President Joe Biden “worries” about the “Soul of America.” He should; with Democrats in control, people wonder if America still has a soul. How is the murder of a full-term, healthy baby as it is being born consistent with having a soul?

How is abandoning hundreds of Americans, thousands of allies, millions of innocent people, and staggering amounts of military equipment to the merciless, violent, despotic Taliban in Afghanistan consistent with having a soul?

Biden’s pitiful response to Russia’s buildup on Ukraine’s border and his statement that a “minor incursion” would be ignored essentially invited the Russian invasion that is killing hundreds of thousands of innocent people, driving millions from their homes, and creating World War II-like devastation in Ukraine. Is that consistent with having a soul?

Biden swore an oath to enforce America’s laws, but he doesn’t enforce the immigration laws created to protect the American people. Consequently, hundreds of thousands of Americans are unnecessarily robbed, raped, murdered or poisoned/drugged annually. The drug cartels are enriched while transporting and victimizing illegal aliens and murdering thousands of innocent Mexicans. Biden should worry about his own soul.

How is letting physical males compete in women’s sports and invade spaces created for female privacy and safety consistent with having a soul (or respect for women)?

How is enforcing our laws based on the offender’s race or political affiliation, rather than equally for all, consistent with having a soul?

How are destroying America’s energy independence, impoverishing Americans, and empowering and enriching American’s enemies consistent with having a soul?
America’s soul is only endangered by President Biden’s actions and the support he gets from Democrats like Sens. Maggie Hassan and Jeanne Shaheen and Reps. Chris Pappas and Annie Kuster.

It’s November; to save yourself and America’s soul, vote straight Republican.

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The Left and its Gun Grabbers hate these stories about DGUs – Defensive Gun Usage – where ordinary citizens prove the wisdom of our Founding Fathers in making the Right to keep and bear arms a fundamental part of American Citizenship.

I don’t do these anywhere often enough, but I promise to do better, ok? Emphasis mine – reformatted:

WOW: Jewelry Store Owner in Florida Forced to Open Fire on Four Robbers, Killing Two

According to a recent report in ClickOrlando, two robbers were shot and killed when they tried to rob a jewelry store in the Magin Mall in Orlando, Florida. The attempted robbery, which happened at around 11:45 in the morning, was conducted by four attempted robbers, so the police are still searching for the remaining two.

Of the two suspects who were shot, one was killed at the scene of the attempted robbery and so police had to do no searching for him.

Isn’t that a GREAT way of putting it? Not quite “the perp decided to make the police’s easy before he died,” but close.

The other one who was shot got in the car with the two other surviving suspects and drove off but, according to ClickOrlando, he was found in the abandoned vehicle and taken to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Great friends – just left him to die alone to save themselves. Loyalty, thieves, and all that…

Apparently, the jewelry store owner opened fire on the group of four robbers when he discerned that they were armed and that an armed robbery was in progress, causing one to drop at the scene and the remaining three to flee in their vehicle. WESH 2 reported what a customer of the jewelry shop, Jamani Lamb, had to say about the scene of the robbery and shooting. In Lamb’s words:

“Jewelry was all around him. Some jewelry was out still. People were already gone and dead by the time the cops had got here.”

“Gone and dead” – the Phrase of the Day!

Lamb also described the moment of the shooting itself to WESH 2, saying “Boom! Boom! Boom! And then me and my pops jumped down and then we walk around, and we just see the people had ran.”

WESH 2 found a nearby business owner, Pete Lopez, who spoke on the robbery and the shooting as well. In his words:

“One of them got shot. He’s dead behind the counter. The other one, they left in a car and he’s up on Tampa Avenue, he died as well. I mean, this was a robbery. And the owner had a firearm, so he defended it.”

Two out of four, eh? Hey, if this were in terms of an MLB hitter, that guy would be a multi-millionaire right now! Sorry but I have no use for apologists for those that believe that the private property of others belongs to them. Make stupid decisions, get stupid consequences.

Summary:

But, thankfully for the shop owner, Florida’s a red state and justified self-defense shootings are regarded much as Mr. Lopez referred to them: something that happens when criminals attempt to prey on law-abiding citizens.

Crime is on the upswing and with the Leftist politicians protecting these scumbags with a revolving “book’em/arraign’em/release’em” attitude and attacking their own police forces, what do they THINK ordinary citizen are going to do? When Government makes the decision to no longer protect its citizens for some stupid Social Justice reasoning (i.e., Society made them behave that way),we are going to defend ourselves, our families and friends, and our property.

All we have to do is turn those Social Justice nitwits into spinning by telling them “YOUR ‘Society’ turned us into vigilantes – now fix yourselves”.

If you live in a Constitutional Carry state, go buy a gun, get some practical gun training, learn your State’s gun laws, and if you live in a home with little kids and stupid teenagers, store it safely.

Refuse to be a victim. In this story, the jewelery store owner could have been that dead guy on the floor (“leave no witnesses”). Instead, the bad guys did.

 

(H/T: Trending Politics)

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Betraying one’s values is worse than losing a seat at the political big boy’s table. The Republican people must learn this, or regardless of the outcome in the 2022 mid-terms, the Republican people will have lost themselves and participated in the forfeiture of the principles of our great Union.

The Republican party leadership has been compromising its’ values to stay “viable”. This is because the Republican leaders are not controlling the narrative. They are succumbing to it, and to keep their seat at the table, they inch further into loss through unsound compromise.

Make no mistake about it, the Democratic Party leadership and their allies are setting the direction of the country, and at best, the Republican Party leadership is setting the pace.

One key narrative that Democratic leadership successfully drove was the impossibility of any election fraud and the absolute conclusion that the 2020 elections were legitimate.

Democrat and the majority of Republican leaders were deaf and non-responsive to the legitimate concerns of the people.

Mind you, this was not the first election that has raised legitimate concerns. However, the leadership keeps us divided and unwilling to work with one another for an actual common good, i.e., elections we know we can all trust.

Trump understandably raised the question of the legitimacy of the 2020 election, albeit through his hyperbolic rhetoric, which he had and continues to have the right to do. Yet, even he is somewhat compromising for the preservation of his political capital.

Then J6 occurred, a massively peaceful demonstration for election integrity, sprinkled with a few largely petty crimes, probably incited by provocateurs within the crowd. A capital police officer killed Ashli Babbit, and there appears to be no accountability for his actions.

However, what there has been is one of the worst politically driven inquisitions in U.S. history.

The J6 narrative and resulting inquisition is one of the most dangerous chillings of free speech that has occurred in our country. It must be properly undone.

The proper way to undo the narrative is to start at the beginning, the election of 2020. There must be an investigation and proper peaceful, legal and lawful remedial action for any election discrepancies. This will demonstrate that the concerns of the J6 protestors were sound and will deflate the narrative of a partisan, politically driven “insurrection”. Instead, what will be revealed is the truth that the large and predominately peaceful and lawful crowd properly sensed a grave injustice and showed up in a predominantly constitutional manner to raise the alarm of a real threat to our democracy, to our republic.

Election integrity is an issue of the people, not of the parties. For the issue to be taken up in congress, you must have proper
and principled representation in the U.S. Senate. To electorally allow the 2020 election to go un-investigated, to not even try to elect the person who will actually investigate the issue, is to participate in the unraveling of our republic and our founding principles of individual rights, State sovereignty, and the unity and independence of the United States of America.

This, in part, is why I have been continuing my campaign for U.S. Senate in 2022 as a Write-In candidate. Do not be angry at me. All I offer is continued First Amendment attempts at persuasion. Vote your peaceful will, but Vote in love for your country, not in fear of your government.

 

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A response to Norm Silber’s proposal to eliminate the Constitutional Office of Register of Probate. Your ballot on Tuesday has two items related to the NH Constitution.  Norm Silber wrote about the first one: Register of Probate.  The second one is:

We want to thank Dan McGuire for this Op-Ed. Direct yours to Editor@GraniteGrok.com.

“Shall there be a convention to amend or revise the constitution?”

If approved by a majority of voters, this would create a convention of delegates to propose constitutional amendments. The delegates would be elected at the next election in two years and would have the same number and districts as State Reps do, so most of them would probably also be State Reps. Any amendments they propose would have to pass the delegates by 60% and the people by 2/3rds, similar to current amendments.

The main reason to vote for it is if there is a constitutional amendment that people would like, but the legislature (especially the Senate) continuously blocks it. This is a way around it. Maybe term limits? Overall, I don’t think it’s a big deal whether it passes or not.

This question is automatically on the ballot every ten years or sooner if the legislature wants it.

Interestingly, this was the only way the constitution was amended until 1964, when the legislature gained the power to propose amendments.  The last three votes on this question (’92, ’02, and ’12) have been negative, although the first two were very close.

 

 

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(Concord, NH – Nov 2, 2022) The New Hampshire Right to Life Political Action Committee (NHRTL PAC) is proud to provide a list of candidates who value the basic human right to life for the Nov 8, 2022 general election.

Covering the offices of the Governor, Executive Council, State Senator, and State Representative, the NHRTL PAC guide recommends over 300 candidates, the most in recent history! Kurt Wuelper, Chairman of NHRTL PAC:

“I am excited to see so many candidates this year who believe in rights for all humans. It’s especially important that voters who value Life get to the polls this year. We had multiple life-related bills this past session that succeeded or failed by very few votes”

The list may be accessed by going to the NHRTL PAC website: nhrtlpac.org

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NHRTL PAC is a registered NH Political Action Committee promoting the right to life for all humans, from fertilization to natural death.

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President Biden’s number one concern is the safety and security of the American people. He has sworn to protect us from enemies, both foreign and domestic. The disgusting drama playing out daily on our Sothern Border indicates that Joe Biden may not grasp the concept of keeping us safe.

Thousands of unvetted illegal aliens and unknown amounts of drugs and weapons are entering our country. Joe and his administration are more concerned with taking our gas vehicles away. As bad as the Border situation is, we have a more existential threat, which is getting no attention. We are facing nuclear destruction from many foes, and nobody is even discussing the danger. This lack of concern is treasonous.

Growing up in the sixties, I experienced the foolish drills where we would get under our desks to protect ourselves from a nuclear explosion and eventual fallout. Damn, those were some pretty incredible desks. No, those were some very ludicrous leaders. Even as a ten-year-old, I knew how futile this exercise was. We do not have those desks today. We have no protection and no effort from our President to thwart these threats.

We have the potential for a nuclear attack from Russia, China, North Korea, and, thanks to Joe Biden, Iran. All are volatile and unpredictable actors, and we need to be proactive in ensuring that we never get to the point where a finger is poised above the detonator button. Nuclear war is not survivable and must be prevented before the first missile is airborne.

We had a preview of the panic we will face in 2018 in Hawaii. A text message and notice on all media formats went out to all island residents that they were under attack from an airborne missile and that this was not a drill. Absolute panic ensued as people took to the street to seek shelter, but there was none. Hawaii was about to be evaporated. This turned out to be a false alarm, but it opened our eyes. If a nuclear exchange were ever started, there would be no time to react and no place to take cover.

Where are all of you basement scientists that have called climate change an existential threat? John Kerry flies his private jet around the world, lecturing anyone he can why they should not fly. You better keep James Taylor close to sing to you should Putin hit the button. Greta has been yelling how dare you for years and has now turned her attention to bringing down capitalism. No need, Greta. Capitalism will be the least of your issues if Iran hits the switch. Al, you made a lot of money scaring people about the end of civilization if the temp goes up one degree. You will have all the degrees you can handle if North Korea drops one of its missiles on South Korea or Japan. Have any of you said anything about the nuclear threat to our existence? Absolutely not.

Our leaders do not recognize this genuinely existential threat. They are not strong enough to ensure that none of these evil leaders will dare escalate to nuclear. The President, Vice President, Secretaries of Defense, and State are all mum. All of them are over their heads, but they can take on Mega MAGAs or Big Oil all day long. They all better grow a set real soon and redirect their attention to the biggest threat we face. If they cannot, they better step aside and let the adults take over.

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There are three people Nashua voters should not consider for the November 8th state election as none of these people are fulfilling their current city-elected duties.

Shoshanna Kelley – current Alderwoman at Large running for Executive Councilor

• No leadership, spotty attendance, and a weak voice
• Chair of the 2021 Police Commissioner Work Study Group, who failed to denounce the actions of the Mayor and exuded no leadership whatsoever.

The Mayor funded Ms. Sonia Prince to go full steam ahead with the charter change, undermining the work of the study group and obtained the signatures required for a ballot vote. This power play failed at the polls. When I questioned her on why she was not participating in educating the public on this important charter change, she stated that the Mayor threatened to cut her funding for future campaigns if she participated in the community outreach. 

• A candidate about self-service protecting her own political future rather than public service and the future of Nashua.
• Founder of the “Do it Left Project” whose goal is to sweep progressive values through the State of New Hampshire.

We don’t need hard Left or hard Right candidates right now; we need hard Moderates, both Democrats and Republicans that can collaborate, compose and compromise on legislation and programs that work for the greater good and the betterment of the lives of New Hampshire citizens. 

Heather Raymond – School Board Member running for House of Representatives

• has underperformed in her capacity to create a strong public education system.

School Board seats are the “trench work” of elected service. The stakes are high and performance counts. 

• supported keeping Nashua Schools closed for 14 months during COVID.
• enforced overly restrictive, lengthy, mask regulations that negatively impacted education, especially for young developing children learning to read and speak.
• supports eliminating the high school grading system despite parent objections, stating that she will always defend the most vulnerable student.

Ms. Raymond should defend the learning styles of all students. Given the recent scores of Nashua Students in math and reading, Ms. Raymond has a lot of work ahead of her to bolster parent confidence and improve student performance.

• has openly spoken about her health challenges with multiple sclerosis and strokes.

These are debilitating health issues that no person would wish on anyone. But one has to wonder, given all that is on her plate, why would she double her workload with a state seat? 

• Ms. Raymond must stay focused on her School Board duties.

 

Michael O’Brien – Alderman At Large running for House of Representatives

• An old crusty soul with numerous chronic health issues.
• under his leadership, the Aldermanic chamber has turned into the “wild west” concerning conduct and decorum.
• endorses partisan politics in the chamber, wearing both his state and local hat into meetings.
• not effective at the state level in making the changes needed to reduce Nashua’s tax rate.
• votes yes on almost all City spending requests and projects.

Whining that he tried at the state level to change the system while voting yes on all local spending is not good for Nashua. Mr. O’Brien needs to focus on his local seat and throttle back on spending Nashua’s shrinking pocketbooks.

Ward 9 needs a more able-bodied, vibrant soul who can service the needs of its citizens.

 

Vote November 8th

 

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This is the warning message from Nashua residents to Nashua residents. Someone who has hurt public education shouldn’t be representing Nashua residents.

 

 

This kind of record is anti-PUBLIC Education.

 

Editor’s Note: There is more for Nashua Voters on Heather Raymond here.

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November 2nd’s senatorial debate demonstrated Ret. Major General Don Bolduc’s moral integrity revealed Senator Hassan’s focus on name-calling rather than focusing on the issues. Senator Hassan simply mimicked the multi-million dollar slander campaign specialized by marketing experts to invert reality about Bolduc.

We want to thank Russ Payne for this Op-Ed Please direct yours to Editor@GraniteGrok.com.

General Bolduc stands for cutting the federal budget to lower taxes. He believes a strong economy that puts the American taxpayer first will increase jobs and productivity. Cutting spending and then increasing production will slow down inflation. He advocates stronger borders by increasing the number of agents, enforcing e-verify, and keeping health order Title 42 to expel recent border crossers during the high transmission time of communicable disease.

Restoring energy independence is his priority with strong domestic energy: exploring and drilling in the U.S.A! He also wants to implement strong American world leadership by focusing on shoring up national security, the US supply chains, and our economy.

General Bolduc’s record as a Special Forces General included ten tours of duty in Afghanistan over a 33-year career as a soldier.  He received two awards for valor, five Bronze Star medals, and two Purple Hearts. He is a tireless advocate combating the stigma around and treatment for post-traumatic stress (PTS). I believe his outstanding career as a soldier prepares him well. He knows our enemies, both foreign and domestic. I believe he will defend our liberties in the Senate by enforcing the Constitution, the wall between liberty and tyranny, as intended by our Founders.

Labeling candidate Bolduc an extremist and insinuating that he will be a mouthpiece for big oil do not hide Sen. Hassan’s record of total support for the Biden Administration’s anti-American loyalty to globalism, failing to protect our border against invasion and giving us skyrocketing gas prices. Further, her frequent claim that she is for NH values is an insult to Granite Staters. If liberty is to be preserved, the Biden Administration values that she represents do not belong in NH or any state government. I believe even democrat party members are perceptive enough to see through Senator Hassan’s political sidestepping.

I stand for Bolduc. He gets my vote on Nov 8.

 

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To all those who are sending in memes, thank you!  Keep them coming please, as it helps me gather weaponry to fight the Left.  Please do share this post, and if you share an individual meme, consider mentioning you saw it on the Grok!

Speaking of, from this week, Monday Memes and Meme Overflow.

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

 

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This can work both ways.  You can figure that out.

 

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The premier of Stew Peters’ DIED SUDDENLY film is coming.  Here’s the trailer:

Died Suddenly Official Trailer (bitchute.com)

And a movie that’s out (a skosh over two hours):

Uninformed Consent | StarCrestSoloist (gab.com)

People are dying at rates far, far higher than expected.

 

 

For example, from clots.  Video, 58 minutes:

EXCLUSIVE: UNDERTAKER EXPLAINS “MYSTERIOUS” CLOTTING PHENOMENON!

And:

Children Suddenly Dying – ‘It’s Through The Roof’ – Dr. Peter McCullough (redvoicemedia.com)

Fetal death rates are above normal – multiples of normal.

 

 

My one thing that I’d say about the above is that it would be nice to have this normalized to the number of people being injected (e.g., incidents per 10,000 injections).  Still, you don’t have to be a technically-oriented person to look at the above and see something dramatically awry.  More on this:

Exclusive: Leaked Hospital Memo Reveals 500 Percent Rise in Stillbirths; Fetal Specialist Explains Likely Cause | Facts Matter (theepochtimes.com)

Video above is 25 minutes.  In general, birth rates are collapsing:

ALARMING Drop in Birthrates and Fertility Among MRNA Vaccinated Women (rumble.com)

Video, 44 minutes.  All part of the depopulation plan.  My three essays on depopulation:

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

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

Borrowing from a Dog Food Ad – Urban Scoop

And don’t forget Surak’s compilation of Jab statistics (with two great graphics at the top):

The injection toll: September 23, 2022 | surakblog (wordpress.com)

And yet… and yet… and yet with all this information slapping them in the face, there’s no curiosity.

A Curious Incuriosity – Granite Grok

A Curious Incuriosity 2 – Granite Grok

Just blind trust in the goodness of government.

A Crisis of Trust – Urban Scoop

Is there something in the water?

Potassium Metathorinate – Granite Grok

Why, why, why won’t people connect the dots?

 

 

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I am the son of an immigrant – a legal immigrant.  I am the husband of an immigrant – a legal immigrant.  The number of people “migrating” now will result in collapse of all nations across the world.  Which is the Globalists’ intent.  Socialistopia needs its foundation.

 

 

The Great Replacement proceeds apace.

 

 

And if you look at the demographics – almost all military-age men – the allegation that they are an actual military force only needing arms and permission to attack gets more and more credible.

 

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Pick of the post:

 

 

If it weren’t for my trying to maintain some semblance of normalcy for the kids’ sake, and to keep my Covidian wife from running off and Jabbing the kids out of anger/spite at my being political, I’d be like:

 

 

A short anecdote.  My late mother was a snowbird and one time I was accompanying her on her migration to Florida.  There was a Washington DC B&B that she and my dad used to like, they loved the hostess, and since everyone in their circle was liberal she asked me to not talk politics.  Fine.

Well… fine up to a point.  At the dinner table everyone was “W” is a THIS, and “W” is a THAT, and just generally ragging on anyone to the Right of Stalin.  I bit my tongue.  Finally one person noticed I was not participating in the hate-on-W fest and asked “Are you a Bush fan?” as though this was the worst thing possible, which to them it was of course.  I simply stated that “Please understand that simply because I am my mother’s son, doesn’t mean I share her – or by extension your – views.  For the sake of a harmonious dinner could we please change the subject”?

Understand that I was note rude nor did I attack but… from that moment on… aside from the host who attempted to engage with me, non-politically, for the rest of the night I was persona non grata to everyone there at the table.  In the after-dinner coffee time I tried to engage with a few people – and nothing.  People literally would turn away from me.  I was lower than pond scum to these people.  And if it hadn’t been for my mother, I’d have let the claws out.  This was a Thought Splinter moment for me in understanding that the Left has raw, seething hate for anyone not of the herd.

 

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Going to ask a favor.  Please support me by buying five of these bumper stickers and handing them to friends (and put one on yourself).

 

 

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Palate Cleansers:

 

 

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On this last one… a few months ago I was in the hospital for an “unplanned stay” for a couple of nights.  One friend, a half an hour away, said it would be NO PROBLEM if I needed ANYTHING.  For a few weeks after I got out he would call almost daily to check on me and see how I was.  Another, about FOUR HOURS away, said that if I needed anything done at the house, he’d be on the road the next day… this was when my stay was still an indeterminate length.

This is friendship.  And I’d do the same for them.

How many people in your life are like that?

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An army of politicians, health “experts,” and most of the political left should be begging for forgiveness for their useless COVID antics but granting it seems unlikely. Lawsuits are a better remedy for the damage they’ve done. All predictable outcomes, but for which we were pilloried at the time.

And by “we,” I mean all of us who dared to question the lockdowns, masking, quarantines, social distancing, remote learning, the closing of businesses, ending employment, restricting access, preventing free association, warrantless searches, vaccine mandates, and (of course) preventing maintenance care.

We told you that the all-covid-only covid health care approach at the beginning of this nonsense would end badly, and it has.

 

Throughout October, there have been an average of 1,564 extra deaths per week, compared with a weekly average of just 315 in 2020 and 1,322 in 2021.

Latest figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed that in the week ending Oct 21, there were 1,714 excess deaths in England and Wales, of which only 469 were due to Covid – just 27 percent of the total.

It is 16.8 percent higher than normal. Deaths are also running higher than the five-year pre-Covid October average from 2015 to 2019, figures showed.

 

The odds are good most of the covid deaths were vaccinated, and the increase in excess deaths from all causes is everywhere, but there’s no one on our side of the pond in major media with the stones to run it or make it the story it should be.

Everywhere all the time.

 

Health experts have warned that some of the unexplained deaths are being caused by collateral damage from the pandemic, when operations and treatments were cancelled or delayed as the health service concentrated on Covid.

The Government’s “stay at home, protect the NHS” message also left many people who needed medical treatment unwilling to bother the health service, or afraid they would catch coronavirus if they went into hospital.

The NHS is also struggling from long-term staffing issues and current shortages because of coronavirus, leading to record waits for ambulances, treatment and surgery.

 

Did you catch that last bit? Understaffed. Hmmm.

The US healthcare industrial complex forced (tens of?) thousands of qualified personnel out of their jobs for refusing the Jab. An inoculation that now appears to result in a 7 to 1 increase in the incidence of infection with COVID.

 

[D]ata analyst “Ethical Skeptic” has compiled updates of some of the databases (Walgreens, Worldometers, CDC) that I examined in my book Neither Safe Nor Effective, and sees from the most recent data that COVID vaccinated people are seven times as likely to test positive for COVID as the unvaccinated, after adjusting for proportion of the population in each category and testing penetration in each group.

 

So, where does that leave us?

Almost nothing the “experts” demanded or their political puppets put in place did anything good, and almost all of it did things that were bad. I suppose that’s why this “journalist” is begging for amnesty. Keep begging.

There are a lot of players to whom we cannot direct our frustrations because they all got immunity. Yes, we can vent, but to what end? They just smile and wave and keep doing what they are doing because they feel like they are protected.

But not everyone got immunity, and someone needs to bear the burden of blame for the lives damaged or lost as a result of every aspect of “pandemic policy.”

Start with the elections next Tuesday.

Remove the covidiots from office and replace them with people who might listen to reason, engage in honest investigation, consider every “expert” opinion, and then – given the level of fraud, question if any immunity deal is invalid because those who granted it were lied to from beginning to end whether they-knew it or not.

More people will die because of the response. That’s a whole new kind of genocide, and if it is allowed to slide, they’ll be just as reckless next time.

The only way to prevent that is a change in “leadership.”

 

 

HT | UK Telegraph

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Latest from Trafalger. The Libertarian candidate may pull enough votes to allow Hassan to squeeze out a win. The Libertarian candidate in Arizona understood this was happening there and withdrew and ENDORSED Blake Masters.

New @realDailyWire/@trafalgar_group #NHSen #Poll (10/30-11/01) shows challenger #Bolduc taking small lead over incumbent #Hassan. #nhpol

47.0% @GenDonBolduc
45.7% @Maggie_Hassan
4.0% @jeremykauffman
3.2% Und

Featured Story: https://t.co/j3qnQIPPRW pic.twitter.com/uloFfHSLz4

— Robert C. Cahaly (@RobertCahaly) November 3, 2022

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Just this once, I hope NOAA is right. They predict a warmer-than-normal winter, and we’re going to need that. After nearly six years as our US Senator, Maggie Hassan “Hassn’t” done a damn thing to help us heat our homes in winter.

Related: Winter is Coming: Is It Time for New England to “Pay” the Green Energy Piper?

She’s done quite the opposite.

A significant barrier to ensuring access to natural gas or heating oil for the northeast, aside from Democrat policy and their war on energy infrastructure, is The Jones Act. Josiah Bartlett has an excellent round-up of that here (and a story about Fed agencies blocking efforts to amend or repeal it), so I won’t go deep into this space. At its simplest, The Jones Act forces us to buy foreign oil and gas carried on foreign tankers should the need arise, and it does.

In 2019 we were paying through the nose to places like Russia for natural gas in the spot market. We’ll do that again this year, even if NOAA is correct – if there’s any to be had. But the point is that given one of the higher offices in elected-land, after standing with the no pipelines or fracking crowd, Maggie Hassn’t done a thing to ensure we had backup.

 

If you search Maggie’s press page for the “Jones Act,” you get this.

 

That’s not to say she’s done nothing. There is no shortage of press asking the Feds to spend more on LIHEAP, the low-income home energy assistance handouts, but that’s not going to help if there is nothing to buy, which is a precipice upon which we may soon find ourselves.

Long Time Comin’

As regular readers know, the energy infrastructure deficit in the northeast has been a problem for more years than Hassan has been in the US Senate (and all the years she was NH’s Governor), but she’s done nothing we can reference to address that problem. Even when US supplies were abundant, The Jones Act prohibited delivery to Northeast ports from places like Texas “to protect US shipbuilders from foreign competition.”

This indifference has driven up prices while creating the potential for blackouts mid-winter.

Senator Shaheen, whom Maggie Has-been has always tried to emulate, is also to blame. She has spent our tax dollars with abandon since January 2009 but has nothing to say that I could find about the Jones Act in her press archives.

Related: Hold on To Your Wallets – New England’s Governors Promising Regional Energy Improvements

 

But she has done us the favor of showing her real priorities.

At the top of Shaheen’s US Senate home page, and on every page I visited, there is guidance on how to get an abortion, followed by how to save a few bucks with credits and incentives to reduce energy usage.

 

But they’ve got the reduce-usage problem solved. If there’s no “energy,” that should reduce usage. Is that what they mean?

Probably not, but no ‘Jones Act’ Press, while I bet there are plenty of giddy releases about wind or solar projects (I didn’t look), or EVs, or shutting down coal or nuclear. I’m sure there is press about the climate scam. Warming and emissions. Ironic that.

And look how much of that non-existent money was spent (to drive up inflation) for other “programs,” just nothing we truly need (like being warm).

Jones Act. Say it with me. J-O-N-E-S A-C-T.

We need fossil fuels to heat our homes. We need heating oil and natural gas (and Diesel) to generate electricity. And while we can’t do much about Granny Shaheen for a few more years, Hassan’s indifference is a problem we can solve next Tuesday.

So let’s solve it.

Leave her out in the Electoral cold. Vote her out of office. Just do it. They’ll hardly even notice one less Democrat in Washington. The place is filthy with those things. They’re everywhere. And she can spend the winter here with us, in New Hampshire – starting in January.

As for Shaheen, there might be a way to move her needle on this issue.

“Dear Senator Shaheen. Please help repeal or amend The Jones Act, or Abortion clinics in New Hampshire might have to deprive women of essential services due to a lack of heat or electricity.”

Do you think that will work?

 

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The NH House just had its “LSR Season” with an additional one held shortly after the November 8th election for new NH House members.  I scanned through the list for a number of reasons but the primary push was to see, in light of the US Supreme Court NYSRPS vs Bruen decision where the originalists on SCOTUS had the majority decision. Simply put, any law that isn’t historically congruent with those norms back when the Second Amendment was written and adopted are illegal.  Because of that decision, lots of States, cities, counties, and town are having to revise their laws and ordinances to better comport with the restored historical Right to keep and bear arms that is protected in the US Bill of Right’s Second Amendment and many States’ Constitutions as well (eg., NH’s Article 2-A: “[The Bearing of Arms.] All persons have the right to keep and bear arms in defense of themselves, their families, their property and the state”.).

Now, LSRs are simply placeholders for bills that generally be fleshed out later on (that process has started). It is clear, however, that the Democrats in the NH House are looking to set up bills that would continue to infringe in ways that SCOTUS has already ruled to be impermissive and unconstitutional.  All of the following are Democrats with the exception of DeSimone.

1. 2023-0013 Sponsors: HB (Prime) Smith, Marjorie – Straf. 10 requiring a background check prior to any commercial firearm sale
2. 2023-0018 Sponsors: HR (Prime) Ames, Richard – Ches. 13 a resolution urging Congress to enact legislation regulating and banning certain semi-automatic assault weapons and large capacity ammunition feeding devices
3. 2023-0030 Sponsors: HB (Prime) Meuse, David – Rock. 37 relative to the sale of firearms to persons under 21 years of age and relative to firearm safety devices
4. 2023-0042 Sponsors: HB (Prime) Bradley, Amy – Hills. 41 relative to extreme risk protection orders
5. 2023-0047 Sponsors: HB (Prime) Grassie, Chuck – Straf. 8 an act imposing a waiting period between the purchase and delivery of a firearm
6. 2023-0069 Sponsors: HB (Prime) Shurtleff, Steve – Merr. 15 relative to possession or discharge of a firearm in a school zone.
7. 2023-0163 Sponsors: HB (Prime) DeSimone, Debra – Rock. 18 relative to extreme risk protection orders

Now there are some others that are Republican sponsored but in reaching out to them (which is still in process – the Election kinda put that off to the side for a bit) and I’ll do that batch a bit later.

But a set of quick set of “quick thoughts on them:

1. All commercial sales ALREADY have to go through NICS. I’m betting that once the bill is written, it will be for ALL firearm transfers – friends to friends, neighbors to neighbors, family member to family member.  The Democrats want to choke this out of existence and if taken to court, it will be thrown out, IMHO.
2. Yeah, this isn’t happening.  Semi-automatic weapons are well over 150 years old and the Democrats’ use of redefining our common language is trying to redefine what is “standard” (like 30 round AR-15 magazines to be “large”).
3. Leave it to Meuse to be the dufus in trying to have “adult” redefined depending on political purpose. If it comes to Obamacare, you’re a child until 26 years old. To have a beer, it’s 21. To vote and die for your country, it’s 18. And the Democrats now want us to believe that a child of 18 is “adult enough” to be able to vote (but still need Mommy’s permission to be given an aspirin in school).  Note to Meuse – if 18 is old enough to be an adult to vote, it’s old enough to exercise the Right to OWN.
4. Another Red Flag law – A Prediction: betcha that its construction will be such that any allegation will have someone lose their Right to OWN – with no “teeth” for those cases where it is either an ideological case (NO ONE SHOULD HAVE A GUN!!!) or some disgruntled person seeking revenge.
5. Why should an otherwise law abiding person who passes the NICS or StateLine check be denied their Constitutional Right?
6. And here comes Deputy Dawg doing the “Fine for me and not for thee” schtick. Being former law enforcement, he gets to go, armed, onto school property.  He wants to deny we that have passed the background check to be given our NH Pistol/Revolver License to conceal carry onto school property as the Federal Gun-Free Zone legislation allows.
7. I have no idea but we soon will.

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One of the main reasons why you will rarely hear about converting the basement to additional living space is because basements are, by their very nature, prone to flooding.

In fact, because basements are so susceptible to flooding, what you are working to avoid is damage or a disaster caused by that flooding. You may not be able to prevent floods on that lowest level of your home, but you can avoid letting a flood turn into a royal disaster. Here’s how.

1. Clean Any Standing Water Immediately

Standing water on the basement floor can quickly lead to some of the worst basement flooding disasters you want to avoid. Not only will all that standing water be fertile for growing a number of pathogens, but it can lure rats into your basement as well. Water rodents of any kind are a serious health hazard and that is the disaster, not necessarily the water that’s collected there. Even so, it’s in your best interest to have it pumped out and dried up professionally as soon as you notice it.

2. Avoid Clogged Drains

Clogged drains are, without a doubt, one of the most common reasons for a flooded basement. If you’ve ever suffered through major flooding on your basement floor you will understand why it is vital that you never pour grease or fats of any kind down the drains. Also, as a preventative measure you may want to use a professional drain cleaning product every few months. Besides fats and grease, hair can also quickly clog your drains with the built-up pressure causing one or more pipes to burst.

3. Use Water Sparingly During Rainy Months

Sometimes the sewers and outdoor drains get so backed up because of rainy weather. If at all possible, use water sparingly in rainy months and also in early spring as snow and ice begin to melt. With such an influx of water, leaves and other debris can be forced into your sewers. This can back up water quite quickly and if you aren’t careful, it can back up all the way back into your basement. Until you can get those sewer lines cleaned, use water as sparingly as possible.

4. Use Caution When Storing Anything on the Basement Floor

While you should try never to store anything on the basement floor, a few waterproof and tightly sealed containers should be okay. As mentioned above, it isn’t always the flooded basement that is the disaster but rather all the damage that water can do. If you’ve left any cardboard boxes laying around with anything of value in them, that is going to be the disaster

As the old saying goes, “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” Therefore, the best way to avoid disasters from flooded basements is to prevent flooding in the first place. Although this isn’t always possible, the good news is that you can have your basement drained and dried so as to avoid any further damage brought about by standing water.

 

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If you are one of those #woke, vaccinated libs working at Southwest Airlines, you better be careful. While you might not object to your union targeting its own dues-paying employees on political grounds, allowing that sort of internecine surveillance will inevitably come back to bite you in your fat blue ass.

Yes, I said surveillance.

According to Southwest Airlines employees who wish to be nameless,

 

…that, despite the Carter verdict, Southwest has continued investigating employees for online statements, including some made in private chat groups. The employees said several workers have been summoned to “fact-finding” meetings over pronouns that the company urges employees to use with transgender coworkers. …

“The union activists, those who hate the conservatives and the Christians, are actively copying, looking for information [in private or personal online communications] that they can use to harm those that they disagree with,” she said.

 

The Carter verdict refers to the case of flight attendant Charlene Carter whom “Southwest illegally fired in 2017“…” after Carter used Facebook to express religious views on abortion and criticize the flight attendants’ union, a union official reported her posts to Southwest, leading to her dismissal.”

Carter was awarded over 5 million dollars for wrongful termination resulting from protected speech. But it looks like Southwest has doubled down and has strange bedfellows. Their employee unions.

Related: Breaking: Southwest Pilots Win – Vaccine Exemption Requests Have Been Approved

Union employees have a new reason to leave them. They have long been organs of the Marxist left, but now they are abandoning their obligation to represent employee interests if the employer’s political agenda aligns with their own. It means that Flight attendants, pilots, and mechanics are paying dues so that the unions can assist Southwest in its partisan purge.

As noted in the opening, there are plenty of progs in these increasingly unfriendly skies that would say good riddance. But much like the Dems who will defend all speech in the name of protecting free speech, if they don’t step up and up put pressure on their union and then Southwest, they’ll regret it the way many Democrats and Independents regret voting for Biden or Democrats after being misled about Trump in 2020.

The way people are regretting their tolerance for COVID policies, including vaccination, that resulted in far more harm than good.

Much like new government spending, it is difficult to impossible to roll back policies like this if left unchallenged. And I don’t mean the firings; I’m talking about the surveillance and intolerance for any speech outside the approved guardrails.

If you think they’ll stop at Conservatives or Christians, you are a poor student of history or even unionization.

 

 

 

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The Randolph (Girls) Volleyball team was stripped of its titles dating all the way back to 1897 this week by the Vermont Athletic Group on Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity. After winning this year’s state championship the all-white, all-girls, all-Randolph Volleyball team was cited for athletic racism and lack of diversity.

The team raised international fake outraged eyebrows earlier this year for disallowing a transgender girl (re: boy on the [Girls] volleyball team) in the locker room after some of the bigoted white girls on the team said they were uncomfortable changing their clothes in front of a biological male student. Several biological girls alleged the mostly mentally stable player made lewd remarks, after which the team was disciplined by Principal, and culture war hero, Lane Millington. Millington forced the girls to leave the girl’s locker room and do their changing in the girl’s bathroom.

Sadly, these bigoted girls could change their clothes but they couldn’t change their skin color. Their highly cultivated and privileged talent led them to a stunning undefeated season where they would win both regional and state championships, however, this achievement wouldn’t last. An audit of their history by the VAG-DIE team revealed they have been led and populated by white girls dating back to 1897 when volleyball, originally called Mintonette, first arrived in Vermont.

We reached out to Karen Hogbottom, the Chief Tolerance Specialist for VAG-DIE, for comment.

“We won’t tolerate any form of whiteness past or present. The girls need to do better and so did their great-great-great grandmothers.”

Banners from the two previous state championships (1898 & 1973) have been taken down and replaced with pride flags.

There is some hope. Randolph High School has one black student who is male and is being heavily recruited to transition by the school’s LGBTQ++ advisory coach, Crystal Queer. She also has her queer eye on the school’s two Asians, two Latinos, and the one kid who just moved here from the Middle East but is considered a long shot.

In an act of solidarity Principal, Millington has instituted after school struggle sessions for the girls team also giving them Herbert Marcuse’s New Sensibility and Robin DiAngelo’s White Fragility as homework. .

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Four days ago, I introduced GrokPAC, GraniteGrok’s more politically active offshoot with its registration “description” of “No better friend, no worse energy.”

And in that introduction post, I brought up this graphic that well represents the end goal of the Democrat Citizens for Belknap  PAC – not “saving Gunstock” (that was just a distraction) but to turn Belknap County from Red Republican to Blue Democrat. After all, their own “voter guide” portrays ONLY Democrats are “reasonable and responsible,” along with the led-by-the-nose Republicans helping them along in their aims. Good going – hanging your Party in hopes of your own re-election.

So once the decision was made to register GrokPAC, we hurridly created 100 signs (and broke my own 40mph rule) and put them around the county as a small statement to bolster what GraniteGrok has been saying for months:

Don’t know if a lot of people saw it, but the message was most likely achieved – having been planted by the Democrat Citizens for Belknap PAC’s signs, they’ll know that they won’t be the only player.  And in today’s Laconia Daily Sun, in their Voter Guide section, this graphic also appears (page 35, 1/2 page sized). No, we didn’t have the money to spend THIS time around but from my standpoint, mission accomplished – “there’s a competing player – you no longer have the playing field to yourself”.

But we’ve also done a much larger project. More on this tomorrow, but it has a lot to do with this post (GrokPAC activities) intermixed with this one from Maine:

Ban Pornography in Maine Schools

I’ll leave you with this teaser that was just sent out, by GrokPAC, to 65,000 households in NH (yes, in an envelope):

(click to embiggen)

When parents in other areas have found these books, they’ve tried to read them to their School Boards at public meetings – and have been shut down by the Chair for reading “porn” (from their schools’ libraries) because there were children in the audience.

Yes, consider the irony of that.

I think it will be safe to say that the flip side of this letter will be rather upsetting to a few folks shortly.

I’m assuming that being Democrat-controlled, Citizens for Belknap PAC would be all in favor of allowing pornographic books in Public School Libraries, even to kindergartners.  Democrats support the Democrat Teacher’s Unions who are fighting this all over the nation.

So we’re just getting revved up…

 

 

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In August, NH State Representative Sherry Dutzy (D-Nashua) doxxed a Nashua voter’s address on social media after an exchange at the voter’s home.  Even more despicable was the threatening image of a man holding a firearm on Representative Dutzy’s social media post about the encounter. What is representative of Dutzy’s message, if not threatening violence?

We want to thank Chris Ager for this Op-Ed. Please direct yours to Editor@GraniteGrok.com.

The homeowner filed a police report but was told nothing could be done. The Speaker of the House was alerted to the situation and wrote a letter of caution to Representative Dutzy as recommended by the Speaker’s Advisory Group.

The people of Nashua Ward 3 deserve better representation. The anger and threats must stop. Vote Dutzy out.

Her social media post:

The resulting Letter of Caution issued by NH House Speaker Sherm Packard to Dutzy. Hover over the page and the Navigation bar will appear.

Letter of Caution by Speaker Packard to State Rep Sherry Dutzy Letter abusing a constituent

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So who IS Cindy Creteau-Miller, running for the NH House from Meredith?  She is certainly not an NRA “A” rated candidate, but she keeps insisting on it (and pro-abortion as well). She’s also now disavowing the endorsements that the CfB gave her.

She, of course, still hasn’t realized she was just a mere pawn in order to get the ten real Conservative Republicans the heave-ho under the false flag of “HAVE TO SAVE GUNSTOCK!!!”

Heh!  That there is now another blog that has finally realized that GraniteGrok has been right about this all along: that “SAVE GUNSTOCK” was always a political maneuver stunt pulling the wool over the eyes of the low information voters.  And Cindy Creteau-Miller, so thrilled by “big time player” Gary Kiedaisch, fell for it as well.  And now is being attacked by Democrats on social media. But back to the NRA rating – it’s not the only gun advocacy group that gave her the same “D” rating.

But first this – does she REALLY think she can “finesse” her NRA rating simply by buying a membership to “make it all better”? THis is like #MeToo Weinstein stating he’s going to bankroll attacks against the NRA for propitiation in abusing all those women by dint of his high position in Hollywood:

 

 

Lame. Just lame.  You can’t “buy” a rating. As to that “other gun group” I mentioned, if you’re getting a “D” twice over, no amount of money is going to get you out of this self-injected purgatory:

 

 

And the Belknap County part of that report:

 

 

Is she NOW going to exclaim that her survey to them was ALSO HACKED???  Doubtful. Why?

I’m not an NRA member nor am I a member of this other group – but I DO know the folks that are in it and running it…for years. In fact, here it is for all of the Belknap County NH House candidates. I’m helping you, loyal readers, out by ensuring you see CC-M’s rating – no magnifying glass necessary.

One D might be arguable.  Twice a D is not.

To forestall the complaint that I’ve engaged in “creative editing” and avoid the charge of  “THAT WAS EDITED AGAINST ME!”, here’s the whole report. Hover over the page, and the navigation bar will appear. Also, the rating/scoring is on the first page.

NH Firearms Coalition general election report card_0001

So folks, who are you going to believe (or, in this case, WHAT survey holds water)?

NOTE: I strongly suggest good Republicans and Independents write in Jeanne Tofts on the Meredith ballot to defeat the Democrat-supported Cindy Creteau-Miller. We don’t need a republican that hates the Second Amendment in the NH House and who would be aligned with the Democrats.  THAT’S an Extremist Republican!

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