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I just had a micro-rant towards TMEW (The Most Esteemed Wife). No, not AT her or ABOUT her – but this headline:

‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Cast Takes a Knee After Show’s Premiere

I really wish I had been taping myself – I realized I had a few good lines of ire and now I can’t remember them. Look, I’m a political blogger because I found out the hard way when I was half my present age that people were making decisions about how their actions within the political realm/Government were forcing me and my family to live in certain ways or accept certain things or affecting our family budget. That was the start of my “activation, ” and I said I’d never let that happen. Why should I – or you for that matter? Why do they think they are better at living our lives than us?

For all the time I spend in this realm, believe it or not, I WANT IT TO STAY THERE!!!!!  I AM SO SICK AND TIRED OF IT BEING EVERYWHERE ELSE I COULD JUST PUKE!

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Yet another instance of what the Left claims never happens – those of us with concealed permits (or here in NH, a pistol / revolver license even though we have Constitutional Carry now) are mindful of the responsibilities it holds and that we have taken on voluntarily to protect ourselves, our families, our friends, and others if need be (reformatted, emphasis mine):

A good guy with a gun confronted Emanuel Kidega Samson on Sunday and held him at gunpoint after he allegedly opened fire on congregants at Burnette Chapel Church of Christ.

Breitbart News reported that the good guy–22–year-old Robert Engle–initially confronted Samson while unarmed and Samson was shot with his own gun during the physicality that followed. The Tennessean reports that after Samson was shot, Engle ran out to his car and retrieved his own firearm, then re-entered the church and held Samson at gunpoint for police.

Engle has a concealed carry permit.  Metro Nashville Police Chief Steve Anderson said of Engle, “He’s the hero. He’s the person who stopped this madness.”

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I get tons of mail, solicited and unsolicited from commercial companies, friends, media, and advocacy groups. One of them is Campaigns & Elections which is a trade rag for those that are interested or work in campaigns. Like almost every other trade, they have their own confabs to talk about whatever it is they love to yak about and this group is no different. But I was a bit stunned to see what one of the breakout sessions was about (emphasis mine):

The prelim agenda for Campaigns & Marketing Summit in Washington, DC on November 13th is now live. Check it out here.

Sessions include:

Delivering a Message in Less than 10 Seconds: The Snackable Era of Advertising
How Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Political Campaigns
Virtual Reality: Moving from Story Telling to Story Living
Developing an Ad Campaign in the Post-Truth Era

Post-Truth – a time in our lives when there are no absolutes (thanks to the relativistic morality of Progressives) because the Left decided that everyone can define “truth” on their own.

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And yes, that would be we Groksters.  For years we have warned about taking “free money with strings attached.” There’s another meme that describes the below from the Pravda on the Merrimack: “Fed crack.” No, not real drugs but the allure and the addiction is just as real as that white powder: greenbacks. Lots of it. FREE MONEY they say. Until it isn’t free. Or not there at all.

And it is solely the fault of NH Republican elected “leaders” that opened up OUR (financial) veins to inject it into the NH budget. They ha /have no political will to resist, only “gimme, gimme, gimme.”

Though he’s declared himself no fan of Obamacare, Gov. Chris Sununu and fellow Republican governors John Kasich of Ohio and Charlie Baker of Massachusetts oppose the bill because it would cost their states money. Lots of money. New Hampshire would lose $1 billion in federal revenue between 2020 and 2026 which could force the state to, horror of horrors, consider the imposition of a sales or income tax, Sununu said. The alternative, of course, would be to reduce Medicaid benefits, raise eligibility levels and insure fewer people.

So now the NH Republicans may have to walk the political equivalent of the Katahdin’ Knife Edge – which way are they going to fall?

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In fact, mine operates on a philosophy of “let’s get away with as much as we can and spend it” – but more as we go along during our budget season.  No, this post is about one that did the right thing – “Huzzah!” to the Conway School Board (reformatted, emphasis mine):

CONWAY — Conway School Board members shared some good news earlier this month — they’ll be returning nearly $2 million to the town to help offset taxes. At a recent meeting, the board revealed it has more than $1.7 million left in its coffers from the prior school year. On top of that, they agreed to release another $215,000 by not retaining the 2.5 percent of the budget for the next year.

“This is great news, it’s big,” said school board member Mark Hounsell at the Sept. 11 meeting. “At the end of the 2016-17 school year, the district shows an ending school year balance of $1,783,854. That is money that will be returned to the taxpayers. That’s a very good return.”

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“But in the end, Meyers added, the New Hampshire DHHS – like the rest of the country this week – lies at the whim of Congressional forces.”

They never seem to learn the rather straight forward lesson of “with strings attached”, do they?  And the other one is “he who has the gold doesn’t have to hand it out, either”.  This is what happens when politicians, in never learning that it doesn’t matter to taxpayers WHICH level of government is reaching into their pockets, never seem to learn that in creating a local budget (in this case, the State of NH) that highly depends on a higher level of government’s money, you will get screwed in the end.  And politicians, especially the NH Republican ones, have put NH into this position – willingly.  In Pravda on the Merrimack comes this evergreen headline:

HHS head: GOP health bill could result in $820M N.H. Medicaid cut

New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services Commissioner Jeffrey Meyers predicted a sharp financial toll on the state’s Medicaid program if the federal Graham-Cassidy health care bill passes, and warned of funding shortages that could result from the bill’s block grant system.

Who could have seen this coming, eh?  Oh yeah, ME!  I didn’t have to be a

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