Republican State Senator Jeanie Forrester (now a candidate for Governor) has a few vote skeletons in her closet, so she needs to up her street cred with the base. One such effort, a campaign video of her at a range, shooting a pink firearm (29% rating from the NHFC), invited some exercise of the first amendment on Facebook. I thought I’d join in–with apologies to Aerosmith for modifying some of the lyrics to Janie’s Got a Gun. That’s right. Jeanie’s got a gun…complete with cheap shots.

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I am a New Hampshire conservative Independent. I am by no means unique and, in fact, am probably a member of a species that is far more common than most people may realize or care to acknowledge. Over the last several months I have developed distaste for the national Republican Party and it has grown stronger by the day and now, by the minute. I would like to send a few messages to the GOP.

First: Get over yourselves, do what is right for America. Ronald Reagan once said “I didn’t leave the Democratic Party, the Democratic Party left me.” I believe that if the Gipper were around today to witness the abhorrent behavior of the Republican Party, he would now be saying the same thing about them. He was a decent man, a fair man. I have no doubt that he would be disgusted with how you are acting. You have betrayed the 11th Commandment, “Thou shalt not speak ill of any Republican” time and time again. Although this quote was made popular by Reagan, it was born of a former California Republican Party Chair, George Parkinson. I have no doubt that Ronald Reagan and Mr. Parkinson are turning over in their graves.

Second:  to the national Republican Party members I say – Who the hell do you think you are?

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Indicating reason number 4,235,153 that the government is too big: They’re going after cigars!!! Cigars! What the hell is wrong with these people? Shut it down. Shut it all down!  The Federal Government is incapable of doing what it’s already seized responsibility for, so what do they do?  Grab more!!  The rapacious insatiable bastards.

I can’t stand these people. And by people, using the term loosely here, I mean Progressives.  (Yes, I’m implying that Leviathan is infected with the parasitical organisms). Progressives are mentally defective control freaks. That’s really all there is to it. There’s something twisted and gnarled in their gray matter that makes them insufferable busy-bodies that just cannot leave people alone. They’re incurable. They see something they don’t like and in their drunk on self-regard arrogance slur to themselves, “I’ll fix it!!” Then proceed to make what wasn’t a problem a problem, or what was a small problem, large. Worse yet:

Nobody’s asking for their M***** F****** help!  Mind your own damned business.

They just can’t help shoveling more and more of life into the fetid maw of the Federal Government.  And the Government just keeps gorging on more and more and evacuating the previously swallowed.

It’s the Monty Python Mr. Creosote skit in The Meaning of Life writ large.

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NH State Rep Leigh Webb (D): “The role of government is to legislate behavior“

…said NONE of our Foundational documents.  But these Progressive Socialists don’t care much ’bout details…or freedom to choice or the free marketplace:

…The City Council on Thursday green-lit a controversial bill that puts a 5-cent fee on plastic and paper shopping bags at grocery, convenience and other stores. The council voted 28-20 for the bill, which will take effect on Oct. 1. It is supposed to encourage people to bring along reusable bags when they go shopping. Co-sponsor Councilman Brad Lander (D-Brooklyn) first introduced the legislation in 2013 with the goal of dramatically reducing the use of plastic bags in the city.

“It works by irritating us into changing our behavior and remembering to bring reusable bags,” said Lander ahead of the City Hall hearing.

Lander added, “While it may be contentious today, [the bill] is going to help New Yorkers together solve a real environmental problem.”

Who do these self-absorbed

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The New Hampshire Senate on May 5 tabled bills on the First Amendment and public health, after twelve Senators found them too hot to handle. Both bills were characterized by opponents as attacks on abortion rights, although neither would have affected to any degree the rights created by the U.S. Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade.

Ought-to-pass motions failed 12-12 before the bills were tabled on voice votes. All the Democrats joined Republicans Little and Stiles in blocking passage.

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Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump set his sights on conservative critics who condemn his positions on trade during a rally in West Virginia Thursday.

“I’m a conservative, but the conservatives hate me for suggesting I would dare tax somebody,” Trump said after promising he would punish companies that move overseas with high tariffs when they try to ship products back into the United States.

The GOP has brought it (and him) upon themselves.  They have essentially acted like Progressives in bastardizing the common language to the point where “conservative” has no meaning at all.  Seriously, can anyone look at me (or any of the Groksters) and point and ask “Conservative?” and then do the same to Donald Trump without losing your mind?  Sorry, but it’s not HIS fault but it is the fault of the less-conservative, moderate, or plain-voting-with-Democrats-all-the-time Republicans who apply that adjective to themselves or their BFFs at campaign time.

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A response to the Left’s “Guns are only designed to kill people” (emphasis mine):

…First, what are guns designed to do? They’re designed to project force at a distance. They do this by propelling a projectile out of the end of a barrel at a velocity sufficient for the task at hand. The higher the velocity, the more force can be projected at further distances. The heavier the projectile, the more force that can be projected at a given velocity. Guns are machines that allow us to effectively project force at a distance.

To clarify, consider the purpose of a Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile tipped with a nuclear warhead. What is its purpose?  Much like that of a pistol, it’s to project force at a (great) distance.  But the Minuteman III wasn’t designed to kill people. It was designed to provide deterrence; that is, to stop other people from killing us. No Minuteman III has ever killed a single person, but it was and is used every day to deter attacks on the United States.

This principle is as old as humanity. The most famous adage associated with it is:  Si vis pacem, para bellum (if you wish peace, prepare for war).

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Here’s an article about Warren Buffet’s well-known view that the rich should pay more in taxes. His bottom-line argument is, “If you’re in the luckiest 1% of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99%.” I don’t disagree.

My disagreement with Buffet is the implication that being forced to pay more in taxes has any relationship whatsoever with thinking about the rest of humanity. People are not thinking about the rest of humanity when they are being forced to do something. There is no virtue in paying taxes.

This keeps playing out over and over.  First, let’s get one thing straight: “luck” is simply preparation colliding with opportunity.  You have to not only know what to do when opportunity arises but to be able to recognize it in the first place.  Luck can carry you only so far – Buffet is too modest by half.  Most people who are in that 1% (or higher) are ALSO those that have worked their tails off for decades.  Yes, they are different than most of us in their focus, knowledge, and work ethic. But 

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