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From Matt Ridley via Café Hayek:

In the mid-1970s it was briefly fashionable for journalists to write scare stories about the recent cooling of the globe, which was presented as undiluted bad news.  Now it is fashionable for them to write scare stories about the recent warming of the globe, which is presented as undiluted bad news.

Like I’ve said before, I’ve been listening to both sets of dribble (“It’s gonna get cold!”, “It’s gonna get hot!” and swinging back to “cool?”) for 40 years.  Everything is a crisis and only a few know how to “fix” whatever the latest crisis is being waddled around as IMMEDIATE!!!   And in those 40 years, three things have been crystal clear:

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…he should know.  And if he knows, and is willing to let on, how much further Left has the Dems NOT been willing to admit to?

Remember, before becoming a “journalist” (ok, talking head), he was a long term Democrat Party operative.  And here he is, telling everyone how far Left the Democrat Party has gone.

Pretty much, I think the question is not what is the difference is between the Democrats and Socialists, but would there be much difference between their future for the United States and what is happening in the self-proclaimed Socialist State of Venezuela (hope you stashed some T.P. away) or Cuba.

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…then when given the FREEDOM TO CHOOSE, why are even more government union members deciding to leave?  And it couldn’t happen to a better union:

Government employees in Seattle do not exactly fit the profile of the average Republican voter. But As the Washington Examiner’s Sean Higgins reported this week, they aren’t suckers either.

Thanks to a recent Supreme Court decision on public sector union membership, many members of Local 925 of the Service Employees International Union — those who had not explicitly signed up to join the union — suddenly found that dues were no longer being taken directly out of their paycheck. As a result, 38 percent of the local’s membership was gone overnight.

It is always about the power to control and unions are no different. 

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From last nite’s tweetfest:

#DemDebate #nhpolitics #Grok how not to be 3rd Obama term, Chafee? Not being coherent is a great start-situation normal for Linc

— GraniteGrok (@GraniteGrok) October 14, 2015

And Lincoln Chafee, pretty much, was incoherent.  Now add this:

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15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.

Yup, I think they can pretty much take that off the bucket list – mission accomplished in toto for one (they’re still working on the Stupid Party, however).  Free…you name it; paid leave, more SS benefits, tuition paid, more Obamacare – it never ends.  Mitt Romney was pilloried in the last cycle for his 47% remark yet here are these Socialists masquerading under the Democrat banner trying to shove each other aside in their rush to promise that 47% even more in their hopes to get an even higher percentage.  “Money for nothing” as the song goes.  Problem is, these same mind set Socialists and Progressives have been pretty much successful in breeding and educating out the social stigma that one was supposed to support you and yours instead of hammocking it around while demanding others support you – transformation indeed.

It is rather doubtful that any of these Democrat Wannabees

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DEMOCRAT DEBATE: BEHOLD THE GLORY OF THE CHURCH OF THE STATE

And the Italian tagline certainly applies to last night’s debate:

All within the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State – Benito Mussolini

And the modern rendition:

Government’s the only thing we all belong to – Democrat National Committee

This is what they want, lust after, and certainly implement if they gain the Oval Throne.  Er, no – the government (small g) belongs to us and not this upside-down / inside-out distortion that the Democrats would have us believe in hoodwinking many into their collectivism.  The Founders believed that government was

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Which is to say – the turning upside down of a system for not a lot of benefit for anyone and will result in higher costs (in more ways than a few) for everyone.

The average family income of a minimum wage worker is more than $44,000 a year – far more than can be earned by someone working at minimum wages.  But 42 percent of minimum-wage workers live with parents or some other relative.  In other words, they are not supporting a family but often a family is supporting them.  Only 15 percent of minimum-wage workers are supporting themselves and a dependent, the kind of person envisioned by those who advocate a “living wage.”

Ponder these facts along with the related fact that more than half of all

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That would be my junior US Senator Kelly Ayotte and the junior US Senator from Kentucky (er, Texas), Ted Cruz.  From Big Government:

What it should tell you is that McCarthy obviously is a Washington insider, and his fall from grace as future Speaker obviously is bad news to the insiders or the establishment in Washington, both parties. And the reason for that is it is perceived that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) (96%) and the House Conservative Caucus are behind this, these Tea Party yokels, and it is viewed as these upstart conservatives taking control of the House, and they’re outsiders.

So you see that the insider elites are bound together not by ideology, but by class. If they were bound together by ideology there wouldn’t be a Republican in the establishment in Washington, there wouldn’t be a Republican lead allowed in. But the establishment in Washington is made up of people of both parties. The people not in it are conservatives, but Republicans, moderate level Republicans, liberal Republicans, communist Republicans, and all Democrats are in the establishment. Conservative Republicans aren’t.

And remember, Kelly Ayotte has a Conservative Review/Liberty ranking of

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Ayup, the example that proves the point and David Zebuhr ran full tilt into it.  Spending time out in San Diego last week, it was clear to see this ‘tude up close and personal – moral superiority weaponized.  There can be no discussion, there can be no debate – Zebuhr makes the Progressive end point clear:

From: “David Zebuhr” <dzebuhr@yahoo.com>
Date: Oct 7, 2015 4:25 PM
Subject: Road Usage Fee
To: {all the NH State Senators}

I am calling for the resignation of Rep. Norman Major, R-Plaistow on the basis of his clear and strong demonstration of his dementia.  There is nothing even remotely rational or moral about his “Road usage fee”  that is a steep tax specifically and exclusively against those who have the temerity to register vehicles that fail to guzzle large quantities of gasoline. 

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