Trump rightfully tossed it onto the ash heap of Obama’s “Arc of History” – it rightfully belongs there because it had no worth. Obama, like many other actions he took during his Presidency, only wanted to be seen as doing something rather than actually doing something and the Paris Accord belongs in it. What worth is there when only a President signs an “agreement”? Nothing – the next President can do exactly what Trump did. Obama was lazy – relying on Executive Orders and bureaucratic rulemaking which meant it could be done away with a flourish of a pen.
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Why are Fathers important?
Let me add to Mike’s “Happy Fathers Day” with this from Instapundit (reformatted, emphasis mine):
VIRGINIA ALLEN: The Importance of Dads in an Increasingly Fatherless America.
There is a “father absence crisis in America,” according to National Fatherhood Initiative, and the results are sobering. Studies have found that children raised without a father are:
- At a higher risk of having behavioral problems.
- Four times more likely to live in poverty.
- More likely to be incarcerated in their lifetime.
Oh Good Lord above – give me wisdom
No, you don’t get a pass just because you think you “deserve” one and that because whatever it is you are proclaiming is “self-evident”. Sorry, given a choice between what your lyin’ sign says or my truthful eyes, I’m picking the latter. I’m a black 20 year old Asian, if you ask me, and my … Read more
When CHAD can demonstrate they know more about REAL gun safety…
Until then, shut the bleep up and stop being Nannies that are unneeded, unwanted, and “presenting” (they use that word a lot, those medical people) a snotty (and snotty) sense of moral superiority to we “bitter clingers” of you know whats. You know far more about medical issues than I do and I listen. Don’t assume … Read more
Quick Thought: it sounds so fine and so high-falutin’ don’t it?
“Everyone has a right to live in a country not dominated by the systemic racist practices of government and other powerful institutions, structures, institutional interlocks, and matrices,” Willem Cerf of Manchester said in remarks distributed by the campaign. Scratching my head here – I think Cerf just called almost EVERYONE in the country else a … Read more
BlogQuestion of the Day – Coverup? How big is the cabal and what will the consequences be?
https://twitter.com/SohrabAhmari/status/1007279078989127680 Why aren’t more people going bananas over this? Shouldn’t this be a bipartisan deal, where the bureaucrats are trying to influence (or, worse, alter) the outcome of an election? Which is worse, our OWN government trying to do so or “Russians”? How are Progressives going to square this circle given that this is now … Read more
It’s what the Left does – normalize what used to be taboo to accept their even worse
Comparisons, comparisons. First, go back and read this. Remember, the media ‘fessed up to “normalizing” homosexuality.
Now this: Bernie Sanders Says Liberals Are Turning the “Radical” into the “Mainstream.”
And now this: Drag queen superheroes show — ‘Super Drags’ — coming to Netflix: ‘They’re going to save the world’
So, normalizing Socialism and Communism. Now add to that which used to be considered to be depraved behavior – and we Normals aren’t to say a thing or be labeled RACISTs or HOMOPHOBES, or DEPLORABLES or IRREDEEMABLES (did I forget the word BIGOT! ?). Stigma – a word that has had its meaning pretty much neutered. Depravity is in, church going and traditionally moral people out. Fun-cations (complements of unemployment – trust me, it ain’t) in, hard work out. Responsibility is out, blaming others is in. America bashing in, pro-America out; you get the picture (and I keep coming back to this over and over because it does seem that the America I grew up in is being deliberately and methodically destroyed.
So when all what used to be praised and held to be of value, what happens?
RRftSotRR – I get stuff. This next one? “Listen only to me – *I* know the truth”
Translation: “Republican Republican for the Sake of the Republican Party”. Translation: Thou shalt not diss the Party. And it is still “shut your traps”. The next section of that missive has several sections – here’s the first part of it:
I guess the writer is talking about US! Nice to be noticed and for all the right reasons. One thing is for sure – you KNOW who we are as we almost all go by our actual names. Yes, some people use an alias – that’s what the Revolutionary pamphleters did to keep their heads on their shoulders in working order. It’s, you know, the entire reason for the Free Speech part of the First Amendment. Which is exactly where I’m going with this.
Data Point – American ingenuity and productivity; Texas
Texas Oil Peak Cyclical Employment Production Rig Date Workers (BBL/Day) Count October 2008 211,100 1.125 Mil 925 December 2014 295,100 3.532 Mil 872 March 2018 215,900 4.052 Mil 492 (H/T: Forbes)
RRftSotRR – I get stuff. This one? “Shut up and just vote for us, Republicans”
I get stuff. All the time. Some puts a smile on my face for the right reason. Some don’t. But some put smiles on my face but not necessarily for the purposes for which it was meant. This is one of them. RRftSotRR stands for one of my memes: a “Republican Republican for the Sake of the Republican Party”. Translation: Thou shalt not diss the Party. Not swift, as I’m not all that into such totalitarian diktats from my “political” betters (or those thinking they are). So, in this person’s own words:
OK, this is mostly fact based – mostly. There’s an element of truth in there to which the answer is [carefully?] avoided and it is something that we all learned in elementary school (well, depending on when you went to elementary school).
“The Suicide of Europe”
Another 5 minute commentary from the folks that have mastered the genre. This time, why is Europe laying down to die as a culture and civilization? “Europe is committing suicide. How did this happen? In this video, Douglas Murray, author of The Strange Death of Europe, explains the two major causes of Europe’s impending downfall.” … Read more
So why is NH State Rep Mark Proulx against the GOP Platform? And against Private Contract? And Self-Agency. Freedom?
It is because of HIM I have to join a union against my will and contra my Freedom! Thanks for nuttin. In this, you are a totalitarian simply because I want to freely contract with my employer – and you decided to not let me. So what WILL you run on if the Janus vs … Read more
Notable Quote – Roger Kimball
On what rot the 1960s wreaked upon today (emphasis mine):
“Only a few periods in American history,” the New York Times intoned in an editorial called “In Praise of the Counterculture”:
… have seen such a rich fulfillment of the informing ideals of personal freedom and creativity that lie at the heart of the American intellectual tradition. … The 60’s spawned a new morality-based politics that emphasized the individual’s responsibility to speak out against injustice and corruption.
A “new morality-based politics,” eh? It seems so long ago, shrouded in a Day-Glo glaze of grateful recollection. But when it comes to the Sixties, and especially the fulcrum year of 1968, Time magazine is right: “50 Years After 1968, We Are Still Living In Its Shadow.” Indeed, paroxysms of the 1960s, which trembled with gathering force through North America and Western Europe from the mid-1950s through the early 1970s, continue to reverberate throughout our culture. The Age of Aquarius did not end when the last electric guitar was unplugged at Woodstock. It lives on in our values and habits, in our tastes, pleasures, and aspirations. It lives on especially in our educational and cultural institutions, and in the degraded pop culture that permeates our lives like a corrosive fog.
Intellectually, I knew this happens but to see it is another thing
…to actually see it on screen. I went to look for an image (DuckDuckGo doesn’t do the best of jobs for that so I picked Google) and after creating a new tab, this showed up: A bit too connected for my liking – the first three were cell phone calls I placed this afternoon while … Read more
GrokTV! – Rochester 912 meeting: Frank Edelblut, NH Commissioner of the Dept of Education
Frank Edelblut, Commissioner for the NH Department of Education spoke at the June meeting for the Rochester 912 group talking about what he has encountered during his time in that spot. I will have to admit, he was adroit in covering a whole range of issues that his department is covering. All without notes. And then the same during the question and answer period as well. I think this is TED lecture quality.
Do you know what this is?
Yep – that yellow thing is the paperwork you’d fill out at the office of the NH Secretary of State, Bill Gardner, located on the second floor in the State Capital building in Concord, if you were to run for state or county wide offices (but not the House of Representatives). There are slots still open all over the place (literally!) for good Conservative / small government / less taxing / less intrusive candidates (you know, not Andru Volinsky types) to sign up – you’ve got until the fifteenth of this month to do so (4pm).
So, if you ever wanted to light up a Liberal (no, not the visage on their faces – those might get VERY dark in your general direction) in the best way possible, sign up with a lovely grin on your face. Hey, it might even have the same effect on an establishment GOPe-er as well! See – fun!
Heh! When I brought it home, TMEW immediately
I guess Scala or Galdieri haven’t heard the latest, have they?
Social conservatives will grumble, but they don’t appear to have the juice to make the popular governor pay the price for this,” Scala added. “There just aren’t enough voters, even in a statewide Republican primary, who will vote on these issues. That was true when it came to repealing gay marriage, and it’s true today.”
-University of New Hampshire political science professor Dante Scala
“He feels like he is comfortably ahead enough that he can afford to lose a few social conservative votes,” Galdieri said.
-Saint Anselm College political science professor Christopher Galdieri
It may be amusing, both ways, what with the scuttlebutt that has been part and parcel of all the inbound calls and emails I received yesterday and today. When the idea started up, everyone that either mentioned it or heard it basically said: “yup, we could get behind that, RIGHT NOW”.
Quick Thought: HB 1319 – asked and answered
As to Gov. Chris “Supporting the Democrat Agenda Identity Group politics against the NH GOP” in signing HB1319, I was asked earlier today:
Where do you stand?
Answer: It demands coerced speech and behavior from those that do not believe that a man can simply announce that he is a woman and MUST refer to him as such (contra our lying eyes). It now sets up transgenders as a whole as yet another special interest group, another “protected class” that now has “elevated” privileges not available to the general public. With Sununu’s signature of Friday, they have risen to the top of the Progressive Identity Totem Pole ranking at least for the weekend (as that ranking seems to change every few minutes than a pachinko ball changes its direction; said ranking seems to be in constant flux based on the “political opportunity” at hand and it is their club.).
It also places half the population, females, into a lowered status physically; the two examples are from Connecticut and Texas where trans girls winning girls’ state championships simply because they announced they are now girls and not boys. What is the fairness in that? Is it the goal, for Political Correctness / Cultural Marxism reasons, to wipe out any commonsense differences between the two sexes? After all, you can’t call it a “social construct” on one hand and “Patriarchy” on the other at the same time.
But both sets of females are doing each action willingly?
It should be rather clear to see which ones are the more intelligent ones. It ain’t the ones trying to promote a Feminist agenda. So the other is merely Progressive (e.g., pulling down values that Normals embrace) (H/T: Powerline)