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Yes, the split between the “We can govern Big Government better than the Democrats” Republicans versus those that actually believe in “Smaller Government” and are willing to work for it.  Jeffrey Lord at Conservative Review has some bon mots on who is in which camp and why the former is as deadly as the Democrats (loved the enumeration of all those moderate Republicans that won the Presidency; reformatted, emphasis mine):

Sayeth Ohio Governor John Kasich:

“Philosophy doesn’t work when you run something.”

Kasich’s assertion came in the middle of a discussion on bank bailouts, but coming as it did in the middle of the GOP Fox Business Debate, the moment crystallized exactly what has gone wrong with the Republican Party.

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UPDATE: 1500 French soldiers deployed in Paris, checkpoints established, and 158 people have been murdered.

UPDATE – Fox News reporting that 1 person has been arrested: “I am from Syria and I am from ISIS“.

My plan was to do a long post on the Cultural Marxism activism that is running rampant through our colleges and universities these last couple of weeks (even as that same anti-American sentiment has been capturing those units of American institutions for decades – having indoctrinated several generation, it may have finally come to fruition). Reality has decided otherwise.

Fox News is now reporting that up to 6 7 sites were attacked with much pre-meditation, large resources, and reports of “Allahu Akbar” (God is Great! – the Islamic war cry); of those 6 attacks, the soccer field where a match between France and Germany was going on with about 60K people were in the stands is reportedly the main target (and explosions there were heard) and two of the attacks were by suicide bombers.  This is going to turn out badly, to the point that the President of France has closed its borders and is calling out the military.  One Hundred concert goers are being held hostage – news now is that they are being executed one by one in that concert hall.  NOW, 5 more explosions happening in and around that hall.

I have two questions:

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Kasich uses debate as opportunity to irritate voters

Yeah, pretty much that’s what he did.  I had to run down to MA yesterday afternoon / evening and just barely got back in time to watch the main (versus the “kids table”) Republican Presidential debate last night.  Glad I did – much better questions, answers, and back and forth on Fox Business News than the previous ones (including Fox News).  But I will agree with the headline – Kasich was a putz.  I tweeted out the debate and here’s a couple of my flash thoughts on Kasich.  Best one was the last one:

#GROK #NHPOLITICS #GOPDEBATE Cruz,Rubio,Carly best on facts. Carson-where was he? Rand better, Jeb didn't fix it & Kasich self-torpedoed

— GraniteGrok (@GraniteGrok) November 11, 2015

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That would be, once again, Zandra Rice-Hawkins, a socialist / Progressive activists from out of state and running Granite State Progress that is bound and determined to turn the State of NH into just another progressive state talking about the Koch Brothers libertarian political activism and always ignoring or skirting the fact that she espouses “only for me but not for thee” political attitude – only HER side with HER side’s money is allowed to do anything.

A group of about 10 activists, students and local volunteers protested outside before the event as well.

“We’re here to say we’re not going to be part of your marketing tour,” Zandra Rice Hawkins of Granite State Progress told the New Hampshire Union Leader. “How can our local legislators compete with millions of dollars being poured in for policies that hurt average Granite Staters?”

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I remember watching the Bell’s Rocketbelt years and years ago when I was much younger and dreamed about having one – very cool until I got older and smarter and really learned it was really expensive, the fuel was rather volatile (hydrogen peroxide) and could only fly a handful of seconds.  However, there may be a REAL one “just around the corner” that may make a lot of dreamers sit up and take notice:

Jetpack Aviation is the brainchild and passion project of Australian businessman David Mayman. “I’ve been flying it off the public radar for some time,” Mayman told us this morning. “It was time to bring it out of the closet, so to speak. I’ve spent my life in software and mining and fairly sensible occupations, but my overriding passion has been to build a jetpack, since I was very young. Nelson Tyler and I got together 10 years ago –he’s an extraordinary engineer and inventor based in Hollywood. And that’s really what’s made it possible.”

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And when you manipulate definitions of common words and socially suppress even the speaking of ideas that “cause hurt and pain”, you win the argument because any opposing ideas, philosophies, or arguments can no longer even be expressed.  Doubt me?  Just listen to Bruce Jenner’s own words (emphasis mine, reformatted):

BRUCE JENNER: MEDIA CAN’T SAY BAD THINGS ABOUT ME ‘BECAUSE THEN THEY’D BE HOMOPHOBIC

Being honored as one of Glamour magazine’s Women of the Year in New York on Monday, Bruce Jenner praised political correctness for silencing critics of his gender transition.  Addressing a crowd at Carnegie Hall, the former Olympian said his June Vanity Fair cover story changed the conversation within the transgender community, and noted critics of his life choices had been silenced by labels.  “No longer can the media say bad things about you because then they’d be homophobic,” he said.

Ah – truth wins out; don’t like the idea that people disagree with you?  Simple, easy-peazy, eh, just silence them?  Just adopt the

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(H/T: Liberal Logic 101) Who works for who in the “Land of the Free”? If I am working such that most of my money is going to the Government, am I a citizen or a serf? Emphasis mine:

Thank the Democrats for dropping their mask in showing (and legislating) you that they truly believe your money really should belong to them.  You know who REALLY believes this?

Socialists.  Like the two running for President (maybe two and a third?).

Remember Phil Mickelson,

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That previous chart (in here, somewhere – I can’t find it) basically showed what we now know today – it ain’t gonna work.  Ever.  Even if the Govt took all our money to fund it, it is doomed to failure just because there are too many moving parts that absolutely have to work seamlessly.  In a world of partial knowledge, fallen men, that has about as much chance of success as me being the UFC champ in the light heavyweight division (my current weight).

And here is the equivalent chart for Government “charity” – how it decides how to give other peoples’ money away in its attempt to be viewed as “compassionate”.

Folks, there is no thing as a compassionate government. 

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Guns for Beginners: Three Things They Don’t Teach You In Your Concealed Carry Class – that’s that title of a post over at The Truth About Guns that caught my eye.  While I have never had to take such a class (not needed here in NH), it listed three items that just aren’t covered in such a class that, well, are true:

• Carrying a Gun Makes You Paranoid – At Least at First

It does, it really, really does.  No matter what caliber or frame you carry, nor how you carry it, it’s different.  And being more an introvert than an extravert (ok, you can shut your very wide open eyes in disbelief now), it was also “awkward“.  IS everyone looking at me?  Can my friends and family stop looking at me?  They MUST know, right?  On the hip, in the pocket, inside the waistband…..

Not really

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Well now, one of the original feminests, Gloria Steinem, finally admits the truth.

Whenever the argument comes up between pro-death and pro-death, the normal argument that comes up is around incest and rape – the edge of the cliff.  Always to the extreme of their end where they plant their flag and always, always to move the moral argument to the illogical end of “how can you make that poor innocent girl SUFFER!  You cold hearted b*******!”.  And then walk away, smug (but always willing to haul out that “just a blob of tissue” silliness w/out ever admitting that they were such once.

Nope, she came clean said what most of us on the pro-life side know to be true most of the time:

“I wouldn’t have been able to live my life otherwise.”

Selfish. There is no other word for it.

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