Yup, another Sunday, another CloseUP and this week, Josh McElven had US Senator Jeanne Shaheen (or better described as the Federal Government’s Ambassador to New Hampshire) and perhaps Candidate-To-Be Rich Ashooh for US Congress in CD-1 (he formally announces tomorrow).  She said a couple of things that caught my ear so I figured, per normal, to add my thoughts.

That said, you can see that I started to manually do the transcription (the lower case) but today I saw that WMUR provided one.  Well, they SAY that do but I found that it SUCKS.  You can tell because I left theirs in UPPER CASE and I filled in with lower case.  Ya’d think a multi-million if they were going to do transcripts, WOULD DO TRANSCRIPTS!

But, you have me.  At times.  McElven asked her about the opiate addiction problem / heroin crises here in NH and the Feds now getting involved:

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In the second third of CloseUP, Rich Ashooh did his pre-announcement announcement for US Congress in CD-1 and challenging Frank Guinta, the incumbent.  We covered Rich back in 2010 when he ran the first time and I guess the interactions I had with him were favorable – I started calling him “Gentleman Rich” as he was always the perfect gentleman.  It will be interesting to see how this goes – and I wonder if his entrance into the race had anything to do with Dan Innis’s rather quick exit from it.

Anyways, he got the same question about the opiate problem here in NH that Jeanne Shaheen did.  But first McElven asked him about the current political climate – and I thought his answer a bit curious:

Sidenote: again, UPPER CASE is WMUR’s transcript with the lower case my fill-ins and corrections

ON BOTH SIDES, Democrat and Republican let’s not forget, THERE, there, — THERE’s THESE RIFTS GOING ON and that sort of thing. I think the goal for the Republicans is to try to FIND THE MESSAGE buried in a lot of the, quite frankly, bombast that we’re seeing on the news shows.

Really, a “messaging” problem? Er, no. Sure, yes, when you listen to Donald

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Heh! (reformatted, emphasis mine)!

An armed citizen cornered armed robbers and told them, “My gun is bigger than yours.” According to Cleveland.com, police say two armed suspects, a 19-year-old Parma man and an 18-year-old Cleveland man, entered Suleyman’s Supermarket on Cleveland’s West Side just before 10 p.m. and demanded money.  The store owner gave the suspects around $300, and they turned to leave, only to see a police officer standing outside. Panicked, the two armed men ran through the store to exit in the back, but were stopped by a citizen with a gun.

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Unless of course, you are using the language and definitions of the Left which at that point, democracy = mobs under the Left’s control.  And certainly, the Democracy Spring march, in which NH Rebellion is participating, is all that and more:

Washington, beware: Democracy Spring is officially on its way to “reclaim the People’s House.”

So declared Kai Newkirk, Democracy Spring’s campaign director, who spoke to Breitbart News on Saturday while the movement marched outside the city limits of Philadelphia. “We are going to disrupt business as usual until our demands are reached,” stated Newkirk.

The coalition of far-left groups plotting mass civil disobedience, with thousands pledging to risk arrest, launched its operation on Saturday at Liberty Bell in Philadelphia’s Independence Mall.

Now, let’s go back in time when the TEA Party rallies started –

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Michelle Fields has a beef with Corey Lewandowski over some contact to which she did not consent. I’ve stayed out of this, mostly, except for some remarks on GrokTALK!, all of which center on my only concern–the lying, obfuscation, and immediate move by the campaign and its advocates to destroy the reporter. 

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The Supreme Court decision in Luis v. United States addresses the governments ability to seize assets from a suspect that cannot be connected to the case and specifically, that the pretrial restraint of a criminal defendant’s legitimate, untainted assets needed to retain her counsel of choice violates the Sixth Amendment.

Justice Breyer, in a 5-3 decision, wrote that,

The government can seize, …, “a robber’s loot, a drug seller’s cocaine, a burglar’s tools, or other property associated with the planning, implementing, or concealing of a crime.”

But it cannot, he said, freeze money or other assets unconnected to the crime.

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I have known Corey Lewandowski for about twelve years or more. In that time I have never known him to be a person who would viciously attack anyone, let alone some female reporter in a public forum. Nor would I imagine he would jeopardize any cause or candidate he was working for by doing so. Corey isn’t stupid by any means. So I am giving Corey the benefit of the doubt.

Being a blogger who is not particularly a Trump supporter but someone who lives in NH and has seen more than my share of a media frenzy, I thought I would take a look at some facts and info from other sources starting with the first thing I heard about this on Glen Beck’s program where Corey was accused of attempting to pull this reporter to the ground. Now we have video, lots of video.

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The impending doom of the Marshall Islands, which alarmists predicted were destined to drown in short-order thanks to uncontrolled anthropogenic sea-level rise, has been called off. You may have missed that update. You can blame the lack of mainstream media reporting on the rapid decline in sea level around the no longer doomed poster-child atoll of Kwajalein. That’s not news you can use.

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