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Progressivism highly depends on one item – a lack of education in history.  Without a firm foundation of what and WHY something has happened in the past, well, you can say anything you want, even lies, in misleading people.  Why?  They have no idea on how to respond to that lie.  For this guy, Manual Martinez, his history was up close and personal.  He’s already been through this “it is for your protection” before – and he lost his country to Communism (also known as Progressivism, for the end goal is the same).

As he says it: Subjugation

“A man who fled Cuba’s communist regime in the 1960s blasted Oregon lawmakers Thursday during a public hearing on proposed gun control legislation. Manuel Martinez, who narrowly escaped Cuba in 1962 after being imprisoned for opposing Fidel Castro, passionately defended the Second Amendment in front of Oregon’s Senate Judiciary Committee, comparing the state’s attempts to pass gun control to moves made by his former government.

“Don’t sell me this. A very powerful man tried to sell me this 50-something years ago, I didn’t buy it,” Martinez said. “This is Marxism, plain and clear.”

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“Scuttlebutt is that Bradley is still miffed over Americans For Prosperity’s political speech against him and Carson is still ticked over the folks that “attacked” her.  Thin skinned, these ones are – and just like Obama’s IRS, seemingly are looking to take political retribution. “

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• DC based US Republicans Representatives & Senators – willing to contravene The Rule of Law and grant Amnesty to illegal aliens

• Concord based NH State Senate Republicans – sent to Concord to stop the expansion of Government (locking arms with Democrats to do just that and more than willing to implement Obamacare (via Medicaid Expansion)

• DC based US Republicans Representatives & Senators – sent to DC to stop the spending (yet again, running away to not fight another day) –

So, in these three issues, how do the Republicans differ from the Democrats?  Ask yourself – why are Republicans acting to move Democrat issues FORWARD! contra “Republican Principles” (which are looking mighty poorly, given the beating that our elected Republican officials have been giving them)?  Why are they so willing to give us, the base who support the Platform and the US / NH Constitutions?  I must admit, being an ordinary schlub, can’t come up with a single reason OTHER than they think helping the Democrats push these issues will enhance their personal political careers.  I certainly hope not – I hope this ruins them.

I have called these NH politicians “Jr. Partners of the Democrat Party” – they were not amused at all (as you might imagine).

I have called these NH politicians “Least Lackeys of the Progressive Welfare State” – they got really pissed for some reason.

Well, to the latter, what else CAN I call them when

A man was telling his buddy: “You won’t believe what happened last night. My daughter walked into the living room and said,

‘Dad, cancel my allowance immediately, forget my college tuition loan, rent my room out, throw all my clothes out the window, take my TV and my laptop.’

“Please take any of my jewelry to the Salvation Army or Cash Converters. Then, sell my car, take my front door key away from me and throw me out of the house.

Then, disown me and never talk to me again. Don’t forget to write me out of your will and leave my share to any charity you choose.”

“Holy Smokes,” replied the friend, “she actually said that?”

“Well, she didn’t put it quite like that. She actually said,

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Over at TreeHugger is a post where the authoress, Katherine Martinko, has decided that having a carbon footprint is not a sufficiently heavy hammer to use on the rest of us “unenlightened” to get us to change our ways (or have Government change our ways for us).  Nope, now she is adding another hammer: water footprint.  How much that you consume uses up our precious water – you selfish person, you!

…Beverages:

•  1 gallon (3.8 litres) of milk requires 880 gallons (3,331 L) of water.
• 1 gallon of wine requires 1,008 gallons of water.
• 1 gallon of coffee requires 880 gallons of water. “If everyone in the world drank a cup of coffee each morning, it would ‘cost’ about 32 trillion gallons (120 billion cubic metres) of water a year.”

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Jr. Partners of the Democrats.  Lesser Keepers of the Welfare State.  Politics over Principles.  “Looking out for our Own Political Asses since we lost our way back in 2000’s”.  And with the news of the tremendous expansion of the Welfare State by Chuck Morse with Democrat leader Larson, what are we in the grassroots to think?  We work for these folks, we spend our money for these folks, and we vote for these folks.  And what do we want from these folks?

Simple: write and vote for legislation that carries out the Republican Platform that you gave assent to.  Act like the Conservatives you told us you were.  How hard can that be?

Obviously, too hard – yet you demand that we continue to support you, regardless.  Or is that more along the lines of “taking our votes for granted, for you have no where else to go”?  Really?  Ask Frank Guinta how that worked out last time.

So, how DOES this agreement to spend LOTS of Federal tax dollars, make more people dependent on Government, enlarge the State’s bureaucracy actually conform to Republican Principles, NH State Senate President Chuck Morse (R)?  I for the life of me cannot figure it out.  It certainly does not conform to ANY definition of Conservatism that I am aware of.  However, we do have a rather good and Conservative Party Platform – let’s count ALL the ways  you have shredded it.  From the NH GOP Platform (not that it seems to matter much anymore):

• We, the people of the New Hampshire Republican Party, do stand united in our dedication to preserving freedom, limited government…
• We believe that the New Hampshire and United States Constitutions were written by our forefathers to limit our government

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The recent shooting at the mall in Columbia, Maryland (another “gun free” zone) is a tragedy; three young adults dead.  Katy Perry (a singer of some note, I’m told) had a couple of tweets on the subject of CHANGE!:

Change?  “When will there be ACTUAL change?”  Answer is rather simple in concept:

It isn’t just asking for change, Ms. Perry – what kind of change do you desire?  Is it about the guns or is it about the people with the guns?  If it is about the latter, the shooter was old enough to buy that shotgun legally (Vice President Joe Biden’s weapon of choice).  No ill named “gun show loophole” was involved; there was not a private sale.  The shotgun came from a Federally licensed FFL gun shop.  He passed the background check.  Remember, a shotgun is NOT one of those “scary black” rifles that are simply semi-automatics – a technology that is well over 120 years old. Nor a handgun.

ACTUAL change?  Simple: 

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