Shades of TX Gov Rick Perry trolling CA and NY to “get” jobs – but FL Gov Scott trolling Yale?

This is funny as all get out – and EXACTLY what low cost States should be doing to the money-grubbing ones.  I put this post up yesterday about the deep Blue State of Connecticut eyeing more revenue by going after the endowment funds held by Yale with the main message of “theft by the point of a pen”.  The message was that private property really isn’t all that private when Legislators decide that “your’s is ours” under the Progressive rubric “We know how to spend your money than you do”.

And here comes Florida’s Governor Rick Scott rolling out the “tax free” carpet (emphasis mine):

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Must be nice to be above the Law – and openly ignore it

The Rule of LawJust remember, there are consequences to decisions like this – and as Glen Reynolds keeps saying, wait for the Middle Class Anarchy.  So NC Attorney General Roy Cooper (Democrat) has decided that he can ignore a duly legislated and signed law (emphasis mine, reformatted)?

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina’s attorney general said Tuesday he won’t defend in court a new state law preventing Charlotte and other local governments from approving protections for LGBT people, calling it discriminatory and a “national embarrassment.”  Democrat Roy Cooper made the announcement during a news conference a day after gay rights advocates sued to overturn the law approved last week and signed by Republican Gov. Pat McCrory.

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A Different Sort of Big Bang Theory

The universe was born from a single point that exploded to create everything. No one has a clue where that stuff came from or how it got there, or how it started, or what started it, but the scientific consensus is that this ‘theory’ is the best explanation for how our universe was conceived. All … Read more

Notable Quote – Robin S. Eubanks

Changing how we read was fundamental…to the social re-engineering of the nation. So, if everyone involved from the beginning regarded these revisions to reading instruction and the concept of pedagogy as one big psychology experiment on American school children and ultimately American society, what will happen if the results are poor? Notably, demonstrably, really lousy results? … Read more

Liberalism – never a PERSONAL responsibility

After all, the good Samaritan PERSONALLY attended to the victim and PERSONALLY paid the cost for the victim and PERSONALLY checked in on him.  Progressives showed us, via enacting Obamacare, that they are all too willing to trade individual involvement for outsourcing that responsibility to “the collective”.  Which, as we all know, means no one … Read more

Our State Department can’t even identify the group targeted by Muslims: Christians

Yesterday was Easter, the most holy day in the Christian calendar.  While Christmas seems to get the main billing in our secularized society, it is only the remembrance of His birth.  Easter is the observation of Jesus’s Resurrection – the entire event that defines what Christianity is – that God was made Man while still being God and willingly dying on the Cross as a propitiation for our sins.  In Pakistan, Muslim members of the Taliban deliberately targeted Christians observing Easter with a suicide bomber, killing around 60 and injuring hundreds more.

So what do you think our State Department formally said about this?  Do you think this religiously motivated attack included, you know, words describing those religions? Er….

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Blogline of the Day: Faced with an existential threat to Belgian society….

METAPHOR ALERT: Belgian Soldiers Deployed to Fight Terrorists Had No Bullets in Rifles. “It was just a show.” – just like our TSA – security theater.  Well, given what others are saying, the Belgian intelligence service has operated like a gaggle of Barney Fife’s, so perhaps reality should match perception.   (H/T: Instapundit)

Like I really care?

From Liberty Unyielding: If world leaders could vote, who would they want as next U.S. president? And the post goes on to list what some “leaders” have said about OUR candidates.  Yes, emphasis on OUR.  From my perspective, I could care less what someone outside of the US considers “appropriate” for us, much less a … Read more

We are all ‘Children’ to Their Government

When a progressive says “it’s for the children,” we picture kids. Considering how they’d like government to treat “grown-ups,” I think they are referring to everyone not just children under the age of “x.”

Always wanting a piece of OUR pie…

Ronald Reagan: Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. Doesn’t matter if it moves – if it doesn’t have a Government Asset tag on it, they tax it.  And STILL … Read more

Data Point: Obamacare Insurace Company Participation

In more than by a 2 – 1 (21 vs 10) margin, more insurance companies stopped offering /refused to issue coverage than those starting. This is recognition that when you try to compete in an artificial marketplace when Govt makes the rules, only Govt can win (unless you are part of the Crony Govt/Company Capitalism) … Read more

Bill Whittle: American Fascists

Yet another stellar video from one of our favorites – Bill Whittle:

“Left/right, Progressive/Conservative, Democrat/Republican… The names change and evolve but the core difference remains constant: The Collectivists vs. The Individualists. In his latest FIREWALL video, Bill Whittle — TruthRevolt commentator and Director of the Firewall at the Horowitz Freedom Center — shows how violence, disruption and intimidation have always been the tools of the Collectivists.“

(H/T: Frontpage Mag)

Transcript:

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Ivanpah collective solar – Feds about to shut it down?

ivanpahIvanpah is the multibillion dollar solar electrical generation plant that was built in the California desert a few years ago; we’ve written about it here, here and here.  Well, there were doubts aplenty then about it and now the bill is about to come due.  From MIT Technology Review (emphasis mine):

When it first came online in late 2013, the massive Ivanpah concentrated solar power plant in the California desert looked like the possible future of renewable energy. Now its troubles underline the challenges facing concentrated solar power, which uses mirrors to focus the sun’s rays to make steam and produce electricity.

Last week the California Public Utilities Commission gave the beleaguered Ivanpah project, the world’s largest concentrated solar facility, one year to increase its electricity production to fulfill its supply commitments to two of the state’s largest utilities (see “One of the World’s Largest Solar Facilities Is in Trouble”).

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Blue on Blue: money-grubbing. Theft by the point of a pen….again??

Yale logoThe Blue Social Model failure – because the Democrats / Progressives / Socialists have no limiting factor beyond which Government should not tread, their main goal is not helping people but finding / taking money to feed their ideologic fix (that Government must be all things to all people doing anything they want it to).  So, they wage war and go where the money is…

…even it is from one of their main bases of support – the Ivory Tower.  If you are a conservative, ya just gotta smile on this Blue on Blue $$ fight.  After all, Progressives in Government truly believe they know better how to spend your money – even if it is from other Progressives that are churning out more Blue foot soldiers: Blue Civil War Escalates (emphasis mine):

Connecticut Democrats are going after Yale, for the same reason Henry VIII went after the monks and Willie Sutton went after the banks.

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