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Back in June, I posted about Elizabeth Daly who was pursued by a pack of nitwits from the Virginia Alcohol Beverage Control agents  – over water bottles:

More and more, Government workers are making us believe by their actions that we Citizens (and Parents) are the problem to be taken care of and solved.  Now, this real story I had seen before, but who can pass up and putting in a line like this from NH’s own Mark Steyn to introduce it?…

…When a half-dozen men and a woman in street clothes closed in on University of Virginia student Elizabeth Daly, 20, she and two roommates panicked.  That led to Daly spending a night and an afternoon in the Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail. Her initial offense? Walking to her car with bottled water, cookie dough and ice cream just purchased from the Harris Teeter in the Barracks Road Shopping Center for a sorority benefit fundraiser.  A group of state Alcoholic Beverage Control agents clad in plainclothes approached her, suspecting the blue carton of LaCroix sparkling water to be a 12-pack of beer. Police say one of the agents jumped on the hood of her car. She says one drew a gun. Unsure of who they were, Daly tried to flee the darkened parking lot.

Well, it looks like these power hungry para-military folks may be serving up a big pay day for the college co-eds that so dastardly thought that those comestibles were EVIL.  The HORROR of it – SUGAR TERRORISTS!  Obesity Mongers!  From the Daily Mail (emphasis mine, reformatted):

Student, 20, sues for $40MILLION after being hauled from her car at gunpoint and arrested for buying beer underage when she only bought WATER

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From the Laconia Citizen:

County admins work to pay health costs

LACONIA — The Belknap County administration and department heads presented a working budget plan to commissioners on Thursday that, in many departments, takes money from wages to pay health care costs…

Now, the rest of it is behind a paywall, so I’m not going to bother trying to get the rest of it.  Actually, don’t need to as they left the most important part up front (and bolded above).  Welcome to the private sector, boys & gals!  Every outfit that has a payroll knows that while you might pay a wage, the managers think “total compensation”  where wages are only one component.  Sure, every cost for an employee is divided up into separate General Ledger accounts but when someone is hired, it is the totality of the cost of that employee that is factored: wages, vacation, holiday, healthcare, other insurance, taxes, and other ancillary costs make up the whole cost.  One reason why wages have stagnated has been the rapid rise of healthcare – it’s like the carnival whack a mole game – when one comes up, another has to go down.  In a lot of cases, especially for smaller businesses, they can’t raise both wages & insurance costs.  So one takes from one part of the pie to pay for the other.  If healthcare costs are zooming, and the decision is made not to cut them, you end up with the same wage.  So the above bolded line is not surprising to those of us who have signed both the back and front of payroll checks.  Total compensation MAY indeed be going up – higher taxes paid, higher healthcare paid – just not wages.  Reality, dude. 

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This morning, I saw this photograph on the Concord Monitor front page – Governor Maggie Hassan ALL smiles as she signs the legislation that implements Obama’s Medicaid Expansion:

Democrat, Democrat, Democrat, Democrat – ringed by all Democrats.  But nary a pixel of any of the real folks that made it happen: NH State Senator Chuck Morse, NH State Senator Jeb Bradley, NH State Senator Bob Odell, or NH State Senator Nancy Stiles.  If it weren’t for these Rogue Republicans, this Democrat Happy Day would not be here.  But it probably will be here again.  Why? 

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If you look at my previous post, you will see the name of Republican Herb Richardson who voted for BradleyCare today – the expansion of Obamacare’s Medicaid program.  So much for that Plank of the NH GOP Platform, eh?

Sidenote: does any Conservative in NH have a sufficient amount of scotch tape and glue to put it back together again?  Or even want to?

So, what’s the connection between the post’s title and Richardson?  This (emphasis mine, reformatted)

LANCASTER — Former U.S. Senator Scott Brown, a Republican of Massachusetts, who won the seat formerly occupied by the late U.S. Senator Edward “Ted” Kennedy in a special election and is now seriously considering a run against Senator Jeanne Shaheen, a Democrat, visited the home of Rep. Herb Richardson, a Republican of Lancaster, and his wife Rita on Saturday afternoon…The top issues that Brown believes differentiates the Republican Party from the Democratic Party are its deep concerns about the skyrocketing national debt and deficit spending, the lack of jobs, and Obamacare (Affordable Care Act) that, he says, is crushing job creation….He characterized Obamacare as a “monstrosity” that’s hurting the middle class.

All fine and dandy thus far – it is what got Brown elected his first run for the US Senate from Massachusetts.  But then: 

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Big Government:

Rep. Julia Brownley (D-CA), a first-term representative whose district includes parts of Ventura County, Simi Valley and the San Fernando Valley, has apparently removed her support for Obamacare from her campaign website. As recently as late February (see cached image above), Rep. Brownley claimed that the “Affordable Care Act…made some much needed improvements to our health care system.” That section is now gone.

Heh!  So I was curious: who from the NH all-gal Democrat Pack has removed Obamacare from their website too (or hasn’t added it, if a new site)?

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“like running a white flag up on a very tall flag pole and saying, ‘We are ready to be walked on,’”

Determined Weakness. That’s right – the Obama Pentagon budget is getting  rid of two of our most potent weapons: the Tomahawk cruise missile fired from US Navy ships and submarines and Hellfire missiles from our aviation assets of all services.  Kaput, gone, no more stocking.  Who needs offensive weaponry, I guess Obama is thinking, when we’ve reset up relationship with Russia, China is building up its military solely for parades, North Korea looks at their ICBMs only as party fireworks, the Middle East has no more Islamist problems, and those Iranian mullahs – such kidders!  And the Socialist government in Venezuela is so showing up capitalism and the crowds in the square are just so peachy keen!  What better way to “fundamentally transform” the United States by taking it from being the lone military Superpower to an also ran way down the list?

Er, not so much (emphasis mine, reformatted) – and it speaks for itself without comment from me:

President Barack Obama is seeking to abolish two highly successful missile programs that experts say have helped the U.S. Navy maintain military superiority for the past several decades.   The Tomahawk missile program—known as “the world’s most advanced cruise missile”—is set to be cut by $128 million under Obama’s fiscal year 2015 budget proposal and completely eliminated by fiscal year 2016, according to budget documents released by the Navy.

In addition to the monetary cuts to the program, the number of actual Tomahawk missiles acquired by the United States would drop significantly—from 196 last year to just 100 in 2015. The number will then drop to zero in 2016.   The Navy will also be forced to cancel its acquisition of the well-regarded and highly effective Hellfire missiles in 2015, according to Obama’s proposal.  The proposed elimination of these missile programs came as a shock to lawmakers and military experts, who warned ending cutting these missiles would significantly erode America’s ability to deter enemy forces.

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I really can’t get my head around what or how US Congressman Keith Ellison (R-MN)  said on “This Week with George Stephanopoulos” (yeah, I watch the Sunday talking head programs, mostly, so you don’t have to) about the HHS Mandate and religion.  It is clear that he believes that Government should be able to control one’s expression of religion (e.g. not how YOU believe you should live but by Government’s belief system – and yes, Obama has made it clear there is one) except of course, when it comes to Islam. Such as that corporations MUST give their employees free abortifacients even if it violates deep and long held religious views against it.  How else can one put it that having The State forcing people to act contrary to their conscience is anything BUT Tyrannical?

Anyways, it probably a good thing that the Obama Admin is not letting him anywhere near the Supreme Court to help out; I just can’t logically unpack his paragraph:

Let’s step back from the whole Obamacare Affordable Act debate and ask ourselves what this would really mean. Do we really want a corporation to be able to have its own religious views AND impose them on its employees?  What would that mean for our separation of church and state for individual liberty?  What would it mean for corporate personhood?  This is scary territory and people need to win.

Well, I have no clue what HE means other than he’s with Obama: believe as the Government demands., but I shall try: 

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