. We have to stop seeing it as a partisan or one gender, religion or race issue.

It’s not and to pretend otherwise harms us all.

There are families involved, women involved, and children involved. Collateral consequences can be fatal. Federal tax dollars should simply not be going towards mob justice either directly or via federal grants that end up in PR companies or social justice non-profits.

We don’t have to like Brett Kavanaugh. We must respect his family’s right to safety and privacy, and that’s where I draw the line with “Justice” or the other films from these filmmakers who are out to incite hatred. I do not believe that Christine Blasey Ford would wish ill on Kavanaugh’s wife or children, and I do not believe that he would wish ill on her or her family. #MeToo activists care not about the real consequences to real lives in their activism.

Stanford Professor Michele Dauber (outspoken in the #MeToo movement and against Kavanaugh) and Gary Gensler (SEC) were both on the finance committee for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign.

Gary Gensler has met several times with Sam Bankman-Fried in the last few years. Michele Dauber works in the same law department as SBF’s parents: feminist law professor Barbara Fried & tax law professor Joseph Bankman.

We should question everything to do with anybody connected to this crowd, including Time’s UP, MeToo, NWLC, BLM (whose leader, Patrice Cullors, was also represented by SKDK).

The Bankman-Frieds bought into (influenced) ProPublica, Vox, Semafor, and others. It’s highly unlikely that Sam Bankman-Fried and Gabriel Bankman-Fried did this alone — it is far more probable that they were part of a machine tied to Stanford, Silicon Valley, and the DNC. A machine that might even be tied to Jeffrey Epstein, who was preoccupied with cryptocurrency in 2017, per one report, and who donated to MIT’s Media Lab, which had a campus in Cyprus where SBF’s FTX EU opened in 2014. Epstein was a supporter of Time’s Up, and helped found the Clinton Foundation, which gave money to Hillary Clinton’s non-profit “Vital Voices” which started up in 1997 in the middle of the Monica Lewinsky Scandal.

In historical context, the founding of “Time’s Up” looks like a wash-rinse-repeat of “Vital Voices.” A piece of monetized crisis brand management 20 years later & also affiliated with the Clintons.

The Bankman-Fried family’s non-profit, which donated $5 million to ProPublica, was called “Building a Stronger Future.” Michele Dauber’s non-profit (registered to her home address but listed on the Stanford website) was called “Building a Better Legal Profession” — co-founded with Davida Brook (a student at Stanford Law School at the time), who went on to represent Amber Heard alongside Roberta Kaplan of Time’s Up/NWLC.

Barbara Fried co-founded “Mind The Gap” to “game the system” after she wrote a paper on using feminism in politics. Michele Dauber started the “Enough is Enough Voter Movement” specifically to target male candidates in the midterms. Justin Fairfax, who lost his race in Virginia, appears to be one of her and SKDK’s targets.

Some of the creditors for FTX are CAA-owned sports companies. Effective Altruism, Philanthrocapitalism, and Social Justice “Building….” are just branding labels. There is an integrated and orchestrated operation that violates multiple ethical lines between branches of government to influence, peddle and raise funds for political candidates while allowing the ring leaders to abscond with the funds raised to buy lavish real estate: SBF and his parents bought properties in the Bahamas. Michele Dauber bought a second home in Big Bear, California. Michael Kives of CAA (and also a Stanford alum and Clinton insider) borrowed $300 million from Alameda Research.

For a non-profit that had received something like $24 million in funds and spent most of it on rich salaries, luncheons in Martha’s vineyard, other celebrity events, PR, branding, and fees, there should be a transparent and federal inquiry into what went down with Times Up and the other organizations that are tied to it.

Why did Jeffrey Epstein support Time’s Up, and why did US AG Denise George get fired after filing a suit against JP Morgan for its role in Jeffrey Epstein’s trafficking enterprise? Denise George is a black woman. DEI is irrelevant when Bill Gates and Joe Biden are vacationing in the US Virgin Islands, and JP Morgan is about to be on the world stage again for a pharmaceutical promotion week and the WEF.

Time’s Up couldn’t step up for Tara Reade, Alexia Norton-Jones or many other survivors but it was happy to provide a PR fund for a class action #MeToo suit against Dartmouth College which yielded a $14 million settlement and led to the suicide of a professor who was denied the right to speak for himself — he was described as a “casualty of scorched-earth #MeToo legal strategy”.

I disagree. Professor David Bucci was a targeted victim -the collateral consequence — of an extortion racket in which Time’s Up was complicit, an extortion racket in which NH Congresswoman Ann Kuster was also complicit — she supported the anonymity of the plaintiffs but not that of Bucci who was named 31 times in the suit — he was blamed for knowing of sexual misconduct in his department and denied the right to state that he was not aware of it. Her office called ABC/GMA in July 2019 to block Amy Robach’s interview with Owen Labrie, which would have exposed the extortion racket involving the attorneys who were suing Dartmouth, the same attorneys who sued St Paul’s School and who used publicity to leverage trials and suits in their favor with the help of the NHCADSV’s Amanda Grady Sexton who sat on NH Dem. Senator Jeanne Shaheen’s re-election campaign committee. Neither Shaheen, Kuster nor Grady Sexton stepped in to criticize then-Governor Maggie Hassan when her husband covered up the sexual assault of students at Phillips Exeter Academy because they wanted her to become Senator so there was a media blackout — courtesy, I suspect, of the NHCADSV and its media relations.

Congresswoman Kuster made the call to ABC when the Dartmouth suit was in mediation. Dartmouth gives to Kuster. She used to be a lobbyist for Dartmouth. Kuster wore white to the State of the Union in support of Time’s Up. It was all a political marketing facade. She went from being a lobbyist for Rohypnol when the millions she needed came from date-rape drug makers to one for the Department of Justice Office of Violence Against Women.

When people give money to a non-profit with charitable tax-free status for what is advertised as a humanitarian and social justice cause that will help women or black lives, they deserve to know exactly how that money is being put to use. Funding a PR campaign so that attorneys can get rich off a class action suit while the plaintiffs get a tiny fraction and a professor is driven to suicide, is questionable.

The Dartmouth plaintiffs (some of them solicited) got $75K each while the attorneys got $4.9 million and the NHCADSV got $2.865 million which seems to have disappeared into “Every Voice Matters Coalition” — part of “It’s On Us” and therefore Civic Nation whose head is Valerie Jarrett, Obama’s Chief of Staff.

“It’s On Us” has SKDK as its PR company and campaigned to block the Owen Labrie interview from airing — #SurvivorsOverRatings — really? That’s a joke. They had splashed Owen Labrie’s face and name all over NBC, ABC, CNN, Fox, CBS and in every national and international newspaper to get their ratings up but they blocked him from speaking for himself, claiming they shouldn’t have to see his face. I hope these actually understand the difference between an 18-year-old scholarship kid and an Isis terrorist, Congresswoman Ann Kuster — who endorsed the equation – included.

A survivor at Dartmouth who brought a lawsuit against the college for failure to deal with a nightime stranger intruder who threatened to rape her and her roommate told me that nothing has changed since the class action lawsuit. Dartmouth Title IX office did nothing. Her family had to sue to get any attention.

If you are sick of ever-increasing education fees for more useless and over-paid administrators and non-profits who don’t protect you child from anything, then join the club.

We are on our own and we are the majority (no matter our political affiliation, socio-economic status, religious, racial or ability/disability identity) except we don’t have the power of political PR companies using media and social media to raise funds for Government contracts.

Resources for sexual assault survivors at Dartmouth? You have to be a certain type — one that is politically useful. If you are the wrong type, you’ll get ignored.

Students at Dartmouth demanded due process for Maha Hasan Alshawi who accused a professor of sexual assault. The best Dartmouth could do was a preponderence of evidence finding that no misconduct had taken place. “Every Voice Matters” and “NHCADSV” nowhere to be found. Where did those millions go? I suspect into election campaigns. Did Kuster, Hassan, Grady Sexton or Shaheen come out in support of Maha Hasan Alshawi? Of course not — no political money to be made.

Anita Dunn of SKDK (“It’s On Us,” “Time’s Up,” “UN Women,” “Vital Voices”) is married to Bob Bauer who was a partner at Perkins Coie and Obama’s personal attorney. He is also Joe Biden’s attorney for matters relating to the stashes of classified documents that have been found in Biden’s Garage and elsewhere. Perkins Coie houses an office of the FBI, and Perkins Coie has represented Twitter, Google and brokered a deal for FTX US.

Apparently, using the front of Domestic Violence & Sexual Violence non-profits to raise money for elections is a trend, and engaging Stanford Law Professor Michele Dauber — who also happens to be on the board of the Silicon Valley Democratic Committee — part of the strategy. It helps that her husband Ken Dauber is an early Google hire and an engineer who understands how AI and crowd reactions work.

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Times Up, It’s On Us, and BLM are connected by the PR company SKDK. Monifa Bandele, who was tagged to run BLM after Patrice Cullors departed due to misappropriation of funds, was appointed to run Time’s Up after Tina Tchen and Roberta Kaplan stepped down following the Andrew Cuomo debacle.

Diversity, equity, and inclusion be damned — this is a profiteering insiders’ club of “social justice warriors” and money hoarders who all happen to be Democrats with no real desire to create “equal rights for all” but to spend the loot on second homes and glitzy events.

Anita Dunn of SKDK, who repped both Times Up & Patrice Cullors of BLM, is married to Bob Bauer, who was Obama’s personal attorney, is Joe Biden’s attorney for the current “classified documents” scandal, and was a partner at Perkins Coie which arranged a Delaware LLC for the ownership of a $6 million house for SKDK’s client Patrice Cullors. The house was obtained using BLM funds.

Meanwhile Anita Dunn had a stint as director of communications for the Obama White House, provided PR advice to Harvey Weinstein and was PR strategist for Biden, divesting of Google shares only when the conflicts of interest became public.

Google has contracts with Twitter, Facebook, Yahoo, YouTube, NBC, New York Times, among others. Google executives had strategy meetings with the Obama White House, while the FBI had meetings with Twitter and Facebook.

What’s the point of secret meetings for the FBI and big tech and the Government when you can short-circuit it all with pillow talk between Anita Dunn and Bob Bauer?

Google has been sued (again) for anti-trust.

It’s not hard to see how this little network could (and apparently did) weaponize and manipulate the public or turn a political crisis into a profiteering racket with a simple hashtag which they had the ability to turn viral.

#HeForShe (SKDK, UNWomen, The White House, Emma Watson) in 2014 was replaced with #MeToo (Alyssa Milano, Times Up, SKDK, DNC) in 2017. Tarana Burke who was eventually credited for #MeToo didn’t have a Wikipedia page before October 30th 2017 — almost two weeks after Alyssa Milano’s #MeToo tweet went viral. Did Tarana Burke get a Wikipedia page because #MeToo had an all too-white Hollywood appearance or because someone suddenly remembered her?

Professor Michele Dauber called the end of #MeToo in Spring 2020 when Tara Reade came forward to accuse Joe Biden of digital penetration. SKDK helped downplay the accusations and smear Tara Reade. The New York Times admitted to editing articles to paint Joe Biden in a more beneficial light. You can be a rapist as long as you are a friend of the DNC. And if you default on the money or you are a threat, they’ll turn the Gov Affairs PR machine with its ambassadors against you. Thus, Jennifer Siebel Newsom was Harvey Weinstein’s friend one day, executive producing his movie the next, getting Rose McGowan to back off him the next and then suddenly deciding that she would be Jane Doe number 4 claiming that nobody could say no to Harvey Weinstein. I disagree again. Plenty of women have said no to Harvey Weinstein. These women didn’t sleep with George Clooney before or marry Gavin Newsom after he’d had an affair with his campaign manager’s wife.

Michele Dauber had called the Emily Doe Victim Impact Statement from June 2016 “the #MeToo Manifesto”. Records indicate she wrote it herself and that she and her husband were manipulating social media in 2016 to stir public outrage to get support for the recall of Judge Aaron Persky.

I don’t believe that #MeToo was a naturally viral movement stemming from Alyssa Milano’s October 17th, 2017 tweet. My research into the timing of events has led me to a different conclusion about #MeToo and #Time’s Up — they were about election campaigns under the guise of social justice.

Barbara Fried and Gabriel Fried are apparently not cooperating with prosecutors in their investigations of FTX. Is this because Barbara Fried is safeguarding exposure of the entire #MeToo for politics scam too? She wrote “Feminism is for Everyone” — Perspectives for a Feminist Class Politics in October 2017. SBF opened Alameda Research in November 2017. Michele Dauber stated that sexual violence was going to be on the ballot for the 2018 midterms.

I walked in the Women’s March in January 2018. I didn’t think it was partisan, and I didn’t think much about why Planned Parenthood were sponsoring the event. How wrong I was: the PR company for Planned Parenthood is Precision Strategies which also represents the ACLU for whom Amber Heard, a #MeToo spokesperson who said she was “amplifying Michele Dauber’s voice, was an “ambassador.” The company was founded by Stephanie Cutter, Obama’s 2012 Deputy Campaign Manager.

2018 was all about getting women elected for the mid-terms. The Women’s March, Times Up & #MeToo were herding support for female candidates and for the renewal of the Violence Against Women, Act to keep the cash flowing to non-profits from the Department of Justice Office of Violence Against Women.

Precision Strategies represented Amber Heard until partway through the Johnny Depp v Amber Heard Virginia Trial when they turned their attention to the Dobbs Supreme Court leak, overturning Roe v Wade.

Stephanie Cutter had helped with politics and messaging for Obama’s Supreme Court nominee: Sonia Sotomayor. Josh Gerstein of Politico co-wrote the Dobbs leak story in an exclusive for Politico.

Like Cutter, he too had worked closely with the Obama administration in the very early days:

In this 2016 Politico article about the Supreme Court — co-authored by Josh Gerstein — Stephanie Cutter’s name appears with those of Valerie Jarrett, Tina Tchen and Anita Dunn. It’s a small club, and the same names come up over and over. They are paid millions in this fake gravy train profiteering off #MeToo, Time’s Up, BLM, and social justice.

#MeToo, #Times Up, #BLM and the Dobbs SCOTUS leak appear to be more about strategies for election campaign fundraising, not social justice:

Let’s go back a few years to understand the context and to follow the money — how it ran out and how it got replaced under social justice:

In 2015, there were reports that the Weinstein Company was being hit with lawsuits.

Then in 2017, there were reports that the Democratic Party was hard up for cash. Harvey Weinstein was an important fundraiser for the DNC and a close friend of both the Obamas and the Clintons.

Weinstein had been a close ally of Hollywood Talent Agency CAA, where Obama, Biden, Valerie Jarrett (Obama’s Chief of Staff), Tina Tchen (Michele Obama’s Chief of Staff), Arne Duncan (Education Secretary) signed up after the Obama administration.

Michele Obama invited Harvey Weinstein to the White House to give advice to young women who wanted to work in the entertainment industry in 2013.

Malia Obama interned for Harvey Weinstein in 2017, even going to the Sundance film festival with him just a month before Ronan Farrow’s NBC expose was shut down.

An outsized effort from the Obama administration had been devoted to influencing students on college campuses with campaigns using social media to target “rape culture.” Non-profits such as “Its On Us,” “Know Your IX,” “End Rape on Campus,” “SurvJustice,” “PAVE,” “RISE” and others thrived with full support of the White House which launched the “Not Alone” task force in 2014 headed by Valerie Jarrett.

It’s odd that with so much alleged commitment to ending campus sexual assault and to women’s rights issues that anyone in the Obama/Biden administration would sign up with CAA, an agency that didn’t have a single female or diverse board member and one which had hosted a sex themed party at Sundance in 2013 just as the campus survivor movement was ramping up to fever pitch.

The Obamas had become close to Harvey Weinstein whose reputation as an aggressive and uncouth thug was so well known that when Malia Obama went to intern for him in 2017, Vanity Fair published an article to smooth over the rough edges. Was SKDK the PR company to orchestrate this? What kind of discovery did the Secret Service impart to the Obamas before their daughter went to work for Weinstein? If most of Hollywood knew of Harvey Weinstein’s reputation, why was the President sending his eldest daughter to work for him especially after the President had announced the “Its On Us” pledge to end sexual assault?

Given recent revelations involving the FBI and Russia, the FBI, DOJ and Larry Nassar’s cover up or the SEC and Sam Bankman-Fried/FTX, it’s becoming increasingly clear that our government has some appalling lapses when it comes to due diligence. Due diligence that any ordinary citizen could carry out without needing top security clearance. The records are mostly public — if only members of the mainstream media, FBI and Government would bother to look for them.

The failures are not by accident. They are deliberate because there are financial and political perks that rely on ethical alarm bells being ignored.

Even if Harvey Weinstein’s sexual perversions were not well known, his reputation as a bully who could be physically violent was. Why did stunningly beautiful women hang on his arm? One can only conclude that the relationships were transactional as perhaps Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s was if she were truly honest about it.

This does not excuse Harvey Weinstein for horrifically abusive behavior but he was able to continue because the Hollywood-DC-Wall Street machine (which included many women and first ladies) allowed him to continue. The men — Ken Arletta and Ronan Farrow- who tried to expose him, got shut down.

Harvey Weinstein was prominently featured in coverage of the Oscars broadcast by ABC, a division of Disney with PR representation from SKDK headed by Hillary Rosen & Anita Dunn — PR specialists for the Clintons, the Obamas, the Bidens, and Weinstein himself. Disney had a long history of supporting Harvey Weinstein, dating to the early ’90s. Looking back at all those actors who claimed that “Harvey is God” or who wore gowns from Marchesa at the Oscars, it looks as though they were participating in one big marketing campaign for Harvey and therefore the DNC.

A division of The Weinstein Company released the White House-backed propaganda documentary “The Hunting Ground” (about campus sexual assault), which won an Oscar for Best Song, performed at the 2016 Academy Awards by Lady Gaga — “Till It Happens To You.” Jennifer Siebel Newsom (aka Jane Doe 4 in Harvey Weinstein’s LA criminal trial) was an executive producer, and so was Maria Cuomo Cole, sister of Andrew Cuomo and married to Kenneth Cole, who was tied up in the AmFar scandal with Weinstein.

In 2016, CAA acquired 50% of a Hong Kong-based Global Brand Management Company. In 2022 it acquired the remaining shares. Some quick research indicates that the brand company might have been bankrupt, owing Harvey Weinstein’s AmFar partner, Kenneth Cole, $6 million and hence (perhaps?) the reason for the secrecy over the purchase price in the LA Times.

In the summer of 2017 The Weinstein Company reportedly was burdened with many unpaid debts. Rumor had it that hopes were being pinned on “Tulip Fever” to become an Oscar hopeful but when it premiered at the Toronto, Telluride and Venice Film Festivals in late August/early September 2017, the reviews were bad. Two weeks later, with Malia Obama having left her internship and a freshman at Harvard, Harvey went to interview with Jodi Kantor and Meghan Twohey in the offices of the New York Times.

One of his attorneys, Roberta Kaplan (who would go on to join Time’s Up with Tina Tchen) went with him. Gloria Allred’s daughter, Lisa Bloom, was another attorney who sold herself to Harvey for her ability to understand and discredit his victims. The third attorney who worked with him was David Boies who admitted to arranging for Black Cube (Mossad) to go after Weinstein’s accusers. Jennifer Siebel Newsom worked with David Boies to try to get Rose McGowan to back off her accusations against Harvey Weinstein for a fee.

Jodi Kantor knew Valerie Jarrett from interviewing her for her biography of the Obamas. Someone was behind the New York Times Jodi Kantor/Meghan Twohey exposé of Harvey Weinstein. Could it be TPG who’d invested in CAA and were concerned that CAA’s clients were not getting paid by the Weinstein Company? Or could it be Valerie Jarrett, whose associate Maria Contreras-Sweet (and another Obama insider) put in a bid to buy the company in November 2017 before criminal charges were filed?

Maria Contreras-Sweet’s bid was endorsed by Gloria Allred, who was closely connected to Tina Tchen and Roberta Kaplan. These three were well-versed in creating propaganda to raise money for the Democratic Party.

It took the Obamas and Clintons almost a week to make a statement after the NYT article about Weinstein came out on October 5th, 2017.

They were caught in an embarrassing situation — CAA had been accused of being enablers of Weinstein, and the insiders of the Obama administration, which had gone to great pains to pretend it cared about sexual assault, were all signed up there.

Time for crisis management for the Obama entourage and CAA. They had everything they needed: Global Brand Management Group in Hong Kong, SKDK & Anita Dunn, Precision Strategies, and Stephanie Cutter, and if they came up with a hashtag they could make go viral, they could get public support. And thus, Alyssa Milano, married to a CAA agent, would come up with #MeToo (possibly plagiarized from Donald Barnat’s alleged comment under the NY Times article on October 10th, 2017, which has never been acknowledged):

Tina Tchen and Roberta Kaplan would start Times Up with a cash injection of $13 million from CAA, a registered trademark (courtesy of Global Brand Management, I suspect) would get global recognition if they used the 2018 awards season to make a dramatic splash at the Golden Globes and Oscars. Finish it up with some celebrities with couture gowns to push the brand, and voila — they transformed a political, image, and financial crisis into a massive global profiteering venture with brand tie-ins around the world.

The Google contracts with Facebook, Twitter et al. helped:

Only Rose McGowan was brave enough to call it as it was. For that, her career in Hollywood was essentially over.

“You are a fraud. This is about holding the media accountable. You go after Trump & Kavanaugh saying Believe Victims, you are a lie,” McGowan wrote at the time. “You have always been a lie. The corrupt DNC is in on the smear job of Tara Reade, so are you. SHAME.”

McGowan noted that she feels Milano is “gaslighting the public” by picking whom she’ll believe about sexual assault.

“I don’t like sacred cows. I don’t like people that are held up to be better than other people and I don’t like people that don’t really do the right thing and behind the scenes are aiding and abetting alleged criminals. I just don’t and I won’t stand for it,” she told the host.

Time’s Up didn’t help Tara Reade. SKDK helped smear her. The two organizations helped Andrew Cuomo against his accusers too — one or more of whom may have been fake anyway.

BLM raised a lot of money and spurred action on the streets, but as harmful as Times Up was to women, so was BLM to people of color. Both organizations were essentially fronts for raising money for the Democratic Party, paying through the roof for “activists” under the guise of social justice.

Who was it that said that “#MeToo is a revolution that can’t be stopped”? Roberta Kaplan, co-founder of Time’s Up — Harvey Weinstein’s and Amber Heard’s former attorney.

 

 

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Does Hiroo Onoda run the Democrat party in Minnesota? Stationed in the Philippines, this Japanese soldier famously followed orders until 1974. In 1944 was told to stand and fight and never surrender. Minnesota Dems appear to have the same orders.

 

They are NOW using Keith Ellison and the Attorney General’s Office to take away my Medical License – If this can happen to me it can happen to you! pic.twitter.com/JfmvQe8ZWy

— Scott Jensen (@drscottjensen) January 30, 2023

 

Dr. Scott Jensen, who is also a Minnesota State Senator, called foul early on in the everyone dies from the COVID scam. He may well be the guy who turned us on to it (or confirmed our suspicions) when we reported his concerns back on April 15, 2020. The CDC said when in doubt, it’s death by COVID. A story that has long since evolved from conspiracy theory to fact.

Feel like a stroll down memory hole lane?

• 2020: Doctors Not Only Encouraged by CDC to Claim Death by COVID-19, There is a Financial Incentive for Hospitals
• 2020: Is NH DHHS Promoting CDC Guidelines that Falsely Inflate Reported Deaths from COVID-19?
• 2020: CDC: Only 6% of all US COVID19 Deaths were the Result of COVID-19 Alone
• 2020: CDC – Only 6% Were COVID Deaths, The Rest Was Money Laundering
• 2022: The CDC ‘Quietly’ Rewrites History Again- Removes Tens of Thousands of Deaths from COVID Tracker
• 2023: Why is the COVID-CULT Admitting the Hospital and Death Numbers Were a Lie?

That last piece isn’t even two weeks old. In it, Dr. Leana Wen, published in the Washington Post, demonstrates the flaws for the cheap seats. In The Washington Post.

Minnesota Democrats are after Dr. Jensen’s license. He’s guilty of misinformation. This will surprise Dr. Brix, who made it clear during one of the many task force briefings that “If someone dies with COVID-19, we are counting that as a COVID-19 death.”

The war is over. Trump didn’t collude with Russia. There is no hotel pee tape. And it is not misinformation to claim that patients who died from something else had their cause of death listed as COVID. It happened. A lot.

It is not a conspiracy theory or disinformation. It is a reality.

 

(History) And so, after twenty-nine years diligently fighting the Second World War primarily against the farmers of Lubang Island, Hiroo Onoda finally surrendered. He handed over his Arisaka Type 99 bolt-action rifle, five hundred rounds of ammunition, his knife and his grenades. The wiry figure, still dressed in his tattered 1940s Japanese army uniform, boarded a plane to Manilla where he presented his sword to President Ferdinand Marcos.

Marcos accepted the soldier’s surrender and formally pardoned him. For Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda, the war was finally over. He was the second to last Japanese soldier to surrender. The last man standing, Private Teruo Nakamura, would finally hand himself in on the 18th of December 1974.

Is it going to take thirty years for Minnesota Democrats to get the message?

 

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I’m a bit late on this but since I went to the meeting, I figured I’d post the bits that I was interested in:

1. Town Beach Regulation (beach pass policy “returned” back to be residents (+ their guests) and not STR (Short Term Rentals like AirBnB, VRBO, et al, and hotels.
2. The town culvert failure that had water undermine and overtop my street. That failure ruined the front and back lawns of my neighbor across the street, caused the street to fail, and caused damage to the swale that was supposed to whisk that water away (rough images below).

But I was challenged by Selectmen Gus Benavides, after he described me, to post what he said on GraniteGrok. Challenge accepted, Gus!  And a bit more in that clip – after all, context IS important.

And yes, he took advantage of the discussion to make a bit of sport of me (heh!).  In the end, the Selectmen rose to the issue and said the Town will do the right thing for my neighbor for almost 40 years.

The full video of the discussion of the failure is also below. But first, the change in the Beach Pass policy. As I wrote on Youtube

The last couple of years, the ability of those in Short Term Rentals (STRs like AirBnB, VRBO, et al) and hotels buying passes to the town residents’ beach has caused much alarm and angst. As I testified, parking and use of the beach because of the “I paid my money” mentality and entitlement got to the point where I no longer felt welcome at the beach after living in Gilford for almost 40 years.

Tonite, after listening to the residents at the last meeting, Selectmen Chair Kevin Hayes rolled out the new regulation in response to that feedback.

It will be formally presented to the public on Feb 8.

And the entire discussion about the culvert failure:

This past Christmas, we had a massive snow storm go through NH. At the intersection where I live, the town owned culvert that diverted the two downloading (I liive on the side of a mountain – everything down down) streams that normally sends that flow under our streets failed due clogging.

Water went around the culvert and undermined the road to the point where our underground utility conduits were openly exposed. Further, part of the road failed.

There was a wide rushing expanse of water that ALSO overtopped the street, crossed over, and scoured the shoulder sending tons of “street dirt” into both the front and backyard of my across-the-street neighbor that has lived there as long as we have.

The swale…

“A shallow troughlike depression that carries water mainly during rainstorms or snow melts.”

…that separates her and my other neighbor across the street to my left is a swale which had silted up from the culvert runoff over the decades that also ruined her backyard. This was the hearing of her complaint – and yes, it seemingly (thus far) to turn out with the right decision.

 

It also happened a second time just a couple of days ago which I saw coming home from doing some errands:

 

Pictures from the Christmas storm damage. And those “red pipes” are the underground utility conduits for the entire neighborhood.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

All of that “street dirt” from the town road…

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I apologize for the last-minute email, but these bills snuck past me, even though our own treasurer, JR Hoell, co-sponsored HB 225. While both of these bills tackle the same issue, I personally feel that HB 225 is likely a better solution.

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Wednesday, February 1st, N.H. House
Commerce
LOB, Room 302-304  1:45 p.m. – SUPPORT – HB 225, relative to prohibiting the use of currency that could be detrimental to privacy rights. The bill seeks to ban a central bank digital currency from being used in New Hampshire as well as prohibiting any currency from being connected to a social credit score. We are seeing a globalist push to push ESG scores, which stands for “environmental, social, and governance” and have seen proof of this put into action last year during the trucker protests in Canada when protesters and their supporters bank accounts were frozen. This bill would prohibit these types of actions.

 Click here to register your disposition.
 Email the committee.

LOB, Room 302-304  2:15 p.m. – SUPPORT – HB 227, relative to fair access to financial services. This bill seeks to ban banks and financial institutions from discrimination. It is similar to HB 225, but applies more to financial institutions, whereas HB 225 is specific to currency itself and the actions of the state of New Hampshire.
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So I recently put up a post titled A Screen Shot Worth The Proverbial Thousand Words … which was about Sun-King Sununu playing the role of token Republican who bashes real Republicans on a CNN Sunday morning show. What Sun-King had to say is draw-dropping … the Republican Party needs to stop fighting woke … both in public schools and in businesses.

Like much of what Sununu says his argument is nonsensical. With respect to public schools, he says that being for limited government means it is okay for local government to push woke … i.e., grooming and CRT … but it is not okay for state government to oppose woke. Being for limited government means that government at all levels does not push woke. In other words, it is limited government for state government to prevent local school districts from pushing woke.

Under Sununu’s twisted logic, local school boards, not state government, should decide whether the school district offers school choice. Yet Sununu supports state government allowing school choice in school districts where local government opposes school choice. This inconsistency proves that Sununu is actually pro-woke.

With respect to business, Sununu claims that it is not “free market” if government protects workers from woke … e.g., CRT indoctrination, mandated “vaccinations” with experimental drugs, etc.. This too is nonsensical. Banning CRT indoctrination, prohibiting business from forcing its employees to shoot up with experimental drugs, etc. has no effect on the actual business of a business. The irony … as anyone who lived in New Hampshire during the COVID era full well knows … is that the supposedly free market Sun-King totally interfered in the free market … e.g., deciding which businesses were essential and which were not.

A portion of the transcript:

DANA BASH: If I didn’t know better, I would think that that was a thinly veiled shot at your fellow Republican governor down south Governor Ron DeSantis, Because he’s made a point of picking fights with private businesses and schools over cultural issues.

GOV. CHRIS SUNUNU: I think — well, look, I think a lot of Republican leadership is getting behind this idea that we have to fight.

And I get it, as, in a leadership position, you have to be willing to have the fight. But we cannot have leadership that is only about the fight. I’m a free market…

BASH: Who is — who does show that they are leading only about the fight? Who are you referring to?

SUNUNU: Oh, I don’t think there’s any individual.

I think, look, a lot of Republicans are frustrated. A lot of conservatives, a lot of Americans, independents are frustrated, because they see this woke culture, this woke cancel culture invading our societies and in our communities. And we need to fight, to be sure.

BASH: But you argue that that — yes, but you argue that there’s too much of that.

SUNUNU: There is.

BASH: That there’s not — there’s too much of the focus on fighting that.

SUNUNU: My argument is, the government is not the solution to cultural issues, and we have a cultural problem.

But the government isn’t going to come down with a big heavy hammer and solve that problem.

BASH: Is Ron DeSantis doing that too much?

SUNUNU: It’s not about Ron. I think — I think the Republican Party as a whole just wants to get out and fight, as opposed to saying, look, let’s remember what we’re about, limited government, local control, believing in individual responsibility.

That’s the live for your die spirit in New Hampshire, and the model works really well.

 

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Mass shootings are tragic, as is almost any criminal shooting occurrence. Loss of innocent life is not reversible. Families, loved ones, and friends all suffer when they happen. Something does need to be done, and it should involve common sense.

But not the common sense that the anti-Second Amendment crowd is espousing, which is further restrictions on the firearms rights of law-abiding citizens.

Any time a shooting happens, the anti-gun crowd immediately jumps on the “evil guns” bandwagon to politicize the issue. I find it disgusting that Burden and others have done this repeatedly, most often with the four that have occurred in the Los Angeles area in less than two weeks. True to form, Burden steps up to the podium to blame the evil guns less than 24 hours after the event. The only sincerity in his actions is the opportunity to further his anti-Second Amendment policies.

Last I checked, an inanimate object like a gun can’t jump up and kill anyone. It takes a person to do it. Same with a knife, a rock, a hammer, a rented truck, or a pressure cooker.

It also can’t be overlooked that many, if not most, of these shootings, are happening in the parts of the country with the most restrictive firearms laws. Yep, all those laws are working wonders to keep the citizens safe from harm – NOT! It is interesting to note that the areas where the people are the least self-governed are the areas that have the most laws. That makes sense, right? The problem is that criminals are not self-governed against any particular standard.

I hear and agree with the call for more mental health care and social workers, which is a welcome change from past shootings. Heck, I even heard NPR suggesting that we have a mental health issue to deal with rather than dwelling on “pass more (useless) gun laws.” It is long overdue. But our current administration and the media largely dwell on more firearms control laws which would be nothing more than band-aids if they did anything at all. More laws won’t help. Criminals don’t obey the law, which is why they are criminals. More firearms laws only punish and endanger law-abiding citizens.

More firearms legislation is nothing more than a band-aid and a political stunt to show “we are doing something.” The real issue is that they do not address the root cause of the problem, which is the question of how our society produces individuals willing to carry out these heinous acts. I’ll suggest here that the root cause of the violence problem and so many others we see in America today is that we have lost our moral baseline, our moral compass. When there is no moral baseline, there is no good, and there is no evil. I’m not advocating for any particular religion here, but I suggest that the Ten Commandments of the Christian faith have been and still are a good starting point.

Clearly, the shooters in these instances have a vastly different view of right and wrong from that of most of society. People today live in an environment where they feel unconstrained by morals, that anything goes if they think it is “right” to do.

People, especially younger ones, feel “entitled.” The basic family unit has all but been eliminated in some demographics. The divorce rate is over 50%. Bullying in schools is a frequent occurrence and is not effectively dealt with. Troubled adolescents are not dealt with through counseling and love but are drugged. The “war on drugs” is an abject failure. Biological human sexuality is being conflated with gender identity. Sexualization of children is widespread both in the classrooms and in public libraries and is being treated as “normal.” Explicit adult toys are now openly displayed in stores like Target, Walmart, and CVS, where anyone can see them, including children.

The country is so politically divided over numerous topics that collaboration and negotiation across party lines are next to impossible. Groups like the white supremacists and BLM think that violence is OK in order to support their warped agendas, and some of our leadership encourages this. It’s OK to steal $900 or less of stuff from Walmart or other retailers because there are no longer any consequences. Work ethic, pride in accomplishment, and accountability for actions are all but gone in much of the population. The media only reports fake news on both sides of the political spectrum – journalism has been replaced by indoctrination.

Too many have zero pride in their cities or towns and so do nothing to improve the situation in them. The government has overreached its authority many, many times in recent years, and it is getting worse. Many in America promote the proven ineffective model of socialism because it provides for “free stuff.”

These and more are all symptoms of the root cause of a lack of a moral baseline. We should be focussing our attention and our dollars on fixing society by re-establishing such a baseline that discourages rather than encourages the actions described above. It starts in our cities and towns. It starts with support groups. It starts with education. It starts with churches of all kinds. It starts with individuals being committed and accountable to themselves and their community to restoring America to the once great country it was. It starts with people understanding that choices have consequences. How about these ideas to start with?

1) Let’s enforce current firearms and other laws. If someone attempting to purchase a firearm through legal channels is found to be lying on their ATF Form 4473 (background check questionnaire), convict them of the felony they just committed. I won’t go into it here, but there are hundreds of federal and state firearms laws already in existence. I also won’t go into the whole debate about securing schools and arming teachers. Maybe another time. As a matter of fact, the firearms industry is one of if not the most highly regulated industries in the country. Yet firearms still fall into the hands of prohibited persons or, in many instances, someone who should be a prohibited person.

2) Let’s fund more drug rehabilitation and diversion programs. Arrest people for small amounts of drugs, and place them in jail or rehabilitation. Controlled drugs are also highly regulated, but the war on drugs has proven to be ineffective, exacerbated by the drug smuggling through our open borders. And now, many are advocating for the release of criminals convicted of drug crimes. We must focus on rehabilitation in some way other than what has happened so far because it is not working. The Just Say No campaign didn’t do much to solve the problem. People often turn to drugs when they have nowhere else to go. Our money would be well spent providing more programs to get criminals and gang members into jobs as productive members of society.

3) We need better and more readily available mental health programs. We send billions to other countries (witness Ukraine most recently), we waste millions on ineffectively dealing with an open southern border, we spend like a drunken sailor on social programs that produce no meaningful results, and we incentivize people to stay on welfare rather than get off of it. Why can’t we spend this much on improving our mental health care system in America?

4) In so many mass shooting incidents, the shooter was known to have issues. By his parents, his teachers, his friends… And nothing was done to address the potential problems that could result. Look at the six-year-old who recently shot his teacher. School administrators had been warned about the firearm three times and did not act. DHS is pushing the See Something, Say Something agenda regarding possible terrorist actions. It needs to be explicitly broadened to include suspicious or questionable activities that may lead to mass shootings. And once an individual is known to exhibit behaviors risky to others or themselves, we must act on it by providing cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) that helps them manage anger, exert self-control, and deal with anxiety. It was found in Liberia that providing CBT, job training, and a little cash (with accountability) to risky individuals resulted in a 50% reduction in violence and crime involving those individuals as far as 10 years out. [1]. The idea was so successful that variants of it are now being implemented in Chicago. This idea should be widely adopted.

5) Parents should be held accountable for their kid’s actions if they were aware there was an issue and did not act on it appropriately. That action could include having a discussion with your child to ask hard questions, seeking counseling for him/her, asking friends about any suspicious activity, monitoring social media sites… You know, be an involved parent.

6) We need more transparency between parents and what goes on in the classroom. Parents’ rights in this regard are a hot topic nationwide at the moment. Transparency is crucial for parents to know what is happening with their kids in school. Are they being bullied or bullying? Have they been sent to counseling, and if so, why? Has there been a marked change in a student’s behavior? All of these could be indicators that the parents, who should be the final say, need to take action.

7) We need to stop the media from sensationalizing shootings as it relates to the shooter. People need to know what happens, of course, and have a right to know in most instances. But let’s not dwell on the shooter making him/her seem like some sort of folk hero to motivate others who may be considering a crime.

There is a lot we could do that may actually help prevent firearms violence and crime in general. But no – we focus on the band-aids instead. You can’t fix a problem if you do not address the root cause.

[1] https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23141405/violence-crime-cbt-therapy- cash-shootings?fbclid=IwAR3wTfCuz0LWFTTCeD- J47S41rotZ2noYFfS4Cwq4YPFoWM8SAypbIlTwuk

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I’m just going to leave this here for now. Been very busy with other things, but it sure does sound like a conversation starter. Someone has been paying a University (maybe two) to ‘store’ over 1850 boxes of “documents” for Joe Biden.

–  –  stuff for the Biden Presidential Library, but given all the squirreling of classified docs, it seems like a good idea to check them out.

Maybe it will turn out to be blackmail on the Clintons or Obamas. None of them like each other much, and they all hate the Bidens – but never enough to plow Biden under. That suggests to me that doing so would expose them.

You know what, I’m sure the media will tell us what it’s all about so we can go back to smoking weed and watching Netflix.

 

HOLY SHIT!! Biden documents scandal includes 1850 Boxes, enough to fill a tractor trailer, plus 415 GB of electronic records! The Senate Intelligence Committee is demanding Biden turn these documents over, but they are refusing to do so!! pic.twitter.com/ifLRnsWEan

— Matt Clark (@MattClarkReport) January 30, 2023

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Has there ever been a more meaningless phrase than “my word as a Biden?” Has there ever been spoken a more laughable collection of words? No is the correct answer, and when you hear Joe Biden use this phrase, you can rest assured what follows is a lie.

Nobody will ever accuse President Joe Biden of being a pillar of truth and credibility. Biden has been fabricating tall tales for so many years that it is impossible to separate fact from fiction. Some call his lapses from reality simple blunders. I am not that charitable when it comes to our President or when he was Vice President or Senator. Joe Biden has an affinity to lie, to the point that the truth may not exist in his mind.

The infamous Corn Pop, kids playing with his hairy legs in the pool, never speaking to Hunter about his business dealings overseas, to the claim that nobody making less than $400K a year would pay another dime in taxes. We need to remember that when Joe was running for President in 1987 and 2015, he had to withdraw on charges of plagiarism and embellishment of academic achievements. These two instances did not prevent him from entering the race in 2019. An honest man would have recognized he had his chance and had squandered it. After two embarrassing events at the highest level, he did not deserve a third. Unfortunately, he got into the race, and the American people elected him. We got what we deserved.

When you look at the makeup of the Biden Administration, the first thing you see is diversity. Every box is checked except qualified. You have white, colored, straight, gay, transgender, male, and female, but each is as inept as the next. One consistent thing is a lack of honesty and credibility. Take Alejandro Mayorkas, the Homeland Security Secretary. He checks off the Cuban box and has been lying about the Border since 2021. Whenever he sits behind a microphone, he proclaims that the Southern Border is closed and secure. Take a minute, Alejandro, to review the tapes, then circle back to us with the truth.

Look at Karine Jeanne-Pierre, black, female, and gay but absolutely useless in her job. Unless she can read a prescreened answer in her binder, KJP has nothing. She has no ability to think on her feet. We knew we could not trust her predecessor, Jen Psaki, but we admired her ability to think on her feet and formulate an answer. Maybe wrong or a lie, but she was believable in her delivery.

Energy Secretary Granholm Continues to tell us that Joe Biden’s policies are saving dollars at the pump. Prices are high because of Biden and to say he is responsible for falling prices ignores how they got to five dollars in the first place. Keep gaslighting and lying, and your disciples will lap it up.

And then there is Hunter, the most intelligent man Joe Biden has ever known. He goes on network interviews and says he would have nothing if his name were not Biden. That may be the only truthful statement ever uttered by a Biden. Hunter’s life is a lie filled with drugs, hookers, and high-paying jobs for which he is not qualified.

In Joe Biden’s circle, it is impossible to distinguish between truth and lies, black and white, but listen to Joe as he tells you to take him at his word as a Biden.

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Merrimack, NH– Today, Melissa Blasek released the following statement announcing her candidacy to be the Chairman of the New Hampshire Young Republicans.

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“I am excited to announce my bid for chair of the New Hampshire Young Republicans. Looking forward to the 2024 election, it is important that the New Hampshire Young Republicans help the party engage with young voters through expanded social media campaigns, grassroots efforts, and emotional, impactful messaging. I am confident I can lead a creative and enthusiastic team to connect with young voters and candidates.”

Melissa Blasek is a former State Representative from Merrimack and the current Executive Director of RebuildNH, a grassroots, non-partisan advocacy organization.

 

 

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Like before, another submitter has asked to be anonymous – which is perfectly fine by me.  And yes, some light editing by me but not in changing the message. Emphasis mine  -Skip

Hi Skip,
I saw your GG piece about being denied entry into the GOP meeting. FYI, I was a State Committee Member so I attended. Three things I noticed:

1. Real America’s Voice reporter Heather Mullins was there, and so was Liz Willis of Right Side Broadcasting.  So “they” (the presiding officers) were definitely letting smaller news-outlet reporters enter.  [I think you were denied because GG sometimes criticizes Sununu?  Oh, the horror……]
2. There was favoritism in deciding who was allowed admission.  I was seated in the very front row with Rockingham County Members.  Sitting directly behind me was Gail Huff Brown, Scott Brown’s wife, and two other women.  NONE WERE CERTIFIED COMMITTEE MEMBERS OR AUTHORIZED MEDIA.  They just got passed through the Secret Service gates to “see Trump” apparently.   I don’t know how many non-credentialedtialed, “special” guests were present but 3 were enough to infuriate several of us.
3. There was much unhappiness about how disorganized things were – and how the conference would be running late into the evening.  Everyone knew Trump would speak for an hour.  But a big mistake happened when U.S. Representative William Hurd (R, Texas) appeared out of nowhere — and wanted to address the crowd.

We had just “passed the hat” to collect NHGOP donations from the audience, so Rep. Hurd began by declaring he was tossing a “$5,000 check” in the donations pile before he proceeded to blather on with an unproductive speech for 20 minutes.  Can’t prove it but – I suspect the person who floated the “passing-the-hat” for funds idea to us via an email earlier last week just wanted to let Rep. Hurd speak — in exchange for a measly contribution.

I’ll throw this in – trying to audition to be Trump/someone else’s Veep?  -Skip

Hurd really screwed things up with his interruption of our meeting.  He spoke for too long — and we were already “behind schedule.”  Many Granite Staters drove a long way to get to Saturday’s meeting.  They were there to discuss motions — not hear from Hurd (who has 0 chance in the ’24 primary).   As a result, some folks sitting in the nose-bleed sections of the auditorium moved to “table all remaining items and adjourn” — with most of the Motions and Resolutions yet to be considered.  Who the heck thought it was a good idea to disturb the flow of a long business meeting by bringing Hurd in?  Was $5K really worth it?  And why not invite several other prospective 2024 candidates as well?

Other incidents also left me feeling the entire meeting was being orchestrated in a politically heavy-handed but oafish manner.  For example, Karen Testerman offered a By-Laws amendment that would require GOP primaries to be “closed primaries” – in order to prevent Party cross-overs from strategically requesting Republican ballots.  Those on stage presiding over Saturday’s meeting stated Testerman’s wording “didn’t seem to fit into any particular section of the By-Laws” – so her motion should therefore be discarded.  A nonsensical  “argument” for tabling.  They refused to allow friendly amendments to the motion.

At that point – people began leaving.  One person even shouted:

“This is why the Republican Party loses elections!”

DDespitethe negative spin the MSM has been putting on his NH speech, Trump was well-received and devoted his time to explaining his record of success – which is all he really needs to do in order to win in 2024.

 

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If you are one of those … WE ARE A RED STATE! I DON’T CARE IF THE LAST TIME THE GOP PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE GOT MORE THAN 50% OF THE VOTE WAS 1988; I DON’T CARE … then stop reading, because this is going to “trigger” you.

I recently received an email from Cornerstone regarding the turnout … lack of turnout, that is … for an anti-woke bill:

There was a public hearing on HB 396 on Thursday, January 26 before the House Judiciary Committee. We’ve heard from many parents in multiple school districts that their daughters’ privacy is being violated by biological males in intimate spaces such as restrooms and locker rooms. Cornerstone has worked diligently to advance a bill to address these threats to the safety of our women and children.

On Thursday night, a parade of progressive and transgender activists showed up to voice their opposition to the bill, as well as many powerful lobbying groups, and Governor Sununu’s far-left, activist DOJ, which opposes any separation between the biological sexes in sports or private spaces.

However, only one brave parent, Samia, showed up to testify in favor of HB 396 …

And there you have it. So now the cowardly House NHGOP can say … there was no public support for this bill; so can we please get back to what really maters: CUTTING BUSINESS TAXES!!!

The Left in New Hampshire … AND THAT INCLUDES SUN-KING SUNUNU AND HIS COTERIE OF SYCOPHANTIC GRIFTERS … has so anathematized ANY opposition to woke that nobody dares to challenge woke.

I believe that Lenin said something to the effect of … give me just one generation of children and I’ll transform the world. He was right. New Hampshire is WOKE. It is NOT a Red State; it is NOT a PURPLE STATE … it is a DEEP BLUE, UBER-WOKE STATE.

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Today’s article is a follow-up to one from last August. At that time, I addressed two situations. One was the bill introduced by Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green (R-GA) to protect children from surgical mutilation in the name of Gender-Affirming Care. The other was a sidebar about a gentleman named Billboard Chris. Chris Elston is a Canadian-born activist who travels across North America wearing an old-fashioned sandwichboard alerting people to facilities that are butchering children to facilitate their gender reassignment. Today, I would like to update the stories of these two individuals connected by cause.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene launched her “Protect Children’s Innocence Act” last August, which details that anyone who “knowingly performs any gender-affirming care on a minor” is guilty of a class C felony, carrying a punishment of 10 to 25 years in prison and a maximum fine of $250,000.

HR 8731 (117th): Protect Children’s Innocence Act was co-sponsored by 49 other Republican Congressmen but was allowed to die without ever coming to the House floor for debate or vote. Apparently, the protection of children was not an important issue for then Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The Congresswoman was on Fox often to talk about her piece of proposed legislation, but it is incredible how many of these pieces never see the House. You would think something presented to protect our children from harm would receive unanimous support. To think so would be wrong. The bill has not been re-entered for consideration yet in 2023.

Billboard Chris continues his effort to get people to understand better what is happening to young children. Though his actions are quiet and peaceful, some people’s reactions to Chris are anything but peaceful. Last August, Chris was protesting in Montreal, Canada, when he was approached by a group of people disguised in black, so identities were protected, and they proceeded to beat Chris Elston.

A video of the Canadian incident shows a small crowd of black-clad people (one wouldn’t dare assume their gender for fear of invoking their violent wrath) surrounding him. At one point, armed with a traffic cone, one of the attackers charges and repeatedly whacks Chris with it. They broke Chris’ arm inc the skirmish. Nobody has been arrested or charged for the attack, and it is safe to say nobody ever will. This attack on Elston is what the Left calls mostly peaceful protesting.

What does this say about the Democrat Party that claims to be the Party of the people? It doesn’t connect. The Left continues to call protests “mostly peaceful” when property is destroyed and police cars burned. The logic is that you cannot call it violence when the victim is inanimate objects like buildings and vehicles. Destroy a city, but it is peaceful if no one is hurt. How warped is this thinking?

The Left is Pro-Abortion, Pro-infanticide, and Pro-Transgender. How does that square with being the Party of the people? It doe not. Throw in the damage that the education system doe to our children, and you can say that the Democrat Party is not only pro-illegal immigrant but anti-children. Is this the Party you want in charge in America? Not if you want a future for our children and grandchildren.

If you are a supporter of the Democrat Party, you really need to do some introspection. This Party is anti-children and anti-American.

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In case you missed it, the people at the Associated Press (AP) responsible for the style guide tweeted out an amendment to their preferences. It’s a common practice, but this level of ridicule is not.

 

(Daily Wire) In a tweet posted Thursday morning, the AP Stylebook instructed journalists who work with the organization not to use “dehumanizing” collective terms for people, such as “the French.” …

“We recommend avoiding general and often dehumanizing ‘the’ labels such as the poor, the mentally ill, the French, the disabled, the college-educated. Instead, use wording such as people with mental illnesses,” the AP Stylebook wrote in the now-deleted tweet. “And use these descriptions only when clearly relevant.”

 

Even the French Embassy got in on the ridicule.

 

I guess this is us now… https://t.co/YFybgfI2AB pic.twitter.com/LrKvgjiw1X

— French Embassy U.S. (@franceintheus) January 26, 2023

“We just wondered what the alternative to the French would be,” French embassy spokesman Pascal Confavreux told The New York Times. “I mean, really.”

 

The apparent difficulty here, as noted in another mocking tweet (this one by Elon Musk), is that by suggesting the change, the Associated Press dehumanized itself.

 

“So then why do call yourself ‘The’ Associated Press”

 

Good news for Ukraine, of course. They must have seen this coming.

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From the Women’s Defense League of NH

On February 8th,  there will be multiple gun control bills heard in the New Hampshire House Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee.

It appears that all the draconian gun control bills will be heard in one day, so take a day off and support your 2nd Amendment rights in New Hampshire.

It doesn’t matter that New Hampshire is consistently one of the safest states in the country. It doesn’t matter that New Hampshire has ‘Constitutional Carry.’ What matters to gun controllers is out-of-state legislation that will intentionally harm Granite Staters and infringe upon your fundamental human right to self-defense.

The most important gun control bills are listed below:

House Bill 32 – AN ACT relative to possession or discharge of a firearm in a safe school zone.

This bill makes it illegal to possess a firearm within 1,000 feet of a public or private school. This means that if you are a woman who drops your children off at school and carry a firearm to protect yourself and your children, you become a criminal unless your firearm is unloaded and ‘in a locked container’ in a motor vehicle. Essentially, this law renders women who seek to protect themselves and their children useless to protect themselves against a stalker or abusive partner.

This bill enables violent criminals to make easy targets of their intended victims.

House Bill 59 – AN ACT requiring a background check prior to any commercial firearm sale.

This bill has been resurrected from the depths of Hell for at least a decade. And as always, this bill will make it so anyone who provides firearm training, other than those who are already FFL dealers, will NOT be able to provide firearm SAFETY training. Year after year after year, we have explained how this bill harms those who seek gun safety training but year after year after year, gun controllers don’t care. They claim to be all about gun safety, but when it boils down to facts and reality, it’s more about control. They care nothing about actual gun safety.

House Bill 76 – AN ACT imposing a waiting period between the purchase and delivery of a firearm.

This bill seeks to stop law-abiding Granite Staters, who pass a federal background check, from taking the legally purchased firearm home for 3 days. If you’re a woman with a stalker or abusive partner and don’t have a restraining order, you’re SOL when it comes to protecting yourself and practicing your fundamental human right to self-defense. NH’s 2A doesn’t mention anything about a waiting period, neither does the Constitution. The only people who want a waiting period are those who seek to enable criminals.

House Bill 78 – AN ACT repealing an act prohibiting the state from enforcing any federal statute, regulation, or Presidential Executive Order that restricts or regulates the right of the people to keep or bear arms.

Last year a bill was signed into law states the following: “…the state of New Hampshire, a political subdivision of this state, or any person acting under the color of state, county, or municipal law shall be prohibited from using any personnel or financial resources to enforce, administer, or cooperate with any law, act, rule, order, or regulation of the United States Government or Executive Order of the President of the United States that is inconsistent with any law of this state regarding the regulation of firearms, ammunition, magazines or the ammunition feeding devices, firearm components, firearms supplies, or knives.”

HB 78 seeks to repeal this law because gun controllers seem to really want the federal government controlling New Hampshire’s 2A laws. These representatives seem to forget they ‘represent’ Granite Staters, not the swamp rats in D.C.

House Bill 106 – AN ACT relative to extreme risk protection orders.

NYC billionaire Michael Bloomberg is bringing back his ‘Red Flag’ bill once again. This legislation is one of the most destructive pieces of gun control to ever be brought to the New Hampshire State Legislature. It is absolutely ironic that the New York State Supreme Court just ruled that their Red Flag law is unconstitutional. You can find out more details about Red Flag laws, including information about HB 106, by visiting www.stopredflaglawsnh.org

House Bill 351-FN – AN ACT relative to the negligent storage of firearms and relative to firearm safety devices.

This bill is adding increased criminal penalties if a firearm isn’t stored according to existing law. The bill is specifically referring to children under the age of 16 who may gain access to a firearm. It’s unclear the need for changing this existing law. There doesn’t seem to be a rash of children intentionally or accidently shooting people in New Hampshire. This is another gun control measure to solve a problem that doesn’t exist.

House Bill 444-FN – AN ACT prohibiting possession of a firearm at a polling place.

This bill makes it a crime to carry a firearm at polling places, unless you are law enforcement. It doesn’t matter if you are legally able to posses a firearm. It doesn’t matter that there has NEVER been an issue with Granite Staters carrying at polling places. This bill seeks to make people less safe. Once again, another bill that will allow criminals, stalkers, and abusers to be able to easily prey on innocent victims who will not be able to protect themselves.

Not one of these gun control bills will stop criminals. ALL these gun control bills are looking for solutions to problems that do not exist in New Hampshire. Again, New Hampshire is consistently one of the SAFEST STATES in the country. These bills have nothing to do with safety and everything to do with control.

It doesn’t matter that these bills will probably fail in both the House and the Senate. What matters is Granite Staters continue to fight against these bills written by out-of-state organizations and pushed by extremists in the legislature who seek to infringe upon our fundamental human right to self-defense.

If you cannot make the hearings, you can email the Committee members and ask them to vote Inexpedient To Legislate (ITL) on each of the bills above. Even if you can make the hearings, you should still email them:

Amanda.Bouldin@leg.state.nh.us

Amy.Bradley@leg.state.nh.us

linda.harriottgathright@leg.state.nh.us

Jason.Janvrin@leg.state.nh.us

Dennis.Mannion@leg.state.nh.us

David.Meuse@leg.state.nh.us

Nancy.Murphy@leg.state.nh.us

Alissandra.Murray@leg.state.nh.us

Jodi.Newell@leg.state.nh.us

Ray.Newman@leg.state.nh.us

Kevin.Pratt@leg.state.nh.us

Mark.Proulx@leg.state.nh.us

Karen.Reid@leg.state.nh.us

Jennifer.Rhodes@leg.state.nh.us

Terry.Roy@leg.state.nh.us

Loren.Selig@leg.state.nh.us

john.sytek@leg.state.nh.us

Jeffrey.Tenczar@leg.state.nh.us

Jonah.Wheeler@leg.state.nh.us

Granite Staters deserve better than to be treated like criminals for simply practicing their rights and protecting themselves and their families from ACTUAL criminals.

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