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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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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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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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Part 1 here. The question I asked if the School District Administration does any kind of QA when a new / replacement program is introduced is one that I should NEVER have to ask.  Rather, why didn’t the School District Edu-mucky mucks ask it of themselves?  Failing that, why didn’t the School Board?  After all, aren’t they supposed to be in charge and providing competent oversight (versus just being, as I have seen around the State) rather than mere rubber stamps for “the professionals”?

Anyways, given the answer that I received from the Superintendent:

For all of our curricular materials in the district we use

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OK, Part 1 was done in April – too many Shiny Objects to contemplate so  back to playing catch up. The premise was that we should pay more for what we buy because CONSUMERISM and ENVIRONMENTALISM!  We all should be forced to make do with less, and I commented on this at the time (not wanting to make you click back):

“…the experience becomes less pleasurable and more painful.” You may not realize it but that statement seems to sum up how environmentalists come across to a lot of the rest of us (those of us that pay attention, anyways) – force life for the rest of us to be more miserable to satisfy their outlook on things.

Somehow, y’all gotta change your style (and I’m not talking about clothes or furnishings) because when I see this kind of statement, it cements even more my perception of what is “required”: Happiness is misery!

And for the record, I hate shopping all together; I have clothes older than you that I just can’t part with because I don’t care about fashion at all.

And went down hill from there – a bit.  In fact, if you go there now, the next two comments were deleted:

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Reformatted, emphasis mine:

An 84-year-old Korean War veteran killed a home intruder Friday with a single shot right to the chest, and he’s crediting God with his success.

Two robbers tried to break into Korean War veteran Don Lutz’s home early on Friday morning in Lawrence County, Penn., but were quickly dissuaded by some serious firepower. “Two guys tried to rob me, and I killed one of them,” Don Lutz said, according to WTAE-TV. “Maybe the other one, the bullet hit him, too. I hope so.” Lutz recounted that he woke up Friday morning at about 1:15 a.m. to the sound of someone breaking into his house. He grabbed his gun, which was stored underneath his pillow, and ran into the two robbers.

 

…Lutz is not facing any charges for his act of home self-defense.

The Great Equalizer –

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