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Sometimes, you just can’t make this up – the $2.2 Billion solar electrical plant, station Ivanpah (which needed Federal Govt to waive lots of regulations to get built out there in the Mojave desert) has been in the news for incinerating birds in flight due to it’s process of highly concentrating the sun’s rays to fire a boiler to run the turbines.  That would be up to 800 degrees F hot.  They call those birds “streamers” – is that ecologically sustainable in killing the local flying fauna?  I think that’s the Left hand dope slap to the Green Environ-wackos that believe we can only be “sustainable” by using solar instead of fossil fuels…oh wait!

But here is the Right handed dope slap for them – now they need to burn fossil fuels to meet demand:

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But your thinking it is.

Progressives denigrate those of us that stand on the Second Amendment by pompously saying “You don’t need that”.  The State will protect you, they say.  We are an Enlightened Society, they say.  We have Progressed past that, they say. The other “tell” from these folks, in trying to defend the notion that their outlook and world view should be yours is “I don’t know anyone that has / does…“.

Sidenote: whenever someone starts talking that way about individual freedoms that pre-date the Constitution, like the right to self-defense, you know that they are a Big Government enabler and nascent totalitarian – what you have or what you want posses (or even to speak) is none of their damn business (as opposed to the ’68 Camaro that TMEW says I don’t need)

Problem is that when they use the force of government to enforce that outlook on everyone, it shows their contempt for basic American political philosophy – and a handle on basic human frailties and nature of fallen Man.  This, in part, from Repair_Man_Jack at RedState (emphasis mine):

At this point the Missouri State Police relieved the local police of responsibility and ordered them to pull back from the scene. This created a vacuum that was immediately filled by thieves and looters. As shown in the YouTube atop the post. They decided that avoiding more bad publicity was better than taking the risk of stopping the looting of businesses and stores in Ferguson. When Fred Reed wrote his old cop column at The Washington Times, he encountered the same problem in Washington, DC when White officers were accused of racial profiling. He received the letter from an officer describing the “Just let them eat each other” philosophy of policing.

Fred — After having read your article on 11/20/00 I have to state that YES!! We on the P.G.P.D for the most part are now looking the other way. After almost [deleted] years on the job I find this disheartening but a necessary fact to survive in today’s, what appears to most officers, an ANTI-POLICE environment. We are even being told by some supervisors to keep a low profile so “you’re not next on the front page”! I became a police officer to help people [deleted] years ago in P.G. County . . . but I now share the attitude of most officers, just let them eat each other, we have to survive..

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“In recent months, Barack Obama has crossed an important threshold. He has always shown contempt for his opponents; now he shows contempt for his supporters. He has quit pretending to be a leader, and more or less quit pretending to be a president. On the right and the center, he has become a joke.”

– John Hinderraker, Powerline

His post adds more…

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The tax problem that Walt Havenstein has, taking a homestead tax credit that he should not have, is certainly making the news.  Yet, I thought this was rather amusing by former NH Gov and former NH GOP Chair John E. Sununu in a “rousing” defense of Havenstein in the UL:

Former Gov. John H Sununu, in the campaign’s release, called the (tax) bill an attack orchestrated by Democrats, pointing out that Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley is a Democrat.  “That the Democrats are willing to use a gross abuse of power to attack Walt is despicable,” Sununu said in the statement.

Right.  Got it; merely saying O’Malley is a Dem is sufficient?  I dryly note that you didn’t discuss that fact that Havenstein VOLUNTARILY signed those tax docs – the bluster is only in that he got CAUGHT!  After all, if the situation was reversed, you’d do it in a heart beat (directly or via surrogates – your rep precedes you).  He’s like NH GOP Chair Jennifer Horn in this regard – although her tax problems are Federal IRS and are seemingly > 10X the one that Havenstein is having.

Can’t the NH GOP do better? Some standard of a rather low bar: 

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On Kimberly’s post on the NH Senate Majority PAC spending 4 digits on a mailer for incumbent NH State Senator Dave Boutin (which said PAC seems to only wish to spend money to keep incumbent NH State Senate Republican incumbents butts in those seats – an exclusive Good Old Boy club), commenter TC had this, in part, to ask:

The bigger question I think is why would a guy who stands to make $100 bucks at this job be spending tens of thousands of dollars to keep it? Crony Capitalism at its finest.

Good question!  Good answer: because the stakes are so high. 

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