Jerry died today.  I grew up watching all of his zany movies of which almost all were funny but some, even as a child, had moving and serious parts to them as well.  His movies with crooner Dean Martin were just the best.  But that’s not what I remember best about Jerry.  The MDS (“Multiple Dystrophy Society”) Telethon was ALWAYS watched when I was growing up – it was all about Jerry’s Kids.  Sure, lots of money was raised (and I remember waiting for each and every update to be introduced by long term MDS sidekick, Ed McMahon) especially during the last hour; will they make it, will they make it?  Most years, yes, but not all years.

I also remember the family across the street

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“You really won’t like the New Rules”*

We got a comment from Mary Anderson on Steve’s post “Is it Time to Change Everything Named after Democrat Sen. Robert Byrd?”

Why not tell the whole story of Robert Byrd or doesn’t it fit in with the premise of your story? Byrd belonged briefly to the Klan before entering public service. He spent a lifetime apologising for his involvement and atoning for it. He fought for civil rights. When he died the NAACP issued a tribute praising him.

Oh, but it does.  You see, for so long the Left has maintained, through its speech and actions, that once is enough.  If you violate OUR rules, even once, no matter your intent, no matter your history, no matter what you did or say, if WE say you are to be shamed, shunned, or destroyed, well, so be it.  Sorry Mary, that’s what I’ve watched for the last dozen years.  We on the Right didn’t make them up, didn’t offer suggestions to modify them, and we certainly didn’t assent to them.  But they’ve been applied to us (and for the vast majority of times) too often to count.

And now we are using YOUR rules (just like

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From Robert Conquests Three Laws of Politics (sometimes also called O’Sullivan’s Law):

2) Any organization not explicitly right-wing sooner or later becomes left-wing.

I, along with a lot of other people, have been watching Fox New moving from being that network that came into being by serving the audience that the Big Three (ABC, CBS, NBC) and the existing cable news networks disdained – conservatives – to being what I’d now call “Fox News Lite”.  It’s hard edge has softened and it seems that it’s rightward stances are moving, faster and faster, to the middle and sometimes, left of center.  Lately, I’ve been wondering how much longer it would keep its value add for conservative – a network that doesn’t necessarily pander to us but certainly didn’t insult us outright.  It hasn’t gotten to the latter yet but as it continues its slide from the Right, is it just a matter of time?  This snippet is from a post over at American Thinker that brings up how Fox is sinking in the ratings – it seems that a good chunk of audience is saying BUH-BYE:

Fox News did come in second to MSNBC and CNN depending on the audience metric, so the ratings picture could have been worse – except when you consider that one year ago, and for the fifteen years before that, Fox News almost always won the ratings in both total viewers and the preferred demographic by wide margins, sometimes with higher numbers than both CNN and MSNBC combined.

So it is clear that the lineup it has right now ain’t doing the job.

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Those proponents of bringing more railroad projects are lazy and greedy.  This is because they refuse to go the capitalist route and do it themselves privately.  Heck, that’s a TON of work they’ have to do and a VERY expensive proposition to boot.  They’re hypocrites at best – believing that this brand new fangled 19th century technology, that can’t pay for itself ANYWHERE without large taxpayer subsidies, should be foisted upon us that would never bother to ride it.  That’s ok, it’s other peoples’ money they are demanding to take to pay for their foolish obsession.

One of their reasons is that rail is so much better than flying – just look at the comfy seats that are shown when Amtrack does its ads.  Sure looks like the lap of luxury, right? Easy-peezy, just buy your ticket and hop on board, right?  Er, maybe in the near future, not so much.  Let’s just bring the same Kabuki security theater of the TSA to this “no hassle” idea of Donchess:

Coming to a public transit station near you . . . Metro Tests Firearm, Explosive-Detecting Body Scanners

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DACA – the Obama self-declared law (“Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals”) was an Executive Order that basically violated the existing immigration Law duly passed by Congress.  It made a “safe space” from keeping kids, these DREAMERs, that were brought here illegally by their illegal immigrant parents free from being deported.  As I have said before, while the Democrats and MSM concentrated on the kids (Oh, how can you hold them at fault!), they used this to skip over the responsibility of their parents from putting them into a situation where they WOULD be deported.  And we are still seeing the MSM going after the Republicans for enforcing the Law that a Democrat broke.  However, even as Trump has not killed DACA off yet, it’s time may well be coming due:

On June 29, Texas and nine other states informed the Justice Department that it had until September 5 to make DACA a lawor they would sue to have DACA declared illegal. The suit would be heard by the same judge who issued the previous injunction. Today, the judge showed that the threat is real:

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Back before we knew the outcome of the 2016 elections the Democrats were saying Chris Sununu was out-of-touch with mainstream voters.

Speaking at the Legislative Office Building, Buckley, Senator David Pierce (D-Lebanon) and Representative Katherine Rogers (D-Concord) denounced the Trump/Sununu’s extreme ideology, saying it was way out-of-touch with mainstream voters and that it would surely lead Republicans up and down the ticket to disaster in November.

Main Stream voters in New Hampshire, continue to disagree.

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The left is off the rails about White Supremacy which you should understand is a bit hypocritical. Not just because its roots in America spring from the Democrat Party. The problem is that while they are claiming outrage about white supremacy, Supremacy over every American is the goal of all Democrat outrage.

They seek supremacy over everyone and everything without regard to sex, race, or religion. The goal is to rule all, equally trapped (most likely at or near) poverty, dependent almost entirely on the whim and will of government, lorded over by a political class of their making.

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MEET THE ANTIFA: Jake Tapper makes note of ‘disgusting,’ unprovoked attacks on journalists. Weird how this kind of thing never happened at Tea Party rallies.

(emphasis mine, above) While we were boisterous, flag waving, and upset with how the country was going, we were pretty much middle class with middle class politeness and the idea that when you left the public areas where the rallies were held, you left them cleaner than when you arrived.  We had a sense of “normalism” and normal behavior even after the Left, the media, and the GOPe, I think successfully, twisted the truth of it to influence the non-political population as they had the money to do it as we didn’t.  For the former as we were an existential threat to their sense that the State should be in control and not We the People with our concentration on Constitutional boundaries and the latter as a threat to the power they believe was their’s.  The media?  Two items driving them: keeping fights going to gain eyeballs and “Democrats with bylines”.

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(Image H/T: UL)  Previously posted:

Cicero: You may not be interested in politics but be assured, politics is interested in you.

Muslim Jihadist translation:  You may not be interested in our Jihad but be assured, we don’t care what you think.

Antifa corollary: ALL you Republicans are Nazis (and thus far game for us).

Steve beat me to the punch on posting about the graffeti’d NH GOP HQ but he had a different picture.  So mine tells a different picture and so does NH GOP Chair Jeanie Forrester’s response:

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Something about this whole thing with toppling statues is bothering me. Actually, many things.

First, let it be known that I hold no quarter for any Confederate soldier, militia member, officer or general. They took the wrong side, fought for something dishonorable, and were deeply misguided. And they lost. That’s it. With that said, I do believe that there are some good people who disagree with me on this. And that’s fine.

But I got to say, bending to the will of an angry mob in appeasement, even if it is against white nationalism or racism or whatever, is just, well, stupid and counter productive, but before we get to that, should we remove Confederate statues from public spaces?

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Byrd was a Klansman, Democrat Senator, and plunderer of taxpayers. As a modern symbol of the Democrat Party and its roots as founders and keepers of the Ku Klux Klan it seems appropriate to suggest that all these places be renamed immediately or else ‘Racism!’

• Robert C. Byrd Academic and Technology Center, Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia[6][9][10]
• Robert C. Byrd Academic and Technology Center, Marshall University Graduate College in South Charleston, West Virginia[9][10]
• Robert C. Byrd Auditorium, National Conservation Training Center in Shepherdstown, West Virginia[9][10][11]
• Robert C. Byrd Biotechnology Science Center, Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia[6][9][10][12][13]
• Robert C. Byrd Cancer Research Laboratory, West Virginia University in Morgantown, West Virginia[6][9][10]
• Robert C. Byrd Center for Legislative Studies, Shepherd University in Shepherdstown, West Virginia[9][10][14]

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Katherine Rogers has been charged with assault and needs to step down immediately from her position as the State Representative for Concord’s Wards 8, 9 and 10. She is a former Concord city councilor and Merrimack County Attorney and is still serving on the House Finance Committee. This is behavior unacceptable for a State Representative let alone one who is a lawyer.

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