It is a well-known legislative strategy in the NH House to protect a “win” against later efforts of your opponents to convert it into a loss. This is especially important when the numbers of Reps on each side of the aisle are fairly close together, as we find ourselves now.

Thus, when the majority has won a vote on a bill, no matter whether it was determined to pass or fail, the win can be protected by the simple process of having a Rep who voted in the majority move for reconsideration (yes, only a single Rep is required to make such a motion) and urge voting AGAINST the reconsideration motion. If the reconsideration motion is defeated (assuming that those who voted on the winning side will also vote against reconsideration), the bill cannot be brought up before the House again until the next legislative session quite a way down the road.

So, last Thursday, the morning votes went fairly well for the Republican majority, even though by very small margins. But it has been reported that some Dem operatives were standing by the chamber doors to record who was leaving for the day and who was staying, so they could adjust their own strategy. And in the afternoon, after several Republican Reps had left early for the day, shifting the majority of those present to the Dems, the Dems brought virtually all of the morning bills that had been handled successfully by the Republicans back for reconsideration, at which point, since the Dems now had a small majority, the prior actions on those bills were reversed, handing the Republicans a series of defeats- unforced errors.

One might ask how this could happen. One might ask why no Republican Reps attempted to lock in their morning victories by seeking reconsideration and having reconsideration defeated when the Republicans still held a majority in attendance. The simple answer is that no Republican Reps sought such reconsideration or were asked or encouraged to do so through what appears to be an abject failure of the so-called “leadership” in the House. Some might even call it political malpractice.

If that so-called “leadership” cannot implement even the simplest legislative strategy, one might wonder why they are still in “leadership.”

And it is very well known that the Republican majority in the House is now very thin, making attendance and voting by Republican Reps absolutely essential. There have been numerous statements by very smart people about the benefits and necessity of simply showing up (at the General Court as in everything in life):
“Showing up is half the battle in life. The ones who have the life they want showed up every single day and did the work. It’s not about doing intense work or doing smart, complicated work. It’s about just showing up to work and seeing the day through to the end by giving it effort.”

Yet we seem to have some Reps claiming to be Republicans whose attendance at House voting sessions is abysmal. If they do not care enough to show up and vote, they should not be in the House.

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Democrats famously walked out of a session of the NH House when a Republican began reading smut from a book they want to be left in public schools. Books that include drug and alcohol abuse, suicidal ideation, and adult-child sex. If they aren’t groomers or abetting the practice, what then is this?

This is truly a battle between good and evil!@COHouseGOP pic.twitter.com/8myMM38pOc

— Representative Scott Bottoms (@repscottbottoms) February 17, 2024

All day in committee we discussed whether or not to require jail time for somebody that buys little children — 2, 3, 4, 5 year old kids — for sex. Right now, most of the time they get off on probation after buying and raping a little child. We tried to get a bill through, (representative Bradley’s) to ensure these buyers do time, a minimum of 4 years.

But democrats voted a 100% against putting these pedophiles in jail. They defended the pedophiles! They came up with all kinds of reasons, including that these buyers are victims themselves.

It doesn’t help that the same Democrats (not all, but most) are all-in for open borders, which has abetted child and human sex trafficking. If pressed in “safe spaces” with the right company, they will easily admit that adult-child sex is a lifestyle choice that should be defended. States with majorities of Democrats and no one to stop them will purposefully favor the pro-pedophilia culture.

It’s who they are, and we see that when they walk out of Session or vote 100% against punishing adults caught having sex with or trafficking children. When challenged (as with the argument that limiting access to age-appropriate material is banning or censorship), the perps are the victims.

Where does this leave the children? They are physically and mentally abused – which is what Democrats are also defending, and they need to be called out on it.

 

 

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Last Week, Wolf PAC’s Cenk Uygur and his “Conservative” allies were handed a defeat in New Hampshire, and this week they were handed a defeat in Maine.

The odious Cenk Uygur, founder of Wolf  PAC, and his “conservative” allies at Convention of States and Term Limits USA were handed a defeat last week in New Hampshire when the New Hampshire House tabled HCR 8-an application for an Article V Convention by a 247-99 vote, and this week February 20,  Maine’s State Senate voted 12-18 against the Motion to Accept Majority Ought to pass report on SP 705 which was a joint collaboration between Wolf PAC and Term Limits USA, and its lobbyist Ken Quinn.

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The well-funded pro-Article V Convention lobbyists have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in both states over the past ten years to no avail.  It appears that the more money they spend, the fewer votes they get.  This is due to the hard work of local activists who take the time to educate their elected officials on this issue.  However, we cannot rest on our laurels.  We need to rescind all extant applications in both states.  Thanks to all of those who helped make these victories for the U.S. Constitution possible.

Last night, a friend in Maine informed me that Ken Quinn, a lobbyist for Wolf PAC, was on a popular Maine radio show promoting an Article Convention.  I immediately E-mailed the station and asked for some equal time. Within a few minutes, Mr. Ric Tyler, co-host of the George Hale-Ric Tyler Show on WVOM FM, invited me to call in at 6:06 AM.  Here is the interview.

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There are still a lot of towns in New Hampshire that gather every year for Town Meeting. In a crowded room, all your neighbors raise their hands and say yeah and nay in front of everyone else. It could always get contentious, but in today’s political climate, you could get branded or targeted. There’s a cure for that.

SB2 was the Senate Bill that allowed towns to switch to a secret ballot for casting votes on town business, budgets, warrant articles, and so on. You got the chance to have your say and keep your anonymity. It’s not mandatory, but a town can vote for it using a ballot, just not in the traditional sense. If someone wants to switch to server balloting for future “elections” and town business – at present – you have to do that during town meeting, by submitting your ballot to the moderator.

It’s still sort of secret, but you walk up and hand in your ballot. There is legislation to change that to make it a truly secret ballot vote.

To quote a reader, HB1175 “If enacted, would restore the original (pre-2019) language by providing for an all-day vote by secret ballot at the polls to decide whether or not to adopt SB2 voting.”

The new (old) verbiage looks like this.

III. The local political subdivision shall place the question on the warrant of the annual meeting under the procedures set out in RSA 39:3 or RSA 197:6, and the question shall be voted on by official ballot in accordance with the procedures established in RSA 669:19-29, RSA 670:5-7, and RSA 671:20-30, including all requirements pertaining to absentee voting, polling places, and polling hours.

There are no vote-by-mail ballots for town meetings; you have to show up, but again, that tends to lower participation in what are often (even in SB2 towns) underperforming events. Local elections attract a fraction of registered voters, yet these are what – at least around here – determine the majority of the taxes you will pay in a year. That disinterest baffles me, but I can see why you might be reluctant to sit in a room all day and raise your hand or yell yay or nay. SB2 creates the opportunity to enhance local participation.

Secret ballots allow for informed no voters to intercede in the wreckless spending antics of (primarily) the public school system, which sucks up about 70% of the average local budget.

SB2 won’t fix that, and HB1175 doesn’t make every Town SB2; you still get to decide that locally, but if it passes, it might encourage a few towns to consider a move that is a step in that “right” direction, and that was the original intent of the law.

 

 

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As the cradle of American Liberty (Massachusetts) prepares to force its citizens to house illegals (you should start that in Lexington and Concord and see if they remember their history), New Scientist Magazine is floating a trial balloon that might solve two problems simultaneously.

Despite the lab-leaked COVID and its alleged leaky-lab preventative, too many people are still walking around on Planet Earth. The depopulation cult has deployed decades of killing pre-borns, allowing easy access to drug overdoses, and defunding police while funding criminals, and there are still too many people. Assisted suicide is catching on, but it’s early days, so what else might get the job done? Cannibalism! If you can’t beat them, eat them!

Is it time for a more subtle view on the ultimate taboo: cannibalism? https://t.co/wRmiU8ZSrZ

— New Scientist (@newscientist) February 19, 2024

Sure, we’ll open our home to a friendly migrant family if you send some seasonings and a case or two of Red River barbeque Sauce. We’ll save the planet and “relocate” some illegals at the same time. Can you imagine a marketing campaign that went something like this? US Open Borders is a cannibalism cattle call as entire families go missing, never to be seen again. It might actually flatten the curve if you take my meaning. This is, of course, the point of the eating people trial balloon. What do you say we write something about how eating people used to be normal (the way slavery?) and see who ‘bites’?

To add a catalyst, the authors even managed to claim that our disgust at the prospect of killing and eating a neighbor was racist and colonialism. And so are math and reading because illiterate zombies are easier to catch and eat, I suspect.

Cannibalism isn’t ethically too bad, and the reason that we’re against it is because… racism. pic.twitter.com/UEy0K3LWEv

— Leftism (@LeftismForU) February 20, 2024

New Scientist was not, of course, thinking we’d suggest that their idea could solve the overcrowding of America by invaders moved into the nation by the UN and the American left. They were likely thinking the opposite (they could eat us); after all, we’re the electorate that needs replacing. And Americans continue to become victims of the open border invasion by gangs, cartels, pedophiles, traffickers, terrorists, and the like.

What’s really happened is the elites are feeding us to them.

 

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In a little-noticed presentation on Dec. 9, 2023, at COP28 in Dubai, a panel of soil experts presented the case for cows as climate allies, not gas-spewing destroyers. The event, titled “Conscious Livestock Rearing and Soil Health,” discussed “animal rearing’s impact on soil health and its place as a part of the climate solution.” Contrary to the anti-cow cacophony of the climate crisis crowd, these experts explained the vital role ruminants like cows play in nourishing and rebuilding precious soils. It turns out grazing cows sequester massive amounts of carbon.

On the panel of experts was Seth J. Itzkan, co-founder of SOIL4Climate, Inc., a nonprofit that “promotes soil restoration as a climate solution,” and a man akin to a Lorax for the cows.

“I would respectfully push back against the less animals narrative,” Itzkan said, referring to calls to reduce the number of cows on the planet. “I actually don’t think there’s nearly enough,” he continued. “I think we’re going to need way more ruminants on the Earth, maybe twice as many as there are now, and they will need to be managed in this way that is beneficial.”

The Case for More Cows Bill Gates, Klaus Schwab, and globalists of their ilk claim humans must cut back on meat to save the planet from doom. The entire argument is premised on claims of enteric methane emissions from cattle confined in unnatural factory operations: Rotationally grazed cows sequester more carbon dioxide in the soil with their manure than they emit when they burp. Cow manure rebuilds soils destroyed by synthetic fertilizers and other chemicals, nurturing microbial life that feeds on methane. Robust natural soils sequester more carbon dioxide than forests, yet bovines are denied any carbon credit.

Itzkan was one of many soil and agriculture experts on hidden display at the global climate summit who explained that soil health is a key element of effective environmental stewardship and that ruminants are integral to that ancient cycle. Itzkan argued that:

[G]rasslands, the second largest ecosystem on the planet after the oceans, coevolved with extensive herds of grazing ruminants. These migratory mammals were essential to giving grasslands their fertile soils which store an enormous amount of carbon. A great deal of this carbon has been lost because of poorly managed cropping and grazing. However, ecologically beneficial cropping techniques, and grazing in a way that replicates the behavior of wild herds, can replenish much of this essential element.

Where the Buffalo Roam North America’s legendary bison herds once thundered across the Great Plains, nurturing soils and the entire ecosystem. Efforts to eradicate the buffalo to undermine Native Americans starved the precious soil microbiome; subsequent compaction and tilling by tractors and equipment gradually weakened and eroded topsoils. Synthetic fertilizers (manufactured from natural gas, aka methane) replaced bison manure, while various chemical concoctions began killing off soil microbes, poisoning wells, and wiping out colonies of vital honeybees.

The push to eliminate cows has been crafted by the same industrial forces that imprisoned them in Confined Animal Feed Operations (CAFOs). Synthetic and fake meats grown from soy or corn harvested with tractors and chemicals do not rebuild soils, instead accelerating erosion and the release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Cows returned to roam the fields and hillsides, converting grass to meat and milk while replenishing soil health naturally.

Cows are not the cause, but the solution, of climate change. Humanity needs more cows, not fewer! Those who say otherwise are simply manure deniers.

John Klar is an Attorney, farmer, and author. Mostly farmer… And Regular Contributor to GraniteGrok and VermontGrok.

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I’m confident that people who show up drunk for work are more likely to get injured or injure someone else, but this study on weed and workplace injury suggests something less immediate and more lasting. The potential for a decline in cognitive agility with long-term use of marijuana might result in more work-related injuries.

Drunks, or those in training to be one, have well-understood immediate handicaps that fade without persistent use, joined later by chronic or terminal conditions resulting from long-term excessive use or abuse. The corpus on legalized or decriminalized marijuana, in contrast, continues to grow. Still, there are well-documented inferences to mental health issues as marijuana is a popular hobby among mental patients. Feel free to engage in “which came first debates,” as I’m sure there is evidence on both sides, but the US Department of Labor Statistics is reporting something we could add to the conversation.

U.S. Bureau of Labor statistics for 2006 through 2020 show that legal “recreational marijuana sales were associated with a 10% increase in workplace injuries among individuals aged 20 to 34 years,” the study authors concluded. … The study was published Friday in the journal JAMA Health Forum and co-led by Dr. Joseph Sabia, chair of the economics department at San Diego State University. ..

“Two and 3 years post-adoption, injuries were significantly higher,” the research team concluded.

Among 20-to-34-year-olds generally, on-the-job injuries rose by 10% on average, and when the data focused on folks solely engaged in full-time work, the researchers observed an 11.9% rise.

Correlation does not mean causation, but seeing as we’re in the early stages of this particular human experiment, and the legal weed train (and all the lovely taxes that will spring from it) appears unstoppable, what is society to do about this?

The idea that freedom is merely the ability to act upon one’s whims is surely very thin and hardly begins to capture the complexities of human existence; a man whose appetite is his law strikes us not as liberated but enslaved. And when such a narrowly conceived freedom is made the touchstone of public policy, a dissolution of society is bound to follow. No culture that makes publicly sanctioned self-indulgence its highest good can long survive: a radical egotism is bound to ensue, in which any limitations upon personal behavior are experienced as infringements of basic rights.

For my part, the government need not be much involved until there is a threat to the rights of others, and that threat does not include other states collecting revenues from Granite Staters that we could be collecting here. My primary objection to state involvement has long been their using appetites (liquor and tobacco taxes have long rankled my sensibilities) to accumulate revenue, with which they might then do more serious harm—the same with gambling. I’ve opposed them all on the basis of enriching legislators and regulators inspired to grow government—a far more significant threat to human liberty than any other.

Pretending to set up a slush fund to address addiction to the thing you’re peddling is deceptive misdirection; after all, where’s the slush fund to address addiction to the uncontrolled taxation, meddling, and growth of government?

So, is there some middle ground between the right to put things into your body and the effect it inevitably has on society? We’ve come to terms with alcohol, so many will say yes. And who is to complain if an employee who has harmed their cognitive agility hurts themself unless that results in the harm of others for which there are already laws to punish offenders after the fact?

It may or may not be a thorny question, but if long-term use of modern-day marijuana is proven dangerously debilitating and irreversible, what then? Are we just sacrificing future generations to death by misadventure or, worse, creating a caste of eaters? Our new morals allow us to plumb this state of decline but do not permit us just to erase the results, although there is a movement among assisted suicide advocates to convince them to do just that.

Assuming they survived their workplace injury.

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I won’t say this is the best or worst of times, but I think it is a time of change in America. Change may be the most overused and meaningless word in politics. It is a sign of pure laziness when a candidate claims it is time for a change and thinks that says it all. It says nothing. It is tantamount to someone responding with the word interesting in a conversation.

It means and contributes nothing to the dialog. The change that is happening in America is palpable. It is a slow but growing movement rejecting the radical socialist views of the Progressive Left that were initially embraced but have proven to be failures. It is a movement that indicates a possible trend back toward more traditional values, dare I say, more conservative values.

The 2024 Presidential race is the redo that many of us have longed for and that the Democrats had hoped would never happen. The brash and maligned Trump is seeking to regain his place in history, taken by the lifelong politician, Joe Biden. In a time of change, two octogenarians will compete to be the leader of the free world, our President.

Both have been down this road, and both have won and lost. The battle in 2024 will be a contrast between a man who gets his energy from being with and in front of the people and one who has used up his energy and will run for office from his Delaware basement once again. Biden will do his best to avoid people and exposure to minimize his blunders, while Trump will balance his time between the campaign trail and various courtrooms. The 2024 Race will be our history’s most unique and confusing election.

The Democrat Party is caught in the conundrum of admitting Biden is unfit for the office and exposing the lie they have been telling for four years or sticking by their man and risking losing the Presidency. The Dems have done their best to weaponize the DOJ against Trump and force him to split his focus between the campaign and the preservation of the Trump business empire. The 91 indictments would seem insurmountable for most people, but Trump is rising above the most. Trump has the resources and the will to go toe-to-toe with those who would take him down. Leticia James and Fani Willis have exposed themselves politically, not legally, focused on taking Trump down. Each daily legal report shows a corresponding increase in Trump support. As Trump said a few weeks ago, he is one indictment away from winning the Presidency.

On the flip side, Biden will rely on his immediate surrogates and the Party to speak for him. Biden will not debate, hold a legitimate press conference, or public rally. Biden will try to win a second term by being the least transparent candidate ever. Show them nothing, say nothing, and hope the Democrat machine can produce enough votes in the crucial states to bring home the win.

Trump has to avoid a guilty verdict by a high court that will stall his campaign. New York will not survive the appeal, and Georgia is falling apart before it starts, but there are many more legal land mines between Trump and victory.

This election is unfortunate and embarrassing on the global stage, but the blame for that falls solely on the Democrats. They have a flawed incumbent candidate and an unpopular record, which forced them to get creative. Let’s hope the awakened American voters see through this and take the first step to reviving a great America, by putting Trump back in the White House for four more years.

A note from the author. This is my 1,200 article and consecutive days publishing on Conservative View From New Hampshire. I thank you for your support and look forward to keeping the streak alive. We have so much work to do but together, we can get the job done. Ray

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From a front-row seat on January 31, I observed two well-known lawyers sparring in the executive council chamber.  It was Warmington and Formella, and the heated dialogue begins at 1h21 min in this video.

Most people paying attention to the Corner Office race know that reproductive issues primarily fuel Warmington’s campaign, and she lashed out at Formella because he declined to join an amicus brief with his out-of-state counterparts.  He took it like a gentleman at the mic for about 10 minutes, claiming that it didn’t pass legal muster while she was gaslighting him.

That was not the first time Warmington became unhinged in the chamber.  A previous time, a date unknown to me at the moment, she spent about 30 minutes lashing out at Wheeler for recording his vote. As the “leader of the pack,” so to speak, one of Wheeler’s responsibilities is to deliver the meeting minutes to Scanlan’s office to be archived. Warmington took objection to Wheeler recording his vote on voice votes.  It was a “wah wah wah, transparency” cry to no avail while Wheeler defended himself, claiming that he always does that.  She claimed that he was taking advantage of the benefits of being the messenger.

There’s other fodder to make criticism of Warmington, but instead, let’s discuss the kinds of votes there are and their applications.  While I’m most certainly a Wheeler critic, I commend him for recording his vote in a VOICE VOTE, which is resoundingly transparent. A future researcher who pays little or no attention to what’s happening today has a shovel to start digging if desired.

The VOICE VOTE is used in lots of government bodies, including the executive council and both chambers of the legislature, usually to move things along and/or when the item being voted on is of little interest or consequence.  In addition to saving time, there are a few other advantages.  One of them is the subjectivity of the person running the show.  Look at the Senate, for example.  No matter how loud you hear the enemy camp shout “no” with D’Allesandro playing lead vocals, Jeb can still say, “The ayes have it, and the item is adopted.”  So it’s a great “power tool” in the toolbox, but it also cloaks cowardice, and the cowards have an easier time dodging accountability in a larger body, particularly the House.

All kinds of shenanigans can and do happen when an item of specific interest, like brass knuckles, falls victim to the establishment’s hive mind. I mention brass knuckles because that bill was in the Senate last year. Twitley moved the item right after the clerk called on her to introduce the committee recommendation just to usurp any opportunity for discussion, and a VOICE VOTE was involved.  Remember that this is a body of 24; one could ask each one how they voted, but there’s no individual recording and archiving of said votes.

Let’s revisit the executive council, which only has five members.  What I just said about the Senate applies here also, hence Wheeler’s desire to record his vote.  Then there’s the roll call.  Roll calls are time-consuming, especially when there are a lot of them.  In the House, all 400, or as Senator Gray would say, “members with butts in seats,” which is often much less than 400, will press their buttons during that window of time to vote.  It goes ON RECORD, both how they voted or if they voted at all.  Accountability.

Before leaving Twitter, I used to follow Eric Brakey, the good senator from Maine who was blocked by Buckley.

One of his videos showed the Maine Senate voting just like the NH House. They have 35 members.

We have 24, and the clerk calls the roll, one at a time. Pay attention to the dynamics here. Carrie Gendreau will always vote first and Altschiller will always vote last.  This is the same for the executive council. Kenney will always vote first, and Wheeler will always vote last. In a body of 5, Wheeler has the opportunity to be a tiebreaker if one of his peers has already gone rogue with a vote.  The flip side is that Wheeler’s vote is rendered irrelevant if Kenney, Stevens, and Gatsas vote the same way.

Why am I boring you with all this civics?  It’s because the executive council has to vote on the judge nomination of the Gunstock accomplice, aka Belknap County Attorney Andrew Livernois.  Remember that this is a political favor from His Excellency for Livernois’s contribution to torpedoing NH’s reddest county. If you’re not up to speed on Gunstock, which the Damn Emperor prefers you not be, you can find intel here.

I emailed Wheeler shortly after Livernois’s January 31 nomination, which was at the same meeting as  Warmington’s most recent public meltdown.

At the end of the email, I said, “Please vote NO and encourage your peers to do the same.”  I published the open letter as a model for those with writer’s block, but personalizing an email to one’s elected is known to have a better chance of being read than copied and pasted activist group emails.  As voter number five in a ROLL CALL VOTE, Wheeler’s vote can potentially become irrelevant as I already noted.  He can’t block Livernois all by himself; therefore, it is important to get at least 2 of his peers on board. Kenney, who always votes first and was the lone dissenter against the approval of Anne Edwards’s judge appointment, would be a good person to target.  Kenney also recently made some public comments about wanting more “big government” in the form of snowmobile regulation on the heels of recent accidents involving rentals.

Politely point out that he is on notice.

Have you told YOUR executive councilor to vote NO yet?  If not, please do it now.  I suggest pointing out that it’s an election year.  Now it’s time to go follow up on Wheeler, who has a habit of ignoring my emails.

 

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The young lady murdered by an illegal in Georgia: to the globalists/corporatists, she was “collateral damage,” the price that unfortunately has to be paid to get the ruling elites the workers they demand. To the evil people running the Biden Regime and supporting the Biden Regime, she was nothing.

Because what really matters is that she had white skin, and people with white skin have oppressed people with non-white skin throughout history, and this is a small step to evening the score.

These people … the people inciting, encouraging, allowing, tolerating, etc., etc., etc. … are EVIL. You, your family, your friends mean NOTHING to them.

Laken Riley, a nursing student, was brutally murdered on the University of Georgia campus. The suspect in custody is a 26-year-old illegal from Venezuela, Jose Antionio Ibarra. Athens-Clark County is a sanctuary city. Every crime committed by an illegal alien is an avoidable… pic.twitter.com/wviDqNoHGC

— Allie Beth Stuckey (@conservmillen) February 24, 2024

#BREAKING DHS sources confirm that Jose Antonio Ibarra was arrested 5 months ago in New York.

Records show he was arrested on 9/14/23 in Queens, NY for injury to child less than 17 and no license.

— Ali Bradley (@AliBradleyTV) February 24, 2024

Athens-Clarke County, where a young woman was just murdered by an illegal, is one of 3 sanctuary cities in Georgia. The city is the home of UGA, and its status as a refuge for criminals could change very quickly if UGA’s donors refused to give their dollars & parents refused to…

— Allie Beth Stuckey (@conservmillen) February 24, 2024

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The origin of life and the universe is not a typical water-cooler conversation, but in an increasingly secular world, nagging questions remain. Problems for which relativists, atheists, and secularists can’t answer with certainty. Well, no one can; that’s the beauty of mystery, but the uniqueness of reality suggests the need for more debate.

On the science side, there are variables that, if they were even the slightest bit different, suggest none of this nor any of us could exist. There’s a lot of luck involved or, as advocates would suggest, evidence of design. I’m sure it is also a “we don’t know what we don’t know” problem, so I’ll stray from that universe into one more my speed and still on topic (at least in the universe of my consciousness), using government in pursuit of progressive perfectionism.

There is an apolitical idea held by groups who are increasingly more secular than theist that someone (them, actually) can use their superpowers (legislation, rules, force of law, and even a police state) to usher in the utopia on earth. A perfectly functioning pile of millions of otherwise disparate moving bits that result in heaven on earth. A mortal political paradise – while you as an individual (in their context) are not allowed or perhaps even capable of knowing what your ideal life or world might look like. Despite the frightening similarities (homo sapiens sapiens), it is not within you to know how individual peace or prosperity might look. What it would feel like. In their mind, you are more likely a barrier on the road to utopia.

This perfect place can only be achieved by their design. A vision precipitated by their will into which you will confine yourself in deference to the illusion that they can not only know but make your life better, but each and every one of the over 300 million of you in the United States, at the same time.

For a bunch of secular humanists, this sounds very much like the theocracy that tells you to fear wherein you will play the role assigned so that you might one day achieve thanks to a government that always hunger, led by people who never starve, in pursuit of a perfection that never arrives.

The Intelligent design of an all-seeing oligarchic god-king without whom it would have been impossible.

The difference, of course, is the first cause. We do not know where all the matter in the universe came from or if there was a designer from where they came. Oligarchic god-kings or governments that behave like them are allowed to create themselves, and in our case, with the will or indifference of the people.

We allowed them to heap disdain on the paradise we had, a messy and imperfect arrangement but the best chance for true liberty in the arc of human history, whether you think it was ordained by God or not. In the end, the problem with people is always people who cannot imagine a power greater than themselves, whether it is the designer of the universe or their constituents.

 

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Imagine a Mosquito at a nudist colony that knows what to do but doesn’t know where to start. Kudos to State Rep. Michael Granger and the five co-sponsors who know where to start! Introducing HB1294 to Nullify the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in NH will preserve state sovereignty and nullify (EPA) regulation enforcement.

Rep. Granger needs your help to educate his colleagues to overcome decades of disinformation that has saturated our culture with doomsday scenarios. Among many other frightening projections, remember 1969’s Population Bomb dangers Paul Ehrlich predicted: The battle to feed humanity is over. In the 1970’s and 1980’s hundreds millions of people will starve …”! Prophetic nonsense, in 1975, from Nigel Calder of International Wildlife, warned: “The threat of a new ice age must now stand along side nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankind.”

Encroachments on our liberty ignited by loud voices of fear created the EPA. Environmental hysteria propagated EPA implemented false solutions, ostensibly to save the environment with an underlying cause to control people. The result: bureaucratic laws supersede our Bill of Rights protections. Fear of government must once again be viewed as Washington did: “…It’s a dangerous servant and a fearful master.” If government uses phony science and fear against the people, then certainly we can use the fear of truth about the EPA to save our liberty.

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America’s survival needs pullers at the oars in the liberty boat. Consider this a call for emergency action. I am now using their tool of fear to motivate action from the reader. Freedom needs help to continue for posterity. Your involvement in helping push the “nullification” of the EPA’s unconstitutional usurpations of power will not stop accidentally. We need to confront these encroachments on our liberty by placing phone calls and emails demanding NH legislators pass HB 1294 to stop the EPA’s unconstitutional law. Ponder the thought of edicts from the EPA mandating another lockdown.

We need to build a fire in the minds of our State Rep”s and Senators with true facts to help Rep Granger pass HB 1294. Tell them our Bill of Rights have no emergency exceptions. Tell them they have the authority and duty to interface for “we the people” to protect our God-given inherent rights.

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