We’ve all heard or seen the slogan, “Power to the People,” but it gets things almost completely backwards.

The word “TO” is the wrong word, by far.

Under the system and principles of the founders and old revolutionaries, all power comes FROM the people.

They don’t need to ask for it. They don’t need to beg for it. And they don’t need to demand they get it as a gift from government, or get it back at all.

They just need to take it.

George Mason put it this way in 1775:

“In all our associations; in all our agreements let us never lose sight of this fundamental maxim – that all power was originally lodged in, and consequently is derived from, the people. We should wear it as a breastplate, and buckle it on as our armour.”

This view represented one of the most important principles of the American Revolution. That is, sovereignty – or supreme and final authority – is with the people, not the government.

James Otis, Jr kicked things off – “the beginning of the controversy” with his 1761 speech against the Writs of Assistance, where he forcefully made the case that “an act against the constitution is void.”

If government holds final authority – they get to determine whether or not they violate their own constitution – and the constitution isn’t supreme, the government is.

Sounds familiar today, doesn’t it?

Of course, the British didn’t agree with the revolutionaries, not even close. But in the years to follow, Otis, along with John Dickinson, Samuel Adams and many others kept hammering home this concept of sovereignty belonging with the people rather than “the king in Parliament.”

Thomas Jefferson prominently incorporated this view in the Declaration of Independence:

That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it

But it didn’t end with the end of the Revolution. In fact, these principles were just as prominent – if not more so – during the ratification debates over the Constitution.

James Wilson reminded the Pennsylvania ratifying convention that, in the American system, the people were always at the top of the food chain. It wasn’t a document that made it so:

“The truth is, that, in our governments, the supreme, absolute, and uncontrollable power remains in the people.” [emphasis in original]

In Federalist 49, James Madison, quoting Thomas Jefferson, reiterated this essential principle:

”As the people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived, it seems strictly consonant to the republican theory, to recur to the same original authority, not only whenever it may be necessary to enlarge, diminish, or new-model the powers of the government, but also whenever any one of the departments may commit encroachments on the chartered authorities of the others.”

Here we get to the foundation.

If the people hold “supreme, absolute, and uncontrollable power,” they certainly have the right to “alter or abolish,” as the Declaration of Independence so eloquently stated.

But, it’s also up to them to keep the branches of the federal government in check – “whenever” any of them goes beyond the limits of the Constitution.

Jefferson reminded us of this in the Kentucky Resolutions of 1798:

the Government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the constitution, the measure of its powers

Here’s the short version:

If the people of the several states are sovereign – and hold final authority –

They create a set of rules for government in a constitution.
And they are the ones to enforce the limits of their constitution on their government
Instead of waiting for the government to stop doing the things they weren’t supposed to be doing in the first place.
Mercy Otis Warren put it this way in 1788:

“The origin of all power is in the people, and they have an incontestible right to check the creatures of their own creation.”

And in the 4th of his influential Fabius letters, John Dickinson asked the essential question, what is to be done with a “bad administration?”

The “penman of the Revolution” told us that “the answer is instantly found … before the supreme sovereignty of the people.”

He continued, ALL CAPS in the original:

IT IS THEIR DUTY TO WATCH, AND THEIR RIGHT TO TAKE CARE, THAT THE CONSTITUTION BE PRESERVED; Or in the Roman phrase on perilous occasions—TO PROVIDE, THAT THE REPUBLIC RECEIVE NO DAMAGE.

Ultimately, it’s not about people asking – or even demanding that those who wield power give it back, or return it, or loan it out.

It’s up to the people to exercise their rights – to protect and preserve their own constitution and their own liberty – whether the government wants them to or not.

 

 

| Published with Permission From The Tenght Amendment Center

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Extinction Rebellion takes mainstream climate money to appear edgy and different. They are actually just another social justice movement using fake-climate fearmongering to push left-wing cultural engineering. A milquetoast indifference they’ve worked hard to overcome.

They love street theater and even contemplated public suicides to get attention, but you’ll recognize them as the ass hats who most recently glue themselves to things or block bridges.

Someone in the UK divission of ER (surprised more of them have not ended up in the ER) is trying a new approach. The shift will “prioritise relationships over roadblocks.”

The new plan is to disrupt the government.

 

A new year resolution to “prioritise attendance over arrest and relationships over roadblocks”, was spelled out in a 1 January statement titled “We quit”, which said “constantly evolving tactics is a necessary approach”.

The group admitted the move would be controversial. Other environmental protest groups, such as Just Stop Oil, have stepped up direct actions, notably throwing paint at art masterpieces.

 

People who joined to watch the world burn from wherever they glued themselves will probably migrate to the more aggressive groups, but there’s something to be said for disrupting the government. Progressive brick throwers used to always show up at global events and … throw bricks. It was a right of passage. Pick a global forum with world leaders, and they showed up like followers of the Grateful Dead (just not as mellow).

Now that the resistance is about promoting whatever the state says, they need something else to do. Groups like Extinction Rebellion fill the gaps. Wear this red dress and draw an hourglass on your hand. We’ll supply the coffin.

But what to do now that they are no longer harassing innocent civilians? Sure, getting “involved” in what your government is doing is great unless you’re a Trump Supporter in DC on Jan 6.

 

“In a time when speaking out and taking action are criminalised, building collective power, strengthening in number and thriving through bridge-building is a radical act,” the group said.

 

Sorry that was Extinction Rebellion again, and it sounds like they are hoping to stir the political waters a bit. As a favored constituency, I’m sure the MPs will welcome their input.

I confess, I can’t wait to see what that looks like.

 

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When I have run for Congress (three times), I have announced how I would honor the Constitution. I would, for example, sponsor bills to get rid of the Department of Education and to modify the War Powers Act.

I would vote against interfering in other countries. I would not be sending huge funds to Israel. I would try to put some DoJ people behind bars. I would oppose sanctions against Russia.

I thought my ideas were anathema to the House, but I have now found that Rep Tom Massie. He is a cattle rancher from Kentucky with a Master’s degree from MIT (not in cattle-ranching, but in electrical engineering), who has already stood for those propositions. He is often a vote of ONE, or he votes with a few on such issues.

I hereby nominate him for Speaker. I had already nominated myself for that job to show that a layperson can constitutionally be the Speaker of the House. (Don’t worry, it is settled law, and on five occasions, a non-member of the House has been nominated.)

At first glance, Massie lacks Republican support, seeing as how he was rarely joined in his votes for bills. And maybe he won’t win the love of enough Dems, as he opposes Obamacare and is Climate-change hesitant. (Remember he’s from MIT). But you can never be sure.

It may be that many others have been dying to do what Massie does but felt prevented from disagreeing with colleagues. Please see my Jan 4, 2023 article on that at GraniteGrok.com entitled “The No-Party Party.”

I think Parties have been a curse. The power of “the Party leader” creates yet one more overwhelming force. It has held back many reps from voting the way their constituents want them to vote.

I should point out that my offer to be Speaker had nothing to do with the bills listed above. On the contrary, I wanted to rid the Speaker’s job of its undue claim to be policy-oriented. The Speaker is a coordinator of votes, not a spokesman for his/her legislative preference.

British diplomat John C Coleman in his 1992 book “The Conspirators’ Hierarchy,” said the late Lloyd Cutler (US Executive branch) had been tasked by the globalists with morphing Congress into a Westminster system. Yes, Cutler did a fab job, aided by the propagandist media.

So why do I propose Tom Massie as Speaker? Because Kevin McCarthy seems to have lost his bid, which is causing people to actually have some new thoughts!

Allow me to hold forth on the freedom of each Congressperson, a freedom almost unknown to the public, thanks to the media’s presentation of Congress as Westminster-like, where the Party in power can get anything it wants when the leader snaps his/her finger.

Freedom of the House

The Legislative Branch of government is the strongest branch, per the US Constitution, insofar as it can impeach members of the other two branches. It can pass laws by getting a simple majority from both chambers, House and Senate, plus a signature from the Oval Office.

The House runs its own shop (as does the Senate, separately) as far as procedures are concerned. The House makes Rules for its smooth running which are not laws and which can be altered at any time by a majority vote in that chamber alone.

For instance, whatever you think is a firm rule about the way to assign reps to committees, is not a firm rule at all. It can be scrapped and replaced. Or maybe we should not even have committees. They are not in the Constitution. (I don’t mean they are unconstitutional, just not mandated by the dear parchment.)

So right now, as the new 118th Congress’ House members are sitting there, a bit confused about “the McCarthy debacle,” they are getting a good lesson in the freedom of all 435 members. Each one counts.

See? the intimidating aspect of a Party has been removed from the room. A few Republicans said No to McCarthy and so the robot-like march into repetition of tradition has been ended. “Eeks, what should we do now?”

Actually, they could do nothing, just for fun. They could prop up a cardboard Speaker at the podium and vote to allow members — alphabetically, say, or by date of birth — to take turns being Speaker one week at a time. Or whatever.

Just to debate that, they would soon see that it has no Party tradition, and they can think for themselves. Wow! Maybe reds could be happy talking to blues. You never know.

As I said, constitutionally, the US should not even have a “Party in power.” The People are in power. Isn’t that gorgeous?

Please check the Wikipedia entry on Rep Thomas Massie, for his amazing career.

 

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To quote myself, from a piece published last night at NH Journal, “Everyone runs on bringing change to Washington DC, but nothing changes. Maybe the folks forgot what change might look like or what was required to get it, and now that it’s here, they find they don’t have the stomach for it.

 

“And what’s the worst thing that could happen? Nothing? That’s probably the best thing that could happen. An idle legislature can’t do more harm especially given the current balance in Congress where the only things to get done will be things Democrats want and Republicans who vote for $1.7 trillion stimulus bills might support.

“Until then, we get what looks to some like a slap-fight at a cotillion. But if you don’t want anyone to stand up to leadership that acts like a super-spreader for the Georgetown flu, why bother telling people we need change in Washington?”

 

Sununu thinks they look like morons, but he’s a machine stooge. ‘Most observers,’ again from the NHJ piece, “say the scene from the floor of the House sends a signal of chaos and incompetence that undermines the GOP’s ability to lead.” Are they machine stooges too?

I know; our own Ray Cardello thinks it’s embarrassing. But if the Democrats were taking a serious look in favor of someone else, the media would have a different discussion. It would be about moving forward, progressing, and getting young ideas into an old institution. Remember the rules. Whatever the Dems and the media are saying, the opposite is often the case.

This is how “democracy” works. It is deliberate about conflict, disagreement, and dragging your opponents to your table and your side. And in this case, to get something for your constituents. How does it look if they rubber-stamp a guy who has been in leadership for 14 years?

Do we have any term-limits supporters out there saying this looks bad?

Do we have any Trump supporters who laughed when he tipped over apple carts, saying this looks bad?

Washington needs to change. This is just a snapshot of what that should look like. A handful of holdouts refuse to budge on something in principle even if it means nothing else gets done, which is a win when it comes to Washington.

Here’s Matt Gaetz explaining why McCarthy isn’t his choice, and I have to say, I agree.

 

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Praise be to the core of goodness that binds us as devoted lovers of American values. This nation is bleeding under the dark cloak of a tyrant(s).

Since the election(s) of Donald Trump in 2016 and 2020, the left has lost its collective mind. They have gone into a stage of sheer lunacy and have not returned. Yet, Americans shall overcome the poison that curses us and turn away from the doctrine of Marxism and destruction to our way of life and construction. People like you hold the key and promise for our homeland’s revival and its complete freedom from the yolk of ignorance that has created great hardship for millions of Americans.

Freedom may suffer retreats periodically and tyranny may advance occasionally. Yet, free people everywhere must meet any challenge and pay any price to safeguard the precious treasure of freedom for themselves and the next generation.

To A Wonderful 2023
Happy New Year,

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The New York Times, “everything fit to print” fame, came up with this doozy by Mara Altman. Seems Mara believes “mating with shorter people is a step towards a greener planet’ since smaller individuals are “inherent conservationists.”

Related: Tall People are Killing The Planet

So here is her rationale: Taller people take up more resources, food, water, and energy but die earlier, while shorter people live longer.

Wondering if Mara is president of the Hobbit Rights Foundation International, or something. Okay, kind of a cheap shot but doesn’t it seem logical that if shorter people live longer than taller they will consume resources longer thus the overall consumption of those resources will pretty much equal out?

I don’t know who does these kinds of studies or why papers like the Times print them. It would seem to me they open themselves up to accusations of racism, considering blacks tend to be taller on average than not.

I suppose the editors risk a backlash from the environmentalists, on the other hand, if they fail to publish even if this theory has something of a glaring hole in it.

This is the kind of rock and a hard place, darned if they do, darned if they don’t, the liberal world often finds itself in. Consistently inconsistent is a term I often apply to them. Say one thing one day and then the opposite another day.

For instance, global warming. Thirty years ago, Al Gore assured us the world was doomed unless we took drastic action. The Arctic Ocean would be ice-free, tundra would thaw, releasing billions of gallons of methane gas poisoning the atmosphere, and coastal cities around the world would be underwater by 2012.

Little has changed, except now those experts are admitting these global changes take long periods of time so all of us who have challenged their theory have to be patient. Right like a thousand years or so?

How about another gem?

All white people are inherently racist. If history is correct, the only major culture that ever identified slavery for the evil it is and fought wars to abolish and make it illegal were white European Christians. The left ignores the black African princes who sold all those blacks to slavers in the first place.

Many current cultures still engage in slavery, including China, N. Korea, several Muslim nations, and a number of totalitarians that just call it by other names. These are generally excused by the liberal left. It’s only we white Americans who are evil, racist, and said to be an irredeemable race and culture.

I reject the left’s hateful accusations, and I’m proud of my people’s history. We evolved, grew, and overcame past evils, and there are few others who can say the same. We are not perfect, nor is any other, but many of us keep trying to improve in spite of the left’s best efforts to drive us back into the darkness. Hopefully, they will not prevail.

 

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Dear bitter-clingers, remember the midterm results in 2010?  Let me refresh your memory … the GOP won 298 seats in the New Hampshire House. The political macro-environment was at least as favorable to Republicans in 2022 as it was in 2010 … indeed, it was arguably MORE favorable. Yet in 2022 the GOP lost seats, and barely maintained a nominal majority.

When you look at a FACT like this, and the Democrat takeover of federal elections in New Hampshire between 2010 and the present …the only rational conclusion is that the State is rapidly turning blue. All the institutional voter fraud that exists today ALSO existed in 2010. So that is NOT an actual rebuttal.

There are only two rational paths … IF you REALLY want to live in a Red State. The first is to move to a Red State or a Purple State and make it even redder. The second … if you don’t want to leave New Hampshire … is to move to a Red or Purple Town and make it redder … by getting heavily involved in local politics. That is, create a red enclave within Blue Hampshire.

These are your only choices.

 

 

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The midterms did not produce the tsunami or red wave that most people predicted. The Republicans did not achieve the majority they hoped for, and the Democrats still controlled the Senate.

In the House, we have a slim majority of 222 Representatives; slim but still a controlling majority. All the Republicans had to do on Day 1 of the session was have a vote, elect Kevin McCarthy, the Speaker of the House, take the gavel away from Nancy Pelosi, and get to work. Simple? Yes. Could they get it done? Hell, NO.

Kevin McCarthy did not succeed on the first two ballots. Before casting a third, futile vote, the House adjourned for the day to go into council to negotiate a resolution to the demands of a block of Republicans preventing a successful vote. There have been over 20 concessions by McCarthy, but not enough to swing their votes. They are holding out for more and the Party hostage. When McCarthy directly confronted Perry, the de facto leader of the holdouts, and asked him exactly what they wanted to end this fiasco, Perry had no answer.

Kevin McCarthy may not be the perfect choice for Speaker. Many would prefer a more conservative leader, but McCarthy has proven himself effective as Minority Leader. He oversaw recruiting strong candidates and raised millions of dollars for the 2020 and 2022 elections. He even raised money for those who are now trying to undermine him from taking the gavel. The longer this stalemate goes on, the more embarrassing it becomes. If the Republicans are not careful, the House could elect Hakeem Jeffries, the Progressive Representative from New York, who could garner enough votes to become the Speaker.

The 20 GOP representatives who voted against McCarthy are Biggs, Reps. Dan Bishop of North Carolina, Lauren Boebert of Colorado, Josh Bechreen of Oklahoma, Michael Cloud of Texas, Andrew Clyde of Georgia, Eli Crane of Arizona, Matt Gaetz of Florida, Bob Good of Virginia, Paul Gosar of Arizona, Andy Harris of Maryland, Ana Paulina Luna of Florida, Mary Miller of Illinois, Ralph Norman of South Carolina, Andy Ogles of Tennessee, Scott Perry of Pennsylvania, Matt Rosendale of Montana, Chip Roy of Texas, Keith Self of Texas, and Byron Donalds of Florida.

Most of these Reps are unknowns and lower-tier Congressmen. Their efforts are seen as self-serving by narcissistic individuals grasping at a way to improve their notoriety. That may work for them, but that notoriety may be negative if this goes on too long. They are playing into the hands of the Democrats, who must be enjoying every minute of the Red Dysfunction. McCarthy needs to convince sixteen of these twenty to change their votes. I do not see that happening.

The best scenario at this point may be to convince Jim Jordan (R-OH) that he is the right man to solve this situation. Jordan is, in my opinion, the strongest Republican in the House. He is my choice to run with DeSantis for the White House in 2024. He claims he does not want the job, but it may not be his choice.

Whether McCarthy, Jordan, or some compromise Republican, we need to end this game of chicken before the Republican majority is led by a Democrat Speaker. The voters will never forgive them if this happens. This outcome would be the worst-case scenario and kill any chance of the Republicans making gains against the Progressive Biden agenda.

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In November 2021 Geoffrey Ward, assistant Attorney General – after Gordon MacDonald moved up to the position of New Hampshire’s Supreme Court Chief Justice – deleted the files of approximately 28 police officers whose names were on the Laurie List.

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The mission statement for the New Hampshire Department of Justice reads as follows:

The mission of the department is to serve the people of New Hampshire with diligence, independence and integrity by performing the constitutional, statutory and common law duties of the Attorney General as the State’s chief legal officer and chief law enforcement officer, to seek to do justice in all prosecutions, to provide the State with legal representation and counsel of the highest quality, to protect the State’s environment and the rights of its consumers, and to provide supervision and leadership of New Hampshire law enforcement.

Geoffrey Ward was also responsible for the Office of Public Integrity within the Attorney General’s Office. He sorted out a generous plea deal with no jail time for Judge Julie Introcaso, who pled guilty to a felony.  Julie Introcaso had been chair of New Hampshire’s Supreme Court Attorney Disciplinary Council. Geoffrey Ward, I had been assured by assistant AG Jane Young in December 2020 would answer my concerns regarding the misconduct of Concord Police Detective Julie Curtin, whose egregious failures are documented in criminal trial proceedings yet were rewarded by the New Hampshire Police, Fire & EMS Foundation in 2016 It was the same year that corrupt sex crimes police officer James F McLaughlin was rewarded for his lifetime achievement of dishonest tactics which have kept Father Gordon MacRae incarcerated and denied justice since 1994. John Scippa of Police Standards and Training forwarded my complaint regarding Julie Curtin to Jane Young. I did point out to John Scippa that the AG’s office had a conflict of interest: Julie Curtin was working in the AG’s office at the time. She has now left the AG’s office and works in the Epping Police Department, where teenagers will be subjected to her dishonest tactics – tactics of a tainted sex crimes unit which appear to have been a concern for DA Robin Davis per reports surrounding Jennifer Adams v Robin Davis. Now Geoffrey Ward moves up the ladder to become federal prosecutor alongside Scott Murray, former US Attorney and former DA for Merrimack County who gobbled up Julie Curtin’s corrupt practices to prosecute Owen Labrie for a State political coup yielding millions of dollars in rewards and lucrative civil suits relying on the dishonest investigation & representation as well as career advancement for several. The Attorney General’s spokesperson commented: “It’s good cross-pollination,” said Garrity, adding the move solidifies a strong relationship between state and federal prosecutors in New Hampshire.”   Who do Geoffrey Ward and Scott Murray work with? Jane Young, former Assistant Attorney General and now US Attorney. The New Hampshire US Attorney’s office statement reads:

The United States Attorney for the District of New Hampshire is the state’s chief federal law enforcement officer. The office prosecutes criminal cases brought by the Federal government, prosecutes and defends civil cases in which the United States is a party, and enforces the collection of debts owed to the Federal government. The United States Attorney’s Office works to foster strategic partnerships with federal, state and local law enforcement agencies, as well as other members of the community, to have a positive impact on the quality of life for all New Hampshire residents. Can the AG’s office or the NH US Attorney’s office begin to quantify to the citizens of New Hampshire the “positive impact on the quality of life for all New Hamsphire residents”?

Jane Young shook hands with former Monsignor Edward Arsenault as he pled guilty to theft and fraud of the Diocese of Manchester. He was transferred from Concord men’s prison to Keene County Jail upon arrival and then had his restitution of approximately $300,000 paid off in full before he was released after a few short years with a new name (Edward Bolognini), new position with a new non-profit (ReServe). Jane Young presided over the grand jury criminal investigation into St Paul’s School which the State then decided to keep secret despite the school’s waiver of privacy. Yet, miraculously, who should get information from the grand jury investigation?  Former NH Supreme Court Chief Justice Chuck Douglas who was able to get rich off several ambulance-chasing lawsuits against the school with the help of Julie Curtin and the NHCADSV who the State claims is a private entity yet which receives less than 1% of its funding from private donations – the rest coming from the State budget. Of course, it was Chuck Douglas, former NH Supreme Court Chief Justice and current Chair of NH Judicial Selection Committee who filed the Jennifer Adams v DA Robin Davis hostile environment suit, which resulted in $165K payout to Jennifer Adams because Robin Davis allegedly made her cry and $35K to Chuck Douglas’ law firm. It was the Griffin Furlotte investigation apparently that triggered the disagreement between Jennifer Adams and Robin Davis. A teenage girl testified that police, public officials, and administrators had lied to her, bullied her, stalked her, and force-fed her enumerated versions of events between her and her 17-year-old boyfriend, Griffin Furlotte. She didn’t get $165K of public money. She had her life turned into a nightmare while Griffin Furlotte was held in jail in pretrial detention and treated as a “monster.” Both teens likely to spend the rest of their lives with PTSD from the experience.

“For months, I was jerked around by the staff at Pembroke Academy, local police and officials involved with the investigation,” she said. “I was manipulated, lied to, kept in the dark and force fed enumerated versions of events that supposedly happened between griffin and I.”

How is any member of the public supposed to have any faith whatsoever in the NH Judicial system, either at the State or Federal level? It’s a revolving door kleptocracy of dishonest police, prosecutors, and collaborators protected by the AG’s office, the New Hampshire Supreme Court Chief Justice, the NH US Attorney and the NH Federal Prosecutors. There is no accountability, no responsibility to anyone except those in their own club. Decades of files regarding child abuse at YDC disappear. Decades of files of police corruption are kept hidden. Decades of reports of child abuse and misconduct. Taxpayers cough up for all of this while members of the judiciary and their attorney & police officer pals get rich with their interests in Children’s Advocacy Centers and CASA NH. The stagnant club reported in 1999 in the Washington Post still goes strong, with the same people getting rich off public funds and private scams while children and families pay to suffer.

There has been widespread dissatisfaction for some time in New Hampshire, they say, with the state’s clubby, closed-door method of handling complaints against judges and other lawyers.

Isn’t it interesting that a Company in Hong Kong called Morning Gate CASA NH has a registered address in Concord, New Hampshire? Who filed a financial statement of interest in CASA NH? Caroline Douglas – legal counsel for the NH Department of Revenue. She filed it for her and Michael Delaney, former AG who coincidentally represented Julie Introcaso. Introcaso who ordered GAL Kathleen Sternenberg to be paid with Apple Pay and who whited out judicial documents. Pandora Papers, anyone?

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Here’s something you won’t see every day but that I expect we might be seeing more often. A man who identifies as a woman (Amber McLaughlin) was executed for murder in Missouri on Tuesday.

 

A Missouri inmate was put to death Tuesday for a 2003 killing, in what is believed to be the first execution of a transgender woman in the U.S.

Amber McLaughlin, 49, was convicted of stalking and killing a former girlfriend, then dumping the body near the Mississippi River in St. Louis. McLaughlin’s fate was sealed earlier Tuesday when Republican Gov. Mike Parson declined a clemency request.

 

AP notes that since the resumption of the death penalty in the mid-seventies, 1558 people have received some form of state execution (deserving or not), of which 17 were women. That’s 1.09% of the total, nearly double the average healthy adult’s odds of dying from COVID-19. So, not a prominent figure, no matter what size the trans woman is.

Should we expect that percentage of trans woman executions to rise with the dysfunctional cultural tide?

I suppose it must.

Trans women come in two varieties. There are those with gender dysphoria, of which there are certainly a few, with a mental illness for which transition is prescribed but won’t always “cure.” Then there are those that will pretend to gain access to women in what were once safer spaces. The latter may or may not post-conviction persist in their parody; there are, after all, more women in the women’s prison. If the government is content to shack you up with your criminal vice, then who are you to object? You’re already in jail.

Mathematically, you are taking men who are not uncomfortable violating established mores and labeling them, penis appended or not, as another one of the girls. Sooner or later, enough of them will do enough terrible things in places with the Death Penalty that it will add up.

Amber is the Yuri Gagarin of space flight, the Neil Armstrong of moonwalks, or Barry Soetoro of Oval Office occupiers. Another first that only a man could be allowed to accomplish. The first man executed as a woman.

You’d think the lefties would be screaming for some red flag law for that before it gets out of hand.

I guess congratulations are in order. The transgender spectrum has its first death row execution.

Have they made a flag for that yet?

 

 

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As promised in the last Monday Memes, I have an overflow. My meme cup runneth over.  Certain about a Friday Overflow-Overflow.  So let the mayhem, mockery, and ridicule resume:

 

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

 

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ALERT!  ALERT!  ALERT!

 

Could this judge’s ruling be the dark herald of forced Jabs?  I have zero doubt it will be so leveraged if they can.  Take action to make sure they can’t!

COVID Tyranny: Federal Judge Rules ‘Public Safety’ Overrides Personal Medical Autonomy – PJ Media

 

 

And all my Covid-related cartoons here:

CARTOON: We Trusted the Science – Granite Grok

 

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This is actually very thought-provoking.

 

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It’s coming.  There’s no stopping what can’t be stopped.  Get ready.

Survival Sunday – Sunday PREP Edition – Granite Grok

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I believe I’ve said this before, but… there’s a scene close to the end of Planet of the Apes where Dr. Zaius, one of the intellectuals of the ape society, warns the main character Taylor “… you might not like what you find…” as the latter goes off into the forbidden zone.  The same warning holds true here.  Despite over 100 million murdered civilians and poverty every time it’s tried, they’re missionaries for their Lord Marx.  And if they succeed, they won’t like what they find.

 

 

See this article:

Ignorance Supports Propagandization – Liberty’s Torch (libertystorch.info)

Also, don’t forget this video about how the history of Communism has been not just ignored, but whitewashed:

 

 

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What’s in your food?

 

 

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Pick of the post:

 

 

It’s not just that this is true.  It’s that so many asleeple sheeple will not – CAN not – acknowledge that they were wrong.  And get angry at you for being right even as they cannot consciously admit it.

And when the fit hits the shan economically, when the injuries and deaths from The Jab become undeniable, when the 15 minute cities become prisons they cannot escape, and so on, their fury will be hottest towards – not those who did it – but we, the “unwashed deplorables” for being able to see what their superior intellects missed.

 

 

Remember, they view themselves as smarter, more educated, more noble, and just plain better people.  It’s not just that their egos can’t handle being wrong, it’s that they will not be able to assimilate that the very people they looked down on with dripping disdain were right… that we warned them time and again to their scorning dismissal… and with respect to The Jab specifically, were right and are going to live and procreate, while they won’t and their Jabbed descendants will be the end of their genetic lines.

On that day when their collective conscience truly grasps this, beware.  I expect their fury will exceed that of a scorned woman.

 

 

“People will forgive you for being wrong, but they will never forgive you for being right—especially if events prove you right while proving them wrong.”

― Thomas Sowell, Is Reality Optional?: And Other Essays

 

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“The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.”

— Ayn Rand

 

“Never underestimate the power of the human mind to believe what it wants to believe, no matter the conflicting evidence.”

― Brian Herbert, House Harkonnen

 

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Palate cleansers:

 

 

I think he’s done this before…

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What’s really important?  This.

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Grounded.  For life.  No, wait, life plus ten years.

 

 

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The CDC knew about hundreds of safety signals related to the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines* but didn’t want you to know. The EPOCH Times had to file a Freedom of Information Act Request to claw them into the light.

Safe and effective takes a serious hit, as does the notion that anyone received these EUA injections with fully informed consent.

 

The results obtained by The Epoch Times show that there are hundreds of adverse events (AEs) that meet the definition, including serious conditions such as blood clotting in the lungs, intermenstrual bleeding, a lack of oxygen to the heart, and even death. The high numbers, particularly the chi-squared figures, concerned experts.

For many of the events, “the chi-squared is so high that, from a Bayesian perspective, the probability that the true rate of the AE of the COVID vaccines is not higher than that of the non-COVID vaccines is essentially zero,” Norman Fenton, a professor of risk management at Queen Mary University of London, told The Epoch Times in an email after running the numbers through a Bayesian model that provides probabilities based on available information. …

The CDC’s results also show that a much higher proportion of events after COVID-19 vaccination were serious. For adults, for instance, the proportion was 11.1 percent, compared to 5.5 percent after non-COVID-19 vaccines. The proportion of deaths for adults was 15.4 percent after COVID-19 vaccination, much higher than the 2.5 percent after other shots.

 

The legal ramifications appear epic, though, as is often the case, we don’t expect anyone up or down this information food chain to suffer. The ever-expanding bureaucracy exists to protect people in positions of authority. The “experts” promise to look into the failure but nothing comes of it and no one is punished. They declare it as not systemic but announce reforms that add more bureaucrats ostensibly to police those who failed.

But people keep dying.

Over at Dr. Naomi Wolf’s Daily Clout, she’s reporting that “Within the Pfizer documents is Document 5.3.6 (Post-Marketing Experience), a cumulative analysis of adverse event reports occurring in the 90 days after the public rollout of the Covid-19 mRNA injection. And within that report, 275 people suffered a stroke suspected to be attributed to the vaccine between days 1 to 41; 50% of these occurred within the first 48 hours after injection.”

 

One in five (61 of the 300) strokes was fatal, 32% did not resolve, 28% had an “unknown” outcome, and three suffered very rare deep brain clots (cerebral venous sinus thrombosis).

 

You can read the War Room Daily Clout Doc here.

Dr. Wolf and Steve Bannon discuss below.

 

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“As you know, endlessly on TV, all the pundits, all the bigwigs, they were all telling us we had to get the vaccine, and it was “perfectly safe.” But it’s getting more and more clear, as we spend time going through the documents, that the safety aspects of any vaccine trial were basically ignored. And I found out even more disturbing things coming out of the European Medicines Agency (think of as Europe’s FDA) in that they don’t even require the safety testing. They don’t even require the distribution and excretion of a vaccine to be approved for use in patients.”

 

These are more specific findings based on forced document releases on which we’ve reported in the past but the details, as they become available, are essential to exposing the coverup.

The FDA, CDC, Pfizer, the White House, and others

The next time some stooge of the machine trolls you about Public Health or Public Safety, tell them you think they spelled it wrong, and feel free to provide whatever “correction” suits the moment.

 

 

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Imagine how well you would have done in school if you had access to a tutor 24/7. Today, this is a real option for New Hampshire students, thanks to a partnership between the Department of Education and Tutor.com.

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Through a program launched in September, middle and high school students have access to on-demand, one-to-one tutoring anytime, anywhere. Tutoring for nearly every subject is available, and students can connect with tutors whenever they need help – even at midnight.

SAUs across the state are working with Tutor.com’s implementation team to set up single sign-on access for students through each school’s learning management system. Any student not accessing Tutor.com through their school LMS may create an individual account to access the service.

To date, the program has delivered more than 1,500 tutoring sessions with students, which includes 772 math sessions, 210 English Language Arts sessions, and 149 science sessions. Dozens of students have utilized drop-off writing review services and logged in for sessions with the platform’s SAT® and ACT® Essentials test prep from The Princeton Review®; dozens more have connected for real-time tutoring help with Advanced Placement® subjects and other standardized test preparation.

Typically, when we think of tutoring, we imagine academic support happening outside of traditional school hours. A student gets home, starts their homework, and perhaps can’t remember how the teacher described solving for x in a quadratic equation. Now, rather than waiting until the next day for the teacher refresher, that student can take advantage of tutoring, get the help they need, and continue to move their learning forward. This accelerates the student’s learning, making it possible to cover more material in less time. Multiply that benefit over the course of a semester for entire cohorts, and it’s easy to imagine the impact that widespread access can have on student achievement.

Students aren’t the only ones who benefit, however. Tutoring also provides educators with an extra tool to use with their students inside the classroom.
Interestingly, the peak time for Tutor.com usage in New Hampshire is 11 a.m. on Wednesday. Teachers are quite busy in the classroom and can find themselves stretched thin trying to support the needs of all students at once. If a student is struggling with a particular skill, a teacher can assign that student to work with a tutor on that one skill while they continue focusing on the rest of the class. Or, a teacher might have students submit rough-draft writing assignments to a tutor for initial feedback. A teacher might also recommend that a Spanish-speaking student for whom English is a second language engage in a tutoring session with a bilingual tutor to reinforce a lesson in their native language.

Educators using Tutor.com can view the content areas in which their students are seeking tutoring assistance. This can help them tailor their instruction to specific areas where students are struggling. In post-session surveys, 95 percent of NH students said Tutor.com helps them be more confident about their schoolwork, and 93 percent say it’s helping them improve their grades.

Research supports the benefits and efficacy of tutoring for students. One of the greatest challenges, however, is ensuring that students access tutoring when they need help. A recent study by the Annenberg Institute at Brown University highlights one of the problems with opt-in tutoring services. As it turns out, students who are struggling and likely need the tutoring the most are the least likely to engage the support. Therefore, access to tutoring becomes the barrier.

There are ways to overcome this challenge. First, we need to ensure all students are aware that this resource is available to them at no cost. The New Hampshire program makes tutoring available to every student in grades 6–12, whether in a traditional public school, charter school, non-public school, home education program, or Education Freedom Account. Currently, 49 districts are integrated with the platform, and it will continue to be available to every district statewide so that everyone can take advantage of this valuable resource.

The next obstacle is getting students to utilize the tutoring services. By familiarizing students with the resource during school hours, we also set students up to succeed when they engage outside of school. This strategy has proven effective in at least one California district, Tutor.com partner Fresno Unified School District, which includes about 74,000 students – the majority of whom qualify for free or reduced lunch. When teachers encourage students to seek help, and when they model how to access support, students have the tools to connect on their own.

Through our partnership with Tutor.com, as well as numerous other support resources we make available, we are guided by the goal of equipping our teachers and students with tools for success so that every child can realize a bright future.

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In 1977 one of the most popular songs on the radio was Short People by Randy Newmann, who says it had nothing to do with height. It did to everyone who sang it to 4’11 me (cue the late 70’s equivalent of Nelson Muntz), but then I grew 6 inches that summer. Six inches in three months. I slept and ate.

By September, I was taller than girls my age for the first time and still growing. But now an opinion writer at the New York Times, which is reluctant to confess who or what a woman is, says short people are better for the planet.

In what world?

The one in which lives NYT opinion author Mara Altman, who says, “When you mate with shorter people, you’re potentially saving the planet by shrinking the needs of subsequent generations.”

“Lowering the height minimum for prospective partners on your dating profile is a step toward a greener planet,” …

 

“if we kept our proportions the same but were just 10 percent shorter in America alone, we would save 87 million tons of food per year (not to mention trillions of gallons of water, quadrillions of B.T.U.s of energy and millions of tons of trash).”

 

Twitter had fun with this, as you can imagine, but to be honest, this is the New York Times. If something as biologically definitive as sex (right down to your genes) can be on a spectrum, subject to opinion or whimsy, why not height? Just identify as short. If anyone accuses you of being too tall, claim discrimination, and while you are at it, hint that you may be eligible for title IX protection. If they start to give you that mean look, announce that you are a short woman (with a penis), and see how they take the news.

And then complain about your period.

Cut your age in half while you are at it. You’re only as old as the age you tell people!

Too tall an order? Screw em. Then ask them what the carbon footprint is for all the step stools, ladders, and lifts we’ll need so the future generations of not-tall folks can reach all the stuff built by their unsustainably tall ancestors.

Or is there a green energy jobs plan to shorten the world to match the reduced elevation averages of whatever passes for people?

It will be an omnibus bill three times as expensive as the last one, but they’ll call it The Tiny Green Deal.

And yes, it will include funding for Ukraine (and not just because the men there are taller).

 

Oh, and I did like the song. Short People.

 

HT | NewsWars

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I have lately been forced to shed an illusion I’ve been enjoying for the last 5 or 6 years. Namely, that the Republican Party has a serious prospect of guiding America.

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I now think this can never take place or is so unlikely to take place that we should not, as individuals, be pouring our limited energy into it.  It would be better to use that energy to attain realistic goals.

Possibly the fizzling out of the Republican Party has to do with demographics, or with the corporate media, or a range of factors. But my “shedding of an illusion” is more basic than that. I now see that the role of Party is incorrectly understood.

This first came to my attention when it was announced that such-and-such person was likely to replace the outgoing chairman of the Party in my state — New Hampshire. (I am calling him “Such and Such” to mean it could have been anyone. I have no comment on any actual candidate; the problem is beyond any soul.)

I asked, “What qualities should we be looking for in the new chairman?” This then forced me to wonder, “What does the Chairman ordinarily do? How does he/she support the Republican-minded citizens of his/her state? What programs for the nation is he/she ready to help initiate or augment? How does he/she try to strengthen us (other than by chanting, ‘The Dems are bad, those horrible dems’)?

It had previously been my assumption that my state, and all 50 states, had a way of channeling the goodwill of its Republican Party members to use their strength as a national force.  It’s a bit embarrassing to realize that I took that assumption on board in a completely unthinking way. For me, the Party leadership just “was.” I’ll bet you saw it that way, too. “Sure, it’s there. Who could doubt it?”

Actually, I did notice, 16 years ago, if only for a fleeting moment, that when I was an NH candidate for Congress in the Republican primary, the national chairman was Ken Melman, whom I had never heard of and who seemed to have no platform! And at that moment also, Karl Rove was sort of directing the show and yet everything about him smacked of the opposite of republican values.

In 2008 I moved back to Australia for family reasons and was not thinking of office-seeking again. However, in 2017, there was a snap election for US Senate to fill Jeff Sessions’ seat when he became US attorney general. So I catapulted myself into Alabama to run for that position. During my candidacy, I found the Party very welcoming and meaningful. That may have been just my imagination, but at least I didn’t perceive any funny business. At a person-to-person level, it seemed that republicanism was a real energizer. It energized me.

Having lost that primary (to Judge Roy Moore, who then lost it to the Democrat Doug Jones), I ended up back in my Concord, NH digs and gave no thought to a 2018 run. For the 2020 presidential primary, I decided to run for Vice President — NH was one of the states that allow persons to register as a VP candidate. I was aware that a win couldn’t lead to an actual election because we now have the “running mate” system, with a presidential nominee from the summer convention choosing his VP. My aim was to call attention to the unconstitutionality of this. I am a rabid — repeat, rabid — constitutionalist.

When I waltzed into Room 204 at the State House, I was told there was no longer a way to sign up as a VP candidate. I had already gone to the bank, and my $1,000 filing fee, cash, was hot in my hand, so I used it instead to become a presidential candidate. That was a silly gesture, as Trump was running and got 90% of the primary NH vote. It was fun to be an outlier — 929 Granite Staters voted for me. The field of Dems in that primary included Klobuchar, Steyer, Biden, Pocahontas, etc, plus Tulsi Gabbard, who has now said Toodle-oo to the Dems.

Sorry, I’m going off the track with this biography. The fact, which has nothing to do with me, is that a Party is not what we thought. The national chairmanship is specifically disconnected from the population or the principles. Thus America’s Republican Party, as such, has no center, no spinal column, no whatever. I guess it’s a fundraiser and a focus for the preferred candidate. It is certainly a good distraction from America’s real problems.

All of the above is Point One.  But now, here is Point Two. We should no longer have political parties. They harm America. And thus we should have something else.  I don’t know what, but I can see, from recent events, that Parties harm us.  Big Boys at the top (who donate heavily to both parties!) do intend that the party system be used against the nation. After all, they are globalists and hate any unifying of Americans. They want a red-blue fight to be a Thriller in Manila every day of the week.

Examples — Five out of Many

Let me present some examples of harms that could not have occurred if it weren’t for folk’s sense that loyalty to Party demands a shutting down of other moral or practical evaluations.

 

1. Today (January 3) when a Speaker of the House is to be chosen, the attention is not on What do we want in a speaker? It’s on, per usual, “How can we be sure to coax enough votes for McCarthy, as the Republicans are holding the House by a razor-thin majority?” Some repubs who don’t want McCarthy will be labeled traitors if they don’t give him their vote.

(Note: Just a reminder, the vote of every rep, at all times, should be the vote of that district’s constituents. Redness or blueness is not the determining factor.)

2. Women should not be in combat positions in the US Army. Any sensible person can see many reasons to find that a good policy. (Our military has lowered all the former physical standards to accommodate women’s lower scores, y’know). But with the Dems representing wokeness, sensible reasons do not come into play. “Party strength” comes into play. Politicians are afraid to speak sensibly. They have to have an eye on how this will affect their re-election.

(Note: I assume Dems today are afraid to speak against any woke position, such as drag queens at Library Story Hour. See what I mean?  Virtually all sensible discussion is held back by Party-ism. One does not want to be called a traitor, or even to get a dirty look from colleagues.  Such is human nature.  We should get rid of this whole set-up, considering how inevitable this club-like behavior is.)

3. If there is an accusation of a stolen election, the nation goes into complete Red/Blue mode. I certainly think the 2020 presidential election was stolen — by globalists of course — and that no Dem would say HOLD IT EVERYBODY, WE CAN’T ALLOW STOLEN ELECTIONS! Rather, they say that any Repub who complains about it is a jerk, a liar, a hater, etc. Thus, the 2020 election did not get sorted, paving the way for all citizens to give up on their political power. Incidentally, I think the 2004 loser, John Kerry, went along with the gag.

(Note the 2004 election was clearly stolen by Bush.  Drop by my house, 175 Loudon Rd, Apt 6, I’ll show you the paperwork. The reputation of our Party went down the drain as Dems stood in the rain and were shut out of voting in Ohio. I brought this up at a meeting of NH Republican Women at the time and got no quarter.  Nobody said “Hold it Everybody, we can’t allow stolen elections!”   But if we had done that, subsequent elections would not have been so stealable — oops but SCOTUS might pull a surprise this Friday January 6 in the Brunson case. Yay!)

4. An incumbent Republican can get big money while a challenger cannot. If there were no Party treasure chest for state offices, this problem would not arise. In the 2022 gubernatorial campaign in NH, many Repubs did not want the Sun King to be the nominee. Yet they chose him as against other primary runners such as Karen Testerman, if they calculated that Sununu was the only Repub who could win over the Sem nominee. Is that stupid or what?

(Sununu’s father and brother are WEF aficionados. Does that affect the chances for republican principles to be protected by Gov Sununu? Logic says Yes. Think about it.)

5. The FBI is a force for evil. Sure, it may also carry out some good tasks (I don’t know of any, but, hey that just shows my ignorance.) The FBI was invented (within Treasury) to investigate. It has no constitutional warrant for acting as police. If Article I, sec 8, doesn’t list a Congress grant of power for it, the states have it. Hence, policing is a state power. Unless an FBI man has been deputized by a local police force, he can make arrests only under the rubric of Citizen’s Arrest. In fact that is how they do it. Does a Republican Congress have the guts to advertise this fact?  Can the Repubs fight to decertify a DoJ that permitted a late-night raid on Mar-a-lago? I bet repubs don’tt know that they can do so on principle rather than on bluey- reddy politics.

(Note: In bygone days, repubs were constitutionalists, but not now.  So what’s the value of Party principles? A Republican, in any of the 50 states, who runs for office as a constitutionalist will of course be prevented from winning. “We can’t have that!”  says the globalist.)

Can We Please De-Westminsterize Congress?

On November 17, 2022, GranteGrok.com published my article about our sadly westministerized Congress.  I wrote:

Part of the way in which the globalists have taken over America is by maneuvering the members of Congress into a fixed Party system, and maneuvering the pubic into thinking this is normal. It is not normal. John C Coleman reported, in his 1992 book, “The Conspirators’ Hierarchy,” that Lloyd Cutler was tasked (by the globalists) with westminsterizing Congress.

This really ruins the concept of your local member of Congress representing you. How can he take orders from the field if he has already been given his orders from the globalists, as passed down through Party leaders?  As I said recently about New Hampshire’s two reps, Anne Kuster and Chris Pappas, they always vote with Nancy Pelosi and therefore don’t deserve to be paid $176,000 per annum. We could pay them an honorarium of $5,000 and all they would have to do is press the button to vote as instructed.

My life in Australia (I am US-born) taught me a thing or two about the Westminster system. It is not provided for in the US Constitution, and we should demolish it quick smart. All proud Americans should work now to get this stupid system kicked out of the ballpark.

On this very day, all members of the US House and Senate — particularly freshmen — should be ruthless about voting for new rules. For example, they could appoint committee members by lot — as in, you know, drawing a name out of a hat. They could vote for a rotating Speaker of the House, say one every 6 months. They could and should, and must vote a Committee of Ten to deal with Article I, sec 8, Clause 11 before we get into nuclear Armageddon with Russia (which is probably what the globalists want).

They could vote a Rule of giving top priority to any matters of rigged elections. Or dealing with America’s young people having heart attacks after vaccinations.  Whatever. They could actually rub a few neurons together.  Wouldn’t that be nice?

Conclusion: Point One: the role of the NH state chairman is unfathomable. Point Two: There are some harms “that could not have occurred if it weren’t for folk’s sense that loyalty to Party demands a shutting down of other moral or practical evaluations.”

Here is an offer I made one sunny day on Main Street:

 

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It was decided long ago that your parents wanted to be somewhere warm when it came time for retirement. They took years, yes years, to find just the right assisted living residential home in sunny South Florida, and have been happy there since the day they moved in.

Although you and the grandkids still live in upstate New York, the only thing they really miss is spending time with the kids.

However, all that snow and cold for many months of the year were not enough to keep them there. Unfortunately, now they are unable to travel alone as they are beginning to forget things and can get lost easily if not attended. There is no way for you to take time off work to fly down to get them, but there is a way for them to fly ‘home’ through JFK International Airport, where you will happily meet them at the gate. Let’s look at how that’s done!

Begin With a Travel Companion

Once your parents’ doctor in Miami clears them for travel, as long as they are assisted by a trained travel companion, you can start preparing for their visit. It might be a bit difficult to do with the kids bouncing around you in anticipation of grandma and grandpa coming to stay for a couple of weeks, but help is there for you, so don’t despair just yet.

Did you know that services from transport teams like angel flights can even take the stress out of booking flights for your parents? Once dates are agreed for the transport service to be available on both legs of the journey, they can even book the flights for you and your parents! These are non-medical emergency services so it’s something they do every day of the week. In other words, your parents (and you!) are safe in their well-qualified hands.

Work Closely With the Care Team at Your Parents’ Residence

Both you and the transport team will need to work closely with the care team at your parents’ assisted living facility. The nursing staff and/or social worker will see to it that all medications are packed, and the schedule is clearly printed. This will need to be one of the first things to do after travel arrangements are booked because there will be little time closer to the flight date to get any prescriptions filled or OTC products like Depends are bought and packed timely.

The Only Real Concern Would Be Medications

Since it could take days to contact their primary care provider in South Florida if just one important medication didn’t get packed, that’s the only thing that needs to be checked and rechecked at least a few days before departure date. Anything else like pajamas or beach wear can be bought on your end. The travel companion will ensure they take any medications necessary during travel times and they will hand your parents off to you with a thorough report you can expect.

There is one last thing to do on your end and that would be to enjoy this time with grandma and grandpa. Maybe next year you can fly to them, but this year just enjoy the comfort of sitting together around the fireplace and the warm embrace that only parents can give.

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I will not condemn sports or the violence of some of the contact sports we love and enjoy. That is not the purpose of my writing today. Science and technology have made tremendous gains in designing equipment for the maximum safety of athletes.

Unfortunately, sometimes an injury will happen despite all the equipment and techniques that the players are taught. This is what happened on Monday night. On a clean play, with marginal contact, Damar Hamlin, a young defensive back for the Buffalo Bills, lay motionless on the field. His heart stopped by the contact of a Cincinnati Bengals player directly to the center of Damar’s chest. The incident was nobody’s fault; there is no one to blame; it simply happened.

Professional and college athletes have gotten so big and fast that violent collisions are inevitable. That is one of the reasons we watch the games. Not to see players injured but how quickly they can have their bodies jolted, shake it off and get back in the game. These athletes are in incredible shape and condition, and they know the dangers of the game. Injuries are part of sports, but until last night, we had not been brought to the point where it was not an injury we witnessed but someone facing death. Thank God Damar Hamlin was attended to quickly, and his heart responded and began beating back to life. Damar is in critical condition but should survive and recover.

The Monday night game was looked forward to this week and probably had an above-average viewership because of the teams and playoff implications. The Bills and Bengals are two of the premier teams with two of the most exciting quarterbacks in Burrows and Allen. The buildup was massive, the crowd was electric, and the teams were ready to play. Everything changed five minutes into the contest, and the game became insignificant. The announcers and analysts were put into the uncomfortable position of filling time as we watched in horror. The crowd that had been filling the night air with cheers fell deathly quiet. The players and coaches huddled, hugged, prayed, and cried. Emotions were running the gamut, and people waited for the athlete to get to his feet or give a thumbs up. Neither signal came, and the fears mounted. Not knowing is not something we do well.

The outpouring of concern and love for Damar Hamlin was heartwarming. Fans who had just been cheering for their team with a fever pitch joined to hold candles outside the stadium and hospital. Social media was ablaze with prayers and good wishes for the young fallen athlete. The game was halted, and the goodwill of Americans took over. The GoFundMe site that Damar had set up to supply toys to needy children in Buffalo had a goal of $2,500. The site quickly swelled to over $3.6 Million in a matter of minutes, with over 140,000 individual donors. The American people are the most generous on earth. Goodness always rises to the top.

Sports, especially professional football, have hit the pause button, and all attention is on a young man lying in a bed in a Cincinnati hospital. His life and well-being trump wins, losses, and playoff seeding. This is precisely how it should be. Sport, as vital as we make them, is a game played by a few. Life and pulling for someone to pull through a tragedy is for us all. If you haven’t already, stop for a moment and give some thoughts and prayers for Damar Hamlin. If he never plays again, so be it, but he has a long life ahead to enjoy. He deserves that.

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Dear bitter-clingers, your “leaders” despise you; they loathe you; they don’t give a damn about you. What will it take to make you understand that you cannot beat the Democrats until you first beat the faux-Republicans like Mitch McConnell and Sun-King Sununu? That’s a sincere question.

Local property taxes in New Hampshire are stratospheric and climbing … yet you accept the canard that “local control” prevents State government from doing anything to protect taxpayers … as in a REAL, that is hard, no exception tax cap … at the same time you support State government interfering in local governance in order to support “workforce” … i.e. TikTok voter … housing.

Mitch McConnell and his faux-Republicans in the Senate have done exponentially more to help Biden than they ever did to help Trump. Sun-King Sununu has done far more to turn New Hampshire BLUE than any Democrat Governor before him. They are not the “lesser of two evils”. They are part of the evil.

.@LeaderMcConnell to host @POTUS Biden in Kentucky for event celebrating president's 'economic plan' https://t.co/K5hetuWkwC

— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) January 2, 2023

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On September 18, I joined Billboard Chris’ rally outside Boston Children’s Hospital to call attention to the serious harm being done to kids at their pediatric gender clinic.

Related: Transgender Ideology Harms Children

Boston Children’s is transitioning kids as young as three years old. They are administering puberty blockers to kids as young as 10, and virtually 100% of these kids go on to take cross-sex hormones, leaving them infertile and without sexual function. At age 15, they offer amputation of girls’ healthy breasts.

Libs of TikTok, Matt Walsh, and Billboard Chris have been working to expose what is going on at Boston Children’s ever since the hospital published damning videos.

While Libs of TikTok and Matt Walsh do their work on social media and Walsh has a popular podcast, Billboard Chris’ main outreach is going to public places wearing sandwich board signs front and back and talking face-to-face with people on the street to educate those who don’t know what is going on or don’t realize how serious things have gotten and to try and reason with those who disagree with him, often adamantly so. He is always peaceful, but his opposition often isn’t.

When Stephen and I arrived for Chris’ rally, there was a huge mob of Antifa counterprotesters and their allies gathered in front of the hospital. The Boston Globe estimated it was 150 people. There were at least 20 police officers in riot gear in front of our group of about ten people across the street.  

Chris brought his trademark black and white signs for all of us to hold — “Dad: (noun) a human male who protects his kids from gender ideology,” “Mom: (noun) a human female who protects her kids from gender ideology,” “Children cannot consent to puberty blockers,” “No child is born in the wrong body,” and “Gender ideology does not belong in schools.”

The Antifa mob was furious with our presence. The leaders egged on their followers with a megaphone. For the entire three hours, we were there, they demanded that we had to leave. “Get these scum off our streets! Whose streets? Our streets!”  One of the weirdest chants was, “An eye for an eye! A tooth for a tooth! We will protect trans youth!”

The members of the mob were holding a plethora of handmade cardboard signs and carrying pride and transgender flags and a homemade banner that said “Kill Fascism” with a hammer and sickle on it. Billboard Chris teased them, calling them “Arts and Crafts Antifa.”

The Boston legacy media was there, including the Boston Globe and the Boston Herald, as well as several photographers. I suspected that the legacy media would not cover what was happening on our side of the street, especially as the hours went by and no mainstream journalist ever came to interview us, so I did my own investigation.

I asked the members of our small group what their political affiliation is, and they told me they are on the left politically. All of them have children that suddenly and unexpectedly identified as transgender, so-called Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria, ROGD. Parents on the left are much more likely to have kids who are victims of the trans cult.

The next day the legacy media coverage was all a smear. They identified us as right-wing extremists who want to harm “trans” kids, including the Boston Herald, which I did not realize had gone ‘woke.’ The Herald’s coverage includes a picture of me holding a sign saying, “Children cannot consent to puberty blockers.”

No legacy news media interviewed Billboard Chris or any of us. It was a hit job. Thankfully, journalist Wesley Yang was there to record the truth. Watch his interview with one of the members of Chris’ rally. 

The other bizarre aspect of the news coverage is that these articles characterized our group as both a huge threat to “trans” kids and as pitifully weak and small and ineffective, especially compared to the size of the angry mob. The implication of these news stories is that “might makes right,” as if large angry, aggressive groups couldn’t possibly do anything wrong. See “Fewer than 10 anti-trans protesters met by 100s of counter-protesters at Boston Children’s Hospital” in the Boston Globe.

The entire time we were there, the Boston Police in full riot gear in the sweltering heat stayed in a line guarding us, billy clubs in hand. I watched the officer closest to me as he tapped the end of his club in his hand, waiting to jump into action to crack some heads.

About two hours in, some in the mob decided it was time to make a move, and they rushed across the street toward us, shouting, “All cops are bastards!”. The police sprang forward to block them, and when the miscreants got in their faces, the police aggressively pushed them back across the street. 

When it was time for us to leave, the police quickly escorted us away and out of sight of the mob. 

It was wonderful to connect with new allies, and we thank the mob for exposing how craven they are for the whole world to see, even if the legacy media is too corrupt, to tell the truth about what really happened. 

Billboard Chris is holding another rally outside Boston Children’s Hospital on Saturday, January 14. Follow him at twitter.com/BillboardChris to learn more and check for more details when it gets closer to the date. 

 

NO MORE SAFE SPACES FOR TRANSPHOBES!

Join your local anti-fascists at Boston Children’s Hospital on September 18th at 9 AM to protest Canadian anti-trans and queerphobe Billboard Chris’s “tour of stochastic terror”.

CALL TO ACTION BY THE TRANS AND QUEER DEFENSE CONTINGENT pic.twitter.com/qRkqYS5SM0

— Trans and Queer Defense Contingent (@transqueer161) September 13, 2022

 

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Last week we shared news about the Stanford IT department speech police issuing a language guide. For the good of the community until they walked it back the next day (something about the backlash after the Wall Street Journal took it wide) /snicker.

Related: Having Fun with the “Neurodivergents” That Created Stanford’s Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative

Clearly, there was some misunderstanding about the goals or purpose or, well, this.

 

Just days later, Steve Gallagher — whose title of “chief information officer” contains at least one “harmful” word — issued a release in an effort to set the record straight.

“Over the last couple of days, there has been much discussion of a website that provides advice for the IT community at Stanford about word choices in Stanford websites and code. … First and importantly, the website does not represent university policy.”

The master list of forbidden words “also does not represent mandates or requirements,” added the IT chief.

 

From the Guide:

 

 

Which makes you wonder if you can or should even listen to someone with a harmful job title. A problem they’ll likely find in abundance across campus and on the school’s websites. And while that’s amusing and invites complaints from all the triggered triggers, as with the UNH Bias-Free Language guide all those years ago (which also did not represent university policy), the word American being problematic was problematic for Stanford.

 

Stanford 2022:

 

And here it is in the 2013 UNH Bias-Free Language guide.

 

 

 

I’m sure folks from the Dakotas and Carolinas will be demanding to say they are from Dakota or Carolina instead of being forced to say North or South. And it is, as you know, customary to ignore your country of origin and to claim to be from a landmass on which it is associated, with the exception of Australia, which is both and possibly Africa if you are talking to a US citizen or resident of the US who is referencing or identifies as African-Americans.

Talk about problematic.

We can’t, in all honesty, say the United States because we are anything but. That leaves the commonly abbreviated version of the United States of America, which is America, which is, well, you know, odd given that the same people who are so easily offended are encouraging everyone and anyone to come to America and be an American.

They even opened and or erased the borders to make it happen.

So, there are only “42 other countries” because those damn bigots refuse to open their borders like Biden and let just anyone in for government handouts at taxpayer expense (also probably US taxpayers). Maybe they need to work on their language and leave ours alone while we can still find someone in “America” who speaks it.

 

 

 

HT | The Blaze

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