Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves?
– Tench Coxe, The Pennsylvania Gazette, Feb. 20, 1788
“We are our own first responders,”
–NRA instructor Bill Hodges
The fact that it has to be said, that We the People should be a priority above and are preeminent before Govt, is a sad state of affairs. I keep saying this but it requires that it be said. Govt was designed to be a supportive floor and not a towering overlord. We were meant to be a self-reliant and self-responsible people but there are those that would have Govt have the preeminent position (which, you know, makes us subjects rather than sovereign citizens). These people have outsourced heir responsibilities for both themselves and their fellow citizens to faceless bureaucrats in Govt. We are moving from a permissionless society to one that must ask “Nanny, may I” at almost every turn. Like here with some SJW feminist complaining about the citizen volunteers going out on their own accord – to help others:
As Trump would tweet: “sad”.
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SHOT: Sharpton Leads ‘Ministers’ March’ to Protest Trump: ‘This Nation Is in Moral Trouble’
…The march was spearheaded by Sharpton, who also made political remarks that addressed what he called “immoral” actions happening in the United States.
“We wanted 1,000 rabbis, Sikhs, imams, Christian ministers of all denominations because we wanted to say this nation is in moral trouble,” Sharpton said in a speech to the marchers. …”It’s time for moral leaders of all religions to get rid of their fear and … speak up and stand up and stand up together,” Sharpton said. “I want the media to see this crowd of rabbis and priests and preachers. And we may not agree on every local issue, but we agree on a universal issue, and that is morality must be above party politics.”
CHASER: Rev. Al?ou mean “moral”, like
He’s parlayed a walk with MLK into a lifetime of grifting with his Action Network.
N.H. State Democratic Party Chair Raymond “Buckles the Clown” Buckley
Ray Buckley, Chair of the NH Democrat Party, has a missive in the Concord Fishwrap about we plebes voting. Thus:
SHOT: My Turn: Fighting back against disenfranchisement
This week the New Hampshire Democratic Party filed a lawsuit against the voter suppression bill known as Senate Bill 3. We refuse to stand idly by while Republicans try to strip away voting rights based on lies.
…SB 3 exposes eligible voters to criminal penalties simply for failing to understand or comply with confusing paperwork. It makes you sign a different form if you’re registering 31 days out as compared to 30 days out. It makes you prove not just that you live here, but that you intend to stay here.
If you can’t provide that information more than a month before Election Day, you will be turned away from registering. If you can’t provide this information within 30 days of an election, you will be subject to voter fraud investigation, including government officials knocking on your door and asking to see your papers.
CHASER: “…asking to see your papers.” Democrats must show ID
- to attend and vote at NH Democrat annual meetings
- to attend and vote at the national DNC conventions
There is no way or technique to get “vouched” later, right Ray? Like SB3? And aren’t you being discriminatory with that whack about “confusing paperwork” – nice way to word your bigotry of low expectations that your voters can’t deal with stuff like…..getting an ID? How well do they really like being “low browed” as you categorize them as having the minds of little children who can’t do “complicated”? My, such a way of viewing your base!
The hypocrisy, it’s dripping off your chin, Ray…
Full column:
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A bit of good news – the pace of the economy is actually doing better than initial reports (reformatted, emphasis mine):
The U.S. economy grew faster than initially thought in the second quarter, notching its quickest pace in more than two years, and there are signs that the momentum was sustained at the start of the third quarter. Gross domestic product increased at a 3.0 percent annual rate in the April-June period, the Commerce Department said in its second estimate on Wednesday.
The upward revision from the 2.6 percent pace reported last month reflected robust consumer spending as well as strong business investment. Growth last quarter was the strongest since the first quarter of 2015 and followed a 1.2 percent pace in the January-March period. Economists had expected that second-quarter GDP growth would be raised to a 2.7 percent rate.
Here’s to hoping that this continues!
(H/T: Reuters via Conservative Treehouse)
Antifa – looks like ISIS with different color flags
This has been a long time coming.
“Our democracy has no room for inciting violence or endangering the public, no matter the ideology of those who commit such acts,” the California Democrat said in a statement. “The violent actions of people calling themselves Antifa in Berkeley this weekend deserve unequivocal condemnation, and the perpetrators should be arrested and prosecuted.”
Is it possible that the minority House leader has had a vision? One where using the actions of violent thugs to advance the Democrat Parties “all Republicans are into White Supremacy” narrative is beginning to backfire?
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A Professor is out of work after claiming on social media that Texas deserved the destruction wrought by Harvey for Voting Republican.
TAMPA, Fla. —The University of Tampa has fired a visiting assistant professor who suggested in a tweet that Hurricane Harvey’s destruction is “instant karma” for Texas because it voted Republican.
Sociology professor Kenneth L. Storey posted the tweet and two responses on Sunday before removing the entire thread and his profile photo.
University spokesman Eric Cardenas said in a statement Tuesday that Storey was fired after the school weathered an outpouring of online outrage over the comments.
Weathered an outpouring…seriously?
In an August, 18th Los Angeles Times Op-Ed, Richard L. Hasen, the Chancellor’s Professor of Law and Political Science at UC Irvine, offered his insight into the problem of “cheap speech.”
Framing the context in an opening paragraph that fingers White Supremacists in Charlottesville, President Trump’s twitter feed, and Facebook, Hasen warns,
The rise of what we might call “cheap speech” has, … fundamentally altered both how we communicate and the nature of our politics, endangering the health of our democracy. The path back to a more normal political scene will not be easy.
You’d think the Chancellor’s Professor of Law and Political Science at UC Irvine would know we don’t live in a Democracy, but let’s not choke on small bones when we have much bigger fish to fry.
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Antifa – Not Shy About their Intentions
Yesterday I pondered the mysteries behind the appearance of Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti in Manchester New Hampshire, questioning why he’d come cross-country to support the mayoral candidacy of Democrat Joyce Craig. Today we may have an answer.
“The next generation of leaders that comes up has to have that practical experience. Not just saying what we’re against, and not just saying what we’re for, but having the guts to do it.”
You mean like AntiFA?
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We should be mindful (and wary because) of his wise words:
“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”
– President Abraham Lincoln
The news coverage of the epic flooding in Texas leaves me overwhelmed. It’s good to hear about relief efforts that let those of us at a distance reach out with practical help. I’m sure your inbox and social media feeds are full of appeals which you’ll respond as you’re able. Here are a few that touched a chord with me. Read the whole thing!
Again, this is very scary time for American Exceptionalism – it shows that the Progressive Totalitarians are winning at turning this country inside out:
…Citizens are wary of speaking their minds, a new poll suggests. Many Americans are opting to stay quiet in an intensified culture of political correctness fostered by activism and often biased media coverage. “Few Americans think they have true freedom of speech today and think the country is too politically correct,” reports a new Rasmussen Reports survey. Read the whole thing!
Hillary lost because she was a lousy candidate, but that’s no reason not to try and make money on it. So someone wrote a book for her and put Hillary’s name on it so she can cash the advances. (She should not plan on too much in royalties. Outside of gag gifts and Clinton Crime Family Cult Members–which includes everyone in the media–no one else cares why her ghost writer thinks she lost.)
As part of this repeat-defeat cleansing ritual, she will be stopping in New Hampshire. Joy.
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First Amendment:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
California Constitution:
SEC. 2.
(a) Every person may freely speak, write and publish his or her sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of this right. A law may not restrain or abridge liberty of speech or press.
Antifa wants to beat on REAL fascists (which, in part, want to control your speech)? Look no further than your Progressive Totalitarian Overlords (otherwise known as Democrats) in the California Senate that just passed legislation to do just that – and the lower House is about to follow suit.
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Just thought I’d leave this here:
Traffic fatalities linked to pot are up sharply in Colorado
Federal and state data show that the number of drivers involved in fatal crashes in Colorado who tested positive for marijuana has more than doubled since 2013. A Denver Post analysis of the data and coroner reports provides the most comprehensive look yet into whether roads in the state have become more dangerous since the drug’s legalization.
It shows that Increasingly potent levels of marijuana were found in positive-testing drivers who died in crashes in Front Range counties. The trends coincide with the legalization of recreational marijuana in Colorado.
And I find this….well, I’m thinking that the operative phrase may well be “self-serving”:
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This kind of stuff is really starting to creep me out: scared of ideas, scared of people with differing opinions, scared of history, scared of not having safe spaces supplied with pillows, crayons, and puppies?? And now the NEXT thing that these adults-who-won’t-admit-they-are-children (and very small children at that):
Some smartphone-carrying millennials and Gen Zers are so used to texting upon arrival that the sound of a ringing doorbell freaks them out; ‘it’s terrifying.’
“Doorbells are just so sudden. It’s terrifying,” says Tiffany Zhong, 20, the founder of Zebra Intelligence, which helps companies conduct custom research and gather insights on people born in the past two decades. There’s no published research about doorbell phobia, but it’s a real thing. In a poll by a Twitter user earlier this month that got more than 11,000 votes, 54% of respondents said “doorbells are scary weird.”
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By Rep. Dave Testerman
I want to talk about why we should be concerned about immigration, particularly from Muslim countries. Frankly, it’s all simple math. When the majority of the population is different from the original ethnic mix, it changes the focus of the country. Read the whole thing!
If you insist that your marches are about peaceful protest why do you brook masked and hooded thugs bent on using violence and intimidation to suppress or stop that speech?
This week Rich and I explore how the Democrats and Progressives have become the “Not-See” party. How many of these so-called peaceful protesters, who choose what to see and what not to see, are complicit in this suppression of speech? (All of them, if you ask me.) And what about those who offer their support to speech-suppression and or refuse to denounce both the violence and the complicity?
