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Venezuela is a basket case from every view you can take – except if you are a Socialist.  Those folks don’t even want to look in that direction and do you EVER hear them talking about how GREAT Venezuela is?  This headline and article doesn’t help and it should give both Socialists and Environmentalists (but I repeat myself) a big cause for reflection and introspection (yeah, I know, I know):

Venezuelans eating cats, dogs, donkeys, horses and even pink flamingos to survive

Biology student Luis Sibira stumbled across the first set of gory remains last November: eight pink flamingos, their breasts and torsos sliced out, leaving their heads, spindly legs and vivid feathers scattered across the marshy ground at Las Peonias Lagoon in western Venezuela…

But this isn’t simple poaching, he said. Sibira and other investigators from Zulia University, a public university in Maracaibo, are convinced that the protected birds have become the latest victims of Venezuela’s growing hunger crisis. People have become so desperate, he said, that they are butchering and eating flamingos.

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Appropriate for this post now that the NH State Senate and House have passed SB12 – Constitutional Carry (just waiting for Governor Chris to sign it).  The anti-gunners are always clamoring that the “Good Guy with a Gun” doesn’t exist or that we don’t need guns because the police are right there.  Well, here’s a case where the police were too far away but the Good Guy was very good indeed (reformatted, emphasis mine):

A customer at a Holland convenience store shot and wounded another man he tried to stop from assaulting the store clerk, the store owner says. The shooting happened about 10:25 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 9 at Columbia Avenue One Stop, 405 Columbia Ave. Store owner Jansen Le said a female clerk was on duty when a man described as the clerk’s ex-boyfriend came inside and an altercation ensued. The clerk, in a phone conversation with Le, told him the ex-boyfriend began beating her up. Soon after, another customer came into the store and witnessed the assault.

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• The Good News:  A number of Sanctuary Cities are starting to see the error of their ways and have decided to return to The Rule of Law
• The AWFUL News:  Money is more powerful than their Principles.

Heh!  This is good news in that these towns, cities and counties are no longer decide that all laws apply to everyone, including themselves.  They should NEVER have decided otherwise.  But like recalcitrant children, they are learning that decisions have consequences.  But are they doing it because it is “the right thing to do”? Of course not.  Sure, they’re folding like paper cut-outs of Obama in the rain, but not for the right reason. Instead of following The Rule of Law (one of the foundational tenets of American Exceptionalism that all men are created equal before the law) however, its all about the Benjamins (reformatted, emphasis mine):

‘We’re going to see more’: Sanctuary cities cave in face of Trump’s funding threats

Summarized from the article:

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The quick answer is that it hasn’t – when Target decided that it was going to make their bathroom basically unisex (“ollie, ollie, come on in home free”), it started a backlash from conservatives and traditionalists that didn’t want women to be forced to share the women’s bathrooms with men (especially the perverts proclaiming to be transgender to gain entry to that bathroom – but aren’t; we’ve written about this before and the pervs that have been caught).  But Target plowed on to cater to a small sliver of society – they made the decision that they could do without a large percentage of their customer because SOCIAL JUSTICE. They just didn’t plan on that same customer base deciding that they could do without Target, whose financials have suffered for their SJW ways. I know I used to go in fairly often – not anymore.

Then there’s the NFL whose TV ratings have sucked (relatively speaking for them). They’ve alienated a lot of their fan base by letting the Colin Kaepernick nonsense continue (as well as the “military pay for play” stupidity), and now they want to do the same thing as Target?

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Has a great face slap to the fragile SJW and snowflakes everywhere.  And Blazing Saddles couldn’t be made again today (good thing as Hollywood’s SJWs would just louse it up).  But the meme is right – so let’s get started:

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Heh!  But given how the Ninth Circuit ruled by ignoring a lot of important legal bits, this parody from The Corner could be plausable (emphasis mine, reformatted) based on it seems that the Ninth believes that Constitutional Rights belong to ANY global “citizen” even if said citizen is openly advocating and fighting for the overthrow of the United States based solely on religious reasons:

…Thanks to my time machine, I was able to secure a copy of the following opinion, dated October 18, 2019. It’s from a panel of Ninth Circuit judges, per curiam:

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and the State of California, et al., v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States

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Like I said earlier, my intent in going to our town’s Municipal Deliberative Session was all about Article 21 that was sponsored, in part, by former BudCom members Allen Voivod and Fred Butler (both who have tried to kill the BudCom in the past). Instead of going after it all like last time, they went after a single point person – the Chair Norm Silber (just wanted to point that out again).

However, during the discussion of another Article that I called our Selectmen on what one of them said:

Article 11:   Shall the Town vote to raise and appropriate the sum of four hundred fifty thousand ($450,000) for phase 2 of the Town Hall improvement project,

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“…if you can’t bother to do your homework”

BTW, sorry for not posting the last couple of nights – just had nothing on Tuesday and last nite was my town’s SB2 Deliberative Session for the town’s budget and other issues (all called “articles”).  For those that don’t live in NH, it is Town Meeting time.  This is the continuation of a few centuries now of a tradition, especially in the smaller towns and villages, for the residents (LEGAL residents!) to gather and decide on the upcoming annual budgets (municipal and school district), zoning changes, and any other types of “warrant articles” that are to be decided. The traditional Town Meeting has both the debate on the issues as well as the voting on these articles (either by raised hands or by voice votes).

An SB2 town is a bit different in that the debate part is its own meeting the residents can question the selectmen and budget committee members on the various articles, the budget line items – and change any desired them by voting those changes up and down and arrive at the final worded articles to be put on the ballot.  This completed ballot is then voted upon at a different day just like voting for President – via the voting booth.

The advantages of this SB2 style is that:

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Emphasis mine:

(Part 1)

…Should the law ban private companies from discriminating on the basis of sex (or race, religion, ethnicity, etc.)? There is wide agreement that invidious discrimination fueled by bigotry is contemptible, and most Americans accept the authority of government to suppress such ugliness from the marketplace.

I agree with the above.  But I also agree to the below which has been subsumed by the above:

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THIS is going to get a lot of traction on the Right every time (emphasis mine):

The chirpy Yahoo News anchor was delivering a biology dissertation on the Ellen show about how unpredictable gender can be. (It’s apparently a total crap shoot and genetics don’t matter.) Over the course of the discussion Katie explains how a female fetus can feel male.

Wait, fetuses can feel stuff?

Yeah, that’s gonna be a big OUCH!  From a zygote

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SHOT: ISIS using encrypted communication to remote-control attacks on the west

The New York Times published a story by Rukmini Callimachi today which explains how ISIS handlers are using encrypted communication to remote-control attacks on western nations, including the United States. The attackers, who are often mistaken for lone wolves, have sometimes been trained and guided by ISIS handlers right up to the moment of the attack. One example: The attackers who opened fire on the Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest in Garland, Texas. Remote terror planners have been behind a number of attacks that made international news and which, at first glance, appeared to be the work of lone wolves.

CHASER: Federal employees are using encrypted communications to ‘resist Trump’

Whether inside the Environmental Protection Agency, within the Foreign Service, on the edges of the Labor Department or beyond, employees are using new technology as well as more old-fashioned approaches — such as private face-to-face meetings — to organize letters, talk strategy, or contact media outlets and other groups to express their dissent.

The goal is to get their message across while not violating any rules covering workplace communications, which can be monitored by the government and could potentially get them fired.
So let’s be clear here.  Let’s make it crystal clear so no one will miss it.  It’ll put it in bold, just in case.

What these federal employees are doing is against the law and would justifiably get them fired.  So they’re hiding it by using encrypted communications.

This is nothing new for loyal readers of the ‘Grok.  For years, it has become clear and evident that

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Is this some kind of persuasion or retribution (emphasis mine, reformatted)?

The idea, which took eight feminists to come up with, is that men and other assorted non-gendered partners should be made to feel what will happen when women become so oppressed that they disappear.

These nitwits are absurd.  Here in the US, females make up 51% of the population.  They are self-delusional.  And it isn’t just about Trump either.  Guys – they both fear and hate us all:

The strike, they say, is not just about Donald Trump, but about all men—and even collaborating women—who are contributing to the swift decline of women’s rights worldwide. “While Trump’s blatant misogyny was the immediate trigger for the huge response on 21 January, the attack on women (and all working people) long predates his administration.”

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A deliberate lie by omission, IMHO.  Here in NH, SB 12 (e.g., “Constitutional Carry”) is an anti-discriminatory law that would allow LAW ABIDING citizens, to lawfully conceal a firearm without the obligatory “Nanny Government, may I?”. Eleven States already have this in place – they TRUST their LAW ABIDING citizens to be responsible.  Vermont does, Maine now does – and none of those states have “rivers of blood” that the Statists have screamed and cried about over the years.  Heck, Vermont has been one of the safest States in the nation with its Constitutional Carry for, well, forever.

But there are those that have the mindset that ONLY Government can make the right decisions and that the current discriminatory law (enacted back in the 1930s to intentionally keep women, immigrants, and minorities from having firearms).  Like Zandra Rice-Hawkins (or as we affectionately call her, Zandra Rice-Crispies – you know, a shell on the outside and hollow on the inside) of Granite State Progress (the hard Progressive / Socialist group funded by out-of-state millionaires).  So, we KNOW she discriminates against her own gender (re: “God made men, but Sam Colt made them equal”) with this:

“New Hampshire is opening the door to allow dangerous individuals with a track record of violence to legally carry hidden, loaded weapons,” said Zandra Rice Hawkins, executive director of Granite State Progress.

Really, Zandra? You have to stoop this low in lying to make a point.

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