Metzler – German (Middle Rhineland): occupational name for a butcher, from Latin macellarius ‘dealer in meat’, from macellum ‘stall (at a market)’, ‘meat market’.

SAU 55 superintendent Earl Metzler likes to destroy people. He’s incredibly intolerant, will waste taxpayer dollars on pointless court cases, and is known for calling the police on anyone who dares to challenge him at the first opportunity. His latest foray into police-intimidation politics involves our good friend Jorge Mesa-Tejada.

Man-Child Metzler called the Hampstead police chief to pressure him in to pursuing a criminal investigation against Jorge.

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About 200 New York City pedicab drivers are being forced out of work in the name of progress. Students, minorities, women, and immigrant, among others, will be prohibited from plying their trade in and around Central Park so that mayor de Blasio can keep the deep-pocketed Teamsters and Animal rights activists happy.

To save the jobs of Central Park’s carriage-horse drivers, New York City mayor Bill de Blasio and city council speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito have developed a plan that involves destroying the livelihood of the city’s pedicab drivers.

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“United States forest health has improved over recent decades and is not likely to be impaired in at least the next few decades.”

Bruce is one of our Progressive commenters here at the ‘Grok; I do give him kudos for entering our “lion’s den” especially when posts on global cooling global warming climate change climate chaos go up. This may be one of those.

Sidenote: Do you wonder if those that believe Man is responsible for climate change have to keep burning through so many names?  That their constant rebranding is just like Progressives cum Liberals cum Progressives (again)?  That maybe the realization that most of us think their ideas are so toxic that they believe they must hide themselves all the time (emphasis mine)?

Increased atmospheric Carbon Dioxide has increased U.S. forest health in recent decades

Abstract: The health of United States forests is of concern for biodiversity conservation, ecosystem services, forest commercial values, and other reasons. Climate change, rising concentrations of CO2 and some pollutants could plausibly have affected forest health and growth rates over the past 150 years and may affect forests in the future. Multiple factors must be considered when assessing present and future forest health.

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Preamble to the Declaration of Independence:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed, by their Creator, with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.

Happiness was originally was Property; the NH Constitution says it more clearly:

[Art.] 2. [Natural Rights.] All men have certain natural, essential, and inherent rights – among which are, the enjoying and defending life and liberty; acquiring, possessing, and protecting, property; and, in a word, of seeking and obtaining happiness. Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by this state on account of race, creed, color, sex or national origin.

And what does now US District Court Judge, thanks to Senator Kelly Ayotte (R-NH), Wilhelmina Marie Wright hold on the Right to Personal Property?  Right out of the Critical Race Theory (that EVERYTHING, knowable and unknowable, always proves racism):

The practice of American racism is based on two principles: the sanctity of property and the belief in the hierarchy of races. The first of these principles is firmly protected by the words and action of the Constitution; the second is proscribed by the words of the instrument, but not by its effect. History shows that when these two principles are juxtaposed (which happens constantly), property rights are given absolute priority.

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Yes, I have been “writing short” lately – something that I do try to do more often but fail.  Now with family circumstances having changed, my nights are not my own and I can NEVER tell when my “writing consciousness” will get interrupted.  So instead of not writing at all, am trying for “short”.  With that said:

Shot:

Why is George Stephanopoulos Even Allowed to Cover the Clinton Campaign?

Chaser:

Why is George Stephanopoulos Even Allowed to Host GOP Debates?

After all, he was the wonderkid of the

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In essence, are they trying to “calm” (at best, mislead at worst) their base while appealing to the new electorate that they want?  Quite disturbing this – that Nikki Haley (Gov, R-SC) said one thing about immigration in English while Mario Díaz-Balart (Congressman, R-FL) said the opposite when they gave the response to Obama’s SOTU address.  Now look, those two speeches are microscoped well before they are given six ways to Sunday for tone, tenor, content, and delivery.  While considered to be an honor to give it, this is a speech that are Star Chambered by the GOP Establishment including the GOP itself, the Senate, the House, and others.  Not a word or syllable is included that they don’t approve of in advance (and that ‘scope looks for stuff left out, too).

So why were there two versions of the GOP response given – and why do they contradict each other?  Hmmm?

IJ Review has the story:

While her candor about the candidate surprised many listeners, the Republican Party’s official Spanish language State of the Union response took a softer tone on the issue that has contributed so much to Trump’s success in the polls: Immigration.

Here are the two speeches (diffs in bold):

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Hillary:  “there should be no bank too big to fail and no individual too powerful to jail“

Of COURSE, this magnificent threesome didn’t get the audience that it truly earned deserved DNC Debbie Wasserman-Schultz was praying not to get.  How could it – a Sunday night of a long weekend (well, at least for Government workers that got today, MLK Day, off) and wedged inbetween two NFL playoff games on a channel nobody watches (WIN! for DWS and for Hillary).  Normally I’d be tweeting live (ok, I am a sick puppy for watching these kinds of events) but couldn’t last nite so, yes, I DVR’d it.  A few observations as it went along:

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The recent flood of illegal migrants currently inundating Europe continues to be one of the most horrific and misunderstood events of our time. This merciless attack upon Western Civilization has been unleashed on an unsuspecting European populace and continues to leave chaos and destruction in its wake. Though there is much coverage of the ‘effects’ of this attack there is no mention of the cause. Strange, isn’t it? The fact that no main stream news outlets are explaining the causal factors behind this mass human migration should indicate, at least to those that are awake, that there is more to this situation than meets the eye. This column is not primarily about the tragic events in Europe, but a cursory explanation is crucial to grasp the totality of the circumstances effecting America. The intention of the Global architects, who are orchestrating this invasion, is multifaceted, but yet simple in its intent. The main thrust behind what is occurring is an attempt to ‘reshuffle’ the ‘old order’ to usher in the ‘new’. The intent is to re-seat new leadership in these ‘gap’ nations that lay in the Middle East and North Africa. The goal is to eventually ‘wire them’ into the new global economic system taking shape (but more on that in another column). There are three main objectives that flow out of this effort; #1 To disrupt the idea of the Nation state and ‘Nationality’; #2 Depopulate the nations that are currently ‘in play’ until they are brought under control.

So, why is understanding the mechanics of what is happening in Europe important to the residents of New Hampshire?

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Democrats love guns…in the hands of the proper people. Stalin, Mao, and the Kims of North Korea, all held or hold this same opinion. Guns are great, but the state must hold the monopoly on force. Order is dispensed by the privileged few (the governing) and imposed upon the rest, regulated by the will of the State.

House Democrat Katherine Rogers, as an ideological descendant of Stalin and Mao, understands this, and has proposed a legislative path to achieve this in New Hampshire.

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