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Sigh.  I swear that sometimes these folks have no clue about how an economy actually works!  Without rehashing Part 1 and Part 2, it is clear that the comments were much more interesting than the actual post over at Treehugger (although it did set the stage – see title above). Another comment that was left was this:

This is just another reason why money isn’t really a good fit for the world any more.

Certainly Well, that elicited a discussion about money (always “bad thing” with watermelon environmentalists) and scarcity and the same guy above dug down another few feet:

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OK, so this is back from May but from what we have seen throughout the year is the same attitude: “WE should be in charge – how DARE you take it away from us!  Therefore, we will act like spoiled brats”.  In other words – sore losers and this former gay Act Up guy from HuffPo (right after Trump fired Comey – yep, trying once again to undo my stack) is a great example of this (reformatted, emphasis mine):

It’s time to move beyond polite protests within specified boundaries. It’s time to escalate the expression of our outrage and our anger in a massive way. Starting today and from here on, no elected official – certainly those in the GOP defending and supporting Trump on a variety of issues, for example – should be able to sit down for a nice, quiet lunch or dinner in a Washington, DC eatery or even in their own homes. They should be hounded by protesters everywhere, especially in public – in restaurants, in shopping centers, in their districts, and yes, on the public property outside their homes and apartments, in Washington and back in their home states.

Nice guy this sore loser.  Infantile in that if he can’t get what he believes to be rightfully his, act like a simpering tantrum-throwing two-year-old.

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EVERYTHING to Progressives/Leftist/Socialist HAS to be either indirectly racist or outright racist.  And if it isn’t, they’ll make sure that those invisible, unconscious, racist dots get connected somehow and some way.

Boston University theatre professor Kyna Hamill recently argued in a research paper that the popular Christmas song has racist origins. “The legacy of ‘Jingle Bells’ is one where its blackface and racist origins have been subtly and systematically removed from its history,” Hamill argues in her “Theatre Survey” research paper, according to Fox News. She added:

Although “One Horse Open Sleigh,” for most of its singers and listeners, may have eluded its racialized past and taken its place in the seemingly unproblematic romanticization of a normal “white” Christmas, attention to the circumstances of its performance history enables reflection on its problematic role in the construction of blackness and whiteness in the United States.

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I messed up in trying to institute a change – and blew it up. Thanks to Carolyn McKinney and the Support team at Nexcess in picking, choosing, advancing, falling back in trying to “scalpel” it.  Thank the good Lord for backups as that’s what we ended up having to do.  Before the backup, I saved off the posts since 12/10 and will be putting them back into the system tomorrow.

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Love Kurt Schlichter – he writes like Mark Steyn and Steve Mac Donald!  Anyways, there was this third wave “intersectional” feminist, Lara Witt, that put out a list of questions that ANY self-respecting feminist must ask of her beta male date right off the bat.

Methinks that she’ll end up an old spinster or I’ll pity her future husband forever. Oh, wait, no I won’t because he will have voluntarily chosen his own personal hell for the rest of his life.  Here’s one example. “How do you work to dismantle sexism and misogyny in your life?”

Here’s Schichter’s list – 11 Things Every Real Conservative Should Ask On A First Date

1. Do you believe that any group’s lives matter more than others?
2. How many genders are there?
3. How do you work to dismantle sexism in your life?

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The Concord Fishwrap has a piece from the AP on the tax package going through Congress right now with the loaded title: “Tax Package would lower top tax rate for wealthy Americans.” As if that’s all it does.  Not that I am surprised – the CM is always the Progressive mouthpiece for Marxist class warfare (do wonder what the Publisher pulls down – most likely part of the 1%, but no matter – breaking eggs, omelets and all that).  Here’s the line that caught my eye.

“..negotiators agreed to cut the top tax rate for individuals from 39.6 percent to 37 percent in a windfall for the richest Americans…”

Here was my response:

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In the minds of many, it has become emblematic of the problem of the Deep State syndrome – a runaway bureaucracy responsible only to its own bureaucrats:

SHOT: Trump Recognizes Jerusalem as capital of Israel

Citing a 1995 law, the Jerusalem Embassy Act, compelling the president make the move absent national security risks, Trump said the time had come to recognize what everyone already knows to be true. “Jerusalem is the capital the Jewish people established in ancient times,” he said. “Today Jerusalem is the seat of Israel’s government.”

“This is nothing more or less than a recognition of the reality,” he added. He directed the State Department to begin preparing the move [of the US embassy – Skip].

CHASER: Report: The State Department still won’t recognize Jerusalem as a place that exists

Despite President Donald Trump’s formal declaration that the United States recognizes Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, the U.S. will still not recognize Jerusalem on official documents, maps and passports.  According to the Washington Free Beacon, for the time being, the State Department still won’t recognize “Jerusalem, Israel” as a place that actually exists.

The State Department last week acknowledged at press conferences that Trump had declared Jerusalem the capital of Israel, but when asked if the U.S. government will officially recognize Jerusalem as a place that exists within Israel, officials refused to acknowledge the holy city.

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The Washington Monument syndrome, also known as the Mount Rushmore Syndrome,[1] or the firemen first principle,[2][3] is a term used to describe the phenomenon of government agencies in the United States cutting the most visible or appreciated service provided by the government when faced with budget cuts. It has been used in reference to cuts in popular services such as national parks and libraries[1] or to valued public employees such as teachers and firefighters.[2] This is done to put pressure on the public and lawmakers to rescind budget cuts. The term can also refer to claims by lawmakers that a proposed budget cut would hinder “essential” government services (firefighters, police, education, etc.). Although intended to highlight the government’s value to voters, it can also be aimed at lawmakers themselves.

A microcosm of the Deep State right here in NH: School Board tells Super what they tell him to do with his budget proposals (cut the budget).  First, he ignores them and raises it.  Told to correct it, he then “shafts” them. AGAIN.  You’d think that the School Board would tell him, emphatically, that his jig (and gig) is up (emphasis mine, reformatted):

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This is absolutely NUTS – is this REALLY a good use of taxpayer monies even as NH Executive Councilor Russell Prescott (R) led the march to raise highway toll charges by up to 50%???  What say you, Gov. Chris Sununu? You control the toll vote and last time I looked, you control the NH Department of Transportation:

$32M bicycle and pedestrian crossing to move forward with or without toll hike

The salient points only – go read the piece after you take your anger management pill(s).

• Officials from the New Hampshire Department of Transportation say a $32 million project to allow bicyclists and pedestrians to continue crossing the long-defunct General Sullivan Bridge over Little Bay will remain on track even if tolls do not increase.
• Approximately 500 bicyclists and pedestrians used the General Sullivan Bridge weekly in counts performed in July 2016, according to New Hampshire Department of Transportation Chief Project Manager Keith Cota.
• The bridge opened in 1935 and has been closed to vehicular traffic for three decades.

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SHOT:   Swedish Synagogue Firebombed in Jerusalem Protest

Three individuals have been arrested for allegedly firebombing a synagogue in Gothenburg, Sweden Saturday night as part of an ongoing anti-Semitic response to United States President Donald J. Trump’s historic decision to formally recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

Late Saturday evening, youth attending an event at the synagogue were suddenly bombarded with molotov cocktails hurled by masked men in attempt to burn the temple to the ground.

…Violent protests around the world were sparked as Palestinian groups called for a “A Day of Rage.” Witnesses in Goteberg say they saw a dozen youths attack the building, but their homemade firebombs had little effect and no one was harmed.

CHASER:

“…no one was harmed” – yeah, that makes it ALL better.

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