Well, we certainly know that the NH Association of Chiefs of Police (don’t they look so grand?) are on the side of civilian disarmament.  The dirty little secret is that even with all of the training that the Left keeps jamming down our throats, sometimes they aren’t that much better than civilians.  Or can be much worse:

San Bernardino Terrorist Attack: Cops Had 10 Percent Hit Rate

San Bernardino County employee Syed Rizwan Farook was hit by at least 27 gunshots while his wife was struck by at least 15 — two to the top of the head — as officers fired about 440 rounds from rifles, shotguns and handguns — which the report found were proper uses of deadly force in self-defense and the defense of others.

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Much has been made of a Democrat victory in a recent special election in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire. A town that voted, not just for Trump but for just about every Republican on the ticket last November. A legislative State House seat flipped for the first time in forever. Is it a sign that the Democrats are starting their journey out of the wilderness, even though they have yet to win a single special congressional election?

Is it a sign that the Democrats are starting their journey out of the wilderness?

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It’s bad enough that politicians DO believe themselves to be above the law when they “carve out” exceptions for themselves when they lay the law down on the rest of us.  That “Do Not Call” list?  Isn’t it REALLY annoying to get them during supper? Yeah, politicians exempted themselves from it. And here in NH, the political calls are incessant during the political years, especially during the First in the Nation Primary season (which lasts almost 4 years nowadays….sigh). The robocalls are just the worst!

And now the GOP has decided to go there – allowing calls to go right to voicemail and you’ll never know that the call you though was from your family is from a GOP candidate or agency. This goes WELL beyond obnoxious: RNC Lobbying FCC for a New Way to Annoy Us With ‘Ringless’ Voicemail Ads (emphasis mine):

Now there’s possibly a new way to annoy us being reviewed by the FCC. The Republican National Committee is pushing the agency to adopt a new technology that would allow telemarketers to leave prerecorded messages on our voicemail without the phone ever ringing, Recode reports. We would simply get a notification that a voicemail was received, mixed in, of course, with more important voicemails.

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The States were to be labs of Democracy where others could learn from their mistakes.  Vermont, Colorado, Kentucky, Hawaii, Tennessee; all tried variations of the vaunted end-game of Progressives – universal healthcare – for if you control that, you control people.  Sorry, am not buying the argument that all they want to do is “help” people – it is all about taking more Power into themselves.  After all, the more “stuff” they have Government do, the less ability, the less Freedom we all have to make decision for ourselves on our own.  And isn’t that the purpose of being the “Land of the Free”.  And no, contrary to what Progressives believe, being relieved of making our own decisions is not “freedom” – it is infantilization.

But California Progressives, even after learning that putting in CalCare would be TWICE the normal CA State budget in and of itself.  I guarantee you that the cost will higher and the taxes needed to support it higher still will not learn from the mistakes and failures of the “labs” coming before them – like Colorado (emphasis mine):

An analysis from the Colorado Health Institute showed that their state’s ColoradoCare proposal would start off with a deficit of over $200 million in its very first year of full operation, even with a three-year headstart on new taxes to launch the system. By the end of the tenth year, the cumulative red ink would have exceeded $7 billion — which would be more than twice the state’s annual GDP.

The solutions for this fiscal meltdown in a single-payer system, CHI noted,

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That would be those NH taxpayer funded guys and that girl (Exec. Dir. of that outside-the-State funded Granite State Progress).  EACH of said that if we passed SB12, Constitutional Carry and that if the Chiefs no longer had the Power to give or deny permission, all hell would break loose.  Stand Your Ground, Castle Doctrine, Concealed Carry – all a recipe for a killing field as all these lawfully abiding citizens would become “gun zombies” out for anyone’s blood. Hmm, I guess these predictions are about as good as those from the Climate Change Apocaliptors who keep making pronouncements of Doom that always seem to be yet another 5-10 years out.

Reality?

Concealed Carry Up 215%, Murder Rate Down 14%

Concealed carry permits rose 215 percent between 2007 and 2015, and the murder rate dropped 14 percent during that same time period. In other words, more guns being carried for self-defense correlated with fewer murders.

Can there be other factors in play here?  Of course, but these can’t be dismissed, as Zandra Rice-Hawkins and the NH Assoc. of Chiefs of Police want you to believe.

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The Candia School Board is meeting on Thursday, June 1st and one of the items up for consideration is a change to the current ‘transgender policy.’ A policy that was hastily implemented when the Obama Administration was doing some social-justice saber-rattling. Threatening funding for schools if the yokel locals didn’t buy in.

The board looks like it could be prepared to roll that decision back, but a national group funded by millionaires and billionaires, operating in New Hampshire under cover of local activism, is bringing pressure to bear to stop any reversal.

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Remember John Boehner? John Boehner. That other Congressional House Speaker with the Republican majority who did next to nothing with it. If he had green hair and white eyebrows he could be the Speaker for the Oompah Loompas. That guy.

He just said this about Mr. Trump,

“Everything else he’s done in office has been a complete disaster. He’s still learning how to be president.”

Trump’s not a politician, so I get why he thinks that and I think his best quality is he’s not Hillary but aside from handling ISIS and international affairs, which the Orange Boehner likes, he can’t find anything he’s done domestically with which he approves?

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If you are on your local Budget Committee or help select your budgets, support our Constitutions in their entirety, and are tired of our paid government employees testifying against our Rights and our best interests, read this post.  Over at The Truth About Guns, there’s a post about some of the most hardened, ardently anti-gun/civilian disarmament  groups in the country.  No, none of them are the Brady Campaign, the Coalition Against Gun Violence, Bloomberg’s Astro-turf Everytown for Gun Safety and Moms Demand Action, Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, Gabby Gifford’s Americans For Responsible Solutions and AARP (snicker).  No, it’s these (reformatted, emphasis mine):

What to Do About Anti-Gun Police Groups? Defund Them!

Broadly speaking, rank and file police in America support gun rights. After all, beat cops know a good guy with a gun might someday save their life [like here -Skip], too. On the other hand, police administrators largely toe the line of their political bosses. Big Democrat-run cities or university towns too often have top cops dedicated to furthering the cause of gun control. They have to in order to keep their paychecks coming. In some cases, such as Dallas County Sheriff Lupe Valdez (pictured above), about the only thing people can do is vote them out of office. Recently, to prove her anti-2A bona fides, Valdez lent her name to Gabby Giffords’ Americans for Responsible Solutions. Seems Ms. Valdez opposes national reciprocity.

So this part of the post talks about voting them out of office, as many Sheriffs in the nation are elected officials.  They need to be targeted just like any other politicians (other than the badge and gun).  But the post continues to what we’ve seen here in NH during the SB 12 (aka “Constitutional Carry Bill”) process – that the top cops and their itty-bitty NH Ass. of Chiefs of Police testified, often in their uniforms and while being paid by taxpayer monies, against our Constitutional Right to keep and bear arms (and there are no qualifications on that Right in the originals).

So the post takes that into account:

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Back on May 17th, the New Hampshire Senate Ways and Means Committee produced revenue estimates $14 million below what the House handed to them.

By May 21st, they had changed their mind.

In an unusual move, the Senate Ways and Means Committee opted to revisit the revenue estimates for the General and Education Trust Funds they had decided and voted upon individually on May 17. The Committee concurred with the House Ways and Means Committee revenue projections for the Fish and Game Fund, and adopted the projections from the Governor’s proposed budget for the Highway Fund.

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Clock-Boy Ahmed Mohammed is in the news again. His family sued his school district, the school principal, and city officials for discrimination over his “treatment” after he brought a hoax bomb (sorry, a clock) to school. A Federal judge in Northern Texas has thrown out the case.

On Thursday, Judge Sam Lindsay of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas granted the defendants’ motion to dismiss the lawsuit, saying the plaintiffs had failed to prove officials discriminated against Mohamed.

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This piece in the Concord Monitor had me scratching my head after I’ve been writing, for YEARS, about how former charities dependent on the kindness of the general public for funding and now have all become captured entities  of government at all levels because they almost can’t exist without sucking at the teat of the Public Treasury.  I’ve watched it all all levels – local, county, State, and Federal – with the “hands out” and lobbying for more.  And more.  And more.

So here comes Ms. Reardon holding up non-profits (I guess that’s what we call those former charities nowadays) as models of non-partisanship.  Go and read the whole piece but watch out for the magic hand (watch THIS way as I do THAT with the other hand) and the blatant redefinition of the common language – like this:

However, issue-oriented advocacy is very different from partisan electoral politics.

Er, no it ISN’T.  Prime example?  AARP openly advocating for yet another Leftist / Socialist program to be run by the Government: Obamacare.  Talk about

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This, I did not know (all I knew was that Trump had travelled from Saudi Arabia to Israel but not the route, emphasis mine).  The Blogline of the Day is at the end:

Nobody Flies From Saudi Arabia to Israel. Nobody. Trump Just Did.

The two nations have no diplomatic relations. Travelers can’t fly from one country to the other. Planes can’t even fly through the other’s airspace.

In order to travel from one nation to the other requires travelers to take what many call a “cleansing stop.” Often, flyers go to Amman, Jordan, or Cairo, Egypt, before heading on. And travelers who stop in Israel before heading to Saudi Arabia often ask Israeli officials not to stamp their passports (Saudis authorities get visibly unhappy when they see the stamp). Some frequent fliers even have an extra passport so they can keep one clear of the Israeli stamp.

That’s what makes President Trump’s itinerary so interesting. He made Saudi Arabia his first stop, which no doubt greatly pleased the Saudi royal family. Then he flew from Riyadh directly to Tel Aviv, which no doubt made them furious.

In fact, the flight may well have been the first in history from Saudi Arabia to Israel, the Associated Press reported.

And the kicker?

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Ah yes – a false “right” for all to demand that others pay for their “faux” healthcare right.  Sorry, this isn’t a “right” – it is an ideological milestone for Socialists / Big Government / Collectivists.  You know – Democrats.  Turns out, however, that this “right” that the Dems, who have  super-majorities in California will have a price in trying to cover everyone INCLUDING illegal aliens.  Like Tennessee, Kentucky, Hawaii tried before them (and we blogged about those efforts years ago) and Vermont and Colorado just rejected because of cost; it will be a STAGGERING COST:

SHOT:  Current California budget: $180 Billion

CHASER: CaliforniaCare budget: $400 Billion

And they can’t even fund their high speed choo-choo train at $40 Billion and want the Feds to pay for it? And that was at its inception; current pricing is now 50% higher just a few years down the line.

No, that’s not just raising another $200B from taxpayers that are already the most fleeced in the nation – that’s just for the single payer healthcare system.  All other State activities and services extra. Colorado

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Courtesy of Weekend Pundit, and also linked here, is the story of Keri Smith, who recently abandoned the SJW movement and her “ideological prison.” Why?

1. Social justice advocates show a religious-like intolerance for those with whom they disagree, which sometimes manifests itself in unbridled bouts of emotion:

“I see increasing numbers of so-called liberals cheering censorship and defending violence as a response to speech. I see seemingly reasonable people wishing death on others and laughing at escalating suicide and addiction rates of the white working class. I see liberal think pieces written in opposition to expressing empathy or civility in interactions with those with whom we disagree. I see 63 million Trump voters written off as “nazis” who are okay to target with physical violence. I see concepts like equality and justice being used as a mask for resentful, murderous rage.”

2. The social justice ideology dehumanizes political opponents:

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While surfing content for the New Media Militia, I came across an article at SeacostOnline about a meeting for a group called Indivisible. Their mission is to oppose Donald Trump’s agenda and to agitate and organize for the purpose. My first thought was, Democrats, can’t do anything without a union or some other progressive billionaire funding them so who is writing the checks?

People with ties to George Soros.

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