“I’m scratching my head here in confusion because I am having an “if A then B” moment here”

…believes in an originalist / literal interpretation of the NH Constitution?  In a UL Op-Ed, Woodburn (D) is making the case that we need to encourage more votes (like anyone has a problem with that??) (reformatted, emphasis mine:

Granite State Debates — Jeff Woodburn: Encouraging voter participation

New Hampshire is a beacon of democracy. No one does it better. Our traditional town meetings predate our constitution and our first-in-the-nation presidential primary has put ordinary people, not big-shot politicians, in charge for a century. Our democracy’s greatness lies in the hearts and the hands of our people, not some distant bureaucracy. We rely on citizens on the local level to administer our elections, and I learned this awesome responsibility and grassroots philosophy firsthand as a locally elected checklist supervisor at the ripe age of 18. We live up to the ideal of full participation in our democracy.

OK, that’s good so far.  However, it goes downhill from there – fast.  First off, he complete twists the idea of a what a Right is:

The constitutional right to vote is our most fundamental right, and all other rights derive from it. That’s why attempts to change residency standards are so disturbing — its true aim is to discourage, depress, and even disenfranchise eligible citizens rather than ensuring all who want to participate can vote.

Actually, it isn’t the “most fundamental right” – far from it;

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[Art.] 28. [Taxes, by Whom Levied.] No subsidy, charge, tax, impost, or duty, shall be established, fixed, laid, or levied, under any pretext whatsoever, without the consent of the people, or their representatives in the legislature, or authority derived from that body.

And it looks like those in the Legislature have decided that the State Board of Education has violated the Constitution’s mandate too often (else why would it exist?).  Reformatted, emphasis mine:

A bill intended to limit unfunded mandates in education and give school districts greater flexibility has special education advocates worried that major protections for students could be imperiled. As written, House Bill 620 would prohibit the State Board of Education from proposing any rule “that exceeds the minimum requirements of state or federal law.” The bill would affect all education rulemaking, but both the State Board and advocates said the biggest impacts would be in special education.

Hey, it’s all about The Rule of Law – or do these “advocates” don’t care about that?  After all, the Shade of Ian Underwood is ever present (with a pointed stick – heh!).  Not only that, but WHO should be making the Law?  Should it be the Executive Branch’s agencies?  Or should it be, well, Legislators?  Again, we look to the NH Constitution:

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“Bourgeois feminism and the movement of proletarian women,” Zetkin wrote, “are two fundamentally different social movements.”

International women’s day is a Marxist staple that’s been around since 1909. (Or, if you prefer 1911.) But it was always a socialist movement.

Yesterday, according to a staff report in the Manchester Union Leader, ‘women’ across New Hampshire, showed their solidarity with the century old Marxist tradition by wearing red and protesting.

Correct me if I’m wrong but none of the women interviewed by the Union Leader who protested, were employed.

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Tomorrow, the New Hampshire House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on House Bill 478 (HB 478), AN ACT prohibiting discrimination based on gender identity, also coined the ‘TransBillNH’ online. Yesterday Political Buzz posted an article about current discrimination laws already providing protections for transgenders to sue based on discrimination at the federal level. There are many side effects and issues with the legislation but it was also discovered yesterday that everyone, including transgenders, are already covered under the same discrimination laws as all Granite Staters.

You may not be aware but New Hampshire has a Human Rights Commission. This commission is responsible for “eliminating discrimination in employment, public accommodations and the sale or rental of housing or commercial property, because of age, sex, sexual orientation, race, creed, color, marital status, familial status, physical or mental disability or national origin.”  The commission was set up under RSA 354-A and has been working to help any Granite Stater who has been discriminated against, including transgenders.

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OK, this has been hanging around in my “to do” list for a long time getting a bit moldy but it, once again, shows the proclivity of Treehugger to simply accept the mantra that Govt knows best – we should comply.  Add a touch of veganism (hey, it’s Treehugger) and you get this:

…If the U.S. government doesn’t know how to instruct its citizens in how to eat properly, then it’s reassuring to know that other countries have already figured it out. Sweden and Brazil have both published excellent (and understandable) dietary guidelines in recent years. Use those instead and see how you feel in five years, when the new guidelines are due for review. Maybe by then the U.S. guidelines will have gotten with the times.

I left this as a comment:

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If you REALLY wanted Government to get out from between you, your doctor, and your insurance plan, you’re gonna hate this. Once again, the Republicans are failing to get the job done; YOU LIE!

Alternative title: ‘What Good Is a Majority if You Aren’t Going to Use It?’

This is NOT either a Repeal or a Replacement – this is putting new sheet metal on a rusting 32 Ford – without fixing the powertrain or suspension.  End result is that it looks a bit prettier but doesn’t run much better.

Last night as I was going over the “Repeal and Replace” of Obamacare, I said that ” I am going to have to reference back to the original bill and see what the actual ramifications are” in terms of Medicaid Expansion by reading the original Obamacare bill.  Well, I guess I don’t have to as the Right side of the blogosphere is just chuck-a-block full of commentary and pointing what the Republicans (snark) did during the last 7 years while campaigning and screaming “WE’LL REPEAL IT” once we had a majority in the House, and then a majority in the Senate…..and then they needed the Oval Office.

And our reward for keeping the faith, putting their butts in those seats is THIS LOAD OF CRAPOLA??  They had SEVEN years to get it right – and now this is the equivalent of the dog catching the car bumper and these Smart Republicans of DC are going “crap, we gotta give them something, right?”  And the calls are ALREADY going out “YOU MUST SUPPORT THIS BILL“.   Yeah, well screw you because you all just screwed the rest of us.  Good decision, me leaving the Party – I don’t want to be associated with this stench no way and no how.

If had been done in the private sector, we’d be able to convict them all of a huge “bait and switch”.  This isn’t the Free Market solution we were promised.  This isn’t the killing of the massive amount of regulations.

This is a 

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Wikileaks has released the first dump on a massive haul related to CIA Spying technology, primarily during the Obama years (code named Vault7). Yes, if you have a smartphone, smart television, laptop, PC, etc., they developed or acquired methods to spy on you through your devices without your knowledge.

But the best part, so far, is this. The CIA could engage in hacks and make them look like they came from Russia.

UMBRAGE

The CIA’s Remote Devices Branch‘s UMBRAGE group collects and maintains a substantial libraryof attack techniques ‘stolen’ from malware produced in other states including the Russian Federation.

With UMBRAGE and related projects the CIA cannot only increase its total number of attack types but also misdirect attribution by leaving behind the “fingerprints” of the groups that the attack techniques were stolen from.

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