School funding: What aren’t you noticing?

In the classic shell game, the operator places a pea under a shell, and shuffles it around with two other shells.  Afterwards, the player tries to guess which shell is hiding the pea. What the player doesn’t know is that by the time the shuffling is over, the pea isn’t under any of the shells. … Read more

Stasi: Zersetzung is American Cancel Culture

When Zersetzung is upon you or your spouse, is suddenly beset by serial misfortune. Perhaps you are being cancelled.

Stasi: The East German Secret Police: An Overview, written on January 30th summarized how the “Ministerium für Staatssicherheit,” (MfS) operated from 1950 to 1989. Colloquially known as the, “Stasi,” this was one of the most effective and repressive secret police agencies ever to have existed.

Zersetzung: Biodegradation

From the 2007 Movie, “The Lives of Others.”

The fifties and sixties in the GDR brought secret arrests, repression, physical torture and imprisonment. German civil law required warrants for detention and surveillance. Despite that, the Stasi regularly surveilled its citizens, arrested them surreptitiously and held them without charge or cause.

The 1970’s saw monumental concern from the Party apparatchik of the GDR over its international image on the world stage. Consequently, the Stasi sought to retool their operations to be more subtle with their repression. The birth of, “Zersetzung,” sought to provide the East German State with a more positive face in the international community.

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Impeachment Theater 2.0: The Constant Drumbeat of Heated Language – From House Democrats

As Impeachment 2.0 – Revenge of the Democrat House Managers plays out in the US Senate, some interesting and obvious problems have arisen. First, the House did little in the way of a process. They had the votes, called it, boom, and it was done. Impeachments are political acts, so fair enough. But the basis for the vote has hit a wall of House Democrat Rheotoris you could call ‘heated.’

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Separation of Sport and State

I doubt that he intended it this way, but President* Biden’s recent executive order regarding gender orientation in sports will turn out to be a good thing in the long run.  Why do I say that? Consider a couple of ways that this might play out. In the first scenario, parents finally realize that there … Read more

Some New York Dems Want Cuomo’s Emergency Powers Rescinded

Andy ‘The Rona’ Cuomo got himself a problem, you see. He sent sick people with The Virus back to the nursing homes. People died. Grandma died. Then Cuomo lied. He said it didn’t happen like that. Suppressed the actual damage he’d caused. All while the media praised him for his response and bad mothed Trump and Republican Governors. It went sideways.

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Rep Kris Schultz Wants Schools to Teach White Kids That They Are Inherently Racist

HB 544 would ban “CRT,” which stands for Critical Race Theory in New Hampshire. As I explained in September of last year: Essentially, “critical race theory” describes the pseudoscientific concept that all people with white skin are inherently racists and are not even aware of it because they have “internalized” their “racial superiority” and, consequently, … Read more

The “Windham Incident” – NH’s “GOP” House and Senate and Governor are Ducking Every Bit as Much as the Attorney General

At this moment, four of the top five stories on this blog involve the “Windham Incident”. Steve’s from last November, which has been updated with a plausible explanation: [Update] Sources cite the possibility that roughly 300 voters chose to vote without wearing a mask so they were segregated when they voted. That these likely Republican … Read more

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Friday Open Thread – SHAMPEACHMENT!

And I haven’t watched a moment of it (except for surfing through it). IMHO, the outcome is preordained…but that’s just me but this threat is about YOU! Let’s see who can come up even better stuff than I, eh?

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