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Or you end up with “how DARE you blame me what what I said” weasel words:

“First of all, I didn’t set a red line,” Barack Obama said today at a press conference in Stockholm. “The world set a red line. The world set a red line when governments representing 98% of the world’s population said the use of chemical weapons are [sic] abhorrent and passed a treaty forbidding their use, even when countries are engaged in war.”

Once again, another politician that has forgotten that the Internet doesn’t:

We have been very clear to the Assad regime, but also to other players on the ground, that a red line for us is we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or being utilized. That would change my calculus. That would change my equation.

No, Prez Wishes-He-Was-Teflon, you can’t withdraw your “War” vote with a “Present” vote by blaming everyone else in the world. 

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“The King is dead, long live the King” – ok, so not so much a monarchy in the NH State Senate (that would be reserved for the current denizen of the Secretary of State (who has been living (politically) the first half of the Vulcan good-bye).  However, Bragdon decided that the LGC position was more preferable to that of being NH State Senate President and so another election was needed (and now will a future election have Bragdon solely concerned with the business of the LGC? There are some names out in the wings on the Republican side that may be biding their time).  Long live [next] King President Chuck Morse; for all of his talk of being conservative, the proof will be in the actions and not the words.  Certainly he has a couple of weighty issues on his placemat – the question will be, what will be the track that will be taken?  Certainly there will be his vote that can show us which but how he handles assignments, interacts with the House and Hassan – let’s go with the political scale:  the fairly moderate Bragdon in the center or more of a truer conservative with Bill O’Brien on the Right?

Pindell has already made his thoughts known:

1. Things are about to get more partisan in Concord
2. Good for gambling
3. Republicans will have more of an in-state leader

For the purposes of this post, I don’t care about #2 but the issues I raised above really depends on #1.  If that turns out that Pindell’s #1 becomes true, it means that Morse has gone Rightward (or, perhaps better stated, walks the talk).  By definition, he will have to disagree with the Progressive Dems of the House, the Progressive Dem in the corner office, and then is willing to do political battle with Dems in the Senate – is that how he will ascend to the throne, to make the split from being simply a colleague to, well, the boss (in a manner of speaking).  As he contemplates this change, will he keep the “Republican bar”:

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As Progressivism is morphing to take over our Constitutional Republic:

That’s a culture under full-scale assault these days. One of the core assumptions of Obama-style technocratic government is that private businesses, customers, and employees cannot be trusted to engage in commerce with each other. The benevolent State must oversee every transaction, from paychecks to purchases. People have been taught to hate and fear their employers, who are portrayed in Obama mythology as heartless predators, scarcely aware of the hapless Little People they gobble up in their quest for outrageous wealth. (“You didn’t build that! Someone else made that happen!”)

In truth, Cruz pointed out, the real divide is between predatory government and its dependents – many of whom are millionaires – versus a rapidly dwindling private-sector working America. The people who cash paychecks should not allow themselves to be manipulated into hating the people who write them. They have a lot more in common than leftist pop culture likes to acknowledge.

– John Hayward, RedState

And as we move from Free Marketplace to a Limited Markeplace to Crony Capitalism, remember that:

• Obamacare is nothing more than a shill for a single payer system: healthcare nationalized
• Student loans – nationalized by Government already, it is now, yet again, in crisis – so Obama wants to start the nationalization of Higher Ed industry.
• EPA is nationalizing what energy sources will be permitted, grabbing for Federalizing water, and determining how we are to live our lives simply because we all exude CO2
• EPA / HUD, DOT’ ustainable Communities Initiative is determining where we can live, how we can live, how we can travel – and where we can no longer go
• Via Common Core – the Federalization of formerly local control of education is moving FORWARD!

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This morning, Ed Naile of CNHT and I were on with ‘Grok friend Jeff Chidester on The Morning Buzz from 8am to 9am this morning (like I told Jeff, thanks for letting me drive down from the Lakes Region in the middle of a torrential rain / constant lightning thunderstorm – I’ll remember that for next time).  Although there are TONS of stuff going one (f’instance, Jeff and his producer Jen Well (who I finally got to meet for the first time after talking to her on the phone multiple times!), we stayed pretty much on what we’ve been reporting on the ‘Grok for Voter Fraud.

Updated and bumped: Here are the first two segments from yesterday’s show – thanks to Jen Wells for sending it!  download or play

I was sent 3 segments starting from 8:20am onward – download them or listen to them here (hoping to get the front segments later – will update and bump this post if we do).  We’ll get them uploaded to our usual sites a bit later on.  Things / people that were brought up?  Here:

Jeff Chidester, Ed Naile, CNHT, WGIR, First In The Nation Primary, battleground State, Domicile, Voter Fraud

Rest after the jump.  The entire show: download or play

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After all, Progressivism is merely incremental Socialism, and Socialism (according to the Communists), is merely a step on the road to Communism (their say-so, and I have no reason to disbelieve them given their actions).  Anyways, this from Powerline is very instructive, as young skulls full of mush are now returning to the places that seemingly seem to house the kindred spirits of those that, pretty much, hate the ideals that kick-started this nation (e.g., that Individuals should be in charge of themselves and not looked upon as mere cogs in a social machine (at best) or mere wards of the State:

In Vietnam, still run by the Communist Party, the very selective national university is offering free tuition to anyone who signs up for the university’s curriculum in Marxism. They’ve had to offer free tuition because no students have been signing up for these courses, as in zero. I can’t help but be amused that the market-clearing price for courses in radical philosophy is lower in a Communist university than in American universities.

In other words,

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Voter Fraud and its coddling here in NH – even as the NH State Attorney General’s office has issued an exoneration of NH State Senator Martha Fuller Clark (e.g., Martha’s Motel), more outlets outside of the MSM are starting to talk about it more and more.  A guest submission by Jeff Chidester which also appeared at SeacoastOnline.

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Some would like the rest of the world to believe N.H. state Sen. Martha Fuller Clark is owed an apology from the NHGOP. Not only is that not going to happen, it is not warranted.

I will not address the issues of voter fraud, voter suppression, or the recent N.H. attorney general’s report regarding the concerns about Sen. Fuller Clark and New Hampshire domicile laws. These concerns deserve a rational, common-sense analysis, which require a public conversation and not a back-and-forth on the opinion page of this newspaper.

Jennifer Horn, NHGOP chairperson, does not owe Fuller Clark an apology, and any suggestion to the contrary is naïve at best and delusional at worst. The calls for an apology only add to the kabuki theater we call party politics. Horn made a point of disagreement, one in which I have no doubt she truly believes. When Ray Buckley and the N.H. Democrat Party chose to post a picture of Sen. Jeb Bradley in a clown outfit on their Web page, should we realistically expect decorum on the part of Buckley, and insist he cease with the juvenile antics? No, because it is political kabuki theater.

Most of us expect committed political partisans to show faux righteous indignation for something that is nothing more than political posturing, but when some in the media jump in the middle of a dog fight between political rivals, it only adds to the absurdity.

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Discouraging is the word that immediately came to mind – do these Know-Nothings actually know what is in the US Constitution?  Or has pop culture, a skin-deep only knowledge of civics, and our failing educational system (and its corresponding curriculum turn away from teaching our history to the next generations) finally given us nincompoops?  Did the movement started by the SDS, whose members then went underground into our educational system, finally win the Cold War?  And have traditional American values and footings been scoured away?

Watching this, how can one think otherwise?

My only question: condoms, syringes, Internet, cars, jobs – all these (and I would hazard to guess, even more) things should be provided to these walking vacuum jars for free.  I only wish that a follow on question had been asked:

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Every enlistee into our Armed Services swears to this oath:

I, (NAME), do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God.

Every officer swears a similar oath, but with a significant difference:

I, [name], do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.

The Constitution defense comes first for the enlistee – and the President’s & officers orders come second for the enlisted ranks.  But carefully reread the officers’ oath – there is NO explicit requirement to obey the President’s command (although it is implicit within our civilian control of the military philosophy via Article II, Section 2, Clause I of the Constitution).

The issue –  Obama has said:

1. Over and over again, he has dismissed the idea that he needs Congress (“If Congress does not act, I will…”)
2. I have the authority to commit the United States to war in Syria
3. Let the Congress and vote and decide this issue
4. If the Congress decides “No!”, I will still order military action in Syria

Are we about to see if, like many elected officials that say the words but do not Honor Their Oaths, if our military will be the focus of Obama’s latest attack on the words and the spirit of the Constitution?  What will the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the General Officer Corp, the senior and junior officers, and the SNCOs and NCOs do when put, BY OBAMA’S ACTION ON SYRIA, on the question of “What will I do?”

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The US has its terrorism threat levels with which we are all familiar; other governments have other ways of putting it:

The English are feeling the pinch in relation to recent events in Syria and have therefore raised their security level from “Miffed” to “Peeved.” Soon, though, security levels may be raised yet again to “Irritated” or even “A Bit Cross.” The English have not been “A Bit Cross” since the blitz in 1940 when tea supplies nearly ran out. Terrorists have been re-categorized from “Tiresome” to “A Bloody Nuisance.” The last time the British issued a “Bloody Nuisance” warning level was in 1588, when threatened by the Spanish Armada.

The Scots have raised their threat level from “Pissed Off” to “Let’s get the  Bastards.” They don’t have any other levels. This is the reason they have been used on the front line of the British army for the last 300 years.

The French government announced yesterday that it has raised its terror alert level from “Run” to “Hide.” The only two higher levels in France are “Collaborate” and “Surrender.” The rise was precipitated by a recent fire that destroyed France ‘s white flag factory, effectively paralyzing the country’s military capability.

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Don Boudreax, Professor of economics and blogger at Cafe Hayek flips a standard question on its head and pulls it inside-out sideways:

Last night and this morning your news anchors introduced your report on D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray’s ambivalence toward the pending “living-wage” bill with this question: “Will the District force large retailers to pay their workers more?”

A more illuminating introduction would be “Will the District force low-skilled workers to demand wages that make many of these workers unprofitable to employ?”

The SEIU is the union that is principly behind the Fast Food Strikes held all over the country yesterday and the impetus behind the question.  Frankly, while the leadership there is pretty much all in the tank for Obama and would more at home in a Communist regime (“Workers Unite!  Death to the 1% (or at least force them to downsize to a single bedroom condo)), they are not stupid.  There is no way that those strikers are going to get $15 / hour.  The short term goal is, with the confirmation of Obama’s newest Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez, is to begin to shape the battlefield for “wage reform” and “work rules” – here is his “supportive fire“:

 Perez said job creation is a focus and that he views the Labor Department as “the quarterback in the workforce system,” bringing together workers, businesses and labor unions to build a “demand-driven” workforce that has the skills needed to meet employer needs.

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This is absolutely rich – the Most Powerful Man in the World is ridiculed by an 11 year old boy whose Dad happens to be Syria’s Bashar Assad’s son, Hafez al-Assad.  Worse, he taunts O’Bam by saying “Yo, Emperor, where’s your clothes?” After all, how bad can it get when Obama’s indecision and mishandling gets the opprobrium and disdain of a preteen – and it goes viral worldwide?

12 hours we waited…48 hours they said, we’re waiting…they may have the best army in the world, maybe the best airplanes, ships, tanks than ours, but soldiers? No one has soldiers like the ones we do in Syria, if you ask me what rank would I rank American “soldiers” I wouldn’t rank them the worst because the worst are soldiers, but America doesn’t have soldiers, what it has is some cowards with new technology who claim themselves liberators, they said they supported the “revolution” but actually they made it, right now we’re all Syrian it doesn’t matter if your with or against because that’s democracy, the abilty to express yourself in your own way so when people say that they are against the “regime” it’s fine but there’s a difference between those people and the people who claim our flag green, it’s like an offense to the country, but the worst is people who accuse the army of killing them, they accuse these men who are willing to risk they’re lives and die to keep us safe, of killing us, well when these people say that “the army is gonna end because America will attack” I can say that when America attacks it’s gonna attack every Syrian, with, against, terrorists, the army.

Yeah, the Nobel Laureate Peace Prize winner, Cowboy Obama, is getting called out by a mere boy; is that the height of incompetence?  Boy, that Rule #5 got around quick, eh?

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