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Smart guy, that Ted Cruz, as a lot of politicians and candidates will oft use a lot of words and never stick to topic.  They also dance around and never want to reveal what is actually going on.  Er, not Ted upon being asked about the Iran deal (and of course, the question is from a Democrat with a byline):

Several times you have mentioned that in international crisis you would seek the advice of military personnel, now recently there are three dozen former generals and admirals would say this is our only option to keep nuclear weapons from Iran. Are you going to listen to that letter at all?

Which is to say, “hey you rube, aren’t you going to listen to conventional wisdom from the Smart People? Cruz, in return, hands him his head:

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Why the Concord Monitor would ask Fergus “The Fringe” Cullen questions; he’s a nitwit that should not have been allowed to be within 100 meters (really, meters, Fergus?) of a reporter with a notebook or a recorder?  After all, this is the NH GOP Chair that suffered the WORST losses in the NH House and Senate EVAH! And the Party’s finances at the time?  And to date, has not been re-elected to the NH GOP Committee since being replaced as chair, by Republican voters, by Papa Smurf.  This dope is supposed to be considered “a political Smart Person”?

This was, what I thought, a decent piece on Corey Lewandowski who is now Trump’s campaign manager and I first met when he was the NH Exec Dir for Americans for Prosperity.  In it, we see that while he lives in ignominy, Cullen still tried to throw manure Corey.  Right, a verifiable loser throwing it at someone who has been verifiably winning:

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I’ve never made it a priority to “write for the rankings” – I write for me.  I write because I like to on topics that are of interest to me – else why bother as no one is paying me to do it.  Ditto for the wonderful writers that volunteer their time and talent.  But when someone comes up with a ranking, I do look – just in case I could be surprised.

Well, Doug Ross over at Doug Ross @ Journal (aka http://directorblue.blogspot.in) has such a list – a ranking based on Alexa listings of the top right of center blogsites with those 300 top ones with Alexa global (not just US standings) ranking from 196 for FoxNews.com at #1 to astuteblogger.BlogSpot.com with a ranking of 1664275.

And no, we were not listed.  Shoulda though – for a state level blog in a very small state, our Alexa global ranking is 681,238.  Our US ranking is higher: 243,676 when I looked us up, so we could have ended up on that list at #241 (see image).  That’s with millions upon hundreds of millions in the blogosphere.  I guess we punch, very well, above our weight class – thank you, Readers!

A couple of other things I found out:

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A couple of snippets from Kurt Schlichter at Townhall of a “future history”.  Want a laugh?  Go read the whole thing:

“And to President Clinton,” President Abbot said into the camera, “I ask that you stop your threats of war and allow the Free States of America to separate in peace, and let our two nations remain brothers instead of enemies. Goodnight, and God bless all Americans.”…Now, the two dozen conservative states that had seceded a week ago had done it quickly, peacefully and reluctantly. After Hillary’s hand-picked Supreme Court majority started upholding her flurry of executive orders – she didn’t bother with legislation anymore – there seemed no other choice.

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In this day of absolute insanity on college campuses (campi?) from the Left’s censorship via Political Correctness, the Obama Administrations destroying the idea of due process when accused and being judged by a jury of your peers (as opposed to an academic Star Chamber), and the feminists’ perpetual victimhood and that the victim MUST always be judged to be innocent and the accused guilty…

…this is the PERFECT defense (Politically correct liberal progressives of the micro-aggressed persuasions heads will explode – in confusion…

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The weather last nite promised that the Dog Days of Summer were finally going to arrive here in NH; hot, hazy, humid pretty much all week long.  We’ve been lucky, IMHO, that we’ve had little of “heat waves” (e.g., 3 contigious days of 90+ degrees) for quite some time.  For a guy who waits all summer for February, this has been good news!  This week, however, not so much.  But in a couple of weeks, the weather will be turning nippier and I’ll be able to take out the air conditioners – and get ready for what comes next. I think this is great advice:

And shop the Amazon Emergency Prep Store. Plus, Emergency & Long-Term Storage Food Deals. When bad things happen, it’s good to have food.

Plus, Generators and Portable Power for Storm Season. Though the Insta-Wife was a generator-skeptic when we installed ours, a couple of outages have turned her into a believer.

I’ll add this – I remember the tremendous ice storm we in the North Country had here a few years ago and we were out of power for over 2 weeks – I promised myself and TMEW that we’d be better prepared next time if something like that happened again.

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Planned Parenthood – the dehumanization of children.  Isn’t that what the Nazis did to the Jews?  And no, I am not breaking Godwin’s Law?  Dehumanize to kill – and then to profit from it. How is this any different than what the Nazis did at their death camps – Nazis harvested even the gold teeth and also experimented on their prisoners.  How, pray tell, is this any different?  They were killed for who they were.

So are these babies – killed for who they would never become.  Because they could.

(H/T: Liberal Logic 101)

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That’s the headline at The Hill (via Instapundit) – and I do believe that the Establishment is in full disarray (and anger) over the developments in the 2016 Presidential Primary races.  No, not all are expressing it, or if they are, it is in words that have a heavy, heavy veneer over them.  Yet, there are a lot of Establishmentarians that are full in revolt – and if you watch Fox, you have watched George Will have as much of an emotional meltdown as he ever has.

It’s like they believe they own the Party or something.  They DO believe they own your votes – that is clear.  What did The Hill have to say (reformatted, emphasis mine)?

Outsiders who have never before held political office are dominating the race for the Republican presidential nomination.

If you look at the most recent poll, I would say that fully 5 of the top 7 are certainly either non-politicians or non-establishmentarians: Trump, Carson, Cruz, then Bush (Est.),  Huckabee, Walker, Fiorina.  Am willing to quibble on Huckabee and while Cruz is a sitting senator, he is certainly outside of the DC Repub clique and the Establishment one.

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