This was a close call. Let’s start with the runner-up … poor, poor, pitiful Chuck Morse. For a while, it looked like the political stars were going to align perfectly for Chuck.

Sun-King Sununu would run for the U.S. Senate and Chuck would step up and run for Governor, an office Chuck was far, far more suited for than the U.S. Senate.

But, alas, it was not to be. Sun-King decided it was too much work to fundraise and realized he was far too thin-skinned to take the hits … i.e., all those “abortion-ban” ads worked … and took the coward’s way out and instead ran for a fourth term as Governor.

But poor, poor, pitiful Chuck’s problems were just starting. Chuck … or more precisely, Chuck’s crack consultants … ran a campaign straight out of the 1980s. Hey … let’s have Chuck drive a snowplow and mumble platitudes about low taxes and limited government … it worked for George Bush in 1988! And for months while Bolduc maintained a commanding lead in the polls, Sun-King Sununu just sat on the sidelines, not campaigning for Chuck, not even endorsing Chuck. By the time Sun-King finally endorsed poor, poor, pitiful Chuck it was far too late to make a difference.

And so now Chuck’s political career is over. There is no way … NO WAY … he beats Chris Pappas in the 2024 gubernatorial election. So let’s wish poor, poor, pitiful Chuck happy-lobbying and move on to the winner of biggest local-loser.

2024 was the most favorable political macro-environment for the GOP since 2010, when they won an astonishing 298 seats. Yet the House GOP managed to lose … to LOSE … seats:

Indeed, they nearly succeeded in losing control of the House. Actually, given the number of RINOS the Democrats probably do have functional control of the House.

There can be no question, therefore, that the biggest political loser of 2022 is Jason Osborne, the Majority Leader. The man did the seemingly impossible. He led the House GOP to defeat in a year that political defeat for the GOP in a supposedly “purple” State seemed impossible.

 

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First, let’s take a moment to look across the aisle, shall we? Heather Raymond was a social worker, and it was on her watch that a kid in the system, Brielle Gage, died (Concord Monitor 4/16/17). She got Children and Family Law. Awkward!

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Maybe being a subordinate of the insufferable chairman Rep Pearson is karma.

Luz Bay, as you can see in luzbay dot run, is a social justice warrior and got Election Law. What member of that committee could be more dangerous than one whom Melanie Levesque praises on social media? In case anyone reading this is new to NH or has forgotten, Melanie is now known statewide for taking her SJW agenda to Concord in more ways than one, most recently in her attempt to usurp future elections as the SoS.

There are four Nashua reps on Public Works. Diversity, anyone? Nashua is the 2nd largest city in NH and has perhaps the biggest spending problem. This is a city that failed to elect the amazingly qualified Laurie Ortolano to the local office of the same name in favor of the social media tyrant Paul Shea, locally known for his “Great American Downtown.” Talk about spreading the Nashua cancer to Concord and beyond!

There are three Nashua reps on Resources, Recreation, and Development. Once again, I mention the buzzword “diversity,” but it’s one less Rep than Public Works and likely a committee with less potential to do as much damage.

And now, onto our side, or is it really?

Kelley Potenza, no stranger in the state house, requested HHS and/or Election Law and got Environment and Agriculture. I am convinced this happened due to one or more of the following: The decision was made to spite her and perhaps the rest of NH. She was put where the speaker thought she could be silenced the most. The Damn Emperor told the speaker where to put her.

No Rep actively involved in the Voter Integrity Project was selected for Election Law despite six requesting it. Why is that? Aren’t committee members, especially freshmen, supposed to be selected for what’s in their wheelhouses? If Sandra Panek et al. were placed elsewhere because they were branded as potential troublemakers, I’d refer you back to what I said about freshman Luz Bay. Doesn’t the speaker want clean elections? Evidence to the contrary is on full display.

One of the requestors of Election Law was assigned to Legislative Administration. While I can’t prove anything from the following observation, I will point out to the readers that while I was in the state house cafeteria on Organization Day, the chair of Legislative Administration approached me and asked if I was that particular rep to which I said no and asked why he asked. He said he was looking for her, and there was some speculation that she was assigned by the establishment swamp to “keep an eye on her.” Badge of honor, in my opinion. Also noteworthy is that Osborne sits on that committee in a non-leadership position. Osborne is no friend of The Resolve Initiative.

While anything I just said would not (by itself) be admissible in a court of law, I find it a rather unusual combination of happenings.

I emailed several Resolve-endorsed reps, some freshmen and some not, and did not allow ample time for all of them to reply on this holiday weekend. However, I wanted to share my observations while the House committee assignments are still a current event and before the next House session.

I will consider if future responses from those I emailed warrant a sequel to this article. For now, have an excellent time, however you choose to spend it, and keep paying attention.

 

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People claiming to be adults and not groomers are defending the use of adult-oriented material (porn) directed and kids in public schools, public libraries, and perhaps even classrooms. If you suggest they are not age-appropriate, they label you a book banner. First, F!!! You. Second?

• Is anything anyone can get not in the catalog of a school or public library banned? If not, why not?
• Do you think children should have unlimited access to alcohol, or are you a prohibitionist?
• Why isn’t it unfair to keep anyone under a certain age from working in a long list of “good paying” jobs?
• If children can read and learn about sex, are you okay with them engaging in oral, anal, or vaginal intercourse at any age, whenever they feel like it, as long as both parties consent?
• Why can’t they get married at the age of 6 or 9, or 12?
• Should we end juvenile detention and throw law-breaking child felons into prison gen-pop?
• If they can put a c!! k in their mouth, why can’t they legally own property, buy stocks, gamble, play the lottery, or buy a car and drive?
• Why can’t they lease property, sign contracts, file a lawsuit against another child or adult, or buy or sell marijuana?

 

 

Perhaps we should make age as tempestuous and temperamental as gender—a reflection of a mood or personality rather than defined by some number of days. You are only as old as you feel, they like to say, which brings us back to the list.

It has been understood for millennia that some things are not age-appropriate and that limiting access on these terms is reasonable and necessary. It is a very (VERY!) long list of things, but no one accuses anyone of banning them. Is it because the items are still available to everyone else? And if that’s the standard, limiting access to sexualized material is not a ban.

But if you’d like to keep calling it that, we’d be happy to make you look like the ass you are.

 

 

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The next time you bump into a green-energy, electric vehicle futurist who seems a bit too committed to the Net-Zero lie, take a deep breath and then ask them this. So, you’re okay with the human trafficking and slavery required to make that possible?

And that may not be the best way to open the topic. Maybe more of an “I love the idea, and technology is great, but I have some concerns.”

What sort?

If emotion is a better needle-mover than data (there isn’t enough of the stuff we need to get here from there) or facts (we’re offshoring emissions, not eliminating them), how about this?

Joe Rogan is talking to Siddharth Kara, “an American author, activist, and expert on modern-day slavery and human trafficking, child labor, and related human rights issues.” This brief segment introduces us to an inconvenient truth many knew or suspected and gives it a face.

Rare earth metals like cobalt are essential. They are in every modern battery-powered device, from rechargeable lights to smartphones, EVs, and green energy backup storage. The climate cult’s utopia is impossible without it, and most of the cobalt is in The Congo, where it is minded by hand—forced hard labor in Chinese-owned mines for maybe a dollar or two a day, according to Siddharth Kara.

The stuff is toxic to humans, and the workers wear no gloves or masks.

And while it is not just cobalt, the more significant problem is increased demand as governments force their transportation and energy transition plans forward. Priorities that will lead to more of this.

 

 

 

HT | WUWT

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Overall, the items in the basket of goods under the Consumer Price Index have increased by a collective 7.1% since last year, making purchasing necessary food and energy items more difficult:

 

(H/T: Visual Capitalist)

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First, I am merely an “enlightened amateur”.  Please vet & check on your own.  Caveat emptor.  Consider these to be priming the pump for your own investigations.  I know this is a long post; I am attempting to put out a lot of information as a resource.  Read or skip sections depending on your interests.

Second, I fear spicy time is very close, but even a month of food, water, etc., puts you well ahead of most of the sheeple.  IMHO, set your minimum sights on a three-month period.

Third, two things will be critical for having the best chance of making it through:

1. Mentality: first and foremost in survival is having a flexible mentality and cultivating the ability to adapt. Vanity has no place in survival.
2. Develop a meatspace network of people that are likeminded: cultivate your community ties and build alliances with neighbors (note: don’t babble about the Jab or globalists or depopulation, or start pointing political fingers when doing this)… and remember, the first rule of PREP CLUB is that there is no prep club.

And please follow both me, Nitzakhon, on Gab… as well as my blog host Granite Grok and also on Telegram Tommy Robinson Official plus his Urban Scoop site.  And don’t forget posts sometimes get cloned on American Reveille as well, which is a good site to check out in general.

And the last edition:

Survival Sunday – Thursday SITREP Edition – Granite Grok

 

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The Left is very, very good at symbols and other emotion-based propaganda.

 

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Top of the fold:

The Case for Safety in the Synagogue | City Journal (city-journal.org)

Jews must learn how to shoot, and carry.  Then again, everyone should.  Specific to us Jews, I am vastly disappointed that my fellow Yids are so anti-gun.  But here’s an explanation I find does ring true:

The Shtetl Mentality (jpfo.org)

 

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Prepper Site URLS:

Most have daily articles; revisit daily.  Please recommend others in the comments.

Ask a Prepper, how to prepare, survive and thrive, latest news

Mother Earth News

The Organic Prepper Home – The Organic Prepper

SurvivalBlog.com – The Daily Web Log for Prepared Individuals Living in Uncertain Times.

SHTF Blog – Modern Survival

Survival World – Everything You Need To Know to Survive

Homestead Survival Site – How to Live Off The Grid in Comfort and Style

Urban Survival Site | How to Survive a Disaster in the City

Mind4Survival – Survival and Preparedness

Gray Wolf survival

Sustainable Living (sustainablelivingideas.com)

The Classic Survivalist – Surviving in a Modern World

Primal Survivor – Practical and sensible prepping advice

Em Off-grid – We & Our Off The Grid Life – Em OffGrid

Resource for Practical, Daily Prepping Skills for SHTF & Survival (geekprepper.com) (new)

And three aggregate sites listing their top favorite sites & links too:

TOP 50 SURVIVAL & PREPPER BLOGS

The 50 Best Survival Blogs

Prepper Website – Preparedness • Survival • Alternative News

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Specific, one-up articles:

25 Survival Items You Should Get From The Dollar Store (askaprepper.com)

Just remember, there are limits to how much you can prep and store.  But do what you can!  And as an aside, I’m happy to see I am already working on 24 out of 25.  On to superglue!

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How To Cook Steak On A Stone In The Wilderness – Ask a Prepper

When you have no pan…

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How to Use Potassium Iodide After a Nuclear Emergency – (theorganicprepper.com)

If you can’t find KI pills, kelp pills are IMHO a good second choice.  Of course, the best route is to incorporate iodine supplementation into your diet on an ongoing basis so that your thyroid already has a lot of it.  I give my kids about 300 % of the RNA daily.  Not overly heavy – see Japan’s intake – but enough to be reasonably sure that in case of an “event” their thyroids are full up.  Radioactive iodine has a half-life of about eight days, so to get back down to below 10% is about a month of extra supplementation.

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10 Things You Should Never Do When The Power Goes Out (askaprepper.com)

All good ideas. From the same site:

7 Mistakes To Avoid When Harvesting Rain Water – Ask a Prepper

How To Prepare Your Car For SHTF – Ask a Prepper

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Related to Spicy Time:

 

 

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Stick a Fork in It

The country is done. The first article details the corruption and election fraud has eliminated any hope at the ballot box. Our economy has collapsed. Our people have lost the will to work. The people who still are working are vilified and taxed to death. Whoever was vaccinated and boostered is living on borrowed time. Our national security is gone in order to destroy our culture. The rant could continue but the point is still the same: the Deep State killed our country. And we allowed them.

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Heavy Gunfire Heard Across Snowed-In US City as Looting Erupts (thefederalistpapers.org)

Harbinger of what will happen when the EBT cards stop working and the food & water run out for reals.

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I learned that if your head, hands, and feet are – at least – not cold, your core will be fine.  And that’s what’s critical.

 

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Short of years and untold wealth, you cannot possibly be fully prepared for everything (I have to keep reminding myself of that).  But even some preparations, ideally at least 90 days of food, water / water purification, etc., puts you head and shoulders in front of the vast majority of the sheeple who will be in jaw-gaping astonishment when the SHTF.  The only relevant questions are:

1. When does it start?
2. How bad will it get?
3. How long will it last?
4. What will the aftermath look like?

 

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I just started a FORAGING group on Gab.  I’ve figured out how to add people who request, so please hop on in and contribute!

 

Foraging: One-up articles

50+ Dandelion Recipes: Drinks, Sweets, Soap, Remedies + More! (growforagecookferment.com)

Site also has a foraging section, which I’ll add below/  But from the site:

12 Edible and Medicinal Weeds to Forage in Your Backyard (growforagecookferment.com)

Foraging Chanterelle Mushrooms: Identification & Look-alikes (growforagecookferment.com)

Foraging Morel Mushrooms: Identification & Look-alikes (growforagecookferment.com)

5 Easy to Identify Edible Mushrooms (growforagecookferment.com)

What to Forage in Spring: 20 Edible and Medicinal Plants and Fungi (growforagecookferment.com)

What to Forage in Fall: 30+ Edible and Medicinal Plants and Mushrooms (growforagecookferment.com)

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Foraging (permanent feature):

Foraging (practicalselfreliance.com)

Wild Harvests (arcadianabe.blogspot.com)

Southern Appalachian Herbs

Forage – Grow Forage Cook Ferment

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Books (permanent feature):

Feasting Free on Wild Edibles (old but good)

The Lost Ways (much more than just foraging)

The Forager’s Guide to Wild Foods

THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO EDIBLE WILD PLANTS FOR BEGINNERS

 

 

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Shortages (broadly):

Here’s a great thread on why progressives want you to eat bugs and own nothing – twitchy.com

For several years now I’ve seen articles praising the “tiny home” concept.

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Farmer predicts more food shortages, higher prices in 2023: ‘Wake up and support local’ | Fox News

And:

Potential Food Shortages in US? Here’s What May Be Scarce in 2023

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Shortage of Ordinary Medicines Quickly Becoming U.S. National Health Emergency – Biden Administration Silent, Beach Life is Bliss – The Last Refuge (theconservativetreehouse.com)

I’m searching for OTC stuff to stock up.  Just in case.  Already noticing things missing.

 

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Gardening, Food Storage, General Health, and Related:

 

 

Growing Your Own Food and Why It Makes You So Happy (superseeds.com)

Now if I could actually get something to grow.  Even in the raised bed I made, with good organic soil, I get squat.

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I got my Vitamin D level checked – top of the range.  The doctor said he’d never seen someone with a level that high.

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Links on old-time food storage (permanent feature):

Thanks to the Canning and Preserving group on Gab, I now have these links:

Preserving foods by drying | How to dry foods safely (uada.edu)

USDA-Complete-Guide-to-Home-Canning-2015-revision.pdf (healthycanning.com)

Canning | SDSU Extension (sdstate.edu)

Food Preservation– Canning | Consumer Food Safety | Washington State University (wsu.edu)

Canning Timer & Checklist App | OSU Extension Catalog | Oregon State University

National Center for Home Food Preservation (uga.edu)

Canning Recipes | Ball® Mason Jars (ballmasonjars.com)

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Topical Books (also permanent):

Charcuterie: The Craft of Salting, Smoking & Curing

Salumi: The Craft of Italian Dry Curing

A Guide to Canning, Freezing, Curing & Smoking Meat, Fish & Game

The Prepper’s Canning Guide

Pickled Pantry

Fermented Vegetables

Hydroponics and Greenhouse Gardening: 3-in-1 Gardening Book to Grow Vegetables, Herbs, and Fruit All-Year-Round

Hydroponics for Beginners: The Complete Guide to Hydroponic Gardening, Designing and Building Inexpensive DIY Hydroponic Systems…

The Aquaponics Guidebook: Combining Aquaculture and Hydroponics Combining Aquaculture and Hydroponics

 

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Self-defense (broad) & Hunting:

American Handgunner Close Dark Fast – American Handgunner

Excellent!!!  A must-read.

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5 Carry Conditions – How Do You Carry Your Handgun? – Tactical Sh*t

I carry Condition 1.

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Concerning that what should be a good attitude – train, train, train – can be twisted by a court to backfire on you.

 

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Concluding thoughts if I’m moved to comment:

 

Happy New Year!

 

 

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It does play, don’t worry!

 

 

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Palate cleansers:

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Please check out my MEMES collections; last one here.  Mockery, ridicule, and the wrapping of uncomfortable truths inside humor can penetrate the cognitive shields of normies far more effectively – IMHO – than dry facts and figures.

 

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For the next five minutes, something like common sense just emerged from the bowels of the 11th Circuit Court of appeals. The case is Adams v. Sch. Bd. of St. Johns Cty, questioning whether the school board violated transgender student rights.

“[A] biological female who identifies as a boy” was prohibited “from using the boys’ bathroom at Allen D. Nease High School. The court ruled en banc that the United States has a long tradition of segregating certain spaces, such as bathrooms, on the basis of sex, without falling afoul of either the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment or Title IX, which prohibits sex-based discrimination in education.”

 

“Separating school bathrooms based on biological sex passes constitutional muster and comports with Title IX,” Judge Barbara Lagoa, who was appointed by President Donald Trump, wrote for the court. Four judges appointed by Democrats dissented from the opinion.

The school’s policy on bathroom use is based on biological sex, which includes transgender people.

“Both sides of the classification — biological males and biological females — include transgender students,” the ruling read.

 

No matter how you identify at school, you have either one set of biological parts or the other. That’s your bathroom, and expecting as much does not violate your rights.

I know, too simple.

The ruling also only applies to courts overseen by the 11th Circus, which includes Alabama, Georgia, and Florida, but it draws a line in the sand – though we remind you that it is still sand. At some point this will make its way up the food chain where we hope Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson will recuse herself, seeing as she doesn’t know what a woman is because she is not a biologist. Not that not being something ever stopped her from ruling on anything else.

 

 

HT | Washington Examiner

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The biggest winner in New Hampshire politics in 2022? Without question GOVERNOR … oops, I am getting ahead of myself … CONGRESSMAN CHRIS PAPPAS, who is on the glide path to Governor in 2024.

Thanks to a big assist from Sun-King Sununu, who vetoed a proposed congressional map that would have made CD-1 more competitive for Pappas and who, in addition, did nothing of substance to help Pappas’ Republican opponent, Pappas cruised to another reelection victory. Now he is perfectly positioned to run for Governor in 2024, when the Sun-King abdicates and takes his “contributor’s” perch at MSNBC or CNN.

Who is going to stop Pappas from being elected Governor in 2024? Edelblut? Morse? You need to question your sanity if you really believe either Edelblut or Morse would be anything more than a sacrificial lamb. The gubernatorial election is not going to be a referendum on “Education Freedom Accounts,” while Morse and his crack consultants apparently believe that it is 1982, not 2022, and that Ronald Reagan is still President.

Pappas is going to be elected Governor of New Hampshire in 2024 and he will remain Governor until the Democrats decide it is time for him to step up to U.S. Senate, and then he will be Senator for life.

The only potential roadblock … now that Pappas has retained his seat in Congress … is that the Sun-King decides that he wants to make history by becoming the longest-serving (in the modern era) Governor of New Hampshire.

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Vermont’s mandated state minimum wage is rising today to 13.18 an hour. That’s, the new legislators know better what starting labor is worth to job creators rate. All in the name of whatever it is their supporters claim these wage mandates do.

New York State’s forced rate is rising as well to $14.20 an hour. Governor Kathy Hochul says, “fair, competitive wages are essential for helping families thrive and attracting top talent to the state.” I assume that’s what the idiot Dems in Vermont believe.

Government mandate wage is the opposite of a competitive one, and it has never been essential for helping families thrive or attracting people to your state. New York has been raising the wage for years, but people are fleeing in droves because, like all Democrat enclaves, it is an act of fraud.

These states have higher living costs driven by higher taxes which also increase the cost of goods and services. Forcing the wage rate up for unskilled labor does that as well. The net result is a loss in income and buying power. It can shower push-up union rates, which typically means dues increases which translates into more campaign buying power for Democrats.

If Democrats cared about thriving families and attracting talent, they’d cut taxes and regulations. Make it easier to start and run a small-to-medium-size business. That creates competition which drives performance innovations. Job creators need to find, train, and keep good talent and look for efficiencies in their process to compete. Those that succeed attract customers who can spend less and get more – making the dollars they have more valuable to everyone in the marketplace.

Government has no such incentive to do any of this and almost always does the opposite.

Mandating what an hour of starting labor is worth is a good example, especially on the current inflation track. It leads to fewer jobs, higher prices, less competition, and fewer choices.

The current labor market is a mess. And yes, many employers are already offering more to start because they can’t find people to work. So in one way, it appears meaningless. But New Hampshire’s minimum wage is 7.25 and has been for a very long time. New Hampshire has also had a higher average rate of starting pay, a stronger labor force, and a better economy – both before, during, and after the government closed businesses against their will.

So, thank you again, Vermont. Your bad decisions have, going on several decades, made New Hampshire a better place to start a business, work, shop, and live. Though to the last point, more than a few Vermonters have crossed the Connecticut river looking for a better deal and a little more economic liberty and took their voting habits with them.

To them, I’d like to say -this might be a great time to move back to Vermont. They have a higher minimum wage. And hey, take a few more Democrats with you when you go.

 

 

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Also, Blogline of the Day potential: “You have to get these crooks off the street one way or another,” the neighbor added to WXYZ. And the potential victim DID remove the perp from Society’s gene pool (gosh, a Darwin Award winner as well!).

Reformatted, emphasis mine:

Tow-truck driver with concealed carry license turns the tables on armed man who allegedly tried to rob him — and shoots suspect dead

A tow-truck driver with a concealed carry license turned the tables on an armed man who allegedly tried to rob him Monday in Detroit — and shot the suspect dead. The tow-truck driver was meeting with the suspect to buy a junk car around 9:35 a.m. in the area of 7 Mile and Kelly when he was ambushed from behind, sources told WJBK-TV, adding that the gun-toting suspect demanded everything the driver had on him.

The victim came prepared, however. The station said the tow-truck driver, who is a concealed pistol license holder, pulled out his own gun and fatally shot the suspect.

Detroit police told Fox News Digital they responded to an armed robbery and found one person shot. Investigators added to the cable network the wounded individual was taken to a hospital, where he later died. Fox News, citing Detroit police, said the Wayne County prosecutor will review the investigation’s findings, but there was no indication the tow-truck driver would face charges given that the situation appeared to be a case of self-defense.

Life is violent and all that the gun grabbers Civilian Disarmament Mob will accomplish is tilting the balance of power towards them that would take out the Civilian Disarmement Mob in a heartbeat if no one else was around to protect them. I would hope that the prosecutor isn’t a left-wing grabber themselves (hey, it’s Detroit, right? A Democrat run “political utopia” that hates guns if not solely in the hands of government.

To Keep And Bear Arms – we are just about at that tipping point where the majority of States will be Constitutional Carry ones. That is to say, we don’t have to “ask for permission” from Government to protect ourselves from n’er-do-wells like this perp now taking his long dirt nap.

(H/T: The Blaze)

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The biggest political winner of 2022? No contest … not even close … JOE BIDEN.

I can hear the howls from the bitter-clingers … NO! NO! NO! BIDEN IS A FAILURE! INCOMPETENT! Blah, blah, blah. Keep deluding yourselves, bitter-clingers. What you consider failure and incompetence is what Team-Biden considers success.

With a big assist from Mitch McConnell and the faux-Republicans in the Senate, Biden … or to be accurate, the cabal of Communists behind Biden … has had the most successful two years of any Presidency with respect to implementing his agenda … millions of illegals imported who will have children who will be American citizens and additional Democrat voters, a proxy war against Russia, the green new deal (they call it “infrastructure”), the most openly radical far-left federal judges imaginable, no midterm “red wave” … to name just a few:

At the end of a historic, productive session of Congress full of bipartisan results, I still have a few bills left to sign.

Take a guess how long it took me to sign a stack of 65 of them. pic.twitter.com/kP1Tc2fV4c

— President Biden (@POTUS) December 29, 2022

And remember none of this … NONE OF THIS … would have been possible without the complicity and in some cases open assistance of Mitch McConnell and his cronies.

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I was pointed to this video set to the music of the Christmas carol “Mary Did You Know?” sung by Mark Lowry.

Well worth your almost 6 minutes to watch and listen to.

(H/T: Babylon Bee)

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I am here to announce a Jubilee Year in 2026. We have 3 years to get it ready — 2023, ’24, and ’25. That’s thirty six-months, not really enough but we can try.

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A biblical jubilee year is one that occurs every 49 years and has to do with preserving the land. That’s not what I’m proposing, though I did get my idea from that tradition.

What I want us to do is focus on the future.  At the moment, it’s only an intellectual exercise. Let’s inventory the good possibilities for human life. Sure, the bad stuff will also come into focus as the counterpoint. But the project is generally positive.

I dare nominate only my home country, the US for a jubilee.  But it’s patent that this country interacts with many others. I shall make it a rule that the jubilee search for “a better life” in the US cannot include taking advantage of other nations.

In the 1960s, when in college, I read Ruth Benedict’s 1934 book, “Patterns of Culture.” She was in the pioneering group of anthropologists who visited “primitive” societies. When asked which societies are happy, she said the ones in which the reward for a person to do good for himself is well synchronized with the reward for him to do right by the whole society — or something like that. It seemed very clever to me.

If it turns out that I am able to make a significant proposal for a jubilee year, it will be because I was trained in sociobiology from approximately 1976 to 1999. In 1989, I “read a paper” at the first annual conference of HBES — the Human Behavior and Evolution Society. In my audience sat all the “originals” of the field — Richard Alexander, Bill Hamilton, Richard Dawkins, EO Wilson, and George Williams. I believe William Irons and Napoleon Chagnon were there, too. They are all now deceased.

My vision of the future will have a lot of the past in it.  I believe we have a lot of the past in us. This is mainly good as it makes us human. Sometimes it’s bad because our traits may have suited the old days, say caveman days, but are a nuisance, or worse, today. Note: I will not be proposing that we change our genetic heritage by making chemical alterations to DNA.

I also will not propose that we rely entirely on our rational nature. Being an American enthusiast for the law and the Constitution, I am in the habit of using the old cerebral cortex, but that hasn’t gotten me very far in helping society. I’ll continue to encourage the expanding of our rationality somewhat, without suggesting that we count on it to move mountains.

I will also be upfront about the population problem. Today I saw a clip of Jordan Peterson say that it was terrible to encourage women to limit their reproduction, and he got great applause from the audience. However, at present, our species is overpopulated; we are unable to look after our habitat. When this happens in nature, as it often does, e.g., to bird colonies, a population crash takes place. Most members die.

We have managed to pollute even the Pacific Ocean, something that used to be considered an impossibility. Perhaps you are unable to detect serious habitat problems in the US, as most of us are protected by an artificial environment which seems comfortable enough. But all its bits and pieces come from nature and the stewardship of nature is virtually non-existent.

The late Russell Hardin put out a thesis many decades ago called The Tragedy of the Commons. The commons he referred to included such things as a pasture (e.g., the Boston Common, centuries ago) where people could let their cows graze. The “tragedy” consisted of the fact that each cow-owner may wish to put one more cow to graze on that Common, which will help his income, but if a hundred people do it, the Common will fail.

So how did that clever observation by Hardin engender a response or a solution? It did not. When we discussed it in academia, it was considered a serious subject, but later it drifted away. No one mentions the tragedy of the commons now. Yet those who are polluting oceans with their daily plastic bottles — me, for example — are doing something tragic.  Unbelievably tragic.

Oddly, there is no longer an Academy where such problems could be raised. “Altruism” is supposed to be avoided as a topic. Note, though, that the pendulum might swing back. I wouldn’t rule it out. Ever since Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle made their name as thinkers, there has been an Academy. In fact, until the 21st century, it had prestige for its rigor of thought.

I said above that I must correct my prejudice toward rationality. Most persons do not crave intellectual argument.  They crave food. They crave status.  They crave sex.  They crave an outlet for their talent or skill. They crave escape. And so forth.  If a jubilee year is to be a goal that we can work towards, I imagine it will be worked-toward by each participant according to his/her preferences. And many will decline to participate, if that’s their preference.

Which brings me to the matter of who leads whom, and who makes the rules. Kind of a big issue, but if you want the jubilee year to be enlightening, I think it’s necessary to go right to the heart of the matter. Maybe some individuals are born leaders and some are born followers. That is kind of different from everyone being a potential leader.

Whatever evolved in H sapiens in regard to leadership, it could only have been for leading small societies. Thus, for Jubilee-planning, there is going to be a circumstance that is not biologically provided for, at least not directly. To wit, one person may have to lead millions or conceivably even a billion. And where the leader of a small society had under his command a bunch of, say, rebels, he did not have people that were raised in a different culture. Now he (or she) will.

Today’s leaders have many mixed groups under them. This is very significant in that it thwarts unity.  Some human emotions are colored by group attachment. There are positive emotions, generally referred to as love, and negative emotions — willingness to insult or harm others. I assume they are controllable by a leader who can rely on symbols such as a flag or a mention of past heroes, which easily bring all the individuals into a state of imagined unity.

Note: Paul Craig Roberts said this on December 27, 2022: “Countries that constitute the West are no longer nations. They are conglomerates of populations that have nothing in common. There are no common mores, no common values, no common religion. There are no unifying forces…. Democracy, free speech, and accountable government are being replaced by tyranny.  Tyranny is the only possible outcome. A divided people — a Tower of Babel — cannot hold government accountable.”

Before continuing here to outline how we might make good use of an understanding of evolution, let me point out that some Baddies are very much in that game already, making wicked use of it. They can play us.  They do play us. Just on the issue of unity, they can increase unity or stir up disunity quite easily by manipulating the symbols. I have often note that soldiers who may oppose war policy can hardly get a listen from the American public, as the sentimental side of “sacrifice” is always pushed by the media. It grips the minds of the audience.

Ah, war policy, shall we go there next? There is a very real possibility that the instigation of the two world wars, and many previous wars, was not “as advertised.” Tens of thousands of men can be sent off to deal in a horrific situation, on the belief that their work is for the sake of their nation when it’s really to benefit someone else.

Two examples: a leader may start a war to increase his reputation at home (!), and he may start a war so that weapons manufacturers can try out some new weapons. In the novel 1984, British writer George Orwell (born Eric Blair, an Eton graduate) went so far as to say that leaders would keep wars going endlessly, for no purpose other than to distract the population from looking at the wealth of the leaders.

Now this brings us to property and to money. In some animal species, there is “possession” of goods, however minor. In humans, it is well accepted that I own my stuff and you own yours. As the opportunities for wealth-creation increase, a huge imbalance of possession follows. Today 1 percent of the world population is said to own 85% of everything. (I am not sure of that as fact.) Whatever we plan, in regard to a jubilee, must deal with that unhealthy situation.

As soon as a human possesses great wealth, he becomes concerned with keeping it. He may see the threat of losing it as equivalent to theft and see the person who is eyeing his wealth as a thief that deserves constraining. Or deserves dispensing with altogether. I think our genes can adjust us, both to a situation where goods are shared or a situation where goods are fought over. There are plenty of instances of either, in history.

Money is the form of wealth that came about to replace barter. Coins were first used in 700 BC and paper money came about in Europe in the 1600s. Coins may have actual value as metal, but paper money relies on the existence of a guarantor. Right now, you probably have wealth that is entirely based on hope, hope that someone such as “government” will do the right thing.

Another thing about great wealth is that it engenders ecological damage. A corporation that sees a way to take in high profit by acting socially irresponsible to, say, trees, is unlikely to worry about the long-term effect on society of that tree loss. Corporations emphasize the bottom line.

Of course they don’t have to; they could emphasize social responsibility.

Think back to Ruth Benedict’s insight: the happy society is one where rewards to an individual tie in with the behavior of the individual as a good helper of society.  I suppose it is not completely out of the question for the super-rich to take on a new attitude about helping the whole society. But their new attitude would make them question their “entitlement.” Or it would make others question the rich folks’ “entitlement.”

Which brings us to the subject of reputation. It does seem that each human values his reputation highly.  Any “knock” to it can be devastating. In today’s America, apparently cooked up by the mass media, we have a whole profession of smearers.  The US military assigns thousands of “soldiers” to make comments anonymously on social media. These either glorify a bad idea or bad person or dump on someone who has a good idea. At taxpayer expense.

And that brings us to the whole issue of mind control. All human relationships have been altered by the modern techniques of getting another person to want what you want him to want. I think we naturally exploit each other when we get the chance, and some exploiting arrangements become permanent, as with slavery. That’s bad enough, but truly getting into the other person’s brain so she will fulfill your orders is to turn humanness upside-down.

Ah, that probably made you think of the incredible chutzpah of Yuval Noah Harari, “son” of WEF, saying, in 2021, that humans have no right to their mind.  I note that Dr. Jose Delgado had already said that, boldly, around 1980. There really is only one way to deal with such a theme, and that is to oppose it entirely. Seriously you can’t take it on board in any way, that would be species suicide.

That is my Introduction to Jubilee Year, 2026. It will be our nation’s 250th anniversary if we consider 1776 as the founding. A lot can be done in the next three years 2023, 2024, and 2025 to improve the human situation.

— Mary Maxwell lives in New Hampshire.  At the moment she is in need of singers with guitars, banjos, or fiddles.  Please email her at MaxwellMaryLLB@gmail.com if you have a musical urge.

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Steve had put up a post a couple of days ago for the 603 Alliance’s School Board training to run for School Board positions:

If you’re concerned about the decline in academic standards, the harm done by shutdowns and mandatory masking, and the politicization of our public schools, please consider running for School Board in your district. We need to take back control of our schools and renew their focus on academic achievement.

My take on this is that until the idea that the CHILD is entitled to his/her education money directly (as Society has decided that Public Education is a civil right) as in “let the money follow the child rather than go to a zip coded building”, the majority of parents are stuck with the present system (ex: School Boards that refuse to answer questions from Parents during School Board meetings). Commenter Jay Ehelman had some comments, thoughtful ones, that are a bit contrarian in my mind. Thus, I thought they needed a bit more exposure.  While I WOULD ask that you go to the post to see them in context, I present them here in chronological order (a little reformatting, emphasis mine).

First:

Re: “If you’re concerned about the decline in academic standards, the harm done by shutdowns and mandatory masking, and the politicization of our public schools, please consider running for School Board in your district.”

As a former public school board director, please believe me when I say; ‘don’t bother’ running for school board. You’ll be jousting with windmills.

Keep in mind that half the people in your community want their children to be indoctrinated to CRT, transgenderism, Marxism, Restorative Justice… you name it. Many others wouldn’t know a school board from a surfboard. And as a school board member, even with a sympathetic majority on your side, you’ll still get stuck up in the Uncle Remus tar baby known as the public education monopoly.

It’s the system that’s problematic. Teacher unions. Principal associations. Superintendent associations. The State school board association. From Guidance Counselors to school bus drivers, the ‘system’ is pervasive. Not to mention the legislators who stalk their prey at the great public education watering hole for funding their campaigns.

The only reasonable recourse is School Choice vouchers that allow parents to choose the education programs they believe best meet the needs of their children. Let the parents who believe in the current social indoctrination programs have them. But let parents who want to homeschool or to send their children to independent schools (including parochial schools) receive a commensurate share of the tax revenues to do their thing. Then let the marketplace determine what’s best.

The public education monopoly is the largest, wealthiest, governmental organization in the country. It’s bigger and more powerful than the military-industrial complex. No school board on the planet can manage it. So don’t waste your time. Just get out and let it rot on the vine. But get out… now. The public education monopoly is nothing short of the most dangerous institution on the planet for your children and the best thing you can do is stay away from it. Whatever it takes.

Second:

Ostensibly, everyone’s tax dollars, whether or not they have children in the school system, provides a benefit to the community. That’s the underlying premise to public education support from the get-go. And, yes, it is a debatable premise, to be sure. But that’s not what we’re discussing today. As long as society deems it appropriate to subsidize our children’s education, should that money be monopolized by one institution in a one-size-fits-all methodology? Or should the money follow the student? And if the money follows the student, who leads the student where the money should follow?

In Vermont, our property taxes pay the lion’s share of education costs. As I believe is also the case in NH. But in Vermont, property tax is indexed to income. The maximum property tax can be no more than 5% of one’s household income – give or take. But even though I have no kids of school age, I’m still obligated to pay for publicly funded education. Because I benefit when my neighbor’s kids are well educated. Interestingly, we find that property values are higher in School Choice districts because homeowners can see the benefits of School Choice. Conversely, property values in districts with failing public schools have lower property values.

As you can see, this is a nuanced issue. And as a former school board director, employer, and parent, I’ve been promoting School Choice for more than 30 years. I’ve thought through most of the issues you mention and am happy to discuss them with you as they come to mind.

Third:

I’m from Vermont. And our system provides a tution voucher equal to the average cost per student thoughout the State. Our problem is that only certain districts provide that opportunity. And yes, that’s not only unconstitutional, it’s being argued in our Superior Courts right now.

The tuition voucher can be used in public schools and independent schools. And while some of us lobby to have the State tuition available to homeschool parents, many are afraid to take the money because they believe the State will put conditions on their programs. So the battle still rages here too.

But my point is that while you may have made inroads in your local school school district to an extent to which you’re satisified, certainly, other parents won’t agree. And, over time, the public school monopoly has staying power. Today may be okay. But tomorrow they’ll be back.

The only way to really win, is to be able to take your commensurate share of taxpayer funded education dollars and spend it where you believe it will be best for your children.

He has a couple more as well but are more intertwined with other folks’ comments. Go take a read!

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The Tentacles of the Omnibus Octopus Omnivore ($1.7 T spending bill in the headlines) is unascertainable. Here are three highlights:

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1.) The Omnibus Octopus Monstrosity provides $575 million dollars to ” maintain the federal government’s ongoing commitment to human genocide.” This program is known as ” Population, Health, and Environment( PHE), whose goal is to protect insects, fish, and animals by aborting babies.

2.) The appropriation for the weaponized persecution of the unconstitutionally imprisoned J6 demonstrators will be increased by $212 million dollars, exceeding the DOJ budgetary request by $180 million dollars.

3.) While the Uniparty promotes an invasion of hundreds of thousands of illegal felon aliens on our Southern border, the Omnibus Octopus Monstrosity provides $500 million dollars for Ukrainian border security but none for the Southern border and $2 billion dollars for the comfort and care of the illegal felon alien invaders.

Finally, even more alarming to all American citizens should be the obfuscating, merely performative tactics employed by Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, Ron Johnson, Mike Lee, and others. Anyone of these supposed “shining conservative Senatorial stars” could have taken to the Senate floor by reading the 4,000+ page Omnibus Octopus until the end of the Congressional term or joined in an “authentic” filibuster to kill the Omnibus Octopus bill, which allows the Demolitioncrat destructive reign of Pelosi, Schumer, and Biden to continue thru 2023.

Instead, the Nation endured the “Senatorial stars” usual bloviating and “ere they flew out of sight,” betraying the Nation this Christmas night!

 

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George Santos (R-NY) has opened up a can of worms, and nobody wants to put on a pair of rubber gloves and deal with it, or him. The Democrats have to tread lightly on this embarrassing mess because anything they throw at the lying individual could end up right on the steps of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

There is no excuse for Santos. He has embellished his resume to fool the voters and get elected. This should be easy. He lied. He cheated. He is done. But, then, what do you do with others who have enjoyed long careers in Washington after knowingly lying to get there? Richard Blumenthal is a two-term Senator from Connecticut who lied about his time on active duty in Vietnam. The problem is he has never been to Vietnam. Blumenthal exaggerated his military career to attain a Senate Seat. Should he cast the first stone at Santos? I think not.

Joe Biden has told tall tales about his life and his family for fifty years. It has always been laughed off as just Joe being Joe. No, it is somebody making themselves into someone else to improve his stature. Did we hold him accountable? Heck no, we made him President. Who is the fool?

The onion is being peeled for Santos, and it doesn’t pass the smell test. Like the Twitter files, another set of facts, or lies, pop up daily. When do we finally say enough? He has to go? 

The list of Santos’s missteps is lengthy and creative:

• Santos claimed he graduated in 2010 with a degree in economics and finance from Baruch College in New York City. Baruch has no records of Santos ever attending their school.
• Santos says his grandparents survived the Holocaust as Ukrainian Jewish refugees from Belgium. This claim did not sit well with the Jewish community, and upon investigating, they discovered that his grandparents were from Brazil. Brazil is a long way from Europe and the hell of Hitler’s Holocaust.
• Santos claimed he lost four employees in the horrific Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando in 2016. The New York Times fact-checked his claimand none of the victims ever worked at any of the various firms where Santos claims to have worked.
• Friends of Pets is a charity that Santos claims he founded from 2013 to 2018, which acted as an animal rescue operation that rescued 2,400 dogs and 280 cats. Surprise: the Internal Revenue Service couldn’t find any record of a registered charity with that name. The money donated to his Go Fund Me sites is missing.
• Santos claimed he was an associate asset manager at Citigroup. A Citigroup spokesperson said they had no record of his employment, and there is no such position at the Citigroup real estate division.
• This lie repeated with Santos claiming to work with Goldman Sachs. Same result. No record of him at Goldman Sachs. Surprise!

The New York Attorney General is looking into these accusations, but Congress has to take swift action. Santos has to be suspended, and the district he represents deserves a replacement immediately. We also must stop the acceptance of Joe Biden’s stretches of reality. I will not waste space listing them here. But suffice it to say that the only thing consistent in Joe Biden’s career is his gaffes. Sad.

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“A new study, published this month by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), finds a striking correlation … ‘that youth suicides are closely tied with in-person school attendance.’ ”

Related: The Public Schools are Grooming Your Kid for a Lifetime of Anxiety and Depression

Mind blowing?

The FEE.org article refers to this Dec 2022 report from The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), which found a corollary between suicide rates and school attendance.

 

We document three key findings. First, using data from the National Vital Statistics System from 1990-2019, we document the historical association between teen suicides and the school calendar. We show that suicides among 12-to-18-year-olds are highest during months of the school year and lowest during summer months (June through August) and also establish that areas with schools starting in early August experience increases in teen suicides in August, while areas with schools starting in September don’t see youth suicides rise until September.

 

Public Schools are killing your kids. *Or, more accurately, something about the experience is driving them to kill themselves. And it is not a pandemic lockdown distance learning issue, not that this didn’t take a toll. The NERB study covers pre-pandemic years, as does an earlier Vanderbilt study also cited in the Fee.org piece.

 

This new study echoes earlier findings from Vanderbilt University researchers who discovered a similar link between school attendance and youth suicidal ideation and attempts. That research, published in the journal Pediatrics in 2018, looked at hospital emergency room and inpatient data between 2008 and 2015. “The lowest frequency of encounters occurred during summer months,” the Vanderbilt authors concluded. “Peaks were highest in fall and spring. October accounted for nearly twice as many encounters as reported in July,” they found.

 

Another point of interest: “Youth suicide rates have been climbing over the past decade, leaving parents, educators, and policymakers to propose various remedies.”

Like going to war with parents over ownership of children’s minds and bodies. Partisan indoctrination that can put children at ideological odds with their parents.  Sexualizing or grooming them with the transgender agenda? Social Emotional Learning, Critical Race Theory, pornography, restorative justice, JBAB, and a thousand other shocks that have little or nothing to do with math, reading, history, and science.

Maybe if public schools focused on academics and teaching kids how to learn instead of what to think, we wouldn’t be facing this cold, hard truth. Sending your kids to public school increases the odds they’ll try to kill themselves.

And I get that this is an oversimplification, but I’m sure you’ll work it all out in the comments.

 

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Thanks for NOTHING, Sun-King Chris Sununu. While Ron DeSantis has turned once purplish Florida into a solidly RED State, under the Sun-King’s “new Republcanism” … combining wokeness and corporate welfare … New Hampshire is trending BLUER faster than any other State:

So have at it Sununu-sycophants. Tell me how it’s not Sununu’s fault. Tell me how it’s really Trump’s fault. Tell me how I am a secessionist/extremist for pointing out the obvious.

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New York City uses its garbage trucks to plow snow. The Big Crapple is also hot to electrify the entire fleet, and why not? Who should be more climate #woke than the city that never sleeps? But someone is having nightmares after discovering the two are incompatible—electric trucks and plowing snow.

Reformatted.

 

The pipe dream of converting the city’s 6,000 garbage trucks from gas to electric in order to try and limit carbon emissions is “clashing with the limits of electric-powered vehicles,” Gothamist wrote this week. … The city’s current trucks run on diesel and can be fitted with plows in the winter.  .. Those trucks cost an astonishing $523,000 each and are to be delivered this spring.

Sanitation Commissioner Jessica Tisch told the NYC city council earlier this month: “We found that they could not plow the snow effectively – they basically conked out after four hours. We need them to go 12 hours. Given the current state of the technology, I don’t see today a path forward to fully electrifying the rear loader portion of the fleet by 2040.”

“We can’t really make significant progress in converting our rear loader fleet until the snow challenges are addressed,” she continued.

 

Green fantasy says hello to at least one reality. This a problem that’s been popping up more often as EV users discover “how well” electricity and batteries work when it gets cold. Not as well as advertised or not well at all. From not charging to taking longer to charge to undercharging to demand issues that prohibit the use of chargers, heaters, hauling, and the risks of getting stranded in the cold.

And isn’t that ironic? Team Green is obsessed with stopping warming regardless of what it’s called. Everything they say points to fossil fuels heating the planet. To fix that (as if they could), they insist on a technology that works best – for whatever that’s worth – when it’s warmer.

As for New York, it is admitting there are roadblocks. But they are hoping for some technological leap that will allow them to electrify the fleet. Something that will make each truck cost taxpayers more than $523,000 each I suspect.

Of course, a snow-locked New York City would significantly reduce its carbon footprint if that’s the point. No moving transportation for one day is probably the left-wing climate neurotics emissions equivalent of a vast swath of America. Talk about taking one for the team.

So, maybe the solution isn’t spending a half-million plus on plow-capable EV garbage trucks that can’t get the job done. It’s airlifting New York Democrats and their trucks to Mexico’s southern border.

I’m sure they’ll appreciate 8 million whining ‘migrants’ milling about with little more than an attitude and a few EV garbage trucks, and look, no snow.

 

 

HT | Valiant News

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Dear Emily Schrader,

Thank you for your reasoned support for the freedom-seeking Iranian people who risk their lives against Iran’s tyrannical, oppressive Islamic rulers.

As an Iranian-American, I take pride that a woman of your courage is championing the cause of freedom. You are the voice of America, Israel, and the world’s oppressed people.

Sadly, women have been among the most victimized in almost all societies throughout history. And you, Emily, can truly sympathize with the victims of tyranny.
Under the dastardly rule of Iran’s mullahs, women are severely disenfranchised and abused. Additionally, the despotic Islamists’ reign of oppression extends to all minorities, such as Baha’is, Sufis, Jews, Zoroastrians, and Christians, as well as political and social dissidents. These victims have no recourse. You, Ms. Schrader, have become a powerful voice for Iranians.

It is noteworthy that your work not only serves what is right but also serves the best interests of America and Israel. It proves to the world that your country cherishes and supports freedom and, at the same time, will, eventually, seal an invaluable link of camaraderie with a freed Iran.

Once again, I want to thank you and plead that you maintain your resonant voice and unshakeable resolve.

With deepest respect and gratitude,

Amil Imani

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