Commercial culture update. Black Friday. Early Black Friday. After Black Friday. All resulted in a decline in bricks and mortar foot-traffic. The people who pay attention to such things estimate 9 million fewer shoppers passed through the doors of retailers.
MSNBC Reporter Destroys MSNBC Narrative on Caravan
MSNBC does its best to carry the water for the Democrat party narratives. Heck, we could debate who is carrying who’s water. But at the end of the day it all stinks and here’s a tiny slice of heaven to prove that point. In an attempt to debunk Trump’s claim that the migrant caravan was … Read more
The Kids ‘Climate Case’ Is Not Alright
Recent legal gymnastics may have rung a death knell for a climate case with a presumptuous goal. Force the government to do something today to address the prophesied future effects of climate change, to protect children including (presumably) those not yet born. The Juliana case is likely the most ambitious and aggressive climate change suit filed to date. Filed … Read more
NRO: Obama Used Tear Gas at the Border, Too
Mr. Obama was separating families for years. It wasn’t until Mr. Trump was elected that the left noticed. Mr. Obama had a sour record on Forest fires. He had actual budget changes under his watch that put millions of acres at risk, many of which burned. Mr. Obama got a pass from the media. So, no surprises when it comes to Tear Gas at the border.
“Regarding the qualifications of Senator-elect Jon Morgan…”
To quote Skip, the Ballot Commission punted! Start with this. We’ve more to follow. “As Chairman of the New Hampshire Ballot Law Commission, I am writing to you regarding a vote taken by the Commission at its meeting this morning. The first item on the agenda was BLC 2018-5, the above-captioned complaint, filed with the … Read more
So, WMUR ran this now debunked “Mom and two kids in diapers at the border” picture
#FakeNews Media all share same photo of “women & kids gassed”.
Perpetrators of invasion instantly become victims in new #FakeNews narrative.
Congratulations, you've been #Hoaxed! ????✊????✊????✊ pic.twitter.com/ISkExrlc2T
— Publius (@OcrazioCornPop) November 26, 2018
Ask yourself – what loving mother is gonna put her babies into such a dangerous situation, after being “penniless” and walking 2880 miles to end up in a “spontaneous” picture where 500 hard core, mostly male, illegal aliens trying to break into the US AFTER being warned that the border will be defended? And now are being deported by Mexico back to their home countries? Shades of the Israel / Gaza Strip border as the Palestinians Antifa movement has a history of staged pictures, videos, and Narrative.
And WMUR has led with the story, with this now discredited pic, during their 5pm, 6pm, and 11pm newscasts last nite. Yeah, layers upon layers of fact checkers and editor at this Hearst outlet. News or Narrative? “As it happens” or propaganda? Proving the ideological bent of most newsrooms around the country don’t swing Right but have no problems with Open Borders.
Sidenote: as much as the UL has been creeping leftward, is anyone beside me thinking WMUR is sprinting in that direction the last couple of years??
And there’s more!
NPR Sells the Theory That Cheap Oil is Bad for GDP and America’s Economy (Hint: it’s Not!)
Did you hear? Cheap oil may now be bad for the economy. That’s the question “explored” in a piece at NPR titled, “Oil Prices Hit A New Low. Here’s Why That Might Be A Bad Thing.” Did you notice the application of “might?” Well, it might, but it might not with an emphasis on not. Related: … Read more
Boston University has failed Miserably
By Jim Johnson
Alexandria Ocasio-Ortiz (Graduated with a bachelor’s degree in economics and international relations from Boston University):
What we had was an existential threat in the context of a war. We had a direct existential threat with another nation, this time it was Nazi Germany, and the Axis, who explicitly made the United States as an enemy, as an enemy.
Me:
Wrong, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor President Roosevelt proclaimed:
“Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan”. The U.S. declared war on Japan December 8, 1941. Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, Japan’s Axis partners declared war on the U.S December 11,1941.
Dude (Dudette?), it ain’t Capitalism that has failed
This is failure all over the place. Capitalism can do a lot of things to raise one’s standard of living but I doubt it can even BEGIN to touch this one. But the phrase “Stuck on Stupid” does come back to the fore but, yup, this is one of those that you just can’t unsee… … Read more
Apollo Astronauts Blamed for ‘Warming’ On the Moon
What was my first thought when I heard it suggested that man’s brief encounter with Earth’s Moon was the most likely explanation for the moon ‘warming?’ That’s the moon warming. Send Tom Steyer up there to start a chapter of NexGen Climate. Moonbat Alpha Division. And bring some people with you so you have someone to badger with … Read more
The Clintons and the NFL just don’t get it
By Jim Johnson
We won’t get fooled Again
We’ll be fighting in the streets
With our children at our feet
And the morals that they worship will be gone
And the men who spurred us on
Sit in judgement of all wrong
-The Who
Bill and Hillary have finally failed, their much ballyhooed 13 city Tour has been forsaken for lack of attendance. There are still a few loyal supporters, but their unable to afford the ridiculous cost of admission. The Clinton’s penchant for other peoples’ money has caught up with them.
Of Treatises of Government
At the outset, I defined this effort as a discussion of John Locke’s Second Treatise of Government. Of course, as the name suggests, there is also a First Treatise of Government which I had not as yet read. Therefore, I set to reading Locke’s First Treatise to find out what its relationship is to the Second. Was it a first draft supplanted by the Second or was the Second a continuation of the First.
Locke’s First Treatise of Government is in fact a rebuttal to a work by Sir Robert Fuller who sought to justify divine right kings. He found Fuller’s work to be generally absurd, and proceeded to spend great effort to expose those absurdities. Locke accuses Fuller of making vague and repetitive arguments, which in turn causes Locke’s rebuttal to be repetitive as well. Having satisfied with himself that he had debunked Fuller’s work, Locke set about defining what in fact does constitute legitimate government. Lock had in fact at least begun his Second Treatise when he was writing the last chapters of his First Treatise since he makes direct reference to the Sixth Chapter of his Second Treatise regarding paternal power.
Asset Forfeiture v. The 8th Amendment Reaches the US Supreme Court
It has been 5-months since we shared the news. The Supreme Court agreed to hear an Asset Forfeiture challenge. The case will address the question of whether the Excessive Fines Clause of the Eighth Amendment applies to states.
Blogline of the Day – EVERY life matters
On a post about Planned Parenthood New England’s 1 “100% Support for Womens Health” Honor Roll’ Actual Women’s healthcare is when everyone leaves the office alive ….. Funny how PPNE would never put it that way. (H/T: as seen on Facebook)
Keene State College Enrollment Decline Repackaged as ‘Right-Sizing’
Keene State College continues to have enrollment issues. But on a positive note, they’ve made that problem (sort of, kind of) go away by renaming it. The perennial decrease has been relabeled. The ten percent of staff the college had to buy out to avoid firing them outright can rest easy knowing they were ‘Right-sized’ out of their jobs.
Keene, NH Poised to Ban Sale or Possession of Nicotine By Anyone Under the Age of 21
The dreary drama of nicotine shaming has been on tap all summer in Keene, New Hampshire. But the show appears to have reached its third and final act. In late October the city published the draft ordinance banning the “Purchase, Use, and Possession of Tobacco Products.”
Blogline of the Day: C’est vrai!
“Democrats do not have foreign enemies; they have domestic enemies.” What about Russia, you ask – don’t the Dems view them as “foreign enemies”? No – only a useful idiot foil to use against their real enemies – domestically, that would be Trump and his supporters. (H/T: Instapundit)
Harvard & Yale Scientists. ‘We can Dim the Sun’ to Stop Global Warming
It’s only a theory but for a few billion a year, beginning a few years from now, “experts” think we might be able to dim the sun. Why? Global Warming. Cool the planet by deliberately dispersing sulfate particles in the atmosphere. Yeah, it’s dumb. But guaranteed to get more funding.
Democrat State Senators: Granite State Opportunity Plan – A State Budget That Works for Everyone
Yeah…..nope. Impossible and can’t be done for a few commonsense reasons I’ll list in a few minutes.
Unlike the Republicans (and I’ll talk about THAT in a few minutes, too), the Democrats have their plan and their bills all ready on the NH Legislative taxiway ready to take flight. Take a look at the list of the LSRs (Legislative Service Requests – ideas for bill to be put into “legislative-ese”. Note: your’s truly has asked my new House reps to sponsor one for me) – all kinds of spending, taxing….and behavior modification (yeah, you don’t behave according to them). The NH State Senators already have their overall plan, Granite State Opportunity Plan, in place (thanks to the helpless NH GOP, they now run the show) and plan on pursuing it hot and heavy.
It will be a disaster if they do and let me start picking it apart with the first part of it (other Groksters will be pulling other strings): A State Budget That Works for Everyone. A Pure Public Relations play – such a thing is impossible and they either know it and are lying about it or they really believe their crap don’t stick and don’t know that it does. Let us proceed with the fisking, shall we?
Sad that Santa has to say that
C’mon folks – we can do better! Let’s give back (hate that phrase, “give back”, by the way) to Santa his dream of a Govt that protects our Rights and our private property! We can do this – let’s make it happen in 2020 (Lord knows, the Democrats aren’t gonna do it). (H/T: Powerline)