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This from Powerline shows the utterly absurdity of what seems to be passing for real academic study:

The A/Un/grammatical Child/hood/s and Writing

Nature/Culture Edusemiotic Entangling With Affective Outside Encounters and Sustainability Events to Come

Anne B. Reinertsen, Queen Maud University College,Trondheim, Norway

Abstract

This is about creating new ontologisations of sustainable child/hood/s and/as exceeding forms of contracts between generations through experimenting with bodily affects and sensing movements. Experimenting as writing that is and doing

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Alicia Preston has an Op-Ed in the UL today (“Another View — Alicia Preston: I’m finally #NowTrump because I’m #NeverHillary“) talking about why she will now vote for Donald Trump.  In part, this caught my eye:

…I remembered two years ago how I tried to convince friends who were unhappy with Scott Brown as our nominee for U.S. Senate that they were wrong to support a third-party candidate or simply not vote; that the alternative was not better than Scott, and that no message is being sent, we’ll simply lose to the Democrats. (Which we did.)…

Well, if one puts winning as the only piece of the puzzle, being a Republican Republican for the sake of the Republican Party, well, she’s right and she makes the premise that if one is a Republican, only winning is important.  Sorry, that doesn’t cut it because “Winning is only a precursor; what is most important is what you do afterwards” and what Alicia wants us to swallow is that anything is ok – that winning “flushes away” any Democrat-lite actions or totally ignoring the Republican platform altogether

Sidenote: Really?  Ignoring that Republicans have instituted new taxes, bigger government, and Obamacare here in NH while making political speech harder here in NH, Alicia?  That’s OK?

So as far as that “we’ll simply lose to the Democrats” part is concerned, it brings this back to mind:

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Al, from this double Blue Star Dad, you’re still alright in my book – you go, Devil Dog!  Kevin Landrigan (not exactly likin’ on Conservatives byline) has a piece in the UL about Al Baldasaro’s truth telling on Hillary Clinton:

LONDONDERRY — Conservative Republican State Rep. Al Baldasaro never needs to go looking for controversy — it finds him.

Yeah, well that’s what happens when you tell the truth that the Political Class doesn’t like (been there, done that).  He’s right: selling out America’s uranium stocks to the Russians, abandoning the Benghazi four to die AND THEN LIED ABOUT IT, and selling out American interests after getting Bill lucrative speaking fees from despots and ne’er-do-wells world-wide?  The money laundering that is the Clinton Foundation?  Don’t get me started.  But the worst is the reaction of the “Establishment Republican Elite” acting like Democrats in waving down the nearest bus to throw him under – but he shouldn’t have been surprised.  After all, it seems that every chance she gets, NH GOP Chair Jennifer Horn grabs for those bus keys (and Kelly Ayotte has her driver’s permit) (emphasis mine, reformatted):

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It is well known that Democrats have been furious with companies undergoing tax inversions – a US company buys a foreign company and then moves its headquarters to that foreign entity.  Reason? US corporate taxes are too high compared to other countries.  Given that their legal fiduciary responsibility is to their shareholders, they do the deal.  However, our feckless Progressive politicians believe that they are ENTITLED, to THAT tax money and that companies are STEALING that money that “belongs” to them in government.

Doesn’t matter that it actually belongs to them that earned it.  That’s the selfishness of the Entitlement State.

And Donald Trump has joined that Democrat outcry, albeit for a different reason (emphasis mine, reformatted):

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We have lost the government we learned about in civics class, with its democratic election of representatives to do the voters’ will in framing laws, which the president vows to execute faithfully, unless the Supreme Court rules them unconstitutional. That small government of limited powers that the Founders designed, hedged with checks and balances, hasn’t operated for a century. All its parts still have their old names and appear to be carrying out their old functions. But in fact, a new kind of government has grown up inside the old structure, like those parasites hatched in another organism that grow by eating up their host from within, until the adult creature bursts out of the host’s carcass. This transformation is not an evolution but a usurpation.

From a longish post on how the Progressives have subverted the Constitutional philosophy of self-Government – I highly suggest that you all go read it. As you do so, consider the other half of “self-government” – the ability for each one of us how to conduct our own “Pursuit of Happiness” or self  government – as in our own daily lives in making our own decisions of what is best for ourselves.  Once again, I ask “Is there any area of your life in which Government has not already decided (and therefore, limited) what it is that you can choose for yourself?  Emphasis mine:

What has now largely displaced the Founders’ government is what’s called the Administrative State—a transformation premeditated by its main architect, Woodrow Wilson. The thin-skinned, self-righteous college-professor president, who thought himself enlightened far beyond the citizenry, dismissed the Declaration of Independence’s inalienable rights as so much outmoded “nonsense,” and he rejected the Founders’ clunky constitutional machinery as obsolete.

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Well, I guess Eric Estevez really out of this world – Here’s “The man out of this world” Eric Estevez campaigning on the moon for votes:

(H/T: Tom) And here’s the view from the other side:

(H/T: MikeS)  Hmm, “The man out of this world”.  I like that idea, so a question: anyone up for crowdfunding a campaign to keep him campaigning there – forever?  Previous Restevus Campaign Contest posts after the jump:

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Heh!  ROTFLMAO when I saw this – it FITS!  Why?

Advanced technology (er, Esteves’s MIT brain trust?), self-assured (incompetent), pompous (to the point of grating), and can’t shoot straight either. In the end, he loses every time.

Oh, and Looney Tunes is a great description as well.

(H/T: Nana)

Previous Restevus Campaign Contest posts after the jump:

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Guess they believe in personally living their beliefs like Al Gore does with global warming (e.g., living big with energy budgets and CO2 emissions that of a neighborhood of “regular” folks). First, let’s start with what “the folk” earn:

The U.S. Census Bureau reported in September 2014 that: U.S. real (inflation adjusted) median household income was $51,939 in 2013 versus $51,759 in 2012, statistically unchanged. In 2013, real median household income was 8.0 percent lower than in 2007, the year before the latest recession.

Well, there certainly seems to be, just like the “grievance industry”, there’s one for “income inequality (at least in academia):

UC Berkeley ‘income inequality’ experts earn more than $300,000 a year

Several UC Berkeley economics professors who support “income inequality” research each earn more than $300,000 a year, putting them in the top 2 percent of the public university’s salary distribution, according to a recent report by a nonpartisan California think tank. The report pointed out that the prominent scholars leading or advising the Cal Berkeley Center for Equitable Growth are richly compensated as professors, even as the center seeks to research ways to create economic growth that is “fairly shared,” the center’s website states.

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To set the stage: NH Constitution, articles 2A and 10:

[Art.] 2-a. [The Bearing of Arms.] All persons have the right to keep and bear arms in defense of themselves, their families, their property and the state.

[Art.] 10. [Right of Revolution.] Government being instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security, of the whole community, and not for the private interest or emolument of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, whenever the ends of government are perverted, and public liberty manifestly endangered, and all other means of redress are ineffectual, the people may, and of right ought to reform the old, or establish a new government. The doctrine of nonresistance against arbitrary power, and oppression, is absurd, slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind.

And it was a very positive one! Simply gobsmacked that they printed it all.  The ‘graphs that caught my eye (entire thing after the jump):

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