And I’m betting that most of the young’uns that saunter over here have little idea of what and how big Boston was back in the day.  In fact, my favorite band (and then followed ELP) when hanging out in the dorm (in the city of Boston).  Big, BIG deal.  But now, they’ve jumped onto the “Let’s let men parts folks brazenly be able to go into the lady parts room – to heck with privacy of the vast majority (and for some, their security as well) bandwagon” simply to make 0.1% of the population feel better about themselves (re: North Carolina’s Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act.) and cancelled their three shows in North Carolina.

Well, a number of their 40 year fan base (yes, I am getting to be that old) decided to let them know, in no uncertain terms, that their feelings for the band’s music was far out trumped by the band’s decision to trample traditional mores (after all, they’ve existed for a long time for good reasons).  But before I do, it is clear that this is nothing more than the hypocriticalness that many of these self-righteous “artistes” because while they want to make a statement about NC, they’re all about grabbing the Benjamins by performing where it is far worse :

Boston’s 40th Anniversary tour will conclude in October in Tokyo, Japan, where businesses, hospitals, landlords, and other entities are not legally bound to acknowledge same-sex marriages.

Ayuh – far WORSE than NC which is only saying “use the bathrooms that fit the equipment you have” (and not the parts you think you should have or don’t have). Oh, the fans (emphasis mine)?

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From  Soldier Systems:

Stand your ground. Don’t fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here.”

On this day, some 241 years ago, John Parker, Captain of Militia, uttered those instructions to his men as they stood on Lexington Green, ready, if need be, to engage 500 British troops set to sieze the militia’s arsenal.

What may have begun as a show of force on the side of the militia soon became an active firefight as the British advance guard met a percieved provocation with demands to disperse. The fog of war set in and a firefight soon broke out. The Colonist militia quickly gained the upper hand and drove a British force, which over the course of the day had grown to 1700, all the way back to Charlestown and beyond. This action would ultimately become the siege of Boston, happened over a year before the Declaration of Independence.

Whether they intended to or not, the concept of Liberty became cause as those men stood their ground.

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Is Planned Parenthood in Concord, New Hampshire preparing to impose a buffer zone outside their Penacook Street warehouse facility? A woman was recently spotted outside the building, “measuring” the property.

New Hampshire passed a buffer zone law in 2015 right before the US Supreme Court struck down a similar law in Massachusetts as unconstitutional.

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Yesterday a hearing was held by the Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee. One of the bills to be heard was Senate Bill 336 (SB 336). This bill ends almost 100 years of state-sanctioned discrimination in the Granite State by ending the “suitability” wording. The amended bill states that anyone who is legally able to purchase and possess a firearm according to state and federal law shall be granted a pistol/revolver license (PRL).

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Long story short, a “Republican-owned” lobbying group is pushing Emperor Bloomberg’s gun control agenda in the NH Legislature. If that’s how they want to roll, so be it. It’s their business. But their business is now our business because they are actively lobbying our representatives to advance an anti-liberty pro-gressive agenda.

In light of this it occurs to me that folks like you and I are equally entitled to ‘lobby’ The Dupont Group’s Client list regarding the willingness of their lobbyist to sell other people’s constitutional right to self-defense down the river in exchange for cash.

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So is THIS the Settled Science™?

A new NASA study says that an increase in Antarctic snow accumulation that began 10,000 years ago is currently adding enough ice to the continent to outweigh the increased losses from its thinning glaciers.

The research challenges the conclusions of other studies, including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) 2013 report, which says that Antarctica is overall losing land ice.

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Sir Elton John seems a bit prudish about his family life. For the life of me I cannot figure out why he is taking legal action against the British press for writing about his “husband”.

The lame excuse that his husband’s alleged extra “marital” threesome affairs would embarrass him and his children should have zero weight in any modern court of law.

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Again, we are absolutely amazed and disheartened that socialism has made such a return to American politics – it is the antithesis of what the Founders stood for.  I’ve gone over why I believe it has over and over again, so I’m not going to do it here.  Instead, we mentioned on last Saturday’s show (ok, I started it) that we’ve had some of our friends on GrokTALK! (and its predecessor, Meet The New Press) that grew up and lived under Communist rule – they are aghast at what is happening.  Before, it was the inch by inch model in slouching towards Socialism – and now with the Republicans joining in and Bernie and Hillary promising to enact policies that put Government in charge of everything, what the heck is the difference?

I had come across this and tried to mention it on the show – badly.  So here’s the part that caught my eye (reformatted, emphasis mine):

SOVIET IMMIGRANTS TO SANDERS SUPPORTERS: “HAVE YOU EVER LIVED UNDER A REVOLUTION?”

• Janna Sundeyeva still remembers life in the Soviet Union, where stores in remote regions would lack meat for months at a time and toilet paper had to be snatched up quickly on the rare occasions it appeared.

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Having just sent in my taxes today (actually did all the record gathering and computations last week), where does it go?

And that is about a $4 Trillion budget.  But what would it be IF our leaders had never strayed from sticking to the strictures of the Constitution.  Well, certainly the military (Pentagon) would be in the mix as well as veterans benefits – 31.3%.  Add in paying for the Government itself – 2.9% more (34.2%).  Interest on the national debt – ayup at 13.7% (47.9%).

Like I said, strictly Constitutional?  That would be about it (roughly figuring).  I’d even shave down a couple of those percentages – shucking off all those other things that should be handled at the State level, let’s take a full 0.8% off the cost of Government (47.1%).  Given, too, would be at least half of the national debt payment – I’d go 60% less (better people in the know might have a higher percentage).  So decrease that to 5.5% – a final total of 38.9%.

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