The oil-rich nation of Venezuela embraced Chavez, a populist, socialist. In return, he gave them socialism. Socialism gave them the only thing it can, shortages, poverty, desperation, and eventually violence.

Coca-Cola has had to stop operations because it cannot get sugar even though neighboring Brazil is the single largest producer of sugar in the world. Doctors cannot care for the sick and injured even though the left has probably praised Venezuela’s bold and innovative advances in care.

But there is nothing bold or innovative about socialism.

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Thanks again to Spec Bowers for investing the energy to make this sort of information available to voters and activists. This time around he has exposed Dick Hinch, who has been a ‘Republican’ House Rep from Merrimack for as long as I can remember. He’s currently Jaspers stooge majority leader–that’s supposed to be “Republican majority leader”–but he’s voting like he’s planning to change parties and he wants to make a good impression.

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Check out a list of bands banned in the Soviet Union (it was too long to put on the home page, so you need to click “See the entire list” below to see it, the original site is here).  The list was distributed by Komsomol, “the Youth Wing of the Communist Party” (I wonder how many are on Bernie’s mailing list) in 1985.

What is it with the left and banning stuff?  My do they love it so. Speech codes, Trigger warnings,  Micro aggression, Jail “climate deniers”, ban conservatives from campus, ban films, ban musical acts, ban comedians, Repealing the First Amendment. Goodness.. and I can go on!

Ban ban ban. This is what the left does when they can’t win an argument and you just won’t shut up and obey!  The amusing part is that progressives and the left actually like to pretend that they are hip and edgy. But in reality, they’re the keepers and the retreaders of the old, tired, and failed like their 1930 economic model, for example.  They keep re-packaging the same failed tripe and then are astounded that it’s failed..again. (e.g., Obamanomics, for even a more egregious example, see Venezuela)

So be careful, if they’re challenged and they don’t like it, they’ll prefer to treat you like like Komsomol treated AC/DC, Kiss or worst of all Julio Iglesias .   “ They believed neo-fascism was being promoted by the music of AC/DC, KISS, and — the most neo-fascist of all — Julio Iglesias.”

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Shot:

Link in the image goes Salon.com (by Neal Gabler).

Chaser:

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Instead of sloughing it off on the Executive Branch to fill in their “legislation holes”.  And become “jealous” of both their power AND responsibility to the point of not allowing the Executive Branch and the Courts to fill the Legislative role in our separate branches of governance.  Tennessee – a model to follow?

During the long years of Democratic rule, the Government Operations committees in the Legislature were boring exercises in routine housekeeping legislation. They were often stacked with some of the party’s less than stellar members, because you have to put them somewhere, and they rubber-stamped whatever the leadership wanted.

Like our examples here in NH who collectively couldn’t collectively muster a mild brain fart due to lack of grey matter or political courage.

“Government Ops” under Republican rule has morphed into a very powerful operation, rivaling even the Rules Committee or Finance. The power to regulate state bureaucrats has always been there; it’s just not been exercised until now.

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I think the Department of labor needs to investigate the hiring and promotion practices at the Huffington Post.  There is an obvious ageist, sexist bias in force here. As for “diversity,” I do see BOTH blueberries and strawberries.

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