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…specifically allowed.  Certainly not by legislation but by fiat by the Executive Branch.  It has been said that each of us breaks four or five laws everyday (either statutory or regulatory) without ever knowing it.  How can one defend themselves when one, even if trying hard to not, is breaking a law under that condition?  The philosophy undergirding our system of jurisprudence is that a law has to be short, clearly stated, and understandable by the average person.  Nowadays, just seeing the multitude of just lawyer specialties, how can the ordinary person cope?  Or are we already sacrificed on the altar of Legality?

And that sacrifice comes merely because nobody asks “when is Enough, ENOUGH”?

So when I saw this, I went – yup, good start – can we keep this Slimedown (er, can you call it a Shutdown when only 17% of the Fed is actually shut down?) going?:

Regulators and proponents of stronger protections warn that rulemaking delays will jeopardize public safety and health. But some conservatives say the reprieve from red tape is welcome, even if it doesn’t last long.

“We’re very pleased that the Obama administration’s ongoing efforts to wreck the U.S. economy with more and more heavy-handed and colossally expensive regulations has been put on hold,” said Myron Ebell, director of the right-leaning Competitive Enterprise Institute’s energy and environment center…

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Right after Karen and Ann Marie spoke, Diane Bitter stood up to announce / remind folks that the Seacoast Republican Women is going to have a panel on Common Core:

Monday, October 21, 2013
6:30 p.m.

Portsmouth Public Library
Levenson Room
175 Parrot Avenue,
Portsmouth NH

Panelists:

• Ann Marie Banfield, Education Liaison for Cornerstone Policy Research
• Doris Hohensee, Co?founder, N.H. Families for Education
• NH State Rep. Jane Cormier
• NH State Senator Sam Cataldo,
• Jane Aitken, Education Activist

To RSVP and for additional information, contact: Diane Bitter, dbitter@aol.com

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Questions?  Yes, questions of Dr. McCaughey following her talk about Obamacare and she was happy to take them:

Question #1:

In the bill, so many of the different components say “at the discretion of the Secretary of Health and Human Services. So, if we get a Republican President, are those put in stone now because of Sebelius?

Takaway: Pew – only 38% could name the three branches of Government.  That how Obama can say the false things he does and get away with them – the public doesn’t any better.

Question #2:  Please talk about the “navigators”?

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And the questions did not stop coming!

Question #4:

Going back to the ACA when it first started: we were told by Pelosi that we would find out what was in it.  that should be clue enough to get angry because that is also taking away our Freedom just as much as what Madison said in Federalist #57 – it is just as big!

Takeaway: Comprehensive = unread.  Madison had a lot of foresight on a lot of the problems we now see.  So what are we doing about Obamacare being changed so often (no longer what was passed)?

Question #5:

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Heh!  Expect to be deluged with songsters coming out of the woods (but not from Obamawoods ringed with National Park Service brownshirts – poor color and attitude choice, IMHO).  Steve has one here and this from Mark Steyn will be joined by hundreds, I bet:

This land is our land, it sure ain’t your land
From downtown DC to the Lake Mead shoreland
From the Arctic Refuge to the Gulf Stream waters
This land is closed to you and yours

So don’t go cruisin’ that endless Skyline
And quit your fishin’, put down that fly line
Don’t pay respects to your country’s war heroes
Their land is closed to you and yours

Don’t even look at that view of Rushmore

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Am reading down through the list of LSRs – thoughts of our legislators for bills for the upcoming session.  Well, we see that at least ONE person hates the idea that law abiding Citizens can’t be trusted with firearms without yet one more database kept on its citizens.

If she can’t take it from you, she certainly wants to know exactly who owns what. And with that last one, if it goes where I think it will, shall forbid any private sale of firearms. Like if one of the other Groksters had a firearm that they no longer wanted but did catch my interest (of which I can think of several)?  And WHY is it any of your business, Ms. Andrews-Ahearn?  Are you scared of the guns, or the citizens that possess them?  Or is this, yet again, the Progressive way – punish the bad folk by punishing all of us?  What is it about being a busybody that inserts themselves into everyone else’s lives, stops them from doing what they like (or at least makes it far more difficult), and then feels good about themselves?  Were you, in a former life, a National Park Service that enjoyed keeping WW II vets, or Korean War vets, or Viet Name War vets out of their memorials?  Does it give you “a thrill up my leg” in determining how others MUST live their lives?

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Besides the keynote speaker, Dr. Betsy McCaughey, two other ladies also had speaking opportunities during the meeting:

• Karen Testerman, conservative activist and exploring a run for the NH GOP nomination for US Senate
• Ann Marie Banfield, math whiz and educational liason for Cornerstone Policy Research, on Common Core

Karen Testerman (with whom we had a “pre-meeting” interview here):

Ann Marie Banfield on Common Core:

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Political Scoop – every Friday (mostly – he’s not as prolific as we are) Pindell puts up his Political Standing weekly and it generally has a Questions of the Week in it. Given that he mentioned us, I’ll play along with it:

• What are we to make of the Union Leader linking to Granite Grok on its homepage?

Well, thanks for the mention and I have a great answer for you, although many MSMers might lift an eyebrow (given the natural ideological bent of the newsroom)…

Here’s the snap shot.  And here is the link to Grokster Steve post.

For me, this is the money quote from the post: The states have an excellent opportunity to take back their responsibilities from Uncle Sam and give them back to local agencies, municipalities,  and the people who pay for all of it; who may then see what it is that really needs doing, and reapportion those funds accordingly, even if that means giving them back to the people who earned them.

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The government has shut down 17 times. Obama is the first president to ever issue an order to lock veterans out of military cemeteries.

— Steve Stockman (@SteveWorks4You) October 4, 2013

Washington Examiner:

…The American Battle Monuments Commission attributed the closure to the government shutdown. “Due to a lack of funding for ABMC operations (U.S. Government shutdown), ABMC cemeteries and memorials are temporarily closed,” the commission said.

…Ferguson told the Washington Examiner that the commission has $85 million left over from fiscal year 2012.

Remember – if Obama is willing to use Veterans in an Alinsky action:

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First on the Socialists – an observation from El Rushbo:

Let me give you an interesting observation on William F. Buckley. It’s a quote, but it’s more an observation. Buckley pointed out that in the ’30s we were told we had to “collectivize the nation,” i.e., big government. Go socialist. We had to collectivize the nation because the people were so poor, and now we’re told that we have to collectivize because the people are so rich — and he’s right.

Back in the thirties, FDR, all the boys? “Oh, yeah, we got way too many poor people! We need to go socialism so that we can raise standards of living.” Today why are we doing it? “‘Cause we got too many rich people, and they’re stealing everybody’s everything, and we gotta take it from ’em.” I think it’s a great observation.

And from the Globull Warmists?

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