“It doesn’t matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope.” -Manuel Puig, Argentinian Author

American Sniper star Bradley Cooper attended the Democratic National Convention and Some

in Mid-America are coming unhinged. Why are the fly-overs and conservatives so upset? WHY?  Why?…. when our true American Heroes…(such as “the real deal,” Chris Kyle), when personified by stage and screen actors, suddenly become those heroes? Why? for God sakes, are people losing their minds?

Bradley Cooper is an Actor. Actors, “Act.” Lets give him props for the splendid job he did…”acting”. Actors are professional phonies. Actors get paid to be something they are not! Matt Damon and all his Jason Bourne identities

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“Be moderate in prosperity, prudent in adversity.”  -Periander

I’ve been closely watching Congressman Guinta’s voting record over this last term. Guinta has clearly corrected himself on many of the votes that drew ire from many of his conservative constituents. He had the tribulation of his FEC issue and is now past it (I think…although, if it were CSP, it would have gone away quicker and would have been minimized by Ray Buckley).

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From the Washington Post, a headline that just drips Progressivism:

“We need to eat less meat. Should the government step in?”

Uh-huh – got it.  Ah….no.  Certainly it is beyond discussion that to say that the WashPo leans Left is like saying the Tower of Pisa isn’t straight. So this Laura Wellesley morphs herself into a Nanny State – “You don’t need that” (THE tell that screams “I’m a Progressive so you DON’T know what’s best for you”) nag as if she should be the boss of us all (emphasis mine, reformatted):

Meat consumption in the United States — and across much of the Western world — has reached a level that is unsustainable, both for our planet and for our health. We owe it to ourselves to make a change. Our politicians owe it to us to enable that change.

First off, anytime I hear “unsustainable”, I immediately think “Hope & Change” which translates to

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And if you have been listening, I’ve been decrying the wholesale demolition of our education system for years, particularly our own country’s history and the reasons behind it.  I’ve posted numerous videos of simple history questions asked in man-in-the-street interviews and pretty much, they are complete disasters, especially when young adults are the deer-in-headlights victims. At such a mass level, it can’t just be a random act here and there.  One teacher’s lament (emphasis mine):

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: “I started giving quizzes to my juniors and seniors. I gave them a ten-question American history test… just to see where they are. The vast majority of my students – I’m talking nine out of ten, in every single class, for seven consecutive years – they have no idea that slavery existed anywhere in the world before the United States. Moses, Pharaoh, they know none of it. They’re 100% convinced that slavery is a uniquely American invention… How do you give an adequate view of history and culture to kids when that’s what they think of their own country – that America invented slavery? That’s all they know.”

And that’s just the first step in how the US is THE evil in the world today.

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UPDATE: Hillary Clinton just gave her Democrat Prez nomination acceptance speech – in a white pant suit

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Sheesh – talk about race obsessed? Emphasis mine:

Philadelphia Inquirer columnist: Dress Melania Trump wore during RNC speech was racist

…According to Elizabeth Wellington, fashion writer at the Philadelphia Inquirer, the dress Melania wore was an example of the racism of both the Republican Party and Donald Trump (h/t Freedom Outpost):

So while Trump appeared flawless on the Cleveland stage Monday night, whether she intended it or not, her all-white ensemble displayed the kind of foreignness that is accepted by her husband’s political party. To many, that outfit could be another reminder that in the G.O.P. white is always right.

Four years ago, Republicans fretted about trying to diversify their base, in the wake of Barack Obama’s clear voter mandate. This time around, with Trump at the top of the ticket, it’s obvious that ship has sailed. On Monday night, Melania Trump was a not-so-subliminal billboard for what’s looking like the Trumpian view of an ideal America.  And if that’s the fashion statement she intended to make, it’s a very scary one.

Sheesh – talk about race obsessed? Just over the color of a dress?  Hey, sometimes, a dress is just a dress – like this one:

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This from Powerline shows the utterly absurdity of what seems to be passing for real academic study:

The A/Un/grammatical Child/hood/s and Writing

Nature/Culture Edusemiotic Entangling With Affective Outside Encounters and Sustainability Events to Come

Anne B. Reinertsen, Queen Maud University College,Trondheim, Norway

Abstract

This is about creating new ontologisations of sustainable child/hood/s and/as exceeding forms of contracts between generations through experimenting with bodily affects and sensing movements. Experimenting as writing that is and doing

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Local media is reporting claims that the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard is in imminent danger from sea level rise. The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), is asking local communities to prepare for the worst.

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A day before the one-year anniversary of the “Hands-Free Law” the NH Union Leader reported an increase in collisions and deaths on New Hampshire roads. Three days later the Nashua Telegraph posted a report titled “NH sees fewer road deaths since law took effect in 2015.”

The Hands-Free law prohibits the handling of portable electronic devices by the drivers of motor vehicles. The law is meant to reduce collisions and fatal accidents by prohibiting people from the devil of distraction. So has it made things better or has it made things worse?

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Yesterday a new political poll was released by the NH Journal and Inside Sources for the 2016 election. One of the questions surveyed specifically asked about Maggie Hassan and her husband, Tom Hassan’s, sex scandal cover up related to Phillip’s Exeter.

In case you were unaware, a woman came forward claiming she had an inappropriate relationship with a member of the faculty at Phillips Exeter when she was a teenager. It’s unclear why it’s called a “sex scandal” and not sex abuse since the man clearly held power over the young woman. That man’s name is Rick Schubart.

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From Ann Corcoran at Refugee Resettlement Watch. (Emphasis in original.)

According to figures provided by Seebart, the predominant countries of origin for the projected new arrivals for both Ascentria Community Services (formerly Lutheran Social Services) and the International Institute of New Hampshire (IINH) are Bhutan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Iraq. The proposed resettlement sites are Manchester, Concord and Nashua. [You will get Syrian Muslims in NH!—ed]

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The Hillary Victory Fund is getting unwanted exposure as a result of the DNC Email hack. And look! The New Hampshire Democrat Party was part of what appears to be some underhanded campaign finance foolishness.

The emails show the officials agreeing to withhold information from reporters about the Hillary Victory Fund’s allocation formula, working to align their stories about when — or if — the DNC had begun funding coordinated campaign committees with the states. They also show one official blaming Sanders for putting the DNC between “a real rock vs hard place” by forcing “a fight in the media with the party bosses over big money fundraising.”

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