This week, we discuss the shooting death by NH law enforcement in Walpole of the VP of Cheshire Medical Center after a domestic disturbance call. We talk about the various ways police are treated differently to regular folk during these homicide investigations.
Cops killed someone in Walpole this weekend. Feel free to reach out to me if you have any details to share. $100 it gets ruled a “justified shooting,” after a kid glove investigation, but on the plus side, the AG’s office is creating expansive definitions of what is legally regarded as “self-defense” under NH law. I’m partial to that one where you can justifiably shoot and kill a person fleeing in a car from behind like they ruled in Weare back in the day.*
* Everyone knows I am an agent of peace. Just pointing out the vast hypocrisy applied to “the law” depending on who is doing the shooting… In the De Jesus case I am referring to, even retired cops were like, WTAF, yo? The AG simply didn’t decide AT ALL, whether that shooting was justified… Like, oops, we can’t figure this out, and we just like, don’t want to deal, m’kay???
Another shooting occurred in Walpole back in December 2021. Read AG’s announcement. What does this mean? Do we even know if it’s the same officers? Where’s the final report? Any accountability?
UPDATE 11:15AM: “Per protocol, the trooper involved is being withheld until a formal interview is conducted.There were no body or cruiser cameras at the scene.” You don’t say… isn’t it AMAZING that we’re paying millions of dollars for body cams, and yet?!?
News links to yesterday’s shooting:
https://boston.cbslocal.com/…/walpole-new-hampshire…/
https://www.reformer.com/local-news/video-officer-involved-shooting-in-walpole/video_1ce9eda6-b132-5f04-b2e3-b2e4c7d15a9b.html
I turn 50 today! This seems like… a lot, but honestly, I feel like I’m just getting started! I told Louis the other day that I believe I will live until 150, and that I am DEFINITELY going to space. Maybe nothing beyond the equivalent of getting high enough (hah!) to float in Zero Gravity like a once-in-a-lifetime rollercoaster ride, but I’m going to make it happen. Now y’all know why I want Elon Musk to be my bestie. 
A couple of years ago, I set the goal of learning to surf by 50. Then Covid happened, the world turned stupid, and we all suffered. I did go to an indoor surf class once, and I stuck the ride, much to the surprise of the college kid who was helping me. Then I stuck it again. And again. Then I fell… hard–ah, so THAT’S what the helmet and knee pads are for! I did recently get a RevBalance board, and do use that in my home gym, so I’m chalking this one up to “tried, failed to meet the deadline, but I’m still working towards the goal.” Maybe when I’m 60? Until then, Hang Ten, yo!
I had delusions of grandeur about throwing a Fancy Pants Soiree at The Currier Museum. Then Covid happened, people got stupid, and I refuse to support any place enforcing a vax pass, so… yeah. Then, for a hot sec, I considered renting a house in Mexico or Malta, and inviting all my friends from across the world meet me, but then Covid was still a thing, governments were still being stupid, and… yeah.
Fortunately, I live an intentional life in a large community of awesome people, so when I threw a Big Party to celebrate a past community success two weeks ago, my friends surprised me with a heartfelt rendition of Happy Birthday, my own cupcake, and a giant Porcupine cake. Thank you!
I had only one other goal for today, and that was to fit in this Little Black Dress… I’m healthier at 50 than I have been since my 20s. I am definitely healthier than I was when I turned 40, and that is an accomplishment that I am super proud of! After making a commitment to prioritize myself, I decided to deal with my shit, and become more of the person *I*–not society, other people, or anyone else living rent-free in my head–want to be.
While I’m still figuring out who that is, while I am still learning, evolving, growing, failing and getting back up–something I will always do because I believe this is the recipe for happiness in life–I know she looks smashing in that dress!
To Future Me, to the next 50, to 2072 when I will be 100, I say, keep at it, find all the big and little things to love, and then LOVE the world with all you got, grrrl!
Read about the steps I took to change my life.
Read about how I learned to love myself.
PS: The best gift I was given this year was Obi, our new puppy who will keep me on my toes for the next decade and more!
This week I cover a lot of ground: Was Bob Saget murdered? Is Free Speech dead? What’s up with Canada, and why do Democrats hate school choice? I conclude with some tips on how to get more GRIT in your life!
ICYMI: Yesterday, the Department of Homeland Security, a federal department libertarians vehemently warned against when it was formed post-9/11, went full Orwell and declared that, “(1) the proliferation of false or misleading narratives, which sow discord or undermine public trust in U.S. government institutions;” is now “domestic extremism.”
Don’t be intimidated! Keep speaking out. Keep telling the truth. They want to scare YOU, the Thinking People, into silence so that they don’t have to explain what is going on.
What IS going on is getting harder and harder to discern with all the misinformation “fact checkers” are spreading in the name of the Bio-Fascist Global Elite and their Control Freak Minions, but I do know this much… you can always trust their own “tells.”
What do I mean by that? I mean they will accidentally reveal parts of the truth as they try to cover their destructive tracks. Much like claiming to handily find intact passports of the terrorists responsible for 9-11 in the rubble of the Flight 93 crash site and at the collapsed Twin Towers (a lie so BIG you have to believe it <—an actual textbook propaganda tactic), they are inadvertently showing their hand by making ridiculous claims about things that now can give you heart attacks.
Myocarditis is a serious vaccine side effect, which is making soccer players collapse faster and at an alarmingly higher rate than normal (while the Ministry of Troothiness tells you this is a “coincidence”). According to this Israeli study, myocarditis is now harming more children than Covid (which has a 99.8% survival rate for kids). I recommend you watch this interview with footballer Matt Le Tissier, who I think gets a lot right about what is going on.
So these people are now on a quest to persuade you that heart attacks are so common place, they occur among children, are caused by climate change, weed, making your bed, and more! How stupid do they think you are?
Then today, this happened…
To which I made this handy chart of the Ministry of Troothiness’ work over the past 2 years…
“We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.” ~ William Casey, CIA Director 1981-1987
— Carla Gericke, Future President of NH (@CarlaGericke) February 10, 2022
Me: There is nothing more dangerous than a government that believes its own lies… pic.twitter.com/egR3ORgjUn
Super excited for tonight’s celebration of our Sixth Annual Porcupine Day! I posted this on Facebook on the actual “official” day on 2/3:
Happy “official” Porcupine Day! While our celebration party is Saturday evening, today, six years ago, we Triggered the Move and called thousands of libertarians home to the Free State. (And “triggered” the enemies of liberty in NH. lol) Getting 20K signers was the culmination of a ton of work by a bunch of incredible people, all of whom should be proud of their efforts! On a personal note, it is hard for me to watch the press conference video because I can see how unwell and out-of-balance I was. Suffice to say, herding libertarian cats is a special skill, and I wasn’t fully equipped back then to deal with all the stresses, which meant I developed a pretty nifty drinking problem. But, I knew something was wrong, and I set out to change. And I did. So Porcupine Day is bittersweet for me. An end, a start, and a continued lifelong journey where only I, first, am captain, for me, but I am truly grateful for all who sail beside me! Cheers!
Here’s last year’s post…
We cover a lot of ground this week, including Manchester Democrat Nicole Klein-Knight’s removal from committees for use of the N-word, a bill that would remove parental consent requirements for vaccines for 16 y/os, the problem with being overly tolerant to bad public behavior, and more!
Idk, but could YOU spend 25 years pretending to be something you are not, like this government agent who was paid by you to “pretend” to be a racist KKK member, and more? The worst part about government for me is they do terrible things IN THE NOW (say, waterboarding) claiming to prevent worse things from happening in the future, BUT…
Much like the claims about your C19 symptoms being “milder” if you’re vaxxed, no one REALLY knows if that’s true, AND, if we were to freeze the timeline in the NOW, that state agent “pretending” to be the KKK or torturing someone, IS OBJECTIVELY THE BAD GUY.
But you know, keep believing the people who are doing bad things in the now while they tell you about other people who might do worse things in the future… bc, yeah, THAT’S SANE. /s
Our individual Right of Conscience is enshrined in Article 4 of the NH Constitution, stating: [Rights of Conscience Unalienable.] Among the natural rights, some are, in their very nature unalienable, because no equivalent can be given or received for them. Of this kind are the Rights of Conscience.
“Unalienable” = NO ONE can take it away.
So this bill, HB1210 is a no brainer! Free people can decide what to do with their own bodies… it’s called “self-ownership.” If you disagree, let me ask you this… how much of me do you think the government owns?
According to the bill’s sponsor, Timothy Lang, the bill does take into account private business owners needs by including a “reasonable accommodation” clause. If the employee and employer cannot come to some arrangement, you can get fired.