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And the Democrat Minority Leader, Chuck Schumer (D/Progressive – NY) has just caved into to the person that the Democrats believe is the stupidest person in the world: President Donald Trump.  How does that even work that the stupid guy won – and won easily yet again?

I doubted it was possible, but Dems have actually lost a shutdown fight. Schumer has agreed to end the filibuster in exchange for practically nothing. Make no mistake: Schumer & Dems caved. What a political fiasco.

— Brit Hume (@brithume) January 22, 2018

Methinks is that he doesn’t back down, he doesn’t give in, doesn’t give up and, like the NE Patriots yesterday, finds a way to win. Very unRepublican of him, isn’t it, to simply stiffen his spine and tell the Democrats to go pound sand and then mean what he says?

He simply stood his ground. 

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The last few months have not been kind to the feminists that have insisted that there are no differences between guys and gals because gender is merely a “social construct”.  I guess that math hasn’t gotten the message – or is it that feminists are too blinkered to admit that math really doesn’t care what you are (emphass mine, reformatted):

 Oxford University extends time for maths and computer science exams in bid to help women get better grades.

Oxford University has extended time for maths and computer science exams in a bid to help women get better grades. Undergraduates were given 105 minutes to complete their papers, rather 90. There was no change in difficulty or the length of questions and female students were said to do better as a result. Dons trialed the changes to allow women to achieve higher results, with just seven female maths finalists achieving firsts last year compared with 45 men. The proposals were put forward to reduce the ‘undue effects of time pressure’ which the prestigious university believe affects women more than men, reports the Sunday Times.

The message from Oxford is clear:

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I am on most of the Republican email lists that matter here in NH.  Ditto the Democrat ones – like the US Ambassador to NH Jeanne Shaheen (who demonstrates on a regular basis that what happens in DC should override what we New Hampshireits decide for ourselves).  Now, we all know that almost all, Right and Left, politicians are going to “embellish” from time to time; we all know how and when to discount what they say or write.  However, Shaheen decided to use a blatant lie in order to score political points.  Here’s what she sent on the 19th (reformatted, emphasis mine):

Friends: Right now, Donald Trump and congressional Republicans are just hours away from shutting down our entire government. Why? Because they’re more interested in playing politics than in doing what’s right.

Republicans refuse to protect the nearly 700,000 Dreamers who came to this country as children, provide adequate resources to end the opioid crisis or reauthorize the Children’s Health Insurance Program. It’s absolutely unacceptable. No matter what, I’m going to keep fighting until midnight strikes. But with only hours to go, I want to know where you stand:

Now, I realize that there are two lies going on here (or at best, 1 is a severe misdirection).

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So far, their kvetching on Trump’s Tax Reform has turned into a puddle of dried up tears.  And their attempts to dismiss The Wall as being misguided, too expensive, and would never work: they’ll tunnel under it and if it is taller than what we have now, they’ll just use bigger ladders.  Hahahahaha!

Build The Wall: U.S Special Forces Tried To Breach Trump’s Border Wall–They Couldn’t Do It

For those who mock the border wall and think it’s a waste of money, it stopped U.S. Special Forces teams that were testing the prototypes. The towering height made it almost impossible for assault teams to scale the fortification that President Trump wants along our southern border with Mexico. It’s projected to cost $18 billion over the next decade; one prototype for the wall is a staggering 30 feet tall. The minimum height that Customs and Border Protection want for the wall is 18 feet, though up to 30 is not off limits. It also has to be six feet deep. The testing concerning scaling was a three-week endeavor (via CBS Local DFW) [emphasis mine]:

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ONE YEAR AGO TODAY, Hillary Clinton did not become President.

(H/T: Instapundit)

And if you dismiss Trump’s tweets and pronouncements as the Shiny Objects that they are intended to be for the Dems, media, and anti-Trumpers, he’s actually piling up a very good conservative “done” list; just dub him the Anti-Obama.  And this is hillarious (see what I did there?; emphasis mine, reformatted):

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How times have changed, how times have changed.  Remember come November, New Hampshirites, that our entire Democrat Congressional coven voted illegal immigrants over American Citizens.  You see, they just showed us that they were willing to take away healthcare for over 9 million poor kids simply to keep illegals into the country.  They showed us that we 1.3 million residents don’t matter, that the Rule of Law doesn’t matter – they are willing to throw the equivalent of a 2 year old’s temper tantrum in refusing to long term fund the SCHIP program – something THEY demanded in this CR (Continuing Resolution to keep the Fed Govt open) and the Republicans gave them.

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(H/T: Powerline – just a whole lotta good memes from them today!)

Yep, it is.  In fact, Nick (you who hold that Google has NO bias at all so SHUT UP), now even Google is saying “er, my bad” (reformatted, emphasis mine):

Google says it is discontinuing its fact-check feature because it proved to be too faulty for public use, directly attributing the decision to an investigation by The Daily Caller News Foundation. The company has no date set for when it will return, if ever.

“We launched the reviewed claims feature at the end of last year as an experiment with the aim of helping people quickly learn more about news publications,” a spokeswoman for Google said, while also adding that The Daily Caller News Foundation was the catalyst for the recent move. “We said previously that we encountered challenges in our systems that maps fact checks to publishers, and on further examination it’s clear that we are unable to deliver the quality we’d like for users.”

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OK, Nick Martin, another example; this one from RedState (again, and reformatted, emphasis mine):

Dave Rubin Conducts YouTube Experiment Proving Google’s Anti-Capitalism Bias

Google’s notoriety in the political bias department has been overtly undeniable as it continuously disadvantages right-learning or Christian thought. Thanks to one of YouTube’s most famous interview show host, Dave Rubin, we can now see that Google has an anti-Capitalist bent as well. On Wednesday, Rubin posted a video to YouTube titled “Socialism Isn’t Cool,” where he outlined exactly how socialism was the bane of society…Rubin went on to say that individualism, not collectivism, is the way to prosperity and that socialism conflicts directly with what it means to be human. It’s definitely worth a watch.

Go to the post to watch it.  What was unsurprising, at least to those of us on the Right, is what Google’s child, YouTube, did:

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For nothing is more “Democratic” than the mantra “your money is our money – you just haven’t realized it yet”.  They proclaim “why can’t we do this; we are a wealthy country” as if they truly believe that your money IS their money to spend because y’all are all too stupid and dopey to spend it the right way – that is, THEIR way.  Case in point (reformatted, emphasis mine):

Democrats in California have proposed an amendment to take half of the tax savings businesses in their state get from the recently-passed federal tax cuts. California would seize the savings via a proposed “tax surcharge” on any tax reform benefits, The San Francisco Chronicle reports.

So, they feel entitled to any of your money that the Trump and the Republicans have said “hey, it’s YOUR money and we AREN’T going to take that private property away from you anymore”.  Democrats in CA are saying “No, you can’t keep that money – it belongs to US!”:

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A Grandpa chair!

The two soon-to-be-official Granddaughters and the Grandson and me – they love to listen and I love to read to them.  During the day, the Grandson will often bring us book after book after book to read to him and often will ask for the same book to be read over and over and over to him. Which reminds me of this (reformatted, emphasis mine):

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IT CAN’T BE TRUE! AL GORE SAID THERE WOULD BE NO MORE SNOW BY NOW.  THE WEATHER SUFFERS FROM FALSE CONSCIOUSNESS!  Half of US soil covered in snow at the same time.

Heh!

(H/T: Instapundit)

See about Shaheen’s failed pronouncements here, here, here, and here (mostly covered by Steve!).  And lest I forget, look what Jeanne Shaheen wrought:

MANCHESTER — Owners of some small New Hampshire businesses said at a forum Thursday that paperwork and expense are threatening the economic platforms on which their companies are built — to the point that the Affordable Care Act could trump nature. Greg Goddard, general manager of Gunstock Ski Resort, said requirements that health insurance be offered to employees who are on a company payroll for 120 consecutive days or longer could mean opening the slopes later and shutting them down earlier.

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The idea that towns can set up their own ordinances willy-nilly to fight anything they want (lately here in NH, that would be the Northern Pass project) is sheer stupidity on those that accept this idea that a Rights Based Ordinance would “save them from Big Corporations sinning against our little town” and the organization peddling this, a cross between those demogoging Marxist class warfare and environmental utopia is the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund who rears its head every year this time of Town Meetings lately.  My response to Alexis Eynon of Thorton’s Letter to the Daily Sun’s Editor, I hope, was short and to the point (that LtE is after the jump):

To the Editor,

This is in response to the Letter to the Editor by Alexis Eynon of 1/17/18 (http://www.laconiadailysun.com/opinion/letters/110893-alexis-eynon-1-17-330) and states:

“3) Assert local governing rights and ban the project — do not compromise by voluntarily surrendering our local authority and force the powers that be to strip these rights from us publicly.”

As has been pointed out by others, no need to have these “rights stripped from us” as you never had them before. NH is not a home-rule state so each town or city is merely a political sub-division of the State. The CELDF organization is leading you right down a primrose path with the glittering idea of “RBO” – right up until you go over their “lemmings cliff”. There will be no public stripping – you will either be told “it is not legal”…

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This past Tuesday night, my hamlet had its Public Session where the Budget Committee presented both its budgets (Municipal, School District) to the townfolk to explain the numbers and to take questions or listen to concerns.  Fred Butler approached the mic and decided to, once again, make a math fool of himself.  He knows how our SB2 system works – for a few years he was on BudComm as the duly appointed representative of the Water District.  He has participated in the the discussion, meetings – and the votes.  He also, along with a relative who also served on the BudComm, tried to get the townfolk to eliminate it via petition warrant (it failed miserably every time).  So when I say he was disingenuous, that is being far too kind as he decided to take on first one engineer who does math for a living, Selectboard Chair Chan Eddy, and then another (moi!).  Here is the reporting from the Laconia Daily Sun (I am hoping to get the actual transcript or video as the District was recording it. DANG!  It’s after 4pm – well, here’s hoping for Monday!) (emphasis mine, reformatted):

Fred Butler took the selectmen and budget committee to task for their statements about rising taxes, pointing out that Gilford’s tax rate is declining. “You need to do a little more research to break down the facts,” Butler said. Eddy explained that the tax rate is only part of the equation when it comes to taxes. The tax rate falls when the town’s assessed valuation increases, but it doesn’t mean the amount collected changes. The growth in budgets also comes into play, he said.

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