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How did America become so naïve?

Considering America’s 240-year history, 16 years is not a long time.  But for some, it’s long enough to forget the outrage and fear all Americans felt after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.

Nineteen hate-filled Muslim extremists exploited our flawed immigration controls and came to our country for the sole purpose of slaughtering innocent men, women, and children.  In the aftermath of those attacks, there were no outcries for open borders or for sanctuary cities.  For that brief moment, everyone understood the need to secure our borders from ruthless enemies abroad.

The hatred that drove those terrorists hasn’t diminished.  There have been too many painful reminders of that throughout the world.  Here at home, the attacks in San Bernardino and in Boston involved radicalized Muslim immigrants, harboring that same hatred for America.  Attorney General Jeff Sessions recently revealed that there are currently “more than 300 people who came here as refugees and are under FBI investigation for potential terrorist activities.”  We don’t have to assume they are Muslim extremists to know we need tighter immigration controls.

Yet there’s a move in America today to

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That’s the title over at The Federalist where “Anonymous” posted up what he/she saw at a conference.  Heck, I’d be doing the same thing if I had gone for it proves ONE thing – The Left hates EVERYONE that do not ascribe to their outlook and would love to have another Brendan Eich type scalp – agree with us OR WE WILL RUIN YOUR LIFE.  From that part of the story (emphasis mine):

I learned it’s illegal in my state to refuse to use someone’s preferred pronoun. Almost every presenter had a story of a time they got a coworker, employee, or boss fired. A speaker (pronouns xe, xyr, xemself) passionately told us of a time when xe had an older coworker who referred to xem as “ma’am.” When xe repeatedly told him xe preferred to be referred to as xem, he responded that he couldn’t, because he had been brought up to be polite and use sir and ma’am.

I do that a lot – use sir and ma’am as a sign of respect.  It is politeness and manners.  Or, well, it used to be that.

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I’m not sure if this is outright brazenness or sheer stupidity from Hillary:

On St. Patrick’s Day, she made an appearance in Scranton, Pennsylvania, where she gave a speech to the Society of Irish Women. “I’m like a lot of my friends right now, I have a hard time watching the news,” she said, stressing that people needed to work together now more than ever. “I do not believe that we can let political divides harden into personal divides. And we can’t just ignore, or turn a cold shoulder to someone because they disagree with us politically.”

“I am ready to come out of the woods and to help shine a light on what is already happening around kitchen tables, at dinners like this, to help draw strength that will enable everybody to keep going,” she added.

Can we trust ANYTHING that a Clinton says? She has shown that she’s willing to throw almost anyone under the bus and say anything to advance herself politically. But this may make at least ONE person happy:

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…and not for the candidates that Al Letizio Jr. and Dennis Senibaldi want on as part of the “Good Ole’ Boys” clique.  One of the things that became obvious was the lack of financial controls in the Windham School Board system.  Imagine that – $43M budget and a whoop-de-do-anything-goes with transfers and, I guess, writing checks (hmmm, isn’t that a “deal”?).  Hey, with no one peering over the shoulders, “just trust us” seemed to be the watchwords of Al Letizio Jr and Dennis Senibaldi’s (and crew) School Board histories.

So, Ken, seeing the problem with an engineer and entrepreneur’s eye for detail,  had an Internal Controls audit done.  Well, 130 problems, later here was the result (reformatted to make it a bit more “bloggish”).  So, don’t you want someone that fixed a major problem?

Windham School District
Internal Control Review
December 20, 2016

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“The leaner, meaner and more resilient U.S. shale is basically wiping out OPEC’s efforts to achieve higher oil prices with the output deal.“

“wellhead breakeven prices in the Permian Midland have dropped from $71/barrel in 2014 to $36/barrel in 2016–a 49-percent decrease“

OK, I kid about the second group (“leave it in the ground enviro-weenies”) – they brook no dissent; it is either THEIR favorite form of energy to be used or nothing.  Coal, gas, oil – well, if forcing the rest of us to live as if we were back in the 1700 is “collateral damage” in saving GAIA, well, so be it.  Just remember that just like the EPA not letting Alaskans use wood for heat during deep money, you won’t be allowed a wood fire with which to cook.

Obama, on the other hand, saw that his desire for America, to be just “yet another country”; his philosophy of “Leading from behind” shows exactly that.  He KNEW that if American frackers were allowed to succeed, well, the resulting energy from fracking would have world-wide ramifications. He didn’t want that, so he closed down Federal lands and tried, with the enviro-weenies, to kill fracking on private lands.

Hahahahaha – didn’t work! American technology and ‘git’er done”.  Glad to see it (reformatted, emphasis mine):

Has OPEC Underestimated U.S. Shale Once Again?

…With lessons learned from the oil price crash and budgets streamlined and focused on the most prolific shale plays, U.S. drillers are giving OPEC a hard time by raising output and hedging future production. Meanwhile, the cartel members are trying to cut supply and fix the price of oil at such a range that would allow them to reap higher oil revenues, but not allow the shale patch to recover too much too fast.

Two and a half months into the supply-cut deal, it looks like OPEC is losing the campaign to prop up oil prices. The drop in prices that began last week saw them retreating to almost exactly the same level as on November 30 – just below $52/barrel for Brent – when the OPEC deal was announced, the International Energy Agency said in its monthly report on Wednesday.

At the same time, reduced breakeven prices in many shale plays and forward locking-in of production is allowing the companies currently drilling in the U.S. to turn in profits even at a price of oil at $40 a barrel.

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SHOT:

Under a political advocacy campaign launched Wednesday, a coalition of physician groups will tell the public that their health is threatened by catastrophic man-made global warming, also called climate change.

CHASER:

Gaia help any doctor that asks me questions or lectures me, because they will be getting an earful asking them what they’ve done in their own lives, what they drive, what kind of house they have where they go on vacation, if they have a second vacation home, if they use air conditioning, what temp they keep it at, if they have an ice maker, if he/she plays golf, and so forth. Right before walking out and telling him/her to stick their bill in their you know where.

Same deal with the “public health epidemic of guns” – none of your business because most of you, like most

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This will be fun to see her run rate and if it collapses to just a few sources (e.g., the Clinton Initiative buying loads).So, she went from being a failed journalist at $600K/yr (I saw her a couple of times on TV – talk about being stiff and uncharismatic) to now to being an Expedia Board of Directors at $250/year and $250K of stock options?  All on the basis of a childrens’ book where she can already be charged with plagiazing right from the get-go (re: Mitch McConnell on Elizabeth Warren).

BTW, what is Expedia thinking:

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It certainly seems that way – it is clear that Al Letizio Jr. and Dennis Senibaldi don’t want ‘Grok friend Ken Eyring (the current Chair) re-elected to the Windham School Board.  Those two, and their Good Ole’ Boys (regardless of gender) seemed to treat that Board as their own fiefdom.  Once elected to the Board in 2014 because of just bad practices, Ken started to put internal controls onto their processes.  They hate it and now like what we are seeing in DC, the “Deep State” is fighting back by trying to get him thrown off.

I know this situation well – having been on our SB2 Budget Committee in the past, we saw a lot of our hard work just ignored.  In an SB2 budget, we had to review and budget on a line by line basis to finally come up with a bottom line overall number.  However, once that is done, and dutifully voted on by the voters, the School Board could transfer any amount of money from one line to another – and they did so even though they knew that was NOT how the voters told them to spend it and on what.  I call this “the middle finger syndrome” – my School Board transferred over $100K to give raises to employees last year AFTER the BudCom said no and the voters approved seconded that “No”

It seems that the previous Windham School Board was in the same mode: screw you, we’ll spend it the way we want.  Until Ken got on the Board.  For instance, let’s just take

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I keep being told that no one wants to take my guns – no one from anywhere.  Well, I keep seeing a whole lotta stuff from people who “slyly” wish to do exactly that in a more stealthy way (NH State Rep Katherine “the Hutt” Rogers is one of them – she is insistent that I am not of the caliber (heh!) of person to own this kind of inanimate object she claims that can leap off a table and kill a whole town) by the death of a thousand cuts. Helps them when they make each of those cuts costs a thousand bucks, too.

Well, here’s an outright, out of the closet, first stepper – a Democrat out of PA (emphasis mine):

PA Democrat Re-Launches Effort to Create Gun Registry

Since he first took office in 2001, Pennsylvania State Representative Angel Cruz has made it a point to advocate for gun control. But some say his latest efforts show how desperate the movement is to cram infringements down gun owners’ throats at the state level.

House Bill 610, also known as the Firearm Registration Act, aims to give the Pennsylvania State Police the right to maintain a registry of all guns and gun owners in a central database.

In part, the bill states:

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