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Tonight, New Hampshire Democrats will hold their annual dinner at which they honor two womanizing philanderers, one of whom was accused by multiple women of sexual assault, including rape. The annual Kennedy-Clinton dinner will take place in Hollis and Democrats don’t seem to have any issues with revering these men, even during heightened allegations across the country about women who have been sexually assaulted by politicians and men of power in their beloved Hollywood.
By Jim Kofalt
There is a very funny scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail in which a crowd of villagers drags a hapless woman before the local knight (Sir Bedemir) proclaiming that she is a witch and demanding permission to burn her at the stake. When the woman proclaims her innocence, Bedemir points out that she is in fact “dressed like a witch.”
“They dressed me up like this,” she says, pointing at the angry mob. “And this isn’t my nose; it’s a false one.” “Well we did do the nose,” says one villager… “and the hat. But she is a witch.” Sir Bedemir asks them point blank: “Did you dress her up like this?” The crowd answers: “No, no… no … well… yes. Yes, yes, a bit, a bit.” It’s obvious after all that the mob has no interest in facts. They are determined to burn a witch.
Fast forward to 2017. Steve Bannon comes to Manchester, New Hampshire to give a speech at a fundraising dinner for the 603 Alliance – a local group that aims to restore Constitutional values in government. As soon as the event is announced, the village mob swings into action on social media.
https://youtu.be/KXL3X4UR5R0 (Bearing Arms) Journalist, as a species, aren’t gun people. This was clear the moment USA Today decided to illustrate the possible accessories for the AR-15 and included the chainsaw bayonet, for crying out loud, if at no other point before. However, an Ohio television station decided to go even further in showing us just how little they … Read more
SHOT: Venezuela finally admits it: The socialist country is bankrupt
Venezuela, given the odd detail of counterclaims, has finally admitted that it cannot pay back the debt it has. That is, the country is bankrupt. It’s worth leaving aside exactly what happens next in the halls of banking and asking how this all came to be? The answer being that they entirely wrecked the economy of the country with the world’s largest oil reserves. This happened not because the oil price fell, the problems started and were evident long before that.
They tried to create a non-market economy, and non-market economies simply do not work. For things just cost what they cost, something that we cannot sweep away in the pursuit of social or economic equality nor for any other reason……And in Venezuela, the Bolivarian socialists decided that prices were just made up numbers that could be assigned at near random. This does not, to put it mildly, work.
CHASER: Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
The Problem with Socialism is that you eventually run out of Other People’s Money”.
I seem to be using the Concord Monitor as a foil more and more as of late. Guesses are, they’re fairly easy to puncture, like yesterday. They ran a piece from Bloomberg that seemed to plead for the parent’s right to sue Remington. Remington is the parent company of Bushmaster Firearms which made the semi-automatic rifle that Adam Lanza used to kill school-children AFTER he murdered his mother to gain access to her guns. The parents sued Remington previously but PLCAA (Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act) denied their suit.
The parents’ money-grubbing ambulance-chasing lawyer, however, thinks he can spend their money to gain fame for himself with a “cutesie” line of attack. What caught my eye were these comments by the parents’ lawyer.
In the ultra-complex, interconnected, and breakneck-speed digital age in which we live, government must issue and enforce regulations to protect public health and safety. However, despite the best of intentions, government regulation can fail, can stifle innovation, can foreclose opportunity, and can harm the most vulnerable among us. It is for precisely these reasons that … Read more
The 17th Amendment was that other cruddy idea (the other being the establishment of a national income tax) by Progressive Socialists at the beginning of the last century of no longer having the various State Legislative branches elect Senators to send to Washington to represent the States’ concerns and issues in our Federal system. Their end goal is to end our Representative form of government. To replace it with the type of Government that our Founders knew to fail every time – a direct democracy – which would give them the platform to change America forever.
Last year Massachusetts passed a law taxing ride-sharing services. A portion of the fee, according to the law, is diverted to Taxi companies, to develop “new technologies and advanced service, safety and operational capabilities.” The law levies a 20-cent fee in all, with 5 cents for taxis, 10 cents going to cities and towns and the … Read more
A lady by the name of Jilletta Jarvis is running for Governor of NH and had a Letter to the Editor printed in the Concord Monitor (I do have to give credit to our local Pravda in doing so for a person completely antithetical to their political stances). In it I read no real surprises – I am quite familiar with most of the Libertarian philosophy and agree with a lot of it, mostly, and some not at all.
I’ve copied the full Letter after the jump if you are so inclined (go ahead, you know you want to!). What was surprising was not its content but with the vehemence those commenters I would place in the Statist / Democrat / Progressive / Socialist / Communitarian side of the aisle with which they ripped into her for absolutely no reason and no evidence with which to back up their vitriol. Consider them kneejerk reactions with spikes attached to their knees; how DARE anyone just want to be left alone and participate in “group” activities only when they wish to!
And this is why Progressivism / Socialism / Communism will never work. They believe they can (and should) “evolve” the rest of us to their standards to the point of ignoring the real nature ofhuman nature. They can’t accept they don’t know enough (without government coercion) how to do so and ignore it when others … Read more
Words are just hot air in this regard. That’s what they all have. We, on the other hand, have results: Just eyeballing it here but it seems we’ve reduced our CO2 emissions by more than the rest of them combined. (H/T: NewsBusters)
Given that Millennials are seemingly on a death match towards embracing Socialism, a word from a very, very wise Economics Nobel Prize winner is applicable: It isn’t about the economic system; it IS about human nature. (H/T:
Occupational licensing is ostensibly intended to protect the public from unsafe and low-quality service, but there is little evidence this intention is realized. Rather, there is a growing consensus among economists that these rules serve to protect incumbent providers from competition by creating barriers for new entrants that lead to higher prices for consumers. – … Read more
…and steal their time from them instead! I get a lot of scammers trying to get my info or trying to give me LOTS of money. Yeah, sure thing about that last bit – all they want is your bank account info. Well, somebody with a quirky sense of humor has a great way to get back at all those “Nigerian Princes”:
WASTE YOU CAN BELIEVE IN: Somebody wrote an email bot to waste scammers’ time.
Introducing Re:scam – an artificially intelligent email bot made to reply to scam emails. Re:scam wastes scammers time with a never-ending series of questions and anecdotes so that scammers have less time to pursue real people.
It’s about time that the DC Republican Congresstwits got a bit smarter! Reformated, emphasis mine:
Senate GOP Tax Plan to Include Repeal of Health Law Individual Mandate
GOP leaders have been cautious about bogging down the tax bill with controversial health-care provisions, but have been suggesting they could include the repeal because it would generate revenue that could be used to pay for tax cuts elsewhere. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) said it would be part of the tax bill. “The Senate Finance Committee has decided to include that,” Mr. McConnell said.
Sen. John Thune (R., S.D.), a member of the Senate Finance Committee, said Republicans intend to use the savings generated by repealing the individual mandate to lower taxes for middle-income households. “It’ll be distributed in the form of middle-income tax relief,” he said.
…“It’s been whipped,” Mr. Thune said, referring to the process of rounding up and counting votes.
While they’re at it, get rid of the employee mandate as well. Between those two, Obamacare will
Ellen Kolb shared this on Facebook because Facebook not only never forgets, it reminds you. It’s a post I wrote in November of 2010, about my blogging process from “idea to digital page.” The opening paragraph reveals the thrust of the piece.
One of my readers did me the honor of pointing out a grammatical error I had made in a post, not once, but four times. He politely explained the issue, while pointing out that he still appreciates my work. For my part, I knew the rule, but sometimes it’s not quite that simple.
What follows is a ride I enjoy every time I read it. An expression of a process burdened by the limitations I’d like to think I have since (mostly) overcome. And while it may not be the best thing I’ve ever written, anyone who has ever thought themselves a blogger or a writer could enjoy it. So here it is, in its entirety, because I need to post something today and haven’t anything else ready to share.
One of many running jokes or memes on the internet is ‘seems legit.’ You take a picture of something, like the image above on the left, and play to the apparent horror of accepting what it says without fear of consequence. What could go wrong? Which made me think of liberals, so I added the … Read more
Experts have been saying things for years that have turned out to be false but only recently have they demanded millions in taxpayer dollars (year after year) and an unimpeachable devotion to the scientism of the Climate Cult, despite them and their models being wrong about everything.
With that in mind, we remind you that as 2018 approaches that “experts” –including well-heeled perennial chicken-little James Hansen of NASA–predicted the end of the Arctic Ice Cap (again), and massive floods in Manhattan by 2018. And since we’re on the subject, the UN (which has lots of experts) told us the Maldives would be underwater by 2018 which is six weeks, give or take.
No, not US Senator Diane Feinstein (who famously said),
“If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States, for an outright ban, picking up [every gun]… … Mr. and Mrs. America, turn ‘em all in. I would have done that.”
This time, however, it is Progressive Boston Globe columnist David Scharfenberg who openly and plainly says what most Statist Democrats tiptoe up to but never jump into the deep end (full piece after the jump).
“There’s no good reason why federal tax payers all across the country should have to subsidize, have to pay a higher federal tax rate, to subsidize those municipalities that choose to have high taxes.” (H/T: Instapundit)