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If you’d like to read Mark Styen’s first “take” on the Zuckerberg testimony and trust me you do, it’s here, but this snippet captured my imagination (for the moment).
To be sure, I doubt [Mark Zuckerberg] thinks of himself as a rags-to-riches story. If you’re inventing Facebook in a dorm room, it helps if the dorm room is at Harvard, which most Americans will never get anywhere near. In that sense, Zuckerberg might be more emblematic of a calcifying class system and diminishing social mobility.
throw him out given that the hard Left Progressive Socialist have taken over the Democrat Party and have all but adopted the Communist agenda (e.g., civilian disarmament)? Yeah, in a NY second. Can you imagine ANY of the NH Democrats saying that citizens must have “arms” to be ready to defend our country? No, me … Read more
I’m on a lot of Democrat email lists. No, I generally don’t post stuff but this was just too rich. She just sent out an email about Florida Governor Rick Scott’s announcement that he’s going to run for US Senate against the incumbent, Democrat Bill Nelson (who, btw, would be happy to take your guns … Read more
Yes, our Steve Mac Donald. He’s OK (according to him)- two blocked arteries but stents were in place within an hour of getting to the hospital. Yep, he’s in ICU – emailing the rest of us (“phone still got battery”). Yeah, really – TMEW looked at me in shock when I told her. “In ICU … Read more
Occasionally, the Concord Monitor will print something against “type” and puts up an LtE / Op-Ed that is opposite their in-bred philosophy. This on environmentalists eschewing basic economics and science for ideological purposes (e.g., the Sierra Club’s “Beyond <insert fossil energy source here>” programs which stand on solely on one point – keep everything in the ground). A bit of a read but worth your time. And no, the author has nothing to do with environmentalism or energy fields – he just wants to run his company here but the environmentalists here are willing to hurt the economy for all simply to satisfy their few (reformated, emphasis mine):
The willingness of environmental activists and their elected and appointed allies to ignore the drumbeat of bad news about the security and costs of the region’s energy supplies is a stunning abdication of responsibility for sound public policies to protect both the environment and the economy. While responsible environmental policies are necessary, to assume that somehow New Hampshire and New England can quickly move from natural gas to 100 percent renewable energy, while avoiding any new transmission to deliver renewable energy, is naïve and dangerous.
The author misunderstands – for the environmentalists, this is a FEATURE, not a bug.
Oh, it’s YOUR ox that’s being gored? Well now…stuff your complaints into your see-thru backbacks. (H/T: Powerline)
Sorry, but I’m no candidate for the “Naked and Afraid” reality show where guys and gals go gallivanting in the wilds buck naked and are expected to survive like our Stone Age ancestors. Thank you, but no thank you; I’ll keep my clothes on. But it seems that Treehugger is PO’d, once again, that we Normals have the temerity to want to buy clothes. This time, they take on the brand “H&M” and berate it, sorta, for its failure because it can’t keep up with what is known as “fast fashion” (unable to keep up with competitors’ abilities to turn over their inventory and bring in fresher, newer styles. And then they berate the “Internet Onlys” because those folks have put themselves beyond these anti-consumerist hacks like Treehugger denizens (emphasis mine):
Meanwhile, brick-and-mortar stores are being shuttered everywhere, which Cline fears will result in a loss of accountability, not to mention the death of our main streets and suburbs (who knew we’d ever lament that?):
“One advantage for activists has been that H&M’s huge brick-and-mortar empire made their efforts to hold it accountable on labor and environmental issues highly visible. As fast fashion moves online, bad actors will become harder to pin down and bad behavior more hidden from view.“
And sometimes, one has to keep stating the obvious. One of the commenters on Treehuggers’ H&M’s fast fashion is too slow for today’s shoppers post just had to wade in on the consumerist rage that these people show. I’d explain it but Chris Howard makes it abundantly clear how he feels about “shopping just because I can” outlooks.
Masturshopping.
Shopping for self pleasure, not want or need.
(Yes, I was mindful of Rule #1 here – a bit behind the line, thankfully!)
As I have said before, these kinds of folks could suck the joy out of finding a bar of gold! Put on the sackcloth and roll around in ashes is seemingly the message. Thou Shalt Not Be Happy – the environmentalist version of the dour, cannot be happy” Puritans whose legalistic ways made my home church as I was growing up look like a Pentecostal rally. That is followed by Thou Shalt Not Buy Something Just Because You Can – You’re Killing GAIA. Yes folks, it is a religious outlook. I tried to puncture the despair a bit by piling on just a tad (am I wrong in using pixel and bits in my guilty little pleasure here?).
Yeah, sure thing. Once again, a lack of thought about a taxing system as a whole versus just wanting a myriad of taxes to replace NH’s property tax system. Sadly, Scott Metzger fails to understand the driver(s) for this and is simply stated by a famous phrase by a former NH Governor. Emphasis mine, reformatted:
Year after year I am saddened to see my town continually divided over the ability or inability of its citizens to afford an increase in our property taxes.
At every town meeting, a group of residents approaches the microphone to explain how they are living on a fixed income and will be forced to move from the town they’ve lived in all their lives if taxes increase. Another group approaches the mic and talks about how we cannot afford not to increase the school budget or town budget to pay for vital building expansions or services. And both groups are right. What’s wrong is the way we are asked to share the burden.
He’s wrong. If decisions are to be made
Ah, no. Instead, given the uplift by his Progressive handlers and supporters, this sniveling drama student has allowed all this drama go to his head and believes that absolute moral authority (and Constitutional awareness and the ability to dismiss adults at will and the total lack of understanding the concept of “earned wisdom” has fallen … Read more
To address London’s gun-less murder-surge Sadiq ‘Shakkah’ Kahn, the mayor of London, has implemented measures, including a police crackdown, on anyone out in public with a knife. His government is banning the home delivery of knives and acid.
“…first ones taxed and the last ones considered“ The Set Up: A local public radio station, reporting on the meeting, quoted a high school freshman and a high school senior, both members of March for Our Lives Greensboro, who told the city they opposed the gun show. “A gun show where background checks and identification are … Read more
So this Georgia lawmaker, State Rep. Erica Thomas, went on Tucker Carlson in defense right after the first March for Our Lesser Rights Lives rallies and rightfully took the kids to task for not understanding that complex problem do not have simple answers. He had a simple question: what would happen in Georgia if a law she supported went into effect? That law, supported by Thomas, mandated that Georgia State Police were to go and seize all “assault weapons” (obligatory reminder: there is no such thing as its a made up Progressive political term) and “high” capacity magazines.
She proves, once again, that you cannot trust what politicians say but what they do. She spends the entire time avoiding Carlson’s rather simple and straightforward question: what would happen and aren’t people going to get killed over this. She would not admit to the “seize” part means mandatory confiscation and would not admit that anything wrong would happen. She kept sidestepping and could not be honest about what she wanted to do. This Progressive was all set in declaring, without any due process, that law abiding citizens were to be declared criminals with the signing of a piece of paper just like Deerfield, Illinois (here and here) has done with Boulder, Colorado now looking to do the same.
I’m going to apply this rule to Steve Marchand, too; he’s
Nicole Fortune joins me to discuss a proposed amendment to the constitution (CACR22) known as Marsy’s law. A change sold as victims rights that are actually bad for victims, bad for privacy, bad for the accused, but good for government. Listen to find out why.
Nancy Pelosi announced that one of the first things Democrats will do when they regain control is to repeal and replace recent Republican Tax reforms. And she promises it will be bipartisan and done in daylight, (unlike healthcare reform, I guess). So, what might that look like?
If previous proposals are any indication, Pelosi plans on instituting a major tax hike, particularly focused on punishing those same generous corporations. In a plan published last month, Congressional Democrats proposed a $1 trillion dollar tax hike, pushing the corporate tax rate from its current 21% to 25%, undoing tax breaks for high earners, and re-instituting a top tax bracket that could tax some Americans at a rate of nearly 40%.
Shawne K. Wickham, reporting in today’s Manchester Union Leader, serves up and article titled, “Police: Human trafficking on the rise in New Hampshire.”
Bedford Police Department is hosting “Hiding in Plain Sight,” a summit on social media and human trafficking, tonight at Manchester Christian Church, 56 Old Bedford Road, Bedford. Panelists will include law enforcement experts, medical professionals, victim advocates and a trafficking survivor.
Maybe this article or the advertised forum is not the place for this but at some point, someone, including reporters, need to accept that porous borders and failed immigration policy is the catalyst for the human trafficking tragedy.
You’ve seen movies where a couple of Goodfellas in suits show up at a business and the proprietor, looking uncomfortable, hands them a bag of cash. New Hampshire has this too. Some nicely dressed guys (and girls) are using the state legislature to force a business to extract protection money from you. (Again.)
This time around it’s your electric rates (Again?). The Senate passed changes that would turn electricity providers into enforcers for a protection racket that takes money from you to line other people’s pockets.
Donna Green has an excellent overview of how Timberlane School District Superintendent Earl Metzler has an ED problem. That’s Education-budget Disorder. It seems he can’t keep up with his own hyperbolic fiscal histrionics. Declarations of doom that never come to pass.
Poor Superintendent Metzler. First, he threatens to close a school. Fails at that but not before he displaces hundreds of Sandown students and forces staff into crowded conditions. Then he threatens 81.5 staff. Fails at that. Now he’s down to a hollow threat of 50 staff cuts. You can be sure he’ll fail at that, too. It’s too bad because the district does need to cut excess staff. Unfortunately, he isn’t the man for the job.
Martin O’Malley was in New Hampshire last week, and he thinks gun control is a winning issue for Democrats even if it hasn’t worked in Maryland, yet.
“It’s hard to measure prevention,” O’Malley said, before laying the blame for increased homicide rates at the feet of the two Baltimore mayors, Stephanie C. Rawlings-Blake and Catherine Pugh, who were elected after he left the mayor’s office to become governor.
What’s O’Malleys winning formula? Is it the one that has turned Baltimore into the murder capital of the nation?
Yes, there is a warming trend, but that’s hard to dispute seeing as we’ve been in an interglacial for a while now. But blaming it on fossil fuels still doesn’t fly given that most of the total change in temperature happened before your daddy bought his first SUV.