The internet machine coughed up a letter to the editor of the Bangor daily news. The law would update how the state pretends recycling is good for Maine or the planet. My first thought? How much carbon will they emit before it’s over?
Is Maine Where Religious Tests Go to Die
Maine won’t have to change their state motto, but it might need to clarify its nuance. It is “Dirigo,” Latin for I direct, or I lead, and they are leading and directing … religious groups to sue them for violating their First Amendment Rights.
Maine Considers Law Ensuring Citizens Know What Chemicals are … on Trains (No, Not COVID Vaccines)
Train derailments are a lot more common than we knew. However, after the mishandling of the chemical spill in East Palestine, Ohio, people with an itch to look relevant have been thinking about capitalizing on the tragedy for political points.
Vermont Gloats Over Its Gun-Grabbing as Maine Tries to Keep Up
The super-majority Democrat legislature in Vermont can have whatever it wants and it has. From terrible energy policy to denying residents of their second amendment rights, Vermont Dems are pushing as hard as they can to take away your liberties.
Is Maine Building a ‘Budding’ Weed Cartel?
Maine’s got a marijuana crisis, as in too much of it. The price has collapsed. Combined with the rising cost of electricity, growers can’t afford to operate. The result is a mass exodus of “individuals registered with the state to supply medical-use marijuana for patients.”
Mao Would Be Proud: Maine School’s Student “Civil Rights Team” More Like “Rainbow Guard”
One of the features of Mao’s communist cultural revolution was student zealots (Reg Guard) willing to rat out anyone from teachers to neighbors to their own parents. Anyone who dares to contradict Mao or his tenets. Modern America has that too.
Seafood Watch Red-Listed Maine Lobster – Maine Lobster is Suing them for Defamation
Seafood Watch Red-Listed Maine Lobster Maine Lobster is Suing them for Defamation
Enviro-whackos in California, with way too much green street cred, decided to blame right whale deaths on Maine’s lobster industry (it’s actually offshore wind). Everyone was upset except those Biden’s who served it at their first State Dinner.
Scary Gulf or Maine “Second Warmest Year on Record” Headline Is Out of Context Fearmongering
Maine is getting colder. It’s a fact. There’s been no warming in the past decade. They’ve recently experienced record-setting cold, which won’t help the trend, but hey, stop that. Warming! Look at the Gulf of Maine! The Portland Press Herald just had the journalist equivalent of unprotected sex with the Climate Cult narrative. “Last year … Read more
NPR Reports Record Setting Cold in Maine Without Mentioning Global Warming (!)
New England got a severe blast of arctic air this weekend. Wind chills dragged already cold temps into dangerous territory. It got so cold that parts of Maine expected temperatures not reached in forty years.
Maine Socialists Are So White and Straight They Have To Scrap Their Diversity Quotas
The Democrat Socialists of America chapter in Maine has a problem. They wrote a diversity quota requirement into their by-laws because that’s what cultural Marxists do. So what’s the problem? There aren’t enough commies in Maine who are not white and straight.
The Maine Climate Science Dashboard
The State of Maine has a climate science dashboard. An official repository for climate fearmongers and their water carriers. I stumbled on it after reading a story about scallops endangered by rising sea-water temperatures.
Massachusetts and Maine Embrace More Potemkin Energy
Grigory Potemkin is famous for allegedly erecting fake towns that appeared accurate when viewed from a distance. As the new governor of Crimea, he wanted to please his empress (with whom he was intimately engaged). Fast forward about 140 years, and we find ourselves with something similar.
Department of “Corrections” – Maine Man Convicted of Double Murder “Corrected” to Woman
Andrew T. Balcer was convicted of double murder after stabbing his parents and the family dog. At the time of the murder Balcer who is 6′ 1′, 245 pounds, claims they were not supportive of his desire to live as a woman.
Maine Legislative Committee Pretends to Address Winter Energy Issues
Maine is on the New England grid, so they’re as screwed as the rest of us. Like the rest of us, their so-called leaders believe sending someone a few hundred dollars to pay a bill solves a problem they or their ideological ancestors created.
A Maine School Counselor ‘Transitioned’ a 13-Yo W/Out Parental Knowledge and More! – Stack of Stuff #34
I am having a private conversation with a mental health specialist who declared that part of their practice deals in this issue (we do not see eye to eye). I sent that person this story and am awaiting the response. I, however, believe that this makes the case, along with the hundreds of other “news … Read more
Maine Legislature Leaves Gov. Mills’ Winter “Relief” Scheme Out in the Cold
Most of our readers understand how this works. The government screws something up, deliberately in most cases, and then pretends to help with the downside of its policy priorities. When that fails, you blame your opponents while regular people suffer.
Culture War: A Moment of Sanity in Maine
A Maine School Board had its toes on the ledge. They were going to vote on a policy to allow teachers and coaches to hide a student’s mental health issues from parents. But the board “transitioned away” and put the new policy on hold after parents made a stand.
Biden’s to Serve Climate Killing Beef and Banned Maine Lobster at First State Dinner
In the left-Wing tradition of hyper-hypocrisy, President* Biden is serving climate-killing beef and banned Maine lobster to the Macron’s this evening at his first State Dinner. You read that right. According to Reuters, we are nearly three years in, and Joe and Jill are only holding their first State Dinner.
Porn in Maine Schools? Democrats Are Insisting It Should Be There (and here!). GrokPAC says NO!
Four days ago, I introduced GrokPAC, GraniteGrok’s more politically active offshoot with its registration “description” of “No better friend, no worse energy.”
If a $500 Mill Religious Exemption Settlement is a Wake-Up Call to Employers, How About States Like Maine?
Maine passed a law abrogating religious exemptions for childhood immunizations. Passed before the Chinese Flu Plandemic, it became effective in 2021 and has since cut the number of exemption requests in half. We’ve posited that this is an unconstitutional violation, and now we may have some backup.