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The tiny backyard houses for the homeless plan that failed in Oregon is popping up in Los Angeles, California!
The “not in my backyard” organized zoning NAZI’s fought long and hard, for decades, to control other people’s property and rights. Don’t think they are going to relinquish that kind of control easily.
The idea of zoning is to protect property values – most often for the class of people who buy and sell their residential property for profit.
Hillary Clinton’s “Temper Tantrum Team” showed up in farce at the confirmation hearing today for soon to be Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo.
A professional protester, Ann Wright, got herself arrested – right on queue:
Ms. Wright is a protégé of past professional protester, Cindy Sheehan. Where has Cindy gone?? Is she still outside the Crawford Ranch?
This is interesting. For the second time in a few years, a federal court has ruled that illegal immigrants can sue American employers that refuse to hire them because they require workers to be U.S. citizens or legal residents (green card holders). The latest blow to the rule of law was delivered by an Obama-appointed … Read more
Part 1 is here. In Part 2 over at Treehugger, Chris Howard decided to deride shopping altogether:
Masturshopping.
Shopping for self pleasure, not want or need.
Well, he took the bait and answer my question of “And how is “shopping for pleasure” different than “want”? I see no difference at all”. I still see no real difference between want and “self pleasure” – you’re still buying a product and in this case, fashion items. Now, me no know fashion from shinola – I generally don’t care unless it is for professional reasons in meeting with clients so I don’t have a dog in the actual fight of why H&M is tubing itself. I do have problems with activists going after companies simply to give them hard times based on difference on ideologies. But he did answer back; and I’m still puzzled over a distinction without a difference:
Monday, April 9th between 4:30 pm and 5:00 pm ET I experienced a series of unpleasant symptoms that resolved themselves into extremely unpleasant symptoms and a heart attack.
While walking Cosmo, I felt what at first seemed to be more like winter or cold weather asthma. That feeling you get in your chest from inhaling too much cold air through your mouth. After resting a moment, the symptoms subsided. I finished the walk, though a bit out of breath.
At home things quickly accelerated.
One of the issues with slavery from the founding of the nation (leading up to and past the civil war) is that there was a class of persons who did not believe or could not be convinced that their slaves were human beings. In their eyes, they were not people, so the idea of granting them rights made no sense.
Hitler took a similar stand with the Jews. They were inferior. As such they became scapegoats and a “question” resolved by genocide.
Now consider how Democrats justify abortion.
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
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%.