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“…it’s to make sure that Mike Priefer never holds a coaching position again in the NFL, and ideally never coaches at any level.“

That is what Chris Kluwe, gay marriage proponent and now former Minnesota Viking punter, is now desiring for his former coach at the Vikings.  That Priefer should no longer have a way to make a living and provide for his family – belittled, denigrated, stripped of any professional renumeration, no longer able to protect and provide for his family.  That the years spent in learning his craft and finally performing at the highest level of his chosen career should amount to nothing – simply for being against gay marriage.  Simply for disagreeing with Kluwe on this issue. It is not enough to seek an apology (in watching HRC and GLAAD for several years, apologies seemingly just mean “more abasement is required”).

This is Phil Robertson of Duck Dynasty all over again –

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From whom do our Rights come from, God (or the Deity or Nature’s God) or those running Government?

The Framers of our Constitutional Republic reverently assumed the former along with the belief that if God has granted us our Rights, no man or assemblage of men can (or of more importance, should) revoke those Rights in their names alone.  Thus we are Free for there are boundaries in which our government must not cross.  If it is the former, then there are no Rights at all – merely “grants” from an all too ordinary Government from time to time.  And if that is so, we are not Free, for there is no boundaries at all, as Government (and the power greedy politicians and bureaucrats embedded in it) can arbitrarily to give at one point and then take away at another. 

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Well, it is the first of the New Year, and what many of us critics saw right from the get-go was going to happen, has happened.  But Progressives kept pooh-poohing it to the point of denial and outright lies – just like my US Senator Jeanne Shaheen as Steve pointed out.

Well, those Progressive seeds that were sown, with Shaheen being a head farmer, are now sprouting.  Congrats, Jeanne (and BFF Obama): meet a couple of examples of people who don’t have coverage, thanks to Obamacare (reformatted, emphasis mine):

Hospital staff in Northern Virginia are turning away sick people on a frigid Thursday morning because they can’t determine whether their Obamacare insurance plans are in effect.  Patients in a close-in DC suburb who think they’ve signed up for new insurance plans are struggling to show their December enrollments are in force, and health care administrators aren’t taking their word for it.

In place of quick service and painless billing, these Virginians are now facing the threat of sticker-shock that comes with bills they can’t afford.

‘They had no idea if my insurance was active or not!’ a coughing Maria Galvez told MailOnline outside the Inova Healthplex facility in the town of Springfield.   She was leaving the building without getting a needed chest x-ray.   ‘The people in there told me that since I didn’t have an insurance card, I would be billed for the whole cost of the x-ray,’ Galvez said, her young daughter in tow. ‘It’s not fair – you know, I signed up last week like I was supposed to.’

…A similar situation frustrated Mary, an African-American woman small businesswoman who asked MailOnline not to publish her last name. She was leaving the Inova Alexandria Hospital in Alexandria, Virginia with two family members.

‘I had chest pains last night, and they took me in the emergency room,’ Mary said. ‘They told me they were going to admit me, but when I told them I hadn’t heard from my insurance company since I signed up, they changed their tune.’

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“The irony is that Obama has said he is going to dedicate himself and the rest of his time in office to fighting inequality,” Krauthammer said. “He actually created the greatest inequality.” The president’s policies of having low interests rates and having the fed pump money into the economy have caused the rich to get richer, Krauthammer said. “That’s why you get the mass discontent in the sense of the economy improving.”

“He is the cause and now he is going to redeem us from the misery that he has contributed to,” Krauthammer added.

Obama is simply employing Marxist class hate and class envy – promising with his “words” to “help” the middle class even as his actual policies are destroying it – leaving only the very poor and the very rich.  Let’s also add in, to items that Krauthammer lists,  the stagnation of the economy that his policies have wrought (rotted?  Could be either) with 10s of thousands of new laws and regulations (chiefly in the areas of paperwork, energy regulation, and job crushing Obamacare).  Two more features – in which Jr. Partner Republicans have a part: 

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Two different countries, two different people; both calling something either Patriotic or anti-Patriotic:

1. Already there are high-profile cases of rich people who’ve left — movie star Gerard Depardieu and France’s richest man, Bernard Arnault of Louis Vuitton, to name but two. And France’s highly prized soccer champions are now vowing to go on strike.  Hollande calls them traitors.
2. Though young people will be forced to pay more under Obamacare, she pushed them to enroll on the exchanges.   “I made my kids sign up because I just said, ‘This is your patriotic duty,’” she said.

The first would be French Prime Minister Francois Hollande who seemingly believes that Patriotism is measured by total abject acceptance of the State taking most of the fruits of one’s labor.   The second would be NBC’s chief medical editor Dr. Nancy Snyderman (who really wants a single payer system in the US; a complete healthcare takeover by the Government) who has no problem in conflating signing up for a Government program as Patriotic.

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I guess we scare them.

Well, I read Susan’s post earlier today and decided to saunter over to Blue Hampshire to read Mike Hoefer’s post – Seeking Editorial Lead (reformatted, emphasis mine):

I’ve been an absentee landlord for sometime and do not see that changing in the year ahead. Blue Hampshire’s founding predates Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc. and those tools have diversified the “New Media” space for NH political news and allowed politicians and politicos easy, direct publishing abilities without the need for a central hub. I believe there are still some interesting digital opportunities for Blue Hampshire if there was someone(s) to help drive the day-to-day editorial of the site. I think it would be a very interesting opportunity for a NH college student(s) majoring in journalism to get some real world experience (in a state that has national impact) to their resume.

Uh, that would include us as well as far as opening the doors – blogging WAS the New Shiny Object. Heck, it was just Doug and I at the ‘Grok’s beginning but our traffic always has been larger (with a couple of exceptions).  Even now, our few authors still outproduce and out-traffic BH’s – even with that whole “community of diarists”.  I don’t quite understand why Mike needs help: they’ve always been “a collective” effort (or as they called it, “a community”) and they can’t find one person to step up and lead?  Or can it only be successful if this “alternative” happens?

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Really?

Is it truly the position of Government Employees that NH Parents are WRONG in not having perfect strangers to be forced to feed their kids?

Well, the answer is right in the first sentence of the article (mostly)- it is always about the Benjamins:

The rates of children who qualify for free or reduced-price school lunches has ballooned over a decade. Yet area school officials say there are more eligible families who don’t apply for the program, which not only provides access to meals but also qualifies schools for federal grants and additional state money.

The percentage of students in New Hampshire who are eligible for free or reduced-price lunches grew by 66 percent over 10 years. As of October 2012, 46,659, or 27.3 percent, of New Hampshire public school students in grades 1 through 12 qualified for the program, up from 16.4 percent in 2002.

Poverty has not grown that fast in NH to account for that level of growth – I saw this in Gilford, which is a rather well off town, and what I kept hearing from the School officials (despite the low poverty rate in town).  And it was always “where else to get more money from somewhere else”.  Of course, it was always “for the children”.

It continues to disturb me that I continue to see an attitude by 

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Interesting – I didn’t realize the percentages were THAT large:

A new study of how criminals vote found that most convicts register Democratic, a key reason in why liberal lawmakers and governors are eager for them to get back into the voting booth after their release.

“Democrats would benefit from additional ex-felon participation,” said the authoritative study in The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.

The authors, professors from the University of Pennsylvania and Stanford University, found that in some states, felons register Democratic by more than six-to-one. In New York, for example, 61.5 percent of convicts are Democrats, just 9 percent Republican. They also cited a study that found 73 percent of convicts who turn out for presidential elections would vote Democrat.

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“What is the base supposed to think when they see Republicans taking money from Democrats to use in Republican primaries?”

Or, as the phrase goes that I’ve been using: the Jr. Partners of the Democrats.  It is no secret that the Establishment Republicans, as shown by Karl Rove’s willingness to spend millions to defeat conservatives (aka TEA Party) that actually believe in the Constitution and the Party Platform.  Power is addictive and we see that on both sides of the aisles.  How often have we seen those trying to move the country down to its political roots be attacked by long term pols that seemingly have more regard for themselves and their butts in the seat rather than taking the hard stances and showing the willingness to say “no more” to the overregulating, freedom snuffing Welfare State?

How often do we see “our side” willing to work with the Socialists and move that Overton Window just that next incremental move Leftward?  As long as they get to play with the Levers of Power – when permitted, I guess.  And here is a great example of Republicans acting as “the useful idiots” for others that wish to knock them off  later- but willing to take out TEA Party types first:

Guess Who’s Funding the Republican Civil War

Labor unions. And they’re doing it through a pro-business Republican PAC.

The Republican Main Street Partnership has emerged as an outspoken, deep-pocketed player in pro-business GOP plans to beat back tea-party challengers next year. But the group’s new super PAC has an unexpected source for its seed money: labor unions.

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More and more, I see this sentiment boiling up from those “in the movement”.  More and more, they are feeling used (“thanks for 2010, now go away)

If Republicans were as concerned as they say with winning in 2014 and 2016, the GOP establishment in Washington would get out of the way and let the grassroots work the same magic it did in 2010. Instead they are doing everything in their power to make conservatives, their most reliable base of support, shut up and sit down. This is a colossal mistake that will lead to the Democrats retaining control of the Senate in 2014. It may lead to the end of the Republican Party.

The ruling class in Washington, on both sides of the aisle, has spent generations developing a system where the American people are largely uninvolved, and therefore politicians can absolve themselves of responsibility for most any legislation or problems that may arise with legislation. The ruling class is very happy with this status quo.

Conservatives want to change the way Washington works and make all representatives more responsive to the will of the American people. Accountability is the very last thing the ruling class on either side of the aisle wants to accept, and the conservative movement has sometimes shown the muscle to force it upon them. For that, the establishment GOP will partner with the progressive Democrats to do their best to cleanse conservative principles from Washington.

They feel they have been betrayed by those that lipsync the right words,

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